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Movin’ on up Last summer, writer Kristin D’Agostino visited Asheville and discovered one of our city’s hidden treasures: the vintage elevators in the historic Flatiron Building and their operators. coVER dEsign Laura Barry photogRaph Kristin D’Agostino

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Development laws need to be enforced Thank you. David Forbes for the well-written account of the repeated run-off violations from BeverlyGrant’s strip-mall development on Merrimon Avenue (“Muddy Waters,” Jan. 29, Xpress ). As much as I respect Shannon Tuch, director of Asheville’s development services, I must strongly disagree with her statement that Beverly-Grant is “really trying” [to keep its pollution on-site].

If a company’s actions cause pollution once yet they quickly fix it and make sure it doesn’t happen again, that’s really trying. However, we’ve documented pollution running straight into Reed Creek from this site periodically for more than two years.

Government exists to protect the public good and ensure an equal playing field. Asheville has a long

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history of failing to fully enforce our development laws and a culture of soft-pedaling the damage done by violators. I hope that is changing.

I’m glad the city responded to the latest violation with a fine, but the fine is too low to serve as a deterrent. However, as the article states, the Statehouse controls the fine structure.

And the current Republican supermajority serves at the pleasure of polluters. They are gutting what little legal power localities have had to safeguard the public good. If you care as much as I do about clean water, clean air and responsible development, then I urge you to do every thing in your power to elect Democrats to office in November.

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If Ms. Harrison had a car until three years ago, how did she utilize her “cartime” before then?

She may not miss her volunteer time at the VA, but I miss the 23 years I spent as a reader for RFBD (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic).

I also miss being a Big Sister and even stuffing envelopes for various nonprofits. These organizations could use help, I’m sure.

If she enjoys “seeing places she never knew existed” — from the window of a moving van — I hate to tell her that is not sightseeing.

I have gone to two movies since I’ve been here. I also participated in Moral Monday and have gone - only twice to religious services — all by taxi.

I do appreciate being taken to medical appointments, Walmart, Ingles and Bi-Lo. When I asked if I could go to Home Depot or Lowe's to buy a window screen on multi-purpose day, I was told I could not.

I am more than willing to pay for special group trips — and I have one in mind. Speaking with other riders, they are too.

I may not be able to walk more than a few blocks, but I used to have a full life, and I am not ready to give it up.

— Marilyn Bergen Asheville

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Chickens aren’t for eating RE: [“Poultry for the people,” Feb. 5, Xpress] I commend the founder of the Asheville Chicken Club for pointing out that chickens are “fragile little birds and they need proper care.” I'd also like to share some information with those considering acquiring chickens.

Half of the birds born at hatcheries supplying the egg industry (males) are unable to lay eggs.

They are also unsuitable for meat production because today’s “broilers” have been genetically manipulated to grow big and grow fast, reaching optimum slaughter weight at a mere 6 weeks of age. So male chicks (byproducts) are killed on the day they are born, usually by suffocation in plastic bags or ground up alive.

What is someone to do if they don't want to be complicit in sentencing newborn boys to death by buying female chicks? Well, of course, you can stop eating these cholesterol-laden reproductive secretions. But, if you are determined to raise chickens for eggs,

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you might consider obtaining birds from a local farm. These places that profess good stewardship actually don’t keep chickens very long. Business decisions are based on profit margins, and egg productivity begins to wane after about a year. When the girls stop laying at an optimum pace, they get sent to a slaughterhouse. But they will keep laying if spared this gruesome fate, just at a slightly slower rate. For every one you rescue, a newborn boy will avoid the ugliness at the hatchery. It’s a win-win situation.

The picture accompanying the article was heartwarming. Seeing these young children looking upon a chicken with such adoration gives me hope. The more kids get to know these interesting birds, the more likely they will grow up to find it as repugnant to eat a chicken leg as a golden retriever leg.

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— Stewart David Asheville

Affordable housing is essential I am overjoyed that our xity Council is working to address the need for affordable housing in Asheville. Both as a professional working in public health and an Asheville City Schools Board of Education member, I know the web of challenges that children and adults face in Asheville. Affordable housing is one essential piece of the puzzle to ensure stable environments for families.

Housing affordability is defined as not paying more than 30 percent of your income on housing.

Therefore, in addition to continuing partnerships with nonprofit and for-profit developers, our Council needs to focus on and support the living wage to ensure that fewer families are living on the margin of crisis. Last year, over 500 children were considered homeless in Buncombe County. That is enough to fill one large elementary school.

We owe it to the children in our community to do all we can to help them succeed.

— Leah Ferguson Asheville City Schools Board of Education Asheville

The gospel according to Jerry Who’s bad?

Not the teachers Where the hell are all these “bad” teachers that our governor and Republican legislators want to purge from our city and county schools?

Are we talking about those naive and dedicated young people who with great effort, often working while in college, incurred backbreaking student loan debt in order to get a teaching degree and then still had to get state certification?

Are we talking about those idealistic souls who finally got their first teaching job in Asheville, Buncombe or elsewhere in North Carolina at the munificent starting pay of $30,800?

(Factor in all the overtime, special events monitoring and continuing education courses, and it probably works out to less than $10 per hour.)

Of course, if those educators can stand the hard work and endure the daily heartbreak of watching young people attempt to compete against ignorance, poverty, racism, and parental and public apathy for 30 years, they might wind up earning a whopping $48,000 while battling inflation and trying to raise a family.

Are these the same frustrated folks who’ve seen their teacher assistants taken away despite increasing class sizes, further impeding their efforts to address our education deficit?

Are these the same people who must work with a shortage of textbooks and other educational materials, often paying for copier paper and other supplies out of their own pockets?

Are they among those who are upset that their health care plan has been watered down and their pension plan may be eroding?

I attended the Asheville City Schools for 12 years, and I can’t remember encountering any “bad” teachers. I do remember some I didn’t particularly like, but that was because they strenuously enforced high educational and behavioral standards that weren’t always acceptable to a young miscreant like me.

Look around. I’ll bet almost everyone who reads this knows someone who’s a teacher in the public schools.

Do you know any “bad” teachers?

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Are these the same frustrated folks who’ve seen their teacher assistants taken away despite increasing class sizes, further impeding their efforts to address our education deficit?

How many of them are there?

In trying to get control of this epidemic of “bad” teachers, however, the governor and Legislature have eliminated tenure and instructed all school districts to designate 25 percent of their staff as “good” teachers who’ll get a four-year contract. The remaining 75 percent, relegated to the “bad teacher” heap, will have to reapply for a job annually. Meanwhile, it’s left up to each school district to determine how it will make those decisions — and you can be sure that in some cases the criteria will be subjective and politically loaded.

Most educators are liberal-leaning folks, and quite often, they’re activists. The state’s new approach will definitely teach these apostates a thing or two, because if someone is outspoken, disagrees with their superiors’ strict doctrinaire policy or refuses to hew to the conservative line (including religious dogma), they might find themselves out of a job.

Beyond these issues is the large herd of elephants that’s quietly entering the room.

The first one is the voucher elephant, touted as giving poor children access to a private school.

The truth is that those kids’ families can’t afford to pay the difference between the actual tuition and what the state pays — and the rich families get a subsidy.

Vouchers also use taxpayers’ money to subsidize religious schools — a clear violation of separation of church and state. And since there can be no discrimina-

tion, are we prepared to subsidize madrassahs that teach the Koran and maybe sharia law?

The charter elephant, meanwhile, is in charge of an unregulated system that, in time, could so water down the public school system that it will have to close — at which point an even sneakier elephant will take over (see below). In the meantime, the charter elephant helps keep little black and white elephants from attending school together.

The sneakiest little elephant is named Private Tize. If this one has his way, he’ll pull out all the poles supporting the public education tent. After that, we’ll turn to the private sector to provide FOR PROFIT schools that will doubtless enjoy the same great success we’ve seen in privatizing prisons and those diploma mills that are defrauding our veterans out of their GI Bill money.

I’m sure our governor and many conservative state legislators benefited from the education they received in the North Carolina public schools, and I’ll bet that many of them had beloved teachers who took a special interest in them during a difficult time and helped propel them to positions of leadership.

So I ask these leaders to pick up the phone now, call those teachers and ask, “How are we in the N.C. Legislature doing in helping improve the quality of public education?”

I’m afraid the answer will be the same as it was when you did something wrong in school: “You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

Asheville native Jerry Sternberg, a longtime observer of the local scene, can be reached at gospeljerry@aol.com.X

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Moving on up elevator operators share memoraBle moments from the flatiron BUilDinG

Last summer, writer Kristin D’Agostino visited Asheville and discovered one of our city’s hidden treasures: the vintage elevators in the historic Flatiron Building — and their operators.

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DYnamiC DUo: Brian Moretti, left, and Pete DeAnna work the night shift at Asheville’s Flatiron elevator, steering guests to and from the Sky Bar in a manually operated 1920s-era elevator.

Moretti says, “I try to make it a smooth ride for everyone.”

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Some guys buy a Lamborghini to get noticed. pete deanna finds he does just fine cruising downtown Asheville’s Flatiron Building in a 1920s art deco elevator. The dark-eyed 21-yearold says working a car that harkens back to the Jazz Age has a certain romantic appeal, making him “10 times more attractive.” DeAnna and his colleagues recently shared the ups and downs of daily life running two of the city’s oldest remaining manually operated elevators.

The job itself isn’t sexy. Standing in a 4-foot-by-4-foot space for up to eight hours at a time. Having to jump at the call of the bell and drive the car up or down with a steel lever to fetch your next occupant. Swinging the heavy doors open and closed 10, 20, 30 or more times per hour. But for these three men, there’s a heavy dose of old-fashioned charm that makes the more tedious aspects bearable.

Brian moretti, a Pennsylvania boy who moved to Asheville seven years ago, has been working the night shift up to 35 hours per week since last summer. Moretti, 29, says it balances out his seasonal farm work. By day, he’s digging in the dirt or delivering vegetables to restaurants in an old pickup truck. But at 3 p.m., Moretti says, “It’s like a new day.” He goes home, showers and dons his work duds: a dapper vest, dress mountainx.com

shirt, pants and tie that lend him the elegant appeal of a 1940s film noir detective.

“I’m a compulsive Goodwill shopper,” he says. “I would see all this cool stuff that I didn’t have the context to wear. Here, the building’s old, and it feels appropriate.”

Another perk is getting to watch people’s reactions to the elegant elevators. DeAnna says he’s noticed a difference depending on the passenger’s age: In general, middle-aged riders seem more impressed.

“The most interested people are usually older couples who haven’t been on one of these elevators for years. One lady who grew up in New York City, where they more commonly have these elevators, was thrilled,” he recalls.

The under-25 set, on the other hand, tends to be “more afraid; they don’t trust it will work.” neil mobberly works the 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. shift. A 50-something former printer with light brown hair that falls into his eyes and a kind, soft-spoken voice. Mobberly says he enjoys the diverse array of people he meets on his travels between floors. Perhaps the most memorable ride: A group of “star children” en route to an office devoted to investigating ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. “There was a guy older than me, and he had a staff with some kind of head on it that you couldn’t take seriously,” remembers Mobberly.

Another big perk for the night crew: Getting to play city guide to tourists. Moretti and DeAnna both say they like being

“She then asked if she could kiss me. I thought she was kidding. That was a pretty long 15-second ride.” elevator operator pete Deanna the first and last face people see on their way up to the Sky Bar. “You get groups of people you really connect with,” Moretti explains. “It’s really rewarding when they ask me what they should do, and I get to try to read the group and think, ‘What do they seem like they’d like?’” elevator kisses Then there’s the question of sex appeal. Many women seem to appreciate being guided to the Sky Bar by a man who appears to have stepped out of another time. “The whole idea of the antiquity of the position and the classiness of it brings sexiness to the elevator and, by association, the elevator operator,” says DeAnna, who often wears suspenders to work.

Moretti reports that at the end of the night, he frequently finds women’s phone numbers mixed in with his tips.

DeAnna, meanwhile, says he was once romanced by a trio of tipsy women. A faint blush spreads up from his beard as he recalls one of them, an attractive 30-something femme, asking him to stop the elevator so she could retrieve something she’d forgotten. “She then asked if she could kiss me,” he says. “I thought she was kidding.” He couldn’t avoid that kiss, but he drew the line when the second woman asked to have her turn.

“That was a pretty long 15-second ride,” recalls a smiling DeAnna.

To be sure, the atmosphere inside the little car can change dramatically in the course of the day. The night crowd is a mix of tourists and locals on their way up to the Sky Bar, usually in festive spirits. During working hours, on the other hand, the car fills with massage therapists, architects, businessmen and other professionals. tayria ward, a psychologist who works on the fifth floor, says she enjoys riding the elevator because of the sense of community it conveys. “After the first two rides, they remember where you’re going,” she explains. “And it’s nice to see a familiar face. Also, I love the feeling of going back in time.”

work, so every time the buzzer rings, the attendant must cruise all eight floors, peering through the window till he spots his next passenger. This is particularly annoying when combined with what Moretti calls the “phantom ring”: imagining you’ve heard the buzzer even when it hasn’t sounded. All three attendants say they’ve experienced this during grueling shifts.

“If I think I hear it, I have to ride up and down to check,” says Moretti.

“There’s no other way to know.”

Another pet peeve is the elevator bandits: those bold souls who decide (perhaps after a couple of beers) to sneak into the car when the attendant’s back is turned and steer the elevator all by themselves. This has happened often over the years, perhaps most memorably when an amorous couple stole the car and parked it on the sixth floor, lights off, so they could steal a few erotic moments.

“I had to scold them while averting my gaze,” Moretti recalls. “When they came out, they ran down the stairs. They were both thrilled and embarrassed.” a Dream realizeD Built in 1925-26 by Albert C. Wirth, the Flatiron Building has a colorful past that includes playing host to doctors, country musicians and maybe even a ghost. In the 1930s, current owner Russell thomas reveals, the historic structure was the home of radio station WWNC, which broadcast shows including Orson

Welles’ “War of the Worlds” and hosted country greats like Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. During the ’40s and ’50s the building housed many of Asheville’s medical offices. morgan albritton, manager of L’eau de Vie Salon/Spa on the second floor, says she’s heard tales of a dentist’s son, a man in his 20s, who’s said to have commited suicide by jumping out a window. And though she’s never seen any spirits “throwing brushes around the salon or anything,” Albritton says many women working in the salon are afraid to ride the elevators down to the ground floor at night to take out the recycling.

Both cars still have their original steel frames, though Thomas says the motors and most of their mechanical parts have been replaced over the years. He admits to “coveting” Asheville’s other two remaining manual elevators, in the City Building, and says he’d be the first in line to buy them for parts if they’re ever replaced.

Will Thomas ever modernize his own elevators? One day he’ll probably have to, he concedes, but for now he’s content to keep them as is, because they’re “cool as hell, and people like things that are a little bit different.”

As a 10-year-old, Thomas recalls, he once dreamed that he owned a high-rise building. He realized that dream years later when, at age 29, he bought the Flatiron.

“This building is magical,” he says with a satisfied smile. “It’s almost like owning it was meant to be. Lots of kids wish they had an elevator. Well, I truly have one. And it’s an old one with the handle.” X

the flip siDe To be sure, being an elevator man in the 21st century also has its challenges.

When the machinery breaks down, notes DeAnna, parts can be hard to replace.

Inside the main car are eight red lights — one for each floor — which are supposed to tell the attendant the caller’s location. But those buttons no longer

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The N.C. Department of Transportation preps for a round of road planning

Travel plans In between snow events that brought most state roads to a halt, the N.C. Department of Transportation held an open house in Asheville Feb. 11 to encourage public input and conversation about upcoming plans — particularly those queued for Western North Carolina, such as the long-awaited (and oft-debated) Interstate 26 connector.

With a respectable showing of residents and activists on hand, the open house began with a short presentation on House Bill 817. Signed into law last summer, it “overhauls the way North Carolina funds transportation improvements, allowing NCDOT to make more efficient use of its existing revenues to fund more investments that improve the state’s transportation infrastructure, create jobs and help boost the economy,” according to DOT officials.

The law provides the DOT with more flexibility on funding transportation improvements through the data-driven Strategic Mobility Formula and helps the state meet its top priority project goals. It also helps fund projects based on local needs. The new formula could speed up development of the I-26 connector through downtown Asheville. mary weber, a member of the city’s Multimodal Transportation Commission, attended the open house and explained, “I was writing about the I-26 connector and how I hope [DOT doesn’t] go with eight lanes because I think that’s excessive. They just keep building wider and wider and wider, and there are studies that show people are actually starting to drive less, especially younger people. A lot of them just can’t afford cars, and I know there’s a huge demand for more alternative, bicycle-pedestrian transit.”

She added, “So we’re just really hoping that they will be thinking more not just for cars but also for other uses.

A true multimodal project.” julie white and claudia nix also attended the open house, noting their concerns — such as disappointment with the lack of “bike or pedestrian projects on the table at the moment,” said White. She is a member of the Black Mountain Greenway Commission, the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club and the Friends

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in thE QuEuE? Long-awaited and oft-debated plans for the Interstate 26 connector will be in the queue of road projects for Western North Carolina.

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of Connect Buncombe, which promotes a countywide greenway system.

Ten NCDOT staff members and two metropolitan and rural planning organizers took these and other comments as they spoke with attendees. They also passed around a comment sheet to give citizens a chance to share their thoughts.

“In the coming weeks, each of the 14 NCDOT transportation divisions will submit its top transportation priorities to compete with other transportation improvements across the state for funding under the new formula,” reads the comment document. “To help determine these priorities, each division is asking local residents to provide their thoughts on which transportation improvements are most important.”

After holding a January meeting about the future of the I-26 connector, NCDOT opened a 30-day public-comment period that ended Feb. 12. The update noted the two alternative paths the DOT is eyeing for routing the future I-26 around Asheville: One plan would cost $251 million, and the other would cost $332 million and include extensive bridging over the French Broad River.

