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Asheville Art Museum should be more kid-friendly Earlier this year, my husband and I visited the Asheville Art Museum with our children. After paying for our admission, we were told that we were required to leave our infant carrier along with our diaper bag.

The bag included medication for our infant daughter who has lifethreatening allergies along with other items necessary to have on hand. We were told rather rudely that we would have to leave our carrier and diaper bag, and carry our 20-pound baby for the duration of our visit.

The reason we were provided was due to our lack of “spatial awareness.” My husband and I each have two graduate degrees and teach at the university level, so we are well aware of the need to understand students with special needs who

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have disorders that affect their “spatial awareness,” including dyspraxia. Would those, according to this explanation, be refused admittance for their problems with “spatial awareness?” It seems more likely to me that a member of the museum’s staff saw a family with young children and did not want us to enter and enjoy our local museum.

This week, my two older children and I visited the museum. From the time we entered, we were followed by a museum staff member.

After two hours, the staff member approached my children and instructed, very disrespectfully, that they “calm down,” apparently because she felt that they were being too loud. We left immediately.

I have no plans to attend the museum and wonder if other families in our community, in an effort to promote cultural awareness in their children, have been provided the same treatment. Perhaps, if children are going to be treated this way, followed incessantly throughout the duration of their visit under the glaring eyes of staff members who are seemingly anticipating unruly behavior, then the Asheville Art Museum should consider changing its ages of admission.

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Fracking leads to lifetime of losses It strikes me that the blind impulse for quick money from fracking has a price tag we won’t want: a lifetime of losses. What amount of money is worth it? Paying one bill? Sending kids to college? I recently read a Facebook post that said $4,000 was offered to someone for their mineral rights — who knows if that’s hearsay.

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A few key points: 1) When you sell your mineral rights, you are selling rights to ALL prospecting opportunities on your land. If the gas runs out, they can keep coming back and exploring for any minerals that might lie underneath. You are now a permanent “landlord” to a tenant who can drill anytime. What an inconvenience. 2) Our geology is complex and interconnected. Potential contamination of the Southeastern water supply is huge.

Placing profit over the best interests of community is out of line for the mountain values I learned from oldtimers like Cecil. He was a World War I gunner and grew monstrously luscious speckled tomatoes. Cecil was quiet, hardworking and earnest. He embodied the ethics that have allowed North Carolina to grow as it has: care for thy neighbor. Would he be able to grow his prized tomatoes without a water filtration system? The legislators’ actions make me question if they have lost the ethics that have kept North Carolina a haven for health and wellness? Why would we risk the one resource that our mountains provide so abundantly? Without our neighbors, water and land, we have

Prices, please. Some of us aren’t tourists in this town.

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nothing. Preservation of water should be the No. 1 priority for our own well-being as well as that of future generations.

Rupa Russe Asheville

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Conspicuously absent from Jonathan Ammons’ review of Vue 1913 at the Grove Park Inn [“Posttablecloth dining at Vue 1913,” June 18, Xpress] was any mention of prices. By contrast, Gina Smith’s Small Bites feature offered price information for four of the establishments/events mentioned in her articles, as well as pricing information for her article on family meals at Rhubard.

Since the Grove Park Inn is not a “cheap eat,” this omission undermined the review. Price is a significant consideration for many diners.

If the sample menu on the GPI website is any indication, the vegan manicotti enjoyed by Ammons is the cheapest entree on the menu at $22. No word on how much the chef’s tasting menu with wine pairings will set you back.

I must applaud our wonderful library system. I have always been an avid reader and years ago discovered the benefits of getting my books from a library rather than buying countless volumes (as I had in the past). Our county system may be small, but it is comprehensive. A few years ago a friend sent me a list of what The New York Times believes are the top 100 novels ever. So I accepted the quest to include all 100 in and around my regular reading. Well, as I near the completion of that delightful undertaking I realized that I had found 92 of those books in our beloved library system. Pretty impressive as some of these books are pretty obscure.

So, thank you, library system, you are a great friend and resource to have on my side.

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Musical notes Florida Georgia Line, Nelly and pig-blood incident get locals talking about entertainment

Country duo Florida Georgia Line teamed up with rapper Nelly June 22, bringing roughly 12,500 music fans together and selling out McCormick Field (Read our full review of the concert online at avl.mx/0c6). It was the baseball stadium’s first experiment as host for a major concert event, and many local music fans hoped it wouldn’t be the last. The size of the venue could help bring the most popular acts in the country to Asheville with more regularity. On the other hand, some residents complained about the noise that seeped into their neighborhoods until nearly 11 p.m.

Here’s a look at some of the responses posted online via Facebook: “I was in bed trying to sleep for my big Monday morning (that most of us have) and thought the obnoxious blast was coming from my neighbors.

Couldn’t sleep & was so pissed off I called the cops, who informed me that it was McCormick Field, and that I was not the only working-class citizen trying to sleep who had called the police. I live in Emma off N. Louisiana and heard the sound invasion all the way out here. I’m so glad I wasn’t among the 12,500 mercenary fans who sacrificed trillions of ear cells in order to show their support.”

– Miriam Allen “YOU HAVE to love that no matter what happens in Asheville, there are always people that act like its the worst thing to ever happen. ... Unless you live in the immediate neighborhoods this probably didn’t effect you at all. Maybe we should have no events of any kind.

Everyone should be in bed until 8 p.m. at night and make zero noise until 8 a.m. Do not have anything that someone might enjoy because someone else doesn’t like it.” – Michael Runyon

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HOT IN HERE: The sold-out show at McCormick Field generated a community discussion about whether the baseball field is an appropriate concert venue for major pop acts.

“Avl’s East End neighborhood!

We love it when McCormick field is rockin’ 4-eva. More please.

BUILD IT. THEY WILL COME.” – Sarah Nie “I was shakin’ my tail feathers for sure! Hope the field hosts similar events in the future!” – Jenny X Lane BLOODY SUNDAY That same night, another concert attracted a lot of online buzz for a very different reason. Charlotte-based metal band Young and In the Way played at the Lexington Avenue Brewery and sprayed pig blood from the stage, forcing the popular music hall and bar to shut down for several days while it cleaned up the mess. The concert, which also featured performances by Bask and Generation of Vipers, was organized by Empire Tattoo to celebrate its anniversary. Empire Tattoo posted a response a couple days later on its Facebook page: “Though the actions and result of Sunday night’s show were out of our hands, we are sorry another local business is suffering.”

Here’s some of the other online responses via the Ashvegas blog: “The band is long gone and laughing at the mess that they made, checking their social-media updates along the way. Looks like the LAB caught the short end of the stick, but Empire Tattoo may be the sitting duck waiting for the gun shot. The band wins, the LAB/Empire/their employees lose.” – BuzzSaw “Awesome. Put a bunch of servers, cooks and bartenders that live shift to shift out of work for days on end.

You’re so metal!” – Sundance “I doubt they mentioned the blood in their rider, but rest assured, every venue going forward will be aware of this. Bands that damage venues to this degree eventually stop getting gigs.

Sadly, other ‘heavy metal’ bands will also see gigs dry up as a result.” – Lesley “For the owner to be so willfully ignorant of their stage show is preposterous. Are you really gonna tell me that they had no clue this may happen? Even upon their set up they could have said ‘hey, don’t do this’ or ‘we don’t allow this as we sell food and drinks.’” – Notallisbeingtold X

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On the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours of April 13, a spate of burglaries hit Joyner Avenue, a small side street off Riverview Drive in West Asheville.

“I came home, found my garage door open,” Joshua Nielsen recalls.

“My garage was trashed; everything had been tossed up, thrown around. A lot of my personal effects were destroyed.”

These four burglaries on that street were among the 1,327 reported in Asheville between Jan. 1, 2013, and April 30 of this year.

Just about everyone has a lock on their door, regardless of whether they actually use it, and fending off burglars is definitely big business. One prominent company, ADT, claims 6.4 million customers in the U.S. and Canada and 2012 revenues of $3.2 billion, according to its website. TV commercials tout every kind of electronic countermeasure imaginable: basic security systems, closed-circuit TV, systems that automatically call the police when an intruder enters and even setups that connect to a central database, so a person in a cubicle somewhere can yell at thieves over a loudspeaker in your home.

Nationally, burglary (aka breaking and entering) has been declining for nearly two decades. In June of last year, the U.S. Department of Justice published a special report on household burglaries, using data from 1994 to 2011. Defining it as “the illegal entry or attempted entry of a residence,” the report divides the crimes into four categories — attempted forcible entry, completed forcible entry, completed unlawful entry and completed burglary — all of which declined during the period covered. Total

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annual household burglaries dropped from a 1994 high of just over 6.3 million to just under 3.4 million in 2011, though the numbers leveled off around 2002 and stayed relatively flat after that.

That’s no comfort to the victims, however. And according to the State Bureau of Investigation, Asheville’s 2012 burglary rate, while lower than Charlotte’s and Greensboro’s, was actually higher than Raleigh’s.

When fully staffed, the Asheville Police Department has six community resource officers, who do community outreach and provide information in connection with a variety of crimes, including breaking and entering. “The goal is quick money, whether it’s a residential property or a vehicle,” says Community Resource Officer Sean Davis. “They’re looking for an easy target.”

“The reasons why run the gamut,” adds CRO Evan Coward. “You’ve got substance-abuse issues; you can blame the economy to a certain point: people down on their luck.”

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THE TRIANGLE OF CRIME The Police Department has four main categories for these crimes: “burglary first degree” (committed after dark when the victims were home), “burglary business,” “burglary residence” and “burglary other” (those that don’t fit in the other three, such as a shed on someone’s property). A fifth type, “safecracking,” is so rare that it doesn’t affect the overall numbers.

Between January 2013 and April 2014, residences were hit more than three times as often as businesses (881 vs. 260). (See chart, “Asheville Burglaries, 2013-14.”)

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tunity: You have to have all three. If you take just one of those away or make one difficult, then you significantly lower your chances of being victimized.”

The Department of Justice study bears this out: In the 18 years covered, “completed unlawful entry,” in which burglars simply walked through an unlocked door or climbed through an unlocked window, remained the most common type of breaking and entering.

“There are, of course, more residential locations than businesses, which is also a factor,” notes CRO Travis Jones. “But most thieves know that businesses are much more likely to have security systems and alarms. You don’t see, for example, outright burglary from places like Wal-Mart and Target, because you would have to break into the store, and then most of these places have an additional place you would have to break into. If you want a television, why would you spend all the trouble trying to get one from Wal-Mart when you know that they’re ripe for the taking down the road in someone’s unlocked house?”

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Despite the added difficulty of breaking into a business, the approach typically remains largely the same. That wasn’t the case, however, in the three recent burglaries at CityMac electronics stores, where thieves displayed almost regimental discipline in terms of how they broke in, what they stole and how long it took them.

“We can’t comment on that, because it’s an ongoing investigation,” says Coward. “But trust us, that’s a different thing altogether.

You don’t see that very often, that level of expertise. Almost all business break-ins are the same type as the residential: smash and grab, take what you can get — and get out of there as fast as you can.”

Due to these crimes’ haphazard nature, the dollar value of the stolen items can vary widely. In the four Joyner Avenue break-ins, for example, the estimated losses ranged from $1,373 to $9,075, even though police believe they were all the work of the same people. Business break-ins, meanwhile, can involve far larger losses: One of the CityMax burglaries topped out at around $70,000.

In the Department of Justice study, the median dollar value of the items stolen (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars) “increased 54 percent, from $389 in 1994 to $600 in 2011.” In the latter year, 34.4 percent of the reported crimes involved an electronic device or household appliance. The next most common items stolen, at 31.1 percent, were “personal portable objects” such as clothing, furs, luggage, briefcases, jewelry and watches.

Burglars typically attempt to convert the stolen property to cash as quickly as possible.

“A lot of them utilize pawnshops,” says Davis. “Or Craigslist, different resell places. A lot of it is just selling to another person in the community for pennies on the dollar.”

“It’s not typically for the gain of the item,” notes Jones. “It’s not ‘I’m going to break into this house ’cause I’d really like that TV.’” SUMMERTIME CRIME In the period covered by the APD data, July, August and September were by far the most active months for burglars, with 141, 120 and 146 reported incidents, respectively. The lowest months were February and March (45 and 47 reports, respectively).

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“This is going to sound cliché, but there’s just more everything in the summer: more wrecks, more fights, more reports,” says Jones.

“There are more people out in the summertime. You can blend in a lot better than in the middle of January, when you’re the lone guy walking down the street in the middle of a neighborhood.”

“It’s lighter outside; it’s warmer,” adds Davis. “And thieves know that people are going to be gone on vacation for long stretches of time.”

The APD divides the city into three districts: Adam (West Asheville), Baker (East and North Asheville) and Charlie (South Asheville). And while the percentages varied, all three districts had their highest numbers of burglary reports in those same three months.

“It fluctuates by district,” Davis explains. “When there are residential break-ins, they target several streets in an area: They got away with this one, so they keep going.

Last year, Kenilworth was a spike.

Then they’ll move along, and [West Asheville] was the spike earlier this year, with Joyner and the communities of Haywood Road. It just bounces around.”

But burglars, notes Jones, don’t say, “‘Oh, they arrested these guys in South Central; let’s go over to North,’ or ‘They’ve increased patrols in North; let’s focus on the East.’

These guys aren’t that coordinated.

It’s just different groups deciding to go out at different times.”

Other factors may also be involved.

Between 1994 and 2011, for example, the national burglary rate (including both attempted and completed crimes) dropped 56 percent, from 63.4 to 27.6 per 1,000 households. But the biggest drop came in households with incomes of $75,000 or more per year, which went from 48.2 to 12.7 per 1,000 households. Households with annual incomes under $15,000 saw a smaller decline, from 71.1 to 45.1 per 1,000.

Nielsen, one of the Joyner Avenue victims, also points to economic factors. “There’s been a lot of talk about the gentrification of West Asheville,” he notes. “When you have that gentrification next to Pisgah View [public housing complex], you can certainly have that tension between socio-economic classes.”

Jones, however, takes a different tack. “A friend and I were talking about this recently,” he explains.

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few years ago they passed a law that disallowed forced annexation.

So instead of the city growing out, the only growth we can have is up and in. This leads to a denser population, and denser populations inevitably lead to more crime.”

Theories aside, what most officers find is a pattern of opportunity, where sprees occur in a given area due not to any complex logistical scheming but to simple inattention and ease of access.

“If a guy breaks into my car and get two or three bucks’ worth of change,” notes Jones, “then they go to the next house. Well, they find their car unlocked, and they find three bucks and a GPS. Well, this is really easy, so let’s go to the next house, and hey, that car’s unlocked too. There are times we’ll come to work and we’ll have a road where houses 86, 89, 91, 97, 99, we’re taking reports.”

That’s exactly what happened on Joyner Avenue.

TO CATCH A THIEF Few burglaries result in arrests.

In the Department of Justice study, 8.3 percent did in 1994, 10.6 percent in 2001 and 9.8 percent in 2011. Asheville’s numbers are somewhat higher.

“We have an 11.36 percent arrest rate for felony commercial and residential break-ins in 2013,” says Dave Romick, the APD’s public relations officer. “And a 20 percent arrest rate for first-degree burglaries in the same time frame. This does not necessarily mean that all the rest were unsolved. Some cases weren’t charged for various issues: district attorney declined prosecution, victim refused to cooperate, etc.”

The APD’s approach to burglaries, notes Romick, depends on “various solvability factors: witnesses, known suspects, identifiable property, forensic evidence, possible spree and serial cases. Detectives utilize this and other information to conduct investigations.”

A common problem, says Davis, particularly in residential breakins, “is a lack of forensics evidence at the scene. It’s a forced entry, or through an unlocked door, and they’ll remove what they can and be out of the area.”

But one of the biggest challenges both in catching burglars and recovering stolen items is a lack of documentation. Thieves fence their stolen goods for pennies on the dollar, and if the victim can’t

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provide an identifying feature, the stolen items can be almost impossible to track.

“Let me ask you something,” says Jones. “How many serial numbers of the electronic objects in your house do you know or have written down?

Also, if I was to ask you what brand and size of TV you have right now, could you tell me?”

“And that’s assuming that these items are going to someplace where they can be tracked, like a pawnshop,” adds Coward.

“I mean, you might be an upstanding guy,” says Jones. “So you find a TV on Craigslist and you purchase it. You’ve never had a criminal history or any problems; the TV is essentially gone at this point. You’re not likely to have law enforcement come into your house and have suspicion to run serial numbers on a TV. Just because it was stolen doesn’t mean the property ends up with a criminal element.

“One of the big things people can do is document all their items,” continues Jones. “There are resources out on the APD crime prevention website (avl.mx/0c0). You can print it or save it electronically through a cloud, and you just walk through your house and write down everything you’ve got.”

“Take pictures,” he urges. “And give it some unique detail. Don’t just say ‘pearl necklace.’ There are a lot of pearl necklaces in pawnshops.”

TARGET HARDENING The law enforcement term for protecting yourself from a break-in is “target hardening”: making yourself an undesirable target, which removes both the opportunity and the desire legs of the triangle.

“It’s the simple things,” says Jones. “So at Christmastime you get a brand-new TV? Don’t sit a giant TV box on the curb for your garbage man, ’cause someone drives by, sees that, ‘Wow: They have a brand-new TV.’ Got a big picture window?

Draw your blinds when you’re out for the day; otherwise I walk by, I see all this through the picture window and no cars in the driveway, I go behind the house so I’m hidden from the road, it takes literally no time to be in and out.”

Locking doors is a no-brainer; less obvious measures include trimming bushes to eliminate hiding places and make all entrances visible to neighbors. And if you’re victimized, call the police. That may seem like common sense, but in the Department of Justice study, wheth-

er burglary victims notified law enforcement depended greatly on the value of the stolen items.

In 2011, 83 percent of burglaries with losses of $1,000 or more were reported, compared with just 38 percent for losses under $500.

Perhaps the most potent antiburglary weapon, though, is community involvement.

“We arrested a guy,” remembers Davis, “and he was asked why he chose this house. He had no ties to this area, and he’d drive through a neighborhood and see how much attention he got. He said in that neighborhood, no one looked at him. He would walk around the house and no one noticed. No one cared that he was wandering around, and he couldn’t be seen from the road. And that’s why he chose it.”

“There’s no such thing as a ‘bad neighborhood,’” Coward declares. “What you have is a neighborhood where everyone doesn’t practice these measures.

And thieves, if they’re successful once, they come back.”

“We’ll do neighborhood canvasses after reports,” says Davis.

“But generally people don’t see anything, or they’re not connected to that community, so they don’t pay that much attention to someone walking around the home.

That’s what we preach when we do these community meetings: Get to know your neighbors, and know who’s supposed to be there and who’s not.”

To facilitate that, he continues, “We’ve started neighborhood associations where the community can come together, meet on a regular basis, discuss problems and strategies.”

The East West Asheville Neighborhood Association com-

prises several community-watch groups, including Joyner Avenue.

“EWANA holds meetings several times a year,” notes Davis. “And the neighborhood groups are encouraged to meet monthly to discuss concerns and become active. Another is the Montford Neighborhood Association, which is also a large entity with numerous smaller neighborhood groups.”

But there’s a fine line between vigilance and profiling, stresses Davis.

“In no way does race, gender, sexual orientation or religion make an individual suspicious.” Instead, he says, people need to look for specific behaviors, such as: looking into windows, homes or vehicles; checking door handles; entering the rear portion of properties; repeatedly knocking on doors or loitering; or asking questions about a neighbor’s time away from home, security measures or vehicles owned.

And sometimes the police beat the odds and quickly make arrests.

Between April 24 and May 8, the APD made four arrests in connection with the Joyner Avenue breakins: Michael Cody Cross, Stanley Patrick Eddings, Maliik Devon Jackson and Carlos Nathan Pope.

At press time, all four were in custody awaiting trial.

“I just want to mention how great [the Police Department] was in all this,” says Nielsen. “The detective on our case has done a fantastic job with the investigation and communicating with us. They’ve kept us in the loop and informed every step of the way.” Some of the stolen items have been recovered, though at the moment they’re locked up for use as evidence.

As for target hardening, Nielsen says he’s reached his own conclusions about that: “What did I do after? I bought an alarm system.” X

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Campaign money If elections were decided by fundraising totals, all three of Western North Carolina’s representatives in Congress would be well on their way to securing their next terms in office.

Recent campaign finance filings for the first quarter, along with a brief filing for the weeks before the May 6 primary show Republican Reps.

Mark Meadows, Patrick McHenry and Virginia Foxx having strong financial advantages over challengers leading to this fall’s election.

Filings for the initial period, which ended March 31, were made public last month. The pre-primary report, which covers all fundraising between March 31 and May 6, was released recently.

The combined totals shown by all three members offer an indicator of support both in and outside districts, and explains why political forecasters are not expecting any House races across Western North Carolina to be heated this year.

According to the Cook Political Report, Meadows’ 10th District, McHenry’s 11th District and Foxx’s 5th are all rated “Solid Republican,” meaning their respective elections are not considered competitive and unlikely to become closely contested.

Meadows, who is seeking a second term, took it easy on the fundraising front in the early period of 2014.

The congressman didn’t accept a single campaign contribution until Feb. 14, and reported only 14 itemized contributions from individuals during the first quarter. The Federal Election Commission requires candidates to itemize campaign contributions totaling more than $200.

