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Advocates see threats to public education in current legislation
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From 1,700 filed bills, North Carolina legislators will pick the winners
17 AshevIlle cItY couNcIl: the tAx MAN coMeth?
To meet budget gap, city staff, Council prep for likely property-tax increase
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28 INteNt to Merge
Western Highlands announces plans to merge with Smoky Mountains
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56 so Much to do IN the world
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Asheville, we are used to doing great things — let's keep that up please. When my nephew visits, I would like to take the bus on Saturday to the WNC Nature Center — oh, we are going to cut both of those. OK, we'll just walk over to the Malvern Hills Park pool. Oh, cut too. Fine we'll just go watch a T-ball game run by Asheville Parks and Recreation — oh, wait, that was cut too. Fine, let’s just go to that park where T-ball was goings to happen and have our own darn game. No one maintains it so the grass is overgrown. Great visit, eh? These things add to the quality of life in Western North Carolina. Things like voter
CoRReCtions In the April 17 article “shared Creation,” Itiyopiya Ewart was misidentified as a member of Ujamaa Freedom Mobile Market. She is a Hillcrest resident concerned and active on sustainability issues. In the April 24 article, “Recitatives on the guillotine,” the Celebration Singers of Asheville, a children’s chorus, was misidentified. The group serves as the Children of Hope chorus in Dead Man Walking. The word “neutral” was mistakenly omitted from Jerry Rice’s April 24 letter, “buncombe County Raises taxes under disguise.” The sentence should read, “Buncombe County’s taxes are going up under the disguise of revenue neutral.”
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eaRth day on pavement? If anyone questions the validity of the Huffington Post's recent article regarding the fluff which fuels Asheville's reputation, then you should look no further than the absolutely preposterous April 20 Earth Day celebration, which was auspiciously sited on the rolling, um, pavement of Lexington Avenue. Yeah, that’s right: an Earth Day celebration on pavement. Had the author of the Huffington Post article visited us on April 20, he might have accidentally noticed that, while Ashevilleans boast about our link to our natural environment and tout our high quality of life, he would have found just another unfortunate and more realistic oxymoron of Asheville: Asheville doesn't even hold its Earth Day celebration in a park. Instead of the city's residents and guests basking in a park, running their fingers through grass, picnicking like one would think, and enjoying the benefits of nature, Asheville's Earth Day celebration was relegated to the bland and disappointing hard pavement of Lex Avenue, and rendered just another beer and merchandising event a la Downtown After 5. Some say that the city/county offered little assistance to provide the citizens with a park setting, some say it would have cost too much to hold it in one of our various parks. Regardless, it was a farce, another indication that Asheville really
could clearly use the type of criticism applied recently and that we need more of it. We need to be a city that expresses high, simple values first and foremost instead of spending energy on telling everyone about how wonderful our emperor’s new clothes are and bumping our progress against the low ceiling of good intentions and low standards. And does anyone realistically wonder why there was such a lackluster attendance at this year’s celebration? I left after an hour of sitting on the pavement. — Doug Robideaux Asheville
will ouR legislatuRe stifle job gRowth? North Carolina job growth would be hurt if the Legislature passes House Bill 298. This bill would dismantle the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard established by a bipartisan legislature in 2007. The reason for the REPS was to offer a way for utilities to diversify fuel choices by having a small percentage of energy from renewable sources like solar and wind. This is just what has happened. Also, our state, because of REPS, has experienced a proliferation of clean energy industries: more than 1,000 N.C. companies and 15,000 clean energy jobs have been generated. According to Ivan Urlaub, the executive director of the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, “Policies such as North Carolina’s REPS law have proven to be a workhorse for the state, not only in terms of the increased choice for energy sources they produce, but also for the thousands of new jobs, expanded business opportunities, and needed cost savings they generate.” I urge readers to contact their local legislators. We need policies like REPS to create jobs and to promote clean energy industries right here in N.C. Find your representative at ncleg.net. — Grace Curry Asheville
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blue Ridge’s millions Remember Richard Pryor in Brewster’s Millions? The pitcher for the Hackensack Bulls minor league baseball team is given $30 million dollars to spend in 30 days. Let’s imagine that Monty Brewster lived in today’s Asheville — and why not give him a seat on City Council (he was almost the mayor of New York after all). In his tuxedo, he commands a certain kind of respect . Except for the fact that he’d be a few million short of Asheville’s estimated $5.9 million deficit, who knows what he’d do with the money. Tourists versus the Braves exhibition game? Fortunately, the several readers who responded to our own Brewster-like challenge (though with no promise of an exponential payoff) offered more civic-minded solutions that involve neither John Candy nor the NY Yankees. As with Brewster’s Millions, there’s a lot more to the story of Asheville’s current budget dilemma — although the story is probably not nearly as funny. Reporter David Forbes produced a kind of primer in advance of City Council’s April 18 town hall meeting on the topic (the budget, not the movie). See his story at avl.mx/ss. What would you do to address the budget gap? Raise taxes? Cut services? Wait for Asheville’s great-uncle Rupert to bequeath the sum? — Jaye Bartell
Not just Asheville, but nearly every city in N.C. needs to lean real hard on the state to allow cities to restore their financial health by (gasp!) leveling new taxes and/or user fees. Everyone knows there is no free lunch, and to be forced into cutting social programs and much needed public services is pure insanity. Things cost money — get over it! — treed Hugger, via mountainx.com No more “retreats” for the city council, no more sponsorship of Bele Chere, no more washing city vehicles at private businesses. — Bishop andrew Gentry (@gaypriest), via Twitter
What is Chapter 7 Bankruptcy? Chapter 7 Bankruptcy provides a fresh start for those, who through unfortunate circumstances, find themselves unable to meet their financial obligations. Filing stops collection activities including foreclosures and lawsuits. In return for debt forgiveness, the client turns over to the Trustee certain assets for liquidation. The Trustee may sell certain of the client’s possessions in order to pay creditors. There are some assets a person may keep. Those assets are called “exemptions”. In most cases, the person may keep all possessions. Your attorney will explain the exemptions to you. Many people file Chapter 7 to protect their home and possessions from the reach of creditors. Often those who file are overwhelmed by credit card and medical debts. As a general rule, liens are not forgiven. Therefore, a client wishing to keep his home or car would need to make regular payments on them.
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Sell naming rights to the water system. Start a city-only lottery for free parking. Claim the loss of the water system on the city’s tax return, bingo! Make a deal with the county to raise the Biltmore’s property taxes by 800 percent, and split the profits.Buy Internet services from Tim Moffitt, so he’ll go easy on us. Rename the Asheville Tourists the Fighting McGradys, so he’ll go easy on us. Change the name of the city to Hendersonville; nobody seems to want to take their stuff. See if Tennessee will take us. We can secede from North Carolina and join them. — Jeff McLarty, via Facebook Hipster tax — timothy de Benedetti, via Facebook
What you reveal here [in your article], David, is that the city has taken more from the water fund than was required to run the water fund. The commingling of revenues and expenses becomes a difficult ball to unravel if/when the state takes away the water system. There will, indeed, be savings in human resources, the computer division, transportation and vehicles, machinery and repair, and many other areas. Those savings will result in loss of staff positions and consolidating some services. They will not cover the entire “loss” to the city, but far more than the budget office predicts. It will have a negative impact as the city is forced to provide services without the water subsidies that, quite honestly, were misused to at least some extent. — John L. Haldane, via Facebook
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by Caitlin byrd Part of the 4 ½-mile-long road leading to Christine Robertson’s 150-year-old homestead in Saluda was paved two years ago; the rest is still dirt. After taking care of her mother for 12 years and living with a sister for two more, Robertson moved into this old farmhouse in the town she’s called home for 38 years. The 56-year-old has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and Type 2 diabetes; she doesn’t have insurance, a car or enough money. And for her, the challenges of accessing health care stretch far beyond her half-paved road. “There's a lot of people who live on this road who are just as poor as I am, and with just as poor health. But folks don't understand how hard it is to get help out here,” she shares. “People don't have gas money to come and get me, take me to the doctor and bring me back home — and I don't have enough money for taxi fare, because that's $44 one way.” She sighs, then adds, “It's hard not living in a big city.”
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“ Folks don’t understand how hard it is to get help out here.” saluda resident Christine robertson It’s hard for her physician, Dr. Geoffrey Jones, too. According to the 2010 census, he points out, nearly 20 percent of Americans — and roughly 36 percent of North Carolinians — live in rural areas (those with populations under 50,000). Yet only 9 percent of the nation's physicians provide care to those folks, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration reports. “In cities, you may not be able to [see] the doctor, but there is a doctor. You may not have access because you don’t have insurance, but there are plenty of doctors per capita,” he explains. Jones, whose practice is based at the Hendersonville Family Health Center, also cites the not-so-pastoral reality of rural life: lower incomes,
geographic isolation and an older population, more of whom are under-insured or uninsured. “People come into our practices with advanced disease because they haven’t, for whatever reason, gone to a doctor in forever. And ideally, part of what we do is prevention.” But offsetting those obstacles, notes Jones, is the fact that, “In rural areas, both providers and patients are tough.”
short supply According to the federal health agency’s widely accepted ratio, every geographic area, whether urban or rural, should have at least one primary care physician for every 3,500 people. But achieving that ratio in rural Western North Carolina isn’t easy. “Any physician can only see and deal effectively with so many patients in a given day or week,” says don dalton of the North Carolina Hospital Association. “And when you have weaknesses in primary care, then you have a problem getting people the access and care management they need to stay as healthy as they possibly can.”
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Virtual Visits Dr. steVe north, founder and president of the Center for rural health Innovation, is building relationships with patients even when he’s not physically present. telemedicine, says North, can help deliver care to rural populations. It can also attract students who might later return to practice medicine in these areas. to achieve those goals, the bakersvillebased nonprofit has developed two programs: My health-e-Schools and homegrown healthcare. thanks to high-definition video conferencing and specially designed stethoscopes and cameras, North explains, parents no longer have to take time off from work or pull their child out of school for routine doctors’ appointments. operating out of school-based health centers staffed by nurse practitioners, the My health-e-Schools program serves 2,600 students and faculty members in the Mitchell and yancey County school systems. “If we can see somebody at their school for 15 minutes for a cold, they don’t end up at their doctor at the end of the day, or the emergency room, for something that’s not an emergency,” says North. a $500,000 federal grant is bringing fiber optic Internet access to Mitchell and yancey counties. With that in mind, North wants to take the telehealth concept into people’s homes. “We have to figure out how do we, as a community, use that to try to reduce hospital admissions, to try to provide patients with the ability to be evaluated and managed without leaving their house?” North says. Meanwhile, to help address the physician shortage, the nonprofit will soon launch its social-media-based homegrown healthcare program. “Whether they’re interested in physical therapy, nursing or surgery, students can connect with each other at a school level, and then also with rural providers who are practicing in our area, and have a conversation,” he explains. “the No. 1 indicator that somebody’s going to practice in a rural area, regardless of their health profession, is having grown up in a rural area.” Ultimately, says North, these programs aim to improve access to medical services in distant rural communities. “Sometimes, just getting a cast on at the right time is hard if you don’t have adequate health insurance.” — Caitlin Byrd
FroM east to west: the primary care physician shortage hits hardest in Western North Carolina and in the eastern part of the state. (Data courtesy of the health resources and Services administration)
The local situation reflects a broader problem that's not limited to primary care. In the next decade, the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Workforce Studies projects a nationwide shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians and 46,000 surgeons and specialists. A 2007 task force organized by the N.C. Institute of Medicine found North Carolina facing the same problem, due to such factors as population growth, aging patients and providers, and the resulting increase in chronic diseases. Specialist shortages also hit harder in rural areas, notes Dr. Barry Bodie, a urologist at McDowell Hospital in Marion. “We don't have the large number of cardiologists, pulmonologists, infectious disease people, medical oncologists. So you have to assume more of the burden of care than you normally would.” Typically, says Dalton, “When people don't have a primary care physician to turn to, they end up in community hospital emergency rooms. ... But that's seldom the most efficient, costeffective way to treat things that could otherwise be treated in a doctor's office,” he explains. On two separate occasions when Robertson says her symptoms felt like “somebody was just strangling me,” she went to Pardee Hospital’s emergency department to use a breathing machine — care the Saluda resident says she's thankful she can now receive at Jones’ office. And at Mission Hospital, the region's only level II trauma center, 76 percent of all emergency department visitors in fiscal year 2012 were treated and sent home; only 20 percent were admitted for further services. The Health Resources and Services Administration designates 15 Western North Carolina counties as areas facing a shortage of primary care providers. The region’s lone exception, Madison County, has managed to overcome a similar shortage through collaboration and community input.
deFying the odds Thirty minutes north of Asheville, the terrain morphs from humble hills into a jumble of jagged ridges and steep, forested slopes — and the physician shortage disappears from view. “Since we don't have a hospital and we don't have any specialty practices, basically, we're it,” says Robert Ford, executive director of the Hot Springs Health Program. With a mix of physicians and midlevel providers such as nurse practitioners, the nonprofit operates four medical centers strategically placed
throughout the county’s 449 square miles to serve its roughly 20,000 residents. “This is a model about giving the community what it needs,” Ford explains, pointing out the Marshall, Hot Springs, Laurel Township and Mars Hill centers on a map in his office. “This is not the model you would run if you were all about saving money.” But money wasn’t the project’s motivation to begin with, he continues. “Madison County has been a problem-solving community for a long time, and when the community decided 42 years ago that they needed some health care resources, particularly on the western side of the county, they didn't go say to somebody, 'You've got to fix this.' They said, 'We have to fix this.’ It's pretty hard to stray from your mission when you've got community-based people [on the board] saying we need to do a better job with fill-in-the-blank. That’s helped us shape the program in such a fashion that it does a good job of meeting the community’s needs.” For example, the four centers are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week. Together, they receive about 40,000 patient visits a year, plus another 10,000 through the program's hospice and home care services, Ford estimates. “Visits are scheduled for 20 minutes,” he explains. “However, the reality is if a patient needs more than that, chances are the provider's going to stay in there. A lot of times, what looks like it may be a very straightforward visit is not.” To keep up with patient volume while providing personalized community care, Ford’s project works closely with the Asheville-based Mountain Area Health Education Center to recruit and retain physicians. Eight of the Hot Springs Health’s nine doctors are graduates of MAHEC's family medicine program, which also has a Hendersonville branch. “It takes a special person to practice primary care in a rural setting,” says Ford.
MediCal MaVeriCks When Geoffrey Jones isn't seeing patients such as Robertson, he's teaching residents how to provide cost-effective, personal care in rural settings through his role as director of MAHEC's Hendersonville program. Currently, 62 percent of family medicine graduates stay and practice in Western North Carolina, MAHEC CEO Jeff Heck reports. “We still have a shortage
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of primary care providers, but we have a great pipeline, and those graduates go into practice throughout Western North Carolina.” Still, the local program is fighting an uphill battle against the prevailing attitude among medical students across the country. One of Jones’ residents, Dr. Grey Tilden, remembers when he discovered that his peers didn’t share his career aspirations. While giving a presentation during his first year of medical school at the University of Alabama, Tilden asked his classmates, “How many of you are planning on becoming a specialist?” “I think just about every hand was raised,” he recalls. “At that point, I knew the odds were stacked against me.” That hasn’t changed. In a 2012 survey of 14,112 first-year U.S. medical students by the Association of American Medical Colleges, only 2.9 percent said they planned to work in a rural area or small town after completing their training. But Tilden persisted, despite attempts to discourage him. “It motivated me, and I think family medicine does attract a bit of the maverick personality,” he observes. “There's a general misconception that practicing rural medicine is not as sophisticated — that as a physician, you're not using the very latest and greatest. But I think that oversells the science and undersells the art of medicine.” With MAHEC's help and financial assistance from the Lake Lure Town Council, Tilden plans to open a primary care facility in the isolated rural community next year. In a letter to Heck, Lake Lure Mayor Bob Keith wrote: “For the past several years, leaders of the Town of Lake Lure have worked to attract additional health services to our area. We have one family practitioner who is nearing retirement and have many unmet medical needs.” In its first year of operation, the new practice is expected to attract more than 1,000 patients and receive 2,034 visits, MAHEC projects. Another promising approach now being pursued by the Center for Rural Health Innovation in Bakersville involves using “telemedicine” to deliver basic care (see sidebar, “Virtual Visits”). But the real key to building a successful practice in a rural area, Tilden maintains, goes beyond such measures as patient volume or even quality of care. “It's so much about the relationship with the patient,” he says. “You really want to say, 'I'm part of this community and I'm serving this community, and we're all making this progress as it relates to the health, the economic development and the quality of life of this community.'”
“there’s a general MisConCeption that praCtiCing rural MediCine, you’re not using the Very latest and greatest. but i think that oVersells the sCienCe and undersells the art oF MediCine.” priMary Care physiCian grey tilden
what’s up, doC? Dr. Grey tilden, a resident of MaheC’s family medicine track in hendersonville, will be setting up a practice in Lake Lure later this year to meet the town’s health-care needs. Currently, there’s only one primary-care physician near Lake Lure, and that physician will be retiring soon.
the road hoMe Building those kinds of authentic relationships is one aspect of rural health care that hasn't changed since doctors first began hanging up a shingle in obscure little towns where they would forever be known simply as “Doc.” “I spend a lot of time going to see people at their houses and talking to them. In doing so, I learn a whole lot more about them that helps me provide care for them down the line,” Bodie reveals. “It's a lot easier for me to go and see them and take care of them at home than it is for them to get here. A lot of them depend on their kids, but their kids have to get off work and find time to come in here. It's inconvenient. They may not have the greatest mobility in the world, and they may not have the money to come in here.” Residents in MAHEC’s rural family medicine track, notes Jones, must conduct at least one home visit. Besides gaining a better understanding of the patient's environment and how it affects the kind of care that’s recommended, he continues, rural doctors can accomplish something far more profound. “People live far away, and when you take the time to actually go out there and try to influence somebody’s behavior to try and quit smoking or pay attention to their diet, they've got to trust you,” Jones emphasizes. “They've got to feel like you’re on their side, and going to their home is a really amazing way to create that bond.”
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speCialty ConCerns: Dr. barry bodie, a urologist in McDowell County, explains that when there’s a shortage of specialists in a rural area, “you have to assume more of the burden of care than you normally would.”
Robertson agrees, saying that her interactions with Jones make her feel “like I'm not just another number.” “He does care. If he didn't, he wouldn't stay on me about my diabetes and taking care of myself,” she says. “There's no doubt in my mind if I call him right now, if he could, he'd be here.” Those moments, says Jones, are what make a rural practice rewarding, despite the many challenges. “What we offer is personalized care. My patients know if they’re in the hospital, I’m going to see them. They know if they’re going to have a baby, I’m going to do everything in my power to deliver them. It's the idea that you can still be a country doctor.” X Caitlin Byrd can be reached at cbyrd@mountainx.com or at 2511333, ext. 140.
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advoCates see thReats to publiC eduCation in CuRRent legislation by nelda holdeR They had to keep rolling out chairs April 23 for what was billed as a “Conversation about Public Education in North Carolina,” held at the Asheville City Schools board room on Mountain Street. A larger-than-anticipated audience of 60 people — educators, elected officials, parents, advocates — came to talk about the status of public education, and to offer some opinions. In a nutshell, the program message from presenter Page McCullough was that the status of public education in the state, which has been quantifiably climbing for years, is about to take a drastic plunge. McCullough is director of outreach with Public Schools First NC, a grassroots advocacy group promoting high-quality public education in the state. She began the evening with an overview that included some state firsts — North Carolina had the first publicly funded university in the country in 1789, for example. Then she highlighted the state’s constitutional obligation to provide for public education and outlined improvements that have been steadily climbing for the past decade. “That progress is threatened by anemic funding and privatization initiatives,” McCullough said. Since 2009, according to her statistics, public schools have lost 13,978 full-time personnel while gaining 16,000 students. And there are many initiatives that were helping with improvements but have been eliminated or cut by recent or proposed changes in education programming and funding — including dropout prevention, teacher mentors, teaching fellows, electives and smaller classes. “North Carolina is no longer competitive with neighboring states,” said McCullough, and a new threat of “privatization” is on her radar. She then talked about current legislation being considered, focusing mainly on House Bill 443 and its companion, Senate Bill 337. “These loosen oversight of schools,” McCullough said, reeling off a list of what she sees as backward steps, including the creation of a separate N.C. Public Charter School Board predominantly autonomous from the State Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction; proposals to allow counties to fund charter schools; removal of teacher-certification requirements; and requirements that vacant public buildings, including schools, be made available for charter schools for $1 per year. HB 443 passed its first reading in the House and is currently in the Committee on Education. SB 337 was amended in the Education/Higher Education Committee and the adopted substitute bill is now in Appropriations/Base Budget. Another bill on McCullough’s list was SB 374, which would
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watchful eye on education: North Carolina’s progress in education “is threatened by anemic funding and privatization initiatives,” including a number of bills proposed by state legislators this year, says Page McCullough, outreach director of the nonprofit Public Schools First NC.. Photo by Max Cooper
end limits on class size; it is also in the Appropriations/Base Budget Committee. After McCullough’s presentation, the discussion centered largely around the new charterschool legislation, particularly the $1 rent provision for public buildings, and the proposed voucher system (HB 944, the “Opportunity Scholarship Act”) that would move children out of the public school system. But audience members talked at length about how to raise awareness of the issues with parents and the public, and how to advocate with legislators. “See them at home,” not in their Raleigh environment, McCullough advised. “Establish a relationship. Not everyone is on exactly the same page about everything, believe me,” she cautioned. “Talk with them in grocery stores. Invite them to your school.” david King, one of two Republicans recently elected to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, championed McCullough’s statement. “I’d like to reiterate ... do not hesitate to reach out. Don’t assume all Republicans support those bills. Don’t assume [they] don’t like public schools. My wife is a retired teacher.” Patsy Keever, Buncombe County Democratic Party chair, a longtime teacher and a former county commissioner as well as state representative, added her own word of caution about
the Raleigh scene. “Do not be fooled by what’s going on in the Legislature,” she said of the plethora of proposals aimed at the public education system — it could be a tactic to soften the blow “when they only pass five out of 20.” “We believe in public education,” said Allison Jordan, executive director of Children First, one of two local nonprofits that co-sponsored the event. “That’s the message to take to [the legislators].” Following the event, Kate Pett, executive director of the co-sponsoring Asheville City Schools Foundation — an independent nonprofit that advocates for public education — told Xpress that she felt very encouraged by the evening’s turnout. “I think it demonstrates that a really broad spectrum of people are concerned with the legislation being proposed,” she said. The response also indicates that “the Legislature is really out of step,” because the bills they have introduced evidence “distrust and undervaluing” of the state’s public education system, Pett added. “The people in that room know we have good schools [and] think the state should support the system.” X Nelda Holder can be reached at nfholder@gmail. com. Follow our Statehouse news at mountainx. com/ncmatters.
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CRossoveR stampede hits the statehouse fRom 1,700 filed bills, noRth CaRolina legislatoRs will piCk the winneRs by nelda holdeR With two weeks left before the North Carolina General Assembly’s May 16 crossover deadline, Asheville-specific legislation remains in focus among the more than 1,700 bills and resolutions entered in the 2013 session. And everything must now compete for time with the $49,590,935,190 budget recently proposed by Gov. Pat McCrory. Simply put, crossover is the deadline by which — in order to stay in the running to become law — most bills must pass second and third readings in their home chamber and move to the opposite house. If a bill misses the crossover bus, it generally has little to no chance of finding an alternate route to enactment in the current session. In terms of local impact and interest, one piece of legislation that achieved crossover is House Bill 488, which would force the merger of the Asheville water system with the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. The controversial legislation, sponsored by Republicans Tim Moffitt and Nathan Ramsey of Buncombe County and Chuck McGrady of Henderson County, has raised complicated issues of state control over municipal assets, as well as legislative discretion over public versus local bills. The merger bill won approval in the House on April 15 by a 72-39 vote and is moving through the Senate. It is expected to pass. Another Moffitt/Ramsey/McGrady bill, HB 568, has a more difficult bus ride. The proposal would de-annex the Asheville Regional Airport and WNC Ag Center from the city of Asheville. At press time, the bill was resting in the House Finance Committee with no scheduled hearing. It is embroiled with a debate over a land transfer already mandated by the state but which Asheville officials say is contingent on addressing questions raised by the Federal Aviation Administration. A third Asheville-focused bill moved forward quickly this session and is already law: HB 224, which removes the city’s power to zone within what is known as extraterritorial jurisdiction (an area not to extend more than three miles from the city’s corporate limits). The bill — sponsored by Moffitt and Ramsey — leaves Buncombe County with the authority to appoint two members to both the planning board and the board of adjustment of the city, which raises more jurisdictional issues. X Nelda Holder can be reached at nfholder@gmail. com. Follow our Statehouse news at mountainx. com/ncmatters.
but wait – theRe’s moRe Lesser-known bills from this area’s delegation remaining in the crossover queue include: hb 334: Expands the allowable use of school capital funds derived from local sales taxes in Buncombe County to include technology needs. Sponsors are Moffitt and Ramsey. hb 874: Broadens the agricultural present-use value law, which reduces taxes on land being used for commercial production or growing of crops, plants or animals by reducing the required tract requirement from a minimum of 10 to a lower threshold of five acres — useful in WNC’s terrain, where production acreage is likely smaller than in other parts of the state. Primary sponsors are Democrats susan fisher of Asheville and joe sam Queen of Waynesville, along with Moffitt and Ramsey. hb 704: Asks for a study of the use of telemedicine by the Joint Committee on Health and Human Services. Co-sponsors: Fisher and Ramsey. hb 609: Promotes cancer treatment fairness by requiring health or accident insurance policies to provide for certain orally administered drugs on par with intravenous or injected drugs. Co-sponsors: Fisher and Ramsey. hb 315: Calls for clear labeling of biodegradable plastics in order to prevent their contamination of the recycled rigid-plastic collection and re-use stream. Primary sponsor: McGrady; co-sponsor: Ramsey. hb 597: Creates a second layer of required identification for bail bondsmen through issuance of an official shield, in addition to a photo ID. Primary sponsor: Moffitt. sb 236: Amends the statutes establishing school boards as owners and construction agents for public school property, allowing counties to act in this capacity by resolution. Primary sponsor: tom apodaca of Henderson/Buncombe counties.
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In the wake of Democrats’ big losses at the polls last fall, Patsy Keever is taking the reins of the Buncombe County party. At their April 20 annual convention, local Dems elected the longtime leader to chair the organization. She succeeds attorney emmett Carney, who served for the last two years. In addition to electing her chair, the local party appointed several new officers: Tom sullivan (first vice chair); Keith Young (second vice chair); Parker sloan (third vice chair); Mark Newman (treasurer); susan Wilson (secretary). A public school teacher for 25 years, Keever brings a wealth of political experience to the position: She served for 12 years on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and one year in the North Carolina Statehouse. Keever also mounted two bids for Congress, both unsuccessful; last year, she lost a race against 10th District Republican incumbent Rep. Patrick McHenry. Keever says she's hopeful about the party's future, despite recent GOP gains at the county and state levels. She shared some thoughts on her new position: Mountain Xpress: Why did you want the job? Patsy Keever: I want to help build the party and help Democratic candidates get elected. ... I have a lot of enthusiasm for the job. … We've had some problems, but Buncombe County continues to be strong. And I think we can be helpful in building the party statewide.
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How much of your motivation comes from frustration at what Republicans are doing in the North Carolina General Assembly? "Frustrating" doesn't even begin to explain how I feel about that. I just feel like their whole attitude is wrong. … I've run for office because I believe we all need to be involved in the political process. And I fully believe in the process, but
Photo courtesy of Patsy Keever we've got to educate the voters. They've got to understand what [GOP legislators are] doing. And I don't think they got what they thought they were going to get with this last vote. The path that we're heading down right now is the wrong path. And so I want to do whatever I can to help right that. Any specific goals or things you want to do for the local party over the next year or two? Build the party, build the community within the party and make it more inclusive. Give people a reason for wanting to be involved in the political process. X Know someone interesting and local you’d like Xpress to interview? Send your ideas to news@ mountainx.com. Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.
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pRep foR likely pRopeRty-tax inCRease by david foRbes For years, even in the depths of the recession, Asheville City Council members have tried to avoid tax hikes. They’ve closed budget gaps by cutting administrative costs, closing vacant positions or reducing other costs. They’ve raised fees. They treated property-tax increases as a last resort, and a political risk. At an April 23 budget worksession, the tide shifted: City staff proposed a 1 cent per $100 property-tax-rate increase, and some Council members indicated they’d consider a bigger one if it would help avoid such cuts as ending Saturday bus service. The difference this year: North Carolina legislators have proposed several bills that could reduce municipal revenues statewide and Asheville revenue in particular. “We’re in the same boat as every other city in North Carolina with this: We’re all waiting, delaying our budget processes until we know how devastating it’s going to be,” Council member Gordon smith observed. In an overhaul of the state revenue system, legislators may end privilege license and utility fees, which raise $2.5 million for Asheville each year. Two Asheville-specific bills could also reduce city revenue — a move to deannex the airport and a forced transfer of the water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District. Add in a recent property tax revaluation and the county struggling to make up its own revenue losses, and “there’s a lot going on,” said Management and Finance Director lauren Bradley. “There remains a lot of uncertainty,” she said. “It’s difficult to say we should cut something or reconfigure a service.” But some state-driven impacts may not be as dire as city officials feared earlier this year. Staff project that increased sales-tax revenues will recover some of the loss, but they also estimate that the city will still net $1 million less in revenue due to actions taken by the General Assembly. A 1 cent tax-rate increase would nearly close that gap, and mean that a resident owning a $200,000 house would pay about $20 more a year. Notably, staff’s budget assumes that — due either to the administrative realities of a transfer or a likely legal battle — the city will still control the water system when the new fiscal year begins in July.
