Mountain Xpress, November 11 2011 by Mountain Xpress

OUR 18TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS, & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 18 NO. 14 NOVEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 15, 2011

ASHEVILLE ARGUS

Dispatches from the city’s streets

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A Photo Essay by Max Cooper

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p. 0 Eyes on the street In this special feature, Asheville photographer Max Cooper trains his eye on the city streets — its people, trends and events. He ponders the intersection of art, artist and photojournalism. The concept furnishs a new online column, “Asheville Argus.” Cover design by Emily Busey Photograph by Max Cooper

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letters Please, Mayor Bellamy: don’t blame the messenger If the Occupy Asheville movement has cost the city of Asheville any extra money in pay for our police, that responsibility lies with Mayor Terry Bellamy and not the Occupy Movement [”Fully Occupied,” Nov. 8 Xpress]. It is the mayor’s view that the movement is dangerous that has caused the larger problem. So far, her view isn’t backed by any evidence of misconduct by the O.A. group, but rather by her own opinion of the group. Bellamy has been unfriendly toward other citizens of Asheville when their views are different from hers but her latest choices towards the O.A. movement are particularly vehement. Instead of being glad that the people of America have decided to take an active role in their government, Bellamy has chosen to make enemies of her own fellow citizens setting in motion the “Us versus Them” mentality that the Occupy movement tried so hard to avoid by asking the city for cooperation — as we did at the very beginning here in Asheville. It’s quite unfortunate that our polite requests were turned down and that we were answered with the presence of 22 armed and somewhat menacing police officers after the Council meeting. Has this ever happened before? Negativity and violent posturing often produce negative and violent responses, and I hope Ms. Bellamy is prepared to accept responsibility for her misguided actions now

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and in the future, should things break down further and become other than peaceful assemblies. I hope that we can have a government in Asheville that understands the needs of its citizens and the government’s responsibility in protecting the rights of its citizens. I call for representatives in Asheville that know how to show quality leadership in these unusual times as community leaders are supposed to do. Please, Mayor Bellamy: don’t blame the messenger. — Scott Owen Asheville

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Bill Branyon bagged it As a fellow wordsmith, I was smitten by Bill Branyon’s commentary in the Nov. 2 Mountain Xpress [“Let’s Bag It”]. Henceforth, Stephanie Miller will no doubt curtail her public verbal comments to fewer sentences adorned with four-letter words full of nasty connotations. Mr. Branyon certainly put Miller “in her place” with great skill. Of course, I am not surprised, after editing his marvelous book, Liberating Liberals. All I can add is that our Liberated weekly newspaper should continue to … keep up the good words. — Chuck Werle Asheville

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Asheville can be a sanctuary for veterans I spent four years of my life at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on the North Carolina coast. North Carolina is home to some of the country’s largest military bases and ranks third in the United States for active-duty military population. America has been involved in two major wars since 2003 and thousands of soldiers have lost their lives. An alarming statistic shows that 18 veterans commit suicide every day and many of those are veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, traumatic brain injury and depression. Veterans who have found healing in the outdoors consider it a haven, allowing them to move on from their wounds and find meaning in life again. In the mountains of Asheville, I found my sanctuary among the trees, the crisp mountain air and the companionship of my friends. It is stressful enough trying to assimilate back into civilian life with no wounds, but the wounded veteran’s journey is much more difficult. There are many amazing programs that reach out to wounded veterans, encouraging them to get outdoors and experience the healing abilities of nature. This Veterans Day, take a vet hiking or volunteer for organizations that help them get outside and begin the healing process. — Mark Lemke U.S. Marine Corps veteran and UNCA graduate Asheville

A Veterans Day PSA from the Small Business Administration Nov. 11 is Veterans Day — a day set aside to honor veterans of the U.S. armed forces. On this day, we show our appreciation to all veterans for their service and sacrifice. The Small Business Administration staff is proud to support those who gave so much for our country. There are approximately 5 million veteranowned businesses in the U.S. and over 400,000 service-disabled small business veterans. North Carolina is home to over 100,000 veteran-owned businesses. These men and women have many resources available to get help starting or growing a business. A new Veterans Business Outreach Center has been created at Fayetteville State University. At the VBOC they can find counseling, training and mentoring. Email, telephone and face-to-face meetings make the VBOC accessible to all of our veterans in North Carolina. Director Robert Rehder and his professional staff can answer questions about running their business, working with them to create a business plan and helping them explore financing options like SBA’s Patriot Express loan.

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Menthol jobs? Quit it, Lorillard I am a junior at Asheville High School, and president of our Teens Against Tobacco Use club. Asheville puts an emphasis on healthy living, which we have received many awards for. I was appalled by the pathetic call to President Obama when he visited last week by Murray Kessler, president of the Lorillard tobacco company, in a paid advertisement titled “Dear Mr. President.” In his air-filled fallacy of an argument he states that, by allowing menthol in cigarettes, North Carolina is provided with “well-paid workers.” His statement about eliminating the 30 percent of cigarettes that are menthol would put many people out of a job was absurd to me. These products might add jobs but they kill 12,000 North Carolinians a year. We could only hope that tobacco companies would just roll over and die like they are alluding to, but we all know that will never happen. They will keep on pushing to attract more customers with their new products and strategic advertising. Menthol cigarettes are a local anesthetic that allows people to breathe in more of the smoke that contains about 60 cancer-causing agents. Menthol allows you to pull in more nicotine and you become addicted quicker. Menthol is traditionally used more among African-

Americans. Lorillard produces Newport cigarettes; 75 percent of African American smokers use Newport. Kessler states that there is no difference in “normal” cigarettes and menthol cigarettes. If this was true than why is it there to begin with? I promise it’s not just there to add jobs. — Tyler Long Asheville

$228 a year to Duke Energy is OK, but $45 to A-B Tech is not? Asheville, let’s use our powers for good! Duke Energy wants to raise the rates for homeowners and businesses by about $19 for every 1,000 kilowatt-hours. Let’s look at other numbers. The monthly energy usage of a large place of worship is 83,000 kHw and a small business is 41,000 kwh. This would account for an added $1,577 expense for your church and $779 for the small business each month. When businesses’ costs go up, guess who foots the bill? The cost will go up for us, the consumers. What services will your place of worship have to compromise to counter this expense? What do we get for the $228 a year to Duke Energy? Do we get better jobs, more education or a stronger local economy? No, but for $45 bucks a year we get that at A-B Tech. And AB Tech will expire; the Duke Energy fees will not. Asheville — and North Carolina — we can do amazing things. Politicians will listen to us and we can make real change. Let’s make sure our voice and energy is worth our precious time. Is your voice worth $228 a year for the rest of your life or $45 a year over the next 20? Talk to your representatives and let them know how you feel! — Mark Strazzer Asheville

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commentary Backward and forward Asheville transcends paradox

by christopher arbor We’re living in a pretty backward time here in America. We define our excess by poverty and our poverty by excess. If you saw a tanned, thin man wearing torn clothes and driving an all-terrain vehicle 60 years ago, he was probably a farmer scrabbling to make ends meet. Today, however, there’s a fair chance his tan came from a bottle, his clothes were bought pre-stressed, and his all-terrain vehicle is used solely for making the arduous commute from suburbia to the office. Meanwhile, his opposite — the overweight man he passes on the sidewalk, the one who’s left the price tags on his clothes to show how new they are — that man is the poorest among us. It ought to make us scratch our heads: Obesity is a sign of poverty in our country? But we’re so accustomed to these paradoxes, we don’t even realize how convoluted we’ve become. For example, we spend far more money on our educational system than developing nations do, yet many of our students resent school. They view it as work they’re required to do for someone else, rather than a privilege that someone else paid for. These days, we glorify athletes more but are less athletic ourselves; we spend more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking. We’re connected via cutting-edge telecommunications, yet we’re lonely; we’re tuned in to the 24-hour news cycle, but we’re horribly uninformed.

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We’re so accustomed to these paradoxes, we don’t even realize how convoluted we’ve become. One of the most striking examples of this inversion involves online video games in which players complete tasks and earn cyber rewards, such as slaying a dragon to get a magic sword. But that’s not the bizarre part. Get this: There are warehouses in China filled with young children playing these games so they can sell the virtual treasures to Americans for actual money. We’re paying them to play our video games for us! We’ve outsourced being entertained. It’s troubling. I don’t know where American culture is going, and I worry about the country my daughter will grow up in. But I’ve found a way to take the edge off my anxiety. I live in Asheville — a beacon of rainbow light in an often dim world — whose residents still grow stuff, know stuff, brew stuff and do stuff. At a time when more and more Americans do their socializing online, Ashevilleans are still getting out and about. I ran the CitizenTimes half-marathon in September, and it was less a race than a party. Don’t get me wrong: We were all moving, and moving fast (we’re an extraordinarily fit community), but while we were running, we were also running into people we knew. Friends, co-workers and even that shop owner who didn’t know our names but recognized our faces. We high-fived the police officers who were stopping traffic, thanked the volunteers at the water stations, and smiled at the kind folks who’d made signs to cheer us all on. This is Asheville, and no, it’s not perfect, but over the last decade — as our country’s mainstream culture has continued to decline — this little mecca has only gotten better. West Asheville used to be little more than a succession of alternating pawnshops and gun stores, with the occasional “gun and pawn” thrown in for integration’s sake. These days it’s a buzzing community of bakeries and bars.

A promising future: Though the future is uncertain — and American society presents many paradoxes — author Christopher Arbor keeps his hopes up in Asheville. Photo courtesy of Christopher Arbor. The River Arts District was just a bunch of crumbling warehouses. Yeah, I know: It’s still a bunch of crumbling warehouses, but now there are artists in them painting and sculpting and spinning and throwing, creating beauty that draws folks from all over the country. Meanwhile, thriving local businesses like Malaprop’s continue to dominate downtown. We’ve got farmers markets and breweries coming out of our ears. If our clothes are torn, it’s because we’ve been working in the garden; if we’re thin, it’s due to our healthy diet, not liposuction or one of those weirdas-hell girdle shirts; and if we’ve got an all-terrain vehicle (most likely a Subaru Outback), it’s because we’re hauling our kayaks upriver. And at the end of the day, we drink — not because our life is so hard but because our beer is so very, very good. X Asheville resident Christopher Arbor is the author of the short-story collection Static to Signal.

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EYES on the STREET Asheville Argus aims

to read between the (head)lines WORDS

and PHOTOS by MAX COOPER

Walk out in the street and ask anybody — ask the beggars or the tourists, the hippies or the Bible thumpers, the artists or the accountants — and they’ll tell you the world is going to hell.

As a photographer, this means good things for me. I’ve been shooting pictures in Asheville for a decade or so, and it’s been a lot of fun photographing our little cesspool of sin. But lately — and I’m being serious here — I’ve had a bad feeling. We can argue about its cause or debate its solution; you can subscribe to whichever doomsayer you’d like. But when you walk out in the streets among your fellow men, I suspect you feel it too. I think the world is going to hell.

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Human beings simultaneously seek and hide from the truth. Everybody lies, but some people lie more than others. Some people claim not to lie at all. We call those people journalists. You can’t blame them for dramatizing: If you get to cast your line into the world’s river, aren’t you going to try to land the big one? You’ll gut it and clean it and mount it on the wall, and give your viewers the impression that the river is full of leviathans. But the river has swelled: We are drowning in journalism. The modern flow of information grants to media what Christ granted his disciples: So many fish that the boat begins to sink. Such a bright light casts deep shadows, and I don’t think you’ll disagree when I say that the modern massmarket press is a farce. You can blame Rupert Murdoch or NPR or the oil companies, but all of that is misdirection. The truth is much harder to face. We live in a free country, with a free market: That means the responsibility for the product ultimately rests with the consumer. We get the journalism we deserve.

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opposite Graffiti in the River Arts District, 2007.

above At Pritchard Park, a man takes off his shoes and dances, in his sock feet, 2011.

A praise-and-worship band is setting up in Pritchard Park. In the close heat of the evening, I spot the bottles of water they’ve arranged on a table and make my way through a lazy crowd. “How much for a bottle of water?” The girl behind the table is taken aback by the question. “What? Oh, they’re free.” I thank her and reach out to take one, but a man close by reaches out first. He’s older, obviously in charge of whatever outreach group is sponsoring the event. He puts his hand on my bottle of water. “And we bless it in Jesus’ name.” The musicians are talking back and and forth, leaning away from the mics so they won’t be heard. Even in God’s work there’s the stress of performance, and out here in the park there’s no sound check, no curtain to draw while things come together. On the other hand, the audience consists mostly of street people and the converted. Tourists meander to the top of the amphitheater, curious to see what act Asheville will perform for them today. After introductions are delivered, they strike up the band. A marching drumbeat rings back from the College Street buildings, and a dissonant harmony floats around the park. Female backup singers carry the strain. The song isn’t like other praise tunes I’ve heard — the beat is militant, the verse a dark chant. The lyrics repeat their assertion: “We declare that the Kingdom of God is here.” A change sweeps over the park: The usual throng of Asheville’s crazy street dwellers has been completely arrested by the music. The tourists look around nervously as vagrants and beggars begin to move to the beat. The verse sounds again and again, and then rises in a strange pitch: “We declare that the Kingdom of God is here — among you!” I feel the hair on my arms stand up; the crowd twitches and moves. Pritchard Park has become Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones, brought to life by the breath of the spirit. It is horrifying and wonderful. Overwhelmed, I make my way through the crowd — some wearing polo shirts, some wearing rags — and escape into the street.

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the Public Space If you walk out among your fellow men and women, who call themselves “the public,” and raise your camera to your eye, it won’t be long before someone asks you just what the hell you think you’re doing. When it comes to truth, there are hiders and there are seekers, and they deeply distrust each other. One of the best hiding spots is the idea that the news always happens somewhere else, to someone more important than us. It’s a comfortable hiding spot, because it relieves us of the duty to act like decent people. So if you’re a seeker, the public expects you to have a press pass. Luckily, I do — I made it in Photoshop. The First Amendment guarantees seekers the right to look for truth in the public space. That might seem like a paltry concession, given that most underhanded deeds take place in boardrooms, bedrooms and council chambers. But the power of concerned citizens reporting and communicating in the public space can be staggering indeed. Just ask Hosni Mubarak. Consider the fact that the vast majority of what we know about the Occupy Wall Street movement comes not from the mass media but from people on the street. We’ve seen the images of former Marine Scott Olsen allegedly getting his skull cracked by Oakland police, not because the local news affiliate had a reporter on the ground, but because a private individual had a camera. Take away the protest and the tear gas and the riot shields, and that individual is just shooting photos in the public space. What the hell does he think he’s doing?

the asheville argus In Greek mythology, Argus was a giant with 100 eyes employed by the gods as a watchman. So I had an idea, and Mountain Xpress was kind enough to facilitate it: a news blog whose stories come from indistinct moments in Asheville’s streets. A slower, more personal form of journalism. The moments in our lives that no outlet would consider newsworthy are often the things we remember, the things that make us who we are. Asheville is full of those moments. After all, life takes place between the headlines. Xpress has been running “The Asheville Argus” online for a couple of months; here’s a hint of it in print. Now, I have no illusions that the Argus will stop the world from going to hell, and I hope Asheville won’t see the kinds of things that have happened in Egypt or Oakland. But consider the daily sights in our city: Topless alien worshippers, occupiers under the bridge, street performers covered in paint, a bearded nun riding a giant bicycle and crazy street dwellers who stagger around like milkweeds with legs. Why wouldn’t you photograph it? The only thing worse than a cesspool of sin is an undocumented cesspool of sin.

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above Vampires at the Vance Monument, 2011.

left A man who identified himself as Johnny. When I approached he was wearing rubber gloves, a butcher’s apron under a black leather jacket, and he was singing Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” at the top of his lungs, 2005.

far left A van in front of Pritchard Park, 2007.

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left Another witness in the public space, 2009.

far left Snow, a man and a fall, 2009.

opposite A woman moved by praise-and- worship music in Pritchard Park, 2011.

The Valley of Dry Bones II The city is alive, but at the Vance Monument, I find vampires. Though it’s only a masquerade, death is an unsettling pretense. It’s strange that so many of us try on the shroud, as if to check its fit, and then walk around in the world. Back in the park, the crowd has risen like dough and now spills out onto the sidewalks. The church members have handed out banners, and a man waves two of them in time with the music. His face is a rictus of joy. He has cast off his shoes and dances in his socks. Behind him, another man is having some sort of emotional breakdown, and several church members comfort him. People move among the crowd, handing out bottled water; I take a seat next to a woman in an altered state. Less than four feet away, she’s completely unaware of my camera. In the rapturous moment, it’s impossible to distinguish religious ecstasy from plain old Asheville crazy. Perhaps that’s the point. X Asheville-based art and documentary photographer Max Cooper teaches photography at Southwestern Community College. To see more of his work, visit maxcooperphoto.com.

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by Jake frankel With Veterans Day approaching, the Buncombe County commissioners dedicated most of their Nov. 1 meeting to honoring those county residents who’ve served in the military and reviewing the local services available to them. After Commissioner K. Ray Bailey thanked them in his invocation, the commissioners watched a video that scrolled the names of all 93 veterans currently employed by the county. One of them — Kevin Turner, who heads the county’s Veterans Service Office — then went to the lectern to update the board on his agency’s work, painting a dark picture of the challenges ahead as Vietnam-era vets age and younger soldiers continue to return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year, roughly 21,390 vets lived in Buncombe County; only five of the state’s 100 counties were home to more veterans, he reported. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent more than $136 million on services for Buncombe County’s vets — a figure topped by only six other Tar Heel counties. Turner said he expects those costs to rise dramatically in the coming years as soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan battle a wide array of problems, particularly with mental health. Nationwide, more than 300,000 of those vets are projected to experience mental health problems at some point in the future, said Turner. Treating them, he added, could cost at least $660 billion — and that’s not counting the unknown long-term costs related to the more than 220,000 traumatic brain injuries soldiers have sustained in the last decade. Already, the suicide rate among vets is more than twice that of the rest of the population: On average, 18 veterans kill themselves every day, reported Turner. And while 8 percent of U.S. residents are veterans, they account for 20 percent of the homeless population, he pointed out. On the bright side, however, Turner affirmed that his department is there to help local vets, explaining that his staff helps clients find and secure the services available to them. “We provide counseling assistance to local veterans and their dependents on their rights and entitlements under various state and federal laws,” Turner told the board. “We’re

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“Our goal is to help a veteran who might be losing their way, getting into some kind of legal issue.” — Kevin Turner, BuncomBe counTy veTerans service office

New Dawn” veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. The center’s 1,637 employees include 125 doctors, 600 nurses and 51 psychiatrists and social workers. The hospital, said Breyfogle, has a good reputation and a patient-satisfaction rating that surpasses the national average. “Our staff does an excellent job in providing care for veterans,” she told the commissioners. “I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but we do have veterans who drive past other VA medical centers to come to Asheville, because they choose to receive their care here.” The commissioners praised both Turner and Breyfogle. Bailey called their reports At your service: Newly hired Veterans “excellent,” and Gantt added, “Thank you for Service Office supervisor Kevin Turner told commissioners that his department is your good work.” there to help local vets find and secure the Commissioner Bill stanley, the only current board member who’s served in the services they need. Photo by Max Cooper military, was absent due to sickness, noted advocates. ... We don’t have to guard the Gantt. system’s resources. ... We help them find help. We assist them through the sometimes very complicated maze of state and other A scheduled hearing on the county’s paperwork.” plans to demolish the vacant former CTS of Asked by board Chair david Gantt how Asheville plant in Skyland was canceled after the commissioners could help, Turner said Mills Gap Road Associates, the owner of the the most important thing is education and contaminated property, withdrew its appeal outreach — letting local veterans know help of the decision, leaving the county free to is available. proceed with the demolition. County inspec “Our goal is to help a veteran who might tors had previously determined that repairbe losing their way, getting into some kind ing the condemned structure isn’t feasible. of legal issue,” he concluded. “We have the privilege of making sure the veteran knows that they are not forgotten, and the coun- In additon, the commissioners unanimoustry and community appreciate the sacrifices ly: • accepted $288,503 in federal funding for they’ve made.” the county’s emergency heating-assistance Cynthia Breyfogle, director of the Charles program. • agreed to delay making Planning George VA Medical Center in east Asheville, Board appointments until Nov. 15, to allow said her facility currently serves more than time for conducting interviews. • proclaimed 38,000 patients, providing everything from November “Adoption Awareness Month” and inpatient psychiatric and substance-abuse Sunday, Nov. 13 “UNC-Asheville Bulldog care to emergency, surgical and hospice ser- Day.” X vices. Most current patients are from the Vietnam Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. era, she noted, plus about 3,800 “Operation 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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Amid increasing friction with the city, Occupy Asheville protesters have continued to register their dissatisfaction with “corporate dominance and government corruption,” as one of their official statements put it. After City Council denied the demonstrators’ request for a permanent camping spot in Pack Square Park Oct. 25, about 60 people held an assembly on the City Hall steps, chanting slogans. And when the park’s 10 p.m. curfew kicked in, eight of them refused to leave. Police arrested Joseph Lee Wallen, Robert Ryan Halas, Justin Eugene Jones, Matthew Tyler Burd, Terry James Whittey, Victoriano Alejandro Ochoa, Robert William Logsdon and Kayvon Kazemini for second-degree trespassing. “They offered that we could walk to the jailhouse, but that would have been complying,” Kazemini explained later. “We know there’s an ordinance; we believe the Constitution supersedes that.” The encampment the protesters are requesting, he asserts, is not an event (such as a festival) but an expression of the people’s constitutional right to assemble, and thus not subject to the city’s rules. “We just wanted one curfew in one part of one park lifted.” “Our friend [Burd] decided he wasn’t going to leave the park, so we decided we weren’t going to leave either,” Jones reveals. “We did this in protest that City Council didn’t even entertain the idea of waiving the curfew in a portion of one city park that could give people a safe place to congregate or see what everything’s about.” “The right to assemble is guaranteed through the Constitution but apparently not through City Council,” Wallen observes. “If you can’t appeal to City Council, who do you appeal to?” Kazemini wonders. “The name Occupy Asheville might confuse people, but this is for all the people.” Organizers, he reports, have been meeting with Asheville Downtown Association staff in an effort to reach out to downtown stakeholders. “We certainly need the oversight of the Asheville community,” notes Kazemini. All four participants, however, say the APD’s treatment of the protesters was courteous. “They’re clearly nicer than your average cop,” says Logsdon, though he also points out that it would be a different situation if Occupy Asheville’s numbers increased. “It took four hours to book eight people; they wouldn’t want to mess with 100.” After City Council’s decision, which also rescinded the permission to temporarily camp under the Lexington Avenue overpass, the demonstrators packed up and left. Many had criticized the site, citing air-quality concerns and some problems with homeless people. A

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Mandalas and arrests: Occupy Asheville demonstrators make a mandala from sand, pine cones and flower petals. Later, 24 demonstrators were arrested when they refused to leave the area near the Vance Monument after curfew. Photo by Bill Rhodes later statement from Occupy Asheville called the Lexington site a “debacle,” charging that by choosing that spot, the city had forced the protesters to become a social-service organization. Since then, a small Occupy Asheville contingent has been camping on the sidewalk alongside the Federal Building.

