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p. 10 Manifest destiny, suburban style Sure, strip malls get a bad rap — harbingers of urban sprawl, cookie-cutter bland designs and all that. But for local entrepreneurs, they can be business incubators, offering ample parking, affordability and synergy with neighboring businesses.

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news

14 asheville city council: What if?

City budget faces major uncertainties

16 buncoMbe coMMissioners: PayinG the cost

Proposal calls for tax hike to balance Buncombe County budget

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food

38 Post-consuMer Pantry

Every good dog deserves a treat

arts&entertainment 40 Girl land

Anton Disclafani’s Depression-era, coming-of-age novel is set in the N.C. mountains

41 a Great escaPe

The wild, true tale of two New York journalists who made a break from a Confederate prison in North Carolina

42 arMchair rockstars

Peals creates a living-room atmosphere for debut album Waking Field

44 stranGe birds

Fox and Beggar Theater takes flight with Ovo

xpress info features 5 letters 7 cartoon: Molton 8 conversations 9 cartoon: brent broWn 18 coMMunity calendar 22 conscious Party Benefits 24 in the sPirit 26 asheville disclaiMer 27 neWs of the Weird 28 Wellness Health+wellness news 31 in the Garden 34 sMall bites Local food news 46 state of the arts around town 47 sMart bets What to do, who to see 49 clubland 56 cranky hanke Movie reviews 60 classifieds 62 freeWill astroloGy 62 cartoon: derf 63 ny tiMes crossWord

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letters LocaL investments, LocaL resuLts I love the “buy local” campaign for Buncombe County. As president of a locally owned bank, I know how important it is to have support from our neighbors. Putting our money to work locally is the way we grow as a community.

When the May 22 Local Economy article called for examples of local investment, I knew it was a great chance for me, as the chairman of the board of directors of United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County, to share information on the investments made by over 13,000 neighbors in our local community. Four years ago United Way restructured the method of investing the community’s dollars. We identified specific community-level results for education, income and health as the building blocks for a good life for everyone.

We require any program receiving United Way funds to show the connection between their clients’ results and these pre-established community level results. If funded, programs are required to track the success of their clients and report the “return on investment” for the funds received from United Way. Here is a snapshot of investments and the return on those investments through local contributions and local services to families: • 2011-12: Investments of $702,816 for education, in positive results anticipated for 2,849 individuals, led to an actual return of 3,171 people experiencing the desired result. Income investments of $721,286 in results anticipated for 20,676 people led to a return of 27,913 people experiencing the desired result. Health investments of $1,032,927 in results anticipated for 35,653 individuals led to a return of 39,975

people experiencing the desired result. That is a total return on investment of 112 percent.

• 2012-13: Investments of $2,457,031 are based on proposed success for 63,273 people in Buncombe County. In education, $752,733 is expected to support 3,375 individual results. In income, $758,980 is expected to support 24,309 individual results. In health, $945,318 is expected to support 35,589 individual results. The actual results will be finalized by each funded program and reported to United Way at the end of June, 2013. Once reviewed and compiled, we will share those final results.

So, let’s continue to buy locally and invest locally. And keep in mind that when it comes to capturing and reporting the return on investments in health and human services for families in Buncombe County, United Way has made the commitment to invest in programs that work and has the experience in tracking results.

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Beer, Beer and stiLL more Beer I can see enjoying some crafted beer now and then, though I don't drink beer myself. I'd rather Asheville be known for something far more progressive and important than Beer City USA, and I would rather see way fewer pages going toward both beer and food in Mountain Xpress every week.

I miss articles on environmental issues and the Green Scene. And certainly with all our diversity there must be many interesting things people are doing, not just making beer and cooking, which can fill those Xpress pages. lEttErs coNtiNUE

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I miss “City� by Derf and Tom Tomorrow as well, my favorite cartoon strips. With all the micro-breweries popping up, I figure, like the housing bubble, it'll burst at some point, or at least reach saturation.

I have had to sidestep the up-chuck on downtown sidewalks, while showing visiting family Asheville's charms, and I avoid outdoor happenings where there will be the smell of stale beer everywhere, as my stomach just can't handle it anymore. I am all for folks enjoying their beer, but enough already! Can we talk [or] read more about something else? — Troy Amastar Alexander

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I used to like you guys a lot more. Back in the old days, I could read very informative articles in Mountain Xpress that dealt with the issues that confronted either a small portion or a big slice of Buncombe County, or Western North Carolina as a whole.

I felt like you grabbed onto a theme that had been in the Asheville Citizen-Times the previous week, and explored it in more depth than the C-T was able to.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, you're a local beerand-food rag that is disinterested in, like, frontpage exploration of the themes and occurrences that are swirling all around us! What happened?

Beer's great, I drink it ... next subject! Local food's great, yeah, I eat it. One hundred years ago, that's all folks ate! Next subject!

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There are things, human survival/type things, that are circling like buzzards around our fair mountain aerie, and Xpress is strangely mute or muted at best.

I don't grab the newest edition of Xpress with the same enthusiasm I used to. Y'all burnt out? — Rob Stimson Swannanoa

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Troy and Rob: We’re glad you care enough about Xpress to tell us what you think is missing or overdone. Admittedly, in these post-recession times, the paper is slightly smaller than it used to be, which means we often make tough decisions about what to include or exclude (such as Tom Tomorrow). But Western North Carolina’s beer and food scenes are thriving. We’d be remiss if we neglected to cover those beats.

As for environmental news and diversity and such, we published an 88-page Sustainability Issue in April, letting local experts, activists and citizens voice their thoughts on the topic. This week, we feature the recent March Against Monsanto in our opinion section (go to mountainx.com/environment for more).

In other stories, we dug into local efforts to acknowledge Buncombe’s slave history (“Bought and Sold�) and explored the coming revival of downtown Asheville’s South Slope area (our food writer tackled that one). We cover state news, too, when many large and small media outlets don’t cover it at all (mountainx.com/ncmatters).

If you’ve got specific ideas about other stories and topics we should cover, please give us a call or email us. — Margaret Williams News Editor

Why on earth are you Waving at me?

To my fellow Western North Carolina motorcycle riders: It's time to stop with the waving. It's foolish and, arguably, unsafe. I mean, riders are waving to each other across interstate medians now.

First of all, that “left hand outstretched� gesture is a left-turn signal to those of us from the old school who ride bikes [but don’t use] those dangerous turn signals. Yes, I mean “dangerous,� due to the impression you give when they’re forgotten and left flashing. I've never forgotten to put my arm back down after a turn. Bikes don't have auto-canceling turn signals.

This "Hey bro, down low" waving nonsense conditions cagers (car drivers) to disregard hand signals. There are also enough curves and hills around here that, outside of indicating a turn, two hands on the bars is probably a good policy to embrace and demonstrate to fellow motorists.

Further, this faux camaraderie is a total affectation. Motorcycles are now so stone-reliable that anybody in the world can own and ride one without truly loving the machines or culture. It's no exclusive club. There is no "brotherhood" left.

It used to be that if you broke down (and that used to happen with unfortunate regularity), the next guy on a bike would stop to help, and a friendship would often develop between two unconventional souls with common experiences and outlooks. Now we have nifty cellphones.

I've been riding for decades, and if your bike's newer than 20 years old, I probably don't share anything with you but two wheels, a goofy plastic bowl strapped to my head and license endorsement. Yes, I feel newbies have hijacked a subculture that was once colorful, fun and significant to me. Yes, I think I'm too cool to associate with you guys. Yes, I know that makes me a big old grouchy jerk.

So why on earth are you still waving at me? — Norman Plombe Asheville

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dispatches From the march against monsanto By aiyanna sezak-BLatt

Are you with me? We have massive economic impact collectively! But, to make it work, we have to be willing to pay the difference for those GMO-free ingredients." dayna Reggero, an advocate for the environment and bees, began her address with this: "'Einstein said that, within four years, without important pollinators, that the human race would perish.'" She continued to say, "Right now, 200 million pounds of Roundup [an herbicide] is sprayed on crops around the country and another 100 million pounds is used in our yards, in our schools and in public park. … Food security does not mean going into a lab and making us food-secure, it means ourselves, putting our hands in the dirt, and making ourselves food-secure. We need these bees, we need these important pollinators."

More than 1,000 people gathered at Pack Square in downtown Asheville on May 26 to protest international company Monsanto, a leading producer of genetically engineered seeds. The rally and demonstration were part of an international "March Against Monsanto," involving 36 countries worldwide.

Guest speakers, food activists, farmers, beekeepers and chefs stood atop the multicolored "Magic Love Bus," parked near Pack Square, to address a large crowd of protesters. Complete with drums, hula-hops and costumes, the crowd shouted, clapped and cheered throughout the event, which culminated with a march through downtown Asheville.

Here is some of what the scheduled speakers and other attendees had to say. What do you think about the use of GMOs in agriculture and food production? Join the conversation at avl.mx/tv.

Word on the street

From the Love Bus Before the march, numerous activists spoke about food-related topics such as GMO labeling, pesticides, building relationships with farmers, genetically engineered trees and empowering consumer consciousness to support GMO-free and local foods.

Birke Baehr, a 14-year-old sustainable-agriculture advocate, best known as one of the youngest people to give a TED Talk, spoke about the importance of knowing where our food comes from. "I think that getting kids, adults — everyone — interested in their food system and knowing exactly where their food comes from and what's in our food, is such an important thing, and that has been lost over the years," he said.

Anne Peterman from the Global Justice Ecology Project, is currently working to block the proliferation of genetically engineered trees in the Southeast. She said, "Genetically engineered trees are an emerging threat to the world's forests, not only in the United States, but all over the world, and they are an especially big threat right here in the ... South. There is a proposal pending right now to legalize freeze-tolerant eucalyptus trees to be planted all over the South. … We can stop genetically engineered trees."

Rebecca Friedman, owner of Farmer's Daughter Catering, encouraged conscious consumer action. "I'm a caterer, and I use only seasonal, organic and locally sourced ingredients, and I use absolutely no GMOs. I buy direct from my farmers, and I will never buy anything from Sysco or U.S. Foods, or any other big-ag food provider. What if, collectively, we vowed to spend our food dollars at stores and restaurants that share our values and provide organic and non-GMO food? Can we do this, Asheville?

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asheville buzz: About 1,000 people gathered in Asheville as part of the international March Against Monsanto event. Photos by Jordan Foltz.

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Nelly dawson of Sow True Seeds said, "We've been active in the GMO-free arena for a while. We're actually involved in a lawsuit against Monsanto — a class-action lawsuit — with OSGATA [The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association]. We got a GMO Free WNC petition that we're collecting signatures to declare GMO-free zones here in Western North Carolina. At the core, we believe in true seed, because you can't patent life."

Organic farmer and organic seed grower Peter Waskiewicz said that he came, "Because there are too few people controlling our food supply, and they do not have our best intentions in mind, quite possibly the opposite."

Beth Buzogany said, "It's time to rein in Monsanto's power." Her husband, Buz Buzogany added: "We honestly believe in simple starts, and the simple start is making sure that everything is labeled, so at least you have a choice. We think the seed production shouldn't be controlled by one or two companies in the United States or around the world."

Curt Collins of Cullowhee said, "We don't agree with being ... tested on by genetically modified foods, we also don't support Monsanto in general. I don't support Roundup or Roundupready foods. You know I'm a farmer and I don't want the wind carrying genetically modified pollen into my fields." luke Trotman, a farmer in Asheville, working on a community garden at a recovery house on Grail Street, said, "I'm here to represent the youth farmers, and to have my energy here as a sovereign individual to support freedom from corporations and freedom from this spiritual confusion that we have going on within ourselves. [I am] trying to ford the revolution of people growing their own food, providing their own food, and not going to the supermarket anymore — it's beyond that." X Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 101, or asezakblatt@mountainx.com.

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Manifest destiny

local businesses bReathe life into the aMeRican stRip Mall

by Julia Ritchey Travel south from Asheville on Hendersonville Road and, as with almost any other American thoroughfare, you can track the evolution of the strip mall. The United States hosts more than 88,000 of these shopping centers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — some are thriving, some are more empty than full, some are old and outdated, some are new but nonetheless of all-too-similar design, lining major roads like Monopoly pieces. For better or worse, strip malls are permanent fixtures in the American landscape.

“They’ve endured because during that whole period in between World War I and World War II — when what we now call suburban sprawl started — the nucleus of downtown evaporated and essentially got displaced,” explains Brandon Pass, an Asheville architect.

Whether stores are arranged in a single row, an L-shaped plaza or other configuration, these shopping centers proliferated in the United States after World War II, when returning GIs needed homes and businessmen like William Levitt responded with a burst of 1950s preplanned, prefabricated subdivisions — socalled Levittowns — paired with groceries, department stores, schools and other hallmarks of the comforts of modern American life, all just a short drive outside traditional city centers.

Close to Long Shoals Road, one strip mall hints at how far these centers have come since Levittowns popped up outside New York City, Philadelphia and other metro areas: Built in 2004, it features a Mediterranean grocery, a computer-repair shop, a nail salon and Stone Bowl Korean Restaurant. Like many modern-day centers, it’s a melting pot of flavors. Blink as you drive by, though, and you might have missed it — just another nondescript shopping plaza.

But look more closely. Beyond the typical tanning salons, pawnshops and big-box stores, you will find other complexes that, like Stone Bowl’s, feature small, independently owned businesses with a flair for the unique. Call it manifest destiny, suburban style. By being accessible, original and part of a diverse cluster of storefronts, these local establishments ensure that the American strip mall may continue to thrive in today’s fickle economy.

“Strip centers are proven … for the last 50 [to] 60 years as a place for commerce,” says Wes Reinhardt, vice president of FIRC Group

NC Inc., a commercial real-estate company that manages the Westgate Shopping Center anchored by natural foods grocery Earth Fare. Reinhardt says that strip malls are “successful in incubating businesses — in establishing businesses — because they provide convenience, high traffic and good synergy with other tenants.”

Just Right Strip malls offer business owners certain quality of life conditions not always available in thriving, popular downtown districts: affordable rents, ample parking and a relatively hassle-free start up. What a strip mall may lack in charm and architectural interest, it makes up for in value.

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Perfect fit: “I like that you have enough parking spaces for the customers, and … the space is just right. ...Not too big, not too small,” says Stone Bowl owner Rita Chen, left (business partner Kristina Im, right).

Photos by Max Cooper

Nowhere is this more evident than along Hendersonville Road in south Asheville.

Downtown hot spots Thirsty Monk, Green Sage and Tupelo Honey have all parked second locations along this corridor, bringing some of the city’s vibrant food scene to the ‘burbs.

But before Tupelo Honey South opened its doors in 2010, the comfort-food favorite invested heavily in market research. “This

was a way to say, ‘Will our brand transfer to a strip mall?’” says Tupelo’s Director of Marketing elizabeth sims. It didn’t hurt that the space was already outfitted and fully renovated, not to mention affordable.

In fact, their downtown rent is about 15 percent higher. According to Sims, what Tupelo Honey South customers notice is that “parking is easy and the food is the same.”

Stone Bowl co-owner Rita Chen says the Hendersonville Road strip mall was not her first choice of locations but one that she’s happily settled into almost a year and a half later.

“We looked and looked,” she says, adding that the site search took a couple of months.

Chen and her business partner, Kristina Im, agree that north Asheville, where they had first looked, was crowded enough with res-

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taurants that it was worth giving the south side a try. “I like that you have enough parking spaces for the customers, and … the space is just right,” Chen says of her 50-seat restaurant. “Not too big, not too small.”

good neighboRs Head farther south, as Hendersonville Road becomes known as U.S. Highway 25, and other strip malls tell a different tale.

There are ones with pot-holed parking lots and drooping exteriors; some spaces have been empty or under-occupied for the better half of a decade (if not longer).

The fact is, earlier boom periods and the most recent recession have left America with an abundance of shopping infrastructure, especially as traffic patterns change, demographics shift and development turns toward New Urbanism.

Think Gerber Village on Highway 25, or Biltmore Park off Long Shoals. Located near Interstate 26, the latter imitates an urban center complete with residences, sidewalks, shops, restaurants, a hotel, a movie theater and a YMCA branch. Biltmore Park aims for “a strong sense of place, a mainstreet feel,” says Jack Thomson, director of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County.

But while many local proprietors have set up shop in these developments, many others apply their creativity and business-savvy to bring back even the most Jurassic-era plazas.

Business test: Liberty Bikes’ sales were up 25 percent in its first year next to Harris Teeter; then the store moved out. “This is our first test,” says President Mike Nix, pictured with co-owner Claudia Nix.

Follow Highway 25 to Hendersonville and you find one such space. Vogel Plaza is a 1980s, speckled-brick, beige-trimmed shopping center. Of its seven units, one is available for lease. The plaza has maintained longtime tenants like a used bookstore, a tattoo parlor and The Ugly Mug — a coffee shop that anchors the right end.

On the other end is the plaza’s newest addition, Monte’s Sub Shop.

A few months ago, husband-and-wife co-owners dan and Monique Ruiz moved into Vogel after growing out of their original 900-square-foot location a few miles down the road. Dan Ruiz says he had been eyeing the location for a while and finally got a good price for it. “I can tell you right away our business doubled,” he says of moving. “And I feel like the potential is much higher because we haven’t really even marketed the business since we moved in, because we’ve been so busy.”

One of the deciding factors for moving to Vogel Plaza, besides the obvious parking and affordable square footage, was having good neighbors, says Ruiz. He and his wife were already friendly with The Ugly Mug owner leatha schulze, who had asked

them to move into the building. The Ruizes and other business owners are considering cross-promotional events to attract customers who may not always venture from one side of the plaza to the other.

“It’s important to have good neighbors that complement your business. Customers at a small coffee shop would also likely be customers of ours,” says Ruiz. “It helps to have like-minded businesses that offer a good product with good service.”

This is one of the more unique elements of the strip mall: A rag-tag band of storefronts with little in common can share a building as well as a customer base. Chen agrees.

“I’ve seen a lot of customers walking from the other side. They come to get their nails done and they wonder, ‘What kind of food is that?’’ We all help each other,” she says.

Yet strip malls are not without their detractors. The very term carries negative stereotypes of urban sprawl, including automobile dependency, corporatechain homogeny and the oceans of asphalt designed for more cars than ever seem to actually fill them — not to mention, they all seem to look the same.

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“It’s a white box,” he says, explaining that the anatomy of a modern strip mall consists of simple and inexpensive components. Typically, developers will use concrete blocks, prefabricated materials and a brick cladding to envelop the exterior. Another commonly used material is a cheap form of stucco called EFIS — an “exterior facade insulating system,” which is “essentially Styrofoam,” he explains. Its use isn’t limited to strip malls; it appears in buildings like the Aloft Hotel in downtown Asheville, Pass notes.

“It’s a very, very cheap form of construction, and it’s very fast and it doesn’t require a lot of skill,” he says, admitting that he is “not a big fan” of shopping centers in their current form.

“Although we all complain about strip malls, we all still use them,” he says. “If you put something out there that’s highly creative and highly modern, it becomes unfamiliar to people. I think [developers] don’t want to run the risk of challenging a model that already proves to make them a profit,” says Pass.

a new identity There’s another conundrum for strip malls — when a larger anchor store moves out or shuts down.

Ruiz points out of Monte’s window across the street to an older shopping center, Plaza North, which has yet to rebound after a Bi-Lo grocery store moved out several years ago. The complex hosts a Goodwill, CVS and — where the grocery was — Fred’s Super Dollar. But the parking lot is usually

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half-empty, and signs still hang above nowdefunct businesses. And large yellow “Store Closing” signs now line Fred’s windows. Of nearly a dozen units, five are vacant. steve Patrick, vice president of Blue Ridge Capital, the Atlanta-based firm that owns the complex, reports that three new local tenants recently signed leases. But he acknowledges that, ideally, a major grocery should take over Fred’s 18,000-square-foot space.

Plaza North shows the common lifeline of a strip mall, going from successful to struggling in a few years.

Liberty Bikes President Mike Nix knows the challenge firsthand. Leaving a standalone building further south in Skyland, the retail and repair shop moved into its present location next to the former Harris Teeter on Hendersonville Road in 2011. The primary draws for Nix, beside the larger space, were the rise of a younger demographic, a well-maintained building and plaza, and proximity to cycling heaven — the Blue Ridge Parkway. “We weren’t excited about being in a strip mall, but being next to Harris Teeter was really good,” says Nix. In Liberty’s first year in the shopping center, sales were 25 percent higher than at the old store, he reports.

But last summer, Harris Teeter vacated the property to establish a new location —

and build a new strip mall — on Merrimon Avenue at Chestnut Street. Lowes Foods moved in but closed just a few months later. Since then, Nix says foot traffic has dropped though sales have held steady.

“This is our first test,” he says. While disappointed with how long it’s taken to fill the space, Nix says his fingers are crossed that whatever goes in will be a good fit for the entire center, home to Eddie Spaghetti and Asheville Cotton Company.

For both Nix and Ruiz, a strip mall’s reputation matters as much as its location. “If [Vogel Plaza] was just cycling through tenants every few months, then I definitely would not have made a move like this,” Ruiz says.

From a landlord’s perspective, Reinhardt says it’s important to have a good mix of tenants, both big and small. “A rising tide tends to lift all boats,” he says.

Still, Pass mentions an older Highway 25 shopping plaza anchored by Diamond Brand, Frugal Backpacker and Carolina Furniture in Arden. “You can ... turn [existing structures] into something that is the next generation of what a strip mall can be,” he says. “Kind of pushing against that boundary and saying, “OK, this isn’t just a Starbucks, Target, CVS or the usual suspects, but is something that is a little bit more homegrown — that has a little bit more character and identity based on a specific place,” says Pass.

Sure, the aesthetics may stay the same, but some businesses are proving the old adage that beauty isn’t always on the outside. X Julia Ritchey can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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By david ForBes Asheville's budget process has been on a roller coaster this year. Faced with an aggressive, GOP-dominated state Legislature that’s often been at odds with city government, and charged with crafting a balanced budget, staff anticipated potential sharp cuts to key services.

And when the formal $143 million proposal finally made its way to City Council May 28 after months of work sessions, community meetings and speculation, there were still some pretty big “what ifs” in the mix. Accordingly, staff began their presentation with a picture of a giant iceberg.

“This has been the most challenging budget season for the city of Asheville in quite a while,” Council member Marc Hunt observed.

Asheville has wrestled with budget shortfalls for several years now, relying mostly on hiring freezes and assorted cost-cutting measures to make up the difference. But this year, thanks to the state's taking away revenue sources such as utility franchise fees, staff is anticipating a $1 million budget gap — and

the ice age is coming: City staff started off their budget presentation with an image of an iceberg, symbolizing what’s been a tumultuous year for Asheville’s coffers. Photo by Max Cooper

that’s assuming that some looming challenges ultimately go the city’s way.

“There are still some unknowns, but there are some assumptions we have to make to go ahead and build a budget,” noted lauren Bradley, Asheville’s director of finance and management services. “The city will have to remain adaptable. There's a lot of uncertainty with the state Legislature.”

educated guesses One big assumption is that the city will retain control of its water system. In May, the General Assembly passed legislation that

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would transfer the system, without compensation, to a new regional authority. The matter is currently tied up in court.

Another key assumption is that Asheville and Buncombe County can hammer out an agreement to form a combined parks-andrecreation authority by January. But legislation allowing such a step still hasn't passed the state Senate. Staff plans to leverage the projected savings from the proposed merger to create an $11 million economic-development loan fund that would support a variety of projects.

If the state does take the water system, the city may have to tap $1 million in reserve funds to make up for lost revenue in the short term. And if the recreation authority doesn't pan out, Asheville may have to seek additional cuts in the second half of the budget year.