Nix said she was concerned about the way the overall project prioritizes fixing and widening the straight portions of I-26 first, “rather than the curved bottlenecks that we have,” she said. “And it’s only going to make it worse. You have to take care of the bottlenecks first.” sarah Repoley said she attended the meeting out of personal curiosity and to answer her questions about Merrimon Avenue’s increased traffic flow. She said she felt positive about the open house and the NCDOT’s willingness to accept public input, although she was disappointed there were no projects planned for connecting Asheville to a passenger railway system.

“I feel like our questions are being answered, and we can kind of mull it over,” she said.

The NCDOT plans to hold a public hearing later this year about the I-26 connector. There is also a Tuesday, Feb. 25, meeting about the proposed I-26 and N.C. 191 (Brevard Road) interchange. For more information on the Feb. 25 session, contact Undrea Major at ujmajor@ncdot.gov or call (919) 707-6028. Comments on the Brevard Road project can also be sent Undrea Major, NCDOT-Project Development and Environmental Analysis Unit, 1548 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1548. X

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To Moog or not to Moog Incentives for festival spark fairness debate

At its Feb. 11 meeting, Asheville City Council approved incentives valued at $90,000 for Moogfest and opened the door to a continuing partnership. But while proponents hailed the move as an important investment in the city’s future growth, one Council member maintained that it’s an unreasonable amount of taxpayer dollars to funnel to an event whose ticket prices start at $199.

The city will give the festival, slated for April 23-27, $40,000 plus another $50,000 worth of services (including police, fire and barricades). And if Moogfest delivers on some of its promised economic growth (including job creation and bringing tech companies to Asheville), the partnership could extend for another two years.

“Moogfest is in keeping with the current economic trend of selling a city on its people and its lifestyle,” jon Fillman of the city’s Office of Economic Development said during his presentation to Council. The revamped Moogfest, he claimed, will create this growth through networking events, by connecting entrepreneurs with capital and by introducing tech industry representatives to Asheville.

“If it were just a music concert, I would not be here, but what we’ve done is use the Moog brand combined with an innovative daytime conference to re-create Moogfest as an economic development event,” Moog President mike adams explained. The company says the festival will have a $30 million economic impact while attracting major media attention, though Adams expects Moog to lose money on it. “But I’m prepared to lose a significant amount so that those standing on the outside watching will realize that this is a really important initiative.”

A partnership with local government, he claimed, would help the event succeed in generating the tech-driven economic growth that’s one of City Council’s main priorities.

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Discounts available, 18 CE’s for nursing and massage VaLuE: Moogfest organizers are changing the event from a music festival to an economic-development event and asking for $40,000 in city funds. Most of Asheville City Council agreed, but critics say the allocation isn’t fair.

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Most Council members enthusiastically agreed, including cecil Bothwell, who’s often been critical of economic incentives.

“There’s nothing in the East that compares to [the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas], and this very reasonably could, in coming years,” he said. “This is a really bright new idea as compared to Bele Chere, where we were spending $500,000 a year for a street festival that didn’t really have any job component. This seems to me to be something worlds away from that, that will truly put us on the map for the future.”

Council member gwen wisler, however, balked at the $40,000 cash payment, saying, “I’m supportive of the $50,000 in in-kind services, but I can’t support the additional $40,000 to a festival that is not open to the public in all activities and is inconsistent with our other economic development funding.”

Ticket prices run as high as $499 for the five-day event, though some discounted tickets were offered to locals and free tickets were distributed to local educational institutions as “scholarships.” Some events,

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such as the job fair, will be free, noted Council member gordon smith. No member of the public commented on the measure before the vote.

In an email statement to her constituents, Wisler said it’s “a matter of fairness” and that when incentives are granted to private businesses, they’re usually in the form of rebates of taxes already paid after a specified economic goal has been met. Giving Moogfest the money upfront, she asserted, isn’t fair to other local organizations and events.

In recent years, the city has generally limited in-kind support to a list of specific “anchor events” deemed to play a key role in Asheville.

“If Moogfest needs more upfront cash, it makes more sense to me for festival organizers to raise the money privately or by other means, such as the Chamber of Commerce or the Tourism Development Authority,” wrote Wisler.

Council member jan davis countered that backing Moogfest is similar to other partnerships the city has pursued, such as with the Southern Conference basketball tournament.

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benefits this arts education program. love Your Pet: A meet & Greet With Pet vendors • TH (2/20), 6-8pm - Includes a gift packages auction to benefit Brother Wolf Animal rescue. Held at Hotel Indigo, 151 Haywood St. Info: samantha.jones@ hkstrategies.com.

Held at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, 5 Walnut St. $5. Info: theleaf.org. visit & venture: A netWorKinG event • TH (2/20), 5:30-7:30pm - For artists and entrepreneurs. Held at the Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. $8. Donations and

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part of ticket sales benefit loving food resources Info: cortina@visitandventure. com.

'the vAGinA monoloGues' • FR (2/21), 8pm - Ticket sales benefit helpmate of Asheville and vagina monologues foundation. Held at The Orange Peel. $25/$15 students. Info: theorangepeel.net.

Western sWinG dAnCe • FR (2/21), 7-10pm - Ticket sales benefit Pisgah legal services. Held at Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. $10. Tickets and info: betsy@pisgahlegal.org or 210-3444.

ChillY ChAllenGe 8K And fun run

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• SA (2/22), 10am - Proceeds benefit north Buncombe middle school.

Meets at 51 N. Buncombe School Road, Weaverville. $30/$15 for the fun run. Info and registration: nbms8k@gmail.com.

• WE (2/26), 5:15-6:30pm - Donations

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will benefit the Center for disordered eating. Held at the AVL Yoga Donation Studio, 239 S. Liberty St. Info: thecenternc.weebly.com or 337-4685.

Asheville mAKers • TUESDAYS, 6pm - Open to interested non-members. Top Floor Studio Coworking, 9 Walnut St. Info: ashevillemakerspace.org. exit strAteGies for Business oWners seminAr • WE (2/19), 1-3:15pm - Sponsored

by Society of Financial Service Professionals. Held at WCU-Biltmore Park campus, 28 Schenck Parkway, Suite 300. $20/ free for members.

Info: 252-3684 or Mlewis6956@charter.net.

GoodWill CAreer ClAsses Info and registration: 298-9023, ext.

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• ONGOING - Classes for careers in the food and hotel industries will include training and American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification. Call for times. $25.

• TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9am-noon - Adult basic education / high school equivalency classes. Registration required.

• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:308:30pm - English as a second language classes. Registration required. Free.

• ONGOING - Entry level computer classes. Call for times. Free.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:303:30pm - Medical office support career classes. Fee waives for job seekers.

Registration required.

ClAsses, meetinGs & events (Pd.) mosAiC WorKshoP With renoWned Artist CArol shelKin Saturday/Sunday, March 15/16, 10am4pm. Create a backsplash, shower insert or piece of art. All levels. Call 828-3376749 for info and price. Contact Linda at lindapannullomosaics.com (Pd.) WritinG from the toP of Your heAd And sYmPhoniC WritinG ClAsses start March 4th. Writers of any level - tap into your creative genius. West Asheville.

Info: Nina – 254-3586 www.writingfromthetopofyourhead.com

2014 BeGinners BeeKeePinG sChool (pd.) March 1 & 2 at the Folk Art Center Auditorium, Asheville NC. $45/$55. Info and Registration at www.chbr.org or call (828) 779-7047. Everyone welcome.

femfessionAls WorKshoP • TH (2/20), 1pm - "Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking."

28 Schenck Pkwy #355, in the WCU building. $25. Registration required. Info:debbie@yourorganizingdiva.com.

4 free BridGe lessons (pd.) The Asheville Bridge Room, River Ridge Mall, 800 Fairview Road is offering four Free Easybridge!™ lessons to introduce you to this fabulous pastime. • Lessons are for beginners and people returning to bridge after some years, or social players who want to learn modern bridge.

• Starting Wednesday, March 5 from 9am-11:30am or 6pm8:30pm. Partners guaranteed.

Free parking and refreshments. To register or for more information, call Jef Pratt at (828)407-8654.

GenerAl motors Alumni CluB • TH (2/20), 11:30am Gretchen Cummings of the Hendersonville Community Co-op will speak at the Hendersonville Country Club, 1860 Hebron Road. Registration and info: 692-4910.

BAn the BorinG meetinG! (pd.) The Mediation Center invites you to Ban the Boring Meeting and Improve your Facilitation skills. Perfect for any agency or business leader.

• Friday, March 14 from 10am4pm at 40 N French Broad Avenue, Ste. B (lunch included).

• Register before February 21 for the early bird rate of $99. To register, visit our website: www. mediatewnc.org/training-2 WholistiC self CAre foundAtions - reAl heAlinG throuGh dAilY ChoiCes (pd.) Free Classes, Thursdays 6-8pm, Beginning Feb. 20th • Series 1: Healing System for Diabetes, Weight Loss, Addiction, Candida, and Deep Cellular Healing. With Sean Kelly, Health Coach. • 68 Grove St., Asheville. Parking off Hilliard Ave.wholisticselfcare.com 60+ men's soCiAl GrouP • TUESDAYS, 6pm - Meets at Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave. Info: 275-6396.

BrevArd ColleGe PuBliC JoB And CAmP fAir • TH (2/20), 11am-1:30pm - Camps and other summer employers will participate. Held in the Porter Center. Info: jobs@ brevard.edu or 884-8249.

CArolinA JeWs for JustiCe formAtion meetinG • SU (2/23), 1:30-3pm - Held at Congregation Beth HaTephila, 43 North Liberty St. Info: carolinajewsforjustice.org.

iKenoBo iKeBAnA, Blue ridGe ChAPter • TH (2/20), 10am - Feb. program: “A Japanese Road Trip.” First Congregational Church, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville. Info: blueridgeikebana.com or 696-3140. intro to ruG hooKinG ClAss • FR (2/21), 9am - Held at Henderson County Center, 100 Jackson Park Road. $10.

Registration and info: 697-4891. oPtimizinG food ProduCtion, sustAinABilitY & nutrition ClAss • TU (2/25), 6:30-8pm - Held at Asheville Seventh Day Adventist Church, 364 Broadway St. Info: cindy7graham@gmail.com. shAre the KnoWledGe And emPoWer YounG men • SA (2/22), 2-4pm - An event to encourage young men to go to college and prepare for careers.

Held in Ferguson Auditorium at A-B Tech. Registration and info: mattersoftheheartradio@gmail. com or 216-4102. slAve deeds of BunComBe CountY • Through FR (2/28) - A traveling exhibition of historical documents and recorded readings.

Held in UNCA's Highsmith University Union. Info: mps.unca. edu or 232-2417. tAx AssistAnCe Local libraries will offer federal & state tax assistance until April 15. Attendees must bring required documents. Info: 2778288.

• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 10am-4pm - Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • THURSDAYS, 10am-4pm - Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St. • SATURDAYS, 10:30am-2:30pm - Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Not available March 15.

• TUESDAYS, 9am-4pm - West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. • 10am-4pm - Black Mountain Library, 105 N. Dougherty St. West AfriCAn drum ClAss • SATURDAYS through (4/26), 4pm - All levels welcome. Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain. Free. Info: smirkelclown@yahoo.com.

Western north CArolinA CArvers • SU (2/23), 1:30-4pm - Meets at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. Info: 665-8273.

dAnCe BeGinner sWinG dAnCinG lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $10/week per person.

• No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville.

Details: www.swingAsheville. com studio zAhiYA, doWntoWn dAnCe ClAsses (pd.) Monday 7:30pm Burlesque • Tuesday 8:15am 30 Minute Workout, 9am Hip Hop, 6pm Beginner Bellydance, 7pm Bellydance 2, 8pm West African • Thursday 9am Bellydance Workout, 4pm Kid's Dance, 6pm AfroBrazilian, 7pm Intermediate West African, 8pm Womens' Hip Hop • Sunday 3pm Yoga for Dancers • $13 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue.www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 line dAnCe ClAsses • WEDNESDAYS, 9-10:30am - Held in the County Athletics and Activity Center, 708 South Grove St., Hendersonville.

Registration required. $5. Info: linedanceclass.com or 890-5777. oPPortunitY house 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. Info: 698-5517 or opportunityhouse.org.

• MONDAYS (2/17) through (3/10), 6pm - Hula classes. All fitness levels. $40/$35 members for four-week session.

WAYnesville reCreAtion Center 550 Vance St., Waynesville. Info: 456-2030.

• WEDNESDAYS through (2/19), 7-8pm - Waltz classes. $10 per class. Info: 316-1412 or 356-7060.

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FEB. 25 IN ASHEVILLE FOR THE PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE I-26 AND N.C. 191 (BREVARD ROAD) INTERCHANGE TIP Project No. I-5504

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in February regarding the proposed project to modify the interchange at I-26/ N.C. 191 (Brevard Road) in Buncombe County. The purpose of the meeting is to present a new design option developed by NCDOT as a result of public input received at last April’s public meeting.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, at The North Carolina Arboretum, located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way in Asheville.

It will be held in the Auditorium of the Education Center from 4 to 7 p.m. The typical entry fee charged by the N.C. Arboretum has been waived for anyone who attends the public meeting. Tell the guard at the Arboretum entrance that you are attending the meeting.

Interested individuals may attend this public meeting at any time during the above hours. NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. Please note that there will not be a formal presentation.

The purpose of the project is to alleviate congestion at the interchange by increasing the interchange’s efficiency. The need for the project is to address lengthy backups along the I-26 exit ramps in the future. This project will require the acquisition of additional right-of-way. The project will re-route traffic along Rocky Ridge Road and portions of Wedgefield Drive.

For additional information contact Mr. Undrea Major, NCDOT - Project Development and Environmental Analysis Unit at 1548 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1548, by phone at (919) 707-6028, or via email at ujmajor@ ncdot.gov. Please submit comments by Friday, March 31, 2014.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who want to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Mr. Major as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

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eCo Asheville Green drinKs A networking party that meets to discuss pressing green issues.

Info: ashevillegreendrinks.com.

• WE (2/19), 6pm - Presentation by automotive engineer Dave Erb. Meets at Green Sage Coffeehouse, 5 Broadway. Free.

• WE (2/26), 6pm - "Culture Shock Story Hour," with former Peace Corp and AmeriCorp volunteers. Meets at Lenoir-Rhyne Graduate Center, 36 Montford Ave. Free. Info: avl.mx/04t. riverlinK events Info: riverlink.org or 252-8474.

• TH (2/20), 11:45am-2pm - A bus tour of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers will meet at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. $20/free for members.

Registration required.

• FR (2/21), 3-5pm - Friday Salon Series: "How the Supreme Court Shapes Policy." Held at 170 Lyman St. Registration required.

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Widespread Wednesdays what: Widespread Wednesdays February Food Drives. whERE: Green Room Bistro, 12 Church St. whEn: Every Wednesday in February, 7:30-10 p.m. whY: The Green Room Bistro and Bar will play a Widespread Panic concert for fans as part of a food drive to benefit MANNA FoodBank. The public can bring monetary or canned food donations to the bistro between 7:30 and 10 p.m. For each $5 donation or five cans of food, the Green Room Bistro will offer a free appetizer.

Widespread Wednesdays are coordinated by FATE — Funding America Through Entertainment.

FATE was developed by executive director Joshua Stack, former communications director for MANNA FoodBank. The organization has previously worked with Widespread Panic and other

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nationally touring groups to coordinate concert-based food drives.

“Hosting weekly Panic listening parties is one way I got my start in this town in 2007,” Stack said in a news release. “When the folks at Green Room wanted to find a way to help out and asked if we could do this on the night when I bartend, I thought it’d be a great idea and a great way to help out.”

“When I found out what Josh did with FATE, I immediately wanted to find a way to help,” said Brian Lee, owner of Green Room Bistro and Bar, in the same release. “People need to be aware that there is food insecurity in this country and region, and every little bit helps.”

Organizers say the previous Widespread Wednesday, held in November, raised $2,500 and 232 pounds of food. Stack says there is a possibility the food drive will continue into March. For more information contact joshstack@supportfate. org or visit supportfate.org.

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AsAP Business of fArminG ConferenCe • SA (2/22), 7:30am-5:30pm - A networking event for those involved in local food and farming. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa. Info: asapconnections.org. tAilGAte mArKets • SATURDAYS: • 9am-noon Jackson County Markets Market, 23 Central St., in the Community Table. Through March.

• DAILY: •8am-5pm - WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. Year-round.

Government & PolitiCs BunComBe CountY demoCrAtiC PArtY Info: buncombedems.org.

• TH (2/20), 6-7pm - Legal director for the N.C. ACLU, will speak on the marriage lawsuit in N.C. Held at 951 Old Fairview Road. henderson CountY senior demoCrAts meetinG • WE (2/19), 11:30am - Held at 905 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville. Info: myhcdp. com or 692-6424.

Kids BlACK mountAin Center for the Arts Located at 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Hours: Mon.-Fri.: 10am-5pm. Info and cost: blackmountainarts.org or 669-0930.

• THURSDAYS, 4:30-5:30pm Beginners Hip Hop. Ages 6-10.

Registration required.

• THURSDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Kids in Motion. Ages 3 to 5.

Registration required.

• SATURDAYS, 9am - Ballet classes. Registration required.

• MONDAYS, 5-6pm - Tween Dance class. Registration required. hAnds on!

318 N. Main St., Hendersonville.

Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. $5 admission/ free for members, unless otherwise noted. Info: handsonwnc.org or 697-8333.

• TUESDAYS, 11am - Mad Scientists Lab. $7, includes admission fee. riverlinK eArth dAY Art And PoetrY Contest For preK-12 grade students.

Categories: 2D, sculpture, photography, bookmark art and poetry. Info: riverlink.org/earthdaycontest.asp.

• Through WE (3/19) - Open to students throughout the French Broad Basin. sPellBound Children's BooKshoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: spellboundchildrensbookshop.com or 708-7570.

• TUESDAYS through (3/6), 10-11am - Artist Paige Childs will lead a six-week series of arts & crafts classes. Ages 3 to 5. $10 per session.