In all, Meadows reported raising $20,197 in the first-quarter and pre-primary periods. Over the same amount of time, the congressman’s campaign spent $35,859, leaving him with $90,020 to put toward election efforts. Nearly half — or 48 percent — of Meadows’ campaign contributions during the periods came from political action committees (PACs), including groups representing the American Bankers Association, BlueCross BlueShield and Duke Energy.

The total Meadows raised may seem low compared to other congressional races, but his November Democratic challenger, Tom Hill, reported raising zero dollars for his

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FUNDRAISERS: The latest campaign reports indicate that U.S. Reps. Patrick McHenry, left, and Mark Meadows, right, have strong financial advantages over challengers leading to this fall’s election. (file photos)

campaign, according to the latest FEC filings (candidates must have raised or spent at least $5,000 on a campaign in order to be logged in the FEC database). The lackluster matchup likely has GOP donors funneling their dollars toward tighter races.

Meadows’ neighbor to the east, Rep. Patrick McHenry, showed the strongest fundraising of the three, raking in $249,603 during the roughly four-month period.

The congressman ended the preprimary period with $651,341 cashon-hand, more than 400 times the amount held by his Democratic opponent, Tate MacQueen.

MacQueen, a first-time candidate who is an educator and coach, reported raising more than $22,000 in the first-quarter and pre-primary periods. Nearly all of his total was spent, leaving the candidate with $1,548 cash-on-hand with five months remaining before 10th District voters go to the polls.

McHenry drew itemized contributions from 111 individuals during the quarter, with addresses

listed at dozens of locations across the 10th District and several more well outside district lines.

More than half of the congressman’s total donations for the period came from PACs — the highest percentage among lawmakers from the 18-county Western North Carolina region.

Many of McHenry’s PAC donors represent members of the banking and financial services industries. The congressman serves as a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

In all, McHenry scored $121,500 from PACs during the period.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, who experienced a landslide victory in the May Republican primary, netted $182,025 in campaign fuel during the first-quarter and pre-primary periods, while simultaneously spending $56,000 on her election bid. Having held the 5th District seat for a decade, Foxx has established a staggering $2 million war chest, leaving the winner of July’s Democratic runoff facing an uphill fight.

Neither candidate Josh Brannon nor Gardenia Henley reached the threshold for outright victory in May’s

Latest reports reveal inside, outside funders of WNC’s congressional races primary. Federal Election Commission records show neither candidate with a single dollar on-hand for the campaigns in the lead up to the runoff, suggesting that the winner of July’s contest will enter the general election campaign at a serious disadvantage.

Foxx reported approximately 30 percent of her campaign contributions for the April quarterly coming from PACs. The representative, who sits on the House Education and Workforce Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on Higher Education, accepted multiple contributions from members of the for-profit education industry. The link was the focus of a recent report by the Center for Responsive Politics, which noted the industry’s accounting for the majority of Foxx’s out-of-state cash (which rivals her colleagues in close races and high-profile lawmakers).

According to the Cook Political Report, North Carolina’s most competitive House races are in the 2nd and 7th Districts, which are rated “Likely Republican” and represented by Reps. Renee Elmers and Mike McIntyre, respectively.

The state’s hottest election this cycle is undoubtedly the U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Kay Hagan, a Democrat, and her GOP challenger Thom Tillis, who currently serves as House Speaker in the N.C. General Assembly. The race has become a magnet for millions of dollars from outside groups, and a recent Public Policy Polling survey showed Hagan with a 5-point lead over Tillis.

The second-quarter fundraising period comes to a close June 30.

Candidates are required to disclose contributions by July 15.

For more regional campaign and election news from Carolina Public Press, go to avl.mx/0c4. For more on local politics, go to mountainx.com/news/ politics-election.

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BENEFITS COSTUME DRAMA: A FASHION SHOW

254-1320, facebook.com/costumedramafashionshow • MO (7/7), 7:30pm Costumes made from nontraditional materials will be presented in this fashion show to benefit Asheville Community Theatre . $20. Held at 31 Woodfin St.

DUCK RACE FOR KREATIVE KIDS 884-2787, duckraceforkids.org • FR (7/4), 5pm - A race of rubber ducks to benefit Transylvania Community Arts Council scholarships and art in schools programs. $5 per duck. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Dr., Brevard

FIRECRACKER 5K 2014 645-4656, Kiwanisfirecracker@ yahoo.com • FR (7/4), 8am - Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of N. Buncombe, this

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A LESSON FROM AMERICAN HISTORY: “A large supply of women and children to work contributed to North Carolina becoming a center for the textile industry,” write the organizers of The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918. The exhibit, on display at the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, shows what life was like for hundreds of children working in N.C. textile mills— while serving as a reminder of the continued use of child labor today. Photo courtesy of NCDCR (p. 14)

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc, abtsbc@gmail.com Held on the Enka campus. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Registration required.

• MO (7/7), 6-9pm - Workshop: "Online PR: Promoting Your Business' Website."

AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION abwaskyhy.com, abwaskyhychapter@gmail.com • TH (7/10), 5:30-7:30pm - Monthly meeting with speaker Marcy Stahl. Includes dinner. $25. Held at Crowne Plaza Expo Center, 1 Resort Drive

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS COB AND NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP (pd.) With Mollie Curry of MudStrawLove. Friday-Sunday, July 4-6, Earthaven Ecovillage, near Black Mountain. Learn to build walls with cob (earth, sand and straw) and earthen-mortared earth blocks, make and apply earthen paints, and explore a variety of other natural building media. $295 includes camping and meals. Bring a friend for $150.

Sponsored by Culture’s Edge, culturesedge@earthaven.org. 828 669-0114. Visit www.earthaven. org

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Sponsored by Culture’s Edge, culturesedge@earthaven.org • 828 669-0114. Visit www.earthaven. org

ASHEVILLE MAKERS ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Weekly social held at Asheville Pizza, 77 Coxe Ave.

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 296-7230 • Through FR (10/3) - The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918, photographs of child textile workers.

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Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20, Earthaven Ecovilage, near Black Mountain. Two-day intensive using archetypal elements and story to

258-3327 • MO (7/7), 6-8pm - Monthly meeting. Held at Green Sage Coffeehouse and Cafe, 70 Westgate Parkway

GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES 828-298-9023, ext. 1106 • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9am-noon - Adult basic education/ high school equivalency classes. Registration required.

• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-8:30pm - ESL classes.

Registration required.

• ONGOING - Classes for careers in the food and hotel industries.

Includes American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification.

Call for times. $25.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:30-3:30pm - Medical office support career classes. Registration required.

MOUNTAINEER ANTIQUE AUTO CLUB CAR SHOW

mountainantiqueautoclub.com • FR (7/4) & SA (7/5), 8am-5pm - $5 per day. Held at the WNC Agriculture Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road.

VETERANS FOR PEACE vfpchapter099.wnc.blogspot.com

• TU (7/8), 6:30pm - Monthly meeting. Held in the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St.

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE HISTORY CENTER 283 Victoria Road, 253-9231, wnchistory.org Located on the A-B Tech campus.

• SA (6/7) through WE (12/31) - Hillybilly Land: Myth and Reality of Appalachian Culture.

THE ROAD SHOW AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 483-7393, theroadshowarc.com, philipjenkins@gmail.com • TH (7/10), 7pm - "Field Day," with classes, demonstration and information. Free. Held at Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road

YOUTH OUTRIGHT youthoutright.org • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Weekly meeting for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $10/week per person.

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

Details: www.SwingAsheville. com

BEYONCE'S SINGLE LADIES STRIPTEASE CLASS

(pd.) With DANCECLUB. 8 Week Burlesque Series starts July 9 (ok to miss first class) turning Beyonce's Single Ladies dance into a striptease! $72.

Third floor of Loretta's Cafe, 114 N. Lexington Ave. Register: (828) 275-8628 or danceclubasheville@gmail.com or DanceclubAsheville.com

STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES

(pd.) Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10am Bellydance Wrkt 4pm Kid's Dance 5pm Teen Dance 6pm AfroBrazilian 7pm West African • Sunday 5:15pm Yoga • $13 for 60 minute classes.

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BREVARD'S OLD TIME STREET DANCES 1-800-648-4523, visitwaterfalls. com • TUESDAYS through (8/6), 6:30pm - Includes live music and square dance instruction.

Free. Held on Main Street, Brevard.

DANCE AT WCU 227-2617, sacarter@wcu.edu • WE (7/9), 5:30-7:30pm - Belly dancing workshop. Free. Held in the Hinds University Center.

HISTORIC HENDERSONVILLE STREET DANCES 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MONDAYS through (8/11), 7-9pm - Mountain heritage music and dancing. Free.

Held at the Visitors Center, 201 South Main Street, Hendersonville.

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ECO CANARY COALITION 631-3447, canarycoalition.org • WE (7/2), 6:30pm - Coalition Against Fracking in WNC action meeting. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva

WNC SIERRA CLUB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (7/2), 7pm - Monthly meeting. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 500 Montreat Road, Black Mountain

$20/$15 advance/ $10 ages 7 and under. Held in Alpine Village, 1007 Beech Mountain Parkway, Beech Mountain.

STARS ON THE SQUARE 675-4449 • SA (7/5), 9pm-midnight Public telescope viewing of the sky following the fireworks.

Free. Held in Burnsville Town Square on Main Street.

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800-962-1911 FR (7/4), 5-9:30pm - Live music, food and childrenq’s activities.

Held in Bridge Park, Railroad Ave., Sylva. Free.

GARDENING INDEPENDENCE DAY EVENTS HENDERSONVILLE STREET FIREWORKS CELEBRATION 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (7/4), 7-9pm - Includes live music. Free. Held at the Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville.

HOT SPRINGS FOURTH OF JULY FEST 622-7676 SA (7/5), 9pm - Fireworks lit from the Hot Springs Resort and Spa lawn. Visible from multiple locations along main street. Free.

MARION INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION 652-2215 • FR (7/4), 6pm - Includes a parade, live music and fireworks. Free. Held in historic downtown Marion.

MARCELLA MEMORIAL FIREWORKS SHOW 626-3488, 775-2148 FR (7/4), 1pm - Parade, live music, concessions and kids activities. Fireworks follow after dark. Held at downtown Barnadsville.

OMNI GROVE PARK INN groveparkinn.com, 252-2711 SA (7/5), 9:30pm - Fireworks display with multiple viewing locations. Free.

ROASTING OF THE HOG FESTIVAL

550-3459 • WE (7/2), 9:30am - With speaker from Thyme in the Garden. Held at N. Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

BLUE RIDGE NATURALIST NETWORK facebook.com/groups/ BRNNmembers • TU (7/8), 5:30-7:30 - Speaker from the North Carolina Plant Society discusses native plants.

Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road.

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• SA (7/5), 9-11:30am - Monthly breakfast meeting. $8.

Henderson County Women Democrats • TU (7/8), 5:30-7pm - Women's meeting with speaker from Guardian ad Litem. Meets at Three Chopt Sandwich Shoppe, 103 3rd Ave. E., Hendersonville.

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KIDS LEARN TO SKATE/PLAY HOCKEY! (pd.) Kids ages 8 and under, come out to the rink at Carrier Park, Mondays from June 16-August 11, 6:30-8pm.

Equipment supplied. Details: www.ashevillehockey.org

Hendersonville, 1735 5t Ave. W., Hendersonville

SENIOR CRIBBAGE MEETINGS 367-7794 • MONDAYS, 6pm - Instruction provided. Free to attend. Held at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave.

SPIRITUALITY SUMMERTIME KIDS ACTIVITIES AT THE LIBRARY

LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) •FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) •LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 250-6480) •NA = North Asheville Library (1030 Merrimon Avenue, 250-4752) •PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) •SA = South Asheville/Oakley Library (749 Fairview Road, 250-4754) •WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482)

Fashionably dramatic WHAT: Costume Drama: A Fashion Show and Benefit for Asheville Community Theatre WHERE: ACT’s main stage, 31 Woodfin St. WHEN: Monday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m. Pre-show cocktail mingle at 6:30 p.m.

WHY: Asheville Community Theatre reprises its fundraiser Costume Drama: A Fashion Show for a third year. Audience members vote on category winners by ballot and on the Best in Show design by donating to ACT — $1 equals one vote. The DIY runway event challenges designers to produce wearable art in themed categories: paper, elements of nature, upcycled/recycled items or — new this year— transformation.

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ly transform from one thing to another as they come down the runway,” says Jenny Bunn, marketing director for Asheville Community Theatre.

Sort of like in The Hunger Games?

“Yes,” Bunn laughs. “But with less pyrotechnics. Pyrotechnics are definitely off limits.”

Bunn says over 20 designers are competing in the show, some coming from out of town, including Zass Design, a mother-daughter team from Raleigh who were recently featured at Charleston Fashion Week.

“The show has sold out every year and everyone that sees it has to pick their jaws up off the floor,” says Bunn.

The event will also feature a preshow cash-bar cocktail party, featuring the new signature cocktail “The Seamripper.”

Tickets are $20. For more information visit ashevilletheatre.org.

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• WE (7/2), 3pm - Mountain Story Magic. NA • TH (7/3), 11am - A visit from animals from the WNC Nature Center. LE • TH (7/3), 3pm - Design a T-shirt. WV • WE (7/9), 3:30pm - Lego Day. SA • WE (7/9), 2pm - Dress-up gala and reading of the Fancy Nancy books. FV • WE (7/9), 11am-noon - Hands on! hosts "Fizz, Boom, Science."

For pre-K through 2nd grade.

Registration required. EA. • WE (7/9), 2pm - Weatherbased science experiments hosted by Hands On! For grades 1-5. Registration required. PM. • TH (7/10), 11am - Mountain Story Magic. LE • TH (7/10), 3pm - Mountain Story Magic with local storytellers. WV • TH (7/10), 2:30pm - Red Herring Puppets perform Electricity! For ages 5 and older. SS

SENIORS ADULT FORUM AT FCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (7/6), 9:15 am "Forgiveness: Input from Three Countries and Cultures." Held at First Congregational UCC of

AIM MEDITATION CLASSES (pd.) Ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: Mindfulness 101- Basics of Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class.

Class dates and times: www. ashevillemeditation.com/events, (828) 808-4444

ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication).

252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc. com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm.

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

ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you.

Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org.

ASTRO-COUNSELING (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts • Incense • Tarot. Visit our

Labyrinth and Garden. 828687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com

ECKANKAR WORSHIP SERVICE - “SING HU TO BECOME AWARE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD” (pd.) "Soul Travel will eventually show you the purpose of your life here. Some people begin to catch glimpses of their past lives.

It's all a part of learning who and what you are as a child of God, and furthermore, it's the natural way of spiritual unfoldment used by the saints over the centuries.

Sing HU gently, with love and expectation. You're expecting to become aware of the presence of God." Experience stories from the heart, creative arts and more, followed by fellowship and a pot-luck lunch. (Donations accepted). • Date: Sunday, July 6, 2014, 11am-12noon, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-2546775. www.eckankar-nc.org

LOOKING FOR GENUINE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AND HELP? (pd.) We are in a beautiful area about 10 minutes from downtown Asheville,very close to Warren Wilson College. www. truththomas.org 828-299-4359

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (pd.) "ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation in a supportive community. Group Meditation.

Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm.

Sundays, 10am-11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 808-4444, www. ashevillemeditation.com

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm: Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. Info: 2583241. www.billwalz.com

ASHEVILLE HARE KRISHNA 506-0996, gopalonetwo@yahoo. com • SUNDAYS, noon - Includes chanting, discussion and a vegetarian meal. Free. Held at Kuntao Arts, 211 Merrimon Ave.

Some companieS have brancheS, we have rootS! MAHA SHAKTI MANDIR

• SA (7/5), 1030am - Latino Day honoring activist Russell Boston Hilliard Sr. Free. Held at Pack Place, 2 S. Pack Square

450-3621, mountainzen.org, mountainzen@bellsouth.net • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Conscious compassionate awareness meditation and group discussion. Contact for directions.

Book Club: That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo. WV • WE (7/2), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters. SW • TH (7/3), 6:30pm - Book Club: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

EA. • TU (7/8), 1pm - Book Club: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. LE • WE (7/9) & WE (7/23), 10am Swannanoa Sewing Circle. SW • TH (7/10), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia. SW

UR LIGHT CENTER

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE

ASHEVILLE PARKS AND GREENWAYS FOUNDATION

11 Sand Hill Court, facebook. com/mahashaktimandir • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Arati, chanting and spiritual discourse.

• SATURDAYS, 6-8pm - Shiva and Sri Chakra Puja.

MOUNTAIN ZEN PRACTICE CENTER

2196 N.C. Hwy. 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • FR (7/4), 7-9pm - Introduction to the Tibetan system Tai' Chi Gung. Free.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville, 456-6000, blueridgebooksnc. com • SA (7/5), 3pm - Rose Senehi discusses her novel, Dancing on Rocks.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) •LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 250-6480) •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) •WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 250-4750).

• WE (7/2), 3pm - Afternoon

3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • SA (7/5), 3pm - Charles A. Van Bibber discusses his book Valentine's Day: A Marine Looks Back.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• SU (7/6), 3pm - Poetrio.

• WE (7/9), 7pm - Salon discussion of Women Who Run With Wolves.

• TH (7/10), 7pm - Pattie Callahan Henry discusses her novel, The Stories We Tell.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Storytime. Ages 2-6. Free.

• SU (7/6), 4-5pm - Royal Book Club: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

STORIES ON ASHEVILLE’S FRONT PORCH 251-9973, ashevilledowntown. org

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• 1st MONDAYS, 8pm - Different theme each month. Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road.

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VOLUNTEERING

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myashevilleparks.org, info@ parksgreenways.org • Through SA (7/12) Volunteers needed to assist in prepartation for the Highland Night Flight race, which benefits the development of greenways.

• Through SA (7/26)- Volunteers needed to prepare for and work at the Highland Ale Share benefit for the greenways.

for dogs and cats MONTH OF JULY

PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION 418-0826, curethekids.org • Through SA (7/26) Volunteers needed to prepare for and assist with the Asheville Color Run, which benefits the foundation. Must be 15 or older.

brother wolf adoption event

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Neuromedicine Local psychologist hopes to spread awareness of new PTSD treatment

BY MARK-ELLIS BENNETT

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Psychologist George Lindenfeld’s office at 138 Charlotte St. displays an eclectic mix of art nouveaux, art deco and arts and crafts. It’s telling that a box of facial tissue is always within reach. The Navy veteran says that he became curious about the workings of the mind as a child when his grandfather shut down and withdrew after being asked about his family — all lost under tragic circumstances.

Fast approaching his 75th birthday, Lindenfeld plans to retire this year, but not before he shares the results he has achieved helping veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder by using a relatively new and little-known device, the Bio Acoustical Utilization Device.

Every day, 22 American veterans of war commit suicide, says Ndidi Mojay, public affairs officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington. A key role in most of these suicides is PTSD, and Lindenfeld believes that the BAUD therapy method can help change those numbers.

“This technology can heal PTSD,” he says. In the hands of a competent therapist, Lindenfeld explains, the device can identify a specific auditory frequency related to traumatic memories and disrupt the neural connection to the parts of the brain that trigger symptoms of anxiety.

“You don’t forget what happened, because it doesn’t take the memory away, but it quiets the mind,” Lindenfeld says. “My colleagues and I are using this with amazing results. The unfortunate point is there seem to be very few ways for a private practitioner such as myself to get word out of this quantum leap that can reset the brain to a pre-trauma state.” That may change, however, now that the offic-

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A DIFFERENT APPROACH: Asheville psychologist George Lindenfeld is trying to raise awareness of a device that uses auditory signals to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Photo by Tim Robison

es of U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Richard Burr of North Carolina are presenting research from Lindenfeld and device inventor Frank Lawlis to the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

The device has been registered by the Food and Drug Administration and is approved for use on humans as a Class II biofeedback device, meaning it has been determined to be as safe and easy to use as other Class II devices such as heating pads and hearing aids, Lawlis says. About 900 therapists in America and abroad are using it to treat individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety, addictions and pain management.

Lawlis also says pharmaceuticals have been unsuccessful in many cases and have even made problems worse in others. “Psychotherapy has its limitations with recovery time, inconsistency, chronicity and its need for specialized professionals,” says Lawlis. “On the basis of

neurological science, this device has enabled patients with PTSD to disrupt the destructive emotional components of trauma and assume more productive lives.”

For former Vietnam combat Army veteran Dr. Joseph Boscarino, one of the nation’s leading researchers in PTSD, the cause is personal. His identical twin brother died in January because of PTSD-related causes experienced since 1968. “This is a mission for me.

I’ve been dealing with this for many years,” he says. Boscarino is planning to conduct formal research on the BAUD at Geisinger Center for Health Research in Danville, Pa. Memories of combat trauma can stay with veterans for the rest of their lives. Ron Lapointe, a patient of Lindenfeld’s, says he was drafted and served in Vietnam during the height of the war with the 4th Infantry Division from August 1967 to August 1968. He returned with ongoing anger-management

issues and came to Lindenfeld to see if it had to do with unresolved PTSD. His triggers were responses to auditory stimuli such as the sound of cars backfiring, fighter jets and helicopters.

In his mind’s eye, he would see the faces of comrades who died in battle as well as recurring memories of lifethreatening combat experiences.

“When I heard certain sounds, it used to trigger a dramatic reaction. After three sessions with Dr. Lindenfeld, I can hear gunfire, jets or a helicopter, and I do not have the same emotional response I had before treatment with the BAUD,” says Lapointe.

