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Asheville, any way you drink it OK, I am really not a prude, and I occasionally have a drink, but I am concerned about the widespread promotion of alcohol in Asheville. Is anyone else?

These past two summers I’ve observed way more staggering, vomiting people wandering the downtown sidewalks than ever before.

We are producing our own sake, moonshine, wine, hard cider and a gazillion different beers. There are new breweries showing up downtown and in almost every surrounding community. Everyone is singing their praises. We have brew fests of several varieties, including Asheville Beer Week. We have brewery tours. We have an Asheville Beer Club. We have brewery calendars and weekly articles describing the latest variations.

We can buy beer while we shop for clothes and outdoor gear (Black Dome), we can do yoga and drink beer (four local breweries are participating), we can pump gas while drinking a beer (The Brew Pump), we can cycle around town and drink beer or wine (Amazing Pubcycle), we can go for a trail run and drink beer (Hash House Harriers: “A drinking group with a running problem,” says the Meet-Up page) and, most recent-

ly, we can start drinking hard cider at 9 a.m. (Urban Orchard).

I understand this is good for the economy and tourism, AND we are creating a culture where drinking several alcoholic beverages anytime, anywhere, any day is the norm. What will the impact of this be on our health, our alcoholism rate, our drunk driving arrests or our street fights?

Is anyone collecting any data on this?

On romanticasheville.com/beer. htm there is this quote: “Asheville, per capita, has one of the highest rates of craft brew consumption in the Southeast.”

Is anyone else worried?

Linda Block Leicester

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the radical anti-American libertarian wing of his party.

All of this is done to keep the country’s first black president from looking like he had any positive effect. The blatant racism of the Republicans was on full display as they attacked every minority in sight. They certainly did the bidding of the unelected corporations and the John Birch Society’s founding family, the Kochs, and the hate-peddling NRA [National Rifle Association].

Some people say you get the government you deserve. I don’t believe that in an era of boughtand-paid-for politicians. This is certainly not the government I deserve.

If you are tired of this, you must turn out for the midterm election and throw these bums out. Let’s start with Congressmen Mark Meadows and Patrick McHenry.

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From what I’ve read over the years about the filmmaker Roman Polanski, I would agree with letter-writer Janet BurhoeJones in the Mountain Xpress [“Promotion of Roman Polanski Film Appalling,” July 30] that Polanski is a sex criminal and an altogether horrible person. I think he fully deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison — or in an insane asylum. But the fact is that he didn’t, and it was your film critic’s duty to his readers to review Polanski’s newest film and give his honest opinion about it.

I am planning to see “Venus in Fur” because I don’t want to deprive myself of viewing a worthwhile movie just because I don’t like the character of the filmmaker. I would likewise not deprive myself of the beautiful music of Richard Wagner because the man was probably a thoroughly detestable egomaniac and anti-Semite.

We must separate the greatness of the art from the loathsomeness of the artist, unless we want to miss out on some very beautiful music, drama, fine arts, dance and, yes, cinema.

Fred Flaxman Weaverville

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Film and moral character Referencing Janet Burhoe-Jones’ letter [“Promotion of Roman Polanski Film Appalling,” July 30, Xpress] regarding the review of “Venus in Fur”: Is Roman Polanski morally reprehensible? A court thought so.

Should film critics take into consideration the moral characters of directors and actors (think Woody Allen) when recommending movies? If so, half the theaters in the country would close.

Referencing Adam DeWitte’s letter regarding the “contradictory” reviews of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and “Mechagodzilla”: Not so. Mr. Hanke didn’t say “Mechagodzilla” was OK. He implied that both were crap artistically and said if “Mecha ...” was your kind of entertainment, go for it. No contradiction. He didn’t like either one.

Bill Moses Weaverville

When corporations have agendas The series of paid informational advertisements by Ingles has taken the store out of advertising and into advocacy. This is dangerous ground for a company because it alienates customers who don’t agree. The nationwide boycott of Hobby Lobby for its stance against parts of the Affordable Care Act is an example of where this can lead.

Corporations are unreliable advocates for truth because they are required by law to operate for profit above all else.

A recent Ingles infomercial made the argument that consumers may be misled by alarmists posing as food experts online. The point is not all chemicals are bad for you. Unless Ingles takes responsibility for vetting all the additives found in its aisles, this is an irresponsible position. Some chemicals, hydrogenated oils and glyphosate residues, for example, are bad for you and are on Ingles’ shelves. To buy advertising space to convince us that we shouldn’t worry so much about chemicals and then sell us questionable ingredients is disingenuous.

The next in Ingles’ series is titled “Undeserved Health Halos” and argues that organic foods do not deserve their healthy reputation because some studies looking at nutritional benefits have

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been inconclusive. Organic food is sustainably raised and safe to eat. Whether it’s proven nutritionally superior is beside the point.

As alarming as the grocery manufacturer and GMO lobby is, the eagerness of corporations to publicly influence debate and promote opinions is equally alarming. Hobby Lobby’s recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling elevating corporations to the status of personhood in matters of religious belief should serve as a cautionary tale. It is why corporations should stick to making profits and let the citizens and their elected representatives decide what is best for the republic and its actual citizens.

Han Winogrond Asheville

Hemp could empower NC farmers I have never written a letter to the editor. Maybe I have never felt this passionate before, but after attending Moral Monday, I feel compelled to.

It’s not that I didn’t agree with what was being said. I absolutely do. The fact that North Carolina legislators need to do more for their citizens is more than apparent. Teachers and students

need adequate funding. If not, their difficult jobs become even tougher. I should know since I am a teacher.

Medicaid is a social service that keeps people from falling through the cracks of the health care system.

Fracking is a threat to us all. When explaining what fracking is to my 7-year-old son, his reply was, “Don’t they (oil companies) know that they have to live here, too?”

The list of concerns/grievances can go, but one solution to these problems was not mentioned: hemp!

Hemp is a sustainable agricultural source that could empower farmers, bring back industry and create revenue. I have been following the progress of other states after the passage by Congress of the 2014 Farm Bill, and they are achieving results regarding hemp that are leaps and bounds beyond North Carolina.

I recently got to see hemp growing in Kentucky this summer.

Some of our closest neighbors — Tennessee and South Carolina — have approved legislation that will get hemp growing in their states next year, and those are just two examples. I could go on and on.

The point is I want legislators in North Carolina to stand up and become champions for hemp

and the positive potential it has for our state.

Hemp should not be added to the list of why North Carolina could do better.

Claudia Townsend Black Mountain

Don’t put collars on wild bears It is so mean to put a collar on a wild bear! It is so self-serving to put a bear through human harassment.

If people see lots of bears out there, there probably are lots of bears out there. If you don’t see lots of bears out there, probably there are not lots of bears out there. Therefore, why collar our bears?

Don’t even think about asking me where I live because I don’t want you to harass the bears I see.

Stop torturing bears and other wild animals with your make-work jobs.

Leave wild animals wild — duh!

How would you like it if I drugged you and put a collar on your neck?

If you want to do something constructive for wild animals, remove brush to make sun-filled clearings in the state and federal forests. Then food can grow that the bears, etc., need to eat to survive the winter.”

Mary Ann Durand Asheville

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The no-tell hotel

A few thousand years from now, archaeologists sifting through the ruins of the ancient town of Asheville will determine that the Langren Hotel once stood alongside the French Broad River.

That’s because we put it there.

The story begins in 1964. My partner, Jack Doloboff, and I were in the surplus and salvage business, and we’d even done a couple of small-scale demolitions: a little hotel on Patton Avenue and Montieth’s service station (which stood at the corner of Coxe and Patton).

We found out that the Langren was going to be demolished to build a parking garage for the Northwestern Bank Building, Asheville’s first new skyscraper since the Jackson Building back in the 1920s. We succeeded in buying the contents of the building, including all the furniture and fixtures, and we had 60 days to remove them.

Our first step was touring the still-barely-operating hotel. Once a premier commercial hostelry, it had deteriorated into a flophouse and a base for ladies of the night. Barney Woodson, a proper Southern gentleman who was the Langren’s engineer, showed us around the mostly empty building.

When we passed certain doors, he would giggle, indicating that some commercial activity was still taking place. Woodson later became chief engineer of the new Northwestern Bank Building and was succeeded by his son, Barney Woodson Jr. We set up shop at the front desk, and business was brisk, thanks in part to plugs by beloved WSKY radio personality “Farmer Russ” Offhaus on his popular morning talk show.

We literally sold the contents to the walls. Whole rooms went for $25, including furniture and fixtures (even the old clawfoot tubs and doors). Some people went so far as to take up the ratty carpet, which you could practically see through.

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I’ve watched people buy the most ridiculous items at liquidation, estate, bankruptcy, distress and going-outof-business sales, and I’m convinced that many are motivated by the idea that owning a talisman from a dead person or entity will somehow stave off their own death wish.

There was lots of marble in that old building, which customers would buy and remove from the walls. In the men’s room, there was marble behind the urinals, and when the buyer removed it, he got a big surprise: scores of men’s billfolds lodged in between the stone and the wall.

We could only surmise that the ladies had rolled some of the drunks they were entertaining, and this was a convenient place to dispose of the evidence.

In the midst of all the chaos, though, folks would still show up sometimes and try to rent a room.

My partner had a really difficult time convincing a young, just-married couple with a cardboard suitcase that they couldn’t stay in the hotel where their parents had spent their honeymoons years ago.

The bid for demolishing this eightstory building had been awarded to Garland E. Crouch, a hard-driving, hard-drinking bull of a man who was the best house mover ever to operate in these parts. G.E. was what we

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called a “level-headed feller.” He chewed tobacco, and the juice ran down both sides of his mouth at the same time. His foreman was none other than the infamous Harry P. Clay, who later became High Sheriff of Buncombe County.

Around that time, I was in Knoxville and ran into Ralph Sweat, a building dismantler. I told him about the contract, and after looking at the building, he agreed to take it down for half the bid price. We bought the contract from Crouch, subbed it to Sweat and split the profit.

Apparently, however, Mr. Sweat didn’t realize that this was a pouredconcrete-and-steel-reinforced structure (which was rare in those days), and Lady Langren didn’t gracefully succumb to his assault. The building was finally demolished, though, and the rubble was carted off to a Riverside Drive site whose whereabouts shall remain undisclosed until those future archaeologists figure it out.

So get this: The original building at the corner of Broadway and College Street was the Bull Hotel. It was torn down to build the Langren Hotel. The Langren was torn down to build a parking garage — and now the garage is being torn down to build the new AC Hotel.

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Hours after he was supposed to show up, a bicyclist has been reported missing. His last known whereabouts were the trails at the Kolo Bike Park, but that plus a basic description is all that the Buncombe County Rescue Squad volunteers know before setting out on this staged drill.

Carrying bags of gear that typically weigh 30-35 pounds, the squad splits into two groups. Volunteers set off on a predetermined search route, eventually finding his bike tangled around a tree and the man lying in the trail with obvious signs of trauma.

The volunteers work efficiently to clean him up, dress his wounds, splint him and load him on a transport board so they can remove him from the woods. Then a squad member falls and twists his ankle. Now there are two victims.

“We like to keep them on their toes,” says Deputy Chief Nathan “Phoenix” Smith.

OVER 50 YEARS OF HISTORY The rescue squad was founded in 1962 after concerned neighbors banded together to search for a young boy who’d ridden off on his new bike and hadn’t come back.

“After they found him unharmed, they decided that there really needed to be a group responsible for responding to things like this, so they got together as an all-volunteer agency,” Smith explains.

Over time the group added skills such as rope rescue and heavy rescue — including vehicle extrication, water rescue and dive teams — to its bag of tricks but then scaled back as other local agencies gained those same capabilities.

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“We kind of downsized and just focused on the things that we, as a very small organization with limited funding, could continue to maintain,” says Smith.

The private nonprofit is supported mostly by revenue from transporting patients, plus donations and fundraising efforts. The Search and Rescue Division has 30 volunteers, and there are roughly 25 paid staffers.

