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OUR 27TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 27 NO. 50 JULY 14-20, 2021

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FEATURES 10 GREEN ROUNDUP New website shares WNC landslide risks and other environmental news

14 ‘A RIOT WAS IMMINENT’ Imaginary melee at the Biltmore Estate makes front-page news, 1891

PAGE 6 THE BLOCK: THE NEXT GENERATION Over the past year, the addition of new Black-owned businesses on Eagle and Market streets has suggested a renaissance of sorts for the former Black Wall Street. Yet in a rapidly changing city where obstacles for minority entrepreneurs remain rampant, sustaining that growth could prove challenging.

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COVER PHOTO Cindy Kunst 18 FILLING THE GAPS Community paramedicine program addresses overdoses differently

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4 CARTOON: MOLTON 20 TUNING IN Daniel Crupi begins work as Asheville Symphony executive director

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16 COMMUNITY CALENDAR 22 SUMMERTIME STUNNERS Ryan “RnB” Barber, Julia Sanders and Powder Horns release new albums

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27 CLUBLAND 24 WHAT’S NEW IN FOOD Coffee delivery service launches in Asheville and other WNC culinary updates

29 CLASSIFIEDS 30 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY 31 NY TIMES CROSSWORD

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OPINION

Send your letters to the editor to letters@mountainx.com.

Reroute half of occupancy taxes to infrastructure I think and truly believe it is a travesty that so much of the funds from the occupancy tax are rerouted to advertising for more tourism! I believe that at least 50% of what is taken in should be rerouted to taking care of our infrastructure.

The condition of our roads is atrocious. And I’m sure a lot of these conditions are due to the increase and excessive numbers of tourists.

We really don’t need to do more advertising to lure more tourism to this county and area. They are already coming in droves.

— Bern Sroka Asheville

Timeout needed on occupancy tax collection There needs to be a moratorium on the collection of the hotel occupancy tax. The state law requiring 75% of the tax to be used for advertising is absurd. Until such time as local governments are free to determine

C AR T O O N B Y R AN D Y MO L TO N the best use of the tax, it should be zeroed out.

— George Wagner Asheville

Thanks for River Arts District greenway and more What a labor of love to beautify the Riverside Drive/Lyman Street pathway, with bicycle, walking paths and flowers along the French Broad River! I am so grateful to all the DOT and city of Asheville employees who worked day after day through a pandemic on this project to beautify our town.

In fact, many thanks are owed to all the people who worked night and day to keep life going throughout the last year and a half. Last year, the tunnel had no light; now the light is getting brighter. Thank you to all the nurses and doctors, the grocery store workers, delivery drivers from UPS, FedEx and Amazon drivers, postal workers, Instacart workers and the like, teachers …

Without you all, we would not have made it. You are truly a blessing.

— Rudy Beharrysingh Asheville

Where are environmental groups on Charlotte Street development?

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101 Charlotte St. development. The plan calls for [multiple] trees to be bulldozed, many of which are more than 100 years old, only to be replaced with twigs developers are calling trees.

The ground will be graded down to street level, and the site will go from 45% to 80% impervious cover, contributing to the urban heat island.

Twelve homes will be demolished, adding … tons of perfectly good materials to our landfill.

This kind of destruction should be an embarrassment to any city that claims to care about combating climate change.

I call upon locally important environmental groups to take a stand on this issue in this time of emergency climate crisis. Where are you MountainTrue … Sierra Club, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, Dogwood Alliance? We must get loud now before it’s too late!

— Ray Hearne Leicester

Keep noise ordinance as is [Regarding “Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Proposed Noise Ordinance Could Reshape Downtown’s Future,” June 23, Xpress:] I believe that we should leave it as is — that’s part of the charm of downtown Asheville. We’re losing so much of what Asheville is loved for.

As I continue to say, in 10 years, we’ll just be another town or city in North Carolina or the U.S., for that matter.

— Mari DeMauro Asheville

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Black Wall Street 2.0 New Black-owned businesses populate The Block

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com For nearly 70 years, Eagle and South Market streets in downtown Asheville were home to a vibrant residential and commercial district for Black residents. But with the city’s implementation of urban renewal policies between the 1950s and 1980s, the area known as The Block was largely destroyed and has struggled to bounce back.

Over the past year, the addition of such Black-owned businesses as the Noir Collective collaborative shop, Jawbreaking fashion store, Asheville Iridescence Yoga and Sole82 sneaker boutique has suggested a renaissance of sorts for the former Black Wall Street. Yet in a rapidly changing city where obstacles for minority entrepreneurs remain rampant, sustaining that growth could prove challenging.

Xpress spoke with a few of these entrepreneurs about what brought them to The Block, the barriers they’ve navigated along the way and what it will take to keep the neighborhood thriving.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Originally known as the Young Men’s Institute, the YMI Cultural Center opened on South Market Street in 1893 as a place for the Black construction workers employed at the Biltmore Estate “to improve the moral fiber of the Black male through education focusing on social, cultural, business and religious life.”

In 1981, the YMI was reestablished

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GENERATIONAL: Jefferson Ellison spent most of his childhood on The Block, where he now operates the Jawbreaking fashion store. Photo by Cindy Kunst as a nonprofit focused on preserving the heritage of African Americans in Buncombe County. Forty years later, fourth-generation Ashevillean Dewana Little seeks to walk the line between history and impactful action as the YMI’s executive director, advancing the organization while the neighborhood continues to overcome the effects of urban renewal.

“People think about gentrification as just Black people getting pushed out into the county, but it’s a loss of place,” Little says. “As I look at The Block, I’m excited and sad at the same time because I remember when it was thriving with Black businesses.”

Little adds that “revitalizing the Black space” is at the heart of the YMI’s work. Though she sees the recent uptick in Black-owned businesses as “an investment in Black people” by entrepreneurs and building owners, she feels that more such enterprises need to arise before The Block is truly back. In particular, Little would love to see more Blackowned restaurants and “a nice social spot” to help restore the neighborhood’s former sense of place.

“What made it The Block was it being a safe zone for Black people,” Little says. “Historically, it’s one of

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the only areas outside of Southside where Black people have been able to really grow businesses in downtown Asheville.”

A PART VS. APART

As a young man in the early 2000s, Jefferson Ellison took piano lessons at the YMI, after which he’d go across the street and do his homework in the cigar room of the Ritz Café restaurant and jazz club. The business was co-owned by his father, Gene Ellison, who served on the YMI’s board of directors and, as an Asheville City Council member and vice mayor, worked to clean up the neighborhood and advocate for its historic nature.

The junior Ellison now operates the fashion arm of his multifaceted company, Jawbreaking, on Eagle Street and handles marketing for several businesses on The Block, including Noir Collective, the YMI and LEAF Global Arts. He says there’s a disconnect between different area enterprises: White-owned, tourist-centric operations, including restaurants Limones and Benne on Eagle and the Foundry Hotel Asheville, are The Block’s most visible, while Black-owned, communi-

ty-focused endeavors like Soce’s Afro American Hair Braiding go largely ignored.

“The traditional Asheville narrative does not necessarily highlight The Block as a part of downtown,” Ellison says. “A lot of times, people say, ‘Oh, go downtown’ and then, ‘Go to The Block,’ as if they’re separate.”

Conversely, Ellison says South Slope is marketed as part of downtown and being “on the beaten path.”

While he notes the brewery district and Biltmore Avenue see heavy foot traffic on any given Saturday, people “may hear crickets on Eagle and Market” that same day.

Kathi Petersen, spokesperson for the Explore Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau, says the tourism body aims “to support the growth and vitality of [The Block] as its rebirth accelerates.” She notes that the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority has invested over $1.5 million in the YMI and LEAF; the in-progress African American Heritage Trail and updated Explore Asheville wayfinding, she adds, will also highlight the district.

Ellison and his fellow neighborhood business owners, organized as The Block Collective, are working with the city to redirect pedestrians down Eagle and onto Market through better signage and marketing. “When I first opened my store, I would sit and watch people walking from the Foundry or coming off Biltmore with their heads down,” he says. “They’re not even looking at what’s around them because they have not been told that they are still walking through a part of downtown. They think they’re walking on a through street.”

While increased activity would make a difference, Ellison also feels that the makeup of tenants surrounding Jawbreaking could benefit from more variety.

“It ends up being really reductive and limiting to think that Black businesses coming up in Asheville have to be located in historically Black areas,” Ellison says. “In that same thought, it’s not reasonable in a city like Asheville, which is so overwhelmingly white, to think that the historically Black business areas have to remain exclusively Black. Diversity can come on The Block, and the legacy of what The Block is can be unchanged. But if we want to support Black business in Asheville, we need to be having a different conversation.”

VALUE BEYOND PRICE

A native of Rutherford County, Jazmin Rogers grew up visiting family in Asheville, moved there in 2014 and completed yoga teacher training

at Asheville Community Yoga in 2017.

Upon returning from an early 2020 trip to study meditation in Nepal, she felt called to open a yoga studio that was upfront about being owned by a Black woman. That way, she explains, if people of color hadn’t felt “safe, recognized or witnessed” in other yoga studios, they would feel the opposite at her Asheville Iridescence Yoga.

