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Help bring new basketball team to town Recently, the Charlotte Hornets announced that they are looking to field their own D-League team starting in 2016-17. Asheville is among the seven cities being considered. This is huge news and a great opportunity for Asheville and Western North Carolina.

The Hornets need this team desperately, as they share “their” D-League team (Fort Wayne Mad Ants) with at least 10 other NBA teams. Because of this, the Hornets cannot really give players who are usually on the bench needed playing time.

There are many reasons Asheville should be a favorite to win michael jordan’s D-League team: 1. Renovated U.S. Cellular Center that was reconfigured with basketball in mind.

2. Other cities’ venues are just too large for minor league basketball. Our seating can be made much closer to the action.

3. Asheville has hosted the Hornets’ preseason training camp the last three years.

4. Asheville is still the only city to have won back-to-back D-League championships, never getting the chance for the “threepeat,” a term Michael Jordan knows very well.

5. Asheville is rated as the No. 24 minor league sports market nationally, according to SportsBusiness Journal, [and] No. 5 among cities with just one team.

Don’t listen to naysayers who talk about the “failure” of the Asheville Altitude. By that argument, the Hornets shouldn’t have come back!

The previous team was from a topdown “McBasketball” approach, rushed with duplicate logos when the D-League really didn’t understand how to run minor league basketball. Don’t punish any city because of failures of a young NBDL. Folks, this would be Michael Jordan’s D-League team! Do you want to help Michael develop players to bring an NBA championship to the Carolinas?

Of course you do. So join us!

Time is of the essence. Go to www. twitter.com/BEElieveInAVL and follow us. Tell Michael Jordan to “BEElieve in Asheville!”

— Dennis Justice Fletcher

Asheville’s restrictions help cause homelessness Mayor [esther] manheimer really failed to answer [john] penley’s question — what is Asheville doing about veteran homelessness [“City of Asheville Works With Partners to House Veterans,” April 29, Xpress]?

She wrote a great deal about what local nonprofits and federal grants are doing about it, and Asheville staff appeared to be consulting with this alphabet soup of other groups, but I was left very unclear about what was being done with the city of Asheville’s general fund

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or specifically with what percentage of local property tax revenue.

Meanwhile, Asheville is, of course, doing a great deal to cause veteran and other homelessness, with the UDO, unit-density limits, singlefamily zoning, height limits, parking requirements and prohibitions on camping and panhandling, all enforced at huge local expense by local police and hired planners.

I doubt very much if the city’s contribution to Mannheimer’s alphabet soup is making up for all that causality on a net basis.

A mayor could argue that the fire department reduces homelessness if she concedes that fire code inspections can cause it.

— Alan Ditmore Leicester

Homeward Bound works to end veteran homelessness I’m glad to see community members raising questions about what we are doing to end veteran homelessness in Buncombe County. No one who has served our country should be left to live in a car, a camp or a shelter.

Together with our community, Homeward Bound is ending veteran homelessness in Buncombe County. Our partnership with the city of Asheville and the Department of Veterans Affairs resulted in a $2.7 million grant to implement the SSVF (Supportive Services for Veteran Families) program to move veterans from streets, shelters and temporary housing into permanent housing of their own. We’re working to make sure that we don’t duplicate services that are already in the community but rather fill in the gaps so no veteran is left homeless.

Since getting our team up and running in January 2015, we’ve housed 28 veterans — men and women who live here and have served our country. So far, we have a 100 percent retention rate. By the end of May, we’ll house another 15 people. Our team consists of case managers, an outreach worker who works to find unsheltered and chronically homeless vets, and a housing specialist who is tackling our biggest challenge — finding affordable housing.

We’re excited about the progress that we are making in battling veteran homelessness. That said — we have 37 clients in line for housing.

We have funds for housing, and we have staff to provide relational and practical support for our clients — but we continue to look for housing to move them into. Our biggest challenge in serving these families is finding housing that is affordable.

Readers who want to help a veteran by offering a vacant apartment or trailer should contact Kelly freeman at 772-2846.

And for those who are interested in learning more about this problem overall, consider attending our Forum on Veteran Homelessness this fall. It will be held on Nov. 12, and information and tickets will be found on our website — www. homewardboundwnc.org — in the coming months.

— Beth Russo Director of Communications and Annual Campaign Homeward Bound of WNC

Project aims to improve city’s water supply dam editor’s note: A letter to the editor submitted last week questioned the amount of money being spent on studying the city of Asheville’s water system. Although the letter writer withdrew the letter before publication, the following response from the city’s Water Resources Department seemed worthy of sharing with readers.

I can see how your reader interpreted the 2014 Water Quality report to suggest that Schnabel Engineering is doing a $25 million study. We have engaged Schnabel over the past several years to assess our primary water supply dam and identify improvements that are necessary to bring the dam into compliance with N.C. Dam Safety regulations. That preliminary investigation is complete.

Schnabel will be overseeing some construction required by the state, but the majority of their remaining work is the engineering design of a new spillway to handle significant storms as required by the state. Last year, the city of Asheville Water Resources advertised for and accepted proposals for the engineering design and oversight of improvements to the primary water supply dam. Schnabel Engineering was selected for the spillway modification project.

The $25 million includes the engineering design, geotechnical

investigations, permitting, and revised emergency action plans and inundation mapping. The $25 million estimate also included the bidding and construction of the new spillway.

Schnabel will be providing construction oversight and contract administration for that phase.

Therefore, the $25 million estimate includes both the engineering and construction required to bring our dam into compliance with existing regulations. Not all of that money will be going to Schnabel Engineering.

Phase II (construction of the spillway) will go out for bid after the design is complete.

— Stephen Shoaf Director of Water Resources City of Asheville

Open-mic nights should be part of Best of WNC poll I was wondering why there was not a “best of” category for openmic nights in your Best of WNC survey. Many music lovers love this sort of venue (listeners as well as performers), and there seem to be quite a few in the greater Asheville area.

The open mic at Zuma Coffee in Marshall has been successful going on two years now, and it’s the

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perfect setting for musicians wanting to try their hand at performing onstage. Open mics are a vital part of the entertainment scene in any city, and they generate a large, loyal following.

Thanks, and your magazine is wonderful.

— Greg Speas Mars Hill

try so diverse and striving for integrity in the workplace — but, then, I put myself into the shoes of your critics, and I think it’s probably a few editors just sitting around eating doughnuts (don’t edit that).

— Kent Purser Asheville

editor’s note: Mr. Speas: Thank you for your suggestion. Each year, we receive a number of suggestions for categories to add. And each year, we re-evaluate the existing categories and consider potential new ones in an effort to improve the Xpress Best of WNC poll.

Bill creates opossum free-for-all

Editors and critics: How big are your shoes?

I want to start off by saying that I don’t read the Mountain Xpress very much. I have better things to do (don’t edit that).

But, when I do read, I notice that the editor gets a lot of grief. Well, I always feel bad when I hear that.

I try and put myself in your shoes and imagine how hard it must be to represent the truth (as much as possible) without offending someone, and living in a coun-

Kudos to cartoonist brent brown for nailing the absurdity of the legislature’s opossum bill debacle [“… Trying, Trying Again,” April 22, Xpress].

North Carolina is still struggling to create decent jobs, veterans are homeless, and children are going to school hungry, but the legislature is spending time and resources to make tormenting and killing opossums legal.

Do hardworking and compassionate North Carolinians really want their representatives working on a bill that decriminalizes cruelty to animals?

The bill being considered in the General Assembly would create a free-for-all relating to opossums between Dec. 29 and Jan. 2, simply

to cater to the Brasstown opossum drop — an event that denigrates and torments wildlife.

Those who are justifiably appalled by this colossal waste of time, energy and taxpayers’ money should get on the phone to their representative today to ask why the legislature is legalizing animal cruelty.

— Beth Amick Sparks Prosperity, S.C.

Graham attacks gay comic book character? Really?

OMG, please say it isn’t so. franklin graham has taken to task a comic book cartoon character for coming out as gay!

Will the man say and do anything to get his name in the paper? ….

— Pat Jenkins Fairview

correction In “Philanthropy for the Rest of Us,” in the May 6 issue, we incorrectly reported how many years ago Durham’s Indy Week had launched its Give!Guide. The newspaper launched its guide three years ago, raising a total of $151,000 for three dozen nonprofits in its third year.

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A wad of money from Charlotte strolls over to Asheville. After taking a quick look around, it parks itself in the center of downtown, then puffs up and bursts apart, sending greenbacks fluttering everywhere.

Some of that money lands in restaurants; some goes to experiences like guided tours and outdoor excursions. A few bills drift over to a local retail outlet, exchanged for a coffee mug or hand-woven bag.

The owners of those businesses then take their share of the money down to the grocery store to buy food.

They also use it to pay their employees, who might buy food, a new coat or even a TV. The beneficiaries of all those transactions do the same, and around and around it goes.

From a conventional economic perspective, that is tourism in a nutshell: money coming from outside the city and spreading itself around.

Asheville is the “product,” tourists are the customers, and other areas are also jockeying for those dollars.

“These are our competitors,” says bob patel, leaning over a sheet of tourism statistics for nearby destinations. “Asheville is competing with other cities.”

Originally from India, Patel now chairs the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority’s board; he also owns four hotels in Asheville. He acquired the first one in 1982, before downtown revitalization. He’d previously owned a hotel in Pensacola, Florida, and before that, he worked as a structural engineer.

Patel points to Charleston’s entry on the sheet in front of him, saying his goal is to beat them. And according to the data he’s assembled, we’re close, trailing slightly in hotel room occupancy rate and

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taKing asheViLLe to marKet: “Asheville is competing with other cities; we’re trying to steal the other city’s lunch,” declares Bob Patel (left). “There are weekends where it’s very difficult to find a room in Asheville,” Marla Tambellini (right) points out. Photos by Pat Barcas.

actually ahead in the average price of those rooms.

The way he sees it, each visitor coming here represents money leaving some other city’s economy and slipping into Asheville’s, and vice versa.

“So we’re trying to steal the other city’s lunch here,” says Patel. “A pie is only so big.”

To him, the more tourists the better. So from that perspective, the fact that there are five hotels under construction around town and at least seven more being considered should be good news for all. More lodging, the thinking goes, equals more tourists, which equals more money — assuming, that is, that those hotel rooms are occupied.

But tom tveidt, an independent economic analyst and former director of research for the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, says it’s hard to predict how this round of substantial investment will fare.

“A concern whenever there’s a big burst in any industry is, ‘How sustainable is this?’” he notes, adding, “Obviously, no one knows.”

And downtown business owner franzi charen, who’s also the director of the Asheville Grown Business

Alliance, worries that the increased demand for goods and services stemming from those additional bodies on the street might attract more corporate chains that could drive out local indie businesses. interdependence Asheville currently has about 7,200 hotel and motel rooms that are subject to the 4 percent occupancy tax levied on room sales. And if all of those current hotel projects came to fruition (which is by no means guaranteed), it would add at least 1,115 more, boosting the total number by 15 to 20 percent, notes Patel.

Demand, meanwhile, is increasing by about 4 percent per year. So if all of them popped up out of the ground fully formed today and demand continued to grow at the same rate, it could take four or five years for the scales to re-balance.

Effective marketing, however, could potentially speed things up, and that’s where the Convention and Visitors Bureau comes in. While hotels, restaurants and other services advertise themselves individually, the bureau promotes Asheville as a whole.

marla tambellini, the organization’s deputy director and vice president of marketing, says Asheville has a brand, and her organization is charged with crafting and promoting that brand. To do this, the bureau, an arm of the Chamber of Commerce, uses various tools, including marketing strategies, a geographic focus, a primary target audience (experiential travelers ages 25-54), media and communications strategies, extensive data analysis, and actively pursuing conferences and business conventions.

The bureau’s marketing strategy for 2014-15 plays up the range of experiences available here, rather than focusing on any single one.

“What we’ve found is it’s really the collection of our assets that’s appealing to people,” Tambellini explains.

“It’s the mountains, it’s food, it’s music, it’s Biltmore.”

Downtown Asheville, she notes, has gradually become a significant part of that array as well, as local restaurants and other businesses have flourished to the point that some now qualify as attractions themselves.

And it’s a symbiotic relationship, notes Charen.

“We probably have 90 percent walk-by traffic,” she says. “They just pop their heads in and they buy something. We’re very dependent on the tourism industry. We don’t try to build our business or gear it that way, but because of our

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happY Lodging: Asheville is the “product,” tourists are the customers, and they bring money to the region, say tourist-development leaders.

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location downtown, because downtown is such a tourist attraction, it’s what ends up happening.”

In 2012, for example, 3.1 million overnight visitors to Buncombe County spent an average of $129 per person per day, more than half of it on food and beverages or retail shopping, according to an economic impact analysis by Tourism Economics, a global consulting firm.

Still, Charen fears that too many visitors might end up undermining the very culture that drew them here to begin with. But she believes that such measures as incentives and subsidies for independent businesses, and limits on things like store size, could help prevent this. Charen also questions the wisdom of investing too much in an industry that’s prone to significant peaks and valleys.

Tveidt, though, says the local tourism industry isn’t really all that unstable. Recalling the concern in the wake of 9/11 that tourism would drop off, he says, “The irony of it is, we actually did better after 9/11, because people were afraid to get on planes. This is a drive market.”

In addition, he maintains, the city’s investment in the tourism industry is not all that significant: It’s the hotel investors who are taking the risk. Asheville’s appeal, notes Tveidt, isn’t based on some big theme park or natural wonder that the city needs to sink money into. The things that draw visitors here are either inherent, such as the mountains and the heritage, or develop on their own in the natural course of things, as Asheville’s culture and local businesses have.

“It’s kind of self-sufficient, and it’s a lot of small businesses,” he says. “So it’s dynamic, and it’s able to change direction pretty easily.”

Besides, the money used to market and develop tourism comes directly out of tourism revenue, in the form of the occupancy tax. And the state legislation that enacted the tax spells out how that money can be spent: Three-quarters is used for marketing, and the rest goes to the Tourism Product Development Fund.

Businesses can apply for grants and loans from this fund for projects that have the potential to attract more overnight visitors to the area. Highland Brewing Co., RiverLink and the Asheville Art Museum have all received grants for projects that are set to break ground this year. Between 2010 and 2013, the U.S. Cellular Center received a

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series of grants totaling over $4 million to renovate the convention space in the former Asheville Civic Center. The Riverfront Destination Development Project, meanwhile, was awarded $1.8 million.

“It’s one of the few industries where the things they do for their customers benefit the residents as well,” says Tveidt. “Obviously, they want clean streets, they want safe streets, they want lots of nice restaurants, they want diverse entertainment. ... They’re not doing it for us, but we can profit from it as well.”

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darwinian eVoLution Tourism, Tveidt maintains, creates a dynamic economy that can quickly respond to market conditions: A trendy new restaurant may open even as two others are closing.

Charen agrees. Like an ecosystem rich in biodiversity and intricate species relationships, an economy fed by tourism creates a business environment that’s always improving itself through trial and error, encouraging creative entrepreneurs to take chances.

“When you have a lot of businesses opening and a lot of businesses closing, you really home in on what works,” says Charen.

“There’s a lot of people trying stuff: You’re trying a little hot dog stand, I’m trying a burger thing, and somebody else is trying a butcher shop. And maybe only the butcher shop works.”

Entrepreneurs can take risks and discover niche markets — and if they fail they can try again until they hit the sweet spot, as Charen did herself.

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her Lexington Avenue boutique, Hip Replacements. “I had two that essentially, on paper, failed and two that, on paper, succeeded. But Asheville was kind enough to me to be able to keep trying.

“For me, it wasn’t necessarily such a bad thing — 20/20 hindsight — that two businesses closed. It helped me nurture my skills to, in the end, come out with two successful businesses.”

And thanks to that same dynamic, Hip Replacements, she says, would

be nearly unrecognizable to someone who knew it 20 years ago, having evolved along with its environment and customer base.

Kim murray, co-owner of The Lobster Trap, notes that hotels aren’t the only local establishments anticipating growth in tourism. In response to high demand last year (at one point, people had to wait up to four hours for a table), Murray decided to add 22 seats to her restaurant.

Fellow downtown restaurateur peter pollay, co-owner of Posana,

has also expanded his seating by 20 percent.

Other establishments, such as the Corner Kitchen, Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack and Bouchon, are opening entirely new venues, says jane anderson, executive director of the nonprofit Asheville Independent Restaurants. where’s the moneY? Between 2009 and 2012, the tourism industry created over 280 jobs per year, and as of the latter year, one in seven jobs in Buncombe County was in that sector, according to the Tourism Economics report.

There is a catch, however: “It’s not a well-paying industry, for the most part,” says Tveidt. “It’s a lot of low-skilled service workers. You’ll find that if you compare this area to other similar-sized or larger communities, our wages are never that strong, and it’s primarily due to the mix of industries.

And one of those big industries is tourism, so that’s always going to be a bit of a drag.”

Just Economics, another local nonprofit, advocates for a sustainable economy in Western North Carolina and has a certification program for employers that pay a living wage.

“Does tourism typically breed lowpay jobs? Yes,” says Executive Director Vicki meath. “Does it have to? No.” Of the 350 living-wage-certified businesses in Buncombe County, notes Meath, none are hotels. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that no local hotel pays a living wage: It could just be that they haven’t sought certification.

According to the Convention and Visitors Bureau’s monthly indexes, nearly every pertinent metric is on the rise. Hotel occupancy, airport passengers, revenue per available room, publicity reach — it’s all going up.

About the only numbers that have dropped are those related to traditional, guided tourist experiences and services. Fewer people have come through the Asheville and Pack Square Park visitor centers or booked group tours. Requests for travel guides, meanwhile, have taken the biggest hit, declining by about 25 percent.

Asheville’s online presence is showing the fastest growth, with more than 200 percent greater online publicity value this fiscal year, and 400 percent growth in esti-

mated reach, based on the cost of comparable paid advertising and the nature of the information. It’s a different market now, says Tambellini: Tourists are starting to favor casual exploration over the traditional brochure-and-tour-guide experience.

The goal, she notes, is to stay at over 60 percent hotel room occupancy.

Over the past year, the city averaged about 70 percent, the indexes show, with a high of 86 percent in October and a low of 54 percent in February.

Tambellini expects those numbers to drop once the new hotels are built, but she sees such declines as just one part of a larger cycle. Bring one pie to a party and they eat the whole thing.

Bring two pies the next year, and maybe they eat one whole pie and half of the other one. But it’s apparent that this party has pie to spare, so the following year more people show up, both pies are eaten and the cycle repeats. In other words, even if the occupancy rate drops, total visitation should continue to rise until the market stabilizes again.

“There are weekends where it’s very difficult to find a room in Asheville,” Tambellini points out,

“particularly once you get into the summer months and October. So that scenario becomes very favorable for hotel growth.”

Charen, however, imagines all these new hotel rooms filled with tourists, some of whom like it here so much that they decide to buy a second home in Asheville. And soon enough, they begin to yearn for things familiar from their hometown — perhaps a Starbucks around the corner or a Gap down the street — and the ball gets rolling.

Tension builds as the newcomers try to impose their vision of what Asheville should and shouldn’t be, while some locals resist. Maybe the culture remains strong and doesn’t change. Or maybe it does.

“If I was purely interested in profit, as a business,” says Charen, “I would say these hotels that are popping up downtown are great, because they’re going to bring in more people. But I’m more concerned with what Asheville’s going to look like 20 years down the road.”

To view the complete Tourism Economics report, go to ashevillecvb.com/ economic-impact-2/. X

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Putting bikes in beds May flowers are here, bringing National Bike Month along for the ride. In anticipation of future tourists on bikes, a coalition of organizations in the western counties gave them a boost by supporting a new study

by Kostelec Planning. The study explores ways to go beyond traditional tourism-enhancement strategies — “putting butts (or heads) in beds,” as the study puts it — and offers ways to attract more pedalpowered visitors.

The study, titled “Bikes in Beds: How to Maximize Bicycle Tourism in Haywood County and Western North Carolina,” was produced at the request of organizations serving Western North Carolina’s seven westernmost counties. whY deVeLop bicYcLe tourism?

“One of the major things I took away from conducting the research for Bikes in Beds,” notes the study’s author Don Kostelec, “was how much of an impact cycling tourism already has on the economy of Western North Carolina.” The study credits bicycle tourism with a $14 million estimated annual economic impact in the region.

“Bikes in Beds helps make the case that bicycle tourism is a cutting-edge direction to go with economic development,” Kostelec says.

It cites an Outdoor Foundation report showing that in 2013 about 91.5 million Americans engaged in some cycling, which makes the sport more popular than hiking, canoeing, kayaking and golfing combined. Bicycling for pleasure has been on the rise for some time, Kostelec notes, while fishing and golfing are declining in popularity.

With North Carolina’s westernmost counties looking at ways to attract new tourists, Kostelec says, there are several advantages to investing in the promotion of bicycle-related tourism over investment in other tourist activities. For instance, the average stay in an area for a bike tourist is 3.7 nights, which can generate more spending on amenities than the average tourist,

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who stays 2.5 nights, according to the study. Supporting that argument, the study cites an Oregon report showing that people traveling for bicycle-related reasons spent more and had higher incomes than the average tourist in the state.

Another reason for favoring investment in bicycle tourism, according to the study, is the high rate of job-creation for non-motorized transportation facilities.

The statistics from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials show that work on greenways, sidewalks and bicycle facilities, on average, creates the most jobs — 17 jobs per $1 million spent, generating 4.5 more jobs than the next-most productive categories, new highway construction and pavement widening. momentum Much of Haywood County’s bicycle tourism centers around events.