Solidarity march On Nov. 2, about 100 protesters marched in solidarity with Occupy Oakland’s general strike the same day. Starting at the former Lexington Avenue campsite, the group marched up the hill to College Street and then turned west, ignoring instructions from police to stay on the sidewalk. The marchers continued to the Federal Building, trailed by a dozen police vehicles with sirens running. Other officers blocked off traffic on side streets. At the Federal Building, the march reversed course and headed for the Vance Monument. There, the marchers chanted a variety of slogans and carried signs displaying slogans such as “Stop police brutality” and “Occupy everything.” When it appeared that they were staying put, the police left the scene. About 60 protesters remained at the monument in violation of the curfew, and for a while, the police seemed to leave them alone. By 10:49 p.m., however, about 10 APD officers had arrived and asked the protesters to move.

When they refused, 24 were arrested. “As evidenced by protesters and bystanders alike, officers did a tremendous job of carrying out their job tasks with professionalism in a rather trying and potentially volatile situation,” an APD media announcement stated. “Each of the arrestees was charged with second-degree trespass, as well as resist, delay and obstruct, for their failure to comply after repeated requests to leave.” Occupy Asheville’s own announcement, however, cited a number of states where curfews on such demonstrators have been ruled illegal. “In an unnecessary and outrageous act of penalizing dissent,” the announcement continued, “the Asheville police added a ‘resisting arrest’ charge to each of the arrestees because they nonviolently spoke out.” In saying “We do not consent to this arrest,” the statement explained, the protesters were simply indicating that “they did not agree with having their First Amendment rights violated by arrest. There was no actual physical resistance to the arrests, and people willingly moved to the cruisers for transport to the jail.” Some members of Occupy Asheville announced on Facebook that they’re considering suing the city over the arrest. — by David Forbes

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Legislators set to study water system’s future by Nelda holder With a third short session convening Nov. 7, the N.C. General Assembly’s leadership has now announced a fourth, slated for Nov. 2830. Meanwhile, January will bring the first meeting of the study committee considering the Asheville water system’s sensitive history — and its future. Rep. Tim Moffitt, the Buncombe County Republican who chairs the Legislative Research Commission’s Metropolitan Sewage/Water System Committee, says it plans to hear from the public at its second meeting, in February. Although the research staff has been assigned, “It’s going to take them awhile ... to really get a handle on the issues that have been in dispute,” Moffitt said Nov. 2. He expects an informational website to launch soon. “Everything we come up with will go on that,” he noted, adding, “I want to be transparent through this entire process.” The site, he said, will also take public comment. Earlier this year, Moffitt sponsored HB 925 which, in its original form, required Asheville

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to transfer its water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District — an inflammatory move in a city and county with a contentious water history. But the final version of Moffitt’s bill instead established the study committee, charged with exploring the idea of consolidating water and sewer services in “large cities located entirely within a metropolitan sewerage district,” such as Asheville. The committee will also consider requiring the city to convey its water system to the larger district, as well as related issues affecting communities in other parts of the state, said Moffitt, noting that he has no predetermined objective but simply wants “what’s best for ratepayers.” And for Asheville, that means “The water system could remain in the city; it could become independent like MSD or become part of MSD.” Asked if a potential state-mandated transfer of a city-owned water system to an independent authority might be a step toward for-profit management of water resources, Moffitt answered: “Oh, no; privatization has never been even a consideration on my part. You’re talking about a very important part of everyone’s life. “My goal is to really, once and for all, bring to the surface the true story about our [Asheville area] water system and make the best decision that’s in the best interest of the ratepayers,” Moffitt concluded. The committee’s other members are: Chuck McGrady (Henderson County), Bill Brawley (Mecklenburg County) and Tom Murry (Wake County), all Republicans, plus Democrat William Brisson (Bladen/Cumberland counties). To learn more about the history of Asheville’s water system, see “Water Torture” by Jonathan Barnard (March 23, 2005 Xpress). X Nelda Holder can be reached at nfholder@ gmail.com.

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Lawmakers, industry seek to ease air-pollution controls by susan andrew Recent attempts to undermine air-quality protections at both the federal and state levels could increase health risks for North Carolina residents, especially those with asthma and other lung conditions. Earlier this month, seven Southern states joined other states in filing a brief urging a federal court to delay a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule regulating mercury emissions. The EPA introduced the proposal, known as the Utility MACT Rule, back in March after more than 20 years of delays and revisions, aiming to set the first national standards for emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants by coal-fired power plants. Under the most recent court order, the EPA must finalize the rule by Dec. 16; but the objecting states say they need more time, asserting that the power grid’s reliability is at risk. Meanwhile, the EPA declined to issue new rules governing ozone — a major contributor to smog in Western North Carolina — until at least 2013. Yet industry data reveal that in 2010 alone, regulated facilities pumped more than 34 million pounds of toxic substances into North Carolina’s air. Nearly 1.5 million pounds of

“I know there’s not 38 million pounds of pollution in the air. That’s not reasonable to me.” — rep. miTch Gillespie, n.c. environmenTal review commission

“We agree that it’s not reasonable that there should be 38 million pounds of toxins released into the air. This data comes from industry — not environmental groups, not government.” — DerB carTer, souThern environmenTal law cenTer

Airing a grievance: One of North Carolina’s top polluters when it comes to toxic air releases, Blue Ridge Paper in Canton is one of numerous industries asking the state for relief from regulations intended to protect clean air. Photo by Bill Rhodes them were cancer-causing chemicals — including many covered by the Utility MACT Rule. Western North Carolina industry contributed substantially to the state’s total burden of toxic air releases, according to the data they’re required to report. One of the top polluters statewide is Blue Ridge Paper in Canton, which released a long list of toxins (including benzene, arsenic, formaldehyde, mercury and lead) into the air. Prevailing winds may carry some of those toxics (which totaled more than 2 million pounds last year) to Buncombe County. North Carolina isn’t one of the states seeking the rule delay. But in a meeting in Raleigh late last month, the N.C. Environmental Review Commission continued to consider how to develop legislation that would restrict or eliminate the state’s Air Toxics Program. The commission sets the Legislature’s environmental agenda, and like the N.C. General Assembly as a whole, the group now has a Republican majority. Many of these lawmakers have stressed their commitment to ferreting out what they see as unnecessary duplication in state and federal statutes regulating businesses; environmental rules have been repeatedly cited

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as a particular impediment to commerce. Rep. Mitch Gillespie, the commission’s co-chair, has said he intends to rewrite state air-toxics regulations. And when the commission was reviewing the even larger amount of such substances released statewide in 2007, the McDowell County Republican flat-out rejected the information, declaring, “I know there’s not 38 million pounds of pollution in the air. That’s not reasonable to me,” WRAL reported. Reasonable or not, in Haywood County alone, industries reported releasing more than 2 million pounds of toxic substances into the air last year — the fourth-highest total among the state’s 100 counties. Buncombe County industries released more than 250,000 pounds of chemicals that, with sufficient exposure, are associated with cancer, genetic mutations, birth defects, respiratory illness, heart attacks and premature death. Blue Ridge Paper accounted for most of Haywood County’s total. Buncombe County’s two biggest polluters in 2010, both in Arden, were Day International, a printing-and-packaging operation on Glenn Bridge Road (208,000 pounds) and Progress Energy’s coal-fired power plant (47,000 pounds).

Blue Ridge Paper is one of a number of companies that have recently sought relief from state air-quality rules. In an April 17 letter, Blue Ridge Paper told legislators: “South Carolina and other states have recognized this duplication…and have modified their air-toxics rules. … North Carolina businesses need similar regulatory relief.” And state legislative leaders are listening. Following last month’s commission meeting, Gillespie told WRAL, “I’ve heard a lot from the business community complaining about the airtoxics laws, about how burdensome and expensive they are, and how N.C. goes way beyond what other states around us do, and [how] that hurts us competitively.” Nonetheless, “The health of our citizens should come first, and then you look at the business concerns and the cost, and try to find a balance,” Gillespie told Xpress, saying he hopes to find broad buy-in for his efforts to soften air-toxics rules. “I’ll get votes from Democrats on air toxics,” he predicts, maintaining that the changes will be minor. “In the end, I’ll offer legislation 100 folks [in the Statehouse] can support.”

ecocalendar Calendar for november 9 - 17, 2011 eCo events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W., Hendersonville. Info: www.eco-wnc.org or 6920385. • SA (11/12), 9am - A guided bird walk will depart from Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville. elisha mitchell Audubon Society • TU (11/15), 7pm - The November meeting will feature a presentation by Dr. Ed Hauser on climate change and the beauty and decline of hard coral reefs in the world’s oceans. Held at UNCA’s Reuter Center, Room 206. Info: eljeep129@charter.net. Free trees • Through SA (12/10) - Individuals who join the Arbor Day Foundation will receive a free tree as part of the Trees for America campaign. Info: wnelson@arborday.org or 888-448-7337. green mondays • MO (11/14), 3-4:30pm - This month’s topic: “A New Look at Sustainable Food Systems.” Held at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. Info: www.blueridgesustainability.org.

But a lot of what Gillespie and his colleagues call needless duplication is aimed at safeguarding state residents’ health when the federal standards fail to do so, environmentalists point out. State air-toxics standards that are higher than federal limits “are based on increased health risks,” notes attorney derb Carter of the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill. “It’s all based on accepted levels of exposure designed to ensure that the public is protected. North Carolina has always done better, and we should continue ... putting the health of citizens first.” “We agree that it’s not reasonable that there should be 38 million pounds of toxins released into the air,” continues Carter. “The interesting thing, which Rep. Gillespie has now learned, is this data comes from industry. It’s not environmental groups, it’s not

N.C. Arboretum events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492. • Through SU (12/11) - The North Carolina Arboretum and MOSAIC Community Lifestyle Realty will offer green home tours. Email membership@ncarboretum.org with the name, date and time of the tours you’d like to attend. • Through MO (1/2), 10am-4pm - “Sustainable Shelter” will feature scale models and interactive computer games to investigate how humans can green their homes. $3/$2 students. Free parking and admission on Nov. 17. • TH (11/17) - Projects focusing on school gardens, food and outdoor activities will be offered in conjunction with the Sustainable Shelter exhibit. Free.

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government. ... These numbers are provided by the federal toxic-release-inventory requirements, [under] a public right-to-know law.” Carter also takes aim at legislators looking to weaken such laws. “Politicians who reduce or repeal limits on toxic air pollution knowingly increase the risk for all North Carolina residents of cancer and other serious — even deadly — health problems,” he points out. “Children, pregnant women and senior citizens are most vulnerable to toxic air pollution and face the greatest risk from irresponsible political attacks on clean-air protections.” X

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

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

Art gallery exhIbITS & oPenIngS 16 Patton Located at 16 Patton Ave. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Info: www.16patton.com or 236-2889. • Through SA (11/26) - Works by Karen Hollingsworth, Karin Jurick and Suzy Schultz. • Through SA (11/19) - New works by John Mac Kah. • Through SA (11/19) Drawing Essentials, works by James Daniel. American Folk Art and Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, represent-

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Calendar information In order to qualify for a free listing, an event must cost no more than $40 to attend and be sponsored by and/or benefit a nonprofit. If an event benefits a business, it’s a paid listing. If you wish to submit an event for Clubland (our free live music listings), please e-mail clubland@mountainx.com. Free Listings To submit a free listing: * Online submission form (best): http://www.mountainx.com/ events/submission * E-mail (second best): calendar@mountainx.com * Fax (next best): (828) 251-1311, Attn: Free Calendar * Mail: Free Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), second floor, downtown Asheville. Please limit your submission to 40 words or less. Questions? Call (828) 251-1333, ext. 365. Paid Listings Paid listings lead the calendar sections in which they are placed, and are marked (pd.). To submit a paid listing, send it to our Classified Department by any of the following methods. Be sure to include your phone number, for billing purposes. * E-mail: marketplace@mountainx.com. * Fax: (828) 251-1311, Attn: Commercial Calendar * Mail: Commercial Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Classified Dept., Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), Ste. 214, downtown Asheville. Questions? Call our Classified Department at (828) 251-1333, ext. 335.

ing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery. Info: www.amerifolk.com or 281-2134. • Through WE (11/16) Bewitched. AntHm gallery Located at 110.5 W. State St. in downtown Black Mountain. Info: www.anthmgallery.com. • Through FR (11/25) - Works by Ellen Langford, Keith Spencer and Constance Humphries. Appalachian Pastel Society Info: www.appalachian-pastelsociety.org. • FR (11/11) through TH (12/1) - What Can You Do in 24 Inches will be on display at Conn-Artist Studios and Gallery, 611 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville. • FR (11/11), 5:30-9pm Opening reception. Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu. • FR (11/11) through TU (11/22) - From Food to Friends, photographs by Heather Buckner, will be on display in UNCA’s Owen Hall’s 2nd floor gallery. Info: 251-6559. • FR (11/11), 6-8pm Opening reception. 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: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • Through SU (3/4) Homage2 will pay tribute to Josef Albers. Atelier 24 Lexington: A gallery of Local Art Located at 24 Lexington Ave. Info: www.theateliergalleries. com. • Through WE (11/30) - Horse and Barn, works by Brian Hibbard. • SA (11/12), 6-8pm Opening reception. Autumn in the Southern Appalachians • Through SU (1/1) - Autumn and Winter in the Southern Appalachians, a jurried exhibit of Carolina nature photographers, will be on display at Deerpark Inn at the Biltmore

Estate, 1 Approach Road. Info: www.cnpa-asheville.org. Bella vista Art gallery Located in Biltmore Village next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Summer hours: Mon., Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: www.bellavistaart.com or 768-0246. • Through SA (12/31) - Spider Series, works by Paul Owen, Tif McDonald and Nicora Gangi. Black mountain College museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs. Info: bmcmac@bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege. org or 350-8484. • Through SA (1/14) - John Cage: A Circle of Influences will explore Cage’s work during his time at Black Mountain College and his later collaborative projects. Castell Photography A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off Eagle Street in downtown Asheville. Info: www. castellphotography.com or 255-1188. • Through WE (11/30) Particular Histories, works by Rebecca Drolen. • Through WE (11/30) - Manipulated, juried by Ariel Shanberg. Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. Info: www.craftscreativitydesign.org or 890-2050. • Through FR (1/27) - Common Threads, works by four fiber artists who have collaborated with other artists or businesses. Courtyard gallery An eclectic art and performance space located at 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District. Info: www.ashevillecourtyard. com or 273-3332. • Through SA (12/31) - Anything Goes - Everything Shows, the 5th annual mail art show. All entries received through the postal system will be exhibited. Participants were encouraged to explore themes, sizes, shapes and media of any kind.

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Asheville Green Drinks will host a panel of UNCA students who recently attended the

wed Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. The group meets at Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave. Info: ashevillegreendrinks.com.

An open session for Celtic musicians will be held at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St. in

thur Waynesville on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6:30 p.m. Info: blueridgebooksnc.com or 456-6000. fri

A benefit for Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Rescue will be held at New Country Music Bar, 1822 10th Ave. SW in Hickory on Friday, Nov. 11 at 8:30 p.m. $7. Info: fullmoonfarm.org.

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See some of the world’s most graceful and haunting animals on a boat tour to view loons on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. The tour will depart from Lake James State Park’s Paddy’s Creek Area office. Tour will be offered on Saturday, Nov. 12 as well. Registration required. Info: 584-7728. Kids of all ages are invited to take belly dancing lessons on Monday, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. Held

mon at the Creative Technology and Arts Center at the Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. First class in the series is free. $10 for subsequent classes. Info: ctacenter.org.

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Join the All Romance All the Time book club on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Held at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St. Info: malaprops.com.

Flood gallery events Located in the Phil Mechanic building at 109 Roberts St. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: www.floodgallery.org or 254-2166. • Through WE (11/30) - Uncharted Waters, featuring the work of nine local artists. Hosted by Flood Gallery and Bold Life Magazine. grovewood gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road. Info: www.grovewood. com or 253-7651. • Through TH (12/1) - The Art of Making Music will feature instruments made in WNC. Pink Dog Creative A multi-use arts space located at 342 Depot St. Info: info@ pinkdog-creative.com. • Through SU (11/20) - NiceNasty, new works by “Affrilachian” artist Valeria Watson-Doost. Pump gallery Located at the Phil Mechanic Studios Building in the River Arts District, 109 Roberts St. Info: www.philmechanicstudios.com. • Through WE (11/30) Works by Will Dickert. SemiPublic gallery This space for contemporary art is open Thurs.-Sat., 2-7pm and by appointment. Located

at 305 Hillside St. Info: www. semipublicgallery.com or 215-8171. • Through SA (11/12) Recent prints and mixed media works by seven artists.

Seven Sisters gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107. • FR (11/11) through SU (3/11) - A Blue Ridge Rhapsody, works by Paul Hastings. the Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St., River Arts District. Info: www.ashevillearts.com. • Through WE (11/30) - Third Nature, works by Virginia Derryberry. Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-4pm and by appointment. Info: www.upstairsartspace.org or 859-2828. • Through SA (11/19), Lines and Lives of the Face will feature works by Ursula Gullow, Francesco Lombardo, Bob Trotman and others.

more arT exhIbITS & oPenIngS All member Art Show • SU (11/13) through FR (1/6), The All Member Art Show will be held at Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. Info: www. artleague.net or 692-2078. • SU (11/13), 2-4pm Opening reception. Appalachian State University • Through SU (1/1) Sanctuary, works by Val Lyle. Info: stageme@appstate.edu or 262-6084. • WE (11/9), 7-8pm - Opening reception. Appalachian State University • Through SU (1/1) - Living in the Light: A Retrospective, works by the late John Scarlata, will be on display in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. stageme@appstate.edu or 262-6084. Art events at WCU 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: www. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (11/11) - Master of Fine Art Theses exhibit will feature Lauren J. Whitley and Scott Hubener. • TH (11/17) through FR (12/9) - Bachelor of Fine Art portfolio exhibit. • TH (11/17), 5-7pm Opening reception. Caterine Stinson Yellowroot • Through TH (12/1) Works by Caterine Stinson Yellowroot will be on display at The Wilderness Society, 563 West Main St. Suite 1, Sylva. Info: www.catherinestinson. com. Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: www. fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870. • Through WE (11/30) - Pieces of the Sky, featuring paintings by Ray Cooper. george terry • Through WE (11/30) - Works by George Terry will be on display at DeSoto Lounge, 504 Haywood Road. Info: www.brotherwayword. deviantart.com. grand Bohemian gallery Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Info: www.bohemianhotelasheville. com or 505-2949.

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Bike like a jack rabbit What: Grab your bicycle and join the Western North Carolina Alliance for a mountain-biking trek through the 15-mile Jack Rabbit Trail System in the Nantahala National Forest. The trip will be guided, so there’s no need for a map and compass (although proper outdoor gear is always encouraged). If you don’t have a bike, or your bike is in the shop, you can still hop through the woods with both novice and expert riders. Call in advance to reserve a bicycle or bring your own. When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Jack Rabbit Trail System in the Nantahala National Forest, Hayesville. Contact WNCA for exact location. Cost: $10 for members/$20 non-members. Bike rental $40 Info: joy@wnca.org or 258-8737 Photo: Joanna Atkisson, former president of the Southern Appalachian Bicycle Association

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• Through WE (11/30) - New works by Jean Claude Roy.

Kelly Amundsen • Through SU (12/4) - Stone artwork by Kelly Amundsen will be on display at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-8729. Liza’s Reef Paintings • FR (11/11) through FR (11/25) - Paintings of Liza’s Reef by Lee James Pantas will be on display at Whittington Chiropractic, 801 Fairview Road. Info: www. leepantas.com. • FR (11/11), 5-9pm Opening reception. Push Skate Shop & gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave., between Stella Blue and the Kress Building. Info: www. pushtoyproject.com or 2255509.

• Through TU (11/29) - The Arts of Darkness 2 group show will feature works related to Halloween and other spooky themes.

River Arts District Studio Stroll • SA (11/12) & SU (11/13), 10am-6pm - River Arts District studio stroll. Info and locations: www.riverartsdistrict.com. Steven g. Sloan • Through FR (11/11) Paintings by Steven G. Sloan will be on display at The Circle, 426 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Info: www.thecircleasheville.com

ClaSSeS, meeTIngS & arTS-relaTed evenTS the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St., in the River Arts District. Info: www.fineartsleague.org or 252-5050.

• THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Open drawing class with live models. $7/$5 students.

arT/CrafT faIrS 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: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • TU (11/15) through SU (12/3) - A holiday market will be held during regular museum hours. Closed on Thanksgiving. • SU (11/20), 1-6pm Reception. Christmas Craft Bazaar • FR (11/11), noon-7pm & SA (11/12), 9am-3pm - A Christmas craft bazaar will be held at Weaverville United

Methodist Church, 85 North Main St. Info: 645-2367. Handmade Holiday Sale • TH (11/10), 3-7pm - The holiday sale, featuring ceramics, jewelery and other crafts made from WCU artists, will be held at WCU’s Fine Arts Musuem, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee. Info: www. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu. the Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224. • TH (11/10), 6-8pm Purchase a handmade bowl at the UNCA Ceramics Sale and receive a free scoop of ice cream. transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri.,

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10am-4pm. Info: www.artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. • SA (11/12), 9am-4pm Holiday ArtMart. WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • FR (11/11) through SU (11/13) - Christmas show.

Auditions & Call to Artists Appalachian mountain Photography Competition • Through FR (11/18) - The Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition will accept submissions through Nov. 18. Info: http://avl.mx/6o. eco Arts Awards • WE (11/30) - The Eco Arts Awards will accept songs, short films, photography, poetry and fine and functional

art on the theme of ecology through Nov. 30. $30. Info: www.ecoartsawards.com. Fountainhead Bookstore Short Story Contest • Through SA (12/10) - Submissions for the Fountainhead Bookstore Short Story Contest, on the theme of modern life in small town North Carolina, will be accepted through Dec. 10. Info: www.fountainheadbookstore. com or 697-1870. Fringe Arts Festival • Through TU (11/15) - The Fringe Arts Festival will accept applications from artists and performers through Nov. 15. Innovative, collaborative performance art encouraged. Info: www.ashevillefringe.org. New media Juried exhibition • Through WE (11/23) - Entries for Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition will be accepted by the Asheville

Art Museum through Nov. 23. Info: www.ashevilleart.org. transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: www.artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. • Through TU (11/15) - The TC Arts Council will accept applications from WNC artists for its holiday show through Nov. 15.

Weaver Blvd. in Asheville. Info: karenp.bpw@gmail.com. Health Services Career Day • TH (11/10), 4-6pm - A career day for the health services industry will be held in WCU’s University Center Grandroom. Info and registration: careers.wcu.edu or 227-3812.

