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Silence Biltmore train blasts for neighbors’ sake Last year, as part of a River Arts District development agreement, the railroad crossing at Lyman Street was upgraded so the trains would not have to sound their horns at night. When will the same be done for the Biltmore Avenue crossing in Biltmore Village?

The Biltmore Avenue crossing, like the Lyman Street crossing, lies at the end of Norfolk Southern’s railroad yard, so instead of just an occasional passing train, rail yard engines are frequently crossing back and forth, shuttling freight cars from track to track. In order to avoid blocking the intersection during heavy, daytime Biltmore traffic, Norfolk Southern does most of its shuttling late at night, when the street is empty. But engines still must sound their horns each time they cross the road.

These horns are not the nostalgic whistles of the steam era. Modern diesel locomotive air horns make commercial truckers’ horns sound like “little Nash Ramblers” by comparison. For most people living

within half a mile of the Biltmore crossing, especially in older homes without triple-pane glass and air conditioning, sleeping through the horn blasts is not an option. And they’re blasting often, all night long, including weekends and holidays. I’ve counted as many as 22 horn blasts during a single halfhour period between 3:30 and 4 a.m. Some engineers seem to try to be considerate by just briefly tapping their horns, while others must want to ensure that everyone is awakened.

The upgrades made to the Lyman Street crossing suggest that all that is needed to silence the trains at night are two additional barrier arms to completely block the road so that impatient fools and drunks can’t weave their cars or other vehicles between the existing barriers into a train’s path. These are trains that are only creeping slowly along. There’s already a pedestrian fence blocking the tracks through Biltmore Village. Is it asking too much to finish the job so people can open their windows and sleep through the night?

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Kirchhoff’s current law essentially tells us that for every electron leaving a power plant, one must return. If it didn’t return, we would get lightning bolts. Power companies push electrons (voltage) out of their plants on the two “hot” wires of 120 volts each. Once that current reaches our homes, we use it in our appliances, and then the electrons return to the power plant on the third or “neutral” wire. So far, so good.

That should work, but it doesn’t quite. The reason is [that] our appetite for power has grown, but our infrastructure to handle that increase has not grown as fast. More and more current can be “pushed” out of the power plants on the same old wires, but it becomes increasingly harder for the old neutral wire to accommodate it all for the return back to the power plant to satisfy Kirchhoff’s law.

To make matters worse, our computers and electronics have devices that jack up the frequency of the current to run their specific needs. …

This higher energized current does not like to stay on the neutral wire. … So the power companies run copper wires down their poles (yes, go look) to act as grounding rods for that extra energy. The electrons jump off the wire and go down to the ground — but they still have to get back to the power plant. …

Substations are big magnets for these “stray” electrons.

Substations have bigger wires and capacities to bring current back to the power plant. They collect electrons. … [Electrons] don’t care if they pass through a farm field or an elementary school and whatever is inside — like kids. …

We know there is a range of currents that we could be exposed to, and at some level, damage will occur. …

Being a veterinarian, I know a few things about animals, cows in particular. … Cows can have big problems from currents that don’t stay on wires. … Power companies across this nation have lost multimillion-dollar lawsuits for failing to keep their electrons out of the ground around dairy farms. …

So there are adverse effects of these voltages on mammals, at least cows for sure. I think for people, too — we just don’t have the studies to tell us how much. ...

The final question here in Asheville is this: Which side do you want to err on? Do we figure that it will hopefully be OK, and then place multiple generations of our brightest, youngest and most vulnerable community members in the middle of the electron superhighway?

Or do we err on the side of caution — and tell the power companies to route that highway a different way?

Your choice, your voice. The time to speak up is now.

— Stephen Schulte Asheville Editor’s note: See mountainx.com for a longer version of this letter.

Driving a car is wonderful My reply to fourth-grader tatum dunton, [who wrote about Strive Not to Drive Week] in a letter to the editor [“Thank the Earth by Striving Not to Drive,” May 20, Xpress] is to tell her what a wonderful and freedomenhancing invention the car was.

Before cars, hundreds of horses would each leave up to 40 pounds of waste daily in the streets. How environmental was that?

Cars enabled Americans for the first time to leave their small worlds and travel beyond. Most people before cars never ventured more than a few miles beyond their birthplace. They could now work farther from home and visit relatives in another state.

Take vacations somewhere else.

Damaging the earth? In other countries, the air is so full of smoke [that] it is unhealthy. Here, the air is much cleaner and becoming more so all the time. We do not live in a perfect world, but life here is far better today than at any time in history, thanks in large part to the technology that many decry. Thanks for listening, Tatum.

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Room tax increase means taxpayers foot the bill We all pay taxes on the gasoline we put in our cars. In North Carolina, about 37 cents per gallon is collected from fuel sales. This tax amounts to a user fee. The proceeds are used to build and maintain roads and bridges statewide.

Imagine, however, a different situation. Suppose gas tax proceeds were given to automobile manufacturers. The funds could be used to advertise automobiles, meaning every other commercial on television could be a car ad, and a billboard advertising the 2015 models would show up every 100 yards on the highway.

Maintenance and construction of the highways, of course, would be the responsibility of taxpayers, whether they drive cars or not.

Crazy, I know. But that’s how Asheville’s hotel occupancy tax works.

Tourists who see that 8 to 10 bucks tacked onto their bill at a

local hotel may think that money’s going to the city of Asheville, helping local taxpayers with the costs of tourism: solid waste, law enforcement, maintenance, housing assistance for tourism’s notoriously badly paid locals. But the city doesn’t get a whiff of that money. It goes to the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority (BCTDA), a wellconnected group of hospitality moguls who’ve gotten our legislature to give them authority to levy taxes.

The BCTDA recently got their 50 percent increase in the occupancy tax, which means they now have $10 million a year to spend on projects that stimulate more room nights, more solid waste, more police and fire calls, more expense for local taxpayers. And the BCTDA’s clueless about buying local: The keystone advertising contract went to a New Orleans firm.

Our legislative delegation in Raleigh rolled over on this, and shame on them.

Other city governments collect taxes from tourists to help defray the costs of hosting people who throw things in the trash, wreck cars and more, but not Asheville.

Thanks, BCTDA, for nothing.

income in an area that has become unaffordable to live in by folks who live here full time.

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Preservation needs stronger voice in city’s planning process

Short-term rentals keep money in local community To ... all those folks who want to ban short-term rentals like Airbnb: Keep in mind [that] most, if not all, of the money collected for rent stays local, unlike big-box hotels, where most of the money leaves Asheville.

Because of the affordable price, folks who stay at an Airbnb have more money to spend on eating out and buying from the local shops.

I’ve always been led to believe we live in a free-market system. As long as those who rent out rooms pay the same taxes (room and sales tax) as the hotels do, they should be allowed to supplement their

I completely agree with brad dawson when he calls the Aloft Hotel “a mistake” and “better suited to Myrtle Beach” [“Is Asheville Becoming Boomtown, N.C.?” May 27, Xpress].

It seems that developers are clawing for a chance to get a piece of Asheville and that tourism promoters won’t be happy until the whole world wants to be here.

Preservation must have a stronger voice in the planning process, or Asheville will become as frenzied and unattractive as any overdeveloped resort.

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Character education Complaint about The Kite Runner raises First Amendment issues

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A recent flap over A.C. Reynolds High School students studying The Kite Runner has raised significant First Amendment concerns.

This spring, a 10th-grade honors English class was supposed to be studying Khaled husseini’s acclaimed novel about two boys from different social classes growing up in 1970s Afghanistan. On April 27, teacher brooke bowman sent a letter to parents explaining the value of the 2003 best-seller as a teaching tool while warning of its mature content.

“A key scene, critical to the plot, involves the rape of one of the principal characters,” the letter stated.

“Students may choose to skip this scene if they wish. In addition, there is some profanity.”

In the scene in question, a servant boy is beaten and sexually assaulted by an older boy from a wealthier family.

The letter concluded: “However, if you would prefer your child not read this novel, please sign below.

We will come up with a comparable alternative.”

Parent Lisa baldwin, whose son is in the class, requested a meeting with Bowman. Also in attendance were Reynolds High Principal doris sellers and Eric grant, language arts specialist for the Buncombe County Schools.

Baldwin says they immediately gave her a form she could file to register her objection with the school.

In an email to Xpress, the selfdescribed “conservative government watchdog” cited state law requiring local boards of education to include “character education” in the curriculum. She also said schools must teach sex education from an abstinence-only perspective.

The law in question, G.S. 155C81, instructs local school boards to implement, with community input, character education that addresses eight specific traits: courage, good judgment, integrity, kindness, perseverance, respect, responsibility and self-discipline. Baldwin said the main character’s actions violate those principles, noting that “Amir, the protagonist, witnesses the rape of his friend and is plagued with lifetime guilt over running away from the scene rather than having the courage, good judgment, integrity, kindness, perseverance, respect, responsibility and self-discipline needed to help his friend.”

But while the law does call for teaching abstinence as “the expected standard for all school-age children” and “the only certain means of avoiding out-of-wedlock pregnancy,” it also requires schools to teach “the effectiveness and safety of all FDAapproved contraceptive methods,” specifying that “Information conveyed during the instruction shall be objective and based upon scientific research that is peer reviewed and accepted by professionals and credentialed experts in the field of sexual health education.”

And in any case, these requirements pertain to “a reproductive health and safety education program commencing in the seventh grade,” not a 10th-grade honors English class.

At press time, the complaint was still making its way through the appeals process. But in the meantime, students in the class were barred from studying the novel, raising concerns about violating their First Amendment rights.

“According to the Supreme Court,” notes amanda martin, general counsel to the North Carolina Press Association, “books can’t be removed just because you disagree with their philosophy.” “pErVErsE and VioLEnt” In her email, Baldwin wrote, “To then read novels with explicit sexual content, particularly that which is perverse and violent (child sexual assault), is hypocrisy.”

Baldwin also wrote that she had “tried to offer a compromise,” suggesting that the class instead read the World War I classic All Quiet on the Western Front along with appropriate excerpts from The Kite Runner, “but the principal rejected it.” committEE uphoLds thE booK’s usE

curricuLum watchdog: With state law requiring that schools provide “character education,” says Lisa Baldwin, “to then read novels with explicit sexual content, particularly that which is perverse and violent (child sexual assault), is hypocrisy.”

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And in a May 15 opinion piece published in the Asheville Citizen-Times, Baldwin questioned the effectiveness of opt-out forms like the one included in Bowman’s letter, noting that a teacher might assume consent on the part of a parent who never actually saw the letter. Offensive material, she maintained, should instead require an opt-in form or permission slip signed before the student is exposed to the content.

The “homosexual rape scene” in The Kite Runner, said Baldwin, might trigger painful memories in children, adding that according to the National Center for Victims of Crime, 20 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys are victims of childhood sexual abuse.

Some colleges, she pointed out, place “trigger warnings” at the top of their syllabuses concerning items that deal with sensitive topics, and at least one has created a “safe space” students can retreat to when a controversial topic becomes too overwhelming.

“Is the teacher qualified to handle potential psychological issues?” asked Baldwin.

On April 29, Baldwin filed a formal complaint regarding the use of The Kite Runner as a supplementary text.

Buncombe County Schools Policy No. 3210 describes the process school officials must follow in such situations. It also affirms a parent’s right, under federal law, to inspect all instructional materials.

In accordance with that procedure, the administration first addressed the complaint strictly in the context of the school to which it pertained.

The case went to Reynolds High’s Media and Technology Advisory Committee, consisting of two media coordinators, an assistant principal, a parent representative and four other faculty members from different departments. In such cases, the committee is charged with assessing the book’s qualities, weighing its merits and weaknesses, determining whether it’s suitable for classroom use, and issuing a written report explaining its decision within 10 school days of a complaint’s being filed.

In a May 13 press release, the school system announced that the committee had found “no viable reason to exclude” The Kite Runner from the curriculum, saying the book “possesses sufficient literary, thematic and aesthetic traits to warrant its inclusion for study at teacher discretion.” The release also noted that “The Kite Runner has been on the Buncombe County Schools High School Approved Reading List for years. This is the first documented parent objection to this text.”

After the committee issues a ruling, complainants have 10 school days to appeal the decision, at which point the Community Committee reviews the case and prepares a written

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report to the county school board.

The board then has 30 days to issue its final ruling.

Baldwin, herself a former school board member, took the full allotted time to consider her options before appealing on May 28. At one point, she asked Grant whether she would be able to attend the school board’s meeting and address the group. She hadn’t been allowed to do that with the Media and Technology Advisory Committee because it’s not considered a public body under state law. first amEndmEnt issuEs But even the school board’s final ruling might not be the end of the matter, notes Kristin pekoll, assistant director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

“If the school board makes a decision that is unconstitutional,” she explains, “and affects the rights of the students to read the information and have access to these materials — which is part of the First Amendment — a student or a parent can then sue the district for infringing upon these rights.

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Martin of the N.C. Press Association cites a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case — Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico — in which the school board asserted its right to remove certain books from the library, including SlaughterhouseFive, Go Ask Alice and Down These Mean Streets, on the basis that they were, among other things, “just plain filthy.”

The court ruled against the school board, establishing limits on how and why books could be kept from students. The court did acknowledge, however, that there can be valid reasons for removal, such as if the material is pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable. Martin also notes that the ruling applied only to students’ ability to gain access to a book, not to its use in the curriculum. chris brook, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, says restricting a book from the classroom denies students the chance to discuss it as a group and explore the ideas it presents with a teacher’s guidance.

“Removing a book from the library,” he continues, “is doubtlessly a greater infringement on the First Amendment, because you are potentially really making it impossible, or much more difficult, for a student to access a work of literature. But the First Amendment and courts in general have, over a long period of time, frowned upon and been very skeptical about decisions that limit access to literature and ideas based on the content or viewpoint of the literature in question and the ideas related.” schooL poLicy QuEstionEd In accordance with system policy, The Kite Runner remained available in the school library. And in response to the controversy, a group of students actually formed a book club to read and discuss the novel, notes donald porter, communications director for the Buncombe County Schools.

But the book had to be barred from classroom use until a final decision was made. And because the school year would be over before the process could play out, the class read All Quiet on the Western Front, the alternative text suggested by Baldwin, instead.

So whichever way the matter is

eventually resolved, this year’s 10thgrade honors English class did not get to study The Kite Runner.

And in that sense, says Pekoll, the damage has already been done. Any policy that allows a single complaint to temporarily remove a book from the classroom without review, she asserts, is automatically prejudiced against the text in question.

“Usually, when we talk about best practices and advice for policies,” Pekoll explains, “we say that the book should remain in the classroom — in the curriculum, in circulation — until after a full evaluation is completed.”

John parker, digital learning specialist for the Buncombe County Schools, says the policy would require the same action regardless of the nature of the objections: Once a complaint is filed, the book must be suspended from use until a decision is rendered.

Porter, meanwhile, relayed a written statement from Associate Superintendent susanne swanger that highlights another potential pitfall of the policy.

“In its current form,” noted Swanger, “this process could be used again and again to effectively keep any text from being used — which is clearly outside of the spirit of the policy. It is the practice of our board to review and adjust policies as necessary, and I would expect future conversations regarding this policy.” X

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Opioid abuse and treatment in WNC

Amid escalating use and abuse of opioids nationwide, the number of local narcotics-related overdoses has increased rapidly in recent years. The drug naloxone can temporarily suspend those drugs’ effects, and the Asheville metropolitan area leads the state in confirmed cases of opioid overdose reversal, according to the N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition.

But that’s largely a function of how naloxone is distributed here rather than a sign that the area has more opioid abusers, notes tessie castillo, advocacy and communications coordinator for the Durham-based nonprofit.

Meanwhile, tougher restrictions on prescribing pharmaceuticals have led more and more local addicts to turn to an illegal opioid: heroin. The Asheville Police Department is “seeing a correlation between lower pill seizure rates and higher heroin seizures,” reports Public Information Officer christina hallingse. In the last four years, the APD has seen the total number of heroin seizures jump from 0 to 28 per year.

Local overdose rates peaked in the mid-2000s and have remained somewhat stable since then. Between 1999 and 2013, however, Buncombe County had 252 opiate-related deaths, the state Department of Health and Human Service’s Injury & Violence Prevention Branch reports. It’s hard to pinpoint how many of those were due to opioids, notes Dr. craig martin, chief medical officer at the Smoky Mountain Local Management Entity/Managed Care Organization (LME/MCO). But statewide, opioids are now involved in more drug deaths than cocaine and heroin combined, according to statistics from the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch.

And though the overall numbers may be small, the impact on human lives is considerable. Local health professionals say they’re seeing more children and early teens abuse drugs, and inadequate funding limits treatment options.

“The finances of trying to get suitable help are ridiculous,” says terrence streeter, program director

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for the Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Black Mountain. “It gets to where it’s almost like no one is paying attention to what’s really happening: People are dying.” diagnosing dEpEndEncy Prescribed by a physician, legal opioids such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine and codeine help patients deal with post-surgical discomfort or chronic conditions. The term also includes such illicit narcotics as heroin and opium. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, opioids “reduce the intensity of pain signals reaching the brain and affect those brain areas controlling emotion, which diminishes the effects of a painful stimulus.”

Not surprisingly, then, legal opioids are in widespread use.

Between 1999 and 2010, sales of opioid pain relievers quadrupled nationwide, according to a 2013 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But these drugs’ powerful effects also make them prime candidates

for recreational use, sparking a marked increase in overdoses.

Nationally, “medical emergencies related to nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals increased 132 percent in the period from 2004 to 2011,” a 2013 report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration noted.

This included “a 183 percent increase in the involvement of drugs classified as opiates/opioids.”

“Addiction is a disease,” says brian goodlett, program director for the Asheville-based Western Carolina Treatment Center. “Like any other chronic disease, it has its origins in both genetics and lifestyle. Family history plays a large role, as does medical history and mental health.”

Meanwhile, the age when individuals begin using drugs is dropping, says Streeter. “We accept people starting at 18, but these guys are starting when they’re 13 and 14 years old.”

Many users turn to opioids to manage other problems, Castillo explains. “They may have trouble with depression or anxiety or other mental health disorders and use opiates to self-medicate.” The ready access to powerful prescription drugs in family medicine cabinets also contributes to opioid abuse.

unintEntionaL poisoning In 2012 alone, 673 North Carolina deaths were reportedly linked to “unintentional poisoning by opioids,” not counting opium and heroin, according to a 2014 Policy Review by the North Carolina Medical Board.

Dr. chris flanders, medical director of Mission Hospital’s emergency department, says he’s seen a steady rise in overdoses during his 13 years at Mission — and an “explosion” of narcotics-related cases since 2010.

The hospital, says Flanders, has “done quite a bit of work trying to prevent the inappropriate prescribing of narcotics from the ER.” But balancing that concern against the need to treat patients’ pain can be difficult, he continues, noting, “It’s not necessarily obvious that there is an abuse issue.”

Patients requesting pain medication have their prescription history checked through the North Carolina controlled substances database, he explains. “We try to limit the amount of pain pills we prescribe to any one individual. If we see that they had 100 Percocet prescribed the day before, then we’re not going to be able to give them any pain medicine.”

This has helped get these pills off the street, but in response, many addicts are turning to an older, cheaper alternative. “Over the last two years, we’ve seen cases of heroin addiction on the rise,” Goodlett reports.

A deluge of cheap heroin from Mexico is also helping drive the shift from pharmaceuticals to needles, notes Hallingse, the APD’s spokesperson.

Streeter, meanwhile, recalls one patient “who had never done [drugs] before but ended up in a car accident.”

He was given a prescription for opioids, became addicted and wound up turning to illegal narcotics when he no longer had access to the pills.

“That story seems to be the norm now,” says Streeter. “It’s getting to where either they die or they commit to recovery.”

In addition to the direct risks of opioid use, sharing syringes to inject heroin has amplified the risks of contracting bloodborne diseases like hepatitis C and HIV, Goodlett points out. bacK from thE brinK When a suspected opioid overdose case comes through the doors at Mission, says Flanders, “The primary danger ... is that it suppresses the respiratory drive in your brainstem, so the first step is to aid the patient’s breathing.”

Step two is usually administering naloxone, which replaces opioids in the brain’s natural receptors and can temporarily snap the patient back into consciousness.

