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PAGE 8 GUNS UNDER COVER In 2006, Buncombe County issued 495 permits for carrying a concealed handgun. In 2016, the number of permits issued totaled 2,543, a 400 percent increase. Whether those higher numbers are making our community safer — or less so — is a matter of some debate.

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Kind driver campaign needed As a recent Asheville import, I notice the elevated amount of road rage in these environs. Why would that be? This is Asheville, the home of the “cool and enlightened”?

The WWNC afternoon radio show noted the rampant road anger stems from the vast influx of tourists. My friend Erika said it was the different road philosophies of all the people from other areas. I don’t care why, I just think it is beneath us.

We need to change the mindset! A campaign is in order. A “kind driver Asheville” sticker needs to be on every car. A license plate about love on the streets!

Something needs to be started, a groundswell if you will.

Where else but city government?

— Barbara Walker

Black Mountain

More to story of development I was disappointed with the Xpress’ report on the [Buncombe County Board of Adjustment] meeting to approve the Aiken Road apartment complex [“Board Approves

296-apartment Complex Off Aiken Road,” Dec. 20]. The article failed to mention the following: 1. In both meetings, the neighbors’ concerns were brushed aside.

It appeared that a decision to approve the complex was a foregone conclusion, and the meetings were merely formalities.

2. The DOT study failed to take into consideration the fact that part of the traffic is routed through a private road and, therefore, potentially illegal!

3. The development is not in the character of the neighborhood.

4. The Board of Adjustment is composed of many members who may have a vested interest in the development (e.g., real estate agents). Additionally, they may not be qualified to make decisions about the environmental and local impact.

5. Both developments (Aiken Road apartments and [an adjacent development of 75 single-family units]) are controlled by the same developer and will have a stressful impact on this part of Reems Creek and its ecosystem.

While affordable housing is important, shoving developments through in a covert manner is not the way to present new housing solutions to the community at large.

More likely than not, these developments will result in maximum cost to the local residents, environ-

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ment and end user, with maximum profit for the developer and owner.

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dents unhappy with the proposal and the attorney who is representing two neighbors. While we understand many residents were disappointed in the outcome of the board’s deliberations, we believe our story reported on the main points raised at the meeting. We also covered the first time this project was discussed at the Board of Adjustment in “Apartments Stall, Townhomes Get Green Light” in the Nov. 15 Xpress. In addition, we have recently published several letters to the editor on this topic.

Editor’s note: We at Xpress agree that the issues surrounding the role of appointed boards like the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment in approving development projects are complex. That’s why we’ve increased our coverage of these issues over the past year, notably “Road Warriors: Buncombe Residents Call for Brake on Traffic Growth” in our Oct. 18 issue. The article Mr. Beharrysingh mentions does include comments from resi-

Kudos for keep-yourpet-at-home policy Thank you, Ingles for enforcing the law … in support of the keepmy-pet-at-home majority [see “Lap It Up, Asheville: Canines May Be Losing Ground in Dog City,” Jan. 3, Xpress].

Why do some of us have the audacity to object to Fido in the cart or loose in the store? Or leashed in the aisles? I dunno, maybe it’s the barking and yapping, or the peeing, or the pooping, or the farting, or the shedding, or the unwanted sniffing, or the floor-level obstacles or the

“service dog” con. Could be a lot of things.

True: Most dogs seem fairly wellbehaved now, but if the trend continues, then where is this “lifestyle choice” headed? How about three dogs and two cats in every aisle?

Maybe aggressive pit bulls or pet goats? Pet poultry, anyone (“cleanup in aisle nine!”)?

If a shopper cannot part with the pet for an hour, then maybe a trip to the shrink should be the priority instead of groceries. How does the saying go — if you are lonely in Asheville, get a person!

— Bob Browne

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Xpress seeks art, writing for 2018 Kids Issue It’s time for local kids and teens to share their creativity! Mountain Xpress is now accepting art, photos, essays and poetry for the 2018 Kids Issue.

Each year, Xpress publishes a variety of colorful and engaging creative work by local K-12 students in a pair of special issues, which also include listings of local and regional summer camps. The deadline for this year’s submissions is Friday, Feb. 9.

This year’s theme is “Let’s fix it!” (Special thanks to area educators and their students who offered feedback.) Kids and teens, here are some ideas to get you started: • What is one of the biggest problems in our community? If you, your friends and community members could do one thing to fix this problem or make our corner of the world a better place, what would it be?

• Is there something that happened in your own life that made you realize that this was a prob-

SHARE YOUR ART AND WRITING: It’s time for local K-12 students to share their art, photos, poetry and essays for the 2018 Mountain Xpress Kids Issue. This year’s theme: “Let’s fix it!” Deadline is Feb. 9. lem that needed to be fixed? What was it?

• Think about what talents and strengths you could bring to solving this problem. What’s your own personal superpower? How could that help in changing things for the better?

• What obstacles might stand in the way of making things better?

What could you, your friends or community members do to get around those obstacles?

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Here’s a link for you to upload your work: avl.mx/4jd

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Photos should be high-resolution, digital photos, between 200 KB and 6 MB (Cellphone setting of “medium” size). Artists’ statements are welcome.

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We can’t wait to see what local kids and teens have to share!

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Concealed carry permits in Buncombe jump 400 percent

BY DAVID FLOYD dfloyd@mountainx.com Business is booming — often literally — for Fletcher businessman Dan Meadows.

In response to increased demand for instruction on carrying concealed handguns, Meadows’ TAP3X Group of Companies bumped up the number of concealed carry classes it offers as well as individual firearms instruction. “About three years ago I was teaching only one class a month,” Meadows stated in an email to Xpress. “Two years ago, I doubled my classes to twice a month. Now I not only teach classes almost every weekend but offer several classes on weekdays and weeknights.”

And if anything, the trend seems to be accelerating. Between 2006 and 2016, Buncombe County saw a more than 400 percent jump in the number of concealed handgun permits issued annually, from 495 to 2,543. As of November, the county had already issued 3,509 permits in 2017.

Not everyone is thrilled about the prospect of more concealed handguns in our midst. “The uptick in concealed carry permits should worry everyone,” says former Asheville City Council member Cecil Bothwell. “When more people are toting weapons, concealed or not, all of us are less safe.”

WILD WEST(ERN NORTH CAROLINA) Meadows is TAP3X’s primary instructor, but he’s had to hire more teachers to keep up with demand.

“The number of students has continued to rise for the past 12 years,” he reports.

Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan believes the media have helped fuel the increase in concealed carry permits. “Even though violent crime rates have not risen dramatically, people are so inundated with news about violent crime they feel the need to be proactive about their own safety,” he says.

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ARMS PROLIFERATION: Residents of Buncombe County are applying for concealed carry permits in dramatically increasing numbers. Photo by Joe Pellegrino numbers has been a challenge,” notes Duncan.

To accommodate the increase, the county bought another fingerprinting machine and hired additional staff at the Bureau of Identification. Permits must be renewed every five years, and the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office must confirm or deny applications within 45 days of receiving them. To help keep up, the county recently implemented an online process to initiate applications for concealed handguns.

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a state-recognized firearm safety training certificate and a valid driver’s license or ID card. Naturalized citizens must also bring a naturalization certificate or a valid U.S. passport, and individuals discharged from the military must bring a form DD214. All applicants must have lived in Buncombe County for at least 30 days before applying. They must be at least 21 years old and not have any physical or mental disability that would prevent them from handling a gun safely. Permit fees are $90 for new applications and $75 for renewals.

Once a concealed carry permit is issued, it rarely gets revoked.

Between 2006 and 2017, revocations in Buncombe County ranged from a low of two (in 2007) to a high of 33 (in 2010). Under state law, permits can be revoked for a number of reasons, including misrepresenting oneself during the application process, lending the permit to another person, altering the permit or using it with intent to unlawfully harm another person.

In addition, a tiny percentage of applications are rejected every year.

In 2007, nine out of 564 applications in Buncombe County failed to gain approval. And as of November 2017, 54

ON TARGET: Attendees of a concealed carry class in Fletcher show off their targets following their concealed carry qualifications. Photo by Dan Meadows out of 3,563 had been turned down for the year, the largest number for any year between 2006 and 2017.

The state provides a long list of places where concealed weapons are not allowed even with a permit, such as public education facilities, state and federal courthouses, state-occupied property and assemblies or demonstrations. Under the city of Asheville’s policy, the city can prohibit carrying firearms, even by people with a concealed carry permit, in city-owned buildings. Individuals with concealed carry permits can have a concealed handgun in parks, but they are prohibited from carrying them, even with a concealed carry permit, in certain recreational facilities.

According to the Asheville Police Department, there were 21 concealed handgun permit violations within city limits between 2008 and 2017: 12 felonies and nine misdemeanors.

In the same time period, 306 people were charged with carrying a concealed weapon (including knives as well as firearms) without a permit.

Because it was a first offense, these were misdemeanors; an additional five people received felony charges for subsequent offenses.

Duncan says the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office has had very few issues with permit holders violating the law. “I think they value their ability to do that, so most of them know the law as well as I do, as far as what they can do and what they should do.”

ARMED BUT NOT DANGEROUS? “Why are you taking a concealed carry course?” Meadows asks his students at the beginning of every class.

One common answer, he says, is per-

sonal protection against incidents like hate crimes, robberies, carjackings and mass shootings.

Proponents of gun control often argue that more guns on the streets, even legally, can lead to more gun violence. However, Christina Hallingse, the Asheville Police Department’s public information officer, says the department has “not established a correlation between the increase in CCW permits issued and gun-related crime.”

At the national level, a new report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research cites research showing that, “Since May 2007, more than 1,000 people have died at the hands of persons who held concealed carry permits. These incidents include 31 mass shootings and the killings of 19 police officers.”

Meadows, however, maintains that “it is not the trained, armed, prepared citizens and lawfully possessing gun owners and permit holders that our society should be worried about. It is the thuglians, criminals, societal haters and mentally challenged individuals who have guns, lawfully or otherwise, that should concern us most.”

A former police officer and detective, Meadows believes that having more people trained to carry a concealed firearm will make everyone safer.

“Our police cannot be everywhere at every given moment,” Meadows points out. “And when seconds count and our law enforcement officers are minutes away, a trained, armed and prepared citizen might just make the difference between stopping the threat or allowing the threat to continue their carnage of death and destruction of innocent lives.”

Bothwell disagrees; he’d like to see stricter controls on guns as well as an improved system of background

checks. “I really think we’d be better off following Australia’s lead in suppressing gun ownership,” he explains.

In the wake of a 1996 mass shooting in which 35 people were killed, Australia banned the sale of automatic and semiautomatic weapons.

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N EWS The Johns Hopkins report also disputes the idea that an armed citizenry enhances public safety.

“In zero of the 111 mass shooting incidents analyzed by researcher Louis Klarevas in his book Rampage Nation: Securing America From Mass Shootings did an armed civilian effectively intervene and terminate a mass shooting in progress,” the report notes. “An FBI analysis of active shooter situations further revealed that unarmed civilians are more than 20 times as likely to successfully end an active shooting than are armed civilians (excluding armed security guards).”

TRAINING TO USE DEADLY FORCE The state of North Carolina itself doesn’t offer concealed carry classes, though it does set standards for them. Concealed carry instructors must be legally able to possess a firearm and be certified by one of three organizations: the state’s Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, the N.C. Private Protective Services Board or the National Rifle Association.

Instructors must also complete a five-hour course given by the N.C. Justice Academy called, “Laws Governing Concealed Handguns and the Use of Deadly Force.” Meadows gives the program high marks. “It’s a one-day training, but it’s very detailed, very regimented,” he says.

Once people have been certified, however, the quality of instruction

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS: Dan Meadows, chief instructor of TAP3X in Fletcher, teaches a women’s concealed carry and defensive handgun course. A researcher says permits for women have grown much faster than for men. Photo by Jeff Brodsky they provide varies widely, Meadows says. “Some are more detailed and methodical and matter-of-fact, and some could honestly care less,” he says.

“Some want to do the minimum standards as required by the state of North Carolina and give out nothing further.”

Duncan, meanwhile, says the overall quality of instruction on offer is “adequate as far as going over and covering the law; I wouldn’t say it’s rigorous. It’s like a lot of different training courses: It gives you the basics, but for folks that really carry, most of those folks continue to be selfeducated and stay up with the laws, which are ever-changing.”

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Meadows says when he moved back to North Carolina in 2005, there were only about four or five concealed carry trainers in the western part of the state; now the area is “thick with them,” he says.

Numbers from the last two years suggest that the growth in instructors may be slowing. In 2016, the Justice Academy course was offered 12 times and attended by 508 people. Last year, the course was offered 11 times, and was taken by 221 people.

Meadows says his company’s instructors go above and beyond what the state requires. “The laws are the most important, with a minimum of two hours devoted to nothing but the laws,” he says. “I do, however, balance this with safe gun-handling practices, marksmanship skills and on to what gun holster and ammo is right for the student.”

Buncombe County’s increase in concealed carry permits is twice as high as the rate at which concealed carry permits are increasing nationally, says John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. The nonprofit’s website says its goal is “to provide an objective and accurate scientific evaluation of both the costs and benefits of gun ownership as well as policing activities.”

In 2016, a record 1.83 million permits were issued nationwide.

According to a study by Lott titled, “Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2017,”

there are about 16 million permit holders in the United States.

Lott, an influential and prolific but controversial advocate against gun control, has written numerous books and studies on gun-related issues.

A Fox News columnist with a Ph.D. in economics, he’s held research positions at several universities and is regularly cited by the National Rifle Association.

“In recent years, much of the increase has occurred because of the changing demographics of permit holders,” Lott wrote in an email to Xpress. “Permits for women have grown much faster than for men, and for blacks and other minority groups much faster than for whites.

You also see increases in people getting permits after most mass public shootings or other terror attacks.”

Increased gun ownership and concealed carry permits, he maintains, actually make everyone safer.

The Johns Hopkins report, however, says, “Lott’s research to support these claims ... has been found to be flawed in many important ways. When those errors are corrected, no crime-reducing effects of [right-to-carry] laws are evident.”

The report goes on to cite studies by economists from Stanford University, Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley linking right-to-carry laws with significant increases in violent crime rates, murder rates and homicides committed with handguns.

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Asheville shuts door on whole-unit short-term rentals

NEW YEAR, NEW COUNCIL, NEW RULES FOR RENTALS: Zoning Administrator Shannon Tuch presents Asheville City Council with changes to the city’s Unified Development Ordinance that make new whole-unit short-term vacation rentals much more difficult to establish. Photo by Carolyn Morrisroe In Asheville, where a tourism-driven economy has resulted in a boom for vacation rentals, the city extended an effective ban on whole-unit shortterm rentals from residential to commercial districts on Jan. 9.

In a 6-1 vote with Council member Keith Young dissenting, City Council approved wording amendments to the city’s Unified Development Ordinance that define short-term vacation rentals separately from other types of lodging and severely restrict where they are allowed.

REGULATIONS CLAMP DOWN ON VACATION RENTALS Under the new rules, short-term rentals of whole units are not permitted as a use by right in any district of the city except the resort district, which exists in only a few places to allow for resorts and conference centers. Outside of that very limited area, property owners now must apply to the city for conditional zoning in order to establish a short-term rental.

The new wording defines shortterm vacation rentals as “a dwelling unit with up to six guest rooms that is used and/or advertised through an online platform, or other media, for transient occupancy for a period of less than one month,” and they are considered a lodging use.

Short-term rentals are already not allowed in residential districts, with fines of $500 per night for violations.

In November, City Council voted not to allow short-term rentals in commercial and mixed-use areas covered by the River Arts District and Haywood Road form-based codes. That meant that whole-unit vacation rentals, often offered on sites such as Airbnb and VRBO, were mainly still permitted in the Central Business District of downtown Asheville.

In October, Council heard a report on the escalating number of condo and apartment units being converted from residential to lodging use for the purpose of short-term rentals. A quick search on Airbnb brings up a plethora of whole-unit listings in the downtown area — units that otherwise could serve as much-needed housing for local residents, say proponents of a crackdown on STRs. Planning staff presented a report to the city in December that showed 63 units had been converted from residential to lodging since 2015 (before which no such conversions occurred).

