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letters Why the secrecy, Mayor Bellamy?

I attended the Sept. 27 Asheville City Council meeting in anticipation of speaking in favor of the Blue Ridge Pride event being granted a proclamation signed and read by the mayor, as many other proclamations have been. Imagine my surprise to find out, mere hours prior to the meeting, that the mayor had met with the organizers of the Pride event and issued them a proclamation after all! There’s just one major problem, however.

The mayor neglected, for reasons of “not being able to amend the printed agenda” to read the proclamation with the others. At the beginning of the meeting, she hastily remarked that the Blue Ridge Pride Day proclamation item on the agenda was to be disregarded. She then read and presented proclamations for Food Day, Fire Prevention Month and the Salute to Families Celebration.

Rather than behaving in a manner that respects and uplifts the event from the standpoint of the local government, Mayor Bellamy made the proclamation a side item, or tried to, in any case.

Why didn’t the mayor read the proclamation? She signed it with her own hand, she met with the organizers, she worked together with them — admirable, given her behavior regarding LGBTQ matters prior. Why all the shady back and forth?

Further, as someone who is partially familiar with Robert’s Rules of Order, it is unseemly to me that the mayor would deny the ability to amend

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the proclamations portion of the meeting to be able to include the Blue Ridge Pride Day, but without opposition amended the new business to strike discussion of the proclamation from the agenda, moving any and all discussion around the topic as a whole to the public comments portion of the meeting.

I am displeased with what I see to be backhanded behavior on the part of our mayor, but at the same time, I’m thankful that a reasonable result came from this controversial debacle surrounding the proclamation. I appreciate the efforts of the Council and the mayor to make steps toward unifying Asheville and providing the broad range of events that display the city’s incredible diversity.

— Charlotte Anderson Asheville

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of rationalization. If there’s a compelling interest in North Carolina to single out a specific group of consenting adults for discriminatory legislation, I can’t find it.

Neither do I see a corresponding moral clamor for denying statutory rights to adulterers, fornicators and divorced people, groups that scripture far more specifically addresses. This proposed amendment reeks of cynically playing to the worst instincts of the public for political gain.

Legally, marriage is a civil contract. What happens at the courthouse makes a marriage in the eyes of the law. Churches, as organizations of voluntary association, can choose to bless unions or not. That’s not a matter for the state. Neither is it the place of a particular religious point of view to promote legislation that makes blanket pronouncements against an entire group of people.

Gay lifestyle? Would that be those who embrace promiscuity (not a matter for the state regardless of moral stance), those who have a series of monogamous relationships, or those who’ve made longstanding, loving commitments? The same spectrum of behavior can be found in the straight community.

My heterosexual marriage of 35 years (or any straight marriage) is in no way threatened by gay people marrying if they so choose. Neither is my personal understanding of the Gospel undermined if that option exists. If a person dislikes homosexuals or homosexuality on the basis of religious morality that’s their prerogative, but they don’t have a God-given right never to be confronted with behavior that offends them or to engage in legal persecution.

— Doug Murray Black Mountain

Justice for all I am an American. This country was founded on the principle that all people are created equal.

As an American, I value this principle and will fight to defend it. This country is great because it guarantees those rights. That is why women are now able to vote, because that is their right.

That is why slavery was abolished, because every man, woman and child has the right to be free.

The laws once prohibited women from voting.

The laws once allowed slavery. The laws once separated races. The laws were unjust and unfair and they had to be changed. Right now we are fighting to legalize same sex marriages. I have no doubt this topic will meet with strong objections just like those who objected to the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, I maintain hope. Historically, there is a trend in this nation that is moving towards the light of equality and away from the darkness of discrimination, prejudice and selfrighteousness.

Same-sex marriages will be recognized in this country — if not this election, then somewhere down the road. Our country is built on the foundation of freedom. We are constantly removing the restrictions to ensure those freedoms. I would like to conclude with a famous quote I heard somewhere. I forgot the first part, but it ends, “With liberty and justice for …”

Now, how does it go?

— Kent Purser Asheville

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Don Yelton, problem solvent Thanks for keeping the community updated on the tragedy in slow motion happening at CTS [“Going Green,” Sept. 21 Xpress]. Don Yelton, a conservative talk-show host and political aspirant, brings up an interesting, yet straightforward scientific question: Will demolishing the building widen the scope of the already terrible industrial pollution on Mills Gap Road? Considering that the company sprayed TCE on gravel roads to keep the dust down, I’m not sure how much worse it could get, but hey, I’m not a scientist.

Neither is Mr. Yelton an environmental scientist. I’d be interested to see that question answered, with fact and not politics. However, Mr. Yelton did bring the specter of politics up with his display of disingenuous grandstanding.

I’m glad to see that all these anti-state capitalists are growing a conscience and care enough about environmental issues to take real stands on our water quality. Who does he think that he is fooling with his utter lack of shame? Out of one side of their mouths, these types preach the laudable benefits of free-market capitalism, unhindered by labor rights, environmental protection, and an equitable tax burden and out of the other they criticize the actions of the very institutions they propose to demolish as ineffective. That’s the strategy, folks: de-fund and de-fang, wait for catastrophe, cry that regulations or public institutions of any sort are ineffective and go for another round of “creative” destruction.

It is mind-boggling in its cynicism. While this strategy has many advantages, not the least of which is the short attention span of the public, I doubt that the residents whose drinking and showering water is now carcinogenic suffer from this amnesia. Thank goodness our county didn’t elect this intellectually dishonest man to public office. Remember folks — a long memory is the most radical idea in America.

— Martin Ramsey Asheville

Bye bye, Asheville Savings Bank According to the manager at our branch, the proxy votes have all been counted and the move to trade Asheville Savings Bank on the stock market has been “unanimously decided.” (How can it be unanimous if we voted against it?)

What’s so bad about this? Well, the stock market is much less stable than the bank’s previous customer-owned Mutual Fund structure. If Asheville Savings Bank’s stock tanks, customer accounts will still be OK because they’re FDIC insured. But wait — FDIC is funded by our tax money. If the bank’s stock fails, it would cost taxpayers millions. Though technically illegal, insider trading continues unchecked on Wall Street, so while taxpayers suffer, traders in the know could profit handsomely if the bank’s stock tumbles.

I’m mad enough at Wall Street. I didn’t want Asheville Savings Bank to be part of that corrupt institution. Now that they are, Asheville Savings is no longer a local bank.

My family will move our money to a truly local bank or credit union.

— David Lynch Asheville

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Candidates need to address poverty, affordable housing and homelessness The future of Asheville’s success will depend largely on how well we can expand opportunity to all children and families and nurture their success.

To realize such a vision, our city leadership will need to focus attention on low-income and working families. Too many families are experiencing poverty in Asheville — dramatically increasing their risk for poor health, hunger, reduced productivity and lower educational achievement.

Last week, the Census Bureau released the 2010 American Community Survey showing that 24.1 percent of families with children in Asheville lived in poverty — up from 20.7 percent in the 2009 ACS. During this election season, issues impacting children and families like poverty, affordable housing and homelessness need to be discussed.

Children First/CIS, along with 13 other local nonprofits, posed questions on these and other issues to candidates. The results are online at childrenfirstbc. org. We invite you to consider their responses as you prepare to vote in the primary election.

— Allison Jordan Children First/Communities in Schools of Buncombe County Asheville

Your vote is your voice If you normally do not vote, what would challenge you to go to the polls? Would it be a particular candidate whom you agree with? Maybe the upcoming elections are predicted to be a close race, or there is a hot-button issue that you are passionate about.

Dig deep. Think about what galvanizes you.

Realize how crucially important it is to voice your opinion. We all have the need to make our voices heard. I can’t think of a better time than now to do exactly that. What better way to express your opinion than to vote? Whether you are a hardcore Republican, tea-party supporter or the most left-leaning, tree-hugging, dirt-worshipper

in Asheville (although I think most of us are somewhere in the middle) it is time to get out, stand up and make a statement. Tell everyone from City Council to the White House that you are paying attention.

Educate yourself. If you are unsure who to vote for, check out educational sites like votesmart.org. Talk about it with your friends. Ask them if they plan on voting.

However you decide to vote, keep something very important in mind: please do not get your news from only one source and do not let these news sources tell you what/how to think. You have a brain. Use it.

Remember the date: Nov 8. Your vote is your voice. It is up to everyday people like you and me to create political and social change.

— Carrie Allen Weaverville

Casting my first vote for Mark Cates I’ve never voted before in my life. I’ve never really even paid that much attention to politics or felt excited about anyone running for office — until now.

I met Mark Cates a couple of weeks ago while hanging out with friends at Wedge Brewing Co. After meeting him, I asked why he was running.

He told me all about his plans to grow Asheville’s green economy and get people employed again.

Besides his great ideas, he’s actually a cool guy, too, who’s not like the usual stiff politicians I’ve seen.

I made sure to register to vote so I can vote for Mark in the October primary. I hope anyone else

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— Tricia Koss Asheville

Vote for Marc Hunt — I already did I am pleased to have voted early in the primaries for Marc Hunt as my choice for City Council.

I have had the chance to meet with Marc this summer and I was impressed with his vision and experience as a community leader in public and nonprofit service. Marc’s commitment to improving the health of neighborhoods and their residents is evidenced in his work in support of greenways and urban pathways for bikers and pedestrians to reach neighborhood-based, local businesses.

What is most impressive to me, however, is that he has a pragmatic approach to policy making.

He is a problem solver. Marc has worked in the trenches and has not just fought for, but worked with others to build greenways in order to improve the quality of life of our city. Marc has a clear sense of identifying problems, identifying community stakeholders with interests in the issue and the ability to collaborate to find a workable solution to a problem. I believe that he will be the type of Council member who will listen, temper ideology and build effective coalitions to get things done.

When I vote I look for public servants that believe that government has a positive and important role in improving the lives of people. I look for individuals who truly believe that elective politics is about public service. Marc recognizes that building a strong foundation for effective problem solving necessitates the inclusion of underrepresented voices at the table. This is the hallmark of an effective representative. I am pleased and proud to have voted for Marc Hunt. He will be an effective leader on City Council and I urge others in our community to vote for him as well.

— Roger Hartley Cullowhee

Marc Hunt is a dynamic, educated and inspirational person Being a graduate student in the Master of Public Affairs program through Western Carolina University has provided me with numerous opportunities to expose myself to the political and public arenas in western North Carolina. I’d have to also give Marc Hunt, a candidate for Asheville City Council, credit for not only expanding my knowledge about local politics and issues that

interest and affect me, but for being an excellent role model.

Hunt is a dynamic, educated and inspirational person, and I am forever grateful that I’d crossed paths with him as I wrap up my graduate degree and expand my interests in learning about holding political office. My graduate-program director formally introduced Hunt and I, and after learning of his platform, passion and ideas, I decided I wanted to get involved in his campaign. He asked me to be the volunteer coordinator for his campaign and I immediately accepted the responsibility, not only because I wanted the experience, but because I wanted to work alongside someone who has the desire to get things done in an efficient, thoughtful and careful manner. I wanted to work alongside someone who wants to cultivate Asheville’s potential to be an even more wonderful city than it already is.

As a young professional, it’s important for me to network in every possible way. To have people in my community who are seeking elected and appointed office like Hunt whom I personally know and trust will help me to be a better professional. I encourage all young people to get involved in local politics — it affects you more than you may recognize. I encourage everyone to vote for a candidate who is a role model, who is a leader and who is intelligent. Vote Marc Hunt for Asheville City Council on Oct. 11.

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Chris Pelly has got what we need What great good news to hear that Chris Pelly is running for City Council. I’ve known Chris a long time and always been impressed with his ability to pull together a diverse coalition of people toward a common end.

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Any local group can request an official proclamation, and the mayor usually approves and reads one or more of them aloud before Council proceeds to its regular business in the high-ceilinged, art deco meeting room on the second floor of City Hall. On Sept. 27, there were three: recognizing Fire Prevention Month, Food Day (devoted to discussing food-security issues) and a celebration by the National Save the Family Now Movement, a Christian organization.

But a fourth event, the Oct. 1 Blue Ridge Pride festival celebrating Asheville’s LGBT culture, did not receive the same treatment.

When the agenda for the upcoming meeting was made public Sept. 23, the festival’s proclamation was listed under new business, meaning Council would vote on it.

Mayor Terry Bellamy has had a contentious history with initiatives supported by the LGBT community. She voted against domestic-partner benefits in 2010 and against the equality resolution this February. In both cases, Bellamy denounced the proposals, claiming she was being attacked for her personal beliefs.

Those votes also left the mayor somewhat isolated on Council. Council member Jan Davis initially voted against domestic-partner benefits but then changed his stance, supporting both those measures. Council member Bill Russell was absent from both votes, but he’s publicly supported Blue Ridge Pride, helping fund the group’s application to join the Ashevile Area Chamber of Commerce.

All other current Council members supported both proposals.

And though Bellamy did read a proclamation recognizing LGBT History Month on June 14, she did it in midmonth rather than in advance, which also sparked some controversy, given her voting history (see commentary, “How Do You Spell Respect?” June 29 Xpress).

On Sept. 14, Russell emailed Phil Kleisler,

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Whereas ... Ashley Arrington, of Blue Ridge Pride, preparing to read a proclamation recognizing the festival that Mayor Terry Bellamy signed mere hours before the meeting. Photo by Jonathan Welch the city’s business-services manager, expressing support for the proclamation Blue Ridge Pride had submitted and asking that his endorsement be passed on to the mayor.

Bellamy replied the same day, saying she would place the item on the agenda under new business.

“Mayor, I am not requesting it be put on the agenda for a Council vote,” Russell replied in a Sept. 15 email. “I was simply expressing my support and sharing that many Council members (if not 5) would like to see what I see as a harmless proclamation being read at the next meeting. Doesn’t need to be politicized.

Just some good folks who many feel could use some recognition.”

The day before the meeting, Russell told Xpress that Bellamy had “twisted my words.

I didn’t say ‘Put this under new business’; it was just my support for a proclamation. So I corrected her, saying that was her call.”

“We need to keep the wedges out of politics, in my opinion,” he continued. “This is what I did not want to happen: for it to become some media thing.”

Down to the wire Nonetheless, “a media thing” is exactly what happened. Members of the public weighed in via online comments and Twitter, most

supporting the proclamation and criticizing Bellamy. Council member Gordon Smith said he supported Russell’s stance.

Then, mere hours before the meeting, Blue Ridge Pride sent out an announcement stating that Bellamy had met with the group’s representatives and then signed the proclamation.

In the announcement, Ashley Arrington, the nonprofit’s community-outreach coordinator, said Bellamy had initially refused to sign the document because she mistakenly believed it had been requested by the same group that had asked for the June proclamation, citing a general city practice of limiting groups to one such official recognition per year.

“Shortly after that decision was made, Mayor Bellamy reached out to Blue Ridge Pride to discuss the circumstances and decision, and we accepted that invitation to meet today,” the announcement said. “After clarifying that Blue Ridge Pride was not the requester of the proclamation in June and much discussion about LGBTQ issues in our community, Mayor Bellamy was glad to sign the proclamation and did so immediately.”

But Bellamy, noted Arrington, also said she couldn’t add the proclamation to the printed agenda at the last minute — and thus couldn’t read it at the meeting.

“The circumstances that led to this meeting are unfortunate, but what came from this is a win for our community and our city.”

— Ashley Arrington, Blue Ridge Pride

Asked whether such late additions are legal, City Attorney Bob Oast said: “The mayor, in our charter, is recognized as the head of the government for ceremonial purposes, which has been interpreted to mean issuing proclamations. With respect to anything on the agenda, we’ve got a process where we like to get these things as far in advance as we can, whether it’s a proclamation or a regular agenda item.”

Common ground During the public-comment portion of the meeting, Arrington remarked on the controversy, saying, “While we understand the policy of not more than one proclamation a year for an organization, we were still saddened by the misinterpretation that we had previously submitted a proclamation. We were thrilled when the mayor signed the proclamation for LGBTQ History Month; we were also pleased that the mayor requested a meeting with us to have open discussion and dialogue about this particular proclamation. The circumstances that led to this meeting are unfortunate, but what came from this is a win for our community and our city.”

Arrington also noted that she’d found some common ground with Bellamy on issues such as preventing bullying and discrimination against LGBT city employees.

“There are some people who believe the proclamation signed by the mayor isn’t enough,” added Arrington, “and while we aren’t in the position to say what is and isn’t enough, Blue Ridge Pride does believe this is a great step in the right direction.”

At the end of her remarks, Arrington herself read the proclamation aloud.

Leicester resident Alan Ditmore noted that Asheville profits from its LGBT population.

“Every little town in the South is going to bend over backwards for the family-tourist dollar,” he said. “But Asheville is the only ‘cesspool of sin’ between Harrah’s and Daytona Beach.”

Charlotte Anderson thanked Council members for the proclamation, saying, “As someone who recently moved to Asheville, the gay community has been part of the reason I stay.

And I like to think that the dollars I spend in this town and the purposes I stay here will be endorsed by the City Council.”

Smith subsequently summed up the process that led to the proclamation as “overcoming misunderstanding.”

The ABCs of corruption But Council members Davis and Cecil Bothwell were apparently less successful in overcoming misunderstanding.

Bothwell had recently called on the Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to resign

after allegations of corruption came to light. In his public statement (which was posted on the Xpress website Sept. 24), Bothwell also singled out Davis, whose tire business had done maintenance on ABC Commission-owned vehicles while he was serving as Council’s liaison to the board. “The appearance of impropriety is unfortunate but clear,” said Bothwell.

Responding on the website, Davis asserted that the contracts were fair and at market rate, saying he’d checked with the city attorney first to ensure that there was no legal conflict of interest.

At the Council meeting, Bothwell told Davis: “I regret that Councilman Davis interpreted what I had to say about the ABC Board this weekend as a suggestion of corruption on his part. I didn’t mean to imply that, and I didn’t say that. I regretted the appearance in the report I read.

“I was sorry for the appearance,” Bothwell continued. “I wasn’t accusing you, and I’m not accusing you now. I do not think you are corrupt.”

Davis, however, wasn’t satisfied. “I will accept that as maybe a form of apology; I’m not so sure,” he said. “Regrettably, when one casts aspersions on someone’s character, integrity, business, their way of earning a livelihood — including the manner that you did, just putting it into print in the Xpress — I had no choice but to respond.

“But you got your picture on the front page of today’s paper,” Davis continued. “I think that’s probably what you were after. I don’t think that was an apology, but I’ll accept it, and we’ll continue to work together.”

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Other business On Sept. 27, Council members also: • Approved, on a 5-2 vote, a $45,000 contract with the Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Council to investigate and mediate discrimination complaints. The embattled organization has recently had tax troubles and lost its status with the federal government to investigate local fair-housing cases, but Vice Mayor Brownie Newman said the group has been cleaning house and is capable of carrying out the duties in question. Russell and Council member Esther Manheimer voted against the measure, citing ongoing concerns about the group’s financial woes. • Approved a new financial policy on a 6-1 vote with Bellamy opposed. Council refused the mayor’s request for a separate vote on a clause allowing the use of excess reserve funds to cover one-time expenses under certain circumstances, which she did not support. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.

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About 30 people gathered outside the downtown Asheville Post Office Sept. 27 to rally against possible cuts to the U.S. Postal Service and the local mail-processing facility on Brevard Road. Organizers touted the USPS as the successful centerpiece of a $1.3 billion mailing industry that supports 8 million American jobs.

They have an ally in Rep. Heath Shuler, who opposes Postmaster General Pat Donahoe’s proposal to terminate 120,000 postal employees and close nearly 3,700 postal facilities throughout the country.

“The plans [being considered] would put a devastating number of postal employees out of work, especially in rural communities like those across Western North Carolina,” said Rep. Shuler in a press release. “Now is the time to keep and create jobs, not take them away. I strongly urge the USPS to explore alternative viable options to achieve fiscal solvency before taking drastic action that will ultimately hurt both postal workers and their taxpaying customers.”

Shuler is a co-sponsor of a counter proposal, H.R. 1351, which he says would reform the USPS retirement system to make up for its current $5.5 billion pension payment shortfall while still protecting USPS retirees.

Rallies like this one occurred throughout the U.S. — Jake Frankel

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Politely postal: Asheville residents rallying outside the downtown post office on Sept. 26 against possible cuts to the USPS. Photo by Jake Frankel

Solidarity: Occupy Asheville takes to the streets On Oct. 1, about 100 people gathered in Pritchard Park and marched through downtown as part of Occupy Asheville. Held in solidarity with the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City, the event focused on an array of grievances, such as the financial malfeasance of the super rich, justicesystem corruption and a general demand for change.

The Asheville protest began around 11 a.m. on the city’s Wall Street, with a gathering that memorialized Troy Davis, a recently executed Georgia man who many critics assert was wrongly convicted. Around 2 p.m., people gathered at Pritchard Park to begin a “general assembly.” At first, those assembled mostly addressed process, legal and logistical concerns, such as marching as a “moving picket” so no special permit was needed. (The day before, the event announcement also singled out local criminal-justice reform, asserting the city “must come together to educate itself about our local corruption and demand its end.”)

Activist Luna Scarano, who recently attended Occupy Wall Street in New York, mentioned that some protesters were also tackling individual and local issues, including police and prisons, boycotts, food safety, gender and capitalism.

“So we’re here for a lot of different reasons,” Scarano said.

The group cheered at the news that local restaurant Tupelo Honey had donated hot biscuits, and cheered again shortly after when a passerby shouted “kill capitalism!”

Over the course of the afternoon, the group came to a consensus on three goals — marching, endorsing a Sept. 30 declaration by Occupy Wall Street and camping overnight in front of City Hall.

As the group gathered around 5 p.m., Foster asked the demonstrators to be polite to the police, as “they’re part of the 99 percent,” but she asked demonstrators not to consent to being searched. The line of people in the “moving picket” shouted, “We are the 99 percent,” as they made their way toward City-County Plaza. Other chants included the old protest standby, “This is what democracy looks like,” and the newer, “We got sold out, they got bailouts.”

There was no heavy police presence near the demonstration, either during the moving picket or the initial assembly. As the march made its way through the Blue Ridge Pride Festival also taking place that afternoon, Asheville Police Department officers simply watched.

Some protesters camped out on Wall Street that night and the next one, and assembled each day in Pack Square.

— Jake Frankel and David Forbes

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Lawmakers, officials divided over marriage amendment

by Nelda Holder N.C. House Majority Leader Paul Stam is certain of one thing: “There is no legal controversy” concerning the wording of a constitutional amendment that will appear on the statewide ballot next May. Voters will decide the fate of the amendment, which would make marriage between one man and one woman the “only domestic legal union” in the state.

Others, however — including some Democratic state legislators, business leaders and local-government officials around the state — fear the ballot wording could undermine existing domestic-partner benefits and hurt the state’s business climate.

One issue is that what will appear on the ballot omits a sentence that was in the legislation passed earlier this month. Added in response to concerns from the state’s business community, it states, in part: “This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party.”

The omission sparked a flurry of questions about how voters — and, ultimately, the courts — will interpret the amendment. Stam says the questions amount to “making a mountain out of a molehill.” As proof, the Wake County Republican gave Xpress a document comparing the original legislative language and the corresponding ballot wording for various constitutional amendments since the early 1970s. “We gave veto power to the governor that was 100 times longer” than the wording that appeared on the ballot, he quips.

The legislative leader says he’s confident the amendment would not affect benefits offered by private businesses. But would it eliminate domestic-partner benefits offered by local governments, as critics have maintained?

“It will affect them,” Stam says bluntly.

No impact?

Jeanette Doran, senior staff attorney at the nonpartisan N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, confirms Stam’s opinion concerning the ballot wording.

“The state is not required to put the actual wording on the ballot,” she explains, though she terms that fact “shocking,” given the importance of keeping voters fully informed. And once voters approve an amendment, says Doran, it’s the original legislative language that has “ultimate control.”

Thus, she maintains, the proposed marriage amendment “would have no impact on private companies conferring benefits. The constitution really is about what the government can do.”

But Democratic members of Buncombe County’s legislative delegation (all of whom voted against the amendment legislation) remain concerned about the omitted sentence — and the amendment’s broader impacts.

“There were probably several legislators who

believed this made the intent of the amendment more acceptable,” Rep. Susan Fisher said in an email to Xpress, noting that she was “not aware at the time of voting that the language omitted the clause about business benefits.”

And, wording aside, continued Fisher: “I believe that, either way, the business climate of this state will be affected if this amendment passes.

We enjoy a very vibrant business climate in North Carolina for many reasons. ... This kind of discriminatory disenfranchisement ... will discourage businesses from locating here.”

Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt of Buncombe County also voiced misgivings, saying, “We had a list of probably 100 CEOs saying this would set them back and hurt their businesses. I do think it will affect the business climate in the state.”

Stam does not dispute the fact that business leaders were concerned. “The main reason we added the second sentence,” he explains, was “to calm their fears.”

Rep. Patsy Keever, meanwhile, cites another concern. “We voted on it realizing it would likely be taking away [benefits] in Asheville ... [and] other municipalities that already give some partnership benefits,” she points out, adding, “I think it’s very confusing to the voters, and that makes it hard to support either side.”

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Other voices, other rooms In a Sept. 11 letter to state lawmakers, elected officials in cities and counties that currently offer domestic-partner benefits called the legislation a “threat” to the state’s ability to recruit a diverse work force in a global economy, saying it would “strip public employees of domestic-partner benefits.” Asheville Vice Mayor Brownie Newman signed the letter, along with officials from Durham, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, as well as Mecklenburg, Durham and Orange counties.

City Attorney Bob Oast says he and his counterparts are exploring the amendment’s potential effects, noting, “We are looking at all aspects of this.”

For his part, Stam asserts that governmental entities could still offer those benefits simply by allowing each employee to name one other person who would also be eligible for benefits, regardless of whether they lived together. That, however, would be “a foolish thing to do,” he maintains, speculating that it would jeopardize group healthinsurance policy rates.

