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Rewards for photos might thwart graffiti In response to your Xpress Molton cartoon of issue May 6-12, I have been following what the city of Asheville has been doing about graffiti in town and how they are trying to deal with it.

Throwing money at it to stop it does not seem to be working, but instead, why not offer rewards for anyone that can provide a picture of anyone doing graffiti? I look at some of it and say that it must have taken hours to paint, and someone must have seen it being done, and I’m sure that the artist has taken a selfie to prove and take credit for doing it.

I know this will work: I am one of the artists who built “Shopping Daze” on Haywood Street, and one night there were vandals defacing that sculpture. When a few customers at The Bier Garden across the street saw what was happening, [they] took pictures and called the police (thank you very much, Bier Garden customers). Police showed up, and the vandals were arrested and had to pay me to repair Shopping Daze.

If the city offered rewards, and the graffiti artist were to be arrested, they would have to pay to have the graffiti removed, and how long would it take for some of those selfies to make their way to police headquarters?

Just an idea and thought, and [I] am tired of seeing our town being defaced.

— Dan Howachyn Black Mountain

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The recent explosion at the substation in Candor, N.C., highlights my concern. Also, [electromagnetic fields] radiation is listed as a carcinogen by the World Health

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Why risk the health of our children and teachers? Why risk the excellent reputation and academic achievements of the elementary school? Would you want your children to attend a school next to a power station?

— Dr. Cameron Kurowski Asheville

Smoking casts cloud over Warren Wilson’s image Our first visit to Warren Wilson College was in 2010 to hear Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author and founder of the first global climate-change movement.

It is the perfect, bucolic setting for recognition of what we citizens of the Earth need to do.

Now that we live near, we’re able to visit more often and attended a recent fiddle and banjo competition there and took out-of-state visitors to see the campus.

Needless to say, your news about the high rate of students smoking casts a cloud over the image of Warren Wilson ["Smoke and Mirrors: Big Tobacco Smokes Warren Wilson College, May 6, Xpress]. Save the Earth, but not the students?

— Emily Cooper Asheville

Facility would take WNC recycling backward Despite its name, Regional Recycling Solutions (the new solid-waste recycling facility proposed for West Asheville along Hominy Creek) is a big step backward for recycling here in Western North Carolina.

This facility would accept 80,000 tons per day of mixed-waste garbage from households and industry, from which recyclable paper, plastic and metal would then be separated.

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Two problems: One, paper soiled from being mixed with organics/ garbage would be unusable for paper mills that accept post-consumer paper, and two — the bigger problem — it would discourage people and businesses from separating out their recyclables, for which so much progress has been made in the United States over the past 20 years.

The Buncombe County Board of Adjustment is having a hearing at noon on Wednesday, June 17, at 30 Valley St. in downtown Asheville, to decide whether to issue a conditional use permit to this proposed facility, which would then give [the] N.C. Department of Environmental Resources the green light to issue the necessary permits for the construction of this facility.

Is this really a step forward for recycling? Definitely not.

— Bill Chalk Asheville

South Slope trees should be preserved A stand of about 70 tall, beautiful old trees on the South Slope of Asheville is in danger of being removed. It is one of the last, if not the very last, undeveloped wooded areas in this part of downtown.

The trees are tall enough that you can see them from various vantage points several blocks away, including from the intersection of Patton and Coxe avenues, overarching the surrounding tall buildings. The trees provide valuable green space to this up-and-coming part of town, and they serve as a habitat for songbirds that entertain passers-by and residents of neighboring apartment buildings with their beautiful melodies.

The trees are projected to be felled to make room for a sixstory, 48-unit apartment building, including a two-level, partially underground parking garage. The proposed building would take up almost the entire lot, propped up by two-story-high retaining walls replacing the wooded slopes on the west and south sides. This will be an irreversible act and an irreplaceable loss of green space for downtown. It is sad to see this happening in front of our eyes in Asheville.

When contacted about this imminent great loss, several City Council members, a representa-

tive of the city Tree Commission, the Downtown Commission, [Downtown Asheville Residential Neighbors], PARC, Asheville GreenWorks and the Sierra Club all stayed silent or commented that they do not see a need or way to prevent the removal of the trees. Various city offices and the Downtown Commission have already approved the projected apartment complex.

Is that what we, the citizens of Asheville, want to allow silently?

Surely, there must be a way to preserve this valuable stand of old, tall trees. Can we pull together a group of individuals and organizations for the preservation of this piece of undeveloped nature? We challenge all readers of this opinion letter to speak up! We hope so!

— Inge and Imke Durre Asheville

Consider landlords’ perspectives in affordable housing If you are upset about the lack of affordable housing in Asheville, consider these numbers. The true monthly costs of being a landlord: $850+ mortgage (on a $145,000 house at 8 percent [interest], which is what interest rates were when you could buy one at that price in Asheville), $160/month landlord insurance, $140/month property taxes. That is $1,150 per month.

Landlord insurance wants verification that renters who make three times the rent are being rented to (otherwise the landlord is not considered a reliable risktaker). That is $3,450 per month documented income (taxes, pay stubs, bank statements).

How many people in Asheville make that? You would have to work [more than] 80 hours a week at $10 an hour to do so. Of course outside, short-term rentals that don’t need to qualify guests beyond their credit card are great.

The city needs to: 1. Not initiate regulations that restrict a small landlord’s capacity to keep their properties.

2. Stop selling their lowincome housing developments to the highest bidder.

3. Incentivize the true development of affordable housing (which means a significant

financial investment by the city, so perhaps the city should just build more themselves? Novel idea).

— Rupa Russe Asheville

Thank the Earth by striving not to drive It would be a miracle if everybody for one week didn’t drive.

There are so many more options like walking, biking, public transportation or carpooling. Strive not to drive!

I believe that everybody should find the urge to walk and not drive. I find damaging the Earth is careless, and we can help it by not using cars. Not using cars means we’re improving our environment.

When you’re not using your car, you’re not spending money on gas.

It’s win for you and the Earth.

Win-win! The Earth takes care of us, and all we do is pollute it, so thank the Earth by Striving Not to Drive the week of May 15.

— Tatum Dunton Fourth-grader Rainbow Community School

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Stop pollution in Strive Not to Drive Week Strive Not to Drive is a fantastic opportunity to stop pollution, save money and get physical exercise.

One reason you should participate in Strive Not to Drive Week is you can save money on gas. The second reason is that when you are in a car, you’re not getting any physical exercise.

There are many other great ways of transportation like running, walking, biking and skateboarding.

The third reason is when you are taking a car, and many other people are driving a car, that is a bunch of fumes going into the air and polluting the Earth. That is why taking a city bus or carpooling is an awesome way to stop pollution.

I hope the people who read this letter will participate in Strive Not to Drive Week starting on May 15.

— Lily Fox Fourth-grader Rainbow Community School

Beer City, USA, or DWI City, USA? I am a law-abiding citizen. In July 2014, I was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, while being within the legal limit of bloodalcohol content and without any appreciable signs of impairment.

I was convicted in District Court.

I appealed that conviction to Superior Court. A jury found me not guilty. The dashcam video was proof of my innocence.

I was not impaired. This was a case of harassment and entrapment. I was humiliated and stunned to be handcuffed, arrested and detained for far too long without charge.

In the ’80s, Asheville was a boarded-up ghost town. If we want a thriving tourism economy and a “craft brew mecca” kind of culture, then we need law enforcement officers trained to deal with this new direction our fine city is taking. Arrest is not the only way to solve an ambiguous situation; it is the only way to reach quotas

used to justify federal funding for a DWI task force.

Take note of the new military-style DWI Task Force Humvees with a DWI Lab patrolling Asheville. Does this make us feel safe or does it cast a negative light on a vibrant downtown? This kind of police presence undermines the city’s stated goals and makes patrons abandon our fine restaurants, music venues and bars for fear of being persecuted incorrectly by law enforcement.

I do not condone drunk or impaired driving! I respect law enforcement.

But note that North Carolina law gives officers liberal discretion in deciding whether they believe someone is driving while intoxicated. You can be charged with a DWI in North Carolina purely at the discretion of the arresting officer.

Two days after my arrest, I was inundated with mail from DUI lawyers and substance-abuse counselors. This is a racket, folks!

If this injustice continues, they are shooting themselves in the foot economically, and downtown Asheville will return to the way it was in the ’80s … barren and lifeless.

— Aileen Pearlman Fletcher

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Good day sunshine Arthur Morgan School installs largest solar array in multicounty area

Unfortunately, French Broad Electric has ended the practice of net metering, so it will be buying our output at half the market value. We’ll still see a modest return on the panels, though, perhaps earning $3,500 a year. In other words, though we will be supplying 80 percent of our own power, we’ll save only 20 percent on our bills.

But at the Arthur Morgan School, the equation isn’t solely about dollars and cents. Next year, the community will watch the new field of solar panels soaking up the sun’s rays among the cows and sheep in Moon Field. And perhaps, on returning from future field trips to West Virginia, students will report that the dust has cleared, the carbon is staying in the ground, the mountains are intact and the forests are flourishing. X

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For years, students at the Arthur Morgan School have returned after 18-day “Power Trips” recounting shocking tales of the destruction caused by mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia, just a couple of hundred miles north of us. This year, in “Saving Miami Beach,” a climate change class and trip, students learned about rising sea levels and habitat disruption caused by our civilization’s addiction to coal and other fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, in 2014, the school paid the French Broad Electric Membership Corp., our local utility, $17,700 for 91,000 kilowatt-hours of power. To produce that electricity, 17 tons of coal were burned, releasing 69 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And though we’ve used generous support from The Green Initiative Fund to replace old, inefficient appliances, our power consumption continues to grow due to increases in technology, freezer space and dehumidifier use.

For many years, we’ve heated our buildings with wood, a renewable fuel, offset by our stewardship of

nearly 100 acres of Appalachian hardwood forest that busily gobbles up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each summer. But the dark cloud of carbon emissions and the distant rumbling of beloved mountains being blown to bits still fog our collective conscience.

Thanks to a fortuitous series of events, however, the school is finally able to mitigate its carbon footprint. This spring, solar panels are sprouting out of the ground in Moon Field. Well, not exactly sprouting: With help from staff and students, Atomic Solar, a locally owned and operated company, is erecting the biggest solar power array within French Broad Electric’s entire operating area. By summer, we’ll have 52.2 kW of potential power

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online, making it the largest source of electricity in our three-county corner of North Carolina. Within a year, we hope to produce about 74,000 kwh of power: 80 percent of the school’s total consumption.

We are fortunate that SunPower Corp. donated the 52.2 kW worth of solar panels. And then, drawing on various available funds, generous donations and grants, Heather Dawes spent a year cobbling together the money needed to complete the installation.

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Down the road The future of Future Interstate-26

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On average, some 56,000 vehicles traverse the Interstate 26 corridor between downtown Asheville and the Madison County line every day. The heavily used route serves residents of the immediate area, surrounding counties and eastern Tennessee, as well as long-distance travelers.

On the 16-mile stretch between the Forks of Ivy (Exit 13) and the Interstate 240/Patton Avenue interchange, however, the word “future” is affixed to the standard red, white and blue interstate signs.

Eventually, those qualifying signs will be taken down, once a massive construction project by the N.C. Department of Transportation, the design consulting firm AECOM, and a slew of federal and state agencies brings this stretch of highway up to interstate standards.

GrowinG pains How does an ordinary highway become an interstate? The answer lies in “A Policy on Design Standards: Interstate System,” a publication of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials that outlines the requirements a road must meet. There are benchmarks for highway access, grading, the number and width of lanes, and the structural integrity of bridges and on-ramps.

Furthermore, these standards vary depending on the surrounding area’s population density and zoning. In the case of the Future I-26, traffic engineers must work with both sets of standards, because the study area spans urban and rural land uses.

NCDOT traffic engineer Zahid baloch outlines three main categories of work that must be done before the word “future” can be unbolted from those roadway signs: “adding lanes,

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reconfiguring interchanges and rehabilitating or replacing several bridges.”

One of the most pressing issues, especially at the southern end near downtown Asheville, is expanding the road’s capacity: Based on traffic volumes, says Baloch, lanes may be added and/or widened. Shoulders will be widened to the standard 12 feet, and the median will be expanded to anywhere from 26 to 46 feet, depending on the existing features and available funding.

Many aspects of the road, including things like the speed of exit curves, weren’t built with interstate standards in mind, notes don Kostelec of Kostelec Planning, an Asheville-based design firm that’s worked on several interstate projects across the country.

mappinG the future: The Future I-26 Project extends from the I-240 interchange north to Exit 13 near the border of Madison County. Map courtesy of NCDOT.

“Highway 19-23 was originally built as a freeway,” he says, adding that all those factors are standing in the way of official interstate designation.

Expansion aside, the roadway will also need to be beefed up to “provide a sufficient pavement structure to accommodate future traffic volumes and loads,” says Baloch. “This may include replacing some of the existing pavement structure.” These

details, he notes, will be worked out as the design plans are finalized over the next few years.

The Future I-26 construction plan also requires the DOT and its partners to evaluate the 29 bridges and overpasses associated with this stretch of road.

“Bridges that are nearing the end of their useful life span will be replaced,” Baloch explains. “Others will be updated and widened to match the proposed improvements.”

Kostelec, though, cautions against reading too much into the terms used by traffic engineers. “‘Functionally obsolete,’” he notes, “is one of those loaded terms.” But in many cases, it refers to things like railing heights,

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new crash load standards and other changes in federal requirements. “If you built a bridge last year that was up to code, and then the federal government revised their standards this year, then technically your new bridge is obsolete.” from paper to paVement Identifying the challenges facing the Future I-26 project (officially dubbed “A-0010A” by the DOT) is fairly straightforward; implementing the needed improvements is more complicated. “Typically, large projects such as this one are broken down into smaller subsections for funding and/or construction purposes,” Baloch explains. “This gives the state the ability to spread out funding over multiple years and allows for sections with the greatest need or priority to be constructed first.”

For this project, engineers have broken up the highway into three subsections: A-0010AA extends from the project terminus in downtown Asheville north to Exit 19, which services Weaverville, Marshall and connects to U.S. 25-70. Section A-0010AB runs from Exit 19 to Flat Creek (Exit 17) and the Old Mars Hill Highway. The final segment, A-0010AC, runs north from Exit 17 and ends just short of Forks of Ivy and Stockton Road (Exit 13).

Timelines for completing each section are still murky. Currently, only section A-0010AA has sufficient funding in the State Transportation Improvement Program. Baloch says right of way acquisition is expected to begin in fiscal year 2020, with construction commencing by 2022. He notes, though, that all the project’s schedules are preliminary and subject to significant change at any time.

Kostelec, meanwhile, says, “In my 13 years working in this industry, I’ve never seen a federally funded project completed on the original timeline.”

One reason, he continues, is that “federal authorities ask more questions when their funds are involved.”

Like a parent who must choose between giving money to their own child or a stranger, notes Kostelec, “You’re always going to ask more questions of the stranger, and that’s largely how the federal government sees any construction project with other agencies involved.”

In the meantime, any current construction work that’s visible along the roadway, notes Baloch, is part of “operational maintenance.” As for the major improvements, “The focus right now is on determining how best to improve

the existing roadway and bridges while taking into consideration any effects the proposed project could have on our environment.”

The DOT, he continues, also “recognizes the need for regional coordination to maintain functionality during all phases of roadway improvement in the Asheville area.”

Further complicating project A-0010A’s timeline is the dizzying array of agencies that have to sign off on the project before construction can begin. The list includes such diverse local, state and federal entities as the Federal Highway Administration; the Army Corps of Engineers; the Environmental Protection Agency; state and federal fish, water and wildlife services; the state Historic Preservation Office; the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization; the Tennessee Valley Authority; and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation.

All partner agencies must be included in the planning and study process to ensure that the DOT receives the permits needed for construction to begin. This means project managers must submit a series of plans and proposals to each agency, which then suggests tweaks and points out areas of concern. The proposals and studies are then revised until everyone is in agreement.

The DOT, says Baloch, “has formed an outreach plan that spans all phases of project development” to help the agency gather input from the various partners and stakeholders.

project and any impacts on traffic during construction. Baloch encourages residents to check the project’s website often to keep abreast of the latest developments. The agency also plans to hold regular community meetings to give residents a chance to ask questions and voice concerns.

As of this writing, however, the DOT and its partner agencies are still in the initial planning stages, Baloch and other officials say. Over the next several years, the Merger Process Team will “discuss bridging decisions, selection of the design option(s), and minimization of project impacts.”

The latest estimates peg the total cost of upgrading Future I-26 at about $184 million. But considering the multiple challenges the project faces and the uncertain timeline, don’t look for those optimistic “future” signs to be taken down anytime soon.

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merGinG interests A Merger Process Team including representatives of all the partner agencies oversees the project development and permitting processes, seeking to streamline the massive undertaking while helping team members ensure that the work satisfies their agencies’ respective missions.

But the DOT must also keep tabs on any projects the city or county may have that might affect daily traffic flow. To make sure that everyone is on the same page, says Baloch, “We strive to keep an open dialogue with local governments surrounding the corridor.”

Meanwhile, the project’s traffic engineers must also keep the public informed about the plans and progress. The agency, he says, takes a multipronged approach, including frequent updates on the

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Down and out in Asheville The face of local homelessness

In 2005, city and county officials adopted the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, an ambitious collaboration involving many local agencies. Significant progress has been made: Since 2005, chronic homelessness is down 82 percent, from 293 people to just 54, city officials say.

Yet there are still homeless folks on local streets.

“We’re struggling as a community with long wait times for housing: We don’t have enough, and the demand is great,” says heather dillashaw, the staff person for the AshevilleBuncombe Homeless Initiative Advisory Committee, a joint city/ county body charged with implementing the 10-Year Plan. “City Council has made it a priority, but we need people to talk to elected officials.”

Area residents, Dillashaw maintains, need to prod both the city and county to take action on establishing more affordable housing — and, thus, helping members of the homeless community get their lives back on track. asia james, program director of the A-HOPE Day Center, agrees, saying concerned citizens should “do everything they can to advocate for housing: attend City Council meetings, write letters to officials and letters to the editor, things like that.”

A-HOPE is a project of Homeward Bound of WNC, a local nonprofit whose focus is getting people into permanent housing. But in the meantime, says James, the day center serves as a sort of switchboard for homeless folks, who can use it as a mailing address, a place to take a shower or find other helpful programs.

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range from telephone to having clean clothes for a job interview, she explains. The Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry and the Salvation Army, notes James, “give vouchers for new clothes. The Goodwill on Patton also gives job interview clothes, but we haven’t solved the issue of where people can do laundry yet.”

“The real goal is housing, though.

There is funding coming in: We just don’t have the actual housing.”

Meanwhile, homeless people continue to struggle not only with these tangible practical issues but also with social stereotypes that consign them to a kind of untouchable status. In fact, however, the face of local homelessness cannot so easily be reduced to a few derogatory clichés, however deeply ingrained they may be. Like any other human population, the homeless are a diverse group of individuals, whose histories and dreams may be surprising or even inspiring; here are profiles of a couple of them. not eVen human?

The smell of food wafts along Patton Avenue, and buskers play music or pose as living statues, guitar cases and tip jars lying at their feet. Over in Pritchard Park, a guy in a tie-dye shirt and dreadlocks plays a drum as passers-by pause, listen for a few minutes and then move on, their eyes never straying to the neighboring stone slab where john, a 53-year-old homeless man, is trying to get some sleep.

“Most people don’t even notice I’m here,” he says. “People treat you like you’re not even human.”

John is not downtown for the music or the hip atmosphere: He needs a place to rest and something to eat. Getting food is never guaranteed, and homeless people do a lot of walking, constantly moving around as they try to find someplace where the police won’t roust them out.

Meanwhile, the available options for shelter may not work for everyone.

educated, trained… and hopefuL: “There seems to be more opportunity in Asheville” says John, who adds that finding a job is “hard to do when you haven’t showered and your clothes are filthy.”

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“Some of the missions lock you in at night,” notes John. “That’s not cool. The one good thing about being homeless is freedom. I don’t want to be locked inside somewhere with no way to get out: You don’t know what can happen.”

Nothing about John seems to fit the stereotypes: He’s highly educated and says he’s been homeless for only a short time.

John has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Delaware, a graduate diploma from the University of New South Wales, and a master’s in marine ecology from the University of Sydney. But after living and working in marine biology and corporate environments all over the U.S., John says he got tired of working constantly and still feeling dissatisfied with his life, so he got certified as a yoga instructor.

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He was living in Poughkeepsie, New York, teaching yoga at Dutchess Community College, when he met and fell in love with an Irish woman.

“Suddenly, I knew what all the love songs were about,” he says.