Staff also pointed to 84 units in residential condo projects in the pipeline that could apply for lodging permits in the future.

Zoning Administrator Shannon Tuch said at the Jan. 9 meeting of City Council that since the December report, the city has received applications to convert an additional 53 units from residential to lodging uses.

All the units already permitted for use as STRs can continue to be rented that way, but must now get an annual permit from the city. Homestays, where residents can rent out up to

two guest rooms in their homes, will still be allowed.

RESIDENTS SOUND OFF ON MEANING OF COMMUNITY Asheville resident Moira Goree told Council during public comment that she’s had to leave several spaces that were sold to become wholehome rentals. She said she now lives in a place in such shoddy condition that it’s unlikely to be desirable as an STR. “That’s sort of the shape of things to come, I think, as far as whole-home rentals, kind of being an artist and a local, pushing me out of town,” she said.

Sue Robbins, of Downtown Asheville Residential Neighbors, said her organization supports the amendment. “We strongly believe that the proliferation of short-term rentals in an area which we consider to be our neighborhood is detrimental to the sense of community that we are trying to build and maintain as residents of the CBD,” she said.

Andy Brokmeyer spoke in favor of allowing short-term rentals in the Central Business District. “I believe it is the only district where you can allow a free market economy to take place,” he said. “I don’t want to see the fabric of downtown become a ghost town of short-term rentals such as Myrtle Beach or Folly Beach, [S.C.], but at the same time, seeing the profits just go to the hoteliers who are not a local business, not directly bringing

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N EWS cess seemed to move so quickly, we seemed to omit a lot of that.”

In contrast, Council member Vijay Kapoor said the volume of downtown units being converted to short-term rentals necessitated moving fast, but pointed out that it was supported by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and discussed at length in articles in the local news media.

“I think the speed with which we moved on this was actually important,” he said.

Young addressed the contention that STRs will not really be “banned,” because property owners can apply to the city for special permission. “Yeah, you could still come to Council and petition for a short-

the profits back to the local economy — that’s my biggest concern.”

COUNCIL MEMBERS DEBATE BEST WAY TO CREATE HOUSING Brokmeyer also took issue with how fast this short-term rental regulation moved through the process, a sentiment that was echoed by Young. “I am a little concerned about our process. I’m a little bit disappointed,” Young said.

Young said that before, during and after last fall’s city election, “Council members said they would like to have a comprehensive conversation about how we deal with short-term rentals in the city as a whole, and this pro-

term rental in the Central Business District, but honestly I really don’t think you’ll get it,” he said.

As for the argument that STRs take up crucial housing stock, Young said while there’s a lack of affordable housing in Asheville, he doesn’t think there’s an overall shortage of housing. “If you’ve got $300,000, you can find somewhere to live in this city,” he said.

Council member Julie Mayfield agreed that restricting STRs is not targeted at creating more affordable housing, but she believes Asheville is experiencing a housing shortage and this regulation could help alleviate that crunch. “It is a tried-and-true, long-standing strategy: If you have

a shortage of housing, you need to build housing,” she said. “Even by adding $400,000 condos downtown, we are contributing ultimately — this is actually one place where I think the phrase ‘trickle down’ actually works.”

Mayfield supported the amendment as a way to stem the tide of lost housing. “If you are building a unit that someone can live in — it has a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen — we want that to be used for someone to live in it long term. That is the way that we help address our housing shortage,” she said, adding that having housing downtown can help keep it from becoming “a Folly Beach or a Gatlinburg or something like that.”

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County approves $5M sale of Ferry Road property The game of hot potato among local governments over ownership of a parcel of land along Brevard Road and the French Broad River appears to be coming to an end.

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved selling an undeveloped, 137-acre tract off Ferry Road for $5 million during its Jan. 9 meeting.

Buncombe County bought the property in 2015 for $6.8 million, which included a $3.4 million payment from the city of Asheville.

The county purchased the land in the hope of convincing Oregonbased Deschutes Brewery to build its East Coast expansion in the area, but Deschutes ultimately decided to open the new location in Roanoke, Va. The buyer is listed as Deep River South Development II LLC, based in South Carolina. The county stands to make a total of about $1.6 million from the deal — unless another buyer swoops in during the upset bid process, a period of 10 days in which interested parties can make higher offers for the property. Upset bids must increase the last bid by no less than 10 percent of the first $1,000 and 5 percent of the balance.

“If any bidder’s going to come in and upset it, they’re going to have to come in with a bid of $5,261,550,” said County Attorney Michael Frue. “So that process could go on and on until it goes 10 days with no further upset bid, and then the high bidder wins.”

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‘SPECTACULAR PROPERTY’: On Jan. 9, Buncombe County agreed to sell a chunk of land that was until recently zoned industrial along the French Broad River off Brevard Road to a South Carolina development company. Image courtesy of the city of Asheville “OK, so if anybody’s interested out there, this is spectacular property,” commission Chair Brownie Newman joked to the audience.

“You’ve got a frontage on I-26, you’ve got the French Broad River.”

“There’s a shoe store,” Commissioner Ellen Frost chimed in.

“I mean, it’s close to everything,” Newman said.

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Frue said other developers have nibbled at the site. “We’ve had a number look at it before as a potential economic development site or an industrial site, and it just didn’t really work right,” he said. “It’s very steep on some sides.” He added that only about 88 of the 137 acres are usable.

In order to make the property more appealing for developers, the

county has worked with the city of Asheville to rezone the property from industrial to residential multifamily high-density, which Asheville City Council approved in November.

In response to a question by Commissioner Mike Fryar, Nathan Pennington, the county’s interim planning director, said the county doesn’t know exactly what will be developed on the property. “The city of Asheville would fully review any type of development application, because it’s fully within their jurisdiction,” Pennington said.

“They have their own thresholds in terms of traffic studies, impact studies, and Asheville’s made some changes to the effect that just about every development is reviewed by City Council.”

The property has switched hands a few times in the past 20 years: The city of Asheville annexed the land in 1999 before selling it to Henderson County in 2002. Henderson County then sold the parcel to Buncombe County in 2015.

Commissioner Joe Belcher said the sale is good for the county, creating the potential for income in the future and conversations about tax relief down the line. “Putting this back on the tax rolls is a big move,” he said. “That’s a bigger move than the additional money than we’ll make from the sale of this.”

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by Max Hunt | mhunt@mountainx.com BUNCOMBE PLANNING BOARD MEETS JAN. 22 The Buncombe County Planning and Development Board will meet Monday, Jan. 22, at 9:30 a.m. in the meeting room at 30 Valley St., Asheville, to review several proposals.

Agenda topics include a public hearing to consider a variance request at the Fernstone Village subdivision at 19 Viera Drive. The board will also vote on whether to approve an additional lot in the Fernstone Village development.

In addition, board members will hold a public hearing to consider an amendment to the zoning map of Buncombe County for the rezoning of a parcel at 1648 Brevard Road.

The Planning Board will make recommendations to the County Commission regarding the proposed amendment.

The meeting is open to the public. An agenda for the meeting can be viewed online at avl.mx/4jp.

More info: 828-2504830 or zoningquestions@ buncombecounty.org ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEETS JAN. 23 Asheville City Council will hold its next meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 5 p.m. in Council chambers

at City Hall in downtown Asheville.

The formal meeting will follow a capital improvements plan work session, which begins at 3 p.m. in the first-floor north conference room of City Hall.

The Council meeting is open to the public. An agenda will be released prior to the meeting at avl.mx/3xb.

More info: mburleson@ ashevillenc.gov RESIDENTS INVITED TO WEIGH IN ON ASTON PARK TENNIS CENTER PLANS Residents of Asheville are invited to attend one of three upcoming information meetings to provide input on plans for the Aston Park Tennis Center.

City staffers will be on hand to discuss proposed changes to the fee schedule and business plan for the tennis center, which are based on the recommendations of a 2014 focus group.

Meetings are scheduled as follows: • Friday, Jan. 19, noon-2 p.m. at the Grant Southside Center, 285 Livingston St. • Monday, Jan. 22, 4-6 p.m. at Asheville Middle School, 211 S. French Broad Ave. • Saturday, Jan. 27, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Aston Park Tennis Center, 336 Hilliard Ave. More info: 828-259-5800 or avl.mx/4jq

OLLI HOSTS PANEL ON CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will host a panel discussion on the history of and evolving cultural views around Confederate monuments across the South on Friday, Jan. 26, 2-3:30 p.m. at the Reuter Center.

The event will be moderated by Darin Waters, UNCA associate professor of history. Panelists include Deborah Miles, UNCA’s Center for Diversity Education director; Sasha Mitchell, chair of the African-American Heritage Commission; Steven E. Nash, associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University; UNCA history professor Dan Pierce; and Asheville City Council member Sheneika Smith.

The event is part of OLLI’s “More Than a Month” series, which focuses on inclusion, equity and issues of concern to Asheville’s minority communities.

The panel discussion is free and open to the public to attend.

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The great snow debate of 1906 Everyone knows 1886’s storm was way better

SNOWBALL FIGHT: Three women take part in a snowball fight. According to the North Carolina Collection, the image was taken at the crossing of the Southern Railroad, present-day Meadow Road. The image’s date is unknown. Photo courtesy of North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville

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On Jan. 26, 1906, a storm buried the streets of Asheville in several feet of snow.

The city’s response was a mix of elation, concern and debate over the storm’s severity compared to winters past. A Jan. 27 article in The Asheville Citizen proclaimed: “The fall is the heaviest known here in many years, and recalled the eighteen inches which fell in 1886 when, as was the case yesterday, the currents of air were from a Southerly direction.”

This comparison drew criticism in the following day’s paper by an individual referred to as “The Oldest Inhabitant.”

The article stated that this elderly resident “sneers at the suggestion that the snow of yesterday was ‘anything to speak of,’ and says he remembers times when a person would not notice the difference if it was piled on top of the snow he has seen here.”

The 1886 snowstorm, as reported in the Dec. 8, 1886, edition of The Asheville Citizen, dropped 28 inches of snow. The article commented on the impassable streets, blocked railways and collapsed roofs. The report also featured memories from a resident referred to as “the oldest inhabitant.”

In addition to these accounts, the 1886 paper described the community’s struggles to clear passageways: “The streets yesterday presented a strange scene as efforts were made to

open the sidewalks. Gangs of men were at work shoveling away the masses of snow which were piled up higher than the head, leaving a narrow passway for the few wagons which had resumed their traffic, a few sleigh with high runners which cut their way very deftly along, and a few sleds which dragged a very laborious way, making a pain of pleasure, both to man and horse.”

Similar pains were experienced 20 years later during the 1906 storm. In its Jan. 27 report, The Asheville Citizen noted: “The street cleaning department turned out early and with the aid of the numerous city prisoners with clanking leg chains cleaned the sidewalks and gutters.” Meanwhile, “[o]wners of flat topped buildings were alarmed lest their roofs cave in as they did in 1886[.]”

But not everyone was in panic mode.

Some businesses celebrated the unexpected snow. According to a separate article in that same day’s paper, “Yesterday’s sale of rubber goods and leggings broke all records.” The piece claimed that because of the unseasonably warm winter that had preceded the snowfall, most residents were unprepared for the sudden cold. On account of this, the article declared that “[t]he dealer in rubbers chuckled in glee … for by the end of the day his stock in waterproofs was getting low, but his cash register was well filled.”

Many residents were also pleased by the weather. The paper reported: “[C]hildren invaded the streets and snowballed pedestrians with punctilious impartiality and lots of older people took up the game of making snow men that looked like ‘donkey devils’ dressed in white.”

The article concluded: “Many funny incidents featured the day. At the postoffice snow slid from the overhanging roof and its thunderous roar frightened people who it missed and scared them badly. The custodian sent men to the roof and they were lowered with ropes until they could push the snow off. There was a lot of snow on the roof of the Asheville Business College and the third floor windows showed a lot of heads of feminine pupils who pelted passers by with snowballs. There were also some male heads and one of them got a snow bath. One of the men who was shoveling snow from the roof called to warn people below, ‘Look out.’ The said man—men are sometimes stupid, promptly stuck out his head and caught a barrelful of snow on it.

He was much exercised and shouted to the man on the roof, ‘You --- --- fool, what did you say look out for; you meant look in.’”

Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents.X

COMMUNITY CALENDAR JAN. 17 - 25, 2018

CALENDAR GUIDELINES For a full list of community calendar guidelines, please visit mountainx.com/calendar. For questions about free listings, call 251-1333, ext. 137. For questions about paid calendar listings, please call 251-1333, ext. 320.

ANIMALS ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 43 Patton Ave., 828-2547162, colburnmuseum.org • FR (1/19), 5:30pm Science Pub: “Fantastic Felines: Crazy or Misunderstood,” presentation by Dr. Anne Symonds, expert in feline behavior.

Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (1/25), 6pm - Science based dog training presentation with Kathryn Gubista. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • 3rd FRIDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Animal Rights Reading Group. Free to attend.

BENEFITS ARMS AROUND ASD armsaroundasd.org • FR (1/19) & SA (1/20), 7:30pm & 9:30pm Proceeds from the SuperHappy Telethon, sketch comedy and music event benefit Arms Around ASD. $10 segment/$15 full night/$20 weekend pass. Held at Magnetic 375, 375 Depot St. ASHEVILLE MARDI GRAS EVENTS 828-335-3986, ashevillemardigras.org • SU (1/21), 1-5pm Proceeds from the "Cajun Cook Off," cajun cooking contest benefit Asheville Mardi Gras and MANNA Foodbank. Event includes live music. Tasting from 1-3pm. Food donations accepted for MANNA. $15. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive HOMINY VALLEY CRISIS MINISTRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST 828-335-3986, ashevillemardigras.org • SA (1/20), 8-10am - Proceeds from this pancake breakfast benefit Hominy Valley Crisis Ministry. $10/$7 advance.

Held at Fatz Cafe, 5 Spartan Ave. HOT CHOCOLATE 10K hotchocolate10k.com

• SA (1/20), 8am Proceeds from this running event featuring a "Marshmallow Dash," 1K, 5K, 10K or hill climb benefit Isaac Dickson Elementary School. $20 and up. Held at Isaac Dickson Elementary School, 90 Montford Ave.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY ASHEVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE homecomingjobfair.com • WE (1/17), 11am-4pm - Homecoming Career Fair featuring over 125 employers. Held at the WNC Agricultural Center, 761 Boylston Highway, Fletcher A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • MO (1/22), noon & WE (1/24), noon - "Rocket Business Planning," two-day workshop.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (1/25), 3-6pm - "An Entrepreneur's Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide," class. Registration required. Free.

FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION jim@extraordinary copywriter.com • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden • 4th TUESDAYS, 11:30am1pm - Educational monthly meeting to bring local business leaders to present and discuss topics relevant and helpful to businesses today. Free.

Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden

ANNIVERSARY WOMEN’S MARCH: Thousands participated in last year’s Women’s March on Asheville, in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. On Saturday, Jan. 20, at 11 a.m., the Anniversary Women’s March on Asheville heads back to downtown Asheville. According to the event’s Facebook page, the goal of the march is to “peacefully show our new administration that we stand together in solidarity with our families and friends for the protection of our rights, safety and health. We recognize that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our democratic society.” The 1.4-mile, mostly flat, sidewalk march begins at Memorial Stadium, continues up Biltmore Avenue and ends around the Vance Monument in Pack Square. For more information, visit facebook.com/WomensMarchAVL. Photo by Kari Barrows (p. 17)

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS CLASS AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Detox from Sugar with Shannon Nickerson: Sunday, January 21. 5:30-7pm. $10-25, sliding scale.

VILLAGERS is an Urban Homestead Supply store offering workshops to support a healthy lifestyle.

Registration/information: www.forvillagers. com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Beginning Aerial Arts on Sundays 2:15pm, Mondays 6:30pm and Tuesdays 1:00pm. Beginning Pole on Sundays 3:30pm, Mondays 5:15pm and Thursdays 8:00pm. Floor Theory Dance on Wednesdays 7:30pm.

