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Too early, too late — and disgusting Blaming the unemployed for Last month, one of [the Asheville city] bus unemployment adds insult to injury drivers looked straight at me and went off and

left anyway. [The Asheville Transit Authority] gave me a monthly pass for having to walk three and a half hours home. I don’t think I ever said thank you. I don’t think I did.

Second, the buses are filthy. I watched a baby puke down the front and back of a seat the first of the month, and it is still there. I’ve watched people comb out the nastiest hair imaginable, and brush it off on the seats next to them. Other people sit in that without knowing it’s there, because you don’t clean the buses.

Don’t you people have any shame? Any regard for anyone else’s dignity, or is it all about money and how much you can pocket? I still believe three trained monkeys can pick routes and timing better. If you can’t find three in your commissions and councils (that never actually ride the buses), again, let me know and I’ll cull three from the pack to overhaul a system you obviously care nothing about. Except, of course, being paid to “oversee.”

I realize there are two broad concepts in the paragraph above, so let me reiterate. Filth is one, and routes/timing is the second.

Last but certainly not least, I read in the paper yesterday that there was almost a half million dollars appropriated by the U.S. government for local transit bus replacement. Either of you care to wager that money gets spent on something else?

Seriously. ... Let’s make a wager at a City Council meeting. What do you say? No guts.

— Gregg Watson Asheville Editors note: City staff declined our invitation to comment but will look into the issues Watson raises.

When did it become okay to attack the unemployed?

Lately it seems that unemployed Americans are under constant attack from Republicans.

Sitting Senators, candidates for the Senate and House and [other] right-wing leaders are making the claim that people who don’t have a job are lazy. As if unemployment wasn’t hard enough, Americans most in need of help are subjected to insults by an out-of-touch party.

Recently, GOP Sen. Richard Burr made that claim (this from a person who’s never had to live paycheck to paycheck). The claim is an insult to the millions of Americans who are looking for work after the same Republicans drove our economy into the ditch. Burr needs to apologize.

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs because of reckless Republican policies. We’re fed up! This behavior is wrong. It is disgusting. It’s an embarrassment that Sen. Burr thinks he can get away with it. Whether you’re unemployed now, had to settle for a lower-paying job or have family members who are looking for a job, send a message to Burr. We’re fed up with [the] rich elite criticizing working Americans who are trying to find work in the worst economy since the Great Depression.

We need to stand together against these rightwing insults by remembering these insults in November when we vote.

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A message from Be Loved to... everybody Prejudice is destructive to the fabric of our community.

It is appalling that, on the one hand, Mountain Xpress can write such a powerful piece exposing the past prejudice of deeply rooted racism in “Back to Summerlane” [July 28 Xpress] and, in the same issue, promote such blatant prejudice against people who are homeless [in the cartoon] “Land of This Guy.” This kind of prejudice ripples out, changing the landscape of our city as revealed in “Benched” [July 28 Xpress] and can lead to the awful violence seen at Camp Summerlane.

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Child hunger: You can make a difference In the midst of summer’s abundance, child hunger is actually at its worst. Low-income families who rely on school meal programs to nourish their children during the school year are struggling to feed their families. Some of these children are able to access meals at summer feeding programs, but the vast majority — almost 92 percent in North Carolina — do not.

MANNA sponsored 14 Summer Food Service Program sites in six counties this summer.

However, that’s not nearly enough to meet the need. There is something you can do immediately to help. Urge Congress to pass a robust child nutrition bill now that helps improve access to these important summer meals.

School breakfast and lunch programs often provide the healthiest and most nourishing meal that a child receives all day. For some children, the program provides their only meal. And yet, funding

shortchanges kids’ healthy choices. That is why it is vitally important that we not only improve the nutritional quality of the food being served to our children, but also expand program access so we can reach more eligible, low-income children.

Child nutrition programs can make a significant difference in a child’s life — protecting their health, improving their ability to learn, providing a sense of security and, ultimately, investing in their future. We have an opportunity to strengthen child nutrition programs this year as Congress considers a child nutrition bill. Congress must act on the legislation before the bill expires Sept. 30.

MANNA FoodBank urges Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan and Reps. Heath Shuler and Patrick McHenry to pass a strong child nutrition bill this year.

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In my utopia, everyone is armed Regarding Judith Hallock’s letter [“No Nukes: Asheville Resident Explains Why She Protested at Oak Ridge, July 28, Xpress]: While I sincerely respect her patriotism, dedication to [the] cause and [the] courage of conviction demonstrated by facing the shame and inconvenience of arrest and prosecution (in a huge constitutional compromise, considering the supposed right to assemble and speak), Judith’s reluctance to accept the reality of the nuclear dynamic is childishly naive. I might respectfully add that driving an air-conditioned-cum-bumpersticker-clad Subaru to eventually arrive in an equally air-conditioned holding cell in East Tennessee doesn’t exactly rival the sacrifice of Martin Luther King Jr.’s/Ghandi’s ilk. I’m certain many if not most of us would love to Barbara Eden-blink atomic fission-fusion right out of existence, but surely as the sun shines above (heady simile, eh?), it’s a genie that is not going back into the bottle.

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What should be of general concern is the way relatively exclusive development and possession of nuclear arms has allowed our supposedly peace-loving America to evolve into a cowardly, subtly imperialist aggressor-nation. Ever notice how (even with our inconceivably powerful military machine and equally potent belief that “we’re right, damn it!�) we have only had organized armed conflict with entities that don’t have nuclear capability? We’re like Toby Keith running around pistol-whipping the likes of Jack White. “It’s the Amuhhhrican way!� (Maybe I should have gone with Ted Nugent/Marilyn Manson, eh?)

Nukes are to nations what guns are to citizens: As long as they exist (and, arguably unfortunately, they do), legal restriction of their availability only serves to promote individual (and international) inequality as it pertains to the sadly ever-present

potential for human violence. Allow me to further analogize (‘cause I love to): I’d say florists are not high on the list of targets for armed robbery, but I’ll bet they edge out gun shops! In my Utopia, everyone is armed, and has the peaceful reciprocal respect for sovereignty that mutually assured destruction counter-intuitively cultivates. — Norman Plombe Asheville

The success of our democracy depends on an educated citizenry — that just isn’t happening The least restrictive environment policy of the early 1990s, as interpreted and implemented by the principals and boards of education in our public schools, has effectively

prevented teaching and learning in most of the classrooms of our country for nearly 20 years now. This policy put students who could not and/or would not behave/learn into classes with students who could and would behave/learn. The result has been a disaster in our public schools. Students who cannot/will not behave/learn need appropriate learning situations separate from students who can and will behave/learn. Socialization, which seems to be the big objection to reversing this policy, can be achieved by placing them with the general student population in non-academic classes, extracurricular activities and their own communities. No longer should their socialization be allowed to hold hostage our entire public school system.

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policy? It is preventing the education of most of our young people. Only students in advanced and honors classes seem to be minimally affected. The rest of our student population is in classrooms where disruption and loss of teacher control is the norm.

A student/teacher ratio of 8-to-1 or less is needed in order to assure academic success in classes containing extremely needy (cannot/ will not behave/learn) students. Placing such students in learning environments in which they can succeed is expensive, but not as expensive as having an 8-to-1 overall student teacher ratio in our public schools. And how do you put a price on the lack of learning of the majority of our students because of the disruptions of the extremely needy students?

An effective teacher can teach classes of 25 or more if the students are ready and willing to learn. The success of our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. That just isn’t happening.

My unwillingness and inability to dumb down my science classes in the late 1990s resulted in a disastrous last five years of teaching for me. I simply could not lower my behavioral and academic standards to the ability level of the students who were assigned to my classes. Most teachers did.

My failure rate soared, and I was labeled a “bad� teacher after 25 years of being an effective teacher.

I see clearly that this failed educational policy must be changed to put public education back on a more successful track. Other attempts to improve student success cannot work until it is addressed. They are equivalent to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The ship is going down. — Fran L. Burton Asheville

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Wind power rhetoric obscures deeper issues

by Dave Erb Although rational people can (and obviously do) differ on a topic as complex as utility-scale wind power in Western North Carolina, some of the recent rhetoric has been less than rational. I’ve heard supporters of ridge-top wind turbines cast themselves as “real environmentalists” who are somehow superior to mere “conservationists,” standing John Muir’s epic battle with Gifford Pinchot on its head. I’ve heard the issue framed as a fight between the implicitly trivial (“pretty scenery”) and the deathly serious (climate change and mountaintop removal). But the oddest twist has been the charge that the N.C. Senate is “anti-wind.”

To recap: In August 2009, our senators in Raleigh codified a statewide permitting process, encouraging industrial wind installations by defining a clear procedure for developers to follow when proposing them.

Approved 42-1, Senate bill 1068 included language reaffirming the clear intent of the

1983 Mountain Ridge Protection Act. At the end of this year’s session, the house version was still in legislative limbo.

SB 1068 is almost perfectly aligned with the Sierra Club’s energy resources policy, which strongly supports wind energy, but also “opposes energy development on public and private lands and in waters that are currently protected” by legislation such as the ridge law (see www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/energy.aspx). I’m sure the Sierra Club’s 625,000 members would be surprised to learn that they aren’t “real environmentalists.”

For those who truly love mountains, SB 1068 is a win-win deal. WNC’s most precious nonrenewable resource gets the continued protection of the ridge law, and coal country gets a process designed to jump-start utility-scale wind development in North Carolina. Now, however, several regional activist groups, unhappy over the Senate’s insistence that the ridge law matters, are deliberately delaying the bill’s passage in the House while holding out for more. Apparently, they don’t want any of the pie if they have to share.

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Utility-scale wind, on the other hand, must be located on the transmission network. New high-tension lines would be needed to support 750 megawatts of turbines on 100 miles of WNC ridge tops. A single industrial wind machine costs several million dollars; typical projects involve many of them. Deployment is a multiyear maze of financing and regulatory obstacles, navigable only by organizations with access to major investment capital. Construction is done by nomadic crews of specialists.

PV is often cast as economically infeasible, usually by citing obsolete cost data and the red-herring storage issue. Electricity is the world’s most perishable commodity.

For now, at least, storing the output of gridtied PV would be foolish. And if, in several decades, we’ve somehow managed to overdeploy PV, there’s already sufficient storage capability on the grid.

Pumped-storage lakes such as the Bad Creek/Jocassee/Keowee complex were built to soak up the excess off-peak output of nuclear plants, which can’t simply be throt-

Our driveway alone gets enough sun to generate significantly more electricity than our household consumes.

One tricky subtext in any renewable-energy discussion involves investor-owned utilities’ desire to protect their monopolies on generation. In the early 1900s, exclusive generating franchises were granted (along with monopolies on transmission and distribution, aka “T&D”) for valid reasons. In the 1970s, technology essentially rendered those reasons obsolete, and in the ’80s, deregulation was supposed to eliminate them. Instead, however, the market has kept them essentially intact.

But now, small-scale renewables are mounting a viable challenge. Grid-tied, net-metered photovoltaic panels generate electricity reliably, predictably and closely correlated with periods of high demand. Typically, PV capital costs are borne voluntarily by the owners of the buildings on which the panels are unobtrusively mounted. Generating power in small blocks throughout the distribution network reduces T&D costs while enabling immediate, incremental deployment. Solar water heating is even more effective, and general energyefficiency improvements better still. All are financially accessible to middle-class individuals and can be installed by small, local contrac-

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tled up and down. Even now, quite a few Southeastern rivers run uphill at night, an inefficient side effect of our over-reliance on “electricity that’s too cheap to meter.”

Thirty square meters of PV per WNC resident would produce as much electric energy as 750 MW of wind machines. My wife and I have well over 60 square meters of south-facing roof on our house. Our driveway alone gets enough sun to generate significantly more electricity than our household consumes. How many acres of such roofs and parking lots exist in Asheville alone?

The monopolistic, centralized generation model exemplified by coal, nuclear and industrial wind is a dinosaur, albeit one that won’t become extinct anytime soon. But if it’s to evolve in a healthy direction, we need to focus our capital on a more robust, equitable, distributed model of efficiency, solar thermal and PV. It’s way past time we stopped paving paradise in the name of mundane, fungible commodities like energy. X Dave Erb lives on a small lot within walking distance of UNCA, where he teaches engineering.

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by Rebecca Sulock The Fourth of July has been and gone, but more than a month later, a holiday celebration in Weaverville is still dogged by controversy. Bands say they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been paid, and a dispute between MPAC, the nonprofit that organized the event, and the PUSH Asheville Fashion show, another local event that had agreed to donate its proceeds to MPAC but then pulled its support, remains unresolved.

The Weaverville-based MPAC, an arm of the Mountain Area Youth Soccer Association whose primary mission is promoting the development of a multipurpose athletic complex in the area, staged an Independence Day event at North Buncombe High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice soccer fields. At least five acts, including the Galen Kipar Project and Yo Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Fat Booty Band, say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still waiting to be paid.

According to their contracts, these groups are owed a total of $4,000, and promoter Erin Scholze is owed $800 for helping arrange the event and book bands.

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Bassham says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d planned to use the proceeds from the July 16 PUSH Asheville Fashion show at The Orange Peel to pay the bands, and that this was made clear to PUSH organizer Sonia Hendrix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sonia is and was well aware that we would not have held the event if we did not have the agreement with Sonia and PUSH that the funds raised at the PUSH event would be used to pay for our 4th event ... including the bands,â&#x20AC;? Bassham wrote in the e-mail.

According to their contracts, however, the bands were supposed to Still waiting: Yo Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Fat Booty Band and at least four other be paid the day of the event â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12 days before PUSH Asheville Fashion. acts who performed at the July Fourth Block Party have not been paid, Instead, at least five of them were given promissory notes saying theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d more than a month later. get their money on July 19.

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Hendrix, meanwhile, disputes Bassham’s claim. “When I first met Randy to talk to him about his organization, it was made very clear to me that the money we were going to raise for MPAC would be used precisely for the building of said athletic complex,” Hendrix wrote in a July 8 e-mail to Xpress. And while Bassham says he has extensive documentation of his agreement with PUSH, Hendrix denies having had any written agreement with MPAC. In his e-mail, Bassham declined to provide Xpress with a copy of the document, saying, “Our attorneys have advised against sharing this agreement due to impending litigation.”

“It is ludicrous for Sonia to claim that her intent and our agreement was to have the funds go toward building the MPAC complex,” Bassham’s e-mail continues. “We are still in conceptual phases as Sonia is well aware and as I sent you documentation of.”

For her part, Hendrix says she’d been looking for a nonprofit to receive the PUSH proceeds and thought the MPAC project sounded worthwhile, particularly the idea of heated pools for senior citizens.

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The July Fourth Block Party had been in the works at least since March, and by early May, all the bands in question had been signed, according to Scholze and other event organizers.

As late as five days before the event, however, organizers were apparently still searching for money. A June 29 article on the Asheville Citizen-Times website stated that the nonprofit needed 15 sponsors to “Save the 4th of July for only $500 each.” The piece was originally published on the Ask Asheville blog, which is run by Gary Charles, MPAC’s director of social media at the time. It’s unclear what response, if any, the plea generated.

As Hendrix sees it, the whole process was flawed. “This is just flat out wrong. ... Randy and I never made any such arrangement,” she wrote in her July 8 e-mail. “When I first met him he was already planning this event … The

bottom line is that Randy created this production backwards.”

And on July 5, after learning that Bassham planned to pay bands with the PUSH money, Hendrix pulled her support of MPAC, announcing that the proceeds from her event would instead go to the Asheville Grown Business Alliance.

That didn’t sit well with Bassham, however.

In a July 13 e-mail to The Orange Peel’s marketing manager, Liz Whalen, and copied to this reporter, Bassham reiterated his point: “We are of course incensed about the abrupt change after the tremendous amount of work including helping establish the contact with you for use of the Orange Peel for the event.

We have extensive documentation, etc. that a partnership and reciprocal agreement was strongly established. Our Attorneys are confident that Sonia’s change is ungrounded and breach (as well as about 12 other things).

“We greatly respect the very positive relationship that we at MPAC have with you and the Orange Peel and don’t want the Orange Peel caught up in the negativity that is eminent.

It is certainly worth review of your contract with Sonia and PUSH. If MPAC is named as the beneficiary in that contract, then there is great reason for concern with the abrupt change.”

Whalen responded that The Orange Peel was simply rented to Hendrix, and that the venue was not responsible for organizing the event.

Last year, PUSH raised $400 for American Rainbow Rapid Response, she notes. The $500 Hendrix says this year’s event raised is earmarked for Asheville Grown.

At this writing, Greg Hollowell of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band says his group still hasn’t been compensated — despite having reduced its fee because MPAC is a nonprofit.

“All Randy tells us is that he’s ‘fighting the good fight’ to get us paid, and we’re at the top of his list,’” Hollowell reports. X Rebecca Sulock can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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In their first meeting in more than a month, the Buncombe County commissioners plowed through a laundry list of agenda items that generated little controversy or even discussion.

Among other things, they took action Aug. 3 to build a sidewalk in Woodfin, honor both the YMI Cultural Center and local veterans, secure transportation funding and rezone land in Fairview.

A good fit

First up was a resolution accepting a Fit Community NC grant to help pay for installing a segment of sidewalk along Elk Mountain Road between Woodfin Elementary School and Riverside Drive.

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“Sunday service is something the community would like to have, but we don’t currently have any funds to operate on that additional day.”

— Lori Hembree, Mountain Mobility the Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation Services Department. Before the commissioners unanimously approved the resolution, board Chair David Gantt declared the project “wonderful.”

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YMI Cultural Center Executive Director Harry Harrison updated the board on this year’s Goombay!. The Afro-Caribbean festival will run Friday, Aug. 27 through Sunday, Aug. 29 and will include “great entertainment, games for children, AmeriCorps workers doing arts and crafts, and volunteers from throughout the county,” he reported. The festival is held on The Block, the historically black business district encompassing Eagle and South Market streets.

“It’s Caribbean in origin, but it’s Asheville in nature,” Harrison explained. “We feel it’s important that we celebrate and enjoy our cultures and diversity that we have in this community.”

In response, Gantt said: “I’ll be there. … It’s a lot of fun; fun is the operative word on Goombay!.”

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Thank you: Commissioner Carol Peterson presented YMI Cultural Center Executive Director Harry Harrison with a blanket emblazoned with the county seal to honor the organization’s work in the community. photo by Halima Flynt

Commissioner Carol Peterson then presented Harrison with an honorary blanket displaying the county seal. “You definitely don’t need this blanket for Goombay! because if there’s a hotter, more ‘with it’ festival, I don’t know what it is,” she proclaimed as the two posed for photographs. “We’re extremely pleased to present this blanket to your center. We appreciate the work you do at the YMI every day.”

Besides staging Goombay!, the nonprofit coordinates art shows, workshops and school-outreach programs designed to highlight cultural diversity and African-American heritage.

The blanket, noted Gantt, was made by Cross Canvas Co. of Asheville.

Collage honors veterans

Walter Plaue, vice chair of the Veterans Memorial Committee presented the commissioners with a photo collage of Buncombe County World War II veterans.

“It’s a way of honoring people who set aside their lives and went to war when their country called,” said Plaue. “We wanted to give it to the county because it’s representative of the county people.”

Vice Chair Bill Stanley accepted the memorial, saying the board hopes to display it at Pack Memorial Library after renovations are completed this fall.

ROAPing in transportation dollars

Next on the agenda was a public hearing on the county’s request for $392,639 in state Rural Operating Assistance Program moneys. The grant would fund programs that provide transportation for rural, elderly and disabled residents.

Candler resident Jerry Rice, the only member of the public to speak during the hearing, asked

if the private sector could provide some of those services at lower cost and whether it was possible to offer transportation on Sundays.

The commissioners deferred to Lori Hembree, the director of Mountain Mobility, who didn’t address the question of privatization but acknowledged the need to expand services.

“We do hear that pretty commonly in our public-outreach forums, that Sunday service is something the community would like to have,” she conceded. “But we don’t currently have any funds to operate on that additional day.”

The commissioners unanimously approved the grant application.

Fairview property rezoned

The board also unanimously agreed to rezone an 8.9-acre parcel in Fairview to allow for commercial development. After hearing from owner Jeffrey Martin and his representatives, the commissioners moved to redesignate the property at 104 Charlotte Highway from neighborhood service to commercial service.

Some residents had previously voiced concern about possible erosion issues, but no one spoke up during the hearing. After the vote, both Gantt and Commissioner Holly Jones praised the change.

“I think it’s vital, as we want to preserve our slopes and our residential areas, that we direct the more intense development along our corridors,” noted Jones. “I think that’s going to be how we have our cake and eat it too, so to speak, in terms of having business and vitality in our community but also the beauty of nature.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or by e-mail at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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If you’re looking for a women’s conference that offers a generous dose of herbal education mixed with camaraderie, empowerment and self-reliant living, then the Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference may fit the bill.

The sixth annual conference, to be held Oct. 1-3 at Lake Eden in Black Mountain, draws women from across the Southeast to attend more than 60 classes offered by more than 30 instructors. Many of the 600 participants return year after year, says Lee Warren, one of the conference’s organizers.

“We hope we can give women a taste of what it’s like to live closer to the earth, closer to their own inner instincts, closer to the food that’s grown near them, closer to self-care,” she explains.

Herbs, their properties and uses naturally command the spotlight at the conference, but classes branch out from there to cover a range of topics under the umbrella of the Wise Woman Tradition, a term for herbal-medicine healing coined by nationally known herbalist Susun Weed. Conference organizers say the Wise Woman Tradition focuses on simple living, earth-based healing and using local plants.

“It’s not just herbs and not just for herbalists,” says Warren.

Classes — which range from beginner to advanced — include a series of herb walks, along with topics such as cold and flu remedies, botanical skin care, classic kitchen remedies, seasonal living and “making peace with your body.”

Advanced workshops encompass classes on heart health, the uterus, the endocrine system and autoimmune disorders. Last year, the conference offered continuing-education credits for nurses, Warren says, and applied to the American Holistic Nurses Association to do so again this year.

There’s also a group of workshops built around the theme of “tending our spirits,” which include drumming, art, astrology and a panel discussion on diversity.

Then there are the holistic sexuality workshops offered by Sheri Winston, a registered nurse, midwife, massage therapist, sex educator and author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure (Mango Garden Press, 2010).

“Kind of edgy stuff for the South,” comments Warren.

Special guest speaker Rosemary Gladstar — who’s been called the “godmother of American herbalism” — will offer a cluster of workshops as well as lead the opening and closing circles.

Gladstar, a prolific herb-book author who now lives in Vermont, founded the California School of Herbal Studies, co-founded the Traditional Medicinal Tea Co., and is president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit dedicated to conserving and cultivating at-risk North American

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Not just for herbalists: At this annual conference, the Wise Woman Tradition focuses on simple living, earth-based healing and using local plants.

medicinal plants and preserving botanical sanctuaries across the United States. “ Apart from a couple of notable exceptions, though, almost all of the conference speakers are from the Southeast, complementing the event’s focus on using local resources. Those local speakers include Corinna Wood, director of both the conference and Red Moon Herbs, a medicinal herb company based at Earthaven Ecovillage, an intentional community near Black Mountain (she’s also a Mountain Xpress columnist).

“Let’s get our wisdom locally,” suggests Warren.

Men, while appreciated, are not invited to the conference. A women-only event offers a different energy than a mixed group, and allows women to bond with each other and feel less self-conscious than in a mixed group, notes the conference Web site.

“We just want a little bit of a safe space to be who we can be in this context,” Warren says.

The conference’s highest-level sponsors are Red Moon Herbs and Western North Carolina’s

Natural Awakenings magazine, with additional sponsorship by Asheville.com, Flagpole magazine, The Laurel of Asheville, Main, Mountain Xpress, the Natural Awakenings magazines of Atlanta, Greenville/Spartanburg, and Knoxville and Chattanooga, Natural Products Lab, Western North Carolina Woman, Whole Foods and the Wise Woman Center.

Conference organizers have also developed on online forum on its Web site (www.sewisewomen.com) to allow women to continue to be involved and ask questions long after the conference’s closing circle breaks up.

“This is a resource and a touchstone and a real jolt of information,” Warren says.

— Tracy Rose Friday, Aug. 20, is the deadline to take advantage of early discounts for the conference ($240 instead of $275) and high-level workshops called “intensives” ($35 each instead of $45). There are additional fees for food and lodging. For more info or to register, check out www.sewisewomen.com or call (877) 739-6636.

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Brevard Music Center concluded its 64th annual Music Festival on Sunday, August 8. The final performance of the seven-week festival included Symphony No. 3 in F major and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, both by Johannes Brahms.

Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville, closed since Feb. 13 for renovations, is due to reopen in October or November, several months ahead of schedule. To learn more, see the Xpress video tour (http://bit. ly/al6DFh).

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BP contractor turns down locally donated bird-rescue supplies

by Susan Andrew Mountain Xpress reported back in June on local wildlife-rehabilitation expert Sherry Johnson’s trip to the Gulf Coast to help clean up oiled birds and other wildlife directly impacted by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster (see “Hands Across the Sand,” June 23 Xpress).

But when Johnson and her husband tried to deliver the veterinary supplies donated by the Asheville community, they were initially turned away at the International Bird Rescue Research Center facility in Hammond, La. According to Johnson, Rhonda Murgatroyd of Wildlife Response Services “told me point blank, ‘We are not accepting donations, and BP is paying for everything.’” Hired by BP to lead the wildlife-rescue effort, Wildlife Response — a subsidiary of the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based O’Brien Financial Group — is mishandling the wildlife cleanup they’re supposed to be leading, Johnson maintains. Meanwhile, rescue workers in the area have told Johnson they’re

short on supplies of IV fluids, nitrile gloves, syringes, needles and other items. “But the people in control don’t know what’s going on,” she says. “They can’t have eyes everywhere — they’re working in three states.”

“We had authorization before we left from Tri-State Bird Rescue,” the lead group cleaning up oiled wildlife in the gulf, Johnson reports.

“It got a little ugly there when we first arrived, but we got [the delivery] done in the end.”

International Bird Rescue Research, which has been doing rescue work in the gulf for years, eventually accepted the supplies.

In an e-mail, Murgatroyd denied that there are shortages and confirmed that BP is not accepting donations but did not explain the policy.

Among other functions, the command center offers a toll-free hot line for reporting injured wildlife. Callers hear the following recorded message: “To report oiled sea turtles or dolphins in any state, press 1. To report oiled birds in Texas, press 2. To report oiled birds or other wildlife in Alabama or Florida, press 3…”

Supplies BP doesn’t want? Sherry Johnson, right, tried to deliver the veterinary supplies donated by the Asheville community for the Gulf oil spill, but was turned away. photo by Jonathan welch

CTS files lawsuit over cleanup costs

The saga of the contaminated former CTS of Asheville site has taken another bizarre twist: On July 28, the Elkhardt, Ind.-based CTS Corp. filed a breach-of-contract suit against Mills Gap Road Associates.

The suit alleges that the local partnership has failed to honor an agreement to share cleanup costs per a 2004 agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Seeking “damages ... no less than $847,000,” CTS further maintains that the partnership is responsible for all of the corporation’s future costs in assessing and cleaning up the property, where massive levels of trichloroethylene and other contaminants have been found. Neighboring residents have complained about numerous health problems they blame on their exposure to those chemicals through their drinking-water wells and springs.

The lawsuit names Mills Gap Road Associates partners Frederick Slosman, John Powell and Stanley Greenberg. The partnership bought the bulk of the 57-acre property not long after the plant shut down in 1986 and then sold all but 10 acres to Southside Village developer Richard Green. The remaining acreage has stood at the heart of residents’ decades-long struggle to get the contamination cleaned up (see “Fail-safe?”

July 11, 2007 Xpress).

Court rejects verdict in TVA case

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a decision

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Valley Authority power plants are a “public nuisance” because of their negative effect on air quality in Western North Carolina.

Thornburg had ordered the utility to accelerate planned improvements at the plants, which the utility said would cost an additional $1 billion. But it was the ruling’s impact on utility regulation, rather than the cost, that prompted the higher court to reverse it.

“If allowed to stand, the injunction would encourage courts to use vague public nuisance standards to scuttle the nation’s carefully created system for accommodating the need for energy production and the need for clean air,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote. “The result would be a balkanization of clean air regulations and a confused patchwork of standards, to the detriment of industry and the environment alike.”

Although the state tried to frame the case in terms of protecting public health and the environment, Wilkinson argued that the federal Clean Air Act already addresses those issues.

Environmental groups and N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper called the ruling a setback for clean air. The attorney general sued TVA in 2006 after the North Carolina Legislature required plants in this state to reduce their own air emissions. X Direct your environmental news to Susan Andrew by e-mail at sandrew@mountainx.com or 251-1333, ext. 153.

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

• TH (8/12), 2pm - “Frontline of a Fireline,” a program about fighting fire in the wilderness at Linville Falls Visitor Center, Milepost 316 —- 7-8:30pm - Family Night. Join Rangers at the Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 384, and head into the forest to identify various creatures and plants.

Registration required: 298-5330, ext. 304.

• FR (8/13), 10am -”Camouflage: Some animals hide in plain sight in order to survive in the wild,” a program held at the Linville Falls Visitor Center, Milepost 316 —- 7pm - “What’s Eating the Trees?” Milepost 316 —- 7:30pm - “Coyotes: Howling at the Moon,” at the Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 340.

