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Head to head Western North Carolina takes its beer seriously: In 2010 Asheville breweries employed 273 people with a total payroll of more than $2.7 million. And these companies pumped more than $2.1 million directly into the local economy for everything from accountants’ and lawyers’ fees to printing T-shirts. But, with big-name craft brewers considering locations here, does the game change?

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Hunt, Pelly win Asheville City Council seats, but Davis, Gray may get recount

0 spaRks fly aftER salEs-tax REfERENduM

Quarter-cent sales-tax referendum for A-B Tech passes, but rancor lingers

thE BEat Rep. McHenry visits Asheville; city staff suspended for Facebook slipup

arts&entertainment 50 dOiN’ it fOR thEMsElVEs

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letters Felling a Treasured Tree was a mistake

Come prepared if you decide to speak in public

Thank you for printing Susan Andrew’s Nov. 2 article about Wells Fargo’s destruction of three trees at the corner of Patton and Louisiana avenues in West Asheville so that its new sign would be more conspicuous from every angle [“The Beat: Three, Two, One … Xpress].

The article correctly observed that Wells Fargo had a permit to destroy trees, so it was legal. The important question is, was it right?

That it was not right is obvious for two reasons.

First, the unusual size of the oak. It was a stately tree, at least 50 feet high, towering over a corner of undistinguished retail buildings and their unremarkable foundation plantings. The oak was the tallest tree along the entire length of the Patton Avenue strip, and was visible for much farther than the sign that replaced it. If, as Wells Fargo claims, some disease was in its upper branches, a competent arborist could have removed the affected branches.

Second, the unusual variety of the oak made cutting it not right. That was no common street tree. It was a columnar English oak, also known as a Cypress oak, the only mature specimen of its species that I know of in these parts. Even the North Carolina Arboretum does not have one in its collection. For good reason, it was a Treasured Tree.

Wells Fargo made a mistake in cutting down that magnificent tree, and the city planning department made a mistake in not catching them before they made that mistake.

— Stephen Weissman Asheville

My wife surprised me the weekend of Nov. 4 and took me to downtown Asheville for our wedding anniversary. We supported all the local restaurants and establishments for the weekend. One of my surprises was going to the Anthony Bourdain event at the Civic Center on Nov. 5.

I was excited to see someone who I enjoy watching on TV. I love cooking and the experience that goes with it. My only disappointment was the way Asheville represented itself at the end of the show. Anthony ended with questions from the audience. There were some obviously “liquid-influenced” people who decided to make it their own personal evening with Anthony. They did not allow other people to ask good and meaningful questions.

To tell those waiting their turn to back off because “I have the mic” and “this in my only chance to talk with him” is immature. One speaker went as far as to tell him she “loved him” not once but twice, in a stalker-type mentality. All of this ended with Anthony using the f-bomb and closing the show for the evening.

Come on, Asheville. We are better than that. Come prepared if you decide to speak in public.

— Mike Lewis Mills River

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Senior citizens occupied Asheville — where was Xpress?

I find it hard to believe that in your Nov. 2 issue you ignored an important event in your reportage of the local Occupy Wall Street movement.

On Oct. 29, some 40 members or friends of Elders United for Just Society joined the Occupy regulars in protesting downtown. The group met in Pritchard Park and joined in a rousing march to show solidarity with the local and national Occupy Wall Street effort.

The demonstrators, most in their 70s or 80s (and even one 94-year-old), made their presence known. They marched to show that it is not just idealistic young people who care enough about the USA to show their utter disgust with the role that Wall Street has played in corrupting our political process, damaging our economy and tearing the nation’s social fabric.

It was not physically easy for many of these folks to come out. A number were able to march only with the aid of a “third leg.” But come out they did. And on a very cold and windy day, too.

Do you know any other city where a similar demonstration has taken place? It deserved, but did not get, coverage in your newspaper.

— Dave Stewart Asheville

I’ll never tire of Jan Davis’ honesty and integrity It’s the day after the City Council elections and I don’t know if Jan Davis has been voted

For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons in or not, but I had an experience today that cemented even more why he would be an excellent choice (again) for Asheville City Council.

A few weeks ago I was told by a local car dealer that I would need rear brakes within the next month, if not sooner, and he gave me a quote for the work. I appreciated this information, but stopped breathing for a moment when seeing the amount of the quote. I called Jan Davis Tire Store to get their price for the same work and was very excited to get a quote more than $200 less than the other. So I made my appointment at Jan Davis for the month-out time frame, which was Nov. 9.

I hadn’t left my car at Jan Davis Tire 15 minutes before getting a call informing me that I did not need new brakes today — that it looked as though I have another 10,000 miles before needing them. They also checked a sensor I had blinking at me, checked my tire pressure and drove my car around the block for safe measure — and didn’t charge me a cent. Honesty: that I can completely appreciate. What a way to run a business. Thanks Jan Davis Tire guys. You rock.

And Jan, I do hope you got elected.

— Terri Wells Asheville

Civic Center renaming needs to be negotiated with citizens Asheville City Council needs to vote “no” on naming the Asheville Civic Center the U.S. Cellular Center (it sounds like a place to take your cell phone).

It was very, very deceptive of City Council member Jan Davis to not mention this renaming before the election and to decide on it and not ask the public citizens what they want to name it.

Council needs to vote “no” on this, and then negotiate a deal in sunlight.

They should vote to continue, request bids and hold discussions to see if residents want

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to proceed. If (and only if) the reaction is positive, they should get their best bid and then move forward.

— Sarah Brownlee Asheville

How does “U.S. Cellular Center” sound to you?

While most of us appreciate the voluminous time and effort on Asheville City Council’s part, interfacing with citizens on the “face” of Asheville, as expressed in the future name of the Civic Center, is central to the core of what Asheville is. Shame on Council for (seemingly) hiding behind time and circumstance and not exposing this very important issue to those they serve.

Asheville is not a run-of-the-mill city. Do we need corporate branding to define who we are?

Do we need corporate money to dictate our taste? If the city residents and businesses don’t weigh in on these significant, if not pivotal, issues then Asheville is what? How does U.S. Cellular Center sound to you? It sounds pretty crappy to me.

Now the Asheville Civic Center sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Even Asheville Entertainment Zone sounds pretty good, comparatively.

Let’s continue to make a difference by being different!

— Bernie Byrne Asheville

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news Photo finish Hunt, Pelly win Asheville City Council seats; Davis, Gray may face recount

Close call: Incumbent Jan Davis kept an eye on the results on Nov. 8; in the unofficial talley, he came out just 40 votes ahead of Lael Gray. Photos by Max Cooper

by david forbes, Jake frankel and caitlin Byrd In case you missed our online coverage of the Asheville City Council race last week, here are the highlights as reported by David Forbes, Jake Frankel and Caitlin Byrd.

The Nov. 8 Asheville City Council election turned into a nail biter: In the fight for three open seats, Marc Hunt garnered the most votes (8,725), and Chris Pelly proved that the third time’s the charm, finishing second with 8,182 votes.

But incumbent Jan davis squeaked past lael Gray by a mere 40 votes, meaning a recount is likely.

Decision time: Lael Gray “Wow, what an amazing race,” Gray told Xpress. “Watching the results come in was a really intense moment.”

Gray said she’d wait for the official tally, which will include absentee and provisional ballots, before deciding her next move. “If the result remains this close, the responsible thing is to call for a recount.”

“I’m feeling really positive,” she said, adding, “I still look forward to working for the city.”

The front-runner: Marc Hunt On election night, Hunt said: “I feel a great sense of duty. One thing I’ve really come to appreciate from talking with voters in this community is that a single vote is a valued, treasured thing. When people invest those in me to be a leader and do the right things for the

community, there’s an obligation that comes with that, and I take that very seriously.”

He added: “It will be great to shift gears.

The campaign has been a challenge and a lot of fun, but now the real work, the most important work, starts. I’m ready and I’m energized.”

Hunt said he’ll donate the roughly $200 left in his campaign budget to the Western North Carolina Alliance, a local nonprofit, for its Smart Growth Coalition and to the Asheville City Schools Foundation.

A close race: Jan Davis “I’m very pleased with the results, but it was a difficult race,” said Davis. “I feel like it’s important to maintain somebody on Council like myself who has a small-business mindset.”

The incumbent also praised the quality of the candidates.

“It’s been a close election with a lot of good candidates, and Lael Gray is certainly a worthy candidate, but I am happy to have edged her out.”

Odd man out: Mark Cates The lone Republican in the race, Cates said his campaign’s focus on jobs helped drive the debate, despite his fifth-place showing at the polls.

“Overall, this election showed that the candidates were able to learn about Asheville’s needs versus Asheville’s wants. The progressives started their campaigns talking about sidewalks and greenways, and by the end of it they were talking about jobs,” he maintained. “I’m sure all of Asheville hopes the new progressive Council members and the current Council members

Winner: Marc Hunt, center, led the race, winning 8,725 votes in the Asheville City Council election. work to support Jan Davis in his efforts to bring jobs back to Asheville.”

The infrastructure candidate: Saul Chase Despite his last-place finish, Chase said his candidacy focused much-needed attention on his main issue: fixing (and adding) sidewalks.

“If I had just gone to every other City Council meeting and stood up and talked about the same issues week after week, it wouldn’t have had the same effect as actually running for City Council,” Chase asserted, adding, “I’m glad I did it.”

At last: Chris Pelly Finally claiming a seat on City Council after two unsuccessful bids, Pelly said, “I’m humbled and honored voters have chosen me.” He believes his campaign theme, “Neighborhoods United,” and with his experience with development issues played key roles in his solid win.

Asked about his top priority, Pelly replied, “Trying to represent the public interest.” X Staff reporters David Forbes and Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333. UNCA senior Caitlin Byrd is new media editor for The Blue Banner, the school’s newspaper.

thecount On Nov. 8, the Buncombe County Board of Elections provided this unofficial tally of the race for three seats on the Asheville City Council:

Jan Davis ............... 7,682 votes 19.49 percent Lael Gray .............. 7,642 votes 19.38 percent

Marc Hunt ............ 8,725 votes Mark Cates .......... 5,246 votes 22.13 percent 13.31 percent Chris Pelly ........... 8,172 votes Saul Chase ............ 1,753 votes 20.73 percent 4.45 percent

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Cheers for A-B Tech: Supporters of a quarter-cent sales tax for the community college spent most of Nov. 8 holding their breath, then celebrated when the referendum passed. Photo by Bill Rhodes

Sparks fly after referendum Results highlight city/county divide

by Jake frankel The rancor over the quarter-cent sales-tax increase to fund capital improvements at A-B Tech didn’t end when the polls closed on Nov. 8.

After months of contentious debate, voters approved the measure by less than 500 votes, according to unofficial results released by the Buncombe County Board of Elections (the final results will be certified Nov. 15). With no countywide races on the ballot, fewer than 20 percent of the county’s registered voters turned out; 16,795 people (the vast majority of them Asheville residents) supported the increase and 16,303 opposed it.

Initially, the results from city precincts showed voters supporting the measure by a 10- to 12-percent margin. But the mood among the roughly 100 supporters gathered on the A-B Tech campus remained tense.

“The strategy was to kill it in the city,” noted Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair david Gantt as he mingled on election night. “I don’t know if we’re going to make it,” he fretted, watching the margin shrink as county precincts began reporting.

Earlier this year, the commissioners unanimously approved putting the referendum on the ballot and passed a resolution promising to use the sales-tax funds exclusively for capital improvements at A-B Tech. School officials have said the money — estimated at $6 million to $7 million a year — is desperately needed to serve a growing enrollment and fund projects such as a $55 million Allied Health and Workforce Development Building.

Both sides said much of the opposition to the measure stemmed from fears the school wouldn’t get the money. And each side had harsh words for how the other had run its campaign.

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An ongoing argument Former Asheville Mayor lou Bissette, who co-chaired the push to get the measure approved, singled out fellow Republican Robert Malt. The former county GOP chair is executive director of the Sales Tax Opposition Partnership, which waged a grassroots campaign to defeat the sales tax.

“I don’t go around with that end of my party,” said Bissette, indicating he meant Malt. “I don’t fault him for having very conservative ideas. …

I just fault him for his tactics and his treatment of other people,” Bissette explained, saying that when A-B Tech President Hank dunn pitched the tax increase to the party’s executive board, he was met with screaming and accusations by Malt.

“To treat the president of A-B Tech with that kind of disrespect when he comes out to make a presentation, what does that tell you about the people that were doing this?” asked Bissette, adding, “These people were lying; it’s crazy. I think the opposition threw up a lot of stuff on the wall, and some of it stuck. It’s irrational, but I think there’s a lot of distrust of public officials.”

Reached by phone later that evening, Malt said mistrust of the commissioners is well warranted.

By scheduling the vote for a year when many county residents wouldn’t have anything else on the ballot, he argued, “The county commissioners knowingly disenfranchised thousands of county voters, and they’re going to have to deal with the repercussions of that. Because there’s a lot of unhappy county voters out there, particularly tomorrow when they realize there was an election they didn’t know about.”

He also called the pro-sales-tax committee’s fundraising “unethical” and labeled Asheville Citizen-Times reporters “propagandists.”

“We put up a good fight. It was nearly enough

to win, and had the other side not cheated, we would have won,” asserted Malt, noting that his group raised slightly more than $2,000, while supporters of the increase raised more than $140,000.

Next steps Malt said his group is considering a petition drive to force an appeal referendum next year, which would require 16,000 signatures. “Any fool can see that in a countywide year, we win easily,” he maintained.

Buncombe Forward, another group he started, will focus on unseating the current commissioners next year. “We’re going to be looking to recruit, train and help candidates get elected,” noted Malt. “There were many people who wanted to give to A-B Tech but ... said, ‘I voted against it because I don’t trust the commissioners.’”

Gantt, however, said he “would resign before a nickel of that money went anywhere except A-B Tech, and I think the rest of the board feels the same way.

“That was just an argument the opponents used, a last-gasp effort to try to derail it,” he added. “We’re never going to divert money. But I’m glad people saw through it.”

The commissioners, said Gantt, will move “as fast as possible” to levy the tax and issue more than $50 million in bonds to be paid off by the sales-tax revenue.

After the polls closed, Dunn told jubilant supporters that during the campaign, “The word ‘tax’ became a four-letter word instead of an investment. But when voters actually see ... the transformation that will happen at A-B Tech on behalf of the community, they’ll be very pleased.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

tax referendum details For: 16,795 votes (50.74 percent) Against: 16,303 votes (49.26 percent) Turnout: 33,098 voters out of of 175,726 registered voters (18.97 percent)

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McHenry slams federal regulations, praises Asheville’s “unique cultural identity” On Nov. 10, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry held his first public event in Asheville since the N.C. General Assembly’s redistricting plan shifted most of the city to his 10th Congressional District. The Council of Independent Business Owners hosted McHenry at its monthly “power lunch” at Magnolia’s in downtown Asheville.

The four-term Republican worked the crowd like a standup comic, admitting that, at 5-foot-6, he’s a bit shorter than Asheville’s previous congressman, Democrat Heath shuler (“Can you see me over the podium?”) and joking that adding Asheville to the 10th has “quadrupled the number of vegetarian restaurants in my district.”

But McHenry, who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, got serious too.

Among other remarks to the conservative business group, he blamed the sluggish economy on new federal regulations, particularly those related to President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act passed last year.

To get the economy back on track, McHenry said he favors tax breaks, regulatory reform, sim-

plifying the tax code and improving education by focusing classrooms on practical training.

“We should be making sure education systems and training systems are the best in the world,” he said, adding, “When we talk about inequality of wages, what we’re really talking about is an inequality of skills.”

Making the country more competitive with rising countries like China and India should be the No. 1 priority, he continued.

Closer to home, McHenry acknowledged the controversy surrounding the General Assembly’s decision to leave most of Buncombe in the 11th District while moving much of Asheville to the 10th, which encompasses Piedmont areas having little in common with the mountains either culturally or economically.

“The one thing Gaston County and Buncombe County have in common is that they’re both in the 10th District now,” he quipped, garnering a few laughs.

McHenry also told Xpress that while the change wasn’t his idea, he would work to be responsive to his new constituents. (Earlier this year, however, the media site Politico reported that McHenry was North Carolina’s congressional point person on the redistricting plan.)

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Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy announced recently that she’s considering challenging McHenry in next year’s congressional election.

— Jake Frankel

Two Asheville staffers suspended in Facebook comment scandal

Seeking commonality: Rep. Patrick McHenry told CIBO members that Asheville and his native Gastonia — the former now part of his 10th Congressional District — have in common the region’s loss of manufacturing jobs and the need to support small businesses. Photo by Max Cooper “I respect Asheville, and I respect Buncombe County. It is the economic heart of Western North Carolina,” he told an audience that included

Asheville Police Department Interim Chief Wade Wood released a statement Nov. 7 saying his department takes critical comments by Forensic Technician lynn Fraser “very seriously.” In a Nov. 7 post to her personal Facebook page, Fraser called Occupy Asheville protesters “dirtasses.”

The same day, Jason Bugg posted a screen shot of another controversial post from Fraser on his blog. Her Nov. 6 post showed a graphic that read, “Some people just need a hug ... around the neck... with a rope,” adding in the comments field “Occupy Asheville bunch” in response to a comment asking, “Who are we hugging?”

“The Facebook comments posted on the Mountain Xpress website have been brought to the city’s and my attention,” Wood’s statement said. “We take this situation very seriously and we are looking into the matter. ... The Police Department and I believe all people should be treated with respect, and we hope the comments of an individual would not impede the department’s ability to continue the respectful and nonconfrontational partnership the city has had with Occupy Asheville participants. We will continue to work with this and other groups to enable their right to legal expressions of free speech.”

word and her use [of it]. I wanted her to take a moment and put everything in perspective and not let her stress define her reaction.”

A statement from Occupy Asheville said Fraser’s remarks “show an insular culture among law enforcement that leads to stereotyping, profiling, abuse and false arrest of those in our community committed to re-imagining our social, economic and political structures.”

— David Forbes

“History is participatory,” author Wendell Berry tells WWC audience

Ordinary things: Reading from his stories and answering student questions at a Warren Wilson College event, activist and author Wendell Berry shared the significance of ordinary things — and the notion that history is something you participate in, not simply observe. Photo by Bill Rhodes Melissa Williams, the city’s public information and social media specialist, also weighed in, commenting, “‘dirtasses’ LMAO.” In a follow-up comment, she said: “I know you feel at the end of your rope, but it’s all going to be OK. Perspective, prayer ... all that helps. Enjoy your day off and count your many blessings, Lynn!”

Williams, a friend of Fraser’s, told Xpress she didn’t intend to endorse Fraser’s “dirtasses” comment. “I put [dirtasses] in quotes because it was a silly word, a word I’d never heard, I thought it was exaggerated,” Williams explained. “I was more laughing at the word and hoped it highlighted the silliness of that

Author and activist Wendell Berry resists telling people what to do, but when you’re almost 80, it comes with the territory. On Nov. 9, he addressed an overflow crowd at the Warren Wilson College chapel, reading from a collection of his short stories and answering questions about such things as the value of a college education and his thoughts on the “Occupy” movement.

When Berry came onstage, the crowd greeted him raucous applause, no doubt fueled by his notoriety for activism against mountaintopremoval mining, nuclear power and American wars abroad, among other issues.

First, the award-winning author provided a one-hour reading from two short stories in the “Making It Home” series. The tales chronicle a soldier’s return home to the fictional, small Kentucky community of Port William and highlight the significance of ordinary things. There’s man’s “intimacy between himself and the things he needs,” as exemplified in the act of making one’s own rope or the simple freedom present in

the act of walking outdoors: “Just get up on your legs and go,” Berry read.

After the reading, Berry was joined onstage by Warren Wilson College Dean Paula Garrett, who posed questions she had collected from students.

While he gently protested being placed “in the role of prescriber,” Berry offered his thoughts on such things as the role of faith in environmentalism, the ongoing “Occupy” movement, and the cost of a university education.

“College isn’t for everyone,” the septuagenarian told the crowd, adding that the decision to earn a degree merits serious thought, especially in view of the high cost of attending. “College has been oversold,” he said, and it can promote a feeling of inferiority among those who opt not to earn a degree. As for the institutions themselves, Berry argued that small colleges offer more institutional flexibility than large ones, comparing the smaller ones to a canoe: “Easier to steer, compared to a battleship, when it’s time to change course.”

On the role of faith in the environmental movement, Berry argued that humans are faithful by nature, and that even when earthly affairs look bleak, “things aren’t going to get so bad that someone can’t work to make it a little better.”

As for the “Occupy” movement, Berry said he views it as “a manifestation that people are getting really worried.” Even so, “a movement unaccompanied by local change won’t amount to much.”

Still, as Berry summed it up: “Objectivity is impossible.” He urged listeners to work for change and inform themselves. Said Berry, “History is participatory.”

— Susan Andrew

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The old adage that the business of booze is recession-proof — or recession-resistant, anyway — seems to be panning out for local brewers.

Despite tough economic conditions the last few years, the local beer scene has been abuzz with new breweries, expansions and growing acclaim.

Since 2008, Asheville has birthed five new independent, locally owned breweries: the Wedge, Craggie and Oyster House brewing companies, Thirsty Monk Brewery and the Lexington Avenue Brewery. And that’s on top of the French Broad, Pisgah, Asheville and Highland brewing companies and the Green Man Brewery. Yet another entry, Altamont Brewing Co., is gearing up to start production next spring.

Highland, Asheville’s first microbrewery, opened its doors in 1994 as a three-man operation in the basement of Barley’s Taproom using retrofitted dairy equipment.

Today, a staff of 20 can produce up to 20,000 barrels of beer annually at a state-of-the-art facility in east Asheville. Those beers are now sold in seven states.

Meanwhile, the newer microbreweries are expanding fast: Asheville Brewing is revving up to launch a canning line, Green Man is undergoing major renovations and the LAB plans to ramp up production and start a bottling line next year.

But it’s not just the quantity that’s increasing: Our local beers’ national reputation has been growing as well. After tying Portland, Ore., for top honors in the first BeerCity USA poll organized by national brew guru Charlie Papazian in 2009, Asheville claimed the title outright the last two years. Those victories have sparked significant national media buzz, as well as a a pair of festivals in downtown Asheville.

And even as the accolades and expansions have been adding up, so has the thriving microbrew industry’s economic impact, Wedge Brewing Co. owner Tim schaller reports.

“I don’t know how long [the growth] can go. You can’t tell until someone comes along and doesn’t make it,” notes Schaller, who’s also president of the Asheville Brewers Alliance. “My thing ... is to just keep making good beer, and people here will support it.”

FOAM ’n’ Fizz 1993 smoky Mountain Brewery opens in waynesville. it closes four years later.

1994 Oscar wong and John Mcdermott start highland Brewing co. in the basement of Barley’s taproom in downtown asheville.

story by JAke FrAnkel photos by Bill rhodes

Beer is serious business: Last year, Buncombe County breweries employed 273 people with a total payroll of more than $2.7 million, according to Tim Schaller, president of the Asheville Brewers Alliance and owner of Wedge Brewing Company.

GrowinG economic clout This past summer, the alliance — formed in 2009 to represent and promote the local beer community — took measure of its members’ collective economic impact for the first time.

In 2010, their study found, Asheville breweries employed 273 people with a total payroll of more than $2.7 million. They paid $370,000 in sales taxes, $360,000 in beer excise taxes, $68,000 in property taxes and roughly $52,000 in water-consumption fees (not including sewer and other charges). In addition, the alliance estimates, these companies pumped more

than $2.1 million directly into the local economy for everything from accountants’ and lawyers’ fees to printing T-shirts.