WCu Art eduCAtion CluB Children's event • FR (2/21), 5:30-9pm - For ages 6 and older. Held in WCU's Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Free. Registration and info: 5065748 or etapley@wcu.edu.

outdoors BeCome A Certified lifeGuArd this sPrinG! (pd.) Courses held in Asheville throughout March, April and May. Weekends and evenings.

Recertification, Waterfront, CPR/ AED/First Aid also available.

Check out. Call (713) 702-7669 for dates, prices, and to register, or: advancedaquaticstraining. com/lifeguarding

Adult leAGue KiCKBAll • Through SA (3/15) Registration open for Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation's adult kickball league.

Info: jay.nelson@buncombecounty.org or 250-4269.

AssAult on BlACK roCK reGistrAtion • Through SU (3/22) - Registration open for the "Assault on Black Rock" a 7-mile trail race up Black Rock, in Sylva. Proceeds benefit the Community Table, a nonprofit food pantry. $30/$25 advance.

Info: barwatt@hotmail.com or 506-2802.

BunComBe CountY heAlthY PArKs, heAlthY You 5K • Through (2/21) - Registration open. $12/$7 children. Info: jay. nelson@buncombecounty.org or 250-4269. duPont 12K forest trAil rACe • Through (3/29) - Registration open for this March 29 event.

Proceeds benefit the DuPont State Forest. Info: avl.mx/04s. lAKe JAmes stAte PArK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo.

Programs are free unless otherwise noted. Info: 584-7728.

• SA (2/22), 10:30am - A tour of the burn units of the Catawba River area. Meets at the Catawba River area breezeway.

• SU (2/23), 2pm - A discussion of bald eagle population. Meets at the Catawba River area park office. sPrinG frisBee leAGue reGistrAtion • SU (2/16) through FR (2/28) - Info, game dates and costs: joseph.h.davis@continentalcorporation.com or ashevilleultimate.org.

PuBliC leCtures BlACK historY month At A-B teCh • WE (2/19), 3-4:30pm "Segregating the Police: Hiring Black Police Officers in Memphis." Held in Rhododendron 344. Info: 3987852 or marthagball@abtech. edu.

Center for CulturAl PreservAtion leCture • TU (2/25), 7pm - "Corn from A Jar – The History Of Mountain Moonshine." Hendersonville City Operations Center, 305 Williams St. Free. Info: saveculture.org or 692-8062.

immiGrAtion PoliCY in the us • MO (2/24), noon - Presented by immigration attorneys. Held at Mars Hill University in the Broyhill Chapel. Free. Info: mhu. edu. leAdershiP leCture At sKYlAnd liBrArY • TH (2/27), 7pm - "Become a Cooperative Leader." Located at 260 Overlook Road. Info: 250-6488.

PuBliC leCtures At unCA Free unless otherwise noted.

Info: unca.edu.

• TH (2/20), 5:30pm -"The Health Impact Fund: Enhancing Justice and Efficiency in Global Health”. In Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

• TH (2/27), 7pm - "In Praise of the Edges: Southern Food Studies from Appalachia to Texas." Karpen Hall.

sPirituAlitY AdvAnCe Your PotentiAl (pd.) Bring your heart and hands together with Reiki.

Celebrate new growth with Reiki II class. • Saturday, February 22, 2pm-6pm, Reiki Master Isis Dudek. Weaverville.

Registration & information: iamisis@juno.com Aim meditAtion ClAsses (pd.) "ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: mindfulness 101 - Basics of Mindfulness Meditation, mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class.

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southside PreservAtion And historY • WE (2/26), 6pm - "Going beyond buildings on the Southside of Asheville." Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Info: 250-4700.

AQuAriAn ConsCiousness felloWshiP (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice. Meditation, potluck, St. Germain live channeled piano music. • Second and Fourth Wednesday. 6:30pm.

• Donation. (828) 658-3362.

the historY of riCeville • TU (2/25), 7pm - A presentation from the Swannanoa Valley Museum. Held at the Black Mountain Library, 105 N. Dougherty Street. Free. Info: 250-4756.

Asheville ComPAssionAte CommuniCAtion Center (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communica-

tion (nonviolent communication).

252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc. com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm.

Asheville insiGht meditAtion (pd.) introduCtion to mindfulness meditAtion Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 2nd & 4th Wednesdays. 7pm – 8:30.

Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com Asheville oPen heArt meditAtion (pd.) Deepen your experience of living a heart centered life.

Connect with your spiritual heart and the peace residing within. Free, 7pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St., 296-0017, http:// www.heart-sanctuary.org Asheville sPirituAl rAdio • SaturdayS, 1pm (pd.) “Guidance For Your Life” a talk show that explains spiritual wisdom. We guide you through the process of incorporating spiritual lessons into your daily life. 880AM. www.880therevolution.com Astro-CounselinG (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into

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Women's BiBle studY At the Cove • TUESDAYS through (2/25), 9:45am & 6:30pm - 1 Porters Cove Road. Free. Info: thecove. org.

Women's BooK studY And disCussion GrouP • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm Meets at Seacoast Asheville, 123 Sweeten Creek Road.

Registration and info: 277-6400.

World dinner: indiA • TH (2/20), 6-8pm - An information and networking event for missionaries. Sponsored by Holler Ministries World Dinner.

Held at Feed & Seed, 3715 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher.

Free. Info: missionscamp.org or 651-9827.

hELping hELpmatE: 100 percent of the proceeds from the Feb. 21 production of The Vagina Monologues will go to combating sexual and domestic violence against women. The production, held at the Orange Peel, will raise funds for Helpmate of Asheville and the Vagina Monologues Foundation. (p.16)

yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

GurdJieff: the fourth WAY (pd.) In search of the miraculous?

What are the possibilities of inner evolution? New groups forming for those who wish to pursue inner work. (828) 232-2220. www.gurdjieff-foundation-wnc. org mindfulness meditAtion (pd.) "Asheville insiGht meditAtion Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation in a supportive community.

Group Meditation. Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm. Sundays, 10am11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 8084444, www.ashevillemeditation. com mindfulness meditAtion ClAss (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm: Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. Info: 2583241. www.billwalz.com

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A Course of love • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - A class on spiritual transformation.

Held at 1765 Hendersonville Road. Donations encouraged.

Info: 508-4013.

Center for sPirituAl livinG Asheville 2 Science of Mind Way. Info: cslasheville.org or 231-7638.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - "Celebration of Life." Free. eCKAnKAr Center of Asheville 797 Haywood Road, W. Asheville. Info: eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775.

• SU (2/23), 11am-12:30pm Spiritual Laws of Life Workshop: “The Laws of Change and Fixidity.” Free. forGiveness meditAtion ClAss • SUNDAYS through (3/23), 7pm - Meets at Rainbow Community School, 574 Haywood Road. $8/$5 students, seniors. Info: meditationinasheville.org or 668-2241.

GrACe lutherAn ChurCh 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. Info: gracelutherannc.com or 693-4890.

• WEDNESDAYS through (2/26), 5:45-7pm - “Death and Resurrection of the Messiah” class. Free. Optional dinner 4:45pm. $5. Registration required • SA (2/22), 9am-noon - 'Grace 101' class explains the church's mission.

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• TUESDAYS through (3/4), 6:158pm - Short Term Disciple Bible Study. Registration required. $13.

GreAt tree zen temPle Located at 679 Lower Flat Creek, Alexander. Info: greattreetemple. org or 645-2085.

• Last SUNDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Dharma teachings led by Rev. Teijo Munnich.

GroCe united methodist ChurCh 954 Tunnel Road. Info: groceumc. org or 298-6195.

• 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm- A Course in Miracles, an open Bible study group. Free.

KirtAn With sAnGitA devi • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Held at Nourish and Flourish, 347 Depot St. $10-$15. Info: sangitadevi. com.

sPoKen & Written Word BAtterY PArK WritinG GrouP (pd.) Mondays, 6:30pm, Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar. This group meets to write together and then share in a supportive atmosphere. • Free! Lisa at tokyotaos@live.com for more information.

BunComBe CountY PuBliC liBrAries liBrArY ABBreviAtions - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n ss = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n sW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) • WE (2/19), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters, a casual knitting and needlework group. sW • TH (2/20), 2:30pm - Book Club: The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Monro. ss.

the shAmBhAlA meditAtion Center 19 Westwood Place. Info: shambhalaashvl@gmail.com or 490-4587.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - A Dharma reading and discussion. Free.

Info: asheville.shambhala.org.

CitY liGhts BooKstore 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

Info: citylightsnc.com or 5869499.

• TH (2/20), 10:30 a.m - Coffee with the Poet: Samuel Fox • SA (2/22), 3pm - A reading from What Matters, an anthology featuring NC poets.

understAndinG & usinG the i ChinG • SUNDAYS (2/23) through (3/30), 6pm - A six-week course.

Meets at Dobra Tea, 78 N. Lexington Ave. Registration by March 2. $40. Info: ichingguide@ gmail.com.

CreAtive Prose WorKshoP • SA (2/22), 2-4pm - Led by Tommy Hays, head of Great Smokies Writing Program. Held in Karpen Hall at UNCA. $25.

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mAlAProP's BooKstore And CAfe 55 Haywood St. Info: malaprops.com or 254-6734. Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• WE (2/19), 7pm - Authors from the "The Lovestruck Tour."

• TH (2/20), 7pm - Ramesh Bjonnes discusses his book Sacred Body, Sacred Spirit: A Personal Guide to the Wisdom of Yoga and Tantra.

• FR (2/21), 7pm - Shakespeare Salon series. This month: As You Like It. • FR (2/21), 7pm - Martha Graybeal Rowlett discusses her book Weaving Prayer into the Tapestry of Life.

• SA (2/22), 3pm - Author and illustrator Vanessa BrantleyNewton will discuss her picture book, We Shall Overcome.

• SU (2/23), 3pm - Author Jessica Handler will lead a workshop on grief writing.

• TU (2/25), 7pm - A discussion of the spiritual meanings of solitude.

• WE (2/26), 7pm - Local author Catherine Reid discusses her book, Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home.

• TH (2/27), 7pm - Writer and psychic Paul Selig discusses The Book of Knowing and Worth. sPellBound Children's BooKshoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: spellboundchildrensbookshop. com or 708-7570.

• FR (2/21), 6-8pm - Book vs.

Movie Club: James and the Giant Peach.

• SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Story time. Ages 2-6. storYtellinG series • SU (2/23), 3-5pm - Theme: "That Good Old Mountain Magic." Held at Feed and Seed, 3715 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. Free. Info: professorpeterpuppet@gmail.com.

thrivinG Children Children first/Cis • ONGOING - Children First/ CIS seeks volunteers for its learning centers and after school program for elementary school children living in public and low-income housing. Mon.Thurs., 2:30-5:30pm. Info: childrenfirstbc.org, facebook.com/ SuccessEquation or 768-2072.

Children first/Cis mind the GAP tour • TH (2/20), 3:30pm - The Children First/CIS Mind the Gap Tour will call attention to issues that hinder the success of children and families in pov-

erty. Free. Info and registration: AllisonJ@childrenfirstbc.org or 259-9717. st. GerArd house's ConneCt ProGrAm • Through MO (3/31) - 10-week program teaches K-12 students how thoughts and actions affect social situations. Held at 620 Oakland St., Hendersonville. $18 per week. Info and registration: jenniferlaite@yahoo.com or 693-4223.

volunteerinG Asheville CitY sChools foundAtion Works to create strong public schools and break the cycle of poverty. Info: jay@acsf.org or 350-6135.

• ONGOING - Volunteers need to tutor/mentor students (K-12).

Shifts are available Mon.-Fri., 8am-6pm.

Asheville CommunitY theAtre • MO (2/24), 6:30pm Orientation for interested volunteers meets at 35 E. Walnut St. Info: ashevilletheatre.org.

AurorA studio & GAllerY A proposed art space for artists battling mental illness, addiction or homelessness. Info: aurorastudio-gallery.com or 335-1038.

• ONGOING - Volunteers needed for planning fundraisers throughout the year.

BiG Brothers BiG sisters of WnC Helps children thrive through partnerships with trained adult mentors. Info: bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• ONGOING - Volunteers age 18+ needed to accompany youth twice a month to free or low-cost activities. Volunteers age 16+ needed to mentor one hour per week.

• TH (2/20), noon - A volunteer information session will be held at United Way, 50 S. French Broad Ave. ChArlie's AnGels AnimAl resCue A shelter and foster network for area cats and dogs based in Fletcher. Info: wncanimalrescue. org or 885-3647.

• ONGOING - Volunteers are needed to foster a dog for 2 to 3 weeks. No costs involved.

Girl sCouts CArolinAs PeAK to Piedmont Works to foster leadership and self-esteem in girls ages 5-17.

Info: girlscoutsp2p.org or 800672-2148.

• ONGOING: Volunteers needed age 18+, especially to be troop leaders. Membership in Girl Scouts required. hAnds on AshevilleBunComBe The volunteer center for the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County. Registration required. Info: handsonasheville. org or call 2-1-1.

• FR (2/14) - Help sort and pack food at MANNA Food Bank.

Various times.

• WE (2/19), 6pm - Volunteers needed to bake cookies at the John Keever Solace Center Cookie Night.

• FR (2/21) - Volunteers needed to sort and pack food at MANNA Food Bank. Call for times.

• SA (2/22), 10am-noon Volunteers needed to copy and collate materials for On Track financial planning and counseling.

• MO (2/24), 5:30-7:30pm - Volunteers needed to organize the play rooms for the Meditation Center's The Family Visitation program.

• TH (2/27), 11am-12:30pm Volunteers needed to do cook and serve lunch at the ABCCM Veteran's Restoration Quarters. literACY CounCil of BunComBe CountY Works to increase literacy and English language skills. Info: volunteers@litcouncil.com or 254-3442.

• ONGOING - Volunteers needed for the Adult Education Program, which teaches basic reading, writing and spelling.

Previous teaching experience not required.

• ONGOING- Volunteers needed for the Augustine Program which works with low-income children reading below grade level. Previous teaching experience not required.

lovinG food resourCes A special needs food pantry providing food and other items to persons living with HIV/AIDS or in hospice with any diagnosis.

Info: admin@lovingfood.org or 255-9282.

• ONGOING - Volunteers needed for stocking, helping clients shop, driving, food box delivery, sorting, graphic design and office assistance. Hours: Tue.-Friday: 9am-noon, Sat. 9am-2pm. mAnnA foodBAnK Processes donated food for distribution throughout WNC. Info: mannafoodbank.org or 299-3663.

• ONGOING - Volunteers need to work in the warehouse. Mon.Sat. daytime and Thurs. evening. mountAin AreA heAlth eduCAtion Center Works for quality health care through professional training.

Info: volunteer@mahec.net • ONGOING - Volunteers with strong customer service skills needed for OBGYN practice and family health center in Biltmore. 6-month commitment requested.

ProJeCt linus Hand makes blankets for critically ill children. Info: 645-8800.

• ONGOING - Volunteers needed to create blankets. Knitted, crocheted, quilted, no-sew fleece or flannel blankets will be accepted. Info: 645-8800. retired & senior volunteer ProGrAm (rsvP) • TH (2/27), 2-3pm - Information session for volunteers to help recruit volunteers for Hands On. Held at Land-of-Sky Regional Council office, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140.

Info: landofskyrsvp.org.

the rAthBun Center Provides free lodging for patients & caregivers staying in Asheville for medical treatment. Info: rathbuncenter.org or 251-0595.

• ONGOING - Volunteers need to support and register guests.

Weekend shifts: noon-3pm, 3-6pm and 6-9pm.

WnC Aids ProJeCt Provides resources and support for AIDS patients and their families. Info: wncap.org or 252-7489.

• ONGOING - Office/clerical volunteers need for data entry and computer-related tasks during daytime office hours Mon.-Fri. • ONGOING - Saturday morning volunteers needed to deliver food boxes to homebound men and women with HIV/AIDS in the Asheville/Buncombe area.

Good driving record and confidentiality required.

YmCA of WnC Works to build strong kids, families and communities in mind, body & spirit. Info: ymcawnc.org or 210-2265.

• ONGOING - Volunteers needed for the Rise & Reach Mentoring Program. Mentees are students in the YMCA's at-risk afterschool programs.

Background check required.

YWCA Advocates for young women’s leadership and welfare. Info: 254-7206, ex. 219.

• ONGOING - Volunteers need for a variety of tasks in the child care department. A background check, medical questionnaire, TB screening and a minimum age of 16 are required.

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It’s the end of the school day, and kids are gathering their things, getting ready to go home. An autistic child, however, might miss the cue that it’s time to pack up, notes sylvia van meerten of the Ashevillebased Empower Autism. And that, she says, could lead to their being scolded, triggering stress that makes the situation worse.

Because their brains are physically different, people with autism can’t read facial expressions and tone of voice the way most of us do, van Meerten explains. This, she says, can create real difficulties in navigating the world at large.

“They’re missing all these levels of communication,” she says, “so what we do to [them] can be kind of mean.”

In Asheville, however, van Meerten and others are working hard to keep such situations to a minimum and ensure that adults and children with autism have the resources they need to thrive in our community.

EmpowER autism Empower Autism, a private business, provides one-on-one coaching and mentoring for individuals with autism who are facing a major life transition, such as a move or career change. After an initial phone consultation, van Meerten decides whether she’d be a good fit to work with the people needing services. If the answer is yes, she’ll meet with them in the environment they’re seeking help with (such as a college dorm room for a freshman student) and develop a goal-based approach to ensuring success.

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“Then I write up a detailed plan for how to meet two or three of those goals in bite-size chunks,” she explains, “and we write a timeline in order to put the plan in place and decide what things you need to purchase (like a whiteboard or calendar), or what steps you need to do and in what order.”

Besides assisting local families, van Meerten helps develop summer camp programs for kids on the autism spectrum. She’s designed one for the Pennsylvania-based Dragonfly Forest, and every summer, she heads up to Michigan to co-direct Camp Tall Tree.