“Our paid staff is exclusively medical,” Smith says. “Nobody charges for search and rescue; therefore we need to staff our rescue teams with volunteers. We do generate revenue running medical calls: That’s the part of the business we can afford to pay people for, since it’s paying for itself.”

DEAD VEHICLE Until recently, the EMS Division had four ambulances. Three would run daily, divided between 911 response and convalescent transport (mainly discharge contracts with Mission

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SIMULATED BLOOD, REAL TRAINING: Buncombe County Rescue Squad volunteers regularly participate in search-and-rescue drills. Photos by Jesse Farthing

Hospital); the fourth was a backup.

On July 7, however, a crew was transporting a patient when the driver smelled smoke and melting plastic. The crew called for another unit to take charge of the patient — and then the power steering and brakes began to fail. By locking the transmission in low gear, the driver was able to safely stop by the side of the road, and both crew and patient were evacuated. But extensive fire damage to the engine and main cab meant the ambulance was totaled.

That’s a problem, because any vehicle needing routine maintenance or repairs leaves the county

short an ambulance and temporarily puts employees out of work.

“Our insurance will be able to cover a significant portion of the cost; however, we are still about $30,000 short,” says Smith. So the squad applied for a Janirve Sudden or Urgent Needs Grant through The Community Foundation oF WNC. On Aug. 11, The Community Foundation announced it had awarded a grant that “will close the gap between the cost and the insurance reimbursement.”

Vehicle problems aside, the EMS Division operates Monday through Saturday and also provides medical coverage for special events ranging from UNC Asheville basketball to roller derby matches and marathons.

A few weeks before the search and rescue drill, the EMS Division did a different kind of training, standing by while firefighters in Swannanoa practiced on a burning building.

“Anytime they have a structure fire and have multiple departments

responding, they’ll call for us to basically come and check the Fire Department personnel,” EMS Lt. Beckett Arnold explains. “Our primary role is support for them, and then if anybody gets hurt, we can also do initial treatments until a paramedic truck can get to them.

We check their vital signs, check their air, make sure they’re not overexerting themselves and keep them safe. So we do quite a bit.”

INTENSIVE TRAINING The Rescue Division’s focus is on wilderness rescue, search and rescue, and low-angle rope tactics used to extract injured people from steep places. And though no special skills are required to volunteer for the squad, new recruits are expected to pursue additional training. North Carolina’s technical rescuer certification includes several different specialties, and volunteers are encouraged to pick one.

“As a rescue agency, we’re expected to have our personnel trained at those standards,” notes Smith.

“There’s also NASAR — a private entity considered to be one of the standards when it comes to search and rescue training — so we encourage as many of our members as possible to go through that as well.”

When a request for assistance comes in, it takes about an hour for members to leave work, gather up their gear and assemble before the team rolls out of the station. After checking in with the incident command staff and getting a profile of the missing person, they divide into teams and start the search. By that time, quick searches for clues along the easy trails have generally already been conducted.

“Once it gets to that point where we start going off-trail, that’s really where our teams tend to excel,” says Smith. “We’re not shy to get down to the bushwhacking, scaling up mountains and all that kind of stuff.

“Typically, by the time a search gets big enough to where help has been called for, it’s been going on for several hours — it’s getting dark, and local resources have already been expended,” he continues. “So the majority of our searches have been all night long. We’re looking at starting at 11 or 12 at night and not finishing until 6 or 7 in the morning. It’s not that those are the preferred times to search; it’s just those are the times when we’ve been called in.”

Night searches, though, are significantly more dangerous. Visibility is limited, making navigation trickier

VITAL SIGNS: Resque Squad EMT Jonathan Godfrey, left, checks the vitals of a firefighter involved in a structure fire.

and natural hazards such as steep drop-offs harder to spot. How do you use a map and compass accurately when you can see only as far as your flashlight beam extends?

“We happen to be good at that, because we train that way as well,” says Smith. “A lot of our search exercises are conducted at night. There are a lot of challenges that, unless you’ve prepared for them, your team can be compromised; your safety can be compromised. So we tailor our training accordingly.”

There are weekly training sessions and, at least once per quarter, an all-day rescue training to help members stay in sync with changing seasons and weather conditions.

EVER READY Not a lot of searches originate in Buncombe County, where the trails are mostly well-marked and tend to be more heavily used. So when the squad is called in, it’s typically for somewhere outside the county.

“What’s tricky about that is we have to make sure we stay on our game and get prepared for that more difficult terrain,” Smith explains. “The walk in the park, quite literally, requires much less training and upkeep, but we can’t afford to get complacent. We have to make sure we’re keeping our skills at that level where we can do a 12-hour overnight run through Shining Rock.”

Thanks to the growing number of cellphone towers, rescue squads are generally getting fewer calls these days. Incident commanders can often contact lost people and guide them out by phone. But that doesn’t mean these guys are taking it easy — because when they do get a call, it’s likely to be difficult.

The most intense rescue operation Smith remembers involved a woman who’d gone bushwhacking and camping in the Shining Rock Wilderness and gotten lost. She called a friend and said she couldn’t find her way back to the trail. Embarrassed, she reluctantly let her friend call for help.

“It was the one time I was present that we ended up having to evacuate our patient via helicopter,” Smith recalls. “The state sent in the helicopter and aquatic rescue team and evacuated the patient with a Blackhawk. That was also the first mission, and so far the only mission, that I had the opportunity to fly in the Highway Patrol helicopter prior to being deployed.

“They had just spotted smoke from her campfire,” he continues, “so they put me up in their bird and did a circle around where she was, so I could get an idea of the terrain and take that back to my team. Conveniently, also, I was running my GPS as we circled her location, so as we were navigating in later, I knew exactly where we were going.”

Still, actually getting in and retrieving her wasn’t so easy. The squad had

to push through extremely challenging terrain to make the rescue.

“It was some of the most brutal bushwhacking we’ve ever had to do,” Smith recalls. “We were punching, kicking and head-butting our way, because we essentially had to bushwhack up a stream. When we finally made contact with her, I think we were all very close to hitting our physical breaking point.

She was in great shape, good spirits, but had no idea where she was and didn’t have a map with her.”

Nonetheless, there was some concern about hypothermia, and meanwhile, some members of one of the other teams were in bad shape after the difficult trek, so most of them were evacuated by helicopter as well. Smith’s team, however, was left to slog back out, despite being utterly exhausted.

“That was the most physically demanding — but it was also the most rewarding in a lot of ways,” he concludes.

BE SMART, BE SAFE As challenging, stressful and strenuous as the work often is, Smith loves working with the rescue squad.

“The most rewarding thing about it is being able to take both newly trained and untrained individuals and help them along their path toward becoming skilled EMTs and rescue technicians,” he says. “Whether their focus is emergency medicine or search and rescue, it’s a very fulfilling experience to be able to assist people who are interested in serving their community as they grow and gain experience.”

As for that lost hiker, he continues, the smartest thing she did was to stay where she was and wait for help to arrive. Smith urges anyone going hiking to carry a good-quality trail map — and always, always tell a friend where you’re going and when you expect to be back, so that person can point a search team in the right direction, if need be.

“When you’re lost, stay put and let us come to you,” he advises. “And anytime you’re going into the woods, be honest with yourself about your skill level. Don’t take on more than you can realistically get yourself out of.”

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ANIMALS DOG BEHAVIOR TRAINING 687-1218 • MO (8/18), 6pm-7:30pm - Focuses on leadership techniques for owners. Free. Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher

BENEFITS RICHARD'S RUN 5K 926-1401, richardsrun.org

THE MILE-HIGH 5K: Cataloochee Ranch will host Richard’s Run 5K on Saturday, Aug. 16. Participants will run along trails and roads that offer a view of Hemphill Bald, a favorite spot of Richard Coker, for whom the event is named. Choker lost his battle to brain cancer in 2013, and proceeds from the event will be donated to brain cancer research in his honor. Image courtesy of Cataloochee Ranch. (p.12)

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION abwaskyhy.com • TH (8/14), 5:30-7:30pm - Monthly meeting includes a discussion of branding. $25 includes dinner. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • FR (8/15), 11:30am-12:45pm "Credit: Get it. Keep it. Improve it," credit information seminar.

Free. Registration required.

• SA (8/16), 9am - Proceeds from this race benefit brain cancer research at Duke University’s

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Tisch Brain Tumor Center. $25.

Registration required. Held at Cataloochee Ranch, 119 Ranch Drive, Maggie Valley

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GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES

EBLEN CHARITIES 242-2848, eblenfound@aol.com • WE (8/13), 4:30am-7pm - School supplies donation drive. Contact for list of requested items. Drop off location: Ingles, 114 Tunnel Road

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.

ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE 687-7759, ethicalsocietyofasheville. org • SU (8/17), 2pm - Monthly meeting includes discussion of renaming and a presentation by author Dale McGowan. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road

HENDERSONVILLE SISTER CITIES hendersonvillesistercities.org • WE (8/13), 6pm - "Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice," program on the culture and geography of Iceland. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville

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.

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC 2 Doctors Park Suite E., 417 Biltmore Ave., 253-2900 • WE (8/20), 5:30pm-7pm - Panelled discussion on medical decisionmaking and medical ethics. Free.

Reservations required.

LAND O' SKY DOLL CLUB 883-4899 • SA (8/16), 9:30am-4pm - Doll show and sale. Free to attend.

Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS through (8/14), 5:30-8:30pm - HUD-certified course with stepby-step explanation of the homebuying process. $35. Registration required.

TARHEEL PIECEMAKERS QUILT CLUB tarheelpiecemakers.wordpress.com • WE (8/13), 10am - Monthly meeting. Held at Balfour United

Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville TRAUMA WORKSHOP 450-0979 • WE (8/13), 5:30-8:30pm - 50 percent of sales from this "Working with Trauma" workshop benefit Aura Home. $27. Held at WNC School of Massage, 131 McDowell St., Suite 302 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.

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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 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm West African 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue.www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595 CIRCLE 8'S SQUARE DANCE CLUB circle8s.info, garwoods2@yahoo. com • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Weekly dance classes. $5. Held at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING connielwiley@gmail.com • MONDAYS, 2:15-4pm & TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm- Free with donations. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (8/16), 7:30pm - Open house and ice cream social.

Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Building, 301 Lily Pond Road Hendersonville

ECO BUNCOMBE COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OFFICE 94 Coxe Ave., 255-5522 • TU (8/19), 6:30pm-8:00pm - Energy conservation and weatherization services workshop.

Registration required. Free.

ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY emasnc.org, emas@emasnc.org • 3rd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Includes a discussion of topics in environmental stewardship. Held in UNCA's Reuter Center.

JACKSON COUNTY COALITION AGAINST FRACKING 331-1397 • WE (8/13), 7pm - Organizational meeting to determine affiliation with regional group. Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva WNC GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL 254-1995, wncgbc.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm "Green Edge," a networking event for the green building community and interested members

of the public. Free to attend.

Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. • TH (8/21), 6pm - Green Built Applied: tour of nursery and discussion of native plants. $15.

Held at Carolina Native Nursery, 1126 Prices Creek Road, Burnsville

FESTIVALS NORTH CAROLINA STATE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL 706-864-7203, adamsandandersonbluegrass.com • TH (8/14) through SA (8/16), noon-10pm - Includes food and kids activities. $35 per day.

Contact for full schedule. Held at Tom Johnson Camping Rally Park, 1885 U.S. Highway 70 West, Marion TASTE OF WEAVERVILLE 645-4393 • SA (8/16), 10am-4pm - Includes putting contest, local vendors, kids activities and live music.

Admission is donation of animal toy to Brother Wolf or can of food to MANNA FoodBank.

Held at Reems Creek Golf Club, 36 Pink Fox Cove Road, Weaverville

FOOD & BEER MOUNTAINS TO SEA MARKET SUPPER 545-4516, westashevilletailgatemarket.com • TU (8/19), 7pm - Family style market supper prepared by chefs from The Admiral, with live music and craft beer. Proceeds benefit the West Asheville Tailgate Market. $30. Held at The Hub, 278 Haywood Road.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION Asheville.Socialist@gmail.com • WE (8/13), 6pm - A discussion on the history of U.S. policies in the Middle East with a focus on imperialism and occupation.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

KIDS FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 6871218 • WE (8/13), 10am - Children's

music program hosted by Sonja Brooks. Free.