Meanwhile, increasing evidence suggests that the beer industry is fueling the growth of a local hub economy, enabling other businesses to feed and build off its success. More and more companies are releasing products whose main ingredient is local beer — and not necessarily for drinking.

One of the latest is Microbroo LLC, producers of Bröö Shampoo. After experimenting with various brews, owners sarah and Brad Pearsall chose

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1997 the Blue Rooster, asheville’s first brewpub, opens next to Barley’s featuring highland beers exclusively. it closes a year later. laughing seed café co-owner Joe Eckert opens Jack of the wood pub/green Man Brewery.

Barley’s co-owners Jimi Rentz and doug Beatty hold inaugural Brewgrass festival, which will become one of the top beer festivals in the southeast.

Mountain ale and lager tasters homebrew club begins meeting regularly.

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1998 two Moons Brew ’n’ View opens in asheville. the next year, Mike and leigh Rangel buy the business, change the name to asheville pizza & Brewing co.

1999 catawba Valley Brewing co. is born in the basement of a glen alpine antique mall.

Malt starts Blue Ridge Brew Off homebrew competition, which becomes one of the largest such events in the southeast.

by Anne Fitten Glenn

2001 french Broad Brewing co. opens in asheville.

2003 andy and kelly cubbin launch appalachian craft Brewery in Rosman; it soon moves to fletcher.

2004 dieter kuhn and sheryl Rudd start up heinzelmännchen Brewery in sylva, producing german-style beers.

This suds for you: Asheville’s Brad and Sarah Pearsall use Highland’s St. Terese’s Pale Ale to produce Bröö Shampoo, which is sold at Whole Foods and Earth Fare stores around the region.

Highland’s St. Terese’s Pale Ale for their formula. The product has found quick success, boosted by ABC News coverage and regional distribution at Whole Foods and Earth Fare. The owners soon plan to release a body wash made with Highland’s Oatmeal Porter and an expanded line of hair and body products featuring St. Terese’s.

Meanwhile, Crooked Condiments’ popular mustards incorporate Highland’s Gaelic Ale and Asheville Brewing’s Ninja Porter. And local ice-cream makers The Hop and the Ultimate Ice Cream Co. are making frozen treats out of brews such as Craggie’s Antebellum Ale.

2005 co-owners Jason caughman and dave Quinn open pisgah Brewing co. in Black Mountain, producing the area’s first certified-organic beer. green Man Brewery moves from Jack of the wood to Buxton avenue in asheville, opens tasting room locals affectionately dub dirty Jack’s.

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Figures pinpointing these products’ economic ripple effect are scarce, as is hard data on the impact of the expanding beer-tourism sector. But those who work in the industry say they’re seeing more and more people drawn here by the growing reputation of local beers.

“I can tell you firsthand — it’s unbelievable the amount of people we get in the brewery that are from out of town, and the reason they came to town is for the beer,” says Josh Copus, a part-time bartender at the Wedge in the River Arts District. “They say: ‘We’re here for the beer. We’re doing a beer tour, we’re staying for the weekend, we’re hitting all the breweries.’”

The economic symbiosis between the brewery and the Clayspace Co-op, a neighboring gallery Copus started eight years ago, is “mutually beneficial,” he adds. “That’s the future of the River Arts District.

People are all worried of it going all commercial and all gentrified. It will go that way, but I feel like the artists kind of need the commercial enterprise. But the commercial enterprise also needs the artists, and the brewery is a really good example of that. People come down here for the brewery and check out the studios, and vice versa.”

Of course, the beer scene doesn’t compare to such well-known local attractions as Biltmore Estate in driving the region’s $2 billion tourism industry, says Kelly Miller, executive director of the Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau. But he adds with a grin, “It’s a fermenting draw.”

Increasingly, notes Miller, his agency is leveraging Asheville’s BeerCity USA designation in its marketing efforts, citing a current major national campaign. “It’s a collection of ‘authentic’ experiences that makes up the Asheville brand,” he explains. “And I think the craft-beer industry here in WNC is one more authentic experience that cuts through the clutter when people decide where they want to go for a meeting, a vacation, a wedding or whatever travel experience they’re seeking.”

The brand’s growing reputation is helping local brewers distribute their product beyond the county line, adds Schaller. “The Asheville name on beer now sells it other places. So it allows people that opportunity.”

That appeal has almost certainly been a factor in the recent interest the big New Belgium and Sierra Nevada brewing companies have shown in establishing major production-and-distribution facilities here.

The area is reputedly on the short lists of potential locations for both these Western breweries, though details have been scant, with company and local-government officials alike reluctant to give specifics at this point. Still, some observers have estimated that if either or both projects came to fruition, it could generate hundreds of new jobs and exponentially expand the beer-tourism draw.

Not everyone is thrilled, however. Amid speculation that Asheville and Buncombe County might offer the Fort Collins, Colo.-based New Belgium tax breaks to set up shop here, the Brewers Alliance has been outspoken in opposing such a move. Members say they welcome any new brewery, as long as it’s not given an advantage that wasn’t afforded local, existing breweries.

“To give tax money to someone to come in and compete with us, we don’t love the idea,” Schaller explains.

“It’s a fairness thing. If they can afford to come in, they can come in. ... There are positives to it. ... If they both come, it would be really interesting. ... It will definitely drive beer tourism.”

And though Schaller says the rumors concerning New Belgium have cooled down recently, he also reports that Ken Grossman, founder of the Chico, Calif.-based Sierra Nevada, “actually called a couple

August 2005 state “pop the cap” legislation passes, enabling brewers to create high-gravity beers.

2006 highland Brewing moves to east asheville warehouse space, expands production. local entrepreneurs Mark and trish lyons launch the asheville Brews cruise, ferrying beer lovers from brewery to brewery.

“It’s unbelIevable the amount of people we get In the brewery that are from out of town, and the reason they came to town Is for the beer.”

— bartender Josh Copus, the Wedge

december 2006 Bruisin’ ales, asheville’s only beer-only retail store, opens.

January 2008 inaugural winter warmer Beer festival in downtown asheville.

2007 catawba Valley moves to Morganton, opens tasting room.

may 2008 wedge Brewing co. opens in asheville’s River arts district. Owner tim schaller teams up with former green Man brewer carl Melissas, known for his Belgian-style beers.

2007-08 local farmers, including Echoview and hop’n Blueberry farms, begin experimenting with growing hops.

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Yes we can: Doug Riley, brewmaster at Asheville Brewing Company, shows off a couple of the first Shiva IPAs to come off its new canning line.

The company is the first local brewery to start offering its own canned beers, which should be available to the public next month. weeks ago and really checked around and let people know that he didn’t want to step on toes. He was actually offering up, ‘OK, if they bring in trainloads of malt barley, that we could share in that.’ So it could be a positive thing.”

Grossman, notes Schaller, said he was “looking at the Black Mountain area and somewhere in Henderson County.”

Either way, says Miller, “I see Asheville and the beer scene similar to what Napa and Sonoma was years ago, where you

february 2009 asheville Brewers alliance formed. march 2009 Oyster house Brewing co. opens inside the lobster trap restaurant in downtown asheville. spring 2009 asheville ties with portland, Ore., for first place in first Beercity usa poll, put on by Brewers association president charlie papazian. november 2009 craggie Brewing co. opens in asheville.

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start to have a cadre of very good wine producers, and it starts to get some brand buzz. My sense is if I was to look into the future, 10 years from now it wouldn’t surprise me to see a variety of large-, medium- and small-scale beer manufacturers and all the other ancillary businesses that come with that. I see a lot of potential for growth.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.

January 2010 lexington avenue Brewery opens gastropub/ brewery in downtown asheville with brewer Ben pierson at the helm.

2010 asheville Beer divas begin holding monthly meetings for female brew aficionados.

April 2010 the new Biltmore Brewing co. contracts with highland Brewing to produce two beers for cedric’s tavern. Eventually, Biltmore Estate hopes to brew on-site.

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by JonAthAn roBert

Hops science: Echoview Farm aims to demontrate that the plants can be grown successfully in WNC. Photo by Anne-Fitten Glenn At Echoview Farm in Weaverville, hop bines curl upward toward the sun. Hops helpv bring out the particular flavors in different styles of beer, owner Julie Jensen explains.

And while Western North Carolina’s moist climate is not ideal for large-scale hops production, certain specialty varieties are being cultivated at Echoview, Hop’n Blueberry Farm and through trials at the Mountain Research Station in Waynesville.

Meanwhile, just off Brevard Road near the WNC Farmers Market sits Riverbend Malt House. Its mission, co-owner Brent Manning explains, “is to help unite the local wheat and barley farmers with local brewers outside the commodities market.”

Earlier this year, Riverbend’s Appalachian Pale Ale garnered raves from judges and attendees alike at Just Economics’ Just Brew It homebrew competition. This beer was produced using 85 percent locally grown malted barley and hops (the latter from Echoview Farm).

may 2010 dennis thies buys and expands green Man Brewery. John stuart continues as brewmaster. may 2010 Nantahala Brewing co. in Bryson city begins selling beer made by brewmaster chris collier.

These developments are part of a larger local trend toward sustainable economic growth. From Asheville’s thriving local food culture to the talk of developing a “fibershed” serving the area’s weavers to the developing green-energy technologies, complementary local-business connections are growing synergistically, feeding off one another and spawning new possibilities.

And in year three of Asheville’s reign as BeerCity USA, the vibrant local craft-beer scene shows signs of playing a significant role in developing a sustainable, homegrown economy.

Green beer Beer is typically crafted by carefully mingling water, malted barley, yeast and hops to produce styles ranging from the light, crisp finish of a pale ale to the rich, heavy flavors of a stout. Happily, this area’s high-quality water is well-suited to brewers’ needs (see “Brews News” elsewhere in this issue).

June 2010 asheville wins Beercity usa title outright; Brewers associataion and Brewgrass organizers put on first Beer city festival in downtown asheville’s pack square park.

Just Economics puts on first Just Brew it homebrew festival spotlighting the region’s homebrewers. february 2011 the Brewers alliance and N.c. Brewers guild entice beer expert charlie papazian to visit asheville and speak at an educational event.

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And if those rumors bear fruit, it could be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;game-changerâ&#x20AC;? for the local beer industry, notes Manning.

Inspired by its winemaking neighbors in Napa and Sonoma, Sierra Nevada has been

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If the company took a similar approach to a WNC operation, it could significantly expand the local market for barley, wheat and hops, Manning points out.

And if, as has been suggested, local breweries were allowed to take advantage of Sierra Nevadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buying power to cut the cost of imported raw materials, it could conceivably free up funds to help develop the agricultural component of a regional brewing economy, some observers say.

Speculation aside, the track records of both New Belgium and Sierra Nevada suggest that an expanded local brewing sector here could avoid some of the negative environmental impacts that often accompany economic-development efforts.

spring 2011 appalachian craft Brewery moves operations to hendersonville, opens tasting room, changes name to southern appalachian Brewery. asheville wins Beercity title again.

Nantahala Brewing opens tasting room.

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New Belgium, for example, is an industry leader in utilizing green and sustainable technologies in its brewing process.

Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generating electricity from brewing wastes or encouraging employees to bike to work, New Belgium has demonstrated a significant commitment to reducing its environmental impact.

Sierra Nevada, meanwhile, has made substantial solar and fuel-cell investments, uses wind power and even has a project to produce ethanol from brewing waste to power its vehicles. Such approaches would be a good fit with existing efforts to grow a locally based green economy in WNC.

buddinG opportunities But even if neither Western brewery decides to locate in Asheville, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significant potential to build on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already happening here, industry observers say. An Aug. 22 Wall Street Journal story on the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hottest towns for business startups, for example, included Asheville, specifically citing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beer industry.

Echoview Farm has a machine that converts hop flowers into the pellets largescale commercial brewing requires. And Riverbend, in cooperation with Jennifer lapidus of Carolina Ground, is utilizing collective buying power, economies of scale and cooperative milling practices to help grow the agricultural component of WNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brewing industry.

Meanwhile, the Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute and Asheville Independent Restaurants teamed up recently to land a $258,000 grant to retrofit local eateries with an eye toward creating the most certified green restaurants per capita of any place in the nation. John stevens, the instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, believes similar grant moneys and opportunities for innovative partnerships exist in the brewing industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The WNC region is looking to develop sustainability,â&#x20AC;? he notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the brewing industry were to make it a core value, we would see incredible economic growth and job opportunities.â&#x20AC;? X Freelance writer and consultant Jonathan Robert lives in Asheville.

fall 2011 the thirsty Monk opens nanobrewery in south asheville with Norm penn brewing. september 2011 Riverbend Malt house opens in asheville, begins malting North carolina-grown grains for local breweries.X

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brewsnews

by anne fitten glenn

Water, Water everyWhere on tAp: wnc’s mountAin wAter mAkes Good beer Beer is primarily a tasty water-delivery method: Water accounts for about 90 percent of what you’re imbibing in beer. And while beer lovers geek out about different varieties of hops, yeast and malts, we often ignore this crucial ingredient.

But water can make or break a beer — or a brewery. Indeed, one of the reasons we have so many breweries in Western North Carolina is the good mountain water that flows into their mash tuns.

This soft, pH-balanced water requires minimal treatment before brewing, though some styles do need specific salts and minerals added to bring out their particular flavors.

In 2010, the primary breweries in the city of Asheville used more than 12 million gallons of water and paid about $52,000 in waterconsumption fees, as well as other waterrelated charges, Water Resources Director steve shoaf reports.

“We would like to think that the quality of our drinking water has contributed to the success of the many local breweries,” says Shoaf. “Our local breweries are part of the experience that is Asheville, and we definitely appreciate their commitment to the community and their contribution to our economy.”

But while 12 million gallons might seem like a whole lot of water, it accounts for only about 0.23 percent of the city’s direct water revenues.

It typically takes about three gallons of water to produce one gallon of beer, though Pisgah brewmaster Jason Caughman estimates that it’s

less at Pisgah and other small breweries, which tend to be really efficient in their water use.

Quantity aside, continues Caughman, “The water here is awesome: All we do is dechlorinate it. It’s the perfect soft water for making lagers, which is what we’ll be doing all winter.”

Brewers take note of both the water’s mineral content and pH when brewing.

The mineral content (also known as hardness) is measured by the amount of dissolved minerals (bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium) in the water. Historically, certain regions have become famous for particular beer styles, which developed, in part, because of the water available for brewing.

The city of Pilsen in the Czech Republic is renowned for having some of the softest water in the world — ideal for producing the city’s namesake pilsner. On the other hand, Burtonon-Trent in England has particularly hard water (high in calcium sulphate), making it an excellent medium for pale ales (if you ever get a whiff of sulfur off a U.K. beer, that’s why).

Caughman compares Western North Carolina’s water to that of Munich, Germany, a hub of the brewing universe, whose water profile is closer to Pilsen’s than to Burton-on-Trent’s.

Thus, brewer Carl Melissas adds calcium salts to the mix when cooking up the Wedge’s Iron Rail IPA and some of his other signature brews, but Asheville’s soft water, he notes, makes altering it easy.

According to Melissas, the ideal pH for brewing is 7, which is neutral (neither alkaline nor acidic). Asheville’s water has a pH between 6.5 and 8.4 but averages around 7.

“It’s best to start out with neutral water,” says Melissas. “It’s like cooking with salt: It’s easy to add but difficult to take away.”

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crAGGie brewinG AnniversAry • WE (11/16) through SA (11/19) - Craggie Brewing Company will celebrate its second anniversary with music, food and specialty beers. Held at 197 Hilliard Ave. Info: www.craggiebrewingco.com. bruisin’ Ales thursdAy tAstinG • TH (11/17), 5-7pm - Bruisin’ Ales Thursday Tasting will feature Mother Earth Brewing Co. Held at Bruisin’ Ales, 66 Broadway St. Info: www.bruisin-ales.com.

Just brew it beer releAse • SU (11/20), 4-7pm - Green Man brewing will release the beer that was chosen at its “Just Brew It” event to benefit Just Economics. Hops from Echoview Farms and malt from Riverbend. Held at Green Man’s tasting room, 23 Buxton Ave. Info: www.greenmanbrewery.com or 252-5502.

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Like water for beer: High water quality in the Asheville area makes for good beer, like the concoctions made at Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. Photo by Bill Rhodes

Water quality has been cited as a possible reason that New Belgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada are said to be considering setting up operations here.

When I asked Caughman what else he could tell me about the region’s water, he replied, “Just protect it — please.” For the beer, y’all.

celebrAtinG crAGGie Craggie Brewing celebrates its second anniversary from Nov. 16-19, with live music every night and a couple of special beer releases. The brewery has just created a Coconut Brown Ale, which is conditioned on toasted coconut and cocoa nibs from Black Mountain Chocolate. Also soon to be released is their Belgium Quad, a 10percenter. The celebration will culminate with a cake-and-ice-cream party on Nov. 19 featuring Artista cakes and ice-cream/beer floats with hop ice cream.

Asheville beer week Mark your calendars now, beer lovers, for Asheville’s inaugural Beer Week, scheduled for May 25 to June 3 (Yes, that’s more than a week. Guess the organizers were imbibing while hatching their plans). Following in the footsteps of cities such as Philadelphia and San Diego, Asheville aims to step it up a notch, offering everything from beer dinners to pub crawls to special tastings. The party will culminate at the annual Beer City Festival June 2. Details will be released as they become available. Cheers! X Correction: Asheville Coffee Roasters provided the coffee beans for this year’s edition of Pisgah Brewing Co.’s Valdez Stout — not Mountain Air Roasting, as stated in our Nov. 1 print edition. Apologies to ACR. The second batch of Valdez is available on draft around town.

Anne-Fitten Glenn can be reached at brewgasmavl@gmail.com.

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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 6935172.

• 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.

Parrot Education • SA (11/19), 10am-noon - The presentation “Shred, Chew, Bang and Forage: Enrichment For Your Parrots” will explore exercise activities to keep parrots busy, both physically and mentally. Held at Phoenix Landing, 434 Cedar Hill Rd, Alexander. Free. Info: www. phoenixlanding.org/events.

Pet Biggest Loser Contest • SU (11/20) through SU (5/20) - All Pets Animal Hospital and Rehabilitation

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

Center will hold a Pet Biggest Loser Contest to promote a healthy lifestyle in pets. Info: 645-5252.

Scarlata, will be on display in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. stageme@appstate.edu or 262-6084.

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

• 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.

aRt 16 Patton Located at 16 Patton Ave. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 15pm. 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.

All Member Art Show • 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.

American Folk Art and Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary selftaught 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-pastel-society.org.

• Through TH (12/1) - What Can You Do in 24 Inches will be on display at ConnArtist Studios and Gallery, 611 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville.

Appalachian State University • Through SU (1/1) - Sanctuary, works by Val Lyle. Info: stageme@appstate.edu or 262-6084.

Appalachian State University • Through SU (1/1) - Living in the Light: A Retrospective, works by the late John

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. 10am7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www. fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• TH (11/17) through FR (12/9) - Bachelor of Fine Art portfolio exhibit.

• TH (11/17), 5-7pm 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 35pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227.

• FR (11/18) through SU (3/18) - The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft.

• FR (11/18), 5-7pm Opening reception.

• 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.

Autumn in the Southern Appalachians • Through SU (1/1) Autumn and Winter in the Southern Appalachians, a juried exhibit of Carolina nature photographers, will be on display at Deerpark Inn at the Biltmore Estate, 1 Approach Road. Info: www. cnpa-asheville.org.

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Bees: Tales from the Hive will be screened on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 6-8 p.m. by

wed Transition Hendersonville. Held at Black Bear Cafe, 318 Main St., Hendersonville. Info: transitionhendersonville.com.

A presentation of the new edition of a cult favorite Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart

thur will be presented on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. at Diamond Brand, 2623 Hendersonville Road. Info: diamondbrand.com or 684-6262.

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Explore the night sky over Mount Pisgah during a stargazing trip on Friday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. with the Astronomy Club of Asheville. Telescopes and hot chocolate provided. Info and directions: joy@wnca.org or 258-8737.

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The Asheville Holiday Parade will feature marching, drumming, llamas, tractors and more on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 11 a.m. throughout downtown Asheville. Info: ashevilleparade.org.

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Listen to fascinating tales during Tellebration! a global storytelling event hosted by the Asheville Storytelling Circle. Held on Sunday, Nov. 20 from 3-5 p.m. at the Folk Art Center, MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. $5. Info: 667-4227.

Join Samantha Pollack and learn how to reduce stress during the winter season at “Handling

mon the Holidays,” a health and wellness discussion held at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St. on Monday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. Info: malaprops.com or 254-6734.

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Watch a film interview with Oskar Schindler’s youngest survivor, Leon Leyson, who was 13 years old when Schindler saved his life during the Holocaust. The film will be screened at Mountain Java, 901 Smoky Park Highway, Candler, on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. Info: tharkey@octoberroadinc.com.

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 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.

• Through WE (11/23) - A juried member exhibition of the Appalachian Pastel Society.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College. 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.

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: http:// www.catherinestinson.com.

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. Info: 8www. 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.

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.

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.

• Through WE (11/30) New works by Jean Claude Roy. 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. It’s A Small, Small Work • WE (11/16) through FR (12/31) - It’s A Small, Small Work will feature works that are 12 inches or smaller by over 100 regional artists. On display at Gallery 86 86 N. Main St. Info: info@haywoodarts.org or 452-0593.

• SU (11/20), 1-5pm - Artists’ reception will be held as part of Waynesville’s holiday open house.

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Bark and run for a good cause What: A morning jog with a dog can be a refreshing start to the day, but throw in several dozen canines and runners, and you’ve got yourself a pack of do-gooders. The Trails and Tails 5K will benefit the Asheville Humane Society and the Buncombe County Sports Park. Serious runners are encouraged to race (without their dogs) at 8:30 a.m. for cash prizes. If you’d rather take a stroll or go for a more casual run, wellbehaved dogs are invited to jog beside their humans at 10 a.m. Whether you’re able to make it to the race or not, the Asheville Humane Society is always looking for donations of kitty litter, toys, paper towels and food for dogs and cats.

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• 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 • 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.

Mountain Sculpture Gathering • SA (11/19), 11am-5pm - The Mountain Sculpture

Gathering will be held at Steebo Design Studio, 355 Haywood Road. Info: 2534610.

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.

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.

SemiPublic Gallery This space for contemporary art is open Thurs.-Sat., 27pm and by appointment.

Located at 305 Hillside St.

Info: www.semipublicgallery.com or 215-8171.

• SA (11/19) through MO (12/12) - KunstHaus: Austrian Invitational, works by Peter Eder, Ottilie Grossmayer, Sylvia Vorwagner.

• SA (11/19), 6-9pm Opening reception.

Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm and Sun., noon-5pm.

Info: www.sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107.

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• Through SU (3/11) - A Blue Ridge Rhapsody, works by Paul Hastings.

Study Abroad Photo Exhibit • Through WE (11/30) - Study Abroad will feature the winners of the study abroad photo contest. Held in UNCA’s Blowers Gallery in the Ramsey Library. Info: 251-6436.

• TH (11/17), noon-1pm - Opening reception.

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.

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

• TH (11/17), 5-8pm - Opening reception for The Journeymen, works by Anis Crofts and John Dempsey.

The Village Potters Located at 191 Lyman St., #180. Hours: Mon.–Sat., 10am–6pm. Info: www. thevillagepotters.com or 658-0770.

• SA (11/19), 6-8pm - Grand opening celebration will feature gallery and studio tours, along with refreshments.

Trunk Show • FR (11/18), 3-8pm - A trunk show with jewelry artist Kathy Van Kleeck and knitwear designer Cara May will be held at MODA Boutique, 8 Town Square Blvd. Info: 277-3601.

