Asheville Daily Planet November 2015

Tony Bennett scores So how could U.S. hit in Cherokee show be ‘brought down?’

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Mission tower given final OK — See STORY, Pg. A4

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Widen I-240 to 8 lanes in W. AVL, DOT urges

From Staff Reports A new study from the N.C. Department of Transportation released a recommendation to widen Interstate 240 to eight lanes in West Asheville, if the state has the money to do the job.

The Bowen Bridge, which carries traffic east and west across the French Broad River, is the busiest section of highway in Western North Carolina, according to DOT. It is unclear, however, when or if the work ever would be done because the state’s 10-year plan does not include money for widening I-240 between the west end of Bowen Bridge and the I-26/I-40/I-240 interchange on the west side of the Asheville.

The draft environmental impact study for the Interestate 26 Connector project also reports that separating local traffic from through traffic on Bowen Bridge would add $74 million to $101 million to the cost of the massive construction project scheduled to get underway during the first half of the next decade — and the number of homes and businesses affected would be larger.

What’s more, the study calls for adding as many as two additional lanes in each direction to the stretch of Interstate 40 that runs from the I-26/I-40/I-240 interchange west to the I-40/Smoky Park Highway interchange. The lanes, which would be mostly separate from existing travel lanes, would allow westbound drivers moving from I-240 to Smoky Park Highway to avoid merging with through traffic on I-40.

The release of the study is sparking another round of community debate that has heated up and cooled down periodically since the 1990s.

See WIDEN, Page A9

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I really think I love you

The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon

Q: Two friends of mine are in “love at first sight” relation-

ships. (One went from chills at seeing the guy to moving in with him weeks later.) Each has said to me, “When it’s right, you just know.” Well, as I get to know this new guy I’m seeing, I like him more and more. It’s just not the instant love of the century like they have, and that makes me feel a little bad.

— Lacking Thunderbolts Want to know the answer?

See ADVICE GODDESS, Page A18

Trapeze performers fly high

Dare to Fly Trapeze recently opened at 456 Broadway St., just south of UNC Asheville. and north of Five Points. Above, a man flies through the air on the trapeze. To the left, a family appears excited and nervous about flying on the trapeze. The business, co-owned by Christine Aiken and Dari Layne, will be open for the season through Dec. 20.

No experience is necessary, but flyers are required to be ages 4 and up — and weigh 250 lbs. or less. Participants are given full instruction before taking flight.

Photos courtesy of Dare to Fly Trapeze

Amid uproar, Waking Life closes; Izzy’s seizes reins, renovating

From Staff Reports

A West Asheville coffee shop that has been source of controversy and protests in recent weeks was taken over on Oct. 5 by new owners, who already run a successful downtown coffehouse.

Kristin and Ross Britton, owners for five years of Izzy’s Coffee Den on North Lexington Avenue, acquired the equipment and lease for Waking Life Espresso at 976 Haywood Rd. The sister shop will be closed for about six to eight weeks for renovations.

The Brittons said they had been look for another location, with a particularly interest in West Asheville “We’re excited to be a part of the West Asheville community,” said Kristin Britton, “We’ve been

looking for a second location for a while. We can’t wait to make new friends and offer the west side a great new place to relax and enjoy.”

Ross Birtton added, “We appreciate everyone’s understanding as we work on giving the space a warmer feel. We’re going to take our time, give it a fresh coat of paint... as Kristen said, we want this to be a place where everyone feels comfortable.”

Jacob Owens and Jared Rutledge, former owners of the coffee shop, expressed good wishes for Izzy’s., along with a farewell statement expressing grief over the collapse of their business, while acknowledging their use of “demeaning, harsh, and violent words that expressed hatred and fear towards women.”

See IZZY’S, Page A8

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Brian Haynes

Julie Mayfield

Keith Young

Lindsey Simerly

Marc Hunt

Rich Lee

6 candidates vye for 3 council seats

From Staff Reports

The large field of Asheville City Council candidates was narrowed to six candidates for three available seats for the nonpartisan general election on Nov. 3.

The six candidates on the balllot include Brian Haynes, assistant manager of Habitat for Humanity; Vice Mayor Marc Hunt; Rich Lee, financial advisor; Julie Mayfield, environmental nonprofit director; Lindsey Simerly, LGBT advocacy group campaign manager; and Keith Young, deputy clerk of Buncombe County Superior Court.

There will be at least one write-in campaign — run by the Rev. Spencer Hardaway, Baptist minister.

The early voting period ran from Oct. 22-31 at various locations.

On Nov. 3, voters must already be registered and must go to their individual polling sites.

In the Oct. 6 primary, 12.7 percent of the voters cast votes for the 16 candidates on the ballot. While the turnout was paltry, it was the highest percent of voters for a Asheville council primary since 2007.

Among the winners, Mayfield led with 3,457 votes; Haynes got 3,005 votes; Hunt, 2,929 votes; Young, 2,749 votes; Simerly, 2,434 votes; and Lee, 2,390 votes.

Among those missing the cut were Carl Mumpower, with 1,852 votes, followed by Ken Michalove, 1,402 votes; John P. Miall, 1,288 votes; Dee Williams, 1,174 votes; Corey Atkins, 781 votes; Lavonda Nicole Payne, 148 votes; Joe Grady, 147 votes; Grant Millin, 123 votes; Holly P. Shriner, 108 votes; and Richard Liston, 64 votes.

Some political observers have noted that the primary results show the continue dominance of Asheville’s progressive candidates, while conservatives were failed to gain enough support to qualify for the general election.

Those wanting a park built on a vacant lot across from St. Lawrence Basilica endorsed Haynes, Young and Lee. Meanwhile, the Sierra Club backed Mayfield, Hunt and Simelry, while the AFL-CIO Central Labor Council backed Lee and Simerly and Equality NC backed Mayfield, Hunt and Simerly, who also were endorsed by local Democratic politicians.

In a rift that has been highly publicized, Councilman Gordon Smith endorsed Mayfield, Hunt and Simelry, while fellow progressive Councilman Cecil Bothwell is backing Haynes, Young and Lee. Thus, if Haynes, Young and Lee are elected, combined with Bothwell’s vote, observers say it would block any sale of the land near the Basilica.

In an Oct. 17 column in the Asheville Citizen-Times, Bothwell accused the Sierra Club of being “more attuned to bolstering the status quo than to environmental protection.”

In response, Mark Threlkeld, a member of

the Sierra Club’s executive committee; wrote in an AC-T guest column: “Really? Locally, we’ve won the closure of the coal plant in your backyard, Cecil. Nationally, the Sierra Club has won the closure of 250 coal-fired plants.”

Threlkeld also took a verbal shot at Bothwell for saying the Sierra Club candidates might be for larger environmental issues, “but not for the changes we need to make here and now to address global climate change and liv-

ability downtown.”

In response, Threlkeld wrote, “First, does he really think a site of less than one acre, planted to grass, is going to combat climate change?

If you want to have a serious impact on that issue, Cecil, dream bigger. So that leaves the issue of livability downtown. Good people can disagree on this element. Park or mixed use with a public plaza?”

He added, “No one is saying ‘high-rise hotel,’ even though Cecil keep propping up

that straw man. A park would cost $5 million that could instead go toward sorely needed greenways, big paths and sidewalks.”

Meanwhile, the three conservative candidates — Mumpower, Michalove and Miall — failed to advance despite boasting experience in government, with Michalove and Mumpower, respectively, formerly serving as mayor and vice mayor. They were all critical of the current council, especially on taxing and spending.

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Asheville takes water system case to N.C. Supreme Court

From Staff Reports

Asheville City Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 13 to appeal — to the North Carolina Supreme Court – a decision to strip the city of its water system.

The vote was cast during a closed session with City Attorney Robin Currin at the end of a regular public council meeting. Mayor Esther Manheimer confirmed the action after the meeting. Council was allowed to take the vote in closed session because of state law protecting attorney-client confidentiality.

During the open part of the council meeting, “As we all have heard, we have received a very bad decision in our water litigation,” the mayor said.

Council’s vote followed an Oct. 6 decision by the state Court of Appeals, upholding a 2013 law mandating transfer of the Asheville water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District.

The appeals court — via a three-member panel — unanimously reversed a trial court by ruling that the law does not violate the state Constitution.

After the appeals court ruling, Asheville Manheimer vowed that the city would appeal the decision to the State Supreme Court. She also expressed confidence that the city will

keep possession of the water system for at least the immediate future.

The case will decide whether the 2013 law requiring the transfer is a local act prohibited by the state Constitution, is a taking of the city’s property contrary to law, or exceeds the states authority to take property without payment.

The city lost on each point.

“I felt we had a very strong case,” Manheimer, an attorney, told local news media.

“I’m deeply disappointed, and I think this is a big loss for the citizens of Asheville, but also for the citizens of North Carolina.”

If the decision stands, it would reduce the ability of local governments across the state to manage their affairs, she said.

Meanwhile, state Sen. Tom Apodaca and state Rep. Chuck McGrady, both Henderson County Republican legislators who pushed for passage of the 2013 law, said they were pleased with the ruling.

“Essentially, the court recognized the legislature’s power to organize and regulate its municipalities and other local governments, they said in a joint statement.

“The legislature decided that a regional solution for public water and sewer for large public systems was the best way to provide the highest quality water and sewer services,” the statement said, adding that residents and officials in Asheville, Buncombe County and Henderson County have quarreled through the years over control of the system.

“One of our primary interests in this legislation was to establish a water and sewer district governed by a local entity whose representatives are selected from all areas served by the system, as opposed to being governed by Asheville’s city council,” the statement noted.

12-story Mission tower gets unanimous final OK From Staff Reports

Mission Health’s proposed 12-story, $400 million tower encompassing 681,000 square feet — the largest-ever contruction project for Asheville — received site plan approval on a 7-0 vote from City Council on Oct. 13.

With council’s green light, Mission cleared the final city hurdle before the project could be launched. The large size of the project meant it required a Level III review under the city’s Unified Development Ordinance — and required a vote by council.

The tower will end the need to transport patients by ambulance between two Biltmore Avenue buildings. It will replace the St. Joseph’s hospital campus, which is on the opposite side of Biltmore Avenue from most of Mission’s facilities. The tower will have frontage on Hospital Drive and Victoria Road.