• SA (8/14), 1pm - “Conversation with a Ranger,” at the Historic Orchard at Altapass, Milepost 328 —- 7:30pm - “Wilderness Skills,” at the Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 316 —- 7pm - “Ghosts of the Old North State,” at the Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 340.

Bountiful Cities Project A nonprofit that creates, manages and, in some cases, owns community gardens on Asheville’s urban land. Info: 257-4000 or info@bountifulcitiesproject.org.

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Community Education Series Presented by Conservation Pros, the free series will feature classes on topics such as energy efficiency, tax credits, stimulus incentives, energy retrofitting, indoor air quality, HVAC and more.

• TH (8/12), 5:30-7pm - Class at South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville.

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The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W. Hendersonville.

Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org.

• TH (8/19), Noon-6pm - ECO Open House. Enjoy refreshments, talk with staff and board members and learn about ECO’s current and upcoming projects.

Friends of Hickory Nut Gorge Advocates for the natural beauty, biodiversity and wildlife habitat, along with the ecological health and integrity of Hickory Nut Gorge. Info: 685-8798 or www.friendsofhng. org.

• WE (8/18), 6-8pm - Sundance Power will give a presentation on solar, wind and hydro-power at the monthly conservation meeting. Held at The Old Rock Cafe, 431 Main St. in Chimney Rock Village. RSVP: batcave25@yahoo.com.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Hwy. 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: 877-4423 or www.ncwildlife.org.

• WE (8/12), 10am-3pm - Fly Fishing Skills: Casting for Beginners. Topics include casting theory, mechanics and practice techniques. Held at Lake Imaging, DuPont State Forest. Equipment and materials provided. Bring lunch. $20 (fee is refundable upon attendance). For ages 12 and up.

• SA (8/14), 9am-Noon - Geocaching for Wildlife. Come join the PCWE staff and learn about navigation, geocaching and wildlife while using a GPS unit. Equipment and materials provided.For ages 8 and up.

• MO (8/16), 9-11am - “Stream Investigation,” spend an afternoon with an experienced PCWE staff member and explore the Davidson River looking for aquatic macro invertebrates —- 1-3pm - Eco Explorers: “Hellbenders.”

Join PCWE staff to explore this unique-looking salamander, considered a species of special concern. Ages 8-13.

• TU (8/17) through TH (8/19), 6-9:30pm - Hunter Education Course. The course covers hunter responsibility, wildlife conservation and management, firearms, wildlife identification, survival and first aid, specialty hunting and tree stand safety.

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

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You may have heard of chicken tractors before.

They were popularized by Joel Salatin in the 1980s as an option for raising free-range chickens (Salatin was featured as a prime example of a sustainable farmer in Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma).

Often these tractors are personality-bereft affairs, constructed of chicken wire and lightweight lumber. Aesthetics aside, they allow the chickens to migrate from place to place without becoming dinner for predators, while eliminating their free reign to treat the garden as their own personal buffet. A chicken tractor is low-impact solution for small-scale urban homesteaders who don’t want a mess of yard birds hanging about, pecking at the petunias. It also makes for happy birds, and fertilized pastureland.

Chickens prefer to spend their day scratching

Squawk and walk: Alan Reynolds’ chicken tractors are spacious, self-contained habitats for the feathery flock. photos by kay littlejohn

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gardeningcalendar Calendar for August 11 - 19, 2010 SOW TRUE SEED (pd.) Asheville, NC. Open-Pollinated, Heirloom and Organic Vegetable, Herb and Flower Seed. Free catalog. www.sowtrue. com 828 254-0708 Buncombe County Extension Center Events Located at 94 Coxe Ave., Asheville. Info: 255-5522.

• TU (8/17), 5:30-7:30pm - “Selecting the Right Plants.”

Registration required. $5 at the door.

• WE (8/18), 10-11am - Gardening in the Mountains: “Ground Covers and High Impact Problem Solvers.” Free.

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

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

Info: 255-5522.

• 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Master Gardeners will be set up at the WNC Farmers Market in the breezeway between the retail buildings and on duty at the Compost Demonstration Site in front of Jesse Israel & Sons Garden Center.

Regional Tailgate Markets For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: 236-1282 or www.buyappalachian.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 2-6:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —- 3-6pm - Victory Tailgate Market, in the parking lot adjacent to ABCCM Veterans Restoration Quarters on Tunnel Road, Asheville —- 2:306:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, on the hill overlooking Lake Louise —- 3-7pm - Market on South Main, in the parking lot between Good Stuff and the Marshall Presbyterian Church —- 2-5:30pm - Spruce Pine Farmers Market, on Pollyanna’s Porch on Upper Street.

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

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance to the Mission Hospital Heart Center on Memorial Campus —- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, located in the parking area behind the Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock —- 4-6:30pm - Tryon Tailgate Market, on Trade Street —- 4:30-7pm - Black Mountain Farmers Market, corner of S. Ridgeway and Sutton in Black Mountain.

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

• SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St.

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• SUNDAYS, 9am-2pm - Greenlife Sunday Market, 70 Merrimon Ave., Asheville —- Noon-4pm - Sundays on the Island, cross the river at the Courthouse on Main St. in downtown Marshall and turn right onto the island.

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

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

• TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-2pm Hendersonville County Curb Market, on Church Street, directly across from the old courthouse in Hendersonville —- TU, 36pm & TH & SA, 8am-1pm - Transylvania Tailgate Market, in the parking lot behind the corner of Jordan and Johnson Streets.

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

Seed Saving Workshop • SA (8/14), 10am-12:30pm - The workshop will be led by Keith Nicholson at Frog Holler Organiks in Waynesville. $35. Info & registration: 627-3363.

Transylvania Farm Tour • SA (8/14), 9am-3pm - Air-conditioned bus tour sponsored by the Transylvania Farm Bureau to benefit the nonprofit Transylvania Heritage Coalition Inc. Ten stops, one short driving tour and lunch included. $25. Tickets available at the Transylvania Heritage Museum or e-mail heritage@comporium. net.

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at the dirt, rolling around in the dust, gobbling up bugs and weeds and generally acting like barnyard animals. In a normal coop, this isn’t always possible.

Being barnyard creatures, chickens tend to make a mess of things — pooping, digging up grass and, if they’re allowed to reign free, often pecking at things that aren’t to be pecked at. Since the open-bottomed coop can be piloted to a fresh spot once the birds have scratched, de-bugged and fertilized a patch of soil to their heart’s content, the birds stay happy and the ground maintenance, so to speak, can be controlled.

“They can dig up all the dirt and fertilize, then you can plant grass on top of that, till that grass in, and plant a garden on it. It amends the soil — builds it up,” Reynolds says.

Many of the tractors Reynolds had seen were little more than bottomless playpens, with little or no shelter for the birds, who had to be transferred elsewhere for roosting.

Also, lugging a coop around simply seemed a chore, Reynolds thought, and it tore up the grass a bit to boot. The solution? A fully self contained unit — think chicken RV. The chicken tractor contains room for the birds to roam and peck, then a roost in which to retreat in the evening.

Bicycle-sized wheels on the back make the whole package highly portable. Everything can be pushed around smoothly, much like a wheelbarrow. The chickens can simply ride inside, comfortably perched in their roost.

Reynolds, who has 17 years of experience in construction, primarily with Jade Mountain Builders, custom-makes chicken tractors for others now. He builds off site and delivers, “so

people won’t have construction going on in their yard,” he says.

The tractors start at $500 for a basic design, he says, adding that folks can custom order just about anything their heart desires — keeping in mind that the heavier the material, the harder it is to keep the tractor portable. “They can have it match their house, even. It just depends on what kind of look they’re going for,” he says.

Reynolds says that he adds creative embellishments to each of his custom-built tractors. “I like to make each one unique,” he says. “I change the design a little bit, add little details to the trim.”

The coop that Reynolds built for his property, for example, is decorated with limbs of mountain laurel on the walls and recycled barn trim for the roof.

The tractors can be tailored to a number of other factors, he says — how many chickens a person is trying to raise, for example. He recommends keeping no more than five birds in each enclosure.

“It’s nice to be able to move them around to fresh grass,” he says of his own coop. “You can put it out of the way to where it’s not in an obvious place. It just seems that everyone that sees it thinks it’s a great idea, but they don’t necessarily have the craftsman skills to do it.”

To order a chicken tractor or for more information, contact Alan Reynolds at leigh200@wildblue.net or 551-4156. X Send your home and garden news to mlunsford@ mountainx.com

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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 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 SUNDAYS (through 8/14), 2:15pm - Rangers will share the history and techniques of Mrs. Sandburg’s dairy and cheese-making operation in the House Garage.

• WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS (through 8/14), 10:15am - The Vagabond School of Drama presents performances of “The World of Carl Sandburg” on Wed. & Fri. and performances of “Rootabaga Stories” on Thurs. & Sat. shared through musical tunes from Sandburg’s collection of folk music found in his American Songbag.

• MONDAYS & TUESDAYS, 2:15pm & SATURDAYS, 3:15pm (through 8/14) - Historic walking tours of the grounds will be offered. Meet in front of the main house for the history walk.

Downtown Hendersonville Cruise-In

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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..

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• TH (8/12), 5-9pm - Classic cars will be on display along Main Street, next to Mikes on Main and Hannah Flanagan’s.

Info: 329-4971.

Landlord Lunch and Learn • FR (8/13), Noon-2pm - Looking for good tenants?

Learn more about supportive housing in our community at the Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. Partner with agencies who are working hard to support individuals. Info: KMcCrory@ ashevillenc.gov.

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Info: 862-5554 or www. pari.edu.

• FR (8/13), 7pm - The public is invited to a presentation by Dr. Douglas Miller on atmospheric science and weather forecasting. Plus, participate in a tour of the PARI campus and celestial observations using PARI’s optical or radio telescopes.

Reservations required by 3pm on the day of the event. $20/$15/$10.

Salvation Army Info: 253-4723.

• Mid August: Clothing will be distributed to children ages 12 and under at the following Salvation Army locations: 1076 Patton Ave. in W. Asheville and 2247 Hendersonville Road in Arden.

Sister Cities Meeting • TH (8/19), 5:30pm - Meeting at 33 Page Ave., Asheville. Info: 254-3349 or 225-3777.

Transylvania Heritage Museum Located at 40 West Jordan St., Brevard. Info: 884-2347 or www.transylvaniaheritage. org.

• Through FR (8/13), 9amNoon - Heritage Day Camp for ages 7-12. “Meet the Robinsons,” an 1840 pioneer family, crafts, pioneer games, town tours and other hands-on activities.

• SA (8/14), 1-2pm - “How to Carve a Wooden Spoon,” with Walter Kluge.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Aktion Club A community service group for adult citizens, sponsored

by Kiwanis International.

The mission of the club is to provide adults living with disabilities an opportunity to develop initiative and leadership skills. Info: • WE (8/18), 3-5pm - The club’s first anniversary luncheon will be at the Central United Methodist Church, 297 Haywood St. There will be a raffle to raise money for members to attend the annual Carolina District Convention this fall. RSVP: 254-6995.

Alternative Currency • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 5:307:30pm - Informal social gathering at Westville Pub for people who find an alt. paper currency intriguing, but have questions/concerns, and for those who understand the ins-and-outs and want to share their knowledge with others. Family-friendly event.

Arise & Shine Toastmasters Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate and motivate. Info: 776-5076.

• THURSDAYS, 7:308:30am - Meeting in the University Highsmith Building at UNCA. Asheville Civitan Club Come hear community leaders present programs.

Meetings are held at Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of Church St. and Aston St. Open to the public. RSVP for lunch: $10. Info: 348-4222 or www.ashevillecivitan.org.

• TU (8/17), 11:30am Club and Board of Directors meeting.

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

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

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

weeklypicks Events are FREE unless otherwise noted.

Come play your favorite game or learn to play someone else’s at Firestorm’s Blitzkrieg Game

wed Night on Wednesday, Aug. 11, starting at 6 p.m. Firestorm Books is located at 48 Commerce St. Info: 255-8115.

Make a Splash Summer Reading Program for children presents Ice Cream Splash, for

thur youngsters and their guardians, on Thursday, Aug. 12, at 11 a.m. Bring a cup of milk or cream to Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road. Info: 250-6480.

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Dance to beach music performed by the Caribbean Cowboys on Friday, Aug. 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Music on Main Street, 201 S. Main St. in Hendersonville. Bring a chair. Please leave pets at home. Info: 693-9708.

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RiverLink’s Rockin’ RiverFest will feature a raft race, a parade for children, live music, vendors, local food, beer and outdoor games on Saturday, Aug. 14, from noon to 6 p.m. at the French Broad River Park. Register by Aug. 11 for raft race. Info: www.riverlink.org.

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The 33rd annual Sourwood Festival, an annual family-friendly street festival, will take place in downtown Black Mountain on Saturday Aug. 14 and Sunday, Aug. 15. There will be more than 200 booths of arts and craft, live music, dancing, food, games, rides, honey-making and bee demos and children's activities. Info: 669-2300 or bmchamber@juno.com.

Writers are invited to celebrate the creative use of words, ask for feedback and share ideas at

mon “The Writer in You,” a workshop held on Monday, Aug. 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. 40 Church St. in Asheville. Bring a bag lunch and five copies of your work. Info: 450-5462.

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Portraits Across Culture: 1960-2010, an exhibition of portraiture by Tom Plaut, will be open for viewing on Tuesday, Aug. 17, in the Front Gallery in Pack Place, located in downtown Asheville. The show will be on exhibit through the end of the month, with an opening reception held Aug. 19, from 5 to 8 p.m. Info: 257-4500.

Guests welcome. Info: www. blueridgetm.org or (808) 937-7206.

• MONDAYS, 12:20-1:30pm - Meeting.

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

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

• WE (8/11), 6pm Firestorm-Blitzkrieg Game Night. Bring your favorite game or come to play someone else’s.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Asheville Cop Watch. Join fellow Asheville residents to promote civilian police oversight and review.

Land of Sky Toastmasters Your success in business is based on how effective you are. Through participation in the Toastmasters

Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate and motivate. $10/month. Info: www.landofskytoastmasters.org.

• TUESDAYS, 7am - Meeting at the Hilton in Biltmore Park.

Land-of-Sky Regional Council Info: 251-6622 or www. landofsky.org.

• WE (8/18), 11am Meeting at the Land-of-Sky Regional Council offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140.

Land-of-the Sky Shrine Club Open Car & Motorcycle Show • SA (8/14), 9am-4pm - Street-Tiques of Asheville Hot Rod Club hosts the event to support the Shriners Children’s Hospitals.

Customs, rods, trucks, classics and motorcycles will be on display. Food, door prizes flea market, 50-50, raffle (4-wheel ATV), auction and more. Spectators: $2/Free under 12. At 39 Spring Cove Road, Swannanoa.

Local RV Camping Club • 2nd WEEKENDS (through Oct.) - The club is looking for new members. The group camps on the 2nd weekend of the month and shares a love of the outdoors, good company, great food and a roaring campfire. Info: 3696669 or lilnau@aol.com.

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

• 2nd SATURDAYS, 1pm - Potluck.

Ole-Older Lesbian Energy • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1pm - Event planning meeting and potluck for women over 50.

Info: 545-9698.

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

• MONDAYS, 9:30-11:30am - Easy Bridge Workshops.

Each session stands alone and will have handouts and practice sessions for each topic covered. $7/lesson.

Info: 693-5361.

• TUESDAYS, 9-11:30am - Easy Bridge lessons. Don’t have to have a partner to attend. $6/lesson. Info: 7772595.

Progressive Pizza (and Beer) • 2nd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - Network/brainstorm/organize with other like-minded Haywood County Progressives at Angelo’s Pizza’s bar, 166 Walnut St., Waynesville. Info: 280-7599.

Salesforce Users Group • Alternate TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - Meeting. An officially approved users’ group for Salesforce CRM users and others interested in learning about Salesforce CRM. Info: 225-4981 or www.meetup.com/salesforce-group-asheville.

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

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville. Also meets at Barnes & Noble on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. We have all the gear; just bring

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Sons of the American Revolution • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-2pm - The Blue Ridge Chapter meets bi-monthly at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road, Asheville. Info: 5451222.

TEDx Asheville • 2nd WEDNESDAYS - Organizing committee meetings. Teens and adults are welcome. Info: sara. k.needham@gmail.com or TEDxNGA.com.

Vivace Young Professionals • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 6pm - A subsidiary of the Asheville Lyric Opera designed to provide networking for young professional opera lovers. Info: mpopebeck@gmail.com.

Volkswagen Car Show • FR (8/13) through SU (8/15) - No, not bugs, but VW Bugs. Volkswagen devotees make their way to Cherokee for the 2nd annual VW Show at the Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds where Volkswagens of all makes and models will be on display. $10. Info: (800) 438-1601.

WNC Community Media Center • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Want your own radio or TV show? Attend a free orientation at the WNC Community Media Center. Info: www. urtv.org/index.php/coursesequipment.

Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-23. Each

week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators. Straight allies are also welcome.

Info: www.youthoutright.org.

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

Government & Politics LibertyOnTheRocks.org A national nonpartisan social group connecting liberty advocates.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - Meets at El Chapala Restaurant off of Merrimon Ave. Women in Black • FRIDAYS, 5-6pm - Stand weekly at the Vance Monument in downtown Asheville in a public expression of grief for the violence involved in war. Express support for the people of Gaza and for the humanrights activists who have died trying to deliver aid.

Info: 242-5610.

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

Info: 698-3448 or www.

LJRsoftball.com.

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS - Daytime games at Jackson Park in Hendersonville (AprilOct.) and Leila Patterson Center in Fletcher (Nov.-

March). Start times may vary with season.

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

• FR (8/13), 10am Blueberry picking trip. Travel to Old Fort to pick and take home local blueberries. $5 for transportation plus the cost for the blueberries. Call to register.

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

• TH (8/12), 4-10pm - Senior Trip: See the Asheville Tourists. The group leaves from the Rec. Center and have dinner at Fuddruckers before the baseball game. $10 members/$11 nonmembers.

Bring money for dinner.

Animals Animal Compassion Network WNC’s largest nonprofit, safe-for-life animal welfare organization. Find a new pet at ACN’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, 803 Fairview St., Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: 274-DOGS or www.animalcompassionnetwork.org.

• SATURDAYS, 11am-3pm - Adoption Days, meet all available pets.

Asheville Humane Society Animals available for adoption from AHS at 72 Lee’s Creek Rd. in Asheville. View photos of animals currently available for adoption online.

Foster homes needed. Info: 236-3885, ext. 311 or www. ashevillehumane.org.

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• SATURDAYS (8/14 & 28), 1-4pm - Pussy-Cat-Palooza at Barnes & Noble, Biltmore Park, 33 Town Square Boulevard. Adoption fees for cats six months and older waived. Plus, 2-for-1 adoption fees for all kittens.

Asheville Kennel Club Membership is open to everyone interested in purebred dogs and responsible dog ownership. Info: 2584833 or www.ashevillekennelclub.com.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Breed Handling Classes.

Learn how to present your purebred dog in the Show Ring. Meets at the US Army Reserve Center on Louisiana Ave. Open to the public.

Details and map on the website.

Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to stop the unnecessary killing of hundreds of healthy and adoptable animals at local shelters in Henderson, Buncombe, Transylvania and Polk County. Info: 693-5172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org.

• 1st & 4th SATURDAYS, Noon-3pm - Spay/neuter vouchers available at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). $20 cats/$30 dogs.

Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East,

Hendersonville. Info: 6935605. : Blood Drive dates and locations are listed below.

Appointment and ID required.

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

• WE (8/25), Noon - Pet First Aid. $30, includes one reference guide, either dog or cat first aid. For an additional $10, take home both books.

Business Ready To Sell Or Buy A Restaurant In WNC? (pd.) We work exclusively with the food and beverage industry. Contact National Restaurant Properties in Asheville: (828) 225-4801. jeffnra@bellsouth.net www. restaurantstore.com

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

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

Western Alliance Center for Independent Living Located at 108 New Leicester Hwy., Asheville.

Info: 298-1977 or www. westernalliance.org.

• MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8:30am-5pm Give your computer a second life by donating it to Western Alliance to benefit people with disabilities. Donations are tax deductible.

Volunteering Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Seeks Volunteers Volunteers must attend an orientation prior to scheduling in the Home Store or the Jobsite. Info: lodeen@ ashevillehabitat.org.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm & 2nd FRIDAYS & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Volunteer orientations are offered at Habitat for Humanity, 30 Meadow Road.

Children First 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.

• Through FR (8/13) Community donations (clothing, household items and toys) for The Children First/ CIS Family Resource Center’s Fall Rummage Sale will be accepted. Info: 252-4810 or lisab@childrenfirstbc.org.

• SA (8/14), 7am-Noon Volunteers are needed to help

at the Rummage Sale. Info: jodif@childrenfirstbc.org.

Community Garden • FRIDAYS, 3-6pm Volunteers are needed to help maintain a garden that supplies food for weekly community meals. Come join a group of people who love to get down and dirty. Info: (864) 557-2204.

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

• TU (8/17), 4-6pm - Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

• TH (8/19), 6-8pm - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank to be given to agencies serving hungry people in 17 WNC counties.

Haywood Street Congregation Clothing Closet • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am1:30pm - Clothing closet open to persons in need at 297 Haywood St., Asheville.

Volunteers are needed to help sort through new donations, hang clothes and straighten up. Individuals or groups are welcome to come. Info: 337-4944.

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 encouraged to volunteer.

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

Operation Toasty Toes Chapter 7 Makes yarn comfort items that are sent to troops deployed overseas. Info: 696-9777 or www.operationtoastytoes.org.

• TH (8/19), 10am - Toasty Toes meeting.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Hwy. 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: 877-4423 or www.ncwildlife. org.

• Reliable, enthusiastic and outgoing volunteers are needed: front desk, outdoor exhibit interpreter, gardening,

general maintenance and fly fishing assistance. Jobs can be scheduled on a weekly, monthly or even on a call-asneeded basis. Call or e-mail emilie.johnson@ncwildlife. org.

RiverLink’s Volunteer Opportunities RiverLink is a regional nonprofit organization working to revitalize the French Broad River watershed. Internship positions are available, as well as many volunteer opportunities. Info: 2528474, volunteer@riverlink. org or www.riverlink.org.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 10am & 5pm - Volunteer info session at RiverLink, 170 Lyman St. Learn how to make a difference in making the French Broad River watershed a healthier place to live, work and play. To RSVP: e-mail or call ext. 118.

Salvation Army Info: 253-4723.

• Back-To-School Children’s Clothing Drive: Donations are needed. Drop off items at any of the following Salvation Army locations: 1076 Patton Ave. in W. Asheville, 2247 Hendersonville Road in Arden or 204 Haywood St. in downtown Asheville.

Volunteer Opportunity for Alternative Therapy Health Care Providers • FRIDAYS & SUNDAYS - Helios Warriors is a nonprofit health-care program in Asheville for veterans offering complementary/alternative therapies. Needed: professional licensed/insured practitioners who would be willing to offer a min. of 3 hrs./month of their service.

Info: www.helioswarriors.org or 299-0776.

Health Programs Healing Touch Level 1 • August 21-22 (pd.) For those interested in the program many clinics and hospitals currently use.

18 CEUs, RNs/LMBTs. No previous training necessary.

Hendersonville. Call Judy Ray, (828) 553-8146 or (828) 553-8146 .

Helping Women Recover from Addictions and Trauma (pd.) Compassionate therapy, support and understanding.

Also offering help for your spouse, partner and loved ones. Call Denise Kelley, MA, LPC, (828) 231-2107.

Sexual Compulsivity & Addiction (pd.) Ongoing treatment and support groups for those struggling with problematic sexual behaviors: internet porn, chat rooms, anonymous sex, extra-marital affairs, compulsive masturba-

tion, sexual massage, etc.

• behaviors which you may have tried to stop, but were unable to. There is, however, an effective way out of this painful cycle, a cycle which often includes shame and guilt, lost time, lost money, and lost relationships. • If interested, please call David Von Kohorn, MFT, CSAT at (828) 398-5028 for more information. My voicemail is private and your call, by law, is confidential.

Art of Intimacy Learn life-changing communication and relationship skills, drawing from the work of Marshal Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication), Brad Blanton (Radical Honesty), Susan Campbell (Getting Real), John Bradshaw (Homecoming) and others. $60/4-session class. Info: 254-5613 or www.theREALcenter.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meeting.

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

• TH (8/12), 3-4:30pm - Jason Morgan, a physical therapist, will discuss the causes of shoulder pain and the range of treatments available.

• FR (8/13), 1-2:30pm Learn techniques for uses for fruit and also other healthy ideas. $5.

Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East, Hendersonville.

Info: 693-5605. : Blood Drive dates and locations are listed below.

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

• MO (8/16), 10am-2:30pm - American Red Cross Chapter, 203 2nd Ave., E. Hendersonville. Info: 6935605.

• TU (8/17), 8:30am-1pm - Park Ridge Hospital, Naples Road, Fletcher.

Info: 681-2172 —- 10am2:30pm - Apple Valley Clinic of Chiropractic, 1032-B Greenville Hwy. Info: 6986677.

• TH (8/19), 1:30-6pm - First United Methodist Church, 204 6th Ave., W. Hendersonville. Info: 6934275.

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

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

• WE (8/11), 11am-4pm - Chili’s Bar and Grill, 253 Tunnel Road. Info: 2524999.

• TH (8/12), 12:30-5pm - Chili’s Bar and Grill, 420 Airport Road, Arden. Info: 684-5067 —- 2-6:30pm - Francis Asbury UMC, 725 Asbury Road, Candler. Info: 667-3950 —10am-2:30pm - University of Phoenix, 30 Town Square Blvd.

Info: 654-1021 or 3359574.

• SA (8/14), 10am-2:30pm - New Harvest Church, 142 Elk Mountain Road. Info: 691-5154.

• MO (8/16), 2-6:30pm The Rush, 1047 Patton Ave. Info: 398-1430 —- 26:30pm - Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 201 Mt. Carmel Road. Info: 7120217.

• WE (8/18), 11:30am-4pm - Lowe’s Warehouse, 19 McKenna Road, Arden. Info: 650-8000.

• TH (8/19), 2-6pm - New Morgan Hill Baptist Church, 370 Lake Dr., Candler. Info: 667-4313.

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

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

Info: 545-9648.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Open big book study. Info:545-9648.

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

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

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - AlAnon in West Asheville: Meeting at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Rd., across from Ingles. Newcomers meeting at 7:30pm. Info: 258-4799.

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

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of AlAnon is a gay-friendly support group for families and friends of alcoholics, and holds their weekly candlelight meeting at All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 670-6277 (until 9pm).

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

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

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

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

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

• MONDAYS, 7pm - Black Mountain Al-Anon: Meeting at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 201 Blue Ridge Road (corner of Blue Ridge Road and Hwy. 9). Info: 669-0274.

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

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

• TUESDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Bipolar and Depression Support Group • WEDNESDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Magnetic Minds meets at Mountain House, 225 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Peer support, empowerment, recovery and advocacy. Info: 318-9179.

Cancer Support Group for Caregivers • MONDAYS, 11am-Noon - Meetings at Jubilee, 46 Wall St., Asheville. Emotional support for family members of people experiencing cancer. Facilitated by Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Love offering. Info: 299-0394.

Cancer Support Group for Women • MONDAYS, 1:30-3pm Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church. Emotional support for women experiencing cancer. Facilitated

by Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Info: 299-0394.

Eating Disorders Individuals are welcome to come to one or all of the support group. Info: 3374685 or www.thecenternc. org.

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

HIV/AIDS Support Group Open support group for all who struggle with HIV/AIDS. Info: 252-7489, bannders2@yahoo.com or www.wncap.org.

• 1st & 3rd TUESDAYS, 67:30pm - Meeting.

MemoryCaregivers Network Support for caregivers of loved ones who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Info: 645-9189 or 7712219.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 12:302pm - Meeting at Fletcher Calvary Episcopal Church.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 12:302pm - Meeting at New Hope Presbyterian Church.

National Alliance on Mental Illness - Western Carolina Dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety disorders. Free Connection Recovery Support Groups.

Info: 505-7353.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 8pm - Group meets at Mountainhouse, 225 E. Chestnut St. Overcomers Recovery Support Group • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - A Christian-based 12-step recovery program for women. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems such as alcohol, drugs, overeating, pornography, codependency, enabling. All women are welcome. Info: rchovey@ sos.spc-asheville.org.

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

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

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

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Meth. Church, 2567 Asheville Hwy. (Hwy. 25).

Open mtg. Info: 1-800-5804761.

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

• TUESDAYS, 10:30amNoon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari.

Open BBSS mtg. Info: 2802213.

S-Anon For those affected by someone else’s sexual behavior. Info: 545-4287 or 606-6803.

• WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

S-Anon Meetings S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. We share our experience, strength and hope to help solve our common problems. Meetings held weekly in Asheville, Fletcher and Waynesville. Call confidential voice mail for information: 258-5117.

• WEEKLY - Meetings.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - A 12-step, recovery fellowship for those who want to stop living out a pattern

of compulsive sexual and romantic behavior. Meets at Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Park behind church and enter at front door of the annex.

Sexaholics Anonymous SA is a 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior.

Call confidential voice mail 681-9250 or e-mail saasheville@gmail.com. Info: www.orgsites.com/nc/saasheville/.

• DAILY - Asheville meetings.