“It’s not ‘here are the keys,’” Mayor Terry Bellamy noted. “Transitions take time.” She would personally vote to sue the state if the transfer legislation passes, she remarked. Legislators are finalizing the approximately 1,700 bills being considered by the May 16 filing deadline in Raleigh (see “The Crossover Stampede Hits the Legislature,” p. 15). It’s not yet known which bills will pass both chambers of the Assembly and which will fall to the wayside — though the water bill seems likely to pass. Due to the uncertainty, city officials are pushing their budget process back to the last moment, and Council members will wait to finalize it in late June.
the big unknown Some Council members recommended a bigger rate increase. Cecil Bothwell, in his four years on City Council, has often been the lone voice calling for tax increases. He suggested a 4 cents per $100 hike. “I really think that $140 extra from someone who owns a $350,000 house is a really nominal amount,” he said, adding, “If you can’t afford another $140 if you have a $350,000 house, you’re lying to me.” With more revenue, Bothwell argued, “we could build the kind of community the voters have asked for.” Council member Chris Pelly countered that Council must take into account that Buncombe County commissioners, faced with similar pressures, may vote for a rate increase too. City property owners could be hit with two increases. He said he would support no more than a 2 cents increase. Property owners “who open their tax bill[s] may not distinguish between the city and the county. There are many people still living on the edge,” he said. “But there is a recognition out there we’re going to have to adjust our rates.” Staff proposed some cuts, such as closing vacant positions, shuttering several park services, or reducing city-sponsored festivals like Bele Chere. Bradley also suggested delaying some infrastructure improvements. But Council members reached no consensus, and staff emphasized that these proposals are contingency plans, not final recommendations. The next budget worksession will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, May 17 — the day after legislators’ deadline for bringing bills forward. The worksession will be held in the conference room on the first floor of City Hall. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or dforbes@mountainx.com.
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AnimAls brother wolf aniMal resCUe A no-kill organization. Info: bwar.org or 505-3440. • WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS &
arida arts syMposiUM • FR (5/3), 9:30am-8pm - The Arida Arts Symposium will honor jeweler Marilyn Bailey with a master class, reception and evening presentation. Held at BRCC. Free. Info, registration and exact locations: 694-1735.
SUNDAYS, 10am-1pm - Outward Hounds invites the public to take adoptable dogs on local hikes. Meets at BWAR, 31 Glendale Ave. Free. • SA (5/4) & SU (5/5), 11am-5pm - A Cinco de Mayo Fiesta adoption weekend will feature more than 100 adoptable dogs, cats, kittens and puppies at PetSmart, 150 Bleachery Blvd. Info: bwar.org or 575-2699.
art after dark • FR (5/3), 6-9pm - Waynesville galleries and businesses will offer extended hours, music and refreshments. Info: waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.
CoMMUnity partnership for pets • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm - Community Partnership for Pets will sell low-cost spay/neuter vouchers the Blue Ridge Mall, 4 Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville. Info: 6935172 or cpforpetsinc@aol.com.
art at asU Exhibits take place at Appalachian State University's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, unless otherwise noted. Tues.-Thurs. & Sat., 10am6pm; Fri., noon-8pm. Donations accepted. Info: tcva.org or 2627338. • Through SA (8/3) - Victor Ekpuk: Drawing Memories will be on display in Gallery B and Mayer Gallery's West Wing. • Through SA (6/1) - A group exhibition of Polish artists will be on display in the Main Gallery, East Wing. • Through SA (8/3) - Negotiation of the Secret Society Cloth: An Exploration of Ukara will be on display in Gallery A and Mayer Gallery's West Wing. • Through SA (8/3) - The BFA senior studio exhibition will be on display in the Community Gallery's East Wing. • FR (5/3), 7-9pm - ASU's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts will host an anniversary party featuring live music and dance. Free.
free spay voUChers • The Humane Alliance offers free spay services for female felines. Pick up a Dudley Fund voucher at Humane Alliance, Pet Harmony, BWAR, Friends 2 Ferals or Asheville Humane Society. Info and appoint-
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up-and-coming crafters: Students from Haywood Community College’s professional crafts department will display their best work of the semester at the Folk Art Center, daily through Sunday, June 23. Works include pieces by woodworker Brad Skupski (pictured).
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fUrever friends • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 10am5pm - Furever Friends Animal Rescue Network and Sanctuary will host feline adoption events at Petco, 825 Brevard Road. Info: 398-4943.
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a pet will be held at 21 Edwin Place.
sprinG warblers • MO (5/6), 9:15am-12:15pm - Simon Thompson will lead a program on spring warblers at the N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. $37/$27 members. Info: ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.
Art 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 WE (5/22) - Expedition, works by self-taught Southern artists.
art at brevard ColleGe Exhibits are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: brevard.edu/art or 884-8188. • Through MO (5/6) - A senior art exhibition will be on display in the Spiers Gallery. art at Mars hill ColleGe Weizenblatt Gallery: Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm. Info: mhc.edu. • Through TH (5/9) - A senior art exhibit will be on display in the Weizenblatt Gallery. • Through WE (5/8) - An exhibit of playing cards will be on display in the Renfro Library. art at wCU Exhibits on display in the Fine Art Museum, unless otherwise noted. Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs., 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: fineartmuseum.wcu. edu or 227-3591. • Through FR (5/10) - Testify: Beyond Place, works that "cel-
ebrate the presence of the African American community in WNC." • Through FR (5/3) - Juried student exhibition. • Through FR (5/10) - Critology: Considering the Art of the Critic/ Curator. ArtEtudE 89 Patton Ave. Sun., noon-5; Mon.Thurs., 10am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 10am-7pm. Info: artetudegallery. com or 252-1466. • Through MO (5/6) - Flesh and Vapor, works by Robert Asman. AshEvillE ArEA Arts CounCil GAllEry 346 Depot St. Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm. Info: ashevillearts.com or 258-0710. • TH (5/2) through SA (5/25) - A-B Tech juried student art show. • FR (5/3), 5-7pm - Opening reception and awards ceremony. • FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Artist business brainstorming sessions will feature one-on-one opportunities for artist entrepreneurs. Free or by donation. Call to confirm dates. AshEvillE Art MusEuM Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • Through SU (6/9) - The Philadelphia Story: Contemporary Figurative Work Drawn from the Academy will be on display in the North Wing. • Through SU (6/23) - Aaron Siskind: Abstract Expressionist Photographer will be on display in the North Wing. • Through SU (9/1) - A Sense of Balance: The Sculpture of Stoney Lamar. AshEvillE BookWorks 428 1/2 Haywood Road. Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 1-5pm; Sat., 1-4pm. Info: ashevillebookworks. com or 255-8444. • Through SA (6/29) - Homegrown Alphabets, a juried letterpress exhibit. • FR (5/10), 5-7:30pm - Opening reception. AshEvillE First FridAy Art WAlk • FIRST FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - The Downtown Asheville Art District will host a First Friday Art Walk throughout downtown. A free hopon, hop-off trolley tour is available. Info: ashevilledowntowngalleries. org. BlACk MountAin CEntEr For thE Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm. Info: BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930. • MO (5/6) through WE (6/12) - The Art in Bloom exhibit will precede the Art in Bloom event, scheduled for June 13-15. BlACk MountAin CollEGE
MusEuM + Arts CEntEr The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College. Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484. • Through SA (6/1) - No Ideas but in Things, works by Black Mountain College alumnus John Urbain. BlACkBird FrAME & Art 365 Merrimon Ave. Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm; Sat., 10am-3pm. Info: 225-3117. • Through FR (5/31) - Works by members of the Appalachian Pastel Society. BluE spirAl 1 38 Biltmore Ave. Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm, and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: bluespiral1.com or 251-0202. • Through SA (5/25) - Works by Mitchell Lonas, Olena Nebuchadnezzar and Ward H. Nichols. • Through SA (5/25) - New works by Peter Alberice (painting), Charles W. Goolsby (painting), Bryant Holsenbeck (mixed media), Jan Lee (ceramics), Michael Poness (ceramics) and David Sengel (wood). BluE to BlACk Art WEEkEnd • FR (5/3) through SU (5/5) - The Blue to Black art weekend will feature the E.A.S.T. studio tour, gallery hours and an opening reception at Monte Vista Hotel. Free. Info and schedule: bluetoblackartweekend. com. CAstEll photoGrAphy 2C Wilson Alley. Wed.-Fri., noon6pm; Sat., noon-7pm, or by appointment. Info: castellphotography.com or 255-1188. • Through FR (5/31) - Photography by Gerald Slota. CEntEr For CrAFt, CrEAtivity And dEsiGn Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. Mon.-Fri., noon5pm. Info: craftscreativitydesign.org or 890-2050. • Through FR (5/31) - Spoon/Fed, art inspired by "the archetype of the spoon." ChristophEr MEErdo • FR (5/3), 5:30pm - A reception for Christopher Meerdo's contribution to the Window (Re/presentation | Re/production) exhibit will be held at Henco Reprographics, 54 Broadway St. Free. Info: avl.mx/st. dusty roAds • Through WE (7/31) - Dusty Roads, photographs of classic and junkyard vehicles, wildlife and scanography by Barbara Sammons, will be on display at the Canton Public Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. Info: barbarasammons.com or 648-2924. Flood GAllEry The Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St. Tues.-Sat., 10am-4pm. Info: floodgallery.org or 254-2166. • Through SA (5/25) - End of Empire, works by Margaret Curtis.
FloW GAllEry 14 South Main St., Marshall. Wed.Sat., 10am-4pm. Info: avl.mx/aw. • TH (5/9) through SA (6/15) Animal Gods, works by Becca Floyd (clay). • TH (5/9), 5-9pm - Opening reception. Folk Art CEntEr MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Open daily from 9am-6pm. Info: craftguild.org or 298-7928. • Through TU (5/7) - Works by Marti Mocahbee (clay) and Bernie Rowell (mixed media). • Through SU (6/23) - Works by graduates of the Haywood Community College’s professional crafts department. Folk Art GAME BoArds • MO (5/6) through SU (6/30) - An exhibit of hand-painted folk art game boards (checkers and tictac-toe) by Francine Menor will be on display at the West Asheville Library, 924 Haywood Road. Info: 250-4750. GrAnd BohEMiAn GAllEry Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Mon.-Thur., 10am-7pm; Fri.Sat., 10am-8pm; Sun., 10am-5pm. Info: bohemianhotelasheville.com or 505-2949. • Through FR (5/31) - Before Night, works by Stefan Horik. hAEn GAllEry 52 Biltmore Ave. Mon., Wed., Thurs. & Fri., 10am-6pm; Tues. & Sat., 11am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: thehaengallery.com or 254-8577. • Through SA (5/25) - Dual Nature, works by Stephen Pentak and Kathryn Kolb.
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hAndMAdE in AMEriCA Located at 125 S. Lexington Ave. Info: handmadeinamerica.org or 252-0121. • Through SU (6/30) - Breaking Ground: Innovative Craft. hAyWood County Arts CounCil Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC's Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: haywoodarts.org or 452-0593. • Through MO (5/27) - Under the Sea, works by Dr. John Highsmith. • FR (5/3), 6-9pm - Opening reception. • SA (5/4) & SA (5/18), 2-4pm - A family craft workshop will be held in conjunction with the exhibit. MontE vistA hotEl's First FridAy • 1st FRIDAYS, 5:30-8:30pm AnTHM Gallery's First Friday will feature art by Nancy Moore, Elinor Bowman and Keith Spencer. Held at the Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain. Info: anthmgallery.com or 669-8870. MountAin hEritAGE CEntEr On the ground floor of Western Carolina University's Robinson Administration Building. Mon.-Fri., 8am-5pm; Thurs., 8am-7pm. Free,
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unless otherwise noted. Info: 2277129 or wcu.edu/mhc. • Through TU (5/14) - Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons. Pottery CliniCs • SATURDAYS through (5/25), 1pm - Odyssey Clayworks, 236 Clingman Ave., hosts weekly clinics on topics like slip decoration, loading a kiln, mixing glaze and more. Free. See website for weekly topic. Info: odysseyceramicarts.com or 285-0210. Push skate shoP & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. Mon.Thurs., 11am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 11am-7pm; Sun., noon-6pm. Info: pushtoyproject.com or 225-5509. • FR (5/3) through TU (6/18) - The Art and Time Squanderings of Richard Kirby. • FR (5/3), 7-10pm - Opening reception. swannanoa Valley Fine arts leaGue Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 West State St., Black Mountain. Thurs.-Sat., 11am-3pm. Info: svfal. info@gmail.com or svfal.org. • FR (5/3) through MO (5/27) - New Beginnings, works on the "essence of spring." • FR (5/3), 4-6pm - Opening reception. the Bender Gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10:30am-5pm; Sun., noon5pm. Info: thebendergallery.com or 505-8341. • Through FR (5/31) - Narratives, glass art by Lesley C. S. Nolan, Mathieu Grodet and Anna Boothe. the JunCtion 348 Depot St. Info: thejunctionasheville.com or 225-3497. • Through SU (5/12) - Boundless. On display during restaurant hours. transylVania Community arts CounCil Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am4:30pm. Info: artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. • Through FR (5/3) - Transylvania County student art show. tryon Fine arts Center Located at 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat., 10am-1pm. Info: tryonarts.org or 859-8322. • FR (5/3) through TH (5/30) Sculpture exhibit and sale. • SA (5/4), 5-8pm - Opening reception. west end Bakery • Through SU (5/5) - Works by Irene Murphy will be on display at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road. Info: 252-9378.
Art/CrAft fAirs asheVille art museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs
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are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: ashevilleart.org or 253-3227. • SA (5/4), 11am-5pm & SU (5/5), 1-5pm - The Fine Art Print Fair will feature affordable fine art prints from respected dealers from across the country. • FR (5/3), 5:30pm - Preview reception.
autism sPeaks • Through SU (6/2) - An exhibit of photography by Jeffrey DeCristofaro will be on display at The Hop, 640 Merrimon Ave. Half of all proceeds benefit regional nonprofit autism speaks. Info: avl. mx/sq.
Paris oF the south Flea market • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 8am3pm - The Paris of the South Flea Market will feature a "gypsy-style" market including handmade clothes, jewelry, art, food trucks and live music. Held at U.S. 70 at Lytle Cove Road. Free to attend. Info: avl. mx/s5.
BlaCk and white Gala • TH (5/2), 6:30pm - The Black and White Gala, to benefit the ywCa of asheville, will feature music by Westsound, a silent auction and food from local restaurants. Festive black and white attire encouraged. Held at Crowne Plaza Expo Center, 1 Resort Drive. $50. Info: ywcaofasheville.org or 254-7206, ext. 207.
the little Flea • SATURDAYS, 3-7pm - The Little Flea will feature produce and "hand-selected fare and wares" behind Grace Baptist Church, 718 Haywood Road. Free to attend. Info: littleflea.org.
Community rummaGe sale • SA (5/4), 8am-noon - Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road, will host a rummage sale in its lower multipurpose room and parking lot. Proceeds benefit needy members of the community. Info: blakewagner1@charter.net. • FR (5/3), 4-9pm - The church will accept items to be donated to the sale.
Auditions & CAll to Artists 48 hour Film ProJeCt • Through TU (6/11) - The 48 Hour Film Project invites filmmakers of all levels to make a movie in 48 hours on June 21. Registration is open through June 11. Info: 48hourfilm. com/asheville. • TH (5/2), 6:30pm - A meet and greet will be held at Asheville Brewing Company, 77 Coxe Ave. Free. all seasons CraFt show • Through FR (5/3) - The All Seasons Craft Show will accept applications from crafters through may 3. Info: 384-1226. art on main • Through SA (6/1) - Art on Main will accept applications from artists through June 1. Info: acofhc.org. asheVille art in the Park • Through SA (6/1) - Regional artists are invited to apply for Asheville Art in the Park through June 1. Held Saturdays in June and October in Pack Square Park. Info: AshevilleArtinthePark.com. Battle oF the Bands • Through WE (5/1) - Battle of the Bands, to benefit Give to the Music, will accept submissions from local groups through may 1. Info: givetothemusic.org. BlaCk mountain arts and CraFts show • Through WE (5/1) - The Black Mountain Arts and Crafts Show will accept applications from crafters through may 1. Info: olddepot.org. Friends oF the riVer awards • Through SA (6/15) - The Land-ofSky Regional Council will accept
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folkmoot at 30: Folkmoot USA will celebrate its 30th year of bringing international dance to WNC with a fundraiser on Friday, May 3, featuring hors d’oeuvres, music, a cash bar and live and silent auctions.
nominations for the Friends of the River award through June 15. Info: annie@landofsky.org. JaCk oF hearts • ONGOING - Jack of Hearts Pub and Restaurant seeks works by local artists. Info: marketing@laughingseed.com or (510) 856-8587. lake eden arts FestiVal • Through SA (6/15) - LEAF will accept applications from handcraft artists for its fall festival through June 15. Info: theleaf.com. montFord Park Players auditions Info: 254-5146, info@montfordparkplayers.org or montfordparkplayers. org. • WE (5/1), 6-8pm - Auditions for The Merchant of Venice will be held at Montford Community Center, 34 Pearson Drive. mountain heritaGe day • Through FR (5/3) - Mountain Heritage Day will accept applications from crafters through may 3. Info: mountainheritageday.com. new oPPortunity sChool
For women • Through WE (5/1) - New Opportunity School for Women at Lees-McRae College works to improve the lives of low-income women. Applications for this summer’s free three-week residential program will be accepted through may 1. Info: lmc.edu/nosw or 8988905. the BiG CraFty • Through SA (5/18) - The Big Crafty will accept applications from independent crafters through may 18. Info: thebigcrafty.com. twin riVers media FestiVal • Through MO (5/6) - Twin Rivers Media Festival will accept film entries in animation, feature, narrative, documentary and other categories through may 6. Info: twinriversmediafestival.com.
Benefits asheVille sChool 5k • SA (5/5), 1:30pm - The Asheville School 5K will benefit asheville school student financial aid and
Cuatro de mayo • SA (5/4), 7pm - "Cuatro de Mayo," to benefit Black mountain Pastoral Care and Counseling Center, will feature Mexican food, a silent auction, salsa dance lessons and entertainment. Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $12/$6 ages 12 and under. Info: whitehorseblackmountain.com or 669-9798. Fit For the Cure • FR (5/8), 11am-5pm - Fit for the Cure, to benefit susan G. komen for the Cure, will donate a percentage of profits from each Wacoal bra sold. Held at Belk in the Asheville Mall, 5 S. Tunnel Road. Bra prices vary. Info: 298-4970. Folkmoot usa • FR (5/3), 6-10pm - A 30th anniversary party, to benefit Folkmoot usa, will feature heavy hors d'oeuvres, music, a cash bar and live and silent auctions. Held at Sid's on Main, 117 Main St., Canton. $50. Info: dlavela@folkmoot.com or 452-2997. hadassah hosPital • SU (5/5), noon-5pm - The Congregation Beth HaTephila Gan Yeladim Tzedakah Project invites the public to make bears for hadassah hospital in israel at Build-A-Bear, 3 S. Tunnel Road. Prices vary. Info: 274-0959. leaF sChools and streets • WEDNESDAYS, 5-7pm - Wine tasting and jazz music, to benefit leaF schools and streets, will be held at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, 5 Walnut St. $5 suggested donation. Info:
theleaf.org or Jocelyn@theLEAF. org. memoryCare • SA (5/4), 7pm - Three original oneact plays, to benefit memoryCare, will be performed at Grace Centre, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River. 6:15pm reception. $15. Info: 2744801 ext. 2249. rik kirkland leCture • FR (5/3), 8:30-10am - Former Fortune magazine editor Rik Kirkland will present “Three Things That Will Change Everything,” to benefit Blue ridge literacy Council, in BRCC's Bo Thomas Auditorium. $25 includes refreshments. Info: 696-3811. sPay-Ghetti and no Balls dinner • TU (5/7), 5:30-8:30pm - The Spay-ghetti and No Balls dinner, to benefit Brother wolf animal rescue, will feature a three-course spaghetti dinner, silent auction and cash bar at Mayfel's Restaurant, 22 College St. $17/$10 children 5-13/ age 5 and under free. Info: bwar.org or 575-2699. sPrinG FlinG Gala • FR (5/3), 7-10pm - A Spring Fling gala and raffle, to benefit the asheville symphony Chorus, will be held at 60 North Market St., Fifth floor club room. $40. Info: ashevillesymphonychorus.com. the Cantina GiVeBaCk • Through SU (6/30) - The Cantina Fresh Mex and Tequila Bar, 10 Biltmore Plaza, will donate a portion of proceeds to Children First/Cis. Restaurant prices vary. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or biltmorevillage. com/cantina. • TH (5/2), 5-7pm - An opening reception for local artist Lynne Harty will be held in conjunction with the fundraiser. ViVa asheVeGas • SA (5/4), 7pm - Viva AsheVegas, to benefit Carolina day school, will feature an auction to celebrate the "glamour of the 1960s." Held at Biltmore Forest Country Club, 31 Stuyvesant Road. $125. Info: 2740758, ext. 299. weaVerVille Garden CluB rummaGe sale • SA (5/4), 8:30am-1pm - A rummage sale, to benefit the weaverville Garden Club's beautification projects, will feature plants, baked goods, clothes and more. Held at Weaverville Community Center, 60 Lake Louise Drive. Donations accepted May 3 at the community center. Info: 658-1154. whitewater raFtinG • SU (5/5), 2pm - Blue Heron Whitewater, 35 Little Pine Road, Marshall, will offer a half-day whitewater trip to benefit riverlink. Ages 8 and up. Registration required. $44. Info: blueheronwhitewater.com or 450-4663.
WNC Chefs ChalleNge • TUESDAYS through (5/7), 6:30pm - The WNC Chefs Challenge pits the area's top chefs against each other for the title of Best Chef in WNC. Proceeds benefit eliada homes. Held at Chestnut, 48 Biltmore Ave. $49 includes dinner. Info: ashevillewineandfood.com or info@ashevillewineandfood.com. WoofstoCk • SA (5/4), noon-7pm - Woofstock, to benefit the humane society of Jackson County, will feature pet pictures, paw print art, dog training BBQ and music. Held at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva, and other locations. Info, schedule and cost: avl.mx/sa.
Classes, Meetings & events fRee MaC BasICs Classes at ChaRlotte stReet CoMPUteRs (pd.) Mac Basics Classes are now FREE at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street, 9:30 - 10:30am weekdays. Mondays - Mac OS X Basics Level 1, Wednesdays - iPad Basics Level 1, Thursdays - Mac OS X Level 2, Fridays - iPad Basics Level 2, first Tuesday of each month - iPhoto, second Tuesday each month Safari, third Tuesday each month - iCloud, fourth Tuesday each month - iMovie. Register at www.charlottestreetcomputers.com/classes. Tuesday NighTs! • siNgle aNd lookINg foR soMethINg fUN? (pd.) Try AVL Speed Dating! Events start 6:30pm and are held monthly at the Cantina • Next event: Tuesday, May 14 (35-49 age group) To make a reservation or for more info, call (828) 242-2555 or see
aVlspeeddating.com Wholesale Bead sale (pd.) Every Saturday in May, 10am-3pm. Glass beads: Czech, Swarovski, lampwork, seed beads, more. 35% OFF $250, 50% OFF $500. 49 Redbud Lane, South Leicester. Contact: donnabethmitchell@msn.com, 828-683-2752. INtUItIVe PaINtINg WoRkshoP WIth kaylINa MIChaela (pd.) Sat, May 4th, 10am to 3pm $65 All materials supplied. Free your soul through painting! No experience necessary.Your work will become as original and unique as you are. The unrestricted flow of images and colors will bring healing and insights. What is authentic and beautiful will come naturally when obstacles to creativity are faced and integrated. 828-252-4828 home/studio www.sacredspacepainting.com kaylinamichaela@yahoo.com aBIdINg saVIoR lUtheRaN ChURCh yaRd sale • SA (5/4), 8am-noon - Abiding Savior Lutheran Church will host a yard sale featuring household items at 801 Charlotte Highway, Fairview. Prices vary. Info: abidingsaviorlc@ aol.com. asheVIlle lIVINg tReasURes • SU (5/5), 1-3pm - A recognition ceremony for Asheville Living Treasures winners will be held in UNCA's Reuter Center. Free. Info: ashevillelivingtreasures.com or 2982231. asheVIlle PRofessIoNal sINgles Free to attend and join. Info: meetup.com/Asheville-ProfessionalSingles. • WE (5/1), 6:30pm - Singles will meet for bowling and beer at SkyLanes, 1477 Patton Ave. $2 for shoes; $2 per game.
astRoNoMy ClUB of asheVIlle • 1st THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - The Astronomy Club of Asheville meets in UNCA's Reuter Center. See website for stargazing events. $20 per year. Info: astroasheville.org. geekoUt • SA (5/4) - GeekOut will celebrate pop culture, animation, costuming, comics and more with tabletop and card gaming, filmmaking and science fiction workshops and liveaction fighting and stunts. Held in UNCA's Kimmel Arena. $10/$5 children under 12. Info and schedule: geekoutavl.org. PIsgah astRoNoMICal ReseaRCh INstItUte Located at 1 PARI Drive, Rosman. Info: 862-5554 or pari.edu. • SA (5/4), 10am-4pm - Space Day will feature hands-on activities, planetarium shows and meteorites. Suitable for all ages. Free. the MegaPhoNe PRoJeCt • Through FR (5/3) - LEAF Schools and Streets will present The Megaphone Project, featuring "an interactive sound field and an installation that allows people to discover a game of sound and physical play." Presented at Wesley Grant Southside Community Center, 285 Livingston St. Free. Info: theleaf. com. thUNdeR IN the sMokIes sPRINg Rally • FR (5/3) through SU (5/5) - The Thunder in the Smokies Spring Rally will feature motorcycle rides, music, bike games, prizes and vendors. Held at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. $20 weekend pass. Info: handlebarcorral.com. VeteRaNs foR PeaCe Info: vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot. com.
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WesteRN CaRolINa aMateUR RadIo soCIety • 1st THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Western Carolina Amateur Radio Society meets monthly at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. $20 for year-long membership; meetings free to attend. Info: wcars.org, 254-0513 or wd4cnz@ charter.net.
CoMedy CoMedy oPeN MIC • FRIDAYS, 8pm - Hosted by Bar of Soap, 333 Merrimon Ave. Info: 255-7710 or facebook.com/comedybarofsoap. dIsClaIMeR CoMedy • FRIDAYS, 8-9:30pm - Disclaimer Comedy presents weekly stand-up at Elaine's Piano Bar in the Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. Free. Info: disclaimercomedy.com. dIsClaIMeR staNd-UP oPeN MIC • WEDNESDAYS, 9pm - Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge open mic will be held at the Dirty South Lounge, 41 N. Lexington Ave. Free. Info: DisclaimerComedy.com. seaN PattoN WIth RoJo PeRez • WE (5/8), 8pm - Disclaimer Comedy presents Sean Patton with Rojo Perez at the Dirty South Lounge, 41 N. Lexington Ave. $10. Info: DisclaimerComedy.com. toM sIMMoNs • TU (5/7), 9pm - Disclaimer Comedy presents comedian Tom Simmons at Lexington Avenue Brewery, 39 N. Lexington Ave. $7. Info: DisclaimerComedy.com.
danCe BegINNeR sWINg daNCINg lessoNs (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. swingasheville.com asheVIlle BallRooM daNCe Asheville Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road. Info: ashevilleballroom.net or 274-8320, unless otherwise noted. • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-10:30pm "Mostly Swing Dance Party" with DJ Phil Noland and Sonny Coren. $5. Info: 777-7445.
eCo sIeRRa ClUB MeetINg • WE (5/1), 7pm - The Sierra Club will meet at Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place, to discuss how DuPont State Forest was protected from private development. Free. Info: wenoca.org.
eCofest • SA (5/4), 10am-5pm - Ecofest will celebrate "green trends and technologies" with music, activities for kids, food and demonstrations. Held at Haywood Community College. Info: visitnc.com or 4563021. NatIoNal day of PUPPetRy • SA (5/4), 11am-3pm - The National Day of Puppetry will feature performances, a parade, puppet-making and activities for kids. Held at Pack Place Park. Free. Info: ashevillepuppetry.org. sPRINg flINg • FR (5/3), 4-8pm - Spring Fling will feature inflatables, crafts, games, entertainment, food and raffles at the Weaverville Primary School field, 39 S. Main St. $15 for all-inclusive armband/$12 in advance. Info: buncombe.k12.nc.us/Domain/2789. sPRINg flINg • SA (5/4), 11am-2pm - Francine Delany New School for Children will host a spring fling featuring bounce houses, water balloons, a cake walk, an adult tricycle race and local food. $15/$10 in advance includes games and activities. Info: fdnsc.net.
Festivals FilM CINCo de Mayo fIesta • SU (5/5), 1-8pm - A Cinco De Mayo Fiesta will feature music by Lyric, Decent Lovers, The Krektones, The Critters and others at Zia Taqueria, 521 Haywood Road. Free. Info: avl.mx/su. eaRth day at feNCe • SA (5/4), 1-5pm - The Foothills Equestrian Nature Center, 3381 Hunting Country Road, Tryon, will host an Earth Day celebration with live music and entertainment for the whole family. Free. Info: fence.org.