Mission began a serious examination of the need for changes about four years ago, Sonya Greck, Mission’s senior vice president of Behavioral Health and Safety net Services, told council.

“It was quite obvious to us, as we looked at facilities, that the St. Joe’s facility was aging out, as well as there were needs for our emergency department.

“Those were the two catalysts that started this process of this replacement hospital, and this tower is a replacement hospital,” she said.

N.C. legislature votes to end curbs on Mission From Staff Reports The state General Assembly voted in late September to repeal a law that set limitations on Mission Health’s operations.

The Certificate of Public Advantage law, or COPA, has kept a cap on Mission’s profit margin and the number of doctors it can employ since 1995. The bill provides that the restrictions end as of January 2018.

Regarding the repeal, Mission President and Chief Executive Officer Ron Paulus said in a statement, “Although it was an important tool at the time, it has outlived its usefulness and we feel strongly that this is the right decision for the residents of Western North Carolina.”

He added that Mission has improved the quality of its care since its merger with St. Joseph’s Hospital, which prompted the law. COPA was designed as a way to shield Mission from federal anti-trust regulators concerned that Mission might gain too much power over the local health care market, Paulus said.

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How could U.S. be ‘brought down?’

‘Father of prepper movement’ tells of several frightening scenarios

Last in a series of two stories

By JOHN NORTH

john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com

SALUDA — After describing what he termed a pathway to “make America great, again” during his Sept. 19 keynote address, author-professor William R. Forstchen spent an hour fielding questions from the attendees of Prepper Camp 2015 at Orchard Lake Campground.

One of the most memorable questions and answers involved ways — besides use of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack — that the United States “could be brought down.”

The gathering of 1,000 preppers (aka “survivalists”) was billed as “the largest outdoor preparedness event in the country.”

Forstchen noted after his roughly 15-minute address that he always likes to leave lots of time for a question-and-answer session.

The Montreat College history professor gave the keynote address last year, too, and was introduced this year by camp organizer Rick Austin as “almost the father of the prepper movement” for his impact with his 2009 book, “One Second After” (a New York Times bestseller), and his many speeches to, and encouragement of, preppers. Forstchen recently released a long-awaited sequel, “One Year After,” which he also discussed during his talk.

(The full story on Forstchen’s address and the first part of the Q&A appeared in October’s print Daily Planet and in the digital version of the newspaper at www.AshevilleDailyPlanet. com. This followup story includes some of the remaining significant questions and answers.)

During the Q&A, a man asked Forstchen to name some of the major ways the U.S. “could be brought down other than through an EMP attack?”

Forschen first noted that, “being an American, whether we came through Ellis Island, came in chains, or were here 10,000 years ago (Native Americans)” — it makes no difference.

“It’s not our race ... it’s the Constitution of the USA. We do not hold allegiance to a king, a president — or an alleged president.

(The crowd applauded Forstchen’s apparent slam of President Barack Obama.) We hold allegiance to the Constitution.”

As for major fears he has for ways the U.S. could be “brought down” as a nation, Forstchen began by noting that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (his friend and co-author on a number of books), once told him that “all you need is an education system that disconnects an entire generation from the Constitution — and you can lose the country.”

The author-prof said that that already is happening to some degree now and, as a result, “You have an uneducated class who puts fools in office.”

Another possibility for a national crackup would be the advent of “ a highly unstable financial system.... If that house of cards collapses, it’d be very bad.” Forstchen said that that is a real threat now, too.

Forstchen also said “a terrorist strike” could bring down the U.S. What’s more, he said the threat could be used in “an overreach for your safety and security,” where government officials “create a whole new department of ‘ultra-home security’ and (say), ‘We’re going to make sure y’all aren’t armed!’” Forstchen’s last comments triggered some in the crowd to shout out their agreement with his assessment.

At that point, Forstchen said, “What’s happening at this very moment is a picture of the future. I currently teach a course that we renamed the ‘30 Years War (1915-1945).’”

However, in a reference to U.S. foreign intervention, he lamented, “We’re in a 100 -year war” now.

To that end, he suggested that the preppers read the article “What Does ISIS want?”

Bill in the March 2015 edition of Forstchen Atlantic Monthly In further addressing threats to national security, he asserted, “Also, I’d add the complete political correctness of our military — where it becomes more important to be trained in political correctness than military training.”

A man asked Forstchen to name his favorite candidate among the nominees for the U.S. presidency in the November 2016 election.

Some in the crowd laughed along with Forstchen, who replied, “The (news) media has made the Republican candidacy a reality show. It’s a circus. It’s a bloody circus. It’s also about who has the most money.”

He then declined to name his favorite for the presidency.

A man asked Forstchen to tell of any advances in EMP protection since last year.

The author-prof said there have been no significant advances in EMP protection for the U.S. in the last 12 months.

“National defense? No (advances),” he said. “You? Yes — if you’re aware of it. You guys (preppers) are way ahead of the curve on all of this than I am now.”

He also asserted, “The elite have been taken care of” for EMP attacks and other security issues. However, Forstchen added, “They’re not (real) Americans, we are.”

A man said that, when Iran gets a nuclear weapon, would they launch against Israel — and do you think the United States would launch a response against Iran?”

Forstchen said Iranian leaders have said “using an EMP is Sharia-compliant... Read the information, it’s out there. I take it superseriously....

“One other things that flipped me out... On Sept. 17, 2009 — the (then-) current administration informed the government of Poland that it was shutting down plans for an ABM (anti-ballistic missile) base in Poland. That

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was profound. It could have been the first line of defense (for the U.S.).

Forstchen said there were eerie similarities to Sept. 17, 1939, when, he said, “Stalin knifed Poland in the back — and invaded. It (Poland) suffered under 60 years of communist occupation,” as a result.

He then asked, rhetorically, “What do I think the response should be?’ Some of you might think I’m a nut now, but I believe in pre-emptive response... I’ll take them out (bomb them), if need be, if they won’t negotiate....You can’t negotiate with these people.”

(Many in the crowd applauded.)

A man asked Forstchen, “What do we do to start ‘prepping’ for this? My (own) first response would be: “Walk out of your house and shake your neighbor’s hand.”

“You hit it exactly,” Forstchen replied.

“Getting to know your neighbors — that’s No. 1” in security precautions, whether on a minor problem or major scale cataclysm.

Forstchen then described a talk he gave several years ago to top U.S. military officials, noting “If it’s weeks after a major EMP or CME (coronal mass ejection, aka a major solar flare),” at some point they are likely to get a call, saying, “‘Sir, you’d better come down to the gate.’ There’s 4,000 or 5,000 neighbors of yours from the town of Carlisle, (Pa.) They’re not rioting. They’re holding up their babies and saying, ‘Just take my baby.’”

He asked the officers, “Could you do it?” meaning be able to decide whether to let their neighbors die and, with scarce resources, would they rescue some of the babies? (Forstchen said some of the officers approached

him afterward with tears in his eyes, saying that it would be awful to make such a choice.)

In the military, or as preppers, during a disaster, “Do you compromise your mission or your soul?” he asked.

“The Jews in Germany were not the first to do this, although some of them were — some of them were walking to the train station to their death, holding up their children, saying (to their non-Jewish neighbors who were standing nearby and watching), ‘Take my child.’”

In returning specifically to the question he was asked, Forstchen said, “You network with your friends, first.” He then quipped, “Become a doctor — you’ll be taken care of, no matter what. We all have certain skills to create a community.”

He added, “Next time you go to the market, buy several months’ worth of canned food” to be prepared. “We have to think of nightmare scenarios.”

A man asked said ISIS training facilities and terrorist groups “already are here” in Western North Carolina. “Pre-emptively, can we stop them?”

Forstchen replied, “That’s not conspiracy theory stuff.” He said he has confirmation from reliable sources that ISIS is in WNC. “They can hear us,” Forstchen said with a grin. “If so, I say (to ISIS), ‘Eat pork!’”

A woman asked Forstchen to name his “favorite news source.”

“I ‘hit’ (check the news on) Drudge (Report website) every morning,” Forstchen answered, succinctly.

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Prepper

Continued from Page A6 A man asked, “Do you feel we have a ‘Manchurian candidate’ in the White House?”

Before Forstchen could answer, a woman in the crowd yelled out, “Duh! We have a Muslim in the White House, right now.” (President Obama has stated on a number of occasions that he is a Christian, research by the Daily Planet shows, although a recent poll by the Pew Research Center indicates that one in five Americans think Obama is a Muslim.)

Forstchen, too, said, “Duh” — and rapidly asked for the next question.

On a question of which way Forstchen thinks the military would swing if ordered by the U.S. government to crackdown on the citizenry in a way that violates the Constitution, he said, “I want to believe in the integrity of our troops to uphold the Constitution.

That’s going to have to be the choice of our individual military. It’s going to be indvidual moral choices.”

A man said, “Obviously, everyone here — we’re all do-ers. What can we do from a political aspect to change the way things are going?”

“From a political aspect, I feel as helpless as you do,” Forstchen replied. “But I feel safe here with you. Because we’re Americans.”

(The crowd cheered.)

Another man said television and radio talk show host Glenn Beck “did this whole 9/12 movement and FreedomWorks — and it did good at first, but started dwindling down.” He asked Forstchen to comment on Beck’s efforts.

“Three or four weeks ago, we went to Birmingham, Ala., where Glenn Beck had a march. Glenn had (featured) one of the survivors of the bombing that killed five

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bombers of the day could carry (only) four bombs. Then aircraft carriers came along.

The ship commanders said airplanes couldn’t sink battle ships in Hawaii. The technology was there, but the thinking hadn’t changed,” black children that started the civil rights he said in a reference to the U.S. disaster that movement.... If the media ain’t there, it never ensued in the destruction of the naval force happened.” He said there was a virtual media by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. blackout, so “it got zero coverage. So what’s A woman asked, “What should we be the answer. What went wrong? I’ve learned doing?” She added, “People should be praynot to trust the media ing. If you did that, maybe the until I can spit into a Christian organizations might hurricane.... “ pick it up and help you do the Despite not much movie” of his New York Times publicity in the media bestseller “One Second After.” about Prepper Camp Forstchen said, “Every day 2015, “I heard every when we have our meal, we state of the union is pray to protect our children and here today,” Forstchus. I don’t have the answers. en said. “To hell with Every day that I come to an the media.” event like this, I leave with A woman noted that, restored optimism.” recently, “someone A woman noted that she had cut the wires, and all worked for CBS “for a very long of San Francisco went time ... We’re not dealing with dark ... What would the government. We’re dealing happen if someone with something much larger. were to cut the Internet We (CBS) weren’t allowed to (nationwide)?” tell the real story. We’ve been so “Great question,” dumbed-down for generations.