More Information at EmpyreanArts. org. Call/text us at 828.782.3321.

FOURTH WAY SCHOOL (PD.) Know Thyself - Wisdom Through Action, a Fourth Way School in the tradition of Gurdjieff & Ouspensky teaching practical application of the Work. Meets Thursday evenings.

ASHEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT 828-259-5881, ashevillenc.gov/ Departments/Police • Through WE (2/28) - Open registration for the Asheville Police Department’s spring Citizens Police Academy. Registration: bit.ly/2uVozmf. Free.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.

Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting. Free.

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - Community center board meeting. Free.

LIVING WEB FARMS 828-891-4497, livingwebfarms.org • TU (1/23), 5-8pm "WNC Repair Cafe," event with volunteers available to help fix broken objects.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Living Web Farms- Biochar Facility, 220 Grandview Lane, Hendersonville

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Sit-n-Stitch," informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828-242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

OLLI AT UNCA 828-251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (1/19), 5pm "Death Cafe," storytelling and conversation around the sacred art of dying. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org

720.218.9812 www. wisdomthroughaction. com GURDJIEFF FOUNDATION INTRODUCTORY EXCHANGE (PD.) January 21, 4-5pm.

Free public meeting with members of the Gurdjieff Foundation of WNC. For details please contact info@ gurdjieffasheville.org or 828-258-7220. www. gurdjieffasheville.org.

ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 828-251-5702, ashevillehabitat.org, emellert@ ashevillehabitat.org • TH (1/18), 11am Information session for affordable home repair program. Free.

Held at Stephen's Lee Community Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. ASHEVILLE FRIENDS OF ASTROLOGY tfigura@verizon.net • FR (1/19), 7-9pm "Galactic Messengers and the Key to SelfAcceptance: The Centaur Chariklo (wife of Chiron)," general meeting and presentation by Shellie Enteen.

Free to attend. Held at EarthFare - Westgate, 66 Westgate Parkway

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COM M U N I TY CA LEN DA R • WE (1/17), 5:30-7pm - "Dreaming of a Debt Free Life," seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (1/18), noon-1:30pm or TH (1/22), 5:30-7pm "Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Registration required.

Free.

• TH (1/18), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free.

• MO (1/22), noon1:30pm - "Savings & Goal Setting," class.

Registration required.

Free.

TRANSITION ASHEVILLE 828-296-0064, transitionasheville.org • WE (1/17), 6:30-8pm - Transition Asheville Monthly Social: "Energy Savers Network," presentation. Free. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY: The SuperHappy Productions team presents the inaugural SuperHappy Telethon, Jan. 19-20 at The Magnetic Theatre. Proceeds from ticket sales, as well as on-site and online donations, benefit Arms Around ASD. Photo

by Myriah Wood, MCW Photography WHAT: A two-day comedy/variety extravaganza to benefit Arms Around ASD WHEN: Friday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight each night WHERE: The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. WHY: After comedically sending up game shows with the SuperHappy Trivia Challenge and radio shows with the SuperHappy Radio Hour, parody specialists SuperHappy Productions go big with the inaugural SuperHappy Telethon.

The fundraiser is the brainchild of actress Carrie Kimbrell Kimzey, who’ll join her colleagues from the casts and crews of the established live monthly offerings Friday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 20, at The Magnetic Theatre with a pair of two-hour blocks each night, none of which will feature the same content.

“We’re doing some of the best material we’ve put forward so far,” says Rodney Smith, a producer for SuperHappy Productions and the director of the Telethon. “We’ve been doing the show for a few years now, so we actually have a catalog of ‘best of’ material, plus some new material that we’ve written and a couple of radio sketches that are going to be turned into actual performance sketches onstage. Getting to revisit the best of our work and improve upon it is pretty exciting as well.”

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comedians James Harrod and Craig Holcombe, comedian/magician Chastain Chriswell, burlesque artists Deb Aunare and Zelda Holiday and performance poet Allan Wolf.

Unlike a typical telethon, video of the event won’t be broadcast live, but some sketches will be released as a series of YouTube videos later in the year. Selected segments will also be livestreamed online and much of it will be recorded and shared as a future podcast.

And while there won’t be a phone bank onstage, or a Jerry Lewis impersonator, a host will introduce the acts, and the audience will be provided updates on donations received for Arms Around ASD, whose good deeds will also be discussed during the show. In choosing a partner, Smith and his collaborators wanted to help out an organization in the medical services industry and one that doesn’t already receive substantial financial backing.

“Autism is one of those things that’s so pervasive. We all know somebody who’s autistic. A couple of people on the staff have been diagnosed on the spectrum as well, so we felt like that was something that was close to our hearts,” Smith says.

“Arms Around ASD fit every check box of what we wanted in a beneficiary.”

The SuperHappy Telethon takes place Friday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight each night at The Magnetic Theatre. $10 for each two-hour session, $15 full night, $20 weekend pass. www.themagnetictheatre.org X

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TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject. yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the U.S. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES 225 Patton Ave. • FR (1/18), 10am-4pm Grand opening of Abba's House perinatal substance abuse residential recovery facility. Free.

DANCE EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted

by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovement collective.org STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 12pm Bootcamp 12pm Barre Wkt 5pm Teen Dance Fitness & Technique 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Drills 7pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Tribal Bellydance Level 1 8pm Tribal Bellydance Level 2 8pm Raks Azure Pro Bellydance Troupe • Tuesday 8am Bootcamp 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Creating a Solo • Wednesday 10am Hip Hop 12pm Bootcamp 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bhangra Series

7pm Irish Dance 8pm Modern • Thursday 8am Bootcamp 9am Hip Hop Wkt 3:15pm Kids Hip Hop and Creative Movement 4pm Kids Hip Hop and Creative Movement 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm On Broadway! 7pm Stiletto Sculpt Dance 8pm West Coast Swing • Friday 8am Bootcamp 12pm Bootcamp • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt 1pm Hip Hop • $14 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $8. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595 OLD FARMER'S BALL oldfarmersball.com • THURSDAYS, 8-11pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $7/$6 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (1/20), 6pm "Hawaiian Luau," themed dance. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Dance and rounds at 7:30pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

ECO 25TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE (PD.) March 9-11, 2018. at UNCA. 150+ practical, affordable, regionallyappropriate workshops on organic growing, homesteading, farming, permaculture. Trade show, seed exchange, special guests.

Organicgrowersschool. org. (828) 214-7833 FARM DREAMS (PD.) February 3, 2018, 10:00am - 4:00pm - Lenoir Rhyne 36 Montford Ave, Asheville, NC Farm Dreams a great entry-level workshop to attend if you are in the exploratory stages of starting a farm and seeking practical information on sustainable farming.

ASHEVILLE COLLABORATIVE OF THE LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE livingbuildingasheville@ gmail.com • TH (1/18), 5:30-7:30pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Informal networking focused on the science of sustainability. Free to attend. Held at The

by Abigail Griffin BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

FARM & GARDEN LIVING GREEN ASHEVILLE meetup.com/Living-Green -Asheville-Meetup/ • SU (1/21), 3-6pm General meeting and connection regarding urban homesteading. Free to attend. Held at Hi-Wire Big Top, 2A Huntsman Place MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE 54 College Drive Marion, 828-652-6021, mcdowelltech.edu • Through FR (2/2) Open registration for the McDwoell Honey Bees' Bee School. Classes take place SATURDAYS (2/3) until (2/17), 8:30am4:30pm. Registration: mcdowellhoneybees. org. Free.

POLK COUNTY FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE BREAKFAST polkcountyfarms.org • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8am - Monthly breakfast with presentations regarding agriculture. Admission by donation. Held at Green Creek Community Center, 25 Shields Road, Green Creek

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable. com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview FLETCHER CHILI COOKOFF 828-687-0751, fletcherparks.org • Through FR (1/19) Applications accepted for cooks who wish to participate in the Fletcher 17th Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, Jan. 27 from 11:30am2pm. Information: FletcherParks.org or call 828-687-0751.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table meal. Free.

FESTIVALS ASHEVILLE FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL ashevillefringe.org • TH (1/25) through SU (1/28), 7pm & 9pm -

Performance arts festival with over 30 ticketed performances featuring fringe artists. See website for full schedule. $13-16.

Held in various venues in Downtown Asheville MILLS RIVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10 Presbyterian Church Road, Mills River, 828-891-7101 • SU (1/21) through SA (1/27) - "Puzzlefest," community event to put together a 9,000 piece puzzle. Potluck luncheon on Sunday, Jan. 21, at noon. Contact for daily schedule. Free.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BUNCOMBE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY buncombedems.org • SA (1/20), 6-10pm - Buncombe County Democrats kick-off party for the 2018 midterm election campaign.

Includes live music, silent auction and refreshments. $50/$25 students. Held at A-B Tech Mission Health Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (1/23), 5pm Asheville City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza • WE (1/24), 7-8:30pm - Community feedback event for draft recommendations for the state Human Relations Committee to support unity and harmony and resolve discrimination issues. Dinner and childcare provided. Free. Held at Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Road FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • WE (1/24), 7pm Citizens Accountability Project, progressive meetup that features short films and discussions. Free to attend.

HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (1/18), 4-5:30pm - General meeting and discussion about opioid addiction in Henderson County with speakers from Hope Rx and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S Charleston Lane, Hendersonville • MO (1/22), 11:30am1pm - "Lunch & Learn," lecture by Dr. Jennifer Bremer regarding gerrymandering and fair redistricting. Bring your own lunch. Free to attend.

Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op,

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WOMEN’S MARCH ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ WomensMarchAVL • SA (1/20), 11am Women's March on Asheville, 1.4 mile community march focused on the power of women to create transformative social change. Free. Held at Memorial Stadium, 30 Buchanan Ave. WOMEN’S MARCH BLACK MOUNTAIN indivisibleblkmtn@gmail. com • SA (1/20), 9:30am Women’s March on Black Mountain, two-block community march focused on the power of women to create transformative social change. Free. Held at Montreat Road and State St., Black Mountain

KIDS ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (1/20), 10am - Bright Star Touring Theatre presents, Aesop’s Fables. $7.

BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKSELLERS ASHEVILLE MALL 3 S. Tunnel Road, 828-296-7335 • SA (1/20), 11am - Sandra Magsamen reads her book, You! Free to attend.

HENDERSONVILLE TREE BOARD 828-692-3026 • Through FR (1/19) Open registration for the Sunday, Jan. 21, 2pm guided winter tree walk along Third and Fourth Avenues in Hendersonville.

Registration: 828-7136807. Free.

PARENTING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave. Ste. #213., 828-253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (1/18), noon Information session for single parents with children ages 6-14 interested in learning more about connecting your child with a mentor. Free.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ASHEVILLE 40 Church St., 828-2531431, fpcasheville.org • TH (1/25), 10-11:30am or 5:30-7pm - "It’s Time for Kindergarten," information session. Childcare and Spanish interpretation provided. Hosted by Buncombe Partnership for Children. Registration: buncombepfc.org/events.

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PUBLIC LECTURES BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (1/23), 1pm - "Greetings From Asheville," antique postcard presentation with Terry Taylor. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (1/23), 7pm - "North Korea 2018," presentation by Jonathan Tetzlaff, global security consultant.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS ashevillenewfriends.org • TU (1/23), 1pm - Twohour group walk past houses of worship in central Asheville. Free. Held at Temple Beth HaTephila, 43 North Liberty St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WEDNESDAYS (1/17) through (2/21), 10am-noon - Six-week diabetes management class for seniors.

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ASHEVILLE 40 Church St., 828-2531431, fpcasheville.org • MONDAY through FRIDAY through (1/23), 12:30-1:30pm - January Series of Calvin College broadcast. Free.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-6934890, gracelutherannc.com • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS (1/17) through (2/7), 5:45-7pm - “Anxious for Nothing” adult class regarding spirituality and anxiety. Free.

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January 24-February 28, 2018, Wednesdays, 10am-12pm, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville.

Information/registration: 828-258-1113 or StoryWindow.com BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (1/18), 2:30pm Skyland Book Club: I'll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TH (1/18), 6pm Swannanoa Book Club: The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • SU (1/21), 3-5pm - John Diamond-Nigh presents his book, Sacred Sins. Free to attend.

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• SU (1/21), 3pm - Writers at Home Series: Monthly reading series featuring work from UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review. Free to attend.

• TU (1/23), 6pm - Jennifer McGaha presents her book, Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir. Free to attend.

• TH (1/25), 6pm - David Collins presents his book, Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas. Free to attend.

NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' NETWORK ncwriters.org • Through TU (1/30) Submissions accepted for the 2018 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. See website for full guidelines.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828-708-7570, spellboundchildrensbook shop.com • SA (1/20), 6-7pm Lyndsay Ely presents her young adult novel, Gunslinger Girl. Free to attend.

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“It’s just every day a constant dayto-day battle to come up with the best possible treatments,” says Dr. William McKenna, an Asheville physician specializing in infectious diseases.

It’s an issue that challenges members of the medical community everywhere across the U.S., and it isn’t going away anytime soon.

“It is ongoing and growing,” says Elizabeth Dodds-Ashley, a clinical pharmacist with the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network based at Duke University in Durham. “[It’s] faster than we are able to get new therapies to address it.”

One solution that has presented itself is a practice called antibiotic stewardship, which — in simple terms — involves creating strategies for the appropriate use of antibiotics while decreasing the chance of bacteria becoming resistant to them.

Dodds-Ashley says only two states in the U.S. — Missouri and California — require hospitals to have antibiotic stewardship programs, which act as a formal way of establishing and refining safe guidelines for antibiotic use. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has indicated that it would like to see more hospitals adopt antibiotic stewardship practices in the future, going so far as to propose a rule in 2016 that

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RESISTANCE CAN BE FATAL: As bacteria continue to develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics, local hospital systems are focusing on implementing best practices to ensure effective stewardship of existing antibiotics. promoted the use of antibiotic stewardship in hospitals.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all hospitals have an antibiotic stewardship program and in 2014 released a list of seven core guidelines that it recommends hospitals follow. The guidelines include appointing a single leader to be responsible for program outcomes, tracking antibiotic prescribing and resistance patterns, and reporting information on antibiotic use to doctors, nurses and other staff.

In a study published by Oxford University Press in 2017, the CDC found that 48.1 percent of the 4,569 U.S. hospitals evaluated had adopted all seven core principles in 2015, an increase from 40.9 percent in 2014.

According to CDC data reported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, North Carolina’s hospitals are on the cutting edge of this push, with 60 to 80 percent of hospitals in the state adopting all seven core principles, making it one of only eight states on that range of compliance.

THE PROBLEM Invasive bacteria can find their way into the human body through a startlingly diverse number of pathways.

An animal bite, a poorly aimed sneeze or a raw slab of chicken are all ideal modes of transportation.

Since the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century, doctors and scientists have had a go-to tool for combating bacterial infections — antibiotics.

But this advance in medical science comes at a cost. According to the CDC, antibiotic-resistant bacteria become a problem when an antibiotic kills off all bacteria except for the ones that are drug-resistant. Those drugresistant bacteria are then capable of multiplying and spreading. Some bacteria can even pass their resistance on to other bacteria through the exchange of genetic material.

Dodds-Ashley says that misuse and overuse of antibiotics mean that many commonly prescribed antibiotics are becoming ineffective without adequate replacements.

According to a report by the CDC in 2013, antibiotic resistance accounts for infections in 2 million people and approximately 23,000 deaths each year.

GETTING WITH THE PROGRAM In Western North Carolina, many of the major hospital systems have their own antibiotic stewardship programs.

McKenna chairs Mission Health’s antibiotic stewardship committee, a group made up of representatives from

hospitals in the health system. The committee reviews prescribing practices and guides the actions of the antibiotic stewardship program.

Mission’s program got started in the 1990s and has been part of a snowballing effort in the health care industry to establish better controls for antibiotic use, he says.

In the past 10 or 15 years, McKenna says, the World Health Organization, the CDC and the Joint Commission, a notfor-profit organization that certifies and accredits hospitals, all began advocating antibiotic stewardship programs. “So it’s been a progressively expanding movement,” he adds.

