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Can’t we have safety and tree preservation? Last week at Asheville’s George Washington Carver Park, four mature apple trees and a chestnut tree were cut down by the city without any communication with the park’s contractual partners or general notice to the public. Apparently these cherished food-bearing trees are to be replaced by overhead lighting to address “safety concerns regarding camping and illicit activities.” Several more mature fruit and nut trees are at risk of being removed to complete this plan. This destruction of public property completely contradicts the Food Action Plan, adopted by City Council in partnership with the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council, and the value city residents place on public edibles. A recent petition to protect the fruit trees at the Montford Recreation Center generated nearly 1,000 signatures on Change.org. That was only a few months ago — apparently the city didn’t get the message? It is completely possible to design a security lighting system that does not destroy the integrity of this space and that would not require the removal of trees. The current lighting plan is neither an effective way to deal with the serious issues Asheville faces around housing access and drug addiction, nor

an appropriate management plan for one of the nation’s oldest edible parks. It is merely is the best Duke Power could offer, so of course the city took it. Let’s have an open, public forum to generate some real, creative solutions, something the city appears incapable of doing, and let’s have some accountability, transparency and communication from our city government. — John Buscarino Barnardsville

Bond proposals would speed up improvements I’m voting yes for all three bond proposals in the upcoming election.The proposed bond spending includes improvements to transportation networks (including roads, bike paths and greenways), recreation infrastructure and affordable housing projects within city limits. For some people, this referendum seems to have come out of nowhere. However, these proposed projects aren’t new. For years, they’ve been discussed and vetted by the community and planning professionals. The city of Asheville has gone to great lengths to gather community input in its planning processes. On the Vote Yes campaign website are references to the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Asheville in Motion mobility plan, Transit Master Plan, 2013 Greenway

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Master Plan Updates, and 2015 Housing Needs Assessment and Market Study, among others. Each plan mentions community, neighborhood and key stakeholder meetings, as well as surveys and focus groups where residents voiced opinions. These projects have broad public support. It’s clear that residents want a better quality of life and feel these improvements are all community priorities. The $74 million in bonds means that these projects would be completed within the next five to seven years, a timeline well ahead of how much time it would takeindividual projects without a new source of funding. The costs would be covered with an estimated 4.15-cent increase in annual property taxes. That is, an additional $110 a year, or $9 per month, for a home valued at $275,000. As an owner of residential and commercial real estate, I’d be willing to take on my share of these small increases because of the positive impact these projects would have on our community. So the question is not whether or not residents want these projects. Rather, it’s if they’re willing to put money and votes behind accelerating these vital community improvements! — Justin Belleme Asheville

Public deserves long-term bond benefits Fifteen million dollars of the bond issue will pay for tearing down most of the city buildings on South Charlotte Street and moving those operations and building new city buildings somewhere else. That is so that land can be made available to developers as an incentive to build “affordable” housing. In the past, that has been [that] a certain percentage of the apartments have lower rents — but only for a few years — and then back to the “market” rent. I want to know what actual long benefits our citizens get for that $15 million. For example, what were the terms of the last contract the city signed to provide for “affordable” housing, and are we letting our citizens down and creating long-term debt to mainly enrich the Charlotte and Raleigh developers? I believe responsible, transparent government should provide these answers before we all have to ask. People should know this before voting. We should strive for real, long-term benefits to our citizens rather than just letting the catchword “affordable” create a massive debt with possibly little return. — Stephen Schulte Asheville 8

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We need fresh policies for affordable housing With one of the proposed city bonds dedicated to affordable housing, it is time to ask whether the city’s approach to our affordable housing crisis is the right way forward. Watching the current policy in action suggests that it may not be. In the first place, this is a national problem. Continuing a one-note policy of simply building affordable housing will fail. Even if we were to magically eliminate the 2014 deficit of 5,000 homes, the crisis would remain as more people, driven by worse conditions elsewhere, migrate to Asheville. But most importantly, we have a shortage of affordable housing because people living and working in Asheville aren’t paid enough to afford housing. It’s that simple. Businesses that do not pay living wages — you know who you are — helped to create the crisis and choose, every payday, to sustain it. Faced with a crisis created by multiple problems outside our control, we must craft a multipronged response. We need to look to unconventional project organization and financing to ensure that significant numbers of affordable housing units actually get built —recent experience shows that property speculators are simply not going to deliver what is needed. We need to stop passively accepting the role of tourist town. We need far more than a four-word reference to “industries of the mind” in city Vision documents. We need an aggressive search for businesses that can prosper here while paying not a living wage, but two and three times as much. And those jobs will require major changes in what we teach our children so that they can succeed. Affordable housing is a problem for all of us, not just Council and city staff, the Chamber [of Commerce], the schools and the colleges. Our existing affordable housing policy or any variation on it is bound to fail and waste borrowed money. It’s time to roll up our sleeves. — Geoff Kemmish Asheville

What did adults teach at Trump rally? My children and I recently went to the Donald Trump rally in Asheville to learn about the candidate, the issues and to experience a part of our democracy in the United States of America. My daughter was working on a middle school project on U.S. government, and so it seemed like a good idea to head downtown to

the event. Neither I nor my children shared any indication, sign or nod toward our support of a particular candidate throughout the evening. My daughter wrote of the experience: “The night of the rally, my brother, dad and I went to the U.S. Cellular Center. The street was blocked on the way in, and outside there were hundreds of people shouting, chanting, waving. These were the folks protesting, yelling at us and waving signs in our faces telling us we should be ashamed. As we walked in, a man followed us and yelled at my dad, ‘Shame on you! You should be ashamed that you are bringing your kids to see Trump.’ Not everyone knows that while I was inside hearing Donald Trump speak, I was scared about what was happening to our country. There was yelling from so many people, and people said mean things about Trump and about Hillary Clinton, too. It hurt my heart to be in this atmosphere. I don’t ever want to be afraid to learn about someone else’s perspective. I wondered, ‘What do the adults of our country want us to learn from them during this election?’” After a short time inside listening to Trump, angry protesters and angry supporters, my son asked if we could leave. I agreed that it was probably best after seeing his anxiety-filled eyes. My daughter disagreed and said, “I would rather wait and walk out with the big group. I don’t want to go outside alone.” We eventually decided to leave just before the large group and try to avoid confrontation with the largest group of people outside. [My daughter] Olivia described her thoughts: “As we were walking out, I made sure I held my head high even though people were giving us the middle finger. I just kept thinking, ‘They don’t know the whole story, they don’t know the whole story.” None of us do, and we won’t unless we are in relationship with one another. Inside the building or outside the building, we felt ill at ease and troubled. We were caught between. Even before this election cycle, we were experiencing more and more fragmentation of communities, families and humanity. Each day there seems to be less and less space for curiosity, listening, compassion and wisdom. I am grateful for the insight and beauty of the words and hopes shared by my kids during this time. They are my teachers, the wise ones. — Olivia and Scott Hardin-Nieri Asheville

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Eating meat is a personal choice So many things I want to say. I am a white, nonhomosexual, Southern Baptist man. Eating meat is a personal choice. So is being a homosexual woman. The letters I read in your rag telling me that eating meat is bad seem to come from those kinds of people. I live in Leicester in the Newfound community across the street from a nowdefunct slaughterhouse. If I had lots of money, I would buy it and refurbish it to its former glory. At present, I must transport my animals over an hour away to slaughter. Thank goodness I am allowed to harvest my chickens at home. Humans will never look back in time and say, “Why did Granny eat meat?” The answer is because it tastes good. It is very inappropriate to compare eating meat to killing Jewish people. God has given man dominion over the animals. We are to care for them, fatten them up and eat them. I have purchased the book [The Ethical Meat Handbook] and use it almost daily. I eat vegetables, also. There are those who say that plants have feelings, also. Am I to stop eating them? — Clifford Andrew King III Leicester

Coming to terms with ‘that good night’ Your article on healthy death and funeral rights in the Sept. 21 issue was most informative and helpful [“Do Not Go Unprepared Into That Good Night: A Look at Healthy Death and Funeral Consumer Rights,” Xpress]. While still relatively healthy at age 86, death is a subject to which I am giving increasing attention. Reports of the death of a cousin, a seminary classmate, a fellow church member, and a former faculty colleague and close friend have come in just the past couple of weeks. When will it be my turn? In one of my first sermons out of seminary, titled A Young Man Looks at Death, I began with the story of a young village woman in India, grieving the fresh loss of her husband still in his prime, who came to the Buddha with the eternal, and for her, agonizing question, “Why?” His response was to ask her to go throughout the village collecting a pebble from each household that had not been visited by death. When she returned empty-handed, she was already comforted by the awareness that hers was an experience shared with all humanity. In the intervening 60 years, my journey toward acceptance of what your headline called that inevitable “good night” has been aided by:

• Coming to terms with my own mortality while grieving the death of both parents in their early 60s ... • In a course led by the famed Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (author of On Death and Dying), watching through a one-way mirror as she interviewed dying patients on the way to establishing her now widely acknowledged five stages of the dying process ... • Experiencing and learning from the attitudes, beliefs and practices surrounding death of other cultures and faiths ... while living among people in Singapore, Israel-Palestine, Samoa, Korea, Central America, Haiti, the Philippines, etc. • Losing to untimely and tragic deaths a month-old granddaughter and three nephews, the latter all to violence. • Being impacted by the thesis of psychoanalyst Ernest Becker’s classic, The Denial of Death ... • Reading and discussing with friends the recent best-seller, Being Mortal by Dr. Atul Gawande, and viewing the PBS video by the same name ... • Hearing a panel of theologians, pastors and journalists share their views of life after death, including one who envisioned it as moving up an escalator and, upon reaching the top, floating off into the unknown, trusting the outcome to the Author of all. • Considering the guidance of Scripture, my faith tradition, my personal experience and my own reasoning process. MOUNTAINX.COM

• And prayerfully reflecting — by myself and with others — on all of the above as they relate to my preparation for entering “into that good night” ... Such reflections — confirmed by the advice in your article — have led me and my wife to form a “team” of consultants to aid in the process: our grown children with whom to make end-of-life decisions and leave instructions; lawyers to prepare our wills; financial advisers to help manage our estate; a funeral director and monument maker to handle final arrangements; physicians to maintain our health and help us die purposefully; pastors to help us die faithfully and gracefully; and ourselves to be honest and open with one another every step of the way. In all this, of one thing I am confident: “… underneath are the Everlasting Arms” (Deuteronomy 33:27, King James version) — which invokes a profound trust in the ongoing Creative Energy called Love that nurtures and sustains all of Life. — Doug Wingeier Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx.com. OCTOBER 12 - OCTOBER 18, 2016

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Search for documents leads to reform at A-B Tech BY DAN HESSE dhesse@mountainx.com What began as a request to A-B Tech for executive-level communications about a quarter-cent sales tax increase approved in 2011, which will benefit the school until 2029, turned into a different sort of investigation after the college took more than two months to reveal it no longer had any such communications related to the tax hike. State law requires publicly funded institutions to keep records based on a retention schedule that prescribes how long documents, communications and other records should be kept and, if necessary, archived internally or externally. Based on the state’s retention schedule, it appears the communications Xpress sought from A-B Tech should be kept for five years and then archived for posterity. Open records laws, also known as “sunshine laws,” exist to ensure government organizations are held accountable to taxpayers. North Carolina’s director of archives and records, Sarah Koonts, says it’s about transparency: “Public colleges and universities aren’t much different than any other public entity creating public records for the state of North Carolina. … The idea is that someone’s not creating and destroying records without anyone knowing about it.” REQUEST DENIED On June 29, Xpress sent a Freedom of Information Act request to A-B Tech asking for correspondence among former President Hank Dunn and other administrators surrounding the school’s push for a quartercent sales tax in 2011. The referendum was approved by fewer than 500 votes. Despite state laws that prohibit governmental entities from asking the purpose of a public records inquiry, A-B Tech responded, via email: “May I ask why you’re revisiting this at this point? It was pretty thoroughly covered at the time and it’s now five years later.”

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This response, and other emails with A-B Tech, led Xpress to question whether the community college was adhering to best practices in processing FOIA requests and whether it was violating state mandates. Seventy-eight days after the June 29 FOIA request was filed, and after multiple emails asking the status of the request, Xpress received the following email from A-B Tech: “We have conducted a thorough search of electronic and paper archives, but there are no remaining records related to the quarter-cent sales tax referendum in 2011.” Amanda Martin, general counsel to the North Carolina Press Association, at that point advised that it appeared A-B Tech was in violation of the state’s general statute governing open-records requests. ONE REQUEST, FOUR SCHOOLS The difficulties and delay that characterized the June 29 request to A-B Tech led Xpress to become interested in how other public colleges process inquires. On Aug. 19, Xpress sent identical FOIA requests to four schools: A-B Tech, UNC Asheville, Haywood Community College and Blue Ridge Community College. We asked to see all communications, from Jan. 1 through March 31, 2016, among the colleges’ presidents and top administrators concerning the Connect NC bond referendum, which was approved by voters in March and disperses $3.1 billion to universities and community colleges across the Tar Heel State. Xpress made the FOIA requests to learn how school leadership communicated with each other regarding the proposed bond in the period leading up to the referendum. We also wanted to compare how each school would respond to, and fulfill, the same FOIA request. This article examines the second concern. The four schools’ responses to our request differed significantly. Those differences highlight some of the questions open records laws leave open to interpretation: how long agencies have to fulfill an FOIA request, how often they

should communicate with the person making the request during the process, whether a request can be put on hold and what consequences can result from an institution’s failure to maintain records for the statutory period. As a result of this experiment, Xpress learned A-B Tech was storing emails in a manner that makes thorough and efficient searching of archived communications impractical and prohibitively time-consuming. A-B Tech has pledged to immediately address this issue, host a state archives training session and take other steps to address inefficiencies in processing FOIA requests. HURRY UP AND WAIT Upon submitting the Aug. 19 request, Xpress learned Kerri Glover, A-B Tech’s executive director of community relations and marketing, was on emergency medical leave from late July to early September. While Glover was on leave, A-B Tech did not have a backup plan that would have allowed the school to fulfill the FOIA request in her absence. Over the course of this investigation, the three other schools indicated that they have mechanisms to keep FOIA requests moving forward should key personnel be absent. A-B Tech was also the only school that said it would charge Xpress for reproducing documents related to the request. Meantime, two colleges complied with Xpress’ Aug. 19 FOIA request in under two weeks. BRCC was the first to respond, sending 393 pages of documents electronically on Aug. 22, three days after receipt of the FOIA request. Lee Anna Haney, spokesperson for BRCC, told Xpress, via email, about the school’s record retention methodology: “Email is archived using a cloud-based service. The college retains all emails for two years; however, should the content in the email need to be maintained for longer than two years, college policy requires employees to transfer the email to a different medium in

MAKING THE GRADE: An investigation by Xpress highlighted issues at A-B Tech concerning how long it archives communications that are governed by state-mandated retention schedules. The investigation also showed the community college was storing emails in a way that made it difficult to efficiently process open-records requests. The school has vowed to address these and other issues Xpress discovered. Photo by Clara Murray order to store the document for the appropriate time.” The second school to complete its FOIA request was HCC, sending 897 pages electronically on Sept. 1, 13 days after the request was filed. Aaron Mabry, HCC’s director of marketing and communications, explained, via email, the school’s retention policy: “For all records that are open to the public, the business office follows the North Carolina Community College System record retention and disposition schedule. The NCCCS office has strongly encouraged all community college institutions across the state to develop a policy for the archiving of emails and has left it to the discretion of each institution on how they will do so.” On Sept. 22, 34 days after the requests were filed, Xpress sent emails to UNCA and A-B Tech alerting the two schools that, while the paper was still interested in having the Aug. 19 FOIA request fulfilled, we had undertaken the project, in part, to determine how schools respond to open records requests.

On Sept. 28, UNCA provided Xpress with approximately 300 pages of documents in hard copy form, 40 days after the request was filed. On Sept. 29, A-B Tech provided Xpress with approximately 400 pages of documents in hard copy form 41 days after the request was filed. CARROTS AND STICKS The general statute governing open records does not specify the amount of time in which organizations are required to fulfill a request but does state: “Every custodian of public records shall permit any record in the custodian’s custody to be inspected and examined at reasonable times and under reasonable supervision by any person, and shall, as promptly as possible, furnish copies thereof upon payment of any fees as may be prescribed by law.” So what does “as promptly as possible” mean? Many media outlets and transparency advocates have interpreted the statute to mean that an agency must act in the spirit of

the phrasing of the law. In 2015, a media coalition filed a lawsuit seeking greater clarity in Wake County Superior Court. The suit alleges that Gov. Pat McCrory’s office avoids or circumvents public records law and discourages or intimidates public record requestors. The plaintiffs contend that the phrasing “as promptly as possible” is being abused. Martin says the directive should be applied in a manner that keeps a request moving forward. “The institution is the public agency that has the response requirement,” she says. “The law does not contemplate that the public will be held hostage to vacation, medical leave, anything of a particular employee. Rather, the agency has an obligation under the statute.” Martin says it does not seem logical to suspend FOIA requests should a member of the staff be on leave or absent for a period of time. “Let’s put it this way: If the person who cuts checks were gone from the accounting department they would not simply say, ‘Well, we can’t pay our bills because that person is gone.’”

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N EWS In regard to A-B Tech taking 78 days to come back empty-handed in response to Xpress’ June 29 request Martin says, “That’s utterly inappropriate. First of all, given what the response was going to be, why didn’t they send it that afternoon? That’s clearly not as promptly as possible. “My belief is that any government agency operates best when it is transparent,” adds Martin. “Yes, that is maybe a little bit more timeconsuming for organizations, but it leads to public understanding of issues, and that’s what is intended by our legislature when they passed our open government laws.” While the law seeks to incentivize public-sector behavior that is both transparent and efficient, few if any ramifications follow instances when it is neither. “There are no automatic consequences when a public agency violates the law. The law is dependent upon the public and the media to hold accountable the public agencies and officials,” notes Martin. “It’s a balance of what the legislature thinks will lead to best results in terms of compliance. But it seems to me that it would be helpful if we had some more consequence.” Koonts also emphasizes the importance of record retention and says transparency serves the purpose of making sure people are not creating and destroying records willy-nilly. “Agencies can always keep things longer, that’s never a problem,” she advises. And while Koonts is a champion of record posterity, she notes her department has no means of enforcement. “There is no stick that we have. Archives has no punishment that we can inflict. It doesn’t work that way,” she says. “There are misdemeanor punishments included in public records that account for what I would call ‘malfeasance of record keeping,’ and that’s usually characterized at the end of a term, like if I go home and run off with my public records.” As for documents surrounding A-B Tech’s push for a quarter-cent sales tax five years ago, Koonts says those records should be available. “I think it’s a fair statement to say that recent of activity, I would expect there to be some evidence of it,” she says. “I think if it’s a long-term project you would hope records would be retained, or seen as of value, while that program is in place. “We would hope our records custodians have a process in place for appraisal,” she continues. “If that authority is delegated to them, then

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they can decide what is historical and what’s not. We would hope there would be some sort of orderly decision-making process, or they would ask us to give our opinion on the long-term value of records.” Also, Koonts says it never hurts to ask. “I would offer that we have lots and lots of services, including records analysts stationed in Asheville just for that reason,” she says. “If anyone has issues with what to keep and how long to keep it, that’s exactly what we’re here for.” CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES “The FOIA process is never a burden. It’s a public good. I really, truly believe that,” says Luke Bukoski during an in-person interview with Xpress. UNCA’s director of marketing and communications sees the process as an opportunity for the school to showcase transparency. “The notion of journalism as a watchdog for democracy and public institutions is something that’s important to the culture of a liberal arts institution.” In regard to taking 40 days to fulfill Xpress’ request Bukoski says, “The biggest lesson learned is I want to make sure that I’m getting a better sense of true hopes for the fulfillment of the request in terms of the timeline. Not that anything got put off.” Bukoski adds that for requests such as this one, there can be inherent bottlenecking while the school’s lawyer makes sure student, personnel and other protected information is not released. And in regard to how the media can make the process easier, Bukoski says specificity in the request, and some flexibility, is always helpful. “If I can get you quick turnaround information that gets to the heart of your matter in a few days, and then have a bit more time to get the peripheral information, that’s helpful,” he notes. Keeping the process going is important to Bukoski, who says that if he’s absent, other staff members take over the processing of FOIA requests. “I understand you have deadlines and it’s a crimp in your schedule if we’re not able to do that,” he says. Xpress also asked what the timetable would look like for returning information on a search that did not come up with any results. “That process can happen relatively quickly because the most time-intensive part of the process

is when a lot is returned and then going through it,” he says. “And at that time, this is where the relationship piece comes in, because then I can see if there is something else we can help you find instead of just saying, ‘Sorry, there’s no records.’” RECOMMENDATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS “We are a state entity that gets state, federal and local funding, so we fully believe in transparency. Our policy on responding to FOIA requests [is to do so] as soon as possible in compliance with the law,” says Glover. “As soon as possible has to fall within the college business we have to conduct. So if you tell us you have a deadline next week, we’re going to try our best to honor that.” Xpress asked Glover a series of questions about how A-B Tech’s previous actions coincide with that belief during an in-person interview. When asked why communications from Dunn and others have not been archived in accordance with the state retention schedule, she

says A-B Tech’s lawyers interpreted some of those as recommendations and not requirements. “It definitely has raised some questions. I don’t disagree with your characterization [that those records should be archived]. I wasn’t here in 2011 and don’t know what the thinking was then,” she says. “I think, as a result of this, we are going to be looking at everything that’s recommended in the retention schedule with our attorneys. “We are going to go through the entire retention schedule and make sure we are in compliance.” To that end, Glover says she and others are attending a conference on state records retention and then will be hosting representatives from the WNC Office of State Archives to discuss best practices for archiving. “I do think going through this process, because of some of the questions it raised, was helpful,” she says. In regard to why the FOIA request could not be handed off to the school’s information technology department, Xpress learned A-B Tech doesn’t keep all of its communications on a central data server. In many cases, the only

source of communications records are an individual employee’s computer hard drive. “It might be some things were retained and some weren’t. I move things to a folder that is on my hard drive. The way email is set up there are live folders and archive folders,” she says. “We have to have server space for over 10,000 students, over 1,000 employees; and server space is at a premium and, people are encouraged to move emails to archive folders on the hard drive to relieve pressure on the server.” Xpress followed up by asking Glover to confirm that archived emails aren’t stored on a central server for posterity and therefore cannot be searched by IT staff members. Glover agreed, noting, “And I think that is the problem. “And that is something we may have to revisit because we might have to leave [emails] where they can be searched.” When asked when A-B Tech would look at revisiting the issue, Glover responded, “Immediately.”  A-B Tech’s lack of staff backup to facilitate the FOIA process, as

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in the case of Glover’s absence, is also likely to be addressed. “I like to operate on the premise that anyone could be hit by a bus, and if you are, who would do your job? Obviously we were not set up in this instance for that,” Glover says. “If all we had to do was have IT search, then we would have been OK. Because I physically had to go through my files and turn them over to the lawyers, I had to be there. That’s the problem. It has pointed out a problem to us that we will ensure does not happen in the future.” Glover says that her emergency medical leave, in tandem with the school not utilizing a central server for archived emails, was the main factor in the delay in fulfilling Xpress’ request. “We want to be responsive and work with the media,” says Glover. “So I would hope in the future, this process has helped us to iron out some bugs that we’ve discovered.” Ultimately, A-B Tech did not charge Xpress for the documents provided as it originally said it would. X

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Now in its 20th year, the Mountain Xpress annual showcase of women entrepreneurs once again highlights some of our area’s most dedicated and successful businesspeople. Women professionals play a vital role in Asheville’s business community. The city was recently ranked number 23 out of 383 metropolitan areas across the countries for female entrepreneurs by GoodCall.com, and women make up the majority of Asheville’s workforce in industries ranging from healthcare and education to sales and service. In this special section, you will find editorial content (marked with the Women in Business badge), as well as advertising features showcasing local businesses. We encourage our readers to support all the women who help make this community the vibrant, eclectic and unique place it is. X

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THE FACES OF LEADERSHIP: In an effort to provide examples of women in leadership roles, local events like Dixon Hughes Goodman’s Oct. 6 Women Forward forum are bringing local female leaders to the forefront to share their experiences and encourage young women to follow their paths. The forum featured, from left, DHG’s Tricia Wilson, Mission Health’s Taylor Foss, the National Centers for Environmental Information’s Margarita Gregg with event moderator Kendra Ferguson. Photo by Emma Grace Moon

BY MAX HUNT mhunt@mountainx.com Kimberly Hunter arrived in Asheville 13 years ago from her native Southern California expecting to find a vibrant textile industry where she could further her career in fashion. “I moved here sight unseen, never heard of Asheville,” says Hunter, who now works as the entrepreneurship program manager for Mountain BizWorks. “Then got here and realized that [what I had read] wasn’t necessarily true!” With her career plans suddenly up in the air, Hunter began brainstorming ways to fit her skills to the Asheville market. “I looked around and thought, ‘What’s similar to fashion and textiles?’” she remembers. The answer, it turns out, was the wedding industry. “There’s a catwalk, there’s a runway, there’s people strutting down the catwalk while people clap,” she laughs. “So I started a wedding business that I ended up converting into an event meeting production company.” Hunter is just one example of local female entrepreneurs who have used Asheville as a springboard to bring innovative visions to their chosen profession, either by starting their own business or rising into the leadership ranks of established organizations.