Passage of the state’s 911 Good Samaritan Law in 2013 paved the way for a considerable expansion of the Harm Reduction Coalition’s work.

The law protects those prescribing, distributing or administering naloxone from prosecution, as well as people experiencing a drug overdose and those trying to help them.

Since 2013, when the nonprofit began distributing naloxone statewide, it has confirmed 586 overdose reversals. The Asheville metropolitan area tops the list, with 156 cases to date.

“In Asheville, we distribute very differently than in other areas of the state,” Castillo explains, because treatment centers here have been more willing to take part in the program.

That makes it easier to track the local success rate when patients return for repeat visits.

Goodlett has high praise for Castillo’s organization. “I really can’t say enough good things about the Harm

Note: Not all overdose deaths specify the drug(s) involved, and a death may involve more than one specific substance. The rise in 2005-2006 in opioid deaths is related to non-pharmaceutical fentanyl (see http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5729a1.htm). *Heroin includes opium Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death 1999-2010 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released 2012. Extracted on February 11, 2013. rising risKs: Prescription opioid use spiked during the 2000s. By 2010, the rate of opioid overdose cases was double those of heroin and cocaine combined.

Graph via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Reduction Coalition and the work they do,” he says. “They’ve had a big impact in our state’s efforts to treat substance dependency.”

Naloxone kits are “becoming more prevalent around the community,” says Streeter, who carries one with him at all times.

“It’s registered with the state,” he notes, “so if I use it, I have to call and give them the number of the packet I used.” To date, he hasn’t had to administer the drug, but many colleagues have used it successfully.

Naloxone is also catching on elsewhere in North Carolina. In Fayetteville, more than 200 police officers have been equipped with the life-saving drug, and in April, the Durham County Detention Facility became the first jail in the South to give it to recently released inmates.

In the first two weeks after release, they’re over 100 times more likely to die of a drug overdose than the general population, according to the Harm Reduction Coalition.

As recently as a few years ago, notes Castillo, treatment centers and law

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enforcement alike opposed widespread distribution of naloxone.

“We were often accused of facilitating more drug use,” she reports, “which is very incorrect.”

Flanders concurs. “Frequently people are not very happy when they wake up: Not only have you taken away the buzz, but now they’re in complete narcotic withdrawal.”

And while naloxone saves lives, it can still leave addicts at risk. “The half life of naloxone isn’t as long as the half life of the narcotics in their system,” he explains, “so once the naloxone wears off, they can be back in an overdose state.” road to rEcoVEry There are four publicly funded local treatment programs (see box, “Finding Help”).

Many patients seeking to kick their addiction, however, turn to private facilities, which typically offer intensive programs including both inpatient and outpatient therapy.

Streeter, a former addict, credits the program he now works for with helping him assess his life honestly.

“I took the time I needed to focus on myself,” he reveals. “It had reached a point where I was so eager to please everyone else. I took this time to figure out what made Terry click.”

The residential program, says Streeter, gave him a stable place to be that was free from old temptations — a huge help. The program also provides food and transportation to support groups like Narcotics Anonymous, which he still attends weekly.

“There’s not a magic pill or potion,” adds Streeter. “It takes commitment, and it takes reaching out and asking for help, letting others love you.”

Goodlett agrees, adding that the stigma attached to drug abuse compounds the problem. “There’s still a lot of work to be done in terms of educating the public on what these people are going through and how challenging that process is.”

Groups like the Harm Reduction Coalition, notes Castillo, must also overcome addicts’ fear of exposure. “It’s very difficult to work with active drug users,” she says, because opioid abusers operate in a clandestine subculture, and it typically takes a long time to build trust.

In addition, says Streeter, “It feels like nobody cares sometimes, and people lose hope and go right back to doing what they did before. It only takes a minute to change your

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mind: There’s only a small window available before it’s too late.” financiaL hurdLEs Inadequate funding and limited space in treatment facilities further complicate the situation for patients and care providers alike. In the past few years, Flanders reports, the state legislature has slashed funding for mental health resources by almost 90 percent, sharply reducing public care providers’ ability to treat substance abuse.

And as state funding continues to decline, Martin of the Smoky Mountain LME/MCO says he’d like to see a shift toward the comprehensive care treatment model, in which Medicare dollars supplement shortfalls in state support.

Castillo says her organization “receives no state or federal funding,” instead relying mostly on private donations. There is no federal money for harm reduction programs, she explains, and there’s actually a ban on funding needle exchanges. In Northern states, state and local governments often fund harm reduction programs, but in the South, it’s typically up to foundations and private donors to support such efforts.

Health insurance provides only limited help. Treatment centers, notes Streeter, often don’t accept it, and insurance plans may not cover this kind of treatment. In addition, many addicts lack health insurance.

At the Western Carolina Treatment Center, patients pay 100 percent of the costs, says Goodlett.

But while these programs may seem

finding hELp At RHA Health Services and Family Preservation Services in Asheville, patients on Medicaid and those without insurance can receive same-day care and outpatient treatment for opioid addiction. Black Mountain’s Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center provides inpatient care. And the Mountain Area Recovery Center accepts Medicaid payments and provides outpatient treatment at its Asheville and Clyde facilities. The Smoky Mountain LME/MCO’s toll-free, bilingual, 24/7 hotline (800-8496127) assists WNC residents without insurance in finding help.

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expensive, it’s no more than what drug users spend to support a habit, he points out. And though he declined to specify how many patients his agency sees in a given year, Goodlett says, “There is no shortage of business.”

Meanwhile, for patients whose first attempt to get clean fails, there are even fewer options. “I deal with guys that will relapse after the program, and it’s like pulling teeth to try and get them help,” says Streeter. “We don’t really want to dismiss them from the program, but what do we do?”

The Smoky Mountain LME/MCO, notes Martin, tries to consider “whether people are being helped toward recovery or are being provided the same thing without getting better. It’s not so much that we say this patient doesn’t need treatment, but perhaps they need a higher level of care than that particular program can provide.” hopEfuL signs Despite the many challenges, however, there are positive signs.

A new state-funded comprehensive care center offering mental

health and addiction treatment will open at 356 Biltmore Ave. later this year. The 16-bed, 24-hour, urgent care and crisis facility will offer a wide range of services, with financial support from both Buncombe County and Mission Hospital.

Meanwhile, growing acceptance of basic treatment options like naloxone is making a difference, says Castillo.

“We see a lot of positive steps in the right direction. Just a couple of years ago, no methadone clinic would let us in; now, they are practically begging us to come.”

For his part, Streeter believes addiction should be “viewed as a credible disease” rather than a crime. “I would love to see it easier for a person to receive treatment services than go to jail for doing things that happen naturally in addiction.”

In the meantime, though, he says he’ll continue giving others the same kind of help and attention he received.

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free ride by going to ncgop.org/ride and filling out the form. A volunteer in each region will schedule a free ride. — Able Allen aVL tEchnoLogiEs to Expand, crEatE 90 Jobs At the Tuesday, June 2, Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, commissioners unanimously approved an economic development incentive, bringing at least 90 jobs to the Asheville area.

AvL Technologies designs, develops and produces mobile satellite antenna and positioner systems.

The company’s headquarters is located right here in Asheville, with regional offices in both the United Kingdom and China. The $301,047 grant from the county will allow the company to expand its operations locally, using the funding for property improvements, machinery and equipment — as well as the creation of new jobs, which on average, pay $40,000 per year.

Jim oliver, founder of AvL Technologies, said that, so far, his company employs 163 individuals — but, with this investment, his goal is to nearly double that amount, creating 150 jobs (90 for now). This investment’s effects would filter back into the economy in the millions: $3.6 million annual direct effect, $2.2 million in indirect effect, $1.3 million as an induced effect and $783 thousand in tax revenue. — Hayley Benton

pubLic hEarings on ruLEs for nEw VotEr id Laws Wait times may lengthen at North Carolina polls in 2016 due to a state law, passed in 2013, requiring voters to present unexpired IDs. The NC State Board of Elections has proposed a set of rules to consistently apply the law, clearing up any gray areas surrounding the requirement that a person bear a “reasonable resemblance” to his or her ID photo. The NCSBE is now holding public input hearings on the proposed rules.

The rules propose that poll workers take into account changes to appearance based on medical conditions, hairstyles or weight. Under the proposed rules, these factors should not prevent an individual from voting. The proposed rules also protect people who registered to vote using names slightly different from the name on their IDs by allowing “substantially

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equivalent” names to those on the voter roles. Similarly, the address on the ID and the voter registration do not have to match.

The first of nine hearings was held Wednesday, June 3, in Raleigh. The final one will be in Tarboro, June 15. Hearings scheduled for Western North Carolina are as follows: Boone - June 10, 5-7 p.m., 814 West King St.; and Sylva - June 11, 5-7 p.m., 876 Skyland Dr., Suite 1.

Public comment will be accepted by the NCSBE until June 15 and can be submitted via email to rules@ncsbe.gov, or by mail to P.O. Box 27255, Raleigh, NC 27611, to the attention of RuleMaking Coordinator.

For assistance obtaining a free ID from the DMV, contact the NCSBE voter-outreach team at 866-522-4723 or voteroutreach.sboe@ncsbe.gov.

The NC GOP has also announced it will offer free rides to anyone in need of a valid photo ID to vote. Request a

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adVantagEwEst dEparts, but its programs LiVE on The nonprofit AdvantageWest has announced that it will suspend operations by the end of the year.

The organization serves 23 counties and, since being founded in 1994, has worked to promote regional economic development and opportunity in areas including manufacturing, entrepreneurship, filmmaking and agribusiness. The organization has seen reductions in state funding since 2013.

According to a press release, some AdvantageWest programs, including Blue Ridge Food Ventures, the Advantage Opportunity Fund and the Certified Entrepreneurial Communities program will continue through partnerships with other regional nonprofits.

“From the time we learned in 2013 that AdvantageWest would be losing its funding, our goal has been to do everything we

could to keep these programs alive, and we are so pleased that this will be able to happen,” reads the release. “Even though AdvantageWest as an organization will be suspended by the end of this year, we’re proud that we’ve been able to successfully continue operating AdvantageWest long past what many predicted, given our funding challenges.” — Carrie Eidson citizEns asKEd to VotE on nEw timE capsuLE contEnts Vance Monument was rededicated on Saturday, at a ceremony at the foot in downtown Asheville.

Constructed in 1897 at the west end of what is now Pack Square Park, the Vance Monument commemorates the life of Zebulon B. Vance, U.S. senator, governor of North Carolina during and after the Civil War, and the first colonel of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, notes a news release from the City of Asheville.

Repairs to the 118-year-old monument included fixing mortar joints, overall cleaning of the monument and plaques and repair of the wrought iron fence surrounding the monument.

The contents of a time capsule, buried within the monument at the time of its construction, were transferred to the Western Regional Archives of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources for restoration. A new time capsule will be added in its place, to be opened in 2115, and project leaders invite the community to offer opinions on the new time capsule’s contents.

June 6 through July 30, citizens may stop by any AshevilleBuncombe Library or City of Asheville recreation center to sign their names on the “citizen roll call,” which will be placed in the time capsule and opened in 100 years. Visit avl.mx/169 or drop by the Movies in the Park events at 6:30 p.m. on June 12 and July 10, in Pack Square Park, to vote for your top three recommendations for the shoebox-sized time capsule. — Tracy Rose X

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Benefits Art in Bloom Preview gala 669-0930 • TH (6/18), 6pm - Tickets to this farm-to-table gala to kick off the weekend of Art in Bloom events benefit the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. $40. Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain Family Float Day 713-0363, attfit.com • SA (6/13), 11am-4pm Proceeds from this tubing event down the French Broad support ATT Fit, a nonprofit fitness program for children. $10. Meets at Zen Tubing, 608 Riverside Drive ’Hard Times’ Concert 682-4285, southernreconciliationministries. org • TU (6/16), 7-9pm - Tickets

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A VERY MODERN MARRIAGE: This year, Asheville Art Museum’s annual gala benefit will celebrate romantic and artistic partnerships by using the theme of 20th century artists (and married couple) Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. The event, Visions + Visionaries: A Marriage, will be held at Crowne Plaza Resort on Saturday, July 13. Photo of O’Keeffe by Stieglitz. (p.18)

to “Hard Times, High Hopes and Helping Hands” concert featuring musicians including Bob Byrd, Buz Cody and Ash Devine benefit the Reconciliation House. $10.

Held at Parkway Playhouse, 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville

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Ice Cream Social avl.mx/14x • TH (6/18), 1-3pm - Funds raised at this raffle and sundae/ banana split bar benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. $1/ scoop. Held at Ardenwoods, 2400 Appalachian Blvd., Arden

Run for Kids’ Sake bbbswnc.org • SA (6/13), 8:30am - Entry fees for this 10 mile, 5K and trail walk benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. Held at Warren Wilson College. $50, 10-mile run/ $30, 5K & walk. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

J11 Dance Party & Pie Auction 917-628-8274 • SA (6/13), 9pm - Donations gathered at the event benefit eco-anarchist prisoners Marius Mason and Eric McDavid. Admission by donation; suggested: $10-$40.

Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road

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Visions + Visionaries: A Marriage 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SA (6/13), 6-11pm - Tickets to this gala celebration of artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz benefit the Asheville Art Museum. $150.

Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive

Business & Technology 3 MONTHS TO MONETIZE YOUR MISSION: BUSINESS TRAINING (pd.) Want to grow/start your business in record time? Join us to quickly go from where you are now to earning more money doing what you love. • Starts June 13, 2015. Spaces limited. • Pre-registration required: bit.ly/3mos2money A-B Tech Small Business Center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (6/16), 2-4pm “Department of Revenue: Sales and Use Tax Workshop.” Held at 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (6/17), 6-9pm - “Business Formation: Choosing the Right Structure,” seminar. Held at 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler

G&W Investment Club klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden Leadership Asheville 255-7100, leadershipasheville.org Sponsored by UNCA, this series of panels focuses on community leadership development.

• WE (6/17), 7:30am - Buzz Summer Breakfast Series: “AsheFestivals: Secrets to Successful Festivals.” $20. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Meet the Geeks info@meetthegeeks.net • TU (6/16), 4:30-6pm Advertising and marketing seminar. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave Venture Asheville ventureasheville.com, 258-6137

• WEDNESDAYS, 9am - “One Million Cups of Coffee,” weekly entrepreneurs startup presentations. Free to attend.

Held at RISC Networks, 81 Broadway Suite C WNC Natural Health & Wellness meetup.com/WNC-NaturalHealth-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm Networking event for natural health & wellness practitioners. Free to attend. Held at Western North Carolina School of Massage, 131 McDowell St. Suite 302

Classes, Meetings & Events 3 MONTHS TO MONETIZE YOUR MISSION: BUSINESS TRAINING (pd.) Want to grow/start your business in record time? Join us to quickly go from where you are now to earning more money doing what

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Spaces limited. • Pre-registration required: bit.ly/3mos2money AKAsHiC reCorDs worKsHoP (pd.) AUG. 1 & 2-Learn to access your own life Akashic Records and communicate with your Guides in this 2-day experiential workshop with consultant Kelly S. Jones in Asheville. www.

KellySJones.net/events 919200-8686 feng sHui worKsHoP (pd.) July 10, 11, & 12- Unlock the potential of your environment and maximize your health, prosperity and love! Practical, interactive workshop ideal for homeowners, Architects, Interior Designers and Realtors. Bring your floor plans! Kelly S. Jones www.KellySJones.net/events 919-200-8686. Attend Friday Evening Introduction only for $35. run for KiDs’ sAKe (pd.) 10 Mile/5K Off Road Run. Saturday, June 13th 8:30 at Warren Wilson College. Register online under upcoming event at www.bbbswnc.org.

AsHeville BusKers ColleCtive 242-8076, wordpress.ashevillebuskers.com • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon - Open public input session for discussing street performing and busking in downtown. Free to attend. Held at New Mountain, 38 N. French Broad AsHeville mAKers ashevillemakers.org, theashevillemakers@gmail.com • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - Meetup & makerspace open house for makers, tinkerers, artists, etc. Free to attend. Held at OpenSpace Asheville, 285 Haywood Road AsHeville nAtionAl orgAniZAtion for women ashevillenow@live.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 2:30pm Monthly meeting. Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. BunComBe County PuBliC liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/10), 6pm - “Asheville 100 Years Ago,” multimedia presentation. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MO (6/15), 2pm - “Tips for an Effective Job Search,” workshop.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

• TU (6/16), 2pm - “Tips for an Effective Job Search,” workshop.

Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (6/17), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters, for all skill levels. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa HenDersonville wise women 693-1523 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group for women “of a certain age.”

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

Held at Hillside Games, 611c Tunnel Road Just eConomiCs wnC 505-7466, justeconomicswnc.org • TU (6/16), 6:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave. ontrACK wnC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• TUESDAYS (6/16) until (6/30), 5:30-8pm “Manage Your Money Series,” workshop.

• WE (6/17), noon-1pm - “Closing the Wage Gap: Tips for Effective Wage Negotiation,” workshop.

• THURSDAYS (6/4) & (6/18), noon-1pm - “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it,” workshop.

PisgAH AstronomiCAl reseArCH institute 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (6/12), 7pm - “An Evening at PARI,” astronomy presentation and tour. $20/$15 seniors & military/$10 children under age 14. smoKy mountAin CHess CluB facebook.com/ SmokyMountainChessClub • THURSDAYS, 1-4pm - All skill levels welcome. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville tArHeel PieCemAKers Quilt CluB tarheelpiecemakers. wordpress.com • WE (6/10), 10am-noon- Monthly meeting. Free to attend. Held at Balfour United Methodist

Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville touCHstones DisCussion ProJeCt 200-2953, lanternprojectonline.org • SUNDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm Workshop on collaborative skills and group dynamics for community building. Free. Registration required. Held at White Pine Acupuncture, 247 Charlotte St. western nC HumAnists 550-7935 • 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 11am Brunch meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd. wnC PoKémon leAgue facebook.com/groups/ WNCPokemon • SATURDAYS, 4-8pm - Video and card games for players of all ages. Free to attend. Held at Hillside Games, 611c Tunnel Road

DAnCe stuDio ZAHiyA, Downtown DAnCe ClAsses (pd.) (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Fusion Bellydance 7:30pm Bellydance• Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 •Wednesday 5pm Bhangra Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance• Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Friday 8am Hip Hop Wrkt • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • Sunday 11am Hip Hop • $13 for 60 minute classes, Hip Hop Wkrt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595

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• WE (6/10), 5:30pm - Hemp History Week presentation.

Free to attend. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway AsHeville greenworKs 254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • SA (6/13), 10am-2pm - “Hard to Recycle,” collection event. Free. Held at Arvato Digital Services, 108 Monticello Road, Weaverville

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DogwooD AlliAnCe 251-2525, dogwoodalliance.org • TH (6/11), 6pm - “Save Our Southern Forest,” biomass industry discussion. Free. Held at Jonas Gerard Fine Art, 240 Clingman Ave. elisHA mitCHell AuDuBon soCiety emasnc.org • TU (6/16), 7-8pm - “Bring Back the Monarch,” natural history discussion. Free. Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA. HenDersonville environmentAl sustAinABility BoArD 707-7551, kimebai@gmail.com • TH (6/11), 3pm - Input and planning session to discuss Hendersonville’s new Bee City USA designation. Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville City Operations Center, 305 Williams St., Hendersonville

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On Thursday, guests can attend a gala preview party to celebrate designers and their works and give ticket holders a first glimpse of the designs on display. The party will feature a buffet dinner catered by Black Mountain Ale House chef Travis Everhart and a gallery display of ikebana and Western floral arrangements designed to accompany and capture what

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floral designers “see as the essence of the artwork they are interpreting,” according to a press release. The party starts at 6 p.m., and tickets are $40.

Floral designs will be on display for the remainder of the event for $5.

From 2-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, attendees may embark on a self-guided two-day cottage tour of six Black Mountain cottage gardens. Each garden will feature plein-air painters working on pieces that will be on display and available for purchase at the gallery through July 17.