Richard Carland served with the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he was deployed in 2005 as a medic in a senior command position with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and participated in the initial surge of Bagdad. After returning to the U.S., he had severe panic attacks. “My heart would race.

It felt like I would stop breathing any second and die of a heart attack,” he says. When he couldn’t relax or concentrate sufficiently to meet his academic goals, Carland realized he was suffering from PTSD. “A good friend of mine had a family member who was a vet that committed suicide two days after being released from a hospital,” says Carland. “He had paranoia and would never go anywhere without some kind of weapon with him. I was never like that, but it made me realize how PTSD [manifests] in so many different ways.”

Carland was skeptical at first about Lindenfeld and the BAUD. “During the therapy he had me focus on those feelings that increased my heart rate and gave me cold sweats.

After the treatment I couldn’t bring back those feelings again. Since then I kind of feel like a different person, like I got my ‘old self’ back,” he says.

Carland believes the Veteran Affairs system is overwhelmed, and he agreed to being interviewed by the Xpress to “reach out to those guys who don’t know what to do or where to go.” Lindenfeld contends that we need to expedite new technologies promising rapid healing to returning veterans who experienced trauma in service to our country.

“They’ve earned it,” he says.X

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by Emily Nichols

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Asana party Asheville YogaFest brings together yogis, musicians and activists

In a town that graduates over 750 yoga teacher trainees a year from several studios, it seems it was only a matter of time before a yoga festival took root locally. Asheville YogaFest organizer Mike Hiers believes that the festival is another way to put Asheville on the map as an epicenter for yoga culture and education. He also says that the event will be especially “Asheville-centric” with local food trucks, organizations, performers, sponsors, vendors and, of course, yoga teachers headlining the three-day event.

The Asheville YogaFest takes place Friday through Sunday, July 11-13, at the Morris Hellenic Cultural Center in Montford, and yoga workshops and kirtans will take place 9 a.m.-11 p.m. each day. “The MHCC has been restored to its glory of the past when it was a community hub for the bucolic Montford neighborhood,” says Hiers. He pauses and adds with a grin: “Also, the open, hardwood floor plan provides space for a new hometown record — the most people practicing yoga together indoors ever in Asheville history.”

With yoga classes ranging from Yoga for the Five Great Elements to Opposites Attract: An Ashtanga and Yin Practice and Full Body Smiles: Standing Poses and Backbends for All Levels, the festival is designed to appeal to anyone with the slightest interest in yoga. Hiers says he intentionally selected teachers with diverse styles and limited the size of the festival in its first year to create an intimate experience where all workshops are suitable to the newest beginner and the seasoned yogi. For those already well-versed in the public yoga classes in Asheville, the festival

will be an opportunity to take longer, theme-specific workshops.

Aside from the full schedule of asana workshops available, the festival will also bring in some big-name global musicians including Wah!, an artist that Yoga Journal has noted for her “sultry downtempo grooves, throbbing club beats and spokenword rap passages.” A few other high-energy musicians with a global sound will round out the weekend, including Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band, Jess Klein and local artists Luna Ray and Osel, a band composed of yoga teachers Michael and Stephanie Johnson who will also be teaching at the festival. Hiers says that kirtan, or call-and-response chanting of sanskrit mantras, will be a large part of the daily lineups, with mantra workshops led by Wah!, several collaborations between yoga teachers and musicians, and community kirtans held every evening.

Yogis Beyond Coal, an activist group formed in collaboration with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, will also have a strong presence at the festival. The group will be providing festivalgoers with information about coal and its impact on the Appalachian mountains and streams.

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Editorial assistant/ reporter needed Mountain Xpress, Asheville’s award-winning alt-weekly newspaper and website, is looking for the right person who • gets Xpress’ community-oriented journalism; • loves Asheville’s locally focused, grassroots exuberance • has good organization skills, works well collaboratively and meets deadlines.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, loves interacting with the community and shares our fascination with the region’s health & wellness, arts & entertainment, food & beer scenes. The job entails assisting section editors, finding and writing stories for print and online, and engaging readers using social media. Must be able to create compelling magazine/newspaper copy.

Full- or part-time. (Full-time benefits include group health, optional dental plan and IRA.) Email a cover letter explaining why you would excel in this position, your resumé, references and examples of your published writing to: editor@mountainx.com (put “Editorial Assistant” in the subject line) or mail to Managing Editor, Mountain Xpress, PO Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802.

by Grady Cooper & Carrie Eidson

ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life.

The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org

ASHEVILLE BIRTHKEEPERS • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Meets at the Spiral Center for Conscious Beginnings, 167A Haywood Road.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Stiff Guy Yoga. Four weekly sessions. $40.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • THURSDAYS, 10:11:30am - T’ai Chi Qi Gong class. $12.

JUBILEE COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TU (7/8), 6-8pm - Guided Autobiography Group with Fiora Lizak. Introduction to series. $10 suggested donation.

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• WE (7/2), 3:30-7-30pm - Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road, Candler. Appointments & info: 667-4541.

• TH (7/3), 2-6:30pm - Maximized Living Health Center, 50 Westgate Parkway. Appointments & info: 505-4886.

• SU (7/6), 11:30am-4pm - Lowe’s on Tunnel Road, 89 S. Tunnel Road. Appointments & info: 299-3788.

• SU (7/6), noon-4:30pm - Petco, 825 Brevard Road.

Appointments & info: 665-7977.

• TH (7/10), 12:30-5:30pm - Ridgefield Business Park Blood Drive at Paramount Kia, 1000 Ridgefield Blvd.

Appointments & info: 667-3200.

SIDE-BY-SIDE SINGING FOR WELLNESS sidebysidesinging.wordpress.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-2:30pm - For people with dementia, Alzheimer’s or brain damage and their care-partners. Held in UNCA’s Sherrill Center.

YOGA IN THE PARK 254-0380, youryoga.com/yoga-workshops • SATURDAYS through (8/20), 10am-11:30amOutdoor yoga event. Free with donations to Homeward Bound or Helpmate encouraged. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES For people who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Info: adultchildren.org.

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AL-ANON/ ALATEEN FAMILY GROUP A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. Info: wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org.

ASHEVILLE UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS underearnersanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 102 ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/AspergersTeensUnited • SATURDAYS, 6-9pm – For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks starting June 28.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT deb.casaccia@gmail.com or 989-1555 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 p.m. – Held in a private home. Contact for directions.

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 101 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE magneticminds.weebly.com or 367-7660 • WEDNESDAYS, 7 p.m. & SATURDAYS, 4 p.m. – 1316-C Parkwood Road DIABETES SUPPORT laura.tolle@msj.org or 213-4788 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm – Mission Health, 1 Hospital Drive. Room 3-B.

MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS For caregivers of those with memory loss or dementia. network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain MEN WORKING ON LIFE’S ISSUES 686-5590 or 683-7195 • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm – Meets at 90 Zillicoa Ave. MISSION HEALTH FAMILY GROUP NIGHT For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30 p.m. – Mission Rueter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. Info: nar-anon. org. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS For people living with mental health issues and their loved ones. Info: namiwnc.org or 505-7353. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

OVERCOMES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE For anyone who is dealing with physical and/or emotional abuse. 665-9499.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm – The First Christian Church, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Info: 258-4821. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS

EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS Info: thecenternc.weebly.com or 337-4685. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ELECTRO-SENSITIVITY SUPPORT For electrosensitive individuals. For location and info contact hopefulandwired@gmail.com or 2553350.

EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS For anyone desiring to live a healthier emotional life. Info: 631-434-5294 • TUESDAYS, 7 p.m. – Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, 880 Sandhill Road FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6 p.m. – Asheville 12 Step Club, 1340A Patton Ave. HEART OF RECOVERY MEDITATION GROUP Teaches how to integrate meditation with any 12-step recovery program. asheville.shambhala.org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m.- Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Westwood Place.

HEART SUPPORT For individuals living with heart failure. 274-6000.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 2-4pm – Asheville Cardiology Associates, 5 Vanderbilt Drive.

LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. 7764809.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 p.m. – Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston Ave.

For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Info: recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS, 6pm – Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 376 Hendersonville Road.

S-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For those affected by another’s sexaholism. Four confidential meetings are available weekly in WNC. For dates, times and locations contact wncsanon@ gmail.com or 258-5117.

SMART RECOVERY Helps individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

STRENGTH IN SURVIVORSHIP For cancer survivors. Strengthinsurvivorship@yahoo. com or 808-7673 • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-noon – Mills River Library, 124 Town Drive, Mills River SYLVA GRIEF SUPPORT Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life. melee@fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 10:30am. - Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 Country Services Park, Sylva To add information about your support group, call 251-1333, ext. 114. Support groups must be free of charge to be listed.

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(Undeserved) HEALTH HALOS I attended a fund raising dinner last weekend and a friendly gentleman at our table asked me, “What does organic mean?”

I explained to him that USDA certified organic program means that agricultural products (produce or animals) have been farmed or raised according to certain specifications.

Source: www.ams.usda.gov/ (Organic Standards) .

For crops these standards specify the types of pesticides (yes, organic farmers can and do use pesticides), fertilizers and the fact that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) cannot be used. For animals these standards specify organic feed, access to the outdoors and the fact that no antibiotics or hormones can be used.

He went on to ask, “So is there a nutritional difference between a regular food and an organic food?”

I told him it was difficult to say absolutely a “yes” or “no” on this issue—since food is a big category and when we talk about nutrients and nutrition it refers to protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. While I have seen some studies that had indicated slight nutritional differences like more antioxidants; overall researchers have not been able to conclusively show a significant nutritional benefit to eating organic foods. Tamar Haspel, a writer for the Washington Post did a great job looking at this in an April of 2014 article, “Is Organic Better for your Health?”http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/isorganic-better-for-your-health-a-look-at-milk-meat-eggs-produce-and-fis h/2014/04/07/036c654e-a313-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html The good thing about working for a supermarket like Ingles is that we sell it all and give our customers a variety of options...conventionally grown, imported from other countries, private label items, “big” food brands, locally produced products, craft and artisan items, local produce, USDA certified organic, Non-GMO project.verified—that way you can decide what you would like to purchase.

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Leaving fairyland Wamboldtopia’s owners say goodbye to their West Asheville garden home

and saints. A wedding circle made from the same salvaged bricks rests beyond the herb garden, framed by an arcade of stone and stucco that covers an old chain-link fence.

Whichever path you take, the effect is otherworldly.

“Much of this is inspired by fairies, magic — childhood things,” says Wamboldtopia co-owner Damaris Pierce. “I grew up quickly, so I guess I’m still holding on to my childhood. Why else would a grown woman do this?”

Since 1999, Wamboldtopia has been the ever-growing home and garden of artists Damaris and Ricki Pierce. It began as a steep, shady hillside covered in grass, but after 15 years of transformation, Wamboldtopia is a West Asheville institution — a fairyland covered in stone. But for Damaris and Ricki, this is the last season in the garden before they place the home on the market and prepare to move on to new and separate lives.

“This year, we finally made the decision to leave,” Damaris says.

“We’ve been split up for almost four years, and we live in two separate residences on the property. It’s been a long decision-making of, ‘Are we going to let it go? Are we really going to do this?’ But it’s time.”

Damaris and Ricki met on the property, back when it held only Damaris’ vinyl-sided house and an herb garden. A friend recommended Ricki, a stonemason, to build the water feature that became the pond.

BY CARRIE EIDSON Send your garden news to ceidson@mountainx.com

It can be difficult to decide on the best way to enter Wamboldtopia.

There’s the main entrance through a stone archway with inserts of gargoyles, skeletons, miniature staircases and headstones. The archway leads to stairs made from orange, pink and gray bricks stamped with geometric patterns — salvaged from Asheville streets now covered in concrete — and a railing that doubles as a silent guardian — a metal dragon whose long body is composed of rusted wheels and gears.

Or there’s the side entrance, which weaves up the garden’s steep hill via switchback trails lined with flowering bushes, moss and ferns.

There’s a bridge over a small pond, home to goldfish and aquatic plants, shaded by looming trees that cause the sunlight to flicker like lights on a Christmas tree. The trails lead all the way to the top of the hill and the rows of an herb garden, lined with fairy homes and figures of angels

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THE EVE OF WAMBOLDTOPIA: “This whole place is a love story,” says Damaris Pierce, seen here in the garden’s wedding circle — her “engagment ring,” built by Ricki Pierce, left. “There’s a lot of letting go.” Photo by Carrie Eidson

“We just had this chemistry,” Damaris recalls. “We completed the pond together, and he stayed.

The rest came together piece by piece. There was no master plan, no plan period.”

The couple spent the early years in their garden painstakingly hauling materials up the steep hill. With each new trail Ricki cut into the hillside came a new section to be filled with plants, stone walkways or Damaris’ sculptures. Much of Wamboldtopia developed out of necessity — including the stone façades and pathways, born from Ricki’s stockpile of excess materials.

“Stone is my medium, and it’s not like a bottle of paint,” Ricki says.

“It’s a pile of rock and another pile of rock and then, ‘What are we going to do with all these piles of rock?’ I kept bringing it home, so why not cover the house in stone? A lot of this came from that spirit of ‘why not?’”

Damaris and Ricki were married at Wamboldtopia within a year of meeting. Ricki built the wedding cir-

cle at the top of the hill to serve as Damaris’ engagement ring.

“She didn’t want a ring,” Ricki recalls. “She lugged all the brick up there in buckets before we even had the wheelbarrow trails.

She said she wanted the circle, so I said, ‘OK, for our wedding gift, since you don’t want a ring, I will build this circle so we can get married on it.’”

The garden continued to grow through what Damaris describes as “years of construction and chaos,” fueled by Ricki’s whimsy and Damaris’ love of traditional English herb gardens and lore.

“I remember just being totally overwhelmed,” Damaris recalls.

“But every time we would cut in another section, I was like, ‘OK, what can we do here?’ Each season things just grew. We didn’t set out to build some kind of monument — it was just letting creativity and imagination flow.”

As Wamboldtopia grew, it attracted the attention of the

shop. plant. bloom! neighborhood — long stares, frequent drive-bys and the occasional knock on the door. After much debate, the couple agreed to open the garden to the public for the first West Asheville Garden Stroll in 2009.

“I didn’t see it the way she was seeing it,” Ricki recalls. “I just thought, ‘This is my yard, and it isn’t any more special or different than anyone else’s. I just happen to be able to do this.’ But when we started letting people in, it was so gratifying and humbling to hear the response.”

Since the first WAGS tour, the garden has hosted schoolchildren, wandering artists, neighbors bringing their out-of-town guests, national writers from The Garden Bloggers Fling, a film crew from PBS, weddings and more neighborhood garden tours.

“I found that process so tender and moving,” Damaris says. “So much of our work is solitary, even when we’re working together, and what artist can work in isolation?

This place is a humongous canvas.”

Damaris says it was the feedback from the garden’s visitors that helped her and Ricki weather the hard times that would come later, including when they showed the garden as part of the 2010 Asheville GreenWorks Father’s Day tour.

“We had just decided to break up,” Damaris says. “It was really difficult to get ready for that, to pull our energies together to work on this while we were in the middle of this breakup.”

“I remember there being this moment for you where you were so moved,” she says to Ricki. “He was standing there by the pond, and people were raving and saying, ‘How magical!’ And he was in tears. You just don’t realize what you’ve accomplished until someone else spells it out.”

“I’m still moved,” Ricki says, tears visible in his eyes. “People still make me cry.”

“Awww,” Damaris exclaims.

“Mushy on the inside!”

Reflecting on the most important lessons they’ll take from Wamboldtopia, Damaris and Ricki could be talking about maintaining a relationship as much as maintaining a garden.

“Patience,” Ricki says.

“Go with the flow and let go of perfection,” Damaris says.

“Learn to be flexible, even when you are strong in your ideas.”

“Find that balance of planning and making it up as you go along.”

“Listen.”

Despite over a decade spent working on the property, the pair say they won’t be taking much from Wamboldtopia when they leave, save a few sculptures and stockpiles of rock.

“We could strip this place, take all the special plants, all the stone work,” Ricki says. “But it doesn’t make much sense to take it because then we would be taking apart what we spent so long building. And it would take the specialness away from here.”

“I’m leaving my engagement ring behind,” Damaris adds. “There’s a lot of letting go right now.”

Damaris says she doubts she’ll create anything like Wamboldtopia again.

She’s burned out on homeownership and after 15 years of work, she’s looking for “a lighter footprint.” But Ricki?

“Oh, he’s ready to do this again,” Damaris says.

“It’s true,” Ricki laughs. “I come home with material, which is a blessing and curse. It’s like the legend of going to hell and pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity. I’ve already spent my life doing that, so hopefully hell won’t be so bad.”

When asked their most vivid memory of Wamboldtopia, Ricki thinks back to the beginning.

“For me, it’s the first one, when Damaris and I met,” he says.

“Everything started around that pond and grew from there.”

“I’d say all this is, if anything, the result of one of the best friendships I’ve ever had,” he adds.

“Ditto,” Damaris says. “And also, working together — sweating and working and then stepping back and looking at what you’ve done, having a glass of tea on the porch and saying, ‘Wow, this was a good day.’”

“To me, this whole place is a love story, even now,” she continues. “We can talk all day about the work and the challenges and the specifics of the plants, but none of that would have come about if we hadn’t been so in love — if we didn’t love the garden, the sculpture, the rock, the work, the process and spending time with one another.”

“They call it a labor of love,” she adds.

“But there’s been no labor,” Ricki says. “I haven’t worked a day in the last 15 years. This has been fun.”

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ou might celebrate Independence Day by getting up at dawn to run a 5K. Or perhaps you’re the sort who cooks veggie burgers on the grill or sips wine with fireworks exploding overhead. Whatever you’re into, we’ve got the lowdown on where to go and what to do this July Fourth. There are plenty of choices nearby and others well worth the drive.

There’s sure to be a music festival, family-friendly event, worthy benefit party or fireworks display that’s perfect for you. (All events on July 4 unless otherwise noted.)

START OFF RUNNING At 8 a.m., Brevard starts the morning with a 5K/10K Firecracker Run. Register online at brevardrotary.org or on event day starting at 6 a.m. Afterward, stroll the Transylvania Community Arts Council’s annual Fine Arts & Craft Showcase and browse the classic automobile show displaying 1920s to 1970s vintage vehicles. Enjoy musical entertainment all day at the courthouse gazebo. Fireworks start at 9:30 p.m. at Brevard College. Free.

Montreat kicks it off early with a 5K from its stone gate at 7 a.m.; no entry fee or registration. Parade starts at 10:30 a.m. Montreat Cottagers host a barbecue lunch at noon catered by Red Radish Catering; $10 (adults), $8 (kids 9 and younger). Annual Craft Fair Auction, 1 p.m.; old-timer’s softball, 2 p.m.; square dance, 7 p.m. Free admission. montreat.org.

Freedom Fest in Bryson City begins at 8 a.m. with the Rotary Club Firecracker 5K in Riverfront Park. Visit Kids’ Street to explore a rock-climbing wall, a waterslide and a train ride. Three music stages offer entertainment. There’s even a Strut Your Mutt canine event. Fireworks end the evening. Free admission. Info: 800-867-9246. greatsmokies.com/FreedomFest

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ALL-DAY AFFAIRS Stars, Stripes and Strings benefits MANNA FoodBank at Asheville Music Hall. Admission: five cans or cash donation. Event runs 11 a.m.-4 p.m. with a yard sale/exchange, kids area, live music, including John Hardy Party, and specials on beer, burgers and hot dogs. Later, local electronic musician Marley Carroll performs an evening show with sets by Elaquent and BomBassic. 10 p.m., $10/$12. ashevillemusichall.com Picnic at Lake Julian. The park offers picnic tables, grills, a sand volleyball court, two horseshoe pits, boat rental and playground. Fireworks begin at dark.

Parking at Estes Elementary School on Long Shoals Road across from the lake.

From Asheville, take I-26 East to Exit 37.

Turn left at the light onto Long Shoals Road. Free.

Tweetsie Railroad’s Fireworks Extravaganza. North Carolina’s first theme park celebrates its 58th season.

Park opens at 9 a.m. Take a scenic, 3-mile Wild West adventure tour, pan for gold and stay for fireworks. Buffet dinner offered in special viewing area for adults ($14.95), children 3-12 ($9.95) and children 2 and younger (free). Located on U.S. 321 between Boone and Blowing Rock. Fireworks parking: $5. Day pass to park: Adults, $39; children 3-12, $26; 2 and younger, free. Info: 877.TWEETSIE (877-893-3874) Tweetsie.com Orchard at Altapass on Blue Ridge Parkway offers a covered-dish picnic with free live music, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Bring a dish with plenty to share or purchase an adult meal ($12) or child’s meal ($6). The Orchard provides Southernstyle barbecue, buns, tea, water, plates and utensils. Lawn chairs recommended.

Waynesville’s Stars and Stripes celebration runs 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Main Street with free live music and a sidewalk sale.

Kids on Main children’s parade starts at 11 a.m. downtownwaynesville.com Highlands kicks off its all-day celebration with a kids bottle-rocket launch and relay races. At 11 a.m., the Rotary Club serves lunch ($5) and drinks ($1). At 1 p.m., check out the third annual Rotary Rubber Ducky Derby at Mill Creek. Live music starts at 6 p.m. at Town Square and Pine Street Park. Free admission.