Forstchen replied.

They make sure at the Illuminati The book “One Year After,” level that we don’t get the truth.

“One report indicated that a ground hit by 50 a sequel to “One Second As we march toward Revelation, After,” recently was pub- the hope is people aren’t afraid to to 75 terrorists hitting key points would blow lished. share the Gospel passionately.” out the grid and the Forstchen’s only response to Internet. We are such a delicately balanced the woman’s comments were, “Thank you.” system” that the U.S. is highly vulnerable.

In a playful reference to the title of a A man asked, “Why isn’t it in the news?” “happy” book that Forstchen said he always With a decided note of sarcasm, Forstchen wished he had written, a man asked, “I’d like quipped, “Because we want to know what to ask what your bunny rabbit’s going to do Kim Kardashian was wearing.” The crowd when he gets to town?” erupted into laughter.

“My daughter had a pet bunny,” ForstForstchen then asserted, “In 1918, a plane chen said with a grin. “To this day, I have was canvas and screws. Even the biggest a hard time talking about that rabbit, which

would snuggle up with her at night.” To that end, he asked the preppers to “think about your beloved (pet) companions, as well. Make sure they’re taken care of (in an emergency), as well.”

In what he called a “wrapup” after the Q&A, Forstchen told of John Adams, a Founding Father, being “shown the famous painting of the (signing of the) Declaration of Independence. He was very old (when he was shown the painting) — in his 80s. He (Adams) said, ‘That’s not right at all. Some of us weren’t there for months. You got the painting all wrong.’ He was told, ‘Well, it was symbolic.’”

Indeed, Forstchen said, “What a moment (that was) when they voted on it (the Declaration of Independence). They did not know what their future would be — pledging their lives, their fortune, their sacred honor. Or, as Ben Franklin said, ‘We’ll all either hang together, or hang separately.’”

Continuing Forstchen said, “At the Glenn Beck (civil rights commemoration) event, the comment that hit me hardest was” where Beck noted that today’s times are much easier and “How many of us would have gone (to fight to keep America’s freedom), if we were told they need you back then?”

After a pause, the author-prof said, “We are the generation” that actually may be tested to do “what our Founding Fathers did... .”

He added, “To me, whenever you go to a military cemetery,” one thinks of the following words: “We here believe that these men did not die in vain.... and government by and for the people shall not perish from this earth...

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As Forstchen ended the Q&A session and the night’s program, the prepper crowd — en masse — rose to its feet to give him a loud and sustained standing ovation.

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Izzy’s

Continued from Page A1 Waking Life, which had been an West Asheville fixture for roughly five years, has been a source of fierce controversy recently, after the former owners were connected to misogynistic Internet posts that came to light in September.

The protests and controversy that ensued forced Rutledge and Owens to abandon plans for a second location

downtown on Patton Avenue. Both men were spotted at the yellow house in which their business was located, removing items, including a mattress and other bedroom furniture.

Each declined comment to reporters on the scene.

Several potential buyers had expressed interest in the Waking Life location, but the Brittons were not among those who publicly said they were vying for the shop.

Kriston Britton told the local news media that she imag-

ines a coffeehouse with a vibe that will fit the area, and the couple has not settled on a name for the location. For now, they are calling it a “sister shop” to Izzy’s.

She expects it will offer a similar menu to Izzy’s — one that offers not only coffee drinks, but also bagels, cookies and scones baked in-house.

“We have been looking for years,” she told local news media. “This is just perfect.”

Waking Life’s owners release final statement after closing

Jacob Owens and Jared Rutledge, former owners of the coffee shop, released a farewell statement on Oct. 6, expressing grief over the loss of their business, while acknowledging their use of "demeaning, harsh, and violent words that expressed hatred and fear towards women."

The following is their entire statement below from the Waking Life website:

A Farewell

Two and a half weeks ago, blogs, podcasts, and tweets which we ignorantly assumed would be kept anonymous were linked to us.

We had made an effort to stay anonymous because at times we used demeaning, harsh, and violent words that expressed hatred and fear towards women. This anonymity allowed our words to knowingly bypass the checks and balances of the community in which we live, and avoid the reactions of real people.

The red pill community provided us with validation and adoration as we engaged in this regrettable behavior.

In the aftermath of us being identified, as the ripples spread, we offered separate and joint apologies. We were panicked and fearful, and the apologies reflect that. Our business was crumbling around us, with landlords, suppliers, employees, and customers distancing themselves. We felt lost, ashamed, and confused.

A few key community members and friends showed up and gave us the opportunity to face the anger and pain we’d caused. To lean into it. Notably, Trey Crispin gave freely of his time and boundless energy to challenge us and illuminate the possibility of sustainable, healthy change for us and the community. As we followed this previously unseen path, we discovered a newfound awareness – we realized that our words and motives truly hurt people we cared about. These words and thoughts also hurt us, by causing cynicism and bitterness. We realized that we’d quantified and objectified living, breathing people. People who deserved much better.

We’d used cruel words to belittle them and relieve our own insecurities and fears.

We’d shared private memories that should have remained secret and sweet. Our ignorance regarding what we have done is no longer present.

We make ourselves available to many of the people we’ve hurt – former partners, protesters, and community members. We are open to hear their pain and anger.

We have discovered that some of it wasn’t about us, but was about a society-wide problem for which we’ve become the focal point. We are also experiencing so much grace, compassion, and forgiveness extended to us. We are taking emotions all along the spectrum seriously, and our awareness of the problem continues to grow.

We’ve begun the long process towards being better men, for ourselves and for others. We both are actively involved in counseling, and continue to be open to friends and family who speak into our lives.

The firsthand knowledge of the pain and destruction our words have caused has allowed us to cast aside beliefs we previously held. We have a lot of introspection yet to do, and we’re committed to doing it.

We will continue to make ourselves available and support the community as we are asked. We will gladly take part in the ongoing dialogue if and when we are invited to do so. We can speak from our experience regarding the hurt we’ve caused, and more importantly, from where this hurt came. We are currently addressing the red pill community in order to illuminate the damage this philosophy can cause.

Waking Life as a coffeeshop, as our livelihood, and as a community establishment is now gone. We are deeply grieving its loss. We poured blood, sweat, and tears into the business, and we were damn good at making coffee. We truly enjoyed our daily interactions with West Asheville, and we

will miss them. We are being transformed as men. However, in losing the coffeeshop, a part of us that was good, real, and true has been lost.

As we seek healing and move forward with hope, we remember the good things about our little coffee community and are grateful.

Thanks for the good times, Asheville.

Thanks for the countless cups and conversations.

Thanks for the friendships that have been tested and proven true.

Thanks for holding us accountable for our behavior.

Thanks for the grace, compassion, and forgiveness you’ve shown.

Thanks for the support over the years.

Thanks for being our employees, regulars, and suppliers.

Thanks for rerouting our lives from the way of power to the way of grace.

Thanks for the smiles and the honesty.

Thanks for being a hometown of which we can be proud.

Thanks for giving us room to grow and change.

Thanks for helping us be aware.

Thanks for inspiring us to be better people.

Thanks for dashing our cynicism and humbling us.

Thanks for your big heart and showing up.

Be well, y’all.

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Widen

Continued from Page A1 DOT has set a public hearing — to get comments on the document — at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom, 31 Woodfin St., in downtown Asheville. An open house earlier — from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

The newest DOT study considers four ways to build a new I-240 crossing of the French Broad River west of downtown. It also examines four ways the I-26/I-40/I-240 interchange could be rebuilt — and only one way (the eight-lane option) to widen I-240 in West Asheville.

State transporation officials reportedly are hoping to choose an option early next year, then publish the final study in late 2016 or early 2017.

Construction would begin on the new interchange and approaches in 2021, with work on a new crossing of the French Broad starting in 2014, according to DOT’s long-range plan.

Any work to widen I-240 in West Asheville would occur after 2015.

Julie Mayfield, executive director of local environmental organization MountainTrue, said recently that, after meeting with a group of neighborhood representatives and environmentalists who are following the project closely, they felt, overall, “This project still strikes us as too large for Asheville.

Mayfield, who also is a candidate for Asheville City Council, noted that the study does not include a detailed comparison between a six-lane and an eight-lane I-240 in West Asheville that would allow individuals to evaluate the pros and cons of either option.

“It is frustrating to me that DOT is not allowing us, as a community, to understand that difference and have a conversation about it,” Mayfield told the Asheville Citizen-Times.

“That is what we have asked for for years.”

However, the study notes that DOT considered widening I-240 in West Asheville to six lanes, but that that would result in more

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Traffic moves across the often-congested Bowen Bridge. traffic congestion than allowed for projects built with federal highway funds.

West Asheville residents and others have opposed the eight-lane plan, contending that traffic levels do not warrant such a wide road and that eight lanes would have a negative impact on the rapidly revitalizing neighborhood.

The study points out that an eight-lane I-240 would require demolishing 81 homes and 17 businesses in West Asheville.

Meanwhile, Mayfield noted that the latest DOT study uses traffic data from 2010, but engineers have said they will re-evaluate their findings using a new local traffic model and data. She said that could yield different results.

Kit Cramer, president and chief executive officer of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber is not endorsing a particular route, but wants a road that will be “safe ... cost-effective and achievable in my lifetime.”

Of the four ways (along two general routes) to get traffic over the river and off the bridge, all would involve building a road through the golf course a short distance west of West Gate shopping center.

One general route envisions bridges across the river to the north of that point, connecting to U.S. 19-23, a little south of the Broadway Street/UNC Asheville exit. That route would cost $230.7 million to $236.7 million to build, depending on the route variation, the study said.

The other general route would also run just west of West Gate, but would curve immedately across the river to connect to U.S. 19-23, not far north of its current interchange with I-240.