Garden tour tickets are $20 and include complimentary gallery access. Concluding the event on Saturday at 3 p.m., former North Carolina poet laureate Fred Chappell will read from his book, Spring Garden, in the center’s theater space. This reading is free.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Black Mountain Center for the Arts and will be used to enhance its programs. For more information, call 669-0930 or visit blackmountainarts.org. — Michael McDonald. Photo of plein-air painter by Carrie Eidson

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HenDersonville green DrinKs facebook.com/hvlgreendrinks • TH (6/11), 6-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Southern Appalachian Brewery, 822 Locust St. Suite 100, Hendersonville PollinAtion CeleBrAtion! beecityusa.org • TH (6/11), 4-7pm - Launch party for Pollinator Week with music and libations. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. • SA (6/13), 10:30am-noon “Native Plants for Pollinators” presentation by botanist Lisa Wagner. Registration required. $17. Held at Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd.

• SA (6/13), 1:30-7pm - “Wise Beekeepers Roundtable.” $15.

Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River • SU (6/14), 5:30pm Photographer Clay Bolton will discuss macronature & bee photography. Free. Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA. • MO (6/15), 5:30pm Performance by Faerie Kin Stiltwalkers. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. • MO (6/15), 5-7:30pm “Around the World Honey Tasting Adventure.” $10. Held at Asheville Bee Charmer

Downtown, 38 Battery Park Ave. • TU (6/16), 7pm - Author and biologist Mark Winston presents “Value or Values?

Audacious Ideas for the Future of Beekeeping.” $10. Held at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Station, 74 Research Drive, Mills River • WE (6/17), 6pm - Biologist Mark Winston discusses his book Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (6/18), noon-2pm Interpretive pollinator garden stroll. Free. Held at Southern Research Station, 200 W.T. Weaver Blvd.

• TH (6/18), 7pm - Wings of Life, documentary and panel discussion. $10. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. solAriZe wnC 631-3447, cleanenergyfor.us/ clean-energy-for-wnc • WE (6/10), 7pm - Solar energy adoption forum. Free.

Held at Hudson Library, 554 Main St., Highlands wnC green BuilDing CounCil 254-1995, wncgbc.org • SU (6/14), 1-4pm - Monthly green building tour. Held at private home. Contact for details. Free.

fArm & gArDen emBrACe your sHADe! (pd.) (pd.) SAT (6/13), 7PMSeminar with Tanya LaCorte.

Shady spots offer a wealth of opportunity for gorgeous plantings. Explore the lovely palette of flowers, colors, and leaf textures that can transform your shady area into a relaxing oasis. One hour talk followed by an optional shady plant tour. Free, but please pre-register at 828-645-3937.

Reems Creek Nursery, 70 Monticello Road, Weaverville, NC. www.reemscreek.com BunComBe County mAster gArDeners 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am2pm - Plant problems, pests and compost demonstrations.

Free to attend. Held at WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Rd. • SA (6/13) - “Explore. Learn.

Grow!” self-guided garden tour. $20/$15 advance. Held at Enka High School, 475 Enka Lake Road, Candler

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

• TU (6/16), 2pm - “Growing Medicinal Herbs,” workshop.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (6/18), 10:30am Pollination Week celebration focused on Monarch butterflies and garden planting. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

fooD & Beer leiCester Community Center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

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

Free.

government & PolitiCs BunComBe County rePuBliCAn men’s CluB 712-1711, gakeller@gakeller. com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 7:30am Discussion group meeting with optional breakfast. Free to attend. Held at Corner Stone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road BunComBe County rePuBliCAn women’s CluB 243-6590 • WE (6/10), noon - Picnic lunch with speaker Tami Fitzgerald. $5. Bring a side dish. Held at Governor’s Western Residence, 45 Patton Mountain Road HenDerson County DemoCrAtiC PArty 692-6424, myhcdp.com • WE (6/10), 9am - Discussion group. Free to attend. Held at Mike’s on Main, 303 N. Main St., Hendersonville • WE (6/17), noon - Senior Democrats meeting. Held in private home. Contact for directions. Free to attend.

KiDs ColBurn eArtH sCienCe museum 2 South Pack Square, 254-7162, colburnmuseum.org Located in Pack Place.

• SA (6/13), 1-4pm - Sciencebased LEGO activities. For ages 6 and up. $15.

CrADle of forestry Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • THURSDAYS (6/11) through (8/6), 10:30-noon & 1:30-3pm - “Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club,” outdoor-oriented activity exploring forest-related themes. For ages 4-7. $4. 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. sPellBounD CHilDren’s BooKsHoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am Storytime for ages 3-7. Free.

outDoors AsHeville sAiling CluB ashevillesailing.org • SA (6/13), 4-7pm - Public viewing on club regatta/ sailboat race. Free to attend. Held at Lake Julian Park Marina, 406 Overlook Extension, Arden Blue riDge PArKwAy HiKes 298-5330, nps.gov • TH (6/11), 7pm - Easy 1.5mile ranger-led hike discussing habitat fragmentation.

Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Blue riDge PArKwAy rAnger ProgrAms 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/10), 10:30am12:30pm - Self-guided tours of historic Cone Manor.

Located at MP 294.

• SA (6/13), 10am-2pm “National Get Outdoors Day,” natural resource programs and activities. Free to attend.

Held at Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384 • SA (6/13) & SU (6/14), 10am-4pm - Ranger-led tours of historic Cone Manor.

Reservations required.

Located at MP 294.

• SA (6/13), 7pm - “The Bear Facts,” ranger-led discussion.

Held at Julian Price Picnic Ground, MP 296

• SA (6/13), 7pm - “Stream Gems,” trout species and nature exploration. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 • SA (6/13), 7pm - “Coyotes in our Midst,” educational program. Held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 340 CrADle of forestry Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SA (6/13) - “National Get Outdoors Day,” skill teaching and demonstrations. Free. ymCA of wnC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SA (6/13), 8:45am - Easy 4.8-mile hike on Pink Beds Loop. Free/$5 carpool. Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

PuBliC leCtures BlACK mountAin College museum & Arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • WE (6/10), 7:30pm - “The Founding of the Farm at Black Mountain College.” Free.

sPirituAlity ABout tHe trAnsCenDentAl meDitAtion teCHniQue: free introDuCtory leCture (pd.) The most effective meditation is also the most effortless. Learn how TM is different from other meditation practices (including common “mantra” methods). TM is a simple, natural, non-religious technique for going beyond the busy, active mind to access your deepest inner reserves of calm, clarity and happiness — dissolving stress and connecting you to your higher self. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association.

NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. 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.

AwAKening wisDom (pd.) Realize the promise of Zen meditation and mindfulness for peace, wisdom and everyday life effectiveness while experiencing true spiritual connection.

Individual, group and telephone sessions available with consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz.

Very affordable. For Info contact healing@billwalz. com, (828) 258-3241. Visit www.billwalz.com

HomeWood Event Center Sunday, June 14th 5pm 19 Zillicoa St. Asheville, NC www.belovedhomewood.com

Jubilee Community Church Tuesday, June 16th 7pm 46 Wall St. Asheville, NC www.jubileecommunity.org

Community Hu song (pd.) In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace?

Singing HU can lift you into a higher state of consciousness, so that you can discover, in your own way, who you are and why you’re here. • Date: Sunday, June 14, 2015, 11am to 11-30am, fellowship follows. Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org CrystAl visions BooKs AnD event Center (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts.

Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com eXPerienCe A Hug liKe no otHer! (pd.) Amma will hold free programs on June 28-29 at the GA International Convention Center in Atlanta. More info at http:// amma.org/meeting-amma/ north-america/atlanta. oPen HeArt meDitAtion (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace

Dhyan Mandir Wednesday, June 17th 7pm 70 Cedar Mountain Rd. Asheville, NC cranberryc@bellsouth.net

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Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org ADult forum At fCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (6/14), 9:15am “Conversation on the Spiritual Practice of Contemplation.”

Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville CreAtion CAre AlliAnCe of wnC creationcarealliance.org • TH (6/11), 5:30-7pm General meeting. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. HomewooD 19 Zillicoa St. • SU (6/14), 5pm Meditation program with Sri Shivabalayogi. Free.

JuBilee Community CHurCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TU (6/16), 7pm Meditation program with Sri Shivabalayogi. Free. 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., 2 53-0043 • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - “A Service for Service,” service-industry worship. trinity PresByteriAn CHurCH 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville, 692-6114, trinitypresnc.org • SUNDAYS (6/14) until (6/28), 9:45am - Ohmann Lecture Series: “Navigating Rough Waters,” 1960s cultural revolutions. Free.

sPoKen & written worD BlACK mountAin College museum & Arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (6/11), 7:30pm -

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Katherine Soniat discusses her book The GoodBye Animals and Kathryn Stripling Byers discusses her book The Vishnu Bird. $8/$5 members.

Blue riDge BooKs 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (6/13), 3pm - Allen Cook discusses his book Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers. Free to attend.

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

• TH (6/11), 1pm - Fairview Afternoon Book Club: All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • SA (6/13), 3pm - West Asheville Book Club: Burning Bright by Ron Rash.

Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TH (6/18), 2:30pm Skyland Book Club: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road mAlAProP’s BooKstore AnD CAfe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/10), 7pm - John Connell discusses his book Ruins of War. • WE (6/10), 7pm - Salon: Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature.

• TH (6/11), 7pm - Michelle Miller discusses her book The Underwriting.

• FR (6/12), 7pm “Dangerous Ladies,” four female authors discuss their YA novels.

• SU (6/14), 3pm - Laurie McKay discusses her book The Last Dragon Charmer.

• TU (6/16), 7pm - Comix Club: The Wrenchies by Farel Dalrymple.

• WE (6/17), 7pm - Stephen Witt discusses his book How Music Got Free.

• TH (6/18), 7pm - Dorothea Benton Frank discusses her book All the Single Ladies. synergy story slAm avl.mx/0gd, tlester33@gmail.com • WE (6/17), 7:30-9:30pm Open mic story telling night on the theme “Who’s your

Muse?” Free to attend.

Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road tHomAs wolfe sHort story BooK CluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (6/11), 5:30-7pm “Boomtown.” Discussion led by Michael Sartisky.

Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St wilDwooD tAles AnD musiC 216-3492, feedandseednc.com • SA (6/13), 4pm - Family storytelling event followed by live bluegrass music. Free.

Held at Feed & Seed, 3715 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher

volunteering HAnDs on AsHeville-BunComBe 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org • SA (6/13), 10:30am Volunteers needed to create book packages for the POP Project. Location given on registration.

• MO (6/15), 6pm - Volunteers needed to bake cookies for hospice. Held at John Keever Solace Center, 21 Belvedere Rd. • TU (6/16) & TH (6/25), 4pm Volunteers needed to unpack and price merchandise. Held at Ten Thousand Villages, 10 College St. riverlinK 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • WE (6/10), 10am - Monthly volunteer info session. Free.

• WE (6/10), 5:30pm Monthly volunteer info session. Free. 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. trAnZmission Prison ProJeCt tranzmissionprisonproject. yolasite.com • TH (6/11), 3-5:30pm - Open house and volunteer work day for this organization that donates books to people in prisons. Held at Downtown Books & News, 67 N. Lexington Ave. For more volunteering opportunities, visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Camp Heart Songs 12th Annual Grief Camp

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According to the food editor, it’s “fine wine” compared to Schmilk.) distractEd amEricans Air travelers last year left $675,000 in (obviously) spare change in airport screening bins, reported the Transportation Security Administration in April. Of the cars reported stolen in 2014, 44,828 were with keys left inside them, according to an April National Insurance Crime Bureau release. American credit card holders fail to claim “about $4 billion” in earned “rewards” each year, according to CardHub.com’s 2015 Credit Card Rewards Report. our LEast hardy gEnEration • Nursing student Jennifer burbella filed a lawsuit against Misericordia University (near Scranton, Pa.) for not helping her enough to pass a required course that she failed twice. The professional caregiverto-be complained of stress so severe that she needed a distraction-free room and extra time for the exam but claims she deserved even more special treatment.

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• In March, following the departure of zayn malik from the British band One Direction, an executive with the Peninsula employment law firm in Manchester told London’s Daily Telegraph that he had received “hundreds” of calls from employers seeking advice about workers who were requesting “compassionate” leave because Malik’s resignation had left them distraught. (Also, a spokeswoman for the charity Young Minds told the Telegraph she was concerned about Malik fans self-harming.) finE points of thE Law Britain’s Home Office, judging requests for asylum by immigrants threatened with deportation but who fear oppressive treatment if returned to their home countries, recently turned down asylum for Nigerian lesbian activist aderonke apata, 47, apparently because the office doubted her orientation. Though Apata had submitted testimonials (and even photographs) “proving” her homosexuality, the Home Office was skeptical because she had children from a previous heterosexual relationship. On the other hand, an immigration court in England ruled in April that a Libyan man, identified only as “hu,” could not be deported since he is a career criminal and a chronic drunk who would be so unlikely to reform his drinking that he would surely face a lifetime of prison in Libya. thE continuing crisis If only there was somewhere he could have turned for moral guidance: Suspended Catholic Monsignor Kevin wallin, 63, was sentenced in May to more than five years in prison for running a meth distribution ring from Bridgeport, Conn., where he also operated a sex shop to launder the drug profits. (Though he faced a 10-year sentence, he had a history of charity work and submitted more than 80 letters of support from high-ranking clergy.)

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The bloom of health Ikebana brings mindfulness to flower arranging in WNC

by Lisa sarasohn

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“I love that twist in the iris leaves.”

“Bring this forward a little bit.”

“You’ve got a nice bend in that stem of grass.”

“Make these roses a little shorter, so when they’re on your coffee table you’re looking right into them.”

In the light-filled studio behind her East Asheville home, norma bradley is teaching ikebana, the centuries-old Japanese “way of flowers.” With these and similar comments, she passes on the art’s fundamental principles: depth, movement, openness. Space, rhythm, proportion. Parameters of beauty. Indicators of life. She also shares a health-enhancing immersion in the details of beauty.

“Ikebana” means both “flower arrangement” and “living flowers.” Several schools of the art have emerged over its long history, each with a different focus. The “ichiyo” style, which Bradley teaches as a certified master instructor, values personal interpretation and imagination in harmonizing each arrangement with the environment it will inhabit. She’s an active member of Ikebana International’s Asheville chapter, which has a sister group in Hendersonville (Blue Ridge Ikebana).

Bradley teaches the art as a practice of mindfulness and community.

She begins the two-hour class by inviting her students to return to their “true home in the here and now,” sounding a Tibetan bowl and offering them an inspirational reading. The students consult their textbooks and identify the form they’ll be learning and making that session — symmetrical, ascending, contrast, asymmetrical balanced or heaven and earth.

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branches, leaves and grasses. They venture into Bradley’s garden, just a step beyond the studio’s glass door, and supplement the flowers she’s purchased for them.

An attraction to particular flowers opens a dialogue and begins the intimate communication between nature and person. betsey baker, one of Bradley’s students, explains, “I choose the flowers I’m going to work with.

And then I let the flowers tell me where they want to be.”

She says ikebana engages her mind and body, spirit and soul. The act becomes a meditation, with a

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focus on well-being. Inspiration “comes from my gut; it comes from within,” she adds. “It’s a soul-producing art.”

As students realize a particular form, Bradley responds to their questions, creating an atmosphere that’s encouraging, nurturing, free from worry.

“Norma sets a beautiful tone,” says barbara Katzenberg, another student. “It helps us so much.

I like her saying, ‘Let’s not bring any worries or concerns into class; let’s just focus on what we’re doing’ — because then it

is a meditation. If you can just stay focused, it’s amazing.”

Joy Letsinger, who hadn’t thought of herself as “creative” before taking Bradley’s classes, says there’s no expectation, no pressure and no hurry. “It’s not about performance,” she says.

Their arrangements complete, the students sketch them in their journals. Then they write and share their thoughts about their creative process and the ways in which the forms relate to their lives.

In one class, for example, Katzenberg had made an ascending arrangement.

She talked about the form in relation to striving for good thoughts, good words and good deeds. The process involved some frustration.

“Frustration is part of the creative process,” says Bradley. “If there’s no frustration, it’s not a creative process.

During the same session, Kimberly childs had worked with the heavenand-earth form. She wrote at the time, “Coming to ikebana today is centering and relaxing. Heaven on earth is here at Norma’s. Beauty, peace, birdsong, creativity is what I receive here. It is a blessing and a gift to be here and inherently healing. Here we widen our perceptions to include silence, stillness, peace and joy.”

At another class, students admired Katzenberg’s simple yet spectacular symmetrical form. “When I came to class,” she recalls, “I was drawn to the tall violet flowers and selected a stalk for the centerpiece. I didn’t want anything else to take the focus away from that, so I thought of grasses, which are light, airy and can radiate outward. I added the grasses and a smaller stalk of the purple flowers to peek out of the front opening in the base. This arrangement seemed so easy and almost effortless to complete.

Less really is more.”

While Katzenberg’s arrangement demonstrated vertical symmetry, left and right sides mirroring each other, frieda probst created an arrangement with radial symmetry.

“I wanted this arrangement to be symmetrical from all sides, as I wish to see my life — as above, so below,” she says. “I celebrate all viewpoints of my life.”

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The talk at the end of each class creates a rich community of mutual support and appreciation. “We’re all so happy when each other does a good thing,” Probst says. “It’s not a competition. We’re happy for each other. We love the beauty in each other’s work.”

As students get ready to leave, they prepare to take home the arrangements they’ve made. “It’s always wonderful to have ikebana arrangements around the house,“ says Childs. “They help me to stop and refocus on what is really important — living my life with mindful grace.”

How does ikebana contribute to health and healing? Bradley sees her students growing in self-confidence, working through fear and resistance, experiencing and expressing their own creativity like never before, she explains. anna matheson had never sketched or written a haiku (a Japanese form of poetry), for example. Drawing and writing

in Bradley’s classes changed that.

Matheson created a calendar that grouped photos of her 20 arrangements with corresponding sketches and poems.

Ikebana is a practice in mindfulness, says Bradley. “You’re getting out of the mind and getting into the moment.

You’re not worried about yourself; you’re not worried about what you’re going to do an hour from now. You’re right there with the flowers and the line material. You’re paying attention to detail. That gives depth. Being present brings healing.”

Childs speaks from experience about the healing aspect of ikebana, this soul-producing art: “I started doing ikebana during a time of poor health,” she says. “In the focus on peace and beauty at Norma’s, I found a refuge. The gentle loving appreciation of nature was what I took away.

Ikebana became a lifeline to feelings of well-being and peace.” X

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“A lot of people think bees are really aggressive, but they aren’t,” Turner says as she stands by her Langstroth hives, her face and hands uncovered. “They’ll get agitated if you’re threatening their home, but really they just want to strengthen their colony and make their food.”

In addition to the bees in her backyard, Turner cares for two hives kept on the roof of her employer, the French Broad Food Co-op, in downtown Asheville.

“A lot of people keep bees for their honey, but I leave it in there,” Turner notes of both her personal hives and the co-op’s. “I got into this because I realized the dangers that honeybees and other varieties of bees were facing. For me it’s not about the honey; I’m doing this to support pollination and our pollinators.”

Turner is one of many local residents who have embraced the call of the bees. In fact, beekeeping is somewhat of a cultural phenomenon in Asheville, otherwise known as the inaugural Bee City USA. The Bee City USA program was started by beekeepers in Buncombe County in the wake of colony collapse disorder — a phenomenon that led to a drastic loss of honeybee colonies in North America — as a way to encourage cities to educate the public about protecting pollinators.

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buzzing with actiVity: Sage Turner, urban beekeeper and finance manager for the French Broad Food Co-Op, keeps hives in her West Asheville backyard and on the roof of the co-op building. Turner is one of a growing number of Ashevilleans who have taken up beekeeping to protect pollinators from threats including habitat loss and pesticides.

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“The pollinators are in serious trouble,” explains Bee City USA founder phyllis stiles. “The main thing we can do to help them is enhance their habitat — give them more safe, healthy places where they can not only find food, but they can find places to nest and overwinter.”

Since Asheville became the first Bee City in 2012, seven other metropolises have followed suit and attained the certification, including Carrboro, N.C., Talent, Ore., and, most recently, Phoenix, Ore., and Seattle, both of which gained certification in the last month.

Holding the Bee City title requires holding awareness events and "raising pollinator consciousness," Stiles explains. In Asheville, that means over a week of events — called Pollination Celebration — designed to invite the public into the world of the insects and birds that carry pollen from flower to flower.