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Friday Night Live. Performances at Diana Wortham theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square. Info: www.dwtheatre. com or 257-4530. • SA (11/12), 8pm - The Adam Growe Quiz Show will feature the host of Discovery Channel Canada’s Cash Cab. $25/20 students. Slice of Life Comedy • THURSDAYS, 8:30pm Stand-up comedy and booked open-mic. Free snacks, drink specials and a raffle for charity will be provided for $5. Professional video taping available for performers. Held at The Pulp in the Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave., Nov. 10, Dec. 15, 22 and 29. Info and booking: sliceoflifecomedy@ gmail.com. the magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: www.themagneticfield.com or 257-4003. • TU (11/15), 8pm - M. Dickson will perform stand-up comedy. $5.

Corporate Wellness Programs (pd.) Affordable. Uniquely designed to employee needs. Increase productivity and worker satisfaction. Reduce time away from work and insurance costs. Pilates, Human Ergonomics, Running and Walking programs. (828) 225-3786. FormFitnessFunction.com American Advertising Federation Asheville www.aafasheville.org. • MO (11/14), 11:30am1pm - “Doing Business in the Cloud” will be presented at Loretta’s Cafe, 114 North Lexington Ave. $30 returning guest/$15 members and firsttime guests. Lunch included. Registration required. Info: programs@aafasheville.org. American Business Women’s Association ABWA brings together business women of diverse occupations to raise funds for local scholarships and enhance the professional and personal lives of its members. Info: www. abwaskyhy.com. • TH (11/10), 6-8pm - ABWA meeting will feature Erin Doyle, owner of Data Solutions Plus. Held at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1 Resort Dr. Registration required by Nov. 9. $20 includes a light dinner. Info: 953-3930. Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists at 39 D S. Market St., downtown Asheville. Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Info and registration: www.arts2people. org or info@arts2people.org. • The Arts2People Artist Resource Center seeks instructors with business management skills. Classes are geared towards creative professionals. Info: www. ashevillearc.com. Asheville Business and Professional Women’s organization • 3rd TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - This local chapter of a nationwide nonprofit organization promotes women in the workplace and equality between sexes by providing networking, presentations and events. Meetings held at the Girl Scouts office, 64 W.T.

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Community Events & Workshops Learn to Knit at Purl’s Yarn emporium (pd.) On Wall Street downtown: Beginning Knit :1st and 2nd Wednesdays, 6-8pm; Intermediate Knit: 3rd and 4th Wednesdays. • $40/4 hours of instruction. 828-253-2750. www.purlsyarnemporium. 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: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • MO (11/14), 5:30pm - A discussion of collection stewardship for both novice and experienced collectors. $6/$5 members. Registration required. Cherokee History and Culture Program • TH (11/17), 5:30pm - Charlie Rhodarmer, Director of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, will present

on Sergeant Sumter and Lieutenant Henry Timberlake’s experience with the Cherokee in the 18th century. Cherokee items will be on display. Held at the Canton Branch Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave, Canton. Refreshments will be served. Info: 648-2924. events at Warren Wilson College Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and held in Canon Lounge of the Gladfelter Student Center. Info: 2983325. • TU (11/15), 5:45pm “Faces of Islam Part II,” part of the Muslim Awareness Project. Info: spirituallife@warrenwilson.edu. Foster and Adopt Fall Festival • SA (11/12), 2-5pm - Learn about foster parenting with giveaways, snacks and activities for kids. Held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1 Resort Drive. Info: www.familiesforkids@buncombecounty.org or 250-5868. intro to Prinmaking • MO (11/14), 6-8:30pm Learn the basics of letterpress printing with Frank Brannon at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, 70 Bingo Loop Road, Cherokee. Students will have an opportunity to print in the Cherokee Language. Limited to 8 students. $20. Info: j_marley@southwesterncc.edu. Public Lectures & events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted. • WE (11/9), 7pm - Melissa Range will read from her book of poetry Horse and Rider in UNCA’s Karpen Hall. Info: 251-6411. • FR (11/11), 11:25am - “The Rise of Totalitarianism in the Interwar Years,” with John McClain, lecturer in humanities, will be held in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: humanities. unca.edu. —- 11:25am “Environmental Sustainability,” with Grace Campbell, lecturer in humanities, will be held in the Humanities Lecture Hall. —- 11:30am - “Fab Friday: The Coming Battle.” Bill Sabo, UNCA professor of political science, will discuss the 2012 election. Info: unca.edu/ncccr. • SA (11/12), 8:15am - 1:15pm - Open house for UNCA’s admissions department will feature campus tours and meetings with faculty, staff and students. Info and registration: unca.edu/admissions or 251-6481. • MO (11/14), 11:25am - “Rome, Republic to Empire,” with Brian Hook, associate professor of classics. Held in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: humanities.unca. edu. —- 11:25am - “Can We Know Them By the Songs

They Sing?” with Melodie Galloway, assistant professor of music. Held in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. —- 7pm - “Jonah’s Whale of a Tale, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” with Katie Peters. Held at UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. —- 7pm - “Transform an Ancient Ritual,” a lecture on ancient Jewish traditions, will be presented by Lisa Berman, education center director at Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh. Held at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave. Info: unca.edu/ cjs or 232-5027. • TU (11/15), 12:30-1:30pm - Brown bag talk: “More Than Numbers: Writing in the Disciplines and WritingTo-Learn in Quantitative Disciplines,” with Patrick Bahls, associate professor of mathematics. Held in UNCA’s Ramsey Library. Info: 2516645. —- 6:30pm - “Hiking Through History,” with Leanna Joyner, Appalachian Trail hiker. Held in UNCA’s Highsmith University Union Grotto. Info: 251-6315. —- 8pm - Frank Warren, creator of PostSecret, will speak in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. $20/$7 students. Info: cesap.unca.edu. Stewards of Children • 2nd MONDAYS, 8:3011:30am - Stewards of Children will lead workshops on improving children’s attitudes, knowledge and child-protective behaviors. Appropriate for youth-serving organizations. Held at Women’s Wellness and Education Center, 24 Arlington St. $30. Info: mountainsexology@bellsouth.com or 301-4460. teDxAsheville Local fans of TED, the California-based organization offering free talks from the world’s most inspiring speakers, present an independently organized TEDx event. Info: tedxavl@gmail.com or tedxavl. com. • SU (11/13), noon-6pm - A variety of speakers, including technology editor Jeff Kluger and local hip-hop troupe the Urban Arts Instuitute, will present their work at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. $35. Wildflower Painting Demonstration • SA (11/12), 10am - A wildflower painting demonstration will be presented by the Appalachian Pastel Society at the WNC Agricultural Center, 301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. Info: 367-4358.

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(pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. SwingAsheville.com Capoeira Angola (pd.) An Afro-Brazilian cultural art, combines dance, music, and martial arts. • Adult and kids classes offered, see website for schedule. Beginners welcome Mondays, Saturdays. • Location: 257 Short Coxe. http://www.capoeiraasheville. org/ Studio Zahiya (pd.) Monday, 6-7 Yoga • 7:30-9 Bellydance • Tuesday 9-10am Hip Hop Workout • Noon-1pm Groove Dance • 6-7pm Beginner Bellydance, • 7-8pm Intermediate Bellydance • Wednesday 6-7 Pilates, • 7:30-9 Bellydance, • Thursday 9-10am Bellydance, • 6-7pm Bollywood, • 8-9pm Hip Hop, • Friday 10-11am Bhangra Workout. • $12 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com eleven on grove Located at 11 Grove St. Info: www.elevenongrove.com or 505-1612. • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Tango lessons. Open dance at 8:30pm. • TUESDAYS, 6:30 & 7:30pm - Swing dancing lessons. Open dance begins at 8:30pm. Hendersonville Ballroom Dance Club Meets in the ballroom of the Elks Lodge, 546 N. Justice St., Hendersonville. $6/5 members. Couples and singles of all ages are welcome. Info: 692-8281. • FRIDAYS, 7:30-10pm - Big band, waltz, tango and Latino dance. the Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224. • TH (11/17), 6-7pm - BreakThru will feature local b-boys and b-girls.

Festivals & Gatherings Higher than that music Festival • FR (11/11), 11am-10pm - Higher Than That, a festival featuring music from Makayan, John Wilkes and the Black Toothe and more, will take place at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. Free. Info: http://avl.mx/6q. Smith-mcDowell House museum Period rooms grace this antebellum house on the campus of A-B Tech Community

College, 283 Victoria Road, Asheville. Info: education@ wnchistory.org or 253-9231. • WE (11/16) through WE (1/4) - The Carolina Christmas Celebration will feature fresh trees and seven decorated period rooms.

Film Asheville Art museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • SA (11/12) & SU (11/13) - Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket will be screened throughout the day, on the hour. Asheville international Children’s Film Festival • Through SU (11/13) - The Asheville International Children’s Film Festival will feature 70 films from 25 countries. Venues include Asheville Pizza and Brewing, Posana Cafe and the Tryon Theater. See website for times: www. aicff.org. Bees: tales from the Hive • WE (11/16), 6-8pm - Bees: Tales from the Hive will be screened by Transition Hendersonville at Black Bear Cafe, 318 Main St., Hendersonville. Info: transitionhendersonville.com. Films for one to eight Projectors • WE (11/16), 7-9pm - Films For One to Eight Projectors will be screened at Skyland Cinema, 538 N. Main Street, Hendersonville. Q&A with filmmaker Roger Beebe to follow. Free. Info: ce_taylor@ blueridge.edu. Life Above All • WE (11/16), 7pm - The Western North Carolina AIDS Project will screen Life Above All at The Fine Arts Theater, 36 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: 252-7489. the economics of Happiness • FR (11/11), 7pm The Economics of Happiness will be screened as part of the Social Justice Film Nite series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville on the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Places. Info: devwilliams@ juno.com. Water for elephants • TH (11/17), 10am - Water for Elephants will be screened at the Etowah Library, 101 Brickyard Road. Info: 8916577.

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Food All You Can eat Pancake Day, Saturday, November 12 (pd.) At St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 223 Hillside Street, Asheville (across from Claxton School) 8am-11am. $5. Children under 12 years free! Falcor Winery • TH (11/10), 5:30pm - Mike Bee, owner of the Falcor Winery in Napa Valley, will present the vineyard’s wines. Held at Appalachian Vintner, 2B Huntsman Place. Advance registration requested. Info: www.appalachianvintner.com or 505-7500. grand opening • MO (11/14), 11am-noon - A grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for My Gluten Free Bread Company, a bakery helping homeless and at-risk youth, will be held at 147 1st Ave. East, Hendersonville. Product tasting of breads and other treats will follow. Info: director@myplacewnc.org. Small Plate Crawl • WE (11/9) - The Small Plate Crawl will highlight Hendersonville and Flat Rock restaurants, stores, galleries, bakeries, historic inns and bed and breakfasts. See website for times and locations. Prices range from $2-8 per plate. Info: www.smallplatecrawl. com.

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 and Rutledge Road) in Flat Rock. Yearly membership is available. Info: 696-3140. • TH (11/17), 9:45am Monthly meeting will focus on free style arrangements with seasonal materials. open House

• SA (11/12), 10am-3pm - An open house will be held at the Van Wingerden International Greenhouses, Highway 191, Mills River. The Blue Ridge Ringers will perform from 11am-2pm. Info: 891-4116. the Winter garden • TU (11/15), 6:30pm - The Winter Garden, a Master Gardener program, will be held at the Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St. Info: 250-6486.

Government & Politics First Congregational Church in Hendersonville Fifth Ave. West at White Pine St., in Hendersonville. Info: 692-8630 or www.fcchendersonville.org. • SU (11/13), 9:15am - Representative Chuck McGrady will discuss “Being a Moderate Representative in Contentious Times.” Republican Women’s Club • TH (11/10), 11:30am - The Buncombe County Republican Women’s club will feature Spence Campbell, 2012 candidate for U.S. Congress. Held at Cornerstone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road. Info: 277-7074.

Kids Celebration Singers • THURSDAYS, 6:20-7:45pm - The Celebration Singers of Asheville Community Youth Chorus invites children ages 7-14 to join. Held at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St. Info: 230-5778. Day Camp • TH (11/10) & FR (11/11), 7:30am-5:30pm - A day camp for children grades 1-5 will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Bring a lunch, two snacks, a swimsuit, towel and quiet activity. $20/$15 members. Info: youthprogramsupervisor@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030. Hands on!

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This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: www.handsonwnc.org or 697-8333. • FR (11/11), 11am-4pm - Portrait artist David Schmitzer will offer $12 portraits, with 20 percent of the proceeds to benefit Hands On! • TU (11/15) - A grand opening of the Oh, the Places To Go exhibit will be held throughout the day. • WE (11/16) - Paint rocks with water and brushes throughout the day. • TH (11/17), 2-4pm - Learn how to blow bubbles with your hands. the Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224. • TU (11/15), 6:30-7:30pm - An open mic night for kids will be presented by Curtain Call Collective. WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • TH (11/17) through SA (11/19) - Wee Trade children’s consignment sale.

Music ALeXANDeR teCHNiQUe (pd.) Faculty member ASU Hayes School of Music, 25 years experience, will teach you how to play with satisfaction and ease! Prevent injury and performance anxiety. Affordable. FormFitnessFunction.com (828)225-3786. Song o’ Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801.(Enter Fellowship Hall-lower level). Guests welcome. Contact:

www.songosky.org Toll Free # 1-866-824-9547. Asheville talent Slam • FR (11/11), 7:30pm - A local talent contest open to N.C. residents 13 years or older. Held at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. Three winners will receive cash prizes. $10 to benefit a WNC charity. Info: www. bioflyer.wordpress.com/asheville-sing-slam. Black mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm; Thurs. 11am-3pm. Info: www. BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930. • SA (11/12), 7:30pm Acoustic Corner Instructor’s Concert. $10. Blue Ridge orchestra Info: www.blueridgeorchestra. org or 650-0948. • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9:30pm - Open rehearsals for the Blue Ridge Orchestra will be held most Wednesdays at the symphony office in the Civic Center. Nov. 16 rehearsal held in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Free. Celtic music open Session • TH (11/10), 6:30pm - An open session for Celtic musicians will be held at Blue Ridge Books,152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000. Community orchestra of Hendersonville • SU (11/13), 3pm - The Community Orchestra of Hendersonville’s fall concert will be held at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2101 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville. Info: 693-3081. Crystal music CooP • THURSDAYS, 7pm - “Listen to Each Other While We Play” drum meditation will be offered at 41 Carolina Lane. Bring your drum or borrow one of ours. By donation. Info: 310745-9150.

Harp Concert • MO (11/14), 2pm - Carroll Ownbey (harp) will perform at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N Washington St. Info: 697-4725. music at UNCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets and info: 2325000. • TH (11/17), 4pm - A concert of student string and brass quintets. music events at montreat College Info: Located at 310 Gaither Circle. Info: 669-8012. • TU (11/15), 7-9pm - Awardwinning reed quintet Arundo Donax will perform in the Chapel of the Prodigal. Performances at Diana Wortham theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square. Info: www.dwtheatre. com or 257-4530. • FR (11/11), 8pm - Julie Fowlis (folk). St. matthias musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 285-0033. • SU (11/13), 3pm - A jazz concert will feature Matt Dingledine. Donations encouraged.

Outdoors Jack Rabbit mountain Bike tour • SA (11/12), 10am-3pm - A guided bike tour through the Jack Rabbit Trail System in the Nantahala National Forest for novices and experienced riders. Call for exact location. $20/$10 members. $40 bike rental. Info: joy@wnca.org or 258-8737. Lake James State Park N.C. Highway 126. Info: 5847728. • SA (11/12) & SU (11/13), 2pm - The Loons of Lake James boat tour will depart at the Paddy’s Creek Area office. Registration required. Bring water, binoculars and a towel.

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(pd.) Bill Bowers Guidance: Connect with Spirit in a private or group session. • Contact Bill: (828) 216-9039 or visionsjtf@hotmail.com open Heart meditation (pd.) Learn easy, wonderful practices that connect you to the joy within your own heart. • Free. 7pm, Tuesdays. 5 Covington St., W. Asheville. 296-0017 or 645-5950. http:// www.heartsanctuary.org mindfulness meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241 or www.billwalz. com. • MONDAYS, 7-8pm Meditation class with lesson and discussion of contemporary Zen living. Held at the Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road (off Merrimon Avenue). Donations encouraged. Cloud Cottage Sangha Location: 219 Old Toll Circle in Black Mountain. Info: www. cloudcottage.org or 669-0920. • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm & SUNDAYS, 8-10am Weekly meetings will feature seated and walking meditation, Dharma talks and chanting. Community HU Song • SU (11/13), 11-11:30am - “In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Chanting this oncesecret name for God, HU, has helped people throughout time find inner peace and divine love.” Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road. Info: www.eckankarnc.org or 254-6775. Dharma Class • TUESDAYS through (11/15), 7pm - Dharma class with Venerable Pannavati Bhikkuni. Learn dharma with this exuberant Buddhist monk. All are welcome; by donation. Held at 60 Caledonia Road #B (the carriage house behind the Kenilworth Inn Apartments). Info: 505-2856.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

I was musing on how slow I am to learn the lessons I need to master — how hard it can be to see the obvious secrets that are right in front of me. But I felt better after I came across the logo for the Jung Institute in San Francisco, which is dedicated to the study of psychology and psychotherapy. The symbol that it has chosen to embody its ruling spirit consists of four snails creeping their way around a center point — a witty acknowledgment of the plodding nature of the human psyche. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it’s important for you to give yourself credit for how much you’ve grown since the old days — even if How’s your relationship with your muse? your progress seems intolerably gradual. Don’t tell me that you’re not an artist so you don’t have a muse. Even garbage collectors need muses. Even farmers. Even politicians. It will be a good week to have nice long talks All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, with yourself — the more, the better. The differtantalizing source of inspiration that teases our ent sub-personalities that dwell within you need sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next to engage in vigorous dialogues that will get all adventures. So I ask you again: What have you their various viewpoints out in the open. I even and your muse been up to lately? I say it’s high recommend coaxing some of those inner voices to time for you to infuse your connection with a manifest themselves outside the confines of your dose of raw mojo. And if for some sad reason own head — you know, by speaking out loud. If you feel inhibited about giving them full expresyou don’t have a muse, I urge you to go out sion where they might be overheard by people, in quest of new candidates. (P.S. A muse isn’t find a private place that will allow them to feel necessarily a person; he or she might also be an free to be themselves. animal, an ancestor, a spirit, or a hero.) The title of this week’s movie is “Uproar of Love,” starring the Fantasy Kid and The Most Feeling Machine In The World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution for the hell of it. Comic touches will slip in at unexpected moments. When you’re not up to your jowls in archetypes, you might be able to muster the clarity to gorge yourself on the earthly delights that are spread from here to the edge of the abyss.

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Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular consumption of Free Will Astrology can be effective in smoothing unsightly wrinkles on your attitude, scouring away stains on your courage, and disposing of old garbage stuck to your karma. They’ve also gathered testimony from people who claim to have experienced spontaneous healings of nagging ailments and chronic suffering while under the influence of these oracles. If I were you, I’d try to take advantage of such benefits right now. You could really use some healing. Luckily, it looks like there’ll be an array of other curative options available to you as well. Be aggressive about seeking them out.

During the reign of President George W. Bush, many Americans viewed France as being insufficiently sympathetic with American military might. So enraged were some conservatives that they tried to change the name of French fries to freedom fries and French toast to freedom toast. The culminating moment in this surrealistic exercise came when Bush told UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, “The French don’t even have a word for entrepreneur” — unaware that “entrepreneur” is a word the English language borrowed from the French. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Libra: Make sure you know the origins of everyone and everything you engage with, especially as they affect your ability to benefit from entrepreneurial influences.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Given the lush and exotic astrological factors now coming to bear on your destiny, and due to the possibility that something resembling actual magic may soon make an appearance, I am taking a leap of faith with this week’s horoscope. Are you game? There is a hypothetical scene described by the English poet Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) that would normally be too outlandish to take seriously, but I suspect it’s a possible match for your upcoming adventures. “What if you slept,” he wrote, “and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”

vivacious version of that approach to life. This is one of those rare times when you have so many unique gifts to offer and so many invigorating insights to unleash, that you really should act as if you are mostly right and everyone else is at least half-wrong. Just one caution: As you embark on your crusade to make the world over in your image, do it with as much humility and compassion as you can muster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In Mongolia there’s a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy’s arm. They’ve been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I’m shoving this image in your face, Sagittarius, so as to dare you and encourage you to withdraw from your old feuds and disputes. It’s a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to give up any struggle that’s not going to matter 80 million years from now. (More info: tinyurl. com/DinosaurFight.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “In your experience, who is the best-smelling actor that you’ve worked with?” TV host Jon Stewart asked his guest Tom Hanks. “Kevin Bacon,” replied Hanks. Why? Not because of the baconas-a-delicious-food angle, although that would be funny. “He smells like a mix of baby powder and Listerine,” Hanks said. Keep this perspective in mind, Capricorn. I think you should be engaged in a great ongoing quest to put yourself in situations with pleasing aromas. I mean this in both the metaphorical and literal sense. To set yourself up for meaningful experiences that provide you with exactly what you need, follow your nose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have always felt unworthy of or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here’s an extra bonus: This breakthrough may in turn lead to you finding a lost piece to the puzzle of your identity.

The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word “mutinyversal” as “rebellion against the whole universe.” I think it would be My acquaintance Bob takes a variety of meds for an excellent time for you to engage in a playful, his bipolar disorder. They work pretty well to keep him out of the troughs, but he misses the peaks. Last time he saw his psychiatrist he told her he wished he could stop taking the complicated brew of drugs and just take a happy pill every day. The psychiatrist told him that if he ever If you knew you were going to live found such a thing, she’d love to take it herself. to 100, what would you do differWouldn’t we all? I’m pleased to report that you ently in the next five years? Testify are now very close to locating the next best thing at Freewillastrology.com to a happy pill, Pisces. It may require you to at least partially give up your addiction to one of © Copyright 2011 Rob Brezsny your customary forms of suffering, though. Are you prepared to do that?

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Goldsmith, will be held at the United Research Light Center, 2190 NC Highway 9, Black Mountain. Info: 669-6845. introduction to vipassana • WE (11/16), 7-9pm - An introduction to Vipassana meditation will feature a documentary and Q&A. Held at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Free. Info: www.patapa.dhamma.org. meditation and Satsang with madhyanandi • MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 6am-9pm - Meditate and practice with an awakened yogini. Sessions available by appointment. All fees by donation; no one will be turned away. Info: www. thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@gmail.com. miracles • TU (11/15), 7-8pm - The question of whether miracles are real, and happening today, will be explored at Mountain Java, 901 Smoky Park Highway, Candler. Info: tharkey@octoberroadinc.com. modern Buddhism Book talk • FR (11/11), 7-8:30pm - Buddhist monk Gen Mondrub will discuss how to improve relationships and transform through developing and maintaining compassion and wisdom in daily life. Held at Barnes & Noble, 33 Town

Square Blvd, Biltmore Park. Free. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail.com. • SA (11/12), 11am - 12:30pm - An additional discussion will be held at A-B Tech’s Simpson Building, 340 Victoria Road. Everyone welcome. Free. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail.com. Sound Healing Circle • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - “Come and receive if you are feeling lowly and in need of support or come and share healing light if your bliss cup runneth over.” Bring bowls, bells, rattles, didge, etc. Held at 41 Carolina Lane. By donation. Info: 310-745-9150. 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: www.unitync.net, 684-3798 or 891-8700. • WE (11/9), 7-9pm “Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal,” an introduction to the healing technique quantum touch. Held at a private home. Directions: 891-3255. • SU (11/13), 2-4:30pm - “Mandala, The Template of Consciousness: Bringing it Home” will explore the history and spiritual significance of Mandala. $15.