Indeed, the phrase “Hard choices” has come up more than once in discussions of what might happen if none of those assumptions prove true.

Meanwhile, the proposed spending plan relies on a modest property tax increase (1 cent per $100 of assessed value), a hiring freeze and $500,000 in departmental cuts to balance the budget. The city says the tax increase is needed to bring in the same amount collected last year plus any additional revenue due to new construction. The budget also postpones some infrastructure projects until next year, when the circumstances will presumably be clearer.

“This is unlike any budget we've ever put together: We're really putting together three contingencies depending on what happens at the legislative level,” City Manager Gary Jackson pointed out.

Despite the hovering swords of Damocles, however, Bradley said the budget “is making significant progress and strides toward addressing those structural issues.” It allocates $500,000 for the Housing Trust Fund and gives city staff a 3 percent raise while avoiding major service cuts. Meanwhile, the proposed economic development fund is something staff have long pushed for. Council members voiced praise for both the budget and Bradley, who's leaving to take a job with The Van Winkle Law Firm.

Despite all the prior debate and concern, neither Council nor members of the public had much to say about the spending plan.

Maybe both sides are waiting to weigh in until the June 11 hearing, when the budget should be more or less finalized. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.

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Presenting her budget-balancing proposal to the board of commissioners May 28, Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene recommended a big tax increase.

Her plan for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which begins July 1, calls for raising the property-tax rate by roughly 15 percent. Greene blames the sputtering economy, a drop in property values, increased funding requests and unfunded federal mandates for the change.

"These difficult and uncertain economic times have required discipline and sacrifice in all aspects of government and life in general," she writes in the seven-page report submitted to commissioners. "I am cautiously optimistic that we have hit bottom in this recession and are seeing some upward mobility."

Buncombe County property values were evaluated this year for the first time since 2006, dropping from $30.4 billion to $27.6 billion. To make up for the decrease and keep the county coffers at the same level as last year, Buncombe would need to raise the existing

Woman with a plan: Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene’s budget proposal calls for raising the tax rate by roughly 15 percent in order to deal with a drop in property values, increased funding requests and mandates.

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52.5 cents per $100 tax rate by about 5 cents, Greene explains.

Her budget goes a step further, starting with a base rate of 56.9 cents and adding 3.5 cents, specifically to fund programs managed by a new Culture and Recreation Authority. Rep. Nathan Ramsey, former chair of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, has proposed a bill that would allow the creation of such an authority; the measure passed the North Carolina House with strong support and is being considered by the Senate.

But even if the Senate doesn’t approve the bill, Greene maintains that the extra few cents is needed to balance the books, effectively making the new rate for county property owners 15 percent higher regardless of what the state does.

If commissioners agree, the new rate will be 60.4 cents per $100 of value.

The value of high-end properties in areas like Biltmore Forest and The Cliffs at Walnut Creek fell drastically in this year's appraisal, which means that even if the rate goes up, those property owners may pay less under Greene’s plan.

On the other hand, many Asheville residents, whose values went up, overall, by about 2 percent, could face higher tax bills, especially if the

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city deals with its own budget crunch by raising its rate (see the City Council report, “What If,” elsewhere in this issue).

The proposed increase still isn't enough to balance the budget: Greene's plan also calls for dipping into the county's rainy-day fund to the tune of $7.75 million. That's slightly less than last year's budget called for, though none was used: County department heads found ways to cut costs. Greene said she would ask departments to do the same this year.

Nonetheless, she’s closely monitoring 50 to 60 bills in the North Carolina General Assembly that could force last-minute changes to the budget before commissioners vote on it June 24.

As Greene reviewed the budget proposal, commissioners kept their thoughts to themselves. Board Chair david Gantt had asked them to wait until their next meeting, scheduled for June 4, to express views on the plan. That session will also include a public hearing.

But during the May 28 public-comment period, a pair of regular, often-outspoken meeting attendees didn't hold their tongues.

Stepping up to the podium, Candler resident Jerry Rice donned a mask with a long nose. He accused the commissioners of being "two-faced

Pinocchios" who said one thing during the campaign but are doing something different in office. He singled out the three GOP freshmen, asserting: "I am ashamed of my Republican friends, as commissioners, not to be standing up against this thing."

Jupiter resident Don Yelton, a former GOP candidate for commissioner, continued the verbal onslaught. "When people get elected to office, two things happen: They get castrated and they get a frontal lobotomy," he declared.

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In other business, the commissioners heard from members of the Safe Schools Task Force, which was formed in the wake of December shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 20 students and six adults dead.

Charged with evaluating the safety of Buncombe County schools, the group made a number of recommendations to commissioners, such as: • Renovating entry systems at several schools to better track who comes and goes.

• Installing additional cameras at schools and on buses.

• Hiring seven additional school-resource officers — one for each of the six elementary school districts — and hiring an extra, unarmed security guard for each high school campus.

• Providing preventative mental-health services by implementing an anti-bullying curriculum and hiring more counselors and social workers to work with students.

Commissioners didn't vote on these and other recommendations, although Greene's budget includes $1.26 million to hire eight new social workers and seven school-resource officers. A survey of parents conducted by the task force showed respondents strongly supporting these particular measures.

However, Commissioner Mike Fryar questioned taking an approach that struck him as overreacting to tragedies. "We just had a tornado that killed 10 kids [in Oklahoma], so are we going to build all the schools tornado-proof?" he asked. Fryar added, "We cannot stop everything from happening in this world by putting an officer in place."

David Thompson, who served on the task force and is the director of student services for Buncombe County Schools, responded that the recommendations won't address all problems but "will help us be a safer school system."

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan added that he thinks the recommendations are a step in the right direction, although he noted that the task force took budget limits into account. Ideally, he said, each school would have an armed officer on site, but the cost would be prohibitive.

Meanwhile, Gantt voiced strong support, declaring, "We clearly have a moral obligation to make sure our kids are safe, and protected, and getting their mental health needs taken care of." X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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CoverINg Costs In her budget report, Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene cites several specific reasons to increase the tax rate, such as: • Financing an $18 million request by the Asheville City School system to fund a new building for Isaac Dickson Elementary School.

• Making up a $2.38 million federal funding shortfall to cover adult protective services and child welfare services.

• Fulfilling recommendations by the School Safety Committee to hire eight new social workers and seven school resource officers to improve safety in the school system, at a cost of $1.26 million.

• Covering $928,000 in federally mandated provisions of the Affordable Care Act. • Increasing public-safety funding by $1.2 million to cover security for new courthouses and the opening of two new pods in the jail.

• Covering a $1.67 million increase in operating expenses by the Asheville and Buncombe County school systems, including a 1 percent raise for staff.

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calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists calendar for June 5 - 13, 2013 unless otherwise stated, events take Place in asheville, and Phone numBers are in the 828 area code. day-By-day calendar is online Want to find out everything that's happening today -- or tomorrow, or any day of the week? Go to mountainx.com/events. weekday aBBreviations: SU = Sunday, MO = Monday, TU = Tuesday, WE = Wednesday, TH = Thursday, FR = Friday, SA = Saturday

theme of "growing, preparing and serving season’s abundant crops."

• FR (6/7), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

adoptable dogs on local hikes. Meets at BWAR, 31 Glendale Ave. Free. community PartnershiP for Pets

art after dark • FR (6/7), 6-9pm - Waynesville's Art After Dark stroll will feature extended gallery hours on Main and Depot Streets. Free. Info: downtownwaynesville.com.

• 2nd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm Low-cost vouchers will be sold at Petco,118 Highlands Square Drive, Hendersonville. Info: 693-5172 or cpforpetsinc@aol.com.

art at asu Exhibits take place at Appalachian State University's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, unless otherwise noted. Tues.-Thurs. & Sat., 10am6pm; Fri., noon-8pm. Donations accepted. Info: tcva.org or 262-7338.

• Through SA (8/3) - Victor Ekpuk: Drawing Memories will be on display in Gallery B and Mayer Gallery's West Wing.

• Through SA (8/3) - Negotiation of the Secret Society Cloth: An Exploration of Ukara will be on display in Gallery A and Mayer Gallery's West Wing.

• Through SA (8/3) - The BFA senior studio exhibition will be on display in the Community Gallery's East Wing.

free sPay vouchers • The Humane Alliance offers free spay services for female felines. Pick up a Dudley Fund voucher at Humane Alliance, Pet Harmony, BWAR, Friends

animaLs Brother wolf animal rescue A no-kill organization. Info: bwar.org or 505-3440.

• WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 10am-1pm - Outward Hounds invites the public to take

2 Ferals or Asheville Humane Society.

Info and appointment: humanealliance.org or 252-2079. furever friends • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 10am5pm - Furever Friends Animal Rescue Network and Sanctuary will

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asheville area arts council Gallery 346 Depot St. Tues.-Sat., 11am-4pm.

Info: ashevillearts.com or 258-0710.

• FR (6/7) through FR (6/28) Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina Traveling Postcard exhibition.

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

• FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Artist business brainstorming sessions will feature one-on-one opportunities for artist entrepreneurs. Free or by donation.

Call to confirm dates.

• SA (6/8), 1:30-3:30pm - The Second Saturday studio stroll concert series will feature music by Ron Davis and Marty Balash.

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

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

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Worth a look: If you’re strolling past Woolworth Walk on Haywood Street, peer into the front window to see a solo show by artist and illustrator Ali Douglass.

The exhibit will be on display Friday, June 7 through Friday, June 28. Opening reception Friday, June 7. (pg. 20)

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host feline adoptions at Petco, 825 Brevard Road. Info: 398-4943. sPrinG warBlers • MO (6/10), 1-4pm - Simon Thompson will lead a program on attracting hummingbirds to the garden at the N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. $37/$27 members. Info: ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

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art JG Photo Gallery (pd.) Inside Chocolate Gems 25 Broadway (Next to Strada) Open every day. Info: (828) 302-1988 or john@jgphoto.com http://www. jgphoto.com Photographs by John Gellman. John lives at the crossroads of eclectic documentary and fine art photography with a dash of rock

‘n roll (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, George Harrison) thrown in. american folk art and framinG Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: amerifolk.com or 281-2134.

• Through WE (6/19) - On the Shore, works by Southern self-taught artists.

• TH (6/6) through (WE (6/26) - Farm to Table, painting and pottery on the

asheville art museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4.

Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm.

Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

• FR (6/7), noon - Lunchtime Art Break: Play. This tour is designed to engage guests in dialogue with artists, educators, docents and staff.

Free with membership or museum admission.

• Through SU (6/9) - The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Work Drawn from the Academy will be on display in the North Wing.

• Through SU (9/29) - PLAY, works from the permanent collection, will be on display in the East Wing. • Through SU (6/23) - Aaron Siskind: Abstract Expressionist Photographer will be on display in the North Wing. • Through SU (9/1) - A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar. asheville Bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road. Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 1-5pm; Sat., 1-4pm.

Info: ashevillebookworks.com or 255-8444. • Through SA (6/29) - Homegrown Alphabets, a juried letterpress exhibit. asheville first friday art walk • FIRST FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - The Downtown Asheville Art District will host a First Friday Art Walk throughout downtown. A free hop-on, hop-off trolley tour is available. Info: ashevilledowntowngalleries.org. asheville Gallery of art 16 College St. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: ashevillegallery-ofart.com or 251-5796. • Through SU (6/30) - Artist of the month: John Anderson. Wee Ones - New Whiskey Paintings, miniature watercolor and ink paintings.

Black mountain center for the arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain.

Mon.-Fri., 11am-5pm. Info: BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930. • Through WE (6/12) - The Art in Bloom exhibit will precede the Art in Bloom event. • FR (6/14) & SA (6/15), 10am-5pm The Art in Bloom exhibit will feature fine art from regional galleries with floral interpretations by area Ikebana and traditional floral designers. $5 benefits the center. • TH (6/13), 6pm - Gala preview party. $30. • FR (6/14), 7:30pm - Music and storytelling with Joe Penland and Cathy Arrowood. $20 includes exhibit admission. • FR (6/14) & SA (6/15), 10am-4pm A self-guided cottage garden tour will feature six gardens and plein air painters. $15 includes exhibit admission.

Blue sPiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm, and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: bluespiral1.com or 251-0202. • Through TU (7/23) - Along the Trail, works by eight regional artists.

A percentage of sales benefit the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. castell PhotoGraPhy 2C Wilson Alley. Wed.-Fri., noon-6pm; Sat., noon-7pm, or by appointment.

Info: castellphotography.com or 2551188. • FR (6/7) until SA (7/27) - Figures and Space, photography by Eric Baden, Elizabeth Fritts, Roger Ricco and Lauren Semivan. • FR (6/7), 6-8pm - Opening reception. cradle of forestry events Open daily, 9am-5pm. Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free.

Some programs require an additional fee. Info: cradleofforestry.org or 8773130. • Through SA (6/29) - Our Spectacular Southern Appalachians nature photography exhibit. dusty roads • Through WE (7/31) - Dusty Roads, photography by Barbara Sammons, will be on display at the Canton Public Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. Info: barbarasammons.com or 648-2924. ecliPse salon 16 Wall St. Tues.-Fri., 9am-6pm; Sat., 9am-5pm. Info: eclipseasheville.com or 285-0019. • Through SU (6/30) - Paintings by Matthew Zedler. • FR (6/7), 6-8pm - Reception. firestorm cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: firestormcafe.com or 255-8115. • FR (6/7) through SU (6/30) - Political printmaking by local activists and MFA graduates Chelsea Ragan and Adam Void. • FR (6/7), 5-8pm - Opening reception. flow Gallery 14 South Main St., Marshall. Wed.Sat., 10am-4pm. Info: avl.mx/aw. • Through SA (6/15) - Animal Gods, works by Becca Floyd (clay). folk art center MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Open daily from 9am-6pm. Info: craftguild.org or 298-7928. • Through SU (6/30) - Works by Norma Bradley (fiber) and Rebecca Kempson (mixed media). • Through SU (6/23) - Works by graduates of Haywood Community College’s professional crafts department. folk art Game Boards • Through SU (6/30) - An exhibit of hand-painted folk art game boards (checkers and tic-tac-toe) by Francine Menor will be on display at the West Asheville Library, 924 Haywood Road.

Info: 250-4750. foundry 92 Charlotte St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: www.digfoundry. com. • TH (6/6) through WE (7/31) - Dive into the Plastiquarium, works by David Edgar. • TH (6/6), 5-8pm - Opening reception will feature demonstrations by Edgar. haen Gallery 52 Biltmore Ave. Mon., Wed., Thurs. & Fri., 10am-6pm; Tues. & Sat., 11am6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: thehaengallery.com or 254-8577. • Through TH (6/30) - Inward Aspects, works by Steven Seinberg, Marci Crawford Harnden and Tim Anderson. handmade in america Located at 125 S. Lexington Ave. Info: handmadeinamerica.org or 252-0121. • Through WE (7/10) - Works by Akira Satake will be on display at

Beverly-Hanks, 1 Town Square Blvd., Suite 140. • TH (6/13), 5:30-8pm - Opening reception. haywood county arts council Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC's Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: haywoodarts. org or 452-0593. • Through SA (6/29) - Appalachia. • FR (6/7), 6-9pm - Reception. honour stewart Gallery Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave. Mon.Sat., 10am-6pm and by appointment.

Info: honourstewartgallery.com or 232-4260. • FR (6/7) through WE (7/10) - Works

by Juan Benavides, Geza Brunow, Douglas Stewart and Honour Hiers Stewart. • FR (6/7), 5-8pm - An opening reception will feature cocktails, music and socially-conscious art. izzy's coffee den 74 N. Lexington Ave. Info: 258-2004. • FR (6/7) through TH (7/4) - Truth and Tangents, mixed media by Gin S. McGill. • FR (6/7), 7-9pm - Opening reception will feature refreshments.

Jonas Gerard live PaintinG • SA (6/8) & SU (6/9), 2pm - Jonas Gerard will host live painting demonstrations as part of the River Arts District Studio Stroll. 240 Clingman Ave. Free. Info: jonasgerard.com.

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n.c. arBoretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily. Info: ncarboretum.org or 665-2492. • SA (6/8) through SU (9/22) - TwentyFirst Century Clay, pottery by Matt Jones.

Pastel exhiBition • Through SU (8/18) - The North Carolina Statewide Pastel Exhibition, On Common Ground: Pastel Paintings from the Mountains to the Sea, will be on display at the Hickory Museum of Art, 243 Third Ave. N.E., Hickory. Info: appalachianpastelsociety.org.

Push skate shoP & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. Mon.Thurs., 11am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 11am7pm; Sun., noon-6pm. Info: pushtoyproject.com or 225-5509. • Through TU (6/18) - The Art and Time Squanderings of Richard Kirby.

UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Summer Program for High School Students This program is taught by award-winning, widely published authors who are also popular and experienced creative writing teachers.

red house studios and Gallery 310 W. State St., Black Mountain.

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and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107.

• Through SU (8/11) - Ceramics and paintings by Denise Riddle.

$30. Info and departure location: avl. mx/ts. the cantina GiveBack • Through SU (6/30) - The Cantina Fresh Mex and Tequila Bar, 10 Biltmore Plaza, will donate a portion of proceeds to children first/cis.

Restaurant prices vary. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or biltmorevillage.com/ cantina.

the Bender Gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10:30am-5pm; Sun., noon-5pm.

Info: thebendergallery.com or 5058341.

• FR (6/7) through SA (8/31) Meditations: What Lies Beneath the Surface.

• FR (6/7), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

wnc nature center 75 Gashes Creek Road. 10am-5pm daily. $8/$6 Asheville city residents/$4 kids. Info: 298-5600 or wildwnc.org.

• SA (6/8), 6-9pm - friends of the wnc nature center will host Mountain Safari, a "one-of-a-kind social adventure." "Dress in your best safari gear and party with the animals." Featuring special entertainment, a raffle and silent auction, food and drink. $35/$30 members/$15 children ages 3 to 15.

toe river arts council sPrinG studio tour • FR (6/7) through SU (6/9) - The Toe River Arts Council Spring Studio Tour will feature 67 studios and 114 artists.

Free. Info and map: toeriverarts.org.

• FR (6/7), 5-7pm - A meet-the-artist reception will be held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave. tryon Gallery trot • 2nd SATURDAYS, 5-8pm Downtown Tryon presents art, music, refreshments and more. Free. Info: facebook.com/TryonGalleryTrot. uPstairs artsPace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: upstairsartspace.org or 859-2828.

• Through SA (7/13) - Mountain Sculptors will present a sculpture exhibition. woolworth walk • FR (6/7) through FR (6/28) - A solo show of works by Ali Douglass will be on display at Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood St. Info: woolworthwalk. com.

• FR (6/7), 5-7pm - Opening reception. zaPow! 21 Battery Park, Suite 101. Mon., Wed. & Fri., noon-8pm. Thurs., noon-5:30pm; Sat., 11am-10pm; Sun. 1-6pm. Info: zapow.net or 575-2024.

• Through WE (6/26) - Postcards from Asheville exhibit.

art/craFt Fairs lake Junaluska flea market • SA (6/8), 7:30-11:30am - A flea market will be held in the Nancy Weldon Gym at Lake Junaluska Conference Center, 91 N. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska. Prices vary. Info: lakejunaluska.com.

Paris of the south flea market • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 8am3pm - The Paris of the South Flea Market will feature a "gypsy-style" market including handmade clothes, jewelry, art, food trucks and live music. Held at U.S. 70 at Lytle Cove Road. Free to attend. Info: avl.mx/s5. the little flea • SATURDAYS, 3-7pm - The Little Flea will feature produce and "handselected fare and wares" behind Grace Baptist Church, 718 Haywood Road. Free to attend. Info: littleflea. org.

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summer’s abundance: The beauty of agrarian culture will be celebrated at the American Folk Art and Framing’s new exhibit, Farm to Table, featuring works by Jane Harrison (pictured) and others. It will be on display Thursday, June 6 through Wednesday, June 26. Opening reception Friday, June 7. (pg. 18)

auditions & caLL to artists 48 hour film ProJect • Through TU (6/11) - The 48 Hour Film Project invites filmmakers of all levels to make a movie in 48 hours on June 21. Registration open through June 11. Info: 48hourfilm.com/ asheville. anythinG that floats Parade • Through TH (8/8) - Registration for RiverLink's Anything That Floats Parade will be accepted through aug. 8. Info: RiverFestAVL.brownpapertickets.com. artful Bra challenGe • Through SA (6/29) - The Artful Bra Challenge will accept submissions of decorated bras, to benefit Ladies Night Out cancer screenings, through June 29. Info: ashevilleartfulbra.com or 505-8280. cremation urn exhiBition • Through FR (8/2) - Shine on Brightly seeks lidded vessels and containers for its cremation urn exhibition.

Submissions accepted through aug.

2. Info: info@shineonbrightly.com. hard times writinG contest • Through SU (6/30) - The Writers' Workshop will accept submissions for its Hard Times Writing Contest through June 30. Info: writersw@ gmail.com or twwoa.org. heart of Blue ridGe BBQ festival • The Heart of Blue Ridge BBQ Festival seeks volunteers for its

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June 14 and 15 event in Tryon. Info: BlueRidgeBBQFestival.com or 8597427.

Jack of hearts • ONGOING - Jack of Hearts Pub and Restaurant seeks works by local artists. Info: marketing@laughingseed. com or (510) 856-8587. lake eden arts festival • Through SA (6/15) - LEAF will accept applications from handcraft artists for its fall festival through June 15. Info: theleaf.com. la reina • SU (6/9), 1-6pm & TU (6/11), 5-9pmAuditions for La Reina, an original theatrical event, will be held at West Asheville Vineyard, 717 Haywood Road. Info: lareinaproduction@gmail. com. montford Park Players Info: 254-5146, info@montfordparkplayers.org or montfordparkplayers. org.

• SA (6/8), 10am-6pm & SU (6/9), 1-6pm - Auditions for Hamlet will be held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. Headshot and resume encouraged. mountain heritaGe award • Through MO (6/24) - WCU will accept nominations for the Mountain Heritage Award through June 24.

Info: philyaw@wcu.edu.

Playfest • MO (6/10), 1:30-6pm - Auditions for Playfest will be held at Cashiers

Library, 249 Frank Allen Road. Info: 743-1802. sauer charitaBle leadershiP award • Through FR (6/7) - The Community Foundation of Henderson County will accept nominations for the Richard C. and Vina L. Sauer Charitable Leadership Award through June 7.

Info: CFHCforever.org.

BeneFits Be a suPerhero for eliada • TH (6/6), 6:30-9:30pm - Asheville Affiliates will host "Be a Superhero for Eliada," to benefit eliada, in the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. The evening will feature a photo booth, tattoos by Freaks and Geeks and music by DJ Kipper. $25/$20 in advance; includes unlimited food and drink. Info: avl.mx/tn. leaf schools and streets • WEDNESDAYS, 5-7pm - Wine tasting and jazz music, to benefit leaf schools and streets, will be held at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, 5 Walnut St. $5 suggested donation. Info: theleaf.org or Jocelyn@theLEAF.org.

Penland scholarshiP auction • TH (6/6), 7:30pm - Penland School of Crafts will host silent and live auctions, to benefit its scholarship programs, at 67 Doras Trail, Penland.

Free. Info: penland.org or 765-2359. ray of hoPe 8k • SA (6/8), noon - The Ray of Hope 8K, to benefit the rotary club of asheville, will depart from UNCA.

aBwa meetinG • TH (6/13), 5:30-7:30pm - The American Business Women’s Association will host a dinner meeting at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive, featuring Betsy Smith from E. L. Consulting. $25. Info and registration: abwaskyhychapter.com.