Fireworks at 9 p.m. 526-2112. highlandschamber.org The parade begins at 10 a.m. in downtown Franklin. Festivities include food vendors, a cornhole tournament at 3 p.m. and fireworks at dark at the Macon

County Recreational Park. Free admission. franklin-chamber.com Regionally recognized Family Fun on the Fourth celebration in Crossnore includes the annual craft fair, part of the Appalachian Women Entrepreneurs Program, featuring locally made wares displayed 10 a.m.-7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Blair Fraley Sales Store. Parade starts at 4 p.m., and festivities include free watermelon, kids games and live music. A street dance begins at 7 p.m., with fireworks at dusk. Free admission. crossnorenc.com

AFTERNOON AGENDA Maestro Kraig Alan Williams leads the Brevard Symphonic Winds in marches, patriotic songs and other favorites culminating in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with live cannons. Enjoy a picnic on the lawn before the concert, which starts at 2 p.m. Lawn ($15) and orchestra ($30-$40) seating.

Tickets and info: brevardmusic.org/ festival/performances/15766/ Downtown Asheville’s Pack Square Park hosts Ingles Independence Day Celebration. From 2-6 p.m., kids can cool off in the Splashville fountain, pop inside a bouncy house and play kidfriendly activities for a $2 wristband. The Ultimate Air Dogs will jump onstage at 2, 4, 6 and 7:30 p.m. Music begins at 4 p.m. with indie rock band Lunch Money, followed by local country artist Joe Lasher Jr. Rockabilly legend Junior Brown headlines. Known for his signature “guitsteel” double-neck guitar, Brown’s music spans the range from traditional blues and Western swing, to honky-tonk and even surf rock. Bring a picnic or sample a variety of local food vendors. Beer and wine are for sale, including local brews. No outside alcohol, pets or vending permitted. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Free admission. ashevilledowntown.org Black Mountain’s Downtown Street Dance and Fireworks starts at 5 p.m. on Sutton Avenue, with music, food vendors and games. Fireworks at dusk. Free admission. blackmountain.org.

EVENING STARS Stars on the Square in Burnsville offers a fireworks show at dark. Afterward, the Blue Ridge Astronomy Group will share high-powered telescopes with the public. Viewers can expect to see Mars in close conjunction with the moon. Burnsville Town Square, July 5.

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254-5146. montfordparkplayers.org White Horse Black Mountain offers up three bands — and a great place to watch the fireworks in Black Mountain. Young players The Moore Brothers and veteran performers Bobby and Blue Ridge Tradition play traditional and original bluegrass, while Noonday Feast dishes out Celtic folk fusion. Audience members can take in the fireworks between sets.

Tickets: $15; show starts at 7:30 p.m. whitehorseblackmountain.com West Asheville’s Isis Music Hall presents Brushfire Stankgrass, whose contemporary progressive bluegrass sound blends elements of world music, jazz and jam rock. Opening the show is Chattanooga’s “garage grass” band Strung Like A Horse. Tickets: $10/$12; show at 9 p.m.

Doors open at 5 p.m. isisasheville.com Enjoy all-American baseball and fireworks with the Asheville Tourists hosting the Lexington Legends at 6p.m. at McCormick Field. A spectacular fireworks show follows. Advance tickets recommended: $7-$30, July 4 and 5. theashevilletourists.com

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Want to see fireworks from the peak of Sunset Mountain? The Swannanoa Valley Museum’s 45-minute moderateto-easy Fireworks Hike starts at 6 p.m. and includes watermelon, soft drinks, and transport of hikers’ chairs and equipment to the peak, where hikers watch the Black Mountain fireworks display in comfort.

Fee: $20 (members), $35 (nonmembers).

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the floor, Cripps Puppets and fireworks at dusk. 5-10 p.m. Free admission. visitweaverville.com/events Step out at a country barn dance at Asheville’s Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road. Doors open at 8 p.m., and two-step dance instruction with Deb Swanson follows at 8:30.

Asheville honky-tonk band Hearts Gone South plays at 9 p.m., followed by the pure country sound of The Longtime Goners. Includes a pie auction, cakewalk, contests and prizes. Admission: $5 or $1 if you bring a pie or cake for the auction or cakewalk. toyboatcommunityartspace. com/ Cherokee’s 39th annual Pow Wow Weekend begins at 5 p.m. at the Acquoni Expo Center. The Grand Entry march starts at 7 p.m., with fireworks at dusk. Two more days of festivities featuring world-champion Indian dancers follow on July 5 and 6 from noon to 6 p.m. Admission: $10/day. visitcherokeenc.com Hendersonville’s Music on Main features Tom Brown/One Man Band from 7 to 9 p.m. Free admission. Fireworks to follow.

No pets, alcohol, backpacks or coolers. historichendersonville.org Watch fireworks from the shores of Lake Lure or take a ride on a Lake Lure tour boat ($25), departing at 7 p.m. Fireworks at 9:20 p.m. The 1927 Lake Lure Inn & Spa hosts an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet 4-8 p.m. for adults ($14.95), kids 6-12 ($7.95) and younger 6 (free). lakelure.com Red White & Boom, 7-11 p.m. Free admission. Fireworks at 10 p.m. at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. maggievalley.org/ The town of Old Fort hosts one of the biggest fireworks extravaganzas in the area at dusk. Free admission. oldfort.org

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for a reservation, which is posted on the morning desired. Reservations guarantee your spot for the entire day. To reserve a city picnic shelter, go to ashevillenc.gov and click on “online services.”

If a shelter has not been reserved, it’s available free on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Many other city sites provide wooden tables with bench-type seating without a reservation, and of course, anyone may picnic on a spot on the grass. Two of the picnic parks have dog runs — not next to the shelters — but otherwise pets must be on a leash and under human control, (yes, that includes cats too).

A list of rules is posted at each park and are what you would expect of civilized people in a public venue: No alcohol, no drugs, no smoking and no weapons are allowed in city parks. There are other rules; be sure to read them on site.

The following parks have reservable picnic shelters: • Aston Park: 336 Hilliard St. • Carrier Park: 220 Amboy • E. Asheville Center: 906 Tunnel Road • French Broad River Park: 508 Riverview Dr. • Malvern Hills Park: 75 Rumbough Place • Murphy/Oakley Park: 715 Fairview Road

GATHER ON THE GRASS: Wherever there’s a patch of green, people like to gather and relax for picnics and conversations. File photo

Celebrating the Fourth of July by eating outside

By Dewitt Robbeloth dewittrobbeloth@gmail.com The art of picnicking goes way back.

Omar Khayyam waxed poetic on the perfect outdoor dining experience in the 12th century (“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness”). Medieval nobleman paused in their hunts to dine en plein air, and hundreds of years later, Britain’s glum Lord Chesterfield acquainted picnicking with drinking, cards and conversation. But when onceprivate, all-royal parks opened to the public after France’s 18th-century revo-

lution, picnicking became a sort of vive le revolution pastime (in 2000, the country celebrated a 600-mile-long picnic in honor of Bastille Day).

So in the United States, naturally, nothing says le pique-nique like the Fourth of July — never mind that June 18 was International Picnic Day. But the real question du jour: Where to gather, spread out and dine?

ASHEVILLE PICNIC SITES To picnic within the city limits of Asheville, consider the public sites provided by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. There are about 70 of them, including Pritchard Park and Triangle Park right downtown. A list and map is available on the department website (avl.mx/0c3).

Some privately owned green areas are also open to the public — most notably some parts of the Biltmore Estate’s 8,000 acres, where any adult with a yearly pass or a daily ticket may picnic (and children younger than 16 years may accompany them free). Biltmore

• Recreation Park: 69 Gashes Creek Road has two outdoor pavilions specially designed for picnics; ask directions at the entrance gate near Biltmore Village.

A few other non-city parks are frequent picnic spots: Lake Julian, south of the city; and Craggy Gardens, 24 miles north of town on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 367.5; and the picnic grounds near Mount Pisgah at Milepost 364. With rhododendrons blooming now (or soon, at the higher elevations), almost anywhere along the parkway is a good spot.

Lake Julian, meanwhile, offers boating opportunities, with kayaks, canoes and pedal-pushers for rent, or bring your own floater (but no motorboats).

Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain is also a convenient, accessible, free, public picnic spot.

One important thing to know about Asheville city parks is that you may not bring your own grill to cook on. Most of the designated picnic shelters provide grills, and some offer electricity for cooking or warming food. The nine Asheville park shelters, listed below, may be reserved for outdoor eating, but a fee of $40 is required

• Riverbend Park: along Swannanoa River • Weaver Park: 200 Murdock Ave. • West Asheville Park: 11 Vermont Ave. Ext. X

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Adding a bottle of vino to the basket makes any picnic extra special. Eberhard Heide of the Asheville Wine Market recommends the following wines to complement a picnic meal, all of which fall nicely within the $8-15 range: • Kerisac Cuvée Spéciale Cider; Normandy, France ($7.99 per bottle) • 2013 Cortenova Pinot Grigio; IGT Puglia, Italy ($9.99 per bottle) • 2013 Weingut Liegenfeld Hüber Grüner Veltliner; Burgenland, Austria ($14.99 per liter bottle) • 2012 El Cortijillo; La Mancha, Spain (Summer Special $8.49 per bottle) • 2013 Weingut Martinshof Zweigelt; Weinland, Austria ($14.99 per liter bottle) Roman’s Deli & Catering, 75A Haywood St., 505-1552 Laurey’s, 67 Biltmore Ave., 252-1500 Louise’s Kitchen, 115 Black Mountain Ave. Black Mountain, 357-8088 Asheville Wine Market, 65 Biltmore Ave., 253-0060 X

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Roman Braverman says his boxed lunches — like this Italian panini with pasta salad — keep and transport well for a no-fuss picnic meal. Photo by Jayson Im

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As you head out to enjoy a picnic, whether at a downtown park or in the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, why not designate some of the packing duty to one of Asheville’s chefs? Grocery stores such as Katuah Market, Green Life, Earth Fare and the French Broad Food Co-op offer premade, wrapped sandwiches and packaged salads that can be picked up quickly en route to your favorite picnic spot or packed away as you head out for a hike, but many restaurants also offer boxed or easy-to-grab lunch options.

Louise’s Kitchen in downtown Black Mountain offers customers a picnic lunch package that goes well beyond brown-bagging it. “They get two wine glasses, a bottle of wine, a blanket and lunch for two for $65,” says owner Bud Rainey. Customers are given their choice of two sandwiches and a side of fruit. No need to worry about returning the picnic basket, wine glasses or the blanket — they are intended to be taken home and enjoyed again. But where to go with this elegant picnic package? “There are some great places to picnic here in Black Mountain,” Rainey says.

“Lake Tomahawk is a great spot to have a picnic, as well as the Montreat Park area along the river.”

Laurey’s on Biltmore Avenue is known for making a wide variety of foods with fresh, local ingredients. “Our deli case is always stocked with a lot of seasonal fresh salads. Sweet potato salad is always really

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popular, and it’s great for a picnic,” says Adam Thome, general manager and chef.

For a refreshing alternative to the traditional sandwich and side, Thome recommends gazpacho. “We sell gallons of it all summer long,” he says. For groups of 10 or more, Laurey’s offers a boxed lunch that consists of a sandwich or wrap, pasta salad and a cookie.

If you don’t have a large group, or are looking for a last-minute picnic lunch, Laurey’s kitchen manager Andrew Hauet recommends just stopping by. “We are always happy to just pack up what we have in the case, or if people drop in we can have a sandwich ready to go for them in two to three minutes,” he says.

Roman Braverman, owner of the downtown lunch spot Roman’s, says making food that travels well is a focus of his restaurant, which is known for its delivery service.

“We do more to-gos than we do in-house around here, so customers kind of know us for that. We do boxed lunches and salads and everything else like that to go,” he says.

“Our food also holds up really well to go. I think this is why we do the amount of to-go orders that we do. We put it in compostable containers, and it will hold up for a few hours, so you don’t need to worry about eating it right away.”

Other local spots that can swiftly put together a picnic-friendly to-go order include Asheville Sandwich Co., Two Guys Hoagies, Tod’s Tasties, all in

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The crafting of Asheville’s artisanal creamery culture

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It is a balmy and bright Thursday morning, and over in Fairview, just outside the hustle and bustle of the city, Jennifer Perkins is unlocking the door to the small creamery she runs with her husband, Andy.

The building is conveniently located next door to their house and comfortable 2-acre yard.

“Our process is slightly different than a lot of other cheese-makers.

We’re obviously not a dairy,” she says, pointing to the creamery’s lone goat. “We’re not a farmstead operation; we buy or trade everything for products from local farms, we bring it here and we make cheese.”

Looking Glass Creamery opened its facility in 2009. Perkins had been working as the cheese maker at the famed Blackberry Farms in Tennessee, and when “it got to a point where we were going to have to move out there full time,” she says, her reluctance to sell their home in Fairview led her to give up her work at the respected agritourism destination and start a creamery of her own.

Now, the business is a daily practice that stays close to home. “Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I go to Round Mountain Creamery, where I buy up to 200 gallons of goat’s milk,” she explains. “We don’t have a cold tank, so we have no way of storing the milk, so once it gets here, we have to start making it right away.”

When I show up, the milk is already loaded and ready to go.

The milk first has to be pasteurized, which is done in a big, temperaturecontrolled machine. The cheese we are about to make is Looking Glass’ popular Elliston variety, a soft and creamy brie, so Perkins says no other heating or treatment is needed. For

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harder cheeses, like cheddars or Parmesans, the milk is heated and cooked, which forces out whey. Briestyle cheeses, on the other hand, are maintained at a lower temperature keeping the moisture and a lot of the whey in the cheese, Once the milk has been pasteurized and cultures have been added, rennet is thrown into the mix. “A rennet is an enzyme from the lining of a cow’s stomach,” Perkins casually mentions, “and that is what starts the coagulation of the cheese. Of course, we make those in labs now. What you’re doing with cheese-making is essentially controlling your spoilage. You’re making it inhospitable for bad bacteria, and making it open for the good bacteria that you want.”

Looking Glass cheese is made in 60-gallon batches, but the yields are small. “Roughly, a gallon of milk will make about a pound of cheese,” she says. Keep in mind, a gallon of milk can weigh up to 8.8 pounds.

CULTURAL SPOTLIGHT: Cheese Store of Asheville owner Katie Moore, left, and Jennifer Perkings, owner of Looking Glass Creamery, right, are both working to bring attention to locally made cheese.

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Perkins and her small staff of two employees, Ashley Ioakimedes and William Goldberg, scoop up the curds in big metal sieves and pour them into large cone-shaped strainers where the curds drain their whey over the course of days until they are left with a perfectly shaped cheese. “You can see how big these are,” says Perkins, pointing to one of the straining molds. “But you lose a lot of this throughout the process. From the start to the finish, you lose about two-thirds of your product by the time it’s done.” That’s an easy

explanation for the high cost of a quality product like artisanal cheese.

Unlike most cheese-makers, Perkins doesn’t shop her cheeses out at local farmers markets. Instead she relies on distribution through local grocers and, like several other regional cheese makers, has opened a shop at the creamery itself. “We just needed a way to connect directly with the customers,” she says.

The shop also sells an assortment of local crackers and cured meats as well as reasonably priced bottles of wine, allowing visitors to take advantage of the scenic acreage for picnics and to enjoy the end result of the creamery’s labor.

But the challenge of reaching a public accustomed to just picking up any generic cheese from the grocery store poses a significant obstacle for area cheese-makers. Fortunately, folks like Katie Moore of the Cheese Store of Asheville are there to shine a spotlight on local producers. Moore moved here from Los Angeles in 2013.

LARG EST SM O K E SH O P O N T H E E AS T CO AS T “When I was looking for a change, I came here, saw there was no cheese store, and I thought, ‘Maybe I should do that,’” she says.

“There are a lot of great cheesemakers in this area, and it would be really nice if people knew about them.” Her shop features a rotating variety of more than 60 different cheeses, a third of which come from local producers.

Moore has been working with Rachel English Brown, whose family runs English Farmstead Cheese, to build the WNC Cheese Trail, a guide to the mountains’ remarkable local cheese community. “It’s about getting the word out about them, their work, the cheeses they make, encouraging people to buy from the makers and to visit the makers. We also do a lot of education about what cheese is, why it’s important to buy locally,” says Moore.

With 11 local creameries on the map, the group has built a fun and simple guide to where to go and whom to buy from in the region when it comes to local cultures. “We have goat cheese, cow cheese and people that do both,” says Brown, “We have people who have animals on-site and people that don’t, who buy it from other local farmers. But the main thing is that while everyone is starting with the same thing — milk — everyone puts their own spin on it, and I think that is why it works so well for us.”

“Part of the trail is conceptual, and part of it is real,” explains Moore, “There is a website and map that gives you an idea of the cheese-makers in this region.

Some of them are just not open for visitors, because they are basically working farms, and it’s really hard for them to have guests.

A lot of them are open to visitors with an appointment, and there are a couple that have little shops on premises like English Farmstead and Looking Glass, so there are some that are really opening themselves up for visitors.”

To find out more about local cheesemakers, head to wnccheesetrail. vpweb.com.

Jonathan Ammons is employed by Weinhaus, the storefront that houses the Cheese Store of Asheville, a separate business. X

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Cocktails get all shook up at Off The Wagon’s luau By 9 p.m. on June 20, most seats were filled at Off the Wagon’s first themed event: an Elvis-inspired Hawaiian luau. There were several large groups, one table of 20 and quite a few couples. But the minute dueling piano maestros Jess Mills and Eddie Hathaway started tinkling the keys, it was one big party, everybody clapping and singing along: a roomful of piano aficionados dying to hear their favorite song, which just happened to be “All Shook Up.” The good-natured staff were all in costume: Sarah Allison, Kayla Boyd and Nicole Neal in colorful sarongs, and doorman Josh Hodgin greeting guests in Hawaiian shirt and lei. Most notably, services manager Brett Kiser’s campy getup — grass skirt and coconut bra — was right out of a Gilligan’s Island repeat.

The drink specials, reminiscent of what Elvis drank in the film Blue Hawaii, were the Blue Hawaiian (a big handful of a tumbler filled with blue Curacao liqueur, pineapple juice and rum) and the mai tai (light and dark rum, orange Curacao and lime in a tall, shapely glass).

But what if you like a little food with your alcohol? Off the Wagon doesn’t serve any, but one group carried in a bag of popcorn as big as a man’s torso, and the party of 20 was passing around a Mellow Mushroom pizza. In addition, the piano bar has a deal with two neighboring restaurants, Brasilia Steakhouse and Korean House: You can order from a special small-plates menu, and the staff will pick it up and bring it right to your table.

The atmosphere on this particular Friday was high-energy, all-inclusive, humorously irreverent and thoroughly interactive. Entertainment bartender J.J. Sherman, aka Wrangler, was assigned to the bachelorette party: five tutu-clad young women at a reserved table front and center.

“We’re the bachelorette party destination of Asheville,” said Kiser.

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DRINK IT UP: The drink menu at Off the Wagon runs the gamut from local beer and wine by the glass to Blue Hawaiians and mai tais.

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at once.” The bachelorettes had their own drink menu, rated from G to XXX. Asked what makes a drink XXX, Wrangler explained, “The best way to describe it is, it’s more about who it’s done with than what’s in it.” Then he helped a bachelorette hold her hair back as she slurped a whipped cream concoction situated between the legs of a male stranger, as guests swarmed around to watch.

Obviously a professional, Wrangler held a clean towel underneath the ladies’ chins as he poured shots down their throats. The Vegas transplant is clearly a man who’ll not only get you wasted but will get you some truly awkward photos for later.

The all-request piano bar ran the gamut from Elvis tunes to rock ’n’ roll (“Sweet Home Alabama,” “Walk This Way,” “Pour Some Sugar On Me”), the occasional rap and more recent hits like “Low”

by Flo Rida.

Asheville resident Lexie Autrey was there celebrating her promotion, sharing a fishbowl drink with friends.

“This is a typical Friday night,” said Kiser, “but on Saturdays at midnight it’s standing room only.”

The huge drink selection includes wine and Champagne by the glass, the signature 64-ounce fishbowls (served in the real deal), local brews, specialty shots and drinks. For the designated driver crowd, there’s Red Bull (sugar and sugar-free) or soda, and no one was judging. Still, the intoxicating house-party ambiance made it mighty tempting to throw caution to the wind and order that Mrs. Robinson fishbowl (a tantalizing combination of Kraken black rum and homemade lemonade).

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RIBFEST GETS A MAKEOVER As in summers past, WNC residents can expect a barbecue rib festival to happen this month at the WNC Agricultural Center. But this year there’s a new RibFest in town. What has been called since 2007 the Carolina Mountain RibFest will now be known as Carolina West RibFest and will sport an edgy new look aimed at appealing to a broader, more alternative audience.

Due to health issues, event founder and local events promoter John Patterson recently passed the RibFest torch to Greensboro, N.C.-based AKA Entertainment & Media, which plans to take the festival in a new direction.

Allen McDavid, AKA’s president, says the event will maintain a focus on serving up top-quality barbecued ribs, but gone are the days of country music, sweet tea and car shows. Instead, the event will provide a rather eclectic mix of entertainment — think sideshow acts, cancan girls and masked lucha libre wrestlers.

“The former Carolina Mountain RibFest has joined similar events in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington and Winston-Salem that put a different twist on what a barbecue festival is all about. But make no mistake about it, the meat and music are taken very seriously … the rest of the show, not so much,” says McDavid via email.