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Saturday, Nov. 7

DINNER THEATER FUNDRAISER, 6 p.m., St. Johns Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road, Asheville. The 2nd Annual Storytelling Dinner Theatre will offer dinner at 6, followed by storytelling at 7:15 p.m. Featured will be Gwenda Ledbetter, Asheville’s nationally renowned “Story Lady,” author, actor, and veteran of the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn.

The homemade meal will include chili, assorted soups, salads, breads, desserts and beverages in the Parish Hall. Admission for the dinner and storytelling is $20. For dinner reservations, which are recommended, call 274-1123 or 777-9177.

Sunday, Nov. 8

COFFEEHOUSE CONCERT, 7-9 p.m., sanctuary, Sandburg Hall, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse concert series will feature Mike Agranoff. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the program starting at 7 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for students.

Thursday, Nov. 12

TALK-BOOKSIGNING, 7 p.m., Unity of The Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. A program, “An Evening with Paul Selig,” will feature a free talk, a question-and-answer session and a booksigning. Seilig is billed as an internationally acclaimed author and channel He

will talk about achieving new levels of healing, self-awareness and life purpose.

Thursday, Nov. 19

REVIVAL, 7 p.m., Fruit of Labor Worship Center, 611 Emma’s Grove Road, Fairview. Pastor Darrell McClaren of Harvest Time Assembly of God will be ministering nightly at 7 Nov. 19-20.

Sunday, Nov. 22

Native Flute playshop, 12:30 p.m., Unity of The Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Armand and Angelina will offer a native flute playshop. At 7 p.m.

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Sports Commentary

Carolina Panthers still have lot to prove Tank Spencer is the host of a weekly sports talk show, “The Sports Tank,” on Asheville’s News Radio WWNC (570AM) that airs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Spencer also serves as WWNC’s news anchor, reporter and afternoon producer. This column features posts from his blog.

• The following was posted Oct. 6: There seems to be something in the water in Charlotte this football season and that typically elusive substance appears to be winning.

The Carolina Panthers have started this football season 4-0, despite a less-thanstellar offensive performance and a few key injuries. The current ESPN Power Rankings have the Panthers ranked No. 8 in the league going into their Week 5 bye.

So far this season, the Panthers defense has been dominant. That’s even with stars Charles Johnson and Luke Kuechly out with injuries.

Cornerback Josh Norman has been feasting on opposing quarterbacks. In four weeks he’s racked up eight passes defended, four interceptions, and two touchdowns.

The defense has kept pressure on opposing quarterbacks nailing down nine sacks in four games.

On that side of the ball, the team is giv-

Asheville Daily Planet — November 2015 - A13 disposal. His targets to throw to are Greg Olsen, Ted Ginn, and Corey Brown (with Jerricho Cotchery sidelined) and he’s still top-20 in QB rating.

Also, Cam is only 25 yards behind Jonathan Stewart, the team’s lead rusher. Only the two defensive TDs by Norman and

Ed Dickson’s fumble return are endzone appearances that don’t have Newton’s fingerprints on them.

This group is playing like a team and getting the job done. And Cam Newton is leading the way as the front office hoped he would when they drafted him in 2011.

Tank Spencer ing up the 4th fewest points in the league, is 2nd in takeaways, and is top 10 per play versus the pass and run. Once Luke Kuechly returns (hopefully in Week 6), this unit should be even better.

The problem is… they’ll need to be.

So far, the Carolina Panthers have played a cupcake schedule that rivals N.C. State’s 2015 non-conference slate.

Beating the Jaguars, Texans – minus Arian Foster, Saints – minus Drew Brees, and Tampa Bay is nothing to shout “CHAMPIONSHIP” about, but don’t discount it either.

The defense’s stout statistics have come against quarterbacks Blake Bortles, Ryan Mallett, Luke McCown, and Jameis Winston and offenses that rank among the worst in the league.

Does that mean they are not that good?

No, it just means they haven’t really been tested. Take it for what it is.

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The Daily Planet’s Opinion

Multimodal efforts need push

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hile Asheville has made much progress in recent years in providing multiple ways to interconnect places, it still has a long way to go.

We encourage City Council to keep the ball rolling with more greenways, bike lanes and mass transit service.

A multimodal transportation system has aesthetic, environmental and practical benefits — and is a big factor in making a community a highly desirable place in which to live, or to locate a business or industry.

From a health perspective, it has been well-documented that walking or riding a bicycle not only cuts down on obesity, but pumps out endorphins that give individuals an emotional and mental lift.

Also, by reducing the use of motor vehicles, the city reduces the overall carbon footprint, given

that CO2 comprises the majority of these greenhouse gas emissions.

To its credit, the city also has invested in its transit system lately, expanding hours and routes along major corridors, while keeping rates low. It even added long-demanded Sunday service this year.

For those who like to walk, the city, which now has 4.5 miles of greenway completed, has another 4.5 miles scheduled for construction between 2015-17.

For bicycle commuters, the city has completed 15 miles of on-street bike lanes, including 7 miles of streets that have lanes on both sides of the road.

Another 5 miles have shared lane markings on both sides of the road.

Asheville already is terrific, but having lots of healthy, economical options to reach places would make it truly outstanding.

Jim Martin was an N.C catalyst

CHAPEL HILL — I know the kind of candidate the Republicans need to beat Hillary Clinton or any other Democratic candidate in next fall’s presidential election.

It is not any of those running now.

That party needs somebody smart who can get along with the far right in the party without frightening the middle-of-the-road voters in the fall. They need someone with proven experience in politics and government who is still not an ordinary politician.

Former North Carolina Governor and former U.S. Representative Jim Martin, if he were 10 years younger, could be that person.

Martin’s successful campaigns for Congress and governor paralleled the rise of the Republican power in North Carolina, a state traditionally dominated by Democrats.

What were the ingredients of his political success? How much did he ride the rising tide of the Republican Party in the South? How much did his special and unique campaigns and character contribute to that rising tide?

John Hood’s new book, “Catalyst: Jim Martin and the Rise of North Carolina Republicans,” examines these questions.

Hood, former president and current board chair of the John Locke Foundation, combines a traditional biography of Martin with the political history of the rise of the Republican Party in North Carolina.

The book’s title, “Catalyst,” gives a clue to Hood’s idea of Martin’s place in the growth of Republican political power. One definition of that word, according to Merriam-Webster, is “an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.”

Hood’s recounting of how Martin’s successful political campaigns for Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners and U.S. Congress and, especially, his two terms as governor, show how he played an important role in speeding the change from Democratic to Republican control of our state.

Martin might be more comfortable with another definition of catalyst, also from Merriam-Webster: “A substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible.”

As Hood reminds his readers, Martin was a chemistry professor long before he became a political catalyst. It was in this role that I first

D.G. Martin came to know him. He was the lab instructor in the chemistry class I took at Davidson College in 1962. Although we are not related, our families have been close. I sat beside Jim’s brother, Joe, in Davidson’s chapel services three times a week for four years. We were good friends until his death from ALS in 2006. Our fathers were loyal Davidson graduates and longtime friends.

Hood credits my father for opening the door for Jim to run for county commissioner.

My father, Grier Martin, was Davidson’s president. When Republican leaders approached Jim about a county commissioner candidacy, he knew he needed approval of the college leadership.

According to Hood, textile magnate Charles Cannon and other Davidson donors “had expressed unease about what was perceived as the increasingly leftward tilt of the faculty.”

Thus, my father and Faculty Dean Frontis Johnston saw the prospective candidacy “as a great opportunity to mollify the critics.”

Hood continues, “The way President Martin and Dean Johnston saw it, even if Martin didn’t win the election, his candidacy would serve to showcase the college’s ideological diversity. And if he did end up on the county commission, so much the better for Davidson. The two gave Martin their full support.”

Could he really beat Clinton or Bernie Sanders if Martin were the Republican candidate next year? Following the reasoning of my father and Dean Johnston, in the face of the increasingly rightward tilt of the Republican Party, his candidacy would showcase the party’s ideological diversity. If he won, they might say again, “so much the better for Davidson.”

Too old to run? Maybe not. Martin is only five years older than Sanders.

• D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV.

Letters to the Editor

American judges shredding Constitution, Bill of Rights

Recent remarks by several presidential candidates from both major political party’s shows clearly that America no longer understands what our Constitution and the Bill of Rights stand for. Hearing them say, “It’s the law,” or “It’s the law of the land,” makes some of us almost sick to our stomach.

The fact is that the judicial branch of our government has shredded those two great documents and substituted some so-called rights that are definitely not anywhere to be found in those precious documents.

Now when politicians say, “We are suppose to defend the Constitution,” they don’t mean the original documents, they mean whatever the federal justices have ruled on regardless of how ungodly those decisions were. And if you have the Internet, and want to see how ungodly things are, look up “Baby Malachi” on any of the search engines. Every American owes it to humanity to do that! And this includes looking at the dismembered body of Baby Malachi So where are the “checks and balances”

America? How did we not insist that our representatives and senators in the legislative branch take action and impeach the ungodly judges who decided to throw God out of our schools and all government places under their new invention of “separation of church and state”? Or when they voted to give women the right to kill their unborn baby, although God says, “Thou shall not kill?” Or the latest decision from the Supreme Court giving same-sex couples the right to marry?

The court made that latest decision, regardless of the fact, that God considers sex between two males, or sex between two females, evil, wicked, and a grievous sin worthy of death.

A scene of God’s Ten Commandments monument being hoisted up, in the middle of the night, to be removed from the grounds of an Oklahoman court house, or it might have been the state capitol grounds, is deeply etched in my mind. America has abandoned God! Manuel Ybarra Jr. Coalgate, OK Avram Friedman Dillsboro, NC See LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Page A15

The Candid Conservative

Toys for little boys

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

— Virginia Woolf

The Problem

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eptember was not a good month for Asheville’s Waking Life coffee bar. Seems the hipster baristas were actually not-so-hip predators.

Confusing sexual mischief with manly man stuff, these over-caffeinated Lotharios doubled down on their mischief with braggadocio on a traceable blog.

Real men are different than pretend men like Arabica beans are different than Sanka.

Asheville’s West End brouhaha has lots to teach on what being a man – or woman – is really about.

