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by Molton A recent Mountain Xpress cartoon stated that I voted against protection of LGBT rights [Molton, Sept. 5]. On Aug. 7, I voted for an amendment to Buncombe County's personnel policy supporting the rights of LGBT employees.

After the majority of the Board of Commissioners voted against this amendment, the unamended policy that passed required a second reading.

Once amendments are defeated, commission rules prohibit another vote on failed amendments without a member of the majority reversing their vote.

At the second reading of the policy on Aug. 21, a motion to suspend the rules was made based on the possibility that one of the majority might change their vote. I knew firsthand that no one intended to reverse their vote. The motion died for lack of a second, confirming my understanding.

I continue to support and will work toward non-discrimination for all county staff, including LGBT employees.

— David Gantt Chair, Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Asheville Cartoonist Randy Molton responds: I agree that the words at the bottom of my cartoon mischaracterized David Gantt’s actions. To be accurate, he failed to support a second vote on LGBT protection at the commissioners’ Aug. 21 meeting. It’s unfortunate that the other three commissioners stood firm against the amendment. But realizing that no member of the majority would change his or her vote, what was Gantt’s point when he effectively joined them by refusing to second the motion to

correction An Art Bet in the Aug. 29 issue of Xpress misstated the length of time artist Jan Parker has been collecting hair. Parker has been collecting hair since 2010. amend? If the amendment was going to be defeated anyway, why not stick with your original vote to make a point that you weren’t going to be swayed by the majority? That said, I do applaud Gantt’s early decision to join Holly Jones in supporting the rights of LGBT employees.

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“nuns on top� is base I am a citizen of Asheville, a strong supporter of local business and a frequent reader of the Mountain Xpress, my most trusted source for news in Western North Carolina. Your articles are usually the finest journalism covering the area and often champion what is best in Asheville

and the surrounding area, fighting to make Western North Carolina a better place for all.

So I was surprised and appalled at the language Emily Patrick chose for the opening paragraph of her Sept. 5 article, "Nuns on Top set to join the Thirsty Monk,� and equally shocked that the editors allowed it to be published as written.

The name of the proposed establishment is bad enough, an issue I have taken up with owner Barry Bialik and urge you to do the same, but Ms. Patrick's references to nuns mounting the Thirsty Monk in addition to monastic life getting "boozier" is uglier and grosser than the name alone. It certainly highlights the profane and lascivious nature of the name, but even if the name is risquĂŠ, I expect better journalism from the Xpress; I expected a journalistic spirit that does not sink to the basest of humor, degrading women, Christianity and our city in one-fell swoop.

I strongly urge at least the rewriting of the article for the website.

I support Bialik's entrepreneurial success and cheer that a bar I consider on of the finer downtown establishments is expanding its space and offerings especially in these times of economic struggle. I trust and respect the Mountain Xpress and admire its general integrity and solid public voice, hoping that voice continues to ring clear and true. But the proposed name and the language of the article tarnish our community, the Thirsty Monk and the Xpress. Asheville is a better city than that, the Thirsty Monk is a better place than that and Bialik is a finer man than that.

Please refrain from such low and cheap humor — even when it stares you in the face — and consider publicly and privately asking Bialik to change an unfortunate and profane name, one he shouldn't want associated the great name of Thirsty Monk. — David Michael Mayeux Asheville

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BuncomBe county commissioners value workers It is fitting that the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution that values workers during a week that began with a holiday honoring labor. As part of the Sept. 4 consent agenda, the commissioners passed a living-wage resolution ensuring that their regular employees are making a living wage.

A living wage is the minimum amount a fulltime worker needs to make in order to meet their basic needs without assistance, and a more just minimum than the minimum wage. I believe that all workers need to be valued and deserve, at least, to make a wage that allows them to put a roof over their head and food on their table without assistance. I am thankful that employees serving the people of Buncombe County will be paid at least a living wage.

Buncombe County now joins the cities of Asheville and Durham (and Durham County) in adopting a living-wage policy, and over 300 employers in WNC that voluntarily pay living wages. This is a great step forward for the Asheville-Buncombe Living Wage Campaign spearheaded by Just Economics.

Thank you, Buncombe County commissioners, for making this commitment to value your workers!

— Vicki Meath Just Economics Asheville

want to clean up our toxic coal-ash proBlem?

For everyone following the battle over coal-ash regulation, the Democratic National Convention could not have chosen a better location. Right now, every politician staying in the Charlotte area is drinking the same water that 1.5 million local citizens drink.

However, anyone arriving by helicopter might have lost their thirst! Right next to Mountain Island Lake — Charlotte’s drinking-water source — and the Catawba River are two high-hazard coal-ash ponds. If any coal ash leaks into these water systems, the city’s drinking water will turn into an arsenic and mercury milkshake. I wonder if Obama is drinking bottled water or not?

Asheville has two high-hazard coal-ash ponds as well, both of which are leaking toxins into the

groundwater and threatening the French Broad River. Want to clean up our toxic coal-ash problem? Anyone can help out by contacting senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr and telling them to vote against S-3512 (Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2012) or any other bill that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from protecting North Carolinians — and all Americans — from toxic coal ash.

— Charles Wright Asheville

thanks for smoothing things out In the April 18 Xpress I wrote a letter lambasting whoever ordered the application of whatever was purposely splattered all up and down Cane Creek Road in Arden/Fletcher [“Who Put the Bumps in My Country Road”]. I said (and I do so love to quote myself), “Roads are supposed to be smooth, safe and even pretty.”

I rode in the Asheville Ride for Kids charity motorcycle ride recently, which took us down Cane Creek Road. I’m very happy to say that the road is as smooth as a baby’s bottom. (Not that I have, nor would I advocate, riding a motorcycle over a baby’s bottom, or any vehicle over any part of a baby — that would be clearly wrong on so many levels. We all remember that horrifying scene from Mad Max. Terrible to even think about.

But I digress).

What I mean to say is that the road is now as perfectly paved as any I’ve seen. I am thankful to whomever decided to repair this road, and saw that decision through to completion.

— Norman Plombe Asheville

now i understand Now I understand why Carl Mumpower (in his Aug. 17 Asheville Citizen-Times piece), North Carolina Rep. Larry Pitman, Missouri Rep. Todd Aiken, vice presidential candidate and Wisconsin Sen. Paul Ryan and their fellow male counterparts have such cavalier disdain for Planned Parenthood and their efforts to promote women’s health and reproductive rights. If they themselves are victims of “legitimate” rape, they can be 100-percent sure that “their bodies have ways to shut that whole thing down” and they won’t get pregnant.

— Jerry Sternberg Asheville

say hello to emily patrick our new food writer Brings vigor, smarts and talent We’re very pleased to introduce Emily Patrick as the new food writer for Mountain Xpress. You may have seen her byline on last week’s cover story, where she looked at the reasons why our community still doesn’t have an Ethiopian restaurant, despite its expressed desire for one.

Patrick earned her degree from the University of Georgia, and has written for both a conventional newspaper (The Morgan County Citizen) and an alt-weekly (Flagpole).

But that’s not why we’re so excited to have her. So far, she’s brought energy, skill and best of all, new and bright ideas. Our food section is a vital part of the paper each week, and she’s already both broken stories and wrestled big issues.

What has she learned in the position so far? “I have found that the city will work with me as I explore far-flung ideas,” Patrick says. “Even my most stubborn contacts have opened up eventually. There’s an unstated rule, it seems, in Asheville, that community dialogue is always worth exploring. That feeling is very rewarding for a journalist, although it means my curiosity only expands the more I research.”

We asked her, too, to share some of her culinary favorites. Her list was too long to print here, but you can read more online.

“I like all foods, and I will eat most anything, but I am not particularly fond of scallops or filberts, although I usually like hazelnuts. ... I like anything fermented, pickled or similarly preserved. Sometimes I eat wasabi peas for breakfast. I have no pets, but I do have two cast iron skillets, which grow if you feed them. One of my favorite smells comes from a tomato vine at the moment the tomato detaches. My neighbors have a fine collection of fennel plants that I like to shake as I walk past because there’s nothing like that smell, either.”

You can reach Emily at 251-1333 x. 107, at epatrick@mountainx.com or @mxeat on Twitter. As always, send food news to food@mountainx.com.

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T I U S W A L OM O R E C N E ID V E S T C E J E JUDGE R FORBES

BY DAVID Mountain Xpress and four other local media outlets received word Sept. 6 that Judge Bradley letts had dismissed their lawsuit seeking the release of a massive audit of the Asheville Police Department evidence room. Xpress had joined Carolina Public Press, the Asheville Citizen-Times, WLOS and WCQS in suing the Buncombe County District Attorney's office and the city of Asheville after multiple open-records requests had failed to obtain the documents.

The lawsuit had contended that the audit is a public record and that District Attorney Ron Moore's refusal to release it violates the state's open-records law. Attorneys for Asheville and the DA maintained that since information in the audit could be related to current or future criminal investigations, the document is not a public record and they aren’t obligated to release it.

As of this writing, Letts hadn’t entered a written order or explained his decision. He also denied Asheville’s request that the local media alliance be required to pay the city’s legal costs.

Attorneys for all sides had made their arguments before Letts Sept. 4.

Charles Coble, representing the local media, pointed out that the state's open-records law "strongly favors transparency," placing the burden on agencies to give a specific reason why something can't be released.

That hasn't happened, the lawyer maintained.

Meanwhile, in their affidavits, Moore and Mike Wright, who conducted the audit, argued that they didn't have to release it.

“When you look at the facts before your honor, it's clear that this document is a public record," said Coble. "There aren't facts here showing why this should be exempt. What we have instead is simply a declaration that the district attorney believes the records are those of a criminal investigation. It's a position that's untenable under the statute."

Not releasing the documents, he continued, would set a disturbing precedent, enabling lawenforcement agencies to simply hide any record that might conceivably be used in some future investigation. Moore's defense, said Coble, essentially amounted to "because I say so." It’s hard

ATTORNEYS BOB OAST, RON PAYNE AND ANTHONY FOx ARGUED THAT THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY RON MOORE DON’T HAVE TO TURN OVER THE JANUARY 2012 EVIDENCE-ROOM AUDIT BECAUSE IT’S TIED UP IN AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION. THE PLAINTIFFS, A COALITION OF LOCAL MEDIA, SAY THE AUDIT IS SUBJECT TO OPEN-RECORDS LAW. PHOTO BY MAx COOPER to believe, he added, that the entire 15-volume audit report directly implicates someone in a criminal matter.

But the city’s attorney, Anthony Fox, cited the contract with Wright’s company, Blueline Systems & Services. The city, said Fox, won’t receive a partial copy of the audit until Moore signs off on it — which hasn’t happened yet. In the meantime, the city can’t release a document it doesn’t have.

Some City Council members have said they will formally request that the DA release the audit. City Attorney Bob Oast (who attended the trial but didn’t speak) has already requested

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the audit’s recommendations for evidence room reforms.

“If it does include criminal information,” argued Fox, “then it is not a public record. What the contract says is you will get that [report] only after the DA makes that determination.

At this time, he's determined that the release of any portion could jeopardize criminal prosecutions."

Attorney (and retired judge) Ronald Payne, representing Moore, argued that releasing the report is at the DA's discretion. "It wouldn't take a rocket scientist" to use a record to implicate specific people, he said, and until the investiga-

tions proceed further, the district attorney can't even begin analyzing the audit to figure out which parts can be released.

“This is not a flip-through comic book," said Payne. "The DA has other things to do besides edit something for the benefit of the press."

Primarily, however, Payne argued for immediate dismissal on a technicality. The original lawsuit, he noted, had improperly named the "Buncombe County District Attorney's Office" instead of Moore.

"There's no such entity as ‘the Buncombe County District Attorney's Office,’ asserted Payne. Coble countered that the lawsuit had

been properly delivered to Moore, though he did produce an amendment formally naming Moore in the lawsuit, in case Letts felt it was necessary.

Ruling in favor of Moore and the city, Coble told Letts, would "blow up a sensible exception [in state law] into a black hole where an agency can wait until it's good and ready to even engage in analysis that the law requires." Unless the law forces disclosure, he maintained, it would encourage agencies to "delay, delay, delay.”

In Fox’s closing arguments, he reiterated his position that "certain records shouldn't be available," and that the city doesn't have to receive a copy of the audit yet.

"The contract doesn't say the city can get a copy when it wants," noted Fox. "Blueline has said it won't turn it over until the conditions are met."

Payne, repeating his call to dismiss the suit, also stressed that having discretion on whether to pursue prosecutions is crucial for Moore's office.

"We're disappointed in the ruling,” said Angie Newsome, executive director of at Carolina Public Press, which coordinated the coalition’s efforts.

“It is a really dark day for anyone who believes in government transparency and accountability and in the intent and integrity of the North Carolina Public Records Act. But we will continue our investigative reporting on the issue, and we'll continue to be the watchdogs our community and region needs and deserves."

At press time, it wasn’t known whether the media alliance planned to appeal the decision. X

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Despite approving the Greenways and Trails Master Plan, however, the board committed no funds for implementing it. Constructing the 102 miles of paths the plan calls for would cost at least $39.3 million (see “The Path Ahead: County Greenways Plan Faces Major Hurdles,” June 19 Xpress).

During a public hearing on the matter, Commissioner Carol Peterson and Vice Chair Bill stanley both said they liked the idea of putting the funding question before voters next year in the form of a bond referendum. Board Chair david Gantt also recently told Xpress that he supports the referendum idea.

Meanwhile, New Belgium Brewing Co. is donating $50,000 toward the effort, Fran Thigpen,

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THE GREENWAYS PLAN ENVISIONS 102 MILES OF PATHS COUNTYWIDE. MOST FOLLOW WATERWAYS SUCH AS THE FRENCH BROAD AND SWANNANOA RIVERS. (THE PURPLE LINES ON THE MAP INDICATE PROPOSED GREENWAYS; THE GREEN LINES REPRESENT ExISTING ONES.)

the county’s director of Parks and Recreation Services, announced during the meeting.

The money will help fund detailed feasibility studies, identify other grant opportunities, form a landowner-outreach program and take other initial steps recommended in the plan.

New Belgium executives have said the area's growing multimodal infrastructure was a key factor in their decision to build a $175 million production facility in Asheville and hire an estimated 154 workers. And Jenn vervier, the Fort Collins, Colo.-based company's director of sustainability and strategic development, has

emphasized that biking is a key part of the company's corporate culture.

Gantt, meanwhile, stressed that the greenways system would be an important economic-development tool, helping lure other companies here that value environmental stewardship and a high quality of life.

"We have a moral obligation to look ahead," he maintained.

Commissioner Holly Jones, noting that smaller local businesses such as the Ultimate Ice Cream Co. have also raised money for the plan, added, "This has broad business support."

During a lengthy public hearing on the matter, several county residents argued that greenways would provide a safe transportation alternative as well as recreational opportunities.

A roughly equal number, however — including Republican commissioner candidates Mike Fryar and Christina Kelley G. Merrill — said greenways would be a waste of taxpayer money and shouldn't be a priority. Others voiced fears that the county would use eminent domain to seize private property.

In response, the commissioners passed a motion specifically stating that eminent domain would not be used to acquire land. "We're not even going to think about just grabbing someone's land without their permission," asserted Gantt. "We're taking that off the table." The master plan already noted that the "negative implications of using this process make it a strategy that should not be used.”

Instead, the plan calls for using such methods as easements and negotiated sales. dwayne stutzman, who chairs the county’s Greenways and Trails Commission, said planners would work

“WE’RE NOT EVEN GOING TO THINK ABOUT JUST GRABBING SOMEONE’S LAND WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. WE’RE TAKING THAT OFF THE TABLE.” DAVID GANTT, CHAIR, BUNCOMBE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

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to find alternate routes rather than forcing landowners to cede property. Several proposed pathways, he noted, follow waterways such as the Swannanoa and French Broad rivers, where flooding limits other forms of development.

But that didn’t satisfy Jane Bilello, chair of the Asheville Tea Party, who insisted that the plan "is a scheme to confiscate private property." She urged residents to vote against any commissioner candidate who supports it in November.

Jones, however, dismissed those worries as "conspiracy theories," and Stanley, who opposed countywide zoning and has been an advocate of private-property rights during his 24 years on the board, praised the plan. He agreed with Bilello, however, that greenways should be a campaign issue, since any decision on holding a referendum and dedicating county funds would be up to the incoming board.

Stanley, who’s not seeking re-election, urged voters to "think about who you would want sitting up here in November."

"This is a great thing; this is unbelievably good work," he added. "We should put this in front of the people of Buncombe County and let them decide." X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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BY JAKE FRANKEL AND DAVID FORBES Underscoring North Carolina’s importance as a swing state, Democrats held their convention in Charlotte Sept. 4-6. It was the first time a national party had held a convention in the state, let alone a mere two-hour drive from Asheville, and it generated lots of local buzz.

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME Local Democratic Party activists sarah Zambon and Parker sloan served as delegates to the convention; both say they aim to bring the energy and message they saw there back home.

Zambon, the deputy county attorney in Henderson County, first got involved in politics by volunteering for President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign; she was later a White House intern. After cynicism drove her to take a break from politics during college, she says Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign drew her back in.

“He’s done more than I thought he could,” Zambon noted on the convention’s final day. “I know a lot of people are giving him a hard time because the economy hasn’t turned around, but it’s the biggest downturn since the Great Depression; it takes more than four years to fix that.” She cited health-care legislation and Obama’s stances on women’s rights as other reasons she supports him.

A HANDFUL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY DELEGATES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS JOINED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN CHARLOTTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. (LEFT TO RIGHT: SARAH ZAMBON, PARKER SLOAN, REP. PATSY KEEVER) PHOTOS BY JAKE FRANKEL

VOTER INFORMATION VOTER INFORMATION: If you need information about voting (precinct, district, polling place), you may call the Buncombe County Board of Elections at 250-4200, or access it through the N.C. State Board of Elections’ new Voter Info website: ncvoter.org.

REGISTRATION: The registration deadline for voting is Friday, Oct. 12, at 5 p.m., unless you use the One-Stop Voting service, which allows you to register and vote in one stop.

ONE-STOP VOTING: Thursday, Oct. 18, to Saturday, Nov. 3 (1 p.m.). Call 250-4200 for location closest to you, or go to “When and Where Can I Vote Early” section: ncvoter. org.

ABSENTEE VOTING: Absentee ballot requests are due Tuesday, Oct. 30, unless you are sick or incapacitated. Ballots are due back at Board of Elections on Monday, Nov. 5. For more information, call 250-4200 or go to ncvoter.org.

MILITARY & OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTING: Ballots are due by close of polls on election day (Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.); voters may alternatively use a Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB). For more information, call 250-4200 or go to ncsbe.gov.

ELECTION DAY: Tuesday, Nov. 6 – all precincts open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. To find your precinct location, call 250-4200 or go to ncvoter.org.

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Sloan, the 27-year-old president of Buncombe County Young Democrats (Zambon is the group’s treasurer), said his “passion is trying to get more people our age to vote.”

“There’s going to be 32 people on that ballot, and at least one of them affects your life,” he pointed out. And as for the left-leaning protesters at the convention who criticized Obama, Sloan said, “It doesn’t get better when people don’t participate, or throw their hands up in the air, or wave their anarchy flags.”

Serving as a delegate, he added, “was an honor. This is history in the making. We’re hosts to the nation and the world. I’ve been welcoming folks from Minnesota and North Dakota; that’s been one of the best parts of this.”

While Obama’s nomination was a foregone conclusion, both delegates say the convention offered a valuable opportunity to rally the faithful and strengthen the party’s organization.

“There’s an important role for political parties,” asserted Zambon. “This election has especially shown the very drastic differences in how the two parties view the world. The word ‘Democrat’ means something: It means standing up for civil rights, public education, Medicaid and Medicare. That’s the point of the Democratic Party.”

But once the convention is over, she continued, “We need to mobilize our communities.

That’s really the more important job of being a delegate: taking this back to Asheville and getting people fired up.”

Recent polls show a tight race in the state between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who accepted his party’s nomination in Tampa, Fla., the week before.

Zambon blogged about her experience at the convention for Xpress throughout the week; check her dispatches out here: avl.mx/k1.

VENUE CHANGE SHUTS OUT LOCAL SUPPORTERS Not all of Obama’s local supporters were as lucky as Zambon and Sloan: Hundreds of Western North Carolina residents got shut out of the president’s Sept. 6 address after organizers changed the venue from an outdoor stadium to a smaller indoor arena due to weather concerns.

That meant their free tickets, handed out at Obama’s Asheville campaign office in recent weeks, weren’t honored, and the Buncombe County Democratic Party canceled its plans to bus some 110 local supporters to Charlotte for the event.

Still, with inclement weather during the convention, several members of the North Carolina delegation supported the move.

And in an email announcing the change of plans, Buncombe County Democratic Party Treasurer Jake Quinn wrote: “Let’s view this as a minor setback as we continue forward to Nov. 6. Now more than ever, we need to pull together to achieve electoral success.”

Instead, the party hosted a gathering at Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. to watch the speech.

A week earlier, due to insufficient interest, the local party had canceled a plan to try to lure delegates from across the country to Asheville for political tourism and to raise funds.

10TH DISTRICT CANDIDATES SqUARE OFF The convention also loomed large in the race for the 10th Congressional District, which stretches from Asheville to the Charlotte suburbs.

Democratic candidate Patsy Keever made the trip down from Asheville Sept. 6, saying, “There’s so much positive energy here, and it’s great to be with the state delegation.”

The day before, incumbent Rep. Patrick McHenry, who lives a half-hour outside Charlotte in Cherryville, came to town to join a team of fellow Republicans who sought to rebut the Democrats’ message. Just outside the convention hall, McHenry did interviews with CNN, Politico and The Hill, saying his opponent’s party has failed to get the economy back on track.

“Their party’s record of achievement is not there,” he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. “Not on health-care issues, not on getting people back to work, not on making sure that families can make ends meet.” X For more on the convention and other local political news, go to mountainx.com/election.

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

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WEDNESDAY, 9/12 Debate between 11th Congressional District candidates MARK MEADOWS (Republican) and Hayden Rogers (Democrat), 7:30 p.m., at Brevard College’s Porter Center, Brevard.

FRIDAY, 9/14 CAROL PETERSON‘s County Music Cook Out, 4-7 pm, Fairview Community Center, 1357 Charlotte Highway. Barbecue, music, square dancing; special guests; featuring Buncombe County Democratic candidates.

TUESDAY, 9/18 House Party and Meet the Candidate with SUSAN WILSON, Democrat, N.C. House District 115, with special guest Rep. SUSAN FISHER (District 114); 5:30 p.m., 99 Parker Cove Road, Weaverville (park along the road; shuttle available).

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WEDNESDAY, 9/19 Weaverville Gathering & Meet the Candidate with SUSAN WILSON, Democrat, N.C. House District 115; 6 p.m., 114 South Main Street (park at Weaverville Elementary). Reservations, patrick@dogwoodalliance.org or shrph@charter.net.

THURSDAY, 9/20 Congressional and state legislative candidates, hosted by the North Carolina Chamber’s Prosperity Project in collaboration with the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 1 to 3 p.m., 36 Montford Ave. Includes candidates for N.C. 10th and 11th Congressional Districts, and candidates for N.C. House Districts 115, 116 and 118 plus N.C. Senate Districts 47 and 50 (outside Buncombe County). Reservations required: ncchamber.net (click on Upcoming Events: 2012 Candidate Forums.).

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MONDAY, 9/24 League of Women Voters’ Countywide Meet & Greet and Forum, 6:30 to 9 p.m. at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium. Candidates for County Commission Chair, Register of Deeds, Buncombe County Board of Education, Soil & Water District Supervisor, and State Senate will greet the public, followed by a moderated forum for commission chair candidates David Gantt (Democrat) and J.B. Howard (Republican), and a brief Q&A with school board candidates. Forum co-sponsored by Clear Channel Radio with moderator Jerri Jameson.

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Whether it was talk about the revaluations facing Buncombe County property owners January 2013 or tax changes related to the federal Affordable Care Act, presentations at the Sept. 7 Council of Independent Business Owners breakfast focused on how either of these might affect members’ wallets.

fears that, coupled with the recession, it would hurt taxpayers, he told members.

But new valuations will be sent to property owners in January, Roberts continued. He encouraged CIBO members to call and ask questions, noting that the tax department anticipates it will receive many appeals.

First, as CIBO members dined at the Biltmore Square Mall Food Court, they elected new officers: President ROD HUDGINS; Vice President CHRIS ELLER; and Treasurer SCOTT HUGHES. CIBO, which advocates for local business owners, encourages its members to serve on local boards and commissions, and over the years, many have served in some of Asheville’s and Buncombe County’s most influential positions, such as on the Asheville Planning and Zoning Commission and as elected officials.

That’s “not a negative thing,” Roberts said. The appeals process gives tax assessors a chance to evaluate, “‘Did we do the job right?’ and [consider] ‘Do we know everything that you know about that property?’”

Members regularly meet to hear presentations, from luncheons at which they get to meet candidates to breakfast sessions that cover a variety of topics.

First up at the Sept. 7 breakfast: Buncombe County Tax Collector GARY ROBERTS explained that the last time the county appraised properties for tax value was seven years ago. Typically done every four years, the tax revaluation was delayed in 2009, due to

Newly elected CIBO treasurer Scott Hughes, an accountant with Johnson Price Sprinkle, spoke next, summarizing what he sees as the financial ramifications of the Affordable Care Act. “Don’t hear this as an indictment of either party,” he told members. “The fact of the matter is, I’m here to tell you the hard cruel facts that if you make a good living, most likely [you’re] going to pay more in tax.”

Hughes then laid out a series of changes, particularly those that would affect business owners with individual annual incomes above $200,000, such as a 3.8 percent tax on investment income for dividends, interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, capital gains and other income. — Caitlin Byrd

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BY SUSAN Two years ago, enviro-activist Ned doyle hit the pause button on the Southeast Environment and Energy Expo he brought to the Western North Carolina Agriculture Center every year.

The event focused on clean energy and environmental conservation, and when last held in 2010, it drew about 8,000 participants.

But once he reached that plateau, Doyle came to feel that he was preaching to the converted, and the next year, he announced that the event’s 10-year run was over.

The SEE Expo needed a reboot.

Then came the call from local builder, SEE exhibitor and Peak Productions owner Tim Alexander, who asked Doyle to join forces and help “green up” the annual Western North Carolina Home Show. Alexander was promoting the event, and the idea was appealing, says Doyle. But efforts to do anything less than a wholesale retooling might amount to mere green washing, he recalls telling the promoter.

“About two months later, [Alexander] called and said, ‘We’ve reserved the Civic Center; we’re going to do a green event!’” says Doyle, a tall, long-bearded fellow who almost always has a jovial lilt in his baritone voice. Just like that, Doyle says, “I went from a sole proprietorship to working with a team at Peak Productions [to put on an event] that would reach more of a general population.”

Building on SEE Expo’s original focus, the Sept. 14-16 Southern Green Living Expo adds sustainable economics. An expanded agenda includes topics such as jobs training for workers in green-energy systems, and the economics behind protecting our region’s “natural commodities,” Doyle explains.

In another first, the expo will also offer free disposal of electronic waste — the old cell phones, computers, monitors, and related devices cluttering up your life. Asheville-based E-cycleUs will collect electronics across the street from the U.S. Cellular Center (formerly named the Asheville Civic Center; for more info, see “E-cycleUs!”).

Alexander also notes that sustainability is all the more relevant during a recession. “While people are watching every dollar they’re spending, there’s a myriad of green-living products” that help save money, he says. Cost-conscious homeowners can pursue “the low-hanging

O? WANNA G WHAT: The Southern Green Living Expo WHERE: The U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville WHEN: Friday, Sept. 14, through Sunday, Sept. 16 WHY: The Southern Green Living Expo is a collaborative effort based on the many years’ success of the Southern Energy and Environment Expo and the WNC Home Show, now coordinated by Peak Productions. The expo offers dozens of seminars and workshops on a variety of topics, and gives participants a chance to meet business owners, check out information booths and more.

COSTS: $9 for adults; $5 for ages 13-21; $8 for ages 55+; children under 12, free.

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E-CYCLE US SUSTAINABLE HARVEST: THE ExPO OFFERS PARTICIPANTS A CHANCE TO LEARN ABOUT GREEN LIVING’S MANY PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, SUCH AS LEARNING TO PRESERVE A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST. PHOTO COURTESY OF MOUNTAIN BIZWORKS

fruit” — solutions that have a real return on investment and don’t cost more than traditional building practices, such as creating a tight building envelope, he explains.

“Some of today’s advanced framing techniques use less lumber and get more insulation in” to save on heating and cooling as well as building costs, says Alexander. In addition, “homeowners can add better windows, or one of the on-demand hot-water systems that don’t cost a lot more than the standard hot-water tank. North Carolina tax credits can help.”

An expanded list of practical seminars on these and other aspects of green living will be offered over the three-day event, Doyle continues. “Do you want to save money? Do you want to make money? Want a sustainable economic base? Are you looking for a job?” he asks.

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With 48 seminars on tap, “everybody will find something every hour that will be of interest,” says Doyle, adding that green living isn’t about “futuristic or maybe-someday technology. It’s all proven approaches that make sense economically.” X The Southern Green Living Expo is presented by Peak Productions, and sponsored by the WNC Green Building Council, WNC Alliance, BackHome Magazine, Earth Fare, Mountain Xpress, A-B Tech, HomeSource Design Center, Progress Energy, Asheville Radio:The River, MAIN, WZGM, SheVille, LUX Lighting and ASAP. For more information, visit southerngreenlivingexpo.

Susan Andrew is a freelance writer and researcher based in Asheville.

WHAT: In partnership with the expo, E-cycleUs will take all electronics, including laptop and desktop computers, computer parts, phones, cell phones, batteries, CRT/ LCD Monitors, audio/video equipment, modems, switches, routers, desktop printers and copiers. Televisions will not be accepted at this event.

HOW: You don’t need an expo admission ticket to dispose of your used electronics.

For convenient drive-thru recycling, just look for the E-cycleUs trailer across the street from the U.S. Cellular Center in the parking lot off Haywood and Page streets.

HOURS: E-waste will only be accepted Friday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 15, 10 am8 p.m.

WHO: E-cycleUs is a local Asheville business located at 101 S. Lexington Ave. in downtown Asheville. Open: TuesdayFriday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Email: ecycleus@gmail. com.

ExPO WORKSHOPS FRIDAY / 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

111 CLASSROOM 1: Energy Efficiency in Schools and Government highlights projects that help local governments, K12 schools, community colleges, state agencies and universities increase energy efficiency and share the best techniques for saving taxpayer money on energy.

112 CLASSROOM 2: Trends in NC's Clean Energy Economy explores the role the NCSEA has played in making North Carolina a leader in sustainable energy in the South and how jobs in sustainable energy are growing in our state.

113 CLASSROOM 3: Renovate Right provides homeowners or contractors with an overview for of the health effects of lead exposure, RRP EPA and NC regulations, and finding a Certified Renovator in lead paint safety to protect against health hazards of renovation.

114 CLASSROOM 4: Organic Waste to Valuable Soil Products shows how organic waste feedstocks, most currently being wasted and sent to landfills, can be converted into humus, which can be sold as a value-added product.

FRIDAY / 12:30 - 1:30 PM

121 CLASSROOM 1: Get Money Back Energy Efficient Lighting with Progress Energy’s Incentives for Business — an update on incentive changes, custom measures (LEDs), steps for Right Design (proper lighting levels), the phase out of T12s and more.

122 CLASSROOM 2: A-B Tech Sustainability Technologies—A Panel Discussion from a Student’s Perspective discusses individual projects and general coursework in the community college program, such as designing and installing a solar bus stop.

123 CLASSROOM 3: Greening the Real Estate Market with “Green Gauge” introduces a new green-home-labeling program the WNC Green Building Council has developed.

124 CLASSROOM 4: Driving Electric in WNC: An EV Panel discussion about electric transportation — where are the new solar electric charging stations? Which vehicles are available today? How much can you save compared to gas?

FRIDAY / 2:30 - 3:30 PM

131 CLASSROOM 1: Smart Distribution explains Progress Energy’s Smart Grid Distribution System Demand Response project, designed to reduce generation requirements during peak load conditions by controlling voltage using real-time power flow analysis of the distribution grid.

132 CLASSROOM 2: A New Approach to Municipal Outreach Education: Community-Based Social Marketing reviews the city of Asheville’s new strategy for integrating community-based social marketing principles into its sustainability-education efforts.

133 CLASSROOM 3: The Simple Science of Green Building looks at building science and why green building is more affordable than traditional construction.

134 CLASSROOM 4: Canning the Harvest — want to make pickles? Can your tomatoes?

Learn canning basics from a local expert and leave with lots of ideas for preserving your harvest.