The Blue Ridge Breakaway and the Lake Logan Triathlon already bring about 1,700 participants plus their companions to the county each year. Such rides are due in part to the combined efforts of Bicycle Haywood NC (a chapter of the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club), the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority and the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce.

The groups also helped gain county approval for the 2011 Haywood County Comprehensive Bicycle Plan (HCCBP), an initiative that establishes five sets of goals for all civic bicycling programs: “Build bicycle infrastructure and other improvements; develop support facilities and programs; increase educational opportunities; provide information to residents and visitors; support policy change and economic development.”

Some of the HCCBP’s recommendations have been implemented thus far, according to cecil Yount, vice-chair and former chairperson of Bicycle Haywood

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Hospitality that knows how to cater to cyclists may help attract more bike tourists. Photo

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NC. “The town of Waynesville put ‘sharrows’ [share the road arrows] on around five miles of major bicycle routes from the plan.” The town is expected to install bike racks soon, he adds. Bicycle Haywood NC is seeking to fulfill other parts of the plan in partnership with the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority. Together, the two groups published a guide brochure with several ride routes for visitors. The guide is being updated.

Earlier this year, North Carolina Amateur Sports announced that Waynesville would be the starting point of this September’s Cycle North

Carolina Mountains to Coast ride.

The event provides Haywood and other counties an opportunity to promote regional cycling for a large number of serious riders, Kostelec notes. To prepare for the needs of an ongoing influx of event riders, one of his recommendations is to hold workshops educating hospitality-industry representatives on the needs of people traveling on or with bicycles.

Yount concurs. “When people come here to ride, we want them to get a good first impression and leave with a good taste in their mouths.” X

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Land of sKY: North Carolina’s diverse, mountains-to-sea landscape and strategic location are keys to the state’s popularity with tourists. Last year, more than 16.7 million visitors ventured to national park sites in the state, such as the Blue Ridge Parkway, above.

How national and state parks boost N.C. communities To many Western North Carolina residents, the region’s parks and recreational areas represent a chance to experience our state’s natural beauty and preserve its rich history.

But what’s often overlooked is these attractions’ key role in bolstering local economies.

A recent report from the National Park Service highlights the way North Carolina’s protected areas benefit adjacent communities. Using statistics compiled by economists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service, the report documents annual visits to national sites within the state and the resulting economic effects on “gateway communities,” defined

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distance. Families can drive across the state and experience incredibly iconic parks from end to end, plus a lot of history along the way.”

Those visitors, the report notes, helped create 18,500 jobs last year, pouring about $1.5 billion into the state’s economy. Much of that spending went toward things like lodging, restaurants and gas, creating a “ripple effect” in local economies (often in rural or disadvantaged areas) that are geared toward accommodating tourists’ needs.

“Those are the people we grocery-shop with,” Tyler explains.

“They fix our cars, and they’re the ones that the tourists rely on. It’s an important connection that allows everyone to contribute to the public lands we’re using.”

These public assets’ growing popularity, however, means local communities may face challenges if they want to preserve those significant economic benefits.

as those within a 60-mile radius of such parks and monuments.

According to the report, titled “2014 National Park Visitor Spending Effects,” North Carolina ranked third nationally, behind only Alaska and California. The more than 16.7 million visitors to North Carolina’s national park sites last year spent roughly $1.1 billion during their stays.

Nationally, notes maggie tyler of the Park Service’s Southeast Regional Office. “We saw a 7 percent increase in park visitation from 2013 to 2014.”

The reasons for the increase vary from region to region, says Tyler, citing North Carolina’s diverse physical landscape and strategic location as keys to the state’s popularity with tourists.

“We have two great dichotomies: the mountains and the beach. Not many states can offer both those things,” she points out, “or offer both within a reasonable driving

North Carolina’s nine national parks and historic sites include the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Carl Sandburg Home.

Topping the list of the WNC attractions is the Blue Ridge Parkway, whose more than 13.9 million visitors spent some $863 million last year and supported an estimated 14,020 jobs. The Smokies, meanwhile, drew more than 10 million visitors, generating around $806 million in revenue; and the Carl Sandburg Home’s over 82,000 visitors generated $4 million in total visitor spending while supporting 75 jobs.

And those benefits, notes Tyler, are pretty consistent. “As we’ve done these studies year after year, we continue to see that every time American taxpayers invest money in the public park system, there’s a great return into the economy,” she says. “This year’s numbers show that for every dollar invested by taxpayers into the National Park Service, over $10 comes back into the U.S. economy.”

The Park Service tracks both direct spending by visitors and “indirect” or “induced” spending by the businesses serving them. Together, these categories, including the associated income and job growth, constitute the “total economic effect of visitor spending in a local economy,” the report explains.

A formula developed by the Park Service identifies different types

Happy birthday NPS Beginning in August of 2016, the National Park Service will stage events across the country to celebrate the agency’s 100th birthday. Several other federal agencies, as well as state and city parks, will team up to help commemorate the Park Service’s creation in 1916. For details on what will be happening in your area, go to findyourpark.com.

of visitors and where in the local economy their money is being spent, based on figures and metrics provided by each park’s officials.

But quantifying the impact of more ambiguous sites like the Blue Ridge Parkway can be problematic.

“These units,” the report notes, “have some of the highest number of visits while posing the most difficult problems for estimating visits, spending and impacts.” One big challenge is differentiating between local and nonlocal visitors; in addition, however, “Better data on parkway spending patterns and trip characteristics is needed.”

North Carolina’s state parks face similar issues. “We have not had the resources in recent years to

do a timely economic analysis on how park visitation relates to local economic revenue,” says charlie peek, public information officer for the N.C. Division of Parks & Recreation, though he speculates that the results would be similar to what the National Park Service found.

According to a report issued by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources earlier this year, state parks and recreation areas attracted a record 15.6 million visitors in 2014. That constitutes a “healthy” 10 percent increase from the previous year, says Peek, adding that 2015 could see even higher totals.

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And though the most popular state parks are in the state’s eastern and Piedmont regions, WNC destinations such as Mount Mitchell, Chimney Rock, South Mountains and Stone Mountain state parks all saw substantial increases in visitors last year, and the Southern Appalachians’ growing popularity as a tourist destination will most likely spill over to adjacent natural attractions.

Collateral damage But while the increase in both foot and vehicle traffic may be good news economically, it could harm the very landscapes and ecosystems that are attracting all those tourists.

“We have a dual mission,” notes Tyler. “To protect and preserve these delicate environments, while at the same time allowing for public enjoyment.”

Maintaining that balance, she explains, calls for constant monitoring and re-evaluation, and it may require restricting the number of daily visitors to a particular site, or instituting “quota camping” during certain seasons to accommodate vegetative and wildlife cycles.

Peek agrees, saying that “Increased visitation certainly intensifies the challenge of balancing recreation with protection of the natural resources. ... Practically every state park has areas that are particularly sensitive in terms of rare species and delicate habitats.

Careful planning can address that.”

But the answer, he maintains, lies not in restricting visitation but in “thoughtful expansion of the parks, the parks system and persistent efforts for conservation in general, with the help of land trusts and conservation organizations.”

Tyler, too, stresses the importance of collaboration. “There are hundreds of different community groups and organizations that get out there and do the work that we just don’t have the time or resources to do,” she says. “They become an extension of the Park Service in educating the public on how to be good stewards of the resources.”

Education, says Peek, may be the most effective tool for preserving the integrity of parklands. Citing things like exhibit halls and educational hikes led by park rangers, he says, “We’ve found that the more visitors know about the sensitive natural resources in a state park, the more they’ll try to help us in protecting those resources.”

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The National Park Service also places a premium on educational efforts. “We work very hard to educate the public about their visit,” notes Tyler. “As visitation increases, we constantly monitor and re-evaluate our land management decisions.”

And public acceptance of the resulting changes “depends on how well we communicate to them what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.”

Preserving profits Meanwhile, Asheville continues to show up on list after list of top destinations to visit or move to, making it likely that both national and state parks in the region will continue to draw more visitors.

And for some WNC communities, this will mean continued opportunities to profit from preserving these unique landscapes.

What can residents do to support those efforts?

“Having the public support the state to expand funds to preserve protected land tracts,” says Angela Shepherd, communications director for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, “is a giveback to the community in a way that preserves the lands, which draws tourism and brings money into the hotels and local businesses. It’s a win-win situation.”

“When we look to preserve land,” she explains, “we do look at whether those places are viewable from the Appalachian Trail or Mount Mitchell State Park, and other iconic landmarks in the area. If a development came into those areas, it’s going to impact visitation to those places.

We’re not anti-development, but rather developing in the right places in the right way.”

Angie Chandler, executive director of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, also urges residents to “communicate to your community and businesses and national leaders about how important the parks and their resources are — not only to our quality of life but to businesses who want to be in a place with things to do, with the arts, and with our distinct cultural heritage.”

To view the full “2014 National Park Service Visitor Spending Report,” go to nature.nps.gov/socialscience/ docs/VSE2014_Final.pdf. For a look at state park visitor numbers, check out ncparks.gov/News/media_room/ annual_report.php. X

Buncombe votes to protect and preserve parkway viewshed With an economic impact of $863 million, it’s not just tourists and outdoor-loving locals who enjoy the Blue Ridge Parkway. In fact, at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ May 5 meeting, the first topic of the evening was a resolution protecting the parkway and its viewshed from unsightly development. The resolution passed unanimously following two presentations, a public comment period and discussion.

“What many folks don’t realize is that much of what visitors see is not part of parkway management,” Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Mark Woods told commissioners at the meeting. “We don’t own those views.”

The county currently protects the parkway through a zoning overlay that imposes building restrictions for both publicly and privately owned properties within 1,320 feet of the scenic road’s center line.

The new resolution supports additional research-based zoning regulations in order to protect parkway views from unsightly development.

County planning staff will meet with parkway staff to discuss sustainable methods of preserving the sweeping views of valleys and rolling hills — without angering property owners in the process.

The Buncombe County Planning Board will then present the recommendations to the county commissioners for review.

“So you’re not taking away people’s rights to develop on their own properties,” County Chair David Gantt asked Woods at the meeting. “You’re working with them to find solutions that work for everyone.”

“That’s right,” replied Woods.

Gantt and Woods emphasized that the resolution isn’t about denying property owners their right to build. It’s about working with them to find creative solutions for keeping the views natural — whether it’s set color schemes for homes, height restrictions or strategically placed trees.

“This calendar year alone, we have already seen a 19.3 percent increase of visitor use in the Pisgah District alone,” which includes the Buncombe County corridor, Woods said.

Woods gave the commissioners a presentation showing the negative economic and environmental impact of man-made expansion along the parkway. As an example, he showed a stretch of parkway in Virginia, where the local government had failed to implement building regulations on lands adjacent to the national park. The result: overlooks dotted with apartment complexes, unattractive rows of tract housing, office buildings and a noticeable lack of natural beauty.

The resolution states that such development in Virginia has “severely degraded the quality of scenic views and irreversibly impacted visitor experience,” as well as destroyed the destination’s “cultural and natural resources.” Woods mentioned to commissioners that these sections of parkway have also seen a decrease in tourism, therefore reducing the surrounding towns’ economic benefits.

It’s Buncombe’s 48 miles of unspoiled views that make the county one of the top destinations on the entire parkway, accumulating a higher number of visitors than any other section last year — from Cherokee, N.C. to Waynesboro, Va., Woods explained. The parkway, in turn, is the No. 2 visited national park in the country.

Several of the commissioners expressed excitement and gratitude over the parkway advocacy, and others suggested options that the county could use, going forward, to work with surrounding developers and property owners.

“I would really encourage an approach” that uses incentive-based regulations for properties within view of the parkway, Commissioner Brownie Newman said. “Some of them might be rules; some of them might be incentives.” We could use “a menu of things to help encourage the kind of compatible development in the future that we all want to see.”

The intent of the project, Woods added, “is to connect with the next generation of visitors — to ensure that the parkway is found by those future generations in just as good or better condition than it is today.” — Hayley Benton X

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conserVation group seeKs to buY coggins propertY The Coggins Conservation Project, a grassroots effort formed to oppose development of 169 acres of East Asheville farmland, has announced plans to assume the current developer’s contract.

The property known as Coggins Farm, located off Riceville Road and currently owned by copper coggins, is currently under option with Coggins Farm LLC, formerly Case Enterprises LCC, owned by david case.

CCP has previously announced plans to purchase as much as 70 acres of the property for conservation. However, speaking to Xpress on Thursday, May 7, CCP member ron ainspan said the group is now hoping to purchase the entire tract.

“We are open to negotiating and collaborating with [Case], but right now our plan is to take on the entire site,” Ainspan said.

Ainspan said the group has no set funding sources at this time, but that it is “vetting” potential investors.

Influenced by the ideas of New Ruralism, Ainspan says CCP would develop the site with a “small footprint,” leaving the majority of the acreage (roughly 80 percent) for agricultural use and open space. “We see what we’re doing as the launching place and foundation for preserving agricultural lands near urban areas, and that’s also part of an effort to preserve and encourage local food systems,” Ainspan said.

Coggins Farm LCC’s previous plans for the site have included as many as 382 units, though more recently this number had dropped to 99 units, as presented at the Feb. 16 Buncombe County Planning Board meeting.

expressed concern with its budget.

If the county hires an artist and tells him or her to go to work, Fryar said, the artist may end up billing the county double the original budget.

Chair david gantt and County Manager wanda greene assured the commissioners that the current proposal is just to give the county the OK to begin searching for artists and designs, and the board will later vote on the choice of monu-

ment and its budget — which would not exceed the agreed upon amount.

Before the meeting, Gantt told Xpress that he’s very excited about the projects, admitting, “We haven’t done much for arts lately.So we have to have less talking and more doing.

We have a really rich history, and we ought to celebrate it.”

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Ainspan said CCP’s proposal would also include residential properties, but that the group would like to see those limited to 30 units, taking up 20-30 acres of the property.

Residents of Riceville Road and surrounding areas have resisted previous development proposals, citing a high density of housing units, potentially dangerous traffic, erosion and a loss of historic farmland. — Carrie Eidson buncombe inVests in the arts On Tuesday, May 5, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved three projects supporting the arts.

Investing up to $75,000, the threefold plan begins inside the Buncombe County Courthouse, constructing a history wall and adding rotating arts, culture and history exhibits. The project ends outside the courthouse, seeking local artists’ talent and designs for a new monument honoring the county’s culture and history.

According to the resolution, “the arts and culture community in Buncombe County contributes $44 million annually to our local economy, with $695 million in sales [and] over 9,000 jobs.”

The two indoor projects, which could cost the county up to $25,000, passed with little discussion. But the $50,000 monument gained a bit more skepticism. Commissioner joe belcher said he was uncomfortable voting for the monument because he can’t see the final design, and Commissioner mike fryar

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WnC nAturAl heAlth & Wellness meetup.com/ WNC-Natural-Health-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm Networking event for natural health & wellness practitioners. Free to attend. Held at Western North Carolina School of Massage, 131 McDowell St. Suite 302

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• Pre-registration required: bit. ly/3mos2money ABrAhAm/hiCKs: lAW of AttrACtion meeting (pd.) Live with joy! Uplifting, positive group! Understand vibration, and how to manifest in your life. Every Wednesday, 7pm, Free! (828) 274-5444. nYs3’s WeeK of free WorKshoPs (pd.) In Acting, Dance, Filmmaking, Improv and Voiceover and begins June 8! Learn from award-winning faculty. Train, create, evolve, get work. Register at www.nys3. com; (828) 276-1212; info@ nys3.com run for Kids’ sAKe (pd.) 10 Mile/5K Off Road Run. Saturday, June 13th 8:30 at Warren Wilson College.

Register online under upcoming event at www.bbbswnc.org.

BunComBe CountY PuBliC liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (5/15), 4pm - Black Mountain Knitters, knitting group for all skill levels. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (5/20), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters, knitting group for all skill levels. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa hAYWood CountY liBrArY-CAnton 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • TH (5/14), 3-5pm - Job search workshop. Registration required. Free.

hendersonville Wise Women 693-1523 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group for women “of a certain age.”

Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville hillside d&d enCounters facebook.com/ groups/hillsidednd • WEDNESDAYS, 6-9pm Weekly ongoing fantasy campaign with the new edition.

Free. Held at Hillside Games, 611c Tunnel Road JurY nullifiCAtion AWAreness rAllY avl.mx/0wa • FR (5/15), 2pm - Information and rally on the importance of impartial juries. Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square ontrACK WnC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• THURSDAYS until (5/28), 5:30-7pm - “Mother/Daughter Money Buddies,” five-part seminar.

• TH (5/14), noon-1pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it,” workshop.

• SATURDAYS until (5/16), 9am-12:30pm - “Manage Your Money Series,” workshop.

• TU (5/19), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it,” workshop.

• TH (5/21), 5:30-7pm “Emotions & Spending,” workshop. smoKY mountAin Chess CluB facebook.com/ SmokyMountainChessClub • THURSDAYS, 1pm - Players of all ages and skill levels are welcome. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville Western CAroliniAns for PeACe And JustiCe in the middle eAst mepeacewnc.com • WE (5/13), 9:30am - General meeting. Free. Held at Black Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain • SA (5/16), noon-1:30pm Protest against US support for Israeli policies. Free to attend.

Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. WnC PhYsiCiAns for soCiAl resPonsiBilitY wncpsr.org, info@wncpsr.org • FR (5/15), 10:30am - Monthly meeting held in private home.

Register for details. Free.

WnC PoKémon leAgue facebook.com/groups/ WNCPokemon • SATURDAYS, 4-8pm - Video and card games for players of all ages. Free to attend. Held at Hillside Games, 611c Tunnel Road

dAnCe studio zAhiYA, doWntoWn dAnCe ClAsses (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Fusion Bellydance 7:30pm Bellydance• Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 •Wednesday 7:30pm Bellydance• Thursday 7am Hip Hop Cardio 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • $13 for 60 minute classes, Hip Hop Wkrt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 southern lights squAre And round dAnCe CluB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (5/16), 6pm - 33rd anniversary dance. $8.

Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

eCo Asheville green drinKs ashevillegreendrinks.com Free to attend.

• WE (5/13), 5:30pm - Gridand off-grid solar power presentation. Free to attend. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway BunComBe CountY PuBliC liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (5/19), 6pm - Presentation

by Bee City USA, “Creating Sustainable Habitats for Honeybees and Pollinators.”

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (5/21), 6pm - Presention by the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society on the creation and preservation of the Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

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elishA mitChell AuduBon soCietY emasnc.org • TU (5/19), 7pm - Discussion of the Cerulean Warbler Corridor Project and the protection of birds in Latin America. Free. Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA. green grAnnies avl.mx/0gm • SA (5/16), 5pm - “Sing for the Climate” gathering. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. riverlinK 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • FR (5/15), 4-6pm - Presentation: “Who is Wilma Dykeman and What Are They Doing in Her Name?” Reservations required.

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Hands-on science

what: “Under the Stars” Colburn Earth Sciences Museum benefit when: Thursday, May 21, 6-10 p.m. where: 318 Riverside Drive, Asheville whY: The Colburn Earth Sciences Museum, currently located on Pack Square in the Pack Place Education, Arts and Science Center, will be moving to the Callen Center on the corner of Haywood Street and Patton Avenue this fall. At the same time, the museum is revising its focus, becoming a general science museum to provide more programming in sciences such as biology, physics and chemistry.

To support this move, the museum is holding an evening benefit at The Boathouse at Smoky Park. “We are partnering with the school system to help set curriculum and act as a hands-on arm of

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the school system. It’s great to see the excitement and smiles that come from a hands-on experience,” say museum board of directors president jon neumann.

The evening will feature local food from Smoky Mountain Supper Club’s Chef Marc Rosenstein, Travinia and PF Changs, in addition to local beer from Catawba Brewing Co. and Bhramari Brewhouse. Wine will be provided by Skyland Distributing. Red Dirt Revelators will entertain guests with their dirty Americana blues while guests bid on silent auction and raffle items such as guided food tours, Navitat zipline tours, golf lessons and gift certificates to area restaurants.

Raffle tickets are 1/$5 or 5/$20.

Tickets cost $25 in advance/$30 at the door and include beer, wine, food and music. All funds raised will benefit the museum’s upcoming move and educational programming for kids in WNC. For more information, contact Neumann at jneumann@hedrickind.com.

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strive not to drive 2015 strivenottodrive.org • FR (5/15), 9:15pm - “Bright Light Biker,” evening community bike ride. Held at HomeTrust Bank, 10 Woodfin St. • MO (5/18), 10:30am “Crosstown Getaround,” exploration of walking, biking, transit and driving efficiencies. Held at Asheville Art Museum, 2 N. Pack Square • TU (5/19), 9:30am - “Walking the Talk,” pedestrian infrastructure walking tour. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. • WE (5/20), 5:30pm - “Ride of Silence,” memorial ride for those injured or killed on bikes. Held at the Register of Deeds office, 35 Woodfin St. • TH (5/21), 7pm “Transportation Story Slam,” with theme of “getting around.” Held at Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Ave. uPPer frenCh BroAd river CleAn-uP dAY 877-3106 • SA (5/16), 8:30am - Annual cleanup hosted by Headwater Outfitters. Free. Held at Headwaters Outfitters, 25 Parkway Road, Rosman WnC green Building CounCil 254-1995, wncgbc.org • SU (5/17), 1-4pm - Monthly Green Building Tour includes discussion of edible landscaping.