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As more women work toward leadership roles in the local workforce, female business leaders and local organizations are working to provide the encouragement and resources necessary to help them attain equity and advancement in the workplace. Sharing their wealth of experiences, these community leaders are hoping they can lay the groundwork for the next generation of successful women professionals. NUMBERS AND REALITIES In 2010, the Asheville-area labor force participation rate [for women] was roughly equal to both the state of North Carolina and the U.S., at almost 60 percent, according to Julie Anderson, a research associate for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, citing a 2013 report her organization produced on women in the Asheville metropolitan area. Yet women still earn less than men on average, about 80 cents to the dollar, notes Anderson. While the wage gap has narrowed slightly in the past decade, “the reason why is that men’s wages went down more than women’s,” she reveals. “That’s not the good way to close the wage gap — we need to be moving in the other direction.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the types of industries where women predominantly find employment locally

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follow traditional trends. While health care (75.2 percent of the total workforce) and education (62.4 percent) show strong percentages of women employees in Asheville, other industries, such as maintenance occupations (3.2 percent of total industry employees) and the IT sector (1 percent of industry employees), are still largely male-dominated. But statistics, says Hunter, may not show the innovation women are bringing to a host of industries. “We’re finding that in many wellness or outdoorbased businesses, women are taking a scientific approach to those business models,” she notes. “It doesn’t necessarily have to do with just being in a certain industry, but what they’re bringing to other industries that incorporate tech and science.” According to data gathered by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, there were 10,468 women-owned firms in Buncombe County in 2012, up 26.9 percent from 2007. During that time period, annual revenues from women-owned businesses increased $449,764,000. Asheville was recently ranked 23rd out of 383 metro areas nationwide as the “Best Place for Women Entrepreneurs to Launch Their Business” by the GoodCall consumer data center. GoodCall’s report cited “robust educational values for women, a thriving postrecession economy and a high density of

female business owners” as factors why Asheville ranked higher than many other locations in the country. CLIMBING THE LADDER Within established companies and industries, women accounted for 43.2 percent of management occupations in Buncombe County in 2014, up from 42.1 percent, while median earnings for women in these roles rose from $35,400 in 2010 to $46,500 in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of the larger employers within the Asheville region, several report a majority or significant percentage of women making up their total workforce. “Our management team is 45 percent female,” says Tracey Johnston-Crum, director of public relations for Omni Grove Park Inn, “and our overall workforce is 50 percent female.” At the Biltmore Estate, 55 percent of its employees are female, according to Vice President of Human Resources Vicki Banks. “It’s nice to see so many different organizations and things you can get involved in as a woman [in Asheville], to kind of build your professional skills,” she says. “I know here at Biltmore, there’s more women than men in those roles, which is a little bit unique.” In the Buncombe County Schools system, women have long played a crucial role across the various levels of employment, says Cynthia Lopez, the school system’s personnel director. However, she notes a shift toward female representation “in areas where we didn’t historically have it, like in our high schools, at the principalship level. In our maintenance department, for example, we’ve just hired a female who’s a specialist on climate issues, which has generally been a role where we’ve mostly had males.”

CLOSING THE GAP WNC native Laura Webb, the founder and owner of Asheville’s Webb Investment Services and a board member of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, recalls the skepticism she encountered taking an investment class as a student at UNC Chapel Hill. “The funny thing was, I’d sort of inquired into the class, and the professor totally dismissed [the idea].” Undaunted, Webb took the class and continued on to work with various investment firms in the Southeast after graduation. “I was able to get my securities license; at the time, I was the youngest person in the system to get that,” she says. “Then I went to work for a large money management firm and ended up being the first female regional VP there.” Webb’s accomplishments, however, remain an outlier in the investment world. “It’s a male-dominated business; most of the women worked in support roles,” she says. “In my industry, there’s still only 12 to 17 percent women that are financial advisers, and fewer that own their own businesses.” Why the disparity? Dixon Hughes Goodman assurance manager Kendra Ferguson, who also leads the company’s local Women Forward committee, says DHG has identified three primary barriers that still exist for women seeking leadership roles in the workplace: a lack of career advocates, or established women leaders to help other women access leadership roles; a lack of visible role models within workplace leadership for other women to aspire to; and societal norms that conflict with the demands of a profession. “Without a volume and diversity of women role models, it is difficult for many women to aspire to partnership and to leadership roles in a firm,” says Ferguson. Additionally, “women

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N EWS have traditionally absorbed most of the child care, elder care and household responsibilities.” Hunter concurs that women often seek different metrics for determining what type of job suits them best. “Balance, the ability to come and go as needed, based on other priorities such as home life, and that also feed other parts of that person’s nature [are important to many women],” she notes. “It’s really related to how they think and see growth. That you’re not in it alone, to have equal accountability and equal say, as well as the ability to make independent decisions.” But as the ideas around what constitutes good leadership in professional settings change, Banks believes that women will have more access to leadership positions, based on their proclivity to focus on collaboration. “Leadership is no longer a dictatorship, or the old-school ‘my way or the highway’ mentality. Leaders are now embracing the coaching perspective,” Banks notes. “Even in the leadership courses that I go to that are taught by men, they acknowledge that those type of skills seem to come a bit easier to women.” STARTING YOUNG Empowering women to reach their potential in the business world, or branch out into nontraditional female roles, often means enforcing the message at a young age, notes Anderson. “There’s some concern that maybe there just isn’t enough sort of frank information for younger women, when you’re still in school, about the potential earnings for different occupations.” To combat bias in the workplace and develop a supportive framework for young women, established female leaders need to move to the forefront, says Tony Baldwin, superintendent of the Buncombe County Schools system. “I’ve got two daughters and a granddaughter,” he says, “and I do think it’s important for those daughters and granddaughters to have in front of them strong female leadership models, so that they understand that we live in a country and environment where they have just as much a chance to be maybe even president of the United States.” Baldwin notes that his district is making an effort to encourage students to consider occupations and skills that they may not have before. At the Nesbitt Discovery Academy, for example, administrators make a conscious effort to bring in female leaders from science, technology, engineering and math-based careers.

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“Having that role model in front of students, recognizing that there is a difference in terms of the number of females versus males that are going into these STEM careers, [is crucial],” he says. SYMBOL OF SUCCESS But finding an appropriate role model and mentor can be difficult, notes Anderson. “If most of the people at the top are men, they may not consciously be giving that sort of informal support and information to women coming up through the ranks. It’s hard to imagine yourself in certain roles if you never see someone like you doing that sort of thing.” Providing that female role model is a mission professionals like Paula Wilber, vice president of sales for Biltmore and the first female chair of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, take to heart. She says unity and a stronger voice are needed from women leaders across the spectrum to overcome bias in the workplace. “[There is] misunderstanding of the abilities and capabilities women hold,” Wilber notes. “There’s a need for more women-based associations that promote the connection of women in business on a local level.” Connecting young female professionals with established women in their chosen business, says Webb, can “encourage young women to take risks and push themselves — providing that proverbial hand on the back. You can’t do it for them, but you can give them that nudge.” A HELPING HAND Developing a strong network of colleagues that one can reach out to can also provide a vast array of resources to young women entrepreneurs. “Having friends and peers in and outside of your business can really help you leverage and be more successful,” says Webb. “Getting feedback on personal issues, practice management issues, financial planning issues — I have at any given time this network I can go to.” Organizations and local community groups also play a role in facilitating support networks and events for young female entrepreneurs. DHG recently hosted its second annual Women Forward Asheville event on Oct. 6, which featured successful female leaders from the Asheville community. Similar to DHG’s event, Webb has organized the first in what she hopes

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will become a series of meetings called WomanUP (Unlimited Potential) on Nov. 10, sponsored by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. WomanUP’s breakfast kickoff event will feature keynote speaker Pamela Ryckman, the author of Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business, in addition to an awards ceremony recognizing local female business leaders in three categories: Best in Business; Woman Executive of the Year; and Outstanding Women in NonProfit. Webb says that Ryckman was chosen to be the keynote speaker due to her book’s powerful message on being a woman in a leadership role who’s also comfortable in her own skin. “When I was coming up, we were supposed to look and dress like men: Wear your suit, all that,” she notes. “What’s cool is now, that’s not the case. You can be a capable, strong leader and not have to be in this mode. I noticed that and really took it to heart.” BEYOND GENDER ROLES Ferguson says events like Women Forward not only offer an “insider” perspective on panelists’ personal paths to professional leadership and the challenges faced along the way, but can have a valuable impact on men attendees as well: “Many of the men in attendance had not yet heard of or had any experience with some of the challenges described by our panelists.” Having males recognize the inequities in the system, even if they do not knowingly partake in them, can be key to solving the imbalance, says David Worley, a partner with Worley, Woodbery & Melton Public Accounting firm. He cites a report by the American Institute of CPAs which notes that while “women represent more than 50 percent of the accounting graduates entering the profession in the last 20 years, [they] make up only 19 percent of the partners in accounting firms nationwide.” “In my case, having male partners for nearly all of my accounting career, the transition to female partners has been both rewarding and revealing,” says Worley, who will be retiring at the end of the year and handing the reins of his business to his two female associates, Rhonda Woodbery and Cassie Melton. After years spent working with male partners, Worley notes that “in Rhonda and Cassie, I find the best partners that I have had.”

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MINORITY REPORT When looking at base statistics such as the wage gap and women’s employment in certain industries, an often overlooked component is the inequities faced by women from minority communities. “A lot of times we just talk about women overall and their wages, but when you look at black women or Latinas, their wages are much much lower than women overall,” says Anderson. “If there is sort of double discrimination based on both gender and race, that is going to make this a tougher problem to tackle.” According to statistics compiled by the IWPR on North Carolina, Hispanic women have the lowest median annual earnings of any ethnic group, at just $23,000, while African-American women earned a median annual income of $30,000, both lower than the $35,000 median income for women in North Carolina overall. Baldwin says that schools must make a more conscious effort to ensure that young women are not only exposed to female role models, but ones they can identify with culturally. “It’s not only male/female: We believe we have to serve our Hispanic and AfricanAmerican students in the same way,” he notes. “It’s important for us to try and attract and retain leadership and role models that are Hispanic/Latino or African-American.” Beyond education, making a concerted effort to support minority business leaders can go a long way toward reducing inequality in the workplace, says Hunter. “[Mountain BizWorks] very much focuses on where the pools of minorities are who are looking to start a business, and what resources we have that they can connect to, to help them grow that business.” While she acknowledges that inequity is a reality in the current workforce, Hunter believes that a change in the way we approach how we look at these issues as a community can have longterm positive effects. “When equity is about access to excellence, equity will rise. When it stops becoming a gender thing or a race thing, and we’re just giving people access to excellence, and that becomes the equalizer, so many of the dynamics shift.” WORKING TOWARD THE FUTURE While women still face obstacles in attaining that access to excellence in many regards, business leaders and organizations around Asheville believe that the city and surrounding area are the perfect place to effect change in the system.

“You look at some of the women entrepreneurs around here — I feel like this environment is pretty open,” says Webb. “There’s a lot of capable, powerful, thoughtful, lovely women who are not just business owners, but are leaders in this community.” For her part, Wilber says established leaders should do more to make time to reach out to young women professionals. “Offer to speak at educational forums, volunteer or work with your own business to implement an on-the-job internship program,” she advises, adding that younger women must be encouraged to stay true to their dreams and take a leap of faith when the situation calls for it. “We all learn lessons along the way, [and] should you fall on your face, I always say, ‘Well at least your are headed in the right direction. Pick yourself up and keep going.’” Anderson believes that residents should explore the reasons behind wage and employment inequality, and recognize the fact that it affects more than just women. “Women being underpaid really has ripple effects that go all the way up to the national scale — it not

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only impacts the family, but is much broader,” she says. “I think once we accept that, things like paid family leave, paid sick days, schedule predictability, more aggressive pay transparency and more affordable quality child care will follow.” “Success is different for everybody,” Banks notes. “What does that mean for women, and especially women who may take a few years off to be with their children and then come back into the workplace? Having resources available to them to stay up to speed in their field, and businesses being more flexible and recognizing that there’s different needs for women than men, is important.” In that sense, Asheville can serve as a model to the rest of the state and country, says Hunter. “I know firsthand that it’s possible, it’s happening, and the opportunities are increasing whether you’re a woman or not,” she says. “All things are not equal, but if you just want it, and you’re willing to look for the resources and ask for help and get in there and do it, this is the region for that.” X

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FEMALE EMPLOYMENT IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY BY JOB SECTOR/INDUSTRY, 2014

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Male estimate

Female estimate

Male median earnings

Female median earnings

Civilian employed, 16 years +

118,711

51.8%

48.2%

$32,186

$28,485

Management, business, science, arts

46,971

45.4%

54.6%

$54,326

$43,617

Service occupations

21,432

45.5%

54.5%

$21,362

$15,522

Sales and office occupations

27,789

37.5%

62.5%

$28,711

$24,257

Natural resources, construction, maintenance occupations

11,802

96.2%

3.8%

$27,473

$22,210

Production, transportation, material moving occupations

10,717

80.7%

19.3%

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“I find female entrepreneurs take a proactive approach to educating themselves and doing a lot of research before they start a business,” says Sparks. “We help women who are exploring a business idea as well as those who already have a business. We also partner with other organizations in the community to connect women entrepreneurs. For example, we’ve had a longtime partnership with SCORE and have hosted monthly Women’s Business Roundtables for several years. We also collaborate with the Western Women’s Business Center to offer our annual Western Women’s Business Conference.”

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Our October Events Are: • Student Psychic Fair, Saturday, Oct. 15, 11-7pm. Free Reading with $50 or more purchase!

• Prayer Card Making with Angela, Sunday, Oct. 16, 4-5pm. Donations. • Circle Round Familiars, Thursday, Oct. 20, 7-9pm. Donations. • Ask a Witch! Saturday, Oct. 22, 5-7pm. Donations. • Death-Traveling on the Dark Cloak of Night with Byron Ballard, Thursday, Oct. 27, 6-10pm. Donations.

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BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com To find the roots of Andrea Wright’s entrepreneurial drive, you have to travel back in time to visit the kitchens of her grandmother and great-grandmother. “They were always in the kitchen cooking something or baking something. And if you were around, you were involved in it, too,” she recalls. In her close-knit family, Wright says, “Eating time, sitting around talking — that was our fun time.” Now Wright and three of her sisters have banded together to turn that love of family, food and good times into a business: My Sisters and I, an event planning and catering company. Xpress caught up with Wright just before the awards ceremony of Minority Enterprise Development Week, where My

SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL: Andrea Wright, far left, and her sister Benita Chambers (not pictured) own the new catering business My Sisters and I. Siblings Kenya and Sonja Chambers, second and third from left, also work in the business, while their mother, Devolia Chambers, far right, provides advice and support. Photo by Virginia Daffron

MB HAYNES Corp. is a local, employee-owned company that is proud of its talented team of professional women. With 630 employees, 10 divisions and a fleet of 700, it takes every team member to keep things running smoothly. MB HAYNES offers a wide array of services, including heating and cooling, controls, electric, plumbing, solar, general construction, industrial maintenance, firestop and commercial fire and security systems. The company was built on a solid foundation of values in 1921, so conducting business with integrity and excellence while valuing customer relationships isn’t optional now — it’s what we do. Marketing Director Pam Bailey states, “As employee-owners, we have the opportunity to provide the best quality and service around. We treat our customers as we’d like to be treated. As women employee-owners, we aren’t just doing a job; we’re building a future.” “Supporting community is also our passion,” explains Human Resources Director Tamera Edwards. “Giving back to the community is important to us. You might find our folks collecting toys for underprivileged children, serving dinner to veterans or getting involved in a myriad of community events. I am very proud to get to work with such a great group of women.” Looking for a great career or have construction or service needs? Call 828-254-6141 or visit mbhaynes.com

Sisters and I received the Emerging Business of the Year award. In business for just under a year, Wright says things are off to a great start. She credits the Western Women’s Business Center, a program of the Carolina Small Business Development Fund, with providing crucial support. “They were the catalysts for us getting our business out there,” says Wright of the WWBC. “They have been the best for us being able to display our goods, to networking, to giving us information.” The center has hired My Sisters and I to cater many of its meetings and functions, Wright continues, which has provided valuable exposure. With the experience of the first year under their belts, Wright and her sisters — Benita Chambers, Sonja Chambers and Kenya Chambers — are “looking forward to working with a lot more people.” Currently, Wright is collaborating with Brenda Mills, economic development specialist for the city of Asheville, to pursue contracting opportunities with the city, and she’s looking for space for the business. In Asheville’s hot real estate market, she says, finding an affordable location is one of the biggest challenges she’s faced.

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BIG DREAMS “We are helping women entrepreneurs build the businesses of their dreams,” says Sharon Oxendine, director of the WWBC. One unique feature of the center is its willingness to “listen to the dream,” she continues. “The women want us to be a part of their process. ... They are doing all the work. We are here to listen and partner with them and give them the best business guidance available.” The WWBC exists, Oxendine explains, to help women overcome challenges and barriers to accessing resources. Many women have been referred to Oxendine’s program by banks. “They may have good credit and some even have collateral,” she says, but banks don’t want to take on the risks associated with loaning to new businesses. The center provides loans from $3,000 to $250,000. The funds come from a variety of sources; the operations of the WWBC itself are funded by the Small Business Administration, which also supports three other women’s business centers in North Carolina. The WWBC offers one-on-one counseling to meet each prospective entrepreneur’s needs. “All of them are very smart,” Oxendine says, “but they may never have heard of a business plan or overhead costs or variable costs.

We are there to help bridge that lack of business knowledge and help them through the loan application.” Another way the WWBC provides access is by fitting into women entrepreneurs’ tight schedules. “We try to meet with them in their lunch hour, or early mornings, or late evenings — even on the weekend. It’s not just 9 to 5,” she explains. “Most of our entrepreneurs are working another job, and they aren’t going to quit that until they have their business totally up and running.” Once a business has been launched, coaches from the WWBC monitor client success through site visits. “That’s different from a bank,” Oxendine says. “We look at their financials, look at the business, see how many people are there,” she continues. That firsthand experience and observation of the business provides the basis for additional coaching and support. Wright says her success in getting her business off the ground is proof of the value of what WWBC provides. “I encourage anyone to go to them. They will help you. They see your passion and feel your passion. And they want you to succeed. I am so grateful,” she enthuses.

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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY The WWBC serves many women who are members of minority groups. In Latino culture, explains Carolina Small Business Development Fund staff member Victor Palomino, women are seen as powerful figures. “Women run the household and support the family. In our tradition,” he continues, “women are used to carrying a lot of responsibility from an early age, and immigrants bring that ethic to this country.” Instead of an individual endeavor, Palomino says, WWBC clients tend to see their entrepreneurial path as “a family and community journey.” Many want to give back to their communities from the time they first launch their businesses. He mentions a client who hopes to start a bakery. Her ambition is inspired by fond memories of visiting a bakery with her husband when they were first married. “They didn’t have a lot of money,” Palomino explains, “and it was a nice ritual for them. She wants to make that kind of place for other people, where they can have an ice cream or a pastry and enjoy themselves.”

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N EWS Speaking of her clients’ enthusiasm for serving others in the community, Oxendine notes, “We sometimes have to reel them in a little. We say, first get yourself on a solid footing, and then you can start thinking about all the things you want to do for other people.” According to Oxendine, Latina entrepreneurs also give a lot of thought to how a business will mesh with family responsibilities. In Hispanic culture, she says, day care is not commonly used. Thus, entrepreneurship offers a way to care for children while earning a living and building familial wealth. Palomino speaks of another Latina client who started a cleaning service with just one client. Now she has a full schedule of clients, including some commercial accounts, and she is creating jobs for others. “At the same time,” he says, “she is keeping her family together.” As her business grows, this entrepreneur is exploring additional opportunities for growth and is considering hiring someone to help her with bookkeeping. “She’s starting to see real numbers,” Palomino reveals. The ultimate goal is for WWBC clients to become bankable on their own. “That person who can get a bank loan

During the more than 20 years that I’ve owned and operated One Center Yoga, I’ve “enjoyed” my share of business ups and downs. Sometimes, I’d be so challenged that I would forget to practice what I teach in every yoga class: Accept what is. Breathe. Get on the mat to get out of your head and find your center. I know firsthand how hard it is to set aside time to relax and recharge, but I’ve learned that taking care of my own health directly relates to taking care of the health of my business. For me, yoga sustains my energy and helps me manage stress. I’d like to give you the chance to experience how yoga can support you as a business owner. If you have never been to One Center, please come and take a class as my guest. Just mention that you saw this offer in Mountain Xpress. And breathe. See you on the mat. — Cindy Dollar

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is usually well on her way to building an asset and building wealth,” Oxendine says. OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT Since this year’s second annual Women’s Business Conference, which was held at the U.S. Cellular Center in June, Oxendine says, the volume of both inquiries and loans is up at the WWBC. The conference, she continues, offers support and allows people to see the full range of resources that are available. “It’s a place where women make some huge decisions about how they will proceed in following their dreams. They also find the people in their tribe who can work with them and support them.” In addition to the WWBC, many other resources exist to support women, minorities and other entrepreneurs in Western North Carolina. OnTrack WNC Financial Education and Counseling, for example, will present its Women and Money conference on Oct. 22 in Asheville (avl.mx/30s). The half-day conference will offer workshops for small-business owners or prospective entrepreneurs, includ-

ing sessions on turning your side hustle into a business, marketing for small business, making the leap away from public assistance, repairing or establishing credit and navigating financial transitions, among others. Local networking groups aimed at supporting and empowering women include the American Business Women’s Association Sky-Hy Chapter (www.abwaskyhy.com) and the WNC Women Entrepreneurs Meetup group (avl.mx/30r), both of which hold monthly meetings. Asheville SCORE also hosts monthly Women’s Roundtable Events at the Small Business Center on the A-B Tech Enka campus (avl.mx/006). Mountain BizWorks is another organization that provides counseling, loans and education to area entrepreneurs, including many women and minorities (see article in this issue of Xpress, “She’s the boss”). The Small Business and Technology Development Center at Western Carolina University has offices in both Asheville and Cullowhee to advise small-business owners and help them access capital (avl.mx/30z), while the Small Business Center at A-B Tech’s

Enka campus is another source of training and support (avl.mx/310). For entrepreneurs who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as well as residents of the seven far-western counties of the state, the Sequoyah Fund provides training and business loans from $1,000 to $150,000 (avl.mx/311). Over the years she’s been doing this work, Oxendine says, it’s “gotten much easier for women to believe they can actually start their own businesses.” In years past, she says, “We used to see more hesitations with self-confidence and self-esteem.” These days, however, Oxendine’s clients display “a lot more willingness to take a risk, maybe because there are so many entrepreneurs who are providing that example of success.” With businesses like Andrea Wright’s My Sisters and I demonstrating the possibilities, entrepreneurial women in WNC — with the support of the WWBC and other local resources — appear poised to pursue their business dreams, give back to their communities, encourage one another, support their families and build wealth for future generations. X

www.rockdollvintage.com We’re a mother and daughter business at Rock Doll Vintage and excited to be approaching our one-year anniversary here in downtown Asheville. We enjoy the opportunity to spend time working together on what we love. Hunting for fresh vintage items sourced from all over the U.S. on a regular basis is a passion of ours. We’re very proud of our hand-selected inventory and you can be sure everything is lovingly cleaned and repaired to meet our standard of selling quality vintage items. We offer an extensive selection of vintage clothing, accessories and jewelry from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. You can find dresses and accessories for any occasion…from 50’s cotton day dresses to a selection of 20’s silk flapper dresses. Our store carries midcentury housewares and kitchen items including a large collection of beautiful glassware. Unique gift items are always in store! Katie and Annie pride themselves on helping customers find flattering vintage pieces that suit their taste. Please come visit our friendly, family-run business in downtown Asheville!