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.

aRt/CRaft faIRs Marshall Handmade Market • SA (11/19), 10am-5pm - The Marshall Handmade Market will feature arts, crafts, wearables and edibles. Held on the island in downtown Marshall. Info: www.marshallhandmade. com.

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

artsofbrevard.org or 8842787.

• WE (11/16) through FR (12/16) - Santa’s Palette holiday show and sale.

• FR (11/25), 5-9pm Opening reception.

Voorhees Family Art Show • SA (11/19), 10am-5pm & SU (11/20), noon-5pm - The Voorhees Family Art Show and sale will be held at 43 Woodward Ave. Caren Goldman will sign copies of her book Restoring Life’s Missing Pieces. Info: www. handinhandgallery.com or 697-7719.

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.

Artists for Holiday Artist Market • Through SA (11/19) - The Center for Spiritual Living Asheville invites artists to participate in the Holiday Artist Market, taking place Nov. 19 to Nov. 20 at 2 Science of Mind Way. All items must be handmade.

Info: info@cslasheville.org.

Eco Arts Awards • Through 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.

Handcrafted Holiday Market • Through TH (12/16) - Arts2People’s Handcrafted Holiday Market will accept applications for artists and crafters through Dec. 16.

Market runs Nov. 15-Dec. 24. Info: www.arts2people. 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.

Classes, Meetings, Events & Lectures 24th Annual “Hard Candy Christmas;” Arts & Crafts Show • November 25-26 (pd.) At Western Carolina University Ramsey Center, Friday/Saturday, 10am-5pm each day. • Come early for crafts from the hands of 100 regional artisans. The area’s best potters, glass artists, and woodcrafts. • Old World Santas, heirloom ornaments, and fresh wreaths. Admission: $3 adults, children under 12 free. Free parking. (828) 524-3405. www.mountainartisans.net Open Stitch Groups at Purl’s Yarn Emporium (pd.) On Wall Street downtown: Wednesdays, 10am12pm; Thursdays, 6-8pm.

Bring a knit or crochet project or find something new to cast on. (828) 253-2750. www.purlsyarnemporium. com (pd.) STUDIO SHOW AND SALE • Four professional craft artists come together to share our beautiful, unique and affordable creations for the holidays. Free admission. Saturday (11/19) 10am-7pm 34 Cabin Cove Rd., Leicester 828-5150542 ACT vs SAT Comparison Test • SATURDAYS, 9am & SUNDAYS, 1pm - Asheville students are invited to take an “ACT vs SAT Comparison Test” to determine which represents their best match. Held at Chyten Educational Services, 1550 Hendersonville Road, Suite 104, Asheville. Free. Info and reservations: www. chyten-asheville.com or 505-2495.

Arab Spring • FR (11/18), 7pm - A discussion about what prompted the Arab Spring will be presented by United Nations Association at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: 318-7418.

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

• FR (11/18), noon-1pm - Lunchtime art break will feature a tour of The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire |Water.

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.

• WEDNESDAYS (11/16) through (12/21), 7-10pm “The Art of Intimacy: Really hearing and sharing skillfully can foster conscious connection, resulting in true friendships, relationships and community.” White level (non-sexual discussion for all quality relationships).

• THURSDAYS (11/17) through (12/29), 7-10pm - “The Art of Intimacy.” Pink level (discussion includes sexual intimacy). No class Nov. 24.

• FR (11/18), 7-10pm - “Sacred Tantra: Discourse and Movement.”

• SA (11/19), 1-5:30pm - “Sexy and Soulful Loving: The 4 Essential Elements.”

—- 7-10pm - “Sacred moments where sexuality and spirituality can be explored simultaneously.”

• 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.”

AshevilleConnects • TH (11/17), 5:30-7:30am - AshevilleConnects, a local initiative to strengthen the community, will meet at 34 Wall St. $15. Info: www. ashevilleconnects.com.

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

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.

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.

Coupon Class • MO (11/21), 7-8pm - A coupon-cutting class will be held at the Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $10. Info: nicole2k@aol. com or 456-9207.

Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.ctacenter.org.

• WEDNESDAYS through (12/7), 4-5:30pm - Holiday gift making workshop.

• THURSDAYS 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.

Drumming and Toning for Creative Expression • TH (11/17), 6pm - Linda Go will host a drumming and vocalizing healing session at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. Drums provided. Info: 776-3786.

Ethical Society of Asheville A humanistic, religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. Meetings are held at the YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St. Info: www.aeu.org or 6877759.

• SU (11/20), 2-3:30pm - “Mirror Neurons and Empathy: Why People are Good With or Without God.” Events at New Creation ICCC New Creation International Christian Community Church is located at 33 Grace Way, Fletcher. Info: www.newcreationnc.org or 582-6968.

• 3rd MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - “At the Table” discussion group aims to build bridges within the community. Share a meal (provided), thoughts and opinions while making new friends.

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

• TH (11/17), 7pm - “Life Was a Cabaret,” a lecture

on the German LGBT movement in the Weimar and Nazi eras.

• TH (11/17), 2pm Asheville Homeless Network meeting.

• TU (11/22), 7pm - The Asheville Ruby Meetup is open to professional programmers and beginners.

• WE (11/16) & WE (11/23), 5pm - An Asheville Copwatch meeting will promote civilian police oversight.

Anniversary Celebration • SU (11/20) - Dynamite Roasting Company’s anniversary celebration will feature free coffee and espresso throughout the day and music by Floating Action, Swayback Sisters and Dave Desmelik in the evening. Info: www.dynamiteroasting.com.

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: 3502048.

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.

Occupy is The Word • SA (11/19), 8pm - Occupy is The Word, an event featuring poetry, music and local food, will be held at Flood Gallery, 109 Roberts St. $5-$7 suggested donation. Info: www. ashevilletravelingbonfires. blogspot.com.

Playground Ribbon Cutting • TH (11/17), 4-4:45pm Mayor Bellamy, City Council members, Parks and Rec staff and East End neighbors will celebrate the new Martin Luther King Jr. playground with a ribbon cutting. Held at 50 MLK Jr. Drive. Info: 252-3250.

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

• FR (11/18), 11:25am - “World War Two and the Holocaust,” with John McClain, lecturer in humanities, and Tracy Rizzo, asso-

ciate professor of history.

Held in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: humanities. unca.edu. —- 11:25am “Representation and Cultural Intersection,” with Seamus McNerney, lecturer in humanities. Held in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall.

Schindler’s Youngest Survivor • TU (11/22), 7-8pm - The Lifetree Cafe program will feature a filmed interview with Leon Leyson, who was 13 years old when Oskar Schindler put him to work and saved his life during the Holocaust. Refreshments will be served. Held at Mountain Java, 901 Smoky Park Highway, Candler.

Free. Info: tharkey@octoberroadinc.com.

The Appalachian Chapter of the American Society of Dowsers Meets at the Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: www.appalachiandowsers. org.

• SA (11/19), 1-4:30pm - Four local dowsers on four “worldly” subjects. $10/free for members.

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.

WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment.

Info: www.wnca.org or 258-8737.

• FRI (11/18), 5pm - Explore the night sky over Mount Pisgah during a stargazing trip with the Astronomy Club of Asheville. All ages welcome.

Telescopes and hot chocolate provided. Directions upon registration. Info: joy@ wnca.org or 258-8737.

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.

Business & Technology 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 Art Adventure • TU (11/22), 5:30-7:30pm - Fingo Adventures will celebrate the launch of Asheville Art Adventure, a mobile app to highlight Asheville’s public art and the Urban Trail. Launch party will be held at the Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. Registration required by Nov. 18. Info: info@gofingo.com.

Asheville SCORE Counselors to Small Business Seminars are held at A-B Tech’s Small Business Center, room 2046. Free for veterans. Info: www.ashevillescore.org or 242-0277.

• TH (11/17), 6-9:30pm Advanced internet marketing seminar. $30.

Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Info: www.ctacenter.org.

• THURSDAYS through (12/8), 5:30pm “Wordpress Basics and Beyond.” Adults. $10/first class free.

• THURSDAYS 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).

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Search â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hop Cafeâ&#x20AC;? on Facebook or 254-2224. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/17), 6-7pm BreakThru will feature local b-boys and b-girls.

Festivals Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 35pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (12/3) - A holiday market will be held during regular museum hours. Closed on Thanksgiving. â&#x20AC;˘ SU (11/20), 1-6pm Reception.

Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E Walnut St. Info: www.ashevilletheatre. org. â&#x20AC;˘ FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/18) until (12/4) - Dashing Through the Snow. No performance Nov. 25.

Asheville Community Yoga Center Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/24), 10-11am â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Practice of Gratitude,â&#x20AC;?

Thanksgiving day yoga. All ages and levels welcome for yoga and brunch.

Asheville Holiday Parade â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 11am - The Asheville holiday parade will feature marching, drumming, dancing, llamas, tractors and more. The Downtown Mountain Mile, a run/walk and competitive race, will proceed. Info: www.ashevilleparade.org or www.redcrosswnc.org.

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

Tickets: 257-4530. Info: www.ashevillelyric.org or 236-0670. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 7:30pm - The annual Christmas show will feature Colette Boudreaux, Andrea Blough and others. Santa will make an appearance. Donations of unwrapped toys for underprivileged children encouraged.

Celebration Singers of Asheville Community childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chorus for ages 7-14. For audition/performance info: www.singasheville.org or 230-5778. â&#x20AC;˘ SU (11/20), 4pm â&#x20AC;&#x153;Believe,â&#x20AC;? a holiday concert, will feature the Asheville Community Youth Chorus.

Italian dinner to follow. Held at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. $5 dinner.

Events at Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 7pm - Tom Mendocino and Michael Salvatore will read from their new book Remembering Christmas.

â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 6-8pm - Adornaments will feature handmade ornaments for sale at Flow, 14 Main St., Marshall. Info: 649-1686.

Hands On! This childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 2-5pm - Kids are invited to write and deliver a letter to Santa in person.

Holiday Ball â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 7-9pm - A holiday ball will be held at Shiloh Recreation Center, 121 Shiloh Road. $2. Info: 350-2048.

Holiday Fair â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 10am-1pm - The Mills River Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market will host a holiday fair at G&B Energy Center, Highway 280, Mills River.

Info: Maryann.osby@gmail. com.

Holiday Lighting Celebration â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 6-9pm - The annual Holiday Lighting Celebration will be held at Biltmore Park Town Square, 2 Town Square Blvd. Info: www.biltmorepark.com or 210-1660.

Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre Located at 2 South Pack Square. Info: www.dwtheatre.com or 257-4530. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (11/18), 7:30pm - The Asheville Christmas Show will feature the Asheville Choral Society, Western Carolina Rockettes and Santa. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. Info: www. ashevillelyric.org.

Skyuka Fine Art Located at 133 N. Trade St., in Tryon. Info: 817-3783 or info@skyukafineart.com. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19) through SU (1/15) - Peace, Joy and Paint holiday art exhibit. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 5-8pm Opening reception.

Handcrafted Holiday Market â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (12/24) Arts2People holiday market will be held at 91 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.arts2people. org.

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. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (11/16) through WE (1/4) - The Carolina Christmas Celebration will feature fresh trees and seven decorated period rooms.

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Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

Info: www.unitync.net, 6843798 or 891-8700. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (11/23). 7:30pm - Thanksgiving Eve service will celebrate gratitude. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/24), 1pm Thanksgiving feast. Bring dish to share or $5 donation. Call for reservation.

Valdese Heritage Arts Center Located at 146 Main St. W., Valdese. Info: 874-1849. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 11am-3pm - Christmas preview open house will feature demonstrations, gifts and an opportunity to meet the artists. Patricia Looper will sign her book Christmas Eve Stories.

Garden Ikenobo Ikebana Society The Blue Ridge Chapter of Ikenobo Ikebana Society (Japanese Flower Arranging) meets monthly at St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Wilderness Parish House (Rt. #225 South and Rutledge Road) in Flat Rock.

Info: 696-3140. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (11/17), 9:45am - Monthly meeting will focus on free style arrangements with seasonal materials.

Kids Celebration Singers â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS, 6:207:45pm - The Celebration Singers of Asheville Community Youth Chorus invites children ages 714 to join. Held at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St. Info: 230-5778.

Fall Family Day â&#x20AC;˘ SA (11/19), 10am-noon - Fall Family Day, featuring snacks, prizes and activities that encourage childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in art, will be held at WCUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Art Museum.

Free. Info: www.wcu.edu/ museum.

Hands On! This childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm.

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freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold.

Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas, unburdened by the overwrought excess? I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks, Aries. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, extraneous buffers, and pretentious puffery.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: Evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they’re obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or please her parents or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering or make interesting works of art? It’s an excellent time to ponder these issues, Taurus — and then take action to ensure you’re surrounded by moths that favor beautiful candles.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In Santa Cruz there used to be a nightclub that featured live rock bands on a big stage but enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm.

Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you’re in now, Gemini. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some organic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it is very skilled at transforming itself. It sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You’re in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening, Cancerian. Your commitment to change doesn’t have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vigorous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Progress isn’t made by early risers,” wrote author Robert Heinlein. “It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

That’s exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks.

You don’t have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won’t help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a “happy-golucky” person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Our elders know you don’t find the answer by asking thousands of questions,” says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group The Last Tree (thelasttree.net). “The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning.” I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Given the sparkly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In a review of James Gleick’s book *The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood,* *The Week* magazine reported that “the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003.” From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don’t be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you’ve been taking in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment.

The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. “Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume,” he continues, and then “build a staircase. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, going up, not very high . . . Don’t go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds.” Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It’s a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present moment as you

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free yourself from “the unrepairable past.” (Read the poem at bit.ly/NerudaOde.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn’t afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called *Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.* To be as thorough and careful as he could possibly be about such an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement. I hope that you are as scrupulous in wrapping up loose ends in the coming week, Sagittarius, especially when you’re dealing with enigmas and riddles.

As you seek resolution and completion, go well beyond the bare minimum.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A great deal of land in the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea by human effort. But the system of dikes that holds back the primal flow is not a foolproof or permanent guarantee against flooding. That’s why more and more people are building homes that can float if they have to. “We are actually trying to move away from fighting against the water,” says architect Koen Olthuis. “We are beginning to make friends with the water.” I recommend you adopt this as a useful metaphor, Capricorn. During the coming months, you should be doing a lot of foundation work. What can you do to add buoyancy?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) According to my old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown, “Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you — madness is in the saddle anyhow.” Let’s take this hypothesis as our starting point, Aquarius. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lunacy.

Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy — the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpetrates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It won’t be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength, clarity, and intelligence in the coming weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer, and smarter. No pressure, right? Don’t worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you’ll need, imagine that you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing judiciously from that high-octane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain.

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School Dance • FR (11/18), 7-9pm - A school dance for grades 3-5 will be held at the Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $5. Info: youthprogramsupervisor@ townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030.

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.

• SA (11/19), 10:30am12:30pm - The Crafty Historian will celebrate American Indian Heritage Month. $5 includes craft materials. Reservations requested by Nov. 12.

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.

Outdoors Lake James State Park N.C. Highway 126. Info: 584-7728.

• TU (11/22), 10am - A waterfowl workshop to identify ducks and geese.

Binoculars encouraged, but not required. Meet at the campground parking area.

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•FR (11/18), 8pm - The Billy Sea. $12.

•SA (11/19), 8pm - An Evening with Willy Porter and special guest SONiA. $20.

A Delicate Balance • FR (11/18) until SU (11/20), 2:30pm - A Delicate Balance will be performed by the Readers Theatre Showcase at 35 Below, 35 E. Walnut St., on Fri. and Sat. Sunday performance will be held at UNCA’s Reuter Center. $5 at the door. Info: indigousa@ bellsouth.net.

AmiciMusic • FR (11/18), 7pm - AmiciMusic, the new Asheville chamber music organization dedicated to intimate performances in non-traditional spaces, will present “A Short History of the Piano, Part 3 (185090),” an evening of solo piano with Daniel Weiser.

Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $15/$5 students and children. Info: www.amicimusic.org or www.whitehorseblackmountain.com.

Anam Cara Theatre Company • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS 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.

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

• SU (11/20), 3pm - The pianoforte concert series will feature Nathan Shirley. $8/$6 members.

Registration recommended.

Info: 253-3227.

Asheville Playback Theatre An improvisational theatre experience building a community of neighbors and honoring personal stories. $10/$5 students (but no one turned away). Info: http://avl. mx/6x.

• FR (11/18), 8pm - The Asheville Playback Theatre will perform improv theater.

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

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

• SA (11/19), 8pm - The Asheville Symphony Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.

Au Revoir Les Enfants • FR (11/18), 7:30pm - Au Revoir Les Enfants will be screened by Hendersonville Sister Cities at Blue Ridge Community College’s Patton Auditorium. Info: www.hendersonvillesistercities.org.

Battle of the Songwriters • WE (11/23), 8-11pm - Battle of the Songwriters invites solo singer/songwriters to perform for prizes.

Held at the Black Mountain Ale House, 117-C Cherry St. Free for participants and spectators. Info: www. blackmountainalehouse.com or 669-9090.

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: www.transitionhendersonville.com.

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. Call for confirmation.

Chris Wilhelm • FR (11/18), 6:30-7:30pm - Chris Wilhelm (singersongwriter) will perform at the Hop West, 721 Haywood Road.

Classic World Cinema Foreign Film Series • FR (11/18), 8pm - Marketa Lazarová (Czechoslovakia, 1967) by Frantisek Vlácil. Held at the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Robert St. Info: www.ashevillecourtyard.com.

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: 310-7459150.

Films for One to Eight Projectors • WE (11/16), 7-9pm - Filmaker Roger Beebe will show his Films for One to Eight Projectors at Skyland Cinema, 538 N. Main Street, Hendersonville. Free. Info: ce_taylor@blueridge.edu.

Flat Rock Playhouse

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

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS through (11/20) - Doubt will be performed in the downtown theater, 25 South Main St., Hendersonville.

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/20) - Disney’s Peter Pan will be presented by the YouTheatre, 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock.

Daytime performance Nov. 16. $18/$10 students.

Reservations: 693-3517.

Hendersonville Chorale • SA (11/19), 4pm - Hendersonville Chorale winter concert will be held at First Baptist Church, 312 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville. $15. Info: 696-4968.

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 until (11/27) The Diary of Anne Frank.

Jam Session • 3rd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - Old-time jam session will be held at Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. 441. Info: www.nps. gov/grsm.

Land of the Sky Symphonic Band • SU (11/20), 7pm - The Land of the Sky Symphonic Band will perform at the Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. $12/$8 children. Info: www.dwtheatre.com or 257-4530.

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.

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

• TH (11/17), 4pm - A concert of student string and brass quintets.

• SU (11/20), 4pm - The UNCA Symphony will perform “Mozart Mosaic.” $5 students/children free.

Info: music.unca.edu or 251-6432.

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: 239-0263 or www.ncstage. org.

• TUESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (11/27) - It’s a Wonderful Life.

No performance on Thanksgiving.

One Leg Up • SU (11/20), 3pm - One Leg Up will perform at the Haywood County Public Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. Free. Info: 452-0593.

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

• WE (11/16) & TH (11/17), 10am - The Rivalry: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates • MO (11/21) & TU (11/22), 10am & noon - Madeline and the Bad Hat, a performance for children.

St. Matthias Musical Performances Located at 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 285-0033.

• SU (11/20), 3pm - Clearwater Connection Duo. Symphony Talk • FR (11/18), 3pm - A symphony talk with Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s Daniel Meyer will be held in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: www.unca.edu/ncccr.

The Calder Quartet • FR (11/18), 8pm - The Calder Quartet will perform as part of the Asheville Chamber Music Series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place at Charlotte Street. $35/students free. Info: www.ashevillechambermusic.org or 259-3626.

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.”

• TU (11/22), 8pm - Andy Sandford. $5.

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.

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

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

Clinically proven to boost brain function and reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. Allows you to effortlessly transcend the busy, agitated mind to experience inner peace and unbounded awareness. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: How meditation techniques differ • Meditation and brain research • What is enlightenment? (828) 254-4350. www.MeditationAsheville. org Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment. Guided meditations follow the Insight/ Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind.

Our “sangha” (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited. • By donation. • Tuesdays, 7pm8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks.

• The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 808-4444. • www. ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional

astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

Awareness Group • This Saturday (pd.) Come relax and be inspired with Crystal and Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing, Breathwork and Guided Meditation. Facilitated by Isa Soler, LMHC, LPC, C.Ht. • Saturday, Nov. 19, 4pm5:30pm, Lighten Up Yoga.

• 60 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville. Donations accepted. isa@awaretherapy.com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Great for couples!

Group uses model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book “Non-violent Communication, A Language of Life.” Free.

Info: 299-0538 or www. ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:006:15—Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Events To Uplift Humanity With Bill Bowers (pd.) Bill Bowers Guidance: Connect with Spirit in a private or group session.

• Contact Bill: (828) 2169039 or visionsjtf@hotmail. com • www.billbowersguidance.com Mindfulness Meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241 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.

This Saturday • 7PM (pd.) High frequency channeled classical improvisational piano concert

by Aurora Foxx, Light Center, Black Mountain. • November 19, 7pm, $15.

• A sacred space activating ascension frequencies, renewal, oneness with nature and Violet Flame St. Germain resonance. (828) 658-3362.

Asheville Community Yoga Center

Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com.

• SU (11/20), 1-3pm - “Open Hips, Open Heart: A Meditative Yoga Journey Accompanied by Native American flutes.” Advance registration required.

Bach Flower Remedies • SU (11/20), 2-5pm - Bach flower remedies to relieve stress and help with aging will be offered at Jubilee! 46 Wall St. $25 for both sessions. Registration requested: 299-8657.

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.

Divine Energy Share • WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - All are welcome to participate in this Healing Circle, including reiki practitioners, other energy workers and non-practitioners curious to tap their healing potential.

By donation. Meets at 60 Caledonia Road #B (the carriage house behind the Kenilworth Inn Apartments).

Info: 707-2983.

Events at First Congregational United Church of Christ Located at Fifth Avenue W. and White Pine Drive, Hendersonville. Info: www. fcchendersonville.org.

• SU (11/20), 9:15pm Adult forum: “Marriage” with Rev. Barbara Rathbun.

Events at Montford Books & More Used bookstore hosting workshops and authors at 31 Montford Ave. Info: www.montfordbooks.com or 285-8805.

• SUNDAYS, 7pm-8:30 - Join Buddhist teacher Hannah Kim for an exploration of the book, Modern Buddhism, by Gehse Kelsang Gyatso. Includes meditation, talk and discussion. $8/$5 seniors and students. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail.com.

I Ching Support and Study Group • THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm “I Ching Support and Study Group,” a study of Taoism and I Ching practice. Will meet at an area cafe, to be determined. Info: patrickgfrank@gmail.com.

Infinite Way • THURSDAYS, 2-3:15pm - Tape study group, based on the mysticism of Joel

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Goldsmith, will be held at the United Research Light Center, 2190 NC Highway 9, Black Mountain. Info: 669-6845.

Interfaith Panel • TH (11/17), 7pm - The UNCA Religious Studies Club and the Muslim Student Association will host panelists from a variety of religious and secular traditions to discuss “Is religion relevant today?” Audience Q&A will follow. Held at UNCA’s Highsmith grotto. Info: www. unca.edu or 251-6600.

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.

Love, the Keystone to Life • SU (11/20), 11am-noon - “Herein lies the key to love.

Love builds bridges. Soul exists because God loves it. Soul equals Soul; no one Soul is greater than another. Discover keys to a life of greater love, wisdom and freedom.” Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road. Info: www.eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775.

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.

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

Held at 41 Carolina Lane.

By donation. Info: 310-7459150.

Sounding the Chakras • SU (11/20), 1-2pm - Linda Go will present a workshop on vocalizing and breathwork with the sounds of the chakras at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. Donations appreciated.