Landing a space on The Block, however, wasn’t easy. Rogers says gentrification in the area led to rents that were higher than she could afford on her own as a new business owner.

Rogers began volunteering with local giving circle CoThinkk in 2017, through which she met Stephanie Swepson-Twitty, president and CEO of the nonprofit Eagle Market Streets Development Corp. Thanks to the nonprofit, she was able to secure affordable rent at the 70 S. Market St. building that EMSDC owns. But she believes better paths to support should be available for other entrepreneurs of color as they achieve their dreams.

“It shouldn’t have taken me as long as it did to get my foot in the door,” Rogers says. “I shouldn’t have had to volunteer for years, doing a lot of free work, just to make the connection that I finally made.”

acutely aware of the importance of real estate on The Block, and not selling to the highest bidder.

“The people who own the buildings understand that the value is more than just monetary,” Rogers says. “It’s a legacy issue, it’s a historical issue and it’s a resource issue.”

NEIGHBORHOOD VALUE: Asheville Iridescence Yoga owner Jazmin Rogers was able to open her studio downtown thanks to a landlord who recognizes the importance of Blackowned businesses on The Block.

Photo by Cindy Kunst While she remains concerned about other prospective business owners having to face financial hurdles, Rogers feels encouraged by organizations like the YMI and EMSDC being

STRONGER TOGETHER

At Noir Collective, Ajax Ravenel gives Black makers from across Asheville a place to sell their creations, which range from art to incense to toilet paper. Ravenel, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, notes that these collaborators were already working in their respective fields prior to the collective’s formation in June 2020. But they say many struggled to achieve visibility, especially in a cost-prohibitive downtown.

A similar commitment to access and resource sharing is at the forefront of Ravenel’s racial justice advocacy beyond their business. They feel an alignment with the YMI’s mission of revitalizing the Black space; the nonprofit is the landlord of Noir Collective’s South Market storefront, and Ravenel partners with the organization on other efforts.

Ravenel sees a similar “strength in numbers” dedication among The Block’s other Black entrepreneurs, as well as an encouraging attitude of fighting to keep spaces once they’re acquired. “Having that kind of networking, having people communicate more and be together more — it makes it a lot easier to make money and keep the things that we have,” they say.

But with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions lifting and many people returning to old patterns of life, Ravenel is seeing momentum from the Black Lives Matter movement slowing. With less attention on issues of racial justice, they fear that opportunities for minority entrepreneurs will diminish and commitments to racial equity by white allies will subside.

“We can’t do this on our own. We can, in a sense, and create our own spaces like I did, but it takes a lot more [effort],” Ravenel says. “When places have access, when they open up and they start collaborating with us, then that momentum can continue and keep moving forward. But when they go back to normal, everything slows down, and we’re back on our own.” X

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Local governments nix remote public comment Not everyone learned to bake sourdough or crochet mittens during the COVID-19 pandemic, but many people picked up at least one new skill: videoconferencing. Once seldomly used outside the business world, software such as Zoom became routine as people connected virtually to school, medical appointments, trivia nights and more throughout stayhome orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Videoconferencing also became a necessity for Western North Carolina’s local governments, which are required by state law to make their meetings open to the public.

In Asheville and Buncombe County, the technology allowed constituents to participate in those meetings from afar, sharing their comments in real time.

As a result, argues Patrick Conant, area residents had more access to their government officials.

“The global pandemic required our local government to figure out new

TALKING ABOUT TALKING: During Asheville City Council’s June 8 meeting, Melanie Noyes spoke out against a decision to end live remote public comment. Screen capture courtesy of the city of Asheville ways to conduct public business,” explains Conant, the director of local governmental transparency project Sunshine Request. “While that presented some challenges in terms of staff capacity and occasional technical issues, the work of our local government became more accessible than ever before.”

But as local governments end their pandemic states of emergency, they are starting to return to in-person meetings. In Asheville and Buncombe County, that has also meant a return to in-person public comment — and the end of live remote comment, despite there being no technological obstacle to continuing the practice. The decision has drawn concern from Conant and other citizens who say it reduces their ability to participate in local government.

“It is the responsibility of the city and county to make it easier, not harder, for members of the public to participate in the government process,” says Conant. “It is a step in the wrong direction to remove options for participation in public meetings.”

EMERGENCY MEASURES

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tream following their respective local state of emergency declarations on March 12 and 19, 2020. City constituents were initially able to comment on Council meetings only through voicemail or an online form, both of which had to be submitted by 5 p.m. the day before the meeting. The city then began offering a live call-in feature for public comment on May 22, 2020.

The county board also took comment only by email and voicemail at the start of the pandemic. On Sept.

1, 2020, that policy changed to allow comment via live video or phone calls at the start of each meeting while prohibiting email and voicemail comments.

As COVID-19 vaccinations became more widespread and cases of the disease began dropping in late spring, the Board of Commissioners returned to in-person meetings on May 4. Comment took place under a hybrid model that allowed residents to either call in live or speak in person. That policy shifted again in June, when the board transitioned to fully in-person public comment and eliminated the call-in option.

In turn, Asheville City Council held its first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic on June 8, with live public comment limited to those who could attend. The city continues to accept email and voicemail comments received by 9 a.m. the morning of each Council meeting; however, those comments are not read aloud or otherwise referenced.

AN ISSUE OF ACCESS

Members of the public first voiced concern about those changes shortly after the new public comment rules were announced. Asheville resident Melanie Noyes spoke out against the city’s policy during the June 8 Council meeting, noting that the in-person requirement for live comment coincided with the public hearing on the city’s fiscal year 2021-22 budget and ongoing pressure for changes to the Asheville Police Department.

“While it doesn’t come as a surprise that they would create obstacles for folks by removing virtual comment, it is also important to point out the pattern of censorship within the last year amid a growing amount of people that show up for racial justice,” Noyes tells Xpress. “I see this as a pattern that has arisen because they are getting a lot of heat for mistakes and demands to defund APD that they don’t want to answer to.”

Resident Grace Barron-Martinez points out that while the city allows commenters to submit written remarks and leave voicemails in advance of a meeting, only comments made during a meeting directly reach both the community and city leaders.

“When you get the opportunity to speak at those meetings, you’re not just speaking to Council.” she says. “There are people who are listening in our community, who are

watching at home. It’s not just to speak to Council. It’s to voice your concerns publicly.”

Both Noyes and Barron-Martinez also note that call-in public comment provided an access point for people who might struggle to attend public meetings in person due to work, child care, transportation or a number of other barriers.

“Continuing virtual live public comment allows for working-class folks, parents, folks with disabilities and many others the accessibility that helps to overcome these obstacles that disproportionately affect our BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and people of color] communities,” says Noyes. “Without making public comment accessible to everyone, we are not getting everyone to the table that deserves to be there.”

And Conant with Sunshine Request says that the changes being made to public comment protocols are occurring behind closed doors.

“Neither Asheville City Council nor the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners have debated this change in process during a public meeting,” he notes. “It is not clear that a majority of Asheville City Council or the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners supports these changes in process, and the public has not been given an opportunity to provide input.”

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

Despite that criticism, both city and county governments say that they are providing adequate opportunities for members of the public to speak. What citizens may feel is a right to share their thoughts during those meetings, emphasizes Asheville City Attorney Brad Branham, is not technically protected by state law.

Branham explains that City Council is only required to pro-

vide at least one period for public comment per month at a regular meeting. Council is also authorized to adopt “reasonable rules” governing the conduct of the public comment period.

By including public comment at the end of each biweekly meeting, the city exceeds state public comment requirements, Branham says. He also notes that there is no requirement in North Carolina that remote public comment be taken.

“The city of Asheville highly values and appreciates the robust and thoughtful engagement we see day in and day out with our residents, not only at City Council meetings, but also at committee meetings. We recognize this is the hallmark of civic participation,” Mayor Esther Manheimer wrote in a statement to Xpress. “We would also ask that everyone understand that, now that we are returning to in-person meetings, we are returning to in-person engagement. People who do not wish to attend in person can send their comments to City Council.”

“Our procedures allow significantly more opportunity for public comment than is required by state policy,” Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair Brownie Newman adds. “Our general approach is that people who want to address the commission during our meetings for any items on the agenda need to attend the meeting, so we are handling the public comment process in the same way we handle the public involvement in all the other agenda items addressed during commission meetings.”

Newman notes that his personal cellphone number is published on the county website so people who cannot attend meetings in person can reach him at any time. He says commissioners make time to speak with and meet with constituents on an ongoing basis outside of regular meetings.

And while Asheville City Council’s Vision 2036 states under its core theme of “a connected and engaged community” that city leaders will “use the latest technologies and methods to communicate with, engage, and empower community participants,” Branham says that the costs and logistics of operating remote comment technology are not in the city budget or priorities.