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Wake Foot Sanctuary was born in May 2013 with the mission to provide service excellence with a strong leadership culture. Nestled in the historic Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville, Wake’s services and space provide an escape from chaotic and bustling times.

We are incredibly grateful for the Asheville community’s embrace of our mission and shared spa experience. We’re heading toward our fourth year of providing soak and massage services to the weary feet of the Asheville area and couldn’t be more honored. Wake’s team has grown into a family, and we include all our guests in that designation. We find that there is something very special about tending to someone in a quiet, pampering and, at times, ceremonial way. We are mindful that even the small act of making someone a pot of tea and serving it to them while they relax in a cozy chair can be transformative. We all know some people who haven’t taken the time to breathe deeply and take care of themselves, perhaps for a day, a week or a much longer time. We are here to remind them that they deserve some good pampering.

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SUSTAINABLE SEAS Heidi Dunlap has always had her sea legs. The first six years of her life were spent sailing the world with her family, and she was working as a boat deckhand at the age of 15. Dunlap has fished for wild salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska, for 20 consecutive years. And, since 2010, she and her partner, Steve Maher, have turned this effort into the Wild Salmon Co. — a venture that brings their Alaska harvest back every fall to sell in Asheville markets. “There are approximately 1,600 boats that fish in Bristol Bay every year, and I’d guess that less than 10 percent are [operated by] women,” Dunlap says. “But there are substantially more women fishing than there were 10 years ago.” And while many of the world’s fisheries are becoming depleted, the salmon in Bristol Bay are as abundant as ever. In fact, the summer 2016 salmon run had 51 million fish — the second-highest total in 20 years. Dunlap credits this trend to the bay’s undisturbed natural habitat and firm fishing regulations. “Biology dictates the management of Bristol Bay, not politics or fisherman pressure,” she says. “This is one of the only extractive resource industries in the world where we can harvest

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half of the resource each season, and it still replenishes itself year after year.” The Wild Salmon Co. continues sustainable thinking through its methods of transportation. “We ship our fish from Alaska to Seattle by tug and barge, which is the most carbon-efficient way to transport millions of tons of goods,” Dunlap says. Then, instead of using the popular air-shipping method, “a trucking company drives from Seattle to our cold-storage in Flat Rock.” Once in Asheville, Dunlap spends the fall selling fish to customers in the region through local markets, food co-ops and restaurants, as well as to 27 regional buying clubs reaching as far as Raleigh and Atlanta. She believes that offering her products can help combat the frequent mislabeling of wild-caught Pacific salmon in grocery stores and restaurants, which are often actually farmed Atlantic salmon. Her fish are available at Nine Mile and The Market Place, and Dunlap would love to source to more restaurants on a seasonal basis. They can also be ordered online at thewildsalmonco.com. REVIVING TRADITION As a seventh-generation resident of Madison County, family history plays a large role in Brandi Morrow’s artisan pickling business. Morrow opened Green River Picklers with her business partner and fiancé, Beau Martin, in 2011, and both were inspired to revive the pickling traditions of their family elders. Together, the two produce seven pickled vegetable varieties — okra, beans, beets, jalapeños and three flavors of cucumbers – at their production facility in Zirconia. “I think about sustainability as closing the loop, so that any waste comes back and becomes something else,” Morrow says. Her conviction comes from personal experience: Decades ago, Morrow’s family farm was lost to eminent domain and turned into a landfill. “Sustainable waste management was one of my biggest passions for getting into the busi-

ness, because I know where waste goes,” she says. Morrow tackles this issue from a number of angles, including using excess produce from local farms and seeking out environmentally conscious ink and adhesive for jar labels. Even the backings of her labels are returned to a company in Mills River to become postcomposite wood decking. “There’s a lot of work to do as far as food and environmental legislation goes, but running my own business, I get to create the rules for how we operate and set the standard higher than the law,” she says. Morrow adds that a strong part of her business philosophy is “co-opitition — not thinking of ourselves as in competition with other artisan producers and farmers, but promoting each other and building each other up,” she says. “There’s a strong network of business owners, especially women, that find ourselves consulting with one another, and the people I vend with at markets become co-workers in a way.” Morrow hopes her business can grow enough to become employee-owned and that she can bring sustainable food to new audiences. “The foodie scene in Asheville is growing so much … and those are our people. But at the same

time, I still want to reach the people I grew up with,” she says. CULTURAL BLEND In 2001, Martha Alejeo and her two young sons emigrated from Puebla, Mexico, to join her husband, Rafael Alejeo, in Asheville. She began working as a dishwasher in a now-closed restaurant in Fairview and was offered a position baking at Sunny Point Café in 2008. There, she was first exposed to vegetarian and gluten-free baking. “Little by little, I learned to work with fresh and local ingredients to fit dietary needs I’d never heard of in Mexico,” she says. After over 14 years of working in the restaurant industry, the couple followed a long-held dream and used their savings to open their own business, Abeja’s House Café, on Hendersonville Road in 2015. “Rafael had mastered working in the kitchen, and I’d mastered the bakery,” Martha says. “We came together and said, ‘Why don’t we open something of our own?’” The menu at Abeja’s House features locally sourced Americana brunch food with what Alejeo calls a “Latino touch,”

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SUSTAINABLE CATCH: Heidi Dunlap has spent 20 straight summers fishing for wild Pacific salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska, using sustainable methods. She now co-owns the Wild Salmon Co. with her partner, Steve Maher, and brings her harvest back to sell in Asheville markets every fall. Photo courtesy of Heidi Dunlap

Molly de Mattos helped form The Matt & Molly Team in 2011. Since joining forces with Matt Tavener, she has helped lead one of the top real estate teams in the Carolinas. Molly and her amazing team have been voted No. 1 Real Estate Agent in Western North Carolina four years running. They’ve also been recognized by Keller Williams International and continue to have fun doing what they love. With a culture of constant improvement, The Matt & Molly Team works to ensure that you, their clients, receive the best advice to help you reach your real estate goals and dreams. BE

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SUSTAINABLE MIX: Abeja’s House Cafe owner Martha Alejeo say that although traditional Mexican cuisine often doesn’t have a focus on sustainabilty, her business draws inspiration from Asheville’s local food movement to create a tasty and sustainable blend. apparent in dishes like her Mexican omelette with pico de gallo and chorizo sausage (sourced from Hickory Nut Gap farm) and gluten-sensitive Mexican chilaquiles. The café has already met with great success — it’s the only brunch spot in Asheville to hold a five-star rating on Yelp. Traditional Mexican cuisine is far from healthy, Martha says, and often has little focus on sustainability. But the Abeja’s menu blends the Alejeos’

Mexican culinary background into the local food movement. “The Latino community [in Asheville] is focusing more on healthy eating and sustainability, and Abeja’s is an accessible way to continue that,” Martha says. As a native Spanish speaker, Alejeo plans to continue her English-language education and eventually move her restaurant to a larger location with room for a garden where she can directly harvest organic ingredients. X

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As a nutrition therapist and consultant, she works with her clients to establish a sustainable relationship with food and movement. Michelle is proud to be a facilitator of T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating in Asheville. Michelle’s philosophy is “progress and improvement … not perfection!” She comes from a place without judgment around food and movement that has been proven to help her clients be successful and feel empowered. Employment and internship opportunities are available through her corporation, WNC Nutrition Counseling and Services.

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A lot of people don’t understand when I say, ‘Prison saved my life,’ but it truly did,” says Trudy Bowman. Bowman was released from Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women in April. After five years behind bars, the grandmother of three wasn’t sure of her next steps, but she was positive that she didn’t want to return to addiction and crime. Before release, Bowman enrolled in Project Re-Entry, a partnership between Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina and the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, which provides transition services for former offenders returning to 23 North Carolina counties, including Buncombe. Project Re-entry works with the N.C. Department of Public Safety to provide pre- and post-release services starting up to 18 months prior to release. Long-term services continue after release. Dana Bartlett, Goodwill program manager and Project Re-Entry coordinator, says she was struck by Bowman’s attitude; she didn’t miss a single one of 16 prerelease classes. Days after her release, Bowman was on her way to meet with Bartlett when she noticed a “help wanted” sign at a local restaurant. She didn’t hesitate. “I was very honest with the staff. I explained my situation, and they gave me a chance,” she says. The restaurant hired Bowman on the spot. She’s already earned one promotion and hopes to be promoted to shift manager once she completes probation: “I’m in a management position now. It was a great feeling when they offered me that position.” Achievements that most take for granted are milestones for Bowman. At work, she is “trusted with keys to a store and keys to a safe.” She started saving $25 per paycheck, then $40, then $100. “Don’t think you can do everything at once,” she says. “Take it one step at a time, because it’s difficult … It’s like that saying, ‘You’ve got to crawl before you can walk.’ You really do.” In prison, Bowman completed a drug-treatment program. Today, she says her proudest accomplishment is staying clean: “My children didn’t trust me when I first got out. But over time, they’ve seen how I’m dedicated to changing. I called my son just to tell him about my day, and he said, ‘Mom, I’m so proud of you. How does that make you feel?’ I said, ‘It makes me feel good that I’ve come this far.’ I don’t ever want my children to have a doubt in their mind that their mother is living clean. Life’s great. It truly is.” Bowman also earned a basic culinary degree and plans to take hospitality classes with A-B Tech and Goodwill. She hopes to open her own restaurant someday. Starting over in midlife after facing so many obstacles would discourage many people, but not Bowman. “She’s resilient,” Bartlett says. “She keeps on keepin’ on. She isn’t going to stop when she gets discouraged. She continues to persevere.”

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sleep,” she says. “The thing that I’ve learned the most is you make a list of what you’re good at. You have to take ego out of it and ask, ‘Am I most effective here?’ Then, you either learn to do it better or hire someone who will be better.” In 2010, Schroeder moved to Asheville to focus exclusively on manufacturing. She introduced wallets, guitar straps and flasks alongside the leather journal. The business continued to grow. Her experience in the music world helped her navigate the inevitable business growing pains. “In some ways, the problems you have to solve as a midsize band are similar to those of a midsized company,” she says. Improvisation is the best way to deal with these challenges: “Adaptability is maybe the most important thing as a small-business owner and employee.” Despite the rapid growth, Schroeder maintains an easy atmosphere on her production floor, a large industrial space in West Asheville. Pets patter about, musical instruments are tucked under tables, and employees casually chat while fulfilling orders. “I need a friendly, happy place with our dogs. That’s how I’m creative and at my best,” she says. It also works for her employees. “The people want to be here, and they also want to see the business win.” Her energy and optimism are palpable and fuel not only her business, but others as well. Schroeder recently returned after being invited to speak on multiple panels at the annual Etsy corporate conference in New York. Last year, In Blue Handmade won the FedEx Small Business grant, which came with $25,000 and a seat on FedEx’s Entrepreneurial Advisory Board. When asked what advice she gives to people starting out, Schroeder emphasizes the importance of being yourself. “When I have failed, it’s because I went against my gut,” she says. “You have to be yourself. Everybody wants to give you advice, and that’s great, but you should really be pursuing what your idea of a great company is. Picture the best pathway and make it happen.” To learn more, visit Etsy.com/shop/ inblue or inbluehandmade.com X

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ANIMALS BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY 692-2639, blueridgehumane.org • WE (10/19), 6pm - Pet adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE 505-3440, bwar.org • SA (10/15), 11am-2pm - Brother Wolf animal adoption event and vegan cookout. $5 or pet food donation. Held at StoneCreek Health & Rehabilitation, 455 Victoria Road FULL MOON FARM WOLFDOG RESCUE 664-9818, fullmoonfarm.org • WE (10/12), 5pm - Proceeds from this fundraiser with wolf dogs benefits Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Sanctuary. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville • SU (10/15), 3-6pm - "October Howl," farm tour and potluck. Register for location: 664-9818. $5. ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 337 Charlotte St., 254-5836, stmarysasheville.org

‘WRITING BETWEEN THE BORDERS’: Ten area poets, participants in Nickole Brown’s Great Smokies Writing Program workshop at UNC Asheville, will read from their works at the next Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café Writers at Home event on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 3 p.m. Brown’s ‘Writing Between the Borders’ workshop delves into hybrid forms, including prose, poetry, novels-in-verse and other cross-genre experiments. Brown, formerly editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson, is the author of the cross-genre collection Fanny Says and Sister, a novel in poems. For more information about the Great Smokies Writing Program and the Writers at Home series, email Tommy Hays at thays@unca. edu. Photo of Nickole Brown courtesy of the Great Smokies Writing Program (p. 28)

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BENEFITS ASHEVILLE AFFILIATES affiliatesofasheville.com • TH (10/13), 6-9pm - Proceeds from "Throwback Thursday," dj dance party benefit Asheville Affiliate nonprofits. $15 includes 2 beers and raffle ticket. Held at Catawba Brewing South Slope, 32 Banks Ave., Suite 105 ASHEVILLE BROWNS BACKERS CLUB 658-4149, ashevillebbw@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 1pm - Proceeds raised at this weekly social group supporting the Cleveland Browns benefit local charities. Free to attend. Held at The Social, 1078 Tunnel Road ASHEVILLE LYRIC OPERA ashevillelyric.org/ • TH (10/13), 5:30-7pm- Proceeds from this reception with performances from the new American opera benefit the Asheville Lyric Opera. Registration: 236-0670 or info@ashevillelyric.com. $20 and up. Held at Harry's On the Hill, 819 Patton Ave.

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BLACK & WHITE GALLERY GALA tryonartsandcrafts.org • FR (10/14) 6-9pm - Proceeds from this black and white costumed gala reception for the Black & White Gallery exhibition benefit the Tryon Arts and Crafts School. $20. Held at Tryon Arts and Crafts School, 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE 505-3440, bwar.org • MO (10/17), 6pm - Proceeds from the "Bow Wow Film Festival," fundraiser benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville CAROLINA DAY SCHOOL GOLF TOURNAMENT tcogburn@carolinaday.org • FR (10/14), 9am-2pm - Proceeds from this golf tournament benefit the Carolina Day School Bell Fund. $125/$500 per team. Held at The Omni Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. CIDERFEST NC 254.1995, ciderfestnc.com • SA (10/15), 1-5pm - Proceeds from this apple cider event with cider, mead and wine makers, food vendors, live music, workshops and

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Times bestselling author Wiley Cash and comedy by Clifton Cash benefit the Literacy Council of Buncombe County. $75. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. MOUNTAIN CLASSIC CAR SHOW abccm.org/upcoming-events • SA (10/15), 10am - Proceeds from the 7th Annual Mountain Car Classic benefit Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry's programs and services for veterans. $25 registration for cars/ Free to attend. Held at Veterans Restoration Quarters, 1329 Tunnel Road YANCEY COUNTY DREAM HOME TOUR mayland.edu/yancey-county-dreamhome-tour • FR (10/15), 10am-5pm - Proceeds from the Yancey County Dream Home Tour benefit Mayland Community College. $45. Tickets and map are available at the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce, 106 W Main St,, Burnsville SALUDA HISTORIC DEPOT GOLF TOURNAMENT SaludaHistoricDepot.com • MO (10/17), 9:30am - Proceeds from this golf tournament benefit the Saluda Historic Depot. $125.

THOMAS WOLFE 8K thomaswolfe8k.com • SA (10/15), 8am - Proceeds from this 8K run benefit the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. $40 with shirt/$35 with shirt advance/$35 no shirt/$30 no shirt advance. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St. TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER 4066 Pea Ridge Road, Mill Spring, tryon.com • FR (10/14), 6-10pm - Proceeds from this "Oktoberfest" reception benefit the Equestrian Aid Foundation. Tickets: equestrianaidfoundation.org/. $65.

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WRITE AT HOME: North Carolina-raised brothers Wiley, pictured right, and Cliff Cash, left, are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Authors for Literacy fundraiser. Wiley released his second Carolina-set novel This Dark Road to Mercy in 2014, and he’s currently a writer-inresidence at UNC Asheville. Cliff, on the other hand, explores his views of Southern living on comedy stages. Photos courtesy of Cliff and Wiley Cash WHAT: Authors for Literacy dinner, auction and speech, benefiting the Literacy Council of Buncombe County WHERE: Renaissance Asheville Hotel WHEN: Friday, Oct. 14, from 6-9 p.m. WHY: This year marks the ninth annual iteration of the Authors for Literacy event, which was originally conceived by a volunteer for the Literacy Council. Since then, the event has grown to be “our biggest fundraiser of the year — not only to raise money, but to raise awareness,” says the nonprofit’s development director, LuAnn Arena. Wilmington-based author and literacy supporter Wiley Cash, who became a New York Times best-seller with his debut novel A Land More Kind Than Home, will deliver the 2016 keynote speech. His Southern-inspired books impose dark and twisted circumstances on youthful lead characters. With no set guidelines, he’s free to take this talk in any direction, though. “[Authors] have their own ideas in mind, and it’s always good,” Arena says of past presentations. “This year, it’s going to be unique in that Wiley’s brother Cliff, who is a comedian, is co-presenting. … It was Wiley’s idea.” Cliff, who will act as emcee for the evening, wins his laughs by dethroning the unworldly mindsets that often thrive under warm, Southern condi-

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tions — a skill that’s earned him praise from Comedy Central, among other outlets. He’s got an additional, headlining show booked at The Altamont Theatre for Thursday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. Fellow comic David Ostergaard will preside over Authors for Literacy’s FundA-Need segment (wherein attendees pledge money to a specific council program), and he’ll administer a new live auction, featuring three big-ticket travel packages. Smaller items like artwork and gift certificates will be offered through a silent auction during the initial cocktail hour, from 6-7 p.m. As attendees enjoy an intricate dinner by chef Richard Petrelli of Renaissance Asheville Hotel, they’ll also hear testimonials from two Literacy Council students. Proceeds from the evening aid the Literacy Council’s ongoing programming (book donations, tutoring and more) for individuals of all ages, including participants in its biggest cohort: English for Speakers of Other Languages. In all, the nonprofit serves about 750 people annually. General admission tickets are $75 per person. VIP tickets, which include a reception with the Cash brothers, cost $500 per pair. Visit litcouncil.com or call 254-3442, ext. 206 to purchase tickets or for more information. X

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BUNCOMBE COUNTY SENIOR DEMOCRATS 274-4482 • TH (10/13), 6pm - General meeting and potluck with guest speaker John Ager. $5 or bring potluck dish to share. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 227-7397, wcu.edu • WE (10/12), 7pm - Political debate between opponents for the N.C. House of Representatives District 119:incumbent Joe Sam Queen (D-Haywood) against Mike Clampitt (R-Swain). Free. Held in room 204 of the Health and Human Sciences Building WOODFIN COMMUNITY CENTER 11 Community St., Woodfin • FR (10/14), 5:30-7:30pm - Town hall meeting with Representative John Ager. Free.

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CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 322-8169, catawbascience.org • Through (12/31) - Sonic Sensation, interactive exhibition focused on science and hearing. Admission fees apply. CREATION CARE ALLIANCE OF WNC creationcarealliance.org • SA (10/15), 1-6:30pm - Middle & high school youth groups join Asheville Youth Mission and Creation Care Alliance for an afternoon of service and discussion at various local agencies. $20. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville, 40 Church St. DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • WE (10/19), 10am - Parsons Dance concert. Recommended for grades 3-12. $9.50. • TH (10/20), 9:30am & noon Twelfth Night. Recommended for grades 6-12. $8.50. • TH (10/20), 9:30am & noon Twelfth Night, Warehouse Theatre. Recommended for grades 6-12. $8.50.

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COM M U N I TY CA LEN DA R FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 6871218, library.hendersoncountync. org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (10/12), 10am - Mary Parry presents her book, Sadie McGrady Runs for President. Free to attend. • WE (10/12), 7pm - Lidija Dimkovska presents her novel, A Spare Life. Free to attend. • TH (10/13), 7pm - Megan Shepherd presents her middle grade novel, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill. Free to attend. • WE (10/19), 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Presentation of Kenny Loggins book, Footloose. Free to attend. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • MO (10/17), 9-11am - "Nature Nuts: Nocturnal Animals," presentation with craft and story time and outdoor activity. For ages 4-7. Free. • MO (10/17), 1-3pm - "Eco Explorers: Mountain Habitats," presentation and hands-on exploration for ages 8 and older. Free. PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (10/13), 9am-2pm - "Media Career workshop for high school students. $15 includes lunch. Registration: uncahighschoolmediaday.wordpress.com. Held in Highsmith Union, Alumni Hall SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend. THE VANISHING WHEELCHAIR 175 Weaverville Highway, Suite L, 645-2941, VanishingWheelchair.org • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm “Magic, Mirth & Meaning,” familyfriendly, hour-long storytelling singing, juggling and magic production. Admission by donation. TWO SISTERS FARMSTEAD 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler, 707-4236, twosistersfarmstead.org • SA (10/15), 10am-noon or 1-3pm - "Family Discovery Day," with farm tour and family activities. Bring your own picnic lunch at noon. Free. UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOMBE 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-0696, unitedwayabc.org • TH (10/13), 7pm- Megan

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OUTDOORS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov • FR (10/14), 10am - Blue Ridge Parkway Hike of the Week “A Fire Tower in Fall,” ranger-led easy to moderate 2 mile hike to Fryingpan Fire Tower. Free. Meet at MP 409.6 • FR (9/16), 10am - Hike of the Week: “Protecting Our Resources,” ranger-led, moderate, 2-mile round trip hike on a section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail that overlooks the North Fork Reservoir. Free. Held at MP 361.2 BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • SA (10/15), 1-3pm - "Walk On The Wild Side," ranger presentation about bear, bobcat, turkey and other animals. Free. Meet at MP 296 • SA (10/15), 7pm - "Heart and Soul: Music of the Native American Flute," flute playing by Lee Entrekin, storytelling and campfire. Free. Held at MP 296 • SA (10/15), 7pm - "What’s the Point?," presentation about arrowheads by rangers. Free. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 DAVIDSON'S FORT HISTORIC PARK Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 668-4831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (10/15), 10am - Monthly garrison day with docents in period attire and displays. Admission by donation. ELIADA 2 Compton Drive, 2545356 • Through SU (10/23) - Proceeds from the Eliada outdoor corn maze with kids activities benefit Eliada kids and families. See website for full schedule: eliada.org. $15/$10 for ages 4-16/Free under 4. GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, 733-4337, grandfather.com • TH (10/13), 5pm - Watch the sunset from the Mile High Swinging Bridge. Registration required: frank@grandfather.com or 7332013. $10/$5 members. • TU (10/18), 5pm - Watch the sunset from the Mile High Swinging Bridge. Registration required: frank@grandfather.com or 7332013. $10/$5 members. • TH (10/20), 5pm - Watch the sunset from the Mile High Swinging Bridge. Registration required: frank@grandfather.com or 733-

2013. $10/$5 members. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 584-7728 • FR (10/14), 9:45am - "Island Hopping Boat Tour," ranger-led boat tour of the islands of Lake James. Registration required. Free. PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1 PARI Drive Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (10/14), 7pm - "Cold War Spy in the Sky Now Provides an Eye on the Cosmos," campus tour, night sky viewing and presentation about a cold war satellite dish being used by students. Registration required. $20/$15 students & seniors/Free for children under 10. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • FR (10/14), 9am-3pm - "Fishing the Dry Fly," workshop for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • SA (10/15), 9am-1pm - "Outdoor Smart Phone Photography," workshop for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/NewMeeting-information.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY 321-271-4593, psabc.org • SA (10/15), 2pm - Self-guided walking tour of riverside cemetery. $10. Held at Historic Riverside Cemetery, 53 Birch St.

PARENTING YOUTH OUTRIGHT 866-881-3721, youthoutright.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am - Middle school discussion group. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

PUBLIC LECTURES PUBLIC LECTURES AT BREVARD COLLEGE 884-8251, raintrlh@brevard.edu • TU (10/18), 9am-noon - “A Hillbilly Hankering” presentation with a focus on how the media portrays hillbilly stereotypes presented by Upscale Appalachia. Registration required: upscaleappalachia@gmail.com or 577-5318. $25. Held in M 113.

