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p. 55 Mooging out Get ready for three days and three nights of epic electronic music by some of the biggest and best acts out there right now. Asheville scored Moogfest this year — fitting, since the great Bob Moog himself lived, worked and taught here for so long. Damn if we’re not going to make this the craziest Halloween weekend yet. Pull on your costumes, grab your espressos and check out our guide to Moogfest 2010.

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news 8 Election 2010 The information you need before you vote 22 Green scene Lester Brown and coal ash

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41 on a roll Food trucks want a piece of the Asheville restaurant pie — so why aren’t they rolling?

48 what does winter mean for local foods? Harvest

season is winding down, but local foods don’t hibernate over the winter

arts&entertainment 69 bigger, better, spookier Asheville Vaudeville returns in time for Halloween with its largest show yet

70 chairman of the beard Band of Horses’ Tyler Ramsey talks about life on the road, and other interesting stuff

72 halloweening Where to get your costumed revelry on

features 5 Letters 6 Cartoon: Molton 9 The beat WNC news briefs 24 Community Calendar

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letters A note of thanks First off, let me say I consider myself a conservative on most issues except when it’s a matter of helping the meek and needy. At that point I do not care if the church, community or government does it. As long as it gets done.

I am probably not your target audience, but I have to say I think you do a great job with your publication. I do not try to over-generalize but I would say there is a good chance a good percentage of the Xpress staff is fairly liberal or progressive. However, your coverage of events and info that hits both sides of the political spectrum is refreshingly without apparent bias. I appreciate that. One can only take so much of [national pundits] O’Reilly or Olbermann.

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Your community info is stellar and unique to the area. Your commitment from your advertisers gives us a lot of good choices to spend our bucks.

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Heavyweights weigh in Heather Whitaker Goldstein impresses us as a candidate for Superior Court Judge. Lawyers who know her say she has a great legal mind, but we know Heather as a community leader. We love her hands-on commitment to the people of Buncombe County.

Heather values justice, fairness and equality. As a private-practice attorney, she won a statewide award for providing pro bono legal services. As the director of the Asheville Jewish

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Community Center, she created a financial aid program, expanded access to childcare and eldercare and developed services to support families in crisis. Heather is inclusive of diverse populations and takes a holistic approach to understanding human challenges.

Heather is thoughtful, articulate, deliberative and fair. She has worked as a lawyer, but she has also stood in the shoes of the client. We want judges who understand the people and community that will be impacted by their rulings.

Heather’s breadth of community, legal and management experience makes her uniquely qualified for this office.

Opportunities to elect this type of candidate don’t come around very often. She has our votes, and we hope she’ll get yours, too.

— Mayor Terry Bellamy, Commissioner Holly Jones and City Council Member Esther Manheimer

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The rivers need our help We are a concerned group of year-three students at Buncombe County Early College. We are working on a project in our Earth/Environmental Science class that has to do with our environment and how it is affected by pollution. We are trying to raise awareness about the critical issue of keeping our rivers clean. We are studying the effects of the Shakespeare Conductive Fibers plant, located in Enka-Candler.

As covered by WLOS last year, there was a massive fish kill in Hominy Creek. Possible reasons for this fish kill [could] link back to the old BASF plant in Enka-Candler. In 2009, hundreds of fish turned up dead in Hominy Creek, downstream from the old BASF plant. Tests performed

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For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons Water Quality found results of high pH levels and low oxygen levels.

Based upon our research, the Shakespeare Conductive Fibers plant, located on the site of the old BASF plant, is releasing harmful chemicals into the ground and atmosphere. These toxins are used in things like paint, antifreeze, etc.

Being such a small group of students, it is hard to raise awareness in a big city such as Asheville.

Raising awareness is the first step we’re taking, and we would like for you to help us in our fight.

— Lauren Kline, Travis Ballard and Cheyenne Searsey Asheville

Stand by your policies, Xpress, not politicians Shame on the Mountain Xpress for publishing the Oct.13 commentary in support of Heath Shuler! [“Why We Support Heath Shuler”]. Adhering to policy not to publish commentary endorsing an individual candidate has previously been a hallmark of distinction for the Mountain Xpress.

That the editor would change his sound thinking merely because the authors are in possession of some kind of “status” in the community is foolish.

Since when have these politician-authors become so high and mighty that we should prefer their thoughts and ways to ones we can discover for ourselves? Are they not flesh and blood, subject to error and fallacy like the rest of us?

No statements in the commentary contained breaking news. No issue commented upon was not already known. The so-called commentary consists of nothing more than an attempt by a group of local politicians to sanction approval for another one of their own. No surprise there.

I believe the Mountain Xpress has done a great disservice to its readers by publishing the commentary. First, that it would assume that we readers would lap up the authors’ every word because we are incapable of becoming educated and making decisions on our own. And second, it has elevated the status (and probably therefore the egos) of the authors, furthering a mistaken notion that they are somehow better, more informed

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and more important than the rest of us. In the big scheme of life, they are very small potatoes too.

— Betty Jackson Asheville Editor’s response: Several flesh-and-blood Xpress editors felt this piece was worth publishing, not as our endorsement but as food for thought. If six local elected officials had produced a factbased piece supporting Miller, we would have run that too. Our goal is to encourage readers to make up their own minds about key issues.

Best of WNC or Best of Asheville?

I read the Mountain Xpress every week. I read the Best Local Do-Gooder list in your Round Two Oct. 20 issue. There may have been a Do-Gooder organization left off that list.

Full Moon Farm in Black Mountain houses and takes care of wolf dogs in the area. Even though they are not open to the public unless notified ahead of time, it is a great animal humanitarian organization. They also care about animals and don’t get enough support. It seems as though the “Best of” lists mostly places located in Asheville, whereas Black Mountain gets left out. With the exception of a few places located in Black Mountain, the area has a lot to offer, including restaurants, entertainment venues, shopping and salons. We are also a part of Buncombe County, although we get lost in the shuffle of Asheville’s limelight.

— Irene Corey Black Mountain Editor’s response: Regional sections (or “Beyond Asheville”), including Swannanoa and Black Mountain, were featured in our Round Two Best of WNC issue. Still, we’re always looking for ways

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Better late than never: The Transit Commission responds I’d like to address complaints by Mr. Greg Watson in his [letter] “City Buses are Either Too Early or Too Late; They’re Also Disgusting.”

(Aug. 11, Xpress).

Over 5,000 Ashevilleans depend on the Asheville Transit System (ATS) each day. While most find ATS a reliable service, there will always be customers who slip through gaps in service.

Asheville’s City Council, transit staff and community advocates are aware of, and working to address, these gaps. A big part of this includes implementing a first round of changes from the Transit Master Plan — such as 30-minute frequency to five corridors, improved maps, way-finding and route updates to reflect traffic patterns. These reforms will address many concerns about bus timeliness.

This Transit Commission disagrees with the assessment that ATS buses are filthy. While our buses are not new, they are cleaned and swept daily. Transit Commission members do use the public transit — as do several members of City Council. We would know if hygiene weren’t a priority for ATS. It was implied federal monies for ATS would be spent on projects other than public transit. In fact, all transit funds have been, and continue to be, allocated properly as they can’t legally be used for anything else.

— Paul Van Heden Asheville Transit Commission Ashevile

ing, such as the multi-trillion dollar H-bomb arms race and three unjustified wars.

The film portrayed cozy relationships between megacorporations and our military, showing how difficult it would be to reverse the forces that some consider propelling us toward national suicide.

How could we not conclude that our nation provides the same corporate welfare to military industries that it does to so many transnational corporations, harming our economy in many ways, like jobs going overseas?

We approach Nov. 2 following unrestrained corporate funding of candidates, who favor the wealthiest corporations, with the intent of regenerating a Republican controlled Congress.

Sit out election day at your peril.

— Lew Patrie Asheville

Cash cow at 60 mph The city of Asheville could use funds. In my neighborhood, we have a speeding issue. I live on Brevard Road between Haywood Road and the [Interstate] 240/26 interchange. The speed limit between those two points is 30 mph. Regularly, drivers will have at times speeds exceeding 60 mph. Maybe the name should be changed to Brevard Raceway.

It seems to me that some regular traffic enforcement would yield the city many dollars in collected fines and also make Brevard Road just a little bit safer. Many times, I hear screeching brakes as people speed to the light at Haywood Road. Since I have lived here, I have seen two major accidents requiring the replacement of telephone poles.

Sit out election day at your peril Recently the Unitarian Universalist Church’s Film Committee showed 30 people the film Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space, offering pros and cons regarding NASA’s plan to establish U.S. space mastery for military and commercial purposes, excluding other nations. Proponents cited the strategy of “high ground,” which would offer speedy defense against threats. Opponents foresaw a new unaffordable arms race, risking space so cluttered as to risk future space utilization. Future inhabitants mightn’t have cell phones, internet, GPS, sophisticated weather predictions or opportunities for further space exploration.

Questions arose regarding other military spend-

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When folks turn off Haywood to head toward the highway, many times they just open it up. The noise of the engines is unbearable at times.

The speed limit on Haywood Road is 20 mph in downtown West Asheville. Why the difference between the two roads? I understand that Brevard Road (route 191) is a state road, yet the city maintains it. I understand the need for emergency vehicles to use this road to speed to their destinations. They have sirens to warn bystanders and other drivers.

Beyond that, there is no excuse for the complete lack of traffic enforcement here. Over the years I have lived here, several calls to the police have yielded zero results. Perhaps this letter will.

If so, a safer, quieter, happier neighborhood will become at ease. Then the city may receive some much-needed cash.

— Steven Howard Asheville

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Sign Asheville up I have an idea for a solution to the problem of the peeling street signs. The city should hand the peeled signs over to local artists (one per artist) and allow them to create artistic (but easy-toread) versions using their own styles and methods on top of the metal signs.

This would put the street signs back into the hands of locals, and it would be a very Ashevilleesque solution. It would be great to drive around Asheville and see unique and colorful signs indicating our local attractions.

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by Peter Gregutt Leaf season may be a bit drab this year, but election fever has splattered Western North Carolina with a showy palette of colorful characters and splashy campaigns. Reflecting the broader dynamics of national politics in a pivotal midterm appraisal, candidates across the spectrum are striving to press their advantage while exploiting opponents’ perceived weaknesses.

The hubbub is not confined to locals, either: Political heavy hitters from GOP Whip Eric Cantor to Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee to former President Bill Clinton have been putting in appearances here to stump for their respective parties’ candidates in

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We’re often told that our political system is hopelessly broken, leaving voters only pseudo choices between aspirants displaying few essential differences. But judging by the responses from the 15 participants in Xpress’ candidate survey, that’s not the case here.

State Sen. Tom Apodaca, for example, says he’s “raised over $100,000 for the campaign and given the vast majority of it to other Republicans running for the Senate.” District Attorney Ron Moore cites the growing local problem of “computer-related crime ... involving sexual exploitation of children.” Buncombe

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County sheriff’s candidate Dickie Green proudly proclaims that he is “open and honest with my Christian values and ... a constitutionalist.” State Senate candidate Chris Dixon says he opposes “a California-style medical (wink, wink) marijuana program that turns into a free-for-all.” These are hardly cookie-cutter answers.

Differences of scale are also evident. Almost all the local candidates willingly provided the campaign-finance details we requested, but in the only national race on this year’s ballot, neither incumbent U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler nor challenger Jeff Miller opted to supply that information. (Mountain Xpress will review the official campaign-finance reports as they become available.)

Of course, there’s a whole lot more to the political process than party platforms and specific positions on the issues; questions of character, intelligence and ethics can also loom large.

And while the questions we posed don’t directly address such subjective factors, we believe people willing to read between the lines and look beyond the obvious can learn a great deal about the candidates clamoring for their vote.

Politicians are often dancing masters, schooled in the art of avoidance; this can make it tough to pin them down. Xpress has tried to construct our survey so as to make evasion more difficult, but in the end, it’s up to voters to assess the results.

Do the various candidates actually answer the questions asked? Do they deal in easy generalities or give verifiable specifics? Does one aspect of their answers (for example, a pledge to cut taxes) perhaps conflict with another (such as voicing strong support for costly programs)? How does their background relate to the kinds of skills the position they’re seeking will require?

Do they seem to have a reasonable grasp of the issues they’ll be grappling with if elected? Who’s endorsing them, and what do those groups stand for? Where does their campaign funding come from?

Seeking answers to these questions, our reporters have conducted interviews, attended forums and undertaken research. In addition to our print offerings, Xpress’ online 2010 Voter Guide provides continuing in-depth coverage of the candidates, the issues and campaign events. We urge you to take advantage of these resources, consider the options, make up your own mind — and then vote. After all, it’s ultimately our community. X

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Mind your (former) P’s and tweets Clinton comes to town, the Chads come to blows Not surprisingly, the Miller campaign disagreed with Clinton’s assessment.

A few days earlier, Miller hosted a Hendersonville rally with U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, who told the modest crowd that Miller — a small-business owner — was the only proven jobs creator running for the 11th District. The race to represent WNC is about cutting the debt and getting jobs, he insisted.

And in response to Clinton’s visit, a Miller spokesperson sent out this statement: “I’m sure that President Clinton and the Congressman will have a nice time Bill came to town: On Oct. 21, thousands flocked to Asheville’s talking about the good ol’ City-County Plaza to see and hear Pres. Bill Clinton stump for Rep. days when he was in the Heath Shuler.

White House and Heath photo by Michael Muller was trying to make it with Local candidates and political parties have been the Washington Redskins. bringing out the big guns in the final days leading ... But, that was 16 years ago … North Carolina’s up to the Nov. 2 election. families are having a tough time making ends meet The biggest of all (although it should be noted and we don’t need to relive the days before Heath that he’s lost a lot of weight in recent years) was for- sold out to liberals in Washington; we need solumer President Bill Clinton, who came to Asheville tions for the future.” to stump for Congressman Heath Shuler. The Buncombe County Republican chair Chad Democratic incumbent has been waging a fierce Nesbitt also had harsh words. battle with Republican challenger Jeff Miller to “Bill Clinton is against everything our muchrepresent Western North Carolina’s 11th District, talked-about mountain values are about,” he said with both sides accusing the other of relying on in a statement. “WNC’s liberal socialist progresmanipulative advertisements that distort their sives must be concerned if they are bringing in this respective records. model of dishonesty and seduction to uplift their In his 45-minute address to the crowd of thou- candidates.” sands who filled Pack Square Park downtown, In a separate press release, Nesbitt also Clinton sought to cut through the commercial announced that he was questioned by the Secret sound-bites that “turn politicians into cardboard Service ahead of Clinton’s visit. The interview was cutouts.” reportedly prompted by concerns over statements Evoking Shuler’s past football career, the presi- made via a satirical Twitter handle bearing his dent said that “America’s playing a football game name. Messages sent out in the days leading up to with the rest of the world” and that he was trying the rally included: to show people the “game film” of why Shuler deserves another term. To make his case, Clinton Brainstorming ways 2 disrupt #Shuler event on cited Shuler’s support of pay-as-you-go budget pol- Saturday. Doing so will make crowd vote #Republican icy, Wall Street reform, clean-energy legislation and & get me a lot of attention. college-loan reform, as well as his efforts to fight childhood obesity, among other achievements.

What are good ways for #Avl #Republicans to make “His ideas are better than the other guy’s; it themselves known during Thursday’s #Clinton visit? doesn’t have anything to do with party,” Clinton #avlteaparty #bcgop asserted. “If you want to get more jobs, then you don’t have a choice: You’ve got to vote for Heath In the statement, Nesbitt denied any involveShuler.” ment with the Twitter account and said he’s

reported it to local authorities.

“I do not have and have never had a Twitter account,” he asserted. “I reported this false account several weeks ago to the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department. They consulted with Buncombe County District Attorney Ron Moore, who I understand refused to take action. Per that lack of accountability, this situation reached a point of seriousness requiring Secret Service action. I hope the Buncombe County Sheriff Department and Mr. Moore will now realize the seriousness of this matter and act on my complaint. I will, again, make a formal request for action.”

Nesbitt also explained that, although he considers Clinton a “scoundrel,” he wished him no physical harm.

In response to the GOP press release and a WLOS story on the issue, the satirical Chad Nesbitt, @chadnesbitt, sent out several tweets, including: Note to media: 5) If SS really thought I was a threat, I would have gotten a visit by now. (I didn’t.) @WLOS_ABC13 Asked about the interview with Nesbitt, Secret Service agent Glen Kessler declined to comment.

“Anything dealing with protection, the Secret Service doesn’t comment on,” he told Xpress. “So if we did talk to him, I couldn’t confirm it.”

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan did, however, confirm that his office is investigating the issue.

“It’s under investigation at this time and we’re doing the subpoenas to get the information to find out who’s actually logging the Twitter account and there may be a criminal charge there,” he said.

“That depends on what our legal advice says. … If it gets into the area of harassment, then it could fall into the cyber-stalking law. So that’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

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11thcongressional district

heathshuler

Occupation: Member of Congress Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Congress, 2006 to present Endorsements: Sierra Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars PAC, Veterans’ Vision, NC Association of Educators, National Rifle Association, League of Conservation Voters

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Occupation: Owner, Miller’s Laundry and Fine Dry Cleaning Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: None Endorsements: Sen. Richard Burr; presidential candidate Mitt Romney; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; former Hendersonville Mayor Fred Niehoff Jr.; Bill O’Connor, Henderson County Tea Party; N.C. Sen. Tom Apodaca; N.C. Rep. Carolyn Justus; others

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

What are your top three legislative priorities?

Do you support the end of the Bush tax cuts, especially on households making over $250,000, as Democratic leaders in Congress have proposed?

My campaign contributions are a matter of public record.

I place people before politics and, above all, listen to the needs of Western North Carolinians. I have a reliable, independent voting record on fiscal responsibility, small-business development, conservation and veterans. In Congress, I am able to reach across party lines to bring people together behind common-sense solutions.

• Improving the economy by addressing unfair trade agreements and promoting American manufacturing.

• Creating high-paying, stable jobs, particularly through promotion of the green-energy economy.

• Reducing the national debt and deficit.

I don’t support taking away tax cuts for hard-working, middle-class families. ...

Would consider temporarily extending the tax cuts for the top bracket to prevent further job losses, provided [it didn’t] increase our deficit. We could cut expenditures back to 2008 levels to pay for these tax cuts.

The amount of personal and financial support I’ve received from voters is further evidence my message of more jobs and less government is resonating. Their willingness to donate their hard-earned dollars when our state faces such a dire economic condition is a testament to the vision of my campaign.

I will always represent our values in Washington and vote for what is best for Western North Carolina.

Rep. Shuler’s votes represent more of Nancy Pelosi and Washington than they do the district. I promise I’ll never apologize for being an American, and I will never vote for Nancy Pelosi.

• Unemployment; • The economy; • Our national debt.

I support extend[ing] all of the Bush tax cuts.

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One of the main reasons I’m running for Congress is because if the reckless deficit and thoughtlessness continues, it’ll not be me but my son and his children who’ll have to pay for it years from now.

What steps should be taken to deal with the contaminated former CTs of Asheville site? What’s your opinion on the ePA’s beginning the process to add the site to the superfund list?

What’s your opinion of the defense department’s “don’t Ask, don’t Tell” policy if the Joint Chiefs of staff recommend its repeal?

How do you believe the federal government should deal with the immigration situation?

What steps do you favor to deal with WNC’s high unemployment?

What legislative steps, if any, do you favor to deal with climate change?

What do you believe is the best course for the U.s. to take in Afghanistan?

I’ve worked with community members to protect local families from harmful pollutants. I pushed the EPA to conduct quarterly well testing and to recommend the site for the National Priorities List.

Several hurdles remain, but I will continue to push for a full cleanup. These families deserve nothing less.

A Department of Defense review of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is under way and is expected to be completed by Dec. 1, 2010. If the review and our military leaders recommend repeal, I will support their recommendation.

Enhance border security, expand employee verification, enforce existing immigration laws. Legislation I authored, the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act, gives the Department of Homeland Security additional resources and requires employers to use E-verify, a simple, highly successful system to ensure a legal work force.

Reverse the effects of unfair trade agreements, promote domestic manufacturing, close the tax loopholes that reward U.S. companies outsourcing jobs, increase access to capital for small businesses. I proudly authored the Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009, the first major overhaul of the SBA’s entrepreneurial-development programs in a decade.

I voted for the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would give our state billions of dollars to promote clean energy and efficiency, growing our economy and creating jobs. ...

Efficiency, innovation, ingenuity and responsible exploration [will help us secure] our long-term energy and economic future.

Too many lives have been lost and too many dollars spent.

While we remain engaged there, I’ll continue to support our troops and giving them the resources they need to remain safe. But [we must] find a way to stabilize the region ... and get our troops back home.

CTS is a clear example of government inadequacies. If the government enforced the regulations on the business and the EPA properly responded to the situation, this problem would never have existed. We need to hold government agencies more accountable. Government has become inefficient, and I will work to change that.

I have full confidence in our military leaders to address this policy with the upmost care, since they are on the front lines. I’ve never had the opportunity to serve in the military, and I believe it should be left up to the military to decide on this policy.

It’s our federal government’s job to secure our borders.

We must be more vigilant in ensuring that all people in America are here legally. In addition to homeland-security concerns, illegal immigration is costing North Carolina’s families and businesses millions of dollars every year.

As a business owner, I know firsthand government doesn’t create jobs. It’s government’s job to create an environment where businesses can flourish. The top two job creators are business startups and expansions. I’ll make sure government improves the business climate instead of putting barriers in the way of job creation.

It is our moral responsibility to take care of the environment. I don’t think forcing unfunded mandates such as the “cap and trade” bill are the right steps. This bill passed by Congressman Shuler will cost North Carolina 40,000 jobs and up to $4,000 per household. We can do better.

Our troops need to stay until the Afghan government can operate effectively. I do not agree that we should set a date for withdrawal. I do not believe politicians should determine the rules of engagement for our troops in combat. That should be left up to the military.

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statehouse district114

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Occupation: Real estate broker and instructor Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Two terms Buncombe County Board of Education Endorsements: Noted by contributors

$31,163, plus a $7,800 loan from me.

Occupation: Legislator Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Seven years in the House; eight years, Asheville City School Board (four as chair); chair, Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government; etc.

Endorsements: Conservation Council of NC, EMILY’s List, Environment NC, etc.

I run a grass-roots campaign: Hundreds of individuals contribute funds, volunteer time and in-kind services. In the election cycle beginning January 2009, we’ve raised $97,960.48 from 498 contributors.

NC Realtors PAC: $5,000 Western Eye PAC: $2,000 Lora Thrash: $1,500

johncarroll

susanfisher

statehouse district115 Occupation: Political science instructor, WCU Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Appointed to state House, 2001-02 Endorsements: Information not provided

MackPearsall: $4,000 Thomas Pearsall: $4,000 Joe Eckert/Adelaide Key/ Lillian’s List of NC: $2,000

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

The third-quarter report has not yet been finalized, but it appears the amount (all sources: contributions, loans, etc.) is slightly more than $60,000.

Top donors appear to be candidate/family members.

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

What are your top three legislative priorities?

Do you support authorizing Asheville to raise its hotel-room tax?

My over 30 years of realworld business experience and meeting a payroll. I have extensive experience in many aspects of education. ... This [won’t] be an easy task over the next several years, and you need a person with a wide background of life experiences to meet the challenges ahead.

• Create jobs; • Stop wasteful spending; • Preserve our schools.

I do not think the tax needs to be increased at this time.

I have a 100 percent rating from Environment NC and endorsements from all major environmental organizations.

My opponent favored a new coal-fired power plant in Buncombe County and opposes statewide steep-slope regulations; I opposed the plant and sponsored the first statewide legislation to regulate construction on steep slopes.

• Jobs/economy; • Schools and education; • The environment.

Yes

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

We must rebuild our economy with clean, green, locally grown jobs by supporting local small businesses and attracting new industry that matches our skills, resources and values. WNC needs a sustainable economy that values our natural environment and prioritizes living-wage jobs.

What are your top three legislative priorities?

Do you support authorizing Asheville to raise its hotel-room tax?

Incumbent Rep. Keever has been in office less than a month-and-a-half and has dealt with no actual legislation. I served in the longest session (by legislative and calendar days) in N.C. history.

We’re both educators, but I have extensive business and military experience, too.

• Jobs; • Creating the most favorable economic climate to sustain jobs we hope to create; • Continuing to improve our education system.

Just this week I met with a high-ranking member of the Tourism Development Authority, and it was my understanding that what we have currently is sufficient.

More important, though, is safeguarding funds and ensuring allocation where promised.

My leadership as president of the local League of Women Voters, my church and the local chapter of NCAE. Plus 25 years as a classroom teacher and 12 years as a county commissioner give me real experience working on issues with the people of this community.

• Rebuilding the economy.

• Public education at all levels, particularly a required ninth-grade course which will prepare our young people to make better decisions as they enter the adult world.

• Effective slope-development regulations which will protect the safety of our citizens and the integrity of our mountains.

Yes

markcrawford Occupation: Teacher (retired) Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Buncombe County commissioner 1992-2004 Endorsements: Women’s Campaign Forum, NCAE, Planned Parenthood, NC NOW, Lillian’s List

$109,498.50 Jane Swafford: $8,000 Progressive Kick PAC: $4,875 Lillian’s List: $4,000

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What methods do you favor for dealing with the state budget crunch, and how would they affect the Asheville area?

Do you favor changing state law governing involuntary annexation?

If so, how?

N.C. had more people on its AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list last year than all other states combined. Do you favor fully funding the program?

What’s your position on legalizing medical marijuana?

Do you favor providing benefits for same-sex domestic partners of state employees?

Why or why not?

Do you support state assistance to local municipalities in financial trouble?

If so, in what form?

No specific formula for the budget crunch. I think it needs to be a bipartisan solution where every member comes to the table with the honest intention to solve the problem. Cuts [must] be considered in every area with the understanding that we have to preserve our educational system.

I believe in voluntary annexation with a vote of the people being annexed. This is only fair to those people, and the cities need to have a twothirds majority to annex, with the services provided within two years.

The AIDS Drug Assistance program will have to be reviewed along with all health-care programs to see what funding the state can afford.

I don’t think this is a program that should be favored in N.C. without further study. I understand the reason for it, but there are too many possible loopholes in the program in California, for example.

At this time the benefit program in North Carolina is having a hard time meeting the demands under the current budget crisis. It would have to improve considerably to even be a discussion.

I would support financial assistance to local governments to provide publicsafety and health programs.

Of course, everything has to be worked into the budget on a priority basis.

I will continue to look for creative ways to cut spending while protecting education and other core priorities. I also support tax modernization. Our out-of-date tax system is regressive, burdening those least able to afford it. We should find ways to generate revenue that spread the tax burden more fairly.

No

Yes. I voted in favor of a budget that included funding AIDS drug assistance for 4,600 existing enrollees and an additional 627 people on the waiting list. Anytime I can help increase access to health care, I will. I believe that health care is a human right.

I sponsored legislation in 2009 legalizing medical marijuana (HB 1380, Medical Marijuana Act). Legalizing medical marijuana at the state level protects from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use marijuana.

Yes. I support equal rights for all people. I am proud to have been endorsed by Equality NC because of my work for GLBT civil rights. I support equal benefits for equal work, just as I support equal pay for equal work for women. I also support marriage equality.

Yes. There are programs within the state treasurer’s office to assist cities with financial difficulties, and laws have been enacted under the current treasurer’s administration to help safeguard municipalities from getting into financial trouble.

What methods do you favor for dealing with the state budget crunch, and how would they affect the Asheville area?

Do you favor changing state law governing involuntary annexation?

If so, how?

N.C. had more people on its AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list last year than all other states combined. Do you favor fully funding the program?

What’s your position on legalizing medical marijuana?

Do you favor providing benefits for same-sex domestic partners of state employees?

Why or why not?

Do you support state assistance to local municipalities in financial trouble?

If so, in what form?

My preference and inclination are to first attack and cut unnecessary, redundant or even antiquated and inefficient spending. Next, I would explore cuts in overpaid, high-ranking bureaucracy.

Finally, I would try to avoid impact on any counties or municipalities.

I strongly favor allowing democratic principles to work and allowing those without voice in the current process to actually have a vote in the matter.

The difference between being amenable to the idea and it being possible are huge.

Realistically, as N.C. faces somewhere between a 17- to 20-percent budget shortfall, I would be disingenuous to promise on this.

California has proved that the legalization process has simply led to a greater number of users, and until the federal government’s rules are final, it is somewhat moot.

I am opposed to any form of discrimination, and until such time as these are also granted to heterosexual partners of state employees, I see this as discrimination.

If the leaders of local municipalities cannot adequately or properly manage their affairs correctly, the rest of the citizens elsewhere should not be penalized for their mismanagement.

State revenues are volatile, because they are primarily sales taxes and income taxes.

These two sources are highly affected by general economic downturn. Therefore the best way to rebuild state and local revenues is to put people back to work.

I am open to re-examining annexation laws to ensure everyone is treated fairly. For example, I am against parts of a neighborhood being annexed while other parts are excluded.

Yes

Support

Yes. I favor equal rights for everyone. Providing domesticpartnership benefits is a good and necessary retention benefit for our state employees.

By statute, state and local governments are required to have a balanced budget. The state should continue to provide excellent training for city and county employees and elected offiicials through the UNC School of Government.

The state should allow more flexibility to the local governments to achieve mandated objectives.

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statehouse district116

janewhilden

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Occupation: Representative, state House Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: One term in N.C. House Endorsements: N.C. Association of Educators, Sierra Club, N.C. Police Benevolent Association, Asheville CitizenTimes, Headwaters Campaign, N.C. Advocates for Justice, N.C. Assoc. of Social Workers, Lillian’s List, Emily’s List

Occupation: Small-business owner, management consultant Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Former member Asheville Civic Center Commission Endorsements: National Federation of Independent Business, NRA, Grass Roots NC, Asheville Tea PAC

statesenate district48

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

$45,000 N.C. Advocates for Justice: $4,000 Speaker Joe Hackney: $4,000 Lillian’s List: $4,000

Our campaign continues to raise money every day.

I am the single largest donor to my campaign, and several people are tied for second and third place. Readers can find the most updated and accurate information about donors, contribution amounts and expenditures on the N.C. State Board of Elections website.

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Occupation: IT industry analyst Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Managed Charles Carter’s 1996 and ’98 campaigns Endorsements: WNC Central Labor Council

I won’t help my opponent by answering the first question at this time.

Occupation: Entrepreneur, business owner Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Eight years in N.C. Senate Endorsements: Asheville Citizen-Times, N.C. Chamber of Commerce, N.C. Green Industry Council, NRA

I’ve raised over $100,000 for the campaign and given the vast majority of it to other Republicans running for the Senate hoping to win a majority.

Shuler for Congress: $2,000 Mary Colleen Frank: $1,000 Jim & Edna McKee: $1,000

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

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Do you support authorizing Asheville to raise its hotel-room tax?

I have experience serving the community (Pisgah Girl Scout Council, Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC, MANNA FoodBank, among others). I can dedicate myself to being a full-time House representative. Also, most of the money I’ve raised has come from individuals as opposed to special interests.

• Getting our citizens back to work; • Protecting education; • Ensuring a healthy environment for future generations.

As of this writing, I haven’t heard from any of my constituents on this issue. However, it’s my understanding that these funds are used to help Asheville’s infrastructure. It’s something I would need to research more and would consider if our area shows a need for increased revenues.

I signed a pledge not to raise taxes. My opponent, however, not only supported tax increases, she voted for them.

Jane Whilden voted to raise taxes on even the most basic of necessities, such as school supplies, clothing and even prepared food.

• Repeal the tax hikes enacted by my opponent.

• Streamline and reduce state spending with a performancebased budget that supports private-sector job creation here in N.C. • Ensure the maximum amount of education dollars are directed to the classroom rather than administration.

The hotel-room tax was originally created at the request of hotel operators for the purpose of advertising and promoting tourism. I am not aware that they desire or have requested any such increase.

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

What are your top three legislative priorities?

Do you support authorizing Asheville to raise its hotel-room tax?

I raise no money from specialinterest PACs. I bring a practical rather than ideological approach to the issues of job creation and public education. I work in the corporate, private sector and have experienced the sorts of ups and downs that are familiar to most local workers.

• Work with local civic and business leaders to find new uses for vacant plant space.

• Fully fund our local community/technical colleges.

• Provide online educational tools for parents to help preschool children prepare for kindergarten, and a better safety net to help high-school dropouts get back on track.

No. Now is the time to protect the competitive advantages for our vital local tourism industry, not tax them away.

Furthermore, I think that N.C. residents should be exempted from lodging taxes statewide to encourage more in-state vacations.

We’re running a positive campaign, so I can only speak about myself. I’m a small-business man from Hendersonville who’s committed to being an effective, independent voice for Western North Carolina.

I’ve created jobs and met a payroll; I’ve also had to lay people off at times. It’s a big responsibility.