Info: 776-3786.

Unity Center Events Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

Info: www.unitync.net, 6843798 or 891-8700.

• WE (11/16), 7-8:30pm - Healer’s night will feature massage, Omega bodywork,

Reiki sessions and more.

Love offering.

• SU (11/20), 12:45pm Friendship potluck. Bring 6-8 servings of main dish, salad or desert.

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 —- 12:30-2pm - 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.

Spoken & Written Word Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked

by the following location abbreviations: 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, 2506486) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • (11/16), 5-7pm - Library knitters. SW • TH (11/17), 2pm - Book club: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. SS • FR (11/18) & SA (11/19), 10am-4pm - Bookends Used Book Store will host an antique and collectible book sale. PM

City Lights Bookstore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Info: more@citylightsnc.com or 586-9499.

• TH (11/17), 10:30am - Katherine Soniat will lead Coffee with the Poet.

• SA (11/19), 2pm - A presentation of the new edition of Camping and Woodcraft

by Horace Kephart.

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 2546734.

• 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.

• TH (11/17), 7pm - Ellen G. Horovitz will present her new book Digital Image Transfer: Creating Art With Your Photography.

• SU (11/20), 3pm Readings from UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program.

• MO (11/21), 7:15pm Comix club.

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.

Horace Kephart • TH (11/17), 6pm - A presentation of the new edition of Camping and Woodcraft

by Horace Kepharat will be held at Diamond Brand, 2623 Hendersonville Road.

Info: www.diamondbrand. com.

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.

Tellabration!

• SU (11/20), 3pm Tellabration! hosted by the Ashevilly Storytelling Circle, will be held at the Folk Art Center, MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. $5. Info: 667-4227.

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.

• 1st and 3rd MONDAYS, 7:30-10pm - The Synergy Story Slam is an opportunity to share stories, laugh, learn and build a stronger community. Registration begins at 7pm.

Sports Hot Chocolate 10K Training Program! (pd.) 9 weeks. Personalized coached workouts every Wednesday at 6pm and Saturday at 9am. All levels.

Carrier Park and UNC-A. $90. (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. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com 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.

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

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

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

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

•THURSDAYS, 6pm - 8-mile run from Jus’ Running store.

• SA (11/19), 9am Strength training seminar.

Free. Registration: 813-5055600.

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: stephenslee@ ashevillenc.gov or 3502058.

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 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.

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 bi-monthly outings.

Activities are free or lowcost. Volunteers are also

needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school 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 session Nov. 29.

A nonprofit alternative therapy program for veterans.

Info: info@helioswarriors. org, www.helioswarriors.org or 299-0776.

• 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.

Center for New Beginnings • The Center for New Beginnings seeks volunteers for community awareness and services for crime victims and survivor’s of traffic fatalities, suicides and other death-related incidents.

Volunteer training Nov. 16, 5:30-7pm, at 34 Wall St. Info: contact@centerfornb. org or 989-9306.

Holiday Hero • Through FR (12/16) - Youth Villages will accept donations for Holiday Heroes, a program for abused and neglected children, or those with mental health issues. Unwrapped gifts can be dropped off at Youth Villages, 38 Rosscraggon Road, Suite 38C by Dec. 16. Checks for $75 will be accepted through Dec. 12. Info: Stephanie.

Hoyle@YouthVillages.org or 704-357-7943.

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 AshevilleBuncombe 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.

• 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.

• SA (11/19), 10am-noon - Kids Care. Ages 4-6 are invited to bake cookies for families who are staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center.

The center provides lodging for families from out of town who have a loved one in an area hospital. Children ages 7-12 are invited to make holiday crafts for the Mediation Center’s family visitation program.

• SA (11/19), 10am-1pm - Fair-Trade Stock-Up: Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

Helios Warriors Health Care Program for Veterans

Manna Food Bank Volunteer Opportunity • TU (11/22), 6-9pm - Interfaith Thanksgiving volunteer opportunity to benefit Manna Food Bank will depart from Warren Wilson College’s Gladfelter dinning hall. Info: www.warren-wilson.edu or 800-934-3536.

MANNA FoodBank Drive • Through WE (11/30) - High Vista Country Club, 88 Country Club Road in Mills River, will collect nonperishable, canned goods for MANNA FoodBank. Info: 891-1986 or natalie@highvistagolf.com.

New Opportunities Thrift Store • The Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway in Hendersonville, seeks donations for the New Opportunities Thrift Store.

Volunteers during store hours also needed. Info: 692-0575.

Operation Christmas Child • Through MO (11/21), 8am-8pm - The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, 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 8842787.

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

Info: tcarts@comporium.net.

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 for clinical study. Info: ChildDivorceStudy@gmail. com.

WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment.

Info: www.wnca.org or 258-8737.

• FR (11/18), 9:30am3:30pm - Campsite construction on the French Broad River will be held on private land in Henderson County. Call for exact location.

YWCA MotherLove Giving Tree • Through FR (12/16) - The YWCA MotherLove Giving Tree will be on display at 185 S. French Broad Ave. The Giving Tree is made of stars bearing wishes from a local teen mother. The public is invited to the YWCA to provide gifts children. Info: 254-7206.

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What: Party for the People, a fundraiser for the Women’s Wellbeing and Development Foundation’s Healthy Living Program.

Where: Jubilee! 46 Wall St. in Asheville When: Friday, Nov. 18, 6-8:30 p.m. ($25. wwd-f.org or 255-8777) Why: Eating fresh, local food might come as second nature to some Xpress readers, but it is not a given. The Women’s Wellbeing and Development Foundation’s Healthy Living Program teaches women living in Asheville’s public housing neighborhoods how to make informed decisions about what they put in their mouth and what they feed their children. Nutrition and cooking classes offer easy and affordable ways to improve their health. Planting-and-harvesting workshops teach women how to become more self-sufficient in their personal or community gardens. The healthy living program also offers dance, strengthening and yoga classes, along with hiking excursions for children — quite a feat for a local nonprofit with just three staff members.

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benefitscalendar CALENDAR foR NovEmbER 16 - 24, 2011 Appalachian Trail Conservancy Film Screening • SA (11/19), 10:30am-noon - The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will screen America’s Wild Spaces: the Appalachian Trail at The Carolina Asheville, 1640 Hendersonville Road. $30. Info: www.appalachiantrail.org/discover.

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.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Fundraiser BWAR is a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless dogs and cats find permanent homes. Info: www.bwar.org or 458-7778.

• FR (11/18), 5:30 & 8:30pm - Drag Queen Bingo, featuring some of Asheville’s most popular drag queens, will benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Held at Loretta’s Cafe, 114 N. Lexington Ave. $15 for eight games. Advance tickets recommended.

• SA (11/19), 7pm - A “Trashion Show” will feature upcycled clothing to benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Held at WNC Community Center, 312 Haywood Road. $10.

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.

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Concert for Heating Assistance Program • SA (11/19), 6-8:30pm - A crockpot supper and benefit concert for Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry’s heating assistance fund will be held at Covenant Community United Methodist Church, 11 Rocket Drive. Bring soup, chili, bread or desert.

Zoe Seed will perform. Info: 298-8955.

Fall Charity Jam • SA (11/19), noon-10pm - Asheville Fall Charity Jam will feature Snake Oil Medicine Show, Phuncle Sam and others to benefit the family of fallen firefighter Capt. Jeff Bowen. Held at Avery’s Spring Disc Golf Course, Brevard Road. $25/$10 camping. Info: www.ashevillefallcharityjam.com.

Holiday Market and Book Sale • SA (11/19), 9am-3pm - The Holiday Market and Book Sale will feature vendors and raffles to benefit the Glen Arden Elementary School PTO. Held at Glen Arden Elementary School, 50 Pinehurst Circle, Arden. Free.

Info: mstrauss13@gmail.com.

Party for the People • FR (11/18), 6-8:30pm - Party for the People, featuring live music from Secret B-Sides, local food, raffles, a silent auction and a performance by Hillcrest youth, will benefit WWD-F’s Healthy Living Program.

Held at Jubilee! Community, 46 Wall Street.

Info: nicole@wwd-f.org.

Tails and Trails 5K • SA (11/19), 8:30am-noon - The Tails and Trails 5K, which will also include a run/walk for dogs and their owners, will depart from Buncombe County Sports

Park, 58 Apac Circle. Proceeds benefit the Asheville Humane Society and the Buncombe County Sports Park. $25/$20 in advance. Info and registration: www. buncombecounty.org/parks.

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.

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 (11/22), 5-8pm - Ashvegas website launch and Asheville Grown benefit.

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinner • WE (11/23), 5-9pm - A 3-course, vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner to benefit Animal Haven will be held at Plant Restaurant, 165 Merrimon Ave. Reservations recommended. $30. Info: www.plantisfood.com.

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“You eat meat, so why not blood?” asked Toronto’s The Globe and Mail, which sampled several local restaurants’ sanguinary haute cuisines, including the Italian eatery Buca’s spaghetti with blood-blackened noodles and torta di sanguinaccio (figs, almonds, buffalo-milk creme on a dark chocolate/pig’s blood custard).

Patrons “thought we were crazy,” said chef Rob Gentile, but now “can’t seem to get enough.”

The Black Hoof restaurant uses 10 liters of fresh blood a week for dishes like blood custard seasoned with rosemary and pickled pears; DNA sometimes features blood soup and blood pasta.

(The Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark — which some consider the world’s best restaurant — marinates cauliflower in pig’s blood.)

The continuing crisis • “I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. And you’re not going to get me to get it,” Marine Lt. Col. Jerry Turner told a Wall Street Journal reporter in Afghanistan in October, after learning that a few of his troops sported eyebrows artistically sculpted by a barber in Shinwar. “Stylist” Gulam Farooq can’t practice on Muslims (forbidden) but said one or two Marines come by every day for tapering (in between calling in artillery barrages).

• A street vendor in Leipzig, Germany, was revealed in September to be shamelessly selling custom-tailored garments made from house-cat fur. An initial report in the sensationalist tabloid Bild was doubted, but a follow-up by Germany’s premier news source, Der Spiegel, confirmed the story. The vendor said he needs eight cats to make a vest (priced at the equivalent of $685) and 18 for a coat. But this is illegal under German and European Union laws, and the man subsequently denied selling such items.

Family values • Too Soon? An 11-year-old California boy and a 7-year-old Georgia girl have recently decided, with parental support, to come out as the opposite gender. Tommy, said his lesbian parents, wants more time to think about it and has begun taking hormone blockers in case he decides to

go through with plans (first disclosed at age 3) to become “Tammy.” The McIntosh County, Ga., girl has been living as a boy for a year, said father Tommy Theollyn, a transgendered man who’s actually the biological mother. Theollyn unsuccessfully petitioned the school board in September to allow the child (whom he said first noticed she was a boy at age 18 months) to use the boys’ bathroom.

• Recurring Theme: Italian men are notorious “bamboccionis” (“big babies”) who exploit doting mothers, remaining in the family home well into adulthood, expecting meals and laundry service. Many mothers are tolerant, but in September an elderly couple in the town of Mestre announced that if their 41-year-old, gainfully employed son didn’t leave by a certain deadline, the consumer association would file a lawsuit to evict him. (No news update has been found, suggesting that the son moved out.)

Cutting-edge tactics • Crime-Fighting: (1) In October, about 120 professional mimes began voluntarily patrolling the traffic-congested Sucre district of Caracas, Venezuela, at the request of Mayor Carlos Ocariz.

The white-gloved mimes’ specialty was wagging their fingers at scofflaw motorists and pedestrians; mimes interviewed by the Associated Press reported improvements. (2) At least 300 professional clowns from Mexico and Central America, in Mexico City for an October convention, demonstrated against the country’s drug-cartel violence by laughing nonstop, in unison, for 15 minutes.

• Parenting: Freemon Seay, 38, was arrested in Thurston County, Wash., in October on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after

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Bright ideas • In Malone, N.Y., in September, Clyde Gardner, 57, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for plotting to murder his ex-girlfriend. He first planned to don a bearskin (walking on the paws to avoid leaving shoe prints) and “maul” her with the claws. Gardner, a demolition-derby driver, later promised a friend $15,000 to kill her in a car crash, offering expert instruction (the friend turned Gardner in).

• Awesome! An October ABC News report revealed that drug smugglers had dug tunnels from Nogales, Mexico, to Nogales, Ariz., perfectly engineered to end along International Street’s metered parking spaces. Vans with false bottoms were parked in certain spaces; smugglers in the vans broke though the pavement to meet the tunnelers and load the drugs. The crews then repaired the pavement, and the vans departed.

The Arizona city’s mayor called it “unbelievable.”

Armed and clumsy (all new) • More People Who Shot Themselves: A 23year-old man in Fayetteville, N.C., (June) and a 22-year-old in Seminole, Fla., (October) accidentally shot themselves in the head while assuring friends their guns weren’t dangerous. A firearms instructor shot himself in the thigh during his recertification class at the Smith & Wesson facility in Springfield, Mass. (September). A man on a first date at a Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Charlotte, N.C., shot himself in the leg while escorting her to their car (September). A 27-year-old in Chandler, Ariz., inexpertly using his waistband as a holster, caused a “groin” injury (August).

And in July, Milwaukee police secured a search warrant to photograph felon Otis Lockett’s penis (which he’d accidentally shot off) as evidence that he’d illegally possessed a gun. X

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A speaker at the event, WNCAP educator Michael Harney known as “Rubber Man,” made the case that people still need to protect themselves and get treated if they catch HIV, the infection that causes AIDS. “Everybody knows I talk about condoms,” said Harney, after the marchers gathered to display their signs. Responsible for many of the bowls of free condoms set out at more than 35 bars, restaurants and other Asheville-area locations, Harney has spent the last few decades advocating for open, honest communication surrounding HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Last year, he helped distribute 164,000 condoms. “When condoms are used correctly [and] consistently, they reduce HIV infections, STD infections and, potentially, some hepatitis infections,” said Harney.

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Know your status: Local residents and activists marched Nov. 5 in the annual AIDS Awareness Walk, urging people to get educated about the disease. Photo

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parts of our body ‘coo-coo,’ and a ‘ding-dong,’ ‘wing-wong’ and a ‘bing-bong.’”

Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy also spoke, mentioning that 100,000 people in WNC have been diagnosed with HIV, and 20 to 25 percent of them don’t even know it. “HIV-AIDS doesn’t look at your race. It doesn’t look at your checkbook. It doesn’t look at if you graduate from high school,” Bellamy said. Educating people about the disease means educating everyone, she insisted, saying, “It is important for everyone in our community to know their status and be safe.”

In a separate interview, Chris Winebrenner, community resource coordinator at WNCAP, explained that the annual AIDS Awareness Walk attempts to remind people that the pandemic persists in our community. “The CDC

reports that over 56,000 are newly infected each year in this country, [with] a disproportionate number of infections in the South,” he said. “A lot of the infection rate is a result of the stigma that prevents people from getting tested and prevents people from accessing care if they do have a positive result.”

Open discussion about the disease could help reduce the stigma and decrease the spread of HIV-AIDS, Winebrenner emphasized. “When you talk about AIDS, you talk about all the social barriers that surround the disease: homophobia, racism, health care, poverty, mass imprisonment and access to medication. All those issues surround the disease, and it’s a big barrier we fight daily.”

This year, 48 local community partners supported the annual walk, including such groups

Help is Near Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, AIDS “was pretty much a death sentence,” says Winebrenner. But with better treatment programs and access to care, there’s hope.

For more information about care options, physicians and such programs as WNCAP’s support groups, visit the nonprofit’s website at wncap. org or call 800-346-3731 or 252-7489.

Winebrenner suggests that if an individual tests positive for HIV, the first thing to do is seek care, consult an HIV specialist and get into a treatment program.

WNCAP also has regional offices in Hendersonville (696-2267 ), Shelby (704 484-5274) and Sylva (631-9322).

as Blue Ridge Pride, Homeward Bound, Our VOICE, Planned Parenthood and the YWCA, he mentioned.

“Part of the walk is getting different stake holders in the community together and walking and recognizing that AIDS is still a problem,” Winebrenner said.

Local students got involved too. UNCA student Ed Heidel majors in health and wellness; his senior project focuses on getting his peers involved with the walk. “I just wanted to have UNCA represented at the event and in our community,” he said. “My hopes have been to improve awareness of a still-powerful disease.

… By increasing the number of young people in attendance at the event, generations can come together and all walks of life can see that HIV affects us all.”

Besides the sense of community the walk fostered, Heidel said the AIDS awareness walk “was successful because it brings out people from all walks of life … [AIDS] is an equal opportunity offender and the amazing thing is that it is completely preventable.” X Megan Dombroski is a senior journalism student at UNCA and an editor at The Blue Banner, the school’s newspaper.

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Health Programs 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 2312107 or empowering.solutions@yahoo.com or visit website: www.ebt.org 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: 1-828-692-5329.

Reiki Introduction and Healing Circle • This Saturday (pd.) November 19, 3-4:30pm. Perfect opportunity to try Reiki! After educating you about Reiki, we’ll do a Meditation followed by each person receiving a Reiki Treatment. $12. Downtown Asheville • RSVP: (828) 367-0434. www.AshevilleReiki.com 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. $120/8session class in Asheville with Steve Torma, 828-2545613. http://www.theREALcenter.org YWCA Club W Boot Camp (pd.) MONDAYS (12/5-9 and 12/12-19), 6:30-7:30 am.

Get in shape this season in the YWCA’s Club W Boot Camp. Improve cardio fitness and build lean muscle mass. Pre and post assessments. 185 S. French Broad Ave. Cost: $100/members, $175/non-members. Info: www.ywcaofasheville.org or 254-7206.

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.

• SU (11/20), 10am-5pm - Level 1 medical Qigong.

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.

• MO (11/21), 7pm - A discussion about how to reduce stress during the holidays will be led by Samantha Pollack.

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.

• 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.

• Free blood pressure screenings will be offered throughout the week. Call for times. Appointment not required.

• TH (11/17), 8:30-10am - “Ask The Dietitian” will feature 15-minute, one-on-one sessions. Free.

• FR (11/18), 9-10am - A1c screening for diabetics.

Fasting is not required. $20.

• 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 (11/22), 1-3pm - Health insurance guidance.

• WE (11/19) & WE (11/23), 8-10am - Cholesterol screening. Fasting and appointment required. $20.

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.

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 617-4075261.

Red Cross Blood Drive • MONDAYS, 12:30-5:30pm, TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 2-7pm, 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: 1-877975-2835.

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.

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Donating for the Holidays

Many organizations can use your help with food and monetary donations during the holidays and throughout the year.

It’s not a bad idea to check with the agencies to see if there is a need for specific food or toiletry items and locations and times when it is best to donate.

Here are just a few of the organizations in Asheville that serve this area.

Eblen Charities - http://www.eblencharities.org/how-you-can-help/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eblen-Kimmel-Charities/205340843736 Twitter: @eblencharities Phone: 828-255-3066 Manna Food Bank - http://mannafoodbank.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MANNAFoodBank Twitter: @MannaFoodBank Hearts with Hands - http://www.heartswithhands.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hearts-With-Hands/206143666083017 Phone: 1 800.726.9185 Phone: 828-299-3663 ABCCM (Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry) - http://www.abccm.org/ Phone: 828-259-5300

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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 800-2861326.

• 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. —- 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. Autism Parent Support Group • 4th THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Meet other parents of children with autism, share your experiences and learn from others. RSVP by 3rd Thursday to ensure childcare. Held at St. Gerard House, 718 Oakland St., Hendersonville.

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• 3rd MONDAYS, 5-6:30pm - CAPES (Caring for Aging Parents Education and Support) free support group meets monthly at Mission Hospital’s Wellness Resource Center, 50 Doctors Drive. CAPES serves anyone caring for or concerned about an aging parent or adult. January meeting on Wed. Jan. 4. Info: 277-8288 or 213-4542.

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: 9899306.

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.

Debters and Underearners Anonymous • MONDAYS, 7pm - The local chapter of Debtors Anonymous, a 12-step program, meets at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road.

Underearners Anonymous meets at 8pm. Info: www. debtorsanonymous.org, underearnersanonymous.org or 704-299-8909.

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-1:30pm & 5:30-7pm - Vet Center Out Station, a support group for veterans.

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• WE (11/16), 10-11:30am - Diabetes support group.

Registration not required. —- noon-1pm - Sjogren’s syndrome support group. Registration not required. —1-3pm - Myasthenia gravis 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.

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• TH (11/17) 5:30-7:30pm - Breast Friends Forever, a support group for breast cancer survivors. Registration suggested: 698-7334.

• SA (11/19), 10am-12:30pm - A support group for individuals dealing with mental illness and their loved ones. Registration not required.

• MONDAYS, 2-3pm - “It Works,” a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction.

Registration not required. Info: 489-7259.

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: 9893227.

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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 251-0126.

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: 3189179.

Marshall Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting • FRIDAYS, 8pm - AA meeting at Marshall Presbyterian Church, 165 South Main St. Info: soletpj@gmail.com.

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.

• TUESDAYS, 7pm - Support group for women.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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-stepbased recovery program meets at 20 Oak St. Info: www. slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@gmail.com.

WNC Brain Injury Network • 4th TUESDAYS, 6pm - A meeting for those with brain injuries, their families/supporters and interested community members. Meetings offer brain injury information, assistance with resources and an opportunity to network with others. Held at Foster SDA Church, 375 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Info: cherylesullivan@ braininjurysurvivalkit.com.

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

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:15-8pm - WNC Brain Tumor Support Group will meet at MAHEC Biltmore Campus, 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

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by Mackensy Lunsford Goats have an undeserved bad reputation.

They’re charged with eating absolutely everything and smelling fiercely bad while doing it, like a teenage boy, but with more facial hair. In our beef- and chicken-centric corner of the world, the bearded ruminant’s rather lowly status has kept its meat off the mainstream menu, but times are changing. Goat, already one of the the most widely consumed meats on the planet, is a staple of many types of cuisine — Caribbean, Indian and South American, to name a few — and it’s poised to make a cloven-hoofed entrance on a menu near you.

Though Kentucky Fried Goat is probably a long way off in the minds of the general public, some American eaters are coming around, especially with the prevalence of Latino fare and the increasing consumption of other international foods. With a dining public that’s increasingly concerned about health and quality (and more likely to think outside of the takeout box), goat meat is becoming more of a viable protein solution. Per ounce, goat packs more of a protein punch than beef, while taking less land and fewer resources to raise (goats are accomplished foragers). And goat is, incredibly, lower in fat than chicken.

Goat for it: Though goat cheese is popular in the U.S., goat meat has lagged behind, though it’s becoming more popular. Picture above, goat Vindaloo. Photo by Bill Rhodes.

Berries and meat Walter Harrill of Imladris Farms raises goats on what was once his great-grandfather’s land.

The property, abandoned for more than two decades, was choked with bittersweet, blackberry brambles and tangles of other thorny flora by the time Harrill and his wife got their hands on it.

Now, Imladris is a thriving berry farm, wellknown for its spectacular jams, which can often be found on the tables of locally focused restaurants like Early Girl Eatery, Over Easy Cafe and HomeGrown. Harrill also raises goats and rab-

bits on his property. Originally, Harrill brought goats to the farm with the intention of starting a creamery. That idea fizzled out before it ever started, owing to tight regulations for small dairies in North Carolina in the ‘90s.

“Two things came from that,” Harrill says.

No. 1 was, we would do our research before we charged forward,” he laughs. “No. 2 was that we had these goats, so what were we going to do with them?”