Attempts to reach Buncombe County’s Republican legislators proved unsuccessful. Sen. Tom Apodaca was out of town, and Rep. Tim Moffitt did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls. X Contributing editor Nelda Holder can be reached at nfholder@gmail.com.

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calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists Calendar for October 5 - 13, 2011 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

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

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

Community Events & Workshops Lighten Up! Weight Reduction thru your Akashic Records (pd.) Rewrite the Story of Your Body! Group Session $25/pp. 60 Biltmore Avenue, 2nd Floor. Dates: October 11th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• October 18th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • October 25th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm. www.

KellySJones.net/Events American Craft Day • SA (10/8), 10am-4pm - American Craft Day will feature artist demonstrations on woodturning, stacked stone walls and fiber arts.

Held at 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Info: BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 35pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227.

• FR (10/7), noon-1pm - Museum Curator Frank Thomson will discuss three basket making traditions: Appalachian Mountains,

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

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

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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.

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

Cherokee and Low Country of the Carolinas. Free with membership or admission.

• TU (10/11), 3-5pm - Book discussion: Color: A Natural History of the Palette.

Carolina Public Press • TH (10/6), 7-9pm Carolina Public Press, a new nonprofit online news source in Western North Carolina, will host a free launch celebration at Seven-Star Factory in Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. Info: www.

CarolinaPublicPress.org.

Henderson County Heritage Museum Located in the Historic Courthouse in Hendersonville at 1 Historic Courthouse Square on Main Street. Info: 694-1619 or www.hendersoncountymuseum.org.

• SA (10/8), 11am-2pm - A demonstration of Civil War lithographs.

Humanities Lectures • FR (10/7), 11:25am - “Nationalism and Religion: Modernity and the Ottoman Empire,” presented by Rodger Payne, associate professor of religious studies. Held in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. —- 11:25am - “Sexuality and Identity: Contemporary Discourses,” presented by Lorena Russell, chair and associate professor of literature. Held in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall.

Stewards of Children • 2nd MONDAYS, 8:3011:30am - Stewards of Children will lead workshops on improving children’s attitudes, knowledge and child-protective behaviors.

Appropriate for youth-serving organizations. Held at Women’s Wellness and Education Center, 24 Arlington St. $30. Info: mountainsexology@bellsouth.com or 301-4460.

Warren Wilson Lecture Series • WE (10/5), 7pm - David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, will discuss sustainable agriculture. Held at Warren Wilson College, building to be determined. Info: http://avl. mx/5d or 298-3325.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Older Lesbian Energy (OLE)

(pd.) Meets second Saturday each month, 1pm, potluck and event planning. OLE: Fun group for lesbians over 50. • Join us! Information: Catherine: (828) 545-9698.

American Craft Week • FR (10/7), 5:30pm - A kick-off party will be held at the Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave. • SU (10/9), 7pm - Keynote speaker Carol Sauvion will speak at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. Asheville Newcomers Club • 2nd WEDNESDAYS Women who are new to the area are welcome to make new friends, explore in and around Asheville and learn more about what our community has to offer. Join us for a meeting or activity. Info: ashevillenewcomersclub.com or 654-7414.

Asheville NOW • 2nd SATURDAYS, 3pm - Asheville NOW, the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, will hold a monthly meeting at the Roof Garden of the Battery Park Apartments, 1 Battle Square. Info: AshevilleNOW@live.com Asheville Toastmasters • THURSDAYS, 6:157:30pm - If you’ve been thinking about improving your communication skills, Asheville Toastmasters is for you. Newcomers welcome; no pressure to speak. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd.

Info: capollak@hotmail.com.

Bingo Night • THURSDAYS, 9pm12:30am - Hug Buzzards Dirty Bingo will be held at the Dirty South Lounge, 70 W. Walnut St. Info: http://avl. mx/5k.

Classic Car Show • SA (10/8), 3-7pm - The Western North Carolina Wheels Classic Car Show will be held at Mad Greek Eatery, 59 Highlands Square Drive, weather permitting. Info: 697-7876.

CLOSER Looking for gay folks in your age group? CLOSER is Asheville’s oldest LGBT social club serving all boomers and seniors, providing entertainment, education and fellowship.

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The Asheville Art Museum invites the community to a screening of Brent Green’s

wed experimental stop-animation film Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, the true story of Leonard Wood, a hardware store clerk who built an elaborate “quilt house” as a “healing machine” for his sick wife. Held on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. Info: nsokolove@ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

Catch an “unapologetically silly” take on one of theater’s most performed works as WCU

thur presents I Hate Hamlet, the tale of an out-of-work television actor whose life becomes

chaotic after taking on the role. Hosted at the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Oct. 6. Performances run Wednesday, Oct. 5 through Saturday, Oct. 8. Info, tickets and times: 227-2479 or fapac.wcu.edu.

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Join author Julie Chalpan as she reads from her book Titan’s Tales and Other Dog Adoption Love Stories at the Henderson County Animal Shelter, 828 Stoney Mountain Road, on Friday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will benefit local spay and neuter assistance programs. Info: 697-4723.

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Celebrate American Craft Day with artist demonstrations on woodturning, stacked stone walls and fiber arts at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: blackmountainarts.org or 669-0930.

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Enjoy the art of Japanese miniature tree pruning at the Carolina Bonsai Expo. Held at the N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, on Sunday, Oct. 9 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Expo begins on Saturday and runs through the weekend. Info: ncarboretum.org.

Learn the basics of letterpress printing at Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, 70 Bingo

mon Loop Road in Cherokee, on Monday, Oct. 10 from 6-8:30 p.m. Students will have the opportunity to print in the Cherokee language. Registration suggested: 497-3945.

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The Land of the Sky Chorus offers free voice lessons for males 16 years and older on Tuesdays, through Oct. 11, from 7:30-9 p.m. Held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Place. Info and registration: ashevillebarbershop.com.

• TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets in the library of All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

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

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Meet at Baba’s Restaurant, 1459 Merrimon Ave. Cooking Class • TH (10/13), 12:30-3pm - A cooking class for adults will be held at the Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $25. Registration required.

Info: 779-0325.

Coupon Class • TU (10/11), 7-8pm - A coupon-cutting class will be held at the Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $10. Info: nicole2k@aol.com or 456-9207.

Courthouse Tours

• WEDNESDAYS through (10/6), 2pm - Historic courthouse tours will depart from 200 North Grove St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: 694-5003.

Cribbage Group • MONDAYS, 6pm - Meets at EarthFare Westgate for friendly game playing. All skill levels welcome. Info: 254-3899.

Henderson County Heritage Museum Located in the Historic Courthouse on Main St. in Hendersonville. Info: 6941619 or www.hendersoncountymuseum.org.

• Through FR (12/30) - An exhibit of Civil War artifacts will feature military weaponry and uniforms.

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

654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org.

• TH (10/6), 9:30am-noon The meeting will feature a felt applique and sewing pocket.

Mars Hill College Events Info: www.mhc.edu.

• TH (10/6) through SA (10/8) - Alumni of all ages are invited to attend a homecoming festival on Saturday, featuring clogging and activities for children.

The weekend’s events will include a performance by the Dynamic Imperials and a golf tournament. Held at 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill.

Info and full schedule: www. mhc.edu.

Mountain Harvest Cruise • FR (10/7) through SU (10/9) - The Mountain Harvest Cruise will welcome antique and custom cars and trucks. Friday kick-off party will be held at Mountain Lodge on 42 McMurray Road, Flat Rock. Call for times and activities. Info: www.hendersonvilleantiquecarclub.org or 696-4168.

N.C. Arboretum Events

The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays.

Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through MO (1/2), 10am4pm - Sustainable Shelter will feature scale models and interactive computer games to investigate how humans can green their homes. $3/$2 students.

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

• SA (10/8), 9:30am-3pm - Land O’sky Doll Club Fall Doll Show.

• WE (10/12) - Auto Cross.

WNC Fiber Folk Group • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - The WNC Fiber Folk Group will meet at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee.

Info: ddrury@wcu.edu or 227-2553.

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Blessing of the Animals • WE (10/5), 6-7pm - A Blessing of the Animals will be offered to “well-behaved humans and their animal companions.” Donations encouraged. Held at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

Info: www.unitync.net or 684-3798.

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

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

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

• TH (10/6) through SA (10/8) - A national walking horse show will be held in the McGough Arena.

Campaign Education Tool • A free Asheville City Council Candidate Survey Response and Voter Guide is available from Children First/CIS. Guide includes candidates’ answers to questions on child poverty, school achievement, transportation and affordable housing. Info: www.childrenfirstbc.org.

One-Stop Voting • Through SA (10/8), 1pm - One-stop voting. See www. sboe.state.nc.us for locations.

Primary Election Day • TU (10/11) - Primary election day. See www.sboe. state.nc.us for locations.

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

Personal attention, small, focused class. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12:00pm. $15 or 10 for $130. 117 Furman. 2253786. FormFitnessFunction. com Advanced Care Planning Workshop • TU (10/11), 7-9pm - An advanced care planning workshop will discuss endof-life issues at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: www. unca.edu/ncccr or 251-6140.

Bird Watching Trip for Seniors • TH (10/6), 8am-2pm - A bird watching trip for seniors will depart from the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Bring a lunch and a camera. $7/$5 members. Trip is limited to 15 people; registration recommended. Info: recprograms@townofwaynesville. org or 456-2030.

DuPont State Forest • WE (10/12), 10:30am-4pm - A trip for seniors to DuPont State Forest will depart from Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance Street. $7/$5 members. Info: recprograms@townofwaynesville. org or 456-2030.

Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Info: 626-3438.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, noon2pm - A potluck and bingo game for seniors.

Health Events at UNCA • FR (10/7), 11:30am - Fab Friday: Dermatological issues for seniors. Held in UNCA’s Reuter Center.

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

Reduce time away from work and insurance costs.

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

FormFitnessFunction.com American Business Women’s Association ABWA brings together business women of diverse occupations to raise funds for local scholarships and enhance the professional and personal lives of its members. Info: www.abwaskyhy. com.

• TH (10/13), 5:30-8pm - A membership event and dinner will discuss “Top Ten Tips for Extreme Productivity.”

Held at Neo Cantina, 10 Biltmore Plaza. $25. Info: www.abwaskyhy.com or 275-1699.

Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists at 39 D S. Market St., downtown Asheville. Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Info and registration: www.arts2people.org or info@arts2people.org.

• The Arts2People Artist Resource Center seeks instructors with business

Come dine in the magical setting of

Canyon Kitchen at Lonesome Valley

Reservations: 828-743-7967 or Kristen @lonesomevalley.com

with Chef John Fleer

Open for Dinner Thursday through Saturday Now through October 23rd in Cashiers, NC

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management skills. Classes are geared towards creative professionals. Info: info@ arts2people.org or www. ashevillearc.com.

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

• MONDAYS, 12:15pm Mac OSX Basics.

• TUESDAYS, 12:15pm iPhoto Basics.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:15pm - iPad Basics.

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

Macintosh Asheville Computer Society (MACS) • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Meetings held at CityMac, 755 Biltmore Ave., on the corner of Meadow Road.

Visitors welcome. Q&A, problem solving, demonstrations and guest speakers.

Info: 712-7493 or www. citymac.com.

Volunteering Adopt-a-Greenway • The public is invited to adopt a greenway. Options include Hominy Creek Park east to Carrier Park and Karen Cragnolin Park to French Broad River Park along Amboy Road. Info: worth@riverlink.org or 2528474.

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

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

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

• Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks adult mentors for bimonthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost.

Volunteers are also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school programs.

Information sessions: Oct. 13 and Oct. 25 at noon.

Center for New Beginnings • The Center for New Beginnings seeks volunteers for community awareness and services for crime victims and survivor’s of traffic fatalities, suicides and other death-related incidents. Info: contact@centerfornb.org or 989-9306.

Children First/CIS Children First/CIS is a nonprofit advocating for children living in vulnerable conditions. Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072.

• Through TH (11/3), 2:305:30pm - Volunteers needed at least one hour per week,

Mon. through Thurs., to help K-5th graders with homework and activities. Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc. org or 768-2072.

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

• FR (10/7), 11am-12:30pm - Shake and Bake: Cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters and Inn. Both men and women are encouraged to participate.

• SA (10/8), 3-5pm - Help make “lovies” for premature babies served by Mission Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

• SA (10/8), 10am-11:30pm - Kids Care. Ages 4-6 are invited to make autumn crafts for the Mediation Center’s Family Visitation Program.

• SA (10/8), 1-4pm Apple picking for MANNA Foodbank.

Hospice Training • FR (10/7) through SU (10/9) - The Asheville Chapter of Twilight Brigade will host a weekend-long training session for those seeking to become Hospice volunteers. Held at the United Research Light Center, 2190 NC Highway 9, Black Mountain. Info and registration: tbciainavl@gmail.com or 686-5250.

Literacy Council of Buncombe County Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: 254-3442, ext. 205.

• Through TH (10/20) - Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language. No prior tutoring experience required.

Tutors will receive 15 hours of training as well as ongoing support from certified professionals. Orientation will be held Wed. Oct. 19 and Thurs. Oct. 20th. Advance preparation required. Info: literacytutors@litcouncil.com.

Our VOICE Training • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS (through 10/20), 5:308:30pm - Join Our VOICE, Buncombe County’s sexual violence crisis and prevention center, to help break down myths, challenge harmful attitudes, advocate for healthy relationships and consent, and prevent sexual violence.

We work in schools, faith communities, events, businesses and more. 24 hours of training required;

sessions held twice weekly.

Info and registration: www. ourvoicenc.org.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Highway 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: 8774423 or www.ncwildlife.org.

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

Smith-McDowell House Museum Period rooms grace this antebellum house on the campus of A-B Tech Community College, 283 Victoria Road, Asheville. Info: 253-9231 or education@wnchistory.org.

• Through TH (1/5) Volunteer tour guides needed, especially on weekends.

Flexible hours. Training provided. Info: wnchavolunteers@gmail.com or 253-5518.

The Dream Wheel • WE (10/5), 10am-noon or 6-8pm - The Dream Wheel is a collage-making event to acknowledge Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Held at 34 Wall St., 3rd floor.

Info: contact@centerfornb. org.

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

• Through SA (12/31) - Volunteers needed for the “Take Art to Heart” program to share works of art with elementary school students.

Info: tcarts@comporium.net.

Wild South Dedicated to stewarding our national forests, protecting wildlife, preserving cultural heritage sites and inspiring and empowering communities to enjoy, protect and restore the outdoors. Info: www.wildsouth.org or general@wildsouth.org.

• SA (10/8) & SU (10/9) - OutdoorAthon will accept volunteers through Oct. 6.

Call for details: 258-2667.

• FR (10/28) through SU (10/30) - Volunteers for Moogfest will be accepted through Oct. 25.

Sports Groups & Activities Amateur Pool League (pd.) All skill levels welcome.

HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. Rosters are open NOW for the Fall. Signup to play on an 8ball or 9ball team. 828-329-8197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com

ONGOING – weekly league play Transform Your Form (pd.) Run with a lightness and ease you’ve never known! Alexander Technique will turn your arms into wings! Thursdays, 6:30pm. $100 for 6 sessions.

Ongoing. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Carpenters Heart Fall 5K • SA (10/8), 8:30am - A 5K and 1-mile fun run will be held at Carrier Park in Asheville. $25/$10. Info and registration: www.carpentersheart.org.

Home School Physical Education • THURSDAYS, 1-2:30pm - A physical education class for home-schooled children will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $3.

Info: 456-2030.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Youth Basketball Class • TUESDAYS through (10/25), 6-7:45pm - A basketball class for children ages 4-8 will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $25.

Info: recathletics@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030.

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• TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 7-8pm - A zumba class will be offered at Buncombe County Fireman’s Training Center, 180 Erwin Hills Road. $5. Info: www. zumba.com.

Gardening Blue Ridge Ikenobo Ikebana Chapter • WE (10/12), 11:30am - A special meeting of the Blue Ridge Ikenobo Ikebana Chapter will celebrate the club’s 20th anniversary with a cash bar and luncheon, followed by a demonstration of arranging techniques by Stephanie English. Held at the Hendersonville Country Club, 1860 Hebron Road. $24.

Info: 696-4103.

Mulch Giveaway • Through SA (10/22) - Free mulch will be available to Hendersonville residents at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 139 Balfour Road, Hendersonville. Call for times.

Info: 697-3084.

N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays.

Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• SA (10/8), 9am-5pm & SU (10/9), 9am-4pm - The Carolina Bonsai Expo will feature workshops, demonstrations and a bonsai marketplace.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 8-11am - Stecoah Tailgate Market, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville. —- 8am-noon - Transylvania Tailgate Market, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets in downtown Brevard.

—- 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 26pm - Montford Farmers Market, Asheville Chamber of Commerce parking lot. —- 26:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —2:30-6:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, behind the yellow community center on Weaverville Highway.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance of Mission Hospital’s Heart Center on the Memorial Campus. —- 3-6pm - Flat

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

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

—- 8am-noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, at UNCA (take W.T. Weaver Boulvard and follow signs).

—- 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte Street. —- 9am-1pm Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, at the corner of Highway 213 and Park Street.

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

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

Outdoors Quality Training Program (pd.) Completely personalized small group training. Weekly run. Individual goal setting.

Beginners to Advanced.

Weaver Park. Two Groups: Sundays, 8:30am or 9:30am. $65 for 6 weeks. (828) 2253786. FormFitnessFunction. com Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Free and open to the public.

• FR (10/7), 10am - An easy-to-moderate hike on the Craggy Gardens Trail with an out-and-back extension across Craggy Flats. Learn more about mountain balds and view fall color in the forested valleys below. The 1.2-mile hike will start at the Craggy Gardens Visitor Center, MP 364.5 on the Parkway. Hikers should bring water, wear good hiking shoes and be prepared for changeable fall weather. Info: 298-5330.

Cradle of Forestry Events

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

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

• SA (10/8), 9am-5pm - Visit a reconstructed campsite of the early 1900s, see fire by flint, steel, and friction, old style campfire cookery, four styles of period shelters and traditional camp tools in use.

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

• SA (10/8), 9am - A guided bird walk will depart from Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville.

Hemphill Bald • SA (10/8), 10am - A guided hike to Hemphill Bald will be offered by Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Bring hiking shoes, lunch and water. $10/free for members. Info, registration and directions: rich@appalachian.org or 253-0095.

The Colors of Grandfather • SA (10/8), SU (10/9), SA (10/15) & SU (10/16), 1pm - A guided hike through Grandfather Mountain, US Highway 221, two miles north of Linville. Info: www. grandfather.com or 4687325.

Eco N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays.

Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through MO (1/2) - The Home Green Home exhibit will feature animal shelters, insect hives and nests.

Sierra Club Meeting • WE (10/5), 7pm - A meeting of the Sierra Club will feature a discussion on sustainable transportation. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church at the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Streets.

Info: www.wenoca.org.

Kids Celebration Singers

• THURSDAYS, 6:20-7:45 - Celebration Singers of Asheville Community Youth Chorus invites singers ages 7-14 to join. Held at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak Street, Asheville. Info: 230-5778.

Free ‘ACT vs SAT Comparison Test’ • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS through (2/19) - Asheville students are invited to take Chyten’s ‘ACT vs SAT Comparison Test’ to determine which represents their best match. The test is offered on Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 1pm. Info and reservations: 505-2495 or www.chyten-asheville. com.

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

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

• WE (10/5), 3:30-5pm - A Wiggle with the Worms class will be offered to children ages eight and older.

Advanced registration recommended. $15/$10 members.

• TH (10/6) - Mad Hatter Day will encourage children to wear their craziest hat.

Free with admission. Held throughout the day.

• WE (10/12) - Children are invited to draw chickens throughout the day. $5/free with admission.

Homegrown FAM: Family Art at the Market • SATURDAYS through (10/29), 10am-noon “Homegrown FAM: Family Art at the Market” will offer a free art series for children.

Held at the Jackson County Farmers Market, Bridge Park in Sylva. Info: ddrury@wcu. edu or 227-2553.

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

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

• FR (10/7), 6:30-7:30pm - Professor WhizzPop! Magic Show will be held at 721 Haywood Road in West Asheville.

• TU (10/11), 6-7pm - The Grammar School Show, for all ages.

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

wallstreetcoffeehouse@ gmail.com.

Spirituality Having the Conversation You Want to Have (pd.) With a spouse, a family member, friend, lover or boss. Speak what has been left unsaid by using the Role-Playing and Warm-up techniques of Psycho-Drama in a supportive community.

Saturday, October 22, 10am4:30pm, in a country setting in Mills River. $85 includes lunch. Call Franklin Harris, Ed D: (828) 713-4244 or for more details, email Lawrence Farber, LCSW: lfarber@ integrationyoga.com A Barbara Marciniak Channeling Event October 14,15 (Friday-Saturday) (pd.) Barbara channels the Pleiadians who share their perspectives about our changing world. Bring your questions! • Lecture/channeling Friday, 7pm-10:30pm: $35. • Workshop/channeling: Saturday, 10am-6pm: $90.

Cash or money order only. • Ramada River Ridge Hotel, 800 Fairview Road, Asheville.

Reservations/information: (828) 298-6300 or ashevilleclass@yahoo.com Aquarian Compassionate Fellowship (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice.

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

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) (pd.) Discover why TM is the world’s most effective and scientifically validated meditation technique.

Clinically proven to boost brain function and reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. Allows you to effortlessly transcend the busy, agitated mind to experience inner peace and unbounded awareness. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: How meditation techniques differ • Meditation and brain research • What is enlightenment?

(828) 254-4350. www.

MeditationAsheville.org Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment. Guided meditations follow the Insight/Mindfulness/ Vipassana practices. Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind. Our “sangha” (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited.

• By donation. • Tuesdays,

7pm-8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion.

• Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks. • The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 808-4444. • www.ashevillemeditation. com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

Awareness Group • This Saturday (pd.) Come relax and be inspired with Crystal and Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing, Breathwork and Guided Meditation. Facilitated by Isa Soler, LMHC, LPC, C.Ht. • Saturday, October 8, 4pm-5:30pm, Lighten Up Yoga. • 60 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville. Donations accepted. isa@awaretherapy.com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Great for couples!

Group uses model developed

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

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

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

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

Donations encouraged.

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

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

Open to all. Info: 712-5472.

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

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

• FR (10/7) & SA (10/8) - Yom Kippur services will feature Hebrew prayers, songs and spiritual events.

See website for times.

• FR (10/7), 7:30pm - Services are conducted in English and Hebrew with simultaneous insights and explanations into the prayers, pracitces and rituals. Special children’s holiday program and service are available.

RSVP required.

• TH (10/13), 10am-noon - A Sukkot celebration will conclude the High Holidays.

Community HU Song • SU (10/9), 11-11:30am - “In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Chanting this once-secret name for God, HU, has helped people throughout time find inner peace and divine love. Maybe it will help you!” Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road. Info: www.eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775.

Energy Health Workshops • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Learn to work with your guardian angels and spirit guides to transmute energetic blockages, trapped emotions, psychic traumas and past life issues. Classes held in Weaverville. Donation requested. Info and directions: 337-1852.

I Ching Support and Study Group • THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - “I Ching Support and Study Group,” a study of Taoism and I Ching practice. The organizer is a freelance writer with a teaching/counseling background and many years of study/practice of Taoism and the I Ching. Will meet at an area cafe, to be determined. Info: patrickgfrank@ gmail.com.

Infinite Way • THURSDAYS, 2-3:15pm - Tape study group, based on the mysticism of Joel Goldsmith, will be held at the United Research Light Center, 2190 NC Highway 9, Black Mountain. Info: 669-6845.

Introduction to Vipassana • TH (10/13), 7-9pm - An introduction to Vipassana meditation will feature a documentary and Q&A. Held

at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Free.

Info: www.patapa.dhamma. org.

Meditation and Satsang with Madhyanandi • MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 6am-9pm Meditate and practice with an awakened yogini. Sessions available by appointment. All fees by donation; no one will be turned away. Info: www. thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@gmail.com.

Ro-Hun • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Empower your life through the alchemy of forgiveness.

Heal the faulty thoughts and emotions locked in the unconscious that sabotage your health, abundance and happiness. Info and directions: 545-8173.

Sound Healing Circle • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm “Come and receive if you are feeling lowly and in need of support or come and share healing light if your bliss cup runneth over.” Bring bowls, bells, rattles, didge, etc.

Held at 41 Carolina Lane.

By donation. Info: 310-7459150.

Spirit and Money Presentation • WE (10/5), 7:30pm - Cary Bayer, life coach and author, will present “Spirit and Money: Prospering by Doing What You Love.” Held at Town and Mountain Training Center, 261 Asheland Ave. $25/$20 in advance (available at Malaprops). Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734.

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

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

Located at 2190 NC Highway 9 South in Black Mountain.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 1-2:15pm - “Gentle Yoga,” with Karen Barnes —- 2:30-3:30pm - “World Peace Prayer.”

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

• 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 12:45pm - Toning for Peace.

“Lift your voice in free-form expression in a loving, safe space to generate well-being and peace for the greater benefit of our ever-evolving planet.” $5. Info: 667-2967.

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• TUESDAYS, 10:30-noon - Level one QiGong.

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

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

• WE (10/12), 7-9pm - Grand Mother Moon Ceremony with DeborahMarie Diamond.

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

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

Windhorse Zen Community All welcome; newcomers call ahead for orientation. Located at 580 Panther Branch Road, near Weaverville. Info: 6458001 or www.windhorsezen. org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30am - Meditation, chanting and Dharma talk, followed by a vegetarian potluck lunch.

Yoga of Awakening • MONDAYS, 7-9pm Awaken to profound peace.

Practice technologies to free the body and mind of stress and tension. Begin your adventure of awakening. Fees by donation; no one will be turned away. Info and directions: www.thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@ gmail.com.