Confusing Times

The lessons start with recognition this event was a team sport. None of the ladies in question were kidnapped, drugged or mugged – well, in the beginning they probably were “mugged.”

Everyone involved was a volunteer — and as Mordecai Jones, the Flimflam man, once Whistle Blower suggested, “Only cheat the cheaters, boy —you can’t cheat an honest man.” That goes for women, too.

Like all before it, this generation has set about creating a new path toward enlightenment. They similarly retain an imagined immunity from the Law of Unintended Consequences. Vanity makes us vague on the notion reality can arrive as a happy field of wildflowers or a cliff.

Man Stuff

Insight interested males may want to embrace a little history.

For as long as we can track mankind’s ascendance, guys have had two primary roles – to protect and provide. Sure there are lots of other things we do, and women can do those things, too, but it remains that real men are first-stringers when it comes to guarding the fort and plowing the lower

Carl Mumpower forty. We’ve transitioned poorly to modern equivalents.

Today’s men hang out at mom and dad’s longer than at any time in history. We are much more likely to skip productivity and real love to cite sports, videogames, partying and sleeping-in as measures of “the good life.” These and other versions of timeout – like beer, sex and weed – are addictive. Addiction makes people selfish, immature and more about bad than good for their fellowman – and woman.

By available accounts, Asheville’s dynamic duo may have discovered the cutting edge of sexual addiction. Whatever you put your primary energy into is your God, and these guys were clearly more invested in pee-pees and vanity than coffee and stewardship.

Had they paid closer attention to other organs, they might have had earlier cues.

The heart and mind are almost always better sources of insight than the nether regions. Though ladies commonly stumble into the net, good men trying to be better men don’t lay a trap, much less spring it.

Really good men have a simple formula on how to treat women — think about how you would like others to treat your mother, sister or daughter, and repeat the behavior.

Most other man-woman social equations come out of middle-school thinking predictably producing adolescent outcomes.

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Though today’s ladies love to trumpet their liberation and men’s contrasting feebleness, you might want to ponder who’s really on top of today’s boy-girl dance. It isn’t you.

Thanks to the pill, abortion, free sex values and other social “advancements,” we are the ones who’ve been truly liberated.

But by that “we,” I mean men.

See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A18

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N.C. workers giving unions short shrift

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f anybody – anybody in the whole world – should be fanatic supporters of labor unions, it’s the working people of North Carolina.

In this space recently, we quoted what Forbes magazine had to say about North Carolina as a good place to do business: “North Carolina has the smallest union workforce in the U.S. in terms of percent of total employment. The resulting benefit [to business] is labor costs that are 16 percent below the national average — third lowest in the country.”

Letters

Continued from Page A14

Fly Culpeper battle flag to take back the country

The books “A Government of Wolves” and “Battlefield America,” both by author John W. Whitehead, a well-known civil libertarian and constitutional scholar, provide chilling proof that America is becoming an Orwellian Big Brother police and surveillance state like that depicted in George Orwell’s “1984.”

This brings the case ... I strongly urge Americans to fly the American Revolutionary War battle flag, “The Culpeper Flag,” featuring a coiled rattlesnake and the phrases, “Don’t tread on me” and “Liberty or death.: Maybe it will inspire Americans to take action to take back their country from Big Brother before our Big Brother government can transform our country into a total control state in which overreaching government seeks to control every aspect of its citizens’ lives, including the way they think!

Maybe flying the Culpeper battle flag will inspire us to become a nation of Jeffersons and Adams’ and Franklins, and Madisons and Paines — and sons of liberty and minutemen!

RICHARD D. POPE Hendersonville

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Lee Ballard I sit here pounding my hand to my head.

Arrgh! Sixteen percent below the national average!

And my fellow North Carolinians don’t seem to want to change things.

I say this because studies have shown that large majorities of North Carolina workers do not support the one factor that have the best chance of increasing their incomes: labor unions.

An Elon University Poll in 2009 asked North Carolina residents whether they tend to sympathize with unions or companies in labor disputes, and 47 percent said companies, versus 26 percent for unions.

North Carolina is a “right to work” (RTW) state and has been since the 1940s.

In fact, the entire South is RTW. A map of RTW states looks like a map of the old Confederacy (plus some farm states and three of the states Republicans took over in 2010).

And as an Economic Policy Institute study reported: “It is not surprising that research shows that both union and nonunion workers in RTW states have lower wages and fewer benefits, on average, than comparable workers in other states.”

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On one level, I find it really hard to understand this anti-union attitude. If unionization will help somebody’s income, why be hostile?

But on another level, I do understand.

There are reasons. Some say it goes back to the disastrous Textile Workers Strike of 1934, when a premature strike failed in three weeks and thousands were blacklisted.

It may be true that the bitter taste of that defeat has been passed down through generations. But I see two other factors as more likely.

One comes out of studies that show a strong correlation between job satisfaction and anti-union feelings. In other words, if a worker is happy on his job, he is unlikely to vote for unionization – and a whopping percentage of workers have high job satisfaction.

All of us would rate contentment as a positive trait in people. But when people can’t make ends meet, some taking second jobs, it’s time to be dissatisfied. Satisfied workers MAY NOT KNOW that people in other parts of the country are being paid considerably more than they are. This is not greed. Being paid a proper wage is a person’s right.

Another likely factor I see comes out of conversations I’ve had with conservative Republicans. These people were vocal against unions. But they hold these opinions, it seemed to me, because anti-unionism is part of the conservative, Republican

package. They seemed to take the Party line without much thought.

When Republicans took control of Congress in 1947, they filed 250 bills to curb union power, the most important being the Taft-Hartley Act, which established RTW. And we saw our own Republicans in Raleigh taking actions against labor as soon as they took power in 2011.

Why are Republicans against unions?

Two words: business lobbies. Business supports Republicans, and business doesn’t like unions.

So North Carolina workers are paid less than they should be paid. Unions would help. But most workers don’t want to join unions. Employers win by default.

Laws need to be changed, yes, but more important, minds need to be changed. Almost all workers can organize right now.

I’m solidly behind North Carolina working people. I just wish North Carolina working people were solidly behind North Carolina working people.

• Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill.

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Halloween surprise? Daily Kos terrifies with satire (Kim Davis moving to Asheville) Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.

• The following was posted on Oct. 15: ant a fright? Well, then check out this article on the DailyKos: http:// www.dailykos.com/ story/2015/10/15/1432770/-Kim-DavisAnnounces-Move-to-Asheville-NC# Yes, it is a story about Kim Davis, Morehead, Kentucky’s plucky Goldy clerk who loves her some Jesus but hates some of God’s little children (precious in his sight or not), announcing plans to move with her husband Jethro (sorry, I don’t know his real name) to Asheville.

Come swim in the cesspool of sin!

Jerry Nelson has written a sharp article, full of well-places satirical points that I applaud! And, fear not, it is revealed in the end that this is just satire.

But, even knowing that it all turns out OK in the end should not stop you from reading this fine piece that sends up a not so fine piece of something from the hills of Kentucky.

W

The following was posted on Oct.19:

Clinton email hell threatens to burn down Colin Powell

Jeff Messer that they wished they could shove back in the toothpaste tube.

As for the later, a recently unearthed secretary of state email reveals plans for the Iraq invasion almost a full year before it actually happened, and in stark contradiction to the accepted narrative that has been used for years by the Bush administration and the Blair administration in the U.K. Ah, yes, the email server actually has emails from previous secretaries of state, too! And this one is a whopper from the desktop of Colin Powell, who may now no longer be able to pretend he ducked out in 2004 as a man of too-high integrity for the shenanigans of the W team.

Powell, helped prep W for his first Blair meeting in Crawford, Texas, in early April 2002. And Powell is talking an awful lot in the email as if the invasion of Iraq that would come just shy of a year later was a done deal, and Blair was on board, and could help sell it where W would stumble.

Blair looked a little like Hugh Grant and talked a lot like Roger Moore. How could

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Obama): Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Careful what you wish for GOP. Here’s the UK Daily Mail link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emailsreveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-BushIraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started. html#ixzz3osf7ulen For contrast, here’s how the US is covering it: http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/ hillary-clintons-emails-reveal-that-georgew-bush-committed-treason/22854/ http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/ clinton-emails-bush-blair/2015/10/17/ id/696750/ And thus far, the mainstream media here hasn’t touched the story, despite the Internet erupting with it.

Go figure.

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Oh, the vast right-wing conspiracy to get Hillary Clinton on something. Anything.

And you know, she must be hiding all her potions and witches brews in her massive secret emails, right? Whatever it is that will destroy her from being the first woman president in the U.S., surely. Right?

Well, as the Congressional Committee that has been dogging her for those emails are getting all they wished for, and more

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we not be swooned by him?

This story broke over the weekend all over the U.S. press, but the real breakout story on it was from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which gave play-by-play coverage of the email, and charted what each sentence meant. Detail that is lost on the U.S. media, for sure.

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Commentary

With no voice, non-leftists should leave city Pete Kaliner is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WWNC (570AM) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.

• The following was posted on Oct. 7: he Asheville City Council (primary) race results are not surprising. The top six spots in the at-large “nonpartisan” contest were all won by leftists.

That’s not to say there weren’t some non-leftists running. But there is virtually zero chance a non-progressive or nonDemocratic Party machine candidate will ever serve on City Council again.

(For the actual numbers, see Asheville primary election news story on Page A2.)

If you are a limited government, low taxes, fiscal and/or social conservative, you will never have representation on this body of “representatives.”

Seriously.

The top six finishers (or “votainers” as I call them) represented the two warring factions of the progressive Democratic Party machine. Combined, they received nearly 17,000 votes. However, everyone gets to vote for three candidates.

Given the results, and given that each of the six votainers were part of one of the factions, we can get a pretty good picture of how many votes it takes to pack the City Council in staggered election cycles.

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Pete Kaliner That number is about 7,000.

About 7,000 voters out of 67,125 total registered voters in the city.

About 10 percent.

That’s it.

This 10 percent of registered voters determines who controls City Council.

And it would take nearly every registered Republican to turn out to vote to beat this bloc.

Roughly speaking, those 7,000 progressives split their votes among the top six progressive candidates. Had there been fewer progressives, the individual vote totals amassed by the candidates would’ve been even greater.

But this race — its politics and the results — gives us a unique insight into the actual strength of the progressive voting bloc.