Location given with registration.

Free.

fArm & gArden BAmBoo WAlKing tours (pd.) May 24th 1:30-3 p.m.

Held at Haiku Bamboo Nursery, 468 Rhodes Mountain Road Hendersonville. Led through a Bamboo Forest, sustainable envi-

ronment. Adult $25, Senior $23, College/Student $15. Cash upon arrival. Reservations: 685-3053 www.haikubamboonursery.net BlACK mountAin gArden shoW And sAle 301-4347 • SA (5/16), 9am-4pm Sponsored by the Black Mountain Beautification Committee. Includes vendors, food and a quilt raffle. Free to attend. Held at Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain Bullington gArdens 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville, 698-6104, bullingtongardens.org • SA (5/16), 9am-4pm - Proceeds from plant sales benefit the educational programs at Bullington Gardens. Free to attend.

BunComBe CountY mAster gArdeners 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • TU (5/21), 10am - Workshop on good floral design using greenery, fillers and focal point flowers that can be grown in home gardens. Free.

Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. e-z gArden CluB of Asheville maryfarmer.com • SU (5/17), noon-4pm - Pop-up sale with on-hand gardening experts and advice. Free to attend. Held at All Souls Pizza, 175 Clingman Ave. vAnCe BirthPlACe 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville, 838-645-6706, nchistoricsites.org/vance • SA (5/16), 10am-3pm “Hardcore Homestead,” presentations by local historians, primitive skills specialists, and wilderness experts on a hands-on exploration of early 19th century homesteading and farmsteading.

Free to attend.

food & Beer Asheville green drinKs ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (5/20), 5:30pm - French Broad Co-op cooking demo.

Free to attend Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway JeWish CommunitY Center 236 Charlotte St., 253-0701, jcc-asheville.org • SU (5/17), 2-4pm - Israeli cooking demonstration. $15.

leiCester CommunitY Center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - The Leicester Welcome Table offers a hot meal and fellowship.

Open to all. Free.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm - Manna FoodBank distribution, including local produce. Free.

government & PolitiCs BunComBe CountY rePuBliCAn Women’s CluB 243-6590 • TH (5/14), 11:30am - Lunch and presentation with Dr. Carl Mumpower. Free to attend.

Held at Olive Garden, 121 Tunnel Road henderson CountY demoCrAtiC PArtY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 692-6424, myhcdp.com • WE (5/20), noon - Senior Democrats social and BYO lunch. Free to attend. the frenCh BroAd river mPo brmpo.org • TH (5/14), 11am - General meeting. Free. Held at Henderson County Courthouse, 1 Historic Courthouse Square, Hendersonville

Kids Youth filmmAKing CAmP (pd.) At NYS3 with awardwinning filmmakers begins next month! One and two week camps begin June 15; progression will be offered again beginning August 3. Register: www.nys3.com; (828) 276-1212; info@nys3.com Asheville historY Center 253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org.

• SA (5/16), 10:30am - “Crafty Historian,” weaving with t-shirt scraps. $5. Held at SmithMcDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road first lego leAgue roBotiCs teAm 258-2038 • WEDNESDAYS, 3-5:30pm - All boys and girls ages 10-14 welcome. Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave.

456-3575, sarah_scott@ncsu.edu • WE (5/13), 4-5pm - Kids Gardening Day, with instruction on how to plant a garden.

Free. Held at Haywood County Library-Canton, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton Kids’ ACtivities At the liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (5/13) through FR (5/15) - The Dollywood Players present Old Bear and His Cub: • May 13, 11am: Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • May 13, 3:30pm - Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • May 14, 10:30am - Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • May 14, 3:30pm - Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • May 14, 3:30pm - Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • May 15, 10:30am - Old Bear and His Cub. Held at West

Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (5/16), 2pm - Kidsense Science: “Action Reaction!” live chemistry demonstration.

Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • SA (5/16), 11am - Kidsense Science: “Action Reaction!” live chemistry demonstration. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (5/19), 4pm - Stories and yoga for ages 4-9. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (5/20), 3:30pm - “An Introduction to Angora Goats and Fiber Arts,” for grades K-5.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. sPellBound Children’s BooKshoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free. tot time At Asheville Art museum 282-253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (5/19), 10:30am - Held in the museum’s ArtPLAYce. Admission fees apply. Held at

Asheville Art Museum, 2 N. Pack Square We Are the villAge Avl 407-2061, wearethevillageavl.org • SA (5/16), 2-5pm - A festival celebrating children, families and communities with games, inflatables, music and more. Free to attend. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

outdoors lAKe JAmes stAte PArK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• SU (5/17), 9:45am - Ranger-led spring boat tour. Registration required.

• SU (5/17), 3pm - Ranger-led 1.5-mile hike exploring early season butterflies.

• MO (5/18), 7:30am - Ranger-led breeding season birding hike. n.C. ArBoretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • SA (5/16), 10am-2pm -

“Asheville Outdoor Families,” hiking day. Admission fees waived with registration. southern APPAlAChiAn highlAnds ConservAnCY 253-0095, appalachian.org • SA (5/16), 10am - Moderate 5- to 6-mile hike through the Sandy Mush Game Lands.

Directions given on registration. $10/free for SAHC members.

YmCA of WnC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SU (5/17), 8:45am - Moderate 6.4-mile hike on Looking Glass Rock Trail. Free. $5 for carpool.

Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St. • WE (5/20), 8:45am - Easy 4-mile hike on Jackson Park Nature Trail. Free. Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

PArenting Children And fAmilY resourCe Center 851 Case St., Hendersonville, 698-0674 • WEDNESDAYS until (5/13) “Parents Matter!” sexual health and responsibility. Free.

XPlore usA 651-8502, xploreusa.org, info@ xploreusa.org • SU (5/17), 2-4pm - Intercultural summer camp info session. Free to attend. Held at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe, 640 Merrimon Ave.

seniors olli At unCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com, olli@unca.edu • FR (5/15), 11:30am - Fab Friday at Olli: “Lungs in Health and Disease, Part II.” Held in Reuter Center. Free.

sPirituAlitY ABout the trAnsCendentAl meditAtion teChnique: free introduCtorY leCture (pd.) The simplest meditation is the most effective. Learn how TM is different from other meditation practices (including other “mantra” methods). TM is an effortless, non-religious technique for going beyond the

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busy, active mind to access your deepest inner reserves of calm, clarity and happiness — dissolving stress and connecting you to your higher self. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association.

NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened wellbeing. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville tm Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or tm.org or meditationAsheville. org Asheville insight meditAtion (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30.

Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and

MODERN DANCERS •Strong technique required •Modern dancers only •Must be able to travel out of the country •Commit to rehearse no less than 6 hrs/ week

Appointment for auditions required. Dancers must be at least 21 to participate. Call 828-254-2621 or email ladansfrog@acdt.org for an appointment.

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AWAKening Wisdom (pd.) Realize the promise of Zen meditation and mindfulness for peace, wisdom and everyday life effectiveness while experiencing true spiritual connection. Individual, group and telephone sessions available with consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Very affordable. For Info contact healing@ billwalz.com, (828) 258-3241.

Visit www.billwalz.com CrYstAl visions BooKs And event Center (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts.

Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com

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st. mArK’s lutherAn ChurCh 10 North Liberty St., 253-0043 • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 12:301:30pm - “A Service for Service,” service-industry worship.

Princeless by Jeremy Whitley.

ur light Center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm Mind Body Spirit Day. $12.

to attend. Held at Rejavanation

Free to attend. oPen miC night nothingsopowerful@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Free Cafe, 909 Smokey Park Highway, Candler sYnergY storY slAm avl.mx/0gd,

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tlester33@gmail.com • WE (5/20), 7:30pm - Open mic story telling night on the theme

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“roommates.” Free to attend.

Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Rd.

Adult forum At fCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (5/17), 9:15am “Conversation on Spiritual Practice of Healing.” Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville

buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (5/14), 1pm - Fairview Afternoon Book Club: My Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TU (5/19), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TU (5/19), 7pm - Black Mountain Mystery Book Club: One False Move by Harlen Coben. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (5/19), 2pm - North Asheville Book Club: All That Is by James Salter. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (5/21), 2:30pm - Skyland Book Club: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

grACe lutherAn ChurCh 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS until (5/20), 5:45pm - “Christianity’s Family Tree: What Others Believe and Why.” Free to attend.

CitY lights BooKstore 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • SA (5/16), 3pm - Diana Kenney discusses her book How Cancer Transformed Our Lives. Free to attend.

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shAmBhAlA meditAtion Center 19 Westwood Place, 200-5120, shambhalaashvl@gmail.com • THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm Sitting meditation and dharma reading. Free.

• SUNDAYS, 10am-noon Sitting and walking meditation.

Free.

mAlAProP’s BooKstore And CAfe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (5/13), 7pm - Margaret McMullan discusses her books Aftermath Lounge and Every Father’s Daughter.

• TH (5/14), 7pm - Sy Safransky discusses his book Many Alarm Clocks.

• FR (5/15), 7pm - Alli Marshall discusses her book How to Talk to Rockstars!

• SU (5/17), 3pm - Writers at Home, monthly reading series.

• TU (5/19), 7pm - Comix Club:

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Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org

st. george’s ePisCoPAl ChurCh 1 School Road, stgeorge.diocesewnc.org • FR (5/15), 7pm - Celtic worship service with visiting musician Macushla and accompaniment. Admission by donation.

thomAs Wolfe short storY BooK CluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (5/14), 5:30-7pm - “The Lost Boy.” Discussion led by Paul Spivey. Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St

volunteering literACY CounCil seeKs volunteers (pd.) Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language. Tutors receive training and support from certified professionals. Learn more by emailing us (volunteers@litcouncil.com).

31 College Pl. Suite B-221 • WE (5/20), 9-10:30am Volunteer info session for tutoring adults in basic literacy skills.

• TH (5/21), 5:30-7pm Volunteer info session for tutoring adults in basic literacy skills. sAndhill CommunitY gArden 58 Apac Circle, 250-4260 • SATURDAYS, 10am-noon Volunteers are needed to help with growing produce for donation in this nonprofit community garden.

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Heal thyself Western Carolina Medical Society tackles physician burnout

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Doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and other medical professionals are getting burned out, and the Asheville-based physicians organization Western Carolina Medical Society has taken notice. A 2014 survey showed that the problem is prevalent in the region, says miriam schwarz, WCMS director.

Asheville psychiatrist dr. adrienne coopey, for example, reports having worked repeated stretches that were 12 days in a row.

“I was really trying to do my best at work in meeting everyone’s expectations,” Coopey says. “But I was tired. I didn’t really want to go to work. There’s a lack of motivation to continue your work because you don’t feel effective at it. It can be very much like depression.

“I deal with traumatized children, which can be a pretty stressful work environment. I was experiencing conversations with insurance companies telling me a child didn’t need to be in the hospital and I should discharge them, but I knew that was wrong.”

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Less burnout, better care: Burnout among physicians can adversely affect patient care, says WCMS president Robert Henderson. The society is working on ways to address the problem. Photo by Pat Barcas

Coopey says she was able to make changes in her personal and professional life that helped her to better manage the stress. But with the recognition that doctors across the region are facing similar problems, WCMS members and leaders are trying to do something to address it.

The issue of physician burnout came to the medical society’s attention last year during its strategic planning process, which involved interviewing more than 100 doctors, practice managers, CEOs and others across the region, says Schwarz.

“We take all the data we collect and look for trends,” she says.

Interviews with both private physicians and those employed by hospitals revealed that burnout is widespread and growing.

“This was startling to us, because physicians tend to keep these kind of issues internalized,” Schwarz says.

“Physicians have very rigorous educational requirements that they need

to fulfill, and expectations are very, very high for them to excel. I think there’s an expectation that physicians need to appear externally to be strong, unflappable, compassionate and frankly to be more composed human beings than most of the rest of us.”

In a recent Medscape.com nationwide survey, 46 percent of doctors said they were experiencing burnout.

“The study validated what we were seeing locally,” Schwarz says. “When we identified burnout as a key issue, we decided to develop a strategic plan to address it. Because the medical society is a physicians organization supporting physicians across Western North Carolina, it made a lot of sense for us to take action.”

The society plans to bring in a physician-burnout expert who will conduct a forum for doctors, spouses and partners, she explains.

The goal is to work together to define burnout and come up with personal and organizational plans to address it.

The society also is researching physician wellness programs in preparation for establishing one here, Schwarz says. WCMS will consider a mentoring program, too — one that would match experienced doctors with those who need help to “navigate the choppy waters of health care,” she says.

“We’re seeing a sharp increase in burnout because in addition to their high-stress jobs, they are in the midst of great upheaval and experimentation and uncertainty about their future in health care,” she says. “We think that if we don’t address this problem, we’ll see physicians leaving the practice of medicine, and those who stay will continue to spiral downward if we don’t give them the help they need.”

Asheville obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. robert henderson says he experienced burnout while in private practice in Texas and serving as director of resident education at a medical school. Now president of WCMS, he says that pushing himself too hard took its toll.

“You reach a point where you don’t enjoy the practice of medicine like you used to,” says Henderson.

“And you want to withdraw from people when you’re not working.

You reach a point where you don’t have satisfaction and pleasure in engaging with your family. That’s what I experienced.”

Burnout can become severe enough that it affects patient care, he adds. When he served on the Texas Medical Board, violations by doctors cited by the board nearly always involved physician burnout, Henderson recalls.

Further, with fundamental changes in the structure of the country’s health care system, doctors increasingly have more to worry about, Schwarz says. There is a growing emphasis on data collection and other time-consuming administrative requirements, including the introduction of electronic health records.

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“It’s really turning the health care system on its head,” Schwarz says.

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They’ve never done it before, hence the uncertainty and the feeling that they’re in a great experiment.”

Coopey says the new method of reimbursement means more doctors are forced to become employees of hospital systems, adding to a lack of control.

Then there’s the frustration and paperwork involved in dealing with insurance companies for doctors trying to do what’s best for their patients, she says.

“So even when physicians know they are making the right decision for patients, they may have to argue with an insurance company or a hospital system to get that need met ... or the system doesn’t give us the tools we need to help,” she says.

Respect for doctors has declined, too, leading to decreased job satisfaction, Coopey believes. She regularly talks with doctors considering leaving the profession, she says.

“What they hoped and dreamt as a child for being a doctor has not come to fruition,” Coopey says.

“We’ve lost physicians in this community because of burnout.

They no longer practice clinical medicine at all.”

Henderson says young doctors feel the stress of large debts accumulated to obtain their education and training, while revenues have declined.

He cites “government intrusion into the physician-patient relationship,” including a Florida law preventing doctors from discussing the dangers of firearms in the home and a proposal in the N.C. General Assembly to restrict what physicians can discuss with their patients regarding abortion services.

Coopey says being a doctor is stressful enough even without the added burdens.

“People are dealing with death and illness and things that are out of their control, but as physicians we feel responsible for our patients and we want to help them get better,” she says. “There is a lack of recognition for all the years of hard work we’ve put in when we have to argue with an insurance company to give patients what they need, or the system we’re working in doesn’t give us the tools we need to help the patient.”

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“The real question is ‘What is worth living for?’ asks John Mahshie. “For me, what I realized was that the only thing that lasts, the only thing that means anything is what we do for others, because that lives on.”

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ith dirt-encrusted Carhartt’s loosely rolled around his calves and a faded Early Girl Eatery T-shirt, john mahshie cuts a wiry figure as he walks barefoot toward a half-acre of neatly sculpted garden beds. Each bed is 50 feet long and meticulously mulched with wood chips and crushed dead leaves — and not a weed in sight.

“The mycelium grow just beneath the wood chips and form a barrier that keeps the weeds down while the decomposing chips rob them of nitrogen,” Mahshie says as he picks up a handful of the mulch, crumbling it in his fist. The nascent, white, rootlike structure of mycelia is revealed, forming beneath the surface. “This is all designed to require no weeding for the entire summer,” he adds, proudly. “Cause … who likes weeding?”

On this mid-April day, the beds are sprouting a plethora of vegetables and medicinal herbs. “[The] aesthetic is equally important,” Mahshie says.

“Coming out here and experiencing beauty is so valuable, so we bring in tons of flowers like anise hyssop, valerian and sage. They cross-pollinate and attract beneficial insects that eat pests.”

Mahshie’s 10-acre plot in Hendersonville is crowded with features beyond these beds. The space offers Community Supported Agriculture shares, hops production, lessons on permaculture, models of alternative energy and, in the near future, sustainable-living education retreats and a 1-acre donation garden that will yield fresh organic produce for local food pantries.

But beyond all this, the land serves a mission to build community.

This place that Mahshie founded and cares for is Veterans Healing Farm, a place for returning veterans and civilians to meet one another, learn from one another, grow food and come together.

“Just as it’s important to cultivate diversity in our crops, we want our participants to be diverse and to cross-pollinate,” says Mahshie, himself an Air Force veteran. He explains that if veterans are going to holistically transition into civilian life, then they need to actively immerse themselves in the wider community.

Last year, the farm was awarded a $30,000 grant from the Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for Veterans in South Carolina, providing the resources to attain nonprofit status and make

2015 a milestone year for production and infrastructure.

Mahshie is exulted as he moves around the property, speaking quickly and pointing to the farm’s different features, both current and planned: from the mulch to the compost that’s made from donated yard waste, juice pulp and coffee grounds to the towering trellises of Cascade Hops; to the hugelkultur raised beds bursting with strawberries. And then there’s the shipping container bunkhouses, equipped with greywater systems and soon-to-come living roofs and radiator systems that harness the heat generated by the compost piles.

It’s all an elaborate opus, one that Mahshie believes will eventually require very little oversight — making for a self-sustaining and selffunding farm. Though the retreats and the donation garden are still in the works, the farm’s pilot program, the CSA, is already bringing together 28 local families, about half veteran and half civilian.

“Humans need each other,” Mahshie says. “Society as a whole leaves us more isolated than we have ever been. ... [And] isolation is one of the biggest issues with veterans specifically.”

Transitioning from the mission-driven military to ordinary 9-5 civilian life is often when vets slip into unemployment, depression or homelessness, says Veterans Helping Veterans WNC founder Matthew Shepley.

stripped down and buiLt bacK up Much of the philosophy that guides Veterans Healing Farm has been shaped by Mahshie’s own experience as a veteran. Mahshie joined the Air Force after graduating from high school in Hendersonville in the fall of 2000 and took his first post in California in mid-2001. Shortly thereafter came the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

“I was real scared,” Mahshie recalls. “I’m an 18-year-old not knowing what’s going on. Plus my father is Lebanese, and my grandfather Palestinian, and the ticker on the 9/11 news reports reads, ‘Israel suspects Palestinians are responsible’ as the second tower is falling.”

In the weeks following the attacks, Mahshie says the military environment transformed drastically. “There was a lot of animosity toward Arabs,” he says, “I remember my chief master sergeant saying ‘We need to turn that whole damn place into a glass factory.’ … Though in general there isn’t a lot of racism tolerated in the military, there is an exception for ‘sand niggers’ and ‘towel heads.’”

Though the aggression wasn’t targeted at Mahshie personally, being so far away from family and friends in

“Having the camaraderie like I had in the military, that was what I really wanted — and this is it,” says Air Force veteran Ryan Fogerty, now in his third season of farming at Veterans Healing Farm.

the increasingly xenophobic milieu was pushing him into depression. The final straw came when he received news that his father had been killed in a motorcycle accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway, just 19 days after the towers fell in New York. Mahshie thought he could work through his depression on his own, but his condition soon spiraled.

The experience Mahshie describes, though personal, is not uncommon. A 2011 study of post-9/11 veterans from the PEW Research Center found 52 percent of combat veterans and 30 percent of noncombat veterans reported having emotionally traumatic experiences while in the military. Regardless of whether they had been formally diagnosed, 37 percent of all the veterans surveyed believed they suffered from post-traumatic stress as a result.

For six months, Mahshie tried to escape his depression through sleep, but his conditioned worsened. When offered an opportunity to go on a Christian mission to Mexico coordinated with the military’s chapel, Mahshie signed up. “What I discovered [in Mexico] really transformed my way of thinking,” he says. “I was surrounded by people who were in really tight financial situations, and yet exuded nothing but joy. It changed my life.”

Over the next two years before being discharged in 2004, Mahshie went on seven of these missions, where being immersed in the vibrant synergy of self-sufficiency and strong community helped him realize how vital staying engaged with others is to physical, mental and emotional health.

But even after his discharge, Mahshie says he couldn’t shake the emotional toll of his father’s death and war-time military service. As a soldier, the military “strips you down and builds you back up,” Mahshie says, noting that the process is both desensitizing and isolating.

“There is so much KILL! KILL! KILL!” he says, explaining that “pulling the trigger” does not come naturally.

Mahshie vehemently opposes labels, especially when it comes to mental health. “To some degree or another” every person is dealing with mental health issues, he says. “There is no normal.”

Still, Mahshie admits that after leaving the service he eventually sought help privately and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. “I slept out on the couch for my second child’s last trimester because I wake up swinging and I almost punched my wife in the belly,” Mahshie recalls. “I wake up with night terrors. ... I’ve got about 10 ways that I’ve thought about killing myself, and I hate that my mind works that way.”

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Tackling homelessness and unemployment among veterans can also mean creating a sense of purpose in an at-risk population, says Shepley, pictured here with Sadler and farmhand Mikey Tonnage (left). “A lot of vets get out wanting to do something meaningful that’s going to have a positive impact and help the people around us.”