Mission’s program has a dedicated pharmacist who reviews patients’ bacterial cultures and gives advice to clinicians on how appropriate a certain antibiotic is for patients’ treatments.

“Every day, the pharmacist and I discuss individual cases about antibiotics and make decisions about what would be the most appropriate treatment and make recommendations,” McKenna says.

Pardee UNC Health Care also has its own antibiotic stewardship program.

Dr. Chris Parsons, medical director for the Pardee Center for Infectious Diseases, says, “These programs have demonstrated their utility in larger centers for improving patient outcomes and reducing complications of inappropriate antibiotic use, including development of antibiotic resistance, Clostridium difficile infection and other toxicities encountered with antibiotics.”

The goals of Pardee’s effort, Parsons says, include limiting antibiotic use in

accordance with evidence-based recommendations, assisting medical personnel in the treatment of infectious diseases, establishing guidelines in connection with a stewardship committee and creating written materials for educating staff.

Al Newkirk, director of pharmacy at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, sees antibiotic resistance as a critical threat to public health in the U. S. Harris doesn’t have an infectious disease physician on staff, but the facility does have a certified infectious disease pharmacist — Dustin Clark.

Newkirk says staff members try to use antibiotics efficiently in the hope of achieving the best clinical outcomes while minimizing harm.

“It’s making sure that I get the right antibiotic on board up front to where we get you better and out of the hospital,” Newkirk says.

“Patients don’t come in with their diagnoses written on their foreheads,” she says. “Someone could come in looking very sick, and so antibiotics are certainly warranted to be started, but then the question becomes, ‘What do we do next?’”

DASON sends a team of pharmacists to member hospitals in the U.S. on a monthly or quarterly basis to consult with hospital staff and customize their suggestions to the needs of the specific institution.

“We do this by carefully obtaining, validating and then analyzing data on antibiotic use at the facility to look at trends where we may see opportunities for improvement, and then once those are identified, we go in and work very closely with the local sites to develop interventions that are specific and targeted to the needs of the facility,” she says.

In North Carolina, 15 hospitals are part of the network, including Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory.

Dodds-Ashley says members of the network vary in terms of their available resources, which means each institution might need different sug-

EXPANDING THE NETWORK Dodds-Ashley’s organization, the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network, helps community hospitals establish measured ways to use antibiotics.

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So far, 29 community hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Georgia and West Virginia have joined the university’s antimicrobial stewardship network, but Dodds-Ashley says she hopes to see more health systems adopt the practice in the future.

“I think that it’s something everybody realizes is best practice,” she says.

“Isolated places started doing this, and it has been growing, but we need to take the next step and get it more universal and in all of our facilities to really drive change.”

Dodds-Ashley says she sees antibiotic stewardship as a long-term solution to the problem created by antibiotic resistance.

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WORTH ITS SALT

Road de-icer comes with environmental concerns

BY DAVID FLOYD dfloyd@mountainx.com An unexpected freezing rainstorm that began during the afternoon of New Year’s Eve left many local residents scrambling to rethink their holiday plans.

The weather event took many by surprise — including the city of Asheville. The National Weather Service did not predict the precipitation, so there was no indication that the city should pretreat the roads, says city communications specialist Polly McDaniel.

“Once the ice event began to occur, all Public Works Streets Division employees were deployed for around-the-clock shifts,” she says. “Those are 12-hour shifts, one in the day, one in the night.”

In response to the treacherous road conditions, public works employees turned to a reliable tool, one they’ve used countless times to reduce the hazards of ice on city streets: road salt.

Salt lowers the freezing temperature of water, halting the production of ice and ensuring that roads don’t turn into Slip ‘N Slides for motorists. But excess salt can travel into nearby waterways and soil, impacting the health of the environment.

“At high levels, salt is directly toxic to some aquatic wildlife such as fish, amphibians, invertebrates and plants,” says Ann Marie Traylor, executive director of the Environmental Quality Institute, a nonprofit environmental research laboratory based out of Black Mountain. “Lower levels can degrade aquatic wildlife’s health and survival more slowly. Salty runoff can also kill roadside grass and trees, which can lead to erosion.”

SALTING THE EARTH In each of the past two fiscal years, Asheville has used a little less than 1,300 tons of salt on city streets for snow and ice removal, says Greg Shuler, the city’s director of public works. Asheville maintains 409 miles of paved roads and partners with the N.C. Department of Transportation to treat an additional 91 miles of state-maintained roadways that fall within city limits.

Over the past four years, the NCDOT has used an average

THE COST OF SALT: When snow and ice make the going treacherous on local roads, the city of Asheville deploys public works crews to spread sand and salt as well as to plow snow. But experts say road salt also can impact the environment. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville of 115,000 tons of salt annually. In Buncombe County specifically, NCDOT uses about 5,000 tons each year. “We utilize as little salt as possible not only to minimize cost but to reduce any potential environmental impacts,” says Mark Gibbs, a maintenance engineer for NCDOT who is based in Asheville.

He says NCDOT calibrates its trucks each year to place salt at a specific rate on highways. Along with the use of salt and sand mixtures, these measures minimize salt application. In Asheville, the Public Works Department sweeps nearly 4,000 miles of street each year to remove salt and debris.

“This sweeping occurs every day and night during the week — weather permitting — to assure timely and thorough removal of salt and other contaminants from reaching our creeks and rivers,” says Shuler.

A salt industry advocate argues that road salt has only a transient impact on the environment. Wilfrid Nixon is a scientist at the Salt Institute, a nonprofit trade association.

“Like all tools that we use, there are pluses and minuses,” Nixon says.

“When you put a material out into the environment, it remains in that environment until it is either broken down or it washes away. With road salt, it doesn’t break down. The sodium or the chloride, they don’t go into different forms.

They stay there and they will eventually get flushed out of the environment by rain, going into rivers, going down streams back to the ocean, which is ultimately where all the salt came from.”

SALINE SOLUTION Wherever it eventually ends up, some salt does find its way into nearby bodies of water. The Environmental Quality Institute operates a monitoring program that tests water on a monthly basis at fixed locations in Western North Carolina. One of the measurements the monitors pick up is conductivity, which measures the electrical conductance of the water.

“Conductivity is higher when salt is present, so it’s a good indirect test,” says Traylor. “We usually see a rise in conductivity after winter weather events, especially after melting and rainfall on primary roads.”

As an example, Traylor says the conductivity reading last January was extremely high at a monitoring site in Ross Creek near Tunnel Road, a body of water that receives runoff from Tunnel Road and Interstate 240.

“For perspective, only two samples from Buncombe County have exceeded this level since our monitoring began in 1990,” Traylor says. “We were able to alert our local government officials and watershed planners, so they could coordinate and be on the lookout for a solution.”

Shuler says Asheville has considered alternative de-icing methods, but none appear to be as effective as road salt.

“We continue to monitor how advancements in the industry progress and keep our options open to deliver the best results for the city to recover from snow and ice events,” says Shuler.

NCDOT, meanwhile, will sometimes use salt brine before a storm, which reduces the overall usage of salt. The city has used this method, but Shuler says it’s only effective for weather events that aren’t preceded by rain, which can simply wash away the brine.

NCDOT also uses a compound called calcium chloride in extremely cold conditions — 15 degrees or less — but Gibbs says the department limits the use of the product and others because of its cost.

“The bottom line is that salt is the most cost-effective treatment with minimal to no impacts to the environment provided it is utilized properly and at the correct rates,” says Gibbs. X

THE BEST OPTION Alternatives to road salt come in several forms. Some municipalities have even used a mixture of salt and beet juice to treat roads but for local agencies, salt still tends to be the best available option.

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TOTALLY WASTED Asheville chefs offer tips for keeping food out of the trash “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it.” -Gandhi

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jonathanammons@gmail.com Go ahead and look, because it’s probably back there. In the nether regions of the fridge, right behind the flax seed butter and other rarely used items, is that endive you heard about on NPR and decided to pick up at the grocery store, just to give it a try. But then you forgot about it, and now it’s wilting away in the recesses of your Frigidaire, another case of food waste, a sin of which all of us are guilty.

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food per week for each county resident, according to the 2012 N.C. Food Waste Generation Study. That’s a lot of wasted meals, especially for food-insecure states like North Carolina, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls the eighth-hungriest state in the nation.

That waste also takes a toll on the environment. The Water Footprint Network calculates that it takes more than 1,800 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That means when you toss the last half of your quarterpound burger in the trash, you’ve essentially flushed away close to 230 gallons of water.

Cutting food waste in the United States by just 15 percent could provide sustenance for more than 25 million people every year, says 2012 data from the National Resources Defense Council. And although some of the onus does lie with farms, grocery stores

and restaurants, the same report states that American families throw about 25 percent of the food and drinks they buy in the trash (to the tune of about $1,365 to $2,275 annually for a household of four) — clearly there is a lot individuals can do to alleviate the problem. So Xpress asked local chefs and cookbook authors for some tips on reducing food waste at home.

LOSS EQUALS COST It is a long-held economic theory that reducing waste naturally reduces the cost of any product in any market. It follows that decreasing the amount of waste in the home kitchen can shrink your grocery bill.

“Ultimately, food loss equals food cost,” says chef William Dissen of The Market Place restaurant. Dissen

spoon’s worth? Most green herbs can be puréed then frozen for later use.

And most scratch-made sauces will also freeze really well.

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ZERO WASTE: Puréed vegetable soup, quiche and an apple tart were created from wilted veggies and fruit in chef Susi Gott Séguret’s kitchen. Photo by Cindy Kunst knows the issue not just from a professional culinary perspective, but also from a policy standpoint: He’s a representative for the U.S. State Department’s American Chef’s Corps and recently consulted for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, lobbying for sustainable global agriculture.

“All of the trim, the ugly vegetables, the vegetables that are turning — they all cost money,” he says. “So instead of just haphazardly throwing them away, we put our mind to it and work to create something delicious from what otherwise might be considered trash.”

The trimmings, stems and skins from veggies, and even the bones from fried or rotisserie chicken can make a great stock: Just save them in a resealable bag in the freezer until the bag fills up, dump them it a pot with water and salt, and let them simmer for a few hours — a slow-cooker or Instant Pot works well for this.

“There are just a few ingredients you can keep in your pantry or fridge that really make leftovers sing,” says Susi Gott Séguret, cookbook author and Seasonal School of Culinary Arts founder. Stocking dried goods like pasta and rice, high-quality soy sauce and other condiments plus decent butter or oil can make it easy to turn any random assortment of leftovers into a tasty meal, she points out. Shallots are also great to keep on hand for resuscitating past-their-prime items. “If you sauté shallots in garlic and butter, and then just add anything to them, it makes a nice stir-fry,” she explains. “It makes a good soup base, sauce base — particularly with any kind of cream sauce or mushroom sauce.”

Canned goods are useful as well.

“If you always have, say, a can of beans — just something like white beans or black-eyed peas — you can

always sauté them with some shallots and throw in a few tomatoes and make a sauce for pasta or the basis for a soup.

Or you can put them in a stir-fry or make that the basis for an omelet or a quiche,” she says.

“Soups, soups, soups,” Séguret says, are another way to revive wilted veggies and repurpose leftovers. “The French very commonly do puréed soups, so if your vegetables aren’t looking so good, that’s always an option for how to handle them. The French standard is just leeks or even just onions, carrots and potatoes.” She recommends using an immersion blender or food processor for the puréeing.

Puréed veggies can also be helpful in making sauces. Old carrots work great for making a vodka sauce. Variations on pesto-style sauces are also easy to make with pungent green herbs like basil, cilantro or parsley mixed with olive oil, nuts and garlic.

You can also use past-their-prime tomatoes and bell peppers that might otherwise be wasted to whip up faux romesco sauces. Traditional romesco calls for red bell peppers, almonds, garlic and day-old bread, but feel free to use other types of peppers — green peppers make for a more sour sauce, and yellow ones give it a sweeter taste. Even a simple scratch-made tomato sauce can be made of tomatoes, garlic, onions and herbs.

And don’t forget about using your freezer. Remember that bundle of cilantro that you bought but only used a table-

Don’t throw away that stack of soggy to-go boxes gleaming in the fridge light.

“I hear it all the time, people saying that they don’t want to take their leftovers home because they don’t like eating the same thing the next day,” says Cathy Cleary, Asheville cookbook author and food justice activist. “I get that, but you can make something different with it.

Take that leftover piece of fish and make soup or make tacos with it.”

Leftover grits, she continues, can make a tasty soufflé or crust for pie.

Salads are another possibility. “I love making salads out of leftovers,” she says. “A bed of lettuce, a cut of meat from dinner the night before, some chopped up veggies, potatoes, anything.” Even that Mexican rice and last quarter of enchilada stuck to the bottom of the styrofoam box your kid brought home three days ago can make for a killer salad — and it’s fun to pretend it is healthy, even when it’s smothered in dressing and leftover salsa.

“My other favorite use of leftovers is pizza,” says Cleary. “I love to reduce butternut soup to make it thicker and make a sauce for pizza — it’s actually one of my very favorite things. It’s really great with parsnips and goat cheese and thinly sliced onion. Also, something I think some people don’t think about is making frittatas. But pastas, potatoes, leftover meats — any of that can be great in a frittata.”

Dissen observes that waste can be greatly reduced just by planning ahead a little before hitting the grocery store.

“Write a menu for the week, then write an ingredient list and prep list, and go to the store and only buy what’s needed,” he advises.

Leftovers from the roasted chicken you make on Monday can be used to make chicken soup on Wednesday (reserving the bones to make the broth). The dregs of the soup could even morph into a casserole or frittata on the weekend. “You’ll not only save hard-earned money,” says Dissen, “but you’ll find yourself getting crafty in the kitchen.” X

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Garlic, paprika, parsley and cayenne pepper will be among the ingredients in the mix at the 2018 Cajun Cookoff. Entering its 10th year, the fundraiser benefits Asheville Mardi Gras, an all-volunteer, communitybased arts and culture organization. Event communications director Michael Franco says the cook-off is the group’s “most important fundraiser of the year,” supporting the annual Asheville Mardi Gras parade, which takes place Sunday, Feb. 11.

As in years past, the 2018 cook-off will feature around a dozen professional and amateur chefs. The crowd will select winners for best overall, best vegetarian, best dessert and best amateur. At press time the list of participating venues included HomeGrown, Oyster House Brewing Co., Sweet Monkey Café, Luscious Liquid Ice Cream, Bebettes Beignets & Coffee and Biscuit Head.

Biscuit Head co-founder Jason Roy notes that the 2018 event will mark the restaurant’s fourth year participating in the Cajun Cookoff.

“We love being part of the fun, and we are excited about all the wonderful people and costumes,” he says.

“But most of all, we are excited to try everybody’s amazing food — from boudin to jambalaya, smoked frog leg gumbo to praline.”

Along with Cajun plates, there will be live music from Zydeco Ya Ya, prize giveaways and a canned food drive for MANNA FoodBank. “It’s a wonderful community event that helps support the Mardi Gras parade and showcases some of what is best about living in Asheville — food, fun and friends,” says Roy. The Cajun Cookoff runs 1-5 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 21, at the Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive. The tasting portion of the event runs 1-3 p.m.

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ROYAL TREATMENT: Former Asheville Mardi Gras king and queen Robert Bone and Sara Widenhouse get the royal treatment at last year’s Cajun Cookoff. This year’s event takes place Sunday, Jan. 21, at the Salvage Station. Photo courtesy of Asheville Mardi Gras VEGETARIAN POTLUCK AT FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE Firestorm Books & Coffee will host a community vegetarian potluck Saturday, Jan. 20, as part of a weeklong block party. Participants are asked to bring a vegetarian dish that can be easily shared; gluten-free is a plus. According to the event’s

Facebook page, the party is a chance for the community to come together a year after President Donald Trump’s inauguration “to reconnect to the roots from which their movements draw strength, discuss the path ahead and gather resources for prisoners, relief efforts and ongoing struggles.”