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141 CLASSROOM 1: Energy Efficiency: Hyper-miling Your House — smart drivers can nearly double the gas mileage of their cars with careful driving. Did you know the same approach can be applied to your home?

142 CLASSROOM 2: Are you emPOWERed? shows how your congregation can demonstrate its reverence for life by reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

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111 - ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN SCHOOLS & GOVERNMENT

112 - TRENDS IN NC’S CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY

113 - RENOVATE RIGHT

114 - ORGANIC WASTE TO VALUABLE SOIL PRODUCTS

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121 - GET MONEY BACK ENERGYEFFICIENT LIGHTING W/ PROGRESS ENERGY’S INCENTIVES FOR BUSINESS

122 - A-B TECH SUSTAINABILITY TECHNOLOGIES — A PANEL DISCUSSION FROM A STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

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141 - ENERGY EFFICIENCY: HYPERMILING YOUR HOUSE

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211 - WNC ALLIANCE: CITIZEN ACTIVISM

212 - WHAT’S A-B TECH DOING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

213 - INDOOR AIR qUALITY: THE ABC’S OF VOC’S

214 - APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT — GARDEN WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS

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221 - WNC ALLIANCE: CLEAN WATER, CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR, GOOD JOBS = ALL 3 FOR WNC!

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244 - LIVING OFF GRID, REALLY!

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251 - ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY

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324 - TEN WAYS TO GET INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT

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331 - ETHANOL FUEL & PRODUCTION

332 - LIVING WAGES & ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

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143 CLASSROOM 3: Water Reuse, Infiltration, and Conservation for the Home introduces sustainable water run-off techniques, used to improve water quality, reduce water use, and beautify your home and property with RiverLink’s new WaterRICH Program.

144 CLASSROOM 4: Cooking Up the Harvest — Chef William Dissen of The Market Place Restaurant & Lounge will cook up some quick and easy recipes, showcasing seasonal, locally grown food.

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211 CLASSROOM 1: WNC Alliance: Citizen Activism presents the ABC’s of community organizing: Learn time-tested tools for citizen activism, participate in practical exercises, and hone your understanding of this invaluable way of creating more just and vibrant communities.

212 CLASSROOM 2: What’s A-B Tech Doing for Sustainability? provides an overview of current A-B Tech classes and initiatives in sustainability, with discussions will include current industry trainings in curriculum and continuing education, GIST projects, and general questions and discussions about the community college’s role in education and job training.

213 CLASSROOM 3: Indoor Air Quality: The ABC’s of VOC’s demonstrates that the products you choose can have a very positive impact on your health and home values, or cause problems with indoor air quality.

214 CLASSROOM 4: Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: Garden Workshop for Parents presents strategies to get kids excited about growing and eating their veggies.

SATURDAY / 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

221 CLASSROOM 1: WNC Alliance: Clean Water, Clean Air, Good Jobs = All 3 for WNC! examines how WNC businesses and families benefit from our commitment to environmental stewardship, and ways we can continue to grow our region’s economy and protect our mountains, forests, and rivers from environmental degradation.

222 CLASSROOM 2: Practical Photovoltaics answers a broad range of questions about photovoltaics, such as how to choose a manufacturer for materials and contractor to install your system.

223 CLASSROOM 3: Landscaping with Native Plants is much more than a nice looking front yard — learn from an experienced regional professional how you can develop a sustainable, easily maintained and native landscape for your home or business.

224 CLASSROOM 4: Local Cheese Tasting presents the growing number of Western North Carolina cheese producers and the evolution of the craft in our region, the formation of a “Cheese Trail” — and you get samples, of course.

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231 CLASSROOM 1: WNC Alliance: Beyond Coal explores moving beyond our dependence on Big Coal through the increased production of renewable energy, improvements in energy efficiency and research on how to do even more.

232 CLASSROOM 2: Bicycle Commuting follows the curriculum developed by the League of American Bicyclists and bike-safety classes, cosponsored by the Asheville Bike Ped Taskforce and Healthy Buncombe.

233 CLASSROOM 3: Weatherization: Economics of Energy Efficiency covers such ideas as the top 10 things to do when weatherizing a building so you save the most money on energy, improve the quality of the indoor environment and increase the value of the building.

234 CLASSROOM 4: Gas-to-Green spotlights Rutherford County’s Foothills Connect and its fully integrated projects, including using landfill methane gas to support a sustainable agriculture, composting, and vermicomposting education & training center.

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324 CLASSROOM 4: Ten Ways to Get Involved in the Local Food Movement explores the significance behind supporting local farmers and how you can join in the Local Food Movement — through CSAs, tailgate markets, and more.

241 CLASSROOM 1: WNC Alliance: Money Trees explains the very real threats to our forest health, and what you can do help protect this treasure for future generations.

242 CLASSROOM 2: A-B Tech’s Sustainability Technologies Program and the Global Institute for Sustainability Technologies provide an overview of current classes and initiatives in sustainability.

243 CLASSROOM 3: Community Powered Sustainable Energy — local company Blue Ridge Biofuels presents the local movement towards a more sustainable community 244 CLASSROOM 4: Living Off Grid, Really! — ‘Da Energy Mon’ Beck has lived off grid for 18 years and you can too.

SUNDAY / 2:30 - 3:30 PM

331 CLASSROOM 1: Ethanol Fuel and Production — What was Henry Ford’s preferred fuel?

Ethanol! Discover its benefits as a fuel, and how you can produce it without harming our environment or food supplies.

332 CLASSROOM 2: Living Wages and Economic Sustainability demonstrates a better approach to economic sustainability and how you can help play a part in the change we’d all like to see.

SATURDAY / 5:30 - 6:30 PM

251 CLASSROOM 1: Economics, Environment & Energy offers a lively presentation and Q&A session on how we can have these three things — a sustainable economy, clean energy and environmental conservation.

252 CLASSROOM 2: Green Opportunities: Building Local Economies shows how the “GO Team” is training the leaders of the future for family-supporting careers, while lowering our carbon footprint and saving money in their local communities.

333 CLASSROOM 3: Living in a Net Zero Home: Roundtable Discussion helps you find out what “net zero” means, the energy savings available, the value of “net zero” design and what it’s like on a daily basis from an architect, builder, engineer and solar installer … who each live in one.

334 CLASSROOM 4: Money-Saving Strategies in the Landscape helps property owners realize cost savings through landscape design, including planting, storm-water treatment and more.

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253 CLASSROOM 3: Financial Planning discusses the correlation between elections and market cycles and address the major concerns of inflation, interest rates, market volatility and taxes.

254 CLASSROOM 4: Transitioning Your Community To Resiliency considers how communities across the globe are working together to face the challenges of climate chaos, rising fuel costs, and an uncertain economic future.

SUNDAY / 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

311 CLASSROOM 1: Energy Efficiency = No New Coal or Nuclear posits that, for a fraction of new construction costs, we can incorporate energy efficiency into our homes, businesses and industry, and provide a realistic period for our transition to clean, sustainable energy that stimulates the economy and creates jobs, instead of costing taxpayers and rate payers billions each year for limited and dangerous power sources.

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312 CLASSROOM 2: Joint Business Projects with A-B Tech and GIST: Potential Student Learning Opportunities explores businesses in the community and what they’re doing in sustainability technologies along with how these businesses are promoting education and job growth in the community.

313 CLASSROOM 3: Invest with Your Values outlines the ways to implement a portfolio that reflects your values, from picking best-in-class companies to shareholder advocacy to community investing.

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322 CLASSROOM 2: Get Empowered with Renewable Energy shows you how to switch to clean solar power for your home or business.

323 CLASSROOM 3: The Economics of Forestry starts with a brief history of sustainable forestry and forestry economics that shaped our region, then looks at modern-day efforts to bring back the lost jobs, provide better support for our forests, protect the environment and keep WNC a tourist destination, all while keeping dollars here and investing locally!

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your guide to community events, classes, concerts & galleries

calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists Calendar for September 12 - 20, 2012 UnleSS otherwiSe Stated, eventS take plaCe in aSheville, and phone nUmberS are in the 828 area Code. day-by-day Calendar iS online Want to find out everything that's happening today -- or tomorrow, or any day of the week? Go to www. mountainx.com/events. weekday abbreviationS: SU = Sunday, MO = Monday, TU = Tuesday, WE = Wednesday, TH = Thursday, FR = Friday, SA = Saturday

aniMals aSheville pet oUtreaCh • Asheville Pet Outreach Program seeks a lead volunteer coordinator.

Responsibilities include door-to-

door outreach, data collection, community partnerships, events and more. Two Saturdays per month required. Non-paid position. Info and resume: apop@humanealliance. org.

• Outreach Volunteers are also needed to engage in door-to-door outreach in underserved communities. Info and application: apop@ humanealliance.org. birdS of prey preSentation • SA (9/15), 10:30am & 2:30pm Doris Mager, the “eagle lady” of Clyde, will present live birds of prey at Wild Birds Unlimited, 1997 Hendersonville Road. Free; advance arrival suggested. Info: www.asheville.wbu.com. brother wolf animal reSCUe • Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, 31 Glendale Ave., seeks foster homes and volunteers for its no-kill shelter.

Volunteers for the Second Chances Thrift Store also needed. Foster:

calendar deadlines Free and paid listings - Wednesday, 5 p.m.

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can’t Find your Group’s listinG? 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.

In order to qualify for a free listing, an event must cost no more than $40 to attend and be sponsored by and/or benefit a nonprofit. If an event benefits a business, it’s a paid listing.

three years of community radio: Asheville Free Media news team and staff get ready for the Internet radio station’s third-anniversary bash, slated for Thursday, Sept. 13 at 10:30 p.m. at Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. The party will feature a variety show by Toy Boat, the Sugarfoot Serenaders, comedy by Minori Hinds and a screening of Crime Wave. Want to join the crew? Stop by an open house on Saturday, Sept. 15 from noon-6 p.m. at 864 Haywood Road for music, BBQ and giveaways. (pg. 30 and 31) Photo by Rich Orris

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

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

Please limit your submission to 40 words or less.

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

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

To submit a paid listing, send it to our Classified Department by any of the following methods. Be sure to include your phone number, for billing purposes. e-mail: marketplace@mountainx.com.

Fax: (828) 251-1311, Attn: Commercial Calendar Mail: Commercial Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 in person: Classified Dept., Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), Ste. 214, downtown Asheville.

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

foster@bwar.org or 273-1428.

Volunteer: volunteer@bwar.org or 423-2954.

• SA (9/15) & SU (9/16), 11am-5pm - Brother Wolf Animal Rescue will present its Fall Mega-Adoption Weekend at PetSmart, 150 Bleachery Blvd., featuring more than 100 dogs, cats, kittens and puppies. Reduced adoption fees and $20 microchipping available.

Info: www.bwar.org. plant and wildlife habitat hike • TH (9/13), 7pm - An easy 1.2-mile hike on the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center loop trail will focus on how humans can "ease the strain that habitat fragmentation places on wildlife and plant life." Departs from the Visitor Center parking lot, MP 384.2 on the Blue Ridge

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display. Info & map: www.bestwncartists.com.

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310 art Gallery 191 Lyman St., #310. Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat., noon-4pm or by appointment. Info: www.310art.com or 776-2716.

• Through SU (9/30) - Differences, paintings by Janis P. Rose.

• SA (9/15), 11:45am-3pm Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at The Blue Ridge Mall's KMart entrace, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville. Info: cpforpetsinc@ aol.com.

art exhibit: beSt of wnC artiStS 2012 (pd.) Mon-Sat. 11am-4pm. Includes 2D and 3D work, runs thru Sept 29 at Riverside Studios in River Arts District, 174 W. Haywood Street.

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ameriCan folk art and framinG Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.amerifolk.com or 281-2134.

• Through WE (10/10) - Transitions, works by self-taught Southern artists. appalaChian State UniverSity 423 West King St., Boone. Info: www.tcva.org or 262-3017.

• Through SA (2/9) - Spaces of the Brain, works by Jedrzej Stepak, will be on display in the Mezzanine Gallery.

• Through SA (11/24) - Roadside Attraction, works by Karen Bondarchuk, will be on display in Gallery B. --- At a Glance, works by Curt Brill, will be on display in the Mayer Gallery.

• Through SA (10/27) - My Second World: Contemporary Painting from the Private Collection of Christopher Sztyber, will be on display in the Main Gallery.

• Through SA (12/1) - Forever Protected, paintings for the Blue Ridge Conservancy by Gayle Stott Lowry, will be on display in the Community Gallery.

• Through SA (11/10) - ArtJam: 6 Artists, 6 Media, featuring Virgina-

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Valley. $35. Info and schedule: www.glassinthemountains.com.

art at brevard ColleGe Exhibits are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.brevard.edu/art or 884-8188.

• Through SA (9/29) - Friend Among Strangers, a multimedia exhibit by Sophia Allison, will be on display in the Spiers Gallery.

Grand bohemian Gallery Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Mon.-Thur., 10am-7pm; Fri.Sat., 10am-8pm; Sun., 10am-5pm.

Info: www.bohemianhotelasheville. com or 505-2949.

• Through SU (9/23) - Two Takes, landscape paintings by Colleen Webster and jewelry by Gail Molzahn.

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

• Through FR (9/14) - The UNCA Annual Art Faculty Exhibition will be on display in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall.

• Through FR (10/26) - Lia Cook: Bridge 11 will be on display at UNCA's Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 1181 Broyles Road, Hendersonville.

• Through MO (9/17) - Invisible Ink: Works on Paper by Gabriel Shaffer will be on display in Highsmith University Union Gallery.

• Through FR (9/28) - Horizons: Past and Present, photography by Jon Michael Riley, will be on display in Ramsey Library.

• WE (9/12), 5-6:30pm - Reception for Horizons. aSheville art mUSeUm Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm.

Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227.

• Through SU (11/25) - High, Low and In Between. Artist Mel Chin extracted images from 25 volumes of Funk and Wagnall’s 1953 encyclopedia and edited them as collages freed of their historical context.

On display in the museum's East Wing, main level.

• Through SU (9/30) - Fiore/ Drawing, a survey of drawings

by Joseph A. Fiore dating from the early '50s at Black Mountain College through his late years in New York and Maine.

• FR (9/14), 4pm - "Up for Discussion," a gallery talk with Ward Mintz, guest curator of Art/ Sewn.

• Through SU (1/6) - Art/Sewn, "works of art in which sewing is integral to the making and viewing experience." aUStin ShearS • Through WE (10/17) - Geometric drawings by Austin Shears will be presented by Who Knows Art in the Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park, 43 Town Square Blvd. Info: 2315355. battle of the brUSheS • Through SU (9/16) - The Town of Old Fort and the Arrowhead Artists and Artisans League invites painters to participate in a plein air art competition. Submissions will be

GratefUl StepS • SA (9/15), 6-7:30pm - An opening reception for by Peter Olevnik (mixed media) will be held at Grateful Steps Bookshop, 159 S. Lexington Ave. Info: www.gratefulsteps.com or 277-0998. haywood CoUnty artS CoUnCil Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC's Gallery 86 in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: www.haywoodarts.org or 452-0593.

• Through SA (9/22) - Piercing the Mundane: the Women of NoHa. horaCe kephart in the Great Smoky moUntainS • WEEKDAYS - “Horace Kephart in the Great Smoky Mountains,” a year-long exhibit about the iconic author of Our Southern Highlanders, will be on display in WCU's Mountain Heritage Center through Sept. 2013. Mon.-Fri., 8am7pm; Thurs., 8am-5pm. Free. Info: www.wcu.edu/mhc.

the big splash: Enjoy Big Creek’s most beautiful waterfalls with the Friends of the Smokies on Thursday, Sept. 20. This 10-mile hike is an all day excursion, departing from both Asheville and Waynesville early in the morning. (pg. 35) Photo by Danny Bernstein

judged and prizes awarded. Info and registration: http://avl.mx/jm. bella viSta art Gallery 14 Lodge St. Summer hours: Mon., 11am-5pm; Wed.-Sat., 11am-5pm.

Info: www.bellavistaart.com or 7680246.

• Through SU (9/30) - Works by Nicora Gangi, Shellie Lewis Dambax and Rex Reed. blaCk moUntain Center for the artS Old City Hall, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 11am-3pm.

Info: www.BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930.

• Through FR (10/12) - David Young and Julia Burr: Streaming, photography and sculpture sponsored by WildSouth. blaCk moUntain ColleGe mUSeUm + artS Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College.

Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: www.blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484.

• FR (9/14), 10am-6pm - Pop Mantra #4 (Rain Down On Me). Curt Cloninger, artist and professor of

new media at UNCA, will present a series of performances where he plays a short excerpt from a pop song for several hours blindfolded.

• Through SA (10/6) - SHIFT, works

by Fred Cray, Sharon Haper, Anne Arden McDonald and Lisa M. Robinson.

braG on avery • Through TH (9/27) - The Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild will host an exhibition of the art of Avery County, featuring more than 25 local artists, at Canon Memorial Hospital's Dickson Gallery, 434 Hospital Drive, Linville. Info: www. bragwnc.com.

CrimSon laUrel Gallery 23 Crimson Laurel Way, Bakersville.

April-Dec.: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun. & Mon., noon-5pm. Info: 6883599 or www.crimsonlaurelgallery. com.

• Through SU (9/30) - Soda-fired porcelain by Lorna Meaden.

• Through SU (9/30) - Keeping the Faith, figurative ceramic sculptures

by Becky Gray.

Caldwell artS CoUnCil Located at 601 College Ave., Lenoir.

Hours: Tues.-Fri., 9am-5pm and Sat. by appointment. Info: 754-2486 or www.caldwellarts.com.

• Through SU (9/30) - Friends, an exhibit featuring the works of jewelry sculptor Bob Ebendorf, his students and friends.

• Through SU (9/30) - The Art In Healing Gallery will feature work by members of Foothills Visual Artists Guild.

CaStell photoGraphy 2C Wilson Alley. Wed.-Fri., noon6pm; Sat., noon-7pm, or by appointment. Info: www.castellphotography.com or 255-1188.

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enSo • Through SA (9/15) - ENSO, black and white photographs inspired by the enso paintings of Zen circles, will be on display at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave. Tues. & Wed., 11am5pm; Thurs.-Sat., noon-8pm; Sun., noon-4pm. Info: www.brookreynoldsphotography.com or www.

UDharmaNC.com. flood Gallery The Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St. Tues.-Sat., 10am-4pm.

Info: www.floodgallery.org or 2542166.

• Through TU (10/2) - Beneath the Skin…an Extension of my DNA, an installation by Jan Parker. folk art Center MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Open daily from 9am-6pm. Info: www.craftguild.org or 298-7928.

• Through SU (1/6) - Black & White, an exhibit of works by members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

• SA (9/15) through TU (10/30) - Works by Elizabeth Garlington (fiber) and Drew Langsner (wood). fUSion art Show • Through SA (10/6) - Fusion Art Show, presented by the Tryon Painters and Sculptors group. Held at TAC, 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon. Info: 859-8392.

GlaSS in the moUntainS • TH (9/20) through SU (9/23) Glass in the Mountains will feature glass blowing demonstrations, guided stargazing, and a "one-time landfill converted into a one-of-akind incubator for glass and ceramic artists." Held throughout Toe River

hot wax and oCtolove • FR (9/14), 6-9pm - An opening reception for Hot Wax and OctoLove, new works by Dawn Behling, will be held at Signature Brew Coffee Company, 633 W. Main St., Sylva. Info: www.dawnbehling.com. loCal SCUlptUre ShowCaSe • DAILY - A showcase of local sculptors, including Scott Freeland, Peter Dallos, Martin Webster and others, will be on display indefinitely at the Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain. Free to view. Info: www.themontevistahotel.net or 669-8870. n.C. arboretUm Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily.

Programs are free with $8 parking fee. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through SU (9/23) - Dusty Roads, photographs of classic and junkyard vehicles. pUmp Gallery 109 Roberts St. Tues.-Sat., 10am4pm. Info: www.philmechanicstudios.com.

• Through TU (10/2) - Close Quarters, new works by lingeriedesigner Elise Olson. pUSh Skate Shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. Mon.Thurs., 11am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 11am-7pm; Sun., noon-6pm. Info:

www.pushtoyproject.com or 2255509.

• Through SU (9/30) - PUSH Tunisia, a film and art mashup featuring artists from Tunisia, the United States and the Middle East.

Swannanoa valley fine artS leaGUe Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain.

Thurs.-Sun., 11am-6pm. Info: www. svfalarts.org or 669-0351.

• Through SU (9/23) - The Figure in Art. rena rUark lindStrom • Through SU (10/7) - Let Color Be Itself, an installation by painter Rena Ruark Lindstrom, will be on display at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road. Info: 606-7597 or renalindstrom@yahoo.com.

SCUlptUre for the Garden • Through MO (12/31) - Sculpture for the Garden, a national outdoor sculpture invitational, will be on display at Grovewood Gallery, 111 Grovewood Road. Info: www.grovewood.com.

Seven SiSterS Gallery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain.

Summer hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107.

• Through SU (11/4) - Works by Jenny Buckner.

SkyUka fine art 133 N. Trade St., in Tryon. Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm and by appointment. Info: skyukafineart.com or 817-3783.

• Through SA (9/15) - For the Love of Tryon. tranSylvania CommUnity artS CoUnCil Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am4:30pm. Info: www.artsofbrevard. org or 884-2787.

• Through FR (10/5) - Invitational Show. wCU'S moUntain heritaGe Center • Through FR (9/14) - Stitches in Time: Historic Quilts of WNC. Mon.Fri., 8am-5pm; Thurs., 8am-7pm.

Free. Info: www.wcu.edu/2389.asp.

Zapow!

21 Battery Park, Suite 101. Mon., Wed. & Fri., noon-8pm. Thurs., noon-5:30pm; Sat., 11am-10pm; Sun. 1-6pm. Info: www.zapow.net or 575-2024.

• Through SU (9/30) Cryptozoology, art on the theme of legendary animals such as Sasquatch.

art/craFt Fairs art in aUtUmn • SA (9/15), 10am-5pm - Art in Autumn will feature a juried art festival and open studios, galleries and old-time music. Held throughout

Main Street, Weaverville. Free. Info: www.artinautumn.com. pariS of the SoUth flea market • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 8am3pm - Paris of the South flea market features antiques, local food and music at 175 Clingman Ave. Free to attend. Info: www.parisofthesouth. net. watterfallS CrafterS Show • FR (9/14) & SA (9/15), 9am-5pm - The Waterfalls Crafters will present a craft show and sale at the Masonic Lodge, 174 E. Main St., Brevard. Free to attend. Info: 5772757.

auditions & call to artists blUe ridGe holiday market • Through FR (11/9) - Applications from local vendors will be accepted

by Blue Ridge Community College's holiday market through nov. 9.

Info: www.bit.ly/brholidaymarket or 694-4747. fiCtion ConteSt • Through TH (11/1) - The Fountainhead Bookstore will accept submissions for its Family Gatherings fiction contest through nov. 1. Info: www.fountainhead bookstore.com or 697-1870. haUnted hoUSe ConteSt • Through SA (9/15) - Submissions to Smoky Mountain Expressway's haunted house contest will be accepted through Sept. 15. Info: info@smokymountainsk8way.com or 246-9124. haywood CoUnty artS CoUnCil • Through TH (9/20) - HCAC will accept applications for the North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program. Nonprofit organizations dedicated to promoting and developing diverse cultural arts programming in Haywood County are eligible. Info: www.haywoodarts. org or 452-0593. mini-GrantS for yoUth GroUpS • Through FR (10/5) - The N.C. Youth Advisory Council of the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office will accept applications for minigrants through oct. 5. Applications are available to youth groups associated with nonprofits or governmental agencies to conduct community projects. Info and application: (919) 807-4400 or www.avl.mx/jf.

SCriptfeSt • Through SU (9/30) - Playwrights are invited to submit new full-length plays to SART's ScriptFEST through Sept. 30. Scripts must be mailed; no email submissions accepted. Info and guidelines: www.sartplays.org. yoUtheatre aUditionS • FR (9/15), 1-6pm - Flat Rock Playhouse's YouTHEATRE invites actors ages 8-18 to audition for its

production of the The Nutcracker.

Held at Robin R. Farquhar Education Center, 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock. Info: www.ytrocks. com or 693-3517.

beneFits 4k for pete • FR (9/14), 6pm - A 4K run/fundraiser, to benefit district Court Judge peter knight will depart from the Patton Park pavilion in Hendersonville. Trip follows the Oklawaha Trail. Walkers, runners and strollers welcome. A pizza social will immediately follow at the Southern Appalachian Brewery, 822 Locust St., Hendersonville. $20/$10 17 and under. Registration includes pizza, beer and T-shirt. Info and registration: http://avl.mx/jn.

Car waSh and CookoUt • SU (9/16), 11am-3pm - A car wash, car show and cookout, to benefit the blue ridge rollergirls, will be held at Green River Auto, 1935 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville. Free; donations encouraged. Info: www.blueridgerollergirls.com.

CommUnity yard Sale • SA (9/15), 8am-2pm - A yard sale, to benefit Swannanoa babe ruth baseball and Softball youth programs, will be held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa. Info: swannanoababeruth@gmail.com.

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native plant SympoSiUm • FR (9/14) & SA (9/15) - The Native Plant Symposium, to benefit the highlands botanical Garden, will feature garden tours, lectures, field trips, workshops, a plant auction, dinner and wine. Held at the Highlands Biological Station's botanical garden, 265 N. 6th St., Highlands. $75. Info: www.highlandsbiological.org or 526-2221. no kid hUnGry • Through SU (9/30) - Mellow Mushroom, 50 Broadway St., will donate a portion of proceeds to Share our Strength’s no kid hungry Campaign.

Restaurant prices vary. Info: www.mellowmushroom.com or DineOutForNoKidHungry.org. paint the bywater pink • SU (9/16), 2-6:30pm - This benefit for Strides against breast Cancer will feature music by Nikki Talley and Steve Weams, an auction of local art and goods, food, a corn hole tournament and more. Hosted

by The Bywater, 796 Riverside Drive. Free to attend. Info: http:// avl.mx/ju or www.bywaterbar.com. plate expeCtationS • FR (9/14), 6-10pm - Plate Expectations, to benefit meals on wheels of asheville and buncombe County, will feature silent auction items including vacations, furniture, local artwork, gift certificates and golf getaways. Held

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at The Venue, 21 North Market St. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, complimentary beer and wine and cash bar. $50. Info: www.MOWABC.org or 253-5286.

SoCkS and SUndrieS drive • Project Connect will host a "socks and sundries" drive to benefit asheville's homeless population.

Donations of socks, toothbrushes, razors, hygienic products and winter clothes will be accepted at 14 locations throughout Asheville. Info and locations: 515-1668.

What the frack?

What: A benefit concert and film screening to support Clean Water for North Carolina's efforts to block fracking in North Carolina.

Where: White Horse Black Mountain, 105-C Montreat Road, Black Mountain.

bbq fUndraiSer • SA (9/15), noon-6pm - Holy Smoke Ministry BBQ Fundraiser, to benefit St. George's episcopal Church's emergency storm relief program, will feature pulled pork, beans, coleslaw, a drink and dessert. Held at 1 School Road. $10, take-out available. Info: 258-0211 or http://webpages.charter.net/stgeorgeasheville.

When: Thursday, Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info: cwfnc.org.

There are no hydraulic fracturing operations in the state and Clean Water for North Carolina wants to keep it that way.

The controversial natural gas drilling technique, commonly known as fracking, has raised eyebrows among environmentalists throughout the U.S., including the 34 states that currently allow the practice.

A benefit concert, featuring folk-rocker Marc Black, will raise funds for Clean Water for North Carolina's efforts to keep fracking out of N.C. The evening will include a screening of the film A Message from the Marcellus, which follows grassroots efforts to maintain the N.C. ban and examines the effects of fracking on Pennsylvania farmers. Environmental activities hit some roadblocks this summer. “In July, the N.C. Legislature ripped up decades of groundwater protections for rural drinking water in order to allow fracking, which will provide few benefits while risking our precious water resources,” according to Katie Hicks, assistant director of Clean Water for North Carolina.

StarliGht niGht • SA (9/15), 5-9pm - Starlight Night: A Night under the Stars, to benefit full Spectrum farms, will feature entertainment, wagon rides, food and a silent auction. Held at 1185 Wayehutta Road, Cullowhee. $50/$10 ages 4-14/children under 4 free. Info: info@fullspectrumfarms. org or 293-2521.

StUdent talent Show • WE (9/19), 6:30-10pm - A student talent show and fundraiser, to benefit open hearts arts Center's work with differently-abled adults, will be held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway. $10 includes food, music and silent auction. Info: www.facebook.com/ openhearts. the hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. Programs are free and located at 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. www.thehopicecreamcafe.com or 254-2224.

• TU (9/18), 5-8pm - 50 percent of sales benefit blue ridge heritage, the organization that oversees the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitors Center. The evening will feature live Appalachian music. Free. the tanGerine ball • SA (9/15), 9pm-1am - The Tangerine Ball, to benefit asheville area arts Council, will feature four parties to celebrate Asheville's Art Deco traditions. Venues include 5 Walnut Wine Bar, Hotel Indigo, French Broad Chocolate Factory and Tasting Room and the Orange Peel. $30-$100. Info: www.ashevillearts.com. walk for parkinSonS reSearCh • SU (9/16), 2pm - A charity walk, to benefit the michael J. fox foundation and parkinson's research, will be held at Brevard Music Center, Probart St., Brevard.

Sponsored by the BrevardHendersonville Parkinson's Support

It's somewhat of a David and Goliath story that leaves many local environmentalists wondering what they can do to support the cause. Hicks believes education is key. “We’re excited to offer an opportunity in WNC for folks to learn more about what this means for our state,” says Hicks. If you're concerned about fracking or just want to hear some good music, the public is invited to join forces with other frack-fighters while learning more about the issue.

Group. Info and registration: 6857673. women of inflUenCe • TH (9/20), 7pm - The Women of Influence awards, to benefit the ywCa of asheville, will be presented at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 North Pack Square. $60. Info: www. ywcaofasheville.org or 254-7206.

business & technoloGy

aaaC artiSt'S CUrriCUlUm inStrUCtorS • The Asheville Area Arts Council seeks instructors for its Artist's Curriculum program to provide business management training for creative professionals. Topics include financial management, software, business planning, graphic production, marketing, etc.

Interested instructors are invited to apply: kitty@ashevillearts.com.

victor@mountainbizworks.org or 253-2834.

internet toolS for bUSineSS • WE (9/12), 7-8:30pm - A class on using internet tools to keep businesses organized will be hosted by Asheville Area Arts Council, 346 Depot St. $20. Info: www.ashevillearts.com or kitty@ashevillearts. com.

ontraCk finanCial edUCation & CoUnSelinG Unless otherwise noted, all classes are free and held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Suite 222. Info: www. ontrackwnc.org or 255-5166.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS through (9/20), 5:30-8:30pm - A four-part class on homebuyer education will be held at Glen Apartments, 1 River Glen Drive, Arden. $35.

• TH (9/13), 5:30-7pm - "Debt Relief 101" will be held at Pisgah Legal Services, 62 Charlotte St. --- noon-1pm - "Got Credit? Get it, Keep It, Improve It," a financial program for women.

• FR (9/14), 11am-1pm - The NAACP Credit Awareness Project will provide free credit reports on a first-come, first-serve basis. Held at 91 Patton Ave. Info: www.ontrackwnc.org.

• MONDAYS through (9/24), 5:308pm - "Manage Your Money," the basics of budgeting, setting goals,

marketinG workShop • SA (9/15), 9am-noon - Blaine Greenfield will lead a workshop on marketing and business positioning in UNCA's Reuter Center. $25. Info: http://olliasheville.com or 251-6140. moUntain biZworkS workShopS 153 S. Lexington Ave. Info: 2532834 or www.mountainbizworks. org.

• MONDAYS, noon & WEDNESDAYS, 4:30pm - An informational meeting about Mountain BizWorks' programs will help businesses make the first step toward accessing the organization's services. Free. Info and registration:

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classes, MeetinGs & events aSheville newComerS ClUb (pd.) A great opportunity for women new to the area to make lasting friends, explore the surroundings and enrich their lives.

Contact us! ashevillenewcomersclub.com exhibit: aSheville qUilt GUild meetinG (pd.) September 18 Art Quilter Frieda Anderson talks about “Fun Fast Fusing” as a quilting technique, 10 a.m., at the Folk Art Center, Blue Ridge Parkway, www.ashevillequiltguild.org learn to knit at pUrl'S yarn emporiUm (pd.) On Wall Street downtown: Beginning Knit :1st and 2nd Wednesdays, 6-8pm; Intermediate Knit: 3rd and 4th Wednesdays. •

$40/4 hours of instruction. 828-2532750. www.purlsyarnemporium. com maC baSiCS ClaSSeS at Charlotte Street CompUterS (pd.) Mac Basics Computer Classes are being held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street.