This will be Asheville’s third annual pollinator week, and with events running from Thursday,

June 11, until Saturday, June 21, the celebration aligns with National Pollinator Week sponsored by the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.

“The honeybees always take the limelight because of colony collapse, but we really need to get everyone to think about all the pollinators,” Stiles says.

Events for the week include film screenings, a garden tour, a honey tasting, a beekeepers roundtable, a puppet show and even a stilt walker performance by the Faerie Kin troupe. The goal, say the organizers of Pollinator Week, is that the events appeal to a wide-range of the public — from growers to homesteaders to schoolchildren — and hopefully inspire simple actions that can lead to positive changes.

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Stiles adds that other notable pollinator week events include two presentations by author and apiculturist Mark Winston as well as a presentation on marconature photography by photographer Clay Bolt. “If you’ve ever tried to take a picture of a bee, then you’ll really appreciate his photographers because you’ll know that bees don’t stay still, and they’re just so tiny,” Stiles says. “His work allows us

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4-7 p.m.: pollination celebration Launch party Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

6 p.m.: mark winston discusses his book Bee time: Lessons from the Hive Free; Held at Pack Library, 67 Haywood St.

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10:30 a.m.-noon - botanist Lisa wagner presents "native plants for pollinators" Registration required; $12 members; $17 nonmembers. Held at The Botanical Gardens of Asheville, 51 W.T. Weaver Blvd.

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1:30-7 p.m. - “wise beekeepers,” roundtable facilitated by diane almond Registration required; $15; Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River

sunday, June 14 5:30-8 p.m.: photographer clay bolt presents "the dance: a Look at the interwoven Lives of pollinators, plants and predators" Free; Held in the Reuter Center at UNC Asheville

7 p.m.: Wings of Life, documentary screening and panel discussion $10. Held at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave.

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5:30 p.m.: faerie Kin stilt walkers perform enchanted Bees Free; Held at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville

8:30 p.m.: outdoor screening of the Bee Movie Free; Held at Wedge Brewing Company, 37 Paynes Way

5-7:30 p.m.: around the world honey tasting adventure $10; Held at Asheville Bee Charmer, 38 Battery Park Ave.

tuesday, June 16 6:30 p.m.: author and botanist mark winston presents "Value or Values? audacious ideas for the future of beekeeping" $10; Held at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station, 455 Research Drive, Mills River

LoVE among thE hiVEs: Life without pollinators would be pretty boring, says Bee City USA founder Phyllis Stiles. “The only reason nature created flowers was to attract pollinators,” she adds.

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to see up close how they interact with the flowers.”

Pollination Celebration rounds out with a workshop and farm tour at Hop’n Blueberry Farm in Black Mountain and the annual Asheville GreenWorks Father’s Day Garden Tour. The Greenworks tour will feature eight private gardens in Biltmore Forest and allow attendees to learn more about pollinator-friendly natives such as wild geraniums, foamflowers, trilliums, bleeding hearts and bloodroot.

It may seem like a small thing to host a pollinator week, Stiles says, but she adds that seeing more Asheville residents and visitors care about their green spaces and

the insects that depend on them is a significant accomplishment. “If you can catalyze your community to do that, to add it to their agendas, then you’re truly creating a buzz,” she notes. “With awareness comes empowerment and action, and now that people are more aware of just how crucial pollinators are to life on Earth, they’re willing to take action.”

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To the uninitiated, 40 gallons might sound like a lot of beer. But compared with the 10 million gallons Sierra Nevada will make in Mills River this year, or the 1,500 gallons Highland can brew in one go, 40 is only a drop in the bucket.

Still, for Jay schutz of One World Brewing, Asheville’s smallest brewery, cooking up 40 gallons at a time just might be enough. going pro Schutz was a stonemason until 2010, when a down economy and increasing competition forced him to carve out a new niche. His mother-inlaw suggested he go pro with a decadelong passion for homebrewing.

“People always seemed to like my beer,” he recalls, “so she asked, ‘Have you ever thought about brewing beer for a living?’ and I said, ‘Hell, no. You’d probably need $1 million just to start a brewery.’”

But it turns out that you don’t. Jay and his wife, Lisa schutz, opened One World for $375,000, which is actually on the high side for nanobreweries.

Over in Black Mountain, John garcia launched Lookout Brewing for a mere $75,000. Usually classified as no larger than 3 barrels (93 gallons), nanos constitute a workable entry point into what’s become a lucrative industry.

After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the federal government established a three-tiered system for alcohol — producers, wholesalers and retailers — that’s still in place today. Brewers brew, wholesalers find homes for those beers in bars and on shelves, and retailers peddle them to customers.

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ter and brewing instructor at A-B Tech. Consumers get more variety, but the beer goes through two 30 percent markups.

On the other hand, he continues, distributors “have the team and the transportation, and you’re not in the trucking business or the logistics business: You’re in the beer-making business. So the profit margin’s higher if you distribute yourself, but you have to have much more staff, and you have to figure out the logistics.”

Nanos, though, have no choice. The only way they can make money, says Irvin, is to handle distribution and sales in-house. And in North Carolina, breweries that produce less than 25,000 barrels annually can take a do-it-yourself approach to wholesale and retail. So successful nanobrewers quickly learn to do it all. surViVaL of thE fittEst Garcia sold audiovisual equipment until the economy made high-end electronics a tough sell. After that he started tending bar, brewing beer in the kitchen in his spare time. But his

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smaLL worLd: During his first year in business, One World Brewing owner Jay Schutz brewed close to 22,000 gallons of beer, 40 gallons at a time on his nano system — that’s close to two batches a day, five days a week.

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wife encouraged him to do what he loved, so in 2013 he founded Lookout Brewing on a half-barrel system.

It was a family affair from the start. Garcia’s wife also thought up the brewery’s best-selling recipe, Alison’s Front Porch Pale, and his parents helped with renovating the space. They’ve since opened their own nano, Good Hops Brewing in Carolina Beach, and the two breweries now swap recipes.

But the family dynamic doesn’t end there. “If you were to come back tonight, there’ll be 50 or 60 people in here that all have a personal connection with me and my family,” says Garcia.

“They know Asher and Lilly and Naia, my kids; and that’s the best side of what I do. You’re building this thing together.”

Burial Beer Co. co-founder Jess reiser agrees. For the first year, the three owners were the only employees.

“I think people seeing the owners behind the bar and interacting on that level has been really meaningful,” she explains. “They know our family, they’ve seen my baby grow up, and that’s why we’re so thankful to have been able to grow in this organic way.”

And grow they have. After 18 months on a 1-barrel system, Burial upgraded to 10 barrels last November and plans to start canning next month.

But it hasn’t been easy. Jess and her husband, doug reiser, had their second child just three months after the brewery opened.

“I was washing glassware with him attached to me two weeks after giving birth,” she recalls. “We didn’t even have a dishwasher for the first year and a half, so I would carry these trays of glassware with the baby on me. It was just a survival thing, you know?”

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moVin’ on up: After more than a year operating on a 1-barrel nano system, Burial Beer Co. upgraded to a 10-barrel system and has recently started canning some of its products. Pictured are owners Jess Reiser, left, and Tim Gormley. Not pictured is owner Doug Reiser.

gEtting rEspEct There were other issues, too, Jess remembers. People would ask if they were just homebrewers, and the question often felt judgmental.

Head brewer tim gormley had been professionally trained, working at places like Lazy Boy Brewing and Sound Brewery in Washington State before helping found Burial, but there was still a stigma attached to small-batch beer: It was viewed as glorified homebrew, and homebrew as nothing but swill.

Brewmaster norm penn of Thirsty Monk calls those perceptions unwarranted and unfair to homebrewed beers, which have gotten really good. And brewing them on a larger system, he continues, isn’t as different as people might think.

So as part of Thirsty Monk’s new nano project, Open Brewing, Penn is helping amateur brewers scale up their recipes to 1-barrel volume.

His efforts to legitimize them make sense — after all, he brewed at home for 20 years before going pro himself.

And most professionals, he guesses, started out the same way.

Add John Lyda, the brewmaster at Highland Brewing Co., to that list.

His mom bought his first brewing kit at a church rummage sale while he was still in college, and though Lyda eventually went on to the Siebel Institute of Technology, he says homebrewing played a key role in his progression, as it still does for many professional brewers. It helps them develop their palate and learn what does and doesn’t work.

Besides, when you make just 5 gallons at a time, as most homebrewers do, it’s easy to try new things: If something comes out sideways, it’s not a big loss. Lyda praises nanos for taking a similar approach, piloting new recipes as they go, though balancing risk and reward can be challenging.

“I think the ones that make it will be better off for starting out that way, because they’re acting like homebrewers, which means they get to experiment,” he observes. “That’s going to make them well-rounded as they get larger.”

But getting bigger is no small feat.

In One World’s first year, Jay Schutz brewed 550 batches. That’s 22,000 gallons of beer, 40 gallons at a time — roughly two batches a day, Monday through Friday, and that doesn’t include the time spent on marketing, distribution or anything else. It’s a frantic pace that’s also a necessary evil at the nano level.

“I still love it as much as I used to: I really do enjoy it,” says Schutz.

“But you know, brewing is my job, so sometimes, like anybody, I’m not that excited to go to work. At the end of the day, it’s an amazing job: It’s just not what I do to relax anymore.”

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Rebirth at 67 Biltmore Laurey’s is no more, but 67 Biltmore aims to preserve the spirit of the landmark café When Laurey masterton passed away in February 2014, Asheville’s bustling restaurant community was shaken. The chef, activist, community organizer and author had served as a kind of patron saint for the Asheville food scene since opening her restaurant and catering business, Laurey’s, in 1990.

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breakfast and lunch on the street.

And Eberhardt heide, the founder of the Asheville Wine Market, explained that he would never have opened a business downtown if it hadn’t been for Masterton’s coaxing.

Then there were Emily and adam thome, the couple who ran most of the operations at Laurey’s Catering and Gourmet for 15 years. The pair talked about how the insurance and living wage Masterton provided for her employees allowed them to afford the multiple bone marrow transplants and blood transfusions at Duke University required by their then-9-month-old son who was diagnosed with cartilage-hair hypoplasia, a rare form of dwarfism that affects the immune system.

Beyond quality treatment of the staff, Laurey’s was known for delicate, deftly made sandwiches, soups and salads, which drew lines out the front door for over a decade. So when the Masterton family announced the closing of Laurey’s in March, the distress of loyal patrons was well-warranted.

Fortunately, the Thomes stepped in to open their own café and catering company, 67 Biltmore, in the same space and with mostly the same staff.

Emily Thome says their intention was to keep most things — including the name of the business — the same. “It’s always more complicated than it seems like it should be,” she said quietly when asked about the switch to using 67 Biltmore. “But that’s really all I can say about it. Our hope was to keep the name, but that’s not how it ended up. In some ways that’s OK. It is kind of nice to start fresh.”

Although the name is different, the spirit of Masterton’s activism and progressive ideals live on in the new venture. Thome says she and her husband run 67 Biltmore under the same five guiding principles that Masterton used to make her business successful: Take care of each other, take care of your customers, take care of the earth, run a profitable business and make great food.

“If you run by those, you can’t really mess up,” she says. “We all believe in those things and the fact that 90 percent of our staff came back to work with us is a testament to those principles.” And it was never just the giant sandwiches, homemade soup stocks or locally sourced ingredients that set this small café apart from others. It was that

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nourishmEnt: Emily and Adam Thome try to run 67 Biltmore with the same spirit of community that the late Laurey Masterton embraced with her beloved café, Laurey’s, which occupied the same downtown spot for 15 years. Photo by Cindy Kunst

ethic, that mentality that the staff wasn’t just there to feed you: They were also there to nourish you.

“One particular customer who has always come in almost every day, walked in the door when we opened back up and burst into tears,” Thome recalls. “She and her husband used to eat here a couple of times a week, but he passed away. And she would still come here all the time to have lunch and eat with us, because this is like family for her now.”

In the office, a large portrait of Masterton and her dog hangs above the desk. “We miss Laurey every day,” says Thome. “We constantly ask ourselves if we did the right thing, and we’re constantly trying to figure things out. But the other day, someone came in with a notebook that they’d found in Laurey’s desk. ... I opened the notebook and on the first page, in her handwriting, was a note. All it said was, ’Sure you will, it’s just determination.’” It was a welcome whisper of encouragement from the couple’s late mentor.

“We hope that we can honor her by running this place the way she wanted ... and wanting it to be run in the way that she would have done things,” says Adam Thome. “She helped us realize that you could actually run a business this way and be successful.”

Walking into the newly reopened space, one could be forgiven for not immediately detecting any change at all. The counters, deli fridge and kitchen are still mostly the same, as are the tables and chairs. Some details customers would remember from the previous business are gone — including Masterton’s cookbooks and knickknacks and the ubiquitous stickers bearing her mantra, “Don’t postpone joy.” But the menu still sports many items that longtime Laurey’s customers would recognize as staples, and the food is as good as ever.

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For the bees Asheville Bee Charmer supports Bee City USA’s Pollination Celebration with honey-tasting event Within the space of about a year, Jillian Kelly and Kim allen sent their son off to college, gave up their jobs as commodities traders in Chicago, moved to Asheville and immediately opened a retail business with two storefronts — one in West Asheville and, shortly thereafter, one downtown.

With their business, Asheville Bee Charmer, and in their personal lives, the focus of much of their considerable energy is the welfare of the honeybee. Since they launched Asheville Bee Charmer in 2014, the couple — who are also beekeepers — have been devoted to supporting local efforts to raise awareness about colony collapse disorder and other issues affecting the pollinators of the world, Kelly says.

Their upcoming Pollination Celebration event — a honey-tasting contest and party on Monday, June 15, at their downtown store — will be aimed at educating the public about honey and pollinators, as well as serving as a fundraiser for local pollinator awareness organization Bee City USA. “That’s where our heart is at: anything we can do to help Bee City, anything we can do to help the Center for Honeybee Research,” Kelly says.

“When people come into the store and taste honey, we always, always try to slip in those names and hope that people will go to the websites,

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bEE awarE: Through their honeycentric business, Asheville Bee Charmer, Kim Allen, left, and Jillian Kelly work to support local organizations Bee City USA and the Center for Honeybee Research in their efforts to raise awareness about the world’s pollinators. Photo by Pat Barcas

that people will read and maybe give a little.”

Just walking into one of the Asheville Bee Charmer shops is a lesson on all things apian. Employees known as “bee-ristas” stand behind the honey bar offering samples of several kinds of honeys from around the world. Along with taste tests, the bee-rista provides information about each honey’s provenance and answers questions. Maps hang on the wall to show where certain types of flowering plants and trees grow, such as sourwood.

Kelly and Allen send each new honey that comes into their shop to the labs at Texas A&M University for testing — at a cost of $75 per sample — to determine precisely what its plant origins are. The resulting 10-page report gives precise percentages of exactly what’s in the honey, and that information is placed on the back of each jar at the honey bar for reference.

“Then people can start to understand,” says Kelly. “When you say a person has sourwood and tulip poplar and clover on his land, they can taste that. And they can compare it to someone who has tulip poplar, locust, wildflowers, clover, blackberries and blueberries on their land, so now there’s a similarity, but maybe they can also taste that addition of fruit.”

She adds that they keep flavor wheels from the University of

California, Davis on the walls near the honey bar to give guests an idea of what specific nuances to look for as they taste. “If you put the words in front of them, it’s almost like wine tasting. So you can say, ‘Yes, that’s very earthy,’ or ‘Yes, I can taste the fruit,’ or ‘Wow, this one goes right up my nose.’

So it gives them a better vocabulary.”

Kelly says the June 15 Around the World Honey Tasting Adventure at Asheville Bee Charmer will feature a tasting competition with 10 different honeys as well as a variety of honey and bee trivia contests. T-shirts, honey and seed bombs provided by Asheville GreenWorks will be offered as prizes, and there will be fingerfood snacks available — some doused in honey, of course. X

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by Gina Smith Bicycling coffee enthusiasts can take a leisurely roll through town and stop at any or all of the participating coffee shops — Waking Life, Odd’s Café, High Five Coffee and Bomba — then pedal on over to Vortex in the South Slope for a 7 p.m. after-party on the patio with live music and swag.

All day Saturday, June 13, ending with a 7 p.m. party at Vortex Doughnuts, 32 Banks Ave. Look for updates at Facebook.com/ VortexDoughnuts. happy JacK’s adds bEEr, winE and aLL-day brunch

cELEbration of ’cuE: Competitive barbecue teams from across the U.S. will converge on Tryon this weekend for the 22nd annual Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival. The top winner from North Carolina will be crowned the state barbecue champion. Photo courtesy of Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival

Happy Jack’s, which opened as a breakfast-only spot on Tunnel Road a few months ago, recently expanded its hours and offerings.

Although it’s still open 7 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays, the restaurant is now serving until 8 p.m. FridaySunday with a new lunch menu featuring pizza, hot dogs, sandwiches, Highland Brewing Co. beer, wine and mimosas.

For details, visit Facebook.com/ HappyJacksAsheville.

marino on Saturday, June 20. The evening will feature seven smallplate courses paired with Addison Farms wines. The menu items will include bacon-wrapped figs with goat cheese, halibut with smoked peaches, watermelon gazpacho, duck breasts with blackberries and corn pudding and baby back ribs with tomato pie. A vegetarian option is available. Tickets are $65 plus tax.

7 p.m. Saturday, June 20, Addison Farms Vineyard, 4005 New Leicester Farms Highway, Leicester.

For tickets, visit Addisonfarms.net/ winedinner or call 581-9463. summEr VEgEtabLE rEcipE rouLEttE patryk battle and meredith Leigh of Living Web Farms will offer a workshop featuring live cooking demonstrations of seasonal, plantbased recipes on Tuesday, June 16, at the French Broad Food Co-op. A $10 donation is suggested.

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postrE caramELs bLuE ridgE bbQ and music fEstiVaL Barbecue takes center stage this weekend in Tryon at the 22nd annual Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival. The competitive Kansas City Barbecue Society-sanctioned event will feature teams from all over the U.S. cooking up chicken, pork ribs and pork or beef brisket in a showdown for titles, trophies and more than $20,000 in prize money. North Carolina teams will battle for the Governor’s Trophy, which is the North Carolina State Barbecue Championship.

“Winning the N.C. State Championship is a major achievement in a state so rich in barbecue history, and it comes complete with bragging rights,” said festival steering committee chair mike Karawan in a statement. Festival attendees can watch the teams compete and sample some of the award-winning ’cue, along with a selection of fixin’s from regional vendors.

The festival also offers two stages of live music, including appearances

by Acoustic Syndicate and Big Daddy Love, as well as a juried craft fair, a classic car show (featuring Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s famous No. 88 car),

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the Hawg Run motorcycle poker run and a grand finale fireworks show.

Admission is free for everyone 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, June 12, and $8 per person for the rest of the festival.

Ages 12 and younger are free with a paying adult throughout the festival, and active military are free with military identification.

Proceeds help support Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce operations and the Carolina Foothills Chamber Foundation, which returns money to the community through support of a variety of charitable and civic programs. Volunteers are needed, and those who work a four-hour shift will receive free admission both days, plus a free T-shirt, water bottle and food.

The Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival takes place 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 12-13, at Harmon Field, Harmon Field Road, Tryon. For details, visit BlueRidgeBBQFestival.com or call 859-7427.

Confectioners Jamie sastre, Joe scott and mitchell simpson announced in late May the opening of their artisan caramel business, Postre Caramels.

Working from a business park in Woodfin, the trio produces a five-ingredient, preservativefree, 95 percent organic sea salt caramel sauce packaged in recyclable plastic tubes. Other flavors will soon “flow down the caramel sauce pipeline,” promises Postre’s website. The entrepreneurs are visiting area tailgate markets to introduce their product, and the sauce is now available at the French Broad Co-op, West Village Deli and Market, Hendersonville Co-op, Artisan Gourmet Market in Black Mountain, Whit’s Frozen Custard, Hickory Nut Gap Farms and a few small retail shops, including Sanctuary of Stuff in Weaverville.

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Catfish po’ boys at Vieux Carre food truck: There’s just something great about fried catfish, iceberg lettuce and tomatoes drenched in mayonnaise on a hot summer day — and it’s even better with a cold beer. Catch Vieux Carre’s black and red truck on a Sunday night at the Brew Pump (except this week when the truck will be parked at Bonnaroo in Tennessee). It’s a sure-fire start to a night in West Asheville.