“Conducting virtual meetings over the past year has greatly advanced the technological tools to

provide for the conduct of public business. However, the staff and technology resources required to provide these resources was immense,” says Branham. “In addition, despite these advancements, the virtual tools used to connect the public remained somewhat unreliable. Now that in-person meetings are once again permitted, it is far more efficient and cost effective to conduct these sessions in person.”

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SNAPSHOT

OUTDOOR FUN: Hendersonville welcomed back its annual summer concert series, Music on Main, on July 9. Along with free music, the weekly happening features a local antique car show. Photo by Jack Elka

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New website shares WNC landslide risks A new website developed by the N.C. Geological Survey aims to help Western North Carolina residents understand the dangers they face from landslides. The WNC Landslide Hazard Data Viewer (avl.mx/9sg) compiles current and historical landslide information and displays levels of risk throughout the region.

The interactive map, compiled in partnership with the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center at UNC Asheville, currently contains complete data for Buncombe, Henderson, Macon, Polk and Watauga counties. Researchers plan to continue adding information for 14 other counties in WNC. According to the N.C. Climate Science Report prepared by N.C. State University’s Asheville-based N.C. Institute for Climate Studies and other experts, the area will likely experience more landslides in the coming years due to climate change.

Landslides are also included in the highest risk category of the Buncombe

people, requiring dogs to stay on a leash no longer than 6 feet and closing several user-created trails.

More information and a map of the area in which the restrictions apply are available at avl.mx/9se.

Blue Ridge Parkway tops national parks in 2020 visits, spending Step aside, Golden Gate Bridge: In 2020, the Blue Ridge Parkway overtook the land surrounding the California landmark as the most-visited attraction managed by the National Park Service. According to recently published NPS data, the parkway hosted roughly 14.1 million recreational visits last year, while the Golden Gate National Recreation Area saw about 12.4 million visits.

The parkway, which runs through Asheville before heading northeast to Virginia, also topped the list in terms of visitor spending, accounting for about $1.07 billion in lodging, restaurant sales and other economic activity. Of that spending, the NPS estimates that about 95% comes from nonlocal visitors to the parkway, and roughly 62% takes place within North Carolina.

Both visitation and spending along the parkway saw smaller decreases due to the COVID-19 pandemic compared with trends observed for other NPS attractions. While those numbers were down 27.7% and 30.7%, respectively, across the park system, the parkway’s visitation and spending were down less than 5.9% and 5.2%.

SLIP AND SLIDE: A December 2018 landslide in Polk County covered nearly 11 acres in debris and closed Howard Gap Road, which has yet to be repaired.

Photo courtesy of the N.C. Geological Survey

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Camping, fires banned on Max Patch for two years

In response to issues stemming from significant increases in visitation, the U.S. Forest Service has banned all camping and fires at Max Patch through June 2023. The grassy

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bald, located on the Appalachian Trail in Madison County near the Tennessee state line, is among the most popular outdoor tourist destinations in Western North Carolina.

“We’ve been working with partners to achieve sustainable recreation at Max Patch,” said Appalachian District Ranger Jen Barnhart in a press release announcing the new restrictions, which went into effect July 1. “Unfortunately, the level of use is causing a public safety hazard, as well as serious damage to wildlife habitat.”

Other rules now in force at Max Patch include limiting groups to 10

In the wild

• In 2020, North Carolina saw its highest tally of black bears killed during a single hunting season.

According to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, 3,748 bears were hunted across the state; the Mountain Bear Management Unit, which includes WNC, accounted for 1,429 of that total, the unit’s second-highest harvest on record.

Colleen Olfenbuttel, the NCWRC’s black bear and furbearer biologist, said the increase in hunting activity was likely tied to an overall greater interest in the outdoors driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Due to continued declines in the wild American ginseng populations of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests, the U.S. Forest Service will not issue harvest permits for

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TAKE A WALK: Conserving Carolina communications intern Alexla Perez-Sanchez leads a series of bilingual nature excursions over the next three months.

Photo courtesy of Conserving Carolina the plant this year. Any removal of wild ginseng from national forest land is subject to a fine of up to $5,000 and/or a six-month federal prison sentence.

• On July 1, a coalition of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s April 2019 denial of endangered species status to the eastern hellbender. As previously reported by Xpress (see “Slipping away?” Jan. 23, 2019, avl.mx/9sh), the giant salamander, a flagship species for WNC, faces challenges from habitat loss and climate change.

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• Bob Carswell, the CEO of Morganton-based textile recycling company Material Return, was named one of 14 inaugural fellows by the Fund for New Leadership.

Carswell will receive coaching and $225,000 in unrestricted funds over three years to build his business, which gathers WNC textile waste for use in new products.

• The Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina received a 222-acre land donation in the Thermal City area of Rutherford County. Owners David and Martha Cameron plan to bequeath another 101 acres in their will, with the hope that the entire tract of mostly undeveloped forest will become a public park.

• Buncombe County has started construction on a roughly $10 million collection of solar panels on county facilities and area schools approved by the Board of Commissioners last July. Fairview Library is the first of 39 buildings to be outfitted; the

project is expected to take about 18 months to complete.

Save the date

• Solarize Asheville-Buncombe raises funds for its Neighbor to Neighbor Solar grant program at the Hi-Wire Brewing Big Top 5-8 p.m. Thursday, July 15. The program helps low- and moderate-income residents afford solar power; Solarize hopes to raise $200,000 to assist 30 local families.

More information is at avl.mx/9ws.

• Hendersonville-based nonprofit Conserving Carolina hosts a series of bilingual Spanish/English nature walks led by Alexla Perez-Sanchez, the organization’s communications intern and a rising UNC Asheville senior. Outings include the Park at Flat Rock at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 17; the Brevard Greenway at 9 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 14; and the Vaughn Creek Greenway at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11. Registration is required at avl.mx/9sa.

• N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Buncombe County Center hosts a webinar on local climate change mitigation and adaptation at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, July 21. The talk features Kathie Dello, director of the N.C. State Climate Office. More information and registration are at avl.mx/9so.

• The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Pisgah Forest, managed by the NCWRC, holds a fly-fishing expo 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Wednesday, July 21. No registration is required to take part in hands-on fishing activities such as tying flies and casting practice. More information is at avl.mx/9sc. X

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by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

‘A riot was imminent’ Imaginary melee at the Biltmore Estate makes front-page news, 1891

REFUTED: On Sept. 14, 1891, the Asheville Daily Citizen falsely reported that roughly 600 Black workers nearly broke out into a riot at the Biltmore Estate. Subsequent letters to the editor refuted the paper’s unfounded claims. Xpress was unable to locate an image of the estate’s Black workers from this time period. Shown here is a group of Biltmore House stonecutters. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County Special Collections, Asheville In 1891, workers at the Biltmore Estate were in the midst of laying the foundation of the South Terrace. That same year, the Asheville Daily Citizen ran a short piece based on an unverified tip, promoting a popular racist trope: white men protecting communities against violent Black males.

Featured on the front page of its Sept. 14 edition, the paper asserted 500-600 of the estate’s Black employees had arrived intoxicated at the property to receive their weekly pay. Cursing and fighting soon commenced, the article claimed. “[A] riot was for a time probable,” the paper

declared, “avoided only by the coolness of two white men.”

The story elicited a series of letters to the editor refuting the Daily Citizen’s claims, including a detailed account of the day’s events by Charles McNamee, the estate’s first manager and George Vanderbilt’s attorney.

McNamee began by correcting the paper’s figures, noting that the estate employed roughly 300 Black workers. In addition, employees were paid on an alternating schedule to avoid an overwhelming number of workers arriving on a single day. “Last Saturday, when it is stated that a riot

was imminent, there were 228 men in all on the roll for payment,” McNamee continued. “A large number of these 228 were white men.”

Not denying the presence of alcohol, McNamee wrote, “It is a fact that liquor is in some way procured at Biltmore, and there is consequently, at times, some intoxication, among both the white and the colored men.”

Furthermore, McNamee acknowledged, “There is doubtless more or less cursing [among workers], though I do not remember that it has ever been so loud or deep as to attract any attention.”

The estate’s manager concluded his letter by “emphatically denying practically everything that the informant of THE CITIZEN stated[.]”

In response, the paper briefly noted the information it had received “was perfectly sincere,” and thus “THE CITIZEN printed it in good faith as a matter of news.”

Five additional citizens signed their names to letters denying the paper’s account.

Racial tension and violence marked subsequent headlines throughout the 1890s and its surrounding years.

Less than two weeks after the false report of a riot, Hezekiah Rankin, a local African American brakeman, was lynched — one of three reported lynchings to occur in Buncombe County from 1889-97. (For more, see “Asheville Archives: ‘A growing evil,’” May 15, 2018, Xpress) Asheville’s subsequent decade began with a July 30, 1900, white supremacy march on the city’s downtown streets.

The event took place three days before North Carolina’s eligible male voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that actively sought to disenfranchise Black voters.