Class time is 12:15 - 12:45pm.

Mondays - Mac OS X, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month iPhoto, 2nd Tuesday - Safari & Mail, 4th Tuesday - iMovie Basics, 5th Tuesday - Alternate between Garageband and iWork Essentials, Wednesdays - iPad Basics.

Registration is just $9.99 at classes@ charlottestreetcomputers.com. mediCine walk retreat (pd.) November 9-11, Highlands NC: JOIN US for a weekend of self-discovery in a Woman-Centered Space. Explore the Lakota Seven Rites Teachings and Experience the healing of a Sacred Pipe Ceremony with earth-based curandera (healer)

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Is writing your passion—your dream—maybe even your profession? The Great Smokies Writing Program, UNC Asheville’s community writing program, is designed for you—offering workshops for the beginning writer, the aspiring writer, even the accomplished, published author.

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Star knowledGe aSheville fall eqUinox (pd.) 3 Day Event September 21st - 23rd 9 am - 9 pm. We invite you to join us as we bring in 3 days of speakers, workshops, ceremony, food and camping. Sunday ceremony for children. 828-329-5350 www. starknowledgeasheville.com. yoGa CoSmoS & Shine fridayS (pd.) 5pm- 90 mins. of dynamic yoga connection from the inspiration of Richard Fabio. Sundays 10 am. Cultivate confidence and an easy spirit through alignment with Kim Drye. Lighten Up Yoga, 60 Biltmore Ave, 254-7756.

150th anniverSary of the Civil war • Through TU (10/30), 10am-5pm - Henderson County Heritage Museum will observe the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with never-before-seen artifacts including military weaponry and uniforms at 1 Historic Courthouse Square, Hendersonville. Free. Info: 6941619. aCryliC paintinG ClaSS • WEDNESDAYS through (11/7), 10am-noon - Acrylic painting classes will be offered by the Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. $15 per month includes supplies (except brushes).

Registration required. Info: harvesth@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2051. ameriCan bUSineSS women'S aSSoCiation Info: www.abwaskyhy.com.

• TH (9/13), 5:30-7:30pm - A dinner meeting will be held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive. $20.

Info: www.ABWA.org or abwaskyhychapter@gmail.com. aSheville fm open hoUSe • SA (9/15), noon - 6pm - Asheville Free Media will host an open house, featuring music, BBQ and giveaways at 864 Haywood Road. Free.

Info: www.AshevilleFM.org.

Carolina horSe and CarriaGe toUrS • WEEKENDS through (12/24) Horse and carriage tours will depart from the Hendersonville Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St. $25 for two people/$5 additional adults/$3 children under 12/under 4 free. Info: 209-1099. dan SavaGe • TH (9/13), 7pm - Sex-advice columnist Dan Savage will speak as part of UNCA's Well-A-Bration in the university's Justice Center. $10/ UNCA students free with ticket.

Info: www.unca.edu. elida Corn maZe • FRIDAYS, 4-8pm; SATURDAYS, 10am-8pm & SUNDAYS, 11am-7pm through (10/28) - This year's Elida corn maze will be based on the children's book Spookley the Square Pumpkin. Maze features 12 acres of

trails and three levels of difficulty.

Located at 2 Compton Drive. $9/$6 children 4-11. Group rates available.

Info: www.eliada.org or 254-5356. henderSon CoUnty heritaGe mUSeUm Located in the Historic Courthouse on Main St., Hendersonville. Wed.Sat., 10am-5pm; Sun., 1-5pm. Free unless otherwise noted. Info: www. hendersoncountymuseum.org or 694-1619.

• Through SU (12/30) - School Days: 1797-1940 will feature a complete timeline of that era for all schools in Henderson County, many of which no longer exist. land of Sky toaStmaSterS • TUESDAYS, 7am - The Land of Sky Toastmasters aims to "help people with their speaking and presentation skills." Meets at the Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd. $10.

Info: www.landofskytoastmasters. org. lifetree Cafe • TUESDAYS, 7pm - "Lifetree Cafe is a place where people gather for conversation about life and faith in a casual setting." Groups discuss a different topic every week. All are welcome. Hosted at Rejavanation Cafe, 901 Smoky Park Highway. Info and weekly topic: www.lifetreecafe. com. overmoUntain viCtory Celebration • FR (9/14) through SU (9/16) Witness Revolutionary War history at the 20th annual Overmountain Victory Celebration. Candlelight tours, firing demonstrations and a Posting of the Colours Ceremony will be held throughout the weekend. Held at the Museum of North Carolina Minerals, MP 331 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Call for times: 765-1228. rUbber bridGe • TUESDAYS, 9-11:30am - Rubber Bridge will be played at East Asheville Recreation Center, 906 Tunnel Road. No partner required.

Info: 298-8979.

Star trek ClUb alariC • SA (9/15), 10am-6pm - Star Trek Club Alaric will host an open house featuring videos, contests and games. Held at Lake Julian Pavilion #4, 406 Overlook Road Extension, Arden. Free. Info: ussalaric@gmail. com or 650-9749. the CommUnity SpeakS • TH (9/13), 6-8:30pm - "The Community Speaks" will feature presentations and performances by community members and organizations involved in the East of the Riverway project at Dr. Wesley Grant, Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St. A free dinner precedes the presentations. Info: tirby@ashevillenc.gov or 989-6288. wCU open hoUSe • SA (9/15), 8:30am - An open house for WCU will feature tours, academic sessions and an informa-

tion fair, along with lunch. Info: openhouse.wcu.edu or 227-7317.

• SA (9/15), 7pm - A "Star Recipes: Blue Plate Special" dance will feature selections from Southern Lights' new cookbook, which features recipes from local callers, cuers and dancers. Advanced dance at 6pm.

willy thilly meetUp • FRIDAYS, 7pm - A community group for those who enjoy fun conversation in a relaxed, sophisticated environment. All topics welcome.

Held after hours in the North Asheville Library's Community Meeting Room, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Free to attend. Info: 250-4752.

tanGo danCe • WEDNESDAYS, 8-11pm - Catwalk Milonga will be held at Homewood Event and Conference Center, 19 Zilicoa St., with host and DJ Lisa Jacobs. $7. BYOB. Info: www.catwalktango.com.

woven women veteranS network • TH (9/13), 11am-1pm - WOVEN Women Veterans Network will meet at Mills River Restaurant, 4467 Boylston Highway, Mills River. Free.

Info and registration: celia@womenveteransnetwork.org or 242-4423.

waltZ workShop • SA (9/15) - Let's Dance Asheville presents a series of waltz workshops at French Broad Food Coop's Movement and Learning Center, 90 Biltmore Ave. Beginners: 9:30am; Intermediate I: 11:15am; Intermediate II: 1:15pm. Pay-whatyou-can. Proceeds benefit Living Compassion Zen Monastery's Vulnerable Africa Children Project.

Info: 628-1090.

caMpaiGn calendar 11th ConGreSSional diStriCt debate • WE (9/12), 7:30pm - A debate between 11th Congressional District candidates Mark Meadows (Republican) and Hayden Rogers (Democrat) will be held in Brevard College's Porter Center. Free. Info: www.brevard.edu or 883-8292.

Candidate forUm • TH (9/20), 1-3pm - A candidate forum, hosted by the North Carolina Prosperity Project and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, will be held at 36 Montford Ave. Candidates from the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts, Senate Districts 47 and 50, as well as House Districts 115, 116 and 118, will be in attendance.

Space is limited. Info and registration: http://bit.ly/Ps6joP, nbabcock@ ncchamber.net or (919) 836-1413.

eco eliSha mitChell aUdUbon SoCiety • WE (9/19), 7pm - The Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society will meet in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Local bird expert Marilyn Westphal will discuss why some WNC bird species have flourished and some have faltered.

Free. Info: www.emasnc.org or olliasheville.com.

Get pumped: Celebrate Oktoberfest early at the Smoky Mountain Accordion Fest, featuring the “Liberace of the accordion” Tony Lovello and Walter Kasprzyk of the K Trio. The Maggie Valley Club will be filled with the sounds of booming bellows on Saturday, Sept. 15, starting at 2 p.m. (pg. 33)

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301-0331. Learn more: www.river-

Located at 18 Church St. Info: www. myaltamont.com or 274-8070.

• TH (9/13), 8pm; FR (9/14) & SA (9/15), 7:30 & 9:30pm - Nick Thune (absurdist and deadpan comedy with guitar). $15.

viewstation.com Spiral Spirit eCStatiC danCe (pd.) Wed nights. Join us on the dance floor for movement meditation every Wed nites. We dance at Sol's Reprieve 11 Richland St. in

dance

West Asheville. Warmup at 6:30pm, circle at 7:00pm and the fee is

beGinner SwinG danCinG leSSonS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.

Swingasheville.com

$7.00. Contact Karen azealea10@

Bharatanatyam Classes • adult • Children (pd.) Bharatanatyam is the sacred classical dance form of India. Adult and children's classes now forming. Traditional Kalakshetra Style.

• DakshinaNatya Classical Arts.

Riverview Station. • Call Tess: (828)

Bellydance $7 • Wed. 6-7pm Fusion

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Free. Info: www.southernlights.org or 681-8471.

SoUthern liGhtS SdC Held at the Whitmire Activity Building, 301 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Info and cost: 6933825.

ethiCal SoCiety of aSheville: natUral GaS indUStry • SU (9/16), 2-3:30pm - The Ethical Society of Asheville will discuss the fossil fuel and natural gas industries, water justice and climate change at the Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road. Free.

Info: ethicalsocietyasheville@gmail. com or 687-7759. franklin Green drinkS • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Franklin Green Drinks invites those interested in preserving the environment to meet at The Rathskeller, 58 Stewart St., Franklin.

Free. Info: joy@wnca.org. hard to reCyCle event • SA (9/15), 10am-2pm - The public is invited to bring Styrofoam, rigid plastics, electronics (excluding TVs), printer cartridges and more to the Swannanoa Ingles, 2299 U.S. Highway 70. Rain date Sept. 22.

Free. Info: www.blackmountain.org. riverlink eventS Info: www.riverlink.org or 252-8474.

• WE (9/12), 10am & 5pm Volunteer information sessions will be held at the RiverLink office, 170 Lyman St. Info: volunteer@riverlink. org or 252-8474.

• WEDNESDAYS through (10/13) - “Get the Poop Out.” Volunteers are needed to assist with bacteria sampling and clean-up efforts in the French Broad River. No experience necessary. Training provided

the day of sampling. Info and registration: Hartwell@wnca.org or 258-8737.

SoUthern Green livinG expo • FR (9/14), 11am-6pm; SA (9/15), 10am-8pm; SU (9/16), 11am-5pm - The Southern Green Living Expo will feature the “Southern region’s opportunities, knowledge and successes in sustainable economics and conservative environmental stewardship” through exhibitors, workshops and seminars. Free electronic waste recycling available.

Held at the U.S. Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. Info: $9/$5 students/$8 seniors/children under 12 free. Info: www.southerngreenlivingexpo.com.

SUStainable livinG workShop: wine • TU (9/18), 6:30pm - A winemaking and wine tasting workshop will be presented as part of ECO’s Sustainable Living Workshop series.

Held at Falderal Winery, 131 Third Ave. W., Hendersonville. $15. Info: www.eco-wnc.org or 692-0385. wnCa annUal GatherinG • SA (9/15), 6:30-8:30pm - A celebration of the Western North Carolina Alliance’s 30th anniversary will feature food, drink and a presentation of the Esther Cunningham Award. Held at Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info and registration: AnnaJane@wnca.org.

Festivals aSheville fm anniverSary party • TH (9/13), 10:30pm - Asheville Free Media will celebrate its third anniversary with a screening of the independent comedy Crime Wave, comedy by Mioni Hinds, a variety show by Toy Boat and the Sugarfoot Serenaders, along with a raffle. Held at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, 675 Merrimon Ave. $5 suggested donation. Info: www. ashevillefm.org or www.ashevillebrewing.com.

Catawba riverfeSt • SA (9/15), 10am-3pm - Catawba RiverFest will highlight area conservation groups with food, music by Strictly Clean and Decent, exhibits, a live raptor release at 10:30am, a water derby and free canoe and kayak rentals. Held at Lake James State Park, N.C. Highway 126. Free.

Info: 584-7728. moUntain heritaGe pow wow • FR (9/14), 8:30am-8pm; SA (9/15), 9am-8pm; SU (9/16), 10am-5pm The Mountain Heritage Pow Wow will feature demonstrations, Native music and food. Held at Mountain Heritage Expo Center, 621 Micaville Loop, Burnsville. $5/$2 children.

Info: www.nativeamericanevents. com. moUntain State fair • Through SU (9/16) - The N.C. Mountain State Fair will feature

agriculture, amusement rides, food, entertainment and more. Held at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher.

Mon.-Thurs., 3-11pm; Fri. & Sat., 9am-midnight; Sun., 9am-11pm. $7/$3 seniors and children age 6-12/children five and under free. www.mountainfair.org.

SoUtheaStern tribeS CUltUral artS Celebration • FR (9/14) & SA (9/15), 9am-9pm - The Southeastern Tribes Cultural Arts Celebration brings together dancers, craftspeople, artists and athletes from the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole and Choctaw tribes. Held at Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds, 441 S/545 Tsali Blvd. $7/$3 ages 6-13/5 and under free. www.cherokeemuseum.org or 4973481. travelinG bonfire • SA (9/15), 4-9pm - The Traveling Bonfire is a movable feast of family fun featuring music, arts and dancing. Live music by The Zealots. Held in Pritchard Park. Free. Info: http:// ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot. com or 280-1555.

FilM CommUnity movie niGht • SA (9/15), 7pm - Asheville Community Yoga, 8 Brookdale Road, will screen Slumdog Millionaire and A Bug's Life simultaneously. Supervision provided, but parents must stay in the building. $5 suggested donation. Info: www. ashevillecommunityyoga.com or 255-5575. foUnd footaGe feStival • WE (9/12), 8pm - The Found Footage Festival will feature "odd and hilarious VHS tapes," hosted

by Joe Pickett of The Onion and Nick Prueher of The Colbert Report. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. $10. Info: www. foundfootagefest.com. reel roCk film toUr • TH (9/20), 7pm - Reel Rock will feature films about rock climbing, giveaways and appearances by professional climbers at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, 675 Merrimon Ave. $10. Info: www.reelrocktour.com.

Under oUr Skin • FR (9/14), 7pm - Social Justice Film night will screen Under Our Skin, a "gripping tale of microbes, medicine and money," at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place. By donation. Info: devwilliams@juno.com.

Food & beer family dinner niGht • TH (9/13) & TH (9/20), 4-8pm Family Dinner Night, hosted by ASAP, will offer free meals for children with the purchase of an adult meal of $5 or more. Held at Earth

Fare, 66 Westgate Parkway. Info: www.earthfare.com. food for thoUGht • FR (9/14), 4:30pm - "Food for Thought," a panel discussion about the food economy with local farmers, will be held on UNCA's quad.

A screening of Food Inc. begins at 6pm. Free. Info: http://ncchw.unca. edu/wellabration.

UGly piG bbq and hoedown • SA (9/15), 6-10pm - The Ugly Pig BBQ and Hoedown will feature brisket, chicken, pork and ribs, with music by Point of View. Held at Clear Creek Automotive, 1837 Clear Creek Road, Hendersonville. $12/$6 ages 3-12. Info and reservations: 698-6866.

GardeninG ameriCan rhododendron SoCiety • SU (9/16), 2pm - The Southeastern Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will meet at Saint John in the Wilderness Parish Hall, 1905 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Featured speaker: garden designer Colston Burrell. Free.

Info: www.rhododendron.org or 696-2996. dehydratinG: beyond beef Jerky • WE (9/19), 1:30pm - Learn how to dehydrate fruits, vegetables and meats for a variety of foods like beef jerky, fruit roll-ups, trail mix and ready-mixes. Held at the Otto Garden Club, 60 Fire House Road, Otto. Free. Info: kimlippy@aol.com.

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Free. Info: www.bbbarns.com.

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GardeninG in the moUntainS • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 10am Gardening in the Mountains lectures will be offered at the Buncombe County Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. Free. Info: 255-5522. moUntain GardenS volUnteerS • THURSDAYS, 10am-5pm Mountain Gardens, 546 Shuford Creek Road, Burnsville, seeks volunteers to help "dress and keep" its paradise garden. "Spend time with us in the garden and leave with a box of useful plants." Free. Info: www.mountaingardensherbs.com.

Sand hill CommUnity Garden • The Sand Hill Community Garden seeks volunteers to perform garden tasks to benefit MANNA FoodBank.

Located at the Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Circle. Free.

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• WEDNESDAYS, 8am-noon waynesville tailgate market, 171 Legion Drive. --- 8am-noon - haywood historic farmer's market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 2-6pm - asheville City market South, Town Square Blvd., Biltmore Park. --- 2:30-6:30pm - weaverville tailgate market, 60 Lakeshore Drive. --- 2-5pm Spruce pine farmers market, 297 Oak Ave. --- 2-6pm - montford farmers market, 36 Montford Ave. --- 2-6pm - french broad food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. --- 2-6pm opportunity house, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. --- 5pmdusk - 'whee farmer's market, 416 Central Drive, Cullowhee.

• THURSDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm oakley farmers market, 607 Fairview Road. --- 3-6pm - flat rock tailgate market, 2724 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. --3rd THURSDAYS, 2-6pm - Greenlife tailgate market, 70 Merrimon Ave. • FRIDAYS, 2-6pm - opportunity house, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. --- 3-6pm - east asheville tailgate market, 945 Tunnel Road. --- 4-7pm - leicester tailgate market, 338 Leicester Highway.

• SATURDAYS, 7am-noon henderson County tailgate market, 100 N. King St., Hendersonville.--- 8am-noon waynesville tailgate market, 171 Legion Drive. --- 8am-noon - haywood historic farmer's market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 8am-noon - mills river farmers market, 5046 Boylston Highway. --- 8am-noon - bakersville farmers market, Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot, opposite the U.S. Post Office. --- 8am-1pm asheville City market, 161 South Charlotte St. --- 8am-12:30pm - transylvania tailgate market, behind Comporium on the corner of Johnson and Jordan streets, Brevard. --- 8am-noon - north asheville tailgate market, UNCA commuter lot C. --- 8:30am12:30pm - yancey County farmers market, S. Main Street at US 19E, Burnsville. --- 9am-noon - big ivy tailgate market, 1679 Barnardsville Highway, Barnardsville. --- 9am-noon - black mountain tailgate market, 130 Montreat Road. --- 9am-1pm - madison County farmers and artisans market, Highway 213 at Park Street, Mars Hill. --- 9am-2pm - leicester tailgate market, 338 Leicester Highway. --- 10am-2pm - murphy farmers market, downtown Murphy. Info: 837-3400.

• SUNDAYS, noon-4pm - marshall's "Sundays on the island," Blanahasset Island.

• TUESDAYS, 3-6pm - historic marion tailgate market, West Henderson Street at Logan Street,

Marion. --- 3:30-6:30pm - west asheville tailgate market, 718 Haywood Road.

GovernMent & politics after CapitaliSm: eConomiC demoCraCy in aCtion • SA (9/15), 7pm - Dada Maheshvarananda will present his book After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 48 Commerce St. Free. Info: www.firestormcafe.com or 255-8115. blUe ridGe repUbliCan women • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - The Blue Ridge Republican Women's Club meets monthly at the Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Gatherings feature guest speakers. $18 for optional dinner at 6pm.

Info: www.buncombegop.org. kidS votinG bUnCombe CoUnty volUnteerS • Kids Voting Buncombe County seeks volunteers to assist young voters on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Training provided. Info: http://kidsvotingbc.org or 775-5673. oCCUpy wall Street anniverSary • MO (9/17), 4:30pm - Occupy Asheville will commemorate the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street with a march and rally in Pritchard Park. Free. Info: www. occupyasheville.org.

kids aZalea moUntain SChool open hoUSe • SA (9/15), 10-11:30am - Azalea Mountain School, 587 Haywood Road, will host an open house for prospective students grades 1-5.

The event will include examples of Waldorf education through circles, games and sample lessons. Info: www.azaleamountain.org. feltinG and fiber ClaSS • SATURDAYS (9/15) through (12/15) - Echoview Fiber Mill, 75 Jupiter Road, Weaverville, offers felting and fiber classes for kids ages 8-10. Projects include animal pins, Thanksgiving table runners and bamboo stars. $25 includes materials. Registration required.

Info: ketheredge@echoviewfarm. com. franCine delaney new SChool for Children • Through TU (11/6), 7-9pm Francine Delaney New School for Children will host "compelling dialogue, community building and a call to action" during a nine-week session at 119 Brevard Road. $30 includes materials, with discounts for public school teachers. Childcare available with advanced registration.

Info: www.buildingbridges-asheville. org or 777-4585.

Girl SCoUt parent information niGht • TH (9/13), 6-8pm - A Girl Scout Express Event will offer information about the organization, its activities and registration for the coming year at the Oakley Community Center, below the Oakley Library, 749 Fairview Road. Info: kbrooks@ girlscoutsp2p.org.

• MO (9/17), 6-8pm - An additional information session will be held at Upward Community Center, 5749 Howard Gap Road. Info: kbrooks@ girlscoutsp2p.org.

• TH (9/20), 5:30-7:30pm - An additional information session will be held at Fletcher United Methodist Church, 50 Library Road. Info: kbrooks@girlscoutsp2p.org. handS on!

This children's museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville.

Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Programs require $5 admission fee/free for members, unless otherwise noted.

Info: www.handsonwnc.org or 6978333.

• TH (9/13) - Children are invited to celebrate Hands On!'s birthday with cake.

• WE (9/19), 11am - "Caregiver and Me" class will focus on bringing books to life through acting, art and creative movement. $10/$5 members. homeSChool raftinG trip • TH (9/20) - The City of Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts will offer a whitewater rafting trip for homeschooled children. Meets at East Asheville Recreation Center, 906 Tunnel Road. $35/$32 Asheville city residents. Info, time and details: outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov or 251-4029. nfl pUnt, paSS, kiCk Competition • SA (9/15), 11am-12:30pm - The NFL Punt, Pass, Kick competition is open to boys and girls up to age 15. Birth certificate or baptismal record required. Held at Enka Middle School, 390 Asbury Road, Candler. Free. Info: www.jay. nelson@buncombecounty.org or 250-4260. play and learn literaCy proGram • TUESDAYS through FRIDAYS, 9am - Play and Learn, an eight-week pre-literacy program for 3-5 year olds, will be held at various locations throughout Buncombe County.

New classes begin in September.

Sponsored by Smart Start. Free.

Info and locations: marna.holland@ asheville.k12.nc.us or 350-2904.

Smith-mCdowell hoUSe mUSeUm On the campus of A-B Tech Community College, 283 Victoria Road. Info: education@wnchistory. org or 253-9231.

• TH (9/13), 3:30pm - The Tar Heel Junior Historians Association will begin its 2012-2013 season at the Smith-McDowell House Museum.

The club is open to school-age students who are interested in history, reenacting and making history come alive. Yearly dues: $10 per child/$5 each-additional sibling. Info: www. wnchistory.org.

Orchestra will be held most Wednesdays in the Manheimer Room of UNCA's Reuter Center.

Free. Call for confirmation. Info: www.blueridgeorchestra.org or 251-6140.

Swim leSSonS • WEEKLY - The YMCA hosts group, private and semi-private swim lessons at 30 Woodfin St. Mon. & Wed., 5:30-7pm; Tues. & Thurs., 4:30-6pm; & Sat., 10am-noon. Prices vary: 210-9622.

haywood CommUnity band • SU (9/16), 6:30pm - The Haywood Community Band will perform in the pavilion adjacent to Maggie Valley Town Hall, 3987 Soco Road. Theme: "Sounds From the Silver Screen," featuring music from Schindlers List, Mission Impossible and A Tribute to Mancini. Free. Info: www. haywoodcommunityband.org or 456-4880.

take the StaGe yoUth theater proGram • MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5-8pm - The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department offers a youth theater program for ages 12-19 at Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. Free. Info: takethestageyouththeatre@live.com or 550-5498. talk like a pirate day • SA (9/15), 10:30am - Talk Like a Pirate Day will feature sea chanties, pirate games and more. Hosted by The Crafty Historian at the SmithMcDowell House Museum on the campus of A-B Tech. Ages 7 and up. $3. Info and registration: education@wnchistory.org or 253-9231.

Music SonG o' Sky Show ChorUS (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Covenant Community UMC 11 Rocket Dr. Asheville, NC 28803. Guests welcome. Contact: www.songosky.org Toll Free # 1-866-824-9547. appalaChian ConCerto • TH (9/13), 8pm - The Kruger Brothers will perform Appalachian Concerto, a piece for banjo, bass, guitar and strings, commissioned by Asheville Area Arts Council. Held in ASU's Rosen Concert Hall. $15/$8 students and children. Info: www. appstate.edu. aSheville Symphony orCheStra • SA (9/15), 8pm - The Asheville Symphony Orchestra will perform Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, along with works by Glazunov and Falla, with Chee-Yun (violin). $20$58 with discounts for students.

Info: www.ashevillesymphony.org.

• FR (9/14), 3pm - A symphony talk with music director Daniel Meyer will be held in UNCA's Reuter Center. Free. Info: http://olliasheville.com or 251-6140. barrett Smith and mike aShworth • FR (9/14), 7pm - Barrett Smith and Mike Ashworth will perform an outdoor concert at the Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard. Free. Info: 884-3151. blUe ridGe orCheStra Info: www.blueridgeorchestra.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Open rehearsals for the Blue Ridge

Jam SeSSion • 3rd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - An old-time jam session will be held at Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. 441. Info: www.nps.gov/grsm. kate Campbell • SU (9/16), 4pm - Kate Campbell (singer-songwriter) will perform at Madison County Arts Center, 90 S. Main St., Marshall. $15. Info: www. madisoncountyarts.com or 6491301. laGniappe braSS band • FR (9/14), 8pm - The Lagniappe Brass Band (New Orleans-style brass) will perform on UNCA's quad. Traditional New Orleans food samples will be offered at 7:30pm Free. Info: www.unca.edu. mUSiC at wCU Unless otherwise noted, performances are held at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.

Tickets and info: bardoartscenter. wcu.edu or 227-2479.

• SU (9/16), 7:30pm - Simply Sinatra will feature the songs of Frank Sinatra performed by Steve Lippia. $20/$15 WCU faculty and staff/$5 students and children. new 5 CentS • FR (9/14), 7pm - New 5 Cents (bluegrass, country) will perform at Isothermal Community College's Columbus campus, Polk Center.

Free. Info: http://avl.mx/js. pan harmonia • SU (9/16), 3pm - Kate Steinbeck (flute) and Amy Brucksch (guitar) will perform The Magic Flute by Mozart and Carmen by Bizet at Haywood County Public Library, 11 Penland St., Canton. Free. Info: www.haywoodarts.org.

• TU (9/18), 1pm - Music on a Tuesday will feature Kate Steinbeck and Amy Brucksch at Heritage Hills, 3200 Heritage Circle, Hendersonville. Free. performanCeS at diana wortham theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square.

Info: www.dwtheatre.com or 2574530.

• FR (9/14), 8pm - Kathy Mattea (Appalachian songs). $38/$33 students/$15 children. rivermUSiC • FR (9/14), 5-10pm - RiverLink's RiverMUSIC series will feature Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band and The Fritz at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza, 117 Riverside Drive. Free. Info: www. riverlink.org.

Smoky moUntain aCCordion feSt • SA (9/15), 2pm - The Smoky Mountain Accordion Fest will feature accordionists from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, including Tony Lovello and Walter Kasprzyk. Held at the Maggie Valley Club and Resort, 1819 Country Club Drive, Maggie Valley. $20. Info: accordionmusic@bellsouth.net or 734-2975.

St. matthiaS mUSiCal performanCeS Located at 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 285-0033.

• SU (9/16), 3pm - A vocal concert will feature Lieder, works from Broadway, as well as opera. By donation.

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UnCa faCUlty ShowCaSe • TH (9/13), 7:30pm - A showcase of UNCA's music faculty will be held in the university's Lipinsky Auditorium. $5. Info: music.unca.edu or 2516432. vfw CoUntry niGht • SATURDAYS, 9pm - VFW Post 891, 626 New Leicester Highway, will host a night of country and rock music, featuring the 100 Proof Band. $7/$5 members. Info: 2544277.

outdoors biG Creek waterfall hike • TH (9/20) - A 10-mile easy-tomoderate hike through Big Creek's waterfalls will depart from Asheville at 8:30am and Waynesville at 9am. $35/$10 Friends of the Smokies members. Info and departure location: hollyd@friendsofthesmokies. org or 452-0720. brp hike of the week • FR (9/14), 10am - A 3.5-mile moderate hike on the Graveyard Fields Loop Trail will depart from MP 418.8 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Job creators: From 1990-2000, about 30 percent of the small-business growth in the United States came from immigrant-owned ventures. One of those businesses was grown here in Western North Carolina — the worker-owned, all-female Home Cleaning Professionals. Photo courtesy of Mountain BizWorks

an integral part of this economic recovery — one job at a time. eduardo’s Painting: Eduardo Cruz started offering painting services in 2004 in Cashiers, N.C. Due to his high quality work and reliability, his business grew over the years and expanded to serve commercial clients. Today he employs 21 workers and is planning on hiring several more in the coming months. los Nenes and The Aqua Café: Maria and Luis Soto purchased an existing butcher shop, combined it with their bakery next door, and added other services to create Los Nenes Bakery — a one-stop shop for Latino customers in West Asheville. This entrepreneurial couple also recently opened the Aqua Café and Bar downtown, serving a blend of Mexican and Italian food. In total, the two businesses employ 15 people.

Home Cleaning Professionals: This allfemale, worker-owned cleaning cooperative provides high-quality residential and commercial cleaning. The business employs 10 women full-time and pays each a living wage.

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15), we salute these hardworking entrepreneurs and the barriers they’ve overcome to contribute to the region’s economic prosperity. X Jamie Beasley is the Latino program director at Mountain BizWorks.

To learn more about accessing business loans, coaching, and training in Spanish, contact Mountain BizWorks at (828) 253-2834 or visit mountainbizworks.org/latino.

and be prepared for inclement weather. Info: 298-5330.

Cradle of foreStry eventS Route 276, Pisgah National Forest.

Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free. Some programs require an additional fee. Info: www.cradleofforestry.org or 877-3130.

• SA (9/15), 11am & 2pm Afternoon Tea with Llamas will feature live llamas which carry visitor's lunches, snacks and tea, along with information about the animals special adaptations for the trail and a chance to lead a llama on a 2-mile walk. eventS at rei Located at 31 Schenck Parkway.

Info: 687-0918 or www.rei.com/ asheville.

• TH (9/13), 7pm - Blue Ridge Parkway rangers will lead a presentation on top fall hikes. Free; registration required.

• WE (9/19), 7pm - A class on backpacking basics will cover gear for beginners. Free. Info and registration: http://avl.mx/dj.

• TU (9/18), 6-8pm - A class on bike maintenance will cover how to change a flat tire, perform trailside emergency spot truing and use basic tools. Bike wheels and tools provided. $40/$20 members.

Registration required.

• TH (9/20), 7pm - A presentation on international travel tips will focus on budgeting, logistics and packing.

Free; registration required. flat top manor toUrS • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 9am, 10am, 11am, 2pm & 3pm - Tours of Flat Top Manor, the former home of Moses and Bertha Cone, will be led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers. Departs from Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, MP 294 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free. Registration required: 295-3782. oUtdoor yoGa • SATURDAYS through (9/29), 9-10am - Outdoor yoga will be offered by Black Mountain Yoga instructors at Lake Tomahawk Park, 401 Laurel Circle Drive. Donations requested. Info: 669-2052.

food, dance lesson and social. Info: 274-1377.

parentinG Green parentS ClUb • FRIDAYS, 9am - This group of ecominded parents meets at Biltmore Coffee Traders, 518 Hendersonville Road, for hands on workshops, including planting kids' gardens, growing sprouts, making green cleaners and more. Children welcome. Info: 712-8439 or http://avl. mx/em. tiny tykeS • WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS,10amnoon - Tiny Tykes offers crafts, manipulatives and active play for toddlers at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver St. $1. Info: jjohnston@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2058.

trip to dUpont State foreSt • WE (9/12), 10:30am-4pm - A trip to DuPont State Forest for seniors will depart from Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $13/$10 members. Info and registration: recprograms@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030. who will leave the liGhtS on for yoU? • FR (9/14), 7pm - Marianne Kilkenny, founder of Women for Living in Community, will discuss options for creating a supportive housing environment for the next phase of life at the Earthfare West Community Room, 66 Westgate Parkway. Free. Info: info@womenforlivingincommunity.com or 230-2093.

public lectures spirituality pUbliC leCtUreS & eventS at UnCa Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (9/14), 11:25am - "1848," with John McClain, humanities lecturer, will be presented in Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: humanities.unca. edu or 251-6808. --- 11:25am “Music,” with Lyn Burkett, assistant professor of music, will be presented in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: humanities.unca.edu or 251-6808.