Carolina West RibFest will feature an expanded roster of highprofile, national barbecue competitors, including Solomon Williams of South Carolina’s Carolina Rib King, Rooster Roberts of Arcadia, Fla.’s Florida Skin and Bones and Larry Murphy of Camp 31 out of Castelberry, Ala., all vying for four top awards.

Musical performers will include Underhill Rose, Circus Mutt, Moon Taxi and Jason McKinney.

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BRAD DAUGHERTY TO OPEN SOUTH ASHEVILLE EATERY Former NBA star, ESPN foodshow host and NASCAR team owner Brad Daugherty has announced plans to open a new restaurant, Daugherty’s American Kitchen and Drink, in the South Asheville Gerber Village location that until recently was the home of Frankie Bones. Traci Kearns of the Asheville-based Alchemy Design is doing a major overhaul on the interior to reconfigure the space with a new theme and a second bar. Menu items will be designed for sharing and stacks of small plates at each table will facilitate communal enjoyment of the dishes among guests. Daugherty’s is slated to open in mid to late July with dinner starting at 4 p.m. daily. Lunch will be added starting Friday, Aug. 1. The bar will be open with a quick-bites

menu available 10 p.m.-midnight. bradskitchen.com BATTLE OF THE BURGER Asheville Food Fights’ hugely successful Asheville Wing War will soon be joined by a new installment in the series of annual culinary throw-downs to raise money for local charities: the WNC Battle of the Burger. Only 15 local restaurants will compete in the event on Sunday, Aug. 10, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel downtown. A limited number of You Be the Judge tickets will be available for $30 each that include all-you-can-eat burger samples and beer from Sierra Nevada and Pisgah Brewing.

General admission is $5. Children younger than 12 get in free. So far, the lineup includes Ambrozia, Farm Burger, Mojo Kitchen and Lounge, The Social, King James Public House, Ben’s Tune-Up, The Vault and BT’s Burger Joint. The winner will qualify to participate in the World Food Championships to be held in Las Vegas in November.

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Digging in Burial puts down roots in South Slope In late June, David Paul Seymour — the man who creates all of Burial Beer’s artwork — started posting pictures of can designs for Scythe Rye Pale Ale on Instagram. While Burial’s closest thing to a flagship is certainly popular, the idea of it in a can is forward thinking to say the least.

Burial is currently only open a few days a week. With a one-barrel system, it serves all the beer it can produce in just three days. How would it suddenly have enough surplus beer to can by fall?

The original plan, according to owners Doug Reiser, Jess Reiser and Tim Gormley, was to build a second brewery on a farmhouse outside town.

“When we moved in [to 40 Collier Ave.] last year, we didn’t know if people were going to dig this space. It’s an old run-down building in an alley without a sign,” says Doug Reiser.

“But the positive response happened immediately. We’ve had people come three days in a row partly because of this space. … It’s become a part of who we are.”

So the owners decided the farmhouse would have to wait. The first priority was to purchase 40 Collier Ave. “We have a new 10-barrel brewing system ready to install right now,” says Reiser, “but it took us a long time to determine if we could stay here.”

THE CHANGES AHEAD Purchasing the property is just the first in a series of many steps for Burial. Now that it has a home for new equipment and ownership of the entire space instead of just part of 40 Collier, here’s what to expect: • A brand-new brewery in a brand new room: The new 10-barrel brewhouse will be installed in a part of the building nobody has ever seen.

“We’re going to move the one-barrel system we have now over there too,” says Reiser. “But we’re going to

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ALL DECKED OUT: Burial’s plans for the future include building a deck out front to replace its current stool-and-ledge setup. Photo by Thom O’Hearn

knock down the wall so the brewing systems are still part of the taproom.

There will be a chain link, but you’ll still be right next to the brewery.”

• New bathrooms and a revamped main taproom: “We still need to sit down with our architect, but one of the first things we need to do is expand our one bathroom into two,” says Reiser. “That will give us a men’s and women’s room, but it will also help us increase our capacity.”

Reiser says that the bar will then expand, some half-dividing walls will be torn down, and small coolers will be removed to take the taproom from about 1,200 to 1,900 square feet.

• Outdoors galore: “The property that everyone has seen — our main building and the side yard behind that back wall — will be our brew house. But then there’s another 600700 square feet of space. Behind that building is a lot on Millard that will now be ours, too,” says Reiser. The

owners plan to turn that eighth of an acre up into a beer garden and small urban farm. “We want to do something similar to Roberta’s [in Brooklyn, N.Y.],” says Reiser. “They grow about half of what they use. …

Our property has good soil, and we plan to have wildflowers, fruit trees and even some vegetables back there.”

What about the front loading bay?

“We’re hoping to build a big deck off the front, too, if the city is OK with it,” says Reiser.

THE TIMING While the brewery may come online in August or thereabouts, the owners say the rest of the changes to the building will be incremental.

They hope to have everything completed by the end of 2014, but there are no guarantees.

However, they say that once the new brewery is up and running in

late summer or early fall, Burial’s fans have plenty to look forward to. First, there will be more beer.

The team brewed 150 barrels on a one-barrel system in the first year.

With a 10-barrel system, it can brew that much beer in as little as two months.

According to Reiser, the large system will mean Scythe, Skillet, Spade, Bolo, Hayknife, Billhook and Surf Wax will all be regular fixtures on tap at the brewery.

They also may start finding their way to other places around town.

As for taking Burial beers to-go, “We’re looking into canning later this year … probably Scythe and Skillet first, though that’s not yet finalized,” says Reiser.

Once the taproom is ready to expand capacity, the owners say to expect regular hours Wednesday to Sunday, likely until about 11 most nights.

“We can’t wait to have more people by for events like our anniversary party,” says Reiser, “barrel-aged bottle releases and music outside. ... We can’t wait for those to be more regular things.”X

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A good number of establishments still won’t book local rockers Posh Hammer. It’s not because they trash dressing rooms or reduce sound men to tears — it’s because of the band members’ ages. “We get there and we load in, and the bands playing with us or the people already there or the owners of the venue always seem a little bit like, ‘Oh no, here’s a bunch of teenagers,’” says Navied Setayesh, the band’s 16-year-old lyricist and lead guitarist. “Then we play, and they really like us afterward.”

Along with a modernized ’70s glam-rock aesthetic inspired by David Bowie and the suits and ties of Roxy Music, the group brings its surprisingly advanced chops to a free show at the Mothlight on Wednesday, July 9, opening for fellow local rockers Alarm Clock Conspiracy and Hard Rocket.

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Navied and his 15-year-old sisters, twins Tasnim (vocals/guitar) and Tiam (bass/harmony), persuaded their supportive parents (Iranianborn Reza and Asheville native Eva, owners of Rezaz and Piazza restaurants) to home-school them. It’s a change the siblings view as more of an inevitability than a choice. “We always grew up with music in the house. Our parents were always playing something and exposing us to different types of stuff,” Navied says. “Then we started playing and just slowly got more into it, so it was just sort of natural that we’d really want to pursue it.”

Progressing from messing around with cover songs in their basement to writing original material, the Setayeshes booked studio time at Echo Mountain and recorded six tracks in mid-2013 with a stu-

HAMMER TIME: “The bands playing with us or the people already there or the owners of the venue always seem a little bit like, ‘Oh no, here’s a bunch of teenagers,’” says Navied Setayesh, right, who performs in Posh Hammer with his sisters Tasnim and Tiam and Daniel Cracchiolo.

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dio drummer. Shortly thereafter, and thanks to the fact that fellow home-schooler Daniel Cracchiolo is, in Navied’s words, “the type of 16-year-old drummer who has business cards and pins them up around town,” the guitarist spotted said card on a record store cork board and set up an audition

via email. Rehearsing together for a single week, the new foursome played its first gig as a unit at The Grey Eagle. Though that show was a success, their dynamic has significantly improved in the meantime.

“We’re a lot more cohesive now and we’ve been writing material with Daniel present, so he’s been putting his input on stuff,” Navied says. “It’s sort of a weird thing because me and the girls are siblings, and when we’re practicing or onstage, I can think something and not necessarily tell them that’s what I want them to do, but they’ll just automatically do it.

The more Daniel plays with us, the closer he gets to that.”

Unlike their dedication to music, Posh Hammer is composed of selfprofessed slackers when it comes to getting driver’s licenses (“It’s a long program,” Navied says). That means

a parent drives them to shows in North Carolina and the surrounding states in a creamy pistachiocolored van they’ve affectionately dubbed Oliver. Once their set is finished, the quartet tries to talk as much as possible with appreciative audience members and sticks around to hear all the acts on the night’s bill. This camaraderie has helped expand their popularity in the regional music scene, and while their booking agent and parents provide plenty of assistance with behind-the-scenes duties, the band works to be involved in every business aspect that they can. “We

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know one day we’ll have to take over, hopefully sooner rather than later,” Navied says.

His wish might come true faster than he realizes. In May, 11 months after their initial session, the Setayeshes returned to Echo Mountain to finish their debut album. Under the guidance of producer Julian Dreyer, they cut six more songs and went back to refine the previously recorded songs, which included Tasnim redoing all of her vocal tracks. The band agrees that the results are far more cohesive than the nearly yearlong space between studio times would suggest. With art currently being finalized, they expect the album to be released sometime in the next few months.

Posh Hammer has learned much in a relatively short time about what it takes to be successful in the music industry. The crucial secret to the musicians is establishing something unique, which Tasnim believes they’ve found with a new genre she calls “Posh rock.” Navied brushes away that claim, saying in a matter-offact brotherly tone, “It’s really just pop rock.” Whatever it is, it’s working. X

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Animal instincts Even the Animals releases sophomore effort, The Lonesome Sea An album release is cause for celebration — the long hours in the studio; the funds raised through gigs, jobs and the kindness of friends and fans; the songs finally brought to life and ready for an audience. Considering, it might seem like a counterintuitively lowkey move for folk-rock group Even the Animals to release its new project, The Lonesome Sea, during a happy hour show at French Broad Brewing on Saturday, July 5. But the band has good reason for this particular party plan.

First, the event doubles as a fundraiser for the family of local musician and world’s nicest guy Dave Desmelik, whose young son is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor. French Broad will donate 10 percent of sales through Sunday, July 6 to the Desmelik family.

Second, the local brewery not only puts out some of the area’s favorite brews but has a tradition of booking a great lineup of musical acts. “French Broad has been good to us, and every time we play there, we have a great show,” says Even the Animals singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeff Markham.

“We’re not a crazy-loud rock band that gets in your face. I’d rather play for a small audience who gets what we’re doing.”

Markham has been in crazier, louder bands: fuzzed-out indie rock outfit Kerouac or the Radio and driving Americana act The Last Call among them. But when he went into the studio with Even the Animals bandmates Peter Van Rijssen and Will Hogencamp last year to record their self-titled debut he says, “It was the first time I didn’t think about an audience.” The songs, at turns softfocused and wistful, jangly and gently rhythmic, were exactly the kind of material the musician wanted to create. To his surprise, listeners not only responded to Even the Animals’ authentic take on contemporary folk, they were quick to lend support so the band could finish its sophomore record.

Tracked at Solomon Mines Music Studio in Fletcher, The Lonesome Sea builds on the same dusky melodies that the band is

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LONESOME TOGETHER: Even the Animals recorded its new album, The Lonesome Sea, with the support of friends and fans. “I’d rather play for a small audience who gets what we’re doing,” says frontman Jeff Markham.

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known for. Markham’s whiskyand-twilight vocal is handsomely matched by the burnished warmth of Van Rijssen’s harmonies. On the bleakly gorgeous lead track “Long Cold Rest,” local singer Leigh Glass provides a duet part that would make Gram and Emmylou proud. Melancholy and hope glimpse each other across a crowded room on “Once in Your Life.” There, percussionist Danni Iosello provides a tasteful backbone to that jangly slow dance.

Iosello has since amicably parted with the band; Jonathan Darconte (a Keroac or the Radio and the Last Call alum) will fill in at some future shows.

The Lonesome Sea also features keyboard parts by guest artist Ian Riddell. “I don’t know that piano was even a thought in beginning,” says Markham. Van Rijssen is credited with that idea; Riddell will perform at the album release party.

So, that French Broad Brewing show is a blowout (if unassumingly so), but it’s also a commemoration of what it takes to make art, especially with full-time jobs and families in the mix. “You do anything as an artist and you realize it’s going to work or it’s not,” says Markham. “You have a 50-50 shot.” While Even the Animals

isn’t looking for a big record deal or anything on that scale, the band does plan to expand its reach, playing shows around the region. Fittingly, at the album release party, Even the Animals will perform two hours of material, both old and new, starting with an acoustic set and transitioning into a full band performance by the end of the evening.

That seems like the right direction for a group that’s content to quietly grow its catalog and its fan base.

They’re in it for the duration. “I’m compelled,” says Markham. “Even if I wanted to quit playing music, I can’t. I’ve tried, and I can’t.” X

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Tell it like it is Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch series spotlights diversity Before coming to Asheville, Sarah Larson, the founder/director of the Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch series, taught storytelling to high school students through a required course in genealogy. She encouraged her students to research their ancestors’ cultures, Larson says, “and then they had to learn a story from that culture.”

Larson brought her passion for storytelling with her when she moved to Asheville. And when she graduated from the Leadership Asheville Seniors program, she recruited fellow graduates to help her with the project that became Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch.

“We saw ourselves preserving

WHAT Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch WHERE The Rhino Courtyard at Pack Place WHEN Saturdays, July 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 10:30 a.m. Free. avl.mx/0bx

the tradition of storytelling in the mountains,” she says. But in addition to promoting that art, Larson says, “our dream was to get all the voices on the porch.”

This year’s theme, the kaleidoscope as a symbol of diversity, provided a natural fit with the founders’ mission to build community.

Larson worked with Sarah Nuñez, a Colombian-born writer and activist, to put together the lineup for Latino Day, the July 5 program.

“It’s exciting, but also really scary.

You’re putting yourself on a stage in front of people,” Nuñez says. She and Larson invited storytellers who will explore the wide differences in background and experience among the Latino community.

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Nuñez, who came to Raleigh from Bogotá when she was a child, will “talk about myself as a one-and-a-half generationer,” she says, “and how it feels to be stuck in two identities as a Colombian woman and a woman from the United States, North Carolina, the South.”

Artist Victor Palomino, also a Colombian, will tell stories about migrating to the U.S. from Colombia and living in Asheville for several years. Ultimately, Palomino recalls, “I realized that Asheville was also my home. That was a big realization. To have the privilege to have two homes in the world.” The program will feature artwork by Palomino (and by painter Sandra Garcia). The art is not simply ornamental, however: Palomino feels that his sculptures, which use recycled and repurposed materials, are “a reflection of my life — by migrating and traveling to a different place, you reinvent yourself. You reuse all different parts of yourself.”

The July 5 lineup also includes Cuban-American Andrea Garcia and Carolina Silicel, a MexicanAmerican who graduated from Brevard College this spring.

Silicel, whose parents came from Mexico, says, “My story shows you a little bit of the farmworker, ragsto-riches kind of dream that the movies portray.” But she will also recount the challenges she faced as an undocumented student in North Carolina’s public schools (“I faked not knowing English for a while to help other students,” she confesses), and how it felt when one of her guidance counselors was unsure whether she could even attend college. “I’m going to talk about what it felt like to walk into that office and hear that after all these years of working hard, I was going to be segregated after I left high school.”

In the end, years of hard work paid off for Silicel. She hopes listeners will come away from her story inspired to do as she has done and “embrace your identity.”

But even though each storyteller will recount the journeys they took to find their personal identities,

STORIFY: Asheville resident and first-generation Cuban-American Althea Gonzalez will take part in the July 5 Latino Day program in this year’s Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch series. Photo by Rodney Smith, Tempus Fugit Designs

the participants in this Saturday’s program hope to also reveal the kaleidoscope of identities lumped under the Latino label. “Latino is a very simple term for a very broad class of people,” Nuñez says.

Silicel seconds this idea.

“Sometimes ‘Latino’ is given one face,” she says. The storytelling program “is giving ‘Latino’ many faces.”

The kaleidoscope theme carries through each of this summer’s five programs. The series kicked off June 28 with nationally recognized African-American storyteller Bobby Norfolk. The July 12 installment features Gullah storyteller Tim Lowry. On July 19, four pillars of the Asheville community — Emöke B’Racz, founder of Malaprop’s; Howard Hanger, founder of Jubilee!; and restaurateurs Hector Diaz and Reza Setayesh — will tell stories relating their varied backgrounds to the diversity they have discovered in Asheville. The series concludes on July 26 with perfor-

mances by members of the Asheville Storytelling Circle.

The storytelling series is meant to celebrate the stories as much as the people who tell them. “It’s a soulful, sacred experience, to be in the presence of and to be a listener to someone’s story,” says Larson. “It is entertaining and it’s fun, but it’s so much more.” X

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Sibling revelry The Felice Brothers’ ode to servers, travel and Asheville burritos

“Bird on Broken Wing,” the lead track to Favorite Waitress — the new record from upstate New York folk-rockers The Felice Brothers — opens with a barking dog. It sounds less like the band was trying to be artistic and more like someone might have let a furry friend into the studio. But the entire record, though polished and wrench-tight in terms of its musicianship and songcraft, exudes exactly that kind of ease. It’s as rough as it is refined; as shadowed as it is sunlit. Accordion and keyboard player James Felice credits that energy and authenticity to producer Jeremy Backofen who “forced

WHO The Felice Brothers with Robert Ellis WHERE The Orange Peel, theorangepeel.net WHEN Monday, July 7, at 9 p.m. $15 advance / $18 day of show

us to play the songs hundreds of times before we got into the studio so that we could record the whole thing pretty much live.”

The band — with Ian Felice (guitar and vocals), Greg Farley (fiddle), Josh “Christmas Clapton” Rawson (bass) and David Estabrook (drums) — toured from its home base in the Catskills to the recording studio in Nebraska to road-test the group of songs that would become Favorite Waitress. That trip was to “get comfortable with the songs and make sure we liked playing them all live,” says James. “We did.”

The group returns to Asheville on Monday, July 7 — the Felice Brothers’ first time headlining The Orange Peel. “We couldn’t be more

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excited to rock the place,” says James. We’ll be ... shouting, singing explosive revelries, drinking, laughing, crying, hugging and kissing. Then we’ll all go to Mamacita’s for a burrito.”

If the appeal of the Felice Brothers, a raucous band of troubadours, is hard to quantify, the record’s selling points are not: Simultaneously playful and emotionally raw, songs turn up gems of rugged poetry like “Under the swinging bridge with a cigarette / the heavens of heaven of heaven ain’t as nice, I bet.”

“Most of our inspiration comes from the Catskills and the Hudson Valley,” says James. “It has been our home for our whole lives, and I think most of us plan on living there until we die.” Not that the quintet gets to spend much time there. At press time they were touring the U.K., where they have an enthusiastic fan base.

“It’s an amazing feeling to travel thousands of miles from home and have hundreds of folks come out to the shows,” says James. To make the trip, the band flies with its instruments as carry-ons: “The accordion looks very suspicious under an X-ray,” says James.

“They search it almost every time we fly.”

The Felice Brothers got their start most of a decade ago not on transcontinental flights but on trains. Rather, train stations: the New York City subway, to be exact. And at their dad’s Sunday cookouts. With sibling Simone Felice (who went on to form his own band), the brothers turned their busking act into opening slots for Bright Eyes and an invite to play at Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble. The Guardian pronounced them “a new breed of musical outlaw and inheritors of the counterculture mantle.” To that newspaper, the band claimed, “We didn’t care that we sucked.

And we still don’t. We like to suck a little bit.”

Now, 10 (depending on how you count) albums in, it’s possible that the Felice Brothers still don’t care if they suck. They’ve shared stages with Old Crow Medicine

ROAD TEST: Before recording their new album, Favorite Waitress, the Felice Brothers toured the songs to “make sure we liked playing them all live,” says James Felice, left. “We did.” Photo courtesy of the band

Show and the Dave Matthews Band, played Bonnaroo and the Newport Folk Festival and landed songs on the show “True Blood” and the film The Messenger. What do they have to prove?

Entertainment website The A.V. Club declared Favorite Waitress “an oddly steeped ode to never growing up.” James takes the offhanded compliment in stride. “I guess being a musician is inherently a sort of childlike existence. After all, we ‘play’ for a living,” he says. “Every show we play is a joy for us, but it’s also what pays the rent — you have to bal-

ance that adolescent freedom with a dose of grown-up worldliness or else you come home from tour and everything you own is in a garbage bag in the driveway.”

He adds, “Maybe that’s what the record’s about.”

That, and (as the title suggests) a food service worker. Sort of. “It’s dedicated to any and all of the kind, wonderful and beautiful waitresses — and waiters — who have served us raggedy dirtbags with a smile over the years,” says James. “A kind waitress can sometimes be the best thing about a day on tour.” X

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Cash Crop Between 1502 and the mid1860s, more than 15 million people were placed in chains and loaded onto boats that sailed from West African shores to Brazilian ports, Caribbean sugar plantations and American cities like Wilmington, N.C., Mobile, Ala. and Charleston, S.C.. There, the 12 million or so who survived the monthslong Middle Passage, shackled and stacked in the pestilent hulls of slave ships, were immediately sold into a lifetime of physical labor.

Chilling though such facts may be, they don’t provide the visceral punch brought on by actually seeing the physical vestiges of the trans-Atlantic slave trade: deeds for individual human beings, auction blocks, slave cab-

ins and antebellum plantation homes, whether wholly preserved or burnedout shells. And lest we forget, the tick-marked stowage charts that slave traders used to map out and efficiently load their “cargo.”