JOHNSON FARM 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, 891-6585, historicjohnsonfarm.org • WE (8/13), 10:30am - Teddy Bear Tea Party, including snacks and storytime. $5 adults/ children free with accompanying adult.

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM 283 Victoria Road, 253-9231, wnchistory.org • SA (8/16), 10:30am-12:30pm - "Crafty Historian," creating Monet paintings with shrink plastic. $5. Registration required.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SA (8/16), 11:30am-12pm Interactive music workshop with Sonia Brooks. For ages 3-7. $5 per family.

TOT TIME AT ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 282-253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (8/19), 10:30am - Held in the museum's ArtPLAYce. Admission fees apply. Held at 2 N. Pack Square

OUTDOORS ASHEVILLE MUSHROOM CLUB 298-9988, ashevillemushroomclub.com • FR (8/15) & FR (8/29), 10am11am - Wild mushroom walk led by a Mushroom Club member. $15/$7 children. Held at Chimney Rock Park, 1638 Chimney Rock Park Road, Chimney Rock BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov, gail_fox@ nps.gov • TH (8/14), 7pm - Ranger-led short hike discussing water resources. Meets at MP 391.

Free.

• FR (8/15), 10am - Ranger-led moderate 3.2 mile hike discussing how changing forest habitat affects high elevation wildlife.

Meets at MP 359.8. Free.

• SA (8/16), 5pm-6:30pm - Cone Manor Meander, a ranger-led two mile hike. Free. Meets at MP 294.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • WE (8/13), 11am-12pm Upstairs tour of Cone Manor's second floor. Free. Located at MP 294.

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Free. Located at MP 294.

SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM HIKES 669-9566, swannanoavalleym@ bellsouth.net • SA (8/16), 10am - Moderate hike to Grove Stone & Sand Quarry in the Swannanoa Valley. $30/$20 members. Registration required.

Meets at 223 W State St, Black Mountain

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

Me and my shadow WHAT: Shadow Work seminar by Christen Burns and Giles Carwyn.

WHERE: 11 Willow St., Black Mountain WHEN: Introduction: Tuesday, Aug. 19, 7-10 p.m. Seminar: Friday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m. through Sunday, Aug. 24, 3 p.m.

WHY: Coined by Carl Jung, the term “shadow” often refers to the parts of ourselves that we hide, repress or deny. Founded by Cliff Berry, one of the early leaders of the ManKind Project, Shadow Work, Inc. combines gestalt therapy, voice dialogue therapy and archetypal exploration models.

Mountain Xpress: What is Shadow Work, and why is it important?

Carwyn: Growing up, we all get messages that certain parts of ourselves are not acceptable. Maybe in your family your anger wasn’t acceptable. Maybe your fear, your exuberance … your sexuality. A child will do whatever is necessary to become acceptable, even if that means hiding a piece of who they are … However, just because

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these “unacceptable parts” are hidden doesn’t mean they are gone. We carry them with us, and they will “leak out” by accident.

People develop shadows to keep themselves safe. Children will become whomever they need to become to stay safe. If these childhood strategies remain unexamined, they will continue into adulthood, where they can really undermine the quality of our lives.

How do we get to know our shadow, and what relationship should we have to it?

The way to bring these shadows into the light is by examining wants and risk. We look at what we are longing for … and what is getting in the way of us getting what we want. Once we have given voices to these wants and risks, we create a psychodrama — a re-enactment of what is going on in our inner landscape. … Once all of the conflicting voices in our heads are out in front of us, it gets much easier to see where they came from, what each part wants and what needs to happen to shift the dynamic.

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SPIRITUALITY A COURSE IN MIRACLES (pd.) A truly loving, open study group. Meets second and fourth Mondays. 6:30 p.m. in East Asheville. Grace United Methodist Church. For information, call Susan at 828-712-5472.

ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (pd.) Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828254-4350 or MeditationAsheville. org 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.

AWAKENING DEEPEST NATURE MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. Meditation and lessons in unorthodox enlightenment. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. (828) 2583241, healing@billwalz.com www. billwalz.com BOOK SIGNING FOR THE TIMELESS LOVE OF TWIN SOULS (pd.) SA (8/15), 2-4pm- Plus a free talk on Eternal Love, Life and Twin Souls by author Janet Kay Darling.

Crystal Visions Bookstore, 5426 Asheville HWY, Hendersonville.

CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts • Incense • Tarot. Visit our Labyrinth and Garden. 828-6871193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com DISCOVER VIBRATIONAL HEALING! EGYPTIAN BIO-GEOMETRY AND MARCEL VOGEL'S CRYSTAL TECHNOLOGY (pd.) Join Robert J. Gilbert Ph.D. on Tuesday, August 19 at 7 pm as he unveils the mysteries of the Egyptian system of BioGeometry; learn how the vibrations of shapes, sounds, angles and numbers affect locations and all living beings. Dr. Gilbert will also discuss Marcel Vogel's (inventor of modern LCD technology at IBM) precision-cut quartz crystal technologies, and their effects on human energy & consciousness. Lecture $10, payable at the door at The Vesica Institute, 1011 Tunnel Road, Suite

200, Asheville, NC 28805. Space is very limited, so come early to ensure a seat! More information at WWW.VESICA.ORG 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 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. CRYSTAL VISIONS 5426 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, 687-1193, crystalvisionsbooks.com • TH (8/14), 7pm - Flo Aeveia Magdalena, author of I Remember Union, gives an introductory lesson on HeartThread. Free.

FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON 22 Woodfin St., 253-1851, fourpointsashevilledowntown.com • WE (8/13), 7pm-8:30pm - Kriya yoga presentation. Free to attend.

GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 94 Tunnel Road, 298-6195 • SU (8/17), 8:30am - Peformance by singer and folk theologian Ed Kilbourne. Free.

MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA mountainmindfulness.org • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm & THURSDAYS, 8-8:40am - In the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. All levels. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE STORYTELLING CIRCLE 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle. org • 3rd MONDAYS, 7-9pm Meets at Asheville Terrace, 200 Tunnel Road.

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•SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) • TH (8/14), 1pm - Afternoon book club: Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple.

FV. • WE (8/20), 6pm - Swannanoa Knitters. SW. • TH (8/21), 2:30pm - Book club: Benediction by Kent Haruf. SS. FOUNTAINHEAD BOOKSTORE 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com • TU (8/19), 5pm - Ann B. Ross discusses her book Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day. Admission is purchase of book, $26.95.

Held at Skyland Arts Cinema, 538 N. Main St., Hendersonville COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St., philmechanic-

studios.com • MONDAYS, 8pm - True Home Open Mic. WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain, 669-0816 • FR (8/15), 2pm - Poetry Alive!

30th anniversary celebration. $12.

VOLUNTEERING APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY 828-254-3708, ext. 15, appalachiantrail.org, rbrydon@appalachiantrail.org • WE (8/13), 8am-5pm Volunteers needed for work project at Walnut Mountain to improve views from the trails. Carpool departing from Appalachian Trail Conservancy office, 160 Zilicoa St., at 8am.

Registration required.

CARL SANDBURG HOME 1928 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 693-4178, nps.gov/carl • Through (8/30) - Volunteers needed to monitor monarch butterflies to aid conservation efforts and knowledge.

Registration required.

GIRLS ON THE RUN WNC 713-3132, gotrwnc.org • SA (8/16), 9am-5pm - Training for all interested in being a Girls on the Run mentor. Held in UNCA's Sherill Center.

Registration required.

LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NC CHAPTER 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • Through (8/30) - The foundation seeks two volunteers to serve as group facilitators for a proposed local support group.

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Carolina Public Press editor (and former Mountain Xpress editor) Jon Elliston regularly digs through old Asheville Citizen headlines from 100 years ago and posts them to a Twitter feed he curates, @AVL1914.

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So what were the headlines in Asheville in 1914?

• Another chimneysweep vanishes in Biltmore Estate chimney • Locals react to proposed penny parking charge at newly built Grove Park Inn • More downtown horse stalls? Some visitors complaining of hour-long trot to find available tethering beam • Local teens thrown from horse, kicked in heads after late-night joy ride • Hopeful patriots practice open-field warfare on horseback in anticipation of joining the new war overseas • Hot Springs whore dances the Turkey Trot within view of happily married man • Farm-to-table mire blamed for short lifespans of mountaineers; ‘Tomatoes are nice, but so is variety’ • Suffragette, likely in midst of her lunar monthlies, delivers impassioned speech before being beaten with live chicken by rowdy crowd • Bellhop stomped to death by horse in hotel lobby • Asheville man loses eye after tinkering with doodad • Overflow crowds attending revival services at French Broad Baptist Church. Tonight’s sermon: “What in daggum tarnation is the moon?”

• Prohibitionist candidate fires up crowd; fives eyes lost • Pack Square loafer spooks hard-working horse • Orphanage requests that overburdened parents clean soot off boys before drop-off

• Letter to editor: Florida horsemen guilty of trotting in the gallop lane • Asheville man loses eye; 250th eye lost this summer; Will advancements in industry one day find a replacement for some of our many pointy things?

• Pack Square loafer to judge: ‘I was not idly whistling a fancy tune!’

• Another local cow punched unconscious after drunken farmer makes a point during domestic argument with wife in field • Editorial: Rumors of all-night gambling on traditional Cherokee lands cause for alarm • Letter to editor: Women of questionable character liven up visitor’s recent Asheville stay • Basketball game ends in doubleovertime thriller; YMI defeats YMCA 6-to-4 • Modern telegraph poles to be placed full 3 inches off road along proposed Merrimon Avenue • Dollar store to offer high-end alternative to five-and-dimes • Social scientist in controversial presentation: ‘Both races suffer horsekicks to head in equal rates’ • Letter to editor: Loitering loafer on Pack Square had both eyes, un-hoofed head; proof of life untethered to honest toil • Horse-kicks to head down 13 percent from 1913; officials crow about bringing annual incidents down below 900 mark

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Take me to the river on the paddleboard. “It’s important with stand-up yoga that we don’t do it in the middle of the day, because the heat of the sun is too much. It is much better in the morning or the evening. In the evening it is beautiful, the sun is setting, and it’s that golden light. Sunrise SUP yoga is also amazing.”

When people hear about SUP yoga for the first time, they tend to imagine some of the most challenging asanas performed on a board that is free-floating down the river, but the classes are structured so that every level can participate. The boards are anchored or floating over water that is only a few feet deep. A soft, sandy river bottom awaits anyone who might fall in. Even if just the thought of attempting child’s pose while balancing on a board still makes you nervous, Levesque encourages giving it a try. “Being afraid of falling or not having good balance is common, but I think it’s worth coming out and trying it once — because you will probably surprise yourself. It’s not as hard or difficult as people think it is.”

Asheville yogis head to the French Broad River

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What is drawing more and more Asheville yogis to take their downward dog to the French Broad River?

Those of you who attended LEAF or the Mountain Sports Festival in the spring may have taken part in or witnessed a stand-up paddleboard yoga class. Although at first glance stand-up paddleboard yoga, also known as SUP yoga, might be viewed as another gimmick to feed the Asheville tourists, there are benefits to be found in bringing the “flowing river” imagery to life within your yoga practice.

So what makes stand-up paddleboarding and yoga natural companions? SUP yoga instructor Anna Levesque filled me in on the dynamics that are at play during a typical session. “What’s cool about being on the board is that because it is a little bit less stable, it enhances your focus in the present moment. Poses that are simple in a regular studio, even standing up for some people, at first can be difficult, so it brings more mindfulness into the moment,” says Levesque. “Part of yoga is putting ourselves in more stressful poses and teaching ourselves how to breath and calm down so that we have a steady mind, a steady body and a steady heart in stressful situations. So the stand-up yoga just takes that to the next level by challenging ourselves to see what comes up from a spiritual perspective when we do something that’s outside of our comfort zone. Are we afraid? Do we get angry? Do we get frustrated? Are we accepting? Can we enjoy the moment?”