The military does offer mental health services through the Department of Veterans Affairs; however, Mahshie says he wouldn’t tell the VA about his darkest thoughts — an experience that is, again, not uncommon. While a January 2014 report from the VA only cites 10-18 percent of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans as “likely to have PTSD after they return,” it adds the caveat that only 46 percent of eligible 2002-09 troops made use of VA services. Of those vets who did come into the VA, nearly half, 48 percent, were diagnosed with a mental health problem.

Mahshie says the VA’s approach to healing is fundamentally misaligned and plays into society’s stigmatization of mental health problems. The approach is to treat the symptoms, leaving the underlying problem unresolved.

“Many of the depression symptoms are a result of isolation,” Mahshie asserts. “We just keep loading on prescriptions as new symptoms pop up until eventually a guy is on 10 medications and wants to kill himself.” The delirium and disassociation that medications can create often exacerbates the common tendency in transition

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veterans to try to get through their depression alone, Mahshie adds.

Of course, not all veterans have traumatic experiences in the military. Even for those who do, many consider their time in the service to be a positive experience, yielding friendship, camaraderie and a common mission that can be far more scarce in the civilian world.

Whether they’ve experienced trauma or not, one of the greatest challenges many veterans face is a sense of aimlessness when transitioning.

“When you go into the military, you take an oath to protect and serve your country, and that’s not an oath that expires,” explains matthew shepley, executive director of Veterans Helping Veterans of WNC. “I think a lot of vets — myself included — get out wanting to do something meaningful that’s going to have a positive impact and help the people around us.”

Shepley notes that veterans are an at-risk demographic. Transitioning from the mission-driven military to ordinary 9-5 civilian life is often when vets slip into unemployment, depression or homelessness. Shepley reveals that when he was first discharged from the Marines, he spent months couch-surfing, unable to find the direction necessary to secure housing or employment.

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to protect and to serVe In the dimly lit, wood-paneled living room of his small farmhouse, Shepley sits at his desk, diligently combing the Internet to find cheese recipes.

Shepley and a handful of other veterans living on this 3-acre West Asheville homestead will make use of gallons of milk regularly donated by Whole Foods before it spoils. “We’re trying to create a system where there is minimal waste,” Shepley says.

The two-bedroom house sits on a gentle, grass-covered ridge in Deaverview that Shepley purchased with his grandfather, a veteran of World War II. Currently, the homestead is used by a small group of veterans who have served in Korea, Vietnam or the first and second Gulf Wars either to live or to share in a foray into sustainable living.

Starting this season, the site’s small working farm — which includes a garden managed by sunil patel of Patchwork Farms — will provide produce and meat to local restaurants, tailgate markets and grocery stores, as well as provide veterans with training in self-sufficiency and organic agriculture. Through a partnership with the Department of Commerce and the VA, the organization also offers a program

that helps vets access their GI Bill to pay for job training in sustainable industries. The funds from the bill subsidize half the veterans’ wages for their first six months as an incentive for employers to hire vets and plug them into meaningful work.

The goal of Veterans Helping Veterans is to offer alternate routes for vets to carry out their oath and keep to the mission of serving their country — not through warfare, but by focusing on building sustainable communities. Because of their training, mission-mindedness and work ethic, veterans are a powerful resource for implementing positive community transformation, Shepley explains. “The farming serves a lot of purposes,” he says.

“The vets getting their hands in the dirt and growing things is therapeutic in itself. But growing good food that is consumed on-site and sold at the local farmers market is even more empowering.”

Plugging veterans into this work is also critical for combating unemployment, an issue that greatly impacts returning veterans. A 2009-13 community survey by the U.S. Census Bureau reports a 9.7 percent unemployment rate for veterans living in

Buncombe County as opposed to 8.2 percent for civilians. For Henderson County, the figures sit at 11.7 for vets and 9.1 for civilians, respectively.

“What we’re talking about really is in the interest of national security,” says timothy sadler, outreach coordinator for VHVWNC. “We’re talking about rebuilding infrastructures in energy, food and housing — this is all in national security interests. I’ve seen veterans really resonate with the idea of being able to continue their service in civilian life.”

Wishbone Tiny Homes is currently the program’s pilot employer partner, “but there is also a new solar manufacturing plant that will be hiring at least 10 vets in the next three months,” Sadler adds.

Shepley and Sadler have high hopes for the viability of their model and eventually plan to export it to other communities around the nation.

“We’re at a point in time where the concept of sustainability really has hit a tipping point,” Sadler notes.

“These efforts in tiny home construction, solar power, sustainable agriculture are all scalable types of jobs.”

He adds that VHVWNC hopes to

someday persuade the Department of Defense to directly contract with it, connecting vets to the program as part of national security strategy. three cheers for the red, white and bLue The sun hangs over the horizon, casting a warm light on six 300-foot raised beds covered in red, white and blue landscape plastic that will soon serve as Veterans Healing Farm’s donation garden. Mahshie and about a dozen other veterans and their families are on their hands and knees working to embed the plastic’s edges into the dirt before night falls.

“When you get out [of the military] and have just been inundated with death, to have the opportunity to cultivate life, to nurture it, to take a seed and put it in the ground, tend to it and then have it bear fruit — that heals your soul, your mind and your body,” Mahshie reflects. “With your feet touching the earth— the whole system creates this environment that is more therapeutic than any other.”

As he shovels handfuls of dirt onto the edges of blue plastic, ryan

fogerty, an Air Force veteran, notes, “Community is the top — it’s the best part of this.”

Glancing at Mahshie, Fogerty adds, “I also feel like I can come out here and support him too. He’s the one that started this, but he needs this more than anyone else does, you know?

Because he’s looking for a mission, but he needs people to support him in it.”

If Mahshie is on a mission, part of his goal is to see his vision spread. He says he hopes Veterans Healing Farm will become a model that can be replicated elsewhere throughout the country.

Walking past the two off-grid upfitted shipping containers on the grassy lawn, Mahshie shares his plans to create a vertical flower garden on the exterior wall of one, using red, white and blue flowers to form the image of a huge, living American flag. “These shipping containers were once filled with useful items, packed full of purpose and sent across the seas only to sit empty on some loading dock when their mission had expired,” he says.

He smiles and adds, “They’re just like vets, and that’s why I love repurposing them for this project. Look at them now — their mission isn’t over.” X

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On April 27, Chipotle Mexican Grill became the first national restaurant chain to ban genetically modified ingredients from its menu. But while the company has made headlines across the U.S. for its bold stance against the industry’s claim that all food is created equal, many Asheville restaurants have been waging a much quieter war of their own for years.

Mamacita’s owner john atwater, for example, says he tries to use his restaurant’s purchasing power to send a message.

“The more interest we place on holding products up to a higher standard, I think that educates everyone, from the employees that work with us to the vendors that sell the products,” says Atwater. “It lets the food brokers that represent large companies know that some of their products aren’t going to be well-received in Asheville. I know I’m losing out on profit dollars, but it’s like I’m voting with every purchase.”

Mamacita’s offers customers such GMO-free or organic foods as chips, tortillas, black beans, rice, kale, sweet potatoes, spinach, bell peppers and quinoa.

Atwater aims for “transparency — where we’re sourcing our food from and wanting to know as much about the ingredients we’re using as possible,” he explains. “It’s a slow process, but every time I open a box and see organic or non-GMO on the side, I smile.”

Atwater hopes to eventually make 75 percent of the food he serves either non-GMO or organic. truth in adVertising According to the U.S. Healthful Food Council, the average

American adult buys a meal or snack from a restaurant roughly six times a week, says Dr. angela hind, an Asheville physician and pure food consultant who founded You, M.D. “When you are served a beautiful meal in a restaurant, you don’t know what’s in it, and it’s very easy just to ignore that,” she points out. “That transparency is just not there like it is when you visit the grocery or when you’re at home cooking for yourself and know what you’re putting in the pan.”

a higher standard: In opting to purchase mostly non-GMO and organic products for his restaurant — including only non-GMO corn chips and fryer oil — Mamacita’s owner John Atwater says he is trying to use his purchasing power to send a message. “The more interest we place on holding products up to a higher standard, I think that educates everyone, from the employees that work with us to the vendors that sell the products,” says Atwater. Photo by Tim Robison

randy talley, president and co-owner of the Green Sage Café, aims to change that.

“Restaurants,” he notes, “create a seamless experience for diners.

You come in and we feed you like mom, and the perception is everything is nourishing like mom’s food.”

But that might not always be the case, he points out. For example, a restaurant might use the word “organic” loosely, creating the impression that everything on the menu comes from the farm right around the corner. “When I use the word ‘organic,’ it needs to mean certified organic,” says Talley, a former natural foods grocer.

Green Sage recently drafted a policy that calls for it to be a 100 percent GMO-free restaurant by 2016, Talley reports.

she would support restaurants in her area that raised their prices in order to offer organic and nonGMO foods.

“There really are not any restaurants in Candler that state that they offer organic and non-GMO foods, except maybe the local coffee shop,” notes Howard.

Talley, however, says the Green Sage thinks about its customers’

wallets when it considers adding more organic and non-GMO items to the menu.

“We have consciously added more and more of those ingredients since we opened in 2008, and we really only increased our prices accordingly this year,” says Talley. “We’ve always been concerned that the benchmark that people will pay for food is really what people will pay

everywhere else, and we can’t be that much more.”

Mamacita’s, too, will continue to add more such items when Atwater finds affordable replacements. “Not everything we have is non-GMO or organic, but we’d like to be there,” he says. “It’s a pretty big hurdle, but we hope to get there and still be able to be an affordable eatery.” X

demand Vs. cost In the last few years, natural food stores and conventional grocery outlets alike have seen increased consumer demand for organic and non-GMO foods.

In 2014, organic products were available in nearly 20,000 natural food stores and nearly three out of four conventional grocery stores, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. corina casanova, president and chief operating officer of Chenoweth Properties, says her typical grocery list contains 90 to 95 percent organic or non-GMO products. And when she dines out with her family, “We typically choose our restaurants carefully.

I am far less likely to choose a restaurant that doesn’t source their food locally and/or organically.”

Consumers, says the USDA, prefer organically produced food because of concerns about health, the environment and animal welfare, and they’re willing to pay more to get it.

That’s true locally too, says Asheville City Schools psychologist Kelly weller, who tends to buy organic or non-GMO foods whenever it seems feasible.

“Where we live, I think people will pay more because they care.”

Candler native christina howard, an occupational therapist who’s also with the city schools, says that although cost is an issue when she dines out,

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A partnership between local wineries and the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad adds a new dimension to WNC wine tourism

Through the windows of the train, lush green mountains roll into bending rivers and swirling rapids, and kayakers battle their way through the Nantahala Gorge.

Inside the train, they’re just taking away the plates from dinner. A server refills your glass with wine made just a few counties over, while the rugged Appalachian landscape drifts by, natural and untouched save for the tracks that cut through the hills like a vein. Candelabras on the tables impart a yellow haze to the room when the view goes black through the chiseled tunnels.

“Railroading is definitely a niche market, but wine is obviously something that is really popular, so we’ve decided to mix the two,” says sarah pressley, spokesperson for the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, which recently partnered with the French Broad Vignerons to host the MacNeill Uncorked, a wine dinner that rolls from Bryson City to the Nantahala Gorge and back .

“The MacNeill was a dining car first used by Norfolk Southern,” explains peter fland of local wine organization the French Broad Vignerons. “It was specifically built for a run called the Powhattan,” which ran from Florida to Chicago, “and it was one of their more elegant trains. It’s a mid-1940s dining car that has just been renovated. It is a great firstclass car, and it’s a perfect place for a wine tasting.”

“This car definitely has a different feel,” adds Pressley. “It definitely takes you to a very vintage place. It looks like a classic 1950s dining car. ... It has these great candelabras and that wood grain that makes you feel like you’ve taken a little bit of a trip back into the classic train era.”

tracK star: The MacNeill, a recently renovated 1940s-era first-class dining car, will make three wine-tasting runs this summer from Bryson City to the Nantahala Gorge and back. Guests will be able to sample wines from six area wineries with a leisurely meal during the ride. Photo by Lisa Yeary

The MacNeill Uncorked will make three monthly runs this summer, pairing six wines from Western North Carolina with a three-course meal served throughout the course of a laid-back fourhour ride. “It’s just a leisurely putter up this section of track by the Nantahala Gorge and back,” says Fland. “[Wine] is going to become a cornerstone for tourism in Western North Carolina; it’s already well on its way. And I cannot tell you how many of these wineries are basically just mom and pop operations with just two or three people handling everything from the planting of the grapes, the harvesting, the making of the wine, to bottling and labeling it. And they’re making some damn good wine.”

The first tasting will feature wines from Parker-Binns Vineyard and Winery, Mountain Brook Vineyards, St. Paul Mountain Vineyards, Burntshirt Vineyards, South Creek Vineyards & Winery and Silver Fork Vineyard & Winery.

“This is part of an overall effort by the French Broad Vignerons to bring to the forefront the quality of the vineyards and the wines of this area,” explains Fland. “This is kind of a test market for the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, and if it is successful, they will put a wine train

into the schedule for the next year. And if that happens, then North Carolina will have one of two wine trains in the United States, the other one being the Napa Valley Wine Train.”

The menu offers a first course of local cheeses followed by a choice of barbecued pulled pork, beer-battered cod, pot roast, chicken salad or a vegetarian plate. X

what The MacNeill Uncorked when Three excursions have been scheduled this summer. The June 20 excursion has already sold out, but rides are still available on July 18 and Aug. 15, both departing at 10:30 a.m. where Trips depart from the Bryson City Depot, 45 Mitchell St., Bryson City. how much Tickets are $109. Space is limited as the renovated dining car only seats 48 guests. Tickets can be purchased at www.GSMR.com or by calling 800-872-4681.

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by Gina Smith says it was an assignment to write a business plan for a class White was taking through the A-B Tech business administration program that made them think of turning it into a moneymaking venture.

“He wanted to talk about soda [for the project], and as we talked about it more and more, we decided it was a good thing, and we decided to make sure that it happened,” she says.

Soda Papa will be set up and selling sodas at the Montford Music Festival 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday, May 16, and Asheville Downtown Association’s Sunday Music in the Park 4-6 p.m. Sunday, May 17. Look for “Asheville Soda Papa” on Facebook. saLt & smoKe at buriaL beer

pop cuLture: Emily Coleman-Wolf and Ben White debuted their handcrafted soda business, Soda Papa, in April at the Mother Earth News Fair. The pair will be selling their beverages this weekend at the Montford Music & Arts Festival and Sunday Music in the Park.

new craft soda business Launches in asheViLLe Beer and coffee get a lot of attention as the craft beverages of choice in Asheville, but there is also a steadily growing interest in handmade sodas. Blue Blaze Soda & Syrup Co. has been making a name for itself for a while as a local soda maker, and recently, even restaurants like Sunny Point Café, flaunting a spiffy, new bar program, have been getting in on the action with house-made potions.

In late April, another soda artisan stepped into the arena, as Soda Papa debuted its products at the Mother Earth News Fair. ben white, who co-owns the business with his partner emily coleman-wolf, launched Soda Papa with four featured sodas: Chai, Citron Bomb, the coffeeflavored EspresSoda and Long Island Gingerale. Coleman-Wolf says, however, that White, the creative force behind the business, is “always toying with flavors and has plenty of ideas” for other offerings, including classics

like cola and root beer as well as more exotic combinations.

White says he uses all organic ingredients except for the honey, which is sourced from Haw Creek Honey, to make the soda syrups, which he and Coleman-Wolf mix in the certified kitchens at Blue Ridge Food Ventures. “We take whole ingredients — fruits, juices, teas, spices, a little Himalayan sea salt, cane sugar, honey, agave nectar, molasses — bring it all together and make it into a stable syrup that you can make into a soda,” he says.

White and Coleman-Wolf are looking into selling their products wholesale to local restaurants, and they have a soda fountain where they mix their syrups with seltzer for direct distribution by the glass at festivals and events. They have also purchased a retired ice cream truck with plans to convert it into a soda truck in the future, pending some yet-to-befinalized fundraising efforts.

White says he’s been experimenting with brewing sodas at home for his three young kids for quite a while. But Coleman-Wolf

Burial Beer has ventured into the realm of food with the addition of its weekly Sunday jazz brunch and occasional eventcentered partnerships with chef elliott moss. Now the South Slope brewery will take things a step further with the introduction of a weekly small-plate offering, Salt & Smoke, a new project by Bull & Beggar chef josiah mcgaughy. Starting May 19, McGaughy will be in the Burial taproom at 4 p.m. every Tuesday selling what a press release from Burial describes as “classic charcuterie from various cultures with country cuisine.” The small-plate menu features spiced pecans, pickled shrimp, pâté maison with pickled okra and mustard, and deviled ham on toast with dill pickle relish, with prices running $2-$6. A combo plate is $12, or a full plate with porchetta, golden raisins and toasted oats is $12.

4 p.m. Tuesdays starting May 19, Burial Beer, 40 Collier Ave. burialbeer.com

ing All Souls, Favilla’s, Frank’s, Mellow Mushroom, Nona Mia, Del Vecchio’s, Brixx, Strada and more.

Celebrity judges and the audience will vote for winners in three categories. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and include pizza, beer and live music. Tickets are $5 for kids younger than 12, $10 for ages 13-20. Proceeds will benefit Eblen Charities.

5:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 17, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. For tickets, go to: highlandbrewing.com/whats-up/ event/pizza-pandemonium. chef adam haYes joins canYon Kitchen adam hayes, previously chef at the Grand Bohemian Hotel’s Red Stag Grill, has joined Canyon Kitchen in Cashiers as executive chef. Hayes, who most recently served as executive chef at Barnsley Resort, north of Atlanta, has been a guest chef at the James Beard House in New York City and is a winner of Food Network’s “Cutthroat Kitchen.” Chef john fleer, onwer of Rhubarb and a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: Southeast Award, has provided direction and support for Canyon Kitchen since it opened in 2008. The restaurant is now open for the season, serving a farm-to-table, fixed-price menu Wednesday through Sunday evenings through October.

For details, visit: lonesomevalley. com/project/canyon-kitchen/ or call 828-743-7967. X

piZZa pan-demonium There are food competitions in Asheville for everything from wings to tempeh, so it makes sense for pizza to have its day.

On Sunday, May 17, Highland Brewing Co. will host Pizza Pandemonium, a pie faceoff among Asheville favorites, includ-

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Green Man’s Mike Karnowski to open brewery An old firehouse in Weaverville will soon be the town’s second brewery mike Karnowski has been brewing at Green Man, on Asheville’s South Slope, for the past seven years. He started what’s arguably Asheville’s oldest sour program in barrels on Buxton Avenue, and for the last two years, he’s brewed nearly everything but the flagships next door to the large brewery on the same street.

Yet Karnowski is leaving the redhot Slope to build a brewery of his own with his wife, gabe, in Weaverville.

“My brewery will be in a cool old firehouse right behind Main Street [at 8 Merchant Alley],” says Karnowski.

“It will be fun to bring it back to life … but I was also excited to find a building that already had sloped floors and floor drains. Those cost a lot of money to put in.”

It turns out that the space is not only practical, but oddly suited to the unique facility Karnowski’s planning. It will be the area’s first brewery that plans to sell its beer in bottles only and without the conventional tasting room.

“The last time I vistied Chicago, I was amazed at how many small breweries don’t have tasting rooms.

I thought to myself that we have so many good bottle shops here in Asheville and throughout North Carolina, I think I can do the same thing here,” says Karnowski.

With just 1,500 square feet, Karnowski plans to devote much of the space to the 7-barrel brewery and to the bottling and storage of beer.

While there are no plans for a tasting room, there will likely be select hours for what Karnowski calls a winerystyle sampling space. It would be more of a showcase for the beers and a chance to try before you buy than a normal pub or hangout.

The beers themselves will also be a bit different right out of the gate.

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a (brew) house of their own: Gabe and Mike Karnowski will open Weaverville’s second brewery later this year. Photo

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beer is named for a specific place — Lost Cove is a legendary ghost town on the Nolichucky River, abandoned in 1957. The beer itself is a unique take on the pale ale according to Highland, with Pilsen malt and Cascade and Hallertau hops. The debut celebration, For Love of Beer and Mountains, will take place 4-9 p.m. Friday, May 15, at Highland with live music 7-9 p.m. X

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“I’m not going to have any flagships,” says Karnowski. “And if I even brew an IPA, it will be something like an 1800s version, which means it will be aged with brettanomyces.”

While Weaverville currently has one brewery — inside Blue Mountain Pizza — Karnowski thinks the area has room to grow. “It’s such a nice town and so close to Asheville, I’d be surprised if there aren’t three to four breweries in Weaverville in a couple years,” says Karnowski.

For now though, Weaverville will have to wait a bit longer for brewery No. 2 — even the name of it. Equipment is on order, but Karnowski says he’s working on the name trademark, permitting and everything else that comes with the territory. “I’ll be leaving Green Man next month, and hopefully I’ll have the name secured soon. But as far as getting up and running, I’ll be happy with sometime before the end of the year,” says Karnowski. beer eVents to buY now Just Brew It kicks off Beer Week on Saturday, May 23. For those who don’t know about the event, it is one of the

best beer days of the year and it always sells out. At least 50 homebrewers pack the lot outside of the Wedge Brewing Co., serving upward of 100 beers. And in Asheville, homebrew is serious business: Expect creative, commercialquality ales and lagers. Admission is secured by buying a membership to Just Economics (starting at $25), so the money is well-spent too. For details, visit: justeconomicswnc.org/just-brew-it Another event that’s sure to sell out is Funk Asheville, a celebration of sour and wild beers. Admission starts at $80, however, the beer is as rare as it gets in Asheville, and it’s also a fundraiser for Pints for Prostates. This year, the event will be held on Saturday, July 18, with tickets going on sale on Etix.com starting Friday, May 15. The venue will also change from the Funkatorium to the wooded outdoor space at Wicked Weed’s new production brewery in Candler. highLand to reLease new seasonaL Lately, Highland has been turning out more specialty beers than ever.