“We moved to Ireland to help take care of her ill father. They wouldn’t let me stay, though. If you have, like, 400,000 euros, they let you stay; not regular people, though.”

John moved back in with his mother in West Virginia for a short time but didn’t find work, and she asked him to leave. With $40 in his pocket, he says he went to the bus station and asked how close to Asheville he could get.

He made it to Winston-Salem that night.

“I met a wonderful group of people there,” he recalls. “They taught me how to be homeless.

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anna, an Asheville native, returned here recently after being homeless and traveling around the country for 31 years.

“I’m on a faith journey,” she says.

“God has given me a mission, and everywhere I go I see injustice.”

Anna left Asheville at age 16 after her best friend taught her about God, feeling compelled to move around helping mentally ill, disabled and homeless people.

She dreams of attending law school, so she can sue governments over the unconstitutional treatment of people that she says she’s seen.

Adding to Anna’s challenges, though, is the fact that she travels with her husband, david, who’s been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Anna says he has three personalities stemming from prior traumas.

“There’s a 9-year-old, a 14-year-old and then there’s him,” she explains. “The others

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exist to protect him from whatever happened when they formed. We know about one, but his family won’t help us learn the other.”

As Anna talks about the trauma, David grumbles angrily. “It’s the 14-year-old,” she says quietly.

Then, fumbling with his backpack, David momentarily reveals a pile of prescription pill bottles inside before zipping it closed. “They don’t need to know all that,” he tells her.

But a compliment about a pendant he’s wearing seems to calm him down. “She makes jewelry and trades it for things,” says David.

“She’s really good at it. It helps us get food and stuff when we don’t want to go into the churches.”

Even though they’re on a mission from God, they don’t like religion, Anna explains. David agrees, saying religion has killed God. Selling jewelry, notes Anna, also supports her dream of going to law school. “We’re not lazy,” she says.

“We work. We just work differently than other people.”

David adds that they also spend a lot of time just hunting up food and shelter. And as the sun slips low in the sky, the two say they need to be off in search of a place to bed down for the night.

“We were sleeping under the bridge at the French Broad, but the cops made us leave,” Anna reveals, adding, “We’ll find something, though.”

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But I couldn’t stay in WinstonSalem: I hated it.”

With $200 an ex-girlfriend gave him, he set out for Asheville the next day.

“There seems to be more opportunity in Asheville,” says John. “I’m hopeful; I want to find a job as a yoga instructor again. It’s just hard to do when you haven’t showered and your clothes are filthy.”

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Code for Asheville harnesses technology to help local renters, homebuyers

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For my housing > In an age when you<can deposarticle. it a paycheck, order a pizza and instantly connect video-to-video with a friend in Seattle in under in Affordable housing five minutes — all while walking Asheville is hard the to dog — it’s not far-fetched to think find: technology could be the next step in solving real-life community issues.

Asheville: Members of Code for Asheville, a 43.6% ofbrigade, renters are are local Code for America taking steps to help alleviate one of the cost burdened city’s biggest problems: therenters affordable 21.1% of are housing crisis. For the third severely coststraight year, brigade members will be taking burdened part in Code for America’s National Day of Civic Hacking, “aka Hack for 29.6% of homeownChange,” Co-Captain patrick conant ers are cost explains. On Saturday, Juneburdened 6, the local group will sponsor Housing 11.5% Open of homeownAsheville, a team effort that will work to ers are severely cost build an online portal to answer quesburdened tions about affordable housing (see box, “Gearing Up”). burdened: pay “As we startedCost to plan this year’s 30% or“Imore of event,” notes Conant, was moved income onaffordable housing by all of the coverage of the housing crisis in Asheville Severelyand costdecided to explore whether there were burdened: paysome 50% tech-based solutions we could offer.” on or more of income Core team member jesse michel housing says, “I think what inspired me for this whole thing is, I have a friend who recently had to move into public housing with his mom. Basically, I helped him move, helped him get his paperwork worked out. We just ran through the motions with him and realized what a difficult experience it is for some people — not only to afford housing but to know what the proper steps are for finding and qualifying for it.”

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COST BURDENED: PAY 30% OR MORE OF INCOME ON HOUSING

ASHEVILLE HOMEOWNERS 29.6% 11.5%

ASHEVILLE RENTERS 43.6% 21.1%

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PAY 50% OR MORE OF INCOME ON HOUSING taKinG on the issues: As part of Code for America’s “Hack for Change” day, local brigade Code for Asheville will tackle one of the city’s most pressing issues: affordable housing.

LastinG benefits The Open Housing portal aims to support buyers, sellers and renters by: • making it easier for people to find housing based on their income and needs; • assisting those without a computer or smartphone in finding affordable housing; • helping prospective homebuyers calculate the potential costs (and savings) of owning instead of renting; • giving residents a better understanding of how much they can afford to spend per month on housing, and what budget adjustments might be needed; • helping qualified residents find public housing and navigate the proper channels for government benefits; • enabling developers and commercial homeowners to gauge how affordable their prices are; • steering developers toward areas where affordable housing might most benefit the community.

“Real estate is hard to navigate for some people,” Michel says. “I think what we’re most excited about is having an opportunity to break down the barriers of access and help people understand what oppor-

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tunities they have available to them, whether you’re trying to budget to buy a house or just get better clarity on the paperwork that you’re signing.”

Open Housing, though, will differ from past years’ projects in at least one key respect.

“Hackathon-style events typically consist of multiple teams, each working on a separate idea in a competitive format,” Conant explains.

“However, a long-standing problem is that projects built in a single day by a team of volunteers don’t continue to evolve after the event.

“When you’re trying to help solve critical problems in the community, we felt that we needed a different model,” he continues. “Although we absolutely want to see original ideas, we plan to tie all the projects together in a single website to provide a living resource for the community.”

What might be more effective this year, Michel adds, is “creating a unified housing portal that people will be contributing ’mini-apps’ or components to — all under the same project umbrella.” Rather than competing, he says, these teams will focus on the “bigger goal: establishing a community resource” that will last into the foreseeable future.

These events, though, aren’t open solely to techies, and participation is free.

“We need volunteers with a wide range of skill sets — even bringing a different perspective can help us solve a problem,” Conant explains. “Whether you can write code, organize the community, collect data or help share the story of the event, we need your help to build Open Housing in Asheville.”

coLLaboratiVe efforts Also new this year is a partnership with GeekOut, a local arts-and-technology festival held the first weekend of June in UNC Asheville’s Wilma M. Sherrill Center.

“We’re really excited to pursue this event with a collaborative partner,” says Conant. “We’ll be able to expose our efforts to a wider community and build support for civic technology and open data.”

And because many municipal employees participate in Code for Asheville — including co-captain scott barnwell, the city’s business and public technology manager — it’s not too far-fetched to think attendees might have a chance to swap ideas with a local politician.

“I do expect officials from the city and county to come,” says Conant. “I reached out to Councilman Gordon Smith when we first decided to explore an affordable housing theme, and he provided me with some great ideas and resources that have helped to shape the event. We also typically draw several local government employees to our event — after all, they’re the ones collecting much of this local data in the first place.”

Getting folks to spend their Saturday inside working on a civic technology project, notes Conant, “takes a lot of effort. For this event, however, I’m noticing people from many different backgrounds reaching out and offering to help. The affordable housing crisis affects everyone in Asheville.”X

Gearing up In the weeks leading up to Open Housing, Code for Asheville is planning two voluntary sessions focusing on the project’s mission. On Thursday, May 21, the group will hold a community social at Mojo Coworking (60 N. Market St. in downtown Asheville), starting at 5:30 p.m. And on Friday, June 5, there’ll be a 5:30 p.m. brainstorming session at Mojo Coworking to help prepare for the next day’s event.

Open Housing will happen Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in UNCA’s Sherrill Center. For more information, go to avl.mx/0wo. X

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Spaced out

The future of parking in downtown Asheville

Good news, bad news

parKinG probLems: The Wall Street garage shows 47 spots open on a Tuesday afternoon, but that’s not always the case. Photo by Pat Barcas

Ken putnam has a passion for parking. The city of Asheville’s transportation director says that despite complaints, he never has a problem finding a spot downtown when he drives to work. But then again, he knows where to look.

“I’m glad we’re having this discussion of running out of parking, instead of the opposite of how do we get people to come to Asheville,” Putnam told Asheville Downtown Commission members at a May 5 meeting on parking challenges in the city.

The meeting served up a preliminary look at what parking challenges this growing city will face in the next 10 to 15 years, and what resources are available to tackle those problems. Among the items discussed were things many motorists probably don’t think about: parking meter maintenance, garage life span and revenue collections.

The next few years are critical, said Putnam, due to a variety of factors.

The city’s oldest and largest parking garage, at the U.S. Cellular Center, will turn 39 this year. Putnam says he uses 40 years as a benchmark for this type of structure; once they hit 40, it’s time to start thinking about either repairing or demolishing them.

“In the next two years, [the U.S. Cellular Center garage] will be undergoing heavy-duty structural maintenance, and a work engineering analysis will be performed,” he explained. Engineers will take a look

at the 550-parking-space structure and decide whether to perform extensive repairs or tear it down and start anew.

“That’s the tricky part, because if we go [the latter] route, it will displace vehicles for the duration of the construction,” says Putnam explained in a later interview.

“That’s a lot of cars you have to think about.”

The other garages (on Rankin and Wall streets, and Biltmore Avenue) have waiting lists for monthly parking ranging from months to years — and they’re not exactly spring chickens, either.

“In the next 10 to 15 years, all three might need to be replaced,” he noted, adding, “That’s one scenario.”

There are several garages near the Grove Arcade, yet parking continues to be an issue for both its in-town and out-of-town visitors. ruth summers, who handles leasing at the arcade, has worked there for 11 years.

“It can take you years to get a [rental] space, but the city doesn’t want to buy land. I think that’s being shortsighted. Every year it gets harder and harder for customers to find parking. I’d love to see the city look at it in a holistic manner — be proactive with developers, ask them if they have spaces when building, or if they are willing to put in extra parking,” she said.

Parking might be on a lot of people’s minds, but it’s just one problem the city needs to tackle.

“I think if the City Council approves buying land, it would strictly be for affordable housing at this point,” Council member jan davis observed during the May 5 meeting.

A hybrid system may be the answer. “The future is mixed-use parking decks,” said consultant fred burchett of Kimley-Horn, which has been hired by the city to present parking information culled from a comprehensive 2008 study, and subsequent 2010 and 2013 occupancy studies. “The tenants park there at night, and commuters and shoppers park during the day.”

Meanwhile, though, the booming South Slope neighborhood is experiencing growing pains due to a flurry of new businesses.

“For expansion, that’s the next logical place to go,” noted Putnam, adding, “It’s tricky, because it’s called South Slope for a reason.

That presents challenges when building a garage.”

There is some good news: The current balance in the city’s parking enterprise fund is a healthy $580,000, plus an 8 percent reserve, all collected via parking fees and enforcement. Parking garages are pricey to build, though, costing an estimated $12,000 to $15,000 per space, and revelers at the new South Slope breweries shouldn’t be surprised to see parking meters pop up there in the coming years.

“We have to make sure we can cover the cost,” Putnam explained.

“The enterprise fund is healthy today, but how much can it take on?” feedinG the meters Parking meters, though, are more complicated than one might think, and traditional ones are getting harder to find than a pay phone.

But when it comes time to replace the city’s roughly 700 meters, says Putnam, “Most likely, we won’t go with a credit card machine. That’s 700 ’points of sale’ that can go wrong,” he said.

Under the current Passport parking system, all sales go through a phone app, which counts as one point of sale. There’s also the labor cost for retrieving and handling thousands of coins, which argues against the old-school idea of asking people to fish around for quarters to feed the meter.

Another two-day parking study will be conducted this October, the city’s highest traffic month and the one Putnam said presents the worst parking conditions. Cars will be counted and parking spots noted, and the results will be compared with past data.

One thing that won’t change as long as Putnam is in charge, though, is the city’s differential parking arrangement, in which street spaces cost more than parking in a garage.

“As long as I’m here, I’d like to keep that,” he said. X

red means occupied: Fred Burchette, a consultant from Kimley-Horn explains that red areas on the map indicate a 90 percent occupancy rate during a study performed in October, Asheville’s busiest month for parking.

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Buzz around Buncombe department of justice: duKe enerGY sentenced to paY $102 miLLion for cLean water act crimes Duke Energy pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday, May 14, to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at five of its North Carolina plants.

The nation’s largest power company agreed to pay $102 million in fines and restitution for the pollution of the Dan River, which flooded with coal ash from Duke’s Eden plant last February, and for illegal dumping practices at sites in Asheville, Moncure, Goldsboro and Mt. Holly.

Part of that sum, $34 million, will be spent on environmental projects and land conservation to benefit North Carolina and Virginia rivers and wetlands.

In a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Western District of North Carolina U.S. Attorney jill w. rose is quoted saying, “Duke’s subsidiaries discharged potentially toxic pollutants that put at risk North Carolina’s water quality and wildlife, and today’s outcome ensures they will be held responsible for violating federal environmental requirements. The defendants will now have to comply with the terms imposed by the court, including paying hefty financial penalties and making significant financial contributions toward improving the quality of impacted waterways, wetlands and our water supply system.”

The alleged violations, the Department of Justice reports, “included unlawfully failing to maintain equipment at the Dan River and Cape Fear (Moncure) facilities.”

Additionally, the company admits to being in violation of “unlawfully discharging coal ash and/or coal ash wastewater from impoundments at the Dan River, Asheville, Lee (Goldsboro, Wayne County) and Riverbend (Mt. Holly, Gaston County) facilities.

“Approximately 108 million tons of coal ash are currently held in coal ash basins owned and operated by [Duke Energy],” reads the release.

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ments at the Asheville, Dan River, Riverbend and Sutton (Wilmington) facilities. — Hayley Benton counciL diVided but LeaninG touGh on short-term rentaLs It’s not yet clear what action Asheville City Council members will take on short-term rentals, a common but controversial practice in which property owners rent space for 30 days or less without being present in the homes. But Council is leaning toward stiffer fines, stricter enforcement and a continued ban in residential areas.

STRs violate the city’s Unified Development Ordinance when done in residential areas, but they’ve become common via such services as Airbnb: There are an estimated 680 short-term rentals operating in Asheville, but they’re only allowed in commercial zones.

At their May 12 meeting, Council took no formal vote on the issue but gave carefully worded opinions, some members cautioning that Asheville would lose its character if STR regulations are relaxed.

The council was scheduled to vote on the purchase of 60 Taser Axon Flex Body Wear Cameras, but the vote was delayed. Mayor Esther Manheimer said the purchase request, which had been submitted by intern Police Chief Steve Belcher, had been withdrawn. — Pat Barcas LiVe from downtown asheViLLe … it’s asheViLLefm!

Asheville FM, a community radio station that has been “broadcasting” on the Internet since 2009, gained a license for a 100 watt signal and began transmitting on Monday, May 18, from the station’s antenna on top of the Hotel Indigo in downtown. The signal has a broadcast radius of approximately 10 miles and can be found at 103.3 on the FM dial. 103.3AshevilleFM, as the station will now be known, was created by the nonprofit Friends of Community Radio and is volunteerrun. The station currently runs 52 locally produced weekly programs.

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duKe’s daY in court: The nation’s largest power company agreed to pay $102 million in fines and restitution for the pollution of the Dan River. “Duke’s subsidiaries discharged potentially toxic pollutants that put at risk North Carolina’s water quality and wildlife,” said U.S. attorney Jill Rose. The energy company must meet federal and state laws by excavating and closing coal ash impoundments at the Asheville, Dan River, Riverbend and Sutton facilities. Xpress file photo by Max Cooper

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• TH (5/21), 6pm - Presention by the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society on the Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. mARCh AgAinst monsAnto march-against-monsanto.com • SA (5/23), 11am - Anti-GMO/ biotech protest. Free to attend.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. stRive not to dRive 2015 strivenottodrive.org • WE (5/20), 5:30pm - “Ride of Silence,” memorial ride for those injured or killed on bikes.

Held at Register of Deeds, 35 Woodfin St. • TH (5/21), 7pm “Transportation Story Slam,” with theme of “getting around.” Held at Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Ave.

fARm & gARden BunComBe County mAsteR gARdeneRs 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • TU (5/21), 10am - Workshop on floral design using plants from home gardens. Free.

Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. gARden JuBilee 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • SA (5/23) & SU (5/24) - Lawn and garden show with vendors and workshops. Sponsored by Historic Hendersonville. Free to attend. Held in downtown Hendersonville.

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goveRnment & PolitiCs 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. move to Amend of BunComBe County 299-1242, movetoamend.org/ nc-asheville • SU (5/24), 1-4pm - Mock birthday celebration for the “corporate person.” Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

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• FR (5/22), 4pm - Nature photography workshop for 3rd-5th graders. $10. Held at Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd.

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.

50 miles in memory

WHAT: Collier Lilly Half-Century Ride 4 Life WHEN: Sunday, May 24, 7:45 a.m.

WHERE: 220 Amboy Road, Asheville WHY: The N.C. Outward Bound School is holding a half-century bike ride in memory of Collier Cobb Lilly, a graduate of the NCOBS, to raise awareness of bike safety, organ donation and advocacy. Originally held in Davidson, this 50-mile ride has been moved to Asheville this year as part of the Mountain Sports Festival. Traversing mountain passes and the scenic backroads of Buncombe County, riders will be fully supported with a rest stop and support vehicles.

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1 p.m. at Carrier Park’s velodrome.

Associated with Trips for Kids, a cycling nonprofit that uses bicycles as vehicles for life lessons, this ride will help raise money for kids in the community to participate in outdoor events. “We want to raise money for scholarships in WNC to increase the number of students who attend [NCOBS] from this area,” explains NCOBS associate director of development Carrie Myers. After their rides, participants can enjoy the fun and music of the Mountain Sports Festival.

Registration for the half-century ride is $40, and all proceeds will be used to raise scholarship money for area NCOBS students. To register, visit collierlillyride.racesonline.com/ registration. For more information, email Myers at CMyers@ncobs.org.

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Kids’ Activities at the Libraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• 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. • FR (5/22), 4pm - Teen Awesome Group planning meeting, for 6th grade and up. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • SA (5/23), 10:30am - “Mad Science!” chemistry and physics demonstrations. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SA (5/23), 2pm - “Mad Science!” chemistry and physics demonstrations. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (5/26), 4pm - Stories and yoga for ages 4-9. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Pajama Jam Sleepy Story Time. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. PARI SciGirls 862-5554, pari.edu • TU (5/26), 6-8pm - Interactive lesson on leafs as a food for insects and animals. $10. Held at Brevard High School, 609 N Country Club Road, Brevard Spellbound Children’s Bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free.

What’s Shakin ashevilletheatre.org • SATURDAYS through (7/11), 10am - Singing and dancing class for 6 months to 4 years. $12 per child per class. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

Outdoors Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (5/23), 7pm “Misunderstood Marsupial,” presentation. Held at Julian Price Picnic Ground, Milepost 296 Blue Ridge Parkway • SA (5/23), 7pm - “Mountain Murder Mysteries: Death on the Long Hunt,” presentation on the Linville family. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 316 Blue Ridge Parkway • SA (5/23), 7pm - “Wilderness Skills: What to do when . . .,” wildlife encounter presentation. Held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 340 Blue Ridge Parkway Cradle of Forestry Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SA (5/23), 9am-5pm - Guided walks along the Pink Beds Trail to interpret the natural history of beavers. $5.

Mountain Sports Festival mountainsportsfestival.com • FR (5/22) through SU (5/24) Music, outdoor sports and local business celebration. Free to attend. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road YMCA of WNC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • WE (5/20), 8:45am - Easy 4-mile hike on Jackson Park Nature Trail. Free. Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

Public Lectures Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (5/27), noon - “Hungry for History: The Guastavino Family in Asheville and South America.”

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville 36 Montford Ave. • MO (5/25), 7pm - “Guns, Violence and Fear: A Theological Response to the Idolatry of Security.” Free.

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

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seRenity insight meditAtion (pd.) A Burmese monk leads authentic Buddhist insight meditation, grounded in 40 years of practice. Beginners and advanced practitioners welcome. • Sundays, 10am11:30am; • Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm-7pm. (828) 298-4700. wncmeditation.com Adult foRum At fCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (5/24), 9:15am - “Sinking Beneath the Chatter - An Interfaith Approach.” Free.

Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville 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. shAmBhAlA meditAtion CenteR 19 Westwood Place, 200-5120, shambhalaashvl@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 10am-noon Sitting and walking meditation.