CaRy gRaNt IN the afteRNooN fIlM seRIes • TUESDAYS (5/7) through (5/28), 3pm - "Cary Grant in the Afternoon" film series will feature movies with Cary Grant, including Bringing up Baby, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, To Catch a Thief and Walk Don’t Run. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Free. Info and schedule: 2504700. CoNtRolled Chaos fIlM
“Children who have been educated using the Montessori Method grow into competent learners who know how to learn and love learning. The solid foundation begun early in life creates self-confident, contributing adults.” –from The Early Childhood Years (3-6) We invite you to call and arrange a tour at Asheville Montessori school to see how your child can grow into a competent learner.
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• TH (5/2), 6:30pm - Veterans for Peace will meet at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St.
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Global citizens of the future What: Silent auction and spring fundraiser to benefit French Broad River Academy. Where: Pink Dog Creative, 342 Depot St. When: Thursday, May 2, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $35 suggested donation. Info: fbriveracademy.org. Why: The young men who make up the French Broad River Academy are an adventurous bunch. Students at this Asheville-based middle school for boys are true global citizens — curious, adventurous and socially minded. Earlier this spring, students and staff traveled to Costa Rica to experience Tico culture up close. The students explored the country's rivers, mountains and customs while they expanded their Spanish-language skills. "In my six years of leading international field experiences, this has been the best trip yet," says Will Yeiser, school director. "The character building and life lessons learned are invaluable and can't be quantified on any standardized test." Travel opportunities like these are essential to the school's philosophy of preparing young men for our "increasingly globalized and connected world." This mission comes with a price tag, but the benefits of educated citizens are priceless. Help fund dynamic learning experiences at the French Broad River Academy's spring benefit and silent auction. The public will take its pick of silent-auction items, such as Disney World passes, a Hilton Head vacation and a three-week session at Camp Mondamin. For music, the rock and roll sounds of Ten Toe Turbo will drift through the air. The funds will go towards financial aid, curriculum enrichment and the school's dedication to creating passionate, worldly young adults.
FESTIVAL • FR (5/3), 7pm - The Controlled Chaos Film Festival will feature senior projects by students in WCU's motion picture and television production program. Held in the university's Bardo Performing Arts Center. $10. Info: atrufty1@ catamount.wcu.edu or 781-0577. THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE • TU (5/7), 7pm - Ten Thousand Villages Montreat will host a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate, which explores child labor and trafficking in the cocoa industry, at the Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St. A discussion and fair trade chocolate tasting will follow. Free. Info: montreat.tenthousandvillages.com.
FOOD & BEER OSKAR BLUES BREWERY TROLLEY • SATURDAYS, 5pm & SUNDAYS, 3pm - Oskar Blues Brewery will offer a free trolley to and from Brevard for brewery tours. Departs from Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info: oskarblues.com. RAMP FESTIVAL • SU (5/5), 11am-4pm - The Ramp Festival will feature music, clog-
ging and ramp dishes. Held at American Legion Field, 171 Legion Drive, Waynesville. Info and cost: 456-8691.
Men's Club meets at the Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Optional buffet dinner at 6pm. Info: buncombegop.org.
ROCK THE TASTE • TH (5/2), 5:30-7:30pm - Rock the Taste will feature the food, wine and beer of Black Mountain at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $30/$20 in advance. Info: thelittletownthatrocks.org or 669-2300.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB • 2nd THURSDAYS, noon - The Buncombe County Republican Women's Club will meet at Cornerstone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road. Restaurant prices apply. Info: 277-7074 or gakeller@gakeller.com.
WINE CLASS • WE (5/1), 1pm - A class on the origins of wine, grape varieties, the wine making process and food pairings will be held in BRCC's Patton Building, Room 150. $30. Info: brcll. com or 694-1740.
BUNCOMBE GREEN PARTY MEETING • 1st MONDAYS, 6pm - Meetings held in The Fortune Building, 727 Haywood Road. Free. Info: buncombegreens.org.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ASHEVILLE OBJECTIVISTS • TU (5/7), 7pm - Those interested in Ayn Rand and her philosophy of objectivism are invited to a meeting at Denny's, 1 Regent Park Blvd. Free. Please RSVP: avlobj@att.net. BUNCOMBE COUNTY REPUBLICAN MEN'S CLUB • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - The Buncombe County Republican
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NATIONAL WAR TAX RESISTANCE GATHERING • FR (5/3), 8pm - The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) will hold its national gathering at the Flood Fine Arts Center, 109 Roberts St. Activities continue through May 5. Info, cost and schedule: nwtrcc.org.
KIDS CAMP MUDDY SNEAKERS • (pd.) ONGOING: Camp Muddy Sneakers will run eight week sessions June 3-Aug. 2. Campers
explore ecosystems in WNC through hands-on, experiential activities. The camp is for rising 4-7th grade students. Info: campmuddysneakers.org. COLBURN EARTH SCIENCE MUSEUM Located in Pack Place at 2 South Pack Square. Info: 254-7162 or colburnmuseum.org. • 1st SATURDAYS, 1pm - Each month features a new theme on topics like heliophysics, life beyond earth, black holes and more. Free with membership or admission. FAMILY FUN NIGHT • TH (5/9), 6:30pm - Meet cast from Asheville Creative Art's production of A Year with Frog and Toad during Family Fun Night at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Free. Info: 255-5203 HANDS ON! This children's museum is located at 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Programs require $5 admission fee/free for members, unless otherwise noted. Info: handsonwnc.org or 697-8333. • TH (5/2), 11am - Healthy Kids Club, presented by Henderson County Department of Public Health. • TU (5/7) through FR (5/10) Children are invited to make
Mother's Day cards throughout the day. JUNIOR ROLLER DERBY • WEDNESDAYS, 4:45pm - Mad Divas Junior Roller Derby, for girls 12-17, holds open registration throughout the year and meets weekly for practice at Tarwheels Skateway, 2134 Highway 70, Swannanoa. No skating experience necessary. $37 per month. Info: maddivas.com. POP WARNER FOOTBALL AND CHEER REGISTRATION • ONGOING - Registration for the 2013 Pop Warner football and cheer season will be open online through June. Scholarships available to those in need. Games held Saturdays. Info and registration: popwarnerymca.org. YOGA GIRLS • SATURDAYS, 11am-noon - "Yoga Girls," for young women ages 10-16, will be offered at The Forum at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square. No class May 11. $30 for six-week series/$7 per class. Info and registration: rae@dwtheatre. com or 210-9837. YOUTH BRIDGE • SATURDAYS, 10:30am - The Asheville Bridge Room hosts youth bridge for 6-8th graders at storefront C1 in the River Ridge
Shopping Center, 800 Fairview Road. Free. Info: 658-9398 or lindan49@charter.net.
MUSIC SONG O' SKY SHOW CHORUS (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Covenant Community UMC 11 Rocket Dr. Asheville, NC 28803. Guests welcome. Contact: www.songosky.org Toll Free # 1-866-824-9547. APPALACHIAN FIRE • SA (5/4), 7pm - Appalachian Fire (bluegrass) will perform at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, Kanuga Road and Price Street. $15 suggested donation. Info: uufh-nc.org or 693-3157. BALLAD SWAP • SU (5/5), 4pm - A "Sunday Set-In" ballad swap will be held at Madison County Arts Center, 90 S. Main St., Marshall. $10 suggested donation. Info: madisoncountyarts.com. BLACK MOUNTAIN DRUM CIRCLE • SATURDAYS, 4pm - Steven Townsend hosts a traditional West African drumming workshop, followed by an open drum circle, at the Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain.
All skill levels welcome. Free. Info: 669-2052. Blue Ridge Music TRail lisTening session • Through SA (5/4) - Blue Ridge Music Trails will host a series of public listening sessions throughout WNC. Free. Info, registration and locations: brnha.dale@gmail.com or 708-7907. Blue Ridge oRchesTRa • SU (5/5), 3pm - The Blue Ridge Orchestra will perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Telemann and Beethoven at St. Matthias Church, 1 Dundee St. Donations accepted. Info: blueridgeorchestra.org. caRolina conceRT choiR • FR (5/3), 7:30pm & SA (5/4), 3pm - Carolina Concert Choir will perform a spring concert featuring works by Schumann, Brahms, The Beatles and more. Held at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville. $15. Info: CarolinaConcertChoir.org or 8918416. eRic genuis • WE (5/8), 7:30pm - Eric Genuis (piano, composition) will perform at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. W., Hendersonville. $10/$5 students. Info and tickets: immaculateconceptionchurch.com. FiRsT Monday chaMBeR seRies • MO (5/6), 12:30pm - Brevard College's First Monday Chamber Series will feature Jason Posnock (violin) and Sandra Wright Shen (piano) in the college's Porter Center. Free. Info: brevard.edu. MaRTy sTuaRT • SA (5/4), 7:30pm - Marty Stuart (country) will perform in Caldwell Community College's J.E. Broyhill Civic Center. $30/$15 children. Info: broyhillcenter.com or 726-2407. Pan haRMonia • TH (5/2), 7pm - Pan Harmonia presents "Music with Wine and Winsome Bassoon," a chamber music concert and wine tasting, at The Classic Wineseller, 20 Church St., Waynesville. $25 includes wine and cheese/$12 concert only. Info: classicwineseller.com or 452-6000. Piano conceRT • SA (5/4), 7pm - Sandra Shen, winner of the 2012 International Piano Competition in Paris, will present "Inspiration From Above," a concert of classical music, at Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church, 283 Merrimon Ave. Free. Info: sandrashen.com. sensaTional sPRing Fling • SA (5/4) - The Sensational Spring Fling will feature psychedelic bands, DJs and camping at 5399 Old Greenlee Road, Marion. Performers include Josh Phillips, DJ Bowie, Asian Teacher Factory, Aligning Minds and more. $30. Info and tickets: telepathicproductions.org.
The WilhelM BRoTheRs • FR (5/3), 7-9pm - The Wilhelm Brothers (indie, folk, rock) will perform at The Hop, 640 Merrimon Ave. Free. Info: thewilhelmbrothers. com. ThRoWdoWn Jones • FR (5/3), 6-10pm - Throwdown Jones (classic rock) will perform at Morganton's TGIF concert series. 102 E. Union St. Free. Info: downtownmorganton.com. TWo guys Pizza and RiBs 121 W. Barnwell St., Hendersonville. Info: 2guyspizza.net. • TH (5/2), 8pm - One Eyed Jack (country, Southern rock). $10. • MO (5/6), 6pm - Mike Ferris (gospel, blues). $15. Wcu Jazz enseMBle • WE (5/1), 7:30pm - WCU jazz ensembles will perform in the university's Coulter Building. Free. Info: pwlosok@wcu.edu or 227-3261.
OutdOOrs BeauTiFul lake JaMes Marina • Boat SlipS availaBle (pd.) Beat the Summer rush and reserve a covered, uncovered or houseboat slip. Great location at Canal Bridge. Security, gas sales, marine store and customer lounge. Call (828) 584-0666. www.mountainharbourmarina.com Fly Fishing 101 • SATURDAYS, 8am & SUNDAYS, 10am - Orvis Asheville, 28 Schenck Parkway, hosts Fly Fishing 101 for beginners, featuring instruction on casting and outfit rigging. Free. Info: 687-0301 or avl.mx/s2.
Parenting sTRolleR sTRides • WE (5/8), 9:30am - Stroller Strides will host a Mother's Day event featuring a fitness program for moms and babies followed by crafts and a raffle. Meets at the Rotary Centennial Pavilion in Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road. Info and registration: avl.mx/sm.
Public lectures evenTs aT Rei Located at 31 Schenck Parkway. Info: rei.com/asheville or 687-0918. • TU (5/7), 6:30-8pm - "I Never Intended to be Brave: A Woman’s Bicycle Journey Through Southern Africa," with Heather Andersen. Free. Registration required. PuBlic lecTuRes & evenTs aT unca Events are free unless otherwise noted. • FR (5/3), 11:30am - “Dealing with Traumatic Brain Injury: A 360 Degree Perspective,” with Dr. Cheryle Sullivan, physician and trau-
matic brain injury survivor. Held in the Reuter Center. Info: olliasheville. com. • TU (5/7), 7:30pm - "What’s Next for Zimbabwe?" with Susan Zelle, retired Foreign Service officer. Held in the Reuter Center. $8. Info: olliasheville.com or 251-6140.
seniOrs MedicaRe choices Made easy • TU (5/7), 6-8pm - "Medicare Choices Made Easy" will be offered by the Council on Aging and the N.C. Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program at Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston St. Free. Info: coabc.org or 277-8288. WoRk-iT ciRcuiT • WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm CarePartners will offer "Work-It Circuit" fitness classes for seniors at CarePartners East Clinic, 2358 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa. $7/free for wellness members. Info and registration: 686-3529.
sPirituality oPen heaRT MediTaTion (pd.) Experience easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart. • Free 7pm, Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 or 367-6954 http://www.heartsanctuary.org asTRo-counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. asheville coMPassionaTe coMMunicaTion cenTeR (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:15 MindFulness MediTaTion class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz.com. Mondays, 7-8pm – Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. eaRTh gReen Medicine lodge WoMen's ReTReaT (pd.) Join a small group of women in discovering spiritual understanding through ceremony, art, plants, and re-creation. Enrich yourself while exploring new possibilities for relationship with the natural world. Saturday, May 11th 11:00
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AM through lunch on Sunday $125 covers all meals, shared accommodation materials and supplies. To Register, contact Judith Brooks 919-260-1430 e-mail: jabrooks1@ bellsouth.net or Zoe Allison Rockingbear 828-284-0975 www. earthgreenmedicinelodge.com ECK Worship sErviCE - “Uplifting YoUrsElf spiritUallY” (pd.) "You learn to put aside the unnecessary and deal only with the tasks worthy of your time and energy…This energy can then be used to uplift you spiritually, to steer you away from major obstacles so that you catch only the edges of them, and to make your life easier. This is what we try to do in ECK through linkup with the Holy Spirit, the ECK, the Sound and Light.” Experience stories from the heart on this topic, beautiful music and more, followed by fellowship and a pot-luck lunch. (Donations accepted). Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013, 11 a m to 12 noon, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. www. eckankar-nc.org tibEtan throat singing hEaling WorKshop & ConCErt (pd.) SAT (5/18) Visionary musician Matthew Kocel will lead a workshop in breath empowerment and abdominal energy activation, followed by a concert offering transformative healing through the sound of the human voice. For more information contact Liz Velazquez: (828) 498-2999, www. TheHeartCenter9.com ashEvillE national DaY of praYEr • TH (5/2), 11am-1pm - Asheville National Day of Prayer will feature a prayer gathering with music followed by a youth rally from 6-8pm. Held at Pack Square in front of City Hall. Free. Info: nationaldayofprayer. org. CEltiC Christian holiDaY sErviCE • SA (5/4), 3pm - Honor Beltaine (May Day) during a service at a private home in Weaverville. An optional vegetarian potluck will be held after the service. Free. Info and location: avalongrove.org or 645-2674. Kirtan With sangita DEvi • TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - "Kirtan is bhakti yoga, the path of devotion, the path of the heart. It is a tradition and spiritual practice which brings us to a deep place of tranquility through chanting the divine names." Hosted by Nourish and Flourish, 347 Depot St. $10-$15 suggested donation. Info: toriabfree@gmail.com or nourishflourishnow.com. light CEntEr 2196 N.C. Highway 9 S., Black Mountain. Info: urlight.org or 6696845. • WEDNESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm Prayer and meditation for United
States and world conditions. Free. • ONGOING, 10am-5pm - Open meditation to music with energy balancing lights. By donation. • SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - Prayer/meditation for world peace. Free.
Activism, Animals and the Sexual Politics of Meat. • SA (5/4), 7pm - Therese Anne Fowler will present her book Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. • SU (5/5), 3pm - Poetrio will feature Mimi White, Ted Olson and Steve Brooks. • MO (5/6), 7pm - Bridging Differences Book Club: Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne. • TU (5/7), 7pm - Patti Callahan Henry will present her novel And Then I Found You as part of the "All Romance All the Time" book club. • TH (5/9), 7pm - Elsie Augustave will present her book The Roving Tree.
MEDitation prograM • SUNDAYS, 5pm - Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Meditation Center near Fairview offers instruction through one-hour silent meditation, followed by singing bhajans and distribution of blessed fruit. Free. Info and location: 299-3246 or shivabalamahayogi.com. MothEr grovE • SA (5/4), 3pm - Mother Grove Goddess Temple will host a Beltane ritual and potluck at French Broad River Park, 508 Riverview Drive. $5 donation. Info: info@mothergroveavl.org or 230-5069.
tWElvE notablEs in WnC • SA (5/4), 2pm - Jack Prather, author of Twelve Notables in Western North Carolina, and three featured community members will lead a book discussion in UNCA's Reuter Center. Free. Info: olliasheville.com or 251-6140.
opEn DisCUssions on spiritUal hEaling • 1st TUESDAYS, 6pm - "Home - NOW," an introduction to Homeward Bound and discussion of "practical spiritual healing and practice." Held at the Christian Science Reading Room, 2 Wall St., 1st floor. Free. Info: 254-2448. thE art of pEaCEfUl living • SUNDAYS, 7pm - "Learn to apply the ancient art of Buddhist meditation to develop a peaceful mind and tackle daily problems," with Buddhist teacher Sharon Lovich at Rainbow Mountain Children's School, 574 Haywood Road. Course Includes guided meditation, talk and discussion. $8/$5 students/ children free. Info: meditationinasheville@gmail.com. thUrsDaY nitE in Class • THURSDAYS, 6pm - This circle of spiritual friends gathers weekly for meditation, drumming, sweat lodge, vision quest and a celebration of creation. Free. Info and location: stevenmitch@charter.net. Urban DharMa 29 Page Ave. See website for temple and gallery hours. Weekly programs are free with $5-$10 suggested donation. Info: udharmanc. com or 225-6422. • THURSDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm "Cultivating Abundance" will focus on the liturgy of Jambhala. • SATURDAYS, 3-4:30pm - Weekly services will alternate between "Call of Compassion” and “Boundless Protection." • TUESDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm - An introduction to meditation will feature two sessions of 20 minute meditation and a walking session.
Spoken & Written Word ashEvillE WorDfEst • FR (5/3) & SA (5/4) - Asheville Wordfest will feature poetry, stories, music, creative writing workshops and more. Most events held at Lenoir-Rhyne University Center
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All theaters have ghosts: A 20-something ghost hunter and his girlfriend seek out the spirit that haunts the Parkway Playhouse at the theater’s production of Spirited Recollections, on stage Saturday, May 4 through Saturday, May 18.
for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. Free. Info and schedule: ashevillewordfest.com. bUnCoMbE CoUntY pUbliC librariEs librarY abbrEviations - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n Ea = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) n fv = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n pM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n ss = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 2506488) n sW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n Wv = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • WE (5/1), 3:30pm - "Reading Corner: Out with a Bang" hands-on drumming class. Ages 6-12. pM --5pm - Library knitters. sW • TH (5/2), 6:30pm - Book club: The Round House by Louise Erdrich. Ea • MO (5/6), 7pm - "From Animal
House to Our House: Restoring an Abandoned Victorian Brownstone to Its Former Glory," with Ron Tanner. pM • TU (5/7), 6-8pm - Knit-n-Chain. ss --- 7pm - Book club: Swamplandia by Karen Russell. Wv --- 7pm - Book club: Wolf hall by Hilary Mantel. EC • WE (5/8), 3pm - Book club: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Wv • TH (5/9), 1pm - Book club: Freeman by Leonard Pitts. fv --- 6:30pm - Family Fun Night with Frog and Toad. pM CitY lights booKstorE Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: citylightsnc.com or 586-9499. • WE (5/1), 6pm - May Day tarot card reading. Free. • FR (5/3), 6:30pm - Ted Olson will read from his collection of poetry, Revelations, and perform Appalachian ballads and folk songs. • SA (5/4), 3pm - Deborah Schlag will present her memoir Becoming the Healer: The Miracle of Brain Injury. inforMal poEt/songWritEr
groUp • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6pm Facilitated by poet/songwriter Patrick Frank. Meets at Panera Bread, 1843 Hendersonville Road. Free. RSVP requested. Info: 5051914 or patrickgfrank@gmail.com. JUnipEr bEnDs rEaDing sEriEs • FR (5/3), 7pm - The Juniper Bends reading series meets at Downtown Books and News, 67 N. Lexington Ave., with writers Mandy Gardner, Rose McLarney, Collin Garrity and Jerry Stubblefield. Free to attend; wine by donation. Info: jessericeevans@gmail.com. Malaprop's booKstorE anD CafE 55 Haywood St. Info: malaprops. com or 254-6734. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. • WE (5/1), 7pm - Book club: Love and Summer by William Trevor. --7pm - Alex McKeithen will present his memoir The Seventh Angel. • TH (5/2), 7pm - Tom Earnhardt will present his book Crossroads of the Natural World: Exploring North Carolina. • FR (5/3), 7pm - Laura Wright will present the anthology Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art,
(pd.) April 25 6-9 pm and April 27 9:30am-1pm. Internationally renowned coach Malcolm Balk (Pose Method, Level 4 Athletics Coach, Alexander Technique). All levels. Video analysis. Earlybird specials! FormFitnessFunction.com 828-225-3786 bEarWalloW bEast 5K trail rUn • SA (5/5), 1:30pm - "The Southeast's fiercest 5k features an unrelenting climb up asphalt, dirt road and single-track trails" in Gerton. Course ends on Bearwallow Mountain with a free family-friendly festival featuring music, food and beer vendors. $30. Info and registration: bearwallowbeast.com. DisC golf lEssons • ONGOING - Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St., will offer individual and group disc golf lessons. $5/free for members. Info and schedule: recspecialolympics@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030. gEars anD gablEs • SA (5/4), 8am - Gears and Gables, a fully supported cycling event with 30, 60 and 100-mile routes, will depart from downtown Rutherfordton. $30 includes a post ride meal. Proceeds benefit Rutherfordton Housing Partnership. Info and registration: rutherfordhousingpartnership.com. tEaM rivEr rUnnEr • ONGOING - Local nonprofit Team River Runner seeks veterans of all ages interested in learning to kayak for health and healing. Info: trr. asheville@gmail.com.
THEATER A-B TECH • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (5/4) - A steampunk version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be presented by the A-B Tech Drama Department, featuring alumna Hayley Karbowski. Held in the college's Simpson Hall. 7:30pm. $15/$10 students/$5 A-B Tech students. Info: pcarver@ abtech.edu.
inthespirit Beltane: A ceremony of fire and fertility May 1 marks the cross-cultural pagan celebration of Beltane, also known as “Walpurgisnacht,” “Floralia,” “Rudemas,” “Giamonios,” or, most commonly, May Day. For the occasion, High Priestess Lianna Costantino of Sylvan Hearth Pagan Temple shared some insights about the holiday.
ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320. • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (5/5) - Jeffrey, a comedy about a "young gay man in New York who feels that sex has gotten too complicated and decides to avoid it at all costs." 7:30pm. Sunday matinee May 5 at 2:30pm. $18/$15 in advance/$15 students and seniors. A portion of proceeds benefits WNCAP. Info: differentstrokesavl. com.
Mountain Xpress: What is the history of the Beltane celebration? Lianna Costantino: Beltane was, and still is, a Celtic holiday honoring the beginning of summer … and a celebration of the fertility of the Earth, animals and ourselves. The traditional date is May 1. Great fires were lit on hilltops, and rites were performed that imparted further fertility to the fields, livestock, and people. ... The fires of Beltane are generative. What are some ways to observe Beltane and incorporate the rituals into our week? This is a time of coming of age, courtship and fertility. … The sacred relationship between our God and our Goddess is recognized at this time. We also recognize the sacred relationships in our own lives … feeding and nurturing them as we [do] our gardens. Having planted seeds for personal and spiritual growth at the spring equinox, we now look inward and tend to that which needs to grow.
ASHEVILLE PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY • FR (5/3) through SU (5/5) The Asheville Performing Arts Academy will present Disney's The Little Mermaid at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 1 Gay St. Fri., 6pm; Sat., 2pm & 6pm; Sun., 2pm. $8/$5 children. Info: 2534000. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock. Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville. Info: flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731. • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS through (5/19) - Cotton Patch Gospel, "a modern retelling of the Gospel" set in rural Georgia. Performed at the downtown location. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Thurs., Sat., Sun., 2pm. $35. NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane. Info and tickets: 239-0263 or ncstage.org. • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/5) - Etty, based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, a young Dutch Jewish student living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $10-$15. PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville. Info: parkwayplayhouse. com or 682-4285. • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (5/18) - Spirited Recollections: A Personal History of Burnsville, "part odd-couple comedy and part ghost story" about the Parkway Playhouse's resident ghost. 7:30pm; 5pm May 5. $20/$18 seniors, military and students/$12 members/$10 children 5-17.
There are many ways to do this, such as making an effort to seek intimacy with your partner, feeding your soul what it needs to flourish — [such as] more prayer or meditation, living your life with an “attitude of gratitude” and finding the sacred connection between yourself and all your relations. Sylvan Hearth will hold a Beltane ceremony Saturday, May 4, in Sylva. For more information, contact Lianna Costantino at 331-8688 or liannacostantino@yahoo.com.
THRIVING CHILDREN The Success Equation, under the umbrella of Children First/ Communities In Schools, unites the community to reduce the root causes of child poverty. These calendar listings feature community events and volunteer opportunities to help children thrive in Buncombe County. AUGUSTINE PROJECT • The Literacy Council of Buncombe County's Augustine Project seeks volunteer tutors to improve the academic achievement of low-income students, grades 1-12, in reading, writing or spelling. Tutoring is held 2-3 times a week and training, materials and ongoing support are provided. Orientation for the twoweek training course will be held May 14, 5:30-7pm, and May 20, 9-10:30am, at 31 College Place. Info and registration: literacytutors@ litcouncil.com or 254-3442. BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Room 213, in the United Way building. The organization matches children from single-parent homes with adult mentors. Info: bbbswnc. org or 253-1470. • Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteers to mentor 1 hr/week in schools and after-school programs.
Volunteers 18 and older are also needed to share outings in the community twice a month with youth from single-parent homes. Activities are free or low-cost. Information sessions will be held May 15 and 28 at noon. CHILDREN FIRST/CIS • 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. Volunteer for one hour a week and change the life of a local child. Info: childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072. GIRLS ON THE RUN OF WNC • ONGOING - Girls on the Run of WNC seeks volunteers to plan and assist with the GOTR 5K, scheduled for May 18. Info: gotrwnc.org or 713-2321. HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • SA (5/4), 9am-noon - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank. LITERACY COUNCIL OF
BUNCOMBE COUNTY Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: 2543442, ext. 204. • Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a second language. No prior tutoring experience required. Tutors will receive 15 hours of training as well as ongoing support from certified professionals. Orientation: May 8 and 9. Info: literacytutors@ litcouncil.com.
portive environment. Info: ayusa.org or 298-8873.
MOTHERLOVE MENTOR • The YWCA MotherLove program seeks volunteers to provide support and encouragement to teen mothers. A commitment of eight hours per month required. Info: 254-7206.
IN REAL LIFE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 3-5pm - The IRL After School Program seeks volunteers to build relationships with middle schoolers while participating in diverse programming like hiking, financial literacy, art, sports and more. Info: acsf.org, irlacsf@gmail.com or 3506270.
PARTNERS UNLIMITED • Partners Unlimited, a program for at-risk youth ages 10-18, seeks volunteer tutors and website assistance. Info: partnersunlimited@juno. com or 281-2800.
VOLUNTEERING AYUSA HOST FAMILIES • ONGOING - Ayusa seeks families interested in hosting exchange students ages 15-18. Families must pass a background check, provide room and board and a safe, sup-
HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • MO (5/6), 6-8pm - Cookie night invites the public to make cookies for hospice patients at CarePartners' John Keever Solace Center.
PAN HARMONIA • Pan Harmonia seeks volunteers to assist with chamber music concerts. Volunteers receive two tickets to the concert. Info: office@panharmonia.org. PROJECT LINUS • Project Linus, a volunteer group that provides handmade blankets to children in crisis, seeks new members. Info: 645-8800.
RIVERLINK Info: 252-8474, ext. 11, volunteer@ riverlink.org or riverlink.org. • RiverLink seeks volunteers for the French Broad River Trail fundraiser, scheduled for May 11. Info: nancy@ riverlink.org. • FR (5/3), 10am - RiverLink seeks volunteers for its French Broad River Festival cleanup. Departs from the French Broad Outpost near Walnut. Lunch provided. Info and directions: zuzana.vanha@noc. com or 488-7285. ROAD TO RECOVERY • The American Cancer Society seeks volunteers to drive cancer patients to treatments as part of the Road to Recovery program. Info: 254-6931. THE RATHBUN CENTER • The Rathbun Center, a nonprofit corporation that provides free lodging for patients and their caregivers staying in Asheville for medical treatment, seeks volunteers to support and register guests. Weekend shifts: noon-3pm, 3-6pm & 6-9pm. Info: rathbuncenter.org or 251-0595. CALENDAR DEADLINE The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m. WEDNESDAY, one week prior to publication. Questions? Call (828)251-1333, ext. 365
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Briefs World Tai Chi day to be celebrated Saturday in Asheville Slow-motion purse snatchers would do well to make selves scarce Emergency crews on hand to power wash spilled chi NC General Assembly set to pass bill requiring schools to teach cursive, time-tables ‘If it was good enough for your parents who never thereafter used cursive or time-tables, it’s good enough for you’ Disturbingly low accident rate on Biltmore Ave. downtown prompts Diana Wortham Theatre to install electronic sign Lite Brite technology means sign won’t need replacing until 1982 NC General Assembly tells Asheville to blame recent fiscal injuries on fall down flight of legislative stairs
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Discoveries & Advancements • 1921: Archimedes shouts “eureka” and jumps out of his bath after displacing the volume of a live toaster’s worth of water. • 1929: Einstein contemplates practical uses of relativity theory to society and of comb to his unruly mane.