Goodwill career classes • ONGOING - Goodwill offers entrylevel computer classes. Free. Info and schedule: 298-9023. hosPitality laB class • ONGOING - Goodwill offers classes for those interested in hospitality careers in the food and hotel industries. Hands-on training includes American Hotel and Lodging Association certification. $25. Info and schedule: 298-9023. ios develoPer GrouP • 2nd TUESDAYS, 3pm - Trade tips and tricks with the local iPhone/ iPad app developer community during this meeting at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. All are welcome. Free. Info: wvenable@ mophilly.com or charlottestreetcomputers.com. mountain Bizworks workshoPs 153 S. Lexington Ave. Info: 253-2834 or mountainbizworks.org.

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

Free. Info and registration: victor@ mountainbizworks.org or 253-2834.

• WE (6/5), 6-9pm - Express Foundations, a fast-paced version of the Foundations curriculum, uses an integrated approach to emphasize the cross-development of financial and marketing elements. Five-week course meets Wednesdays. Sliding scale. Info and registration: victor@ mountainbizworks.org or 253-283.

• TH (6/6), 6-7:30pm - A panel of experienced business owners will discuss the ins and outs of paying employees a living wage, hiring employees and maintaining good HR practices. Held at Asheville Hair Design, 900 Hendersonville Road, Suite 103. Free. Info and registration: jennie@mountainbizworks.org or 2532834, ext. 11. mountain housinG oPPortunities self-helP ProGram • ONGOING - Families are invited to build their own homes through the Mountain Housing Opportunities Self Help Program. No construction experience or down payment required.

Affordable financing through the USDA available. Info: 254-4030, ext.

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Pc users cluB • WE (6/5), 6:30pm - A friendly group of people interested in PC computers and software who want to resolve computer problems. Meetings include tips and tricks, do’s and don’ts and open discussion. For experienced and beginning users. 128 Bingham Road.

Free. Info: fredorland@ieee.org. role models matter • TU (6/11), 8:30am - This workshop will “provide tips and practical advice for connecting and communicating with young girls, inspiring them in science, technology, engineering and math.” Held at the TSAChoice Training Room, 108 Asheville Commerce Parkway, Candler. Free.

Info: avl.mx/tu. steP uP your startuP • TU (6/11), noon - “It’s Personal” will focus on how to respond to a breach and prepare for the future. Held at Mojo Coworking, 60 N. Market St. Lunch and materials provided. $10.

Info: vwmojo.com.

cLasses, meetings & events free mac Basics classes at charlotte street comPuters (pd.) Mac Basics Classes are now FREE at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street, 9:30 - 10:30am weekdays. Mondays - Mac OS X Basics Level 1, Wednesdays - iPad Basics Level 1, Thursdays - Mac OS X Level 2, Fridays - iPad Basics Level 2, first Tuesday of each month - iPhoto, second Tuesday each month - Safari, third Tuesday each month - iCloud, fourth Tuesday each month - iMovie.

Register at www.charlottestreetcomputers.com/classes. life, transformed: a Poetry workshoP (pd.) Unlock Creativity and Let Go of Pain Through the Writing Process.

6 Weeks. Wednesdays, June 12-July 24, 6-9 p.m. $225. transformationalpoetryworshops.wordpress.com or 954-789-1105 to register. music lessons with moses atwood (pd.) Find your own musical style-- All levels welcome. Songwriting. Voice.

Guitar. Piano. Dobro. Music Theory. $30 an Hour. mosesatwood@gmail. com

of Our National Foreststs," with Jill Gottesman of The Wilderness Society. Held at Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place. Free.

aPPle valley model railroad cluB Located at the Hendersonville Depot at the corner of 7th Avenue and Maple Street. Info: avmrc.com.

• Through TU (12/31) - Coming of the Railroad, a replica of the Saluda Mountain Grade. Sat., 10am-2pm & Wed., 1-3pm.

FestivaLs aPPalachian lifestyle celeBration • SA (6/8), 10am-5pm - The Appalachian Lifestyle Celebration will feature music, dance, craft demonstrations and vendors. Held on Main Street in Waynesville. Free. Info: downtownwaynesville.com.

asheville makersPace meetuP • TUESDAYS, 6pm - This open group "for people who make stuff" will meet to discuss ideas and plan projects. All disciplines are welcome and all levels of experience are encouraged to join. Held at Asheville Brewing Company, 77 Coxe Ave. Free. Info: ashevillemakerspace.org.

revolutionary war days • SA (6/8) & SU (6/9), 10am Revolutionary War Days, a day-long festival celebrating the American Revolution, will feature demonstrations, soldier drills and information about life in the 1700s. Held at Davidson’s Fort, 140 Bud Hogan Road, Old Fort. $5/$2 children 10-6/ children under 6 free. Info: davidsonsfort.org.

astronomy cluB of asheville • 1st THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - The Astronomy Club of Asheville meets in UNCA's Reuter Center. See website for stargazing events. $20 per year.

Info: astroasheville.org.

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emBroiderers' Guild of america • TH (6/6), 9:30am-noon - The monthly meeting of the Embroiderers' Guild of America will focus on soft sculpture folk art dolls. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe. Info and cost: 696-3829.

asheville art museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted.

Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

• FR (6/7), 6pm; SA (6/8), noon & SU (6/9), 1pm - The museum will partner with Mechanical Eye Microcinema to host a selection of independent and experimental films in 16mm. $5 members/$6 plus museum admission for nonmembers.

rememBer newtown • WE (6/5), 4:30-5:30pm - A "Remember Newtown" demonstration will be held on the sidewalk between Wal-Mart and Chick-fil-A, Hendersonville. Bring posters and wear green or black to commemorate Sandy Hook shooting victims.

Info: 693-9804.

• WE (6/12), 4:30-5:30pm - An additional demonstration will be held between the Fletcher Ingles and Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. riBBon cuttinG ceremony for om sanctuary • TH (6/6), 4-6:30pm - A ribbon cutting ceremony for OM Sanctuary will feature food, refreshments, raffles and a garden tour. Held at 87 Richmond Hill Drive. Free. Info: omsanctuary.org.

comedy comedy oPen mic • FRIDAYS, 8pm - Hosted by Bar of Soap, 333 Merrimon Ave. Info: 255-7710 or facebook.com/comedybarofsoap. disclaimer comedy • FRIDAYS, 8-9:30pm - Disclaimer Comedy presents weekly stand-up at Elaine's Piano Bar in the Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. Free. Info: disclaimercomedy.com. disclaimer stand-uP oPen mic • WEDNESDAYS, 9pm - Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge open mic is

extreme landscapes: Castell Photography Gallery’s summer salon will explore Figures and Space, a group show featuring works by Elizabeth Fritts (pictured), Friday, June 7 through Saturday, July 27.

Opening reception Friday, June 7. (pg. 19)

held at the Dirty South Lounge, 41 N. Lexington Ave. Free. Info: DisclaimerComedy.com.

ner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. swingasheville.com

lauGhinG skull • SA (6/8), 7pm - Comedians from the Laughing Skull in Atlanta will perform at The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave. $10/$8 in advance. Info: theorangepeel.net.

sexy BurlesQue floor dancinG class (pd.) 8 Week Series starts June 19, 7:30 PM. Dancing on the floor is hot! Learn classic and new seductive moves. $64 for 8 weeks. Sign up at IDoDances.com, 828-275-8628, More dance classes available!

dance BeGinner swinG dancinG lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No part-

asheville Ballroom dance Asheville Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road. Info: ashevilleballroom. net or 274-8320, unless otherwise noted.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-10:30pm "Mostly Swing Dance Party" with DJ

Phil Noland and Sonny Coren. $5.

Info: 777-7445.

• THURSDAYS, 8-8:50pm - Bachata lesson. $10.

• SA (6/8), 8-11pm - Saturday evening ballroom dance. Lesson at 7pm. $10 dance/$5 lesson.

lemusicandart.com/edelweiss or avl. mx/t9. mountain shaG cluB • TUESDAYS - The Mountain Shag Club meets weekly at The Hangar at the Clarion Inn, 550 Airport Road.

Free lessons from 6:30-7pm. Shag DJ from 7-10pm. $5. Info: mountainshagclub.com.

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• TUESDAYS, 7pm - "Learn the polka, landler, shottisch, waltz, schuhplat-

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Info: wenoca.org or 251-8289.

• WE (6/5), 7pm - A meeting of the Sierra Club will feature "WNC Mountain Treasures: The Future

the Edelweiss Events Space, 697-D Haywood Road. Free. Info: ashevil-

Ben lovett • SA (6/8), 7pm - Ben Lovett will present his new video Black Curtain at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road. Free. Info: benlovett. com or 575-2737.

Green screen • 2nd MONDAYS, 6pm - Katuah Earth First hosts a monthly film screening and discussion at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 48 Commerce St. Free. Info: katuahearthfirst.org or firestormcafe.com. montreat conference center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat.

Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911.

• MO (6/10), 6:30pm - To Kill a Mockingbird. occuPy love • WE (6/5), 7pm - A screening of Occupy Love, a documentary about the "worldwide awakening and movement to co-create a loving, just and cooperative world," will be held at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. Free. Info: OccupyLove.org.

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Food & Beer oskar Blues Brewery trolley • SATURDAYS, 5pm & SUNDAYS, 3pm - Oskar Blues Brewery will offer a free trolley to and from Brevard for brewery tours. Departs from Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info: oskarblues.com.

consciousparty dogapalooza!

What: Dogapalooza, to benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.

government & poLitics

Where: The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. When: Saturday, May 8. Doors at 7 p.m.

Concert at 8 p.m. $8.

BuncomBe county rePuBlican men's cluB

Why: Concert season is upon us, but if you don't want to cram yourself in a crowd of hot, sweaty musiclovers, skip the people fests in favor of Dogapalooza.

There will be plenty of beer and music. Local favorites The Archrivals, Rory Kelly's Triple Threat and Alarm Clock Conspiracy visit the Grey Eagle's intimate listening room for an evening of music and philanthropy.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - The Buncombe County Republican Men's Club meets at the Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Optional buffet dinner at 6pm. Info: buncombegop.org. henderson county democratic Party myhcdp.com or 692-6424.

• TU (6/11), 4:30pm - A Women's Club meeting will be held at Three Chop Restaurant, 103 Third Ave. E., Hendersonville.

• WE (6/12), 9am - The Henderson County Democratic Party will host a discussion group at Mike’s on Main, 303 N. Main St., Hendersonville.

Breakfast at 8am. liBertarian Party of haywood • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - "A forum for liberty-minded individuals to discuss their ideas and how to put them into action." Everyone is welcome.

Meetings held at Oakleaf Furniture, 130 Miller St., Waynesville. Info: windymckinney@yahoo.com. move to amend BuncomBe county • MO (6/10), 7pm - Move to Amend Buncombe County will work towards a creating a constitutional amendment to establish that "only human beings are recognized as persons."

Meeting held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Free.

Info: patrie.wncpsr@main.nc.us.

kids cradle of forestry events Open daily, 9am-5pm. Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Info: cradleofforestry.org or 877-3130.

• THURSDAYS through (8/1), 10:30am-noon & 1:30-3pm - The Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club for children ages 4-7 will focus on outdoororiented activities that explore a forest-related theme. $4. Registration required.

Great smokies used curriculum sale • SA (6/8), 10am-2pm - The Great Smokies Used Curriculum Sale will offer books, resources and curriculum for homeschoolers at Covenant Christian Church, 486 Fairview Road, Sylva. Prices vary; free to attend. Info:

The concert benefits Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, which reports saving the lives of 3,000 animals each year. This no-kill shelter offers a wide range of resources, such as coordinating local adoptions, caring for animals with special medical needs and transporting dogs in need of homes to lucky families in the Northeast.

One look at Daisy May (pictured) is enough to convince anyone with a heart that BWAR's work in the community is worth supporting. Just try to say no to a smile like that. Photo courtesy of Flying Dogs Photography.

used.curriculum.sale@gmail.com or 507-0452.

Junior roller derBy • WEDNESDAYS, 4:45pm - Mad Divas Junior Roller Derby, for girls 12-17, holds open registration throughout the year and meets weekly for practice at Tarwheels Skateway, 2134 Highway 70, Swannanoa. No skating experience necessary. $37 per month. Info: maddivas.com. kids safe summer events • MO (6/10) through FR (6/14), 12:303pm - Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation Services will offer "Kids Safe Summer" events to highlight water safety, fire precautions and crime prevention. Held at pools throughout Buncombe County. $3 to swim. Info and locations: 2504260. summer rocks at emmanuel lutheran school • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8am-5:30pm - Emmanuel Lutheran School's "Summer Rocks" offers a variety of day camps that include field trips, arts, crafts, sports, and drama camp. Activities for preschoolers also available. Info and registration: dmarino@elcsmail.org. yoGa Girls • SATURDAYS, 11am-noon - "Yoga Girls," for young women ages 10-16, will be offered at The Forum at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square. $30 for six-week series/$7 per class.

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Info and registration: rae@dwtheatre. com or 210-9837.

music sonG o' sky show chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at Covenant Community UMC 11 Rocket Dr. Asheville, NC 28803.

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

Balsam ranGe • TH (6/13), 7pm - Balsam Range (bluegrass) will perform in BRCC's Thomas Auditorium. $15. Info: blueridge.edu/events.

Black mountain drum circle • SATURDAYS, 4pm - Steven Townsend hosts a traditional West African drumming workshop, followed by an open drum circle, at the Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain. All skill levels welcome. Free. Info: 669-2052. concerts on the creek • FR (6/7), 7:30-9:30pm - Concerts on the Creek will feature the Johnny Webb Band (country) at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva. Free. Info: mountainlovers.com or (800) 9621911. charles Pettee and folkPsalm • FR (6/7), 7:30pm - Charles Pettee and FolkPsalm (bluegrass, acoustic) will perform at Oakley United

Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road.

Free. Info: 274-7656 or oakleyumc.org. flat rock Playhouse Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock.

Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville. Info: flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/12) until (6/22) - Music on the Rock: A Tribute to the Music of Peter, Paul and Mary. 8pm. $24. homeGrown in the Park • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm Homegrown in the Park will feature local singer-songwritiers performing in Pritchard Park. Free. Info: ashevilledowntown.org. montreat conference center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat.

Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911.

• WE (6/5), 7pm - Original music by Andy Gwynn and friends. Hot cider will be served. music at sunset • FR (6/7), 7:30pm - Transylvania County Library's Music at Sunset outdoor concert series will feature Adron in the library amphitheater. Rain or shine. Free. Info: avl.mx/td. music on main street • FR (6/7), 7-9pm - Music On Main Street presents Tuxedo Junction (rock) and a classic car show outside

the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Free.

Info: historichendersonville.org or 693-9708. old fines creek dance and music • SATURDAYS, 7-10pm - "Old Fines Creek Dance and Music" will feature music, dance, cake walks and door prizes. Held at The Old Fines Creek School, 192 Fines Creek Road, Clyde. $7/children 12 and under free. Info: visitncsmokies.com or 736-8925. orGan and choral concert • SU (6/9), 4pm - An organ concert with Daniel C. Cherrix will be followed by a Choral Evensong performance.

Held at St. John in the Wilderness, 1905 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock.

Donations accepted. Info: stjohnflatrock.episcopalwnc.org.

Pan harmonia Info: pan-harmonia.org.

• SU (6/9), 5pm - Elizabeth Gergel (cello) and Christian Aldridge (violin) will perform "Daring Duos," featuring works by Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel, Jeremy Cohen and the Johan Halvorsen Passacaglia. Held at the Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. $15/$12 in advance/$5 students.

• TH (6/13), 7:30pm - Kate Steinbeck (flute), Brian Hermanson (clarinet) and Rosalind Buda (bassoon) will perform works by Charles Koechlin, Robert Muczynski and Mabel Daniels in

UNCA's Lipinsky Auditorium lobby. $10/students free.

Pickin’ in the Park • FRIDAYS, 7-10:30pm - Pickin’ in the Park will feature bluegrass and oldtime bands at Canton Recreational Park‚ 77 South Penland St. Free. Info: blueridgemusic.org. summer tracks in tryon • FR (6/7), 7pm - The Summer Tracks concert series will feature the Peggy Ratusz Band performing works by Nina Simone in Rogers Park amphitheater on W. Howard Street, Tryon.

Free; donations encouraged. Info: ncmountains.org or (800) 440-7848. tGif: Buick mackane • FR (6/7), 6-10:30pm - Buick MacKane (Southern rock, blues) will perform at Morganton's TGIF concert series. 102 E. Union St. Free.

Info: downtownmorganton.com. thomas wolfe memorial Located at 52 N. Market St. Info: wolfememorial.com or 253-8304.

• FR (6/7), noon-2pm - Pickin' on the Porch will feature Bill Byerly of the Whitewater Bluegrass Company and friends (bluegrass standards). Free.

• SA (6/8), noon-2pm - Lucille Ray, author of Looking Back and Moving Forward, will discuss growing up in Asheville during the 1920s and '30s.

Cathy Riley, St. John-a-Baptist Church Choir and Mrs. Ray will perform oldtime African American spirituals. wcu summer concert series • TH (6/6), 7pm - WCU's summer concert series will feature Floating Action (lo-fi, surf, soul) at the university's Central Plaza. Rain location: University Center. Free. Info: ledavis@ wcu.edu or 227-3622.

• TH (6/13), 7pm - WCU's summer concert series will feature STEREOSPREAD (electronic pop) at the university's Central Plaza. Free.

Info: ledavis@wcu.edu or 227-3622. womansonG • FR (6/7) & SA (6/8), 7:30pm Womansong female community chorus will perform "I Got the Music in Me" at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. $18/$15 in advance/$5 children under 12. Info: womansong.org or 891-8700.

outdoors Beautiful lake James marina • BOAT SLIPS AVAILABLE (pd.) Beat the Summer rush and reserve a covered, uncovered or houseboat slip. Great location at Canal Bridge. Security, gas sales, marine store and customer lounge.

Call (828) 584-0666. www.mountainharbourmarina.com cradle of forestry events Open daily, 9am-5pm. Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free.

Some programs require an additional fee. Info: cradleofforestry.org or 877-3130.

• SA (6/8) - Free admission in honor of National Get Outdoors Day, featuring skill teaching and demonstrations by the area’s outdoor recreation community, exploring nature and creating outdoors-inspired crafts. events at rei Located at 31 Schenck Parkway. Info: rei.com/asheville or 687-0918.

• TH (6/6), 7-8pm - Danny Bernstein will speak about the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Free; registration required.

• TH (6/13), 6-8pm - A class on bike maintenance will focus on how to fine tune a derailleur. Please do not bring bikes. $40/$20 members. Registration required. fly fishinG 101 • SATURDAYS, 8am & SUNDAYS, 10am - Orvis Asheville, 28 Schenck Parkway, hosts Fly Fishing 101 for beginners, featuring instruction on casting and outfit rigging. Free. Info: 687-0301 or avl.mx/s2.

parenting the confident child (pd.)Simple practical sensitive strategies to help your child or teen manage anxiety and stress, improve selfesteem, stay calm, poised, in control.

Ages 9-18. Family Workshops. June 8-9, 29-30. July 20-21, 27-28. 828225-3786 www.formfitnessfunction/ family-workshops the kids are alriGht! (pd.)Positive Postural Playtime Nurture and preserve your child's natural grace of movement while rediscovering your own. Ages 0-8.

Family Workshops. June 7-8, 28-29.

July 19-20, 26-27. 828-225-3786 www. formfitnessfunction/family-workshops asheville community yoGa center Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com.

• WEDNESDAYS (6/12) through (7/3), 6-7:30pm - A prenatal yoga series for pregnant women, partners, doulas, midwives and yoga teachers. $40.

puBLic Lectures montreat conference center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat.

Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911.

• TU (6/11) through TH (6/13) - “Let there be ... Creation Stories in Music" seminar. $35 includes CD. the world of van GoGh • TH (6/13), 7pm - "The Woeful and Wondrous World of Van Gogh," with Elliot Engel. Held in ASU's Valborg Theatre. $15 includes reception. Info: 262-4046.

seniors Gentle yoGa for every Body • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am - A slow and gentle style of yoga, particularly well-suited for all fitness levels, will be hosted at Lakeview Senior Center, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. $8 suggested donation.

Info: kirklandyoga@charter.net. medicare summary notices workshoPs • TU (6/11), 2pm - A medicare summary notice workshop will be held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Info: 277-8288. work-it circuit • WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm CarePartners will offer "Work-It Circuit" fitness classes for seniors at CarePartners East Clinic, 2358 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa. $7/free for wellness members. Info and registration: 686-3529.

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Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz.com.

Mondays, 7-8pm – Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at

227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon).

Donation. lookinG for Genuine sPiritual Guidance and helP? (pd.) 1 on 1 with Truth Thomas truththomas.org 828-299-4359 channelinG your hiGhest self (pd.) Fri-Sun 10am-4pm Communicate with your highest self and ascended beings. Info: UltimateEnergyHealing. com/channeling asheville insiGht meditation • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-11:30am - "Practice Mindfulness Meditation (also called Vipassana or Insight Meditation) with a supportive group. Mindfulness Meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind." Held at 29 Ravenscroft Drive, Suite 200. Free.

Info: ashevillemeditation.com or 8084444. celeBrate recovery • TUESDAYS, 6:15pm - "Had enough with life's hurts, habits and hang-ups?

Celebrate God's healing power" during this weekly meeting at 2221 North Fork Road, Black Mountain.

Adults and children welcome. Session includes a free meal. Info: conniewilliams2@gmail.com. community hu sonG • SU (6/9), 11am-11:30pm - "In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Chanting this once-secret name for God, HU, has helped people throughout time find inner peace and divine love." Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road, lower level. Free.

Info: eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775. first conGreGational church in hendersonville Fifth Avenue West at White Pine Street, Hendersonville. Info: 692-8630 or fcchendersonville.org.

• FR (6/7) through SU (6/9) - The Walter Ashley Lectures series presents "spiritual genius" Brian McLaren. $20/Sunday morning talks free. See website for schedule.

• SU (6/9), 9am - Adult forum: "Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World.” heartsPeak • TH (6/6), 7-9pm - Cathy Holt will present "HeartSpeak: Listening and Speaking from the Heart" at Jubilee (use 101 Patton Ave. entrance). Free.

Info and registration: cathyfholt@ gmail.com or heartspeakpeace.com. liGht center 2196 N.C. Highway 9 S., Black Mountain. Info: urlight.org or 6696845.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm Prayer and meditation for United States and world conditions. Free.

• ONGOING, 10am-5pm - Open meditation to music with energy balancing lights. 160-acres of meditation hiking trails. By donation.

• 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am - "Access the healing centers of the body through the sound and vibration resonating from singing crystal bowls,

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Wilderness monasticism in the heart of the city When Dennis Teall-Fleming, a Disciples of Christ minister and professor of religious studies, came to Asheville, he felt called to “create a new, prayer-full faith community inspired by monastic practices.” Last May, he started holding Asheville Monastery at one of Asheville's “holy places” — Pritchard Park.

“I'm constantly on the lookout for Church happening, wherever that may be,” he says. “Church happens when the Holy Spirit of God wants to celebrate the goodness of creation, and the power of God's grace. I've always seen that happening at the Drum Circle in Pritchard Park.”

Xpress: What would you like the monastery to create? teall-Fleming: I'd like it to be a place of spiritual intimacy, between each person and God, and among all the people that come to be a part of it. Asheville Monastery is to be a place of prayer for all people, not just Christians. I imagine the monastery to draw from spiritual sources beyond Christian boundaries.