“The amendment has been ratified, and the government of state and county has been committed to the party which stands for white supremacy, by overwhelming majorities,” the Asheville Daily Citizen wrote on Aug. 2, 1900. “And it is hoped that the lesson of this result will not be lost on those partisans and theorists, here and elsewhere, who have thought it possible for the white men of their country to yield any considerable share in their government to an alien and inferior race.” (For more, see “Asheville Archives: ‘White supremacy made permanent,’ 1900,” Feb. 6, 2018, Xpress) Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from original documents. X

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At First Light: NCGC Lighting Invitational Art exhibition featuring glass and light.

WE (7/14), TH (7/15), FR (7/16), SA (7/17), 10am, North Carolina Glass Center, 140 Roberts St, Suite B

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SA (7/17), 10am, Free, Patton Park, Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville Yoga in the Park Outdoor yoga class.

SA (7/17), SU (7/18), 1:30pm, $20, Registration required, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Sparkle Time - Holistic Senior Exercise Aerobic, strengthening, balance and flexibility.

MO (7/19), 10:30am, Avery's Creek Community Center, 899 Glennbridge Rd SE Arden Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach Free naloxone, syringes and educational material on harm reduction.

TU (7/20), 2pm, Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Rd Yoga in the Meadow at Highland Brewing Outdoor beer yoga.

TU (7/20), 6pm, $10, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200 Zumba Gold Low-Impact dance, multiple styles. Suggested donation.

WE (7/21), 12pm, Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave

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FR (7/16), 2:30pm-4pm, The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave Celebrate Blue Ridge Craft Trails Month Fiber fusion artist Joyce Henneberry and woodcarver Mark Henneberry demonstrate their crafts.

SA (7/17), 11am, Firefly Craft Gallery , 2689 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock Together/Apart: A Year of Pent Up Creativity Unleashed Featuring multimedia contributions from seven teams.

SU (7/18), 4pm, Free, Ananda West, 37 Paynes Way, Suite 5

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS The Black Wall St MarketPlace Shop for gifts while supporting Blackowned businesses.

SA (7/17), 10am, Grind AVL, 346 Depot Westside Creative Market Local handmade goods and artwork.

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FR (7/16), 7:30pm, $20-$65, Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Ln, Brevard Rococo Variations Classical music performance with conductor Keith Lockhart and cellist Christine Lamprea.

SA (7/17), 7:30pm, Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Ln, Brevard Classical & Jazz Music Part of concert series.

SU (7/18), 6pm, First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St Janiec Opera Company on Broadway Solos, duets and ensemble pieces.

TH (7/22), 7:30pm, Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Ln, Brevard

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD S. A. Cosby presents Razorblade Tears, in conversation with David Joy Malaprop's presents a conversation with the authors.

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CRAFT: Authors in Conversation with Joseph D'Agnese Presented by Malaprop's.

WE (7/14), 7pm, Registration required, avl.mx/9s7 Notorious HBC (History Book Club) Hosted by Malaprop's, the club meets the third Thursday of every month.

TH (7/15), 7pm, avl.mx/9s9 Ron Rash book signing The author of In the Valley will read passages and sign copies of the book.

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SA (7/17), 3:30pm, City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St, Sylva Author Pedro Mairal & Translator Jennifer Croft present The Woman from Uruguay Sponsored by Malaprop's. WE (7/21), 6pm, Registration required, avl.mx/9v7

THEATER S'Wonderful The grand re-opening of HART’s main stage with S’Wonderful: The Music and Life of George Gershwin.

TH (7/15), FR (7/16), SA (7/17), TH (7/22), 7:30pm, SU (7/18), 2 pm. $14-$34, Hart Theatre, 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville

The Magnetic Theatre presents Kore A modern telling of the Persephone myth, written by Gabrielle Orcha and directed by Jessica Johnson. 21+.

TH (7/15), FR (7/16), SA (7/17), TH (7/22), 7:30pm, SU (7/18), 4pm, $23, The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St Everything is Rosie, A Tribute to Rosemary Clooney Performed by Wendy Jones, backed by Richard Shulman, Zack Page and Rick Dilling.

SA (7/17), 7:30pm, SU (7/18), 2pm, $25-30, Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St Magnetic in the (Smoky) Park Outdoor variety show.

TU (7/20), 7pm, $15-$18, Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Dr Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella The Willingham Performing Arts Academy performs the Tony Award-wining musical.

FR (7/23), 7:30pm, $22, Willingham Theater, 226 E Main St, Yadkinville

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WE (7/14), 12pm, $5, Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave Introduction to Medicare - Understanding the Puzzle Learn how to optimize your health insurance coverage and save money. Sponsored by the Council on Aging of Buncombe County.

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TH (7/15), 5-8pm, Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave Money Visioning & Goal Setting In this class, you will get a clear picture of your money goals through an interactive visioning exercise. TH (7/15), 5:30pm, Free, Registration required, avl.mx/9ne Untold Stories of Appalachian Women A Blue Ridge Parkway ranger will share stories of Cherokee War women, enslaved women, midwives and the women of today.

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FR (7/16), 7:30pm, Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Playful Parent Meetup Parent "playdate" to meet other parents in the community.

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Toward an Understanding of the True Loss to Communities from Urban Renewal The Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville sponsors the presentation by Patrick Bahls, UNC Asheville mathematics professor.

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TH (7/22), 12am, $5, 155 S. Lexington Ave Suite 101 Edible Park Community Work Day Mulching, pruning and clearing invasive plants.

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Community paramedicine program addresses overdoses differently

BY JESSICA WAKEMAN jwakeman@mountainx.com It’s a rainy Thursday in West Asheville when the word “overdose” crackles over the radio dispatch.

Jamie Judd, emergency medical services division manager for Buncombe County Emergency Services, immediately turns on his siren and increases speed. The late afternoon traffic on Patton Avenue is clogged; vehicles aren’t pulling to the side to let this emergency vehicle pass. It’s the time of day — between noon and 4 p.m. — when the majority of overdose calls come in, and every minute counts.

Judd careens down Interstate 240 toward the shopping center in South Asheville where the overdose was reported. The radio dispatch crackles again; other emergency personnel have already arrived. They found no overdose and are clearing the scene.

Judd turns his siren off.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME: Peer support specialist Justin Hall and Emergency Services lead paramedic Claire Hubbard are part of a new team addressing overdoses in Buncombe County. Photo by Jessica Wakeman community paramedicine team, a pilot program started in November 2020 with support from the county’s Emergency Services, Health and Human Services, Justice Services and Sheriff’s Office. The effort, based on the national Post Overdose Response Team model, comes after Buncombe County experienced a 147% increase in overdose deaths between 2015 and 2017, the most recent period for which data is available from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. And according to Emergency Services, Buncombe averages six-to-eight deaths monthly from probable overdoses.

The PORT seeks to link care for social determinants of health — including food security, safe housing and substance abuse disorder support — with the immediate medical care required to reverse a drug overdose.

“That’s really what our job is with the community paramedics: to fill the gaps,” says Van Taylor Jones, Buncombe’s director of emergency services.

Not only may the team lead to better health outcomes for clients, Jones says, but it can also prevent health care providers and law enforcement from becoming overburdened with people whose needs they can’t directly meet. Homeless clients comprise 30% of the nearly 1,800 calls the PORT has received since its inception. And over half of PORT calls overlap with behavioral health calls,

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which include reports of people intoxicated in public, mental health crises and welfare checks.

Prior to the program’s establishment, emergency services had two options for where to take clients after responding to an overdose: the hospital or jail. It was a situation that everyone involved found frustrating, says Claire Hubbard, the program’s lead paramedic and manager.

“If someone is intoxicated and mentally ill and homeless, and we’re sending understaffed police and medics to that call — and we’re not giving them the option to bring people anywhere — how in the world, with even the best people on Earth, can you make a good thing out of that situation?” she asks.

MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE

The six-person team consists of Hubbard, three community paramedics, a mental health counselor and peer support specialist Justin Hall. The paramedics respond to overdose 911 calls 24/7, co-responding with police, fire and EMS. But three days per week, Hall rides along with the PORT as it follows up with previous contacts within 72 hours of their overdose.

Hall has been in recovery for five years from opioid abuse and has struggled with depression, panic attacks and agoraphobia, an anxiety

disorder. He says his mental health and drug abuse experiences enable him to connect with clients; people with opioid use disorder often feel isolated and stigmatized and have built up defenses that may not be penetrated by law enforcement or traditional paramedics, he explains.

“As soon as I introduce myself and I mention I’m in recovery, that may be the first time you see them make eye contact,” Hall says of those clients, which PORT sometimes visits directly at shelters and emergency rooms.

“You can see them loosen up a little bit — ‘Somebody’s here who might understand a little bit of what I’ve been through.’”

How the PORT responds to calls is also different from a traditional EMS approach. Paramedic Robbie Stanton explains that he arrives in a gray SUV with orange stripes, which intentionally looks different from other emergency services vehicles like ambulances and police cars. He introduces himself to clients by saying, “Hi, I’m your community paramedic.” Instead of the usual EMS uniform of blue dress pants and a golf shirt, he wears a scrub top featuring the community paramedicine logo.

Stanton also says he will frequently ask law enforcement officers who have responded to an overdose to step outside so he can speak to the client alone. People who have substance abuse disorder may decline assistance from public safety departments due

to fear of potential incarceration.