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COM M U N I TY CA LEN DA R CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 253-2325, cslasheville.org • WEDNESDAYS through (11/2), 7pm - Class series Exploring the 12 touchstones of Emma Curtis Hopkins that were the mystical impetus in the Science of Mind movement. Admission by donation. • TUESDAYS, 10:30-11:30am - Science of Mind magazine discussions. Free. CREATION CARE ALLIANCE OF WNC creationcarealliance.org • SA (10/15), 1-6:30pm "Mission Earth," workshop about spirituality and care for the planet for local youth groups. Registration required. $20. Held at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, 57 Sugar Hollow Road, Fairview FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SWANNANOA 503 Park St., Swannanoa • SU (10/16), 9:30am - The Dixie Melody Boys, Southern Gospel quartet. Free. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave., W. Hendersonville, 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SA (10/15), 10am - "Jesus after the Holocausts,” lecture by James Carroll. $25. • SA (10/15), 1pm - "The Future of Jesus Christ,” lecture by James Carroll. $25. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave., W. Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1pm - Healing prayer gathering. Free. • THURSDAYS (10/20) through (11/3), 10am - "Martin Luther: The Catechism and Music" seminar series. Free. UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • SA (10/15), 10am - "The Twelve Rays" workshop with Mike Love & Richard Schulman. Registration required: 669.6845. $25/$20 advance.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (10/12), 7pm - "Do Not Lose Heart: We Were Made For These Times," an evening with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. $40.

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BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (10/18), 7pm - Black Mountain Mystery Book Club: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffith. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (10/18), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (10/20), 2:30pm - Skyland Book Club: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. Free. Due to early voting, the club will meet at the Biltmore Park Clubhouse, 1067 Columbine Road • TH (10/20) & FR (10/21), 10am-5pm & SA (10/22), 10am4pm - Annual Antique and Collectible Books Sale. Free to attend. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • SA (10/15), 3pm - RF Wilson presents his two new mystery novels, Killer Weed and Deadly Dancing. Free to attend. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am Book Club. Free. • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm Writers' Guild. Free. HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TH (10/13), 6:15pm - Dacre Stoker presentation about Bram Stoker and Dracula. Free. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • FR (10/14), 7pm - Rev. Dr. Swami Shraddhananda presents their book, A Short Book About Killing. Free to attend. • SA (10/15), 3pm - Alan Gratz presents his novels, The Monster War and Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II. Free to attend. • SU (10/16), 3pm - "Writers at home Reading Series," with host Tommy Haya and work from the UNCA Great Smokies Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review. Free to attend. • TU (10/18), 7pm - Martha

Strawn presents her book, Across the Threshold of India. Free to attend. • WE (10/19), 7pm - An evening with Malaprop's publisher representatives. Free to attend. • TH (10/20), 7pm - Selena Einwechter presents her book, Courage is Abundant in the Abstract. Free to attend. ODDITORIUM 1045 Haywood Road, 575-9299 • WE (10/12), 7:30pm Storytelling open mic with the theme "eye spy: stories about watching, being watched." Admission by donation. SALUDA HISTORIC DEPOT 32 W. Main St., Saluda, facebook.com/savesaludadepot/ • SA (10/15), 7pm - "Stoker on Stoker," multimedia presentation by Dacre Stoker about the Writing of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. $10. • SU (10/16), 1-3pm - "A Modern Day Tour of Transylvania," book signing and multimedia presentation by Dacre Stoker. $10. THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 North Market St., 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (10/13), 5pm "Conversation with Wolfe's Parents," dramatic reading sponsored by the Wilma Dykeman Legacy. Free.

SPORTS AMATEUR POOL LEAGUE (PD.) • Beginners welcome & wanted! Asheville, Arden, or Waynesville. HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. 828-3298197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/Parks/ • Through MO (12/19) - Open registration for the winter adult dodge ball league. $30 per player.

VOLUNTEERING TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) • Literacy and English language skills help people rise out of poverty and support their families. Volunteer and give someone a second chance to learn. Sign up for volunteer orientation on 11/2 (9:00 a.m.) or 11/3

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(5:30 p.m.) by emailing volunteers@litcouncil. com. www.litcouncil.com BOUNTY & SOUL 419-0533, bountyandsoul.org • Through TU (10/25) - Volunteers needed to assist with the Wednesday, Oct. 26, 4:307:30pm "Felicidad y Salud" celebration of health and wellnes. Seeking Spanish speakers to assist with translating for agencies, in the children's area, at sampling stations and throughout the event. Registration: bountyandsoul.org.

TIP Project No. I-4400/I-4700 The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will hold a public hearing on Thursday, October 13, beginning with an open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m., followed by a formal presentation at 7 p.m. at the Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road in Arden. The project proposes to widen approximately 22 miles of I-26 in Buncombe and Henderson Counties from U.S. 25 (Greenville Highway) in Henderson County to I-40/I-240 interchange in Buncombe County, including reconstruction of the existing pavement. The Blue Ridge Parkway structure over I-26 is proposed to be replaced as part of this project and the National Park Service-Blue Ridge Parkway is a Cooperating Agency for the project. The purpose of this project is to meet future travel demands for the I-26 corridor and to improve insufficient pavement structure and deteriorating road conditions. The Federal Highway Administration approved the environmental document; a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), in August 2016.

ELIADA 2 Compton Drive, 254-5356 • WE (9/14) through WE (10/19) - Volunteers (over age 18) needed to help with the Eliada corn maze. Registration: goo.gl/mpfxs1. HANDS ON ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org • WE (10/12), 5-7pm - Volunteer to help keep up with the maintenance of the Verner Community Garden. Registration required. • SA (10/15), 2-5pm - Volunteer to help accept donations at the Habitat ReStore. Registration required. • SU (10/16), 1-2:30pm - Volunteer to knit hats for community members in need. All skill levels welcome. Registration required. • MO (10/17), 6-8:30pm - Volunteer to help bake homemade cookies for hospice patients and their families at CarePartners' John Keever Solace Center. Registration required. • TU (10/18), 4-6pm - Volunteer to assist with unpacking and pricing the merchandise in a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store. Registration required. HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend. NATIONAL MS SOCIETY & WNC MS COMMUNITY 704-525-2955, walkms.org, jsutton2@earthlink.net • Through FR (10/14) - Open registration for volunteers to participate in the "MS Service Day Fall Cleaning" event to help assist individuals and families living with MS. Registration: www.mscommunitywnc.org. Free. RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES redcrosswnc.org • Ongoing - Volunteer as a Blood Donor Ambassador to help blood donors feel welcome and comfortable, sign them in and visit with them while giving out snacks and beverages after they donate blood. Shifts vary, but are generally 3-5 hours. Registration: www.redcross.org/volunteer, alison.gibbons@redcross.org or 333-9296. For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/volunteering

The purpose of this hearing is to provide information about the project and receive public input. Interested individuals may attend the prehearing open house at any time during the above hours. NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Written comments can be submitted at the meeting or later by November 14, 2016. The formal presentation at 7 pm will include an explanation of the location and design of each widening alternative, the state-federal funding relationship and right of way procedures. The presentation and comments received will be recorded and included in the alternative selection and design process. A copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and maps displaying the alternatives are available for public review at the locations listed below. • • • • • • • •

NCDOT Division 13 Office, 55 Orange Street, Asheville. NCDOT Division 14- District 1 Office, 4142 Haywood Road, Mills River. French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140, Asheville. National Park Service, 199 Hemphill Knob Road, Asheville. South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville. The document and maps are also available online at http://www.ncdot.org/projects/i26Widening and http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/ Document (DEIS) only at: • Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza. • Hendersonville City Hall, 145 5th Avenue East, 2nd floor. • Fletcher Town Hall, 300 Old Cane Creek Road. • Buncombe County Planning, 46 Valley Street, Asheville. • Henderson County Planning, 100 North King Street, Hendersonville. The US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, will be issuing a public notice describing the ongoing process in choosing the LEDPA (Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative) for the subject project, under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. That public notice will be available at this website: http://www.saw.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory-Permit-Program/Public-Notices/. For additional information, contact Anamika Laad at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, 27699-1598, by email at alaad@ncdot.gov, by phone at (919) 707-6072, or by fax at (919) 212-5785. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this hearing. Anyone requiring special services should contact Ms. Laad as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the hearing by calling 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. Если вы говорите только по-русски или вам трудно читать и воспринимать информацию на английском, мы можем предоставить вам услуги переводчика. Пожалуйста позвоните по тел. 1-800-481-6494 предворительно до собрания чтобы запросить помощь.

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BY EMILY NICHOLS emilynicholsphoto@gmail.com Corinna Wood, founder of The Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, says she has always been a woman in business, specifically in “women-owned, womenrun businesses.” “When I was 22, Jessica Godino and I started Red Moon Herbs, and I ran that for 20 years. Along the way, I birthed Southeast Wise Women,” says Wood. Inspired by the women’s herbal conferences popping up in the Northeast and across the country in the 1990s, Wood starting thinking that the Southeast would be eager for this kind of gathering. This year’s 12th annual conference will take place at Lake Eden in Black Mountain, Friday-Sunday, Oct. 14-16. The conference celebrated its first event in 2005, with approximately 200 women attending. Since then, attendance has grown to over 1,000, in addition to several year-round staff members, dozens of seasonal staff members, hundreds of volunteers and a vendor marketplace — all made up of women, says Wood. “What we quickly discovered was that the community was more than ready, that the conference is filling a hunger for the Wise Woman Ways in this region,” she says. With over 60 classes on a wide range of topics — including plant identification, herbs and traditional medicine, health and healing, women’s empowerment, nutrition, creativity, song and dance, sacred sexuality, mindful living, the wise woman ways and much more — the conference now has a heart and soul of its own, Wood says. “At this year’s conference, we’re getting back to our roots,” she says, adding that the overall theme is “Plants as Medicine.” “The plants brought us together for the first Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference,” Wood says. “We are reaffirming our commitment to receiving their many gifts by welcoming back some of the finest — and most beloved — female herbalists in the land.” Decades ago, Wood studied with Pam Montgomery, an elder in the herbal community. Montgomery will teach at the conference, offering an

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SAGE CIRCLE: Women gather lakeside at the 2015 Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference. Photo courtesy of Southeast Wise Women intensive session called “Plant Spirit Healing: Personal, Professional and Planetary.” And integrative medical doctor Jody Noé will lead “Medical Herbal Strategies for Integrative Cancer Therapies.” Other highlights include an intensive on stone medicine with local acupuncturist and stone medicine teacher Sarah Thomas and another on stress and the endocrine system with herbalist and United Plant Savers board member Kathleen Maier. “And while the classes and teachers are usually the main draw to the conference, there is so much more to experience,” Wood says. “From dawn to dusk and beyond into the night, participants enjoy many opportunities to learn, celebrate and connect.” Dancing, yoga, storytelling, and sweet serenades by sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia round out the activities on this year’s schedule. “For many, it has become an annual event,” Wood says, “a tradition in education, inspiration and sisterhood.” BY WOMEN, FOR WOMEN “What Southeast Wise Women is doing is probably unusual,” Wood says, “because we are not only women in business, or a women-owned business, but also, the services we offer are specifically oriented toward women’s health and women’s needs.”

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The vision of the conference is to offer women educational tools, wisdom and experiences to support physical and emotional health, she says. Wood adds that she enjoys running events with an all-woman staff. “We find that there is a sense of shared experience as women, as well as shared understanding around what’s valuable about our offerings.” Kifu Fariq, a member of the Unity Village and programming team for the conference, says, “Organizing an event with women for women feels like I’m standing in my purpose as a seed keeper. I’m able to share ancestral knowledge from a female perspective that has been passed down from women to women, about how to be in right relationship with the planet, ourselves, and one another.” Wood says her staff culture includes self-awareness, personal integrity, staff harmony and clear communication. Members of the conference team also have a mutual appreciation and passion for herbs, nutrition, earthfriendly living and the education and safety of women and girls today. “While emotions in the corporate world are often viewed as a handicap,” says Renee Conover, the conference’s programming director, “my experience being a part of an all-woman team organizing an all-women event is that we are able to celebrate our intuition as a doorway into creativity and connection.”

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Conover and conference coordinator Ema Carmona have both been involved since SE Wise’s inception. Carmona says she loves seeing the familiar faces return year after year and the sense of connection and belonging that emerges in the all-woman context, as well as the joy of being together. Wood notes, however, that creating and producing the weekend conference with a pack of women hasn’t always been smooth sailing. Reflecting on the conference beginnings, Wood says they initially had rough patches, such as the challenge of getting sponsors, media or venues to take the event seriously. “As the conference continued to sustain, grow and thrive over the years,” she says, “we’ve seen a lot of those attitudes shift. In the early years, we felt intimidated in some areas like sound and electricity. We didn’t have any experience in those areas and had been socialized as women to think of those as male roles.” Through the process of attending other women’s gatherings and networking with other women in a range of trades, their beliefs about their own capacity started to shift, Wood recalls. “We gained the confidence that as women, we, too, can learn those skills.” The conference’s all-female seasonal crew now includes sound engineers, carpenters, natural building experts, riggers and electricians.

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WAKING THE WISE WOMAN According to Wood, there’s a key tradition of herbal medicine at the heart of the offerings and events at the conference: The Wise Woman Way is “a tradition for women that embraces the earth, local plants, deep nourishment and self-love,”she says. “In a way, [this tradition] is a process of remembering much of what we already know,” she says, “including ancestral memories of using wild plants around us as food and medicine.” Woods adds, “Many women [who attend the conference] feel a deep resonance, a cellular memory of a way of life. “Just as the natural cycles of our world constantly move through day and night, from dark moon to full moon, from winter to summer, we honor our natural cycles — our ebbs and flows — and turn our attention away from ‘fixing’ ourselves, and toward nourishing ourselves, physically, emotionally and spiritually, such that our bodies respond by moving toward optimal health,” she says. SAME BUT DIFFERENT Wood claims that the woman-only setting is important for providing a safe container to explore issues unique to women. “It allows us to focus on issues that are important to us, free from potential shame or misunderstanding,” she says. A large component of the conference is celebrating and developing understanding around the differences as well as the commonalities among women, she says. This includes special offerings for elders, like the croning ceremony and elder’s circle, as well as workshops on how racism and systemic oppression affect women’s health. Given the current state of events across the country and most recently in Charlotte, the conference considers racial dynamics to be an important component to address, both individually and communally, says Wood. “As organizers primarily of European descent living in the Southeast United States, we recognize the unique struggles that African-American, indige-

nous, and other women of color have endured in these lands and continue to face today,” she says. “All women are affected by dynamics of racial oppression. However, for women of color, day-to-day experiences of systemic racism, microaggressions, and internalized oppression add up to health risk factors.” A class with activist Amikaeyla Gaston from the World Trust Organization called “Healer Heal Thyself” is one of the ways participants can take a deeper look into racism and bias in themselves and the world, Wood adds. The conference is also open to anyone who self-identifies as a woman, she notes. “We do sometimes have trans women attend, who are resonant with our focus around earth-based healing and women’s health.” “The Unity Village is the heart of the conference,” she adds. “It includes a gathering place for women of color as well as opportunities for all women to build bridges of understanding. “Women share many common experiences,” Wood notes. “As we gather together as women, we connect and celebrate our commonalities as well as our differences. In this safe container, we cultivate self-love and dissolve barriers between women. “Last but not least, we so appreciate that the men of our extended community are very supportive and respectful of this women-only space we create,” says Wood, “and [we] love the idea of the SE Wise Guys Conference!” For more information, visit sewisewomen.com. X WHAT Southeast Wise Women’s Herbal Conference. WHEN Friday, Oct. 14, 7:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 15, 7 a.m.- 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 16, 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. WHERE Lake Eden, Black Mountain

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WNC locals support protesters at Standing Rock

BY JUAN HOLLADAY juandeere@gmail.com With additional reporting by Karen Richardson Dunn and Virginia Daffron The North Dakota prairies — where members of the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline since August — lie more than 1,500 miles from Asheville. Even so, the indigenous protest movement has resonated with many in WNC, and locals have found creative ways to support the protests. ‘GO BACK HOME AND TELL THIS STORY’

SACRED SPACE: The Rosebud camp is one of three encampments where protesters have gathered since August to oppose construction of the Dakota Access pipeline across tribal lands. Photo by Tommy Cook

Three UNC-Asheville professors traveled to North Dakota on Sept. 2 to join the protests for a three-day period: Gilliam Jackson of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, an adjunct lecturer who teaches Cherokee language; Trey Adcock, a Cherokee Nation citizen who is assistant professor of education and director of American Indian Outreach; and Juan Sánchez Martinez, assistant professor of Spanish. “Having never been to the Dakotas,” recalls Adcock, “I experienced multiple impressions at once. The beauty of the landscape contributed to a feeling of entering sacred space. At the same time, as we got closer to Sacred Stone Camp, the roadblocks and security presence took on an increasingly militarized feeling. That’s when the seriousness of the situation really hit us.” One of the main reasons for his trip, Adcock says, was to deliver donated supplies. The people in the camp were “unbelievably grateful,” he notes. “They stressed how important it is for people from across the country to go back home and tell this story.” A gathering in Madison County a few days prior to Xpress’ conversation with Adcock raised $400 in cash contributions, he says. But there are other ways to contribute. “It’s a beautiful movement because it’s based in prayer. If people can’t give money or supplies, the tribe let us know they are equally grateful for prayers, in whatever manner.”

Ashevillean Marston Blow, along with three other area residents, made the long journey to Standing Rock with 10 solar panels donated by John Senechal, a real estate agent with Keller Williams in Asheville. “I liked what they were doing in Standing Rock,” Senechal says, “fighting big oil. And solar is the answer to big oil. What a great match!” Weaverville’s Sundance Power Systems donated 12 more panels. Dave Hollister, the company’s president, says he has since been raising money to build a solar trailer that he hopes to take to Standing Rock himself within the next two weeks. “It’s very special what’s going on up there; it’s a profound moment, and we wanted to support it,” he adds. Tommy Cook, a 27-year-old Pittsburgh native who moved to Asheville two years ago, also sensed the significance of the Standing Rock protests. Cook, who worked as a field guide at a wilderness rehabilitation center, says, “After losing my identity as a wilderness guide I felt a lack of purpose and direction in my life. Then I saw what was going on in Standing Rock. ... My heart kept ... telling me there isn’t anywhere more important to be right now than Standing Rock.” What he found upon his arrival, he says, were “feelings of connection, purpose ... collaboration, prayer, song, love, surrounding the entire camp. I was honored and grateful to be working beside

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the natives who started this movement ... [who were being] reintroduced to a culture that they may have strayed away from.” And he adds, “[I myself] was finding a renewed sense of purpose ... a new path.”

“Our message is: We do not consent to the poisoning of the planet any longer. We need air. We need water. These are things that every human and every living being needs.’” WNC SPEAKS OUT

FEEDING THE PROTEST On Sept. 15, local business owner Rosetta Star Buan and a vanful of youth volunteers struck out for the Red Warrior Camp on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation with a trailer of outdoor kitchen equipment in tow. On Facebook, she explained the mission: “I have been tasked to deliver a trove of industrialsized restaurant equipment that has previously been used to feed people on the ground during [Hurricanes] Katrina and Sandy, and many other smaller events. ... We have equipment to prepare food for over 1,000 at a meal.” Buan and her crew arrived at Standing Rock in the early morning hours on Sept. 17. Several days later, on Sept. 23, she took to Facebook once more, this time posting a video of a young Dakotas local, Herman Singh, expressing his protest of the oil pipeline. Her video went viral, garnering over half a million views by press time. When asked why the Standing Rock protest should matter to people in Asheville, Buan replies, “The Standing Rock movement matters because we all drink water, breathe air, and eat food. ...

On Sept. 27, Asheville City Council passed a resolution in support of the Standing Rock Sioux. The city’s resolution cites the cultural and natural resources at stake: “The proposed Dakota Access Pipeline would carry as many as 570,000 barrels of fracked crude oil per day for more than 1,172 miles from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to Illinois, passing over sensitive landscapes including treaty-protected land containing recognized cultural resources and across or under 209 rivers, creeks, and tributaries including the pristine Missouri River, which provides drinking water and irrigates agricultural land in communities across the Midwest.” The resolution also highlights concerns about tribal sovereignty on reservations. Richard Sneed, the vice chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, applauded city officials for continuing “to bring awareness to environmental and human rights issues.” According to the Cherokee One Feather, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Tribal Council passed a resolution in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and also donated $50,000 to the Dakota tribe’s legal defense fund on Sept. 6.

Yet, cautions Asheville resident Jenna Be, the work of supporting Standing Rock remains unfinished. At a gathering of Standing Rock supporters held on Oct. 2 at New Mountain Asheville, Be, who had recently returned from the protests, explained: “The Department of Justice and the Army Corps of Engineers put out a joint statement ... requesting that the energy company ‘voluntarily’ pause construction of the pipeline while the Army Corps of Engineers re-investigates the relationship between that land and the National Environmental Protection Act [also known as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970] and the [National] Historic Preservation Act [of 1966].” That request for a voluntary pause, says Be, “got spun in the media as ‘Obama squashes the pipeline.’ ... The construction there has restarted. ... I haven’t seen anything in the mainstream media about that, but we know that that’s true.” WAYS TO HELP Twenty-year Asheville resident Erin Hardy has been working with Friends of the Sicangu Oyate, the

Rosebud Lakota tribe, to raise funds for winterizing the Lakota camp at Standing Rock. She says, “Our primary objective, in Asheville, is to raise [these funds] because if the protesters can’t withstand the North Dakota winter, then none of the other fund-raising efforts really matter, and the snows are coming quick.” Hardy has lists of people from the Asheville community who want to help and be directed: “The [Asheville] community is speaking,” she adds. Hardy emphasizes the importance of Ashevilleans educating themselves about Standing Rock, urging: “Pick a place and dive in. ... People need to care to help effectively in this situation because ... if you don’t have a passion-based understanding of what is going on, then you will likely lose your motivation. [And] this is going to be a long battle. “It’s dangerous to show people the spark of hope,” she continues. “Those of us who know and care spend our days holding our breaths. ... [but] as much as we worry, that hope could just as easily ignite, and it literally brings tears to my eyes to imagine that world.” X

Local opportunities to support Standing Rock EVENTS Solidarity with Standing Rock: Local musicians raise money to support the Standing Rock legal defense fund. With silent auction to support the Tipis for Standing Rock project (see below). Thursday, Oct. 13 at The Mothlight, 701 Haywood Road, Asheville, 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Talks on the Standing Rock and Water is Life movements: Meetup Sunday, Oct. 16 at New Mountain, 38 N. French Broad Ave., Asheville, 4-6 p.m. Rock the Block: Concert and party to benefit the Standing Rock Reservation. Tuesday, Oct. 25 at The Regeneration Station, 26 Glendale Ave., Asheville, 6-10 p.m. MONETARY DONATIONS The Tipis for Standing Rock project by Friends of Sicangu Oyate — Rosebud Lakota have forged a part-

nership with nonprofit All Nations Indigenous Center to manufacture tepees at cost ($1,000 covers tepee, liner, poles and delivery) to be used for winter shelter in North Dakota. Taxdeductible donations via PayPal to allnationsindigenouscenter@gmail.com; a receipt will be provided. For more information SicanguOyateCamp@ gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/ NAPESICA2016/. SUPPLY DONATIONS Drop-off locations include French Broad Food Co-op at 90 Biltmore Ave.; Fifth Season Gardening at 4 S. Tunnel Road; The Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism (2 Westwood Place); and Black Dome Mountain Sports at 140 Tunnel Road. Email questions to SicanguOyateCamp@gmail.com. Cold-weather tents and gear are needed, as are non-perishable food supplies and gift cards to Lowe’s, gas stations and pharmacies. — V.D.