There are all kinds of things that happen at Pritchard Park, and I feel it's time for it to be a spiritual center as well. I'm not interested in creating another traditional Christian community with a building and a budget. I'd rather go to a place where God already is, and celebrate that with anyone else that feels called as I do.

For more info, call 704-674-0729 or email teallfleming@yahoo.com. Or join him in prayer at Pritchard Park, downtown Asheville, 6 to 9 p.m., every Friday.

• THURSDAYS, 6-6:45pm - Meditation followed by Dharma reading and discussion at 7pm. Meditation instruction

spoken & Written Word

sitting will feature meditation instruction. Come for a portion or the entire time. played by Rev. Heidi." $10 suggested donation. Info: revheidi.com.

• 2nd SUNDAYS, 1pm - Toning for Peace. A "safe, supportive space for vocal exploration." $10 suggested donation. Info: ToningforPeace.com.

• SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - Prayer/meditation for world peace. Free. meditate with an indian yoGi • TH (6/6) through MO (6/10) - Indian yogi Sri Swamiji will host free meditation sessions featuring one hour silent meditation, spiritual songs and discussion. Sessions held June 6 at Dhyan Maharaj, June 7 at Jubilee Community Church and June 9 at the Unity Center. Schedule and directions: avl.mx/tm or 299-3246. meditation on the Go • SUNDAYS, 7pm - "Increase patience, love, compassion, wisdom and happiness in daily life by learning to put good intentions into practice."

Course includes guided meditation, talk and discussion. Held at Rainbow Mountain Children's School, 574 Haywood Road. $8/$5 students and

seniors. Info: meditationinasheville@ gmail.com. meditation ProGram • SUNDAYS, 5pm - Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Meditation Center near Fairview offers instruction through one-hour silent meditation, followed by singing bhajans and distribution of blessed fruit. Free. Info and location: 299-3246 or shivabalamahayogi.com. montreat conference center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat.

Programs are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: montreat.org or 6692911.

• WEDNESDAYS through (7/31) - The arts in worship lab will help spiritual organizations "create Sunday art for worship and develop new visions for your church." $5. mountain zen Practice center • TUESDAYS, 7pm - "Finding compassion for yourself and others through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness," meditation and group discussion guided

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by the teachings of Cheri Huber.

Orientation for newcomers on the first Tuesday of the month. Donations appreciated. Info: mountainzen.org.

shaPe note sinGinG

movement for sPiritual inner awareness • 2nd SUNDAYS, 3-5pm - North Carolina Representative, Lilla SSK Khalsa, offers seminars, invocation, meditation, intention setting, seminar film, tea and appetizers. Free. Info and directions: ExpressiveArtsAlliance. org, oakes.khalsa@gmail.com or 777-1962.

harmony. Loaner books available; no

re-awaken your relationshiP to nature • TU (6/11), 7-9pm - "Re-awaken Your Knowing About Your Relationship to Nature" will focus on the "wisdom of the nature elders all around you."

Held at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. By donation. Info: soul-listener.com.

225-6422.

shamBhala meditation center of asheville 19 Westwood Place. Visitors welcome; donations accepted. Info: asheville.shambhala.org.

• 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., hosts shape note singing in four-part experience necessary. Info: uccasheville.org. urBan dharma 29 Page Ave. See website for temple and gallery hours. Weekly programs are free with $5-$10 suggested donation. Info: udharmanc.com or • THURSDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm "Cultivating Abundance" will focus on the liturgy of Jambhala.

• SATURDAYS, 3-4:30pm - Weekly services will alternate between "Call of Compassion” and "Boundless Protection."

• TUESDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm - An introduction to meditation will feature two sessions of 20 minute meditation and a walking session.

Hall by Hilary Mantel. wv --- 5pm Knitting club. sw • TH (6/6), 6:30pm - Book club: Gone

offered. Open house 1st Thursdays.

• SUNDAY, 10am-noon - A public

• WE (6/5), 3pm - Book club: Wolf

look homeward asheville (pd.) An illustrated book of poems and stories, by Peter Olevnik, available at Grateful Steps Publishing and at other local book stores. For information: olevnik@att.net.

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asheville city Poets • SU (6/9), 3pm - Asheville City Poets will present public readings at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, 5 Walnut St. Info and registration: meetup.com/ Asheville-City-Poets.

West. "How wild were they? Some of

BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries liBrary aBBreviations - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: ■ le = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 250-6480) ■ Pm = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) ■ sa = South Asheville/Oakley Library (749 Fairview Road, 250-4754) ■ ss = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 2506488) ■ sw = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) ■ wv = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) ■ Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • Through SA (6/8) - Book sale. sa

• SA (6/8), 3pm - The Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series will feature Noa Meiri, Olivia Patterson and Richard Chess. Pm • TU (6/11), 7pm - Wild Women of the these gals make Annie Oakley look tame." wv • TU (6/11), 1pm - Book club: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks. le city liGhts Bookstore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva.

Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: citylightsnc.com or 5869499.

• FR (6/7), 6:30pm - Peter Carlson will present his book Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy.

• SA (6/8), 3pm - June Peacock will present her memoir Window in the Wall. discussion Bound Book cluB • TU (6/11), 3pm - "Discussion Bound" book club: The American Painter Emma Dial by Samantha Peale. Hosted by the Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square. Free with admission: $8/$7 students and

seniors/children under 4 free. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

sessions. $3. Info and locations: avl. mx/tb.

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

• MO (6/10), 7pm - Karen White will present her book The Time Between.

chamBer challenGe 5k • FR (6/7), 4:30pm - The Chamber Challenge team 5K will depart from the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. $35 individual/see website for team cost. Info: chamberchallenge.org.

malaProP's Bookstore and cafe 55 Haywood St. Info: malaprops.com or 254-6734. Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/5), 7pm - Malaprop's book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

• TH (6/6), 7pm - David Sedaris will present his book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. The discussion is sold out, but the booksigning and reception are open to the public at 9pm. Free.

• FR (6/7), 7pm - Anton DiSclafani will present her novel The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

• SA (6/8), 7pm - Peter Carlson will present his book Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey.

• SU (6/9), 3pm - Rachelle Rogers will present her memoir Rare Atmosphere.

• MO (6/10), 7pm - Mystery book club: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. --- 7pm - Charles Graeber will present his book The Good Nurse.

• TU (6/11), 7pm - Dean King will present his book The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys.

• WE (6/12), 7pm - Will Schwalbe will present his book The End of Your Life Book Club.

• TH (6/13), 7pm - Elliott Holt will present his novel You Are One of Them.

confident commuter Bike class • SA (6/8), 10am-1pm - A "Confident Commuter" bicycle class will be held at the YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. $10. Info and registration: buncombebikeed@gmail. com.

naked and soBer • SA (6/8), 6pm - Valeria Fine Art, 339 Old Lyman Street # 6, will host "Naked and Sober" as part of the River Arts District Studio Stroll. "Bring poems about your 'Best Experience Naked.'" Adults only. Free. Proceeds benefit Zamani Refuge. Info: nakednsober.com. youth Poetry slam • FR (6/7), 7pm - New York Studios 3, 2002 Riverside Drive, Woodfin, will host a youth poetry slam (ages 13-19).

Participating poets free. $10/$5 students. All proceeds benefit Asheville 2013 Brave New Voices team. Info and sign up: avant_garden@msn.com or avl.mx/tp.

sports Blue ridGe aPa (pd.) Beginners Wanted! Stay cool this summer Play pool in the league APA amateur pool starts in June. 828-3298197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com BuncomBe county Pools • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, noon5:45pm; SATURDAYS, 11am-6:45pm & SUNDAYS, 1-6:45pm - Buncombe County Pools offer daily open swim

hooP Jam • TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Hoop Jam invites the public to hula hoop in Pritchard Park. Hoops are available to borrow. Free. Info: ashevilledowntown.org. river Bound race series • SA (6/8), 8am - This "award-winning trail race" will be held on the grounds of Warren Wilson College and include a 5k, 10k, 15k and half marathon.

Proceeds benefit scholarships for local youth, teachers and veterans attending NCOBS courses. $30. Info and registration: riverboundrace.com.

theater nys3 (pd.) A Professional Acting Conservatory in Asheville (Atlanta & Charlotte) offers Acting Technique, Improv, Voiceover, Script Writing, Scene Study. New Instructors Kelly McGillis (Top Gun) & Maryedith Burrell, 4-time emmy nominated actress. info@nys3.com, nys3.com.

June 15-July 28. free actinG classes and oPen house at nys3 (pd.)An Acting Conservatory in Asheville. June 13 from 6:00-7:00 Open House; class 7:00-8:00 and 8:00-10:00. www.nys3.com a wwii warrior’s story • SU (6/9), 6pm - Ponder Anew, a WWII warrior’s story, will be performed at The Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. Free; donations accepted for the All Souls Veterans Support Fund. Info: allsoulscathedral.org. asheville community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: ashevilletheatre.org or 2541320.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - Kiss Me, Kate, a story of the "backstage and onstage antics of two feuding romantic couples during a production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew." Fri. & Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $15-$25. different strokes • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (6/29), 7:30pm - Carla Pridgen's Incongruence features monologues and vignettes derived from interviews with transgender men

and women. Staged by Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective at 35Below, 35 E. Walnut St. $15. Info and tickets: differentstrokesavl.com. flat rock Playhouse Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock.

Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville. Info: flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• Through SU (6/30) - Evita, "the story of Eva Peron, perhaps the most notorious public figure in Argentina’s history." Performed on the Mainstage.

Wed.-Sat., 8pm. Thurs., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $40/discounts for seniors, military and students. montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.-Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella. Donations accepted. Info: montfordparkplayers. org or 254-5146.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/22), 7:30pm - The Tempest. "This tale of magic, elemental spirits and creatures, romance and comedy is one of Shakespeare’s most fantastic." n.c. staGe comPany 15 Stage Lane. Info: ncstage.org or 239-0263.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/9) - This, "a wonderfully-rich and poignant play about old friends and the pitfalls of looming middle age." Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $16-$28. ovo: a lunar masQuerade • FR (6/7), 9pm-2:30am - Fox and Beggar Theater and the Tarocco project present Ovo: A Lunar Masquerade at Club Metropolis, 38 N. French Broad Ave. $12/$8 in advance. Info: brownpapertickets. com/event/381866.

Parkway Playhouse 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville.

Info: parkwayplayhouse.com or 6824285.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (6/15) - Dancing at Lughnasa, the story of a "man reflecting on a series of vivid memories" of his family.

7:30pm. $12-$15. southern aPPalachian rePertory theatre Performances are held at Mars Hill College's Owen Theatre. Info: sartplays.org or 689-1239.

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/16) - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the story of a "fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School." Preview June 5. $28.

See website for times. the decent women of calle 58 • FR (6/7) & SA (6/8), 8pm - The Decent Women of Calle 58 will feature dance, theater, storytelling and visual arts based on true stories of the women of Calle 58, Mexican sexoservidoras who practice "the oldest trade in human history." Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. $17/$15 in advance. For mature audiences. Info: acdt.org.

thriving chiLdren The Success Equation, under the umbrella of Children First/ Communities In Schools, unites the community to reduce the root causes of child poverty. These calendar listings feature community events and volunteer opportunities to help children thrive in Buncombe County.

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: bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks men and women to be a Big to a young person from a single-parent family, age 6-14. Activities are free or lowcost, such as sports, local attractions, etc. Mentors are also needed for one hour a week in schools and afterschool sites in the fall. Information sessions will be held June 11 and June 26 at noon. children first/cis • Children First/CIS seeks volunteers for its learning centers and after school program for elementary school children living in public and low-income housing. Mon.-Thurs., 2:30-5:30pm. Volunteer for one hour a week and change the life of a local child. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or 7682072. hands on ashevilleBuncomBe Registration required. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville. org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• SA (6/8), 10am-noon - Teacher's Pet: Volunteers will create supplemental educational materials to help elementary students improve reading skills.

Make flashcards, games and more.

Instruction and materials provided.

• WE (6/12), 9am-noon - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank for agencies serving hungry people in 17 WNC counties. literacy council of BuncomBe county Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: litcouncil.com or 254-3442.

• Volunteers are needed to tutor low-income children reading below grade level as part of the Augustine Project program. Tutors provide one-on-one instruction to children in Buncombe County. No prior tutoring experience required. Tutors receive training based on Orton-Gillingham and Wilson Reading System, along with ongoing support from professionals. Teachers and school personnel can earn up to six CEUs. Materials provided. Info and orientation: lily@ litcouncil.com. motherlove mentor • The YWCA MotherLove program seeks volunteers to provide support and encouragement to teen mothers.

A commitment of eight hours per month required. Info: 254-7206.

one in an area hospital. Supplies provided.

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literacy council of BuncomBe county Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: litcouncil.com or 254-3442.

• Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a second language. Tutors provide one-on-one or small group instruction in Buncombe County. No prior tutoring experience or foreign language skills required. Tutors will receive 15 hours of training and ongoing support from certified professionals. Orientation: July 17 and 18.

Prospective volunteers should attend one of these two orientations.

• Partners Unlimited, a program for at-risk youth ages 10-18, seeks volunteer tutors and website assistance.

Info: partnersunlimited@juno.com or 281-2800.

voLunteering aurora studio and Gallery • ONGOING - Aurora Studio and Gallery seeks energetic, compassionate, community-minded board candidates for "a supportive art studio for those affected by mental illness, homelessness or addiction." Info: lori_aurorastudio@hotmail. com or aurorastudio-gallery.com. ayusa host families • ONGOING - Ayusa seeks families interested in hosting exchange students ages 15-18. Families must pass a background check, provide room and board and a safe, supportive environment. Info: ayusa.org or 2988873. carolina mountain land conservancy Located at 847 Case St., Hendersonville. Info: carolinamountain.org.

• Through TH (6/6), 10am-4pm Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy seeks volunteers to remove invasive plants from mountain bog sites crucial to WNC biodiversity. Training and safety equipment provided; no previous experience necessary. Info and registration: 697-5777.

• TU (6/11), 9am-4pm - CMLC will host hands-on workdays to build public trails on conserved lands. "Put your new trails and construction knowledge to use in the field." Pizza provided to all volunteers. downtown after 5 • FR (6/21), 5-9pm - Downtown After 5 seeks volunteers to serve beer and perform a variety of tasks. Info and registration: volunteer@ashevilledowntown.org. hands on ashevilleBuncomBe Registration required. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville. org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• SA (6/8), 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.

• MO (6/10), 7-8:30pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center, which provides free lodging for outof-town families who have a loved

Pan harmonia • Pan Harmonia seeks volunteers to assist with chamber music concerts.

Volunteers receive two tickets to the concert. Info: office@pan-harmonia. org.

ProJect linus • Project Linus, a volunteer group that provides handmade blankets to children in crisis, seeks new members.

Info: 645-8800. the rathBun center • The Rathbun Center, a nonprofit corporation that provides free lodging for patients and their caregivers staying in Asheville for medical treatment, seeks volunteers to support and register guests. Weekend shifts: noon-3pm, 3-6pm & 6-9pm. Info: rathbuncenter.org or 251-0595. volunteer fair • TH (6/6), 10am-2pm - The Get Connected Volunteer Fair will help interested community members find local volunteer opportunities. Held at the Transylvania County Library's Rogow Room, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard. Free. Info: rsvp@landofsky. org. wnc knitters and crocheters • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - The Fletcher Branch of the WNC Knitters and Crocheters for Others makes handmade items for local charities. Meets at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road. Free. Info: 575-9195. wnc nature center 75 Gashes Creek Road. 10am-5pm daily. $8/$6 Asheville city residents/$4 kids. Info: 298-5600 or wildwnc.org.

• SA (6/8), 5-9pm - Volunteer are sought for Mountain Safari, an afterhours party with the animals of the WNC Nature Center. Volunteers will perform a range of tasks, from parking assistance to bartending.

Volunteers receive free admission, food and drink. calendar deadline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesday, one week prior to publication.

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

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Task force recommends steps to make Buncombe schools safer

• Mascots in actual animal form no longer allowed to roam school unsupervised, as a result of the six-hour ram attack back in April at Valley Springs Middle School.

• Cameras will be replaced by infrared cameras to detect elevated levels of agitation, frustration, and general “stewing.”

• Unarmed security guards at local high schools shall be immediately located and released from the lockers they have been forcibly locked inside by upperclassmen.

• School Resource Officers must demonstrate during the hiring process that they will not be intimidated by students or potential threats by proving they have a chip (one) on either shoulder and, when asked how high they’ve had it up to, they must indicate neck-level or higher (though preference will be given to those who indicate a region between their upper forehead and several inches above their head).

• More meetings and emergency surveys have been scheduled, effective immediately.

• School entries and exits will no longer be located at the back of the changing room inside Abercrombie & Fitch.

• Photos have been distributed to all faculty and staff of the suspected perpetrator of the Sandy Hook massacre, a false-flag operation that was in fact carried out by an anti-gun extremist from within the Oval Office.

• Implementing an anti-bullying curriculum so that when students are running for their lives from an axe-wielding crazed classmate, they will have literature available that can be quickly referenced.

• Some sort of comprehensive, written roster containing all the names of students at each school will be compiled, replacing

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‘Silver Spoons’ reunion letter To the Fans:

• The Safe Schools Task Force will no longer use live ammo during counter-insurgency training.

• Entry into schools will now require more than a scribbled illegible name under “guests” on the sign-in sheet that was photocopied from the bouncer at Broadways on karaoke night.

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the mnemonic memory system currently in use as well as the volunteers from the nursing home in charge of maintaining that system.

• The first line-of-defense will no longer be right-hand-only safety scissors wielded by left-handed substitute art teachers.

• Change the culture about “tattling” to focus on “reporting” and change the culture about “bullying” to focus on “social retribution.”

• At least once a month, counselors will tour the school and check known cracks for any students who have fallen through them to prevents the cracks from being used as a snipers’ nest.

• Outfit all buses with a digital system that has a four-camera set on each bus in case something hilarious happens (The “See to Believe” resolution).

• Evidence-based conflict resolution strategies such as creating a demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula.

• Evidence-based bullying prevention programs such as strapping a bully’s hand to a table and letting every other student take turns smashing it with a hammer that the bully was forced to borrow from his own father for the occasion.

• Three-tiered behavior system: : Knock it off. : No graduation for you. : I don’t care if I do get fired, you little punk, it’s on, let’s do this LET’S DO THIS. • Previous four areas of planning (Prevention and Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, Recovery) to be replaced with Drafting of resolutions, Throwing of colleagues under the bus, Overreaction, Cover-up.

Thank you, thank you, and one million times thank you for your continued interest in my role in ‘80s super show “Silver Spoons”! It is shocking and unbelievable that after all these years, people still walk up to me on the street and say “Ricky! Look at you, little Ricky! All grown up!” Just unbelievably shocking. And saddening.

Yes, look at me, all grown up — just 25 short years after I was a child actor. Do the math, dopes! Anybody see a little show called “Lonesome Dove”?

Most popular miniseries ever, except “Roots,” and we didn’t even have liberal guilt over cowboy mistreatment to help out the ratings. The Tommy Lee Jones character trusted me with a whole cattle operation, so why can’t you people — God love you — let it go with the “Silver Spoons” thing already?

Oh, and I banged the lead female character of “NYPD Blue” while I was starring as the totally adult male detective lead. On and off the set. But it just turned out to be another “joke’s on you, Ricky,” when she made me eat ice cream off her naked body with — you guessed it — a silver spoon. It humiliates me a little more every time I watch the video I secretly made of the incident. Fine, incidents, plural. It may have taken a few repetitions for me to sort out who was using whom.

Again, friends, my chief message is thank you! But before expressing any of the positive feelings you may attach to my child-acting career, or the shock and dismay at my inevitable maturation process, please refer yourself to my bicep tat, which reads “It’s RICK now, Mother f****r!” Really, I don’t want to just lose it and OD, like the guy who played Alfalfa in “The Little Rascals.”

God Bless, RICK Schroder

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• Creative smuggling: Abdullah Riyaz, 50, was arrested at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, in April after he appeared to be uncomfortable sitting in the waiting area. Officials found four "biscuits" of solid gold in his socks but obviously thought there might be more, and after nature took its course, found Riyaz to be one of those rare humans with the ability to brag that he once excreted gold (eight more "biscuits").

• Accountability: In April, the chairman of the National Showcaves Center in Wales, aiming to halt a recent downturn in tourism, threatened to sue the U.K. National Weather Service for its "all too [frequent] ... gloom and doom reports." The NWS had called for snow and cold weather over Easter weekend, but no snow fell, and the cold weather was tempered by sun and blue skies.

The chairman also suggested adding a warning that forecasts might be wrong.

• In New Haven, Conn., in March, police had trapped two suspected car thieves in a multifamily building whose occupants were hiding from the suspects. After a K-9 unit was delayed, the officers began barking — and the suspects quickly surrendered.

• The annual Chinese "tomb sweeping" celebration has experienced a resurgence since 2008, when the government reinstated it as an official holiday. Traditionally, people brought valuable items such as jewelry to ancestors' gravesites and buried them with the body, to upgrade the relative's afterlife. Now, however, practitioners believe that paper images suffice (and, of course, are less expensive). Many simply leave generous signed checks for the dead, according to an April New York Times dispatch; others bury representations of "mistresses" to accompany presumably frisky corpses.

updates • Gourmet “kopi luwak” coffee beans have been swallowed by certain Asian civets, recovered from feces and washed. In April, however, the environmental-activist website MongaBay. com warned that, thanks to increased demand, civet "farms" have sprung up in Indonesia where the animals spend their entire lives in

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• "Recovered memory" was a popular diagnosis in the 1980s, leading to jail sentences for priests, parents and school officials after patients somehow suddenly "remembered" long-suppressed bizarre, vicious and sometimes "satanic" sex crimes that never actually happened. Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, and other skeptics have since proven that false memories can be created. They’re now concentrating on fashioning them for beneficial purposes — to lose weight, stop smoking or curb drinking. Up to 40 percent of people can be convinced that they’ve had bad experiences with a certain behavior and taught to avoid it, Time magazine reported in April. "We do have a malleable memory,” said Loftus.

• Briton James McCormick caused the deaths of hundreds of Iraqis after convincing a Baghdad police official that his "electronic" wands could detect bombs at 400 security checkpoints, despite U.S. officials' many warnings that they were useless. In October 2009, for example, suicide bombers walked past two wand-equipped checkpoints into a neighborhood and killed 155. McCormick, who sold 6,000 of the devices to Iraq and the country of Georgia at prices of up to $40,000 each, was convicted of fraud in April. According to London prosecutors, he also claimed his wands could be programmed to detect drugs and paper money from high above or up to a kilometer underground.

• Catholic nun Megan Rice, 83, and two other peace activists were convicted in May of breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last year — with "intent to harm national security." Sympathizers lauded the activists' motives, questioning whether national security was actually harmed. The three amateurs cut through numerous fences undetected, then bypassed several sensors and alarms (either malfunctioning or unmonitored) before being stopped by a lone guard. While Israel frets over Iran's perhaps having accumulated 500 pounds of highly enriched uranium to build a single bomb, Y-12 houses an estimated 400 tons.

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It took less than a month for two to nearly become one.

From a resolution of intent to a signed management agreement, board members from Western Highlands Network and Smoky Mountain Center made swift decisions to make way for a July 2014 merger of the two agencies, which provide mental health, substance abuse and development disability services in Western North Carolina.