Cash Crop, an exhibit by Durhambased artist Stephen Hayes that’s now on view in the YMI Cultural Center’s Ray Auditorium, is both a meditation on and a visual representation of this ugly chapter of our shared American history. Like the raw materials themselves, such artworks help personalize these tragic practices, evoking deeper understanding and perhaps reaching otherwise untouched audiences.

The show features 15 life-size figurative sculptures, cast in concrete and bound at the feet, wrists and necks with metal shackles. Each figure represents

CHAIN REACTION: Durham-based artist Stephen Hayes stands with sculptural works from his exhibit, Cash Crop. The figures symbolize both the African slave trade and contemporary trade economics. Photo courtesy of the artist

1 million of those human lives uprooted from their homes and forced into slavery. The men’s and women’s chalky gray bodies stand defiantly, their blank, steely gazes hauntingly frozen. The children, meanwhile, shoulders dipping in youthful innocence as rust-colored tears run down their cheeks, serve as grim reminders that they, too, were bought and sold.

Each figure stands in front of a scale-model slave ship to which its neck is bound by a single metal loop. The ships stand upright, balanced on their sterns; the bows arch above the figures’ heads, forming a shieldlike human-sized vessel behind each one. On the back of each ship, Hayes has replicated cargo diagrams showing hundreds of small black figures crammed in like sardines. Chains connected to the wrist and ankle shackles snake through the gallery, linking each of the 15 figures to one another but also to a central object at the head of the gallery: a wooden pallet.

Much like the chains, the pallet serves to link past and present.

While the American slave trade has long been outlawed, some of the same financial systems, trade markets and symbology that

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existed then — not to mention the consumer populations — have only expanded in subsequent centuries.

Hayes has carved one of those symbols, taken from the Great Seal of the United States, into the wood.

The shield-bearing, olive-branchand-arrow-wielding bald eagle holds a banner in its beak that, as in the original, displays the phrase “E Pluribus Unum.”

Hayes likens the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the child and slave labor now used to produce and transport everything from clothing and electronics to precious metals and shrimp. Part history lesson, part socio-political commentary, Cash Crop challenges viewers to take a deeper look at contemporary culture.

In a sense, notes the artist, the underlying economic structure remains the same: Only the goods have changed.

“We used to ship people to America; now we ship goods,” he says. “Instead of people, it’s pallets.”

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Matt Townsend Musician Matt Townsend spent two years writing songs in secret before going public with his work in 2010. “Initially busking on the streets of Burlington, Vt., and playing local coffeehouses, he soon began hitting the stages of clubs and venues around the Burlington area,” says Townsend’s press release. He released a solo EP, performed in Ireland, and settled in Asheville. Now, with the help of a crowd-funding campaign, Townsend is set to release a full-band record, Matt Townsend and The Wonder of the World (available for stream and purchase at matttownsendmusic.bandcamp.com). The album release show takes place at The Mothlight on Saturday, July 5, at 9:30 p.m. $5. Hannah Kaminer also performs. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of the musician

Although the term “canoe” usually conjures images of river adventures and summer camp activities, in the case of fiber artist Krista Allison, the homophone Canoo equals soft toys from felted wool sweaters. “She now finds herself experimenting with other possibilities of the felting process, including shibori, machine stitching and hand embroidery … making vessels, wall pieces, and wearable art,” says a press release for the show Allison will share with painter Hannah Dansie. The fine artist studied in London before settling in Asheville, where she works in several mediums. The duo’s show is on display at Woolworth Walk’s FW Front Gallery through July 30.

The opening reception is Friday, July 4, from 5-7 p.m. woolworthwalk. com. Photo courtesy of the gallery

The Slide Brothers Burning CAN The can part of Burning CAN Beer Fest at Oskar Blues in Brevard is easy — more than 30 breweries that can their beer will be on hand to share craft brews. As far as the burning part, it’s unlikely to refer to the wares of local food trucks at the event.

It might, however, have something to do with the fiery music: the day’s lineup starts with “the guitar-driven blues of The Marcus King Band then segues into the rocking vocal harmonies of the charismatic Atlanta-based Shadowboxers,” according to a press release. “The day will culminate with a performance by hometown funky favorites The Jeff Sipe Trio.” Partial proceeds from the festival benefit Western North Carolina Alliance. Saturday, July 5. Events being at 9 a.m., beer tastings at 1 p.m. and music at 2 p.m. $30 advance. $35 day of, $15 designated drivers. burningcanbrevard.com. Photo of the Shadowboxers courtesy of the band

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Most musicians are lucky to get props for shredding or ripping or killing it. But Nashville/Atlanta/Rochester N.Y.-based blues, rock and soul act The Slide Brothers have been dubbed “godfathers of the electric church,” “masters of the sacred steel” and “the greatest living musicians who embody the sacred steel tradition.” Aubrey Ghent, Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell and Darick Campbell carry on the musical tradition that was, according to the band’s bio, “introduced to church services by Willie Eason [Ghent’s uncle] in the 1930s.” Blues fans took interest in the slide guitar, which led to the secular world’s discovery of “an even more potent brand of slide guitar being performed on pedal steel instruments. …a rich, uniquely American art form unspoiled by commercialism.” Following the release of acclaimed album Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers, the band has supported the likes of Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, JJ Grey & Mofro and Robert Randolph & The Family Band.

The Slide Brothers play Asheville Music Hall on Saturday, July 5, at 9 p.m. $20/$25. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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by Grady Cooper & Carrie Eidson HERITAGE QUARTET GOSPEL PERFORMANCES 803-285-1087, theheritagequartet.com, heritageqt@comporium.net • SA (7/5), 7pm - Held at Pride RV & Resort, 4394 Jonathan Creek Road, Waynesville.

• SU (7/6), 9am - Held ay Lizzie's Chapel, 184 Solar Court, Maggie Valley.

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by Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel.

Includes reading by Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors. Free.

MUSIC AT PACK LIBRARY 250-4700 • TH (7/10), 6pm - Pianist Michael Jefry Stevens and vibraphonist Byron Hedgepath.

Free. Held at 67 Haywood St.

PARK RHYTHMS CONCERT SERIES 669-8610 • FR (7/03), 6-9pm - Crooked Pine, Americana. Free. Held at Lake Tomahawk Park Pavilion, 401 S. Laurel Circle Dr., Black Mountain

LIKE A MADHOUSE WITH THE KEEPER GONE: Considered to be one of the most biting of Molìere’s comedies and banned shortly after its first performance, Tartuffe is the story of a religious hypocrite and scoundrel. The Montford Park Players take on the production in the Hazel Robin Amphiteatre Fridays through Sundays from July 4 until July 26. Photo by Rodney Smith, courtesy of the Montford Park Players (p. 48)

ST. MATTHIAS CHURCH 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com • SU (7/6), 3pm - Organ and strings classical concert.

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TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • FR (7/4), 6pm - Annual Fine Arts & Crafts Showcase, part of the Heart of Brevard Independence Day celebration. Held on Main Street in Brevard.

SONG O' SKY CHORUS (pd.) Tuesday 6:45-9:30 PM Song O' Sky Chorus Calvary Baptist Church (Chandler Center), 531 Haywood Road, 28806. Asheville's only a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www.songosky.org or (866) 8249547 Parking available behind the church.

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY ashevillearts.com • Through (10/14) - Applications will be accepted for the Regional Artist grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council to provide financial support for committed, accomplished artists.

• Through FR (7/4) - Applications accepted for six weeks of free vendor space at Spruce Street Market. Visit website for full details and guidelines.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY • Through (8/16) - Applications will be accepted for the N.C. Arts Council Regional Artist Project. Open to artists in Henderson, Polk, and Transylvania counties. Contact for guidelines.

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HENDERSONVILLE'S MUSIC ON MAIN STREET

Hickory, 322-1121, downtownhickory.com • Through TH (10/9) - Applications will be accepted for arts and crafts vendors for Oktoberfest, as well as the juried Arts & Crafts show. Contact for details.

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• TH (7/3), 7:30pm - Performance of the opera Albert Herring. $40.

• FR (7/4), 2pm - Pendergrast Family Patriotic Pops. $15-$40.

• SA (7/5), 7:30pm - Dvoák violin concerto. $15-40.

• SU (7/6), 3pm - Brevard Sinfonia. $15-40.

• MO (7/7), 7:30pm - Bill Preucil and Friends, sting sextet. $20.

• TU (7/8), 7:30pm - Just Brass concert. Free.

• WE (7/9),7:30pm - The Shanghai Quartet. $20.

• TH (7/10), 7:30pm - Marc Cohn, folk rock. $20 and up.

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301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TH (7/10), 6:30-7:30pm - Jazz pianist Todd Holder performs. Free. Held in downtown Hendersonville.

693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (7/4), 7-9pm - Tom Brown, a one-man band.

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682-0037, stthomasonline.org • SU (7/6), 5pm - The New River Brass Ensemble. $10. Held at 372 Reservoir Road, Burnsville

SWANNANOA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL swannanoachambermusic.com • TUESDAYS (7/1) through (7/29), 7:30pm Held at Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College. $21.40.

TEAM ECCO BENEFIT CONCERT 692-8386, teamecco.org • TH (7/3), 7pm - Franklin Keel, cellist.

Proceeds benefit Team Ecco Ocean Center & Aquarium in downtown Hendersonville. $10. Held at Two Guys Pizza, 121 W Barnwell St.

TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Road, Suite B, 505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com • TH (7/3), 8pm - Triple Duet Cabaret, oldtimey inspired. $10.

THEATER FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS through (7/13) - My Fair Lady. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. $40.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until

Mountain Xpress and Sherwood’s Music Present: Our new video series showcasing local musicians continues every Thursday. Check our website this week for a performance from Asheville band Warm the Bell at Sherwood’s Music.

(7/27) - Boeing, Boeing. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Thu., Sat.-Sun.: 2pm. $40/$30 seniors.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/4) until (7/26), 7:30pm - Tartuffe. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

SART - SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE Owen Theatre Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, 689-1384, sartplays.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/13) The Stardust Supper Club. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30p.m.; Sun.: 2:30 p.m.

GALLERY DIRECTORY ANANDA 22 Broadway, 232-1017, anandahair.com • Through SA (8/2) - A Retrospective, sculpture and ceramics by R. N. Grinnell/Banister.

ART AT UNCA unca.edu • Through MO (7/7) - The Wonder of Nature, watercolor paintings by Janice Lape. In the Blowers Gallery.

ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery.com • Through SU (7/27) - Evolution of the Landscape, works by William Vandever, Jo Ridge Kelley and Ranoma Bronkar Bannavan.

Artists’ reception: July 18, 6pm

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (9/14) - The Uncharted Course

from Realism to Abstraction, paintings and prints by Minna Citron.

• SA (6/28) through (SU) (9/7) - Dox Thrash, An American Journey: Georgia to Philadelphia, print works.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • Through TU (7/31) - World’s Apart, works

by Peggy Horne Taylor. Opening reception: July 4, 5pm.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (7/18) - Art in Bloom, plein air paintings.

CANTON BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through FR (8/1) - Fly Over, photography of WWII warbirds by Barbara Sammons.

CAROLINA CINEMAS 1640 Hendersonville Rd., 274-9500, carolinacinemas.com/asheville • Through SA (7/27) - Paintings and illustrations by Trek 6, Ishmael, Ted Harper, Topr, Melt FTK, Big Bertha and Gus Cutty.

CITY BAKERY 60 Biltmore Ave., 252-4426, citybakery.net • Through SU (8/31) - Pop Gun, photography Sandlin Gaither. Opening reception: June 28, 7pm.

JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 586-2016, fontanalib. org/sylva • Through (7/31) - A Lasting Legacy, works by local women from the late 19th century.

MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • SA (7/5) through MO (9/1) - Bits and Pieces, sculptures by Raven Tata. Artist reception: August 2, 5pm.

MISSION FOR TEMPORAL ART 68 N. Main St., Marshall, 917-650-7321, themissionfortemporalart.blogspot.com • Through (7/27) - The Luminous Surface, channel video and audio visual works

THE BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through TH (7/3) - Primordial Forms, glass sculpture by Chad Holliday.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (7/11) - Works by members of the Transylvania Art Guild.

YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • Through WE (8/27) - Cash Crop, life-size sculptures of slaves during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. $6/Free students 12th grade and younger.

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C L U B L A N D MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2

ODDITORIUM Boddicker (metal), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine Tasting w/ Gary Mackey (fiddle), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ‘n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Peter James & His Flapping Wings w/ The Maggie Valley Band (folk, bluegrass, rock), 10pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 7pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Nomadic (cyber-funk), 6pm

BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm

PACK’S TAVERN Josh Singleton Duo (blues), 9pm POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm

PULP Comedy open mic, 9pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Scoot Pittman, 7:30pm

DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, folk), 5:30pm

1, 2, 3. JCB: Heavily influenced by boom bap beats and sultry keys, Jimmy Crow Blue, a group of emcees, lyricists, producers and audio engineers, blends diverse styles of hip-hop, creating a sound that brings together both the old school and new.

Performing at 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 5, at Timo’s House, JCB’s lineup includes TKO and Sean Shakespeare (pictured), Elevate and Johnny Rhino, along with Asheville’s Underground Unheard and Streetlamp Theory.

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:30pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Warm the Bell w/ The Cheeksters & Jason Daniello (alt-folk-rock, pop), 9pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm ODDITORIUM Plankeye Peggy w/ Ford Theater Reunion & Valerie Meiss (rock), 9pm

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bruce Nemerov (singer-songwriter), 6pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Release hosted by Disc-Oh! & Dam Good (dance party), 9pm

SKY CITY BBQ Local music showcase (folk, bluegrass), 8:30pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm

URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 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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VINCENZO’S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm WHITE HORSE AmiciMusic: Chappell Kingsland, 7:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

THURSDAY, JULY 3 185 KING STREET Josh Daniel & Mark Schimick Project (string band, bluegrass, roots), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Visionarium: Aligning Minds w/ Chronicles of the Landsquid, Damascus & more (electronic, IDM), 10pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Lyric (acoustic soul), 9pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm BOGART’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN Eddie Rose & The Highway Forty (bluegrass), 6:30pm BUFFALO NICKEL Stephen Evans, 9pm CORK & KEG First Thursday Square Dance (old-time jam), 7pm DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Peggy Ratusz (blues, swing), 6pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SKY CITY BBQ Open music stage, 8:30pm THE MOTHLIGHT Bloodshot Bill w/ Trashettes & Drunken Prayer (rockabilly), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Bradford Carson & Will Knight (Americana), 8pm THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Triple Duet Cabaret w/ Lost Dog Street Band, Intuitive Compass & 13 Strings & A Two Dollar Bill (folk, old-time), 8pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH DJ MoTo, 8pm

FRIDAY, JULY 4

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Guy Forsyth’s Hot Nut Riveters w/ Former Asylum St. Spankers & Bad Livers members (string band, old-time), 8pm

201 S. MAIN ST. (HENDERSONVILLE) Tom Brown (one-man-band), 7pm

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR 3 Cool Cats (rock ‘n’ roll), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Darren Nicholson Band w/ Unspoken Tradition (bluegrass), 8:30pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz), 7:30pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Dillon N’ Ashe w/ Young Cardinals (alt-rock, blues), 9:30pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY The French Broad Playboys (swing), 9:30pm

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm

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RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Chris Rhodes (jazz, blues, R&B, pop), 6:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stars & Stripes Yard Sale & MANNA benefit, 11am Marley Carroll w/ Elaquent & BomBassic (IDM, neo-soul, electronic), 10pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE 4th of July Party w/ DJ Munn (after fireworks), 9:30pm

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CLUBLAND

TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

The place to watch the

WORLD CUP 2014

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

LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER WATCH THE WORLD CUP!!

EVERY GAME! DRINK SPECIALS!

THU. 7/3 Josh Singleton Duo

June 12 - July 13

(old school blues)

ON 10 BIG SCREENS

FRI. 7/4 DJ OCelate (pop, dance hits) SAT. 7/5 Lyric (pop, funk, rock)

Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com.

CLUB DIRECTORY

BREVARD BREWING COMPANY Carver & Carmody (folk), 7pm DOUBLE CROWN The Wild Mohicans (Mardi Gras Indians from New Orleans), 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Luciano w/ Ikronik (roots-reggae), 9pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 5:30pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Brushfire Stankgrass & Strung Like A Horse (“garage-grass”), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB 4th of July party: Eleanor Underhill & friends (Americana), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Michael John Jazz & Dan Keller (jazz), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 8pm MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm MILLROOM Lights Out: Americrave w/ Electric Orchestra, DJ AUDIO, DJ Harry Darnell, 8pm

20 S. SPRUCE ST. • 225.6944 PACKSTAVERN.COM

NIGHTBELL Dulítel DJ (indie, electronic, dance), 10:30pm NOBLE KAVA Space Medicine (electro-coustic, ambient improv), 9pm ODDITORIUM 4th of July Pig Roast, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

Come enjoy our brand new menu!

THIS WEEK’S MUSIC: 7/2 Caleb Caudle (americana) 8pm 7/3 Bobby Miller (bluegrass) 8pm 7/4 Jamie Laval (violin virtuoso) 9pm 7/5 Porch Crop (bluegrass/ americana) 9pm 828-254-3008 • 12 Church St

11am - 2am • 7 Days a Week www.gr eenr oombistr o.com

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ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm

FIFA World Cup Soccer on the Big Screen!

10/25 Sarah Guthrie 10/25 Sarah Lee Lee Guthrie 7/4 ELEANOR UNDERHILL & Johnny Irion AND FRIENDS & Johnny Irion w/ •• 9pm 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION w/ Battlefield Battlefield 9pm $10 $10 9PM • $5 10/26 Firecracker 7/5 SUFI BROTHERSJazz 10/26 Firecracker Jazz Band Band & HALLOWEEN Costume W/ ASHEVILLE ACES 9PM • $5 & HALLOWEEN Costume Party & •• 9pm PartyTHE & Contest Contest 9pm $8 $8 7/11 FLOORBOARDS 9PM • $5 10/27 Vinegar Creek • 9pm 10/27 Creek • 9pm FREE FREE 7/12 Vinegar THE DEER RUN DRIFTERS 10/28 Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 • $5 10/28 9PM Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 w/ Crazy Tom Banana Pants w/ Crazy Banana Pants 7/13 THETom WILHELM BROTHERS 9PM • FREE (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED) 10/29 Singer Songwriters 10/29 Singer Songwriters FREE in Round 7-9pm FREE in the theGRANDPA’S Round •• 7-9pm 7/18 COUGH w/ Anthony Tripi, Elise Davis w/ Anthony Tripi, EliseW/ Davis MEDICINE BAND THE Mud Tea • 9pm FREE WHISKEY JACKETS & D. STRIKER Mud Tea • 9pm FREE 9PM • $5 Open Mon-Thurs at 3 at Noon Open Mon-Thurs at Session 3 •• Fri-Sun Fri-Sun at Noon SUN Celtic Irish 5pm til ??

SUN Celtic Irish Session 5pm til MON Quizzo!

7-9p • WED Old-Time 5pm MON Quizzo!