Free. st. mARk’s lutheRAn ChuRCh 10 North Liberty St., 253-0043 • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - “A Service for Service,” service-industry worship.

sPoken & WRitten WoRd BlACk Box stoRytelling theAteR 808-1150, davidjoemiller.com • MO (5/25), 7pm - Storyteller and whistler Andy Offutt Irwin. $12/$10 advance. Held at New Mountain, 38 N. French Broad BlACk mountAin CenteR foR the ARts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (5/22), 1pm - Poet Tina Barr reads from her works. Free.

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BlACk mountAin College museum & ARts CenteR 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • SA (5/23), 8pm - Poetry reading: “The South” as place, muse, hero and villain. $8/$5 members.

Blue Ridge Books 152 S. Main St., Waynesville Free to attend, unless otherwise noted.

• SA (5/23), 3pm - Meta Commerse discusses her book The Mending Time.

• TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Mary Alice Monroe discusses her books The Lowcountry Trilogy.

BunComBe County PuBliC liBRARies buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (5/21), 2:30pm - Skyland Book Club: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road.

• SA (5/23), 10am-3pm - Used book sale sponsored by Friends of the Weaverville Library. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • SA (5/23), 2pm - Dada Maheshvarananda discusses his book After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. City lights BookstoRe 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com Free to attend.

• FR (5/22), 6:30pm - Edward Fahey discusses his new novel The Gardens of Ailana.

• SA (5/23), 6:30pm - Kirk Thomas discusses his new book Miscellaneous Musings and Other Odd Thoughts: The Desert Poems. fountAinheAd BookstoRe 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com Free to attend, unless otherwise noted.

• FR (5/22), 7pm - Susan Boyer discusses her book Lowcountry Boneyard.

• SA (5/23), 5pm - Alli Marshall discusses her book How to Talk to Rock Stars. hendo stoRy slAm avl.mx/0wj • WE (5/27), 7:30pm Storytelling open mic on the theme “First Times.” Free to attend. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville

mAlAPRoP’s BookstoRe And CAfe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free to attend, unless otherwise noted.

• TH (5/28), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club: Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck. oPen miC night nothingsopowerful@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Free to attend. Held at Rejavanation Cafe, 909 Smokey Park Highway, Candler syneRgy stoRy slAm avl.mx/0gd, tlester33@gmail.com • WE (5/20), 7:30pm - Open mic story telling night on the theme “roommates.” Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road

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). liteRACy CounCil of BunComBe County 31 College Place, 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.

• WE (5/27), 9am - Orientation for the Augustine Project, which works with low-income children.

• TH (5/28), 6pm - Orientation for the Augustine Project, which works with low-income children. sAndhill Community gARden 58 Apac Circle, 250-4260 • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SATURDAYS, 9-11am Volunteers are needed to help with growing produce for donation in this nonprofit community garden.

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An event organizer said the “Cirque de Plaisir” was more of a “performance art” display by a few bodymodification aficionados than it was a fetish “party.” Local governments were alarmed especially by the blood splatters endangering onlookers and promised an investigation.

• Accused amateur serial toothpuller philip hansen, 56, was convicted on two counts in May following a trial in Wellington (New Zealand) District Court. Several women had accused him, during 1988-2011, of holding their mouths open and wriggling teeth out with pliers (and in one case, a screwdriver), motivated by his attraction to “gummy women” as a prelude to sex. He apparently also lauded the “free” service he was providing, since real dentists, he said, would have charged the women. (Hansen allegedly told another woman, with full dentures, how “beautiful” she was — as he was removing the

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Police said Forren’s cellphone on the seat still displayed a current text message, “Don’t drink and drive ... Dad.” • According to police records released in April, mila dago (now 24 and awaiting trial for DUI manslaughter) was trading sarcastic texts with her ex-boyfriend that night in August 2013 while barhopping (later, registering .178 blood alcohol), and as she ran a red light, she smashed into a pickup truck, injuring herself badly and her friend in the passenger seat fatally.

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• The Indian Journal of Dermatology announced in April that it was withdrawing a recent scientific paper by a dentist in Kerala state, “Development of a Guideline to Approach Plagiarism in Indian Scenarios,” because parts of the article had been plagiarized from a student dissertation.

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When claire orenzow’s replacement heart valve failed eight years after it was surgically implanted, the symptoms were excruciating.

“I had terrible pained breathing,” says the 87-year-old Asheville woman. “My lungs filled up completely with water. I had to be taken to the hospital [last November] in an ambulance.”

Doctors at Mission Hospital repaired Orenzow’s ailing heart with a new procedure called valvein-valve replacement that offers significant benefits over traditional open-heart surgery.

Orenzow says she left the hospital a few days after the operation feeling like a new woman.

“It’s just amazing to me,” she says. “It’s a miracle I’m still walking around. I’m still enjoying my children and my grandchildren.

“Because of my age, they didn’t want to break my chest open again, and they said, ‘We’re going to try something new.’ It’s just marvelous.”

Dr. william abernethy, a cardiologist and director of Mission’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, says open-heart surgery is usually an effective way to replace heart valves that have become blocked.

“These valves are delicate structures and can become obstructed and hardened as we get older,” he says. “There is no medicine that makes that better. The only way to relieve that is to replace the valve.

This is a standard procedure, and it’s done over 100,000 times a year in the U.S. The operation works very well, and it’s done very commonly here at Mission.

“People feel fantastic after the valve’s been replaced. It’s like their heart has been turbocharged.”

turbocharGed heart: Dr. Bill Abernathy, cardiologist at Mission Hospital, says, “People feel fantastic after the [heart] valve’s been replaced.”

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But there are drawbacks that make the open-heart surgery riskier for some patients.

“It is a big operation,” Abernethy says. “It involves opening the breast bone, use of a heart-lung machine, stopping the heart, taking the old valve out and putting in a new valve.”

Several years ago, French cardiologist Alain Cribier developed trans-catheter aortic valve replacement. It’s a better option for some patients, says Abernethy, and involves inserting a new valve via a catheter. There’s no need to cut through bone, stop the heart or cut the old valve out, he explains.

“The advantage is it’s much easier to recover from that type of approach,” Abernethy says. “It’s the preferred treatment for replacing a valve when people are too frail to be operated on. We’ve been doing this for a few years now, and it’s been a big advance for our patients.”

More recently, with approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, trans-catheter valve replacement has been extended to patients, such as Orenzow, who previously had valves replaced. Abernethy says doctors at Mission started using valve-in-valve replacement on that type of patient a few months ago.

The need is growing, he says.

“This is an increasing problem because, No. 1, people are living longer,” he says. “Life expectancy has improved. The problem with those biologic valves is they have a life span. Up to 30 percent have problems within 15 years. Then we are talking about a person needing another operation, and that is more difficult, because when we reoperate on a valve, even in low-risk individuals, the chance of mortality is doubled.”

The valve-in-valve replacement procedure involves the

fresh start: Claire Orenzow says she feels like a new woman after having valve-in-valve replacement surgery on her heart at Mission Hospital.

doctor compressing the new valve, placing it on the end of a delivery catheter, and inserting it into an artery in the leg or neck or through a small incision between the ribs.

Doctors push the catheter through the blood vessels until it reaches the old valve. They release the new valve, which stretches open inside the old one.

Abernethy says the procedure has been performed successfully on several patients at Mission.

“It has really helped individuals who really had no alternatives otherwise,

and they have done extremely well,” he says. “It just restored their quality of life in a tremendous way.

We’re excited about this. It’s a fairly rapidly evolving field.”

Orenzow says she recovered from the procedure much more quickly than with her previous open-heart surgery.

“I just have a tiny scar there on my left side,” she says. “It’s unbelievable what they performed. In three months I was doing everything. The last time it took me a year. I feel wonderful.” X

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fan faVorite: Sponsored by Asheville Cyclocross, Mountain Sports Festival’s highly anticipated cyclocross race snakes through Festival Village and into a sand pit, making it impossible — or at least, inadvisable — for attendees to miss. “What’s really cool is you have the music playing and then you’ve got these bikes swooping around the track at the same time,” says the festival’s entertainment director, Elli Schwartz, “so it’s all very exciting. Everything’s happening simultaneously, and the music’s pumping up the people who are racing.” Three separate cyclocross races are organized by skill level, with beginners starting on Friday, May 22, at 6 p.m., elite women and men’s B class at 6:45 p.m., and elite men at 7:40 p.m.

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With three days of interactive athletic programming — from kayaking to running, cycling to yoga, and everything in between — plus additional outdoor leisure activities, this month’s Mountain Sports Festival caters to sports devotees and casual weekend entertainment-seekers alike.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary Friday through Sunday, May 22-24, the event honors the many outdoor activities available to Western North Carolina residents and visitors as well as the local businesses that foster those pastimes.

“We’re always prideful that we can offer a festival like this for free,” says festival director terry bemis. He estimates that about 10,000 people flock to the event annually, including some 1,000 participating athletes. “We have a beautiful spot in [Carrier Park], right on the [French Broad] River at a beautiful time of year. We kick off summer in some ways.”

Festival Village, located inside Carrier Park’s “mellowdrome” (the paved bike loop), hosts most of the weekend action, including athletic events, food and beer trucks, sports gear vendors and a full lineup of free musical entertainment. Additional activities will be held across the Asheville area, Bemis notes.

MSF began as a private operation in 2000, but the city of Asheville took the reins of the nonprofit in 2005, moving the action from downtown to Carrier Park and steadily growing the event’s popularity. “We’ve got a weird history,” says Bemis. Eventually, the city “got out of the events business,” he says, and returned the event to private hands in 2010.

“We were always the redheaded stepchild compared to Bele Chere,” Bemis says, noting the city’s event priorities. Bele Chere was an annual music and arts street festival held in downtown that began in 1979 and ran for 35 years. The city-organized festival faced criticism from residents and a funding deficit before being canceled by the city in 2013.

“In some ways, I’m glad we weren’t the biggest kid on the block, because the bully got bullied,” Bemis continues. “It’s funny. All of a sudden, we’re like the elder statesman of the festivals in Asheville.”

Now Mountain Sports Festival’s lineup includes everything from yoga and paddlboarding to racing, climbing and cycling, and many opportunities for the little ones to show off their athletic prowess too. It may surprise newcomers, though, that the festival itself doesn’t organize each of these minicompetitions.

“We don’t produce any events. We create the village, the music and the food, buy the porta-potty’s and do the permitting,” Bemis explains. Outside organizations (both nonprofit and for-profit) put on the actual sporting events and keep the proceeds from any registration fees they charge to participants. The MSF nonprofit, on the other hand, covers its costs through sponsorships, beer wristbands, food-and-beverage vendor fees and a new silent auction.

The Outdoor Gear Builders of Western North Carolina, composed of more than 25 local vendors, is also a pillar of the event.

“When the Outdoor Gear Builders of WNC started organizing, I wanted to give special invi-

tations to that group,” says Bemis, recalling the flock of crafters who dotted Festival Village when the city of Asheville managed the event.

Bemis has dubbed Friday’s patrons the “happy-hour crowd,” in part because of the wild cyclocross event that begins at 6 p.m. These fans often arrive in costume, carrying noisemakers or offering edible (or drinkable, for those over 21) spoils to both motivate and tease participants.

“I love it, because we’ve organized the race to cut through our village, so everyone has a great view of this race.

The music’s on, the cycling is going on.

It’s awesome!”

A heavy-duty line-up of sports continues on Saturday, and the festival transitions to an informal “family day” come Sunday, Bemis says. Most sporting events require pre-registration for participants, but spectators are welcome to come and go for free.

“I’m very proud of the fact that Mountain Sports Festival has had the fortitude to hang through two bad economies — post-Sept. 11 and when the banks stopped loaning money,” Bemis says. “Before Get in Gear Festival, this was the only chance the outdoor sports world had to hang out together. … It’s an industry that doesn’t get together very often, and I’ve always wanted to be the premier outdoor sports event.”

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Mountain Sports Festival for bench warmers A guide to the weekend’s nonsport attractions

Mountain Sports Festival drew roughly 8,000 to 11,000 attendees in 2014, and event director terry bemis hopes for another diverse crowd in this, the event’s 15th, year.

“I want families there, and I want not just experts, but beginners,” says Bemis of his vision for the weekend event. MSF “celebrates Asheville a little bit,” he adds.

Bemis’ come-one-come-all attitude is echoed by others on the festival’s board, which has organized a multitude of nonsports attractions — in addition to extensive athletic programming — for participants and spectators of all backgrounds. Here are the highlights: food and beVeraGe Mountain Sports Festival’s edible lineup acknowledges both ends of the wholesome-to-indulgent spectrum, says food and beverage director martin schmedt. That makes the event double as a minifood fair of sorts.

This year’s food vendors include Taste & See (farm-to-truck new American cuisine) Mama Duke’s Pizza (flatbread pizza with vegetarian options), the Hop (dairyfree and dairy-full handmade ice creams), Latino Heat (authentic Mexican fare), Sweet Concessions (nachos, funnel cakes, shaved ice,

cotton candy, etc.) and Avery’s Hotdogs (beef and veggie dogs).

Pisgah Brewing Co. and Sierra Nevada are bringing the beer, with Naked Apple Hard Cider of Hendersonville also available at Sierra Nevada’s serving station.

Last year, patrons drank some 660 gallons of beer.

Although coolers aren’t permitted in Carrier Park, families can bring packed lunches and feast outside the festival grounds at the site’s covered tables or expansive lawns.

Organizers, however, are encouraging patrons to try out some of the local vendors’ eclectic options.

“We try to have that healthy, local, really-good-for-you food lineup, but sometimes with kids, you just want a snow cone or some nachos,” Schmedt says, joking, “Cotton candy keeps kids quiet.”

Youth attractions In addition to kid-friendly sporting events, Festival Village houses a number of amenities designed to cater to the youngsters throughout the weekend.

Informally, “Sunday is kind of family day,” says Bemis, “and we have a really expanded kids area. ... It’s going to double in size.” The Heartstrings Family Fun Center, which is open all weekend, boasts a bouncy house, bubble machines, cornhole, an inflatable obstacle course, face painting, a mini-disc-golf area and other activities to help the little ones work off that cotton candy rush.

riVerside rhYthms: Festival Village’s sports lineup is incomplete without a soundtrack. This year’s music lineup pulls from a multitude of genres and features The Lee Boys, who headline the festival with a high-energy sacred steel gospel set on Saturday, May 23, 8-9:30 p.m. Photo by Edwin Cardona

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“This is the first year we’re doing the silent auction,” says MSF auction director corinne Kelley, explaining that new items will be up for grabs on all three days of the festival, “and we’ll announce [winners] on the stage between bands.”

So far, potential loot includes various adventure tours from Nantahala Outdoor Center, Navitat Canopy Tours, Prestige Subaru and Outrider USA, overnight stay packages from Hilton Hotel of Charlotte and Biltmore Park, the Ritz Carlton in Atlanta or any Patton Hospitality property, a paddleboard from WASUP, a class package from Rise Pilates, plus goodie bags from Tupelo Honey Café, BRÖÖ and See You on the River.

“It’s been harder and harder for us to get sponsors,” says Bemis, “so [the silent auction] is actually funding our own nonprofit, and those [proceeds] are going to offset expenses so we don’t have to take a cut from

the event.” Visit the silent auction tent at Festival Village to place your bids. campinG What better way to zip up an evening of activities than by camping out? Wilson’s Riverfront RV park (directly adjacent to the festival at 225 Amboy Road) and Bear Creek RV Park and Campground (a short drive away at 81 S. Bear Creek Road) are the nearest options for camping and RV parking. For information or reservations, visit wilsonsrvpark. com or ashevillebearcreek.com.

LiVe music From funk to soul, roots to rock ’n’ roll, Mountain Sports Festival’s live music lineup has something for everyone, says ellie schwartz, the festival’s entertainment director.

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East Coast Dirt

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7:30–9:30 pm

“We’re pumped to kick off the 15th annual Mountain Sports Festival this year,” reads a post on East Coast Dirt’s Facebook page. Led by vocalist Patrick Dodd — a past fan-favorite on NBC’s The Voice — the group of local music veterans decorates its Southern-inspired rock with dreads, bongos and a shiny red synth. facebook.com/eastcoastdirt

Does it really matter that The Congress claims Denver, Colo., and Richmond, Va., as dual hometowns if the guitar-rock group racks up more than 100 live shows per year? As it turns out, the Rocky Mountain vibe does manifest through feelgood vocal harmonies, spirited keys and an ongoing interplay of ease and energy. thecongressmusic.org

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Cameron Stack ft. Matt Mommson 12:30–1:30 pm

A regular on Asheville’s intimate performance circuits, Cameron Stack calls himself a “souldriven Americana-blues songwriter” and his music “a gentle mesh of roots.” With accompaniment by fellow local musician Matt Mommsen (Sanctum Sully), Stack ‘s acoustic set will provide a mental stretch before the full day’s activities. facebook.com/ cam.stack.music

Fireside Collective

The Dub Kartel Funk You

The Lee Boys

4:00–5:30 pm

6:00–7:30 pm

8:00–9:30 pm

2:00–3:30 pm

“It more or less took an act of Jah to bring the Dub Kartel together,” reads the reggae band’s website, detailing the seven members’ 2010 introduction at a Haitian earthquake relief fundraiser. The musicians, who “pay tribute to the golden era of Jamaican music,” also earned their festival slot in a lucky twist of fate, coming in second place at Mountain Sports Festival’s Race to the Stage contest and eventually filling in for the winning band.

Evidently these happy coincidences are nothing new for a band that never misses an (up) beat. avl.mx/0wb

“Come out and get funked with us!” writes Funk You on the band’s website. The Georgiabased sextet draws on reggae, jazz and hip-hop influences to produce “a high energy progressive funk sound that will keep you moving all night long.” Perhaps that crowdpleasing tendency explains the group’s prevalence at festivals across the Southeast and the band’s efforts to rejuvenate already eclectic setlists with a new batch of studio tunes. funkyoumusic.com

Don’t let the Lee Boys’ roots in the House of God Church invoke an illusion of serene choruses.

This six-pack of relatives from Miami knows how to rile a crowd, igniting a spirit of participation even among the wallflowers.

“They’re just a really high-energy, funky group that I think everybody will really enjoy,” says entertainment director Ellie Schwartz.

“I’m glad they’re coming back to Asheville.” Faith aside, this group of sacred steel musicians just may transform listeners into believers. leeboys.com

Many of Fireside Collective’s songs begin in a strippeddown state but quickly pick up the pep and blossom into full sound, complete with mandolin, Dobro, bass and acoustic guitar. Mandolinist and songwriter Jesse Iaquinto says both ends of the traditional bluegrassto-newgrass spectrum apply to the Western North Carolina band, depending on the night. firesidecollectiveband.com

Grits & Soul

Lyric

Sirius.B

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2:30–4:00 pm

4:30–6:00 pm

Grits & Soul’s lyrics are delivered with jaunty smiles and a prideful twang. At its most basic, the duo combines acoustic guitar and mandolin. But Americana singers Anna Kline and John Looney also frequently invite guest musicians (violin, upright bass, banjo, etc.) onstage and always marinate their male-female harmonies in country swoon. gritsandsoul.com

While Leeda “Lyric” Jones sings soulful pop songs over electric six-string guitar, a backing band of local musicians adds funky jams to her mix of covers and originals. The resulting blend — a catchy mash-up of pep and laid back grooves — has sent the group from its initial busking sets to stages across town. facebook.com/lyricfans

Dubbing itself an absurdist gypsy folk funk punk outfit, Sirius.B employs the talents of a full troupe of members to achieve a melting pot sound. Perhaps it’s that something-for-everyone eclecticism that landed the theatrical band festival closing duties and the charge of providing the very last drops of enjoyment to the crowd. siriusbmusic.com

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Overharvesting of forest plants calls for mindful consumers

But with interest in these plants rising and more novice foragers venturing into the woods, the plants are becoming harder and harder to find.

“Ramps have been over hunted in certain areas,” Zink points out. “When I was in Barnardsville recently, I saw carloads of people who were going out into the woods with big grocery bags.”

The rise in popularity of tailgate and farmers markets is also putting an increased demand on these forest plants, and according to jeanine davis, associate professor and extension specialist with N.C. State University, many people don’t understand where the plants they buy are coming from.

“That’s always a shock to folks when I show them that most of this black cohosh, bloodroot or goldenseal, there’s not a farm where it came from,” Davis says. “People are walking out in the woods and finding it, and that’s not necessarily bad, but we do need to have some controls on this, or those plants could be gone.”

As gourmet restaurants tout the flavors of wild edibles and herbalists extol the health value of

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bart Zink first learned about wild harvesting from his father, hunting for morel mushrooms in rural Michigan. Now he hunts for wild mushrooms and ramps on the steep slopes of Western North Carolina.

“You kind of have to go out into uncharted territory now,” Zink says. “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack, and you might not even be looking in the right haystack.”

People in the WNC mountains have been foraging in the woods for generations, seeking out edibles like mushrooms and ramps or medicinals like bloodroot, goldenseal, black cohosh and — perhaps most famously — ginseng.