“The biggest thing I have to address is the anxiety about what can happen and what’s expected,” she says. “People with autism are very functional when they know what to expect and what you expect

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of them. Plus, for some of them, their verbal processing centers in their brain are physically smaller, but their visual processing centers are larger. That means if I can convey the expectations visually in the form of a list or schedule or picture, then it’s a lot easier for them to understand what we expect. So we have a lot of extra staff if someone needs to bail on an activity, and we have a lot of visual structure, so people can look around and see what’s expected without having to hear it.” autism consuLting & tRaining Another local private-pay provider, Autism Consulting & Training Inc., coaches, assists and supports children with autism and their families. Owner jennifer

Lingle says it was her experience teaching children with autism in Miami, where teachers aren’t allowed to coach their own students outside the classroom, that inspired her to launch her business. “I started working with other students in their homes,” she explains, “and I found out just how satisfying that was and how grateful families were.”

Lingle, too, begins by setting up an initial consultation with the family.

She visits prospective clients in their home to evaluate where each child is in terms of academic, social and communication skills, and to gauge any behavioral or sensory challenges. “From there,” she continues, “I create a report focusing on our goals and objectives, and I set up hourlong sessions, typically two to three times per week, where I go to the home and work on all those things, using a variety of teaching methods.”

One major benefit of working inhome, notes Lingle, is that it helps clients with generalization: their ability to perform a particular skill in different environments. “I could teach a typically developing child how to wash his hands at home, and he’d know how to do that at a restaurant or school,” she explains.

“But a child with autism may act like they’ve never seen the sink at a restaurant before if they learned how to wash their hands at school.

So that is one of the reasons why it’s so important to work on skills in the home with my students, because they are there so often and may not be generalizing what they learn at school or at the therapist’s office.”

Besides her work with children in Western North Carolina and nationwide, Lingle is also the founder and president of the International Autism Association for Families and Educators. “I realized how disgruntled parents were with the school system and how unappreciated teachers felt,” she says, “so I created this association to help bridge that gap. It’s bringing resources from all over the world to families’ and teachers’ fingertips, and allowing the two groups to support each other in a different kind of way.” Each month, the organization features an article on a different theme, written by an

James Biddle, MD BoarD CertifieD in internal MeDiCine autism professional. The group also offers Q-and-A calls and an online forum where people can seek answers. puBLic sERVicEs Private-pay services cost anywhere from $25 to $100 per hour, and many families say the benefits more than justify the cost.

But for those who can’t afford those rates, there are also public resources, though budget cuts have made it harder for these organizations to keep pace with the growing numbers of people needing their services.

“There were cuts to some of the state grants that directly impact our advocacy and education programs,” notes joe Yurchak, western regional services director for the Autism Society of North Carolina. “We are still able to provide free service to people, but the reduction doesn’t allow us to reach enough people. Still, anybody who’s able to call up the Autism Society has free access to a resource specialist that can assist them in navigating the mental health world.”

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by Medicaid and state funding; the group also provides privatepay services. To determine which services families are entitled to, Yurchak says they must contact the Smoky Mountain Center, a managed care organization that serves as a hub for allocating resources. Some services, such as parent training, are always free; for others, the cost depends on the family’s financial situation.

The society offers both direct assistance (such as in-home care, respite care and supported-living homes) and training for people who work in the autism community. First responders, for example, learn how to deal with emergencies involving someone with autism.

The group also administers the Sarah Handlan Crisis Fund, which helps Asheville families dealing with autism who find themselves in difficult situations. The money, says Yurchak, has been used to cover everything from paying an overdue electric bill to treating a home for pests. Blue Ridge Bags, another Autism Society program, is a small business that trains and employs people on the autism spectrum to manufacture and sell various items featuring artwork by people with autism.

One of the group’s latest projects is advocating for insurance coverage for autism services, something most policies don’t currently provide. The Autism Society is supporting House Bill 498, which would make such coverage mandatory in North Carolina.

It’s already passed the N.C. House and is now in the Senate awaiting a committee hearing. tEacch autism pRogRam Originally an autonomous, statefunded program, TEACCH Autism is now under the UNC School of Medicine. The goal, notes clinical director michele Villalobos, is “to create and cultivate the development of community-based ... training programs and research, all with the aim of enhancing the quality of life for individuals with autism and their families.” The program’s services are available to people of all ages.

Unable to keep up with rising numbers of people needing help, Villalobos explains, TEACCH is shifting its focus from providing direct care to training “providers in the community — anyone from the disability coordinator at the local college to elementary or preschool teachers or early intervention specialists — to work with individuals with autism using our principles.”

Those principles are grounded in the group’s “Culture of Autism” approach, which maintains that people with autism spectrum disorder are generally better visual learners; have a good grasp of details but difficulty assembling them; have a hard time combining and organizing ideas, materials and activities; and have communication problems.

Despite the focus on training, adults and children with autism can still receive help through the TEACCH program. Any family, notes Villalobos, can come in for a free consultation to discuss treatment and support options without having to go through the Smoky Mountain Center. There are also diagnostic evaluations, parent training and support groups, social play and recreation groups, individual counseling for higher-functioning clients and supported employment. Some of these services are free; others, such as the evaluations, are covered by Medicare and Medicaid. “I believe we are the only provider in the Asheville area and WNC region that does autism diagnostic evaluations, and that is covered by most insurance,” Villalobos reports.

Meanwhile, TEACCH has just received a portion of a larger federal grant awarded to UNC-Chapel Hill to fund “a three-year project ... linking both university and state partners to lower the age at which kids can get developmental screening,” says Villalobos. Only four states were admitted into the program; North Carolina, Villalobos notes, “has a strong history of serving individuals with autism spectrum disorder. ... When we first started talking about autism 60 years ago, the folks that started TEACCH were some of the key players. It was North Carolina and California. So I think, as a state, we set that precedent.”

And despite the challenges posed by dwindling federal and state funds, this community is fortunate in the range of services available for people with autism. In part, that’s because the various service providers are working more in partnership to educate families about what’s available.

“When I moved here,” remembers Lingle, “it was really challenging for me to find out all the organizations that were out there — even though we have the Internet, and even though we’re a very small town. So I think that we’ve all recognized that and are all working and trying to support each other to get the word out about our organizations.” X

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Soup’S on! readers sHare THeir favOriTes If we can trust the weather-divining skills of Nibbles, the Western North Carolina Nature Center’s prophetic groundhog (whistle pig is my preferred nomenclature), Asheville still has to slog through a few more weeks of winter chill before fresh, green goodies like spring onions, sugar snap peas and ramps find their way to local tables. To help fend off the cold at winter’s bitter end, Xpress is celebrating spoon-friendly, warming nourishment: homage to soups and stews.

When it comes to soup, I guess I am a tomato person. When I feel run down, or sense a cold coming on, the first place I head is the Noodle Shop on Pack Square for a steaming bowl of tomato-and-egg noodle soup. There’s something about its rich and slightly sour vegetarian broth — especially with a healthy dash of hot chili oil — that makes me feel like I’m getting a big, healing hug. The soup seems to instantly wake up my immune system.

I also admit to an unabashed fondness for Chef Daniel Wright’s tomato soup. Raised on the flat-tasting Campbell’s canned variety thinned with water, I always thought I hated tomato soup, so my discovery of Wright’s bright, multifaceted recipe during his days at Tomato Jam was a true culinary epiphany. I was close to panic when Tomato Jam closed, thinking I’d lost my supplier, and I breathed an audible sigh of relief when Wright announced he was cooking again at Loretta’s.

Lucky for us, Asheville is blissfully awash in wonderful soups, and everyone has a favorite. Read on for what some readers have to say on the topic, including several inventive recipes that may inspire your own kitchen experimentation. — Gina Smith X

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HigH Tea Café’S salmON BiSQue

by Nancy Orban

Nancy Orban is the former owner of High Tea Café, a gathering spot for local artists and musicians that was a fixture at 23 Wall St. from 1974-1983 — years when vacant storefronts were the norm in downtown Asheville. Several years ago, she wrote The High Tea Cafe No Frills Recipe Book, a collection that includes a fascinating glimpse into the history of downtown Asheville.

The book is available for $7 at Captain’s Bookshelf (31 Page Ave.). Here, Orban shares a recipe from High Tea and her view on soup.

“I’ve had good soups at many restaurants, and there are restaurants I haven’t been to (Pho, Table, The Market Place, for instance), so I’m simply unable to choose whose soup is the best or which is my favorite. Plus, with “soup of the day,” they’re always changing. Loretta's tomato-basil-cheddar is on the menu every day, and it is very good. Chestnut’s seafood bisque is very good, but it's not on the menu always. Choosing is a conundrum. The bottom line: There’s nothing quite so soothing on a cold day as a good, hot soup.” — Nancy Orban

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HigH Tea Café’S QuiCk Salmon BiSQue ingredients: 1-pound can red salmon 10½-ounce can tomato purée 2 sprigs fresh parsley, minced 2 cups water 1 medium onion, minced 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups half-and-half ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper 4 lemon slices, thin Paprika to make: Remove bones from salmon and put it and its liquid in a soup pot with the tomato purée, parsley and water.

Simmer for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, warm the butter in a large skillet and sauté the onions until soft. Blend in the flour and, while stirring, gradually add the half-andhalf. Cook and stir for 5 minutes. Add this mixture to the bisque with the salt and pepper and cook 3 minutes. Garnish with lemon slices and a dusting of paprika. X

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“The story goes that borscht actually means beet soup and some people make it hot or cold, some add cabbage and others add meat. You can buy the cold variety in any grocery store — it’s made

by Manischewitz and is a good hot summer-day dish served with a dollop of sour cream. My recipe is the hot variety and is from my Russian-born grandmother and includes beets, cabbage and meat. I've updated the recipe substituting one can of frozen lemonade for the more traditional sugar and sour salt. As far as good soup cookers in Asheville, mine are the best!” — Judy Kaplan

Judy kaplan’S HOT bOrscHT ingredients: 2 pounds chuck roast, cut in 1 1/2 - 2 inch cubes

2 large onions, chopped 2 cans of beets, sliced or shredded (or 6-8 fresh beets) 1 small head of cabbage, sliced thinly 1 12-ounce can frozen lemonade 2 large cans of diced tomatoes Salt and pepper to taste to make: Put meat in large soup pot with water to cover and bring to a rolling boil. Skim fat off the top. Add onions, beets, tomatoes with liquid and frozen lemonade. Add enough water to fill pot almost full and bring back to a rolling boil. Reduce heat and simmer for one hour. Add cabbage and continue cooking for another hour. Add salt and pepper or hot sauce to taste.

It’s always better the second day and freezes well. X Judy kaplan in her kitchen. pHoTo CourTeSy of Judy kaplan

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f O O D mOuNTaiN area cHild aNd family CenTer’S wHiTe Bean and SpinaCH STew The white bean and spinach stew created by staff at mountain area Child and family Center, provides a well-rounded meal for the whole family. PHOTO cOurTesy Of mOuNTaiN area cHild aNd family care ceNTer

Mountain Area Child and Family Center is a nonprofit early care and education center. The following recipe was created by its staff and is included in the Rainbow in My Tummy nutrition enrichment program, which aims to improve the quality of food served to young children. Bronwen McCormick, the MACFC director, writes the regular Rainbow Table column for Xpress. For details about the Rainbow In My Tummy program, visit macfc.org.

mOuNTaiN area cHild and family CenTer’S wHiTe Bean and SpinaCH STew 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 cup celery, diced 1 cup onion, diced 1 teaspoon granulated garlic ½ teaspoon thyme 2 cups lightly packed baby spinach, chopped (or substitute with about ½ cup frozen spinach) 2 cups broth, chicken or vegetable (use

3 cups broth if a more souplike consistency is preferred) 2 15-ounce cans great northern beans, rinsed and drained ½ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons lemon juice Note: If using frozen spinach, thaw it, drain it and squeeze it dry before using.

The recipe can also be easily adapted to use whatever is on hand, such as substituting broccoli or kale for the spinach, or using other varieties of beans. to make: Heat oil in large soup pot over medium heat. Add celery and onion and cook for about seven minutes, until soft. Add garlic and thyme and cook for one minute. Add spinach and cook for two minutes. Add broth, beans and salt. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for five minutes.

Mix in lemon juice. Add more broth, if needed, to adjust consistency. Cover and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Makes 6 cups. X

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miCHael Hopping’S THai-dyed SQuaSH curry

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Local writer Michael Hopping offers a vegetable soup that pops with spice and the warm Thai flavors of coconut milk and kaffir lime.

“Thai-dyed squash curry came to me from Gene Stratis, a character in one of my short stories. The sidelong stares end when people taste his soup. The only question I tend to get after that is whether I’ll share the recipe.” — Michael Hopping

miCHael Hopping’S THai-dyed SQuaSH Curry ingredients: 1 large butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and diced in ½-inch cubes (6 cups or so) 8-10 kaffir lime leaves 4 tablespoons butter 1¾ cups chicken stock (1 can) 1 cup daikon radish, peeled and diced (other radishes work as well) 1 large Asian or smallish purple globe eggplant, sliced thin and chopped (salt and drain if bitter.) ½ medium onion, sliced and coarsely chopped ½ red bell pepper, sliced and coarsely chopped 1 can (14-ounce) coconut milk Thai red chili paste, start with 3 tablespoons and adjust from there. (Total wusses start lower)

1 boneless, skinless chicken breast, broiled and sliced thin across the grain when cold Handful of snow peas, coarsely chopped (optional) Thai basil, or regular basil, to taste.

(If using dry basil, at least 2 tablespoons) Salt to taste to make: Reserving one cup of butternut squash, place the remainder in a large sauté pan with 2 tablespoons of the butter, kaffir lime leaves and 1 cup of stock. Cover and cook on medium heat until soft, maybe half an hour, stirring occasionally. Toward the end of cooking, remove the cover and allow liquid to steam off, stirring frequently, until the residual liquid is the consistency of jam. Discard lime leaves. Meanwhile, cover and microwave the reserved cup of squash and the daikon until cooked but still firm, maybe 5 minutes. Set aside. Sauté the eggplant and onion in the rest of the butter. Salt to taste.

When vegetables are cooked through, remove from the heat, add chopped red bell pepper and set aside. Purée the jammy squash in a blender with coconut milk, adding stock as needed to achieve a pleasing creaminess.

Place the purée in a stew pot and heat on medium heat. Add curry paste and basil, adjusting the amounts to taste. Add the microwaved daikon and squash chunks, sautéed vegetable mixture, chicken and snow peas, if used. Adjust seasoning until sweetness and chili heat are balanced and the herbal overtone is almost, but not quite, recognizable. Remove from heat when chicken and peas are hot.

Serve in bowls or over rice. Makes 4 to 6 entrée servings. X

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Lucky Fork aims to take the doubt out of dining

Jamie Fedele hates Yelp. Not because of any bad reviews he’s suffered, just the overall concept.

His Charlotte restaurant, Soul Gastrolounge, opened in 2009 and has received accolades, acclaim and a steady stream of business in one of the hipper parts of town, Plaza Midwood. A former DJ and music business veteran, the ever-entrepreneurial Fedele has a taste for music, food, booze and image, which he’s combined seamlessly at Soul Gastrolounge.

Fedele moved to Asheville in December, and his new Web project, Lucky Fork, aims to make sites like Urbanspoon and Yelp a thing of the past.

“Lucky Fork is nothing more than a tool that answers the question ‘Where do I go to eat?’” he explains. The average traveler or tourist tends to lean on Web pages like Tripadvisor, Yelp and Urbanspoon, which rely entirely on user reviews. The great quandary of pages like these is that those customer reviews usually end up telling you more about a single bad experience or instance of mediocre service than about the restaurant’s overall quality.

“When ‘dude224’ writes a review on Yelp of a local restaurant and then turns around and reviews Hardee’s, I wonder, ‘Who are these people, and why should I trust them on where to eat?’” Where others may just complain about those sites as irritating travel guides that generate mixed results, Fedele and his business partner, Joel Tracey, took the initiative and decided to fill the void left by sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon.

To put it lightly, Fedele is not a fan of user review Web pages: “To describe Yelp and Urbanspoon as flawed is a major understatement,” he says. “They are absolutely useless tools, and even if you can weed through all the useless reviews, you’re still directed to an Olive Garden in their sug-

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thE anti-YELp: Jamie Fedele has designed his new online restaurant guide to be everything he says Urbanspoon and Yelp are not.

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gested restaurants. F**k that!”

Fedele is not alone in harboring those sentiments. Many restaurateurs, chefs and bar owners have found that a customer’s misunderstanding or nitpicking over mundane details can result in low scores for otherwise popular and well-regarded venues.

In contrast, Lucky Fork chooses knowledgeable reviewers in selected cities to generate its content and compile lists of credible local eateries and watering holes.

“In every city I’ve DJ’d,” says Fedele, “I got to know someone in the restaurant community. A bartender, a chef, a sommelier or a restaurateur.” Those connections act as ambassadors for the page, curating and developing lists of what’s good and where the locals go in their respective cities. “And it’s not just restaurants. Breweries, food trucks and confectioneries, wine shops: All of that can be ‘forked.’”

On top of the food guide, there’ll be a blog that will feed through the website’s home page.

“Instead of being just a blog, it

will be culinary features of what’s new. So when you click on Asheville or Charlotte, it will take you to a list of all the restaurants, with a brief description and a Google map with a bunch of red forks over each restaurant,” Fedele explains.

“I don’t want to miss a beat,” he continues. “I want to spend my money locally. I think the most important decision a diner can make when they go out to eat is avoiding a chain restaurant.”

That fixation on the locally and independently owned is becoming the Lucky Fork team’s guiding light.

“The first level of being a human being in your community is spending your money locally,” Fedele declares.

“There is no excuse to spend your money at a chain restaurant when you’ve got so many options like we do here.”

The page officially launched Jan. 20, covering Asheville and Charlotte, and Lucky Fork plans to add Denver, Savannah, New Orleans and Charleston within the next six months. Stay tuned, and get hungry.

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Sticky fingers Discovering food you can eat with your hands

Have you ever caught yourself at a restaurant holding a piece of chicken with your fingers and wondered: Is anyone looking?

“Emily Post said it’s correct etiquette to eat fried chicken with your hands,” says Chef Bob Wallace of Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack. (His grandmother, he says, always quoted Emily Post.)