“Potlucks are a familiar and practical demonstration of our politics as

anarchists being grounded in voluntary participation, direct action and cooperation — there’s no need for central authority, everyone’s needs get met organically, and it all happened without violence or policing,” says Firestorm’s Libertie Valance. “We hope that participants in this month’s block party leave with a renewed sense of possibility, strengthened community connections and a resolve to seize the initiative in the struggle against capitalism and the state. Also, a new recipe.

I hope that everyone takes home a killer new recipe.”

The community vegetarian potluck runs 6-7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20, at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road. For details and a schedule of block party events, visit avl.mx/4is.

OUR GLOBAL TABLE Chai Pani, Cúrate, Little Bee Thai, Out of the Blue Peruvian Fusion and Sri Cred Food Truck are among the 19 local restaurants and chefs offering internationally themed small plates at the Our Global Table fundraiser Saturday, Jan. 20, at Habitat Tavern and Commons. All proceeds benefit Pisgah Legal Service’s Justice For All Project, which provides legal assistance to low-income immigrants and refugees in Western North Carolina.

Our Global Table runs 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 20, at Habitat Tavern and Commons, 174 Broadway. Passport tickets that include small-plate tastings are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. For details and tickets, visit avl.mx/4j1.

WINTER BEER DINNER SERIES, PART 1: CUBAN COMFORT FOOD Over the next three months, Smash Events Inc. and Twin Leaf Brewery will team up for a series of winter beer dinners. The first gathering will feature Cuban cuisine with a choice of three or five courses of offerings including a deconstructed Cuban sandwich charcuterie board, a mini-arroz con pollo pot pie and arroz con leche. “The thing that makes this event really fun for us is the fact that our chef, Nestor Teran, is able to … share his take on some of the food that he grew up eating in Miami,” says Ashley Teran, owner of Smash Events Inc. A Valentine’s Day-inspired dinner will be scheduled in February, and an Irish-inspired menu is being planned for March.

Winter Beer Dinner Series, Part 1: Cuban Comfort Food begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. Tickets are $55 for a five-course meal or $35 for a three-course meal. For tickets, contact Ashley Teran at ashley@smasheventsinc.com or Twin Leaf Brewery at aj@twinleafbrewer.com.

PURIFICATION COOKING CLASS Epione Clinic for Integrated Healing will hold a purification cooking class Tuesday, Jan. 23, led by nutrition health coaches Susan Kranz and Marcia Moon. The event will focus on clean-eating strategies and will include cooking demonstrations and samples.

The purification cooking class runs 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Epione Clinic for Integrated Healing, 19 Zillicoa St. Unit 3. Tickets are $20 per person. To register, visit avl.mx/4iq.

DINE OUT FOR ARTSPACE AT MAMACITAS On Wednesday, Jan. 24, Mamacitas will donate 20 percent of its daily

sales to ArtSpace Charter School.

According to Robin Allred, the school’s community partnership chairperson, dine-out events are an important component of the school’s fundraising strategy. ArtSpace is planning future dine-outs at Bonfire Barbecue and Gypsy Queen Cuisine.

Dine Out for ArtSpace will run 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Mamacitas, 77 Biltmore Ave. For details, visit avl.mx/4ix.

WINTER POP-UP SERIES AT KNIFE & FORK Knife & Fork in Spruce Pine will host its annual winter popup series throughout January and February. Themes for upcoming dinners include Thailand — The Land of Smiles, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 24-27; The Yucatan Peninsula, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 2-7; A Feast of Love, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14; and The Streets of India, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 21-24.

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Buyer beware When Carrieann and Jon Schneider of Sideways Farm & Brewery recruited the services of SysTech Stainless Works in February 2017, there were no signs the transaction with the Canton, Ohio-based company would be anything but smooth.

In need of a 3½-barrel brewing system for their Etowah facility, the Schneiders researched 10 different manufacturers. SysTech made their short list and stood out for what Carrieann Schneider calls “a feelgood message” of affordable, artistic, American-made products using U.S. steel and being family-owned

by Amanda and Jason Spurrell.

SysTech was also the closest company the Schneiders could find that offered American-made equipment on a scale that fit Sideways’ modest brewing needs.

“Deutsche [Beverage Systems] out of Charlotte primarily deals in Chinese equipment, and a couple in Tennessee [do, too],” says Jon Schneider. “Our whole mission, our kind of ethos is American-made — local, local, local.

We wanted our equipment to represent that aspect of us.”

A trio of references had nothing but positive things to say about working with SysTech. Moving forward, the Schneiders primarily dealt with a sales representative, adding and reconfiguring their array of tanks with his help. They signed off on drawings in April, and SysTech requested 50 percent down, which the Schneiders say is typical in the industry.

SIGNS OF TROUBLE The Schneiders wired SysTech just over $29,000 with a target delivery date of the second week in October. May then elapsed without much communication. Emails were sent in June asking about progress, and they were told the materials had been ordered and that pictures would be sent once work began in July or August, due to a few clients being ahead of them.

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Sideways Farm & Brewery recovers from issues with Ohio-based manufacturer

OUT IN THE COLD: Delays in receiving its brewing system have caused the postponement of the planned opening of Sideways Farm & Brewery in Etowah. Owners Carrieann and Jon Schneider say they are now on track for an early summer launch. Photo courtesy of Sideways Farm & Brewery said Jason Spurrell would contact them to set up a meeting.

Figuring the equipment was delayed a few months — which was fine since the brewery construction had likewise been slowed — they say they were instead told that SysTech was closing, had “nothing left,” and were given the option to work with a Chinese manufacturer. Xpress emailed Spurrell for comment but received no reply.

Still wanting American-made products but feeling like their options were limited, the Schneiders researched the manufacturer and contacted multiple breweries that used its equipment. One was Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Craft Beverage Institute, whose program director Jeff Irvin advised against using the company’s products. He says the CBI’s distilling equipment has had multiple leaks, requiring a local welder’s services to keep it functional.

“It was very frustrating on our end.

We’ve still had some problems with the equipment functioning correctly,” Irvin says. “We’ve had to actually put a lot of money in it ourselves and just a lot of effort on myself and the staff here.”

At that point, the full weight of the situation sunk in for the Schneiders.

“We kept saying, ‘No, we want our deposit,’ and it was almost like a chuckle, going, ‘We don’t have anything.

This is your option: You can buy this Chinese equipment or nothing,’” Jon Schneider says. “We were just blown away. It was such a shock. It was the craziest moment of my life. I just could not believe it was happening.”

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CONSULTING ALLIES The Schneiders contacted the Ohio attorney general and, with the case being an interstate matter, the FBI in Cincinnati, filing complaints against SysTech with both offices. Kate Hanson, Public Information Officer for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, says there have been 14 complaints filed against Systech with the office’s Consumer Protection Section.

“The Dover Police Department, the Tuscarawas County Prosecutor’s Office and the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office had formally requested assistance from the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation in a financial investigation related to an alleged theft of money from victims. BCI had agreed to assist in the case,” she says. “The FBI has now taken over the case.”

Asheville-area lawyers informed the Schneiders that if their money still existed, it would take a few years to get it back, but the cost of the court battle would outweigh what they’d recoup. They say other affected breweries among the estimated 25 companies with varying complaints against SysTech have reported similar advice from their legal counsel.

The several breweries that are in litigation have asked for their names not to be mentioned by news sources.

As a member of the Asheville Brewers Alliance, its executive director, Kendra Penland, was one of the first people the Schneiders contacted after it was clear their deposit was gone. Penland says dealing with the SysTech experience is a first for the fairly young organization, and that the best the ABA could do was direct

the Schneiders to legal recourse, which they were already pursuing.

Penland adds that a primary benefit of the ABA is that it connects breweries with vetted industry partners that provide goods or services to breweries. Though Deutsche and Divinity Beer Systems in Arden don’t meet the Schneiders’ American-made standard, she plans to keep an eye out for potential new members who can help prevent such situations in the future.

“As the ABA continues to grow and folks know about us, and as we learn about what our members want, then I’ll file that away, and the next time I go to [the Craft Brewers Conference], I’ll go out and talk to different equipment companies and say, ‘Hey, this is something that’s important to at least one of our members. You might want to consider becoming involved with the ABA so that other folks have you as a resource,’” Penland says.

MOVING FORWARD Sideways is on track to receive its new brewing system by the end of March or early April from Greenville, Mich.-based builder Psycho Brew — which has so far been the honorable partner the Schneiders hoped SysTech would be. Sideways will then spend a month brewing to have enough product to launch the business. Sales of custom-engraved bricks that will form the brewery’s front porch are helping recoup some of the deposit.

In the wake of the SysTech ordeal, the Schneiders and other affected breweries have formed a tight-knit group and communicate with each other weekly. Along with making these positive contacts — with whom they’d love to make some collaborative beers once their fellow fledgling breweries are up and running — they feel they’ve become more business-savvy and resilient.

“It was really emotional. Because we are a mom-and-pop without investors, it hurt us financially, and we had to make sacrifices to the building — the porch isn’t going to have a roof when we open,” Carrieann Schneider says.

“We had to make adjustments, but I think that it added to our determination, and it made us stronger — that we can rise above and still do this with that original thought of being a truly local company, using American-made as much as possible.” X

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Asheville’s black hip-hop artists and venue bookers seek common ground

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Around Asheville, local music promoter Duke Finley has earned the name “Party Man” for organizing house and apartment parties over the past decade. But he’s encountered difficulty when it comes to securing shows for local hip-hop artists in the city’s performance spaces.

“I can’t get any venues. I’ve tried.

I’ve called and left emails,” Finley says. “[A lot of] the venue owners don’t like hip-hop. Hip-hop, you know, you get all that B.S. — guns, fighting and smoking in their venue.

That’s one reason why it’s kind of hard for local acts like myself.”

Finley says an occasional lack of respect for the environment by concertgoers negatively affects hiphop’s standing among venue bookers, making it less likely for musicians within the genre to get shows.

That means fewer gigs for black artists like CJ Harrison, who raps under the name YE. Harrison has had some success: He praises The Boiler Room for giving “everyone in the city” an opportunity to perform and is thankful for Timo’s House and its support of local hip-hop.

He says The Orange Peel is also welcoming and that The Grey Eagle recently started working with more area rappers.

“The people who are trying to do better, they’ve got a vision to do something. ... Everybody deserves a chance, in my eyes,” Harrison says.

“We just want to show our talents, but you’ve got to open the door for me.”

CROWD CONTROL Most of the time, however, Harrison says that door remains shut. He feels that many local venue

owners are scared of the crowd that hip-hop attracts, despite the influx of money from entry fees, drink sales and artists’ willingness to provide extra security and meet bookers’ requests. Though fights break out at any style of music show, he says that when one occurs at a hiphop event, the genre is unfairly discriminated against. Harrison cites a party at the now-closed Olive or Twist a few years ago when an altercation between four or five people ended hip-hop’s presence at the venue.

While spaces welcome R&B shows, Harrison has experienced multiple instances, when inquiring about a hip-hop event, of being told bookers don’t want “that type of crowd” — which he says is the same people who pay to see R&B. When certain bookers do make him an offer, they ask for close to $2,000 to rent the room for the night, a figure that independent musicians like Harrison are unable to afford.

Harrison sees music as a means to be a productive member of society and escape the negative stereotypes many people associate with hip-hop and the black community.

But without the opportunity to foster a successful career and better his circumstances, he’s concerned that the racial divide will persist.

“We want to perform, we want to have fun, we want to have a good time. We’re not trying to start anything, cause any complications, do anything to put anyone in harm’s way. We’re just expressing ourselves,” Harrison says. “I want to do my music here and let my people from my city hear what I’m doing and that it’s different than everything else. I don’t have to be in the streets. I have a job [at Classic Event Rentals]. I work full time, every day, but I still do music, and the time that I put into my music, I want to show my city that I’m doing something positive.”

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Devante Jordan, who records and performs as City Jordan, has endured a similar coldness since he relocated from Mississippi in 2007. “I moved here thinking this was a city that was going to help local music,” he says. “Where I’m from, I could go back there and probably get a record deal in three or four months.”

Jordan saw how fast the music business worked for his Alabamabased acquaintance Yung Bleu, who’s now signed to Columbia/Sony Records. He’s yet to give up on the local scene, however, and remains optimistic thanks to positive experiences with White Horse Black Mountain owner Bob Hinkle. “He treats you as an artist,” Jordan says.

“He lets you come rehearse three days before and the day of the show, he lets you do what you want to do.”

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show.” A fair split on door sales also keeps him coming back, but other than the White Horse, The One Stop and Fairview Tavern, he’s had little success booking local venues.

He says he’s told to request consideration through email but usually never hears back.

NEXT GENERATION Opportunities do exist beyond traditional venues. Noticing a lack of youthful hip-hop shows in Asheville, Emily Parworth, owner of Toki Tattoo in Canton, and her boyfriend, Jonah Koenigsberg, aka hip-hop producer Kudzu, asked multiple West Asheville and downtown venues about booking gigs for artists with whom Koenigsberg works. They were denied each time for familiar reasons.

“People will be like, ‘Oh, people are going to bring guns,’ or I’ve even had people say black people have no money and I’m like, ‘Wow, OK. I don’t even know what to say to that,’” Parworth says.

Calling it “a glorified house party,” Parworth and Koenigsberg launched free shows on a quarterly basis in the basement of her

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A& E shop and have so far compensated performers with complimentary tattoos. They’ve had no problems with drugs or fighting in the 50-person underground space while providing a performance spot for a popular, underbooked sector within the underserved genre.

“Young, youthful rap is really hard to get in Asheville,” Parworth says.

“I think the only rap scene that is around in Asheville is old-school, like Digable Planets-old or Wu-Tang Clan … or superwoke, conscious — maybe if you’re 35 and [older you’d] really like it. But there’s nothing for the youths, that’s for sure.”

It’s also Finley’s goal to reach younger listeners. He hopes to more thoroughly connect with different communities and public housing projects, using his established good reputation as an Asheville native to help the next generation.

“The gang problem is really serious for our young people. They don’t have any outlets besides school. Once school’s over ... they have nothing to do,” Finley says. “Too many kids are carrying guns.”

He plans to bring in motivational speakers who can share their life sto-

BUSINESSMEN: Local music promoter Duke “Party Man” Finley, left, and Justin Ferraby, operations manager at The Orange Peel, chat at the venue’s bar. Ferraby says he welcomes emails and calls from local hip-hop artists and is willing to give them a chance.

Photo by Cindy Kunst ries as examples of success without joining a gang. Foremost on his list is Miya Bailey, an Asheville native who moved to Atlanta and started the successful tattoo shop City of Ink. Finley hopes that the more artists he’s able to shepherd to sustainable careers, the more positive role models he can connect with the youths.

Finley also wants to bridge the gap between artists and venues.

“All the music is positive that I’m working with,” he says. “I try to stay away from that gangster rap.

I see there’s a lot of Christian rappers coming up. They’re rapping over nice beats with clean lyrics.

That’s where I’m heading.”

Finley is trying to grow his professional skills in order to help local artists and encourage national acts to come to town. To achieve those dreams, he’s working with numerous small-business services, including Mountain BizWorks, and is currently taking entrepreneurship classes at Blue Ridge Community College.

STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS Justin Ferraby, operations manager at The Orange Peel, welcomes emails and calls from local hip-hop artists and is willing to give them a chance. In following up, he asks where they’ve played recently and how many people were there.

“Some people will saturate the market, and that’s what hurts the local music scene sometimes, because why do I want to go see you here and pay $15 when you’re playing [elsewhere] for free next week?

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It doesn’t help anyone — although you’ve got to get the reps,” Ferraby says. “I just want a hard worker and someone who treats it like a business, because it is.”

Two Asheville hip-hop artists who fit that mold are DJ Audio and Trig, who individually contacted Ferraby looking for a shot. He set up showtimes for them at the venue’s downstairs Pulp space, which holds close to 80 people.

“Both those kids worked their asses off and they sold out Pulp,” Ferraby says. “If you show that you can do the work there, then we’ll bring you upstairs, and that’s what we’ve done with both those guys.”

From a security standpoint, Ferraby says the venue has a responsibility to artists and fans alike. Staff members receive regular training and prepare for the worst possible scenario so that if it arises, they’re ready.