• 1952: Jonas Salk develops and tests first polio vaccine, though the long-sought polo vaccine remains elusive.
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Politics & Maybe You
GOP-controlled NC House passes Voter ID bill
New eligibility requirements: • Land of Cotton car horn
• You’ve inquired about voting a NASCAR straight ticket
• The last time you ventured into city limits was for a counter-protest • You express an interest in where people come from as icebreaker for your suggestion that they return to those places
• You’ve worn a pair of sweatpants to Wal-Mart intending to return them and wear slightly looser new sweatpants out of store
• You travel abroad only to audibly verify your suspicion that life is best in Spit Cup, N.C.
• The sanctity of marriage is something you fume about silently with your spouse while eating mac-and-pork in front of yet another impossible round of Wheel of Fortune • You’ve stopped to consider how beautiful nature is while covered head to toe in deer blood
• You’ve been physically restrained by other parents at a Little League game
• After making eye contact with you, a stand-up comedian has abandoned a joke about the Civil War • Your family canceled its newspaper subscription the day after the Emancipation Proclamation
• The fine line between Celtic symbols and white supremacy symbols is tattooed around your bicep and is adorned with barbed-wire spars • You’ve ever attempted to cast a ballot directly into your church’s collection plate
• Your consider your most acceptable form of ID to be a Sarah Palin “Grizzly Mama” newsletter addressed to you
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• You feel well-informed after hearing Rush Limbaugh intentionally mispronounce the president’s name as “Osama”
• You’ve been convicted of a misdemeanor that was prompted by a shortage of ranch dressing • Skin tone falls in spectrum between egg shell and pearl
Asheville budget crunch: How we got here
• Releasing 100 doves for every square foot of new bike lane completed
• Repeatedly losing keys to the city and changing locks • Spending money saved by upgrading to “green” city buses to publicize green city buses • Google pay-per-click ad for “Asheville’s unshaved topless Pagan mamas” • Subsidy that paid to collect spent vegetable oil from biodiesel vehicles and return it to restaurants • City Council’s “lost weekend” with New Belgium Brewing executives • Panhandler who promised to pay back the $40,000 he needed to get to Weaverville never did so • Hush money paid to cover up the thrice-daily mauling of tourists by black bears
Food & Relationships
Down in the Dish Hole
A weekly etiquette column aimed at improving your relationship with your friendly dishwashing co-worker Don’t: • Sling dirty dishes at the dishwasher from more than three feet away. • Ask with sing-song voice for dishwasher to please wash this or that first. • Invite dishwasher (formally or informally) to wash dishes faster. • Visibly cringe when dishwasher examines hostess’ body during dishwasher’s unauthorized field trip to the front-of-the-house under false pretenses. • Inquire about dishwasher’s bloodshot eyes. • Complain to dishwasher about anything restaurant-related. The Union of American Dishwashers (UAD) long ago secured the right of every dishwasher in America to not give a damn. • Refer to kitchen utensils by their formal names. Remember: KISS (Keep It Simple, Sous chef). Acceptable: “Big spoon,” “big spoon with holes,” “scrapey thing” and “sharp stabber.” • Refuse to express interest in dishwasher’s folksy or soulful (depending on race of dishwasher) advice on important life matters. • Refuse to show interest in dishwasher’s rags-to-rags life story. • Exit dish room backwards while facing dishwasher in order to prevent dishwasher from visibly measuring with his eyes the width and circumference of your bottom. This right was also secured by the UAD in 1972 during the Hot Pants Strike at Joe’s Burgers in Pasadena.
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smaRty pants Finland’s Precocious Tots: Research covering 15 years of stock trades in Finland found children 10 and under substantially outperforming their parents during the few days before and after rumored corporate mergers, NPR reported in April. Researchers said parents were probably using illegal insider information for their children's accounts but were reluctant to arouse suspicion by using it in their personal accounts. The kids' accounts (including those held by newborns) performed almost 50 percent better.
the entRepReneuRial spiRit • One of the 12 Canadian foods chosen to accompany the country's International Space Station astronaut in December is the limitedissue dry cereal noted for its fiber, organic buckwheat and various nontraditional ingredients. "Holy Crap" cereal is available throughout Canada and in 19 other countries. • "Even to Icelanders accustomed to harsh weather and isolation," The New York Times reported in March, the city of Grimsstadir "is a particularly desolate spot." Nonetheless, billionaire Chinese developer Huang Nubo has announced plans to build a luxury hotel and golf course in the area for his countrymen seeking "clean air and solitude." Since snowfalls often run from September until May, locals are skeptical of Huang's motives, but he continues to seek a long-term lease on about 100 square miles for the $100 million project.
fRontieRs of sCienCe • Hottentot golden moles are blind and reside underground, navigating solely by smell and touch. In a recent issue of Mammalian Biology, South African researchers disclosed that the females choose mates largely by penis size. While some human females also favor this "pre-copulatory mechanism," the scientists figured that the moles' reliance on touch leaves them no alternative. • Only the best: Each year, wildlife conservation centers give a few lucky animals premium health care while some Americans can’t get medically necessary treatment. In March, a facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, performed
deluxe surgery on a sandhill crane whose leg was shattered on a golf course. After trying several surgeries, doctors amputated the leg and fitted the crane with a prosthesis. (In February, Suma Aqualife Park near Kobe, Japan, fitted a 190-pound loggerhead turtle with rubber fins kept in place by a vest — to replace fins probably damaged in a shark attack.) • The dark side: In a brief experiment late last year, Clemson University animal conservation student Nathan Weaver found that, in the space of one hour, seven drivers deliberately swerve to hit a turtle trying to cross a busy road (though most drivers easily avoided the realistic rubber model).
leading eConomiC indiCatoRs Wealthy Russians have recently found a way around the country's horrid traffic jams: fake ambulances, outfitted with plush interiors for relaxation while specially trained drivers use unauthorized lights and sirens to maneuver through cluttered streets. “Ambulance" companies charge about $200 an hour for these taxis, London's Daily Telegraph reported in March.
peRspeCtive While Americans Just sigh: In February, the Iranian judiciary sentenced four bankers and their collaborators to death and several others to public floggings for obtaining loans by forgery so they could buy government properties. The roughly $2.6 billion involved is nothing compared to the losses suffered by investors and customers since 2008 due to large American banks' corner-cutting, money laundering and other illegal behavior — for which no one has yet been jailed for even a single day.
least-Competent CRiminals so Far, so Good ... Oops! (1) Jared Rick and wife Ashley walked out of the Wal-Mart in Salem, Ill., in February with about $2,400 in shoplifted merchandise, apparently home free. But after they got into a loud domestic argument in the parking lot, security officers spotted the merchandise and matched the Ricks with surveillance video. (2) Corey Moore — labeled a Washington, D.C., "street legend" by The Washington Post for repeatedly beating arrests on murder and firearms charges — was finally convicted in February and was facing at least 15 years in prison. A foot policeman in the suburb of Takoma Park, Md., saw Moore toss an open beer bottle into some shrubbery. After a sidewalk chase, a search yielded cocaine, enabling a search of Moore's apartment that supplied crucial evidence police had been lacking for years.
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one of our county managers to convince any of our county boards that they're going to be managed by [a managed care organization] in Durham County, for example," adding, “We chose for the purpose of making sure we PageSmoky 1 have a presence in Western North Carolina.” Vines also noted the many steps that must occur before a merger can take effect. The board’s resolution of intent first has to be approved by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; if it gets the go-ahead, the two entities can then draw up a management agreement. With the latter in hand, officials in Western Highland’s participating counties must then agree to the merger (Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania and Yancey counties). If finalized, the deal would expand Smoky Mountains’ coverage area from 15 counties to 23. Mandy Stone, Buncombe County Social Services manager and board member, said that Western Highlands will become a stronger entity as a result of the merger, if all goes well. “It
offers the ability to stabilize both the strong provider network and to allow consumers to have standardized services across all of Western North Carolina,” she said. “We really do think part of it's about that mountain culture. County managers are very responsive to their individual communities and we really want that to drive how we move forward.” Board members’ decision aligns with plans they reviewed on April 12. At that time, the board said it had two options: pilot an integrated health-care program or merge with another local management entity. But state officials nixed the pilot-project idea, and talk turned to the second option. For Smoky Mountain, the potential merger is familiar territory. Two years ago, when New River Behavioral Healthcare board members realized that internal financial difficulties would mean closing the doors, Smoky Mountain absorbed its service area. Beyond navigating the process, the focus remains on the people who access services provided through the managed care orga-
nization, said Henderson County manger and Western Highlands board member steve Wyatt. “We're not looking at cutting any services at this time. Our No. 1 goal is to provide and enhance services. We feel like partnering with Smoky gives us the best opportunity to enhance our services not only [for] quality, but hopefully [for] the quantity,” Wyatt said. Immediately following the merger announcement, the board met with Western Highlands staff members. Stone explained to Xpress that board members were discussing the timeline leading up to the July 31 deadlines and answering any questions staff may have had. “Our focus is about stabilizing the workforce across the two organizations, because that's where the knowledge and expertise is, and they'll really drive the success of how we move forward,” she said. During public comment, former CEO of Families Together dan Zorn remarked that the merger with Smoky Mountain could keep private hands from taking over Western Highlands, or as he put it: The deal will “protect the community option." However, while board members were deliberating in closed session, he told Xpress, “It is going to be a very difficult process. There will not be birds chirping. Any merger and acquisition or partnership is hard,” he said, adding, “Patience is going to be critical.” In proceeding with this merger, Vines said, the board will keep its priority on making the transition as seamless as possible for providers and consumers alike. “Today was the beginning of our prospect. If everything is done like it's supposed to be done, and I anticipate that it will, there should not be any lapse in services,” he said. X Caitlin Byrd can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 140, or at cbyrd@mountainx.com.
thRee stReams family health CenteR announCes it will Close may 10 by Caitlin byRd Come May 10, a West Asheville-based health nonprofit that provided care to the uninsured will close its doors and stop seeing patients. On April 24, Three Streams Family Health Center posted an update to its Facebook page with the news, citing short-term challenges and expenses. However, the community clinic announced its closure on its website, dated April 6. “While many of our patients would have qualified for the new state Medicaid expansion, effectively stabilizing our position, it was our shortterm expenses and debt burden that required us to close our doors. There was no withdrawal or withholding of funds from any source. Some would say that we took care of too many uninsured people and didn’t charge enough,” wrote Dr. Chris Newcomb.
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wellnesscalendar Asheville Center for trAnsCendentAl MeditAtion (“tM”) (pd.) Free Introductory Talk: Thursdays. 6:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. (828) 254-4350. www.MeditationAsheville.org PilAtes reforMer ClAsses: (pd.) 17+ reformer classes a week! Happy Body, 1378 Hendersonville Road. Registration required, $25 dropin. www.AshevilleHappyBody.com or 277-5741 CAr seAt sAfety CheCk • SA (5/4), 10am-2pm - A car seat safety check will be offered at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: 699-6292.
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CArePArtners MAll WAlkers • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 8am - The CarePartners Mall Walkers meet at the Asheville Mall food court, 3 S. Tunnel Road. Free. Info: 274-9567, ext. 8379. • 1st THURSDAYS, 8:30am - An additional walk departs from the Biltmore Square Mall food court, 800 Brevard Road. exCellenCe in Wellness CooPerAtive fAir • SA (5/4), noon-4pm - The Excellence in Wellness Cooperative Fair will feature 10 local holistic practitioners and speakers presenting a sampling of healing arts, knowledge and therapies. Held at 15 Lee St. Free. Info and registration: tonechiropractic@gmail.com or 676-1302. Gentle yoGA for every Body • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am - A slow and gentle style of yoga, particularly well-suited for all fitness levels, will be hosted at Lakeview Senior Center, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. $8 suggested donation. Info: kirklandyoga@charter.net. livinG heAlthy With A ChroniC Condition • WEDNESDAYS through (6/12), 5pm - "Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Take charge of your health with this six-week workshop for people with chronic health conditions and their caregivers." Held at Lakeview Senior Center, 1 Rhododendron Road, Black Mountain. $30 suggested donation. Info and registration: 251-7438. red Cross Blood drives 100 Edgewood Road. Info: redcrosswnc.org or 2583888. Appointment and ID required for blood drives. • SU (5/5), 2-6pm - Blood drive: French Broad Fire and Rescue, 572 Fletcher Martin Road, Alexander. Info: 713-8456. • TH (5/9), 1-5:30pm - Blood drive: North Point Baptist Church, 119 Monticello Road, Weaverville. Info: redcrossblood.org; sponsor code northpointbaptist. sPeCtruM-Wide AutistiC CoMMunity CreAtion PArty • SA (5/4), 2pm - A Spectrum-Wide Autistic Community Creation Party will "bring together the many small, disparate and unusually-diverse existing cells of local autistics" for a pig roast with vegetarian options. Held at The Bywater, 796 Riverside Drive. All are welcome. Free. Info: meetup.com/AspergersAdultsunited. stress resilienCe trAininG • TU (5/7), 5-7pm - Stress resilience training will feature relaxation techniques, meditation tools and guided imagery at Mission Hospital’s Integrative Healthcare Wellness Resource Center, 50 Doctor’s Drive, 120 W. Annex. $10/free for Mission employees. Info and registration: 213-8250. stressProof your BrAin • TUESDAYS (5/7) through (5/21), 5:30-7pm "Stressproof Your Brain," with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. Geared towards ages 50 and up. Held at the YMCA, 30 Woodfin St. Free. Info and registration: 712-5788.
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tAoist tAi Chi soCiety oPen house • SA (5/4), 1-3pm - The Center for Spiritual Living, 2 Science of Mind Way, will host an open house for the Taoist Tai Chi Society featuring an introduction to its "sequence of movements that improve the body, mind and spirit." Free. Info: asheville.nc@taoist.org. yoGA for veterAns • TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - A beginner class for veterans, appropriate for most fitness levels, is held weekly in the Charles George VA Medical Center cafeteria, 1100 Tunnel Road. Bring mat if possible. Free. Info: kirklandyoga@charter.net. yoGA for WoMen's heAlth • TUESDAYS, noon - "Dao Flow Yoga weaves together Daoism and Chinese medicine with the ancient technology of yoga." Hosted by Asheville Yoga Donation Studio, 239 S. Liberty St. Info: ashevilledonationyoga. com. ZuMBA • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Toy Boat Community Arts Space, 101 Fairview Road, hosts weekly Zumba classes, combining "Latin rhythms with fun to create a workout that feels more like a party." $6. Info: kathy.bonyun@ gmail.com or toyboatcommunityartspace.com.
Support GroupS Adult Children of AlCoholiCs & dysfunCtionAl fAMilies ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, "Twelve Tradition" program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: adultchildren. org. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - "Living in the Solution," The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075. • FRIDAYS, 7pm - "Inner Child" study group. Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: 989-8075. • SUNDAYS, 2pm - "Inner Child" study group, Canton Branch Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton. Info: 648-2924. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - A confidential study group based on the twelve steps of ACOA. Everyone welcome; no age or gender restrictions. Meets at the Clyde Town Hall, 8437 Carolina Blvd. Info: babeo2351@yahoo.com. • MONDAYS, 7pm - "Generations," First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 474-5120. Al Anon MeetinG • FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (LGBT) group of Al-Anon, a gay-friendly support group for families and friends of alcoholics, holds weekly candlelight meetings at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. Info: trackerm1001@ yahoo.com. Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326. • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am - "Daytime Serenity," Pardee Education Center at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. --- 7pm - Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. --- 5:45pm - Al-Anon meeting for women, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. • SATURDAYS, 10am - "One Day at a Time," First Baptist Church, Buncombe and 5th Avenues, Hendersonville. --- 10am - "Grace Fireside," Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. --- 10am "Saturday Serenity," St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. --- noon - "Courage to Change," Bess Sprinkle Memorial Library, Weaverville. • MONDAYS, noon - "Keeping the Focus," First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Entrance near Charlotte
wellnesscontinued Street. --- 6pm - "Attitude of Gratitude," Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. --- 7pm First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. --- 7:30pm - First United Methodist Church, Jackson and Church Streets, Sylva. --- 8pm - "Al-Anon Spoken Here," Ledger Baptist Church, U.S. 226 near Bakersville. --- 8pm - Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway at North Highland Lake Road. ChroniC Pain SuPPort GrouP • SUNDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Open to those with chronic pain, friends and family. May 5 meeting will focus on "energy medicine explained." Held at Unity Church of Asheville, 130 Shelburne Road. Donations accepted. Info: 989-1555. Co-DePenDentS anonymouS A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 11am - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. (use back entrance). Info: 424-6594 or 398-8937. DebtorS anonymouS • MONDAYS, 7pm - Debtors Anonymous meets at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 101. Info: debtorsanonymous.org. DePreSSion anD biPolar SuPPort allianCe: maGnetiC minDS • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9 pm - Magnetic Minds offers self-help through weekly, peer-facilitated support meetings offering acceptance, info and techniques to manage challenges. Meets at 1316-C Parkwood Road, across from the West Asheville BB&T. Free. Info: MagneticMinds.weebly.com or 367-7660. eatinG DiSorDerS aDult SuPPort GrouP • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - THE Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St., provides free weekly support groups for adults recovering from an eating disorder. Facilitated by licensed professionals. Drop-ins welcome; no registration required. Info: thecenternc.org or 337-4685. heart of reCovery • TUESDAYS, 6pm - A meditation and discussion group that integrates Buddhist meditation practice with 12-step recovery programs. Meetings are anonymous and explore the relationship between addiction and meditation. Hosted by the Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Westwood Place. Info: asheville.shambhala. org. memory Cafe • 1st MONDAYS, 1-3pm; 1st WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm; 3rd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm; 3rd THURSDAYS, 2-4pm Memory Cafe is an opportunity for those living with the challenges of dementia to gather and socialize. Free. Info and locations: shendrix@mountainprojects. org, Asstminister@uuasheville.org, LBrown@FBCA.net or bettyrobbins@morrisbb.net. memoryCareGiverS network: fletCher • 1st TUESDAYS, 1pm - MemoryCaregivers Network support groups are free and open to anyone caring for a person with memory loss. Held in Fletcher Seventh Day Adventist Church's lower level conference room, 1141 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher. Info: Info@ parkridgehealth.org. mS SuPPort GrouP • 2nd THURSDAYS, 4pm - This group for individuals newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis provides information and support for the day-to-day concerns of living with MS. Meets at Asheville Neurology Specialists, 31 Dogwood Road. Info: MScommunityWNC@gmail. com.
nami SuPPort GrouPS The National Alliance on Mental Illness supports recovery for people living with mental illness and their families. Free. Info: namiwnc.org or 505-7353. • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - A Dual Diagnosis Support Group for those living with mental illness and substance abuse issues will be held at 3 Thurland Ave. • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 6pm - An additional Dual Diagnosis support group will be held at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St.
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nar-anon • Nar-Anon provides support to relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. "We share experience, strength and hope." • TUESDAYS, 7pm - West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road; enter through back door. Info: robinplemmons@gmail.com. • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - First United Methodist Chuch, 204 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville. Enter through side parking lot. Info: 891-8050.
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overComerS reCovery SuPPort GrouP • MONDAYS, 6pm - A Christian-based 12-step recovery program that provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meets at 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos-mission.org.
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overeaterS anonymouS A fellowship of individuals who are recovering from compulsive overeating. A 12-step program. • THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: 277-1975. • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: 424 W. State St. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 6868131. • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: 6975437. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828. • TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: 626-2572. PoliCe brutality SurvivorS' GrouP • THURSDAYS, 11am - This group meets weekly at Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St., offering community and support to survivors of police brutality. Open to all. Free. Info: 274-4576. Smart reCovery • THURSDAYS, 6pm - This peer support group is dedicated to helping individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior (drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, etc.). Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: smartrecoveryavl@gmail.com or 407-0460. tranS-PoSitive SuPPort • 2nd & LAST THURSDAYS - TransHealth Coordinators offers peer support for transgender people with HIV at WNCAP, 554 Fairview Road. 2nd Thursday support group, 1pm; Last Thursday "Lunch and Learn," noon. Info: transhealthcoordinators.org or wncap.org. more wellneSS eventS online Check out the Wellness Calendar online at mountainx. com/events for info on events happening after May 9.
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Starting in May Ingles Markets has partnered with Mission Health’s free “Lighten Up 4 Life” program http://www.lightenup4life.com/ and so can you. Lighten Up 4 Life offers all of us an opportunity to participate to improve our health for the long term by reducing weight, adopting better eating habits and increasing exercise and activity. Since studies show that people do better at weight loss when they are part of a team or group - think about signing up with your workplace friends, family members, Bible study group, or even your neighbors. Find a fun, name for your team and register through the website and get started. The Lighten Up 4 Life website and mobile app (http://www.lightenup4life.com/mobile/) offers many options including notice of health related local events like hikes, videos, recipes, calorie counters and even an opportunity to “Ask the Dietitian”. From the website you can check out their Pinterest and Facebook pages as well.
Let’s all work to be a healthier Western North Carolina. Leah McGrath, RD, LDN Corporate Dietitian, Ingles Markets Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/InglesDietitian Work Phone: 800-334-4936
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Plants from the hands of babes Hall Fletcher Elementary students have been busy in the graden, carefully tending to tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and basil, and now the public can bring the yield of the kids’ hard work home. The students will sell vegetable starts they raised themselves at a student-run farmers market Tuesday, May 7, through Thursday, May 9, from 2:30-3 p.m. More than 250 children helped care for the school’s 3,900-squarefoot garden, which also serves as a laboratory. Garden classes engage in hands-on, experiential learning that corresponds with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study science curriculum. First-graders learn about the needs of an organism by cultivating carrots; fifth-graders learn about climate through microclimate planting experiments. “Whether it’s fostering excitement for the story of their food, or seeing a butterfly or work-life cycle for the first time, our students are planting the seeds of science, nutrition and environmental based learning for their future,” says AmeriCorps Project POWER garden specialist Rachel Lubitz. It’s the process of growing organic vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers that provides a holistic educational experience, but the fruits of their labor are just as impressive. Join the students as they share their newfound knowledge and their bounty. $1-$2 per plant. avl.mx/sh.
Walk, Talk and Lunch, hosted by homesteader extraordinaire Ashley English, on Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wander through the English family’s woodland cove with wild plant educator and Healing Roots Design herbalist Keri Evjy. Take a closer look at the trees, meadows and streams that harbor native edibles, then taste the bounty for yourself. A group meal will feature foraged plants and seasonal comfort foods. Ashley English’s parties are collaborative events, so bring a homemade canned good from your pantry or a “springtime side” to share. $35 includes lunch. Info, location and registration: avl.mx/sr.
From their garden to yours: Hall Fletcher Elementary students will sell vegetables they grew themselves at a student-run farmers market Tuesday, May 7 through Thursday, May 9.
Wild foods in the cove There’s no better way to learn about wild foods than going on an expedition with an expert. In fact, that’s one of the only safe ways to learn what’s delicious and what’s poisonous. Join a community of foraged-food lovers for the Wild Foods
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glided through town. A celebration of our region’s most elegant shrub continues in Bakersville each June, but if you can’t wait that long, the Southeastern Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society has something to tide you over. At the N.C. Arboretum near Asheville, the society will display hundreds of trusses and sprays at a the Rhododendron and Azalea Flower Show on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5. Judges will cast their careful eye on each spray as “rhodo” lovers crowd
around traditional blooms and hybrid flowers. If you think your rhododendron or azalea are worthy of praise, bring a sample to the arboretum on Friday, May 3, from 2-5 p.m. for judging. Vases will be provided and society members will be available to teach gardeners how to cut trusses for show. Anyone can enter, no membership required, but after you see these clippings in person, you may want to join the crew. Free with $8 parking fee. ncarboretum.org, rhododendron.org or 696-2996.
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Gardeners, herbalists, Chefs (pd.) Unique series of workshops in 40 year old Paradise Garden. Details: www.mountaingardensherbs.com asheville sprinG herb festival • FR (5/3) & SA (5/4), 9am-5pm; SU (5/5), 10am-3pm - The Asheville Spring Herb Festival will feature common and unusual herbs, herbal extracts, medicinal products and herb-based foods. Held at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. Free. Info: ashevilleherbfestival.com.
May 3-5 at the WNC Farmer’s Market Fri & Sat 9-5; Sun 10-3 Call the WNC Herb Association 828-301-8968 for more information
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botaniCal Gardens at asheville 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. Registration required for most classes. Info: ashevillebotanicalgardens.org or 252-5190. • FR (5/3), noon-6pm & SA (5/4), 8:30am3pm - Botanical Gardens at Asheville will host a plant sale featuring native plants, shrubs and trees from over a dozen regional nurseries, local garden clubs and horticultural staff. Prices vary. bUnCoMbe CoUnty extension Master Gardeners Programs are held at 94 Coxe Ave. unless otherwise noted. Info: 255-5522. • MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9:30am3:30pm & FRIDAYS, 9:30am-12:30pm - The Master Gardener Hotline will accept gardening questions via phone and in-person. Info: 255-5522 or buncombemastergardener.org. GeorGe washinGton Carver edible park • MONDAYS, 5-7pm - The community is invited to help grow and maintain vegetables at the George Washington Carver Edible Park, next to the Stephens Lee Recreation Center parking lot, 30 G.W. Carver Ave. Info: majerla@hotmail.com.
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Men's Garden ClUb of asheville • TU (5/7), 11:45am - The Men's Garden Club of Asheville will meet at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., for a program on native woodland gardening. Lunch reservations required by May 2. For those not purchasing lunch, the meeting begins at 12:40pm. $12 for lunch/free to attend. Info: 3298577. north asheville CoMMonUnity Garden proJeCt • SU (5/5), 2-6pm - The public is invited to assist in planting at the North Asheville CommonUNITY Garden. The afternoon will include an international water blessing ceremony, beginner dowsing, a potluck, dancing and more. Bring yard tools and a dish to share. 498 Merrimon Ave. Info: collectivenoise@gmail.com. rhododendron and azalea flower show • SA (5/4), noon-5pm & SU (5/5), 11am4pm - The Rhododendron and Azalea Flower Show will feature hundreds of cut rhododendron trusses and azalea sprays at the N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Free with $8 parking fee. Info: ncarboretum.org or mphaynes@juno. com. wild foods walk, talk and lUnCh • SU (5/5), 10am-2pm - Ashley English will host a wild foods walk, talk and lunch at her property in Candler. Participants will walk through woodlands to discover native edibles and medicinals. A foraged meal will follow. Bring a canned good or side dish to share. $35. Info and directions: smallmeasure.com or ashleyadamsenglish@ gmail.com. wild plant walk • SA (5/4), 10am-noon - ECO will host a wild plant walk and offer information on plant nutrition and menu planning. Bring a lunch. $15. Info, registration and location: eco-wnc.org or 692-0385.
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For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: buyappalachian.org or 236-1282. wednesdays • 8am-noon - haywood historic farmers Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. • 1-5pm - asheville City Market south, Biltmore Park Town Square, Town Square Blvd. • 2-5pm - spruce pine farmers Market, 297 Oak Ave. • 2-6pm - french broad food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. • 2-6pm - Montford farmers Market, 36 Montford Ave. • 2:30-6:30pm - weaverville tailgate Market, 60 Lakeshore Dr. thUrsdays • 8am-2pm - henderson County Curb Market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville. • 3-6pm - flat rock tailgate Market, 2720 Greenville Highway. • 4-6:30pm - tryon tailgate Market, McCowan St. satUrdays • 6am-noon - Caldwell County farmers Market, 120 Hospital Ave., N.E., Lenoir. • 8am-noon - north asheville tailgate Market, UNCA commuter lot C. • 8am-noon - haywood historic farmers Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. • 8am-noon - Mills river farmers Market, 5046 Boylston Highway. • 8am-1pm - asheville City Market, 161 South Charlotte St. • 8am-2pm - henderson County Curb Market, 221 N. Church St., Hendersonville. • 8am-12:30pm - transylvania tailgate Market, 190 E. Main St., Brevard • 8:30am-12:30pm - yancey County farmers Market, U.S. 19 East at S. Main Street, Burnsville. • 9am-noon - black Mountain tailgate Market , 130 Montreat Road. • 9am-noon - Jackson County farmers Market, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva. • 9am-1pm - Madison County farmers and artisans Market, Mars Hill College, Highway 213 and Part Street. • 9am-2pm - leicester farmers Market, 338 Leicester Highway. sUndays • noon-4pm - sundays on the island, Blanahasset Island, Marshall. tUesdays
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Local investing 101 Commentary by Peter Krull Can I invest or can’t I invest in a local small business? There are many rules surrounding investment in private (not listed on a stock exchange) companies, so first, consider the basics. We can all agree that investing in local businesses is vital to a community’s prosperity. Small businesses need capital to grow, expand operations and hire new employees. In many instances, however, they cannot simply go to the bank for a loan, especially since loan terms became more stringent after the 2008 financial meltdown. We need local investors. “We have an opportunity to step up and support our local small businesses in a way that banks cannot,” says carol Peppe hewitt, the author of Financing our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money and co-founder of Slow Money NC. “It simply isn’t feasible for them to do a $5k loan at 2 percent and cover their costs.” Often, small-business owners turn to family and friends to get them by. These transactions are usually low-interest loans based on the relationship and not necessarily business fundamentals. What happens when the business owner needs more than family or friends can provide? That’s when outside investors come into play, and that’s when the rules get tricky. Let’s start by defining one of the most important terms when it comes to private investing: an accredited investor — an individual making at least $200,000 per year, or a couple making $300,000 per year, or someone who has at least $1 million net worth, excluding a principal residence. A non-accredited investor simply is someone who doesn’t meet those guidelines. Accredited investors are assumed by the SEC to be sophisticated investors and can invest in just about anything they choose.