By comparison, the least progressive candidates (Carl Mumpower, John Miall, Ken Michaelove, and Dee Williams) received about half the support the progressives did.

In a city with only about 10,000 registered Republicans, the GOP would need to get about half of all of their voters to turn

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out and ONLY support three of these four candidates. (Four candidates actually diminished the chances that any one of them would win.)

This lack of a coordinated strategy is one of the features (or downsides, depending upon your point of view) of these nonpartisan races.

So, the kind of turnout needed by a nonleftist is a near impossibility — particularly in a nonpartisan municipal election.

And, again, if there are fewer progressive candidates running, the GOP would have a much more difficult path to victory.

If the GOP was going to try to get a Republican onto Asheville City Council, this was the year — and the race — to do it.

And they should’ve considered a “singleshot” campaign.

What about the unaffiliateds?

There are about 24,000 unaffiliated voters in the city, but studies show these voters turn out in lower numbers than those who are registered with either of the parties. And when they do turnout, they tend to break in the prevailing direction of the party registrations anyway.

In other words, you cannot rely on some “silent majority” of unaffiliated voters to back a non-leftist in Asheville. It’s not going to happen.

As such, in a city with Asheville’s politics, it’s impossible to imagine a non-leftist candidate who could get unprecedented massive GOP turnout (about 70 percent) AND a competitive percentage of unaffili-

ated support.

And even if this impossibility DID happen, that candidate (or candidates) would NOT win a majority on council unless they replicated the impossible act in the following municipal election two years later.

This system is designed to maintain the status quo, and the status quo does not include non-leftists.

So, if you’re not a leftist and you want representation, you’ll need to convince all your non-leftist friends and family to move here.

Or start having lots of babies. Admittedly, this is not a short-term fix.

Otherwise, you have two options left: Accept that you have no voice in the direction of the City of Asheville. Or move outside city limits.

And in case you couldn’t tell — the leftists in charge don’t really care what you think.

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Candid Conservative

Continued from Page A14 We get to rent you, play with you, treat you as toys and then discard you like an old Barbie when a new model comes along.

If you get pregnant and abort your child, you’re left with the hole in your heart, not us. If you find your courage button and have your child like your mother had you, in today’s world we men can find a million ways to dodge the job of helping out.

Today’s women have also been swindled into believing they should be more like men. Whereas there’s no problem with the idea that women should be free to do everything we can, it remains a lot of things we do are stupid. It’s not smart to duplicate stupid.

So What Should Barbie and Ken Do?

A better place starts with ... that men are “protectors and providers” thing ... and the question – “For whom?” No one much – just the civilizing force of the world.

That’s what women do – you civilize life. Not only do you reproduce our species, you teach, polish, nurture, mold and motivate every last one of us. We are all suffering from today’s parade of misguided social change agents busily bashing your compass.

You also make men better men. If you do what you are designed to do, we have to work to earn your grace and gifts. Without your rainbow, men descend from becoming knights in shining armor to brutish little boys.

Casual Sex Is a Lie

One of the great myths of modern times is that sex can be a casual thing. That’s not true for men and it is extra-specially double-humongously not true for women.

Men who limit their physical intimacy to friction find the act increasingly hollow. The phrase “empty calories’” comes

to mind. One can fill up on sex, but in the process your soul will starve to death.

For women, casual sex is disastrous.

Hate to break this to the uninformed, but there is a direct pipeline between your private parts and your heart, brain and spirit.

Sexual intimacy without the foundation of commitment and emotional intimacy has a mutating impact on women. It’s sort of like using a Cadillac to haul firewood. You can do it, but it’s bad on the Cadillac.

In case you’ve wondered how the caffeine boys were able to churn a procession of bright and worldly ladies into clueless and passive sex kittens – reread the paragraph above.

A Better Place?

Roasting two noodle-heads on a social spit is fun – not productive. A better outcome finds the two guys in question pursuing a path to recapturing their footing and finding better ways to fill their cup.

Winston Churchill once offered applicable advice, “My greatest success was pressing through my failures.”

For the ladies, consider that anger and male bashing will hurt you more than them.

Rethinking how and where you plan to invest your gifts is a better play. Pondering the possibility your head, heart, spirit and body work together, and that careless sex messes you up, will also pay dividends.

Recognize that everyone involved in this deal was careless with women.

No matter how much we try to homogenize the genders, men and women are very different and will remain so.

Yet we are forever linked in the business of living and each have a part to play in making sure we do it right. Whether it’s over a cup of coffee or….

• Carl Mumpower is a former member of Asheville City Council.

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Continued from Page A1 Just like women, men often verbalize complex emotions — for example, “I want sausage and pepperoni on that.”

The truth is, men have feelings; they just don’t hang them out to dry on the balcony railing like big cotton granny panties. Developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson, who studies sex differences, notes in “Warriors and Worriers” that men, who evolved to be the warriors of the species, typically express emotions less often and with less intensity than women.

Men are especially likely to put a lid on fear and sadness, emotions that reflect vulnerability — though it’s also the rare man you’ll hear chirp to his buddy, “OMG, those are, like, the cutest wingtips!”

Men’s emotional coolness is an evolved survival tactic, Benenson explains. “Emotions communicate feelings to others. They also affect our own behavior.” In battle, “a person who loses control of his emotions cannot think clearly about what is happening around him. Revealing to the enemy that one feels scared or sad would be even worse.”

Women, on the other hand, bond through sharing “personal vulnerabilities,” Benenson notes. Men and women do have numerous similarities — like having the adrenaline-infused fight-or-flight reaction as our primary physiological response to stress. However, psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women also have an alternate stress response, which she named “tend-and-befriend.”

“Tending” involves self-soothing through caring for others, and “befriending” describes “the creation of and maintenance of

social networks” to turn to for comforting.

(And no, she isn’t talking about Facebook or Instagram.)

So, as a woman, you may long to snuggle up to somebody for a restorative boohoo, but for a man, opening up about his feelings can make him feel worse — and even threatened.

The problem is we have a tendency to assume other people are emotionally wired just like us. Being mindful of that and of the evolutionary reasons a guy might need to go off in a corner to lick his wounds might help you avoid taking it personally: “I’m upset about how you’re upset!” (Great! And now his problem has a problem.)

It would be helpful if an upset man would hang a “Do not disturb” sign on his face when he just wants to drink a beer (or four) and watch “South Park.”

You could try to read his body language — like crossed arms and stiff posture saying “go away.” But if his body isn’t speaking up all that clearly, you could say, “I’m here if you wanna talk — or if you don’t.”

If it’s the latter, stock the fridge; make him a sandwich; make him some sex. In other words, comfort him in the way a clammedup guy needs to be comforted.

It beats being the girlfriend version of the enthusiastic good Samaritan who, on a slow day, forces little old ladies across the street at gunpoint.

• (c.) 2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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Tony Bennett left his heart in Cherokee

By JOHN NORTH

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Tony Bennett, shown in a file photo above, performed Oct. 23 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino in Cherokee.

CHEROKEE — He might be 89 years old, but jazz-pop singing icon Tony Bennett can still belt out classics from the American songbook by accentuating the positive — and reaching deep inside to exude soulful feeling with pizazz for the music he so obviously adores.

Performing for 75 minutes in just one set at his Oct. 23 concert, Bennett drew an adoring crowd that filled an estimated 2,700 of the 3,000 seats at the Event Center at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.

Bennett is known as a singer of traditional pop standards, show tunes and jazz, but his Cherokee show was decidedly jazz-focused, much to the obvious delight of the audience.

He sang most of his many major hits, most notably his signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” triggering a woman in the crowd to shout, “I love you, Tony!” as the crowd cheered in agreement. Bennett also performed a few songs by acclaimed artists of the jazz-swing genre, including Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington.

Bennett opened with a bang, with “Watch What Happens,” “They All Laughed,” “Autumn Leaves” — and a very jazzed-up ver-

sion of “I Got Rhythm,” which he finished with red-hot scat-singing.

With the crowd on its feet, he concluded the concert on a happy note with “Smile” and “When You’re Smiling.” His fans merrily clapped along to the last song of the night.

Before leaving the stage, a smiling Bennett told the crowd, “Thank you for being so wonderful tonight!”

With the crowd standing, cheering and begging for an encore, Bennett soon returned to the stage and — several times — put his hand to his ear, signaling that he was gauging if the applause was loud enough to merit an encore. Each time, he walked away, as if leaving the stage because the response was inadequate for an encore. But each time he stopped and then repeated the give-and-take with his fans.

After a few minutes, Bennett, still smiling, waved goodbye, leaving without giving an encore. It was unusual, to say the least.

Bennett’s song catalog is huge, but his most savvy fans probably sorely missed hearing two of his greatest songs — “Blue Velvet” and “A Stranger in Paradise.” But overall, the song selection for Bennett’s concert was superb.

See BENNETT, Page B10

Opening act Brent Rupard out-sparkles Lonestar

By DAVE ROWE

Special to the Daily Planet

Brent Ruppard

Once in a while an opening act will upstage the headliner. However, that is just what happened Sept. 26 at Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center when little-known Nashville-based singer/songwriter Brent Rupard outshone the well-established modern-day country band Lonestar.

On acoustic guitar in an emotive voice, Rupard sang songs of his about a girl with a six-

pack of beer knocking on the door, a girl named Atlanta he passed through and about a girl who “ain’t nothing but a train.”

Also, the Kentucky native sang about his mother praying on the front porch. He prefaced this by saying “We’ve all had someone make sacrifices for us and tonight we’re here for the firefighters — they put their lives on the line every day.”

The concert — hosted by the Asheville Firefighters to fund their Coats for Kids program, their burn camp for children and their shelter

program for burned-out families — filled about one-third of the 6,500 seats.

Rupard for his part finished a 45-minute set with a tight instrumental jam with his two sidemen, one on Dobro, one on mandolin.

After a 20-minute intermission, Lonestar, a 22-year-old band with with 10 No. 1 country records and more than 10 million records sold as credentials, took the stage.

See RUPARD, Page B10

‘Pump Boys & Dinettes’ brightens a rainy night

By JOHN NORTH

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FLAT ROCK — The Flat Rock Playhouse’s production of the musical “Pump Boys and Dinettes” received a well-deserved standing ovation at the conclusion of its Oct. 10 performance.