It’s hard to believe that Lost Cove will be the brewery’s first new seasonal beer release since 2013. Like Highland’s other seasonal beers, Lost Cove is created in partnership with the Southern Appalachian Highland’s Conservancy, an organization that works to permanently protect over 68,000 acres of land in North Carolina and Tennessee. Each

Asheville BreWing: $3.50 all pints at Coxe location; “Whedon Wednesday’s” at Merrimon location; Wet Nose Wednesday (special treats for dogs) at Coxe location, 5-8pm CAtAWBA: $2 off growler fills frenCh BroAd: $8.50 growler fills highlAnd: Live music: Woody Wood (acoustic rock), 5:30pm leXington Ave (lAB): $3 pints all day one World: Live music: Billy Litz, 8pm osKAr Blues: Community bike ride led by The Bike Farm, leaves brewery 6pm; Beer run w/ Wild Bill, group run leaves brewery 6pm oYster house: $2 off growler fills PisgAh: Wild Connections Film Fest, 7pm; Food truck: Latino Heat Wedge: Food truck: Root Down (comfort food, Cajun)

thursdAY Asheville BreWing: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location frenCh BroAd: Live music: Aero Plane, 6pm highlAnd: Community Night w/ Green Opportunities, 4pm; Food truck: Taste & See

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Wedge: Food truck: El Kimchi (Korean/ Mexican street food)

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highlAnd: Bottle Release: Lost Cove American Pale Ale; Live music: Delta Moon, 7pm; Food truck: App BBQ & Mobile Global Bistro osKAr Blues: Firkin Friday: Cayenne Ginger Pilsner; Live music: Soul Magnetics, 6pm; Food truck: CHUBwagon PisgAh: Live music: Mangas Colorado, 8pm; Food truck: Tin Can Pizzaria southern APPAlAChiAn: Live music: Taylor Moore, 8pm; Food truck: Amazing Pizza Co. Wedge: Food truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese) sAturdAY BuriAl Beer Co.: Bottle release: Tryptic Series #1: The Rosary Export Stout (plum, coffee, aged in brandy barrels), 2pm frenCh BroAd: Live music: This Frontier Needs Heroes, 6pm green mAn: Food truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese); Free brewery tour, 1pm highlAnd: Appalachian Shakedown; Live music: Circus Mutt, Low Down Sires & Supatight, 6pm; Food truck: App BBQ, Mobile Global Bistro osKAr Blues: Cradle To The Grave Race; Pisgah 111k MTB Race; Live music: Shotgun Gypsies, 6pm; Food truck: CHUBwagon oYster house: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys PisgAh: Live music: The Funky Meters w/ Earphunk & George Porter Junior and the Runnin’ Pardners, 5:30pm; Food truck: Root Down, DOGS, and others southern APPAlAChiAn: Vintage Hendo Market, 12pm; Live music: The Stipe Brothers w/ Dan Ruiz & Kent Rector, 8pm; Food truck: Mobile Global Food Truck

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When most musicians accumulate enough popular songs to warrant a greatest hits album, they simply gather the studio versions of those tracks, present them in an order they see fit and toss it out for their listeners to consume. If fans are lucky, they might get a new recording or a live cut of a favorite composition, but little else. But malcolm holcombe?

He isn’t most musicians. The local folk artist and Weaverville native (who plays Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Saturday, May 16) sidesteps expectations whenever possible, from looking back on the last 20 years of his career to approaching a Q-and-A session via email while on tour in Europe.

Mountain Xpress: to what do you attribute your success in europe? malcolm holcombe: The grace of God and trustworthy friends and especially fans and friends ... and I’m sober. which countries and/or cities do you consider home to your primary fan base over there?

All. what accomplishments are you’re most proud of?

Pride goeth before a fall.

who Malcolm Holcombe with Mike Ferrio where Isis Restaurant & Music Hall isisasheville.com when Saturday, May 16, at 9 p.m. $12 advance/$15 at the door

do you have any regrets or point to any missed opportunities?

No. what advice do you have for musicians just now starting out to have a long, healthy career?

Don’t quit your day job.

Keep it simpLe: Although WNC folk artist Malcolm Holcombe recounts a 20-year career with The RCA Sessions, his plan going forward is straightforward: “Smoke cigs and pick,” he tells Xpress. And “stay sober.” Photo by John Gellman

In the fall of 2014, Holcombe went to RCA Studios in Nashville, Tenn., with past and present collaborators Jared Tyler (Dobro, electric guitar, lap steel, vocals), David Roe Rorick (upright bass, arco), Tammy Rogers (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Ken Coomer (drums, percussion), Jellyroll Johnson (harmonica) and Siobhan Maher Kennedy (vocals). Their mission?

Revisit songs from the 10 LPs and one EP that Holcombe recorded from 1994-2014, this time as live in-studio performances.

Essentially capturing a modern Holcombe concert for all to hear, this unusual handling of a greatest hits collection extends to the track order as well. As if to suggest traditional leanings — or at the very least tease them — The RCA Sessions begins with a six-song chronological arc from “Who Carried You” (1999’s

A Hundred Lies) to “Butcher in Town” (2012’s Down the River).

From there Holcombe goes steadily back in time to the title track of 2011’s To Drink the Rain, “Early Mornin’” (2005’s I Never Heard You Knockin’) and “Mouth Harp Man” (a song he wrote and performed for Johnson’s 2001 album A Few Close Friends), but establishing a pattern after that defies easy logic.

Over the final run, the order seesaws up to “I Call the Shots” (Down the River), down to “My Ol’ Radio” (2007’s Gamblin’ House) and “Goin’ Home” (2006’s Not Forgotten), back up again to title tracks from Down the River and 2014’s Pitiful Blues before landing at the pre-aughts starting point, “A Far Cry From Here.” If there is

indeed a science to it all, Holcombe isn’t telling. what’s your general attitude toward anthology or greatest hits albums? are there other musicians who’ve taken unusual approaches to their catalogs that inspired you in part to go the direction you did with the rCa sessions?

Ask my wife. [I’m] grateful to have been asked by Brian Brinkerhoff executive producer and Ray Kennedy ... It’s my job to be of service. how long were the rCa sessions in the works?

About a year or so. how did you choose the 16 tracks to re-record for this album? were there ones that were tough to leave off?

We all made choices ... and compromised. what do you have planned for the isis show, and who will be joining you?

Suit up, show up ... Solo ... Mike Ferrio opens the show. Smoke cigs and pick. how would you like the next 20 years to play out?

Stay sober. X

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The festival runs Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16, with daytime programs starting at 1 p.m. and concerts at 7 p.m. Musicians include Robert Dorschel (dynamic melodic soundtracks), Paul Vnuk Jr. (tribal ambient), Joe Belknap Wall (nontraditional sonic narratives) and The Volt Per Octaves (original electronic music), among others. Project Ruori, Michael O’Bannon and Azimuth Visuals provide live video art to accompany the concert.

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KeYtar is KeY: New York-based artist Shane King says his project redgreenblue is “how I express my love and passion for electronic music.” He performs as part of the Asheville electro-music festival. Photo courtesy of the musician

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Rise above the noise NewSong gives big chances to small musical acts

Three years ago, North Carolina native gar ragland — who was living in Brooklyn at the time — happened through Asheville on tour with a Nashville-based artist. “I’d heard about a really cool studio, and it was a beautiful spring day, so I just walked over,” he says. jessica tomasin, studio manager at Echo Mountain, gave Ragland a tour of the facility during which they established a business partnership.

Tomasin said, “Why don’t you open up an office here?” Ragland says it was the most serendipitous things that had ever happened.

Soon after, he relocated his family, studio and NewSong Music to an office in the Echo Mountain complex.

NewSong, an independent music organization, is probably best-known for its annual songwriter competition. The NewSong Contest, which has been running for 15 years, attracts musicians from around the world and across all genres. “There are so many aspiring artists out there,” says Ragland.

“Anyone with a MacBook from Best Buy has GarageBand and the ability through TuneCore to release their music. So how do deserving artists rise above the noise?” The 12 contest finalists (among last year’s was local musician daniel shearin) each year play for a panel of judges at Lincoln Center in New York. And the winner walks away with a prize package aimed at taking a career to the next level: a performance at ASCAP Cafe during the Sundance Film Festival, another concert at Lincoln Center and a chance to record an album on the NewSong Recordings label.

The 2014 winners — the Santa Fe-based duo of guitarist max hatt and vocalist edda glass — recently tracked their forthcoming record at Echo Mountain. pat sansone (of Wilco and The Autumn Defense) was a judge at the Lincoln Center finals (“We were sandwiched in between some punk or heavy metal bands,” says Hatt. “For some [judges], I think we were a welcome relief”) and came

on board to produce the duo’s new project. He brought along josh shapera as co-producer; local musicians river guerguerian and matt smith contributed to the recording.

“You have to split your brain between being a listener and a participant,” says Sansone of the producing role. “Hopefully there’s a mutual aesthetic and trust. It’s a joy to be able to do it in a situation like this, where I’m so inspired by the music.” But Sansone does have a unique perspective: Not only is he a respected multi-instrumentalist, but he also started working at age 13 or 14 in a recording studio in his hometown, Meridian, Miss.

“The studio owner was very generous with letting me work with him on all kinds of projects,” Sansone says. “It was a great

education. It became part of the music-making experience for me, as much as playing in a rock band.”

Sansone, Hatt and Glass share a number of common interests, from Neil Young to Brazilian psyche-rock/ Tropicália band Os Mutantes. Hatt and Glass, though expanding in an Americana direction on their forthcoming album, come from a jazz and bossa nova background (they’re both in the band Rio).

“All of these songs were written for me to play on solo guitar,” Hatt says of the duo’s catalog. He approached Glass, a short-story writer, about putting lyrics to his compositions.

“When I got out of college, I was working on a novel. I wanted to be a writer, and I was doing the bossa nova thing on the side,” says Glass. “When I realized I could write these lyrics, it was like, ‘I can do both of these things at the

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same time.’ Plus, [songs] are shorter than a novel.” The combined efforts of the two musicians result in spacious, dreamy songs, swoony in moments and shimmery as twilight. Hatt’s guitar work is nuanced; Glass’ vocal a dusky near-whisper that recalls Nora Jones.

If that sounds like an unusual pick to sweep an international contest, Glass points out that what drew her to NewSong was how the organization didn’t go with the obvious choices. “We’re really trying to market the opportunity to emerging artists,” says Ragland. While some performers who are household names have entered the contest (the Lincoln Center gig is incentive alone), NewSong is for unsigned, self-released and unpublished musicians.

The opportunity to record a fully funded album was added to the prize package a few years ago. Grammywinner Jacquire King was the first producer to work with a NewSong champion; the previous year’s victors, Cardinal Suns, were produced by Charlie Sexton.

It’s possible that future winners will come from Western North Carolina. Since relocating, Ragland

shared inspiration: Gar Ragland, left, and Max Hatt. Photo by Pat Barcas

had wanted to become more involved in the local music scene, so he teamed with LEAF organizers to produce a singer-songwriter contest as part of the biannual local festival. The victor of NewSong Presents: LEAF Singer-Songwriter Competition immediately advances as regional finalist in the international NewSong contest, earning one of

the 12 slots in front of the judges at Lincoln Center.

“My real passion is in artist development,” says Ragland. “I love the process of discovering new music, finding that needle in the haystack.”

Learn more at newsong-music. com; view a photo gallery of Max Hatt and Edda Glass at Echo Mountain at mountainx.com. X

deVeLoping taLent: Pat Sansone, left, and Josh Shapera in the studio, producing the new album by Max Hatt and Edda Glass. Photo by Pat Barcas

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Swapping stages Jeff Daniels’ musical fallback plan becomes his second (or third) career “I remember going to see Steve Goodman at The Bottom Line,” says jeff daniels, screen and stage actor, playwright and musician. “I remember seeing Doc Watson and T. Michael Coleman and Merle Watson — the three of them — playing The Bottom Line, too. I looked at that from afar and thought, ‘I wish I could do that. Maybe someday.’” Someday is now, as Daniels brings his guitar and songs to the Diana Wortham Theatre on Monday, May 18, where he’ll be backed by his son’s group, Ben Daniels Band.

The elder Daniels recalls thinking to himself in the 1970s, “Why don’t you get good at the guitar privately [and] get better as a songwriter so that when it all falls apart you at least have something to fall back on.” But his film career never did fall apart. “I was in New York to be an actor,” he says. “So the songwriting and the guitar and the performing anywhere were all a distant second. Effort was made at songwriting, and in trying to get better at the guitar, but there was no ‘Hey, I can play’ to the agents. I focused on one thing.”

These days, Daniels is fully engaged as a television and film actor (roles include the recently concluded HBO series “The

who Jeff Daniels with the Ben Daniels Band where Diana Wortham Theatre dwtheatre.com when Monday, May 18, 8 p.m. $45 general/$40 student/$15 child/ $10 day-of-show student rush

Newsroom” and the movie Dumb and Dumber To with co-star Jim Carrey), playwright (director of the Purple Rose Theatre Company in his hometown of Chelsea, Mich.), and as a touring and recording musiciansongwriter. His latest album, Days Like These, is his sixth; proceeds support the Purple Rose.

Reflecting on the similarities between drama and songwriting, Daniels notes that acting is a collaborative endeavor. “You end up giving [your] performance to someone else, and they — for months on end — do whatever they’re going to do with it,” he says. “And you hope that it comes out in some kind of form that makes sense. But it’s not in your hands.”

He sees performing as a form of collaboration, too: “Walking out with a guitar, there’s no one else to answer to. But there is a collaboration with the songs and the songwriting and performing, and that’s with the audience. I learned that from the theater.”

That relationship is essential to Daniels. “If you’re up there singing a song that only means something to you, then you’re navel-gazing,” he says. Daniels keeps that in mind when putting together a set list of his original songs: “If the material doesn’t retain that connection, it gets cut.”

The musician brings a dramatist’s sensibility to his songcraft. “I enjoy finding the perfect word or phrase.

And that comes from people like Lanford Wilson, the [Pulitzer Prizewinning] playwright who I grew up with in New York,” he says. “That’s what he did, and — knowingly or not — passed on to me.”

Considering all of Daniels’ creative pursuits, it’s clear that his drive to create is never-ending. “I’m just doing it because I have to,” he says. “Jim Carrey and I were talking recently, and he said, ‘I have to create.’ He’s turned into this fabulous artist and sculptor. We have to be creating something; that’s kind of what we were born to do. I’ve figured out a way to do it in clubs and smaller theaters where it’s fun for me.

Walking onto a stage like the Diana Wortham Theatre, I’m thinking, ‘I don’t need anything else; I get to do this tonight.’ And that’s enough: the fact that somebody wants me to play somewhere is gold.” X

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“I’ve figured out a way to do it in clubs and smaller theaters where it’s fun for me,” he says. Album art courtesy of Daniels

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Rock ’n’ write Xpress editor muses on the dynamics between musicians and journalists in debut novel From record releases and concerts to theatrical performances, literary events to stand-up comedy, Xpress arts and entertainment editor alli marshall has eagerly documented the stories of Asheville creatives for years. Now, with her debut novel How to Talk to Rockstars published by Logosophia Books, Marshall has her own tale to tell.

“I love being able to have a voice in Xpress every week,” she says, “but it’s cool to put my artistic self out there too.”

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ist Bryn Thompson as she attempts to navigate the rocker-writer symbiosis (or antibiosis at times). Under most circumstances, her strict, selfimposed professional guidelines help the admiring writer to see her role in the world of art as one of narrator, not actress. “But she’s really intrigued by this album that the character Jude Archer puts out, and she feels this real bond with him,” Marshall says. “So she starts to question her own rules about not getting close.”

The book draws heavily on Marshall’s lengthy music-writing career, specifically her own tricky relationship with the interview process. “Interviewing is actually something that I have a lot of anxiety around, because I’m a pretty shy person and it requires me putting myself out there,” says Marshall, noting that the best interviews do cultivate an “intensely personal” space for a brief time. “It’s [also] the part of my job that I take home with me. I actually go back through interviews and spin the questions out into the future.”

Fictionalization provided a venue for the writer to explore how some of these self-generated what-ifs might play out. And although a few of the hypotheticals see Bryn contemplating romantic possibilities, the story is “really about that relationship we have with art,” Marshall says.

“A big part of the book is about feeling lonely and how music is this great force of connection, and how even when you feel really isolated, you can listen to an album or go to a

musicaL muse: “Love plays a big part in How to Talk to Rockstars, but it’s mostly a love of music,” says author Alli Marshall, clarifying that the book isn’t a romance or an actionpacked thriller.

“But it’s something that I think a lot of people will relate to, especially people who spend a lot of time working on or thinking about art.”

Author photo by Carrie Eidson

show, and you’re in this community of other people who love the thing that you love,” she says. But “sifting through those feelings was sometimes not that much fun.”

Don’t expect big action like car chases or alien invasions, Marshall warns of her novel. In fact, the reader spends the most time poking around Bryn’s head. Her ongoing inner monologues — sometimes innovative and thoughtprovoking, other times comically familiar glimpses of self-doubt — reveal the character’s quirks in the most endearing light.

Marshall’s wit and background in poetry are apparent throughout, imparting phrases with dense imagery but delivering each with a graceful buoyancy. Tones of selfdeprecation add honesty to the pages, often manifesting through Bryn’s amusing impatience with herself: “Wipe your sweaty palms on your thighs, and order a glass of water,” she silently scolds herself during an in-person interview over wine.

Even the leading lady’s selfassurances come with a sharp realism bordering on cynicism

— “He won’t even see you,” she tells herself at an early acquaintance’s concert. “And if he does, he won’t remember you. And if he does remember you, he’ll pretend he doesn’t” — making Bryn’s maniacally methodical thought process a dynamic, entertaining and infinitely relatable contribution to the story.

With roles reversed, the new novelist reports feeling an even greater understanding of independent artists’ plight, particularly when it comes to promoting a creative work.

“It blows my mind … how hard all of these independent musicians are working,” she says. “My hat is off to anybody who undertakes that.” X

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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

Instrumentation and mood are volatile. Lyrics come spoken, sung and screamed. Opening track “Every Song Sung to a Dog” sets the frenetically creative tone for Fred Thomas’ latest solo album All Are Saved, reminding listeners of the artistic value in heartfelt free associations and honesty approaching overshare. Glimpses of “acid stomach mornings,” a river baptism, a smashed flip phone and Bible pages are deployed in blitzkrieg fashion before Thomas moves on to the only thing remaining unexpected — a subdued and cohesive tune by track two. The remainder of the album, too, skirts along some fun spectrums: melodic to maniacal, sexy to psychotic. To celebrate the release of this audio mosaic, Thomas will perform with supporting local act Minorcan at Tiger Mountain on Thursday, May 14, at 9 p.m. $8. avl.mx/0vw. Photo by Esme McClear

Postmodern Jukebox, says a press release, is “a group that basically makes every day #TBT.” But you don’t have to be a fan of throwbacks (or Thursdays, for that matter) to like this New York City-based collective. The group, created by pianist/composer/arranger Scott Bradlee, takes pop tracks and reworks them as vintage jazz, swing and ragtime songs. The musicians whose songs get the Postmodern Jukebox treatment seem to love it: “Gotta watch this. They are amazing,” Meghan Trainor tweeted of the “All About That Bass” cover.

The band posts a song to YouTube each week — a cover of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” now has over 7 million hits. Bradlee and company have taken on everything from Miley Cyrus (“We Can’t Stop,” doo-wop style) to Nicki Minaj (“Anaconda,” bluegrass hoedown style). Every selection is inspired.

The group performs at The Orange Peel on Tuesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. $20 advance/$22 day of show. theorangepeel.net. Photo courtesy of the band

Rupert Wates From structured classics to seemingly tempo-less tangents, Isis Restaurant and Music Hall’s Sunday jazz nights provide an economical opportunity to experience the genre’s many forms — sometimes several in a given night. Rupert Wates’ catalog, for example, ranges from folk-inspired albums to down-tempo ballads and, most recently, theatrically delivered (and slightly off-kilter) musical tale-telling. The road veteran’s talent and full-time experience as a songwriter-for-hire give him the rare ability to make even the sad and slow somehow gently uplifting. Wates and bassist Mike Holstein play Isis’ upstairs lounge on Sunday, May 17, at 6 p.m. before a downstairs set by Russ Wilson Big Band at 8 p.m. $8 ($4 student) at the door covers both shows. isisasheville.com. Photo of Wates by John Mazlish

Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse’s 10th anniversary To celebrate 10 years of live acoustic music, Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse is planning a benefit event with nine performances and “other possible guests” to grow on.