• Economic growth; • A balanced state budget which reflects our values; • Better schools

I’d first like to talk with the city of Asheville, the tourism community and my constituents about that issue.

chrisdixon

tomapodaca

What are your top three legislative priorities?

What methods do you favor for dealing with the state budget crunch, and how would they affect the Asheville area?

Do you favor changing state law governing involuntary annexation?

If so, how?

N.C. had more people on its AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list last year than all other states combined. Do you favor fully funding the program?

What’s your position on legalizing medical marijuana?

Do you favor providing benefits for same-sex domestic partners of state employees?

Why or why not?

Do you support state assistance to local municipalities in financial trouble?

If so, in what form?

We’re still waiting to see what position we’ll be in; it will need to be approached methodically, line by line.

We must ensure that our tough decisions don’t overly burden any one segment of the population. Education must remain our top priority to prepare our citizens for the work force.

Yes. I think we need a public vote of those who are about to be annexed. We also need to study how other states handle annexation, and see if we can put to use some of their ideas in helping us solve this divisive issue.

I believe that every North Carolinian, especially those with with life-threatening diseases and limited financial resources, deserves access to quality, affordable health care.

If it’s used for legitimate medical reasons, prescribed by a licensed physician and monitored, it should be legalized.

We would want to make sure it would generate revenue for our state. This isn’t something we should rush into; obviously a lot more research would need to be done first.

Looking at other N.C. cities/counties, there’s relatively little additional cost. Evidence shows that these benefits help recruit/retain quality employees, which would keep our state competitive. In tough times, every penny spent must be carefully weighed. I would want to see how this would factor into our projected state health plan.

I would hope that our cities, towns and counties across the state have made sufficient adjustments to their budgets so that the state would not have to bail them out. I think it would have to be looked at on a case-by-case basis, carefully considering the circumstances.

The only way to address the problem is to begin with a zero-based budget and apportion funding based upon performance. This is similar to the PAYGO provisions used in the U.S. Congress to balance the budget in the 1990s.

It worked there then, and it can work here now.

Yes. Cities need to grow, but cities also need to live within their means. The citizens being annexed deserve representation before taxation. This can be accomplished through a variety of legislative actions. These include, but are not limited to: ETJ voting rights, referendum alternatives and/or petitionbased referendums.

The question assumes program enrollment is driven solely by funding. I’m not certain that is the case. I look forward to the opportunity to a full review of the facts on the matter.

Federal law prohibits possession of cannabis.

I am strongly opposed to all forms of discrimination, and I am very concerned that taking such action legislatively would discriminate against heterosexual domestic partners.

I believe the citizens of Buncombe County and Asheville should never be forced to pay for the debt and/or financial recklessness of another city, town or county.

What methods do you favor for dealing with the state budget crunch, and how would they affect the Asheville area?

Do you favor changing state law governing involuntary annexation?

If so, how?

N.C. had more people on its AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list last year than all other states combined. Do you favor fully funding the program?

What’s your position on legalizing medical marijuana?

Do you favor providing benefits for same-sex domestic partners of state employees?

Why or why not?

Do you support state assistance to local municipalities in financial trouble?

If so, in what form?

The state is already seeing tentative signs of revenue growth and economic recovery. It’s likely that there will be cuts in aid to localities in order to protect education funding over the next few years. Localities should be given incentives to share services regionally to save money.

Neighborhoods to be annexed should be allowed to vote on annexation (simple majority) without a petition requirement. Counties should have more “home rule” options to develop joint service districts with cities to save money by eliminating duplicative and uncoordinated infrastructure costs.

All of the state’s means-tested programs are under severe strain. As of September, the state had 30 people on its ADAP waiting list. We should be able to sustain current eligibility levels with additional federal emergency funding per S.3401 (The Access ADAP Act).

I would support a program for genuine medical concerns where marijuana is a useful treatment and supervised by a doctor, but not a Californiastyle medical (wink, wink) marijuana program that turns into a free-for-all.

Benefits are intended to attract and retain good workers and should not require indication of gender preference by anyone. A state worker should be allowed to include another adult member of the household on their family plan, whether it be a blood relative, close friend or significant other.

We could provide access to short-term, one- or two-year loans for critical law-enforcement, public-health and public-safety services only, provided that the locality submits a judicially enforceable plan to balance its budget and repay the loans within five years.

We’re facing a $3 billion-plus deficit in the coming year.

Tough decisions will have to be made, but we’ve got to live within our means.

Yes. I strongly believe that citizens who are the targets of annexation should be able to make that decision through a popular vote.

I would like to see performance-based budgeting in state government, so we can reduce or eliminate those programs which are of limited benefit and then fully support efforts like ADAP, which help people in need.

The experience of other states suggests it would be very difficult to enforce and easy to abuse. There are better ways to help people in pain.

Given the depth of our state’s budget problems, I think this is the wrong time to expand state-employee benefits.

What the state government needs to do is curtail the practice of imposing unfunded mandates on municipal governments, much as the federal government does to the states.

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statesenate district49

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

Do you support authorizing Asheville to raise its hotel-room tax?

What are your top three legislative priorities?

From a letter to Xpress: “...it is my practice to decline answering candidate surveys, as I believe my extensive legislative service is a more accurate reflection of my views.”

martinnesbitt Occupation: Retired Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: N.C. Senate, 1994-98 (Buncombe, Madison, Yancey, McDowell, Burke counties) Endorsements: Asheville Tea PAC, N.C. Right To Life

$7,078 Buncombe County Action Club: $1,500 Retiree: $1,000 Retiree: $1,000

My 27 years as owner/operator of small retail businesses creating jobs, and my two terms in the state Senate representing five diverse counties.

• New jobs creation; • Educational reforms and return control to local level; • Constitutionally limited government with fiscal responsibility based on sound free-market principles.

Not with a state budget deficit approaching $4 billion July 1, 2011.

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What methods do you favor for dealing with the state budget crunch, and how would they affect the Asheville area?

N.C. had more people on its AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list last year than all other states combined. Do you favor fully funding the program?

Do you favor changing state law governing involuntary annexation?

If so, how?

Setting priorities for essential Yes! A vote of the people to be annexed and passed by a state budget needs and not funding nonessential requests. two-thirds majority.

Setting priorities for essential state budget needs and not funding nonessential requests.

What’s your position on legalizing medical marijuana?

No, until more medical research justifies its positive benefit.

Do you favor providing benefits for same-sex domestic partners of state employees?

Why or why not?

No. They are not recognized by state law.

Do you support state assistance to local municipalities in financial trouble?

If so, in what form?

No! Not with the impending state budget deficit approaching $4 billion in a current total $18.5 billion budget.

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buncombecounty sheriff Occupation: Retired Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Information not provided Endorsements: Asheville Tea PAC

How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

We are still raising funds.

I am the major donor and don’t know with this short notice who the others are.

What are the top three law-enforcement priorities in Buncombe County?

What areas need improvement in the Sheriff’s Office?

Open and honest with my Christian values, and I am a constitutionalist.

• 43.15 percent budget increase (largest in the history of Buncombe County).

• Stop illegal immigration (Section 287(g) program) that results in increased crime.

• Stop politicizing the Sheriff’s Department and have qualified personnel with proven skills and abilities.

Do away with traffic radar, and get involved in our communities and know who our citizens are.

I have 23 years’ experience, most of that time in a supervisory role. I have a criminal-justice degree from WCU and completed the Administrative Officers Management Program at NCSU. My 2-1/2 years teaching for the N.C. Justice Academy has given me insight into the problems law enforcement experiences statewide.

• Drug abuse and the property crimes that are generated from it.

• Best utilizing our resources to deal with the ever-increasing service demands made upon the Sheriff’s Office.

• Continuing to work with our schools to influence our youth and move them in a positive direction.

We need to continue to open up avenues of communication with the public and form more community partnerships that will make us more effective in dealing with specific problems that certain communities are facing. This includes expansion of our website and more community meetings.

What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

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What are the best ways to deal with drug enforcement?

What steps should the office take to protect against racial profiling?

Given the county’s budget crunch, what steps should be taken to save money at the Sheriff’s Office?

What’s the best way to deal with criminals coming into Buncombe from other counties?

How would you deal with gang activity?

What steps, if any, should be taken to improve conditions at the Buncombe County Detention Facility?

Citizen involvement, inner law-enforcement communication and developing informants.

Sensitivity training (considering others more important than yourself).

Zero-base budget, period.

Get on board with the Section 287(g) immigration in Buncombe County.

Eighty-two gangs in Buncombe County (advanced technology and serious field operations).

Five suicides in the last four years; 200 empty beds per day; direct supervision on inmates, and fill the empty beds with federal prisoners.

I think much emphasis needs to be placed on prevention with our youth in our schools.

I also think good, strong enforcement of our drug laws will increase the penalty paid for those who profit and make a living from the sale of illegal narcotics.

As part of our state-mandated in-service training, we have educated our officers on minority-sensitivity training, and we also have an Office of Professional Standards to investigate any complaints of racial profiling. All complaints made to the Sheriff’s Office are investigated.

With adequate personnel and resources now in place, we need to continually challenge our process of delivering those services to see if they can be more cost-efficient. Drug seizure/forfeiture funds have been applied to deliver training, equipment and overtime to lessen taxpayer burden. We need to continue those efforts.

A strong working relationship with law-enforcement agencies not only in Buncombe County but around Buncombe County continues to be the most effective method in dealing with the issues of property crime, drugs and gangs. We will continue to participate with the WNC Gang Task Force and DEA Task Force.

Much in the same way we deal with the drug issue. We need to work diligently with our schools on positively influencing our youth, and we need to have strong penalties and effective enforcement in place for those who become part of a gang and engage in criminal activity.

We need to continue our efforts in substance-abuse counseling, mental-health assessment and jail-diversion programs to impact our recidivism rate. Continue in professional training and hiring practices to ensure a safe and professional environment for our staff as well as our inmates.

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How much money have you raised for your campaign?

Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Occupation: Attorney, private practice Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: None Endorsements: Asheville Tea PAC

About $9,000

Occupation: District attorney, 28th Prosecutorial District Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Elected district attorney five times Endorsements: Asheville Citizen-Times

Approximately $40,000 from over 150 donors.

Myself: $2,000 Louis Tomasetti: $1,000 Mark Delk: $500

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Tom Keith: $1,000 Tom & Kaye Davis: $1,000 Dallas Riddle: $1,000

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What most distinguishes you from your opponent?

What are the top three lawenforcement priorities in Buncombe County?

What areas need improvement in the district attorney’s office?

I’ve been a prosecutor in the 28th District, Buncombe County, and in the 30th District, seven westernmost counties, and now work in criminal defense and family law. I have a broader perspective of how the criminal-justice system operates, because I’ve recently worked as a prosecutor and a defense attorney.

• Drugs: The BCSO has created an Interdiction Unit and BCAT, multiagency drug task force, focusing on area drug traffickers.

• Gangs: The APD has led the region in suppressing criminal street-gang activity.

• Habitual felons: Career criminals are an issue, and I will vigorously pursue them through habitual-offender laws.

• Fairness: There are more than 20 inmates in jail waiting 200 or more days for trial.

• Plea bargains: I will put a greater focus on trying cases.

• Public relations: I will work with media and agencies to improve communication and involvement in the criminaljustice system.

I’ve handled literally thousands of serious felony cases and personally tried numerous murder cases ... including ... death-penalty cases. I have ... tried to reach out to young persons about the consequences of bad choices. I have spent time in the Legislature to help get funding for the court system.

• Drugs (especially methamphetamine).

• Gangs: We must continue to work with our law-enforcement partners to stay ahead of the curve.

• Computer-related crime, especially involving sexual exploitation of children as well as financial fraud.

The district attorney’s office continues to need adequate funding by the state. Due to the budget woes, we have lost a legal assistant position in each of the past two years. ...

We have our full complement of assistant DAs for the first time in over a year-and-a-half.

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What are the best ways to deal with drug enforcement?

What do you think about the office’s handling of plea bargains?

What steps would you take to improve prosecution of rape and domestic violence?

What’s the best way to deal with habitual offenders, such as some of the homeless, who have long records of misdemeanor crimes?

How would you deal with gang activity?

What steps, if any, should be taken to improve conviction rates and get longer sentences for violent criminals?

Treatment and accountability.

For abusers, there are community agencies to provide treatment and support. For traffickers, seeking sentences that reflect the damage hard drugs create in our society. Youth education and diversion programs help reduce the community’s drug problem.

Drugs are often the root cause of property and violent crimes.

Plea bargains are a necessary part of the justice system.

Court time is limited, and every case cannot go to trial.

Many cases involving individual (versus societal) victims could go to trial but are unilaterally reduced or dismissed. Everyone deserves a fair day in court: the accused and the victim.

I will designate specially trained prosecutors to handle these cases, understanding the fact that victims are often afraid of or dependent upon the defendant. Domestic violence is not acceptable in our community and must be treated seriously in court. Sexual offenders will be held accountable in the strictest way possible.

I will evaluate the effectiveness of the Nuisance Court program, which orders offenders to complete community service or participate in treatment programs. I have built a relationship with community agencies that work with chronic homelessness and plan to use them as a resource to defeat recidivism in nuisance crimes.

Support prevention, intervention and diversion collaboratives like Changing Together (Buncombe County Gang Violence Prevention Project).

Supporting intelligence-based policing that identifies gang members and conflicts before they occur. I will use the Street Gang Suppression Act and habitual-offender statutes to keep the public safe, incarcerating violent members and leaders.

The district attorney and police can identify violent criminals, ensuring that they’re incarcerated before re-offending. Violent offenders will only receive plea bargains that have the public’s safety in mind. Offenders who decline will be tried with an emphasis on presenting the judge any aggravating factors that could lengthen the sentence.

First, stop drugs from crossing the border; second, educate the young as we did in this country on the dangers of smoking; and third, continue to vigorously prosecute drug traffickers.

We handle over 3,200 cases a year in Superior Court, plus over 1,000 probation-violation cases. We tried 50 cases to a jury last year with the 47 weeks of court we were allocated by the state, which mirrors the state average. We need more court time to try more cases.

We have prosecutors dedicated to these cases who will continue to work closely with the detectives who investigate them. We have a full-time legal assistant who contacts each domesticviolence victim. Hopefully there will continue to be advances in DNA and other scientific evidence to help us prosecute these cases.

We prosecuted 63 habitual felons last year, third in the state.

We led the state in habitual DWI prosecutions the last three years. Qualifying assaultive misdemeanants are prosecuted as habitual misdemeanants.

Nonassaultive misdemeanants may qualify for Nuisance Court: 74 successful completions, 1,500 hours of community service [so far this year].

Vigorous and focused prosecution, as in the recent federal case of Ken Foster and 25 others, which started from a case in our office. New focused deterrence initiative known as the “High Point Model” that will kick off in the next month or so to try and deter unacceptable behavior.

Adequately fund the court system. Give us more court time. Last year, sentences under the structured-sentencing system were cut by the Legislature. We need to build an adequate number of prison beds and make sentences for violent crime longer. We are going the wrong way.

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environmental news by Susan Andrew

On second thought...

Developing a global Plan B for sustainability

by Susan Andrew On the heels of a visit by acclaimed environmental author Bill McKibben, Warren Wilson College’s Environmental Leadership Center will host a free public lecture by Lester Brown, whom The Washington Post has called “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” (see box, “Bursting the Bubble”).

Several decades earlier, the Library of Congress noted that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.”

In 2001, Brown founded the D.C.-based Earth Policy Institute, charged with providing a road map for transitioning to an environmentally sustainable economy. That same year, he published Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, which Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson hailed as “an instant classic.” Brown’s most recent book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, is the fourth in a series outlining his vision for a sustainable future.

Current environmental trends, Brown contends, are beginning to affect our “bubble economy,” in which economic outputs are artificially inflated owing to over-consumption of the earth’s natural capital. If Plan A is the status quo — consuming shrinking fossil-fuel supplies and dwindling aquifers while a burgeoning population floods the atmosphere with combustion products — Plan B will involve “a major shift of our priorities toward environmental security, and fast,” he says. “We’re looking at a much more urgent need than most people realize.”

“Cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020 is going to require a substantial effort, but it’s entirely possible,” Brown asserted in a 2008 talk. “We have not yet realized the potential of wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, tidal power — there’s enormous potential there.

In the Plan B 2020 energy economy, we see 40

percent of the world’s electricity coming from wind. We’re talking about producing 1.5 million wind turbines in the next dozen years.”

If that sounds daunting (there are only about 100,000 wind turbines in place in the world today), Brown counters: “We produce 65 million cars each year; we have a lot of auto plants closed. The skilled work force is already in place — we just have to retool a bit, so we’re assembling wind turbines.”

The real challenge, he maintains, “is political leadership,” since this solution requires industrial reconfiguration on a scale not seen since President Roosevelt’s War Production Board halted U.S. auto production as America entered World War II, forcing factories to produce tanks and related armaments instead.

But the little things matter too, says Brown, arguing that the simple act of switching to compact-fluorescent light bulbs, if achieved worldwide, would cut global energy consumption by 12 percent, enabling the closure of 705 of the world’s 2,400 coal-fired power plants.

EPA coal-ash dustup

In a recent report on the debate concerning coal ash (produced when coal is burned to generate electricity), we noted that it’s been used as an ingredient in everything from wallboard to soil enhancements. That debate figured prominently in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearing on coal-ash regulation in Charlotte last month (see “Green Scene: When the Dust Settles,” Sept. 29 Xpress).

Now, an Oct. 13 report by the EPA’s Office of Inspector General says an agency website “presented an incomplete picture regarding actual damage and potential risks that can result from large-scale placement of unencapsulated [coalcombustion residuals].”

According to the EPA’s recently proposed rule for regulating coal ash, such unencapsulated use can result in environmental contamination, such

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But although the agency’s Coal Combustion Products Partnership website contained general risk information, it did not disclose this EPA decision and did not make the seven damage cases readily accessible to the public. The report recommended taking down the contested website, and the agency has agreed.

The report also concluded that this website

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bursting the bubble Lester Brown will give a free talk Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Warren Wilson College Chapel, starting at 7 p.m. His books will be available for sale (and the author will sign them) following the lecture.

Seating is limited and first-come, firstserved, but a block of seats will be reserved for those who RSVP through Facebook (go to on.fb.me/a8VN74).

For more information, call the Environmental Leadership Center at 828-771-3781.

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ecocalendar Calendar for October 27 - November 4, 2010 Attention Contractors • Landlords • Housepainters • EPA Certified Lead Renovator Training (pd.) Learn the methods, comply with the rule, avoid the fines and add value to your work! National Center for Healthy Housing • 3rd Friday of the month • North Asheville • 8am-4pm • $225 • Adrianne Weir, EPA and NC Accredited Instructor: (828) 275-2534 • adryana. services@gmail.com • http://imaginemas-imaginemore.vpweb.com/IM-Services.html Asheville Green Drinks A networking party that is part of the self-organizing global grassroots movement to connect communities with environmental ideas, media and action. Meets to discuss pressing green issues at The Southern, 41 Lexington Ave. Info: www.ashevillegreendrinks.com.

• FRIDAYS, 6-8pm - Program with guest speakers.

Swannanoa Community Cleanup • SA (10/30), 9am-Noon - Swannanoa residents and business owners will join forces for the Swannanoa Sweep, a community-wide roadside cleanup. Meet at the Swannanoa Ingles’ parking lot at 9am. Info: 686-3411.

Weatherization Seminar • TH (10/28), 7-9pm - A weatherization and energy efficiency workshop will be held at Home Source, 172 Charlotte St. Refreshments provided by the Neighborhood Association. Free.

WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment. Info: 2588737 or www.wnca.org.

• FR (10/29), 9am-4pm - Visit a successful streamrestoration project on the upper Watauga River, a riparian easement managed by WNCA. Learn about aquatic habitats and what’s been done to restore the area.

• WE (11/3), 9am-4pm - Excursions: Learn about local wildlife and habitat at Pilot Cove/Slate Rock Trail at the North Mills River Rec. Area. Dress in layers, bring rain gear, water and lunch. RSVP: lori@wnca.org.

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

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

• WE (11/3), 7-9pm - Social followed by a program at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Charlotte and Edwin Place in Asheville. French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson will speak about the N.C. permit renewal of the Arden Progress Energy coal ash ponds.

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your guide to community events, classes, concerts & galleries

calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists Calendar for October 27 - November 4, 2010 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/event.

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

Community Events & Workshops Cemetery Tour & Ghost Investigation • SA (10/30), 2-11pm - Meet at the Smith McDowell House for a bus tour of three Asheville cemeteries and/or Asheville’s L.E.M.U.R. organization will guide a ghost investigation inside the Smith McDowell

House. Cemetery Tour: 2-5pm, $25. Ghost Investigation: 711pm, $30. $50 for both.

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

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

• TH (10/28), 6:30pm - “Jane Hicks Gentry,” a Road Scholar presentation by Dr. Betty Smith, in Owen Theatre.

Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (10/28), 7:30pm - UNCA’s Center for Jewish Studies Lecture: “Jewish Mind/Jewish Body,” with Dr. Melvin Konner of Emory University at the Reuter Center. Info: 232-5027 or www.unca.edu/cjs.

• FR (10/29), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures: “Music,” with Dr. Lyn Burkett at the Humanities Lecture

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Hall and “New Math and New Physics,” with Dr. Sam Kaplan and Dr. Jeff Konz at Lipinsky Auditorium.

• MO (11/1), 5:30pm - “Hokum: A History of Black Popular Culture,” with Karen Sotiropoulos, the author of Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America.

Held at the Highsmith University Union, Room 222.

World Affairs Council Programs Info: www.main.nc.us/wac.

• TU (11/2), 7:30-9pm - Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru will give a lecture titled “Venezuela Is a Telenovela: Melodrama, Reality and Crisis” in the Manheimer Room, Reuter Center, UNCA. $8 nonmembers.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Attention Asheville Cajuns! (pd.) Do you want to “pass a good time” with other local Cajuns? Do you want to hear Boudreaux/Thibodeaux stories and talk about crawfish, Zydeco, and all things Cajun? We know y’all are out there! • Email us and let us know if you’d like to get together for a cup of dark roast coffee or a “hurricane” on a monthly basis. We’ll share music and drinks and some laughs while we talk about our Gulf Coast home. ashevillecajuns@yahoo.com American Institute of Architects Asheville Info: www.aiaasheville.org.

• WE (10/27), Noon “Mayberry Modernism: North Carolina’s Modernist Legacy,” a discussion and luncheon talk at Tuton Hall at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St. in downtown Asheville. $15 members/$20 nonmembers.

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

• THURSDAYS, 7:30-8:30am - Meeting at the University Highsmith building at UNCA. Financial Therapy Groups • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - Try out new ways of living and of being, supported by others with similar circumstances, for the collective wisdom of the group to enlighten all, while lightening the

burden of each. $8. Info: www. financialtherapygroups.com.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 6pm Firestorm-Blitzkrieg Game Night.

Bring your favorite game or come to play someone else’s.

• TH (10/28), 7-9pm - Charles Shaw will discuss his book Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality and related topics like the drug wars, the prison system and shamanic medicines. Michael Garfield will talk about deconstructing the boundaries between self and other.

Helios Warriors Health Care Program for Veterans A nonprofit alternative therapy program for veterans. Info: 2990776, info@helioswarriors.org or www.helioswarriors.org.

• FRIDAYS & SUNDAYS - Offering complementary/ alternative therapies. Needed: professional licensed/insured practitioners who would be willing to offer a min. of 3 hrs./ month of their service.

Land of Sky Toastmasters Your success in business is based on how effective you are. Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate and motivate. $10/month. Info: www.landofskytoastmasters. org.

• TUESDAYS, 7am - Meeting at the South Asheville Reuter YMCA. Land-of-Sky Regional Council Info: 251-6622 or www.landofsky.org.

• WE (10/27), 1pm - The monthly meeting will be held at the Land-of-Sky-Regional Council offices.

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

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville.

Also meets at Barnes & Noble on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. We have all the gear; just bring your vocabulary. No dues the first six months.

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

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A Women's Business Roundtable, presented by Asheville SCORE, will be held on Wednesday, wed Oct. 27, from 2 to 3 p.m. at Dixon-Hughes, 500 Ridgefield Circle. The event is open to startup/ current women business owners and will feature a discussion with SBA District Director Lynn Douthett. RSVP: michael.arriola@sba.gov.

All are welcome to an artist reception for Les Caison III’s exhibition of oil paintings titled

thur Floating Women on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Studio 103 Fine Art Gallery, 103 W.

St., in Black Mountain. There will be a Halloween costume contest held at 6:30 p.m. Floating Women will be on display through Nov. 27. Info: 357-8327 or www.studio103fineartgallery. com.

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Visit a successful stream-restoration project on the upper Watauga River, a riparian easement managed by WNC Alliance, on Friday, Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn about aquatic habitats and what’s been done to restore the area. Info: 258-8737 or www.wnca.org.

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The Family Fall Festival, featuring 60 carnival games, giant inflatables for children, prizes, candy treats and more, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at West Asheville Baptist Church, 926 Haywood Road in West Asheville. All children ages 3-12 years old and their families are invited. Info: 253-9824 or www.westashevillebaptist.org.

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Happy Halloween! The Asheville Community Band will perform a "Spooktacular" concert on Sunday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m. in the auditorium at Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St. $8/free for children with a paying adult. Info: www.ashevillecommunityband.org.

Check out the CANstruction in Asheville exhibit at Pack Place, 2 South Pack Square, on

mon Monday, Nov. 1. Local architects and designers, along with area school children, designed and built structures with canned food. The exhibit will be on display through Nov. 6, after which time the canned food will be donated to MANNA FoodBank. Info: www.yafasheville. org.

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Spend an evening with N.C. Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, starting at 7:30 p.m. in UNCA's Humanities Lecture Hall. The event will include a reading, reception and book signing. Info: www.unca.edu.

• SA (10/30), 10am-5pm Vote for your favorite scarecrow on the museum’s lawn. $1 —5-6pm - Guided Walking Tour of Brevard. $10.

Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-23. Each week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators.

Straight allies are also welcome.

Info: www.youthoutright.org.

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

Government & Politics Asheville Copwatch A grassroots organization formed by local residents to promote civilian police oversight and review. Info: 398-4817 or 255-8115.

• WEDNESDAYS, 1pm - Meets at Firestorm Cafe & Books, 48 Commerce St. Buncombe Democratic Party Coffee Nights

• TUESDAYS, 6pm - Coffee and political updates on the 2010 elections. Find out how you can make a difference. Meet at Buncombe Democratic HQ. Directions: www.buncombedems.org.

Drinking Liberally Hoist a pint for democracy with other like-minded, left-of-center souls. Drinking Liberally is a fun and informal political discussion group. Open to all, the only cost is your tab. Info: asheville@ drinkingliberally.org or www. drinkingliberally.org.

• TH (10/28), 7pm - Meet at The Admiral, 400 Haywood Road.

• TH (11/4), 7pm - Meet at Zen Sushi, 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 205.

Haywood Peace Vigil • WEDNESDAYS, 4pm - The peace vigil is held at the Haywood County Courthouse in Waynesville. Info: www.unitedforpeace.org.

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

• MONDAYS, 7pm - The Liberty on the Rocks social meets at El Chapala Restaurant off

of Merrimon Ave. Info: infinitybbc@gmail.com.

Transylvanians for Peace • SATURDAYS, Noon - The peace vigil will be held in front of the courthouse in Brevard.

Info: www.unitedforpeace.org.

Seniors & Retirees Fitness at North Asheville Community Center An exercise group welcomes new participants interested in fun exercise. Come get healthy, and it’s free, too! No discrimination against younger participants.

• MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9-9:45am - Exercise.

Henderson County Senior Softball League The league is always looking for new players, ages 55 and older.

Weather permitting, they play year-round. Info: 698-3448 or www.LJRsoftball.com.

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

N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Unless otherwise noted, these events and classes are held in the Chestnut Ridge Room at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: 251-6140.

• FR (10/29), 11:30am - Fab Friday: “Understanding Mid-term Elections,” with Dr. Bill Sabo, of UNCA’s Political Science Department, at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.

The Way Back • FRIDAYS (through 11/19), 11:30am-1pm - CarePartners presents “The Way Back,” information for those facing aging issues and tools for accessing community resources. Attend one class or all 8. Free. Lunch provided. At CarePartners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville.

To register: 277-3392. Info: www.carepartners.org/wayback.

Walk Wise, Drive Smart Aimed at senior citizens, but open to everyone. Walks are canceled in the event of bad weather. Info: 551-6415 or www.walk-wise.org.

• TH (11/4) - Urban walk in Hendersonville.

Animals Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 5053440 or www.bwar.org.

• DAILY, 8am-8pm - Pet Adoption Day at the rescue center, 31 Glendale Ave. Open from 8am-6pm on Sundays.

• WEDNESDAYS 6-8pm & SATURDAYS, Noon-4pm - Animal Adoption Day at PetSmart Asheville, 150 Bleachery Blvd.

Buncombe County Animal Services The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Services Division offers low-cost vaccination clinics. Rabies shots: $10. Combo shots: $15. Microchips: $10.

To receive a three-year rabies vaccine, bring the one-year certificate. Please bring restraints for pets. Info: 253-1195.

• SA (10/30), 9am-Noon - At Superpetz on Brevard Road —- 2-4pm - At Tractor Supply on Monticello Road.

Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to provide affordable spay/ neuter services to communities in/around Henderson County.

Info: 693-5172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org.

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

Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East, Hendersonville. Info: 693-5605.

• SA (10/30), 9am - Pet First Aid. $30.

Transylvania Animal Alliance Group For information about T.A.A.G., or donations of time or resources, 966-3166, taagwags@ citcom.net, www.taagwags.org or www.taag.petfinder.com.

• SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm - Adoption Days at PETsMART on Airport Road in Arden.

View adoptable animals on the website or at www.facebook. com/TAAGwags.

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

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

• WEDNESDAYS, Noon12:45pm - iTunes.

• THURSDAYS, Noon12:45pm - iMovie.

Western Alliance Center for Independent Living Located at 108 New Leicester Hwy., Asheville. Info: 2981977, www.westernalliance.org or www.disabilitypartners.org.

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

Donations are tax deductible.

WNC Web Techies WNC Web Techies enables folks in the WNC area to discuss everything and anything web-related. Info: http://groups. google.com/group/wncwebtechies.

• WEEKLY - Online meetings.

See website for details.

Volunteering Asheville Civitan Club Come hear community leaders present programs. Meetings are held at Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of Church St. and Aston St. Open to the public. RSVP for lunch: $10.

Info: 348-4222 or www.ashevillecivitan.org.

• Donations of travel-sized toiletries are needed for Christmas packages. Items will be shipped and distributed to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Info: 484-1717.

Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre Performances are held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St., Asheville. Info & tickets: 254-2621.

• Interested in volunteering, building sets, making costumes or providing childcare? Sign-up at the ACDT office.

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.

• The Mentors and Matches after-school program, which requires an one-hour per-week time commitment, seeks volunteers to work with elementary students ages 6-14. Activities include helping with homework, playing educational games, making art and more. Info: www.bbbswnc.org.

CarePartners Hospice & Palliative Care Volunteer Training Classes • THURSDAYS (through 10/28) - Free training classes for those interested in volunteering. Volunteers work with terminally ill patients and their families, do administrative support, and help with special events. CarePartners Solace, 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville.

Info: 255-0231.

Carl Sandburg Home

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is located three miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 25 on Little River Road.

Info: 693-4178 or www.nps. gov/carl.

• Seeking dynamic volunteers to work at the park’s historic barn area and develop education programs. Training provided.

Community Garden • FRIDAYS, 3-6pm - Volunteers are needed to help maintain a garden that supplies food for weekly community meals.

Come join a group of people who love to get down and dirty.

Info: (864) 557-2204.

Friends2Ferals • DAILY - Cat-loving volunteers are needed to help homeless cats. Duties include trapping, transporting to and from the Humane Alliance, post-surgery care, fostering kittens and fundraising. Info: 505-6737 or www.friends2ferals.org.

Hands On Asheville-Buncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome to volunteer on many projects with adult supervision.

Info: www.handsonasheville. org or call 2-1-1. Visit the Web site to sign up for a project.

• TH (10/28), 4-6pm - Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries —- 5-7:30pm - Meals for Hope. Cook and serve a meal for 15-25 women and children who are part of New Choices, an empowerment program for displaced homemakers in need of counseling and assistance.

Business & Careers Ready To Sell Or Buy A Restaurant In WNC? (pd.) We work exclusively with the food and beverage industry.

• Contact National Restaurant Properties in Asheville: (828) 225-4801. jeffnra@bellsouth. net • www.restaurantstore. com A-B Tech Continuing Ed Classes Classes are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.abtech. edu/ce.

• FR (10/29), 6-9pm - “Natural Products Topics: Creating Herbal Holiday Gifts,” at the Enka Campus. $5.