7-9p • WED1st Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS & 3rd TUES SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st &7pm 3rd TUES THURS Bluegrass Jam THURS Bluegrass Jam 7pm

95 95 Patton Patton at at Coxe Coxe •• Asheville Asheville 252.5445 • jackofthewood.com 252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

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OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Burning Can pre-party w/ Sol Driven Train (rock, roots, Americana), 7pm PACK’S TAVERN DJ OCelate (pop, dance, hits), 9pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA Unit 50 (rock), 9:30pm THE MOTHLIGHT Free 4th of July bash w/ Nest Egg, The NEC, Tinniens, Semicircle & Ouroboros Boys, 7pm THE PHOENIX The Zealots, 9pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE In Plain Sight (house), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Country Barn Dance w/ Hearts Gone South & Longtime Goners, 8pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE Independence Day Party w/ live music & fireworks viewing, 7:30pm

185 KING STREET 877-1850 5 WALNUT WINE BAR 253-2593 ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY 575-2400 THE ALTAMONT THEATRE 348-5327 APOTHECARY (919) 609-3944 AQUA CAFE & BAR 505-2081 ARCADE 258-1400 ASHEVILLE CIVIC CENTER & THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM 259-5544 ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL 255-7777 ATHENA’S CLUB 252-2456 BARLEY’S TAP ROOM 255-0504 BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE 669-9090 BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA 658-8777 BOILER ROOM 505-1612 BROADWAY’S 285-0400 THE BYWATER 232-6967 CORK AND KEG 254-6453 CLUB REMIX 258-2027 CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE 575-2880 ADAM DALTON DISTILLERY 367-6401 DIANA WORTHAM THEATER 257-4530 DIRTY SOUTH LOUNGE 251-1777 DOUBLE CROWN 575-9060 ELEVEN ON GROVE 505-1612 EMERALD LOUNGE 232- 4372 FIRESTORM CAFE 255-8115 FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM 277-0222 GOOD STUFF 649-9711 GREEN ROOM CAFE 692-6335 GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN 232-5800 GROVE HOUSE THE GROVE PARK INN (ELAINE’S PIANO BAR/ GREAT HALL) 252-2711 HANGAR LOUNGE 684-1213 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE 497-7777 HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY 299-3370 ISIS MUSIC HALL 575-2737 JACK OF THE WOOD 252-5445 LEX 18 582-0293 LEXINGTON AVENUE BREWERY 252-0212 THE LOBSTER TRAP 350-0505 METROSHERE 258-2027 MILLROOM 555-1212 MONTE VISTA HOTEL 669-8870 MOONLIGHT MILE 335-9316 NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB 581-0480 NIGHTBELL 575-0375 ODDITORIUM 575-9299 ONEFIFTYONE 239-0239 ONE STOP BAR DELI & BAR 255-7777 O.HENRY’S/TUG 254-1891 THE ORANGE PEEL 225-5851 OSKAR BLUES BREWERY 883-2337 PACK’S TAVERN 225-6944 THE PHOENIX 877-3232 PISGAH BREWING CO. 669-0190 PULP 225-5851 PURPLE ONION CAFE 749-1179 RED STAG GRILL AT THE GRAND BOHEMIAN HOTEL 505-2949 ROOT BAR NO.1 299-7597 SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB 252-2838 SCULLY’S 251-8880 SLY GROG LOUNGE 255-8858 SMOKEY’S AFTER DARK 253-2155 THE SOCIAL 298-8780 SOUTHERN APPALACIAN BREWERY 684-1235 STATIC AGE RECORDS 254-3232 STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE 669-8856

TALLGARY’S CANTINA 232-0809 TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR 407-0666 TIMO’S HOUSE 575-2886 TOWN PUMP 357-5075 TOY BOAT 505-8659 TREASURE CLUB 298-1400 TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ & BLUES 254-7072 VANUATU KAVA BAR 505-8118 VINCENZO’S 254-4698 WESTVILLE PUB 225-9782 WHITE HORSE 669-0816 WILD WING CAFE 253-3066 WXYZ 232-2838

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead covers, jam band), 10pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Sufi Brothers w/ Asheville Aces (bluegrass, folk), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 HotPoint Trio (gypsy-jazz, swing), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 7pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm MILLROOM “Re Vera” CD release, 8pm

WILD WING CAFE Johnnie Blackwell (acoustic), 9pm

NEW MOUNTAIN Dieselboy (drum ‘n’ bass), 9pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

NIGHTBELL Dulítel DJ (indie, electronic, dance), 10:30pm

SATURDAY, JULY 5 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Gypsy Duo (jazz blend), 6pm The Get Right Band (funk, rock), 9pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm ANDREWS BREWING CO. Megan Jean & the KFB (“like a metal band if it was 1927”), 6pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Slide Brothers w/ The Blood Gypsies (blues, rock, soul), 10pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Black Robin Hero (rock ‘n’ roll), 9pm BREVARD BREWING COMPANY Bear Stevens (folk-pop), 7pm BYWATER Jangling Sparrow (Americana, rock), 9pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Serpentine Arborvitae, Michael Jefry Stevens & Mike Holstein (jazz), 7pm CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, 30s pop), 8:30pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Lil Lorruh (50s, 60s R&B, rock), 10pm DUGAN’S PUB Riyen Roots Band (blues), 9pm

ODDITORIUM Hectorina, Dearest We, Morbids & Ellipser (rock), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm ORANGE PEEL Smokin’ (arena-rock), 9pm PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY Lyric (pop, funk, rock), 9pm

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FRIDAY • JULY 4 ASHEVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA 5:00-7:00PM

210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806

SATURDAY• JULY 5 ISLAND TO HIGHLAND REGGAE SHOWCASE 6:00-10:00PM FREE

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SUNDAY • JULY 6 OPEN 1-6PM WEDNESDAY • JULY 9 BREWS-N-BRINES W/ GREEN RIVER PICKLERS 4:00-8:00PM FRIDAY • JULY 11 THE SOULFEATHERS 6:30-8:30PM SATURDAY• JULY 12 NIGHT FLIGHT RACE/ BEER RELEASE (CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS)

ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Even the Animals (folk, rock, indie), 6pm GOOD STUFF Dave Turner (singer-songwriter), 9pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Nello Masci & Mark Sherren (ragtime, jazz, pop), 6:30pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Pickin’ on the Patio: Porch Crop (bluegrass), 12:30pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Island to Highland w/ Chalwa, Reggae Infinity & Yess I (reggae), 5:30pm

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Kids Eat FREE after 5pm with purchase of 2nd meal

Pint Special Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia Live Jazz, Alien Music Club Live Music

OLD-TIME AMERICAN CELEBRATION: Grab your dancing partner and head to Toy Boat Community Art Space at 8 p.m. for a 4th of July country barn dance and cake walk. A two-step dance instruction begins at 8:30 p.m., with bands Hearts Gone South and The Longtime Goners beginning at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 — or $1, if you bring a cake or pie.

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42 BILTMORE AVE. MON-SAT 11:30AM-TIL SUN 12PM-TIL BARLEYSTAPROOM.COM

31 PATTON AVENUE-UPSTAIRS

55 COLLEGE STREET-DOWNSTAIRS one stop

JULY

James and His Flapping 3 Peter Wings w/ The Maggie Valley Band THU JULY

10 PM FREE 21+

The Visionarium Night 1: Aligning

4 FRI

AMH

JULY

AMH

3 Minds w/ Chronicles of the Landsquid THU and Damascus 10 PM $8/$10 21+

Stars and Stripes Yard Sale MANNA Food Bank Benefit Concert 11 AM All Ages

JULY

Flight Deck Presents:

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Violin River (rock, jam), 8pm

BARLEY’S TAPROOM Skylark (jazz, swing), 7:30pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am

SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Karaoke & brunch, 2pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Jarvis Jenkins (Southern rock), 9:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

GOOD STUFF Dionysia (alt-rock), 4pm Steve Hung (folk), 6pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World w/ Hannah Kaminer (folk, singer-songwriters), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Aaron Burdette (folk-rock, Americana), 1pm Jamboogie (jam band), 9pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl’s Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Bobby White, DLX, DJ Jet & JCB (hip-hop), 9pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

JULY

WILD WING CAFE Alec & Jaqui, 9pm

AMH

WHITE HORSE David Lamote, 8pm

+ BomBassic 10 PM $10/$12 21+

JULY

AMH

one stop

10 PM $20/$25 21+

SUNDAY, JULY 6

Wordbenders, Noctuo, Herb, and Smoke 10 PM FREE 21+

185 KING STREET Sunday Funday, 12pm

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WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Joe Lasher Jr. (Southern rock), 9pm

Xero Friends Hip-Hop Showcase

9 WED feat. Musashi Xero w/ The Last

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Big Nasty (hot jazz), 7pm

4 Marley Carroll w/ Elaquent FRI

The Slide Brothers 5 SAT w/ The Blood Gypsies

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PRIDE RV & RESORT The Heritage Quartet (gospel), 7pm

HI-WIRE BREWING Sky Larks!, 5pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jazz showcase, 6pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm LEX 18 Andrew Fletcher (barrelhouse piano), 11am Michael John Jazz & friends (jazz), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Leo Johnson (swing, jazz), 7pm ODDITORIUM Eviscera, Gnarl Scar & Dissent (metal), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Shag & swing lesson w/ John Dietz, 7pm DJ Michael Filippone (beach, swing, ballroom, rock), 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am ROOT BAR NO. 1 1st Continental Congress Rootball Tournament, 3pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm THE PHOENIX Blues brunch w/ Dust N’ the Wynn, 12pm THE SOCIAL ‘80s night, 8pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Asheville Mic Exchange: hip-hop open mic showcase w/ Cypher, 8pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE Naughty Professor (pop, funk), 7:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Party on the Patio w/ Mike Snodgrass, 5:30pm YACHT CLUB Steely Dan Sunday, 5pm

MONDAY, JULY 7

TUESDAY, JULY 8 185 KING STREET Swing dance lesson, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (swing, jazz), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7pm Karaoke, 9pm

185 KING STREET Monday Night Trivia ($50 prize), 8pm

BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia night, 7pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Resonate Rogues (old-time), 8pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Dance, 8:30pm

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CORK & KEG Honkytonk jam w/ Tom Pittman & friends, 6:30pm

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DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Documentary about cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s incredibly ambitious, never-made film of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

THE LOWDOWN: One of the most entertaining documentaries in living memory — especially for movie fans. It paints a compelling and enjoyable portrait of what may have been a milestone of 1970s filmmaking had it actually been made. That it stars the irrepressible, outrageous filmmaker himself helps make it a pure pleasure.

Yes, it’s rare that I rate a documentary this high, but it’s also rare that documentaries are about topics I’m as interested in as Jodorowsky’s Dune. Indeed, if they’d found some more impressive critical voices to weigh in on the topic than they did, I might have gone the full five stars on this. Don’t get me wrong. I neither am 100 percent convinced of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s greatness, nor do I have any serious problems with the David Lynch version of Dune (1984). What fascinates me here is that this is the best and most compelling picture I’ve ever seen about a movie that didn’t get made — and I say this as someone who once entertained writing a book about movies that never quite got made. What sets this apart from most is how close it came, the amount of prep work

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that was done (and still exists) and — this is the selling point — the sheer force of Jodorowsky’s personality. At 84 (his age when this was made), he’s less an elder statesman of esoteric cinema than he is some kind of unbottled force of nature.

If you don’t know who Jodorowsky is — and I reckon it’s about even money at this point — he’s the living embodiment of cult movies. In fact, his El Topo (1970) is where the whole midnight movie thing started. It created a sensation, even gaining the support of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Here was a film that was advertised with, “See the naked young Franciscans whipped with cactus.

See the bandit leader disemboweled.

See the priest ride into the sunset with a midget and her newborn baby.

What it all means isn’t exactly clear, but you won’t forget it.” Yes, it was sold on the fact that it was outrageous and that it couldn’t be understood, which is a way of saying, “Boy, is this ever a product of its time.” The same could be said of The Holy Mountain (1973), and it would have been even more true of his never-made Dune.

People who see Jodorowsky’s Dune and come away saying it should be made now — with its complete

screenplay, its detailed storyboards, its effects all worked out — don’t get that it belongs to a time long past, to a phase in film that was even then on its last legs. Even without factoring in such now-impossible flashes of genius as casting Orson Welles and Salvador Dali, or having Pink Floyd create the music (Lynch had to settle for Toto), it was simply a film that could only have existed in the experimental era in which it was pitched. As wigged-out sci-fi with a philosophical bent, it would have fit comfortably alongside John Boorman’s Zardoz (1974), but imagining it in the age of Transformers: Age of Extinction is another matter.

If it was too weird and ambitious for 1975 — it’s certainly nothing a major studio would touch now.

Director Frank Pavich, however, paints a vivid picture of a mind-blowing creation that never was. This is possible thanks to the incredibly detailed presentation Jodorowsky and producer Michel Seydoux handed out to the studios — something brought to even greater life by interviews with those involved like H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Seydoux and, most importantly, Jodorowsky himself.

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Even in his 80s, with his bloodied but unbowed ego, Jodorowsky comes across as an excitable — and exciting — mix of visionary genius, shameless mountebank and barking lunatic. He was, and is, the perfect man to scare a studio out of making his film due to his sheer enthusiasm and inflexibility. His insistence that “the movie has to be like I dream it,” including the possibility of a 12- to 20- hour running time, was probably always going to doom the film, but Jodorowsky — and the film — paint a glorious picture of what might have been.

When the film catalogues the invariably inferior movies that owe a debt to that pre-production package (which clearly made the rounds), it’s hard not to be pretty bummed out by the less-than-worthy co-opting of Jodorowsky’s vision — even while realizing that he was largely to blame. But what we have now is at least a glimmer of a movie that could have been a defining moment of the 1970s. That Pavich never questions Jodorowsky’s genius or the wisdom of his approach or, for that matter, the veracity of any of his claims may be a weakness, but it’s not a serious one. This is a film that needs to be seen by every movie lover out there. Not only is it a remarkable and remarkably entertaining document, but if it does well locally, it will increase the chances of Jodorowsky’s new film, The Dance of Reality, coming to town. Rated PG-13 for some violent and sexual images and drug references.

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A Hard Day’s Night HHHHH DIRECTOR: Richard Lester PLAYERS: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norm Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti MUSICAL COMEDY RATED NR THE STORY: The Beatles perform a televised concert, have various adventures and nearly lose Ringo in the process.

THE LOWDOWN: Here we have one of the greatest — and arguably most important — films of the 1960s getting a two-day (Saturday and Sunday) reissue in honor of its 50th anniversary.

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There’s probably absolutely nothing new to be said about Richard Lester’s 1964 classic A Hard Day’s Night. Oceans of ink have been spilled on it, and I’m responsible for some of it. The truth is, however, that there are always going to be people who have never seen it, and there are always going to be people who want to see it one more time.

Those of us who saw it in 1964 realized — even if a lot of us were too young to articulate it — that this was something very special, something almost magical and that the movies would never quite be the same. The years have proved that — and they’ve proved that the magic is still there at the flip of a

HHHHH = max rating projector switch. What’s even more remarkable is that the movie was envisioned as a cheap cash-in on Beatlemania (in fact, Beatlemania was its working title) — a carefully contrived pseudo-documentary that presented the Beatles as the world wanted them to be (reality only slightly intrudes). But somehow it managed to actually capture for all time the sense of that moment, and it did so, in part, by breaking nearly every rule in the book about what a movie should be.

All movies work better with an audience, but a film like A Hard Day’s Night becomes a separate experience with one. Whether you saw it in 1964 in a theater packed with screaming kids or at a college screening or on its 2000 re-issue or even the recent local screening, it’s always new and different with a new audience. (I suppose it’s possible to get a dud audience, but I’ve never seen it happen.) I remember the kids in ’64 (and that slightly perplexed me at the time), but I also remember the later audiences. I remember the little girl — no more than seven or eight — lying flat on her back right under the screen upstairs at the Fine Arts just staring up at John, Paul, George and Ringo. I remember the guy who got up and danced in the aisle at that recent screening. There’s always something — and you get a masterpiece of film in the bargain.

Plays Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, at Carolina Cinemas (show times not yet determined) reviewed by Ken Hanke

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Deliver Us from Evil Nothing apparently says Fourth of July like an “inspired by the actual accounts of an NYPD sergeant” horror movie about demonic possession from horror hack Scott Derrickson. Derrickson seems to like sticking good — or at least good-ish — actors his horror movies. This time, he’s dragged in Eric Bana, whose career is probably about ready for cheesy horror from the Screen Gems label. (R)

Earth to Echo There’s also this “kid friendly” film about some kids you have never heard of getting involved with some

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That should cheer you up. (PG)

Jodorowsky’s Dune See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

Obvious Child Tammy Pegged as the big movie of the week is the latest vehicle for Melissa McCarthy — only this one she cowrote with her husband, Ben Falcone, who also directed. The movie features McCarthy at the end of her rope — fired from her fast food job, discovering her husband is cheating on her, wrecking her car — and forced into traveling with her troublesome grandmother (Susan Sarandon) to Niagara Falls. Yes, it’s one of those comedies.

But they haven’t stinted on the cast — not just Sarandon, but Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyf, Mark Duplass, Toni Collette and Sandra Oh. Bad sign? It opens in less than two days, and there aren’t any reviews. (R)

Obvious Child HH DIRECTOR: Gillian Robespierre PLAYERS: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffman, Gabe Liedman, David Cross, Richard Kind, Polly Draper ABORTION ROM-COM RATED R THE STORY: After a drunken onenight stand, a comic finds herself pregnant, faced with a suitor she doesn’t want and an impending abortion.

THE LOWDOWN: Yes, it’s been critically lauded, but personally, I found this abortion-themed rom-com mostly tedious, unfunny and cursed with an unlikable main character.

I really wanted to like this film — if only because I deeply resent being up and ready to go out into the world by 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning to be confronted with a movie I don’t enjoy.

For that matter, I’d far rather like a movie than not, but Obvious Child was simply not a movie I could like. It’s a basic rom-com complete with all the

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

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A Hard Day’s Night See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

tropes — wisecracking girlfriend, gay best friend, parent problems and the penultimate reel of gloom.

However, it has been deemed “edgy” because it attempts to normalize abortion (which doesn’t bother me) and because its heroine is self-obsessed, obnoxious and crude (which does bother me). Now, before somebody screams “sexism,” I’d feel exactly as negative about a male character who fit that description — if the movie wanted me to relate to and sympathize with that character, which is clearly the case with Donna Stern (Jenny Slate).

Donna works in an about-to-close bookstore and hones her craft (if that it can be called) as a stand-up comic in some dive that seems to seat maybe 20 people. (I guess that has the upside of attaining standing-room-only status most of the time.) She is painfully unfunny and unprofessional. Donna’s stand-up “routine” consists entirely of detailing how gross she is, decrying her sex life and cataloguing her bodily functions. I had no trouble believing every word and would have been perfectly happy to leave the whole thing there. Unfortunately, this was about five minutes into the movie.

There was more to come — even if often seemed like less. In short order: Donna is dumped by her boyfriend, gets trashed, leaves endless alternately whiny and angry messages on his voice mail, ends up in the sack with really nice guy Max (Jake Lacy), gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion.

In fairness, a lot of this is believable. Anyone with an ounce of sense would dump her. I’ve been on the receiving end of those sort of phone messages and can attest that these

are realistically creepy and psychotic.

Unfortunately, I think we’re supposed to find them endearing. Similarly, we’re supposed to be charmed by the fact that the apparent selling point for her attraction to Max (who looks like he ought to be recruiting for a Bible college) is the fact that he accidentally breaks wind in her face. (This could well become a new “meet cute” standard.) It’s that kind of movie.

Now the problem becomes how to keep this plot going. First, she has to wait two weeks to get her abortion — putting it on Valentine’s Day, which I concede is a nice touch. Then, apart from the requisite encounters with her parents, there’s mileage to be gotten out of avoiding the mystifyingly smitten Max and debating whether or not to tell him about the pregnancy.

There’s also time for an embarrassing drunken comedy routine and a pointless meeting with another comic (David Cross) that is slightly less funny than a cholera epidemic. What makes any of this unusual is the approach the film takes to abortion, but apart from not playing out like this aspect of the story usually would, it’s not enough to sell this load of clams — at least to me.

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Besides the fact that I found the movie just monumentally unfunny, the big problem is Jenny Slate’s Donna. I haven’t been this put off by anyone since I saw Lena Dunham in Tiny Furniture (2010) — another supposed edgy comedy about a selfabsorbed, whiny, entitled character.

The only thing Slate’s Donna lacks is the tendency toward exhibitionism, but aren’t her verbal outbursts of oversharing pretty much the same thing? I guess Donna is the poster girl for the social media age where people tweet and post the most intimate and mundane events as if the world needed to be wired to their every unfiltered mood swing.

Personally, I wanted to buy back my introduction to her. That said, I did like it better than Tiny Furniture. At least Obvious Child looks like a real movie. Plus, the character of Max is interesting in that he defies the stereotype he appears to represent, but this isn’t enough to make this a movie I wouldn’t cross the street to avoid. Rated R for language and sexual content.

Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre reviewed by Ken Hanke

Transformers: Age of Extinction S DIRECTOR: Michael Bay PLAYERS: Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor SCI-FI ACTION RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Giant robot Optimus Prime must stop an old nemesis and his former allies — mankind.

THE LOWDOWN: A loud, noisy, stupid and incredibly angry movie that’s far too long and only occasionally interesting thanks to its screwy worldview.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS me what’s wrong with modern American cinema, I’ll emphatically point you in the direction of these movies, with their wanton orgies of property damage, casual racism, leering misogyny, egregious runtimes and unfortunate penchants for giving Shia LeBeouf a paycheck. With that said, it’s still easily the best of the series for more reasons than replacing LeBeouf with Mark Wahlberg. It’s simply one of the most ideologically screwy movies I’ve ever seen.

Age of Extinction opens with a bunch of spaceships descending on prehistoric Earth and promptly carpet-bombing some dinosaurs. (Michael Bay is always searching for new things to incinerate.) The movie then picks up with Americans dealing with the aftermath of Chicago being destroyed in 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon. A particularly grumpy Kelsey Grammar, along with his robot sidekick who can turn his face into a gun, are hunting down the world’s remaining Transformers — good guys and bad — all for the sake of national security. Meanwhile, Joshua (Stanley Tucci), a callous Steve Jobs proxy, experiments on what’s left of the Transformers. At the same time, in Texas, an inventor named Cade (Wahlberg) finds what he thinks is a junky semi in an abandoned movie theater. The truck turns out to be metamorphosing robot, Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots and former ally to humanity. For a while, the film strays away from its bombastic blockbuster trappings and becomes a kind of heist flick, as Cade, Optimus and some other robots break into Joshua’s lab. For a second, it looks like Age of Extinction might try to do something different with the Transformers pastiche the fourth time around. But it doesn’t last long. Soon enough, Bay and his cadre of CGI bots and metal dinosaurs are blowing up big swaths of China in slow motion.