Putting clients at ease in this way can be crucial for their receptivity to getting further help.

The PORT maintains a database of 414 clients who have signed releases of their information, allowing the team to follow up with them. While the PORT works with all of them in some capacity, Hubbard says 90 people are currently active in recovery programs.

“These connections we’ve made have allowed people to feel comfortable enough to call us up, know they’re not going to be judged, and say, ‘I messed up, I need some help getting back in the right direction,’” Hall says. He follows up with clients for up to one year, with the goal of handing clients to an agency that can provide more in-depth support.

REMOVING BARRIERS

Fundamentally, the PORT addresses gaps in health care accessibility, says Jones. Many people in Buncombe County primarily access basic health care through the 911 system. Additionally, some in the community turn to the ER for shelter, food or a safe option while detoxing; Hubbard says the ER is frequently used as refuge during Code Purple alerts, when the Asheville Homeless Coalition warns of extreme cold.

Judd, the EMS division manager, says one of the PORT’s biggest roles is connecting clients with harm reduction strategies, which are meant to lessen the negative consequences of drug abuse. Dispensing fentanyl test kits and naloxone (an overdose reversal drug commonly known as Narcan) is especially important because of a rise in contaminated and misrepresented substances that can harm users. “Ultimately, we like to see the person seek recovery in some manner.

But we know that some people are just not ready to make that step,” he says.

The team can also connect clients to rehab. The Mountain Area Health Education Center, for example, has set aside a number of beds in its rehab for the PORT’s clients. And if those clients must wait for a bed to open, says Hubbard, the team provides medication to bridge the gap.

“We find them a slot with a facility or a hospital and then we safely redose

them with suboxone for up to several days, even if it’s in their car or under a bridge,” she says.

Buncombe County has a dearth of options for people experiencing mental illness crises, requiring detox and rehab and leaving intimate partner violence, adds Hubbard. And in the aftermath of a crisis, it can be particularly difficult for a person to connect with care. Ultimately, she explains, the PORT hopes to show “that when you give people what they need, and you make it possible for them, they are more willing to comply for recovery and treatment.”

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Currently, the team’s personnel expenses of $500,000 are funded entirely through the Dogwood Health Trust. Some of the cost of equipment and the mental health response is partially covered by a Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Sitebased Program grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Once those grants expire, Jones is hopeful that funding can come through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, which will send nearly $51 million in COVID-19 relief to Buncombe County. Money could also come from the roughly $21 million settlement Buncombe is set to receive from litigation against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid crisis.

The PORT is the area’s first community paramedicine pilot program.

But Jones says he and Asheville Police Department Chief David Zack frequently discuss the possibility of broadening the work. While Jones emphasizes that those talks are preliminary, the wish list would expand the linkage of care with sober living facilities, behavioral health emergency treatment shelters and low-barrier shelters. But Jones says the program can’t expand until the county has additional capacity in those types of places.

“There’s a lot of weight on the shoulders of my community paramedics, and all my paramedics, for what they do out here,” says Jones. He wants the community to know “that people taking care of them care about them, and we’re working every day to find better solutions.” X

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Daniel Crupi begins work as Asheville Symphony executive director

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com With a background that includes upper-level work with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Crupi brings plenty of experience to his new role as executive director of the Asheville Symphony.

But as he’s climbed the ranks during his professional career, he’s also developed a better sense for what makes an effective leader.

“I think the biggest mistake an executive can make coming in is to make assumptions about what the organization or the community needs before they actually get on the ground,” Crupi says. “I had ideas coming from Greensboro to Santa Fe about what that organization needed and what the community would

respond to. In some cases I was right, but in many cases, I was wrong. It took being on the ground to adapt and see where the opportunities lie.”

Founded in 1960, the Asheville Symphony employs 70 contract musicians and produces seven Masterworks Series concerts per year with a $2 million budget. As executive director of the nonprofit, Crupi succeeds David Whitehill, who currently serves as president and CEO of ArtsinStark, a nonprofit in Canton, Ohio.

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After growing up in Marshalltown, Iowa, Crupi studied vocal performance, earning degrees from Notre Dame and UNC Greensboro. As an undergrad, he also spent several summers working in the production department at Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola,

CAROLINA ON HIS MIND: New Asheville Symphony executive director Daniel Crupi comes to Western North Carolina via the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, but earned his masters at UNC Greensboro and worked for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra in various capacities. Photo by Michael Morel Iowa, which he notes has since become “one of the preeminent regional opera companies anywhere in the country.”

Though Crupi was on the administrative team and not singing, he says being part of the group’s innovative work opened his eyes to “the exciting nature of administration in the classical arts.”

Innovation similarly defined Crupi’s time in Santa Fe, during which he and his colleagues were forced to navigate challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Crupi says New Mexico was hit especially hard by the health crisis, and statewide regulations limited most gatherings to 10 people. Rather than scrap its 2020 season, the orchestra pivoted to alternative programming, including a 10-concert virtual series at iconic New Mexico locations, among them artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s former homestead, Ghost Ranch.

“We were really committed to making music happen and continuing to employ our musicians,” he says.

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During a decade in Greensboro, Crupi and his wife, Caroline, developed an admiration for Asheville through occasional trips west from the Triad. They’re excited to more thoroughly explore area hiking opportunities and the region’s craft beer scene, as well as meet fellow dog owners with help from their puppy, Finley.

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Crupi has also kept close tabs on the Asheville Symphony and has been especially impressed with the work that the organization and Whitehill have produced since 2012. Crupi started work July 6 and, as indicated, will wait to formulate organizational plans until he has a better understanding of his surroundings. But after conversations with music director Darko Butorac and other colleagues, his mental gears are already turning.

In Santa Fe, he notes, the symphony’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion — namely, making sure to represent composers of color in each concert the company produced — received “a fantastic response.” Crupi stresses that the same approach will be used in the Asheville Symphony’s 2021-22 season and that “making sure we’re representing a broader swath of the canon and a broader swath of people in the community” is one of his and Butorac’s priorities.

“The idea of broadening your patron base, both in terms of the diversity of the base and the age of the base, is really crucial,” Crupi says.

“How do we make the symphony as relevant as possible to the largest number of people in the community?

Figuring out the answer to that question — that’ll be an ongoing process, even a decade from now, I’m sure.

But starting to answer that question will be important for me.” X

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MUSIC

Summertime stunners

Ryan “RnB” Barber, Julia Sanders and Powder Horns release new albums In the midst of 2020’s darkest days, Asheville-based musician Ryan “RnB” Barber saw an opportunity to uplift those around him.

“With everything going on the past couple years — from the pandemic to civil unrest to the ugly result of politics in the country — lots of musicians were creating projects relating to those matters. You could hear and feel the dark undertones, and understandably so,” he says. “I decided to take a different direction and try to make folks smile, laugh and dance in the midst of the chaos. Music and laughter are medicine, so I’m offering a fat dose of both.”

A self-described introvert, Barber wrote, produced, arranged, recorded and mixed his latest album, Funk Yo Feelins, in his home studio — and says he would have taken that route regardless of whether a pandemic was raging outside his door. The majority of the eight R&B/hip-hop originals are evergreen in their positivity and are not explicitly in response to quarantine. The clear exception is “Stuck in the House,” which was recorded early in lockdown as a comedic solo DIY video, before receiving an upgrade for the LP with a guest verse from local rap icon Agent 23.

According to Barber, he and Agent 23 had multiple conversations during the pandemic prior to the collaboration. “He had so much he needed to get out,” recalls Barber. “So I knew this would be the perfect way for him

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MIDYEAR MARVELS: Clockwise from top right, Asheville-based musicians Ryan “RnB” Barber, Julia Sanders and Powder Horns recently put new projects out into the world. Barber photo by Justin Clark; Sanders photo by K.M. Fuller; Powder Horns photo by Michael Lovell Rouse to release [it].” In his textbook witty style, the MC drops such 2020-centric pop culture puns as Hermit the Frog, Steve Purell, Billy Ray Virus, Lysol Goodman and Mad Vax. He also calls out “Karens,” toilet-paper hoarders and QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Prior to COVID-19 disrupting daily life, Barber felt that he and many of his peers had “started to take a lot of things for granted as far as being a full-time musician in Asheville.” But after seeing that “everything could be

taken away in an instant,” his mindset has pulled a 180.

“I’ve been learning to adapt to other things musically, such as trying to be more comfortable with livestreams and trying to learn to play bass [guitar], among other things, to make sure that performing on stage isn’t one of the only things I have to offer that generates income and contributes to the scene and culture,” he says.

Barber and his funk band BoogiTherapi have gradually returned to playing shows as pandemic restric-

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“RAINBOW STAINED”

by Brie Capone After her move to Los Angeles was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, singer-songwriter Brie Capone is back in Asheville with new music.