In most cases, if you’re not an accredited investor, you are ineligible to invest in a private company. There are some exceptions, such as the current law that limits the number of non-accredited investors in any offering to 35 when they personally know the business owner. The others are just are too technical to get into in this article. The JOBS Act passed last year by Congress does lay down some new opportunities for crowdfunding small businesses, but so far, the SEC has only published rules for accredited investors. Non-accredited investors are supposed to be eligible to participate in the future, but there is no timetable for them as of yet. So what can you do now if you want to invest in a local business — and you’re not an accredited investor? You can invest with business owners you already know and trust. Let them know that you are interested in being a part of their business and ask if there is any opportunity to invest. This is the easiest way to get started. “We all have a desire to make something happen every day, preferably something good. A loan to a person we personally know and a business we care about is a brilliant opportunity to do just that,” says Hewitt. If you don’t know a business owner who needs an investment, you can do small loans through a Slow Money group or join a LIONs (local investment opportunity network) group. These are available in Western North Carolina. “I believe we would do much more of this type of lending if the mechanism was available and easy. My goal with Slow Money NC is to make that happen,” says Hewitt. “In North Carolina, Slow Money ran the 4-minute mile in community lending. We’re doing it now, and we’ve facilitated over 80 loans to 39 local farmers and food businesses worth over $700,000. … I believe we’re just getting started.” Another alternative might be to invest with Mountain BizWorks, a
local community development financial institution that lends money to small businesses and helps nurture business owners through training, mentoring and education. In a previous interview, tom elmore of Thatchmore Farm said, “Access to capital is critical to growing farm businesses. We believe investing a portion of our savings through Mountain BizWorks helps support the next generation of local farmers.” Self-Help Credit Union also has a Go Local CD that keeps your investment in your community. “We are thrilled to be able to offer this type of investment vehicle to our customers, since it gives them a fully insured way to make sure that the money they deposit with us will have local impact. It closes the gap,” says SelfHelp’s Jane hatley. But before you invest with anybody, make sure to do extensive due diligence. Remember: It’s your money you’re putting at risk. Ask lots of questions and look at the books. If something doesn’t look right or if you don’t understand, ask! It is your responsibility to protect yourself and your hard-earned money. And, so you know, this article is for information purposes only and not a recommendation for any particular investment.
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Bobo Pho opens with Southeast Asian comfort food Soup stands for variation, in a word: If you’ve got spices and liquid, you’ve got soup. After that, the possibilities are endless. Accordingly, Bobo Pho, which will likely open this week on Lexington Avenue, will show off soup’s versatility. The Southeast Asian broth and noodle dish will serve as a quick business lunch, dinner for friends or a late-night snack for revelers. After dinner, the food will be “for the drunks,” as co-owner Suwana Cry puts it. In addition to the brothy bowls, the restaurant will offer straightforward bar plates of spring rolls and chicken wings. Cry, who also owns Thai Orchid on Broadway St., will spice up the offerings with the Thai stylings for which she’s known. “We have full flavor in our food,” she says. “You know, sweet, salty, sour and hot.” Pho is the Vietnamese term for noodle soup; in Thailand, the concoction has a different name (Kuaitao). Cry says the name of the shop plays to the American understanding of the dish, not necessarily the spices that will season it. “In different countries, we have different ways of making it, but in Thailand, it tends to have more flavor,” she says. Plus, it rhymes with Bobo, if you pronounce it with an American accent, that is. Co-owner Brad Reichardt, who also owns Bobo Gallery, says he encourages anglicizing the word (which is sometimes pronounce FAH). With Bobo Pho, Reichardt and his wife, Elizabeth, will take Bobo Gallery in a new direction. “It’s all one business,” he says. “It will still be a bar in the evening with the same great vibe it’s always had.” Bobo Gallery has basically become Bobo Pho, he explains, and while local art will be part of the eatery and live music will still occur on occasion, the focus is on the food and drinks. He plans to expand the bar offerings with sparkling wine, more local beer and liquor. The sake slushies that Bobo has already served will return
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with summer weather, he says, and when the state approves the liquor license, more frozen cocktails will follow. Reichardt hopes the restaurant will provide on-the-go lunches and takeaway fare for downtown’s residents. “This will be quick
turnover, quick in-and-out,” he says. “The grab and go thing is kind of missing downtown.” Bobo Pho, 22 Lexington Ave., will open daily for lunch and dinner. On weekends, it will serve a late-night menu.
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If the mountain breeze smells a bit more pungent than usual, there’s a good reason why. “The smell of ramps is in the air,” says Ginger Reece as she prepares for the Haywood County Ramp Festival. The veterans at the American Legion host the annual celebration, honoring the garlic-scented plant that grows wild throughout the mountains. The day of festivities includes a buffet of ramp-laden delights, including country ham and scrambled eggs. Foraging fans from Haywood County and beyond turn out in the hundreds for bluegrass music, clogging performances, craft booths, kids’ games, vendors and a car show. One of the days’ highlights: a raw ramp-eating contest. Why the big to-do for such a small plant? “It’s been something that’s been with our heritage for years and years, a lot of the mountain folk,” Reece says. “We just seem to know what they are and enjoy them.” In preparation for the event, the veterans at the American Legion go ramp-digging. They have a secret ramp patch that they visit every year. Six diggers can fetch about 80 pounds per trip. “There’s tons of them here,” Reece says. “You just have to know where to get them and what they look like.” In recent years, ramps have appeared with increasing fre-
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Loretta’s sweetens the deal The Asheville institution expands downstairs with baked goods and espresso Loretta’s is not aloof — it’s just high up. From Lexington Avenue, a set of stairs leads up to the soulful sandwich joint. But that’s about to change. While the second floor of Loretta’s will remain, the shop is adding a Lexington-level bake shop. “It’s mostly for the quick, something to go,” says owner Loretta Woolley, who also heads up Mayfel’s on College Street. “We’ve been here for two years, and we’re finally ready for this addition.” Loretta’s started out in a little storefront on Patton Avenue next to the Lobster Trap, where it served lunch to downtowners for more than a decade. In 2011, the shop moved to its current location at 114 N. Lexington Ave. The switch-up gave the business three floors to use for catering and café endeavors. The expanded Lexington Avenue space will offer sidewalk seating and serve a wider selection of baked goods than what’s available upstairs, in addition to coffee and espresso. It will be fully stocked with cookies, lemon bars, brownies and other Loretta’s specialties, so customers who want to buy in volume will find
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plenty to take with them. Woolley plans to sell cookies by the dozen. Loretta’s main space, which fronts onto Broadway Street, will continue to specialize in soups and sandwiches, but it will be easier to see from Lexington Avenue. The shop will continue to offer delivery lunches throughout downtown, and the third floor event space will remain unchanged. Woolley says the bake shop should be up and running by early summer. “Part of having a business is improving your business and hopefully growing and changing,” she says.“It’s always been Loretta’s, so we’re just going to refer to the spaces as Loretta’s on Lexington and Loretta’s on Broadway.” Loretta’s, 114 N. Lexington Ave. and 109 Broadway St., opens Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit lorettascafe.com.
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Soda minus the guilt Oh, the sweet effervescence of soda. This syrupy, bubbly concoction is a staple of the American diet, for better or worse. The back of a Coke can is a jumble of unpronounceable words and scary-sounding chemicals — folk remedies have it that a splash of Coca-Cola will remove rust, blood and oil stains. Is this really what we want sloshing around our stomachs next to our hardearned organic veggies? When Rich and I decided to move away from packaged goods and focus on homemade staples, we relegated soda to a special occasion treat. Then we realized that, just like vanilla extract and English muffins, we could probably make soda at home. Like many of our friends, we already owned a soda maker and drank plenty of seltzer. All we needed was syrup. After several attempts, we finally found something that tastes like cola. It has a rich, complex flavor that mixes orange, lemon and lime zest with winter spices and vanilla. We used the vanilla sugar we had in the pantry from January’s column (avl.mx/sn). If you don’t have any on hand (it takes a couple of weeks for the flavor to set in), use a vanilla bean and regular sugar instead. Since we didn’t use food coloring, the cola doesn’t have that deep, dark color of Coke, but the taste is there (and it’s even better). If you’re not crazy about the taste of cola or would prefer something more plant-based, we included a ginger ale recipe that has a sweet, yet earthy, flavor. Next time you sit down with a bowl of popcorn, wash it down with soda you can feel good about. Just grab a local pint glass — like these Asheville-centric glasses made by Etchville — and drink up.
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Juice lemon reserving one thick slice from the middle. Combine lemon juice, lemon slice, ginger, sugar and water in pot and bring to boil. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Pour liquid mixture into bowl, using a strainer or cheesecloth to catch any solids. Return the liquid to pot. Simmer for 20-30 minutes until liquid has reduced by half. Transfer to jar and refrigerate until ready to mix. 2-4 tbs. of syrup per 1 cup seltzer, to taste.
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Behind the Big Top at Hi-Wire Brewing
A secretive bunch until last week, the owners finally step into the ring A few weeks ago, you might have been talking to Chris Frosaker or Matt Kiger about your asthma inhaler. Or maybe your birth control. But starting in June, these two pharmacists will be dispensing something very different. Together with their friend and business partner Adam Charnack, they’re launching Hi-Wire Brewing. It all started shortly after Craggie closed its garage door for the last time. “We all live in Asheville and we love it here. We’re never going to live anywhere else,” says Frosaker. “Then we found one of the closest locations to downtown for a brewery, and it already had equipment in place … a light bulb went off in our heads.” The light-bulb moment came thanks to the hobby all three owners share: homebrewing. While Charnack has been at it for just
three years, Kiger has an impressive 15 years behind him. Yet the group knows that there’s a big difference between the backyard set-up and a pro-level one, so they hired a couple of brewers who are very familiar with the equipment; both Luke Colgate and Nick Alwon-Mount were assistant brewers at Craggie. Now they will create Hi-Wire beers, with Colgate taking the lead as Head Brewer. “What it comes down to is we could have bought equipment and set-up somewhere else and we still would have hired these guys,” says Kiger. “We really like their beer and we’re fortunate to keep them as part of the Asheville beer scene…and they’re coming up with all new recipes. We’re not going to revamp, retool or reuse any recipes from before [at Craggie].”
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So what exactly will make the Hi-Wire beers stand out? Well, the brewery plans to offer six-packs in addition to pints from the day they open — something almost unheard of for a fledgling brewery. “There’s just a huge gap of having readily available local beer out there in six packs. We want to try and fill that gap,” says Frosaker. As for the taste of Hi-Wire, they’re keeping that somewhat under wraps a little longer. While they’re launching with four yearround beers, none were available to sample at the time of writing. Nevertheless, the brewers did their best to paint us a word picture: hi-Wire lager (4.6 percent ABV): The guys seemed most excited by this one, noting that it’s the ideal beer for selling in sixpacks. According to the owners, it’s going to be a “true American Lager…with a delicate body and light hop profile.” Prime time Pale ale (5.5 percent ABV / 37 IBU): This one was described as, “A crisp and dry pale ale featuring Simcoe hops. It’s an easy drinker.” hi-Pitch iPa (6.7 percent ABV / 61 IBU): Hi-Wire called this their, “Western North Carolina take on a West Coast-style IPA.” They promise lots of citrus hop aroma and a full body to balance the bitterness. bed of nails brown ale (6.1 percent ABV): The brown ale is the only British-inspired beer in its core line up. They described it as “exploding with toffee and caramel flavor.”
Owners Adam Charnack, Chris Frosaker and Matt Kiger stand amid the renovations to their Hilliard Avenue space. Photo by Thom O’Hearn
In addition to the core offerings, Hi-Wire plans to rotate through “Side Show” seasonal offerings. A Hefeweizen will be the first in that series and they also mentioned a Café Con Leche stout, Imperial Red Rye, and Spring Ale were in the pipeline. The grand opening of the brewery and tasting room will be at some point in June, but Hi-Wire beer will debut during Asheville Beer Week. The owners plan to serve the full lineup at Beer City Fest and the “Grand Premiere” of Hi-Wire will be the day before, May 31, at Thirsty Monk. At the Monk, they’ll bring the core lineup and a half-dozen smallbatch beers dubbed “test seasonals.” Charnack says, “We encourage everyone to give us feedback on all our beers that night; we're really looking forward to it.” Then, when the tasting room opens in June, they’ll be serving 16-ounce pints and a set of four 4-ounce tasters as a flight. The price for both is expected to be $4. (Sixpack prices are not yet finalized.) No hours have been decided yet, nor has the food been finalized. They do hope to partner with food trucks in some way. As for entertainment, they say they will host some music eventually but not upon opening. They will have shuffleboard, foosball and “life-size Jenga” in the meantime. Charnack says they’ll also bring in some “old-school” video game systems as soon as they can.
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leaf offers stellar MUsiC and laid-baCk fUn by alli Marshall dane sMith and Jen nathan orris If there's a theme to the Lake Eden Arts Festival, it's probably along the lines of “laid-back fun with friends and family.” Or, “camping, dancing and live music from around the world.” Or, “snacking on a Veggie Thing while floating in a canoe to the sounds of a Tibetan chanteuse or a hiphop yogi.” All of that fits, but LEAF organizers are filing this spring's lineup under “Voices of Tradition,” with an eclectic group of artists ranging from R&B vocalist Mavis Staples, avant-banjo songstress Abigail Washburn, jazz singer Lizz Wright, and N.C. balladeer Sheila Kay Adams — among many others. Interactive sound field installation The Megaphone Project, which started in Australia, will also be part of LEAF. It “allows people to discover a game of sound
and physical play: a world of private and public broadcast.” Perhaps the project, which has traveled the world since 2011, was drawn to LEAF by the varied voices, but its aim is not to capture professional performances but audience participation. “Twenty-five striking-red megaphones of different shapes and sizes recreate the miracle of wireless tin can telephones, and the joyful manipulations of voices that are naturally reinforced through simple acoustics,” explains the Megaphone Project's website. “Voices then mysteriously and ambiguously return via our custom wireless audio network. The megaphones create an interactive performance field for both the public and the artists.” The festival offers plenty of other opportunities for play, learning, movement, listening, interacting and that laid-back fun we mentioned earlier. In advance of the actionpacked weekend, some of LEAF's artists talked to Xpress about their own projects, processes and plans for LEAF weekend.
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MC Yogi is the stage name of Northern California-based musician and yoga teacher Nicholas Giacomini. His sound is a danceable blend of world beat, hip-hop, Bollywood, reggae, dancehall, house and dub, fusing Hindu chants with club beats. His most recent album is Pilgrimage; last year he produced the video “Be the Change (The Story of Mahatma Gandhi)” in celebration of Gandhi’s birthday. Mountain Xpress: Was there an experience or moment when you realized that you could blend bhajans and hip-hop? How did that fusion come to you, and what influence found its way into your life first — hip-hop, or yoga and chanting? MC Yogi: Hip-hop came first. In the beginning was the word, and after being broke down and feeling lost, yoga helped to bring it all together. There's a real sense of joy in your music, but it seems like you risk crossing a line where you could offend various groups. Is there a thought process that goes into writing rhymes/songs that involves checking the intention of impact of your music? And how do you hope for it to impact your listeners? I always strive to do what I love and create
something that will make the world a better place. I'm a huge nerd and making music and art is really just an expression of what I'm really into and believe in. Yoga saved my life, and brought a lot of light into some very dark places. It helped me to get to know myself, and showed me how to connect to the world around me in a more peaceful and kind way. If that offends people, then I have a lot of compassion, because they must be in a lot of pain on some level. My hope is that through the practices and through the music, we can help to lessen the suffering and bring more joy and conscious celebration into the world. I've noticed that in past blog posts, you've covered spiritual graffiti and comics. Can you talk a little bit about using pop culture to relay spiritual messages? Growing up I loved reading comics, watching cartoons, painting graffiti and listening to hip-hop music. When I got into yoga, my love for the yoga tradition infused everything I was doing, so naturally pop art became a great vehicle to share my love. Pop culture is like the mind, it can bring awareness to anything. It’s like a light, and when used for a higher purpose it can accomplish great things. Look at John and Yoko: They used Mad Men-style marketing tactics to promote peace in the
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I saw you lead a yoga class at leAF last year. You weren't playing hip-hop music at the time, but I wondered if you ever used hip-hop while doing asanas. Sure, I play everything from Lee Scratch Perry to the Beastie Boys and Bob Marley to The Beatles. When music comes form the root and makes you feel good, it can be a great catalyst for yoga, which is the realization that everything is connected.
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Are there any up and coming roots bands that you are into? I enjoy Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen. There are so many new bands and they are all good. do you like playing outdoor festivals or do you prefer shows in clubs and concert halls? [I like] any place that has a good sounding room. Theaters are fun, but outdoors has inspiration on another level. The music becomes a part of nature and nature enters the music. The sounds of music have more space to expand out of doors. — Jen Nathan Orris
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WNC-based roots/folk/jazz/gospel singer and composer Lizz Wright has released four solo albums and contributed to many more projects (more on that below). But she also took time out to attend culinary school and to blog about both her garden and her kitchen. NPR called you "ever-evolving," and your solo albums to date have covered a lot of ground, from jazz and folk to pop and gospel. do you feel like that kind of evolution is who you are — your sound — or do you see you see yourself settling into one genre? My relationship with music is a living thing, as well as the conversation with the audience. Evolution is how I know that they're still thriving. Historically, the roots of gospel, folk and jazz are deep and intersecting, and so I am but one of many artists who openly displays the familial relationships between these genres. I've found a way to explore the world and communicate with it through music. When I lose curiosity I'll know that I'm not in love anymore.
you think the genre translates to other countries? Yes, bluegrass is popular all over the world. People everywhere love it. I play dates in the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Australia and the Czech Republic. How could they not [like bluegrass] with so many people learning to play and with fine young bands coming up?
that those two passions — music and cooking — feed each other (no pun intended!)? For the first 10 years of my career, I was a quiet cook, feeling guilty and conflicted about my passion for both forms. Somehow, I outgrew the shame and allowed myself six months of focus at the Natural Gourmet Institute in N.Y. Now, I can recall that throughout my life, food and music have always been happening at once. From our traditional family gatherings to writing my best songs as a Jersey barista, the two expressions have almost always been seamless.
Your voice is so rich and gorgeous and effortless. As a person who doesn't have singing talent, I've often wondered how it feels to be able to do that. does it feel natural and effortless and like you're totally in your zone? Or are there challenges and struggles for you as a vocalist? Thank you! Nice to hear that it appears effortless. Actually, it burns a lot of calories, and I have to eat before and after shows so that I don't get loopy from low energy. Once, a man walked up to me somewhere in Germany after a show and said, "You must be on a strict diet and routine to be able to get all of that sound out. I bet you must eat far in advance of the show, for instance." Laughing, I replied, " Actually, I scarfed down a huge steak just minutes before the curtain, and it must've been a good one from what you're telling me!" I'm classically trained and have found the power vocal and yogic breathing methods to be very similar in technique and effect. On a good night performing can feel much like an "open" meditation.
You've been a guest vocalist on a number of projects, working with artists like david sanborn, Amos lee, Jakob dylan and Meshell Ndegeocello. Who would you like to work with in the future — and why? I have a dream to sing a song one day with Taj Mahal and his lovely daughter Deva. They both sing from deep places and feel like family when I'm around them. Also, I imagine Meshell and I will rendevous again soon. Toshi Reagon has also been one of my favorite collaborators over the years.
even though you've found success with your albums, you took time off a couple of years ago to go to culinary school. Was it hard to take time away from music, and do you feel
Tell us about your leAF performance — anything special planned? Who's in your band? Any guest musicians we should know about? Asheville's own Free Planet Radio is support-
ing me at LEAF! They're world-class, conscious and adventurous musicians. I've been in love with these blue hills since I played at the Orange Peel about six years ago. It's a sweet, full circle moment to sing here now that I've been a resident long enough to feel like a part of it. — Alli Marshall
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Peter Rowan is a bluegrass musician with a penchant for yodeling. He tours with the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, whose four members boast more than 100 years of musical experience between them. The band released its debut album, Legacy, in 2010 and was nominated for a Grammy that year. do you think yodeling is a lost art? Doesn't seem to be lost. It's supposed to sound that way! What do you think of the current folk revival? There is a revival in live music in general. People want the magic. They want to see the music as well as hear it through earphones. Folk revival music played by folks, not machines! You have an international fan base, and yet bluegrass is such an American art form. do
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Abigail Washburn is a claw hammer banjo player, singer/songwriter, world traveler and, most recently, theatrical writer (her PostAmerican Girl is a part of the NY New Voices series for the Public Theatre in New York). She's a former member of The Sparrow Quartet and a LEAF favorite. What follows is an excerpt from her interview with Xpress; read the full story at mountainx.com. How did the debut of Post-American Girl go, and what's it like to experience a work inspired by events and ideas from your life unfold on stage? I chose to collaborate with Chinese Shadow and bunraku puppeteers, an actor, Chinese Opera percussionist, guzheng player, and two U.S. string players. What unfolded creatively for me is the story of a young woman leaving home for a foreign country and harnessing the lessons of emotional growth and an expanded worldview through the lens of being, first a foreigner in a foreign land, and then feeling a foreigner in her own country and ultimately finding her own unique purpose in a rapidly changing global order. Working on Post-American Girl has been the most creatively demanding experience of my life. It was like endlessly milking the inner teet of creativity for every drop of wisdom and humor my story has to offer. Moving into theater is a new direction for you. What led to the Post-American Girl project, and has this inspired you to pursue other forms of performance in the future? PostAmerican Girl came from an opportunity to collaborate with the Public Theatre. They gave me a team of a playwriting specialist, director, theatre philosopher and producer to work with — so amazing! Every time I sat down with them I learned so much it made my brain hurt and I had to go away and think and write and process for days. The possibility of theater, that stage and the potential for transformative art to happen in front of an audience is limitless. It is magic waiting to happen. You're expecting a baby just a month after leAF — how has being pregnant affected touring and playing shows over the last sev-
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eral months. And do you think you'll bring your baby with you on the road in the future? My midwife told me to be careful about touring any time in the last month of pregnancy because the baby could come at any moment. I thought, "If my water broke on stage at LEAF, I bet most of the audience would be filled with midwives and spiritual ladies ready to bring this child into a beautiful world." … In some ways I think I've gained some super-powers from this little being developing inside me. All this creative activity fills me with hopefulness about the potential of our life-force to have a wonderful experience here. It makes me want to bring a baby into this world. I'm eager to see who this little one is and how we will live a creative life together. And, yes, his poppa and I are going to hit the road together as a duo for his first experiences out this September and October. We hope to get to perform together throughout the rest of our lives.
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I was reading some reviews of WOMAd Festival, which you recently played, and it got me thinking about world music as a genre. What does it mean to you? The term, to me, represents the intentionality of the listener drawn to the music and helps those listeners find one another. Now, what the content of the genre of world music is or should be is not clear to me. One tenet that I value in thinking about world music is authenticity. My favorite culture-to-culture collaborations stem from a musical moment that captures two authentic, unique sources derived from local tradition that entangle intentionally but openly and discover more about the special offering of their own tradition from the engagement. since you and Ben sollee are both playing leAF, any chance for a sparrow Quartet reunion? I was hoping for this, but, alas, Casey Driessen and Bela [Fleck] are both off in different directions that weekend and unavailable. However, Ben and I have been dropping notes back and forth to one another excited about the idea of a collaboration. We toured together as a duo for many years before the Sparrow Quartet existed. I've missed our collaboration, and I’m eager to unearth some of the old and move into the new. We'll definitely be finding a special moment to be together on stage. — Alli Marshall
seCret aGent 23 skidoo Secret Agent 23 Skidoo is a Grammy awardwinning “kid-hop” artist, former Asheville resident and longtime advocate for children’s music education. He’s also a celebrated adult performer and founding member of the famed Asheville collective GFE. Last year, Skidoo relocated to the West Coast where he currently lives with his wife and daughter, who are regular contributors to his albums.
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First, I assume you’ve gotten all settled in in California. Can you tell us a little about where you’re living now and how that’s changed your perspective and music (if it has)? I have moved to a small gold mining town in Northern California to, as the ancient alchemists put it, “turn my lead to gold.” Hopefully that
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leaf hiGhliGhts and info friday papa Grows funk 6:30-7:45 p.m., Lakeside stage secret agent 23 skidoo 8-9 p.m., Roots Family stage ben sollee 8-9:30 p.m., the Barn Mavis staples 8:30-10 p.m., Lakeside stage orgone 10:45 p.m.-12:15 a.m., Lakeside stage dJ Molly parti 1-1:45 a.m., Eden Hall
satUrday the Mean lids contra dance with caller diane silver 2-4 p.m., Brookside solas 6-7:30 p.m., Lakeside stage oliver Mtukudzi & the black spirits 8:15-9:45 p.m., Lakeside stage the broadcast 8:45-10 p.m., the Barn ozomatli 10:30 p.m.-midnight, Lakeside stage honey island swamp band 11:30 p.m.-12:45 a.m., Eden Hall
sUnday yungchen lhamo 12:15-1:15 p.m., the Barn abigail washburn & friends 12:15-1:30 p.m., Lakeside stage peter rowan bluegrass band 2:15-3:30 p.m., Lakeside stage dirk powell band with riley baugus 3:45-5 p.m., the Barn steel pulse 4:15-5:45 p.m., Lakeside stage lizz wright lss showcase 4:30-5:45 p.m., Eden hall Find the full schedule at theleaf. com. LEAF runs Thursday, May 9-Sunday, May 12. Tickets are for sale (online or by phone at 6868742) in advance only, through May 9. $184 adults/$153 kids ages 10-17 for Thursday-Sunday with camping. $159/$134 Friday-Sunday with camping. $106/$94 Friday-Sunday no camping. $47/$38 Friday evening or Sunday day only, no camping. $57/$50 Saturday only, no camping. Parking is $5 per vehicle with free shuttle.
means turning pencil lead to gold records. The place looks pretty much like Deadwood but with paved roads and wineries, and I consider myself to now be the Al Swearengen of family hip-hop. Except a bit nicer and less erudite. Though there are many great possibilities and opportunities here, in all my national travels I have yet to find a music scene I like as much as Asheville, so I will be continuing to fly back and deal with Ashevilleans both on the musical and engineering side, with a temporary headquarters at Echo Mountain, in which to conduct my alchemical processes. You’ve launched your own label. What’s the status of that, and can we expect you to be breaking new artists anytime soon? While I do have my own label, Underground Playground Records, the only artists officially signed to it are my myriad of multiple personalities. But I will be releasing an album called Live at the Orange Peel later this year that features my MVP local conspirators Yo Mamma’s Big Fat Booty Band and us rocking a full set of 23 Skidoo material that’s equally pulled from all three albums. It’s pure, undiluted funkistry. I’ve heard that you’ve got more than just music on the horizon? I’ll also be releasing a book called Weirdo Calhoun and the Odd Men Out, which is illustrated by Asheville’s favorite punk rock cartoonist, Stu Helm, and which features three musical versions of the story that you read along with and “turn the page when you hear this sound,” inspired by the cassette tape books I read growing up. We have a funk/hip-hop version by Booty Band and I and a bluegrass version by Snake Oil Medicine Show, along with a lullaby version with Billy Jack Sinkovic on cello, Ellie LaBar on violin and my sweet wife’s storytime voice. We may only release it digitally for iPad and Kindle, unless there’s anyone out there who wants to publish it or invest in physical copies. Anyone? ... Anyone? ... Bueller? I know education has always been a big part of your mission and you’ve been involved with leAF for many years. Why do you think music education is so important for young people, and do you feel like our society is making progress towards recognizing that? Arts education is the most important training we can give to kids right now, both as a method to find meaning in life and to create skills for a Western, first-world market that is increasingly right-brained and gestalt-based. I am able to use hip-hop, which focuses especially on individuality and uniqueness, yet contains within it all the DNA of American music, to promote creativity, self knowledge and worth, and I love to rock classrooms with high-energy learning. Mostly, arts education is going down the drain as budgets get slashed by maniacal tyrants who think making kids into robots is a good long-term economic strategy because they themselves were never taught to be creative, have fun and share love. Boooooo. Let’s change that. — Dane Smith Secret Agent 23 Skidoo will perform an “educational informance” at the Orange Peel on May 13.
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downtown afteR 5 CelebRates its 25th anniveRsaRy DTA5 begins as Moonlight Over Downtown.