• TH (11/4), 6-9pm - “Chinese Herbs in Western North Carolina,” with Jean Giblette of High Falls Gardens in New York. Held at the Haynes Center on the Enka Campus in Candler.

American Business Women’s Association ABWA brings together businesswomen of diverse occupa-

tions to raise funds for local scholarships and enhance the professional and personal lives of its members. Info: www. abwaskyhy.com.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 5:307:45pm - Meeting at the Flat Rock Grille, 1302 Hendersonville Road.

Networking begins at 5:30pm and the meeting/dinner begins at 6pm. $5, plus personal menu choice. RSVP: 681-9688.

Asheville SCORE Counselors to Small Business If your business could use some help, SCORE is the place to start. Free and confidential.

To make an appointment: 2714786. Our offices are located in the Federal Building, 151 Patton Ave., Rm. 259. Seminars are held at A-B Tech’s Small Business Center, room 2046.

Free for veterans. Info: www. ashevillescore.org.

• SA (10/30), 8:30am-2:30pm - “How to Start a Business in Tough Times.” Register online.

Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (10/27), 7-9pm Lawrence G. McDonald, former Vice President of Distressed Debt and Convertible Securities at Lehman Brothers and author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers will speak in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Women’s Business Roundtable • WE (10/27), 2-3:30pm Presented by Asheville SCORE. Open to startup/current women business owners. Features discussion with SBA District Director Lynn Douthett to discuss small business issues and solutions. At Dixon-Hughes, 500 Ridgefield Ct., Asheville. Email michael.arriola@sba.gov.

Seating limited to 20.

Sports Groups & Activities Asheville Kendo Club • FRIDAYS, 6:30-9:30pm - Dedicated to bringing quality Kendo to the Asheville area.

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

Buncombe County Walking Club The purpose of the club is not to compete but to build fitness, form friendships and have fun. Info: 250-4260 or grace. young@buncombecounty.org.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:15am - Meet at Sports Park in Candler.

Filipino Martial Arts

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Kuntao: Traditional empty-hand system of self defense. Kali: Filipino method of stick-andknife combat. First two lessons are free. Info: 777-8225 or http://kuntao.webs.com.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7pm - Classes at Asheville Culture Project, 257 Short Coxe Ave.

Special Olympics Buncombe County Info: 250-4265 or grace. young@buncombecounty.org.

• TUESDAYS (through 11/16), 6-7:30pm - Special Olympics soccer practice at the J.B. Lewis soccer field on Azalea Road.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - The Special Olympics cheerleading team meets for practice at the Zeugner Center in Arden.

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

• WEDNESDAYS - Game.

• SUNDAYS - Game.

Outdoors Asheville Track Club

The club provides information, education, training, social and sporting events for runners and walkers of any age. Please see the group website for weekly events and news. Info: www. ashevilletrackclub.org or 2538781.

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

Buncombe County Walking Club • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:15am - Meet at the Sports Park in Candler. Gather at the picnic shelter. The purpose of the club is not to compete, but to build fitness and form friend-

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

Carolina Mountain Club CMC fosters the enjoyment of the mountains of WNC and adjoining regions and encourages the conservation of our natural resources, through an extensive schedule of hikes and a program of trail building and maintenance. $20 per year, family memberships $30 per year. Newcomers must call the leader before the hike. Info: www.carolinamtnclub.org.

• WE (10/27), 8am - Douglas Falls and Locust Ridge Circuit.

Info: 545-6487 or mbgcmc@ gmail.com.

• SA (10/30), 8:30am - Soapstone Ridge. Info: 2526327 or tomary.avl@gmail. com.

• SU (10/31), 8:30am Hawksbill & Tablerock Mtns.

Info: (864) 638-3686 or tedsnyderjr@bellsouth.net —12:30pm - Pisgah Inn to US 276. Info: 252-6327 or tomary. avl@gmail.com.

• WE (11/3), 10am - Greybeard Overlook To Balsam Gap. Info: 299-0298 or barthb@bellsouth.net.

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

The Power of Pink • SA (10/30), 6am - Registration begins —- 8amNoon - The morning starts with The Pink Relay, an all-women, 20-mile race through the Haywood Community College campus; followed by the Pink 4-miler, which is open to men and women; and the family-friendly Bubble Gum Fun Run/Walk. Meet at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center, 75 Leroy George Dr. Info: www.haymed.org/foundation/events.html.

Gardening Ikenobo Ikebana Society The Blue Ridge Chapter of Ikenobo Ikebana Society (Japanese Flower Arranging) is a nonprofit organization that meets monthly at St. John’s in the Wilderness Parish House (Rt.#225 South & Rutledge Rd.) in Flat Rock. Yearly membership is available. Info: 696-0967.

• TH (10/28) & FR (10/29), 10am-Noon & 1-3pm - Japanese Flower Arranging Fall Workshops with professor Muriel Scrivner at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 W. Sixth Ave., Hendersonville.

Topics: Landscape Moribana, Shoka Ishuike, Shoka Futakabuike and Freestyles. $40 per class.

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

Regional Tailgate Markets For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: 2361282 or www.buyappalachian. org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-6pm Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd.

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

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

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

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

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

Community Medical Clinic parking lot —- 8-11:30am - Columbus Tailgate Market, Courthouse Street in front of the Polk County Courthouse —- 8:30am-12:30pm - Yancey County Farmers Market, Highway 19E at S. Main Street, Burnsville.

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

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

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

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

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

Parenting Parenting Classes at Pardee Hospital All classes are held at Pardee Hospital, in the orientation classroom, 800 N. Justice St. in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required. Info: (866)-790-WELL. • TH (10/28), 6:30-8:30pm - “Infant Care Class.”

• THURSDAYS (11/4 & 11/11), 6:30-9pm - “Childbirth Class,” a two-part session for expectant parents.

Preschool Parenting Lunch ‘n’ Learn Series Are you and your child ready for kindergarten? Maccabi Academy and the Shalom Preschool Program present a series of lunch and learn programs designed to help anxious parents. All sessions are free and will take place at the Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte Street. Bring a lunch.

Info: 551-7005 or mherbert1@ aol.com.

• MO (11/1), 12:30-1:30pm - “My child can read, or can she?” What is the difference between word recall and real reading? Get information and tools to help with your child’s early literacy skills. Facilitated

by Kate Donaldson, Carolyn Myers and Miranda Watson.

Professional Parenting Open House • 1st & 4th MONDAYS, 1pm - If you’ve ever considered foster care or adoption, this is an opportunity to learn about programs and find out how you can help. Meet at 38 Garfield St., Suite B, downtown Asheville. Info: 236-2877.

Kids Free Halloween fun at the McCune Assisted & Independent Living Center. (pd.) We’re inviting all the local ghosts and goblins age 12 and under to TRICK OR TREAT on Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Tons of treats and loads of fun in a safe, indoor environment.

Come visit us at 101 Lions Way in Black Mountain, NC 28711. Call Frances or Deniece at 828-669-8452.

At The Health Adventure Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm & Sun., 1-5pm. $8.50 adults/$7.50 students & seniors/$6 kids 2-11. Program info or to RSVP: 254-6373, ext.

324. Info: www.thehealthadventure.org.

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

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

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

Free with admission.

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

• SA (10/30), 3pm - Children’s event: Meet Sequoia, a golden retriever who teaches the core values of character education in Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida.

Books & Breadboard Located at 30 All Souls Crescent, Asheville. Info: 5058233 or www.booksandbreadboard.com.

• SU (10/31), 9am-5pm - Wear your costumes, we’ll be wearing ours! Treats available for kids and kids at heart.

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

• THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:45pm - New singers are invited to join the chorus. Rehearsals at First Congregational Church, downtown Asheville.

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

Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@netzero.com.

• SU (10/31), 3pm - Story time: Happy Halloween! Spooky (but not too spooky) stories and craft activities for Halloween.

Costumes very welcome.

Suggested for ages 3-8, but all ages welcome. Free.

FENCE Events The Foothills Equestrian Nature Center is located at 3381 Hunting Country Road in Tryon.

Info: 859-9021 or www.fence. org.

• SU (10/31), 1-5pm - The Kids Fall Festival will feature carnival games, yummy treats, a rock-climbing wall, a maze and much more.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Fri., 10am-5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org.

• Through SA (10/30) - Kids Vote 2010. Visit Hands On! and vote for your favorite exhibit at Hands On! • Through SA (10/30) - Make a Halloween mask at Hands On! Price is included in $5 admission/Free for members.

• Through SU (10/31) - Help paint the “father and son” bears for the Bearfootin’ in Downtown Hendersonville art project.

Haunted Lagoon • SA (10/30), Noon-3pm - The ninth annual Haunted Lagoon and costume contest at the Zeugner Center pool, 90 Springside Road. Face painting, crafts, prizes and Halloween treats. Bring a swimsuit for the “lagoon” and a bag for goodies.

Registration for the costume contest begins at 12:15pm. $2 to swim, plus a can of food for MANNA. Info: 684-5072.

Super Saturday • SATURDAYS - Classes in the arts, sciences, foreign languages and more at UNCA. For students grades 3-8. New classes for parents in basketry and gentle yoga. Registration and information: 251-6558 or cesap.unca.edu/super-saturdayprogram.

Trick or Treating • SA (10/30), 6-8pm - The McCune Center invites all local ghosts and goblins age 12 and under to “TrickorTreat.”

Treats and loads of fun in a safe, indoor environment at 101 Lions Way, Black Mountain.

Info: 669-8452.

Spirituality Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings

also available. Christy Gunther, MA. (828)258-3229.

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

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

• THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Sitting and walking meditation, followed by sharing by sangha members.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation/Free Introductory Lectures Your brain needs this: Scientists know TM creates brainwave coherence. Only an orderly brain can support higher consciousness. TM is easy to learn—enjoyable to practice.

Dissolves deep-rooted stress, reduces anxiety and depression.

Verified by 600 scientific studies. Info: 254-4350 or www.

MeditationAsheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 2pm - Meeting at Maharishi Enlightenment Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Learn how to directly access the field of infinite creativity, intelligence and bliss within you, revitalizing mind and body and creating peace in collective consciousness. Topics: Meditation and brain research; How meditation techniques compare; Meditation for social change; “What science says” and What is “transcending”? Free. Please RSVP. Asheville Fortune Teller’s Guild • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Meeting.

The guild encourages honesty and responsibility as well as maintaining a high standard for readings. Tarot readers, astrologers, palmists and any other non-mediums or non-psychics are welcome. Location info: 777-9368.

Asheville Jewish Meditation and Chanting Circle • Alternate SUNDAYS, 1:15-3:15pm - Following the Awakened Heart Project’s (www.awakenedheartproject. org) approach to Jewish meditation, learn to cultivate an awareness of the Divine Presence. Gather at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave., Asheville.

Asheville Meditation Center Classes are held at the Greenlife Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: 505-2300 or www.meditateasheville.org.

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

Avatar Meher Baba “I have come not to teach but to awaken.” Info: 274-0307 or 274-7154.

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• SUNDAYS, 4pm - Meetings occur most Sundays in Asheville. Share Meher Baba’s inspiring message of divine love and unity in the midst of diversity. Call for locations.

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

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

Baha’i Faith Everyone is welcome. Join us in our celebration of diversity: “The earth is one country and mankind its citizens,”

Baha’u’llah. The Baha’i Center is located at 5 Ravenscroft Drive, Asheville. Info: 251-1051 or www.wncbahai.org.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Sunday Devotional.

Cloud Cottage Sangha This branch of the World Community of Mindful Living meets at 219 Old Toll Circle in Black Mountain, to practice seated meditation and mindfulness training. All events by donation. Info: 669-0920, cloudcottage@bellsouth.net or www.cloudcottage.org.

• 4th WEDNESDAYS, 67:30pm - “Learn to Meditate” class.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Community gathering for seated and walking meditation, sutra study and discussion.

• THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Wild Mind, a create writing and art workshop. Bring a journal. $25 suggested donation.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - ElevenEleven-Eleven, a step study group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Mindfully Trim, free spiritual weight-loss support group.

Compassionate Communication Practice Group Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and com-

munity by practicing compassionate communication. Group uses a model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. Free. Info: 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com.

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

Discussion Group: Visions of the Upcoming World Shift • SA (10/30), 2pm - Looking for like-minded visionaries and lightworkers who understand that regardless of what economic, political or environmental upheavals happen, the

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Shift is ultimately about spiritual alignment. Meeting at West End Bakery. Lead with love, not fear.

Edgar Cayce Study Group • TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Meet at West Asheville Unity Church, 130 Shelburne Road. Info: 298-8494 or jasonference@ bellsouth.net.

Events at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville Located at 204 6th Ave, in Hendersonville. Info: 693-4275.

• WE (10/27), 5-7pm - The Harvest Festival and Community Dinner will be held.

This meal sharing ministry has been an annual event since 1999.

Great Tree Zen Temple Offers a variety of practice opportunities in Soto Zen tradition. Zazen for individuals seeking to deepen their practice, family, women’s, writing retreats. Beginners welcome.

Rev. Teijo Munnich. Info: www.greattreetemple.org or 645-2085.

• Year-round schedule, weekly study and meditation.

Insight Meditation Group • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - People of all experience levels are welcome to join this drop-in meditation group.

Meditation instructions will be given to those who are new to

the practice. $5. Info: http://bit. ly/9XujJ6.

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

• WE (10/27), 6:30-8pm - The Greatest of These is Love: Discussion Series on the Bible and Being Gay. • SUNDAYS, 9:15am Women-led, justice-focused, family-friendly, and open to all.

Worship with Land of the Sky UCC. An open and affirming new church. Childcare available.

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

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

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

• TH (10/28), 7pm - Mother Grove Goddess Temple commemorates the Samhain season at the annual Ancestor Vigil, held at the parish hall of the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village. Remember the recently dead and the Celtic New Year. Open to the respectful public. Love offerings are encouraged.

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

At 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 2.

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

Info: 285-9927.

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

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

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

Love donations accepted. Info:

828-255-8304 or ecastro1@ charter.net.

Sounds of the Chakra Toning Circle • SUNDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm “Sounds of the Chakras.” Linda Go facilitates this sound healing offering at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St., downtown Asheville. Love donation. Info: ashevillesoundhealing.com or 776-3786.

Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Meditation Group Receive initiation into Sri Swamiji’s one-hour meditation technique. One-hour of silent meditation followed by Bhajans (devotional singing). Fairview location directions: 299-3246.

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• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - “Silent Meditation.” Free.

St. Germain Aquarian Consciousness Fellowship Sacred spaceusing the St. Germain Violet Flameto support ascension clearingis created with live high-frequency intuitive piano music from classical composers and includesthe Atomic Accelerator Chair and Water into Golden Elixir ceremonies. Info: 658-3362.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-9:30pm - Meditation and potluck in the Weaverville area.

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

• SUNDAYS, 5pm - Crosswired “come as you are” service in the Fellowship Hall. Infant care and church school for youngsters is offered during the service.

Surya Meditation • MONDAYS, 5-6pm Reconnect with your natural state of well-being: access boundless energy, release emotional stress, improve mental clarity. Informal lecture followed by group meditation. Free. At Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave. Tai Chi in Pack Square Park Join Tai Chi instructor Jonathan Santos on the lawn of Reuter Terrace in Pack Square Park and revive the body and spirit.

Open to all skill levels. Info: 252-2300 or www.packsquarepark.org.

• SATURDAYS (10/30) through (11/20), 10-11:30am - Tai Chi. Free.

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

• SUNDAYS, 9:15am & 11:15am - Services.

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freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

In the Chinese province of Fujian, there used to be people who believed they could communicate directly with the dead. If they slept on the grave of the person they wished to reach, their dreams during the night might lead to a meeting with the spirit of the departed. I propose that you consider something similar, Aries. Why? Because according to my reading of the astrological omens, you would benefit from communing with your ancestors. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually spend the night near their final resting place, find another way to contact them in dreams. Put their photos under your pillow, maybe, or hold one of their beloved objects as you sleep. Halloween costume suggestion: the ancestor whose influence you need most right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In an exhibition at New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum of Modern Art, performance artist Marina Abramovic stared into the eyes of a succession of different strangers for 700 hours. Actresses Marisa Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among those who received her visual probes, as well as 1,400 less famous folks. I think it would be fun for you to do a variation on her ritual, Taurus. In your case, you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it to show off or to prove an artistic point, but rather to get closer to the allies with whom youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to develop a deeper bond. Are you up for some deep eye gazing? Halloween costume suggestion: a mystic seer; a god or goddess with a third eye; a superhero whose power is X-ray vision.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Have you ever seen the edible fungi known as truffles? They are bulbous, warty clumps.

Because they grow underground near trees, specially trained pigs and dogs are needed to sniff out their location. In parts of Europe their taste is so highly prized that they can sell for up to $6,000 per pound. In my opinion, the truffle should be your metaphor of the month this November. I expect that you will be in the hunt for an ugly but delectable treasure, or a homely but valuable resource, or some kind of lovable monster. Halloween costume suggestion: a Frankensteinian beauty queen or underwear model, a rhino in a prom dress, a birthday cake made of lunchmeat.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try harder, Cancerian; try easier. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn your focus into a white-hot beam of piercing intensity; relax your focus into a soft-eyed enjoyment of playing around with the possibilities. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tense your sphincter, marshal your warrior ferocity, and stir up your righteous anger at how life refuses to conform to your specifications; rather, send waves of tenderness through your body, open your heart to the experiment of blending your energy with lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unpredictable flow, and marvel at the surprising revelations and invitations that are constantly flowing your way. Halloween costume suggestions: Mr. Smooth, Ms. Velvet, Dr. Groovalicious, DJ Silky.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to change the world,â&#x20AC;? said writer Aldous Huxley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.â&#x20AC;?

I suggest you adopt that as your operative hypothesis, Leo. Maybe in a few weeks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make sense for you to shower your loved ones with advice, and maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll eventually get re-inspired to save humanity from its foolish ways. But for now your assignment is to fix, refine, and recalibrate your own beautifully imperfect self. Halloween costume suggestion: hermit, anarchist, keeper of a gorgeous diary, do-it-yourself brain surgeon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In last Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national election, none of Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three political parties got a majority. For a while, the country had no leader. Eventually, the rightwing Conservatives and the leftwing Liberal Democrats formed a weird coalition, making Conservative David Cameron the Prime Minister. Some people had mixed feelings about the deal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said it was like a cross between a bulldog and chihuahua,â&#x20AC;? Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mayor announced, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but what I meant is it will have a fantastic hybrid vigor.â&#x20AC;? I suspect that a certain merger you have in the works, Virgo, could yield similar feelings. Halloween costume suggestion: half-bulldog, half-chihuahua; part hummingbird, part-crocodile; equal mix of Gandhi and Napoleon.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Five white tigers at a Chinese wild animal park became way too tame for their own good.

Maybe theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hung around humans too long or their lifestyle was too cushy. Whatever the reason, one of their essential instincts atrophied. A zookeeper put live chickens into their habitats, hoping they would pounce and devour, but instead they retreated as if unnerved. Tigers scared of chickens?! Since then the zoo officials have been taking measures to boost the big catsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bravado. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m worried you might be headed in the tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; direction. Undomesticate thyself!

Halloween costume suggestion: a big fierce creature.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You could really use your own personal doorman or doorwoman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; someone who would accompany you everywhere you go and help you gain entrance through the portals you encounter. In my vision of what you require, this assistant would go further. He or she would find secret camouflaged doors for you, and do the equivalent of uttering Ali Babaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magic words â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Sesame!â&#x20AC;? He or she would even *create* doors for you, allowing you to penetrate obstacles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; going into carpenter mode and fashioning a passageway for you right on the spot. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find anyone to fulfill this role for you, do it yourself. Halloween costume suggestion: a doorman or doorwoman; a gatekeeper from a fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Is the highest form of courage embodied in

a soldier fighting during a war? Irish poet William Butler Yeats didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think so. He said that entering into the abyss of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep self is equally daring. By my astrological reckoning, that will be the location of your greatest heroism in the days ahead. Your most illuminating and productive adventures will be the wrestling matches you have with the convulsive, beautiful darkness you find inside yourself.

Halloween costume suggestion: a peaceful warrior.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The average spammer sends out 12,414,000 emails before snagging the money of just one gullible dupe. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to have to be quite that prolific in order to get the word out about what you have to offer, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to be pretty persistent. Fortunately, to improve your odds and raise your chances of success, all you have to do is purify your intentions. So please check in with your deep self and make sure that your gift or idea or product or service has impeccable integrity. Halloween costume suggestion: a holy salesperson; an angel hawking real estate in paradise; a TV infomercial spokesperson for free cake.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Sunlight may smell spicy or musky to you these days. The wind might have a flavor like chocolate liqueur or a ripe peach. The hum of the earth as it turns may sound like a symphony you heard once in a dream. Your body? Electric. Your soul? Sinewy. In other words, Aquarius magic is afoot. The hills are alive with future memories that taste delicious.

Your feet will touch sacred ground far more than usual. Halloween costume suggestion: a character from a film that changed your life for the better.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

In the middle of the last century, avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger threw a masquerade party called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come as Your Madness.â&#x20AC;? One of the invited guests was the Piscean writer Anais Nin. She appeared as the ancient fertility goddess Astarte, but with an unexpected wrinkle: She wore a birdcage over her head.

This Halloween I urge you to be inspired by Ninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to portray her madness as a goddess, but reject Ninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to cage the head of her mad goddess. Find a disguise that allows you to embody the best and most beautiful part of your craziness, and let it roam free.

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• 1st, 3rd & 5th SUNDAYS, 10am-Noon - Greenlife Grocery Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave. Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart.

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band.

Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www. unitync.net.

• WE (11/3), 7pm - The film Home, a visual portrayal of Earth, will be screened. Love offering.

Unity Church of Asheville Looking for something different? Unity of Asheville explores the deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures combined with an upbeat contemporary music program to create a joyous and sincere worship service. Come join us this Sunday and try it for yourself. Located at 130 Shelburne Rd., W. Asheville.

Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com.

• 5th SUNDAYS, 11am - Musical Celebration Service.

Musicians are always welcome.

Info: 768-3339.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual Celebration Service —- 12:151:30pm - A Course in Miracles classes with Rev. Gene Conner.

• TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Edgar Cayce Study Group. Info: 926-3688.

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

Teachers: Lawson Sachter and Sunya Kjolhede. Main center: 580 Panther Branch, Alexander.

City center: 12 Von Ruck Court.

Call for orientation. Info: 6458001 or www.windhorsezen. org.

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

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

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

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

• Through SA (11/27) Paintings of the French Broad River by John Mac Kah. • Through TU (11/2) - Fleeting Glimpses, an exhibition by Richard Oversmith, and Anthropomorphic Produce, a

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series of paintings by Denise Stewart-Sanabria.

American Folk Art & Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery. Info: 2812134 or www.amerifolk.com.

• Through SU (10/31) - A is for Autumn, an exhibition on display in the Oui-Oui Gallery.

Art at Mars Hill College Info: www.mhc.edu.

• Through SA (11/6) - New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music. A first-rate Smithsonian Institution exhibit complemented by a Madison County Roots Music exhibit and photographs by Rob Amberg will be on display in Weizenblatt Gallery, Moore Auditorium. Info: www.mhc. edu/newharmonies.

Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted.

• Through TU (11/9) - The UNCA Invitational Art Exhibition, featuring work by artists invited by the art faculty in ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture, will be on display at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall.

• Through SA (10/30) - Dance of the Spirit, an exhibition featuring works of acrylic and charcoal on canvas by Pat Calderone, will be on display at Blowers Gallery, in the Ramsey Library.

• FR (10/29), 6pm - An opening reception for Lilliputia, a photography exhibition by UNCA student Brandon Phillips, will be held at Owen Hall, second floor gallery.

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

• Through TH (11/11) - Will Paint for Food, watercolors by John Anderson.

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

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

• Through SA (10/30) - The Artists of Toe River, representing a diversity of two- and three-dimensional media including clay, fiber, basketry, glass, photography, mixed media and jewelry.

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

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

• Through SU (3/13) - The Director’s Cut: 1995-2010.

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

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

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

• Through SU (10/31) - Selective Vision, featuring works by Reda Kay. Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village, next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Open Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm, and Sat., 10am6pm. Info: 768-0246 or www. bellavistaart.com.

• Through SU (10/31) - Hummingbirds and Landscapes, paintings by Nathaniel Galka, and raku by Scott Haines will be on display.

Blue Spiral 1 The gallery at 38 Biltmore Ave. is open Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm.

Info: 251-0202 or www. bluespiral1.com.

• Through FR (12/31) - Milestones: Blue Ridge Parkway, an exhibition by 20 regional artists; “animal imagery earthenware” by Ron Meyers; and figurative ceramic sculpture by Donna Polseno.

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

• Through SA (11/27) - Finding Her Place, an exhibition by Brie Castell.

• FR (10/29) through SA (11/27) - The Human Condition, a juried exhibition addressing a wide scope of visual ideas relating to the concept of the human psyche.

• FR (10/29), 5-8pm - Opening reception for The Human Condition. Light hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served.

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road. in Hendersonville. Info: 890-2050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org.

• Through FR (12/3) - Out of the Board Room & Into the Studio, an exhibition honoring the work of retiring Executive Director Dian Magie.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org.

• Through SA (11/13) MANinfested DESTINY: From Boone to Boon, an exhibition

by Dan Smith; Perspectives in Bronze, sculpture by Greg Bailey and Michael Warrick; and Evidence of Things Unseen, paintings by Amy Cheng.

• Through SA (12/4) - In the Shadow of the Volcanoes: Contemporary Art from the Mountains of Central Mexico.

• Through SA (12/4) Evidence of Things Unseen, contemporary paintings by Martha Neaves in Catwalk Community Gallery.

Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 253-7651 or www.grovewood.com.

• Through SU (10/31) - Along the Path: Paintings and Sculpture, contemporary works

by NC artist Dale McEntire.

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 SU (10/31) - Lynn Boggess: New Work 2010, featuring innovative American landscape paintings.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 452-0593 or www.haywoodarts.org.

• Through SA (11/13) - The Appalachian Pastel Society’s second annual National Juried Exhibit.

It’s By Nature The gallery is located at 678 W. Main St., downtown Sylva. Info: 631-3020.

• Through SU (10/31) - Featured artist: Tara MeltonMiller.

Madison County Arts Council Exhibits Located at 90 S. Main St. in Marshall. Info: 649-1301.

• Through FR (11/5) - Tim Barnwell’s Thirty Years in the Mountains: A Photographic Retrospective and the Smithsonian exhibition New Harmonies: Celebrating America’s Roots Music will be on display.

New Courtyard Gallery Located at 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Building, Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 2733332.

• Through SA (11/6) - Anything Goes—Everything Shows, a mail-art exhibition.

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

• Through (11/21) - Works by Paul Hornbuckle, Dean Reed and Henrietta Lambert will be on display.

Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Info: www.penland.org or 765-2359.

• Through SU (11/14) - The Core Show 2010 will be on display.

Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., Noon-5pm. Info: 6695107 or www.sevensistersgallery.com.

• Through SU (11/14) - Oil paintings by Jeff Pittman and sculpture by Michelle Sumares will be on display.

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

• Through WE (10/27) - Abstract art by Ben Betsalel and paintings by Becca Midwood.

• TH (10/28) through SA (11/27) - Floating Women, an exhibit of oil paintings by Les Caison III. • TH (10/28), 5-8pm - Artist reception for Les Caison III. There will be a Halloween costume contest held at 6:30pm.

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

• FR (10/29) through TH (11/4) - Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Fall 2010 Juried Exhibit at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

• FR (10/29), 6-8pm - Opening reception for the Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Fall 2010 Juried Exhibit at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

The Best of Show award will be presented.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.

• MO (10/11) through FR (11/5) - Black & White Shades of Grey.

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

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 8592828 or www.upstairsartspace. org.

• Through SA (11/13) - Three exhibits: Mountain Glass, Line in Landscape and Constance Humphries: New Work.

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing

Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.

Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs. 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: 2273591 or www.fineartmuseum. wcu.edu.

• Through FR (12/17) - Worldviews: A Year of the Collections. Highlighting selections from the permanent collection and new acquisitions to include recent gifts by regional, national and international artists.

• Through FR (12/17) Reclaiming Cultural Ownership: Challenging Indian Stereotypes, an installation of photographs and commercial merchandise focusing on “unlearning” stereotypes and fostering Native pride by noted Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian artist Shan Goshorn.

• Through FR (12/17) - Seeing Rural Appalachia, an exhibition of photographs by Mike Smith.

• TU (11/2) through FR (11/5) - School of Art & Design MFA Thesis Exhibition: Richard Conn, Sculpture.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at Hickory Nut Gap Farm Store Located at 57 Sugar Hollow Road in Fairview. Info: www. hickorynutgapfarm.com or 628-1027.

• Through SU (10/31) Jessica Lynn’s exhibition will be on display.

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

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

• Through MO (2/28) - Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations, an exhibition on display in the Baker Center.

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

• Through MO (11/22) - New paintings by the French painter Jean Claude Roy will be on display.

• Through TU (11/30) - New work by Eric Serritella, which includes hand-carved trompe l’oeil vessels and a new series of wall hangings, created in similar style.

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

• Through TH (10/28) - Photographically derived impressionist prints by John Clifford, featuring scenes of Henderson and Buncombe counties, will be on display.

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

• Through SA (11/27) - Decoration Day in the Mountains.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Handwoven Lace Techniques • November 3-December 15 (pd.) 11am-2pm: Learn to weave Huck, Swedish and Atwater-Bronson lace patterns with Karen Donde. 6 Wednesdays. $215 plus yarn. sutherland Handweaving, Asheville RAD. Registration/ information: (856) 261-4324. sutherlandstudios@gmail. com Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• TH (10/28), 7pm - “Sewell Sillman: A Continuous Broken Line,” a discussion with author Mary Emma Harris and curator Amanda Burdan.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org.

• TH (11/4), 7pm - Visiting sculptor Greg Bailey will lead a workshop in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall.

• FR (11/5), 7-9pm - The Turchin Center’s Fall Exhibition Celebration.

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

• TH (11/4), 9:30am Registration followed by a short business meeting and a project

involving avintage lapel pin taught by Sue Osterberg. Bring basic sewing supplies and a stash of fibers. At Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe.

Mountain Made Located in the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. Features the works of regional artisans, writers and musicians. Info: 350-0307 or mtnmade807@ aol.com.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm & SUNDAYS, Noon-5pm - Glass blowing demonstrations.

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

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

Experimental learning and sharing water-media techniques and collage. Suggested donation $4.

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

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

• TUESDAYS (through 11/16) - Art with Lorelle Bacon. Adults 1-3pm and youth 3:30-5pm.

All levels welcome. $15/class.

Registration required.

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: 2525050 or www.fineartsleague. org.

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

• FR (10/29), 5-8pm - Salon Friday, held at The Fine Arts League’s gallery in the Grove Arcade, One Page Ave., Suite 115, features Marianna, an exhibition by Rebecca N. King, and a musical performance by flutist Kate Steinbeck.

Tryon Fine Arts Center The gallery is at 34 Melrose Ave. in Tryon. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-Noon & 1:30-4pm; Sat., 9am-1pm. Info: 859-8322 or www.tryonarts.org • TH (11/4), 6:30-8:30pm - “Explore Photo Play,” a demonstration on altering photography by Elaine Pearsons. $7/$4 students.

Art/Craft Fairs Craft Bazaar and Historic Church Tour (pd.) Sip hot tea while enjoying a free tour of the Church of the Redeemer, est. 1888. • Craft bazaar featuring holiday crafts, baked goods, and more. • Saturday, November 6, 8am2pm, 1201 Riverside Dr. in Woodfin. www.church-of-theredeemer-episcopal.org

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

• TH (11/4), 7-9pm - “Music and Poetry,” a monthly openmic night hosted by Chris Minick.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) 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, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • Through TU (10/26) - Submission deadline for the essay contest “The Thing Bosses Should Value Most - But Don’t.” $50 first place prize will be awarded Nov. 1.

Drop essays off at the library or e-mail to literary2010@aol. com. BM. • TU (11/2), 6-8pm - Knit-nChain: A casual knitting and needlework group for all skill levels. SS —- 2-7pm - Book Club: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. WV —- 7pm - Book Club: The Poe Shadow

by Matthew Pearl.

• WE (11/3), 5-7pm - Library Knitters. SW —- 3pm - Book Club: Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins.

WV. • TH (11/4), 6:30pm - Book Club: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. EA. Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com.

• SA (10/30), 3pm - Halloween story time.

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

• WE (10/27), 7pm - Victoria Rose will lead a writing workshop “where stories, words and visions are given voice and heard.”

• TH (10/28), 7pm - Local bodywork instructor Lisa Sarasohn will lead a workshop

exploring “body-earth connections through movement and writing.”

• FR (10/29), 7pm - Chris J. Hartley will read from and sign copies of his book Stoneman’s Raid 1865.

• SA (10/30), 7pm - Mark de Castrique returns with a Halloween “buryin’ Barry” mystery titled Fatal Undertaking.