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native medicinals, interest in these plants is only continuing to grow.

But what is the responsbility of the recreational forager or even the consumer? When browsing the stands at the farmers market or the shelves in an herbal shop, how can you know if the plants and products you’re purchasing came from overharvesting or even poaching? How can you know if you’re encouraging a sustainable, local economy or contributing to a growing problem? an unsustainabLe demand Davis notes that one of the first things to understand, is that not all these plants come from foraging. Some local growers are taking up the task of cultivating in their forests, but growing sustainably comes with a price.

“I can take you into the woods and show you people growing these plants all over the place,” Davis notes. “But [the question] is, ‘How do you do it so that you make money? How do you charge enough? What kind of yields do you need?’”

Ginseng is a potent example.

Wild ginseng roots fetch a high price on the herbal market, but they are also small, light in weight and take years to mature to their full potency.

“Think of how old this little root is, but also think of how many of these it takes to make a pound,” Davis notes while examining a wild root. “People say, ‘Oh, ginseng’s going for $1,000 a pound,’ but that’s dried. Think of how many of these it takes to make a pound. It weighs basically nothing.”

Some growers have turned to simulated conditions and, in many cases, large amounts of fertilizers and pesticides to produce a plant that can be harvested quickly, but is compromising quality, says robert eidus of Eagle Feather Organic Farm in Marshall.

“The growing period for the cultivated [variety] is three to four years, and they grow for weight,” Eidus says. “With the wild [variety], it takes 6 1/2 to seven years to get the full constituents, and they’re not growing for weight; they’re growing for age. You’ve really got two different products that are confused by the public as the same thing.”

Examining the root of a cultivated ginseng plant will easily show you the difference. The wild root is small and gnarly with a long neck, whereas the cultivated root is larger and smoother.

But most consumers aren’t buying ginseng roots — they’re buying dried and ground up ginseng that comes in a bottle that tells you little or nothing about where the plant came from.

Some growers, including Eidus and other members of the N.C. Ginseng Association, grow in the forest or by simulating wild conditions without the use of chemicals. But these growers are selling their ginseng at a higher price in smaller markets, not growing quickly to sell in bulk to highvolume buyers in the U.S. or Asia.

Eidus asserts that most of the ginseng grown in America, and most of what you’ll find in herbal stores — particularly large chains — is exposed to chemicals and harvested too young. “You can’t get away from that fact,” Eidus says. “There’s just a small amount

of really good ginseng in the world, in my estimation.”

A desire for the more potent wild ginseng has led to the rise of poachers who take the plant from private and federal lands without permission, hoping to make a quick buck.

And when money is involved, so is greed — and little incentive to leave any of the plant behind.

“The mental attitude seems to be, ‘If I don’t take it then that jerk over there is going to take it, and I’m not going to let him have it, so I’m going to take it all,’” Eidus says. Though he says many ginseng dealers have a “sixth sense” that a plant has been poached, it’s often impossible to know for sure.

“The plant is definitely endangered and going downhill,” Eidus adds. In order for a wild patch of ginseng to be considered sustainable it should have about 75 plants in it, he adds. But, “You don’t see that anywhere anymore.”

Ginseng isn’t the only plant facing limited supply and high demand. Eidus and Davis say goldenseal and lady slippers — often used in tinctures — are both highly threatened by overharvesting.

GrowinG soLutions So, what do you do to make sure you’re being a conscientious consumer? Davis says to start by reading the labels: Look for the USDA Organic label to know no chemicals were used in production or the Blue Ridge Naturally label to know that any wild-crafted ingredients were sourced sustainably.

But most importantly, Davis says, ask questions: Ask where the plant came from, how it was grown and what the seller is doing to prevent overharvesting.

And once you find a grower or seller you trust, be willing to pay more for their products, Davis adds. “If we want to support the farming of these plants, we need to be willing to pay a little bit more,” she says. “It’s going to cost more for someone to farm something than to go out on property they don’t own and just gather it all up.”

For those searching out these plants in the woods, local forager michael Gentry says to take less than a quarter of what you find and remember the Rule of Three: Leave some for the wild animals, some for re-seeding and some for other foragers.

Of course, there’s another option for those who are looking for a modest supply of these plants or who are interested in preservation efforts: You could always grow your own. Many forest plants can thrive on steep slopes unsuited for other gardening, Davis points out. And Eidus adds that ginseng and goldenseal can happily grow together in a raised bed with good drainage and good shade. “It’s my answer to suburbia,” he says. “[You] don’t have to have a forest.”

Davis adds that many people in the area are inheriting land that they have no interest in farming but still hope to keep. Modest harvesting of forest plants can provide additional income to cover property taxes. And creating contracts or agreements with others who would responsibly forage on your land in exchange for caring for the property is a way to protect the plants and keep your land in good condition.

The main thing, though, is to be mindful. Whether you’re shopping at the farmers market, exploring in the woods or even beginning a construction project on your prop-

erty, Eidus says to be aware of the unique and fragile nature of the plants around you.

“We have not dealt with these plants correctly,” Eidus says.

“We don’t really care what’s in the forest, and that’s unfortunate because we’re losing this connection to these plants that was really strong just three or four generations ago.” X

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The zero-waste kitchen Asheville chefs and farmers talk about honoring the true value of food

bY aiYanna seZaK-bLatt

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In a consumer culture, generating waste seems to be an inevitable part of life. However, in a home kitchen, individual choice, creativity and mindfulness can change that. For local foodies, a zero-waste kitchen simply means a change in perspective: Skins, stems, pulp and bones, when seen for their potential, become much more than scraps.

What we often cull, throw away or compost can be the building blocks for new recipes, offering an infusion of flavor to many meals to come. And something deeper happens when we repurpose our scraps; something subtle. The commitment to use all parts of a plant or animal becomes a quiet ritual, one that honors the true value of food and acknowledges the work it took to grow, tend and transport it. expand Your perspectiVe Gourmet chef-turned-farmer evan chender carefully rakes newly turned soil as the sun sinks, inching closer to the rolling green hills in the distance. “It’s the busy season,” he says, eyes on rich earth. “This was grass a few weeks ago.” For Chender, growing food is an art, a privilege and a practice that’s always evolving. Known professionally as the The Culinary Gardener, Chender grows organic specialty crops, edible flowers and flavorful curiosities (think borage, celtuce or “stem lettuce,” fava-bean flowers, hand-tied curly endive and red sorrel, to name a few). For him, every part of the plant has culinary potential, and every tendril and leaf is valued.

“I think one of the biggest, formative experiences I’ve had with grow-

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ing food is how precious and special it becomes just because you’re a part of the process. I’m way more apt to discard something, some part of a plant or something that’s a little bit past its prime, if I’ve gotten it from a grocery store and out of a bag from California. Being a part of it, from the seed to the harvest, in such a small space [means that] everything I do is extremely intimate.”

It’s important, says Chender, to have a broad perspective of food, to see beyond the aisle in which it’s sold. “Ask a farmer: How long did this lettuce grow? What was involved in getting it to this farmers market? What’s involved with getting a head of lettuce from Salinas Valley, Calif., here to Asheville?”

It’s exactly this perceptive that inspires Chender in his own kitchen.

Scraps of fennel, when blanched for just two minutes, create a rich and flavorful stock that enriches any stirfry or soup. “I love to use onion and garlic tops too,” he says. “Just simmer the greens for 20 minutes.”

With root vegetables like radish and turnips, Chender treats the tops like mustard greens. sweet and saVorY with juice puLp In alignment with a living-foods lifestyle, judith Génécé-murphy, who owns the Farmacy Juice & Tonic Bar at West Village Market with her husband, Carlysle Murphy, says that the key to health is found in balance. “We eat living foods, we juice, we do some cooked foods, because you don’t get your nutrients from just one source,” she explains. Juice pulp, something that’s often simply composted, can be repurposed for a number of dishes and is extremely rich in digestive enzymes and fiber, says Génécé-Murphy. “You can catch the residue of herbal greens like cilantro and parsley and add it to any kind of grain. Just enfold the herbs into the grain, pasta or pasta sauce, add a little nutritional yeast, sesame seeds and a little olive oil, and you’re adding enzymatic value to the cooked food.”

On the sweet side, Génécé-Murphy turns pulp into fresh fruit sauces and

waste not, want not: Chef-turned-farmer Evan Chender, inspired by the practice of growing food, uses every part of the plants he raises — even the skins and trimmings. “I think one of the biggest, formative experiences I’ve had with growing food is how precious and special it becomes just because you’re a part of the process,” he says. Photo by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt

raw cakes. “With apples, we take the apple pulp and mix it with either raisins, any dehydrated fruit really, like currants or dates, and add lemon juice and powdered cinnamon. You blend that together and you have a wonderful apple sauce. You could add a little cayenne to it, if you wanted to be a little risqué.”

After a sip of vibrant green juice, Génécé-Murphy continues, “If you’re making a carrot-ginger juice, with apple carrot, pear and ginger, you could take the pulp of all of that to be your raw cake.

Add chopped nuts like walnuts or almonds, and then add something to thicken it, like dates, and put

that all in the blender. When it starts sticking to the side of the blender, you know it’s thickened enough to be molded. Pour it all into a muffin tin and refrigerate. You could add ground flax or chia seeds or even psyllium to the blend.” homemade fLaVor infusions Local chef matthew miner, who has worked at both The Blackbird and Cúrate, stresses that there’s a plethora of nutrition that’s often tossed out with the scraps. “The majority of your vitamins and amino acids are right beside the skins of these things, so you’re pulling off nutritional elements when you peel

Veggie burger with juice pulp (raw or cooked) judith Génécé-murphy Serves four 2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds 1 cup raw sunflower seeds (soaked overnight, then drained) 1/2 teaspoon Celtic sea salt 5 tablespoons water Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor (“S” blade) and purée.

Pour in a large bowl and add the following: 1 cup carrot juice pulp (or your favorite vegetable juice pulp) 1/2 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup chopped onions 1 tablespoon chopped parsley or pulp from juicer 2 tablespoon chopped bell pepper (color of choice) 1 teaspoon jalapeno pepper (seeds removed) 1 teaspoon of your favorite seasoning (optional) Taste and adjust seasoning as needed. Mix well, form into patties and place on Teflex sheet. Dehydrate for four hours at 110 degrees. Turn patties and dehydrate for another two hours or bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes (or until cooked).

Can be served with dressings, between lettuce leaves or collard leaves (with the stem cut out), in pita pockets, as a sandwich, on crackers, on a salad, or to stuff peppers, cucumbers or celery. X

a carrot or when you peel an apple or a potato,” he says. “For example you can take all your vegetable scraps — carrot tops, onions, celery tops, peppers, tomato scraps, leeks, parsley stems, potato peels — and make a stock with it.” Save the skins and scraps from meals in a zip-close bag in your freezer.

Once the bag is full, submerge the trimmings in water, bring to a boil and let simmer for 20-30 minutes.

When filleting a salmon or working with a whole fish, Miner spoons out the flesh that’s close to the bone, saving each spoonful for a rich ravioli filling or mousse.

“And, if you roast a whole chicken,” he says, “save it, and there’s the base for a chicken soup. Or, if you reduce it enough, you can use it as a demi-glace for a sauce.” For a bone stock, simply add water, bring it all to a boil and let it simmer for 40-50 minutes. chanGinG our food cuLture As a father, Miner is motivated to lead by example, and by using all he can, he’s teaching his son to respect his food. “What kind of statement are we making, and

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what kind of earth are we going to leave for our children?” Minor asks.

“That to me is huge. It’s also very discouraging, because we’re extracting all that we can from the earth without giving back. If we at least take care of our little part of the world, then it adds up to something.”

Back in the garden, after sampling a tendril picked from a petite snap green, Chender muses, “I think we waste because there’s no culture of using every little bit. If you go to Italy, you’re not going to see someone trim a fresh porcini and throw out the trim, they’re going to make stock with it; they’re going to extract every little bit of flavor that they can from that precious crop.” He takes a deep breath and scans the garden. “For me, preparing the soil, weeding, thinning the plants out so they have the proper spacing, washing them, guarding them so they’re not getting eaten by slug or beetles, all this elevates the statue of the vegetable, almost to a status above myself, something that’s way greater than me. It’s humbling and inspiring, and I’m going to treat it with respect, a lot of respect.

It’s changed my relationship with food.” X

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by Jonathan Ammons

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Leaders of the band The people behind Asheville’s James Beard nominees Just as Duke Ellington needed a band of skilled, talented musicians, good chefs need good support players. And Asheville’s three nominees for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Southeast tip their hats to several folks whose names you might not know.

This year, three Asheville chefs received nods from the foundation: Katie button of Cúrate, john fleer of Rhubarb and meherwan irani of Chai Pani. We asked them to name four people who are key to making their visions sing.

“When they asked me to what I would attribute this nomination, I said, ’Well, God, it’s all the people whose shoulders you stand on. Without them nothing would get done!” says Irani, who was nominted for Best Chef in the Southeast in 2014 and 2015 “When you get to the point where a chef is being James Beard-nominated, it’s not just the food, but it’s sort of more the vision that is being recognized. And if you’ve got a vision, you need a team that’s tied to that vision and who can execute it.”

When Chai Pani opened five years ago, the team was Irani and a few young, aspiring cooks, james Grogan and daniel peach. Over the years, they have traveled to India, together and separately, to learn recipes, collect ingredients and absorb knowledge. Grogan and Peach both hold the positions of chef de cuisine — Grogan at Chai Pani in Asheville, Peach at the restaurant’s Decatur, Ga., location.

Another key position for Irani is his batch chef, who preps the sauces, curries, stocks and chutneys in enormous quantities. The task requires someone who is diligent and capable of multitasking a dozen time-sensitive and detailoriented jobs, he explains. And there’s the prep chef — the skilled, knife-centric worker who is there long before anyone arrives, assembling the ingredients for each station. For Chai Pani, these positions

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team worK: Andy Pahlka, left, and James Grogan, right, are part of the team of culinary experts that keeps Chai Pani at the top of its game. Photo by Matthew Spaulding

are filled by such workhorses as andy pahlka in Asheville and Gustavo baez in Decatur.

“Having someone who can pull that off, day in and day out, and who is willing to almost give up a part of their own personal creative vision in order to respect the chef’s vision is huge,” says Irani, “Without that person, then you are the one in the kitchen doing it, and there goes any ability to try to do anything new again.”

“There are four really key people for me, and the first one is Felix,” says Button of her husband and co-owner, felix meana. “There isn’t a single dish or idea that I’ve come up with that Felix and I haven’t developed together. He cooks through theory. He is not skilled in the kitchen, but the things he’s been exposed to, [while] working at El Bulli and for Jose Andres, and the food he’s experienced there — the ideas he

comes up with are really special, and I couldn’t do what I do without him.”

On the lines and in the trenches, it’s frank muller and chad holmes, Button’s chef de cuisines at Curate and Nightbell, respectively, and carmen Vaquera, the team’s pastry chef, who develops desserts for both restaurants.

“They ... run and operate the kitchens and creatively develop ideas and dishes,” says Button.

Duke Ellington put the right musicians in the right place, and within the framework of the pieces he wrote, they improvised pure brilliance. In the same way, a chef isn’t always single-handedly responsible for every dish in a kitchen. Rather, chefs direct the vision and tone of a menu and allow their staff to excel within those parameters.

“Sometimes I’ll go to Frank and say, ‘I’d really love to do some kind of fish dish with tomato,’ and reference some classic dish from Spain, and then Frank takes

that idea and runs with it and has come up with really great stuff at Curaté,” says Button. “Some of the dishes that he and I have worked on are our most popular.”

“Everyone talks about ‘Katie the chef,’ but we wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing without the people that work for us,” she continues. “I give [my staff] a lot of freedom, because I think that is important, but in the end, they are operating within Felix’s and my vision, so they end up adjusting their style to our style. It’s just humbling that they are willing to do that and then be OK with the fact that when the [result] comes out, they’ll call Chad’s mushroom dish mine. And yeah, I may have helped with it, but it was his dish. But in the end, we are all working for the same thing, which is the success of the restaurant and the restaurant’s name.”

For Fleer, meanwhile, it’s a little harder to name names. When asked for the four people in his kitchen that he couldn’t live without, he says, “I’m not sure that’s a fair question, because it is a total team effort.

The thing about picking four would mean leaving out 35 of them.”

Nonetheless, he names his skilled pastry chef ashley capps, his workhorse sous chefs, dave caine and travis schultz, and the lead line cook rachel freihoffLewin. “But,” says Fleer, “I also think one of the really important things that gets overlooked in this whole process is that outside the restaurant, there are a lot of people who don’t get the recognition for what we do, and that’s the producers, the farmers and foragers.

“If you took that group of people away, that’s the point at which the restaurant might crumble, because we can’t do what we do without them.”

For Rhubarb, it’s farmers like anne and aaron Greer of Gaining Ground Farm, the Cruze family of Cruze Farms dairy, and alan benton of the now nationally known Benton’s Bacon.

“I think that that’s what people forget when all of this glorification of ‘the chef,’ the single human being, happens,” Fleer laments, “It’s just the nature of culture now. Somebody’s got to be the hero, but it has to be a single person, and that just is not the way things work. I always refer to it as the restaurant triangle: the guests, our producers and all of us at the restaurant. For me it doesn’t work if all three components aren’t there.” X

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by Margaret Williams

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High Five takes a side trip Coffee shop’s new downtown location opens in June

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jay weatherly likes the “sidestreet feel” of his new High Five Coffee location, set to open in June on Rankin Avenue in downtown Asheville. The new site lies a few feet from the backdoor, kids entrance to one of the city’s oldest businesses, Tops for Shoes, and it’s across the street from the Rankin parking garage (with the Civic Center deck a block away). A few doors away, The Vault draws locals and tourists for cocktails. There’s a door to the upstairs condominiums and offices a few feet away, too, and customers come in and out of the Studio Chavarria hair salon. College Street — a main route through downtown — is less than 50 yards away.

Even on a quiet Tuesday morning, the flow of pedestrians and cars is steady. “There’s just something about Rankin that just feels good, and we’ll fit in,” says Weatherly.

He has to pause often during the interview as customers and friends stop to say hello and ask him what’s up. “I get my energy from interacting with people,” Weatherly says.

Two years ago, he “didn’t have a plan to open a second location.”

But, after successfully rebranding the coffee shop and developing the logo of a hand raised for the signature high five (his wife’s idea), he let the notion evolve.

Weatherly’s wife, Kim Hunt, worked at downtown’s long-gone but very original coffee shop Beanstreets. And he’s been a barista since his college days in the 1990s. “Coffee has been at the forefront of my life for a long time,” he says. Opening his first coffee shop, helping it grow, making sure the business embodied the essence of a “third place” where friends and strangers alike can “share the same space” and thus create “something profound” — these were key elements, and Weatherly wasn’t in a rush to expand.

“The most important business elements, for me, are the quality of the product and the community you

coffee eVoLution: In June, High Five owner Jay Weatherly will open a second coffee shop on Rankin Avenue downtown. Photo by Margaret Williams

serve,” he says. Weatherly focused on those elements at High Five and says that running the business is about connecting to the local economy and having integrity with the product you offer. “You have to believe in the community and believe in the product,” he says. Coffee’s the main product, and Weatherly sources his from Durham-based Counter Culture.

“We work with them because they have similar values,” he explains.

In the back of his mind, Weatherly says, was the possibility of setting up a second location but doing it the right way. The question was where.

The Broadway location is in a new building with condos upstairs and Moog Music and Interstate 240 a block away. In the other direction lies UNC Asheville and Interstate 26.

Development has been slow to come to the block, but, says Weatherly, “We’re a place that people seek.”

The main crowd is locals. The baristas don’t wear uniforms (“we’re not Starbucks,” says Weatherly), and some have been with him since High Five opened. He emphasizes the sense of community at the coffee shop — a place that’s about building relationships between customers and baristas, owner and employees.

Cross under I-240, “and it becomes a different zone,” says

Weatherly. There are tourists, banks, businesses and restaurants downtown. Rankin Avenue is right in the middle of it all but a few feet off the main path. “That little zone feels good, [but] I didn’t think about downtown until I walked by that spot [on Rankin] and saw it was available and looked inside and said, ‘That would work,’” he says.

The new location is smaller than the one on Broadway. It’s in an older building, with worn oak floors that creak here and there, complemented by walls of exposed brick. Weatherly points to where tables, the main counter and other features will go. “We’ll tap into downtown workers, tourists,” he muses. The Rankin location will, he thinks, draw a different crowd than Broadway. It will be a challenge, too, as High Five doubles its staff to more than a dozen. New staff, new customers — “we’re going to start simple,” says Weatherly.