At first, the Harrills harvested a few goats per year for personal consumption, selling off a few here and there. Only in the past two years has Imladris Farms been able to consider goat as a

Irani already makes curries and kebabs with Harrill’s goats. Although the meat isn’t on the regular menu, it appears as a special. “A couple of weeks ago we featured goat vindaloo, a popular Goan-Portuguese curry that’s vinegary and fiery hot, typically made with pork or goat,” says Irani. The Portuguese colonized Goa, a province of India, and brought with them a taste for pork, vinegar and chilies, he says.

People have loved the goat meat, he say. So positive is the feedback that the restaurant will begin to receive whole goat, to be butchered in-house — and every part will be used. Irani plans to feature a dish of masala livers with caramelized onion and various stews and curries made with the leg and shoulder, seekh kebabs (ground goat with some lamb added for fat content with spices, mint, chilies, then grilled on skewers) and tandoori chops. “We’ll also probably braise the neck and do some North Carolina-meets-India pulled-goat barbecue, and make stock with the bones,” he says.

“Walter’s goat meat is perfect,” Irani says.

“It’s not any gamier than lamb — I actually found it milder.” Goat meat, Irani says, is very lean, so it needs extra babying and braising time, particularly with hardworking muscles like shoulder and leg. “But it’s absolutely worth it,” he says. “I never ate lamb or beef growing up in India — it was goat.”

The Blackbird in Black Mountain is getting in on the goat game, too. The self-described New American Tavern recently highlighted local goat at one of its frequent farm dinners. Half of the offerings featured goat cheese (a salad, cheesecake, cheese board) and the other half featured goat meat (osso buco, chops, spiced goat-liver skewers).

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potentially profitable business. “I’ve been sitting in the background quietly, waiting for the market to open up,” Harrill says. “In 2000, the market for goat meat in Western North Carolina was generally transient immigrants, mostly farm labor.”

Most of his customers, he says, could pay about $25 a head for each goat, so they would harvest the goats live and do the dirty work themselves.

“There’s no profit in that,” says Harrill.

But last year, the farm sold 20 animals, mostly in retail cuts. “At this point, we’re stretching to have any meat available for wholesale.”

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One of Imladris Farms’ wholesale customers is Meherwan Irani, chef of Chai Pani, an Indian restaurant on Battery Park Avenue in Asheville.

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“The small percentage of people that had tried goat meat before were people that had traveled in Asia and had experienced goat meat there.”

Those experiencing goat for the first time that night were impressed. “People loved it. They were amazed at how delicious it was,” says Taubman. “We used traditional French cooking techniques and many people had not had it that way before. It was just out-of-this-world tender.

People wanted us to put it on the menu.”

Building a better goat Good goat should not have a strong flavor, Harrill says. “It’s a combination of genetics, and it involves what they eat, age and sex — in particular, older billy goats … you just don’t want to go there.” The rules that govern goat cheese

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also apply to goat meat, Harrill says. “Good goat cheese is incredible. Bad goat cheese smells like a goat, tastes like a goat.”

So if good goat meat is available and doesn’t come with the gaminess that some associate with it, why the taboo? “I think it has a little bit of an underlying racist aspect to it,” says Harrill.

“It’s eaten by so much of the rest of the world, which happens to be Third World countries, so it’s seen as a lower-quality product.”

Goats also get a reputation for being indiscriminate garbage disposals. While it’s true that they’ll “eat practically anything that blows into the pasture; their preference is for forage,” says Harrill. “That rumor about them eating everything is really about the fact that they’re browsers, not grazers.” They prefer blackberry bramble, poison ivy and thickly thorned multiflora rose — all of the things that tend to take over abandoned pastures. But, Harrill says, they will not abide grass — unless they’re really hungry.

“Goats will stand knee-deep in good grass and yell about not having any good feed. They will eventually eat grass, but it’s not their favorite thing,” he says.

Greener livestock Goats love to snack on raspberry canes, and a berry farmer generally will have those in spades. But, because the type of raspberries Imladris Farms grows for their jams are susceptible to disease, it’s best to cut the canes down and dispose of them at the end of every season, typically by burning. “My problem with that is that these plants are taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and retaining it,” Harrill says.

more soccer mom than foodie, Harrill says.

“It’s not the clientele I expected; rabbit gets the foodie clientele and the ex-pats. But goat is not like that at all.”

If the market keeps going the way it is, Harrill’s little cloven-hoofed stock may end up putting money in the bank — and meat on the table.

“That’s what we’re counting on. We’re seeing that folks have grown tired of conventional beef,” says Harrill. “Chefs are now trying to figure out what they’ve got to do to stay one step ahead — and consumers are, too. They’re looking for something that’s unique, that’s different, that’s good. Just being unique and different doesn’t cut it — they’ve still got to enjoy the experience.”

Billy goat in the rough: Goats get a reputation for eating everything because they forage rather than graze. Here, they munch on multiflora rose. Photo by Hank Fusel.

“That’s one of the things that makes farming so great, is the ability to sequester this carbon dioxide and reverse a small portion of the problem that we’re having. If I cut those plants down and burn them, I’ve returned every bit of that carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.”

As a green solution, Harrill enlists the help of the goats, letting them take over the berry

patch after all of the raspberries are done, eat the canes down and deposit their manure into the patch for the next generation of raspberries. “It enables us in a big way to further secure the carbon dioxide that we sequestered,” says Harrill.

That raspberry-cane-fed meat ends up getting sold at the farmers market to a clientele that’s

Goat meat is available through Imladris Farms at the North Asheville Tailgate Market at the UNCA campus on Saturdays until noon. Visit imladrisfarm.com/ for more information. Contact the North Carolina Meat Goat association for other sources: ncmeatgoat.com. Chai Pani is located at 22 Battery Park Ave. Visit chaipani.net for more information.

The Blackbird is located at 10 E. Market St. in Black Mountain. For more information, visit theblackbirdrestaurant.com. The Chop Shop Butchery at 100 Charlotte St. is taking note on how many people are interested in purchasing goat meat. If enough want it, the butcher shop can begin to buy whole animals — but only if there is demand. Call them at 505-3777 or visit chopshopbutchery.com. X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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Gift of crepe: Twisted Crepe opens its doors to the homelss for Thanksgiving Day, providing lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Creperie does good for the holidays twisted Crepe is opening its doors to the homeless of Asheville for Thanksgiving Day, providing lunch from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.

The restaurant will offer a special Thanksgiving themed crepe, a few traditional sides, plus cookies for dessert. The creperie will also offer gift bags, and is looking for help from the community.

New bar opens this winter Ready for a new, unpretentious watering hole with plenty of space to roam? Prepare for the tiger mountain thirst Parlour, opening at 103 Broadway in February.

The new venture, to be opened by Sean Bickford (one of this year’s favorite bartenders as voted by Xpress readers in the Best of WNC poll) and Jamie Hepler (of local band Soft Opening and former bartender at the now-defunct New French Bar), will encompass 3,600 feet in two stories. One floor will be outfitted with a stage.

“It’s going to be a simple thing, really,” says Bickford. “It will evolve as we’re actually in the spot working on it.”

Renovations, he says, have yet to begin. “Basically, we just want a bar without any scene — just a place unfettered with any sort of concept.”

There will be good drinks, says Bickford, and they’ll be cheap.

Expect unusual boutique bourbons, for example. “There will be good liquors that also happen to be really cheap. We’ll be doing a lot of our mixers, grenadine, and we might even make our own tonic water — but there’s not going to be a single drink in there that has more than two or three ingredients.”

“It will be simple and weird with good music,” says Bickford. Weird how? “In a lot of our design elements, we ask ourselves, ‘Would David Lynch like this bar?’”

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fig brings holiday cheer to veterans Fig Bistro has a history of opening its doors for the holidays, in part because so few others in town offer the service for people that might not have families to dine with. And Traci and Treavis Taylor, the owners of the cozy but sophisticated Biltmore Village eatery, have a history of warm hospitality, making Fig a good place to come in from the cold.

On Thursday, Nov. 24, the Taylors will open Fig’s doors to veterans and their families for a free Thanksgiving meal, to be served from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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In the past, Eatbox has primarily focused on the festival circuit — Bonaroo, for example — and occasionally on the late-night crowd in various locations, but scratch-made breakfast with fast-food timing is a market just begging to be tapped in West Asheville, says Wilson. And so far, feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. “It’s a good change,” he says. “We’ve still got the basics of breakfast, the Southern stuff, but it’s got a little flair to it.”

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Avenue. The breakfast burritos are also immensely popular, as is the “farmer’s benedict,” a fresh biscuit topped with fried eggs, cheddar, Hickory Nut Gap sausage and gravy. “Everyone likes that one, especially the guys,” says Wilson.

Wilson has many years of culinary experience under his belt, most recently at Desoto Lounge in West Asheville and at the Westville Pub, a gig he just left behind to operate Eatbox during the day. In Canada, he owned and operated a pita shop called Ruby’s. “It had a lot of similarities to what I’m doing here,” he says.

“All fresh stuff — I was doing falafels and making all of my own sauces,” he says — though he leaves the falafel to Suzy Phillips at Gypsy Queen Cuisine.

Wilson says that Eatbox may move downtown eventually, but the rules for obtaining a permit are daunting. “It’s such a hard thing right now — I know the rules have changed and the laws have changed, but there’s nobody down there yet.” Many of the food-truck vendors tend to congregate on Haywood Road, where a bit of a mutually beneficial mobile-food vending community has sprung up, Wilson says. He hopes to find another spot on the west side to vend on weeknights. Although starting this Saturday, Eatbox will serve late-night eats in the Admiral parking lot, replacing vendor Jeremy Hardcastle’s handmade hot dogs (which kept many a Saturday-night dancer wellfueled).

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arts&entertainment DoIN’ It foR tHEmSElvES Asheville’s Booty Band drops new album, Doin’ It Hard

by Alli Marshall “You’ve got to be born to do this,” says Mary Frances, keyboardist for Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty band. She’s talking about a number of things — being on stage, being on the road and being the lone woman in a six-piece funk outfit.

“You’ve got to love the journey,” she says.

Frances joined the Asheville-based band in 2009. At that point, the group was seven years in, and had already seen changes both in its lineup and its sound. The group moved to Asheville from Boone in 2006 — one of its early iterations included singer/guitarist Josh Phillips, who left to form his own band, Josh Phillips Folk Festival. The Booty Band played numerous Bele Cheres, spurring the crowd with high-energy jams — the band pogoing around the stage.

That same indefatigable enthusiasm is still part of the Booty Band, but, “since Lee and I joined, it’s more of an electronic standpoint,” says Frances. She’s talking about her partner (both onstage and offstage), drummer Lee Allen, with whom she also shares the band Eymarel.

(Eymarel is a mash-up of their first names.)

But from folk-funk and dance-funk to electro-funk, the Booty Band has always been based in the genre. Now it’s “funk you can head bang to,” says Frances. “More of a dirty funk. I have a Moog Little Phatty — I love to put synth on any song.”

That new sound can be heard on the forthcoming sophomore studio album, Doin’ It Hard.

This is the band’s first release since ‘07s Now You Know, and it comes out swinging. “True Battle” launches with a shout and a snarl of horns and builds from there. (Horns have always played a major role in the Booty Band; sax player Greg Hollowell and trombonist Derrick Johnson, along with Frances and Allen, moonlight in studio players-turned-live-band Asheville Horns.)

Instrumental track “Neat Little Package” showcases what the band can do as a whole, stirring up a party feel and then dropping easily into a silky groove of brass and bass.

There’s plenty of adrenaline in Doin’ It Hard, and yet, even though the Booty Band is known for its live show, the album was recorded in the studio with little in the way of audience reciprocity.

“We wanted to get in our zone,” says Frances.

The album was recorded in June of 2010 at City of Progress, the Miami studio of DJ Le Spam. Some of the overdubs took place at Echo Mountain; at press time the record was being mastered (with funds from a Kickstarter cam-

paign) and the band hopes to have copies at its Orange Peel show this week.

The album was recorded to tape rather than digitally. “The warmth of that analog sound really brings you into the room, so you feel like part of the recording,” says Frances. “We do a lot of hype tracks inside of the recording, so you’ll hear a lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ and talking from Al [Ingram, bassist and singer] because he does a lot of that on stage anyway.”

She says that in the live show, the audience reaction creates “a circle — you give out as much as you give back.”

“Lovin’,” with its jazz-flute intro and syncopated beat, is an infectious track, one that demonstrates how the Booty Band gets that giveand-take started with its fans. The lead vocal on that song, soaring and lithe, is Frances.’ Even on a stripped-down preview video, recorded in a living room, Frances is a powerhouse singer. “I pride myself on being a player,” she says. “I love to sing, but I really love to play.” Her publishing company is called “Sing a little, play a lot.”

“I just want to represent the female aspect, the power of our voice through music,” she

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Friday, Nov. 18 (9 p.m., $10 advance or $12 doors. theorangepeel.net) says. “I get up there and I give it all I’ve got, every show. If the crowd wants it, I’ll take my keytar and get down in the crowd.”

Frances says it is special when she meets other bands with female players in the male-dominated music industry. But her own experience touring with the Booty Band is largely positive. “It’s basically like having brothers,” she says. “These guys are the most respectful guys. Everybody in the band is super-conscious and aware, which is good coming from Asheville and spreading out around the country.” Traveling with her partner helps. She says she and Allen are “a team”; there’s the sense that Frances truly loves what she does for a living.

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they’ve got the funk: Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band is about to release its second studio album. The group promises not to wait so long to do a third record.

“When you stop, you never have to wait in line for the bathroom,” she jokes. “Come on! That’s the rarest thing as a woman.” Frances also points out that it’s empowering to be a woman on the road with a band, and she genuinely enjoys tour, from trying new foods and beers to meeting new people. Currently, she lists California and Colorado among the Booty Band’s biggest audiences.

And then there are the nicknames. Long hours in the van lend to thinking up alter egos: Ingram is “Sweet Nasty,” Allen is “Instafunk,” Hollowell (whose middle name is Robert) is

“Greg-Bob,” Frances is “Mama Funk,” and guitarist JP Miller is “Smoke Machine.” But when it comes to tour manager Arieh Samson, nicknames never stick, says Frances.

Johnson more than makes up for Samson’s lack of nicknames, however: The trombone player has “like 15 nicknames,” says Frances.

“Professor Legs” — as smart and jumpy as the band’s sound — is a favorite. X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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The Isis Theater closed its doors the same year Elvis made his final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was 1957; to say a lot has happened since then would be an understatement.

More recently, the large white building where The Isis was located at 743 Haywood Road in West Asheville housed the neighborhood Italian joint Pastabilities. That restaurant closed Dec. 31, 2010, with the building’s owner, Scott Woody, determined to restore the Isis space to its former glory. There was buzz for a time about the new Isis opening quickly — some time in this calendar year — as a restaurant, a bluegrass and Americana music venue, some heard it would be a dinner theater.

Regardless, the buzz on Haywood quickly established that the restoration might breathe excitement into West Asheville, further cementing the neighborhood’s music, food and arts habit, and giving outsiders another reason to choose Haywood Road as a going-out destination. Much of that and more may come, to be sure. But as Woody, who has been in bands for 20 years, put it, “I’m a musician. Musicians never do things on time. This show is going to

start a little late.”

Woody is a veterinarian by trade, whose three decades owning an animal clinic in Atlanta have given him a firm grip on the roller-coaster ride of small-business ownership. Sure, he’s a casual guy with apparently exquisite taste and a keen eye for hidden possibilities, but he is also a banjo picker. As such, he’s used to surmounting obstacles both predictable and not.

After all, he plays an instrument that doesn’t stay in tune long enough to make it through a three-minute song.

It’s a good thing Woody has a banjo background, then, because his renovation of the Isis Theater space has been pushed back a few times.

Contrary to the rumors, Woody says there have been no issues with mold or asbestos in the building — except 50 tiles in front of the doors, which contained 1 percent asbestos and, he says, were “all removed by a certified environmental company.”

The real story of the venue’s evolution started when Woody purchased the building in 1998 and then started moving to the area from Atlanta a few years later. Once he shut down his vet clinic, he set the open date for his Isis renovation for June 2011. He inspected the place closely and it became clear he’d have to gut it

entirely. He moved the target to October, and then discovered the bureaucracy involved in getting licenses for things like live music would take a little longer than planned. Now, he and his kids — with whom he’ll co-own the new Isis — are shooting for March 2012.

Drew Smith, co-owner of the Westville Pub, is looking forward to the opening. The more there is to do in the neighborhood, the better.

Smith is not exactly certain of what’s in the works at 743 Haywood, but he looks forward to the possibility of welcoming another good neighbor and more vibrancy to the strip. “All I can say is, ‘Welcome to the neighborhood,’” he says. Business on Haywood is good, “so it will be great to have more going on in the neighborhood. The more, the merrier.”

As Woody marches toward his new deadline, though, licensing prohibits him from calling the Isis a music venue. Upon opening, it will primarily be a restaurant that can be rented out for special events. “It’ll begin as a unique place,” he says, with a knowing smile. “Over time, it will become even more unique.”

With three bars, two “dining platforms,” a main dining room, an event hall, a private party room upstairs, a balcony and an outdoor patio and green space (including parking, bike racks and a winding pathway to the street), “unique” sounds accurate. Where Pastabilities occupied the same space quietly, somewhat dwarfed by the building’s rather large façade, the Isis is

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Staying true to its character: The renovation will include a new sign set to mimic the theater’s original marquee. Photo courtesy Scott Woody likely to augment the entire atmosphere of its section of Haywood Road.

Folks familiar with the now-defunct pasta restaurant may be pleasantly shocked by the transformation of the space. Since the original Isis Theater closed, for example, the ceiling has been lowered three times. Woody and his son stripped it back to the rafters, exposing an 18foot ceiling in what will be the event space.

In an attempt to stay true to the building’s history, they’re using the original wood to build dining tables and are having a sign built to mimic the theater’s original marquee.

They’ve converted the former projection room into a sizable upstairs, which will house a small bar and booths, bathrooms and an entertainment space that can be rented out and closed off from the rest of the venue. There’s also a small dining platform that can be used for live music or readings. On a typical night, the area will provide extra bar seating. The upstairs also extends a balcony arm along the north wall, over the downstairs bar and kitchen, with a view of the main “event space.”

In the kitchen will be Mike Mahoney, known for his work at the Island Grill in Atlantic Beach, N.C., where he cooked for more than a decade.

Woody defines Mahoney’s style as “casual fine dining” — somewhere between what Sunny Point does and what you’ll find at The Admiral, but not quite as fancy as downtown restaurants like Cucina 24 or Curate. “Those are smaller plates and more sophisticated food,” Woody says.

“Previously I’ve used the phrase ‘not bar food,’ but I want to be really clear I think bar food is fine. There’s a lot of really good bar food in town — the LAB has good bar food, Westville Pub and

the Universal Joint … the Admiral is the only place on this side of town where you can sit down and have a sophisticated dinner. Then, of course, there’s good healthy food at Sunny Point. We’re going to try to fill a niche [between those two things] without competing with anyone else.”

Woody hopes leasing the hall out for private events will help keep things interesting and lively — not only inside his venue, but in the neighborhood as well. Isis will be equipped for all manner of events, from company meetings and social events to weddings; there’s also the possibility bands and DJs might rent the space to put on shows and dance parties. Indeed, he’s installed enough power in the hall to accommodate sophisticated lighting and sound equipment, and established a place for a DJ or sound booth. He hasn’t ruled out the possibility of showing films in the future, but it’s not in the immediate plans.

“We’ll be trying hard to make sure what we do fits in with the scheme of West Asheville,” he says. “If all the venues in the neighborhood work together, we can create West Asheville as a destination point. There are a lot of people [in the area] who are peripheral, not tourists. They’d like to come enjoy Asheville but don’t want to go downtown anymore because it’s too packed … People could come over [to West Asheville] and have choices. They could say — ‘Let’s go out Friday.

Let’s go to West Asheville. We can see a show, we can go to the pub and hear a small band. We can sit out at the UJ, have good dinner at the Admiral or check out what’s going on at the Isis.’” X Kim Ruehl is a freelance writer and can be reached at kim@nodepression.com.

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arts X music rhyme and reason: Reluctant pop star Lykke Li is touring in support of her well-received album Wounded Rhymes. She says that growing up she only felt at home on the stage. “I was always quite strange,” she tells Xpress.

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by Alli Marshall Swedish-born singer/songwriter Lykke Li is well traveled (she’s lived in Portugal, Morocco, Nepal, India and Bushwick, Brooklyn), a fact that seems to have left her not just worldly but wary. “Growing up, I was really shy and I never found my place,” she tells Xpress. “I was always quite strange.”

It was on stage that Li felt at home. “Every time I would perform things would be easier and I would be seen. Performing has always been really easy for me, it’s all the other things ...” she trails off.

Her live shows are indeed powerful. She was featured on Last Call With Carson Daly: Women Who Rock, and last year she told Pitchfork, “I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage.” While Li isn’t necessarily throwing things, she is pummeling some percussion. The

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earthy punch and biorhythm that runs like a pulse throughout this Li’s sophomore release, Wounded Rhymes, is duplicated on stage with an array of drums.

“I think percussion is just something that I hear when I’m making music and then I try to play as much as possible live,” says Li. “I’m not like a trained musician or anything. When I’m writing, I use whatever I have. I’ll just tap the table or something.”

There’s more to it than that. Li’s performance caught the attention of fellow Swede Björn Yttling (of indie-pop band Peter Björn and John) who mentored her and produced both her ‘08 Swedish Grammy-nominated debut, Youth Novels, and this year’s Wounded. She penned a song for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, performed with Kanye West, took the stage at Lollapalooza and appeared in a Levi’s Curve ID campaign ad — though she bristles a bit at the mention of the latter. “That doesn’t have anything to do with

my music,” she says. And, “I don’t ever wear jeans on stage.”

What she likes to wear is black — black suits, black vintage clothing and black designs handmade by a friend. But she doesn’t want to discuss fashion, possibly because “somehow my looks seem to be important in a way that it’s not for men, which I find discouraging.”

In other interviews Li has waxed philosophical about the role of a woman in the maledominated music industry, to Xpress she says, “I don’t really know the difference between being a woman in life and in the music industry because this is my life. I haven’t reflected upon it while I’m working because I’m always being the boss. I run my own label and with my band I’m the one calling all the shots.”

She adds, “I just want to do whatever I want to and I encourage every woman to do that and allow themselves to be complex and to fight against your own insecurities.” Li says she

tries not to let her own insecurities stop her, though, “it’s nerve wracking, putting yourself out there, to be judged and all those things.”

It’s that see-saw of perspective and emotion that makes Li’s music so bewitching.

She’s an off-kilter mix of soft and hard, forceful and shrinking, girlish and wisebeyond her 25 years. But for all the in-youface girl power of her single “Get Some,” Li surprises with this next statement: “I’ve actually noticed now that it’s getting harder for me to perform, the more I get stable in my own life. ... I’m feeling more reclusive like I don’t have the need anymore. I’m not in it to be seen or to be as big as possible. I just do it because it gives me some release in life, a way to cope. I think that the older I get the less I will do it.”

She says that being on tour comes with a sense of alienation and that because “life is so short and so vulnerable and so precious” she longs to be “closer to the core of life and what is important about life and things that are not shallow and superficial.” Li says that being in the spotlight is addictive “because regular life can’t measure up to the things that you feel on stage.”

What Li longs for is “something sustainable. ... You can see art as the icing on the cake. Then it’s going to become really magical. Because if you have an all-right life and you get to do art as well, then you’re in heaven.”

But she does seem to find solace in creating videos for her songs. She’s involved with all aspects of the lush, dramatic visuals, claiming that “this is the place where I can do everything.” And Li seems to be a woman who needs to cast a wide net, creatively. Even in her writing, she’s chosen to craft song lyrics in English rather than her native Swedish because “it’s a more poetic language.”