• WE (11/16), 7-8:30pm - Healer’s night will feature massage, Omega bodywork, Reiki sessions and more. Love offering. Unity Church of Asheville Located at 130 Shelburne Road. Info: www.unityofasheville.com or 252-5010. • TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - A Search For God A.R.E. Study Group. • SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual celebration service —- 12:302pm - A Course in Miracles study group. Wiccan open Court • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Open Court meets weekly in Marshall for potluck, Wiccan principals and elements, meditations, hand crafting and occasional ceremonies. Provided by Highland Wild Coven. Email to meet about attendance: shinemoon76@ yahoo.com. Windhorse Zen Community Newcomers call ahead for orientation. Located at 580 Panther Branch Road, near Weaverville. Info: www.windhorsezen.org or 645-8001. • SUNDAYS, 9:30am - Meditation, chanting and Dharma talk, followed by a vegetarian potluck lunch. Yoga of Awakening • MONDAYS, 7-9pm “Awaken to profound peace.

Practice technologies to free the body and mind of stress and tension. Begin your adventure of awakening.” Fees by donation; no one will be turned away. Info and directions: www.thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@gmail.com. Young Adult Friends Worship group • SATURDAYS, 4-6:30pm - This small Quaker group for young adults meets upstairs at Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road. Singing and silence will be followed by a potluck. For Quakers, quasi-Quakers and anyone who is interested. Info: biercewilson@gmail.com. Zen Center of Asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Zazen and dharma talks will be offered at 12 Van Ruck Court. Enter at back deck. Info: www. zcasheville.org or 398-4212.

Social & SharedInterest Groups gal Pals of Asheville (pd.) Come join Asheville’s Most Fabulous group: Lesbian Social Group for Women, ages 35 - 55 SINGLES ONLY event once a month - For more info: groups.yahoo.com/group/ GalPalsofAsheville Alpha Phi Alumnae • WE (11/9), 6pm - Asheville area alumnae of Alpha Phi sorority will meet at Nine Mile restaurant, 233 Montford Ave. Info: Jrandolph919@aol.com. Asheville Newcomers Club • 2nd WEDNESDAYS Women who are new to the area are welcome to make new friends, explore in and

around Asheville and learn more about what our community has to offer. Join us for a meeting or activity. Info: ashevillenewcomersclub.com or 654-7414. Asheville tantra School Located at 2 Westwood Place, inside the Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism building. $10-15 per hour with sliding scale available for some classes. Info: www. AshevilleTantra.com. • WE (11/9), 7:30-9pm Tantra and Permaculture, with Dr. Rudolph Ballentine. • MONDAYS through (11/21), 7-9pm - Men’s Sexual Health: Libido, Erections and Prostate. “Support strong male hormone levels during male menopause and learn to maintain a healthy prostate through life,” with Dr. James Biddle. • TUESDAYS through (11/29), 7:30-9:30pm - Nourishment Through Pleasure. “Explore three dimensions of pleasure: sensate focus, partner engagement and role-play.” Bingo Night • THURSDAYS, 9pm12:30am - Hug Buzzards Dirty Bingo will be held at the Dirty South Lounge, 70 W. Walnut St. Info: http://avl.mx/5r. Cherokee Historical grief • WE (11/9), 7-9pm “Cherokee Historical Grief and Trauma and the Cherokee 2012 Forgiveness Journey” will be held at the Center for Spiritual Living, 2 Science of Mind Way. Free, but donations accepted. Info: www.cherokeehealingcoalition.org. Civil War Photography exhibit • Through TU (11/29) “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory:

Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit” will be on display at the Transylvania County Public Library, 212 South Gaston St., Brevard. Info: 884-3151. Classic Car Show • SA (11/12), 11-3pm - A classic car show will be held in the parking lot of Country Small Engine, 2560A Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville. Rain date: Nov. 13. Info: 6977876. CLoSeR Looking for gay folks in your age group? CLOSER is Asheville’s oldest LGBT social club serving all boomers and seniors. • TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets in the library of All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. Creative technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.ctacenter.org. • WEDNESDAYS (11/9) through (12/7), 4-5:30pm Holiday gift making workshop. • THURSDAYS (11/10) through (12/8), 4pm - Screen printing on ceramic tiles for high school students and adults. $10/first class free. Cribbage group • MONDAYS, 6pm - Meets at Earth Fare Westgate for friendly game playing. All skill levels welcome. Info: 254-3899. Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St. Info: www.firestormcafe.com or 255-8115. • TH (11/10), 2pm - Asheville Homeless Network meeting. Next meeting Nov. 17. —6:30pm - NC Conservation Network meeting.

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gingerbread House Competition trip • WE (11/16), 11am - A trip to view the Gingerbread House Competition entries will depart from the Reid Center 133 Livingston St. Info and registration: 350-2048. good Samaritan Club • TH (11/17), 11am - The Good Samaritan Club will meet at the Reid Center, 133 Livingston St. Info and registration: 350-2048. Henderson County Heritage museum Located in the Historic Courthouse on Main Street in Hendersonville. Info: www. hendersoncountymuseum.org or 694-1619. • Through FR (12/30) - An exhibit of Civil War artifacts will feature military weaponry and uniforms. NoW meeting • SU (11/13), 3-5pm - The National Organization of Women will hold its meeting at the Roof Garden of the Battery Park Apartments, 1 Battle Square. Bring a snack to share. Info: www.now.org. occupy Asheville Update • WE (11/9), 6-8pm - An update on Occupy Asheville and the Keystone XL Pipeline protests will be held at Jubilee! Community Center, 46 Wall St. Info: 252-5335. WNC Agricultural Center

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Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • FR (11/11) through SU (11/13) - Rodeo. WNC Fiber Folk Group • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - The WNC Fiber Folk Group meets at WCU’s Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee. Info: ddrury@wcu.edu or 227-2553. Women In Celtic Folklore Series • TUESDAYS through (11/15), 7-9pm - The Women In Celtic Folklore Series will explore the lives of inspirational women through storytelling, songs and journaling. $25 per class. Info: Moonsong@madison.main. nc.us or 689-4295.

Spoken & Written Word Attention WNC Mystery Writers • TH (11/10), 6-9pm - The WNC Mysterians Critique Group will meet at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave # A. For serious mystery/suspense/thriller writers. Info: www.wncmysterians.org or 712-5570. Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000. • SA (11/12), 3pm - Nathan B. Tracy will read from his new book Pack Leader Down. Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 2504758) n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n NA = North Asheville Library (1030 Merrimon Avenue, 250-4752) n PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • (11/16), 5-7pm - Library knitters. SW • WE (11/9), 3:30pm - Colburn Earth Science Museum story time. Ages 6-12. PM • TH (11/10), 1pm - Book club: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. FV —- 6:30pm - Book club: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. EA

• 3RD TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - A meeting of the Asheville chapter of the National Railway Historic Society. EC • TU (11/15), 2pm - Book club: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie. NA • TH (11/17), 2pm - Book club: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. SS Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is located at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: more@ citylightsnc.com or 586-9499. • FR (11/11), 7pm - David Joy will read from his new book Growing Gills. • TH (11/17), 10:30am “Coffee with the Poet.” Events at Jubilee! Located at 46 Wall St., downtown Asheville. Info: 252-5335. • FR (11/11), 7pm - Kaveen Hutchinson will recite works by Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir and others with musical accompaniment. $20/$18 in advance. Info: 777-0369. Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734. • WE (11/9), 7pm - Caroline Preston will read from her new book The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt. • TH (11/10), 7pm - John Connolly will read from his young adult novel The Infernals. • FR (11/11), 4:30-6pm - Freelance Friday, a group for freelancers and those considering self-employment. • SA (11/12), 7pm - Evie Shockley will read from her new collection of poems The New Black. Luke Hankins will read from his new collection of poems Weak Devotions. • SU (11/13), 3pm - John Lane will read from his new book My Paddle to the Sea. • MO (11/14), 7pm - Steve Almond will read from his new collection of short stories God Bless America. • TU (11/15), 7pm - All Romance All the Time book club: Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. • WE (11/16), 7pm - Daniel Blake Smith will read from his new book An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears. • TH (11/17), 7pm - Stitchn-Bitch. Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: www. fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870. • WE (11/16), 6:30pm Karen White will read from her new book The Strangers on

Montagu Street. Ticket available with book purchase. Kaveen Hutchison • FR (11/11), 7pm - Kaveen Hutchison will read ecstatic poetry of the modern Mystics at Jubilee! Community Church, 46 Wall St. $20/$18 in advance. Info: 254-6734. Mountain Writers Meeting • 2nd TUESDAYS, 1pm - Mountain Writers will meet at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St. Info: www.mountainwritersnc.com or 235-2003. Music, Poetry and Stories • FR (11/11), 8-10pm - “Music, Poetry and Stories for the Heart and Soul” will be held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $10. Info: www.whitehorseblackmountain.com or 669-0816. Open Mic Night at The Pulp • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest host a monthly open mic at The Pulp, located beneath The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville. $10 includes club membership. Info: www.pulpasheville. com.

Sports Groups & Activities HOT CHOCOLATE 10K TRAINING PROGRAM! (pd.) 10 weeks. Personalized coached workouts every Wednesday at 6pm and Saturday at 9am. Starting November 12. All levels. Carrier Park and UNCA. $100. FormFitnessFunction.com (828) 225-3786. Transform Your Form (pd.) Run with a lightness and ease you’ve never known! Alexander Technique will turn your arms into wings! Thursdays, 6:30pm. $100 for 6 sessions. Ongoing. (828) 225-3786. FormFitnessFunction.com WINTER GROUP RUNS (pd.) Experienced coach leads training runs throughout the winter. Stay in shape all winter long! Weaver Park and other locations. $65 per 6 weeks. Sundays, 9:30AM. FormFitnessFunction.com (828) 225-3786. Chi Running Talk • WE (11/16), 6-7:30pm - Danny Dreyer will present “The Little Things We Neglect as Runners,” focusing on limiting injuries. Held at Foot Rx, 63 Turtle Creek Drive. Free. Info and registration: aaron@ footrx.com. Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.ctacenter.org.

• MO (11/14), 4pm - The art of belly dancing for kids of all ages. Mothers and daughters encouraged. $10. First class free. Earth Fare Turkey Trot 5K • TH (11/24), 9am - The Earth Fare Turkey Trot 5K will be held at Carrier Park, Amboy Road. Deadline is Nov. 21. Info: http://avl.mx/69. Gentle Yoga • FRIDAYS through (12/9), 9-10am - Explore the subtleties of a yoga practice with focus on stretch, breath and balance in this six-week series at Happy Body, 1378 Hendersonville Road. $10. Info: www.ashevillehappybody. com or 277-5741. Home School Physical Education • THURSDAYS, 1-2:30pm - A physical education class for home-schooled children will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $3. Info: 456-2030. Home School Physical Education • THURSDAYS through (11/17), 10:30-11:30am - Physical education for home schooled students will be offered at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Circle. $3. Info: 250-4260. Jus’ Running Weekly coach-led runs. Meet at 523 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: www. jusrunning.com. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Five-mile group run, 10-11 minutes per mile. •TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Run from the store to the UNCA track for a maggot track workout. There will also be a post-workout get together at a local restaurant. •WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Eight-mile group run. •THURSDAYS, 6pm - Onehour run from the Rice Pinnacle parking lot at Bent Creek. Easy, moderate and fast levels. Pickleball • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am Pickleball is like playing ping pong on a tennis court. Groups meet weekly at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St. For all ages/levels. $1 per session. Info: or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2058. Spin Class • TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - A spin class will be offered at Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Daily admission charge/free for members. Info: recaquatics@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030. Step Aerobics Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Enhance cardio, strength and flexibility

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The 7 billionth person on Earth The 7 billionth person on earth was born on Halloween, according to the United Nations. The UN chose a symbolic baby, giving the title to baby Danica of the Phillippines, although a little girl named Nargis, born in Utter Pradesh, India, was also chosen. Perhaps she’s 7,000,000,001. In actuality, a number of other babes in other countries also were celebrated as potentially being the 7 billionth. Of course, Oct. 31 was merely a projection of the day when we’d surpass seven plus nine zeros, which is somewhat ironic as a recent study from the Yale Public School of Health says fewer babies are born on Halloween than on other days, giving credence to the theory that mothers may have some unconscious influence on when

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their babies are born. In other words, some of us may be able to avoid particularly inauspicious days for giving birth. Not me, however. Though I like to think I’m a modern woman, having one of my babes born on the 13th day of the month did give me a slight twinge of superstitious discomfort — though clearly not enough to delay his descent down the birth canal for 14 hours. Regardless, our population has passed a huge mark in terms of capacity, and this whole exponential-growth thing shows no sign of slowing. In fact, the UN just upped their population prediction from 9 billion to 10 billion by the year 2050. Hello? That’s 3 billion more of us in less than 40 years. While I am somewhat unlikely to be around then, my kids should still be kicking. By then, they likely will have contributed to that population increase themselves. In fact, selfishly, I hope they do. But on a humanistic level, I’ve got to admit, future procreation, especially of U.S. babies, terrifies me. According to a recent article in Mother Jones, two American kids have an average lifetime carbon footprint equal to that of 337 Bangladeshi kids. And what’s possibly going to curb world population? Massive starvation from inade-

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their late 70s. Thus, Americans have fewer kids who consume more and live longer and who produce more carbon leading to fewer resources and increased climate instability, while Nigeriens have more kids who produce little carbon but who have access to limited resources and have a lower life expectancy. Ouch. That’s some painful math. I don’t have good answers. But while I personally might congratulate the parents of Danica and Nargis on the births of their babes, I don’t think being number 7 billion is cause for celebration. X

parentingcalendar Calendar for november 9 - 17, 2011 Free IPad Academy (pd.) IPads provided for class. Classes are especially for children 5 and under who have yet to start kindergarten. Convenient Downtown location. Reply to prekipads@me.com Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • TH (11/17), 6:30-8pm - The Art of Breastfeeding. —- 6:30-8pm - “Daddy Duty” for expectant fathers. Mindful Transition to Parenthood • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - This program teaches expectant parents how to be happy as partners and parents. Group includes mindfulness and meditation training to strengthen your relationship, assist in childbirth and facilitate mindful parenting. Held at Family to Family, 207 Charlotte St. Free. Info: www.lauragambrel.com. Open House • WE (11/9), 5:30-7pm - An open house for the Odyssey School will be offered at 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.odysseycommunity.org or 259-3653. Parenting Classes • WEDNESDAYS through (11/23), 9-11am - Love and Logic parenting class will be held at the Children First/CIS Family Resource Center at Emma, 37 Brickyard Road. $10 includes workbook. Info: lisab@childrenfirstbc.org or 252-4810.

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at this step aerobics, weights and stretch class. Meets at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St. Open to all levels. Free. Info: stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2058. Superhero 5K • SA (11/12), 4:30pm - The Superhero 5K will depart from Asheville Brewing Company, 77 Coxe Ave. Info: 255-4077

Technology Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.ctacenter.org. • THURSDAYS (11/10) through (12/8), 5:30pm - “Wordpress Basics and Beyond.” Adults. $10/first class free. • THURSDAYS (11/10) through (12/8), 4pm - Modul8 and VJ techniques. High school students and adults. $10/first class free. • TUESDAYS through (12/6), 4pm - Digital music production classes will cover Ableton Live software. For high school students and adults. $10/first class free. Free Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. To register: classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com. • MONDAYS, 12:15pm - Mac OSX Basics. • TUESDAYS, 12:15pm iPhoto Basics. • WEDNESDAYS, 12:15pm - iPad Basics. • THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 12:15pm - Advanced/paid classes (see website for schedule). Macintosh Asheville Computer Society (MACS) • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm Meetings held at CityMac, 755 Biltmore Ave., on the corner of Meadow Road. Visitors welcome. Q&A, problem solving, demonstrations and guest speakers. Info: www.citymac. com or 712-7493.

Theater Anam Cara Theatre Company • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS (11/11) until (11/19), 8pm - Things I’d Rather Not Say will be performed by Anam Cara Theatre Company, 203 Haywood Road. Info: www. anamcaratheatre.blogspot. com. Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: www. flatrockplayhouse.org or 6930731. • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/3) until (11/20)

- Doubt will be performed in the downtown theater, 25 South Main St., Hendersonville. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/10) until (11/20) - Disney’s Peter Pan will be presented by the YouTheatre, 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock. Daytime performances Nov. 9 and 16. $18/$10 students. Reservations: 693-3517. Hendersonville Little Theatre At the Barn on State Street. between Kanuga and Willow Roads in Hendersonville. Info: www.hendersonvillelittletheatre.org or 692-1082. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/11) through (11/27) - The Diary of Anne Frank. NC Stage Company Asheville’s professional resident theater company, performing at 15 Stage Lane in downtown Asheville (entrance off of Walnut Street, across from Zambra’s). Info and tickets: www.ncstage.org or 239-0263. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/13) Angels in America. • TUESDAYS through SATURDAYS (11/15) through (11/27) - It’s a Wonderful Life. No performance on Thanksgiving. Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square. Info: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com. • WED (11/16) & TH (11/17), 8pm - The Rivalry. The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: www.themagneticfield.com or 257-4003. • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS until (11/19), 10pm - Rock Saber by Julian Vorus, a “rock ‘n’ roll anti-musical.” Theater at Blue Ridge Community College Performances are held in Patton Auditorium at BRCC, Flat Rock. Tickets and info: www.blueridge.edu or 6941849. • TH (11/17) through SU (11/20) - August: Osage County. $7/$5 BRCC students, faculty and staff. Theater at WCU Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets and info: http:// fapac.wcu.edu or 227-2479. • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (11/10) through (11/13) - Sweeney Todd. • TU (11/15), 7:30pm - The Miles Davis Experience: 19491959 will be performed at WCU’s Bardo Arts Center. $10/$5 for students.

Volunteering Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Room 213, in the United Way building. The organization matches children from single-parent homes with adult mentors. Info: www.bbbswnc. org or 253-1470. • Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks adult mentors for bimonthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost. Volunteers are also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and afterschool programs. • Through TH (11/29) - Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteers ages 16 and older to mentor one hour per week in schools and after-school sites. Volunteers ages 18 and older needed to share outings in the community twice a month. Info sessions: Nov. 15 and Nov. 29 Center for New Beginnings • The Center for New Beginnings seeks volunteers for community awareness and services for crime victims and survivor’s of traffic fatalities, suicides and other deathrelated incidents. Volunteer training will be held on Nov. 16, 5:30-7pm, at 34 Wall St. Info: contact@centerfornb.org or 989-9306. Child Abuse Prevention Training • MO (11/14), 8:30-11:30am - Child abuse prevention training will be held at the Women’s Wellness and Education Center, 24 Arlington St. $30. Info: mountainsexology@bellsouth.com or 301-4460. Children First/CIS Children First/CIS is a nonprofit advocating for children living in vulnerable conditions. Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc. org or 768-2072. • Through TU (5/1), 2:305:30pm - Volunteers needed at least one hour per week, Mon.-Thurs., to help K-5th graders with homework and activities. Info: VolunteerC@ childrenfirstbc.org or 7682072. Hands On Asheville-Buncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • TH (11/10), 6:30-8pm - Volunteer with OnTrack: Copy and collate packets for distribution to individuals and families that benefit from OnTrack’s various financial assistance programs. • SA (11/12), 3-5pm Bonding Blankets: Help make “lovies” blankets for premature babies served by Mission

Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Instructions provided • WE (11/16) - 6-8pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for hospice patients at CarePartners’ John Keever Solace Center, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Supplies provided. Operation Christmas Child • MO (11/14) through MO (11/21), 8am-8pm - The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, located at 1 Porters Cove Road, will serve as a drop-off location for gifts for Operation Christmas Child. Info: www.thecove.org or 298-2092. Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Highway 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: www. ncwildlife.org or 877-4423. • Through WE (11/30) - Volunteers are needed to answer phones, help with the gift shop and answer visitor questions. Pot Luck Parents • Pot Luck Parents seeks foster parents to form a support group. Date, time and location to be determined. Info: leighlo@yahoo.com or 226-3876. Smith-McDowell House Museum Period rooms grace this antebellum house on the campus of A-B Tech Community College, 283 Victoria Road. Info: education@wnchistory. org or 253-9231. • Through TH (1/5) Volunteer tour guides needed, especially on weekends. Flexible hours. Training provided. Info: wnchavolunteers@ gmail.com or 253-5518. Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: www.artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. • Through SA (12/31) - Volunteers needed for the “Take Art to Heart” program to share works of art with elementary school students. Info: tcarts@comporium.net. Volunteers for Family Therapy Study • Through FR (12/30) - Family therapist Vikki Stark seeks adults who experienced the divorce of their parents as a child or teen. Info: ChildDivorceStudy@gmail. com.