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weDnesDAy AsHeville Brewing: $3.50 all pints at Coxe location; “Whedon Wednesday’s” at Merrimon location; Wet Nose Wednesday (special treats for dogs) at Coxe location, 5-8pm CAtAwBA: $2 off growler fills

PisgAH: Live music: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, 8pm; Food truck: Tin Can Pizzeria soutHern APPAlACHiAn: Live music: Carver & Carmody (blues), 8pm; Food truck: Mobile Global Food Truck weDge: Food truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese)

frenCH BroAD: $8.50 growler fills funKAtorium: Live music: John Hartford jam (bluegrass), 6:30pm

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green mAn: Free brewery tour, 1pm; Food truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese)

HigHlAnD: Live music: Woody Wood (acoustic rock), 5:30pm

HigHlAnD: Live music: The Blue Dragons, 7pm; Food truck: Gypsy Queen & Happy Lucky

leXington Ave (lAB): $3 pints all day

oyster House: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys

one worlD: Live music: Hustle souls, 9pm

PisgAH: Live music: Wham Bam Bowie Band, 9pm; Food truck: DOGS

osKAr Blues: Community bike ride led

by The Bike Farm, leaves brewery 6pm; Beer run w/ Wild Bill, group run leaves brewery 6pm

soutHern APPAlACHiAn: Live music: Serious Clark (indie), 8pm; Food truck: Mobile Global Food Truck

oyster House: $2 off growler fills PisgAH: Live music: Will Overman Band, 6pm; Food truck: Latino Heat weDge: Food truck: Root Down (comfort food, Cajun)

tHursDAy AsHeville Brewing: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location frenCH BroAD: Live music: CarolinaBound (Americana), 6pm green mAn: Food truck: Belly Up (tacos, tortas, burritos) HigHlAnD: Community Night w/ Wild South ($1 per pint donated to Wild South), 4pm

weDge: Food truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food); Movie night: Casablanca, 8:45pm

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osKAr Blues: Tasty Tuesday: Bulleit barrel-aged FIDY; Cornhole League, 6pm; Food truck: Chameleon Food Truck oyster House: Cask night weDge: Food truck: Tin Can Pizzeria; Live music: Blue Dragons (rock, blues, Americana), 7pm

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green mAn: Food truck: Out of the Blue (Peruvian cuisine) osKAr Blues: Free Yoga, 11am; Food truck: CHUBwagon oyster House: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys

weDge: Food truck: Either Melt Your Heart or Tin Can Pizzeria; Live music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz, swing), 6pm

weDge: Food truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

wiCKeD weeD: Live music: Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

HigHlAnD: Small batch: Hoppy Poppin’ Pilsner (floral, fruity, crisp) & Late Check Out (Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans, Dynamite roasted coffee, stout-like ale); Live music: Future Prezidents, 7pm; Food truck: Gypsy Queen & Happy Lucky;

AltAmont: Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

frenCH BroAD: Live music: PubSing (gospel, sing-along, bring snack), 5:30pm

osKAr Blues: Live music: Nick Andrew Staver (blues), 6pm; Food truck: CHUBwagon

green mAn: Food truck: Little Bee Thai

Hi-wire: $2.50 house pints

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BuriAl Beer Co.: Jazz brunch w/ The Mandelkorn George Project, noon (until food runs out)

soutHern APPAlACHiAn: Live music: Jeff Michels & Jim Robertson (folk rock), 5pm; Food truck: The Real Food Truck

frenCH BroAD: Live music: Junto (country), 6pm

green mAn: Food truck: The Real Food Truck

AsHeville Brewing: $6 bloody Marys & $5 mimosas at Coxe location

one worlD: Live music: The Sun Wranglers (Americana), 8pm

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

monDAy AltAmont: Live music: Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 6:30pm green mAn: Food truck: Happy Lucky (soups, sandwiches) osKAr Blues: Mountain Music Mondays, 6pm; Makin’ a Difference Monday: 10 percent of taproom sales go to Mountain Roots; Food truck: Latino Heat

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Monday, Monday UNCA’s Concerts on the Quad return after four-year hiatus

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The nemesis of Garfield and weekday warriors across the globe, Mondays weren’t always such a drag.

For 28 years, UNC Asheville’s free Concerts on the Quad series brought happiness to thousands of local residents and summer visitors, transforming the start of the business week into a day of great anticipation. “[They] had a wonderful picniclike atmosphere that was very family-friendly,” says holly beveridge, the university’s director of cultural events and special academic programs, who began attending the concerts as a student in the early 1990s.

“Throughout the years, this became a summertime tradition that my children really enjoyed. It was always nice to run into friends and neighbors, and meet other parents and children playing on the quad. It was a highlight of the week and really extended the summer weekends.”

Throughout this run, Concerts on the Quad maintained its informal, friendly feel with a variety of of musical acts, including Asheville multi-instrumentalist Billy Jonas, Canadian fiddler April Verch,

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rEturn trip: “These folks are seriously high-energy, a quintessential Asheville experience,” says Holly Beveridge of local absurdist gypsy folk funk punk collective Sirius.B. The band kicks off the family-friendly, picnic-perfect Concerts on the Quad series. Photo courtesy of Sirius.B

Asheville gypsy jazz group One Leg Up and South Carolina guitarist Cool John Ferguson. Following the summer 2010 installment, however, the series abruptly stopped due to a loss of funding. Shortly thereafter, several community members engaged in a grassroots effort to raise enough funds to restart the series but were ultimately unsuccessful.

Nevertheless, outdoor concerts endured on campus during the academic year. Part of the university’s cultural events series, a September 2012 show by New Orleans’ Lagniappe Brass Band drew a large evening crowd reminiscent of the former summer series. In its wake, conversations began about bringing the series back to UNCA, and in the past year the support of presenting sponsors Mission Health and the Asheville Citizen-Times has made its Monday, June 15, return possible.

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Choosing acts for the 2015 season, UNCA staff looked at multiple groups in a range of genres.

Factors that went into the selection process included quality and variety of music, stage presence, budget and performer availability to fit into the series’ calendar. “Working out a concert series schedule can sometimes be like fitting together pieces of a complex puzzle, but this year’s lineup came together quite nicely,” Beveridge says.

The organizers also wanted to highlight a mix of of local and regional musicians. They were reminded of the memorable September 2012 performance by self-described “absurdist gypsy folk funk punk” locals Sirius.B, who kicked off the university’s academic year REAL Events series. “These folks are seriously high-energy, a quintessential Asheville experience,” Beveridge

says. “We are extremely excited to welcome them back to campus and think they are the perfect group to introduce the return of UNC Asheville’s Concerts on the Quad series.”

Fellow locals stephaniesid brings an eclectic mix of pop-noir, jazz and rock to the stage on July 6. The scarcity of bluegrass and Americana music in the REAL Events series helped inspire the booking of Goldsboro country duo The Malpass Brothers (June 29) and Raleigh bluegrass quartet Chatham County Line (July 13). Also hailing from North Carolina is The Ulali Project featuring Pura Fé (June 22), an a capella group known for fusing First Nations music with elements of bluegrass, jazz, soul and folk.

Attendees are invited to bring blankets, chairs and picnic baskets for the 90-minute shows but should leave pets and alcohol at home. The layout of the stage and audience on the quad will be nearly identical to that of the former series, though the addition of two local food trucks at each event will be a new sight. In the case of light rain, Beveridge says the concert will likely continue outdoors, but if severe weather is in the forecast, a call to move the music

into Lipinsky Auditorium will be made before noon on the day of the event. Any such changes will be published on the series’ Web page.

Thrilled for the series’ return, UNCA Chancellor Mary K. Grant sees Concerts on the Quad as “one more way to share the campus with the community, offering the beauty and comfort of the grassy quad as a place for families to gather and enjoy great music on summer evenings.” She and the university staff hope to continue the concerts for many years to come and to sustain it through community partnerships and sponsorships.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the vibrant Asheville music scene, showcase local musicians, introduce new bands from a variety of musical genres and welcome the community to the heart of campus,” Grant says. “I invite our neighbors, friends, families and area visitors to come to campus for any of the performances this summer or one of the many cultural events and academic programs that we offer throughout the year.” X

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Sisters Leah song and chloe smith lead Rising Appalachia, a renowned folk/world music group whose sound is as intriguing as it is hard to classify. The band’s eighth album, Wider Circles, has just been released, and the group (also featuring percussionist Biko Cassini and bassist/guitarist David Brown) will appear onstage in its current hometown, at New Mountain’s amphitheater on Saturday, June 13.

To the uninitiated, the group’s name suggests Americana. But even a quick listen to one of Rising Appalachia’s songs reveals that such a term would be far too limiting. “We

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actually — years and years ago — wanted to change the name,” says Song, “because we did want to be exploring roots music and folk music from all around the world. We even put in some effort to change [our name].” 2008’s Evolutions in Sound: Live rebranded the group as R.I.S.E. “But our collective fan base sort of put their foot down and said, ‘No. You should stick with it; there’s a legacy that’s important for you to hold onto. You’re redefining what [Appalachian music] means to the mountain culture.’ They really didn’t want us to let go of that. It was part of our initial identity; we had folk traditions in our upbringing.”

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She elaborates, “Several generations [of our family] have studied and played Appalachian fiddle.

We were also brought up in this wonderful, urban metropolis of Atlanta, with all that that includes.

So we had the idea that we could rise out of the traditions and see how they mixed. The name Rising Appalachia was an attempt to redefine that tradition and to figure out all the other ways in which we have a folk tradition. So we have found the name limiting, but we have also found it a really, really valuable part of our pursuits.”

Rising Appalachia manages and produces itself. From the beginning of the band’s recording career, the musicians made a conscious decision not to take part in the massive machine known as the music industry. Based on the current state of that industry, the business choices that the sisters made years ago show their prescience in opting to stay outside many of the traditional distribution channels for music.

Song recalls being offered a major label record deal in 2006. “We said, ‘No.’ We decided, ‘If we want to do this, we want to do it on our own terms. We want to learn what we’re doing and then decide how we want to do it.’ We didn’t really want fame, glitz, glamour. But,” she says, “it was nice to be asked.”

Continuing to embody the DIY ethos, Rising Appalachia has been at the forefront of self-funding and crowdsourcing. Recorded at Echo Mountain Studios, Wider Circles is being crowdfunded to the tune of $30,000. “This will be our second Kickstarter project,” says Song. “Our first one was a really amazing honor and very exciting. When we got to a place where we were ready to record this album, we thought long and hard about [whether or not to do] a Kickstarter. Because we’re not really interested in taxing our fan base. We don’t like to always be asking; we’ve been taught to be self-sufficient. And we did have some funding opportunities; we did have some donors who were interested. So Chloe and I roundtabled it and decided we would [crowdfund] again. We were able

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Originally based in New Orleans, Rising Appalachia recently relocated to Asheville. “I don’t really want to be considered an ‘Asheville band,’” says Song. “I want us to be thought of as representing the South: the mountain culture, the urban culture, the swamps. We hold this whole region as our home base. We came to the mountains to get some respite. We wanted the quiet relationship with nature, and we’ve been able to get parts of that on our off-time, get into the local crafts and study the culture. We’ve spent a lot of time in Latin America and in New Orleans, so we wanted to make sure we were adding fuel to the mountain culture that is also part of our story.” X

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Rock ’n’ roll survivalists J. Roddy Walston & the Business build on passion and persistence

Retro-rock groups are a dime a dozen, so when one breaks off from the pack, you take notice.

And for the past few years, J. roddy walston & the Business, who play The Grey Eagle on Friday, June 12, have been slowly emerging as the next great rock ’n’ roll saviors. The band has been building a reputation on a ferocious live show that takes the heavy throttle of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin and filters it through gospel fervor and Jerry Lee Lewis-style keyboard antics. Walston actually insists on touring with a 300-pound piano

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in lieu of a keyboard. The group also has made a legitimate play at the dwindling arena of rock radio, with “Heavy Bells” and “Take It As It Comes” from 2013’s Essential Tremors. With those songs, the musicians briefly made their way onto the alternative charts.

But bassist/vocalist Logan davis is reticent to put his finger on a particular reason for the band’s upward swing. “I don’t think it’s something too contrived. It’s not something we sit around and discuss,” he says. “We have this theory that people have forgotten how to dance to rock ’n’ roll music.

They think dancing has to be done to hip-hop or EDM or something, ya know? So for this last record, it was definitely like, ‘Let’s write rock songs that people can dance to.’”

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Such attitudes are particularly evident on the second side of the album, when the group slows down to showcase a more direct affinity for the midtempo country and soul aspirations of The Band or midperiod Rolling Stones than they had previously evinced. Tracks like “Boys Never Can Tell” trots out a strum-along folk-rock figure that gradually builds up to ecstatic shouts. The closing number “Midnight Cry” sees Walston reaching for soul ballad glory completely free of DIY punk clothing for the first time.

“There was this thing early on where we were being called ‘the best bar band in America,’” says Davis. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I think we’re more than that. We can get up on a big stage and take people through a fuller experience. That was definitely something we wanted to achieve with Essential Tremors.”

And in truth, the transitionrecord nature of the album is abundantly evident. It opens with “Heavy Bells,” a hard-rock number that has the band bursting at the seams, only to challenge that archetype to a greater or lesser extent through the rest of the record. While past records have always shown hints at such range, particularly in Walston’s cracked vocals and old-school piano ramblings, a balance between classic rock posture and roots- and power-pop range has never been more apparent in the band’s sound.

“That [self-titled second] record comes across as a very ’70s rock, in your face thing, and it was a period when the band was still playing small shows,” says Davis. “One of the ways to win people over is to just hit them hard with rock ’n’ roll songs. But after a while touring on that and having that mentality, we realized, ‘We’re broader than this, we can do this.’ But also that you can play a slower song ... with maybe a dance-y R&B vibe underneath, instead of slamming [the audience] with rock songs the whole time.”

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comE out swinging: J. Roddy Walston & the Business have built a reputation on a ferocious live show that takes the heavy throttle of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin and filters it through gospel fervor and Jerry Lee Lewis-style keyboard antics.

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The band hit the road hard after Essential Tremors, working the radio circuit and wowing big crowds at festivals like Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Coachella and Lollapalooza, but is currently taking on a light load of dates this summer as the musicians prepare to go into a recently built home studio this fall.

Davis is aware that the next album has some formidable expectations given the group’s buzz. “It always sort of feels this way — ‘All you have to do is go in and make a great record,’” he says. “Last time, I feel like we

were saying the same thing — ‘All right, we’ve finally built up a live crowd, let’s make a really good record and maybe we’ll try and go after radio this time.’”

He adds, “Now we have all of these radio relationships, all we have to do is make another great record and we’re already in the door, essentially. They’ll be more willing from the get-go to back us, as long as it’s good.

That’s always the pressure for a band, you’re only as good as your last record.” X

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Here-to-peer downloading Author Stephen Witt exposes Shelby man as kingpin of music piracy in debut book How Music Got Free When he set out to identify the origins of his brimming library of pirated music, stephen witt didn’t expect to end up in a small Southern town. But research steered the Brooklyn-based author to North Carolina, where he discovered the previously untold story of Shelby resident bennie Lydell “dell” glover — the leading source of pirated music during the illegal peer-to-peer era and a catalyst for the collapse of an entire industry’s

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business model. Witt’s debut book, How Music Got Free, details the cultural heist.

“Over the course of seven years, [Glover] arranged for 2,000 compact discs to be smuggled out of [a CD pressing factory where he worked in Kings Mountain], weeks and sometimes months ahead of their official release dates,” says Witt. “He became the primary point of contact for almost all leaked digital music in the 2000s. ... If you have ever pirated music, it probably came from him. It went through his hands on the way to your iPod.”

Dr. Dre’s Chronic 2001, Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R, Blink 182’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Jack Johnson’s On and On and 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ are just a sampling of the thousands of gifts to downloaders that eventually earned Glover three months in prison.

But despite the smoking mouse, Witt refuses to throw Glover — or others in the story — under the bus. In fact, the author’s emotional distance from such divisive and wide-reaching subject matter makes talk of moral implications surprisingly sparse.

“I don’t see this being a story of heroes and villains. I think what I tried to show is that everyone had their own motivations,” Witt says. “Everyone is just responding to the availability of new technology. Sometimes what they do doesn’t look so great, but I think it’s predictable.”

Highlights of the book, however, come when the author trades this patience for no-frills distillations of circumstances and people, often casting a critical eye upon arbitrary crowd behavior of years past. Witt, for example, describes “some apocalyptic scenario” in which “people would stop buying so many Hanson albums,” and his recurrent jabs at Limp Bizkit are entertaining even for the handful of us who still have a red Yankees cap aging in some abandoned closet. The resulting nostalgia, which occasionally prompts a comparison of one’s previous and current beliefs surrounding piracy, makes the read pleasantly interactive.

While Glover’s role will likely be of most interest to locals, it represents only a third of the investigation. Witt also recounts the underdog rise of the MP3 file format in nerd-level detail (forever intensifying readers’ views of three-letter file extensions) and the volatile career of music mogul Doug Morris, an integral revolutionary who helps illustrate the industry’s reluctant reactions to technological progress.

frEE for aLL: How Music Got Free provides an in-depth account of the microand macro-forces that ushered an entire generation out of CD retail shops and into illegal peer-to-peer file sharing communities. Photo of Witt by Chad Griffith

The players are many and varied: greedy major record labels with inflated profits from bundling hits with filler tracks, an army of pimple-faced teens cowering behind screen names or the lesser-known team of German engineers who unleashed their audio compression technology without a fullfledged strategy for protecting others’

intellectual property. Regardless of whom, if anyone, readers attribute the music industry’s demise to upon beginning the book, they’ll look up from the back cover with a full understanding of each party’s contribution to this colossal and irreversible transformation in media consumption. X

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Craft as mindset, REVOLVE as dialogue

Craft is a mindset, according to REVOLVE, a new theory-minded artist collective and think space in the River Arts District. The space, which opened in early May and spans two floors in the Cotton Mill Studios, is spearheaded by artists alicia armstrong and colby caldwell, who see craft as open and applicable to all forms of creativity — from art and architecture to film, food, booze and everything in between.

For more than a century, craft has largely referred to handmade wood, ceramic, glass and fiber wares and artworks. But this otherwise incendiary and selective term is becoming increasingly inclusive as local groups like the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, HandMade in America and now REVOLVE reshape the definition of craft in Western North Carolina and beyond.

As a collective, REVOLVE aims to expand the parameters of what can be considered craft by questioning the lines drawn between artist and audience, image and idea, inspiration and technique, according to the organization’s mission statement.

“I don’t see craft as a dirty term,” Caldwell says. “Really, it’s a term that came from a group of people who are mindful of their materials.

And that’s what we’re looking to explore and strengthen.”

There are no limitations to materials or style. “We’d like to

look at it as a space where anyone thinking about their craft or their practice in a creative way can get together and exchange and flesh out ideas,” Caldwell says. “Whether they’re architects, academics, chefs and beer makers or farmers for that matter.” What’s more, the group is looking to bridge the gap between fine artists, makers of the aforementioned traditional crafts and those who might not typically be considered craftspeople, such as chefs, architects and designers.

“We want to be a space that’s welcoming folks who have been deeply entrenched in the idea of craft as defined by ceramics, wood, fiber and glass, and those who, conversely, found that anything that was tangible was not art in the 21st century.”

The space, in essence, is set up to serve as a middle ground where practitioners and artists from unrelated fields can discuss their ideas, he says. “That kind of dichotomy is the exact thing that REVOLVE hopes to put forth and sustain.”

This cross-cultural inclusion stems from Caldwell’s own experiences in the Washington, D.C., art scene, where he spent much of the last eight years. “I found that the thing that invigorated not only my own practice but other like-minded folks in the D.C. area was the constant exchange of ideas from people going outside of the scene, coming back and then talking about what they saw,” he says. This is by no means a new idea, he notes. However, through REVOLVE, Armstrong and Caldwell

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room of thEir own: Local creatives gather in REVOLVE’s upstairs think space for weekly discussion groups, seminars, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings. Photo courtesy of REVOLVE

are aiming to form a channel for area artists to collect and share their own work, experiences and philosophies. It will also serve as a type of import/export point for visiting artists and those that have traveled elsewhere for their practice.