Young Adult Friends Worship Group • SATURDAYS, 4-6:30pm - This small Quaker group for young adults meets upstairs at Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road.

Singing and silence will be followed by a potluck. For Quakers, quasi-Quakers and anyone who is interested.

Info: biercewilson@gmail. com.

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

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

• Through WE (10/12) Come Fall will be on display in the Oui-Oui Gallery • TH (10/6) through TH (10/27) - Experience, paintings by Michael Banks.

• FR (10/7), 5-8pm - An opening reception will be held in conjunction with Artwalk Friday.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 35pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227.

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

• Through SU (11/6) - Color Study will be on display at the Appleby Foundation Gallery.

• Through SU (3/4) Homage2 will pay tribute to Josef Albers.

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

• Through MO (10/31) - Seeing Reality, drawings by William Asman T.Y. • SA (10/8), 6-8pm Opening reception.

Autumn in the Southern Appalachians • Through MO (10/24) - Autumn in the Southern Appalachians, a jurried exhibit of Carolina nature photographers, will be held at Pack Place Gallery, 2 South Pack Square. Info: www.cnpaasheville.org.

Back To School • Through FR (10/28) - Back To School, a “wildly varied” exhibit of work by artists from the Marshall High Studios featuring a variety of media and approaches. Held at the Arts Center, 90 South Main St. in Marshall. Info: www. madisoncountyarts.com.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Mon.-Wed. and Fri., noon-5pm; Thurs. 11am3pm. Info: 669-0930 or www.BlackMountainArts.org.

• Through FR (10/7) - Twigs and Burls, featuring paintings and drawings by Steve Miller.

Courtyard Gallery An eclectic art and performance space located at 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District.

Info: 273-3332 or www. ashevillecourtyard.com.

• Through SA (12/31) - Anything Goes - Everything Shows, the 5th annual mail art show. All entries received through the postal system

will be exhibited. Participants were encouraged to explore themes, sizes, shapes and media of any kind.

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

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

• Through SA (10/29) Porge Buck: A Retrospective.

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

• SA (10/8), 10am-4pm - Open studio tour.

Haen Gallery Located at 52 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm, Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., noon5pm. Info: 254-8577 or www.thehaengallery.com.

• Through MO (10/31) - Lynn Boggess: New Work 2011.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of arts-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts. org.

• Through SA (10/15) - Works by the Southern Appalachian Photographers Guild.

• FR (10/7), 6-9pm - Artist reception.

Heritage Arts Pottery • MO (10/10) - The gallery at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, 70 Bingo Loop Road in Cherokee, will host a selection of work from Southwestern Community College’s Heritage Arts Pottery Program.

• MO (10/10), 5-7pm Opening reception.

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

Located at 238 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: www.odysseyceramicarts.com • Through FR (10/14) - Joyful Expressions will feature the work of student assistants.

Oil Paintings by Jon Houglum • Through FR (10/28) - Oil paintings by Franklin native Jon Houglum will be on display in the Hamilton Gallery of Nelson Bell Library, on the campus of Montreat College.

Info: www.montreat.edu.

Pink Dog Creative A multi-use arts space located at 342 Depot St. Info: info@pinkdog-creative.com

• SA (10/8) through SU (11/20) - NiceNasty, new works by Affrilachian artist Valeria Watson-Doost.

• SA (10/8), 6pm - Opening reception, featuring a butoh performance by Julie Becton Gillum.

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

• Through SA (10/29) - Birds, Beasts and Bodybones, works by Lisa Walraven, Cynthia Potter and Carlos Steward.

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

• Through SU (11/6) - Works by Jennie Francis (pastel).

Studio B A framing studio and art gallery at 171 Weaverville Hwy., Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Fri. 10am-5:30pm & Sat. 10am3pm. Info: 225-5200, (800) 794-9053, studiob4422@ bellsouth.net or www.galleryatstudiob.com.

• FR (10/7) through SA (10/12) - Natural Fiber Tableau will be on display as part of American Craft Week.

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

• FR (10/7), 7-9pm - Craft: A Sense of Place, an exhibit of WNC craft artists. Featuring works by Daniel Essig, books and mixed media; Chris Perryman, furniture and sculpture; and Caitie Sellers, jewelry and sculpture. All create pieces that evoke a strong sense of place.

Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St., Tryon.

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm and by appointment.

Info: www.upstairsartspace. org or 859-2828.

• FR (10/7) through SA (11/19), Lines and Lives of the Face will feature works

by Ursula Gullow, Francesco Lombardo, Bob Trotman and others.

• SA (10/8), 4-8pm Opening reception.

More Art Exhibits & Openings AnTHM Gallery Located at 110.5 W. State St. in downtown Black Mountain.

Info: www.anthmgallery.com.

• FR (10/7), 5:30-8:30pm First Friday, featuring “Artini” drinks, food and live music,

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Do unto others as they wish,” advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.”

I recommend that approach to you, Aries. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don’t just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for; give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects your playful tinkering.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems.

The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken,” he said in describing his life’s work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Is there something you’ve always wanted to create but have not gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to finally get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious deal you’ve thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you’ve longed to pose but didn’t? Any heart-expanding message you’ve wanted to deliver but couldn’t bring yourself to? You know what to do.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The experiences you’re flirting with seem to be revivals of long-forgotten themes. You’re trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was abandoned or neglected way back when. You’re dipping into the past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to find new applications for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you’re doing, I’ve resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-centry dictionary. Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive again.

“Euneirophrenia” means “peace of mind after a sweet dream.” The definition of “neanimorphic” is “looking younger than one’s true age.” “Gloze” is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade. “Illapse” means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) An old Egyptian saying declares that “the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather.” I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement. There will be a very fine line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom . . . between colorful but misleading BS

and articulate, provocative analysis . . . between interesting but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidence-based prognostications. Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) What’s the most practical method of acquiring wealth? One out of every five Americans believes that it’s by playing the lottery. While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance — the odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one — I don’t recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial security in this particular way. A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving, and investing money.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don’t scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labor of love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I don’t want to play the part of the mythical phoenix again,” my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by fire. “I’ve burned myself to the ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can’t someone else take a turn for a change?” While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation and regeneration.

You’re better able to endure the ordeal, too.

Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go?

homework Provide proof of the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) When she was seven years old, my daughter Zoe created a cartoon panel with colored pens. It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange flowers. High overhead was an orange five-pointed star. The girl was saying, “I think it would be fun being a star,” while the star mused, “I think it would be great to be a girl.” I urge you to create your own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe’s rendering. Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here’s your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: “As above, so below.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join MENSA, an organization for people with high IQs. Since I’d never gotten any awards, plaques, or badges, I thought I’d indulge in this little sin of pride. Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to MENSA, I felt sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra smart.

Eventually I resigned from the so-called genius club. But then I descended into deeper egomania — I started bragging about how I had quit MENSA because I didn’t want to come off like an egotist. How egotistical was that? Please avoid this type of unseemly behavior in the coming week, Capricorn. Be authentically humble, not fake like me. It’ll be important for your success.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) There is a slight chance the following scenario will soon come to pass: A psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering guilt you’ve carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: You’ll feel like a wise rookie who’s ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the first time. But get this, Pisces: There’s an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally — without the psychic, without the prediction about a mutant liver, and without the nonstop drunkenness.

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

• Through WE (10/5) - A Rapid Progression, featuring sculpture by Gene Felice, will be on display in the Highsmith Union Gallery.

• FR (10/7) through SU (10/30) - Pierced! an exhibition of photographs

by Leigh Svenson, will feature the “phenomenon of physical adornment.” Held in the Blowers Gallery in the Ramsey Library.

• FR (10/7), 4-6pm Opening reception.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs.

Info: 350-8484, bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege.org.

• FR (10/7) through SU (10/9) - ReVIEWING Black Mountain College will feature performers, artists and musicians presenting ideas and performing works related to avant-garde composer John Cage. Registration required.

• SA (10/8), 5-6pm Keynote speaker Laura Kuhn, the Executive Director of the John Cage Trust.

Craft Campus at UNCA Located at 1 University Heights, Asheville. Info: www.unca.edu/craftcampus or 250-2392.

• Through FR (1/27) Common Threads will feature four fiber artists.

• WE (10/5), 5-7pm - Opening reception and gallery talk.

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

Info: www.downtownhendersonville.org.

Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 6971870.

• Through WE (11/30) - Pieces of the Sky, featuring paintings by Ray Cooper.

George Terry • Through WE (11/30) - Works by George Terry will be on display at DeSoto Lounge, 504 Haywood Road.

Info: www.brotherwayword. deviantart.com.

• TH (10/6), 7pm - Opening reception.

Invitational Art Exhibition • Through TU (10/25) - The Invitational Art Exhibition will be on display in UNCA’s S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. Info: www.art.unca.edu.

Jonas Gerard and River Guerguerian • SA (10/8), 2pm - Jonas Gerard will present a live painting demonstration with musicians River Guerguerian and Farshid. Held at Gerard’s gallery, 240 Clingman Ave. Info: www.jonasgerard.com.

Native Expo Poster Contest • MO (10/10), 5-7pm - The gallery at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, 78 Bingo Loop Road in Cherokee, will host a selection of winners from WCU’s Native Expo Poster Contest.

Winners will be announced during the reception. Info: www.facebook.com/OICANC. Paint and Chocolate • Through SA (10/15) - Paint and Chocolate, works by Genie Maples, will be on display at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 South Lexington Ave. Public Art Display • Through SA (10/22) - Bearfootin’, “a public art display featuring outdoor fiberglass bear sculptures decorated in different themes,” will be on display on the sidewalks of Main Street in Hendersonville. Info: 233-3216.

TC Arts Invitational Show • Through FR (10/14) - The TC Arts Invitational Show will be on display at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard.

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

10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (10/28) Understory: An Exhibition of Work by Alice Sebrell.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Craft Lab: DIY Social Networking • TU (10/11), 6-8pm - Learn how to start your own Facebook page or twitter account and how to use them to market yourself and your work. Held at Handmade in America, 125 S. Lexington Ave., Suite 101. Info: www. handmadeinamerica.org.

Objects and Meaning • TH (10/13), 4-6pm - Anna Fariello, director of the Craft

Revival Project, will examine how academic disciplines and cultural institutions have assigned meaning to expressive objects over time. Held at Haywood Community College’s Charles Beal Auditorium, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde. Info: info@ handmadeinamerica.org.

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

• MO (10/10), 6-8:30pm - Learn the basics of letterpress printing with Frank Brannon. Students will have an opportunity to print in the Cherokee Language. Limited to 8 students.

Art/Craft Fairs Biltmore Lake Art and Craft Festival • SA (10/8), 10am-4pm - The Biltmore Lake Art and Craft Festival will take place at the Biltmore Lake Clubhouse, 80 Lake Drive. Info: www.biltmorelakeartandcraftfestival.com.

Church Street Art and Craft Show • SA (10/8), 10am-5pm - The Church Street Art and Craft Show will feature 120 juried artists and crafters. Held on Main Street in Waynesville. Info: www. haywoodarts.org.

Fall Leaves Arts and Crafts Festival • SA (10/8) & SU (10/9), 9am-5pm - BRACA, a local nonprofit crafters group, presents the Fall Leaves Arts & Crafts Show, a free indoor event featuring more than 50 crafters. Held at the Haywood County Fairgrounds, 758 Crabtree Road in Waynesville.

Info and directions: www. bracaorg.com.

Spruce Pine Potters Market • SA (10/8) & SU (10/9), 10am-5pm - The Spruce Pine Potters Market will feature functional pottery, porcelain, sculpture and stoneware. Held at 31 Cross St., across the river from downtown Spruce Pine. Info: 765-0520 or www.sprucepinepottersmarket.com.

Spoken & Written Word Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486)

n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (10/5), 3pm - Book club: Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert. WV —5pm - Library knitters. SW • TH (10/6), 2-4pm Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places invites female writers to read their work. SS • TU (10/11), 7pm - Nancy Lewis will discuss Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert.

WV • TH (10/13), 1pm - Book club: The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner. FV —- 6pm - Book club: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.

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

• FR (10/7), noon - Carolyn Sakowski will read from the new edition of her book Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads.

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

• WE (10/5), 7pm - Jay Jacoby will discuss The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

• TH (10/6), 7pm - Josh Ritter will read from his new book Bright’s Passage.

• FR (10/7), 4:30-6pm Freelance Friday. —- 5-6pm - Alchemist Robert Bartlett will read from his new book Real Alchemy and The Way of the Crucible. —- 7pm - Pat MacEnulty will read from her new book Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir.

• SA (10/8), 7pm - Marlin Barton will read from his new book The Cross Garden.

• SU (10/9), 3pm - Ron Rash will read from his new book of poetry Waking.

• TU (10/11), 5:30 - Random House representatives will make book club recommendations.

—- 7pm - Photographer James Valentine and writer Chris Bolgiano will discuss their new book Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and Wilderness.

• WE (10/12), 7pm Thomas Rain Crowe, Barbara Duncan and Brent Martin will

read from their new collection of poetry Every Breath Sings Mountains: The Great Smoky Mountains.

• TH (10/13), 7pm - Norma Watkins will read from her new memoir The Last Resort.

Julia Nunnally Duncan • SA (10/8), noon-2pm - Julia Nunnally Duncan will read from her new novel Drops of the Night at Main Street Gifts, 74 South Main Street, Marion. Info: 6520108.

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

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

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 13pm - Writers are invited to participate in a discussion about current projects.

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

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

Used Book Sale • FR (10/7), 10am-6pm - Used book sale. Held at the Madison County Library, 1335 North Main St. in Marshall.

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

Info: writersw@gmail.com.

Festivals & Gatherings Barnardsville Elementary Fall Festival • SA (10/8), 1-5pm - Barnardsville Elementary Fall Festival will feature pony rides, a petting zoo, cake walk and inflatables.

Held at 20 Hillcrest Drive, Barnardsville. Info: 626-2290.

Big Ivy Heritage Day • SA (10/8), 10am-4pm - Big Ivy Heritage Day will feature music, molassesmaking, wagon rides, ciderpressing and more. Held at the Big Ivy Historical Park, 540 Dillingham Road. Free.

Info: 626-3438.

Drone Valley Music and Arts Fest • FR (10/7) & SA (10/8) - Indoor and outdoor events will include music and live painting. See website for locations and ticket prices: www.dronevalley.com.

Fiesta Latina • SA (10/8), noon-8pm - Fiesta Latina will feature Latin food, children’s games, music, dance classes and more. Held at Pack Square, downtown Asheville. Info: 707-7449 or alas.nc@gmail. com.

Jammin’ at the Mill Pond • SA (10/8), 10am-5pm - Held on the campus of Haywood Community College, this free bluegrass event showcases the college and the Appalachian heritage of WNC. Music hosted by the Hominy Valley Boys, featuring other local artists and clogging teams. Info: 627-4522 or emvaughn@ haywood.edu.

Mountain Glory Festival • SA (10/8), 9:30am-5pm - The Mountain Glory Festival will feature arts and crafts, food and bluegrass in downtown Marion. Info: www. mtngloryfestival.com.

Oktoberfest • SA (10/8) & SU (10/9), 10am-5pm - Oktoberfest will feature Spaten Oktoberfest beer, the Harbour Town Fest Band, Avery Smooth Dancers and the Mountain Laurel Cloggers. Held at Sugar Mountain Resort, 1009 Sugar Mountain Drive. Free. Info: 898-4521 or www.oktoberfest.skisugar.com.

Oktoberfest at Greenlife Grocery • SU (10/9), noon-4pm - Greenlife Grocery will host Oktoberfest, featuring beer, sausages, cider and music.

Held at 70 Merrimon Ave. Info: www.wholefoodsmarket.com or 254-5440.

Shindig In the Gorge • SA (10/8), 2-8pm - Shindig In the Gorge will feature glass blowing demonstrations, live music, square dancing and a potluck. Grills will be available. Held at 4730 Highway 74-E (Drovers Road Scenic Highway) between Fairview and Lake Lure. Info: info@ hickorycreekmarket.com or 625-9181.

Smokey Mountain Juggling Festival • FR (10/7) through SU (10/9) - Forty Fingers and a Missing Tooth presents a juggling festival featuring performance and instruction.

Free. See website for times and locations. Info: www. smokeymountainjugglingfestival.com.

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• SA (10/8), 10am-6pm The Organic Growers School will present the True Nature Country Fair, featuring bread baking, cob oven building, worm composting, horse logging and more. Held in Highland Lake Cove, Flat Rock. $10. Info and directions: www.organicgrowersschool.org.

Music A Chance to Try The Folk Harp • Free! (pd.) Sunday, October 9, 9:30-10:30am. Folk Harp sounds beautiful from the first string-pluck. Try several kinds of harps, it’s a magical feeling. Just show up!!! • Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 28704, near the Asheville Airport. • Signs will direct you on campus. • Directions: www.southeasternharps.com A Free Folk Harp Trade Show (pd.) October 8-9. Not concert harps; these are smaller, more affordable, and the hot thing in beautiful instruments.

See, hear, play lap harps to full-size celtic harps of all designs; kits, CDs and sheet music. • Free: Saturday, 10:30am-6:30pm, Sunday, 10:30am-4pm. • Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 28704, near the Asheville Airport. Signs will direct you on campus. • Directions at www.southeasternharps. com An Unusual Harps Concert (pd.) Saturday, October 8.

See a Celtic harp star playing pop, an Italian triple-strung harp played by a Kennedy Center soloist, a gothic harp, and a lever harp playing classical. • These are all different and stunningly beautiful instruments which will transport you to new worlds. • Tickets $20 at the door. • Seventh Day Adventist Church of Asheville, 35 Airport Road. October 8, 7:45pm. www.southeasternharps.com Song O’ Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801.(Enter Fellowship Hall-lower level).

Guests welcome. Contact: www.songosky.org Toll Free # 1-866-824-9547.

Andy Griffith Tribute Show • SU (10/9), 3pm - The Grascals will perform a musical tribute to “The Andy Griffith Show” at Western Carolina University’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing

Arts Center. $20/$5 students.

Info: 227-2479.

Asheville Lyric Opera All performances take place at Diana Wortham Theater.

Tickets: 257-4530. Info: 236-0670 or www.ashevillelyric.org.

• FR (10/7) & SA (10/8), 8pm - Madama Butterfly.

Blue Ridge Orchestra Info: www.blueridgeorchestra.org or 650-0948.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-9:30pm - Open rehearsals of the Blue Ridge Orchestra will be held most Wednesdays at the Symphony Office in the Civic Center. Free. Call for confirmation.

• SU (10/9), 4pm - “Green Themes” will feature musical themes “recycled” from previous compositions including works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsiky and Beethoven.

Held at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church St. $15/$5 students. Info: www.blueridgeorchestra.org.

Diane Cluck and Ash Devine • SA (10/8), 8pm - Diane Cluck (folk) and Ash Devine (voice and clowning) will perform at Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St. Info: www. ashdevine.net.

• WE (10/12), 9pm - An additional performance will take place at Bo Bo Gallery, 22 Lexington Ave. Info: www. ashdevine.net.

Free Voice Lessons • TUESDAYS (through 10/11), 7:30-9pm - The Land of the Sky Chorus will offer free voice lessons for males 16 years and older. Held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Place. Info and registration: AshevilleBarbershop.com or (866) 290-7269.

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

Info: 233-3216.

Hendersonville Swing Band • SA (10/8), 3pm - The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville Concert Series presents the Hendersonville Swing Band. Held at 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville. $10 suggested donation. Info: 693-3157.

Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Info: 697-5884 or www.hendersonvillesymphony.org.

• SU (10/9), 3pm Ferocious Fiddling will feature violinist Lara St. John at Blue Ridge Community College’s Conference Hall. $30/$5 student.

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acclaimed Celtic violinist, will present a musical evening tracing the immigration of the Scots-Irish to Appalachia.

Held at Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, as part of the Mountain Spirit Concert Series. $15/$10 students.

Info: www.uuasheville.org or 299-4171.

Music at UNCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets and info: 232-5000.

• TH (10/6), 7:30pm - A contemporary music concert will feature student performers. $5/students free. Info: www.music.unca.edu or 251-6423.

Musicircus • FR (10/7), noon-1:30pm - Musicians of all genres and skill levels are invited to perform at Musicircus on the UNCA campus and in the greater Asheville area.

Info, registration and directions: bbutler@unca.edu or 350-8484.

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

Pan Harmonia • FR (10/7), 7:30pm Kate Steinbeck (flute) and Jacqueline Bartlett (harp).

Potluck begins at 6:30pm.

Held at a private home in Arden. $20. Reservations: office@pan-harmonia.

• SA (10/8), 12:30pm Interlude Sacred Music Hour will be performed at Temple Beth HaTephila, 43 North Liberty Street. Info: office@ pan-harmonia.

Ryan Cahill • FR (10/7), 9-11pm - Singer/songwriter Ryan Cahill will perform with djembe player Dave Athes at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall Street in downtown Asheville.

Free. Info: www.wallstreetcoffeehouse.webs.com.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SUNDAYS, 2-3pm - Billy Zanski will teach beginning African drumming. Drums provided or bring your own.

St. Matthias Musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church

in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 285-0033.

• SU (10/9), 3pm - Rich Willey Quartet (American standards).

Sunday in the Park Log Cabin Music Series • SU (10/9), 4-8pm - The KingPup Radio Show’s Sunday in the Park Log Cabin Music Series presents The South Carolina Broadcasters, Split Rail Bluegrass, The Pauls Creek Band and Phil and Gaye Johnson. Held at The Log Cabin, Harmon Field, Tryon.

Free. Info: aster@radioyur. com or 863-2860.

Theater This Monday • Creativity Workshop at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (pd.) For actors and nonactors, improvisational theater games and exercises to explore your creative potential. Instructor Marty Rader, formerly of NC School of the Arts. Asheville Community Theatre’s 35below (35 E Walnut Street). 254-2939, ext 21. stellaadler-asheville. com Montford Park Players • THURSDAYS (10/13) through SUNDAYS (10/23), 7:30pm - The Montford Park Players present Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s famous romance of feuding houses and star crossed lovers. Held at the Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway Street.

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

Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: www.ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• Through SU (10/9) - Guys and Dolls will be performed Fridays through Sundays.

See website for times.

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

Reservations: 884-2587.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS, (10/7) until (10/16) - Love Letters. $16/$12 students. See website for times.

Confetti • TH (10/6) through SA (10/8), 7pm & SU (10/9), 2:30pm - Confetti will be performed by North Buncombe High School students. Held at 890 Clarks Chapel Road, Weaverville. $10/$8 students.

Info: 645-4221.

Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective • TH (10/6) through SA (10/8), 7:30pm - Shotgun will be performed by Different Strokes! Performing Arts

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Collective at the BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. $15. Reservations recommended: differentstrokesavl@gmail.com or 490-1405.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: www. flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• WE (10/5) through SU (10/30) - Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story will be performed Wednesdays through Sundays. See website for times. $40.

Naked Girls Reading 4 • FR (10/7) & SA (10/8), 8pm - Anam Cara Theatre Co.’s fourth production of Naked Girls Reading, featuring readings about food.

Held at 203 Haywood Road in West Asheville. $10/$12.

Info: www.anamcaratheatre. com, 545.3861 or anamcaratc@gmail.com.

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

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/13) until (11/13) - Angels in America.

Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square. Info: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

• TH (10/13) & FR (10/14), 10am and noon - The Mainstage Young Audiences Series presents Yellow Brick Road. $7.

The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District.

Info: www.themagneticfield. com or 257-4003.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (10/8), 7:30pm - Shangri-La, by Lucia Del Vecchio, “a hilarious and moving look at the lives of senior citizens living in a retirement trailer park in Florida.”

• 1st FRIDAYS, 10pm “Magnetic Midnight.” Show up with an original script, skit, song, routine or performance piece (five minutes or less in length), act in or direct a piece by someone else or sit back and watch the “magical, mysterious monthly show” unfold.

Theater at WCU Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets and info: 2272479 or http://fapac.wcu.edu.

• WE (10/5) through SA (10/8) - I Hate Hamlet. See website for times. $15/$10 faculty, seniors and students/$7 in advance.

Comedy Comedy Open Mic • SATURDAYS, 8:30-11pm - A comedy open mic will be held at Wall Street Coffee House and Emporium, 62 Wall St., Asheville. Info: www.wallstreetcoffeehouse. webs.com

Film Film at Western Carolina University • TH (10/6), 5:15pm - Frantz Fanon: Black Skins, White Masks (1996) by Isaac Julien will be screened in the Bardo Arts Center. Info: 227-2479.

Film Screenings at WCU Held in the A.K. Hinds University Center. Info: 2272324.

• TU (10/11), 7:30pm - MARS, a romantic comedy about the first manned mission to Mars. Free.

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then • WE (10/5), 7pm - The Asheville Art Museum presents a screening of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, a film by Brent Green. A sixpiece band will provide musical accompaniment. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $12/$10 members. Info: nsokolove@ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

Craft in America • SU (10/9), 2pm - Catch a sneak preview of Craft in America’s next episode, “Family,” before Carol Sauvion’s lecture that evening. This episode explores the creative home environments and personal dynamics of four craft families.

Held at the Folk Art Center, MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Info: info@handmadeinamerica.org.

The Greenest Building • TH (10/13), 7pm - The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County will present a screening of The Greenest Building at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info: www.psabc.org.

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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 Birth Dancing (pd.) Learn the ancient technique of dancing for pregnancy, labor and recovery.

Empower yourself to a gentler, quicker birth. Thursdays 6-7pm, Coop Movement & Learning Center, call Michelle 664-9564 http://yellowsunfarm.blogspot.com/p/birthdancing.html Capoeira Angola (pd.) An Afro-Brazilian cultural art, combines dance, music, and martial arts.

• Adult and kids classes offered, see website for schedule. Beginners welcome Mondays, Saturdays.