Prolific local musician Chris Rosser is compiling an anniversary CD to commemorate the occasion and boost event proceeds, which benefit the LEAF Schools and Streets program and Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville (the venue from which the concert series operates). In addition to Rosser, the lineup includes Ray Chesna, Michael Reno Harrell, Annie Lalley and Joe Ebel, Al Petteway and Amy White, Friction Farm, Dana and Susan Robinson, Zoe and Cloyd and Tim Grimm. UUCA will host the acoustic performances on Sunday, May 17, beginning at 6:30 p.m. $17/$20 ($15 students). uuaasheville.org/mountain-spirit-coffeehouse. Photo of Harrell courtesy of Mountain Spirit Coffee House

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by Carrie Eidson & Michael McDonald Asheville Masonic Temple 80 Broadway, 252-3924 • FR (5/15) & SA (5/16), 1-11:30pm Electro-music festival. $15/day.

Blue Ridge Orchestra blueridgeorchestra.com • SA (5/16), 7:30pm - Beethoven’s eighth and ninth symphonies. $15/$10 members/$5 students. Held at Hall Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Ave. • SU (5/17), 3:00pm - Beethoven’s eighth and ninth symphonies. $15/$10 members/$5 students. Held at Hall Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Ave.

Summertime concert time: Nashville-based Allen Thompson and his band kick off a season of warm-weather outdoor concerts in Hendersonville. The rootsy outfit will bring their mix of soul, classic rock and country to the first Rhythm & Brews concert of 2015, held in downtown Hendersonville on Thursday, May 21.

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Art Asheville Art Museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (5/15), noon-1pm - Lunchtime Art Break: “Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum.” Admission fees apply.

Saluda Arts Festival 817-2876, saluda.com/ events_artfestival.html • SA (5/16), 10am-4pm - Mutlimedia artwork demonstrations, hands-on arts and music.

Free to attend. Held at Main Street, Saluda Toe River Arts Council 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • SA (5/16), 8am - “Paint Out,” 2D plein air competition. $30. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville

Auditions & Call to Artists FILM AUDITIONS: “LYDIA”—A GHOST STORY (pd.) Saturday, May 16th 11 AM - 3 PM at the North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Asheville, NC 28804. Men and women, all ages. Bring Headshot/Resume.

No Experience Necessary Contact: mannequinwarehouseproductions@ gmail.com Montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • SA (5/16) & SU (5/17), 2-4:30pm Auditions open for Twelfth Night. Held at

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Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. • SA (5/16) & SU (5/17), 2-4:30pm - Open auditions for Twelfth Night. Contact for guidelines. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. The Writer’s Workshop 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through (5/30) - Submissions open for Hard Times Essay Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25/entry.

• Through (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest.

Contact for guidelines. $25/entry.

Music BEETHOVEN BACK TO BACK (pd.) Beethoven’s Eighth and Seventh Symphonies performed by the Blue Ridge Orchestra, • Saturday, May 16, 7:30pm; • Sunday, May 17, 3pm; Little Theater, Hall Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Road, West Asheville. $15 General Admission; $10 Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 Students; Walking to the Concert? $5 • Tickets are also available (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville. • Details and tickets for Beethoven Back to Back: blueridgeorchestra.org Addison Farms Vineyard 4005 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 581-9463 • SA (5/16), noon-5pm - Vince Junior Band, blues/swamp-rock. Free to attend.

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Blue Ridge Ringers Handbell Ensemble blueridgeringers.tripod.com, blueridgeringers@gmail.com • SU (5/16), 4pm - Community concert.

Free will donation. Held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 22 Fisher Road, Brevard • SU (5/17), 4pm - Ragtime, spirituals, sacred music and classics. Free to attend.

Held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 22 Fisher Road, Brevard Celebration Singers of Asheville 230-5778, singasheville.org, celesingers@gmail.com • FR (5/15), 7pm - Selections from I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Charles Davidson and Brundibár by Hans Krasa.

Donations accepted. Held at Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River • SU (5/17), 4pm - Selections from I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Charles Davidson and Bundibár by Hans Krasa. Donations accepted. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (5/15), 8pm - Karan Casey, Celtic. $30/$25 student/$15 children.

• WE (5/20), 7:30pm - The SKY Family, Irish pop-rock and dance. $25/$22 seniors/$18 students/$10 ages 12 and under.

Festival Choir Evensong 253-3316 • SU (5/17), 4pm - Joint concert from the choirs of Central United Methodist Church, All Souls Cathedral and Trinity Episcopal Church. Free with donations encouraged.

Held at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church St. Grace Lutheran Church 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SU (5/17), 4pm - “A Salute to Armed Forces & Veterans,” anthems and hymns.

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at Union Mills Learning Center, 6495 Hudlow Road, Union Mills Music at UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • TH (5/14), 8pm - Brandon Heath, contemporary Christian. Held in Kimmel Arena. $20-$30.

• FR (5/15), 3pm - Opera Talks: a behind-thescenes tour of the operatic world. Held in the Reuter Center. Free.

• FR (5/15), 8pm - Brandon Heath, contemporary Christian. Held in Kimmel Arena. $20-$30.

Pan Harmonia 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • SU (5/17), 5pm - Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #4, Antonio Vivaldi’s “Summer” and “Tempeste di Mare” flute concerto. $22/$16.50 advance/$5 students. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway Rhythm & Brews Concert Series 233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (5/21), 5-9pm - Allen Thompson Band, Americana. Held in downtown Hendersonville.

Free.

Theater NYS3 SIX-WEEK SUMMER INTENSIVE (pd.) Begins June 5. Classes in acting, dance, filmmaking, improv, and voiceover.

Award-winning faculty. Train, create, evolve, get work. Register at www.nys3. com; (828) 276-1212; info@nys3.com 35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/24), 7:30pm - Letters and Notes Found on the Windshield at the Piggly Wiggly Parking Lot. $15. Fri.& Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FRIDAYSthrough SUNDAYS until (5/17), 7:30pm - Steel Magnolias. $15. Fri.& Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm.

Brevard Little Theatre 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/15) until (5/31) - Moon Over Buffalo. Fri.& Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $16/$11 students.

Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse 1 Edwin Place, uuasheville.org • SU (5/17), 6:30pm - 10th anniversary show, multiple artists. $17.

Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through FRIDAYS until (5/31), 8pm - Always ... Patsy Cline, musical. $15-$40.

Music at the Mills 748-7956 • FR (5/15) & SA (5/16) - Tickets to this bluegrass and arts festival benefit the Union Mills Learning Center. $12/$10 advance. Contact for full schedule. Held

Montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/15) until (5/30), 7:30pm - Romeo and Juliet. Free.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

gaLLerY directorY Judith duff PotterY 474 gAllerY studio 474 Haywood Road Suite 2, facebook.com/474gallerystudio • Through SA (5/31) - Group exhibition of street- and pop-art inspired works by Alli Good, Gus!, Erin Hardy, Ted Harper, Ishmael, Megan Kelly, Jeremy Russell and Dustin Spagnola.

APPAlAChiAn PAstel soCietY appalachianpastelsociety.org • TH (5/14) through FR (6/12) - Works by Appalachian Pastel Society members. Held at 115 E. Meeting St., Morganton Art At unCA art.unca.edu • TU (5/19) until TU (6/30) - Homage to Life, Cecelia and Abigail Frederic. Held in Blowers Gallery.

Asheville AreA Arts CounCil 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through MO (6/15) - Working Memory, mixed media paintings by Mark Flowers.

Artist’s reception: June 5, 5-8pm.

Asheville Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (8/16) - Flourish: Selected Jewelry From the Daphne Farago Collection.

• SA (5/16) until SU (9/13) - From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason. Opening reception: May 17, 3-5pm.

Asheville BooKWorKs 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (7/3) - Beer City Prints, works from the Wood Engravers Network triennial juried exhibition.

Asheville gAllerY of Art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through SU (5/31) - My Wonky World, paintings by Sandi Anton.

Bender gAllerY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through SU (5/31) - Veiled Memories, metal and glass. fountAinheAd BooKstore 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com • Through FR (7/10) - Once Upon a Time, paintings and illustrations by Marcy Jackson. grAnd BohemiAn gAllerY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • Through SU (5/31) - Impressions: The Great Smoky Mountains, expressionist paintings by Stefan Horik. grAteful stePs 159 S Lexington Ave., 277-0998, gratefulsteps.org • Through SA (5/30) - Celebrating Color, paintings by B Adams.

450 Cedar Lane, Brevard, 884-5258 • SA (5/16) through SA (5/30) - Works by visiting Asian potters Seungho Yang and Shozo Michikawa. Opening reception: May 16, 6-8pm. mAhogAnY house 240 Depot St., Waynesville, 246-0818 • Through TU (6/30) - Nature-inspired printmaking works by Dawn Behling and Myriah Strivelli.

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miCA fine ContemPorArY CrAft 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • TH (5/21) through TU (7/21) - Rock, Paper, Scissors, works by Lisa Blackburn, Bill Brown, and Thor and Jennifer Bueno.

Push sKAte shoP & gAllerY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through TU (6/16) - Brainstorm, street-art inspired works by various artists. rivervieW stAtion 191 Lyman St., riverviewartists.com • ONGOING - Santangles, pen and ink drawings by Sandra Brugh Moore. seven sisters gAllerY 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • FR (5/15) until SU (8/2) - Photography by John Smith. Opening reception: May 15, 5-7pm.

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toe river Arts CounCil 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through FR (6/5) - Works by artists who will participate in the 2015 Toe River Studio Tour.

Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine trAnsYlvAniA CommunitY Arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (5/29) - Photography by members of Land of Waterfalls Camera Club. uPstAirs ArtsPACe 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (6/19) - Storytellers, paintings by Arden Cone, Margaret Curtis, Dawn Hunter and Anna Jensen.

West Asheville liBrArY 942 Haywood Road • FR (5/15) through TU (6/30) - Photos and digital paintings by Ron Morecraft.

Ymi CulturAl Center 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • Through FR (5/15) - DiverseWorks, 2D juried contest winner exhibit.

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Beer CitY tAvern Karaoke w/ DJ Do-It, 9:30pm

5 WAlnut Wine BAr Wine tasting w/ Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm

BlACK mountAin Ale house The Big Deal (bluegrass, folk, jam), 7:30pm

550 tAvern & grille Karaoke, 9pm

Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm

Ben’s tune-uP Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm

Burger BAr Old school metal night w/ Schrader, 9pm CAtAWBA BreWing tAsting room Old time jam, 7pm

BlACK mountAin Ale house Play To Win Game Night, 7:30pm

CluB eleven on grove Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm

Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Open Mic, 7pm Burger BAr Karaoke, 9pm

douBle CroWn 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

douBle CroWn Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

dugout Matt Jackson (acoustic), 8pm

funKAtorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm grind CAfe Trivia night, 7pm highlAnd BreWing ComPAnY Woody Wood Wednesdays (acoustic rock), 5:30pm iron horse stAtion Ashley Heath (rnb), 6pm

elAine’s dueling PiAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

in the action: Professional burlesque performer Deb au Nare wants you to perform. Tuesday Tease, occurring on the third Tuesday of every month, serves as what Deb calls “open mic burlesque.” After moving from The Mothlight to New Mountain, the event now boasts a larger stage and expanded audiences, open to ages 18 and up.

Anyone can perform — from professionals to amateurs, but Deb prefers performers submit their act ideas ahead of time to info@debaunare.com. The next Tuesday Tease will take place on Tuesday, May 19, 10 p.m., at New Mountain Theatre.

isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Hanz Araki Band (Celtic), 7pm JACK of the Wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm lAzY diAmond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

noBle KAvA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

leX 18 Patrick Lopez (jazz), 7pm loBster trAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm mountAin moJo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm nAtive KitChen & soCiAl PuB Ryan O’Keefe & Halli Anderson of River Whyless, 6:30pm

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

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neW mountAin The Mystic Ferrymen (gothic, jazz, ambient), 7pm

o.henrY’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm off the WAgon Piano show, 9pm olive or tWist Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stoP deli & BAr The Chimpz w/ Amnesis & Broad River Nightmare (rock, metal), 10pm one World BreWing Billy Litz (Americana), 8pm orAnge Peel Ani DiFranco w/ That 1 Guy (folk, jazz, soul), 9pm Pour tAProom Karaoke, 8pm reJAvAnAtion CAfe Open mic night, 6pm room iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm root BAr no. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 8pm sCullY’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

frenCh BroAd BreWerY Aero Plane (string band), 6pm good stuff Dallas Danger (punk, folk, country), 8pm greY eAgle musiC hAll & tAvern David Allan Coe (outlaw country), 8pm isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Laid Back Thursdays, 7pm Jeff Thompson (singer-songwriter), 7pm Mike Hicks & Casey Wasner (funk, soul), 9pm

the Joint neXt door Bluegrass jam, 8pm

JACK of the Wood PuB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

the PhoeniX Jazz night, 8pm

lAzY diAmond The Replacement Party w/ Dr. Filth, 10pm

the soCiAl Karaoke, 9:30pm

leX 18 Ray Biscoglia & Grant Cuthbertson (jazz), 7pm

the southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiger mountAin Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm timo’s house Spectrum AVL w/ Jericho, Ixnee, Kri & guests, 9pm toWn PumP Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White horse BlACK mountAin Heather Pierson (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm WiCKed Weed John Hartford Tribute Jam, 6:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Party on the Patio! w/ J Luke, 6pm Karaoke, 9pm

thursdAY, mAY 14

loBster trAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm mArKet PlACe Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm nAtive KitChen & soCiAl PuB Chris Jamison, 6:30pm neW mountAin Mariachi El Bronx (mariachi, punk, hardcore), 8pm Bridge Over Asheville (variety show of local artists), 9pm o.henrY’s/the underground Gayme Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm odditorium Cube, House Fire, Rotten Milk & Falcon Mitts (experimental), 9pm off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm olive or tWist Cha cha lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm

strAightAWAY CAfe Circus Mutt (bluegrass, roots), 6pm

5 WAlnut Wine BAr Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

one stoP deli & BAr Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Kendra Warren (singer-songwriter), 10pm

tAllgArY’s At four College Open mic & jam, 7pm

AltAmont theAtre Cliff Cash (comedy), 9pm

one World BreWing The Dirty Badgers (rock), 8pm

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COMING SOON! orAnge Peel Marc Maron w/ Ashley Barnhill [SOLD OUT], 7:30pm Marc Maron w/ Ashley Barnhill (comedy), 10pm

Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

osKAr Blues BreWerY This Frontier Needs Heroes (alt folk, Americana), 6pm

Burger BAr Juke Joint Blues w/ Rare Burger Band, 9pm

PACK’s tAvern Josh Singleton Duo (Southern soul, rock), 9pm PisgAh BreWing ComPAnY Them Vibes (rock ’n’ roll), 8pm PurPle onion CAfe Jon Shain (folk), 7:30pm room iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

Boiler room Rebirth XI (electronic), 10pm

BYWAter No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 8pm ClAssiC Wineseller Bob Zullo (jazz, pop), 7pm CorK & Keg The Barsters (bluegrass, acoustic), 8:30pm

douBle CroWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY The Hip Bones (jazz, groove), 7pm

dugout Calvin Get Down (funk, blues), 9pm

tAllgArY’s At four College The Rat Alley Cats (blues), 7:30pm

elAine’s dueling PiAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

the mothlight Reptar w/ Breathers & Hello Hugo (alt rock), 9:30pm

frenCh BroAd BreWerY Grace Adele & The Grand Band (folk, Americana), 6pm

the PhoeniX Dave Desmelik Duo (singer-songwriter), 8pm

good stuff Straw Man (rock), 9pm

the southern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm timo’s house TRL w/ Franco Nino (dance party, requests), 10pm toWn PumP Tuxedo Shop (Americana, indie rock), 9pm tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm urBAn orChArd Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Steven Poteet, 8pm WXYz lounge At Aloft hotel The Moon & You (cello folk), 7:30pm

fridAY, mAY 15 185 King street Empire Strikes Brass (funk), 8pm 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9pm 550 tAvern & grille Fine Line (blues, rock), 9pm AltAmont theAtre Reasonably Priced Babies (improv comedy), 8pm AthenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

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diAnA WorthAm theAtre Karen Casey & band (Irish, folk), 8pm

sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

the soCiAl Calvin Get Down (funk, soul), 8pm

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greY eAgle musiC hAll & tAvern Annabelle’s Curse & Swear and Shake w/ Marty O’Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra (alt folk), 9pm highlAnd BreWing ComPAnY Delta Moon (blues, Americana, roots), 7pm iron horse stAtion Ben Wilson (Americana), 7pm isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Ladies in the Lounge w/ Carrie Welling, Kasey Williams & CaroMia Tiller (singersongwriter), 7pm Pierce Edens and The Dirty Work (Americana, Appalachian, rock), 9pm JACK of the Wood PuB Riverbank Ramblers (Appalachian, country, rock ’n’ roll), 9pm JerusAlem gArden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAzY diAmond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm mArKet PlACe The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm nAtive KitChen & soCiAl PuB Brittany Kennel Duo, 6:30pm neW mountAin Shooter Jennings w/ Waymore’s Outlaws, Josh Morningstar, Thomas Wynn & The Believers (outlaw country, alt rock), 10pm Elaquent w/ EmE (hip-hop, electronic, future rnb), 11pm nightBell restAurAnt & lounge Dulítel DJ (indie, electro, rock), 10pm noBle KAvA Steve Karla (gypsy jazz jam), 8:30pm

Beer CitY tAvern Free Jukebox Night & Bonfire, 9pm

odditorium Sammy Guns & White Oak Splits (country), 9pm

Ben’s tune-uP Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm

BlACK BeAr Coffee Co. Expresso! w/ Patrick Lopez (Latin jazz), 6pm

olive or tWist The Liley Arauz Band (Latin), 8pm

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Thursday May 14th Great American Beer Week Tap Takeover 6pm Tuesday May 19th Frank Zappa Music/Video Night 7pm Thursday May 21st - Beer & Food Pairing Event with Farm to Fender, Tickets $30 INTRODUCING THE WORLD’S LARGEST SELF-POUR TAPROOM

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one stoP deli & BAr Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Homemade Wine w/ Sidecar Honey (Americana), 10pm orAnge Peel Trial By Fire (Journey tribute), 9pm osKAr Blues BreWerY Soul Magnetics (soul, R&B), 6pm PACK’s tAvern DJ MoTo (pop, dance), 9pm PisgAh BreWing ComPAnY Mangas Colorado (Americana, indie), 8pm root BAr no. 1 The Willy Whales (old-time, rock), 8pm sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCullY’s DJ, 10pm southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY Taylor Moore (rock, blues), 8pm

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RIVERBANK RAMBLERS

APPALACHIAN COUNTRY ROCK N ROLL 9 p.m. $5

SCREAMING J’s w/ THE BIG EZs NEW ORLEANS MUSIC NIGHT 9 p.m. $5

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(SONGWRITING PROJECT OF PHILIPPE BRONCHTEIN, BASED OUT OF PORTLAND, OR., RUSTIC, FOLK SONGS) 9 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

SINGER SONGWRITERS IN THE ROuND WITH BILL PHILLIPS, MORIAH DOWNBY

& MATT CAMPBELL 7 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

FRI 5.22

SHANE PRuITT BAND

SAT 5.23

LANEY JONES AND THE LIVELY SPIRITS (FOLK ROCK SINGER-SONGWRITER)

HIGH ENERGY GOSPEL, BLUES AND ROCK AND ROLL! 9 p.m.$5

Thu • May 14 Community Night featuring Green Opportunities Fri • May 15

Appalachian Shakedown featuring Supatight, Circus Mutt, and Low Down Sires 6:00-10:00

Sun • May 17

Pizza Pan-Demonium ST OF 5:30-8:30 – BE Check website HALL OF FAME for details

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OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 5pm til ?