The space itself is organized in a reflective manner, one that pairs visual works with programming.

The lower floor is arranged as a fine arts gallery that will host rotating exhibitions of works primarily by visiting and resident artists. Armstrong’s paintings and Caldwell’s photos and prints are currently on display for the inaugural exhibition. Upstairs, meanwhile, is a living room-type think space used for weekly discussion groups, seminars, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings. The goal is to pair these events with the works displayed downstairs.

In June and July, REVOLVE will begin periodically hosting resident

artists who will lead seminars and discussion groups upstairs and exhibit work downstairs.

The space has also become home to Asheville Art Theory Reading Group. The group began with just a few people meeting in their own homes and has since swelled to well over a dozen regular participants. In many ways, the reading group helped to spur the creation of REVOLVE, Caldwell says, largely through members’ love of critical, thoughtful dialogue. It’s these notions that REVOLVE and its affiliates are focusing on to enrich the Asheville arts scene.

“It’s vital to be able to exchange these ideas with others working under different constraints and practices,” Caldwell adds. “It sheds light on finding new ways to solve some of the ideas that are being circulated here in Asheville.”

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Asheville Percussion Festival Hosted by favorite local rhythm master River Guerguerian, the fourth annual Asheville Percussion Festival provides a creative venue where “percussionists and dancers of all traditions from around the globe gather to explore, create and innovate.” The weeklong festival hinges on about two dozen interactive playing workshops led by local “teaching artists” like Jeff Sipe, Billy Jonas, Brandi Mizilca, Matthew Richmond, Free Planet Radio, the Opal String Quartet and Guerguerian himself, with an additional master performance by New York City-based drum guru Bashiri “the Bash-man” Johnson. From Monday, June 15, to Sunday, June 21, the bulk of the activity will be housed at the Odyssey Community School. Times and prices vary. ashevillepercussionfestival.com.

Photo of Guerguerian by Sandlin Gaither

While there’s no shortage of openair arts and craft markets held in and around Asheville, most happen annually. If you miss it, you’re out of luck for a year. Asheville Art in the Park, entering its seventh year, not only takes place in both summer and fall, but runs for three consecutive Saturdays in both June and October. Held in Pack Square Park, the event was launched by Andrew Montrie, who aims to provide “a handmade market for professional artists.”

Regular vendors include fiber artists Carra Morris, Sue Washington and Virginia Bobian, ceramist Kyle Carpenter, paper artist Pam Granger Gale, watercolor artist Cory McNabb, home goods crafter Poetic Nesting and many others — 10 percent of sale profits benefit the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Asheville Art in the Park Art and Community Grant. The first market of the season is on Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (as well as on June 20 and 27). ashevilleartinthepark.com.

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Matthew Frantz Although his online bio spews dubious tales of mastodon resurrections and a guitar that killed Hitler, Matthew Frantz is a genuine singer-songwriter who saturates each verse in emotion. Far from weepy though, the Chicagobased “freak folk” artist got his start with fret-sliding grooves and quiet, breathy moments. His latest EP (you’ll have to Google it for the expletive title) swaps those sweet acoustics for a more defiant take on electric folk rock, complete with echo-laden psychedelic strums. In support of the new tunes, Frantz has set off on his most extensive national tour to date, which stops in Asheville for a free matinee performance at Altamont Brewing Co. on Sunday, June 14, at 4 p.m. altamontbrewing.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

Arouna Diarra and Patrick Fitzsimmons Arouna Diarra’s heritage as a “griot” in the Mandingue culture of West Africa calls upon the artist and his family members to be ambassadors of art and history. It’s no surprise, then, that Diarra constructs his own instruments — including his beloved 14-string, harplike kamel n’goni — for performing and teaching his music students, singing in his native language, Bambara, with nostalgic spirit. On his forthcoming album, Benkadi (“unity” in Bambara), the multi-instrumentalist is accompanied by guitarist and longtime student of African music Patrick Fitzsimmons, who also produced the viscerally pleasing collaboration. The two play their album-release set at Dobra Tea in Black Mountain on Saturday, June 13, from 3-5 p.m. $5 suggested donation ($15 with CD included). dobrateanc.com. Photo of Diarra courtesy of the artist

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the Toothe, and tough electric blues by the Red Dirt Revelators from Hickory. www.riverlink.org Burnsville Town Center 6 Main St., Burnsville, townofburnsville. org/crafts-fair • SA (6/13), 7:30-9:30pm - Buncombe Turnpike, bluegrass. $10.

Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre. com • SA (6/13), 7pm - “Harmony, By Two and More,” a capella. $20.

Henderson County Public Library 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TH (6/18), 6:30pm - Kaite LaRaye Waldren, dulcimer. Free.

Hendersonville Swing Band 912-484-5245, toadhall171@msn.com • SA (6/13), 3pm - “Swing into Summer” concert. Admission benefits the Hendersonville Community Music Center scholarship fund. $10. Held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville

THE POSTER MASTER: Jim Sherraden, master printer and archivist at Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, will give a presentation on letterpress printing and the history of Hatch at Strada Italiano on Monday, June 15. Hatch, now located within the Country Music Hall of Fame, was founded in 1879 and is one of the oldest surviving show poster and design shops in the country. Photo courtesy of Hatch Show Print (p.50)

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American Advertising Federation Asheville 658-0281, aafasheville.org • MO (6/15), 11:30am-1pm - Jim Sherraden of Hatch Show Print discusses printmaking and graphic design history. Registration required. $20/ $15 AAFA members. Held at Strada Italiano, 27 Broadway River Arts District Artists

The Writer’s Workshop 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through SU (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for short story or novel chapters.

Contact for guidelines. $25.

riverartsdistrict.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm - Self-guided open studio tour through the River Arts District with artist demonstrations and classes. Free to attend.

WNC Historical Association wnchistory.org • Through WE (7/15) - Nominations open for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Contact for guidelines.

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • TH (6/11), 6:30pm - Michael Strand discusses craft as a catalyst for social change. Free The French Broad Artists saharfakhoury@yahoo.com • SA (6/13), 1-4pm - Watercolor landscape demonstration. Free. Held at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St.

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Concert Series 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MO (6/15), 7-9pm - The Eric Congdon Band, blues/R&B. Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville Music at UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • MO (6/15), 7pm - Concerts on the Quad: Sirius.B, gypsy punk. Free.

Music at WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (6/11), 7pm - Outdoor summer concert series: American Gonzos, rock. Held at Central Plaza. Free.

Music on Main 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (6/12), 7pm - Dashboard Blue, oldies.

Held in Downtown Hendersonville. Free.

North Main Music & Art Demonstration 692-6335 Free to attend. Art Demo starts at noon; Music starts at 4:30pm.

• SA (6/13), noon-6:30pm - Appalachian Fire (bluegrass) and Ginny Bohanan (jewelry). Held at Green Room Cafe & Coffeehouse, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville

PubSing 254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Optional snack time at 5:30pm.

Free to attend. Held at French Broad Brewery, 101 Fairview Road Rhythm & Brews Concert Series 233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (6/18), 7-9pm - The Fritz, rock. Held in Downtown Hendersonville. Free.

RiverLink’s RiverMusic 252-8474, ext. 1, dave@riverlink.org • FR (6/12), 5:30pm - Ben Miller Band, Red Dirt Revelators and The Toothe. Free to attend. Held at RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza, 144 Riverside Drive Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville, 693-3157, uufhnc.org • SA (6/13), 7pm - Jun Luke Foster, classical piano. $15.

Womansong of Asheville womansong.org • SA (6/13), 7:30pm & SU (6/14), 3pm“Happy,” spring concert. $16/$8 under 12.

Held at Rainbow Community School, 574 Haywood Road

Theater Anam Cara Theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (6/12) until (6/20), 8pm - Birdy. $15/$12 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/28) The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$20.

Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (6/20), 7:30pm - Coyote on a Fence. $15. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Hwy. 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/18) until (7/12), 8pm - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, satire. $15$40. Wed.-Sat.:8pm; Thu., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm

Open Ukelele Jam • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - All skill levels and stringed instruments welcome. Free.

Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive

Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/4) until (6/21), 8pm - Over the River and Through the Woods, comedy. $15-$40. Wed.Sat.: 8pm; Thur., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm

Pan Harmonia 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • FR (6/12), 4pm - Alto and bass flute retreat performance. Free. Held at Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road

Hendersonville Little Theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 6921082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/12) until (5/28) - Arsenic & Old Lace, comedy. Thu.Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $10-$20.

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montforD PArK PlAyers 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SATURDAYS until (7/4), 7:30pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. PArKwAy PlAyHouse 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, 682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/20) - Arcadia. Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $18-$22. tHe mAgnetiC tHeAtre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (7/4), 7:30pm - The Merchant of Asheville (A Locally Sourced Comedy). $23/$20 advance.

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AmeriCAn folK Art AnD frAming 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (6/24) - Polka Dot. Dot. Dot, mixed media exploration of dots.

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 • TH (6/18) through SA (7/25) Misprints: A Print Making Exhibition.

Artists’ reception: July 3, 5-8pm.

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 gAllery of Art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TU (6/30) - Recent Works, watercolor, pastel and pencil drawings.

Opening reception: June 5, 5-8pm.

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.

BlACK mountAin College museum & Arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (8/27) - Something Else Entirely: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of The Paper Snake, mail art.

CArlton gAllery 10360 Hwy. 105 S., Banner Elk, 9634288, carltonartgallery.com

• Through WE (7/15) - The Landscape — Masculine and Feminine, paintings by Kevin Beck and Amy Sullivan.

CHifferoBe Home & gArDen 118-D Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-2743, chifferobehomeandgarden.com Chifferobe Home & Garden • FR (6/5) through FR (7/31) - Healing Landscape, pastels by Elise Okrend. Artist’s reception: June 5, 4-8pm.

CrADle of forestry Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • WE (6/17) through FR (7/31) Carolina Nature Photographers Association exhibit. $5. grovewooD gAllery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (8/30) - Surface & Texture: The Work of John Jordan, woodwork.

HAnDmADe in AmeriCA 125 S Lexington Ave #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • Through MO (8/24) - Works by Asheville Modern Quilt Guild members.

HiCKory museum of Art 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (9/6) - Woven Together: From Lesotho to Carolina, tapestries.

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

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ZAPow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • ONGOING- Kinetic Summer, works on the theme of summer on Asheville.

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Attendees are invited to bring a chair or blanket, and food and beverages will be available at the park. Upcoming titles in the free monthly series are Surf’s Up, A Major Ocean Picture (July 10), Despicable Me 2 (Aug. 14) and Into the Woods (Sept.

18). All movies are rated PG. avl.mx/g6 • On Thursday, June 11, WNCW director of programming Joe Kendrick and Moonlight Mile Productions’ tony preston will wrap production on their documentary on Asheville country/roots band the honeycutters. Footage from the band’s recent shows at MerleFest, the Willow Tree in Johnson City, Tenn., and The Double Door in Charlotte accompanies a performance at an invitation-only session on the final day of shooting.

The film is the second half-hour episode in Kendrick and Preston’s Southern Songs and Stories project, an exploration of Southern music and culture. To cover crew wages, editing, mastering and other costs, the filmmakers have launched a $6,400 IndieGogo campaign that also goes through the 11th. avl.mx/14p

oDyssey CooPerAtive Art gAllery 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook. com/odysseycoopgallery • Through TU (6/30) - Ceramics by Ginger Graziano, Kat McIver and Diana Gillispie.

trAnsylvAniA Community Arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through MO (6/22) - Works by Tim Murray.

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Each evening, a scholar in full costume and makeup will bring a film icon to life through a first-person monologue. The audience will then have a chance to query the character, after which the scholar will step out of character to discuss the subject and field questions from a critical, modern perspective.

Scholar performers include george frein as Orson Welles (Monday, June 15), charles pace as Gordon Parks (Tuesday, June 16), Leslie goddard as Mary Pickford (Wednesday, June 17) and Larry bounds as Walt Disney (Thursday, June 18). A musical program will begin at 7 p.m. followed by the featured program at 7:30. Suggested donation: $4 per night or $12 for the series. avl.mx/14q

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.

seven sisters gAllery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (8/2) - Photography by John Smith.

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• Asheville actor italo medelius is in the cast of “The Girl from Carolina,” a 10-episode Web series that debuts Monday, June 15. Medelius plays JD, a “mysterious, business-savvy young weed dealer,” according to press for the production. The “redneck comedy noir” series centers on Ferrari Thunderbird “Ferra” Taylor (breanna foister) as she makes her way across the Upstate “with a giant Thermos of beer, doggedly setting things straight.”

In each episode, Ferra “tackles a new low-rent mystery” with the help of “her good-for-nothing friends to dish out vigilante justice.”

The series comes from Greenville, S.C.-based Well Dang! Productions.

Episodes will be released on Well Dang!’s YouTube channel. avl.mx/14n

• Call of the ancient Mariner by Western North Carolina filmmaker david weintraub makes its Asheville debut at the north carolina arboretum on Thursday, June 11, at 6:30 p.m. Winner of the Best of the Festival award at the Charleston Film Festival in April, the documentary looks at man’s eternal love affair with sea turtles. It was shot throughout the Southeastern U.S. and features original music by WNC artists.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Weintraub and leading local conservationists such as trudie henninger of the arboretum’s turtle program and savannah trantham, resident turtle expert for the wnc nature center. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased through the arboretum website or by calling 6652492. avl.mx/14o Send your local film news to ae@mountainx.com X

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foggy mountAin BrewPuB Honey & Boots (folk), 9pm

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

frenCH BroAD Brewery CarolinaBound (Americana), 6pm

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

isis restAurAnt AnD musiC HAll Laid Back Thursdays, 7pm Jay Brown (folk, country, rock), 7pm Grass is Dead (bluegrass, Grateful Dead covers), 9pm

Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Open Mic, 7pm

JACK of tHe wooD PuB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Burger BAr Karaoke, 9pm

lAZy DiAmonD The Replacement Party w/ Dr. Filth, 10pm

Crow & Quill Skunk Ruckus & This Way to the Egress (rockabilly, circus music), 9pm

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

Dirty soutH lounge Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

loBster trAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm

DouBle Crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm foggy mountAin BrewPuB Trivia, 8pm funKAtorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm grey eAgle musiC HAll & tAvern Gill Landry w/ The Carolina Cud Chewers (bluegrass), 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 The Gamblers (roots, jazz), 7pm JACK of tHe wooD PuB Old-time session, 5pm

leX 18 Patrick Lopez (modern & Latin jazz), 7pm loBster trAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm mountAin moJo CoffeeHouse Open mic, 6:30pm

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

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tExas tV star: Reality television may have pushed him into the spotlight, but it’s his voice that’s kept him on the stage. Texas pop and soul singer Luke Wade, quarterfinalist on NBC’s The Voice, will be performing at The Grey Eagle at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16. Through his music, Wade explores the space between folk and soul. Nashville rockers KOA will often the show.

o.Henry’s/tHe unDergrounD Gayme Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm oDDitorium Karaoke w/ The Blue Ridge Roller Girls, 9pm off tHe wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm

new mountAin The Growlers w/ Broncho & The Nude Party (garage rock, psychedelic), 9pm noBle KAvA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm o.Henry’s/tHe unDergrounD “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm oDDitorium Hysterese, Uninhabitable, Soothsayer & Spliff (punk), 9pm

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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 Mustered Courage w/ The Maggie Valley Band (bluegrass, acoustic, altcountry), 10pm one worlD Brewing Hustle Souls, 9pm orAnge Peel Glass Animals w/ Gilligan Moss [SOLD OUT], 9pm PisgAH Brewing ComPAny Will Overman Band (folk-rock), 6pm Pour tAProom Karaoke, 8pm reJAvAnAtion CAfe Open mic night, 6pm room iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm root BAr no. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 8pm sCully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

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sly grog lounge Trivia, 7pm tAllgAry’s At four College Open mic & jam, 7pm tHe Joint neXt Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm tHe motHligHt In Sonitus Lux w/ Alfonso Graceffo & Andre Cholmondeley (free improv), 9:30pm tHe PHoeniX Jazz night, 8pm tHe soCiAl Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm tHe soutHern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiger mountAin FLUX: 80s/90s Dance Party, 9pm timo’s House Spectrum AVL w/ Jericho, Ixnee, Kri & guests, 9pm town PumP Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm tressA’s Downtown JAZZ AnD Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin Wednesday Waltz, 7pm Asheville Tango Orchestra, 7:30pm wilD wing CAfe soutH Party on the Patio! w/ J Luke, 6pm Karaoke, 9pm

tHursDAy, June 11 185 King street The Barefoot Movement, 8pm

5 wAlnut wine BAr Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm AltAmont Brewing ComPAny Will Overman (folk-rock), 9pm AltAmont tHeAtre Butch & Rory Hancock (singersongwriter, Americana), 8pm AsHeville musiC HAll Hoveykraft & Telekinetic Walrus w/ Drew and Justin of Toubab Krewe (hip-hop, jazz), 9pm BArley’s tAProom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm Beer City tAvern Karaoke w/ DJ Do-It, 9:30pm BlACK mountAin Ale House Dirty Badgers (blues, rock), 8pm Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Andy Ferrell (Americana, roots), 7pm Burger BAr Old school metal night w/ Schrader, 9pm CAtAwBA Brewing tAsting room Old time jam, 7pm CluB eleven on grove Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm

olive or twist Cha cha lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm one stoP Deli & BAr Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Freekbass (funk), 10pm one worlD Brewing The Sun Wranglers (Americana), 8pm orAnge Peel Bleachers w/ Joywave & Cruisr (indie, pop), 7:30pm PACK’s tAvern Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock), 9pm PiAno emPorium Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm PisgAH Brewing ComPAny Roxy Roca (Texas soul), 8pm PurPle onion CAfe Red Hot Sugar Babies (jazz), 7pm renAissAnCe AsHeville Hotel Sidney Barnes (R&B), 4:30pm room iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm sCAnDAls nigHtCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sly grog lounge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm soutHern APPAlACHiAn Brewery Big Block Dodge (jazz), 7pm tAllgAry’s At four College The Rat Alley Cats (jazz), 7pm

CreeKsiDe tAPHouse Station Underground (reggae), 8pm

tHe motHligHt Hearts Gone South w/ Mercer & Johnson (country, honky-tonk), 9pm

Crow & Quill Carolina Catskins (ragtime, jazz), 9pm

tHe soutHern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm

DouBle Crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

timo’s House TRL w/ Franco Nino (dance party, requests), 10pm

town PumP Doug Gibson (one man band), 9pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

Full Bar

12am

tressA’s Downtown JAZZ AnD Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm urBAn orCHArD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin Flagship Romance (alt folk), 7:30pm wXyZ lounge At Aloft Hotel Grits & Soul (bluegrass, folk), 7:30pm

COMING SOON

friDAy, June 12 185 King street The Frankness, 8pm 5 wAlnut wine BAr Mande Foly (African folk), 9pm AltAmont Brewing ComPAny Under The Willow (folk-grass), 9:30pm AltAmont tHeAtre Sweet Dreamers (Patsy Cline tribute), 8pm AsHeville musiC HAll Beck to the Future (Beck tribute), 10pm AtHenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Beer City tAvern Classic Trio (country), 9pm Ben’s tune-uP Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm BlACK BeAr Coffee Co. Drew Davis & more! (comedy), 8pm BlACK mountAin Ale House DJ Dance Party, 8pm Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Acoustic Swing, 7pm Burger BAr Juke Joint Blues w/ Rare Burger Band, 9pm

WED 6/10

7:00 PM– THE GAMBLERS IN THE LOUNGE

THURS 6/11

7:00 PM– JAY BROWN IN THE LOUNGE 9:00 PM– GRASS IS DEAD

FRI 6/12 9:00 PM– AARON BURDETT CD CELEBRATION

SAT 6/13 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

DULCI ELLENBERGER & ANNA VOGELZANG 9:00 PM– VON GREY

SUN 6/14 12 PM– CLASSICAL BRUNCH: AMICIMUSIC PRESENTS THE WOODSONG CLARINET CHOIR OF WNC

WED 6/17 7:00 PM– THE GAMBLERS IN THE LOUNGE 8:45 PM– AN EVENING OF WESTERN SWING W/

CAROLYN MARTIN

THURS 6/18 7:00 PM– ASHEVILLE PERCUSSION DINNER W/

BywAter Jarvis Jenkins Band (Southern jam, blues), 8pm

RIVER GUERGUERIAN & CHRIS ROSSER IN THE LOUNGE

ClAssiC wineseller Mike Pilgrim (mandolin, guitar, gypsy jazz), 7pm

CUD CHEWERS, TWAIN

CorK & Keg Vollie, Rodger & the Western Wildcats (honkytonk, western swing), 8:30pm DouBle Crown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm Dugout Howie Johnson Band, 9pm elAine’s Dueling PiAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm foggy mountAin BrewPuB Bull Moose Party (folk), 9pm frenCH BroAD Brewery Junto (country, Americana), 6pm gooD stuff Porcelain (acoustic), 9pm