WNC Brain Tumor Support Welcomes family as well as the newly diagnosed and longer-term survivors. Info: 691-2559 or www.wncbraintumor.org.

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:158pm - Group meets at MAHEC, 501 Biltmore Ave., at the edge of the Mission Hospitals campus.

Workaholic Anonymous (WA) Meetings Feeling rushed? Can’t get it all done? WA slogan: “Slow is beautiful and powerful. I move glacially.” Info: 2546484. Or try conference call meetings: Get times and numbers at www.workaholics-anonymous.org/page. php?page=_meetings.

• TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Asheville WA meeting at First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St.

Outdoors Asheville Track Club The club provides information, education, training, social and sporting events for runners and walkers of any age. Please see the group Web site for weekly events and news. Info: www.ashevilletrackclub.org or 253-8781.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30am - Trail run for all paces. Meet at the NC Arboretum, Greenhouse Parking Area. Info: 6489336.

Blue Ridge Parkway Hikes Led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers.

• FR (8/13), 10am - Buck Springs Trail to the Pisgah Inn. Meet at the Buck Springs Gap parking overlook at Milepost 407.7. Bring water and be prepared for changeable weather. Info: 298-5330, ext. 304.

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

• SU (8/15), 10am - “Tree Killers: Wooly adel-what?”

Held at the Linville Falls Visitor Center, Milepost

316 —- 10am - “The Willy Coyote,” a program about the misconceptions about coyotes, at the Minerals Museum, Milepost 331.

Buncombe County Walking Club • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:15am - Meet at the Sports Park in Candler. Gather at the picnic shelter. The purpose of the club is not to compete, but to build fitness and form friendships. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org.

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

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

• WE (8/11), 9am Buckeye Gap - Bearpen Gap. Info: 692-0116.

• SA (8/14), 10am Buckeye Gap - Bearpen Gap. Info: 698-5208.

• SU (8/15), 8:30am - Mt. Mitchell - Maple Camp Bald Loop. Info: (502) 494-9309 —- 12:30pm - Pink Beds - Barnett Branch - Cradle of Forestry Loop. Info: 6707251.

• WE (8/18), 8:30am - Art Loeb, Grassy Cove Ridge to Bridges Camp Gap. Info: 337-5845.

Family Float Trip • SU (8/15) - Family Float Trip down the French Broad River (part of the YMCA’s Healthy Family Home program). Meet at the Bent Creek boat launch on 191.

Participants must be 12 or older and be able to swim. $10 per person. RSVP required. Info: dturno@ diamondbrand.com or 6846262.

Fly Fishing Class Held at Headwaters Outfitters in Rosman. Info: 877-3106 or www.headwatersoutfitters.com.

• THURSDAYS & SUNDAYS, 11am-1pm Casting lesson. For all ages. $30, includes all necessary gear. Reservations required.

Four-Miler Group • MONDAYS, 6pm - Join Jane Roane’s slow fourmiler group, which leaves from Jus’ Running, 523 Merrimon Ave. An easy, social run (10-11 min./ miles).

Guided Hikes at Bat Cave Nature Preserve

• WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 10am-1:30pm - The Nature Conservancy is leading hikes at Bat Cave Preserve. Learn about natural history and the rare plants and animals of Hickory Nut Gorge. Walk to the base of the cave. $10.

Reservations required. Info: abell@tnc.org.

Hiking Group for Singles • SATURDAYS, 10am-5pm - Explore the wilderness at Shining Rock. Bring lunch, water and be prepared for difficult but fun hikes. Info: 215-2684.

Mayors’ Cup Raft Race • SU (8/15), 3:30pm - City and county elected officials and staff (from Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania Counties) battle in a raft race on the French Broad River. Hosted

by Land-of-Sky Regional Council. The finish line is at the French Broad River Park on Amboy Road in Asheville.

Info: 251-6622.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Hwy. 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: 877-4423 or www.ncwildlife.org.

• WE (8/11), 9am-3pm - “Introduction to Fly Fishing: Lake Fishing.” Must have completed “Casting for Beginners” before taking this class. $20 registration fee.

Ages 12 and up.

Rosman High School Bookin’ It 5K • SA (8/14), 8-10am - A 5K event to benefit Rosman High’s Media Center and yearbook. The flattest 5K run/walk the mountains have to offer. $20. Register online at www.runsignup. com/Race/NC/Rosman/ BookinIt5K or download a registration form at http:// rhs.tcsnc.org.

Sourwood 5k Race • SA (8/14) - The Sourwood 5k race will be held. To register: www.sourwood5k.com.

Sports Groups & Activities Adult Basketball League at the YMCA. (pd.) August 16th is registration deadline, games begin August 23rd. Eight week regular play with two week double elimination tournament. Price includes jersey, facility, and officials.

More information at 7776035 Asheville Kendo Club • FRIDAYS, 6:30-9:30pm Dedicated to bringing quality

Kendo to the Asheville area.

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

Buncombe County Walking Club • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:15am - Walk at the Buncombe County Sports Park. Meet at the picnic shelter. All ages are welcome. Go at your own pace. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org.

Filipino Martial Arts Kuntao: Traditional emptyhand system of self defense.

Kali: Filipino method of stick-and-knife combat. First two lessons are free. Info: 777-8225 or http://kuntao. webs.com.

• SATURDAYS, 1pm & TUESDAYS, 7pm - Classes at Asheville Culture Project, 257 Short Coxe Ave. Hits-4-Honduras • FR (8/27) - Softball tournament to be held at Jackson Park in Hendersonville. This will be a double-elimination tournament that will follow ASA rules. Looking for 32 teams for an all weekend event.

There will also be a homerun derby held Sunday.

Spoccer Spoccer encourages the community to exercise, socialize and make real connections via pick-up soccer games, held at Memorial Stadium. If an event is scheduled at the stadium, games will be held at MLK Park. Info: www.spoccer. com/group/ashevillenc.

• WEDNESDAYS, 5-7pm - Game.

• SUNDAYS, 9-11am - Game.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:30-2pm - Game.

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Absence of drugs, sex, money breaks up ‘Mix’ 96.5 House Band Asheville, MondAy — Having absolutely no need to argue over song royalties or artistic differences, members of the ‘Mix’ 96.5 House Band have decided to call it quits so that each has the freedom to never pursue a solo project.

Founding band member and local radio personality Pat Ryan claims that, despite his best intentions, his personal life, relationships and conscience are all thriving due to having been permanently sequestered from the “rigors of the road.”

“I didn’t get into this to play music and be home every night, but that’s exactly what happened,” Ryan announced in a blog post on the “Mix” 96.5 Web site, just beneath a YouTube video of a pajama-clad cat reading a newspaper. “They say all good things must end, but this band can’t play for eternity simply based on that.”

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Dear David,

Pat Ryan, bassist for ‘Mix’ 96.5 House Band, claims the sort of home-wrecking groupies that normally break up bands, shown above, never materialized, forcing the band to take matters into its own hands.

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There’s nothing wrong with experimenting with makeup.

On leave in Seoul, I was known to put on a little makeup and dance around just to cheer up the troops. I wore a nice sun dress and performed lap dances for officers in their private club and it was nothing more than just good camaraderie and morale boosting.

Dear Arnold, My son has red hair and freckles and is being tormented at school for being a “Ginger.” It’s really hurt him. What can I do to help?

— Sally

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August 13, 2008: The damned mute button is broken on the remote, and I can’t concentrate on the weather-girl’s boobs.

Dear Sally, We had a ginger I fought with at Da Kang. Strange guy who mumbled a lot and had a strange smell.

He looked like Raggedy Andy and we used to beat him mercilessly when we were bored. Couldn’t stand the guy. He took a bullet in the head while using the crapper.

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adults/$7.50 students & seniors/$6 kids 2-11.

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

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

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

• SATURDAYS, Noon-2pm - Experiment with science during Super Science Saturdays. Featuring handson activities led by museum facilitators, the programs are fun for all ages. Free with admission.

Creation Camp • Through TH (8/12), 9am-1pm - Land of the Sky UCC hosts Creation Camp for young children at Westminster Presbyterian, 15 Overbrook Road, Asheville. Each day offers circle time, crafts, movement, songs and storytelling as we explore the Earth. $25. Info: 242-0268.

Make a Splash! Summer Reading Program Sponsored by Buncombe County Public Libraries. Info: www.buncombecounty.org.

• WE (8/11), 10:30am - “Splash Into Ghana With Adinkra Prints,” for ages 3 and up at Black Mountain Library. Info: 250-4756.

Free, but tickets required.

• TH (8/12), 11am - “Make an Ice Cream Splash,” at Leicester Library. Bring a 1/2 cup of milk or cream. Info: 250-6480.

Spend a While on the Nile • MO (8/9) through FR (8/13), 6:30-8pm - Get ready to journey to ancient Egypt at Mt. Moriah Wesleyan. Visit Joseph from the Prison to the Palace.

Info: 667-2494.

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

• Through WE (8/18) Summer camp for children in grades 1-6. Activities include arts and crafts, swimming, library trips and more. $25 per day.

Spirituality Asheville Center for Spiritual Awareness (pd.) Meditation practice and instruction in the Kriya Yoga tradition. • Thursday evenings and 2 Sunday morning

sessions every week. • Donation basis. • Special Events with Roy Eugene Davis, a Direct Disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda • September 12 and October 10: Kriya Yoga Philosophy, Traditions, and Essential Practices. Holistic lifestyle routines and basic meditation techniques to practice prior to initiation. 30 minutes of guided meditation at each session. • November 7: Kriya Yoga Initiation. For persons who attend the above classes. Kriya initiates may also attend to review their practices and renew their commitment to this spiritual path. • Reservations are required for these Special Events. • Located in the N. Louisiana Office Park, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite D-3. • Information/ Registration: (828) 4236636. &lt;B&gt;www.csaasheville.org Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA. (828)258-3229.

Compassionate Communication Workshop (pd.) Expressing Your Truth In A Way Others Can Hear Nonviolent Communication honesty is a different kind of honesty. Saturday Aug 14th, 9:00-4:00 150 E. Chestnut 828-252-0538 www.ashevilleccc.com/ws.htm Free Introduction to Meditation and Hypnosis (pd.) Aug. 31 - 7pm. 1095 Hendersonville Rd. For info: 828-275-1718, 828-3379052. www.alternativecounselingsite.com LAMA CHRISTIE MCNALLY, (pd.) Creator of Tibetan Heart Yoga and the Yoga Studies Institute, comes to ASHEVILLE - SEPTEMBER 3-5. Register/info: www. clearlightyoga.com/twoas-one Mastering Life’s Challenges • Eckankar Seminar (pd.) Asheville’s Crowne Plaza, August 27-29.

Anyone can use Eckankar’s spiritual exercises to find answers to life’s questions. Transformational workshops, international speakers and musicians.

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MasteringChallengesinLife. com A Course in Miracles • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - A truly loving group of people studying A Course in Miracles meets at Groce United Methodist

Church on Tunnel Road. The group is open to all. Info: 712-5472.

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

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

• TUESDAYS, 8-8:40am - The Heart Sutra. Chant the Prajnamaramita (“Perfect Understanding”) Heart Sutra.

This sutra is the essence of Buddhist teaching. The sutra is followed by 30-40 minutes of silent sitting meditation.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation/ Free Introductory Lectures Change your brain—change your life. Scientists know TM creates brainwave coherence. Only an orderly brain can support higher consciousness. TM is easy to learn—enjoyable to practice. Dissolves deep-rooted stress, reduces anxiety and depression. Verified by 600 scientific studies.

Info: 254-4350 or www.

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• WEDNESDAYS, 7:15pm - Meeting at 165 E. Chestnut St. Learn how to access the field of infinite creativity, intelligence and bliss within you—revitalizing mind and body and creating coherence in collective consciousness.

Asheville Jewish Meditation and Chanting Circle • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Cultivate an awareness of the Divine Presence through sitting meditation at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock, Asheville.

Info: 252-8431.

Asheville Meditation Center Classes are held at the Greenlife Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: 5052300 or www.meditateasheville.org.

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

Awakening Heaven: Seven Sacred Lights of Aramaic Yeshua • TUESDAYS (through 8/24), 7-9pm - Class with international Aramaic spirituality teacher Dale Allen Hoffman focusing on seven experiential core truths from the original Aramaic teachings of Yeshua (Jesus).

Love offering. At the

Center for Spiritual Living, 2 Science of Mind Way. Info: 253-2325 or www. cslasheville.org and www. daleallenhoffman.com.

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

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

Baha’i Faith Everyone is welcome. Join us in our celebration of diversity: “The earth is one country and mankind its citizens,” Baha’u’llah. The Baha’i Center is located at 5 Ravenscroft Drive, Asheville.

Info: 251-1051 or www. wncbahai.org.

• SUNDAYS, 11am Sunday Devotional.

Compassionate Communication Practice Group Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Group uses a model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. Free.

Info: 252-0538 or www. ashevilleccc.com.

• 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 5-6:15pm - Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Ethical Society of Asheville A humanistic, religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. Meetings are held at the Botanical Garden’s Visitors Center, 151 W. T. Weaver Blvd. All are welcome. Info: 6877759 or www.aeu.org.

• SU (8/15), 2-3:30 - “Compassionate Communication: An Empathetic Approach To Conflict Resolution,” a discussion with Jerry Donoghue at the Botanical Gardens Visitor Center, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd.

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

• Select SUNDAYS, 6-8pm An evening of bhajans, class on the Bhagavad-Gita and a vegetarian feast. Everyone welcome. Refer to the website or call for dates.

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• SUNDAYS (8/15 through 8/29), 9:15am - Three-part series led by FCC member Dr. Jill Bierwirth on “A Woman in the Church: My Search for a Pastoral Identity.”

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

• SUNDAYS, 9:15am Women-led, justice-focused, family-friendly, and open to all. Worship with Land of the Sky UCC. An open and affirming new church. Childcare available.

Mindfulness Meditation Class Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence.

With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241 or www.billwalz. com.

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

Donation.

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

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

• MONDAYS - Book discussion group, facilitated by Antiga, on the book The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lemer. Info: 2859927.

Mountain Zen Practice Center Exploring the ‘how’ of moment by moment peace, joy and freedom through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness.

Info and orientation times: www.mountainzen.org or 450-3621.

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

Mystic Heart Universe Meditation • TU (8/24), 8-9pm - Free Mystic Heart Universe Meditation via teleconference call. Celebrate the mystical union of outer divine consciousness and inner mystical heart. To sign up: 338-0042 or www.mysticheartuniverse.com.

Psychic Development Class • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Learn to use your intuition to help yourself and others. Explore remote viewing, channeling, mediumship, telepathy, precognition and healing in a relaxed and fun-filled atmosphere.

All are welcome. Love donations accepted. Info: 828-255-8304, ecastro1@ charter.net.

Shambhala Meditation Center of Asheville Every human being has fundamental goodness, warmth and intelligence. This nature can be cultivated through meditation and in daily life, so that it radiates out to others. Visitors welcome. Free meditation instruction at 19 Westwood Pl., W. Asheville.

Info: www.shambhala. org/center/asheville or 4904587.

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

Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville Located at the corner of Charlotte St. & Edwin Pl. Info: 254-6001 or www. uuasheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 10 am (through 9/5) - Services and Children’s Programs.

Unity Cafe Looking for a change from the usual Sunday service?

Spiritual conversation and sharing, music, meditation, coffee and pastry. Info: 645-0514, 676-6070 or unitycafe.org.

• 1st, 3rd & 5th SUNDAYS, 10am-Noon - Greenlife Grocery Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave. 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 (8/11), 7pm - “Healer’s Night.” Come and enjoy a potpourri of mini-sessions offered by several of Unity’s healers.

Love offering.

• SU (8/15), 7pm - “Finding God Within,” with Marie Levit. Learn to live freely and connected to God. $35 suggested love offering.

• WE (8/18), 7pm - “Peak Experiences,” with Ed O’Keefe and Romella HartO’Keefe. Love offering.

Unity Church of Asheville Looking for something different? Unity of Asheville explores the deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures combined with an upbeat contemporary music program to create a joyous and

sincere worship service.

Come join us this Sunday and try it for yourself.

Located at 130 Shelburne Rd., W. Asheville. Info: 2525010 or www.unityofasheville.com.

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

• TUESDAYS, 2-4pm Edgar Cayce Study Group.

Info: 926-3688.

Using Kingdom Authority • TH (8/12), 6:30-8:30pm - Program of OSL ecumenical group dedicated to the Christian healing ministry.

At Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. All are welcome.

Info: 242-3260 or mtn_ osl@yahoo.com.

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

Teachers: Lawson Sachter and Sunya Kjolhede. Main center: 580 Panther Branch, Alexander. City center: 12 Von Ruck Court. Call for orientation. Info: 645-8001 or www.windhorsezen.org.

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

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

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

Womyn in Ceremony Co-create a sacred circle of women where we will connect, share, dream and experience inner awarenesses and empowerment. Each Circle “stands alone.” Meets 12 miles NW of Asheville.

By donation. Info: www.

RitesofPassageCouncil. com/theresa.

• SUNDAYS, 3:45-6pm - Gathering.

Working With the “Masters of Wisdom” • THURSDAYS, 7pm - Transmission Meditation —- 8pm - Reading and discussion of Alice Bailey’s A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.

Free. Info: EarthTransMed@ gmail.com.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings 16 Patton Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 1-6pm (open on Sun. May-Oct. only). Info: 236-2889 or www.16patton.com.

• Through SU (8/29) - Three solo exhibitions: Sanctuary: Coastal Birds

and Their Fragile Habitat, oil paintings by Ralph James; The Poetic Form: Stone and Wood, sculpture by Jane Jaskevich; and The Way I See It: Recent Landscapes and Still Life Paintings, oil paintings by Stuart Roper.

American Folk Art & Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary selftaught artists and regional pottery. Info: 281-2134 or www.amerifolk.com.

• Through MO (8/23) - Working Man’s Mystic, featuring the work of local artist Spencer Herr.

• Through TU (8/31) - Birds of a Feather in the Oui-Oui Gallery.

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

• Through SU (12/5) - Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits in the Appleby Foundation Gallery.

• Through SU (12/5) - Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest.

• Through SU (10/10) - Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia, photographs

by Tim Barnwell in Holden Community Gallery.

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

• Through TU (8/31) - The Voorhees Sisters: Journeys Here and There, featuring works by Jane and Susan Voorhees.

Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village, next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Open Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm, and Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: 7680246 or www.bellavistaart. com.

• Through TU (8/31) - An exhibition of glass works by Judson Guerard, raku by Steven Forbes de Soule and pastels by Nicora Gangi will be on display.

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

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

When I studied method acting with David Mamet, he taught us to develop such a vivid imagination that we could taste the pretend coffee that we drank out of an imaginary cup.

We’d feel the heft of the cup in our hand and the steamy heat rising. We’d hallucinate the bitterly flavorful smell, and the muscles of our face would move the way they might if we were sipping the real thing. Pop star Lady Gaga didn’t work with Mamet while she was maturing as an actress, but she got similar teachings. Recently, she told New York magazine that she can “feel the rain, when it’s not raining.” And more than that: “I can actually mentally give myself an orgasm.” If you think that you will ever want to have that strong an imagination, Aries, now is a good time to start working toward that goal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

When they say “Go with the flow,” what “flow” are they talking about? Do they mean the flow of your early childhood conditioning? The flow of your friends’ opinions?

The latest cultural trends? Your immediate instinctual needs? When they say “Go with the flow,” are they urging you to keep doing what’s easiest to do and what will win you the most ego points, even if it keeps you from being true to your soul’s code? I’m here to ask you to consider the possibility that there are many flows to go with, but only one of them is correct for you right now. And in my opinion, it is flowing in an underground cavern, far from the maddening crowd.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

“There would not be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere,” says a Sufi proverb. Why am I bringing this to your attention at this particular moment in your life story? Here’s the bad news: You’re in possession of some counterfeit gold that you think is authentic. Here’s the good news: Within a short time after waking up to the truth about the fake stuff, you will locate the real thing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Here’s a thought from the Cancerian philosopher Gaston Bachelard: “He who listens to the singing of the stream cannot be expected to understand the one who hears the singing of the flame: They do not speak the same language.” While I mostly agree with that poetic formulation, I think you’re about to be a temporary exception to the rule. Normally you are acutely attuned to the singing of the stream; your skill at reading its nuances are supreme among the zodiac. But I expect that in the coming days, you will not only have the power to appreciate the song of the fire; you’ll even be able to empathize with and understand people who are entranced by the song of the fire.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Paul, a fortune-telling octopus in Oberhausen, Germany, had an amazing run of success predicting the results of World Cup competitions a while back. His technique? His handlers gave him a succession of choices between two tasty morsels, each representing one of the teams in a given match. The treat he picked to eat was the team whose victory he prophesied. I wish I could access his expertise to help me sort out your upcoming decisions.

It’s really important that you not over-think the possibilities, but rather rely on simple gut reactions. Why don’t you pretend you’re an octopus, and imagine that each choice you have to make is symbolized by some food item. Ask yourself, “Which is yummiest?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Through the Looking Glass.

As he wrote it, he invited his illustrator John Tenniel to offer editorial advice. In response, Tenniel tactfully suggested that Lewis cut out a certain chapter. Lewis agreed, and so the story, as we read it today, doesn’t include Alice’s meeting with a grumbling wasp who wore a bright yellow wig that sat disheveled on its head like a clump of seaweed. Think of me as your version of Tenniel, Virgo. As you finish up your labor of love, consider following my recommendation to omit the part that resembles a wasp in a wig.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

If you and I were sitting face to face and I asked you, “What are the most important lessons you’ve learned these last 11 months?”, what would you tell me? I think you need this type of experience: an intense and leisurely conversation with a good listener you trust -- someone who will encourage you to articulate the major developments in your life since your last birthday. Here are some other queries I’d pose: 1. How have you changed?

2. What long-term process needs to come to a climax? 3. What “school” are you ready to graduate from? (And by “school” I mean any situation that has been a hotbed of learning for you.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

The film Avatar hammers out such vehement anti-military, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist themes that it could have been endorsed by the leftist rock band Rage Against the Machine. And yet it’s the highest-grossing film in the history of the world. One critic marveled at its popularity in even the most conservative areas of America, noting that it got “a theater full of people in Kentucky to stand and applaud the defeat of their country in war.” Your assignment in the coming week is to do what Avatar has done: Try to make sure that your opponents and skeptics are entertained by your message -- maybe even excited and intrigued.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

I recommend that you enjoy an abundance of recreational time in the coming days, Sagittarius. But I hope that you will favor a rigorous physical challenge over lying lazily on the beach. I hope that you will read great literature instead of mass market paperbacks, and that you’ll attend a brain-bending workshop rather than being a spectator at a sports event. Catch my drift, Sagittarius? Say yes to embarking on a vision quest that scares the fear out of you and pumps up your spiritual ambition; say no to wasting away in a puddle of sluggish, circuitous daydreaming.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Sixty-nine percent of conservatives think that hell is a real place, and over half of all liberals do. Shocking! Ridiculous! I hope that you, Capricorn, give zero credence to the idea that there is a realm of eternal damnation. In my astrological opinion, believing in hell would grossly interfere with your ability to know the truth about your life right now. So would an irrational fear of failure, an obsession with enemies, or a tendency to define yourself in opposition to bad stuff. Here’s the alternative: To thrive, all you have to do is accentuate what you love, identify what you want, and focus on rewards.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

This is an excellent time for you to get more conscious and proactive about what images you bring into your life and surround yourself with. It’s always important to monitor the pictures flowing into your imagination, of course, but it’s especially crucial right now.

Your mental and physical health are unusually dependent on it. So please do yourself a big favor and gaze upon as much uplifting beauty as you can. Favor gardens over garbage dumps, soaring vistas over strip malls, interesting faces over scowling mugs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Every year smokers toss away over four trillion cigarette butts, fouling the environment terribly. But recently a few Chinese scientists embarked on the seemingly impossible project of finding value in this noxious waste.

Collecting up big piles of discarded filters, they developed a process to extract chemicals that are effective at preventing corrosion when applied to steel pipes. Your assignment, Pisces, is to accomplish a comparable miracle: Turn some dreck or dross into a useful thing; discover a blessing in the trash; build a new dream using the ruins of an old pleasure.

Homework: Let’s meet in dreams sometime soon. Describe to me the adventures you’d like us to have together. Truthrooster@gmail. com. © Copyright 2010 Rob Brezsny

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• Through SA (10/23) - The exhibition Kenneth Snelson: Sculpture/Photographer/ Inventor will be on display.

Snelson was an art student at Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949.

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

• Through SA (9/25) - Storm Season: Photography of Louisiana’s Wetlands, a series of pinhole Polaroid photographs by Daniel Kariko.

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road. in Hendersonville. Info: 8902050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org.

• Through FR (8/13) - In Sunshine or In Shadow, an exhibition of works by students from UNCA, WCU, Appalachian State University and Haywood Community College. f/32 Photography Group Info: www.f32nc.com.

• Through SU (8/2) - A juried exhibition of prints on canvas by f/32 members will be on display at Deerpark Restaurant, Biltmore Estate.

• FR (8/6) through FR (9/3) - f32 Photography Group Show, an exhibition of black and white photography.

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

• Through SU (9/5) - Craft, Architecture and Design, featuring work by six architects who were invited to create interior spaces that demonstrate the impact and originality of incorporating craft in a home.

Haen Gallery Located at 52 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm, Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., Noon5pm. Info: 254-8577 or www.thehaengallery.com.

• Through TU (8/31) Summer Samplings 2010, an annual group exhibition of new works from many Haen artists, such as Lynn Boggess, Wendy Whitson, Kathryn Kolb, Larry Gray and Brian Tull, as well as the work of Emily Wilson and Bill Long.

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., 10am5pm. Info: 452-0593 or www.haywoodarts.org.

• Through SA (8/21) - For the Love of Color: Mixed-Up Media, an exhibit of tapestry, mosaics, mixed-media, embroidery and painting by Sylvia Everett.

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

Located at 236 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com.

• Through SU (8/15) Visiting Summer Workshop Instructors Show, featuring regionally and nationally known visiting artists.

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

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

• Through SU (9/19) - All This Happened, More or Less an exhibition by Anne Lemanski, Shoko Teruyama, Susan Gothel Campbell and Maggie Taylor, will be on display.

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 (8/29) - Joyful Interiors, work by David Bryan of Black Mountain.

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

• Through WE (8/25) - Photography by Rebecca D’Angelo will be on display.

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

• Through SU (8/15) - The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League 2010 Exhibit will be on display at Tyson Library in Black Mountain. Over 40 artists showcase juried works in oil, pastel, drawing, sculpture, photography and more.

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

• Through TU (8/31) Pottery Invitational curated

by Joe Bruneau, featuring

professional potters from throughout the Southeast.

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

• Through SA (8/21) - Exhibit of work by artists participating in Art Trek Tryon.

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

• Through SU (8/22) Balance and Beauty: A Visual Celebration of Rural Life, featuring paintings by Tenn. artist Margaret Scanlan, on display in the Baker Exhibit Center.

• Outdoor Sculpture: Inflorescence, an exhibition of botanical forms created from synthetic-nylon fabric and made by artist Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield, will be on display in the Baker Center (through Aug.); in The Canopy Walk (through Oct.); The Education Center (Aug.Oct.) and in the Quilt Garden (Nov.-Feb).

• Through SU (8/15) Living Color: A Color Study Illustrated With Plants, an exhibit exploring color in nature at the Baker Exhibit Center Greenhouse.

Art at West Asheville Library • Through TH (9/17) Photography by ElizabethAnn Elliott Miller will be on display in the Community Room. The library is located at 942 Haywood Road.

Art League of Henderson County The ALHC meets and shows exhibits at the Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Hwy. (25N) in downtown Hendersonville. For viewing hours: 692-0575. Info: 6987868 or www.artleague.net.

• Through TH (9/9) - “Eye of the Artist” theme show.

ALHC members were challenged to create their own interpretation in color using subject matter from one of two black-and-white photographs.

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

• Through SU (8/29) - Asheville A Double Take, photography by Lynne Harty and Max Cooper, will be on display in the Lobby Gallery.

Clingman Cafe

Located at 242 Clingman Ave. in the River Arts District.

• Through TU (8/31) - Imaginary Friends, work

by Julie Armbruster, Tiffany Ownbey and Patty Bilbro.

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

• Through FR (8/20) - Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation. This traveling exhibit examines how Lincoln’s beliefs about freeing the slaves were transformed by war-time developments.

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

• Through TU (9/7) - Work

by Peter Parpan with Justin Offner will be on display.

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

• Through SU (8/15) Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League 2010 Exhibit, a juried art show at Tyson Library in Black Mountain, featuring the work of more than 40 artists in oil, water media, pastel, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media and collage.

Transylvania Heritage Museum Located at 189 W. Main St., Brevard. Info: 884-2347 or www.transylvaniaheritage. org.

• Through SA (8/21) - Quilt show by the WNC Quilters Guild, with quilts past and present and from many states.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events 2nd Saturdays at Thomas Wolfe Memorial & Vance Birthplace Events are free. The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is located at 52 N. Market St., Asheville.

Info: 253-8304. Vance Birthplace is located at 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville. Info: 645-6706.

General info: http://ncdcr. gov/2ndsaturdays.asp.

• 2nd SATURDAYS (through 8/14), 10am-4pm - Artists and crafters will showcase their work as part of the N.C. Department of Cultural

Resources program to feature N.C.’s diverse array of artists and crafters at Historic Sites and museums.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 1-4pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville. Info: 6938504 or www.acofhc.org.