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overcome this tragedy. They joined Healing Art Missions, a national organization that helps provide health care, nutrition, education and housing to the people of Haiti. HAM currently treats more than 20 cases of cholera per day. This weekend’s Art From the Heart auction supports HAM’s crucial work. A silent auction will bring a taste of Haiti to Asheville with a variety of art made by Haitians. Fair trade prices were originally paid for the art and all of the proceeds from the auction will go directly toward medicine and supplies the village of Dumay. HAM’s community health center is staffed entirely by Haitians and saw nearly 14,000 patients last year. The clinic now charges small fees to those able to pay for their medical care, which invigorates the local economy and discourages dependence on foreign aid. One of the programs that does require support from overseas is the Hope for Children of Haiti School. HAM funds teachers’ salaries at an elementary school in Port-de-Paix. The school currently serves more than 200 children. It’s easy to get involved in Healing Art Missions’ programs. Simply by attending the silent auction and purchasing some beautiful and unusual art, you can support Haiti without leaving Western North Carolina.

beneﬁtscalendar What: Fifth annual Art From the Heart auction to support the health and education of people in Haiti. Where: Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Ave., in the Fellowship Hall. When: Sunday, Nov. 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info: gcpcusa.org or 254-3274. Why: When the 2010 earthquake shook Haiti to the core, a cholera epidemic quickly swept through the country. This fatal disease ravaged entire communities, leaving many villages without essential medical care. Asheville’s Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church stepped in to help the people of Haiti

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Calendar for november 9 - 17, 2011 Animal Compassion Network WNC’s largest nonprofit, safe-for-life animal welfare organization. Find a new pet at ACN’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, 803 Fairview St., Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: www.animalcompassionnetwork.org 274-DOGS. • TH (11/10), 6-9pm - “Taste of Compassion” will feature a wine tasting and silent auction to benefit Animal Compassion Network. Held at The Venue, 21 North Market St. $35/$30 in advance. Art From the Heart Auction • SU (11/13) 9am-1pm: Art From the Heart Auction will benefit Healing Art Missions, a program that directly provides health, nutrition, education and housing to the people of Haiti. This silent auction of Haitian art will be held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Avenue in the Fellowship Hall. Free. Info: www.gcpcusa. org, www.healingartmissions.org or 254-3274. Art Fryar Memorial Dinner • TH (11/10), 6pm - The Art Fryar Memorial Dinner will benefit Loving Food Resources. Held at Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St. $15. Info: www.elevenongrove.com or 5051612. Beauty Through Cancer • Through WE (11/30) - Print4Food, an environmentally conscious print company, will donate $5 of its orders to Beauty Through Cancer. Info: www.print4food.com. Benefit Pancake Breakfast • SA (11/12), 8-10am - A pancake breakfast to benefit The Smoky Mountain Toy Run will be held at FATZ restaurant, 5 Spartan Ave. Info: director@smokymountainhog. com. Community Blanket Drive • TH (11/17), 7am-noon - A community blanket drive will be held at the Insurance Service of Asheville parking lot at the corner of College and Charlotte Streets. Info: www. isa-avl.com. Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Rescue • FR (11/11), 8:30pm - A benefit for Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Rescue will be held at the New Country Music

Bar, 1822 10th Ave. Southwest, Hickory. Music from Throwdown Jones. $7. Info: www.fullmoonfarm.org. Home Free Bagels Film Screening • TH (11/10), 7pm - A screening of the short documentary Home Free will benefit Home Free Bagels, Just Economics and Homeward Bound’s HOPE to HOME program. Held at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $5-10 donation requested. Info: www.facebook.com/ HomeFreeBagels. LEAF Golf Classic • FR (11/11), 12:30pm - A golf classic will benefit LEAF in Schools and Streets. $75 includes dinner. Held at Broadmoore Golf Course, 101 French Broad Lane, Fletcher. Info: 699-1625. Taste of Asheville • TH (11/17), 7-9pm - A Taste of Asheville will feature 37 local restaurants to benefit Asheville Independent Restaurants. Held at The Venue, 21 North Market St. $70. Info: 338-9839. Womansong Fall Concert • FR (11/11) & SA (11/12), 7:30pm - Womansong’s fall concert will feature “humor, harmony, colorful visuals and audience sing-alongs” to benefit Womansong’s New Start Program and Unity’s Kindness Fund. $18/$15 in advance/$5 children. Info: www.womansong.org. Zumbathon and Business Expo • SA (11/12), 1-4pm - A Zumbathon charity event to raise money for Mills River Physical Therapy owner Lacy Dylewski, who is undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer, will be held at the Mills River Elementary School, 94 School House Road, Mills River. $10/children 12 and under free. Info: www.zumbatotheoldies.com/zumbathon.asp.

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newsoftheweird Lead story Saddam Hussein Back in the News: (1) In October, Mohamed Bishr, an Egyptian man bearing a remarkable resemblance to the late Iraqi dictator, claimed he’d been briefly kidnapped after spurning an offer to portray Saddam in a porn video. Bishr’s adult sons told the al-Ahram newspaper in Alexandria that their father had been offered the equivalent of $330,000. According to a 2010 Washington Post report, the CIA briefly contemplated using such a video to publicly embarrass Saddam into relinquishing power prior to the U.S. invasion. (2) In October, former British soldier Nigel Ely offered at auction a 2-footsquare piece of metal that he said came from the iconic Baghdad statue of Saddam toppled by U.S. Marines in April 2003 — allegedly a portion of Saddam’s buttocks.

Can’t possibly be true • Feeling the need for professional guidance on rebranding their facility to “carry it into the modern era,” officials at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport hired the creative talents at Big Communications of Birmingham, Ala. Their suggestion, announced with great fanfare in September: “Chattanooga Airport.” • Justice Now! (1) Senior citizen Elsie Pawlow of Edmonton, Alberta, filed a $100,000 lawsuit in September against Kraft Canada Inc., whose many products include Stride Gum (slogan: “ridiculously long-lasting”). After chewing it, Pawlow said she had to scrub her dentures to dig out specks of gum, which caused her to experience “depression for approximately 10 minutes.” (2) Colleen O’Neal recently filed a lawsuit against United/Continental airlines over the “post-traumatic stress disorder” she said she’s suffered since a 20-minute flight in October 2009 in which, during turbulent weather, the plane “banked” from side to side and lost altitude. • In August, a state court in Frankfurt, Germany, awarded 3,000 euros (about $4,200) to Magnus Gaefgen, 36, as compensation for his “pain and suffering” during a 2002 police interrogation. Gaefgen claimed officers threatened violence against him unless he disclosed what he knew

about a missing 11-year-old boy who was later found dead. Convicted of the murder in 2003, Gaefgen is serving a life sentence. • Names in the News: The man stabbed to death in Calgary, Alberta, in August: the 29-year-old Mr. Brent Stabbed Last. Among the family members of Jared Loughner (the man charged with shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in January) who were interviewed by authorities regarding mental illness in the Loughner family: Loughner’s distant cousin Judy Wackt. Passed away in May in Fredericksburg, Va.: retired Army Sgt. Harry Palm. • Femmes Fatales: (1) The British firm UK Paintball announced in August that a female customer had been injured after a paintball shot hit her in the chest and her silicone breast implant exploded. The company recommended giving women with implants better chest protection. (2) The Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported in October that a local woman’s “state-of-the-art” silicone breast implant had saved her life. During a domestic argument, her husband stabbed her repeatedly in the chest, but the implant deflected the blade.

Ultimate catfighting (1) In Charlotte, N.C., in October, a female motorist was arrested for ramming another woman’s car after she said “Good morning” to the motorist’s boyfriend as both women dropped off kids at school. (2) In Arbutus, Md., in October, a woman was arrested for throwing bleach and disinfectant at another woman in a Walmart (at least 19 bystanders sought medical assistance). The targeted woman had taken up with the father of the bleach thrower’s child. (3) In a hospital in Upland,

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• Targeting wealthy Chinese tourists, the North Koreans called it a “cruise ship,” but the 40year-old boat was more like a “tramp steamer” on which “vacationers” paid the equivalent of $470 for five days and nights at sea, The New York Times reported in September. More than 200 people boarded the “dim” and “musty” vessel, “sometimes eight to a room with floor mattresses” and iffy bathrooms. The onboard “entertainment” consisted of “decks of cards” and karaoke. Dinner “resembled a mess hall at an American Army base,” but with leftovers thrown overboard (though some blew back on deck). At journey’s end, the boat crashed into the pier, reducing it to “a pile of rubble.” • In September, troopers patrolling the Nebraska State Fair grounds told Sally Stricker she was displaying an illegal message and must either change her T-shirt or wear it inside out if she wished to remain at the fair. The “message” was a marijuana leaf with the slogan “Don’t panic, it’s organic”; Stricker was there to attend a Willie Nelson concert. • Boise State University’s highly rated football team suspended three players at the beginning of the season for improperly accepting gifts. According to the school’s October news release, Geraldo Boldewijn, the team’s fastest wide receiver, was given the use of a car — a 1990 Toyota Camry with 177,000 miles on it.

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Diabetes and Sleep Apnea (pd.) Come join Dr. Thomas Stern, Medical Director of Excel Sleep Center in a free seminar to inform and answer questions on your risks. Free Glucose and Sleep Apnea Screening. Wednesday November 16th,2011 5:30pm- 6:30pm. Address: 310 7th Ave East Hendersonville, NC 28792 Phone: 1-828692-5329. ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE/CHIROPRACTIC/PILATES WORKSHOP (pd.) Learn how they complement one another for longterm health benefits. Cournoyer Chiropractic and Form, Fitness & Function. Thursday, November 17, 6:30PM. 117 Furman. 828-225-3786 FormFitnessFunction.com Are You Trying To Force Yourself To Change? (pd.) Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a structured program that addresses the Emotional Root Cause of using Food, Alcohol/Drugs, Overspending, Overworking to feel pleasure, numb out, and/or comfort and soothe ourselves. • Create a healthy lifestyle that promotes self compassion, brain health and grounded joy. Call 231-2107 or empowering.solutions@ yahoo.com or visit website: www.ebt.org Chakra Revitalization With Alice McCall (pd.) Saturday, November 12, 1-4:30pm, Healing Path, Hendersonville • Clear, Tune, and Recharge Your Chakras! (828) 692-5423. www.healingpath.info Park Ridge Health (pd.) Free Health Screenings with the Park Ridge Health WOW Van: Free Body Composition Analysis and Glucose Body fat and hydration percentages, body mass index, height and weight for overall body composition and blood test for diabetes. Wednesday, November 9, The Body Shop 3 – 6 p.m., 2520 Asheville Hwy., Hendersonville Free Body Composition Analysis, Blood Pressure and Glucose Body fat and hydration percentages, body mass index, height and weight for overall body composition, blood test for diabetes and blood pressures. Thursday, November 10, Mills River Enrichment Center 9 a.m. – noon, 1137 Old Turnpike Rd., Mills River Free Bone Density Screenings for Men and Women Bone density screening for osteoporosis. Please wear shoes and socks that are easy to slip off. Wednesday, November 16, Harris Teeter 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., 636 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville PSA Screening No appointment required. PSA blood test for men 50 years of age or older; age 40 if father or brother had prostate cancer. Cost $10 Wednesday, November 16, Harris Teeter 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., 636 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville Free Support Groups Henderson County Stroke/Aphasia Support Group Thursday, November 17 (3 p.m.) Park Ridge Home Health office 895 Howard Gap Rd., Fletcher Support group offered to stroke survivors coping with an aphasia disorder and for other individuals diagnosed with aphasia. Caregivers, family, and friends are encouraged to participate as well. Please call Brenda Oakley at 828.687.5261. MemoryCaregivers Network Support Groups New Hope Group Tuesday, November 15 (1-3 p.m.) New Hope Presbyterian Church, Sweeten Creek Rd (across from Givens Estates), South Asheville. (lower level fellowship hall) All MemoryCaregiver Network support groups are free and open to anyone caring for a person with memory loss. For further info contact Mary Donnelly, 828.230.4143 or network@memorycare.org The REAL Center (pd.) Offers life-changing skills including Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Radical Honesty, and Somatic Awareness. Learn to stay centered in any situation, be flexible without being submissive, and more. $120/8-session class in Asheville with Steve Torma, 828-254-5613. http://www. theREALcenter.org Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www. pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• Free blood pressure screenings will be offered throughout the week. Call for times. Appointment not required. • TH (11/10), 8-10am - Glucose screening. Fasting required. $4. • MONDAYS through (11/28), 6-8:30pm - A 12-week class for caregivers and family members of those with mental illness. Info: 1-888-955-NAMI. • TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - TOPS: Take Off Pounds Sensibly weight-loss support group. Registration not required. • TU (11/15), 9-11am - Hearing screening. Free. • WE (11/16), 10-11:30am - Neuropathy From A Physician’s Perspective. Free. —- 3:30-5pm - Celiac support group. Bring three dozen gluten-free cookies and 15 copies of your recipe. Registration not required. • TH (11/17), 8:30-10am - “Ask The Dietitian” will feature 15minute one-on-one sessions. Free.

Health Care Planning Workshop • SU (11/13), 2pm - “Your Health Care Planning Documents: How to Do Everything Possible to Ensure Your Wishes Are Fulfilled” will be presented by the Final Exit Network of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place. Info: 697-7759. Helios Warriors Health Care Program for Veterans A nonprofit alternative therapy program for veterans. Info: www.helioswarriors.org, info@helioswarriors.org or 2990776. • THURSDAYS & SUNDAYS - Offering complementary/alternative therapies. Needed: professional licensed/insured practitioners willing to offer a minimum of three hours per month of their service. Info: helioswarriors@gmail.com or 299-0776. High Intensity Laser Therapy Info Session • TH (11/17), 5-6pm - A High Intensity Laser Therapy information session will be offered at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Info and registration: www.fairviewdc. com or 628-7800. Innovations in Orthopedic Foot Care • TH (11/10), 6-7pm - “Recent Innovations in Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Care” will be presented by Dr. Peter Mangone, orthopedic surgeon. Held at Mission Outpatient Care Center, 490 Hospital Drive, Waynesville. Info: 213-2222. Lifestyle Support for Diabetes • MO (11/14), 5pm - A lifestyle support class for those with diabetes and insulin resistance will be held Shertech Pharmacy of Asheville, 1642 Hendersonville Road. Registration required. Info: www.shertechpharmacy.com or 236-1097. Making Choices • MO (11/14), 5:30-6:30pm - “Making Choices,” a program for those facing a medical crisis, will discuss power of attorney and living wills. Presented by CarePartners Health Services at the John F Keever Jr Solace Center, 121 Belvedere Road. Info: 277-4800. Nutrition 101 • MONDAYS, 5:15-6:15pm - This weekly course covers the fundamentals of nutrition. Topics include eating healthy on a budget, smart food choices wherever you are and what the food industry is not telling you. Held at Blitmore Premier Fitness, 711 Biltmore Ave. $7. Info: www.purelivingstrengthandnutrition.com or 617-407-5261. Red Cross Blood Drive • MONDAYS, 12:30-5:30pm, TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 27pm, WEDNESDAYS, 7:30am-12:30pm & 1st SATURDAYS, 7:30am-12:30pm - Blood donors will be entered to win a $25 gas card after donating blood at Asheville Blood Donation Center, 100 Edgewood Road. Appointment required. Info: 1-877-975-2835. Regional Caregiver Education Conference • TH (11/17), 9am-4pm - The conference will feature speakers on topics related to caring for a person with Alzheimer’s or related dementia. Continuing education is available for social workers, administrators and activity professionals. Held at the Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road, Arden. Info and registration: www.alz.org/northcarolina or 800-272-3900.

wellnesscontinued Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www.adultchildren.org. • FRIDAYS, 7pm - “Inner Child” meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: 989-8075. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075. • MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 474-5120. Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: www.wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326. • WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - An Al-Anon meeting for women will be held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome. • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Al-Anon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome. • THURSDAYS, 7pm - “Parents of Children with Alcoholism,” West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road. • FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 8pm - “Lambda,” Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. • SATURDAYS, 10am - “Grace Fireside,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 10am - “Saturday Serenity,” St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte Street at Macon Avenue. —- noon - “Courage to Change,” Bess Sprinkle Memorial Library, Weaverville. • SUNDAYS, 5pm - Al-Anon and Alateen, West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road. • MONDAYS, noon - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 6pm - “Attitude of Gratitude,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 7pm - Meeting at First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. • TUESDAYS, 9:45am - “Serenity Through Courage and Wisdom,” St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 109 Crescent Hill, Arden. —- 5:30pm - “Steps to Recovery,” Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road. —- 7pm “One Day at a Time,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Center for New Beginnings • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - A support group for those who have lost a loved one through a traffic accident, murder or crime-related death will meet at Center for New Beginnings, 34 Wall St., Suite 802. Facilitated by Tom Parks and Lori Gerber, MS. Free. Info: 989-9306. Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. • SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666. Eating Disorder Family Support Group • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10-11:30am - A support group for family members of individuals struggling with eating disorders will be held at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Info: 337 4685. Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1:30 & 5:30-7pm - Vet Center Out Station, a support group for veterans. Registration not required. • TH (11/10), 5-6:30pm - NAMI adult support group for adults and families dealing with mental illness. • MONDAYS, 2-3pm - “It Works,” a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction. Registration not required. Info: 489-7259.

• MO (11/14), 2-3pm - Fibromyalgia support group. Registration not required. • TU (11/15), 6:30-8pm - Bipolar support group. Registration not required. • TU (11/15), 4:15-5:15pm - Big and Loud Crowd support group for graduates of LSVT/LOUD or LSVT/BIG. Registration not required. Info: 698-6774. • WE (11/16), noon-1pm - Sjogren’s syndrome support group. Registration not required. • WE (11/16), 1-3pm - Myasthenia gravis support group. Registration not required. • WE (11/16), 10-11:30am - Diabetes support group. Registration not required. • TH (11/17), 6:30-8pm - Us Too, a support group for men with prostate cancer and their significant others. Registration not required. • TH (11/17) 5:30-7:30pm - Breast Friends Forever, a support group for breast cancer survivors. Registration suggested: 6987334. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous will meet at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Info: 989-3227. Grief Support Groups • CarePartners’ bereavement support services are available to anyone in the community who has suffered a loss through death. Weekly grief support groups, a relaxation group, a Grief Choir, Yoga for Grievers and one-on-one counseling available. Donations accepted. Info: kcaldwell@carepartners.org or 2510126. Magnetic Minds • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm-9pm - A meeting of Magnetic Minds, the local chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, provides support, information and advocacy for those with mood

disorders. Friends and family welcome. Held at 1314F Patton Ave. Info: 318-9179.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group A Christian-based, 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos. spc-asheville.org or 575-2003. • MONDAYS, 6pm - A support group for men. Overcomers Recovery Support Group for Ladies • TUESDAYS, 7pm - This Christian-based, 12-step recovery program provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: 575-2003. Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless otherwise noted. • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group at the Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 329-1637. • THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899. • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks and Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 669-0986. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828. • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: 800-580-4761.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: 280-2213. S-Anon • WENESDAYS - S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. Meetings held weekly in the WNC area. Call confidential voicemail or email for information: wncsanon@gmail.com or 258-5117. Sexaholics Anonymous • DAILY - A 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior. Daily Asheville meetings. Call confidential voicemail 237-1332 or e-mail saasheville@gmail.com. Info: www.orgsites.com/nc/saasheville SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Do you want to stop living out a destructive pattern of sex and love addiction over which you are personally powerless? This 12-step-based recovery program meets at 20 Oak St. Info: www.slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@ gmail.com. WNC Brain Tumor Support Welcomes family as well as the newly diagnosed and longerterm survivors. Info: www.wncbraintumor.org 691-2559. • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:15-8pm - WNC Brain Tumor Support Group will meet at MAHEC Biltmore Campus, 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

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Asheville, we’re about to get another feather in our culinary cap. John Fleer is looking at our area to open his first restaurant. You may have heard Fleer’s name before: he was the executive chef (and general manager) of Blackberry Farm, an eastern Tennessee resort, for almost 15 years. There, he pioneered the style now known as “foothills cuisine,” (since trademarked by Blackberry Farm.) Under Fleer’s tenure, Blackberry Farm was mentioned by Gourmet, Bon Appetit and Food and Wine magazines. The resort won numerous awards, including remarkably high honors from Travel + Leisure Magazine, which named the service and cuisine at Blackberry Farm the best and second best, respectively, for resorts across the globe. “It was a total experience — the food, the stay, the grounds,” says Fleer, who was also a finalist for the James Beard Award for best chef in the Southeast this year. Fleer left Blackberry Farm in 2007, ready for a life and location change. He crossed the mountains to North Carolina, where he now helms Canyon Kitchen at Lonesome Valley. The restaurant is located on a gorgeous swath of property in Sapphire, N.C., that’s owned by the Jennings-Eason family of Sunburst Trout Farms (learn more about the property at lonesomevalley.com). The restaurant is open from Memorial Day through late October (sorry folks, you missed it for the year). Fleer originally met Sally Eason, of Sunburst Trout Farm, when he began using her products at Blackberry Farm. He solidified the

relationship further at a Baltimore food and wine expo, where he also rubbed elbows with Allan Benton, he of the revered pork products, whom Fleer describes as a friend. The partnership between Eason and Fleer seems to have served each party well. The food at Canyon Kitchen, built within a beautiful, lofty redesigned barn, is spectacular, and Fleer is happy with the arrangement. It’s hard not to get comfortable at Canyon Kitchen. That’s due in part to the hospitality, which Eason oversees, and also to the stunning atmosphere. The wood-filled dining room has a wall of eastfacing barn doors, generally flung open (even on chilly nights) to reveal the arresting view of the granite cliffs that form the backdrop of the restaurant. The fireplace is lit on chillier evenings, and people tend to gather around the hearth. “You feel more like you’re coming into someone’s home than going out to dinner at a restaurant,” says Fleer of the space. “Even at its busiest times, it feels more like a house party than a restaurant.” One early October evening, Fleer invited Asheville culinary icon Mark Rosenstein to join him in cooking a multi-course dinner that included top-tier wine selections from distributor Kermit Lynch’s portfolio. The event kicked off in the garden as the sun set, painting the cliffs terracotta, with the staff passing appetizers reflective of Fleer’s style. Tiny chicken pot-pie fritters were a bite of comfort, while escargot bourguignon fried in wantons were whimsical and deeply flavorful. Dinner courses included muscadine-glazed bison short ribs with Brussels-sprout confetti; onion

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Fleer on the way? The next step for Fleer is to bring that sophisticated but unpretentious style to Asheville where he will open his first restaurant, he told Xpress. “[My wife and I] made the decision late in the spring that we were going to go ahead and move,” said Fleer, who added that he and his wife discussed relocating to Asheville 20 years ago. “We were always headed back home,” the North Carolina native said. Still, according to Eason, Fleer will remain the executive chef of Canyon Kitchen. “I don’t know how he’s going to do it, but if anybody can pull it off, it’s Fleer,” she says. Fleer confirms that it is his full intention to continue to be involved with Canyon Kitchen as his Asheville plans move forward. And what exactly are Fleer’s plans for

Asheville? It’s still hard for him to say at this time — but his heart appears to be in the right place. “I know that Asheville is a great traveling and tourist town, and that’s a great resource for restaurants, but if I’m going to live here, I want the community to be in my restaurant and support it,” he says. “And the tourists will come or they won’t come. That’s probably the biggest thing on my agenda — figuring out what Asheville needs, meaning local Asheville as opposed to the passersby.” Now that the Canyon Kitchen has closed for the winter, that gives him more time to zero in on what would make the best fit, and how he can best contribute to a culinary scene poised to be even further recognized as a national culinary destination. Xpress asked Fleer how he thought Asheville could best achieve world-class culinary-destination status. “I don’t know. But I hope to be a part of it,” he says. “There’s so much that’s well-developed and maybe even better developed [in Asheville] than in other places,” he adds. “I think there’s just some kind of pipeline to the bigger picture that probably is lacking.”