“You have to be the same across the board,” he says. “You pat people down, keep the room safe, you spot the problems [and] you don’t overserve people.”

Micah Wheat, general manager of Asheville Music Hall and The One Stop, says booking an artist comes down to meeting the venue’s professional expectations and standards.

“For hip-hop, there’s promoters and there’s artists I have to distance myself from because it’s not a good fit,” he says. He adds that, from violence to marijuana use to guns, “if I’m not working with you, there’s probably a reason why ... and that’s [true for any genre].”

Consistent with the venue’s current success with jam band, jazz, funk, fusion and Grateful Dead tribute shows, Wheat is especially fond of live hip-hop bands. Due to that personal preference and its potential for success in the space, he’s more likely to book artists who combine instrumentation with vocals than those who take other routes.

“I don’t want to mess with a lot of prerecorded stuff. That doesn’t echo with our standards. If you’re rapping on top of yourself or if you’re just saying words on top of a prerecorded [beat], that’s not art to me,” Wheat says. “That’s nothing disrespectful to what they’re doing, it just doesn’t vibe with what we’re putting out here at Asheville Music Hall.”

GETTING THE GIG Parker Dotson, concert promoter for Salvage Station, grew up in Raleigh making hip-hop beats and knows it’s a pain to get shows. He would love to follow up on the success of the venue’s recent Natural Born Leaders and Spaceman Jones performance and a fundraiser for LEAF’s Burton Street ONEmic Studio and book more local hip-hop acts. Since he took a more prominent role in the venue’s booking four months ago, however, he’s yet to receive inquiries within the genre.

When the requests do arrive, he has some suggestions for approaching the 750-person capacity room.

“Even the biggest local bands would have trouble filling out this room, so, as a standard practice, we don’t really pursue local bands,” Dotson says. “The only ones that end up playing in here are ones who come to us with a night planned where it’s like, ‘It’s going to be us and two or three other local bands, and we’ll bring people out.’ And even then, after the fact, if the show doesn’t go well, it’s less likely to happen again, just from an attendance standpoint.”

Like his booking colleagues, Dotson stresses the importance of professionalism in landing shows.

Salvage Station often sees artists come to concerts and leave their CD with a sound engineer or ask to see the booker when they should be emailing him directly. Dotson says he reads every email and replies to performance requests and suggests that artists follow up with another email if they haven’t heard from him after five days. He expects a similar timeline in return. He says not writing back promptly suggests a lack of reliability on the artists’ part, potentially making them not worth the headache.

There’s a lot more to crossing Asheville’s hip-hop divide than correspondence courtesies. But that simple step — like opening the dialogue — seems like a good place to start. X

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CABIN FEVER

Local author Jennifer McGaha publishes an Appalachian memoir

GOT HER GOAT: “Cooking is how I’ve always done homemaking,” says author Jennifer McGaha, who includes recipes with personal stories in her new memoir. Flat Broke with Two Goats tells of how, after financial difficulties forced McGaha and her husband to move to a rustic cabin, she learned to love raising animals, living close to nature and reconnecting with her roots. Author photo courtesy of McGaha Early in her just-published memoir, local author Jennifer McGaha writes, “Someday we would refer to the time our house was foreclosed in the past tense.” But her book chronicling that experience — and her family’s subsequent decision to move to a hundred-year-old, mostlyoff-grid cabin while they worked to get their finances back in order — was written in real time, in the midst of the emotional turmoil of the ordeal.

And yet, as harrowing and sad as some of the confessions are in Flat Broke with Two Goats, the memoir also contains the levity its title suggests. And, if it doesn’t necessarily wrap with a tidy, happy ending (this is real life, after all), McGaha has just celebrated her fifth Christmas in the once-despised cabin. “If I could go back and get that old life back … there’s just no way,” she says of her pre-cabin existence in a sunny, Cape Cod-style home. “The process of arriving wasn’t fun, [but] sometimes things happen that really shape our cores. That’s what mem-

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oir writing is about to me — identifying those things that have really shaped us and changed us.”

McGaha presents Flat Broke with Two Goats at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

The memoir took shape while the author was pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (from which she graduated last summer), but McGaha has been penning and publishing shorter pieces about her grandparents — who lived in Canton — for years. “The way that they speak and the traditions [are] dying,” she says. “I’ve always felt this urgency … to preserve that part of our culture.”

After her grandmother’s death, the author brought inherited treasures such as a cast iron cornbread mold, a washboard and handmade quilts into the cabin that she was trying to adjust to. “While Ama [the goat] whispered to her unborn babies, my grandmother seemed so near, I almost believed I could reach out and touch her,” she writes, ten-

derly, of serving as midwife to one of her title animals.

McGaha’s heritage is deeply tied to this region and, in fact, advance review copies of Flat Broke with Two Goats included the subtitle “a memoir of Appalachia.” The book went to print without that description, but “I would like people to know it’s rooted in Appalachia,” the author says.

But it’s also rooted in a very personal journey — one in which McGaha writes unflinchingly of her feelings of failure when her house was foreclosed upon, questions about her marriage and an abusive early relationship that ultimately solidified the bond she shares with her husband.

Her work as a writing instructor played a role in crafting Flat Broke with Two Goats. “Our reading should inform our writing, our writing should inform our teaching and vice versa. To me it’s all interconnected,” McGaha says. “But teaching forces me to identify what I think is important in writing in a way I may not otherwise. When I see my stu-

dents writing things that are brave or are hard or might be embarrassing, it certainly gives me the courage to write those things myself.”

The book is also bolstered by recipes. In some ways, it’s an unexpected pairing. For example, following a chapter in which a neighbor, thought to have a moonshine still, is shot in a standoff with Alcohol Law Enforcement agents, is a recipe for avocado gazpacho.

But, for McGaha, food is both a throughline and an anchor. “It felt like a natural fit to me [because] cooking is how I’ve always done homemaking,” she says. “Even when we lost our home, when we were finally fixing meals at [the cabin], it began to feel like home.”

The chapter where she’s still cooking at the Cape Cod house and then racing hot pots and pans out to the cabin is followed by a recipe for taco soup accompanied by the edict that “since hot foods increase your endorphin levels, the more distressed you are, the more hot sauce you will need.”

“Whenever I talk about raising goats, people ask me, ‘How do you make goat cheese? How do you

do this or that?’” says McGaha.

“I thought [recipes] brought some levity to the tougher chapters.”

Indeed, they serve as both a breather between emotional scenes and welcome instruction for a readership that likely will benefit from DIY instructions — such as the extensive recipe for goat milk soap.

McGaha — who is still raising goats as well as chickens, dogs and cats — is currently at work on a humor collection and a memoir about mothering. X

WHO Jennifer McGaha presents Flat Broke with Two Goats WHERE Malaprop’s 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Tuesday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m.

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Chanel Ali Chanel Ali found her voice in the Philadelphia comedy scene, then moved to New York City for a new kind of challenge.

Explaining her rationale for the change during an April 2017 set at Brooklyn’s Secret Loft, she recalls thinking, “Standup comedy is hard. You know what I should try? Poverty.”

Peppering her performances with observational humor on life as a minority, struggling to remain polite in the entertainment industry and growing up in the roughness of North Philly, she’s earned spots at the highly respected Carolines on Broadway and has become a regular at the New York Comedy Club. Ali hits the road to play The Southern Kitchen & Bar on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 9 p.m. Petey Smith McDowell serves as the evening’s host, and the event also features Asheville stand-ups Sofia Sanchez and Tom Peters. $7 advance/$10 day of show. southernkitchenandbar. com. Photo courtesy of Ali

Gerald van de Wiele A native of Detroit, Gerald van de Wiele studied at Black Mountain College from 195456 and has enjoyed success as a painter ever since. Now, his alma mater presents the exhibition Variations/Seven-Decades of Painting, a retrospective featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, ink sketches and watercolors. Selections include “Wells Street” (1956), a painting van de Wiele began at BMC; “Castelli” (1962), a work from his first solo exhibition in New York City; and “Chapala” (2017), his most recent painting to reference a 1951 trip to Mexico. Van de Wiele, now 85, will be at the opening reception Friday, Jan. 19, and give a gallery talk at 6:15 p.m. The following day, at 2 p.m., he and exhibition curator Jason Andrew will have a public conversation about the artist’s life and work. Free. blackmountaincollege.org. Image of “Odyssey,” courtesy of the artist

Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones Wasting little time pursing her rock ’n’ roll dreams, Hannah Wicklund formed her group The Steppin Stones on Hilton Head Island when she was a mere 9 years old. Now 20 and based in Nashville, the singer/songwriter/ guitarist and her bandmates have made such powerful musical allies as Sadler Vaden, guitarist for Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit and the producer of the ensemble’s forthcoming selftitled LP. Set for a Jan. 26 release, the album follows a 2015 disc that was cut at Echo Mountain. Back in the area, Wicklund and The Steppin Stones play Pisgah Brewing Co. on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 9 p.m. The show is part of the Sibling Rivalry tour with Charleston, S.C., rockers The High Divers, led by Wicklund’s brother Luke Mitchell. $10 advance/$12 day of show. pisgahbrewing.com. Photo by Derrick Lee

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Aimee Mann While working on her first album since 2012’s Charmer, Aimee Mann was asked by her musician friend Jonathan Coulton to describe the project. “I said, ‘Ah, it’s my usual songs about mental illness.’ And he said, ‘Oh, you should call it Mental Illness,’ thinking he was being snide and hilarious,” Mann told NPR. The title won out, and Coulton’s prize was contributing acoustic guitar and backing vocals throughout the March 2017 release. In October, Mann was the musical guest on the NPR puzzle, word game and trivia show “Ask Me Another,” co-hosted by Coulton, during which the two collaborated on each other’s songs. Nearly 11 years after playing The Orange Peel, Mann moves up the street for a concert at Diana Wortham Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 24, with Coulton in the opening slot. The show starts at 8 p.m. $36-46. dwtheatre.com. Photo courtesy of Mann

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Where Adult Dreams Come True

CRAZY TALK: HART Theatre stages the Theatre of the Absurd classic The Bald Soprano. Photo by Tommy Propest The Feichter Studio at Haywood Arts Regional Theatre originated as a creative outlet where actors could explore edgier and more experimental plays than those that would likely appear on the main stage. The 2018 season kickoff exemplifies that mission.

The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco has nothing to do with music or hair loss. But that’s all part of the absurdism on display in the show, which runs through Sunday, Jan. 21.

The Theatre of the Absurd originated in the 1950s as a means of challenging political and societal norms through seemingly disconnected and random theatrical productions. Upon closer examination, there is a great deal of depth and commentary to be found, even if the plays themselves come across as incoherent. Ionesco was one of the top playwrights of this genre.

Director Jason Williams has a firm grasp on the material, and he challenges the audience to endure the flights of fancy. The show starts with the wildly compelling stage design. We find a modest home filled with clocks of various sizes that cover the walls.

Time and perception play an important role. Chimes often ring out, interrupting discussions. Sometimes the clocks even chime well beyond 12, creating comically awkward moments that perplex and amuse both the characters and audience.

The characters waste time with random, tedious conversations. It feels as though nothing is happening or being said. At first, a middle-age couple talk

about people they know, the meal they ate and other banal chit-chat. Mandy Bean and Jason Phillips are perfectly tuned into the absurd tone and establish it from the outset. And just when it feels as if the endless nothingness of their chatter becomes too much, Mary, their maid, enters and spices things up.

Tabatha Hall’s Mary is more boisterous than the staid couple (known as Mr. and Mrs. Smith) despite her dialogue being similarly random.

Overdue dinner guests arrive in the form of Mr. and Mrs. Martin. Jamie Knox and Dakota Mann play the smartphoneaddicted younger couple, who look like the living embodiment of stereotypical hipsters. Williams’ use of modern smartphones is a deft addition to the play, which debuted in 1950.

Kai Elijah Hamilton, as the local fire chief, arrives late in the proceedings,

dragging a long, floppy, phallic hose with him. Despite the lack of evidence of a fire, he is invited in, and the entire group tries to outdo one another with random stories that seem to have nothing to do with anything, yet the tellers are all riveted to each tale.

At the close of this long, one-act production, we get the sense that the entire cycle of absurdity will endlessly repeat itself. What is the point? Is there one?

Maybe there isn’t, but the journey feels rewarding, if for no other reason than seeing this group of exceptional performers embrace the material with a fiery passion. Plays like this one are typically confined to academic settings these days, as audiences for such material are surely hard to find. It isn’t for everyone, but for those who love this sort of thing, I can’t imagine it being done any better than it is here. X

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PLAY DATE AT ACT: Asheville Community Theatre features family-friendly performances throughout the year as part of its Saturdays at ACT series. On Saturday, Jan. 20, at 10 a.m., the theater hosts Bright Star Touring Theatre’s production of Aesop’s Fables. The show is a 45-minute theatrical adventure through the 2,600-year old tales including The Tortoise and the Hare, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Lion and the Mouse.

“Our Saturdays at ACT series is a great way for the whole family to experience theater,” saysChanda Calentine, program director at ACT. “These shows are little episodes of magic, andthey’re especially loved by young children. Your children will be spellbound!” Tickets to the show are $7 and are available at the door, over the phone at 828-254-1320 or online at ashevilletheatre.org. Photo courtesy of Bright Star Touring Theatre (p. 17) ART ASHEVILLE FRINGE ARTS FESTIVAL ashevillefringe.org • SU (1/21), noon-5pm - Pre-Fringe Installation: o·pen·hand·ed, multimedia installation and movement performance by Kathy Leiner.

Free. Held at Henco Repographics, 54 Broadway St. • TH (1/25) through SU (1/28), 7pm & 9pm Performance arts festival with over 30 ticketed performances featuring fringe artists. See website for full schedule. $13-16.

Held in various venues in Downtown Asheville

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• Through FR (1/26) Exhibition proposals accepted from Buncombe County artists. See website for full guidelines.

ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS 828-254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • Through FR (1/26) Design ideas accepted for possible inclusion in the Awards & Trashion Show on Saturday, April 14.

Contact for full guidelines.

ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS ashevillesymphonychorus. com • TU (1/23), 3-6:30pm Open auditions for the spring 2018 season.

Registration required: mlancastercond@gmail. com. Free. Held at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 10 North Liberty St. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 828-754-2486

• Through WE (1/31) Portfolios accepted for 2019 exhibition opportunities. Information: caldwellarts.com/ 157-guidelines/.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org, info@craftcreativitydesign. org • Through TH (3/15) Applications accepted for a materials-based research grant. Contact for full guidelines.

THE COLOURFIELD 54 Ravenscroft Drive • SA (1/20), 12:30pm - Open auditions for the Liquid Sirens dance troupe. Visit website for more information: facebook.com/liquidsirens.

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• SA (1/20), 3pm - PreFringe Workshop: "The Other Side of Her Fear," participatory workshop with live music focused on empowering women. Free to attend.

Held at The Colourfield, 54 Ravenscroft Drive DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, dwtheatre.com • TH (1/25), 8pm - Lucia Micarelli, violin concert. $35/$30 student/$20 children.

‘DRAWING DISCOURSE’: UNC Asheville opens its ninth annual juried international exhibition of contemporary drawing, Drawing Discourse, on Friday, Jan. 19. The show, which features juror Stuart Shils (who is a painting instructor and weekly critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts), includes works by 48 artists. This year’s competition drew a record 1,159 entries from 400 artists in eight countries, and the show features works by several local artists. The opening lecture by Shils takes place at 5 p.m. in Humanities Lecture Hall, and a reception will follow at 6 p.m. in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, where the exhibition will remain on view through Friday, Feb. 23.

For more information, visit art.unca.edu. Deconstructed Drawing, pencil drawing on woven paper by Viviana Santamarina, courtesy of UNC Asheville ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • FR (1/19) through FR (2/23) - Exhibition of works by David Shurbutt.