And while it was a rainy night outside, the show inside radiated luminous joy and fun on the mainstage of North Carolina’s official state theater. The Oct. 10 turnout appeared to fill about two-thirds of the 500plus seats. The show ran Oct. 1-25.

The musical tells the story of four men (L.M., Jackson, Jim and Eddie), who work at a gas station, and two waitresses (sisters Prudie and Rhetta Cupp) at the Double Cupp Diner.

The six characters sang — and provided terrific choreography — about simple

pleasures, such as love, fishing, grandmas, dancing and, even, “making love and watching TV.” The 1982 Broadway musical takes place between Frog Level and Smyrna, N.C. The music is mostly from the country rock-pop music genres. The four men performed on guitars, piano, bass, accordion and banjo, while the two women kept the beat, turning pots, pans and kitchen utensils into percussion instruments.

The biggest hit to come out of the musical is the original cast recording of “The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine.” It reached No. 67 on the Hot Country Song charts. The score, in general, is delightful.

Most of the songs and lyrics were written

by Jim Wann. The songs range from county to rockabilly, blues and Southern gospel.

See ‘PUMP,’ Page B10

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The Dinettes perform a lively number from the production of “Pump Boys & Dinettes “ at Flat Rock Playhouse’s mainstage.

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The Allison Brown Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 6 in Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville.

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Sunday, Nov. 1

“CATFISH MOON” COMEDY PRODUCTION, 2 p.m., Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The production is about skipping school, skinny-dipping, kissing one’s first girl and, of course, fishing off the pier — all rites of passage for childhood best friends Curley, Gordon and Frog. But “life” happens and time has driven a wedge between these now middle-age men who have come together for one last overnight fishing trip to patch old wounds brought about by anger, jealousy and betrayal. “Despite these circumstances, ‘Catfish Moon’ is a bodacious, Southern-fried bro-mance of a comedy that is sure to delight,” the FRP noted. The comedy — penned by Rock Hill, S.C., native Laddy Sartin — will run through Nov. 15, with performances at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. matinees on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. For tickets, call the Playhouse box office at 693-0731.

READERS THEATER, 2:30-5 p.m., Manheimer

Henry Louis Gates Jr. will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in Kimmel Arena at UNC Asheville.

Room, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Autumn Players Readers Theater, a troupe of seasoned actors dedicated to taking the theater experience into the community, will perform. “Readings of great literature by experienced performers can spark deep understanding and kindle lasting interest.,” UNCA noted “As words jump from the page with conviction and emotion, stories come to life.”

Featured will be “The Winslow Boy” by Terence Rattigan, directed by Anita Chapman. Based on a real case and set just before World War I, this moving legal drama challenges the abuse of power by the strong over the weak. The reading is open to the public. Tickets are $6 at the door.

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The Addams Family Musical Comedy will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

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Tuesday, Nov. 3

CITY TRANSIT COMMITTEE MEETING, 3:30-5 p.m., first floor conference room, City Hall, downtown Asheville. The city Transit Committee will meet.

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Manheimer Room, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.

“Israeli-Palestinian Borders – Issues and Dilemmas” will be addressed by Harvey Starr, author and emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of South Carolina. He continues to serve at USC as an institute associate of The Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, consulting faculty in the Jewish Studies Program, and a Rule of Law Collaborative faculty member.

Wednesday, Nov. 4

CITY TRANSIT COMMITTEE MEETING, 3:30-5 p.m., 1st floor Conference Room, City Hall, downtown Asheville. The Asheville Transit Committee will meet.

GREEN DRINKS/SIERRA CLUB MEETING, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. A Green Drinks-Sierra Club meeting will feature a program on “The Impact of Climate Change on Food Production.” It will address “How can a changing climate affect the way we farm and what we eat?” and “How do we build resilient and sustainable food systems?” The talk will feature Laura Lengnick, a sustainable agriculture professor of Warren Wilson College. She is the author of the forthcoming book “Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate” and lead author of the recent USDA report “Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Effects and Adaptation.”

Thursday, Nov. 5

LECTURE, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Laurel Forum, UNC Asheville. “ISIS: Terror in the Name of Religion,” presented by Dr. Samer Traboulsi, of the History Department; and Tristan Mead, undergraduate student, International Studies. Free and open to the public.

EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY PROGRAM, 11:50 a.m.-1:05 p.m., Intercultural Center, UNC Asheville. In honor of Native American History Month, learn the history behind the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians in the 19th century from their land in North Carolina. The program will discuss the larger implications and the impact it had on the Cherokee community and history in Western North Carolina. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Ellen Pearson, associate professor of history.

DISCUSSION ON HUMAN POSSIBILITIES, 7 p.m., Firestorm Cafe & Books, 610 Haywood St., West Asheville. Conversations will be led by “conscious and creative individuals” about the wild diversity of human culture, and ways of living into being a regenerative and compassionate society, Firestorm noted.

LECTURE, 7 p.m., Kimmel Arena, UNC Asheville.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard scholar, cultural critic and documentary producer, will address “Genealogy, Genetics and African-American History.”

Gates is billed as one of America’s most prominent intellectuals and an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.

Admission is free.

Friday, Nov. 6

THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL COMEDY, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. The Addams Family Musical will feature a new original story based on the beloved comic strip. For tickets, which are $12 and $17, visit www.

GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

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The comedy “Catfish Moon” will be performed at Flat Rock Playhouse’s Downtown Hendersonville venue through Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

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Friday, Nov. 6

ALISON BROWN QUARTET CONCERT, 8 p.m.

Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. The Allison Brown Quartet will perform in concert.

RON WHITE COMEDY SHOW, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Ron White will perform his “Nutcracker” comedy show.

“With a glass of Scotch in one hand and a cigar in the other, Ron White has put audiences in stitches on numerous stand-up tour dates, albums and comedy,” the casino noted.

Saturday, Nov. 7

CONCERT, 3 p.m., auditorium, Hendersonville High School, Hendersonville. The Hendersonville Swing Band will perform in concert. Suggested donation is $10.

FORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN MEXICO PROGRAM, 5 p.m., Firestorm Cafe & Books, Asheville. Nadín Reyes Maldonado, a Mexican human rights defender, will link the issues of militarization, drug policy and free trade agreements — in which the U.S. plays a major role — to the 27,000 forced disappearances over the last decade. Title of the presentation is “Until We Find Them!”

Tuesday, Nov. 10

PHILOSOPHY DISCUSSION, 6 p.m., North Asheville Library Meeting Room, 1030 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Attendees are invited to meet others interested in Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism in a relaxed, friendly environment. Admission is free.

LIBERTARIAN MEETING, 7 p.m., Oakleaf Furniture, 130 Miller St., downtown Waynesville.

The Haywood County Libertarian Party meets on the second Tuesday of the month. Open discussion and debate are encouraged with all perspectives and persuasions welcomed, regardless of political or religious affiliation.

Friday, Nov. 13

DEBATE, 5:30-7 p.m., auditorium, Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St., Asheville. A debate featuring four individuals will be held over the resolution: “Asheville has disenfranchised its African-American population.” Arguing for the validity of the resolution will be Dr. Dwight Mullen, a UNC Asheville political science professor;

and Dr. Darin Waters, a UNCA history professor. Arguing that the resolution is invalid will be Dr. Carl Mumpower, a practicting psychologist in Asheville, and Dr. Wendell Runion, owner of WKJV-AM (1380), an Asheville-based Christian radio station. The moderator will be John Boyle, aka “The Answer Man” for the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Admission is free and open to the public.

BLUEGRASS SHOW, 7 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, 286 ICC Loop Rd., Spindale. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will be the featured band in the Goin’ Across the Mountain Live! bluegrass show. For tickets, which are $20, visit www.FoundationShows. org or call 286-9990.

TAKE BACK THE NARRATIVE EVENT, 7 p.m., Malaprop’s Bookstore-Café, downtown Asheville.

“Take Back the Narrative” will showcase creative pieces written by survivors of sexual assault in order to create space for their stories and open up conversation around sexual violence in the community.

The event is a collaboration between OurVOICE, Asheville’s advocacy and support group for survivors of rape and sexual assault in the city and county, and UNC Asheville’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

Sunday, Nov. 15

PANEL PRESENTATION, 2-3:30 p.m., Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, Asheville. “Good Without God — Humanism in Western North Carolina” will be presented by panelists from the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville and WNC Humanists.

An informal discussion will follow the presentation,A potluck will be held from 3:30 until 5 p.m.

“TIN PAN ALLEY” CONCERT, 3 p.m., Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville. UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center Singers will perform “A Stroll Down Tin Pan Alley. The audience will be treated to medleys featuring the music of Cole Porter, George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin and many others.

The RCS will be directed by Chuck Taft, with piano accompaniment by Nora Vetro.

BLACK LIVES MATTER COMMUNITY EVENT, 10 a.m., Hill Street Baptist Church, Asheville. Meet us at Hill Street Baptist Church on Nov 15, at 10 AM for #BlackLivesMatterSunday with Professor Dr. Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead of Loyola University, Maryland. Prof Wise Whitehead is an historian who works in the black documentary tradition.

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Monday, Nov. 16

PUBLIC INPUT TO NANTAHALA AND PISGAH PLAN REVISION, 6-8 p.m., Mountain View Room, Kimmel Arena, UNC Asheville. As a requirement to forest plan revision process, the USDA Forest Service will do evaluations of lands that may be suitable for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, and identifying rivers for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. These evaluation materials will be available in late October on the Forest Service USDA’s website. Then a public meeting will be held for input from the general public on these evaluations. The meetings are open to the public.

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Lysa TerKeurst, a New York Times best-selling author, speaker and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, will speak during a program at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 20 at Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Also featured will be a performance by musical guest Michael O’Brien.

Brenda and the Joey’s team want to thank you for being a part of our family as we hope we are a part of yours. If you have a special Joey’s story you would like to share with us, please visit our restaurant and website and send it along to us. We’d love to hear your story and make it a part of our history.

at UNCA is $10 for the public — and free to members of the WAC and UNCA students.