• MO (9/17), 11:25am - “China,” with Grant Hardy, professor of history and director of humanities, will be presented in the Humanities Lecture Hall. --- 11:25am - “Community and Authority in the Medieval West,” with William Spellman, professor of history and director of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, will be presented in Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: humanities.unca.edu or 251-6808.

seniors lUnCheon and danCe SoCial • WE (9/19), 11am-2pm - The Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road, presents a luncheon and dance social for seniors. $20 includes

aqUarian CompaSSionate fellowShip (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice. Meditation, potluck, St. Germain live channeled piano music. • Second and Fourth Wednesday. 6:30pm. • Donation.

(828) 658-3362. aSheville CompaSSionate CommUniCation Center (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:15pm, 252-0538. www.ashevilleccc.com aSheville meditation GroUp (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment. Guided meditations follow the Insight/ Mindfulness/Vipassana practices.

Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind. Our "sangha" (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited. • By donation. • Tuesdays, 7pm-8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion.

• Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated

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closinGs Green light café, 8 North Lexington Ave. (The business will continue catering and other services). greenlightcafe.com

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meditation and dharma talks. • The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/ directions: (828) 808-4444. • www. ashevillemeditation.com aStro-CoUnSelinG (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions.

Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. indian ClaSSiCal danCe (pd.) Is both prayer and an invocation of the highest divinity. Learn the dance the Natya Shastra called "the highest form of yoga," Bharatanatyam. Call Tess: 301-0331. flower of life merkaba meditation workShop (pd.) Focus on Living from the God Center. Learn how to activate your Merkaba for ascension. Oct 5, 6 and 7, 10 am to 6 pm info: 828-6262154 or www.sharibillger.com mindfUlneSS meditation ClaSS (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz.

Info: 258-3241. 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).

Donation. awakeninG praCtiCe GroUp • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Awakening Practices Group, an "Eckhart Tolle group with an emphasis on putting Tolle's words and pointers into action through meditation and discussion," will meet at Insight Counseling, 25

Orange St. By donation. Info: Trey@ QueDox.com or 670-8283. beGinninG to advanCed meditation • DAILY - Receive "personal guidance towards achieving profound experiences in meditation and awakening spiritual energy." Classes held at The People's Ashram, 2 W. Rosecrest St. By donation. Info and appointment: madhyanandi@gmail. com or www.thepeoplesashram.org. book diSCUSSion: SpiritUal proteCtion • SU (9/16), 11am-noon - "Come join this illuminating discussion and discover keys to a life of greater love, wisdom and freedom." Held at the Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road (lower level).

Free. Info: www.eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775.

Center for SpiritUal livinG aSheville A Science of Mind, Religious Science, New Thought Center. 2 Science of Mind Way. Info: www. cslasheville.org or 231-7638.

• TH (9/20), 7-9pm - Embracing the Global Heart will focus on how to "transform your energy and consciousness with sacred geometry."

By donation.

CenterinG prayer • WEDNESDAYS, 9:30am Centering Prayer, a method of contemplative prayer or Christian meditation, is offered at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St., Room 4. Welcome table at 11:30am; worship at 12:30pm. Free to attend.

Info: www. haywoodstreet.org or cszarke@yahoo.com.

Chabad hoUSe Jewish Asheville and WNC Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life, located at 660 Merrimon Ave. Info:

505-0746 or www.chabadasheville. org.

• SU (9/16) through WE (9/26) The Chabad House will host Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the Asheville JCC, 236 Charlotte St. Chabad’s Sukkot Celebration will begin Oct. 1 at the Chabad House.

All are welcome. Call for info or RSVP. exodUS ChUrCh bible StUdy • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - A community discussion through the New Testament. This group is open to all those who are searching for new friends or a new beginning in life. Meets at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. Info: 252-2535. home life, SpiritUal life • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Learn how to transform relationships with family, friends and co-workers into opportunities for meaningful spiritual growth. Held at Montford Books and More, 31 Montford Ave. Course includes guided meditation, talk and discussion. $8/$5 students and seniors. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail.com, 668-2241 or www. meditationinasheville.org. interaCtive heart openinG Celebration • SA (9/15), 7:30-9:30pm - An "interactive heart opening celebration of crystal light and love" will be held at The Light Center Dome, 2190 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain. $22/$15 in advance. Info: 669-6845. meditation and bhaJanS • SUNDAYS, 5pm - One hour silent meditation, followed by spiritual songs, bhajans, distributing fruit prasad and meditation instruction, will be held at Dhyan Mandir near Fairview. All are welcome. Free. Info

and directions: 299-3246, 329-9022 or www.shivabalamahayogi.com. myStiCal meditationS • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 3pm - Mystical Meditations will be held at the Marshall High Studios (Blannahassett Island), Room 208.

"Bring a journal to celebrate sacredness of nature, self and magic." $3-5 suggested donation. Info: highlandwildcoven@gmail.com.

SaCred embodiment Center Located at 41 Carolina Lane in Asheville. www.thesacredembodimentcenter.com or 216-2983.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8:30pm - Sacred Heart Song Circle. "Celebrate and give thanks with the elevating power of sacred song and chant."

No singing experience necessary.

Instruments welcome. $5-$15 suggested donation.

• THURSDAYS, 6:30pm Improvisation Therapy with Jeff Thompson. "Explore the principles of improvisation, and how those guidelines can be applied to life in general, through body awareness exercises, visualization and improv games." $10.

• MONDAYS, 7:30pm - "The Big Glow: From Activation to Realization. Learn to live as your most authentic self through cuttingedge teachings about the spiritual path, mindfulness meditation, dialogue and experiential exercises."

By donation. Info: www.thebigglow. com or (919) 373-4364.

SatSanG with praJna ana • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - "Explore what you are, what you have never been and the freedom in that simple but profound knowing." Satsang includes grounding in silence and group discussion. $15 suggested donation; no one turned away. Info: www.lampoftheheart.org.

Shambhala meditation Center of aSheville 19 Westwood Place. Visitors welcome; donations accepted. Info: www.asheville.shambhala.org.

• THURSDAYS, 6-6:45pm Shambhala Meditation Center of Asheville offers group sitting meditation, followed by Dharma reading and discussion at 7pm. Free.

SUnday ChantinG • SUNDAYS, 4pm - All are invited to chant at the Peace Chamber, 302 Old Fellowship Road, Swannanoa. $10 suggested donation. Info: (386) 847-6171 or catysevents@gmail. com. the ameriCan qUartet • SU (9/16), 11am - The American Quartet will present a worship service at Swannanoa Freewill Baptist Church, 200 Park St., Swannanoa. By donation. Info: www.theamericanquartet.net or 686-1333. the appalaChian Chapter of the ameriCan SoCiety of dowSerS Meets at the Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills

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River. Info: www.appalachiandowsers.org.

• SA (9/15), 1-4pm - Doug Bennett will present "The Quantum Science of Dowsing" and Sam Richardson will present "Clearing Land and Houses of Non-Beneficial Energy." $10/free for members. the CryStal ChiCkS • SA (9/15), 7:30pm - The Crystal Chicks will perform "an interactive, heart opening celebration of crystal light and love" at The Light Center Dome, 2190 Highway 9, Black Mountain. $15/$22. Info and tickets: 669-6845 or http://avl.mx/jt. the GatherinG • TH (9/20), 7pm - The Gathering invites women to enjoy a night of fellowship, worship and encouragement. Dessert and coffee at 6pm.

Held at Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road, Arden. $5. Info: www. biltmorebaptist.org or 687-1111.

spoken & Written Word battery park writinG GroUp (pd.) Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar. This group meets to write together and then share in a supportive atmosphere. Free! Contact Lisa at 691-5472 or tokyotaos@live. com for more info.

Chocolate and Lemonade," produced by the Autumn Players and the Asheville Community Theatre.

Sw • TH (9/13), 1pm - Book club: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang. fv • TU (9/18), 2pm - "Books We Love" book club: Readers are invited to discuss their favorite books. na --- 7pm - Book club: Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol. bm --- 7pm - Archaeologist George Stuart of Barnardsville will present an illustrated talk on the archaeology of WNC. fv • WE (9/19), 3:30pm - Talk Like a Pirate Day celebration with pirate flags, lingo and treasure maps. pm --- 5pm - Library knitters. Sw • TH (9/20), 2:30-4pm - Book club: Model Home by Eric Puchner. SS --7pm - Book club: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. fv City liGhtS bookStore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva.

Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.citylightsnc.com or 586-9499.

• SA (9/15), 3:30pm - Linda Dickert will read from her book The Mountains Belong to Me. --6:30pm - George Singleton will read from his book Stray Decorum.

• SU (9/16), 1pm - Johnnie Sue Myers will present her cookbook and offer samples from The Gathering Place.

• TH (9/20), 10:30am - Coffee with the Poet, featuring Katherine Soniat.

blUe ridGe bookS Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. All programs free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 456-6000.

• SA (9/15), 3pm - Johnnie Sue Meyers will present her book The Gathering Place: Traditional Cherokee Dishes and Southern Appalachian Cooking.

foUntainhead bookStore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870.

• TH (9/20), 6:30pm - Terry Roberts will present his book A Short Time to Stay Here.

bookapalooZa • FR (9/14), 7pm - Bookapalooza, "a zany party celebrating the love of reading," will feature games, prizes and appearances by local authors at The Fountainhead Bookstore, 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. $10.

Info and tickets: www.fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870.

Gene keyS readinG GroUp • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - This weekly gathering meets to discuss Richard Rudd's Gene Keys, a "guide to facing and eradicating every fear that stands in the way of your freedom." A free PDF intro is available at amazon.com. Info and location: 785-2828.

bUnCombe CoUnty pUbliC librarieS library abbreviationS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. 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 pm = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 2506488) n Sw = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • WE (9/12), 6:30pm - "Going Giddily: Senior Moments with

larry niCholS • TH (9/13), 2pm - Larry Nichols will present his book A Hobo Odyssey at Henderson County Library, 301 N. Washington St. Free. Info: 6974725. malaprop'S bookStore and Cafe 55 Haywood St. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734. Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• TH (9/13), 7pm - Jim McGavran will present his book Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood.

• FR (9/14), 7pm - George Singleton will present his new collection of dog stories Stray Decorum.

• SA (9/15), 7pm - Monk, writer and social activist Dada

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Maheshvarananda will present his book After Capitalism.

• SU (9/16), 3pm - "Writers at Home" will feature local poets Holly Iglesias, Sebastian Matthews and Katherine Soniat.

• TU (9/18), 7pm - Comix Club will discuss Mercury by Hope Larson.

• WE (9/19), 7pm - Woody Durham will present his autobiography A Tar Heel Voice.

• TH (9/20), 7pm - Stitch-n-Bitch. niGht bloom tribUte • TH (9/20), 6pm - Eight Asheville writers, including 88-year-old Virginia Redfield, will read excerpts of Redfield’s forthcoming memoir Night Bloom in UNCA's Karpen Hall. Free. Info: 318-4456. the altamont Located at 18 Church St. Info: www.myaltamont.com or 2748070.

• MO (9/17), 7:30pm - Poetry at the Altamont will present readings by a featured poet, followed by an open mic. $5. the maGnetiC field 372 Depot St. Info: www.themagneticfield.com or 257-4003.

• TU (9/18), 8pm - Poetry Slam Asheville presents the Back to School Slam. Sign up at 7pm to participate. $5 at the door. the UnChained toUr with neil Gaiman • SU (9/16), 7:30pm - Asheville Unchained will feature authors Neil

Gaiman, Edgar Oliver and Peter Aguero at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 North Pack Square. $20. Info: www.theunchainedtour.org. wnC mySterianS CritiqUe GroUp • TH (9/13), 6pm - The WNC Mysterians Critique Group will meet at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave #A. For serious mystery/suspense/thriller writers.

Info: www.wncmysterians.org or 712-5570.

sports aqUa ZUmba ClaSS • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6:307:30pm - An aqua Zumba class will be held at Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Regular admission/free for members. Info: recprograms@townofwaynesville. org or 456-2030. aSheville women'S rUGby • TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Asheville Women's Rugby is currently recruiting new players; no experience necessary. Info: www.ashevillewomensrugby.org. beaCh volleyball reGiStration • Through FR (10/19) - A beach volleyball league will be offered by Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Drive, Candler. Games are played Tues. & Thurs., 6-8pm, Oct. 30-Nov. 15. Registration required

by oct. 19. $40 per team of four.

Info and registration: jay.nelson@ buncombecounty.org or 250-4260.

CitiZen-timeS half marathon and 5k • SA (9/15) - The Citizen-Times half marathon will depart from the Citizen-Times building, 14 O. Henry St., at 7:15am. A 5K will depart at 7:30am. Info: http:// blogs2.citizen-times.com/race. eventS at rei Located at 31 Schenck Parkway.

Info: 687-0918 or www.rei.com/ asheville.

• WE (9/12), 6:30-8pm - A presentation on Chi Running will be led

by Danny Dreyer. Free; registration required.

SportS expo • FR (9/14), 11am-9pm - The Asheville Citizen-Times Sports Expo will feature exhibitors, fitness clinics, speakers and videos in UNCA's Sherrill Center. Free.

Info: http://blogs2.citizen-times. com/race.

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com, www.nys3.com, (917) 7102805. flat roCk playhoUSe Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock. Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville.

Info: www.flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• Through SA (9/15) - The Marvelous Wonderettes, "a charming love letter to classic songs and travels back to the days of bobby sox, bubble gum and Bobby Darin," will be performed at the downtown location. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Thurs, Sat. and Sun., 2pm. $35/discounts for seniors, AAA members, students and groups.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/23) - Almost, Maine, a story of "falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways," set in a composite of northern Maine towns.

Performed on the Playhouse Mainstage Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $35 with discounts for seniors, military personnel and students.

• TH (9/13) & WE (9/19), 6:30pm Reception and garden tour.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/19) until (9/30), 8pm - The Music on the Rock series will feature the music of Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons at the downtown location. $24. henderSonville little theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville. Info: 692-1082 or www.hendersonvillelittletheatre. org.

• FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 7:30pm; SUNDAYS, 2pm until (9/23) - The Trip to Bountiful, "the poignant story of Carrie Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law." $20/$18 under 18. nC StaGe Company Asheville's professional resident theater company, performing at 15 Stage Lane. Info: 239-0263 or www.ncstage.org.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/7) - R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, part autobiography of the 20th century renaissance man, part TED talk.

Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $10-$28. the maGnetiC field 372 Depot St. Info: www.themagneticfield.com or 257-4003.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (10/13), 7:30pm - MILF: The Musical, a "familyfriendly tale of inappropriate love." $8 preview Sept. 13 and 14. $16 Fri. & Sat./$13 Thurs. tryon little theater Performances are held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Info: 859-2466, tryonlittletheater@gmail.com or www. tltinfo.org.

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/20) until (9/30) - All I Really

Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, "a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life." Performed at the TLT Workshop, 516 S. Trade St., Tryon. Thurs.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15/$10.

volunteerinG aSheville area habitat for hUmanity • Asheville Area Habitat For Humanity seeks computer proficient, personable individuals to serve as volunteer office administrative support. Four-hour weekly shifts available. Info: 210-9377. biG brotherS biG SiSterS • Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC seeks persons age 16 and older to mentor one hour per week in schools and after-school sites.

Volunteers age 18 and older sought to share outings twice a month with youth from singleparent homes. Activities are free or low-cost, including sports, arts, local attractions, etc. Information sessions Sept. 12 and 27 at noon, United Way building, S. French Broad Ave., Room 213. Info: www. bbbswnc.org or 253-1470. bUnCombe CoUnty Jail • Volunteers are sought for a variety of programs with inmates from Buncombe County Jail. Must be 21 years or older. Info: 989-9459.

Children firSt/CiS • Children First/CIS, an after school program for elementary school children living in public and low income housing, seeks volunteers at its Project MARCH Learning Centers. Mon.-Thurs., 2:30-5:30pm; weekly volunteering is encouraged. Info: www.childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072.

CoUnCil on aGinG • Volunteers are needed to drive seniors to doctor appointments as part of the Call-A-Ride program.

Volunteers use their own vehicles; mileage reimbursement is available. Info: www.coabc.org or 277-8288. habitat for hUmanity • Habitat for Humanity seeks volunteers for its Home Repair program. Use existing skills or gain new ones while helping low-income homeowners make improvements to their homes. No experience or long-term commitment necessary. Info: 210-9383. handS on aShevillebUnCombe Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• TH (9/13), 6-8pm - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank.

• SA (9/15), 10am-noon - Teacher's Pet: Volunteers will create supplemental educational materials to help elementary students improve

reading skills. Make flashcards, games and more. Instruction and materials provided.

• TU (9/18), 4-6pm; TH (9/27), 4-6pm - Fair-Trade Stock-Up: Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

• WE (9/19), 6-8pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for hospice patients at CarePartners' John Keever Solace Center.

Supplies provided. hope to home • Hope to Home seeks dishes, silverware, coffee mugs, microwaves, cleaning supplies and more to support homeless individuals moving into permanent housing. Info and drop-off location: byronb@ buncombe.main.nc.us or angela@ mothergroveavl.org. motherlove mentor • The YWCA MotherLove program seeks volunteers to provide support and encouragement to teen mothers. A commitment of eight hours per month required. Info: 254-7206. oUr voiCe advoCate traininG • Through (9/20) - Advocates provide support for victims of rape and sexual violence and respond to crisis calls on evenings, weekends and holidays. Pre-training interview and references required.

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intruder (not) alert Are We safe? In August, Daniel Castillo's Jet Ski broke down in New York City's Jamaica Bay, forcing him to swim to shore — at JFK International Airport. As Castillo roamed the grounds, he somehow failed to trigger the airport's $100 million, state-of-the-art Perimeter Intrusion Detection System; an employee in the Delta terminal finally noticed him. Two weeks earlier, 82-year-old nun Megan Rice and two colleagues staged their nownotorious "peace" protest, cutting through fences at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) nuclear reservation's Y-12 facility, which houses more than 100 tons of highly enriched uranium. They evaded numerous alarms and sensors for up to two hours before a lone guard stopped them.

the entrepreneurial spirit Short-stay "love hotels" proliferate in Brazil, but in July in the city of Belo Horizonte, Fabiano Lourdes and his sister Daniela were about to open Animalle Mundo Pet, which they described as a love hotel for dogs. Owners would bring their mating-ready canines to rooms that feature the dim lighting and heart-shaped ceiling mirrors traditional in love hotels (to appeal to the party paying the bill, of course).

• Oh dear: New York City ice-cream trucks vying for space on the choicest blocks have waged a particularly nasty turf war this summer. Drivers of Mister Softee trucks are the most aggressive, the New York Post reported in July. "If you see a Mister Softee truck,” said a Yogo frozen yogurt vendor, “you know bad things are coming" — including, said the Post, such hardball tactics as cutting rival trucks' brake lines.

can't possibly be true In August, the Treasury Department's inspector general reported that the IRS had doled out more than $5 billion in “refunds” last year to people filing fraudulent tax returns, due to its policy of providing refunds promptly without first vetting the claims). A single Lansing, Mich., address (supposedly the home of 2,137 different filers) netted $3.3 million, and nearly $4 million went to three Florida addresses (518 to one in Tampa, 741 to one in Belle Glade, and 703 to a post office

box in Orlando). Those claiming refunds included 105,000 dead people.

science on the cuttinG edGe • "Pheromone parties" attract men and women seeking romance not through often-insincere conversation but based on the primal-scent signals emitted by each other's slept-in T-shirts.

According to a June Associated Press report, organizers have staged such parties in New York City and Los Angeles and plan to expand.

• Las Vegas resident Wesley Warren Jr., 47, suffers from the rare elephantiasis of the scrotum, which accounts for about 100 of his 400 pounds and severely hampers urination and sex. Last October, Warren was on the verge of accepting an offer to cover the expensive corrective surgery, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, but when the newspaper followed up in June, it found him hesitating because he’d become accustomed to his celebrity status, including radio and TV appearances. “It was fun going to Los Angeles (for "Tosh.0") in the big van they sent for me," said Warren.

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• Food workers will be required to use tongs to handle food/sexually harass coworkers.

• Food establishments must warn patrons who order rare-cooked meat that server’s laughter will be fake when phrase “I like it bloody” is used.

• Containers of food refrigerated more than 24 hours have to be marked with the date of when the food was opened or prepared so that cooks and servers know the food they’re cooking and serving is old and gross.

• Food refrigerated at 41 degrees can be kept for up to seven days, while food refrigerated at 45 degrees can be kept for four days, and refrigerators must reach this temperature at least 30 seconds before the health inspector’s visit.

• Restaurants could earn more than 100 points on inspections under the previMy husband and I have not had much in the way of intimate relations since we had a child last year. Is this normal?

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Have you tried water sports, KID? If that’s not your cup of pee, bring up the idea of hosting an orgy in a public space (such as a coffee shop that his parents frequent) as long as he is comfortable with the idea of hardcore wife swapping/exhibitionism in front of consenting, adult family members.

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ous regulations. Now the maximum rating is 100. However, restaurants can still earn more than 100 points through use of a black magic marker.

• Food establishments will be required to always have a worker on site during operation who has taken some type of food safety course so that other workers know upon whom to direct their ire.

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• If an unsatisfied customer sends a plate back to the kitchen demanding it be fixed, cook must put on second pair of gloves regardless of what cook does next.

• Wait staff MUST respond to impossible-to-answer greetings from customers such as, “Hey, what do you say?”

• When seated at booth talking to coworkers in otherwise empty restaurant, employees must cover face with inside of elbow when rolling eyes upon entrance of customer.

• Back-of-house workers may fraternize with front-of-house workers, but only if purpose of interaction is selling pills or trying to bang the new hostess.

• Per NC law, you may sell food out of a truck as some greater political statement or just as a means of selling food out of a truck, your call.

• Owners/managers who work 55+ hours per week are no longer required to mention it constantly.

As long as its mutually acceptable, SSG, you should pay a consenting prostitute to check your prostate with a closed fist.

I’ve been dating a guy for five months and we still haven’t slept together. Is he some kind of weirdo?

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WASHINGTON, MONDAY — Vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has issued a response to Vice President Joe Biden’s Democratic National Convention declaration to his wife, “Jilly, you are the love of my life and the life of my love.”

Ryan issued the following statement: “I meant to say to my wife Janna during my speech the following: Janna, you are the lifeblood that pumps through my veins when I’m doing my P90X workout every day at the Congressional gym with my fellow patriot Republicans.”

Biden slammed back, “Jilly, you are the very liver that filters the bad stuff out of my blood.

You’re the cucumber to my tomato in those wonderful low-cal salads you make. Thanks to you, Jilly, I’m as fit as I’ll ever get.”

Ryan vehemently responded: “Janna, you’re my New Balance when I sprint marathons, the gold watch I slip onto my sinewy, tanned arm in the morning, the Brooks Brothers shirt that’s bursting at the seams over the extremely wide shoulders I’ve developed.”

Biden responded through an aide that he has no further comment on the issue and that he’s currently vacationing with “… the woman who’s the Snickers bar to my Milk Duds that I like to mix with my popcorn when we go to the movies.”

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FiFty shades oF abuse

or Why this book really pisses Me oFF I recently read one of the best-selling books in the world. Afterwards, I felt the need for a shower. My first reaction to Fifty Shades of Grey: “I can’t believe such poorly written drivel has garnered an international audience.” My second reaction was, “Oh my God, how do I keep my daughter from reading this kind of pornographic babble?”

In truth, I don’t mind my daughter reading bad prose or even, when she’s old enough to understand it, erotica, but I do have a problem with her reading stories that celebrate and glorify men abusing women. Or, for that matter, anyone abusing anyone.

The novel, if you’ve been lucky enough to not hear about it, is the story of a young inexperienced virginal girl who is seduced by a wealthy gorgeous older man who can only get his rocks off by humiliating and enslaving her in his home dungeon. Yep, this is the book that has sold tens of millions of copies and that has caused a possibly correlating increase in the sales of rope. I read it because several women, whom I otherwise consider progressive, intelligent people, told me they love it.

I realize that it doesn’t necessarily mean these women go in for that sort of thing in real life. And if they do, that’s their business. I really don’t want to know what goes on in other people’s bedrooms (or basements, for that matter). But I worry about the message this book may be sending to kids, especially teenage girls, whose ability to separate fiction from reality may be blurred.

If you have this book in your home, and you don’t think your teenagers haven’t read parts of it on the sly, keep on living that life of denial.

Like you didn’t know where your parents hid their copy of Joy of Sex or about the Playboys under the marital bed at your best friend’s house.

Back to the phenomenon that is Fifty Shades. My biggest issue is that the story is about a man who tries to control every aspect of a young woman’s life, from the food she eats to how often she exercises. Sure, she rebels — a little bit, but not enough, for my taste. The book is more about power than sex.

Fifty Shades of Grey was written as fan fiction of the Twilight series.

That teen fiction trilogy traces the story of a young girl and her vampire boyfriend. It’s pretty insipid stuff, and the relationship between the two also revolves around a power play — this one between a super-strong immortal and his angsty inexperienced paramour.

I hate that book, too. I let my daughter (she’s almost 14 years old) read the first Twilight book, but with the caveat that we’d talk about the relationships in the book afterwards.

And we did. Her reaction? “Meh. All the Twilight girl cares about is having a boyfriend,” she said. Cool, she gets it, I thought, knowing, of course, that there often comes a time in every teenager’s life when pretty much all they can think about is having a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

And I’ll deal with that when it happens — hopefully by talking about balance and respect. These are, I realize, more difficult concepts to grasp than punishment and abuse.

Sigh.

I have children of both genders, and while my son is at the age where he covers his eyes every time anyone kisses, I want to make sure he, too, understands respect for others, in all relationships. When I was reading Fifty Shades, I kept thinking how upset I’d be if my son felt the need to treat women in this manner.

Flogging a young girl for rolling her eyes at him? If eye-rolling were a punishable sin, I wouldn’t have any skin left on my back. Of course, unlike the female character in Fifty Shades, I would’ve run as fast and far as possible at the first signs of a

pathologically controlling personality. I mean Christian Grey (abuser) stalks Ms. Steele (abusee), as he calls her, in a really creepy way within minutes of meeting her. The guy needs a good talking to by law enforcement and clearly, some good role modeling.

Which brings me to trying to answer the question of how we, as parents, show our kids what healthy relationships look like.

My goal is to work toward being open with my kids about the challenges and advantages of loving someone, without acting on the occasional desire to punish them for their mistakes. Sure, couples fight, just as siblings do and parents and children do. But they don’t hit each other. They don’t physically abuse one another. They work not to verbally or emotionally abuse one another. At least, if they want to enjoy healthy, loving relationships.

I refuse to read any further in the Fifty Shades trilogy, although I hear that through the books, the young virgin calms the wounded beast that is her abuser, and distances him away from his fetish. Right.

That happens in real life. The most important point I want my daughter to get is that’s rarely the case.

If you’re in a relationship with an abuser, it’s not likely to stop — until you get out or die. This is serious, serious stuff, and for a book to make light of it really pisses me off.

On one hand, I’m all for a new era of less-repressed sexual energy, especially in America. But not at the cost of our daughters losing their self-respect and submitting to domineering power plays.

Now if only someone would write a realistic best-selling romance novel that’s readable and models healthy sex and relationship challenges that don’t revolve around who has the most power. That would be inspiring.

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Her electric wheelchair emits a barely audible hum as she positions herself in the middle of the room — center stage at Open Hearts, the only program of its kind in Asheville.

"I'd like to sing a song that reminds me of here," she says, launching into "This Little Light of Mine." Slowly, the instructors start singing along, and by the middle of the first verse, students are also chiming in, just swaying to the music if they don't know all the words.

But that's OK, says sonia Pitts, co-founder of the nonprofit, community-based art program, which serves adults with disabilities.

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"Art helps them explore ways to express themselves and allows them to tell their story," she explains.

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"They give themselves completely to the arts, because there is no filter, there is no inhibition," says “Bryan Octavius,” as his students know him. One of 12 staffers, he works with the roughly 35 students attending Open Hearts classes each day. "But what the arts gives to them is a way to communicate that, unfortunately, most of the time, they don't get to in their lives."

That’s a key reason Pitts teamed up with Jessie Francis and debbie Harris to create Open Hearts, which serves adults with autism, Down

syndrome and other developmental or mental disabilities.

"For years, they were kind of pushed aside and shunned, not given as much of an opportunity to make choices, and told what to do," notes Pitts. "By creating and showcasing their art, it gives them some of that autonomy back."

Work by Open Hearts artists hangs in the dining room at HomeGrown, City Bakery, the Woolworth Walk art gallery and local festivals.

And when a piece sells, says Pitts, the artist gets 50 percent of the money; the rest buys more art supplies.

"It's a win-win for these students,” she explains, “because it not only allows them to express themselves —and some of our students are nonverbal — but it also allows them to get their work out there."

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There's a market for “folk” or “intuitive” artwork, notes Pitts, and that’s how these pieces are often classified. Open Hearts artists, she says, "have no preconceived idea of what it's supposed to be. So [the work is] very uninhibited, it's raw, and it's coming straight from their heart and soul.”

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a tiMe to shine On Wednesday, Sept. 19, these artists will share their work during Open Hearts’ annual student talent show/fundraiser (see box, “Strutting Their Stuff”). The event will also feature food, a silent auction of student work and jazz by Viper’s Dream.

This year, the center hopes to raise $15,000 for its new Boundless Art program. The money would fund monthly field trips to local galleries exhibiting students’ work, expanded community outreach and transportation for people who couldn’t otherwise get to the center.

Transporting adults with disabilities is expensive, notes Pitts. “We were looking at roughly $1,100 a month for insurance, gas and upkeep.” Students, she explains, often rely on parents, other caregivers or the county’s Mountain Mobility service to get to the art center.

“Be sure that you're arm’s length apart, so we have enough room to shine," says Octavius as he leads a group of students through a dance routine. “The talent show is a very, very exciting time here,” he explains, adding, “The enthusiasm is infectious.” But this moment in the spotlight isn't just for his students.

"It gives them an outlet, a medium to be seen and heard, and a filter for the community to connect with them initially before they connect with them as people. Sometimes, people may look at one of the students here and get really nervous or put off. But if people see the pieces of art they make, and their heart and soul that was put into the art, then they're more inclined to feel comfortable with them."

And clearly, for students like Pott, Jones and Queen, the upcoming fundraiser is not about the money — it's about the moment. X Send your health-and-wellness news and tips to Caitlin Byrd at cbyrd@mountainx.com or mxhealth@mountainx.com, or call 251-1333, ext. 140.

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geared toward beginners. Held at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Those without arthritis are welcome to attend. $12/$10 church members and Mission Hospital employees and volunteers. Scholarships available. Info: www.wnctaichiarthritis. com or 253-8649. aSheville inteGral • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Asheville Integral will focus on the works of Ken Wilber and Integral Philosophy. Held at Network Chiropractic, 218 E. Chestnut St. Free. Info: 505-2826. aSheville JewiSh CommUnity Center eventS The JCC is located at 236 Charlotte St., Asheville. Info: 253-0701.

• TH (9/13), 10am-2pm - Flu Shot Clinic.

Appointments encouraged: emailinfo@ jfswnc.org. eCStatiC qiGonG • WE (9/19), 7pm - "Develop a daily practice to align yourself with the patterns and energies of the cosmos." Classes held weekly at the Black Mountain Yoga Center, 120 Broadway St. $12. Info: www.blackmountainyoga.com. find the love in yoUr family SoUl • TU (9/18), 7-9pm - "Find the Love and Strength in Your Family Soul," with Dr. Nancy Kehr, will be presented at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. Free. Info: www.soul-listener.com or www.jubileecommunity.org. fit ClUb • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - "A fun-filled, 30-minute circuit type exercise" followed by a game or jog/walk. Meets at Carrier Park Pavilion. Geared toward all levels of fitness. Free. Info: kellykel245@ hotmail.com. free health ConSUltationS • TUESDAYS, 1-6pm - The Faith Community Nurse will be at SOS Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1, to discuss health concerns, assist with resources, provide free blood pressure screenings, pray with the public or "just spend time together." Coffee and refreshments provided. Info: 768-0199. freedom from SmokinG CliniC • TUESDAYS through (10/23), 6:30pm - This seven-week smoking cessation clinic is sponsored by Mission Hospital's Nicotine Dependence Program. Free. Info and registration: 213-5527 or www.missionhospitals. org/quittobacco. healthy heart health edUCation • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11am - The Asheville Compounding Pharmacy, 760 Merrimon Ave., offers free Healthy Heart Health Education classes monthly. Info: 255-8757. improv therapy • THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & MONDAYS "Improv Therapy," with Jeff Thompson, will be held at the Sacred Embodiment Center, 41 Carolina Lane. Classes include body awareness exercises and visualization games. $10 suggested donation. Thurs.,

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6:30-8:30pm; Mon. & Fri., 3-5pm. Info: www. facebook.com/ImprovTherapy.

required. Info, RSVP and location: 681-7100 or www.adhdasheville.com.