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Kitchen confidants: John Fleer with Mark Rosenstein before the two joined together at Canyon Kitchen to serve about 50 guests at a dinner featuring Kermit Lynch wines. Fleer says that our area could benefit from more widespread outreach to other food communities and chefs. Some are already working on that: Jacob Sessoms of Table recently hosted a guest chef dinner with Jonathan Lundy, and William Dissen of The Market Place has done the same with some of the chefs he met this summer at the Cooking for Solutions event in Monterey, Calif. Last summer, chef Duane Fernades of Horizons at the Grove Park Inn hosted bigname chefs like Sean Brock of McCrady’s and Husk to cook lavish multi-course wine dinners. “Those are the types of things that are bringing chefs into town,” agrees Fleer. “There is a kind of fraternity of chefs out there to tap into. I like the fact that, in most cities when I travel now, I know someone whose restaurant I want to go support who’s a friend of mine ... In the overall scheme of becoming a food destination, I think that’s really important,” he says. Asheville’s strengths as a culinary scene,

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Road to foodtopia? Asheville City Council member Cecil Bothwell is interviewed by another participant during the Oct. 21 Food Policy Council meeting. Photos by Bill Rhodes

Road map to a food-secure future Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council holds first meeting Do we live in a “foodtopia”? Yes and no. While we have a thriving localfood movement, 29.9 percent of children in the region are “food insecure,” according to an August study conducted by MANNA FoodBank and Feeding America. Buncombe County fares just slightly worse than the state average, with over 50 percent of its students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program last year. And, according to a 2010 study done by the Food and Research Action Council, Asheville ranked 7th in the nation for food hardship among all metro areas.

a food-policy development team met with a diverse group of individuals and organizations including MANNA, ASAP, Mission Hospital, Bountiful Cities, Asheville Housing Authority, Asheville Independent Restaurants, school leaders and elected officials. Nearly 50 meetings and discussions produced a document, Future of Food (which can be viewed at ashevillefoodsecurity.wordpress), detailing the problems of food insecurity. The group also came away with the knowledge that they needed help from the community in a big way.

So how do you solve a far-reaching problem like food insecurity? Engage the entire community, says Asheville City Council member Gordon Smith, who, with a small group of likeminded individuals, helped organize an Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council meeting which convened on Friday, Oct. 21 on the UNCA campus.

“We all knew full well going into this that we had very limited perspectives on the problem from our own seats; we already knew how little we knew,” Smith says. “Armed with our own ignorance, we were able to say, ‘who needs to be [at this meeting]?’” Smith attributes the problems of hunger to environmental, socio-economic and educational factors, among many other things. Such a dynamic problem

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requires a broad approach, using input from a diverse sampling of the local population. The ABFPC meeting drew nearly 100 concerned individuals to UNCA (including university students — you can read one recent graduate’s take in this section). Attendees convened in focus groups, discussed their respective interests and ideas on how the issue of food insecurity could best be tackled. The resulting distillation was then presented to the larger group. The participants that Xpress spoke with felt energized, engaged and encouraged, and walked away from the admittedly long meeting feeling as though real steps were taken to solve a very challenging problem. The general group came up with a number of short-term solutions on which they will begin work immediately, including: asset-mapping of farmland; financial resources and food organizations; creating an advocacy structure that pushes specific policies; increasing awareness of community hunger; and creating outreach programs working to determine the diverse food needs of WNC. Long-term goals include food mentoring and education; healthy food in schools and hospitals; strengthening of farmland preservation efforts; and banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Western North Carolina. Smith emphasizes that a number of area nonprofit groups, many represented at the food policy meeting, are already working to solve the food insecurity issue. “I’ve been blown away by how many people are doing the same things and don’t know that the other groups are doing it,” he says. “It’s a perennial Asheville problem ... you have a lot of people competing for the same resources.” The intention of the AB-FPC, Smith says, is to focus a united and concentrated effort between these working groups. “Everyone can ride their own bus,” Smith explains. “We just want all of the buses pointed in the right direction.”

Want to be involved? The next meeting of the ABFPC is set for Friday, Nov 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. in room 417 of the Wilma Sherrill Center on the campus of UNCA. Everyone is welcome. New attendees can choose their level of involvement and evaluate which focus group is the best fit for them. Snacks, childcare and Spanish translation will be provided. For more information, email Gordon Smith at gordonsmithasheville@ gmail.com.

Businesses promote themselves as “locally owned,” farmers market their produce with ASAP’s “Appalachian Grown” label and “locavores” grill retailers on where the ground chuck, trout jerky and applewood-smoked bacon comes from. It’s a powerful trend the Food Policy Council is poised to support. But for struggling families, the localfood movement is largely unreachable, due to its high costs, especially when compared to the big-industry products and processed, packaged foods. Additionally, many communities below or near the poverty line exist within “food deserts,” a term for places without grocery stores. Often, people who struggle to afford food also cannot afford personal vehicles and rely on public transit, biking or walking to get to work and stores.

Searching for solutions: Visions of our area’s food future sparked more than three hours of conversation at the new Wilma Sherrill Center at UNCA.

The “L” word (we mean local) by Katie Souris Katie Souris, a UNCA graduate, was present at the first meeting of the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council. “I was there representing my own passion for food as a gardener, Type 1 diabetic and chronic eater,” Souris says. “I saw first hand the excitement around taking control of our food future and the passion for nourishing the land and people of our community.” This is Souris’ take.

Calling All Eaters Living with food security leads to more confidence, suggests data from the newly formed AshevilleBuncombe Food Policy Council. The ABFPC comes out of a need to address food security, affordability, accessibility and quality both in health and environmental standards in our community. Cheri Torres, the facilitator for the discussion, called food a “central node” within our society, affecting every facet of our lives. The council was planted by a group of dedicated foodies and policy junkies — and it’s already shooting tendrils into new territories, thanks to the many community members who attended the inaugural discussion. Visions of our area’s food future sparked more than three hours of conversation and imaginative illustrating in the meeting room at the new Wilma M. Sherrill Center at

UNCA. I found myself actively participating in the discussion within minutes of abandoning the cheese table to sit down and watch a presentation. Suddenly, the nearly 100 of us — a group composed of students, nonprofit workers, city leaders and passionate individuals of various affiliations and backgrounds — became the presentation. The oneon-one and small-group conversations facilitated a supportive arena to voice our strengths as a community; shorthand long-term goals and the first steps we want to take towards an abundant food future. In WNC we already have a headstart on solving the problem of food insecurity. We have access to verdant farmland, which affords the opportunity to boost our local economy by providing jobs to the unemployed through farm work. And, as an area that boasts individuals of diverse backgrounds (culturally, economically and otherwise), we bring a vast breadth of knowledge to the table. Most importantly, we live in a community that is proud to define itself through its passion for self-work. The popular slogan for the ever-blossoming local movement, “put your money where your heart is,” speaks to the affinity locals feel for their mountain home.

The local buzz The “L” word (we mean local) has been buzzing around area cafés and markets for some time now.

City Council member Gordon Smith, a facilitator at the forum, summed up the broad scope and inclusive nature of the Council: “We have the opportunity to collaborate across sectors in entirely new ways.” Indeed, the first convening identified a need to better serve the under-served communities through outreach to diverse populations. “Whether their expertise was in poverty alleviation, public health, local commerce or sustainability, the participants at the initial convening of the ABFPC found other advocates just as passionate,” said Smith. “They found their voices valued and their time well-spent. At the end of the meeting, everyone walked away knowing they’d just begun something important.” X

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The first event featured Patti Digh and her book, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally, a collection of inspirational short stories and a guide to achieving a more meaningful life. Why 37 days? The idea was inspired by Digh’s stepfather, who passed away 37 days after being diagnosed with cancer. The menu primarily involved comforting, homestyle food, including macaroni and cheese, chocolate pudding and vegan meatloaf. “Things that made people think of when they were home, when they were young,” says Teri Siegel, Avenue

Alphabet soup: At Avenue M, food and books come together at a monthly event, Eat Your Words. Photo by Bill Rhodes M co-owner and organizer of the event. In her book, Digh suggests carrying birthday candles and using them “with wild abandon. Find a cause for a birthday candle celebration every day for the next 37 days.” So, as a take-home gift, all Eat Your Words participants received a box of birthday candles. “It was everything I hoped it would be,” Siegel says. “They enjoyed the food and interacting with the author and each other. Ten of the people are signed up for the next one,” she says. The next Eat Your Words event takes place on Thursday, Nov 17. The featured author is Vicki Lane, who wrote Under the Skin. Siegel says that the menu has not yet been solidified, but references to food run throughout the story, set in the heart of Appalachia, hinting at the likely culinary offerings of the evening. “There’s a reference to trout, a reference to stir-fry, there’s a bunch of different food references in there,” Siegel says. Malaprop’s Bookstore has a list of the upcoming featured Eat Your Words authors and dates on its website (malaprops.com/book-clubs). All featured books can be purchased either through the website or at the store, located at 55 Haywood St. Reservations must be made with Avenue M, by calling 350-8181. Space for the events is limited, as Seigel says that she doesn’t want to overcrowd the room. “I think we’re onto something really fun and exciting,” says Siegel. “That’s part of my dream for this space. To be able to bring the community together and get to meet the local authors [over] food and drink, single people meeting other people — it’s fun.” Avenue M is located at 791 Merrimon Ave. For more information, visit avenuemavl.com.

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Red June’s 2011 Homegrown Tour winds down this month at Jack of the Wood by Maggie Cramer For the past year, Asheville-based trio Red June has crisscrossed the country in support of its 2010 release Remember Me Well. But in addition to spreading its brand of Americana music, Red June’s Homegrown Tour has also spread the word about WNC’s local food scene — via copies of ASAP’s Local Food Guide, bumper stickers and more — as well as the importance of supporting local agriculture. “Most people can get behind local food, because it’s not a partisan issue,” says Natalya Weinstein, the band’s fiddle player, who likes using her position on the stage to promote worthwhile causes. They found overwhelming support on the road; they received a great response in Massachusetts and Colorado towns already known for their dedication to local food, as well as in Southern towns less known for their local food scenes. In Nashville, Tenn., in particular, Weinstein says the band played a house concert that featured an entire local menu to go along with the music. In nearby Hickory, N.C., the Unitarian Church where they played served local apples and baked goods and, after the band’s set, concert attendees chatted with them about the downtown Hickory Farmers Market. Now that Red June is back home and playing Jack of the Wood, Asheville’s thriving local-food movement will certainly take center stage. And the multi-sensory experience of sound and taste Good apples: Red June at the apple orchard at Hickory Nut Gap Farm. The band’s will continue. name comes from an heirloom apple variety. Photo by Kim LaViolette

Squashing pumpkins In honor of their return, and winter squash month in ASAP’s Get Local initiative, Jack of the Wood and its sister restaurant, Laughing Seed Cafe, will feature squash specials specifically for the show, which will take place on Saturday,

wannago? Who/What: Red June (and local squash!) When: Saturday, Nov 19, beginning at 9:30 p.m. (all ages) Where: Jack of the Wood, 95 Patton Ave. Why: The Homegrown Tour is winding down. $1 from CD sales at shows benefit ASAP. In honor of the event, Jack of the Wood and Laughing Seed Cafe plan to offer surprise squash specials. Winter squash is the featured local food of the month in ASAP’s Get Local initiative.

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Nov. 19, at 9:30 p.m. But, that’s as much as we know. “There are surprises,” says Laughing Seed chef Sandy Krebs. She can whet our appetites a bit, sharing one of her recent squash specials that was a big hit: Local organic delicata squash stuffed with quinoa, bulgur wheat, local organic greens and local feta from Three Graces Dairy, served with local organic creamed kale and crispy polenta triangles. “We’ll be repeating that one for sure!” In addition to delicata, Laughing Seed has been serving an Italian heirloom squash variety called Long of Naples this fall. The heirloom, grown by Fork Mountain Farm in Madison County, has quickly become Krebs’ favorite. “It’s so buttery, flavorful and easy to peel and work with. It’s perfect for gnocchi!” (Read on for one of her favorite seasonal gnocchi recipes.) Jack of the Wood has already used several types of winter squash this season, too. Chef Jason Brian says the squash shows up mostly on their specials menu in bisques, gratins, stews, salads — you name it. Weinstein hopes the specials will feature her favorite winter squash varieties. “I really like butternut and kabocha, probably because they’re

both sweet,” she says. She’s happy, of course, just to be playing there. “The food is delicious, and it’s such a community-oriented venue.”

Local love Community is important to Joan Cliney-Eckert, who co-owns the eateries with her husband, Joe Eckert. “Jack of the Wood, and now Jack of Hearts in Weaverville, are huge supporters of local music, and it’s always great to partner with local bands for a cause,” she says. “Ultimately, we’re a local pub in the true sense of the word, and the community knows we’re here to help.” And it’s clear that local food is just as important. “We’ve been at it since the beginning,” says Joan, who adds that the restaurant has had growing arrangements with local farmers since first opening. This time of year, you can find much more than local squash on their menus. At Jack of the Wood, look for local meats from Everett Farms (beef for burgers, shepherd’s pie, and pub steak) and Hickory Nut Gap Farms (pork for traditional bangers and mash), along with bison from Carolina Bison and rabbit from Imladris Farm. At Laughing Seed, expect local kale, mushrooms, frisee, potatoes, tempeh, peppers, cheeses and more.

recipe Winter Squash Gnocchi Courtesy Laughing Seed Cafe Ingredients: 1 small local pumpkin or winter squash, Extra virgin olive oil, 2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, 3 egg yolks, 1 ½ cups sifted flour , ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg Special tools: Potato ricer Method: Cut squash in half. Scoop out seeds and pulp. Rub surface with olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake in 400-degree oven for about an hour, or until soft. Allow to cool. Scoop meat from skin. Puree very well in food processor. Reserve 1 cup for gnocchi. You can store the remaining puree in plastic freezer bags or plastic storage containers in the freezer to use in pies, breads or your next batch of gnocchi. Boil potatoes with the skin on in salted boiling water until thoroughly cooked. When cool enough to handle, remove skins and rice potatoes. Combine potatoes, the squash puree and egg yolks in a large bowl and mix until smooth. Combine dry ingredients. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients into potato/squash mixture. Knead on a well-floured board until smooth. Roll the dough into long strands about an inch in diameter. Cut strands into half-inch pieces. Cook gnocchi in salted boiling water for about five minutes. Do not overcrowd pot. Cook in more than one batch if you are not using a very large pot. Remove to serving platter to be tossed with olive oil, toasted pine nuts, fresh herbs and grated Parmesan.

About four years ago, the Eckerts started their own three-acre farm in Barnardsville to supply what their restaurants sourced from local farmers. They hope to produce more veggies on the farm in the future, as well as continue to support more area farmers. Says Joan, “The variety and quality of products produced in and around Asheville is a chef’s dream come true.” For a complete list of participating Get Local restaurants, visit the Get Local page of asapconnections.org. For more information about Red June’s Homegrown Tour, visit redjunemusic.com. The band is in the midst of a grassroots fundraising campaign through Kickstarter to fund its next record. A portion of proceeds from CD sales on this tour benefitted ASAP, and the group hopes to share proceeds from the next album with another nonprofit organization. X

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arts&entertainment Armageekdon Fake trivia expert John Hodgman preps for the end of the world in That Is All by Alli Marshall It’s possible that, like Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible and any book of astrology, a reader can open John Hodgman’s That Is All to any page and come face to face with a life-changing revelation. Such as, “If someone gives you a gift in KOREA, it is expected that you will first refuse it by throwing it on the ground. You must do this THREE times before accepting.” (Words in all caps are part of Hodgman’s inimitable writing style.) That’s under the “Some Surprising Customs from Around the World” header on page 779 and may or may not have any basis in reality. Because, as Hodgman points out early in his book, “Don’t be concerned that you do not know all the rules, for I am here to make them up for you.” All is the third in a trilogy by the humorist/satirist/TV and radio personality/author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require. In fact, it’s the trilogy that explains page number 779 falling in the middle of a 343-page book. It’s the 779th of the trilogy (All opens on page 621). Weird as that may seem, there’s no point in arguing. Hodgman is a self-appointed expert in all subjects. In 2008, Time magazine asked him if there was anything he was not an expert on, and he answered, “sports.” Since then, he’s mastered even that topic, including a section on feats of physical prowess in All. The object of badminton, he informs us, is “to hit the thing over the thing without letting it hit the thing.” “Just as a dying man often turns to religion at the end, so I did embrace that which I so long rejected in this book, and learned something about

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All things considered: Self-appointed expert in all subjects John Hodgman has been a literary agent, a human computer and a deranged millionaire. “I have pretty much faked every bit of trivia I know,” he tells Xpress. Photo by Brantley Gutierrez sports,” the author tells Xpress by email. “Now I know there are two games called ‘football’ and ‘basketball,’ and basketball, in some states, is still played with peach baskets instead of balls. But I would not say I’m an expert.” He doesn’t have to say it. He can’t help himself, pointing out that “FALCONRY is the fastest growing sport in the country (now that it has been incorporated into Ultimate Fighting).” It makes sense that Hodgman would have the answers. Part of his claim to fame (along with his McSweeney’s advice column, “Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent” and his “Deranged Millionaire” narrator character from They Might Be Giants’ Venue Songs) is being a human per-

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sonal computer. The job title was earned from his appearances as the PC in the “Get a Mac” campaign (Hodgman revealed to TWiT.tv that, in fact, he’s been a Mac user since ‘84); he took the commercial role a step further appearing regularly on The Daily Show to solve Jon Stewart’s problems. But All does present one problem which the humorist can’t solve: The end of the world. To be specific, the world will split in half on Dec. 21, 2012, “as I have envisioned it in my asthma-inhaler-fueled mad visions,” says Hodgman. To, perhaps, ease readers toward this bitter end, the book includes a page-a-day calendar counting down the events until Dec. 21 of next year. The events predicted in this countdown include, “April 7,

2012: Across the country people discover the same message in every fortune cookie: THE END IS NIGH ... IN BED.” Less than two months out from the official start of the countdown (Hodgman recommends beginning the book on Dec. 21 of this year), the author is not stepping back from his Mayan Calendar-supported claim of annihilation. But just in case we’re all still around on Dec. 22, 2012, “I will likely write another book of some kind in the future, but not a book of fake trivia,” he says. Not that he hasn’t excelled in that department. Among his list of fake facts about New York is, “Two of New York’s most famous residences are the Chelsea Hotel and the Dakota. But did you

morebooks You may have heard of Luke Hankins: He’s the senior editor at Asheville Poetry Review, and a poet himself. He was also the victim of an alleged hate crime this summer, attacked in an Ingles parking lot because he “looked” gay. In a poem about the incident Hankins wrote, “the way such small suffering can feel unbearable — the way no strength is found for what seems to have no explanation, a troubled mind more harmful to the body than fractured bones.” That poem was featured on the NPR program, Being, in September. This weekend, he introduces his new collection of poetry, Weak Devotions. “Far from seeking mere ‘self-expression,’ Hankins has honed these explorations into tightly knit meditations and monologues,” says a description of the book.

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Hankins reads at Malaprop’s on Saturday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m., with fellow poet Evie Shockley. malaprops.com/ event/poet-evie-shockley — A.M. know they used to be the SAME BUILDING? They separated in 1951, but were never TECHNICALLY DIVORCED. Speaking of the Chelsea, it is said that Dan Brown wrote The Da Vinci Code while living at the famous literary haunt, supposedly completing the novel in one single white-wine bender lasting ALMOST AN HOUR.” “I have pretty much faked every bit of trivia I know, and it will take some time for me to learn more,” Hodgman tells Xpress. “And also to clear my bunker out of canned goods, mayonnaise and crossbow boats. GARAGE SALE!” All does introduce one piece of trivia that Hodgman doesn’t have to fake: End of the world or not, the geeks are finally coming into their own. “At this point what was once marginal is now mainstream,” says Hodgeman. “HBO is airing high quality medieval nudity fantasy. Super-hero movies are the only movies being made. Some nerds delight at this final revenge. Others fear that it is merely a co-opting of their once private trove of glittering cultural treasures, and that the jocks of the world have stolen their lunch money.” But surely the author’s bespectacled PC persona would approve of this turning of the tables. “I suspect we are seeing more of a gradual meeting of jock and geek culture in the middle,” says Hodgman. “I can see no other explanation for why three out of every 50 NFL players are now wearing steampunk helmets of their own design.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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The first thing that happens in Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches is that everything changes. The opening set includes a randomly positioned telephone, a couple of chairs and a a wooden box that looks like a coffin. The lights go down, the actors emerge in the dark, move everything around, and then walk away. It’s a perfect opening for a play about the way we all deal with change. Not just any kind of change, but the kind that happens in the dark, in the shadows, when we’re not looking, when we’ve shifted our eyes — our hearts — for a moment. Sure, Angels in America is a play about the AIDS crisis. It’s about being gay in America. It’s about the duplicitous relationship between religion and faith; about corporate greed, justice and democracy, and imperfect love that strives for the impossible while convinced it is possible. It’s about how that striving pulls us ever closer to the brink of insanity, and how insanity is sometimes the closest thing to sanity in an insane world. (All those sorts of existential contemplations to which artists are prone.) But, really, it’s about choices and change. ... The play won writer Tony Kushner a well-deserved Pulitzer, so it goes almost without saying that the script could be poorly acted or just straightup read, and still come off as an arresting, emotional quest for truth. But, it’s a treat to see it so well-acted and well-produced here at N.C. Stage. … Angels in America Part II: Perestroika is crazy in the head. If you happen upon it without having experienced Part I: Millennium Approaches, you might wonder if you’ve just lost your

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FROm BROADWAY TO THe gUTTeR It’s the last weekend for the Pulitzer-winning Angels in America, parts I and II at N.c. stage, and the penultimate week for locally written comedy Rock saber at The magnetic Field. Here are excerpts from our reviewers’ takes on all three. For the full reviews, check mountainx.com/theatre

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by Ursula Gullow Part of the fun of attending a River Arts District studio stroll is you can’t always predict whom you’ll run into or what new treasures you’ll discover. With more than 100 artists and 20 studio buildings participating, the “typical stroll experience” can be quite varied. For some, the stroll presents an opportunity to kick back and peoplewatch. Other strollers might be on a super-charged holiday shopping spree, while a different sort meander about looking at demos and wares from which to draw inspiration. For some newcomers (and even veteran strollers,) what to see can get a bit overwhelming, so Xpress offers this list of out-of-the-way places, new artists and exhibits to check out while you’re blazing the RAD trail this weekend. At least one stroll favorite, Wendy Whitson, has changed locations. To see Whitson’s popular impressionistic landscapes, visit her new studio at 357 Depot St. in the building she purchased last year, now christened Northlight Studios. On Friday, Nov. 11, Northlight Studios hosts a pre-stroll

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behemoth Riverview Station and 310 Gallery. Owner/painter Fleta Monaghan and Cindy Walton (a recent exhibitor at the Asheville Art Museum) will demonstrate hot and cold waxpainting techniques all weekend. Nearby, the brand-new Village Potters studio will demonstrate wheel-throwing techniques and Raku firing methods. The Hatchery, located at the corner of Roberts and Haywood streets, currently provides studios for five artists new to the RAD, including encaustic artist Julia Fossen and painter Court McCracken. Be sure to stop by Kirsten Stolle’s studio where she’s been work-

ing on a series of gouache, graphite and collage drawings investigating the health and safety ramifications of eating food containing genetically modified organisms. The Hatchery is also home to Squeaky Wheel Pottery, a startup, member-owned clay studio for potters of all levels. Members of Squeaky Wheel will be demoing techniques and selling wares all weekend. Swing by The Phil Mechanic Studios on Roberts Street to see the latest colorful bevy of artists located there. Be sure to descend into the Flood Gallery for the current exhibit, Uncharted Waters, which features work by a number of regional contemporary artists. You must see the narrative paintings of Margaret Curtis, and an installation collaboration by Nate Green and Jimmy O’Neal that uses mirror paint (O’Neal’s invention.) O’Neal describes the piece as “a 70-foot spiral that is like a big butterfly tongue chandelier, with the bottom being mirrored paintings of princess tree leaves and a infestation of ladybugs.”