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THE BASICS There are a few must-have staples for working through the basic classic cocktails such as the old fashioned, sidecar, negroni and margarita. And it’s worth noting that having most of these liquors on hand is important, even if you don’t personally enjoy them. Just because you don’t like gin doesn’t mean your guests won’t want a good negroni or Tom Collins. Adams and cocktail writer Warren Bobrow helped Xpress assemble a list of items necessary to create a versatile home bar. A decent gin, they say, is a must, along with a good whiskey, blanco tequila, aged rum and a quality vodka. As for the specifics of which ones to choose, that is largely a matter of taste, but there are some pitfalls to look out for. Tequilas and rums have far less regulation than other liquors, and it can be hard to be assured that what is in the bottle is actually what is on the label. For tequila, it’s often better to fork over a little more money for something with 100 percent agave — Lunazul is a great on-the-cheap option. For a decent aged rum, Mount Gay has always been worth its price tag. Bourbons are fairly heavily regulated in their production, and thus, cheaper bourbons

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are of a much higher quality than the cheapest rums or tequilas. “You should always have a good vodka,” says Bobrow, author of Apothecary Cocktails, who is currently on tour promoting his latest book, Cannabis Cocktails. Bobrow tends to favor smaller, domestic craft distillers to the big corporate ones when it comes to many products — they may be a bit pricier, but they are American-made and usually sport their own quirky personalities. With gin, however, Adams suggests looking for something made in the United Kingdom. “This might seem unfair to domestic producers,” he says, “but as a general rule for value,

Home bar shopping list BOTTLES One bottle each of the following: • Whiskey (bourbon or rye) • Gin (London Dry or equivalent) • Rum (preferably aged) • Tequila (100 percent agave) • Vodka • Sweet vermouth (Dolin, Vya and Punt e Mes are good brands) • Curacao (Cointreau) • Liqueur or amaro (Campari, ginger liqueur, maraschino, etc.) • Angostura bitters (add Peychaud’s and Reagan’s Orange, if possible) TOOLS • A good bar spoon • Pint glass • One or two quality shaker tins (Koriko is a good brand) • Measuring jigger • Hawthorne strainer • Clamshell juicer • One or two square ice molds (Tovolo is a good brand) Most spirits can be acquired at local ABC stores. For harder-tofind products, visit drinkupNY. com. Local wine stores carry bitters and vermouths. A good selection of quality bar tools and equipment is available at thebostonshaker.com.

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I think you are going to overpay for a boutique item when it comes to gin,” he says. “If it’s made in the U.K. and says London Dry on the bottle, it is probably going to be of a certain level of quality.” CREATIVE MIXOLOGY In addition to the base spirits, it is important to have a few more bottles in the bag to increase your ability to flex your creative mixology muscle. Sweet vermouth is, perhaps, the most diverse in the variety of its applications. “I would hold off on the dry vermouth,” advises Adams. “Sweet vermouth is in so many more drinks than dry vermouth is. It’s just that the martini is so ubiquitous that it gets an outsized role.” Dolin and Vya brands are great options for lighter vermouths. “Having good fortified wines on hand can make a big difference,” agrees Erin Hawley, former bar manager for MG Road and current catering director for Chai Pani. “My go-to is always Bonal, and I also really love having Cocchi Americano on hand.” Note that vermouths should always be refrigerated, as it is wine and otherwise will go bad within a month. Bitters are also a necessity, and the consensus seems to be that everyone absolutely needs a bottle of Angostura. In order to drastically expand that palate, Peychauds and Reagans Orange are crucial implements to help pad the toolbox. But if you are looking for something closer to home, try the lineup from Crude Bitters out of Raleigh. “You should also have some kind of cordial,” Bobrow suggests. “I would do an orange liqueur so you can do all sorts of things from margaritas to sidecars to daiquiris, whatever.” Again, money matters in the cordials game more than with many other selections. Cointreau is a fantastic curaçao, and considering that only small amounts of it are used in cocktails, it will last you a while. Adams also suggests a maraschino liqueur, and Bobrow recommends a decent ginger liqueur. TOOLS OF THE TRADE There are also a few tools aspiring home bartenders will want to

have on hand. “I really like antiquing and sourcing vintage bar tools,” says Hawley. “Obviously, the things that are most important are your shaker and jigger, and then a nice mixing glass and spoon.” She prefers a cobbler shaker but advises, “The main thing is just having something that gives you enough surface area inside your tin and avoiding getting one of those dumpy, smallbottom tin shakers. The more ice you can get inside of your tin, the better off you’re going to be.” Bobrow prefers double-tin shakers such as the Boston shakers, which pair metal with glass, are prone to breaking. He notes that Japanese manufacturer Koriko makes sturdy, weighted tins guaranteed to last a lifetime. In addition, Adams counsels, “Get a spoon. And not a s**tty spoon with a red top, but a good bar spoon. You can get one for around $12 now.” Also on Adams’ list is a decent Hawthorne strainer, and, “You need a jigger. And not just to be nerdy and precise, but a lot of the problem for people learning how to make cocktails at home is learning how to monitor your consumption. ... People that don’t drink spirits a lot can have just a couple of drinks, and it’s like, ‘I’m wasted, how did this happen?’ A jigger also just helps you learn how to make drinks. I can mix a ton of drinks without a jigger, but it’s because I know what the measurements of those drinks are, and I know the ratio of ingredients to each other. But I think the jigger also helps to democratize it and make good drinks available to everyone.” Hawley also recommends “investing in some nicer ice cube trays, so you can still have that nice consistency when you’re bartending at home.” She notes that quality cocktail ice molds that make large square cubes are available from brands like Tovolo. “It’s a lot like cooking,” Adams says. “There are a lot of techniques, and while there are a lot fewer in bartending, at the end of the day, it is still mathematics and ratios. If you can do that, with a few simple tools, anyone can do it.” X

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Follow your blintz “It’s the one day of the year that you can get real Jewish food in downtown Asheville,” says Marty Gillen, spokesperson for HardLox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival. “That’s our claim to fame.” In its 14th year, the Oct. 16 event offers authentic ryes, challah bread, corned beef, pastrami, chopped liver, matzo balls, rugelach, almond horns and more. This year’s theme is the blintz — a thinly rolled pancake filled with cheese and then baked. “Every year we try and find some hook that ties the Jewish food into the festival,” says Gillen. “That’s how we came up with ‘Follow your Blintz.’” Foods for the event come from far and near. The matzo balls, matzo ball soup, apple strudel and rugelach are made in-house by members of the Congregation Beth HaTephila. Many of the breads and baked goods are locally sourced from City Bakery and Geraldine’s Bakery. The festival’s fish and meats come primarily from the Northeast. Dr. Brown’s — a popular Jewish soft drink created in 1869 — will be available for purchase at the festival as well. Gillen highlights some of the popular flavors that attendees can anticipate, including cream soda and black cherry. He adds that all Dr. Brown’s six flavors will be available, in addition to standard sodas and coffee. Along with food and drink, the gathering offers plenty of entertainment. Billy Jonas and the Billy Jonas Band will perform, as will traditional klezmer musicians. Israeli dancers will also take the stage. Numerous inflatables, kids activities and face painting will

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DANCE, FOOD AND FUN: HardLox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival returns to Pack Square for its 14th year. Photo courtesy of Marty Gellin be available at the craft station and Kids Zone. Ten prizes are also up for grabs at this year’s raffle, including three meals at Corner Kitchen, a weekend brunch for four at Chestnut, a feast for eight at Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian and more. “The Jewish community has been involved in Asheville going back to the late 1800s,” says Gillen. “There was a time when most of the merchants downtown were all Jewish merchants who’d come into the mountains.” Gillen hopes that, in addition to a good time and a full stomach, those in attendance will get a better sense of the historic and cultural role the Jewish community continues to play in the area. “There’s a real resurgence of the Jewish community in Asheville,” Gillen says. “We like to put ourselves out there so people can see how we’re growing and how dynamic a community we are and how involved we are in the greater Asheville community.”

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Dobrá Tea is now offering a variety of hot chocolates at its West Asheville and Black Mountain tearooms. Owner Andrew Snavely notes that the beverages use low-glycemic coconut sugar, which he says is “a really healthy treat.” Dobrá teamed with Lulu’s Chocolate to create a menu that includes plain hot chocolate, mint hot chocolate, chaga mushroom and cinnamon, lapsang souchong and sea salt and more. Snavely adds that some of the hot chocolates are tea-infused. Dobrá Tea will offer its hot chocolate menu through the fall and winter at the following locations: 707 Haywood Road and 120 Broadway Ave., Black Mountain. For more information, visit dobrateanc.com THE BYRISH HAUS AND PUB OPENS ON PATTON European comfort food with an Asheville flair is how The Byrish Haus and Pub describes its menu. The restaurant was once the home of the decadesold Barbecue Inn and most recently the site of The Patton Public House, which opened in June. The new pub will have its grand opening Saturday, Oct. 15. To celebrate, there will be live music from The Fun Famdamily, in addition to games, prizes and a number of food and drink specials. The Byrish Haus and Pub is at 1341 Patton Ave. Its hours of operation are 11 a.m.-11 p.m. X

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LIFE IS A CARNIVAL

LEAF celebrates creativity and connection

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com It’s been a tough year. Charged conversations about politics, gun violence, racism, sexism, civil rights violations and environmental destruction populate headlines and social media feeds. It’s hard to drum up the wherewithal to party. All things considered, revelry feels trite. But LEAF festival organizers would argue that’s the best reason to sing, dance, don a mask and drum all night. “What we’re hoping to accomplish with this festival is really empowering people to remember that coming together in a positive way is important,” says Ehren Cruz, performing arts director. “We don’t have to be pro or against anything; we can just be for human connection.” The fall iteration of the festival runs Thursday, Oct. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 23, under the theme “Carnival of Wonder.” That motif was selected, Cruz says, because, “We recognize our world is going through many challenges. A lot of the center stage of the conversation has been about, ‘How do we navigate through these different conflicts?’” But the mission of LEAF Community Arts, “Transforming Lives, Connecting Cultures and Generating Unity,” seeks to address that question. With the carnival theme, LEAF planners thought, “Let’s give people an opportunity to take it back to a simple celebration — to a space where we are igniting imaginations, inspiring people to follow their dreams and passions and showing them something beautiful,” says Cruz. “It’s a good time for us to reconnect with how powerful music and art is when we come together in peace.” The mood will be set with huge art displays meant to bring festivalgoers to the next level of experience. One stage will be decorated like a 1920s-era vaudeville set. And, while LEAF has long involved a number of roving performers, such as stilt walkers and marching bands, this year that contingent has been doubled. “You’re going to see giant puppets — a crew of 30 — and more jugglers and flame throwers than you can possibly imagine,” Cruz says. There will also be a 50-by-100-foot Lycra

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THE POWER OF THE PARTY: The LEAF festival’s Carnival of Wonder offers a place “where we are igniting imaginations, inspiring people to follow their dreams and passions and showing them something beautiful,” says performing arts director Ehren Cruz. “It’s a good time for us to reconnect with how powerful music and art is when we come together in peace.” Photo by Zach Brown tunnel, “so the whole, entire Lake Eden field will feel like it’s contained within a carnival atmosphere.” Also lending to that vibe is the live music, from headliners such as cross-cultural brass-meets-dub outfit Balkan Beat Box and the Chapel Hill-formed jazz-infused Squirrel Nut Zippers to Jamaican reggae collective Third World (celebrating its 43rd anniversary) and Nashville-based funk act Here Come the Mummies. “I had a lot of ideas in mind for bands that bring a dynamic, interesting show that would wow the senses and bring powerful engagement [to the audience],” Cruz says.

But the lineup also consists of a number of return performers — perhaps most notably tribal fusion/performance art group Beats Antique. “Whenever I book talent, I tell them right off the bat, ‘I would plan to stay here all weekend,’” Cruz says. That’s not typical for touring bands, who tend to play their show and move on to the next engagement. But nine times out of 10, according to the performing arts director, the artists see what LEAF has to offer and opt to hang out for a day or two. Those who make the extra effort are often invited back. Bootsy Collins and his band (who headlined the inaugural LEAF

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Downtown) is one such act; Rising Appalachia is another. Vocalist Natalia Clavier, who collaborates with the DJ collective Thievery Corporation, has also struck up a special relationship — she’s in talks with LEAF Community Arts about recording a compilation with members of the LEAF International program in Costa Rica. Beats Antique is also on the friends-and-family list: “They send us emails like, ‘Hey we love you guys. Thanks for doing great work,’” says Cruz. “We love developing great relationships with our artists.” Local dance instructor Lisa Zahiya adds, “I think my favorite LEAF was the last time Beats Antique was there. I am lucky enough to dance with the band on the East Coast. It was raining outside; and inside the tent, the energy was awesome.” She and Beats Antique belly dancer Zoe Jakes will stage two performances of their col-

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The Hip Abduction (indie-rock, reggae) performs Friday on the Lakeside stage, 4:30-5:45 p.m.; and in Eden Hall, 1:15-2:30 a.m. (late night) Space Cowboys & Cosmic Girls (Jamiroquai tribute) performs Friday in Eden Hall, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Crystal Bright & The Silverhands (world folk) perform Friday in the Barn, 6:45-8 p.m.; and Saturday in Eden Hall, 12:15-1:30 p.m. Zoe Jakes & Lisa Zahiya present House of Tarot (performance art) Friday in Eden Hall, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Vaud & the Villains (orchestral cabaret) perform Friday on the Lakeside stage, 8:15-9:25 p.m. The Coffee Zombies (contra dance band) perform in Brookside on Friday, 10:15-11:45 p.m.; Saturday, 3:45-5:45 p.m.; and Sunday, 10-11 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m. Beats Antique (electronic world fusion) performs Friday on the Lakeside stage, 10:25-11:55 p.m. Solas (Celtic) performs Friday in the Barn, 10:45 p.m.-midnight.; Saturday on the Lakeside stage, 6-7:15 p.m.; and leads a workshop in the Jam Tavern on Saturday, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Ethan Crump (singer-songwriter) performs Saturday in the Barn, 12:151:30 p.m.; and in the Jam Tavern, 7-8:30 p.m. Dar Williams (singer-songwiter) performs Saturday on the Lakeside stage, 2-3:15 p.m.; and in the Barn, 10:45 p.m.-midnight. The Southern Fried Poetry Slam championship round takes place Saturday in Eden Hall, 8-11 p.m. Third World (reggae) performs Saturday on the Lakeside Stage, 8:109:40 p.m. Balkan Beat Box (global dancehall) performs Saturday on the Lakeside stage, 10:35 p.m.-midnight The Primate Fiasco (Ameritronica) performs in Eden Hall Saturday, 1:453 a.m. (late night); and Sunday, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Here Come the Mummies (funk) perform Sunday on the Lakeside Stage, 2:25-3:50 p.m. Squirrel Nut Zippers (jazz and swing) perform Sunday on Lakeside stage, 4:30-6 p.m.

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GAP YEARS Holiday Childress releases his long-awaited solo album

CREATIVE VISION: Holiday Childress compares the process of recording Mind the Gap to wearing a patch over a healthy eye in order to build the strength of a lazy eye: “I had to take all of my creative energy and just put it into what was coming out of the speakers,” he says. Photo courtesy of the musician If Asheville’s intrinsic weirdness has been preserved thus far, it’s due in large part to the efforts of its avant-garde artists and musicians, such as The Goodies. That art-rock band, fronted by local singer-songwriter Holiday Childress, puts a

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theatrical spin on surreal songs. Childress’ unbounded vocal — a warm tenor able to leap and swoop in operatic gymnastics — is delivered along with costumes, a vintage parasol and the singer’s trademark handlebar mustache.

Nurture Brilliance. Broaden Horizons. Change The World. But when Childress set out to record his debut solo album, Mind the Gap — which he’ll launch at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Saturday, Oct. 15 — the drama had to take a back seat. In the studio Childress realized, as far as listeners were concerned, “I didn’t have the mustache on my face, I didn’t have the umbrella, I didn’t have a suit on. If I was going to take them to a place, I’d need to use an instrument to do that, and I needed more freedom in my instrumentation to fully realize what each song’s potential was.” So, he says, “I quit playing live and completely put that in the ground.” He compares the process to wearing a patch over a healthy eye in order to build the strength of a lazy eye: “I had to take all of my creative energy and just put it into what was coming out of the speakers,” he says. “I think this is the first time I’ve been able to capture my songs in a complete experience and not, ‘Oh, you just have to see it live.’” If Mind the Gap is a departure from The Goodies in spirit and approach, the record’s first half is fairly familiar soundwise. Lead track “Disco Ball (Inside You)” is a campy, thumping dance track layered with funk attitude and Childress’ unmistakable upper-register trill. The showy “Foie Gras” is a new version of a song Childress has performed on plenty of stages. The multimovement “Gonna Get a Grammy” juxtaposes doo-wop, hiphop and a strings section. But the second half of the album, starting with the creepy, carnivalesque “Flesh and Bone,” moves in another direction. Finger-style guitar gives an intimate feel to the twilit “Landing.” The thrumming, indie-pop track “I Was a Clown” sparkles with keyboard melodies and heartfelt lyrics. That song and the final track, the gospeltinged “Soul in a Miracle,” cast Childress in a different light: not as a neo-vaudevillean performer but as a contemporary songwriter and arranger with the vocal chops to elevate songs to goosebumpinducing territory. Childress calls that B-side his shadow side, something he could have never performed live before — though now that’s changed. “I felt like the best way for me to do it was not have any expectations [or] old patterns. Everything I did was new,” he says. “If I felt a default

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to do something comfortable, I did something else, every single time.” Childress started working on Mind the Gap in 2013, when he realized he had enough songs that hadn’t been performed with The Goodies to create an original collection. “But I had no idea of the mountain I was about to climb — how long it was going to take and how life-changing it was going to feel to me,” he says. (Speaking of changes, Childress, who is also a hair stylist, will open his own one-chair studio on the same day his record is released.) The album was tracked at Echo Mountain Studios, Merrick Music Studios in Black Mountain and Brown Out Studio in Taos, N.M. Greg Thum, with whom Childress has played music since middle school, served as engineer in the New Mexico location. With Thum’s input, the singer-songwriter was able to craft a sound reminiscent of T. Rex on some tracks and with unusual instrumentation to build moods on others. Through a successful Kickstarter campaign, Childress raised more than $16,000 (the names of the donors are listed in the album’s liner notes). Mind the Gap includes contributions from local artists such as Tim Haney (drums), Zack Page (bass), Jamar Woods (organ), Jacob Rodriguez (saxophone), Justin Ray (trumpet), Derrick Johnson (trombone), the Opal String Quartet, and many others. For the release show, Haney, Page and Chuck Lichtenberger (keyboards) will make up Childress’ backing group — “the most amazing band,” he says. The musician is not yet sure what the Oct. 15 performance will hold. “I can’t get the theatrics out of me. That’s just part of who I am,” says Childress. No doubt his longtime fans will be glad to hear that, because The Goodies frontman knows how to put on a show. But, he adds, “I’m trying to work on ways to make them effective and more subtle.” X

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HITTING THE HIGH NOTES In 1988, when author Davis Miller first met Muhammad Ali, the media had mostly forgotten about the former heavyweight boxing champion. Reporters depicted him as an invalid who could barely speak anymore, but Miller’s encounter with him painted a picture of Ali not as a young champion and not as a brain-dead has-been, but as a man who would invite a total stranger in for dinner and make him a part of the family. Miller’s subsequent story, “My Dinner With Ali,” has recently been turned into Approaching Ali, an autobiographical one-act opera about a man going through a midlife crisis who has a transcendent experience after visiting his aging childhood idol. Asheville Lyric Opera will perform its production of the modern opera as part of its fall fundraiser, held at Harry’s on the Hill on Thursday, Oct. 13. The event includes a lecture and Q&A with Miller. “I knew in that moment my life was being changed,” says Miller, recalling the experience that sparked Approaching Ali. He and the former boxer, who passed away in June, became longtime friends. “My Dinner With Ali” was picked up by multiple publications and nominated by Sport magazine for the National Magazine Award in 1990. Miller’s subsequent books about the heavyweight champion, The Tao of Ali and Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts, are considered the best records of the fighter’s life after leaving the ring. Miller, who currently lives in Black Mountain, has become a successful

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DINNER OF CHAMPIONS: In 1988, Muhammad Ali, right, invited writer Davis Miller, left, to dinner. Miller’s life was forever changed, and the experience led to books inspired by the boxer, as well as a modern opera. Photo courtesy of Davis MIller sports author and has just sold the movie rights to Approaching Ali. “My Dinner With Ali” is the first story in the book. The idea to adapt “My Dinner With Ali” into an opera came to Miller in 2012 when he met classical composer D.J. Sparr. Miller was subletting a house from Sparr in Richmond, Va., while the composer and his wife were traveling for the summer. Davis gave Sparr a copy of The Tao of Ali and told him that he wanted to cre-

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ate a musical piece similar to Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait or Joseph Schwantner’s tribute to Martin Luther King, New Morning for the World. “It was a weird conversation to be having with a person I’d just met for the first time,” says Sparr. “But I read [The Tao of Ali] that summer, and I thought it was really wonderful, and when I started talking to the Washington Opera, it was the first idea I presented to them.” The idea was a hit, and with some help from internationally renowned librettist Mark Campbell, Miller and Sparr soon created their first modern opera and had the ear of a major opera company. The premiere of Approaching Ali sold out two nights at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., followed by a well-reviewed full production at the North Carolina Opera in Raleigh. Now it comes to Asheville, where ALO director David Starkey has been working with Miller to prepare a version of the production that can be staged in venues that are not as well-equipped as opera houses. “This is not a typical opera,” says Starkey. “This could be something

that was presented at a university, a museum, a community center. … I know that there are many black cultural centers around the country that might be interested in this, and Davis has been getting requests from book fairs to do some sort of expanded musical presentation, so I introduced the concept of a page-to-stage production.” Starkey’s idea was to strip away everything about the play that wasn’t vital to the story and build up from there. The original version has six singers and a full orchestra. The ALO production is trimmed down to three singers and one piano. “The crux of the story is all about the relationship between Davis and Ali,” says Starkey. “We’re emphasizing those two characters and putting a piano around it to accompany them, and building it up, layer by layer, from there. We believe that the greater draw for the public is really the story of who Muhammad Ali was the day Davis met him. That’s the window.” Ali and Davis will be played by Carl DuPont and Ted Federle, respectively. For the local performance, they will be joined by a third voice — Ali’s mother, Odessa Clay — sung by Lori Hicks. Music will be performed by pianist Gregory Thompson. “Ali was able to rise above himself and take a nurturing and abiding interest in others,” says Miller. “People felt transformed in the moment by meeting Ali, and I think some of that comes through in the opera. It’s what we’re trying to get to.” X

WHAT Approaching Ali performed during Asheville Lyric Opera’s fall fundraiser WHERE Harry’s on the Hill 819 Patton Ave. ashevillelyric.org WHEN Thursday, Oct. 13, 5:30-7 p.m. $20 donation

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bill@musoscribe.com

FANTASTIC REINVENTION Fantastic Negrito brings ‘The Last Days of Oakland’ to Asheville The story of Fantastic Negrito is the stuff of Hollywood legends, but it has the distinction of being true. The man born Xavier Dphrepaulezz taught himself to play a multitude of instruments, scored a record deal, made a good album that stiffed, had a car wreck and nearly died, worked his way back to health, reinvented himself musically and got himself discovered all over again. With its blend of folk, blues, soul and punk attitude, his latest album, The Last Days of Oakland, is one of 2016’s most intriguing releases. Fantastic Negrito plays the Asheville Music Hall on Sunday, Oct. 16. The Last Days of Oakland’s “About a Bird” has a soul and gospel feel, but its guitar solo is steeped in Chicago blues. The piano break on “Scary Woman” leans in a jazz direction. “What Do You Do” is reminiscent of the field hollers that historian Alan Lomax documented in the 1940s. Fantastic Negrito’s music resists easy categorization, and that pleases him. “I am most quoted as saying that genre is a good place to hide,” he says. “Biggie Smalls is just as amazing as Johnny Cash; Kendrick Lamar is just as amazing as Tchaikovsky. Creativity is creativity.” He points out that he’s toured and played with artists as diverse as Talib Kweli and Chris Cornell. “The audience and people that come, they come if you’re connecting with them,” he says. In 1996, simply calling himself Xavier, Dphrepaulezz recorded the album X Factor. Its standout track, “Saturday Song,” received some airplay, but the record sold poorly. Looking back at that era, Fantastic Negrito says that he sees a different person than who he is today. “That was me trying to do something. Now I just do it.” One November night in 1999, Dphrepaulezz picked up a girl he saw on a street corner. “I was living in that LA lifestyle,” he recalls, “picking up women and partying.” The next thing he knew, nearly a month had passed. The car he was driving had been hit by another motorist, and he spent weeks in a