Road. Donations accepted. Info: (770) 8460651.

the red CroSS 100 Edgewood Road. Info: www.redcrosswnc.org or 258-3888. Appointment and ID required for blood drives.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:30am-12:30pm - Donate blood any Wednesday at the Asheville Blood Donation Center, 100 Edgewood Road, and receive a free $10 Neo Burrito gift certificate. Please call for appointment: 1-800-RED CROSS. • WE (9/12), 11am-4:30pm - Blood drive: UNCA's Highsmith Student Center. Info: www.redcrossblood.org or kwestmor@ unca.edu.

• TH (9/13), 7:30am-3:30pm - Blood drive: Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road. Info: 298-7911, ext. 5162. --1-5:30pm - Blood drive: Care Partners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Info: 277-4800.

• FR (9/14), 2-6:30pm - Blood drive: Spring Mountain Community Club, 807 Old Fort Road, Fairview. Info: 628-1089.

• SU (9/16), 11am-4:15pm - Blood drive: Weaverville United Methodist Church, 85 North Main St., Weaverville. Info: 658-9908.

• MO (9/17), 9:30am-2pm - Blood drive: Mountain Credit Union, 1453 Sand Hill Road, Candler. Info: 667-7245. --- 2-6:30pm - Blood drive: 251 Flat Creek Church Road, Weaverville. Info: 645-6054.

• TH (9/20), 9am-1:30pm - Blood drive: Graybar Blood Drive, 124 Hilliard Ave. Info: 253-4761.

adUlt Children of alCoholiCS & dySfUnCtional familieS ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, "Twelve Tradition" program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www.adultchildren. org.

• SATURDAYS, 9:45am - “There is a Solution.” Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 749-9537.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - "Living in the Solution," The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

• FRIDAYS, 7pm - "Inner Child" study group. Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: 989-8075.

• SUNDAYS, 2pm - "Inner Child" study group, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton. Info: 648-2924.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - "Generations," First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 4745120.

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

• SATURDAYS, 11am - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 779-2317 or 2991666.

toxiC vS. healthy food • TU (9/18), 7pm - Dr. Edward Aronoff will discuss toxic and healthy foods at Malaprop's, 55 Haywood St. Free. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734. weiGht manaGement ClaSS • TUESDAYS through (12/11), noon-1pm - "Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less," a 15-week weight management class, will focus on practical skills to lose pounds or maintain a healthy weight. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Center, 94 Coxe Ave. $25 includes materials. Info and registration: 255-5522. well-a-bration • TH (9/13) through SA (9/15) - UNCA's Well-A-Bration will feature music, a sports expo, cooking and exercise workshops and a keynote address by Dan Savage. Info, location and cost: http://ncchw.unca.edu/ Well-a-Bration. yoGa to enhanCe Creativity • FRIDAYS, 11am - This all-levels yoga course is designed to ease sore backs, shoulders and wrists while increasing practitioners' creativity. Held at Nourish and Flourish, 347 Depot St. $10/$7 River Arts District employees and artists. Info: meg. lobsinger@gmail.com.

support Groups adUlt adhd GroUp • 3rd MONDAYS, 7pm - Meet other local adults dealing with ADD/ADHD at this monthly support group. Registration

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am - "Daytime Serenity," Pardee Education Center at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. --7pm - Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. --- 5:45pm - Al-Anon meeting for women, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. --- 8pm - "Listen and Learn," St. John's Episcopal Church, 339 S. Main St., Marion.

• FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - "Keeping the Focus," First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Entrance near Charlotte Street. --- 5:30pm - "Family Matters," First United Church, 66 Harrison Ave., Franklin. --- 8pm - "Lambda" open/ LGBT meeting. Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. Info: 670-6277.

• MONDAYS, noon - "Keeping the Focus," First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Entrance near Charlotte Street. --- 6pm "Attitude of Gratitude," Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. --- 7pm - First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. --- 7:30pm - First United Methodist Church, Jackson and Church Streets, Sylva. --- 8pm - "Discovery," Ledger Baptist Church, U.S. 226 near Bakersville.

--- 8pm - Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway at North Highland Lake Road.

CarinG for aGinG parentS edUCation and SUpport GroUp • 3rd MONDAYS, 5-6:30pm - Caring for Aging Parents Education and Support (CAPES) will meet on the St. Joseph's Campus of Mission Hospital, Loretta Hall, 428 Biltmore Ave. Info: 277-8288.

ChroniC pain SUpport GroUp • SUNDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Open to those with chronic pain, friends and family. Held at Unity Church of Asheville, 130 Shelburne

dUal reCovery GroUp • 2nd FRIDAYS, 6pm - Dual Recovery Group for individuals who have a chemical dependency, psychiatric illness and/or emotional illness. Black Mountain Library, 105 Doughtry St. Info: ameniis84@charter.net or 357-8147. eatinG diSorder SUpport GroUpS • 3rd SATURDAYS, 10-11:30am - A support group for family members, caregivers and friends of individuals struggling with eating disorders. Held at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Meetings focus on positive peer support and education. Led by licensed professionals. Free. Info: 337-4685 or www.thecenternc.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Info: www.thecenternc.org or 337-4685. eventS at pardee hoSpital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-1:30pm & 5:30-7pm - Vet Center Out Station, a support group for veterans. Registration required before attending first meeting. Info: 271-2711.

• MONDAYS, 2-3pm & 7-8pm; WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - It Works, a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction, meets in Hendersonville. Info and directions: 4897259.

• TH (9/20), 6:30-8pm - "Us Too," a support group for men with prostate cancer and their significant others. Registration not required. faith and lGbtq • SU (9/16), 4-6pm - Youth OUTright will present a program for LGBTQ youth and their straight allies at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Meeting will focus on "faith and LGBTQ: not a contradiction." Led by Pastor David Eck of Abiding Savior Lutheran Church. Free. Info: www.youthoutright.org. fertility SUpport GroUp • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Therapist-lead group for women who are experiencing infertility and may be using assisted reproduction. Meets at 43 Grove St #4. Call to register: 803-0824. hiv/aidS SUpport GroUp • 1st & 3rd TUESDAYS, 6pm - This facilitated, confidential support group meets at the Haywood Street Congregation Church, 297 Haywood St. All are welcome regard-

wellnesscontinued less of age, gender, race or sexual orientation. Info: positivelyspeaking1974@yahoo.com. marShall alCoholiCS anonymoUS meetinG • FRIDAYS, 7pm - AA meeting at Marshall Presbyterian Church, 165 South Main St. Info: www. ashevilleaa.org. nami SUpport GroUpS The National Alliance on Mental Illness supports recovery for people living with mental illness and their families. Groups meet at 356 Biltmore Ave., #207/315.

Free. Info: www.namiwnc.org or 505-7353.

• 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - A Dual Diagnosis Support Group for those living with mental illness and substance abuse issues will be held at 3 Thurland Ave. • 1st SATURDAYS, 10am & 3rd TUESDAYS, 6pm - CONNECTION support group for those with a diagnosis and family/caregiver support group. Meetings held separately.

• 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 11am - CONNECTION support group for those with a diagnosis. overComerS ClaSSeS • TUESDAYS - An Overcomers support group, for those dealing with addiction and other life-controlling problems, will meet in Mars Hill. Location and time: 689-9316. overComerS reCovery SUpport GroUp A Christian-based, 12-step recovery program.

Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos.spcasheville.org or 768-0199.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - A support group for men and women. overeaterS anonymoUS A fellowship of individuals who are recovering from compulsive overeating. A 12-step program.

• THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: 277-1975.

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: 424 W. State St. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 669-0986.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: 800580-4761.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: 626-2572. reCovery from food addiCtion • MONDAYS, noon - Weekly support groups are held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: scmunchkin59@yahoo.com.

S-anon • S-Anon, a 12-step program for those struggling with the sexual behavior of a family member or friend.

Three meetings are held each week. Info: www. ncsanon.org or 258-5117 (confidential).

SexaholiCS anonymoUS • DAILY - A 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior. Daily Asheville meetings. Call confidential voicemail or email: 237-1332 or saasheville@gmail. com. Info: www.orgsites.com/nc/saasheville.

Smart reCovery • THURSDAYS, 6pm - This peer support group is dedicated to helping individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior (drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, etc.). Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: www.smartrecovery.org. wiSe women'S GroUp • Hendersonville's Wise Women's Group seeks 15 mature women for "companionship, support and mental stimulation." Info, location and dates: ravery09@gmail.com. wnC brain tUmor SUpport Welcomes family as well as the newly diagnosed and longer-term survivors. Info: www.wncbraintumor.org or 691-2559.

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - WNC Brain Tumor Support Group will meet at MAHEC Biltmore Campus, 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. wnC brain tUmor SUpport • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - WNC Brain Tumor Support meets at MAHEC, 121 Hendersonville Road.

Info: www.wncbraintumor.org or 691-2559. more wellneSS eventS online Check out the Wellness Calendar online at www. mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after September 20.

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Produce: Beyond a wonderful selection of fruits and vegetables look for TOFU, TEMPEH, HUMMUS and Vegetarian cheese options as well as nuts, grains and beans in bulk.

Grocery: You should find SOY, RICE, and ALMOND milk in tetra (shelf stable) packs. On grocery shelves you’ll also find canned and dried BEANS, and whole grains like BROWN RICE and QUINOA.

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DELI: The deli offers a variety of cheeses as well as hummus.

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taco toWn The historic Pisgah View R anch specializes in: • Home cooked meals • Holiday events • Family reunions • Weddings • Corporate events • Birthday parties 24-hour advanced notice reservations required.

Please call: 828-667-9100 or 828-667-1078

check out these traditional versions of a local favorite BY eMilY Patrick p Hot o S B y m a X C o o p E R Through culinary fusions and pub-grub stylings, the taco has been reinvented dozens of times in Asheville; still, there’s nothing like the original version. At tiny taquerias and cozy eateries, the Latino community serves up the staple that likely originated centuries ago as a Central American silver miner’s snack. Here are five nearby Mexican street food classics worth discovering (or revisiting).

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taqueria Gonzalez 747 Haywood Road d a il y , 9 a .m . t o 9 p .m .

In the open kitchen of Taqueria Gonzalez, diners watch as an adroit cook pounds fresh dough into a tortilla mold and tosses the flat disk onto the grill. In the hot bar nearby, taco fillings toast along with tamales, refried beans and the makings of gorditas (stuffed corn-cakes). There's no menu: it’s all laid out in front of you. Choose from pork as pastor or carnitas, grilled beef, chicken, chorizo or lingua — tongue, that is, which is exceptional at Gonzalez, stewed for long hours to sublime tenderness. A selection of salsas and condiments awaits in a cold bar nearby. The pico de gallo is fresh with a moderate, satisfying spiciness; the tomatillo-avocado salsa waits with the avocado pits in the mix to prevent it from browning and the pickled jalapeños are a treat for pepperlovers. Sip on a Mexican Coke (made with sugar instead of corn syrup) while the Spanish soap operas play in the background, a lively and comfortable soundtrack.

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a taCO a Day Is it possible to live on tacos alone? Yes, yes it is, and what a life that would be. At right, a calendar for those ready to take on the Taco-a-Day challenge. Know of others?

Share at mountainx.com or on Twitter, and let us know if you accomplish the feat.

Meaty Meanings Taco fillings are tantalizing, no doubt, but sometimes, keeping track of what's what is challenging. Consider this a cheat sheet. Quoted material comes from Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffrey M. Pilcher.

BarBacoa “Pit-roasted meat. Barbacoa de cabeza de vaca, the entire head of a cow, was a festival dish of the borderlands.

Today, barbacoa is often prepared in stainless-steel containers.” Many recipes for beef barbacoa call for steaming or oven-roasting the meat. carne adoBada “Meat marinated in chile paste, a specialty of New Mexico.” carne asada “Grilled meat, a common dish of northern Mexico.”

Carne means meat, but often, carne asada refers to beef specifically. c arnitas “Bits of fried meat, particularly pork.” c horizo “Sausage spiced with chile peppers.” tacos al carBon “(Grilled tacos) began to appear in upscale restaurants in the 1960s with fancy meats such as bifstek (steak) and chuleta (pork chops).” tacos al pastor “Introduced by second-generation Lebanese Mexicans, who adapted lamb gyros (also known as tacos arabes) to Mexican ingredients, preparing chile-flavored pork on a vertical rotisserie served with pineapple.”

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Bandidos Burritos (homemade chips)

Boca Café (fish tacos!)

Casa Torres Mexican Restaurant (South side)

Rosetta’s Kitchen (vegan tacos!)

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El Chapala (longtime staple)

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge (late-night, cheap)

El Que Pasa (don’t let the strip mall fool you)

White Duck Taco Shop (local favorite)

Mamacita’s (pre-game it)

Jack of the Wood (Alaskan cod)

Mexico Lindo Mexican Restaurant

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Neo Burrito ($1 breakfast burritos)

Our Taco Truck (find ‘em on Facebook)

Papas & Beer (go on your birthday, wear the sombrero)

TallGary’s Cantina (prime downtown real estate)

Taqueria Con Cuida (inside the Grey Eagle)

Urban Burrito (UNCA students)

Chorizo (lunch)

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Lucky Otter (Haywood hangout)

El Paraiso Mexican Grill

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aqua café & Bar 122 c olleg e st. dail y, 10 a.m. to 1 0 p. m.

Recently opened in the former Fiore's location, Aqua Café and Bar dishes up more than just tacos. The menu offers pizzas, hamburgers and Italian pasta dishes, along with its Latin lineup of staples such as mole with chicken, fajitas and carne asada. The tacos, though, are tasty and a safe bet for those who prefer a milder palate. They come in the grilled steak variety with two thick corn tortillas from the owners' Los Nenes Bakery. Onions are sautéed for sweetness and the tomatillo salsa that accompanies them is mild and satisfying.

Aqua is a safe bet for sampling an authentic dish without the risk of mouth-burning. And the service is excellent.

Mr. suave TorTilleria 1563 p atton a v e. dail y, 11 a. m. to 6 p. m.

The diminuitive tortilleria looks like an afterthought flung up against the side of the Plus gas station on Patton Avenue, but inside, food is carefully prepared. A large, bright menu board hangs above a miniature kitchen, and a giant tortilla machine dominates the space.

The tortillas are made from masa (corn flour) and water. The two ingredients start at one end of the long procession of trays and cogs and gears and emerge fully formed from the other end — perfectly engineered to hold fillings without splitting or leaking juice. Tacos come in chicken, steak, pork or tongue, delicately mixed with a bit of green salsa and topped with cilantro and onions. Or try them dorado — fried and covered in a variety of sauces. There's no dining area inside, but a constellation of brightly colored umbrellas and picnic tables beside the building provide a new perspective on Patton Avenue. Somehow, the convenience store parking lot becomes a tranquil place to eat some of the town’s tastiest tortillas.

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Taqueria fasT 175 we av e Rv i lle H i gHway m ond ay to s atURd ay, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. sUnd ay, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

It may or may not be a fast drive to Woodfin, but the tacos are worth it. The restaurant’s decor features monochromatic photos of the Mexican Revolution.

Tacos come in two styles, auténticos and gringos.

The former is served on a crisp corn tortilla with ample cilantro and chopped white onions, while the latter caters to American tastes on a flour tortilla with cheese, sour cream, lettuce, tomato and sliced avocado. Choose from pork, chicken, beef and shrimp in various cuts and marinades. The barbacoa beef arrives moist and tender, practically flaky and flecked with chilies.

Tacos Jalisco 1328 patton av e . sUnd ay to tH URd ay, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. FR i d ay and satURd ay, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

In addition to savory smells, song occasionally wafts from the kitchen at Tacos Jalisco. It’s not strictly a taqueria, but the eatery does have a similar cozy atmosphere, with a semi-open kitchen and the intimacy of a small venture. Enough typical Mexican restaurant fare — burritos and quesadillas — populates the menu to satisfy the less adventurous, but those looking for something more authentic will find it here. Tacos arrive de Asador (with grilled meats) for the most part, in steak, pastor, chicken and tripe (beef stomach) varieties. Other fillings include lingua, chorizo, shrimp and fish. Jalisco also serves menudo (a traditional tripe stew), whole grilled fish and assorted tortas and carnitas by the plate or pound.

Try the hibiscus punch, horchata — a lightly sweet and creamy cinnamon and rice milk concoction perfect for cutting spice — or a michelada — a beer cocktail made with tomato juice and lime.

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EAT DRINK DANCE transition time: The folks at Firestorm will revamp their space, and their business model. Meanwhile, Green Light Café has closed its downtown location. Photos by Max Cooper

Firestorm semi-closes for monthlong makeover Firestorm Café & Books is taking a break: From Sept. 17 to Oct. 16, the workerowned cafe, bookstore and community event space will be open only for already scheduled events, and won’t be serving food or drinks. That time is scheduled for workers to look at their business plan and renovate their shop, replacing the floors and adding a new counter for laptop users.

The shop is run by a group of co-owners whose goal is to share responsibilities and eliminate the need for managers. They frame themselves as a collective, and they call their endeavor “an alternative economic model based on cooperative, libertarian principles,” according to a pamphlet at the register.

Co-owner Julie Schneyer says the retail hiatus is not a sign of financial duress, and tells Xpress there has been no change in the group's finances. She says the collective's biggest challenge is low membership: With four co-owners and two interns, they would like to double their numbers.

“We need to be able to offer people a higher rate of compensation,” says coowner Libertie Valance. “We need to be able to offer ourselves a higher rate of compensation. Most of us have secondary income sources. Right now, I would call this a labor of love.”

The need for more income may cause the café’s menu to change. “We are talking about moving towards a menu that focuses more on ready-made food items, which we see as a win-win, potentially, in that it will significantly reduce the amount of labor that it takes to operate the café,” Valance says.

Right now, the café serves vegan, locally sourced wraps, sandwiches, paninis and soups, but Valance and Schneyer say that many of the sandwiches could be taken off the menu because they take too long to prepare. They’re thinking about ways to cater to diners on the go, such as offering prepared salads.

“We'll definitely be preparing everything in-house still,” Valance says.

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The café will still hold its scheduled performances, meetings and film screenings during its time off, in addition to community work parties. In keeping with their focus on community-building, the collective says they welcome patrons to attend drop-in workdays on Wednesdays and Saturdays during the break. They are also looking for financial assistance.

They will sell what they call a “grass-roots bond” up until their closure. Patrons who buy a gift card of $25 or more can redeem it for 110 percent of its value when the store reopens. “It's a tiny investment in coffee and books and everything else that we do,” Valance says.

Although Firestorm might look and feel a little different when it reopens, Valance and Schneyer say they're not changing their economic and philosophical commitments. “The goals are stable,” Valance says. “I think we have a set of principles that we're committed to, but the application of those goals or principals or how we seek to achieve them is open to interpretation.”

A grand reopening celebration is scheduled for Oct. 20. Learn more about their plans at firestormcafe.com/relaunch.html.

Green light cafe closes its downtown location Asheville’s vegetarian food scene lost one of its fixtures on Saturday, Sept. 8, when Green Light Café moved on from 22 Lexington Ave. Shanon Blair, who owns the eatery with her husband, Michael, said real estate difficulties caused them to close, at least for now. “There’s no option to renew at this time,” she said. “We couldn’t find another location quick enough, so we’ll have to just pull out and then maybe in the future try to reopen somewhere else,” she says.

The owners plan to continue cooking for their catering and special events projects. Diners can satisfy their Green Light cravings at upcoming events such as the Jomeokee Music

and Arts Festival in Pinnacle on the weekend of Sept. 15 and the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain in October.

The Blairs have experience navigating their business through changing environments. They opened Green Light in Black Mountain in 1998, where it remained for 10 years. In 2002, they expanded into catering and events. In 2008, they took a twoyear hiatus from the restaurant and focused on catering. They reopened the brick-and-mortar restaurant in Asheville in 2010.

Here’s hoping the move is just one more opportunity for the eatery to re-invent itself.

Green Light will continue its catering and mobile café activities. For more information, visit greenlightcafe.com.

“Mouth of the south” coming to burgerworx Professional eater Dale Boone, known in competitive eating circles as the “Mouth of the South,” will compete in the Burgerworx Burger Bender Contest on Friday, Sept. 14 for a $500 prize. Among Boone’s gluttonous accomplishments, he has swallowed 21 hotdogs in 12 minutes; 100 oysters in two minutes and 28.5 reindeer sausages in 10 minutes. His visit to Asheville will give locals a chance to test their mettle — and that of their digestive system — with a professional.

Boone has family in Western North Carolina and sees the contest as a chance to connect with his Appalachian roots, to which he pays tribute in competition.

He claims to be a descendant of Daniel Boone, the legendary explorer and hunter who once wandered these parts. “That’s why I wear the coon-skin hat, kind of representing him,” he says. “It adds a lot of flavor.”

As a professional eater — he competes all over the Southeast and in India — Boone hopes to spice up the contest. He says professional eating is not “a bunch of guys just throwing up and munching down like a bunch of people say.” Rather, eaters are also entertainers. “We

make it fun,” he says. “It’s like the WWE of eating.”

Burgerworx manager Alicia Donaldson says the restaurant is excited to have Boone at the competition, although they didn’t solicit his attendance. “It’s going to be a trip just to see him because they have their professional techniques,” she said.

The contest is still registering participants, who must eat as many burgers as they can stomach in 10 minutes. Once 10 people sign up, the restaurant will make a waiting list. The cost of entry is $10, but eaters will receive a $10 Burgerworx gift certificate on the day of the competition. To sign up, visit Burgerworx in person.

The burger binge takes place on Friday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.

eat out for the parkway Local restaurants are collaborating with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation to raise money for the iconic roadway that connects 469 miles of mountain landscapes and communities.

More than a dozen local restaurants will donate at least 10 percent of their sales on Tuesday, Sept. 18 to support the Parkway.

Loretta’s Cafe in Asheville and City Lights Cafe in Sylva will donate 20 percent. Other restaurants participating include Café Azalea, Chai Pani, Chef Mo’s Restaurant and Bar, Copper River Grill, Corner Kitchen, Early Girl Eatery, Filo Pastries, Guadalupe Cafe, The Junction, The Local Joint, Piazza, Plant, Pomodoros Cafe, Salsa’s and Tomato Jam. “The Parkway is the most visited unit in the National Park Service, and it gets more than Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite combined,” says Christy Bell, development director at the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. “But it’s one of the only ones that doesn’t charge an admission fee.”

After 77 years, the Parkway could use some love and some cash. “It’s an aging resource,” Bell says. The Foundation donates some $650,000 to the Parkway for projects and programs, including helping restore

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Restaurants farther afield will also contribute to the fundraising effort. For a full list of participating eateries all along the Parkway, visit brpfoundation. org/content/plates-parkway.

“We’re not just looking for a product in a jar,� says Mary Lou Surgi, executive director of Blue Ridge Food Ventures. “We’re looking for a new way of creating a service or a product that people need.�

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While the application must make a good first impression with the judges, it’s just the beginning of the process to determine the winner. After the Oct. 15 deadline, a panel of judges will choose semifinalists to meet with marketing, packaging and business professionals to help them refine their concept.

In March, using what they’ve learned, the semifinalists will present their ideas to the judges, who will announce the winners in April.

While the contest will require diligence from the semifinalists, it’s also designed to be fun. “I was thinking of American Idol, the TV show, and I was thinking instead of the next American Idol, we were going to be the next American pickle,�

Surgi says. “That’s [how] the idea kind of generated.

Waking life to pop up downtown Waking Life is moving downtown — for four hours, at least.

On Saturday, Sept. 15, the West Asheville coffee brewer will be at Urban Outfitters on the corner of Haywood and College streets serving pour-overs of an exclusive Ethiopian coffee called Mora Mora.

Jared Rutledge, owner of Waking Life, says the pop-up, which will consist of a table with portable equipment, is a concept that has taken off in cities such as Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. The temporary project is part of his effort to re-contextualize coffee in Asheville and

move it from a casual, morning beverage to a complex, sensory experience. “I’m looking at [the pop-up] as an opportunity to get people to view coffee a little bit differently in Asheville,� he says. “I would like it to be a good starting point for Asheville’s coffee culture to change. We haven’t seen a lot of anything original or creative or different in Asheville’s coffee scene like we have in the food scene.�

Rutledge hopes his efforts to re-imagine coffee will become a permanent fixture in downtown: he is looking for a small property to lease. There, he plans to offer a different concept from the neighborhood feel of his West Asheville coffee shop.

The new space would be a scaled-down tasting room that would encourage patrons to focus on the flavors inherent in their cups. “I think that I would probably go definitely no sugar, maybe no cream,� he says. “It would be a very limited menu, mostly to-go. I think I would have to contextualize it properly.�

He has started the loan process with the bank and has begun drafting equipment lists and a business plan, he says. In the meantime, downtown coffee enthusiasts can get a taste of Waking Life’s Mora Mora roast from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept.

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oysterhouse heads West one World announces location Following the dog days of August, there always seems to be a surge of September energy.

Kids go back to school, tomatoes burst on the vine and small businesses, including craft breweries, start gathering acorns for the winter. OK, they’re more likely to be gathering hops and malts and brewing loads of beer and cleaning and making changes and expanding. Same general idea. And, as usual, this flurry of activity is happening all over Beer City, USA, and includes some exciting brews news.

"Eric knows his equipment and he knows his beer," Wicked Weed co-owner Walt Dickinson says. “We’re really excited to get him down here.”

Leypoldt visited Asheville recently and brewed a couple of beers at Craggie Brewing Company for Wicked Weed with Walt and Luke Dickinson (the brewing brothers who co-own Wicked Weed, along with three members of the Guthy family). Some of the beers, including a Russian Imperial Stout and an Imperial Amber, will be available to taste at Brewgrass on Sept. 15.

Much of the beer will be aged in bourbon barrels for the brewery’s grand opening celebration (date to be announced).

Leypoldt received an international diploma in brewing technology from The Seibel Institute in Chicago and Doemens Academy in Munich, Germany, before working for Dogfish Head.

He says the Wicked Weed team will focus on West Coast-style beers, such as hoppy IPAs, as well as Belgian-style beers.

“Asheville has an amazing beer culture,” Leypoldtsays. “I’m excited about getting down there and getting to work and brewing some beer.”

oyster house breWinG to Move into hayWood road space, becoMe stand-alone breWpub West Asheville just gained another feather in its funky cap — and it’s a salty, sudsy one.

Brothers Billy and Jim Klingel will open The Oyster House, a stand-alone brewpub, at 625 Haywood Road (where Viva Deli was until recently). Billy, brewer and founder of Oyster House Brewing Company, is relocating to the west side. Until now, the brewery was housed inside The Lobster Trap Restaurant in downtown Asheville. The new location should open its doors by January 2013.

Jim is an experienced restaurant industry professional and will oversee the food part of the brewpub equation, while Billy will continue as brew master (brewpubs, by definition, include restaurants and breweries in the same space).

Jim's most recent restaurant gig has been as chef of The Trailhead Restaurant in Black Mountain.

He’s also worked for The Laughing Seed Café.

Billy, a Lobster Trap bartender/manager and longtime home brewer, started Oyster House almost four years ago with a system that lets him brew only 14 or so gallons at a time — keeping him brewing at a brisk pace to keep up with the demand just in The Lobster Trap. In the new brewery, he'll be able to produce three and a half barrels at a time, thus significantly increasing his production (one barrel equals 31 gallons). Billy’s Moonstone Oyster Stout, a creamy concoction that contains five pounds of fresh oysters in every 14-gallon batch, has garnered him national recognition and a strong local following.

Billy says his plan has always been to break out and establish the brewery separate from the restaurant. He says the owners and staff at The Lobster Trap are supportive of his endeavor.

“I’ll still supply The Lobster Trap with as much beer as I can,” he says.

The Oyster House brewpub will offer 15 taps

one World breWinG: coMMunity-supported breWery to open in leader buildinG a new home for oysterhouse: The brewery will expand to a space all its own, moving from the Lobster Trap to Haywood Road. Photo by Anne Fitten Glenn

of “incredible craft beer, including as many of my own taps as possible,” Billy adds.

The food menu hasn’t been finalized, but will include, obviously, lots of oysters.

The Klingel brothers have been looking for the right space for a couple of months and signed the lease on the Haywood Road building on Aug. 30 — Billy’s 38th birthday.

In addition to the Moonstone, Billy’s regular beers include Oyster House IPA, Patton Ave Pale, Dirty Blonde and Upside Down Brown.

Klingel lives in West Asheville with his family, and he’s thrilled with the location of the brewpub, which he can walk to easily.

“Those of us who live in West Asheville don’t really like to leave West Asheville,” he says, laughing. “Also, those beepers they have at Sunny Point will reach across the street. You can come over and have beer, mimosas and oysters while you wait.”

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brewery to open in West Asheville in a matter of months. Altamont Brewing Company, several blocks toward Patton Avenue on Haywood, has almost finished installing its brewery equipment and will be brewing as soon as its final licenses are approved. “It’ll be great to have another spot to try beer and eat good food in West Asheville,” says Altamont co-owner and brewer Gordon Kear. Look for Altamont Brewing beers in late September.

Wicked Weed brinGs doGFish head breWer to asheville Eric Leypoldt, who was a brewer with Dogfish Head Brewery from February 2011 until just last week, will be joining the Wicked Weed Brewing team. Wicked Weed Brewing will open a brewery, taproom and gastropub at 91 Biltmore Ave., possibly as early as December.

Brewer Jay Schutz recently announced that One World Brewing will open in spring 2013 in the basement of the Leader Building at 10 Patton Ave. The Farm Burger Restaurant will open on the street level of the building around the same time.

Schutz plans to start a community-supported brewery, where members will pay $40 per month and get four to five growlers of different beer in return, plus $3 pints in the One World Taproom (when it opens). In the meantime, he will offer work/trade days where anyone can volunteer to help with the construction for beer credit. Although he’ll initially be brewing on a one-barrel system, Schutz says he wants to offer home brewers the opportunity to come in and brew at One World as well. “If I like their beer, I’ll sell it in the taproom for sure,” he says. He’ll also be brewing some special beers specifically to pair with certain of the restaurant’s burgers (in hopes that Farm Burger will keep some of his brews on tap.)

Send your brews news and tips to Anne Fitten Glenn at brewgasmavl@gmail.com.

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rhode island reds and buFF orpinGtons asap: you’re new to the Farm tour. are you also new to farming? tom brady, Mulberry Gap Farm, Marshall: Yes. In 2010, Deborah Kaye and I began farming at Mulberry Gap Farm, but I have been an organic gardener since 1986. My original goal was homesteading and feeding my family of four in Barnardsville. Deborah and I now focus on grass-fed and grassfinished beef and lamb, along with pigs, which can obtain half of their diet from pasture. We have 60-plus acres of healthy, organic pasture at Mulberry Gap, so this is the farming business that makes sense for us, and is in alignment with this farm.

What will visitors see and experience at your farm during the Farm tour?

They’ll see several animals that are listed by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy as critical, threatened, recovering or watched.

Our Red Poll cattle and Tamworth pigs (threatened) will be close in.

Our sheep are Katahdin/Dorper crosses (recovering). We have several breeds of chickens, which will be out free ranging: New Hampshire Reds, Dominiques and Rhode Island

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Mulberry Gap Farm joins ASAP’s Farm Tour this year to show visitors what they’re single-handedly doing to help save breeds listed with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy as critical, threatened, recovering or watched.

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Also, we’ll have short information sessions about Biodynamics. We will have our sheep set up in rotation so that folks can see intensive rotational grazing in action. In addition, Richard Cleveland of the Earth School will lead native, wild edible plant walks. And, we’ll have our lamb for sampling and sale, along with organic cornmeal and grits.

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Wendy noel, dry ridge Farm, Mars hill: Dry Ridge Farm is brand new. We started farming on our own property in February. While we’re new to farming our own land, (my soon-to-be-husband) Graham Brugh and I are not new to farming.

Graham has managed a large-scale organic vegetable farm, and he spent the past three years managing several hundred head of cattle and a 30-sow herd in the Piedmont. I spent several seasons working on organic vegetable farms and a year at a pastured hog farm. We’re excited to be embarking on our own farm venture together, providing high-quality meat products to Asheville and its surrounding counties.

What’s your favorite fall crop to grow, or your favorite thing about fall on your farm?