The title track from her forthcoming EP features her smooth voice over a supportive acoustic guitar, allowing her lyrics about learning through heartbreak and emerging a stronger person to shine all the clearer. “All the mud and marks, and all the pulls from all the aching/It’s rainbow stained,” she sings. avl.mx/9te

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tions lifted. And though he admits that his voice was a little rusty at first, the time away also gave him “lots of energy to dance around on stage and perform.” Getting back in the groove, Barber adds, was “just like riding a bike.” avl.mx/9r8

“HOW THEY REALLY FEEL”

by Rockett Moon Walker The Asheville-based hip-hop artist follows up his April track “So Kold” with this summertime banger about being wary of the people you surround yourself with and working hard to achieve independence. “I see the way they look at me/Like they want to sink their hooks in me/Like they want to throw the books at me/See, I know how they really feel,” the MC sings on the chorus before launching into a pair of fiery verses over a thumping beat by producer Who Cares. avl.mx/9tm

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“BLUE” by Vagabond Crowe Local singer-songwriter Mitch Stewart hit the studio with vocalist Paula Woods and fiddler Jackie Barnes for multiple tracks that Stewart will release in 2021. Slated for a Saturday, July 24, debut is “Blue,” which finds the collaborators in impressive unity, with Stewart and Woods each anchoring a verse and sharing harmonies on the title-inspiring chorus: “I smell the rain and fire, too/Darkest night and ocean blue.” Atop the driving full-band groove, Barnes’ bow-and-string work nearly steals the show while also serving as a melodious complement. avl.mx/9tf X

When it comes to accurate advertising in music, it’s tough to top Julia Sanders’ new EP, Jersey Girl. The Asheville-based singer/songwriter is indeed a native of the Garden State, but the title holds more significance — in particular, the integral role that the work of Bruce Springsteen has played in her life.

Over the years, Sanders has learned to play more of his songs and occasionally joked with friends that she’d eventually record a Springsteen covers album. When the pandemic hit and gave her ample time to follow through on the idea, she recruited musical colleagues to collaborate on six tunes — a mix of personal favorites and ones on which she felt she could put her own creative spin, among them “I’m on Fire” and “Hungry Heart.” But instead of landing a group of fellow die-hard Boss fans, Sanders was shocked to discover that several of them weren’t familiar with the tunes.

“It’s funny,” she says. “He’s so popular and so mainstream on one level and, on some other level, either you grew up with it or you didn’t grow up with it.

That’s music in a nutshell, isn’t it?”

Inspired by the lo-fi roots of Springsteen’s landmark 1982 album, Nebraska, Sanders recorded her lead vocal and guitar parts at home with her humble computer-and-microphone setup. With the pandemic at its peak and guest musicians spread across the country, most contributing artists recorded their parts and submitted them electronically. Though for a few of her fellow local Luddites who didn’t have compatible hardware or software, Sanders dropped off equipment at their homes and provided advice on recording.

In the process of crafting Jersey Girl, Sanders’ appreciation for Springsteen grew — namely his ability to write what are essentially short stories, populated by characters whose histories often aren’t the songwriter’s own.

While a similar emphasis on fiction has yet to make its way into her original music, Sanders says the experience “has opened up the possibility that you can write more theoretically than just about your life.”

“It seems really freeing and really hard at the same time to do that,” she says. “You can make up anything you want, but also you have to make up anything you want.” avl.mx/9r9

VISION QUEST

Brett J Kent recently met up with an old friend who at one point asked the local musician, “What new skill do you have?”

With pandemic-related restrictions lifting and people reconnecting after a year-plus of isolation, Kent thinks versions of this question will become increasingly common. It also helps that the longtime bassist has a terrific answer — one wrapped up in the creation of the excellent self-titled EP from his brainchild, Powder Horns.

After Kent’s four-piece rock group Ugly Runner dissolved during lockdown, he wanted to continue playing with bandmates J Lowell Hobbs and Eli D Raymer. They knew Kent primarily as a bassist, so when the frontman departed from their other project, the post-punk band Tongues of Fire, they didn’t think to consider Kent for the role because they needed a guitarist.

“So, I went out, took some of my stimulus money and bought a guitar and an amp,” Kent says. “I play guitar in that band now, and I credit them for making me pick it up and learn it.”

The instrumental addition has also proved fruitful beyond Tongues of Fire. After jamming with friends during a hometown visit to Greenville, S.C., Kent figured that if he could connect a few chords, he could “write a song or two.”

“I just started, and it never stopped,” he says, upon his return to Asheville.

“I went through this phase where I deleted all my social media and wasn’t showing anybody anything. So I felt no pressure to make anything good — I just started making things.”

The prolific output that’s emerged from that space resulted in Powder Horns, the first project where Kent has had complete creative control. It’s also his debut venture writing songs, singing and playing guitar. Additionally, he plays bass on all four of the pulsing rock songs that form the EP. And while Hobbs (guitar) and Raymer (percussion) contributed to the recordings at local studio The Cat’s Claw and complete the trio in live settings, they’re wholly supportive of his vision.

“I’ve kind of switched my focus from doing things that I think people would like to just doing what I like,” Kent says.

That approach likewise held true with the no-fuss release of the EP, which Kent uploaded to Bandcamp on June 18, purposefully eschewing a social media page. Instead of manipulating people through algorithms, he’d prefer that listeners find the band’s music by more organic means, which he feels will result in a more meaningful connection. avl.mx/9ra

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When COVID-19 slammed the brakes on in-person gatherings last year, Darien Bodenhorst, whose family owns wedding venues in Asheville and Marshall, decamped to Charlotte to quarantine with buddies and set up a remote office.

On his daily morning commute, he passed a Starbucks that consistently had long lines out the door. “It hit me that unlike our business, coffee was pandemic-proof,” he recalls.

“So, every day after I finished up my work, I researched coffee and how to start a coffee shop.”

Through the quarantine, he developed a business plan, deciding that delivery-only made more sense. “When I traveled pre-COVID, I spent a lot of time Googling coffee shops where I was and then more time getting there,” he says.

“It seems to me that for travelers or residents, coffee delivery is a time saver.”

On July 1, Bodenhorst launched Day ToDaily, delivering hot and cold coffee beverages made with a roast developed in collaboration with Methodical Coffee in Greenville, S.C., as well as tea drinks and Day ToDaily’s bagged whole-bean or ground coffee. To start, through a partnership with Flashcat Courier, Day ToDaily will offer 100% bicycle-powered deliveries within a 1-mile radius of its commissary kitchen on Market Street.

Because weddings are in his blood, Bodenhorst will offer on-site coffee service for weddings and other gatherings. Beverages will be served from a beer tap truck he gutted, gussied up and refitted with an espresso machine.

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WEDDING BELL BREWS: Darien Bodenhorst has set up his Day ToDaily Tuk Tuk truck to serve hot and cold coffee beverages to wedding guests at The Ridge Asheville, a family-owned event space. Photo courtesy of DTD

Baba-Bear What do you get when you combine Middle Eastern food and barbecue? On Wednesday and Thursday, July 14-15, you’ll get a mashup popup from Baba Nahm and Bear’s Smokehouse. “We love collaborating with local chefs and venders around town,” says Laura Smith, co-owner of Baba Nahm. “It gives us a chance to really stretch the confines of traditional Middle Eastern food. What

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Among the Baba-Bear items that will be offered are smoked lamb kabobs with cucumber-radish tzatziki, Bear’s smoked wings with harissa and Baba’s house laffah wrap stuffed with a choice of crispy falafels and smoked baba ganoush or pulled chicken with smoked mango amba sauce.

The pop-up will take place 4-8 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, July 14-15, at 135 Coxe Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/9so.

Off the charts

Notoriously loud and ornery television celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey knows how to make an entrance. To kick off the Smoky Mountains episode of “Gordon Ramsey: Uncharted,” the National Geographic series host rappelled down the side of Little Bradley Falls in Saluda. Lucky for him, a local was waiting for him at the bottom with a fishing rod and lots of helpful information. Chef William Dissen, owner of The Market Place restaurant in Asheville, was recruited to serve as

Ramsey’s guide to Western North Carolina. “I’ve worked my whole career to promote Appalachian cuisine,” says Dissen. “Cooking and food tell the story and create an identity for a place.”

Along with some fly-fishing, the episode features local forager Alan Muskat, Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Howling Moon Distillery and The Chop Shop Butchery. Additionally, Ramsey and Dissen compete in a cook-off atop Balsam Range. “When I was a kid, my parents got me a subscription to National Geographic magazine, and it opened the world to me,” remembers Dissen. “Being able to be on this show with a chef like Gordon Ramsey — who is really nice in person — and be a culinary ambassador for the region was an honor.”

The Smoky Mountains episode premiered July 4 but is available to stream anytime on Disney +. For more information, visit avl.mx/9s1.

Networking On Thursday, July 15, multitasking chef, restaurateur and mother of two Katie Button introduces a 10-chapter Techniques for Cooking course through Magnolia Workshops. The class is part of the Magnolia Network owned by multitasking parents of four and lifestyle moguls Joanna and Chip Gaines, who first gained fame through HGTV’s Fixer Upper television show.

“Pinch me,” Button wrote on a recent Instagram post announcing the plans. “I can’t believe this is actually happening!”