In addition to improving balance, practicing yoga encourages relaxation and an increased awareness of one’s self and surround-

GET ON UP: SUP yoga takes the ancient practice out of the studio, onto paddleboards and onto the French Broad River. Photo courtesy of Anna Levesque

ings. Spending time in nature can enhance these elements. “Nature is very healing, and we’ve come as a society more and more away from nature with all of the technology.

Just being in nature in a mindful way I think can help us uncover our true selves, which is part of why we practice yoga. We are nature. We tend to think that nature is out there, outside of the house or office, but we are nature. We’re made up of the same stuff as stars and trees. Really being out there and connecting in that way I believe is really powerful. The sounds of nature are also very healing — so the water, the wind in the trees, the birds ...” says Levesque.

Anna Levesque offers SUP yoga classes at Hominy Creek Park. Classes are $35, including rental equipment, or $15 if you bring your own equipment. Preregistration is required and can be completed at mindbodypaddle.com or by calling 333-4482. Classes are seasonal and run May through September. Visit mindbodypaddle.com to view current offerings. X

Savasana, the final relaxation pose that is entered into at the end of every Hatha yoga class, provides a gentle transition back into everyday life. Imagine adding to that experience the tender rocking of the river beneath your body and the serene feeling of cool water on your fingertips as you stare up at the clouds passing overhead. “As adults we don’t really take the time to lie on our back and stare at the sky, and in savasana on the board I find that there is a very profound effect,” says Levesque.

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Seed sharing comes to the library

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Amid growing concerns around the origins of seed stock and genetic modification, “seed libraries” are sprouting up all over the country — allowing neighbors to connect with one another and their local food systems by sharing the seeds from their own garden.

The premise of a seed library is relatively simple — patrons of the library “check out” their selections to grow the season’s crops and then return usable seeds from their harvest at the end of the season. The goal is to provide a free source of locally adapted crops and contribute to the biodiversity of local agriculture. Ideally, as the seed library continues to operate, the number of seeds and varieties available will continue to increase.

In many communities, including a few in Western North Carolina, seed libraries have found a natural home in public libraries — serving as an expansion of existing library services. Black Mountain Public Library open its seed library in April — making it the first in Buncombe County — and librarian

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SPROUTING AT THE LIBRARY: Seed libraries are opening up in public libraries across WNC, including in Black Mountain. “The mission of the library includes supporting ‘creative endeavor,’ in whatever format,” says librarian Denise King.

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Denise King estimates that there are over 200 seed libraries operating out of public libraries throughout the country.

“The mission of the library includes supporting ‘creative endeavor,’ in whatever format, to all citizens, and we believe our seed library does just that,” says King.

“Libraries are a place where people can still get things for free — books in all formats, music and movies — so why not healthy seeds?”

The initiative was started after Carl Franklin, owner of Black Mountain Books, encountered the concept during his travels and approached the library with the idea. So far, 32 patrons have used the resource.

Seed-lending libraries are available in other WNC public libraries as well, including Haywood County’s library in Waynesville and, in the near future, Jackson County’s library in Sylva.

The Jackson County program, called Sylva Sprouts, was started in early 2012 by Jackson County Farmers Market manager Jenny McPherson. Though it will soon be moved to the public library, it is currently housed in the Jackson County Cooperative Extension office, with a portable version brought to the Jackson County Farmers Market every Saturday.

“The mobile seed library is definitely a must,” McPherson says.

“It gets the word out and gets people asking questions.”

Haywood County’s seed library uses the former card catalogs to house its seeds. Kathy Olsen, the adult services coordinator for the library, got the idea from an NPR story called “How to Save a Library” and felt that the community featured in the story sounded similar enough to Haywood County for the idea to work.

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Planning for the library took about four months, and Olsen says she consulted with McPherson for help. She notes that since its grand opening in March 2014, the seed library has been in constant use.

“It has slowed down a little lately, but in the spring or early summer, someone was using it every single day without fail,” Olsen says. “I counted up all the seed packets, and we’ve had 650 rented out.”

Though the WNC seed libraries are reporting success, nationally, supporters of seed libraries are expressing concerns about a recent event in Pennsylvania.

In late July, the public library of Mechanicsburg saw its seed library shut down by the state’s Department of Agriculture, which cited a violation of the state’s 2004 Seed Act. Under the act, the seeds circulated by the library would not only have to be clearly labeled, but also tested for viability and germination rates. Cumberland County, Pa., Commissioner Barbara Cross has since been quoted for her support of the shutdown, when she compared the seed library to “agri-terrorism.”

Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture is working with the Mechanicsburg library to find a way to conform to the Seed Act. But the incident sparked concern among seed-library supporters around the county who are questioning whether similar legislation in other states could be used to the same effect.

During the 2013 session, under Session Law 2013-345, the N.C. General Assembly passed stiffer penalties for “cases involving the

unlawful sale of seed protected under the federal Plant Variety Protection Act.” However, at this time, the legislation does not appear to impact North Carolina seed libraries because the language only references seed sales.

Chris Smith, community coordinator for Sow True Seed, says he is unaware of any legislation in North Carolina similar to Pennsylvania’s Seed Act. However, he notes, requirements for germination testing could impair seed donation programs, including those of Sow True Seed, which has aided seed library programs by providing donations of seeds to help jumpstart the programs.

Smith says he supports seed libraries, as he feels “food security is meaningless without some type of seed security.” However, he cautions that maintaining genetic purity, which keeps seeds true to their variety, will be a challenge for seed libraries, which will also need to find a way to make sure the seeds being used are only sourced from openpollinated plants.

Looking to the future, King is optimistic in her vision for the Black Mountain seed library. She hopes to see it become self-sustaining, with a good variety and no need to purchase additional seeds. But she notes that the library staff is concerned about potential legislation that would threaten the program. King adds that she hopes the public will become more aware of legislation that would restrict seed sharing.

“It has been lots of fun to see the excitement our little seed library has generated,” King says. “I would also love to see other libraries in Buncombe County start their own seed libraries.” X Send your garden news to ceidson@mountainx.com

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Doing the right thing Least of These mission feeds Asheville’s hungry

BY CAMERON HUNTLEY

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Earl “Happy” Gray always leads the opening prayer at the Saturday morning Least of These breakfast.

By that time, the food line often extends up the parking lot of Summit Church, near the corner of South French Broad and Patton avenues.

The folks in line come from the WNC Rescue Mission and the Bartlett Arms Apartments; from Livingston Street and South French Broad; from Biltmore Avenue and AHOPE. The menu rarely changes: scrambled eggs hissing in two small skillets on the blue-flamed propane burners of a couple of outdoor grills; pancakes rustled up on thick, castiron slabs; meat — usually thick luncheon meat and cut-up sausage — and potatoes cooked the same way.

An adjacent table is heaped with piles of gummies, Doritos and other wrapped snacks. Across the way, another table holds the coffee urns, water jugs, pancake syrup, ketchup, powdered creamer.

Gray is reluctant to talk. The press, he says, “have done 15 pieces on me, it seems like. They’ve made me to be some kind of icon.” He loosens up, however, when informed that the subject isn’t him but the breakfast he’s attending. “I’ve been coming here about a year,” he says.

“And let me tell you something: That girl there,” he continues, pointing at a young woman who’s talking to the volunteers behind the line of tables, “When God made her, he went whole out.”

As if psychically aware of our conversation, Least of These leader and facilitator Liz Loop turns, saying, “Are you guys talking about me?”

“Yes, ma’am,” says Gray.

“Oh, man,” she says, covering her face as if to hide. “Why’s it have to be about me?”

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Least of These began in 2005, started by a Montreat College student named Adam Ripley. Loop got involved in 2008 and took over completely three years later. There tend to be plenty of diners, though the exact number varies. “Some days it might get over a hundred,” she reports. “We’ve had other days where we had a lot of leftovers.”

The weekly prep work is a heady business, and Loop tackles it almost single-handedly, carting the food to her house outside Hendersonville.

There she spends hours cracking dozens of eggs, cutting up meat and coordinating refrigeration; the next day, Loop drives up to Asheville, arriving around 8 a.m. A small trailer in the corner of the Summit Church parking lot houses the tables and grills.

If she’s lucky, a cadre of volunteers will be on hand to help her, but it’s a crapshoot. Somebody needs to cook all those eggs and pancakes each week, and every breakfast presents its own unique challenges.

“There have been weeks where there’ve been, like, three people here,” says Loop. “I would like to get about 10 every week — enough

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WAKE-UP CALL: Least of These leader and facilitator Liz Loop is dedicated to providing a hot breakfast for the hungry every Saturday morning. Volunteers and funding are ongoing needs for her initiative. Photo by Alicia Funderburk

to staff the line fully and then a couple to talk to people.”

The funding, meanwhile, is equally uncertain. Least of These operates entirely on donations, the funds held in an account at Christ Community Church. And though the group has gotten help from MANNA FoodBank, the nonprofit “disallowed our account because our storage facility didn’t meet their requirements,” Loop explains. “So until we get that fixed, we’re having to buy everything at Wal-Mart and other stores.” Without MANNA’s significant discounts, food costs have soared.

But the indomitable Loop never seems to get discouraged. Her biggest wish is simply for more folks to

help with day-to-day operations. “It would be great to be able to depend on people week to week and to get a couple of people to help during the week. Like, we have a Facebook page that I’m not able to update very often, right? If we just had a person that could focus on that, we could get the word out more.”

Since its inception, Least of These hasn’t once failed to feed Asheville’s homeless and low-income populations, and as more folks get involved, the project can continue to grow.

Loop hopes to recruit a couple of people to handle the program’s social media and Web presence; others could explore new fundraising avenues. All these tasks require a significant time investment, she says, but increased attention from local organizations is making more people aware of Least of These.

And no matter what happens, those who need it can always find a meal on Saturday morning.

“It is what the Lord asks of me,” says Loop. “I just love the people that come for breakfast. It can definitely be exhausting at times, but Jesus keeps me going.”X

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Rhubarb pastry chef Ashley Capps gets excited about ice cream.

At the time of this writing, she is especially excited about a new salted watermelon sorbet recipe developed by her assistant, Cassie Stockton.

“She and I were talking about summertime, what reminds us of summer, and melons are out right now,” says Capps. “We were both talking about how our family members would put salt on watermelon. It’s so good. It’s the perfect balance of salty and sweet.”

Developing unusual flavors is part of the fun of making ice cream inhouse, says Capps — her most exotic flavor was a spicy Urfa chili ice cream made especially for Valentine’s Day. Rhubarb also has flights and floats on the menu — a dark beer with rich, dark chocolate ice cream is a popular one.

But not every flavor has to be flashy. “You have to appease the people who want vanilla on their pie,” says Capps, “and you have to appease the people who want flavors like salted watermelon sorbet.” As Capps tells her culinary students at A-B Tech, if you don’t have a good vanilla recipe down, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.

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PLANT If it wasn’t for ice cream (dairyfree, of course), the Merrimon Avenue vegan restaurant Plant might not exist. Plant got its start when Chef Jason Sellers gave coowner Leslie Armstrong — a selfdescribed “ice cream freak” — a taste of his coconut milk-based dessert. She “lost it,” says Sellers, and a business was born.

Currently, Plant has four ice cream flavors on the menu: chocolate anise, peanut butter and jelly, lemongrass ginger and mint chip.

“We sometimes have seven [flavors], which is kind of ridiculous for a 40-seat restaurant,” says Sellers. “That kind of goes to show you where our heads are because we eat a lot of it, too.”

Sellers says vegan ice cream gets a bad rap. (Actually, according to the Food and Drug Adminstration, it’s technically frozen dessert, which, let’s face it, doesn’t sound quite as tasty.) But Sellers is committed to proving that dairy-free can be delicious. “I love it because I think we can make an amazing contribution to the world of ice cream without animal products, which is the main motivation for me,” he says. “If I didn’t think it was a special product, if I didn’t think it was elevated in some way, I wouldn’t bother.”

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COLD PLAY: Pastry chef Ashley Capps makes both traditional and more experimental flavors of ice cream at downtown restaurant Rhubarb. Pictured here are her local blueberry, rhubarb, mocha and vanilla varieties. Photo by Shara Crosby

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THE MARKET PLACE Chef William Dissen offers a seasonal variety of ice cream flavors at The Market Place, from local blueberry to lemon verbena.