• Location: 257 Short Coxe. http://www.capoeiraasheville.org/ Studio Zahiya (pd.) Monday, 6-7 Yoga • 7:30-9 Bellydance • Tuesday 9-10am Hip Hop Workout • Groove Dance • 6-7pm Beginner Bellydance, • 7-8pm Intermediate Bellydance • Wednesday 6-7 Pilates, • 7:30-9 Bellydance, • Thursday 9-10am Bellydance, • 67pm Bollywood, • 8-9pm Hip Hop, • Friday 10-11am Bhangra Workout. • $12 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www. studiozahiya.com Jazzy Showgirl Dance Series • TUESDAYS through (10/11), 7:30-8:30pm - This five-week dance series will teach the basics of jazzy showgirl and burlesque, including how to strut, shimmy and chair dance.

Participants will also learn a full routine and have a chance to perform it. Held at Cheshire Fitness Club, 25 Jane Jacobs Road in Black Mountain. $13 per session/$60 for entire series.

Info and registration: www. holisticwithhumor.com/dancing.

Auditions & Call to Artists Auditions for Understanding Everything All at Once • SA (10/8) & SU (10/9) Workshop-style auditions for Understanding Everything All at Once, Anam Cara Theatre Co.’s next production. Come in movement clothes and bring a headshot if possible.

Show runs Nov. 11-13, 1819. RSVP: 545.3861 or email anamcaratc@gmail.com.

Info: www.anamcaratheatre. com.

City of 1000 Easels • Through FR (10/7) - Submissions for City of 1000 Easels, a walking tour of visual artists at work in outdoor locations, will be accepted through Oct. 7.

Info: www.ashevillearts.com.

Eco Arts Awards • WE (11/30) - The Eco Arts Awards will accept songs, short films, photography, poetry, fine and functional art on the theme of ecology through Nov. 30. $30/$25 before Sept. 30. Info: www. ecoartsawards.com.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of arts-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts. org.

• Through SA (11/5) Applications for the annual Small Works Show will be accepted through Nov. 5. See website for application.

NCCALL Inc. A WNC nonprofit dedicated to helping persons living with autism. Info: www.nccall.org.

• Through MO (10/31) Submissions will be accepted for NCCALL’s annual online exhibit through Oct. 31.

Artists must be on the Autism spectrum and reside in N.C. Info: www.nccall.org.

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

• Through MO (11/7) Submissions for ArtMart will be accepted through Nov. 7.

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consciousparty What: Birdies for Bowen, a fundraiser for the Asheville Fire Department Where: High Vista Country Club, 88 Country Club Road, Mills River When: Sunday, Oct. 9, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Info and reservations: 891-1986 ext. 103 or natalie@highvistagolf.com Why: The outpouring of support for fallen Asheville firefighter Jeff Bowen has spread throughout Western North Carolina for months now. When he was killed in the line of duty in July, several fundraisers were organized to assist his family. The support continues this weekend at Birdies for Bowen, an afternoon of golf to raise money for the Asheville Fire Department and its plans to purchase specialized equipment in the future.

Despite the solemn circumstances, Birdies for Bowen will be a chance for local firefighters, police officers and EMS workers to play golf for an important cause, and have fun doing it. The

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public is invited, too ($5 of each green fee will be donated to the fire department). After 18 holes, The “Bowen Burger,” topped with a heaping portion of bacon and cheese, will be served.

Fifty percent of the proceeds from burger sales will go directly to the firefighters’ fund.

If golf isn’t your thing, there will be kids’ activities starting at noon and fire trucks and emergency equipment on display. A raffle will be announced at 5 p.m., but contestants need not be present to win. Whether you’ve attended benefits for Capt. Jeff Bowen in the past, or are looking for an opportunity to give again, join the High Vista Country Club in celebrating his life while supporting the fire department.

Photo: Andy Gleydura, High Vista Country Club president (left) and Edward Walsh (right).

benefitscalendar calEndaR FoR octobER 5 - 13, 2011 2011 Forget me not Jam • this Saturday • October 8 (pd.) To benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

4pm-9pm at Moe’s Original BBQ Asheville, 4 Sweeten Creek Road. Featuring live music

by Peace Jones, great door prizes by local businesses, $2 beer specials and fantastic food. A great time for a great cause!

Sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care, Four Seasons Hospice Care and Moe’s Original BBQ. 10^10 Blow Out • SA (10/8), 7:30pm-12am -Visual, auditory and kinesthetic performances will explore the power of design. Proceeds enefit 10^10. Held at Pink Dog Creative, 342 Depot St. Info: www.10to10.org.

• MO (10/10), 10:10pm - An additional performance will be held at The French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave. Info: www.10to10.org.

All Souls Counseling Center Located at 35 Arlington St., Asheville. Info: 259-6933.

• TH (10/6), 5:30-9pm - Dinner, drinks and “pop-psychotrivia” will benefit All Souls Counseling Center and its mental health services for the uninsured. Held at The Pavilion at the Crest Center, 22 Celebration Place. $75. Info: www.allsoulscounseling. com.

Arts in the garden • SU (10/9), 4-6:30pm - Arts in the Garden will include music, food, wine and a silent auction to benefit Asheville Bravo Concerts.

Held at B.B. Barns Garden Center, 3377 Sweeten Creek Road, Arden. $25. Info: www.ashevillebravoconcerts.org.

Asheville Symphony Orchestra All concerts are held at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the Asheville Civic Center.

Tickets & info: 254-7046 or www.ashevillesymphony.org.

• SA (10/8), 6pm - Dinner in the Depot will recreate a dining car dinner to benefit the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Held at Southern Railway Depot, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville. $50. Info: www.ashevillesymphony.org.

Benefit Concert for “the Learning Center” • FR (10/7), 7:30 - Enjoy the sounds of local folk musicians while supporting The Learning Center, a school that “challenges the boundaries of education and refocuses on what our children need to learn.” Held at Creatures Cafe, 81 Patton Ave. in downtown Asheville. Info: www.creaturescafe.com.

Butoh Dance Workshop • SA (10/8), 1-4pm - “Ghosts of the South” butoh dance workshop with Julie Becton Gillum. Held in collaboration with Valeria Watson-Doost’s art opening for NiceNasty at Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot St. Beginners welcome. Proceeds benefit Zamani Refuge.

Info: 683-1377.

Design Show House • Through SU (10/9) - Habitat for Humanity of Henderson County presents its Design Show House, featuring homes decorated with merchandise from Habitat’s

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re-stores. Sales benefit Habitat’s building projects. $10. Info, times and directions: 696-9524. grassroots Revival potluck • SU (10/9), 4-7pm - Bountiful Cities, Asheville’s Urban Agriculture and Food Security organization, will host the Grassroots Revival potluck at the Pearson Drive Community Garden in Montford.

Sponsored by Asheville YWCA, Our VOICE, Green Opportunities, Asheville Prison Books, Dogwood Alliance, Asheville Green Drinks, Coalition de Organizationes Latino-Americano, Asheville Free School, Asheville Grown Business Alliance, Slow Food Asheville/FEAST, Carolina Ground, Sassafras Health Collective, Firestorm Books and Café, French Broad Food Cooperative, and the Shiloh Community Association. Bring a dish to share, information about your community project and a plate, cup and utensils. Info: www.bountifulcitiesproject.org.

Julie Chalpan • FR (10/7), 2-4pm & SA (10/8), 11am1pm - Julie Chalpan will read from her book, Titan’s Tales and Other Dog Adoption Love Stories, to benefit the Spay and Neuter Assistance Program at Henderson County Animal Services. Held at 828 Stoney Mountain Road, Hendersonville. Info: 6974723.

LeAF Amber Ale • TH (10/13), 6pm - Pisgah Brewing Company will release its LEAF Amber Ale to

benefit LEAF in Schools and Streets at the Thirsty Monk. Info: www.theleaf.org. mills River presbyterian Church Located at 10 Presbyterian Church Road in Mills River. Info: 891-7101.

• Through MO (10/31) - Mills River Presbyterian Church will collect gently-used men’s, women’s and children’s sweaters and sweatshirts to benefit Interfaith Assistance Ministry. pan Harmonia • SU (10/9), 3pm - Autumn Odyssey, with live music and tango, will benefit Jewish Family Services of WNC. Held at Beaverdam Run Clubhouse, 1 Stony Ridge, Asheville. $18. Reservations required by October 5. alison@jcc-asheville.org or 253-0701. pink in the park 5K • SA (10/8), 10:30am - “Pink in the Park” 5K will benefit Beauty Through Cancer and the Asheville Breast Center. Held in Biltmore Park, Exit 37 off I-26. Registration begins at 9am. $25. Info: www.beautythroughcancer.org.

Step Out and Shop • TH (10/6), 5-8pm - Step Out and Shop, a benefit for Diana Wortham Theatre, will feature 20 percent off Diamond Brand Outdoors products, live music, prizes and BBQ. Held at 2623 Hendersonville Road, Arden. $5 for dinner. Info: www.diamondbrand.com., Swbones vs. Jawbones Basketball game

• TH (10/13), 5:30-9pm - Hend at the UNCA Justice Center. Tip off at 7pm. VIP reception, tailgate party, auction and kids zone open at 5:30pm. Proceeds benefit programs of the Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation and Pisgah Legal Services. Info: kristina@mywcms.org.

Walk a mile in Her Shoes • FR (10/7), 6pm - Walk a Mile in Her Shoes will benefit Mainstay. Registration and shoe pickup begins at 5pm at The Purple Ribbon Thrift Store located at 133 5th Ave W., Hendersonville. Info: 693-3840.

Wine tasting to Support Black mountain Friends of the Library • WE (10/12), 5-8pm - Merry Wine Market, 108 W State St., Black Mountain, will host a wine tasting/book donation to support Friends of the Library’s book sale, to be held Oct. 15-16. Free. Book donations appreciated. Bring 10 or more books and receive 10 percent off purchases. Info: www.themerrywinemarket.com.

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parenting from the edge by Anne Fitten Glenn

How Facebook should interface with kids I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook.

I’ve considered deleting my account on several occasions because, believe it or not, I’m a pretty private person. Though I sometimes find it fascinating to see what people I knew 20 years ago are doing now. Oftentimes, they were more interesting in my imagination than they are in reality (I’m not talking about you, of course).

That said, now I’m stuck with Facebook as long as my daughter has a Facebook page.

I made her wait until she turned 13 to set one up — because Facebook requires kids to be that age before they have a page. Despite this, according to a Consumer Reports estimate, 12.5 million Facebookers are under the age of 13 (and that was in May 2011 — there are probably many more now). Thus, millions of kids have lied about their ages to partake of this social media platform (or their parents have done so for them).

I don’t really have a problem with lying about age — I did it as a teen in order to buy beer and get into clubs — though I was only occasionally successful. On Facebook, there are no suspicious sales clerks or bouncers. There’s only a spot where you type in the year of your birth. And it’s easy to put whatever date you desire in that

box.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg created some controversy last spring when he publicly said that Facebook might explore how to let kids younger than 13 on the site. This, despite the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which supposedly keeps personal information from being gathered online from kids younger than 13 without parental consent. The idea is that a parent would need to send a signature or credit card verification in order for their kids to use sites that collect user information. So, Facebook is supposedly in compliance even if they aren’t.

Because it’s so easy to say you’re 13 when you’re not, right?

Given this reality, it would seem to make sense for Facebook to set up a legitimate process for parents to sign kids up for the site with extra restrictions and privacy safeguards for youngsters. Then, I suppose the challenge would be in keeping the older folks who lie about their age for nefarious purposes out of the kids’ area.

Consumer Reports says that 5 million of the 12.5 million underage Facebook users are actually less than 10 years old. Clearly, kids are becoming computer and social-media savvy at younger and younger ages.

And there should be restrictions put on them, not just by parents, but by the companies that oversee the sites.

Here are some of my suggestions for Facebook and other social-media sites: 1. Require proper spelling and punctuation.

Any use of “r” as “are” or “u” as “you” should be flagged and deleted. This is not the 16th century — multiple spelling variations of words are no longer the norm. I mean, how are our kids ever going to learn how to play Scrabble?

2. The same goes for multiple exclamation points. And LOLspeak and emoticons. If we’re concerned about our kids’ educations, we should make them write in complete sentences and learn to express their feelings using actual descriptive words, right?

3. On a more serious note, figure out a way that kids can’t put their addresses, phone num-

bers and location information online.

4. Make it easy for parents to monitor what their kids are doing on FB. Perhaps when parents sign kids up, the company asks parents to auto-friend their kid with several responsible adults, such as themselves, the kid’s grandparents, and their fun uncle, who may not actually be a responsible adult but who has been in trouble enough to recognize warning signs.

So Facebook, you have your work cut out for you if you truly want to take on letting all those underage children come to Jesus and tell the truth about their ages.

But remember, childhood is not a democracy.

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

parentingcalendar Calendar for October 5 - 13, 2011 ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities • Natural Solution (pd.) Free talk about how the brain processes information, and how the problems can be permanently corrected in adults and children. • Tuesday, October 11, 6:30pm, Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville, NC or • Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30pm, AB Tech Enka Campus, Room 228, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler, NC • RSVP: Wes@wesbeach.com Baby and Toddler Sample Sale! (pd.) i play.® and green sprouts® outerwear, layette, swimwear, bottles, bibs, toys, and more! Fri & Sat, October 14-15. 8am-3pm. 2000 Riverside Dr. # 9 Asheville, NC. Located in the Riverside Business Park, Woodfin.

Parenting Classes • WEDNESDAYS through (11/23), 9-11am - Love and Logic parenting class will be held at the Children First/CIS Family Resource Center at Emma, 37 Brickyard Road. $10 includes workbook. Info: lisab@childrenfirstbc.org or 252-4810.

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Risky Business Models: (1) Orlando-area cosmetic surgeon Jeffrey Hartog inaugurated Liquid Gold, a storehouse for patients’ frozen liposuctioned fat, charging $900 to retain a coffee-cupsized portion and $200 per year storage (in case the fat is needed later, as for smoothing facial wrinkles). A Massachusetts General Hospital physician shook his head, telling the Orlando Sentinel, “Frozen fat doesn’t hold up as well as fresh fat.”

(2) In September, German biochemist Peer Bork told the journal Nature that he and his partners built the nonprofit MyMicrobes.com social network so people with similar stomach bacteria can commiserate over diet and gastrointestinal woes.

The $2,100 sign-up fee includes a full gut-bacteria sequencing.

The continuing crisis • Wild Things: Motorist Clyde White of Corbin, Ky., was charged with attempted murder in August after police finally collared him following a road-rage chase at speeds exceeding 100 mph.

White, 78, had repeatedly rammed a vehicle containing his brother (82) and sister (83).

• According to a recent report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics, there are 297,000 households in the country in which no adult has ever held any kind of job. Thus, there may be 700,000 individuals who’ve never developed the “habit of work,” having instead grown accustomed to the country’s generous welfare payments. (According to the Daily Mail, one such couple, in their late 30s, “earns” (together with their children) the equivalent of almost $1,100 per week in income support and disability payments.)

• Chicago massage therapist Liudmyla Ksenych, testifying for the prosecution in an August sextrafficking trial, noticed that the defense lawyer, Douglas Rathe, was a former client of hers. The judge immediately declared a mistrial. Rathe later said he visited Ksenych four times in 2009 but that “nothing inappropriate” happened.

rustling. One victim said Curry had tried to be a smooth-talking, handshake-dealing cattle seller, but “He wasn’t capable.” (2) In Jackson, Minn., in March, Andrew Espey was sentenced to 90 days in jail for re-roofing his house without first removing the old shingles. “A drunk can drive down the highway and get a lot less [of a sentence],” Espey complained.

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• Larry Stone, jailed on property crimes in Tavares, Fla., because he couldn’t make the $1,250 bail, was released in July after posting bail with $1,300 from the telephone company. Stone discovered a management error that credited his jail account $46 for every international call he pretended to make. (A day later, the company figured out the problem and recovered all the payouts made to Stone and 250 other prisoners. Stone’s bond was revoked, and he was returned to the lockup.)

• “Sorry, Honey: I Was Aiming at the Dog”: (1) Betty Walker, allegedly firing at the pit bull she saw lunging at some children, hit the dog with one shot and her husband, 53, with a second shot, killing him (Jackson, Miss., July). (2) Brent Bader, allegedly firing at the family dog, instead hit his wife once in the head, killing her (Twin Peaks, Calif., February). (3) Samuel Campos, 46, allegedly firing to put away the family Chihuahua after having inadvertently wounded it the day before, instead hit his girlfriend, 41, killing her (Willits, Calif., March).

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days and “graduation” (from or to kindergarten) with spectacular events costing $30,000 or more.

According to an August ABC News report, typical features include a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, a dunking booth, animal rides and a cotton candy machine, as well as the obligatory live music and limo or horseback (for grand entrances).

Bright ideas Strategies: (1) Alicia Bouchard, 41, was arrested in Jackson County, Fla., in August, accused of hatching a plot with her husband to impregnate a 12year-old girl for the purpose of producing a baby that would eventually earn an additional welfare check. (2) In August, Maeda Corp., a Japanese construction firm, ordered its 2,700 employees to adopt standard hairstyles (a “bob” for women and a routine short-back-and-sides cut for men).

Maeda said it was responding to the government’s plea to reduce energy usage (less water, less hairdryer time).

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People different from us (1) Travis Keen, 28, was arrested in Ouachita Parish, La., in August and charged with indecent exposure while driving around the parking lot at a Walmart. According to police, Keen explained that “When he comes to Walmart, he gets aroused.”

(2) Also in August, police in Idaho Falls, Idaho, told William Falkingham, 34, to stop wearing his black bunny-rabbit suit in public. A resident complained that his son had been frightened and that others were “greatly disturbed,” and besides, Falkingham sometimes wore a tutu with the outfit.

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Redneck chronicles (1) Lon Groves, 40, was arrested in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., in July after allegedly holding a handgun to his wife’s head during an argument over which was the wife’s favorite granddaughter. (2) Pastor Daryl Riley of the New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Ala., was tasered, allegedly by the church’s music minister, whom Riley had just fired. That had led another parishioner to pull a knife and begin stabbing wildly (said the music minister’s mother, “He done cut [me] before anything started.”)

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Leisa Wilson still remembers when her blond hair would fall out in chunks on the bathroom floor each morning, followed by a stream of her tears. And when she let her eyes wander down past her face, she’d see the rise of her right breast, but not her left — she’d had a mastectomy to excise a 1.1 centimeter tumor.

That was three years ago, but Wilson hasn’t forgotten how it feels to have your face look familiar while the rest of your body seems like a stranger’s.

“Your breast is gone on that side: There’s a terrible scar there. You have no hair, you lose your eyebrows, you lose your eyelashes. I even lost some of my fingernails,” Wilson recalls. “You just don’t feel attractive. You know it’s temporary, but I guess with women, you feel like you look hideous.”

Roughly one in eight American women will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime, according to the National Cancer Institute. And about 82 percent of them experience changes in their appearance due to chemotherapy and radiation treatments, American Cancer Society statistics show.

A close shave To prepare for those changes, Wilson had her blond locks cut progressively shorter during the run-up to chemotherapy. But once her hair began falling out, she resorted to more drastic measures.

“I got tired of crying in front of the mirror every morning,” she explains. “So one day I called my son and let him and my husband shave my head.

My husband shaved one side and my son shaved the other, and that really helped lift this huge stress off my shoulders.”

Despite the strong moral support from her family, however, Wilson says she needed something else to help her feel more like the woman she was before being diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn’t want to have to create more code words so friends could alert her when something was amiss (such as “mistletoe” for when her wig shifted while she was Christmas shopping). She didn’t want to wear a hat and have women come up and

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Think pink: A few weeks after her final round of chemotherapy, breast-cancer survivor Leisa Wilson got a pink ribbon tattooed on her forearm with the date of her diagnosis and the word hope. “I tell everybody this is hope that it will never come back and that none of your friends will get it,” she says. Photo by Caitlin Byrd

tell her they knew what she was going through.

She just wanted to get a bit of confidence and balance back into her life via something she could control: her appearance.

So Wilson signed up for the American Cancer Society’s “Look Good…Feel Better” workshop, which teaches women with cancer special makeup and style tips for use during treatment. There she met Earleen Bennett, who founded Beauty Through Cancer nearly three years ago. Whether it’s giving a woman a free wig or showing her how to wrap a headscarf, Bennett says her goal is to make every woman feel complete — and beautiful. But Bennett offers more than free wigs to the women who walk through her doors.

As a licensed permanent-makeup artist, she provides free areola-pigmentation tattoos to women who’ve had breast-reconstruction surgery due to cancer. The reconstructed breasts have no nipples, leaving some women feeling like Barbie dolls, notes Bennett; the tattoos make them look more natural.

“A woman gets out of the shower, and her breasts are the first thing she sees: She looks down, and they’re there,” Bennett explains. “You watch them grow when you’re a child, and you nurse your children with them when you’re a mother.

They are part of you, and to watch them disappear off your body changes you.”

Women on a journey The Asheville-based nonprofit also hosts a monthly support group, because the impact of cancer transcends the purely physical. “It affects your self-esteem, your self-worth, your relationships with your husband if you are married, your partner, whatever,” she says.

For Wilson, the discomfort with her own body proved more painful than any surgery. “As far as having the mastectomy done and that pain, it wasn’t a big deal to me. But it was afterwards, and having to look at myself, that’s when it hurt.

I didn’t even want my husband to see me,” she recalls.

Bennett says she hears this a lot. “Doctors tend to tell women, ‘You’re going to get through this: Your hair will grow back; your eyebrows will grow back. The treatment is doing this to you, but that means it’s working.’ But that doesn’t help you when you’re standing in front of the mirror,” she explains. “Living in the moment is what people do with cancer: It’s all they have. So when they look in the mirror and who they see looking back at them isn’t them, it’s a huge thing.”

Those moments do pass, however, notes Bennett. “You’re not cancer: You’re a woman going through a journey.”

A few weeks after finishing her last round of chemotherapy, Wilson decided to honor that journey with a special tattoo on her forearm. Beneath a pink ribbon is the date she was diagnosed with breast cancer; above it is a single word: “hope.”

“I tell everybody, ‘This is hope that it will never come back and that none of your friends will get it,’” Wilson reveals. “This is hope for a cure that can hopefully figure out why it’s happening, and maybe do something to keep it from happening.” X UNCA senior Caitlin Byrd is new-media editor for The Blue Banner, the campus paper.

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Are You Using External Solutions to Feel Better and it’s not working? (pd.) We live in a culture that promotes using food, alcohol/other drugs, busy-busy, overthinking, perfectionism, overspending/shopping and technology to feel better, be smarter, be more attractive. Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a structured program that addresses the Root Cause of the drive to go to excess and mood disturbances. Overeating sugary, fatty foods, overuse/misuse of alcohol/other drugs, out of control debt, shopping or video games, depression, anxiety are all clues of a Brain State Out of Balance. It’s not you! It’s your Wiring! Selfjudgment only fuels the drive to want to find relief. You’re human! However, what you may be using to feel pleasure, numb out, and/or comfort and soothe yourself may be part of the misery! • EBT is for people who are tired of trying to force themselves to change and want to live a life of health, freedom and sustainable true, grounded joy.

Participants learn specific mindfulness skills to create self compassion. Over time the drive to go to excess naturally fades. • Attend a Free overview: Monday morning, October 10: 10-11:30am or Wednesday evening, October 12, 6:30-8pm to learn How the EBT program works and benefits for you. Call Denise Kelley, MA, LPC at 231-2107 or email: empowering.solutions@yahoo.com. Please put EBT in subject line.

Lighten Up! Weight Reduction thru your Akashic Records (pd.) Rewrite the Story of Your Body! Group Session $25/ pp. 60 Biltmore Avenue, 2nd Floor. Dates: October 11th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • October 18th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • October 25th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, www.KellySJones. net/Events The REAL Center (pd.) Offers life-changing skills including Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Radical Honesty, and Somatic Awareness. Learn to stay centered in any situation, be flexible without being submissive, and more. $120/8-session class in Asheville with Steve Torma, 828-254-5613. http://www.theREALcenter.org 11th Annual N.C. Lupus Summit • SA (10/8), 9am-2:45pm - The Lupus Foundation of America presents its annual educational summit about this immune disorder. $15/Scholarships available upon request. Info and registration: http://bit.ly/qnCnBZ. Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• TH (10/6), 8am-6pm & FR (10/7), 8am-4pm - Flu vaccine. $25.

• MONDAYS through (11/28), 6-8:30pm - A 12-week class for caregivers and family members of those with mental illness. Info: 1-888-955-NAMI. • TH (10/13), 3-4:30pm - A shoulder pain seminar will discuss causes and treatments.

How to Choose a Multivitamin • WE (10/12), 6-7:30pm - “What’s In The Bottle: How to Choose a Quality Multivitamin and Why You Should” will be offered at Mission Hospital’s Owen Heart Center Theater, Mission Hospital Heart Tower Building, 509 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: www.Missionhospitals.org/whole.

Integrative Health Care • WE (10/5), 6-7:30pm - “Mind, Body, Spirit Connection: Integrative Health Care” will be presented at the Owen Heart Center Theater, Mission Hospital Heart Tower Building, 509 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: www.missionhospitals.org/whole.

Lung Health Lecture • WE (10/5), 7-9pm - “A Breath of Fresh Air: Keeping Lungs Healthy” will be presented by Michael Rossoff at the Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte St. $10.

Info: www.MichaelRossoff.com.

Non-surgical Info Session

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon & 1st THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - A non-surgical info session will be held at Mission Weight Management Center, 2 Medical Park Drive, Suite 102 in Asheville. Info: www.missionmd.org/ weightmanagement or 213-4100.

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression • TH (10/6), 5:30-6:15pm - A Q&A session about nonsurgical spinal decompression. Free, but $25 donation for Food for Fairview suggested. Held at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Info: 628-7800.

Pink Yoga • THURSDAYS through (10/27), 8:30am - Free “pink yoga” will be offered for breast cancer survivors at Happy Body, 1378 Hendersonville Road. Info: www.ashevillehappybody.com or 277-5741.

Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/first aid for infants, children and adults; babysitter training; pet first aid; bloodborne pathogens; swimming and water safety; and lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road. To register call 258-3888, ext. 221. Info: www.redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below.

Appointment and ID required.

• WE (10/5), 7:30am-12:30pm & TH (10/6), 2-7pm - Beauty Through Cancer blood drive will be held at 100 Edgewood Road. Info: 258-3888.

Reduced Gym Fee for Breast Cancer Awareness Month • Through (10/31) - The joining fee for Curves gym will be waved with proof of mammogram or a $25 donation to breast cancer research. Offered at 99 Edgewood Road in Asheville, 16 H Regent Park Blvd. in Asheville, 142 Joel Wright Drive in Hendersonville and 2270 Hendersonville Road in Arden. Info: www.curves.com.

Science-Based Nutrition • TH (10/13), 5:30-6:30pm - A science-based nutrition seminar will be held at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 1185-F Charlotte Highway, Fairview. Free, but reservations required. 628-7800.

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

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

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

• MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: 4745120.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - A women’s meeting will be held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. 7pm - Al-Anon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome.

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

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

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

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

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

—- 7pm - “One Day at a Time,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666.

Eating Disorder Family Support Group • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10-11:30am - A support group for family members of individuals struggling with eating disorders will be held at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. in Asheville. Info: 337 4685.

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

GriefShare GriefShare features nationally recognized experts in grief-and-recovery support and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road, Asheville. Info: 253-7301 or michael.lee@calvaryasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - GriefShare group meeting.

Magnetic Minds • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm-9pm - A meeting of Magnetic Minds, the local chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, provides support, information and advocacy for those with mood disorders. Friends and family welcome. Held at 1314F Patton Ave. Info: 318-9179.

Mission Weight Management Surgical Support Group • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm & 4th FRIDAYS, 10-11:30am - Weight Management Surgical Support Group will meet at Mission Weight Management Center, 2 Medical Park Drive, Suite 102, Asheville. Info: www.missionmd.org/weightmanagement or 828-213-4100.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group A Christian-based, 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with lifecontrolling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos.spc-asheville.org or 575-2003.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - A support group for men will meet.

Overeaters Anonymous

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

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

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

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks and Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 6690986.

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

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

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

S-Anon • WENESDAYS - S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. Meetings held weekly in the WNC area. Call confidential voicemail or email for information: 258-5117 or wncsanon@gmail. com.

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 681-9250 or e-mail saasheville@gmail.com. Info: www. orgsites.com/nc/saasheville SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Do you want to stop living out a destructive pattern of sex and love addiction over which you are personally powerless? This 12-step-based recovery program meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www. slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

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A “Taste of Local” at Ingles Leah McGrath, RD, LDN Corporate Dietitian, Ingles Markets

For some the idea of a supermarket supporting local seems like a contradiction in terms. Many only equate local produce and vendors with tailgate or farmers markets; but look around you when you’re in Ingles... you may be surprised at how much is local.

Since the founding of Ingles Markets in 1963 by Mr. Ingle; Ingles has always bought from local farms. Nantahala sausage... Hollar & Greene cabbage... C.L.Henderson Apples... local dairy farms... and the list goes on and on. Today Ingles continues these relationships and has forged even more with new vendors.

Come to our “Taste of Local” event at the Ingles on Tunnel Road, October 13th from 3-6pm and you’ll see and be able to sample: - Imladris Farms from Fairview who supply us with jams that we sell in our Produce department.

- City Bakery of Asheville who supplies several Asheville area Ingles with bread - Carolina Bison of Leicester - you can find their ground meat in our Frozen Meat section.

- New Sprout Farms - they grow their organic produce just 300 yards from our Black Mountain warehouse and supply a number of our WNC area stores.

- MILKCO - our own milk processing plant in West Asheville that buys milk from 225 local dairy farms within 125 miles of Asheville.

Additionally, Chef Adam Hayes of the Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village will have a cooking demonstration using these local ingredients and Empire Distributors will offer samples of both North Carolina and other wines to compliment the dish.

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The toast — and taste — of Asheville Asheville Independent Restaurants recently announced details of this year’s Taste of Asheville, the group’s biggest fundraising event. Taste will be held on Thursday Nov. 17, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at The Venue, 21 North Market St. in downtown Asheville. The Venue seems a perfect setting for the event, with enough elbow room to accommodate the crowds that attend Taste each year. Last year, more than 450 people lined up on the Market Street sidewalks to get in — and food and wine flowed throughout the evening.

This year, nearly 40 restaurants will offer their food along with wine tastings from local distributors and beer from our growing local brewery scene.

Participating restaurants include: Avenue M, Blue Ridge Dining Room, Blue Water Seafood, Boca, Bouchon, Chai Pani, Chef Mo’s, Chelsea’s Tea Room, City Bakery, Corner Kitchen, Crêperie Bouchon, Cúrate Tapas Bar, Dining Innovations, Fiore’s Ristorante Toscana, Frankie Bones, French Broad Chocolate Lounge, Green Sage, HomeGrown, Horizons, Jack of Hearts, Jack of the Wood, Laughing Seed, Lexington Avenue Brewery, The Lobster Trap, Luella’s Bar-B-Que, Mamacita’s, The Market Place, Mela, Neo Cantina, Olive or Twist, Pack’s Tavern, Pomodoros, The Sunset Terrace, Tupelo Honey Café, Ultimate Ice Cream Company, Vincenzo’s and Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian.

A portion of the proceeds from the evening will benefit AIR’s “Chefs of Tomorrow” scholarship, which supports future chefs enrolled in A-B Tech’s acclaimed culinary program. Tickets for Taste are $70 a piece, or $125 for a pair, and are now on sale. For details and more information, visit AIR’s website at airasheville.org or call 338-9839.

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Lunch Buffet $8.99 All ABC Permits Where’s the beef? Or the pastrami for that matter? Served with Kosher pickles at Pack Square on Sunday, Oct. 16. Photo courtesy of The HardLox Festival

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Ready for your schmear? The hardlox festival, Asheville’s Jewish foodand-heritage celebration, takes place at Pack Square on Sunday, Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

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The event, in its ninth year, features Israeli dancing, crafts, a kids’ zone — and lots of traditional Jewish food.

Sure, lox will make an appearance, as the festival’s name suggests. But there’s much more to the food offerings than cured salmon, says HardLox organizer Marty Gillen.

“Basically, we set up a 200-foot-long Jewish delicatessen in Pack Square,” says Gillen. “Each booth represents a different kind of food that Jewish people have eaten over time.”

To that end, says Gillen, a sandwich booth will turn out authentic pastrami or corned beef on Jewish rye. “We also have a booth that will serve noodle kugel, which is a traditional Eastern European dish, and that booth also sells cheese blintzes,” he says.

An entire booth dedicated to potatoes will offer knishes and latkes, says Gillen. A bakery will have fresh, hot loaves of rye and challah available, as well as rugelach, mandelbrot, black and white cookies — “all of the traditional Jewish baked goods,” says Gillen. “And, of course, we’ll have Kosher hot dogs and Kosher pickles — quite an assortment of foods, plus some things that are more Middle Eastern, like hummus and falafel.” Hungry yet?

Gillen says that the HardLox Festival is the largest of its kind in WNC, where an estimated 5,000 Jewish people reside — 4,000 of them in the Asheville area, according to Gillen. “People say this is the only day of the year that you can get real Jewish food in Asheville. Everybody comes down to get the food that they used to get in New York and Miami, because there’s just no Jewish restaurants here in Asheville, and we try to replicate that.”

And with “real Jewish deli” placing fourth in our 2011 Best of WNC readers’ poll for “restaurant still needed in Asheville,” we know at least a few of you who will be headed downtown to get your HardLox fix.

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On Wednesday, Oct. 5, join the Weinhaus at South Asheville’s Chef Mo’s for a five-course wine dinner in the private dining room. Chef Mo’s is located at 900 Hendersonville Road in Suite 201. Cost for the event is $65, dinner begins at 7 p.m. Call the Weinhaus at 254-6453 for reservations and more details.

Not enough wine for you? On Thursday, Oct. 6, join The Wine studio of Asheville for Wine 101, a crash course in some of the major varieties of the world. Six tastes for just $10, 7-9 p.m. The Wine Studio is located at 169 Charlotte St. Registration and more information at winestudioasheville.com.

Prefer beer? Asheville’s Oktoberfest takes over Wall Street in downtown Asheville on Saturday, Oct. 8. More about that in Brews News, or check the event’s Facebook page.

Or maybe you’d prefer altruism and barbecue to street drinking? Try the Forget-Me-Not Jam (also on Oct. 8), a benefit for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, at Moe’s Original Bar-B-Que on 4 Sweeten Creek Road.

The event is from 4 until 9 p.m., and more information can be found on the Forget-Me-Not Jam Facebook page.

On Wednesday, Oct. 12, vinsite wine shop and Table collaborate to bring you a tasting and dinner featuring Rosenthal Wine Merchant selections. A reception and wine tasting will be held at Vinsite from 5 until 6 p.m. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at Table. $65 per person. Vinsite is located at 64 Broadway St. and Table is located at 48 College St. Reservations can be made by calling Table at 254-8980 or Vinsite at 252-4545.

On Thursday, Oct. 13, get a “Taste of Local” at Ingles on Tunnel Road, featuring local vendors and farmers whose products are sold at Ingles, as well as a cooking demo from chef Adam Hayes of the Red stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel. 3 until 6 p.m.

Also, Asheville’s (somewhat) underground supper club, the Blind pig, just announced two events: The first, “An Offal Experience,” will take place on Nov. 4. The featured chefs are Matthew Dawes, Anthony Gray and Jeremy Hardcastle. The menu will revolve around offal — cockscombs, tongue, etc.

The second, “Appalachia Avant-Garde,” features the “cuisine of yesteryear,” cooked by chef William Dissen (The Market Place) and crew, and will take place on Dec. 4. Yes, this is far in advance, but with only 50-60 seats sold, tickets go fast.

Reservations are required for both events, and further details are provided upon the purchase of a ticket. Dinner locations are kept secret until the last minute, so attendees must be prepared to be somewhat spontaneous.

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Munich-based beer lovers have celebrated Oktoberfest for just over two centuries. The brewcentric festival has evolved into a multi-week smorgasbord of hearty German food and drink attended by millions. The fest is emulated by cities around the world, especially those with a stout brewing culture — and Asheville is no exception.

In my opinion, Oktoberfest is one of Germany’s biggest gifts to the rest of the world (along with the Christmas tree).

Asheville’s first crack at the vaunted German tradition took place in 2009. This year’s festival, organized by the Asheville Downtown Association, takes over Wall Street on Saturday, Oct. 8. While it’s no million-man-strong event, Asheville’s Oktoberfest is likely to attract nearly 2,000, despite its relative youth. Plenty of dirndl- and lederhosen-clad folks will pack the streets to hoist their mugs to the bellowing of accordions, take part in a multitude of Oktoberfest-themed games and eat sausages and other festival-appropriate fare.

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German attire requested: A festival-wide costume contest will be held again at this year’s Oktoberfest. Wear your lederhosen and dirndls and you could win tickets to see Anthony Bourdain at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Nov. 5. Photo by Anne Fitten Glenn German party without the brew. Six Asheville breweries will offer their wares this year: Asheville Brewing Company, Craggie Brewing, French Broad Brewing Company, Green Man Brewery and Highland Brewing. Special Oktoberfest brews include The Fall Guy, a new entry from Green Man Brewing; French Broad’s Zepptemberfest; and Highland’s Clawhammer Oktoberfest. Beer education is hot right now, so tasting cards describing what you’re drinking will be offered.

Oktoberfest, says event organizer Adrian Vassallo, offers more than quaffing in the streets.

“Our goal is to have a good mix of fun and beer,” he says. “We want people to come out and have a hysterical time.”

To ramp up the “hysteria,” The Stratton Mountain Boys, a traditional oompah band, will return to play polka and (I’m sure) at least a couple of renditions of the Chicken Dance.

And yes, there will be games. Each participating brewery will field a team of four to entertain Oktoberfesters with games such as keg-rolling, a lederhosen race (think three-legged race with the addition of panty hose) and “Oh, Gnome You Didn’t,” a game that involves tossing pretzels onto a large gnome (guess that’s the Germanic answer to cornhole).

Anyone can participate in the festival-wide costume contest, the Stein Hoistenbech (a strength competition), or the Bavarian cream pie-eating contest. The winners of this year’s costume contest will receive two tickets to Anthony Bourdain’s appearance at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on

Nov. 5. Last year’s bratwurst-eating contest was deemed too gross by local vegetarians, according to Vassallo, so it was changed to Bavarian cream pie (because face planting into whipped cream isn’t gross at all).

But carnivores will still be able to eat all the meat they want; Cucina 24, Jack of the Wood and The Market Place will sell traditional German fare. Beulah’s Bavarian Pretzels, served with local favorite Lusty Monk Mustard, will also be available (not the pretzels that end up wrapped around a gnome).

The fest starts at noon with the ceremonial keg-tapping. This year’s tapper is Trevor Reis, Asheville’s first Beer Master tournament winner.

After that, a game will be held approximately every half hour until the event wraps up at 6 p.m.

As of last week, more than 1,000 of the 1,800 tickets available had been sold. Vassallo says he expects a sell-out, so if you’re into Bavarian bawdiness, visit ashevilledowntown.org to purchase tickets. They’re $25 per person in advance, $35 the day of the event (if available).

Vassallo says that most downtown restaurants were packed with Oktoberfest revelers after the festival. He also adds that there will be plenty of Porta-Potties at the events. While Aegir may be the ancient Norse God of beer, we all know the 21st century beer god is porcelain.

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arts&entertainment A song is worth a thousand pictures

Tyler Ramsey releases The Valley Wind, his third solo album

by Alli Marshall Though the cover of Tyler Ramsey’s third solo album features a single deer on a lonely outcrop (the image was taken by Band of Horses’ photographer Christopher Wilson in a park in Montana), birds are the fauna that most inhabit this collection of songs.

“I kept seeing crows in my backyard,” says local singer/songwriter Ramsey, who spends much of his time these days touring as the guitarist for Band of Horses. Originally he intended to draw them (Ramsey did the cover art for his selftitled debut record). Instead, he wrote the song “1000 Black Birds” in his basement “with that imagery in mind.” So much for that old picture vs. words adage.

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on Fat Possom Records) is instrumental track “Raven Shadow” which, Ramsey says, is an abstract version of “1000 Blackbirds.” At nine tracks, the moody and atmospheric record is rich in nuance and doleful beauty. Fans of Ramsey’s previous release, A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea, won’t find exactly the same tone.

Gone are the raucous moments of “Once in Your Life” and “Chinese New Year.” Instead, Valley is Ramsey’s most thematically consistent work to date, settling into sweeping melodies and gorgeously somber soundscapes.

According to Ramsey, where the songs were written mattered: Much of the album was conceived in a Hot Springs cabin. Other songs actually found their genesis while Ramsey was on the road with Band of Horses. Touring, he says, “is what I’ve always wanted to be doing,” but it’s also changed his creative approach. Gone are the days when he was “a hermit, not leaving home much.” Now, “I try to make sure downtime is used in a creative way rather than going out and running around whatever city we’re in. All the people in the band have moved in that direction.

On a day off people will disappear and then the next day they might play you a new song that they wrote.”

Ramsey has also learned to hang onto song ideas. “It used to be I had to write the whole song right there,” he says. “As my everyday life changed into constantly traveling and staying in hotels, I’ve learned it’s OK to write part of a song and pick it back up again when there’s opportu-

Identifying bird songs: The inspiration for some of the tracks on Tyler Ramsey’s The Valley Wind came from watching crows in his backyard. Other songs were written during downtime while on tour with Band of Horses. Photo by Christopher Wilson nity to do so.”

If travel with Band of Horses has taught Ramsey a thing or two about time management, it’s also given him an arsenal of tools to use on his solo recordings. Valley is sparse and tinged with melancholy, but it’s also resonant with reverb and cathedral acoustics that recall Band of Horses’ Infinite Arms. (In fact, Valley was not recorded at Echo Mountain, or any churchturned-recording studio, but at Alex The Great studio in Nashville, Tenn.)

“I’ve figured out more about the electric guitar and effects,” says Ramsey. Before, most of his solo work was acoustic. Now, “there’s a whole new range of stuff I can use to give the songs whatever they need.” Ramsey has also expanded his vocal range, garnering comparisons to Neil Young in early reviews. His wistful tenor and lofty harmonies attest a newfound ease.

But there’s much to Valley that’s familiar, too. The fingerstyle guitar is still there, a carryover from the instrumentals on Ramsey’s debut.

“That’s just what guitar is for me,” he says. With Band of Horses, he says, he still plays fingerstyle about half of the time, “even if it’s a more rock song.”

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first place played with their fingers,” Ramsey adds. “It opens that instrument up to a lot more possibilities.”

For Valley, he also brought longtime collaborators Seth Kauffman and Bill Reynolds into the recording process. (Kauffman and Ramsey have played in bands together, Reynolds is the bassist for Band of Horses and mixed Kauffman’s latest Floating Action album, etc., etc.) An early and grand vision of the album involved a full band and “an awesome old pedal steel player from Nashville,” but it also included Kauffman and Reynolds from the start. “We ended up doing it with just the three of us in the studio, and it really captured what needed to happen for those songs,” says Ramsey.

For the album release at Grey Eagle this week, Ramsey will have a backing band — and then it’s out on the road again, solo. Though, despite sharing close quarters with the Band of Horses brotherhood for much of the past several years, Ramsey doesn’t seem to mind striking out on his own. “I like just showing up and walking into a place with a couple of guitars,” he says. X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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He talks to angels

Josh Ritter’s debut novel deals with Appalachia, World War I and a celestial frenemy

“Growing in broad daylight”: Musician Josh Ritter had a song that wouldn’t fit on his latest album, so he expanded the idea into his debut novel, Bright’s Passage.

by Alli Marshall Josh Ritter is no stranger to war — at least as subject matter. He wrote “Girl In The War” on the 2006 album The Animal Years; the song “The Temptation of Adam” is set in the Army on 2007’s The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter.

And it was a song idea that couldn’t fit onto Ritter’s latest album, So Runs The World Away, that eventually grew into the post-World War I novel Bright’s Passage (The Dial Press, 2011).

Well, a song and a whole lot of reading.

Passage is the tale of veteran Henry Bright who returns to his subsistence farm in the Appalachian mountains, haunted by his experience on the battlefield and also by an angel who inhabits Henry’s horse and offers Henry advice of dubious wisdom. The plot sounds a lot like one of Ritter’s songs — a convoluted folk yarn replete with word play, intrigue and a kernel of sadness nestled in the rich melodies and marching rhythms. In fact, Ritter attempted to set Bright in present day but then, “I kind of discovered the first world war as I was beginning to write.”

Though it’s a heavy subject matter — and Ritter read a number of biographies by “regular soldiers” — he didn’t find it depressing. Instead, “It was a sense of total wonder that this crazy, medieval, horrible thing happened in living memory” and “complete excitement about finding this whole new place to learn about,” says Ritter. “I just wanted to share it.”

What amazed him, he says, was the realization that, in the late 19-teens, there were pockets of what we think of as modernity (steam power, electricity) side-by-side with pre-Industrial Revolution living (horsepower, barter economy). Events that shaped our modern era were taking place at that time, yet it’s still in recent memory. The last surviving American WWI veteran, Frank Buckles, passed away in February of this year, followed by British-born Claude Choules in May, who was the final surviving WWI veteran in the world. “It’s a tantalizingly close past,” says Ritter.

But as excited as Ritter was to introduce the subject of that war to his audience, he says he didn’t want to just echo his research. He wanted

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to tell the tale from Henry Bright’s perspective.

“There’s something in writing a song where you leave the details to be filled in,” says Ritter.

“With a novel, and talking about a real historical thing, the danger is to get too detailed.” The solution, he decided, was to leave room for his own imagination.

Passage strikes a balance between rich imagery (the hard-scrabble life in Appalachia and the horrors in the trenches in Europe juxtaposed against moments of pure love and beauty) and white space. At less than 200 pages, it’s a quick read, but its lyrical phrasing and deftly conjured allusions linger with the same shivering beauty as Cold Mountain or Doctor Zhivago.

The most chilling aspect of Passage is Henry’s angel, which first appears to him in a European church just moments before Henry escapes a bomb blast. But the angel seems as much a harbinger of misfortune as it does a good-luck charm.

“The initial idea [for the novel] was this guy who gets periodic and trivial instructions from something that says its an angel: ‘Go wash your car,’ that sort of thing,” says Ritter. Angels figure into many of his songs (“Angels on Her Shoulders,” “Folk Bloodbath,” “Galahad”) — an apt archetype. “Every society in every culture has something like an angel that’s halfway between a god and a human,” he says.

“Everybody wants to be a better person. ...When an angel shows up, it’s exciting to think, ‘maybe there is a plan. Maybe this isn’t a huge chaotic mess. But invariably things turn into a huge chaotic mess anyway.”

It does seem that there’s a plan, and a good one, for Ritter. “When I first discovered songs, it was an amazing moment,” he says. “The excitement of doing something and feeling like it’s adding up to something and it makes you happy is so great.” He’s having a similar experience as a new author, but that doesn’t mean that music is a thing of the past. Ritter has been performing short acoustic sets as part of his book tour and is currently working on both new songs and a new novel. He says he has so much that he wants to do and write about, and feels like he’s arrived at authorship at just the right moment.

“I definitely feel like I’m growing in broad daylight,” he says. X

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more Ron Rash returns to poetry Local author Ron Rash (a faculty member at Western Carolina University and an award-winning writer) is set to release Waking, his first poetry collection in nearly a decade. Rash’s last book of poetry, Raising the Dead, dealt with the displacement of the residents of the Jocassee Valley, which was flooded

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In recent years, Rash has focused on fiction, penning Serena, the chilling story of a timber baroness, in 2008 (that book was a PEN/Faulkner finalist); and short story collection Burning Bright in 2010, for which Rash won the Frank O’Connor Award.

Waking keeps its themes in the territory of Appalachia (“Watauga County: 1959,” “Elegy for Merle Watson” and “Junk Car in Snow” are a few titles of poems), but Rash’s sparse, lyrical verse transcends the everyday dust and toil, finding elegance and light in the land, the people and their traditions.

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by Jordan Lawrence Our Blood, the 2011 LP from Brooklyn’s Richard Buckner, resounds with conflict.

Stripped-back guitars strum with nervy intensity, augmented by jagged slices of keys and noise and melancholy washes of pedal steel and organ that seem overcome by the stress.

Over the top, Buckner’s magnificent baritone, which somehow maintains a balance between breathy and burly, picks its way through narratives that avoid specificity but still manage to create a singular sense of foreboding.

Opener “Traitor” pairs an endlessly driving, bass-heavy riff with menacing electric piano and downtrodden but beautiful pedal steel.

The words lack details but are packed with emotion. The main character is trapped in a no-win situation where the stakes seem graver because they’re never revealed. “Sold what you sold, woke where you’d lie,” Buckner growls softly. “And said what they wouldn’t to the shadows in the night.” Shortly after, the song devolves into a chaotic bridge where harsh noise underpins howling guitar. As the clamor dies down, Buckner whispers, “Watch that temper now.” It’s a threat of coming violence that never arrives, and it creates paranoia that’s all the more affecting because there is no resolution.

Our Blood is Buckner’s ninth LP and his first in five years. Desperation and darkness have been a constant in the experimental alt-folkie’s near-two-decade career, but there’s an immediacy to the discord here that burns hotter than much of his past work. It’s an aesthetic that makes sense when you consider the obstacles that befell Buckner during the record’s creation.

After 2006’s Meadow Buckner put his energy toward scoring a movie that has yet to premier. When he turned it in, he had a good amount of other music he’d created in the process, and he planned to use it in his next LP. This plan was shot down when the digital work station he’d home-recorded on for years crashed. It took the rest of the film score with it, so Buckner started from scratch, beginning to write songs and put them to tape. When

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Wrinkles in the execution: “If you put something in as an obstacle, it’s something you have to work around,” Richard Buckner says. “If I have to work around something, I’m not on autopilot. Most of the time it pays off.” he was pretty far along the machine crashed again. He recovered a solid amount of his recordings this time. He decided they needed some changes and reworked them again. He turned in the subsequent mix, but when he got it back it he still wasn’t satisfied.

“I quickly changed some things, recorded a fourth time and set a mastering date, so I couldn’t keep going, so I’d have to stop. I put myself on a leash,” he says, noting that the process was hindered further when his laptop containing notes and mixes was stolen from his house. “It’s been a struggle.”

Buckner says the hardship of the past five years likely informed his attitude on Our Blood, but he insists that he went about its creation the same way he always approaches recording.

He’s dealt with struggle before. Sticking by his outsider style got him kicked out of a deal with major label MCA in the late ‘90s. Struggle is also a constant part of his process. With every new project he installs what he calls “handicaps,” new wrinkles in technique or execution that he has to adhere to while making it.

“If you put something in as an obstacle, it’s something you have to work around,” he says.

“If I have to work around something, I’m not on autopilot. Most of the time it pays off. Most of the time there’s something that happens during the process that takes you in a direc-

tion, and you get some happy accident.”

For Our Blood, Buckner forbade himself to strum standard six-string guitars. This decision led to the interesting guitar sounds that set the record apart. Using tenor guitars and regular guitars with odd tunings, Buckner deployed multiple instruments to create one chord. This gives the strumming on Our Blood a tense, other-worldly feel that meshes easily with the songs’ elliptical narratives.

This eccentric practice highlights an important truth about Buckner: He does things his way. In the past that’s meant releasing a one-track record with a song-cycle based on a century-old poem (2000’s The Hill). This time it meant insisting that a concise, 10-song LP be just the way he wanted it despite five years of turmoil.