• Through FR (9/10) - Now accepting applications for N.C. Arts Council Regional Artists Project Grants. Intended for artists in Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties at any phase of their professional development.

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

• FR (8/13), Noon-1pm - Tour of the exhibition Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest.

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.

• TH (8/19) - “Towards a Poetics of Race, Space & Place: The Harlem Skyrise Project,” a presentation by Cheryl Fish. $5 members/ $7nonmembers.

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

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

Experimental learning and sharing water-media techniques and collage.

Suggested donation $4.

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

• MONDAYS, 10am-1pm Open studio for portrait painting. Small fee for model.

• TUESDAYS (through 11/16) - Art with Lorelle Bacon. Adults 1-3pm and youth 3:30-5pm. All levels welcome. $15/class.

Registration required.

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

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

Vance Birthplace State Historic Site Located at 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville. Info: 645-6706.

• SA (8/14) - “Harvest From the Farm.” Highlights the agriculture heritage of a 19th c. mountain farm. Artisans will showcase products from the farm, foods, candles, textiles and other handmade items related to farm life.

Spoken & Written Word Asheville Storytelling Circle A nonprofit dedicated to excellence in the oral tradition that affirms various cultures through storytelling, and nourishes the development of emerging and established artists. Guests and new members always welcome.

Info: 274-1123.

• SU (8/15), 6pm - Area residents are invited to a tell-off of “Folktales and Foolishness” at Buncombe County Rec. Park, pavilion 1.

Listeners are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets for seating. Free.

• 3rd MONDAYS, 7pm - Tellers and listeners are invited to come to Asheville Terrace Lobby, 200 Tunnel Road.

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

• SA (8/14), 3pm - Local author Mary Judith Messer will discuss her powerful and often disturbing memoir, Moonshiner’s Daughter.

• TUESDAYS, 10am - Book Babies story time for children 3 years old and younger.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n NA = North Asheville Library (1030 Merrimon Avenue, 250-4752) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482)

n WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 250-4750) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (8/11), 6:30pm Library Knitters meet. BM. • TH (8/12), 1pm - Book Club. The discussion will focus on favorite books chosen by each reader. FV. • TU (8/17), 2pm - Book Club: Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. NA —- 7pm - Book Club: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson. BM. • WE (8/18), 5-7pm Library Knitters meet. SW. • TH (8/19), 2:30pm - Book Club: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton.

SS —- 7pm - Book Club: Half-Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls. FV —- 7pm - Shakespeare Discussion Group: Troilus and Cressida.

The group will then attend a performance by the Montford Park Players on Sunday, Aug. 22. BM. Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com.

• FR (8/13), 7pm - Gary Carden program on Look Homeward, Angel.

• SA (8/14), 11am - Children’s story time featuring Elk of the GSM National Park.

• TH (8/19), 10:30am - Coffee with the Poet: Bill Everett.

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 (8/11), 7pm - Duke University archivist William E. King presents his “Images of America” series book Lake Junaluska.

• TH (8/12), 7pm Presbyterian minister Brett Webb-Mitchell shares his book Beyond Accessibility.

• FR (8/13), 7pm - Author event: Lena Cantrell McNicholas.

• SA (8/14), 7pm - North Carolina Literary Review reading and reception.

• SU (8/15), 3pm - Doctors Jade Teta and Keoni Teta will read from their book The New ME Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest.

• TH (8/19), 7pm - Blanca Miller presents her book Don’t Bury Me Yet. Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch Award-winning storytellers present stories for all ages at Reuter Terrace in downtown Asheville’s Pack Square Park.

Children must be accompa-

nied by an adult. Free. Info: www.main.nc.us/asc/ or www.packsquarepark.org.

• SA (8/14), 10:30-11:30am - Diane Wolkstein, founder of the storytelling program in Central Park at the Hans Christian Anderson statue provided by the school children of Denmark. With Mica White, improvisational teller and Charlie St. Clair, humorist.

The Writer in You • MO (8/16), 10am-2pm - Free group for writers to celebrate the creative use of works, ask for feedback, and share ideas with other writers at the First Presbyterian Church in Asheville. Free parking. Bring a bag lunch and five copies of your work.

Info: 450-5462.

Wednesday Afternoon Writer’s Group Weekly group open to writers of all genres who are interested in improving their craft through peer readings and discussion of assigned literature. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm Meets upstairs at the Barnes & Noble, Asheville Mall.

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

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

• Through SU (8/15) - Meet the Authors Writing Contest: E.L. Doctorow and Peter Matthiessen in New York.

Submit an unpublished story or chapter of a novel of 4,000 words or less to writersw@gmail.com. $25 entry fee/$20 Workshop members.

• SA (8/14), 11am-5pm - Creative non-fiction writing with Mike Weinstein.

ArtSpace Charter School

Accepting applications for Fourth - Eighth grade students for the 2010-2011 school year.

Please email juliana.caldwell@artspacecharter.org or call 828-298-2787 and leave a message.

ArtSpace is a public, tuition-free charter school that teaches the NC Course of Study through the arts - visual, drama, dance, music and technology.

2030 US Hwy 70 in Swannanoa.

Call 298-2787 xt. 321 for more information

Festivals & Gatherings Festivities at Pritchard Park Public events at Pritchard Park sponsored by the Asheville Downtown Association under the Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program. Free. For the full schedule: www.ashevilledowntown.org.

• THURSDAYS, Noon-2pm - Grab lunch and unwind to music in the park —- 5:307:30pm - Thursday night is “almost the weekend” and time to perk up a bit with lively music and dance performances after work.

• SATURDAYS, 10am-4pm - Saturday Umbrella Market.

Handmade/homegrown products, such as art, crafts, jewelry, photography, flowers, tomatoes and herbs. Plus, a variety of entertainers.

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• SUNDAYS, Noon-4pm - Funday Sunday with family-friendly entertainment.

Live music, such as gospel, followed by a variety of children’s entertainment starting at 2pm.

• TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Hoop Jam. Join Asheville Hoops for some entertainment, exercise and instruction. All ages are welcome. http://ashevillehoops.com.

Rockin’ RiverFest • SA (8/14), Noon-6pm - Raft race, parade, live music, vendors, local food, beer and more at the French Broad River Park in Asheville. Proceeds benefit RiverLink. Register by Aug. 11 for raft race. Info: www. riverlink.org.

Sourwood Festival This annual family-oriented street festival features more than 200 booths of arts, crafts and other items. Plus, live music, dancing, food, games, rides, honey-making and bee demos and children’s activities. Free. Info: 669-2300 or bmchamber@ juno.com.

• FR (8/13), 7pm - The solo singing competition Sourwood Idol will kick off the festival. Cash prizes will be awarded.

• SA (8/14) & SU (8/15) - The 33rd annual Sourwood Festival will take place in downtown Black Mountain.

Music Family Music At Forge Valley Event Center (pd.) Saturday Concerts: 7pm-10pm: • August 14, Blue Mountain Myst. 8818 Boylston Highway, Mills River. (828) 674-6741. www.forgevalleyeventcenter.com African Drumming With Billy Zanski at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St., downtown Asheville.

Drums provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $10 per class.

Drop-ins welcome. Info: 768-2826.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginners.

• SUNDAYS, 2-3pm Beginner.

An Appalachian Evening At the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. $15.

Info: www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• SA (8/14), 7:30-9:30pm - Folk and bluegrass tunes with the New North Carolina Ramblers.

Asheville Ballet and Asheville Lyric Opera Collaboration Voice lessons for dancers will be offered by members of the ALO, and movement

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lessons for singers will be offered by members of the Ballet. The public, 10 years to adult, also welcome.

Classes held at Asheville Ballet, 4 Weaverville Hwy., Asheville. Info: 252-4761 or 258-1028.

• THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Voice lessons.

• TUESDAYS, 7:15pm Dance lessons.

Cantaria Cantaria is a community chorus for gay and gay-supportive men who enjoy singing a wide variety of choral literature for men’s voices.

Info: 254-9264 or www. cantariaasheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 5-7pm Rehearsals.

Chimney Rock State Park Open daily, weather permitting. For additional info, including admission rates: www.chimneyrockpark.com.

• SA (8/14), 10am-Noon - Mountain Dulcimer Workshop with Ken Schoewe —- 1-3pm - Hammered Dulcimer Workshop with John Mason.

No previous musical experience necessary. Instruments provided. $32/$25 pass holders/$22 for youth ages 6-15/$18 for Grady’s Kids Club Members.

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

• FR (8/13), 7-9pm Balsam Range will perform.

Haywood Community Band Concerts are presented at the Maggie Valley Pavilion, adjacent to the Maggie ValleyTown Hall, and are free to attend. Bring a picnic dinner. Info: 452-5553 or 452-7530 or www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - Rehearsals at Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville.

All interested concert band musicians are welcome to attend.

• SU (8/15), 6:30pm - Concert: “Blockbusters, Then and Now.” The band will perform popular show themes from Oklahoma, My Fair Lady and Chicago.

Haywood County Arts Council Musical Events Events take place at the Performing Arts Center, 250 Pigeon St., in Waynesville, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.haywoodarts.org or 452-0593.

• SU (8/15), 3pm Australian singer Seona McDowell will perform

a concert of traditional, contemporary and original tunes from Australia, New Zealand and other places at the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville. Free.

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

Info: www.ashevillebarbershop.com or 768-9303.

• TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Open Rehearsals at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Pl. Music at Mars Hill College Info: 689-1239 or www. mhc.edu.

• SU (8/15), 5:30pm - Enjoy live music by Asheville Jazz Orchestra, Primrose, Mark & Aimee Bumgarner and a performance by the Bailey Mountain Cloggers. Free.

Held on on College St., in front of Owen Theatre. Bring a chair or blanket.

Music at Providence Baptist Church Located at 1201 Oakland St., Hendersonville. Info: 693-3081.

• SU (8/15), 3pm Concert featuring the Trio Nightingale of Asheville: flutist Sabrina Kumar, clarinetist Hallie Sheaffer and bassoonist Jennifer Anderson. Followed by refreshments served on the church porch. Free.

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, 1-800828-4244 or www.historichendersonville.org • FR (8/13), 7-9pm Caribbean Cowboys (beach music) will perform.

Music on the Rock Concert Series Presented by Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy. in Flat Rock. The concerts will span Broadway, country, bluegrass, pop and rock favorites. $19/concert.

Tickets & info: 693-0731, (866) 732-8008 or www. flatrockplayhouse.org.

• SU (8/15) through TU (8/17) - “Magic and Comedy,” with Matt Fore.

Shindig on the Green A celebration of traditional and old-time string bands, bluegrass, ballad singers, big circle mountain dancers and cloggers. At Pack Square Park on the Bascom Lamar Lunsford stage in downtown Asheville. Stage show and informal jam sessions. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free. Info: 258-6101 ext. 345 or www. folkheritage.org.

• SATURDAYS (through 9/4), 7pm - Shindig. No Shindig on Aug. 7.

Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts • SA (8/14) - Ricky Skaggs will perform. The SMCPA is located at 1028 Georgia Road in Franklin. $35. Info: www.wncfinearts.com or 369-5028.

Song O’ Sky Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) The chorus is always looking for women 18+ who want to learn how to sing barbershop harmony.

Please visit a rehearsal. Info: 1-866-824-9547 or www. songosky.org.

• MONDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Reed Memorial Baptist Church on Fairview Rd. (enter parking lot on Cedar St.). Guests welcome.

Sounds of the Chakras • SATURDAYS, 6-7pm - “Sounds of the Chakras” with Linda Go at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. Learn to tone the chakra sounds for health and wellbeing. Info: 258-1140.

The Carolina Theatre A cultural event center located at 91 Locust Ave., downtown Spruce Pine. Info: 766-5525 or www.thecarolinabarndance.org.

• FRIDAYS, 7-10pm - Open Stage & Dance. $3 donation. If you’d like to be up on stage, e-mail guitarted_phool@yahoo.com.

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

Reservations: 884-2587.

• TH (8/19) through SU (8/22) - The Wizard of Wonderland will be performed.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 6930731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

• Through SU (8/15), 8pm - The Producers will be performed. Wed., Thur., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. Wed.-Sat., 8pm. $40.

• TH (8/19) through SU (9/12) - Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of The 39 Steps. Wed.-Sat., 8pm, and Wed.-Sun., 2pm. $34, with discounts available.

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

Comedy Events at 35below This black box theater is located underneath Asheville Community Theatre at 35 E. Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org.

• TH (8/19) through SA (8/21), 7:30pm - StandUp-Sketch-Prov, a comedy performance by Vis-a-vis. $15.

Film Movie in the Park • SA (8/14) - Sandra Bullock in the Blind Side will be shown at Fletcher Community Park. Info: 6870751.

Social Justice Film Night at Unitarian Universalist Located at the corner of Charlotte St. and Edwin Pl. Free, but donations accepted. Discussion follows screenings. Call for childcare. Info: 299-1242 or www.uuasheville.org.

• FR (8/13), 7pm - Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a film chronicling the story of six Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to Liberia.

Dance Studio Zahiya (pd.) All classes drop-in anytime, $12. • 41 Carolina Lane. • Tuesdays: 1011am, Hip Hop Conditioning, 6-7pm, Beginner Bellydance; 7:10-8:10pm: Intermediate/ Advanced Bellydance.

Wednesdays, 7:15-8:15pm: Hip Hop for Women.

Thursdays, 10-11am, Bellydance and Stretch, 6:30-7:30pm: Bollywood and Bhangra • Info: (828) 242-7595 or www.lisazahiya.com Argentine Tango Dancers of all levels welcome. Info: www.tangoasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 7-9pm Argentine Tango Practica at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Rd. $5 for members/$6 for nonmembers.

Asheville Culture Project A cultural arts community center offering ongoing classes in Capoeira Angola and Samba percussion.

Other instructors, groups and organizations are invited to share the space. Info: www.ashevillecultureproject. org.

• WEEKLY - Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art taught and practiced through a game involving dance, music, acrobatics, theater and the Portuguese language.

Mondays, 7-9pm, beginners class; Wednesdays, 7-9pm, intermediate class; Fridays, 7-9pm, intermediate class; Saturdays, 10am-Noon, beginners class. $12 (free for first timers on 2nd and 4th Sat.). Info: www.capoeiraasheville.org.

Beginner Clogging Class • WEDNESDAYS, 7:15pm - Beginner Clogging Class held by the Mountain Thunder Cloggers at the Oakley Community Center in Asheville. Eight-week session $40. Half price for additional family members.

No experience or partner needed. Family-oriented. To register: www.mtnthundercloggers.org or 490-1226.

Classes at Asheville Dance Revolution Sponsored by The Cultural Development Group. At 63 Brook St. Info: 277-6777, ashevilledancerevolution@ gmail.com or www.ashevilledancerevolution.com.

• FRIDAYS, 6-7pm - Class designed for the male interested in dance. Styles alternate between ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop and musical theatre. All ages welcome. $12 donation.

• FRIDAYS, 6-7pm - Adult Jazz with live percussion.

Come dance to a live percussion section. Jazz class with a strong floor bar and technique basis designed for all levels of adult dancers.

Morris Dancing Learn English traditional Morris dances and become a member of one of three local teams as a dancer or musician. Music instruction provided to experienced musicians. Free. Info: 3334272 or www.ashevillemorris.us.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Women’s Garland practice held at Reid Center for Creative Art. Old Farmer’s Ball Info: www.oldfarmersball. com.

• THURSDAYS, 7:30-11pm - Contra dance to live music at Warren Wilson College’s Bryson Gym. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. $6, includes dance lesson.

Skyland Twirlers Western square dancing at the Senior Opportunity Center (not just for seniors), 36 Grove St., near the Federal Building in downtown Asheville. Info: 6506405.

• FR (8/13), 7-9:30pm - A Hawaiian Hula Luau Square Dance. Early Rounds at 7pm; Mainstream, Plus and Rounds from 7:30-9:30pm. $5 for nonmembers.

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

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner swing and lindy hop dance lessons at 11 Grove St. in downtown Asheville. $12 for a 4-week workshop. No partner needed.

Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance Asheville’s professional contemporary ballet company.

Info: 252-6342 or www. terpsicorps.org.

• TH (8/12) through SA (8/14), 8pm - The Dream Project, a concert of contemporary ballet pieces created from interviews with Asheville citizens about what dreams fill their nights, will be performed at Diana Wortham Theatre. $30/$25 students & seniors. Tickets: 257-4530 or dwtheatre.com.

VFW Upstairs. Open to the public.

At 5 Points, 860 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 693-5930.

• SATURDAYS, 6pm - Free dancing lessons —- 7pm - Live band music and dancing. $7. All singles welcome.

No partners necessary.

Finger food and sweets provided. No alcohol or smoking in dancing area.

Zydeco Dance Asheville’s Zydeco is hosted at the Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St., Asheville. No partner required.

• 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7:45pm - Zydeco dance lesson. Free —- 8:30-11pm Zydeco dancing to CDs. $5.

Auditions & Call to Artists Absolute Theatre Company Located in the Skyland Performing Arts Center, 358 N. Main St., Hendersonville.

Info: 693-0087 or www. absolutetheatre.org.

• SA (8/14) - Auditions for William Gibson’s play The Miracle Worker will be held throughout the day.

The play tells the story of Annie Sullivan’s relationship and work with Helen Keller.

Call for a complete casting schedule. Actors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent.

Call for the Fall Celebration of Arts • Through FR (8/20) - Deadline for applications to participate in the Toe River Arts Council’s annual exhibit and competition Fall Celebration of Arts. Awards total $1,000. Info & application: www.toeriverarts.org.

Call to Artists for the “Re/ Nude” Exhibition • Through WE (9/15) Submissions for the upcoming exhibition Re/Nude: A Celebration of the Body will be accepted. The show, which benefits Planned Parenthood, will be on display at the Flood Gallery (opening Oct. 16). All forms of media considered. Artist must be 21 or older. Info: events@pphsinc.org or www.floodgallery.org.

Call to Sculptors • Through FR (8/13) Western Carolina University seeks applications for the 2010 Outdoor Sculpture Competition. Applicants must be 18 or over. Five works will be selected for an exhibition. Deadline: Aug. 13. Application: fineartmuseum.wcu.edu.

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• Through SU (8/22) - Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida (A Story of the Trojan War) directed by Jason Williams. Rated PG13 for violence, language and sexual situations.

• Through SU (9/5) - The Asheville Shakesperience directed by Scott Keel (opening weekend will feature a special performance by the TOPHAT Children’s Theatre).

Performances at the Parkway Playhouse The historic Parkway Playhouse is located at 202 Green Mountain Dr. (just north of the downtown square) in Burnsville. Tickets & info: 682-4285 or www. parkwayplayhouse.com.

• FR (8/13) through SU (8/22) - The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a tale of murder, love and mystery, will be performed. $10-$22.

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

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• Through SU (8/22) - Trading Paint, a comedy about NASCAR. $10-$30.

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• SA (8/14), 7am-Noon - Children First/Communities In Schools of Buncombe County will host a Fall Rummage Sale at the Emma Elementary School Cafeteria. Info: 252-4810. n Community donations will be accepted through Aug. 13.

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Flat Rock Designer Showcase • SA (8/14) through SU (8/29) - Saluda Cottages c. 1836 will be the site of Historic Flat Rock Inc.’s 2010 fundraising event. All three floors of the housewill be professionally decorated bydesigners. $25, includes walking tour of property.

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• WE (8/11) through TU (8/24) - “Back to School Haircuts” for $10 to benefit Hands On! For children ages 1-13. Call to schedule an appointment: Artista Salon, 6970045; Bliss Salon, 692-4452; and 5th Avenue Hair Studio, 697-1077.

Haywood Arts Regional Theater HART is in the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St. (Hwy. 276 S.) in downtown Waynesville. Tickets & info: 456-6322.

• SA (8/14), 7:30pm - The bluegrass and country band Balsam Range will perform a benefit show at the Eagles Nest, located on Soco Road in Maggie Valley. Proceeds from the concert benefit HART and the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House. $15.

Haywood County Arts Council’s FUNd Party Series Pick up a FUNd Party book at 86 N. Main St. in Waynesville or call 452-0593 for details on events and reservations. Proceeds benefit the Haywood County Arts Council.

• TU (8/24), 6pm - 10th annual Wine for the Arts at 209 Rocky Knob Road, Waynesville. Partake in the fruit of the vine alongside culinary delights to satisfy the palate. $40.

Register by Aug. 16.

Local Social Take 2 • TH (8/19), 6-9pm - Asheville Grown Business Alliance, FRESH Asheville and Asheville Green Drinks present a preview of the 1st annual Asheville Food & Environmental Film Festival at Local Social Take 2, held in the courtyard behind Bouchon, 62 N. Lexington Avenue. Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres. $8 advance/$12 door. Proceeds benefit Asheville Grown Business Alliance. Info: http://ashevillegrown.wordpress.com.

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

• TH (8/12), 10am-10pm - Mercy For Animals benefit at Firestorm Cafe & Books in downtown Asheville. Free screening of MFA’s documentary Fowl Play at 5:30pm. At 7pm, free presentation by Dr. Amy Lanou: Food Fights: Corporate Collusion on Your Plate. Plus, vegan food and books.

Music at the Masonic Temple The Mt. Hermon Masonic Lodge No. 118 of Asheville is located at 80 Broadway. Info: 252-3924.

• SA (8/14), 7pm - Annual Alms Day Dinner and Concert.

Rededication of the newly remodeled Lodge Room, hors d’oeuvres, string music, a gourmet buffet dinner, service awards and a concert featuring the Mike Holstein Jazz Trio. A fundraising event for Whitestone Home and the Orphanage at Oxford. $20/$35 for couples.

Toe River Arts Council The TRAC Center Gallery is at 269 Oak Ave. in Spruce Pine. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. The Burnsville TRAC Gallery is at 102 W. Main St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am5pm. Spruce Pine info: 765-0520. Burnsville info: 6827215. General info: www.toeriverarts.org.

• Through SU (8/15) - An exhibit of the 33rd annual Arts Auction items will be on display in the TRAC Spruce Pine Gallery. Register for the auction, start placing bids on any of the auction items, and view the artwork that will be in the live auction.

• SA (8/14), 3-6pm - Reception to honor the artists who contributed work to the 33rd annual Arts Auction.

• SU (8/15), Noon - 33rd annual Arts Auction at TRAC in Spruce Pine. Around 100 lots of art in the live auction and close to 100 in the silent auction. Work donated by local artisans and craftspeople. A benefit for TRAC.

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The Outer Frontiers of U.S. Immigration Policy: With a 120-room hotel, ice arena, golf course and the Northeast’s largest water park, Vermont’s $125 million Jay Peak ski resort is just months away from completion, thanks to half-milliondollar investments by 250 foreign nationals from 43 countries who, as part of the deal, were given conditional U.S. “green cards.” At the other end of America’s immigration conundrum, prosecutors in Snohomish County, Wash., dropped a rape charge in July against illegal immigrant Jose MadrigalLopez, 46, for lack of evidence and released him back onto the street. Madrigal-Lopez has been deported 10 times but keeps coming back.

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• The two-pack-a-day cigarette habit of 2-year-old Ardi Rizal of Banyuasin, Indonesia, made worldwide news in May, with video of Ardi casually puffing away as he frolics on his tricycle. Said Ardi’s mother, “If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall.” And Ardi’s father, noting the kid’s pudginess, said, “He looks pretty healthy to me.”

Health aside, Ardi will smoke only one particular premium brand, to the tune of about $5.50 a day.

• With heroin too expensive for many African addicts, some will ask an addicted friend for a teaspoonful of their heroin-tinged blood to inject instead, The New York Times reported in July. Doctors questioned the euphoria potential of such tiny amounts of heroin, but are certain that flashblood will potently deliver any HIV present in the donor.

• Motherly Love: (1) Ranay Collins, 49, was arrested in Las Vegas in June and charged with beating her 16-year-old daughter with a cane.

According to the arresting officer, Collins’ said, “That [expletive] owes me $50 for rent.” (2) Police arrested Christina Muniz, 29, in Surprise, Ariz., in June after being summoned to the home by her 11-year-old son. Muniz had just informed the boy and his brother, 6, that she was abandoning them to move to California with her boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming a stripper. When the older boy approached Muniz for a hug, she slugged him in the stomach, police say.

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(1) An internal police inquiry concluded in April that an officer in the Utica, N.Y., courtroom of Judge Randal Caldwell had accidentally shot the judge in the leg with his Taser gun. Investigators concluded he was merely trying to re-holster the weapon to make it less uncomfortable, and it slipped. (2) Youth worker Cherie Beekman, 33, took a group of her kids to a bowling alley in Didsbury, England, in April for a diversion but got her thumb stuck in her bowling ball. She was taken to a fire station where rescuers spent more than two hours using an electric saw, hacksaw and chisel to free her.

Things aren’t what they seem

• Fine Points of Florida Law: David Lowe, 47, was convicted in Brooksville, Fla., last year of “lewd or lascivious exhibition” after he sat in his car masturbating outside a convenience store while ostentatiously holding a large dildo to his mouth in front of a woman and her child. In July 2010, an appeals court reversed the conviction and freed Lowe, pointing out that this particular statute concerns “sexual activity,” which is defined as occurring between two or more people.

• Vietnam’s Version of an “Innocence Project”: Traditional-medicine practitioner Pham Thi Hong is credited with freeing three men who’d been convicted of a rape in 2000 and were serving 16-

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• In May in Port Angeles, Wash., 39-year-old Mark Seamands went on trial for second-degree assault and two lesser charges for “branding” his three children with a hot iron. Each of the kids (ages 13, 15 and 18) bore the mark “SK,” for “Seamands’ Kids.” At trial, however, they testified that they not only consented to the branding but thought it was cool (despite the second-degree burns), and the jury dismissed the assault charge and deadlocked on the two lesser ones.

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Crime Scene Escapades: (1) Allen Dawes, 28, and Jimmy Lee, 43, were charged as burglars in York, Pa. (June) and Blackburn, England (July) respectively, after having inexplicably left clues behind.

For unreported reasons, Dawes had left his birth certificate at the scene and Lee his DNA-laden false teeth. (2) Officials at the Synergy Credit Union in Lashburn, Saskatchewan, have the surveillance video but not the perp. On April 13, a man in black brandishing a curved sword jabbed at the ATM, then smashed his way through the glass front door, roaming around, leaping over counters and jabbing at more things with the sword before departing empty-handed (and bleeding).

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Summer’s ending early — thank you, snow

by Anne Fitten Glenn This summer constitutes the shortest break ever for most of the schools in Western North Carolina (at least for students in the public school systems).

At the same time, it’s been the longest summer in terms of heat — the hottest stretch of months ever recorded here and on Earth. (And no, Senator Inhofe, we are not in a cooling trend. Ahhh, the absurdity of the willfully ignorant.)

Fewer lazy days of summer in 2010 are a direct result of an unusually high number of snow days. During the winter of 2009-2010, WNC had the most snow since 1969, thus equaling fewer days of school, which meant that extra days were added to the end of the year. Then, our area superintendents petitioned the powers-that-be in Raleigh for a waiver so our schools can open before the law-mandated date of August 20. Now days are being tacked onto the beginning of the school year as well.

Yes, we’re experiencing some wonky weather changes, and we’re going to have to learn to deal with it. Here’s one thing that’s going on, according to Enviro-spouse, who works in the

climate field (though if you ask our kids what he does for a living, they’ll say he talks on the phone).

The earth is warming, mostly because of the greenhouse gases we’ve thrown up into our atmosphere. This increasing temperature causes our oceans to release lots of extra moisture into our atmosphere. Also, warmer air holds more water droplets (yup, I’d say it’s been humid as a steam room in Belize this summer). More moisture in the air equals more snow and ice storms when the weather turns cold.

Get used to this cycle, y’all. Us humans are going to have to adapt to it — cause it’s not likely to change in our lifetimes — only to worsen. If the entire world stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, the earth would continue to warm for decades, says E-spouse.

So, I’m assuming that by the time my youngest hits high school in six years, we’ll have so many snow days that the superintendents will have to petition for year-round school (already happening for more that 2 million U.S. students, although the rationale isn’t climate variability). And that will cost a lot of money given the cooling needs for these large buildings during our increasingly heat-intensive summers,

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thus contributing to the problem. Also, yearround schooling doesn’t, at this point, mean more days of school. Instead the 180 days are spread throughout the year and broken up by shorter breaks than the 19th century agrarianinfluenced summer vacation. (How many kids still spend their summers working in the fields?

Probably more around here than a lot of places, but still not many.)

In truth, I’m ready for my kids to go back to school—it makes my life easier in a lot of ways.

But I don’t want the reason for shorter summers to be climate variability. Something’s got to change, dammit.

I’m hoping to enjoy these last few days of summer before my youngest goes back to Asheville

City Schools on August 17. His sister will be attending an independent school this year, and that school actually starts in September — the month most of us equate with a return to the classroom. My boy’s irritated about the disparity in return dates, but I told him he’s lucky we don’t live in Madison County. Those kids returned to school on August 5.

So, happy back-to-school, y’all. Sorry summer’s been so short and so damn hot. X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.

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by Mackensy Lunsford Beneath a hazelnut tree, Michael Gentry, aka the Sustainable Gourmet, has placed a table.