His current favorite flavor combination is his lemon buttermilk ice cream with the restaurant’s local blueberry tart served with cinnamon crumble and raspberry sauce. “The acidity of the ice cream helps to complement the sweetness of the blueberry tart,” he says.

Like Rhubarb, The Market Place uses a Pacojet, a lightweight (and expensive) tool that spins ice cream extremely fast, creating a light and fluffy texture. When asked about his more unusual flavor combos, Dissen cites a special dinner when he joined chef Anthony Lamas from Seviche restuarant in Louisville, Ky. “We created a Marcona almond and Kentucky bourbon ice cream that we rolled in Benton’s bacon,”

recalls the chef. “We paired it with a foie gras beignet, white chocolate sauce, sea salt, cocoa nibs and raspberry. Talk about decadent!”

POSANA CAFÉ Posana Café is well-known for its gluten-free menu, and lucky for us ice cream doesn’t contain any gluten (last time we checked). For chef and co-owner Peter Pollay, the decision to make ice cream in-house is driven by both practicality and creative impulse. “Making ice cream just right can be a tricky process,” says Pollay. “A balance of sugar, egg yolks and milk/cream is needed to achieve the right mouth feel. We make our own ice cream because it is cost-effective, plus we get the freedom to create any flavor combination at any time.”

For Posana, that means a refreshing lemon-thyme ice cream is on the menu, as well as a Frangelico variety that has a nutty, boozy flavor.

Pollay also favors spicy ice creams like ghost chili or Esplette “because they pair well with the creamy aspects,” he says. And while making your own ice cream may be a bit more work, with “good ingredients, a fine mesh strainer (chinois) and a good ice cream machine,” you’re good to go, says Pollay.X

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As with most food crawls, diners can visit as many of the participating establishments as they like over the course of the two weekends to sample the offerings. No tickets are necessary. Diners simply pay as they go for whatever they eat or drink at each crawl location.

To add an extra element of fun, at each destination crawlers can enter a drawing that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Prizes include a range of local items such as original artwork, handmade jewelry and gift certificates to participating restaurants and breweries.

The crawl will also feature some giveaways and demonstrations: Frog Level Brewing Co. will offer a free recipe card for Buy Haywood’s pub-style pot roast to the first 250 crawlers, and on Saturday, Aug. 23, at Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market, chef Juan Pen Mejia will offer a tasting of salsas inspired by his native Guadalajara, Mexico.

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products through innovative menu offerings,” says Buy Haywood project coordinator Tina Masciarelli. “If there’s one common thread that ties all Southern people together, we believe it is the love of a great party, especially when local food is the theme.”

For details and a list of participating restaurants and breweries, go to buyhaywood.com and click on “Uniquely Local Food Crawl.”

THE HOP ANNOUNCES EXPANSION The Hop owners Greg and Ashley Garrison announced last week on Facebook that they plan to open a new production facility and tasting room, The Hop Ice Creamery, in October at 167 Haywood Road, across from Hole Doughnuts. According to the post, the new location will produce ice cream for wholesale accounts and The Hop West, and provide a venue for events. More details to come.

NEW WHOLE FOODS MARKET SET TO OPEN Whole Foods Market will open its second Asheville location Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 4 S. Tunnel Road in the new Asheville Market shopping center. The 35,000-squarefoot store includes an upper-level beer garden with 12 taps pouring local beer and kombucha. To get a sneak peek at the facility, sign up for one of the 45-minute preview tours that will be offered on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23. Online registration is required. A suggested donation of $5 to benefit local nonprofit organization Muddy Sneakers will be accepted at the door. Once open, store hours will be 8 a.m.-10 p.m. daily.

To preregister for a tour, go to asheville.wholefoodsrsvp.com.

TEA AND PUPPETS Puppeteers Madison J. Cripps and Aaron Birk will present Tea Time at the End of the Universe: A Proper Puppet Fiasco at 7 p.m.

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According to Dobra’s Facebook page, the show portrays an “aristocratic walrus, a kaiju dragon, a cockroach and a space robot” in search of a bit of propriety after the collapse of civilization.

Dobra Tea, 120 Broadway St., Black Mountain. facebook.com/ events/431054453700678 MOUNTAINS TO SEA MARKET SUPPER The West Asheville Tailgate Market will host its 11th annual Mountains to Sea Market Supper at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, at The Hub on Haywood Road. The dinner will feature a family-style meal sourced mainly from the wares of market vendors and prepared by chefs Eric Kang and Dan Silo of The Admiral. Wedge Brewery and New Belgium Brewing will provide the beer. Tickets are $30,

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OLD FASHIONED UNIVERSITY Seven Sows Bourbon & Larder will host Old Fashioned University: A Heaven Hill Distillers Whiskey Dinner on Monday, Aug. 18, featuring author Bernie Lubbars, aka “The Whiskey Professor.” At 6 p.m. a social hour that is free and open to the public will take place in the restaurant’s bourbon bar with live jazz and free hors d’oeuvres. Starting at 7:30 p.m., Lubbars will conduct a whiskey class and four-course pairing dinner. Tickets to the class and dinner are $50 each. Reservations are required. Look for similar events focusing on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail this fall at Seven Sows.

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On the beer trail Asheville Ale Trail publishes a brewery field guide

Since 2010, Bend, Ore.’s Visitor and Convention Bureau has produced an Ale Trail to the city’s many breweries. It helps visitors find all the area’s brewery information in one place, and it also supports a variety of other local businesses — from restaurants to beercentric stores to hotels — with listings and advertisements. Everyone wins.

With 17 breweries, the Asheville area is quickly closing in on Bend’s 19. So it makes sense that Asheville Ale Trail thought it was time to start producing its own guide for Asheville’s visitors.

While an organization very similar to a chamber of commerce runs Bend’s guide, Asheville’s is put together by two entrepreneurs: Hilton Swing and Dan Peschio.

“The original mission [two years ago] was to build a sort of loyalty app, but we quickly decided that wasn’t the route to go,” says Peschio. “We were going to make it something based on checking in at the breweries, but instead we responded to what people wanted, which was information about what’s going on — both right now and with a bit of notice for larger events like festivals.”

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IN THE FIELD: Look for Asheville Ale Trail’s new Field Guide to Asheville Area Breweries at beercentric locations around town. Photo by Thom O’Hearn

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So the team created a website with a listing of all the Ashevillearea breweries and was the first in town to have a comprehensive and curated listing of beery events. The most popular feature found online is also available as a weekly email: The Weekly 6ix Pack. “The big thing we’re trying to do is give people useful information. For locals, what’s happening tonight is important, but so is knowing when Brewgrass tickets are on sale.” Sometimes the events are beer-related but not necessarily about the breweries. For example, maybe Asheville on Bikes has a ride ending at a brewery, or an event put on in tandem with a brewery. For Swing and Peschio, it’s about the entire community of local businesses in Asheville and their intersection with beer culture.

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While the Field Guide to Asheville Area Breweries will work together with the Ale Trail website, it’s also meant to be a useful tool in its own right. To encourage folks to grab one for their pocket, there’s a listing for all 25 of the Asheville-area breweries that were open at the time it was printed, including key details like addresses and hours. There are helpful maps. There are a few pages for tasting notes. According to Peshcio, even the ads may come in handy for visitors. “Maybe you wouldn’t have realized that Nona Mia is right there when you’re at Altamont,” says Peschio. And to make sure the guide stays up to date, it will be refreshed and published anew twice per year. “That’s important, because even though we just came out with it, we already

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FRENCH BROAD: Live Music: The Bird & The Bear (Americana), 6-8pm

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GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Root Down (Cajun, comfort food), 3pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live Music: Damian LeMaster & LeMaster Plan (folk, Americana), 8-10pm

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Bob Falls had been working on an idea for a show using poetry to explore the stages of a person’s life but didn’t initially see himself as one of the performers. After moving to Asheville in the early 1980s, he was cast in a play at the Asheville Community Theatre, and as he gained experience, he began to realize that maybe he could be onstage as well as behind the scenes. When Falls auditioned other actors, his roommate James Navé volunteered to take a role. In 1984, the first Poetry Alive! show was born.

It was 30 years ago that Falls and Navé debuted their production at seminal (and since-closed) venue McDibbs in Black Mountain. The hundred or so people, mostly friends, who saw it couldn’t have known that the duo’s brainchild would eventually be experienced by over 10 million (and counting) worldwide.

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Friday, Aug. 15. The lineup includes Falls and Navé with current Poetry Alive! owners Carney Gray and Michelle Schwantes, as well as past cast members like Allan Wolf, Glenis Redmond and others to be announced. Gray describes the anniversary show as “performance followed by stories, reminiscences and socializing.” The city of Asheville also pays tribute to the achievements of the organization by proclaiming Aug. 15 as Poetry Alive! day.

For three decades, Poetry Alive! had up to nine teams performing across the country, taking a blend of vibrant performance and poetry workshops into classrooms and teachers conferences. Falls explains that the group’s success in reaching students lies in its focus on pre-

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LEAPING OFF THE PAGE: “Instead of asking what a poem means, we ask, ‘How would you perform this poem?’” says Poetry Alive! founder Bob Falls. Recent performers, above, brought poetry to life at WB Williams Elementary in Swannanoa. Photo courtesy of Poetry Alive!

sentation rather than academic scrutiny. “Instead of asking what a poem means, we ask, ‘How would you perform this poem?’ Once a student begins to engage [with poetry] in that way, all that analysis becomes very concrete and tangible,” he says. “Once you begin to add the setting and the actions

and character to it, that analysis does take place. Then, when they begin to start writing their own poetry, they’ve got a framework that they can operate within.”

It was a teacher in the audience of the ’84 debut who first recruited Falls and Navé to perform poetry for her students. The approach that stemmed from that simple genesis resonated with educators. Today, the core Poetry Alive! team runs shows and workshops five days a week and offers teacher training sessions over the summer.

“I was lucky enough to join Poetry Alive! in its infancy, back in 1989,” says Wolf. “I had left behind a safe, predictable teaching position with the Virginia Tech English department. Back then, Poetry Alive! was

anything but safe and predictable. The travel was brutal. The work was exhausting. The pay was pitiful. After every tour, I swore I’d quit. But every year I went back on the road — I did this for 15 years.”

He continues, “By the time it was over, I had memorized nearly

WHAT Poetry Alive! 30th anniversary celebration, poetryalive.com WHERE White Horse Black Mountain whitehorseblackmountain.com WHEN Friday, Aug. 15, 2 p.m. $12

1,000 poems and recited poetry to nearly a million people from Seoul, South Korea, to Altoona, Kan. I learned that poetry was not

something you studied but something you experienced.”

Many Poetry Alive! alums have gone on to succeed in other creative pursuits. Navé helped develop and run Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way creativity camp in New Mexico and now serves as director of poetry for LEAF. Wolf has published seven books of poetry for children and young adults, including the Audie Award-winning The Watch That Ends the Night. Glenis Redmond has won many awards, including Best Poet in Xpress’ annual Best of Western North Carolina readers’ poll for more than a decade.

Falls sold Poetry Alive! to Gray and Schwantes three years ago.

Schwantes explains that they’re “taking the company in an exciting direction. Our focus is really not only on the literary, but using poetry as a lifelong learning tool.” One goal, she says, is to expand the “theatrical aspects of the shows so that they’re more engaging, dynamic, and speak to this generation of students” by incorporating current events and pop-culture to keep the process relevant to contemporary students’ experience. X

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Grandpa-style Seattle legend celebrates 50 years of music with two Asheville shows A half-century into his musical career, Baby Gramps has plenty of highlights from which to choose. Ask him to name a few, however, and he points to a pair of recent opportunities that arose from his inclusion on the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest companion album Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys. Gramps’ rendition of “Cape Cod Girls” landed him an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in August 2006, when he was joined by Asheville’s Jason Krekel, The Akron Family and Bob Dylan’s band leader and bass player Tony Garnier. The

WHO Baby Gramps WHERE On LaZoom bus with Jason Krekel.