However, this accelerated process proved the only option for Western Highlands in recent months, spurred by state officials’ April 5 announcement that they were terminating its Medicaid contract, effective July 31. As the Asheville-based organization's interim CEO Charlie Schoenheit said at the board's April 12 meeting, “We've got a couple of weeks to come up with our plan. We don't have a lot of time to mess around.”

april 25: intentions knoWn As the state’s July 31 deadline loomed, its board hoped to keep service management close to home. So rather than merge with an outof-state or other nonlocal organization, WHN board members voted unanimously April 25 on their intent to become part of Waynesville-based Smoky Mountain Center.

Western Highlands Board Chair Charles Vines called the partnership “a good fit.” He said, “I think it'd be a hard sell to any one of our county managers to convince any of our county boards that they're going to be managed by an MCO [managed care organization] in Durham County, for example," adding, “We chose Smoky for the purpose of making sure we have a presence in Western North Carolina.”

The decision to move forward with Smoky Mountain came after the board went into closed session for a more than an hour, and it aligned

with plans presented at the board's April 12 meeting. At that time, the board said it had two options for the agency’s future: pilot an integrated health-care program or merge with another local management entity.

For Smoky Mountain, mergers are familiar territory. Two years ago, New River Behavioral Healthcare board members realized that internal financial difficulties would mean closing the doors; Smoky Mountain absorbed its service area. The merger with Western Highlands will expand Smoky Mountains' coverage area from 15 counties to 23, adding consumers and providers from Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania and Yancey.

may 23: First nod Board members from both organizations used the phrase "smooth transition" throughout a special May 23 joint meeting — an indication that both entities wanted another frequently used two-word expression to come true the following morning at Western Highland's meeting: "seamless process."

"It was planful that Western has a specially called meeting tomorrow morning,” Smoky Mountain Chief Executive Officer Brian Ingaham said, addressing Smoky Mountain board members. “We really want [Western] to follow on the heels of our endorsement of this.” Looking at Schoenheit, he added, “That's our plan. Then we ship it off to the state and, really, move ahead very firmly.” The document will be effective upon approval from Western Highlands.

Of the nearly 80-page document submitted to the state, Schoenheit said, “It was a difficult process, but I feel pretty good about where we ended up.”

Ingaham says that the emphasis going forward will be on two specific areas: human resources and the transition from management agreement to merger. In a May 9 memo sent to Western Highlands board members, from Human Resources Director Rhonda McKee writes, “We are in a critical situation with maintaining the staff necessary to continue operations at WHN. We have had seven staff resign since the announcement of the waiver termination.” To meet this challenge, the organization plans to pay its staff a bonus

by July 31 or Sept. 30.

Originally, July 31 coincided with the termination date of the state contract. However, after Western Highlands requested an extension from the state's Division of Medical Assistance, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, moved the contract-termination date to Sept. 30.

may 24: second nod Everything went as planned on the morning of May 24 when Western Highlands board members unanimously adopted a management agreement with Smoky Mountain Center — making the legal document effective immediately and the eventual merger between the two entities ever closer.

After the meeting, Buncombe Assistant manager and Western Highlands board member Mandy stone told Xpress that keeping services close to home and stable guided the decision.

“For consumers, [the management agreement] really assures consistency for them in that the actual management of the state Medicaid dollars and services move to Smoky, that the contracts with providers are honored and that consumers are automatically enrolled,” Stone said. “For them, it's assuring consistency of services while we move through the merger processes.”

But Western Highlands has also had to turn its focus toward its employees, who will receive a retention bonus or severance pay, depending on various scenarios: • Western Highlands employees not offered a position with Smoky Mountain will receive a minimum severance payment of $3,500.

• WHN employees offered a position at Smoky Mountain that ensures no lapse in services will receive a $1,500 retention bonus.

• WHN employees not offered a position with Smoky Mountain and employed for less than a year will receive a $1,500 retention bonus.

The intent, Stone explained, is to give staff members an incentive to stay during the transition with Smoky Mountain. She also mentioned, “Both boards believe we will have a new identity and a new name. We both think that a new entity stands up that is representative of the two versus any one.”

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“While the management agreement is the first step in our partnership, DHHS has asked that we work to develop our consolidated organization by July 1, 2014,” Vines said in a May 23 statement released to the media.

In that same statement, Rick French, chair of the Smoky Mountain Center Board of Directors, added, “Now that we [have] the approval of DHHS to move forward, and have this key milestone set, we can really begin the work that will be needed among staff and the boards to establish the structure for a new entity to serve the 23 western and foothills counties of North Carolina.”

Going forward, the two organizations will work toward the next deadline: Oct. 1, the day when Smoky Mountain assumes Western Highlands' Medicaid contracts.

As Vines said back in April, “If everything is done like it's supposed to be done, and I anticipate that it will, there should not be any lapse in services.” X Send your health-and-wellness news and tips to Caitlin Byrd at cbyrd@mountainx.com or mxhealth@mountainx.com, or call 251-1333, ext. 140.

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• WE (6/5), 2:30-7pm - Blood drive: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Info: 1-800-REDCROSS. • TH (6/6), 1:30-6pm - Blood drive: Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, 117 Montreat Road. Info: 669-6729.

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• WE (6/12), 6pm - "Are You Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?" will focus on gaining energy, reducing pain and improving digestion.

Held at 68 Grove St., Conference Room C5. Free. yoGa for veterans • TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - A beginner class for veterans, appropriate for most fitness levels, is held weekly in the Charles George VA Medical Center cafeteria, 1100 Tunnel Road.

Bring mat if possible. Free. Info: kirklandyoga@charter.net. zumBa • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Toy Boat Community Arts Space, 101 Fairview Road, hosts weekly Zumba classes combining "Latin rhythms with fun to create a workout that feels more like a party." $6. Info: kathy.bonyun@gmail.com or toyboatcommunityartspace.com. more wellness events online Check out the Wellness Calendar online at mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after June 13. calendar deadline The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. wednesday, one week prior to publication.

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Gardens that give A half-acre doesn’t sound like a lot of land, but it’s more than enough for The Lord’s Acre. This volunteer-based garden in Fairview grew more than 34 pounds of organic produce in its first four years, which is quite a feat for a small, community-minded garden with a philanthropic mission.

The garden’s name references the Farmers Federation’s longstanding push to encourage growers to give one-tenth of their produce to those in need. The Lord’s Acre carries on this tradition by providing food to ABCCM’s Veterans Restoration Quarters, Helpmate, the Welcome Table and others.

Donating canned goods to a food drive makes a big difference, but fresh produce provides muchneeded nutrients that just can’t be found in a box. “There are many types of hunger,” explains Susan Sides, executive director and garden manager. “Everyone is hungry for something. Everyone has something to give.”

There’s no better way to “teach a man to fish” than with hands-on experience with dirt and plants.

The Lord’s Acre provides education to community members who want to learn how to grow food.

Everyone from children to seniors have plunged trowels, weeded rows and pushed wheelbarrows in the name of feeding the hungry.

The Lord’s Acre hosts public volunteer days on Tuesdays from 9-11 a.m., and Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m. The garden is located at 26 Joe Jenkins Road in Fairview. (The Lord’s Acre is not the unfenced garden adjacent to Joe Jenkins Road and isn’t visible from the street. Follow the dirt road, crest the hill and behold the beauty of The Lord’s Acre.) thelordsacre.org.

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vegetables are still a few weeks away from flowering, Bee City USA believes that the first week of June is the perfect time to extol the humble bee.

Asheville was named the inaugural Bee City USA last year. This national effort to educate the public about the power of bees has made a big impact on our fair city. Just drop the “r” from Beer City and you have a region that appreciates and celebrates all that pollinators have to offer.

Pollination Celebration, a 15-day celebration of our region’s bees, will feature several screenings of The Bee Movie at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, a Father’s Day garden tour sponsored

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by Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, and much more.

The Buncombe County Beekeepers Chapter will host its annual field day on Saturday, June 8, from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Beekeepers are invited to catch a swarm, make a hive division and participate in master beekeeper testing.

Wild Mountain Bees supply outlet in Asheville invites the public to see an observation hive, sample local honey and ask the experts beekeeping questions on Friday, June 21, from 11 a.m. -5:30 p.m.

Along with celebration activities, a new perfume by River Island Apothecary at Marshall High Studios will highlight the power of bees with an “aromatic journey through three seasons of bloom.”

The perfume will be released on Monday, June 17, as a benefit for Bee City USA. For a full schedule of Pollination Celebration events visit beecityusa. org/pollinator-week.

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• 3-6pm - opportunity house, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville.

thursdays • 8am-2pm - henderson county curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville.

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• 3-6pm - flat rock tailgate market, 2720 Greenville Highway.

• 3:30-6:30pm - oakley farmers market, 607 Fairview Road.

• 8am-12:30pm - transylvania tailgate market, 190 E. Main St., Brevard.

• 4-6:30pm - tryon tailgate market, McCowan St.

• 8:30am-12:30pm - yancey county farmers market, U.S. 19 East at S. Main Street, Burnsville.

• 4-6pm - Blowing rock farmers market, 132 Park Ave. • 4-8pm - evening harvest farmers market, Hayesville town square.

fridays • 3-6pm - east asheville tailgate market, 945 Tunnel Road.

• 9am-noon - Black mountain tailgate market , 130 Montreat Road.

•9am-noon - Jackson county farmers market, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva.

• 9am-noon - historic marion tailgate market, West Henderson and Logan Streets.

• 3-6pm - opportunity house, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville.

• 9am-1pm - madison county farmers and artisans market, Mars Hill College, Highway 213 and Part Street.

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• 9am-2pm - leicester farmers market, 338 Leicester Highway.

• 6am-noon - caldwell county farmers market, 120 Hospital Ave., N.E., Lenoir.

• 8am-noon - north asheville tailgate market, UNCA commuter lot C. • 8am-noon - haywood historic farmers market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville.

• 8am-noon - mills river farmers market, 5046 Boylston Highway.

• 8am-noon - waynesville tailgate market, 171 Legion Drive.

• 8am-1pm - asheville city market, 161 South Charlotte St. • 8am-2pm - henderson county curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville.

sundays • noon-4pm - sundays on the island, Blanahasset Island, Marshall.

tuesdays • 8am-2pm - henderson county curb market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville.

• 3-6pm - historic marion tailgate market, West Henderson and Logan Streets.

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Gardening Calendar Permaculture fundamentals (pd.) Part 1 of the Design Course (PDC) June 14 - 16 (1st of 3 weekends) Earthaven Ecovillage, with Patricia Allison, $750 - 3 weekends, $275 - first weekend (includes camping/meals). 9-day course covers 2/3 of Permaculture Design Certificate curriculum, including hands-on implementation of designs. Call 828 669-7053 or see more and register online at www.culturesedge.net. sustainaBle Beauty (pd.) Landscape Plants That Thrive in the Southeast June 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. $55. Learn about native and non-native woody and herbaceous plants to enrich and extend your garden’s seasonal interest. http:// go.ncsu.edu/sustainablebeauty_program summer workshoPs at wamBoldtoPia (pd.) Sculpting Faces in Concrete, Magical Clay Portals, Enchanted Nature Drawings, Creative Visual Journals, Gnome Homes From Rocks, and other creative explorations with artist Damaris Pierce in West Asheville.

All levels welcome. Wamboldtopia.com & Facebook/Wamboldtopia BamBoo walkinG tour • 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 1:30-3pm - Haiku Bamboo Nursery and Farm, 468 Rhodes Mountain Road, Hendersonville, will host a bamboo walking tour featuring 23 different species. Wear walking shoes. $20. Info: oshimabambooschool.com or 685-3053.

BB Barns GardeninG classes 36 Rosscraggon Road. Classes and events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: bbbarns.com or 650-7300.

• SA (6/8), 11am - A class on hydrangeas will focus on growing, pruning, fertilizing and plant selection.

Bee city's Pollination celeBration • SA (6/8) through SA (6/22) - Bee City USA and Tupelo Honey Cafe present Pollination Celebration, a series of events promoting ways to help honey bees, native bees and other pollinators. Activities include a field day, garden tour, lectures and more. Info and complete schedule: beecityusa.org/pollinatorweek.

BuncomBe county extension master Gardeners Programs are held at 94 Coxe Ave. unless otherwise noted. Info: 255-5522.

• MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9:30am3:30pm; FRIDAYS, 9:30am-12:30pm - The Master Gardener Hotline will accept gardening questions via phone and in-person. Info: 255-5522 or buncombemastergardener.org.

• 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 11am-2pm Compost demonstrations will focus on establishing compost piles and bins for home gardens. Held outside Jesse Israel Garden Center, 570 Brevard Road. Free.

GeorGe washinGton carver ediBle Park • MONDAYS, 5-7pm - The community is invited to help grow and maintain vegetables

at the George Washington Carver Edible Park, next to the Stephens Lee Recreation Center parking lot, 30 G.W. Carver Ave. Info: majerla@hotmail.com.

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GrowinG veGetaBle souP • SA (6/8), 9am-noon - "Growing Vegetable Soup," an activity for children, will be presented by Spellbound Children's Bookshop at Asheville City Market, 161 S. Charlotte St. Free. Info: jessica@asapconnections.org. haywood county Plant clinic • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 9amnoon & 1-4pm - Haywood County Master Gardeners will host a plant clinic at 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 118, Waynesville.

Questions about lawns, vegetables, flowers and trees will be answered. Info: 456-3575. hiGhlands BioloGical station

• SA (6/8), 11am-2pm - Mill Spring Farm Store will host "Meet Your Meat," where farmers will present "their best dishes of chicken, rabbit, pork, beef and trout," along with a deviled egg contest. Bring chickens to swap, buy and sell. Located in the Mill Spring Ag Center, 156 School Road. Free. Info: avl.mx/tx.

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FATHER'S DAY GARDEN TOUR • Sunday, June 16 from 1:00 - 5:00 in the Montford Historic District. $15.

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• TH (6/6), 10am-noon - A class on succulents for the garden will focus on hardy plants that can survive outside nearly yearround. Container succulents will also be discussed. $24/$18.

• SATURDAYS, 1pm - Interpretive guides will lead small groups through woodland trails and a variety of forest types. Topics include wildflowers, plant identification, natural history and land use. Free with $8 parking fee; donations encouraged. road construction and maintenance workshoP • TH (6/6) - An all-day workshop for landowners will focus on low-volume private access road construction and maintenance.

Held at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, 3160 Coweeta Lab Admin Road, Otto. $25.

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The restaurant begins construction on an Asheville-style pub and cocktail project When Rosetta’s Kitchen opened a decade ago on Lexington Avenue, owner Rosetta Star was in the midst of her “personal rock bottom,” as she calls that time in her life. She was a 25-year-old single mother and waitress with too much beer and not enough money. “My big goal in life was not to go broke and die,” she says.

Why open a restaurant? “I was young enough to be that foolish,” she says. “I was young enough to be that bold.”

Now, as she prepares to open her second venture, she says she benefits from 10 years of wisdom — and the help of her husband and business partner, Jack Buan. But her principles remain unchanged.

“If there is any one secret, it’s that we’re transparent; we’re authentic; we’re raw — and not just in an uncooked way,” she says. “I think in the business world right now, there’s a lot of facade, a lot of front.”

Come late summer, she’ll open a pub in the former auto garage beneath the restaurant. The business will have a name of its own, she says, but she’s not ready to release those details yet. Xpress reported on her plans in their formative stage just over a year ago; a loan from Mountain BizWorks came through in May, Star says, and renovations should start soon.

The bar will feature cocktails, nonalcoholic spritzers and tonics, and food from the restaurant above.

For diners who don’t want to wait in the line upstairs, the pub will provide table service during mealtimes. Late-night, it will keep bar hours with a limited menu of Rosettta’s staples available until the bars close (the restaurant already stays open until 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays).

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FroM the ground level up: Rosetta Star built her restaurant on nerve and authenticity. Now, she’s ready to expand.

From the owners of Rosetta’s Kitchen, an (as yet unnamed) bar opens: September (if the creek don’t rise) owners: Rosetta Star and Jack Buan location: 116 N. Lexington Ave. (beneath Rosetta’s Kitchen)

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we are on your side! market on Lexington Avenue predated the car shop, and the building was used to store produce. An old walk-in cooler remains, but it looks more like a wooden closet than a freezer.

Star has already started the upfit, albeit outside of the building. She salvaged a U-shaped, stainless-steel bar from a fondue restaurant in Charlotte, and she’s been collecting furniture in marble and mahogany. “We’re thinking an alchemical, Ashevillesteampunk-type theme,” she says.

She’ll change out the metal garage door for one made of glass and add a substantial, shady patio underneath the porch upstairs. A dumbwaiter will transport food from the restaurant to the bar below. With a can of red paint, she’s sprayed lines on the concrete slab floor, laying out how the pieces will fit together. “I don’t feel the need to come up with great adjectives to describe [the bar] because either you get it or you don’t get it,” she says. “If there’s anything we are, we are quintessentially Asheville.”

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With the restaurant, Star has created her own niche. The business is a casual eatery, a latenight hangout and a philanthropic endeavor (this year alone, patrons have donated about 750 meals to their fellow diners who cannot afford to pay full price through the Everybody Eats program).

Similarly, the bar will channel multiple identities. Star imagines a hybrid dive bar, craft cocktail lounge and environmentally conscious pour room. “Rather than our top shelf being the kind of bougie, aged-forever type of thing, our top shelf will be things that are organic, biodynamic, micro-distilled or have some other positive slant on them,” she says. “So yes, you’ll be able to buy an expensive, bougie cocktail here, but there will be a reason, a story behind it, not just a brand name.”

Not into cocktails? That’s OK, Star says. The menu also will include watering-hole standbys.

“We’ll be holding the Asheville favorites,” she says. “If we don’t have Old Crow and PBR, then we’re just stupid.”

Asheville companies will be on the menu, too. Star has partnered with Buchi to create nonalcoholic tonics and kombuchabased mixed drinks. Noble Cider, which just released its first brew in May, will be on tap by the pint and as a mixer.

Star hopes to open the pub in time to commemorate the restaurant’s 11th anniversary in September. (Ideally, the opening would coincide with LAAFF, but that might take an “Asheville miracle,” in Star’s words.)

The space was an auto shop for 47 years, and by the look of the interior, it hadn’t been renovated in that time. Star says a farmer’s

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Neighborhood pleasures Ambrozia Bar and Bistro opens in North Asheville

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Consider the lobster ... corn dog.

Actually, let’s back up: Have you even heard of a lobster corn-dog? It may be chef Sam Etheridge’s invention, and he’s bringing it to Ambrozia Bar and Bistro, which opens this week on Merrimon Avenue (just south of Beaver Lake).

At his new restaurant (which is actually a reincarnation of an eatery he owned in Albuquerque, N.M.), Etheridge offers full-flavor starters, small plates and suppers with playful twists. “I definitely like to have a little sense of humor with it,” he says, explaining the half-joke, experimental origin of the lobster corn-dog — a lobster, scallop and shrimp sausage, battered, deep fried and served with Lusty Monk mustard and wasabi ketchup.

Other menu items are a little less daring, but equally twisted. A salad of watermelon, basil and feta cheese also includes pickled jalapeños and vanilla-bean vinaigrette. A dish called “pork & beans” comes from Etheridge’s kitchen as ravioli stuffed with braised pork cheek and served with a salad of kale and barbecuedressed legumes.

While Etheridge is excited about the food, he doesn’t want his guests to feel obligated to eat dinner, he explains. The restaurant, in the former Artisan Deli space, should function as both bar and restaurant. “We want to make it really a neighborhood place,” he says. “We’re defi-

Ambrozia Bar and Bistro opens: Tuesday, June 4 owners: Chef Sam Etheridge location: 1020 Merrimon Ave. to eat: Small plates and mains in New American, semi-Southern stylings, from $4 to $30. to drink: Full bar with plenty of wines by the glass and 6 taps

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kitchen jester: Chef Sam Etheridge brings culinary levity to the menu at Ambrozia Bar and Bistro.

nitely going to be about the food, but we want people to come in and feel like they can just have a drink.”

He lives within walking distance of the restaurant and hopes that as the city grows, north Asheville will develop a neighborhood feel separate from downtown. He says he’s been pulling in visitors to the neighboring businesses to gauge their reactions to the space, which has undergone substantial cosmetic upgrades, most notably a raised ceiling. “Most people that come by are all pretty surprised when they walk in,” he says.“The real struggle is trying to make it seem like you’re not in a boxed-in strip mall.”

With its colorful bar of old wine

cases and abundant track lighting, the restaurant combines elements of a big-city night club with the charms of a hole-in-the-wall eatery. Etheridge hopes it will be whatever diners want to make of it, he says, but certainly not upscale or special occasion.

The restaurant opens with a full bar and dinner from 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Sunday, but weekend brunch is on the horizon.

Expect four courses, prix fixe-style, for about $20, Etheridge says.

For more information about Ambrozia, 1020 Merrimon Ave., visit ambrozia-avl.com or search for Ambrozia Bar + Bistro on Facebook.

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In-town tojis

Blue Kudzu Sake will open in the former Magnetic Field

Mitch Fortune and his partners are hesitant to call themselves tojis — the Japanese term for master sake brewers — but they hope to one day earn that designation.

If Asheville’s thirst for craft beverages is any indication, they’ll get plenty of sake-brewing practice when they open their tasting room later this summer.

The quartet behind Blue Kudzu Sake aims to become one of a select group of small-scale sake breweries.

The business was born on a whim at an Asian-themed supper club, but it’s matured in the two years since its inception.

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ater and restaurant space in the River Arts District. (The restaurant closed last year, though the theater company continues to produce work.)

“Asheville is so saturated with this beer culture, and now we have moonshine with Troy & Sons,” says co-owner Cat Ford-Coates.

“Why not bring sake to that?”

In the two years since they started planning, the group of bartenders by trade have tasted hundreds of sakes, learning the nuances of the drink, which is brewed from rice. “There’s a whole wide range of sakes out there,” Fortune says. “Sake’s said to have something like 4,000 flavor components, different things you can taste and ele-

boMbers: Mitch Fortune, Cat Ford-Coates, Mary Taylor and Preston Coleman (from the left) hope to be one of a handful of small-scale sake breweries in the U.S. when they open later this year.

ments to the flavors. It’s a very earthy beverage. It’s got a lot of umami.”

Most sake is made in Japan — just a handful of sake breweries exist in the U.S. Moto-I in Minneapolis and Texas Sake Company in Austin opened as some of the first American-owned sake operations in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

Soon, two sake breweries will call Asheville home. Ben’s Tune Up, opening in a couple of weeks in the South Slope neighborhood, will release its brew later in the year.

Although sake is sometimes called rice wine, it’s radically different from other alcoholic beverages (for one thing, it requires two simultaneous fermentation processes). Fortune thinks the idiosyncrasies of the brew will draw curious drinkers, even as they present challenges. “We realize the educational part is one of the biggest challenges, so we’re going to do a lot of informational sessions and classes about the sake,” he says. “A lot of Americans have to get acclimated to that and develop a palate to it.”

In preparation, the owners have been researching. Three of the four are Certified Sake Professionals, a title they earned through three-day seminars and a written examination.

The 2,600-square-foot space will hold the brewery and tasting room, as well as a small kitchen.

The tasting room could open as early as July, with an assortment of imported sakes so Asheville can start learning about the drink.

Blue Kudzu’s house sake will come online a month or two later, depending on the permitting and brewing process. They’ll produce 500-gallon batches for bottling and wholesale as well as on-site sampling.

They plan to start off with a junmai ginjo and a junmai daiginjo (these names indicate how finely the rice is milled) and a dessert sake infused with hazelnuts. Sparkling sakes, which Fortune compares to prosecco, are also in the works.