• SU (10/31), 3pm - Jonna Rae Bartges will discuss her memoir Psychic or Psychotic?

• MO (11/1), 7pm - Bridging Differences Book Club: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Hosted by Patti Digh.

• TU (11/2), 6:30-8:30pm Teacher Appreciation Night with local author Joe D’Agnese, the author of Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci.

• WE (11/3), 7pm - Book Club: Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich. Hosted by Jay Jacoby.

• TH (11/4), 7pm - Alex Kudera will read from his book Fight For Your Long Day. Events at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St., in downtown Asheville.

Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@netzero.com.

• SA (10/30), 12:30pm - During the Halloween Dog Festival on Wall Street: Dogthemed story time with local author and illustrator Kit Grady.

Interactive presentation, free activities. Well-behaved dogs welcome to accompany families. All ages. Free.

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

• FR (10/29), 7pm - Full Plates poetry performance. An event organized by Just Economics of WNC. Come prepared to read poetry, listen to poetry, and learn more about what you can do to support economic justice.

Literary Events at UNCA Events are free unless noted.

Tickets & info: 232-5000.

• TU (11/2), 7:30pm - An evening with N.C. Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers will include a reading, reception and book signing at the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Writers’ Workshop Events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers. Info: 2548111 or www.twwoa.org.

• Through SA (10/30) - Young Writers Contest: Changing My World Essay Contest. $10 reading fee.

• Through SA (10/30) - Fiction Contest. $25 entry fee.

• Through TU (11/30) - Young Writers Contest: Thomas Wolfe Fiction Contest. $10 reading fee.

Festivals & Gatherings 16th Annual Free Public Samhain Witch Ritual • SA (10/30), 8-10pm Celebrate the season with real witches from throughout the Southeast and encounter the Mast Beast, a mythic European bestower of good fortune, at French Broad River Park, 508 Riverview Drive, W. Asheville.

Info or to volunteer: http://oldenwilde.org/samhain16.

Abernethy United Methodist Church Located at 1418 Patton Ave., Asheville. Info: 254-2612.

• SU (10/31), 3-5pm - Fall Festival. Snacks, games and music for all ages. Come in costume or come as you are.

Dark Harvest: The Haunted Corn Maze Race • TH (10/28), 8:30-10pm - Run through a dimly lit corn maze in the dark and navigate through sharp corners and narrow hallways. Held at Eliada Homes, 2 Compton Drive. $25.

Info: www.raceforawesomeness.com.

Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Rd. in Barnardsville.

• FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/23 through 10/30), 711pm - The Haunted Trail, a Halloween-inspired path through the woods and a swamp, will be open. $8.

Fall Family Festival • SU (10/31), 5-8pm - A family-friendly event featuring pony rides, hay rides, live music

by Cane Creek (bluegrass), inflatables for kids, concessions, game booths and more.

Held at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www. fbca.net.

Family Fall Festival • SA (10/30), 4-6:30pm - There will be 60 carnival games, giant inflatables for children, prizes, candy treats and more. All children ages 3-12 years old and their families are invited. Held at West Asheville Baptist Church, 926 Haywood Road in Asheville. Info: 2539824 or www.westashevillebaptist.org.

Mills River Presbyterian Church Located at 10 Presbyterian Church Road. Info: 891-7101.

• SA (10/30), 6-8pm - The Community Halloween and Costume Party will be held.

Treats will be served. Free.

Trick or Treat in Sylva • SA (10/30), 2-5pm - Trick or treat on “Treat Street” in downtown Sylva. Enjoy an afternoon of fall colors, costumes, spooky stories, candy and more. Info: www. downtownsylva.org.

• SU (10/31), 5:30-8:30pm - The Sylva First United

Methodist Church, 77 Jackson St., will hold their annual Trunk or Treat. Supper, inflatables, costume contest and more.

Free.

Music FREE FOLK HARP TRADE SHOW (pd.) Not huge concert harps; these are smaller, more affordable, stunningly beautiful instruments. Try lap harps to full-size celtic harps of all designs; kits, CDs and sheet music. Largest folk harp vendor hall in the Southeast! October 30-31 FREE Saturday 10:307:30, Sunday 10:30-4:00.

Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Rd., Arden (near Asheville airport) Directions at www.southeasternharps.com 828-398-0850 nicole.riley@ vergeevents.net TRY THE FOLK HARP - FREE! (pd.) Folk Harp sounds beautiful from the first string-pluck.

It’s a magical feeling. Group lesson with nationally known teacher Pamela Bruner. Just show up in plenty of time to find the labeled building at Lutheridge retreat center. 9:3010:30 a.m. Sunday, October 31 Lutheridge Retreat Center, near the Asheville airport. Directions at www.southeasternharps. com 828-398-0850 nicole. riley@vergeevents.net “TWO CONTINENTS” CELTIC AND PARAGUAYAN HARP CONCERT (pd.) Hear something totally new and different! One of the most influential South American harpists, Alfredo Rolando Ortiz on Paraguayan harp; dynamic Maeve Gilchrist of Scotland playing Scottish/Jazz fusion, Celtic harp. You’ll forever remember this night! October 30 8:00 p.m. Tickets $20.

828-398-0850. Seventh Day Adventist Church of Asheville, 35 Airport Road. nicole.riley@ vergeevents.net A Choral Evensong • MO (11/1), 7pm - A Choral Evensong in celebration of All Saint’s Day will be offered by Trinity Episcopal Church. The candlelight service will include choral works by Bainton, Proulx, Stroope and Sumsion.

Info: 253-9361.

A Night of Stunning Sound: Asheville Moogfest Afterparty Event • SA (10/30), 10pm-4am - Featuring live experiments in bass & electronica. Jeff Nagel, Kris Krause, Ja’ Maul Redmond, Epic Beat Lab, Danny Peck (aka dep). Sound provided by Core Technologies.

Live visualizations by Scott Graham. All proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. At Flood Gallery, 109 Roberts St., Asheville. $10.

Info: www.stunningsound.com.

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

Info: 768-2826. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 2-3pm - Beginner.

Cantaria Cantaria is a community chorus for gay and gay-supportive men who enjoy singing a wide variety of choral literature for menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voices. Info: 254-9264 or www. cantariaasheville.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 5-7pm Rehearsals.

Celtic and Paraguayan Harp Concert â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/30), 8pm - Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, an internationally acclaimed soloist of the Paraguayan harp, and Maeve Gilchrist, playing Scottish/jazz fusion on Celtic harp, will perform in a concert titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Continents.â&#x20AC;? Held at Seventh Day Adventist Church, 35 Airport Road. $20. Info: www.southeasternharps.com.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www. tcva.org. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/28), 8pm - Recital with Stephen Nachmanovitch, improvisational violinist, in Rosen Concert Hall. Info: 2623020.

Fall â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spooktacularâ&#x20AC;? Concert â&#x20AC;˘ SU (10/31), 3pm - The Asheville Community Band presents a â&#x20AC;&#x153;spook-tacularâ&#x20AC;? concert at the Asheville High School auditorium, 419 McDowell St. $8/Free for children with a paying adult. Info: www.ashevillecommunityband.org.

Haywood Community Band

Concerts are presented at the Maggie Valley Pavilion, adjacent to the Maggie ValleyTown Hall, and are free to attend. Bring a picnic dinner. Info: 452-5553 or 452-7530 or www.haywoodcommunityband.org. â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS, 7pm Rehearsals at Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. All interested concert band musicians are welcome to attend.

Land of the Sky Chorus For men age 12 and older. Info: www.ashevillebarbershop.com or 768-9303. â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Open Rehearsals at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Pl. Music at ASU Performances take place at Appalachian State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farthing Auditorium unless otherwise noted. Ticket prices increase at the door on show nights. Info: (800) 841ARTS(2787), 262-4046, or www.pas.appstate.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/29), 8pm - Live music with The Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. $20/$18 seniors/$10 students and ASU staff.

Music at Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church Street, Asheville. Info: 253-9361 â&#x20AC;˘ MO (11/1), 7pm - All are welcome to attend a choral eveningsong performance in celebration of All Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day. The candlelight service will include choral works by Bainton, Proulx, Stroope and Sumsion.

Info: 253-9361.

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

â&#x20AC;˘ SU (10/21), 4pm - A jazz concert, featuring trombone soloist Rick Simerly and UNCA students performing big band and jazz vocal selections. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium. $5. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/4), 7:30pm - Performance by the UNCA Percussion Ensemble, under direction of Matthew Richmond. $5.

Performances at ASU Performances take place at Appalachian State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farthing Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Ticket prices increase at the door on show nights. Info: (800) 841-ARTS(2787) or www.pas. appstate.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/29), 8pm - Bluegrass legends the Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform. $20/$18/$10 in advance (prices increase at door).

Song Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sky Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) The chorus is always looking for women 18+ who want to learn how to sing barbershop harmony. Please visit a rehearsal.

Info: 1-866-824-9547 or www. songosky.org. â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Reed Memorial Baptist Church on Fairview Road. (enter parking lot on Cedar St.). Guests welcome.

Southeastern Harp Weekend â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/30), 10:30am-7:30pm & SU (10/31), 10:30am-4pm The largest folk harp conference in the Southeast will feature workshops for harpers and an extensive trade show. Events will be held at the Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Road, in Arden. Info: www. southeasternharps.com.

The Carolina Theatre

A cultural event center located at 91 Locust Ave., downtown Spruce Pine. Info: 766-5525 or www.thecarolinabarndance.org. â&#x20AC;˘ FRIDAYS, 7-10pm - Open Stage & Dance. $3 donation.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to be up on stage, e-mail guitarted_phool@yahoo. com.

WCU Musical Events Unless otherwise noted, performances are held at the Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Tickets or info: 2272479 or http://fapac.wcu.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/28), 8pm - The WCU Concert Choir and Early Music Ensemble will perform at the Coulter Building. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (11/3), 7:30pm Chanticleer, an all-male chorus, will perform. $15/$10 faculty & staff/$5 students. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/4), 7:30pm - Galaxy of Stars: Lance Brown presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Will Rogers Now,â&#x20AC;? a portrait of the gentle American hero in words, theater and song. $25/$20 seniors/$5 students and children.

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

Info: 693-8504 or www.acofhc. org. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/4) through SA (11/6), 8pm - Performances of An Enchanted Evening, an intimate cabaret revue celebrating great love songs, will be held Upstairs at Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main, 303 North Main St., downtown Hendersonville. $40, includes wine and hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres.

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All performances are at 35 East Walnut St. Info & reservations: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/28), 7:30pm - Smell my Fear: Give me something good to hear (Harrowing Halloween Stories) will be performed.

Asheville Masonic Temple The Mt. Hermon Masonic Lodge No. 118 of Asheville is located at 80 Broadway. Info: 252-3924. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/29) through SA (10/30), 7:30pm - Dauntless Productions presents Dracula, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;ghoulishly seductive show.â&#x20AC;? $10-$8 advance/$15-12 at the door. Info: info@montfordparkplayers.org or 254-5146.

Events at Asheville School Located at 360 Asheville School Road. Info: 254-6345. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/28) & FR (10/19), 7pm - Asheville School students will perform the Pulitzer-Prize winning comedy You Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Take It With You at Graham Theater.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville.

Info: 693-0731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (10/27) through SA (11/20) - The Prisoner of Second Avenue. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (10/31) - A Few Good Men will be performed. $34. Wed.-Sat., 8pm and Sun., 2pm. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (11/3) through SU (11/21) - Robert Louis Stevensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic Treasure Island, the tale of piracy and adventure on the high seas, will be performed. Wed.-Sat., 8pm & Sun., 2pm. $34.

Hendersonville Little Theatre Located at the Barn on State St., between Kanuga and Willow Roads in Hendersonville. $14/$8 or $18/$10 for musicals. Info: 692-1082 or www. hendersonvillelittletheatre.org. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/29) through SU (11/14) - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a drama adapted from Jeffrey Hatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, will be performed. Fri.-Sat., 8pm & Sun., 2pm. There will be a champagne reception on opening night.

NC Stage Company Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s professional resident theater company, performing at 15 Stage Lane in downtown Asheville (entrance off of Walnut Street, across from Zambraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). Info & tickets: 2390263 or www.ncstage.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (11/7) - Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Tony Kushnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning play about America at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm & Sun., 2pm. $16/$25/$28.

Film Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/28), Noon-1:30pm - The documentary A New Kind of Listening, about a disabilities-inclusive theater group, will be screened at the Intercultural Center, Highsmith Student Union, Room 114.

Polly Medlicott will speak about the making of the film before the screening.

Dance Studio Zahiya (pd.) All classes drop-in anytime, $12. â&#x20AC;˘ 41 Carolina Lane. â&#x20AC;˘ Tuesdays: 10-11am, Hip Hop Conditioning, 6-7pm, Beginner Bellydance; 7:108:10pm: Intermediate/Advanced Bellydance. Thursdays, 1011am, All Level Bellydance 6:30-7:30pm: Bollywood and Bhangra; 7:30-8:30pm: Hip Hop for Women â&#x20AC;˘ Info: (828) 242-7595 or www.lisazahiya. com Argentine Tango Dancers of all levels welcome.

Info: www.tangoasheville.com. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 7-9pm Argentine Tango Practica at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Rd. $5 for members/$6 for nonmembers.

English Country Dance Dance to live music with a caller. This style of dance may be seen in movie adaptations of Jane Austen novels. $6/$5 for Old Farmers Ball members.

Info: 230-8449. â&#x20AC;˘ SU (10/31) - Special Halloween Country Dance.

Theme: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.â&#x20AC;?

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club.

Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 694-1406 or 681-1731. â&#x20AC;˘ WEDNESDAYS - Classes in Western Style Square Dancing at the Stoney Mountain Activity Center, Stoney Mountain Road, Hendersonville. Registration at 7pm. Dancing 7:30-9:30pm.

First two classes are free.

West African Dance â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 7:30-8:30PM - Classes will be held at the Terpsicorps Dance Studio, above the Wedge in the River Arts District. Open to dancers of all ages. $10.

West African Dance Class â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS (through 10/28), 7-8pm - Exploring movement and celebration through the dances of Guinea and Ivory Coast. Held at the Terpsicorps Dance Studio, 129 Roberts St. Western Carolina Federation Round & Square Dance Clubs

â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/30) - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hall of Fameâ&#x20AC;? dance at the Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Mainstream with announced, plus tips from 7:30-9:30pm. Info: 667-4411.

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annual Small Works Show.

Arts & Crafts Holiday Market at Beech Glen Seeks Artists â&#x20AC;˘ The fourth annual Arts and Crafts Holiday Market at Beech Glen Community Center on Dec. 4 is looking for local artists and crafters who would like to participate in this juried show. Info: 689-5117 or 6892112.

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

Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Through FR (10/29) - Artists submission for the juried and judged exhibition Fiber Art are due. The categories are wearable, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional. The exhibition will be on display through Nov. $20 entry fee. â&#x20AC;˘ Through MO (11/29) - Accepting art, applications, entry fees and optional artist statements for the juried and judged photography exhibit Through a Lens: Carolina Images.

Asheville Poetry Review â&#x20AC;˘ Through (1/15) - Entries for the William Matthews Poetry Prize will be accepted. $20 entry fee. Info: www.ashevillereview.com.

Call to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autistsâ&#x20AC;?

North Carolina CALL Inc. is calling all N.C. artists on the Autism Spectrum to participate in an online exhibition. No juries, no fees, no age limit.

For an application or more info: www.nccall.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/30) - Deadline for submissions. See website for details.

Events at 35below This black box theater is located underneath Asheville Community Theatre at 35 E. Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. â&#x20AC;˘ TU (11/2), 10am-3pm - Auditions for The Little Foxes will be held. Auditions are open to all in the community. This will be the second production in The Autumn Playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre season and will involve 10 actors.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at

Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 452-0593 or www.haywoodarts.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Through FR (11/5) - Seeking artist submissions for the All pieces submitted must be exactly 12 inches or smaller in every dimension.

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

Donations accepted. Info: 2545146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Though SA (11/13) - Seeking directors for the upcoming Montford on Broadway Series.

Productions include The Real Inspector Hound and Lysistrata.

Candidates are asked to email: info@montfordparkplayers.org.

Poetry Alive! â&#x20AC;˘ Through (10/28) - Poetry Alive! will host auditions for actors to travel the country performing poetry in the schools and facilitate workshops with students and teachers. To schedule an audition: www. poetryalive.com/about/ Employment.html or 280-9092.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Call to artists for Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palette Holiday Show.

Applications available at the Council or by calling. You may also e-mail tcarts@comporium. net to request an application. â&#x20AC;˘ Now accepting applications from artists and crafters who would like to participate in the eighth annual ArtMart fundraiser in Nov. Contributing artists are able to sell work that tends to clutter studios.

CALENDAR DEADLINE The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. WEDNESDAY, one week prior to publication.

Questions? Call (828)2511333, ext. 365

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consciousparty What: Pink in the Park, a 5K walk benefiting Asheville Breast Center and Beauty Through Cancer Where: Biltmore Park Town Square (in front of the YMCA), 1 Town Square Blvd., in Asheville When: Saturday, Oct. 30.

(Registration begins at 9 a.m., and the walk begins at 10:30 a.m. $25. Info: star1043.com/pages/ PinkInThePark.html or 252-8558) Why: Friends, families and caregivers are encouraged to rally in support of the many women (one

in eight) who are affected by breast cancer. The first annual Pink in the Park 5K walk strives to raise funds to fight breast cancer locally while honoring survivorship.

Earleen Bennett, the president of Beauty Through Cancer, asks the community to “come together to celebrate Breast Cancer awareness,” while supporting two local organization committed to serving female cancer patients and survivors’ needs. Proceeds from the walk benefit Asheville Breast Center and its many educational programs (such as understanding

fun fundraisers

procedures, mammography, Breast MRIs and diagnostic exams) and “Healthy You” classes (which focus on cultivating a health-conscious lifestyle though exercise, diet and self-examination). Asheville Breast Center also provides free mammograms to low-income women across Western North Carolina. Proceeds from Pink in the Park also benefit Beauty Through Cancer, a nonprofit organization providing free areolapigmentation treatment, support groups for patients, survivors and families, and beauty services.

benefitscalendar Calendar for October 27 - November 4, 2010 Abernethy United Methodist Church Located at 1418 Patton Ave., Asheville. Info: 254-2612.

• Through SU (10/31) - Pumpkin Patch. Proceeds benefit the Navajo nation as well as local and church ministry.

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

• TH (11/4), 6:30-9:30pm - Brews & Views, a party for land and water conservation at Highland Brewing Company’s tasting room. Music by The Overflow Jug Band and The Trainwreks. All proceeds benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. RSVP: 253-0095.

Autumn Train Excursions • SA (10/30) & SU (10/31) - Proceeds from the Blue Ridge Mountain Train Excursions, traveling from North Carolina to Virginia, benefit the North Carolina Transportation Museum. Info: www.nctrans.org.

Benefit for Breast Cancer at Cutting Edge Salon • SA (10/30), 9am-2pm - The benefit will feature $10 haircuts, hot dogs, pizza plates, a keepsake cup, face painting, a raffle and door prizes. All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society for breast cancer research and awareness. Located at 5591 Hendersonville Road in Fletcher. Info: 651-9905.

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• Through SU (10/31) - Eliada’s annual Corn Maze features 12 acres of trails with attractions like corn cannons, pedal carts, a slack-line challenge, a cow train and more. Open Fri., 4-10pm and Sat.-Sun., 10am-7pm. $9. Info: www. fieldsoffun.org.

CANstruction in Asheville • SA (10/30) through SA (11/6) - Local architects and designers, along with area school children, design and build structures with canned food, which will be on display at Pack Place. Following the exhibit, the canned food is donated to Manna FoodBank. Info: www.yafasheville.org.

Heather Keyes Rogers EB 5k & Fun Run • SA (10/30), 9-11am - Held at Carrier Park. All proceeds benefit Debra of America, to support Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) awareness and research. $15-$20. Register: anna_licari@unc.edu or www.active.com/event_detail. cfm?event_id=1885005.

New Hopes New Beginnings NHNB is an organization dedicated to working with our communities to help eliminate domestic violence by education, and providing the tools to begin a new life. Info: www. newhopesnewbeginnings.com or 301-1410.

• TH (10/28), 7-11pm - The second annual Masquerade Ball, featuring dinner catered by Carrabbas, dancing, live music by the Roadrunnerz and a silent auction, will be held at The Venue, 21 N. Market St. All proceeds benefit survi-

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Pink the Park • SA (10/30), 9am-Noon - “Pink in the Park,” a walk for breast cancer at Biltmore Park (in front of YMCA). Benefiting Asheville Breast Center and Beauty Through Cancer. Info: 252-8558.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy The mission of the SAHC is to protect the world’s oldest mountains for the benefit of present and future generations.

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Tomorrow Waits For No One FUNdraiser • TH (11/4), 8pm - An event to raise money to film Tomorrow Waits For No One, a web series. Raffle, silent auction, music, sherbet punch at LaRue’s Backdoor, 237 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. $5. TWFNO is a project of the nonprofit Asheville Area Arts Council.

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• Prominently tattooed David Winkelman, 48, was arrested in Davenport, Iowa, in September on a misdemeanor warrant. In late 2000, he had his forehead inked with the logo of radio station KORB, “93 Rock,” having heard on-air personalities offer $100,000 to anyone who’d do it. After getting the tattoo, however, the disc jockeys told him the “contest” was a joke. (Winkelman sued the station, but it was dismissed. Ten years later, the “93 Rock” format has expired, but not Winkelman’s tattoo.)

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• For most of 2010, California’s dysfunctional Legislature could find no acceptable tax increases or spending cuts to keep the state from going broke; only in October did it manage to cobble together enough pie-in-the-sky bookkeeping tricks to create the illusion of a balanced budget. Nonetheless, legislators have been busy creating “Motorcycle Awareness Month” and “Cuss Free Week,” considering changing the official state rock, and banning the use of nonCalifornia cows in the state’s marketing materials (which entailed five committee votes and exhausted eight legislative analyses, according to a September Wall Street Journal report).

• At a U.S. Senate committee grilling in September, the head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission admitted that not a single agency staffer has been fired or demoted over the multiple missed signals during the decade or so before the Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford were uncovered. Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut said it appeared that “One side of the agency was screaming that there was a fire,” but the other side demurred because putting it out would have been hard work.

• In 1999, Prudential Financial, which holds life-insurance contracts on U.S. troops, modified the standard payout method, encouraging beneficiaries to accept “checking accounts” they could draw on “as needed” instead of lump sums. Though this arrangement obviously benefited Prudential, it was unclear to Bloomberg News (which broke the story in September 2010) why the Department of Veterans Affairs had endorsed the move.

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Great art!

• In October, award-winning London theater company Duckie announced plans for a 2011 production, Lullabye, so soothing that patrons will be encouraged to attend in pajamas and lounge overnight in bed-seats, with an early morning shower included in the roughly $66 ticket price. Producer Simon Casson noted that, theater aside, it’s almost impossible to find overnight facilities in central London at that price.

• A one-woman “dance” recital by performer/ writer Ann Liv Young at a Brooklyn, N.Y., theater in September ran overtime when Young, appearing as a naked “Cinderella,” was unable to perform a scripted call of nature live, onstage.

After seeking tips from the audience to get her bowels moving, Young finally gave up and ended the performance, reported an incredulous New York Times reviewer.

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• (1) The ski-mask-wearing armed robber who knocked off a Wendy’s in Atlanta on July 31 has not been apprehended, but according to police, he later called the store and said, “Next time, there better be more than $586.” (2) Ronald White, 35, arrested in Cinnaminson, N.J., in July, was charged with shoplifting and released on $400 bail. Police subsequently realized that some of the money was counterfeit, but White was re-arrested when he returned to the station five days later demanding a partial refund for “overpaying” the bail.

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wellness Fly through the flu season Jacquelyn Dobrinska Fall has arrived, with its (mostly) cooler temperatures, and that means the start of a new season. No, not leaf-peeping season. Cold-and-flu season.

Local health practitioners are beginning to see residents suffering from more cold and flu symptoms, and the Buncombe County Health Department — along with other area health services — has started administering this year’s flu vaccinations.

To help stay healthy, local health-care providers offer some helpful advice.

Prevention is first.

“I usually don’t take supplements,” says Corey Pine Shane, founder of Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and a clinical practitioner in Asheville. There may be some benefit in maintaining vitamin D levels, he continues, noting, “Recent studies show that low levels of vitamin D in the body, common as the days get shorter, are associated with an increased risk of respiratory problems, such as the cold and flu.”

Shane also recommends common sense, preventative measures such as getting more rest, avoiding sugar because it lowers white-blood-cell production, dressing appropriately for the weather, and eating homemade chicken soup that’s fortified with dried astragalus — a Chinese herb touted as an immunity booster. “Wear a scarf,” he continues. “Chinese medicine asserts that the back of the neck is a vulnerable place. Keeping it protected will help you avoid the flu.”

On the Western-medicine front, most doctors recommend washing your hands often to avoid germs. Some, like the nationally known Mehmet Oz, also recommend a daily washing of your sinus cavity to prevent potential pathogens. This is easiest with the help of devices like the Neti Pot, found at most local health food stores or pharmacies.

Lisa Watersnake, founder of Asheville’s MotherLove Food, Drink and Herbals, offers one more delicious preventative measure, elderberry syrup. Her 9-year-old son calls it “the good stuff” and asks for it in his morning oatmeal. “It’s the post popular remedy in Europe and takes almost no time to make.”

But what steps to take depend on what you’ve caught, and the folks at the Buncombe County Health Department have developed a helpful chart showing the difference between a cold and the H1N1 virus.

First, the basics: Cold symptoms develop over a few days and commonly include a hacking, productive cough, slight body aches, sore throat, mild chest discomfort and a stuffy nose.

Need a shot? This time last year, Buncombe County’s Disease Control Supervisor Sue Ellen Morrison measured out the flu-vaccine doses. photo by Jonathan Welch

The seasonal flu has many of the same symptoms, though it’s generally more intense, and the cough is more dry and unproductive. The flu is often is accompanied by fevers, chills and headaches. In cases of H1N1, flu symptoms are often more severe, often lacking the sore throat or stuffy nose, and can

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With the first signs of a cold or seasonal flu, Dr. Susan Ersham at Family to Family, a holistic community health center in Asheville, recommends taking echinacea, zinc, vitamin C, probiotics, and oscillococcinum (a homeopathic remedy), as well as taking several other holistic approaches, all of which should be followed according to directions or under the care of a health practitioner.

Shane notes a few other possible herbal tinctures for specific conditions: boneset for a flu with aches and osha for ones with upper lung congestion, though always under the supervision of a certified herbalist. “For some fevers under 104, I may recommend a sweat bath to certain clients,” says Shane. “Depending on the symptoms, I will ask them to drink a hot cup of boneset tea, get in a hot bath until they’re drowsy and then go to bed.

Nine times out of 10, they wake up in the morning feeling great.”

According to the Buncombe County Health Department, you should see your doctor if you develop severe symptoms, especially ones that include painful swallowing or a persistent fever, cough or headache. Other warning signs include shortness of breath, chest pain, confusion, seizures or persistent vomiting.

Hoping to avoid the flu altogether, some people opt for a yearly vaccine. The Center for Disease Control recommends the flu shot for children 6 months to 19 years of age; pregnant women; people over 50 and anyone with certain chronic medical conditions, living in long term care facilities or at high risk, such as health care workers.

“In years when the vaccine and circulating viruses are wellmatched, influenza vaccines can reduce influenza by approximately 70 to 90 percent,” reports the CDC. “When they are not well matched, the efficacy can be as low as 48 percent.”

Ersham recommends vaccines that have no thimerosal (mercury). Single-dose vials usually are mercury free, and the location administering the vaccine can tell you the ingredients if you ask.

From vaccinations to supplements to self-care, there are many tools and techniques that promote a healthy body and strong immune system this flu season. Your preferred healthcare provider can help guide you on which ones are right for you. X

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

Cancer Support Group for Women • MONDAYS, 1:30-3pm - Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church. Emotional support for women experiencing cancer. Facilitated by licensed clinical social worker. Info: 299-0394.

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Medical school at Asheville’s Mission Health System is here to stay “Mission Health System plans to buy the MAHEC Bridge Building and turn it into a dedicated center for medical education.

Mission plans to purchase the building on Biltmore Avenue for $7 million. It will house the Asheville campus of the UNC School of Medicine, which currently includes 10 students who are doing their clinical rotations here, and a branch of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, which will enroll its first class in the fall of 2011.” — from the Asheville CitizenTimes Henderson County to discuss potential Pardee sale “A day after the medical staff and leadership of Pardee Hospital voiced their opposition to behind-the-scenes consideration of a possible sale of the county hospital, Henderson County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bill Moyer moved quickly Wednesday to schedule a discussion Oct. 20 at the board’s next meeting.”

— from BlueRidgeNow.com Canada declares common chemical BisphenolA (BPA) toxic. Is the U.S. next?

“The chemical has countless industrial uses, most often in the epoxy liner of cans and in plastic bottles. But BPA is also an endocrine disruptor, meaning that it has the capacity to mess with our hormones and potentially impact health — especially in developing fetuses — even at relatively low doses.” — from Time.com New web-based map highlights physician population “Using AMA data from 2008, North Carolina is noted to have 44.1 surgeons per 100,000

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population, with the highest number stemming from Orange County.” — from the N.C. Medical Society Local blog discusses flu shot risks “I see both sides of the flu shot debate every day at this time of year. People ask me my opinion since I am in the health care field. This is not to be construed as medical advice or to replace the advice of your doctor. However as my friends keep reminding me … ‘well you’re a nurse, you should know this’ … here is my 50 cents!” — from Walking Upright blog Life o’ Mike dinner, auction set for Nov. 7 at Asheville’s Tingles “Tickets are now available for Life o’ Mike’s second-annual Eat at Mike’s, an evening of food prepared by local chefs, beginning at 5 p.m., [Sunday], Nov. 7, at Tingles Café at 27 Broadway St. [...] Life o’ Mike is a local advocacy and education nonprofit focusing on America’s health care system.” — from the Asheville Citizen-Times Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC gets into mobile health app business “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina recently launched HealthNAV for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It lets buyers find the closest urgent care center to them and store notes about their prescriptions and reminders as well as questions to ask their doctors. A drug finder tool compares drug prices, listing average drug costs and attempts to find cheaper options for those medications.” — from the StarNews Online Swine flu vaccine linked to rare nerve disease “Health watchdogs have admitted for the first time that there may be a possible link between the swine flu jab [vaccine] and an increased risk of developing a rare nerve disease.” — from the Telegraph.co.uk.

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by Mackensy Lunsford Food trucks are taking it to the streets everywhere. They’re all over cities like Austin and local-foods mecca Portland, Ore. — a city with sensibilities much like our own. Hungry diners can choose from a veritable stable of mobile vendors that offer everything from authentic asada tacos to Vietnamese Pho. The trucks are cheap to keep, for the most part, and the street-food purveyors pass on the savings with their oftentimes exotic offerings.

It’s inevitable in a food town like Asheville that mobile food vendors would motor onto the scene. We have a wealth of talented cooks trying to make a living, while everyone else is trying not to spend too much of their own cash. But slow your roll — a number of laws currently discourage the moveable feast.

“Philosophically, we just aren’t ready for it,” says City Planner Shannon Tuch. Simply put, food trucks are not allowed in downtown Asheville under city ordinance — at least not yet.

There are standards already put in place allowing, yet limiting, the number of push-carts in the city — the hot dog and burrito vendors that you already see. No laws exist to regulate the existence of food trucks; until now, there simply hasn’t been enough interest.

Pimp my food truck

Enter Suzy Phillips. Her passion is food, specifically that of her homeland. Phillips fled wartorn Lebanon at age 15 with her family. Once in the states, her native cuisine tied her family to fonder memories of home and brought them

together at the table.

Last year, Phillips set out to open Zeytoon, a Lebanese deli and market, and secured a number of investors.

Then, the bottom fell out. One of the financial backers, citing a troubled economy, pulled away from the venture. Phillips looked to secure other loans, but was unable to find much. “I’m a fighter,” she says. “But I tried to open a brick-andmortar [restaurant] for two years. I tried to get loans, I tried to get investors. When the economy crashed, I lost everything and was back to square one.”

Phillips next set her sights on opening a falafel truck. The truck concept is a much more affordable alternative for a potential entrepreneur than a brick and mortar restaurant in this economy, though it still isn’t cheap.

A truck already up-fitted for food service, or “pimped out,” as Phillips puts it, can cost upwards of $80,000. That’s in comparison to than the $250,000 investment that a brick and mortar restaurant can require. “But if I have ten to 20 percent of that already, says Phillips, “it’s easier for me to get a loan as a small business.”

The hurdles to getting her own piece of the pie, Phillips notes, are many.

According to Phillips, she’s met with resistance to her ideas from downtown business owners and some city officials, based on fears of litter and loitering. These are all real concerns, she notes, but they can be addressed with a series of firm rules regarding street vending.