Over the brightly colored tablecloth, he’s laid out a spread of food, displayed in glass dishes and assorted pieces of pottery. Right there, in Asheville’s edible garden, with the terra-cotta tiles of the city building peeking through the branches of an Asian pear tree, we’ll sit down to a lunch of locally grown and wild foods.

But first, we’ll poke around the urban garden, while the relative coolness of the August morning lingers.

Gentry is an appreciator of wild foods and a teacher who presents his take on healthy, vegetarian cuisine with a series of cooking classes, “Everyone Cooks,” held at Warren Wilson College.

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attending,” says Gentry. “We cook a complete meal together. We sit down and enjoy it, we say a short Ayurvedic prayer that helps to center your mind and body on the food. I enjoy the food, clean up and then go home with the recipes.”

A ripe apple falls from a nearby tree, punctuating Gentry’s sentence with a loud thunk on the wooden walkway. “Ripe fruit!” he exclaims, laughing. We take that as a sign to keep walking, and Gentry busies himself pointing out the wealth of foods growing in the park.

“One of the things I love about this garden is that you’re able to harvest 17 wild foods from here throughout the year,” he says. He notes a fig tree, bursting with not-ripe fruit and a similarly laden pawpaw tree. “Right there is your pawpaw fruit,” he says, pulling back a branch to reveal an irregularly shaped green lump. That fruit, actually a large berry, will ripen into a sweet, protein-rich snack that tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango.

Beyond the pawpaw tree, Gentry points out a plum that’s already fruited and done for the season, a nectarine and a rather scrawny, ailing peach tree. There’s a weeping mulberry as well, rising from a wild and trailing mess of grape vines that Gentry’s spent the morning trying to tame. He notes that he frequently pulls the leaves and stuffs them to make dolmas.

Gentry says that wild foods, just like those grape leaves, are full of phytonutrients, minerals and vitamins. “These are things that we don’t necessarily find in our standard American diet,” he says. “There’s lots of medicinal qualities to

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Urban apples: Gentry is one of a team of people who help to maintain downtown Asheville’s edible park. wild foods as well.” As an example, Gentry cites nettles, which he says are on the top of his list of favorite things to cook with. He makes nettle pesto in the summer, and dries the leaves to make nettle rice in the winter. “Nettles provide lots of protein and silica — which helps to build beautiful hair, bones and teeth. Everyone needs that,” he says, playfully fluffing his own long mane.

Gentry’s an admirer of Frank Cook, a local ethnobotanist who passed away last year. Cook recommended that people eat at least one type of wild food every days, and Gentry follows that advice: “I always include some wild food in any offering that I do, whether it’s the free food that I offer at the French Broad Food Co-op farmer’s market every Wednesday for the last 10 years, or a cooking class.”

Once back at the table, Gentry shows us the wild white peaches he’s picked from Swannanoa, and spiced cranberries and apricots gathered from the very same area. There’s also a salad of local potatoes with wild mint and a dish of yogurt studded with tiny, oblong cherries, picked from the branches that grazed our heads as we approached the table.

The chef points at a glass goblet that holds a golden-colored puree, garnished with wild herbs, gently wilting in the increasing heat of the late morning sun.

“This is the golden beet caviar,” he says.

“I wanted to provide a recipe that was really simple and really easy to replicate, which is what I try to do with my cooking classes as well.

I pick recipes that are easy for folks to do again at home so that they don’t just have a wonderful time at the class, they can recreate it once they get home.”

He presents us with a “squash-amole,” which he makes with roasted zucchini, garlic and onions pureed with mint, parsley, olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper. It’s a perfect recipe for those woody summer squashes that tend to hide under leaves in the garden. And, says Gentry, it’s quite easy to make. He uses that exact recipe for his cooking class, among many,

many others.

“I try to offer a variety of recipes that reflect different skill levels and make people comfortable,” he sayas. “I like for people to pick what they want to prepare. Some are looking for a challenge, some are looking to relax — and some just want to eat dinner.”

No matter the students’ preference, Gentry hopes that they take away with them one crucial concept: “Love is the most important ingredient,” says Gentry. “What we, as cooks, put into the food really transforms it from the raw material into the exquisite gourmet product that you have at the end of the cooking process. I like for people to understand that they add something very important to the total dish.”X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com

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Taking a dive: The owners of the Get Down bar on Haywood Road promise a safe but divey atmosphere, with plenty of local tunes.

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Get Down!

A new, very casual and bare bones — in a comfortable way — bar is opening on the west side of Asheville.

Mikki and Sam Fox, both well-experienced in Asheville’s bar/club scene, are opening the Get Down with Frank Merenda, who calls himself a “coding monkey.”

“It’s going to be a dive bar, but safe,” says Merenda. “We want everyone to feel welcome here. We want people to come in after work, relax and have a good time.”

To facilitate that, the ownership team has installed plenty of new lighting for the parking lot — which used to, he says, be somewhat of a shady space, in more ways than one.

The Get Down, after all, is located where Cowboy’s Nightlife used to be, a spot with a bit of a checkered history. Call it street cred, if you will. Without losing too much of the original grit — at least the honest-to-goodness shabbily charming part of it — the Get Down team has dialed up the atmosphere. They’ve scrubbed years of smoke from the walls and ceiling, and applied fresh coats of paint. The bathrooms have been renovated and the bar has been refurbished.

The Haywood Road club is going to be a beer- and wine-only joint, at least at first. A liquor license will depend somewhat upon customer demand. The bar will house pool tables, at least one pinball machine and a foosball table. A small stage in the front corner of the bar will host local bands of all genres, and a juke box in the corner will hold plenty of local music. “That’s something that’s really

important to us — the creative music scene around here,” says Mikki. “We want to support that, and converge all the cool scenes into one spot.”

Kristin Wifey, the bar’s first employee, says, “For me, this spot caters to the real people of Asheville — the working people, not the tourists, necessarily. Though, there’s some tourists that really do want to see the local wildlife when they come to town, and not some sort of show of what we think they might want,” she says. “All of us have been in the service industry for so long that I think we have a good idea of the diversity of our clientele.”

“It’s going to be awesome,” says Mikki. “My mom always used to say that if something was really, really good, it was the ‘get down.’ That’s where the name came from.”

The Get Down will be opening this month at 1045 Haywood Road in West Asheville. The bar will be open seven days a week, from noon until 2 a.m. Visit getdownasheville.com for more information, or call 505-8388.

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The Blue Water Seafood Company, on Charlotte Street in downtown Asheville, celebrated its much-anticipated grand opening on Monday, August 2. Tracy Griffin, owner of the restaurant and fish market with her husband David, says that the feedback has been positive thus far. “When people come back for the fresh fish, we’ll know for sure that they liked it,” she says.

The new venture is the first of its kind in Asheville, with gleaming steel ice bins full of fresh whole and filleted fish separating the bar

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area from the brightly painted dining area. The market serves a full lunch menu from 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., with additional to-go items available until the market closes at 7 p.m.

The lunch menu is fairly extensive, with salads, steamer buckets, snack items and sandwiches in the lineup. A number of bayouregion specialties like crawfish etoufée and po’ boys show up on the menu, alongside coastal northern dishes like the juicy, tarragon-spiked Maine lobster roll.

Those po’ boys, it should be said, are something special — guests may pick the fish of their choice from the fresh seafood display to be blackened and served steaming on crusty French bread with lettuce, tomato, remoulade and pickles.

Chef Chas Edwards also turns out a very

seasonally appropriate “Tropical Asian” salad, a bed of fresh herbs and baby lettuces topped with sweet chili-glazed shrimp, carrots, cucumber and crushed peanuts, served with a gingerpeanut dressing. Small plates include clams casino, crab cakes and an artichoke-spinachcrab dip.

King clip, corvina, whole red snapper, local trout, whole bronzini and North Carolina headon shrimp were all lined up on display on the restaurant’s opening day. “Usually we’ll also have an assortment of oysters — we’ll have some northern oysters, some Pacific northwest oysters, Virginia — wherever we can get them.

But they’re at a premium right now,” says Dixon, referring to impact of the oil catastrophe on the Gulf.

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Quashing the Rosetta’s rumors

First, a certain city councilman and several of his friends were observed fretting on Twitter about the potential closing of Rosetta’s, the quirky vegetarian kitchen on Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville.

Then, after poking around a bit, and endlessly pestering the ever-patient employees at Rosetta’s for details, I recieved this rather cryptic message on my office voice mail, followed by an abrupt click: “You were looking for more information about Rosetta’s,” said the female voice, rather dramatically. “There has been a pirate mutiny takeover. Rosetta (Starr, the owner) has been fired and the employees are taking over the ship.”

Understandably, I was a bit curious. After a couple of trips to the restaurant, here is what I’ve found out: The cryptic message, says the crew, was intended to be funny.

“Rosetta is leaving the country for six months, and we’re looking into the possibility of becoming an employee-run collective,” says employee Heather Houbek. “We’re not sure yet, but we have about six months to decide if that’s something we can and want to do.

Rosetta’s choosing to take a sabbatical, and she may or may not return.”

The crew will continue to run things as usual and wants to make it quite clear that the restaurant is not closing. For more information about Rosetta’s, visit rosettaskitchen.com. X Send your food news to food@mountainx.com.

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by anne fitten glenn

Beer-like: New releases, new tasting room and fests galore Editor’s note: Fear not, Brews News-devotees, for last week we introduced a new beer column designed to complement (not replace!) this one. Mountain Hoppin’ and Brews News will run alternate weeks, which means twice the beer coverage for readers.

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Need a reason to wander out to Black Mountain for a brew, or two? Here are three: One: Burnette’s Fresh Hop Ale, a pale ale made with fresh Nugget, Chinook and Cascade hops, grown by Van Burnette at Hops ‘N Berry Farm in Black Mountain. Pisgah used about 20 pounds of freshly harvested hops to produce 10 barrels of the ale.

Two: Vortex I and Valdez return for a short time. These two beloved beers, the first a highly hopped ale and the second a rich coffee stout, were specially brewed in small batches for the Pisgah crew to take to Denver’s Great American Beer Festival in September. Until then, they’ll be on draught in Pisgah’s taproom.

Three: Pisgah’s house beer, Reserve, a Belgian ale with the crisp profile of a lager, brewed especially for their employees to drink.

Just a taste: Highland is adding a three-barrel pilot brewing system where their brewers can experiment with small batch beers, which will then be available in the tasting room.

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Now it’s also available in the taproom. Jason Caughman, co-owner of Pisgah, says it’s his favorite beer they brew.

Because everybody loves an IPA

Or so it seems. Why else are India Pale Ales the most consistently brewed craft beer?

Lexington Avenue Brewery brewer Ben Pierson once told me that people like ordering beers by their initials. That may or may not be the case, but the good news is there’s another IPA in town for y’all to try. Craggie Brewing Co. has introduced the Herkulean, the brewery’s first IPA. The beer is named for the German Hallertau

Herkules hops used to brew it. This one will be dark for an IPA, according to Craggie, because they’re using chocolate rye malt, in addition to other malts. ABV is six percent. Quaff it at Craggie’s Public House and around town.

Highland’s new tasting room still under construction

Construction on Highland Brewing Company’s new tasting room is chugging along, says Grant DaSantos, tasting room and talent manager. Highland hopes to open the room to the public by mid-September. They’re currently hanging acoustic sound baffles, getting the stage ready and installing taps.

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Highland will continue to be open to the public on Fridays from 4 until 8 p.m., but the new room will offer lots more space for mingling and a bigger bar and stage area. DaSantos notes that the field area will continue to stay open, weather permitting, and that Highland will continue to be a family-friendly brewery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some Fridays, about half the people here are kids,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get them hopped up on soda before we send them home.â&#x20AC;?

More beer fests on the horizon

The days when Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Brewgrass Festival offered the only opportunity for an afternoon of unlimited craft beer tasting in the region are no more. Not that Brewgrass isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t still one of the best fests around, but thank Ninkasi (the Sumerian goddess of beer) we have even more options.

The next beer fest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (kind of) nearby is the Summertime Brews Festival on Sunday, August 14, at The Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro. Both Craggie Brewing and Highland Brewing will represent Asheville at the festival. Tickets are available for $30 in advance by visiting rock92.com. Just do me a favor and step away from the Bud Light Lime.

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Then on Saturday, August 28, the Great North Carolina Beer Festival takes place in Tanglewood Park in Clemmons. You might even have heard of the featured band, Kansas.

Yup, that Kansas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s rock supergroup. Asheville breweries Craggie Brewing, French Broad Brewing, Asheville Brewing and Highland Brewing will all be on hand. It looks like about 30 breweries are participating, including a few not-craft breweries such as Heineken and Blue Moon. Tickets are $25.

Given the variety of brews, plus aging rockstars, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say this is a deal. Tickets are available at greatncbeerfestival.com.

On Saturday, Sept. 4, I might just hightail it to Boone, for the High Country Beer Fest at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center. This

festival should attract around 40 breweries, including Catawba Valley Brewing, Highland Brewing and Craggie Brewing.

I like this event because proceeds will benefit the Watauga Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council, as well as Appalachian State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivory Tower Brewery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a nonprofit, educational brewery. Once fully completed, it will be run and managed by ASU faculty and students. The program includes courses on beer, brewing and the use of alternative energy to power a brewery.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tasted some amazing student beers from ASUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring beer course, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to keeping an eye on this trend of educational breweries. Tickets for the High Country Beer Fest are $25 in advance and available at hcbeerfest.com.

Finally, the granddaddy of beer festivals cometh on Saturday, September 18. But more about Brewgrass later. Because, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already have your tickets in hand, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably out of luck. Though, it seems that there are always a few for sale outside the gate. Just saying. X

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arts&entertainment What dreams may come

Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance interprets the stories that fill our nights

by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt

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Despite the beliefs and theories Terpsicorps that reach through history, the Theatre of Dance meaning and purpose of dreamwhat: ing is still mysterious: Are dreams The Dream Project a side effect of sleeping, the scatwhere: tered reflections of the subconscious mind, warnings, or a visuDiana Wortham al collage inspired by our hopes Theatre and fears? when: Choreographer Heather Maloy Thursday, Aug. 12, explores the bizarre, unpredictthrough Saturday, able and sometimes sinister Aug. 14, at 8 p.m. nature of dreams in Terpsicorps $30/$28 students and Theatre of Dance’s upcoming perseniors. Info: dwtheformance. In preparation for The atre.com or terpsiDream Project, Maloy, director and corps.org, 257-4530 founder of the company, asked Asheville residents and friends to contribute ideas for the concert.

“I wanted to research actual people’s dreams, instead of just making a dream-like situation,” says Maloy. After reading through dozens of submissions, a common theme emerged: “People don’t seem to remember their positive dreams. [The project] has warped into ‘the nightmare project’ rather than ‘the dream project,’ because those [seem to be the] most memorable, that effect you the most.”

Ashevillean Heather Nelson shared the following (via Terpiscorps’ Facebook page): “I was in an Alice in Wonderland dress, being chased through a beautiful (yet dark) old-growth forest, away from the white rabbit ... who had fangs and was vicious.” Intrigued, Maloy and her company decided to stage Nelson’s dream.

“I am looking forward to experiencing the adaptation,” says Nelson, about seeing her nightmare performed by professional dancers. “It was a jarring dream that carried with it all the feelings that I’m sure the symbolism was trying to convey. The dream comes back to me on occasion, and seeing it adapted to the stage may help my subconscious connect those bits of symbolism, and bring resolution to whatever my mind keeps tucked in its folds.”

Michael MacCauley, another Asheville resident, shared a recurring childhood dream (also, interestingly, about running through a forest): “I’m running through the forest at break-neck speed. I’m not sure if I’m chasing something or being chased, but my heart is pounding like mad. The path is always the same, very familiar. The deeper into the woods I go, the more dense it becomes ... There is a fallen branch blocking the path, and I think to myself that I have to blindly jump over the branch, or break through it. I decide to break through it, and as I do, I look down at my left arm and see that it is covered in hair, and colored black and orange. Then it hits me, and I shout out, ‘I’m a tiger!’”

MacCauley is thrilled that his dream was chosen. “This was a very memorable part of my childhood, a dream that I had [again and again] until I was about 12 or 13,” he tells Xpress. Familiar with Terpsicorps’ work, MacCauley adds that he has “absolute faith” in the company’s vision, and is looking forward to seeing his tigerchase dream interpreted in a new way.

The Dream Project will feature 13 dances, ranging from two to 12 minutes long. The company of six embodies a wide range of characters, including a demonic ventriloquist dummy, a wild cast of circus performers, two tigers, Nelson’s vicious white rabbit and a tap-dancing old man.

The unconscious mind in motion: Terpsicorps’ concert of contemporary ballet explores the wild nature of dreaming. left photo by jonathan welch, right image courtesy of terpsicorps

“The experience itself is like having a dream,” says Maloy.

In addition, the main character or “dreamer” in each piece is clearly distinguished, clad in a nude leotard (with the exception of Nelson’s character, who will wear a blue Alice in Wonderland dress). All other characters represent the colorful fantasies of the dreamer, wearing costumes fashioned by local designer Scott Thompson and seamstress/costumer Leslie Lambrecht.

Local musician Holiday Childress, the lead singer of The Goodies, opens the show by signing a creepy lullaby to his two children, which sets the scene for the performance. Childress returns to the stage throughout, playing dream-inspired songs as the dancers prepare for the next act.

Perhaps the most epic dream starts with a frantic day at the office. Out of nowhere, the devil appears and tries to seduce the dreamer, grabbing at her and chasing her. Illustrating the scene through movement, Maloy choreographed a seductive pas de deux to the music of Tom Waits. Finally, the dreamer screams and pushes the devil away. As the office-scene fades, the dreamer finds herself standing on a long bridge, surrounded by strangers all traveling in the same direction. “She knows she’s on a journey,” says Maloy, “but she doesn’t know where.”

Another piece depicts a person trapped in an elevator as it free-falls down a seemingly endless shaft. To bring this scene to life, the company created a wooden-framed structure with han-

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dles hidden on the inside, a prop from which dancer Jennifer Cavanaugh hangs and is thrown from side to side. (Cavanaugh is battered and bruised from rehearsing the piece, Maloy says.)

Strobe lights and techno music add to the anxiety.

Working alongside Maloy, Christopher Bandy, a dancer with the company since its founding in 2003, is choreographing three of the pieces: A dream about zombies, a past-life encounter and a dream about tap dancing at a chiropractor’s office. As a dancer, writes Bandy to Xpress, “we train for so many years to be able to dance a certain way, place our heads just so. Then I come [to Asheville and] there is much more freedom. And, Heather has not yet asked me to start over, which I take as a compliment.”

Thought the concert lends itself to creative exploration, the dancers are faced with the challenge of bringing the emotions behind these dreams to life. “It’s an extremely theatrical [production],” Maloy says. “There are so many characters, stories and styles of dancing [involved that] dancers are constantly changing character. [In this way, the concert is] out of the ordinary: It stretches boundaries.” X Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 114, or at asezakblatt@mountainx.com.

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For all you lost boys, pixies, pirates and mermaids Foreverland opens in Marshall

by Alli Marshall “If it’s not going to be fun for me, I’m not interested in doing it,” says Danni Iosello. She can usually be found performing in Sin Ropas, the Marshall-based/world-touring indie-rock duo (Iosello plays percussion, her husband Tim Hurley plays guitar and sings), but, after an especially potent dinner of garden-grown pesto, Iosello went to sleep and dreamed up a new project: A store called Foreverland.

A week and a half later, she’d rented the space, lined up her suppliers and set an opening date. “I enjoy being completely immersed in something,” says Iosello.

Though Foreverland — located in a low, concrete block building across from Warren Ponder Auto Supply on Marshall’s Main Street — will open its doors on Friday, Aug. 13, the shop promises to be a long-term work in progress.

And that’s not because Iosello doesn’t know what she wants.

The musician, who moved to WNC from Chicago (first in the late ‘80s, when she worked for local designer Pattiy Torno and again in 2004, when she and Hurley set up their home base in Madison County), dreamed as a teenager of running a boutique. “In Chicago, there were these giant supermarket-sized thrift stores.

I was really into punk rock and into dressing in clothes that you couldn’t find in a regular store, so I just started buying [at thrift stores], and found that I really liked it, and really had

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That’s still true today: Iosello — whose Bohemian-cool personal style is at least partly informed by a couple decades in bands — occasionally holds wildly successful yard sales of her own collected garments. Foreverland will operate along similar lines: Iosello will carry clothing, house wares, gifts, artwork and even specialty musical instruments from designers and makers she’s hand-picked. To set the mood, the store’s sign and accompanying mural on the sliding doors were both painted by Asheville artist Luca Dipierro, whose delicate and fanciful work will be represented in the store.

Other offerings include apparel from The Red Heart (by Natasha Shealy), FARM (Olivia Shealy) and Simbach Design (Lois Simbach); jewelry, cards and prints by Kelly Kelbel; paper

Always and forever: Sin Ropas drummer Danni Iosello in front of her new boutique, Foreverland (with sign painted by Luca Dipierro). art (including bells) by Earthly Bellz (Anne Schneider) and pottery from Suzanne Kraman.

The musical instruments include found-object pieces by Hurley (“handmade, quirky instruments including hurdy gurdies, thumb pianos, stick banjos,” explains Iosello), synthesizer modules from Tony Rolando of Make Noise and “little horns” stereo speakers from Specimen, the creations of luthier Ian Schneller (composer/ musician Andrew Bird works with these speakers).

“And whatever else evolves, whatever people seem to want,” Iosello adds. “I’m really excited to see what people approach me with, and I’m open to looking at all that stuff.” Hence the work in progress. Part of that is because Marshall — with its growing arts community, increasing tourist population and referendum approving beer and wine sales — is a bit of a work in progress itself.

Take Good Stuff Grocery, which began a few years ago as a natural foods seller but has evolved into a stop-off for sandwiches, wine and live music. The town itself, with its small but tight-knit group of residents (840 according to the 2000 Census) supports an anything-goes atmosphere. (The town has an annual mermaid parade and was the setting for indie film All The Real Girls, among other claims to fame.)

“There’s a sense of freedom,” says Iosello.

“We used to have roller skating on Monday nights on Main Street.” That no longer happens — too much traffic — but still, “I think there’s a sense of adventure.”

That’s why, in addition to selling unique gifts and handmade items at Foreverland, “We’re

putting a screen up and we’re going to do outdoor movies and themed-movie nights,” says Iosello. “Luca’s going to do an Italian movie night. As much as we feel like it, we can do whatever we want there.”

The first movie will screen at Foreverland’s grand opening around 9:30 p.m. That night coincides with Marshall’s monthly “French Broad Friday” — a themed street fest of sorts that takes place the second Friday of the month, June through September. “Open stores, studios and galleries. Music, dining and more,” reads the event’s website (madfbf.blogspot.com).

Foreverland’s opening will also include music and locally-brewed beer, perfect for an auspicious (if, perhaps, unpredictable) beginning. X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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“Me and my friends dropped out of Passenger Pigeons film school after our second year and where: moved back to Asheville,” Joe Chang tells Fine Arts Theatre Xpress, describing the Papercookie Picture Company he helped co-found. Less producwhen: tion company and more artistic collective, Thursday, Aug. 12 Papercookie was and is Chang’s answer to (7 p.m. $8. Q&A with the the rigidness of the film-school experience. filmmakers after.

“We kind of got tired of film school and all papercookie.net) the red tape to go through to get stuff made.

We just want to make stuff on our own.”

Out of this came a sort of DIY co-operative of like-minded film school dropouts, who simply want to make movies. As Chang points out, “It’s nothing official, it’s not a company; it’s something we put a name on to represent ourselves.” After releasing two features — John Ferrer’s comedy Grownups (2005) and Chang’s John Cameron Mitchell-praised Neutral (2007) — the group is debuting its latest film, Martha Stephen’s Passenger Pigeons.

Chang — credited as producer and editor of Passenger Pigeons — sees the film as a culmination of years of work, and a continuing learning experience for Papercookie. “I don’t think Passenger Pigeons could’ve gotten made as well as it did without going through the process of making Neutral or even Grownups.

I think we’ve evolved as people and as filmmakers, testing the waters with the first one, seeing where we mess up, the process of it, planning everything.

Everything seemed to fall together and run a lot more smoothly.”

The creation is very much the vision of writer/director Stephens, one of Chang’s classmates at — and an actual graduate of — North Carolina School of the Arts. The film is a series of interwoven stories connected around the death of a Kentucky coal miner, and a very character-driven movie that echoes the work of Robert Altman.

Set in Stephens’ childhood stomping grounds of Kentucky, Passenger Pigeons is obviously a very personal bit of filmmaking. As Chang describes it, “She loves the area and loves where she’s from, and everything and everyone who’s involved in the movie are family and friends and you can see from her influences that this a very personal thing.”

The film, as with other Papercookie productions, is very low-budget — out of necessity, rather than aesthetics. The story of how Passenger Pigeons came to be isn’t quite as dramatic or exciting as how Robert Rodriguez subjected himself to pharmaceutical testing in order to finance El Mariachi, but it’s still in the same spirit of scraping and clawing. “I had money saved up from working, Martha had a little saved up and the rest of it, her mom sold paintings online and donated some money,” Chang says. “All our friends chipped in 20 bucks, 30 bucks here and there. We borrowed the camera from a friend. We got a lot of stuff donated really cheap.”

And Papercookie used a four-person volunteer crew. “We definitely want to pay people,” Chang points out. “Hopefully that day will come where we can make some money.” But Passenger Pigeons, like Grownups and Neutral before it, are seen by Chang as rungs on a ladder to financial flexibility. “The Passenger Pigeons screening, anything we make off it will go into the budget of the next film,” Chang explains. “With each film we’ve tried to get it out there and hopefully it’ll garner enough success so we can do the next one. That’s the idea, to keep building so we have this little collection of films.”

Passenger Pigeons premiered at South by Southwest this past March, and is currently making the film festival circuit around the country. But already Papercookie is working on another project. They’re currently finishing up their fourth feature, Aubrey Curtis’ L’Orfeo and Elysium, and will begin production this fall on Chang’s latest picture, Days of War, Nights of Love.

And while Chang acknowledges that having the ability to afford making films is and always will be a factor, the finished product of the film, and Papercookie’s love of filmmaking, is ultimately what matters. “I don’t want to think about money too much,” Chang says. “With Neutral I spent $20,000, all my savings and everything. And you don’t really think twice about it.” X

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Dan Zanes and friends Like a toddler with a leaky what: sippy cup, Dan Zanes casually Music for the whole family dribbles a trail of notable names where: wherever he roams. For a decade, The Orange Peel he’s been a family-music scion, buoyed by connections he made when: while leading thinking-man’s Saturday, Aug. 14 (2 p.m. bar-rock band The Del Fuegos in $18/flat (family discount the ’80s. available). 225-5851. theor From folk and country angepeel.net) heirs (Loudon Wainwright III, Roseanne Cash) to A-listers (Sheryl Crow, Matthew Broderick) to blues institutions (Blind Boys of Alabama, at Lincoln Center no less), an impressive list of stars have hopped Zanes’ train. His famous admirers have performed with him live and contributed tracks to a series of eight albums that most recently includes 76 Trombones, pared-down versions of Broadway show tunes.

The nearly 90-year-old Carol Channing, her voice as brittle as the hair of a Malibu Barbie, duets on her signature song “Hello, Dolly!” from the same-named musical; Broderick guest stars on “Before the Parade Passes By,” also from that show.

Absent the bombast, these theatrical anthems (culled from a musicpublishing catalogue owned by Paul McCartney) make ideal fodder for kids’ music, and particularly for Zanes’ signature treatment — a tattered lo-fi charm juiced up with virtuosic flourishes from his smiley, zanyinstrument-wielding back-up band.

Few lyrics could be more roots-up innocent than those of the CD’s title track, from The Music Man: “Seventy-six trombones led the big parade /with a hundred-and-ten cornets right behind /…there were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds / there were horns of every shape and kind.” And these pert words from the Peter Pan theme song are as appealing today as they ever were: “I won’t grow up / I don’t want to wear a tie /or a serious expression / in the middle of July.”

Still, Zanes admits he was a little balky going into the project. Speaking to Xpress through jittery cell reception while on vacation in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the Grammy winner sounds modest and vaguely astonished on the other end of the line.

“It was kind of a hard decision,” he says. “I’ve never been in love with Broadway music, and I didn’t want it to sound too weird and showy.

When I got the list of songs, there weren’t more than two or three on there that I knew.” To keep it fresh, Zanes decided not to even listen to the originals; instead, he and his band studied the sheet music and adapted the lyrics to their own oeuvre. “It ended up being a great experience,” he says. “It got me much more in tune with the craft of songwriting.”

Nevertheless, he sounds eager to get back to creating-as-usual, noting with a laugh, “there won’t be a Volume II [of Broadway covers] for me in this lifetime.” Zanes’ everyday ambitions include building a body of work that he firmly bills as family music, rather than kids’ music — a discography that covers traditional folk, jazz standards, old country blues and mild reggae. “Children’s music is particular to children’s experiences, and with all-ages music, everybody can get some kind of emotional connection, from young kids to grandparents,” he explains.

“These songs are a bit more universal. Hopefully, they’re songs you can grow up with.”

As much as he believes that music should be integrated into everyday life, Zanes won’t dismiss such franchises as Kindermusik, a rather pricey “mommy-and-me”-type program that introduces children to singing and movement using nursery rhymes and easy percussion. “Music used to be a more daily experience for Americans, and then with [the advent of recording], we became consumers instead of participants,” he says.