As at the Broadway location, Weatherly and crew will still make their own ice creams and coffee syrups (no high-fructose corn syrup). And they’ll stick to the basics. Says Weatherly, “Make good coffee. Be nice to people.” For more information, visit highfivecoffee.com. X

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Inversion of the sexes ABSfest plays with traditional burlesque roles

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For years, the standard burlesque picture has been a fully clothed man in a suit surrounded by women who are nearly nude. But as the industry evolves and new voices take charge, that image is now in flux.

“You start to see with the changing role of men is that the main people who produce festivals are female,”

says New Orleans-based performer ben wisdom. “With the revival and Neo-Burlesque, it’s a ladies’ game.

Women control the majority.”

Such is the case for the Americana Burlesque & Sideshow festival — aka ABSfest — now in its ninth year of celebrating Asheville’s vaudeville revival. The festival runs Friday, May 22, through Sunday, May 24, hopping between The Grey Eagle and The Orange Peel and challenging industry stereotypes in the process.

“I wanted to flip the usual burlesque show dynamic of the powerful male speaking emcee role and sexy nonspeaking female headliner this year,” says festival producer madame onça o’Leary. This year’s emcees, the Philadelphia-based comedy troupe Sidetracked, “upend that gender trope even further by doing

GuYs just wanna haVe fun: “I wanted to flip the usual burlesque show dynamic of the powerful male speaking emcee role and sexy nonspeaking female headliner this year,” says festival producer Madame Onça O’Leary. Mr. Gorgeous, pictured, is a boylesque performer. Photo courtesy of the artist

traditionally ‘masculine’ Abbott and Costello style, nonstripping comedy bits,” says O’Leary.

Performers shoshanna Green and Kimberlie cruse consider Sidetracked a vaudeville act rather than a burlesque one but say that the two go together well. Both women have a strong theater background and in 2004 launched Sidetracked as a street act in the small town

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of Phoenixville, Pa. After performing for about a year, they learned that Sunday Revival Burlesque was looking for a host. “We did one show with them and we knew we had found our home,” Green says. “There we were, introducing beautiful people doing amazing acts — it was like being in ‘The Muppet Show.’”

Regulars at ABSfest since 2009, Sidetracked hosts the Saturday

Spectacular Show on May 23 at The Orange Peel, during which the scantily clad mr. Gorgeous will serve as the evening’s main attraction. No strangers to emceeing big shows, the duo stress the importance of women and men switching roles and having their voices heard, noting that the reversal can make for some amazing art.

“The best thing about burlesque is that there is really nothing typical about any roles. Burlesque is a place where you create your own character and your own reality — it’s a place you can be whoever you want [to be],” Cruse says. “For women, this is incredibly liberating.

It’s often difficult to find creative and interesting roles for women in film and theater, but in burlesque we’re creating the reality.”

Wisdom’s burlesque preacher character, the Reverend Pastor Father Brother Ben Wisdom, will also make an appearance on Saturday night, a prelude to his own hosting duties at the Burlesque Brunch Cabaret at The Grey Eagle. Fond of improvisation, Wisdom has been known to give prophecies handed down to him by the Spirit of Burlesque, read from the fictional Burlesque Bible and lay hands on attendees to heal them of their fake afflictions.

A former radio DJ and art department coordinator and set dresser in the New Orleans film industry, Wisdom started going to burlesque shows with his cousin in the late 2000s and soon reconnected with a college friend who’d become a performer. When that friend and a few colleagues decided to form a new group, she asked Wisdom to be their emcee. Six years later he can’t imagine being away from the rush of the stage.

“There is no drug, alcohol, cigarette — nothing that equals or re-

creates the feeling of having a kickass show,” says Wisdom, who primarily does stand-up comedy around New Orleans as himself, not as his preacher character.

In addition to the thrill of performing, the industry’s all-inclusive attitude speaks to Wisdom and keeps him firmly invested in making burlesque the best it can be. “I think burlesque takes it to the next level of accepting people and understanding different sexualities and genders,” he says. “It helped me to know more about feminine issues and feminist issues and changed my whole paradigm on my thoughts on male/ female relationships and how women are treated in society.”

An ABSfest fixture since 2012, Wisdom is impressed by Madame Onça’s bravery in playing with emcee/ headliner conventions, especially on a festival’s showcase night when tickets are likely to sell out. “I think nobody else has taken their big night and rolled the dice like that to give people something different,” he says. “It takes a lot of balls — or, in her case, ovaries — to accomplish that. I think she can pull it off, too.” X

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’80s teen Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan delves into his love of post-punk for new album Superchunk is one of the defining indie-rock bands of the ’90s. The group’s surging, adrenaline-laced punk rock and joyful DIY spirit that emanated from both its early records and now-iconic self-established label Merge Records are fully embedded in alternative culture lore.

For all that, though, frontman mac mccaughan was very much a child of the ’80s. It’s that time period that he dives into with his new solo album, Non-Believers, the first under his own name. He cites British bands like The Cure, OMD and Cocteau Twins as his primary inspirations — sounds that harken back to his own

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childhood. “It’s hard for anything to have that kind of impact on you [as it does when you’re 16],” McCaughan says by phone from his desk at Merge. “Looking back, there’s plenty of stuff I listened to then that I don’t listen to now,” but when he chances to hear those songs these days, he still loves them.

McCaughan didn’t start out to make that kind of record, though.

Instead, he got entranced by the idea of making an album swathed in cinematic synthesizers and drum machines after crafting “Your Hologram,” which became the opening track on Non-Believers. “A lot

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of times that’s when it becomes revealed, in a way, once it’s under way,” he says.

In some respects, the sound recalls the musician’s early records as Portastatic, his longtime side-project away from Superchunk. That outfit saw him experimenting with fourtrack home recordings that made ample use of keyboards and drum machines. “I think there are some similarities with how I made those first couple of Portastatic records before it became more of a band situation,” McCaughan says. “I feel like [Non-Believers is] more focused than any of those records, and just a little bit less haphazard.

Those records were purposefully haphazard in some ways. [This record] is more unified in terms of its sound and more stripped down. It’s more about the songs than just experimenting, and a lot of those early records were just me experimenting, just seeing what I could do since it wasn’t a Superchunk record.”

For all of the similarities to those early days, including the fact that it was crafted in McCaughan’s home studio, Non-Believers actually shares even more with the last two LPs in the Portastatic catalog, Bright Ideas (2005) and Be Still Please (2006). Both were crafted during Superchunk’s semihiatus in the mid-2000s. They featured more fully rounded songs and arrangements that melded the rock ’n’ roll glee of that band with power-pop aspirations and singersongwriter acumen.

According to McCaughan, the decision to retire the Portastatic moniker stemmed from practical and personal considerations.

“I just felt like using Portastatic again would be like taking a step backward,” he says. “It had been a long time since the last one [2008] and that one was a compilation.

And I feel like that tied up the time period and those records.”

The other side of things, though, is that the concept surrounding the record seemed reflective of McCaughan’s current state of mind as he looks to a time in his teenage years that his own children are rap-

remember this: Non-Believers, the new solo album by Mac McCaughan of Merge Records and Superchunk, taps ’80s influences and teen angst, past and present.

Photo by Lissa Gotwals

idly approaching. “I think that having kids myself definitely influences that thinking,” he says. “Not that they are teenagers yet, but they’re getting close. But there’s always someone that age who is going through that transitional time period.”

The way McCaughan talks about this moment in time is telling — there’s a certain reflective spirit on Non-Believers that is close to, but not quite, nostalgic. He summons up a memory or impressions of these darkly romantic-sounding bands, but tempered by suburban scenes and emotional reminiscing that feels very much of 2015, not 1982. There’s a cinematic-looking back effect in place here, not unlike that of films like Donnie Darko or, more recently, Boyhood.

“I think it lends itself to that feeling in general,” McCaughan says, “because everything you have from that time period of your life is based on photographs or videos, depending on your age.

I definitely think that influences how you remember things, and then probably how you write about them.”

Superchunk rock fans fear not, though — McCaughan is set to tour behind the album with Flesh Wounds as his backing band.

“It’s definitely punkier than the record — the Flesh Wounds aren’t all of a sudden playing keyboards,” he says. “We spent time rearranging the songs and making them work for the rock band. It’s awesome.” X

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If wishes were fishes ACDT stages ecology-themed Mystery of the Seahorse When a mysterious sickness surfaces and sea horses begin to disappear, a colorful crew of aquatic fauna must band together to identify and tackle the problem. It’s not the newest PBS Kids series, it’s The Mystery of the Seahorse, an archetypal tale of good versus evil set in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It’s also the latest production from Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, opening Friday, May 22, at The BeBe Theatre.

The original family-friendly dance production features dancing toxic waste barrels, catfish with purple eyelashes and giant foam puppet heads.

ACDT co-directors susan collard and Giles collard were working at Tanglewood Youth Theatre summer camp when the idea for The Mystery of the Seahorse emerged.

The story is told through a mix of ballet, tap and modern dance and is set to a soundtrack Giles describes as “extremely varied,” with French music, classical compositions and even some James Brown sprinkled in. Susan choreographed the show.

The cast of sharks, crabs and an array of fish all have distinct and carefully crafted personas. “So we’ve got a bad guy; he’s a grouper,” says Giles, who also designed the costumes. “This grouper is very

old and grumpy and a little bit crippled, but he’s extremely greedy.

Ursula the shark is a little bit like German cabaret style. The crab is a sort of French aristocratic officer or British officer. ... He’s got his little stick; he’s very proper.”

These characters weren’t written into the script with such detail; the student dancers, who range in age from 7-year-olds to teenagers, were given creative license to flesh out their parts. After several classes dedicated solely to character development, roles evolved from, say, a simple barracuda to a big, mean brute named El Chonco. “Then they [had] to change the choreography slightly so that all the moves represent who they are,” says Giles.

The performers are “not just dancing dance steps; they’re dancing as their characters.”

The vibrance and individuality of the sea creatures are also displayed through the costume design. Giles cites Chinese folktales as inspiration for his human body/animal head designs. Dancers wear normal clothing but don gigantic foam headpieces. “The great thing about [foam heads] is that they’re not hard, which means when you dance, they move — the jaw will move, the neck will move — and so they look more real,” Giles says.

He describes sculpting the foam as a plastic surgeon would, creating wrinkles and folds to add depth and detail.

The production was developed with a sense of playfulness but

in the swim: Young dancers wear human clothes and foam heads to portray ocean creatures in The Mystery of the Seahorse. The production deals with themes of ecology, community and good versus evil. Photo by Toby Maurer

centered on significant themes: pollution, ecology, community.

With such heady topics, how does a youth dance production reach its audience? Giles returns to the show’s archetypal threads: “We understand the values. We understand the characters who are in love; we understand the good guys; we don’t like the bad guys even if they’re ridiculous and funny,” he

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says. “[Stories are] very good teachers because we’re learning stuff without it being crammed down our throats. We’re learning all this stuff because it’s fun and it’s interesting.”

ACDT staged The Mystery of the Seahorse twice before, but this production has been tweaked and adapted to express the uniqueness of its performers. Not only did the dancers help create the characters they’ll portray, they also came up with an all-new ending to the tale. “Every sea creature has to work together,” says Giles. “The community works together to get it done.”

And, he adds, not only does the story reinforce a sense of community among the students, but they also see that in the production. “They see all the other dancers, they see all the choreography being made, they see the music being put together, they see the sets, and they see all the costumes being made one by one,” says Giles. “And then they see it all coming together at the end.” X

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‘Weird hybrid cousin’ McQueen’s pop culture mix of music, comedy and multimedia

“Is it comedy?” asks mcQueen adams rhetorically. “Is it music? Is it the weird hybrid cousin of both who is 32 and still sits at the kids’ table during holidays?” The answer to all of those questions is most likely yes, but the Asheville audience can decide for itself when McQueen — who’s first name is his stage name — brings his one-man (plus a fox) multimedia show to The Altamont Theatre on Thursday, May 21.

Performances by McQueen draw deeply on today’s pop culture. As a result, his humor resonates best with those who have at least a working knowledge of what’s currently popular. Put another way, he probably wouldn’t play well in front of an Amish crowd in Lancaster, Pa. “When I was in the U.K. workshopping the show, I had some ups and downs the first week,” McQueen admits. “Who doesn’t know who Conan O’Brien is? So you run into things going over someone’s head.”

But such incidents are the exception, not the rule. With the constant information we have access to, McQueen says, audiences are well-versed in the pop culture references at the core of his show.

That production incorporates projected visuals, live music and vocal impressions. In both concept and execution, a McQueen performance is consistent with the ethos of sampling. He takes content from a variety of disparate sources and reprocesses it through his own sensibility, creating something new and unique, yet oddly familiar in the process. McQueen describes what he does as combining “parts of movies, songs and moments [into] a soundtrack for scenarios that didn’t exist and giving them life.” He adds, “This show is a culmination of finding a balance of my love of music and my offbeat humor.” And the friends with whom he collaborates in developing the material are musicians, not comics, he points out.

fun with foxes: McQueen’s original synthesis of comedy, music and furry critters is difficult to describe. Photo courtesy of the artist

Even though it’s more or less a solo performance (“I have a lot of interaction with the fox,” says McQueen cryptically), the event is interactive, involving the audience.

“Trial and error is this show’s best friend,” he admits. “Technology is a testy b**ch; sometimes you are going to have mishaps, and

sometimes it’s spotless.” Further, he notes that the audience is transfixed on the screen, “so I can definitely hide out during the show” if needed.

The production’s elements of the unknown are an asset, not a liability. “I think the ability to improvise and move on the fly is what makes this show what it is,” McQueen says.

The limited amount of traditional storyboarding and choreography means that there is plenty of space in a McQueen show for spontaneity. “It’s a constant evolution,” he says. “It’s a lot like songwriting. I work on a piece and I always want to add to it.” He admits that while parts of the show are loosely scripted, it’s also heavy on improvisation — “Like a guitar solo that goes 10 minutes too long,” he jokes.

For those who still wonder what a McQueen show is like — it’s definitely not traditional brick wall and barstool stand-up, and it’s not exactly a concert — he offers this pop culture point of reference: “It’s been compared to watching ‘Adult Swim’ live.” He says that reviews of his shows in England sometimes likened him to British comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh, “but I think that was out of how different the show is,” he says.

McQueen has an ace in the hole for making sure that his audiences don’t get too lost among the media references: “That’s why I have a cat in my show,” he says. “Everyone knows what a cat is.” X

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A desire to tell stories for younger readers first got Shepherd into writing, so Secret Horses is close to her heart. “It’s a very different kind of book,” she says. “It blends fantasy and reality in [such a way that] you’re never sure what’s true.”

For that reason, the winning editor was the one who made the most personal appeal. “In the book, the little girl has to collect eight magical objects,” Shepherd says. The editor at Delacorte sent Shepherd real-life versions of each. “It was touching and thoughtful. It told me that she really got it.”

Shepherd’s fan base is likely to get The Cage, too, a science fiction story about teenagers trapped in an alien zoo. The novel had its genesis at a writers retreat in Bat

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Cave, where Shepherd fell into a conversation with the wildlife biologist husband of another writer. “He was talking about ... different types of bizarre zookeeping practices, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh — has anyone ever done a human zoo before?’”

The idea came easily, but writing it required Shepherd and her editor to work through several drafts.

One challenge was to present the viewpoint of each of the teenage prisoners. But Shepherd knew she wanted to take this approach from the beginning. “I love world cultures and languages,” she says. Before becoming a writer, she wanted to be a foreign service officer and served in the Peace Corps. “And I wanted some characters who weren’t

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American, weren’t white. I wanted their unique perspectives.”

Shepherd had fun designing the zoo, a biosphere-type setting that samples a variety of habitats. “It reminded me of something like an amusement park,” she says.

“Something that I would just want to run around in.” Plus, the zoo’s model town features a “kind of a Victorian-style bookstore,” Shepherd says, “to tie back to The Madman’s Daughter.”

Bookstores have figured prominently in Shepherd’s own life: she grew up at Highland Books, her parents’ bookstore in Brevard.

She held the launch party for The Madman’s Daughter there, so it’s the perfect setting to release The Cage.

Shepherd won’t say that growing up in a bookstore influenced her writing, but she does say her parents’ store is closely connected to the love of books that prompted her to take up YA and middle-grade fiction. Now living in Asheville, she returns to Brevard often. “I always make a beeline back to the kids section, and it’s sort of my comfort zone there,” she says. “It reminds me of what mattered to me and what kinds of books I liked to read when I was a kid.” X

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Old Crow Medicine Show Nashville-by-way-of-Brooklyn roots collective Old Crow Medicine Show was famously discovered in Boone by Doc Watson, who invited them to play Merlefest. Also famously, the group expanded a song fragment from Bob Dylan’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid outtakes into the busker standard/Hootie chart-climber “Wagon Wheel.” Sticking to that proven method, “Sweet Amarillo” from Old Crow’s new album Remedy was built around another Dylan line — though the punchy, driving 13-track record has plenty of supercaffeinated roots-rockers for future buskers to pull from. Old Crow Medicine Show returns to Pisgah Brewing Co. on Monday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. The Devil Makes Three also performs. $30 advance/$35 day of show/$60 Hopster VIP. pisgahbrewing. com. Photo courtesy of the band

“Kenilworth will again welcome folks in search of inspiration and wondrous finds to the studios of artists and craftspeople who live along the streets ... of this historic residential area,” reads a press release for the neighborhood’s 10th art studio crawl. The selfguided, art-themed block party (visit website for map information) takes visitors on a 15-location stroll and features the paintings, sketches, ceramics, wood crafts, tiles, sculptures, clothing, jewelry and other works of two dozen makers. Between these eccentric “visual delights,” attendees can pop over to Kenilworth Presbyterian Church’s lawn for a box lunch catered by Green Sage Café. The event, which stops at galleries and residences alike, takes place Saturday and Sunday, May 23-24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. kenilworthartists.org. Painting “Best in Show” by Ursula Gullow

The Bread and Butter Band A successful Kickstarter campaign provided The Bread and Butter Band with funds for two weeks of recording at Solomon Mines Studio in Fletcher — until owner and engineer Aaron Solomon heard the band’s gritty, high-energy brand of bluegrass, that is. “We had the incredible privilege of being in the studio for six months and experienced more top-quality professional studio time than almost any other unsigned band we know,” says banjoist and vocalist Nicole Kendle. “Songs evolved and turned into more than we knew we were capable of. All of us pushed ourselves past where we thought we could go and learned so much in transit.” The resulting debut album, Dead End Road, will be released during a celebration, complete with specialedition pint glasses and koozies up for grabs at Pisgah Brewing Co. on Sunday, May 24, at 9 p.m. $9/$12. pisgahbrewing.com.

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Zoe & Cloyd After years of recording music and playing with roots band Red June, Natalya Zoe Weinstein and her husband, guitarist John Cloyd Miller, are “excited to present some of our favorite original and traditional duets that we have been playing together for years.” The couple’s new album, Equinox, she says, “spans everything from The Stanley Brothers to a Yiddish folk song, including a diverse mix of singing songs and instrumentals.” Joining Zoe & Cloyd for their album-release party is fellow singer/songwriter duo The Honey Dewdrops, also celebrating the release of a new record called Tangled Country. “It’s sure to be a fun evening!” invites Weinstein. The Grey Eagle hosts the dual CD-release show on Thursday, May 21, at 8 p.m. $10/$13. thegreyeagle.com. Photo of Zoe & Cloyd by Aaron Dahlstrom

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Auditions & CAll to ARtists the WRiteR’s WoRkshoP 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through (5/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the 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 RIVERMUSIC • FRIDAY JUNE 12 • 5Pm (pd.) RiverLink’s RiverMusic series continues this Friday at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District. • The rowdy Americana Missouri trio, the Ben Miller Band headlines with explosive bluegrass, delta blues and old-timey “Ozark stomp”. The party starts at 5pm with Asheville’s alt-folkies, the Toothe, and tough electric blues by the Red Dirt Revelators from Hickory. www.riverlink.org AmiCimusiC 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • FR (5/22), 7:30pm - “Cello-Bration,” chamber music. Held in private home.

Location given upon reservation. $35.

• SU (5/24), 3pm - “Cello-Bration,” chamber music. $20/$15 members.

Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

in fair Verona, where we LaY our scene: The Montford Park Players will hold the opening production of their 2015 outdoor season with R&J, a two-actor adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, directed by Jeff Catanese. R&J will run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Saturday, May 30, at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre. Photo courtesy of the Montford Park Players (p.48)

ARt kenilWoRth ARt studio touR 785-2644, kenilworthartists.org • SA (5/23) & SU (5/24), 10am-5pm - Self-guided tour of artists’ home studios. Contact for locations. Free to attend.