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Moving with weighty tones: The new album settles into large, lumbering assaults that pile on guitar sludge without sacrificing momentum. vehicle into for the songs than forcing them into doing something,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being OK with a song being nine-minutes long if it feels right, just going with whatever, just letting the music progress naturally, It think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we did in the beginning. We kind of got away from that at one point.â&#x20AC;? Leaving behind the quick, punchy numbers of 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hexagon, On the Wings of Time settles into large, lumbering assaults that pile on weighty guitar sludge without sacrificing momentum. The trio recorded the album with Harvey Milk drummer Kyle Spence, and their songs move with weighty tones that are strikingly similar to those of the Athens outfit. The combo of bass and guitar that propels â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rebirthâ&#x20AC;? is thick and heavy, oppressive as the humidity on a Southern summer day. The nine-minute offering is â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sleeping Prophet,â&#x20AC;? which builds from a tangling, Middle-Eastern-flavored riff and slowly builds before culminating in a serpentine dual of piercing keys and searing feedback. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of many Middle-Eastern inspired moments on the album, a trait that points back to Clarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood. From age 8 to age 12, he lived with his family on a military base in Turkey. He was there during the 1986 bombing of Libya. For

weeks, they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave the base for fear of retaliation. The experience informs his socially charged lyrics, a form of expression that he says is necessary for him to process the world around him. Still, Black Skies is more to its members than just a necessary release. It has become a way of life. Last year, Temple gave up a full-time job at UNC-Chapel Hill to focus her energy on the band. For her and Clark, making music and then touring behind it is the only life that makes sense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you get to your mid-to-late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;30s, you get to a point where a lot of your friends are having kids, or a lot of your friends are getting married, buying houses,â&#x20AC;? Clark says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family members are dying, but other people are having kids. The cycle life that goes on at that age feels very obvious. For us, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have kids, we have a band. All the time and money that a lot of people spend focusing on having their family â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is our family.â&#x20AC;? X Jordan Lawrence is assistant editor at Charlottebased Shuffle magazine and a contributing writer at The Independent.

smartbets Steve Almond “After many years in the wilds of non-fiction, I’ve returned to my first love, short stories,” reads the notice atop author Steve Almond’s website. His new book, God Bless America is, according to the New York Times Book Review, “a meditation on the American Dream and its discontents. In his most ambitious collection yet, Steve Almond offers a comic and forlorn portrait of these United States: our lust for fame, our racial tensions, the toll of perpetual war, and the pursuit of romantic happiness.” Almond reads at Malaprop’s on Monday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com.

Prom!!! It’s that time of year again: Take the tux out of storage, re-pouff the crinoline and rent the limo — Prom!!! is back. The annual semiironic/semi-formal dance party fills the Grey Eagle with taffeta, hair spray and misplaced dreams. DJ Rob Castillo spins the dance tracks; slow jams come courtesy of Benji Hughes who, according to press, “spends much of his time masterminding his blend of inventive rock and ballads.” There’s also this: “He loves beer but he loves women even more.” So, word to the wise, keep your date close. Friday, Nov. 11. 8:30 p.m., $12 advance or $15 day of show. thegreyeagle. com. Photo by Castell Photography

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Brian Eno has installed a kind of chamber at the YMI Cultural Center. The nature of the chamber depends on its visitors. Perhaps it is a focus chamber, yet that term may be too restrictive. For one, the central image — the titular “77 million paintings” that imbue a mosaic of rectangular and square screens — is ever-changing. The context or frame is fixed, yet its contents is based on variation. I urge all festival attendees and all those otherwise in town to stop by YMI for a visit. Eno said himself at his Oct. 29 “Illustrated Talk” that he would be by throughout the weekend to observe his own work as it happened, acknowledging — to his great interest and satisfaction — that he is both composer of and audience to the exhibition. — Jaye Bartell

There was an overwhelming size and depth to their sound last night, something that was never conveyed in the original recording, which held its menace in its electronic sterility. And like a Rembrandt, the requisite fading and tattered edges show up within Suicide. Age will do that to you. From their inception, Suicide’s live show has been Vega, the vocalist, menacing the audience, while Rev bangs on his keyboard, his drum machine trucking on. At 73, Vega has lost any nimbleness he might’ve had and his speech is now slurred, but he can still command a stage, and he can still be just as ornery and strange as always. — Justin Souther

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Soaring, graceful, songs like waves in a synth ocean washing over us. — Jake Frankel

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The Hufton Brothers (indie, rock)

Thu., November 10

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul)

Asheville Music Hall

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 6:30pm

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (indie, rock, punk) w/ Pujol

Strange Arrangement w/ Jahman Brahman (jam, funk, jazz), 10pm Consider the SourceConsider the Source (jam, progressive) w/ Cindercat

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Asheville Beat Tapes Burgerworx

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Lobster Trap

Open mic, 7-9pm

Wed., November 9

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

5 Walnut Wine Bar

August Black (Americana, folk)

Juan Benevidas Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ

Hayes Carll (rock, country, folk) w/ Caitlin Rose

Open mic

Lucky James (roots, blues, swing), 8-11pm

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Emerald Lounge

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Hoots & Hellmouth (Americana, roots, soul)

Karaoke, 10pm

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Back stage: John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light (rock, singer/songwriter) w/ Test Match

BoBo Gallery

Peggy’s All Girl Singer Showcase (blues) Pilarr (latin, jazz, world) w/ Liz Cyriac (bosa, swing, pop)

ARCADE

Good Stuff

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

Craggie Brewing Company

Open mic, 6-9pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Deja Fuze (progressive, rock, fusion) w/ Pinna Olive or Twist

West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm

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$1 off all Whiskey

BRAVE NEW GRAVELYS 9:30 pm - 12:30 am (roots, rock)

FREE SHOW! $1 off All Vodkas

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THE GET RIGHT BAND

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SAT. 11/12

• All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast All Day! • $1 Off Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas • NFL on 11’ Screen 2 pm - 8 pm

(Hosted by Amanda Platt of The Honeycutters)

Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Appetizers $4 Margaritas

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TRIVIA NIGHT 9 pm • Prizes

w/ members of Soulgrass Rebellion (funk, rock, reggae) 10:00 pm - 1:00 am $5 Robo Shots

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DogTale (rock, funk, folk), 6pm

Pisgah Brewing Company

Boiler Room

Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show (country, bluegrass)

Cornbread (Appalachian rock) w/ Circus Mutt

PULP

Elvet Velvis (rock)

Mark Mandeville & Old Constitution (folk, country, rock)

Slice of Life (comedy open mic), 8:30pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Jack of the Wood Pub

Purple Onion Cafe

Friday Night Live w/ Disclaimer Comedy (standup)

Ol Hoopty (rock, soul)

Eleven on Grove

Michael Reno Harrell (singer/songwriter, storyteller)

Jack of Hearts Pub

Craggie Brewing Company

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Red Stag Grill

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight

Back Stage: Alex Krug Trio (Americana, rock, folk) w/ Amanda Anne Platt

Eric Ciborski (solo piano)

Emerald Lounge

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase

The Critters (rock, punk, psychedelic) w/ RBTS WIN, Zombie Queen & Albert Adams

Papa Mali w/ Ike Stubblefield & Jeff Sipe (jam, rock)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Olive or Twist

John Andrew Green (singer/songwriter), 7pm

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm

Fred’s Speakeasy

One Stop Deli & Bar

Live music

Phuncle Sam

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Orange Peel

Wasted Wine (“freak folk”) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

All Time Low (pop punk) w/ The Ready Set, Paradise Fears & He Is We

The Littlest Birds (indie, folk)

Pack’s Tavern

ARCADE

Garage at Biltmore

Howie and Rocky (classic rock)

“No Cover, No Shame” dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm

As Sick As Us (metal)

Pisgah Brewing Company

Good Stuff

Chalwa (reggae)

Asheville Music Hall

Kathy Kelley (Americana, folk)

Purple Onion Cafe

Grateful Dead NightGreateful Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Fred Whiskin (piano)

PROM w/ Benji Hughes & DJ Rob Castillo

Root Bar No. 1

Athena’s Club

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

The Stripmall Ballads (folk)

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Scandals Nightclub

BoBo Gallery

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm

Josh-Earthtone

Highland Brewing Company

Spongecake and the Fluff Ramblers (rock, funk)

Peggy Ratusz & friends Westville Pub

Brave New Gravelys (roots, rock) Wild Wing Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Fri., November 11

DJ dance party (top 40, house), 10pm Drag show, 1am Southern Appalachian Brewery

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The Chop House

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Live jazz w/ Mark Guest, 5-10pm

Mosier Brothers (bluegrass)

The Market Place

o.henry’s

Live music

House party

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Olive or Twist

Gone Coastal (rock, blues, country)

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Orange Peel

Grammer School (rock, indie) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (jazz, funk) w/ Anders Osborne (deep-blues)

The Free Flow Band (soul, funk)

Pack’s Tavern

Vanuatu Kava Bar

D.J. Moto (dance, pop, old school)

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam)

Pisgah Brewing Company

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Purple Onion Cafe

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)

Lonesome Road Band (bluegrass)

Vortex (Marion)

Eric Ciborski (solo piano)

The James King Band (bluegrass)

Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack

Westville Pub

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

Trivia night

Root Bar No. 1

White Horse

The Littlest Birds (folk, oldtime, bluegrass)

Linda & Larry Cammarate w/ Joe Roberts, Elizabeth Elliot & Paul Goll (music, poetry, dance)

SaT., November 12

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Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7pm Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Open mic w/ Ami Worthen Orange Peel

Kate Voegele (indie, singer/songwriter) w/ Parachute & Conor Flynn The Bywater

Miriam & the Passionistas (Latin, folk), 5-8pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Village Wayside Bar and Grille

The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) White Horse

Drum circle, 2pm Wild Wing Cafe

Acoustic on the Patio

moN., November 14 Cara Mia Tiller (singer/songwriter), 8-10pm

“Bear Exploder” dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Altamont Brewing Company

Nikki Talley Trio (southern rock, blues, jazz)

Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon

Asheville Music Hall

The Chop House

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Heavy Pets (funk, rock, fusion) w/ Native Sway (electro, funk, rock)

Live jazz w/ Mark Guest, 5-10pm

GioSafari (folk, punk) w/ Lost Trail, 7pm

The Market Place

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Live music

Contra dance, 8pm

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Letters to Abigail (Americana)

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Craggie Brewing Company

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (soul)

The Roaring Lions (ragtime), 9pm Lotion (aggressive lounge), 9:30pm

ARCADE

Athena’s Club

Fred’s Speakeasy

Sat 11/12

DJ dance party (top 40, house), 10pm Drag show, 12am

Lobster Trap

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Collapse (hard rock) w/ Old Flings

D.J. Moto

Scandals Nightclub

Aaron Price (ambient, pop, rock), 1pm

Gary Cody w/ Desperado (country, blues, rock)

Emerald Lounge

Fri Howie and Rocky 11/11 (classic rock)

Red Stag Grill

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Shovelhead Saloon

Carolina Hot Grazz w/ Project M (acoustic swing, bluegrass), 6pm Forget Me (hardcore, rock) w/ By Any Means Necessary, 8pm

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Jonathan Tyler & Northern Lights (rock, soul)

Irish session, 3 & 5pm

Karaoke French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Vortex (Marion)

The Bywater

Bluegrass jam, 8:30pm

The Buchanan Boys (country)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Westville Pub

Sharon LaMotte (vocal jazz), 7:30pm Karaoke w/ Sound Extreme, 10:30pm

The Get Right Band (funk, rock, reggae) Wild Wing Cafe

DJ Dizzy ‘90s Throwback Night

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Westville Pub

Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk)

SuN., November 13

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Galen Kipar Project (indie, folk)

Wild Wing Cafe

Karaoke

Good Stuff

Jerome Widenhouse & His Roaring Lions (jazz), 7-9pm

James Scott (solo acoustic)

ARCADE

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Hallelujah Hullabaloo w/ DJs Jamie Hepler, Whitney Shroyer & friends

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Megafaun (rock, folk, experimental) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Asheville Music Hall

Altamont Brewing Company

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Underhill Rose (country, folk, soul), 8-11pm

Bluegrass brunch, hosted by The Pond Brothers

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

Emerald Lounge

Asheville Music Hall

Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam

Music trivia, 8pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Funk jam, 10:30pm

Paul’s Creek (old-time)

BoBo Gallery

Jack of the Wood Pub

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon Bob Zullo (jazz, pop), 6:30-10:30pm

Kelley & the Cowboys (honky tonk)

Grey Eagle

Elam Blackman & Annie Crane (Americana) w/ Flint Blade

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Asheville Sound Swap V, 11 am

Creatures Cafe

Back stage: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (jazz, rock, fusion) w/ Great Barrier Reefs

Hotel Indigo

Singer/songwriter showcase Eleven on Grove

Lobster Trap

Ben Hovey (multi-instrumentalist, electronic, soul), 7-10pm

Jazz Trio

Jack of the Wood Pub

Open mic

Tue., November 15 The John Henry’s (jazz, swing), 8-10pm

Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm

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dirty south lounge 251-1777 The dripolator 398-0209 dobra Tea room 575-2424 ed Boudreauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 eleven on Grove 505-1612 emerald lounge 232- 4372 fairview Tavern 505-7236 feed & seed + Jamas acoustic 216-3492 firestorm cafe 255-8115 frankie Bones 274-7111 fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speakeasy 281-0920 fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speakeasy south 684-2646 french Broad Brewery Tasting room 277-0222 french Broad chocolate lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get down 505-8388 Good stuff 649-9711 Grey eagle Music hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove house eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park inn (elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Bar/ Great hall) 252-2711 The handlebar (864) 233-6173 hannah flanagans 252-1922 harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cherokee 497-7777 havana restaurant 252-1611 haywood lounge 232-4938 highland Brewing company 299-3370 hollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille 298-8780

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The recovery room 684-1213 red stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian hotel 505-2949 rendezvous 926-0201 root Bar no.1 299-7597 scandals nightclub 252-2838 scullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 251-8880 shovelhead saloon 669-9541 skyland Performing arts center 693-0087 shifters 684-1024 smokeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s after dark 253-2155 southern appalacian Brewery 684-1235 straightaway cafe 669-8856 TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cantina 232-0809 red room 252-0775 rockyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot chicken shack 575-2260 Thirsty Monk south 505-4564 Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crossing irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 vanuatu kava 505-8118 The village wayside 277-4121 vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro 254-4698 wedge Brewery 505 2792 well Bred Bakery & cafe 645-9300 westville Pub 225-9782 white horse 669-0816 wild wing cafe 253-3066

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Lobster Trap

Micheal â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luckyâ&#x20AC;? Luchtan (golden-era country music), 9am Open Mic, 7:30pm

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm

Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm

Hotel Indigo

Music Mandala w/ Ty Gilpin

Garage at Biltmore

Phat Tuesdays

Ben Hovey (multi-instrumentalist, electronic, soul), 7-10pm

Northside Bar and Grill

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Jack of the Wood Pub

Bobby Long w/ Rayland Baxter (singer/songwriters)

Singer Songwriter in the Round w/ Joshua Pierce, Ben de La Cour & The Littlest Birds Duo, 7pm

Olive or Twist

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

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Firestorm Cafe and Books

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

Karaoke Al Coffee McDaniel (blues, soul), 8-11pm

Saturday, November 19th Nikki Talley Trio Acoustic Folk Rock

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Open mic/jam, 7pm

Westville Pub

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

The Russ Wilson Swingtett

Aaron Berg & the Heavy Love (folk, pop, experimental)

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm

Vanuatu Kava Bar

TallGary’s Cantina

Vincenzo’s Bistro

“Garyoke” The Bywater

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

World Music Series w/ Whitney Moore World Beat Latin Music Jam Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub

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White Horse

Music of the Swannanoa Valley CD release (oldtime, bluegrass, country) Wild Wing Cafe

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Asheville Music Hall

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

Burgerworx

Breakestra (funk, jazz, soul) w/ Eymarel Open mic, 7-9pm Craggie Brewing Company

ARCADE

Open mic, 6-9pm Slamming Door Orchestra (post-punk, ambient) w/ Hello Hugo, 7pm

Karaoke, 10pm

Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ

Athena’s Club

Lucky James (roots, blues, swing), 8-11pm

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Emerald Lounge

Blend Hookah Lounge

Kovacs & The Polar Bear (indie, Americana, rock) w/ Madeline

Open mic w/ Sven Hooson

Fred’s Speakeasy

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Jazz night, 7:30pm

Open mic

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Blue Note Grille

Lorraine Conard Band (blues, Americana)

Open mic, 9pm

Good Stuff

Craggie Brewing Company

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul)

Second Anniversary Celebration feat: Joshua Lee, Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks & more, 6pm

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Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

White Horse

Juan Benevidas Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm

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Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

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Open mic

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Wild Wing Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Fri., November 18 ARCADE

“No Cover, No Shame” dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm Asheville Music Hall

Future Rock (electronic, rock) w/ The StereoFidelics Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Boiler Room

Dead Light Pulse w/ Opus Grey & Overmind (rock) Craggie Brewing Company

Big Nasty (jazz, dixieland, swing), 7pm Big Hungry (indie), 9pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Friday Night Live w/ Disclaimer Comedy (standup) & Dueling Pianos (rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long) Eleven on Grove

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight Emerald Lounge

DJ Dice w/ DJ Tommy Tom & The Knock Brothers Fred’s Speakeasy

Live music French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Brushfire Trio (bluegrass, rock) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Paul Jones (jazz, classical)

Creatures Cafe

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Dirty South Lounge

Back stage: A Ghost Like Me w/ Grammer School & Graviton Project

Good Stuff

Rotating DJs, 9pm Fred’s Speakeasy

Lobster Trap

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Karaoke

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

An evening w/ Jorma Kaukonen (of Hot Tuna)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz)

East Coast Dirt w/ Chasing Edison

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Olive or Twist

Garage at Biltmore

Cyborg Space Costume Ball feat: Rasa, Alex Falk, Collective One Todd Hoke

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm

Lobster Trap

Orange Peel

Highland Brewing Company

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

moe. (jam) w/ Zach Deputy

Ben Bjorlie Band (funk, jazz), 6pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Pisgah Brewing Company

Jack of Hearts Pub

The Fritz (funk, rock)

The Black Lillies (Americana) w/ Underhill Rose

Musician’s Workshop

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Peggy Ratusz & Duane Simpson (acoustic blues, jazz)

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pickoftheweek GainsbourG: a Heroic Life JJJJ

Director: Joann Sfar PlayerS: eric elmoSnino, lucy GorDon, laetitia caSta, DouG JoneS, anna mouGlaliS MusicaL bioGrapHy

rated nr

The Story Biographical film on Serge Gainsborough. The Lowdown: Strikingly different musical biography with a strong lead performance. It doesn’t all work, but when it does, it’s pretty incredible. Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life — the biopic of French singer-songwriter, actor, filmmaker Serge Gainsbourg — is very nearly as inventive and fascinating as it is frustrating. The attempt at making a “new” kind of musical biography is certainly admirable, even if it’s not really new. The film feels a lot like, and owes a lot to, the Ken Russell composer biographies of the 1970s — The Music Lovers (1970), Mahler (1974), Lisztomania (1975) — with a dose of Fellini thrown in. This makes for a lively mix. It catches the playfulness of both directors, and it does so in ways that make it more than just an imitation. And goodness knows, Gainsbourg certainly makes for a nice break from such starchy biopics as Ray (2004) and Walk the Line (2005) — but Sfar lacks Russell’s sense of urgency, and the full flamboyance of either director. Gainsbourg starts well with young Lucien Ginsburg (Kacey Mottet-Klein) as a defiant adolescent in Nazi-occupied France. Indeed, he’s so defiant that he insists on being the very first person to get the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear. This is also where the film hits its most intriguing flight of fancy, when a propaganda caricature of a Jew materializes out of a poster and follows Lucien around as the embodiment of everything he finds unattractive about himself. It’s hardly unimportant that young Lucien imagines shooting and killing the caricature — forming as neat an expression as you could hope for of the self-destructive adult he would become. Actually, all of the childhood scenes are very fine, as are the early scenes leading to the point where adult Lucien (Eric Elmosnino in a great performance) re-invents himself as Serge Gainsbourg. The transition of the caricature into La Gueule (the Face) — a more specific caricature of Gainsbourg — is startling and effective, though the fact that this wicked alter-ego is played by Doug Jones inevitably calls to mind Jones’ portrayal of the faun in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. And yet, who besides Jones could play this fantasticated other self? The scene where he tempts Gainsbourg — La Gueule‘s specialty is appealing to the man’s worst tendencies — offering him the possibility of

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Laetitia Casta and Eric Elmosnino in Joann Sfar’s strikingly unorthodox biographical film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. performing like Django Reinhardt, is little short of amazing. Unfortunately, it’s right about there that the film starts to lose its sense of drive and invention. The problem that arises is two-fold. The film was made by someone already familiar with Gainsbourg and already sold on his greatness. Once it hits the more well-known (though I’m not sure how well-known all this is outside of France), the film tends to feel somewhat perfunctory — like it’s a laundry list of famous women with whom Gainsbourg had (or even might have had) affairs. This means we have to go through Juliette Greco (Anna Mouglalis), Brigitte Bardot (Laetitia Casta) and, more substantially, Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon). Some of it’s fun — especially Bardot’s entrance in a mini-skirt and thigh-high boots and walking an Afghan hound — but the sense of something fresh and vital gets lost along the way and the film becomes more conventional than it thinks it is. Am I recommending the film? Oh, most certainly. Flawed though this story is of a self-indulgent, self-destructive artist, it’s so lively and creative that it definitely deserves to be seen. And when it’s on its game, it really soars. Not Rated, but contains sexuality, nudity and adult themes. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

tHe Man WHo feLL to eartH JJJJJ

Director: nicolaS roeG PlayerS: DaviD Bowie, canDy clark, riP torn, Buck Henry, Bernie caSey science fiction

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The Story A visitor from another planet becomes a global tycoon and, in the process, addicted to Earth’s lifestyle. The Lowdown: A classic from the very end of the era of the superstar filmmaker — and the most daring and unusual. This is a film that is even better now than it was 35 years ago — not in the least thanks to the central performance by David Bowie. For the 35th anniversary of Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi classic (we’re talking intelligent sci-fi, not space-opera stuff), The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie as a mysterious visitor from another planet, Rialto Pictures has brought out brand new, remastered 35mm prints of the complete version of the film for screenings in select theaters. This week the film makes it to The Carolina in Asheville for one show on Wed., Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. It’s very strange to realize that Nicolas Roeg is not better known today than he is. In the 1970s

lookhere Don’t miss out on Cranky Hanke’s online-only weekly columns “Screening Room” and “Weekly Reeler,” plus extended reviews of special showings, the “Elitist Bastards Go to the Movies” podcast, as well as an archive of past Xpress movie reviews — all at mountainx. com/movies. — right up through his 1980 film Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession — a new Roeg film was something of an event, highly publicized not just in film magazines, but in mainstream publications as well. (The Man Who Fell to Earth was given strong coverage in Playboy, for example.) The situation is stranger still when you realize that a panel of British film-industry people — including directors Sam Mendes and Mike Leigh — recently voted Roeg’s 1973 thriller Don’t Look Now the best British film of all time (and his 1970 film Performance came in seventh). I don’t happen to agree with the choice — even among Roeg’s films, I don’t think Don’t Look Now is his best (I think The Man Who Fell to Earth is better, for one) — but the point is he simply ought to be better known by people interested in film than he is these days. Slowly — and I would say, elegantly — paced, The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of the odder films ever to play mainstream cinemas — though it suffered 20 minutes of cuts in order to do so in 1976, and there were some pretty odd movies playing in multiplexes in those days. It can be maddening and it can be confusing, especially if you don’t just “go with it” and allow it to reveal its secrets at its own pace. I remember being a little perplexed in 1976, but seeing it years later with the missing footage restored, it made perfect sense. Of course, something else had changed in the meantime: Roeg’s tendency to ignore a traditional linear narrative no longer seemed as startling as it once did. Densely layered and working under the assumption that the audience has both a reasonable attention span and a degree of intelligence, the film doesn’t even lay out its plot until 90 of its 139 minutes have passed. Even when it does, more or less, explain itself, it keeps many of its mysteries to itself — and leaves them up to the individual interpretations of its viewers. Bowie plays Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a never-identified planet who pretty much literally falls to Earth (at least from what we see). He arrives with nine basic patents, which quickly transform him into a very wealthy individual. (Note the word “individual,” because that’s key to understanding the film’s perspective on big business.) The story then simply follows Newton’s fate on Earth. It suggests much and tells little. I intend to tell very little of the plot either, because viewers should discover on their own what drives — and distracts — Newton. The film can be read as a kind of picture of Bowie himself — touching on his androgyny and bisexuality (in one reference), and even offering a fantasticated concept of his emergence as a rock star. (Being made in 1976, the picture doesn’t quite get the full force of his chameleon qualities.)