“It’s just the way I do it,” he says. “It’s not really something I think about or something I want to go for. It’s just the way that I do it.

I’ve never gone back to repeating choruses too often because it doesn’t find a place in the writing part for me. It’s not a choice. I’m born this way. It’s like being gay or something.” X Jordan Lawrence is assistant editor at Charlottebased Shuffle Magazine and a contributing writer at The Independent.

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a. Was offered the role of chimp patriarch in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. b. Received a shout out from Lady Gaga for his “music prowess.” c. Revealed that, though it was mostly natural, he did occasionally use SunIn to enhance his hair’s natural glow. d. Performed a spread-eagle on Dancing with the Stars.

2. Which of the following quotes did Eddie Money NOT say in a 2009 Bankrate.com interview: a. “It [life] costs a lot of money … you got guys cutting the lawn, the pool breaks down, my wife drives a BMW, she wrecked her other BMW and we gave it to my son. It’s a misery.” b. “If you don’t get up and smoke a million cigarettes and do cocaine and take a bunch of pills and knock down a couple of Bloody Mary’s before breakfast, you’ll have a good day.” c. “He’s a just God, but a loving God.” d. “The Eddie Money tour is continuous. When you have five kids, you’ll do anything to get out of the house.”

3. Maria Muldaur’s song “Midnight at the Oasis” was banned by the BBC in 1991 because: a. As a young lad, British Prime Minister John Major had a childhood trauma involving a cactus. b. Singing about humps was considered unseemly 20 years ago.

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Known for his rock n’ roll hits in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Eddie Money plays the Biltmore Estate on Friday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m.

Maria Muldaur performs at the Grey Eagle on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. Her biggest hit was “Midnight at the Oasis,” and enjoyed a successful solo career in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Her latest album, Steady Love, was released last month.

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been making rousing gospel music for more than 50 years, and they’ve played with Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt and Ben Harper (to name just a few.)

Truly legends of their genre, they play the Orange Peel on Friday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. c. Saying anything positive about sand dunes during the Gulf War was strictly verboten. d. In a 1990 Gallup Poll, it was voted the second most popular song for unwed couples to make love to.

4. When Maria Muldaur found out she was playing in Asheville the same night as Adele, the British pop star whose recent album, 21, is the top selling of 2011 so far, she reacted how?

Island Ice Teas. c. Tried to convince Coldplay to be her opening act. d. No one has actually gotten up the nerve to tell her yet.

5. The Blind Boys of Alabama surprised many fans this year when: a. They allowed their song, “I Know a Place,” to be used in a commercial for Jack-In-the-Box. b. Two of the members admitted they’d never actually been to Alabama. c. They released a country music album co-produced by Jamey Johnson. d. Lead singer Jimmy Carter called Ben Harper “a weenie” for dumping Laura Dern.

6. Which of the following statements regarding the BBA and the Grammys is NOT true? a. The Blind Boys of Alabama have won more Grammys than Diana Ross, Bob Marley and Queen combined. b. They always forget to thank Jesus in their acceptance speech. c. They were honored in 2009 with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award. d. They performed a song with Kanye West at the 2005 Grammys.

a. Smiled gamely and said, “Bring it.” b. Renegotiated her contract with the Grey Eagle to include unlimited Long

Answer Key: 1 (B); 2 (He said all those things); 3(D); 4(D); 5(C); 6(B)

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drone valley Music and Arts festival This year, festival season started in West Asheville and it’s wrapping up there, too. On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7 and 8, Drone Valley presents its fifth annual music and arts fest, showcasing regional artists in a number of local venues. The lineup includes The Death of Analog, Grammer School, Vincent’s Missing Ear, Green My Eyes, Where the Buffalo Roamed (pictured) and more. Shows are held at Altamont Brewing, Westville Pub, Warehouse #10 and Green Hill Urban Farm. Tickets are $4 advance/per event or $12 advance for a two-day all-access pass. dronevalley.com

TribOriginal Once a year, dozens of tribal and folk dancers — along with dance enthusiasts — descend on Hendersonville’s Camp Tekoa for four days of study, performance and family fun. This year’s gathering (the group’s sixth) runs Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 6-9, with shows on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7 and 8.

Performers include North African dancer Amel Tafsout and The Mezmer Society from Asheville (Friday); belly dance star Kami Liddle and German sword dancer Samantha Riggs (Saturday) among many others. Shows at 8 p.m. nightly, $15 per show. Tickets online and at the door. triboriginal.org

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The War on drugs Not be confused with the U.S. government’s military-aided prohibition of illegal drug trade, The War on Drugs is a Philadelphia-based rock band fronted by and created around singer/songwriter/guitarist Adam Granduciel.

While the Springsteen comparisons run rampant, the band is really about pushing boundaries: “overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then, with each song, they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks,” says The War On Drugs’ web site. They’ll play the Grey Eagle on Wednesday, Oct. 12, with Purling Hiss and Carter Tanton. 9 p.m., $10 advance or $12 day of show. thegreyeagle.com

Michael Banks Alabama-native selftaught folk artist Michael Banks has a style that’s both alien and familiar.

“He paints images as they occur, willing to paint contradictory ideas within a single painting; illustrating the complexities of being human, the beauty alongside the darkness,” says a press release for Banks’ upcoming show at American Folk Art & Framing. “A jewel-toned angst comes shining through.” The show, Experience, opens Thursday, Oct. 6 with a reception on Friday, Oct. 7 from 5-8 p.m., concurrent with the Downtown Gallery Association’s October Artwalk. amerifolk.com

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where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina C l u b la n d r u les •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.

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic Blue Note Grille

Open mic, 9pm Creatures Cafe

Juan Benevidas Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

The Russ Wilson Swingtette

One Leg Up (jazz, swing)

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Haywood Lounge

Max Melner Orchestra

Open mic

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub Wild Wing Cafe

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Hole-N-Da-Wall

Zansa (afrobeat)

Thu., October 6 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

One Stop Deli & Bar

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar Emerald Lounge

Antique Firearms (indie rock) CD release show Olive or Twist

West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam

An evening w/ Asheville Horns

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Pisgah Brewing Company

Hope Griffin (folk)

Danny Barnes & Larry Keel (roots) w/ Jenny Keel

Good Stuff

PULP

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Tyler Ramsey (folk, rock)

Slice of Life (comedy open mic), 8:30pm Purple Onion Cafe

Tony Rackley Red Room

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

Throwback Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard Jack of the Wood Pub

Dance party w/ DJ Steele Red Step Artworks

Open mic TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Back stage: Lowry w/ Pawtooth & ER Airplane

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk, roots)

Lobster Trap

Westville Pub

Craggie Brewing Company

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

Dark Eyes (gypsy swing)

Alien Music Club (jazz jam)

Cadillac Rex (surf, rockabilly), 8pm

Creatures Cafe

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Barley’s Taproom

Mountain Feist (bluegrass)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Pleasure Chest (blues, harmonica), 8-10pm

Olive or Twist

Athena’s Club

Orange Peel TallGary’s Cantina

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Open mic, 6-9pm

Lionz of Zion w/ Mark Appleford

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Lobster Trap

Wed., October 5

Early show: Big Brown Bag Songwriting Competition Late show: DJ Goldenboy w/ d-Queue & Trebled Mind (electronic)

Marc Keller

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DRONE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL

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Sat 10/8

Fri 10/7

Nitrograss featuring Micah Hanks

Duck-Rabbit Tap Takeover Thur Cornhole Tournament & Live Music with

Scott Raines & Jeff Anders

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Wild Wing Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Fri., October 7 ARCADE

No Cover, No Shame dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing Boiler Room

Flo Factory (local hip-hop showcase) Craggie Brewing Company

Mechanaut (experimental)

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Music & EvEnts thurs, 10/6

Danny Barnes & Larry KeeL w/Jenny KeeL Fri, 10/7

the DuhKs w/DehLia Low & Late night w/space capone

Game Room • Local Art

Blind Lemon Phillips Band (R&B)

Growlers & Bottles to go

White Horse

sat, 10/15

wild south Benefit featuring LucinDa wiLLiams Last outdoor show of the 2011 season

pisgahbrewing.com Taproom Hours: m-w: 4pm - 9pm | th-sat: 2pm - 12am | sun: 2pm - 9pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Disclaimer comedy (standup), 8:15-9:15pm Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9:30pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Salsa dance w/ Waldo Solano & Jaque, 11pm Emerald Lounge

Spontaneous Combustion w/ Luis Armando, Nicodemus, J-Hech & Conrad Greggor French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Buncombe Turnpike French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Alex Krug (Americana, folk) Garage at Biltmore

Re: Integration Good Stuff

Steve Gilbert Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Roedelius (electronic, experimental) w/ Xambuca Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm Highland Brewing Company

David Zoll Trio Hole-N-Da-Wall

Live funk, soul and R&B, 10pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Peggy Ratusz & Duane Simpson (jazz, blues) Jack of the Wood Pub

Bayou Diesel (cajun, zydeco) Lobster Trap

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

John Wesley Satterfield & His Damn Fine Band (soul), 9pm Robert Greer, Barret Smith, Mike Ashworth & Kevin Sluder (outlaw country), 10pm Olive or Twist

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Elephant Revival (indie, folk, acoustic) w/ Buncombe Turnpike Orange Peel

The Blind Boys of Alabama (Gospel) w/ Jim Lauderdale Pack’s Tavern

Steven Poteat (rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

The Duhks w/ Dehlia Low, 7:30pm Late night w/ Space Capone (funk, rock) Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea Root Bar No. 1

Project Anomaly (rock, blues, psychedelic) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

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w/ pawtOOth & er airplane

SaT. O C T. 8 Cheeksters

Lobster Trap

Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk) TallGary’s Cantina

Kon Tiki (swing, tropical) w/ Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

WestSound (dance, R&B)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Market Place

Live music

Francine Reed, Ike Subblefield & Yonrico Scott (funk, jazz, soul)

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Olive or Twist

4 Rounds Left (classic rock, covers)

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

One Stop Deli & Bar

Carolina Rex (blues, rock)

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Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam) Vincenzo’s Bistro

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Aaron Price 1pm | Piano

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Jake Hollifield Piano | 9pm

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White Horse

Purple Onion Cafe

Bobby & Blue Ridge Tradition w/ Nial Toner (bluegrass)

Red Room

Sonia Leigh w/ Glen Templeton (country)

Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack

Sat., October 8 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Farshid Etniko (Latin), 8-10pm ARCADE

Bear Exploder dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Athena’s Club

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

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Piedmont Road w/ The Scenic Roots French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Late Folk (acoustic, indie) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Matt Getman (jazz) Garage at Biltmore

Now You See Them w/Mike Quinn

INDIE, FOLK POP, ACOUSTIC • 6-8PM • FREE

no cover charge (4-8pm)

Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12am Southern Appalachian Brewery

Aaron LaVigne & the Downtown Crowd (pop, rock, soul) TallGary’s Cantina

Rafe Hollister The Market Place

Live music The Recovery Room

Live music Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Free Flow Band (funk, soul) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

Miriam & the Passionistas (Latin, folk), 5-8pm The Recovery Room

Live DJ Village Wayside Bar and Grille

The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) White Horse

Drum circle, 2pm Wild Wing Cafe

Acoustic on the Patio

Mon., October 10 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Cara Mia Tiller (singer/songwriter), 8-10pm Altamont Brewing Company

Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance, 8pm Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Hole-N-Da-Wall

Live neo soul and R&B, 10:30pm Red Room

Open mic Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller Westville Pub

Open mic Wild Wing Cafe

Karaoke

Westville Pub

Tue., October 11

Drone Valley Music Festival

5 Walnut Wine Bar

White Horse

The John Henry’s (jazz, swing), 8-10pm

Dave Russell (Americana, bluegrass)

Altamont Brewing Company

Wild Wing Cafe

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

DJ Dizzy ‘90s Throwback Night

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Second Breakfast

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Singer/songwriter showcase

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Richard Buckner (singer/songwriter) w/ Angela Faye Martin Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 8-11pm Celtic Thunder Highland Brewing Company

Now You See Them (folk, indie, pop) w/ Mike Quinn, 6-8pm Hole-N-Da-Wall Jack of Hearts Pub

Cary Fridley & Down South (blues, country, roots) Jack of the Wood Pub

Outta the Blue (bluegrass) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: The Cheeksters (pop, rock, soul) w/ The Roaring Lions

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Social Finger (rock)

The Bywater

Sun., October 9

Top 40 DJ night

music on new outdoor stage - weather permitting

Root Bar No. 1

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

Good Stuff

Harrah’s Cherokee

Saturday, Oct. 8th

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

Scandals Nightclub

Night of the Bass Zombies 3 Hope Griffin

ROCK, RETRO POP, JAM • SHOW 6-8PM • FREE

Joseph Hasty & Centerpiece Jazz DJ Spy-V

Bearded Folk & friends (folk), 6-8pm No Destination w/ Tennessee Hollow (Americana, rock), 8-10pm

David Zoll Trio

Nitrograss (progressive bluegrass)

Wild Wing Cafe

Craggie Brewing Company

Friday, Oct 7th

Local metal showcase w/ Burnstitch, As Sick As Us & May Lay Pack’s Tavern

Barrie Howard (one-man band)

Thirstdays

Orange Peel

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

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Thursday, Oct 6th

Fifth House (rock, funk, soul) w/ Greenhouse Lounge

Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils (progressive bluegrass)

Jerome Widenhouse & His Roaring Lions (jazz), 7-9pm ARCADE

Creatures Cafe Garage at Biltmore

Phat Tuesdays

Hallelujah Hullabaloo w/ DJs Jamie Hepler, Whitney Shroyer & friends

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Barley’s Taproom

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Jason DeCristifaro Trio Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk, roots) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon Bob Zullo (jazz, pop), 6:30-10:30pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 3 & 5pm Lobster Trap

Leo Johnson (hot club jazz) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Open mic w/ Ami Worthen One Stop Deli & Bar

Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers Delta Rae (folk, soul, rock), 7pm Pisgah Brewing Company

An evening w/ Maria Muldaur (roots, folk, pop) Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Handlebar

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm Hole-N-Da-Wall

Comedy night Hotel Indigo

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

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime) Lobster Trap

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

The Zealots (indie, rock) Northside Bar and Grill

clubdirectory 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 All Stars Sports Bar & Grill 684-5116 Altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 ARCADE 258-1400 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club 252-2456 Avenue M 350-8181 Barleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 Black Mountain Ale House 669-9090 Blend Hookah Lounge 505-0067 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Blue Note Grille 697-6828 Boiler Room 505-1612 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 285-0400 The Bywater 232-6967 Clingman Cafe 253-2177 Club Hairspray 258-2027 The Chop House 253-1852 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Creatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe 254-3636 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 Dirty South Lounge 251-1777

The Dripolator 398-0209 Dobra Tea Room 575-2424 Ed Boudreauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speakeasy 281-0920 Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speakeasy South 684-2646 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get Down 505-8388 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Haywood Lounge 232-4938 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Hollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille 298-8780

Karaoke Olive or Twist

Al Coffee McDaniel (blues, soul), 8-11pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Funk jam Orange Peel

Junior Boys (synth pop) w/ Egyptrixx Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm Red Room

Aaron LaFalce (acoustic, rock), 6:30pm TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantina

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The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laureyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Grill 253-8805 The Magnetic Field 257-4003 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Northside Bar and Grill 254-2349 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On Main 246-0898 One Stop Bar Deli & Bar 236-2424 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Poppieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market and Cafe 885-5494 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993

The Recovery Room 684-1213 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Smokeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s After Dark 253-2155 Southern Appalacian Brewery 684-1235 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantina 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Rockyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hot Chicken Shack 575-2260 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 The Village Wayside 277-4121 Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro 254-4698 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

The Bywater

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm

Juan Benevidas Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm

The Magnetic Field

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

Standup comedy w/ Matt Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Meara, Paul Gallois, Shalewa Sharpe & more

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

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

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Open mic

Westville Pub

Blue Note Grille

Blues jam

Open mic, 9pm

White Horse

Creatures Cafe

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Wed., October 12

JD Collette (DJ set)

New Visions Marketplace Gently Used Furniture Home DĂŠcor, Gifts & Books

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Friday, October 7th Peggy ratuSz & duane SimPSon Acoustic Jazz & Blues Duo

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Cary Fridley & doWn South trio Old School Country Blues

Friday, October 14th Steve WeamS & Caribbean CoWboyS trio Acoustic Island Rock

Saturday, October 15th graCe adele trio Swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hot Mama

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Dirty South Lounge Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar

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Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

War On Drugs (indie, rock) w/ Purling Hiss & Carter Tanton

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

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

Jill Andrews (Americana, folk) w/ Katherine Whalen

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Boiler Room

Haywood Lounge

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

Craggie Brewing Company

Open mic

Handlebar

Hole-N-Da-Wall

Zansa (afrobeat)

Toubab Krewe (afro-pop, jam, world) w/ Infamous Stringdusters

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Haywood Lounge

Back stage: Ben Lovett’s “Ghost of Old Highways” screening party

Throwback Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

The Bright Light Social Hour (rock, soul) w/ The Real Nasty (rock, country)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

Olive or Twist

Cadillac Rex (surf, rockabilly), 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Early show: Big Brown Bag Songwriting Competition Late show: Dance party w/ DJ Bravo Orange Peel

Waltz lesson, 6pm Dance, 7pm TallGary’s Cantina

Open mic/jam, 7pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy’s All Girl Singer Showcase Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub

Max Melner Orchestra White Horse

Song circle w/ Jay Brown, Dave Desmelik, Stuart McNair & Bob Hinkle, 7:30pm Wild Wing Cafe

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Thu., October 13 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Pleasure Chest (blues, harmonica), 8-10pm Barley’s Taproom

Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country) Craggie Brewing Company

Open mic, 6-9pm Creatures Cafe

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Elvet Velvis (rock) Honeybee Democracy, 7-9pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Disclaimer comedy (standup), 8:15-9:15pm Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9:30pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight Emerald Lounge

Back stage: Adam Arcuragi & the Lupine Choral Society w/ Chris Bathgate Band Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

J.P. Harris & the Tough Choices w/ Southbound Turnaround Olive or Twist

West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Asheville Country Music Revue Orange Peel

G. Love & Special Sauce (blues, roots, jam) w/ The Apache Relay Pisgah Brewing Company

DanBerrys (folk, blues, country) PULP

Slice of Life (comedy open mic), 8:30pm Purple Onion Cafe

Shivering Timbers (folk, blues, rock) w/ Tennessee Hollow & Mystery Cult French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Leigh Glass & the Hazards (rock, Americana) Garage at Biltmore

Spicy Moustache & the Flavor Saviors (“funkhop, soul rock”) Good Stuff

Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Pokey LaFarge & the South City 3 (ragtime, country blues, Western swing) w/ Dirt Daubers & Twilite Broadcasters Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm Highland Brewing Company

Ray Bonneville (Americana, blues, roots) Hole-N-Da-Wall

Live funk, soul and R&B, 10pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Roy Schneider Duo Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ Steele Red Step Artworks

Steve Weams & Caribbean Cowboys Trio (acoustic, island) Jack of the Wood Pub

Josh Slone & Coal Town (bluegrass)

Open mic

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase

Back stage: Mandolin Orange (folk, indie) CD release party

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Lobster Trap

Peggy Ratusz & friends

Leo Johnson (hot club jazz) w/ The Spaceheaters

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Marc Keller

Grateful Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam

Westville Pub

Olive or Twist

Stu McNair & Jay Brown (“swamp grass, bayou boogie”)

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm

White Horse

Sidney Barnes w/ E. Company

Michael Jeffrey Stevens & friends (jazz)

Orange Peel

Wild Wing Cafe

Frankie Ballard (singer/songwriter)

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Pack’s Tavern

Emerald Lounge

Fri., October 14

Cindercat w/ Actual Proof

ARCADE

One Stop Deli & Bar

Micah Hanks Duo (newgrass, jam) Pisgah Brewing Company

The Drawlstrings (garage, folk)

No Cover, No Shame dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm

Good Stuff

Athena’s Club

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Acoustic Swing

101 Runners w/ Woody Wood, Frontier Ruckus & more Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea

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Scandals Nightclub

Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar

One Stop Deli & Bar

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Joe Buck Yourself (punk)

Emerald Lounge

Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern

The Market Place

STAND (rock)

96.5 House Band (covers)

Live music

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Pisgah Brewing Company

Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub

Nikki Talley (country, rock)

Wild South benefit feat: Lucinda Williams

Tennessee Jed (Americana, bluegrass, rock)

Garage at Biltmore

Purple Onion Cafe

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

Razor & Blade

Drovers Old Time Medicine Show (bluegrass)

The Ruby Slippers (indie pop)

Good Stuff

Red Room

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Sarah Tucker

DJ Spy-V

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Rockyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hot Chicken Shack

Voices of Africa presents: A Natural Healing Tribe Reunion

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Squeeze Rock (rock, rap, funk)

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

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

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Deep River, 8-11pm

Wild Wing Cafe

Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherokee

Coy Taylor (country)

Chicago (rock, pop)

Sat., October 15

Highland Brewing Company

White Horse

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Farshid Etniko (Latin), 8-10pm ARCADE

Bear Exploder dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12am

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The Recovery Room

Live music

Hole-N-Da-Wall

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

Top 40 DJ night

Peggy Ratusz & Daddy Longlegs (soul, blues)

Jack of Hearts Pub

Grace Adele Trio (swing) Jack of the Wood Pub

Tennessee Hollow (rock, blues, acoustic)

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Marc Keller Westville Pub

White Horse

Lobster Trap

Grasstowne w/ Cumberland River (bluegrass)

JoeDan & Hank

Sean Mason (jazz)

Wild Wing Cafe

Craggie Brewing Company

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

DJ Dizzy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s Throwback Night

Frozen Head & the Squirrels (indie, psychedelic), 6-8pm Kyle & the Show (â&#x20AC;&#x153;outlaw popâ&#x20AC;?), 8-10pm

Olive or Twist

Tom Principato (blues guitar) The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm

Elephant Revival w/ Buncombe Turnpike $5

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Scandals Nightclub

Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (alt-country, blues, rock)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Root Bar No. 1

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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

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theaterlistings Friday, OCTOBER 7 - Thursday, OCTOBER 13

Due to possible last-minute scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281)

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10:00 (Sofa Cinema)

Please call the info line for updated showtimes.

What’s Your Number?

(R) 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 (Sofa Cinema)

Cinebarre (665-7776)

Cars 2 (G) 1:00, 4:00

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Freaks (NR) 10 p.m. Wed. Oct. 12 only

Captain America (PG-13) 9:30 (Sun only), 12:00 (Fri-Sun), 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG-13) 7:00,10:30 (no 10:30 show 10/12)

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452)

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Cars 2 (G) 9:55 (Sun only), 12:15 (Fri-Sun), 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50

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Friends with Benefits (R) 5:00, 10:35

50/50 (R) 12:00, 2:20, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG-13) 9:10 (Sun), 11:50 (Fri-Sun), 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30

Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 (274-9500)

Contagion (PG-13) 2:35, 8:00 (Sofa Cinema) Dolphin Tale 3D (PG) 11:55, 5:00, 10:15 Dolphin Tale 2D (PG) 2:25, 7:50

The Smurfs (PG) 9:45 (Sun), 12:10 (Fri-Sun), 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PG-13) 10:00 (Sun), 1:30, 7:30

Dream House (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15

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Drive (R) 2:20, 10:10 (Sofa Cinema)

Moneyball (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

The Help (PG-13) 12:15, 3:20, 7:05, 10:05 The Ides of March (R) 11:55, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Killer Elite (R) 12:10, 5:05, 10:25 The Lion King 3D (G) 2:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 The Lion King 2D (G) 12:30 Midnight in Paris (PG13) 12:15, 4:40, 7:45 (Sofa Cinema) Moneyball (PG-13) 12:35, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Real Steel (PG-13) 12:05, 3:00, 7:15, 10:10 Restless (PG-13) 12:20, 2:25, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Sarah’s Key (PG-13) 12:25, 3:30, 7:55, 10:25 (Sofa Cinema) Senna (PG-13) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20,

Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200)

Epic of Hendersonville (693-1146) n

Fine Arts Theatre (232-1536)

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The Guard (R) 1:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 show 10/9 or 10/13), Late show Fri-Sat 9:40 Sarah’s Key (PG-13) 4:20 The Whistleblower (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30

Flatrock Cinema (697-2463)

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The Debt (R) 4:00, 7:00 (no 7:00 show on Monday) n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298)

United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

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pickoftheweek The Whistleblower

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Director: Larysa Kondracki Players: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Belluci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas Drama Thriller Rated R

The Story: A Nebraska cop takes a job as a “peacekeeper” in Bosnia and uncovers corruption and a sex-trafficking ring.

Her attempts to expose this puts her in jeopardy.

The Lowdown: Rachel Weisz is the primary reason to see this well-intended, but not entirely successful film about coverups and the abuse of power.

Rachel Weisz gives a powerful performance in Larysa Kondracki’s debut feature The Whistleblower. It’s a worthy film about East European sex trafficking — or what we used to call “white slavery” — in a “ripped from the headlines” (the studio’s own phrase) manner that has a strangely been-there-done-that air that keeps it from being the blistering expose it wants to be. It’s a good film with a strong central performance. The problem is that the film isn’t as strong as the performance.

Weisz plays real-life Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac, who accepted a job as a peacekeeper for a U.N.-contracted security film in post-war Bosnia. Her original goal is to make the promised tax-free $100,000 in order to take her husband to court and attempt to win back custody of her child. But once she gets to Bosnia and starts seeing the injustices going on in the realm of sextrafficking — injustices to which everyone seems to turn a blind eye — Bolkovac finds herself drawn into the situation, becoming determined to do something about it. The problem, of course, is that it’s in no one’s best interests — as far as the security company and the higher-ups are concerned — to do or say anything about this.