Revolve 122 Riverside Drive • MO (5/25), 7-9pm - Asheville art theory reading group. Free. tRAnsylvAniA Community ARts CounCil tcarts@comporium.net • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Gallery Walk. Held in downtown Brevard. Free to attend.

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Held at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard WesteRn nC QuilteRs guild westernncquilters.org • TH (5/28) through SU (5/31) - “Mountain Stitches,” N.C. Quilt Symposium and Show.

Contact for full schedule. $5. Held at Bonclarken Conference Center, 500 Pine Drive, Flat Rock WindoW gAlleRy 54 Broadway, windowcontemporary.org • FR (5/22), 5:30-6:30pm - “Sidewalk Art Talk,” art lecture with Dana Hargrove. Free to attend.

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Asheville Community sing saralyncht@gmail.com • TH (5/28), 6:30-9:30pm - Sharing work songs, ballads, sea shanties, hymns and more. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road BunComBe County PuBliC liBRARies buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (5/26), 3pm - Musicke Antiqua, early music ensemble. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CARl sAndBuRg folk musiC festivAl nps.gov/carl • MO (5/25), 11am-4pm - 29th annual bluegrass music festival. See website for full schedule. Free. Held at Carl Sandburg Home, 1928 Little River Road, Flat Rock diAnA WoRthAm theAtRe 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • WE (5/20), 7:30pm - The SKY Family, Irish pop-rock and dance. $25/$22 seniors/$18 students/$10 ages 12 and under.

PAn hARmoniA 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • FR (5/22), 7-10pm - Performance by members of this classical musical collective. Includes reception for sculptors Molly Sawyer and Jameid Ferrin. Free to attend. Held at SOLID Studios, 144 Tunnel Road Rhythm & BReWs ConCeRt seRies 233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (5/21), 5-9pm - Allen Thompson Band, Americana. Held in downtown Hendersonville. Free. tRinity ePisCoPAl ChuRCh 60 Church St., 253-9361 • TH (5/28), 7-9pm - Mwangza Children’s Choir. 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 • TH (5/28), 7:30pm - “Listen to This,” stories and original songs. $15.

AttiC sAlt theAtRe ComPAny 505-2926 • SA (5/23), 10am - Newly Grown Tales, improvised folktales. $5. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. BRevARd little theAtRe 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/31) - Moon Over Buffalo. Fri.&Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $16/$11 students. 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. montfoRd PARk PlAyeRs 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/30), 7:30pm - Romeo and Juliet. Free.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. the mAgnetiC theAtRe 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • FR (5/22) though SU (5/24) - #OUCH! (An Accidental Comedy). $21/$18 advance. Fri.& Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.:2pm.

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ARt gAlleRies 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.

ARt At unCA art.unca.edu • Through TU (6/30) - Homage to Life, works by 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.

• Through TU (6/30) - Jodi John + Laura John: A Mother + Daughter Exhibition of Original Paintings. Artists’ reception: May 22, 5-7pm.

Asheville ARt museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (9/13) - From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason.

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, ashevillegalleryof-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.

BlACk mountAin CenteR foR the ARts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through SA (6/20) - Paintings of floral designs shown in collaboration with Art in Bloom event. 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.

159 S Lexington Ave., 277-0998, gratefulsteps.org • Through SA (5/30) - Celebrating Color, paintings by B Adams.

Time for from a new Coif?

JAil house gAlleRy 115 E. Meeting St., Morganton, 433-7282 • Through FR (6/12) - Works by Appalachian Pastel Society members.

Judith duff PotteRy 450 Cedar Lane, Brevard, 884-5258 • Through SA (5/30) - Works by visiting Asian potters Seungho Yang and Shozo Michikawa. mAhogAny house 240 Depot St., Waynesville, 246-0818 • Through TU (6/30) - Nature-inspired printmaking works by Dawn Behling and Myriah Strivelli. miCA fine ContemPoRARy CRAft 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through TU (7/21) - Rock, Paper, Scissors, works by Lisa Blackburn, Bill Brown, and Thor and Jennifer Bueno.

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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 • Through SU (8/2) - Photography by John Smith. 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 • Through TU (6/30) - Photos and digital paintings by Ron Morecraft.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees.

Mr. K’s

Used Books, CD’s DVD’s & more

BUY • SELL • TRADE

Over 10,000 SQ FT of used books, CDs DVDs, rare & out-of-print books, video games, audio books, vinyl records, comic books & more!

800 Fairview Road Asheville (River Ridge Shopping Center)

299-1145 • www.mrksusedbooks.com mountainx.com

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Wednesday, May 20

185 King Street Celtic Conspiracy (Celtic), 8pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar Wine tasting w/ Alarm Clock Conspiracy duo (indie, Americana), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm

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

550 Tavern & Grille Karaoke, 9pm

Altamont Brewing Company Carolina Story, Forlorn Strangers (Americana), 9pm

Altamont Brewing Company Grayak, Kelly Ruth, Juliana Daily (Americana), 8:30pm

Altamont Theatre Mcqueen (comedy), 9pm

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

Asheville Music Hall Nerd Rage! Professor Shyguy w/ D&D Sluggers, The Ladt Wordbenders, Bobby F’n White & DJ Appaloosa (hip-hop, nerdcore), 10pm

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

Barley’s Taproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

Black Mountain Ale House Play To Win Game Night, 7:30pm

Beer City Tavern Karaoke w/ DJ Do-It, 9:30pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open Mic, 7pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7pm

Burger Bar Karaoke, 9pm Crow & Quill Divine Circles (ambient, experimental), 9pm

Bogart’s Restaurant & Tavern Eddie Rose & Highway Forty (bluegrass), 6:30pm

Diana Wortham Theatre Celtic Revival, 7:30pm

Burger Bar Old school metal night w/ Schrader, 9pm

Double Crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Unknown Brewing Trivia night, 8pm

FOUR’S COMPANY: “Post-Americana,” “sweet and smoky honky-tonk” and “beyond the lonely grit of mountain music:” these three phrases have been used to describe Catawba foursome Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends. Drawing influences from old school country, the banjo, standing bass, fiddle and mandolin-backed band likely will feel right at home on the shores of the French Broad, performing at The Bywater on Friday, May 22, at 8 p.m.

Funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

Club Eleven on Grove Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Double Crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Red Wanting Blue w/ Zeke Duhon (rock ’n’ roll, Americana), 7pm

Jack of the Wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm

Rejavanation Cafe Open mic night, 6pm

Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm

Lazy Diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

Room IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Highland Brewing Company Woody Wood Wednesdays (acoustic rock), 5:30pm

Lex 18 Patrick Lopez (modern, Latin jazz), 7pm

Root Bar No. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 8pm

Foggy Mountain Brewpub Thunderbolts (experimental, groove), 9pm

Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

Scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

TallGary’s at Four College Open mic & jam, 7pm

French Broad Brewery Stephen Evans CD release (indie, folk), 6pm

Noble Kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

The Joint Next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm

O.Henry’s/The Underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm

Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Laid Back Thursdays, 7pm Jeff Thompson (singer-songwriter), 7pm

Odditorium Electric Phantom w/ Drosera (punk, metal), 9pm

The Social Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm

Jack of the Wood Pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Iron Horse Station Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Melissa Reaves & Michael Bellar (rock, funk, rnb), 7pm The Marcus King Band (rock, funk, blues), 9pm

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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Catawba Brewing Tasting Room Old time jam, 7pm

MAY 20 - MAY 26, 2015

Off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm Olive or Twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar Kinnection Decompression w/ Bogtrotter, Mumukshu, Goopsteppa, Atyya, Kll Smth & others (electronic), 10pm

The Southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm Tiger Mountain Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm

Lex 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (piano, bass), 7pm Lobster Trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm

Town Pump Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm

Market Place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White Horse Black Mountain Wednesday Waltz, 7pm

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

Wicked Weed John Hartford Tribute Jam, 6:30pm

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Lazy Diamond The Replacement Party w/ Dr. Filth, 10pm

Timo’s House Spectrum AVL w/ Jericho, Ixnee, Kri & guests, 9pm

One World Brewing Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm

Pour Taproom Karaoke, 8pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Zoe & Cloyd & Honey Dewdrops (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 8pm

Wild Wing Cafe South Party on the Patio! w/ J Luke, 6pm Karaoke, 9pm

New Mountain Bridge Over Asheville (variety show of local artists), 9pm Vaski w/ Marley Carroll & Lucidea (electronic), 10pm O.Henry’s/The Underground Gayme Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm Odditorium Ryan ’RnB’ Barber w/ Sai Ninth (soul), 9pm

OPEN MON-SAT 12PM-8PM

EXTENDED HOURS DURING SHOWS FOR TICKET HOLDERS

OPEN AT 5PM FOR SUNDAY SHOWS

WED 5/20 THU 5/21 FRI 5/22 SAT 5/23

SUN 5/24

RED WANTING BLUE W/ ZEKE DUHON 8pm $12

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

AMERICANA BURLESQUE & SIDESHOW FESTIVAL 2 SHOWS! 8PM AND 10:30PM! 8pm $15 / $25 for both

HACKENSAW BOYS W/ SAVANNAH SMITH 9pm $12 / $15

AFTERNOON: ABSFEST BURLESQUE BRUNCH Seated show. 12:30pm $12 EVENING: SAM OUTLAW W/ SMALL TOWN LIGHTS 8pm $8 / $10

WED 5/27

KALOB GRIFFIN BAND W/ NATALIE YORK

FRI 5/29

8pm $8 / $10

AARON LAFALCE, DRAKE MURPHY & POET RADIO 9pm $7 / $10

CONTRA DANCE: MONDAYS 8PM

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cLubLand

TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

Sunday, May 24th

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

THE

THU. 5/21 Hope Griffin Duo

North Carolina’s First Cider Pub! Family Owned and Operated

NEW GREEN SPACE & OUTDOOR SEATING See our Facebook Page for Nightly Specials

WEATHER IS N A ND I C E THE PATIO IS OPEN

(folk, Americana)

FRI. 5/22 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits)

(828) 774-5151 www.urbanorchardcider.com

JACK OF THE

WOOD PUB

WNC

20 S. SPRUCE ST. • 225.6944 PACKSTAVERN.COM Meadow is open with

Woody Wood 5:30-7:30 Tasting Room closed for private event

Thu • May 21

SAT 5.23

ACCiDENTAL SEABirDS

MON 5.25

20 WATT TOMBSTONE (FORMERLY THE GODDAMNS) DIRTY BLUES ROCK COMBO 7 p.m. free (Donations Encouraged)

George Achison & the Soul Diggers 7-9

TUE 5.26

TErrAPiN BrEWErY NiGHT

Sat • May 23

fri 5.29

WOODY PiNE

SAT 5.30

THE STrAiGHT 80S rOCK-ABiLLY SUrf MUSiC BLOW OUT

w/ KENT GOOLSBY & THE GOLD STANDARD 9 p.m.$5

INDIE FOLK DUO 9 p.m. free

(Donations Encouraged)

W/ PHUNCLE SAM – MUSIC STARTS AT 7PM W/ TERRAPIN 5p.m. free (Donations Encouraged)

AMERICAN ROOTS MIXED WITH FOLK AND THE NEW WAVE SOUTHERN GOTHIC 9 p.m.$5

W/ THE KREKTONES 9 p.m.$5

feat. Hickory Nut Gap Farm and music by Mike & Amy

Asheville Beer Week: May 22 - May 30 DAILY DRINK SPECIALS!

Fri • May 22

Free the Honey 7-9

Sun • May 24 12:30 - 2:30

Tues • May 26

Rock Academy 6-8

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

MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Bluegrass Jam 7pm

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

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one stoP deli & BAR Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Messenger Down & Eyes Eat Suns w/ Running On E, Hope Sets Sail & Monkey In Podship (alt rock, pop), 10pm one WoRld BReWing Jam Samwich (Garcia/Grisman tribute), 9pm oRAnge Peel Asheville Aerial Arts: Learning To Fly, 8pm oskAR Blues BReWeRy Dana & Sue Robinson (folk), 6pm

PuRPle onion CAfe The Accomplices (low-country, string band), 7pm Room ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

southeRn APPAlAChiAn BReWeRy Rhythm & Brews Concert Series w/ The Allen Thompson Band & others (folk, rock, Americana), 5pm tAllgARy’s At fouR College The Rat Alley Cats (jazz), 7pm

Flights & Bites 5:30-7:30

Jason Moore & Trust Trio

Wild Wing CAfe south Scott Raines (acoustic-rock), 8pm

sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Wed • May 20

SHANE PrUiTT BAND HIGH ENERGY LANEY JONES AND THE LiVELY SPiriTS FOLK ROCK SINGER-SONGWRITER

olive oR tWist Cha cha lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm

PulP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9pm

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fri 5.22 SAT 5.23

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

Brandenburg Concerto #4, Vivaldi), 7pm

PisgAh BReWing ComPAny Honey Island Swamp Band w/ Porch 40 (Americana, funk, blues), 9pm

(funk, pop, soul) ST OF BE

210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806

off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm

PACk’s tAveRn Hope Griffin Duo (folk, Americana), 9pm

SAT. 5/23 Lyric

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ST OF BE HALL OF F FAME WNC 2014

the mothlight Jackson Scott w/ Chester and the Nuts & Some God Damned Fool (apocalypse pop), 9:30pm the Phoenix Bradford Carson (modern mountain music), 8pm the soCiAl Awake In A Dream, 8pm 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 Jason Ellis (Americana, singersongwriter), 9pm

WxyZ lounge At Aloft hotel Stevie Lee Combs (Americana, folk), 7:30pm

fRidAy, mAy 22 5 WAlnut Wine BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 9pm 550 tAveRn & gRille Carolina Rex (blues, rock), 9pm AltAmont BReWing ComPAny The Accomplices (bluegrass, jazz), 9:30pm AltAmont theAtRe Hanks A Lot: Tribute to the many Hanks of Country Music, 8pm

festival (vaudeville), 8pm highlAnd BReWing ComPAny Geoff Achison & The Soul Diggers (southern blues, roots), 7pm iRon hoRse stAtion Mark Shane (rnb), 7pm isis RestAuRAnt And musiC hAll The Malpass Brothers (country, rockabilly, honky-tonk), 9pm JACk of the Wood PuB Shane Pruitt Band (gospel, blues, rock ’n’ roll), 9pm JeRusAlem gARden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAZy diAmond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

AthenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

lex 18 High tea w/ Bob Strain (piano), 1:30pm Ray Biscoglia (jazz), 6pm HotPoint Trio (gypsy swing string), 8:30pm

BeeR City tAveRn Jason Brazzel, 9pm

loBsteR tRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm

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

mARket PlACe The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

BlACk BeAR Coffee Co. Fashion Bath (alternative, indie, rock), 6pm

neW mountAin Dr. John & The Nitetrippers (New Orleans rnb, blues, rock ’n’ roll), 7:30pm Dr. John Afterparty w/ Atlas Road Crew, Dead 27’s & Travers Brothership (Southern rock, alt rock), 10:15pm

BlACk mountAin Ale house DJ dance party, 9pm Blue mountAin PiZZA & BReW PuB Gene Holdway (Americana, bluegrass, folk), 7pm BoileR Room 3rd Annual Up In Smoke Party (hip-hop), 10pm BuRgeR BAR Juke Joint Blues w/ Rare Burger Band, 9pm ByWAteR Steph Stewart & The Boyfriends (Americana, folk), 8pm ClAssiC WineselleR The Moon & You (Americana, folk, pop), 7am CoRk & keg The Resonant Rogues (Gypsy jazz, folk, traditional), 8:30pm douBle CRoWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm dugout Fine Line (classic rock), 9pm elAine’s dueling PiAno BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm foggy mountAin BReWPuB Red Honey (blues, rock), 10pm

tRessA’s doWntoWn JAZZ And Blues Lyric (funk, soul), 9pm

fRenCh BRoAd BReWeRy Letters to Abigail (country, bluegrass), 6pm

uRBAn oRChARd Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

good stuff Brooke Mcbride (country, acoustic), 9pm

White hoRse BlACk mountAin Pan Harmonia (Bach’s

gRey eAgle musiC hAll & tAveRn Americana Burlesque & Sideshow

nightBell RestAuRAnt & lounge Dulítel DJ (indie, electro, rock), 10pm noBle kAvA Beat Life Lounge w/ members of Beat Life Collective (hip-hop, downtempo, electronic), 8:30pm o.henRy’s/the undeRgRound Kings & Queens (drag dance party), 10pm odditoRium Alarka w/ Verse Vica, Trees on Mars & The Art of War (metal), 9pm off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm one stoP deli & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Opposite Box (funk), 10pm oRAnge Peel Jason Michael Carroll w/ Old Southern Moonshine Revival & Joe Lasher Jr. (country), 9pm oskAR Blues BReWeRy Carolina Blue (bluegrass), 6pm PACk’s tAveRn DJ MoTo (pop, dance, hits), 9pm PisgAh BReWing ComPAny Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead covers), 9pm RiveRWAtCh BAR & gRill Sound Extreme Karaoke w/ DJ Hurricane, 7pm Sound Extreme w/ DJ Hurricane, 7pm

Root BAR no. 1 Kyle Cox & Rocko Wheeler (singer-songwriter), 8pm

BeeR City tAveRn Night Eagle Band (outlaw country), 9pm

sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Ben’s tune-uP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm

sCully’s DJ, 10pm southeRn APPAlAChiAn BReWeRy Vintage Vinyl (rock, Americana), 8pm stRAightAWAy CAfe Black Robin Hero (Americana, rock ’n’ roll), 6pm tAllgARy’s At fouR College The Apple Blue Horse Band (country, Southern rock), 9:30pm the AdmiRAl Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the mothlight Mac McCaughan w/ Flesh Wounds & Impossible Vacation (indie rock), 9pm the Phoenix Pretty Little Goat (old-time string band), 9pm the soCiAl Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

BlACk BeAR Coffee Co. The Zuzu Welsh Band w.