One of my favorite crops that we grow are pumpkins. Of course, I love the fact that the heat eases up now.

When the trees start turning colors, I start taking long walks and watching for deer tracks and rubs in the woods. I process my own deer meat and love that it comes from our land.

What will visitors see and experience at your farm during the Farm tour?

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Janet peterson, cloud 9 Farm, Fletcher: I re-established an old blueberry patch and have offered U-pick berries since the 1970s, when the farm belonged to my parents. I inherited it and am trying to keep the family farm running. Lately, I’ve begun diversifying and trying new ventures. We’re trying pastured chickens. We also have a portable sawmill to cut our own lumber, and we can change your logs into lumber.

We’re stewards of the forest, sustainably harvesting logs to keep the forest healthy. We have byproducts of that process, including mountain laurel that we turn into rustic decor.

I’m also a beekeeper. My newest venture is a joint project with two other women beekeepers — Joan Chesick of Green Goddess Farm & Apiary and Diane Almond of Honey Bees and Heather Farm — called BeeBabe Made. We’re making balms, lotion and healing salves with products from our beehives.

What will visitors see and experience at your farm during the Farm tour?

The main part of the farm now is our vacation rentals, for what I call farmcations. It’s just the two of us, Jeff Hambley and I, working the farm, but we have a veggie garden, cows and chickens — it’s great fun for kids to see the animals. They’ll get a hay wagon ride to the open house for

While cloud 9 has been a U-pick berry operation since the 1970s, they now do lots more! Learn about their bees, sustainable forest products, chicken, and more during ASAP’s Farm Tour.

the rentals. I’m also very interested in native pollinators, so we’ll have native pollinator homes for sale, as well as a display about how you can encourage them in your backyard.

There will also be honey products, rustic décor pieces, my “Bruise Berry Jam” made of blackberries and blueberries, our fresh and frozen chicken, and more for sale.

What’s your favorite fall product to grow, or your favorite thing about fall on your farm?

I have to say it’s my honeybees — making sure they have enough stores for the winter, etc. Our idea with the cosmetics is taking the healing things on our farm and getting them to heal! It’s nice to have these healing products going into fall and winter.

They can expect to see a lot of animals, including the most exciting new additions: our piglets that will be a couple weeks old. We’ll have a short and long guided walking tour available every 20 minutes, both of which will bring visitors to meet our hogs, lambs and laying hens. They’ll learn as much as they want about the breeds we’ve chosen to raise, how we care for them and for our land, and what it’s taken for us to get started and operating over the course of our first six months. The long tour will also take visitors to the highest point of our 43 acres, where our meat chickens forage and our ewes roam our pastures.

Graham Brugh gives his pig a good scratch. A new Farm Tour stop and brand new farm, dry ridge provides local meat to Asheville and the surrounding areas.

be the fact that our two main products, pork and lamb, will be ready for market. The fall season means more chicken, rabbit and lamb stews, root vegetables and winter squash for dinner. There’s nothing better to warm you up after a long, cool day tending to animals out in the fields.

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by Alli Marshall This year’s Tangerine ball borrows inspiration from one of Asheville’s most luminous eras: the roaring ‘20s. The Asheville Area Arts Council says the event (its annual fundraiser) is “in honor of our great literary traditions, in honor of our ghosts, in honor of an opulent and abundant time, when the Asheville style was influenced by the creative, expressive and just a bit special.” but the age of The great gatsby, the Charleston and art deco was also the age of Prohibition — aka the rise of bathtub gin. In the Moonshine Mecca of the Appalachians, its likely that imbibers turned not to rotgut cocktails but to artful corn liquors.

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The Asheville Area ArTs Council’s Annual Color ball Takes on ProhibiTionera Themes

Past color balls turned out in green, red, white and purple. For this year’s fete, AAAC executive director Kitty Love was thinking about a glitter theme, but, in the end, the vote for tangerine won out. “It turned out to be a perfect choice,” says Love, who pulled the on-trend color into a painting she created for the ball, in collaboration with local artist Heather Shirin. The image (which will be auctioned off at the ball) is of an orange phoenix behind a Zelda Fitzgerald character. (Love likens the bird of legend, which rises from the ashes of its own funeral pyre, to the beleaguered AAAC, which, in the last couple of years, has experienced a resurgence.) “It’s in homage to the fact that she died in that fire,” Love says of dancer, writer and artist, who perished at Asheville’s Highland Hospital during a 1948 blaze.

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The ball itself is split into four parties, each with different activities. Three of those are pre-parties, and the three different ticket price-points include all of the soirees; one party and the finale; or just the orange Peel gala. Love says that Color ball founder Rick Ramsey advised her to focus on the main event rather than the pre-parties.

Those mini balls, years ago, were no-holds-barred blowouts with decorations, music, entertainment (aerialists, anyone?) and theme cocktails.

While the Tangerine ball’s pre-parties are smaller in scale, they’re no less elegant: 5 Walnut Wine bar hosts a fashion show and stylist competition; Hotel Indigo’s bash (held on its 10th floor) “has an avant-garde flapper feel for a high-art evening,” according to the event website. And at French broad Chocolate Lounge, it’s all about burlesque. And chocolate, of course. The evening culminates at the orange Peel with “gangsters in suspenders and flappers in garters,” DJ Marley, DJ Gilbot spinning electro-swing, The Lowdown Sires playing jazz, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School providing live odalisque painting, and fan dancing. Each party will feature signature cocktails designed by local mixologists. (That’s where the Troy & Sons liquor comes in.)

Money raised by the Tangerine ball help fund AAAC projects. “We logged 450 volunteer hours in the last three months,” says Love. “We really have the potential to be meaningful. our supposed area of service is buncombe County, so that includes a lot of other communities. We’re going to have to work our way up to where an arts council ideally should be. but this is a great start.”

Love was named executive director at the end of last year, and she came to the position with ideas. “one is that I think we need a cultural resources directory, and we’re the organization to do that,” she says. Through that and other projects, Love is “looking to create a substantial platform from which we can support buncombe County.”

For arts enthusiasts, helping out is just a party (or four) away. And when it comes to planning a tangerine-themed outfit, Love offers this advice: Local boutiques and costumers were challenged to a contest (with a $500 prize) to create the best Tangerine ball store window. Just look for shades of orange and you’ll know exactly where to shop. alli marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

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For every 10 artists, it seems there’s a committee trying to represent them. Western North Carolina has dozens of such organizations. While some function well, others struggle to remain solvent and stable — let alone relevant and exciting. Witness the apparent recent dissolution of the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, or the call for help from Arts2People asking for more than $10,000 from the public to help pay debts incurred from the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival, an event that is supposed to raise money for the organization.

For some time, the Asheville Area Arts Council shared the precipice. Board members and directors left and staff were let go, programming fell off and the downtown gallery — its largest asset and a symbol of its local presence — had to be sold for cash.

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arts council in 1949. Three years later, in 1952, the Asheville Junior League formed the Civic Arts Council and hosted the first Beaux Ball (an early precursor to the color ball). In 1964, Gov. Terry Sanford created the North Carolina Arts Council, officially recognizing the importance of the arts to the state’s prosperity.

In general, arts councils act as public canopies that serve, connect and fund many facets of the creative community. However, “It’s sometimes difficult for arts councils to find their niches, particularly when the private industry is ample and successful,” says Wayne Martin, executive director of the North Carolina Arts Council. Despite the inherent difficulty, Love insists that arts councils need to be “full-throated advocates for the arts.”

ThiS iS whaT The AAAC helps distribute grants, organizes prodo They do gramming and hosts forums and classes in the Artery.

North Carolina was a pioneer in public art advo- For example, every third Thursday the Arts Council cacy. Winston-Salem established the nation’s first hosts the Creative Sector Forums, dedicated to The final blow was dealt last year when the council was stripped of its right to distribute state-funded grants, which double as major source of income for the council. All-out collapse seemed imminent.

But in the last year or so, with a new director, a new board and a new River Arts District space, the Artery, it looks to be more of a sea change.

For executive director Kitty Love, who was appointed in December 2011, the upcoming Tangerine Ball will be more than a glamorous soiree.

It will be the official re-entrance for the revamped Arts Council, its rebirth cotillion. “Everyone is new, and we have to start the whole thing from scratch,” Love says.

combining forces and strategy to enhance the artists' professional practices. These culminate in partnership with the city of Asheville to host the annual Creative Sector Summit, a networking and educational opportunity for artists.

money maTTers Local arts councils typically act as a funnel for the smaller grants of $300 to $5,000. Those grants are awarded to individual artists or small groups, and have in the past helped fund album recordings, art works and more. Then there are the Grassroots Grants, among the most sought-after grants, as they offer greater financing opportunities. Martin refers to the grants as “one of the N.C. Arts Council’s foundational programs.”

The program was established in 1977 to “ensure that every citizen has access to quality arts experiences.”

They double as legislative proof that our representatives are publicly favoring the arts. Annual funding is determined in two stages. once the state legislature establishes the annual grant budget, 20 percent of the allocated funds are automatically and evenly distributed to all 100 counties in the state. The other 80 percent is based on a county population. based on the estimated 249,104 residents, buncombe County received $50,431 for the 2012 Grassroots Grants cycle, subdivided according to several stipulations. The multicultural allotment ensures that the percentage of a county’s multicultural population — 10 percent in buncombe — is represented.

Therefore, 10 percent of the funds must go toward multicultural projects.

The city of Asheville’s Cultural Arts Department took on the task of distribution for the most recent grant cycle. Previously, the AAAC was the Designated County Partner, a largely permanent position that comes with greater rights and financial allowances. City departments cannot become full-on DCPs, although they can fill the role temporarily.

So why does it matter which group gives out the money? Designated partners can use up to 50 percent of the Grassroots allotment to pay for their own budgets: salaries, leases and materials and other operating expenses. The AAAC derived a sizable portion of its funding through this channel. because the city’s partnership is temporary, it’s only allowed to use up to 20 percent of the allotted grant funds (the city went lower still, using only 10 percent).

These funds are usually distributed through sponsored partnerships with arts councils. but not in buncombe County. or at least not at the moment. The loss of that money left the arts council with virtually no steady stream of funding.

fall anD Then rise AAAC's discord was initially addressed by the state arts council in May 2008 during its annual Arts in Communities panel meeting, according to documents provided by the state arts council. The panel expressed concerns over the Asheville group’s lack of community involvement, an unclear sub-granting process involved with the Grassroots Grants and general operational

Sara Crawford, spent the better part of the year building a new budget. The old ones were largely scrapped.

Nonetheless, a decrease in donors coupled with the loss of direct public funding has the council and its $150,000 operations budget in a deficit.

The Tangerine ball is being looked to as a pivRanDy Shull C H A I R otal event, one that will lay the new foundation work to restart the organization. After all of the expenses are Kerri HampTon covered, Love and the AAAC aim to raise $10,000 V I C E C H A I R from the event. The money will be “used to implement Lori Davis programming,” says Love.

S E C R E T A R y Last year’s gala, hosted under the direction of interMelissa English im executive director Graham Hackett with “almost no Cherry LenTz Saenger budget,” brought in just over $1,000, Love says. This year will be quite different, and a sponsorship by local DaviD STarkey moonshine makers Troy & Sons Distillers will help.

Larry Turner As for the programming, Love maintains that is how AAAC will settle into its niche. Love’s focus is on the individual artist as an individual business. There’s disorganization. In 2009, the state council ordered that no shortage of artists in the area. Each one effectively the AAAC work with Nello McDaniels, a national functions as a one-man business. “but these 'businesses' consultant funded by a grant. They did so, but since lack a C.E.o, a board, accountants,” she says. AAAC’s then the board and the director have changed — twice. goal is to become the outlet for instruction and business (McDaniels is still working with Love, but because he management, through forums, classes and a future travels throughout the state, his assistance is intermit- partnership with A-b Tech. tent.)

The biggest problem, according to Martin, is figurbut the trend continued through 2009 to 2010, ing out how the councils can fit into a booming cultural when the panel downgraded the “floundering organi- atmosphere, and how they can brand themselves. For zation” to a Provisional County Partner, withholding Love, the AAAC will find this in business and financial a large portion of annual revenue, according to the education for the arts masses. “It’s not enough for the meeting minutes. council to just exist,” Love says.

In 2011 the N.C. Arts Council invited Diane Ruggiero, Asheville’s then-superintendent of cultural kyle sherard writes about the visual arts for mountain affairs, to apply for the PCP position on behalf of Xpress and can be reached at kyle.sherard@gmail.com the city of Asheville. [Ruggiero resigned from the position, effective Sept. 15, to pursue similar work in Alexandria, Va.] The position announcement was subtle. After the transfer was complete, a brief press release announced the 2011 Grassroots Grants schedule, citing Ruggiero as the contact. The transition marked a public end to AAAC’s handling of the Grassroots Grants. but, as Ruggiero put it, “the point is, is that the money gets out there [to the artists].”

boarD of DirecTors

rebuilDing The arTs council Despite the spirit of renewal, AAAC remains at the nadir of stability, brought on by nearly five years of structural and financial distress.

In the past, budget management was laissez-faire.

“Financial management was unheard of,” Love explains. “Expenditure columns were riddled with zeros and “n/a(s),” yet the ever-changing board of directors approved each one.

The new staff is completely overhauling such systems. Love wasn’t exaggerating when she said they have to start from scratch. “It’ll be at least four to five years before the N.C. Arts Council could reinstate the AAAC’s status” to distribute grants, according to Martin.

During this probational period the council must prove itself to be financially and operationally stable.

“They’re looking for “sustainable, diversified and consistent development,” says Love. The AAAC’s board of directors needs to remain intact and stable. Love, alongside operations manager Hillary Frye and bookkeeper

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a neW prescription the neW arts space, apothecary, opens With bold aMbitions

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solitary reFuGe by bryan c. reed

by bryan c. reed A July 2010 article by Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr in the Harvard Business Review offered challenged the conventional wisdom for economic recovery. “With job growth continuing to lag even as the economy picks up, local communities will be tempted to resume ‘smokestack chasing’— using tax breaks to attract big employers. That’s a misguided approach,” they wrote.

Instead, Glaeser and Kerr showed that regional economies were much better off with a high concentration of small, entrepreneurial businesses than with a handful of large corporations.

The same might be true of a local arts community.

“We have huge venues like The Orange Peel, or even the Grey Eagle, that are hard to get unless you’re a larger act, and then we have the Emerald Lounge and Craggie [Brewing Company], and haphazard house shows, but there’s not one place where things are happening consistently, where there’s a community that’s involved, and everyone’s plugged into it,” UNC-Asheville junior Nick Scavo says. “That’s what we’re trying to provide.”

Scavo is one of six founders of Apothecary, a new Asheville arts space, Apothecary. The idea came from a conference he attended as part of his job at UNC-A’s Writing Center, he says. Speakers were discussing the importance of available space for people to share ideas, to spawn creativity. “It

as open as possible: Left to right, Alex Cummings, Zach Smith, Frank Meadows, Nick Scavo, Aaron Dowdy, Christian Church and David Grubba.

Photo by Max Cooper

was just a bunch of weird corporate lingo going on, but, regardless, I started thinking about how much our university needed that,” Scavo says.

Then, he thought bigger: All of Asheville could benefit from a space like this, and might even offer less red tape than a university-sanctioned option.

Scavo and his housemates, Frank Meadows, Alex Cummings, Aaron Dowdy, Dave Grubba and Zach Smith, put the idea in motion by soliciting donations from professors and other benefactors.

The group started looking for a space in the River Arts District, but ultimately answered an ad for space at the YMI Cultural Center on South Market Street. After a lengthy application process — “They’ve been very, very diligent about trying to get the right kind of thing,” Scavo says — Apothecary won the lease, beating out three or four other groups, with its vision of a creative nexus for Asheville’s grass-roots creative talent, and the occasional touring band.

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Apothecary opened officially with a concert on Aug. 31 featuring Greensboro art-pop outfit Casual Curious, Asheville’s Alligator Indian and Knoxville’s Fine Peduncle. On Labor Day the space hosted the local ambient act Villages and the Ahleuchatistas side-project Lulo. September will also feature gigs from pop-experimentalists Jane Jane Pollock and lo-fi songwriter Molly Nilsson, among others.

“It’s all music stuff right now, but the idea of the space is if anyone has any creative ideas, we just want to have four walls where those things can be actualized,” Scavo says. The group is already working on an art opening for the early October art walk, and fielding contacts with literary groups.

“We want to pursue a certain level of quality in things that are happening, but also want to be as inclusive and as open as possible,” Scavo says. The goal is to make the space accessible to anybody looking to host an event by offering a lower rental fee — between $50 and $100, he says — and less hassle than the traditional bar or coffee shops. “We wanted to lower that threshold, so more people have more opportunities to do great creative events and have it be seen by people downtown and by a receptive community.” X Bryan C. Reed is the online editor at Shuffle Magazine, and a regular contributor to MAGNET and Paste.

Despite what the marketing geniuses at Facebook and Spotify would have you believe, listening to music isn’t a social experience. Sure, music might make nice background noise for a romantic dinner or set the mood for a party, but listening — really listening — is best done alone.

For the shy and socially hesitant among us, music offers a unique escape, a sort of forcefield against outside attention. Molly Nilsson, a Swedish songwriter living in Germany, reminisced about her earliest musical memories for an interviewer at Thumped.com. “I was addicted to my Walkman,” Nilsson said.

“But looking back, I think I was only obsessing about music because people would not talk to you if you had headphones on.”

The quiet, confessional music she selfrecords and self-releases seems designed for this very kind of anti-social listening experience. Writing an email before traveling across the Atlantic for her U.S. tour, Nilsson confirms it. “Some people mix their songs with good speakers,” she says, “but I mix my songs with crappy headphones because that’s almost exclusively how I listen to music myself. And maybe it’s also the way I would wish people to hear me, on their own on a late night.”

So far Nilsson has filled four albums of late-night anthems, singing over simple arrangements of old electronic keyboards and drum machines. Her fourth and most recent album, this year’s History, sounds bigger than the comparatively sparse arrangements of her earliest recordings, giving the record a bit of ‘80s-via-M83 nostalgia without shedding any of the stream-of-consciousness candor that makes Nilsson such a compelling songwriter.

She has a gift for internal monologues sung as plainspoken confessions. Her voice suggests Nico’s evocative deadpan, a certain distance that feels more vulnerable than defiant.

“Whiskey Sours,” a particularly fine moment Nilsson’s 2008 debut, These Things Take Time, offers a marvelous internal dialogue that sums up the emotional anxiety that runs through Nilsson’s catalog.

Addressing an unnamed “You” who stood

her up, Nilsson sings, “I only came here to hang out with you/ Chain smoking ‘cuz I don’t have anything to do/ I would have called you if I had some credits on my phone/ I always feel so stupid in a bar all alone/ You’re always late/ Making me wait/ I only came here to hang out with you.”

History has its share of isolation, often aided and abetted by digital distance. On the album opening “In Real Life,” Nilsson sings, “Online I never feel alone, I never feel live.” Then, on “Hotel Home,” Nilsson sings, “I’m never too far like the stars all are/ I’m never too nigh, I’m a satellite/ The world will find me when the time is right/ I’m never at home, so call on Skype.”

“I sing about various aspects of my life; I try not to censor even the seemingly time-bound details,” Nilsson says. “I don’t want people to think I’m sitting under a tree in the forest writing these songs to the birds. Cause I don’t. I write for people like me, with real lives. I know some people who find the digital world too artificial or profane to be allowed into poetry and such, but I find the Internet has many romantic sides.”

The dramatic tension Nilsson finds between romantic longing and self-determined solitude has given her plenty of material to work with. Her four albums have followed a fairly regular annual release schedule. Her strident independence ensures she’ll continue to work solo, operating on her own terms without collaborators or business interests interfering with the creative process. “I work very well together with myself and so far I have found no reason to change my course of action,” she says. “I might consider this if I had a family to support or a costly drug habit, but luckily I don’t.”

Who Molly Nillson, with Alligator Indian, Sin Kitty and Thai Food

Where The Apothecary, 39 S. Market St.

When Saturday, Sept. 15 (9 p.m. darkskiesassociation.org/look-listen or facebook.com/ashevilleapothecary)

As her songwriting has developed, the benefits of never having to compromise become clearer. The bolder, more propulsive History still builds its songs on simple, layered phrases on keys and drum machine. Nilsson also layers her voice, adding high, ethereal harmony to her deeper, more morose lead. Her phrasing, too, is hers alone. Nilsson sings vivid imagery in a cadence that manages to be infectiously catchy and counterintuitive.

Rock traditionalists balk, still, at the sight of a laptop on a stage; it’s a show, not karaoke, after all. For Nilsson, though, the minimal presence is part of the isolationist mystique. “I will be alone on stage singing for the persons standing alone in the audience surrounded by others,” she says.

“Hopefully we will meet each other halfway.”

X Bryan C. Reed is the online editor at Shuffle Magazine, and a regular contributor to MAGNET and Paste.

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diane ruGGiero oversaW bele chere, the nature center and easel rider by ursula GulloW The city is losing a key player in its cultural arts community. Diane Ruggiero, superintendent of Asheville’s Cultural Arts Division, will be leaving for a new position; her last day of city employment will be Saturday, Sept. 15.

Ruggiero has accepted a position with the city of Alexandria, Va. as deputy director for the Office of the Arts. She’ll start in mid-October.

“It was too good of an opportunity to pass up,” Ruggiero told Xpress.

As superintendent, Ruggiero oversaw Asheville’s public art board and the Urban Trail program. She also oversaw cultural development programs, street festivals (including Bele Chere), street performers and the W.N.C. Nature Center.

Since stepping into the position in 2008, Ruggiero has implemented the Easel Rider Mobile Arts Lab, a program she cites on the “top of her list” of personal achievements with the city. Ruggiero marks as another success the reinstallation of the Energy Loop, a public art sculpture in downtown Asheville.

While serving as Asheville’s superintendent of the Cultural Arts department, Ruggiero often looked to national arts organizations and programs to inspire models of opportunities for local artists. Her 2010 Art in Transit program, where artists were invited to design wraps for city buses, is currently listed on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s website as one of seven national projects that “creatively utilized federal funding into their capital projects.”

In January of this year Ruggiero implemented the smART Space Residency program, which was informed by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Commission, an NPO responsible for NYC’s successful Swing Space residency program. SmART Space provided three local artists with studio space and a stipend to produce a collaborative body of work in an unoccupied Asheville building. Local artists Melissa Terrezza, Sean Pace and Jeremy Russell used a now-commercial space in the Pioneer Building at 190 Broadway.

“One of the things that we’ve been able to do is pay our artists,” Ruggiero said. “It’s not a lot, but at least to be respectful of their talent and their time is something we can do. It’s taxpayer dollars, but it’s taxpayer dollars well spent. It stays in the community. These are local artists — it’s not something they can make a living off of, but I do think it’s a step towards providing some kind of support to them.”

Before coming to Asheville, Ruggiero worked as an administrator in Charlotte, for such cultural organizations as the Historic Latta Plantation, The Mint Museum, the Charlotte Public Library and the Charlotte Symphony.

smarter spaces: Diane Ruggiero (far left, pictured with artists Sean Pace, at top, Jeremy Russell, at right and Melissa Terrezza) helped bring the three artists to unoccupied space in the Pioneer Building for a residency and public art show.

“One of the biggest challenges for me when I first got here was that a lot of people didn’t know that there was a Cultural Arts Division,” said Ruggiero. “I wanted to try and figure out what our place in the community was where we were not competing with what other folks were already doing.”

Jen Bowen, who currently works with the city of Asheville as an arts administrator, will be taking over Ruggiero’s duties in managing Easel Rider’s Mobile Art Lab programs.

Otherresponsibilities will be absorbed among employees until the position is filled.

“It’s always been about the community first for me,” said Ruggiero. “I view the artists and the art organizations as a part of that.“ Her parting advice for Asheville: “I encourage everybody to steal,” she said with a laugh. “Steal ideas! If folks here can focus on the community overall, they will be successful.” X

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A cry for help

lAAff orgAnizerS ASK for $10,000 to $12,000 in donAtionS

by Kyle SherArd The 11th annual Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival started with a pub crawl and ended with a plea.

On Sept. 5, three days after the one-night, oneday festival closed, festival producer Arts2People posted a message on Facebook asking for money.

The note thanked everyone for supporting LAAFF before broaching financial problems.

“I have to tell you that this has been a rough year for the festival and we are in dire need of help from all of you,” read the post.

“As the event grows and we look at ways to try to make the event profitable for all involved, we are forced to take many risks. This year’s list of risks did not pay off and we are in a position that might mean we won’t be able to continue to have this event… . If all of our fans donated $5, we could save LAAFF and Arts2People.”

Jen Gordon, the post’s author and the executive director of Arts2People, added that the post was a “cry for help.”

The money will “go towards covering the remaining expenses of the festival,” Gordon tells Xpress. These expenses include rental fees for generators, money for the electrical contractor to ground and activate the generators and to pay Arts2People staff.

As of Sept. 9, $2,500 of the $10,000 to $12,000 goal had been raised, Gordon says.

LAAFF’s financial support is generated through the sale of beer, merchandise and wristbands; vendor stalls; raffles; and general sponsorship from area businesses. The budget is based on projections — estimates of vendor occupancy, attendance and beer sales. A small portion of the funding is secured a few days prior to LAAFF, while the bulk is earned during the event.

The “risks” stem from the decision to pay all 68 of this year’s participating performers, Gordon says. That expense came to almost $13,000. “In 10 years, we had never been able to do that; musicians have always donated their time,” says Gordon.

“The exposure is really good for the bands, but the mission for Arts2People is to pay the artists.”

Payment for the performers was to be subsidized by the Pre-LAAFF-a-thon Pub Crawl alongside business sponsorships. But the pub crawl flopped and was met by low sponsorship turnout.

Gordon projected the crawl would raise upward of $10,000. It raised $3,500.

The festival’s expansion to Rankin Avenue was also unpopular. The city told LAAFF that the festival had become too crowded, Gordon says.

During the permitting process, several city agencies, including the fire and police departments, noted that the festival was too large for Lexington Avenue, according to Gordon. LAAFF had to expand in an effort to thin the crowds (estimated

around 30,000) and reduce structural congestion.

The expanded footprint was a risk that may not have paid off. Based on feedback, namely from vendors, Gordon says the “expansion was harmful.” Many vendors felt they had been shorted the prime Lexington Avenue retail real estate that is the heart of the festival. “We still had to pay the same fee as the Lexington vendors,” said photographer Carter Mitchell, who ended up sharing a booth to cut losses.

The extra space also had to be outfitted with a stage and power.

Still, there is hope on the horizon. “It’s a pivotal time for Arts2People,” says Gordon. “Matt Logan and Kristie Quinn of 5 Walnut [Wine Bar] have generously offered to partner with Arts2People to provide us with office space in their new project [on Riverside Drive].” The group has only held temporary office spaces in the past, including a location at the YMI on Market Street.

Arts2People and LAAFF are also aiming to secure a co-sponsorship from the city when they reevaluate their current partnerships this fall. “City co-sponsorship would have a significant impact on this event’s continuity and sustainability,” Gordon says. Such a partnership means that parking spaces don’t have to be rented, power and police security are provided, signs are posted and blockades are put up and taken down — all by the city.

Gordon believes LAAFF is a true anchor event for Asheville. It’s on the season’s last major holiday, it’s in the heart of the city and it brings tens of thousands of tourists and locals to downtown, she says.

“The model for LAAFF is one that celebrates local culture,” Gordon says. And, “It continues to revitalize Lexington Avenue.” Donations can be made online, via mail or in person at Hip Replacements at 72 N. Lexington Ave. X

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Jimmy LaValle is in a great mood.

It might be because on the day he talked to Xpress over the phone from California, it was the first day of a monthlong tour, one that ends with a set at the All Tomorrow’s Parties fest in NYC. Or maybe it’s because he’s finally getting to talk about Asheville, a city he’s been dying to play ever since he bought his first Moog synth years back. Then again, maybe it’s simply because after five albums and more than a decade into his solo career as the Album Leaf, he’s about to drop one of his most exciting releases to date.

“I feel like I’ve finally made a different record,” LaValle says about his latest EP, Forward/Return, due out Tuesday, Sept. 18 (the same day as his show at the Grey Eagle, incidentally). “That’s what I’ve been striving toward, to do something new.”

But don’t worry, it still definitely sounds like Album Leaf. There are the gorgeous Brian Enoesque melodies, the layers upon layers of shifting samples and sonic textures, the electronic breaths and beats. All the elements that helped land Album Leaf on everything from Cadillac commercials and CSI: Miami to documentaries like Helvetica and a volunteering PSA with first lady Michelle Obama.

But where his previous albums tended to wallow in a melancholy downshift, his latest is surprisingly upbeat, almost danceable. The old lethargic, programmed rhythms have been pushed aside for propulsive, raw drums. Lush swells of warm guitar and trumpet and violin burst at the seams of every track, bubbling over with life and transforming Album Leaf’s once trademark meandering, meditative mood into something bold and joyful. Dare we say sexy, even.

This newfound energy probably comes from the fact that, like with 2010’s A Chorus of Storytellers, LaValle has once again recorded with his full, live band.

“It takes a lot of pressure off,” he admits, laughing. “I’ve always had a dream of making Album Leaf into a collaborative band. But my approach

Who The Album Leaf, with Tycho

Where The Grey Eagle

When Tuesday, Sept. 18 (9 p.m. $10 advance, $12 day of show. thegreyeagle.com.)

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back to the factory: LaValle is bringing his Litty Phatty to Moog when he comes to town. Moog gear is a major part of his layered music.

to songwriting is very hands on, very full. I hear a lot of things at once and I just do it. To me at this point, though, [recording with the full band] just feels right. The songs are still mine, and they’re still written by me and worked on by me for months and months and months before anybody in the band actually hears them. It’s still my project in that way. But it’s nice to work with other people, get somebody else’s feel and to change it up. Things [on Forward/Return] that brought songs life definitely happened within the band.”

It especially helps when said band is made up of three extremely versatile multi-instrumentalists, among other things. Take drummer Dave LeBleu, who in his spare time, builds his own synthesizers. You can hear LaValle play one of LeBleu’s creations on Forward/Return’s closing track, the swirling, John-Carpenter-‘80s-movietinged “Dark Becomes Light.”

“Dave’s like an electronics genius,” LaValle says. “Which is pretty amazing to have on your side. By now he’s probably got six-feet-f--king solid of modules. And he built me a pedal that I use in my guitar setup. He put it in a nice case and put a leaf on it.” He laughs. “I was like, ‘That’s awesome.’”

As you can probably guess, LaValle is a bit of an analog-gear geek. Ask him about the Moog instruments he owns, and it’s like he’s reading out of the catalog: Little Phatty, Voyager, MuRF pedal, Prodigy, Rogue, Opus 3, original Taurus pedal. He uses them so often that one of his songs was picked for the soundtrack of the 2004 documentary, Moog.

Which just makes his first trip to Asheville all that much more special.

“Yeah, I’m pretty excited about it,” he says.

“For primarily the Moog factory. What they’re doing there is amazing, how they’re still coming out with new things and still making them modern. It’s pretty incredible that they’re so small but continuing to be such a big name, along the same lines as Korg or Roland. It’s like the local coffee shop competing with Starbucks.

And the Little Phatty that we tour with needs a bit of TLC, so when we get into town I’m planning on dropping that off and checking the place out.”

He might never leave. X Miles Britton can be reached at milesbritton@ gmail.com.

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turbo Fruits Possible best band bio ever: “Clearly, the Turbo Fruits are not athletes. They are, however, a rock ‘n’ roll band and one that could likely take your state rock ‘n’ roll champion to the mat in less time than it takes to cue up a record.” They have that perfectly slouchy, shiny, unkempt look, and their sound (take single “Sweet Thang”) is equally slouchy and punchy, garage-y and underscored with bravado. Turbo Fruits’ latest, Butter, was recorded in a mere eight days

by Spoon’s Jim Eno, and the band is circling the Eastern U.S. in support of that album. They stop by Broadway’s on Saturday, Sept. 15. turbofruits.com.

asheville unchained George Dawes Green, founder of storytelling network The Moth, got the idea for the Unchained Tour while on his own book tour through small-town Georgia. There, he was surprised to find independent book stores still in business. Inspired by what he calls “noble bastions against the electronic media,” he bought a Bluebird school bus and loaded it up with authors, storytellers and musicians (his raconteurs). The current tour, which stops off at Asheville’s Diana Wortham Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., includes fiction/graphic novel author Neil Gaiman, Moth GrandSlam champion Peter Aguero and actor/ poet/performance artist Edgar Oliver.

The musical act is Rachel Kate and Joel T. Hamiliton from Charleston.