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones kicks off the DTA5 season; still the top attended concert with nearly 10,000 attendees.
Local artist Ann Vasilik creates her print “Moonlight Over Downtown” and proceeds benefit ADA.
Donna the Around this Buffalo and time, the Southern wristband Culture on the program Skids draw benefiting local large crowds. charities begins.
DTA5 moves to Battery Park near Grove Arcade, due to Pack Square Park construction.
Drivin’ N Cryin’ brings an estimated 7,500 people to the Lexington Avenue location.
‘88 ‘89 ‘90 ‘91 ‘92 ‘93 ‘94 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 ‘13 First Moonlight Over Downtown 5k occurs through downtown parking garages.
DTA5 moves to the former Pack Square (around the Vance Monument)
Fashion show Pagans, witches and held as part other practitioners of Asheville’s protest at the August Centennial DTA5 event. Celebration.
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by alli maRshall If Downtown After 5 (DTA5, the warm-weather street party series held on Lexington Avenue) is about celebrating all that Asheville is, its earliest iteration — Moonlight Over Asheville — was about “showcasing what Asheville could be.” That’s how Rick Ramsey remembers it. Ramsey is a former Asheville Downtown Association board member and event organizer, and he was there when the festival was just getting started. Back when it changed locations regularly, from parking decks and the Grove Arcade, to Pack Square and its current home near the I-240 overpass. Back when the crowds were smaller and the budget was leaner. (Sponsorships, in the late ‘80s, ran $800-$1,500 for eight events; today the lowest-level sponsorship is $2,500 for five events.) “Back in the day, we could afford one PortA-Potty, and it was a big stretch to afford two,” Ramsey laughs. “But if we didn’t make our beer budget at that time, it really killed us, so the next time we had to go back to the one.” Also, for some reason, it rained a lot during those first years, which meant moving the concerts to a parking deck. Which sounds not at all fun — but the truth is, even those small, early events provided plenty of TGIF-style revelry. The tradition of calling the DTA5 season opener “Moonlight Over Downtown” continued for a number of years, with Cajun and Zydeco music and heaps of Mardi Gras beads. In fact, Downtown After Five kicks off its 25th anniversary with a concert that recalls the Moonlight days. “Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas were huge,” remembers Ramsey of a past festival. “About three or four years ago, we had Zydeco, and the people who came out were people who never come out,” says Chris Bubenik, this year’s events committee chair. “They were dancing and having such a fun time.” This week’s May 3 DTA5 features New Orleans funk band Big Sam’s Funky Nation with local opener Empire Strikes Brass.
five o’ clock world: Sol Driven Train perform at a Downtown After 5 event. Photo by Sam Ganly Photography
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DTA5 finds a new home on North Lexington Avenue.
DTA5 celebrates 25 years and the unveiling of the Pack Square Park pergola canopy.
“It’s going to be very geared toward Moonlight,” says Bubenik. There will be a 2.5-mile bike ride with Asheville on Bikes, a possible 5k race, and festival planners are encouraging everyone to arrive decked out in Mardi Gras beads. The May DTA5 always features a special lineup. It’s also the best-attended of the five first-Friday shows (remember when local indie-pop band stephaniesîd played a particularly electrifying show, rain and all, a couple of years ago?). But every month brings a rocking band. Most popular musical acts to have played DTA5, over the years, include Donna the Buffalo, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Southern Culture on the Skids. “Drivin’ N Cryin,’ with the exception of Bela Fleck, was one of our most well-attended,” says Rogers. “The first one I ever attended was Mandorico, a rap/Mexican/ska band,” says Bubenik. “I thought, ‘I love this town.’” The thing is, DTA5 loves Asheville right back. Not only has the event been intended, from its inception, to showcase the best of our mountain town (from local bands both as headliners and openers, to local food and beer, to a great opportunity for business owners, workers and residents to get outside and mingle), it’s also done a lot to promote the community and to raise funds. “We made a lot of money in tips because we had the best volunteers,” says Ramsey of the early incarnations — one of which was in the Historic Lexington Park (now the site of a parking lot, across from Scully’s); another, starting around ’92 (and this is when DTA5 really took off) was at Pack Square Park, with pizza-tossing contests and rafts in the reflecting pool. Tips given to the volunteers working the beer booth would go to an end-of-season party, but also to benefit projects around the city. The Urban Trail received funding from the tips, and the Downtown Association was able to purchase the “Shopping Days” sculpture installed in front of Malaprop’s.
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downtown afteR five lineup All concerts take place on the third Friday of the month, on North Lexington Avenue (between Hiawassee and the I-240 overpass). 5-9 p.m., free. Charitable organizations that benefit from the proceeds of wristband sales are listed for each month, below.
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ADAPTED AND PERFORMED BY SUSAN STEIN DIRECTED BY AUSTIN PENDLETON FROM THE DIARIES OF ESTHER “ETTY” HILLESUM, A YOUNG WOMAN’S EXPERIENCES AS A STUDENT IN AMSTERDAM DURING WWII “If I should not survive, how I die will show me who I really am.”
may 17: Big Sam’s Funky Nation (new Orleans funk) with Empire Strikes Brass (local funk-rock). Benefits Asheville Green Works. june 21: Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy (Tucker is the former bassist of Drive By-Truckers; her new band is country-rock) with special guests TBA. Benefits Youth OUTright. july 19: Asheville All-Stars (local funk-fusion) with Pleasure Chest (local blues, rock and soul). Benefits Homeward Bound. august 16: The Revivalists (New Orleans rock) with Lyric (local soul). Benefits WildSouth. september 20: Truth & Salvage Company (alt-rock) with The Blue Rags (roots-rock). Benefits Our VOICE.
Bubenik, whose been on the ADA board for four years, says there’s been am allocation of $5,000 or more for projects. For the past couple of years, they’ve pledged funds to a canopy for the Pack Square Park pergola. “We worked with Hoss Haley, who designed the pergola, so it has the same seamless look, and Peter Belt of Red Sky Shelters,” says Rogers. The ADA raised $50,000 through private donations, and another $50,000 came in the form of a grant from the Buncombe County Tourism Product Development Fund. The canopy will be unveiled this summer, both as part of DTA5 as well as in another event with Shindig on the Green and the Asheville Symphony, among other organizations. And this is not the only way that DTA5 helps its community. The events committee is thinking about additional ways to green the concerts (recycling, composting and solar power are already in place), along with ways to encourage DTA5 attendees to dine and shop at downtown businesses while they’re in town for the free music. Plus, for more than a decade, the proceeds from wristband sales have benefited local charities. This year, 32 applicants (up from 20 last year) contended for the five spots. But the best — and easiest — was to help DTA5 carry on its good works is to pitch in with the celebrating. Eat, drink, socialize, listen to good music, volunteer if that’s your thing and cheer the 25th anniversary of this downtown institution. X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.
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So much to do in the world by Jordan lawrence Listening to Snake Oil Medicine Show now, about 19 years into the band’s career, it seems inevitable that the group would have landed in Asheville. Founded when the once-married Caroline Pond (fiddle) and George Pond (guitar) joined George’s brother, Andy (banjo) in Boone where he was enrolled at Appalachian State University, Snake Oil coined the term "slam grass" for its colorful and kinetic update on old time string music, soon inflecting it with deep pockets of jam-inspired groove, shades of rockabilly smoothness, and — most famously — comfortable reggae rhythms. It’s an intersection of world music and traditional Southern sound, a carefree romp through styles that have long had a home in Asheville. Thirteen years into its stint in town, it’s hard to imagine a better representation of the city’s sonic hallmarks.
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the good ol’ days: A shot of Snake Oil from a ways back. The longtime Asheville institution is about to go on extended hiatus. “It was the perfect thing for us to do, to move to North Carolina, to be in the roots of Appalachian music and learn from old time music and bluegrass music,” Caroline says. “We just kept playing music and kept getting more popular. People kept coming to our shows. I really wasn’t even planning it. It just made sense to continue with this path, and we did. The experiences that we’ve had, going to Jamaica
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and getting to learn reggae music — incorporating bluegrass with reggae is such an amazing sound and has been really good for us. It just seems like North Carolina, Boone and Asheville, was a perfect place for us to experiment with our sound, to mix those different genres.” Indeed, the often six-piece Snake Oil has become something of a local institution, frequenting most every music festival and venue
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that these mountains can offer, establishing as solid a home base as any band could hope for. But stasis doesn’t suit the restless and creative. This proves true for Caroline, who will leave Asheville on June 1 to tour across the country for a few months before she settles in Hawaii in August. The change, she says, is a necessary shakeup. “I feel change is good,” she explains. “I’m going to miss Asheville to the core center of my heart, but I just feel like there’s so much to do in the world, and there’s so much to learn. I really just want to branch out. I’ve been kind of feeling a little bit stagnant here. ... I’m just ready to switch it up for a little bit and switch gears and continue to write music and to meet new musicians and to work on my solo career but to also play with other people and learn from them and to kind of start another band project.” Caroline has pursued solo ventures for years — playing shows and conducting yoga workshops, lending her tenacious fiddle to the old time expert Tater Diggers. For her, the upcoming move is a bid to expand that range of experience. To meet up with friends across the country, crash couches and share songs and stories. To connect with traditional Polynesian players in Hawaii — she’s ace on ukulele — and to immerse herself in the music there. But as with her personal pursuits here, she doesn’t want this to be a break with Snake Oil. She wants to play some shows with the band during the couple of years she plans to spend in Hawaii. For her, Snake Oil is like family. Reunions are a must. “I feel like I’m still a huge part of Snake Oil Medicine Show, and I always will be a part of Snake Oil Medicine Show,” Caroline says. “Me going out into the world and doing solo stuff, I’m kind of keeping that dream alive, and I’m still spreading that word: ‘Hey, I’m the fiddle chick from Snake Oil Medicine Show.’ A lot of people have heard of us, and I’m just keeping that alive and bring that back to my family.” Snake Oil is working to complete its first album since 2009’s BluegrassTafari, a task the band hopes to complete before Caroline heads west. Her time with the group hasn’t been without hardships — her divorce from George after more than a decade of marriage, her brother’s untimely death in 2005 — but Snake Oil endures. “Everybody changes so much,” she says. “You’re not the same person that you were 10 years ago. We’ve gone through family tragedies as a band. We’ve just seen it all. But we’ve picked up the pieces, and we got back together again. Everybody heals, and we play music again.”
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Continued evolution by alli maRshall The Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit made its first lineup announcement this week, releasing the names of a dozen bands that will play the festival this fall (Friday-Sunday, Oct. 25-27). Among that first wave of artists is Nine Inch Nails, along with Trent Reznor’s new project, How to Destroy Angels, with his wife Mariqueen Maandig. Mountain Oasis is the multi-day electronic music festival planned and booked by AC Entertainment. It takes the place of Moogfest on Halloween weekend; AC previously booked and promoted Moogfest, but the two organizations parted ways last year. Out of the split, Asheville now gets two electronic music festivals. What’s staying the same: venues will be the U.S. Cellular Center, Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, The Orange Peel, Asheville Music Hall and Diana Wortham Theatre, says Ashley Capps, president of AC Entertainment. Some of the just-announced acts will be familiar: Pretty Lights (the project of Derek Vincent Smith) and Bassnectar (the project of Lorin Ashton) return from past Moogfests. “There’s a lot of interesting detail to be filled in over the course of the coming weeks,” says Capps. “Some of that will include some of the more out-of-the-box and experimental stuff.” What will change: No outdoor stage, as the October weather is too unpredictable (the 2011 outdoor Animoog Playground suffered from near-freezing temperatures at night). “We certainly want the festival to be as multidimensional, and more so, than it’s been in the past,” he says. “We’re looking at interactive elements, we’re looking at continuing with panels and speakers, we’re discussing some potential art
mountain oasis announCes its fiRst Round of bands, inCluding nine inCh nails and neutRal milk hotel Capps says that a friend suggested he check out U.K.-based DJ The Bug (who has collaborated with Moogfest alum Death Grips). “I was blown away. It was certainly one of my two or three top South by Southwest highlights,” says Capps. “A great show.” The lineup comes from planning, along with surprise and discovery, he says. And: “We’ve always broken the rules. The first year we did Moogfest in Asheville, we had Van Dyke Parks who played solo acoustic piano.” Parks not only broke with the electronic thread, but was one of the festival’s many highlyregarded music pioneers and elder statesmen (Brian Eno, Thomas Dolby and Morton Subotnik also number in that category). This year’s lineup brings British new wave artist Gary Numan, another performer AC has been trying to book for a few years. “For the last three years, there’s been an eclecticism to the lineup that continues this year,” says Capps. The initial release is a cross section of that initiative, with Animal Collective (experimental psychedelic), Rustie (deb-step from Glasgow), Zola Jesus (coldwave) & JG Thirlwell (who wrote string arrangements and played electronics with Jesus at Guggenheim Museum) and Silver Apples (psychedelic electronic) on the list. In all, Mountain Oasis will host around 50-60 bands — look for more announcements to come. “This year, we haven’t focused so much on the quantity as the quality of the experience,” says Capps. “We want to make sure the artists have the the full time to present their show, and also there’s a lot of focus on the actual production.” X
set in motion: Bassnectar is among the initial round of artists announced for this October’s electronic music festival. Photo by Douglas Wojciechowski for Paxahau
what Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit
when Friday-Sunday, Oct. 25-27. Info at mountainoasisfestival.com
who (so faR) Nine Inch Nails, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Gary Numan, An Evening with Neutral Milk Hotel and special guests Half Japanese and Daniel Johnston, Animal Collective, How to Destroy Angels, The Bug, Rustie, Zola Jesus & JG Thirlwell, Silver Apples, Jacques Greene, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Chromatics, Bondax, Robert DeLong, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Bosnian Rainbows
installations, some film projects, we’re continuing to work on some really interesting visual designs for the venues themselves.” Taking cues from other AC Entertainmentproduced festivals (such as Bonnaroo), Mountain Oasis will introduce some up-andcoming acts, along with some long-awaited comebacks. Among the latter is Neutral Milk Hotel. That band is one of few exceptions to the electronic theme. “But that’s a very special band. They haven’t played together live in 15 years,” says Capps. Frontman Jeff Mangum (who performed two sold-out solo shows at The Grey Eagle this past February) has not only brought his ‘90s-era indie-rock band back together, but will be “taking on a curatorial role with his stage that day,” says Capps. The idea of having Trent Reznor do a project has been in discussion for a couple of years. “Some of the soundtrack work that he’d been
doing, the project that he was working on with his wife, all of this tied in to the aesthetic that we were looking to present,” says Capps. “All of these are opportunities that emerged from discussions,” says Capps. “When the time comes, you seize the moment when you can.” The lineup is also culled from suggestions posted on Facebook and music forums, and from bands that AC associates are drawn to at festivals they attend. “We’re fans ourselves,” says Capps. “We’re always susceptible to influence. When fans bring up interesting ideas, it’s always fun to pursue them.” There are some acts that AC has targeted for years (Hint: Asheville doesn’t have a large enough venue for Radiohead, and Atoms for Peace, the side project of Radiohead front man Thom Yorke, will be out of the country during Mountain Oasis dates); others come to the festival through happenstance.
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two beat up dRums and two old guitaRs shovels & Rope go fRom baRs to the bigtime
loud, raw and passionate: The duo recently recorded with Jack White at Third Man Records in Nashville. Photos by John Zara
by john ZaRa The past year has been a busy one for Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. The husband-andwife duo released O' Be Joyful to great reception from an eager fanbase. Relentless touring has helped propel their single "Birmingham." Appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman and opening for Dave Matthews Band, Jack White and Dawes doesn't hurt, either. "A lot of things that happened to us this year were on our — like if we made a list (and I'm not saying we made a list) — of the things we really wanted to do. We were lucky to get to check off a lot of those things," say Hearst. "There's a lot going on and we're pushing ourselves pretty hard." Early on, the two could be found separately working gigs around the Charleston, S.C., bar scene. Eventually, they joined forces to release the album Shovels & Rope in 2008. Two years later, they adopted the album title as their band name and hit the road. The outcome falls somewhere between country and rock. The essence of the couple's sound lies in a guitar and kick drum. Their folksy, emotive and gritty live shows are heartening. Balancing instrument swaps and vocal harmonies, the couple creates performances that keep songs exciting and fun. "We don't make set lists," Hearst says. "We try to feel out the audience to see what they want to hear."
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While manicured, the album offers tracks that have some bite of their own. Recorded in places like hotel rooms and their tour van, O' Be Joyful is solidified by songs derived from life itself. Made a little money playing in the bars / With two beat up drums and two old guitars, they exclaim in "Birmingham." Trent offers some insight on their recording process. "We like to leave mistakes in there and whatever feels good,” he says. “We've had to come up with ways to interpret [the album] into a live show. There are just some things we can't do with two people!" Ears continue to perk after taping an Austin City Limits session with The Lumineers and a Jack White-produced recording session at Third Man Records in Nashville. The latter yielded a 7" vinyl release. "We were in there for about four hours. Totally live. It felt like a pretty pure recording experience. It was very natural," Trent says about recording with White. The recent attention the two have been receiving has largely come while they've been on the road. Which they try to experience one mile at a time. "Just trying to stay sane and maintain," Trent explains. Above all, Shovels & Rope do it their way, the way they've always done it. Loud, raw and passion-filled. X John Zara can be reached at jzara@mountainx. com.
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the Rise of jaCkson sCott
how pitChfoRk pRopelled an asheville
unknown to a ReCoRd ContRaCt and touR by ChRistian ChuRCh A few months ago, Jackson Scott was just Jack, the drummer/guitar player/occasional singer for local psych-rock-shoegaze group Sin Kitty. That all changed on Feb. 26, when Scott’s song “That Awful Sound” premiered on Pitchfork. Since then, the song, hosted on Scott’s SoundCloud page, has logged more than 80,000 plays. The rapid success left many people shocked, including Scott. “I knew that some blogs were talking about it, I wasn’t really sure how far it would go, though,” he said. “I was pretty surprised.” So how did this 20-year-old former UNCAsheville student go from a relatively unknown entity to opening for Deerhunter and signing to Fat Possum Records? Well, for one, he took the focus off of his schooling and on to his songwriting. “[I] devoted every waking hour for about six months [to] recording an album until I thought that it was complete,” says Scott about his upcoming album, Melbourne. After posting it online, he began sending out the link to every blog and label he was interested in. With no PR or management team behind him then, this tactic could have left his work lost in the wasteland of artist e-mails. But something about Scott’s work rose above the clamor. He’s been making music for a long time. A Pittsburgh native, Scott learned to play the piano when he was 8, then drums and guitar in his teens. He started recording his songs in high school. Scott left Pittsburgh to go to UNC-Asheville, where he met the other members of Sin Kitty and began recording demos in his dorm. He’s still a relative unknown online. Even after the Pitchfork piece and Fat Possum (which will put out his debut this summer), there’s still only one press photo of Scott. His Tumblr features a single Polaroid and his SoundCloud hosts two songs. It doesn’t seem to be part of some carefully crafted persona; more of an attempt to let his music speak first. Like many lo-fi luminaries before him, Scott’s recording techniques are simple on the surface. While he mixes in GarageBand, the recording itself is done using a Tascam 4-track recorder, the standard for most home-recording of the past few decades. Introduced in 1979, the Portastudio allowed for cheap, DIY recording to cassette tapes and has been used by the likes of Animal Collective, Wu-Tang Clan and even Bruce Springsteen. But it’s the intimate works of John Vanderslice, Jeff Mangum and even groups
king me: Jackson Scott’s rise to success was more of a catapult. like Television Personalities, with which Scott’s sound has a real kinship. “Sometimes I’ll get into a really obsessive songwriting mode where I will write a bunch of songs at once, then some take longer ... often I write songs on guitar by messing around with different chord structures and trying to come up with some euphoric melodies over top of them,” Scott says of his process. “I really love pop songs. I really love dark songs, too.” Scott shies away from the singer-songwriter label, but it’s apt. Despite the instrumentation or production flares, songs are the key to artists like Scott: the individual voice, the lyrics, the delivery. Scott keeps things unique. Hence his rapid success, to blogs and critics touting him as the next big thing, to a management and record deal, and a tour supporting Bradford Cox’s Deerhunter, another musical and spiritual influence. “I’m going to tour throughout the rest of the year,” Scott says of his upcoming plans. “I really want to go to Europe. Then I want to come back to Asheville and record another album.” X Christian Church can be reached at no.glot@gmail.com.
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L.A.A.F.F. — Love Asheville Arts and Fun Festival. Though the event will stay on the eclectic thoroughfare that gave the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival its original name, the location has been officially dropped, or replaced, from the festival’s title. Once a fundraiser for the nonprofit Arts2People and its programs, the festival lost enough money last fall to put its future in doubt. Now a new, community-based effort is taking control of the annual one-day festival, which turns 12 this year. Called the LAAFF directorate, it’s made up of roughly 20 downtown business owners, artists, concerned citizens and festivalgoers. Its members heeded a call for help shortly after Arts2People, the festival’s producer, issued a plea for financial assistance on Sept. 5, 2012. The festival had accrued crippling debts, which organizers say were due to several last-minute and unforeseen expenditures. The festival didn’t bring in as much money as organizers had predicted, and a pre-fest bar crawl proved unsuccessful. These debts, more than $15,000, were severe enough to sink the event, said Jen Gordon, then-director of Arts2People. Gordon posted a follow-up letter on Nov. 15, 2012, seeking public input. “In the effort to ensure the sustainability and continuity of LAAFF, Arts2People would like to give the event to you, the community, to design,” she said. “LAAFF has always been a celebration of you and your creative, entrepreneurial spirit and we would like for you to consider joining forces with a newly forming re-visioning team to help us reimagine this event.” Volunteers joined together to share ideas through social media. That online discussion became the festival’s new planning committee, operating as an A2P subcommittee. As the official event organizers, they agreed to assume the debts from the 2012 festival, according to directorate member and festival co-founder Kitty Love. At an April 24 Arts2People board meeting, directorate members Love, Paul Van heden, Aaron Johnstone, Cat Shepard and Roshon Cray,were officially added to the board. They join Susan and Tim Griffin, Tracie Ackerman, Cate Marrill and Jennifer Gordon, the latter stepping down from executive director to board member. The existing board will largely take a backseat to the new members’ planning. Such a large group effort has created a huge organizational advantage, according to directorate member Sam Spears. “Instead of one person taking care of everything, we have a core group, a community,” she says. “It makes for a better outcome.”
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From last year’s LAAFF. Photo by Caitlin Byrd
Since January, they’ve been working in subcommittees, each responsible for restructuring individual components of LAAFF’s physical and conceptual foundations. And the name, of course. “We dropped the title because [the festival’s] not just for Lexington Avenue,” Paul Van heden told Xpress. “It’s a celebration of all things Asheville.” Changing the name also lends a view to the festival’s future growth. The group aims to expand LAAFF in ways that envelop Asheville’s vast cultural oddities, but also makes room for more musicians, artists and sponsors in coming years. This year, they’ll be keeping the same North Lexington Avenue footprint. The directorate is reevaluating sponsorships, musical performances and vending, and has rewritten the manifesto. It’ll be premiered with updated sponsorship, vendor and artist applications set to go out at the beginning of May. Organizers are turning to transformational festivals, such as Burning Man, for organizational information. That is to say, they envision the reincarnated LAAFF as a completely interactive festival, one in which attendees are invited
and immersed into an experience, rather than as viewers of a spectacle. “An arts festival shouldn’t be a spectators event,” says Van heden. “You go, and you’re part of the scene yourself. You put on the padded suite and go bike jousting. Or grab someone and start dancing, bottle some juice and share it with somebody.” With Bele Chere’s future uncertain, Van heden says that it’s important to evaluate and fine-tune LAAFF — to keep it sustainable and local, yet fresh. “Asheville needs to have a defining festival,” he says. “A local festival: that’s what it’s always been,” says Spears. And as our city grows, the festival needs to grow to match the cultural shifts. She cited last years’ pub crawl and musical acts as thinking in the right direction. The festival is drastically different from its block-party-esque beginnings, and continues to evolve, organizers say. While last year proved difficult, the directorate sees 2012 as part of the greater experiment. “It was a bump in the road,” says Aaron Johnstone. “Growing pains.”
It’s with this mindset that they’re working through this year’s festival, with fresh eyes and renewed confidence. “You shouldn’t leave the festival and say ‘hey, ya know what I saw?’” Van heden says. “It should be ‘hey, ya know what I did?”
WhAT WENT WRONG A few days after the September festival, A2P Executive director Jennifer Gordon posted a brief letter on the Arts2People website. She expressed gratitude for the continuing support, but noted misfortunes: “As the event grows and we look at ways to try to make the event profitable for all involved, we are forced to take many risks. This year’s list of risks did not pay off and we are in a position that might mean we won’t be able to continue to have this event.” The biggest of these risks was paying the performers. For the first time, A2P wrote checks to performing artists. The total bill reached nearly $13,000. These payments were supposed to be subsidized by the Pre-LAAFF-a-thon Pub Crawl. The evening event partnered with seven downtown bars, each of which hosted a different event or musical act. Tickets had been on sale for weeks, but the evening was poorly attended, and only raised $3,550 of the total goal. Matters were further complicated after highrise cyclist and festival co-founder Michael Mooney withdrew from the festival, following differences in organizational ideologies. he took with him the power poles needed to provide extra electricity for the festival. Mooney owns the poles that had been used every year. Instead, LAAFF needed a last-minute power hook-up from Asheville-based electric company M. B. haynes. Electrical services depleted an extra $1,200 from the budget. This was on top of the roughly $2,300 generator rental. Neither were anticipated costs. There was also a city-mandated expansion of the festival’s footprint. Crowds have grown each year, but the festival has kept its boundaries to Lexington Avenue. Estimates for the 2012 crowd were around 30,000. In September 2012, Gordon told Xpress that multiple city agencies, including the AFd, had asserted concerns over safety during the event while A2P was filing for permits. In order to receive the correct permits, the festival had to expand, she said. Broadway was out of the question, as was going past the highway or across Patton (because of the ensuing traffic disruption). This left the festival to expand up Walnut and onto Rankin Avenue. Vendors, many who were new to the festival, were pushed up the hill — and many say they saw decreased foot traffic as a result. Expanding also required extra security, blockades and barriers, and extensive electrical hookups. These additional expenses were not factored into the projected budget. All in all, the festival owed $15,221: about half to vendors, and about half for LAAFF staff and organizers ($7,501 to Able Rent-a-Jon, danny’s dumpsters, Jack’s Boxes, MB haynes and Mountain Xpress for festival expenses, and $7,720 for staff and affiliate labor). Organizers say they hope to know by May 22 who has been paid, and which debts have yet to be settled.
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brown bird at isis tedeschi-trucks band It seems like blues-rock mega-outfit Tedeschi-Trucks Band, 11 members strong, must have played in Asheville before. And, in a way they have. Husband and wife duo Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi have, between them, made appearances at Bele Chere, Christmas Jam and various venues (dating back to when Trucks was a teen). But they’ve never played here in this iteration and, according to press, the band is taking this opportunity to “showcase the full force of TTB.” And they’ll do a lot of good in the process: $1 from each ticket sold for the band’s Thursday, May 2 show at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium goes to support MANNA Foodbank. The benefit is a partnership with FATE (Funding America Through Entertainment) and Oskar Blues Brewery. 8 p.m., $39/$49/$75. uscellularcenterasheville.com. Photo by Taylor Crothers — A.M.
apopalypse and the deepening blues Friday, May 3 is a big night for Asheville’s progressive arts scene. Satellite Gallery (55 Broadway St.) hosts the opening of Apopalypse, featuring new work from Peter Parpan, Alli Good, Andy Herod, Joti Marra Ramsey and Nick Turkette, “five artists working in a similar pop-culture influenced style,” for a show that “attempts to speak to this restless feeling we have in art and a post industrial information based society,” writes gallery owner Bill Thompson. And Harvest Records (415 Haywood Road) hosts the latest sound-and-word experience from Age Cowboy, a collaboration between Xpress designer and artist Nathanael Roney, along with J Seger and Jaye Bartell (also of Xpress). The Deepening Blues promises “an inspired dialogue of image, sound and word.” — R.S.
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One reviewer described Rhode Island-based Brown Bird as ‘30s-era Ellington flirting with Cuban and Middle Eastern tropes in a proverbially dusty middleAmerica barn.” The duo is David Lamb and MorganEve Swain, and their newly-released album, Fits of Reason is a continuation of the band’s strive for innovation paired with literary savvy and esoteric musings. Brown Bird spent much of last year touring with the likes of Trampled By Turtles, The Devil Makes Three, Yonder Mountain String Band and Horse Feathers. This spring’s tour bring them to Isis on Saturday, May 4. 9 p.m., Last Good Tooth opens. $10/$13. isisasheville.com. Photo by Mikael Kennedy — A.M.
wordfest “April is the cruelest month for poetry,” Charles Berstein wrote in his essay/polemic, “Against National Poetry Month As Such.” “National Poetry Month is about making poetry safe for readers by promoting examples of the art form at its most bland and its most morally ‘positive.’” Asheville Wordfest, started in 2007 by Laura Hope-Gill, was not founded as counter-programming for National Poetry Month, but the event’s character does relieve Bernstein’s discomfort with limiting the acts of poetry — words, speech — to a kind of long holiday, an art form within quote marks. Wordfest recognizes the vitality and value of poetry (and prose and performance), no matter what month it is. This year’s participants include Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Cornelius Eady, John Lane, Keith Flynn, Evie Shockley (pictured) and N.C. Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti. Asheville Wordfest, May 3-4 at Lenoir-Rhyne University Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. See ashevillewordfest.com for programs and more info. — J.B.