Rocky’s co-owner Lauren Cundiff agrees. “Chicken is in that category of food meant to be torn off the bone and put in the mouth and have a moment with it,” she says. Before she and her husband, Rich, opened Rocky’s, they researched several chicken joints in Tennessee. “People were pulling the chicken apart with their hands,” Cundiff recalls. “There were no utensils involved.”

Wallace takes it a step further: “It could be considered pretentious or pompous to eat a chicken leg with a knife and fork.” It’s also a bit unwieldy.

Bryan King, co-owner of 12 Bones Smokehouse says, “Some foods are too tricky to eat with a knife and fork. … With ribs you want to dig in and get it all over you.”

“We always use our hands,” Anoop Krishnan, owner of Mela Indian Restaurant, says of the Indian food culture, “but there’s a certain etiquette: We only use our right hand, specifically the thumb, pointing finger and middle finger.”

In India, this traditional way of eating is still practiced today. Krishnan feels it is a more reverent way of eating. “You want to respect the animals you are eating, not poke them with a fork,” he says.

“Eating with your hands brings us back to childhood, and it’s very primal,” says King. “We’ve been eating like that for thousands of years. It’s a much more intimate experience.” cuLtuRaL diFFEREncEs Although barbecue is typically associated with Southern cuisine, it crosses cultural lines. “My wife, Angela, is of Korean heritage and

grew up eating Korean barbecue,” King says. He reveals that 12 Bones has experimented with Korean barbecue flavors with its rib sauce, but shies away from getting too fancy. “At the end of the day, we’re a barbecue place.”

Krishnan points out there are fewer disruptive sounds when eating with one’s hands — no clinking of utensils against plates. “It’s a different sensory experience,” he says.

“It begins before you eat, when you first feel the food in your fingers.”

“The draw of eating with your hands is the simplicity of it,” says Dustin Pulliam, owner of the Twisted Crepe. “It’s easier than cutting stuff up.” The Twisted Crepe puts an American spin on the French crepe; folded, the triangular-shaped wraps come in savory and sweet varieties, made fresh on the spot. “It’s kind of like eating a pita pocket,” Pulliam says. “I wanted customers to have the ability to eat while they walk downtown.”

Krishnan’s parents emigrated from Northern India to Malaysia where he was born and raised in a large Indian community.

When Krishnan’s father visited Asheville, he decided to experiment with utensils. “My father held his knife like he was going to stab something and said, ‘Now what?’” Krishnan explained he should cut his food into small pieces, then put the knife down and use his fork. Frustrated, his father shook his head, claiming it was unnatural and asking why it had to be so complicated. “People were laughing,” Krishnan recalls.

A thali is an Indian meal made up of several dishes served in small bowls called katori and placed on a round tray with raised edges. Traditional Indian meals can also be served on a banana leaf. “Typically, you tear off a little piece of naan (Indian flat bread) and use it as a scoop, or you mix the dishes with rice to form a little ball,” Krishnan explains.

According to Krishnan, because of the tradition of eating with one’s hands, you seldom see Indian men and women with long fingernails; the nails are traditionally kept short and manicured, and the hands scrubbed clean.

FoRK-FREE: According to Anoop Krishnan, owner of Mela Indian Restaurant, the Indian tradition of eating without utensils reflects reverence for the food and offers a unique sensory experience. Photo by Jayson Im

hands-on Fun For the full hands-on experience at Rocky’s, Wallace recommends the mac-and-cheese poppers: homemade macaroni and cheese made with five cheeses, rolled up, breaded in a buttermilk and flour mix, then deepfried. Customers love to dip them in spicy ranch dressing, he says. If you prefer a healthier alternative, carrot and celery sticks (typically served with chicken wings) can always be ordered as a side. “They’re great to refresh the palate,” says Wallace.

Of course, diners at Mela Indian Restaurant always have the option of using utensils, but your next visit could be a great opportunity to experiment with traditional

Indian methods. “When Oprah visited India, she offended many people by saying we were still eating with our hands, implying we hadn’t developed into the modern world,” Krishnan says. “But for us it is not backward; it is our choice because we feel it’s the better way. We wonder why anyone is still eating with forks and knives.”

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The first one is rolling out now — a single-hop IPA featuring a hop variety so new it doesn’t even have a name yet, just a number. Hop 291 “seesaws between intense floral aromas and notes of blueberry and black pepper,” according to the brewery. Southern Hemisphere, which features fresh hops from New Zealand, will be Sierra’s next beer in the series and in stores around May. wicKEd wEEd announcEs datE FoR FiRst BottLEd oFFERing Speaking of new beers in bottles, Wicked Weed has been sharing previews on Facebook and Twitter of a bottling machine. The brewery has also announced that Serenity, a 100 percent Brettanomyces fermented farmhouse ale that took home a gold medal from the Great American Beer Festival, will soon be the first beer available in large-format (but not the standard 22-ounce) bottles at

the brewery. Wicked Weed plans to release the beer on March 1 at noon — the brewery has noted that camping out the night before is optional. onE woRLd BREwing BacK on tRacK When Farm Burger opened last year, it was announced that One World Brewing would be opening inside the same building at 10 Patton Ave. Then there was silence.

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Asheville on Bikes is on a roll.

Since its birth in 2006, the organization has been a key advocate for a more bicycle-friendly city. And it seems poised for growth as it prepares to celebrate Bike Love — a fundraiser and membership drive featuring a range of speakers and musical acts.

What began as an informal group of friends who got together to ride in the holiday parade has blossomed into an organization that mobilizes thousands of people to push for education initiatives, bike lanes and greenways. The group is known for doing it in style too: Festive community rides regularly fill local streets with costumed revelry.

But AOB founder Mike Sule says they’re just getting started. The organization recently agreed to become a fiscal sponsorship of the Western North Carolina Alliance, a long-established, local environmental nonprofit. Rather than vying to file as its own 501(c)(3), the move gives Asheville on Bikes many of the same legal benefits.

“That work of getting a nonprofit up and going and then managing

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Down with the cause: Jamar Woods put together a special band for Bike Love that he says will get people dancing.

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it would take away from the direct work that we want to be doing in this city,” says Sule. “The fiscal sponsorship enabled us to keep going with our advocacy work, providing us with some support and structure and expertise.”

The group is also tuning itself up by offering formal sign-ups for the first time, hoping to turn its legions of volunteers and social-media fans into card-carrying members. “We want people to share that pride in the organization with us — for them to be able to say, ‘Yes, I have a membership,’” says Sule. Having hard numbers on file could also

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make it easier to get grants, he adds. “We want to be able to say who we represent, how many people we represent.”

Also on the horizon: The former elementary teacher is hoping to transition from being a nearly full-time volunteer to a paid executive director.

“When I wake up in the morning, I am on Asheville on Bikes.

That’s primarily what I do,” he says. “I really love to work on bicycle advocacy. I want the job.”

The organization recently joined the Chamber of Commerce, and Sule says an important next step

will be seeking out partnerships and alliances with more businesspeople.

“I’m really excited to reach out to and work with the business community,” he says. “We’re going to need members of our business community to make some of the changes.”

The group has already received significant support from New Belgium Brewing Co. In fact, brewery officials have often noted that cycling is central to their business culture, citing Asheville on Bike’s work as one of the reasons they decided to invest $150 million in a new facility in the River Arts District. Last year, the company flew Sule to its Fort Collins, Colo., headquarters to attend a conference it hosted on bicycle boosterism. “It was awesome,” he reports. “I was at a crossroads in terms of where I was going with bicycle advocacy. … I got some really good advice on what to do.”

Sule also wants to build stronger partnerships with Buncombe County and the N.C. Department of Transportation. The county adopted a Greenway Master Plan in 2012 that calls for building roughly 80 miles of pathways. But Sule laments that implementation is yet to even start, saying the plan needs a “champion.”

He sees hope in the renewed discussion over the DOT’s plans for restructuring Interstate 26 and nearby streets.

“I see it as a grand opportunity to advance bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure,” Sule says. “We all need to be pushing for a bridge that connects downtown and West Asheville via biking and walking infrastructure.”

Party with a purpose At Bike Love, Sule will be joined by a range of multimodal allies from the Land of Sky Regional Council, Asheville Design Center, Friends of Hominy Creek Greenway and New Belgium, which will all deliver presentations on a variety of projects and aspirations. Each speaker will have 20 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each one, “So it’s designed to be informative and engaging, but also fast and furious,” says Sule.

Then musicians will take over the stage.

A special group of local notables called Jamar Woods and the

Broken Spokes is hoping to get everyone’s gears cranking with a variety of live dance covers, from Aretha Franklin to the Jackson 5. “We’ll be playing music from a mixture of time periods — some modern, some older — soul, funk, rock, music that gets people moving, gets people dancing,” says Woods, who’s best known locally as the keyboardist in The Fritz.

“We’re definitely a group that’s schooled in the art of improvisation, so there will be be some of that too.”

He’ll be joined on stage by his bandmates from The Fritz — Jaime Hendrickson on guitar and Mike Evans on percussion.

Drummer Joey K and bassist Rob Geisler, who play in several local bands, including The Business, round out the group.

“Basically,” says Woods, “I handpicked some of the best musicians in Asheville.”

Woods also performed at last year’s Bike Love event as a keyboardist in Jim Arrendell and the Cheap Suits. And he says that coming back is more than just another gig. “I’m a supporter of Asheville on Bikes. It’s always good to play for such a worthy cause,” he says.

Another repeat performer who believes in the mission is Marley Carroll, who will close the night with a DJ set that’s sure to have the crowd bouncing. A longtime local favorite, Carroll has been garnering well-deserved national attention in recent months from the likes of Pitchfork and Rolling Stone for his latest album, Sings.

He also happens to be Sule’s former housemate.

“Asheville on Bikes generally happens in my living room where I’m hunched over my laptop, so Marley lived in the thick of Asheville on Bikes for years,” Sule recalls with a laugh. “The poor guy would come home from the end of his day and walk into an Asheville on Bikes meeting. They’re not the quietist of meetings — there’s lots of passion.”

He adds that he’s very thankful to have his friend’s support: “Our crew loves to dance, and Marley brings the party.”

It’s a party with a purpose, says Sule, who hopes Bike Love and the evolution of his group will continue to help build “a groundswell of support for active transportation improvements.” The group’s

shaRing thE LoVE: Advocacy organization Asheville on Bikes continues to grow, with the help of founder Mike Sule.

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mission of “cultivating the culture of urban and commuter cycling through advocacy and celebration” has “really become a community endeavor,” he adds.

“It’s a result of the passions of the cycling community. And I’ve been sort of like the tender of that fire, and sometimes the agent of acceleration to push it.” X

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Hungary hearts Gypsy-inspired bands Sirius.B and Szkojáni Charlatans play The Grey Eagle In 2013, for the seventh straight year, Mountain Xpress readers voted Sirius.B one of the best bands in town.

The spirited, imaginative, genre-transcending troupe placed No. 1 in categories ranging from folk to rock, world music and even (in 2012) “Best Local Gypsy Absurdist Punk Rock Band.”

The acclaimed group may as well occupy a category all its own. The eight-person band’s diverse array of players includes Asheville Symphony Orchestra members and people with graduate degrees in various areas of musical study. There’s a clarinet teacher, several klezmer and world music aficionados, and a Mardi Gras

who Sirius.B with Szkojáni Charlatans and Leigh Glass whERE The Grey Eagle, thegreyeagle.com whEn Saturday, Feb. 22, at noon ($6 adults/$4 children) and at 9 p.m. ($10 advance/$12 at the door)

Indian. And if that’s not enough stylistic variation, when they descend upon The Grey Eagle Saturday, Feb. 22, for their first headlining show in that venue, they’ll be joined by rock-blues singer Leigh Glass and Hungarian Gypsy-punk band Szkojáni Charlatans.

Szkojáni (pronounced sko-YANnee) Charlatans are a much smaller outfit: the Gypsy-tinged group’s three members include Sirius.B percussionist Mattick Frick. A multiinstrumentalist, Frick has played in a number of bands over the years, including klezmer outfit the Vulgar Bulgars and Balkan band Bloodroot Orkaestarr. He’s spent part of the

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past year touring Europe with the Budapest-based Szkojáni Charlatans and will be rejoining them for a U.S. tour after the Grey Eagle date. The other twothirds of that band’s personnel are Szickán Olsson (accordion, vocals and percussion) and Kjartan Code (violin, brács, vocals and dance).

“It’s a similar band to Sirius.B,” says Frick, though the local outfit is “a bunch of folks who are not from those places but are really drawn to Gypsy-Roma-klezmer music. It’s a lot of traditional world music that we don’t necessarily have roots in, but we fell in love with it and can’t help but play it.”

Sirius.B frontman Pancho Romero Bond sees a clearer distinction. “We have this ridiculously long description: absurdist Gypsy folk funk punk. We came up with that because we didn’t think there was any genre in which we could be placed. For us, the Gypsy part of things is more of a flavor within our mix, rather than something that actually describes what we do.” Though the band plays very few Roma- or Gypsytype songs, it does perform some numbers with a similar feel, such as an Italian resistance piece and a couple of songs in Hebrew.

“Our originals will sometimes have [a Gypsy flavor] but oftentimes not. We’ll have people come to the shows sometimes, and they’ll walk away talking about how much they like Gypsy music,” says Bond. He and his bandmates share a knowing laugh about this. Bond continues, “There’s something about the energy and the way we go about our songs.

Whereas the Charlatans are going to be playing Hungarian traditional [music].”

However you do or don’t categorize Sirius.B’s music, the group does it well. But over the past year or so, the band has been playing out a little less, for a number of reasons. The musicians have been writing songs and exploring new avenues with percussion. Several members, including Frick, have been traveling. But one big reason is that all three founding members —

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Bond, Xavier Ferdón and drummer Imhotep — became fathers within a month of one another. This fact also meant that their last album, The Triumphant Return of Black-Eyed Norman, didn’t get the usual promotional treatment. “I meant to send it out for a bunch of reviews and never got around to it,” Ferdón admits.

No doubt the new offspring distracted them for a moment. But the presence of progeny also inspired the band to add a midday performance at The Grey Eagle — without opening acts — so families with young children don’t have to miss out on all the fun.

“I have an older son who is almost 2 1/2,” says Bond, “and that was

the reasoning behind this daytime show. He’s at an age now where we can’t keep him out until 2 in the morning. I have a lot of friends who have kids who aren’t ready to hang up their ‘fun coats,’ but they have to stay in and take care of their children.” Problem solved. Saturday promises something for everyone, with the family-friendly concert at noon and what Bond calls a typical drinking-and-dancing extravaganza at night.

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When the Asheville Beat Tape Collective celebrates its three-year anniversary at Emerald Lounge on Friday, Feb. 21, it may be the last time the group uses that name.

Technically, the moniker still refers to the organization started by formerly local DJ and producer Nigel Geiger in 2010 as a unifying force for sonic artists in Asheville.

Under the collective’s banner, acts like electro hip-hop duo Two Fresh, electro-soul outfit RBTS WIN and analog-synth group Sonmi (since disbanded) put out a pair of compilation albums. The most recent release was in October 2011.

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“We’re not trying to write something that will redefine music,” says producer Paul Gaeta, aka Panther God, of the collective’s material.

“We love hip-hop music that you can nod your head and dance to. We all make house or bass music or trap on the side as experiments, but our hearts and souls are in this weird hip-hop music.”

Gaeta and other artists have continued to pursue these interests while based in Asheville but have found allies and larger followings in Atlanta and Charlotte. For this and other reasons, the concept of the collective as a purely local entity has faded over time.

From the start, group members played local Beat Night shows

with guest artists from across the Southeast. Many of these gigs were at BoBo Gallery (since rebranded as the restaurant BoBo Pho) until problems arose.

“People would drive up from South Carolina, and we would have so many issues,” remembers Gaeta, who stepped up in a loose leadership role after Geiger moved to Michigan in 2012. “We would show up to set up, and there’d be a sign on the door: ‘Emergency: Closed.’ No phone call, no nothing.”

A shift to Blend Hookah Bar and Gallery (now closed) provided a venue but presented new conflicts — a beleaguered sound system, a rough crowd of regulars, little to no payment — that gradually disenfranchised the collective’s members.

Even for those who remained loyal to the cause of the collaborative music releases and shared showcases, the name has become increasingly inaccurate. Though producer Ryan Goodling, aka eMe, and experimental composer and producer Samuel Paradise call Asheville home, many of their peers — like progressive hip-hop producer Prof.logik, currently based in Spartanburg, S.C. — live elsewhere.

“We need to find a way, while respecting the roots of it, to represent Asheville but to be more real about what [the collective] actually is,” says Gaeta.

The third anniversary show offers the potential to do just that. Joining Panther God and fellow Asheville producer Mike McBride, aka Peripheral, on the lineup are Atlantabased producer/composer 10th Letter and musician/producer Deku. Charlotte’s Deflon, who describes his sound as “a futuristic blend of synth-driven R&B and instrumental hip-hop,” is also on the roster.

The main attraction, however, is MNDSGN — a producer from Los Angeles with whom Gaeta connected after MNDSGN remixed a Panther God song. The well-respected performer carries the kind of name recognition to

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The LA scene from which MNDSGN stems has a long history of leading a movement of cross-genre music lovers. Instrumental hip-hop producer DJ Shadow, producer and multi-instrumentalist Madlib and, most recently, experimental multigenre producer Flying Lotus are at the forefront. The late hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla’s legacy

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Multimedia, multimodal Apothecary closed and moved out of the YMI Cultural Center last November. But that closure didn’t spell the end for the experimental arts and music collective.

Rather, it presented an opportunity for unrestricted transition.

The group’s current incarnation is on view at the Asheville Area Arts Council. In Public is an exhibition of interdisciplinary, avant-garde visual and sound works. The show, up through March 7, is the second installment of the AAAC’s Point of View series, a program that hands over curatorial license to the artists.

“The series is designed to have artists curating artists, which I think is an obvious springboard for the Apothecary attitude,” says Frank Meadows, an Apothecary co-founder and the exhibition’s curator. “That attitude promotes the step between private creative practice and public exposure.”