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bonfires for peace The Traveling Bonfires’ “Love Is A Flower,” a “movable feast of family fun and community connectedness through music, arts and dancing,” continues its summer run of events on Saturday, Sept. 15. The free concert, held in Pritchard Park from 4-9 p.m., features local indie-rockers The Zealots (George Terry, Aaron Price, Caleb Beissert, Christian Ferri and Matt Smith), along with “other local acts, poets and performers.” The Love Is A Flower series wraps with poetry and music at Vanuatu Kava Bar on Eagle Street on Saturday, Sept 22. ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com.

samantha crain At just 26, Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter Samatha Crain is already four albums into her career (her first full-length, with sincedisbanded Midnight Shivers, was produced by Danny Kadar and recorded at Echo Mountain).

Crain’s songs are simple but catchy, tugging at the emotions while still nudging the feet to dance. Her voice, unusual but instantly likable, is both rounded and impetuous. Crain plays The Grey Eagle on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Singersongwriter William Elliot Whitmore (his newest album is Field Songs) headlines. 8:30 p.m., $10 in advance or $12 day of show. thegreyeagle.com.

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clubland Wednesday, sept. 12 5 walnUt wine bar The Swayback Sisters (Americana, country, soul), 8-10pm athena'S ClUb Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm blaCk moUntain ale hoUSe Open mic w/ Dave Bryan, 8pm blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Open mic ClUb hairSpray Retro night ('70s, '80s & '90s), 10pm

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ClUb remix Debaucherosity dance party (electronic, dance), 10pm ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder Get down Karaoke, 10pm Good StUff Humps & the Blackouts (outlaw country), 7pm Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern Found Footage Festival (film), 8pm Grind Cafe Trivia night, 8pm Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm JaCk of heartS pUb Dale Watson & His Lone Stars (honky-tonk) w/ Southbound Turnaround, 7pm JaCk of the wood pUb Old-time jam, 4pm lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Back stage: Andrew Leahey w/ Jessica Campbell & Heather Morgan, 9pm lobSter trap Valorie Miller (folk, Americana), 7-9pm one Stop deli & bar Music trivia, 7pm oranGe peel Big K.R.I.T (rap, hip-hop), 9pm phoenix loUnGe Jamie Warren, Jason DeCristofaro, Cameron Austin & Bill Berg (jazz), 8pm piSGah brewinG Company American Aquarium (roots, Southern rock), 6pm StraiGhtaway Cafe South Forty (rock, honky-tonk), 6pm tallGary'S Cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm the lower level Soiree Fantastique (magic theater), 8pm

less is more: The Milk Carton Kids keep things simple with narrative folk tunes and time-tested harmonies. Check out the duo’s classic Americana sounds at The Altamont Theatre on Sept. 16.

thursday, sept. 13

ClUb remix College night dance party (hip-hop, house), 10pm

5 walnUt wine bar The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm

ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder

adam dalton diStillery Bass in Yo Face (electronic, dub), 10pm

CraGGie brewinG Company Blue Moon (jazz), 7-9pm

blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Mark Bumgarner (Americana, country), 7-9pm

dark City deli Musicians' round w/ Dave Bryan, 8pm frenCh broad brewery taStinG room Paul Edelman (country, folk), 6pm

The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm JaCk of heartS pUb Old-time jam, 7pm JaCk of the wood pUb No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Back stage: Judson Claiborne (indie, rock, pop) w/ Ryan Barrington Cox, 9pm lobSter trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm

treSSa'S downtown JaZZ and blUeS The Hard Bop Explosion (funk, jazz), 9pm

boiler room Chippendales "Most Wanted" Tour, 8pm Goth/punk show (drag performance), 10pm

vanUatU kava bar Open mic, 9pm

bUrGerworx Open mic, 7-9pm

weStville pUb Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

bywater Pleasure Chest (rock, soul), 8:30pm

Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern Two Gallants (folk rock, indie, lo-fi) w/ Papa, 9pm

one Stop deli & bar Brews, Bluegrass & BBQ w/ Kendall Huntley, 5-8pm Agobi Project w/ gemNeye (electronic), 10pm

wild winG Cafe Jeff & Justin (acoustic), 7:30pm

ClUb hairSpray Gong Show karaoke, 10pm

Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm

oranGe peel Galactic (funk, jam, dance) w/ Moon Hooch,

Get down Meghan Jean & the KFB (Americana), 9:30pm

o.henry'S/tUG DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm

to QualiFy For a Free listinG, a venue Must be predoMinately dedicated to the perForMinG arts. bookstores and caFés With reGular open Mics and Musical events are also alloWed / to liMit conFusion, events Must be subMitted by the venue oWner or a representative oF that venue / events Must be subMitted in Written ForM by e-Mail (clubland@Mountainx.coM), Fax, snail Mail or hand-delivered to the clubland editor dane sMith at 2 Wall st., rooM 209, asheville, nc 28801. events subMitted to other staFF MeMbers are not assured oF inclusion in clubland / clubs Must hold at least tWo events per Week to QualiFy For listinG space. any venue that is inactive in clubland For one Month Will be reMoved / the clubland editor reserves the riGht to edit or exclude events or venues / deadline is by noon on Monday For that Wednesday’s publication. this is a FirM deadline.

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9pm Phoenix Lounge Ryan Shah & Wes (Indian), 8pm Pisgah Brewing ComPany Black Mountain Tailgate Market benefit w/ Sons of Ralph (bluegrass, country), 5-8pm The Bad Popes (blues), 8pm

red stag griLL Eric Ciborski (piano), 7-10pm south side station Karaoke, 8pm southern aPPaLaChian Brewery Nikki Talley (folk, alt-country, Americana), 7pm the aLtamont theater Nick Thune (comedy), 8pm the Corner Reily's iPod Party the dugout Rockstar Thursdays (karaoke), 9pm the Lower LeveL Underground Jazz Lounge w/ Rich Williey & His Band, 8-10:30pm the market PLaCe Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm town PumP Paul Edelman (Americana), 9pm tressa's downtown Jazz and BLues Dance party w/ DJ D-Day, 9pm

5 waLnut wine Bar Ryan Oslance & Shane Perlowin (jazz), 10pm-midnight athena's CLuB Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am BLue mountain Pizza Cafe Acoustic Swing, 7-9pm Broadway's Pawtooth (rock) w/ Leopard Island (indie pop, rock), 9pm Bywater Jarvis Jenkins Band (rock, jam), 9pm CLuB hairsPray Dance party, 10pm Drag show, midnight CLuB xCaPades DJ Thunder Craggie Brewing ComPany The Beat Kids (rock, pop, soul), 7-9pm Creatures Cafe Nick Young (alt-country), 8pm diana wortham theater Kathy Mattea (country, bluegrass), 8pm eLaine's dueLing Piano Bar Disclaimer Comedy (standup), 8:159:15pm Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9:30pm-1am frenCh Broad Brewery tasting room Lyndsay Wojcik (rock, folk, soul), 6pm

westviLLe PuB Point & Shoot (alt-country, rock), 9:30pm

frenCh Broad ChoCoLate Lounge One Leg Up (jazz), 8pm

white horse Marc Black (folk), 7:30pm

get down Temptation's Wings w/ Earthling,

Through the Fallen & Sons of Borr (metal), 9:30pm grey eagLe musiC haLL & tavern Scott Miller & Bobby Bare Jr. (folk rock), 9pm grove Park inn great haLL Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm The Business (Motown, funk, soul), 9-midnight havana restaurant Free Flow Band (funk, soul), 7-9pm highLand Brewing ComPany Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (hot jazz), 6pm JaCk of hearts PuB Cisco Playboys (Western swing, Cajun, honky-tonk), 9pm JaCk of the wood PuB Twilite Broadcasters (old-time), 5pm Brushfire Stankgrass (newgrass), 9pm LoBster traP The Space Heaters w/ Leo Johnson (hot jazz), 7-9pm monte vista hoteL Chris Smith (country, folk, Americana), 6-9pm native kitChen & soCiaL PuB Bare Down Easy (bluegrass), 9pm o.henry's/tug DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm one stoP deLi & Bar Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm Antioquia (rock, funk, world), 10pm PaCk's tavern A Social Function (rock, dance), 9pm Phoenix Lounge Moonshine Babies (folk, blues, Americana), 8pm

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less folk, more rock: Two Gallants have always favored an explosive brand of folk, but after a years-long break, the duo is back with a fuzzy ferocity that has more in common with Black Sabbath than Woody Guthrie. The band brings its amped-up show to The Grey Eagle on Sept. 13.

piSGah brewinG Company Jahman Brahman (jam, rock, fusion), 9pm pUrple onion Cafe Fred Whiskin (piano), 7pm SCandalS niGhtClUb Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am SoUthern appalaChian brewery Peggy Ratusz Trio (blues, jazz, swing), 8pm

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StraiGhtaway Cafe Wilhelm McKay (roots, rock), 6pm tallGary'S Cantina Wolf (classic rock, blues), 9:30pm the Corner Dance Party w/ DJ Position

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the market plaCe Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz), 7-10pm

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town pUmp Heather McCown & Pat Ryan (acoustic blues, rock), 9pm

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saturday, sept. 15 5 walnUt wine bar The Zealots (acoustic, rock, pop), 9:3011:30pm altamont brewinG Company Chompin' at the Bit String Band (oldtime), 9:30pm apotheCary Molly Nilsson (synth pop) w/ Alligator Indian, Sin Kitty, Thai Food, 9pm athena'S ClUb Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm

DJ, 10pm-2am blaCk moUntain ale hoUSe The Blue Rags (indie, roots, Americana), 9pm blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Patrick Fitzsimons (blues), 7-9pm boiler room Back to School ("fetish dance party"), 9pm broadway'S Turbo Fruits (rock), 10pm bywater Bear Down Easy (bluegrass, country), 9pm ClUb hairSpray Dance party, 10pm Drag show, midnight ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder dark City deli Bill Ramsey, 4pm The Mug (blues), 8pm eleven on Grove Back to School (fetish dance party), 9pm emerald loUnGe Mystery Cult (rock, punk) w/ Polly Panic, Auto Defiance & Some Army, 9pm frenCh broad brewery taStinG room Great Smokey Mountain Bluegrass Band (bluegrass), 6pm frenCh broad ChoColate loUnGe Dizzy Chicken Trio (jazz), 8pm

havana reStaUrant Linda Mitchell (jazz, blues), 7-9pm hiGhland brewinG Company Bobby Miller & the Virginia Dare Devils (country, bluegrass), 6pm JaCk of heartS pUb Pam Taylor Band (blues, rock) w/ Riyen Roots, 9pm JaCk of the wood pUb Cutthroat Shamrock (Celtic, rock) w/ The Freight Hoppers (old-time), 9pm lobSter trap The Big Nasty (jazz), 7-9pm monte viSta hotel Joshua Pierce (Americana), 6-9pm o.henry'S/tUG DJ Speed (top 40, house), 10pm one Stop deli & bar Free Reggae Saturdays w/ DJ Kid, 5pm Aaron Burdett Band (folk rock), 10pm oranGe peel Tangerine Ball, 9pm paCk'S tavern Sound Extreme DJ (pop, dance), 9pm phoenix loUnGe Nikki Talley (Southern rock, blues), 8pm piSGah brewinG Company Alan Evans Trio (R&B, soul, jazz), 9pm pUrple onion Cafe Darlyne Cain (singer-songwriter), 8pm red StaG Grill Eric Ciborski (piano), 8-11pm

Get down The Blueness (dream pop) w/ Tashi Bank of Christ, 9:30pm

SCandalS niGhtClUb Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

Good StUff CarolinaBound (folk, country), 8pm

SoUthern appalaChian brewery Appalachian Fire (bluegrass), 8pm

Grove park inn Great hall Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Kellin Watson (pop, soul, rock), 9pmmidnight

StraiGhtaway Cafe Lyric (soul, funk, rock), 6pm tallGary'S Cantina Mojomatic (classic rock), 9:30pm

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bywater Paint the Bywater Pink feat: Nikki Talley & Carribean Cowboys, 2-6:30pm

town pUmp Matt Walsh & the Low Counts (rock, blues), 9pm weStville pUb Live music, 10pm white horSe Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8pm

sunday, sept. 16 5 walnUt wine bar The Roaring Lions (hot jazz), 7:309:30pm altamont brewinG Company Sunday Funday Potluck & Pickin', 6pm blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Luke Wood (singer-songwriter), 7-9pm boiler room

Get down Karnevil Circus Sideshow, 9:30pm Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern WHY? (indie rock, alt-hip-hop) w/ Serengeti, doseone & DJ Thanksgiving Brown, 8pm Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:3010:30pm hotel indiGo Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm JaCk of the wood pUb Irish session, 5pm Wilhelm McKay (folk rock, roots), 10pm lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Front stage: Aaron Price (piano), 1pm lobSter trap Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm

one Stop deli & bar Bluegrass Brunch & Open Jam w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am SoUthern appalaChian brewery Like Mind Trio (jazz), 5pm StraiGhtaway Cafe Mark Fuller, 6pm the altamont theater The Milk Carton Kids (folk), 8pm the Corner Tea dance, 6pm Drag show, 9pm white horSe Drum circle, 2pm Transition Black Mountain (presentation & socializing), 5pm wild winG Cafe Darren Kohler & friends, 4pm

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Wednesday, September 12th

Hookah Hook-Up Presents: hosted by

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Thursday, September 13th

Brews, Bluegrass, & BBQ feat. Kendall Huntley & 5-8pm FREE! the $1 PBRs

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AGOBI PROJECT 10pm $5 with gemNeye & Moving Temple 21+ Friday, September 14th FREE DEAD FRIDAYS $2 TACOS - 5PM - ALL AGES ACOUSTIC DEAD COVERS - FREE!!

FREE SHOW!!! 9pm Antioquia 21+ Saturday, September 15th

FREE REGGAE SATURDAYS FREE! ALL AGES! DjKid spins Reggae 5-8pm

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the dUGoUt Men on Earth (rock), 9pm

monte viSta hotel Steve Whiddon (singer-songwriter, piano), 11am-3pm

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EARLY SHOW

the Corner Karaoke, 10pm

red stag Grill at the Grand bohemian hotel 505-2949 rendezvous 926-0201 root bar no.1 299-7597 scandals nightclub 252-2838 scully’s 251-8880 shovelhead saloon 669-9541 smokey’s after dark 253-2155 southern appalacian brewery 684-1235 spurs 575-2258 static age records 254-3232 stingrays 926-4100 straightaway cafe 669-8856 tallGary’s cantina 232-0809 rocky’s hot chicken shack 575-2260 thirsty Monk south 505-4564 tolliver’s crossing irish pub 505-2129 tressa’s downtown Jazz & blues 254-7072 vincenzo’s bistro 254-4698 Westville pub 225-9782 White horse 669-0816 Wild Wing cafe 253-3066

LATE SHOW

harrah’s cherokee 497-7777 havana restaurant 252-1611 highland brewing company 299-3370 holland’s Grille 298-8780 the hop 254-2224 the hop West 252-5155 iron horse station 622-0022 Jack of hearts pub 645-2700 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jus one More 253-8770 lexington avenue brewery 252-0212 the lobster trap 350-0505 the lower level 505-8333 luella’s bar-b-Que 505-RIBS Mack kell’s pub & Grill 253-8805 the Magnetic Field 257-4003 Mike’s side pocket 281-3096 Monte vista hotel 669-8870 one stop bar deli & bar 255-7777 o.henry’s/tuG 254-1891 the orange peel 225-5851 pack’s tavern 225-6944 pisgah brewing co.

669-0190 pulp 225-5851 purple onion cafe 749-1179 rankin vault 254-4993

EARLY SHOW

craggie brewing company 254-0360 creature’s cafe 254-3636 adam dalton distillery 367-6401 dark city deli 257-5300 desoto lounge 986-4828 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty south lounge 251-1777 dobra tea room 575-2424 the dugout 692-9262 eleven on Grove 505-1612 emerald lounge 232- 4372 Firestorm cafe 255-8115 Fred’s speakeasy 281-0920 French broad brewery tasting room 277-0222 French broad chocolate lounge 252-4181 the Gateway club 456-6789 Get down 505-8388 Good stuff 649-9711 Grey eagle Music hall & tavern 232-5800 Grind cafe 430-4343 Grove house eleven on Grove 505-1612 the Grove park inn (elaine’s piano bar/ Great hall) 252-2711 the handlebar (864) 233-6173

EARLY SHOW LATE SHOW

5 Walnut Wine bar 253-2593 altamont brewing company 575-2400 the altamont theatre 348-5327 arcade 258-1400 asheville civic center & thomas Wolfe auditorium 259-5544 the asheville public (tap) 505-1720 asheville Music hall 255-7777 athena’s club 252-2456 avery creek pizza & ribs 687-2400 barley’s tap room 255-0504 black Mountain ale house 669-9090 blend hookah lounge 505-0067 blue Mountain pizza 658-8777 blue note Grille 697-6828 boiler room 505-1612 bobo Gallery 254-3426 broadway’s 285-0400 burgerworx 253-2333 the bywater 232-6967 club hairspray 258-2027 club Metropolis 258-2027 club remix 258-2027 the chop house 253-1852 the corner 575-2449

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Aaron Burdett Band 10pm $5 21+ CD RELEASE PARTY Sunday, September 16th

Bluegrass Brunch 11am

hosted by The Pond Brothers Open Jam! Bring your instruments!

Tuesday, September 18th

TWO FOR TUESDAY 8pm La Jeder & Ned Durrett and the Kindly Gents $2 - ALL AGES! DJ Adam Strange spins afterwards til 11pm!

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5 walnUt wine bar CaroMia Tiller (singer-songwriter, soul, blues), 8-10pm bywater Bluegrass jam, 8pm

emerald loUnGe Jaill (indie rock) w/ Fergus & Geronimo and Grammer School, 9pm

Get down E. Normus Trio (jazz), 9:30pm

Good StUff Sarah Williams (singer-songwriter), 7pm

Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern Contra dance, 8pm

Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern Tycho (ambient, electronic, chillwave) w/ The Album Leaf, 9pm

Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:3010:30pm JaCk of the wood pUb Trivia night, 7:30pm The Congress (rock), 10pm lobSter trap Bobby Miller (country, bluegrass), 7-9pm oranGe peel Guided by Voices (indie rock, lo-fi) w/ Heavy Times, 9pm

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pinball, foosball, ping-pong & a kickass jukebox kitchen open until late

lobSter trap Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7-9pm

the lower level Russ Wilson & His Band (swing, big band), 8-10:30pm

one Stop deli & bar Two for Tuesday w/ La Jeder & Ned Durrett & the Kindly Gents, 8pm

vanUatU kava bar Comedy "win-a-paid-gig" open mic, 9pm

phoenix loUnGe Paul Jones (classical, jazz), 8pm

weStville pUb Open mic, 7pm

piSGah brewinG Company Vinyl night (bring your own records), 6pm

wild winG Cafe Karaoke, 9pm

tallGary'S Cantina Tuesday Night Techno, 9:30pm

aSheville mUSiC hall Funk jam, 10pm blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Locomotive Pie (blues, folk, roots), 7-9pm

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hotel indiGo Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm

the altamont theater Poetry at the Altamont, 7:30pm

altamont brewinG Company Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

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handlebar Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard bluegrass jam, 8:30pm

phoenix loUnGe Mike Ashworth & friends (jazz fusion), 9pm

5 walnUt wine bar The John Henry's (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm

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Wed 9/12

Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm

JaCk of the wood pUb Dave Desmelik, Eric Sommer & Peggy Ratusz (singer-songwriters), 7pm Cahalen Morrison & Eli West (old-time, bluegrass, roots), 10pm

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ClUb hairSpray Trivia night, 10pm

the altamont theater Richard Shulman (piano), 8pm the Corner Ballroom dance lessons, 5-8pm the dUGoUt Trivia, 8pm tolliver'S CroSSinG iriSh pUb Trivia, 8:30pm

Open mic, 8:45pm wild winG Cafe Trivia, 8pm

Wednesday, sept. 19 5 walnUt wine bar The Swayback Sisters (Americana, country, soul), 8-10pm aSheville mUSiC hall The Malah (electronic, jam, rock) w/ Bookworm, 10pm athena'S ClUb Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Open mic ClUb hairSpray Retro night ('70s, '80s & '90s), 10pm ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder Get down Karaoke, 10pm Good StUff Silent movie night w/ Jake Hollifield (piano accompaniment), 7pm Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern William Elliott Whitmore (alt-country, folk, blues) w/ Samantha Crain, 8:30pm Grind Cafe Trivia night, 8pm Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm JaCk of heartS pUb Bluegrass jam, 7pm JaCk of the wood pUb Old-time jam, 4pm lobSter trap Valorie Miller (folk, Americana), 7-9pm one Stop deli & bar Music trivia, 7pm

town pUmp Black Mountain locals jam, 7:30pm

phoenix loUnGe Jamie Warren, Jason DeCristofaro, Cameron Austin & Bill Berg (jazz), 8pm

weStville pUb Blues jam, 10pm

piSGah brewinG Company Marrietta's Palm (rock, reggae), 6pm

white horSe Irish sessions, 6:30pm

SoUthern appalaChian brewery Todd Hoke (acoustic, singer-songwriter,

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Americana), 6pm

Bass in Yo Face (electronic, dub), 10pm

Old-time jam, 7pm

StraiGhtaway Cafe Coping Stone (world, Appalachian), 6pm

blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Chad Mackey (acoustic), 7-9pm

tallGary'S Cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm

boiler room Talent show w/ Trinity Norell, 10pm

JaCk of the wood pUb No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm

the lower level Soiree Fantastique (magic theater), 8pm

broadway'S Joe Buck Yourself (punk) w/ Viva La Vox & more, 10pm

the maGnetiC field Magnetic Song Series feat: Eleanor Underhill, Dulci Ellenberger & Chelsea LaBate, 8pm thomaS wolfe aUditoriUm Needtobreathe (rock) w/ Parachute and Drew Holcomb, 7:30pm treSSa'S downtown JaZZ and blUeS All Star Female Singer Spotlight, 9pm vanUatU kava bar Open mic, 9pm weStville pUb Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm white horSe Michael Keale (Hawaiian vocalist), 6:30pm wild winG Cafe Jeff & Justin (acoustic), 7:30pm

bUrGerworx Open mic, 7-9pm ClUb hairSpray Gong Show karaoke, 10pm ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder dark City deli Musicians' round w/ Dave Bryan, 8pm emerald loUnGe Maps & Atlases (indie pop) w/ Cory Branan, 9pm frenCh broad brewery taStinG room Locust Honey (old-time, honky tonk), 6pm Good StUff The Jangling Sparrow (folk, country), 7pm

lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Back stage: Saul Zonana (singer-songwriter, pop, rock), 9pm lobSter trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm o.henry'S/tUG DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm one Stop deli & bar Brews, Bluegrass & BBQ w/ Kendall Huntley, 5-8pm The Native Sway (rock, funk, electronic) w/ Imperial Blend, 10pm oranGe peel Nappy Roots (hip-hop, rap) w/ Free Radio, 9pm phoenix loUnGe Dave Desmelik (Americana), 8pm piSGah brewinG Company Dirty Bourbon River Show (Americana), 8pm pUrple onion Cafe Tony Rackley (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm

Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern Mount Eerie (indie folk), 9pm

red StaG Grill Eric Ciborski (piano), 7-10pm

5 walnUt wine bar The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm

Grove park inn Great hall Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm

SoUth Side Station Karaoke, 8pm

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SoUthern appalaChian brewery Chompin' At The Bit (old-time, string

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band), 7pm StraiGhtaway Cafe Jay Brown (roots, blues), 6pm tallGary'S Cantina Local music showcase, 8pm the altamont theater Marc Scibilia (singer-songwriter), 8pm the Corner Reily's iPod Party the dUGoUt Rockstar Thursdays (karaoke), 9pm the lower level Underground Jazz Lounge w/ Rich Williey & His Band, 8-10:30pm the market plaCe Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm weStville pUb Voodoo Fix (blues, rock, funk), 9:30pm white horSe Natasha Borzilova (bluegrass, country), 7:30pm

Friday, sept. 21 5 walnUt wine bar Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9:3011:30pm apotheCary Home Body (synth pop, lo-fi) w/ Wyla & David Grubba aSheville mUSiC hall Dopapod (funk, rock, experimental) w/ Sonmi, 9pm athena'S ClUb Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Acoustic Swing, 7-9pm boiler room Crimson Countess w/ Dead Light Pulse, Claybourne & Lithiasis (metal), 9pm ClUb hairSpray Dance party, 10pm Drag show, midnight ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder CraGGie brewinG Company Heady Murphy (stoner rock), 7-9pm elaine'S dUelinG piano bar Disclaimer Comedy (standup), 8:159:15pm Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9:30pm-1am emerald loUnGe Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils (country, bluegrass), 9pm frenCh broad brewery taStinG room Buncombe Turnpike (bluegrass), 6pm frenCh broad ChoColate loUnGe High Gravity Jazz, 8pm Get down Quintron (one-man band, experimental) w/ Miss Pussycat, The Krektones & Greg Cartwright, 9:30pm Good StUff Dave Desmelik (Americana), 8pm Grey eaGle mUSiC hall & tavern The Mantras (prog rock, jam), 9pm Grove park inn Great hall Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm The Business (Motown, funk, soul), 9-midnight hannah flanaGan'S The Voodoo Fix (rock), 9pm havana reStaUrant Free Flow Band (funk, soul), 7-9pm

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JaCk of heartS pUb The Mug (blues, hard rock), 9pm JaCk of the wood pUb Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 9pm lobSter trap Calico Moon (Americana, country), 7-9pm monte viSta hotel Joe Hallock (Americana), 6-9pm native kitChen & SoCial pUb Woody Wood (blues, rock), 9pm o.henry'S/tUG DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm

emerald loUnGe Sons of Bill (bluegrass, country) w/ Mic Harrison & the High Score, 9pm frenCh broad brewery taStinG room Devils Like Me (folk), 6pm frenCh broad ChoColate loUnGe Asheville Sax (jazz), 8pm Grove park inn Great hall One Leg Up (jazz), 2-5pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Russ Wilson Swingtones, 9pm-midnight

one Stop deli & bar Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm

havana reStaUrant Linda Mitchell (jazz, blues), 7-9pm

oranGe peel Twin Shadow (R&B, pop, indie) w/ Niki & the Dove and Total War, 9pm

JaCk of heartS pUb Great Smokey Mountain Bluegrass Band, 9pm

paCk'S tavern DJ Moto (dance, pop), 9pm

JaCk of the wood pUb Great Smokey Mountain Bluegrass Band, 4pm I Draw Slow (old-time, Americana), 9pm

phoenix loUnGe Blown Glass (roots, rock), 8pm piSGah brewinG Company Phuncle Sam (rock, jam), 9pm pUrple onion Cafe Fred Whiskin (piano), 7pm SCandalS niGhtClUb Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am SoUthern appalaChian brewery Serious Clark (singer-songwriter, folk), 8pm StraiGhtaway Cafe Garry Segal (blues, rock, Americana), 6pm tallGary'S Cantina The Zealots (rock, pop), 9:30pm the altamont theater Mary Gauthier (singer-songwriter), 8pm the Corner Dance Party w/ DJ Position the market plaCe Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz), 7-10pm town pUmp Drew Kelly (singer-songwriter), 9pm vanUatU kava bar Mary Sparks & Anthony Dorion-Labelle (electro-acostic, ambient), 9pm weStville pUb Trivia night, 9pm white horSe The Swayback Sisters (Americana, country), 8pm

saturday, sept. 22 aSheville mUSiC hall Cosmic Charlie (Grateful Dead tribute), 10pm athena'S ClUb Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

lexinGton ave brewery (lab) Back stage: Mipso (bluegrass, folk, rock) w/ The Fox Fire, 9:30pm lobSter trap Sean Mason Jazz Trio, 7-9pm monte viSta hotel Eric Everett (folk rock, blues), 6-9pm o.henry'S/tUG DJ Speed (top 40, house), 10pm one Stop deli & bar Free Reggae Saturdays w/ DJ Kid, 5pm oranGe peel Local metal showcase feat: Telic, Dixie Deathwish & The Omega Tribe, 9pm paCk'S tavern Chris Hendricks Band (classic rock, dance), 9pm phoenix loUnGe Sun Dog (rock), 8pm piSGah brewinG Company Aaron Burdett (Americana, folk), 3pm John Stone Reggae, 9pm pUrple onion Cafe Lonesome Road Band (bluegrass), 8pm red StaG Grill Eric Ciborski (piano), 8-11pm root bar no. 1 Skunk Ruckus (hellbilly), 9pm SCandalS niGhtClUb Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am SoUthern appalaChian brewery Moonshine Babies (folk, bluegrass, jam), 8pm StraiGhtaway Cafe Hummingtree Band, 6pm tallGary'S Cantina Mind Echo (rock), 9:30pm

blUe moUntain piZZa Cafe Patrick Fitzsimons (blues), 7-9pm

the altamont theater The Farewell Drifters (alt-folk, roots), 8pm

boiler room Jiggly Caliente meet & greet, 10pm

the Corner Karaoke, 10pm

ClUb hairSpray Dance party, 10pm Drag show, midnight

the dUGoUt Fine Line (rock), 9pm

ClUb xCapadeS DJ Thunder CraGGie brewinG Company Narren Schroder (alt-country, folk), 6-8pm Futur Primitif (rock, garage), 8-10pm dark City deli Rock Creek Experience (Southern rock), 9pm

town pUmp Pick Your Switch (rock), 9pm treSSa'S downtown JaZZ and blUeS Carolina Rex (blues, funk, R&B), 10pm white horSe White Horse Spirit Series (astrology), 2pm Asheville Tango Orchestra, 8pm

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The Story: A capital investment manager tries to cover a shortage until he can sell his business, all while a detective is on his trail over the car wreck that left his mistress dead.

The Lowdown: Strong central performances, an intelligent script and solid professional filmmaking make this complex crime thriller compelling entertainment.

Before I saw Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, one person told me it was similar to last year’s Margin Call — and that’s not a bad comparison.

My guess is that if you liked Margin Call, you’ll probably like this. But in many ways, this is a different kettle of ichthyological specimens in that it’s part high-finance drama and part thriller — and the two things line up surprisingly well. Maybe that’s because there’s really not all that much difference between high-finance shenanigans and plain old crime.

(Actually, it reminded me somewhat of this year’s Headhunters — minus the bloody mayhem — in that we watch the main character sink further and further into a mess of his own making from which it seems impossible to escape from.) There is one inherent downside to all this — all of the characters are pretty darn unlikable.

But when they’re played by such a capable cast in such a tightly constructed story, you may not mind so much.

Richard Gere (in his best form since 2006’s The Hoax) stars as Robert Miller, an over-extended venture capital magnate whose personal life might also be said to be over-extended. He has a wife, Ellen (Susan Sarandon in equally fine form), who doesn’t ask too many awkward questions. He has a palatial home — with the most amazing chandelier ever (one that reminds you that the 1 percent don’t do their own dusting) — and a dutiful daughter, Brooke (Brit Marling — a bit out of her depth), in business with him. Materially, Miller would seem to have it made. The problem is that he borrowed a paltry $416 million to cover a “leak” until he can sell off the business and set things right.

Unfortunately, the lender would like the money back, and the buyer with whom he’s dealing keeps stalling.

But there’s even more trouble just around the corner in the form of his demanding artgallery-owning mistress Julie Cote (Laetitia

Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere in Nicholas Jarecki's compelling thriller Arbitrage.

Casta, Gainsbourg). Her desire for more of his time results in a getaway trip where he wrecks the car and she dies. Fearful of exposure, he seeks the help of Jimmy Grant (Nate Parker, Red Tails), the son of a former employee, to pick him up and sneak him home. Unfortunately for Miller, the police realize that Julie wasn’t driving. Even more unfortunately, the detective on the case, Michael Bryer (Tim Roth), quickly figures out who the driver almost certainly was and is determined to prove it. Therein lie the escalating complexities of the story — and it’s to Jarecki’s credit that he has divided them up so that we’re never away from any of the situations for too long. It’s to Gere’s credit that he can move from situation to situation with reasonable aplomb — all while letting us (and no one else) see that he’s on the verge of losing it at every turn.

The film would not work if it tried to make Gere into a sympathetic character, and thankfully it doesn’t. (What marginal sympathy — too strong a word really — it creates is generated by the fact that his detective nemesis isn’t all that much better.) Instead, the film is content to make Gere a compelling, fascinating monster who — from a business standpoint — is wading in a sea of monsters as corrupt as himself. You wouldn’t want to be friends with this man (or let him handle your money), but he’s terrifically slimy and fun to watch from the safety of a theater seat. All in all, this is an intelligent and intelligently made film that provides solid adult entertainment of a kind we don’t see all that often. Rated R for language, brief violent images and drug use. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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The Story: When a young woman’s husband is murdered, his four cohorts come looking for the fortune they believe she has.