A NEW BEGINNING: Musician Xavier Dphrepaulezz reinvented himself as Fantastic Negrito; in the process, he revealed to the world a new character that’s truer and deeper than the original. Photo by Lyle Owerko coma. His hands were destroyed. His label dropped him. He never saw the girl again. But he spent years fighting his way back to music. In 2015, Dphrepaulezz entered a homemade music video into a contest. He and nearly 7,000 other musicians vied for an appearance on Bob Boilen’s popular and influential “Tiny Desk Concerts” program on NPR. Billing himself for the first time as Fantastic Negrito, Dphrepaulezz won. The subsequent 15-minute performance gained him new recognition. Boilen was moved both by the musician’s backstory and by his deeply soulful, expres-

sive performance. Boilen devotes an entire chapter to Fantastic Negrito in his new book, Your Song Changed My Life. Fantastic Negrito’s current focus is on his North American tour, but he’s already thinking about his next album. “I’ve been writing quite a bit,” he says. “I had an idea: I really want to resolve a lot of things [about] my dad. I ran away at 12 and I never saw him again; he passed away when I was in foster care.” He’s thinking about making an album that explores father-son relationships. “My dad was brutal,” he says, “just like everyone else’s.” Critics often compare Fantastic Negrito to Prince and Sly Stone, and while he’s quite modest about himself and his music, he doesn’t shy away from those comparisons. What those do, he says, “is tell me what’s already inside, what I say in my head every day: ‘That’s the standard. Anytime you think you’re good, you put on one of those records.’” He laughs as he recalls a long list of comparisons placed upon him by fans and critics alike. “People say everything; that’s cool. ‘You’re a cross between the Violent Femmes and Chuck Berry!’ ‘You remind me of Jack White and Muddy Waters mixed together!’ The craziest one I’ve heard is this: ‘You know what you are? You’re the modern-day Patti Smith!’ But I love it,” he says. “I can’t wait to hear what people think. I think that I’m influenced by anything good.” Despite that, Fantastic Negrito resolutely maintains his own unique identity. “Be yourself,” he says. “No one can be yourself like you.” X

WHO Fantastic Negrito WHERE Asheville Music Hall 31 Patton Ave. ashevillemusichall.com WHEN Sunday, Oct. 16, 8:45 p.m. $10 advance/$15 day of show

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by Kat McReynolds | Send your arts news to ae@mountainx.com

Motown Memories Created by longtime dancer and choreographer Sharon Cooper, in cooperation with Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, Motown Memories “promises to be a wonderful and incredibly fun evening of beautiful dancing, colorful costumes and amazing music that will have the audience dancing in their seats and reminiscing about their own memories to the unforgettable songs of Motown.” The production was inspired by Cooper’s childhood years, during which family road trips, holidays and other gatherings were always accompanied by music from the soulful, Detroit-born genre. Her ode to those days was well-received when it premiered locally in April, so Cooper and ACDT are presenting the work once again. Round two unfolds at BeBe Theatre on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, at 8 p.m. $18/$15 students and seniors. acdt.org. Photo by A Bird in the Clouds Film and Photography Services

Anderson East Blues, soul, earth and heartache are packed into Anderson East’s poignant voice, which sits front and center on his 2015 album. And it’s hard to believe, considering the caliber of his rasp, that Delilah is the Alabama-born singer’s official debut. (He’s stashed a few of his earlier recordings away from the public ear.) East is now based in Nashville, home of the famed Bluebird Café, where producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton) took an instant liking to his live sound. Soon after, they traveled to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala., for the home-state recording session that resulted in Delilah. East’s headlining tour in support of that album stops at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. Los Colognes opens. $15/$18. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

Hiss Golden Messenger

Thomas Wolfe reading

The ambiguous moments on Hiss Golden Messenger’s new album are intentional, according to frontman M.C. Taylor. “I want to make records that feel both minor and major key at the same time; maybe ‘bittersweet’ is a good word for it. Life is simultaneously happy and sad at once, and that’s how I want my records to feel. I think that’s how Heart Like a Levee feels.” The album was recorded in Durham, where Taylor resides — at least, when he’s not hopping between hotels and music venues. His lyrics attempt to untangle feelings stemming from that lifestyle in addition to exploring guilt, honesty, trust and other internal phenomena. Hiss Golden Messenger’s international tour begins at The Mothlight on Friday, Oct. 14, at 9:30 p.m. The Dead Tongues opens. $15. themothlight.com. Photo by Andy Tenille

An upcoming dramatic reading at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial will give fans of the famous author a chance to “learn a bit more about the two halves that shaped the person Thomas Wolfe,” according to the historic site’s manager, Tom Muir. Local actors Ralph Redpath and Marlene Earp will take the parts of W.O. and Eliza Gant, respectively, while reading excerpts from Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. The two personas are based on the writer’s parents, Muir explains, calling them “the best-developed characters in all of Wolfe’s works.” Deborah Austin will narrate, essentially adding Wolfe’s perspective to the free performance, which takes place on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. wolfememorial.com. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial

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by Abigail Griffin

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ART ARROWHEAD GALLERY 78 Catawba Ave., Old Fort, 668-1100 • TH (10/13), 6-8pm - "Brushes N Brew," painting class with Dawn Dreibus. Bring your own beverage. $35/$25 members. Cost includes all materials. BEARFOOTIN’ PUBLIC ART WALK downtownhendersonville.org/ bearfootin-public-art-walk-2015/ • SA (10/1) through SA (10/22) - Public art display featuring fiberglass outdoor bear sculptures. Free. Held on Main St., Hendersonville

CRAFT FAIR OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS: In its 69th year, the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands returns to Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center from Thursday, Oct. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 23, for a juried exhibition featuring over 150 makers. The fair fills both the concourse and arena levels of the venue with craftspeople who are considered masters in their mediums. The variety of craft that will be on display ranges from contemporary to traditional in works of clay, wood, metal, glass, fiber, natural materials, paper, leather, mixed media and jewelry. The event will also feature live musicians and craft demonstrations all weekend long. For more information, visit southernhighlandguild.org. Photo courtesy of the Southern Highland Craft Guild (p. 59)

FIREFLY CRAFT GALLERY 2689 D Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 231-0764 • SA (10/15), noon-4pm American Craft Week artisan craft demonstrations. Free to attend. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (10/14), 11am-4pm - Needlefelting fall pumpkins, craft demonstration. Free to attend.

• SA (10/15), 11am-4pm Weaving demonstration by Yvonne Engler. Free to attend. • SA (10/15), 11am-4pm - Wood turning and surface design demonstration by Melissa Engler and Graeme Priddle. Free to attend. MOUNTAIN GATEWAY MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTER 102 Water St., Old Fort, mountaingatewaymuseum.org/ • 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am-3pm - Woodcarving demonstrations. Free.

ART/CRAFT FAIRS HIGH COUNTRY QUILTERS 926-3169, highcountryquilt@att.net • FR (10/14) & SA (10/15), 10am-4pm - 26th Annual Quilt Show, “High Country Autumn.” Event features over 100 display quilts and local vendors. Free to attend. Held at the First Baptist Church of Maggie Valley, 3634 Soco Road, Maggie Valley MOONLIT ART MARKET burialbeer.com • 2nd THURSDAYS through (10/13), 8-11pm - Arts and craft

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market. Free to attend. Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. SOUTHERN HIGHLAND CRAFT FAIR southernhighlandguild.org • TH (10/20), 10am-6pm through SU (10/23), 10am-5pm - 69th annual juried craft fair with over 150 makers. $8/Free for children under 13. Held at the US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. WNC OPEN STUDIOS wncopenstudios.org • SA (10/1) through SU (10/16) - Open studio event for 40 local craftsmen and artists in Buncombe, Polk & Transylvania Counties. Visit website for full schedule and locations. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ARROWHEAD GALLERY 78 Catawba Ave., Old Fort, 668-1100 • WE (10/19), 9am-noon - Checkin for the annual three day plein air painting competition hosted by Arrowhead Artists and Artisans League in Old Fort. More information: arrowheadart.org.

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A &E CA LEN DA R CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave., SW Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through TU (11/1) Submissions accepted for artists & crafters to participate in the annual Satie's Holiday Sale, December 2-24. Bring samples to the Arts Council on Tuesday, Oct. 4 or Tuesday, Nov. 1. THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through WE (11/16) Applications accepted for the Materials-Based Research Grant. See website for full guidelines.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) • Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN AN INSTRUMENT? (PD.) • Or just want to improve? Let me help. 25+ years teaching Guitar • Bass • Piano • Mandolin. Patient • Supportive • Encouraging creativity. Proven fast results. Leicester. Dennis: 828-424-7768. Info/testimonials at: GTRnetwork.com AMICIMUSIC 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • SA (10/15), 3pm - "French Connection," AmiciMusic concert. $20/$20 church members/ Free under 18. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. • SA (10/15), 7pm - "The French Connection," chamber music concert with cellist Franklin Keel, pianist Dr. Daniel Weiser, and works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Franck. $15. Held at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville • SU (10/16), 2pm - "French Connection," chamber music house concert. Register for location. $35. BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA blueridgeorchestra.com • SA (10/15) & SU (10/16), 3pm - "Homage to Haydn," with works by Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn. $15/$5 students. Held in UNC Asheville, Lipinsky Auditorium MUSIC AT MARS HILL 866-642-4968, mhc.edu • TH (10/20), 7:30pm - Wind symphony concert. Free. Held in Moore Auditorium

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by Abigail Griffin MUSIC AT UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • TH (10/13), noon-1pm - Live at Lunch: The Wayne Shorter Ensemble and The Nina Simone Ensemble. Free. Held in Highsmith Union Food Court • TH (10/20), noon-1pm - Live at Lunch: The Asheville Singers. Free. Held in Highsmith Union Food Court • THURSDAYS (10/6) through (10/27), noon - "Live at Lunch Concerts." Free.

until (10/30) - Sweeney Todd. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$25.

PAN HARMONIA 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • FR (10/14), 5:30pm - Private house concert with Jacquelyn Bartlett and Kate Steinbeck. $30. Held at Asheville Loft, 52 Broadway St.

2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/13) until (10/30) - Beehive: The Musical. Thurs., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $15 and up.

ST MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 253 0043, stmarkslutheran.net, cantordavid@stmarkslutheran. net • MO (10/17), 7:15pm - North German baroque organ music concert by Mr. Tate Addis. Free. Held at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 10 North Liberty St. ST. MATTHIAS CHURCH 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com/ • SU (10/16), 3pm - "Laura Ingalls Wilder Live," featuring storyteller Daphne Ruth Darcy and fiddler Wayne Erbsen. Admission by donation. THE CROSSING AT HOLLAR MILL 883 Highland Ave. SE, 324-9464 • WE (10/19), 8pm - Jerry Douglas, bluegrass. $30. UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • SU (9/25), 3-5pm - Fall Equinox concert and meditation with Richard Shulman. $20/$15 advance.

THEATER "WRITE YOUR LIFE" WORKSHOP (PD.) • By Ann Randolph. Lauded San Francisco one-woman-show star teaching exclusive 2-day workshop “Write your Life” before rare Asheville performance of hit “Inappropriate in All the Right Ways” at NYS3 October 15,16. Info@NYS3.com ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (10/13), 7:30pm - Loveland, written and performed by Ann Randolph. $25. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS

EMERSION facebook.com/ events/335116360163443/ • FR (10/14) & SA (10/15), 8pm - Emersion presents “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave,” an interactive walk-through immersive theater installation. $10. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE

HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/14) until (10/23) - God of Carnage. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30. Sun.: 2pm. $16. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • TH (10/20) & FR (10/21), 7:15pm - Asheville School Drama presents Anatomy of Gray. Free. Held in the Walker Arts Center's Graham Theater THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (10/29), 7:30pm - When Jekyll Met Hyde. $24/$21 advance. THEATER AT UNCA 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (10/20) until (10/23) - The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $12/$10 seniors/$7 students. THEATER AT WCU 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • FR (10/14), 10am-3pm - School of Stage and Screen and Barbican Lighting Company co-host an entertainment technology conference and expo with a focus on film and theater lighting techniques. Registration required: 227-7491. Held in Hinds University Center.

GALLERY DIRECTORY #AVLGLITCH litchavl@gmail.com • Through SU (10/30) #AVLGLITCH, exhibition of glitch related art from over 46 international artists held in three venues (Orange Space, The Asheville Darkroom & The BLOCK off Biltmore). Closing Reception: Friday, Oct. 28, 6pm at The BLOCK off Biltmore, 39 Market St. AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (10/26) Straight Out of Alabama, exhibition of the art of James A. “Buddy” Snipe. APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY appalachianpastelsociety.org • Through (11/11) - Juried member show. Held at Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway Hendersonville ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY 689-1307, mhu.edu • Through FR (10/21) - A Walk in Big Ivy, exhibition of photographs by Steven McBride. Held in Weizenblatt Gallery • Through FR (10/21) - Cecil Sharp Centennial, exhibition. Held in Weizenblatt Gallery ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through FR (10/14) - On the Other Hand..., exhibition of collaborative and individual prints by members of the Asheville Printmakers Group. • Through WE (10/26) Faculty art show with works in varied media. Held in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall. • Through (10/13) - Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition, with works by Monica Weber and Cornelio Campos. Held in the Highsmith Union Intercultural Gallery ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu • Through MO (11/7) - “The Language of Weaving: Contemporary Maya Textiles,” exhibition. Held in the Bardo Center • Through MO (12/12) Contemporary Clay: A Survey of Contemporary American Ceramics, exhibition. Held in the Bardo Center ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive Fletcher • Through FR (1/6) Revealed, group exhibition of regional artists. ARTWORKS 27 S. Broad St., Brevard, 5531063, artworksbrevardnc.com • Through SU (10/30) Balance, Rhythm and Flow, exhibition of collage by McKenzie Keenan. Reception: Friday, Oct. 28 5-8pm. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227 • Through SU (10/30) Creating Change: Political Art from the Permanent Collection, exhibition.

ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through MO (10/31) - Camaraderie, book art and printmaking exhibition. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through MO (10/31) Meditazioni, exhibition of acrylic abstract paintings by Ruth Ilg. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through SA (12/31) Painters of Black Mountain College, comprehensive exhibition featuring 50 paintings from 38 Black Mountain College artists. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave., SW Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through SA (11/19) - 2 SQUARED, exhibition of artwork by Jon Sours, Mercedes Jelinek, Tamie Beldue and Rob Amberg. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 296-7230 • Through FR (11/18) - North Carolina in the Great War, exhibition. FLOOD GALLERY 2160 Highway 70, Swannanoa, 254-2166, floodgallery.org • Through SU (10/30) - RED, exhibition of paintings by Connie Bostic. FLOW GALLERY 14 South Main St., Marshall, avl.mx/aw • Through SA (10/29) - Heavy Metal, exhibition of forged metalwork and metal jewelry. HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE Regional High Technology Center 112 Industrial Park Drive Waynesville, 258-8737 • Through SA (11/19) Forest, Farm + Garden, 19662016, exhibition. Reception: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 5-7pm. HEY DAY FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL wncnaturecenter.com • Through MO (10/31) Painting and fiber exhibition by M. HoneyBee Mckee. Held at The Mothlight, 701 Haywood Road MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 575-2294, moracollection.com • Through MO (10/31) - Lisa Colby jewelry exhibition. Reception: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2-5pm & 5-8pm. ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through MO (10/31) Exhibition of ceramic art by Anne Jerman, Trish Salmon and Ed Rivera.

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail Bakersville, 765-2359, penland.org • Through SU (11/20) - Cerca y Lejos, exhibition of twoand three-dimensional images by Cristina Córdova. • Through SU (10/23) - Wood, exhibition of woodwork by Christina Boy. PINK DOG CREATIVE 342 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through (10/29) - In Search of The One, exhibition of the paintings of Randy Siegel. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • Through WE (10/19) Capturing the Essence of Peace Through the Elements of Nature, exhibition of paintings by Cheyenne Trunnell. Held in the John M. Crawford Gallery. THE GALLERY AT FLAT ROCK 702-A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 698-7000, galleryflatrock.com/ • FR (10/14) through SA (12/31) - Wabi Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection, exhibition of 21 local artists. Reception: Friday, October 14, 5-7pm. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (11/12) Since Last We Met, exhibition of art objects by Joe Gottlieb. Reception: Friday, Oct. 14, 5-7pm. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville • Through SA (11/5) - The Toe River Juried Art Show, exhibition featuring over 80 pieces in many mediums. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (10/21) Printmaking exhibition featuring Southeastern printmakers. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323 • FR (10/14) through WE (11/9) - Black & White Gallery, exhibition of black & white works by regional artists. Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 14, 6-9pm (ticketed event). WCQS 73 Broadway, 10-4800, wcqs.org • Through WE (11/30) - The Way We Were, photos from Asheville’s African-American Community in the 1950s-70s on loan from UNC Asheville. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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CLUBLAND FUNKATORIUM Staves & Strings (bluegrass), 6:30PM GOOD STUFF MilkWeed (Americana, folk), 5:00PM Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Of Montreal w/ TEEN (indie, rock), 9:00PM GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Mari Black , 7:00PM Hoot Highway w/ The Mike & Ruthy Band and Amythyst Kiah, 8:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub, jazz), 6:30PM MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/AMPHITHEATER The Widdler w/ Thelem, Futexture & Cut Rugs, 9:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND "Take the Cake" Karaoke, 10:00PM ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam, 7:30PM Modern Strangers & John Brute (singer-songwriter), 9:00PM

STEALING THE SHOW: Since forming in 2014, blues and Southern soul duo Stolen Hearts (Pam Taylor and Robert Johnson, Jr.) have toured the Southeast extensively, firing up crowds with their “dirty Southern soul” mixture of rock, funk, love and hard living. Their presence can be summed up ASX.com’s summation that “it would be hard to find two performers hotter than Pam Taylor and Robert Johnson.” Stolen Hearts returns to WNC for a Friday, Oct. 14 show a Brevard’s 185 King Street, beginning at 8 p.m. Photo Courtesy of Pam Taylor WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5:00PM Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic w/ Roots & friends, 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic, 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Pipe Dream (video game cover songs), 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Oh Wonder w/ Kevin Garrett (indie, synthpop, alt. R&B), 8:30PM

BURGER BAR Karaoke, 6:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/DJ Alien Brain , 10:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Oskar Blues cornhole league, 6:00PM

Manic Focus MINDS RISING TOUR 10.14 8PM

AMH

10.15 10PM

ONE STOP

10.15 9 PM

AMH

10.16 8PM

AMH

(Reggae/Funk)

w/ marvel years, live animals, soul candy and tenorless $15[(Electronic)

ROSS OSTEEN FREE! AND CROSSROADS “LOSE YOURSELF TO DANCE” W/ DJ MARLEY CARROLL

FREE!

Fantastic Negrito

adv. $10 (Black Roots/Blues Rock)

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting competition, 5:00PM Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7:00PM

CLADDAGH RESTAURANT & PUB Irish Music Wednesdays, 8:00PM

ONE STOP

FREE!

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30PM 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM

10.13 10PM

LaGoons

OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM

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ONE WORLD BREWING Redleg Husky, 8:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM

THE MOCKING CROW Open Mic, 8:00PM

K LOUNGE #WineitUp Thursday w/ DJ AUDIO, 9:30PM

THE PHOENIX Jazz night w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Country show w/ Sammy Guns & The Cadillac Grainers, 10:00PM Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE April In October fundraiser w/ DJ Rafi, 5:00PM Thursday Open Mic Night (signup @ 7 p.m.), 7:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Standing with Standing Rock w/ Ahleuchatistas, Desperate Pilot, House and Land, MANAS, Nervous Dupre, Meg Mulhearn & Elisa Faires (Dakota Access Pipeline protest benefit), 9:30PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN Summit Jam, 6:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE The Slimvasion w/ Invader Slim, 7:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Wu-Tang Wednesday w/ Nex Millen & DJ Jet, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Linda Mitchell (classic jazz, blues), 9:00PM

MG ROAD Strange Thursdays w/ DJ Franco Nino (new wave, synth, retro), 8:00PM

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Shadow Show w/ Kingdoms and Classes, Obsideoneye & Mudbottoms (rock), 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST The Mike & Garry Show (acoustic, variety), 7:30PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Riyen Roots (blues), 7:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Cliff Cash w/ Grayson Morris (comedy), 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Lagoons (reggae, funk), 10:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN AmiciMusic (classical cello and piano), 7:30PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

BARLEY'S TAPROOM Alien Music Club (Herbie Hancock tribute), 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars (Americana, blues, roots), 7:00PM BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM DJ Phantom Pantone (dark wave, trap, house music), 10:00PM BURGER BAR Hot Rod (surf rock), 6:00PM CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Moonshine Rhythm Club, 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Station Underground (reggae), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime), 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Copernicus, 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL Yelawolf w/ Struggle Jennings, Bubba Sparxxx & Jelly Roll (hip hop), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Alexa Rose (folk, indie, Americana), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Grand Old Conglomeration w/ Woody Wood & Bobby Miller (bluegrass, old-time), 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Chuck Brodsky (folk, singersongwriter), 7:30PM ROOM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Disc Golf Weekly Competition, 5:30PM Cam Stack Band, 9:00PM

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10/19 10/20 10/21 10/22 10/26

WAYNE KRANTZ W/ KING BABY

8PM DOORS

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swiss Army Dance w/ Laura Light, Paul Moore & Jeff Hersk (swing, blues, waltz), 7:30PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Drayton & the Dreamboats, 7:00PM An evening w/ Corey Harris & The Rasta Blues Experience, 8:30PM

STONE ROAD RESTAURANT & BAR Open Mic w/ Tony the Pony, 8:00PM

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Amy & Mike acoustic, 5:30PM

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6:00PM

10/13

7PM DOORS

SLY GROG LOUNGE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Delta Rae w/ Sean McConnell (blues, rock, country), 8:00PM

SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB Lyric (acoustic, soul), 6:00PM

FRI

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Sanctuary Fundraiser, 5:00PM Tessia (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Paper Crowns (indie, folk), 6:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

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SALVAGE STATION What It is w/ Kip Veno, 8:00PM

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Laura Thurston (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

SUN

ROOM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Lady DJ Night, 10:00PM

TUE

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Chris Milam (indie, Americana), 6:00PM

JOAN OSBORNE SINGS SONGS OF BOB DYLAN CELTOBER FT. ALBANNACH & SCREAMING ORPHANS JOHN PAUL WHITE JOE LASHER JR. ZUZU WELSH BAND

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Pam Jones (jazz), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 185 KING STREET Stolen Hearts (Southern soul, blues, roots), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers (folk, blues), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Flashback (Motown, R&B, dance), 9:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Erick Baker w/ The Tall Pines (acoustic, rock, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Manic Focus w/ Marvel Years (electronic), 8:00PM ATHENA'S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7:00PM

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7:00PM – BROOKS WILLIAMS 9:00PM – HOLIDAY CHILDRESS CD RELEASE: “MIND THE GAP” SUN 10/16 5:30PM – JONATHAN BROWN 7:30PM – CLAIRE LYNCH BAND TUE 10/18 7:00PM – TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

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5-9 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS : $35 MUSIC BY WEST END TRIO ON THE PATIO

7:30PM – SPARROW AND HER WINGMEN THU 10/20 7:00PM – DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN 8:30PM – ITALIAN NIGHT WITH

MIKE GUGGINO AND BARRETT SMITH FRI 10/21

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BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM TsuShiMaMiRe & We Are The Asteroid, 9:00PM BURGER BAR Russ T Nutz, 6:00PM BYWATER Window Cat (jazz fusion, modern soul, R&B), 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Fin Dog (bluegrass, oldtime), 7:00PM CORK & KEG One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz, Latin, swing), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Andy Ferrell (Americana), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Firecracker Jazz Band (New Orleans style jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Tina & Her Pony (indie, bluegrass), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Chinquapin Duo (Americana, old-time), 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Shooter Jennings w/ Waymore's Outlaws & Brody Hunt and the Handfuls (outlaw country, Southern rock, alternative) , 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thunderstruck release party, 4:00PM Tranceformation w/ Terra Ferma, Kevens & David Christophere (DJs), 5:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL AmiciMusic presents "French Connection" w/ Daniel Weiser &Franklin Keel (classical), 7:00PM Friday Night Dance Party w/ Jim Arrendell , 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie rock, pop, alt-country), 9:00PM JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Rotating Rock 'n' Oldies DJs, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP HotPoint Trio (Gypsy jazz, swing), 6:30PM

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BEN'S TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM

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MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7:00PM

MARS HILL RADIO THEATRE Open Mic, 7:00PM

THE DUGOUT FineLine, 9:00PM

NOBLE CIDER Brian Turner (solo piano covers), 6:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Hiss Golden Messenger w/ The Dead Tongues (folk, blues, alt. country), 9:30PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6:00PM