The show features works by a mix of Apothecary co-founders and a half-dozen Asheville artists, all of whom had previously exhibited at the group’s former downtown venue. Works range from floor sculptures and multiscreen video compilations to minimalist, design-oriented pieces and intricate paper combinations.

One piece by printmaker and collage artist Mary Claire Becker features dismembered butterflies surrounded by layers of ornate, cut paper, dried tulip poplar leaves and cropped lithographs. The works, from Becker’s Sanctuariem Naturalis series, mimic religious reliquaries,but swap saints for mortality and Darwinian naturalism.

At the gallery’s opposite end, three works by Keegan Hooper appear at first to be enlarged, proto-constructivist digital swatches, freshly cropped from the Adobe Web-design software, Creative Suite. But on closer view, the visible wood grain reveals them to be photographs.

And in the middle of the gallery, jutting out of a sour green pile of silicone, are a group of 2-foot wooden spikes. Like a trap or

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hazard from a now-vintage video game, they add to the show’s eclecticism.

“The individual decisions on the artwork were intuitive,” says Meadows, whose background is in jazz composition. He chose works that shared Apothecary’s embrace of unfettered creative experimentation.

And, like Apothecary’s original mission, the show is as much about that artistic exploration as it is a resource for exposure.

In Public is, in essence, a momentary reprisal of the aesthetic that Apothecary developed. But it also offers a look into the group’s future. “The space at YMI was an educational experience for everyone involved,” Meadows says. “It was an impetus for harnessing creative energy.” More importantly, he notes, it was a starting point — not the end goal. Apothecary is an entity, not a location. The YMI, Meadows says, “was just the brick and mortar.”

In the wake of that physical departure, the group created asystems, a music label and online gallery curated by fellow co-founders Dow One and soshie LAN. Aside from being Apothecary’s digital, Web-based extension, Meadows says that asystems “is serving as a platform for further work.”

In its year and three months at the YMI, the group produced and hosted more than 220 workshops, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and concerts. Most were organized by the Apothecary’s founders, but they often partnered with an array of local arts organizations, such as the Media Arts Project and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.

They also worked with local music producers Headway Recordings and Grandma Presents, and the group even hosted pop-up events for locally based businesses, such as Amazing Capes.

The breadth of these connections, combined with the group’s multimedia, multimodal mentality, has kept Apothecary intact

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“3”: A bold, graphic piece by photographer Keegan Hooper hangs in the multimedia show, In Public. The exhibition is part of the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Point of View curatorial series. Image courtesy of the artist

and in motion. But taking time away from managing an arts space and venue has also been to its benefit, affording the collective’s members a moment to step back and evaluate what Apothecary was. Or is. “It’s given us time to concentrate, time to breathe,” says Meadows, “and the ability to refine our vision.”

Apothecary’s newfound mobility, via A-Systems, has led the group to enrich its existing connections and to

forge new relationships with area arts and music groups. It’s through these connections that Apothecary, for the first time since closing, has a public façade.

The exhibition In Public can be seen at the Asheville Area Arts Council through Friday, March 7. For more information, visit ashevillearts.com.

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other flourishes that maximize the band’s surf-rock nature.

“With every new band lineup I have, the songs take on different forms,” says Adams. For the last couple of years, the group has been crafting its set lists from the same pool of 30 or so songs. And while that’s about three albums worth of material, the Blanks Tapes frontman admits he sometimes gets bored.

This may be why: Adams is a prolific songwriter. His early projects, created mostly at home with

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woRK Ethic: From lineup changes to sonic shifts, The Blank Tapes are a moving target. It’s a never-ending process of writing, recording and releasing albums, says frontman Matt Adams (left, with Pearl Charles).

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The Blank Tapes and Coconut Cake heat up Jack of the Wood There are many forms of precognition, or predicting the future: Fortunetellers, crystal balls, dreams.

Or, in the case of Matt Adams, songwriting. As the frontman for Los Angeles-based garage band The Blank Tapes, he wrote the song “Brazilia” off the band’s new album, Vacation, long before he ever toured that South American country. “It was influenced by a lot of bossa nova and white-boy tropicália,” Adams says. The song lilts and sways, its lyrics a breezy sigh over shakers and fuzzy guitars. Astrud Gilberto, the girl from Ipanema herself, could have made a cameo.

Then there’s the title track, which

recounts the tour that finally took Adams and company to Brazil: “Crowded round the TV / we’re watching lots of movies / trying to learn Portuguese.” Those two songs, says Adams, set the tone for the album and its beachy, sundappled, ’60s feel. But despite the pitch-perfect, vintage-y high note of Vacation, Adams has no desire to commit to that sound.

In fact, when The Blank Tapes play Jack of the Wood on Friday, Feb. 21, they’ll be a different configuration than when they played The Grey Eagle in October. The last show had Adams’ girlfriend, Pearl Charles, playing a cocktail drum set in the center of a trio.

These days, Charles is on guitar and Adams has added a drummer on full kit. The new setup, says Adams, “is a little more free,” allowing for ride cymbals and

an eight-track recorder, were more like double albums, he says. He received some criticism for the size of those records and, since 2009, has been aiming for a 40-minute length. “I’ve been trying to be more cohesive with my albums,” he says.

“I’ve got a whole folk album I’m trying to record, and my form of country. Then I have some harder rock stuff.” The next collection he plans to release — which was actually recorded before Vacation — is “a real trippy, psychedelic, weirdo album.” He describes Vacation as more pop; forthcoming projects will reveal more guitar solos and general wildness.

And then there’s another pop album, even farther down the line.

“The hardest thing about writing a lot of music is keeping up with it,”

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“It’s a never-ending thing of constantly writing, constantly recording and constantly trying to figure out how to release things,” he says. “It’s a good problem to have, but it’s only gotten more overwhelming.”

If The Blank Tapes’ Asheville show is overwhelming, it’ll be because of the sheer tropical, sunny, coastal awesomeness contained within the band’s current set list. Plus, the little-seen but muchloved local(ish) band Coconut Cake opens. That group, led by Michael Libramento of Floating Action, Ice Cream and, most recently, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, puts its own spin on 1950s and ’60s-era Congolese rumba-rock.

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Rachel Brooke “Take everything you think you know about country music and throw it out the window,” wrote one reviewer. “That pop rock crap y’all call country is nothing compared to what Rachel Brooke is laying down.” Based in northern Michigan, Brooke grew up with bluegrass fans for parents. Meanwhile, she played in a punk band. Somehow those disparate influences found middle ground in Chicago blues and vintage New Orleans jazz — all of which Brooke channeled into her own distinct take on country. She plays two WNC shows this week: No Name Sports Pub in Sylva on Friday, Feb. 21, at 10 p.m. nonamesportspub.com. And Water’n Hole in Waynesville, on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 9 p.m. Free. rachelbrookemusic.com.

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Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show Now in its 27th year, the annual Arts & Crafts Conference provides a long weekend’s worth of exhibitions, seminars, speakers and presentations. Learn about the pottery, rugs, artwork, jewelry and textiles created during the Arts and Crafts movement, which flourished between 1860 and 1910. Asheville is the Arts and Crafts capital of the South, according to conference director Bruce Johnson. Locals interested in the design style can pick up antiques and reproductions at the conference’s companion antiques show, held at the Omni Grove Park Inn on Friday, Feb. 21, 1-6 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 22, noon-6 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 23, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $10 for all three days.

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Serpentine Arborvitae Brooklyn-born, Asheville-based vocalist and composer Serpentine Arborvitae once said in an interview that she used to listen to early jazz and learn all the horn parts. Not that she plays horn, but her vocal — at turns rounded with longing and knife-sharp with power — is wielded like a brass instrument.

After turning her attention to world and electronic music, she’s returned to jazz.

She’ll be performing with Bill Bares on piano, Zack Page on bass and Justin Watt on drums and, according to a press release, “You can count on Serpentine’s wild and divine renditions of jazz classics

by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter and Leonard Bernstein.”

Serpentine Arborvitae takes the stage at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. $8/$4 students. isisasheville.com. Photo by Andrew Wayne

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Catherine Reid Local author Catherine Reid, a literary nature writer, is the director of Warren Wilson College’s undergraduate creative writing program. Her essays, stories and poems have appeared in a number of literary reviews, and she recently published Falling Into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home. “Reid writes on issues like environmental degradation, same-sex marriage, and war and terrorism as she uses nature as a muse for new revelations, or at least a refreshed perspective, on the world around us,” says a press release. “Reid and her graceful prose present a thought-provoking perspective on contemporary social issues as well as an immersive, refreshing reading experience.” She will read at Malaprop’s on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com. Author photo by Erin Brethauer

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Start off 2014 Feeling Better and Taking Charge of your Health!

Yes! You can Live a Healthy with a Chronic Condition Living Healthy is a 6-week self-management workshop for those living with a chronic physical or mental health condition and loved ones.

UPCOMING CLASSES Living Healthy with Diabetes Woodfin YMCA, Mondays March 3rd – April 7th 10 am-12:30 pm

Living Healthy with a Chronic Condition Jewish Family Services (417 Biltmore Ave) Mondays, March 10th - April 14th 10 am-12:30 pm

Suggested donation of $30 for 6-week class. No one will be turned away due to lack of ability to pay.

Contact Rebecca at Land-of-Sky Regional Council for details: 828-251-7438 * Living Healthy is also known as the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program as designed by Stanford University.

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musiC sonG o' sKY Chorus (pd.) tuesday 6:45-9:30 Pm song o' sky Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) Covenant Community Church, 11 Rocket Dr., 28803 Asheville's premier a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www.songosky. org 1-866-824-9547

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'musiC from the heArt' With isAAC CArree • MO (2/24), 7pm - Gospel music. Held at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, 56 Walton St. Free. Reservations required. Info: musicfromtheheart2014.eventbrite.com.

CiomPi strinG QuArtet • SU (2/23), 4pm - Part of the Asheville Chamber Music Series. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place. $35. Tickets and info: ashevillechamber.org.

an ELEctRiFYing pERFoRmancE: Red Herring Puppets will present “Electricity!” a puppet portrayal of famous scientists as they use the process of careful observation and study to invent the lighting rod, the battery, the electric light bulb and more. The performance takes place at Diana Wortham Theater on Saturday, Feb. 22.

Photo Courtesy of Red Herring Puppets

Art CerAmiCs demonstrAtions At WCu • TH (2/13), 9:30am-noon & 1:30-4pm - With Potter Mark Hewitt. Held in the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Info: jbyrd@wcu.edu or 226-3595.

PhilosoPhY of Art • TUESDAYS (2/4) through (3/18), 6-7:30pm - A six session course. Held at Upstairs Artspace, 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. $35 /$25 members per session. sCholAstiC Art AWArds CeremonY • SU (2/23), 2pm - Held at the Asheville Art Museum, 2. N. Pack Square. Info: ashevilleart.org.

Auditions & CAll to Artists Asheville Art museum • Through SA (3/1) - Submissions open for Prime Time: Annual New Media, which will display as part of Moogfest. Guidelines and info: ashevilleart.org.

BmCA front PorCh CommunitY theAtre • TH (2/20), 6-8pm & SA (2/22), noon-2pm - Greater Tuna & Our Town. Call for a time slot. Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. hiCKorY doWntoWn develoPment AssoCiAtion • Through TU (4/1) - Submissions open for Downtown Hickory Art Crawl. Info: bsinclair@bellsouth.net or 322-1121. musiC video Asheville • Through FR (3/14) - Submissions open for Music Video Asheville. Selected entries will be shown at the Diana Wortham Theater in April. Info: musicvideoavl.com.

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nCWn WritinG Contests The North Carolina Writers' Network is nonprofit literary arts service for writers of all stages. Info and submission guidelines: ncwriters.org • Through SA (3/1) - Submissions open for the 2014 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. First place: $200 and publication in storySouth. $15/ $10 members.

Pet PhotoGrAPhY Contest • Through FR (2/28) - Submissions open for Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation's annual pet photography contest. Guidelines and info: sargeandfriends. org or 246-9050. trAnsYlvAniA CommunitY Arts CounCil • ONGOING - Submissions open for 2014. Themes and deadlines: Interwoven, Feb 4; Outdoors, March 4; Animals, May 6; Potters, June 3; Art Mart, Nov. 10. Info: tcarts.org or 884-2787.

WnC theAtre leAGue unified Auditions • SA (2/22), 9:30am-5pm - Held in A-B Tech's Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road. $30.

Registration and info: unifiedauditions.org.

Writers' WorKshoP events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers. Info: 254-8111 or twwoa.org.

• Through FR (2/28) - Submissions open for the 25th Annual Poetry Contest. $25.

ComedY disClAimer ComedY Info: disclaimercomedy.com or 216-2331.

• WEDNESDAYS, 9pm - Pre-booked open mic.

Held at the Dirty South Lounge, 41 N. Lexington Ave. Free.

• FRIDAYS, 7-8pm - Stand-up. Held at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. $10.

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diAnA WorthAm theAtre 2 South Pack Square. Info: dwtheatre.com or 257-4530.

• SA (2/22), 8pm - Dervish, a Celtic music group. $30/$25 students/$15 children. mArdi GrAs Blues shoW BAnd • TH (2/20), 6:30pm - Held at Kaplan Auditorium at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: henderson.lib. nc.us or 697-4725. musiC At BrevArd ColleGe Events take place in the Porter Center for the Performing Arts, unless otherwise noted. Info: brevard.edu/fineartsevents or 884-8211.

• TH (2/20), 7:30pm - Symphonic Winds concert with A.C. Reynolds High School Band. Free.

• MO (2/24), 7:30pm - Guest artists series featuring Pan Harmonia. Free. musiC At unCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets and info: 251.6432.

• SA (2/22), 7pm - Stuart Johnson album release and performance. In the Highsmith Student Union. Free. Info: sjohnso1@unca. edu.

• FR (2/27), 12:30pm - Master class with Arooj Aftab. In the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Free.

• TH (2/27), 7pm - Aroof Aftab, Pakistani singer and songwriter. $20/$12 faculty, staff & alumni/$7 students/$5 UNCA students. musiC on the roCKs series: the BeAtles • TH (2/20) through SU (2/23), 8pm - A tribute concert. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. $24.

Tickets and info: flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731. orPheus ChAmBer orChestrA At Asu • TU (2/25), 8pm - Held in the university's Schaefer Center. $20/ $16 seniors/ $10 students. Tickets and info: pas.appstate.edu or 262-4046.

Mountain Xpress and sherwood’s Music present: Our new video series showcasing local musicians continues every Thursday. Check our website this week for a performance from Asheville band tina and her pony at Sherwood’s Music.

PAn hArmoniA Tickets and info: pan-harmonia.org.

• SU (2/23), 4pm - Dreams of 8 by Igor Stravinsky. Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 945 Tunnel Road. $20/$15 advance. red June trio At BmCA • SA (2/22), 7:30pm - Acoustic americana trio.

Held at Black Mountain Arts Center, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. $15. Info: blackmountainarts.org.

Winter ChorAl ConCert At WCu • TH (2/27), 7:30pm - Presented by the School of Music. In the Coulter Building. Free. Info: 227-7242.

theAter Asheville CommunitY theAtre 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• FR (2/7) through SU (3/2)- Cabaret. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $25/$22 seniors and students/$15 children. events At 35BeloW Located underneath Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or ashevilletheatre.org.

• TH (2/6) through SU (2/23) - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $15.

• TH (2/27), 7:30pm - Febru-80s: Decadent Stories from the Storied Decade. Part of the Listen to This storytelling series. $10. events At trYon fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Box office hours: Tue.Fri: 10am-4pm; Sat.:10am-1pm. Info: 859-8322 or tryonarts.org.

• TH (2/20) through SU (2/23) - Fiddler on the

Roof on the Veh Stage. Thu.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun: 3pm.

GlenGArrY Glen ross • TH (2/13) through SA (2/22) - A play

by David Mamet. Held at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. Thu.-Sat.: 8pm. $20/$15 advance. Info: facebook.com/ GlengarryGlenRossAVL. hendersonville little theAtre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville. Info: 692-1082 or hendersonvillelittletheater.org.

• FR (2/14) through SU (3/2) - A Streetcar Named Desire. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm. $20/$15 ages 18-25/$10 students under 18. red herrinG PuPPets PerformAnCe • SA (3/15), 11am - Electricity! at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. $8.

Info: 257-4530, dwtheatre.com or ashevillepuppetry.org.

Asheville AreA Arts CounCil GAllerY 346 Depot St. Hours: Tues.-Sat.: 11am-4pm. Info: ashevillearts.com or 258-0710.

• Through (3/7) - In Public, artist curated exhibit of mixed media.

Asheville Art museum 2 N. Pack Square. Hours: Tues.-Sat.: 10am-5pm; Sun.: 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students & seniors/ free for children under 4. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

• Through SU (3/9) - Works by student artists who won regional Scholastic Art Awards.

• Through SU (5/18) - Social Geographies: Interpreting Space and Place, mixed media.

• Through (3/25) - Blueprints: A Collaboration, cyanotypes.

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• Through (2/28) - Clay studio exhibit in the Upper Gallery.

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AmeriCAn folK Art And frAminG Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat.: 10am-6pm; Sun.: noon-5pm. Info: amerifolk.com or 281-2134.

• Through TU (2/25) - 10th Anniversary Miniature Show, works smaller than 8X10.

Opening reception: Feb. 7, 5-7pm.

• TH (2/20) through WE (3/26) - Hallelujah, works by Southern self-taught artists.

Art At BrevArd ColleGe Info: brevard.edu/art or 884-8188.

• Through FR (2/21) - Sculpture works by Kyle Lusk. In the Spiers Gallery.

Art At mArs hill universitY Weizenblatt Gallery: Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm. Info: mhc.edu.

• Through (2/28) - Body and Soul, featuring work by African-American artists.

Blue sPirAl 1 38 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm, and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: bluespiral1.com or 251-0202.

• Through FR (2/28) - Tara, the Twenty-One Praises, works by C. Shana Greger.

• Through FR(2/28) - Surreal sketches by Ronald L. Ruble • Through FR (2/28) - New Works, contemporary mixed media.

