Festivals Appalachian Summer Festival A month-long celebration of the arts, featuring a variety of performances by internationally acclaimed artists. For a complete schedule of events and ticket prices: www.appsummer.org or 262-4046. • Highlights include The Travelin’ McCourys on July 21, Eastern Festival Orchestra on July 22, a Lunch and Learn session on July 25 and the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble on July 26. Downtown After 5 • FR (7/20), 5-9pm Downtown After 5 will feature Sol Driven Train (roots, Americana) and Common Foundation. Held on N. Lexington Ave., between Hiawassee and the I-240 overpass. Free. Info: www. ashevilledowntown.org. Harambee Festival • FR (7/20) through SU (7/22) - The Harambee Festival will feature music, arts and crafts, food and activities for children at Maple Street and 7th Avenue, Hendersonville. Free. Info: www.7thavehvl. com. Spruce Pine BBQ Championship • FR (7/20), 8am-10pm & SA (7/21), 10am4pm - The Spruce Pine BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival will feature public tastings, live music, a cornhole tournament, clogging, craft vendors and activities for kids. Held at 201 Locust Ave., Spruce Pine. $4/ children under 12 free. Info: www.sprucepinebbqbluegrass.org. World Cultures at International Festival Day • SA (7/21), 10am5pm - World Cultures at International Festival Day features arts, crafts and food from around the world. Held throughout downtown Waynesville. Free. Info: www. VisitNCSmokies.com or 800-334-9036.
Film 2001: A Space Odyssey • TH (7/26), 4pm - 2001: A Space Odyssey will be screened at the Cashiers Library, 249 Frank Allen Road. Free. Info: 743-0215. Groovy Movie Club • FR (7/20), 7pm - The Groovy Movie Club will screen Something to Talk About at a private home in
Dellwood. A mostly-organic potluck begins at 6:15pm. Free. Info and location: johnbuckleyX@gmail.com or 926-3508. Jam Session • 3rd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - An old-time jam session will be held at Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. 441. Info: www.nps. gov/grsm. King Corn • MO (7/23) 7pmGreenlife Grocery, 70 Merrimon Ave., presents a screening of King Corn, the story of "two friends who follow the trail of corn through our food system." Free. Info: 254-5440 Swiss Family Robinson • TH (7/19), 10am - Swiss Family Robinson will be screened at Cashiers Library, 249 Frank Allen Road. Free. Info: 743-0215. Treasure Island • TH (7/26), 10am Treasure Island will be screened at Cashiers Library, 249 Frank Allen Road. Free. Info: 743-0215.
Food & Beer Everyone Cooks! With Michael Gentry (pd.) New line of vegetarian cooking classes. Reservations: 273-6542. • Thursdays, 5:30pm Warren Wilson College. • Tuesdays, 5:30pm N. Asheville. $20. For more information visit Everyone Cooks on Facebook. Brews and Views • SA (7/21), 3-7pm Beech Mountain Resort, 1007 Beech Mountain Parkway, will present the Brews and Views Festival, featuring more than 40 craft beers, live music and slalom professional finals. $25/$20 in advance/free for designated drivers. Info: www.BeechMtn.com. Food Preservation Workshop • TU (7/24), 6:30-8:30pm - A workshop on food preservation will focus on soft spreads, pickling, freezing and drying. Held at N.C. Cooperative Extension Office, 740 Glover St., Hendersonville. Sponsored by ECO. $15. Info: www. eco-wnc.org or 692-0385.
Gardening Gardening in the Mountains • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Gardening in the Mountains lectures will be offered at the Buncombe County Extension Office,
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seeinG isn'T BelievinG Japanese scientists Overperforming: Researchers at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology have developed goggles that can enlarge the image of a bite of food, to fool the eater into thinking he’s consumed more than he has (and thus eat less). The software is so sophisticated, they said, that the fork appears at normal size. In basic tests, according to a June Agence France-Presse report, a 50 percent increase in imagined cookie size reduced actual consumption by 9 percent.
compellinG eXplanaTions Well Put: Pushing for an Oklahoma state Senate bill authorizing the open carrying of guns (which eventually passed), Sen. Ralph Shortey recounted an incident from his past that convinced him of the need to carry guns openly. "I was in oil and gas. I was out on a lease at one time, and I got attacked by a turkey. Wait until you get attacked by a turkey: You will know the fear that a turkey can invoke in a person. And so I beat it with a club; that was all I could do. And 94 Coxe Ave. Free. Info: 2555522. Ikenobo Ikebana Society The Blue Ridge Chapter of Ikenobo Ikebana Society (Japanese Flower Arranging) meets monthly at St. John’s in the Wilderness Parish House, Rt. 225 South and Rutledge Road, Flat Rock. Info: 4565143. • TH (7/19), 10am - July meeting will include a demonstration of Shoka Isshuike, a traditional and technically precise style of arrangement. Guests are welcome to observe. Compost Workshop • SA (7/28), 11am-2pm Extension master gardener volunteers will demonstrate how to compost at home beside Jesse Israel’s Garden Center, 570 Brevard Road.Free. Info: www.buncombe.ces.ncsu.edu or 255-5522. N.C. Arboretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily. Programs are free with $8
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parking fee. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492. • Through MO (9/3) - Wicked Plants: The Exhibit will “expose plants associated with a myriad of negative health effects.” Plant Clinic • SA (7/21), 11am-2pm Extension master gardener volunteers will hold a “Plant Clinic” at the Western North Carolina Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. The clinic is designed to help gardeners identify problems and pests. Bring samples for evaluation. Info: www.buncombe. ces.ncsu.edu or 255-5522. Regional Tailgate Markets Markets are listed by day, time and name of market, followed by address. Three dashes indicate the next listing. For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: www.buyappalachian.org or 236-1282. • WEDNESDAYS, 8amnoon - Waynesville Tailgate Market, 171 Legion Drive.