Age of Extinction quickly becomes just as furiously dumb as its predecessors, except for one interesting aspect: It’s wholly insane. This is a movie that manages to touch on subjects like drone warfare, the war on terrorism, the hubris of the tech industry and slavery — all while saying absolutely nothing about any of these topics. They’re just hamfistedly shoved into the movie with an incredibly angry countenance. Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), feel-

Gothic HHHHS Director: Ken Russell Players: Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands, Gabriel Byrne, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall BIOGRAPHICAL HORROR Rated R Horror meets the biographical film in Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) — a stylish and very wild and woolly take on Lord Byron’s (Gabriel Byrne) house party at the villa in Switzerland with Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), Percy Shelley (Julian Sands) and Dr. Polidori (Timothy Spall). This, of course, was the famous party that led to Mary writing Frankenstein. In Russell’s take, these people are more like dissolute rock stars — complete with groupies and people cashing in on their notoriety — whose drug-fueled antics lead to madness and the creation (real or imagined?) of untold horrors. Did it happen like this? Well, let’s say it could have, and it certainly provides one wild and creepy ride.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Gothic Thursday, July 3 at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther

Steamboat Round the Bend HHHHH Director: John Ford Players: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire, Berton Churchill, Stepin Fetchit COMEDY Rated NR Will Rogers’ last movie, and his third in collaboration with director John Ford, is one of the comedian’s most popular and one of his best. Rogers plays a patent medicine salesman with dreams of being a steamboat captain — dreams that are put on hold when his nephew (and future riverboat pilot) comes up on murder charges. Most of the film deals with trying find the witness to the murder who can clear the young man, but the point lies in Rogers’ easy comedy and painting a loving — but not uncritical — picture of river life in the 1890s. It’s a charming movie that I suspect Mark Twain would have loved.

The Asheville Film Society will screen Steamboat Round the Bend Tuesday, July 8 , at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted

by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Sunshine Boys HHH

Director: Herbert Ross (The Goodbye Girl) Players: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur, Rosetta Le Noire COMEDY Rated PG Mystifyingly popular film version of an equally mystifyingly popular Neil Simon play about an attempt to reunite two aging vaudevillians for a TV special. Almost as mystifying is the reason for doing this, since the one-time partners cordially detest each other, but without the attempt, there’s no story. The sole point of calm in this work that constantly confuses loud for funny is George Burns, who underplays every scene and walks off with what accolades there are.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Sunshine Boys Sunday, July 6, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

ing betrayed by humanity and wishing to release himself from the yoke of oppression put upon him by humans and his alien creators, has entered the realm of anti-hero, with all the blind rage that entails.

I kept expecting the film to soften up eventually, but nope, Optimus stays pissed off, eventually breaking his vow to never harm a human by killing one in battle. And then, the movie ends with Optimus flying — growling, giant sword in hand — into outer space to literally destroy

what could be interpreted as his gods, his creators. It’s almost fascinating, except, unfortunately, even with the strange ideas and tangents the film strays into, the thing still sucks. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of scifi violence and action, language and brief innuendo.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Co-ed of Brevard, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther

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RN Help make your community a better place. Mountain Area Recovery Center is growing and we are currently seeking an RN to work part-time as a medicating nurse on Sat. and Sun. 6am to 9am, plus a minimum of 14 additional hours on weekdays.

There may also be a possibility of additional hours as needed during the work week; early morning hours are a requirement.

Candidate will be cross-trained at both the Asheville and Clyde facilities. Criminal background check required for all final candidates. EOE. Please e-mail resume to rhonda.ingle@marc-otp.com or fax to 828-252-9512. ATTN: RHONDA INGLE.

YWCA DIRECTOR OF EMPOWERMENT Full-time. The Director of Women’s Empowerment is a member of the senior leadership team of the YWCA. The Director will supervise the Mother Love and Women’s Empowerment Programs. The Director will also carry a case load pregnant and parenting teens, providing support for academic achievement, improved nutrition, pre-and postnatal health, and access to community resources to strengthen families, helping each participant recognize her full potential as a parent and as a person, and optimizing the parent-child relationship by providing a one-onone support system to young mothers. • The goal of the work is to ensure that the participants progress toward their next academic level or graduate from high school and that they avoid repeated pregnancies while participating in the program. The Director is also responsible for supervising the facilitation of the empowerment series “Getting Ahead in a Just Getting by World” and the management of a caseload of graduates of the program. The position is fulltime, benefits eligible, exempt and supervises two full-time staff persons. • Educational Requirement: Masters of Social Work preferred, Experience supervising staff and program administration, Excellent written and verbal communication, Computer Proficiency; Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Excel, Spanish fluency preferred. The YWCA fosters a team environment and seeks employees who are dedicated to promoting our mission: eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Please apply for this position only after reading the complete job description at www.ywcaofasheville.org under the heading ‘Who We Are.’ Contact information is provided there. • Please do not call the YWCA to discuss this position. Application deadline is July 15, 2014 Send resume and cover letter to humanresources@ywcaofasheville.org

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REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE ASHEVILLE BUNGALOWS & COTTAGES FOR SALE Several available between $250380,000+ Live near downtown and enjoy everything Asheville has to offer! Between 1200-2000 sqft with yard, hardwood floors, fireplace and charm galore! Contact for more information: 828301-8212 • trish@ashevillebungalows.com PRIVATE BUNGALOW IN WEAVERVILLE Private bungalow. 3.4 acres in old growth forest in Weaverville, mountain views, pure spring water! Pool, hot tub, cabin, additional home site. $292,500.

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SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT LIVING In the newly renovated historic Mardis Building at 444 Haywood Road in West Asheville.

One and two-bedroom apartments featuring hardwood floors, fully equipped kitchens with stainless steel, Energy Star appliances, hard surface quartz countertops in kitchen and bathroom, on-site laundry facility, high efficiency, self-contained heating and cooling units, controlled building access, free off-street parking. Smoke-free and pet-free building. Price range: $715$1,150. (828) 230-7775. www.

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HOMES FOR RENT 3/1 IN OAKLEY WITH GREEN AMENITIES Sunny top floor in duplex. 1200 sq-ft. Front and side porches, Passive solar, Hardwood floors, low VOC paint, high efficiency heat system, close to bus line. 708-7896. AvlHHR@ gmail.com AvlHHR@gmail.com 3BR, 2BA LOG HOME with basement. Hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings. Appliances included. 15 minutes from Weaverville; 25 minutes from Asheville. High speed internet. $985/month. Call 828-649-1170.

COMMERCIAL/ BUSINESS RENTALS 2,000 SQFT +/- WAYNESVILLE, NC • Ideal office/warehouse/ workspace downtown Waynesville. Decor would support craftoriented use, distributor or lowtraffic store. Negotiable. Call (828) 216-6066.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental in beautiful country setting. • Complete with everything including cable and internet. • $150/day (2-day minimum), $650/ week, $1500/month. Weaverville area. • No pets please. (828) 6589145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com

or GED; experience in a mental health field preferred. For more information or an application call HomeCare Management Corporation at (828) 247-1700.

PRN REGISTERED NURSE Eliada Homes has an opening for a PRN RN to work on our beautiful campus in Asheville at our PRTF. If you are an RN that is dedicated to improving the lives of children in our community, please apply online at www.eliada.org

HUMAN SERVICES

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL AFRICA • BRAZIL WORK/ STUDY! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! www.

OneWorldCenter.org (269) 5910518. info@OneWorldCenter.org (AAN CAN)

SKILLED LABOR/ TRADES BENCH JEWELER Full-time with benefits. Experienced in casting, stone setting, polishing and repairs. Computer skills needed.

Responsible for shop orders, shipping and receiving. Resume: pauladawkins@jewelsthatdance.com

ADMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY seeks an Executive Director for WCU Programs at Biltmore Park Instructional Site, Position #0334. Please visit our website at https://jobs.wcu.edu for details about the position and to apply online. EOE/Minorities/ Females/Vet/Disabled

DRIVERS/ DELIVERY DRIVERS WANTED Mature person for full-time. Serious inquiries only. Call today. 828-713-4710.

Area Wide Taxi, Inc.

MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE ADULT FAMILY LIVING OPPORTUNITIES “Adult Family Living Opportunities in the Asheville Area: Provide foster care for a person with developmental disabilities in your home and be rewarded with the satisfaction that comes with improving another person's life while earning a living for yourself. Applicant must have a HS Diploma

ADULT/CHILD FAMILY CARE HOMES (AFL) Excellent compensation. Similar to foster care, an AFL is a home with a heart for serving adults and children with developmental disabilities. An AFL can help to take people out of institutional settings and group homes and make them a part of their family. Some may need specialized care and/or wheelchair accessibility. A high school diploma or GED and current drivers license are required. Must pass a criminal background check, drivers record check and drug test.

Previous experience helpful but not required. Training is provided. sicklerl@davidsonhomes.org www.davidsonhomes.org AFTERSCHOOL COUNSELOR Part-time. School Age is seeking after school counselors Monday through Friday. Must be able to work 1:30-6p.m. during regular school hours and full days on Teacher Workdays, Snow Days, and Holidays. Candidates must have knowledge of working in a school age setting, Child Care Credentials and/or School Age Credentials a plus. • Education background is desirable with a focus on STEAM programming.

Background checks meeting the NC Division of Childcare Requirements is required. Valid Driver's license highly recommended, CDL's with P endorsement a plus.

Must have a positive attitude and flexibility in working with children ages 5 -12 Must be able to physically keep up with children during outside and recreational activities. Must be able to commit to an entire school year. • Fluency in Spanish is desired. Qualified candidates who are fluent in Spanish and English are strongly encouraged to apply. High School diploma or equivalent required.

• Please apply for this position only after reading the complete job description at www.ywcaofasheville.org under the heading ‘Who We Are.’ Contact information is provided there. Please do not call the YWCA to discuss this position. Application deadline is July 7, 2014. Send resumes and cover letters to humanresources@ywcaofasheville.org

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Staff Psychiatrist Meridian Behavioral Health Services is a non-profit provider of community mental health services serving nine counties in Western North Carolina. We have an

JOBS opening for a Psychiatrist providing outpatient care for adults.

Our primary office locations are in Waynesville, Sylva, Franklin and Brevard. We are seeking physicians who have interest and experience in community mental health care - treatment of persistent mental illness and addiction.

Part of this time could involve providing treatment for opioid addiction in our clinic-based buprenorphine (Suboxone) program. Minimal call responsibilities. Our locations have qualified for education loan repayment programs. Send CV to: Matthew Holmes, MD email: matt. holmes@meridianbhs.org or Joe Ferrara, CEO joe.ferrara@meridianbhs.org Transylvania, Haywood, Buncombe Counties Multiple positions open for Peer Support Specialists working within a number of recovery oriented programs within our agency. Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others.

Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. For further information, contact hr.department@meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www. meridianbhs.org/open-positions.html CHILD/ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH POSITIONS IN JACKSON, HAYWOOD, & MACON COUNTIES Looking to fill several full-time positions between now and Aug/Sept.

Licensed/provisional therapists to provide Outpatient, Day Treatment or Intensive In-home services to children/adolescents with mental health diagnoses.

Therapists must have current NC therapist license. Apply by submitting resume to telliot@ jcpsmail.org CNA • CAREGIVER POSITIONS We screen, train, bond and insure. • Positions available for quality, caring and dependable professionals. Flexible schedules and competitive pay. Home Instead Senior Care. Call (828) 274-4406 between 9am-5pm. www.homeinstead.com/159 HEALTH SERVICES ASSISTANT Non-profit now recruiting for an individual with experience working in a Head Start pre-school program to ensure that children receive required health screenings, and their families receive individualized plan, support and services they need to be ready for school. • Requires a two year degree in Social Work, Early Childhood Education, Arts, or Sciences. Bi-lingual in SpanishEnglish a plus. Salary Range: $10.60/hour-$14.62/hour. A valid North Carolina driver license required. Must pass physical and background checks. CPR and First Aid Certification required. •

Make application with complete work references and contact information along with DCDEE CRC Qualifying Letter to: Human Resources Manager 25 Gaston Street Asheville, NC 28801 Or Admin@communityactionopportunities.org Or (828) 253-6319 (Fax) Open until filled. EOE and DFWP. LOANED EXECUTIVE - 2014 UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN Make your community better, make professional connections.

United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County seeks energetic, talented individuals for the 2014 campaign. • Key experience/skills: Fundraising, Public Speaking, Project Management.

Full-time positions run 8/18/1410/31/14. More info/apply: http://www.unitedwayabc.org/ employment-opportunities LOOKING FOR A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL to work from our Asheville office. Candidates must have a 4-year degree in human services and 2 years of post-degree experience working with people who have Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities. Necessary abilities include goal writing, personnel management, training, and strong communication skills. An official transcript is required. Apply online at www.turningpointservicesinc. com LOOKING FOR DIRECT CARE STAFF to provide services to a young male with Intellectual and/ or Developmental Disabilities.

Training, supervision, and benefits available. Evidence of high school graduation is required.

Find position descriptions and application at www.turningpointservicesinc.com. Click on "Career Opportunities". "We are an equal opportunity employer" LOOKING FOR FULL OR PARTTIME WORK? We are looking for you. WNC Group Homes provides residential services to people who have Autism and Intellectual Disabilities. Current open part-time positions include Monday-Friday, 6am-9:30am and Saturday/Sunday, 9am-9pm. • Full-Time opening on 2nd shift.

More information about WNC Group Homes and employment opportunities can be viewed at www.wncgrouphomes.org • Applications can be mailed or dropped off at 28 Pisgah View Ave, Asheville, NC 28803.

PRN FAMILY VISITATION PROGRAM VISIT MONITOR The Mediation Center is hiring a part-time/PRN Family Visitation

Program Visit Monitor. For full job description and details, visit our website at http://mediatewnc.org/about/jobs PROGRAM DIRECTOR JOB OPENING Four Circles Transition Program, a substance abuse recovery transitional living program for young men, is seeking a Program Director to oversee all aspects of the program. This includes providing excellent, dynamic client care, marketing, financial oversight, scheduling, operations, on-call rotation, communication with parents and referring professionals, recruiting, hiring and training staff. Looking for an excited, innovative, leader with recovery knowledge, dual diagnosis experience, supervisory experience, the ability to work as part of a team, experience with family work, and experience with group facilitation.

Some travel required. • Master’s Degree strongly encouraged, preferably in the Human Services or related field. • Clinical Licensure a plus. We offer a competitive salary, great benefits and training. Please respond via email to jobs@fourcirclesrecovery.com, reference Program Director.

PROGRAM OPERATIONS MANAGER Community Action Opportunities, Asheville, Children, Family and Community Partnership Department. We are a high-performing, non-profit Community Action Agency created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to end poverty.

We are looking for a seasoned and skilled professional to fill a full-time management position to oversee key department operations. • This position requires a unique individual with a variety of skills to: • accurately budget and monitor 7+ million in federal/state/local funds and cost allocations; • prepare refunding and other applications; • manage department procurement and HR procedures and comply with grant, CFR and Agency policies/procedures; • Facilitate the annual Head Start self-assessment; supervise program data collection/reporting functions; • Use teams to develop and implement technology and program plans/procedures; • Use and understand Results-Oriented Management and Accountability, (ROMA) concepts and outcome tools; • Meet repeated deadlines; use critical thinking skills, be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, customer database applications & Google Apps, use high-quality oral and written communication skills; establish/maintain effective working relationships; and • Incorporate the Agency’s principles: Teamwork, Communication,

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR Established Counseling Center looking for Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. Must have CSAC or LCAS credentials.

Offering part-time to start. Job will be to conduct Assessments and lead groups. Substance Abuse work background experience highly desired. Please contact Bruce directly at (828) 777-3755 or email resume to trcbruce@gmail.com THERAPEUTIC FOSTER PARENTS NEEDED If you are interested in making a difference in the life of a child, and live in the Asheville area, please give me a call. Free training. Call Debbie Smiley (828) 258-0031 ext. 348 or debbie.smiley@thementornetwork.com

PROFESSIONAL/ MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Asheville GreenWorks seeks an experienced leader with a demonstrated commitment to the environment and to organizational excellence. The new ED must have successful management, fundraising, and relationship building experience to lead the organization to its next level of effectiveness. For more information about the position and the organization, please visit http:// www.ashevillegreenworks.org/ employment-opportunities.html

RECRUITER/EXECUTIVE SEARCH CONSULTANT Mountain Management Group is seeking Executive Search Consultants with a great work ethic and willingness to learn. We offer the some of the best compensation and commission plans in the industry, exceptional training, unlimited earning potential, and outstanding advancement opportunities. If you are hardworking, self-motivated and an

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TEACHING/ EDUCATION 6TH GRADE MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHER ArtSpace Charter School is accepting applications for a 6th grade Math and Science teacher. This position will be a one year interim position for the 2014-15 school year. Applicants Must have a current North Carolina teaching license in either K-6 Education or in Middle School Math and Middle School Science.

• Knowledge of the arts and arts integration strategies is preferred but not required. Please send resumes and cover letters to: resumes@artspacecharter.org with a subject heading that read, “6th grade interim.”

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ArtSpace Charter School is now accepting applications for an Elementary School Teacher for the 2014-15 school year. Applicants MUST have a current North Carolina teaching license in Elementary Education.

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

Would you like your savings account to grow?

Then deposit money into in it on a consistent basis. Would you like to feel good and have a lot of physical energy? Eat healthy food, sleep as much as you need to, and exercise regularly. Do you want people to see the best in you and give you the benefit of the doubt?

See the best in them and give them the benefit of the doubt. Would you love to accomplish your most important goal? Decide what you want more than anything else and focus on it with relaxed intensity. Yes, Aries, life really is that simple — or at least it is right now. If you want to attain interesting success, be a master of the obvious.

The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue that’s over 2,100 years old.

Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost — buried underground on the Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will uncover a source of beauty, love or pleasure — or perhaps all three — that has been missing or forgotten for a long time.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Your urge to merge is heating up. Your curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it’s time to conduct jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here’s what I propose: Let your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don’t be attached to the outcomes. Some of your research may lead to permanent arrangements, and some won’t. Either result is fine.

Your task is to enjoy the amusing bustle and learn all you can from it.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) The American painter Ivan Albright (18971983) was a meticulous creator. He spent as much time as necessary to get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect one square inch of a painting, and some of his pieces took years to finish. When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush composed of a single hair. That’s the kind of attention to minutia I recommend for you — not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be careful and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you maximum freedom of movement later this year.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just before he reaches the top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started and makes another effort to roll it up — only to fail again. The myth says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I’m happy to report, Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a certain uphill task, you will not be forever frustrated.

In fact, I believe a breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be due to your gutsy determination, your neurotic compulsion or both? It doesn’t matter.

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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Many of America’s founding fathers believed slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t invent hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In comparison, the hypocrisy that you express is mild. Nevertheless, working to minimize it is a worthy task. And here’s the good news: You are now in a position to become the zodiac’s leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ideals into practical action.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) In the Inuktitut language spoken in northern Canada, the term iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga means “I should try not to become an alcoholic.” I encourage you to have fun saying that a lot in the coming days.

Why? Now is an excellent time to be playful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive tendencies you might have.

Whether it’s booze or gambling or abusive relationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive self-saboteur, you have more power than usual to break its hold on you — especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here’s one: Gazing at Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a central hub on the planet’s surface. But we now know that Venus is shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no surface features are visible. So what did Lowell see? Due to an anomaly in his apparatus, the telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of Venus.

The “spokes” were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let this example serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Don’t confuse what’s within you with what’s outside you. If you can clearly discern the difference, your closest relationships will experience healing breakthroughs.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)

In the last two decades, seven Academy Award winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Oscars. By contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio executive Harvey Weinstein.

Who would you acknowledge as essential to your success, Libra? What generous souls, loving animals, departed helpers and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive? Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your appreciation. For mysterious reasons, doing so will enhance your luck and increase your chances for future success.

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” So said British writer G.K. Chesterton.

And I’m passing his advice on to you just in time for the purge-and-purify phase of your astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will generate good fortune for yourself whenever you wash your own brain and absolve your own heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sexual feelings. As you proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious choice to undergo a trial by fire.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)

You have permission to compose an allpurpose excuse note for yourself. If you’d like, you may also forge my signature on it so you can tell everyone that your astrologer sanctified it. This document will be ironclad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, escape small-minded influences, and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-strength excuse note will free you to seek out adventures you’ve been denying yourself for no good reason.

“I awake in a land where the lovers have seized power,” writes Danish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful poem “The Lovers.” “They have introduced laws decreeing that orgasms need never come to an end.

Roses function as currency. ... The words ‘you’ and ‘I’ are now synonymous.” A world like the one he describes is a fantasy, of course. It’s impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial romance. Dare to put love at the top of your priority list. And be inventive!

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IRL CAMPUS DIRECTOR To provide broad leadership and management of the IRL afterschool programs in Asheville City Schools. To apply: http:// acsf.org/irl.php or email cover letter, resume, & two references to kate@acsf.org. www.acsf.org

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR HIGHLAND BREWING NIGHT FLIGHT RACE, SATURDAY, JULY 12 Volunteers needed for Highland Brewing 20th anniversary Night Flight Race on Saturday, July 12, at 8:00pm.

Proceeds going to development of greenways in our community.

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NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville

Police Department: electronic equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms); jewelry; automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous items. Anyone with a legitimate claim or interest in this property has 30 days from the date of this publication to make a claim.

Unclaimed items will be disposed of according to statutory law.

Items will be auctioned on www. propertyroom.com. For further information, or to file a claim, contact the Asheville Police Department Property and Evidence Section, 828-232-4576. NOTICE OF DISPOSITION The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville Police Department tagged for disposition: audio and video equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms); jewelry; automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous. Items will be disposed of 30 days from date of this posting.

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54 Ancient Brit 55 Grandson of Adam 58 “Come as you ___”

39 Kingly name in Norway

51 Luke Skywalker’s mentor

41 The 1980s and ’90s, e.g.

52 Help in finding fractures

59 Block boundaries: Abbr.

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