Departs from Asheville Brewing Co., 77 Coxe Ave. Saturday, Aug. 16, 6 and p.m. $17. lazoomtours.com WHERE The Grey Eagle, with Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks.

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resultant tour of England, Ireland and Australia with fellow album contributors Marianne Faithful, Tim Robbins and Lou Reed, among others, also ranks among the Seattle singer-songwriter’s standout experiences, and he’s hard at work making new ones.

Gramps brings his distinctive scratchy voice, inventive lyrics and lively acoustic strumming to Asheville for a LaZoom Tours show on Saturday, Aug. 16, and a concert the following evening at The Grey Eagle. A LaZoom veteran (he

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calls his sold-out June 2012 gig “a hoot”), he’s excited to return to the mobile venue, and this time he’s coming prepared. “I ripped my pants out last time with the bus turning and swaying topsyturvy,” Gramps says. “I approach this with two pairs of trousers or riding jodhpurs. Giddy-up.”

Accustomed to unusual performance locales, Gramps’ resumé includes such spots as a historic sternwheeler on Washington’s Columbia River “with a captive audience that had nowhere to go except overboard” and Java Jive, an old coffee pot-shaped building (complete with a jungle motif featuring a leopard skin bar and a zebra fridge) in Tacoma, Wash. “The bathrooms are named Tarzan and Jane,” Gramps says. “They used to have two monkeys named Java and Jive who looked like Johnny Carson [and] got busted for throwing monkey dung at the customers.”

Going more traditional for The Grey Eagle show, Gramps will attempt to keep material for the two concerts separate (“I’ll try not to chew my cabbage twice, but requests are requests”). His focus for both performances will be mostly new tunes, among them “Pick That Ol’ Sow Clean,” an original Halloween song “Ol’ Ma Cobb” and “Monkey Puzzle Stump,” which Gramps describes as being “about conundrums wrapped in riddles clothed in an enigma.”

“I’m constantly exploring new wordplay and new inventions in song and reviving the rare, odd and unusual, as I always have — from Dada reconstructions to surreal insensibilities,” he says.

Primarily a solo artist, Gramps will team with Krekel on fiddle and Henry Westmoreland on tuba at The Grey Eagle, one of several pickup bands he has spread across the country. Though fond of odd instruments, Gramps’ collection of such items as harp guitars, koras and a Zulu ceremonial wedding harp are too fragile to fly with him, so he travels solely with his guitar and lets his collaborators fill in the gaps.

In California, there’s tuba, standup bass and gypsy fiddle. In Oregon,

VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: “I’m constantly exploring new wordplay and new inventions in song and reviving the rare, odd and unusual, as I always have,” says Seattle-based singer-songwriter Baby Gramps. Photo by Michelle Bates

he’s joined by professional tap dancer/ sax player Shoehorn, Christopher Yarrow (son of Peter, Paul and Mary’s Peter Yarrow) on gut-bucket bass and other players on musical saw, jug, washboard, ukulele and jaw harp. In Washington, he has up to five toy pianos with him, and in New York, professional boxer Tom Brown plays the banana box with huge long paint brushes. “Jackson Pollock has nothing on him, but he might splash paint on you,” Gramps says.

Often playing with musicians a fraction of his age, Gramps hopes

that he can be an inspiration to them in the way that Jesse Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis, Son House, Furry Lewis, Mance Lipscomb, Libba Cotten and others provided him with foundation in his teens and 20s. To these artists and others just starting off, he also offers the following advice, the combination of which has worked well for him this past helf-century: “Be true to yourself. Don’t jump on the bandwagon. A flash in the pan will disappear as quick as a skillet of snakes.” X

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Past and present tense Time is of the essence for two current solo exhibitions. Dox Thrash, An American Journey: Georgia to Philadelphia, organized by Philadelphia’s Dolan/Maxwell gallery and Georgia College Museum of Art, is at the Asheville Art Museum; Twenty Years Progress, new works by local artist Tom Pazderka, is at Pink Dog Creative. Each sets the stage for a not-so-distant past and present.

DOX THRASH The 38 watercolors and prints in Dox Thrash are, at their core, a snapshot of the Georgia-born, African-American artist’s life. But they simultaneously offer a comparative view of the individual in postDepression urban and rural life.

Thrash quit school after the fourth grade and moved north at age 15. He toured with a vaudeville troupe, pursued an education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and ultimately made his career as a printmaker in Philadelphia. In 1937, he joined the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop, a division of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, and developed carborundum printmaking, an etching technique that he would use throughout the rest of his working life.

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per etching plates. When burnished, the plates take on a hazy appearance that leaves subjects obscured by darkness, aka chiaroscuro. In “Siesta,” Thrash portrayed a reclining nude, only it seems that he’s barely touched the plate. The figure stretches across a bed, with only the faint hint of light grazing her curved hip and extending up her left arm.

Thrash’s watercolors, like his etchings, aid in developing a larger image of the individual within the social landscape. They also take aim at the ups and downs of urban work life. The congested nature of city living is alive in “Row Houses.” Buildings are clumped together, surrounded by narrow streets. A sea of telephone poles pokes above the roofline. To add to the visual frenzy, the image is viewed from the window of a passing train.

Labor disputes take center stage in “Untitled (Strike).” A central, Herculean figure towers above a sign-holding crowd. He’s easily twice their size, a neighborhood icon or hero. The placards below him dispute the need for war, diminish Wall Street and even mention the 1930s landmark trial of the Scottsboro Boys.

Though Thrash never made a permanent return to the South, he did reimagine the countryside and regional turmoil of his youth.

A series of etchings recalls dilapidated barns and rural pastures.

A cabin, tucked off a dirt road, features a small wartime flag hanging from the porch. Thrash employs the carborundum’s darkness with eerie attention in “After the Lynching.” The print shows two men carrying a limp body to his or her grave. Only a foot and the faint shape of a hand can be made out. In the background, a mother and child stand close by.

They’re likely family, judging by their distraught looks, but it’s too dark to tell. It would seem that even the moon is withholding its light in the evening scene.

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DARK ART: “Falling Twilight” depicts the former home of The Red Law, a defunct communist propaganda newspaper in Prague. Here, the digital cloud encroaches on the old regime of paper-based publishing. Drawing by Tom Pazderka

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7, at the Asheville Art Museum. ashevilleart.org TOM PAZDERKA Twenty Years Progress is as much about the past 20 years as it is about this very moment. And “progress” is a misnomer. The show, by Ashevillebased artist Tom Pazderka, features nine large-scale drawings that reflect a critical, and at times caustic, look at a series of historical events. Six of those works, each a black-and-white image drawn on the dissected pages of burned books, were created during a spring 2014 artist’s residency at Trafo Studios in Pazderka’s native Prague. In those works, he pits the past against the present, panel for panel.

Three panels form a triptych-like collection titled “Elegies to the Failed Revolutions.” Each one depicts the result of ill-considered actions. The 1993 siege at Waco, Texas, is viewed as a pile of rubble. A charred structural frame recalls a series of mid1990s church burnings in Norway.

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal

Building stares vacantly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Pazderka views these events through professor Alain Badiou’s philosophical filter (every event can affect the future and the way we perceive past, present and future events). Though these incidents may at first seem unrelated, when viewed through Badiou’s lens, Pazderka says they clearly have taken a permanent place in our memories — and even the way we behave. “Historically, they are still with us,” he says. “Events in our past signal how we view the present.”

Along with the past, Pazderka considers the current moment as well. In “Falling Twilight,” a 6-foot-wide billowing black cloud is encroaching on a half-demolished building — the former Prague home of The Red Law, a defunct communist propaganda newspaper.

“Cloud(s)1” and “Cloud(s)2” take similar aim. “It’s about our movement of information from books and paper, physical materials, to the digital atmosphere,” Pazderka says. “The clouds, they’re an event in the making.”

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No place like home Living-room shows offer alternative music venues Home is where the concert is.

Following a national trend, Western North Carolina residents are turning their living rooms into do-it-yourself performance spaces. Angela Magura, for example, will host her second house concert Sunday, Aug. 24, when folk guitarist Richard Buckner comes calling.

“I think this is a way to be heard,” says Magura. “I’ve seen Richard play places that weren’t listeningroom environments. His songs are the kind that stop you; they leave you stunned. So he’s going to be heard for what he does.” Buckner finds hosts through his mailing list, so for Magura, signing up was as easy as sending an email. Over a six-week span in July and August, Buckner booked nine such shows, with dates at cafes and bars mixed in for good measure.

Longtime Asheville host Julie Maccarin says that for the artists she knows, “This is their bottom line. If they didn’t do house concerts, they’d be out of business.” Maccarin stopped hosting this year, but during the four years she did book shows, she found that house concerts brought out a different, often older,

Upcoming WNC House Concerts • Tim & Myles Thompson at BK House Concerts on Friday, Aug. 22. $15 donation and a dish to share for a pre-show potluck. bkhouseconcerts. com • Richard Buckner living room show on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 8 p.m. $20. undertowtickets.com • Tom Fisch at Music Mania in Mills River on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $15. musicmaniaconcerts.com — B.B.

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crowd than traditional venues.

And with all the proceeds going to the performer, the intimate setting means profitability for touring artists who get to play for potential fans on their own terms.

Fran Snyder saw the value of doing it this way almost a decade ago. Frustrated with the challenges of making it as a rock ’n’ roll guitarist, he took a cue from the folkies and decided to give house concerts a try. “You could hear a pin drop between songs,” he says. “I had everybody’s attention. That doesn’t mean I can’t play a bigger stage; that doesn’t mean I can’t have bigger success. But on the way to that, this is what I want to do.”

That experience led Snyder to launch concertsinyourhome. com in 2006, a place where artists and hosts can create profiles and book themselves. Last year, North Carolina ranked fourth in the number of concerts booked using the site, behind larger markets in Texas, California and Florida.

Both here and across the country, says Snyder, “Main-stage acts are now calling these homeowners to play in their living rooms.”

But while the website does streamline the process of booking an artist, drumming up an audience hasn’t gotten any easier. Paula DeLorenzo hosts at her Mills River home, and despite having been named Host of the Year for 2013, she says the hardest part is serving as a makeshift promoter. The thought of a half-empty room, says DeLorenzo, makes her lose sleep. And local host Betty Friedrichsen, who’s been at this for 12 years now, says that in the past 12 months, she’s had to fight to fill her own shows and has heard the same story from friends who also host.

What seems to be lacking is some kind of matchmaker for hosts and audiences: a better way to spread the word about local house concerts that also lets homeowners vet the folks who want to come.

In the meantime, though, not everyone’s experiencing a shortage of warm bodies. Ryan Williams has been holding shows at his

HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS: Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin perform at Music Mania in Mills River. Of hosting house shows, Ryan Willams says, “It’s like going to a concert, but instead of just getting to hear music you love, you get to choose the audience.” Photo courtesy of Paula DeLorenzo

Asheville home for eight years, and by now, he says, “There’s a base of people who, in a sense, have come to know each other through our house concerts.” So they turn up time and again, often in droves. More than 100 people might show up for a concert in his backyard, complete with food trucks, and 50 or so is more the norm for indoor shows. Many people bring their kids, and in this kind of setting, they can interact — with the

music and each other — in different ways.

“They’re always saying, ‘Oh, thank you so much for opening up your home,’” says Williams.

“Are you kidding me? What a dream. My family, we laugh about how amazing the return is for us.