Madeline Lavender (blues, Americana, soul, folk), 6pm BlACk mountAin Ale house Black Robin Hero (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm Blue mountAin PiZZA & BReW PuB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm BoileR Room Zodiac w/ Illanthropy, Live Animals, and others (hip-hop, electronic), 8:30pm BuRgeR BAR Bike Night w/ DJ Johnny Be Good (70s rock), 9pm

lex 18 High tea w/ Bob Strain (piano), 1:30pm Patrick Lopez (Latin, jazz piano), 6pm Xpresso (modern, Latin jazz), 8:30pm

mARket PlACe DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

neW mountAin Repeat Repeat w/ Lake Lawn & The Blots (surf rock, pop), 8:30pm Imperial Blend (electronic, rock), 10pm noBle kAvA The Hellacious Habaneros (oldtime, jazz fusion), 8:30pm

ClAssiC WineselleR Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor covers), 7pm

off the WAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm olive oR tWist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

tigeR mountAin Soul dance party w/ Cliff, 10pm timo’s house Dance party, 10pm

CRoW & Quill Clyde’s On Fire (jazz, swing), 9pm

one stoP deli & BAR Sass w/ Darius Daquan, Zoot Troop & Daree (rap), 8pm

toWn PumP Wink Keziah (honky-tonk, outlaw country), 9pm

douBle CRoWn Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm

oRAnge Peel 9th Annual Absfest w/ Sidetracked, 8pm

toy BoAt Community ARt sPACe Sordid Lives (play), 7:30pm

dugout Brooke McBride Band (country), 9pm

oskAR Blues BReWeRy The Mug (blues), 6pm

tRessA’s doWntoWn JAZZ And Blues Marcel Anton (blues, dance), 7pm The Dangerous Gentlemen (roots, rock, rnb), 10pm

elAine’s dueling PiAno BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Wild Wing CAfe Grand Theft Audio (rock), 8pm Wild Wing CAfe south A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm WxyZ lounge At Aloft hotel Lenny Pettinelli Duo (soul, rock, funk), 8pm ZAmBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sAtuRdAy, mAy 23 5 WAlnut Wine BAR Rob Nance Duo (folk), 6pm Erin & The Project (soul-ternative), 9pm AltAmont BReWing ComPAny Appalachian Trail Conservancy Benefit w/ Scott Low, Campfires & Constellations, Clydes on Fire, 4pm AthenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

good stuff Jeff Thompson (singer-songwriter), 7pm Monty Mak (soul, rock, jazz), 9pm gRey eAgle musiC hAll & tAveRn Hackensaw Boys w/ Savannah Smith (Americana, country, rock), 9pm isis RestAuRAnt And musiC hAll Saturday Classical Brunch, 11am Acoustic Blues w/ Peggy Ratusz, 7pm JGBCB (Jerry Garcia Band covers), 9pm JACk of the Wood PuB Laney Jones & The Lively Spirits w/ Kent Goolsby & The Gold Standard (folk rock, country, singer-songwriter), 9pm JeRusAlem gARden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAZy diAmond Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

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moJo kitChen & lounge Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hiphop), 5:30pm

odditoRium Jacked Up Joe w/ Sex Knuckle & The Beard (rock), 9pm

fRenCh BRoAd BReWeRy The Great Barrier Reefs (funk, jazz), 6pm

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mARCo’s PiZZeRiA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm

CoRk & keg Vollie McKenzie & The Leadfoot Vipers (country, swing, jazz), 8:30pm

White hoRse BlACk mountAin The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8pm

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loBsteR tRAP Hot Point Trio (gypsy-jazz, jazz, swing), 6:30pm

ByWAteR Johnny Campbell & The Bluegrass Drifters, 8pm

foggy mountAin BReWPuB Virginia & the Slims (blues, jazz), 10pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

PACk’s tAveRn Lyric (funk, pop, soul), 9pm PisgAh BReWing ComPAny Uprizing w/ Hot Rize, Leo Kottke, Town Mountain, Mipso & others (bluegrass, Americana), 4pm PuRPle onion CAfe Steph Stewart & The Boyfriends (bluegrass), 8pm RiveRWAtCh BAR & gRill Motownblue (soul, R&B), 7pm Room ix Open dance night, 9pm Root BAR no. 1 Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz), 8pm sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCully’s DJ, 10pm southeRn APPAlAChiAn BReWeRy King Possum (indie, folk, Americana), 8pm

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the BAR uPstAiRs/Ashley’s uPPeR Room Karaoke, 10pm

BuRgeR BAR Bike night w/ DJ John Black (’70s rock), 9pm

the mothlight The Bassholes w/ Mendocino, Delta Quadrant & Shane Parish (rock ’n’ roll), 9:30pm

BuRiAl BeeR Co. Jazz brunch w/ The Mandelkorn George Project (funk, soul), 12pm

the Phoenix Bradford Carson (modern mountain music), 1pm Fireside Collective (folk, newgrass), 9pm

ByWAteR Benefit for Helios Warriors w/ Sherri Lynn & The Mountain Friends Band (bluegrass), the Riverside Drive Band (Southern rock) & Through the Hills (Americana), 1pm

the soCiAl Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm timo’s house Breakin’ w/ Bradd BiTT & Friends (breaks), 10pm

douBle CRoWn Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

toWn PumP Straw Man (indie, rock, alternative), 9pm

gRey eAgle musiC hAll & tAveRn ABSfest Burlesque Brunch, 11:30am Sam Outlaw w/ Small Town Lights (outlaw country), 8pm

toy BoAt Community ARt sPACe Sordid Lives (play), 7:30pm

highlAnd BReWing ComPAny Jason Moore & Trust Trio (jazz), 12:30pm

tRessA’s doWntoWn JAZZ And Blues The King Zeros (blues), 7pm The Liley Arauz Band (Latin soul), 10pm

iRon hoRse stAtion Mark Murray, 6pm

White hoRse BlACk mountAin Lawrence Stomberg & Dr. Daniel Weiser (classical), 7:30pm Wild Wing CAfe Karaoke, 8pm WxyZ lounge At Aloft hotel Mandelkorn George Project (funk, soul), 8pm ZAmBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

Aloft hotel The John Henrys (benefit for Homeward Bound), 4pm Aloft RooftoP/Poolside The John Henrys (jazz, swing, ragtime), 4pm Ben’s tune-uP Jazz Brunch, 2pm BlACk mountAin Ale house Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm

PisgAh BReWing ComPAny The Bread & Butter Band (Americana, bluegrass), 9pm PouR tAPRoom Open mic, 8pm RiveRWAtCh BAR & gRill Hunnilicious (Americana, country, folk, pop), 1pm sCAndAls nightCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm southeRn APPAlAChiAn BReWeRy Courtaud (indie, folk, rock), 7pm stRAightAWAy CAfe Tim Marsh, 5pm tAllgARy’s At fouR College Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

isis RestAuRAnt And musiC hAll Jazz showcase, 6pm

the mothlight The Lovebirds w/ Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (folk, pop), 9pm

JACk of the Wood PuB Irish session, 5pm Accidental Seabirds (indie, folk), 9pm

the omni gRove PARk inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10pm

lAZy diAmond Honky Tonk Night w/ DJs, 10pm lex 18 Michael John Jazz (jazz), 7pm neW mountAin Ghoul w/ Phobia, Nekrofilth & Spliff (thrash, death metal), 6:30pm Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ Porch 40 (New Orleans jazz), 9pm

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one stoP deli & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 9pm

nightBell RestAuRAnt & lounge Dulítel DJ (indie, electro-rock), 10pm odditoRium Adult stand-up poetry, 9pm off the WAgon Piano show, 9pm olive oR tWist Bachata lesson w/ Wayne Tipton, 7pm DJ (oldies rock, swing), 8pm

the Phoenix Simon & Kyle’s Acoustic Beatles Show, 12pm the soCiAl Memorial Weekend Jam w/ The Dirty Badgers & friends (benefit for MANNA), 8pm Karaoke, 9:30pm the southeRn Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm tigeR mountAin Seismic Sunday w/ Matthew Schrader (doom, sludge, drone, psych-metal), 10pm timo’s house Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm toWn PumP Red Mouth (soul, roots, punk), 9pm White hoRse BlACk mountAin The Demasi Brothers (folk), 7:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

mondAy, mAy 25 185 king stReet Open mic, 8pm 5 WAlnut Wine BAR The Feels w/ CaroMia (soul), 8pm AltAmont BReWing ComPAny Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 6:30pm

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gRey eAgle musiC hAll & tAveRn Contra dance, 7pm JACk of the Wood PuB Quizzo, 7pm 20 Watt Tombstone (rock, dirty blues), 9pm lAZy diAmond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm lexington Ave BReWeRy (lAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm loBsteR tRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm neW mountAin Andy Offutt Irwin w/ Sherry Lovett (storyteller), 7pm o.henRy’s/the undeRgRound Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm odditoRium Secrets of the Sky, Umbra, Gnarl Scar (metal), 9pm oskAR Blues BReWeRy Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm PisgAh BReWing ComPAny Old Crow Medicine Show w/ The Devil Makes Three (Americana), 7:30pm soveReign Remedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the Phoenix The Wilhelm Brothers (folk-rock), 8pm the soCiAl Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm Salsa Night, 9pm timo’s house Movie night, 7pm

tuesdAy, mAy 26 5 WAlnut Wine BAR The John Henrys (ragtime, jazz), 8pm AltAmont BReWing ComPAny Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm Asheville musiC hAll Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm BeeR City tAveRn Team Trivia (w/ prizes), 8pm Ben’s tune-uP Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm BlACk mountAin Ale house Trivia, 7pm BuffAlo niCkel Trivia, 7pm

BeeR City tAveRn Memorial Day fest w/ Dirty Soul Revival (rock) & Porch 40 (funk, rock), 12pm Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam & storytelling), 8pm

BuRgeR BAR Krekel & Whoa! (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

BlACk mountAin Ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 7:30pm

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

BuRgeR BAR Honkytonk ladies night w/ Brody, 6pm

highlAnd BReWing ComPAny The Academy of Asheville, 6pm

ByWAteR Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm

iRon hoRse stAtion Open mic, 6pm

CouRtyARd gAlleRy Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

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

CRoW & Quill Los Abrojitos (Argentine tango), 9pm

JACk of the Wood PuB Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead covers), 5pm

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

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

good stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

lex 18 Bob Strain (jazz), 7pm

douBle CRoWn Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm

loBsteR tRAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singersongwriter), 6:30pm mARCo’s PiZZeRiA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6:30pm mARket PlACe The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm odditoRium Odd comedy night, 9pm off the WAgon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm one stoP deli & BAR Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm one WoRld BReWing Pabulum (blues, rock), 9pm oRAnge Peel ScaleUp WNC Demo Day, 2pm PouR tAPRoom Frank Zappa night, 8pm RenAissAnCe Asheville hotel TLQ + 3 (country), 6:30pm Root BAR no. 1 Cameron Stack (blues), 8pm tAllgARy’s At fouR College Jam night, 9pm the hoP iCe CReAm CAfe The Wilhelm Brothers (folkrock), 6:30pm the Joint next dooR Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm the mothlight Radiant beings of Light w/ Niah & Erectile Destruction (metal, doom, experimental), 9:30pm the Phoenix Paul Jones Trio (jazz, classical), 8pm the soCiAl Jason Whitaker (acoustic), 5pm the southeRn The Low Down Sires (string jazz), 9pm Michael Hefner (Americana), 10pm tigeR mountAin Tuesday Tests w/ Chris Ballard (techno, house, experimental, downtempo), 10pm toWn PumP Brent Byrd (singer-songwriter), 9pm tRessA’s doWntoWn JAZZ And Blues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm uRBAn oRChARd Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm Westville PuB Blues jam, 10pm White hoRse BlACk mountAin Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm Wild Wing CAfe south Maniac Brainiac Trivia!, 8pm

WednesdAy, mAy 27 5 WAlnut Wine BAR Wine tasting w/ David Desmelik (singer-songwriter), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm 550 tAveRn & gRille Karaoke, 9pm BeeR City tAveRn Cornhole leagues begin, 6:30pm 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 Blue mountAin PiZZA & BReW PuB Open Mic, 7pm

odditoRium Derek Poteat & Konvoi, 9pm off the WAgon Piano show, 9pm olive oR tWist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stoP deli & BAR Scattered Hamlet w/ Gutterhound & The Damned Angels (rock), 10pm one WoRld BReWing Billy Litz, 8pm PisgAh BReWing ComPAny Dennis Berndt (reggae, roots, folk), 6pm PouR tAPRoom Karaoke, 8pm ReJAvAnAtion CAfe Open mic night, 6pm

BuRgeR BAR Karaoke, 9pm

Room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

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

Root BAR no. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 8pm

foggy mountAin BReWPuB Trivia, 8pm funkAtoRium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm gRey eAgle musiC hAll & tAveRn Kalob Griffin Band w/ Natalie York (alt country, bluegrass, indie), 8pm gRind CAfe Trivia night, 7pm highlAnd BReWing ComPAny Woody Wood Wednesdays (acoustic rock), 5:30pm iRon hoRse stAtion Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm isis RestAuRAnt And musiC hAll Miriam Allen & David Zoll (folk), 7pm JACk of the Wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm lAZy diAmond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm lex 18 French wine tasting w/ Simone Berhart & Frank Puzzullo (Edith Piaf & Cole Porter), 7:30pm loBsteR tRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

sCully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm stRAightAWAy CAfe Searra & the Jazzy Folk, 6pm tAllgARy’s At fouR College Open mic & jam, 7pm the Joint next dooR Bluegrass jam, 8pm the mothlight Hellafun Asheville, 9pm the Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm the soCiAl Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm the southeRn Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tigeR mountAin Sean Dail (classic punk, powerpop, 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

mountAin moJo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

White hoRse BlACk mountAin Wednesday Waltz, 7pm Comedy Shorts (short films, improv skits, sketch), 7:30pm

noBle kAvA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

WiCked Weed John Hartford Tribute Jam, 6:30pm

o.henRy’s/the undeRgRound “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

Wild Wing CAfe south Party on the Patio! w/ J Luke, 6pm Karaoke, 9pm

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Far from the Madding Crowd HHHHH

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director: Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt)

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pLaYers: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple drama

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the storY: A strong-willed woman in rural Victorian England deals with society, changing fortunes and the attentions of three very different men. the Lowdown: Splendid as drama and strong on character — the four leads, Mulligan, Schoenaerts, Sheen and Sturridge, are exceptional — this is one of the year’s best films and easily one of the most visually beautiful.

There will probably be better films this year (I tend to think Clouds of Sils Maria already is), but the chances of there being a more visually sumptuous or more romantic one than Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd are slim indeed. This is the kind of film where each new image seems more impossibly beautiful than the last. In fact, the last film I can think of that was this immersively gorgeous was Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979) — another film adaptation of a Thomas Hardy novel, and a film that I’d be hardpressed to believe didn’t inform the look of Far from the Madding Crowd. (Certainly, this looks more like Tess than it looks like John Schlesinger’s 1967 attempt at Madding Crowd.) There were, in fact, times in the early portions

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of the film where I suspected that Vinterberg had told his cinematographer, Charlotte Bruus Christensen, “I want this lit to resemble Tess — only with more lens flare.” But as Madding Crowd went along, the more it took on a look of its own.

Whatever the case, this is one sublime visual experience. But the film is more than that.

Now, I’ve never read the Hardy novel, and I’ve never made it through the Schlesinger version in one sitting, so I can make little in the way of comparisons to either where the content is concerned. I can, however, say Vinterberg does the one thing Schlesinger couldn’t — he makes the story vital and earthy. Its undeniable romanticism is balanced by underlying themes and a sense of urgency.

Oh, it doesn’t take long before you get a pretty good sense of where the film is going to end up, but it constantly pulls you into the journey.

This, of course, has a lot to do with Hardy’s basic narrative, which is ripe with incident, constantly changing fortunes and sudden — often implausible — shifts in trajectory.

But that doesn’t in itself guarantee a compelling film. (If it did, I’d have

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made it through the older version in one sitting.) This Madding Crowd feels truly alive with the passions of its principal characters and their shifting situations.

Stripped to its basics, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of the improbably named Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), a woman of no means whatsoever but with a fiercely independent nature in a society — Victorian England — that frowns on such things. At the beginning of the film, a comparatively prosperous sheep farmer, Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead and The Drop), wants to marry her — trying to persuade her with the fact that he has 100 sheep.

She’s tempted — though not by the sheep. However, he soon suffers the film’s first reversal of fortune and no longer feels worthy of her — especially when she becomes a woman of property via an inheritance. He does, however, end up working for her — a situation that becomes trying when she attracts the attention of flashy soldier Francis Troy (Tom Sturridge, Pirate Radio) and wealthy landowner William Boldwood (Michael Sheen). Gabriel (rightly)

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considers Troy not good enough for her and suspects her motives where Boldwood is concerned.

What happens is certainly compelling, but what makes all this work lies in the depth with which these characters — even the generally unlikable Troy — are presented and the way in which they truly inhabit the world of the film.

Despite the improbable nature of the plot, the characters — and the performers — keep things anchored in a reality that easily trumps the mechanics of the story.

The characters live and breathe and, while not always making good choices, engage us from start to finish in a way that few characters do.

See this film — it’s wonderful on so many levels. Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and violence.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Good Kill HHHH DIRECTOR: Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) PLAYERS: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Zoë Kravitz, Jake Abel, Peter Coyote (voice) DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A fighter pilot turned drone controller finds himself increasingly questioning the morality of his job.

THE LOWDOWN: Strong performances, a trenchant message and brilliant uses of imagery help to overcome a screenplay that leans toward preachiness.

I won’t argue that Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill isn’t as important as it thinks it is. Perhaps Niccol tried too hard to make a statement — maybe as an attempt to expiate his sins for making that abomination called The Host (2013). The film leans heavily on the didactic side, and it never cracks a smile — as if we might otherwise forget that this is important. In fairness, Niccol is generally pretty humorless — 2002’s S1m0ne to one side, and even it is pretty somber taken altogether — and tends to slide into preachiness.

None of this, however, is to say that

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Good Kill isn’t a good, sometimes very powerful movie — merely that its reach exceeds its grasp. The very fact that someone has tackled the topic of drone warfare is noteworthy in itself.

Ethan Hawke stars as Major Thomas Egan, a former fighter pilot now spending his days sitting in a trailer and killing the enemy (and a few hapless passersby) from the safety of Las Vegas — and trying to come to grips with the distancing effect of this kind of utterly impersonal warfare.

The film is actually a little disingenuous here — or maybe Egan is — since flying an F-16 isn’t on the same oneon-one level of a World War I dogfight.

For that matter, the collateral damage and the distinct possibility of working from faulty information is functionally the same from a high-tech cockpit or a small steel room, except that the personal risk has been removed from the latter scenario — at least on the physical level. The psychological level is another matter. While I have trouble buying Egan’s nostalgia for actual combat, I can buy into the escalating guilt of dealing death from a distance where human beings are reduced to the level of a video game. (Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana first broached this topic in 2005.) That the operative difference may be minimal doesn’t change the psychological impact.

The film’s characters break down into types. Egan is the one beginning to question it all. His commander, Lt. Colonel Jack Johns (Bruce Greenwood), is determined to justify something to others he may not be able to justify to himself. Egan’s immediate team includes something of a bleedingheart liberal (Zoë Kravitz), whose presence is a little hard to understand, and a gung-ho hawk (Jake Abel), who imbues the term armchair warrior with new meaning. Good Kill is not exactly subtle. It doesn’t get any more so when the situation worsens with the CIA (referred to at one point as Christians In Action) taking over giving the orders via phone under the anonymous name of “Langley” (voiced by Peter Coyote).

With this change, the information goes from questionable to transparently spurious — not to mention the ethics worsening. All that may be a little — sometimes a lot — too easy. The same can be said of the business of the team having to powerlessly and repeatedly watch the continued raping of a woman by a man they’ve been told is not their target. These things, however, aren’t without their power. Egan’s marital troubles and slide into alcoholism, on the other hand, are shaky and clichéd from the onset, while the upshot of them is so glib as to provoke — at best

HHHHH = max rating — a groan. (If you’re less charitable, it may warrant a snicker.)

The truth is that, for all his faults as a writer, it’s Niccol’s direction that makes Good Kill work more than it doesn’t. The Las Vegas backdrop itself — surely the most absurd and unreal place imaginable — lends a dislocation from reality. The early cut from the monitors at the base to a video game at home may seem facile, but it makes its point — especially since Niccol is painting a picture of a world ever more removed from human interaction by technology providing the illusion of it. But perhaps the most compelling images in the film come from Niccol increasingly viewing the world Egan inhabits from a kind of drone’s-eye-view.

It becomes more difficult to tell the difference between Afghanistan on a military monitor and the Las Vegas suburbs and schools. And that is a chilling realization that more than balances the film’s clunkiness. Rated R for violent content including a rape, language and some sexuality.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Mad Max: Fury Road HHHH DIRECTOR: George Miller PLAYERS: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIAN ACTION RATED R THE STORY: Max Rockatansky helps transport some refugee concubines across the desert to a supposedly better land.

THE LOWDOWN: While it isn’t likely to change your idea of cinema (at least I hope not), isn’t worth the hype and has its share of problems, this is one wild — even hallucinatory — ride that’s worth taking.

To start with — no, Mad Max: Fury Road is not one of the Great Films. It is not a “masterpiece,” nor is it an “instant classic.” It will not, as has been claimed, “melt your face off” (is that even desirable?), though

I suppose it may “leave your inner 12-year-old giggling with glee,” assuming you have one. (This may be truer if your inner 12-year-old grew up with Mad Max movies on VHS.) However if it “redefines the action film,” it does so by burying any idea of story in a fit of sound and fury signifying nothing comprehensible for about the first half of its running time. The result of this — at least in this corner — is a film that I pretty thoroughly disliked for its first hour and pretty thoroughly loved for its second hour. I suspect I would feel more positive about that first hour on a second viewing when I knew what all this was in the service of — that’s to say I might well think it’s only 20 to 30 minutes longer than it needs to be.

I can feel the fanboy wrath mount with every sentence — even though I’m by no means threatening its treasured 98 percent “approval” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (I expect there are voodoo dolls with pins in them for the four — so far — lost souls who gave Fury Road a negative review. Fandom can be a scary place.) No. I think this latest entry in the series — or reboot or whatever it is — is fascinating and far and away the best one yet. It’s bigger, it’s better acted, it’s better looking, it’s more creative and once it gets down to it, it’s a lot smarter, funnier (intentionally) and more subversive than its predecessors.

It’s also considerably more grotesque, which with a movie like this might be viewed as a plus.

Basically, the film is one long chase scene — or maybe two long chase scenes, depending on how you look at it — with time given over to ever more elaborate bouts of mayhem between the good guys and the bad guys. For some that will be quite enough, though that comes perilously close to the ethic of “stuff blows up really neat” — except that here you may change that to “really neat and creatively.” But the truth is, if you’re willing to wait for it and dig a little beneath the surface there’s more to the film than its more obvious enticements. Everything you’ve been told to expect is true, but that hardly covers the whole package. You’ve been told the film is strange, but that may not prepare you for the borderline surreal trip it takes you on.

This is Mad Max as if it was redesigned by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This is Mad Max where the bad guys drive around with their own musical accompaniment — including a guy with a flame-throwing electric guitar. (And didn’t Jeunet sneak an orchestra into the proceedings for a similar purpose in Micmacs?) This is Mad Max gone Rube Goldberg — in some casually grotesque ways (milking machines for

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• Silent movie star and film producer mary pickford will be the focus of three classic films presented by local film historian chip Kaufmann at the Leicester Library on Friday, May 22, from 6-8 p.m. The slate begins with Wilful Peggy, a 1910 comedy (15 minutes) starring a then 17-year-old Pickford, followed by her 1917 vehicle A Little Princess (62 minutes). The evening wraps up with The Butcher Boy (1917, 25 minutes) a parody of A Little Princess starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. Kaufmann will provide commentary on each of the films.