“I write in English because it has a certain sound to it,” Li says. “In Swedish we only have one word for love. In English you’ve got a hundred words for love and all kinds of emotions in between.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

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Surrender to the spectacle Still time to catch Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings

by Ursula Gullow Give yourself an hour to take in Bryan Eno’s 77 Million Paintings at the YMI. It’s not so much that you will look at the audio/visual installation — you will become it. The dark room, ambient music, cushy sofas, high rafters and glowing screens that emit an hypnotic light show, invite you to slow down, sit for a while and become accustomed to the space. Once you do, it’s likely that you won’t want to leave.

Known primarily for his pioneering use of sound and music production, in the last decade Eno has become increasingly interested in a format he refers to as ”visual music.” Regarding his minimal aesthetic and ambient soundtracks, Eno said, “I wanted to see where the threshold of eventlessness lies.”

The projections for 77 Million Paintings occur on 12 computer screens and are Eno’s own graphics — created digitally and by hand.

Through generative software, three computers randomly select images, which slowly morph together, resulting in a fluid piece with more than “100 Million cubed” possible combinations — insuring that you will never see the same thing twice. “What you saw today, you won’t see again tomorrow,” said Eno at a press talk last month.

For some, Eno’s 77 Million Paintings might be experienced as a calming sanctuary or recall a place of worship. The slow timing, and endless stream of morphing images, however, may easily frustrate others. If so, Eno hopes to

“refresh your memory of what surrender is like and what pleasure it can bring.”

During his “Illustrated Talk” at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium during Moogfest, Eno spoke extensively about the concepts of control and surrender (among other topics ranging from haircuts to collective intelligence.) “We consider it a huge achievement to control nature,” said Eno, “It is also an achievement to surrender to nature.”

The controversy seems to lie in the configuration of the LCD screens, which bare a resemblance to that of a swastika. When asked about its significance, Eno said the arrangement does not have any fixed meaning. Rather, he was working with computer screens of a specific size, (“They only make them in that shape,”) and landed upon the arrangement he happened to find most visually poignant.

It’s worth considering that the formation is reminiscent of Guy Debord’s 1967 book, The Society of the Spectacle, in which DeBord lambasts churches, political organizations and the media for their artificial glamour and prefabricated experiences.

Here, we sit transfixed by a symbol with adverse connotations. So hey, if you’re looking for it, 77 Million Paintings is ripe with meaning. Otherwise, sit back and surrender to the show.

77 Million Paintings can be viewed at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St. in downtown Asheville. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. $10. X Ursula Gullow writes about art for Mountain Xpress and her blog, artseenasheville.com.

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Whither Taylor Martin’s Engine?

by Stacy Claude Given the fact that it was the World Series and Tolliver’s Crossing is basically a sports bar, expectations of a good night of music were low. Luckily, it’s always better to be pleasantly surprised as opposed to sorely disappointed, and Taylor Martin’s Engine did not disappoint.

The Engine appears to be a cast of rotating characters, although lately it seems that Ricky Cooper on upright bass and Lyndsay Pruett on the fiddle are pretty much regulars.

This show was rounded out by Pete James of the Honeycutters on electric guitar and Paco Shipp on harmonica. Frontman Taylor Martin plays acoustic guitar, writes the songs and sings.

As is most music in Asheville these days, Martin’s brand is hard to classify into a specific genre. It’s a bouncy mix between folk and rock, with generally dark lyrics that somehow leave the listener feeling good. His songwriting is smart and easy to relate to, interspersed with Singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Martin can be little gems like “never hitch your a bit hard to track down, but he and the rotating wagon to a falling star.” Martin is cast of players who make up Taylor Martin’s naturally funny and entertaining, Engine provide a fun evening once you find them. so his between-song stage banter, introductions and asides are as much a part of messing around. He had two microphones with the show as the music. different effects that he rotated from song to The first pleasant surprise of the night was song, giving each harp solo a new sound.

Shipp on harmonica. There are so many perJames was also fun to watch on stage. The size formersw who strap a harmonica around their and array of his pedal board might rival that of necks and do some rhythmic huffing and puff- U2’s The Edge, and he seemed to spend just as ing to supplement their guitar playing. Shipp much time turning knobs and stomping pedals drives home the point that the harmonica is an as he did playing. The results were worth it: instrument to be reckoned with, John Popper His tone was impeccable and his guitar seemed style. And, in a custom made leather harmonica to have different personalities to fit each of holster, it was apparent that Shipp was not Martin’s song moods.

Cooper and Pruett are staples of the local bluegrass scene, but both of their talents extend far beyond that. Cooper holds down an essential steady bass groove for Taylor Martin’s Engine, sliding between reggae beats, honky tonk and the infectious walking bass line. For music fans who’ve never seen Pruett play the fiddle on stage, go see her. There are ample opportunities as she seems to be Asheville’s most in-demand pick up fiddler/violinist.

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The suspect: asheville symphony orchestra performing mahler’s “resurrection” symphony Austrian-born Gustav Mahler took six years to complete Symphony No. 2 in C minor. His idea of the resurrection was not entirely in the Christian sense, but included the general destiny of all humans.

Ashley Hill (at right) is featured as the mezzo-soprano, and Sarah Jane McMahon (below) will perform as Soprano soloist along with the Asheville Symphony Chorus.

Can Be found: Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. riYD: Classical music with a flair for the dramatic.

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The suspect: Chimaria/Unearth This double bill brings together Chimaira, a nu-metal industrial band from Cleveland that embraces the attitude of its hometown, one of “…not only being an asshole, but and asshole and an underdog.”

Unearth plays hardcore extreme metal and just released its fifth CD in June, Darkness In the Light.

Can Be found: The Orange Peel, Monday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. riYD: Slayer, Lamb of God, Slipknot.

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The band started with a chance meeting and a conversation about Tom and Jerry cartoons at the University of Buffalo. Live, guitarists Chuck Garvey and Al Schnier exchange solos over the bass and drums as the band improvises what Schnier calls “a musical conversation.”

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Breakestra at the asheville music hall L.A.’s eight-piece collective Breakestra is all about (by the band’s own admission) “deep funk, good ol’ hip-hop breaks and psychedelic soul-jazz fever.” And, the bio continues, a show entails “dancing and getting your wig flipped back by a nonstop throwdown.”

Breakestra formed from weekly jam sessions at a coffee shop called The Breaks, with founding members multi-instrumentalist Miles “Music Man” Tackett and vocalist Mixmaster Wolf serving as the backbone. Breakestra comes to the Asheville Music Hall on Thursday, Nov. 17. Eymarel opens. 10 p.m., $8. ashevillemusichall.com.

worldline, st. solitude and Tennessee hollow Local music producer Andrew Schatzberg of Alive and Well Records (home of St. Solitude) decided last year to record a collection of his own songs (inspired by Radiohead, U2, Pink Floyd and Beck). After completing his album, Schatzberg took the brave next step, parlaying Worldline from the studio to the stage. The band plays its last local show of the year at the LAB on Friday, Nov. 18. St. Solitude (who recently released By Some Great Storm) and Tennessee Hollow’s acoustic duo also perform. 10 p.m., $6. lexavebrew.com. Photo by Anna Rebecca Photography.

The Bloodroots Barter Bluegrass-influenced quartet The Bloodroots Barter may or may not actually live in the Kentucky cabin of a dead carpenter, with smoke wafting from the chimney and a deer hide tanning on the porch. Either way, that haunting, storied sound is what makes the self-described “voodoo grass” outfit so alluring.

“If you thought that bluegrass music had no dark secrets, this night is going to shake you up a bit. That’s alright,” says the band’s bio. “Take a pull from the Mason jar on the counter. Sit near the stove and listen.” They play Friday, Nov. 18 at Jack of the Wood. 9:30 p.m. jackofthewood.com.

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clubland

where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Clubland rules •To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed.

•To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue.

•Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Dane Smith at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland.

•Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed.

•The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues.

•Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

Musician’s Workshop

Taylor Guitars Road Show (demos with factory staff), 7pm

Blend Hookah Lounge Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic Open mic, 9pm Craggie Brewing Company

Joshua Lee w/ Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks & more, 6pm

Open mic/jam, 7pm The Bywater

Live DJ, 9pm

The Bywater Trio feat: Darren Nicholson, Griff Martin & Ricky Cooper (bluegrass)

Fred’s Speakeasy

Karaoke

The Get Down

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Swaggering Growlers (folk, punk) w/ The Budget

Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Wed., November 16

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

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Handlebar Lobster Trap

Karaoke, 10pm

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

Athena’s Club

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Fritz (funk, rock)

Thu., November 17

TallGary’s Cantina

Dirty South Lounge

ARCADE

One Stop Deli & Bar

John Hiatt & the Combo (roots, blues) w/ Lilly Hiatt

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Michelle Shocked (folk, punk)

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Orange Peel

Creatures Cafe

Cailen Campbell (Scottish folk)

Cadillac Rex (surf, rockabilly), 8pm Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Alex Krug, 6:30pm Turkuaz w/ Underground System Afrobeat, 10pm

Blue Note Grille

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Russ Wilson Swingtett Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Westville Pub

Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

Tu e S. nOV. 22

jake hOllifield we d. nOV. 23 culture kids w/tBa O n t h e f r O n t s ta g e SundayS TueSdayS

Aaron Price 1pm | Piano

Jake Hollifield Piano | 9pm

Ugly Radio Rebellion feat: Ike Willis (Frank Zappa covers) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: A Ghost Like Me (instrumental, rock) w/ Grammer School & Graviton Project

Asheville Music Hall

Lobster Trap

Breakestra (funk, jazz, soul) w/ Eymarel

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”)

Burgerworx

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Open mic, 7-9pm

East Coast Dirt w/ Chasing Edison

Craggie Brewing Company

Slamming Door Orchestra (post-punk, ambient) w/ Hello Hugo, 7pm Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ

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

Kovacs & the Polar Bear (indie, Americana, rock) w/ Madeline Fred’s Speakeasy

Olive or Twist

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

moe. (jam) w/ Zach Deputy Pisgah Brewing Company

The Black Lillies (Americana) w/ Underhill Rose PULP

Jazz night, 7:30pm

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

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

Lorraine Conard Band (blues, Americana)

Galen Kipar Project (Americana, folk rock)

Good Stuff

Red Stag Grill

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

Eric Ciborski (piano) Root Bar No. 1

Music & EvEnts

thur, noveMber 17

Doors 8:00 PM - shoW 9:00 PM - $8/$10

Thursday, Nov. 17th Thirstdays 4-8PM

Friday, Nov. 18th

the black lillies w/unDerhill rose fri, noveMber 18

shoW 9:00 PM - free shoW

DOORS @ 4PM - SHOW 6-8 PM

if you Wannas

(FUNK / JAZZ)

thur, noveMber 24

BEN BJORLIE BAND

Saturday, Nov. 19th

closeD

THE BROADCAST

free shoW & $2 Pale ale

DOORS @ 4PM - SHOW 6-8 PM (ROCK & ROLL)

ALL SHOWS ARE FREE!

sat, noveMber 26

celebration Party for the #1 breWery in Wnc! w/ the secret b-siDes

no cover charge (4-8pm)

(828) 299-3370

12 Old Charlotte Hwy., Suite H Asheville, NC 28803 www.highlandbrewing.com

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Handlebar

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

a ghOst like Me

jeff MarkhaM & Michael Burgin

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

5 Walnut Wine Bar

THuR . nOV. 17 w/ graMMar schOOl & gravitOn PrOject FRI . nOV. 1 8 WOrldline w/ saint sOlitude & tennessee hOllOW duO SaT. nOV. 19

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Music of the Swannanoa Valley CD release (old-time, bluegrass, country) Wild Wing Cafe

Olive or Twist

Open mic w/ Sven Hooson

White Horse

#1 r & b blues banD

(voteD by Mountain XPress reaDers)

Details & aDvance tickets:

pisgahbrewing.com

Taproom Hours: M-W: 4pm - 9pm th-sat: 2pm - 12am | sun: 2pm - 9pm

Candy Lee (folk, jazz, indie)

Roy Clark (country), 6:30pm Reckless Kelly (country, Americana) w/ Micky & the Motorcars, 9:30pm

Avery County (bluegrass) w/ Surefire & Lonesome Will Mullins

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Big Nasty (jazz, dixieland, swing), 7pm Big Hungry (indie, rock), 9pm

Neil Cribbs (folk, Americana, rock)

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

Olive or Twist

The Bywater

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Highland Brewing Company

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm

Bear Down Easy (bluegrass)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Todd Hoke (Americana)

Orange Peel

The Chop House

TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase The Bywater

Cate Johnson’s Japonisme Revisited (art show) The Get Down

Hellbender (psychedelic) w/ Derek Poteat & Guided By Bong Rips Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Ben Bjorlie Band (funk, jazz), 6pm

Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (funk, rock) w/ Dopapod

Live jazz w/ Mark Guest, 5-10pm

Peggy Ratusz & Duane Simpson (acoustic blues, jazz)

Eleven on Grove

Jack of the Wood Pub

Pack’s Tavern

Galen Kipar Duo (acoustic blues)

Caltrop (rock, blues, psychedelic) w/ Pagan Wolf Ritual, Enoch & Ritual

Westville Pub

Jus One More

Pisgah Brewing Company

The Market Place

If You Wannas (indie, rock)

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, roots), 7:30pm

White Horse

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Purple Onion Cafe

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Fred Whiskin (piano)

Naughty Pillows (folk, Celtic)

Sat., November 19

Root Bar No. 1

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

48 Madison (rock, blues)

ARCADE

Illicitizen (R&B, rock) Scandals Nightclub

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

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

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

Live music

Peggy Ratusz & friends (blues) Westville Pub

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

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

“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

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Brushfire Trio (bluegrass, rock)

Back stage: Worldline (rock, pop) w/ Saint Solitude & Tennessee Hollow Duo Leo Johnson & the Space Heaters (acoustic, jazz, swing) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Nightcrawlers (rock, blues)

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

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Vortex (Marion)

Girl Interrupted (punk, rock) Trivia night

Michael Jefry Stevens & friends (jazz)

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

Papadosio (electronic, rock) w/ Amarru

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

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

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

Good Stuff

Todd Hoke Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

An evening w/ Jorma Kaukonen (of Hot Tuna) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

Handlebar

Boiler Room

fine foods • 30 brews on tap • patio sports room • 110” projector • event space open 7 Days 11am - Late • Now Catering

Thanksgiving Open on

$19 .99

with Full Buffet for

2

FREE SHOW! $1 off All Vodkas

THUR. 11/17

TRIVIA NIGHT 9 pm • Prizes

$3.50 Gin & Tonics • Bring A Team

The Honeycutters (original americana & country) 10:00 pm - 1:00 am $5 Robo Shots

SAT. 11/19

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(acoustic blues)

Fri 11/18

Sat WestSound 11/19 (funk n’ roll)

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

OPEN MIC IS BACK! Sign up at 7pm

(Hosted by Amanda Platt of The Honeycutters)

Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Appetizers $4 Margaritas

777 HAYWOOD ROAD • 225-WPUB (9782)

www.westvillepub.com

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MON. 11/21

TUESDAY OPEN BLUES JAM W/ WESTVILLE ALLSTARS Shrimp ‘n Grits • $1 off Rum Drinks

Acoustic Blues & Jazz

FRIDAY 11/18

$1 off all Whiskey

Aaron Berg & The Heavy Love

Friday, November 18th Peggy raTusz & DuaNe simPsoN

MAX MELNER ORCHESTRA

(experimental, folk, pop) 9:30 pm - 12:30 am

TUES. 11/22

Michelle Leigh (country, rock)

Lobster Trap

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

SUN. 11/20

Bloodroots Barter (old-time, bluegrass)

The Get Down

Garage at Biltmore

ARCADE

FRI. 11/18

Jack of Hearts Pub

Paul Jones (jazz, classical)

Fri., November 18

WED. 11/16

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

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

Hdch d[ GVae] FREE Parking weekdays after 5pm

Saturday, November 19th Nikki Talley Trio Acoustic Folk Rock

Friday, November 25th DeaD elvis ragTime BaND A “ragged time” will be had by all!

Saturday, November 26th The TwilighT BroaDcasTers Nostalgic Acoustic Parlor Boys

APPALACHIAN JAMS, TRADITIONAL COUNTRY & OLD TIME

& all weekend (behind us on Marjorie St.)

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 PacksTavern.com Off Biltmore Ave. in the new Pack Square Park.

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Athena’s Club

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

Mechanaut (electronic), 6pm Minorcan (Folk) w/ Maudlin Frogs, 9pm Emerald Lounge

The Nova Echo (rock, electronic) w/ Uh-Huh Baby Yeah & DJ Don Magic Fred’s Speakeasy

Karaoke

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Peggy Ratusz (blues, jazz)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Jazzville Band (jazz)

Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk)

Miriam & the Passionistas (Latin, folk), 5-8pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Get Down

Back stage: Jeff Markham (folk, rock) w/ Michael Burgin & Ian C. Parker Lobster Trap

Jazz Trio

Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm Orange Peel

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (kid hop) w/ Yo Mamma’s Big Fat Booty Band, 11am Lykke Li (pop, indie rock, electronic) w/ First Aid Kit, 9pm Pack’s Tavern

WestSound (R&B)

Purple Onion Cafe

Garage at Biltmore

Psychedelic Mind feat: Michael Curran, Treffen, Sensoma & Kri Good Stuff

Aaron Burdett (acoustic, roots) Red Stag Grill

Eric Ciborski (piano) Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack

Linda Mitchell

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Shannon Whitworth (Americana) w/ Seth Walker Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:307:30pm Ruby Slippers (indie, pop, jazz), 8-11pm Handlebar

The Slackers (ska, soul, reggae) w/ JoJo Taterhead Revival Harrah’s Cherokee Highland Brewing Company

The Broadcast (rock, soul, pop), 6pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Nikki Talley Trio (acoustic, folk, rock) Jack of the Wood Pub

Karaoke

Scandals Nightclub

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

Hudson K (pop, indie, rock) The Bywater

Dark Eyes (jazz) Live jazz w/ Mark Guest, 5-10pm The Get Down

RonD

Westville Pub

The Honeycutters (Americana, blues, country) White Horse

DAvID WIlCoX’S ThE MAnTRAS

11/26

W/CoMMon FounDATIon & CInDERCAT

sat

DAvID lAMoTTE W/ElIoT BRonSon

Fred Eaglesmith | Futurebirds | Sam Roberts Band Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls) | John Gorka | John Doyle Tom Maxwell | The 999 Eyes Freakshow & Sideshow

Kitchen open for Dinner on nights of Shows!

Village Wayside Bar and Grille

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

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Wild Wing Cafe

SuN., November 20

moN., November 21

5 Walnut Wine Bar

5 Walnut Wine Bar

ARCADE

Altamont Brewing Company

DJ Dizzy ‘90s Throwback Night

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

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

Ben Hovey (multi-instrumentalist, electronic, soul), 7-10pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 3 & 5pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Lobster Trap

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

The Bywater

11/25 AnnuAl ThAnKSGIvInG hoMECoMInG ShoW

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm

Wild Wing Cafe

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

W/SETh WAlKER

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

White Horse

Live music

oF hoT TunA

Coney Island Rock and Roll Sideshow w/ Southbound Turnaround, 4pm

Brandon Rickman & the Reems Creek Incident (bluegrass, country)

Milkdrive (acoustic, alt-folk) w/ The Jon Stickley Trio, 9:30

An EvEnInG WITh

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Contagious (grunge, rock)

The Market Place

ShAnnon WhITWoRTh

11/26

Vortex (Marion)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

sat

sat

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Root Bar No. 1

11/18

fri

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

JoRMA KAuKonEn

11/19

Carolina Rex (blues)

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

The Chop House

Air Supply (pop, rock)

fri

Red June (acoustic, Americana, folk)

Drum circle, 2pm Acoustic on the Patio

CaroMia Tiller (singer/songwriter), 8-10pm Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance, 8pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

Phillip Roebuck (roots, punk) w/ Filthy Still & The Coney Island Rock ‘n’ Roll Roadshow Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Roaring Lions (ragtime) Orange Peel

Chimaira (metal) w/ Unearth, Skeletonwitch & Molotov Solution The Bywater

Bluegrass jam, 8:30pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Sharon LaMotte (vocal jazz), 7:30pm Karaoke, 10:30pm

clubdirectory 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 All Stars Sports Bar & Grill 684-5116 Altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 ARCADE 258-1400 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Asheville Music Hall 255-7777 Athena’s Club 252-2456 Avenue M 350-8181 Barley’s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 Black Mountain Ale House 669-9090 Blend Hookah Lounge 505-0067 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Blue Note Grille 697-6828 Boiler Room 505-1612 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Broadway’s 285-0400 Burgerworx 253-2333 The Bywater 232-6967 Clingman Cafe 253-2177 Club Hairspray 258-2027 The Chop House 253-1852 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Creature’s Cafe 254-3636 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Dirty South Lounge 251-1777 The Dripolator 398-0209 Dobra Tea Room 575-2424 Ed Boudreaux’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 Fred’s Speakeasy 281-0920 Fred’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 (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Haywood Lounge 232-4938 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780

The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 The Magnetic Field 257-4003 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Northside Bar and Grill 254-2349 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 One Stop Bar Deli & Bar 236-2424 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Poppie’s Market and Cafe 885-5494 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993

Singer/songwriter showcase Eleven on Grove

Open mic

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

Wild Wing Cafe

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Westville Pub

Karaoke

tue., November 22 5 Walnut Wine Bar

The John Henry’s (jazz, swing), 8-10pm

clubland@mountainx.com 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 Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Smokey’s After Dark 253-2155 Southern Appalacian Brewery 684-1235 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 TallGary’s Cantina 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack 575-2260 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 The Village Wayside 277-4121 Vincenzo’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

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

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

2nd AnniversAry CelebrAtion!

– Wednesday, November 16 – $2.50 Pint night!

6-9 pm - Performances by: Joshua

Lee, BLiNd Boy ChoCoLate aNd the MiLk sheiks & BaBy RattLesNakes – thursday, November 17 –

7-10 pm - Performances by sLaMMiNg

dooR oRChestRa & heLLo hugo (Instrumental / Prog)

(Post-Punk / Ambient)

– Friday, November 18 –

7-9 pm - Performance by Big Nasty (Good Ol’ Busk) 9-10 pm - Performance by Big huNgRy (Indie)

Artista Birthday Cake for all!

– saturday, November 19 – We will be featuring beer floats with Antebellum Ice Cream from The Hop

6-8:45 pm - Performance by MeChaNaut (Experimental Electronica) 9-11 pm - Performance by MiNoCRaN (Folk) & MaudLiN FRogs (Alternative)

We will be collecting unopened toys, canned goods and gently used clothing for local charities.