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Every good dog deserves a treat Dogs are honorary citizens in Asheville. Whether you’re sipping a pint at the Wedge or enjoying a fresh salad on the patio of Laughing Seed Café, your well-behaved dogs are welcome at scores of local restaurants and bars. While it’s fun to slip your pup morsels from the table (our dog Cabby will steal craft beer at any opportunity), dogs should really eat food made just for them.

A quick look at the ingredient list on a bag of dog treats is enough to make you want to train your pooch with nothing but apples and celery.

The Dog Food Project, an online resource focused on educating dogowners about pet food additives, lists an alarming number of ingredients that would make any health-conscious consumer shudder.

A popular flavoring agent is “animal digest,” a cooked-down broth made from a variety of animals. Some brands use “4-D” animals, which include creatures that were diseased or died before slaughter. Ethoxyquin is a common preservative that was created by controversial biotechnology company Monsanto as a pesticide and has been used as a hardening agent in rubber. And don’t forget the artificial colors, including Red No. 4 and Blue 2. Do you really want them in your dog’s belly?

Rich and I have two dogs who are at the core of our little family.

We envision them as part of our life for the foreseeable future, so keeping them healthy and feeding them well is a top priority. In that spirit, we’d like to share a healthy treat that is fully endorsed by our bulldog/boxer mix Cabby (pictured) and our black lab mutt Kudzu (who was not ready for his close-up).

Our treats are made from whole wheat flour, carrots, bananas and parsley — all inexpensive ingredients that we had in the house. The process is similar to making cookies and the treats are ready in less than an hour.

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Carrot and parsley dog treats 1 cup carrots, 3 bananas, 1 cup parsley, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 egg, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup cold water, 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup cornmeal Preheat oven to 350º.

Mash peeled bananas in large mixing bowl.

Finely chop carrots and parsley (or pulse in a food processor with the honey) and add to bowl.

Combine dry ingredients and add to banana mixture.

Add remaining wet ingredients and combine until a workable dough forms.

Flour surface and roll out dough to about 1/4 to 1/2 inch.

Use cookie cutter to cut dough into shapes and arrange on greased cookie sheet. Many Asheville bakeries have bone-shaped cookie cutters. We got ours from Three Dog Bakery.

Bake at 350º for 30 minutes.

Turn off heat and leave biscuits in oven for another 30 minutes or until cool and crisp.

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Training our pups is an ongoing process, so having a treat that they crave is essential. These vegetarian delights are packed with vegetables and not much else, so doling out multiple goodies on a long walk won’t lead to a stern weight-loss conversation at the vet.

Chemical-laden dog food doesn’t have to be the norm; show your pets how much you love them by cooking up some healthy and simple treats.

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Anton DiSclAfAni reADing & bookSigning The Yonahlossee Riding Camp foR giRls MAlAprop’S, friDAy, June 7 (7 p.M., free. MAlApropS.coM) The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for girls is the July pick for the local Matters book club, which will meet to discuss the book in the Malaprop’s café on Monday, July 8 at 7 p.m.

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Summer camp is to kids what Vegas is to adults: what happens there (between the canoeing and the s’mores), stays there. Sort of. Campfire-building skills and lifelong friends — those things you take with you. Try-on personas, a penchant for popsicle-stick crafts and first kisses — those things remain in the camp vault.

Summer camp for Thea Atwell, the teenage heroine of Anton DiSclafani’s volatile debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, is like that in some ways. The friends, the skills, the dining hall. But, for Thea, camp is also a punishment. She’s sent away following a family tragedy she unwittingly orchestrates. And what she initially believes to be a season at riding camp (“A Summer Equestrian Respite for Young Ladies Since 1876,” according to the book) turns into a full year at an all-girls boarding school in the North Carolina mountains.

It’s here that Thea begins to really know herself as a sister, a daughter, a friend, a horsewoman and a person: “I was fearless,” she says in the novel. “It was a trait that served me well in the ring, and badly in life.”

“There is a ‘real’ Yonahlossee in Blowing Rock,” says DiSclafani. “When it closed, in the 1980s, it was the oldest girls camp in N.C.” The author grew up in northern Florida (like Thea, though the character lives a sheltered and privileged life in a grand country home surrounded almost exclusively by family members). DiSclafani’s grandparents have a cabin in Valle Crucis that she visits every year.

Though parts of the Blowing Rock camp, since turned into a tennis club, remain (DiSclafani says she’s eaten dinner at a restaurant that’s housed in the former headmaster’s cabin), the camp in Yonahlossee is completely fictionalized. “I didn’t want to be tied to any particular model of boarding school, or camp, so I created one,” says the author.

What’s not fictionalized: the Great Depression, which wreaked havoc on the country during the ‘30s, when Yonahlossee is set. Through Thea’s eyes, DiSclafani explores a side of the Depression rarely examined — how the economic collapse affected the upper-middle class. “The experience of the very poor and the very wealthy in the Depression is well-tread territory; I was interested in how the trajectory of one’s life changes in subtler ways,” says the author. While

the girls at the riding camp are sheltered from many harsh realities, rumors circulate about classmates whose families lose everything. One girl, a star rider, faces giving up not only her place at the school, but also her horse.

“There were some girls sent home, but most of them stayed at Yonahlossee, and their lives changed in ways that were less tragic, but still incredible: marrying early, for money; not continuing on to a ladies’ college,” says DiSclafani. And, even though the story takes place 80 years ago, the author sees a parallel to today in how the recent economic crisis constrained the lives it didn’t completely unravel.

But even as tragedy swirls at the novel’s periphery (Thea is separated from her twin and lifelong confidant, Sam; her family has to sell their home), life goes on. There are dances and riding competitions and boys; the latter perhaps most important because Yonahlossee is a coming-of-age novel.

That, too (first love, awkward explorations) is complicated by the era. “The women’s movement was throttled by the Depression, so there was this taste of what life could have been like, from the more liberal 1920s,” says DiSclafani. “And then the country grew more conservative, as the Depression hit, so it was a really interesting moment to come of age.”

Girls are sent to and then away from the camp for indiscretions with boys. For being “fast.” That kind of mistake spelled social ruination. But in the N.C. mountains, free of her family, Thea discovers, “that my life was full, and rich, and my own.”

Says DiSclafani, “I think, in the end, love is love, whatever decade or moment you’re talking about.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

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by Jon elliSton Amid the flood of new books marking the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, one tells a uniquely North Carolinian story — that of a desperate prison break in the Piedmont and a flight through the state’s mountains, where neighbors sometimes fought neighbors with the fury of rival armies.

In Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey, reporter and historian Peter Carlson revisits the sometimes rollicking and often harrowing saga of two journalists who went to record the war firsthand and wound up in Confederate custody, becoming a story in their own right.

Junius Browne and Albert Richardson were friends who landed jobs at the New York Tribune, a leading Northern newspaper that circulated throughout the United States. The paper was staunchly abolitionist, owing to the convictions of its famed editor, Horace Greeley, who sent the correspondents south to cover the conflict’s ever-fluctuating fronts.

The pair resolved to do so with aplomb, joining a self-described “Bohemian Brigade” of Northern correspondents who threw caution to the wind. The loose-knit but likeminded group had a “semi-serious code,” Carlson notes. They “would suffer all necessary privations without grumbling, laugh at danger, and try to extract as much fun as possible out of the grim business of war.”

Browne and Richardson certainly found adventure, if not exactly the sort they sought.

March of 1863 found the two reporters, both 29 at the time, on the margins of the Battle of Vicksburg. That Mississippi clash would end in a Union victory and help turn the tide of the war, but by the time it unfolded, Browne and Richardson had been captured by rebel troops.

They weren’t soldiers, but they were sent off to prison amid calls that they be lynched.

And though the reporters had already spent years filing dispatches of heroism and tragedy on the battlefield, their personal struggles had only just begun. Their efforts to be exchanged in a noncombatant prisoner swap were stymied time and again as they were shuttled to prisons in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. They landed in a hellhole of a penitentiary in Salisbury, N.C., in what might have proved their final destination.

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In Salisbury, as the war’s human costs multiplied and the prison population swelled, the pair came to know Civil War POW life in all of its misery, even as their status as journalist prisoners spared them some of the worst of it.

Overcrowding, disease and near-starvation were constant companions, the stench of filth and death ever in the air.

Their spirits flagging after a year and a half in captivity, the journalists committed to a madcap plan to win their freedom. They’d sneak out of the prison and make their way west through enemy territory until they reached the Union lines in Knoxville, Tenn.

Without giving too much away, the story of that flight is one of the most captivating parts of the book, in part because it examines just how divided the state’s residents were over the war — and just how far they’d go to demonstrate their loyalty to either the United States or the secessionists.

A secret society of Tar Heel Union supporters aided the escape, as did the journalists’ true saviors: sympathetic slaves who hid the Northerners during their initial terrifying nights on the run. “Every black face was a friendly face,” Richardson later recalled. “They were always ready to help anybody opposed to the rebels.” White faces were harder to read, but eventually it was a cadre of white, pro-Yankee mountain folk who spirited Browne and Anderson through Western North Carolina, against great odds.

Carlson adds rich context to this cliffhanger through descriptions of the secondary but important characters — the worried families back home, the fellow journalists caught in the conflict, the power-mad wardens, the wretched prisoners, the profiteers and spies, and the host of unlikely heroes from all walks of life.

Revisiting old territory with a new view of contemporaneous sources, he’s used Browne and Richardson’s story to open a window into how the Civil War ruptured the fabric of American politics and history, sparing almost no one, including a couple of brash young journalists.

His book is rife with reminders of why stories of the war, first forged by partisan reporters, remain as contested today as they did when the Bohemian Brigade joined the struggle. X

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ArmchAir rockstArs PeAls creAtes A living room AtmosPhere for debut Album WAking field

by Alli mArshAll

“Hot & ready wood-fired pizza looking for love, laughs & more.”

While most bands are looking to upsize, working from small stages to full-on arenas, Baltimore, Md.-based Peals is taking a smaller-is-better approach. “We recently played a tea room in Philadelphia,” says guitarist William Cashion. “It was the smallest venue I’ve ever played. I could reach my arm out and touch somebody. But it ended up being one of the best shows.”

That’s because the band (an experimental duo with multi-instrumentalist Bruce Willen) is, according to its bio, an “exploratory headphone panorama of the highest order.” How do they translate that experience — the lithe jangle, warm resonance, enveloping melodies and inquisitive cadenzas — to a live show?

“We try to create a living room atmosphere when we perform,” says Cashion. The duo actually travels with a homey lamp, which they set up on stage. “We try our best to let the songs meld together, and hopefully we take the audience to a place.”

Peals wants to go to the parochial villages and unusual venues, to the places where “we can make something weird happen,” says Cashion. He and Willen are both from small towns, both grew up appreciating weird happenings. These days, they both live in Baltimore where, says Cashion, rent is cheap, the scene is supportive and it’s a great springboard for touring artists.

But the two musicians met back when Cashion lived in N.C. with his other band, synth-pop outfit Future Islands. Willen reached out over MySpace and suggested his band (now-defunct noise-punk group Double Dagger) should play a show with Future Islands. The two bands met in 2007 at Whartscape, an annual celebration of Baltimore’s underground arts and culture, hosted by the Wham City collective. “To see them live was really something: It was a powerful, crazy show,” Cashion says of Double

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smaller is bigger: William Cashion and Bruce Willen trade punk and synth-pop backgrounds for the atmospheric and experimental instrumentals of Peals.

Dagger. They took a number of tours together after Future Islands relocated to Baltimore, and Willen is the one who passed the Future Islands demo along to the Thrill Jockey label (which also released Peals’ debut, Waking Field, last month).

“We’ve always talked about the possibility of working on some kind of project,” says Cashion. “I felt like we were cut from the same sort of cloth.” He and Willen have long shared a mutual respect, which makes sense: They’re both bass players in their respective bands.

Surprisingly, there’s no bass to be found on Waking Field’s eight tracks. No drum kit or computers, either. “It was such a departure from anything I’ve done before,” says Cashion.

“We were just wanting to experiment with other sounds and see what other kinds of textures we could come up with.” The album boasts electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, toy pianos, tambourines, walkie-talkies and a field recording of a campfire.

“Floating Leaf” launches the album with warm tones and a jaunty folk-blues cadence.

“Lonestar” is haunted by burnished guitar reverberations through its sludgy strata. “Belle Air” is almost architectural in its stacking of sounds — “One of those happy mistakes,” Cashion says, with no overdubs.

At early shows, Cashion suspects the audience was expecting something loud or punk or

dance-y (an amalgamation of Future Islands and Double Dagger). Instead, the songs are layered and thoughtful, rhythmically meditative, organic and expansive. Peals’ sound is also melodic and accessible.

Cashion says that both he and Willen have pop sensibilities that sneak into the dissonance and atmospherics of Peals. Some songs contain an unspoken narrative — falling leaves here, a cartoon robber there. (Cashion points out that Willen would probably say something different.) If all of that suggests randomness, that’s not the case. Initial trails-and-errors eventually blazed promising pathways. “The process was special,” says Cashion. “We wanted to document what we were doing last summer.”

And now, though Waking Field is perfectly at home in a pair of headphones, scoring a personal moment, Peals wants to share its creation.

So far the response has been worthy of the cozy, approachable, intimate mood the band sets out to create. Cashion and Willen have the Future Islands and Double Dagger fan bases to drawn from; they also realize that some fans of those bands won’t jump on board with the exploratory instrumentals of Peals. But, says Cashion, “We’re finding a new audience that neither of us had through our other bands.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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By toni sherWood Most circus troupes use elements of theater in their productions, and most theater companies could probably benefit from a ring or two of the circus in theirs. The Fox and Beggar Theater, founded by impresario Nat Allister, is using parts of both for its pseudo-inaugural event, Ovo: A Lunar Masquerade Party. Proceeds from the party will go toward the staging of Tarocco, Fox and Beggar's actual inaugural event planned for spring 2014 at Asheville’s Masonic Temple. So, Ovo will be an event for an event — and an eventful one.

“Tarocco will be an art exhibition moving through time,” Allister says. “Many artists will be collaborating on this project with the intent to transport the audience into a surreal fantasy world, populated by strange creatures and bizarre characters.”

Ovo, which means “egg,” will be a night of performance, live music and art at Club

Metropolis. Allister considers the event to be the “conceptual hatching” of Tarocco. “We’re going to transform the entire space into a Venetian lunar garden party,” Allister says. “I want it to be an interactive experience and I want everybody to create their own characters with masks or face paint and get a taste of the aesthetic I’m shooting for.” (Speaking of shooting, local production company 6:14 Films will document the event for Tarocco’s Kickstarter campaign.)

The Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective performs the event's keystone piece at midnight, but there will be a variety of performances throughout the evening. Musical guests include Medisin, Futexture, Kynara, and DJ Yum. Art installation and performances by Awe Lucid Studio, and members of The Clan Destiny Circus will perform. The extravaganza begins Friday at 9 p.m. and revelers can party until 2:30 a.m.

Each of Tarocco's 21 acts will be an interpretation of one of the major arcana, or trump cards of the Tarocco Piemontese, a precursor to the modern tarot. Allister hopes Tarocco will have a live orchestra and mechanical set pieces built

by Lotus, a local artist. Describing the show as nonverbal, surreal, mature and high-budget, Allister says, “The aesthetic I want to see is very much in the Cirque Du Soleil tradition. I want it to be strongly Venetian; I love the artistic style of Renaissance Italy, especially the carnival aspect of it. The reason I’m doing this is because I love circus to the very core of my being.”

Although Tarocco will be in 21 acts, the Tarocco Piemontese actually has 22 cards. “A lot of circuses have a clown archetype that leads you through,” Allister says. “Card zero is The Fool, and his journey is a progression as he moves through the 21 cards. You can read them as an evolution of consciousness or a road to enlightenment.” Allister says card zero is at times interpreted as the lowest card, the common man, and therefore the person you empathize with. But in Tarocco’s structure everything depends on him, so he could be interpreted as the highest card as well.

Allister first explored the Piemontese theme while majoring in film at Vassar College. In the end, filmmaking was too expensive and not the right fit for the art experience he envisioned.

According to Allister, “With street theater it’s so much easier to suspend your disbelief without tons of money. Giant puppets were my first detour from film. They instantly put you in this magical world, and they’re made out of flour, water, trash and duct tape.”

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Although Allister wrote the script for Tarocco, he says he’s not a performer himself, so collaboration is a key element. He has chosen local performers, artists, designers, dancers and puppeteers based on their desire to push boundaries and break traditional constructs. Allister says, “I just want to get everybody in town who I’ve been watching and completely idolizing for years now to work together on the biggest project ever, and try to launch Asheville into a new level. I really think Asheville can show that we can be a tiny town and still produce some amazing, high-quality shows and really push boundaries because it’s a really creative space.” X

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a new exhibition in Firestorm Café & Books approaches the news with a different pace. asheville artists Chelsea Ragan and adam Void’s dual exhibition features works that use printmaking methods to replicate traditional news-media aesthetics (that is to say the “paper,” not the screen). New Prints/Newsprints*Black Male/Blackmail: D.I.Y. Political Printmaking, opens Friday, June 7 (during the downtown DIRECTED BY ANGIE FLYNN-MCIVER asheville art walk).

Void’s contribution make regular use of textSTARRING ANNE THIBAULT* heavy, poster-style graphics to retell the stories *member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of from the news, both past and current. “Once professional actors and stage managers I hear about a story that seems important and ‘newsworthy,’ I then begin to dig deeper, analyzing multiple sources to find the core facts that best illustrate the story,” the artist tells Xpress.

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CHELSEa RaGaN Unarmed Black Male Killed by the Cops

Ragan has a similarly self-declared interest in overlooked and taboo news. Her work gives heavy attention to race relations in the U.S., often with a focus on the South. In Black Male/Blackmail, a collection of 23 prints all titled “Unarmed Black Male Killed by the Cops," she uses printing techniques to simulate front-page news. They’re subtitled with individual names. (Only 22 will be on display, as one is still hanging in a Brooklyn exhibition.)

She’s screenprinted and stenciled column boarders, headlines and the paper’s fictional name, “The News,” onto un-stretched canvases. Each piece details the grisly murders, both in word and portrait, of black male individuals gunned down by an array of national police agencies. Unarmed, of course.

The headlines appear in traditional all-caps black text. They spell out the same fate, 23 times over, and in an increasingly understated manner: “Unarmed Black Male Killed By The Cops.” Each headline is accompanied by individual, hand-drawn portraits. They’re unique to the victim, the crime and the story of their demise.

Ragan researched, culled and collected the imagery and data from several years’ worth of national news. “The 23 portrait profiles recap

deaths between 1999 and 2012,” Ragan told Xpress, “with over half of them occurring in 2011-2012.”

Further details, such as the dates and locations, have been printed to the right and left of the header. and then there are the names.

O. Barlow, age 28, February 28, 2003, in Las Vegas. V. Steen, age 17, October 3, 2009, in Pensacola, Fla. With each name, time stamp and city, the victim’s create an image a national pandemic.

The number of prints in this body of work is significant, as well. “Twenty-three was the approximate average age of their death,” she says.

Ragan and Void drive home similar points.

Corporate news moves so fast, and perhaps we’re overexposed to the extent we become desensitized. and so they’re trying to slow it down. To give these stories more of a name and a face. “The medium of printmaking on paper brings the news back to paper form, back to a concreteness and away from its current digital home,” Void says.

New Prints/Newsprints*Black Male/ Blackmail, opens from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday, June 7 at Firestorm Cafe & Books. The artists will speak at 7 p.m. For more information, visit firestormcafe.com.

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elijah hooker Local rockers Elijah Hooker (vocalist Caleb Johnson, drummer Frank Skulski, Wade Wilson on bass, guitarist Josh Sawyer and Brian Turner on keys) claims that their “sole purpose is to spread the gospel of hard rock ‘n’ roll to the masses.” Which, for a band, is a worthy purpose to have. The quintet is set to release a debut 10-song album which launches with the amped up, “Sweet Emotion”-reminiscent “Happiest Man,” churns and stomps through the adrenaline-fueled “Slaves of Freedom” and turns up the smoky Southern soul on “Black Mountain Fog.” Elijah Hooker will play two album release shows: The first is at Emerald Lounge Friday, June 7 (9 p.m. with Brother Nomad and Space Truckers. $5. emeraldlounge.com) and the second is at The LAB on Saturday, June 8 (9:30 p.m. with Gutterhound and Twist of Fate. $5. lexav ebrew.com). Photo by Carrie Turner

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the decent Women of calle 58 Ben Lovett premiers Black curtain More than a year after a weekend-long film shoot at the Masonic Temple wrapped on Ben Lovett’s Black Curtain, the music video/short film is set to screen during a night of live music performances at Isis. A preview of the lush, dramatic video reveals a slick, professional work of art. But it’s also rife with mystery, dark magic and a stunt or two. A local cast and crew of 200 volunteers (and co-star cabaret performer Mandy Lauderdale) deliver chills and nuanced emotion in the Edwardian-themed eight-minute narrative. The Saturday, June 8 premiere includes a performance by contortionist Yanni, behind-the-scenes footage, original artwork and photography from the production. The John Henrys close the evening. 7 p.m., free. isisasheville.com. Photo by Nate Dorn

Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre and White Dog Dance Project International are set to stage The Decent Women of Calle 58, “Inspired by the exhibit by social anthropologist Christian Rasmussen and his 22 interviews of sex servers.” Artistic director Susan Collard “wanted to focus on the humanity of these women’s stories, putting them in intimate settings in a house: kitchen, bedroom, patio, exploring the issues that are important to them,” says press for the production. Accompanying music was composed by Yucatecan artist Alejandro Basulto. For mature audiences. Friday-Sunday, June 7-9. 8 p.m., $15/$17. acdt.org. Photo by Giles Collard

strings and suds Festival String and bluegrass bands take over Pisgah Brewing Company, and the lineup — though steeped in tradition — boasts some new configurations.

Namely, the collaboration between singer-songwriter Keller Williams and The Travelin’ McCourys (the backing band for guitarist/vocalist Del McCoury).

Williams released Pick with The Travelin’ McCourys to instant acclaim; this will be the first WNC appearance for the project. Hot Tuna Acoustic and Jill Sobule round out the entertainment, with local bluegrass act Sanctum Sully performing a late night indoor set. Saturday, June 8. 5 p.m. $30/$35. (A $90 VIP package includes a multi-course dinner and drink pairings.) pisgahbrewing. com. Photo by Casey Flanigan

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clubland Wednesday, june 5 5 walnut wine Bar Juan Benevides Trio (flamenco, Latin), 8pm athena's cluB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm Barley's taProom Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm Black mountain ale house Bluegrass jam, 9pm Bywater International reggae night, 9pm cluB hairsPray Dirty game night & dance party, 10pm cluB remix Open mic variety show, 9pm creekside taPhouse Open mic, 8-11pm dirty south lounGe Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm douBle crown Country night w/ Dr. Filth, 9pm emerald lounGe Blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm hanGar lounGe Old-school DJ ('70s-'90s) & open mic, 8pm hiGhland BrewinG comPany Movie night, 6pm isis restaurant and music hall Carte Blanche (fusion, '20s jazz, Latin), 7pm lexinGton ave Brewery (laB)

sweaty mess: Electronic dance-pop trio SONEN has a reputation for keeping crowds moving with its driving analog beats, male/female vocal harmonies and post-punk atmospheres. Creative Loafing‘s “Best Electronic Act of Atlanta” visits Asheville to steam up the Odditorium on Thursday, June 6.