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185 King street County Line & The Breedlove Brothers, 8pm 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 6pm Magenta Sunshine (indie, soul), 9pm 550 tAvern & grille Cody Siniard (country), 9pm AltAmont theAtre Roxie Watson (Americana, alt-grass), 8pm AthenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Beer CitY tAvern Beyond Blue (blues), 9pm

BlACK BeAr Coffee Co. Comedy Night w/ Curtis Mac, 6pm

the PhoeniX Todd Cecil & Backsouth (cigar-box swamp rock), 9pm

Sat • May 16

sAturdAY, mAY 16

strAightAWAY CAfe Eric Congdon (Americana, blues, singer-songwriter), 6pm

the mothlight Hop Along w/ Field Mouse & Muscle and Bone (alt rock), 9pm

Lost Cove release party featuring Delta Moon 7:00-9:00

zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

Ben’s tune-uP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm

the AdmirAl Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

5:30-7:30

WXYz lounge At Aloft hotel Ben Hovey (soul-jazz-tronica), 8pm

sPring CreeK tAvern Screaming J’s (boogie), 9pm

tAllgArY’s At four College The North 40 Renegades (acoustic rock), 9:30pm

Wed • May 13 Woody Wood

A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

the soCiAl Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiger mountAin Soul dance party w/ Cliff, 10pm timo’s house Neon Pre-Party: Headbanger’s Ball w/ eMonei, McDubbin’, Betty Toker & Selector Cleofus, 10pm toWn PumP American Hologram (American goth pop), 9pm tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues The Remainders, 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues), 10pm White horse BlACK mountAin Virginia Schenck (jazz), 8pm Wild Wing CAfe Contagious (rock), 8pm Wild Wing CAfe south Joe Lasher Jr. (country, Southern rock), 7pm

BlACK mountAin Ale house Chris O’Neill (roots), 9pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Rocket Science, 7pm Boiler room Hope Sets Sail w/ Drosera, Sleep On It & Embracer (metal, indie, alternative), 9pm Burger BAr Bike Night w/ DJ Johnny Be Good (70s rock), 9pm BYWAter Awake In A Dream (rock), 8pm ClAssiC Wineseller Russ Wilson Quartet (jazz, swing), 7pm CorK & Keg Cafe Sho (Cajun waltz), 8:30pm CroW & quill Proof! Steampunk-themed Circus, 9pm douBle CroWn Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm dugout Fine Line (classic rock), 9pm elAine’s dueling PiAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm frenCh BroAd BreWerY This Frontier Needs Heroes (folk rock), 6pm good stuff Crooked Railroad w/ Skyelor Anderson (outlaw country, rock, blues), 8pm

green room CAfe & Coffeehouse Justified VIBE (blues, rock), 4pm greY eAgle musiC hAll & tAvern Unknown Hinson w/ Roger Alan Wade (comedic country), 9pm highlAnd BreWing ComPAnY Appalachian Shakedown w/ Circus Mutt, Low Down Sires & Supatight (rock, reggae, bluegrass), 6pm iron horse stAtion Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Saturday Classical Brunch, 11am Acoustic Blues w/ Peggy Ratusz, 7pm Malcolm Holcombe w/ Mike Ferrio (folk, Americana), 9pm JACK of the Wood PuB Screaming J’s w/ The Big EZs (New Orleans funk, blues, jazz), 9pm JerusAlem gArden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAzY diAmond Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm loBster trAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm mArCo’s PizzeriA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm mArKet PlACe DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm moJo KitChen & lounge Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm neW mountAin Mason Jennings w/ WrenPop (singer-songwriter, folk, rock), 9pm nightBell restAurAnt & lounge AJ Andy Rezrekt (indie-electronic), 10pm noBle KAvA Salt of the Earth (Appalachian experimental folk), 8:30pm o.henrY’s/the underground Shell Shock // Alter (dance party), 10pm odditorium Night Demon, Temptations Wings, Neverfall & Broad River Nightmare (metal), 9pm off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm olive or tWist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm one stoP deli & BAr Milli Fungus Band w/ Four 14 (rock), 10pm

orAnge Peel Asheville Toy Expo, 9:30am Martin Sexton w/ Marty O’Reilly (soul, country, blues), 7pm osKAr Blues BreWerY Shotgun Gypsies (rock), 6pm PACK’s tAvern A Social Function (rock ’n’ roll, classic hits), 9pm PisgAh BreWing ComPAnY The Funky Meters w/ Earphunk & George Porter Jr. & The Runnin’ Pardners (New Orleans funk), 5:30pm PurPle onion CAfe Citizen Mojo (blues, funk, soul), 8pm room iX Open dance night, 9pm sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCullY’s DJ, 10pm southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY The Stipe Brothers w/ Dan Ruiz & Kent Rector (acoustic), 8pm sPring CreeK tAvern American Hologram (Americana), 9pm

WXYz lounge At Aloft hotel Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco, Latin), 8pm zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sundAY, mAY 17 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Mande Foly Acoustique, 7pm Beer CitY tAvern Bull Moose Party (bluegrass), 4pm Ben’s tune-uP Jazz Brunch, 2pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Andy Ferrell (Americana, roots), 7pm Burger BAr Bike night w/ DJ John Black (’70s rock), 9pm BuriAl Beer Co. Jazz brunch w/ The Mandelkorn George Project (funk, soul), 12pm BYWAter Fireships (indie, folk), 5pm

strAightAWAY CAfe Reems Creek Incident, 6pm

douBle CroWn Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

tAllgArY’s At four College Old School Rock (classic rock), 9:30pm

dugout Mark Curtis (blues jam), 3pm

the AdmirAl Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm the BAr uPstAirs/ AshleY’s uPPer room Karaoke, 10pm the mothlight Icky Blossoms w/ Oulipo & Kangarot (synth pop), 9:30pm the PhoeniX Howie Johnson (acoustic blues), 1pm The Graveleys (roots, rock), 9pm the soCiAl Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm timo’s house Jim Raves & Mike Funk (dance party, requests), 10pm toWn PumP Loose Hinges (indie pop), 9pm tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Liley Arauz, 7pm Free Flow, 10pm White horse BlACK mountAin Veronica Nunes & Ricardo Vogt (Brazilian), 8pm

iron horse stAtion Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm isis restAurAnt And musiC hAll Jazz showcase, 6pm JACK of the Wood PuB Irish session, 5pm The Rigs (roots), 9pm lAzY diAmond Honky Tonk Night w/ DJs, 10pm loBster trAP Hunnilicious (Americana, country, folk, pop, singersongwriter), 6:30pm neW mountAin Devon Allman w/ East Coast Dirt (blues, rock), 8pm odditorium Sentiments w/ Cold Solstice, The Spiral, Fashion Bath & Pretend Chess (punk), 9pm off the WAgon Piano show, 9pm olive or tWist DJ (oldies rock, swing), 8pm one stoP deli & BAr Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 9pm one World BreWing OWB First Birthday Party w/ Circus Mutt (alt world), 6pm

Wild Wing CAfe Karaoke, 8pm

Pour tAProom Open mic, 8pm

Wild Wing CAfe south The Buchanon Boys (country, rock), 8pm

sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

southern APPAlAChiAn BreWerY Jefferson Ross w/ Kerry Grombacher & Todd Hoke (folk), 5pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

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5pm–12am

12am

tAllgArY’s At four College Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

the omni grove PArK inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10pm the PhoeniX Larry J & Tory Ellis (acoustic rock), 12pm the soCiAl Karaoke, 9:30pm

COMING SOON

THU. 5/14 Josh Singleton Duo

SAT 5/13

7:00 PM– AN EVENING OF CELTIC MUSIC WITH THE HANZ ARAKI BAND

THUR 5/14

7:00 PM–

JEFF THOMPSON

9:00 PM–

tiger mountAin Seismic Sunday w/ Matthew Schrader (doom, sludge, drone, psych-metal), 10pm

7:00 PM– LADIES IN THE LOUNGE CAROMIA TILLER, CARRIE WELLING & CASEY WILLIAMS

toWn PumP Chris Jamison (singer-songwriter), 9pm White horse BlACK mountAin Maesa Pullman & The Whole Dam Fam (rock ’n’ roll), 7:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

mondAY, mAY 18 185 King street Open Mic Night, 8pm 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 8pm AltAmont BreWing ComPAnY Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 8pm Beer CitY tAvern Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam & storytelling), 8pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 7:30pm Burger BAr Honkytonk ladies night w/ Brody, 6pm

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the southern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm

timo’s house Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

strAightAWAY CAfe Sorella Jack (acoustic), 5pm

the mothlight Rempis, Johnston & Ochs (improv jazz), 9pm

TAVERN

Full Bar

(southern soul, rock)

FRI. 5/15 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits) SAT. 5/16 A Social Function

MIKE HICKS AND CASEY WASNER FRI 5/15

9:00 PM– PIERCE EDENS AND THE DIRTY WORK WITH DAVID EARL & THE PLOWSHARES

SAT 5/16

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WED 5/20 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH MELISSA REAVES AND MICHAEL BELLAR 9:00 PM– THE

MARCUS KING BAND

THUR 5/21

7:00 PM– JEFF

THOMPSON IN THE LOUNGE FRI 5/22

9:00 PM–

THE MALPASS BROTHERS -CD RELEASE

SAT 5/23 7:00 PM– ACOUSTIC BLUES W/ PEGGY RATUSZ 9:00 PM– JERRY GARCIA BAND COVER BAND

WED 5/27 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

MIRIAM ALLEN & DAVID ZOLL Every Tuesday

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JAZZ SHOWCASE

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douBle CroWn Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm

good stuff Old time-y night, 6:30pm

good stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

iron horse stAtion Open mic, 6pm

greY eAgle musiC hAll & tAvern Contra dance, 7pm

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

JACK of the Wood PuB Quizzo, 7pm Hip Hatchet (folk), 9pm

JACK of the Wood PuB Bill Phillips w/ Moriah Downby & Matt Campbell (singer-songwriter), 7pm

Nightly Entertainment!

lAzY diAmond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

THURSDAY:

leXington Ave BreWerY (lAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm

lAzY diAmond Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

THURSDAY:

loBster trAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm

FRIDAY:

neW mountAin Incantation w/ Funerus, Black Mountain Hunger, We Kill Kids & Amnesis (death metal, metal), 7:30pm

SUNDAY:

o.henrY’s/the underground Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm

neW mountAin Tuesday Tease (“open mic” burlesque), 9pm

odditorium Rory Kelly’s Triple Threat w/ Josh Morningstar (rock), 9pm

odditorium Odd comedy night, 9pm

5/14: Calvin Get Down - 8 pm 5/21: Awake in the Dream - 8 pm 5/22: Westsound - 8 pm 5/24: Memorial Weekend Jam The Dirty Badgers & Friends Fundraiser for Manna Food Bank THURSDAY:

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orAnge Peel Summer Movie Series: The Big Lebowski, 8pm osKAr Blues BreWerY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm reJAvAnAtion CAfe Trivia night, 7pm sovereign remedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the mothlight Bitchin’ Bajas w/ Itasca & Sarah Louise (pop, rock), 9pm

off the WAgon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm one stoP deli & BAr Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm one World BreWing DJ Brandon Audette (downtempo), 8pm orAnge Peel Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox (pop covers), 8pm Pour tAProom Frank Zappa night, 8pm

the soCiAl Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm Salsa Night, 9pm

tAllgArY’s At four College Jam night, 9pm

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185 King street 185 Dinner Theater w/ The Greenliners Duo (Americana, bluegrass, folk), 6:30pm

tiger mountAin Tuesday Tests w/ Chris Ballard (techno, house, experimental, downtempo), 10pm

5 WAlnut Wine BAr The John Henrys (ragtime, jazz), 8pm

toWn PumP Lobo Marino w/ Searra Gisondo (tribal, earth folk), 9pm

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tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm urBAn orChArd Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm Westville PuB Blues jam, 10pm White horse BlACK mountAin Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Sons of Ralph & The Dixie Darlin’s Cloggers (bluegrass), 6pm Maniac Brainiac Trivia!, 8pm

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550 tAvern & grille Karaoke, 9pm

off the WAgon Piano show, 9pm

Asheville musiC hAll Kinnection Decompression w/ Bogtrotter, Mumukshu, Goopsteppa, Atyya, Kll Smth & others (electronic), 10pm

olive or tWist Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

Ben’s tune-uP Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm BlACK mountAin Ale house Play To Win Game Night, 7:30pm

one World BreWing Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm

Blue mountAin PizzA & BreW PuB Open Mic, 7pm

orAnge Peel Rubblebucket w/ Vacationer & Midnight Snack (psychedelic rock, indie, experimental), 9pm

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diAnA WorthAm theAtre Celtic Revival, 7:30pm

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room iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

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tressA’s doWntoWn JAzz And Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

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RED WANTING BLUE W/ ZEKE DUHON 8pm $12

ZOE & CLOYD + HONEY DEWDROPS DUAL CD RELEASE SHOW 8pm $10 / $13

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5 to 7 HHHHS

FRIDAY, MAY 15 THuRSDAY, MAY 21 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

DIRECTOR: Victor Levin PLAYERS: Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Glenn Close, Frank Langella, Lambert Wilson, Olivia Thirlby

Asheville PizzA & Brewing Co. (254-1281)

ROMANTIC COMEDY RATED R

CArmike CinemA 10 (298-4452)

THE STORY: Romantic comedy about a slightly naive 24-year-old man and a married 33-year-old woman.

THE LOWDOWN: Witty, charming and poignant, 5 to 7 is something of a minor miracle in today’s world — a thoroughly romantic movie that believes in romance and its transformative power. Not to be missed.

Victor Levin’s beguiling romantic comedy about struggling young Jewish writer Brian (Anton Yelchin) and older married French woman Arielle (Bérénice Marlohe, Skyfall) is a charmer from beginning to end. (It’s also the movie that in a fair world would make Yelchin a star.) It is a film in which boy and girl not only meet cute, they meet sophisticated cute. Brian isn’t just attracted to this beautiful woman, he’s intrigued by the foreign aroma of her cigarette — a smell he once encountered in a restaurant and that he thinks is either French or Spanish. Hoping for French (since he can’t speak Spanish), he starts chatting her up in what, yes, turns out to be her native tongue. After a few exchanges about distrusting non-smokers and a few awkward missteps by Brian (note: sophisticated older women don’t much

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BéRéNICE MARLOHE and ANTON YELCHIN in first-time writer-director Victor Levin's witty, charming and poignant romantic comedy 5 to 7.

like having their name equated with a Disney cartoon character), they make plans to meet again — between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. This is every inch a movie — almost a fantasy set in a vague past (when was the last time you could smell a cigarette in a New York restaurant?) and a New York City that only ever existed in movies. And this is part of its charm — it’s less the world as it is than the world we might wish existed.

Brian, however, is an American innocent of the first water. He has no idea that the specific two-hour blocks of time Arielle is able to give him are part of French tradition of allowing married folks to act like they aren’t married for two hours a day — hence the title of the film. It takes a couple of dates for him to learn this, and he — not surprisingly — is shocked to his prudish roots. In fact, he tries to break off the relationship, but he’s already hooked. Soon he’s even been invited to dinner by Arielle’s husband, Valery (Lambert Wilson, Of Gods and Men), where he not only meets Valery’s mistress, Jane (Olivia

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Thirlby) — who just happens to be an editor at Farrar, Strauss and Giroux — but such heavyhitters as philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert, restaurateur Daniel Boulud and social activist Julian Bond (all played by themselves).

This is all like Wonderland to Brian, who refutes Arielle’s assurances that it’s all fine with a litany of clichés about no such thing as a free lunch, the other shoe will drop, the rent will come due, etc. The horrified Arielle wonders, “Who raised you?” He matterof-factly answers, “Jews.” Soon he introduces his parents (Glenn Close and Frank Langella) to her.

They’re delighted — until they find out she’s married and has two children. But soon mom is won over, while dad tries his damnedest not to be. Things develop — too quickly for believability, but this is hardly a film for that concern — and Brian gets his break as a writer, and Arielle does the one thing she had not planned on by actually falling in love with him.

There’s more, of course, and that’s actually more plot than I’d normally tell, but the plot is really

CArolinA CinemAs (274-9500) 5 to 7 (r) 11:30, 3:50, 8:10 The Age of Adaline (Pg-13) 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2D (Pg-13) 11:55 1:25, 3:00, 4:30, 6:10, 7:30, 9:10 Clouds of sils maria (r) 10:55, 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 ex machina (r) 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45 hot Pursuit (Pg-13) 11:05, 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 mad max: Fury road 3D (r) 1:50, 7:00 mad max: Fury road 2D (r) 11:15, 12:05, 12:50, 2:40, 3:25, 4:25, 5:15, 6:00, 7:50, 8:35, 9:35, 10:25, 11:10 Pitch Perfect (Pg-13) 11:00, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:35, 7:35, 8:15, 9:05, 10:05, 10:45 welcome to me (r) 1:45, 6:05, 10:25 woman in gold (Pg-13) 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 Co-eD CinemA BrevArD (883-2200) ePiC oF henDersonville (693-1146) Fine ArTs TheATre (232-1536) Above and Beyond (nr) 1:00 Fri., May 15 only ex machina (r) 1:20 (no 1:20 show on Fri., May 15), 4:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 show Thu., May 21), Late Show Fri-Sat 9:40 kumiko, the Treasure hunter (nr) 4:00, Late Show Fri-Sat 9:20 once in a lifetime (nr) Thu., May 21 at 7:00, Fri., May 22 at 1:00 she’s Beautiful when she’s Angry (nr) 1:00, 7:00 FlATroCk CinemA (697-2463) The Age of Adaline (Pg-13) Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 4:00, 7:00 (Closed Monday) regAl BilTmore grAnDe sTADiUm 15 (684-1298) UniTeD ArTisTs BeAUCATCher (298-1234)

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the least appealing or impressive aspect of the film. The film’s timeless quality is so effortlessly conveyed that you barely notice that cellphones are rarely in evidence and not much used, that computers have the month and day on them without the year, that publishers are still sending out actual rejection or acceptance letters (you know, an envelope and all that). Levin makes all this easy to just accept. He’s a very shrewd director in other ways. There is a beautiful stillness to the film.

The generally fixed camera (handheld camera only appears if it’s a moving shot) gazes at the action without quite intruding. That may sound easy and even uncinematic, but it’s neither. The attention to detail is terrific — even in simple ways. When Brian meets Arielle for their first hotel-room tryst, her lavender dress matches the roses in the vase.

Owing to the film’s New York setting, the literary angle, Brian’s narration and the Jewish element, 5 to 7 inevitably calls the films of Woody Allen to mind, especially Manhattan (1979). That is also a very still film for the most part, with scenes often playing in long-shot. But it never really feels like an Allen knockoff. The tone of Levin’s film is more guileless than Allen — less knowing — and that’s as it should be with a character like Brian at the center. It’s also what makes the film its own animal, as does the final scene (which some have questioned), because it’s the scene that proves that Levin actually believes what he’s selling. Rated R for some sexual material.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Community Screenings

Fine Arts Theatre 36 Biltmore Ave., 232-1536 • TH (5/21), 7pm - Jewish Film Festival: Once in a Lifetime. $8.50.

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Hot Pursuit S DIRECTOR: Anne Fletcher (The Guilt Trip) PLAYERS: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, John Carroll Lynch, Matthew Del Negro, Robert Kazinsky ODD COUPLE BUDDY COMEDY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A stick-in-the-mud cop must go on the run with the loud-mouthed wife of a drug boss after their lives are threatened by a cartel leader.

THE LOWDOWN: An annoyingly screechy odd-couple road comedy that’s exhausting in its mediocrity.

After years of bad choices, Reese Witherspoon did much to pull her career back into some semblance of respectability last year with her turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and her Oscarnominated performance in JeanMarc Vallee’s Wild. And just like that, she’s torpedoed it all with Anne Fletcher’s Hot Pursuit — a boneheaded, obnoxious comedy that suffers from a terminal case of mediocrity. Hot Pursuit’s one of those films where the biggest issue is its propensity towards wallowing in the most rote, jokey and predictable comedy. That director Fletcher — with a filmography that includes The Guilt Trip (2012) and The Proposal (2009) — and a couple of writers (David Feeney and John Quaintance) who’ve specialized in sitcoms are behind such tepid nonsense should be a shock to no one.

The whole thing feels like the pilot for some midseason replacement on ABC (Witherspoon’s costar Sofía Vergara doesn’t help things) — one sorely in need of a laugh track to spice things up.

The idea is that Witherspoon (with a garishly overdone Southern accent) is a humorless, by-the-book cop named Cooper who’s been relegated to the evidence room after tasing an unarmed man and setting him on fire (nothing like a tone deaf

HHHHH = max rating police brutality gag to lay the foundation of your movie). Then she’s given the chance to finally get back out into the field when she’s asked to help transport a snitch (Vincent Laresca, Devil) and his wife Daniella (Vergara) to Dallas to testify against a Mexican cartel boss (Joaquin Cosio, The Lone Ranger). But Cooper’s ambushed, and her partner (Richard T. Jones, Godzilla) is killed, while she and Daniella barely escape and head out on the lam.

Here, Hot Pursuit becomes just another buddy cop movie.

Cooper, the anal-retentive bore and Daniella, the brash sexpot, are total opposites who, slowly but surely, learn to become friends.

I nodded off just typing that. As with all films that fit within a specific genre (or sub-genre), this movie’s been done before. But the trick is to somehow make this tried-and-true (or, perhaps, hackneyed would be better) plot feel fresh and inventive. Fletcher and company do not. All of its twists and turns are predictable, its jokes flat. All that’s left is a screwball comedy that just flops around waving its arms like some attentionstarved child. Add to this the gratingly shrill nature of the film’s leads (Vergara’s screechiness is the stuff of Lovecraft) and what you’re left with is a movie that’s not tried-and-true, but tired and tiresome. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, violence, language and some drug material.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther

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5 To 7 See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Mad Max: Fury Road Here we have the latest attempt at being the Next Big Thing — though with the box office impediment of an R rating (something that will, however, please the fans). After 30 years — and a lot of strange turns like Happy Feet — George Miller returns to his Ozploitation roots and fires up his Mad Max series. Mel Gibson is gone, of course, and the new Max is Tom Hardy — with Charlize Theron and Nicolas Hoult added to the mix.

Expect more of the same — only more so and with a new look. The first major review just dropped and finds Variety’s Justin Chang saying, “‘worth the wait’ still seems a puny response to the two hours of ferocious, unfettered B-movie bliss offered by Mad Max: Fury Road.” (R)

Pitch Perfect 2 Currently known as the movie that knocked Age of Ultron out of the number one slot — in New Zealand, that is — we have the sequel to 2012’s Pitch Perfect, the cleverly titled Pitch Perfect 2. This promises more a capella singing and more Rebel Wilson. How you feel about either of those will impact your decision whether or not this is a good thing. Regardless, its PG-13 cred gives it the edge of being the big winner. This is what passes for a synopsis on Rotten Tomatoes: “Surprise hit Pitch Perfect gets sequelized in this Universal Pictures production once again scripted by Kay Cannon.”

Perhaps that’s enough. (PG-13)

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

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Straightforward but compelling documentary on the birth of the women’s movement. The producers say it “resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971,” and that it “takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).” Film will play two shows a day starting Friday at the Fine Arts Theatre. Review will appear online this week but didn’t make the paper. (NR)

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All genres and styles are welcome and can be new, old or a work in progress.

Submissions may be no more than 10 minutes in length and should be received by Sunday, May 17, but may also be brought in the day of the show on a first-come, first-served basis and as time allows. Accepted formats are DVD, QuickTime or MPEG file, 16mm and Super 8.