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Come to Leicester tour “The welcome mat is out, refreshments are on the table, and we look forward to seeing you on Aug. 16 and 17,” says a press release for the Come to Leicester studio tour. More than 20 artists will open their doors for a free self-guided pottery tour through galleries in this scenic retreat just outside Asheville. Expect a variety of clay-based creations, ranging from “wood-fired functional stoneware to whimsical figurative pieces.” Wildberry Lodge Bed & Breakfast (135 Potato Branch Road) will house samples from each artist along with information to help participants navigate the tour. The Come to Leicester tour happens on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 17, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. cometoleicester.com. Pictured: “Candlesticks” by Amy Goldstein Rice

Old Crow Medicine Show You know Old Crow Medicine Show, even if you think you don’t, because of a little song called “Wagon Wheel.” It’s been sung by every busker on every street corner, and more recently covered by Darius “Hootie” Rucker and blasted from every mainstream country music station. The seven-piece Old Crow Medicine Show got its start, appropriately, busking in New York City in the late ’90s before catching the attention of Doc Watson while in Boone, N.C. The band inspired legions of raucous banjo-fueled neo-folk acts, from Mumford and Sons to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (both of whom were featured, with Old Crow, in the Grammy-winning music documentary Big Easy Express). Old Crow Medicine Show performs at Pisgah Brewing on Monday, Aug. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Langhorne Slim opens. $30/$35. pisgahbrewing.com. Photo by by Andrea Behrends

Cicada Rhythm and Sans Abri Andrea DeMarcus (upright bass/ vocals) and David Kirslis (guitar/ vocals) of Cicada Rhythm claim they “tried to keep it professional” but became smitten when they started playing music together. The couple say they avoid romance songs and instead deliver jazzy, modernized folk with heartfelt vocal harmonies. Opening the evening is Sans Abri, a side project that originated when Josh Erwin and Michael Paynter wrote several songs that they admit “didn’t fit the modus operandi” of their bluegrass quintet, Packway Handle Band. Live drum beats, guitar and mandolin intertwine in a genre-roving sound, peppered with vocal interplays that might give the right listener flashbacks to a Phish concert. Both Georgia-based bands perform at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 9 p.m. $8/$12. isisasheville.com. Photo of Cicada Rhythm courtesy of the band

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Stephanie Perkins Stephanie Perkins, the local author behind the nationally beloved YA books Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door, returns with her third novel, Isla and the Happily Every After. Like Anna and Lola, Isla centers around a contemporary teen girl — a hopeless romantic with a crush on Josh, an artist she met while at the School of America in Paris. As seniors, Isla and Josh deal with the uncertainty of what their post-high school lives will hold. Isla includes cameos from the main characters of Perkins’ previous novels.

Fans are invited to a reading, launch party and a celebration of Isla‘s official “birthday” at Malaprop’s on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m. malaprops.com. Author photo by Rachel Scroggins

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by Grady Cooper & Carrie Eidson GALLERY DIRECTORY MUSIC ON MAIN 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (8/15), 7pm-9pm - Tuxedo Junction, show band. Free. Held in downtown Hendersonville.

PARK RHYTHMS CONCERT SERIES 669-8610 • FR (8/15), 6-9pm - A Social Function, easy listening/ dance. Free. Held at Lake Tomahawk Park Pavilion, 401 S. Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 233-3216, facebook.com/ RhythmAndBrewsHendersonville • TH (8/21), 6-9pm - Sol Driven Train, roots rock. Free. Held in downtown Hendersonville.

A NIGHT OF {RE}MEMBERING: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will host Doubletake: A Look Back at the 2014 {Re}Happening on Thursday, Aug. 21. The event showcases audio, video and photography works from the April 2014 event, as well as previous {Re}Happening events, which aim to revive the spirit of such performances that were common at Black Mountain College. Image courtesy of BMC+AC. (p.40)

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ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (8/15), 12pm-1:00pm - Lunchtime Art Break: Discussion of Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction with assistant curator Cole Hendrix. Admission fees apply.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (8/21), 7:30pm - A review of audio, video and photography stills from the 2014 {RE}Happening. Free.

COME TO LEICESTER STUDIO TOUR 683-8726, cometoleicester.com • SA (8/16) & SU (8/17), 10am-6pm - Self-guided tour of pottery studios. Map and artist info on website.

Free.

FLOW GALLERY 14 South Main St., Marshall, avl.mx/aw • TH (8/14), 5:30pm - Artist talk and demonstration with woodcut print artist Nancy Darrell. Free.

LAUGHING MASK GALLERY 84 N. Lexington Ave., 505-4081, laughingmaskcandies. com • FR (8/15), 6-9pm - Artist's reception and demonstrations with Stewart Prather. Free.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • TH (8/14), 6pm - 3D printing workshop and demo.

Free.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 693-8504, acofhc.org • 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.

COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St., 2733332, ashevillecourtyard.com • Through (8/28) - Submissions will be accepted for Anything Goes, Everything Shows, a multimedia mail-in art show. All submissions will be exhibited. Free.

TRYON PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS CAROLINA 859-0141, tryonpaintersandsculptors.com • Through (8/18) - Artists residing in North or South Carolina may submit works to be considered for the Views show. All mediums allowed. Contact for guidelines.

WRITERS' WORKSHOP EVENTS 254-8111, twwoa.org, prez@twwoa.org For beginning and experienced writers.

• Through SA (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest, stories of 5000 words or less. $25. Contact for guidelines.

MUSIC ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SU (8/17), 3pm-4:30pm - Bach's Goldberg Variations performed by Alexander Schwarzkopf. $8/$6 members. Admission fees apply.

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THEATER ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS through (8/16), 8pm - Titus Andronicus. $12. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SATURDAYS until (8/17) - Driving Miss Daisy. Fri.&Sat.:7:30pm; Sun.:2:30pm. $12-$22.

BEBE THEATRE 20 Commerce St., 254-2621 • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/24) Sisters. Fri.&Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $15/$12 advance, students and seniors.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (8/15) through SU (8/17) - JUMP!. Fri. & Sat.: 6:30pm; Sun.: 2pm. $15/$10 children.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/24) - Miss Saigon. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Thu., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $40.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/14) until (9/14) - The Mystery of Irma Vep, Wed.Sat.: 8pm; Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $40/$38 seniors/$25 students.

HENDERSONVILLE LITTLE THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 6921082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/15) until (8/31) - Little Shop of Horrors, Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $24/$18 ages 18-25/$12 students under 18.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/23), 7:30pm - The Taming of the Shrew. Free.

• FRIDAY through SUNDAYS until (8/17), 6:30pm - Twelfth Night, performed by the MPP youth ensemble, Montford Moppets.

Free.

AMBROZIA BAR & BISTRO 120 Merrimon Ave., 350-3033, ambrozia-avl.com • ONGOING - Two Worlds, abstract watercolors

by Mick Donelan.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through TH (8/21) - Pattern, Texture, Emotion, quilts.

ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery.com • Through SU (8/31) - Life in Motion, works by Alyson Markell and Kenn Kotara.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through FR (8/29) - Bring Us Your Best XI, works by competition winners. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • ONGOING - Community, abstract works by Sharon Louden.

• ONGOING - Sol LeWitt: Creating Place, Wall Drawing #618, conceptual art.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art. com • Through SU (8/31) - Paintings by Joyce Schlapkohl.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (9/12) - Carolina Through My Lens, photography by Joye Ardyn Durham.

BLUE SPIRAL 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through SA (9/27) - Works from artists Kenneth Baskin, John L. Cleaveland, Brad Sells, Lee Sipe and Mike Smith.

• Through SA (9/27) - Ahead of the Curve, contemporary works focusing on lines.

CASTELL PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 2C Wilson Alley, 255-1188, castellphotographygallery.com • Through TU (9/30) - Merge, photography works from vintage collections and contemporary artists.

FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 298-7928, craftguild. org • Through (10/28) - Into the Fire, glass, clay and metal works.

GRATEFUL STEPS 159 S Lexington Ave., 277-0998, gratefulsteps.org • Through SU (8/31) - Urban Photography From The Streets Of A Bohemian Mountain Town, street photography by Joe Longobardi.

HANDMADE IN AMERICA 125 S Lexington Ave. #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • Through TU (8/19) - Glass works by John Almaguer. Held at Beverly-Hanks Discovery Center, 1 Town Square Blvd.

JOHNSON FARM 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, 891-6585, historicjohnsonfarm.org

A Spa Featuring • Through SU (8/31) - Photographs of the farm taken by local photographers.

METRO WINES 169 Charlotte St., 575-9525, facebook.com/ MetroWinesAsheville • Through (8/31) - Lost at Sea, works by Sandee Johnson.

PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY 67 Haywood St. • Through SA (8/30) - Paintings, architectural drawings and iron work by Anthony Lord.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through SU (8/31) - Screen prints, stickers and other works by California artist Bigfoot.

RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through SU (8/31) - Swannanoa Fine Arts League members juried exhibit.

SILVER FOX GALLERY & INTERIORS 508 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 698-0601, silverfoxonline.com • Through WE (8/27) - Wooden sculptures by Mark Gardner.

THE BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through TU (9/30) - Artifacts and Contraptions, glass and mixed media sculp-

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THE GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • Through SU (9/14) - Imagined Circus and Travelers, paintings by Diana LaRose-Weaver.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • SA (8/9) through SA (9/20) - Works by Barbara Littledeer. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville • TH (8/7) through SA (9/20) - Edwina Bringle Retrospective, weaving. Artist's reception: Aug. 16, 5pm. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine

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URBAN DHARMA 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • Through FR (10/31) - Drifting Toward the Names of Things, paper works by Brian T. Leahy.

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FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Fireside Trio (Americana), 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ Verse (singer-songwriter), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Utah Green (folk), 6pm

BEN'S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

GOOD STUFF Annalise Emerick (singer-songwriter), 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Sweet Dreamers: Patsy Cline Tribute w/ Caromia, Mary Ellen Davis & Cary Fridley, 8pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7pm BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

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

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL On the Patio: Laid Back Thursdays w/ Ram Mandlekorn, Simon George & Jon DeLeon (jazz, reggae, funk), 7pm Cicada Rhythm & Sans Abri (folk), 9pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm

LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens & Misty Daniels (jazz, chanteuse), 7:30pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Laugh Your Asheville Off!, 8pm

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

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Hovey Kat (jazz, blues) :: In the Lounge, 7pm Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm

JOIN THE FLOCK: Yet another band out of Athens, Ga., Futurebirds brings steel guitar and psych-style echoing vocals to the table in what they call “psychedelic country.” Futurebirds will be flying to The Mothlight on Friday, Aug. 15, at 8:30 p.m., along with local band Joshua Carpenter & The American Seams.

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lessons w/ Roger Buckner, 7pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

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

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bailiff (rock), 10pm

MILLROOM Jonny Fritz (country), 9pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Likewise (harmony, roots), 6pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jam Boogie Band (rock, funk, jam), 6pm

ODDITORIUM Parasites, Dimarcos & Flamingo Nosebleed (punk), 9pm

TALLGARY'S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

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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MILLROOM Comedy Showcase w/ Laugh Your Asheville Off & Funny Business, 7pm NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB Benefit for Holmes Desmelik, 11am

LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:30pm

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THE MOTHLIGHT Sylvan Esso w/ Blanko Basnet (electronic, EDM), 8:30pm THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm THE SOUTHERN Tyler Herring (folk, blues), 6:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good (dance party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm

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VINCENZO'S BISTRO Lenny Petenelli (high-energy piano), 7pm WESTVILLE PUB Brewery Night w/ French Broad, 7pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 185 KING STREET Chris Emerson & Ty Bennett (singer-songwriters), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin' Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Laura Thurston (folk, Americana), 9pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Karaoke, 9pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7pm CORK & KEG Honey Swamp Stompers (country, blues, jazz), 8pm DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

ODDITORIUM Ivadell, Muscle & Bone, Fairlane & King Jesus (indie), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Pop the Clutch (beach, jazz, swing), 7:30pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN Dos Dudes (acoustic-rock), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dangermuffin (Americana, indie), 9pm POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Grace Adele & The Grand Band (folk, Americana), 7:30pm RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Chris Rhodes, 6:30pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Patch (alt-folk), 9pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Big Block Dodge (jazz, fusion), 7pm THE MOTHLIGHT Sylvan Esso w/ Blanko Basnet (electronic, EDM), 8:30pm THE PHOENIX Carver & Carmody (folk, Americana), 8pm THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm THE SOUTHERN DJ Leslie Snipes (dance), 10pm