“Music making is something we’ve lost along the way, and that’s where these programs can help. If the adults can come away from them know-

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Not just for kids: “Children’s music is particular to children’s experiences, and with all-ages music, everybody can get some kind of emotional connection, from young kids to grandparents,” says Zanes, who bills his fare as family style.

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ing more about music, then the kids may be exposed to it more in their own homes.”

Truth is, the singer has fashioned an as-yet-unnamed program of his own; now in its second year, the project is geared solely toward children with developmental disabilities. Another beloved endeavor is soap-boxing for Heifer International, the popular nonprofit that promotes agricultural self-sufficiency in the world’s poorest places.

Just as he doesn’t mind calling on celebrity friends to ornament his musical schemes, Zanes sees no problem wearing the double-brimmed hat of singer/activist. In fact, it’s no less than perceived duty that drives him.

“When you become a parent, you begin to see the world differently, and I always figured family music called for some kind of social responsibility,” he says, citing other family-music singers (Raffi, Tom Chapin) who promote various causes. “Once you’ve got that platform going, it’s natural and important to find good, positive ways to use it. Certainly I’m only scratching the surface of what it means to be a good citizen.” X Melanie McGee Bianchi is a lifestyle writer and editor based in Asheville.

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Grammer School

by Alli Marshall When Grammer School (sic) took the stage at The Orange Peel back in June — the last act of four finalists to compete for the title of WNC Magazine’s Last Band Standing and winner of the opening slot at this year’s Bele Chere — two things happened. One, they didn’t win the competition.

And two, they totally won over the crowd.

In fact, with an arsenal of bouncy indie-pop tunes, turn-on-dime tempo shifts and raucous energy, Grammer School seemed right at home on the Orange Peel stage.

To see them a few weeks later on an over-sized Oriental carpet in the café room of Marshall’s Good Stuff Grocery was nearly cause for a double-take. Still, the Asheville-based trio seemed just as comfortable against a backdrop of wine bottles and specialty olives, playing to a crowd of 10.

For those who caught the Orange Peel set, that performance only told half of Grammer School’s story — the part where singer/keyboardist Justin “J.B.” Bowles fronts the band. At Good Stuff, singer/guitarist Mike Clair demonstrated his contribution the group’s sound: a louder, lessmeasured, more-emotive group of songs than the tightly composed pieces Bowles brings to the table.

On “Still Standing,” a song the group debuted at Good Stuff, Clair explained, “It was written on Tuesday, June 22, the day before we played at the Orange Peel.”

He sang with his eyes closed, his vocals sometimes muddied in the sound mix, but his passion evident. The song followed a jazz/funk-informed trajectory, Grateful Dead meets Steely Dan. Which is not to say that Grammer School is a jam band:

Head of the class: Indie-pop trio Grammer School captured hearts at the Last Band Standing competition.

Another offering began as a chaotic, punk-fueled screamo song (tempered by a classical-flavored keyboard melody) and melded into a rocked-out instrumental (with cowbell accents) that recalled Vince Guaraldi’s Jazz Impressions Of A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

But, for the antics and experimentation of Clair, it’s Bowles’ songs that ultimately define the band. The keyboardist’s compositions rely on a build of tension that lead into interludes and movements. Crisp instrumentation, elastic beats and catchy lyrics tether the music into the pop realm while unusual subject matter (neighbors, “old folks dying in retirement communities”) keeps it safely away from formula.

Influences seem varied and far-reaching — a hint of Paul and Linda McCartney, a touch of Elvis Costello, maybe even a nod to Dimitri Tiomkin. As wildly diverse as these elements are, Grammer School effectively chorales them into pithy, concise songs (thanks in part to the tasteful, spot-on percussion of drummer Bill Cooley). So, whether as rock show at the Orange Peel or as backdrop to shopping and socializing at cozy Good Stuff Grocery, Grammer School provides an apt soundtrack.

Yeah, they didn’t get to open Bele Chere this year. It’s a safe bet that bigger, better stages await. X

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Deciding which shows you should see, so you don’t have to The Suspect: Bobby Bare Jr.

The Suspect: Here Come the Mummies

This band calls themselves “More Undead than Dick Clark.” If that doesn’t scare you, imagine a sex-obsessed Weird Al Yankovic making a funk album. This bandagewrapped band (usually performing with eight or nine members) dare you not to dance as they play gems like, “Attack of the Weiner Man,” “Walk of Shame,” “Are You Gonna Eat All That?” and “Dirty Minds,” which was recently featured in the film Fired Up! Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Thursday, Aug. 12.

RIYD (Recommended if You Dig): Tower of Power, Average White Band.

You Should Go If: You’re really hoping they make one more American Pie movie; you are still sent into uncontrollable fits of laughter by the comment, “That’s what she said;” you like James Brown but find him a little too intense; your other car is a … moped.

Becky Upham co-hosts the weekly music show, “Your Mom’s Idea,” with Lark Rowe every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. on MAIN-FM

The Suspect: The Stereofidelics

The Asheville duo of Chris Padgett and Melissa McGinley has logged over 500 shows in the last three years, and their tireless touring pays off in the power and intensity of their live performances.

They play seven instruments (not all at the same time) to create a rich retro-rock sound that you’d expect from a much bigger band. They just released their second CD, You Are Having A Wonderful Time, and this show is the party to celebrate it.

Can Be Found: The Grey Eagle, Thursday, Aug. 12.

RIYD: Hot Club of Cowtown, Donna the Buffalo, Mad Tea Party.

You Should Go If: You believe that multi-taskers will someday rule the world; you decorated your house exclusively with furniture you’ve found on the sidewalk; you take apart and rebuild small appliances to entertain your friends at parties; your other car is a … ’78 Volkswagen Beetle.

Nominated for a Grammy at age five for singing “Daddy What If” with his countrymusic dad, the now grown-up Bare Jr. has added a punk sensibility to his roots. He began making a name in his own right when he put together a roots-rock band under the name Bare Jr.; AllMusic Guide called their first album, Boo-Tay, “…one of the most auspicious debut albums of the late ‘90s.” Now performing solo, Bare Jr.’s most recent release is The American Bread EP, on which he covers seven songs from the ‘70s band, Bread.

Can Be Found: The Grey Eagle, Friday, Aug. 13.

RIYD: Waco Brothers, the Bottle Rockets, the Old 97’s.

You Should Go If: You’ve driven more than five miles out of your way to tell people how stupid their bumper stickers are; you cut your own hair; you fight authority, authority always wins; your other car is a … what kind of an a**hole needs more than one car?!

The Suspect: Mac Arnold & Plate Full of Blues

This South Carolina native has made an impressive career playing with many legendary rhythm and blues artists. As the bass player for the Muddy Waters band, he’s shared the recording studio and stage with John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Otis Redding and B.B. King. His third album with Plate Full of Blues, Country Man, was released in 2009.

Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Saturday, Aug. 14.

RIYD: Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy. You Should Go If: You hold monthly jam sessions in your basement; your parents have forgotten your birthday more than once; you just found out last year that pork isn’t really the other white meat; your other car is … parked around the corner, just in case her man comes home.

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Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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

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Soul & jazz jam Nine Mile

Ras Berhane (acoustic, reggae) Olive or Twist

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Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

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Brave Combo (rock, Latin, alternative)

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Throne of Carrion (metal) w/ Shadow of the Destroyer & Mysteriarch

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Bluegrass jam, 8pm Town Pump

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Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Free Flow Band (soul, funk) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub

Open mic & jam Club 828

Left II Question (rock, alternative) Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Mark Guest (jazz guitar) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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

Jammin’ with Funky Max & Acoustic Floor Jam

Emerald Lounge

Wild Wing Cafe

Frankie Bones

J Luke (singer-songwriter)

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Thu., August 12

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Athena’s Club

The Stray Dog Trio (blues, rock)

Jazz the Ripper (funk, jazz, fusion)

DJ night

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Back Room

Alex Krug (“triple distilled Americana”)

Matt Woods (rock, country, Americana)

Good Stuff

Beacon Pub

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Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (“extreme Americana”)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

BoBo Gallery

James Richard & Co.

Stereofidelics (rock, alternative) CD release show w/ Galen Kipar Project & Jacob Johnson

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Paul Cataldo (Americana, country, roots)

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Steve Wadell (pop, rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lobster Trap

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Mack Kellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Grill

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Mela

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

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Swing dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band Orange Peel

Here Come the Mummies (funk, soul, R&B) w/ Space Capone

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing

Temptations Red Room

BoBo Gallery

Dean, Minori & Brinker

The Wine Cellar at the Saluda Inn

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Doug Spears (folk, Americana, bluegrass)

Elation (ska, reggae)

Thirsty Monk South

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Town Pump

Craggie Brewing Company

Ashleigh Caudill & Narrow Gauge

The Bloodroot Orkaestarr (Gypsy)

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

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Prayers for Atheists (punk)

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Evan Swink & the E-Flat Rigs (Americana, country)

Emerald Lounge

White Horse

Fairview Tavern

Floating Action (surf) w/ Old Ceremony DJ dance party

Lingua Musica (music talk show) feat: Floating Action

Conservation Theory (bluegrass)

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter)

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Pisgah Brewing Company

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French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

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Jack Of The Wood Pub

Now You See Them (folk, pop, indie)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Greg Olson (folk)

Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar

Time To Get Ill

The Wine Cellar at the Saluda Inn

Dave Desmelik (folk, country) Thirsty Monk South

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Bobby Lee Rogers Trio w/ Brushfire Stankgrass (acoustic, bluegrass, progressive) Fairview Tavern

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Feed and Seed

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Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

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French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

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

Laura Reed (soul, funk) feat: Yonrico Scott of Derek Trucks Band New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Miracle Vitamins (indie, rock, pop) Olive or Twist

Live jazz w/ Jennifer Scott

Pierce Edens (folk, rock)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Justin Allen (singer-songwriter) Garage at Biltmore

Peace Jones (rock, fusion) w/ The Dubber Good Stuff

The Rose Familiar (rock) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Cary Fridley & Down South (country, blues) White Horse

John Leo & the Eggmen (John Lennon tribute) w/ Aaron Price (pop, rock) & Nick Stubblefield Wild Wing Cafe

Bonepony (jam, folk rock)

Sun., August 15

Abby Road Live (Beatles tribute)

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

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Hannah Flanaganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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Gas House Mouse (blues)

The Consultants of Swing

Hickory Tavern

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

The Vinyl Brothers Big Band

Luke Wood (acoustic)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

BoBo Gallery

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Bliss Dub

Iron Horse Station

Boscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Zone

Slight Departure (old-time, bluegrass)

Shag dance & lessons

Jack Of The Wood Pub

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Nora Jane Struthers & the Bootleggers (Americana, bluegrass)

Future Rock (electronic, house, rock) w/ Orchard Lounge

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Jerusalem Garden

Fairview Tavern

Belly dancing w/ live music

Rockabilly Sunday

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

The Hookah Bar

Dashvara (progressive, funk) w/ Actual Proof

Back stage: Duende Mountain Duo (breakbeat, drum & bass)

Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub

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

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Marc Keller Duo (classic rock) Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Red Stag Grill

Straightaway CafĂŠ

Tallgaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College Street Pub

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Temptations Red Room

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Bayou Diesel (roots) Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Jazz the Ripper (funk, jazz, fusion) Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano) Warehouse Live

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Josh Carland (singer-songwriter)

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Craggie Brewing Company

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Noise in Print (rock) w/ Knives & Daggers

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Sherry Lynn & Mountain Friends

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Straightaway CafĂŠ

From the Ashes w/ Lifecurse & From a Dig

Town Pump

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Friday 8/13 Marc Keller Duo

BoBo Gallery

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

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Stella Blue

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Jerusalem Garden

Thursday 8/12 Ginny McAfee

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country)

Phuncle Sam (jam, psychedelic, Americana)

Mark Appleford (acoustic, Americana)

Hangar

Jack Of The Wood Pub

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Nova Echo (alternative, electronic)

Irish session, 5pm Tom Waits time, late

Nine Mile

Lobster Trap

Ras Berhane (acoustic, reggae)

Live music by local artists

Olive or Twist

Luellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar-B-Que

42nd Street Jazz Band Orange Peel

Jon Corbin (of Firecracker Jazz Band), 11:30am-2pm

The Peg Twisters (old-time)

Dan Zanes & Friends (folk rock), 2pm Night of the Blues feat: Mac Arnold & Plate Full Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Blues, Blonde Blues & WSNB, 8pm

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe White Horse

Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Chris Rosser (folk rock, fusion)

The White Soul Monsters (R&B)

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Wild Wing Cafe

Purple Onion Cafe

Scandals Nightclub

Chase Rice (country, rock, acoustic)

Ellen Trnka & Marc Yaxley

Dance party w/ DJ Stratos

Sat., August 14

Red Stag Grill

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

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Wild Wing Cafe

Red Mouth (roots, punk)

Live music w/ Jeff Anders

Scandals Nightclub

Mon., August 16

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Back Room

Shane Pruitt Band (rock, jazz, jam) Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Stratos Skyland Performing Arts Center

Kellee (Celtic)

Acoustic night w/ Kira Velella (singer-songwriter)

BoBo Gallery

Granpappy & the Bruthaship (Americana, fusion)

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Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 The Garage 505-2663 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 Guadalupe Cafe 586-9877 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 The Hangar 684-1213 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hookah Bar 252-1522 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805

Magnolia’s Raw Bar 251-5211 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 New Courtyard Gallery 273-3332 New French Bar Courtyard Cafe 225-6445 Old Fairview Southern Kitchen 277-7117 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pineapple Jack’s 253-8860 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Poppies Cafe 885-5494 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Red Step Artworks 697-1447 Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Rocket Club 505-2494 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838

Emerald Lounge

Back Room

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Wayd Runk Contra dance

Dinner music w/ Tony Campbell, 6:30pm Patrick Fitzsimons (folk, blues, roots)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Emerald Lounge

Handlebar

Feed and Seed

Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Fishnet Stalkers (garage, punk) w/ Rekless Youth Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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Tuesday Night Funk Jam Will Ray’s Mountain Jam Firestorm Cafe and Books

Open mic

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Mike’s Tavern

Willy J and the Storytellers (rock)

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Handlebar

Josh Blake’s Jukebox (rock, bluegrass, reggae) Pack’s Tavern

Acoustic open mic w/ Aaron LaFalce Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Tue., August 17

Coney Island Cockabilly Roadshow (music, burlesque, sideshow) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Stella Blue 236-2424 The Still 683-5913 Stockade Brew House 645-1300 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 Tallgary’s College Street Pub 232-0809 Temptations Red Room 252-0775 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 TGI Friday’s 277-4080 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 The Watershed 669-0777 Waynesville Water’n Hole 456-4750 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066 Xcapades 258-9652

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Marc Keller & Company (variety) Westville Pub

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Jen Foster 8:30pm Lou Barlow and The Missingmen & Wye Oak 9pm

Severe & Profound 9pm

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Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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The Ragged Orchids (Americana, alternative, folk)

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Old-time jam, 6pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Open mic

Front stage: Aaron Woody Wood (soul, pop) —Back stage: POP LAB

BoBo Gallery

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Horror

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag dance

Broadway’s

‘80s night, 10pm Chameleon Soul Food

Spoken word, music & poetry night hosted

by Lyric Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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

Zydeco dance & lessons Fairview Tavern

Open mic

Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Paul Cataldo (Americana, country, roots) Good Stuff

Open mic

Beacon Pub

monday

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mack Kell’s / Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe

Paul Cataldo (Americana, country, roots) BoBo Gallery

Soul & jazz jam

Jason DeCristofaro (jazz, R&B)

Nine Mile

Boiler Room

Ras Berhane (acoustic, reggae)

Triple Cobra (rock)

Olive or Twist

Shag & swing dancing w/ DJ Ron Blankenship Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Open mic & jam

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Open mic

Open mic w/ BlindLiver Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Bluegrass jam, 8pm

wednesday Beacon Pub / Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill / The Hangar / Infusions / O’Malleys on Main / Holland’s Grille / Hookah Bar / Rendezvous / Temptations

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Eleven on Grove

Zumba dance

Frankie Bones

Town Pump

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Open mic

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Raw Essence

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Miriam Allen (fusion, roots) Good Stuff

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (“extreme Americana”)

AA Bondy (folk, alternative) w/ Thad Cockrell & JBM

Westville Pub

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Wild Wing Cafe

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Holland’s Grille

Marc Keller (singer-songwriter) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Jammin’ w/ Funky Max

Jen Foster (singer-songwriter)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Live music w/ Star Band

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Thu., August 19

Handlebar

The Original Wailers feat: Al Anderson & Junior Marvin w/ The Work

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Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) Mike’s Side Pocket Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

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

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Mela

Belly dancing Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

East Coast Dirt (rock) w/ Dirk Quinn Band (jazz, jam) O’Malley’s On Main

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Olive or Twist

Swing dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band Pack’s Tavern

Scott Raines (acoustic, rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Quadruplicity (rock)

Purple Onion Cafe

Danielle Howle (Americana, roots)

Red Stag Grill

Iron Horse Station

Scandals Nightclub

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exposureâ&#x20AC;? DJ night

Temptations Red Room

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s dance party w/ Spy V The Hookah Bar

Poetry slam

Thirsty Monk South

Lyndsay Pruett & friends

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

Peggy Ratuszâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Invitational Blues Jam Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (piano) Watershed

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Paul Cataldo ( acoustic roots) Cary Fridley & Down South (roots, blues, country) Jerusalem Garden

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Edwin McCain (singer-songwriter) w/ Taylor Moore

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Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern

Live music w/ Jeff Anders

Micah Hanks (bluegrass, rock)

Zuma Coffee

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Fri., August 20

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pickoftheweek Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

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Director: Jan Kounen Players: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova, Natach Lindinger, Grigori Manoukov Fact-Based Romantic Drama Rated R

The Story: The fictionalized account of the affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in 1920 France.

The Lowdown: A fascinating, beautiful film that, even while suffering from largely undefined characters, succeeds enough to make it worthwhile.

The first part of Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky depicts the original encounter of French fashion designer Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) with the music of Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) at the notoriously disastrous 1913 premiere of the Russian composer’s The Rite of Spring. This French film’s beginning is as brilliant as anything I’ve seen all year; unfortunately, most of the rest of the movie never lives up to that. The film is never actively bad, mind you, and there’s always something worthwhile just around the corner. However, not until the very end does it again have the same sense of urgency and excitement that marks its beginning.

Most of the film takes place during an undefined time span in 1920 when Stravinsky and his family came to live with Chanel at her new villa. The Great War has come and gone, and the Russian revolution is also a thing of the past. “Boy” Capel (Anatole Taubman), the great love of Chanel’s life, has died in a car crash. Stravinsky himself is at that time living in relative poverty and obscurity. It’s from this that Chanel decides to rescue him, giving him and his family a place to live, and him a place to work.

It’s unclear just how noble is Chanel’s emulation of Madame von Meck, Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky’s patron — and how much

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Mads Mikkelson and Anna Mouglalis as the title characters in Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, a fascinating, if flawed, fictionalized account of the romance between the composer and the fashion designer. of this is instead grounded in Chanel being attracted to Stravinsky. For that matter, it’s possible that the assessment by Stravinsky’s wife (Elena Morozova), that Chanel “collects people,” may be closer to the truth.

It is historically accurate that the Stravinsky family stayed with Chanel, and it is generally accepted that she and Stravinsky had an affair. Kounen’s movie — based on the Chris Greenhalgh novel Coco & Igor, and not an historical account — fills in the details. Well, sort of.

As presented in this film, it’s almost a contest as to which of the two — Chanel or Stravinsky — is the less demonstrative and communicative.

In fact, these are perhaps the least-chatty characters in the history of cinema — and they aren’t exactly free with their facial expressions either.

That may be historically accurate, but it’s a little on the limiting side as concerns understanding the pair as characters. At best these two remain enigmatic; at worst, they’re little more than ciphers. Needless to say, this works against the film as compelling drama.

What we’re left with, however, is nonetheless a formally beautiful movie that often brilliantly uses the language of film to convey something of the complexity of emotion that the characters themselves don’t. Sometimes this is enough to make things work; sometimes it isn’t. It is, however, an interesting cinematic approach of a kind we see pretty rarely these days, and as such it’s rather refreshing as pure filmmaking.

It would have been truly dynamic, however, had the technique been on equal footing with the drama, yet that only happens on occasion in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. When it does, though,

Kounen’s film truly soars — and you realize what a great movie as a whole this could have been. As it stands, what we have is a fascinating film with flashes of true brilliance. Rated R for some strong sexuality and nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre

The Girl Who Played With Fire JJJJ

Director: Daniel Alfredson Players: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Mikael Spreitz, Georgi Staykov Mystery Crime Thriller Rated R

The Story: Lisbeth Salander finds herself suspected of three murders, placing not only her, but anyone who knows her in danger.

The Lowdown: A complex and engaging thriller that builds on the characters established in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. A must for fans of the series, but not wholly successful as a stand-alone work.

Yes, this is the second film in the popular series. And, yes, the director and screenwriter of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo have both been replaced; we now have director Daniel Alfredson and writer Jonas Frykberg. Does this make a difference? Yes, it does.

The Girl Who Played With Fire is noticeably

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Charlie St. Cloud (PG-13) 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) 12:00, 1:20, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:35, 9:00, 10:00 Grown Ups (PG-13) 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Inception (PG-13) 12:20, 1:35, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50 The Other Guys (PG-13) 11:45, 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 (Fri-Sat only) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG) 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Strawberry Shortcake: Glamberry Ball (G) 11:55 (Sat, Sun only) Toy Story 3 in 2D (G) 1:30, 3:55, 6:20, 8:55 n Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 (274-9500)

Despicable Me 2D (PG) 11:35. 1:55, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 (Sofa Cinema) Eat Pray Love (PG-13) 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 The Expendables (R) 11:50, 2:15, 4:55, 7:55, 10:25 I Am Love (R) 11:50, 3:15, 7:45, 10:25 (no 10:25 show Sat Aug 14) Inception (PG-13) 11:25, 3:00, 7:00, 10:05 The Kids Are All Right (R) 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:55, 10:30 The Killer Inside Me (R) 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Ondine (PG-13) 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 (Sofa Cinema) The Other Guys (PG-13) 11:55, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) 11:00 p.m. Sat Aug 14 only Salt (PG-13) 12:00 2:35, 5:00, 7:50, 10:10 (Sofa Cinema) Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (PG-13) 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55 Step Up 3D (PG)

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The Kids Are All Right (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat only 9:40 Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat only 9:45

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The Girl Who Played with Fire (R) 1:00 (Fri-Sun), 4:15, 7:30 n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D (PG) 1:50, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Despicable Me 3D (PG) 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 Eat Pray Love (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:25 The Expendables (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:10 Salt (PG-13) 1:30, 4:40, 8:00, 10:30 Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:30, 10:00 Step Up 3D (PG-13) 1:40, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20

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Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova, Natach Lindinger, Grigori Manoukov Fact-Based Romantic Drama The fictionalized account of the affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in 1920 France. A fascinating, beautiful film that, even while suffering from largely undefined characters, succeeds enough to make it worthwhile. Rated R

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(Voices) Stevel Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, Julie Andrews Animated Sci-Fi/Comedy With Heartstring Tugging An aging master criminal tries to regain his criminal cred by stealing the moon with the aid of three orphan girls. Painless, but largely uninspired family fare, with a few fine moments and some good voice casting. Rated PG

Dinner for Schmucks JJJJ

Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Jermaine Clement, Stephanie Szostak Farce A ladder-climbing businessman must find an idiot to bring to his bossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dinner, where each guest brings some buffoon, with a prize going to the dumbest one. An occasionally funny farce that works due to a good-natured heart at its center. Rated PG-13

The Girl Who Played With Fire JJJJ

Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Mikael Spreitz, Georgi Staykov Mystery Crime Thriller Lisbeth Salander finds herself suspected of three murders, placing not only her, but anyone who knows her in danger. A complex and engaging thriller that builds on the characters established in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. A must for fans of the series, but not wholly successful as a stand-alone work. Rated R

Inception JJJJJ

Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard Sci-Fi/Thriller Art-House Style A man whose job is

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to steal information from peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreams is charged with the task of instead using those dreams to implant an idea. Dazzling, complex and with a surprisingly strong (especially considering the filmmaker) emotional core, Inception not only lives up to the hype, it largely surpasses it. Rated PG-13

I Am Love JJJJJ

Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Marisa Berenson Drama A middle-aged woman finds herself when she falls in love with her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend. A daringly honest, yet breathlessly and unabashedly operatic film that will not be to everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taste, but will dazzle and thrill viewers who are open to the experience it offers. Rated R

The Kids Are All Right JJJJJ

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson, Yaya DaCosta Comedy Drama The children of a middle-aged lesbian couple decide to incorporate the sperm donor who fathered them into the family. A beautifully written and acted film thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very nearly as good as all the raves suggest. Rated R

The Killer Inside Me JJJJ

Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Bill Pullman Pulp Fiction Noir Crime Drama A deputy sheriff in a small town commits murder and tries to cover his tracks. A violent, unsettling film that will offend many, but which offers a fascinating look into the mind of a sociopath from his point of view. Rated R

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Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub Fantasy/Adventure In a mystical realm, a young superpowered boy is the only hope of stopping an evil nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plot to rule the world. Generally amateurish and consistently dull, the movie is far from good, butâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even considering the Shyamalan pedigreeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite as awful as its reputation. Rated PG

Ondine JJJJJ

Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Alison Barry, Dervla Kirwan, Tony Curran, Stephen Rea Romantic Drama An impoverished Irish fisherman pulls a woman in with his net, and the question arises as to whether sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real or imaginary, or a mythical seal-woman known as a selkie. Gentle fantasy and modernity collide in Neil Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new film â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of the real pleasures of the summer movie season here.

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The Other Guys JJJJ

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton. Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson Cop Buddy Action Comedy Two lackluster cops decide to attempt to fill the shoes of the most celebrated crime fighters in town. Surprisingly pleasant comedy from Will Ferrell that benefits from good pacing and even better chemistry between Ferrell and co-star Mark Wahlberg.

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Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins Sci-Fi/Action A group of soldiers and killers find themselves suddenly transported to a distant planet, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hunted by savage aliens. An above-average popcorn actioner thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brought down by predictability and a penchant for an old-hat approach to jump-starting a tired franchise. Rated R

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Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl Action/Thriller A CIA agent is accused of being a Russian spy and goes on the run. This may be the silliest movie youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see this year, but it is entertaining. Rated PG-13

The Sorcererâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Apprentice JJJ

Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, Toby Kebbell Fantasy/Adventure A college student finds out he is the heir to Merlin the Magician and must train under an ages-old sorcerer in order to fend off a resurrected Morgan le Fay. An entertaining enough summer flick thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simply too disposable to be memorable. Rated PG

Step Up 3D JJJ

Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Joe Slaughter Dance Drama A dance crew must win a competition in order to save the communal living space they call their own. The perfect mix of absurdly corny and unironically dumbâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;combined with some impressive 3Dâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make this a pretty entertaining bit of cinematic junk. Rated PG-13

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Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee Mystery/Drama A 17-year-old girl must find her bailjumping father or lose her home. Unrelenting in its picture of poverty, but compelling in its storytelling and its ability to find humanity where you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect it, Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bone is remarkable. Rated R

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OK, Ryan Murphy made a good, albeit odd, movie from the memoir Running with Scissors back in 2006, which, unfortunately, almost no one saw. So he’s probably best known as the man behind the TV series Nip/Tuck and Glee.

And here he is helming a big-screen adaptation of another popular memoir, Eat Pray Love. This round he has Julia Roberts as his star and a likely more user-friendly story.

He also has a pretty impressive supporting cast — Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis — and a nice looking trailer. What he doesn’t have are early reviews, which is not a great sign with a production this size. (PG-13)

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Sylvester Stallone co-wrote, directed and stars in this R-rated actioner about a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow a South American dictator. Whatever else this project is, Stallone did manage to line up some impressive talent (at least in action terms) for it — Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis.

And bravely or foolishly, he has let some critics look at the results — not that this is the kind of movie that rises or falls on critical response. (R) Early review samples: • “Savage yet inert, and breathtakingly sleazy in its lack of imagination.” (Anthony Lane, The NewYorker) • With its rote gunplay and geriatric-paced running time, it’s also the most boring action flick of the summer.” (Lauren Wissot, Slant Magazine) less stylish than the first film, and that’s directly attributable to Alfredson. The other differences — a somewhat less-compelling story, a weaker payoff and the almost-complete lack of interaction between Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) — are attributable to the source material, meaning those qualities will come as no surprise to fans of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy books.

However, it’s true that The Girl Who Played With Fire simply isn’t as good as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and is a film that I’d tend to think might be hard to follow for anyone who hasn’t seen the first installment. Yet it’s also strangely a film that seems to believe that one of its own plot points — how Lisbeth came to be considered in need of a guardian — is more revelatory than it actually is. Specifics are revealed here, but the basics were shown in the first movie. (Put bluntly, we already knew she’d played with fire.)

None of this is to say that The Girl Who Played With Fire isn’t good; it is. The film is an intriguing, compelling mystery thriller with interesting characters. That it’s a lesser work than its pre-

See review in “Cranky Hanke”

Edgar Wright’s (Hot Fuzz) latest, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is one of the more interesting looking films coming out — even if it does star Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim, if you don’t know, is a young man who has to defeat his new girlfriend’s seven ex-boyfriends in order to truly win her heart.