The Lowdown: A brilliantly entertaining mix of sexy romance, suspense and comedy anchored to sophisticated writing and direction with two bonafide classic movie stars, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

Often spoken of as "the best Alfred Hithcock movie Hitchcock never made," the truth is that Stanley Donen’s Charade (1963) is much better as sophisticated, sexy entertainment than anything Hitchcock himself was making in the 1960s. In fact by 1963, Hitch would never make anything that was this much pure fun again.

This is old-style Hollywood moviemaking — complete with a pair of movie stars that really were (and are) movie stars: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. (It would also be Grant’s last appearance in this kind of film.) It’s every inch a work of style and polish, but don’t let it fool you. This isn’t just a case of somebody "making ’em like they used to." Charade is by no means reactionary filmmaking. If anything, it’s the bridge from Stanley Donen’s 1950s filmmaking into the freer style of the 1960s. (Donen is one

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of the few Hollywood directors who effectively made that transition.) It was probably nothing but luck that brought Donen together with this cast and Peter Stone’s screenplay, but it was the perfect blend for the 1960s — and it remains perfect today. The only film to come close to this kind of entertainment since then is Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven (2001).

The film starts off as what appears to be a straightforward thriller with a body being thrown off a train — followed by Henry Mancini’s unforgetable main theme and Maurice Binder’s swirling pop art opening credits. The tone is set perfectly for a first-rate thriller. And the next scene makes it look like that’s where the film is going — only what appears to be an impending assassination turns out to be a gag.

In no time, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (who’ve just met) are exchanging flirtatious repartee, even though she effectively shuts him down (for now) with the classic objection, "I already know an awful lot of people, and until some of them die off I can’t possibly meet anyone else."

Shortly after that, the plot kicks in, revealing that the man thrown from the train was Hepburn’s now deceased husband. She isn’t exactly heartbroken over the loss, but she’s grimly fascinated by the weird parade of unsavory characters who show up at the funeral — one of whom actually jabs the corpse with a pin in order to make sure he’s dead. The reason behind all this is that her late husband supposedly had a large sum of money (or something of great value) stashed away that these people are determined to get a hold of by any means necessary — up to and including terrorizing Hepburn. They might even go so far as to murder her. Naturally, Grant appoints himself her protector, but it soon becomes open to question whether or not Grant is any better (or worse) than the fortune hunters. (Not that any audience of the era really expected Grant to turn out to be a bad guy, but it did keep the action nicely mysterious.)

Soon, of course, the amassed disreputable characters starting being murdered one by one, making it clear that Hepburn’s life may well be on the line, too. The blend of comedy, romance, beautiful Parisian locales and mystery is perfectly judged from first to last — culminating in a suspense scene that is, yes, worthy of Hitchcock at his best. No, the film is not deep. It doesn’t try to be. What it aims for is exacrly what it is — a perfect entertainment. That is nothing to be dismissed lightly.

Not Rated reviewed by Ken Hanke Plays Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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The Story: A bleak look at the entitled American man-boy — in something other than his usual rom-com confines.

The Lowdown: An unfailingly bitter and grim comedy from Todd Solondz that doesn’t always work, but which is rarely less than fascinating in its examination of a character we’ve merely come to accept without question.

Todd Solondz makes very specialized films for a very specialized audience — or maybe it would be fairer to say that he makes films for himself and that a specialized audience finds them. This is a roundabout way of saying that his latest film, Dark Horse, is one those movies we label "not for everyone."

(Why we do that I’m not sure, since we could say the exact same thing about Michael Bay, but we never do.) Solondz makes films that

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are very dark, very bitter — and yet they’re thought of more as comedies than anything else. The truth is that "dark" doesn’t even get near the mark. Bleak is a better word, and the comedy is of a nature where you laugh only because there’s nothing else to be done. The line between absurdly comic and horrifyingly tragic is so thin as to be virtually nonexistent.

That has perhaps never been as apparent as it is in Dark Horse — a film that tackles both the man-boy of popular culture and the idea of the "entitled generation." While the results are uneven, that doesn’t change the fact that this is a frequently remarkable work.

The film presents the story of Abe (TV acror Jordan Gelber), a pudgy, unattractive 30-something with a receding hairline and an attitude the size of California. Abe works for his father, Jackie (Christopher Walken in high-waist pants and a spectacularly bad toupee), at a commercial real estate firm. He doesn’t really work so much as he takes up space, spreads his bad attitude and draws a paycheck. The only work we see him turn in was done by the seemingly sympathetic secretary, Marie (Donna Murphy, Higher Ground). Abe lives at home in his old bedroom with all his action figures, both ignoring and being ignored by his father, but gambling at backgammon with his mother, Phyllis (Mia Farrow). He drives around in the world’s most obnoxious car (a Hummer) — made that much worse by being bright yellow — while listening to bad pop music with lyrics that assure him he can be whatever he wants to be. He not only believes the lyrics, but thinks that such is his inborn, unearned right. What Solondz is after is the question of how Abe got this way.

When the film opens he’s at a wedding party where he meets an attractive but incredibly glum young woman, Miranda (Selma Blair, Hellboy II). He’s drawn to her — perhaps because she’s too lethargic to immediately run away from him. She’s clearly not interested, but he manages to get her phone number. It’s not long before he proposes to her — and incredibly she ends up agreeing.

As you might guess, things don’t go smoothly. But then nothing in Abe’s life ever goes the way he thinks he’s entitled to have it go.

What makes the film difficult isn’t just its bitter tone, nor is it the fact that its hero is essentially unlikable — actually, no one in it is really likable. No, it’s the fact that early on, the movie hints that what we’re seeing may not always be real. It starts subtly with Marie magically appearing to counsel Abe, but soon the line between reality and fantasy is completely worn away. As with Solondz’s last film, Life During Wartime (2009), I kept being put in mind of Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008) — and not in a way that was in Solondz’s favor. But for all that, Dark Horse ought to be seen for its thought-provoking look at a character and a type of person that we seem to have come to otherwise accept.

Not Rated, but with strong language and definitely not meant for children. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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The Story: Music documentary about the mysterious and little-known pop star Rodriguez who disappeared from the scene after two critically-praised, but commercially disastrous albums in early 1970s.

The Lowdown: An absolutely splendid documentary that tells a true story of amazing improbability. Beautifully structured with a genuine dramatic arc and a lot of nice music. Don’t miss this one.

If you see no other documentary this year, you owe it to yourself to see Searching for Sugarman. This is not only the best documentary I’ve seen this year, it’s one that shows other documentaries how to do it — and it’s a documentary I can imagine myself seeing more than once (a rare thing, indeed). Some of what makes the film work so well is certainly due to its fascinating subject — Sixto Rodriguez — and his equally fascinating story, but there’s more to it than that. It would have been a simple matter to botch the telling of the story in any number of ways, but first-time filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul didn’t. It’s as if he knew he had something remarkable that needed an approach that took advantage of the story’s natural elements of mystery, suspense and anticipation — not to mention what seems like one of the most improbable twists of fate imaginable.

Do you even know who Sixto Rodriguez — or more correctly, just Rodriguez — is?

I admit I certainly had never heard of him until I read about this movie. In simple terms, Rodriguez was a Detroit-based singersongwriter in the early 1970s. He might be compared a little to Jim Croce or maybe even Bob Dylan, but he’s less saccharine than the former and more clear-voiced than the latter.

In terms of content, he’s much nearer Dylan.

He was good enough to be signed to a record deal, which produced two albums — Cold Fact and Coming from Reality. Despite being critically praised, neither album was a commercial success. You could spend days discussing why that was and never get anywhere. Pop music history is littered with similar cases.

The fact is, though, that his records were flops and that was the end of Rodriguez’s musical career — except it wasn’t.

Somehow — and no one seems to agree on exactly how — his albums made it to Capetown, South Africa. Copies — mostly bootleg, of course — passed from person to person. Rodriguez’s anti-establishment songs made an immediate connection with the youth of South Africa — much of it becoming anthemic in the anti-apartheid movement.

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music formed the soundtrack of their lives — despite or perhaps because the songs were "discouraged" from receiving radio play. (The records in radio stations had been scratched so badly that the most "offensive" tracks were impossible to play.) All told, it’s estimated that more than 500,000 copies were sold.

But who was Rodriguez? The albums merely showed a picture of a young man with his face partly obscured by shadow and a pair sunglasses. There was no literature on him, and no one seemed to know anything about him. Wild stories sprung up — the most popular seeming to be that he’d committed suicide onstage (there was some disagreement on just how). The question was what really happened — and the film answers it.

At this point, I’m torn between saying more and stopping right here. My instinct tells me that chances are that you already know the outcome, but maybe you don’t — and I don’t want to prevent the possibility of that. Plus, I certainly don’t want to ruin any of the brilliance of the method used in the structure of the film. Just go and see for yourself. If nothing else, you’ll hear some pretty good music you likely haven’t heard before, but I suspect you’ll get more than that out of the film. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some drug references reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre

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The Story: The tale of what happens when a struggling writer finds a manuscript in an old briefcase and passes it off as his own.

The Lowdown: Nicely made and with a good cast, but never very compelling due to a screenplay that lacks much in the way of characterization or believable drama.

I was genuinely hoping that the early reviews for The Words were off-base, but the film is at best a well-intended failure. I do think it’s somewhat better than the negative pile-on suggests, but not enough to come even close to something I’d recommend. The fellows who wrote and directed it — Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal — have only one previous film credit — the story (not the screenplay) for TRON: Legacy (2010). They clearly have deeper concerns. In fact, what they seem to have been aiming for was to come up with a variant on Stephen Daldry’s The Hours (2002). They have a similar sounding title, literary pretentions, three interconnected stories to cut between and even an ersatz Philip Glass score by Marcelo Zarvos.

In theory, I don’t object to this. There’s nothing wrong with aiming high — and one day they may make a movie as good as The Hours.

This isn’t it. The Hours had a brilliant structure and three powerful stories — courtesy of a strong book. This has a haphazard structure and three weak stories — courtesy of a literary anecdote. It’s not a fair match.

The idea here is to take the story about Ernest Hemingway’s wife Hadley losing a suitcase containing his manuscripts in a train station — and run with it. And run with it, the film does. Here it becomes a single novel lost by the wife (Nora Arnezeder, Safe House) of an author whose name we never know (played by Jeremy Irons as an old man and Ben Barnes, Easy Virtue, as a young one) in a briefcase on a train — a novel that will one day find its way into the hands of a struggling writer (Bradley Cooper), who will publish it as his own. (If you’ve seen the trailer, you already know the basics of all this.) Now, this might have worked on its own — if the characters had been better developed — but that, of course, would leave the film one story shy of the three story structure. So the film drags in Dennis Quaid as an author at what must be the longest book-reading since the days of Charles Dickens — and it is he who will read us the story of the struggling writer publishing the book he chanced upon. This not only adds nothing — apart from Quaid reading from a very bad book — it attempts to drag in "something more" involving Quaid and a female fan (Olivia Wilde) that’s meant to sug-

gest that maybe the book he’s reading from is autobiographical. This not only doesn’t work, it heads straight to an ending that I suspect Klugman and Sternthal thought was heavy with ambiguity. In truth, it serves to make the film just stop rather than end.

What you end up with here is a movie about six actors in search of characters that barely exist. Jeremy Irons comes out of it all pretty much intact, if only because he gets to retreat into enjoyably flamboyant ham.

Everybody else seems to be trapped in a story where they say and do things without any clear reason why. The narration — or the supposed novel reading — is apparently meant to explain actions, but most of the time it only tells us things we’re already looking at but without illuminating them. As a result, everyone seems to be doing what they do for no real reason other than because the screenplay says so.

What makes it all so shaky is that the film wants to be literary, but reduces literature almost completely to Ernest Hemingway — and even further, to one book, The Sun Also Rises. This makes it very hard to believe that either the characters or the filmmakers are of quite the literary bent they’d have us believe.

The results? A slickly made picture that fails to convince as drama or much of anything else. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and smoking. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artist Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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Ai WeiWei, DAnqing Chen, Ying gAo, ChAngWei gu Documentary An intimate portrait of both the private and public sides of Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei.

A documentary about a subject who is so delightfully improbable that it ought to have crossover appeal for viewers who usually eschew documentaries altogether. Rated R

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RiChARD geRe, SuSAn SARAnDon, Tim RoTh, BRiT mARling, lAeTiTiA CASTA, nATe PARkeR Crime Drama Thriller A capital investment manager tries to cover a shortage until he can sell his business, all while a detective is on his trail over the car wreck that left his mistress dead. Strong central performances, an intelligent script and solid professional filmmaking make this complex crime thriller compelling entertainment. Rated R

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Will FeRRell, ZACh gAliFiAnAkiS, JASon SuDeikiS, DYlAn mCDeRmoTT, kATheRine lAnASA, SARAh BAkeR Comedy A never-challenged, slacker Blue Dog Democrat congressman finds himself pitted against an improbably naïve Republican who’s being financed by greedy business interests. A solid satirical premise gets derailed in favor of pandering to its stars on its way to an aged bromide ending. Rated R

CeleSte & JeSSe Forever JJJ

RAShiDA JoneS, AnDY SAmBeRg, ChRiS meSSinA, ARi gRAYnoR, eRiCh ChRiSTiAn olSen, eliJAh WooD Romantic Comedy Drama A divorcing couple try to remain best friends — with somewhat predictable results. A clever attempt at making a self-aware romantic comedy that falls short of its desires. It makes for an occasionally pleasing diversion, but ultimately means less than it intended. Rated R

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CARY gRAnT, AuDReY hePBuRn, WAlTeR mATThAu, JAmeS CoBuRn, geoRge kenneDY Suspense Thriller/Romantic Comedy When a young woman’s husband is murdered, his four cohorts come looking for the fortune they believe she has. A brilliantly entertaining mix of sexy romance, suspense and comedy anchored to sophisticated writing and direction with two bonafide classic movie stars, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Rated NR

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JoRDAn gelBeR, SelmA BlAiR, miA FARRoW, ChRiSToPheR WAlken, JuSTin BARThA, DonnA muRPhY Bleak Comedy-Drama Fantasy A bleak look at the entitled American man-boy — in something other than his usual rom-com confines. An unfailingly bitter and grim comedy from Todd Solondz that doesn’t always work, but which is rarely less than fascinating in its examination of a character we’ve merely come to accept without question. Rated NR

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ChRiSTiAn BAle, miChAel CAine, gARY olDmAn, Anne hAThAWAY, Tom hARDY, mARion CoTillARD, JoSePh goRDon-leviTT, moRgAn FReemAn Comic Book Action Drama The final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series. A more human, more entertaining, less oppressive Batman movie than might have been expected. It’s not as weighty as it probably means to be, but it’s undeniably entertaining and wellmade. Rated PG-13

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SYlveSTeR STAllone, JASon STAThAm, BRuCe WilliS, ARnolD SChWARZeneggeR, ChuCk noRRiS Geriatric Action A group of mercenaries head out for revenge after one of their own is murdered. A murky, often amateur action movie that takes itself a bit too seriously to be the kind of dumb fun it should be.

Rated R

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kRiSTin Bell, DAx ShePARD, BRADleY CooPeR, Tom ARnolD, kRiSTin ChenoWeTh, BeAu BRiDgeS Action Comedy A man in the witness protection program jeopardizes his safety by driving his girlfriend to Los Angeles for a job interview. Mostly unfunny comedy with nice leads that will appeal mostly to persons who like to watch cars endlessly driving around to no real purpose. Rated R

deal with a crooked cop who wants a piece of their profits. A brutal, often unsettling crime drama with good performances, some heart and strong direction.

But it’s simply too nasty to be enjoyable. Rated R

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JenniFeR gARneR, Joel eDgeRTon, CJ ADAmS, oDeYA RuSh, ShoReh AghDAShloo Family Fantasy Drama A couple who’s been unable to have a child of their own magically receives one when a young boy grows from their garden. A reasonably harmless family-friendly film that’s too sentimental for kids and too dull for adults. Rated PG

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miSTY milleR, STePhAnie RenZ, mARleRie gRADY, mAYA STAnge, ChRiSToPheR lloYD, CARY elWeS Toddler Amusement The Oogieloves go in search of five golden baloons for the birthday party they’re throwing for a throw-pillow. Anyone over the age of 3 who doesn’t run screaming from the theater is probably some hapless movie critic. Rated G

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meRYl STReeP, TommY lee JoneS, STeve CARRell, JeAn SmART Romatic Drama An aging married couple heads to intensive couples counseling in Maine for one last shot at mending their broken relationship. The solid cast and frank sexuality are welcome, but a lack of consistent tone — or a real point — doesn’t help. Rated PG-13

(voiCeS) koDi SmiT-mCPhee, TuCkeR AlBRiZZi, AnnA kenDRiCk, CASeY AFFleCk, ChRiSTPheR minTZ-PlASSe Animated Horror Comedy A young horror-movie fan who can talk to the dead finds himself heir to the task of preventing a 300-year-old curse from befalling the town of Blithe Hollow. A clever animated horror comedy for kids. The animation is striking, the horror content surprisingly strong (and savvy) and the film is several notches above any kid movies that have come out this year. But it may scare younger children and upset some parents. Rated PG

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FRAnçoiS CluZeT, omAR SY, Anne le nY, AuDReY FleuRoT, CloTilDe molleT Fact-based Comedy-Drama A fact-based, feel-good, odd couple comedy-drama about a rich white quadriplegic and his poor black caregiver. Slickly made, a little Hollywoodized, a little corny, but with a core of truth and splendid performances that transcend its limitations. Rated R

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JeFFReY DeAn moRgAn, nATAShA CAliS, kYRA SeDgWiCk, mADiSon DAvenPoRT, mATiSYAhu, JAY BRAZeAu, gRAnT ShoW Demonic Possession Horror A young girl becomes possessed by the demon inside an old box she buys at a yard sale. Well-made, nicely acted and slick exorcism tale that — even with the unusual wrinkle of Jewish mysticism — is ultimately just another possession story. Rated PG-13

mATTheW mCConAugheY, emile hiRSCh, Juno TemPle, ginA geRShon, ThomAS hADen ChuRCh Pitch Black Comedy Thriller The world’s dumbest collection of trailer trash hire a killer to take out the much detested stepmother for her insurance money. Blistering in its black comedy and unflinching in its brutal violence, William Friedkin’s Killer Joe is bold, disturbing and often brilliant filmmaking — and the textbook definition of “not for everyone.” Rated NC-17

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JACkie Siegel, DAviD Siegel, viRginiA neBel Documentary A look into the lifestyles of the super rich and ultra tacky — and their fall from grace when the stock market crashes. Undeniably fascinating in its depiction of mindless consumerism and conspicuous

ShiA lABeouF, Tom hARDY, JASon ClARke, guY PeARCe, JeSSiCA ChASTAin Crime Drama In the mountains of Virginia, three brothers try to make a living bootlegging, but must

JoSePh goRDon-leviTT, miChAel ShAnnon, DAniA RAmiReZ, JAmie Chung Action Thriller A New York City bike messenger must dodge a crooked cop who’s after an envelope he’s carrying. A surprisingly cinematic, always entertaining and occasionally clever action thriller that’s only held back by its inherent silliness. Rated PG-13

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Frank LangeLLa, James marsden, Liv TyLer, susan sarandon, PeTer sarsgaard, Jeremy sTrong Sci-Fi Caper Comedy Drama An ex-jewel thief finds his new health-care robot makes for an excellent partner in larceny. Warm without being in the least treacly, this engaging comedy drama makes for very agreeable company — as do both of its title characters. Rated PG-13

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PauL dano, Zoe kaZan, Chris messina, anneTTe Bening, anTonio Banderas, aasiF mandvi, sTeve Coogan, eLLioTT gouLd Comedy-Drama A young writer in a slump — professionally and personally — creates the girl of his dreams in a book, only to find she’s real and living with him. Fanciful and fantastic romantic comedy that manages to explore its premise with thought and unusual wit. Don’t overlook this one. Rated R

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sixTo rodrigueZ, maLik BendJeLLouL, CLarenCe avanT, eva rodrigueZ, regan rodrigueZ, sandra rodigueZ-kennedy Music Documentary Music documentary about the mysterious and little-known pop star Rodriguez who disappeared from the scene after two critically-praised, but commercially disastrous albums in early 1970s. An absolutely splendid documentary that tells a true stoty of amazing improbability. Beautifully structured with a genuine dramatic arc and a lot of nice music. Don’t miss this one. Rated PG-13

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mike BirBLigia, Lauren amBrose, James reBhorn, CaroL kane, CrisTin miLioTi, aya Cash Comedy The quasi-autobiographical tale of a would-be stand-up comic sorting out his personal and professional life. Aimed squarely at fans of star, co-writer, co-director Mike Birbiglia and listeners of NPR’s This American Life, this quirky film will undoubtedly play better to the faithful, but remains a pleasant comedy on its own merits.

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Jordin sParks, WhiTney housTon, derek Luke, mike ePPs, Carmen eJogo,Tika sumPTer Drama with Songs Three Detroit sisters try becoming a singing group despite their mother’s wishes.

Basic showbiz story about getting the big break, blowing the big break, getting another and…you know the drill. Clichéd, but not badly done for all that — and, of course, it’s noteworthy that this is Whitney Houston’s final film. Rated PG-13

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mark WahLBerg, miLa kunis, (voiCe) seTh maCFarLane, JoeL mChaLe, giovanni riBisi Raunchy Gimmick Comedy A man struggles to juggle his girlfriend and his lifelong best friend, who just happens to be an anthropomorphic teddy bear he wished into existence as a child. A one-joke premise that’s mindless, rambling and downright stupid.

Rated R

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Jeremy renner, raCheL WeisZ, sTaCy keaCh, edWard norTon Action A superspy — much like Jason Bourne — must run for his life after the government decides they no longer have any use for him. A worthy addition to the Bourne franchise that doesn’t embarrass — but does miss a bit of the previous film’s scope.

Rated PG-13

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CoLin FarreLL, kaTe BeCkinsaLe, JessiCa BieL, Bryan CransTon, Bokeem WoodBine, BiLL nighy Sci-Fi Action A worker in a futuristic society realizes that he isn’t who he thinks he is and finds himself embroiled in a war for the future of the Earth. Potentially intriguing premise that sinks in a morass of specious scripting and mind-numbingly interminable action scenes of no particular distinction. Rated PG-13

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BradLey CooPer, Zoe saLdana, dennis Quaid, oLivia WiLde, Jeremy irons, Ben Barnes, nora arneZeder Literary Drama The tale of what happens when a struggling writer finds a manuscript in an old briefcase and passes it off as his own. Nicely made and with a good cast, but never very compelling due to a screenplay that lacks much in the way of characterization or believable drama. Rated PG-13

The Land Unknown JJJJ Sci-Fi horror wiTh dinoSaUrS raTed nr In Brief: Bargain basement cheesy 1950s sci-fi horror of the finest kind. It’s all about a tropical lost world that’s somehow (don’t ask) in Antarctica, and which is discovered when a group of intrepid explorers’ helicopter goes down. This leaves them prey to man-eating plants, a guy in a Tyrannosaurus rex suit, a puppet sea monster and a sex-crazed scientist. Who could ask for more?

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Land Unknown Thursday, Sept. 13 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.

a Man eScaped JJJJ draMa raTed nr In Brief: Robert Bresson’s entertaining but overrated 1956 “true story” (he claims it as such) — about a man’s escape from a Nazi prison in France during World War II — has the distinction of being one of the director’s few profitable film, probably because it’s the most accessible. The escape itself is very well-done and the film is solidly made, but whether it’s anything notable in the realm of prison escape stories is debatable.

Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present A Man Escaped Friday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The SMiLing LieUTenanT JJJJJ MUSicaL coMedy raTed nr In Brief: One of Ernst Lubitsch’s funniest, raciest and most sophisticated films stars Maurice Chevalier as a lieutenant in the Austrian army who makes the mistake of winking at his girlfriend (Claudette Colbert) just as a visiting princess (Miriam Hopkins) passes by. A misunderstanding follows that results in Chevalier having to marry the princess to avoid a courtmartial — but he refuses to consummate the marriage and keeps his girlfriend on the side.

The Asheville Film Society will screen The Smiling Lieutenant Tuesday, September 18 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.

ThirTy Two ShorT FiLMS aboUT gLenn goULd JJJJ QUirky biopic raTed nr In Brief: An eccentric film — or series of little films — about the equally eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. It sounds more awkward than it plays — and it does come together to offer a kind of biographical narrative, albeit a frequently playful and deliberately enigmatic one. Some of the vignettes work better than others, but it’s an interesting and different approach to the biopic.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Sunday, September 16 at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Cna needed FOR HOme CaRe BAYADA Home Health Care is seeking CNA's to provide in-home patient focused care. Please call 828-681-5100 for more information. 828681-5100 ASHoffice@bayada. com www.bayada.com med teCH/PCa • For assisted living center in Black Mountain. Great benefits, friendly residents, and great staff to work with. One year experience required. Must be able to pass a drug test and background check. Organizational skills and good communication skills a must. Please fax resume to 828-669-5003 or email to administrator@ mccunecenter.org You may also visit our facility and fill out an application at 101 Lions Way, Black Mountain, NC 28711 nURse manaGeR CooperRiis Therapeutic Community has an excellent opportunity for a Full Time Nurse Manager at our Asheville, NC Facility. • The Nurse Manager is in charge of assigning tasks and overseeing the operations of the medical office and nursing staff. • Qualifications: Must possess a NC license as a Registered Nurse, BSN preferred but not required Minimum of 2-3 years experience supervising in the Mental Health Field. Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a diverse and fast-paced environment. Must be able to deal with residents who are suffering from various forms of mental illness, with a compassionate and patient attitude. • CooperRiis offers a competitive salary/benefits and progressive work environment. Forward electronic resume/cover letter to Hr@cooperriis.org. No in-person visits please.

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dependence issues. Candidate would also co-facilitate a male gender group for adults and adolescents. • An ideal candidate will have a Master degree in Counseling or Social Work, and an LCAS or one pending within 6 months. Salary range $38,000 - 42,000. Please send resume to veleazer@drugfreenc.org.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • meRIdIan BeHaVIOR HealtH Cherokee County: JJTC Team Clinician Seeking Licensed/Provisionally Licensed Therapist in Cherokee County for an exciting opportunity to serve predominately court referred youth and their families through Intensive In-Home and Basic Benefit Therapy. For more information contact Aaron Plantenberg, aaron.plantenberg@meridianbhs.org JJTC Team Leader Seeking Licensed Therapist in Cherokee County for an exciting opportunity to serve as team leader. Case load is predominately court referred youth and their families receiving Intensive In-Home and Basic Benefit Therapy. For more information contact Aaron Plantenberg, aaron.plantenberg@meridianbhs.org Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. For more information, please contact Kristy Whitaker, kristy.whitaker@meridianbhs.org Haywood County: Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Two years of related experience required, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. For more information, please contact Joe Ferrara, joe.ferrara@ meridianbhs.org Nurse Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must be an RN. For more information, please contact Jen Hardin, jen.hardin@meridianbhs.org Qualla Boundary: JJTC Team Leader Seeking Licensed Therapist on Qualla Boundary for an exciting opportunity to serve as team leader.

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CLINICIAN • OFFENDER seRVICes PROGRam The Offender Services Program of MBHS seeks a licensed or license-eligible clinician in North Carolina to join its Offender Services Program.

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freewillastrology SAGITTARIUS

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Arthur Turner, a Virgo reader from Austin, is upset with my recent horoscopes.

In his email, he wrote the following: “You’re making me mad with your predictions of non-stop positivity, Brezsny. I need more dirt and grit and muck. I’ve got to have some misery and decay to motivate me. So just please shut up with your excess projections of good times. They’re bringing me down.” Here’s my response to him and to any other Virgo who feels like him: I’m afraid you’re scheduled to endure even more encounters with cosmic benevolence in the coming week. If these blessings feel oppressive, try to change your attitude about them.

If I'm accurately interpreting the astrological omens, the coming months will be a soulful feast in which every day will bring you a shimmering revelation about the nature of your soul's code and how best to activate it.

Reasons for grateful amazement will flow so freely that you may come to feel that miracles are routine and naturally occurring phenomena. And get this: In your dreams, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty will get married, win the lottery, and devote their fortune to fostering your spiritual education until you are irrevocably enlightened. (I confess there's a slight chance I'm misinterpreting the signs, and everything I described will be true for only a week or so, not months.)

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos, and videos. But the real thing will always be forever visible to everyone else, but not you. I think that's an apt symbol for how hard it is to get a totally objective view of your own soul. No matter how sincere you may be in your efforts to see yourself clearly, there will always be fuzziness, misapprehensions, and ignorance.

Having said that, though, I want you to know that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to see yourself better than ever before.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I've got four related pieces of advice for you, Taurus: 1. The most reliable way for you to beat the system is to build your own more interesting system. 2. The most likely way to beat your competitors is not to fight them, but rather to ignore them and compete only against yourself. 3. To escape the numbing effects of an outworn tradition, you could create a fresh tradition that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. 4. If you have a problem that is not only impossible to solve but also boring, find yourself a fascinating new problem that will render the old problem irrelevant.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) "Dear Doctor of Love: My heart is itchy. I'm totally serious. I'm not talking about some phantom tingle on the skin of my chest. What I mean is that the prickling sensation originates in the throbbing organ inside of me. Is this even possible? Have you heard of such a crazy thing? Could it be some astrological phenomenon? What should I do? - ItchyHearted Gemini." Dear Gemini: I suspect that it's not just you, but many Geminis, who are experiencing symptoms like yours. From what I can tell, you have a lot of trapped feelings in your heart that need to be identified, liberated, and dealt with.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) If you make a conscious decision to combine plaids with stripes or checks with floral patterns or reddish-purples with greenish-oranges, I will wholeheartedly approve. If, on the other hand, you absent-mindedly create combinations like that, doing so because you're oblivious or lazy, I will soundly disapprove.

The same holds true about any hodgepodge or hybrid or mishmash you generate, Cancerian: It'll receive cosmic blessings if you do it with flair and purpose, but not if it's the result of being inattentive and careless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Should we boycott the writing of Edgar Allan Poe because he married his 13-year-old cousin when he was 26? Should anti-drug crusaders stop using their iPhones when they find out that Steve Jobs said that "doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life"? Should we stop praising the work that Martin Luther King Jr. did to advance civil rights because he engaged in extramarital affairs? Those are the kinds of questions I suspect you'll have to deal with in the coming days, Leo. I encourage you to avoid having knee-jerk reactions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The humorous science journal Annals of Improbable Research published a paper entitled "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth." Signed by 198 Ph.D. physicists, it came to this conclusion: "So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth." If possible, Libra, I suggest you summon a comparable amount of high-powered expertise for your own purposes. But please make sure that those purposes are weightier than the question of peanut butter's role on our planet's movements. Round up the best help you can, yes; call on all the favors you're owed and be aggressive in seeking out brilliant support; but only for a truly important cause.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Sept. 16 is the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So begins ten days of repentance. Whether or not you're Jewish, Scorpio, you are entering an astrological phase when taking stock of yourself would be a brilliant move.

That's why I invite you to try the following self-inventory, borrowed from the Jewish organization Chadeish Yameinu. 1. What would you like to leave behind from the past 12 months? 2.

What has prevented you from living up to your highest standards and being your very best self?

3. What would you love to bring with you into the next 12 months? 4. Who served as a teacher for you in the past year? 5. Were you a teacher for anyone? 6. Is there anyone you need to forgive? 7. How will you go about forgiving?

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A reader named Marissa begged me to insert a secret message into the Capricorn horoscope.

She wanted me to influence Jergen, a guy she has a crush on, to open up his eyes and see how great she is. I told her I wouldn't do it.

Why? For one thing, I never try to manipulate people into doing things that aren't in alignment with their own desires. For another, I faithfully report on my understanding of the tides of fate, and refuse to just make stuff up. I urge you to have that kind of integrity, Capricorn. I suspect you may soon be invited or coaxed to engage in what amounts to some tainted behavior. Don't do it. Make an extra effort to be incorruptible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) "The far away, the very far, the farthest, I have found only in my own blood," said poet Antonio Porchia. Let's make that thought your keynote, Aquarius. Your assignment will be to search for what's most exotic and unknown, but only in the privacy of your own heart, not out in the great wide world. For now at least, the inner realm is the location of the laboratory where the most useful experiments will unfold. Borrowing from novelist Carole Maso, I leave you with this: "Make love to the remoteness in yourself."

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It would be an excellent time for you to elope, even if you do so with the person to whom you're already mated. You might also consider the possibility of wearing a wedding dress everywhere you wander, even if there is no marriage ceremony in your immediate future, and even if you're a man. And if neither of those ideas appeals to you, please at least do something that will symbolize your intention to focus on intimacy with an intensified sense of purpose. Fling rice at yourself. Seek out someone who'll give you lessons in how to listen like an empathetic genius. Compose and recite vows in which you pledge to become an utterly irresistible and reliable ally.

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