The catch to a film like this lies in the handling of its fact-based nature. Stray too far into the realm of dramatic license and you lose your credibility. Stick too close to the facts and you don’t have much in the way of persuasive drama. This — and a clunky first act that needed reorganizing — is where The Whistleblower isn’t entirely successful. It wants to be something like the paraoid political thrillers of the 1960s and ‘70s, but it’s tethered to the facts in a way that prevents it from being as satisfying as it might have been. The film has that grubby, gritty, ugly look that’s almost become a cliche of anything set in Eastern Europe — a cliche on the verge of seeming like parody — but it holds back from delivering the horrors it suggests. I rarely found it to be as visceral as it needed to be to completely work.

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Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper in Gus Van Sant’s sad, sweet and special Restless.

What makes the film shine is Weisz’s performance. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci deliver the goods when called upon to do so (which perhaps isn’t often enough), but it’s Weisz who holds our interest. She’s the character who is inextricably drawn into the seedy underworld, and the one who tries to make a difference in her attempts to investigate these crimes and see the criminals prosecuted. She’s the one who sees the horrors first-hand — and she’s the one who is putting herself in harm’s way by doing so. Weisz is truly the film’s moral and dramatic center. She is the unwitting — almost unwilling — hero of a story she never expected to encounter, let alone become a part of.

It’s in the nature of stories like The Whistleblower to have a central character who doesn’t have the power to make the difference. These characters — in life as in fiction — are invariably ill-suited to the task and have it forced on them. Weisz’s Bolkovac is no different. But Weisz’s peformance is. She is quite simply rivetting.

The film itself wants to outrage you, and it may well succeed in doing so — if only by the revelation that the company in question is still being used by the U.S. in similar capacities elsewhere in the world. Except for Weisz’s performance, however, I felt slightly distanced from it all. Maybe I’ve just seen so many crusading films that I’ve become slightly numb to them. In any case, the film is a worthwhile one that moves into the realm of a must-see thanks to Weisz. Rated R for disturbing violent content, including a brutal sexual assault, graphic nudity and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre

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Director: Gus Van Sant (Milk) Players: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Lusia Strus, Jane Adams Romantic Fantasy Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: Doomed romance between a troubled young man and a girl with a brain tumor that plays nothing like the cliche that this suggests.

The Lowdown: A very special, very unusual, very good romantic fantasy that — despite superficial similarities to other films — has its own distinct identity. Sad and touching without being maudlin and off-putting.

I’m going against the critical tide on Gus Van Sant’s Restless — though at least I’ve got Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times) and A.O. Scott (New York Times) for traveling companions in defense of the film. I can’t get away from the feeling that a lot of the negativity surrounding the movie is of the knee-jerk variety that stems from a surface similarity to Hal Ashby’s classic Harold and Maude (1971). Yes, Restless is about two people who meet at funerals, and, yes, this leads to an odd romance, but that’s where the connection ends. Plus, there’s not a 60year age difference between the two (a key subversive aspect of the earlier film) and the reasons this pair goes to funerals are quite different. And so is the movie.

The film concerns a young man, Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper — Dennis’ son), with very little of a life and whose only friend is Hiroshi Takahasi (Ryo Kase, Tokyo!), the (imaginary?) ghost of a kamikaze pilot, with whom he plays Battleship and throws

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Director: Ingmar Bergman Players: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson Horror Drama Rated NR It’s October, and the folks at World Cinema have decided to present a month of horror-tinged movies for Halloween. First up is Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968), which is often referred to as the director’s only horror picture. Actually, that seems a bit wide of the mark to me. It would not be inapt to call The Seventh Seal (1957) and The Magician (1958) horror films, while The Devil’s Eye (1960) is a playful one. The Virgin Spring (1959) might qualify, too — not to mention aspects of Wild Strawberries (1958) and Persona (1966). While Hour of the Wolf is perhaps the closest Bergman ever came to a straightforward horror movie, the genre has always hovered around his work. Hour of the Wolf basically tells the story of an artist’s (Max von Sydow) descent into madness while stuck on an island with only his wife (Liv Ullman) and a group of degenerate — or at least very decadent — upper class neighbors, whose exact reality is often open to question. (Kubrick’s film of The Shining perhaps owes nearly as much to this film as it does the Stephen King novel on which it’s based.) Since this is horror à la Bergman, it goes almost without saying that the story-telling refuses to be rushed and that more questions are raised than answered. But its horror set-pieces are second to none — with the murder (if indeed it actually happened) of a young boy being among the most striking and unusual scenes Bergman ever did, while the big scene where the artist is set up to confront the corpse of an old lover is remarkably unsettling. The decadent rich people are almost like something out of Fellini (and Bergman presents them in what might be called a Felliniesque manner), but in more nightmarish terms. (They may also remind some viewers of the denizens of the creepy apartment building in Michael Winner’s 1977 film, The Sentinel.) It may not be among Bergman’s absolute best works, but that still makes it better than the best of most filmmakers. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Hour of the Wolf at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 2733332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com. rocks at freight trains. His parents were killed in a car crash and he’s being taken care of by an aunt he insists on calling Mabel (Jane Adams, The Brave One) — and keeps at arm’s length. His only outlet appears to be attending the funerals of strangers — the reason for which is implicitly offered in the course of the film. It’s at one of these that he first meets Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) — who it turns out attends funerals for reasons of her own — but he wants nothing to do with her until she comes to his rescue at a later funeral where the funeral director (Christopher D. Harder) is about to bust him for funeral crashing. There follows an odd relationship — one that is colored both by Enoch’s past and by Annabel’s limited future, since she has a brain tumor and a projected three months to live.

This could have been awfully gooey material.

It certainly has all the earmarks of a bad romantic novel. In fact, it can in some ways be read as a variation on Love Story — set 40 years later. It also could have descended into being one of Van Sant’s more impenetrable — so-called “difficult” — films like Paranoid Park (2007) with its interminable fascination in finding imaginary depths in shallow youth. Fortunately, Restless — thanks in large part to the three leads — manages to fall into neither trap. In the realm of Van Sant’s odd filmography, I’d put it somewhere between Milk (2008) and My Own Private Idaho (1991) in terms of accesibility — though it may fall a bit short of those in terms of success.

What we have here is a sweet, sad little movie that may have its roots in other films, but is finally its own. It’s a rare work in that it manages to romanticize death and de-romaticize it at the same time.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a film that pulled this off so well, nor one that so manages to be about death

and dying without becoming dreary or mawkish. It moves you without undue manipulation or cheap pathos — and it’s often moving in ways you don’t expect. The construct of Hiroshi could have been a senseless affectation, but the character (who gets the film’s sharpest lines) prevents that — operating as friend, conscience, advisor and as a friend who is jealous of and threatened by the prospect of this new romance. He also represents a basic conflict within Enoch’s mind — proof of a life after this one, something that Enoch would otherwise have his own reasons for not believing.

This was obviously (just look at the original poster) originally intended to get a wide Columbia Pictures release, but later relegated to the art-house treatment through Sony Pictures Classics. That was probably wise. This is a very specialized film that was never destined to be a huge hit, and it would have been lost in wide release. But it is also a very

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special film that deserves a chance with discerning viewers. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief sensuality. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

50/50 JJJJ

Director: Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) Players: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston Drama Rated R

The Story: A young man deals with his friends and family after he is diagnosed with a rare type of cancer.

The Lowdown: Sensitive and slyly humorous take on a serious subject that skirts most of the pitfalls inherent in this kind of story.

Too much in the deliberate crowd-pleaser mold (not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with that) to flirt with greatness, Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 doesn’t even quite pull off “very good,” but it easily walks off with a solid “good.” And in 2011, good may be good enough. It’s also a film that I suspect benefits greatly from a last-minute change in the lead. While I have nothing against James McAvoy, I can think of no one — including him — who could pull off the role of the cancer-stricken Adam nearly as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whose subtle — slightly bemused — performance keeps the film from descending into bathos.

The film begins in a slightly perfunctory — even clunky — manner in setting up the fact that Adam has cancer. In many ways, the film might have been better had it started with the doctor (TV actor Andrew Airlie) coolly — to the point of cruelty — giving Adam the bad news of the tumor next to his spine. The whole set-up with Adam reacting to a pain in his lower back and mentioning it to his best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), verges on the corny — almost to the extent of being a Lifetime “disease of the week” TV movie. In the film’s favor, however, it uses this time to establish Adam’s character — and to a lesser extent that of his girlfriend, Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard), and his relationship with Kyle.

Particularly good is the opening scene where Adam refuses to cross a street against the lights — despite the fact that it’s early morning and there’s not even a hint of traffic. We quickly discern what kind of person Adam is — and are not in the least surprised when one of the reasons he comes up with that he “can’t” have cancer is that he recycles.

It also changes what could have been a cheap joke into a moment of charming naïveté. Adam truly believes that bad things don’t happen to “good” people.

The bulk of the film, of course, follows Adam’s cancer treatments — and how it impacts those around him. In this regard, 50/50 is surprisingly good at packing a great deal into a relatively small space. (Devoid of ending credits, the film is barely over 90 minutes). A lot of it is admittedly in shorthand, but it mostly works — even while packing the film with characters. These subordinate characters — like the two men (Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) Adam becomes friends with during chemo — are given the illusion of three dimensions. Sometimes the trip is a little bumpy.

It’s not until late in the film that Anjelica Huston,

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as Adam’s mother, comes into her own. The only time it doesn’t ultimately work is in the case of the Rachael character. She comes across like a shallow plot contrivance — which, in essence, she is — and Bryce Dallas Howard isn’t a strong enough screen presence to overcome the role’s shortcomings.

Despite the presence of all the other characters — including a charming performance from Anna Kendrick as Adam’s rookie counsellor — the film is really about Adam and Kyle. That means that your response to 50/50 is going to depend to some degree on your feelings about Seth Rogen and pairing him with Gordon-Levitt. Since my own feelings about Rogen are rarely all that positive, I was surprised by how well I liked him in this.

I can’t deny that Kyle comes across a lot like the typical Rogen character — brash, obnoxious and crude. But there’s an undercurrent here that is missing from most Rogen performances. There’s a sense that Kyle cares deeply for Adam and is doing the best he can for him, but he’s clumsy and not very good at it. And, no, this isn’t just from a single, latein-the-day revelation; it’s built up along the way — and it’s surprisingly complex. Most unusual is the depiction of an inherent — and conflicted — jealousy over Adam’s romances with women.

The inherent subtext even finds verbal expression — as a joke — late in the film. It’s not stressed, but it’s there and it helps make Kyle something more than Rogen 101. Rated R for language throughout, sexual content and some drug use. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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Director: Alex Kendrick (Fireproof) Players: Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel, Ben Davies, Kevin Downes, Robert Amaya Christian Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: Four cops and a day laborer make a pact to become better fathers.

The Lowdown The best looking of Sherwood Baptist Church’s feature films is nevertheless a bloated, boring mess of a movie.

The same criticisms that were leveled against Alex Kendrick and Sherwood Baptist Church’s previous wide releases Facing the Giants (2006) and Fireproof (2008) can be said about their latest effort Courageous. It’s heavy-handed in its proselytizing, full of bargain-basement acting and it contains a plot that’s completely detached from reality. In the intervening years, Kendrick and company have finally learned how to make a professional-looking product. But while they’ve made something that looks like a movie, it’s only a resemblance.

Cinema is full of rich, challenging examinations of religion and spirituality that are nonetheless true pieces of filmmaking. This is not one of those films. This is a sermon, nothing more. It’s little more than a tract, and it’s not likely to convert anyone with its unrealistic, overly sincere view of the world. It’s more for the already converted and less for anyone who actually enjoys movies.

In a way, I’d be fine with Kendrick and his brother Stephen (who co-wrote the film) if they’d just stuck to overt preachiness on screen. But no, they had to try and jam a plot into this thing. At 129 minutes

startingfriday THE IDES OF MARCH

The first solid whiff of awards season wafts our way with a new political drama from George Clooney. (Notice how everyone overlooks Leatherheads on his directorial resume?)

His latest film isn’t historical in the nature of Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). Rather this is a fictional work about a seemingly “perfect” Democratic presidential candidate (Clooney), the young true believer (Ryan Gosling) who idolizes him, the jealous campaign manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and the unscrupulous campaign manager (Paul Giammati) for a rival candidate. Early word on the film is strong, but suggests that the film’s downbeat tone might work against it with audiences. (R) Early review samples: • “Clooney sees blustering bustle and edgy familiarity — giant closeups of private conversations — as the contrasts of political campaigns, which are, at heart, all rhetoric and no accountability.” (Richard Corliss, Time) • “This film may not be quite as distinctive as [Good Night, and Good Luck], and it’s certainly more pessimistic in tone. But it’s another step

(two whole minutes longer than the director’s cut of The Passion of the Christ, which seems a bit blasphemous), Courageous bobs around from subplot to subplot, with frequent stops for prayer, religious platitudes, solemn fits of crying or some combination thereof.

The movie, in essence, is about five dads (four of whom are deputy sheriffs) who make a pact with one another to praise the Good Lord and become better fathers. The intention is fine, even if their idea about strong family units feels simplistic, and by “better fathers” they mean being Christian fathers, but neither of these things is where I want to grind my ax. What galls me is that it took an hour for the film to introduce this plot point. There’s zero regard for efficiency, pacing or entertainment here. Instead of a plot, we get a little business about some gang of scary minorities who’ve decided to hole up in whatever Podunk whitebread Georgia town these people live in. As a result, parts of the film feel like some unwanted, unfortunate combination of The Wire and The Hour of Power. We also get a Mexican day-laborer (Don’t worry! He’s documented!) who can’t find work.

(He also inexplicably slips into an Arab accent on occasion.) Finally, we get director Alex Kendrick as Adam, a boorish man who faces personal tragedy and gets to blubber a lot. (Kendrick’s so good at blubbering that he even manages to get some snot going at one point, which is fairly impressive.)

Rather than a plot, the movie traffics in disconnected set pieces decoupaged together as something resembling a film. I mean, Courageous has everything real movies have, like comedy and tragedy — even a gunfight. Of course, the jokes are all about things like Hawaiian shirts, so it’s all acceptable for your grandmother, while the tragedy is shoved into the movie to be manipulative and to get the plot going. The shootout scene is

in the intriguing mid-career reinvention of one of Hollywood’s shrewdest stars.” (Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com)

REAL STEEL

Definitely not in the awards season realm is Real Steel. The very fact that Shawn Levy (Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther directed it almost guarantees that. Then again, the fact that it’s a movie about boxing robots probably put it out of the running, awards-wise, without Levy’s help. It stars Hugh Jackman as a downon-his-luck boxer-turned-promoter who’s trying to do right by his estranged 11-year-old son (Dakota Goyo, Thor) who believes dad can turn a junked sparring robot into a champion by teaching it his moves. It may well appeal to anyone who ever had or wanted a set of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots as a child. Scant early reviews of any note, though the trades are split on it. (PG-13)

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THE WHISTLEBLOWER

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pretty nifty, if only for the bad guy (newcomer T.C. Stallings) who magically pulls a shotgun from his pants.

Really, the meat of it is supposed to be all the talk about fatherhood and Jesus, which ultimately feels like an afterthought since it’s shoehorned in.

It’s certainly not convincing, since Adam’s only effort at being a better father is going jogging. Way to go, dad. But, as much as Courageous, its makers and its fans would like to believe, this movie isn’t going to convert anyone. This is simply a picture for people already in tune with its message, which make its good intentions moot. Rated PG-13 for some violence and drug content. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

Dream House JJJ

Director: Jim Sheridan Players: Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Elias Koteas, Marton Csokas, Jane Alexander Thriller with Pretensions Rated PG-13

The Story: A couple’s new home turns out to harbor a dark secret, which itself contains a secret of a different kind.

The Lowdown: An almost complete misfire from director Jim Sheridan and a strong cast. It may in part be the result of studio tampering, but the film is simply tepid, slow, rather dull and unintentionally funny.

Oh, my, no, Jim Sheridan’s Dream House is not a good movie, though I do seriously question if it’s really as bad as is being claimed. But having said that, I also don’t see how it would be pos-

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filmsociety The Palm Beach Story JJJJJ

Director: Preston Sturges Players: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno Screwball Romantic Comedy Rated NR The Palm Beach Story (1942) is almost certainly not Preston Sturges’ best film, but it very well might be his funniest. It’s almost certainly his fastest-paced and has a plot device that would have made Shakespeare proud. What we have here is the tale of Gerry (Claudette Colbert) and Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea), a couple who are struggling to make ends meet until Tom sells his invention of a new kind of airport that’s suspended over a city “like a tennis racket.” Just as they’re about to be tossed out of their apartment, a prospective tenant — the Wienie King (Robert Dudley), inventor of the Texas Wienie (“Lay off of ‘em, you’ll live longer”) — takes a shine to Gerry and gives her $5,000. After getting them out of debt, Gerry takes off for a divorce in Palm Beach where she hopes to marry a millionaire — primarily to finance Tom’s airport. After getting taken in by a group of wealthy, rowdy drunks — the Ale and Quail Club — with a private railroad car, she sneaks into a pullman when the rowdiness gets out of hand. She then just happens to run into the richest man in the world, John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee), by stepping on his face (twice) while climbing into an upper berth. But in the meantime the Wienie King has financed Tom’s trip to fly down and get her back. It’s fresh and funny and full of the kind of dialogue that only Preston Sturges could write. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen The Palm Beach Story Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the A.F.S.

Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth) JJJJJ

Director: Roy Ward Baker Players: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont Sci-Fi Horror Rated NR While the popular BBC-TV serials The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and Quatermass II (1955) were turned into films fairly quickly, it took Quatermass and the Pit (1958) nine years to reach the screen. Like the earlier films — which had been rechristened The Creeping Unknown and Enemy from Space for U.S. consumption — Quatermass and the Pit was turned into Five Million Years to Earth by the time it reached these shores, since the Quatermass name hadn’t the same cache here. However, unlike the earlier films, no need was felt to turn Prof. Bernard Quatermass into an American this round — played by a “bankable” American star (Brian Donlevy) — and Quatermass (Andrew Keir) was at last allowed to be his Brit self on the big screen. In many respects, Quatermass and the Pit is the most effective and least dated of the films. Perhaps because all of the Quatermass films are the work of a single man — Nigel Kneale — who didn’t like the science fiction genre, they’re the perfect sci-fi movies for people who don’t necessarily care for the genre. That’s especially true here, since the story deals with such things as racial memory and the idea that an alien invasion millions of years ago was the source of our beliefs in devils and demons and other supersitions. (It’s a little bit like an episode of Ancient Aliens, but not one that insults your intelligence.) It all revolves around the discovery of what appears to be a space capsule — and the remains of its occupants — while digging for an expansion in the London subway system in an area called Hobbs Lane (originally Hob’s Lane), long known as a “troubled” area where people saw strange things and no one wanted to live. The film is methodical in its pacing, building a level of dread with a payoff that fully justifies that atmosphere. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Quatermass and the Pit on Thursday, Oct. 6, 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.

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sible to champion the film. Maybe it’s because I’m hard-pressed to buy into the idea that this is worse than — just to pick two current random titles — Straw Dogs and I Don’t Know How She Does It. In fact, I know it’s not nearly as bad. Or maybe I’m just tired of reviewers and fans who think that the twist ending was invented by M. Night Shyamalan with The Sixth Sense in 1999.

(It wasn’t.) Whatever the case, I want to defend Dream House, but it’s just — well, kind of indefensible.

There’s all manner of hoo-ha over the film having been taken away from director Jim Sheridan, and Sheridan having virtually disowned what was released — as did stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. That may be perfectly true, but unless there was much reshooting with actors bearing an uncanny resemblance to the stars, they at least were around for some of the film’s most dubious moments. (In all fairness, some of it is obviously recut and overdubbed, though I’d have to see it again to be sure whether or not Weisz actually delivers the film’s most unintentionally funny line.) It’s also just hard to believe that the story was ever all that good.

And then there’s the infamous trailer that gives away a major plot point — a twist that occurs at roughly the halfway mark. That’s true, it does, but that doesn’t change the fact that the second half is somewhere between unbelievable and unbelievably silly. Plus, let’s face it, if a twist is all your movie has going for it, you’ve got bigger troubles than people knowing what the twist is. The main thing that knowing the twist does is allow the viewer to see if the first half plays fair. It does — so obviously that there’s an even chance you’d figure it out without the trailer. The awkwardness of the scenes between William and across-the-street neighbor Ann (a largely wasted Naomi Watts) is painful.

The film puts forth the scenario that editor William Atenton (Craig) quits his job at a publishing house to live with wife, Libby (Weisz), and their two children in their new Connecticut home where he plans to write “that book.” Ah, but you see, the house has a history — a history involving the murder of a woman and her two children, possibly committed by her husband. And pseudo-spooky stuff starts happening which in turn leads to William investigating matters only to find the shocking first twist. At that point, the film loses its minor horror movie cred to become a psychological thriller trying to make sense of the whole mess.

In all honesty, there are some good — or at least interesting — things in the second half, especially in the interactions of William and his family, but the film can’t leave well enough alone and insists on trying to tie the whole thing up with a solution that would achieve unbelievable levels of preposterosity if it weren’t for the fact that the film’s casting makes where it’s going to go obvious.

Here’s the problem: The presence of name actors we’ve scarcely seen means they have to somehow figure into the solution. And, boy, do they ever. It may never make much sense, but they’re there. I can say no more, but I will note that you probably don’t want to see this. Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, some sexuality and brief strong language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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Director: Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse) Players: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley Jr.

Romantic Comedy Rated R

The Story: After reading a magazine article, a woman decides she’s slept with too many men, and decides to track down her exes to see if one of them might be “the one.”

The Lowdown: A nice cast can’t stop this tired attempt at romcom from simply falling apart.

Add What’s Your Number? to the list of bad movies Anna Faris is good in. Everyone who’s sat through one of these things seems to want to see her natural onscreen likability used to better effect, something that simply isn’t likely to happen when she’s opted to appear in films like Yogi Bear (2010) and Scary Movie 1 through 15. That What’s Your Number? may be one of the best films Faris has starred in is a sobering thought. If this is the apex of her career, Lord save us from what comes next.

The basic set-up involves Ally (Faris), a recently laid-off marketing type, who — after reading an article in Marie Claire — decides that the 20 guys she’s slept with in her life are far too many. In an attempt to not raise her “number,” she decides to track down her exes to see if one of them might actually be “the one.” For help, she recruits her playboy neighbor Colin (Chris Evans). As fate would have it, Colin is the sort of guy who only seems to exist in romantic comedies, being a struggling musician with no apparent means of income who can somehow afford a fifth-floor walk-up in the middle of Boston. Of course, Ally doesn’t like Colin at first, which means we know exactly who she’ll end up with in the final reel. It’s just as ridiculously lazy and predictable as it sounds.

For a film that’s playing on the idea of being raunchy, there’s really no teeth to the comedy.

We get gags about Ally’s various dysfunctional exes. We do get a short aside about a black, gay, Republican politician looking for a “beard.”

(That’s a far more interesting set-up for a raunchy romcom, actually.) Where does it go? Nowhere.

We also get an animated singing penis and Ed Begley Jr. making Twitter jokes. And these are the highlights of the film.

Honestly, the only thing this film has keeping me from a full-on wailing and gnashing of teeth is the cast. Faris, of course, is likable, while Chris Evans is fine playing against her. The real problem is the script. Here, we have a story about a sex-positive woman as penned by two female writers — Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan — which should at least bring an interesting new perspective to the romcom format. But it doesn’t.

Instead, we get a mix of watered-down Bridesmaids raunch and a sitcom mentality that mistakes vulgarity in search of an R rating for something genuinely funny and indecent. Even if this weren’t a movie about a woman caving in to society’s idea of what she should be, it’d still remain a wholly unfunny dud. Rated R for sexual content and language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

nowplaying 50/50 JJJJ

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston Drama A young man deals with his friends and family after he is diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. Sensitive and slyly humorous take on a serious subject that skirts most of the pitfalls inherent in this kind of story.

Rated R

Abduction JJ

Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello Teen Action A hunky teen finds out he’s the son of two CIA agents, and must escape some evil secret agents out to kill him and his would-be girlfriend. A showcase for the supposed talents of Taylor Lautner that’s too dumb and bloodless for any action fan and too violent for his fanbase. Rated PG-13

Contagion JJJJ

Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Elliott Gould Disaster Thriller A new and seemingly unstoppable airborne virus goes global and threatens to wipe out a large portion of the world. Exciting, engrossing thriller with a solid all-star cast and taut direction. It’s not particularly deep, but it works in its own matter-of-fact approach.

Rated PG-13

Courageous J

Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel, Ben Davies, Kevin Downes, Robert Amaya Christian Drama Four cops and a day laborer make a pact to become better fathers. The Lowdown The best looking of Sherwood Baptist Church’s feature films is nevertheless a bloated, boring mess of a movie. Rated PG-13

Tune In to Drive JJJJJ

Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman Existential Action A stuntman who moonlights as a criminal wheelman gets involved in a heist—which ultimately goes wrong—in order to keep his neighbor and her son safe.

An endlessly stylish action flick that’s more arthouse fare than Hollywood entertainment, yet remains an infinitely fascinating—and singular—piece of filmmaking. Rated R

The Guard JJJJJ

Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan Dark Comedy Thriller An unorthodox Irish police sergeant with elastic ethics finds himself partnered with the straightest FBI agent imaginable to solve a drug-smuggling case.

Irreverent, vulgar, darkly funny comedy with thrill sequences that sets itself up as standard movie fare—only to deliver something refreshingly deeper. A must-see. Rated R

The Help JJJJ

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek Drama A young college graduate writes a book—with the help of the black maids—that exposes the hypocrisy and racism in 1963 Jackson, Miss. Solidly entertaining crowdpleaser with terrific performances overcoming an overstuffed narrative and a too-careful approach to the subject matter. Rated PG-13

Killer Elite JJJJ

Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehldorff, Morgan Freeman Feel-Good Fact-Based Family Drama Uplifting factbased story of a dolphin who loses her tail. Appallingly manipulative, but reasonably effective feel-good story of the family-friendly kind, and raised a notch by Morgan Freeman’s presence in the second half. Rated PG

Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Clive Owen’s Dreadful Mustache, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Yvonne Strahovski Action Thriller In order to save his mentor’s life, an ex-secret service operative has to undertake “one last job” for a vengeful sheikh.