To judge by the trailer, Wright has come up with a movie like no other — a blend of movie, video game, cartoon. The question is whether or not the movie has anything more to offer beyond that look that’s already been conveyed by the trailer — and that’s a question addressed in some of the early reviews.

However, the imaginative look of the film may be enough to make it worth seeing.

(PG-13) Early review samples: • “Why isn’t it the coolest movie ever? One problem is, well, Scott Pilgrim. Cera dials down his patented semi-castrato hysteria and doesn’t play every scene on the defensive, but our superhero is still a super-cipher: callow, cowardly, morose.” (David Edelstein, New York Magazine) • “Edgar Wright is cinema’s most inspired mash-up artist, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World may be his finest hybridization to date, a romantic comedy recast as a mêlée-heavy video game that stands shoulder to shoulder with his zombie rom-com Shaun of the Deadand his Michael Bay-ified Ealing comedy-meets-Wicker Man actioner Hot Fuzz” (Nick Schager, Slant Magazine)

decessor doesn’t alter that fact — especially if you’re interested in Lisbeth and Mikael.

The plotting is intricate in the extreme, managing to tie the events of its story into those of the first film, even though many events in the new film have nothing to do with the first entry’s central mystery. Rather, the new narrative grows out of a combination of Lisbeth’s past, her involvement with her previous guardians and the fact that Mikael works for Millennium, a magazine that specializes in uncovering corruption. All of these elements coalesce into a situation where Lisbeth ends up being framed for multiple murders; it’s cleverly handled, slickly done and occasionally a little preposterous. It’s also undeniably entertaining — though it does all come with one problem.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo may have kept Lisbeth and Mikael separate for the first part of the proceedings, but this film — by necessity of its plot — keeps them apart for nearly its entire length. This doesn’t necessarily hurt The Girl Who Played With Fire; the fact that Lisbeth and

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Fail-Safe JJJJ

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Night After Night / She Done Him Wrong JJJJJ

Director: Archie Mayo, Lowell Sherman Players: Mae West, Cary Grant, George Raft, Constance Cummings, Alison Skipworth ComedyS Rated NR August 17 is Mae West’s birthday — her 117th to be exact — and to mark that occasion the Asheville Film Society is showing the legendary screen icon’s first two films — Archie Mayo’s Night After Night (1932) and Lowell Sherman’s She Done Him Wrong (1933). The first film — and the lesser of the two — introduced West to the movie-going public, who had never seen or heard anything quite like her. It was inevitable that she’d soon have a film of her own, so her stage play Diamond Lil was turned into She Done Him Wrong (the title change was for censorship reasons) where the full power of West was unleashed on a movie-going world eager to embrace it. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen Night After Night and She Done Him Wrong Tuesday Aug. 17 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.

Cold War Suspense Drama Rated NR Think of Sidney Lumet’s Fail-Safe (1964) as Dr. Strangelove (also 1964) without the laughs. This a very earnest suspenser about a technical glitch causing a bomber to be unstoppably on its way to drop an atomic bomb on Moscow. The only recourse — if it can’t be stopped — is for the U.S. to do likewise to New York City as proof that the attack on the USSR was an accident. It’s that or face all-out nuclear war. Perhaps because it was so serious and depressing — and came out after Strangelove — it was not nearly as big a success and hasn’t become a standard classic. It is, however, very much of its era and not without interest or power. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic Cinema From Around the World will present Fail-Safe at 8 p.m. Friday, Director: Martha Stephens Aug. 13, at Courtyard Gallery at their new location 109 Roberts St in the Phil Players: Kentucker Audley, Caroline White, Bryan Marshall, Martha Stephens Drama Rated NR Mechanic Building,River Arts District, one floor down. Info: 273-3332.

Local filmmaker Joe Chang produced and edited this film by writerdirector Martha Stephens, an ambitious work that interweaves four storylines over the course of a weekend into a single filmic tapestry. Set in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky, Passenger Pigeons centers on — or Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot touches on — the effects of a coal miner who died in an accident. This is Players: Pablo Picasso, Henri-George Clouzot, Claude Renoir a quiet, subtle little film that benefits from extremely good photography, Documentary Rated NR good performances and a sense of purpose. It was a selection of the 2010 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Mystery of Picasso (1956) is probably best SXSW film festival and is now making its local debut. regarded as a fascinating failure, but a failure all the same. It’s a documenreviewed by Ken Hanke tary that works on the debatable assertion that all one needs to do is watch Passenger Pigeons will be shown at 7 p.m. on Thurs., Aug. 12 at the Fine Arts the artist’s hands to understand the workings of his mind. To this end, Theatre.

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Mikael drift back to previous lovers is interesting at the very least, though it does make for a movie that limits each characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screen time.

For viewers who are particularly keen on Noomi Rapaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lisbeth, this could be a downside, but since so much of what Mikael does focuses on her and her plight, the specter of her character hangs over even those scenes sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not actually in.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest drawback, apart from its less-stylish direction, lies in its ending. While being good enough in and of itself, it simply doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the impact â&#x20AC;&#x201D; much less the creepiness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of that of the first film. For that matter, The Girl Who Played With Fire lacks some of the first filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of resolution altogether; this one is clearly designed to lead into The Girl Who Kicked the Hornetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest, and has that middle-film feel that makes it seem slightly unsatisfying. But if you liked the first film and have any interest in the continuation of the story, then see this one, by all means. Rated R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Flatrock Cinema, opening Aug. 27 at Fine Arts Theatre

The Killer Inside Me JJJJ

Director: Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) Players: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Bill Pullman Pulp Fiction Noir Crime Drama Rated R

The Story: A deputy sheriff in a small town commits murder and tries to cover his tracks.

The Lowdown: A violent, unsettling film that will offend many, but which offers a fascinating look into the mind of a sociopath from his point of view.

Yes, this is a brutal, nasty, violent and uncomfortable film. Since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on a Jim Thompson novel, I took that as a given going in. A lot of people, however, seem to be surprised â&#x20AC;&#x201D; shocked and stunned, even â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by the violence of it, and the fact that the primary targets are Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as well to mention that up front here.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even been argued that the level of violence is worse in the film than in the book. Maybe. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been at least 15 years since I read Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Killer Inside Me, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say authoritatively if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, though my suspicion is that this perception of the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greater level of violence is mostly the difference between the printed word and the immediacy of film. Regardless, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably good to bear all this in mind when deciding whether or not to see the movie.

The Killer Inside Me is an attempt to enter the mind of sociopathic killer Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town in 1952. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an attempt that sometimes works, sometimes scores a near-hit and sometimes doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work at all, but is invariably fascinating throughout. The movie is also deeply disturbing in ways it both intends and perhaps doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend, and in neither case does this necessarily relate to the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violence.

This quality of uncomfortability has as much

(or more) to do with the characterization of Ford himself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a characterization that raises the intriguing question of the reality of what we see, since the story is told from Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own perspective. Viewing things through his eyes accounts for the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dispassionate tone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is, after all, from the mind of a character who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel anything. But it also raises questions of how honestly Ford sees himself.

Stripped to its essence, the film follows the deputyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s descent into complete isolation from the rest of the world. He finds himself in a strange position when local bigwig Chester Conway (Ned Beatty) asks Ford to get rid of local prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba) because Conwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, Elmer (TV actor Jay R. Ferguson), is becoming too attached to the woman. Not only is Ford himself embroiled in a sadomasochistic relationship with Joyce, but Conway is also at least indirectly responsible for the death of Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own adopted brother.

The deputyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution becomes to beat Joyce to death, murder Elmer and then make it look like Joyce killed him. The bulk of the film concerns itself with Ford trying to keep from being discovered. Since this is in noir and pulp-fiction mode, it only follows that more murders, blackmail and other unpleasantness will be involved.

The storyline alone isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all that interesting; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what colors the narrative that makes this film intriguing. The real interest lies in the characterization of Lou Ford and in what, at bottom, is his vision of the other characters. And yet the characterization of Ford is slippery in itself. The key to getting a solid grasp on him may be in his assessment early on that the trouble with small towns is that everybody thinks they know all about you, especially since nobody really knows him at all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including, for that matter, quite possibly Ford himself.

The film â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is to say, Ford â&#x20AC;&#x201D; views him in highly intellectual terms. The deputy listens to Mahler (pretty rare in 1952) and opera (the latter is very important), reads constantly and makes espresso, while a chess game in progress always sits on the table. But is this reality? Little that Ford says â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or even the way that he says it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; supports this elevated view of him. The soundtrack of his daily life is country music, not the music he plays at home, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made clear that he knows the more popular music of his day. Is the intellectual Ford merely a role heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing for us, and for himself?

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The Other Guys JJJJ

Director: Adam McKay (Step Brothers) Players: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton.

Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson Cop Buddy Action Comedy Rated PG-13

The Story: Two lackluster cops decide to attempt to fill the shoes of the most celebrated crime fighters in town.

The Lowdown: Surprisingly pleasant comedy from Will Ferrell that benefits from good pacing and even better chemistry between Ferrell and co-star Mark Wahlberg.

For me, admitting to having at least generally enjoyed an Adam McKay-Will Ferrell collabora-

tion is akin to peeling the skin off my own face.

All right, so that’s a slight exaggeration. The truth is, I’d far rather attain some enjoyment out of frittering away an hour and 45 minutes than to instead spend that time in a state of miserableness. And by my reckoning, Messrs. McKay and Ferrell have previously frittered away about five hours of my time with earlier movies, and I have precious little to show for all those frits. That said, I’m actually pretty pleased with The Other Guys — not to the degree that I will be investing in the inevitable unrated DVD edition of it, nor to the degree that I’m actually recommending it.

But still, pretty pleased.

My guess is that it helps that The Other Guys, with its fairly specific cop-buddy action format, has more form than usual for a McKay-Ferrell venture. This gives it a certain shape that allows for less in the way of utterly random digressions and — blessedly — almost no opportunities for Ferrell to launch into that least-appealing-of-all shticks, where he does everything but scream, “Hey, look at me! I’m being funny now!” It also probably helps that Ferrell has been teamed with a terrific partner in Mark Wahlberg. This last factor may actually be what makes the film work more than it doesn’t.

Casting Ferrell and Wahlberg as a pair of underwhelming cops who’ve ended up being partners is one thing; how The Other Guys approaches this, and how the two actors play it, is something else again. The film basics give us Ferrell as Allen Gamble, a none-too-bright, pencil-pushing, uptight detective who’s happy in his role, while Wahlberg is wannabe hotshot Terry Hoitz, who’s been demoted to a desk job

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following an embarrassing accident. The easy thing for the film would have been to simply revolve around Terry exploding at Allen’s stupidity and gullibility — and to some extent, The Other Guys certainly does go that route. But there’s also more at work here. And I’m not talking about how the two mismatched partners come to be friends; that’s a given.

No, The Other Guys takes a tip from the underlying modus operandi of Laurel and Hardy, in that the character who thinks he’s smart (Hardy/Terry) is actually dumber than the so-called dumb one (Laurel/Allen). This adds depth and an entire avenue of comedy to the film. It also makes the expected business of the pair transitioning from cop buddies to real buddies — after their more or less switching roles — seem like something more than a genre convention.

It helps that the plot is fairly solid (if unspectacular), the action scenes are executed with a degree of style and coherence, and the supporting cast is well-chosen and given parts that fit the things they do well. There’s a tendency for Will Ferrell vehicles to be tailored for him more than for anyone else; here it seems that all the roles are tailored for all the actors. Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson are all perfect in their key supporting roles. Even the often merely decorative Eva Mendes is well served here.

Does it all work? That’s hard to say, since comedy is so completely subjective. I’d say it does work, mostly, and even when it doesn’t, it stalls so briefly that you might not realize it even did stall until later. I don’t think this film is great, and I don’t think it’s any kind of potential comedy classic; I’d actually have a hard time detailing any of the individual gags in it just a few days later. So for me, The Other Guys is on the insubstantial side — though I did have a good time watching it more than I didn’t. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language, violence and some drug-related material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike Cinema 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Cinebarre, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

Step Up 3D JJJ

Director: John Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets) Players: Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Joe Slaughter Dance Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: A dance crew must win a competition in order to save the communal living space they call their own.

The Lowdown: The perfect mix of absurdly corny and unironically dumb — combined with some impressive 3D — make this a pretty entertaining bit of cinematic junk.

Just going by the ever-so-fickle star rating, this is would not seem to be a movie I’m recommending, or am even saying is good, and in a way, that pains me. John Chu’s Step Up 3D is a big, dumb dog of a movie, yes. It’s loud and clumsy and none too bright. Yet for those very reasons, it’s also kind of hard to hate.

After the surprise hit that was Step Up (2006) and its sequel, the hokey and a-bit-too-self-serious Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), director Chu (who also helmed the second installment) has finally figured out how to make one of these things entertaining. That’s not to say that with Step Up 3D Chu has made a good (or even mildly intelligent) movie. However, by embracing the inherent cheesiness that comes not only with the gimmicky nature of 3D, but also with this series’ penchant for cookie-cutter melodrama and a world inhabited by people who get really upset when others dance as well as they do, he has actually made a flick that’s kind of fun, even if a lot of that fun feels accidental.

Step Up 3D follows Moose (Adam G. Sevani), the nerdy kid from the second film, as he heads off to college to study engineering, giving up his dreams of dance at the behest of his parents.

Moose, however, immediately catches the eye of Luke (Rick Malambri, Surrogates), a would-be documentarian and dance guru, after Moose accidentally one-ups a member of The Samurais, an apparently evil dance crew (they wear all black, after all). Luke appears to be some sort of Christ-like dance connoisseur, recruiting wayward dancers to his crew, The Pirates, and to his warehouse-loft practice space (complete with stacks of boom-boxes and a wall o’ Nikes), luring them in with hazy philosophizing and his perpetual three-day stubble. His turn-ons include extreme rooftop dance workouts, taking his shirt off and never actually being seen dancing.

But there are some problems that even dance can’t solve, like being six months behind on your rent, so The Pirates must win a dance competition to save their home. The only thing standing in their way is the nefarious and sassy Julien (Joe Slaughter), the leader of The Samurais and the arch-nemesis of Luke.

The rest of the movie generally consists of various plot twists and dance-offs, the latter of which work well in conjunction with the film’s stellar use of 3D, the best I’ve seen since My Bloody Valentine came out in three dimensions last year. Sure, this film is gimmicky, but that’s the point. I mean, for an extra three or four bucks, you better give me something, even if it’s as goofy as a 3D CGI Icee drink floating over the audience.

The other draw is the dance, which isn’t much of a departure from other movies of this type — besides some fellow going by the name of “Madd Chadd” showing up every so often to do The Robot. The dance sequences are shot in a pretty restrained manner and, whether by design or accident, work well with the 3D. Even saying that, the one dance number set to an occasionally silly remix of Fred Astaire’s recording of “I Won’t Dance” from Roberta (1935) is technically impressive and a nice, quaint respite from a lot of the film’s attempts at freneticism.

Really, this movie isn’t recommended unless you’re an aficionado of bad cinema. Yet in it’s own way, Step Up 3D is dumb, entertaining fun, which is still more than I can say about a lot of movies. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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$259,000 • WEAVERVILLE This home has a 3BR, 2BA open floor plan with an abundance of light. The full basement with 9’ ceilings could be a studio or workshop. End-of-the-road quiet. MLS#469216. Call Sona, (828) 216-7908. appalachianrealty.com

1% BUYER AGENT COMMISSION 1% rebate from Buyer Agent Commission. Search all WNC properties including foreclosures at www.BuncombeRealty.com, view any home within 24 hours, 828-301-2021.

3BR, 2.5BA • Split level living. 1,800 sq.ft. heated space. 2-car garage.

Fireplace with gas logs. 0.4 acre fenced lot, welllandscaped front yard. Heat pump. Quiet neighborhood.

2.8 miles from Patton Ave. County taxes. $197,000.

Call 828-231-6689.

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$295,000 • MONTFORD • NEW CONSTRUCTION MidCentury Modern style, green construction, very unique.

3BR, 2BA, Penny Williams, Keller Williams, (828) 768-7366.

FindAshevilleHomes.com $335,000 • APPALACHIAN MEETS MODERN 3 acres, new construction, Healthy Built certified, 3BR, 2.5BA, development potential. Penny Williams, Keller Williams, (828) 768-7366.

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2 CREEKSIDE CABINS Covered porches. Country kitchens. Furniture included.

Long range mountain views.

Large level yard with fruit trees. Partial fencing. • $99,000. MLS#432301.

Marilyn Eilerts: (828) 506-7305. Mountain Home Properties. reme@charter.net

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BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED N. ASHEVILLE CHARMER 4BR/2BA. Move in ready 1920’s home with large rooms, loads of character, big yard, partially finished daylight basement. Close to downtown. Must see this one! $319K. Call 301-1648 for more information and appt. MLS 461913. See www.70conestee.com for more! 828-301-1648

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COMPACT COTTAGE COMPANY • Small “green”built buildings usable for an enormous variety of practical applications, such as: Sleep, Work, Mother-in-law storage, Poker, Karaoke, Be in the doghouse in. From $15K30K. compactcottages.com, 828-254-5450.

GREAT STEAL IN MALVERN HILLS Drastic price reduction on this wonderful home on a .67 acre lot. Sidewalks to shops and Park.

828-231-4437 KathyKane @PruLifestyleRealty.com www.KathyKaneSells.com

MARSHALL MOUNTAIN RETREAT • Two (doublewide manufactured) homes with full length covered porches. 3BR, 2BA, 5 acres.

Huge garden space with morning sun. 500 ft. trout stream. $79,900. Financing must be serious.

828-656-8198.

NATURALIST’S PARKWAY RETREAT 3BR/3BA Oregon dome with solar electric, LP heat. Within National Forest on AWD FS road: short walk to Mountain-to-Sea Trail, within 3 miles of Blue Ridge Parkway - Richland Balsam to Bearpen Gap Overlooks. $400,000 with 10 acres, 2 creeks and pond.

MLS#457472 828-734-9815

Condos For Sale

60 HAYWOOD STREET • DOWNTOWN A rarely offered 2BR, 2BA unit w/Study. 1448 sqft, high ceilings, 8 tall East and 2 South windows. • Private on-grade parking. • Basement storage. $500,000. Call (828) 281-4561. macfie97@gmail.com CONDO NEAR TUNNEL ROAD • Luxury 2BR, 2BA on the 4th floor of a new 4-story building. Close to downtown and Asheville Mall. Elevators, pool with hot tub, exercise room, fireplace, deck with mountain views, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, ceramic/hardwood floors. $199,900. 828-231-6689.

Farms

18 ACRE ORGANIC FARM Just 8 miles from Asheville in a highly desirable section of Leicester by the South Turkey Creek loop. Beautiful 2500 sqft, 3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage house, originally a 100 year old dairy barn with 8 additions, the most recent 1995. • Big barn and silos. • 4 acres of bottom land, 5 acres of woods, the rest very fertile pasture. Gentle hills.

Creeks, spring fed cistern and tubs for watering animals, dressage field for horses, more than a mile of electric fences. Great for farm, cattle, horse ranch, private estate, or development. Septic in on another building site. • At least 5 good building sites with the roads already graded in. • Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples, pears and very fertile ground. • Reduced! $589,000 or best offer.

Call Ron at (828) 683-5959 or ronkane@bellsouth.net

Land For Sale

1 ACRE • JUNALUSKA HIGHLANDS Premier sold out gated community, 5 minutes from downtown Waynesville.

Water and electric on lot. • National treasure white oak tree with a trunk more than 6 feet across. Good views, yet privacy, southern exposure.

It’s the smallest, but best lot in Junaluska Highlands. • Lot 35. Reduced! • $95,000 or best offer. Call Ron at (828) 683-5959 or ronkane@bellsouth.net

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

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Business SMALL BUSINESS WEBSITES - Websites created and/or optimized for small and home based business.Are you ready to be found on the web? www.EcomGreen.com EcomGreen@gmail.com

6 ACRES • $155,000 • NEAR ASHEVILLE All usable land with pasture and rolling woods. • Great pond site! • Private and in a nice area.

MLS#467101. Call (828) 230-5734. Thornton Realty. www.landtracts.net

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BUILDABLE LOTS FOR SALE • Lakefront and Montford.

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Home Services

MOTONOTARY MOBILE NOTARY AND COURIER SERVICE MotoNotary brings notary/courier services to you! 7 days/week, (by appointment on weekends) 8-6 p.m.

828-275-2695 email motonotary@gmail.com

LIVE-IN POSITION WANTED • CNA providing Holistic Personal Care, Child, Pet, and Green Home Care. Email Lynn7758x@verizon.net or Leave Brief Message 570-855-2458.

Caregivers Heating & Cooling MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING INC • Service • Repairs • Replacements AC/Heat Pumps • Gas/Oil Furnaces • New Construction/Renovations • Indoor Air Quality Products.

(828) 658-9145.

Upholstery UPHOLSTERY AND RESTORATION Quality and friendly custom restoration services for all your upholstery needs. • Auto • Home. Free estimates.

(828) 551-5211.

Handy Man $199,500 • MINI FARM 17.7 acres with bold creek, great views, pond, pasture, state road frontage. New survey, nice area between Lake Lure and Asheville. Call Thornton Realty: 230-5734.

Photos/maps: www.landtracts.net

Services

HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services. 30 years professional experience. Quality, reliability. References available. Free estimates. $2 million liability insurance. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

COMPANION • CAREGIVER • LIVE-IN Alzheimer’s experienced. • CarePartners Hospice recommended. • Nonsmoker, with cat, seeks live-in position. • References. • Arnold, (828) 273-2922.

ELDERLY PARENTS? Providing loving homecare, transportation and compassionate companionship by mature, experienced caregiver. Not a medical service. Valerie: (828) 231-1447.

Commercial Listings

Commercial Property ASHEVILLE RIVER ARTS DISTRICT Newly remodeled interior of 2000+- sq ft bldg, new bathrooms, new roof, floor, flood-proofed walls, excellent for retail, artisans, restaurant, bar, movies, offices etc. Also have 4 other rental spaces available, on 2 acres of land, on the river.

Best location. Sell or lease any or part.828-658-2382. saliferis0@charter.net

FLATIRON BUILDING • Downtown Asheville. 3rd floor. 3 office suites total 1,108 sq. ft. Bank owned. $150,000. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com HENDERSONVILLE. Urban flex space on historic 7th Ave. Live, work. 9,000 sq. ft. for only $405,000. Bank owned. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024,

Commercial/ Business Rentals CLASS A NEW OFFICE SPACE 1201 Bleachery Blvd.

Building rented by healthcare providers. • 1-5 units available. Shared waiting area. $425/unit.

(828) 275-2248. • Photos/information: drbart@bellsouth.net CLASS A OFFICE SPACE • Formerly Cliffs/Tiger Woods Sales Center. Great for medical, technology, or real estate sales. Excellent road frontage, high visibility.

Approx. 1700 sq.ft building with private parking. hpilos@delphidevelopment.c om 828-238-7901.

OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE • 1-2 days/wk. Therapy office.

Biltmore Forest.

828 275-1718.

SPACE FOR RENT • Near Sam’s Club (off Patton Ave.) in busy shopping center.

1,150 sq.ft. Suitable for office or retail. Call 828-231-6689.

TUNNEL ROAD • PRIVATE OFFICE Great location in busy area of Oteen. • Great unit, nice and open and only $300/month! Call (828) 215-2865 for showings.

Rentals

Rooms For Rent DOWNTOWN • SINGLE ROOM The Gray Rock Inn, 100 Biltmore Avenue, near French Broad Food Co-op. • Weekly rates, $105/week.

References, security deposit required. John: 230-4021, Noon-5pm..

1-2BR, 1BA NORTH • 83 Edgemont. Central AC/Heat, Coin-Op Laundry. $485$795/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE • 902 Hillcrest. Deck, 2-car garage. $595/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com

1-2BR/1-2BA ARDEN, GLEN BEALE, D/W, W/D connections, AC. $545$645/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 30 Clairmont. Great location, A/C. $635/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly. (828) 251-9966.

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2BR, 1.5BA SOUTH • 2 Oakview. D/W, pets okay. $625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1.5BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 154 Banard. Close to UNCA, D/W. $635/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA • NORTH 501 Beaverdam, $545, W/D Hookups, Pets Okay, 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1.5BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 154 Barnard. Central AC, W/D Hook-ups, $635/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon.

Summer Special! All utilities included. $500/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN • 85 Walnut. Hardwood floors, balcony. $1,250/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA EAST • 7 Violet Hills. Coin-Op Laundry, Pets OK. $485/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA FLETCHER • 6 Pearson. Central A/C and heat. Deck. $515/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 1225 Highland. Elevator, hardwood floors. $475$575/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 2010 Laurel Park. Heat included, coin-op laundry. $495/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 11 Banbury, $680, Great Location, Heat Included. $680/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA SOUTH • 30 Allen.

Patio, A/C, heatpump, $565/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 20 Brookedale. Patio, storage unit. $625/month.

828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

2 BEDROOM 1 BATH SOUTH ASHEVILLE Great location in small complex.

Large kitchen. Central air.

Washer and Dryer hookups.No pets. Credit check. $620/month. Call 230-1980 or 230-1869.

828-230-1980 coxrobert@bellsouth.net

4BR, 2BA SOUTH • 10 Friendly. Central A/C and heat, garage. $1,215/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2-3BR, 1.5-2.5BA SOUTH • 45 Dawnwood. Central heat and A/C, patio. $625$795/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1-2BR, 1-2BA NORTH • 265 Charlotte. A/C, dishwasher. $705-$865/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2-3BR, 1BA NORTH • 16 Westall. Close to UNCA, carpet. $665-$725/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Apartments For Rent

2BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN • 68 N. French Broad. Hardwood floors, mountain views. $870-$915/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA EAST • 2484 Riceville Rd. Porch, W/D hookups. $625/month.

828-263-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 198 Kimberly. Carport, Coin-Op Laundry. $850/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 365 Weaverville Highway.

Carport, washer/dryer hookups. $595/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA SOUTH • 6 Lakewood. A/C, W/E hookups, $675/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA WEST • 130 Louisiana. Central AC/Heat, Deck, $605/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR,1BA MONTFORD • 346 Montford, $685, Dishwasher, W/D Hook-ups, $685/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA ARDEN • 8202 Terra. A/C, walk-in closet. $795/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA WEST • 6 Evelake.

Central AC/Heat, Deck. $875/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com A NEW BEGINNING Call (828) 250-0159 and ask about our Rent Specials at Woodridge Apartments! We have 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom units with loads of amenities: Dishwasher, WD connections, all appliances. Water, garbage and sewer included in rent. • Pet friendly. • City bus picks up every hour at site. Located at 61 Bingham Road in Asheville. • Section 8 Welcomed! • Handicapped accessible units. Equal Housing Opportunity.

Professionally managed by Partnership Property Management

AVERY’S CREEK AREA • 3BR/2BA duplex with extra bonus room next to Arden Woods. 1420 sq.ft. with central AC, gas heat, WD connections. Lawn care provided. Gated community overlooking pond and creek convenient to South Asheville. Rent is $1,050/month. Property Management of Asheville, Inc. 828-253-2537.

CHARMING 1BR VICTORIAN WITH SUNROOM IN MONTFORD Walk to UNCA or Downtown. Curved walls, hardwood floors, and lots of windows give this apt. a sunny, cottage feel. $650/month. Includes hot and cold water. Year’s lease, credit ck, and security deposit req. Cat -possible, sorry - no dogs. For appt to view: 253-6800, Elizabeth Graham.

COME HOME AND RELAX AT THE END OF YOUR DAY Large, sunny 2BR/2BA condo on one level at The Racquet Club with private deck. Large MBR has big walk-in closet.

Just renovated kitchen with new appliances. Spring and summer enjoy pool, tennis, and fitness. Fall and Winter curl up in front of your fireplace. $950/month includes full Racquet Club membership plus water.

Lease, security deposit, credit check an references req. For appt: 253-6800 , Elizabeth Graham.

GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD • Quiet, safe, very convenient location, close to schools, not a large complex, located in Candler off Asbury near Enka Middle school and AB Tech Enka campus. Large, 1200 sqft, with 2 large BR, 1.5BA, W/D hook ups, eat-in kitchen, very large living room, closets. Quiet setting, well kept, new carpet, fresh paint, updated. Long or short term lease. $25 discount for direct deposit. $700/month + deposit. Small pets negotiable with pet deposit.

828-683-7748.

GROVE PARK Mother-in-law flat in private home. Separate entry, living, dining rooms, bedroom, galley kitchen, shared laundry. Some utilities included at $675/month.

254-7737.

SOUTH • Forestdale. 2BR, 2BA. D/W, storage. $805/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com WEST ASHEVILLE Clean, nearly-new condition duplex apt near. Quiet, wooded lot.

2BR/1BA. Large kitchen open concept, offstreet parking, W/D hookups, storage. $675/month. Small pet negotiable, non-smoker.

828-221-1174.

WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $775/month. • Upstairs unit 2BR, 2BA, 1400 sq.st. $875/month. Call 253-0758.

Carver Realty.

WEST • 1BR, 1BA. A/C. $550/month. Call 828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 1 BR UPSCALE CONDO Beautiful, roomy, south facing condo - Eastwood Village.

One car garage, 9’ ceilings, non-smoking, 12 mo lease, references, credit-check.