Phillips also says that some detractors bristle at the specter of food trucks driving around down-

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town, jamming up the narrow streets with traffic.

Tuch says that public safety ordinances already prevent food trucks from vending on city streets, and always will â&#x20AC;&#x201D; making such worries a nonissue.

To that end, should food trucks become allowable within city limits, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to set up shop in a specified area, like a parking lot, equipped with running water and other infrastructure necessary to support the mini-businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It basically comes down to whether or not this is something that Asheville wants to do,â&#x20AC;? Tuch says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stretched to our maximum in resources,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question is, do the benefits outweigh the costs?â&#x20AC;?

A matter of competition

Joe Minicozzi, interim executive director of the Asheville Downtown Association and former urban planner, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand the rationale behind having to equip the food truck location with facilities like water and bathrooms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These trucks are currently allowed outside of the central business district without running water. How is it that as soon as I leave the CBD, magically I can get away [without the infrastructure]. Are people dying in the parking lots in West Asheville? Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the public safety issue?â&#x20AC;?

Minicozzi goes as far as to say that some of the rules and regulations seem a bit arbitrary.

And indeed, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rules regulating street food can seem a bit strange. At this point in time, no food-cart vendors are allowed to serve past ten, and all food must be prepared off-site, meaning no grilling on location allowed. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of many issues for Phillips to tackle down the road.

Right now, her primary obstacle lies in the perceived competition food trucks would have with existing restaurants who provide investments to the community in the form of taxes and employment.

Tuch confirms that the competition concern is indeed a major hurdle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downtown, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already a limitation on food vending in an effort to support the existing restaurants. Since those businesses are paying taxes, employing people, there is the desire to support them in that.â&#x20AC;?

Tuch also points out that downtown restaurants take part in civic events and fundraisers and otherwise add to the tourist economy that supports Asheville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just making food,â&#x20AC;? she says.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carts depend on foot traffic. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re built to service,â&#x20AC;? says Mark Rosenstein, former owner of The Market Place in downtown Asheville. Rosenstein has fought his own foodservice battles. In the 90s, he worked to push through ordinances that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow sidewalk dining because of similar concerns like those surrounding food trucks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; namely, loitering and litter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have not heard a real argument that says, reasonably, why you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it,â&#x20AC;? Rosenstein says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Health concerns, totally valid.â&#x20AC;? he says, though he acknowledges that the same safety standards that are applied to existing restaurants can be applied to mobile food vendors.

As for the competition argument? Restaurants might need to learn to adapt, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to work in a free-enterprise system, then it should be free-enterprise.â&#x20AC;?

Rosenstein cites the Market Place as a prime example. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was trying to shift my concept and my position in the market because the market was changing. Did I like doing that? No. But if I was going to stay in business and compete, I was going to have to change.â&#x20AC;?

Street food could alter the culinary landscape for the better, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view, if I can get a really great sandwich for four bucks and sit on a park bench or at the CityCounty plaza and enjoy some music and street food, why not?â&#x20AC;? says Rosenstein. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why should city or county government prevent a business from offering that sort of opportunity?â&#x20AC;?

Playing by the rules

Kevin Westmoreland does not own a business downtown, but knows what the struggle is like for a food entrepreneur. He opened the Corner Kitchen in Biltmore Village several years ago with partner Joe Scully.

Westmoreland is also a member of the Asheville Independent Restaurant organization, a group that holds some major stake in the local restaurant game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which means that gaining their support for food trucks is a nearly essential step in Phillipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cause. She says that AIR has been mostly supportive, though some members are still resistant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supportive of any restaurant or any business that has to play by the same rules that

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never have trucks. I think we all just want it done in a way that makes sense for everybody.”

What’s next for Phillips? Westmoreland says that AIR, the Asheville Downtown Association and the potential food truck owners will have a roundtable discussion, look at existing models in other cities and come up with rules that everyone can agree on. But, that may be a long time coming, Westmoreland says. It will likely be up to those who want food carts to push the issue.

“We have our own kettle of fish to fry,” he says, adding, “but we would love the trucks to be members of AIR.” Phillips says she understands why a restaurant owner who’s made a substantial investment would be eager to protect it. But she feels she deserves a chance at her own piece of the pie.

“Listen, I didn’t pick my circumstances. This is something I have to deal with. I’m not going to boo-hoo cry about how poor I am, and how poor my family is and how we lost everything in the war. Our lives are still here, and I’m thankful for that,” she says. But she adds that the entrepreneurship should not be such an unreachable goal. She hopes that everyone can come to an

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However, it’s clear that there are some concerns within the group. “There are [restaurant owners] downtown that have million-dollar mortgages and pay taxes ... but everyone’s still fighting for a limited number of customers,” he says. “If you put ten trucks downtown, you’re really putting ten small restaurants in the downtown area.” While competition is obviously great for the consumer, he says, “When you cut up the pie in more pieces, people will fall by the wayside. It really means that everyone has to step up their game a little bit.”

Being that profit margins are so slim, especially for independent restaurants, offering stellar service and food may not be enough for a restaurant to survive in an already saturated market, Westmoreland emphasizes. “But that’s just part of competition. Especially if you can’t change and improve, maybe you might not be in business next year.”

Westmoreland notes that it seems like the mobile food idea is catching on everywhere.

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Although the Asheville Downtown Association doesn’t have an official standpoint on the issue, Minicozzi would like to initiate discussion in the restaurant community.

“We’re in a holding pattern until we hear very clearly from AIR what they want. It’s going to take some effort on Suzy’s part to change the public perception. This is going to be a long battle for her,” Minicozzi says. “I don’t think it’s fair, and I think it’s pathetic that it takes our community this long to get together on stuff. I’ll think about it. Maybe there’s a way that we can expedite it — maybe hold a public forum to try to get the dialogue moving faster.”

Minicozzi does seem to have a personal perspective. Fresh from a trip to Portland, he’s still energized by the food and city culture he witnessed there. “I hope that this works out,” he says. “I hope that we get more diversity in our downtown — diversity in price ranges and products, diversity in food that we can get.

Other downtowns have that vitality. I was just in Portland last week and saw them all over the place and the city wasn’t dying. There were plenty of restaurants and plenty of food carts. If they can work it out, we can work it out.”

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“My passion for living and having my own business still exists, and I feed on it. My passion for food plays a huge part in my life. To look at people, see the contentment in their eyes and their bellies — I want that. And this is the only way that I can give it right now.”

She says that she’s not looking to get rich, just sustain herself and her family without having to wait tables. “I want to take care of my mother.

She took care of me all of my life. That’s the least I can do for her,” she says. “I’m not looking for wealth, I’m looking for sustainability and supporting my community and farmers. It’s about the foodtopia of Asheville.”

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Window on the world: Andrew Snavely will bring teas from all over the world to the Dobra Tea Room on Lexington Avenue.

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Andrew Snavely, who owns two Dobra Tea Room locations in Burlington, Vt. and Madison, Wis., is bringing his love of loose-leaf to Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville in late November. Though Asheville’s Dobra will be the third location, don’t call it a franchise.

Snavely emphasizes that his teahouses constitute “a family.” Why did he pick Asheville for his new location? “It’s a very conscious, open community that really cares about quality and knowing the source of their food and beverage products,” he says.

Dobra sources and provides over 100 teas, all loose-leaf. Snavely adds that Dobra’s directcontact approach with tea-gardens and farmers seemed the right fit for the area. “The teas are all fresh, based on the seasons,” says Snavely.

“Throughout the past five or six years I’ve been traveling, so I have a direct relationship with all of the teas and with the farmers. We go each spring to the tea countries to do our tastings and make our purchases.”

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Besides the craft teas, Dobra will also serve light fare — dolmas, hummus plates, tabouleh, olives and some “funky, ecelectic desserts from local bakers.” Snaveley adds that he’s trying to

locally source as much food as possible.

Dobra Tea Room will be located at 78 N. Lexington, and will be open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. For more information, visit dobrateanc.com.

More sandwiches

It seems that not too long ago we were lamenting the lack of sandwich shops in downtown Asheville. Now there’s Cucina 24 Deli, Roman’s, the Jackson Underground Cafe — and, most recently, The Sandwich Company.

The new to-go only spot, opened by local Cody Stokes, is located on the ground floor of the BB&T building in suite G110. It’s a tiny affair — at just 165 square feet, there’s barely enough room for the employees and about three customers at a time to squeeze in.

The venture has prices to match its size, too. There’s a $2.99 all-beef bologna-and-cheese sandwich on sourdough or wheat and a $2.99 PB&J as well. Nothing costs over $5.99 — good news for the financially challenged among us looking for a deal at lunchtime.

Other Sandwich Company selections include shaved Black Forest ham with olive tapenade, plenty of salads with fresh veggies, wraps and locally made Roots hummus slathered on bread with feta cheese and vegetables.

Hot sandwiches can be made to order and cold sandwiches are available in a grab and go cooler. The Sandwich Company is open on weekdays only, from 11 a.m until 3 p.m. For

more information, call 210-8130.

Heads or tails

The Admiral hosts a five-course wine dinner with the Appalachian Vintner on Sunday, Nov. 7. Chef Drew Maykuth (half of the Admiral’s exec-chef duo that also includes Elliott Moss) not-so-jokingly dubbed the event “a snout-totail pig dinner with good wine” when Xpress spoke with him over the phone.

“We’ve never really done any sort of special dinner before,” he says. After a conversation with Mike Tiano of the Haw River Wine Man, however, the two chefs put their heads together and decided that a fun way to break into winedinner territory would be to order an entire pig from Hickory Nut Gap. “We want to do as many courses as we can from the same pig,” says Maykuth. To facilitate this goal, he says, a 200-pound animal has been selected for a feast that will serve up to 65 people. “We’re going to butcher it, which is something I’ve never done, so I’m excited about it,” says Maykuth. On the phone he mused over which tool to use for the task, speculating that a skill-saw would probably make more sense than a hacksaw or chainsaw. (Come on, it’s almost Halloween, people.)

Maykuth says that the chefs intend to cull as many pork preparations as possible from the one animal. To that end, they intend to present a charcuterie course, which will include some cured meats and likely a head cheese. And yes, there will be sausage. Another course will feature pork-belly, another a slow-braised, hearty preparation and another will include a basic grill technique.

Also in the works? A bacon dessert. Maykuth says that he may try to repeat the home-run dish that had everyone in hog heaven at the WNC Magazine Chefs Challenge (battle bacon) this summer: a bacon-chocolate bar sprinkled with sea salt and smoked paprika, finished with a bacon creme anglais and a bacon powder.

“People seemed to like it. I think bacon lends itself to sweet things, especially chocolate,” he says.

Jamie Ager, the Hickory Nut Gap farmer who raised the pig, will be present at the dinner to talk about the farm. Tiano will also be available to talk about his wines, which will mostly come from France and Italy. “There will probably be a big Italian red that we serve with some tomatoy pork-butt braise with gnocchi or housemade pasta,” says Maykuth. Even though he concedes that the food they’ll turn out will be based on old-world cooking techniques, the flavors will be “all over the place.”

This 5-course event (with a couple of goodies thrown in for fun, adds Maykuth) will cost $85, which does not include tax and gratuity. Dinner starts at 7 p.m. The Admiral is located at 400 Haywood Road in West Asheville. For more information, visit theadmiralnc.com. To make reservations, call the Appalachian Vintner at 505-7500. X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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by Maggie Cramer I’m sure you’re thinking that all of the ads with an Appalachian Grown logo made sense in the summer, when an abundance of local produce is available and featured on the menus of area restaurants. But with fall settling in and winter approaching, what’s the use? The local food movement quiets down, and restaurants can’t use local products, right? Not quite!

The restaurants and farms featured in this special section will have local items to offer in the coming months. What’s more, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project will remain hard at work on our decade-long local food campaign.

Here’s how you can eat local throughout winter, as well as some information on what we’ll be up to once the chill is here to stay.

Get Local

ASAP’s Get Local is a year-round initiative that brings together farmers, chefs and community members to celebrate a featured local food each month. Featured items are chosen because of their widespread presence at tailgate markets, groceries and roadside farm stands during the month, as well as their availability directly from producers.

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This abundance makes it easy for shoppers and restaurant chefs to find these local items and create dishes that reflect the seasonal harvest.

In November, look for locally grown winter squashes. Farm-raised meat gets the spotlight in December, until honey and sorghum steal the show in January. February’s all about trout. Proteins still reign supreme with eggs in March and farmstead cheese in April. Be on the lookout for future “Eatin’ in Season” columns about who grows and produces these products and the restaurants that use them.

Get Local-er

We’ve got plans to expand our Get Local program this fall and winter. But, those plans all depend on you (no pressure)! So many of you are already making recipes from the Eatin’ in Season articles and seeking out each month’s featured food, as well as other local items. We hope to make it easier for you to share your involvement with the local food movement and eat even localer.

Plans are underway to build a special Get Local section of the ASAP website that will allow locavores to better engage with ASAP and our area’s thriving local food movement — to become “local-er,” if you will. Maybe

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Eggs-cellent: Even though some vegetables won’t be available through the winter locally, there will be an abundance of proteins, like these local eggs from East Fork Farms.

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Our Get Local program has already expanded into area schools, and a local food item is now featured each month in cafeterias. (The featured foods do differ from the overarching Get Local calendar; after all, cafeteria staff have a few more mouths to feed than most restaurant chefs.) Students will find local cabbage on the menu this month, local potatoes in November and enjoy several varieties of local apples during the winter.

There are exciting things happening with local food in area classrooms, too. A partnership between ASAP, Western Carolina University and Jackson County Schools, made possible by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, enables nutrition and elementary education students to implement farm to school programming in Jackson County. To date, programming has included farm field trips, planting gardens and local food cooking demonstrations.

In Buncombe County, ASAP works with area chefs as part of the national Chefs Move to Schools initiative. Currently, around 20 schools are matched up with more than 30 chefs and volunteers. Cooking demonstrations with local veggies and greenhouse items will continue throughout the winter.

ASAP is also offering mini-grants for farm field trips in 2011 to schools throughout the region; application deadline is Nov. 5.

See? The coming months are exciting for local food!

Appalachian Grown: This logo means fresh, local and sustainable food is close by.

Local farms by the numbers · For the 2010 Family Farm Tour, there were 4,669 farm visits. (Up from last year’s approximately 3,000 visits.) · There are nearly 12,000 family farms in Western North Carolina — approximately one-quarter of farms in the state. · Farms occupy one-third of the privately owned land in Western North Carolina. · Since 2002, the number of tailgate markets has doubled, from 30 to 60. Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs) grew from 12 to 68. · More than 800,000 copies of the Local Food Guide have been distributed since its first publishing date. · In 2009, the Appalachian Grown logo branded $28 million in local food sales.

Since 2007, Appalachian Grown has branded $43 million worth of local food sales.

Fall colors: Look for all sorts of autumn decor at farmers markets before the season ends.

Appalachian Grown is a program of ASAP that certifies food and agricultural products grown or raised on farms in Western North Carolina and the Southern Appalachian mountains. For more information about ASAP and Get Local, visit asapconnections.org. To learn more about Chefs Move to Schools and ASAP’s Farm to School program Growing Minds, visit growing-minds. org. Find area tailgate markets open in November and December, as well as restaurants sourcing

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Moogfest organizers answer your questions Is Moogfest 2010 an all-ages festival?

Yes, patrons of all ages are welcome. Stella Blue is our only venue that is 18+ but all of our other venues are all ages. Tickets will be required for patrons of age 2 or older. If you do bring the little ones, we suggest earplugs and an afternoon nap.

Where do I redeem my day ticket or festival pass?

Each ticket holder will be required to exchange his or her ticket for a credential upon arriving at the festival. Credentialing for Weekend Pass and Day Ticket holders will take place in the Exhibition Hall (entrance located on Hiawassee Street) of the Asheville Civic Center. Additionally, this will be the only entrance into the Asheville Civic Center and Thomas Wolfe Auditorium throughout the festival. ... Trust us, it will be a smooth and easy process.

When Bob Moog presented his paper Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules at the Audio Engineering Society conference in October 1964, it was the Big Bang of modern music. His ideas literally electrified synthesized analog sounds, exploding the sonic limitations of earlier formats like magnetic tape.

The nascent planet of electronic music formed from Moog’s discoveries has many inhabitants. Once again, it began with Bach, when musician and composer Wendy Carlos produced Switched on Bach and the WellTempered Synthesizer in the late ‘60s.

Planet Moog proliferated from there.

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the 1970s. By the time Devo was whipping it in the hay in 1980, Moog and his equipment were bright stars in the instrumental galaxy.

On October 29-31, more than 55 of Moog’s terrestrials descend on Asheville for Moogfest 2010. With a line-up that includes the venerable — like Devo (interview on pg. 61) and Massive Attack — and more recent phenoms like Caribou and Pretty Lights (story on pg.

65) — our mountain town is due for some crazy crop circles.

Let Xpress be your guide to Moogfest and its strange forms of life. Find out who’s playing where and when, tips on how to navigate the occupied territory of downtown, what Halloween means to Big Boi, Dan Deacon and more.

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Will I be able to see every show?

This is a festival and some shows will be going simultaneously, so there might be some difficult choices. Priority access will be given to VIP pass holders and admittance will be given on a first come, first serve basis. Once a venue reaches capacity, we will move to a one-in, one-out policy. There will be several concert options at any given moment during the festival weekend.

Will alcohol be available at each event?

Venues that traditionally sell alcohol will be making it available for purchase during the festival; this includes the Asheville Civic Center, Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, The Orange Peel and the Moogaplex. Photo identification and wrist-banding are required to purchase alcohol. Please be aware that the city of Asheville does not allow open containers outside. It’s Ashevegas, but it ain’t Vegas. Please be sure to finish your beverages before exiting of any of our venues.

Can I bring a camera?

Disposable and small digital photography will be allowed, but anything with a removable lens is not permitted. Audio and video recording devices are prohibited. Additionally please be respectful of other patrons and the artists when using your camera and try not to use your flash.

What can I bring and what is prohibited?

What’s acceptable: Small backpack or purse, small umbrella, camera with non-removable lens. Please remember everyone and his or her backpack/purse is subject to search.

What’s prohibited: Drugs, controlled substances, alcohol, outside food or drink (including sealed water bottles), weapons, firearms, glowsticks, laser pointers, large frame backpacks, video recording equipment, tri-pods, audio recording equipment, chairs, coolers, contraband, unauthorized merchandise and fireworks. Any person attempting to enter the venues with any of the item(s) above will be refused access, or at the venue’s discretion, allowed to give up the prohibited item(s) before entry. Confiscated items will be destroyed or given away at the venue’s discretion.

Will there be in and out privileges at each show?

Yes, all credentialed patrons will be allowed to free flow from show to show. Due to capacity restrictions, if you leave a show that is at capacity, you may have to wait in line to get back in.

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Will I be searched coming in to each show?

All patrons are subject to search upon entry or re-entry into every show.

— Info from moogfest.com

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moogfest inside info • If you’re seeing a show at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, there’s not a bad seat in the house. However, seats on either side of the balcony can lead to a stiff neck from prolonged turning in one direction. Use intermission and any between-song banter to practice some neck stretches.

• If you’re at the Orange Peel, you might notice a dearth of liquor drinks. Get them at Pulp, the club located on the building’s lower level. You won’t miss a moment of the show: there’s piped-in sound and video.

• If you’re at the Civic Center, take a moment to view the mountains from the glassed-in perimeter hallway. Oh, and there’s a concession stand if you’re craving nachos.

• If you’re tweeting from Moogfest, use the hashtag #moogfest. No, really. Also, check mountainx.com for live updates all weekend.

• Looking for late-night munchies? Head to Rosetta’s Kitchen (116 N. Lexington Ave., 232-0738) — open til 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday; The LAB (39 N. Lexington Ave., 252-0212) — serving a late menu until 2 a.m.; The Southern (41 N. Lexington Ave., 251-1777) — open daily to 2 a.m.; MoDaddy’s (77 Biltmore Ave.,

258-1550) — kitchen open till 2 a.m.; 51 Grill (51 Merrimon, 258-1670) — just past the I-240 on ramp and open till 4 a.m.

Friday and Saturday.

• Looking to escape the masses? A few close-by but tucked-away spots include: Satchels Martini Bar, upstairs in S&W Steak and Wine (56 Patton Ave., 505-3362) — overlooks Pritchard Park, opens at 4:30 p.m.; Firestorm Café and Books (48 Commerce St., 255-8115) — this workerowned vegan cafe stays open til 11 p.m., access it from behind the Thirsty Monk on Patton Ave.; Temptation’s Red Room (5 Biltmore Ave., 252-0775) — located on the lower level, this cocktail bar offers regular entertainment; Old Europe (13 Broadway St., 255-5999) — this newly reopened coffee shop serves all things caffeinated and dessert-y, and there are lots of tiny nooks for holing away.

• Need to find a last-minute costume?

Try: The Costume Shoppe (32 North Lexington Ave., 252-8404), Madame Butterfly (102 N. Lexington Ave. 250-9124), HoneyPot (86 N. Lexington Ave., 2250304), Royal Peasantry (80 N. Lexington Ave., 559-1835), Hip Replacements (72 N. Lexington Ave., 255-7573), Vintage Moon (82 N. Lexington Ave., 225-2768), Ragtime Vintage Clothing (20 E. Walnut St., 2258889).

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WE ASKED THEM: Asheville Civic Center 87 Haywood St. Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 87 Haywood St. The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. Moogaplex 46 Haywood St. within the Haywood Park complex

Two Fresh (Sherwyn Nicholls) If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be?

What’s his favorite Moog instrument?

What is your favorite album that features a Moog instrument?

Eliott Lipp: Tacoma Mockingbird Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

Analog, it’s like asking who’d win in a fight between Human and Robot. The human, solely because there are just some moves robots can’t do.

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Describe your best Halloween costume.

When I was a kid my mom made me this bird costume out of foam. It was awesome. I have a great picture of it.

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Awww, that’s too hard. Freddy was the shit. So was Jason.

If I had to pick, the “monster within,” a la The Shining.

It’s probably my favorite “horror” movie of all time.

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Headtronics (FreekBass) What’s your favorite candy (and why)?

Addicted to the new pretzel M&M’s. Chocolate and salt ... very good combo.

What’s your favorite Halloween-related song?

Does “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” count?

Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

Analog will always last all 15 rounds ... digital would be either a knockout or only last a couple, so always analog.

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MuteMath (Paul Meany) Describe your best Halloween costume.

This year I’m thinking of getting the darkest spray tan I can get, gel my hair back, wear cut off Jnco shorts and go as “The Situation on heroin.”

What’s your favorite candy (and why)?

Hot tamales, because they go brilliantly with coffee.

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Elvira. Nothing a boy could want more from his mistress monster.

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Beyond an art-school joke Devo: from Kent State to feudal state

by Uphar Neiburger Lots of people remember Devo for the hit song “Whip It.” The song’s video was one of the first played on MTV, and helped catapult the band to stardom. What many people don’t know is the band was founded on some radical principles. The name “Devo” comes from the band’s concept of “de-evolution — the idea that, instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.”

Founding members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were students at Kent State University while the college was a major hub for hippie-radicals in the 1960s and ‘70s. Casale was present on May 4, 1970, when the National Guard opened fire on a peaceful protest, killing four students. That experience led to the band’s formation, and helped inform its art and politics for the duration of its career.

The band released Something for Everybody this year, its first studio album in 20 years. Xpress caught up with Casale prior to Friday’s show.

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Xpress: Can you elaborate on the theory of “deevolution” that the band was named after?

Casale: It was partially an art-school joke… We Radical principles, radical sound: Just because we live in a corporate feudal society, doesn’t sort of adopted it as an explanation of what we mean Devo can’t rock out. saw in the culture, which was not progress, not the brilliant and bright future that the ‘50s had promised, with dome cities and flying cars and make the students look like the culprits instead of the victims that they technology helping humans with disease and labor. were ... and Devo was a creative response to a situation that would maybe Quite the opposite — we saw infrastructure falling apart, decimation make someone else join The Weather Underground and start blowing up of the education system a la the Republicans and Nixon. We saw more buildings. and more factions developing, more and more violence worldwide, people getting actually dumber, not able to engage in rational and ana- It seems to me that these days there’s not quite that spirit on college lytical thought or discussion, just repeating mindless sound bytes and campuses that there was in the ‘60s. propaganda slogan from TV and we called that De-Evolution.

Of course not. We live in a corporate feudal society ... All people want is bling-bling and immediate money for the least amount of effort. When The video for “Whip It” was one of the first videos played on MTV. they do get a job they just want to keep it, they don’t want to cause Was there cognitive dissonance for you coming from such a revolution- trouble and they live in abject fear. A generation today grew up where ary background, and then becoming commercially successful? corporate culture had already become the model, and then you add to It was a wonderful moment where the genie got out of the bottle before that the pseudo-militaristic assault on privacy, like what happens to a they figured it out and clamped down on Devo … We were very happy person at an airport today, that would have been intolerable to anyone that MTV was in this position at this time playing the Devo video that in my day. People are used to standing in line, shutting up, doing what later on they would have never played, it would have never met their they’re told, being afraid that with the wrong comment they’ll be in a censorship standards, but it slipped through the cracks in the beginning secondary search and then in jail. It’s all been a training program to get because they had no programming. MTV came into existence and needed people used to absolute authority, across-the-board authority, no matter music videos and because it was not nationally syndicated yet, it was how illegitimate… open to anything. It was trying to bring music to people not as a down- And that’s not by accident. Certainly for the right-wing forces that are the-line-from-radio hit, but rather starting with music videos. And that represented by people like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, after was a short-lived goal. It didn’t take MTV long to become a commercial all the false drum-beating for patriotism and democracy, underneath it monster … They quickly tied their playlist into Top 40 songs. all is basically a hatred of anything but conformity. They certainly don’t want the masses to be educated. You can see the way that education has I have read that the shootings at Kent State were an impetus to start been decimated. Teachers are disrespected and not paid anything. If you the band. have an informed population, you have people questioning authority and Yes, none of what I just told you would have even come about if it had government policy. If they don’t know any better and are kept on a level not been for the trauma of May 4th … I don’t think I had the same philo- of hand-to-mouth survival, they won’t make any trouble. And program sophical sensibility before the killings as I did after, it was like the hippie is work. We don’t have a democracy, that’s my position. Democracy is a part of me was killed, it was no more Mr. Nice Guy. brand and we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a feudal state, that’s I no longer believed in the essential goodness of humanity, with a few what it is. X bad apples. I no longer thought that good ideas and merit would ever win the day. That stupidity and vast evil was a far more prevalent force in the Uphar Neibuger is a freelance writer and music promoter.

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Ears to the street and eyes to the sky Big Boi gets back in the game

by Jake Frankel As half of hip-hop super-duo Outkast, Big Boi established himself as one the dopest emcees in history.

Teaming up with childhood homey Andre 3000, the pair pioneered an eccentric Dirty Southmeets-G-Funk style that earned them massive critical and commercial success throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s.

But with the sometimes-overshadowing Andre taking a musical sabbatical the last few years to focus on acting and other projects, Big Boi set out on his own this summer, releasing a phenomenal solo debut that should lay to rest any concerns that Andre was the creative spark in their collaborations. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is a masterpiece of infinitely innovative rhymes anchored by catchy choruses and booty-shaking ‘80s-synth-funk beats that somehow manages to sound both comfortingly familiar and disarmingly futuristic.

Big Boi tells Xpress the success of the album feels especially sweet after his former label, Jive Records, delayed its release for years over commercial concerns that proved to be unfounded (it debuted at number three on the US Billboard chart).

“It feels great; this album has been finished

for some time now and I really just wanted to get it out there and have people listen to it. So I am thrilled of the great responses it has been getting,” he says, adding that he’s already completed a followup. “I feel like I am always growing as an artist, putting out a solo disc and going on my first solo tour has been a learning experience. I see myself musically just keep making music and keep making records. I already have my next solo album done.”

The Atlanta rapper has embarked on a massive U.S. and European tour in support of the disc and says he’s having fun getting back out on the road after laying low for a few years. In addition to performing crunk new party anthems like “Daddy Fat Sax” “Shutterbugg” and “Tangerine,” he reveals that fans can also expect to hear renditions of old-school Outkast bangers like “Rosa Parks,” “Miss Jackson” and “Bombs over Baghdad.”

“The live shows are great — I love getting out there and performing for my fans — it’s been awhile since I have gotten out there to perform,” he says, noting that he’ll be coming to Asheville armed with a DJ over a live band. “I usually perform with a DJ — not a band — and I do a lot of old stuff along with the new. I like both: I like the band because it gives it a different feel and it’s all live creating the music right there, but I also like the DJ because it gives off the similar sound that I

Big time: The legendary Atlanta emcee hits Moogfest on the heels of dropping his hot new album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. achieved on the record.”

He also reveals a special place in his heart for Halloween. After his Friday night slot at Moogfest, Big Boi will head back down to his beloved ATL for an annual Halloween benefit party for his Big Kidz Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing socially conscious youth.

“I like Halloween, I have kids too and they are into it. Halloween is always a fun holiday to participate in as a kid — I mean, you get to dress up and be whatever you want that day and not look crazy — how fun is that,” he says. X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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WE ASKED THEM:

Big Boi Who would win in a fight: Freddy Krueger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the Blair Witch, Freddie Mercury or you?

Freddy Kruger – I am not trying to mess with that.

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Cookie Monster – because he eats mad cookies all day.

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Executive lounge: Thievery brings first-class beats to Moogfest.

by Jake Frankel Thievery Corporation harvests diverse strains of music from around the world and rolls them into genre-defying down-tempo tunes that are sure to get Moogfest goers’ heads nodding and hips swiveling.

Made up of potent production duo Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the self-described pioneers of “revolutionary outernational sounds” are coming to Asheville on the heels of releasing their first greatest hits collection, It Takes a Thief. The retrospective album features cuts from throughout their 15 year career such as “Warning Shots,” “Sweet Tides” and “Lebanese Blonde,” which was seared into American pop-culture imagination by being included in the Garden State soundtrack back in 2004.

Garza tells Xpress that it was tough for the legendary electro-lounge perfectionists to decide on what tracks to include.

“There were certain ones that were like, ‘these are some of our favorites.’ There were other ones that just kind of evoked a moment in time,” he explains over the phone from their studio in D.C.

“There were so many to go through, really, and we both just sort of sat down and went through our catalogue and picked songs we both agreed on and felt like they just said something about where we were at when we were recording them.”

The duo has been bringing the songs to life this fall with the help of 12 singers and musicians, who play everything from sitar and bongos to guitar, bass and keys.

“It always makes for kind of a big circus,” Garza says of their tendency to take large revolving casts of musicians on the road with them.

“But it always keeps it fresh and entertaining.”

Garza also notes that the collective will be using plenty of Moog gear and that they’re all excited to be part of an event honoring Bob Moog’s legacy.

“We’re excited to come down to Asheville and play Moogfest. I mean, when anybody thinks of the synthesizer, they think of Moog,” he says.

“So it’s great to be involved in this festival.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

WE ASKED THEM: Rob Garza Who do you think would win in a fight: a zombie or a robot, and why?

I think a robot would probably win, because they would chop off the zombie’s limbs and then the zombie would be immobile.

So unfortunately, the robot. Although I’d probably prefer the zombie to win.

Do you have a favorite candy? If so, why?

I don’t really eat candy so much anymore. It’s funny to look back and think about how much candy you ate as a kid, but it’s something that I really don’t eat that much anymore, to be

honest with you.

Who do you think would win in a fight: Freddy Krueger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the Blair Witch, Freddy Mercury or you?

Or me? That’s good (laughing). Mike Myers is the guy from Halloween, that’s not the guy from Austin Powers, right?

Right. Although if you think the comedian would win ...

Yeah, maybe the comedian would win. Who knows? Maybe Austin Powers would kick everyone’s ass.

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Trick or Treats

Sleigh Bells push it to the point of clipping

by Jaye Bartell S leigh Bells may have the highest power-to-personnel ratio out there. The Brooklyn-based duo of musician/songwriter Derek Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss has been pummeling the sonic plane since 2008. Miller’s beats are massive circular saws; repeating guitar lines fly off like sparks. With equal ferocity and finesse, Krauss’ vocal melodies trickle over the teeth of those blades, reducing the shrapnel but not the incisive drive of the music.

Many would-be fans heard about Sleigh Bells — in New York’s local small magazine, The New Yorker, as well as Pitchfork and other music blogs — before they heard Sleigh Bells. A few early shows in New York became mythical and the play count on the band’s MySpace page showed the up-ticking list of people waiting for a record. When Treats was released in May (first on iTunes, then, a month later, on CD and vinyl), so-called hype became a solid reputation. Xpress discussed beats, the accidental innovations of cheap equipment and the possibilities of Sleigh Bells unplugged with Miller.