Air bags generally save lives, but according to a coroner's inquest in Darlington, England, in May, Ronald Smith's air bag deployed, was cut open on jagged glass and shot a rush of gas and talcum powder (used as a lubricant by many manufacturers) into his lungs. Smith developed fatal bronchial pneumonia from inhaling those substances.
The Way The World Works According to a May New York Times report, court-appointed trustee Irving Picard has secured $330 million of Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff's ill-gotten gains to distribute to his victims. Meanwhile, Picard and his associates have billed the court $554 million (charging up to $850 per hour). The Ponzi scheme "earned" around $65 billion, much of it consisting of the fantasy "profits" that prompted clients to invest with Madoff to begin with.
We Take care of our oWn (1) After Nechemya Weberman, prominent in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, was accused of 88 counts of sexual misconduct against underage girls and others, the district attorney arrested four men, charging them with using extortion and a $500,000
--- 8am-noon - Haywood Historic Farmer’s Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 2-6pm - Asheville City Market South, Town Square Blvd., Biltmore Park. --- 2:306:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, 60 Lakeshore Drive. --- 2-5pm - Spruce Pine Farmers Market, 297 Oak Ave. --- 2-6pm - Montford Farmers Market, 36 Montford Ave. --- 2-6pm - French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. --- 2-6pm - Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. • THURSDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - Oakley Farmers Market, 607 Fairview Road. --- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, 2724 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. --- 3rd THURSDAYS, 2-6pm - Greenlife Tailgate Market, 70 Merrimon Ave. • FRIDAYS, 2-6pm Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. --- 3-6pm - East Asheville Tailgate Market, 945 Tunnel Road. --- 4-7pm - Leicester Tailgate
Market, 338 Leicester Highway. • SATURDAYS, 7am-noon Henderson County Tailgate Market, 100 N. King St., Hendersonville.--- 8amnoon - Waynesville Tailgate Market, 171 Legion Drive. --- 8am-noon - Haywood Historic Farmer’s Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 8am-noon - Mills River Farmers Market, 5046 Boylston Highway. --- 8amnoon - Bakersville Farmers Market, Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot, opposite the U.S. Post Office. --- 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, 161 South Charlotte St. --- 8am-12:30pm Transylvania Tailgate Market, behind Comporium on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets, Brevard. --- 8am-noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, UNCA commuter lot C. --- 8:30am-12:30pm - Yancey County Farmers Market, S. Main Street at US 19E, Burnsville. --- 9am-noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market,
bribe to silence one accuser and her boyfriend. But the Hasidic community is deeply split on whether "outsiders" should judge its members. (2) British officials, meanwhile, were recently accused of failing to prosecute alleged pedophiles in a Greater Manchester Asian gang for fear of offending Asians. Police told The Daily Telegraph that the gangs had recruited up to 50 girls for sex, but one victim's advocate said police were "petrified" at being called racist and thus "reverted to ... political correctness."
hypersensiTive liTiGanTs In 2010, Myron Cowher, filed a lawsuit against his supervisors at Carson and Roberts Site Construction and Engineering of Lafayette, N.J., for making anti-Semitic comments about him — even though he isn’t Jewish. A trial court tossed the case out, but an appeals court reinstated it in April, saying Cowher deserves the opportunity to show how he felt persecuted by the comments, even though they didn’t apply to him.
readers' choice When Cats Fly: In June, Dutch artist Bart Jansen showed off his latest creation, which quickly became an Internet sensation: He had his pet cat Orville (who’d recently been run over by a car) stuffed with arms spread like an airplane, mounting a radio on the carcass so he could control its flight. Jansen subsequently showed off Orville at Amsterdam’s Kunstrai art festival.
1679 Barnardsville Highway, Barnardsville. --- 9am-noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road. --- 9am-1pm - Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, Highway 213 at Park Street, Mars Hill. --- 9am-2pm - Leicester Tailgate Market, 338 Leicester Highway. --10am-2pm - Murphy Farmers Market, downtown Murphy. Info: 837-3400. • SUNDAYS, noon-4pm Marshall’s “Sundays on the Island,” Blanahasset Island. • TUESDAYS, 3-6pm Historic Marion Tailgate Market, West Henderson Street at Logan Street, Marion. --- 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate Market, 718 Haywood Road.
Government & Politics Mindful Occupation • TH (7/26), 6:30pm - A Mindful Occupation meeting will be held at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. Free.
Info: www.mindfuloccupation.org.
Kids Aerial Kids Class (pd.) All ages and levels. Every Sunday 3-4pm, Tuesday 5-6pm and Thursday 5-6pm. Sign up or contact us at www.aerialspace.org or 828.333.4664. Registration required. Private lessons available. Cradle of Forestry Events Route 276, Pisgah National Forest. Admission: $5/children ages 15 and under free. Some programs require an additional fee. Info: www.cradleofforestry. org or 877-3130. • THURSDAYS, 10:30amnoon - Woodsy Owl's Curiosity Club, for children ages 4-7, presents a variety of forestrelated activities to engage children in the natural world. Registration required. $4/$2.50 adults. Info and registration: 877-3130. Find Waldo Scavenger Hunt