BRiNg a doNatioN iteM & get a BeeR FoR $2 Wed

7.#´S 0REMIERE !DULT ,OUNGE 3PORTS 2OOM UFC Headquarters Ladies & Couples Welcome Now featuring area’s only “Spinning Pole” Great Drink Specials Every Night Always Hiring Entertainers

Micheal “Lucky” Luchtan (golden-era country), 9am

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Garage at Biltmore

Lobster Trap

see for yourself at

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

TheTreasureClub.com

Phat Tuesdays

Altamont Brewing Company

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

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

Creatures Cafe

Handlebar

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime) Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm Music Mandala w/ Ty Gilpin

Northside Bar and Grill

Karaoke

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Olive or Twist

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

One Stop Deli & Bar

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Alex Krug, 6:30pm Kellin Watson (pop, rock, soul), 10pm

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm

TallGary’s Cantina

TallGary’s Cantina

The Get Down

The Bywater

BABIES (punk) w/ Thee Loud Crowd & The Bob Band

“Garyoke”

Wed., November 23 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Ben Hovey (jazz) ARCADE

Karaoke, 10pm Athena’s Club

(828) 684-8250

(S. Asheville/Arden)

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French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

Tennessee Hollow (rock, country, blues)

White Horse

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Sons of Ralph (bluegrass) w/ Bill Phillips

Dave Desmelik (folk, Americana)

Wild Wing Cafe

Good Stuff

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

thu., November 24 Burgerworx

Open mic, 7-9pm

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

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Fred’s Speakeasy

Open mic

Jazz night, 7:30pm

Blue Note Grille

Good Stuff

Open mic, 6-9pm

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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The Fritz (funk, rock)

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Jarvis Jenkins Band (jam, rock) Olive or Twist

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm Orange Peel

Acoustic Syndicate (bluegrass, jam, roots) Pack’s Tavern

Atomic Sauce (jazz, fusion, rock, blues) Purple Onion Cafe

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Director: PeDro AlmoDóvAr PlAyers: Antonio BAnDerAs, elenA AnAyA, mArisA PAreDes, JAn cornet, roBerto ÁlAmo, BlAncA suÁrez ALmodovAriAn horror mySTery drAmA Comedy

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The Story: An obsessed plastic surgeon works in secret on a captive patient to perfect a synthetic skin.

The Lowdown: Pure Almodóvar, but very dark Almodóvar. It’s as rich or richer in the delights of cinema for its own sake as anything you’ll see this year, but it’s apt to disturb some viewers in its perversity and obsessive nature.

Considering the fact that I’ve given five stars to every Pedro Almodóvar film since Live Flesh (1997), it will come as no great shock that his latest, The Skin I Live In, also comes in for the full five. It will almost certainly be in the top two or three on my “best of 2011” list, and it’s a film I can’t wait to see again. And being an Almodóvar work, it’s also the sort of film that will very likely alienate and even infuriate some viewers — though probably not to the extent that Bad Education did in 2004. That said, I’d say it’s far more likely to upset people than Volver (2006) or Broken Embraces (2009) did. The Skin I Live In is wildly over-the-top, provocative, disturbing, melodramatic, bizarre and colorful, which is pretty much just saying it’s an Almodóvar film.

But there’s a bit more — and it’s inherent in both the story and theme.

Antonio Banderas (in his first film for Almodovar since Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990) stars as Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who can only be described as a mad scientist. Though the film is structured in such a way that not everything about his motives is clear for some considerable time, it is immediately clear that he is not only driven by some central experience to perfect a synthetic skin that can stand up

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Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya in Pedro Almodovar’s brilliant — and disturbing — new film The Skin I Live In. to just about any kind of assault on it, but that he has a captive woman, Vera (Elena Anaya, Point Blank), on whom he is conducting his experiments. He also has a devoted housekeeper, Marilia (Almodóvar regular Marisa Paredes), who is in on the experiment, but who is also not happy about what is going on — even though not for reasons that have anything to do with ethics, but rather with the nature of his obsession.

The full nature of Ledgard’s obsession is only revealed slowly over the course of the film through a very labyrinthian plot that is developed in a nonlinear manner that is extreme even in Almodóvar terms. (I am giving away very little of the story here.) The film starts and concludes in the near future — 2012 — then suddenly backtracks to six years earlier. But even that doesn’t describe the structure, since the flashback occasionally doubles back on itself by repeating certain actions, and there are other flashbacks that occur via a story being told.

This is not a structure created for its own sake, but one designed to maintain the full impact of the story’s complexity throughout the film.

Everything about The Skin I Live In is ultimately as precise as Ledgard’s scalpel.

In fact, the one thing that seemed a bit less than I expect from Almodóvar — namely, a deep emotional resonance lying beneath the amplified soap opera central to all his films, including this one — wasn’t brought into focus until the very last scene. I suspect it will emerge earlier on a second viewing. Yes, this is a film that will benefit by being seen twice. The first time is for the nearly constant barrage of surprising connections that occur throughout the film. The second time is to appreciate the actual depth of what we were witnessing on that first viewing.

What is likely to disturb some viewers — beyond the usual manner in which Almodóvar refuses to judge his characters as good or evil, which is an inherent problem for some — is the depiction of the obsessional relationship between Ledgard and Vera as a two-way street.

Although the exact nature of her obsession with him is not made clear until the very end of the film (and even then, not entirely), she is — or has become — just as fixated on him as he is with her. This significantly adds to the film’s potentially creepy factor, but that creepiness — including the extent and actual nature of Ledgard’s obsession — is really part and parcel of the entire film.

Admirers of Almodóvar — and those who are not bothered by his ability to accept almost any excess as a part of life and art — will quickly find themselves at home with the film. It opens on a full note of mystery and melodrama — right down to the Alberto Iglesias score — with the story already underway behind the walls surrounding the grounds of Ledgard’s house, and it never really lets up as it weaves its bizarre and complex story. This, after all, is a film in which a man (Roberto Álamo) can show up in a tiger suit and prove his identity by dropping his pants to reveal a birthmark, and we never question it because — well, it’s Almodóvar.

What may, however, surprise some is how dark the film is. It is, in fact, probably the darkest film of Almodóvar’s career. There are, as usual, evocations of other movies within The Skin I Live In — the most notable being Georges Franju’s Les Yeux sans Visage (1960) and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). One is apt to get a certain sense of David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma, too. In fact,

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All the world, it seems, loves penguins — real or animated — and since the original Happy Feet made some big bucks back in 2006, a sequel was inevitable. So here it is, Happy Feet Two and, yes, it looks like more of the same.

Mumble (Elijah Wood) now has a son, Erik (Ava Acres), who, it seems, is having trouble fitting in. That may sound awfully familiar, except that this go-round young Erik can’t (or doesn’t like to) dance. Throw in some climatechange material and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as a couple bantering krill, and there you have it. So far, Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter was not jazzed about it, but David Germain of the Associated Press was. (PG)

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the tWIlIght saga: BreaKIng daWn — Part 1

Look, nobody cares what anybody has to say about the latest Twilight movie. These aren’t really movies in any useful sense of the term. They’re aimed at girls of a certain age who want a hot werewolf boy and a dreamy dead guy fighting over them. If there’s anyone out there who’s all a-dither over Bella herself, they seem to keep quiet about it. The sad part about this one is the presence of a genuinely talented director, Bill Condon, at the helm. The real question is how he managed to pull off the bit with the makeshift C-section that’s apparently a part of this one, and yet keep that all-important PG-13 rating.(PG-13)

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there are elements of De Palma’s underrated Antonio Banderas film Femme Fatale (2002) lurking about the edges. But in the end, The Skin I Live In is completely its own film and completely Almodóvar — with everything that implies.

Rated R for disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre

Immortals JJJ Director: tarsem singh (The Fall) Players: henry cavill, mickey rourke, stePhen Dorff, frieDa Pinto, John hurt mythologIcal actIon

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The Story: A peasant living in a fantastic version of ancient Greece must stop an evil king from destroying the world and the gods who rule over it.

The Lowdown: A hyper-stylized take on Greek mythology that’s simply too overbearing, and — too often — simply unfun.

I really wanted to like Tarsem Singh’s Immortals. More specifically, I really wanted it to be the higher-brow, sword-and-sandals answer to Zach Snyder’s 300 (2006) or Marcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian (2011). As someone who prays at the altar of Ken Russell’s fantasticated works, who will defend to the death the sensory overload of The Wachowski Brother’s

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Speed Racer (2008), and who finds self-indulgence to be a director’s greatest asset, I freely admit that Singh’s film is certainly over-the-top, overwrought and hyper-stylized enough for my tastes. Yet, there’s something missing beneath all of the film’s slick grandeur.

Normally, when films I adore fall into the category of the über-ostentatious — like Immortals does — there’s a sense of playfulness at hand.

These filmmakers are making a movie for themselves, and as a result they’re having fun. The problem with Immortals is that there’s little fun being had here. Singh approaches Immortals’ Greek mythology like a horror movie, with the end result coming across like a mix of 300’s unfortunate machismo, and — oddly enough — Christophe Gans’ Silent Hill (2006), albeit without the atmosphere. Despite the elegance of its cinematography, the film itself is often ugly and frequently grotesque. I can’t shake the feeling that Singh — despite his normal production design and sense of artistry — is making this movie less for himself, and more to impress the world with its gory badassness.

By putting an updated spin on the tale of Theseus — mixing the modern, gritty brand of stylized action with pageant-like costume design — we get a movie that’s too silly to be taken seriously, but to straight-faced to have any charm.

Even when Immortals breaks out into scenes with fountains of blood and ultraviolence, the end result is more amusing spectacle than epic storytelling. And as the story progresses, the violence becomes overwhelming and nasty, but also increasingly goofy. It’s a film with surprisingly little heart — particularly when compared

to Singh’s last film, The Fall (2006) — with the end result being that Immortals feels like an exquisitely made Michael Bay movie. I don’t necessarily mean the Bay comparison as an insult, but — at the risk of sounding like some old geezer — Immortals is one of the few times I’ve felt mentally overloaded by a film’s frenetics.

Immortals is an exhausting film with little on its mind, and a sole purpose of dazzling the audience into submission. And that’s a pity, because while I admire Singh’s sense of theatricality and marvel at his spurts of genuinely brilliant filmmaking, I’m still left with movie that — behind its polished facade — is completely shallow. Rated R for sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

J. edgar JJJJJ Director: clint eastwooD Players: leonarDo DicaPrio, armie hammer, naomi watts, JuDi Dench, Josh lucas BIograPhIcal drama

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The Story: The private and public story of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

The Lowdown: A close-to-great film blessed with terrific central performances — and one that manages to tackle potentially lurid material with tact and understanding.

For those who don’t already know it, I want to say straight off that I am not one of Clint Eastwood’s greatest admirers. Generally, I admire the fact that he makes his films his way without any attempt to change with the taste of the times.

My problem is quite simply that I don’t tend to care for the way he makes films, and I find many of them absurdly overrated. In the case of J. Edgar, however, Eastwood has made a film that I almost unhesitatingly admire. If it weren’t for the appalling old age make-up on Armie Hammer (which looks like something out of a bad horror movie) and Eastwood’s insistence on one of his “decorative piano” musical scores, I’d remove the qualifiers. Overall, it’s a brilliantly crafted and superbly acted film. Not surprisingly, I suppose,

I find myself praising Eastwood for a film that is hardly universally admired.

But then with J. Edgar, Eastwood is working in the much-maligned and almost equally misunderstood realm of the biopic — a genre that is bound to displease a lot of people by its very nature. The problem starts with the very concept of trying to capture some sense of a person’s life in two hours or so of a movie. The notion that it’s possible to include everything and be 100percent accurate is ludicrous. That doesn’t even happen in a full textbook biography, and it’s not — or shouldn’t be — the aim of the biopic. What the biopic — the good ones anyway — strives to do is give the filmmaker’s vision of the essence of the subject, and the filmmaker’s reaction to the subject. And that, I think, J. Edgar does, though it might be fairer to say in this case that it’s the combination of the filmmaker and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.

That said, it needs to be understood that what you’re getting is a subjective portrait — one derived from known fact and speculation based on what is known. In this case, that’s even trickier, since so little about J. Edgar Hoover can be called “known fact.” In this case, a good deal of the speculation comes from the point of view that “This is the only way the story makes sense” within the confines of those known facts. The results, however, are guaranteed to not entirely satisfy either Hoover’s supporters or his detractors. Those wanting a hero and those wanting a monster will find neither in Eastwood’s film.

Stripped to its fundamentals, the film is essentially a combination of a very sad love story and the tragic — or maybe pathetic — story of a man so involved in living his own self-created myth that there’s little or nothing of the man himself left. By the end, it’s not even clear how much of the truth of his own life is known to Hoover.

The film — which manages to traverse seven decades with surprising clarity and speed — presents Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a deeply closeted gay man whose only meaningful relationships were with his controlling mother (Judi Dench), his second-in-command, Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), and — perhaps most importantly — his own public image. That image — along with his mother and her “I’d rather have a dead son than a ’daffodil’” attitude — is, in fact, central to his closeted nature as presented by Eastwood and Black. Is it factual?

No, not in the concrete sense, it isn’t. It’s not a reading with which I’m prepared to take issue,

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Director: frantisek vlácil Players: magDa vásáryová, Josef kemr, naDa heJna, Jaroslav moucka, frantisek velecký drama rated nr I am informed that Frantisek Vlácil’s Marketa Lazarová (1967) was voted — by a 1998 survey of Czech critics — the greatest Czech film ever made. Setting aside the question of either how many Czech critics there are, or just how much competition there is for that accolade (oh, I’ll get mail for that), I have to say that I simply don’t “get it.” Indeed, I find the film itself verging on the incomprehensible, and — at 158 minutes — one tough slog.

That said, I freely concede that it is a visually stunning work. Its widescreen compositions are invariably striking, and Vlácil’s technical mastery is without question — hence the fourstar rating. The story about a feud between two 13th-century clans — one Christian, one pagan — with the title character at its center, didn’t do much for me. I’ve seen it compared to Seven Samurai (1954), Andrei Rublev (1966) and The Seventh Seal (1957), but I don’t see much connection with those. As drama, it simply didn’t connect with me on any level, but I’m not writing it off or saying it’s bad — merely, that it’s not for me. Those with a strong interest in Eastern European film may well feel differently. And visually, it is indeed something to see. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Marketa Lazarova at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18 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: françois girarD Players: samuel l. Jackson, Jason flemyng, grera scacchi, colm feore, Jean-luc BiDeau musIcal drama rated r Once again, the Hendersonville Film Society is screening of one of their most popular music-themed films. This week they’re bringing back François Girard’s The Red Violin (1998), about which I wrote a few years ago, “The so-called portmanteau film — a collection of stories in a single vessel — is by its very nature a tricky proposition.

Even the best of them — Julien Duvivier’s Tales of Manhattan (1942), the multi-director Dead of Night (1945) — rises and falls on the quality of the individual episodes.

Duvivier’s film, for example, soars in its Edward G. Robinson sequence, and again in its Paul Robeson/Ethel Waters vignette, but plummets somewhere beneath sea level in the story with Ginger Rogers and Henry Fonda. French-Canadian filmmaker François Girard and co-screenwriter Don McKellar mostly circumvent this problem in the 1998 film, The Red Violin. It’s not simply that there’s no actual clunker of a story in the film’s mix (there isn’t), it’s more that they fashioned not one, but two brilliantly conceived and executed framing stories to tie the whole thing together. And it’s a good thing they did, because this may be the most ambitious portmanteau film ever made, as it traces some 300 years in the ‘life’ of the Red Violin.” The full review is here: http://www. mountainx.com/movies/review/redviolin.php reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Red Violin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Director: rolanD west Players: chester morris, una merkel, grayce hamPton, gustav von seyffertitz, mauDe eBurne old darK house thrIller rated nr Roland West’s The Bat Whispers (1930) is unusual in that it’s the director’s talkie remake of his own silent film The Bat (1926). It’s also unusual in that this early sound film is actually far more fluid and cinematically adventurous than its silent counterpart. That’s not to say that the film doesn’t belie its stage-play origins, or that it doesn’t creak a little — but then, a little creakiness often adds to the atmosphere of an “old dark house” thriller, which this very much is. In fact, since the story — albeit without the character of an arch criminal called The Bat — dates back to Mary Roberts Rinehart’s 1908 novel The Circular Staircase, the 1920 play has a pretty good claim of being the very first such work. It’s certainly an essential, with every genre mainstay imaginable — a creepy old isolated mansion, a deranged killer on the loose, secret passages, thunder-andlightning, an assortment of suspicious charactrers, a very peculiar detective etc. The premise finds elderly Cornelia van Gorder (Grayce Hampton), her niece Dale (Una Merkel) and her maid (Maude Eburne) being subjected to attempts to frighten them out of a house they’ve rented for the summer — until the arrival of the brusque (to say the least) Detective Anderson (Chester Morris), who is of the opinion that this is the work of The Bat, a seemingly unstoppable black-hooded, batcaped criminal — and one who qualifies for a place in the pantheon of movie “monsters.” Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that — unlike most such films and plays — the story actually qualifies (probably because of Rinehart) as a bonafide work of “golden age” detective fiction in the bargain. As a result, you get both a horror film and a genuine mystery in one package. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Bat Whispers on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Director: hal walker Players: Bing crosBy, BoB hoPe, Dorothy lamour, hillary Brooke, Douglass DumBrille, roBert Benchley musIcal comedy rated nr “For those of you who don’t go to the movies, let me introduce myself — my name is Robert Benchley ... well, no matter. For one reason or another, the motion picture you’re about to see is not very clear in spots. Now someone in what is known as the ‘front office’ has decided that an occasional word from me might help to clarify the plot and other vague portions of the picture.

Personally, I doubt it. Shall we go?” So begins Road to Utopia with Bing and Bob off on another road, in the fourth — and many say funniest — of their famous “Road” series. If nothing else, it may be their wildest, with a talking fish, a talking bear, Santa Claus and the Paramount mountain all making appearances. And, of course, Dorothy Lamour shows up as a plucky lady in distress and gets a couple of her best songs — “Personality” and “Would You?” For purposes of the film, Utopia is Alaska during the Gold Rush and the marginal plot involves a stolen map to a gold mine rightfully owned by Lamour. There’s not even the slightest attempt at reality. No sooner does Bing walk onscreen in the movie’s framing story than Bob turns to the camera and complains, “And I thought this was going to be an A picture.” It’s that kind of movie. Plus, Bing gets to be in a talent contest competing with a monkey. Who can ask for more? reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen Road to Utopia on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the A.F.S.

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The structure of the film is very shrewd in that it’s a combination of what “really” happened, and a detailed series of flashbacks drawn from the aged Hoover dictating his story to a series of FBI agents. These flashbacks are, by their very nature, not entirely reliable. But it’s not until the very end of the film that the difference between reality and Hoover’s memories becomes clear — and it doesn’t become clear through any fault of Hoover’s, but rather from Tolson pulling the rug out from under the supposed facts. Yet this is not done cruelly, and it is, in fact, followed by the film’s most genuinely touching moment — one that contains the only overt phyical expression of love from Hoover in the entire film. In context, it’s heartbreaking and the moment that the film and its “hero” becomes human. Rated R for brief strong language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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Director: Dennis Dugan Players: aDam sanDler, al Pacino, katie holmes, eugenio DerBez, nick swarDson “comedy”

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The Story: A man must deal with his obnoxious twin sister over the holidays.

The Lowdown: If you find Adam Sandler in drag accompanied by a bevy of fart jokes and celebrity cameos to be comedy gold, then here’s a movie for you.

That the latest Adam Sandler abomination, Jack and Jill, is one of the worst movies of the year should come as a surprise to no one. The film being bad is about as shocking as contrarian New York Press film critic Armond White coming out to laud the film in a likely — or at least hopeful — attempt at pissing off the entirety of movie-going humanity. (That White compares the movie to the work of Ernst Lubitsch is another matter altogether.)

Actually, Sandler’s in rarefied air here, since

the only thing keeping Jack and Jill from being the worst movie of the year is that the Sandler-produced Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is only a few months old. Add in the terminally awful Sandler vehicle Just Go With It from this summer, and he’s just one more stupid picture away from a crappy movie superfecta. With just a few weeks left in the year, I’m sure Sandler and company can crank out something just as lazy and pandering as Jack and Jill in time for the new year.

Here we have a movie that’s almost nonchalantly bad. With director Dennis Dugan at the helm — Sandler’s go-to guy for this type of dirty work — there’s no chance of this movie being tolerable. Worse, the cast of Jack and Jill seems to know it, going through the motions to turn in another in the same kind of formula comedy that have made Sandler and company millions.

Sandler plays Jack Sadelstein, an ad exec with a picturesque life, except for one thing — his obnoxious twin sister, Jill, who is also played by a dragged-up Sandler. Most of the film’s humor revolves around how incredibly uncouth, annoying and physically unappealing Jill is, while Jack is mostly ignored for being an astoundingly selfish, generally terrible human being. The idea, of course, is that by the end of the movie we’ll care about Jill’s plight, and Jack will learn the error of his ways. All this gushy, predictable baloney is shoved between fart jokes, pratfalls and David Spade with fake breasts.

If that’s not enough, the film is the usual combination of inane, random Sandlerian humor — an adopted Indian kid (newcomer Rohan Chand) who tapes objects to himself, a casually racist caricature of a Mexican day-laborer (Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez), and so forth — and the usual appearances by Sandler’s buddies in need of work. There’s also a bevy of celebrity cameos, from the confounding appearance from Sham-Wow peddler Vince Offer (who’s only funny when he’s being beaten up by hookers) to more reputable types like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino — who has a depressingly major role in the movie. One the bright side, many of these cameos aren’t wasted, and some actually get the film’s best moments — the rest oscillate between unfortunate and amusing. At the very least, Pacino seems to being having fun with the film.

At least someone is. Rated PG for crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and brief smoking. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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Director: oliver schmitz Players: khomotso manyaka, keaoBaka makanyane, lerato mvelase, harriet manamela, auBrey Poolo drama rated Pg-13 Although its final act wafts over into the realm of the slightly fantastic on a couple of unexplained and improbable plot points, Oliver Schmitz’s Love, Above All is a powerful and emotionally compelling work. The film traces the story of Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka), a young girl living with her mother, Lillian (Lerato Mvelase), and younger brother and sister in what can best be described — in relative terms — as a step above outright poverty in rural South Africa. As the film opens she is involved — at an unseemly young age — in making the arrangements (the bargain arrangements, it should be added) for a funeral for her youngest sibling. Her father is absent and her mother’s subsequent husband, Jonah (Aubrey Poolo), has disappeared. Life is hard, and is only going to get harder. Which it does: The only positive things come from Chanda’s own resourceful resilience, her friendship with another girl, Esther (Keaobaka Makanyane), and the occasional — sometimes grudging —

help of the relatively affluent Mrs. Tafa (Harriet Manamela), who functions as something of the community’s leader.

What the film is ultimately about — though the actual term is not even mentioned until more than an hour of the film’s running time has passed — is the stigma, ignorance of and superstitions about AIDS. As it turns out, both the absent Jonah and Lillian have it — and Esther (already dismissed by Chanda’s relatives as not being an “appropriate” friend) is suspected of having it. When Jonah is brought back by the woman he’s been living with, he’s in the advanced stages of the disease and treated like a leper. Lillian — after visits to a quack herbologist and a kind of medicine woman — is sent back to her village for the “curse” to be lifted from her. The sole voice of reason in all this is Chanda who opts to take matters into her own hands with interesting — if a little bit simplistic — results.

While it isn’t by any means a great film, it’s a strong statement on the ignorance and prejudice surrounding AIDS. It’s also a surprisingly involving and moving film — and one that ought to be seen. reviewed by Ken Hanke Love, Above All plays for one show only — on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. -- as a benefit for the Western North Carolina AIDS project.

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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

BlacKthorn JJJJJ

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

the Ides oF march JJJJ

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

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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

the BlacK PoWer mIxtaPe 1967-1975 margIn call JJJJJ JJJJJ 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

gaInsBourg: a heroIc lIFe JJJJ

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.

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the helP JJJJ

emma stone, viola Davis, octavia sPencer, Bryce Dallas howarD, allison Janney, sissy sPacek Drama A young college graduate writes a book— with the help of the black maids—that exposes the hypocrisy and racism in 1963 Jackson, Miss. Solidly entertaining crowd-pleaser with terrific performances overcoming an overstuffed narrative and a toocareful approach to the subject matter. Rated PG-13

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

moneyBall JJJJ

BraD Pitt, Jonah hill, PhiliP seymour hoffman, roBin wright, chris Pratt Sports Drama An underdog tale of a Major League Baseball team trying to subvert the system through statistics, and the repercussions of their attempt.