Xpress: Sleigh Bells offers a rather unique take on pop music: confrontation. It’s an innovative approach to a type of music that is hard to innovate. What do you think of this term, confrontational pop?

Derek Miller: I’m not crazy about labeling our music, or any music for that matter, but I suppose it’s accurate. I’m pretty sure “confrontational” is one of the words I used when I was first describing the sound to Alexis. Thankfully she forgave me for it.

Considering that you use electronics onstage for beats and supporting vocals, would you consider your iPod the third Sleigh Bell? Is it easier to deal with than the typical drummer?

Running a track as opposed to having a live drummer is a way to avoid compromising the sound, simple as that. Added benefits include eliminating a person in the van, a mouth to feed, etc.

We have rehearsed with drummers before ... it totally changes the character of the music — sounds very “nu metal” actually [laughs]. We haven’t ruled it out completely, but I don’t see us adding anyone in the near future.

I think the “Sleigh Bells beat” could be patented; it is absolutely blown-out, and at the same time, precise and contained.

How did you come up with this engineering method?

It was done out of necessity. The gear/sounds I was using at

Accidental innovations: Sleigh Bells’ sound was born from ferocity, finesse and cheap equipment.

the time sound awful when they are cleaned up. The only way I could stand hearing them was when I pushed the master to the point of clipping. The newest songs like “Tell Em” and “Riot Rhythm” are cleaner because the sounds needed less treatment and work better as is.

Does Sleigh Bells use any Moog equipment?

Never owned a piece of Moog equipment in my life, unfortunately! I didn’t have a spare dime until January or so. We have been recording and touring pretty much nonstop since then, but I’m sure I’ll pick some stuff up when I have time off to experiment with new gear.

Has anyone ever asked you guys to do an “unplugged” set?

Yes, not sure it would translate. “Rachel” might work; we have a guitar/vocal version of that we might do for the BBC. Haven’t tried it yet...

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How did the name “Sleigh Bells” come about?

It’s just a name, really. I jokingly titled a song “Slay Bells” in 2005 and it stuck as a band name though we switched the spelling. I maintain a bands name is as good as its music ... so maybe it’s decent-to-good with a lot of promise??!

Can we expect to see some Halloween costumes this year?

Maybe the zombie-faced cheerleaders from the Treats record cover?

Don’t want to give it away! But yes, costumes for sure.

How will Sleigh Bells spend the winter this year?

Touring, then we will head back into the studio for our second record. Beyond excited. X

Jaye Bartell can be reached at jbartell@mountainx.com.

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Back to the future Pretty Lights on old-school sounds and new music

by Alli Marshall Derek Vincent Smith of Colorado-based Pretty Lights (the electro-dance group of Smith and, currently, drummer Adam Dietch) says some people assume he uses samples because he can’t write music. In fact, “The reason I sample the way I do is because I’m trying to make music that is combination of the cutting-edge and new-electronic styles, but also has the warmth and timbre of music from past decades,” says Smith. “I listen to massive amounts of old records to find the one little guitar note or the one vocal hum to really put them together. Every track is a combination of more than 10-20 different sources of old school sounds to really create something new and different.”

That painstaking approach makes Smith’s latest undertaking — releasing three EPs this year — even more impressive. “I came up with the concept of doing three EPs in the year, as opposed to one album,” he tells Xpress. “In my mind that seemed like a good solution as far as releasing music in how it worked with with the timing of my touring. I’d be able to release more music, more often, and keep my show fresh with new material but also maintain that sort of surprise element to when I’m releasing records.”

Smith adds, “It was definitely a massive goal to try to pull off ... but I think this is going to be the best one yet.”

The musician has, in fact, been honing his style since he was in high school. He got his start producing hip-hop beats and later got involved with the race scene. But it was only last year that Smith, with drummer Cory Eberhard (since replaced by Adam Dietch), gained recognition while playing a slew of festivals (Bonnaroo,

Rothbury and Camp Bisco, among others). Surprisingly, Smith had only attended one festival — High Sierra — before landing gigs as a festival performer. “On my spring tour, I played Coachella and I requested not to have any shows on Friday and Sunday. I played Saturday and was able to come in a day early and hang out for the whole festival and see all the bands I wanted to see,” he says. “If it’s a festival I want to kick it at, I try to make time to be there. It’s cool — I love going to festivals and see what other artists are doing. It’s fun, but it’s also inspirational.”

When it comes to inspiration for his next project, Smith is turning to the vintage sounds he loves. The plan is, he says, “To make a record with the sound and style I’ve developed without having to go to old vinyl. Right now I’m building a studio that’s completely analog — old tape machines, instruments from the ‘60s and before and microphones from those eras.” He’s also networking with musicians who use a similar approach. “I’m trying to create a studio where I can record sounds that are similar to the ones I’m sampling.”

This doesn’t mean Smith will be releasing a retro-rock or soul album next year — the new project will be trademark Pretty Lights, only Smith will record all the sounds himself, press records on a vintage vinyl press, and then sample. The hoped-for result? Probably not a vision typical among electronic musicians: “What I’m really trying to is build a studio that has none of the current technology and only the old stuff,” says Smith. “The aim is, at least in the recording and sound-creation phase of it, to not Musicology 101: Smith plans to record his own albums use any of the technology that didn’t exist before 1972.” X on vintage equipment, then sample them.

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Heart on protective sleeve Hot Chip’s high-tech simplicity

by Alli Marshall “I don’t know how interesting I find remixes,” admits Felix Martin, who plays Jazzmutant Lemur, Elektron Machinedrum SPS MKII, Akai MPC2500 and Dave Smith PolyEvolver with British electro-pop band Hot Chip. Which is a funny thing to say, considering Hot Chip just released the EP We Have Remixes as well as an MPX4 app that allows fans to create their own remixes of Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better.”

And, from the band’s blog, this: “URB.com and Remix Wizard have teamed up with Moogfest for the official Remix Contest.

The contest features ‘We Have Love’ by Hot Chip and tracks by Tijuana DJ/producers (and North American Hot Chip support act) Nortec Collective to remix, as well as an easy-to-use webbased remixing tools for beginners. One grand-prize winner will be awarded a late night DJ set on at this year’s Moogfest.”

Says Martin, “The culture that we exist in, we’ve got a lot of fans who are producers ... people end up asking if they can remix our music.” But he does regard the album highly: “All these people on the new EP are friends and everyone in [Hot Chip] is a fan of their music. That’s how it comes about. It’s got nothing to do with record labels.”

What Martin does find interesting is the song writing of his band members — and Hot Chip founders — Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. “Alexis is not a straightforward kind of songwriter, but he writes songs that are quite emotional and quiet direct. Joe is much more of a studio-geek kind of guy. What you’re hearing is the combination of two different people’s artistry and that’s why it’s got that unique sound.”

That means that, though they’re created in a science lab or technology, songs like “Thieves in the Night” and “Hand Me Down Your Love,” instantly recognizable tracks from the band’s most-recent studio release, One Life Stand, manage to simultaneously get bodies to the dance floor and tug at the heart strings.

And it’s that formula that accounts for Hot Chip’s longevity.

“I see it as a progression of Joe and Alexis in their own lives,” Martin says of the band’s discography. “The albums reflect of the way they’ve grown up. They’re both married, they’ve both got kids, they’ve both got houses that they own, and that’s a long way from where we started off. We’d just finished college and were just messing about.”

The band, started by Taylor and Goddard as school friends (the name comes from their like of french fries — not a name dreamed up with any foresight of a decade-long career), has always artfully blended tender emotion with dance beats. Lyrics like “You’re my number-one guy” from “And I Was A Boy From

Beauty and the geek: Under all the high-tech gadgetry, Hot Chip just wants to write a good love song.

School” had Martin apologizing to blogsite The New Gay for not being gay.

“What it comes down to is Alexis’ ability to come up with original lyrics and Joe’s ability to create fresh-sounding production,” says Martin. “It is quite simple, really.”

Actually, it is simple. At least in the beginning. According to Martin, a Hot Chip songs starts with “Alexis, with a piano or a guitar or a much more straight forward, back-to-basics way of coming up with lyrics. Joe tends to be more inspired by creating sounds and combining different electronic sounds. Slightly more modern in creating music through trial and error.” Then, after

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that, it’s all about the Nord Wave, the Moog Little Phatty, the Roland SH-101 and the Moog Voyager.

“All the music and production we make has got the Moog sound all over it,” says Martin. “We haven’t visited the factory — we were only in Asheville for one day last time we were there.

We went to a vegetarian café. This time we’re definitely hoping to make time to see the factory.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

WE ASKED THEM Devo (Gerald Casale) Describe your best Halloween costume.

Osama Bin Laden — a full head rubber Bin Laden mask from Paris, a bathrobe and bath slippers from the Soho Grande Hotel and a cane that I borrowed.

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Scarface. He’s the monster in all of us.

Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

Digital is just an illusion. It’s like trying to stab Jello.

Mountain Man (Amelia Meath) What would you rather be: a zombie or a robot?

Zombie. At least you got to be human at some point.

Unless I was a robot with an emotions chip, like Data had.

Who would win in a fight: Freddy Krueger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the Blair Witch, Freddie Mercury or you?

Freddie Mercury always wins.

What’s your favorite Halloween-related song?

I have always equated “She Blinded Me With Science” by Thomas Dolby with Halloween, though I don’t think that was his intention. Either way, the song is amazing.

Dan Deacon What’s your favorite Halloween-related song?

“Who Let the Dogs Out?” What is your favorite piece of Moog gear?

I really like my Rouge. I used it a lot on Spiderman of the Rings and I’ll be using it a lot on my next record. I just got a ton of gear in the mail from Moog, all Moogerfooger stuff, and I am super excited to start messing with it.

It arrived about 15 minutes ago. I can’t wait to start learning them!

Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

They don’t fight. That would be like asking if space or time would win in a fight. They are both awesome means of creating and transporting sound to a listener. Each has their strengths and their weakness. It depends on the music you want to make, and how you want to make it.

Shout Out Out Out Out (Nik Kozub)

Saturn Never Sleeps

Describe your best Halloween costume.

Again, when I was a kid, I had some pretty awesome costumes, thanks to my wonderful parents. My Mom would get pretty elaborate with things like building me a fly costume with paper maché and huge metal mesh eyes and stuff. One year I went as a giant Diet Coke can with mirrored shades (I think it was maybe a character from an ad campaign or something). I thought I was pretty damn cool, believe me.

What was your craziest/most memorable Halloween night?

2007 NYC. I had a gig at Cielo for Deep Space w/ Francois K. My hotel was three blocks away and it took me almost one hour to get to the club! Actually very scary!

Have you ever seen a ghost or had any other paranormal experience?

I recently stayed at a bed and breakfast thing somewhere in Virginia, and while I didn’t actually see a ghost or anything, it sure as hell felt haunted. It was a giant mansion, dark and creepy, and four of us had the whole place to ourselves. It was in the middle of nowhere, on top of a big hill with nothing else around it, and we arrived there pretty late at night, so that

didn’t help. There were tons of oil paintings of little kids on the walls, and their eyes would follow you around the room when you walked by. We sat out on the patio and had some beers, and anytime one of us had to go in to use the restroom it would give us a minor panic attack. One of my friends went up to his room, and out of nowhere the taps in his sink were running at full blast! Whoaaaa!

If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be?

I’d probably ask him for gardening tips! He seemed to be a remarkably humble man, but I would also be curious to know if he truly felt the importance and scope of his influence on the music world. Bob Moog and his innovations really did change the course of music, and the range of possibilities for music creation, in a massive way. It’s quite feasible to say that our band wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Dr. Moog.

(King Britt)

Who would win in a fight: Freddy Krueger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the Blair Witch, Freddie Mercury or you?

Freddy Mercury because if I was him back from the dead, I would lose it.

If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be?

How and when did you meet Sun Ra?

The Octopus Project (Josh Lambert)

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Describe (in detail) your best Halloween costume.

I was a head on a platter in 3rd grade. I had a lightweight table that rested on my shoulders, and there was a hole in the middle that my head fit through. There was tablecloth to hide my body. Surrounding my head was a fake platter with fake food glued to the surface. I had some minimal dead person make-up on my face.

What would you rather be: a zombie or a robot?

Well, if you are a zombie, you are essentially a pile of organic mush being controlled by an alien virus or some such, and if you are a robot then you are a pile of circuits controlled by humans, or by other robots. Or maybe you are one of the master robots controlling the other robots?

Answer: robot.

Have you ever seen a ghost or had any other paranormal experience?

I got really dehydrated when I was a kid, and I had crazy hallucinations for a few days straight. At one point, I thought Alf was speaking to me through the TV. That’s about as close as I’ve gotten to paranormal activity.

Have you ever seen a ghost, or had any other paranormal experience?

One time I saw a concentrated bright green light hover in the sky over southern Vermont, sit still for enough time for an entire carload of people to see it, then in a split second it shot across the sky and out of sight. Did you see the clip by the former Canadian Defence Minister (I know, one actually exists) explaining UFOs? YouTube it.

Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

Hopefully in the midst of their fight, they would realize that they’re both wonderful in different ways and combine their powers.

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Nosferatu. Can’t be mass-lampooned by Disney consciousness.

(Clare Muldaur Manchon)

Who’s your favorite monster (and why)?

Stripe from Gremlins has more attitude than any other monster I’ve ever seen. I like monsters to be able to kill but also annoy. He may have invented the monster mohawk too.

Disco Biscuits (Aron Magner) What was your craziest/most memorable Halloween night?

10/31/2000 Covering “Cherub Rock” with a bikini-clad girl clobbering a pumpkin with a tire iron while we aptly screamed out to the crowd in the mics “We are ... smashing pumpkins.”

What is your favorite album that features a Moog instrument?

I mean, is there any other album as influential, meaningful, forward thinking, and mind blowing that it is even possible than Switched on Bach?

Who would win in a fight: analog or digital?

I’m not even gonna touch that argument. Analog junkies are so defensive about their art form and I admit I have found myself salivating to analogue-synth porn .... thank you synthtopia.com. I frequently find that digital has so much more flexibility in the studio, yet its sonic precision is sometimes its downfall. I enjoy living in the digalogue world.

Describe (in detail) your best Halloween costume.

This isn’t mine, but this year, Yvonne is going as the Rolling Stone cover of a nude John Lennon hugging Yoko Ono. She’s dressing up as Yoko and made a life-sized, stuffed, nude John Lennon, which she will be attaching to her waist. It is pretty nuts!

What’s your favorite Halloween-related song?

“Islands In the Stream” by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton.

Clare & the Reasons

Describe your best Halloween costume.

When I was 5, I was a toothbrush and my sister was toothpaste. We won the prize, my mom made it for us, there was a lot of cardboard and paint involved.

What would you rather be: a zombie or a robot?

Robot, for sure. My arms would get very tired if I had to hold them up and out for as long as a zombie is required to do, no fun.

If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be? blip bleep eekk doink?

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Bob Moog lived at the edge of sonic reality, constantly pushing sound barriers. He sought to provide musicians with a new musical vocabulary to communicate with their audiences.

Although it seems to be paradoxical, this pioneering inventor settled deep in the hills outside of Asheville on a secluded piece of land. In 1978, after 14 years of blazing trails in electronic music, Bob Moog left Moog Music, Inc. in Buffalo, New York and moved to Asheville with his wife and four children.

Bob sought the balance from years in a corporate environment and immersed himself in the natural beauty of this small mountain town for almost 25 years. His work life was complimented with chopping wood to heat his house, taking hikes to check the spring that provided water to his family and plowing his large vegetable garden on his tractor.

During this period Bob also continued to create innovative instruments: the Crumar Spirit, the little-known Multi-Touch Sensitive Keyboard, an entire line of theremins including the MIDI-capable Ethervox, several moogerfoogers effect pedals and the Minimoog Voyager. He wrote a monthly column for Keyboard Magazine and traveled extensively around the world lecturing about synthesis and more. Each time, Bob loved returning to his mountain home where he spent countless nights on his deck gazing at the stars — listening to the stream flowing amongst the silence.

Bob’s creativity was nurtured in these hills, and by the artistic community that grew here over the past 30 years. That creativity spawned Big Briar, Inc. and later the re-born Moog Music, Inc., which is thriving among the same environment that Bob once did. The Bob Moog Foundation, a small, independent nonprofit, was born from this creativity as well. The Foundation seeks to carry forth Bob’s legacy and spirit through education and historic preservation.

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The musician’s toolmaker: The late Bob Moog expanded the musician’s sonic palette, inventing instruments never before heard and pioneering technology central to the music of many modern bands. photo courtesy bob moog foundation

Come visit us at the Moogaplex, where we are assisting in the workshops, panel and discussions throughout Saturday and Sunday, to find out how we carry Bob’s legacy forward.

Moogfest has now come to these hills as well, celebrating Bob Moog’s spirit and his technical accomplishments. On the weekend that honors all hallowed souls, Bob’s soul will have a special place in many peoples’ hearts (and ears) as electronic musicians from all over the world converge to explore the breadth of new technology used to make electronic music.

Someone recently asked me what Bob Moog would think of Moogfest. It is hard for me to imagine what Bob Moog would think, but I can conjecture two things. First, he

would be a tad bit uncomfortable with all of the attention, as he was a truly humble man who did not endorse the notion of celebrity.

Second, Bob Moog worked at the bequest of musicians. He considered himself their toolmaker. His beacon was expanding the musician’s sonic palette so that they could create and communicate music that moved their audiences. Just as Bob dedicated his work to music and musicians, Moogfest celebrates both. Bob Moog would have loved to see it all happen, here in this beloved town that he called home. X Michelle Moog-Koussa is executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation.

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Asheville Vaudeville returns in time for Halloween

by Alli Marshall Asheville Vaudeville is not only back, it’s bigger and better.

Topping a previous maximum of 22 performers, the upcoming Halloween show is up to, according to producer Brian Sneeden, “thirty-five performers and growing.” Add to that a move from 70-seat Bebe Theatre to 400-seat Asheville Community Theatre and you see where this is heading: “There’s no stopping us until we reach Diana Wortham Theatre,” quips Sneeden.

Asheville Vaudeville originated as an outdoor festival produced by Scapegoat Theatre collective. Sneeden noticed the show taking place at the (now-defunct) New French Bar courtyard and got involved. A three-a-half-month European trip introduced him to street theater that inspired the re-envisioning of Asheville Vaudeville. Sketch-writer Thomas Butler, who had been performing with No Shame Theatre, brought his comedy to the production. For a time, it ran monthly at the Bebe Theatre, selling out each performance with acts Tom the Magician, Chaplin impersonator Charlie K. Chaplin and torch singer Vendetta Creme.

The events brought local artists together: “You perform and then you have the opportunity to be performed for,” says Butler.

“In a play you meet five, six people; with Asheville Vaudeville, you’re going to make 35 friends.” It also created connections that hadn’t previously existed. “A lot of the performers didn’t know each other, and now they’re doing collaborations,” says Sneeden.

“It’s part of the Renaissance.”

The shows also create, if not collaborations, then innovative juxtapositions. “One of the things that makes Vaudeville so absorbing is that [each act] is paired up with another act that’s its contrast,” says Sneeden. “You’ll have one-man act followed by a multi-person act, like an acrobatic act with lots of people. You’ll have an act with just one guy — we have El Diabolo, a guy who does the Chinese yoyos — followed by a seven-person juggling routine. It’s about pairing up the size of the spectacle, but also having the comedy next to acts that suggest a more poetic appreciation.”

He adds, “A lot of what we do is comedy, but because it is a variety show we like to have one or two acts that aren’t necessarily disturbing, but they kind of pause you. Like a contortionist.

It’s a bouquet of different sensations.”

A month ago, Sneeden and Butler held auditions for what is both the return of Asheville Vaudeville (the last show was held

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in May) and the newly expanded performance. But wait, there’s more. This is also a Halloween show — not that Vaudeville in and of itself doesn’t already have Scary good: Asheville Vaudeville “evokes an element of Halloween with every show.” a spooky element. photo by ruslan tumash This time around, the carnival aspect of Vaudeville spills over to of the things that we’ve been fantasizing about about is having a pre-show costume gala (both nights!) and, says Sneeden, “We a camera guy on Madison Cripps’ marionette, projecting the do have some acts that are going to be particularly scary.” Like a image on a big screen. We’re also going to do that for Sophie the four-legged-man sideshow act by Sneaky McFly. And knife jug- Wonder Dog. We also have the stuff that we couldn’t do earlier gling — with a volunteer from the audience. because of height limitations, like people juggling on each other’s “We’re sort of evoking an element of Halloween with every shoulders and belly dancing on stilts.” show we do,” says Butler.

Other acts on the bill for the two-night Halloween special What else stays the same (despite the audience-participatory include Jim Julien and the New Delicious, Jennifyre Acrobatics, knife juggling) is the family friendliness. And the charitable ele- the Sugarfoot Serenaders and house band Sirius.B. ment: one third of proceeds go to MANNA FoodBank. “We And, really, that’s just the beginning. Asheville Vaudeville can provide 5,000 meals if we sell out these two shows,” says plans to go to a quarterly schedule, with a next show tentatively Sneeden. Past Asheville Vaudeville productions have provided planned for March 2011. X around 600 meals per show, he estimates.

So bigger might really be better. It certainly provides some Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com. interesting opportunities. “We going to really make use of the facilities,” Sneeden says of the ACT stage. “We’ll have the winch for the aerial artist and do projections on the big screen. One

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The last few months were quite a whirlwind for bearded indie champs Band of Horses. Since hitting the road in March, the band’s been in rock ‘n’ roll overdrive: selling out shows across the US and Europe, sharing the stage with veterans like Pearl Jam and Widespread Panic, and watching their latest release — the gorgeous Infinite Arms — hit No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart (topping both Usher and AC/DC, mind you). But for BoH lead guitarist and Asheville native Tyler Ramsey, none of that beats coming back to Asheville to play in front of his home crowd.

And expect to see a lot more of Ramsey (aka “the tallest man in music,” as one Xpress reader dubbed him) once the BoH tour wraps up at the end of this month. While frontman Ben Bridwell heads back to South Carolina to welcome the birth of his second child, Ramsey is planning on settling back down in Asheville. (“Hanging out at home, trying not to travel for a while, just trying to be normal,” he jokes.) Lucky for us, “normal” also means playing local gigs and working on the songs for his next solo record.

So to help him get re-acclimated, we decided to gather questions from a few of our readers around town. And who better to start the questioning than Harvest Records’ Mark Capon.

Capon: Do you loiter in and around other record stores on tour like you do in West Asheville when you’re home?

Ramsey: [laughs] Yes, I do. I did that this morning, actually. That’s pretty much what I do: guitar stores or record stores. Especially on days off, I’ll just figure out what’s within walking distance of where we’re staying and spend the day finding stuff. And loitering. Mostly loitering, though.

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What did you pick up today?

They just reissued a bunch of John Lennon records, so I think I got Double Fantasy.

From Jesse Hamm: Have y’all been inspired by some of the major artists you’ve shared a stage with in the past year?

Yeah, for sure. We did about 11 shows [in May] with Pearl Jam, so we got to watch them go out on stage every night in front of tons of people and do really long shows and be really powerful. It was cool to watch how they operate, really inspiring.

I honestly wasn’t really a Pearl Jam fan early on, but getting to watch them live really changed my thinking.

Britton: You didn’t own Ten growing up?

No, I did not have Ten. I had friends that had it. I was a little bit different, I think. I listened to a lot of guitar music, a lot of finger-style guitar players like [John] Fahey and Leo Kottke, all those folks.

My uncle turned me onto that stuff pretty early on, and I just latched onto it. I would always be listening to stuff that probably my friends would think was pretty dorky.

From Barbara Verba: How excited are you to be sharing the stage here in Asheville with Uncle Mountain?

Uncle Mountain! Yes, that’s going to be fun. Dan [Shearin] worked at Echo Mountain when we were recording the record, and he did a lot of work with us. So we got to know him, and he’s a sweetheart.

Yeah, they’re really good.

From Jason Spence: Would you say that Asheville’s artist/music scene is as inclusive as it was eight to

arts 10 years ago, or has it become more pretentious?

I’m actually not in touch with what’s going on in Asheville right now, so I don’t know who’s doing what there at the moment. Obviously when Vincent’s Ear was around, there was a real exciting scene happening around that place. But now you’ve got the Grey Eagle, and there’s so many clubs that are having music all the time. So I think the scene just kind of fluctuates, really. But it’s definitely a supportive town for music. Hopefully I’ll catch up on all that on my three month break and go out and see some bands playing around town.

From Ross Williams: What was the first concert you ever went to?

Oh man, that’s an embarrassing question. [Long pause.] OK, it was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it was Eddie Rabbit and Juice Newton.

From Jack Becker: How significant was it for you to write “Evening Kitchen” on Infinite Arms, and how does that experience compare, from an artistically satisfying standpoint, to your own album, A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea? Hmmm, I don’t know. It’s definitely been heard by a lot more people than heard my album. [laughs] It’s just fun to write songs, and it’s really fun to be in a band environment. When I did that solo record, it was just me hiding out somewhere writing songs and then deciding it was time to go record them. But to have a band of friends of yours get excited about a song that you wrote is definitely a heightened experience.

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Band of Horses, with Uncle Mountain opening

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Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

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Thursday, Oct. 28 (8 p.m. $27 plus fees. ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000) Ben still writes the majority of the songs and always has, but I think the idea with the last recording and future things that we do is to be more of a band. He wants to spread the creativity out and get input from all of us. And that’s what makes it really exciting to be playing with these guys. Everybody’s got that ability to put in their two cents, and hopefully we come out with something that’s really good that came from all of us.

From Lauren LaRocca: What do you think about the Eclipse soundtrack ... if you listened to it. Or watched! And did you gain a ton of Twihard fans out of it?

I’ve heard parts of the soundtrack, but I haven’t seen the movie yet. Actually, I haven’t seen any of those movies. We kept being in hotel rooms where they were showing the second one, and I wasn’t, like, going to start with the second one. [laughs] I’d rather watch the whole thing, even though from what I’ve heard about it, it’s probably not my thing. But the cool thing is that they really do pay a lot of attention to the soundtracks. There are

some amazing people on there. You look at the company you’re keeping on the soundtrack, and it’s just an exciting thing to be a part of.

But I don’t know if it’s had that much of an effect. At least I haven’t noticed in the audience.

At this point still a lot of our shows aren’t all-ages anyway. We’ve also grown a lot this year and have gotten bigger crowds coming out to see us, so it’s hard to get a grasp on the array of folks that are out there. So there might be some people wearing Team ... ummm ... I don’t know the guy’s name...

Britton: Jacob?

Jacob! Yeah, yeah, yeah. There might be some people wearing Team Jacob T-shirts, I don’t really know. I don’t think so, though.

From Mark Carter: Based on “For Annabelle,” named for Ben Bridwell’s newborn daughter, how has fatherhood changed the band’s sound?

I don’t think it’s changed the sound of the band necessarily. Some of the subject matter now is — at least as far as I know —related to him getting ready to be a father and adjusting to that idea. So there’s definitely some content in there involved with that. But I don’t think the sound really changed because of that.

From Jeremy Hargroves: What are your passions outside of music?

Oh, man, I’m trying to find some. I kind of have a ridiculously singular focus as far as that goes, so I don’t really have any. I’ve got a bunch of dif-

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ferent sides of me musically that I’m constantly going after. Just covering the bases of trying to be a diverse, whole musician occupies all my time, unfortunately.

From Moriah Luzius: Where do you get your hair done? [laughs] I’ll be plugging a business, but I guess I have to do that. I’ve been going to Christine DiBenedetto at Wink. I’ve been getting my haircut from her for a long time.

Does she cut the beard too?

No, that thing just gets out of control. I have to chop at it with hedge clippers or something. So if there’s someone out there that can do that for me, I’ll go see them, too.

From KaChina Davine: What was the highlight of working with Elliot Scheiner? What did he bring to the recording that was unique for Band of Horses?

Yeah, that was actually a weird side thing that we did. It wasn’t [part of] the album. We actually just went in there for one day in New York, and got to work with him with the sole purpose of recording a few songs in 5.1 surround sound. It was wild.

They were songs from the new album and we just went in and played them live. We did four or five of them. Then he mixed it to surround sound for your listening pleasure. X

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Halloweenings Where to get your costumed revelry on Didn’t get a ticket to Moogfest? There’s still plenty of Halloween mischief to be had!

We’ve rounded up a few of the best, but be sure to check out Clubland for a complete listing of weekend entertainment.

Never one to miss out on costumes and theatrics, LaZoom Tours offers its own twisted take on Asheville ghouls with the Haunted Comedy Tour, a “horrific and hysterical exploration of Asheville’s dark and sordid past.” The hour-long excursion will wind through Montford and Downtown spinning tales of murder, mystery and scandal, or as organizers say, “spilling Asheville’s blood right before your very eyes.” Costumes encouraged. Sunday, Oct. 31. $15.

Info: 225-6932 and lazoomtours.com.

The Grove House wraps up a month’s worth of spooktacular festivities with their two-night Haunted Inferno celebration. The party kicks off Saturday with a costume contest (worth $1,000 in prizes) and ends Sunday with more than 20 entertainers, musicians and DJs performing in all three venues. The whole complex is very well decorated! Dress up for a discount on admission. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30 & 31. Saturday’s festivities are $20 for three levels of entertainment, including Eleven on Grove, Scandals Nightclub and the Boiler Room. Sunday’s Halloween Rave is $10 for all three levels. Info: 505-1612. thegrovehouse.com.

Design a sporty costume and decorate your ride for Asheville on Bikes’ fourth annual Pumpkin Pedaller, “a community ride throughout Asheville’s ghoulish grounds.”

Ride departs from City Hall at 3:30 p.m. and ends with a celebration at the Wedge Brewery, where you can pick up a hand-

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made Asheville on Bikes beer koozie and catch a late-night Halloween flick on the outdoor screen. Free. ashevilleonbikes.com.

Grammy-nominated Latin-funk masters Grupo Fantasma have been sharing their horn-infused jazz fusion with audiences around the world for a decade.

Lucky for us, they’ll celebrate Halloween with a Sunday performance at the Grey Eagle that promises to bring the dead to life. No BS Brass Band opens. 8 p.m. $10/$15. thegreyeagle.com.

For those who take haunted houses very seriously, Better Tours of Asheville offers back-toback paranormal investigations led by a professional ghost hunter. The two-hour excursion will include the first-ever examination of the Flat Iron Building — “the sight of several historically unexplained haunts” — and culminates with drinks at the eighth-floor Sky Bar. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 & 30.

9 p.m. $25. bettertoursofasheville.com.

Who let the dogs out? Something for your furry friends: Blaze-N-Skyy (30 Battery Park Ave., Asheville, 253-2850) announces this year’s Halloween Dog Festival, a “Spooky, Costumed Pooches Haunt Wall Street to Raise Funds for Asheville Humane Society.”

The festivities go from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30 on Wall St., downtown Asheville. Costume contests (large dog, small dog, best ensemble, best trick), begin at 1 p.m. The event also includes Asheville Humane Society pet adoptions, raffles and games, pet photography, animal-friendly marketplace and food and beverage vendors. Admission is free, contests are $5 per dog per contest.

— Dane Smith

smartbets If you’re looking for a great way to remember Moogfest weekend, there’s a Moog-inspired art show with posters for sale.

SYNTH: A Group Art Show Inspired by Bob Moog is a showcase of hand-made, limited-edition prints inspired by Bob Moog’s legacy. Pieces in the show include a variety of styles from some of today’s top concert poster artists and graphic designers.

Phish poster artist Jim Pollock, hand drawn typographer and designer Mike Perry, internationally known artist Zeloot, poster artists Young Monster, Us + Them, Scott Campbell and Justin Helton round out just a portion of the artists involved. These artists have all created work for some of the biggest bands and festivals in the world.

Each artist will contribute their own piece, which will be sold on Saturday and Sunday of Moogfest in the Moogaplex (inside the Haywood Park complex) in very limited quantities (20 of each).

All proceeds will go to support the Bob Moog Foundation.

Be sure to come by the Moogaplex at Moogfest and check out this one-of-akind art show!

For more information about Moogfest see moogfest.com

Club phone numbers are listed in Clubland in the (828) area code unless otherwise stated; more details at www. mountainx.com/clubland. Send your Smart Bet requests in to ae@mountainx.com for consideration by the Monday the week prior to publication.

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•To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue.

•Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Dane Smith at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland.

•Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed.