9:00 PM– THE DESLONDES, THE CAROLINA

FRI 6/19 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

JEANNE JOLLY

SAT 6/20 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

JOE CROOKSTON

WED 6/24 7:00 PM– THE GAMBLERS IN THE LOUNGE

THURS 6/25 & FRI 6/26 8:30 PM– DAVID HOLT AND THE LIGHTNING BOLTS Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

Wed • June 10 Woody Wood 5:30-7:30

Thu • June 11

Community Night featuring Wild South

Fri • June 12

Future Prezidents 7:00-9:00

Sat • June 13 Blue Dragons 7:00-9:00

Sun • June 14

Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt – Reggae Roots Trio 12:30-2:30

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JACK of tHe wooD PuB Hillfolk Noir w/ Fruit Flies & Jakobs Ferry Stragglers (“Junkerdash”, folk, punk), 9pm JerusAlem gArDen Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAZy DiAmonD Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm leX 18 Aaron Price (romantic jazz), 3:30pm Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 6:30pm Dave Serra (jazz, pop piano), 9:30pm loBster trAP Hot Point Trio (gypsy-jazz, jazz, swing), 6:30pm

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WED 6/10

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FRI 6/12

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GILL LANDRY

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J. RODDY WALSTON

AND THE BUSINESS W/ SLEEPWALKERS

new mountAin Grateful Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam, 10:30pm noBle KAvA Mystic Ferryman (electro-coustic ambient improv), 8:30pm oDDitorium Savagist (metal), 9pm off tHe wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm olive or twist The Liley Arauz Band (Latin), 8pm

TUE 6/16

9pm

LUKE WADE W/ KOA

WED 6/17

ROCK N’ ROLL WEDNESDAYS

orAnge Peel Grind: Tribute to Alice In Chains (rock), 10pm

THU 6/18

8pm

FRI 6/19

9pm

WITH ROCK ACADEMY (FREE SHOW) DONATIONS TO THE ROCK ACADEMY ENCOURAGED

JILL ANDREWS W/ K.S. RHOADS THE BASEBALL PROJECT (MEMBERS OF REM)

CONTRA DANCE: MONDAYS 8PM TICKETS AT HARVEST RECORDS, GREY EAGLE TAQUERIA (AFTER 11AM)

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JunE 10 - JunE 16, 2015

nAtive KitCHen & soCiAl PuB One Leg Up (jazz), 7:30pm

one stoP Deli & BAr Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Wave Lynx (jam, rock), 10pm

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PACK’s tAvern DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits), 9pm PiAno emPorium Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm PisgAH Brewing ComPAny Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (funk, jam), 8pm renAissAnCe AsHeville Hotel TLQ + 2 (blues, rock), 6:30pm

riverwAtCH BAr & grill Ellen Trnka (blues, singer-songwriter), 7pm root BAr no. 1 Hustle Souls (funk), 8pm sCAnDAls nigHtCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCully’s DJ, 10pm sPring CreeK tAvern The Paper Crowns (Americana), 9pm tAllgAry’s At four College Fine Line (classic rock), 9:30pm tHe ADmirAl Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm tHe motHligHt Woods w/ Joshua Carpenter & The Prey Tells (folk rock), 9:30pm tHe PHoeniX The Get Right Band (funk, rock), 9pm tHe soCiAl Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiger mountAin Soul dance party w/ Cliff, 10pm timo’s House M.P. Pride (dance), 10pm town PumP Tab Spencer (folk, Americana), 9pm tressA’s Downtown JAZZ AnD Blues Filmore East w/ Lenny Pettinelli, 7:30pm Al “Coffee” & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm twisteD lAurel Sean Bendula, 8:30pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin The Belfast Boys (traditional Irish), 8pm wilD wing CAfe soutH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm wXyZ lounge At Aloft Hotel Ben Hovey (jazztronica, trumpet), 8pm

ZAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sAturDAy, June 13 5 wAlnut wine BAr Andrew Fletcher (stride piano), 6pm The Gypsy Swingers (gypsy jazz), 9pm AltAmont tHeAtre Driftwood w/ Millie Palmer (rock ’n’ roll), 8pm AsHeville musiC HAll Studio Zahiya Summer Spectacular (dance), 7:30pm AtHenA’s CluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Beer City tAvern The Delta Billies (rockabilly), 9pm Ben’s tune-uP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm BlACK BeAr Coffee Co. Big Block Dodge w/ Shawn Hagan (blues fusion, folk rock), 7pm BlACK mountAin Ale House The Good Ol’ Boyz w/ Woody Wood (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm Burger BAr Bike Night w/ DJ Johnny Be Good (70s rock), 9pm BywAter Hot Point Trio (Gypsy jazz), 2pm Flying Oatsmen (rock, 70s jam), 8pm ClAssiC wineseller Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John covers), 7pm CorK & Keg The Puddle Jumpers Stringband (old-time), 8:30pm Crow & Quill Burlesque art show & performances, 9pm DiAnA wortHAm tHeAtre Land Of Sky Chorus: Harmony, By Two & More, 7pm DoBrA teA room BlACK

JACK OF THE

olive or twist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

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

one stoP Deli & BAr Green Sunshine (hip hop, funk), 10pm

Dugout Flashback Sally, 9pm

PACK’s tAvern The King Zeros (rock, roots), 9pm

Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Erin Kinard, 7pm

elAine’s Dueling PiAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

PiAno emPorium Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm

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

foggy mountAin BrewPuB Dirty Badgers (rock), 10pm

PisgAH Brewing ComPAny Wham Bam Bowie Band (David Bowie tribute), 9pm

BywAter Jangling Sparrows (roots, rock, Americana), 8pm

gooD stuff 20th Annual Bluff Mountain Festival, 12pm Zuzu Welsh Band (Americana, blues, rock), 9pm green room CAfe & CoffeeHouse Ginny Bohanan (jewelry demo), 12pm Appalachian Fire (bluegrass), 4:30pm HigHlAnD Brewing ComPAny The Blue Dragons (jazz, rock, infused post jam), 7pm iron Horse stAtion Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm isis restAurAnt AnD musiC HAll Dulci Ellenberger & Anna Vogelzang (singer-songwriter), 7pm von Grey (indie, rock), 9pm JACK of tHe wooD PuB The Horse Traders w/ Caitlin Jemma & The Goodness (country, roots, soul, rock), 9pm JerusAlem gArDen Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAZoom Bus tours Roaring Lions (brass), 2pm lAZy DiAmonD Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm leX 18 Michael John Jazz (smooth jazz), 6pm Michael Jefry Stevens (modern jazz), 6:30pm Bob Strain (jazz, pop piano), 9:30pm loBster trAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm mArKet PlACe DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm moJo KitCHen & lounge Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hiphop), 5:30pm new mountAin Rising Appalachia (world, folk, soul), 6pm noBle KAvA Dan Keller (eclectic solo jazz guitar), 8:30pm o.Henry’s/tHe unDergrounD Glitter Bomb (dance party), 10pm oDDitorium Dance Party Benefit for longtime eco & anarchist prisoners, 9pm off tHe wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm

PurPle onion CAfe Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues, soul), 7pm riverwAtCH BAr & grill Motownblue (soul, R&B), 7pm room iX Open dance night, 9pm root BAr no. 1 Sawzaw (rock), 8pm sCAnDAls nigHtCluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCully’s DJ, 10pm sPring CreeK tAvern What It Is (funk), 9pm tAllgAry’s At four College Old School (classic rock), 9:30pm

BlACK mountAin Ale House Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm

Crow & Quill Resonant Rogues (Gypsy, oldtime), 9pm DouBle Crown Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm frenCH BroAD Brewery PubSing (gospel jam & sing-along, bring snack), 5:30pm iron Horse stAtion Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm isis restAurAnt AnD musiC HAll Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Jazz showcase, 6pm JACK of tHe wooD PuB Irish session, 5pm Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock), 9pm lAZoom Bus tours Krekel & Whoa! (rock ’n’ roll), 2pm

tHe ADmirAl Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

lAZy DiAmonD Honky Tonk Night w/ DJs, 10pm

tHe motHligHt Iceage w/ Low Life (punk, posthardcore), 9:30pm

leX 18 Michael John Jazz (smooth jazz), 7pm David Serra (jazz, pop piano), 9:30pm

tHe PHoeniX Linda Mitchell Duo (blues, jazz), 1pm Hogtown Squeelers (old-time string), 9pm tHe soCiAl Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiger mountAin Blackfoot Gypsies (country, garage rock), 9pm town PumP Daryl Hance (Southern rock), 10pm tressA’s Downtown JAZZ AnD Blues Lyric (funk, rock, soul), 10pm twisteD lAurel Free Flow (funk, R&B, soul), 9pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin Ivy Rowe (theater), 8pm wilD wing CAfe Karaoke, 8pm wXyZ lounge At Aloft Hotel Salsa Saturday w/ DJ Malinalli (salsa, DJ), 8pm ZAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sunDAy, June 14 5 wAlnut wine BAr Letters To Abigail (Appalachian Americana), 7pm

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Ben’s tune-uP Jazz Brunch, 2pm

mountAin Arouna Diarra w/ Patrick Fitzsimons (West African folk), 3pm

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FRI 6.12 SAT 6.13

HILLFOLK NOIR (brewed from folk, bluegrass, punk, string-band blues)

w/ fruit flies & Jakobs ferrY stragglers 9 p.m. $5

THE HORSE TRADERS

(late set) with special guest christian lopez (a night of fine night of countrY roots rock & soul) $5

Sun 6.14

WILHELM BOTHERS folk rock with cello infusion, from asheVille, nc 9 p.m.Free (donations encouraged)

mon 6.15

JOE FIRSTMAN (california freak folk

TueS 6.16

MY BROTHERS KEEPER (bluegrass &

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new mountAin Tab Benoit w/ Great Peacock (blues, soul), 8pm oDDitorium Adult Poetry Slam, 7pm Cusses w/ Old Flings & Total War (rock), 9pm

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sPring CreeK tAvern Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 2pm

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

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

o.Henry’s/tHe unDergrounD Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm

tHe omni grove PArK inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10pm

oDDitorium Bitter Fruit w/ Erectile Destruction & Steeplechase (punk), 9pm

isis restAurAnt AnD musiC HAll Bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm

tHe PHoeniX Carrie Morrison (folk, Americana), 12pm

orAnge Peel Rocky Horror Picture Show, 8pm

JACK of tHe wooD PuB My Brothers Keeper (bluegrass, roots, acoustic), 9pm

6.13

RISING APPALACHIA ALBUM RELEASE CELEBRATION W/ LYRIC, DJ CLIFF, EMCEE POET THERESA DAVIS, THE RESONANT ROGUES, & JUAN BENEVIDES

6.14

THEATER

tHe soutHern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm

W/ GREAT PEACOCK

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

5PM SUNDAY

TAB BENOIT

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THEATER

6.16

THE OPIUO BAND W/ ILLANTHROPY

8PM THURSDAY

6.18 8PM

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EARPHUNK W/ STEREO

REFORM AND UNIVERSAL SIGH

FRIDAY

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6.19

JOSH ROUSE

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6.23 7PM

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JAGA JAZZIST W/ AMONG SAVAGES & DJ HEIRA

WEDNESDAY

6.24 5PM

FRIDAY

6.26 5PM

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KING SUNNY ADE W/ ZANSA

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MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD W/ THE MOVEMENT AND ELLIOTT ROOT

UPCOMING SHOWS:

7/3: DON MCLEAN W/ SOILDERS HEART 7/4: 1ST ANNUAL WEST END 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION W/ THE BROADCAST AND MORE! 7/9: JACCO GARDNER W/ BRIEF AWAKENING, CRYSTAL BRIGHT, AND SILVER HANDS 7/11: TOUBAB KREWE (OGTK) (ORIGINAL LINEUP) 7/17: MARK FARINA W/ TRANSPUTER

tHe soCiAl Karaoke, 9:30pm

toy BoAt Community Art sPACe Sudden Theatre: Ten Minute Movie Showcase, 8pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin Look Homeward (folk), 7:30pm wiCKeD weeD Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm wilD wing CAfe soutH Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

monDAy, June 15 185 King street Open Mic Night, 8pm 5 wAlnut wine BAr Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm AltAmont Brewing ComPAny Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 6:30pm Beer City tAvern Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam & storytelling), 8pm BlACK mountAin Ale House Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 7:30pm Burger BAr Honkytonk ladies night w/ Brody, 6pm

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soCiAl lounge & tAPAs In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm sovereign remeDies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm tHe motHligHt Radio People w/ Carl Calm, Kangarot & Housefire (synth pop), 9pm tHe PHoeniX Jeff Sipe & Friends (jazz fusion), 8pm tHe soCiAl Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm Salsa Night, 9pm timo’s House Movie night, 7pm wHite Horse BlACK mountAin Michael Jefry Stevens & Lightbulb Jazz (jazz), 7:30pm

tuesDAy, June 16

AltAmont Brewing ComPAny Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm AsHeville musiC HAll Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

DouBle Crown Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm

Blue mountAin PiZZA & Brew PuB Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm

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

loBster trAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singersongwriter), 6:30pm mArKet PlACe The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm new mountAin Tuesday Tease (“open mic” burlesque) w/ Starry DeLight, 9pm Betty Who w/ Coin (indie, pop), 9pm The Opiuo Band w/ Illanthropy (electronic, funk), 9pm oDDitorium Odd comedy night, 9pm off tHe wAgon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm one stoP Deli & BAr Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm Pour tAProom Frank Zappa night, 8pm

root BAr no. 1 Cameron Stack (blues), 8pm

BlACK mountAin Ale House Trivia, 7pm

lAZy DiAmonD Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

leX 18 Bob Strain (romantic jazz ballads & standards), 7pm

5 wAlnut wine BAr The John Henrys (ragtime, jazz), 8pm

CourtyArD gAllery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

JACK of tHe wooD PuB Quizzo, 7pm Joe Firstman (freak folk), 9pm

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

renAissAnCe AsHeville Hotel Jason Moore Trio (jazz, blues), 6:30pm

Ben’s tune-uP Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm

grey eAgle musiC HAll & tAvern Contra dance, 7pm

iron Horse stAtion Open mic, 6pm

185 King street Dinner Theater w/ The Maggie Valley Band (folk, Americana, bluegrass), 6:30pm

BywAter Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm

gooD stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

ENHANCING COMMUNITY

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

grey eAgle musiC HAll & tAvern Luke Wade w/ KOA (pop, folk, singer-songwriter), 8pm

BuffAlo niCKel Trivia, 7pm Burger BAr Krekel & Whoa! (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm CorK & Keg Old Time Jam, 5pm Honky-tonk Jamboree w/ Tom Pittman, 6:30pm

tAllgAry’s At four College Jam night, 9pm tHe Joint neXt Door Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm tHe motHligHt Quintron & Miss Pussycat w/ The Errs & Falcon Mitts (indie rock), 9:30pm tHe PHoeniX Dan Shearin (singer-songwriter), 8pm tHe soCiAl Jason Whitaker (acoustic), 5pm 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

DouBle Crown Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm

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DIRECTOR: Brett Haley (The New Year) PLAYERS: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott, Mary Kay Place, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Malin Akerman

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281) Cinderella (PG) 7:00 Insurgent (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00

ROMANTIC COMEDY-DRAMA RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A 70-year-old widow starts to re-evaluate her life and take some chances.

THE LOWDOWN: Refreshingly adult, sweet-tempered and rather special little romantic comedy-drama focusing on a generally underserved age group — and presenting that group in a new light. And you needn’t be a part of that group to enjoy it.

No, this isn’t the old Gus Kahn biopic with Danny Thomas. In fact, though it has a song in it called “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” it’s not the Gus Kahn song. This I’ll See You in My Dreams is a gentle, sweet romantic comedy-drama built around an absolutely luminous 70-something Blythe Danner as 70-something Carol Petersen, a widow who thinks her life is just fine. She has her home, her friends (slightly dysfunctional though they are) and her dog. But when her dog dies and her friends start pushing her to move into their retirement community, she starts to question if it really is all that fine — and even if this is all there is. By now you probably realize that we’re not talking about a great movie, but we are talking about a very good one that achieves its modest — or maybe not so modest —

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 10:00 Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemas (274-9500)

Sam Elliott and Blythe Danner in the offbeat and charming romantic comedy-drama I’ll See You in My Dreams, which opens Friday at The Carolina and Fine Arts Theatre.

Aloha (PG-13) 11:45 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2D (PG-13) 12:05, 3:50, 7:10, 10:05 Entourage (R) 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45

aims. After all, we don’t see all that many romantic comedies featuring 70-year-old characters.

Chances are that I’ll See You in My Dreams will be a minor breakthrough for director and co-writer Brett Haley (his previous feature, The New Year, never received a theatrical release), and a hit with older audiences. Its plot is an interesting mix of the sort of thing you expect in a film like this — including an extended scene where Carol and her friends get high on medical marijuana — and things you probably don’t, like a quasi romance between Carol and her 30-something pool cleaner, Lloyd (Martin Starr). Somewhat surprisingly, they even get a “meet cute” when he finds her asleep on her patio and thinks she might be dead. In fact, she’s actually out there because she was frightened out of her house the night before by a very large, very bold rat (that becomes a kind of running gag). The two hit it off, end up drinking rather a lot of wine together, and drift into a vague plan to go to a karaoke night — he’s an aspiring songwriter and she was once a singer.

At about the same time — following a disastrous bout of speed-dating (one of her prospects informs her he doesn’t mind if she gives him herpes) — she finds herself being courted by the more “age appropriate” Bill (Sam Elliott), who is completely smitten with Carol. He’s also charming and wealthy and unattached (in fact, he has no family). Carol, on the other hand, has a family — a daughter, Katherine (Malin Akerman), who is coming for a visit. What happens is a pleasant, not terribly surprising, mix of comedy, romance and even some heartbreak.

There are moments of pure delight here. Carol’s show-stopping (well, karaoke show-stopping) rendition of “Cry Me a River” is a singularly choice moment. Actually, most of her scenes with Lloyd and Bill are kind of special and ring true, as does the time she spends with her daughter. I won’t say that her scenes with her friends are in any way a let-down, but they tend to be the most ordinary things in the film. The fact that her friends are played by Mary Kay Place, June Squibb and

Far from the Madding Crowd (PG-13) 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 I'll See You in My Dreams (PG-13) 11:10, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55 Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Jurassic World 2D (PG-13) 1 0:30, 11:15, 12:15, 1:15, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30. 8:30, 9:30, 10:15 Love & Mercy (PG-13) 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Mad Max: Fury Road 2D (R) 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 San Andreas 2D (PG-13) 11:50, 2:20, 7:20, 10:10 Spy (R) 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Tomorrowland (PG) 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200) Jurassic World 2D (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Epic of Hendersonville (693-1146) Fine Arts Theatre (232-1536) I'll See You in My Dreams (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 Love & Mercy (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat 9:40 Flatrock Cinema (697-2463) Aloha (PG-13) 4:00 (no 4 p.m. show Sun.), 7:00 (Closed Mon.) Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

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Rhea Perlman — as, respectively, the would-be promiscuous one, the dotty one and the sour one — helps smooth this over. As filmmaking, I’ll See You in My Dreams is hardly earth-shaking. Haley’s style is professional but subdued. I only noticed one particularly noteworthy composition (involving a vase of daisies).

The approach is, however, effective for this movie, which is neither big, nor showy. In fact, I might go so far as to say it’s just right. Rated PG - 13 for sexual material, drug use and brief strong language.

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

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DIRECTOR: Doug Ellin (Kissing a Fool) PLAYERS: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: A big-time Hollywood star — with his best friends at his side — struggles to get money together to finish his unwieldy directorial debut.