ODDITORIUM Akris w/ Horseflesh & I Am Godot (metal), 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN SOL Vibes presents Celebration of Love (EDM), 9:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST WestSound (Motown and more), 8:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5:00PM The Frazier Band w/ The Carmonas (bluegrass, rock), 10:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Friday Night Dance Party w/ DJ Deacon, 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Rusted Root w/ SIMO (acoustic, world, rock), 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Michael Martin Band (country, Americana), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PATTON PUBLIC HOUSE Fish Fry w/ Mark Keller (acoustic classic rock), 6:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Backup Planet (jam, rock, fusion), 9:00PM QUOTATIONS COFFEE CAFE Cody Siniard (country), 7:30PM RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL 9th Annual Literacy Council Dinner w/ Cliff & Wiley Cash (comedy), 6:00PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Rad Lou (rock, experimental, punk), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Sol Rhythms, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jukebox Cowboys (honkytonk, country), 8:00PM

TOWN PUMP Chris Jamison's Ghost, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Bobby Thompson Project (blues), 10:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Top 40s Girls Night, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY MilkWeed (Americana, folk), 9:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Cabaret Jazz, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Vintage (classic rock), 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Capt. EZ (DJ), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S Cristal Rose & The Silver Foxes (rock), 7:00PM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 185 KING STREET Joe Taylor Group (guitar, jazz), 8:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Alarm Clock Conspiracy Duo (acoustic, indie), 6:00PM Mande Foly (electric African folk), 9:00PM

STONE ROAD RESTAURANT & BAR Three Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll, swing), 7:30PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ Lucy Woodward (soul, pop, funk), 8:00PM

THE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Lose Yourself to Dance w/ DJ Marley Carroll (dance), 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazzy Happy Hours w/ Marilynn Seits Jazz Duo, 5:00PM Brief Awakening Tour w/ Hail Cassius Neptune, 7:00PM LOOK Friday w/ DJ Audio, 10:00PM

ATHENA'S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Bend & Brew (yoga class), 11:00AM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Jason Moore & Trust Trio (jazz, funk), 7:30PM

ODDITORIUM Blitch w/ Spearfinger & My Seven Mouths (metal, rock), 9:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Erin Kinard, 7:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM Kenny Zimlinghaus (comedy), 6:00PM Tele Novella (dream pop), 9:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11:00PM

BOILER ROOM Dance Party & Drag Show, 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ross Osteen & Crossroads (blues), 10:00PM

BURGER BAR Asheville FM 103.3 DJ Night, 6:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Henry Rollins [SOLD OUT], 9:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Sammy Guns (classic country), 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY The Excons (roots, rock), 6:00PM

CORK & KEG Old-time jam, 7:30PM

PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (classic rock), 9:30PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Chris Willey (rock), 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10:00PM

PATTON PUBLIC HOUSE Fun Famdamily (rock, jam), 6:00PM

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock, blues, funk), 9:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Mike The Prophet (folk, pop), 6:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Stolen Hearts (dirty southern soul), 8:00PM

GOOD STUFF My New Favorites (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

QUOTATIONS COFFEE CAFE Dustin Maxwell & the Shotgun Gypsies (blues, R&B, rock), 7:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Anderson East w/ Los Colognes (Southern soul, R&B, Americana), 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Rock Academy Quarterly Showcase , 5:00PM Tim Reynolds & TR3 (rock, jazz, blues), 8:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Brooks Williams, 7:00PM Holiday Childress CD release, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Royal Hounds (rock, rockabilly, honky-tonk), 9:00PM JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Kenny Zimlinghaus (comedy), 6:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

ROOM IX Open dance night, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION 4th Annual CiderFest NC, 1:00PM Station Underground, 4:01PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ Cats!, 10:30AM Chris Jamison Trio (folk, blues, rock), 12:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. Sierra Nevada's Mills River Oktoberfest, 5:00PM THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Great Gatsby swing dance w/ The Gypsy Swingers, 8:00PM THE DUGOUT Flashback Sally, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Anklepants w/ Aligning Minds, 5ifth & Nightmare of Noise (electronic, experimental), 9:30PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN Old-School dance party (age 30+), 6:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Saturday Night Special w/ Franco Niño, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Michael Martin Band (folk, soul), 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:30PM The Jordan Okrend Experience (blues, dance), 10:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Chalwa (reggae), 9:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Richard Shulman and John Serrie (piano), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Siamese Jazz Club (modern soul, R&B), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S King Garbage (soul), 7:00PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Fantastic Negrito (black roots, blues, rock), 8:00PM

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ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11:00AM An evening w/ Jonathan Brown, 5:30PM The Claire Lynch Band (Americana, bluegrass, oldtime), 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Punk night w/ DJ Homeless Plumber aka "Chubberbird", 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville ("swing'n grass"), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Odd Dance Night, 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Zen Cats (blues), 7:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11:00AM Sundays w/ Bill & friends, 5:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers jam, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Community Meal, 1:00PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 185 KING STREET Open mic night, 7:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Jazz Club (soul, R&B, jazz), 8:00PM BURGER BAR Honky Tonk night, 6:00PM BYWATER Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8:00PM COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Trivia, 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Songwriter's "open mic", 7:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:00PM Todd Cecil & friends (Americana, blues), 9:00PM LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Kipper's "Totally Rad" Trivia night, 8:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & friends (bluegrass), 6:30PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Miss and Mister Inferno Pageant, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Daikaiju, NERMAL & Kortriba (surf, punk), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Jonathan Ammons & Take The Wheel (honky-tonk karaoke), 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Cass McCombs Band w/ Delicate Steve (rock, folk, psychedelic), 8:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Free movie Monday: Hocus Pocus, 6:30PM

THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10:00AM Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7:00PM THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Sunday brunch on the rooftop w/ Katie Kasben & Dan Keller (jazz), 12:30PM THE SOUTHERN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12:00PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN Chrome Pony & That's My Kid (garage rock), 7:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE BYOV Open Decks w/ secret_nc (electronic), 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Bow Wow Film Festival!, 6:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Real Live Tigers (country, folk, soul), 9:30PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7:00PM THE VALLEY MUSIC & COOKHOUSE Monday Pickin' Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Service industry night (rock 'n' roll), 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Porter & the Bluebonnet

Rattlesnakes (Americana, psych country), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30PM URBAN ORCHARD Old-time music, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jay Brown w/ Angie & Cas (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Shag Night, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BACK YARD BAR Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Eleanor Underhill (country, soul), 7:00PM BLACK BEAR COFFEE CO. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan (indie, folk, singersongwriter), 7:00PM BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Old Time Blues Jam, 6:00PM BYWATER DJ EZ & fire-spinning, 9:00PM CORK & KEG Old time jam, 5:00PM CROW & QUILL Boogie Woogie Burger Night! (burgers, rock n' roll), 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Wayne Krantz w/ King Baby (rock), 9:00PM IRON HORSE STATION Open mic, 6:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions w/ Rob Parks & friends, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Cajun Two-steppin' Tuesday w/ The Cre'ole & In the Way (Cajun, zydeco, dance), 7:00PM Swampcandy w/ Dirty Deep (roots, Americana), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Metal Karaoke, 10:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic, 7:00PM

MARKET PLACE Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7:00PM

BUFFALO NICKEL SCARY Spoken Word open Mic!, 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Odd comedy night, 9:00PM

BURGER BAR Karaoke, 6:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST Tuesday Night Blues night w/ The Remedy (dance lessons @ 8pm), 8:00PM

CLADDAGH RESTAURANT & PUB Irish Music Wednesdays, 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic w/ Roots & friends, 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING TRIVIA NIGHT! w/ Ol' Gilly, 7:00PM ORANGE PEEL Kongos w/ The Joy Formidable & Arkells (alt. rock), 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Trivia night w/ DJ Josie Breeze, 6:00PM SALVAGE STATION CrossFit Pisgah, 6:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday!, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Izzy Mayfield, 7:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Eric Lanham w/ Sands Pleine (electronic, improv), 9:30PM THE PHOENIX Open mic, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Service Industry Night, 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Carpathian Spruce (klezmer, gypsy), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Staves & Strings (bluegrass), 6:30PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Joan Osborne w/ Keith Cotton & Andrew Carillo (Bob Dylan tribute), 8:00PM GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM Tinsley Ellis (blues, rock), 7:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sparrow & Her Wingmen (jazz), 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM

TOWN PUMP Nathan Kalish (bluegrass), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Funk & Jazz Jam (funk & jazz), 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub, jazz), 6:30PM

URBAN ORCHARD Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30PM

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Nimbus (world, dub, lounge), 5:00PM Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND "Take the Cake" Karaoke, 10:00PM ODDITORIUM Funny Girrrlz (female storytelling & comedy), 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30PM 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting competition, 5:00PM Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Billy Litz, 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL Big Gigantic w/ Ekali & Selector Cleofus (electronic), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Oskar Blues cornhole league, 6:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bradley Carter (bluegrass, oldtime, Americana), 6:00PM

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ROOM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION What It is w/ Kip Veno, 8:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Adoptable Pet Night w/ Blue Ridge Humane Society, 6:00PM Karaoke NIght!!, 7:00PM

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Women's Singer Songwriter Showcase w/ Keturah Allgood, Laura Blackley, Valorie Miller & Kim Smith, 7:00PM

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THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8:00PM

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THE MOCKING CROW Open Mic, 8:00PM

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THE MOTHLIGHT Diane Coffee w/ Bendy Cat (psychedelic, Motown), 9:30PM

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THE PHOENIX Jazz night w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 8:00PM

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COME BACK ALICE 9pm $5

BILLY CARDINE AND NORTH OF TOO FAR DOWNS 9pm $7 THE GET RIGHT BAND HALLOWEEN GET DOWN 9pm

WEEKLY EVENTS

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Hump Day Mixers w/ Fame Douglas, 7:00PM

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TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM

OPEN MIC

w/ RICK COOPER [Sign Up is 7:30] 8-11pm

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Wednesday Night Waltz, 7:00PM

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 185 KING STREET Porch Light Apothecary (Americana, rock), 8:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

FIRE SPINNING w/ DJ CAPTAIN EZ 9pm

DRINK SPECIAL 1/2 OFF DIRTY FRENCH BROADS DRINK SPECIAL $5 MIMOSAS CORNMEAL WALTZ

Feat. Robert Greer and Friends [classic country, bluegrass] 6pm FREE

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Rumpke Mountain Boys (bluegrass), 8:00PM

BURGER BAR Hot Rod (surf rock), 6:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM Alien Music Club (Johnny Mercer tribute), 9:00PM

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Russ Wilson & His Famous Orchestra, 8:30PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Bob Zullo (rock, jazz, pop), 7:00PM BOILER ROOM Diges Christ Super Drum, The Beard & Styrofoam Turtles w/ DJ Bailey, 9:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Station Underground (reggae), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Lady DJ Night, 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Bluegrass Sweethearts (bluegrass), 6:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Celtober w/ Albannach & Screaming Orphans (Celtic, tribal), 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Community Night w/ Asheville Area Arts Council, 4:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ David JacobsStrain , 7:00PM Italian night w/ Mike Guggino & Barrett Smith (acoustic, world music), 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM K LOUNGE #WineitUp Thursday w/ Dj AUDIO, 9:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Disc Golf Weekly Competition, 5:30PM Downright, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz (soul, Americana), 7:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB The Digs (funk, soul), 6:00PM SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6:00PM STONE ROAD RESTAURANT & BAR Open Mic w/ Tony the Pony, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN Summit Jam, 6:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE TRL REQUEST NIGHT w/ DJ Franco Nino, 7:00PM SpectrumAVL w/ Damgood, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Redleg Husky (bluegrass, folk), 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOILER ROOM Jason Traylor, Michael Tracy & The Dirty Soul Revival (rock), 9:00PM BURGER BAR Curly Wolves, 6:00PM BYWATER Come Back Alice (southern gypsy funk), 9:00PM CORK & KEG Cary Fridley & Down South (classic country, honky-tonk, Western swing), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Keegan Avery, 8:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Decades Rewind, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Autopilot (indie, rock), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Scott Bianchi (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sidecar Honey (roots, rock), 7:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sol Driven Train , 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bella's Bartok (folk, punk), 10:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Storytelling Blues Dinner Show, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Clydes (Americana, bluegrass, country), 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Paleo Sun, 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Early Voting Kick Off w/ Mojomatic and Nancy Nehls Nelson, 6:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST The Mike & Garry Show (acoustic, variety), 7:30PM

ORANGE PEEL Emily's D+Evolution (math rock), 8:00PM Esperanza Spalding (jazz, rhythm & blues), 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Copernicus (Americana), 6:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jeff Anders & Justin Burrell (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PATTON PUBLIC HOUSE Oktoberfest, 6:00PM

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ROOM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9:00PM

ATHENA'S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN John Paul White w/ The Kernal (folk, country), 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Atlas Bloom w/ Fashion Bath & Livingdog (rock), 9:00PM

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PURPLE ONION CAFE Beth Wood (singer-songwriter), 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Eprom, Soohan (electronic), 10:00PM

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Georgia Flood (indie, rock), 8:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Caromia (roots, songwriter, acoustic), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Gypsy Swingers (gypsy jazz), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE The Mug (blues, rock, boogie), 9:00PM

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Rotating Rock 'n' Oldies DJs, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30PM MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7:00PM MARS HILL RADIO THEATRE Open Mic, 7:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Marco Benevento & the Eric Krasno Band (rock, experimental, funk), 9:00PM

NOBLE CIDER Brian Turner (solo piano covers), 6:30PM

Joe Miller w/ storyteller David Novak & Alison Fields, 8:00PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jim Arrendell & The Cheap Suits (dance), 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Broad River Nightmare w/ Thundering Herd & Built on the Ruins (metal, rock), 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5:00PM The High Divers w/ The Mobros (indie, rock), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Ryan Melquist Duo, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Mandolin Orange w/ Dead Horses (country, bluegrass, folk), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Art's Fishing Club (folk, rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PATTON PUBLIC HOUSE Fish Fry w/ Mark Keller (acoustic classic rock), 6:00PM QUOTATIONS COFFEE CAFE Howie Johnson (Americana), 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Carver & Carmody (Americana), 8:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Zumba w/ Francisco Flores & Dream Team, 7:00PM DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM THE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11:00PM THE DUGOUT Super 60's Party, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Body Games w/ Marley Carroll & Celia Verbeck, 9:30PM THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6:00PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN SOL Vibes w/ Ho-Tron, Philo, New Color, Sympl & more (EDM), 9:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Sub Vibrations (bass-heavy dance music), 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Copernicus (bluegrass), 9:00PM TRADE & LORE COFFEE HOUSE WORD! hosted by David

TWISTED LAUREL Top 40s Girls Night, 11:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN David Holt w/ Josh Goforth (mountain music), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Alchemy Theory (90's & contemporary hits), 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Ben Hovey (live souljazztronica), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S The Jassers (jazz), 7:00PM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 5 WALNUT WINE BAR James Hammel (jazz), 6:00PM De Tierra Caliente (latin party), 9:00PM ATHENA'S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Bend & Brew (yoga class), 11:00AM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Mark Mandeville & Raiane Richards (acoustic, Americana, folk), 7:00PM Willie Watson & Aoife O'Donovan (Americana, folk, rock), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons (Americana, rock 'n' roll), 9:00PM

THE DUGOUT Bite the Apple, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Natural Child w/ The Nude Party & Big Bad Oven (rock 'n' roll), 9:30PM THE SOUTHERN October Surprise! (election comedy show), 8:00PM THE SUMMIT @ NEW MOUNTAIN Old-School dance party (age 30+), 6:00PM

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Saturday Night Special w/ Franco Niño, 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

TOWN PUMP Born Again Heathens (celtic, punk), 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:30PM Al "Coffee" & Da Grind (blues, soul, dance), 10:00PM

MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7:00PM NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB National Disability Awareness Month fundraiser w/ Laura Blackley, 11:00AM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Perpetual Groove, 6:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM ODDITORIUM Zuzu Welsh Band w/ Crossroads (blues, rock), 9:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Stolen Hearts (country, honky-tonk), 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Tribute to John Denver w/ Tom Donnelly & friends, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Secret B-Sides (modern soul, R&B), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S Tony Mozz (electronic soul, jazz), 7:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE West End Trio (blues, rock), 7:30PM

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8:00PM Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11:00PM

Wed •Oct 12 Woody Wood @ 5:30pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons (singersongwriter), 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Bob Moses w/ No Regular Play & Harrison Brome (electronica), 9:00PM

Fri •Oct 14

BOILER ROOM Dance Party & Drag Show, 10:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Todd Cecil (blues, rock), 6:00PM

Release Party 4-9pm

BURGER BAR Asheville FM 103.3 DJ Night, 6:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio (classic rock), 9:30PM

CORK & KEG Vollie McKenzie & The Leadfoot Vipers (country, swing, jazz), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Billy Litz, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Stephan Evans & The True Grits (indie, acoustic), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Sean Dunn (acoustic, newgrass), 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Joe Lasher Jr. w/ Kasey Tyndall (country), 8:00PM

PATTON PUBLIC HOUSE The Natural Born Leaders, 6:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Shana Blake Band (soul), 8:00PM QUOTATIONS COFFEE CAFE Scott Brittain MD fundraiser, 7:30PM ROOM IX Open dance night, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ Cats!, 10:30AM Jamison Adams Project (rock, Americana), 8:00PM

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Sat •Oct 15 Rock Academy Quarterly Showcase 5-9pm Sun•Oct 16 Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1-4pm Thu• Oct 20 Community Night w/

Asheville Area Arts Council 4-8pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Rocky Horror Hell-A-Queen Show w/ Celeste Starr (drag show), 10:00PM THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11:00PM

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MOVIES

REVIEWS & LISTINGS BY JUSTIN SOUTHER & SCOTT DOUGLAS

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María Mercedes Coroy is unforgetable in Jayro Bustamante’s heartbreaking Ixcanul

Ixcanul

HHHH DIRECTOR: Jayro Bustamante PLAYERS: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy, Leo Antun DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: A young Guatemalan peasant girl is torn between an arranged marriage and her dreams of a life with her lover in America. THE LOWDOWN: A devastating story of youthful ignorance and cultural exploitation, Ixcanul will haunt audiences with its beauty and brutality.

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I tend to have an affinity for depressing films, but there’s bleak and then there’s bleak. Ixcanul is an almost unremittingly brutal film on an emotional level, exploiting its rural Guatemalan setting to enhance a sense of cyclical inevitability inherent to its story, creating a world in which tragedy and heartbreak are as much a part of the natural landscape as the black slopes of the volcano that provides the film’s picturesque backdrop. But in that bleakness, there’s a deep emotional resonance that is gripping and relentless, creating pathos in spite of the film’s distinctly

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alien aspects. We may not recognize the physical world of these characters through direct personal experience, but the dramatic landscape is universal, and there can be no avoiding the immediacy and relatability of their problems and motivations. The film follows seventeen-yearold María, whose life of quiet desperation slaving away with her parents on a coffee plantation is poised for drastic improvement by her arranged betrothal to the operation’s older overseer. Like most teenagers, María has ideas of her own and would much rather run off to America with her boyfriend, drunken field hand Pepe. This leads to some disastrous, if largely predictable, decisions. But what makes Ixcanul such a powerful film is not the rote melodrama that provides the spine of its narrative, but the characters and relationships that make up its heart. It may

be almost as hard to watch María risk her family’s chance for financial security as it is to watch them slaughter a hog for her engagement dinner, but there’s never a moment when her decisions feel anything less than absolutely believable and organic from a perspective of story and character. Writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s debut feature draws heavily from his childhood in Guatemala and his extensive research among its indigenous Mayan farm workers, much of the film’s narrative shading having been derived from stories he collected during the process. Bustamante’s legwork pays huge dividends, especially in his evenhanded portrayals of folk rituals that depict the mystical spirituality of the farm workers as something more serious and sincere than simple superstition. Beyond his deft handling of plot and

structure, he expertly extracts stellar performances from his cast of non-professional indigenous actors, further engraining the naturalistic feel established by cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga’s exceptional camera work. The real hook with Ixcanul is in the way its third act pulls together its various conflicts to expose a much larger problem confronting Maria and her parents. Bustamante upends the narrative’s more familiar drama to expose an insidious threat in the form of big city doctors and semiassimilated Ignacio, the overseer to whom María was promised and who’s none too pleased about her dalliance with Pepe. If the resultant resolution is surprising, the pitiful denouement is not; a world this indifferent is never likely to provide a happy ending, only the wisdom earned through suffering. The word “ixcanul” means “volcano” in the Kaqchikel Mayan dialect spoken throughout the film, and the volcano is a powerful symbol for both the destructive capacity of both Maria’s emergent sexuality and the natural world in which she lives. The poetry of Bustamante’s film is in his ability to intertwine the two through the animistic worldview of his characters before confronting them with the harsh realities of modernity that exist beyond the horizon. When Maria asks what’s on the other side of the volcano that frames the only world she’s ever known, Pepe tells her “America” while her mother simply responds “cold weather.” It’s hard to say which concept is more threatening in the context of Maria’s story. It should probably go without saying at this point, but be forewarned that Ixcanul is not the feel-good hit of the summer. Audiences looking for a less challenging story about a young woman on the cusp of maturity can go see Girl Asleep and have a nice, comfy first-world laugh. However, those willing to endure the rigors of Bustamante’s narrative will be rewarded with an experience as powerful as the tectonic forces of the eponymous peak, and one which will haunt viewers long after they’ve left the theater. Not Rated. Opens Friday at Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Closet Monster HHHS

DIRECTOR: Stephen Dunn PLAYERS: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Aliocha Schneider, Joanne Kelly, Sofia Banzhaf COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: A young gay man struggles with accepting his sexuality in the face of past trauma and an unwelcome family life. THE LOWDOWN: A occasionally fascinating piece of filmmaking that’s both flawed in its general execution and lacking a firm emotional center — two things that stunt its impact. Writer-director Stephen Dunn’s feature debut, Closet Monster, is a movie I feel I should be more supportive of and excited about. In most ways, it’s exactly the type of film that’s in short supply in this time of reboots and sequels and gigantic cinematic universes. Closet Monster is a curious creation, one that’s personal and idiosyncratic, occasionally stylish and often emotionally complex. It’s also not a movie that, at any point, truly excited me or convinced me there’s a new, urgent cinematic voice in this world. The most enthusiasm I can gather for the film is it’s the arrival of an interesting new filmmaker — one with potential, but one who hasn’t realized it here. The story itself is little more than your run-of-the-mill coming-ofage story, though it doesn’t totally embrace this track until late in the film. Connor Jessup plays Oscar, an 18-year-old who’s coming to terms with his sexuality, something especially difficult due to his poor relationship with his parents — especially his petty, spiteful father (Aaron Abrams) — and the lasting effects of a gay man’s murder he witnessed as a child. Because of these two aspects, Closet Monster is a bit darker (both in its color palette and its general tone, though not overbearingly) than you’d generally expect from this type of movie. Unfortunately, this rarely works in its favor. Closet Monster is a film about trauma, fear, repression, confusion and angst, so it naturally

has a dour tone — even when it’s trying to be lighthearted. Hurting things is the fact that the movie isn’t quite as emotionally affecting as it needs to be or really even should be. The tone of the film never properly hits, and it’s often a bit too proud of its own symbolism, which is all-too-glaringly on the nose. This is, after all, a film where the most touching character is (yes, really!) a talking hamster (voiced by Isabella Rossellini). And I can’t exactly tell why this is. Oscar, as a creation, is relatable in his confusion at growing up and his fear of being himself, and the film itself does an admirable job of portraying these emotions. He’s just a bit too self-contained and slightly too lacking in upbeat emotions — an unfortunately stolid creation performed a bit too stiffly. The film is both dark and whimsical, yet isn’t especially adept at either. This isn’t to say that Closet Monster doesn’t have points of interest outside of its shortcomings. It’s definitely ambitious in its desire to show the conflicts inherent in family. This is particularly emphasized in Oscar’s father, an often over-the-top caricature of an alcoholic, abusive dad, but one with enough love in him to muddy the waters — in both Oscar and the viewer. Dunn’s direction, too, is clever and stylish (though a bit too reliant on muted colors and closeups), occasionally slipping into the surreal (with notes of Cronenbergian body horror of all things), all while thankfully trusting the audience to go along with this. All this adds up to an interesting little movie, but one lacking any sort of true impact to propel it towards greatness. Not Rated. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

Girl Asleep HHHS DIRECTOR: Rosemary Myers PLAYERS: Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Matthew Whittet, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY COMEDY RATED NR