The collection of Magnolia Workshops by experts on specific topics including gardening, baking, watercolor painting and fundamentals of style are each less than 30 minutes in length and will be available on the Magnolia app for Discovery+ subscribers starting Thursday, July

15. Magnolia Network is scheduled to launch on linear TV in January.

Get a pinch more information on how to access Magnolia Workshops and Button’s Techniques of Cooking at avl.mx/9s2.

Green acres

After a 2020 hiatus, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s annual Farm Tour is back and more bountiful than ever. Car passes for this year’s tour, which will be held noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Sept.

18-19, are now on sale.

The 2021 Farm Tour features more than 20 participating farms in Leicester, Barnardsville, Fairview/ Fletcher, Haywood County and Henderson County, all within an hour’s drive of Asheville. Pass holders can experience the sights, sounds, smells, stories and tastes of farming through guided tours, demonstrations and hands-on activities. People who sign up to volunteer for one day will get a short training session and a free pass.

“The Farm Tour is such a great way for the community, from families to retirees, to connect with farms in the region,” says Sarah Hart, ASAP’s communications coordinator. Experiences, she notes, will range from visits with farm animals to learning growing techniques, observing fiber demonstrations and stopping at U-pick flower farms.

Passes, which are good for both days of the tour, are $35 per car in advance and available at avl.mx/9s3.

ASAP’s offices have reopened for regular hours for the first time in more than a year, and visitors can stop by to say howdy and pick up free resources like the annual Local Food Guide, seasonality charts and recipe cards Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.5 p.m., at 306 W. Haywood St.

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New gallery launches in Mars Hill Miryam Rojas arrived in Western North Carolina in 2019, after spending nearly 20 years working in film and television in Miami.

Disillusioned by the industry, she decided to pursue a lifelong dream: opening an art gallery. After nearly a year of construction, Rojas saw her vision become a reality on July 10, with the launch of Mars Landing Galleries in Mars Hill.

“I’ve always wanted to open a space for local artists and artists who might otherwise be underrepresented,” she says.

The new space, at 37 Library St., currently features works from 14 painters, photographers, ceramicists and jewelry makers, though it has room to house up to 45 creatives.

“I’ve been working toward curating a collection of artists representing all mediums,” Rojas says.

In addition to a series of small exhibits, the gallery is home to three studios of 200 square feet each, a demonstration area and the headquarters of Meadowsweet Creamery, a local, artisanal cream-

MOVIE LISTINGS Bruce Steele’s and Edwin Arnaudin’s latest critiques of new films available to view in local theaters and via popular streaming services include: ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN: Director Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) crafts an entertaining, warts-and-all portrait of the late, revered but troubled chef, food writer and travel-show host.

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ery specializing in scratch-made ice cream sandwiches.

Plans for Mars Landing, notes Rojas, include extended hours on the first Friday of every month.

Otherwise, the gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

“My goal is to have this be a welcoming communal space for art lovers, collectors and community members alike,” Rojas says. “In areas like this, there are so many talented artists who will never gain notoriety simply because they lack opportunity and space.”

Learn more about the gallery at avl.mx/9oh.

North Carolina-based jazz/soul musician Yolanda Rabun will take the stage before a live audience at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, July 17, at 8 p.m., after a prolonged, COVID-induced hiatus. Though her band continued to perform virtual concerts throughout the pandemic, she says the format was limiting. “The element of moving with the flow of the room was missed,” she says. “That human element of audience laughter and emotion was something I realized is pretty important.”

Thrilled “to get back to the twoway dialogue between the audience and the stage,” Rabun says she plans to perform both originals and classics “that will relate and allow folks to reflect or take action in this wonderful life we all get to live.”

The Wortham Center is at 18 Biltmore Ave. Tickets are $42. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Buncombe County Schools’ choral programs. Learn more at avl.mx/9sk.

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Rhythm & Brews First launched in 2013 by nonprofit Friends of Downtown Hendersonville, the Rhythm & Brews concert series returns to Main Street for a summer of free, live music and craft beer. Thursday, July 15, marks the first show of the season. Asheville-based rock group the Andrew Thelston Band will open the evening with a 5:30 performance. The event’s headlining act is fellow local rockers Abby Bryant & The Echoes, who take the stage at 7:30 p.m.

Beer, wine and hard cider will be available for purchase, and the event will feature kid-friendly activities.

Future acts include country group Mike and the Moonpies, based in Austin, Texas, and Asheville-based groups Hustle Souls (Americana) and The Broadcast (psychedelic soul), among others.

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Shindigging since ’67 The 55th season of the Folk Heritage Committee’s Shindig on the Green kicked off July 10 and continues into August. Locals and visitors alike are invited to tote their lawn chairs to Pack Square Park, where they can partake in a medley of live local bluegrass, string bands, storytellers, dancers and more. The committee produces the annual event to honor and preserve the traditional musical heritage of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Festivities take place 7-10 p.m. every Saturday in July, plus Aug. 14 and 21, and are free to the public.

Learn more at avl.mx/9sl.

What’s the word?

The Writers’ Workshop, an Asheville-based nonprofit, will host a series of summer workshops through early September.

Two upcoming classes — Fiction Workshop on Saturday, July 17, and Writing for Young Readers on Saturday, July 24 — will be held in person with Executive Director Karen Ackerson. The workshops run 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and are $80 each ($75 for members).

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THURSDAY, JULY 15 DOWNTOWN HENDERSONVILLE SOUTH MAIN STREET Rhythm & Brews w/ Abby Bryant and The Echoes (rock, soul), 5:30pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Open Mic, 6pm ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Sidecar Honey (indie, Americana, rock), 6pm FLEETWOOD’S Terraoke! Karaoke with Terra, 6pm GINGER’S REVENGE CRAFT BREWERY & TASTING ROOM Best Served Cold (open mic comedy), 6pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Weekly Trivia w/Billy Nesbit, 6:30pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Peggy and Paula (folk, bluegrass, classical), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/ Drew & the Boys, 7pm THE WEAVER HOUSE Mr Jimmy and Patrick Lockett Blues Duo (blues), 7pm

A LAUGHING MATTER: Comedian Ritch Shydner will perform stand-up shows at the Attic Salt Theatre on Friday, July 16, and Saturday, July 17, at 8 p.m. The veteran funnyman has appeared on numerous late-night TV shows and in several films, including Beverly Hills Cop II. Shydner has written two books about his comedy career. Photo courtesy of Ritch Shydner • Okey Dokey w/Pink Beds (indie rock), 9pm

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BURNSVILLE TOWN CENTER 6th Annual Hard Times, High Hopes and Helping Hands Benefit Concert, 6:30pm

THE GREY EAGLE • Ward Davis (country), 7pm • Alex Williams (country), 9pm

DRY FALLS BREWING CO. Howl in the Valley (Americana, folk rock), 7pm

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties (rock), 7:30pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Josh Teed w/Kang B/ Sophron/Realms (electronic, EDM), 7pm

ALLEYCATAVL Open Mic w/ Lincoln, 8pm RABBIT RABBIT Sunset Rooftop Comedy Show, 8pm TWIN LEAF BREWERY Karaoke w/KJ Salina, 8pm

FRIDAY, JULY 16 DOWNTOWN AFTER 5 Downtown After 5, 5pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Geriatric Jukebox (folk, rock), 5pm THE GREY EAGLE • Into the Fog (Americana), 6pm

HENDERSONVILLE VISITOR CENTER Music On Main Concert Series, 7pm THE BARRELHOUSE J.C. Tokes (country), 7pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Ages Past (bluegrass, Americana), 7pm BRIDGE PARK Concerts on the Creek w/The Rewind Band (oldies, classic rock), 7pm SILVERADOS Kentucky Headhunters (country rock), 7pm SALVAGE STATION Bumpin Uglies w/ Artikal Sound System (Reggae), 7pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Moe Wilson and the West King String Band (Americana), 7:30pm ATTIC SALT THEATRE Ritch Shydner (comedy), 8pm CORK & KEG Old Time Jam (musical collaboration), 8pm RABBIT RABBIT Silent Disco, 8pm THE GETAWAY TIKI BAR Comedy w/Danny Maupin, 8pm THE ORANGE PEEL Angry Lovers, Ivy Hawkins, Astoria (women of synthpop), 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Supatight w/King Garbage (funk), 9pm SOQDET IN SYLVA Wachacha & Friends w/Orion Records Linz-E (drum, bass), 9pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Wigeon (funk), 9:30pm

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THE GREY EAGLE Chris McGinnis and Mamaw’s Angels w/ Jacob Davis Martin (Americana), 6pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Beauty Parlour Comedy w/Jenny Zigrino, 7pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Alice Wallace w/ Andrew Sovine (Americana), 7pm PACK SQUARE PARK Shindig on the Green, 7pm SALVAGE STATION Toubab Krewe (world music), 7pm SILVERADOS Brian McKnight (R&B, soul), 7pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Summer Nights Metal Night, 7pm ATTIC SALT THEATRE Ritch Shydner (comedy), 8pm THE ORANGE PEEL Underhill Rose (Americana), 8pm CORK & KEG Soul Blue (blues, rock, soul), 8pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Jameron (jam), 9:30pm

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305 LOUNGE & EATERY Bob Sherill (singer-songwriter), 1pm GREEN MAN BREWERY Old Time Jam (musical collaboration), 3pm THE GREY EAGLE Fruit Smash presents ‘Rotations’ DJ The Big G X DJ Otto Maddox (dance), 5pm

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Mark Fisher (solo acoustic), 1pm SALVAGE STATION Natti Love Joys (reggae), 5pm

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The Cooperative Grading Service is recruiting a seasonal apple grader in Henderson County. Position will be temporary with fulltime hours during harvest season, beginning in August. Education and/or experience in the performance of a variety of manual tasks, normal color vision, basic math, and basic computer skills. Salary starts at $11.34. Paid training provided; mileage paid at state rate.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his poem “Litany,” Aries poet Billy Collins testifies that he is “the sound of rain on the roof.” He also claims to be “the moon in the trees, the paper blowing down an alley, the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table, and the shooting star.” He does make it clear, however, that he is not “the bread and the knife” on the table, nor the “crystal goblet and the wine.” What about you, Aries? What are all the earthy and fiery phenomena that you are?