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douBle croWn International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm
one stop deli & Bar Swift Technique (funk, soul, hip-hop) w/ DJ Kutzu & Manukaru, 10pm oskar Blues BreWery Wilhelm Brothers (roots, folk), 6pm pHoenix lounge The Get Right Duo (rock, reggae), 8pm pulp Josh Pierce, Caine McDonald & Scott Stetson, 8pm
Thursday, May 2 5 Walnut Wine Bar The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm altamont BreWing company David Earl (roots, rock, soul), 7pm Barley's taproom Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm
6:30pm cluB Hairspray Karaoke & dance party, 10pm cluB metropolis One More Time (Daft Punk tribute), 10 pm
elaine's dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am emerald lounge Naked Gods (indie rock, pop) w/ The Critters & Oulipo, 9pm frencH Broad BreWery tasting room Pamela Jones (singer-songwriter), 6pm
Jack of Hearts puB Old-time jam, 7pm Jack of tHe Wood puB No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm loBster trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm market place Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm olive or tWist Heather Masterton Jazz Quartet, 8-11pm one stop deli & Bar Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm The Deadfields (Americana, roots, rock), 10pm orange peel Danny Brown (hip-hop) w/ Kitty, 9pm oskar Blues BreWery The Wootones (soul), 6pm pHoenix lounge Bradford Carson (rock, jam, blues), 8pm
red stag grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 7-10pm
Black mountain ale House The Get Right Duo (acoustic, rock, funk), 9pm
grey eagle music Hall & tavern Bobby Bare Jr. (folk rock, alt-country) w/ Nikki Lane & Shake It Like a Caveman, 8pm
tallgary's cantina Open mic/jam, 7pm
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HarraH's cHerokee Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight
purple onion cafe Scoot Pitman (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm
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isis restaurant and music Hall Rose Cousins (folk, pop), 9pm
tallgary's cantina Asheville music showcase, 8pm
pisgaH BreWing company The Danberrys (Americana), 8pm
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cLub HairsPray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am cLub MetroPoLis Culture (reggae) w/ Dub Kartel, 10pm doubLe croWn Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm eMeraLd Lounge Dead Nite w/ Phuncle Sam (classic rock, jam), 9pm frencH broad breWery tasting rooM Letters to Abigail (country, Americana), 6pm grey eagLe Music HaLL & tavern Youth Lagoon (psych-pop, lo-fi) w/ Majical Cloudz & Jackson Scott, 9pm grove Park inn great HaLL Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm HarraH's cHerokee Sketch Bone w/ DJ Dizzy, 8pm-2am HigHLand breWing coMPany Red Honey (country, blues, Southern rock), 6pm
Asheville FM hosts dozens of weekly shows that run the gamut of musical styles and tastes (you name it, they’ve got it). But don’t take our word for it: take theirs. Xpress brings you this weekly feature — direct from the DJs — highlighting a few of the station’s stellar offerings. ashevillefm.org. Ultimate Twang is a three-hour trip back to a time when the sounds of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Alabama, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and George Strait filled the radio. Sit back and enjoy the nostalgic sounds of days past as the gentle breezes of yesterday carry those long-lost voices back to the forefront of your memory. With Mike Reece, Thursdays at 4 p.m. Photo by Max Cooper Jack of Hearts Pub Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (roots, alt-country), 9pm Jack of tHe Wood Pub Tar & Rosin, 5pm Red June (Americana) w/ Locust Honey String Band, 9pm
HoteL indigo Juan Buenavitas & friends (Spanish/ flamenco guitar), 7-10pm
Lexington ave breWery (Lab) American Gonzos (rock, funk, punk) w/ The Hope Griffin Band & Albert Adams, 9:30pm
isis restaurant and Music HaLL Swear & Shake (roots rock), 9pm
Market PLace Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz),
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clubdirectory 185 King Street 877-1850 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 altamont theatre 348-5327 arCadE 258-1400 asheville Civic Center & thomas Wolfe auditorium 259-5544 asheville Music Hall 255-7777 asheville radio Cafe 254-3636 athena’s Club 252-2456 Barley’s tap room 255-0504 Black Mountain ale House 669-9090 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Boiler room 505-1612 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Broadway’s 285-0400 the Bywater 232-6967 Club Hairspray 258-2027 Club Metropolis 258-2027 Club remix 258-2027 the Chop House 253-1852
Creekside taphouse 575-2880 adam dalton distillery 367-6401 deSoto Lounge 986-4828 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty South Lounge 251-1777 double Crown 575-9060 dobra tea room 575-2424 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 French Broad Brewery tasting room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 the Grove Park Inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 the Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Hangar Lounge 684-1213 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777
One StOp Deli & Bar Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm Orange peel Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) w/ Cold Specks, 8pm
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Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 the Hop 254-2224 the Hop West 252-5155 Jack of Hearts Pub 645-2700 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jus One More 253-8770 Lexington avenue Brewery 252-0212 the Lobster trap 350-0505 Monte Vista Hotel 669-8870 Odditorium 505-8388 One Stop Bar deli & Bar 255-7777 O.Henry’s/tuG 254-1891 the Orange Peel 225-5851 Oskar Blues Brewery 883-2337 Pack’s tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 rankin Vault 254-4993 red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949
Point & Shoot (rock), 9pm treaSure cluB DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am vanuatu kava Bar Darlyne Cain (jazz), 9pm
OSkar BlueS Brewery Nikki Talley (singer-songwriter), 7pm
wall Street cOffee hOuSe Open mic, 9pm
pack'S tavern DJ Moto (dance, pop), 9pm
white hOrSe Taste of Black Mountain, 5:30pm Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8pm
phOenix lOunge Jazz night, 8pm piSgah Brewing cOmpany Stereofidelics (indie, rock), 8pm reD Stag grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 8-11pm rOOt Bar nO. 1 Seraphim Arkistra (electro-coustic, groove), 9pm ScanDalS nightcluB Zumba, 7pm Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am Straightaway cafe Lyric (pop, funk, soul), 6pm the SOcial Awaken the Dream (rock), 9:30pm
wxyZ lOunge Jason Daniello (singer-songwriter), 9pm
Saturday, May 4 5 walnut wine Bar The Gypsy Swingers (hot jazz), 10pm aSheville muSic hall Murder By Death w/ Frontier Ruckus (Americana, rock, roots), 10pm athena'S cluB Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Bier garDen DJ Don Magic, 9pm-1am
root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Smokey’s after dark 253-2155 Southern appalacian Brewery 684-1235 the Social 298-8780 Static age records 254-3232 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 tallGary’s Cantina 232-0809 rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack 575-2260 thirsty Monk South 505-4564 timo’s House 575-2886 trailhead restaurant & Bar 357-5656 treasure Club 298-1400 tressa’s downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066 WXyZ Lounge 232-2838
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Album Release show w/ Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers and Camp David • 9pm $8
BRUNCH 10am-2pm • $10
THE HOWLIN’ BROTHERS • 9pm $8/$10
TAQUERIA CON CUIDA
DOuBle crOwn Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm
timO'S hOuSe DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am
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cluB metrOpOliS J Rabbit (dubstep) w/ Dsom & DJ Gon, 10pm
grey eagle muSic hall & tavern Fair trade fashion show, 1pm Shovels & Rope (alt-country, folk) w/ Moses Atwood, 9pm
Grey Eagle Comedy Series
OF COMEDY CENTRAL’S WORKAHOLICS 8PM • $12/$15
cluB hairSpray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am
Black mOuntain ale hOuSe David Earl & Silas Durocher (rock, outlaw country), 9pm
w/ Majical Cloudz and Jackson Scott • 9pm $12/$14
SHOVELS & ROPE
cluB eleven On grOve Tango workshop, noon-5pm Tango class & milonga w/ DJ Clint Rauscher, 8pm
french BrOaD Brewery taSting rOOm Peggy Ratusz (blues, jazz, swing), 6pm
YOUTH LAGOON
w/ Moses Atwood • 9pm $12/$14
Bywater Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (roots, alt-country), 9pm
emeralD lOunge Marshall Brown w/ Elk Tracks & Jack & the Bear (Americana, rock), 9pm
w/ Nikki Lane and Shake it Like a Caveman • 8pm $10/$12
SAT FAIR TRADE FASHION 5/4 SHOW AND SALE 1-3pm • $5
Domination: Fetish Fandom Face Off, 10pm
elaine'S Dueling pianO Bar Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am
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straigHtaway Cafe Tristan (singer-songwriter), 6pm
Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Bob Zullo Quartet (Latin, jazz, pop), 9pm-midnight
tHe soCial Karaoke, 9:30pm
HarraH's CHerokee Sharkadelics (rock) w/ DJ Paul Gallo, 8pm-2am
timo's House Thift Shop Party w/ Harry Darnell & DJ Diesel, 9pm
HigHland Brewing Company Sarah Tucker CD release (singer-songwriter), 6pm
town pump Lost in the Middle (alt-rock), 9pm
Hotel indigo Juan Buenavitas & friends (Spanish/flamenco guitar), 7-10pm isis restaurant and musiC Hall Brown Bird (Americana, folk) w/ Last Good Tooth, 9pm
treasure CluB DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues Lyric (soul, funk, pop), 10pm
JaCk of Hearts puB George Terry McDonald (rock), 9pm
westville puB Southbound Turnaround (honky-tonk), 10pm
JaCk of tHe wood puB Goner (Americana), 5pm Big Nasty Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9pm
wHite Horse Black Mountain Pastoral Counselling benefit (Mexican music & food), 7pm
lexington ave Brewery (laB) Zombie Queen (rock, punk) w/ Ivan the Terribles & Pleasures of the Ultraviolent, 9:30pm
wild wing Cafe Trial by Fire (Journey tribute), 9pm
monte vista Hotel Justin Eisenman (Americana), 6pm odditorium Manna food drive w/ Great White Caps, 6pm olive or twist 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8-11pm
orange peel Relient K (rock) w/ hellogoodbye, William Beckett & Mike Mains & the Branches, 8pm
5 walnut wine Bar The Roaring Lions (hot jazz), 7-9pm
BlaCk mountain ale House Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am
paCk's tavern The Sloantones (rock, funk, blues), 9pm pHoenix lounge Howie Johnson Trio (rock, jam), 9pm pisgaH Brewing Company The Giving Tree Band (Americana), 8pm purple onion Cafe David Jacobs-Strain (country, blues), 8pm root Bar no. 1 Skunk Ruckus ("hillbilly gutrock"), 9pm
CluB eleven on grove Tango workshop w/ Tango Gypsies, 6:30-8:30pm douBle Crown Soul gospel Sunday w/ DJ Sweet Daddy Swamee, 6pm Karaoke w/ KJ JD, 10pm grey eagle musiC Hall & tavern Erik Griffin of "Workaholics" (comedy), 8pm grove park inn great Hall Bob Zullo (Latin, jazz, pop), 7-11pm HarraH's CHerokee Dueling pianos, 5pm-9pm isis restaurant and musiC Hall
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altamont Brewing Company Appalachian Trail Conservancy fundraiser, 3pm Sunday Funday Potluck & Pickin', 5:30pm
one stop deli & Bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Jay Franck (of Sanctum Sully), 11am
sCandals nigHtCluB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am
wxyz lounge DJ Malinali (Latin), 9pm
JaCk of Hearts puB Ahora Si (salsa, jazz) JaCk of tHe wood puB Jack & the Bear (rock, folk), 10pm loBster trap Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm monte vista Hotel Daniel Keller (jazz guitar), 11am odditorium Low to the Earth (metal), 9pm one stop deli & Bar Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am A Live One (Phish tribute), 8pm orange peel Waltz lesson, 6pm Dance, 7pm pHoenix lounge Whitney Moore & the People (Latin, fusion), 9pm sCandals nigHtCluB Tango workshop w/ Tango Gypsies, 1-6pm Cinco de Mayo show (drag), 10pm straigHtaway Cafe Ian Harrod (singer-songwriter), 6pm wall street Coffee House Kids' open mic, 2pm
Monday, May 6 5 walnut wine Bar The Get Right Band (singer-songwriter), 8pm apotHeCary Ulan Bator (French art rock) w/ Nathalie Forget, Xambuca & Shenzhen, 9pm BlaCk mountain ale House Karaoke, 9pm Bywater Open mic, 9pm
grey eagle musiC Hall & tavern Contra dance, 8pm grove park inn great Hall Bob Zullo (Latin, jazz, pop), 7-11pm Hangar lounge Karaoke, 10pm
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oskar Blues Brewery Old-time jam, 5-8pm
Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7-9pm native kitCHen & soCial puB Trivia, 7pm o.Henry's/tug Movie trivia, 10pm
pHoenix lounge Suzanne, Jerry & Kurt (folk), 7pm
odditorium Valerie Meiss (of Hellblinki) w/ Jack's Shadow (rock/carnival), 9pm
tHe soCial Open mic, 8pm
olive or twist The Blue Dogs (blues), 8-11pm
timo's House Jam night (multi-genre open jam), 10pm
one stop deli & Bar Two for Tuesday feat: Compass (electronic) & Brokedown Hustlers (folk), 8pm DJ Adam Strange, 10pm
treasure CluB DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues Scary-Oke w/ DJ Billy Masters, 10pm westville puB Trivia night, 9pm
TueSday, May 7
orange peel The Wallflowers (rock, pop) w/ Luella & the Suns, 9pm
JaCk of tHe wood puB Rory Kelly's Triple Threat (rock), 9pm lexington ave Brewery (laB) Tom Simmons (comedy), 9pm
dugout Karaoke, 8pm elaine's dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am
HigHland Brewing Company "Smokey & the Bandit" movie screening, 6pm
tressa's downtown Jazz and Blues El Duende (Latin jazz), 9pm
isis restaurant and musiC Hall Bluegrass sessions, 9pm
douBle Crown Country night w/ Dr. Filth, 9pm
tallgary's Cantina Techno dance party, 9:30pm
asHeville musiC Hall Funk jam, 11pm
grey eagle musiC Hall & tavern Nic Cowan (rock) w/ Jason Daniello, 8pm
dirty soutH lounge Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm
HarraH's CHerokee Live acoustic music, 7-11pm
treasure CluB DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am
Creekside tapHouse Old-time jam, 6:30pm
Creekside tapHouse Open mic, 8-11pm
pHoenix lounge Paul Jones (rock/jazz guitar), 8pm
altamont Brewing Company Open mic, 8pm
CluB remix Asheville's Finest (variety show & open mic), 9pm
CluB remix Open House (dance music, DJs), 9pm
Hangar lounge Old-school DJ ('70s-'90s) & open mic, 8pm
tolliver's Crossing irisH puB Trivia, 8:30pm
CluB eleven on grove Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm Dance, 8:30pm
CluB Hairspray Dirty game night & dance party, 10pm
oskar Blues Brewery Trivia, 6pm
5 walnut wine Bar The John Henrys (gypsy jazz), 8pm
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orange peel Opeth (metal) w/ Katatonia, 8pm
grove park inn great Hall Bob Zullo (Latin, jazz, pop), 7-11pm
Courtyard gallery Open mic, 8-11pm
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JaCk of Hearts puB Singer-songwriter night, 6:30pm
Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm
westville puB Blues jam, 10pm wHite Horse Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm
WedneSday, May 8 5 walnut wine Bar Steve Karla (jazz), 5pm Juan Benevides Trio (flamenco, Latin), 8pm adam dalton distillery DJ dance party (EDM, bass), 10pm Barley's taproom Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm BlaCk mountain ale House Bluegrass jam, 9pm Bywater International reggae dance night, 9pm
isis restaurant and musiC Hall Impromptu Sessions (improv jam w/ rotating musicians), 9:30pm JaCk of Hearts puB Big Nasty Jazz Band, 7pm native kitCHen & soCial puB Appalachian night, 7pm o.Henry's/tug Karaoke, 10pm odditorium Panic Manor w/ Running on E & Monkey in Podship (pop punk), 9pm olive or twist Cadillac Rex (oldies, swing, rock), 8-11pm one stop deli & Bar Soul/jazz jam w/ Preston Cate, 9pm orange peel Moon Taxi (rock, jam) w/ Total War, 9pm pHoenix lounge Ten Cent Poetry (folk), 8pm pisgaH Brewing Company The Mobros (blues), 6pm red stag grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 7-10pm tallgary's Cantina
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Thursday, May 9 5 walnuT wine Bar The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm BarleY's TaprooM Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm Black MounTain ale house The Get Right Duo (acoustic, rock, funk), 9pm cluB hairspraY Karaoke & dance party, 10pm cluB reMix Asheville Rootz Collective (roots, reggae, dancehall), 9pm DouBle crown International cuts w/ DJ Flypaper, 9pm elaine's DuelinG piano Bar Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am French BroaD BrewerY TasTinG rooM James Maple (country), 6pm harrah's cherokee Live band karaoke, 8pm-midnight Jack oF hearTs puB Old-time jam, 7pm Jack oF The wooD puB No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm loBsTer Trap Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm MarkeT place Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 6-9pm oDDiToriuM Insomniac Folklore (folk), 9pm olive or TwisT Heather Masterton Jazz Quartet, 8-11pm one sTop Deli & Bar Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm oskar Blues BrewerY The Everydays (folk), 6pm phoenix lounGe Bradford Carson (rock, jam, blues), 8pm pisGah BrewinG coMpanY Rough & Tumble (Americana) w/ CaroMia, 9pm purple onion caFe Gigi Dover & the Big Love (Americana, rock, soul), 7:30pm TallGarY's canTina Asheville music showcase, 8pm The social Dr. Brown's team trivia, 8pm TiMo's house Asheville Drum 'n' Bass Collective, 10pm-2am Town puMp Live music, 9pm TrailheaD resTauranT anD Bar Zydeco jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm Treasure cluB
Cinco de music: Zia Taqueria will host an outdoor Cinco de Mayo party with art vendors, family-friendly games and music by Lyric, Decent Lovers, Big Nasty Jazz Band, The Krektones and The Critters.
DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am Tressa's DownTown Jazz anD Blues WestSound Review (R&B, soul, dance), 8:30pm
cluB eleven on Grove Hot Bachata Night (dance), 10pm cluB hairspraY Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am
whiTe horse Danielle Bishop CD release (bluegrass, country, Americana), 7pm
DouBle crown Friday night hootenanny w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 9pm
YachT cluB Kamakazi karaoke (no control over song choice), 9pm
eMeralD lounGe Earphunk w/ East Coast Dirt & The Captain Midnight Band (rock, funk, jam), 9pm
Friday, May 10 5 walnuT wine Bar Jamar Woods Band (acoustic, soul, funk), 10pm asheville Music hall Cosmic Charlie (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm aThena's cluB Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am
French BroaD BrewerY TasTinG rooM The Low Counts (rock, Americana), 6pm GreY eaGle Music hall & Tavern Warm the Bell (folk, Americana, psychedelic) w/ Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers, 9pm Grove park inn GreaT hall Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm harrah's cherokee Saloon Five w/ DJ Moto, 8pm-2am
Bier GarDen DJ Don Magic, 9pm-1am
hiGhlanD BrewinG coMpanY East Coast Dirt (rock, funk), 6pm
Black MounTain ale house Wilhelm McKay (folk, roots), 9pm
hoTel inDiGo Juan Buenavitas & friends (Spanish/fla-
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Wednesday: “Asheville’s Finest” Variety Show!
menco guitar), 7-10pm
Open mic, 9pm
Jack of Hearts Pub Get Right Band (funk, rock), 9pm
Water'n Hole Cutthroat Shamrock (Irish punk), 10pm
Jack of tHe Wood Pub The Carpenter Ants (R&B, soul, country, funk), 5pm Folk Soul Revival (Americana, rock) w/ Poor Old Shine, 9pm
WHite Horse The Harmed Brothers (Americana, folk rock), 8pm
Market Place Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz), 7-10pm
Bring ur Songs, Dance, Skits, Jokes, Jump Ropes, Burlesque acts, Hula hoops & More! • $5 shot of Whiskey+Beer $1 PBR
Monte Vista Hotel Justin Eisenman (Americana), 6pm
Thursday 4/24:
odditoriuM James Beale (singer-songwriter), 9pm
Asheville Roots Collective
one stoP deli & bar Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm
Bring the best Root, Reggae, Dub & Dancehall Asheville Has To OFFER $3 selected imports - $3 shooters
oskar blues breWery Marietta's Palm (reggae, rock), 6pm
Thursday 5/2:
Pack's taVern Aaron LaFalce Duo (acoustic rock), 9pm
“One More Time”
a tribute to Daft Punk
PHoenix lounge Jazz night, 8pm
Friday 5/3: Reggae Legends
red stag grill Chris Rhodes (guitar, vocals), 8-11pm
“Culture” feat. Kenyatta Hill
w/ Dub Kartel
Saturday 5/4:
Infinity Dub Step Saturdays
J. Rabbit local: Dsom & DJ Gon
THE AMERICAN GONZOS
w/ THE HOPE GRIFFIN BAND & AlBERT ADAMS 9:30PM sat. may 4
ZOMBIE QUEEN w/ IVAN THE TERRIBlES, PlEASURES OF THE UlTRA VIOlENT 9:30PM tues. may 7
DISClAIMER COMEDY PRESENTS COMEDIAN
TOM SIMMONS 9PM fri. may 10
lARRY MITCHEll BAND 9:30PM
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Wall street coffee House
Jack of tHe Wood Pub Phuncle Sam (rock, jam), 9pm lexington aVe breWery (lab) Dave Dribbon & the Stomping Rain (rock) w/ This Mountain, 9:30pm Monte Vista Hotel Blue Moon (jazz, country, rock), 6pm odditoriuM Gordan Wollace memorial, 9pm
black Mountain ale House Jeff Thompson Trio (rock, jazz), 9pm
one stoP deli & bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Jay Franck (of Sanctum Sully), 11am
boiler rooM DAMM Camp Fundraiser (DJs, vendors & food), 9pm
elaine's dueling Piano bar Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am
Vanuatu kaVa bar Seraphim Arkistra (electro-coustic, ambient, improv)
Jack of Hearts Pub Wilhelm Brothers (folk, roots), 9pm
oliVe or tWist 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8-11pm
straigHtaWay cafe CarolinaBound (folk, country), 6pm
tressa's doWntoWn Jazz and blues Chuck & Stephanie's student recital, 7pm Russ Wilson & His Mighty Mighty Men (jazz, swing), 10pm
Hotel indigo Juan Buenavitas & friends (Spanish/flamenco guitar), 7-10pm
bier garden DJ Don Magic, 9pm-1am
double croWn Saturday shakedown w/ DJ Lil' Lorrah, 9pm
treasure club DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am
fri. may 3
atHena's club Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 7-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am
scandals nigHtclub Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am
toWn PuMP Zip the Hippo (Americana), 9pm
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asHeVille Music Hall The Heavy Pets (rock, jam) w/ The Fritz, 9pm
club HairsPray Dance party, 8pm Drag show, 12:15am
tiMo's House DJ Jet & guests (hip-hop), 10pm-2am
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5 Walnut Wine bar Russ Wilson (hot jazz), 9pm
root bar no. 1 Birds in Weather (rock), 9pm
tHe social Enlightened Rouges (blues), 9:30pm
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Saturday, May 11
7:30pm Casino: Brenton Blount w/ DJ Paul Gallo, 8pm-2am
eMerald lounge Comet West (indie rock) w/ Pawtooth (alt-rock) & Polly Panic, 9pm frencH broad breWery tasting rooM Damian LeMaster & the Part Time Gentlemen (alternative), 6pm grey eagle Music Hall & taVern Start from Seed pancake fundraiser, 10am-2pm The Howlin' Brothers (Americana, rock, country), 9pm groVe Park inn great Hall Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Bob Zullo Quartet (Latin, jazz, pop), 9pm-midnight HarraH's cHerokee Event center: Josh Turner (country),
orange Peel Wick-It the Instigator (electronic) w/ Eliot Lipp & Crywolf, 9pm oskar blues breWery Hunter Holmes, 1pm Pack's taVern Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 9pm PHoenix lounge Bradford Carson Band (bluegrass), 9pm PurPle onion cafe The Carpenter Ants (gospel, soul), 8pm scandals nigHtclub Pandora Boxx (drag, comedy), 7-10pm straigHtaWay cafe Sherry Lynn & Mountain Friends (folk, country), 6pm tHe social Karaoke, 9:30pm toWn PuMP Steve Hayes & the Hurricanes (blues, rock), 9pm treasure club DJ Mike, 6:30pm-2am tressa's doWntoWn Jazz and blues WestSound (soul, R&B), 10pm
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pickoftheweek Room 237 JJJJJ
Director: roDney Ascher PlAyers: Bill BlAkemore, Geoffrey cocks, Juli keArns, John fell ryAn, JAy WeiDner DocumentaRy
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The Story: Five subjects give their thoughts and — sometimes bizarre — theories on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The Lowdown: An entertaining — assuming you don’t take the ideas being presented too seriously — look at the way art and film are often overly-dissected and analyzed. Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is part documentary and part film study. Ascher takes five interview subjects with — shall we say — more than slightly obsessive readings of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) and gives them a very public platform for their theories and ideas. Their faces are never visible onscreen, and the theories are told via movie clips and visual cues. Some of these ideas are somewhat plausible, like ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore’s assertion that The Shining is about white settlers moving west across America and exterminating Native Americans. Other readings are thematically curious, like playwright Juli Kearns’ comparisons of the film to the myth of Theseus, with Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance character playing the role of the Minotaur. Others are out-and-out absurd, namely conspiracy theorist Jay Weidner’s assertion that hidden within The Shining is Kubrick’s confession that the director faked the moon landing. Ascher makes no judgment on the validity of any of this, instead leaving it up to the audience to decide what to make of it all. For the most part, these theories — especially Weidner’s, which mostly revolves around a sweater, a keychain and some unlikely conspiracy theories — stretch credulity to its maximum. Blakemore’s thesis feels the most plausible, since there’s dialogue to back it up (hell, the Overlook Hotel is even said to have been built on top of an Indian burial ground), but it takes some leaps in logic — and a heavy subscription to the idea that Kubrick was always infallible and attentive to detail. Much
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mud (Pg-13) 11:00, 12 :15, 1:45, 3:15, 6:15, 9:30, 10:00
n caRmike cinema 10 (298-4452)
oblivion (Pg-13) 12:30, 3:15, 6:15, 9:00
the Big wedding (R) 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25
Pain & gain (R) 11:05, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10
the company you keep (R) 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05
the Place Beyond the Pines (R) 12:15, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
the croods 3D (Pg) 11:30, 1:55, 4:20
Room 237 (nR) 11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:25, 8:50
the croods 2D (Pg) 12:40, 3:05, 5:30
n cineBaRRe (6657776)
evil Dead (R) 7:55, 10:20
n co-eD cinema BRevaRD (883-2200)
g.i. Joe: Retaliation 2D (Pg-13) 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30
Poster art from the fascinating new documentary Room 237 — where five people attempt to tell you what The Shining is "really" about. of the film depends on this. A missing chair, a running TV set with no power cord, a sticker missing from Danny’s door, even the impossible layout of the Overlook itself. These cannot, according to the interviewees, be mere continuity errors. If you are to believe Room 237, there are no mistakes in The Shining, as the entire film conforms to Kubrick’s meticulous genius. In this way, Room 237 can be frustrating, especially if — like me — you don’t watch movies like they’re a knot that just needs untangling. Even while, for instance, I can see where Blakemore is coming from, and I understand the film backs up his notions to an extent, but these ideas are not what The Shining is “about.” Rather, these considerations give depth and shading to an already layered, complex film. But even with Room 237‘s more illogical hypotheses, the documentary proves immensely and purely entertaining in a way that most more serious documentaries are not. The inherent absurdity and borderline silliness of it all makes sure of this. But even buried beneath this goofiness, the film gets us to look at The Shining — and many films — in new ways that we might not have explored otherwise. That being said, a number of critics have taken offense to Room 237, saying it pokes fun at film criticism as a whole. For me, this either smacks of viewing film criticism as sacrosanct, taking The Shining too seriously or having zero faith in the public’s ability to discern good, intelligent criticism from bad. Who am I to walk down from Mount Film Critic and declare which ideas are stupid and which are worthwhile? People have an innate tendency to see things in their own way and, combining this with a film made by a legendarily OCD director that refuses to spell
things out for the audience, the emergence of credulity-stretching theories is inevitable. Room 237 shows not only the power of The Shining and the subjective nature of art and film, but it also does something that rarely happens (at least outside of academic studies) to 30-year-old films: It creates a discourse, while actively asking the viewer to look critically at the theories being presented to them. Because of this, Room 237 is a curious and enormously entertaining documentary for fans of film. Not Rated. reviewed by Justin Souther Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas
BeyonD the hills JJJJ
Director: cristiAn munGiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days) PlAyers: cosminA strAtAn, cristinA flutur, VAleriu AnDriutA, DAnA tAPAlAGA DRama
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The Story: A troubled young woman goes home to reclaim her old friend, only to find the friend has changed since becoming a nun in a strict Orthodox convent. The Lowdown: Dark and disturbing drama about obsession — both sacred and profane — that will be for very specific tastes, owing to its slow pace and deliberately austere style. Viewers who are fond of Eastern European miserablism should beat a path to Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) latest, Beyond the Hills, because it’s the kind of film that almost certainly isn’t going to be around long. That’s not because the film
moulin Rouge! (Pg-13) 7:30 Wed., may 8 only
iron man 3 3D (Pg-13) 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, late show fri-sat 11:05 iron man 3 2D (Pg-13) 12:00, 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, late show fri-sat 12:00
iron man 3 (Pg-13) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 n ePic oF henDeRsonville (6931146) n Fine aRts theatRe (232-1536)
let my People go (nR) 7:00 thu., may 9 only
Jurassic Park 3D (Pg-13) 6:45, 9:45
mud (Pg-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, late show fri-sat fri-sat 9:40
olympus has Fallen (R) 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10
the other son (Pg-13) 1:00 fri., may 3 only
caRolina cinemas (274-9500)
the Place Beyond the Pines (R) 1:20 (no 1:20 p.m. show fri., may 3), 4:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 p.m. show thu., may 9), late show fri-sat 10:00
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42 (Pg-13) 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Beyond the hills (nR) 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 the Big wedding (R) 11:40, 1:45, 3:50, 6:00, 8:00 the company you keep (R) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 the croods 2D (Pg) 10:00 (fri-sun only), 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15 iron man 3 3D (Pg-13) 10:00 (fri-sun only), 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00
n FlatRock cinema (697-2463)
the company you keep (R) 3:30, 7:00 (no 7:00 show sun.) n Regal BiltmoRe gRanDe staDium 15 (684-1298) n uniteD aRtists BeaucatcheR (2981234)
iron man 3 2D (Pg-13) 11:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30,10:15. late show fri-sat only 11:00 for some theaters movie listings were not available at press time. Please contact the theater or check mountainx.com for updated information.