• Through FR (2/28) - New to the Third, mixed media debut works.

folK Art Center MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Hours: 9am6pm, daily. Info: craftguild.org or 298-7928.

• Through TU (4/29) - Works by five Southern Highland Craft Guild members. hotel indiGo 151 Haywood St. Info: boutiquehotel-asheville.com or 239-0239.

• ONGOING- Paintings by Lelia Canter, Kathleen Kelley and Emily Shields explore human and animal relationships.

Art At WArren Wilson ColleGe Exhibits are held in Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery, unless otherwise stated. Mon.-Fri.: 9am4pm; Sun.: 1-4pm. Info: warren-wilson.edu.

• FR (2/21) through FR (3/14) - Exhibition of works by faculty of the Art Department.

Opening reception: Feb. 21, 6-8pm.

trAnsYlvAniA CommunitY Arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri.: 9:30am-4:30pm. Info: tcarts.org or 884-2787.

• FR (2/7) through FR (2/28) - Interwoven, fiber arts and basketry.

Arts CounCil of henderson CountY • TH (2/20) through FR (3/7) - The Art of Our Children, works by elementary school students.

Showing at First Citizens Bank, 539 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Mon.-Thu., 9am-5pm. Fri., 9am-6pm. Free.

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Hours: Sat.-Wed.: 9am-6pm. Thu: 9am-7pm. Info: 884-2701 • TH (2/13) through FR (3/7) - Impressionist works

by Linda Muir.

Art At unCA Info: unca.edu.

• Through MO (3/17) - Drawing Discourse, a juried exhibition of contemporary drawing. In the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Art At WCu Exhibits on display in the Fine Art Museum, unless otherwise noted. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• Through MO (3/31) - Good Thoughts Better, mixed media by Edward J. Bisese.

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uPstAirs ArtsPACe 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am5pm. Info: upstairsartspace.org or 859-2828.

• Through FR (3/14) - Figurative paintings by Mark Flowers.

• Through (3/14) - Changing the Focus, photography from the Carolina Camera Club.

• Through (3/14) - Paintings of Southern towns by Andrew Blanchard zAPoW! 21 Battery Park, Suite 101. Sun.-Mon., Wed.-Thu.: noon-6pm; Fri:. noon-8pm; Sat., noon-9pm; Info: zapow.net or 575-2024.

• ONGOING - Creepy Cute, mixed media.

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C L U B L A N D The Social Newgrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8:30pm

Wednesday, Feb. 19

Timo's House Asheville Drum 'n' Bass Collective, 9pm

185 King Street Barrett Smith, Mike Guggino, Mike Ashworth & Jeff Sipe (acoustic), 8pm

Town Pump Egg Eaters (garage rock, Americana), 9pm

Adam Dalton Distillery 3D: Local DJ party (electronic, dance), 9pm

Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Open jam, 6pm

Alley Kats Tavern Karaoke w/ Kimbra & Ron, 7:30pm

Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm

Altamont Brewing Company Hot Point Trio (gypsy jazz), 8:30pm

Vincenzo's Bistro Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm

Ben's Tune-Up Karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 10pm

WXYZ Lounge One Leg Up (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm

Black Mountain Ale House Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 9pm

Yacht Club Mike Hendrix (from The Belmont Playboys) w/ The Incredible Mooky (rockabilly), 9pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open mic w/ Billy Owens, 7-9pm Cork & Keg Jackomo & The Running of the Winos Krewe (Cajun, zydeco, two-step), 7:30pm

Friday, Feb. 21 185 King Street Hogtown Squealers (old-time, honky-tonk, ragtime), 7pm

Double Crown DJ Dr. Filth (country), 10pm Emerald Lounge Blues jam, 8pm

Alley Kats Tavern Dance night w/ DJ KO, 9pm

Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm highland brewing company Will Straughan of Red June (acoustic), 5:307:30pm Iron Horse Station Jesse James (Americana), 5-8pm Jack of the Wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm

Altamont Brewing Company Northside Gentlemen (folk-rock), 9:30pm

Appalachian Americana: Swinging in from Flat Rock, Letters to Abigail is steeped in regional roots. With instrumental elements of both country and bluegrass backing sweet and twangy vocals, the band will capture crowds at French Broad Brewery on Saturday, Feb. 22, 6-8 p.m.

Olive or Twist Swing lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7-8pm 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8-11pm

The Social Karaoke, 9:30pm

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room Bryan White (jazz, funk, ambient), 6-8pm

Tiger Mountain Thirst Parlour Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

Orange Peel Lettuce w/ Tauk & KRAZ (funk), 9pm

Timo's House Release w/ Disc-Oh! (bass), 9pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern The Black Angels w/ Roky Erickson, The Hounds of Baskerville & Golden Animals (psychedelic rock), 9pm

Sly Grog Lounge Open mic, 7pm

Town Pump Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

TallGary's Cantina Open mic & jam, 7pm

Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Open jam, 6pm

The Mothlight Sebadoh w/ Octagrape (indie-rock, punk), 9pm

Vanuatu Kava Bar Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm

Vincenzo's Bistro Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

Thursday, Feb. 20

To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

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Athena's Club Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Acoustic Swing, 7-9

Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, electronics), 7pm Odditorium Primary Colors, Keenan Kid, Smokey Robinhood & Asher Hill (hip-hop), 9pm

Asheville Music Hall The Invisible III w/ Mike Barnes & Shane Pruitt (jam, improv, rock 'n' roll), 10pm

185 King Street Dust N' the Wynn (country, folk, soul, Southern rock), 8pm

Havana Restaurant Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm Jack of the Wood Pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lobster Trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm Millroom Emancipator after party w/ OG Status (dubstep, hip-hop), 10pm Odditorium Hudson Falcons w/ The Dimarcos (punk), 9pm Olive or Twist Salsa lessons w/ Fabian, 7-8pm DJ (salsa, Latin, swing), 8-11pm One Stop Deli & Bar Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm

Adam Dalton Distillery Bridging the Gap (old school hip-hop, vinyl night), 10pm2am

Orange Peel Emancipator Ensemble w/ Odesza & Real Magic (electronica, trip-hop, instrumental), 9pm

Alley Kats Tavern The Mix (96.5 house band), 8pm

Oskar Blues Brewery Chris Smith from Carolina Bound (singer-songwriter), 6pm

Asheville Music Hall Needle on the Record w/ Shinobi Ninja, Crazyhorse & Colston, Lyric & Hunter (hip-hop), 10pm

Purple Onion Cafe Alex Krug Combo (rock, Americana), 7:30-9:30pm

Ben's Tune-Up Island dance party w/ DJ Malinalli, 10pm

Root Bar No. 1 Ruby the Rabbitfoot (folk, pop), 9pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Makia Groove (reggae, funk, fusion), 7-9pm

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

Cork & Keg Chicken Train (old-time), 6:30pm

Southern Appalachian Brewery Hunnilicious (Americana, folk), 7-9pm

Double Crown DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

The Mothlight Shorty Can't Eat Books w/ Ivan the Terribles & Rad Lou (punk, rock), 9pm

Emerald Lounge Andy D w/ Golden Street Choir Boys and King Super & The Excellents (pop, rap, electrofunk), 8:30pm

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The Phoenix Bradford Carson (jam, rock, blues), 8:30-11pm

Boiler Room Gnarl Scar, MRSA, Beasts of Legend & Red Satin Sky (metal), 9pm-2am Bywater The Barsters (Americana), 9pm Classic Wineseller CaroMia Tiller (Americana, soul, blues), 7pm Club Eleven on Grove DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm Cork & Keg The Gypsy Swingers (jazz), 8:30pm Double Crown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage, soul), 10pm Emerald Lounge Asheville Beat Tape Collective w/ MNDSGN, Panther God, 10th Letter, Peripheral Deflon & Deku, 8pm French Broad Brewery Tasting Room JJ & The Bradshers (rock), 6-8pm Green Room Cafe & Coffeehouse Carrie Morrison & Steve Whiteside (Americana), 6:30-8:30pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern White Denim w/ The Districts (rock), 9pm Havana Restaurant Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 7pm highland brewing company The Blood Gypsies (jazz, gypsy, blues), 6-8pm Iron Horse Station Dana & Susan Robinson (folk, old-time), 7-10pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Randall Bramblett Band (pop, soul, blues), 9pm Jack of the Wood Pub The Blank Tapes w/ Coconut Cake feat. Michael Libramento from Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (garage-pop), 9pm No Name Sports Pub Rachel Brooke (country), 8pm Odditorium Amnesis, Skinn Jakkitt, Xstrophy, Drosera (metal), 9pm

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Porch 40, Travers Brothership & PMA Nomadic w/ Supatight

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toWn PumP Wink Keziah (hillbilly rock), 9pm toY BoAt CommunitY Art sPACe Szkojani Charlatans (gypsy folk) & Carolina Catskins (jazz, Americana), 9pm tressA's doWntoWn JAzz And Blues The Isabel Project (blues, funk, soul), 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm vAnuAtu KAvA BAr Samuel Paradise (ambient electronica), 9pm vinCenzo's Bistro Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm White horse Carrie Newcomer (singer-songwriter), 8pm Wild WinG CAfe A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

thurs. feb 27

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WxYz lounGe The Goodness Graceful (Americana), 9-11pm

FeatUring Matt tOwnsend & JeFF tHOMPsON, RObeRtINO (RObeRtINO RUsseL), HaNNaH the K (hannah KaMiner)

sAturdAY, feB. 22 185 KinG street Brushfire Stankgrass (bluegrass), 8pm

backstage • 7:30PM • $5

AlleY KAts tAvern Twisted Trail (country, rock), 9pm AltAmont BreWinG ComPAnY Daniel Wallace fundraiser w/ Riyen Roots family jam (blues, rock), 7pm

sat. mar 15

the get right band

Asheville musiC hAll DJ Spinatik's Street Runnaz Takeover (rap), 11pm

w/ COMMOn FOUndatiOn

backstage • 9:30PM • $6

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

thurs. mar 20

Beer CitY tAvern Big Ben Zilla (hip-hop), 10pm-2am

COMedian ben KrOnberg

BlACK mountAin Ale house David Earl & Friends (acoustic rock, outlaw country), 9pm

backstage • 9:00PM • $8

Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7-9pm Boiler room Fall River, Slaves of Conscience, The Dying Sun, Alarka, All Hell & Spearfinger (metal), 9pm-2am

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tAllGArY’s CAntinA Southern Soul Campaign (southern rock), 9:30pm the Green room Bistro & BAr Drew Matulich & Friends (bluegrass, jazz, swing), 8:30pm the mothliGht Water Liars w/ Her Marigold (indie-rock), 8:30pm the Phoenix X.O. (jam, funk, jazz), 9pm-midnight the soCiAl Karaoke, 9:30pm tiGer mountAin thirst PArlour DJ Devyl's Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm toWn PumP Bullfeather (mountain rock), 9pm tressA's doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Carolina Rex (blues, rock, jam), 10pm vinCenzo's Bistro Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

BYWAter The Whappers (rock 'n' roll), 9pm

WAter'n hole Rachel Brooke (country), 8pm

ClAssiC Wineseller Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John covers), 7pm

Westville PuB Red Hot Sugar Babies (blues, jazz), 10pm

CluB eleven on Grove 30 UP Black History Month Celebration, 9pm-2am

White horse Darin and Brooke Alderidge (bluegrass), 8pm

CorK & KeG Pleasure Chest (retro-rock, blues, soul), 8:30pm

WxYz lounGe Nighttime Swerve w/ DJ Adam, 9-11pm

douBle CroWn DJ Lil Lorruh (50s & 60s R&B, rock 'n' roll), 10pm frenCh BroAd BreWerY tAstinG room Letters to Abigail (country, bluegrass), 6-8pm Green room CAfe & Coffeehouse Lynn Goldsmith (singer-songwriter), 6:30-8:30pm GreY eAGle musiC hAll & tAvern Sirius.B w/ Szkojani Charlatans & Leigh Glass (gypsy, folk, funk, punk), noon & 9pm Grind CAfe The Alligators (blues), 8pm hiGhlAnd BreWinG ComPAnY 176 Band (rock), 6-8pm iron horse stAtion Dave Desmelik (originals), 7-10pm

sundAY, feB. 23 AltAmont theAter Songs of the Fall (Americana), 8pm Ben's tune-uP Vinyl night (open DJ collective) BlACK mountAin Ale house NFL Sunday w/ pre-game brunch at 11:30am, 1pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Patrick Fitzsimons (folk), 7-9pm CorK & KeG Jesse Lege (Cajun dance party), 6pm douBle CroWn Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Bike Love 2014 w/ Jamar Wood, Broken Spokes & DJ Marley, 6pm

GreY eAGle musiC hAll & tAvern That 1 Guy (one-man-band, experimental), 8pm

JACK of the Wood PuB The Makem & Spain Brothers (Irish folk), 9pm

hi-Wire BreWinG Zaq Suarez (singer-songwriter, indie-rock), 6-8pm

odditorium Punk fest w/ Slaves BC, Bardus, Killing Solves Everything & The Warship Christ, 9pm

hYPhen Locomotive Pie (roots, folk, blues), 2-5pm

olive or tWist 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8:3011pm one stoP deli & BAr Reggae Family Jam, 2pm Porch 40, Travers Brothership & PMA (alternative, blues, funk), 10pm orAnGe Peel Smokin' (arena rock), 9pm osKAr Blues BreWerY The American Gonzos (indie-rock, power-pop), 7pm PACK's tAvern "The Mix" 96.5 House Band (rock 'n' roll, hits, dance), 9pm PisGAh BreWinG ComPAnY Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead covers), 9pm

isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Jazz showcase, 6pm JACK of the Wood PuB Irish session, 5pm loBster trAP Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm millroom Service industry night karaoke, 10pm odditorium Viking night w/ Birth & Busted Chops (punk, thrash), 9pm one stoP deli & BAr Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am Nomadic w/ Supatight (funk), 10pm PulP Slice of Life comedy open mic w/ Ben Evans, 8pm

PurPle onion CAfe Johnson's Crossroad (bluegrass), 8-10pm

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

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

southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY Blue Sunday w/ Gary Segal (blues), 5-7pm

sCullY's DJ, 10pm-2am southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY Serious Clark (indie, funk), 8-10pm sPrinG CreeK tAvern The Screaming J's (ragtime, blues), 8-11pm

tAllGArY's CAntinA Sick Sound Sundays (DJ), 8pm

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Every Sunday JAZZ SHOWCASE 6pm - 11pm • $5 Every Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 7:30pm - midnite

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Those Lavender Whales (feat. bassist of Washed Out) w/Pussy Wizard (feat. guitarist of Toro y Moi), Means Well & Blots 8pm*FREE*

sERious at southERn appaLachian: Three-piece band Serious Clark will bring acoustic and harmonic tunes to Southern Appalachian Brewery on Saturday, Feb. 22, 8 p.m. The band infuses catchy pop melodies with folksy harmonica solos to deliver a fusion of sound. Photo by Robert Stoutamire

AshevilleKangenWater.com White horse Asheville Tango Orchestra, 8pm

mondAY, feB. 24 185 KinG street Monday night laughs w/ Hunter Roberts (stand-up), 8pm AlleY KAts tAvern Open mic, 8pm

2/21 The Blank Tapes W/ VERY SPECIAL GUEST COCONUT CAKELee FEATURING MICHAEL 10/25 Sarah Guthrie LIBRAMENTO (CONGOLESE RHUMBA ROCK) 9PM & Johnny Irion

AltAmont BreWinG ComPAnY Old-time jam, 7pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Karaoke, 9pm

2/22 The Makem &• Spain Brothers w/ Battlefield 9pm $10

(IRISH FOLK LEGENDS SONS OF TOM MAKEM 10/26 Firecracker Jazz Band FROM THE CLANCY BROTHERS) 9PM

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CourtYArd GAllerY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm douBle CroWn Punk 'n' roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm emerAld lounGe Bluegrass jam w/ Mountain Feist, 8pm JACK of the Wood PuB Quizzo, 7-9pm odditorium Commonwealth of American Natives, Claypool, The Dimarcos (punk), 9pm

Westville PuB Trivia night, 8pm

tuesdAY, feB. 25 AlleY KAts tAvern Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm AltAmont BreWinG ComPAnY Open mic w/ Chris O'Neill, 8pm Ben's tune-uP Dance party w/ DJ Rob, 10pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Trivia, 7pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7-9pm CluB eleven on Grove Dance, 8:30-11pm CreeKside tAPhouse Bluegrass jam, 7pm dirtY south lounGe Drayton & the Dragons (string jazz), 9:30pm douBle CroWn Punk 'n' roll w/ DJs Sean and Will, 10pm emerAld lounGe Those Lavender Whales w/ Pussy Wizard, Means Well & The Blots (pop-rock, indie, folk), 8:30pm

osKAr Blues BreWerY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm

GreY eAGle musiC hAll & tAvern Lake Street Dive w/ Miss Tess & The Talkbacks (indie, jazz, soul), 8pm

the mothliGht Spaceface w/ Analog Moon (psychedelic rock), 8:30pm

iron horse stAtion Open mic w/ Kevin Reese, 5-8pm

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

isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Bluegrass session, 7:30pm

tiGer mountAin thirst PArlour Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm

mArKet PlACe Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 6:30pm

vinCenzo's Bistro Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

odditorium Comedy open mic w/ Tom Peters, 9pm one stoP deli & BAr Star Period Star w/ Billy Litz & Mountain City Rhythm

Wednesday • february 19TH acousTic nigHT & cask release feaTuring Section (indie-rock), 8pm Tuesday night techno, 10pm

trAilheAd restAurAnt And BAr Open jam, 6pm

sCullY's Triva night, 9-11pm

vAnuAtu KAvA BAr Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

the Phoenix Mike Sweet (rock), 8pm

vinCenzo's Bistro Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

the soCiAl Big Generator (rock, blues), 7-9pm timo's house '90s night w/ DJ Ra Mak (90s dance, hip-hop, pop), 9pm tressA's doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Lyric (acoustic), 8pm vinCenzo's Bistro Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm Westville PuB Blues jam, 10pm White horse Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

WednesdAY, feB. 26 185 KinG street Harper & Midwest Kind (blues, rock, soul, funk, world), 8pm AdAm dAlton distillerY 3D: Local DJ party (electronic, dance), 9pm AlleY KAts tAvern Karaoke w/ Kimbra & Ron, 7:30pm Ben's tune-uP Karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 10pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 9pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Open mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7-9pm douBle CroWn DJ Dr. Filth (country), 10pm emerAld lounGe Blues jam, 8pm Grind CAfe Trivia night, 7pm hiGhlAnd BreWinG ComPAnY Mike & Amy (acoustic), 5:30-7:30pm iron horse stAtion Jesse James (singer-songwriter), 5-8pm JACK of the Wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm loBster trAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, electronics), 7pm

AltAmont BreWinG ComPAnY Laura Thurston (Americana), 8:30pm Ben's tune-uP Island dance party w/ DJ Malinalli, 10pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Locomotive Pie (roots, folk, blues), 7-9pm douBle CroWn DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm frenCh BroAd BreWerY tAstinG room Paul Cataldo (singer-songwriter), 6-8pm GreY eAGle musiC hAll & tAvern New Madrid w/ Hello Hugo (psych-rock, experimental), 9pm

isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Slaid Cleaves (singer-songwriter), 8:30pm JACK of the Wood PuB Bluegrass jam, 7pm lexinGton Avenue BreWerY (lAB) All Star Brown Bag Winners Showcase w/ Matt Townsend & Jeff Thompson, Robertino Russel & Hannah the K, 7:30pm

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osKAr Blues BreWerY William Schmitt (Americana, folk), 6pm PisGAh BreWinG ComPAnY The Royal Tinfoil (Americana, gypsy, grunge, swing), 8pm

the mothliGht The Hermit Kings w/ This Mountain & Vagabond Philosophy (indie, post-folk), 9pm

toWn PumP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

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timo's house Release w/ Disc-Oh! (bass), 9pm

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one stoP deli & BAr Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Sleepy Sun w/ KDH (rock, jam, blues), 9:30pm

southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY Carver & Carmody (Southern rock, country), 7-9pm

tiGer mountAin thirst PArlour Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

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PulP The Paris Thieves w/ Sloantones (folk-rock), 9pm

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PLAYERs: Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange, Shirley Henderson, Matt Lucas

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The secret life of walter Mitty (Pg) 1:00, 4:00, 700 Thor into Darkness 3D (Pg-13) 10:00

dRAmA RAtEd R thE stoRY: Émile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin — a tale of repression, lust, murder, guilt and consequences — is brought to the screen.