Grown Up Avenger Stuff (rock) w/ Camp David & Doss Church, 9pm loBster traP Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, electronics), 7pm o.henry's/tuG

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Karaoke & dance party, 10pm

trailhead restaurant and Bar

cluB remix

Kevin Scanlon's old-time jam, 6:30pm

DJ Garret (roots reggae, dancehall, dance party), 9pm

Karaoke, 10pm odditorium

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douBle crown International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm

Hurly Burly Male Burlesque Review, 9pm olive or twist

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Cadillac Rex (oldies, swing, rock), 8-11pm

Chuck Brodsky (singer-songwriter, storyteller), 8pm

Dead Nite w/ Phuncle Sam, 9pm

Bluegrass jam, 9pm lexinGton ave Brewery (laB) East Coast Dirt (rock, funk) w/ Orphan Tree, 9pm loBster traP Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm market Place Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm o.henry's/tuG

The Mike Dillon Band (funk, jazz, rock) w/ The Get Right Band, 10pm

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Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8pm

Dave Dribbon (acoustic), 6pm

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David Earl Tomlinson (rock, roots), 9pm

Pato Banton (reggae) w/ Chalwa, 9pm

Barley's taProom

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Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm

Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight

Black mountain ale house

isis restaurant and music hall

The Sloantones (rock, funk), 9pm

Rock & Roll Revue feat: Asheville Rock Academy students, 8pm

Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Antique Firearms (rock) w/ Mama's Love, 10pm

Jack of hearts PuB

Phoenix lounGe

Old-time jam, 7pm

Bradford Carson (rock, jam, blues), 8pm

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Jazz night, 8pm red staG Grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 7-10pm tallGary's cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm the social Karaoke, 9:30pm

Bywater Game night, 8pm cluB eleven on Grove Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (live drawing), 6:30pm

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Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (jazz, swing), 9pm JaCK Of the wOOd Pub

David Earl Duo (acoustic rock, roots), 9pm bOiler rOOm Running on E, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent, Bad Ideas & Reckless Youth (punk), 9pm

Kevin Lorenz (jazz, classical), 7pm

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Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi tribute), 9:30pm

Calico Moon (Americana, country), 7pm

Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am

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Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz), 7-10pm

Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm

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Daniel Keller (jazz guitar), 6pm

Traveling Bonfires fundraiser feat: Touch Samadhi, 9pm

Kamakazi karaoke (no control over song choice), 9pm

Friday, June 7

O.henry'S/tug

Acoustic Circus, 6pm

Siren Songs w/ Hot Mess Monster (punk), 9pm

green rOOm Cafe

One StOP deli & bar Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm Jon Stickley Trio (bluegrass, rock), 10pm

PaCK'S tavern

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 9pm

bywater Pleasure Chest (rock, soul), 9pm

Pro Wrestling w/ music by Ivan the Terribles & The Go Devils, 8pm

Sharon LaMotte & Matt Dingledine, 6:30pm grey eagle muSiC hall & tavern Brother Wolf fundraiser w/ Archrivals, Rory Kelly & Alarm Clock Conspiracy, 8pm harrah'S CherOKee Contagious (rock) w/ DJ Suave, 8pm2am highland brewing COmPany

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Blind Lemon Phillips (blues), 6pm

Whitney Moore & the People (Latin fusion), 9pm

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PiSgah brewing COmPany The Invisible III (funk, jazz, fusion), 8pm red Stag grill

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Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 8-11pm

Carole King tribute w/ Sheila Gordon (piano, vocals), 7pm

SCandalS nightClub

DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm

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Aaron Price (pop, rock), 9pm

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DJ Abu Disarray & DJ Champale, 10pm

Pressed And (folk, electronic, experimental) w/ It Is Rain in My Face, Christian Church & Onawa, 9pm

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Randall Bramlett (singer-songwriter) CD release, 9pm

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

The Fox Fire (folk rock) w/ Brotherbrother, 9:30pm

Blue Wheel Drive (bluegrass), 9:30pm

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Rosalind Shipley, David Brown & EJ Jones (Celtic, Appalachain), 8pm

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The Gypsy Swingers (jazz), 10pm

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Dead Elvis Jug Band (rock), 10pm

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Benton Blount w/ DJ Moto, 8pm-2am

The Wootones (folk, pop) w/ Modern Myths, 8pm

Even the Animals (Americana, rock), 5pm Custard Pie (Led Zeppelin tribute), 9pm

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Saturday, June 8

Zumba, 7pm Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

The Cheeksters (rock, pop), 9pm JaCK Of the wOOd Pub Nathaniel Bowles (of Black Twig Pickers), 5pm Southbound Turnaround (honky-tonk), 9pm lexingtOn ave brewery (lab) Gutterhound (rock) w/ Elijah Hooker Band & Twist of Fate, 9:30pm

Straightaway Cafe Saluda Grande, 6pm

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tallgary'S Cantina Voodoo Wedding, 9:30pm

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Lunar masquerade feat: Medisin, Futexture, Kynara, DJ Yum & Awelucid, 10pm Club tetruS Tropical Bass (DJs Malinalli & Tropix), 10pm-2am dOuble CrOwn Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm emerald lOunge Elijah Hooker (hard rock) w/ Brother Nomad & Space Truckers, 9pm frenCh brOad brewery taSting rOOm

King Leo Jazz, 7pm Asheville Soundclash Session (local DJs), 9pm mOnte viSta hOtel

timO'S hOuSe DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am

Blue Moon (jazz, country, rock), 6pm

treSSa'S dOwntOwn Jazz and blueS WestSound (R&B, soul), 10pm

DJ Bassclef, 10pm

wall Street COffee hOuSe Open mic, 9pm white hOrSe Malcolm Holcombe (Americana, roots) w/ The Everydays, 8pm wild wing Cafe Leigh Glass & the Hazards (rock, blues), 9:30pm

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Every Sunday JAZZ SHOWCASE 6pm - 10pm Every Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 9pm - 11pm “Psychedelic drowning”: Apothecary hosts a night of subdued, experimental electronics featuring the melodic intricacies of Pressed And, “frenetic pop” by It Is Rain in My Face, a solo performance by Alligator Indian’s Christian Church and the “psychedelic drowning” of Onawa on Friday, June 7.

743 HAYWOOD RD • 828-575-2737 • ISISASHEVILLE.COM Laughing Skull Lounge Takeover Show feat: Kelly Row, Cary Goff, Samm Severin & more (comedy), 8pm

Tressa's downTown Jazz and BLues

Pack's Tavern

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Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock, jam), 9pm

Marcellus Blues Company, 10pm

Phoenix Lounge

Emily Bodley (singer-songwriter), 9:30pm

Dave Desmelik (Americana), noon-3pm Serious Clark (funk, jam), 9pm Pisgah Brewing comPany Keller & the Travelin' McCourys w/ Hot Tuna, Jill Sobule & Sanctum Sully, 6pm PurPLe onion cafe

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Sunday, June 9 5 waLnuT wine Bar The Get Right Band (blues, funk), 10pmmidnight

Jazz showcase, 6pm Jack of The wood PuB Julia Haltigan & Kendra Morris (indie rock, singer-songwriter), 10pm LoBsTer TraP Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm monTe visTa hoTeL Jared Gallamore (popular standards), 11am oddiTorium

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Marshall Ballew w/ Zeb Wright (blues), 9pm

Peals (dream pop, folk, ambient), 9pm

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BarLey's TaProom Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 7:30pm

Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am

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Carver & Carmody (blues, Americana, country), 6pm

Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

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Soul gospel Sunday w/ DJ Sweet Daddy Swamee, 6pm Karaoke w/ KJ JD, 10pm

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Karaoke, 9:30pm

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon

Kids' open mic, 2pm

TraiLhead resTauranT and Bar

harrah's cherokee

whiTe horse

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, ragtime), 8pm

Dueling pianos, 5pm-9pm

Blue Eyed Girl (old-time), 7:30pm

Fayssoux McLean & Brandon Turner (singer-songwriters), 8pm scandaLs nighTcLuB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

The Get Downs (rock, blues, soul), 9:30pm

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Lyric (R&B, funk, pop), 10pm

isis resTauranT and music haLL

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Holdman Timberland, 6pm

clubdirectory 185 king street 877-1850 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 altamont Brewing company 575-2400 altamont theatre 348-5327 arcade 258-1400 asheville civic center & thomas Wolfe auditorium 259-5544 asheville music hall 255-7777 asheville radio cafe 254-3636 athena’s club 252-2456 Barley’s tap room 255-0504 Black mountain ale house 669-9090 Blue mountain pizza 658-8777 Boiler room 505-1612 BoBo gallery 254-3426 Broadway’s 285-0400 the Bywater 232-6967 club hairspray 258-2027 club metropolis 258-2027 club remix 258-2027 the chop house 253-1852 creekside taphouse 575-2880

adam dalton distillery 367-6401 desoto Lounge 986-4828 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty south Lounge 251-1777 double crown 575-9060 dobra tea room 575-2424 eleven on grove 505-1612 emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Firestorm cafe 255-8115 French Broad Brewery tasting room 277-0222 French Broad chocolate Lounge 252-4181 good stuff 649-9711 green room cafe 692-6335 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 hangar Lounge 684-1213 harrah’s cherokee 497-7777

monday, june 10 5 walnut wine Bar Whitney Moore (Latin jazz), 8pm Bywater Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm

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highland Brewing company 299-3370 the hop 254-2224 the hop West 252-5155 jack of hearts pub 645-2700 jack of the Wood 252-5445 jus one more 253-8770 Lexington avenue Brewery 252-0212 the Lobster trap 350-0505 monte vista hotel 669-8870 odditorium 505-8388 one stop Bar deli & Bar 255-7777 o.henry’s/tug 254-1891 the orange peel 225-5851 oskar Blues Brewery 883-2337 pack’s tavern 225-6944 pisgah Brewing co.

669-0190 pulp 225-5851 purple onion cafe 749-1179 rankin vault 254-4993 red stag grill at the grand Bohemian hotel 505-2949

Howie Johnson Trio (rock, jam), 9pm the social Open mic, 8pm tiGer mountain thirst Parlour Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lorruh & Dave, 10pm

root Bar no.1 299-7597 scandals nightclub 252-2838 scully’s 251-8880 smokey’s after dark 253-2155 southern appalacian Brewery 684-1235 the social 298-8780 static age records 254-3232 straightaway cafe 669-8856 tallgary’s cantina 232-0809 rocky’s hot chicken shack 575-2260 thirsty monk south 505-4564 tiger mountain thirst parlour 407-0666 timo’s house 575-2886 trailhead restaurant & Bar 357-5656 treasure club 298-1400 tressa’s downtown jazz & Blues 254-7072 Westville pub 225-9782 White horse 669-0816 Wild Wing cafe 253-3066 WXyz Lounge 232-2838

emerald lounGe Open mic w/ Andrew Usher, 8pm isis restaurant and music hall

Scary-Oke w/ DJ Billy Masters, 10pm

Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7-9pm

Grey eaGle music hall & tavern

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Contra dance, 8pm

o.henry's/tuG

Trivia night, 9pm

Movie trivia, 10pm

tuesday, june 11

Peggy Ratusz's students in the round, 6:30pm Jack of the wood PuB Jauntee (roots, jam), 10pm loBster traP Stuart McNair (country, bluegrass, rock), 7pm odditorium Movie night: "Grease," 9pm oskar Blues Brewery Old-time jam, 5-8pm Phoenix lounGe

Songwriting competition, 8pm 5 walnut wine Bar

odditorium Comedy Night w/ Tom Peters, 9pm

The Blue Dogs (blues), 8-11pm one stoP deli & Bar

The John Henrys (gypsy jazz), 8pm

Two for Tuesday feat: The Eclectic Tuba & Bums Lie, 8pm

altamont BrewinG comPany

oranGe Peel

Open mic, 8pm

Dawes (roots rock, Americana) w/ Shovels & Rope, 9pm

cluB eleven on Grove Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm Dance, 8:30pm

oskar Blues Brewery

creekside taPhouse

Get Right Duo (reggae, roots, rock), 8pm

Old-time jam, 6:30pm

SAT 6/8

DOGAPALOOZA

WED 6/12

THU 6/13

Trivia, 6pm Phoenix lounGe

w/ Chalwa 9pm • $12/$15

w/ Crushed Out 9pm • $10/$12

A fund-raiser for Brother Wolfe Animal Rescue • 8pm w/ Archrivals, Rory Kelly & Alarm Clock Conspiracy • $8

NICKI BLUHM & THE GAMBLERS

w/ Rayland Baxter 8pm • $13/$15

Grey Eagle Comedy Series

MICK FOLEY

WWE Wrestling Legend turned stand-up comedian!

8pm • $22/$25

loBster traP

olive or twist 185 kinG street

DARWIN DEEZ

Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (swing, jazz) w/ Wino Vino, 9pm

Open mic, 8-11pm

Jack of hearts PuB

FRI 6/7

Jack of the wood PuB

courtyard Gallery

Karaoke, 10pm

PATO BANTON

Bluegrass sessions, 9pm

tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues

hanGar lounGe

THU 6/6

FRI 6/14

RISING APPALACHIA 9pm • $12/$15

TAQUERIA CON CUIDA

Inside The GREY EAGLE Delicious, affordable lunch!

Mon-Fri 11-3pm Dinner at 5:30pm on nights of a show

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FRI. 6/7

Lyric (funk, soul, pop, blues)

SAT. 6/8

Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock rock)

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tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues El Duende (Latin jazz), 9pm white horse Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm wild winG cafe

timo's house

the social

Blues jam, 10pm

Salsa dancing, 9pm

trailhead restaurant and Bar

trailhead restaurant and Bar

Kevin Scanlon's old-time jam, 6:30pm

Zydeco jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues

tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues

Brian Felix Organ Trio, 8:30pm

WestSound Review (R&B, soul, dance), 8:30pm

Darren Nicholson (bluegrass), 6pm

Wednesday, june 12

on the square

Good Graeff (folk, pop), 9:30pm white horse

Jeff Coffin (jazz, fusion), 8pm

Mountain Roots Music Review w/ Paul’s Creek Band, 8pm

The Riccardi Duo (cabaret, musical comedy), 7:30pm

5 walnut wine Bar

5 walnut wine Bar

wild winG cafe

Mimi Bell (singer-songwriter), 5pm Juan Benevides Trio (flamenco, Latin), 8pm

Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8pm

Hip Slack, 9:30pm

Barley's taProom

yacht cluB

Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm

Kamakazi karaoke (no control over song choice), 9pm

athena's cluB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm

Black mountain ale house The Sloantones (rock, funk), 9pm

Friday, june 14

Barley's taProom

Bywater

Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm

Game night, 8pm

Black mountain ale house

cluB hairsPray

Bluegrass jam, 9pm

Karaoke & dance party, 10pm

Bywater

cluB remix

Kings County Swing (swing), 10pm

International reggae night, 9pm

DJ Garret (roots reggae, dancehall, dance party), 9pm

asheville music hall

cluB hairsPray Dirty game night & dance party, 10pm cluB remix Open mic variety show, 9pm creekside taPhouse Open mic, 8-11pm

douBle crown International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm emerald lounGe

185 kinG street Live comedy, 8pm 5 walnut wine Bar

Sanctum Sully (bluegrass) w/ The Whiskey Grins, 10pm athena's cluB

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues w/ Pipapelli, 9pm

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Grey eaGle music hall & tavern

Black mountain ale house

dirty south lounGe

Mick Foley (comedy, storytelling), 8pm

David Zoll Trio (rock, retro pop), 9pm

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

harrah's cherokee

Boiler room

Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight

Hazel Ray, Mindshapefist & Severance (rock, metal), 9pm

douBle crown Country night w/ Dr. Filth, 9pm emerald lounGe Blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

isis restaurant and music hall Kruger Brothers (Americana, bluegrass), 9pm

classic wineseller Joe Cruz (piano, vocals), 7pm

Jack of hearts PuB

cluB eleven on Grove

Grey eaGle music hall & tavern

Old-time jam, 7pm

Salsa night, 10pm

Nicki Bluhm & the Gamblers (rock, country, soul) w/ Rayland Baxter, 8pm

Jack of the wood PuB

cluB hairsPray

hanGar lounGe

No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm

Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am

Old-school DJ ('70s-'90s) & open mic, 8pm

loBster traP

cluB tetrus

isis restaurant and music hall

Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm

Zansa (Afro-pop), 10pm

Kruger Brothers (Americana, bluegrass), 9pm

market Place

Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm

Jack of hearts PuB

Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm

douBle crown

odditorium

french Broad Brewery tastinG room

The K-Tones (blues, rock), 7pm

Megahurtz (metal) w/ Weakwick & Orge Throne, 9pm

Leigh Glass & the Hazards (rock, blues), 6pm

o.henry's/tuG

olive or twist

Green room cafe

Karaoke, 10pm

Heather Masterton Jazz Quartet, 8-11pm

Garry Segal (Americana), 6:30pm

Hearts Gone South w/ Maggie & Her Mistakes & The Longtime Goners (country), 9pm

one stoP deli & Bar

Rising Appalachia (roots), 9pm

olive or twist

John McLaughlin (jazz/fusion guitar), 8pm

Big Nasty (hot jazz, ragtime), 7pm loBster traP

odditorium

Cadillac Rex (oldies, swing, rock), 8-11pm

Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm oranGe Peel

Phoenix lounGe

oranGe Peel

Bradford Carson (rock, jam, blues), 8pm

Foals (indie rock) w/ Surfer Blood & Blondfire, 9pm

PisGah BrewinG comPany

Grey eaGle music hall & tavern harrah's cherokee Event center: Dwight Yoakam (country), 9pm Casino: Twang Bangers w/ DJ Paul Gallo, 8pm-2am isis restaurant and music hall

Red Honey (country, blues), 8pm

Roadkill Ghost Choir (folk rock, psychedelic) w/ Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work, 10pm

PurPle onion cafe

Jack of the wood PuB

Erin McDermott Band (folk, bluegrass), 7:30pm

Delta Moon (blues, Americana, roots), 9pm

scandals niGhtcluB

loBster traP

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, electronics), 7pm

the social

tallGary's cantina

market Place

Karaoke, 9:30pm

Asheville music showcase, 8pm

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz),

Phoenix lounGe Jazz night, 8pm red staG Grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 7-10pm tallGary's cantina

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westville PuB

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New Patio is Now Open • Expanded Beer and Wine Menu

thursday, june 13

7-10pm monte vista hotel Hope Griffin (folk), 6:30pm

saturday, june 15 185 kinG street

The Darnell Boys (country, blues, R&B) w/ Sarah & the Tallboys, 9pm lexinGton ave Brewery (laB)

one stoP deli & Bar

"Soul'd Out," 8pm

Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm

Marietta's Palm (reggae, rock) w/ Treehouse, 9:30pm

5 walnut wine Bar

loBster traP

oranGe Peel Leo Kottke (folk, blues, jazz), 8pm

Lyric (soul, funk, pop), 10pm athena's cluB

DJ Moto (dance), 9pm

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Phoenix lounGe

Black mountain ale house

Pack's tavern

Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 7pm

Chris Smith (country, folk), 6pm odditorium

Jason DeCristofaro, Michael Jeffry Stevens & Bill Berg (jazz fusion), 8pm

DJ Munn (dance), 9pm Boiler room

olive or twist

PisGah BrewinG comPany

Lifecurse, Dead Oaks, Burn False Idols & Insult to Injury (metal), 9pm

42nd Street Jazz Band, 8-11pm

straiGhtaway cafe Dave Turner (jazz/pop piano), 6pm tallGary's cantina Blind Lemon Phillips (blues), 9:30pm the social Enlightened Rogues (blues), 9:30pm

SOUTHBOUND TURNAROUND

douBle crown Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm emerald lounGe Waylon Jennings birthday bash feat: Andy Buckner & Southern Soul Campaign, Blue Jeans & Khaki Pants, Hawks & Arrows, 9pm

timo's house

french Broad Brewery tastinG room

DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am

Todd Cecil (rock, Americana), 6pm

tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues

Green room cafe

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (dance), 10pm vanuatu kava Bar Seraphim Arkistra (electro-coustic, ambient, improv), 9pm wall street coffee house Open mic, 9pm white horse

Elise Pratt & Patrick Boland (jazz), 6:30pm Grey eaGle music hall & tavern

Terina Plyler (Americana, folk), noon American Gonzos (rock, jam), 9pm PurPle onion cafe Chuck Beattie Band (blues, jazz), 8pm scandals niGhtcluB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am straiGhtaway cafe Black Robin Hero (rock, folk), 6pm tallGary's cantina Mojomatic (rock, blues), 9:30pm

Karaoke, 9:30pm tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues

harrah's cherokee

Carolina Rex (blues, funk, R&B), 10pm

Buchanan Boys (country) w/ DJ Dizzy, 8pm-2am

westville PuB

BJ Leiderman Band (pop, rock), 8pm

Kickin Grass (bluegrass, Americana), 9pm

wild winG cafe

Jack of the wood PuB

A Social Function (classic rock, hits), 9:30pm

Yankee Dixie feat: Tara Mills (Americana, folk, bluegrass), 5pm

w/ The Get

Mike Dillon Band Right Band Thursday, June 6th

10pm $8 21+

$5 Antique Firearms 10pm 21+ w/ Mama’s Love

Friday, June 7th

An Evening with

Asheville Rootz Collective Presents:

Jamaican dance party! $3 selected imports & $3 shooters

Feat. Medisin, Futexture, kynara, DJ yum and Awelucid. Plus members of the Bromelia Aerial Dance Collective, the Clan Destiny Circus, and many more extraordinary acts! $8/$12

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Wednesday • June 5 “Asheville’s Finest” Variety Show!

Bring ur Songs, Dance, Skits, Jokes, Jump Ropes, Burlesque acts, Hula hoops & More! $5 shot of Whiskey+Beer $1 PBR

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Zach Deputy (singer-songwriter, soul, blues), 9pm

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after earth (pG-13) 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 epic 2d (pG) 11:30, 1:50, 4:10, 6:45 fast & furious 6 (pG-13) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 frances ha (r) 11:00, 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20 The Great Gatsby 2d (pG-13) 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 The hangover part iii (r) 11:30, 6:45. 9:10 The internship (pG-13) 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 iron man 3 2d (pG-13) 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 mud (pG-13) 12 :00, 1:45, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:50 now you See me (pG-13) 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 The purge (r) 11:15, 1:50, 4:00, 6:00, 8:10, 10:10 The reluctant fundamentalist (r) 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The Sapphires (pG-13) 11:00, 11:30, 4:40, 9:45 Star Trek into darkness 3d (pG-13) 12:30, 9:30 Star Trek into darkness 2d (pG-13) 3:30, 6:30 n

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pickoftheweek The SapphireS

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Director: Wayne Blair Players: chris o’DoWD, DeBorah MailMan, Jessica MauBoy, shari seBBens, MiranDa taPsell Comedy drama wiTh muSiC

raTed pG-13

The Story: Fact-based story of an Aborigine all-girl singing group that toured as entertainers in Vietnam.

The Lowdown: Despite its “true story” underpinnings, the film is largely a standard show-biz story that succeeds beautifully as entertainment — enhanced by a dynamite soundtrack and winning performances.

Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires is quite possibly the least original movie you’ll see this summer — and one of the most enjoyable. You know those blockbusters where “stuff blows up real neat” that people encourage you to “just turn off your brain” and enjoy? Well, this is sort of the same thing for those of us who really don’t care if stuff blows up “real neat.” The Sapphires is an unassuming, quietly amusing, sweetly pleasant movie in which a 1960s Aborigine all-girl group sings “real neat.” Oh, it has its more serious side, which touches on racial issues, but the basic interest here lies in the creation of a feel-good crowdpleaser about the title group’s rise from obscurity in an Australian backwater to brief fame entertaining troops in Vietnam. Little may happen that surprises you and certainly nothing happens that will change your view of cinema, but nearly everything — from the well-timed comedy to the nicely observed interpersonal relationships, and especially to the girls belting out those Motown songs — will delight you.