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THE STORY: An young girl clinging to her childhood is drawn into a bizarre fantasy world when her parents host a party for her fifteenth birthday. THE LOWDOWN: Girl Asleep pulls off a delicate balancing act between fun and poignancy, dealing with a sensitive subject without condescension or cloying sentimentality. Girl Asleep is a perplexing, endearing and thoroughly enjoyable film. What starts out looking like a cutrate Wes Anderson homage winds up somewhere completely unexpected and utterly unique, and I can honestly say that it pulls off what could have been a pretty standard pubescent initiation story with more sensitivity and wit than anything I’ve seen in quite some time. As a film it’s far from flawless, but as a psychological study of nascent adolescence its honesty and insight are a refreshing respite from the endless sea of predominantly pointless and self-consciously quirky teen melodramas that seem to pop up incessantly in modern movie theaters. Adapted from their own awardwinning Australian stage play by writer Matthew Whittet and director Rosemary Myers, the duo deliver an extremely promising cinematic debut that puts its dry humor and singular sensibility to profoundly affective use. The initial narrative seems straightforward enough; new-to-town Greta (played with surprising maturity by Bethany Whitmore) navigates the vicissitudes of social and family life on the eve or her fifteenth birthday. But things take a sharp turn into surrealist symbolism about halfway through the film, when an unwanted birthday bash drives our young heroine deep into her internal landscape as she’s confronted by a series of

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Campbellian threshold guardians in a woodland setting deeply indebted to psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. These sequences dealing with our protagonist’s subjective experience of her unconscious mindscape are easily the most interesting aspects of the film, and left me wishing that the filmmakers had dispensed with the unduly referential stylistic nods and gotten to the good stuff much sooner. And the good stuff abounds, largely resulting from Whittet’s enjoyably off kilter script. At its core, Girl Asleep is a film about the steep learning curve necessitated by burgeoning relationships, and the film hits its strongest emotional beats when focusing on how Greta’s interactions with others affect her on a psychological level. The masterful accomplishment of this film is its ability to skirt sentiment without digressing into saccharinity, a particularly impressive feat considering the subject matter. Whittet reprises his stage role as Greta’s dad, and the moments of juvenile humor he shares with Whitmore are some of the funniest and most moving exchanges in the movie without the treacle such onscreen pairings usually imply. The process of adaptation between the stage and screen seems to have left the film with some significant structural issues, but by the time it abandons its more conventional plot mechanics these problems seem almost like they might have come from a different film. Director Rosemary Myers clearly has a keen eye, composing artfully in a 4:3 Academy ratio particularly well suited to her visual subject. The film’s period late-70s production design feels appropriately dated and yet strangely timeless, and Myers’ camera movements are stylish without being obtrusive. My single biggest gripe with her sensibility is her aforementioned tendency to reference her coming-of-age genre influences, with visual cues calling to mind everything from Rushmore to Napoleon Dynamite to Dazed and Confused with a dash of Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s House thrown in for good measure; fortunately this abates as the narrative shifts the setting into the mythical forest, and I suspect that Myers will establish her own distinctive aesthetic more solidly as she matures as filmmaker. Ultimately, my minor gripes with this film are far outweighed by its strengths, and I expect great things from both Myers and Whittet in years to come. If you’re in the market for an uplifting and genuinely fun film that deals with a subject as complex as a girl’s transition into adulthood

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while still respecting its audience’s intelligence, look no further than Girl Asleep. It may not be a perfect film, but it is a pretty great one for audiences of all ages, and I highly doubt that even the most cynical and disaffected teen will manage to sleep through it. Not Rated. Opens Friday at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life HHS DIRECTOR: Steve Carr PLAYERS: Griffin Gluck, Andy Daly, Lauren Graham, Adam Pally, Alexa Nisenson, Rob Riggle. TEEN ANGST COMEDY RATED PG THE STORY: Artistic teen dealing with the death of his brother rebels against the oppression of his creativity by the principal at his new middle school. THE LOWDOWN: Like the age it attempts to chronicle, this film is too juvenile and immature to fully embrace some of the issues it creates to be considered fully formed. Most of the time you can look at a movie and easily surmise the plan the filmmakers want for its future. With Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, it is pretty easy to infer that director Steve Carr and company hoped adapting a popular young adult novel into a feature film would kick off an anthology of its other books, possibly ending in a TV series. But, sadly, this product arrives premature. You can and should expect as much from the man who directed both Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Daddy Day Care (2003), as this too stalls at that level of inanity. Middle School tells the story of Rafe (Griffin Gluck), a pre-teenager dealing

with both the death of his younger brother and his father’s departure from the family unit by throwing himself into his drawings at the same time he transfers to a new school at the start of sixth grade. While that could have been an interesting tale, the film eschews many of the intriguing aspects of his impending adolescent introspection to go for the more sanitized aspects of Rafe’s acts of rebellion against an oppressive academic administrator in the form of Principal Dwight (Andy Daly). To be fair, there are attempts in the film’s brief 92-minute runtime at exploring the boy’s fractured relationships with a well-meaning mother (Lauren Graham), her new meathead boyfriend (the always obnoxious Rob Riggle), a petulant younger sister (Alexa Nisenson), a crush (Isabela Moner) and the “cool teacher who gets him” (Adam Pally). But the thrust of the antics revolve around the usversus-them mentality most teenagers adopt toward their education. It’s all a little rote and stereotypical. As someone who has taught in the public school system, I find it more than a little belittling when media of any kind decides to pit public school students against those in charge of their emotional and academic development. The result paints the picture with all-too-wide a brush and usually only in the most convenient colors. There are only so many “we hate homework” and “standardized testing sucks” jokes one can stomach before deciding those telling them are simply too lazy to search for new material. Daly’s condescending antagonist is pretty much the same character he plays to aplomb in TV’s Eastbound and Down and Modern Family, but this time it appears his performance is geared more toward creating a recurring character for future iterations instead of focusing on the work right in front of him. This is the case for most of those involved in the production. You can sense everyone felt this would be just the first in a series of Middle School stories they would get to tell (since the movie was made by CBS Films, that is no stretch), but they were all looking so far into the future they forgot to build a solid foundation in the now. Much like the time in a child’s life it intends to chronicle, Middle School is an awkward prediction of what might come to pass later, based on the wildly fluctuating present. Pre-teenage audiences may enjoy watching kids stick it to The Man, but anyone older will wisely wonder if they should wait for things to mature at a later date. The answer to

that question on the test is a standardized “no.” Rated PG for rude humor throughout, language and thematic elements. Now playing at Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 and UA.Beaucatcher Cinemas 7

THE STORY: A deeply disturbed divorcee fantasizes about the life of a perfect couple she sees on her daily commute, but the disappearance of the young woman she’s been watching drags her into the middle of a possible murder mystery.

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THE LOWDOWN: A tepid take on a best-selling novel, The Girl on the Train hits rote genre notes with passionless execution.

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If you watched 2014’s Gone Girl and found yourself wishing it were about 80 percent dumber, have I got a movie for you. The Girl on the Train harbors aspirations of similar neo-noir potboiler pulpiness but seems to have lost sight of the fact that such enterprises are supposed to be fun. I’m not familiar with the novel on which this film is based, but it’s safe to say that if the book is anything like the movie, author Paula Hawkins will not find a place alongside Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton on my mom’s yearly trash-fiction Christmas list. The story is typical of the genre — rife with infidelity, violence and murky character motivations. This movie packs enough neurosis and psychosexual dysfunction to make a Woody Allen

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character seem well-adjusted. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a drawback in and of itself, but the film handles its characterization so ineptly that what could have been a provocative mystery-thriller comes across as little more than salacious sleaze. While all noir explores the darker side of humanity, that exploration is usually a lot more entertaining than this. The story follows recently divorced alcoholic Rachel, played with demented zeal by Emily Blunt, as she commutes to Manhattan on the titular train while fantasizing about the seemingly perfect lives of people she sees from the window. The intriguingly Hitchcockian voyeurism of the premise is jettisoned almost immediately in favor of a plot that could just as easily have come from a rejected Law and Order spec script, and things only get worse from there as Rachel stalks her exhusband and his new wife — along with their neighbors for some reason. Nothing in this film amounts to much more than a contrived afterthought, with characters placed in physical and psychological proximity to one another for no logical reason other than narrative convenience.

Said narrative plays like it was crafted with the questionable aid of a few too many glasses of cheap chardonnay, its world populated exclusively by unlikeable women and ineffectual men whose soap opera shenanigans come across as oversexed without ever being sexy. Whether this particular failing can be attributed to the source material or to a flawed adaptation by screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson may be a subject of speculation on my part, but there can be little doubt about the more obvious problems with the script. The pacing can be generously described as glacial, the dialogue sounds like it was pulled straight from a Harlequin romance novel and the plot “twists” are about as unpredictable as the next scheduled stop down the train tracks. Director Tate Taylor could reasonably be expected to have thoroughly mastered the art of adapting book club bestsellers after his highly acclaimed work on The Help (2011), but the superficial polish that characterizes his aesthetic is ill-suited to his subject matter here. The only thing more uniformly abused than the women in this film might be the closeup as a

SCREEN SCENE formal tool in Taylor’s hands. More damningly, he takes another stab at the nonlinear approach to narrative that he used to questionable effect in Get On Up (2014) — but this time he’s juggling three unreliable narrators, which muddies the waters significantly. The result is a jumbled mess of a film, saddled with symbolism as blunt as its lead actress’ surname and hamstrung by an awkward voice-over narration that drops out after its expositional purpose is served. If Gone Girl got away with its gimmicky premise, it was thanks to the artful ministrations of director David Fincher, and Taylor falls far short of that level of filmic virtuosity. There is undeniably a market for this sort of film, and I would never fault any moviegoer for indulging in a proclivity for pulp any more than I would criticize my mom for wanting a mindless mystery novel to read every now and then. The problem here is not the subject matter but the execution. The Girl on the Train is every bit as tedious as a long commute, and it lacks the payoff of any meaningful or gratifying destination. Don’t get railroaded into this one. Rated R for violence, sexual content, language and nudity. Now playing at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, Carolina Cinemark, Carmike 10, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher, Epic of Hendersonville REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

FILM FILM AT UNCA 251-6585, unca.edu • WE (10/12), 7pm - Dirt for Dinner, documentary film. Free. Held in the Highsmith Union Grotto • TU (10/18), 7pm - The Year We Thought About Love, documentary, that goes behind the scenes at a queer youth theatre troupe. Free. Held in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. FINE ARTS THEATRE 36 Biltmore Ave., 232-1536 • TH (10/20), 7-9pm - Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices, documentary film screening. $15. GROOVY MOVIE CLUB 926-2508, johnbuckleyX@gmail.com • SU (10/16), 2-4pm - Film screening and discussion of Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Potluck before the movie. Register for location: johnbuckleyx@gmail.com. Free.

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MEOW SCREENING: Mechanical Eye Microcinema presents Home Movie Day on Oct. 15 at Grail Moviehouse. The annual celebration of amateur films and filmmaking is a chance to view home movies from community members. Image courtesy of Home Movie Day • The West Asheville Library’s Pixar Movie Series continues Friday, Oct. 14, at 4:30 p.m. with Toy Story. The feature presentation will be preceded by the Pixar short Tin Toy. Free and open to the public. avl.mx/1z5 • On Saturday, Oct. 15, at 11 a.m., Grail Moviehouse hosts a screening of The Long Night. Tim Matsui’s documentary weaves together stories of seven people whose lives were forever changed by child sex trafficking in the U.S. A Q&A session will follow the film. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased online or at the Grail box office. All proceeds benefit the programs of the Buncombe County nonprofit crisis intervention and prevention agency Our VOICE, including its new project, Working to End Sex Trafficking in North Carolina (WEST NC), a collaboration with the Women for Women giving circle. avl.mx/315 • Mechanical Eye Microcinema presents Home Movie Day on Saturday, Oct. 15, from noon to 2 p.m. at Grail Moviehouse. The annual celebration of amateur films and filmmaking offers an opportunity for individuals and families to discover how to best care for their films as well as a

rare chance to view home movies from fellow community members. Volunteers will inspect and project 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film along with DVDs, VHS and VHSC. One reel (3-5 minutes) from each interested participant will be screened until everyone has had a chance to see their home movies. After that, second helpings will be shown. Free and open to the public. Donations are welcome to defray costs. mechanicaleyecinema.org • Asheville School of Film students of Filmmaking 201/301 (Preproduction and Production; Postproduction) screen their projects on Sunday, Oct. 16, at noon at Grail Moviehouse. Over the span of two eight-week courses, students produced their own short digital films from conception to completion under the guidance of ASoF co-owners Brad Hoover and W.S. Pivetta. The three short projects include the comedy Relatively Trapped, romantic comedy Turquoise and horror/suspense film Snipe Hunting. All of the films feature local performers. A bonus student project will also be screened. Free and open to the public. ashevilleschooloffilm.com X

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DIRECTOR: Tod Browning/Edgar G. Ulmer PLAYERS: Wallace Ford, Harry Earles/Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi HORROR Rated NR The Asheville Film Society’s October reign of terror marches on with our second double feature of the month. First up, we have Tod Browning’s 1932 classic Freaks. Browning’s most well-known work outside of Dracula and arguably his best (I might make the case for some of his work with Lon Chaney, though few others do), Freaks was derided by censors on release for its use of actual “freaks.” Criticism of the film as exploitation is still voiced in some corners today, I would say unjustly, but whatever your opinion may be the film is an undeniably unsettling must-see for genre enthusiasts. Next up, we have Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1934 The Black Cat, the first onscreen pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. I programmed this one because it was a perennial favorite of the late Ken Hanke, who described part of its appeal thusly: “At a brisk 65 minutes, it manages to include mass murder, Satanism, necrophilia, a human skinning and a chess game of death that beat Bergman by 23 years.” I can’t think of a better synopsis or a stronger recommendation, this one is not to be missed! The order of these films may be subject to change, so you’re strongly encouraged to show up for both. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Freaks and The Black Cat on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla)

The 31st film in the Godzilla franchise and likely to be the closest in intent to the original films, Shin Godzilla was co-directed by Shinji Higuchi (Gamera) and Hideki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion). Oneweek limited engagement starting Tuesday 10/11 and running through Tuesday 10/18. Early reviews are overwhelmingly positive.(NR)

Kevin Hart: What Now?

Comedian Kevin Hart’s latest standup special, directed by Barbershop helmer Tim Story. No early reviews. (R)

Night of the Demon HHHHH DIRECTOR: Jacques Tourneur PLAYERS: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Athene Seyler, Maurice Denham HORROR Rated NR Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon (1957) — originally released in the U.S. with 12 minutes cut and under the title Curse of the Demon — is this wonderful oasis in the midst of the general run of bad horror movies from the 1950s. And there’s virtually no reason it should have been. Not only were the times against it, but it’s from the era when British pictures tended to have an American star shoehorned into them for stateside marketing purposes — and usually not a top-tier actor at that. In this case, we get Dana Andrews, a solid enough actor who was also an alcoholic and reaching the end of his leading man days. (And while reports indicate that Andrews was pretty much in the bag throughout filming, you’d never know it in the film.) With a marvelous screenplay by frequent Hitchcock-writer Charles Bennett and producer (and former East Side Kid) Hal E. Chester along with director Jacques Tourneur at the top of his game, Niall MacGinnis as the evil Dr. Karswell as one the great horror movie villains and Brit composer Clifton Parker providing what gets my vote for quite possibly the best horror score ever, the film is nigh on to perfection (or no further from it than one effects shot). Quite honestly, it is my favorite horror picture (at least among those that have no other desire than to be scary). This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on May 5, 2015 The Asheville Film Society will screen Night of the Demon on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

The Road to Singapore HHHHS The Accountant

Action thriller starring Ben Affleck directed by Gavin O’Connor, according to the studio, “Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-theart robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.” No early reviews.(R)

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DIRECTOR: Victor Schertzinger PLAYERS: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn COMEDY Rated NR The first of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour “Road to...” films, The Road to Singapore may not be my favorite of the series (or even in my top three, which would be Zanzibar, Morocco and Utopia in no particular order) but all of the constituent pieces were in place for the unassailable greatness that was to come. It was certainly good enough to surprise studio execs by becoming the top-grossing film of 1940 and spawn six more films, and not without just cause. This one’s also notable for giving Lamour second billing over Hope, a position she would not retain. Really, if you can watch any of the Road films without at least a few good chuckles, you might want to get your funny bone checked. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Road to Singapore on Sunday Oct. 16, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? HHHH DIRECTOR: Ted Kotcheff PLAYERS: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort DARK COMEDY MYSTERY Rated PG Apart from the enjoyable business of seeing actually pleasant, attractive people in a cleverly written romantic comedy (something we see far too little of these days), Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is generally representative of the kind of star comedy that no longer seems to be made. You know the kind: tailored cinematic vehicles for movie stars that serve no real function other than providing a couple of hours of entertainment, and that manage to do so with a seeming minimum of effort. Essentially, it’s a slightly silly romantic comedy with George Segal and Jacqueline Bisset as a divorced couple — both working in very different capacities in the world of food — who become involved in the self-descriptive mystery of the title. Holding things together is a very funny Robet Morley as a wonderfully sarcastic gourmand. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on May 5, 2015. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Friday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 Hwy 70, Swannanoa. MOUNTAINX.COM

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SALES PERSONNEL Needed for sales office. Position is part-time with the potential to develop as full-time. Applicant is expected to present a friendly, outgoing, energetic attitude both in person and on the telephone. Applicant must be self-motivating, computer literate, great at multitasking as well as being able to perform basic office tasks and be a team player. • Sales experience is not necessary, training will be provided. • The ability to work flexible hours as well as Saturdays is a must. Applicant must be at least 19 years of age and have a Valid NC Driver's License. Call 828-707-0513 for more information or apply in person at 1473 Patton Avenue.

ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEEKS FT ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST Responsibilities include processing accounts payable, 1099 forms, payroll, W-2 forms, and payroll tax returns; maintaining general ledger; and assisting in the annual budgeting process, annual audit and Form 990 preparation. Degree in Accounting, several yrs experience in accounting, accounts payable, and payroll is required. Non-profit accounting or construction accounting experience is preferred. Visit ashevillehabitat.org/about/ employment for details. EOE. DEVELOPMENT/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT The Lord's Acre is seeking a part time Development/Administrative Assistant. Responsibilities include support for fundraising, marketing, donor relations, and administrative tasks. Visit www.thelordsacre.org for full listing and to apply.

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MINISTRY ASSISTANT FOR THE PASTOR AND MINISTER WITH SENIOR ADULTS The Ministry Assistant for the Pastor and Minister with Senior Adults must effectively communicate warmth and interest to office guests and callers; facilitate awareness of the ministry of the Pastor and Minister with Senior Adults; demonstrate competence in managing schedules, publications, Microsoft Word, Excel, InDesign, and the Shelby database software; be proficient in multi-tasking; exhibit efficiency and organizational skills in general office tasks; and provide a professional, welcoming environment. The Ministry Assistant for the Pastor and Minister with Senior Adults must have a Bachelor’s degree. lbrown@fbca.net www.fbca.net

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): A study published in the peer-reviewed “Communications Research” suggests that only 28 percent of us realize when someone is flirting with us. I hope that figure won’t apply to you, Aries, in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological situation, you will be on the receiving end of more invitations, inquiries and allurements than usual. The percentage of these that might be worth responding to will also be higher than normal. Not all of them will be obvious, however. So be extra vigilant. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient Greek sage Socrates was a founder of Western philosophy and a seminal champion of critical thinking. And yet he relied on his dreams for crucial information. He was initiated into the esoteric mysteries of love by the prophetess Diotima, and had an intimate relationship with a daimonion, a divine spirit. I propose that we make Socrates your patron saint for the next three weeks. Without abandoning your reliance on logic, make a playful effort to draw helpful clues from non-rational sources, too. (P.S.: Socrates drew oracular revelations from sneezes. Please consider that outlandish possibility yourself. Be alert, too, for the secret meanings of coughs, burps, grunts, mumbles and yawns.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Helper Experiment, Part One: Close your eyes and imagine that you are in the company of a kind, attentive helper — a person, animal, ancestral spirit or angel that you either know well or haven’t met yet. Spend at least five minutes visualizing a scene in which this ally aids you in fulfilling a particular goal. The Helper Experiment, Part Two: Repeat this exercise every day for the next seven days. Each time, visualize your helper making your life better in some specific way. Now here’s my prediction: Carrying out The Helper Experiment will attract actual support into your real life. CANCER (June 21-July 22): New rules: 1. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to be obsessed with anything or anyone that’s no good for you. 2. It’s unimaginable and impossible for you to sabotage your stability by indulging in unwarranted fear. 3. It’s imaginable and possible for you to remember the most crucial thing you have forgotten. 4. It’s imaginable and possible for you to replace debilitating self-pity with invigorating self-love and healthy self-care. 5. It’s imaginable and possible for you to discover a new mother lode of emotional strength. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s swing-swirl-spiral time, Leo. It’s ripple-sway-flutter time and flow-gush-gyrate time and jive-jiggle-juggle time. So I trust you will not indulge in fruitless yearnings for unswerving progress and rock-solid evidence. If your path is not twisty and tricky, it’s probably the wrong path. If your heart isn’t teased and tickled into shedding its dependable formulas, it might be an overly hard heart. Be an improvisational curiosity-seeker. Be a principled player of unpredictable games. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some English-speaking astronomers use the humorous slang term “meteorwrong.” It refers to a rock that is at first thought to have fallen from the heavens as a meteorite (“meteor-right”), but that is ultimately proved to be of terrestrial origin. I suspect there may currently be the metaphorical equivalent of a meteor-wrong in your life. The source of some new arrival or fresh influence is not what it had initially seemed. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. On the contrary. Once you have identified the true nature of the new arrival or fresh influence, it’s likely to be useful and interesting.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most of us can’t tickle ourselves. Since we have conscious control of our fingers, we know we can stop any time. Without the element of uncertainty, our squirm reflex doesn’t kick in. But I’m wondering if you might get a temporary exemption from this rule in the coming weeks. I say this because the astrological omens suggest you will have an extraordinary capacity to surprise yourself. Novel impulses will be rising up in you on a regular basis. Unpredictability and spontaneity will be your specialties. Have fun doing what you don’t usually do! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the final ten weeks of 2016, your physical and mental health will flourish in direct proportion to how much outworn and unnecessary stuff you flush out of your life between now and October 25. Here are some suggested tasks: 1. Perform a homemade ritual that will enable you to magically shed at least half of your guilt, remorse and regret. 2. Put on a festive party hat, gather up all the clutter and junk from your home, and drop it off at a thrift store or the dump. 3. Take a vow that you will do everything in your power to kick your attachment to an influence that’s no damn good for you. 4. Scream nonsense curses at the night sky for as long as it takes to purge your sadness and anger about pain that no longer matters. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A Buddhist monk named Matthieu Ricard had his brain scanned while he meditated. The experiment revealed that the positive emotions whirling around in his gray matter were super-abundant. Various publications thereafter dubbed him “the happiest person in the world.” Since he’s neither egotistical nor fond of the media’s simplistic sound bites, he’s not happy about that title. I hope you won’t have a similar reaction when I predict that you Sagittarians will be the happiest tribe of the zodiac during the next two weeks. For best results, I suggest you cultivate Ricard’s definitions of happiness: “altruism and compassion, inner freedom (so that you are not the slave of your own thoughts), senses of serenity and fulfillment, resilience, as well as a clear and stable mind that does not distort reality too much.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a perfect moment to launch or refine a project that will generate truth, beauty and justice. Amazingly enough, now is also an excellent time to lunch or refine a long-term master plan that will make you healthy, wealthy and wise. Is this a coincidence? Not at all. The astrological omens suggest that your drive to be of noble service dovetails well with your drive for personal success. For the foreseeable future, unselfish goals are well-aligned with selfish goals. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Has your world become at least 20 percent larger since September 1? Has your generosity grown to near-heroic proportions? Have your eyes beheld healing sights that were previously invisible to you? Have you lost at least two of your excuses for tolerating scrawny expectations? Are you awash in the desire to grant forgiveness and amnesty? If you can’t answer yes to at least two of those questions, Aquarius, it means you’re not fully in harmony with your best possible destiny. So get to work! Attune yourself to the cosmic tendencies! And if you are indeed reaping the benefits I mentioned, congratulations — and prepare for even further expansions and liberations. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some astrologers dwell on your tribe’s phobias. They assume that you Pisceans are perversely drawn to fear; that you are addicted to the strong feelings it generates. In an effort to correct this distorted view, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I hereby declare the coming weeks to be a Golden Age for Your Trust in Life. It will be prime time to exult in everything that evokes your joy and excitement. I suggest you make a list of these glories, and keep adding new items to the list every day. Here’s another way to celebrate the Golden Age: Discover and explore previously unknown sources of joy and excitement.X

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