A short discussion will follow each work, allowing filmmakers a chance to gather feedback from attendees. Email yayforfilm@gmail.com to register. mechanicaleyecinema.org • The investigative documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret returns to Asheville for a screening at carmike 10 on Wednesday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m. Directed

by Kip andersen and Keegan Kuhn, the film follows Anderson as he delves into the animal agriculture industry and why the planet’s leading environmental organizations are hesitant to address the major cause of numerous environmental ills.

As Andersen approaches leaders of such activist groups as the Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation, he increasingly uncovers what appears to be an intentional refusal to discuss the issue of animal agriculture. Meanwhile, industry whistleblowers and watchdogs warn him of the risks to his freedom and even his life if he continues to dig.

Cowspiracy includes interviews with authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), Dr. Richard Oppenlander (Food Choice and Sustainability), Dr. Will Tuttle (The World Peace Diet), Will Potter (Green Is the New Red), animal activist Howard Lyman and Greenpeace Alaska founder Will Anderson. The film lasts 90 minutes, and tickets are $12, but since it is an independently sourced event through the website Tugg, 78 people must reserve a seat online by Wednesday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. for the screening to happen. www.tugg.com/events/17905 • A group of film and theater students from western carolina university has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its film Up the Hill.

Principal photography will take place in Cullowhee with plans to utilize other locations throughout Western North Carolina.

According to the Kickstarter page, the dark romantic comedy short film is “about Jack (cory phelps), a drug addicted loner, and Jill (sarah Luckadoo), an optimistic vegan call girl who also happens to be a pastor’s daughter. When Jack incidentally A group of film and theater students from saves Jill from the clutches Western Carolina University has launched a of an overly aggressive cliKickstarter campaign for its film Up the Hill. ent, he gains Jill’s attention and unwanted interference in his life.”

The cast and crew have set a $5,000 goal as the bare minimum needed to make Up the Hill a reality with enough left over to submit the film to various festivals.

The campaign ends the evening of Saturday, June 6, and backer rewards include a signed prop from the film, a personal photo shoot from writer/director jesse allard and a handmade print inspired by the film from producer/director of photography abigail taylor. avl.mx/0w7 X

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Briefs Biltmore Estate roof repair hits snag as roofer’s required period costumes cause numerous cases of heat exhaustion Lake Lure area prepares for Dirty Dancing remake, with taxidermy-preserved Patrick Swayze in cameo as a coat rack Abortion resumes in Asheville as NC debates regulations Everyone agrees the doctor needs very clean hands

Montreat College to spend $2M on athletic center, pushing back plans to bring level of academic rigor in line with Montreat’s tuition cost Asheville Disclaimer is parody/satire Contact: tomscheve@gmail.com Contrib. this week: Joe Shelton, Tom Scheve

Proposed NC bill could help bee population

Among the bill’s provisions: • Buskers shall not sell CDs within 1,000 feet of a bee colony.

• Hotels will bid for the right to build a high-rise colony

• The firstborn bee of every new year will be highlighted on the local news

• Tiny condoms with even tinier holes poked in them will be dropped off near colonies* • The queen bee will receive $1 a day for every baby bee she produces

• On Fridays, honey production will extend to midnight so that worker bees don’t interrupt the candlelit dinner the queen bee is romancing herself with* *It should be noted that, even after reading about bee reproduction, the writers involved in this story have no idea how bees reproduce.

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Police chief finalists named

Ed Garrington: A former police chief of Prosperity, SC, Garrington prides himself on leading a department that, in 2013, went nearly an entire month without shooting at a black motorist.

Frank Gefling: When the city of Harding, WV, lost its police chief to a scandal in 2010, Frank Gefling appeared and assumed control of the troubled police department. Nobody knew Gefling or where he came from or how he became the new police chief, but it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

Christopher Nil: A former marine, Nil brings a can-do, kick-butt, storm-the-beaches, breakdown-the-doors, put-tanks-inthe-street, shoot-deserters approach to law enforcement.

Sandra Pollard: Having served for seven years as police chief of Rome, Ga., Sandra Pollock is the right female for the job of making our selection process look balanced when we hire another male police chief.

Peter Martinez: Martinez has served as police chief for several small cities before scandals and improprieties sent him packing.

As such, Martinez would be an excellent fit for Asheville, and will know better than to get too settled in before the inevitable happens.

What’s in Asheville’s beards?

A New Mexico study of beards has found that they often contain noxious substances ranging from harmful bacteria to actual fecal matter. A study of Asheville beards shows such far-ranging substances as: • Strontium 90 • Partially dissolved Alka Seltzer tablets • Highly camouflaged pubes • Woodland faeries • Swizzle sticks • Costume glue • Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp • Beardcam • Cobblestones • Wistfulness

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donating for doLLars Already, healthy people can donate blood, sperm and eggs, but now the nonprofit OpenBiome offers donors $40 for bowel movements — to supply “fecal transplants” for patients with nasty C. difficile bacterial infections. (“Healthy” contents are transplanted into the infected gut via endoscope or frozen swallowed capsules so that the good bacteria drive out the antibiotic-resistant bad.) Over 2,000 transplant units have been shipped to 185 hospitals so far, and OpenBiome allows daily “donations” so that, with bonuses, a donor could earn $13,000 a year. However, extensive medical questioning and stool-testing is required, and only about 4 percent of potential donors have exquisiteenough feces to qualify. the job of the researcher California State University Los Angeles researcher marc Kubasak spent about 2,500 hours (sometimes 12 hours a day) training 40 brain-damaged rats to walk on a treadmill after sewing little vests to tether the critters, suspended, to a robotic arm. His work paid off, though, according to the February Popular Science magazine, as doctors in Poland and University College London used his procedures to help a man with a damaged spine. (In the middle of the project, Kubasak developed a rodent allergy and was forced to wear a body suit every day with a respirator.) ironies • U.K.’s Bedfordshire Police were searching in April for the thief who ran off without paying for his Jesus arm tattoo at the RedINC Luton studio (to go with his “Only God Can Judge Me” inking on the other arm.) In fact, the shopkeeper also believes the man swiped the equivalent of $1,548 from a cash drawer when he was momentarily alone in the studio.

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remembrance technoLogY • In March, the U.S. Patent Office approved Google’s application covering robot software that mimics human personalities (voice, mannerisms) using a variety of moods (happiness, fear, surprise) with a notable use that family members might employ it to continue to “interact” with a loved one after he has passed. One disquieting possibility might allow a deceased person to be directed to act in ways that the person never acted while alive.

• A curious woman, inspired by her own mother’s attachment to her unlaundered pillowcases following the death of her dad, has partnered with France’s Universite du Havre to produce a person’s bottled scent by processing old clothing. A September rollout is planned, with the probable retail price of about $600.

• Artist mark sturkenboom has described plans for an even more remarkable remembrance device (if the deceased is male): a dildo that holds 21 grams of cremated ashes (accessorized, perhaps for nonsexual “cover,” by a necklace and music player). “After passing,” Sturkenboom explained, “the missing of intimacy” is “one aspect of the pain and grief.” democracY in action Just west of Ferguson, Mo., is Kinloch (pop. 299), where newly elected mayor betty mccray was unable to start work on April 23 because the losing incumbent administration merely locked her out of city hall (“impeaching” her for “voter fraud” in the April 7 election, despite St. Louis County election officials having already certified her victory).

Of McCray’s two predecessors, one was once also locked out of office by police, and the other had to go to court to get his mayoral job back after admitting that he had missed childsupport payments. X

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Above and Beyond HHHH Director: Roberta Grossman Players: Leon Frankel, Gideon Lichtman, George Lichter, Benny Morris, Paul Reubens, Judy Rubenfeld DOCUMENTARY Rated NR The Asheville Jewish Film Festival’s film this week is Roberta Grossman’s documentary Above and Beyond — a movie about the origins of the Israeli Air Force. Since the film was produced by Steven Spielberg’s sister, Nancy, it is — as you may imagine — a slick, top-notch production in every way — up to and including well-made dramatizations of some of the events depicted. This slickness may, in fact, not always be in the film’s favor since it suggests a too Hollywoodized approach to the material — and the material is strong enough on its own. We are, after all, talking about a story that entails Jewish American WWII pilots — risking criminal prosecution from the U.S. government — flying in German planes (Messerschmitt 109s, to be exact) and wearing German flight suits only a few years after the war. The irony was lost on no one — and it hardly needed a high-gloss finish to help it. This, however, does not detract from the fascinating material at hand. The Asheville Jewish Film Festival and the Fine Arts Theatre present Above and Beyond for two showings — Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m. and Friday, May 15, at 1 p.m. at Fine Arts Theatre.

Chef HHH Director: Jon Favreau Players: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sofía Vergara, Emjay Anthony, Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. COMEDY Rated R Up front, I thought Jon Favreau’s Chef was a thoroughly mediocre movie when it descended on us last year to play in what seemed like perpetuity. I cut it some slack at the time because it was at least pleasant. It still had a transparent — almost nonexistent — story, mostly flat dialogue and barely breathing conflict that you knew would be resolved the minute a hint of anything approaching conflict popped up. Time — and people telling me, “Sometimes you just like a feel-good movie” — has pretty much killed that slack. But people flocked to it — with the fervor of fanboys at a spandex and explosions fest. Why, I still do not know. I don’t have anything against the idea of a feel-good movie — like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — but all this made me feel was a desire for the film to end. Others most certainly disagree, which, I suppose, is why the Hendersonville Film Society has programmed it. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Chef Sunday, May 17, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Now, Voyager HHHHS Director: Irving Rapper (Deception) Players: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder ROMANTIC DRAMA Rated NR If you deliberately took every soap-opera trope you could think of, packaged them in the glossiest movie the studio system could manage, threw in doses of culture for Hollywood’s notion of intellectuals, filled it with top-notch movie stars and then served the whole with a swooping Max Steiner score (largely built around the song “It Can’t Be Wrong”), you might — if you’re very lucky — end up with Now, Voyager. That’s what Warner Bros., director Irving Rapper and screenwriter Casey Robinson pulled off in 1942 — and on the set right next to Casablanca. That it starred that force of nature Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale — a character who gets to transform from frumpy neurotic spinster into stylish woman of the world locked in a hopeless romance with a married man (Paul Henreid between his Casablanca scenes, apparently) — is certainly a factor, as is the iconic image of Paul Henreid lighting two cigarettes at once. It’s all a case of making a fairly preposterous mix into something so enticing that you can’t help but buy into its romance. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Now, Voyager Sunday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Phenomena (Creepers) HHHH Director: Dario Argento (Suspiria) Players: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Federica Mastroianni, Fiore Argento HORROR Rated R Heavy-metal music blares from the sound track — sometimes for no very good reason. Jennifer Connelly gets telepathic with insects. A crazed killer prowls a girls school (named for Richard Wagner — whose name is pronounced incorrectly in the film’s one use of narration) in Switzerland.

Gory killings abound. There’s sleepwalking, unsafe buildings just anyone can wander into, a late-in-the-day plot twist involving an insane asylum, an over-the-top madwoman and more maggots than you ever dreamed possible (assuming you ever dreamed about maggots in the first place, which I’d advise against). Oh, yes, there’s also the world’s longest

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telephone cord and the possibly unique use of a simian ex machina. No, you haven’t lost your mind; it’s just Dario Argento’s Phenomena, which played the U.S. in a cut version as Creepers. (What’s acceptable in barely clothed young girls in Europe isn’t in the U.S.) Now, here it is in all its whacked-out glory — and it’s actually one of Signor Argento’s more coherent efforts. (That’s not saying much.) The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Phenomena (Creepers) Thursday, May 14, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Teorema (Theorem) HHHH Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Players: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Andrés José Cruz Soublette SURREAL ALLEGORICAL DRAMA Rated NR While this surreal — and sexually charged — drama is certainly nowhere near the most unsettling thing Pier Paolo Pasolini ever made (that would be 1975’s Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), Teorema is high on the Not for Everyone list.

It’s less that the film is upsetting (though some will find it so) than that this story of a mysterious stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives out of nowhere to seduce — both figuratively and literally — an entire family is told in a ... well, unorthodox manner.

It’s certainly thought-provoking in terms of content and form, but it should not be undertaken lightly. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Teorema (Theorem) Friday, May 15, 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

The Lady from Shanghai HHHHH Director: Orson Welles Players: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Erskine Sanford FILM NOIR THRILLER Rated NR To commemorate Orson Welles’ 100th birthday, the Asheville Film Society has booked the new 4K restoration of the filmmaker’s 1947 twisty — and twisted — film noir thriller The Lady from Shanghai. Not as well known as some of Welles’ works, The Lady from Shanghai is one of his most strikingly visual films — so much so that its climactic “hall of mirrors” scene has become legendary on its own. It is also one enjoyable wild ride — and, in some ways, the ultimate Orson Welles venture. Welles pitched the project to Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn over the phone in a desperate bid to get $50,000 for his stage production of Around the World in 80 Days. There really was no project and Welles (cribbing a title — If I Die Before I Wake — from a book on a rack) made the story up as he pitched it. Cohn went for it — with the proviso that it starred Rita Hayworth, with whom Welles was then in drawn-out divorce proceedings. Welles accepted — and then had to actually make a movie. The results — a dark tale about a poor Irish sailor (Welles) bewitched by a married woman (Hayworth) with a shady past and an even shadier husband (Everett Sloane) — perfectly reflect the situation of the film’s origins and Welles’ position in the film world. They’re also fascinating and entertaining. The Asheville Film Society is showing The Lady from Shanghai Wednesday, May 20, at 8:00 p.m. at The Carolina Asheville as the Budget Big Screen series salute to Orson Welles’ 100th birthday. Admission is $6 for AFS members and $8 for the general public. Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther will introduce the film.

The Tailor of Panama HHHHH Director: John Boorman (Excalibur) Players: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela, Harold Pinter SATIRICAL SPY THRILLER Rated R Never the most prolific of filmmakers (most of his films are two to four years apart), John Boorman has willfully bitten the hand that was feeding him at least twice with Zardoz and Exorcist II: The Heretic by convincing major studios to pour money into what were essentially limited-audience “art” films. Consequently, he often found an understandable reluctance on the part of studios to back his work. The Tailor of Panama did little to change that. It is certainly unorthodox and quirky enough to put off a lot of viewers. Everything about The Tailor of Panama works and everything about it is surprisingly daring — from the casting to the bitterly satirical tone to the use of interjections of unforced fantasy. It’s essentially a riff on Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, which was filmed by Carol Reed in 1960.

Indeed, the plots are often nearly interchangeable. But much has changed in the intervening years: The world has become more corrupt and cynical. The dapper — but inept — spy who recruited a vacuum cleaner salesman in the original is here a smarmy, sexobsessed secret agent (Pierce Brosnan) who doesn’t care if the results of a spying mission are faked, while his protege (Geoffery Rush) is a fraud from the onset. Bitterly funny and very clever. The Asheville Film Society will screen The Tailor of Panama Tuesday, May 19, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The danger of resisting a temptation too strenuously is that the temptation might depart. I suggest that you prevent that from happening. Without throwing yourself at the mercy of the temptation, see if you can coax it to stick around for a while longer. Why? In my view, it’s playing a useful role in your life. It’s motivating you to change some things that really do need to be changed. On the other hand, I’m not yet sure that it should become anything more than a temptation. It might serve you best that way, not as an object of your satisfied desire.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Endings to be useful must be inconclusive,” wrote science fiction novelist Samuel R. Delany. I endorse that theory for your use in the coming weeks. Interweave it with this advice from playwright Sam Shepard: “The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.” In other words, Gemini, don’t be attached to neat finales and splashy climaxes. Consider the possibility that you can simply slip free of the complicated past and head toward the future without much fanfare.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In mythic terms, you should be headed for the winner’s circle, which is inside the pleasure dome. The parade in your honor should follow the award ceremony, and let’s hope you will be on the lead float wearing a gold crown and holding a real magic wand while being sung to by a choir of people you love and who love you. If for any reason you are not experiencing some version of these metaphors, I urge you to find out why. Or better yet, get busy on planning a homecoming or graduation party or award ceremony for yourself. From an astrological perspective, you have a mandate to be recognized and appreciated for the gifts you offer the world.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): British Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley was a brilliant military commander.

Renowned for his ability to beat larger armies, he also had great skill at minimizing loss of life among his own troops. His most famous triumph took place in 1815, when he led the forces that defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. In the aftermath, the French tyrant lost his power and went into exile. What was the secret of Wellesley’s success? “Bonaparte’s plans were made in wire,” he said. “Mine were made in string.” In other words, Wellesley’s strategy was more flexible and adaptable. As circumstances changed, it could be rearranged with greater ease. That’s the approach I recommend for you in the coming days.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may not be strong enough to take a shot at a daunting challenge that’s five levels beyond your previous best. But I think you are at least ready to try a tricky challenge that’s one level higher than where you have been operating. And that, in my opinion, is a more practical use of your courage.

I think it would be a waste of your energy to get wrapped up in grandiose fantasies about impossible perfections. As long as you don’t overreach, you can accomplish small miracles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suspect you are about to experience some prime contenders for The Most Unusual Adventures of 2015. Are you thoroughly prepared? Of course not. There’s no way you can be totally ready to adapt to unpredictable wrinkles and change your mind at a moment’s notice. But that’s exactly what will make these experiments so fun. That’s why they will be effective in building up your resilience and willpower. For best results, apply your nighttime thinking to daytime activities, and vice versa. Spend minimal time on responsibilities that don’t teach you noble truths about your fellow madmen and madwomen. Now here’s my big question: How can you tap into the extra power you will need during your rite of passage?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My astrological colleagues discourage me from talking to you Bulls about financial matters. “Most Tauruses know 10 times more about the mystery of money than you will ever know,” said one. “Their excellent instincts trump any tips you could offer.” Another astrologer concurred, noting, “The financial advice you give Tauruses will at best be redundant and at worst simplistic.”

A third colleague summed it up: “Offering Tauruses guidance about money is like counseling Scorpios about sex.” So although I’m shy about providing recommendations, I will say this: The next five weeks will be a favorable time to set in motion the plans to GET RICHER QUICKER! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many modern astronomers are allergic to astrology, but from my perspective there is no inherent conflict between the two fields. Four of history’s greatest astronomers were practicing astrologers, after all: Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe and Pierre Gassendi. One of my friends in college, a Scorpio woman named Martha Maiden, is a firstrate astrologer who got a degree in astronomy and became a top scientist at NASA. In the spirit of finding reconciliation between apparent opposites, I’m happy to say that you are now a virtual virtuoso in your ability to reconcile both apparent opposites and actual opposites. I invite you to use this aptitude with flair and daring.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Matt Stutzman competes in the sport of archery. He’s the world’s record holder for longest accurate shot, having hit a target 230 yards away. What makes his accomplishment so extraordinary is the fact that he was born without any arms. He holds each arrow in his mouth and grasps the bow with his right foot and the help of a chest harness. In the spirit of this armless archer, and in accordance with your current astrological omens, I invite you to initiate an attempt to triumph over one of your so-called disadvantages.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Long before Lou Reed recorded the song “Walk on the Wild Side,” Nelson Algren wrote a novel titled A Walk on the Wild Side. It depicts the luxuriant depravity of New Orleans’ French Quarter in the 1930s. One of Algren’s most enduring bits of spiritual advice goes as follows: “Never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.” What do you think of that, Capricorn? Even if you don’t regard it as a universal rule that you should unfailingly obey, I suggest you observe it in the coming weeks. For the sake of your mental hygiene, be extra discerning about what influences you absorb — not just in bed, but everywhere.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The cosmos has authorized you to be hungrier than usual. You may also feel free to respond to your enhanced hunger with an extra aggressive quest to be fed.

Therefore: Be voracious! Risk being avid, ardent and even agog. Fill yourself up with pudding, pleasure, praise, peace, perks and privileges.

Anything else you’d like to engorge? If some unenlightened person questions your right to claim the biggest piece and the sweetest taste and the best fuel, inform them that your astrologer says you have ultimate permission.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is there an interesting ally whose path rarely crosses yours? Do you draw inspiration from a like-minded dynamo who is not fully available? Has fate kept you and a friend from getting as close as you would wish? According to my reading of the astrological omens, relationships like these could become more substantial in the coming weeks. The dream of a more robust connection could ripen into an opportunity to actually collaborate. So be alert for the openings, and be prepared to do what’s necessary to go deeper.

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The Director is also responsible for supervising the facilitation of the empowerment series “Getting Ahead in a Just Getting by World” and the management of a caseload of graduates of the program. • The position is full-time, benefits eligible, exempt and supervises two fulltime staff persons. educational requirement: Masters of Social Work preferred, Experience supervising staff and program administration, Excellent written and verbal communication, Computer Proficiency; Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Excel, Spanish fluency preferred. The YWCA fosters a team environment and seeks employees who are dedicated to promoting our mission: eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. • Please apply for this position only after reading the complete job description at www. ywcaofasheville.org under the heading ‘Who We Are.’ Contact information is provided there. Please do not call the YWCA to discuss this position.

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Liberty Corner Enterprises is hosting a job fair on Thursday, May 14th at our main office located at 723 Fairview Road in Asheville from 10:00-3:00 Same day interviews for on-site applicants! Full and part-time positions are available!

Stop by to learn more about Liberty Corner and how you can have a positive impact on your community!

Interested applicants must have a high school diploma or its equivalent, a valid North Carolina Driver’s license and dependable transportation.

We look forward to meeting you on Thursday!

Visit www.libertycornerent.com or call 828-254-9917 for more information mountainx.com

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