An interesting idea for a biopic by way of character study, although never as engaging or dramatically alive as it should be. Rated 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

Puss In Boots JJJJ

(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 Earthshattering, but pleasant enough. Rated PG

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the rum dIary JJJJ

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

toWer heIst JJJ

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 PG-13

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the Way JJJJ

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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Computer CHRISTOPHER’S COMPUTERS • Computer Slow? Call Christopher’s Computers at 828-670-9800 and let us help you with PC and Macintosh issues: networking, virus/malware removal, tutoring, upgrades, custom-built new computers, etc.

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Business CUSTOM WEBSITE DESIGN Are you a small business owner? Are you an artist? Do you feel like you you can’t afford a website? Well now you can! Website packages starting at just $200. Web Site www.madebydavidlynn.com] Email madebydavidlynn@ gmail.com

Landscaping BURGESS TREE AND LAWN SERVICE • Rental Property Maintenance • Tree Removal • Tree Pruning • Reliable • Affordable. Call 280-3601.

Caregivers COMPANION • CAREGIVER • LIVE-IN Alzheimer’s experienced. • Heart failure and bed sore care.

CarePartners Hospice recommended. • Nonsmoker, with cat, seeks live-in position. • References. • Arnold, (828) 273-2922.

Commercial Listings

Rentals

Businesses For Sale

Apartments For Rent

HANDYMAN BUSINESS FOR SALE Starting your own Home Repair Business and would appreciate a jump start? I am relocating out of state. I am seeking a reputable buyer for my established business serving clients for over 7 years in the Asheville area. This includes all of my equipment, supplies and tools. Call soon.

828-273-5271.

Commercial Property OFFICE SUITES Downtown Asheville. 1-5 office suites from 490 sq. ft. to 3,200 sq. ft. Modern finishes, elevator, central air. Affordable, full service rates. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

Commercial/ Business Rentals DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE For lease. Above City Bakery, Biltmore Avenue.

Approximately 775 sqft.

Natural light. Spacious. info@sycamorepartners.net MONTFORD Downtown office/retail/flex space. Street level, prime location across from the Chamber of Commerce. Approx. 1501400 sf. Plenty of parking.

Mod. gross lease. $300/month and up. Call 828-254-4440.

WEAVERVILLE OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Two licensed therapists seeking third practitioner. Two offices plus waiting room. Fully furnished. Downtown Weaverville. Free parking.

Second floor (no elevator.)

Two weekdays plus one weekday P.M.. Saturday available. $265.00/month with annual lease. Chandra Passero 337-2716 or awakengaia@yahoo.com or Karen Osborne-Rowland 768-5440 or kaos1954@frontier.com or

$800-2BR/2BA IN QUIET, BEAUTIFUL SOUTH ASHEVILLE LOCATION 1150 sq. ft. unfurnished lower level duplex w/W&D, fridge, DW, lots of closets, patio w/small yard, tile floors/carpet, gas FP, elect heat + wonderful evergreens in excellent location: 2 mins from I40/Hendersonville Rd, 2 mins from Parkway/Hendersonville Rd. Utils NOT incl. 1 yr lease w/credit check. Pet considered w/non-refundable deposit. Avail immed. Call 562.310.3338 for appt.

1BR WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included. On bus line. $579/month. Call 828-252-9882.

4BR, 1.5 BA WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included. On bus line. $769/month. Call 828-252-9882.

CHARMING STUDIO HISTORIC MONTFORD • Close to UNCA and Downtown. Spacious efficiency with separate sunny kitchen/dining area, big bath, good closet space.

Hardwood floors, new appliances, $675.00/month includes all utilities. Years lease, security deposit, credit check required. For appt: Graham Investments 828-253-6800.

DUPLEX • 3BR, 2BA apartment, 1300 ft, 1st floor, no stairs, beautiful, modern 5 year old unit, park like setting. Maple Springs Villas, near Haw Creek. Sorry, no dogs. $900/month.

828-299 7502.

Mobile Homes For Rent WEAVERVILLE -3Bdrm 2Bath double-wide, all appliances including front load washer&dryer;,fireplace, deck on quiet mountain side. $750.00 per mo. plus electricity, 1 yr lease, references and credit check.

Also 1Bedr, cottage, all appliances, wood stove, new heat&a/c. $450.00 per mo plus electricity. call (828)645-9258, ask for Peggy WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 2BA Mobile. W/D connections. On bus line.

Excellent condition. Quiet park. Accepting Section 8.

Only $595/month.

828-252-4334.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent

jobs WEST 2BR, 1BA • Hardwood floors. No pets. $750/month.

Employment

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

General

Vacation Rentals

ADVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $11 per hour guaranteed plus a weekly bonus program. We are seeking individuals for full and part time in our local Asheville sales office. • Benefit package • Weekly paycheck • Students welcome. Our employees earn $500-$650 per week with bonuses. No experience necessary, we will train the right people. Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required. Call today for a personal interview.

828-236-2530.

BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Short-Term Rentals 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental. Newly renovated, CONDO NEAR TUNNEL ROAD • Luxury 2BR, 2BA condo on the 4th floor of a new four story building.

Close to downtown and Asheville Mall. Elevators, pool with hot tub, exercise room, fireplace, deck w/ mountain views, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, ceramic/hardwood floors, etc. $995/ month includes water and gas (828) 231-6689.

complete with everything including cable and internet.

Weaverville area. • No pets please. (828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com

ASPIRING YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS Earn an income you deserve, Company looking for online trainers. Flexible hours, work from home www.2dreambigger.com fp@hatchellburt.com

BB BARNS is currently accepting applications for Tropical Buyer. Part-time position. Qualified candidate will have tropical plant knowledge, positive attitude and know that customer service is number one. • Minimum requirements: Associate Degree in Horticulture or its equivalent with at least 3 years of experience in horticulture or greenhouse setting. Ability to repeatedly lift and move up to 30 pounds. Computer proficiency including Microsoft Office. Apply in person at 3377 Sweeten Creek Rd, Arden or fax resume to 828-650-7303. No phone inquiries, please.

BECOME AN AVON INDEPENDENT SALES REPRESENTATIVE! Only $10 to start your own business!

Unlimited earnings! Work from home and no inventory to keep! Contact Airley Ferrell for more info!

828-989-3093 airleykay@gmail.com www.youravon.com/airleyferrell

ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN BURNSVILLE SEEKS A QUALIFIED PIANIST St Thomas Episcopal Church, Burnsville seeks a qualified pianist to help lead Sunday morning worship for a congregation that loves to sing. Music includes a mixture of traditional and contemporary.

Salary is negotiable. Contact John Davis at email@sthomasonline.org or 828-682-4111 ext 200.

WORK FOR THE BEST! We’re a well-established, busy, local, earth-friendly, home cleaning company and seeking reliable, detailoriented employees with great energy, attitude and long-term commitment. • Part-time, flexible weekday hours. • Great pay; must have own transportation, mileage reimbursed. Vacation potential. • Perfect for stayat-home mom or students.

For interview, call Denise or Shelly, 776-7399. Upstairs Downstairs, Inc.

SKYLAND • 2BR, 2BA. 1,200 sq.ft. Vaulted ceilings, gas, fireplace, W/D hookup, D/W, refrigerator, stove, balcony. $750/month - deposit. Call Bill, 828-423-3355.

Homes For Rent 3BR, 2BA LOG HOME with basement. Hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings. Easy access. 15 minutes from Weaverville; 25 minutes from Asheville. High speed internet. $985/month. Call 828-649-1170.

GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD • Quiet, safe, very convenient location, close to schools, not a large complex, located in Candler off Asbury near Enka Middle school and AB Tech Enka campus. Large, 1200 sqft, with 2 large BR, 1.5BA, W/D hook ups, eat-in kitchen, very large living room, closets. Quiet setting, well kept, new carpet, fresh paint, updated. Long or short term lease. $625/month + utilities. 828-280-0806.

EAST ASHEVILLE Only 10 minutes to downtown. Nice 3BR, 1.5BA home in Haw Creek. Hardwood floors, refrigerator, washer and dryer included. $975/month with 1 year lease.

(828) 231-9411. jivarner@aol.com

WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Sorry, no pets. Call 253-0758.

Carver Realty.

FURNISHED HOME WITH MTN VIEWS + STUDIO 2BR/1BA, deck, yard, garden, laundry, studio, 2 parks. $1050 with internet. Heat pump. 6 mo., then month-tomonth. Dec. 1. 989-8361.

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Skilled Labor/ Trades FULL TIME DRAIN CLEANER NEEDED • Experience preferred but will train the right person. Must have good driving record and able to work weekends if needed.

Need reliable, honest person.

Please send resume to: Job Position, PO Box 6206, Asheville NC 28816.

Sales/ Marketing ADVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $11 per hour guaranteed plus a weekly bonus program. We are seeking individuals for full and part time in our local Asheville sales office. • Benefit package • Weekly paycheck • Students welcome. Our employees earn $500-$650 per week with bonuses. No experience necessary, we will train the right people. Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required. Call today for a personal interview.

828-236-2530.

Drivers/Delivery

Human Services AFTER SCHOOL BUS DRIVER • Eliada Homes is seeking an After School Bus Driver to transport local students to our after school program. This is a great opportunity for retiree or student! Part-time permanent position that pays $13/hour.

• Must have NC CDL and be endorsed to drive bus with air brakes. Previous experience driving school bus preferred. This position could possibly lead to more opportunities within the After School Program at Eliada!

For more information on this job, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

AREA WIDE TRANSPORTATION AND TAXI SERVICE, INC. • Seeking drivers. Mature person for F/T or P/T. Serious inquiries only. Call today.

828-713-4710.

VISALUS SCIENCES: INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTOR ViSalus gives you the opportunity to create your OWN economy and take control of your financial future!To apply visit: www.zwingett.myvi.net

DRIVERS NEEDED • Professional Transportation, Inc. is seeking local drivers for 7-passenger mini-vans in the Asheville, NC area. Drug screen, driving record, and criminal background check required. 1-800-471-2440. www.professionaltransportati oninc.com EOE

Restaurant/ Food

Medical/ Health Care

SERVERS AND HOSTESS Now hiring. Apply in person: 2 Hendersonville Road, Biltmore Station, Asheville.

252-7885. Ichiban Japanese Steak House

CNA POSITIONS Flexible schedules available to caring, dependable individuals who enjoy assisting seniors in their homes. Home Instead Senior Care. homeinstead.com/159

Stacie’s Personal Care Services Home Care Is What We Do Openings for CNA’s and RN’s for Nuring Pool in in Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Yancey, Henderson, Transylvania, Jackson, Mitchell & Swain Counties.

• Weekend and weekday schedules available • Come join our team Stacie’s Personal Care is a drug free workplace

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SEEKING CNA’s for Leicester area. Apply online www.staciespcs.com or call 828-484-8440. Background check and drug screen required.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • Seeks a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist for our child population. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the right credentialed, energetic team member. Please email resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com.

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources@ familiestogether.net

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE, has opportunities for Qualified Mental Health Professionals to join our team. Qualified candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in a social services field and a minimum of 1 year experience with children with mental illness.

FPS offers a competitive and comprehensive benefit package. To join our team, please send your resume to jdomansky@fpscorp.com

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FULL-TIME DAY TREATMENT SUPERVISOR Working with adolescents that have mental health/substance abuse diagnoses. LCSW preferred, LPC will be considered.

Responsibilities- Treatment planning Maintain communication with all parties involved Provide behavioral interventions Facilitate team meetings Completing daily documentation of services provided Supportive counseling of clients and caregivers. aspireapplicants@ yahoo.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 696-2667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel.wingo@thementornet work.com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting.

NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

NIGHT NURSES NEEDED • Registered Nurses needed to work nights providing care to our students in our Psychiatric Treatment Residential Treatment Facilities. • Nursing staff will provide restrictive intervention monitoring and effectively utilize the agency’s crisis intervention procedures. Other responsibilities include, administering medication and implementing each students’ health plan. This position requires a valid NC RN licensure. • Experience working with children and/or adolescents strongly preferred. New grads encouraged to apply! For more information on this job, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

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NIGHT RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR NEEDED • Do you love working nights and enjoy helping children succeed? Eliada Homes is seeking a Night Residential Counselor to provide excellent over night awake care to our students. • Responsibilities include bed checks, executing daily cleaning, and completing required documentation of students. Position is full time with benefits. • Prefer AA/High School Diploma with at least one year of experience in the mental health field. For more information on this job, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

QUALIFIED PROFESSION TREATMENT SPECIALIST • Day Treatment QPTS needed to help children succeed.

Responsibilities include creatively working with small groups of students as a teacher of kills and as support for other staff as scheduled. • Must have Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services or related field with two years post graduate experience working with a similar population or a Bachelor’s • Degree in a non human service field and four years post graduate experience working with a similar population. For more information on this job, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALASHEVILLE • State-wide provider of I/DD services is seeking a full-time QP for our Asheville location. Candidates must have at minimum a bachelor’s degree in human services field from an accredited college or university plus two years’ post-bachelor’s degree accumulated I/DD experience. Four years experience and bachelor’s degree in field other than human services may be considered. Position is M-F 8 am – 5 pm, salaried with benefit package. Interested persons may apply on at www.turningpointservicesinc. com or send resume to Turning Point Services, Inc. 408 Lawn Ave. Hendersonville 28792, attention Andrew.

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL Monarch is now accepting applications for a Full-time Qualified Professional for three sites in Henderson and Rutherford Counties. • Skills: Ability to develop and implement person centered plans that address clinical needs and life plans for the individuals we serve. Position is in a residential setting. • Requirements: Must have a four-year college degree. At least two years post baccalaureate experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities.

Ability to work independently, take initiative and make decisions based on sound judgment. Must have a valid NC driver’s license. • Benefits: Competitive salary, major medical insurance and dental coverage, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, 401(K) Retirement Plan. • Apply: On line www.MonarchNC.org • An Equal Opportunity Employer RECREATION SPECIALISTS NEEDED • Eliada Homes is seeking to fill two Recreation Specialist positions to work with either our preadolescent or adolescent population. Individuals must be creative as job entails planning and implementing activities that pormote student participation. • A Bachelor’s Degree in Therapeutic Recration or related field. • Requires a minimum of two years experience working in an educational or behavioral treatment setting. For more information on this job, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

SEEKING FAMILY COUNSELORS FOR POLK AND RUTHERFORD COUNTIES! IFCS RSVP ONLY CAREER FAIR ON 11/19/11 IFCS Career FairSaturday,November 19th 12-2pm at The Renaissance Hotel on 31 Woodfin Dr. in downtown Asheville. RSVP at Carolyn.Chandler@theMentor Network.com. Please view position description and apply online at ifcsinc.com/jobs/career.php. www.ifcsinc.com

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR Mountain Area Recovery Center is seeking a Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor to fill a position in our outpatient opioid treatment facility located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Candidates will provide substance abuse services, including but not limited to, assessments/screening, intake, client orientation, person centered planning, case management, intervention, client education, and plan and lead structured process and theme centered groups. We offer competitive pay WITH benefits…medical, dental, life, short-term disability, flexible spending account, 401-K, pto, paid holidays, and a flexible work environment in this challenging, yet highly rewarding field. If you are up to the challenge, please email your resume to rhonda.ingle@marc-otp.com or fax to attention: Rhonda Ingle at 828.252.9512.

Mountain Area Recovery Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Requirements • Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist (LCAS); or • Licensed Psychological Associate (LPA); or • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW); or • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); or • Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS)

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATIONS SERVICES • Is seeking an LCSW and QMHP for adult service lines. Also seeking an LCSW to work with young children and on Intensive Home Team. Please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com.

UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is seeking a Psychiatrist to provide 16 hours per week to work on an ACTT (Assertive Community Treatment Team) team for our Asheville location. Please email Patra at plowe@umhs.net to apply or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net.

UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is seeking Licensed or Provisionally Licensed Therapists to lead our Intensive In Home Team or Community Support Team for our Asheville and Forest City locations. Please email Patra at plowe@umhs.net to apply or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net.

UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is seeking Licensed or Provisionally Licensed Therapists to provide therapy in School and/or office based settings for our Asheville location, Please call Patra at 828-225-4980 ext 302 to apply or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS Is hiring for Direct Care Positions. Full Time on 2nd and 3rd shift, and Part Time. Job duties include providing planned instruction to group home residents to maximize independent living skills, and behavioral health. Eligible applicants must have High School Diploma and 2 years related experience, or college degree, and possess a current Driver’s License.

Apply in person at 28 Pisgah View Ave, Asheville or for additional information visit our website www.wncgrouphomes.org WNC Group Homes is a Drug Free Workplace.

Caregivers/ Nanny CAREGIVER NEEDED • Responsible, mature caregiver and general assistant live-in. For elderly gentleman. Good driving record and references required. 828-658-2663.

Professional/ Management LICENSED THERAPIST Great opportunity to build a practice with referrals. Must be experienced with play therapy and working with children and families. Must be able to bill for Medicaid.

Contact Bruce at The Relationship Center, (828) 777-3755.

Arts/Media INTERN AND VOLUNTEERS Local art non profit seeks an arts based non profit intern and volunteers. For more information email eric@arts2people.org PAID ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES! Demonstrations, vending, art installations, group marketing and many more opportunities contact andrew@arts2people.org

Teaching/ Education 6TH GRADE MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHER ArtSpace Charter School is now accepting applications for a 6th grade Math and Science teacher. This position will be a long-term substitute position and will only extend through the end of the current school year. • Applicants Must have a current North Carolina teaching license in Middle School Math and Middle School Science or Elementary Education.

Applicants must be willing to work in a collaborative, integrated, experiential environment. Knowledge of the arts and arts integration strategies is preferred but not required. Please send resumes and cover letters to: resumes@artspacecharter.or g with a subject heading that indicates the position for which you are applying.

Deadline to apply: November 30.

IMMEDIATE OPENING • SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER ASSISTANT ArtSpace Charter School in Swannanoa has an immediate opening for a fulltime K-8 Special Education Teacher Assistant. • This position is for the remainder of this school year only.

Minimum educational requirement is an undergraduate degree.

Experience working with children is required and experience working with special needs children is preferred. Please send resumes and cover letters to: resumes@artspacecharter.or g with a subject heading that indicates the position for which you are applying.

Deadline to apply: November 23.

LEAD INFANT TEACHER • Become a part of a five star facility! Eliada Homes Child Development is seeking a Lead Teacher to provide exceptional care in our infant room. • Must have Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood or Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood or related field. If degree is in related field, applicant must have at least 12 credit hours in Early Childhood. • Must have completed Early Childhood Credentials I and II. A minimum of one year of comparable experience preferred. Must have a valid NCDL and be insurable by Eliada’s carriers. For more information, please go to www.eliada.org/employment.

Jobs Wanted WHAT DO YOU NEED? Is it assistance for yourself or a parent? Mature woman with background in helping professions/businesses providing companionship, non-medical care/errands/office/shopping/ laundry, etc. Excellent references. 828-645-9579.

Classes & Workshops SPIRAL SPIRIT ECSTATIC DANCE Come dance a total body experience of the Wave and honoring Stillness. We gather every Wednesday nights/fall hrs. 6:30pm 8:30pm, winter hrs. 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Sol’s Reprieve 11 Richland St. West Asheville.

Contact: Karen azealea10@ yahoo.com or Cassie elementsmove@yahoo.com WOMEN’S THRIVE TRAINING Join a 12-week guided action workgroup for boosting confidence, career, health, athletic performance, creativity, relationships, or any long held dream. Your life, your choice. Participants increase hardiness, direction, and learn balance through laughter and accomplishment. Members will identify personal strengths, thoughts/attitudes that direct success, tailor action for results, ignite necessary resolve, and maintain it all with synergy taught in the class. It’s fun.

It’s easy. It’s effective. Cost $35/session. Contact Christina Chapman, M.A. with Mind Elevations Consulting 208-634-9855 or christina@ mindelevations.com.

SHAOLIN QI GONG • For Health, Vitality, Serenity and Spiritual Cultivation November 21st & 22nd, Asheville, NC, Course fee $250. **Pre-registration rate of $200 call before 11/11/11 Call today! 828-280-8695.

Mind, Body, Spirit

Health & Fitness ZUMBA AT CHRISTINE’S CARDIO FITNESS 22 Zumba classes per week. Zumba Toning, Zumba Gold & Zumba Fitness. Choose from 6 fantastic instructors.

828-275-7144 christine@ christinescardiofitness.com christinescardiofitness.com

Bodywork

PURPLE MOUNTAIN MASSAGE THERAPIES • Ashiatsu (massaged with feet) - Get stepped on and feel good about it! • Swedish massage with aromatherapy.

Call for special rates. 828779-0077. Suzanne Getty, LMT 5968. Visit purplemountainjourney.com SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town— or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life!

26 massage therapists.

299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

Spiritual HEALING, READINGS AND SHAMANIC JOURNEY • Experience and learn how.

Marcel Coyote Anton.

786-302-4204. #1 AFFORDABLE COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS MASSAGE CENTER • 1224 Hendersonville Road.

Asheville. $29/hour. • 15 Wonderful Therapists to choose from. Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point. Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology. • Save money, call now! 505-7088. thecosmicgroove.com FREE MASSAGE CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS • Continuing education classes (CEU’s) and Ashiatsu barefoot massage training for professionals. Top notch massage therapy for the public. Therapeutic-organic massage and yoga bolsters/pillows/back supports and orthotics. Brett Rodgers LMBT #7557.

NCBTMB ceu provider #451495-10. www.vitalitymassage.net (828) 645-5228

Pet Xchange

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS • Free or low cost spay/neuter information and vouchers. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month 123PM at Blue Ridge Mall, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). • 4th Saturday of each month 10AM - 2PM at Tractor Supply, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

828-693-5172.

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Trucks/Vans/SUVs Musical Services ONE WORLD MEDIA STUDIO • Music and Video Production • In Studio • Live Venue • HD Video • HQ Audio. Call (828) 335-9316.

On the web: 1worldmediastudio.com T AND N GUITAR REPAIR Quality guitar repair available. No job too big or small. Call for Christmas specials. Nate: 828-7368948 or Tim: 828-550-8193.

Fair prices, fast services. www.tandnguitarrepair.com

Musicians’ Bulletin WORLD MUSIC ARTIST AND HEALER • Seeking Afrocentric rhythm section for performance and recording.

Marcel Coyote Anton.

786-302-4204.

PERFECT VAN FOR ANY SERVICE BUSINESS!1998 FORD ECONOLINE V-8 CARGO VAN in excellent condition. Just had major tune-up, 3 new coils, likenew tires, reupholstered front seat and full inspection by local mechanic. Hate to part with this but I need a smaller car. Asking $1,500 or best offer or straight trade for smaller car. This cargo van drives great and is perfect for anyone who needs a tons of space for equipment and/or supplies. Has 180,588 miles but it totally rebuilt and drives like new.

Call 828-458-9195 as this will go fast!

Automotive Services

Tools & Machinery

WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

Half price repair and service.

ASE and factory certified.

Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-275-6063 for appointment.

For Sale

Antiques & Collectibles

Adult Services

A WOMAN’S TOUCH “We’re all about you!”

BobCAT 2002 Only 1507 hours. 773-G Series, Skid Steer tracks over tires, wood splitter 48’, Brush Bandit bush hog. $15,000 Please call 828- 551-4156

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HALLMARK CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS In original boxes, like new. From 19792007. Call June at 254-2415.

Jewelry CUSTOM 14KT SOLITAIRE DIAMOND RING White gold.

Round brilliant cut, .330 carat. Appraisal papers available. Approximate ring size 6-7. • $500 firm. Local inquires only: magicottage@yahoo.com

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