THE LOWDOWN: A crass, idiotic and pointlessly uninteresting male fantasy that feels every bit like its TV origins.

I’ve never watched an episode of the HBO series Entourage and am only tangentially aware of its existence through some sort of pop culture osmosis. After sitting through series-creator Doug Ellin’s film adaptation (or, perhaps, continuation) of his TV series, I can’t see myself diving into the show anytime soon. It’s a boorish look into the world of Hollywood, a movie that wants to be a satire of the Hollywood movie machine, with its glut franchises and sequels, without ever realizing that its own existence is much of what’s wrong with modern studios. Why is so much money being spent on a TV show that’s been off the air for four years? Why is this movie nothing more than a parade of celebrity cameos (seriously, this is 75 percent of the film)?

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escapades of this group of testosterone-fueled chuckleheads?

The premise of the show — and thus the movie — follows A-list actor Vincent Chase (played by real life C-list actor Adrian Grenier) and his cadre of idiotic lifelong friends.

We have his manager, Eric (Kevin Connolly), his half-brother and failed actor Drama (Kevin Dillon), and his driver-turned-vodka-magnate Turtle (Jerry Ferrara). Also thrown in here and there is Ari (Jeremy Piven), Vincent’s former agent-turned- (for reasons only the screenplay is truly aware of) studio head (of some studio conveniently never named). Ari’s first big decision is to turn over a $100 million passion project to Vincent, a movie that quickly goes over budget, but — we’re told — is some sort of masterpiece, even if the 30 seconds we see looks like warmed-over Wachowskis.

The film is mostly Ari trying to get the money to finish the film from a couple of Texans (Billy Bob Thornton and Haley Joel Osment), while Vincent rides around with a supermodel and his schlubby friends discuss their nascent libidos. The idea is that Entourage is supposed to be a story of friends sticking together, but it’s incredibly phony. It’s incredibly easy to stick together when people are gifting you Cadillacs and you live in a mansion. While I have no doubt that people like this exist on this planet, I can’t imagine a solitary reason to want to spend time with a single one of them. They’re vapid men whose only concern is looking for sex and talking about sex. Constantly.

Worse, the movie indulges in this.

Entourage is as much a fantasy film as, say, Mad Max: Fury Road (though I think the argument could be made that Mad Max, right now, is more in tune with the world).

Here, these simpering doofs get whatever they want — women, money, success — with a minimum of work. The idea, I suppose, is that Entourage wants to indulge in some sort of feel-good machismo, where everything works out and everyone’s happy. But there’s no drama, no tension, no humor and nary a character to care about or root for.

The whole enterprise — this sort of beer commercial-turned-featurelength-film — is right on the cusp of being offensive, but that would mean taking it seriously. That it’s flopped at the box office is only a small justice. Rated R for pervasive language, strong sexual content, nudity and some drug use.

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Insidious: Chapter 3 HHHH DIRECTOR: Leigh Whannell PLAYERS: Lin Shaye, Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Tate Berney HORROR RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Solid prequel to the series that tells a story taking place before the first film.

THE LOWDOWN: Incredible though it may seem Insidious: Chapter 3 manages to overcome the triple threat of a new director, being a prequel, and being the third film in a series.

This really is a pretty terrific addition to what is so far the most intricately connected horror series I can recall.

It’s safe. Fans of the first two Insidious movies can go to Leigh Whannell’s Insidious: Chapter 3 without fear, that is, without fear of crushing letdown due to a triple whammy: a new director; the current entry in the series being a prequel; and just being third in a series. In fact, my only complaint with this latest offering is the lack of the huge Insidious title across the screen with the industrialstrength violins working overtime at the end. That’s a very small complaint with a film where so much could have gone wrong. No doubt, what helps here is the fact that series co-creator and screenwriter Whannell has taken over the directing reins from James Wan. Whannell may not quite have Wan’s visual panache, but he’s been around enough to pick up the dynamics — and he certainly knows the material as well as or better than anyone. And once again, this new entry manages to fit in with — and elaborate on — the previous chapters.

The idea this time — and it’s a terrific one — is to examine the backstory of psychic Elise Rainier (the indispensable Lin Shaye) in

an episode that falls between the 1986 prologue in Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) and the events of the original Insidious (2010).

Since Elise was the most interesting character in the other films — even post-mortem — building a film around her was a masterstroke. (And I doubt this is the last of her because the sequel set up in Chapter 2 — which is hinted at here — clearly incorporates ghost Elise. Being dead in this kind of movie is not necessarily an impediment to your screen time.) It also affords Shaye the biggest — and best — role of her career.

The central haunting here is being inflicted on recent highschool grad Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott from the Disney Channel) who — in between auditioning for drama school (for James Wan, no less) — has been trying to communicate with her recently deceased mother. This, of course, is a Bad Idea, because, as she soon learns from Elise, you can’t be sure who you’re really talking to and other things can come through. Though sympathetic to the girl’s plight, Elise has sworn off psychic work for reasons of her own — namely that there’s something in “The Further” that wants to kill her.

This resolve to stay out of the spiritualism business starts to crumble as soon as Quinn’s position becomes truly dire — in other words life-threatening.

OK, in terms of plot, this is pretty much more of the same.

In terms of characterization and intent, it differs somewhat.

Whannell sticks to the shockeffect playbook — and delivers, if not the best, then the secondbest jump scare in the series — but he’s also making a serious attempt at creating characters we can actually care about.

This may just make Chapter 3 the most emotionally effective movie in the series. But there’s more. By moving the setting to what we may call an Old Dark Apartment House, he gives us a beautifully confined space — depending on the scene at hand — that recalls such films as Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) and Michael Winner’s The Sentinel (1977) — reconfigured, of course, to include the series’ trademark fog for The Further. And in so doing, he gives production designer

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Jennifer Spence a wonderfully creepy new space to work with.

(How Spence can be so brilliant in these films and Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Satan but so bland in those Paranormal Activity things is, I suppose, a question to rival why Blumhouse Productions that aren’t signed by Wan, Zombie and now Whannell are so...wanting.)

When the lights came up after Chapter 3, fellow critic Edwin Arnaudin asked me if the Insidious films were now the first such series to go for three pictures without a drop in quality. I was shocked by the question, but even more shocked by the fact that I didn’t have an argument with that assessment. Even the original series films — Universal’s Frankenstein saga — take a dip on that third entry. And while the Child’s Play series actually recovers and becomes better afterwards, Child’s Play 3 (1991) just about finished the series for several years. Hell, most series falter on the second movie. I know it will wring some withers, but it just might be true that Messrs. Wan and Whannell have managed something no one else has. Rated PG-13 for violence, frightening images, some language and thematic elements.

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

Spy HHH DIRECTOR: Paul Feig (The Heat) PLAYERS: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Allison Janney, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale SPY SPOOF RATED R THE STORY: When her field-agent partner is killed, a desk-jockey becomes a field agent herself to get revenge and finish her partner’s last assignment.

THE LOWDOWN: While it’s an improvement over the standard Melissa McCarthy vehicle — at least she plays a character rather than a caricature — this latest is too long and too predictable to fully work. It is, however, painless.

The very fact that I didn’t hate Paul Feig’s Spy is, I guess, remarkable. Truthfully, I think Spy is a pretty good 90-minute spy spoof that just has the misfortune of running two hours. (That may be more symptomatic of the modern film comedy than of Spy in particular.) Whether by accident or design, Feig has reconfigured the formula used in previous Melissa McCarthy vehicles. Rather than have her barge into the movie in full gale-force crass vulgarity, Spy starts off by establishing her Susan Cooper as a believable and likable character. (Perhaps he saw how appealing she was in last year’s St. Vincent.) This is hardly reinventing the wheel, but it goes a long way — so far as I’m concerned — toward fixing a central problem with her abrasive screen persona.

The film opens with a credible (if not especially distinguished) ersatz James Bond scene — only it’s not James Bond, it’s C.I.A. agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law). Fine has all the aplomb and self-assured sophistication of classic era Bond.

He also has something Bond never did — an earpiece through which Agent Susan Cooper (McCarthy) can apprise him of the bad guys’ every move. This is the film’s central premise — that super agent Fine is really only super because of Susan, a perfectly credible fieldtrained agent who is saddled with a desk job not only because she’s a woman, but because she’s...well, not exactly a super model. But she doesn’t mind all that much because she’s in love with Fine, who, of course, is oblivious to the fact. (The film’s plotting is rarely, if ever, surprising, even when it probably is meant to be.) All this changes when Fine is murdered by Rayona Boyanov (Rose Byrne), the villainous daughter of the equally villainous Tihomir Boyanov (Raad Rawi), who Fine accidentally killed before he could learn the whereabouts of a compact nuclear bomb.

It’s this turn of events that propels the bulk of the film. Her anger even finds its way into her official report (with a term that suggests Feig has seen Blade Trinity). Plus, her logic, that she would be unrecognizable as a field agent, sells her reluctant boss (Allison Janney) on trying the idea — much to the ire of Agent Rick Ford (Jason Statham, whose over-the-top macho ineptitude may be the best thing about the movie). Here we see McCarthy come into her own — but without

losing sight of the character she’s already established. It’s a much smoother ride than what we had in things like Identity Thief and The Heat (both 2013). Is it more hackneyed and traditional than the standard McCarthy vehicle? Not in any significant way. The previous approach worked on the basis of ultimately explaining/excusing her self-centered outrageousness, which is just as old hat in a different way. Frankly, the way Spy plays out and its sense of personal growth and empowerment make this is a step forward.

This isn’t to say I’m calling Spy a good movie. It’s too long for its own good, and way too predictable in terms of plotting. Feig’s ability to surprise never extends beyond random gags (“There’s a mouse on my tits”) and the obligatory gross-out gags. (All our technology has brought us to the artistic height of CGI puke — and not even very convincing puke at that.) For that matter, while the lines seem clever enough during the movie, I can’t say they’re especially memorable. As much as I enjoyed Jason Statham’s various macho rants, I only remember his last line in the film (possibly because it is the last). What I freely concede is it makes McCarthy likable throughout. For a change she’s not the punchline. The punchline is how others perceive her. I like that — and I like the fact that I found it painless to sit through. Rated R for language throughout, violence and some sexual content including brief graphic nudity.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltnore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

I’ll See You In My Dreams See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Jurassic World There will be joy in Hollywood — at least at Universal — when the Next Big Thing hits town this week, and what could be bigger than CGI dinosaurs when the Jurassic Park series returns after an absence of 14 years with Jurassic World. No mere park this time, but a world, see? It will make a fortune. Maybe two fortunes. Will it be any good?

Does it matter? (PG-13)

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Film MountainTrue 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (6/13), 6:30-9pm - Wild & Scenic Film Festival, environmental and adventure films. $25/$15 members & students/ Free 10 and younger. Held at Highlands Performing Arts Center, 507 Chestnut St., Highlands N.C. Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 6652492, ncarboretum.org • TH (6/11), 6:30pm - Call of the Ancient Mariner, turtle documentary. $10.

Public Library Screenings buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library • TH (6/11), 3pm - Saving Mr. Banks, drama. Free. Held at Pack Memorial

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Freaks HHHHS dirEctor: Tod Browning (Dracula) pLayErs: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles horror Rated NR After fulfilling his contract at Universal with two time-marking projects (Outside the Law and The Iron Man) and one landmark film (Dracula), director Tod Browning returned to his home studio, MGM. There, he’d made his mark with a string of slightly macabre — often circus- or carnival-themed — movies that frequently starred Lon Chaney. Browning’s reputation has suffered in recent years, but it’s impossible to deny that his Dracula with Bela Lugosi — whatever its flaws (which have been greatly exagerrated) — was the film that truly launched the horror genre. Today, though, the most highly regarded of Browning’s films is almost certainly the one he chose to make upon his return to MGM in 1931, Freaks. It’s definitely the most unique, not only as concerns Browning, but film in general. To this day, there’s never been anything like it. MGM saw it simply as a way to cash in on the horror mania that came about as a result of Dracula and Frankenstein. But Browning gave the studio more than they bargained for.

His film shocked and outraged censors and audiences — not in the least because it used real “freaks,” something that got it tagged as cruel and exploitative. It was withdrawn from circulation and banned outright in some places. Seen today, the film still retains the ability to unsettle the viewer.

Rope HHHHH dirEctor: Alfred Hitchcock pLayErs: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, Joan Chandler, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier suspEnsE thriLLEr Rated NR In the 1980s, the select films that Alfred Hitchcock had carefully retained the rights to were re-issued to theaters. The oldest of these, Rope (1948), had always been considered something of a failure — an experiment that didn’t quite come off and that flopped on its original release. The surprise was that it outperformed all the other films — yes, even Vertigo (1958) — when it was re-issued. Time had been kind and tastes had changed. Suddenly, everyone seemed to want to see Hitchcock’s long-take experiment and were riveted by it. The idea was to present a film of the play — with a constantly moving camera — in as close to one take as possible. (Yes, it’s the precursor to last year’s Birdman.) The idea was limited by the fact that cameras then only held 10 minutes of film and were also comparatively cumbersome. Hitch solved the first problem by mapping out the film, so that something black would pass the camera to hide the film changes. It was also an amazing piece of studio artistry — with carefully controlled fake clouds moving through the backdrop sky and a model skyline as day turned to night in the course of the action. Now that the Asheville Film Society is bringing it to The Carolina in a new digital restoration, it can be seen as it needs to be seen — on the big screen.

The Belly of an Architect HHHH dirEctor: Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) pLayErs: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni, Stefania Casini drama Rated R The Belly of an Architect (1987) is probably the closest thing there is to a straightforward movie (in a wholly relative sense) from Peter Greenaway. That may account for the fact that I’ve never particularly cared for it.

Give me the full Greenaway treatment (preferably with a Michael Nyman score) or give me no Greenaway at all. That said, I should note that I am working from a 20-plus-year-old memory of the film, since I did not have access to it for this review. I don’t know how I might feel about this story of a Chicago architect (Brian Dennehy) who comes to Rome to be the director of an homage to 18th century French Architect Etienne-Louis Boullee, and becomes convinced that his wife is poisoning him. I know that it’s visually striking — it’s Greenaway — but my memory is that it’s not all that compelling as drama. But bear in mind that’s a pretty vintage memory.

The Fantasticks HHS dirEctor: Michael Ritchie pLayErs: Joel Grey, Joey McIntyre, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jonathon Morris, Brad Sullivan, Barnard Hughes, Teller musicaL Rated PG It took 35 years to bring this virtually unstoppable (it lasted 41 years) Off-Broadway show to the screen and another five years for it to be released (in a recut version by Francis Ford Coppola) — at which time it bombed. Well, Michael Ritchie’s original cut of The Fantasticks is now available — and made me wish I was watching the cut version. My guess is that you’ll like it better if you’re already sold on the play. For me, what we end up with is a thin story with only one memorable song (“Try to Remember”), flatly directed and played broadly by a cast I kept wanting to slap. It is in fact a compilation of just about everything I don’t like about musical theater — perfectly captured in a misguided film. I made an effort to like it — a pretty valiant one — but I glazed over fast. As I say, if you like the show, you may be good with this. I hope to never see it again myself.

Twentieth Century HHHHH dirEctor: Howard Hawks pLayErs: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ralph Forbes, Etienne Girardot scrEwbaLL comEdy Rated NR With Twentieth Century (1934), director Howard Hawks — with a lot of help from writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and stars John Barrymore and Carole Lombard — invented something new: the screwball comedy.

It was new, in that the romantic leads were the central comedians and behaved just as outrageously as the wildest of comics, yet — and this was the hard part — they retained their romantic and sex-appeal qualities. It was fresh, innovative and, above all, it was hysterically funny. This free-for-all about a legendary Broadway producer (Barrymore) and the underwear model (Lombard), whom he transforms into a star, is not merely the first of its kind, it remains the best and funniest of its kind. For the uninitiated, I should probably explain that the film’s title refers to the Twentieth Century Limited, the train that connected Chicago and New York City, and on which much of the film’s action takes place. The train ceased running in 1967, but the film (and play) bearing its name is very much still with us.

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ADministrAtive/ offiCe HABitAt for HumAnity seeKs PArt-time BilinguAl offiCe AssistAnt Duties include reception, coordinating activities for office volunteers, maintaining office supplies and equipment, processing mail, and managing data; as well as Spanish translation and interpretation. EOE. Info on web: ashevillehabitat.org PArt-time ProgrAm AssistAnt Farm animal welfare nonprofit seeks temporary, part-time program assistant to support staff in programmatic activities. Position is funded for 10 hours/week for 8 weeks starting mid-August. Learn more at www.foodanimalconcerns.org.

sAles/ mArKeting ADvertising sAles ACCount mAnAger WNC Woman magazine is looking for a Full-Time, Experienced Ad Sales person. At least 30 hours per week; flexible schedule; work from your home. Draw against commission.

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AVAILABLE POSITIONS • meriDiAn BeHAviorAl HeAltH licensed/Associate Clinicians Seeking NC licensed/ associate licensed clinicians to join a recovery oriented organization in the beautiful North Carolina mountains. Clinical positions are available in a variety of programs such as the Assertive Community Treatment Team, Peers Assisting in Community Engagement, Recovery Education Center and Specialized Assessment, to provide recovery oriented comprehensive clinical assessments, support, skill building, education, and team consultation both in the office and the community. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and moderate computer skills. Certified medical Assistants (CmA) 2 Full-time positions. Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Two years of related experience preferred, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. employment support Professional This positions supports individuals who have had challenges with obtaining and/or maintaining employment in the past and to obtain and maintain competitive employment moving forward. Applicant must have reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license. • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org DireCt CAre stAff neeDeD Turning Point Services has opportunities for direct care staff in the area. Requirements range from high school graduate to CNA. Look under Career Opportunities at www.turningpointservicesinc.com for more information.

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ProfessionAl/ mAnAgement CAlenDAr eDitor wAnteD Mountain Xpress is looking for a calendar editor who’s highly organized, locally focused and loves managing and organizing data for the area’s most comprehensive community calendar and club listings. The best candidate knows a lot about our community • loves Asheville’s locally focused, grassroots exuberance • gets Xpress’ community-oriented journalism • has good organizational skills • collaborates well and meets deadlines • is familiar with AP style • is Web savvy • can decipher and distill press releases • meets deadlines. 30hrs/week with potential for growth in hours and responsibilities. To apply, send resume and cover letter explaining your passions and expertise — to editor@mountainx.com. stuDio mAnAger At AsHeville musiC sCHool Seeking a self-starter with excellent customer service and problem-solving skills. Must be proficient with standard computer software.

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Aries (march 21-April 19): “To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously — to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries. Pick out a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus. Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed and transform it. tAurus (April 20-may 20): Drug expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate.

Among Europeans, Italians are number one and the French are fourth. But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next twelve to fourteen days. In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking.

CAnCer (June 21-July 22): You will soon be escaping — or maybe “graduating” is the right word — from your interesting trials and tribulations.

In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual. It can be a full-fledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance or a five-minute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity and an expression of gratitude for the resources you’ve managed to call on in the course of your struggle.

To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’” leo (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a Friends Cleanse. It would be a three-week-long process of reviewing your support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances.

If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here’s the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy. virgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): After Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he made sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publications, all of which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review that appeared in one newspaper. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, you now have license to engage in similar behavior. You will incur no karma, nor will you tempt fate, if you tout your own assets in the coming weeks. Try to make your bragging and self-promotion as charming as possible, of course. But don’t be timid about it. liBrA (sept. 23-oct. 22): If you carry out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your charisma, your chutzpah and your creativity. Here’s the first one: Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn’t important.

To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here’s your second assignment: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Here’s the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness. sCorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): In the 16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. In the course of his satirical story, a

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gemini (may 21-June 20): I think it’ll be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It’s time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power and express it with extra grace and imagination.

learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids.

In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa? What’s enormous that should be small? And vice versa? What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa? sAgittArius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s no better time than now to ask the big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish.

Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons?

Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak.

CAPriCorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed.

“Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing.”)

AQuArius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): Sidney Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon.

Actors loved to work with him even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals. Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge. I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.

PisCes (feb. 19-march 20): “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. I agree with him. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, cagey tenacity and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your self-understanding.

So take advantage! To get started, why don’t you interview yourself? Go here to see some questions you could ask: bit.ly/interviewyourself.

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