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Tuesday, Nov. 17

MOMIX BOTANICA SHOW, 8 p.m. Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. Billed as a wildly entertaining multimedia experience, Momix Bontanica intends to transport audiences into a fantasy world of exceptional inventiveness and beauty through its trademark use of athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, novel props and talent.

Friday, Nov. 20

AUTHOR-SPEAKER, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Lysa TerKeurst, a New York Times bestselling author and speaker, will share share her story and deliver a message that “had led thousands to make their walk with God an invigorating journey,” the SMCPA noted.

For tickets, which are $15, $20 and $25, visit www.

GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

Sunday, Nov. 22

BENEFIT FOR “KIDS 4 PEACE” IN ASHEVILLE, 7 p.m., Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St., Asheville.

Award winning whimsical re-percussionist Billy Jonas and the Billy Jonas Band will hold a release celebration for their new recording “Habayta (Homeward) New Jewish Songs of Joy and Spirit.” Jonas has appeared at numerous synagogues, Jewish summer camps, community centers and Jewish Day Schools throughout the US. About Kids4Peace: Founded in Jerusalem in 2002, Kids4Peace is an interfaith community of more than 1,800 Israeli, Palestinian and North American youth, families and educators working together for a better future. Through a network of local chapters and international camps, they provide a six-year, year-round educational program for Jewish, Christian and Muslim youth. Activities focus on interfaith dialogue, community-building, leadership development and nonviolent action. For tickets, which are $36 (and include reception and food), call (617) 501-1983.

Tuesday, Dec. 1

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., UNC Asheville. “DEAS (ISIS) and PKK – The Regional Struggle for Hegemony: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar” will be addressed

by Ali Demirdas, a member of the international studies faculty at the College of Charleston and a Ph.D. candidate at University of South Carolina.

Admission to World Affairs Council presentations

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Friday, Dec. 4

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT, 7:30 p.m., Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St., Asheville. “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 4-19; and at 2:30 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 6-20. For tickets, which are $22, visit www.ashevilletheatre.org, or call 254-1320.

Saturday, Dec. 5

DAILEY & VINCENT CHRISTMAS CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. James Dailey and Darrin Vincent will celebrate the sounds of the Christmas season, bluegrassstyle. For tickets, which are $18 and $23, visit www.

GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

Thursday, Dec. 10

“HOME FOR CHRISTMAS” CABARET, 7:30 p.m., HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville.

The musical “Home for Christmas: A Holiday Cabaret” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10-12 and at 3 p.m. Dec. 13, for its final performance.

For tickets — $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $7 for students — visit www.harttheatre.org.

Friday, Dec. 11

“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” RADIO PLAY, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.”It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” by Joe Landry will be presented by The Overlook Theatre Co. at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11 and 18.

“This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast,” SMCPA noted. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen character to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve. For tickets, which are $12, visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

CHRISTMAS SHOW, 7:30 p.m., John W. Bardo

“The Three Redneck Tenors Christmas Spec-tac-yule” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. “Three Redneck Tenors Christmas Spec-tac-yule” will be presented. “Wearing mullets on their heads and stomping their feet, these unique vocalists whoop and holler through holiday music, providing head-to-toe fun for the whole family,” WCU noted. For tickets, which are $21 for adults, $16 for WCU faculty and staff, and $7 for students and children, visit bardoartscenter.wcu. edu, or call 227-2479.

PENN & TELLER COMEDY SHOW, 9 p.m.,

Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Penn & Teller will perform their show of magic and entertainment. Their show is billed as “an edgy mix of magic and comedy that blends guns, knives, gorillas and fire.”

Saturday, Jan. 9

GREGG ALLMAN CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee.

Rocker Gregg Allman will perform in concert.

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Rocker Gregg Alman, best known as a member of the Allman Brothers Band, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Resort in Cherokee.

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‘Beacon Blankets’ program offered Nov. 20 in Asheville From Staff Reports

“Beacon Blankets: Portrait of a Swannanoa Textile Mill” — an evening of film, music, and stories about the rise and fall of the Beacon Manufacturing Co. — will be presented from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20.

The program will be held at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s Benchspace Gallery at 67 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville.

Just east of Asheville, Swannanoa is a small community and the former home of

Beacon Blankets, at one time the largest manufacturer of blankets in the world.

In its hey-day during the 1940s, Beacon was the largest employer in the Swannanoa Valley, with more than 2,200 workers. Beacon closed its Swannanoa plant in 2002. The factory was burned to the ground in 2003.

Beacon Blankets was at the heart of cultural life for the Swannanoa community.

It historically sponsored recreation and activities for its workers. The company's most prominent owner, Charles D. Owen, was recognized for his community service

through the naming of the Charles D. Owen High School in 1955.

When the textile industry continued to decline in the 1970s and ‘80s and NAFTA was introduced in the ‘90s, small mill towns, like Swannanoa, began to disappear.

"With the original Beacon site up for sale and growing interest in revitalizing the area, rebuilding the community today should take careful consideration of the history of Swannanoa and the Beacon story," according to Marilyn Zapf, CCCD assistant director.

The program will begin with a reception

featuring mill-inspired music by Robert “Bert” Brown, a native of Swannanoa whose grandparents worked at Beacon. From 6 to 6:30 p.m., filmmaker Rebecca Williams will be showing clips from her ongoing documentary project, “Blanket Town: The Rise and Fall of an American Mill Town,” which examines the migration of the textile industry from England, to New England to the American South. The screening will be followed (6:30-7:30 p.m.) by a panel discussion with previous Beacon Blanket mill employees, led by Dr. David Whisnant, an acclaimed Appalachian historian.

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Continued from Page B1 Besides Bennett’s superb vocal artistry, poise and charisma, enabling him to connect with the crowd, the strongest aspect of the show was his four-piece band’s performance. Bennett’s band, feauturing a pianist, guitarist, bassist and drummer, helped to add zest and dynamism that blended perfectly with — and complemented the aging singer’s performance.

Another highlight was Bennett’s occasional graceful dance moves, along with twists and twirls — remarkable at any age, but especially at 89.

His performance was preceded by 15 minutes of singing by his daughter Antonia, who showed promise, but will benefit from touring with her father by getting some much-needed seasoning for her vocals, stage presence and choreography. She also returned midway through Bennet’s performance to sing “Hey, Old Friend” with him as a duet.

Bennett’s appearance on stage was preceded by the playing over the speaker

system of a recording Sinatra praising Bennett’s singing, as he was quoted on a 1965 Tony Bennett album, “For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.”

The crowd rose to its feet, cheering and clapping, as Bennett strode onto the stage, wearing a black suit and tie, with a white shirt and a bright-red folded handkerchief jauntily extending above his jacket’s vest pocket.

He noted that it would have been the late Duke Ellington’s 116th birthday this year, so he wanted to honor him with a rendition of “(In My) Solitude.” Bennett’s soulful performance showed an outpouring of respect and appreciation for Ellington.

Among other standout songs that Bennett sang included “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Just in Time,” “The Good Life,” “The Shadow of Your Smile,” At one point toward the end of the concert, Bennett quipped in reference to the gaming crowd in attendance, “I could keep going, but I don’t want anyone to lose money.” The audience laughed, appreciatively.

Continued from Page B1 In a flash, about 100 people were standing right in front of the stage and stayed there throughout Lonestar’s 90-minute set.

The band’s booming-voiced lead singer and songwriter Richie McDonald shook many hands.

The band, with most members from Texas, played to loud applause most of its hits, including “I’m Already There” (an overseas serviceman talking to his fouryear-old daughter) and “Amazed” (a love ballad that crossed over to number one on the Billboard charts in 1993).

Lonestar tunes are catchy pop-ish songs, a far cry from the country of Merle Haggard and George Jones. The band does have a pedal guitar player but he was lost

in the mix that night.

The lone non-Texan in the band is keyboardist Dean Sims who hails from Asheville. After McDonald introduced him.

Sims said, “I saw my first concert here. I was nine-years-old. The band was Black Oak Arkansas — does anybody remember them?”

Small cheers in response to Sims’ question, then big cheers erupted as Lonestar finished up competently, covering the Beatles’ “Get Back,” Pink Floyd’s “Just Another Brick in the Wall,” Kiss’ “Rock and Roll All Night” and the Eagles’ “Lyin’ Eyes.”

“This is what we did before we had our own songs,” McDonald said. “We still like doing it.”

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Guy Strobel played the understated L.M., in more than 37 productions of “Pump who the Cupp Boys and Disisters found nettes” around the to be irresistworld. ible. His piano Playing the playing was amiable Jim, who outstanding — sang lead on most and he excelled of the songs and in singing the functioned as masshow’s funniter of ceremonies, was Sam Sherest songs. The wood. His vocal song, “The highlight was the Night Dolly ballad “Mamaw,” Parton Was a tribute to a Almost Mine,” beloved grandrecalls the time mother.

L.M. met the Also standing country singing out was Matthew icon and only Riordan, who could finally Special photo courtesy of FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE played Jackson. He mutter, “You absolutely sparkled The Pump Boys perform during the show. were fine.”

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Faerie Arts Festival to feature body arts/painting fashion show From Staff Reports

The 3rd Annual Asheville Faerie Arts Festival will return to the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Asheville on Nov 14.

The yearly event celebrates the holiday season with what are billed as some of the region’s best artists and musicians.

The daytime segment (2-6 p.m.) is familyfriendly, with all the Faerie basics: costumes, magic, music, stilt walkers, life-size sculptures by Marcie The Balloon Fairy, puppets and an inflated castle bouncer.

The evening segment (7-11 p.m.) is adult-themed with the popular world .music of Juan Benavides Group, along with Sarah Merrell’s Body Art/Painting Fashion Show, organic chocolate, food and drinks and crafts by local artisans.

The previous two events were likewise

produced by Bioflyer Productions as a Benefit for Eblen Charities, a local nonprofit that supports thousands of families in Western North Carolina.

The organization was recognized internationally in 2014 after being awarded the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership. The prize acknowledges Mother Teresa’s philosophy that the highest level of leadership is found in public service.

Adult all-day advance tickets are $12 ($15 day of event) and $5 for children under age 15 at the door.

For online ticket purchases, visit www. eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-asheville-faerie-arts-festival-tickets-18970614619.

A limited number of no-fee tickets will also be available, beginning Oct 22, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café in downtown Asheville.

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