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‘80s night, 10pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Zydeco Halloween dance & costume party Emerald Lounge

“Pop Lounge” free dance party w/ DJ’s Mark Davis, Crick Nice & Adam Strange

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic

Live DJ

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Soul & jazz jam

Orange Peel

Westville Pub

Jammin’ w/ Max & Miles Wild Wing Cafe

Shane Perlowin (classical guitar), 6-9pm French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Johnson’s Crossroad (acoustic, country) Good Stuff

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Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (“extreme Americana”)

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Catie Curtis (folk rock) w/ Girlyman

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler

Makia Groove (funk, reggae, fusion)

Frankie Bones

Red Stag Grill

Blue Note Grille

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

Katie Toupin & Matt Myers (folk, blues)

Unknown Hinson (rockabilly) w/ the Bitterman

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Scandals Nightclub

Boiler Room

Havana Restaurant

Zumba “In Da Club” aerobic Halloween dance party 7pm

The Sleep-Ins (indie, rock) w/ Rubber Cushions & The Foot

The Get Down

Bosco’s Sports Zone

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Open mic & jam

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

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Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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Jamison Adams (classical guitar), 6-9pm Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Juan Holladay (soul, funk) Good Stuff

Open mic

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

An Evening w/ Tony Joe White (rock, blues)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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Kon Tiki (reggae), 6-8pm

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Marc Keller (singer-songwriter)

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Front stage: Aaron Woody Wood (soul, pop)

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Holland’s Grille

Dinner music, 6:30pm

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Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Fairview Tavern

Rusted Root (rock, jam, fusion)

Blue Note Grille

Old-time jam, 6pm

Ghostface Killah (hip-hop) w/ Sheek Louch, Frank Dukes, The Ville Boyz & Rudy Williams

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Bluegrass jam Open mic

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (dance) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic w/ Caleb Biessert Vincenzo’s Bistro

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DJ night

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Handlebar

Salsa dance, 7pm

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill

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Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Belly dancing

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Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter) Purple Onion Cafe

Chuck Brodsky (folk, Americana)

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Blue Note Grille

Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano)

Dust’n the Wynn (“progressive Americana”)

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Atria (metal) w/ special guests

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Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Local DJ exposure night feat: DJs Myrkabah, Pan Tripsa & Axis Munki

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Temptations Red Room

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

DJs Crick Nice & Mark Davis present Electro-Lush Thursday, 10pm-2am

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Eleven on Grove

The Get Down

I Want Whiskey w/ Ryan Sheffield

EDM “Spooktacular Spooktacular” w/ The New Cosmic Band

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Emerald Lounge

Band of Horses (rock) w/ Jenny and Johnny & Uncle Mountain

Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers (folk rock) w/ Schooner

Town Pump

Feed and Seed

The Incredible Sandwich (rock)

Lisa Price Band (soul, country)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Peggy Ratusz’ Invitational Blues Jam

Full Plates Poetry Performance Flat Rock Grille

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (piano)

Live jazz w/ Steve Sarant & Johnny Ferrara, 6-9pm

Watershed

Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill

Westville Pub

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Open mic

James O’Neil & the Jack 9’s

Broken Lilacs (rock)

White Horse

Steve Smith (“ethereal folk”)

Wild Wing Cafe

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Appalachian Song CD release party Jeff Anders & friends, 9pm

Fri., October 29 Athena’s Club

Craig Larimer (folk, jazz)

Garage at Biltmore

“Moogfest Happy Ever After Party” Good Stuff

JP Delanoye (roots)

Watershed

Midway Tavern

Sol Driven Train (roots, jam) w/ Snake Oil Medicine Show & Now You See Them

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Mike’s Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

White Horse

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Velvet Truckstop (Americana, rock) The Peg Twisters (old-time)

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Nick Stubblefield (jazz, blues, pop)

Handlebar

Aaron La Falce (acoustic, rock)

Wild Wing Cafe

Langhorne Slim (folk, indie, soul) w/ Matthew Knights Williams & the Witnesses

Sat., October 30

Highland Brewing Company

Athena’s Club

Dave Desmelik Trio (Americana) Holland’s Grille

Fine Line (classic rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Iron Horse Station

Glenn Spayth (singer-songwriter) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Firecracker Jazz Band (dixieland) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Moogfest/World Cafe live broadcast w/ David Dye Lobster Trap

Johnston Swingtet (country, roots) Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Humble Thumb (gypsy folk) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Ralph Roddenbery (rock, Americana, blues) Olive or Twist

Live jazz w/ Jennifer Scott Orange Peel

Moogfest 2010

Pack’s Tavern

The Business (Motown funk) Purple Onion Cafe

Beaucoup Blue (Americana, blues, folk) Red Stag Grill

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Peace Jones (Southern rock, fusion) Scandals Nightclub

Miss Honey-Boo Drag Pageant Skyland Performing Arts Center

Craggie Brewing Company

Doc Aquatic (indie, rock)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Greg Olson (folk)

Diana Wortham Theater

Dailey & Vincent (bluegrass)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Live music

Fat Cat’s Billiards

Halloween party & costume contest Feed and Seed

Valley Young w/ Josh Oliver Flat Rock Grille

Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 6-9pm

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Halloween party w/ Kemistry (Southern rock) Root Bar No. 1

Stray Dog Trio (rock) Scandals Nightclub

Haunted House Inferno w/ costume contest & prizes Stella Blue

Monster Halloween Dance Party Temptations Red Room

DJ D-Day

The Warehouse Live

99.9 Kiss FM Live remote $5 Cover ($1 off w/ cans for MANNA)

Live music

Town Pump

Leslie w/ Crowfield Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Unknown Hinson’s Annual Halloween Bash Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Temptations Red Room

Handlebar

The Work (funk) w/ John Keane Band Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Hotel Indigo

Kin Jah (reggae)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

Watershed

Boo Ray w/ Billy Eli & Paul Eddleman Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Halloween party w/ the Business (punk, rock) “Hallowing” w/ costume contest & music by Rubix Groove

Iron Horse Station

Boiler Room

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Russ Wilson & the Mighty Mighty Men (swing, blues) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Mol3cular & Ethereal (electronic) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano)

Sons of Ralph (bluegrass) Costume contest, 11pm Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Moogfest/World Cafe live broadcast w/ David Dye

Sports on the Big Screen Couples Welcome Great Nightly Drink Specials it’s time

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Sun., October 31 Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

WNC’s Most Gorgeous Women

Open at 12 Noon every Sunday

Wild Wing Cafe

Infusions Lounge

Four Leaf Peat (“traditional Irish from Appalachia)

did we mention the scenery?

White Horse

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Wink Keziah (folk, Americana)

Sat. 10/30

Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work (alt-country, rock, blues)

Barley’s Taproom

Town Pump

Fri. 10/29

Westville Pub

Live music

Bobby G Blues Band

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Dave Wendelin (blues, acoustic)

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Live music

8pm - until… upstairs at Pack’s

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Costume party w/ Peace Jones (Southern rock, fusion)

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

“Moogfest Happy Ever After Party”

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The Get Down

Halloween bash w/ The Free Flow Band (soul, funk)

Matt Getman (jazz, pop, soul)

All Hallow’s Eve, Sat. Oct. 30 Vinyl Brothers Big Band, followed by LIVE DJ / DANCE

TallGary’s

Halloween party w/ Mr. Hurl

“Stank-O-Ween III” w/ Brushfire Stankgrass (progressive bluegrass)

HALLOWEEN COSTUME BASH

Peggy Ratusz (blues, jazz, soul)

Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill

The Edge Band (rock)

The Warehouse Live

Rewind Blue (Southern rock)

Straightaway Café

TallGary’s

Rock & roll benefit for Hope Chest

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Emerald Lounge

Fairview Tavern

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Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Haunted House Inferno w/ costume contest & prizes feat: DJs Nyx-e & Johnathan Hartzell Eyes Around (alternative, indie, rock) w/ Vincent’s Missing Ear

Restaurant • Bar • Patio Sports Room • Events Space Football on the Big Screen …on Pack Square Park

One Leg Up (gypsy jazz, swing)

Ironside (metal) w/ From the Ashes & Life Curse (downstairs) Moogfest 2010 (upstairs)

Sol Driven Train (roots, jam) 2:30-5:30pm Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

The Get Down

Pack’s Tavern

Eleven on Grove

Garage at Biltmore

‘80s, ‘90s & Today: Top 40 dance party w/ DJ D-Day

Moogfest 2010

Red Stag Grill

“Haunted House Inferno” w/ costume contest & prizes

Stella Blue

Dave Turner (rock, pop, indie)

Orange Peel

Boiler Room

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Straightaway Café

42nd Street Jazz Band

Purple Onion Cafe

Fifth-Annual Halloween Party w/ Ten Toe Turbo

Jeff Little & Wayne Henderson (bluegrass, Americana) Joe Buck Yourself (punk) w/ The Goddam Gallows & The Go-Devils (downstairs) Moogfest 2010 (upstairs)

Olive or Twist

Blue Note Grille

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Root Bar No. 1

Ike Stubblefield (jam, experimental) w/ special guests

“Fright Night” Halloween costume bash w/ Vinyl Brothers Band & Live DJ

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Neal Crowley (instrumental, jazz, bluegrass, rock)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country)

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Costume party w/ 6 O’clock Sunday (Southern rock)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Appalachian Fire (bluegrass, acoustic) w/ Frank Buchanan

Rewind Blue (Southern rock)

Live music

The Archrivals (rock, jazz, fusion) Luke Wood (singer-songwriter) Asheville Halloween rave Shag dance & lessons

Craggie Brewing Company

Hangover in the Hangar: “Bring your vinyl and we’ll spin it; Bring your own food and we’ll grill it,” 2-8pm Eleven on Grove

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Flat Rock Grille

Luellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar-B-Que

Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (jazz, swing), 6-8pm

Garage at Biltmore

Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

Mon., November 1

Halloween party w/ Zach Deputy (funk, reggae) & Dopapod Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 12pm â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moogfest Happy Ever After Partyâ&#x20AC;?

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Back stage: Moogfest/World Cafe live broadcast w/ David Dye Jon Corbin (of Firecracker Jazz Band), 12-2:30pm Halloween bash & dead sexy costume contest w/ the Discordian Society

Halloween w/ Grupo Fantasma (Latin, funk) & No BS Brass Band

Orange Peel

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Classical guitar duo, 10am-12:30pm Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Hotel Indigo

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (â&#x20AC;&#x153;sonic scientistâ&#x20AC;?), 7-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Irish session, 3pm

Moogfest 2010

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vinyl at the Vaultâ&#x20AC;? w/ Chris Ballard Scandals Nightclub

Asheville Halloween rave Stella Blue

Moogfest 2010 (upstairs) Temptations Red Room

DJ Dizzy

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Wedge Brewing Co.

Emerald Lounge

Open mic

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Chicken Little (punk, old-time)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Handlebar

Whistle Pigs (bluegrass, country, rockabilly) Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

karaoke monday Mack Kell’s / Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe

tuesday

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Handlebar

Flat Rock Grille

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Holland’s Grille

Good Stuff

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime) David Earl & the Plowshares (rock, Americana, soul) Orange Peel

OK Go (rock, pop) w/ Those Darlins & Samuel “Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard

wednesday

House grooves w/ D Mack

Beacon Pub / Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill / The Hangar / Infusions / Midway Tavern / O’Malleys on Main / Holland’s Grille / Rendezvous

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

thursday Cancun Mexican Grill / Chasers / Club Hairspray / Fairview Tavern / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still

friday Fairview Tavern / Fat Cat’s Billards Infusions / Mack Kell’s Midway Tavern / Shovelhead Saloon Stockade Brew House The 170 La Cantinetta

saturday

White Horse

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:30pm

Wed., November 3 Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic

Blue Note Grille

Dinner music, 6:30pm Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag dance

Broadway’s

‘80s night, 10pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Havana Restaurant

Salsa dance, 7pm

Highland Brewing Company

Kofi Burbridge (jazz, soul, funk)

“Exposure Yourself to Brews & Views” w/ the Overflow Jug Band & the Trainwrecks

Orange Peel

Ra Ra Riot (rock, indie, pop) w/ Givers

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

TallGary’s

Open mic & jam, 7pm

Back stage: The Krektones (rock, surf) w/ DJ Lorruh

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Lobster Trap

Town Pump

Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Mela

Westville Pub

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Thu., November 4

Olive or Twist

Bluegrass jam

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Open mic

Belly dancing

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Gaslight Street (rock, soul, funk) w/ Chasing Edison

Jammin’ w/ Max & Miles

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Asheville Civic Center

Jeff Dunham (stand-up comedy)

Swing dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band

Fairview Tavern

Athena’s Club

Pack’s Tavern

Open mic

DJ night

Scott Raines (acoustic rock)

Flat Rock Grille

Blue Note Grille

Pisgah Brewing Company

Holland’s Grille Infusions / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still Tollivers Crossing

Jamison Adams (classical guitar), 6-9pm

sunday

Open mic

Bosco’s Sports Zone / Cancun Mexican Grill / The Hangar / Mack Kell’s / Wild Wing Cafe / The Get Down

Marco Benvento Trio (pianist, “sound sculptor”) w/ Utah Green

Shane Perlowin (jazz/blues/rock guitar), 6-9pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Blues Jam w/ Mars Fariss

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Lobster Trap

Blues night

Westville Pub

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Front stage: Aaron Woody Wood (soul, pop)

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Temptations Red Room

Singer-songwriter contest, 8pm

Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (“extreme Americana”)

Marc Keller (singer-songwriter)

Old-time jam, 6pm

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) Mike’s Side Pocket / Tallgary’s / Temptations

Shane Perlowin (classical guitar), 6-9pm

Rasputina (“gothic chamber pop”)

Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Good Stuff

Marie McGilvray & Jenn Franklin (singer-songwriters)

Sanders, Cardine & Pond (roots, rock) w/ the E.Normus Trio Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Purple Onion Cafe

Buddy Mondlock (folk, country)

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Open mic & jam

Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Bobby Miller & Virginia Daredevils (bluegrass)

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Town Pump

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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Johnson’s Crossroad (acoustic, country)

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Fat Cat’s Billiards

Vincenzo’s Bistro

DJ Twan

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Peggy Ratusz’ Invitational Blues Jam Aaron LaFalce (piano)

Jenny Juice’s Brown Bag Songwriters Competition The Get Down

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Vocal Jazz Session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

Tue., November 2 Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (acoustic, Americana) Blue Note Grille

Jeff Michels (singer-songwriter) Emerald Lounge

Tuesday Night Funk Jam Firestorm Cafe and Books

Open mic w/ Robert Hess, 7pm

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Taylor Hollingsworth (“folk art punk blues songs”) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Iron Horse Station

Open mic w/ Jesse James, 7-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

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Watershed

Mellow Mushroom

Feed and Seed

Westville Pub

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Fri., November 5

O’Malley’s On Main

Athena’s Club

Olive or Twist

Open mic

Mark Schimick & Billy Constable (bluegrass, roots)

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Jeff Santiago (indie, acoustic, rock) Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Salsa Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 11pm Emerald Lounge

Big Daddy Love (jam, roots, rock) Feed and Seed

Clearwater Connection Firestorm Cafe and Books

Chris Wilhelm (folk, singer-songwriter) Flat Rock Grille

Live jazz w/ Steve Sarant & Johnny Ferrara, 6-9pm

LIGHT YOUR DIXIELAND JAZZ O’ LANTERN

SATURDAY 10/30

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TUESDAY 11/2

SINGER SONGWRITER IN THE ROUND FEAT ANGELA EASTERLING, BLAIR CRIMMINS, VALORIE MILLER & JAMES RICHARDS

FRIDAY 11/5

Da¿ =ddein TAKE A RIDE IN THEIR ROCK N’ SOUL MACHINE!

Garage at Biltmore

Wompaliscious

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Marcy Playground (rock) w/ Eskatones & Muphin Chuckrs Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Handlebar

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Jennifer Nicely (“modern folk”) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Ol’ Hoopty (funk, jazz, blues) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Nikki Talley CD release party (rock, indie)

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Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 6-9pm Garage at Biltmore

Eyes of the Elders(Southern rock, hip-hop, fusion) w/ the Stereofidelics Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Chalwa (reggae)

Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Hotel Indigo

Ron Moore (singer-songwriter)

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Stella Blue

Iron Horse Station

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

The Enemy Lovers (rock, indie, pop) w/ Jonathon Ammons & the Electric Ghost TallGary’s

Flying Oatsmen The Warehouse Live

Live music

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music

Town Pump

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Easy A (PG-13) 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:15 Jackass 3D (R) 1:00, 1:30, 3:15, 3:45, 5:30, 6:05, 7:45. 8:25, 9:55 Life As We Know It (PG13) 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:35 My Soul to Take 3D (R) 1:25, 4:10, 6:35, 9:10 RED (PG-13) 1:20. 4:25. 7:10, 9:40 Saw 3D (R) 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45, Late show 11:00 Fri-Sat only Secretariat (PG) 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 The Social Network (PG13) 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 Spookley the Square Pumpkin (G) 1:00 Sat-Sun only The Town (R) 1:35, 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 n Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 (274-9500)

Catfish (PG-13) 12:25, 2:45, 4:55, 8:05, 10:05 Heartbreaker (NR) 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Hereafter (PG-13) 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Jackass 3D (R) 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:50, 10:20 Life As We Know It (PG13) 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 (Sofa Cinema) Metropolis (NR) 7:30 Fri Oct 29 only Never Let Me Go (R) 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 (No evening shows Fri Oct 29) Paranormal Activity 2 (R) 12:30, 2:55, 5:10, 7:55, 9:55 (Sofa Cinema) RED (PG-13) 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:05, 9:50 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) 11:00 p.m. Sat. Oct. 30 only Saw 3D (R) 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 8:00, 10:25 Secretariat (PG) 11:35, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 (Sofa Cinema)

The Social Network (PG13) 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 (Sofa Cinema) The Town (R) 11:50 2:40 5:20 8:00, 10:35 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (PG-13) 12:15, 3:15, 7:00, 10:10 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (R) 11:55, 2:25, 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 (Sofa Cinema)

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Buried (R) 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:00 Devil (PG-13) 2:00, 4:10, 8:00, 10:15 Hereafter (PG-13) 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 3D (PG) 1:30, 3:50, 7:30, 9:50 Paranormal Activity 2 (R) 1:20, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 7:20, 7:50, 9:40, 10:10 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55

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pickoftheweek You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger JJJJ

Director: Woody Allen Players: Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch Comedy/Drama Rated R

The Story: Woody Allen’s latest follows the fates of two couples as they cope — or not — with relationships.

The Lowdown: While it isn’t absolutely prime Woody Allen, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger has moments of greatness and a pleasantly wry tone of amused irony.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is what I would call mid-range Woody Allen. Moments in it are sublime. It’s entertaining throughout.

Sometimes it’s hysterically funny (often in a throwaway bit). It’s close to invariably on-target as concerns human nature. And its bitterness is more good-natured than not. But — at least on one viewing and with no distance — it falls shy of being a great Woody Allen picture. That, mind you, doesn’t keep it from being pretty darn good — at least from the perspective of someone who has no problem being called a Woody Allen fan.

It’s interesting that Tall Dark Stranger and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter opened locally on the same week. Both are multistoried films with interconnecting plotlines and both focus on psychics, though the psychic in Tall Dark Stranger, Cristal (Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine), is transparently bogus — even if she does happen to be right most of the time. And of course, Hereafter is much more seriously intended. Yet, I can’t help but feel that Allen’s film has more to say about the meaning of it all — or lack thereof — when all is said and done.

Tall Dark Stranger follows two couples — and, by extension, the people each of the four persons become involved with. First we have Helena (Gemma Jones) and Alfie (Anthony Hopkins), who have just split up — mostly over the fact that Alfie can’t deal with the fact that he’s no longer thirtysomething. They have a daughter, Sally

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Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas and Woody Allen on location in London for Allen’s new film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

(Naomi Watts), who is married to a struggling writer of debatable talent, Roy (Josh Brolin). Roy peaked with his first book, which is to say the one that “showed promise.” His subsequent efforts have not lived up to that promise, so he spends his time endlessly re-writing his most recent effort while Sally works and Helena pays the rent.

When the film opens, Helena — following world-class depression and a suicide attempt — is just coming under the spell of “psychic” Cristal, whom Sally has encouraged her to see in the belief that even an outright fraud might be helpful. Sally’s not entirely wrong in this, but what she fails to see is that Cristal may not be in her best interest, since any rational outsider is apt to point out the flaws in Helena’s relationship with her daughter and son-in-law. Nonetheless, Cristal does give the increasingly tippling Helena a sense of hope about the future — along with insight into Roy’s prospects for literary success.

Alfie, on the other hand, has found that life as a 70-ish swinging bachelor isn’t quite what he imagined it might be — no matter how much he exercises or how much Viagra he keeps on hand. This leads him to take up with a prostitute, Charmaine (Lucy Punch, Hot Fuzz), an utterly vacuous bimbo (she complains that Ibsen’s Ghosts isn’t scary) who is, however, physically accommodating. That she comes with a price doesn’t seem to occur to Alfie, who — in the throes of some kind of insanity — decides to marry her. Not surprisingly, this horrifies everyone else and will prove to be a bad idea.

Cristal assures Helena that not only will Alfie never care for Charmaine as he cared for her, but also that Helena is destined to meet someone herself — presumably the tall dark stranger of the title. And she will, even if occult bookshop owner and grieving widower Jonathan (Roger

Ashton-Griffiths, The Brothers Grimm) is more short and bald than tall and dark. Allowances have to be made. The only tall dark stranger is Greg (Antonio Banderas), an art-gallery owner for whom Sally works — and in whom she becomes romantically interested. In the meantime, Roy has become entangled with Dia (Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire), the pretty girl he can see from his workroom window.

Clearly, there are all sorts of recipes for disaster here — and more to come. There’s also room for a degree of redemption for some, even if happiness in Tall Dark Stranger only seems possible for the blissfully clueless (if indeed they are) and the cheerfully bogus. Most of this works — and it works better the more you think about it and savor it — but, no, it’s not as funny as a lot of Allen films (including, I’d say, last year’s Whatever Works). It also duplicates the same problem — albeit to a lesser degree — I had with the use of narration in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), simply because the tone of the narration is so clearly Allen that it seems a distracting affectation to use someone else’s voice. But all in all, I like the film a lot more than I didn’t — and I suspect I’ll like it even more as time goes by. Rated R for some language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14.

HeartbreakerJJJJ

Director: Pascal Chaumeil Players: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Héléna Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln Romantic Comedy Rated NR

The Story: A fellow who specializes in breaking up mismatched couples lands an almost impossible assignment that circumstances force him to take.

The Lowdown: A frothy and charming romantic comedy from France that cleverly trades in Hollywood conventions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and generally improves on them.

French TV director Pascal Chaumeil enters the theatrical film scene with the charming, funny and actually romantic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; three elements most of Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent romantic comedies lack in abundance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heartbreaker. But before we all go off in a fit of cultural inferiority â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not that French cinema seems to cause that so much these days â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it might be wise to note that Heartbreaker owes part of its plot to Frank Capraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s It Happened One Night (1934) and even duplicates a key scene pretty exactly.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also awash in American and British pop culture by way of Dirty Dancing (1987) and George Michael â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the film itself appears not to feel superior to these elements, though in the case of Dirty Dancing and George Michael, it probably should.

Romain Duris (Paris) stars as Alex Lippi, a guy who â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with his sister, MĂŠlanie (Julie Ferrier, Micmacs), and her husband, Marc (François Damiens) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; runs a little business that specializes in getting women to split up with unsuitable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; abusive or neglectful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; men. How? Well, Alex gets them to fall in love with him, and then paints himself as so completely in mourning for some other relationship that the liberated women move on with their lives. This sounds unethical â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it is, well, sort of.

Alex et cie have rules that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll only break up couples who shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be together, and they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t break up couples over questions of race or religion. When we first meet them, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in action and those rules seem to be adhered to.

That remains the status until Alex is asked to break up the wedding of wealthy socialite Juliette Van Der Becq (Vanessa Paradis, Girl on the Bridge). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a commission from her father (Jacques Frantz) and it has two problems: The team has only 10 days to pull it off and Alex can determine no reason why Juliette shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t marry Jonathan Alcott (Andrew Lincoln, Love Actually). However, ethics and common sense are pretty elastic when you owe a large sum of money to gangster types who

nowplaying HeartbreakerJJJJ

Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, HĂŠlĂŠna Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln Romantic Comedy A fellow who specializes in breaking up mismatched couples lands an almost impossible assignment that circumstances force him to take. A frothy and charming romantic comedy from France that cleverly trades in Hollywood conventionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and generally improves on them. Rated NR

HereafterJJJ

Matt Damon, CĂŠcile De France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr Supernatural Drama Three people affected by death, near-death and out-of-body experiences are involved in circumstances that will cause their paths to cross. A deliberately, but not slowly paced supernatural drama with little payoff or seeming purpose.

Rated PG-13

Jackass 3DJ

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn Gross-Out Stunt Comedy The gentlemen of Jackass once again submit themselves to all types of disgusting and dangerous stunts. Exactly what you would expect from a Jackass movie, now even more unpleasant and gross. Rated R

Life As We Know ItJJ

Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Hayes MacArthur, Christina Hendricks Romantic Family Comedy The Story: Two friends who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand one another are forced to raise the child of their deceased best friends. More formulaic romcom trappings, but now with the added hilarity of baby vomit.

Rated PG-13

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Cordell Moore, Essence Atkins, Denise Boutte, Tempestt Bledsoe, Lamman Rucker Thriller A controlling stick-in-themud slowly spirals out of control after he discovers his fiancĂŠe has cheated on him. An amateurish production thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a checklist of every wrong way to make a movie. Rated R

Never Let Me Go JJJJJ

Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knight-

ley, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins Allegorical Science Fiction/Romance A dystopian sci-fi that takes place in alternate history. The film follows the lives of three children at a sheltering private schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the purpose behind that school. Intense and methodical, Never Let Me Go is a film of considerable power, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also such a downer that its appeal may be limited. Rated R

Paranormal Activity 2 JJJ

Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat Faux CinĂŠma VĂŠritĂŠ Horror Once again a demon plagues a family in this more-prequel-than-sequel to Paranormal Activity. More bargain-basement bogey business that will delight the easily spooked and baffle the rest of the viewers. Rated R

REDJJJJ

Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman Action/Comedy Retired CIA agents band together when it turns out that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been targeted for assassination by orders from on high. The plot is not much. The direction is adequate.

But the seasoned cast of actors makes RED worth seeing, even if it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it into the great action spoof it could have been. Rated PG-13

SecretariatJJJ

Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn, James Cromwell, Dylan Walsh, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dylan Baker Uplifting Horse Movie The story of the title racehorse and his journey from birth to becoming a Triple Crown-winning legend. Crowdpleaser style filmmaking with loads of schmaltzy moments built around a strong central performance by Diane Lane. For those who like traditionalist, unadventurous movies, it will likely satisfy. Rated PG

The Social Network JJJJ

Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara Sociological Biopic The rise and riseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with lawsuit side dishesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Extremely entertaining, slickly made

and emotionally awkward, The Social Network moves along at such a rapid pace and with such precise dialogue that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to tell if the movie is actually an important statement or merely a glib amusement. It might be a little of both. Rated PG-13

The TownJJJJJ

Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper Crime Drama A Boston bank robber must deal with pressure from the law, his loyalties to his family and friends, and romantic entanglements with a former hostage. A slick, taut, solid crime thriller, with a bit of heart and intelligence thrown in, as well.

Rated R

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Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee, the Black Family, the Esparza Family, the Hill Family Documentary A look into whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with the public-school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and some ideas about fixing it.

Activist documentary-making at its finest. Yes, it simplifies and omits, but it also raises the right questions and opens the floor for debate. Rated PG

Wall Street: Money Never SleepsJJJJ

Michael Douglas, Shia LeBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella Drama The further adventures of Gordon Gekko in the new economic climateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with complications. A confusing, overplotted narrative doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep Oliver Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest from being entertaining, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really pretty silly.

Rated PG-13

You Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerJJJJ

Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch Comedy/Drama Woody Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest follows the fates of two couples as they copeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with relationships. While it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t absolutely prime Woody Allen, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger has moments of greatness and a pleasantly wry tone of amused irony. Rated R

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startingfriday CATFISH

It calls itself a documentary, but this much talked about movie concerning the online relationship between New Yorker Nev Schulman and a family in Ishpeming, Mich., may be more or even less than that. The film’s ad campaign says, “Don’t let anyone tell you what it is,” and most reviewers have more or less played along with that. The trailer markets the film as a thriller, suggesting that the reality of what is going on in Ishpeming is at sharp odds with what had been put forth online. The studio’s press release also claims, “A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.”

Yet nothing in the reviews actually bears out the “thriller” claim. That may be a downside — as may the suggestion that these “hipster” New Yorkers are exploiting their subjects — but it also makes the whole thing intriguing. (PG-13) Early review samples: • “The facts in the film are slippery, but the revelation of a human personality is surprisingly moving.” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) • “A fascinating document, at once glib, untrustworthy and strangely authentic. I say this with a heavy sigh: this is, by far, one of the most intriguing movies of the year.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

HEARTBREAKER

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

JACK GOES BOATING

With Jack Goes Boating Philip Seymour Hoffman goes directorial for the first time. The film is based are threatening to rearrange your face if you don’t pay up. With that as an inducement, Alex takes the job and follows Juliette to Monaco.

Unable to interest her, Alex ends up passing himself off (somewhat improbably) as a bodyguard her father hired. Since she isn’t buying this — despite her father’s assurance that he did hire Alex — it becomes necessary to stage an attack on Juliette so that he can come to her rescue. It works and it looks like his attempts at winning her affections also might work — until Juliette’s harddrinking nymphomaniac friend Sophie (Héléna Noguerra) shows up and takes a shine to Alex as the nearest available male. Things become even more complicated with the arrival of the fiancé and the inevitable gangsters. And it’s all complicated by the most inevitable aspect of all: Alex falling in love with Juliette.

Yes, it’s contrived, but that’s not necessarily a downside with this kind of film. It also tries too hard on occasion — the nymphomaniac friend is handled too broadly and crudely to really mesh with the rest of the movie. But overall, Heartbreaker manages to be such a pleasant little soufflé of a movie that it’s hard not to like it on its own terms.

It has nothing profound to say — except maybe that even an attentive great guy (as in the case of Jonathan) can be a total bore — but then it doesn’t try to, and it’s very good at not trying to be profound. Not rated, but would certainly qualify for an R for sexuality, language and a bit of nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14.

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on an off-Broadway play by Robert Glaudini, who also wrote the screenplay. Hoffman plays Jack, a limo driver who is socially inept and who would like to be otherwise. To this end, Jack’s friend Clyde (John Ortiz, Public Enemies) is going to teach him how to talk to women, swim, and yes, go boating. Moreover, Clyde and his wife Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega) have it in mind to fix up Jack with the painfully shy Connie (Amy Ryan, Changeling), who works at a funeral home with Lucy. Early word suggests a sweet-tempered comedy that’s likely well worth seeing. (R) Early review samples: • “This is one of those rare movies that genuinely likes its characters and wishes them the best; as agonizing as it can be to watch Jack fumble toward human connection, Hoffman knows the fumbling’s the point.” (Ty Burr, Boston Globe) • “The actors make it new and poignant, and avoid going over the top in the story’s limited psychic and physical space. Even at their highest pitch, the emotions of these characters come from hearts long worn down by the troubles we see.”

(Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

SAW 3D

Here’s the deal: It’s a Saw movie. It’s really Saw VII, but it’s called Saw 3D because, well, it’s in 3-D. In its favor on that score, it was actually designed and shot in 3-D. This isn’t one of those slapped on retrofits like My Soul to Take, so there’s a good chance you’ll get all the splattery goodness such a movie has to offer. The other hook is that that this is being touted as the final installment in the Saw saga. Of course, these days that probably means they’ll just go back and start all over again. (R)

Hereafter JJJ

Director: Clint Eastwood Players: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr Supernatural Drama

Rated PG-13

The Story: Three people affected by death, near-death and out-of-body experiences are involved in circumstances that will cause their paths to cross.

The Lowdown: A deliberately, but not slowly paced supernatural drama with little payoff or seeming purpose.

I can’t quite say I think Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter is good — I certainly don’t think it’s the masterpiece his fiercer worshippers seem to think it is — but I do think it’s one of the most interesting films of his career, and that of screenwriter Peter Morgan. It’s one thing for artists to step outside their comfort zone; it’s something else for them to step outside their belief zone. That’s the case here, since apparently neither Eastwood nor Morgan — if reports are to be believed — buy into their own movie’s supernatural premise.

If Hereafter were a thriller, I’d understand that, but it’s not a thriller. This is a drama about what happens when we die. While I can understand how they might be fascinated by the topic without themselves buying into the idea of an afterlife, it’s odd that they’ve made a movie that takes the existence of an afterlife at face value. In the end, I’m left wondering how seriously I should take the

whole thing if the guys who made it don’t.

Objectivity? Well, that would be a more reasonable answer if the movie didn’t accept every softfocus, gauzy image of dead folks in transition that comes along without question. But the movie does accept them — as it similarly accepts the mediumistic powers of George Lonegan (Matt Damon) as “the goods.” The closest Hereafter comes to objectivity is its refusal to ascribe a meaning to any of this. The movie gives religion short shrift — it’s brought up twice in the film, and in an unflattering manner on both occasions.