828-231-1760 A SPACIOUS 2/BR, 2BA AT ASHEVILLE RACQUET CLUB With private deck, Fireplace, newly renovated kitchen and large closets. Great close-in location near Blue Ridge Pkway. Close to hospitals, shopping, Biltmore. Rent includes full use of Fitness, Pool, and Tennis Club. $950/month includes water.

Lease, security, and credit ck req. 253-6800, Elizabeth Graham BEAUCATCHER MOUNTAIN 5 minutes to downtown Asheville. Great views. 2BR, 2BA. Huge balcony. Fireplace.

Pool. $900/month includes water. Must see!

(828) 279-4337.

CLOISTERS • EAST ASHEVILLE Available midAugust. 2BR, 2BA. All appliances, WD. Fireplace. • Screened porch. Dining room. Pool, tennis, golf. $750/month, references, year lease. • No pets.

(828) 230-3739.

CLOISTERS CONDO $725/MONTH - EAST Convenient to everything.

End unit. Big, bright, immaculate, 2 BR/2BA, fireplace, private screened porch w/woods view, pool, tennis, eat in kitchen, quiet.

Cat ok. 828-712-3973.

DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDO New loft in historic 52 Biltmore Avenue building.

2BR, 2BA. • Gourmet kitchen, oak floors, exposed brick, fireplace, large windows, WD, concrete, granite, stone, stainless upgrades. • Indoor parking.

Best Downtown location; walk to anything! • Reduced!

• $1895/month. • 1 year lease required.

(828) 301-8033 or (954) 684-1300. phillpen@aol.com MILLS RIVER Beautiful quiet neighborhood, five minutes from airport, perfect for sharing, 2300 sunny sq.ft.

3BR, 3BA, spacious closets, very large family room, garage, lots of storage, deck overlooks woods, community pool/clubhouse, credit check, no smokers, some pets. $1295/month, one year lease. 828-274-3842 for more information.

Homes For Rent

APPRECIATE OUTDOORS AND WILDLIFE? • 2BR, 1.5BA. Front porch, metal roof, hardwood floors, fireplace, 2car carport, W/D hookup, garden space. Bearwallow Mountain between Edneyville, Fletcher and Gerton, 15 minutes to Hendersonville. Nonsmoking environment. Non-smoking.

Handyman special. $675/month negotiable.

615-491-2495.

1ST CALL US! 2, 3 and 4BR homes from $700-2500. • Pet friendly. • Huge selection! (828) 251-9966 Alpha-Real-Estate.com 25 HAZZARD STREET • DOWNTOWN 3BR, 2BA. Upstairs/downstairs, open kitchen, hardwood floors.

Central air/heat, washer/dryer, dishwasher. • Fenced backyard. • $1200/month. • 712-1511.

Western Property Management.

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3BR, 2BA NORTH • 265 Charlotte. Central AC, Basement, $1,175/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 3BA NORTH • 129 Pearson. Central AC, Deck. $1,530/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com AMAZING! I have always used Mountain Xpress as advertising for our rental house. I’m amazed each time by the number of responses and the caliber of people it attracts. Thanks, John S. You too can get great results! Call 251-1333. Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

BEAUTIFUL LOG HOME Absolutely spectacular view!

In mountains outside Asheville. 4BR, 3.5BA, 3,200 sqft. Stone fireplace, spa tubs, gourmet kitchen, cathedral ceilings, huge deck. Long term rent.

(219) 548-8978. ashevilledreamcabin.com BEAUTIFUL, CONVENIENT SOUTH ASHEVILLE LIVING 3BR/2BA w/garage, near Parkway. $1100/month.

1,300 sqft. Unfurnished, W/D, fridge, D/W, hardwood floors. fireplace, large balcony, great storage. Utilities not included.

1 year lease with credit check. Pet considered w/deposit. Avail Aug 15.

828-274-5211. mekahineyho@bellsouth.net for appt.

BEAVERDAM-HOUSE FOR RENT 2BR + small office, 1.5BA, central heat and A/C, 1/2 acre flat yard w/trees and creek, attached garage.

No smokers. Available Sept 1. $1,025/month. Call (828) 281-0555.

BEST TIME IS NOW! Best time to buy, pay less than rent, 1% rebate from Buyer Agent Commission, see www.BuncombeRealty.com, 301-2021.

BRAND NEW HOME 3BR, 2BA, 1440 sqft, 9’ ceiling, large windows, huge closets, stainless appliances. Stone patio. • Sorry, no dogs. Exit 21, Woodfin. $995/month. • Purchase $175,000, with FHA $1060/month.

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CAMELOT 3BR completely updated! New hardwood floors throughout! • Kitchen and baths totally new and fresh! • Great house with large media/recreation room in full basement with large workshop area. • Huge deck overlooking a wooded backyard in the city! $995/month. Call (828) 215-2865 for showings.

BRAND NEW! Beautiful

Glen Rock Apartments Is now accepting applications!

362 Depot Street Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Units On three floors Elevators Spacious, space utilizing floor plans All major appliances Easy Maintenance Tile Floors Family Friendly Playground Community Area Security Cameras Trash Compactor For appointments

Call (828) 225-3081 Walk-ins welcome Equal Housing Opportunity Disability Accessible Units Professionally Managed by Partnership Property Management

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NORTH • 3BR, 2.5BA Log cabin, 2500 sqft. Views with privacy. 5 minutes to Marshall, 15 minutes to Weaverville. $995/month.

828-776-5616.

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SOUTH 3BR, 2.5BA, fireplace, hardwood floors, garage. $1125/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

Vacation Rentals A BEACH HOUSE AT FOLLY 20 minutes from historic downtown Charleston, SC. • The legendary dog-friendly Rosie’s Ocean View and Kudzu’s Cottage, across the street from the beach!Visit www.kudzurose.com or call (404) 617-1146.

BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

A GRAND OPENING Now hiring sharp money motivated $elf-$tarters.

Several positions available.

Valid NC Driver License required. Call MondaySaturday, 10am-7pm.

(828) 367-2332.

ATTENTION MASSAGE THERAPISTS New detox clinic, West Asheville, seeks experienced, licensed therapists. Call (828) 290-2470.

CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

DRIVER NEEDED FOR STUDENT • Weekdays, a.m. and p.m. School pick-up and drop-off. Gerton to Sylva.

10/hours per week, $12/hour. 828-625-9669.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES “Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used.

The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.” Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. • Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds.

Call 251-1333.

MARKET GARDEN MANAGER • Warren Wilson College invites applications for the position of Market Garden Manager. The fiveacre organic garden is a diverse mix of annual and perennial crops, including fresh market vegetables, bramble and tree fruits, and medicinal herbs. The garden also contains 2,250 sq ft of heated greenhouse space, and 5,300 sq ft unheated hoop house space. • The Market Garden Manager is responsible for the supervision, training, and evaluation of a 20-member student work crew that produces food for a variety of markets, including the College cafeteria, a 25member CSA, and an oncampus public market. • The Market Garden Manager is also responsible for the operation and maintenance of tractors, implements, and other equipment typically used in similar field-based production. • The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate that they have successfully managed a mixed vegetable farm using sustainable practices, while supervising a college-aged work force. continued on next column

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jobs • Candidates will have an earned BS in sustainable agriculture, or related field, and progressively responsible experience managing workers in a direct market, organic vegetable production system. An associate’s degree in sustainable agriculture, or related field, and five or more years of similar experience may be substituted for a four-year degree. Interest and experience in community education or advocacy is a plus. Draft horse experience is a plus. • Warren Wilson College is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of its community. Please send cover letter, résumé and contact information including email addresses for three professional references by email to hr @warren-wilson.edu.

Electronic submissions are required. Review of applications will be Monday, August 30, 2010.

AFTER SCHOOL BUS DRIVER NEEDED! Eliada Homes needs a licensed bus driver to pick up our students after school and bring them to our after school site. This is a Monday-Friday position and requires availability in the afternoon hours. Must have current valid license to drive a school bus. Please contact eweaver@eliada.org if you are interested!

Skilled Labor/ Trades MECHANIC NEEDED • Must have own tools and experienced with GM and Ford vehicles. Speedy Used Parts. 828-667-2239.

Salon/ Spa LICENSED HAIR STYLISTS 2 stylists with clientele preferred. • Great location: Off Charlotte Street, Asheville. • Plenty parking.

Contact Fredia, 258-9558 or 776-4761. Illusions Day Spa

Sales/ Marketing ATTENTION!!! The largest senior financial planning team in the country is interviewing professional Salespeople for a recession proof career. • Training provided. • 4-6 leads provided daily. • Most competitive products in the industry. • Monthly bonuses.

• Advanced commissions. • First year potential income $40K-$60K! • To schedule an interview, call Kim: (828) 684-1477. Learn more at www.amerilife.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Rainbow Wedding Network seeks online and print media advertisement sales associates. For more information visit RainbowWeddingNetwork.com

or employment@ rainbowweddingnetwork.com

LINE COOK • PREP COOK For busy sports grill in beautiful downtown Hot Springs. Call (828) 622-0001. Rock Bottom Restaurant.

Retail Ten Thousand Villages seeking part time Retail Sales Associate 15-20 hours/week.

Great people skills and a passion for fair trade. Retail experience preferred. Submit a letter telling us why you want to work for us. 10 College St, Asheville, NC 28801 or villagesasheville@yahoo.com SALES ASSOCIATE Sherwin Williams has an immediate opening for a part time Sales Associate at our Black Mountain store. Your responsibilities will include assisting customers in selecting their paint and related product. You will tint and mix paint, merchandise inventory, and assist management in the daily operation of the business.

Successful candidates must have excellent communication and people skills, will be conscientious, team players who are willing to work hard to get ahead.

We offer a competitive salary, vacation pay, growth opportunities, company paid training, and employee discounts. Join Sherwin Williams and see why we were selected as Fortune Magazines 100 Best Companies to work for! • Please see the Store Manager to apply: Sherwin Williams, 3192 US Highway 70, Black Mountain, NC 28711 • (828) 669-8818.

SALES PROS • Time to get paid what you are worth AND have a life. Call 1-888-700-4916.

Restaurant/ Food APOLLO FLAME • WAITSTAFF Full-time needed. • Fast, friendly atmosphere. • Apply in person between 2pm-4pm, 485 Hendersonville Road.

274-3582.

APOLLO FLAME BISTRO Now accepting applications for Servers, 18 or older. Open Monday-Sunday, 11am10pm. • Apply in person: 2pm-4pm, Monday-Thursday, 1025 Brevard Road, across from Biltmore Square Mall.

COOK • FULL-TIME Come in to complete an application or fax resume to: Fax: (828) 684-7800. Phone: 684-0041. Ardenwoods Retirement Community.

Medical/ Health Care RESPIRATORY THERAPIST Local medical equipment company is seeking a RT to perform oxygen and CPAP/BiLevel setups. email resume and availability to ardennc43@yahoo.com

Human Services CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL TRAINING COORDINATOR • Smart Start of Buncombe County is seeking a qualified individual for the full-time position of Training Coordinator.

Reporting to the Child Care Resource and Referral manager, the Training Coordinator will develop and present training/professional development opportunities for child care providers in Buncombe County. In addition, the Training Coordinator will play a leadership role in the Western Regional Early Childhood Conference as the Program Committee Chair.

Position requires a Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood education, child development, or other directly related field, or a combination of an Associate’s Degree in ECE or other directly related field and extensive experience in the field. Also required: three years experience as an early childhood trainer or as a child care director or provider with training experience.

Conference planning experience is highly desirable. Competitive salary and benefits. Equal opportunity employer. The full position description may be found on our website: http://www.smartstartbuncombe.org. Submit resume by mail to Smart Start of Buncombe County, 84 Coxe Avenue, Suite 1A, Asheville, NC 28801 or via email to terry @smartstart-buncombe.net, no later than August 13, 2010.

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals in Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources @familiestogether.net

FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC. Due to continuous growth through WNC, Families Together Inc. is hiring! FTI is a local mental health agency providing child, adult, and family centered services in WNC. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. Go to www.familiestogether.net for employment opportunities.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF RUTHERFORD AND POLK COUNTIES Is seeking THERAPISTS and QMHP’s to provide mental health services to children, families and adults. Please email resume to mtambini@fpscorp.com

FIELD INSTRUCTORS Fulltime for year-round schedule.

We are looking for confident, flexible, and enthusiastic leaders to be part of a great team. • Field Instructors work 3-4 day shifts both on campus and on adventure trips. Clean driving record and drug screen mandatory.

• One year commitment vital. • Benefits possible at 3 months including 401k, paid time off, certifications, and job training. Pay is commensurate with industry standards. Stone Mountain School operates under a Special Use permit issued by the US Forest Service in the pristine wilderness of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. • Email resume to Program Director at jpoore @stonemountainschool.com stonemountainschool.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Nicole at 828-696-2667 x13 or e-mail Nicole: nicole.toto@thementornetwor k.com. • Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting.

NC Mentor.

• Tuesday August 10, 6:30pm-7:30pm (light snack) 828-696-2667 x13, 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739

MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH • AVAILABLE POSITIONS Haywood County Therapist Offender Services (Sex Offender and Domestic Violence Treatment Programs): Must have a Master’s degree and be license eligible. Experience preferred. Please contact Diane Paige, diane.paige @meridianbhs.org Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness. Experience in Vocational Rehabilitation preferred. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org continued on next column

RN Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Macon County Clinician/Recovery Coordinator Part-time position, Recovery Education Center: Must have a Master’s degree and be license eligible. Please contact Candace Rawlinson, candace.rawlinson @meridianbhs.org Swain/Qualla Boundary: Therapist: Child and Family Services Must have a Master’s degree and be license eligible.

Please contact Chris Cruise, chris.cruise @meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness.

Experience in Vocational Rehabilitation preferred.

Please contact Patty Bilitzke, patricia.bilitzke @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL

WESTERN HIGHLANDS

HEALTH • Has an immediate

NETWORK Is recruiting for

opening in our

several clinical positions that

Hendersonville Office for a

require a Master’s Degree in

full time licensed counselor

Human Services and NC

to work with adult MH and

licensure. Clientele includes

dual SA/MH consumers.

consumers with mental

LCSW and Knowledge of

health, substance abuse

working with Medicaid and

and/or developmental

IPRS clients would be

disability issues.

preferred. Supervision

Care Coordinator Work with

provided for licensed MH

adult acute inpatient units at

clinicians seeking LCAS license. Parkway is an excellent, stable company and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, medical insurance, PTO, free Supervision and CEUs for Licensure/Certification and much more for full time staff.

Send resume to: slayton@parkwaybh.com

local hospitals to conduct discharge planning and serve as provider liaison. Flexible hours and travel are required.

Call Center Provide telephone screening and triage to assess consumer needs, including urgency/safety concerns, eligibility; provide initial

PUBLIC PROGRAMS FIELD

authorizations, and some

COORDINATOR FULL-TIME

crisis intervention. This

MANNA FOODBANK Bachelors’s Degree or Equivalent Experience • Clean Driving Record Required • More information and application instructions www.mannafoodbank.org EOE .Deadline August 20th, 2010.

NIGHT COUNSELORS! One survey recently showed that 85% of students with behavior disorders come from single parent homes!

Students all over Western North Carolina are in need of strong, positive role models!

Come join the staff at Eliada Homes in our mission of helping children succeed! We need 2nd and 3rd shift staff to work with our students ages 6-17, all of whom are in need of positive adult figures to help them build life skills and become contributing members of society. Our greatest need is for third shift staff. This can transition to a full-time position with benefits! Staff working at night are responsible for creating and maintaining a safe environment in which everyone can learn and grow. Bed checks must be done every 7-10 minutes.

Night shift assists with getting students up in the morning and preparing them for their day. Position requires a high school diploma or GED. Must be 18 or older. Mental health and/or experience working third shift hours a plus. If you are interested in helping to make a lasting positive impression in the lives of those you work with, please email in a copy of your resume: eweaver@eliada.org.

Broughton State Hospital and

position will work on-sight the work week.

Clinical Review Specialist Authorize and review service requests to assure compliance w/State guidelines. Provide technical assistance to providers, conduct pre-authorization UR and provider reviews.

seeking Provisionally

Two years post Master’s

Licensed and Licensed

experience preferred in

Therapists to work in

MH/DD/SAS NC system.

Competitive pay and pleasant work environment. Please contact thinshaw@umhs.net or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net

Salary DOE: $38,068$50,160, Excellent benefits, training opportunities.

Minorities are encouraged to apply. Send NC State application to Western Highlands, HR, 356 Biltmore

WNC GROUP HOMES FOR

Ave, Asheville, NC, 28801.

AUTISTIC PERSONS •

Visit our website:

Provides residential services

www.westernhighlands.org

for people with autism and

EOE.

developmental disabilities.

We are currently recruiting for full and part time

CUSTOMER SERVICE • SALES Customer Service and Sales positions open at MMS Direct, a progressive print and mail facility in Asheville.

We’re looking for highly motivated individuals who possess winning personalities with planning and problem solving skills to join our team of professionals. • Bachelor degree or professional industry experience preferred; as well as the ability to handle multiple projects in a fast paced environment. • Must be self motivated, and proficient with all Microsoft Office programs. • Full-time positions with benefits package. Email resume to cindy@mailmanllc.com

evenings/overnight during

UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is

Asheville and Forest City.

Professional/ Management

INSURANCE SALES Bankers Life and Casualty Company.

Bankers Life and Casualty Company is a growing insurance company and needs skilled licensed professionals. Agents are trained in a nationally recognized program and earn an average of $35,000 to $75,000 per year with opportunity to earn bonuses totaling over $30,000 per quarter. Call Brittany at (828) 350-8002 ext 0 or email: brittany.barrett@bankerslife.c omto apply. EOC M/F/H/D. RA 06-019

Arts/Media CASH, CASH, CASH Victoria’s Escorts is looking for women want to work in the entertainment business, they must be slender shape, 18 years old. Call 828-505-0017.

Computer/ Technical

Teaching/ Education

Are you passionate about giving your community access to the best information available? Do you want to be part of a team with a mandate to bring the concept that “Local Matters” from the streets of Asheville into homes and mobile media? Are you tired of working on projects that are simply about getting a paycheck?

Mountain Xpress wants to hear from you.

We’re looking for a Webmaster to help us create the best user experience for our hundreds of thousands of regular visitors, and to contribute to our efforts to be the best and most innovative local news site possible.

We’re looking for a passionate, talented person with an understanding of not only the technology, but the potential of that technology to make local news relevant in an online context. You’ll need an understanding of content management systems like ExpressionEngine, as well as skills in PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript. You’ll also need the ability to think in your feet in a fast-paced environment of new ideas and content. As part of a four-person development team, you’ll be an integral player in creating these new initiatives to serve the Asheville, NC, community.

You’ll be working crossplatform, helping to bring elements of multimedia content, Twitter-based interactions and many other exciting tools into the hands of journalists and citizens alike. Interested? Send cover letter, resume, links to your work, references and any questions you may have to webmaster@mountainx.com website: www.mountainx.com

MADISON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM • Full-time SpeechLanguage Therapist Exceptional Children’s Program (10-months employment). Qualifications and Requirements: Must hold NC license as speech pathologist. • Experience in public schools preferred.

Student assessments and screenings. • Direct services to students. • Consultative services to EC teachers and staff. • Write Individual Education Plans and attend meetings. • Analyze and interpret information to make recommendations regarding the need for speechlanguage services. • Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent, EC Director, or designee. ALSO HIRING: Part-time Secondary English Teacher Madison High School (10-months employment): Two Classes per day.

Qualifications: Must hold current teaching license in Secondary English. • Must meet NCLB Highly Qualified.Requirements: Experience Preferred Certified. Application: www.madison.k12.nc.us/per sonnel. Full job descriptions available upon request.

Applications may be obtained from and submitted to: Madison County Schools, Tanya Jussila, Personnel Director. 5738 US Hwy 2570, Marshall, NC 28753.

828-649-9276 ext. 232. tjussila@madison.k12.nc.us TEACHER With energy and some experience and at least NC Child Care Credential Certification or higher education needed for a small class of eight children ages 2 1/2 to 3 1/2. Pay depends on experience and education.

Full-time job with bonuses. • Please send resume to bellsschoolforpe @bellsouth.net

YWCA Future Vision Middle School Site Leader - Part time. Provide leadership during After School Program and Summer Camp for students and a support team supervising students in grades 6-8. Participants are “at risk” for school failure and/or gang participation.

Provide enrichment and programming designed to raise student awareness about gang activity and the consequences of dropping out of school. Gather resources with the aim of preventing juvenile participation in gang activity.

Position requires a selfmotivated, energetic person who is flexible and familiar with the age group.

Employment will coincide with school calendar and some evenings. In the summer, full-day commitment (four-five days a week) is required for this job with long days that include outdoor activities such as hiking, field sports, and swimming. Driving a minibus (automatic transmission) is part of this position, and a clean driving record and valid driver’s license are required.

Skills with computer programs such as Word and Excel is required. Experience with data entry is desired.

Occasional weekend events.

Pay: $10.50/hour, nonnegotiable. Submit resume and cover letter to erinn.huntley@ywcaofashevill e.org or bring by the YWCA. Deadline is August 16, 2010.

Jobs Wanted LIVE-IN POSITION WANTED • CNA providing Holistic Personal Care, Child, Pet, and Green Home Care. Email Lynn7758x@verizon.net or Leave Brief Message 570-855-2458.

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.

• Part time Floater position

Inundated with applications!

The Child Care Center is

Our Mountain Xpress Classified Ad brings a great response.

YWCA CHILD CARE CENTER

positions in direct care, as

seeking a part time floater

well as a Group Home

for 31 hours. Must have child

Manager. Applicants must

care credentials (EDU 119)

have HS Diploma or

and other child care courses

equivalent, and a valid

would be a plus. Must be

Driver’s License. Find out

available to work on M-F

more by visiting our website:

from 8-6 in the child care

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center. Must have CPR and

stop in at 28 Pisgah View Ave

First Aid or be willing to go

in Asheville. 828-274-8368.

get them on your own. Apply

WNC Group Homes is proud

at the front desk of the

to be a drug free workplace.

YWCA.

– The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa

Find quality employees and associates easily and affordably.

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Building Supplies VINYL SIDING Variety of colors. 12 boxes. Double 5.

Call 667-2589.

Furniture MATTRESSES Pillow-top: queen $250, king $350 • Extra firm: queen $175, king $275 • Full: $150 • Twin: $99. New, in plastic.

828-277-2500.

MOVING SALE Furniture, GE Washer and Dryer, Lawn Furniture, and much more.

Please see details on Mountain Xpress website.

828-551-4057.

General Merchandise DELUXE MASSAGE TABLE Very high quality. Extra options. Like new. Paid over $700, asking $375. Call (828) 215-6744.

Announcements GAIN NATIONAL EXPOSURE • Reach over 5 million young, educated readers for only $995 by advertising in 110 weekly newspapers like this one. Call Jason at 202-289-8484. This is not a job offer. (AAN CAN).

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)

Mind, Body, Spirit

Bodywork

MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic Massage. Manual Lymph Drainage. Lymphedema Treatment. $45/hour or sliding scale for financial hardship. 17+ years experience. 828-254-4110.

NC License #146. www.uhealth.net SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists.

299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

Spiritual BLUE RIDGE MEDITATION An urban practice center offering groups and classes to explore, awaken, and heal.

Weekly Tuesday evening Insight Meditation Group.

Details at: BlueRidgeMeditation.com TAROT Answers your life’s essential questions. Tarot answers or you don’t pay!

Lil’lei, 828-275-4931.

#1 AFFORDABLE COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS MASSAGE CENTER We’ve moved: • 1224 Hendersonville Road.

Asheville. $29/hour. • 20 Wonderful Therapists to choose from. Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point. Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology. • Save money, call now! 505-7088. thecosmicgroove.com

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WHAT’S UP NEXT? Ask Nina: (828) 253-7472 or email: NinatheAuracleofAsheville

AUDIO/CD MASTERING Crane Song, Manley, API, and more. • Unrivaled in WNC/Upstate. Experienced and professional. Call (828) 442-6211 or (828) 7241500. www.blantonemusic.com VIDEO AND RECORD YOUR MUSIC Or band to CD, DVD or any internet destination, in our studio or on location. • Affordable and Professional Production. Call (828) 335-9316.

VISA/MC. www.amrmediastudio.com

white male, approximately 2 years old. Very friendly. Call (276) 698-4644.

COME MEET CHARLIE! A miniature long haired

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Please go to www.mountainx.com for additional listings.

dogs and puppies available

Dachshund, and many other

for adoption at Brother Wolf

HONEY • Honey, true to his name, is as sweet as honey, affectionate and playful.

Honey is a typical kitten waiting, with his two brothers, Scooby and Jester, to find their forever homes.

Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, located at 803 Fairview Street to shop for all your pet supplies and find out when you can meet Summer.

Animal Rescue’s adoption center located at 31 Glendale

Pet Xchange

Avenue. For more information, please call 505-3440 or visit:

Lost Pets

www.bwar.org

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

Musical Services ASHEVILLE’S WHITEWATER RECORDING Full service studio services since 1987. • Mastering • Mixing and Recording. • CD/DVD duplication at the best prices. (828) 684-8284 • whitewaterrecording.com

SOMEONE MISSES ME • Missing female Ragdoll Siamese. Missing in W. Asheville, Shelburne Rd. 7/23/10. Pink collar w/I.D. tag and microchip. $100 reward. 828-253-4657 / 828-335-8259.

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BORDER COLLIE Black and

Musicians’ Bulletin

BEAVERLAKE • WHITE CALICO CAT Very distinct: Black stripe down her nose, big green eyes. No collar.

Missing Sunday, August 8, Beaverlake area.

Call 254-2452.

Musicians’ Xchange

Pets for Adoption

COME MEET SNOOP! A Pointer/Hound mix, and many other dogs and puppies available for adoption at Brother Wolf Animal Rescue’s adoption center located at 31 Glendale Avenue. For more information, call 505-3440 or visit www.bwar.org

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JACKSON • Jackson is a 9 month old Husky/Lab mix. He is very affectionate and loves to be where ever his people are. He will very obediently go into his crate when he is home alone and he is very well behaved roaming the house when the family is home. Jackson is playful and loves to play fetch with a tennis ball or rubber bone.

Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, located at 803 Fairview Street to shop for all your pet supplies and find out when you can meet Summer.

JONESY Jonesy is a friendly energetic 2 year-old boxer mix. He is a bit shy at first but warms up quickly. He is great with other dogs and kids. He is housebroken and crate trained. He just wants to play and to be friends.

Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, located at 803 Fairview Street to shop for all your pet supplies and find out when you can meet Summer.

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

DAWNS PET SITTING SERVICE Dependable loving pet sitting. Reasonable rates for all pet services. Please call Dawn Burgin at (419) 260-2899 LISA’S DOGGIE WALKABOUT & PET SITTING SERVICES • Dog walking/overnight pet sitting. Great references.

Great rates. Call LIsa at 828-691-5472.

2007 MAZDA 5 WITH BIKE RACK, ROOF RACK AND TOW HITCH Silver, 53K miles, new brakes, new tires, cargo bin, bike rack for 4 bikes, snow chains.

Excellent condition. Seats 7.

Great for traveling. $13,400.

Call Richard 828-242-8974.

LEXUS RX-400H AWD HYBRID 2008 AWD for our mountains. Hybrid for going green. Showroom condition, one owner, garaged. Fully loaded-NAV system, Bluetooth, all leather, rear back-up camera, 18” alloy wheels, new tires, towing package, sunroof, 6 CD changer/tape deck, all rubber floor/cargo mats, etc. 51,400 miles; all maintenance receipts. Everything luxury; it’s a Lexus after all. $35,900 Asheville 350-1066 or peacefulmtns@hotmail.com.

Automotive Services DIRTY CAR? Professional, affordable auto detailing in your driveway! • Highly experienced, meticulous. • Premium products. Call today: (828) 683-7785. www.mountaindetail.com WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

Half price repair and service.

ASE and factory certified.

Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-275-6063 for appointment.

Vehicles For Sale For Sale

Autos 1969 Z-28 CAMARO LA CAR 1969 Z-28 camaro LA car, Blue, restored, very good condition, v8, 33k miles, 16000USD, mdos2010@aol.com, (919) 647-9649

Jewelry COSTUME JEWELRY TRUNK SHOW Check out our website at www.EyecatchersJewelry.info or call Ellen at 681-9688 for details.

Sales

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Adult A PERSONAL TOUCH Asheville. Ask about our “Hot Summer Specials! • East Asheville, Incall/outcall.

713-9901.

A WOMAN’S TOUCH Cool down with our hot Summer specials! • “We’re all about you!” Call 275-6291.

DREAMSEEKERS Destination for relaxation. Call for appointment: (828) 216-8900.

MEET SEXY SINGLES by phone instantly! Call (828) 239-0006. Use ad code 8282. 18+ SEXUAL COMPULSIVITY AND ADDICTION Ongoing treatment and support groups for those struggling with problematic sexual behaviors: internet porn, chat rooms, anonymous sex, extra-marital affairs, compulsive masturbation, sexual massage, etc. – behaviors which you may have tried to stop, but were unable to. • There is, however, an effective way out of this painful cycle, a cycle which often includes shame and guilt, lost time, lost money, and lost relationships. • If interested, please call David Von Kohorn, MFT, CSAT at (828) 398-5028 for more information. My voicemail is private and your call, by law, is confidential.

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