Though grounded in fact — the screenplay was co-written by Tony Briggs, whose mother was a member of the real group — the movie is basically a standard show-biz tale with a fresh spin offered by the setting and the characters.

The girls are three sisters (Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell, Jessica Mauboy) who are “discovered” by low-rent, infrequently sober Irish promoter Dave Lovelace (Chris O’Dowd, best known to movie audiences for Bridesmaids and Pirate Radio) after he hears them sing a Merle Haggard song at a talent competition. Though he hates country music, he recognizes their talent — and deplores the racism that kept them from winning — so he opts to turn them into the Aboriginal Supremes. That’s pretty much it, except for a few embellishments, such as incorporating their estranged light-skinned cousin Kay (Shari Stebbins) — who had been “relocated” by the government to be raised by white folks — into the act.

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Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell in Wayne Blair's The Sapphires — a fact-based delight set in 1968 about an Aborigine all-girl group singing soul music to the troops in Vietnam.

It’s all pretty simple. Everything happens too easily — despite Dave’s constant clashes with Gail (Deborah Mailman), the group’s leader — and it’s extremely manipulative of the audience. However, it’s a benign — even pleasant — kind of manipulation. Some may object to the film giving short shrift to the racial aspects, not to mention painting the Vietnam War in broad strokes. But those aspects are not really the film’s purpose. It’s fun and effective.

The characters and performances are endlessly appealling. Plus, The Sapphires sound terrific.

Its aims may be modest, but its sheer entertainment value certainly isn’t. Rated PG-13 for sexuality, a scene of war violence, some language, thematic elements and smoking. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas

afTer earTh JJJ

Director: M. night shyaMalan (The LasT airbender) Players: Will sMith, JaDen sMith, soPhie okoneDo, Zoë kravitZ SCi-fi advenTure

raTed pG-13

The Story: In the distant future, a father and son crash their spacecraft onto Earth, which has now become a dangerous, uninhabitable planet for humans.

The Lowdown: Despite some ambition and a surprisingly grim tone, the film suffers from its simplistic nature, silly acting and too much goofy sci-fi nonsense.

Every inch an M. Night Shyamalan film, After Earth deals with many of the director’s usual thematic concerns — minus the supposedly revelatory twist ending. There’s the driving, underlying nature of guilt that was at the bottom of Signs (2002), and the idea of nature getting revenge on a negligent humanity that was the foundation of The Happening (2008). And like both these films — and every movie Shyamalan’s made except for Unbreakable (2000) and maybe Lady in the Water (2006) — After Earth is pretty lousy.

This is why you’ve barely seen Shyamalan’s name attached to the film, as After Earth has instead been advertised as your standard Will Smith summer sci-fi blockbuster. What’s odd and more than a little fascinating about the movie is that it’s hardly the crowd-pleasing actioner it purports to be. Instead, this is an occasionally grim, surprisingly serious and unfortunately shallow attempt at science fiction grandiosity being presented as a CGI-heavy popcorn flick — with Shyamalan scratching and clawing for greatness. That he falls short isn’t very surprising when you take into account a couple of things — the first being a paper-thin premise with little room for deviation, let alone surprises.

After Earth takes place well into the future, where Earth has become uninhabitable, and humans live far away on a planet unfortunately infested with giant, murderous nasties who are bred to detect fear. The story revolves around the improbably named, hard-nosed military man Cypher Raige (Will Smith), and his fearful, angsty son Kitai (Smith’s son Jaden), who’ve crashed on an inhospitable Earth. With Cypher injured, Kitai must trek through various dangers — including

one of the aforementioned alien beasties — in order to save himself and his father. Due to the inevitability of the plot, it’s pretty obvious how all this will dovetail, and it makes the film fairly dull entertainment. A lot has been made about Smith’s Scientology leanings and how they creep into the film, but if this exists, it’s pretty vague, and copies ideas similar to many other sci-fi action movies.

The second big problem is the performances, which too often feel hoary and overdone.

Primarily we have the Smiths — father and son.

The former takes all this too seriously, while the latter has the dramatic range of your run-of-themill soap opera star. Neither is helped by the strange — and occasionally incomprehensible — accents (a silly mix of Creole and British) their characters are forced to affect. Shyamalan takes great care in creating the world of the film. The society the Raiges’ live in and the technology they wield are unusual, but there’s a wrongheadedness to many of the film’s other fancies.

The creatures are generic and forgettable, while some notions — like the idea that the earth freezes over every night, yet somehow stays lush and vibrant — simply make no sense. But there are occasional flashes of something deeper. The death of Kitai’s sister (Zoë Kravitz) — and the family’s guilt surrounding it — is handled in surprisingly bleak terms, and there’s a shocking amount of heart put into a giant CGI eagle. This seriousness, coupled with Shyamalan’s ambitions, never jive with the silliness of After Earth’s uninspired sci-fi trappings, making the film interesting on a thematic level, but little more than a curio at best. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing images. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher

NoW YoU SEE ME JJJJ

Director: Louis Leterrier (Clash of the titans) PLayers: Jesse eisenberg, Mark ruffaLo, Morgan freeMan, WooDy HarreLson, MéLanie Laurent HEIST FLICK

RATED PG-13

The Story: Four stage magicians perform an improbable heist live on a Vegas stage, and it’s up to a nay-saying detective and a professional debunker to thwart their next moves.

The Lowdown: Convoluted and never as clever as it thinks it is. But as simple, pure entertainment, it’s none too shabby.

Yes, Louis Leterrier’s film is very much the poor man’s version of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven (2001), but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Now You See Me smartly appropriated the most important aspect of Soderbergh’s film — a primary concern to be pure entertainment.

In this regard, Leterrier’s movie isn’t as sublimely perfect as Ocean’s Eleven. Among other flaws, it’s a bit too silly and never quite as clever as it thinks it is — but it’s certainly more fun on a basic level than any of the summer’s previous bigger budget offerings.

On paper, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to this flick. The plot — revolving around four magicians who pull off improbable heists while onstage — seemed corny, and the ensemble cast

startingfriday THE INTERNSHIP

Eight years ago, there was this surprise hit — the raunchy R-rated comedy called Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. After a string of flops for Vaughn, the two are re-teamed in a PG-13 comedy with different writers and a different director to cash in on that earlier movie. No, it doesn't sound like a great idea. This time they're out-of-work salesmen who land internships at Google — despite being considerably older than their fellow interns. (PG-13)

THE PURGE

High-concept horror/sci-fi from writer-director James DeMonaco (known for writing Skinwalkers six years ago) about a future society where crime is legal for 12 hours one night a year. Ethan Hawke stars as a man who — along with his family — find themselves victims of a home invasion during the purge. Will they descend to the level of the intruders to survive?

This currently has a surprising number of good reviews — mostly from the U.K. where it opened last week. (R)

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST See review in "Cranky Hanke"

THE SAPPHIRES

See review in "Cranky Hanke"

WHAT MAISIE KNEW

See review in "Cranky Hanke" of B-listers and fringe A-listers screamed nonevent. But happily, Leterrier understands — at least for awhile — how to handle this material, opening the film at a fast pace that jumps all over the place, yet remains wholly coherent. It’s an occasionally impressive juggling act — surprising coming from a guy who’s frequently toiled in mediocrity — with the lamentable side effect of creating a pace that’s nearly impossible to sustain. With its intro, initial heists and rapid-fire repartee between a game cast, the first half of the film is borderline great — at least within its own limited scope.

But as the plot grows and twists in, on and around itself, various threads become entangled and the movie becomes bogged down, not to a mention a bit goofy. This is, after all, a movie that involves secret societies, professional debunkers, an Interpol detective and a mysterious, long-dead magician. The film carries a certain sense of supposed cleverness that never quite pans out. Yes, the big surprise twist plays fair with the audience, but it’s just not all that surprising — or, frankly, satisfying. In fact, there’s so much done so well at the beginning that the ending doesn’t feel right.

The romance between our ersatz hero Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and the aforementioned Interpol agent Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent) feels forced — like a requirement scratched off a checklist — while the big climax isn’t as big or involving as it should be, especially when compared to the film’s other set pieces. There’s just so much going on that Leterrier has little time to focus on what’s important and rewarding within the story.

These shortcomings don’t keep Now You See Me from working as disposable entertainment, but they do stifle any chance of it being very memorable once the credits have rolled. Rated PG-13 for language, some action and sexual content. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST JJJJ

Director: Mira nair (Monsoon Wedding) PLayers: riz aHMeD, kate HuDson, Liev scHreiber, kiefer sutHerLanD, oM Puri THRILLER DRAMA

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The Story: A tale told in flashback about the transformation of an America-loving Pakistani into a radical — possibly terrorist — professor.

The Lowdown: Complex cultural examination of a young Pakistani — brilliantly played by Riz Ahmed — tied to a thriller/suspense frame. It doesn’t all work, but it’s still compelling.

Here is a film that is quite possibly too ambitious for its own good. The movie, based on the novel by Moshin Hamid, attempts to be both a character-driven culture clash story and a thriller, but it goes a step further in exploring its main Muslim character’s role in post-9/11 America, along with his American counterpart’s role in post-9/11 Pakistan. This is a lot to pack into two hours of movie — and Ms. Nair isn’t entirely successful in the attempt, but that doesn’t diminish the attempt, nor those parts of it that succeed. The very fact that Nair — who is very at home on the subject of culture clashes — tackled a thriller is noteworthy, as is the fact that she doesn’t blow it. That she made a film where I didn’t spend the entire time wishing Kate Hudson was elsewhere is an achievement in its own right.

At the center of the story is Changez, a young, Princeton-educated, America-loving Pakistani, who went to America to live the, yes, American Dream. Changez is played by the incredible Riz Ahmed — whom a handful of you may remember as the much-beleagured terrorist in the little-seen

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specialscreenings The house of The Devil JJJJ horror raTeD r In Brief: One of the more interesting of current horror movie directors, Ti West made his breakthrough (at least in horror circles) with this surprisingly effective 2009 attempt to create a 1980s-style scare flick. In this case, it’s all about a college girl who takes a babysitting job at an isolated house — a job that turns out to be something else entirely when she realizes she’s about to be used in a Satanic ritual. The movie is of the slow-burn variety, the kind that works on building dread before breaking through into all-out terror. Not a great horror film, but a good one. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The House of the Devil Thursday, June 6, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted

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if…. JJJJJ Drama raTeD X In Brief: Lindsay Anderson’s landmark film If…. shook up world cinema, made a star of fairly obscure TV actor Malcolm McDowell and set Anderson on the road to creating his famous trilogy (If…., O Lucky Man!, Britannia Hospital). That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment, but his tale of the resentment at an English boys school — for Anderson, a microcosm of British society — turning into open revolt captured the imagination as few films had done. It remains a powerful and disturbing film to this day. Classic World Cinema

by Courtyard Gallery will present If.... Friday, June 7, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The mill anD The Cross JJJJ Drama raTeD nr In Brief: Almost impossible to critique as a film, The Mill and the Cross is a true cinematic oddity. It’s a strikingly visual, but dramatically lacking, recreation of Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 painting The Procession to Calvary, illustrating the elements, some of the models and the political allegory behind the art. As drama, it rarely works well, but makes up for this with its stunning painterly visuals and atmosphere. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Mill and the Cross Sunday, June 9, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Thriller romanCe meloDrama raTeD nr In Brief: Character and incident-packed film about the goings-on at a large train station in a slice-of-life fashion — though most train stations probably (even in 1932) don’t have feds on the lookout for a counterfeiting ring or a girl being stalked by a degenerate sex-fiend on a regular basis. Those two aspects dovetail and form the main plot. Full of pre-code comedy, Warner Bros. contract players, snappy dialogue and some amazingly fluid camerawork. The Asheville Film Society will screen Union Depot Tuesday, June 11, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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black comedy Four Lions (2010). Without him, the movie would be unthinkable. Changez is from an upscale and not particularly religious background, and he slides quite comfortably into the corporate and social world of America before 9/11 — becoming a hotshot player at a big consulting firm and falling in love with Erica (Kate Hudson), an artist/photographer. Everything is going his way until the terrorist attacks that change the rules. Suddenly, he finds himself being subjected to racial profiling and suspicion from all sides (including his own mind). This — and a crise de consience of another kind — cause him to chuck it all and return to Pakistan where he becomes a radical professor who may or may not be part of a terrorist group.

The question of who he is fuels the thriller aspect and frames the film. The background story outlined above is told in flashbacks to American reporter Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber), who may be more than a reporter and who is certainly working for the CIA. Suspense is generated over a kidnapped American professor and growing tensions in the country. But the suspense only partly works — mostly because it feels less honest than the questions surrounding it, and less interesting than whether Changez was a reluctant fundamentalist capitalist or is now a reluctant fundamentalist radical — and whether either of these characterizations define him. Flawed but fascinating and well worth a look — if you bear in mind Changez’s warning at the onset that looks can be deceiving. Rated R for language, some violence and brief sexuality. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas

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The Lowdown: Solid modernized version of the Henry James novel, What Maisie Knew is undeniably well made and acted, but it’s a hard film to like.

Filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel haven’t made all that many films, and the last one to play locally was the estimable Bee Season in 2005. Their latest film What Maisie Knew is less immediately appealing than either Bee Season, or their earlier The Deep End, which isn’t to say that it’s not good, but that it’s simply a very different proposition. Based on the 1897 Henry James novel of the same name, the film updates and moves the action of its source, but follows its basic story with surprising faithfulness — at least up to a significantly altered (and softened) ending. Like the book, the film details the story of a little girl, Maisie (Onata Aprile), who becomes the object of contention between her divorcing parents. In truth, neither her aging rock diva mother, Susanna (Julianne Moore), nor her condescending art dealer father, Beale (Steve Coogan), seem to particularly want Maisie — she’s just a good weapon to use against each

lookhere Don’t miss out on Cranky Hanke’s online-only weekly columns “Screening Room” and “Weekly Reeler,” plus extended reviews of special showings, as well as an archive of past Xpress movie reviews — all at mountainx.com/movies. other. If that doesn’t sound like the most cheerful story you’ve ever encountered, that’s because it isn’t. But then that isn’t the film’s point.

What Maisie Knew is an unsparing look at the impact of divorce on a child, but as the title implies, it’s more than that. It doesn’t take long before we realize that her parents are both completely self-centered and unlikable in the extreme.

(Susanna is, in fact, easily the most unpleasant character Julianne Moore has ever played — and this isn’t really changed by her self-realization near the end of the picture.) The question becomes more one of what Maisie understands about the things that are happening — from her parents’ screaming matches to their all-too-hasty second marriages to much younger partners (mostly for purposes of custody leverage). While the film doesn’t ever tell us, it suggests much through the carefully controlled performance of Onata Aprile in the title role. Whether controlled by the filmmakers or the young actress, I can’t say, but it comes across as an internalized performance that leaves much to the viewer’s perception of what Maisie is thinking.

While the film is fairly harsh stuff, it offers some solace in the characters of Susanna’s new husband, Lincoln (Alexander Skarsgård), and Beale’s new wife — and Maisie’s former governess — Margo (TV actress Joanna Vanderham). They afford a sense of actually caring about Maisie. Lincoln, in particular, truly bonds with the child — and ironically, the two step-parents end up bonding with each other. The pair not only provide Maisie, but also the film, with some much needed humanity. Without them, What Maisie Knew would be close to unwatchable. As it is — and even with an ending that offers a measure of unconvincing optimism — this is a movie that’s much easier to admire than to actually enjoy, no matter how well done or acted. Rated R for some language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre

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LIBERTY CORNER ENTERPRISES is seeking support team members to work in residential homes and the community with people who have disabilities. • Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a North Carolina driver's license, proof of insurance and a reliable vehicle. Sign language skills are a plus. Pay rate based on experience. Apply in person at Liberty Corner Enterprises: 147 Coxe Avenue Asheville, NC 28801.

LICENSED COUNSELOR • Co-facilitator for Men's Domestic Violence group on Saturday afternoons. Experience in domestic violence treatment, familiarity with

state's 26 week Domestic Violence Abuser Program, and licensed or certified as a substance abuse counselor in North Carolina. Potential for additional contract work on a per diem basis. Send resume to: trcbruce@bellsouth.net or call Colleen Welty at 828388-0011.

OCTOBER ROAD is an integrated, mental health and substance abuse provider for the greater Asheville area.

We are dedicated to the highest quality of client care and customer service and strive to be a reliable and effective community partner to all of our stakeholders. We follow evidenced based practices in all of our services and work diligently to recruit and retain the most dedicated and qualified staff to comprise our treatment teams. Our physician providers are well respected within their specialty fields and are known throughout the community.

Our commitment to the community, clients and referral sources is unwavering. Open Positions: <B>Asheville Location</B>: Mobile Intake Clinician: (LCSW or LPC w/LCAS & Medicaid # required); DWI Intake Clinician: LCAS, LPC or LCSW required. Apply at www.octoberroadinc.net or email resume to: info@octoberroadinc.com PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH has an immediate opening for a Facility Director for our Hendersonville Office. Candidates must have a mental health license (LCSW preferred) and an LCAS helpful. This is a full time position with benefits, some nights included. Good candidates have experience working with SA/MH adult consumers providing individual/group therapy, knowledge of IPRS and Medicaid, management experience and good clinical/ communications skills a must.

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freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

The longest natural arch in the world is the Fairy Bridge in Guangxi Province, China.

Made of limestone, this 400-foot-wide span crosses over the Buliu River. No one outside of China knew about it until 2009, when an American explorer spied it on Google Earth.

Let's make the Fairy Bridge your metaphor of the month, Aries. Judging by the astrological omens, I suspect there's a good chance you will soon find something like a natural, previously hidden bridge. In other words, be alert for a link between things you didn't know were connected.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I hope that in recent weeks you've made yourself a master of sticky and intricate details. I trust you've been working harder and smarter than you have in a long time. Have you, Taurus? Have you been grunting and sweating a lot, exerting yourself and on behalf of good causes? Please tell me you have. And please say you're willing to continue for a while longer. The way I see it, your demanding tasks aren't quite finished. In fact, the full reward for your efforts may not become available unless you keep pushing beyond the point that you consider to be your fair share.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) In August 1961, the Communist government of East Germany built the Berlin Wall. It was a thick concrete barrier designed to prevent the oppressed citizens of East Berlin from escaping to freedom in West Berlin. The barrier was eventually policed by armed guards. Traffic between the two Berlins became virtually impossible for the next 28 years. Then a miracle occurred: East German authorities relinquished their stranglehold. They tentatively allowed East Berliners to travel to West Berlin.

Soon the Mauerspechte, or "wall woodpeckers," showed up. Armed with hammers and chisels, these people began chipping away at the Wall. Two years later, most of it had been demolished. I hereby assign you to be a wall woodpecker in your own sphere, Cancer. The time is right to demolish a barricade. It may take a while, but you're ready to start.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The following slogan captures the spirit I bring to composing my horoscopes: "I live in the future so that you don't have to." But right now this slogan doesn't apply to you. From what I can tell, you are currently visiting the future as much as I do. Here's what I wonder, though: Are you time-traveling simply to run away from the dilemmas that face you in the present? Or are you taking advantage of your jaunts to acquire revelations that will help you solve those dilemmas once you return?

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GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) How free do you want to be, Gemini?

A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complications that require you to rely on white lies? Or would you rather be moderately free in ways that aren’t too demanding — politely, sensibly free? Maybe you feel brave and strong enough to flirt with a breathtaking version of liberation — a pure, naked freedom that brings you close to the edge of wild abandon and asks you to exercise more responsibility than you’re used to. I’m not telling you which kind you should opt for, but I am suggesting that it’s best if you do make a conscious choice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You know that there are different kinds of stress, right? Some varieties wear you out and demoralize you, while other kinds of stress excite and motivate you. Some lead you away from your long-term goals, and others propel you closer. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to fine-tune your ability to distinguish between them. I suspect that the more you cultivate and seek out the good kind, the less susceptible you'll be to the bad kind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Studies show that people spend 87 percent of their time inside buildings and six percent in enclosed vehicles. In other words, they are roaming around outside enjoying the wind and sky and weather for only seven percent of their lives. I think you're going to have to do better than that in the coming week, Libra. To ensure your mental hygiene stays robust, you should try to expose yourself to the natural elements at least nine percent of the time. If you manage to hike that rate up to ten percent or higher, you stand a good chance of achieving a spiritual epiphany that will fuel you for months.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Resurrection is the Scorpionic specialty. Better than any other sign of the zodiac, you can summon the power to be reborn. It is your birthright to reanimate dreams and feelings and experiences that have expired, and make them live again in new forms. Your sacred totem is the mythical phoenix, which burns itself in a fire of its own creation and then regenerates itself from the ashes. Now here's the big news headline, Scorpio: I have rarely seen you in possession of more skill to perform these rites than you have right now.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Octavio Paz spoke to a lover in his poem "Counterparts": "In my body you search the

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mountain for the sun buried in its forest.

In your body I search for the boat adrift in the middle of the night." What have you searched for in the bodies of your lovers, Sagittarius? What mysteries and riddles have you explored while immersed in their depths?

How has making love helped you to better understand the meaning of life? I invite you to ruminate on these uncanny joys. Remember the breakthroughs that have come your way thanks to sex. Exult in the spiritual education you have received through your dealings with lust and sensuality. And then go out and stir up some fresh epiphanies.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Do you know what minced oaths are? They're rarely used anymore. If you went back a hundred years, though, you'd hear them regularly. They were sanitized swear words, basically; peculiar exclamations that would allow people the emotional release of profanities without causing a ruckus among those who were listening. "Bejabbers!" was one.

So were "thunderation! and "dad-blast!" and "consarn!" Here's one of my favorite minced oaths: "By St. Boogar and the saints at the backside door of purgatory!" I bring this up, Capricorn, because I suspect it'll be a minced oath kind of week for you. What I mean is: You'll have every right to get riled up, and you should express your feelings, but not in ways that create problems for you.

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PUBLIC NOTICE INQUIRY AS TO PERSONAL WHEREABOUTS OF GRAHAm ELLIOT JACKSON To Whom It May Concern: An action has been filed by William Thompson to adopt Elizabeth Rosemary Jackson, whose date of birth is the 28th day of June, 2008. William Thompson is attempting to locate Graham Elliot Jackson, the biological father of said child. One of the purposes of this action is to terminate Mr. Jackson’s rights, if any, as a parent of the child to be adopted. On Friday, the 28th day of June, 2013, a hearing will be held at 8:45am, at the Hunterdon County Court House, 65 Park Ave, Flemington, New Jersey, before the judge as may be assigned. Mr. Jackson has the right to object to the adoption and termination of his parental rights. If you have any information regarding the current whereabouts of this individual, please forward this information to William Thompson by either emailing willthompson@email.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) There's only one correct way to spell the English word "beauty." But that wasn't true centuries ago. Before the advent of the printing press, orthographic anarchy prevailed for many words. Some of beauty's variations included bewte, beaute, beaultye, beuaute, bealte, buute, bewtee and beaultye. I bring this up, Aquarius, because I think it would be fun and healthy for you to take a respite from having to slavishly obey standardized rules. I'm talking about not just those that apply to spelling, but others, too.

See what you can get away with.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, the lead character says the following: "There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance from childhood. A beautiful, holy memory preserved from childhood can be the single most important thing in our development." I bring this up, Pisces, so as to get you in the right frame of mind for this week's featured activity: remembrance. One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to reminisce about the old days and the old ways. To do so will enhance your physical health and purify your emotional hygiene.

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