The film would in fact be unthinkable without Bowie. So much of the effect Roeg achieves with Newton’s other-worldliness is deeply grounded in this quality being part of Bowie’s own persona. (In much the same way, Roeg had used Mick Jagger’s persona in Performance.) Everything about Bowie — especially at the time the film was made — was so foreign that he might have been from another planet. The fact that neither Roeg nor Bowie were Americans probably added another level of disorientation to the film. Watching the film again, I was surprised to realize that this 35-year-old film has turned out to be prophetic, and, in so doing, demonstrates one of the wonders of great films: their ability to mean different things at different times. I’m not sure there is any more pertinent image for our time than the one of the increasingly media-addicted Newton writhing in his chair screaming, “Get out of my head!” at a wall full of jabbering TVs he’s gathered around him. The point is he could turn them off — the controls are right there — but he doesn’t. That ought to hit home with just about everybody I know — myself included. It’s a beautiful film — there’s scarcely an uninteresting composition in the entire movie — and a disquieting, thought-provoking one, especially as concerns the idea that humankind would not be satisfied until it turned Newton into one of us (despite the fact that he’d already managed to adopt most of our worst traits). Roeg’s film leaves you with much to think about in ways few movies do. reviewed by Ken Hanke Plays at 7:30, Wed. Nov. 9 only at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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The Story: After being swindled out of their pensions by a shifty broker, a group of regular Joes decide to rob him of his nest-egg. The Lowdown: Perfectly entertaining while having little regard for believable, or consistent, plotting — what we end up with is the definition of middling. After seeing Tower Heist, mulling it over and eventually sleeping on it, I can’t think of another movie that draws less enthusiasm out of me. Sure, I was entertained while it was onscreen (and there’s certainly something to be said for that), but so what? The whole thing smacks of middlebrow and inoffensive, from a cast and a director (the usually abrasive Mr. Brett Ratner) at their safest. To an extent, Ratner should actually be commended for what he elicits from a script that had the fingers of four writers in it. Given the movie’s laborious set-up (it takes 30 minutes to tell us what 30 seconds of trailer did) and a plot full of contrivances and unbelievability, it’s to Ratner’s credit that he managed to make anything sensible. Still, making a movie tolerable is nothing to get too jazzed about, and Tower Heist does little new or exciting. They’ve taken Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s films and replaced all the slick coolness with a sheen of mildly amusing bumbling. And

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filmsociety desire JJJJJ

Director: FranK BorzaGe PlayerS: marlene Dietrich, Gary cooPer, John halliDay, William FraWley, erneSt coSSart, alan moWBray

romAntiC Comedy rAted nr Marlene Dietrich’s first film following the departure of her mentor Josef von Sternberg, Desire (1936), is a stylish, glossy romantic comedy co-starring Gary Cooper. Dietrich — in a nonstop procession of those Travis Banton costumes — plays a member of a ring of jewel thieves, who slips a string of stolen pearls in vacationing American Gary Cooper’s jacket pocket in order to get them through customs at the Spanish border. Complications — like Cooper changing jackets and Dietrich stealing his car to get his suitcase — follow, as does the inevitable romance. It’s all very high class and polished — with Dietrich looking as stunning as ever in that special glow that’s in most Paramount pictures of the 1930s. (It’s also obvious that cinematographer Charles Lang is following the lighting designed for her by Sternberg.) The film was directed by Frank Borzage (7th Heaven) and produced (and partly directed) by Ernst Lubitsch (Design for Living) — and has more the feel of a Lubitsch movie than a Borzage one, which isn’t a bad thing, especially with this type of material: as perfect a soufflé of a romantic comedy as you’re likely to find — and with two people who define star power. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen Desire Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

tHe stuff JJJJ

Director: larry cohen PlayerS: michael moriarty, anDrea marcovicci, Scott Bloom, Garrett morriS, Paul Sorvino sCHloCKy sAtiriCAl Horror rAted r I’m tempted to compare Larry Cohen’s The Stuff (1985) to something a more playful David Cronenberg might make, but I don’t want to sell Cohen’s picture short here. The analogy is certainly apt, since Cohen travels through the same kind of distrust of the flesh, splattery body horror and conspiratorial paranoia that are the earmarks of Cronenberg at his best. But at the same time, The Stuff is very much Cohen’s work, a far more intentionally schlocky picture than Cronenberg has ever made. Because of this, there’s a goodnatured sensibility to all the gross-out stuff on display, making the film funnier (in a very offbeat kind of way) and less outwardly horrific than Cronenberg. But don’t let this fool you — Cohen’s satire has a well honed satirical point. The film revolves around a gooey substance that oozes from the Earth, but turns out to be irresistibly delicious. Called “The Stuff,” it’s soon mass-marketed around the country, despite the fact that it has the nasty side effect of turning its customers into zombified automatons who are soon eaten alive by their sentient diet. The resulting film is a trashy foray into some of the cheesiest — yet oddly intelligent — horror the ‘80s had to offer. reviewed by Justin Souther The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Stuff on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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while there’s a large portion of the population who’ll find this just dandy, Tower Heist scales the less-than-dizzying heights of adequacy. Ben Stiller plays Josh Kovacs, an efficient manager of an extremely high-end Manhattan tower that caters to the super-rich. After tower resident — and Wall Street bigwig — Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) gets busted for fraud, Josh realizes that all tower employees — from the doormen to the cleaning ladies — have lost their pensions in Shaw’s apparent Ponzi scheme. Knowing no other way to fix things, Josh concocts a plan to burgle Shaw’s nest-egg hidden in his penthouse suite. For help, he brings in a ragtag group of normal guys — including his brother-in-law (Casey Affleck) and a broke, unemployed investor (Matthew Broderick) — and a neighborhood thief (a funnier than usual Eddie Murphy, who’s really just not as awful as usual), and a series of misadventures ensue. Once we get past the set-up and into the actual heist, the film moves well enough. And it has to, since slowing down for even a moment would give the audience a chance to spot the plot’s myriad contrivances and holes. Most of the film doesn’t make sense on some level, but Ratner makes sure Tower Heist just keeps on trucking past such matters. Of course, this is a director whose last concern is cohesiveness — he’s one of those directors whose pompous persona attempts to mask the fact that all he really cares about are car chases. In a film like this with its messy story and likable-enough performers, it’s all just good enough. Rated PG-13 for language and sexual content reviewed by Justin Souther Showing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

A Very HArold & KumAr 3d CHristmAs JJJJ

Director: toDD StrauSS-SchulSon PlayerS: John cho, Kal Penn, neil PatricK harriS, Danny treJo, tom lennon, Paula GarceS BAd tAste CHristmAs Comedy

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The Story Harold and Kumar find themselves spending Christmas Eve enmeshed in outrageous adventures in their quest for a perfect Christmas tree. The Lowdown: Determined to have something to offend everyone, this is really a good-natured comedy. It just happens to insult just about every ethnic group and religion in the bargain. Anyone going to a movie called A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas probably has some idea of what they’re getting themselves into. In fact, chances are good they’ve seen Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and know exactly what they’re getting themselves into — the generally stoned title characters in a series of nonsensical-to-surreal comic set-pieces designed to subvert or outright demolish any vestige of good taste and offend anyone within range of the screen. The secret is that Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are so likable and the whole enterprise so goofy that it’s really hard to be offended, though this will not prevent the deter-

mined from attaining moral indignation. Look, if a baby high on cocaine, Santa Claus blasted in the face with a shotgun, topless nuns showering together etc. strike you as offensive, Puss in Boots is right down the hall. I greatly enjoyed — much to my surprise — the first Harold & Kumar movie. The second, not so much. This one, in my view, is nearer the quality of the first, which makes it fine with me. This latest is structured so that when the film opens Harold is successfully working for an investment firm, married to Maria (Paula Garces) and has a nice house in the suburbs. Kumar, on the other hand, is...well, irredeemably Kumar, living in the old apartment and pretty much perpetually stoned. His relationship with Vanessa (Danneel Ackles) has ended — or at least hit a really bad patch — because she can no longer stand his Kumarness. His entire raison d’être seems to be summed up when he tells his new friend Adriam (Amir Blumenfeld) he can’t go to a party because, “I’ve got to stay here and smoke this weed, or I won’t get high.” That — and the disasters that always follow in his wake — is why Harold has stopped associating with him. That all changes when a mysterious Chistmas package for Harold is delivered to Kumar and Kumar decides to take it to his old friend. This sets off a chain of events culminating in a fire that consumes the picture-perfect Christmas tree of Harold’s daunting, Korean-hating father-inlaw (Danny Trejo). The only hope is to replace it before the family returns from midnight Mass — and thus the search for that replacement sets the film in motion. I won’t detail the plot — the film is more fun if you don’t know exactly what’s coming — but I will say that it manages to include a murderous Ukrainian gang boss (Elias Koteas) who watches Tyler Perry movies, a very strange and tasteless claymation drug fantasy and, of course, the inevitable resurrection of Neil Patrick Harris as the series’ obnoxiously aggressive heterosexual version of himself. The film’s aim at being shocking is generally undercut by how cheerfully foolish it all is, making it hard to find seriously offensive. What is ultimately more shocking and truly on the subversive side is that all of the film’s various and sundry outrages are geared to exactly the same thing as any family-friendly Christmas yarn: providing life lessons so the main characters learn what truly matters. Disney never did it any better, though for whatever reason, Disney never thought to shoot Santa in the face or have anyone’s penis get stuck to a cold flagpole. This, by the way, is one of the very few times that I’d recommend seeing a film in 3D (not that I think there’s any choice in the matter locally). Harold & Kumar manages to expose this increasingly tired gimmick for what it is by wallowing in its very silliness, and in the bargain gets more good out of the effect — with more amusement value — than perhaps any 3D film to date. Who knew that marijuana smoke made for such a good 3D effect? Rated R for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence. reviewed by Ken Hanke Showing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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Possibly the hardest film to get a feeling for out there. As great as director Tarsem Singhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Fall (2007) may be, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a 300-burnished-CGI look to the trailer for this Greek mythology yarn that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get that worked up over. The studio blurb tells us this much: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world.â&#x20AC;? Does that excite you? Whether it does or not, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little more to say, since no one has gotten a peek at the thing. (R)

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Quite probably the single most obnoxious looking film of the year. Can you even glance at either Adam Sandler image on the poster â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jack or Jill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and not be overcome by a burning desire to throw a brick at it? The trailer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; laying out in tedious detail that Jack (Sandler) has troubles dealing with his identical twin sister Jill (Sandler) when she comes for Thanksgiving â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is no better. This is also Sandler in family-friendly mode, which is perhaps worse than Sandler in frat-boy pseudo-raunch mode. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s directed by Sandlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spectacularly untalented buddy, Dennis Dugan. Good Lord, no, it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been screened for anyone. (PG)

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, seth roGan, anna KendricK, Bryce daLLas howard, anJeLica huston Drama A young man deals with his friends and family after he is diagnosed with a rare type of cancer. Sensitive and slyly humorous take on a serious subject that skirts most of the pitfalls inherent in this kind of story. Rated R

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sam shepard, edurado norieGa, stephen rea, maGaLy soLier, dominique mceLLiGott, niKoLaJ coster-waLdau, padraic deLaney Western Drama The story of what might have happened if Butch Cassidy wasn’t killed by the Bolivian army in 1908. A raft of great performances—including the central one from Sam Shepard— combined with a many-layered screenplay and a constant flow of strikingly beautiful images make for a genuinely terrific must-see film. Rated R

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anGeLa davis, stoKeLy carmichaeL, taLiB KweLi, eryKah Badu, aBiodun oyewoLe Documentary Documentary made from news footage shot in America by Swedish TV crews. A little overlong and wandering toward the end, but a fascinating look at the Black Power movement and the people who shaped it. Rated NR

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Kenny wormaLd, JuLianne houGh, dennis quaid, miLes teLLer, andie macdoweLL, ray mcKinnon Teen Dance Drama A teen moves from Boston to rural Georgia and finds that the town has outlawed dancing. A faithful remake of Footloose that’s a natural extension of director Craig Brewer’s previous films, but lacks anything that makes it truly special. Rated PG-13

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eric eLmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia casta, douG Jones, anna mouGLaLis Musical Biography The Story Biographical film on Serge Gainsborough. Strikingly different musical biography with a strong lead performance. It doesn’t all work, but when it does, it’s pretty incredible. Rated NR

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emma stone, vioLa davis, octavia spencer, Bryce daLLas howard, aLLison Janney, sissy spaceK Drama A young college graduate writes a book— with the help of the black maids—that exposes the hypocrisy and racism in 1963 Jackson, Miss. Solidly entertaining crowd-pleaser with terrific performances overcoming an overstuffed narrative and a too-careful approach to the subject matter. Rated PG-13

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ryan GosLinG, GeorGe cLooney, phiLip seymour hoffman, pauL Giamatti, evan racheL wood Political Drama An idealistic young campaign staffer learns that politics isn’t what he envisioned, and that the candidate he believes in isn’t flawless. Rock-solid filmmaking, good drama and a splendid cast all fall just short of adding up to the powerful political exposé the film wants to be. Rated R

Justin timBerLaKe, amanda seyfried, ciLLian murphy, vincent Kartheiser, oLivia wiLde Dystopian Sci-Fi In a future, when aging has been conquered and life expectancy is replaced with allotments of time that separate the rich from the poor, a young man from the ghetto tries to correct the system. An attempt at heady science-fiction that almost works, but clunky storytelling and a too-obvious message hurts it. Rated PG-13

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david Bowie, candy cLarK, rip torn, BucK henry, Bernie casey Science Fiction A visitor from another planet becomes a global tycoon and, in the process, addicted to Earth’s lifestyle. A classic from the very end of the era of the superstar filmmaker — and the most daring and unusual. This is a film that is even better now than it was 35 years ago — not in the least thanks to the central performance by David Bowie. Rated NR

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Kevin spacey, pauL Bettany, Jeremy irons, Zachary quinto, penn BadGLey, simon BaKer, stanLey tucci, demi moore Drama The fictionalized (barely) story of how Wall Street was brought down by speculation in the mortgage market. Material which should be anything but compelling turns out to be captivating—if disturbing—entertainment that does right by every member of its high-powered cast. Rated R

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Brad pitt, Jonah hiLL, phiLip seymour hoffman, roBin wriGht, chris pratt Sports Drama An underdog tale of a Major League Baseball team trying to subvert the system through statistics, and the repercussions of their attempt. An interesting idea for a biopic by way of character study, although never as engaging or dramatically alive as it should be. Rated PG-13

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Lauren Bittner, christopher nichoLas smith, chLoe csenGery, Jessica tyLer Brown, Katie featherston Gimmick Horror The prequel to the other two Paranormal Activity movies. Yet again with the endless tedium and the occasional sudden loud “shock” as more uninteresting people are haunted by the most uninventive demons in the history of horror. Rated R

(voices) antonio Banderas, saLma hayeK, Zach GaLifianaKis, BiLLy BoB thornton, amy sedaris Animated Adventure Fantasy Fugitive Puss in Boots is lured into a new scheme by old friend Humpty Dumpty, who got him in trouble in the first place. A solid enough spin-off from the Shrek movies for Antonio Banderas’ Puss in Boots character. Not Earth-shattering, but pleasant enough. Rated PG

huGh JacKman, daKota Goyo, evanGeLine LiLLy, anthony macKie, Kevin durand Uplifting Fighting Robots A down-on-his-luck dad and his estranged son try to turn a junked sparring robot into a robot-boxing champion. Sure, the premise is nothing new, but the film still works because of a likable cast, perfect pacing and a willingness to be a cheesy, uplifting sports flick. Rated PG-13

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Johnny depp, aaron ecKhart, michaeL rispoLi, amBer heard, richard JenKins, Giovanni riBisi Quasi-biographical Comedy Drama A film version of Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel about what he imagined his life as a reporter in San Juan, Puerto Rico, would have been like. An odd and not entirely successful film, but when it works it’s capable of flights of brilliance. Rated R

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Ben stiLLer, eddie murphy, casey affLecK, matthew BrodericK, aLan aLda Heist Comedy After being swindled out of their pensions by a shifty broker, a group of regular Joes decide to rob him of his nest-egg. Perfectly entertaining while having little regard for believable, or consistent, plotting — what we end up with is the definition of middling. Rated PG13

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John cho, KaL penn, neiL patricK harris, danny treJo, tom Lennon, pauLa Garces Bad Taste Christmas Comedy The Story Harold and Kumar find themselves spending Christmas Eve enmeshed in outrageous adventures in their quest for a perfect Christmas tree. Determined to have something to offend everyone, this is really a good-natured comedy. It just happens to insult just about every ethnic group and religion in the bargain. Rated R

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martin sheen, deBorah Kara unGer, James nesBitt, tchéKy Karyo, yoricK van waGeninGen Drama When his son dies walking the Camino de Santiago, a father decides to finish the spiritual journey for him. A thoroughly nice, well-meaning, but completely predictable little movie that will appeal to audiences in tune with its themes. Rated PG-13

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Director: Sergei Parajanov PlayerS: ivan Mikolajchuk, lariSa kaDochnikova, tatyana BeStayeva, SPartak BagaShvili

drama rated nr After spending 10 years making documentaries and Soviet-safe films (all of which he later disowned), Sergei Parajanov broke loose with a vengeance by making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964). The film — essentially a highly stylized story, almost a legend — completely eschewed any vestige of “socialist realism” (the only style of filmmaking the government approved) and plunged headlong into an earthy, sometimes experimental tale of love and customs in the Carpathian Mountains of the Ukraine around the end of the 1800s. The story is simple enough. As a child, Ivan (I. Dzyura) falls in love with Marichka (V. Glyanko), whose father killed Ivan’s father. When they grow up, Ivan (Ivan Mikolajchuk) and Marichka (Larisa Kadochnikova) are still in love, but kept apart. While Ivan is away, Marichka drowns trying to save a black sheep. Plunged into despair, Ivan withdraws into himself until he become attracted to and marries Palagna (Tatyana Bestayeva), but this relationship is ultimately doomed and, following a fight, Ivan dies with Marichka mystically coming to “claim” him. That’s it. But stylistically the film is jaw-dropping — somewhere between the French New Wave and an acid trip. (There’s one scene lit by flashes of lightning that only wants “In a Gadda daVida” on the soundtrack to turn into a trippy late ‘60s American artifact.) Some of the things Parajanov does with the camera work, some don’t. All are startling. The authorities were not amused by any of it and kept him from making films as much as possible — they didn’t like his style, his politics or his bisexuality — and even put him in prison a few times. Of course, he’s since come to be regarded as one of Russia’s greatest filmmakers. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11 at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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Director: eDgar g. ulMer PlayerS: MarSha hunt, WilliaM Prince, Frank Mchugh, Martha o’DriScoll

Michael Jefry Stevens

Over the past 35 years Pianist/ Composer Michael Jefry Stevens has been associated with some of the most important figures in modern jazz. Sunday Nov 13 11:30am - 2:00pm Sunday Nov 20 11:30am - 2:00pm. Tickets $5.00

Daves Highway

Internet-sensation Daves Highway combines voices to create a remarkable musical blend, which can only be created by what’s known in the South as “blood harmony.”

Tuesday Nov 15 - 7:30pm - Tickets $15.00

The Billy Sea

A collection of prolific solo artists who have come together to achieve a collective and evolving common vision Friday Nov 18 - 8:00pm - Tickets $12.00

Arundo Donax

Awarded the Bronze Medal in the Senior Wind Division at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition Monday Nov 14 - 7:30pm - Tickets $20.00

Willy Porter with Special Guest SONiA

thank goodness he doesn’t play the flute.” - Ian Anderson of Jethro tull. Saturday Nov 19 - 8:00pm - Tickets $20.00

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muSical drama rated nr The Hendersonville Film Society continues its November run of encore screenings of some of the most popular music-themed films. This week they’re bringing back Edgar G. Ulmer’s Carnege Hall (1947), about which I wrote a few years ago, “The silly story — one of those pop music vs. classical music tales — is negligible, but the musical segments make up for this (including one that incorporates the Schumann Piano Quintet Ulmer had used to good effect in The Black Cat). Where else are you going to see Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Bruno Walter, Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Fritz Reiner and, best of all, Leopold Stokowski in one movie? You have to slog your way through the whole film to get to Stokowski conducting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, but it’s worth it. Beautifully lit (Stoki’s wild hair was a lighting director’s dream) and shot from clever angles, you immediately understand Rex Harrison extolling the beauty of the maestro conducting with only his hands in Preston Sturges’ Unfaithfully Yours, made the next year.” For the full review, visit www.mountainx. com/movies/review/carnegie_hall . reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.