Reception: Friday, Jan. 16, 6pm. Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights • FR (1/19) until FR (2/23) - Drawing Discourse, ninth annual juried international exhibition of contemporary drawing. Lecture: Friday, Jan. 19, 5pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Reception: Friday, Jan. 19, 6pm. Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights

• TH (1/18), 8pm - Baker Barganier Duo concert

J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • TH (1/25), 7:30pm - American Spiritual Ensemble, concert. $20/$9 students & children.

with Preston Beebe. Free.

REVOLVE 122 Riverside Drive • TH (1/18), 6-8pm Asheville FM, "Music Matters," lecture series.

Free.

featuring banjoist Dom

THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION 828-692-8062, saveculture.org

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • FR (1/19) through SA (5/19) - Variations/Seven Decades of Painting, exhibition of works by Gerald van de Wiele. Reception: Friday, Jan. 19, 5:30-8pm.

Discussion: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2pm.

MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • Through WE (1/31) Exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints by Andy Farkas.

• Through WE (1/31) Small Works, Big Impact, curated group exhibition featuring paintings, origi-

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY 24 Varsity St., Brevard, 828-877-6121, uutc.org • WE (1/17), 7pm - Matt Venuti, singer-songwriter and EVI wind synthesizer concert. $15.

• TH (1/25), 7pm - Concert Flemons. $15. Held at Bo

THEATER

Thomas Auditorium, Blue

35BELOW

Ridge Community College

35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org

Hendersonville

nal prints and sculptural works.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-2255509, pushtoyproject.com • Through WE (1/31) - Culture War: The Art of Yamabushi and Granpappy, featuring Super Mega Collage and multimedia works..

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • FR (1/19) through SA (7/28) - Scale Up: 10 Years, 10 Fellows, 10 Projects, curated exhibition of ten craft artists who

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (1/21) - A Turnpike Sunset.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm $20.

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, dwtheatre.com • FR (1/19), 8pm - "Life is Magic," magic show by Joshua Lozoff. $35/$30 student/$20 children.

NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828-239-0263

received $10,000 grants.

Reception: Friday, Jan. 19, 5-8pm.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (2/2) - Faces of Freedom, group exhibition.

WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through TU (1/31) Exhibition of works by Marilyn Sholin.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (1/24) until (2/18) - Jeeves Takes a Bow. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 2pm. $18 and up.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (1/18), 7pm Decada, performance by the Spartanburg Ballet. $20/$10 students.

CLUBLAND

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Friday, January 19 • 6pm

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1/17: T RIVIA ! 7-9 PM 1/18: $1 O FF F ULL P OURS BEAUTY IN CHAOS: Harmony and pandemonium aren’t two ideas you’ll find in the same description very often. But for Chicago-based duo Ohmme, the play between the two forms the crux of its musical approach. Inspired by Chi-town’s improv music scene; compared to PJ Harvey and Nirvana – Ohmme fuses the melodic with the chaotic, concocting a brand of sparsely poetic indie rock that hearkens back to their influences and transcends them simultaneously. Open your eyes to Ohmme when the group plays The Mothlight with Ahleuchatistas and Mistresses on Friday, Jan. 19 at 9 p.m. Photo courtesy of event promoters WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Karaoke, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Brad Hodge & Friends, 7:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kris Gruda (singer-songwriter, soul, jazz), 9:00PM POLANCO RESTAURANT 3 Cool Cats, 8:00PM

BYWATER Drayton & The Dreamboats, 7:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM

TUE: Free Pool and Bar Games WED: Music Bingo FRI & SAT 5 -9pm: Handmade Pizzas from Punk Rock Pies 2 Hendersonville Road P o u r Ta p R o o m . c o m Tue - Thu 4pm-10pm • Fri & Sat 2pm-11pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE DJ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Emily Saliers w/ The Broadcast, 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bingo Night w/ Bag O' Tricks, 7:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ The Honey Dewdrops (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 7:00PM Willie Nile, 8:30PM

Largest Selection of Craft Beer on Tap 8 Wines

ODDITORIUM Free Hardcore/Punk/Oi Records w/ DJ Jimbo Rosario, 9:00PM

POST 25 Albi & The Lifters (American swing, French chanson), 7:00PM

FUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam w/ Saylor Bros (bluegrass), 6:30PM

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NOBLE KAVA Open Mic, 7:30PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Billy Owens, 7:00PM

ELLINGTON UNDERGROUND After Funk w/ The Freeway Revival, 10:00PM

COMING SOON: 1/27: T INA C OLLINS D UO 7-9 PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Justin Hrabovsky w/ Black Box Theory & Carmelo Pamipillonio, 9:30PM THE PHOENIX & THE FOX Jazz Night w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Open Jam Session, 5:00PM

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

MG ROAD Salsa Night w/ DJ El Mexicano Isaac, 8:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Zabuls (electronic, hip-hop), 8:00PM

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CLU B LA N D TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

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

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gary Mackey, 7:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Honeysuckle (folk, singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

BYWATER Well Lit Strangers, 7:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Darren Nicholson (Americana, bluegrass), 6:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ Ben Phan, 8:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ unplugged w/ Sarah Tucker, 8:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB The Junk Drawer (rock, Americana), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Drugstore Ghost (pop, psychedelia), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Gaelynn Lea & Anthony Mossburg, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Roots & friends open jam (blues, rock, roots), 6:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Noah Zacharin, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Clydes pre-jam, 7:00PM Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 9:00PM

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 185 KING STREET An Evening w/ John Trufant, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (Acoustic Soul), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Flashback (70s, 80s, 90s), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Road to Fractal Beach: Asheville w/ Ponder, Illanthropy, Murkury & Infinite Geometry, 10:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Vinyl Dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ DJ Zeus, 9:00PM CORK & KEG Soul Blue (Motown, rock, soul), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL 9th Street Stompers (gypsy jazz, swing), 9:00PM

MG ROAD Green Screen Karaoke, 9:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Life is Magic w/ Joshua Lozoff, 8:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Mistresses w/ Ryan Oslance & Arone Dyer, 9:00PM

ELLINGTON UNDERGROUND Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Subatomic w/ Medisin & Hope Massive, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Medieval Fight Night & Folkmoot, 9:00PM

JAN. 17 - 23, 2018

TIMO'S HOUSE Brrrzdayz w/ JJ Smash & Genetix, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM

FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS Out of System Transfer (NYC riotfolk), 6:00PM

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THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live ("ambition" theme), 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Zabuls, 9:00PM

ELLINGTON UNDERGROUND THEOREM w/ DJ Kutzu & Slow Drip, 10:00PM

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THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings, 9:00PM

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

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 9:00PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jackson Grimm & Porch On Wheels (bluegrass, folk, swing), 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Grass to Mouth (jam, improv), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Living Street (indie pop), 6:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Carolina Bound (folk), 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Hip Hop Extravaganza w/ Trip Gang, TRIG, Dawzn, Deelayne & Party Mike, 8:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Colin Quinn (comedy), 8:00PM

GOOD STUFF Momma Molasses, 7:30PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mama Danger (bluegrass), 6:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Somewhat Petty (Tom Petty tribute), 8:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Andy Mowatt's Steely Jam Band, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dennis "Chalwa" Berndt & friends, 6:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, 7:00PM Juice (hip hop, rock, R&B), 9:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE The Paper Crowns, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz (Americana), 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE The Living Street w/ special guest WINTERVALS, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Chris Jamison's Ghost, 9:00PM JARGON The Rage Duo (jazz), 9:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/AMPHITHEATER Mantis & Lord Swan3x, 9:00PM

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EMILY SALIERS

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GAELYNN LEA + ANTHONY MOSSBURG

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10 17 NOBLE KAVA Michael J. Stevens Trio, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: A Tasteful Queer Troupe (drag), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:00PM Chicken Contenda (jazz, rock), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Naked Scholar (soul, R&B, hip hop), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL They Might Be Giants, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY West End String Band (bluegrass, country), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dave Desmelik Trio, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Berlyn Trio (jazz), 8:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Slomo Sapiens w/ Battery Powered Hooker Boots & Tulpa, 9:00PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Women's March pre-party w/ Ash Devine & more, 6:00PM

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THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Ahleuchatistas w/ Ohmme & Mistresses, 9:00PM THE RIDGE AT NEW MOUNTAIN AVL Mantis & Lord Swan3x, 9:00PM THE SUMMIT AT NEW MOUNTAIN AVL Sol Sessions w/ Murmuration & Cult of Kings, 9:00PM

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HIGHLAND BEER PAIRING DINNER

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9TH ANNUAL DJANGO REINHARDT’S BIRTHDAY PARTY

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TIMO'S HOUSE DUNGEON V.6 w/ Bengal, secret_nc + Crux, Alusia & CollectiveOne, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Born Again Heathens, 9:00PM

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Josh Singleton & Patrick Dodd (blues, country), 7:30PM Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 10:00PM

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Floyd is Dead (Presented by The Snozzberries) Larry Keel Experience Consider the Source Psymbionic + Widdler + illanthropy The Funk Hunters w/ DeFunk (18+)

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C L UB L AND UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Max Gross Weight, 8:00PM VIRGOLA Adi The Monk (jazz, blues), 6:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Rhoda Weaver & the Soulmates, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Rigged (rock, country), 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ electric w/ DJ Abu Disarray, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 185 KING STREET Supatight, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Vince Junior Band (modern blues), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Spaulding Mckintosh, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Hard Rocket w/ Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ron Holloway Band (funk, jam, R&B), 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons, 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Rudaroo Radio East Coast Launch, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band w/ Bryn Davies, Shad Cobb & Matt Flinner, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Fin Dog (bluegrass), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (classic rock), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin' Stones w/ The High Divers, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Bad Popes, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Fish & friends w/ Blue Dragons, Liz Teague, Melodic AF & Soapbox (benefit for LEAF), 2:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ Pets, 10:00AM Further To Fly, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Neon Underground, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Sautrday Latin & Salsa Dance Night, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Matt Townsend & the Wild Lights w/ Heather Taylor, 9:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ Naked Scholar, 9:00PM

THE RIDGE AT NEW MOUNTAIN AVL Jordyn, 9:00PM THE SOUTHERN Chanel Ali (comedy), 9:00PM

CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya (two-steps, waltzes), 8:30PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Tedeschi Trucks Band w/ Amy Ray & Her Band, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Momma Molasses (dreamy folk), 9:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Throwback w/ DJ Drew & DJ Deacon, 8:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Dancing With The Stars Asheville (Latin, contemporary dancing), 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Chicken Coop Willaye, 9:00PM

ELLINGTON UNDERGROUND Marley Carroll w/ Brandon Audette, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Hustle Souls (soul, R&B), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Mama Danger (folk, newgrass), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Hannah Hoyt, 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Steel Wheels w/ Twisted Pine, 9:00PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Our Global Table, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Drugstore Ghost (psychedelic, pop), 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Charles Walker Band, 7:00PM Andrew Scotchie’s Birthday-Day Bash, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Vaden Landers & The Do Rights w/ Sweet Sweet, 9:00PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Party w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM

JAN. 17 - 23, 2018

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Echo Maestro (jam, funk), 10:00PM

BYWATER West End Trio, 9:00PM

CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM

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ODDITORIUM Aesoterra w/ Big Mister & Arm The Witness, 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Ryan R&B Barber (R&B, soul), 10:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Phantom Pantone (top 40's, dance), 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Quickchester, 8:30PM VIRGOLA Jason Hazinski (jazz, blues), 6:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Brandon Lee Adams, 5:30PM Native Harrow & the High Top Boys (Americana, bluegrass, folk), 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Celtic Jam, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZOOM ROOM Sunday Service: A Monthly Comedy Drag Show, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM 80s/90s Dance Party w/ DJ Baby Bear, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch, 10:30AM ORANGE PEEL Neko Case w/ Mt. Joy, 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers Jam, 6:00PM SALVAGE STATION Asheville Mardi Gras Cajun Cookoff, 1:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Kevin Spears & Elon Deharo (world music), 5:00PM Songwriters Round w/ Dylan Moses, Jackson Grimm & Old Sap, 8:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Hallelujah Hilliary's Comedy Revival, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM THE SOUTHERN Honey Roast of Sofia Sanchez, 8:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Tedeschi Trucks Band w/ Amy Ray & Her Band, 7:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE BYOV w/ DJ Drew, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP When Particles Colllide, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN John Raymond & the Real Feels, 7:30PM

MONDAY, JANUARY 22

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8:00PM

185 KING STREET Open Mic Night, 6:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ live w/ Circus Mutt, 8:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jody Carroll (Americana, blues), 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues w/ Patrick Dodd, Ashley Heath & Joshua Singleton, 3:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM

NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/AMPHITHEATER GLOW: "Asheville's Largest Dance Party", 9:00PM

BYWATER Bluegrass Jam, 3:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Ryan Oslance Duo, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz Sunday Brunch, 11:00AM

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ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:30PM GOOD STUFF Bingo Wingo Thingo, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Game Night, 4:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Trivia Night, 7:00PM Open mic, 9:30PM MG ROAD The Living Room Series, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Open Mic Night (7:30 p.m. sign-up), 7:30PM ORANGE PEEL Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (movie), 6:30PM Chasing Amy (movie), 9:00 PM

1/17 wed justin hrabovsky w/ black box theory, carmelo pamipillonio

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Murder Ballad Monday (jam session), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Vino & Vulvas: Saying "Screw It" To Gender Binary (panel discussion), 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Ghost Pipe Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Rock For Roe w/ Big Sound Harbor, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Ryan Barber's RnB Jam Night (R&B, jam), 9:00PM

1/18 thu the moth: true stories told live COMING SOON wed 1/17

7PM-THE HONEY DEWDROPS 8:30PM-WILLIE NILE thu 1/18

7PM-NOAH ZACHARIN Fri 1/19

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Shag Night, 6:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam Tuesdays, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday night funk jam, 11:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Hip Hop Cypher, 9:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Cody Rogers w/ Krista Shows & Jon Charles Dwyer, 9:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Groovy Tuesdays (smooth world vinyl), 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Highland Beer Pairing Dinner, 6:30PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Asheville Beer & Hymns, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Poorboy Krill (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM MG ROAD Keep it Classic Tuesdays w/ Sam Thompson, 5:00PM ODDITORIUM Free Open Mic Comedy w/ Tom Peters, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM POLANCO RESTAURANT Taco Tuesday & Blues w/ Michael Filippone's Blues Review, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing Asheville & Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Low Down Sires (dance lessons @ 7 & 8 p.m.), 9:00PM

7PM–ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY

9PM-JUICE sat 1/20

7PM-THE CHARLES WALKER BAND 9PM–ANDREW SCOTCHIE’S

BIRTHDAY-DAY BASH sun 1/21

(theme: ambition)

1/19 fri ahleuchatistas

w/ ohmme, mistresses

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REVIEWS & LISTINGS

BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, FRANCIS X. FRIEL & JUSTIN SOUTHER

HHHHH = H PICK OF THE WEEK H

Paddington returns in a patently palatable sequel

Paddington 2 HHHH

DIRECTOR: Paul King PLAYERS: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi CHILDREN’S COMEDY ADVENTURE RATED PG THE STORY: Paddington becomes embroiled in a mysterious treasure hunt when a deluded actor steals a book the young bear cub intended to purchase as a birthday gift for his beloved aunt.

THE LOWDOWN: Atypically palatable children’s fair that shows an uncommon degree of respect for its audience as well as its source material.

A friend who works with children — and has therefore seen the first Paddington movie many times — noted when I mentioned I’d be reviewing the sequel that there are far worse kids’ movies out there. From that perspective, Paddington 2 is a safe bet for mid-

January family programming, easily as strong as the original. It’s just as visually inventive, its performances are equally laudable, and despite its requisite saccharine and credulity-straining moments, it’s relatively innocuous as far as pandering to its target demographic is concerned. It’s not perfect, but it also didn’t make me want to claw my eyes out — which is really about all I can ask of family-friendly films at this point.

But all this was to be expected.

Barring a dramatic about-face, a sequel to the lightly likable Paddington was unlikely to be terrible. What was more noteworthy from my critical perspective was just how oddly derivative this film is — director and co-writer Paul King lifts liberally from sources as diverse as North by Northwest and The Grand Budapest Hotel to Home Alone 2, of all things. The influence of Wes Anderson, in particular, is strongly intimated, with King aping everything from Anderson’s symmetrical compositions and proscenium staging to the pink prison uni-

forms from Budapest. It’s the sort of thing that stuck out to me like a sore thumb but would be totally lost on Paddington’s intended audience.