Admission is free, all ages are welcome, and complimentary popcorn will be provided. avl.mx/0we • asheville beer week has two special film screenings on its impressive schedule of events. The first is a 7 p.m. showing of Blood, Sweat and Beer at the carolina cinemas on Saturday, May 23. The documentary investigates the explosive growth of the craft-beer industry and the dramatic stories of two startup breweries. The film is currently playing various festivals and was recently featured in USA Today. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased online. siLence is GoLden: avl.mx/0wd Movie star and film producer Mary Pickford On Thursday, May will be the focus of three classic films 28, at 10 p.m., asheville presented by local historian Chip Kaufmann pizza and brewing on at the Leicester Library on Friday, May 22.

Merrimon Avenue will Photo from the Mary Pickford Collection, show the 1983 cult clascourtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library sic Strange Brew, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Canadian beers from Molson Brewing Co. and Moosehead Brewery will be on special and anyone dressed as a Canadian will receive free admission. Otherwise, tickets are $3. avlbeerweek.com • Asheville nonprofit outpatient clinic and resource center memorycare hosts a screening of the award-winning PBS documentary The Genius of Marian on Tuesday, May 26, at 5:30 p.m. at asheville community theatre. The 85-minute film follows one family’s journey through Alzheimer’s disease. A reception with appetizers begins the evening, which concludes with a discussion moderated by drs. margaret noel and Virginia templeton of MemoryCare. Tickets are $12 and available through the ACT website or by calling 254-1320. tinyurl.com/GoMtickets • The carolina cinemas’ directors series continues throughout May, upstairs in the Cinema Lounge. The free screenings celebrate a director’s work on his or her birthday. Featured filmmakers and films are anton corbijn (May 20: Control, The American and several of the director’s acclaimed music videos), tom tykwer (May 23: Perfume), seijun suzuki (May 24: Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill), frank oz (May 25: Little Shop of Horrors), josef von sternberg (May 29: The Blue Angel), howard hawks (May 30: Scarface, Red River), agnès Varda (May 30: Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond) and rainer werner fassbinder (May 31: Veronika Voss, The American Soldier). Call 274-8811 for showtimes. carolinacinemas.com/asheville Send your local film news to ae@mountainx.com X

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women?). This is Mad Max on acid — acid of the Ken Russell kind. (If you think there’s no connection between Miller and Russell, watch The Witches of Eastwick back-to-back with Lisztomania and get back to me.) Look, this is a movie with a tough-as-nails, one-armed heroine (Charlize Theron) and an even more haunted Max (Tom Hardy) transporting a preposterous group of scantily clad pinup girls across the desert wasteland and its terrors various and sundry.

It’s not interested in realism as such — except as concerns relying on amazing practical effects and old-school movie trickery for its thrill ride. (The solidity and realism of all this is undermined by unrealistic digital coloring so heavy-handed that Max is often as orange as the original Oompa Loompas.) Plus, Fury Road does have something on its mind — including that streak of feminism that got those “men’s rights” activists all in a dither. It is very much a matriarch-minded movie.

The patriarch-oriented bad guys are all diseased and deformed by radiation — and ultimately ineffectual. They exist in a culture of death with henchmen being promised instant trips to Valhalla should they die in the service of their masters.

Bombastic and even overbearing as it is, this is not a dumb movie. The cast (especially Theron and Nicholas Hoult) is splendid — as is the musical score by Junkie XL. And, yes, Tom Hardy is a better Mad Max than Mel Gibson. Rated R for intense sequences of violence throughout and for disturbing images.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Pitch Perfect 2 S director: Elizabeth Banks pLaYers: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin musicaL comedY rated pG-13 the storY: After an embarrassing performance nearly dooms their a capella group, the women of the Barden Bellas try to win an international competition to restore their good name. the Lowdown: The sequel to an exhaustingly dull, overlong, predictable and generally unfunny movie somehow one-ups its predecessor in all of those categories.

While the rest of the world was waxing ecstatic over Pitch Perfect (2012), the out-of-nowhere hit based on college a capella groups, I generally hated it. Clocking in at two hours, here was a movie filled with predictable plotting, some egregiously boring music and a whole lot of Rebel Wilson discussing her various bodily functions. I never understood the appeal then, and I definitely don’t understand the appeal of it now with the release of Pitch Perfect 2, a film which takes every bad thing about the original and squeezes and wrenches it into something even worse. It’s longer, the music’s worse, the plotting is somehow even more inevitable — and there’s even more Rebel Wilson. The only amusing aspect about the film is that it somehow made $70 million, beating out the seemingly universally praised (to a dangerously hyperbolic extent) Mad Max: Fury Road and guaranteeing a decade’s worth of sequels that’ll most assuredly tailspin into the world of straight-to-DVD cinema.

This time around, the remaining members of the college a capella group the Barden Bellas have fallen on hard times. After an embarrassing performance has made them a laughing stock and lost them a lucrative nationwide tour to a group of German a capella singers (who are basically ripped off from Mike Meyers’ 20-yearold “Sprockets” sketches), their only choice is to buckle down and win an international a capella competition (while allowing this lazy movie to indulge in some xenophobic stereotyping). But since the ladies of the Barden Bellas — including their leader, Beca (Anna Kendrick) and loudmouthed Amy (Wilson) — are slowly drifting apart as they approach the end of college, things become more complicated. This means a lot of reconnecting and stuff about friendship and whatnot — it’s all a bunch of utilitarian nonsense as a means of filling in the movie’s running time.

Will they win? Will they all still be friends? Of course they will. I’m amazed that anyone would be so shameless as to actually write this drivel, let alone put their name on it.

Of course, there’s nothing new under the sun, I suppose, but the film’s real selling point — the music — isn’t much to be excited about, unless you suffer from hearing loss or perhaps narcolepsy. I guess the music, in general, is inoffensive if you really enjoy the sound of beer commercials. But the musical numbers are flat, and the performances themselves are so compressed and autotuned that they’re totally devoid of personality. Not helping things is the

STARTING FRIDAY cast, like the aforementioned Wilson, who might be a fine person in real life, but who’s allowed Hollywood to turn her into a slovenly, grotesque caricature of overweight people. Or Anna Kendrick’s complete lack of personality, or Hailee Steinfeld, whose career is officially depressing. Pitch Perfect 2 is exactly the kind of sequel people complain about when they talk about how bad sequels are. Rated PG-13 for innuendo and language.

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

Welcome to Me S DIRECTOR: Shira Piven PLAYERS: Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley, James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh COMEDY-DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A mentally ill woman wins the lottery and decides to host a talk show.

THE LOWDOWN: A comedic (?) exploration of psychological disorder that accomplishes nothing further than allowing Kristen Wiig to chew scenery.

As a stickler for theater etiquette, I was perturbed by several people who arrived after this feature had begun. That was until I realized that these lucky moviegoers had the good fortune to miss a few minutes of possibly the worst film released this year. Shira Piven’s Welcome to Me is an aggressively bad movie. It would be easy to blame this film’s existence on Hollywood nepotism, as Piven is the older sister of actor Jeremy Piven and the spouse of director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers), but to do so would give too little credit to Kristen Wiig’s inflated sense of self-importance.

With a narcissistic title mirroring its protagonist’s world view, Welcome to Me follows Wiig’s Alice Klieg as she struggles with borderline personality disorder. Films dealing with sensitive topics such as mental

illness typically either attempt to create pathos with the afflicted character or to play their disability for laughs, and while Welcome to Me strives for both, it accomplishes neither. Thanks to the sort of deus ex machina story logic that has long been the hallmark of bad screenwriting, Alice stops taking her meds and then promptly wins millions in the lottery.

Alice’s newfound fortune allows her to indulge an unexplained Oprah obsession by purchasing her own talk show from a pair of infomercial producing brothers (James Marsden, Wes Bentley) and their long-suffering production crew.

Though this premise sounded marginally promising, the film seems to conflate awkward movements and silly costuming with actual jokes, and as such fails in its meager comedic aspirations. Even fans of black comedy are apt to boggle at its story, which is just as confused as its protagonist.

Wiig would have done well to let her superior supporting cast carry the weight of the film, but their characters are written almost as if they know that this is a terrible film. Tim Robbins delivers an excellent performance as Alice’s beleaguered psychiatrist, with Joan Cusack and Jennifer Jason Leigh likewise performing admirably as the aforementioned infomercial crew, but every ancillary character in the film becomes frustrated with Alice’s grandiosity at some point, most of them abandoning her when the detriment of her madness outweighs the benefit of her money.

Linda Cardellini makes a valiant attempt to give the story an emotional core as Alice’s best friend, but the script gives her too little to do and not enough screen time to accomplish anything meaningful.

The entire cast rejects Alice to varying extents, some returning out of convenience, others for financial gain and some refusing to return at all. These last would be the prudent characters, and possibly the only ones with explicable motives. If indeed there is a moral to be found in all of this, it can only be that wealth buys the ability to abuse others with impunity about 80% of the time.

Ultimately, the film’s greatest failing lies in its uneven tone. At the screening I attended, some 30 minutes passed before an audible chuckle emerged from the audience. To say that few followed would be to overstate the obvious at this point.

Whatever the depths of incompetence plumbed by the film’s first two acts, they pale in comparison to the third, which begins with Alice graphically neutering dogs on live TV, an incomprehensible development that the script attempts to address with a bit of hastily shoehorned backstory. Alice follows this debacle with a psychotic break, resulting in a naked stroll through the casino in which she’s

taken up residence. Full frontal nudity might seem like a plus in a film this tedious, but the scene suffers from the same tonal indecisiveness as those that preceded it and therefore fails to play as anything other than exploitation. Every time I thought this movie couldn’t get more nonsensical and pointless, it surpassed my expectations, possibly the most dubious of distinctions. If nothing else, the film stuck with me, as I had a Wiig-induced migraine for the remainder of the afternoon.

My sincere hope is that by giving this film the lowest rating available (and I regret that I have to give it even a partial star) some filmgoer might be spared the indignity that I endured. Those seeking a more sympathetic portrayal of mental illness would be better served by the new Mad Max, which will undoubtedly hang around in theaters longer.

With a running time just shy of two hours, Welcome to Me overstays its welcome just as egregiously as its protagonist. Rated R for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language and brief drug use.

Now playing at Carolina Cinemas reviewed by Scott Douglas

Community Screenings Asheville Jewish Communtiy Center 253-0701, jcc-asheville.org • TU (5/26), 7:15pm - Beneath the Helmet, Israeli army documentary. $5/$2 students. Held at Carolina Cinemas, 1640 Hendersonville Road Asheville Jewish Film Festival ashevillejewishfilmfestival.com • TH (5/21), 7pm - Once in a Lifetime. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. • FR (5/22), 1pm - Once in a Lifetime. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. • WE (5/27), 7pm - Dough. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. • TH (5/28), 1pm - Dough. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. Public Library Screenings buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library • FR (5/22) 6pm - “Comedy Greats of the Silent Screen” feat. Willful Peggy, A Little Princess and The Butcher Boy with film critic Chip Kaufmann. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Documentary Film Series: Catfish. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road

Far from the Madding Crowd See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Good Kill See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Poltergeist Since the 1982 original has somehow morphed into a “classic” (it’s an opinion), militant ’80s extremists are up in arms over this remake. In their favor, the trailer looks like the old movie with a flat-screen TV and a new cast. Not in their favor, the new cast is better than the old one.

Also not in their favor is the fact that they haven’t seen this, and no one has reviewed it. (PG-13)

Tomorrowland Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland does have a smattering of reviews — but they’re not generally from the most credible sources. What the studio tells us is “Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world — and them — forever.” Friday will tell. (PG)

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director: Brian De Palma pLaYers: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden thriLLer Rated R Brian De Palma does Antonioni — replacing the damning image from Blowup with an incriminating sound recording (our protagonist is a movie sound effects man rather than a photographer). More aptly, I should say De Palma does Antonioni as one might imagine Antonioni on speed. That’s to say that this is no slow-paced moody thinkpiece with attendant existentialist hooey. No, De Palma takes the premise and turns it into a flat-out thriller with no pretensions of any kind. It’s packed with De Palma-esque trappings — gore, a serial killer, the exploitation film business, a hooker heroine (Nancy Allen — then Mrs. De Palma), a political conspiracy and a general air of the sleazy. John Travolta stars as the sound man who both witnesses and records the sound of something he probably would have been better off having known nothing about. Essentially, he’s come upon an “accident” that’s actually an assassination, becomes involved by saving the victim’s hired lady of the evening and then becomes intrigued by the rush to cover everything up.

The ending of it all is deeply disturbing and possibly the bleakest of De Palma’s career. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Blow Out Thursday, May 21, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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.

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director: Woody Allen pLaYers: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler comedY mYsterY thriLLer Rated NR Viewers who attend the showing of Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai on May 20 will quickly understand why we’re following it with Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery, since the two movies are connected. Otherwise, Manhattan Murder Mystery is probably best known as the film that reunited Allen with Diane Keaton, though that wasn’t the original idea. That only came about after his highly publicized breakup with Mia Farrow. However, it was nice to see the pair onscreen together again, and frankly, Keaton was much more suited to the role, and the chemistry between the two was still intact. (Somehow I can’t see his line, “There’s nothing wrong with you that couldn’t be fixed with Prozac and a polo mallet,” addressed to Farrow.) As the title indicates, it’s a murder mystery — and one of the old Hollywood kind where the ditsy wife (Keaton) drags the unwilling husband (Allen) into helping solve a murder he doesn’t even think happened. And it translates very nicely into the world of Woody Allen. The only drawback is that the film follows his Husbands and Wives (1992), which was something of an experiment in hand-held camera — Allen did shaky-cam before shaky-cam was “cool” — and there are some fleeting, but annoying, vestiges of that approach here. The Asheville Film Society will screen Manhattan Murder Mystery Tuesday, May 26, 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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by Gustav Mahler and dubbed-into-French film clips from Jack Sholder’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie’s Revenge (1985) coexist comfortably, where a connection between Mahler and The Doors can be made with some degree of persuasion. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train Friday, May 22, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): James McNeill Whistler was an influential painter in the latter half of the 19th century. He advocated the “art for art’s sake” credo, insisting that the best art doesn’t need to teach or moralize. As far as he was concerned, its most important purpose was to bring forth “glorious harmony” from chaos. But the immediate reason I’m nominating him to be your patron saint for the coming weeks is the stylized signature he created: an elegant butterfly with a long tail that was actually a stinger. I think you’ll thrive by embodying that dual spirit: being graceful, sensitive and harmonious yet also feisty, piquant and provocative. Can you manage that much paradox? I think you can.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Aha!” is your mantra for the coming weeks, Gemini. Keep it on the tip of your tongue, ready to unleash. This alwaysready-to-be-surprised-by-inspiration attitude will train you to expect the arrival of wonders and marvels. And that will be an effective way to actually attract wonders and marvels! With “Aha!” as your talisman, all of your wake-up calls will be benevolent, and all of the chaos you encounter — or at least most of it — will be fertile.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do you chronically indulge in feelings of guilt? Do you berate yourself for the wrong turns and sad mistakes you made in the past? These behaviors may be sneaky ways of avoiding change. How can you summon enough energy to transform your life if you’re wallowing in worries and regrets? In presenting the possibility that you might be caught in this trap, I want you to know that I’m not sitting in judgment of you.

Not at all. Like you, I’m a Cancerian, and I have periodically gotten bogged down in the very morass I’m warning you against. The bad news is that right now you are especially susceptible to falling under this spell. The good news is that right now you have extra power to break this spell.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the TV comedy-drama “Jane the Virgin,” the fictional character known as Rogelio de la Vega is a vain but lovable actor who performs in telenovelas. “I’m very easy to dress,” he tells the wardrobe supervisor of a new show he’ll be working on. “Everything looks good on me.

Except for peach. I don’t pop in peach.” What he means is that his charisma doesn’t radiate vividly when he’s wearing peach-colored clothes. Now I want to ask you, Leo: What don’t you pop in? I’m not simply talking about the color of clothes that enable you to shine, but everything else, too. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial that you surround yourself with influences that make you pop.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you willing to entertain an outlandish possibility? Here’s my vision: You will soon be offered unexpected assistance, either through the machinations of a “guardian angel” or the messy blessings of a shape-shifting spirit. This divine intervention will make it possible for you to demolish a big, bad obstacle you’ve been trying to find a way around. Even if you have trouble believing in the literal factuality of my prophecy, here’s what I suspect: It will at least come true in a metaphorical sense — which is the truest kind of truth of all.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Glory” is the theme song of the film Selma. It’s an anthem about the ongoing struggle for equal rights by African Americans. I want to borrow one of its lines for your use in the coming weeks: “Freedom is like a religion to us.”

I think those will be good words for you to live by.

Are you part of a group that suffers oppression and injustice? Are you mixed up in a situation that squashes your self-expression? Are you being squelched by the conditioned habits of your own unconscious mind? It’s high time to rebel. The quest for liberation should be your spiritual calling.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you’re planning on breaking a taboo, sneaking into a forbidden zone or getting intimate with an edge-dweller, don’t tell boastful stories about what you’re doing. For now, secrecy is not only sexy; it’s a smart way to

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned author George Bernard Shaw was secure in his feeling that he did good work. He didn’t need the recognition of others to validate his self-worth. The British prime minister offered him a knighthood, but he refused it. When he found out he had been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, he wanted to turn it down, but his wife convinced him to accept it. The English government also sought to give him the prestigious Order of Merit, but he rejected it, saying, “I have already conferred this order upon myself.” He’s your role model for right now, Taurus. Congratulate yourself for your successes, whether or not anyone else does.

keep you safe and effective. Usually I’m fond of you telling the whole truth. I like it when you reveal the nuanced depths of your feelings. But right now I favor a more cautious approach to communication. Until your explorations have progressed further, I suggest that you only discuss them sparingly. As you put your experiments in motion, share the details on a need-to-know basis.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are many possible ways to create and manage a close relationship. Here’s one of my favorite models: when two independent, self-responsible souls pledge to help each other activate the best versions of themselves. If you don’t have a partnership like this, the near future will be a favorable time to find one. And if you already do have an intimate alliance in which the two of you synergize each other’s quest for individuation, the coming weeks could bring you breathtaking breakthroughs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a challenge to drive a car through Canada’s far north. For example, if you want to get from Dawson in the Yukon Territory to Inuvik in the Northwest Territory, you take Dempster Highway. It’s gravel road for the entire 417-mile trip, so the ride is rough. Bring a spare tire and extra gasoline since there’s just one service station along the way. On the plus side, the scenery is thrilling. The permafrost in the soil makes the trees grow in odd shapes, almost like they’re drunk. You can see caribou, wolverines, lynx, bears and countless birds. Right now, the sun is up 20 hours every day. And the tundra?

You’ve never seen anything like it. Even if you don’t make a trip like this, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon embark on a metaphorically similar version. With the right attitude and preparation, you will have fun and grow more courageous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author James Joyce wrote Ulysses, one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the 20th century. The narrative is both experimental and tightly structured. Its chaotic stream-ofconsciousness passages are painstakingly crafted.

(Anyone who wonders how the astrological sign of Aquarius can be jointly ruled by the rebellious planet Uranus and the disciplinarian planet Saturn need only examine this book for evidence.) Joyce claimed he labored over Ulysses for 20,000 hours.

That’s the equivalent of devoting eight hours a day, 350 days a year, for over seven years. Will you ever work that hard and long on a project, Aquarius?

If so, now would be an auspicious time to start.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The English writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm moved away from his native land when he was 37 years old. He settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he lived for much of the rest of his life. Here’s the twist: When he died at age 83, he had still not learned to speak Italian. For 40 years, he used his native tongue in his foreign home. This is a failing you can’t afford to have in the coming months, Pisces. The old proverb “When in Rome, do as the Romans,” has never been so important for you to observe.

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Paul Caron

Adult

Furniture Magician

Adult

Phone ACtResses From home. Must have dedicated land line and great voice. 21+. Up to $18 per hour.

Flex hours/most Weekends.

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Cloud CottAge Community of mindful living: Mindfulness practice in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, 219 Old Toll Circle, Black Mountain.

Freedom, Simplicity, Harmony. Weds. 6-7:30 PM; Sundays 8-9:00 AM, followed by tea/book study.

For additional offerings, see www.cloudcottage.org or call 828-669-6000.

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• Cabinet Refacing

Free! Call 828.252.0020 to save your plaCe.

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• Black Mountain

maY 20 - maY 26, 2015

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