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thE LoWdoWn: Splendidly acted, scrupulously faithful and beautifully made, but lacking in deep emotional involvement. oscAR isAAc and ELizABEth oLsEn in Charlie Stratton’s In Secret, a film adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.

If there’s anything actually wrong with actor-TV-directorturned-feature-filmmaker Charlie Stratton’s In Secret it’s that it’s too finely crafted and too faithful to its source novel. The film is based on Émile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin (in fact, it played under the title, Thérèse, at film festivals). Whether you know the book or not, if you know Zola at all, you can be pretty sure this isn’t going to be a firkin of simians. No, this is very serious indeed, but it’s a special kind of serious in that it’s naturalist in intent and therefore pretty detached in tone. You aren’t invited to feel very much for these characters. Instead, you’re meant to observe them, their situations and the psychological effects of their actions more or less without comment.

The story is a tragedy from every possible angle, but the approach is distanced. The result is a dark (literally as well as figuratively), brooding film that’s beautiful, but is somehow dead to the touch.

That’s not a criticism — this seems to be the intent. Despite excursions

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The film is extremely faithful to Zola’s story. With her mother dead, young Thérèse Raquin (played as a child by Lily Laight) is taken by her army officer father (Matt Devere) to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange), and her son, Camille (played as a child by Dimitrije Bogdanov). The two children grow to adulthood (and become Elizabeth Olsen and Tom Felton) and are pushed into marriage by Madame Raquin, whose constant coddling of her sickly son has made him lessthan-desirable marriage material — especially since we’ve seen that Thérèse has fantasies of someone more physically and emotionally imposing. But Thérèse is really left no choice in this matter, nor in the

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family’s decision to move to Paris, where Camille can secure employment while Thérèse and Madame Raquin set up a shop.

It is in Paris that Camille meets and brings home an old friend, Laurent LeClaire (Oscar Issac, Inside Llewyn Davis), a womanizing artist who has ended up working for the same company as Camille.

Thérèse detests Laurent at first sight — primarily because he’s everything she wants in a man. Naturally, an affair ensues, and it isn’t long before a plan emerges to dispose of Camille.

What happens after that ... well, let’s just say it doesn’t end well. What may surprise you are the lengths the story goes to get to that ending, but those details I will leave to the film.

As I said at the onset, all this is beautifully crafted and executed with a very dark palette (even scenes in broad daylight seem subdued, and there aren’t many of them). The atmosphere is almost suffocating, making the events easy to understand. Charlie Stratton exerts mag-

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nificent control of the proceedings, and he creates what could have been one of the truly great, chillingly devastating final shots — if he hadn’t succumbed to the temptation to tack on one shot too many. The performances are beyond reproach (though it takes a while for Olsen to get her footing), and Jessica Lange is brilliant as Madame Raquin.

Tom Felton has come a long way from his days as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Fresh from Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac creates another — very different — self-absorbed character. It’s all hard to fault, yet it’s also hard to fully embrace. Rated R for sexual content and brief violent images. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas.

About Last Night HHH diREctoR: Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) pLaYERs: Michael Ealy, Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Joy Bryant, Christopher McDonald Romantic comEdY RatEd R thE stoRY: The ups and downs of two disparate couples over the course of a year. thE Lowdown: A none-toooriginal romantic comedy that is nevertheless likable, often amusing and refreshingly adult.

Steve Pink’s About Last Night will not change the way you think about the romantic comedy. It does, however, demonstrate how clichés and conventions can be combined to create solid entertainment. That it both beat RoboCop at the box office and nearly doubled its per theater average proves that there is some cinematic justice in the world. It also establishes Kevin Hart as a bona fide draw.

Despite a fairly predictable plot, the film offers a few surprises. It is a frank, very adult romantic comedy that leans heavily on dialogue, which feels rare. I also never imagined that a movie propped up by its writing (the film is a remake of a 1986

KEVin haRt and REgina haLL in the surprisingly pleasant About Last Night.

film that originated from the David Mamet play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago) would finally make Hart palatable for me. With his characteristic loud, fast-talking schtick reined in, Hart’s knack for comedic timing comes through. It certainly helps that director Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) and screenwriter Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) keep the lines coming and the film moving along.

While Hart gets top billing, he’s really in a supporting role. Michael Ealy (Last Vegas) plays the lead as the recently heartbroken Danny, who finds himself slipping into a serious relationship with Debbie (Joy Bryant, Hit and Run). The film follows the arc of the two over the course of a year — from new love to frustration and fighting. Tangentially, there’s Danny’s best friend, Bernie (Hart), and his dysfunctional, adversarial relationship with Debbie’s best friend, Joan (Regina Hall, The Best Man Holiday). The film never strays from the typical rom-com diagram, and that’s what keeps About Last Night from being truly special. But what keeps it from being something terrible is the strength of the cast (everyone has chemistry together) and the punch of the dialogue. Sometimes that’s all it takes to make an entertaining movie, which seems to be About Last Night’s sole concern.

Rated R for sexual content, language and brief drug use. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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‘four little Girls’ At unCA • TH (2/20), 6:30pm - A documentary about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Held in Highsmith University Union.

Free. Info: msp.unca.edu. ‘stAte of ConfliCt: north CArolinA’ • TH (2/27), 6pm - A documentary by Bill Moyers. Shown in Lord Auditorium at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Free. Info: patrie.wncpsr@main.nc.us.

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ClAssiC World CinemA foreiGn film series • FR (2/21), 8pm - Empire of Passion. Held at the Courtyard Gallery in Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. Info: ashevillecourtyard.com or 273-3332.

PACK liBrArY’s film noir series • TU (2/25), 3pm - I Wake Up Screaming. 67 Haywood St, in the Lorde Auditorium. Free.

Info: 250-4741. reClAiminG sACred Ground series • WE (2/26), 6:30pm- The series discusses Native American self-representation in film.

Barking Water. Held at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Info: 254-4752. trAnsition Asheville sCreeninG • TH (2/27), 7pm - The 11th Hour, a documentary about environmental consequences.

Held at the First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St. Free. Info: transitionasheville.org. unCA BlACK historY month film series Held in the Highsmith University Center.

Free. Info: msp.unca.edu or 232-2417.

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RoboCop H In Secret See review in “Cranky Hanke.” diREctoR: José Padilha pLaYERs: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley sci-Fi action RatEd pg-13

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thE stoRY: After nearly being killed, Detroit cop Alex Murphy is resurrected in a mechanical body to fight crime as RoboCop.

That sterling filmmaker McG (Terminator Salvaton) attempts to turn Kevin Costner into the next Liam Neeson (read: aging action father) with 3 Days to Kill. The premise of this “heart pounding actionthriller” (I quote) is that Costner is an international spy who has to deal with “one last assignment” while trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). For reasons that can probably be guessed, this has not been screened for critics. (pg-13)

Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 RoboCop — along with movies like Verhoeven’s Total Recall (1990) and Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) — were staples of The ABC Sunday Night Movie and were in heavy rotation on premium cable during my youth. That being said, I don’t hold the movie in any real esteem these days, and I find the reputation it’s developed over the years — thanks in part to its heavyhanded, obvious subtext — a bit silly. While I don’t think Verhoeven is a dumb man, he can be a bit lacking in subtlety, and the original RoboCop is the perfect example of this. The movie is a goofy monument to excessive ’80s action filmmaking that attempts to gussy itself up with some pretty boorish social commentary totally lacking in nuance.

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ments upon the original. I also acknowledge that the remake should be judged on its own merits, separately from Verhoeven’s film. The problem is that Padilha manages none of the potential improvements, and he is so insistent on openly and obviously referencing the original film that it’s impossible to be mindful of separating the two. Padilha’s RoboCop follows the general outline of the original. Set in a crime-riddled Detroit of the none-too-distant future (though a much less gritty version than is found in Verhoeven’s), cop Alex Murphy (TV actor Joel Kinnaman) is nearly murdered, but

he is given a second shot at life — and justice — after being put into a robotic suit. Where Verhoeven’s film was about corporatism, consumerism and what it means to be human, Padilha’s film attempts to go further, and there’s definitely the subject matter to do so.

RoboCop himself is approached more as a product to be marketed (complete with focus groups), and the film broaches very important, very topical subjects like drone warfare and the surveillance state. Even so, the most cutting the film gets is a flaccid dig at American nationalism that punctuates the end of the movie. Where Verhoeven had a little to say but said it loudly, Padilha wants to say a lot, but mostly just mumbles.

Making matters worse, the intervening two-plus decades haven’t really added much to RoboCop. Instead of a man in a plastic suit, we get a man in an awkward CGI suit. Instead of Peter Weller as our hero, we get Kinnaman — an actor who rivals Weller’s lack of onscreen charisma. This new iteration seems to have two concerns: cramming inreferences into the proceedings at every opportunity and drawing out the plot. Murphy’s transformation into RoboCop (and thus the loss of his humanity that lies at the crux of the movie) takes about 20 minutes to set up in Verhoeven’s movie. Here, it takes at least half the runtime.

Perhaps Padilha’s greatest sin is that this RoboCop is just boring. There’s barely an antagonist and even less of a climax, while the intermittent action sequences feel like an afterthought. I’m not going to complain about the PG-13 rating, but that’s no reason to suck the air out of a movie that, at its foundation, is about a damned crime-fighting robot.

How, exactly, do you not make that fun? Verhoeven’s ultraviolence always existed in the realm of comical, but at least it kept things lively, which is more than I can say about this RoboCop. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action including frenetic gun violence throughout, brief strong language, sensuality and some drug material. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher.

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Cleopatra (Part Two) HHHS histoRicaL Epic Rated NR This is the second part of the Hendersonville Film Society’s presentation of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra. The first part is actually better, but this is the Richard Burton section. For those wanting to see if they can spot the offscreen heat between him and Liz Taylor in the film (I can’t), this is the part you’re looking for.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Cleopatra Part Two Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Angel Heart HHHHH hoRRoR Rated NR Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro star in Alan Parker’s

ultra-stylish blend of film noir and satanism, Angel Heart — an intense and intensely creepy horror film that remains one of the best films of the 1980s.

Everything about the film — well, let’s overlook two cheesy demon-eye effects — works to create an atmosphere of chilling terror. Rourke’s seedy private detective is one of the actor’s best performances, while De Niro’s slyly sinister — yet often amusing — turn as his employer is a pure delight.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Angel Heart Thursday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) A woman from New Mexico wrote to tell me that after reading my horoscopes for three years in the Santa Fe Reporter, she’d decided to stop. "I changed my beliefs," she said. "I no longer resonate with your philosophy." I was sad about losing a reader, but I admired her for being able to transform her beliefs, and also for taking practical action to enforce her shift in perspective. That's the kind of purposeful metamorphosis I recommend for you, Aries. What ideas are you ready to shed?

What theories no longer explain the nature of life to your satisfaction? Be ruthless in cutting away the thoughts that no longer work for you TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In Arthurian legend, Camelot was the castle where King Arthur held court and ruled his kingdom. It housed the Round Table, where Arthur's knights congregated for important events. Until recently, I had always imagined that the table was relatively small and the number of knights few. But then I discovered that several old stories say there was enough room for 150 knights. It wasn't an exclusive, elitist group. I suspect you will experience a similar evolution, Taurus. You may be wishing you could become part of a certain circle, but assume it's too exclusive or selective to welcome you as a member. I suspect it's more receptive and inclusive than you think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The renowned Lakota medicine man Sitting Bull (1831-1890) wasn't born with that name.

In his early years he was known as Jumping Badger. His father renamed him when he was a teenager after he demonstrated exceptional courage in battle. I'd like to see you consider a similar transition in the coming months, Gemini. You're due to add some gravitas to your approach. The tides of destiny are calling you to move more deliberately and take greater care with the details. Are you ready to experiment with being solid and stable? The more willing you are to assume added responsibility, the more interesting that responsibility is likely to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The English noun "offing" refers to the farthest reach of the ocean that’s still visible as you stand on the beach. It's a good symbol for something that’s at a distance from you and yet still within view. I suggest that you take a long, thoughtful look at the metaphorical offing that's visible from where you stand. You'll be wise to identify what's looming for you in the future so you can start working to ensure you will get the best possible version of it.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) From 2010 to 2012, Eric Garcetti worked as an actor on the TV shows The Closer and its spinoff series Major Crimes, playing the mayor of Los Angeles. Then, in 2013, he was actually elected L.A.’s mayor. It was a spectacular example of Kurt Vonnegut’s suggestion that we tend to become what we pretend to be. Your assignment, Pisces, is to make good use of this principle. I invite you to experiment with pretending to be the person you would like to turn into.

1935 to 1955. No one knew its age or origins. In May of 1955, workers were struggling to move the heavy 10-foot icon to a new building on the temple grounds when it accidentally broke free of the ropes that secured it. As it hit the ground, a chunk of plaster fell off, revealing a sheen of gold beneath. Religious leaders authorized the removal of the remaining plaster surface.

Hidden inside was a solid gold Buddha that today is worth $250 million. Research later revealed that the plaster had been applied by 18th-century monks to discourage looters. I foresee a comparable sequence unfolding in the coming weeks for you, Leo. What will it take to free a valuable resource that's concealed within a cheap veneer?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Holistic health teacher Deepak Chopra suggests that we all periodically make this statement: "Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

I relinquish all regrets, grievances and resentments and choose the miracle." Is that too New Age for you, Virgo? I hope you can drop any prejudices you might have about it and simply make it your own.

It's the precise formula you need to spin this week's events in the right direction — working for you rather than against you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the savannas of Africa, water holes are crucial for life. During the rainy season, there are enough to go around for every animal species to drink and bathe in comfortably. But in the dry season, the impala may have to share with the hippopotamus, the giraffe with the wart hog.

Let's use this as a metaphor to speculate about your future. I'm guessing that the dry season will soon be arriving in your part of the world, and the water holes may dwindle. But that could ultimately prove to be a lucky development, because it will bring you into contact with interesting life forms you might not otherwise have met.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall muses on the crucial role that imagination plays in our lives. The “average daydream is about 14 seconds long, and we have about 2,000 of them per day," he says. "In other words, we spend about half our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies." I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because you are entering a phase when your daydreams can serve you well. They're more likely than usual to be creative, productive and useful.

Monitor them closely.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Eighth Symphony in a mere two months during the summer of 1943, working in an old hen house on a former chicken farm.

The location helped him relax, enabling him to work with extra intensity. I wish you could find a retreat like that for yourself sometime soon, Sagittarius. I think you would benefit from going off by yourself to a sanctuary and having some nice long talks with your ancestors, the spirits of nature and your deepest self. If that's not practical right now, what would be the next best thing you could do?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Is there one simple thing you could do to bring a bit more freedom into your life? An elegant rebellion against some oppressive circumstance? A compassionate breakaway from a poignant encumbrance? A flash of unpredictable behavior that would help you escape a puzzling compromise? I'm not talking about a huge, dramatic move that would completely sever you from all your burdens and limitations. I'm imagining a small step you could take to get a taste of spaciousness and a hint of greater fluidity. That's your assignment for the coming week.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) There are 15,074 lakes in Wisconsin, but more than 9,000 of them have never been officially named. That seems strange to me.

In my view, everything is worthy of the love that’s bestowed by giving it a name. I’ve named every tree and bush in my yard, as well as each egret that frequents the creek flowing by my house. I understand that at the Findhorn community in northern Scotland, people even give names to their cars and toasters and washing machines. According to researchers in the U.K., cows that have names are happier: They produce more milk.

Your assignment, Aquarius, is to name at least some of the unnamed things in your world. It's an excellent time to cultivate a closer, warmer personal relationship with absolutely everything.

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