Yes, you read that correctly — the lovable anthropomorphic bear from darkest Peru (Ben Whishaw) — does some hard time in this one. In typical Paddington fashion, this results from a comedy of errors in which our hero is wrongfully accused of stealing a pop-up book he’s been working to buy for his beloved Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton).

The real culprit is Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant), a narcissistic has-been actor who has discovered that the book is actually a treasure map that would have done Dan Brown proud and presumably is the thwarted thespian’s ticket out of working in dog food commercials. This leads Paddington’s adoptive family (Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville) on a manhunt to identify the thief while the bear himself is left to navigate prison life with the help of begrudging ally “Nuckle’s” McGinty (Brendan Gleeson).

As with the first Paddington, the liveaction bit players are every inch as transfixing as the immaculately polished visual effects. Gleeson becomes the unlikely heart of the film with a performance that is surprisingly nuanced given the role, while Grant gleefully hams it up at the opposite end of the spectrum. While I have to say it was a disconcerting transition coming off The Shape of Water (a very different role), I had forgotten how good Sally Hawkins is as Mrs. Brown.

Returning players such as Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi benefit from the competent support of a background cast including the likes of Noah Taylor and Richard Ayoade — the entire ensemble is fairly unimpeachable. If I have one complaint, it’s that the teaming of Capaldi and Grant wasn’t quite the Lair of the White Worm reunion I was hoping for.

Paddington 2 is a film that functions, not only on the basis of its inherent charm but also on the level of commitment displayed both in front of and behind the camera. Everyone involved seems to take this fanciful story of a well-mannered bear very seriously, as though Paddington’s relentless optimism could be a panacea for the dark times in which we live. And who knows? There might just be something to that theory. At any rate, like its predecessor, Paddington 2 is more than bearable. Rated PG for some action and mild rude humor.

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The Commuter HHS

DIRECTOR: Jaume Collet-Serra PLAYERS: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Jonathan Banks THRILLER RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A man on a commuter train gets entangled in a mysterious criminal plot that he must unravel.

THE LOWDOWN: A watchable, somewhat entertaining thriller with few thrills and nothing exciting about it.

Ever since Taken (2008), we’ve been stuck with one or two Liam Neeson actioners a year for the past decade.

Besides A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), none of them has been particularly good, and most of them form a sort of mental morass in my brain. I can’t really pick any of them out besides vague memories of their different levels of gruffness and violence.

The latest of the bunch, The Commuter, is actually the fourth collaboration between Jaume Collet-Serra and Neeson, and while I’ve somehow managed to see all of them over my

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years of reviewing, I can’t really remember much about them besides that they carry a bit more dignity than the Taken films. That, I think, tells you all you need to know about The Commuter, a movie that is professional enough without ever really doing anything outstanding. It’s watchable and won’t make you check your watch too much, but it’s already evaporating from my memory. I suppose there are worse characteristics to find in a January release, which — for mainstream releases — generally means the studio’s dregs. That one can sit through The Commuter without emitting one long, audible groan for the entire runtime is a small victory in itself. But there’s nothing really inspired about the movie, nothing too exciting, a problem for a movie that purports itself as a thriller.

The premise, at least generally, feels a lot like Collet-Serra and Neeson’s NonStop (2014), namely in the concept that a man (Neeson, of course) has been put into an extraordinary situation in a confined space, forcing him to handle it, with no chance of escape. In the case of The Commuter, Non-Stop’s airplane has been replaced with a commuter train, with Neeson being approached by a mysterious woman (Vera Farmiga) and blackmailed into figuring out the identity of a woman for her. It’s supposed to be Hitchcockian, I suppose, but the movie gradually ratchets up the action, becoming more and more absurd as the film unwinds.

I’m not really opposed to the absurdity of The Commuter, mainly because that’s really all it has going for it. The mystery at the center of the film is flimsy, as are all the characters. Neeson’s Michael MacCauley is just some guy on a train for the most part and another in a long line of films that think Neeson’s presence can replace actually writing him a character.

It’s the type of movie that requires you not to think about it too hard or examine its plot too much because that’s when things begin to fall apart.

It’s a pity, then, that the film doesn’t lean into its far-fetched nature more.

There’s this sense in every Neeson film that he demands some sort of weighty respect as an on-screen personality. He’s physically large and imposing and has a deep voice, so he must be taken seriously.

Unfortunately, it always seems to suck the fun out of all of these dumb movies he stars in. If they’d just embrace their stupidity, maybe the end result would be actually fun and entertaining. Instead, we get passable, which is as much as one can expect from The Commuter. Rated PG-13 for some intense action/violence, and language. Now playing at AMC Classic River Hills, Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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LOCAL CALL: Frances McDormand stars in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which was filmed in Sylva, Black Mountain and surrounding towns. It received the N.C. Film Critics Association’s Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award, named in honor of the late Xpress film critic. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight • Asheville School of Film students premiere their latest round of short films Sunday, Jan. 21, 10-11 a.m. at Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave. Selections include works by the Intro to Film and Intermediate/Postproduction courses, as well as Alumni Productions.

The program carries a suggested PG-13 rating. Free. ashevilleschooloffilm.com • To commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, Grail Moviehouse teams with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic for a screening of Birthright: A War Story on Monday, Jan. 22, at 6:30 p.m. Civia Tamarkin’s 2017 documentary examines how the anti-abortion movement gained prominence and launched an aggressive campaign to take control of women’s reproductive health care in the U.S. A discussion will follow the screening, and proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Regular admission rates apply. Tickets are available online and at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com • The North Carolina Film Critics Association has named Get Out the best narrative film of 2017. Among the group’s members are Asheville-area writers Justin Souther for Xpress, Marcianne Miller for Bold Life, Jill Boniske for Chickflix, Gareth Higgins for The Film Talk and God is Not Elsewhere, Jonathan Rich for Blooperman and BleedingCool and this writer for AshevilleMovies.com.

Jordan Peele’s genre-defying satire beat out four other nominees: The Florida Project, The Post, The Shape of Water,

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and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Peele also earned best director and best original screenplay, making him the first to person in the NCFCA’s six-year history to win awards for writing and directing in the same year.

The awards for performing honored Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) for best actress, Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) for best supporting actress, Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) for best actor and Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) for best supporting actor. Other winners include Okja for best foreign language film; a tie between Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Disaster Artist) and Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game) for best adapted screenplay; Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049) for best cinematography; War for the Planet of the Apes for best special effects; Coco for best animated film; and Kedi for best documentary film.

In 2016, the NCFCA renamed its “Tar Heel” award, which honors a film or performer with a special connection to North Carolina, in honor of the late Xpress film critic Ken Hanke. The winner of the 2017 Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which was filmed in Sylva, Black Mountain, Weaverville, Dillsboro, Clyde, Maggie Valley and the WNC Nature Center. Other nominees were May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, a documentary about the Concord-based musicians, and Winston-Salem native Emily V. Gordon, writer and co-producer of The Big Sick. ncfilmcritics.org X

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A Married Woman (Une Femme Mariée) HHHH

DIRECTOR: Jean-Luc Godard PLAYERS: Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy, Bernard Noël DRAMA Rated NR After my first viewing of Une Femme Mariée (1964), I recall being struck by the fact that it was not so much a strange film as it was a strange film for Godard to have made at the height of his mid-’60s prowess. It’s a relatively conventional love triangle, following a repressed married woman whose dalliances with an actor lead to a pregnancy with uncertain paternity. It would be pretty standard stuff in the hands of anyone other than Godard, who manages to impart some degree of filmic and thematic weight to his presentation of what amounts to the plot of a Harlequin romance novel. Is it a bad film? Not by any means — but bear in mind that this came out immediately prior to Band of Outsiders (1964) and tell me it doesn’t suffer in comparison. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present A Married Woman on Friday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 U.S. 70, Swannanoa.

Detour HHHHH

DIRECTOR: Edgar G. Ulmer PLAYERS: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake FILM NOIR Rated NR Some have called Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) the ultimate example of film noir. While I wouldn’t necessarily go that far, it is unquestionably a tour de force and a nigh-unassailable classic of the genre. A Poverty Row cheapie shot in six days on a practically nonexistent budget, Detour bears all the hallmarks of classic film noir; deep shadows and even shadier characters, a salacious and minimalistic plot, a disreputable protagonist and a femme fatale. Ulmer’s compositions are most likely indebted to his time working with Murnau, and the influence does this film some substantial favors. Ulmer’s oeuvre is uneven in places, but when he was on he was on, and this film is possibly his best and certainly my favorite of his films. The Asheville Film Society will screen Detour on Tuesday, Jan 23, at 7 p.m. at the Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

Mrs. Brown HHHH

DIRECTOR: John Madden PLAYERS: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Sher, David Westhead HISTORICAL DRAMA Rated PG In Brief: An early starring turn for Judi Dench and a precursor of things to come for director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Mrs. Brown (1997) is a decidedly offbeat period piece exploring the platonic love affair between Queen Victoria and Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly). Dench is characteristically fantastic, and Connolly more than holds his own, but this slight little film can’t help but pale in comparison to Dench’s later career highlights. Still, it’s interesting to contrast her work here with her reprisal of the role in Stephen Frear’s Victoria and Abdul, an inferior film with a superior performance from its lead. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Mrs. Brown on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Call Me By Your Name

Drama directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the novel

by André Aciman. According to the studio: “In the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, Elio Perlman, (Timothée Chalamet) a 17-year-old American spends his days in his family’s 17th-century villa lazily transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Ether Garrel). One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate student working on his doctorate arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.” Early reviews positive. (R)

Den of Thieves

Crime thriller starring Gerard Butler. According to the studio: “Den of Thieves is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga that follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Department and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.” No early reviews. (R)

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Forever My Girl

Romantic drama. According to the studio: “Forever My Girl tells the story of country music superstar Liam Page (Alex Roe) who left his bride, Josie (Jessica Rothe), at the altar choosing fame and fortune instead. However, Liam never got over Josie, his one true love, nor did he ever forget his Southern roots in the small community where he was born and raised. When he unexpectedly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his high school best friend, Liam is suddenly faced with the consequences of all that he left behind.” No early reviews. (PG)

12 Strong

War drama starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña and Trevante Rhodes, based on the nonfiction book by Doug Stanton detailing the actions of the first Special Forces unit deployed to Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. No early reviews. (R)

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many American women did not have the right to vote until Aug. 18, 1920. On that day, the Tennessee General Assembly became the 36th state legislature to approve the 19th Amendment, thus sealing the legal requirements to change the U.S. Constitution and ensure women’s suffrage. The ballot in Tennessee was close. At the last minute, 24-year-old legislator Harry T. Burns changed his mind from no to yes, thanks to a letter from his mother, who asked him to “be a good boy” and vote in favor. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Aries, you will be in a pivotal position not unlike Burns’. Your decision could affect more people than you know. Be a good boy or good girl.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming weeks, Destiny will be calling you and calling you and calling you, inviting you to answer its summons. If you do indeed answer, it will provide you with clear instructions about what you will need to do expedite your ass in the direction of the future. If on the other hand you refuse to listen to Destiny’s call, or hear it and refuse to respond, then Destiny will take a different tack. It won’t provide any instructions, but will simply yank your ass in the direction of the future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Looks like the Season of a Thousand and One Emotions hasn’t drained and frazzled you. Yes, there may be a pool of tears next to your bed.

Your altar might be filled with heaps of ashes, marking your burnt offerings. But you have somehow managed to extract a host of useful lessons from your tests and trials. You have surprised yourself with the resilience and resourcefulness you’ve been able to summon.

And so the energy you’ve gained through these gritty triumphs is well worth the price you’ve had to pay.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every relationship is unique. The way you connect with another person — whether it’s through friendship, romance, family, or collaborative projects — should be free to find the distinctive identity that best suits its special chemistry.

Therefore, it’s a mistake to compare any of your alliances to some supposedly perfect ideal. Luckily, you’re in an astrological period when you have extra savvy about cultivating unique models of togetherness. So I recommend that you devote the coming weeks to deepening and refining your most important bonds.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During recent weeks, your main tasks have centered around themes often associated with strain and struggle: repair, workaround, reassessment, jury-rigging, adjustment, compromise.

Amazingly, Leo, you have kept your suffering to a minimum as you have smartly done your hard work.

In some cases you have even thrived. Congratulations on being so industrious and steadfast! Beginning soon, you will glide into a smoother stage of your cycle. Be alert for the inviting signs. Don’t assume you’ve got to keep grunting and grinding.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created four versions of his iconic artwork The Scream. Each depicts a person who seems terribly upset, holding his head in his hands and opening his mouth wide as if unleashing a loud shriek. In 2012, one of these images of despair was sold for almost $120 million. The money went to the son of a man who had been Munch’s friend and patron. Can you think of a way that you and yours might also be able to extract value or get benefits from a negative emotion or a difficult experience? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I think I like my brain best in a bar fight with my heart,” says poet Clementine von Radics. While I appreciate that perspective, I advise you to do the opposite in the coming weeks. This will be a phase of your astrological cycle when you should definitely support your heart over your brain in bar fights, wrestling matches, shadow boxing contests, tugs of war, battles of wits, and messy arguments. Here’s one of the most important reasons why I say this: Your brain would be inclined to keep the conflict going until one party or the other suffers ignominious defeat, whereas your heart is much more likely to work toward a win-win conclusion.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 24 years old, Scorpio-born Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398) was a novice monk with little money who had just learned to read and write. He had spent years as a wandering beggar. By the time he was 40 years old, he was the emperor of China and founder of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled for 276 years. What happened in between?

That’s a long story. Zhu’s adventurousness was a key asset, and so was his ability as an audacious and crafty tactician. His masterful devotion to detailed practical matters was also indispensable. If you are ever in your life going to begin an ascent even remotely comparable to Zhu’s, Scorpio, it will be in the coming ten months. Being brave and enterprising won’t be enough. You must be disciplined and dogged, as well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1892, the influential Atlantic Monthly magazine criticized Sagittarian poet Emily Dickinson, saying she “possessed an extremely unconventional and grotesque fancy.” It dismissed her poetry as incoherent and declared that an “eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse” like her “cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar.” This dire diss turned out to be laughably wrong. Dickinson is now regarded as one of the most original American poets. I offer this story up as a pep talk for you, Sagittarius. In the coming months, I suspect you’ll be reinventing yourself. You’ll be researching new approaches to living your life. In the course of these experiments, others may see you as being in the grip of unconventional or grotesque fantasy. They may consider you dreamy and eccentric.

I hope you won’t allow their misunderstandings to interfere with your playful yet serious work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bubble gum is more elastic and less sticky than regular chewing gum.

That’s why you can blow bubbles with it. A Capricorn accountant named Walter Diemer invented it in 1928 while working for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company.

At the time he finally perfected the recipe, the only food dye he had on hand was pink. His early batches were all that color, and a tradition was born. That’s why even today, most bubble gum is pink. I suspect a similar theme may unfold soon in your life. The conditions present at the beginning of a new project may deeply imprint the future evolution of the project.

So try to make sure those are conditions you like!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When one door closes, another opens,” said inventor Alexander Graham Bell. “But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened.” Heed his advice, Aquarius. Take the time you need to mourn the lost opportunity. But don’t take MORE than the time you need. The replacement or alternative to what’s gone will show up sooner than you think.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gilbert Stuart painted the most famous portrait of America’s first president, George Washington. It’s the image on the U.S. one-dollar bill.

And yet Stuart never finished the masterpiece. Begun in 1796, it was still a work in progress when Stuart died in 1828. Leonardo da Vinci had a similar type of success.

His incomplete painting The Virgin and Child with St. Anne hangs in the Louvre in Paris, and his unfinished The Adoration of the Magi has been in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery since 1671. I propose that Stuart and da Vinci serve as your role models in the coming weeks. Maybe it’s not merely OK if a certain project of yours remains unfinished; maybe that’s actually the preferred outcome.

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