Are you, as Billy Collins suggests, “the dew on the morning grass and the burning wheel of the sun and the marsh birds suddenly in flight”? Now would be an excellent time to dream up your own version of such colorful biographical details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth?” wrote poet Anne Sexton. And yes, Sexton did have a lot of filth to explore, including the physical abuse of her daughters. But most of us don’t need to focus so obsessively on our unlovely aspects. Keeping a journal can also be about identifying our ripening potentials and unused riches. This approach would be especially fun and wise for you Tauruses right now. The coming weeks will be an auspicious time for deep introspection that frees capacities and powers you have only partially activated up until now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Journalist Sam Anderson marvels at his young daughter’s project: a small plastic dome-like structure that houses a community of ladybugs. All they need to consume, for weeks at a time, are “two water-soaked raisins.” I don’t think you’ll need to be forever as efficient and hardy as those ladybugs, Gemini, but you may have to be like that temporarily. My advice? Don’t regard it as a hardship. Instead, see it as an opportunity to find out how exquisitely resourceful and resilient you can be. The skills you learn and refine now will be priceless in the long run.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Linda Hogan says she doesn’t like to be parched.

She wants to be like “a tree drinking the rain.”

I think every Cancerian has similar dreams: to be steadily immersed in engrossing feelings, awash with intimate longings, flowing along in rhythm with the soul’s songs. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to relish these primal pleasures. It’s probably best to avoid an outright flood, but I think it’s wise to invite a cascade.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Actor Lupita Nyong’o had a starring role in Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave. She praised his directorial skills.

She loved the fact that he told her, “Fail, and then fail better.” Why? “That kind of environment, where failure is an option, is magical,” she said. It allowed her to experiment freely, push herself beyond her previous limits and focus on being true to the character she was playing rather than trying to be a “good actor.”

I think these are excellent principles for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo-born Wayne Shorter is a legendary jazz composer and saxophonist. He has been making music for over 60 years, often with other legendary creators like Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.

The New York Times described Shorter as “jazz’s greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser.”

Bass prodigy Tal Wilkenfeld, who is 53 years younger than Shorter, tells the story of a show she performed with him. Just before going on stage, Shorter came up to her, sensing she was nervous, and whispered some advice: “Play eternity.” Now I’m offering that same counsel to you as you carry out your tasks in the coming days. Be as timeless as you dare to be. Immerse yourself in the most expansive feelings you can imagine. Authorize your immortal soul to be in charge of everything you do.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Paula McLain says the word “paradise” is derived from the ancient Persian word pairidaeza, meaning “walled garden.” For her, this association suggests that making promises and being faithful to our intentions are keys to creating happiness with those we care for. Paradise requires walls!

To scrupulously cultivate freedom, we need discipline. If we hope to thrive in joyous self-expression, we must focus on specific goals. I bring these thoughts to your attention because now is a pivotal time to work on building, refining and bolstering your own personal version of paradise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Thousands of 28-pound bars of 24-carat gold are stored in the Bank of England’s underground vault. To gain entry to the treasure trove, bankers use metal keys that are three feet long. They must also utter a secret password into a microphone. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Scorpios can now gain access to a more metaphorical but nevertheless substantial source of riches.

How? The key is a particular scene in your imagination that has recently begun to coalesce. It is an emblem of a future triumph or breakthrough that you will accomplish. As for the password, which you will also need, it’s vigorous rigor.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Somehow, I have lived all these years without ever coming across the rare English word “selcouth.” Today, as I meditated on the exotic astrological portents coming up for you, that word appeared — arriving on my phone via text message from my Sagittarius friend Lila.

She told me, “I have a feeling that life is about to get intensely SELCOUTH for us Sagittarians.”

I looked up the unfamiliar word and found these synonyms: unusual, marvelous, strange, magnificent, scarce, wondrous, weird, rare and exotic. Those terms do indeed coincide with my interpretation of your immediate future. So Happy Selcouth to you, dear Centaur! Celebrate with awed appreciation!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Lexicographer Jonathon Green provides us with the following 19th-century slang words for the sex act: horizontal refreshment, strumming, playing at romps, cully-shangie, taking a turn at Mount Pleasant, dancing the blanket hornpipe, honeyfugle, giving a hot poultice for the Irish toothache, and — my favorite — fandango de pokum. In accordance with astrological potentials, I recommend that you consider trying them all out in the next four weeks. In other words, experiment with shifting your approach to belly-bumping and libido-gratifying. If you don’t have a human partner, do it alone or with an angel or in your fantasy life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If a lover or spouse is perpetually churning out fantasies of you in their imagination, they may be less than totally tuned in to the real you. Instead, they may be focused on the images they have of you — maybe so much so that they lose sight of who you genuinely are and what you are actually doing. The same possibility exists for other allies, not only lovers and spouses. They may be so entranced by their stories about you that they are out of touch with the ever-changing marvel that you are always evolving. That’s the bad news, Aquarius.

Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be a decisive time to correct such distortions — and revel in the raw truth about you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s how art critic Walter Pater characterized the work of Piscean artist Michelangelo: “sweetness and strength, pleasure with surprise, an energy of conception which seems to break through all the conditions of comely form, recovering, touch by touch, a loveliness found usually only in the simplest natural things.” I’ve been waiting for the arrival of astrological aspects that would mean you’d be an embodiment of that description.

And now they are here. Congrats! For the next 13 days, I will visualize you as a fount of ever-refreshing grace — as a fluid treasure that emanates refined beauty and wild innocence.

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THE N EW Y OR K TI M ES C ROSSWORD P UZ Z LE United States of America, by and through its agent, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Defendant(s). GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 19 CVS 04481 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY BCPG No. F19-43710 Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of N.C.G.S. §1-339.1, et seq., that D. Max Sims, Attorney for Plaintiff, as Commissioner, will conduct a public judicial sale of the real property encumbered by the Deed of Trust recorded at Book 4557 at Page 860 of the Buncombe County Register of Deeds (the “Deed of Trust”).

The judicial sale is being conducted in accordance with the terms of the Judgment entered by the Buncombe County Superior Court Judge in this action on June 7, 2021 DATE OF SALE: July 26, 2021 HOUR OF SALE: 11:30 AM PLACE OF SALE: Buncombe County Courthouse The real property being sold is more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot number twenty-seven (27), Section One (1), Windy Hill Farms, as shown on that plat of survey dated January 19, 1990, prepared by Hurley T. King, R.L.S. and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Buncombe County, North Carolina in Plat Book 57, at Page 82. Express reference is hereby made to said plat book and page number for a more particular description of the property herein

conveyed. Being the same property as conveyed by deed recorded in deed Book 1929, Page 3, Buncombe County, NC Registry. Said Property is commonly known as 44 Sydney Lane, Asheville, NC 28806 Parcel ID No.: 9629-13-3700-00000 The Property will be sold subject to any and all matters superior to the lien of the Deed of Trust, including without limitation: (a) superior mortgages, deeds of trust, liens and assessments, if any; (b) the lien of unpaid ad valorem taxes; (c) valid and enforceable easements and restrictions of record; and (d) matters which would be revealed by a current and accurate survey of the property. The Property will be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Commissioner nor the holder of the debt secured by the Deed of Trust, nor their respective officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives, make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to the property, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed. Any successful bidder may be required to deposit with the Commissioner immediately upon

conclusion of the sale a cash deposit in an amount not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00). Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Commissioner tenders to him a deed for the Property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase prices so bid at the time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statute § 1-339.30. In addition to the purchase price so bid any successful bidder will also be responsible for payment of revenue stamps and other costs of closing the sale, including fees and costs of the Commissioner incurred after the date of sale. The sale will be held opened for ten (10) days for upset bids as required

by North Carolina General Statute § 1-339.25 BELL CARRINGTON PRICE & GREGG PLLCD. Max Sims, Esq. (NC Bar: 54080) Commissioner 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor Columbia, SC 29201

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