The story line — or story lines, since there are three people who finally and somewhat peculiarly connect — starts off with French journalist Marie LeLay (Cécile De France) having an out-of-body experience when she begins to drown in a tsunami. (You can’t fault the film for a reasonably exciting opening.) Inexplicably returning from the out-of-body business — which is disappointingly mundane in its depiction — Marie rejoins the living, but finds herself changed. Her interests are no longer so much political as they are obsessively mystical.

Meanwhile, retired psychic George Lonegan is finding life tricky — despite the fact that he’s one of those folks of which fiction is filled: the

reluctant psychic, who constantly whines that this “isn’t a gift, it’s a curse.” His venal brother (Jay Mohr, Street Kings) is keen on cashing in on him, and George’s efforts to have a normal life never catch a break. A brief encounter with relationship-hungry Melanie (an alarming Bryce Dallas Howard), his cooking-class partner, dies quickly when she insists he give her a reading and doesn’t like the results. Then he finds his blue-collar job gone. It looks like it might be the psychic route with his brother — but at the last minute, George hops it to Great Britain so he can indulge his passion for Charles Dickens.

Now, while all this is going on, there’s the third leg of the story involving a pair of extremely close twin boys, Marcus (Frankie McLaren) and Jason (George McLaren), one of whom — Jason — is killed in an accident. This sends Marcus into an antisocial tailspin of morbidity, which is exacerbated by the fact that mum (Brit TV actress Lyndsey Marshal) is a junkie in need of rehab, thereby plopping him into a foster home.

Marcus does everything he can to establish contact with his dearly departed brother, which sends him through a series of encounters with charlatans and pious gasbags (both in real life and on the Internet). Of course, who he needs is

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Director: Jacques Tourneur (Night of the Demon) Players: Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, Christine Gordon, Sir Lancelot Horror Rated NR Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked With a Zombie (1943) probably holds the place of honor as the most ludicrously titled great film ever made. It was a follow-up to Cat People (1942) and RKO Pictures wanted a suitably horrific title — even if what Tourneur and producer Val Lewton were giving them was essentially Jane Eyre in the Tropics (well, that with some voodoo trimmings, which I believe Charlotte Brontë neglected to incorporate into her novel). The premise finds a nurse (Frances Dee) coming to the island of San Sebastian as caretaker of the nearly catatonic Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), whose bitter husband, Paul (Tom Conway), fills in for Rochester. The horror element is there, but it’s handled with a subtlety (most of the time) that’s actually poetic.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show I Walked With a Zombie at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

of a movie than the 1951 film. But it’s also a completely different beast than the Howard Hawks-Christian Nyby original. It’s less a remake of that film than it is an adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story, “Who Goes There?” Viewed in that light, it’s a good sci-fi/horror opus — and better than most of Carpenter’s work, perhaps because somebody else wrote the screenplay. I still don’t think it’s the classic a lot of people insist it is, but it works as a splattery thriller that’s grounded in sheer paranoia.

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George Lonegan, who in turn needs Marie LeLay. Considering how the movie is constructed, it’s hardly surprising to see what happens — though I guess the pointless guest gig for Derek Jacobi (as himself) adds color.

The movie is interesting, though it’s built on way too many coincidences to seem like anything other than a very contrived construction. I’d even say the film is entertaining, which is mostly to say that it held my interest for its unnecessary length.

But when it got to the end, it seemed like a lot of effort for not much payoff. And the point? Well, much like what happens after death — or at least after meandering in weightless soft-focus limbo — that remains a mystery. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Director: Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor) Players: Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat Faux Cinéma Vérité Horror

Rated R

The Story: Once again a demon plagues a family in this more-prequel-than-sequel to Paranormal Activity.

The Lowdown: More bargain-basement bogey business that will delight the easily

spooked and baffle the rest of the viewers.

In his review for Paranormal Activity 2 — a movie that insists on informing you what day it is every so often à la The Shining (1980) — Roger Ebert muses, “along about Day #12 I’m thinking, why are these people still here?” My own question at about the same point in the movie was, “Why am I still here?” If I hadn’t been reviewing this stupefyingly popular sequel to last year’s almost as stupefyingly big hit, I assure you I would have bailed long before that. I understood — at least to a degree — the popularity of the first film, since it was slightly novel. And the whole fake-documentary subgenre seems to have a built-in appeal to audiences who have been conditioned by reality TV to like this sort of thing. Well, this movie is pretty much just more of the same.

Actually, Paranormal Activity 2 isn’t a sequel, since 90 percent of it is the lead-in to the first movie, making it mostly a prequel. I suppose calling it Paranormal Activity 0.10 was out of the question, since the only person I can think of who included a zero in his numbering system was composer Anton Bruckner. (He even had a symphony no. 00, and the idea still didn’t catch on.) Paranormal Activity 2 is about the virtually identical haunting of Kristi (Sprague Grayden), the sister of Katie (Katie Featherston) from the first film. Paranormal Activity 2 clues us in early on with the ominous title that we are 60 days away from the death of Micah Sloat, meaning 60 days from the ending of Paranormal Activity. At this point in the movie, it feels more like you’re 60 days from the ending of Paranormal Activity 2.

Once again, somebody is being haunted by

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Director: Guillermo del Toro Players: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garcés

Fantasy/Thriller Rated R World Cinema’s Halloween offering is Guillermo del Toro’s brilliant — and brilliantly creepy — The Devil’s Backbone (2001), which is something of a companion piece to his Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). Since it hasn’t been that long ago that I reviewed this film, I’ll simply direct you to that review: http://avl. mx/0s.

Director: John Carpenter Classic Cinema From Around the World will presPlayers: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, ent <i>The Devil’s Backbone</i> at 8 p.m. Friday, David Clennon Oct. 29, at Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts St. in Sci-Fi/Horror Rated R the Phil Mechanic Studios building, River Arts I freely admit I wasn’t especially impressed District. Info: 273-3332. with John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) when I first saw it — and I still think it’s much less

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Director: Michael Curtiz/Tod Browning Players: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy/Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Jean Hersholt Horror Rated NR It’s Halloween — what better way to honor the season than with two classic horror pictures of the creepy kind? And while neither Michael Curtiz’s Doctor X (1932) and Tod Browning’s Mark of the Vampire (1935) are likely to shock viewers used to today’s more over-the-top horrors, they yield the realm of sheer creepiness to no film. Actually, if you pause to think about the content of Doctor X — dismemberment, intimations of necrophilia and cannibalism — it’s pretty over-the-top in its own right, and it’s all wrapped in German Expressionist sets and shadows enhanced by the otherworldly look of early two-color Technicolor.

Plus, its “monster” is perhaps the grisliest looking creation of the classic horror era. Mark of the Vampire, on the other hand, is almost pure atmosphere of the kind that only Tod Browning could generate.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Doctor X and Mark of the Vampire Thursday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville.

Hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

see “Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Metropolis, Fritz Lang and Me” at http://avl.mx/0u.) Lang’s remarkable vision of the city of the future has been a cinematic staple for as long as movies have been considered a valid art form. There have been a variety of mutilated, truncated versions of the film, but now it’s back in the form Lang intended 83 years ago.

The Asheville Film Society is showing Metropolison Friday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at The Carolina.

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Director: Charlie Kaufman Players: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest

Surreal Comedy/Drama Rated R Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York may possibly be the most audacious directorial debut since Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941). It’s certainly on the very short list of great debut films. It’s a richly complex work that got a bad break locally by coming at the height of the Christmas and awards season in 2008. My review — which on a single viewing was inadequate — appeared on Dec. 17 (you can read the review at http://avl.mx/0r). By Dec. 19, the movie was gone, and would have been gone regardless, since there simply was no room for it on local screens.

With this in mind, the Asheville Film Society JJJJJ is screening the film to offer moviegoers who Director: Fritz Lang missed it on its brief original run a shot at seeing Players: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, it in theatrical form, which it fully deserves.

Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp The Asheville Film Society will screen Synecdoche, Science Fiction Rated NR New York Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is one of the most Lounge of The Carolina Asheville. Hosted by Xpress amazing films ever made — that it was made at movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the Asheville Film Society. all is amazing in itself. It also has one of the most torturously convoluted histories of any movie For Cranky Hanke’s full reviews of these movies, — leaving a trail that runs from Berlin in 1927 to visit www.mountainx.com/movies. a library in Argentina in 2008. (For more on this,

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a demon, and once again the demon seems less like the Prince of Darkness than the King of the Whoopee Cushion. Maybe it’s just me, but I expect a little more panache out of supernatural agencies than playing boogie-boogie-boogie by making a robotic swimming-pool cleaner climb out of the pool on a nightly basis to disconcert its owners. That — along with terrifying a toddler, spooking a German shepherd, locking people out of the house and upsetting the very religious Latino housekeeper — seems to be about the extent of old Scratch’s repertoire. Oh, at one point he shows up in the kitchen and rattles some pots and pans. He does finally get around to some serious mayhem that’s apt to seem more impressive than it is simply because nothing has happened for about 70 minutes.

The argument is that all this is really scary due to the movie’s style-free approach of using recorded footage supposedly taken from a closedcircuit securty system. This makes it all feel “real.”

If that lights your wick, fine. Personally, I think it’s merely dull, cheap and flat. The advent of do-it-yourself filmmaking (here co-opted by a studio) has devolved into a way in which people with little or no discernible talent can be “filmmakers.” It’s a bit like torture porn, only now it’s

the audience who is being tortured with interminable takes of uninteresting characters saying uninteresting things with substandard sound and lighting.

I will concede that this particular example is shrewdly conceived to tie into the first picture in such a way that it not only provides an opportunity for a sequel, but for yet another prequel. Now that’s planning. Granted another prequel would probably have to involve “found” home-movie footage, but why balk at that? Don’t kid yourself; there will be more of these. With a reported budget of under $3 million dollars, Paranormal Activity 2 made a profit before Friday was over.

There is obviously a market for these movies. It may mystify me, but it’s there. Rated R for some language and brief violent material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Outstanding references and CPR/First-Aid certified. Must welcome my three cats!

828-777-0536

RIVER ARTS DISTICT STUDIOS AVAILABLE Starting at $195/month. Call 828-231-7120.

RIVER ARTS DISTRICT 1600 SQFT STUDIO Magnificent studio with 10 new windows facing north, east and south.

Vault beam ceiling. $1200/month includes electricity. Additional 2300 sqft available. Call 828-231-7120.

2-Room Suite, West Asheville

New 2nd floor construction, hi-traffic Haywood Rd and Patton Ave. Big windows, central air/heat, most utilities included, $530/mo.

Call 828-712-8290.

Rentals

Apartments For Rent

Services

Flat, bordered by stream. 10

Estate Center

The Villages is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED® for Neighborhood Development™ registered project.

1 ACRE • JUNALUSKA HIGHLANDS Premier sold out gated community, 5 minutes from downtown Waynesville. Water and electric on lot. • National treasure white oak tree with a trunk more than 6 feet across. Good views, yet privacy, southern exposure.

It’s the smallest, but best lot in Junaluska Highlands. • Lot 35. Reduced! • $95,000 or best offer. Call Ron at (828) 683-5959 or ronkane@bellsouth.net

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stainless appliances,

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17.4 ACRES • SWEET MINI FARM Views, pasture, creek, pond, state road frontage, new survey and located between Lake Lure and Asheville. $199,500MLS#459021. Call Leslee Thornton, Thornton Realty: (828) 230-5734 or www.LandTracts.net

MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING INC • Service • Repairs • Replacements AC/Heat Pumps • Gas/Oil Furnaces • New Construction/Renovations • Gas piping. • Visa/MC/Discover.

(828) 658-9145.

OFFICE SPACE • WEST ASHEVILLE Remodeled unique older home, shared kitchen, waiting room, wifi, parking, quiet atmosphere.

Haywood and Covington. • $440/month, all utilities included. (828) 683-5463.

41 NORTH LEXINGTON One level condo, approximately 4000 sqft vanilla shell with loads of character! • Hardwood floors and lots of huge windows w/great Northern light. $2,675/month. • MLS#463991. Call the Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.ReCenter.com

$685/MONTH 2BR Quiet 2 bedroom apt w/hardwood floors (North Asheville.)

Approx. 900 sq.ft. W/D hookups. Large window, AC Unit that cools whole apartment. 4 unit complex on Wildwood Ave. Short walking distance to the Brew & View!

828-775-9434.

1-2BR, 1-1.5BA SOUTH • 30 Allen. Patio, A/C, heatpump, $545$645/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly. (828) 251-9966.

Alpha-Real-Estate.com 1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon.

Fall Special! All utilities included. $500/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN • 85 Walnut. Above Malaprops, hardwood floors. $735$750/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 1225 Highland. Elevator, hardwood floors. $550/month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 83 Edgemont. Hardwood floors, A/C. $635-$705/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA • Water, garbage, sewer included. On bus line. $559/month. Call 828-252-9882.

1BR. 1BA HENDERSONVILLE â&#x20AC;˘ 2010 Laurel Park. Coin-op laundry, heat included. $495/month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR/1BA CENTRAL 15 Grindstaff. Russian-style architecture. $550/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2-3BR, 1.5-2BA ARDEN â&#x20AC;˘ 8202 Terra. A/C, walk-in closet. $595-$795/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2-3BR, 1.5BA NORTH â&#x20AC;˘ 30 Clairmont. A/C, great location. Coin-op laundry. $635-$675/month. 828-2531517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2-3BR/1BA NORTH Westall Apts. great location, W/D hookups. $665-$725/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1-1.5BA SOUTH â&#x20AC;˘ 30 Dawnwood. Central heat and A/C, patio. $595$695/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE â&#x20AC;˘ 902 Hillcrest. Deck, 2-car garage. $595/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN â&#x20AC;˘ 68 N. French Broad. Hardwood floors, mountain views. $725-$775/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA EAST â&#x20AC;˘ 1746 Tunnel Rd. A/C, D/W. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH â&#x20AC;˘ 42 Gracelyn. Porch, heat included. $825/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA WEST â&#x20AC;˘ 17 King Arthur. Deck, central A/C and heat. $645/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA EAST â&#x20AC;˘ 742 Bee Tree Lake. W/D, A/C. $675/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA NORTH â&#x20AC;˘ 27 Spooks Mill. Deck, mountain views. $975/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA EAST 9 Lindsey.

A/C, W/D hookups. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA NORTH 20 Brookdale. A/C, W/D hookups. $595/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com ASHEVILLE â&#x20AC;˘ MONTFORD 1BR, 1BA. $695/month. Cats ok. Spacious, clean, hardwood floors, short walk to downtown. Bright.

(828) 808-7772.

BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated bath, kitchen, 1BR, sunroom, dining room. 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings. â&#x20AC;˘ Abundance of natural light. â&#x20AC;˘ Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. â&#x20AC;˘ $625/month includes heat, water, Wifi. â&#x20AC;˘ Smoke free. 280-5449.

CHARMING 1BR IN HISTORIC MONTFORD Spacious 1BR/1BA with LR and small study. Large sunny windows overlook quiet green space. Hardwood floors, gas heat, cedar closets. $635/mo includes hot and cold water. Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease, security deposit, credit check req. Cat ok with fee, small quiet dog considered.

For appt- Elizabeth Graham: 253-6800.

FALL IS HERE AND WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMING! Enjoy the chilly season while curled up in front of your own Fireplace! Spacious 2BR/2BA at The Racquet Club offers best of everything.

Convenient location, full Racquet Club membership, private deck, sunny kitchen and breakfast room. Large MBR with walk-in closet.

New kitchen appliances and counters. $950/month.

Includes water. Lease, security dep, credit ck. req.

For appt: Elizabeth Graham: 253-6800.

GREAT LOCATION â&#x20AC;˘ 2BR, 2.5BA $900/month. North Asheville one mile from downtown. Two story, hardwoods, 960 square feet, built 2004, heating/AC, washer/dryer, deck, parking.

Pet friendly. 615 385-4909.

SOUTH â&#x20AC;˘ Forestdale. 2BR, 2BA. D/W, storage. $775/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 2BR, 2BA CONDO FOR RENT 1000 sq ft. Washer/Dryer hookup, dishwasher. back patio. 2 parking spaces, quiet. Located between Sweeten Creek and Hendersonville Rd. $800/month for 12 months or $900/month for 6 months.

(828) 775-4555. lostnwilderness@gmail.com 2BR, 2BA Condo, two blocks from UNC-A. Secluded in the woods, ground foor. Pets negotiable. $875/month.

828-423-1209 scottpaxon@gmail.com BEAUCATCHER MOUNTAIN â&#x20AC;˘ NEWLY RENOVATED 5 minutes to downtown Asheville. â&#x20AC;˘ Great views.

2BR, 2BA. â&#x20AC;˘ Huge balcony.

Fireplace. Pool. $900/month includes water. Must see!

(828) 279-4337 or (347) 524-8400.

CASUAL ELEGANCE IN HAW CREEK CONDO! Very large 2BR/2BA convenient to Mall, Hospitals, and downtown.

Quiet, private patio overlooking creek. Great room, big kitchen, huge master bedroom and walk-in closet. Great floor plan plus garage. $950/month. Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease, credit check, security deposit req. One small pet considered with fee and vet letter. For appt: Elizabeth Graham or Debra Plemmons - Graham Investments: 253-6800 EAST ASHEVILLE TOWNHOME 3BR/2BA, W/D hookup, hardwood floors.

Private patio, vaulted ceiling, pool/tennis, 5 min to BR Parkway/Hiking, 7 min to downtown Asheville. Pets considered (no cats). $975/month. 828-280-1110 or 864-363-8399.

2BR, 1BA KENILWORTH â&#x20AC;˘ All kitchen appliances, W/D hookups, heatpump. Deck, carport. 1 year lease. Dogs okay. $900/month, $500/deposit.

828-777-0913.

2BR, 2.5BA OAKLEY â&#x20AC;˘ 20 Lamar. Deck, fenced yard. $1,015/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA EAST 80 Pershing.

A/C, fenced yard, rear deck $870/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/2BA LOG HOME EAST ASHEVILLE Huge Garage/Yard/Deck. Very nice, private. 1200sqft. Central HVAC. Asheville off I40 Exit 55. Email or call for pictures. mikeberlin@bclip.com 828-423-6251. $1200/month.

3BR, 2BA ARDEN â&#x20AC;˘ 29 Locole. Porch, garage. $1,275/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

FOR RENT OR SALE Condo Near Tunnel Road Luxury 2 BR, 2 BA condo on the 4th floor of a new four story building. Close to downtown and Asheville Mall. Elevators, pool with hot tub, exercise room, fireplace, deck w/mountain views, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, ceramic/hardwood floors, etc. $995.00/month includes water and gas (828) 231-6689.

WEST ASHEVILLE CANTERBURY HEIGHTS â&#x20AC;˘ 46 Beri Dr. Updated 2BR 1.5BA. Split level condo, 918 sqft. Fully applianced kitchen. Washer/dryer. Pool, fitness room. $725/month.

Security Dep. Application Fee. Mike 919-624-1513.

Homes For Rent 1920S WEST ASHEVILLE 1920s West Asheville, 2BR 1BA, W/D, partially furnished, on Dorchester Ave. $925/month with security dep. No pets. Contact Jason 273-6538 please leave a message.

1ST CALL US! 2, 3 and 4BR homes from $700-2500. â&#x20AC;˘ Pet friendly. â&#x20AC;˘ Huge selection! (828) 251-9966 Alpha-Real-Estate.com 2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE â&#x20AC;˘ 805 Wilken. W/D hookups, garage. $595/month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA EAST â&#x20AC;˘ 21 Springdale. Full basement, Central A/C. $875/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

jobs REMODELED COUNTRY HOME â&#x20AC;˘ FAIRVIEW Old Fort Rd, 10-15 minutes to Asheville. 2BR, 2BA, Jacuzzi tub, porch. Tile, stone, wood floors. $800/month.

(828) 778-0726.

SOUTH 3BR, 2BA â&#x20AC;˘ In Ledbetter Farms. 5 yrs old, ccar garage, fireplace, deck, fenced back yard. $1,450/month.

828-775-9434.

SOUTH 3BR, 2.5BA, fireplace, hardwood floors, garage. $995/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

WEAVERVILLE AREA â&#x20AC;˘ 3BR, 2BA house in older subdivision. Gas furnace, central air. Fireplace, large fenced backyard. Garage. No smokers. $975/month, year lease. 776-4976 or 649-0013.

BEST TIME IS NOW! Best time to buy, pay less than rent, 1% rebate from Buyer Agent Commission, see www.BuncombeRealty.com, 301-2021.

CENTRAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES AVAILABLE â&#x20AC;˘ Rentals â&#x20AC;˘ Rental Management â&#x20AC;˘ Sales â&#x20AC;˘ Listings. â&#x20AC;˘ The City Solution!

828.210.2222.

AshevilleCityRealEstate.com COUNTRY SETTING ON 3 ACRES IN OAKLEY â&#x20AC;˘ 3BR, 1BA. Gas logs, oil heat, garden area, flower beds. 1yr lease, references and deposit. $985/month.

828-768-3419.

FLETCHER â&#x20AC;˘ SOUTHCHASE 3BR, 2.5BA or 4BR, 2.5BA, 2 story. Eat-in kitchen, central AC/heat. Fenced. 2-car garage. Year lease.

(828) 333-2550.

GREAT ASHEVILLE HOUSE Fabulous 3BR, 1.5BA home.

House sits on .67 acres.

Large, level lot; backyard entirely fenced and very private. Huge screened in porch, plenty of storage and natural light. 2 car garage, hardwood floors/tile, unfinished basement, central heat and air, city water system. Great school district and less then 10 minutes from downtown Asheville.

828-231-1432.Lease/option to purchase negotiable

WONDERFUL BEAVERDAM NEIGHBORHOOD â&#x20AC;˘ Country setting in North Asheville only minutes from town. Large freshly landscaped yard with mature trees, deck, creek and storage shed. 3BR, 1.5BA, WD, Dishwasher.

Berber carpet, freshly painted. Very clean and neat.

Central AC, attached garage.

1200 sqft. $990/month. Rob 828-545-1272, Gail 828-230-9697 or leave message at 828-281-0555.

Vacation Rentals A BEACH HOUSE AT FOLLY 20 minutes from historic downtown Charleston, SC. â&#x20AC;˘ The legendary dog-friendly Rosieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ocean View and Kudzuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cottage, across the street from the beach!Visit www.kudzurose.com or call (404) 617-1146.

BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Roommates 1BR AVAILABLE In large house, in quiet neighborhood, Henderson County. Private bath, large kitchen, deck. Female preferred. $450/month includes shared utilities. Call 696-5526.

Skilled Labor/ Trades

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for? Please go to www.mountainx.com for additional listings.

PROFESSIONAL FEMALE SEEKS FEMALE ROOMMATE â&#x20AC;˘ Share large apartment.

Private BR and BA, D/W, W/D, balcony, 2 swimming pools, Convenient location. $600/month includes everything. No drinking, no drugs. Smoking ok.

828-989-6996.

ROOMMATES.COM â&#x20AC;˘ Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of a mouse! Visit http://www.roommates.com.

(AAN CAN) WEST ASHEVILLE HOUSE TO SHARE Unfurnished room in cozy 2 BR house. $400 monthly includes utilities, cable, internet. $200 Deposit, background check. Pets OK. 242-8913 West Asheville house: 1BR in 3BR, $450/month, share utilities. No pets. Nice roommates. 335-2534.

Employment

General ADVANCED CONCERT TICKET SALES Immediate Openings! 40 Hours per week, $11 per hour, Benefits, Paid Training, Weekly Profit Sharing, Career Advancement, Permanent Positions. Our employees earn $500 - $650 per week.

Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required.

Please contact our HR Supervisor at (828) 236-2530.

AMERICAN FOLK ART & FRAMING Is seeking a people loving, problem solving, computer savvy, hard working and creative individual with relevant retail and customer service experience for a position that is both fun and challenging. â&#x20AC;˘ Part-time/weekend shift required. No phone calls.

More information? Email: folkart@amerifolk.com CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES â&#x20AC;˘ Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com FULL/PART TIME HELP WANTED Need 2 individuals in physically good shape to assist with cleaning air conditioners. Some ac knowledge helpful, but not necessary. Call 828-891-6524 for more information. Start immediately!

GREENHOUSE WORKER Part-time, approximately 25 hours/week. Etowah, NC. â&#x20AC;˘ To apply, call Mike: (828) 891-8000. Etowah Orchids Greenhouse.

HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used.

The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.â&#x20AC;? Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. â&#x20AC;˘ Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds.

Call 251-1333.

CABINET MAKER â&#x20AC;˘ INSTALLER â&#x20AC;˘ FINISHER Fulltime position. Entry level to semiskilled with experience using woodworking equipment, installing cabinetry and trim, delivery and finish work. Must have clean driving record and valid NC driver license. â&#x20AC;˘ Must pass drug test. Salary based on experience. â&#x20AC;˘ Fax resumĂŠ: (828) 281-2766 or e-mail by October 29: benbowassociates @bellsouth.net ELECTRO/MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN CNC industrial mechanic with 5 years experience. Please send resume to: Caroline.Smith @kyocera.com

Administrative/ Office LEASING AGENT Full-Time.

Includes Saturdays. Bear Creek Apts. 828-258-0623.

EOE. TOP-NOTCH OFFICE MANAGER - ASAP Vibrant, well established nonprofit seeks office manager.

Reception, assistant to director, ordering, record keeping etc - always busy.

Full time, excellent benefits.

Send cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to officemanager28801 @yahoo.com.

NOW HIRING

Earn $65k, $50k, $40k GM, Co-Manager, Assistant Manager We currently have managers making this and need more for expansion.

One year salaried restaurant management experience required.

Fax resume to 336-431-0873 FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY CENTER, a wilderness substance abuse recovery program for young adults, is seeking a

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We want to build awesome tools to make this happen. Do you have the ideas and web skills to help get us there? Know someone who does?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Skills needed: HTML, CSS, Javascript are needed, PHP and knowledge of Expression Engine would be a big bonus.

Our web team is growing. As part of this team, you will be a central player in creating new initiatives to serve the WNC community.You will be working to bring multimedia, social media and communication tools to not only Xpress journalists, but the community as a whole.

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Salon/ Spa

Hotel/ Hospitality

A FULL-TIME STYLIST Needed in a peaceful, organic salon in North Asheville. • Our focus: the clients, good communication, integrity in our art, organic products, and a cooperative atmosphere. Clientele and experience preferred. • Come join a fabulous team. • Call The Water Lily Organic Salon: (828) 505-3288, ask for Alissa or email your resume to info@waterlilysalon.com

FRONT DESK CLERKS

Sales/ Marketing

MASSAGE

ADVANCED CONCERT TICKET SALES Immediate Openings! 40 Hours per week, $11 per hour, Benefits, Paid Training, Weekly Profit Sharing, Career Advancement, Permanent Positions. Our employees earn $500 - $650 per week.

Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required.

Please contact our HR Supervisor at (828) 236-2530.

THERAPIST/CHIROPRACTIC

ATTENTION The largest senior financial planning team in the Country is interviewing professional Salespeople for a recession proof career. • Training Provided • 4-6 Leads provided daily • Most competitive products in the industry • Monthly bonuses • Advanced commissions • First Year potential income $40-$60K! • To schedule an interview, call Kim: (828) 684-1477. Learn more at www.amerilife.com

NEEDED AT DOWNTOWN INN Front Desk Clerks needed at Downtown Inn. Must be flexible for 1st & 2nd shifts. Apply at 120 Patton Ave. jolinerobinson@hotmail.com

Medical/ Health Care

ASSISTANT Part-time opening for Massage Therapist/Chiropractic Assistant. Massage and office duties. Base pay plus additional per massage. See www.mountainx.com for more info.

MED TECH, PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT The McCune Center Assisted Living has a full-time 3rd shift position available for a Med Tech, Personal Care Assistant. Must be kind, detailed, organized with potential for leadership.

CLINICIAN • Want to be a part of a team-oriented organization focused on helping children succeed?

Eliada Homes, Inc. is seeking a full-time Mental Health Clinician to provide 32 hours/week of individual, family, and group therapy.

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Developing treatment goals for therapy, providing clinical on-call services as needed, coordinating outpatient services with the agency and community resources, and insuring accurate documentation as required.

Qualification: Must have a Master’s Degree in Social Work or other appropriate discipline, have current licensure in North Carolina and meet Qualified Professional Standards. Must be able to work a flexible schedule, as the position may require working 2-3 evenings per week.

Experience: Prefer experience with younger population. Experience in a residential setting is a plus!

Email: eweaver@eliada.org

Excellent benefits including Health Insurance and free meals. Contact trobinson@mccunecenter.org or

PROFESSIONAL WANTED Established financial services company seeks a Marketing/Sales assistant to work in the Fletcher AreaCasual Attire-Relaxed environment-Experience is not required but preferred. All candidates will be required to pass a background check.

Please fax resume (and references) to: 954-337-3744 for consideration.

fcoates@mccunecenter.org

Restaurant/ Food

email kdjackson2@att.net

APOLLO FLAME • WAITSTAFF Full-time and part-time needed. • Fast, friendly atmosphere. • Apply in person between 2pm4pm, 485 Hendersonville Road. 274-3582.

Human Services

FULL-TIME SERVERS Weekends and holidays are required. Experienced only apply in person, MondaySaturday, 2pm-4pm: 337 Merrimon Avenue, Weaverville. Stoney Knob Cafe.

non-medical home care and

or apply at 101 Lion’s Way, Black Mountain. mccunecenter.org fcoates@mccunecenter.org PART TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT NEEDED • Must have recent experience and be x-ray certified. Fax resume to 828-277-6820 or

CARE GIVER AND CNA POSITIONS - HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE The world’s trusted source of companionship services, including personal care. www.homeinstead.com/159 E-mail us today! caringjobs @homeinsteadwnc.com

CLINICIAN The Offender Services Program is recruiting for a licensed or license eligible Clinician to provide group and individual treatment to sex offenders and domestic violence abusers within the Sexual Abuse Intervention Program and the Domestic Violence Abuser Program. • Experience is preferred. • A broad range of mental health and substance abuse issues are addressed in this integrated treatment program. • Please send application and resume w/cover letter addressing how your experience prepares you for this position to Diane Paige, Offender Services Coordinator at diane.paige @merridianbhs.org. For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

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

FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC. Due to continuous growth through WNC, Families Together Inc. is hiring! FTI is a local mental health agency providing child, adult, and family centered services in WNC. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. Go to www.familiestogether.net for employment opportunities.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA is accepting applications for QMHPs to work with adult consumers.

Candidate should have a 4 year degree and a minimum of 1 year experience with adults with mental illness.

FPS offers a competitive benefit package and a team environment. To apply please forward emails to shearn@fpscorp.com

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF RUTHERFORD AND POLK COUNTIES Is seeking THERAPISTS and QMHP’s to provide mental health services to children, families and adults. Please email resume to mtambini@fpscorp.com FULL TIME CASE MANAGER • BA/Masters + 2 years experience working adolescents as a QP. Forward resume to aspireapplicants@yahoo.com PART-TIME S/A INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT • Working with adolescents in the field of mental health. Experience with youth required. Must be registered with substance abuse board by hire date.

Resumes to: aspireapplicants@yahoo.com or fax 828-627-1307 attn: Kimberly Castano.

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL #2735. Responsible for multiple residential homes/apartments in Henderson and Polk counties. Develop, implement, document, monitor, and adjust Person Centered Plans; respond to concerns; conduct clinical reviews; utilize community resources; audits for accuracy; attend team meetings; rotating on-call coverage. BA/BS degree and 2-4 years post degree experience w/Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness. Apply at www.MonarchNC.org• Jobs@MonarchNC.org EOE. THE MEDIATION CENTER is hiring a Youth Program Mediation Coordinator. See www.mediatebuncombe.org/ openings for application instructions.

Professional/ Management

Employment Services

WNC ALLIANCE SEEKS COMMUNITY OUTREACH MANAGER WNC Alliance seeks a Community Outreach Manager to support its chapters and manage membership information/communications.

More information at www.wnca.org

UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service.

Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1-800-720-0576.

SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists.

299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

Announcements

Natural Alternatives

Arts/Media ILLUSTRATOR WANTED. Looking for an artist that can especially capture the vivid expressions of both children and nature, simplistic but profound. Please contact me with provisions in Asheville at : 352-857-9916.

Teaching/ Education

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS Looking for a great place to work that offers training, benefits and opportunities for advancement? • Mountain Area Child and Family Center is currently hiring for Teachers. • Experienced, caring individuals with knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice needed. • A degree in ECE, Child Development or related field is required.

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Applications are available at www.macfc.org INTERIM SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR Hanger Hall School is seeking a full-time interim Science Instructor to teach for 8 weeks starting in February. Hanger Hall is an all-girl school serving grades 6-8. Email resume to employment @hangerhall.org

TITLE I TEACHER Eliada Homes seeks teacher for its day treatment program. Must be a team-oriented individual with experience working with special needs populations.

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Please email eweaver@eliada.org with resumes or questions.

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