Enjoyable—if not very distinguished—action thriller that gets the good out of its name cast without actually taxing their abilities. Rated R

Dream House JJJ

Midnight in Paris JJJJJ

Dolphin Tale JJJ

Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Elias Koteas, Marton Csokas, Jane Alexander Thriller with Pretensions A couple’s new home turns out to harbor a dark secret, which itself contains a secret of a different kind. An almost complete misfire from director Jim Sheridan and a strong cast. It may in part be the result of studio tampering, but the film is simply tepid, slow, rather dull and unintentionally funny.

Rated PG-13

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Corey Stoll, Alison Pill, Kurt Fuller, Michael Sheen Romantic Comedy Fantasy A young Hollywood writer with a nostalgia for the 1920s Paris art scene finds himself introduced to his heroes at midnight in an obscure part of town.

Whimsical, magical, delightful and about as perfect as it’s possible for a movie to be. A major must-see. Rated PG-13

Cranky Hanke’s Movie Reviews

Moneyball JJJJ

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt Sports Drama An underdog tale of a Major League Baseball team trying to subvert the system through statistics, and the repercussions of their attempt. An interesting idea for a biopic by way of character study, although never as engaging or dramatically alive as it should be. Rated PG13

Restless JJJJJ

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Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Lusia Strus, Jane Adams Romantic Fantasy Drama Doomed romance between a troubled young man and a girl with a brain tumor that plays nothing like the cliche that this suggests. A very special, very unusual, very good romantic fantasy that—despite superficial similarities to other films—has its own distinct identity. Sad and touching without being maudlin and off-putting. Rated PG-13

Sarah’s Key JJJJJ

Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy Drama An American journalist in Paris working on a story about WWII France uncovers things about the past involving her husband’s family. A definite film to see—a richly powerful work with an interesting structure and excellent performanmces—but also a film with a subplot that detracts from the real drama. Rated PG-13

Senna JJJJ

Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Vivianne Senna Docu-biography A documentary about Brazilian race driver Ayrton Senna. Amazing assembly of film footage from Senna’s career—along with home movies and videos—painting a biographical picture of the driver and his races. Rated PG-13

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Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley Jr. Romantic Comedy After reading a magazine article, a woman decides she’s slept with too many men, and decides to track down her exes to see if one of them might be “the one.” A nice cast can’t stop this tired attempt at romcom from simply falling apart. Rated R

The Whistleblower JJJJJ

Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Belluci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas Drama Thriller A Nebraska cop takes a job as a “peacekeeper” in Bosnia and uncovers corruption and a sextrafficking ring. Her attempts to expose this puts her in jeopardy. Rachel Weisz is the primary reason to see this well-intended, but not entirely successful film about cover-ups and the abuse of power. Rated R

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$169,500 • WEST ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY Why buy an old house to remodel when you can have like new? 3 full bedrooms and 1.5 baths, home built in 2007, has been well maintained. Call Steve Scott at Masters Realty: (828) 505-6060 or email: westashevillehomes @gmail.com

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Check it out at townandmountain.com 2BR COTTAGE IN CENTRAL ASHEVILLE Sweet, Funky, 1920’s cottage in Central Asheville. 2BR/1BA. Dog friendly large yard. Nice culde-sac neighborhood. Walk to town. $124,900.

253-9451.

COMPLETELY RENOVATED • WEST ASHEVILLE 3BR, 2BA bungalow with bonus room.

Huge Master BR w/walk in closet and access to back deck. New roof, kitchen appliances, cabinets, granite counters, and ultra efficient gas/electric hybrid heat pump. Adjacent lot available for $299K. $259,000. The Real Estate Center: 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com

MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING Oil and Gas Furnaces • Heat Pumps and AC • Sales • Service • Installation. • Visa • MC • Discover.

Call (828) 658-9145.

Painting PRESTON PAINTING AND RESTORATION Reliable, detail oriented. 20 years of experience serving designers and homeowners on finish painting, trim carpentry and restoration projects.

Local references and insured. Anthony Preston: (828) 367-1418.

HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services.

31 years professional business practices.

Trustworthy, quality results, reliability. $2 million liability insurance. References available. Free estimates.

Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

Services

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Computer CHRISTOPHER’S COMPUTERS • Computer Slow? Call Christopher’s Computers at 828-670-9800 and let us help you with PC and Macintosh issues: networking, virus/malware removal, tutoring, upgrades, custom-built new computers, etc.

ChristophersComputers.com OAKLEY COMPUTER REPAIR All services $99 or less*Virus Removal, Slow computer tuneups, Upgrades, Wireless setups,

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APPLIANCE ZEN • The best choice for appliance repair in Asheville. With over 12 years in appliance repair. The choice is easy. Locally owned. Fast. Friendly.

Honest. • All brands washers, dryers, refrigerator, dishwasher, and small appliances. • Licensed.

Insured. Bonded. • Sabastian, 828-505-7670. www.appliancezen.com

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repair, more.828-575-6845.

Landscaping BURGESS TREE AND LAWN SERVICE • Rental Property Maintenance • Tree Removal • Tree Pruning • Reliable • Affordable.

Call 280-3601.

Commercial Listings

Commercial/ Business Rentals

Commercial Property COMMERCIAL BUILDING Victorian Era building in the center of downtown Asheville. 1st level restored w/floor-to-ceiling display windows, hardwoods, sprinklers and exposed brick. 2nd level shell w/potential for 3 condos, office or residential. • $600K price reduction. $1,175,000.

The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663 www.recenter.com DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL CALENDAR In central business district w/potential for live/work or office/studio.

Heated and cooled with hardwoods and close to parking. $240,000. The Real Estate Center.

828-255-4663. www.recenter.com DOWNTOWN CONDO With commercial grade hood for a restaurant, sprinklers, display windows, and hardwoods. 2 levels completely restored, heated and cooled, and could be subdivided. $499,000. The Real Estate Center: 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com FOR SALE MULTIFAMILY HENDERSONVILLE, ASHEVILLE, BLACK MOUNTAIN 60 Adams Hill $175,000.Highpoint Apartments in Hendersonville $595,000.840 Tunnel Road $525,000.Old Hwy 70 Montreat - $1,697,500.

828-285-0508.

OFFICE SUITES Downtown Asheville. 1-5 office suites from 490 sq. ft. to 3,200 sq. ft. Modern finishes, elevator, central air. Affordable, full service rates. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

PROFESSIONAL/MEDICAL OFFICE SPACE Rent by the room or entire 1200 sqft suite. Rooms start at $400.

Amazing location/new building close to I-240 exit 8. Call/email for more pics or questions. (828) 275-2248. drbarthodgins@gmail.com

Rentals

CHARMING EFFICIENCY BASEMENT UNIT · Between downtown & UNCA- close walk to town and Greenlife.

Gas heat. Lots of off-street parking. $495.00/month includes hot and cold water.

Security deposit, year’s lease, credit check and references req. 1 cat or 1 small dog ok w/fee.

For appt: Graham Investments 253-6800.

DUPLEX • 3BR, 2BA apartment, 1300 ft, 1st floor, no stairs, beautiful, modern 5 year old unit, park like setting. Maple Springs Villas, near Haw Creek. Sorry, no dogs. $900/month.

828-299 7502.

1 GREAT APARTMENT • BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated bath, kitchen, 1BR, sunroom, dining room.

• High ceilings. • Balcony! • Abundance of natural light. • Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $600/month includes heat, water, Wifi. • Smoke free. 280-5449.

QUIET NORTH ASHEVILLE RESIDENTIAL AREA Recently redecorated, fully furnished 1BR, 1BA, laundry room, living/dining. • 18’x20’ deck included with BBQ available. • Perfect for traveling executive, senior citizen, single working person or professional. • Shortterm leasing available. • No pets or smoking. For more details, call (828) 258-2934.

1 GREAT COUNTRY APARTMENT Leicester area.

Quiet 1BR on organic farm.

WD. • No pets/smoking. $525/month includes utilities. Call 279-7007.

WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Sorry, no pets. Call 253-0758.

Carver Realty.

2BR, 1.5BA WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included. On bus line.

Swimming pool onsite. $725.00 a month.

Call 828-252-9882.

WEST • 2BR, 1BA. Oil heat, carport; no pets. $750/month. 828-253-0758.

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Apartments For Rent

3 GREAT DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS Live, work and play downtown! • 2 Studios: $595/month each. • 1 bedroom: $695. No pets please. Call (828) 254-2229.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • SPECIAL • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area. Only $545/month. No pets.

828-252-4334.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 3BR, 2BA • SUNNY ENDUNIT 1430 sqft condo w/1 car garage. Beautiful Eastwood Village. Granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, garden tub. $1100/month. Available November 1.

Call (828) 545-7445.

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AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1 • MARS HILL Walk to college.

2BR, 2BA, living, kitchen w/open floor plan. Front porch. Electric heat/AC. • WD. $800/month.

References. Deposit. • No pets. (828) 689-2625.

Homes For Rent 3BR, 1BA CONVENIENT EAST LOCATION • Available now. Hardwood floors.

Appliances including microwave and jacuzzi tub.

Beautiful yard/full basement.

No smoking. $925.

828-298-3933 ARDEN • ASHLEY WOODS South Asheville. 3BR, 2.5BA Ranch; 2 car garage; central air and gas heat; 1/2 acre; fenced rear yard w/2 patios; formal living/dining rooms; large eat-in kitchen/greatroom w/fireplace; laundry room: $1,950/month. Call Steve: (828) 333-2550 or carolinahomes88 @gmail.com BEARWALLOW MOUNTAIN • Between Edneyville, Fletcher and Gerton 15 Min. to Hendersonville 35 Min to Asheville Rustic 2BR, 2BA. Woodstove, spring water, electric heat Quiet, nonsmoking environment $575/month. 615.491.2495.

jobs MARSHALL • 2BR, 1BA. Quiet with views. 85 Ramsey Rd. off Rector Corner Rd. Walk to town. References, deposit and proof of income required. $400/month.

904-826-4340.

NORTH ASHEVILLE 3BR, 2.5BA Single Family House located within shopping, playground and entertainment. Small fenced yard. Call 704-929-8650 for details. www.postlets.com/rtpb/ 6121108

Vacation Rentals BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Short-Term Rentals 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental. Newly renovated, complete with everything including cable and internet. Weaverville area. • No pets please.

(828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com

PRIVATE HOME FOR SHORT TERM RENTAL Fully furnished home, 15 minutes to Asheville, Weaverville,on wooded, private lot available for short term rental, 1-6 months,cable, internet, utilities included.tkdawsey @bellsouth.net $1400.

828-230-6652.

Roommates

LOOKING FOR A PEACEFUL FEMALE ROOMMATE Pet friendly roommate.Female preferred.Amenities: washer/dryer,24 hour gym,pool, balcony/patio,dishwasher, fireplace,wireless Internet,a/c,room has walkin closet, private bathroom. $430/month.Utilities not included. 305-304-0113.

Employment

General ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com.

(AAN CAN) KENILWORTH 1 room in very nice home. Convenient to AB Tech, hospitals. $400/month includes all utilities, internet, TV. Call 291-3533.

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN) ACTORS/MOVIE EXTRAS Needed immediately for upcoming roles $150$300/day depending on job requirements. No experience, all looks.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 50 yr old Distribution Companylooking for online trainers. Flexible hours, work from home. www.2dreambigger.com hatchellburt@aol.com CooperRiis a Therapeutic Healing Community in Asheville has an opening for a 20 Hour per week Kitchen Support Staff. The successful candidate will be able to: Use basic cooking and preparation techniques to assist Sous Chef in the production of high quality large volume meals. Assist residents with learning the nature of jobs assigned to them while providing encouragement and support during the life skills program. Minimum Job Requirements: High school diploma. Professional restaurant experience a plus.

Will have a basic understanding of a whole foods diet and sound nutrition. Please submit a resume and cover letter to Hr@cooperriis.org. No phone calls or in-person visits.

BEAUTIFUL HOUSE AND GARDEN On Hamburg Mountain, overlooking Weaverville. 2BR, 1.5BA, 2 porches, large fireplace. $800/month. Includes heating and water.

Call 258-2222.

FURNISHED 2BR HOUSE, SPRING WATER, LEICESTER AREA In country on 80ac.

Fully furnished, washer/dryer/fridge/stove.

Porch, new BBQ grill. Safe location, 30 min. to downtown Asheville. $950/mo. $700 deposit.

Prefer no pets. Phone number after Sept. 28 is 828-230-3744.

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HOUSEKEEPERS P/T. Year-round consistent employment, Asheville.

Experience, professional, reliable and responsible.

Full-time for upscale B&B. Must be flexible and able to work weekends. References and background check required. Call 828-254-3878 for interview. Black Walnut Bed And Breakfast Inn. PAID IN ADVANCE • Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home!

Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN) WAREHOUSE WORKER Full-time for Natural Products distributor. • Competitive wages, great environment. Must be intelligent, hard working and self-motivated. • Email resume to barry @goldenneedleonline.com WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS Is hiring for temporary, part time Maintenance Assistant, 20 hours per week. This position is responsible to conduct routine and emergent maintenance in our 5 group homes and 3 administrative offices.

Qualified applicant must possess and High School Diploma, as well as a current Driver’s License and a good driving record. Experience in facility maintenance is preferred. Applications accepted on Wednesdays, from 1:00pm until 4:00pm.

For additional information visit our website www.wncgrouphomes.org WNC Group Homes is a Drug Free Workplace.

Skilled Labor/ Trades START TODAY! Machine Operators • Packaging • Assembly 12 hour shifts: 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am. • Must be able to pass a strict criminal background screen.

• 145-4 Garrison Branch Road, Weaverville, NC. Call for an appointment: (828) 658-9248. Integrated Staffing Solutions.

Administrative/ Office ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Position for AmeriCorps program through Children First/CIS. 30 hours/week. Database management required. Email resume to: tammyc@childrenfirstbc.org • For a full job description go to www.childrenfirstbc.org

Salon/ Spa ILLUSIONS DAY SPA • In a great room for hairdressers with clientele. Booth rent.

Downtown with plenty of parking. Great staff to work with! Contact Fredia at 828-258-9558.

Sales/ Marketing SALES/TRAINER • Trainer to speak to small groups. F/T, P/T. 1-877-640-1062.

Stacie’s Personal Care Services Home Care Is What We Do Has Openings for Certified Nursing Assistants in Buncombe & Madison Counties • Weekend and weekday schedules available • Come join our team Stacie’s Personal Care is a drug free workplace Always accepting applications for qualified in-home aides & CNA in Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Yancey, Henderson, Transylvania, Jackson, Mitchell & Swain Counties.

Celebrating Our 6th Year Covering 9 Counties

Restaurant/ Food

Human Services

Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Must have a Master’s degree and be licenseeligible. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Registered Nurse (RN)

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE BILTMORE Is now hiring! Come be a part of our fantastic team. • Servers, Bartenders, Server Assistants and Food Runners • Line Cooks • Prep Cook • Dishwashers/Stewards. We are looking for passionate, motivated, detail oriented people that excel at what they do. We prefer one year of fine dining or equivalent experience. We are also looking for a Sales Manager with private event coordination experience. We offer: • Competitive Pay • Career Advancement Opportunity • Great Working Environment • Complimentary Shift Meal • Excellent Training. Apply in person at out temporary office, 30 Hendersonville Rd., Suite 9 (2nd floor above Rezaz Restaurant) between the hours of 1PM and 4:30PM. We look forward to meeting you!! Ruth’s Chris Steak House Biltmore 828.398.6199.

SERVERS AND WEEKEND BARTENDER Now hiring.

Apply in person: 2 Hendersonville Road, Biltmore Station, Asheville.

252-7885. Ichiban Japanese Steak House

Medical/ Health Care CNA POSITIONS Flexible schedules available to caring, dependable individuals who enjoy assisting seniors in their homes. Home Instead Senior Care. homeinstead.com/159 CNA’S & HT’S POSITIONS Seeking caring and responsible CNA’s and HT’s to Care for elderly in their homes. Call Care 4 U. 828.215.7639 EXPERIENCED DENTAL FINANCIAL COORDINATOR • That’s energetic and able to multitask. MUST have Dentrix experience and knowledge of filing insurance. greatestdental@gmail.com PART TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT NEEDED • Must have recent experience and be x-ray certified. Team players welcome! Fax resume to 828-277-6820 or email kdjackson2@att.net

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Haywood County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Position available within a community-based, multidisciplinary team supporting people in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse.

Psychiatric experience preferred but not required.

Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Peer Support Specialist Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Part time position open for a Peer Support Specialist to work in our recovery-oriented programs for individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health challenges. • Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for an individual to transform personal lived experience into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process and be willing to participate in an extensive training program prior to employment. For further information, please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Clinician Recovery Education Center Position available for a mental health/substance abuse clinician to work in an innovative recovery-oriented program in Haywood County.

Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible.

Please contact Katie Goetz, katie.goetz@meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: JJTC Team 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.

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UNIVERSAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES is currently seeking Licensed Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant. The position is part time to full time in Asheville. Please call Patra at 828-225-4980 ext 302 to apply or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net.

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Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Position available within a community-based, multidisciplinary team supporting people in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse.

Psychiatric experience preferred but not required.

Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Qualla Boundary: JJTC Team Seeking Licensed/Provisionally Licensed Therapist on Qualla Boundary for an exciting opportunity to serve predominately Eastern Band

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources @familiestogether.net

INTENSIVE IN-HOME TEAM LEADER Barium Springs Home for Children has an opening for an Intensive InHome Team Leader in Franklin, NC. • To perform duties associated with admission and retention of new and existing consumers to Intensive In-Home Program. • Provide clinical expertise and oversight for the Intensive In-Home Team.

Minimum of Master’s Degree and 1 year experience in a human service field and N.C. licensure or provisional licensure in one of the following disciplines: LPC, LCSW, LMFT. A minimum of 1 year post degree experience working with same or similar client population required. Send resume to: Becky Totherow, BSHC, PO Box 1, Barium Springs, NC 28010 • Fax: (704) 832-2258. • Email: hrd@bariumsprings.org • EOE.

of Cherokee Indian court referred youth and their families through Intensive InHome and Basic Benefit Therapy. For more information, contact Lesa Childers, lesa.childers @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • Seeks a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist for our adult and child population.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the right credentialed, energetic team member. Please email resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com.

CASE MANAGEMENT • Eliada Homes currently has an opening for a Qualified Professional to provide case management services to assigned clients living in our psychiatric residential treatment facilities. Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field from an accredited college or university. Knowledge of case management practice, systems theory and practice.

Minim two years clinically supervised experience in mental health services. For more information or to apply, visit www.eliada.org/employment

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF NC HENDERSONVILLE REGION • Has an immediate opening for a Clinical Director.

Candidate must be fully licensed in NC or fully licensed eligible in NC. Position is responsible for clinical staff management, and program management for the region in addition to managing all clinical aspects of the region. Qualified candidates should submit resumes to jdomansky@fpscorp.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 696-2667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel.wingo@thementornet work.com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting.

NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS A Rapidly Growing Healthcare Agency covering locations in Western NC has openings for: • Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS) • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and • Master Level Qualified Professionals. Please send your resumes, salary history, letter of interest and location desired to job@nccare.net

NURSE MANAGER NEEDED • Eliada Homes is seeking a Nurse Manager to provide direction to our nursing staff providing treatment our students mainly in the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility. Individual must be a Registered Nurse with a minimum of five years of psychiatric or related nursing experience and a minimum of two years of supervisory experience. For more details on position and to apply, please visit www.eliada.org/employment

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL NEEDED IN DAY TREATMENT PROGRAM • Eliada Academy is seeking a Qualified Professional to provide direct preventive and therapeutic intervention within a therapeutic day treatment environment. Full time with benefits. M-F daytime schedule! Applicant must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field with two years post graduate experience working with a similar population or a Bachelor’s Degree in a nonhuman service field with four years post graduate experience working with a similar population. For more information or to apply, visit www.eliada.org/employment

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR FLOATER • Hiring an excellent individual to provide top notch direct care! Eliada Homes is currently recruiting an individual for the Residential Counselor Floater position.

This person will work 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift rotating periodically per residential planned PTO schedule and current vacancy status.

Position is full-time with benefits. To apply, go to www.eliada.org/employment

Professional/ Management

SEEKING OVERNIGHT COUNSELORS • Does working at night appeal to you? Are experienced in the human service field? Eliada Homes needs competent staff to give awake coverage to our students. • The NRC ensures the security, health, and safety of students during their most vulnerable hours.

Night staff sets the tone for the entire day, so it is extremely important you are dedicated to the success and well being of every student in our care. • Must have an AA/High School Diploma/GED with at least one year of experience in the mental health field or equivalent skills is preferred.

• Must possess a valid NCDL and be insurable by Eliada’s carriers. Must be able to stay awake and alert during third shift hours. Position is fulltime. • Pay is $12/hour with benefits! Please apply online at www.eliada.org/employment

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • Is seeking an LCSW for adult service lines.

Pleases send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS Is hiring for Direct Care Positions. Full Time on 2nd and 3rd shift, and Part Time. Job duties include providing planned instruction to group home residents to maximize independent living skills, and behavioral health. Eligible applicants must have High School Diploma and 2 years related experience, or college degree, and possess a current Driver’s License.

Apply in person at 28 Pisgah View Ave, Asheville or for additional information visit our website www.wncgrouphomes.org WNC Group Homes is a Drug Free Workplace.

Caregivers/ Nanny CAREGIVER • PART-TIME For an individual with high medical needs. Henderson county. • Must possess a NC Drivers License, have a High School diploma or GED and pass a background check.

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LICENSED THERAPIST Great opportunity to build a practice with referrals. Must be experienced with play therapy and working with children and families. Must be able to bill for Medicaid.

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ALUMNI RELATIONS AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR • FT. • Establish and conduct the overall planning and management of the College’s alumni program including relationship management, alumni events and programs, and donor giving. Assists with strategic planning and implementation of effective fundraising and donor development activities and serves as the Foundation’s marketing and communications liaison to the College. • MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 1.

Bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism, business/marketing, or related field. 2. Three to five years’ experience in fund development or Alumni Relations 3. Strong information technology skills with MS Office suite and database management 4.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills – ability to communicate with different constituencies both internal and external to the College 5. Demonstrated experience with online interactive software and social media networking 6.

Experience in web content management and newsletter development 7. Ability to work effectively as a team member with the Foundation staff as well as ability to work independently to accomplish goals. • PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: Preferred Requirements 1.

Extensive knowledge of WNC and of various constituency cohorts which make up the region served by the College 2. Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks and adhere to and meet deadlines 3. Understanding of the community college mission and its practices essential to a successful delivery of education 4.

Ability to establish working relationships and interact effectively with a wide range of people 5. Experience with Donor2 software. • REVIEW DATE: 10/7/11. SALARY RANGE: $38,000-$42,000.

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SUBSTITUTE TEACHER Hanger Hall School, a private all girls school, is seeking teachers to be on our substitute list. Subs would be called in typically for 1-2 days at a time. Please send a resume and cover letter to employment @hangerhall.org

Announcements CAN WE PARK OUR TINY HOUSE ON YOUR PROPERTY? Tiny wooden house on trailer. Need quiet private place to park while in school at ASMY. Call Mary 706-338-0265.

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A LOST OR FOUND PET? Free service. If you have lost or found a pet in WNC, post your listing here: www.lostpetswnc.org LOST BLACK FEMALE DOG WITH WHITE CHEST AND BROWN MARKINGS Missing since 9/23 from Louisiana and Emma. Her name is Zoey, 43 pounds. Please respond if you have seen her. 512-363-8650 katankerous@gmail.com

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Trucks/Vans/ SUVs 2000 INFINITI QX4 Fully loaded. $3800.

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He loves to be petted and curl up and sleep by your side. He is playful, but doesn’t bite or scratch. Percy should probably be the only male cat in the household and might be too shy for young children. He is waiting to snuggle up by your side in his new forever home. Stop

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Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS • Free or low cost spay/neuter information and vouchers. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month 123PM at Blue Ridge Mall, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). • 4th Saturday of each month 10AM - 2PM at Tractor Supply, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

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LISA’S DOGGIE WALKABOUT & PET SITTING Servicing the N. Charlotte Street area and downtown Asheville (where I live and work). Dog walking/pet visiting. $10 a walk or visit. Great references. Call LIsa at 828-691-5472.

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2008 KIA SPECTRA 5 57,000 miles, 100,000 mile warranty in effect. Excellent condition. $9850. 215-9726.

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BOBCAT (2002) 773-G SERIES • Skid steer tracks over tires, wood splitter 48”, Brush Bandit bush hog. $15,000. 828-551-4156.

Furniture OUTSTANDING FURNITURE FOR SALE Used for home staging. Purchased new, selling 1/2 price! Classic red armchair & ottoman 2 Cream color custom reclinersSolid wood entertainment center black 2 Gray-black threecushion sofas Gray wool rug 5’7”x8’2 Cream wool rugs 5’7”x8’3 Metal cushioned swivel bar stools NONE made in China!!! Excellent quality & condition.ALL OFFERS CONSIDERED. Email kjwithmeforever@yahoo.com or call 828-388-4380

FOR SALE • 2 COOPER TIRES TRENDSETTER SE 205/70R15 In excellent condition with approximately 10,000 good miles left. Tires were on my Century Buick. $50 Total. In Weaverville.

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1985 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER HJ75 - DIESEL, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE A super rare, right-hand drive, diesel truck in good condition. 6 cylinder 2H engine with 5 speed manual transmission.

Lots of extras. Email me for more pictures/information.

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