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is bad — it isn’t — but it is the exact opposite of a crowd-pleaser. It is slow and long and drab and dreary. That is not accidental. Anyone who saw Mungiu’s abortion drama, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, knows the drill. There’s no musical score. Scenes are mostly done in one take. The mood is somber. There will not be a happy ending. And nothing in the film can be called "action-packed." I freely admit it is not an aesthetic that appeals to me personally. Mungiu has been hailed in some quarters as Bergmanesque, which, I have to say, I don’t see at all. Bergman could certainly be bleak, but his characters were never ciphers in the way Mungiu’s tend to be. I can relate to Bergman’s films. I stare dispassionately at Mungiu’s — but not without a certain fascination. Beyond the Hills’ undercurrents prove more interesting than its storyline or characters. The story is fairly simple. Alina (Cristina Flutur) and Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) are two young women who grew up together as best friends — and apparently more — in an orphanage. As adults, their paths have diverged. Alina went out into the world, finding some kind of menial labor in Germany, while Voichita entered an Orthodox convent that might have been viewed as abnormally strict and superstitious 100 years ago. The film opens with Alina returning to Romania to reclaim her friend and her friendship. But Voichita’s new-found faith intervenes. The acceptance of God has effectively rendered her emotionless on any other level — and while the extent of their previous physical relationship is never stated, Voichita makes it clear that they will no longer share a bed. With things not going her way, Alina sinks into increasingly irrational behavior until it’s finally — and tragically — decided that she’s possessed. In an enclosed community with a catalogue of 464 possible sins that’s lorded over by a single inflexible priest (Valeriu Andriuta), it’s not hard to see how that diagnosis might happen. At the same time, Alina is hardly blameless. Her fixation on Voichita is as single-minded
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See review in "Cranky Hanke"
IRON MAN 3
It's Iron Man 3 week. Soon, theaters nationwide — at least those that get it — will have Iron Man, Iron Man and, you guessed it, more Iron Man. You can see it in 3-D, you can see it in 2-D, but you're almost bound to see it if you go to a multiplex. It's already been out for a week overseas, grossed more than $195 million and racked up mostly positive reviews. Summer has arrived as far as the movies are concerned. (PG-13)
ROOM 237
See Justin Souther's review in "Cranky Hanke" as Voichita’s fixation on God. Neither woman seems to have any depth whatsoever and each appears incapable of thinking in any terms other than complete obsession over a single thing. Both are victims of strong beliefs that involve no rational thought. That — more than anything — is what makes the film rarely less than fascinating. Whether that makes Beyond the Hills entertaining is a separate question — and a wholly subjective one. Mungiu has claimed the film is about the indifference of Romanian society. That may be true, but it’s hard to believe the little world in which Beyond the Hills exists is a reasonable barometer of an entire country. There are certainly aspects of the film to which just about anyone can relate. I doubt, for example, that there is anyone who has not felt the cold stab of alienation that occurs when someone we thought we knew takes up a consuming new direction in terms of religion (or politics, come to that). In that regard, there’s a certain universal quality to the film. However, the characters are so undefined, uncharismatic and even unlikable that it’s hard to actually relate to them. As I noted, this isn’t a bad movie — and its certainly interesting to see an exorcism that isn’t shown in
horror movie terms — but it is a movie with limited appeal. Not Rated, but contains adult themes, language and some nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas
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Director: Justin Zackham Players: robert De niro, Diane keaton, katherine heigl, toPher grace, susan saranDon, amanDa seyfrieD ATTEMpTED FARcE cOMEDY WITH A SIDE ORDER OF HEART-STRINg TuggINg
RATED R
The Story: A long-divorced couple pretend to be married in order not to upset their adopted son’s conservative birth mother at his wedding. The Lowdown: An absolutely painfully, awful waste of a good cast, 89 minutes of your life and however much you pay to see it. Can I just say that The Big Wedding smells from herring and what can be done with it? I mean, look, chances are good that you already
know this movie is awful. The title and the overstuffed cast are a pretty big tipoff. The trailer was an even bigger clue. And while I completely disapprove of using review aggregator sites as a barometer of a film’s merits, when you see a 7 percent approval rating, it is not unreasonable to have at least a modicum of suspicion that Hollywood is trying to sell us a load of clams that are well past their sell-by date. In the case of this movie, those suspicions would be more than founded. They would in fact yield interest and pay dividends. Searching for something positive to say about The Big Wedding, I’m coming up with things like, "Well, Robin Williams wasn’t as obnoxious as a priest in this as he was in License to Wed." Considering that performance was completely off the obnoxiousity scale, it’s quite useless as praise here. That said, "useless" is a pretty sound description of this whole film. Those airbrushed shiny stars on the poster — they aren’t laughing with you, they’re laughing at you for shelling out money to see their new movie. (At least Diane Keaton has the grace to look slightly nauseated.) I am truly hardpressed to believe that anybody involved with The Big Wedding ever thought at any stage that there was any merit whatsoever to the picture apart from a paycheck. From this, I exempt writer-director Justin Zackham. He wrote The Bucket List (2007) — a film which Morgan Freeman’s character narrated from beyond the grave — so he may be that deluded. In case you don’t know, The Big Wedding’s premise is that long-divorced Don (Robert De Niro) and Ellie (Keaton) are forced to pretend that they’re still married rather than upset their adopted son Alejandro’s (Brit Ben Barnes with lots of makeup) devout Catholic birth mother (Patricia Rae) when she comes to his wedding with Missy (Amanda Seyfried). It’s one of those plots that bears no scrutiny and tries your patience. From this — and a lot of people learning "important stuff" — comedy gold is supposed to spring. All that springs forth, however, are clichés, things stolen from other movies, transpar-
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Shakespeare
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ent "surprises" (come on, if you didn’t figure out that Katherine Heigl was pregnant in the first reel, shame on you) and lame sex jokes that are supposed to provide edgy ribaldry. My parents had a 1960 Rusty Warren record called Knockers Up that was edgier. The biggest shock is when De Niro drops the dreaded "c" word (you know, the one America has trouble coming to terms with). This is a movie that resorts to puke jokes and people getting knocked into the water (more than once) in a vain bid for knee-slapping and rib-tickling. And the damned thing is only 89 minutes long — including credits. The life lessons are nothing you haven’t learned from heart-warming comedies before — though perhaps never in an R-rated one in which most of the characters seem to have slept with most of the rest of the characters at one time or another. That’s not the reason why none of the movie’s heart-stringing tugging works. It’s not because the characters are on the amoral side. It’s because they’re mostly unlikable and completely dumb. That’s a hard hurdle to clear and this miserably misguided mess couldn’t make it over a speed bump. Rated R for language, sexual content and brief nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande
Pain & Gain JJJJ
Director: Michael Bay Players: Mark WahlBerg, DWayne Johnson, anthony Mackie, tony shalhouB, eD harris Black comedy
Rated R
Saying that Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain is the best thing the director has ever made is obviously saying very little since this is man who once filmed John Turturro being urinated on by a giant robot. With its relatively modest $25 million budget, Pain & Gain is — at least according to Bay — an attempt at making a smaller, more personal type of film. The results are hardly what you’d call quiet or restrained — often falling into the trap of Bay’s worst tendencies as a filmmaker, relying too much on sensory overload and juvenile gross-out gags. It’s a noisy, brash movie made by a man who’s made a fortune making loud, dumb crap. Thankfully, Pain & Gain is based on exactly the type of real-life story that’s the proper mix of absurd and stupid — so much so that it fits Bay’s overbearing style and main thematic concerns — muscles, bikinis, violence and dumb comedy — perfectly. The film is based on a 1999 Miami New Times article, written by journalist Pete Collins, about Miami’s Sun Gym Gang, a trio of steroidabusing bodybuilders who got caught up in theft, fraud, kidnapping, torture and, eventually, murder. Here, Bay has taken the story
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The Lowdown: While occasionally falling prey to director Michael Bay’s worst habits, the finished product is incredibly entertaining, wonderfully absurd and boasts a superb cast — assuming you can handle Bay’s overbearing directorial style.
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The Story: The real-life tale of three dim-witted, steroid-riddled bodybuilders’ kidnapping and extortion scheme that eventually goes awry.
and turned it into a flimsy, warped look at the American Dream. Centrally, we follow Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg, channeling a bit of Dirk Diggler), a personal trainer whose only wish in life is too afford a giant lawn he can ride around on and mow. The only problem is that Daniel’s a bit of a sociopath, so the only way he can think to accomplish his goals is by kidnapping pompous, unlikable and filthy rich sandwich magnate Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub). He recruits two co-workers — Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and fresh-from-prison, born-again Christian Paul (Dwayne Johnson) — to help him out. Things soon become farcical — as the three are none too bright (they keep bungling the kidnapping, and can’t figure out how to kill Victor when the time comes) — and only succeed through sheer force of will. Much of the film plays like a more aggressive Coen Brothers picture, with the characters’ early success as criminal masterminds soon unraveling into a ridiculously botched bout of murder and mayhem. There’s a tonal shift at this point, as Pain & Gain turns into a violent and occasionally nasty black comedy (that it doesn’t back down from this nastiness like many black comedies is one of the film’s strengths — possibly simply because Bay is too tasteless to know better). But with this change in tone, the film remains grounded in reality, owing to its fact-based story. While certain aspects are trumped up for comedic effect, the film stays true to the basic facts — to the point that the proceedings get so absurd that (in the most playful bit of filmmaking in Bay’s career) the movie needs an intertitle to remind us that, yes, this is still a true story. A charismatic cast helps, too. This is the most charming Wahlberg’s been in years, while Johnson gets the kind of loose, carefree role he’s been missing out on since Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2006). Sure, Bay still gets caught making bad decisions based on his immature sense of humor (one particular diarrhea joke is both loathsome and needless). Typically, the whole film could be shorn of about 20 minutes, and Bay’s über-stylization can be draining. But he’s finally made a movie and not a spectacle — and an entertaining one at that. Rated R for bloody violence, crude sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug use. — reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher
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ChadwiCk Boseman, harrison Ford, niCole Beharie, Christopher meloni Sports Biopic The tale of Jackie Robinson and the hardships he faced breaking baseball’s color barrier. A basic biopic that’s too straightforward and heavyhanded, but perfectly solid if you’re looking for nothing more than an uplifting sports-crowd-pleaser. Rated PG-13
Beyond the hills JJJJ
Cosmina stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu andriuta, dana tapalaga Drama A troubled young woman goes home to reclaim her old friend, only to find the friend has changed since becoming a nun in a strict Orthodox convent. Dark and disturbing drama about obsession — both sacred and profane — that will be for very specific tastes, owing to its slow pace and deliberately austere style. Rated NR
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roBert de niro, diane keaton, katherine heigl, topher graCe, susan sarandon, amanda seyFried Attempted Farce Comedy with a Side Order of Heart-String Tugging A longdivorced couple pretend to be married in order not to upset their adopted son’s conservative birth mother at his wedding. An absolutely painfully, awful waste of a good cast, 89 minutes of your life and however much you pay to see it. Rated R
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roBert redFord, shia laBeouF, Julie Christie, susan sarandon, niCk nolte, Chris Cooper, terrenCe howard, stanley tuCCi Political Suspense Drama An aging member of a radical group finds his life turned upside down when his true identity comes to light. Robert Redford directed and stars in this complex political suspense drama that boasts a smart script and something approaching a dream cast. Rated R
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(VoiCes) niColas Cage, emma stone, Catherine keener, ryan reynolds, Cloris leaChman, Clark duke Animated Adventure A Stone Age family must learn how to adapt to a drastically changing world that threatens to become — literally — a thing of the past. Spectacular-looking, exciting and (I dare say) even moving animated film with extremely good voice casting. It’s nothing at all like the film the trailer suggests and even though it’s not Chris Sanders’ earlier Lilo & Stitch or How to Train Your Dragon, it’s still very good indeed. Rated PG ®
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Jane leVy, shiloh Fernandez, lou taylor puCCi, JessiCa luCas, elizaBeth BlaCkmore Splattery Horror A group of 20-somethings find an aged book of occultism in the incredibly spacious basement of a cabin. One of them foolishly reads from it. Nastiness ensues. Slick, gory, reasonably efficient remake of the 1981 Sam Raimi cult favorite. It’s OK, but apart from a pretty terrific ending, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before — plenty of times. Rated R
g.i. Joe: retaliation J
dwayne Johnson, adrianne paliCki, d.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun lee, BruCe willis Action The members of G.I. Joe team are attacked and nearly destroyed as the evil cabal that is Cobra attempts to bring the world to its knees. A cheesy, charmless blow-em-up, heavy in dumb, macho action-movie clichés that’s short on tact. Rated PG-13
ginger & rosa JJJJ
about Southern life as seen through the eyes of two boys on what seems to them a romantic adventure. Highly recommended. Rated PG-13
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tom Cruise, morgan Freeman, olga kurylenko, andrea riseBorough, nikolaJ Coster-waldau Science Fiction A caretaker on the remnants of a post-apocalyptic Earth learns things may not be as he’s been told. Solidly-produced, incredibly derivative scifi that gets by on competence, but not much more. Rated PG-13
olympus has fallen J
gerard Butler, aaron eCkhart, morgan Freeman, dylan mCdermott, angela Bassett, melissa leo Jingoistic Revenge Action Renegade North Korean terrorists take over the White House and one Secret Service agent must save the president — and possibly the United States itself. Preposterous, yet utterly predictable, nasty little jingoistic thriller with bad special effects. Loud, mean-spirited, fairly appalling Die Hard rip-off that will probably make a fortune. Rated R
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James FranCo, mila kunis, raChel weisz, miChelle williams, zaCh BraFF, Bill CoBBs, Joey king, tony Cox Fantasy An unauthorized, but very obvious prequel to the 1939 Wizard of Oz. Good-looking, likable, but hardly the definitive Oz film it wants to be — and one that suffers from largely efficient, but faceless direction, and the usual longer-than-needed running time. Rated PG
pain & gain JJJJ
mark wahlBerg, dwayne Johnson, anthony maCkie, tony shalhouB, ed harris Black Comedy The real-life tale of three dim-witted, steroid-riddled bodybuilders’ kidnapping and extortion scheme that eventually goes awry. While occasionally falling prey to director Michael Bay’s worst habits, the finished product is incredibly entertaining, wonderfully absurd and boasts a superb cast — assuming you can handle Bay’s overbearing directorial style. Rated R
the plaCe Beyond the pines JJJJJ
ryan gosling, Bradley Cooper, eVa mendes, dane dehaan, emory Cohen, Ben mendelsohn Drama Three stories — involving a dirt-bike-riding bank robber, a small-town cop and their respective sons — intersect. An often flawed, overlong drama that remains worthy of attention because of its humanely drawn characters and sheer ambition. Rated R
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Bill Blakemore, geoFFrey CoCks, Juli kearns, John Fell ryan, Jay weidner Documentary Five subjects give their thoughts and — sometimes bizarre — theories on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. An entertaining — assuming you don’t take the ideas being presented too seriously — look at the way art and film are often overly-dissected and analyzed. Rated NR
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ashley tisdale, simon rex, eriCa ash, katt williams, snoop dog Cretinous Claptrap Horror Spoof Witless horror movie spoof. If you want to waste 80 minutes of your life, here’s your chance. Rated PG-13
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elle Fanning, aliCe englert, alessandro niVola, Christina hendriCks, timothy spall Coming-of-Age Drama Two teenage girls struggle with growing up in ‘60s London with the specter of nuclear war hanging in the background. An often visually striking, yet quiet film with a superb cast that ultimately feels a bit too slight. Rated PG-13
Bradley Cooper, JenniFer lawrenCe, roBert de niro, JaCki weaVer, Chris tuCker, anupam kher Romantic Comedy Unusual screwball romantic comedy about two very dysfunctional people. Richly rewarding, funny, fresh and touching romantic comedy that both adheres to the genre while taking it to new places. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence make for a very appealing couple — and get great support from the rest of the A-list cast. Rated R
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Jason Bateman, melissa mCCarthy, amanda peet, t.i., genesis roriguez, John Cho Raunch-com When a woman steals a man’s identity and runs up astronomical debts, her victim tracks her down in search of reparation. Overlong, distasteful, strikingly unfunny and badly written. It’s not directed all that well either. Rated R
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sheri moon zomBie, JeFF daniel phillips, Judy geeson, meg Foster, BruCe daVison Horror After receiving a mysterious record in the mail, a radio DJ begins having strange visions that tie back into the Salem witch trials. Director Rob Zombie’s most atmospheric, moody and downright strange film to date. A heavily symbolic piece of weirdo horror that’s the filmmaker’s best. Rated R
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matthew mCConaughey, tye sheridan, JaCoB loFland, reese witherspoon, sarah paulson, ray mCkinnon, sam shepard Drama Two boys in a small Southern river town help a fugitive fix up a boat for his getaway with the woman he came back for. An altogether exceptional film
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James mCaVoy, VinCent Cassel, rosario dawson, danny sapani, matt Cross, wahaB sheikh Dark Twisty Thriller Fast-paced combination heist movie and psychological thriller about the theft of a painting, and its incredibly convoluted aftermath where what you think you know is almost always wrong. Cheekily amoral, unbelievably complex, dark, humored thriller from Danny Boyle that’s reminiscent of his earlier work. Deep? Probably not, but as an act of pure filmmaking it’s a must-see. Rated R
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Jurnee smollett-Bell, lanCe gross, kim kardashian, Vanessa williams, roBBie Jones, Brandy norwood, renée taylor Cautionary Drama Moralizing cautionary drama about the wages of sin and leaving your husband for a slick millionaire sociopath. Quite possibly, it’s the most appalling movie Tyler Perry has churned out in ages. What more needs be said? Rated PG-13
specialscreenings Beyond the Valley of the dolls JJJJ Campy drama with songs rated X In Brief: One of the most peculiar movies ever — famous for its quirks and for being written by Roger Ebert — Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is everything you’ve heard and a little bit more. It’s a camp fest (oddly, written and directed by a couple of straight boys) disguised as a cautionary tale about the evils of Los Angeles that await unsuspecting rubes from the heartland should they ever venture to find showbiz success there. Essentially, the film is a nonstop procession of freaky sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll — tied up with a handy moral that was never meant to be taken seriously. It should be seen at least once. Orbit DVD will screen Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Sunday, May 5 at 10:30 p.m. at the Admiral.
the Blue angel JJJJJ drama with musiC rated nr In Brief: The Blue Angel (1930) marked not only the first German sound film, but, more importantly, the meeting of filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. It remains the most well-known of the seven films they made together, but it’s hardly the best of the lot — which doesn’t keep it from being iconic. (Is there anyone who doesn’t know the image of Dietrich straddling the chair singing “Fallin in Love Again?” It’s one of cinema’s indelible moments.) Its story of a stuffy school teacher becoming obsessed with Lola Lola, a crudely sexy cabaret performer, is more of a downer than the subsequent Sternberg-Dietrich pairings, making it less viewer-friendly. However, it’s an important film — and without it, we would have never had those subsequent movies. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Blue Angel Sunday, May 5 at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
dead silenCe JJJJ horror rated r In Brief: Incredibly creepy, surprisingly elaborate and almost a complete departure for Saw writer-director James Wan and his co-author Leigh Whannell as they trade in the pointless sadism of Saw for something more like classic horror with Dead Silence. Here they’ve cooked up a kind of local folklore yarn about the spirit of an evil ventriloquist using her dolls to seek vengeance on the families of those responsible for her death in the 1940s. Oh, it has its share of splattery shocks, but Dead Silence is a horror film built more on atmosphere than gross-out effects. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Dead Silence Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
moulin rouge! JJJJJ hyper-stylized musiCal rated pg-13 In Brief: If you’ve only ever seen Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001) on a TV screen, you really haven’t seen Moulin Rouge! at all. This is a movie that needs to be seen in a
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the other son JJJJ drama rated pg-13 In Brief The old gag about babies switched at birth has been dusted off and given new relevance by having them be the children of Israeli and Palestinian families. Much more entertaining and compelling than its hoary premise and oddly old-fashioned filmmaking style would suggest. It manages to be moving and feel realistic without being mawkish or unduly manipulative. Definitely worth a look. The Fine Arts Theatre's second film for this year's Asheville Jewish Film Festival, The Other Son, plays at 7 p.m on Thu., May 2 with an encore performance at 1 p.m. Fri., May 3. For more info go to: www.ashevillejewishfilmfestival.com
state’s attorney JJJJ drama rated nr In Brief: John Barrymore (in a sometimes debatable state of sobriety) stars as a sharp lawyer, whose political ambitions put him at odds with his old pal, gangster Vanny Powers (William “Stage” Boyd). Enjoyable pre-code drama (makes no bones about Helen Twelvetrees’ profession or the fact that she and Barrymore are living together without benefit of clergy) that’s slickly made entertainment, but that depends almost entirely on the always fascinating Barrymore performance. The Asheville Film Society will screen State's Attorney Tuesday, May 7 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
tout Va Bien JJJJ politiCal Comedy drama rated r In Brief: Jean-Luc Godard’s Tout Va Bien may be the single best representation of the filmmaker’s work in that it’s brilliant, stupid, fascinating, boring, compelling and infuriating at the same time. That strikes me as a perfect summation of the many faces of Godard packed into one movie. What the film is about is hard to say. It’s partly about making a film, partly about the malaise following the riots of 1968, partly an examination of the relationship of the world’s most uninteresting characters. It’s also probably about other things, but you might have to be Godard to say what. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Tout Va Bien Friday, May 3 at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com
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Family Preservation services of rutherford and Polk Counties is seeking Qualified Mental Health Professionals and therapists to work with children and adults through the following service lines: IIH, CST and OP therapy. Candidates must have a minimum of 1 year experience with either child or adult mental health populations. FPS offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package. Resumes to twalker@fpscorp.com. hIGh QUALITY eArLY CAre And edUCATIon sUBsTITUTes • Are you a teacher of young children who strives for excellence? Do you want to work in a program where NAEYC standards are important, family engagement is valued, the nutrition program is a national model, and teachers are supported in their professional development? We are looking for full and part time substitutes for both of our centers. Send resume to dclark@macfc.org or apply on-line at MACFCjobs.org. EOE employer LIBerTY Corner enTerPrIses is seeking support team members to work in residential homes and the community with people who have disabilities. • Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a North Carolina driver's license, proof of insurance and a reliable vehicle. Sign language skills are a plus. Pay rate based on experience. Apply in person at Liberty Corner Enterprises: 147 Coxe Avenue Asheville, NC 28801. oVernIGhT CAreGIVers • You can make a difference! Responsibilities may include: companionship and conversation, light housekeeping, dementia care, and personal care services. We offer flexible assignments based on functional matching factors, such as location and availability. Individual responsibilities vary, as per client-specific needs and requests. We thoroughly screen all applicants for bonding and insuring purposes. Compassionate, professional and dependable individuals will be considered. We have CNA, IHA and Companion positions available. Our multi-phase training will provide
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Are you afraid that you lack a crucial skill or aptitude? Do you have a goal that you're worried might be impossible to achieve because of this inadequacy? If so, now is a good time to make plans to fill in the gap. If you formulate such an intention, you will attract a benevolent push from the cosmos. Why spend another minute fretting about the consequences of your ignorance when you have more power than usual to correct that ignorance?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Ray LaMontagne sings these lyrics in his tune "Empty": "I looked my demons in the eyes. Laid bare my chest and said, 'Do your best to destroy me. I've been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.'" I wouldn't be opposed to you delivering a message like that to your own demons, Gemini — with one caveat: Leave out the "Do your best to destroy me" part. Simply peer into the glazed gaze of those shabby demons and say, "You bore me and I'm done with you. Bye-bye." And then walk away from them for good.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) I know a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism who got an unexpected message from her teacher. He told her she has made such exemplary progress in her quest for enlightenment that she has earned the ultimate reward. When she dies many years from now, the teacher said, she will enter nirvana! She will have no further karmic obligation to reincarnate into a new body in the future, and will be forever excused from the struggle of living in the material world. Although her teacher meant this to be good news, she was heartbroken. She wants to keep reincarnating. Her joyous passion is to help relieve the suffering of her fellow humans. Can you guess what sign she is? Yes: a Cancerian. Like her, many of you are flirting with an odd and challenging choice between selfishness and selflessness.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A lawyer named John Keogh filed an application with the Australian Patent Office. It was for a "circular transportation facilitation device." His claim was approved. He thus became the owner of the world's first and only patent for the wheel. So far, he has not tried to collect royalties from anyone who's using wheels. I nominate him to be your role model, Leo. May he inspire you to stamp your personal mark on a universal archetype or put your unique spin on something everyone knows and loves.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) This may be the best week in a long time to practice the art of crazy wisdom. And what is crazy wisdom? Here's how novelist Tom Robbins described it to Shambhala Sun: It's "a philosophi-
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area where a theater troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on different masks and wigs and disguises and get-ups. You can envision yourself living in different eras as various characters. If you like, you can even go out into the world wearing your alternate identities. Try this exercise, Taurus. It’ll stimulate good ideas about some new self-images you might want to play with in real life. cal worldview that recommends swimming against the tide, cheerfully seizing the short end of the stick, embracing insecurity, honoring paradox, courting the unexpected, celebrating the unfamiliar, shunning orthodoxy, volunteering for tasks nobody else wants or dares to do, and breaking taboos in order to destroy their power. It’s the wisdom of those who turn the tables on despair by lampooning it, and who neither seek authority nor submit to it." And why should you do any of that weird stuff? Robbins: "To enlarge the soul, light up the brain and liberate the spirit."
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) "Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle?" asked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. "A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that's the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive into the depths of your inner workings. I hope that's the direction you go; I hope you don't take your stouthearted struggle out into the world around you. All the best action will be happening in that fertile hub known as your "soul."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Historical records suggest that ancient Greek philosopher Democritus went blind late in his life. There are different stories about why. According to one account, he intentionally did it to himself by gazing too long into the sun. That was his perverse way of solving a vexing problem: It freed him from the torment of having to look upon gorgeous women who were no longer interested in or available to him because of his advanced age. I hope you won't do anything like that, Scorpio. In fact, I suggest you take the opposite approach: Keep your attention focused on things that stir your deep attraction, even if you think you can't have them for your own. Valuable lessons and unexpected rewards will emerge from such efforts.
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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Search your memory, Sagittarius, and recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with extreme focus and intensity. You were rarely bored and never resentful about the enormous effort you had to expend. You loved throwing yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make plans to bring it into your life in the near future.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Nairobi is Kenya's capital and home of over three million urbanites. A few minutes' drive from the city center, there's a 45-squaremile national park teeming with wildlife. Against a backdrop of skyscrapers, rhinos and giraffes graze. Lions and cheetahs pounce. Wildebeests roam and hyenas skulk. I suggest you borrow the spirit of that arrangement and invoke it in your own life. In other words, be highly civilized and smartly sophisticated part of the time; be wild and free the rest of the time. And be ready to go back and forth between the two modes with grace and ease.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In the wild, a tiger's diet consists entirely of meat. The big cat loves to feast on deer and wild boar and eats a variety of other animals, too. The hunt is always solitary, never done in collaborative groups. That's why the creature's success rate is so low. A tiger snags the prey it's seeking only about five percent of the time. It sometimes has to wait two weeks between meals. Nevertheless, a tiger rarely starves. When it gets what it's after, it can devour 75 pounds of food in one sitting. According to my astrological analysis, Aquarius, you're like a tiger these days. You haven't had a lot of lucky strikes lately, but I suspect you will soon hit the jackpot.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The French word flâneur is a meme that refers to a person who strolls around the city at a leisurely pace, exploring whatever captivates her imagination. To the casual observer, the flâneur may seem to be a lazy time-waster with nothing important to do. But she is in fact motivated by one of the noblest emotions — pure curiosity — and is engaged in a quest to attract novel experiences, arouse fresh insights, and seek new meaning. Sound fun? Well, congratulations, Pisces, because you have been selected as the Flaming Flâneur of the Zodiac for the next two weeks. Get out there and meander!
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