TIMO'S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum 'n' Bass Collective, 9pm 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 (guitar, vocals), 7pm WILD WING CAFE Grand Theft Audio (rock, pop), 8pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH DJ Josh Michaels & Ben Shuster, 6pm WXYZ LOUNGE One Leg Up (gypsy jazz), 8pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Wham Bam Bowie Band (bowie tribute), 10pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Whipstich Sallies w/ The Tillers (folk), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens &DeCristofaro (jazz piano, vibraphone), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (americana), 7pm MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Resident Dulítel DJ (indie-tronic), 11pm NOBLE KAVA Steve Karla (gypsy jazz, jam), 8:30pm

185 KING STREET A Moment Electric w/ Silver Screen Orchestra, 8pm

ODDITORIUM Young American Landscape w/ Viajando, Birth (metal), 9pm

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

OLIVE OR TWIST WestSound (Motown), 8pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY SupaTight (funk, reggae, rock), 9:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ike Stubblefield, Jeff Sipe & Mike Seal w/ Preston Cate Trio (rock, jam), 10pm ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Corey Blakeslee (Americana), 6pm ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm BOILER ROOM Vic Crown, Forever Town & Broad River Nightmare (metal), 9pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Kevin Lorenz (jazz, pop), 7pm CORK & KEG Tellico (bluegrass), 8:30pm CROW & QUILL The Acoustic Guitar Project, 8:30pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Savi Fernandez Band (reggae), 10pm ORANGE PEEL T-Pain w/Bando Jonez, Rich Kidz & Mykell Vaughn (hip-hop), 9pm

PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (pop, dance, hits), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dark Star Orchestra w/ Rumpke Mountain Boys (dead tribute, jam), 7pm RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL MotownBlue (soul, R&B), 6pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Jerry's Bones (rock), 9pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Wilhelm Brothers (Americana, folk), 6pm

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Futurebirds w/ Joshua Carpenter & The American Seams, 8:30pm

GOOD STUFF American Hologram, 8pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Carrie Morrison (Americana), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Jolie Holland w/ Shy Hunters (folk, singersongrwiter), 8pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Bayou Diesel (dance, cajun, zydeco), 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter), 7pm

swEEt drEaMErs:

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THE SOUTHERN Brad Earnhardt (classical guitar), 7pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Comedy Freak Show w/ Vinnie the Creep, Bobby White & Siris (dance party), 10pm

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w/ shy hunters 9pm • $15/$18

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THE PHOENIX John Trufant & Friends (Americana, folk), 9pm THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

a tribute to Patsy cline featuring caromia, Mary Ellen davis & cary fridley 8pm • $10

sat claP your hands say yEah w/ alec ounsworth 8/16

SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm

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

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM The Bird & The Bear (Americana, folk), 6pm

OPEN AT 5PM FOR SUNDAY SHOWS

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 7pm

DUGOUT Fine Line (classic rock), 9pm

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB CaroMia Tiller, Woody Wood & Scott Murray (Americana, soul), 9pm

OPEN MON-SAT 12PM-8PM EXTENDED HOURS DURING SHOWS FOR TICKET HOLDERS

baby graMPs

w/ blind boy chocolate & the Milk sheiks 8pm • $12/$15 cabinEt

w/ stephen Murray

(of holy ghost tent revival) 9pm • $10/$12 an Evening with:

fri 8/22

MichaEl tracy: unplugged and live 8pm • $10/$12

sat 8/23

record release show

floating action: 9pm • FREE

TOWN PUMP Brandon Reeves (roots, soul), 9pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES High Top Collision, 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues), 10pm

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DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

WILD WING CAFE Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 8pm

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

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat w/ Karen Jonas (Americana), 9pm

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THU. 8/14 Dos Dudes

185 KING STREET Amy Hart, 8pm

(acoustic rock)

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Gary Mackey (fiddle), 6pm The Soul Magnetics (soul, funk), 9pm

FRI. 8/15 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits)

ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Moose & Bulletproof Blues Band, 9:30pm

SAT. 8/16 The Sloantones

ANDREWS BREWING CO. Jerry's Bones (indie-rock, folk, blues), 6pm

(rock, funk, blues, bluegrass)

ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7pm CATAWBA BREWING CO. Fireside Collective Trio, 6:30pm

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FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Ram Mandelkorn & friends (jazz, funk), 10pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM The Mountain Laurels (folk, Celtic), 6pm GOOD STUFF Glade City Rounders (folk), 8pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Clap Your Hands Say Yeah w/Alec Ounsworth (indie, rock), 8pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY BanjoPalooza, 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Letters to Abigail w/ John the Revelator, 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 7pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm NEW MOUNTAIN Holmes Team Fundraiser (live music, auction), 2pm Dark Star After Party w/ Sponge Cake & the Fluff Ramblers (funk), 10pm NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE DJ Trevor Baker (nu-disco, soul), 11pm

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 DUGOUT 692-9262 ELEVEN ON GROVE 505-1612 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 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 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

FEET HURT?

THE PHOENIX Naren (singer-songwriter), 1pm The Paris Thieves (power-folk), 9pm THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl's Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm

Dr. Daniel Waldman, DPM FACFAC

TIMO'S HOUSE DJ Story, Transputer & Alien DNA (house), 10pm

www.blueridgefoot.com 828-254-5371

TOWN PUMP American Hologram (indie, folk, Americana), 9pm NOBLE KAVA Ka-Duat (underworld, ambient, electronic), 8:30pm

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Latin Soul w/ Lily Aruz, 7pm Westsound, 10pm

ODDITORIUM Violentmae w/ Bank of Christ & Noel Thrasher (experimental), 9pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street (jazz, swing), 7:30pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm Asheville's Biggest Hip-Hop Showcase, 10pm ORANGE PEEL The Breakfast Club (80's tribute), 9pm PACK'S TAVERN The Sloantones (rock, funk, blues), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dark Star Orchestra w/ Rumpke Mountain Boys (dead tribute, jam), 7pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Citizen Mojo (blues, funk, soul), 8pm RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Hunnilicious (country, singer-songwriter), 7pm

WILD WING CAFE Sarah Tucker, 8pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Leigh Glass (Americana), 8pm WXYZ LOUNGE Ritmos Latinos w/ DJ Malinalli (Latin, salsa), 9pm

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 185 KING STREET People the Kangaroo w/ Jordan Okerend, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Mande Foly (West African), 7pm

The Coolest Place in Town Cold local draughts

&

Domestics

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Karaoke & brunch, 2pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7pm

SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm

DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Joe's Truck Stop (honky-tonk, country), 8pm

GOOD STUFF The Bird and The Bear (folk, Americana), 5pm Black Irish Texas (rock, Irish), 6:30pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Dub Cartel (reggae), 9pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Baby Gramps w/ Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks (folk), 8pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Nikki Talley (folk, alt-country), 6pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

TALLGARY'S CANTINA Old School Rock (classic rock), 9:30pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jazz showcase, 6pm

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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm

THE ART HOUSE GALLERY & STUDIO Wendy Hayes & Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz), 9pm

LEX 18 MichaelJohnJazz & friends (jazz), 7:30pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Hearts Gone South w/ The Wasted Lives, Motel Rodeo & Instructor Deborah Swanson (country), 8:30pm

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LOBSTER TRAP Leo Johnson (top 40 from 1940), 7pm ODDITORIUM Adult poetry slam, 9pm

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THUR, AUG 14 Laugh Your Asheville Off! Comedy Festival 9:30 PM

FRI, AUG 15 Laugh Your Asheville Off! Comedy Festival 9:30 PM

FR1, AUG 22 Tall Pines w/ Casey Driessen: Unplugged

8 PM l $10/$12

18 Church Street | Asheville, NC

Asheville’s Best Listening Room

828-348-5327

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8/15 THE TILLERS

10/25 Sarah Lee Guthrie WHIPSTITCH 10/25w/ Sarah LeeSALLIES Guthrie 9PM • $7 Irion & Johnny & Johnny Irion w/ •• 9pm 8/16 LETTERS TO ABIGAIL w/ Battlefield Battlefield 9pm $10 $10 W/ JOHN THE REVELATOR 10/26 Firecracker Jazz 10/269PMFirecracker Jazz Band Band • FREE (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED) & HALLOWEEN Costume & HALLOWEEN Costume 8/18 C2 AND THE BROTHERS REED Party & Contest • 9pm Party Contest 9pm $8 $8 9PM&• FREE (DONATIONS•ENCOURAGED) 10/27 Vinegar Creek •• 9pm 10/27 Vinegar Creek 9pm FREE FREE 8/19 MATT TOWNSEND & THE 10/28 Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 WONDER OF THEPlug WORLD 10/28 Mustard • 9pm $8 W/ HIVE ROBBERS w/ Crazy Tom Banana Pants w/ Crazy Tom Banana Pants 9PM • FREE (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED) 10/29 Singer Songwriters 10/29 SingerHEART Songwriters 8/22 SOLDIERS •• 7-9pm FREE in Round 7-9pm FREE in the the Round W/ OWNERS OF THE SON w/ Anthony Tripi, Elise Davis w/ Anthony Tripi, Elise ALSO PERFORMING KATE &Davis COREY Mud Tea • 9pm FREE Mud9PM Tea • $7• 9pm FREE Open Mon-Thurs at 3 • Fri-Sun at Noon Open Mon-Thurs at Session 3 • Fri-Sun SUN Celtic Irish 5pmat tilNoon ?

SUN Celtic Irish Session 5pm til ?5pm MON Quizzo! 7-9p • WED Old-Time 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

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WEDNESDAY • AUGUST 13 LAUGH YOUR ASHEVILLE OFF $16 (8:00-10:00)

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am ORANGE PEEL Teatro Del Gusto (Circus Cabaret) w/ Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (art-rock, jazz), 7:30pm

SATURDAY• AUG 16 BANJOPALOOZA $15 (6:30-8:30)

WED • AUG 20 WOODY WOOD WEDNESDAY (5:30-7:30)

RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 1pm

Wednesday

1/2 OFF Martinis & Bottles of Wine

Thursday

3.00 Pints 32 Taps to Choose From

Friday

4.25 Flights

Saturday

THANK YOU FOR VOTING US #1

5.00 Jager Bombs & Angry Balls

WE’RE PUTTING OUR GAELIC ON SPECIAL $3(WED-SUN)

5.00 Mojitos & Bloody Marys 2.00 Domestics

Sunday

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Damian LeMaster & LeMaster Plan (singersongwriter, folk), 8pm

YACHT CLUB Steely Dan Sunday, 5pm

MONDAY, AUGUST 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Moon & You (Americana), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam, 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ Thicker Than Water, 7pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 2pm

BYWATER Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jay Brown (one-man-band), 5pm

COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Joey K & The Extra Double (Joey's 40th B-Day), 9:30pm

CROW & QUILL Stevie Lee Combs (old-time, folk, blues), 9pm

THE PHOENIX The Wilhelm Brothers (folk, Americana), 12pm

DOUBLE CROWN Punk 'n' roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra Dance, 7pm

Monday

Tuesday

THE SOUTHERN Brunch w/ DJ Kipper ("yacht rock"), 1pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm C2 & The Brothers Reed (Americana), 8pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and friends (bluegrass), 7pm

5.00 Margaritas Open Mon-Thurs 4-8pm, Fri 4-9pm Sat 2-9pm, Sun 1-6pm AUGUST 13 - AUGUST 19, 2014 MOUNTAINX.COM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Mike Snodgrass (party on the patio), 5:30pm

THE SOCIAL '80s night, 8pm

10.00 YugoBurger with Craft Beer

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VEGAN VIRTUOSOS: With five years, four albums and many music festivals under their belts, Dangermuffin’s jammy-Americana, roots-rock sounds will infiltrate Pisgah Brewing Company on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 9 p.m. “The seeds they’ve planted at major festivals around the nation grow as fast as the mileage on their odometer, yet they dream and sing of home with a yearning passion,” reads a passage on the band’s website. “Most strikingly, the band’s musical execution remains refreshingly simple, belying a staggering lyrical and thematic depth behind each individual song.”

OLIVE OR TWIST Shag & swing lesson w/ John Dietz, 7pm The Committee (swing, oldies, rock), 8pm

FRIDAY• AUGUST 15 BAYOU DIESEL (6:30-8:30)

SUNDAY• AUG 17 OPEN FROM 1-6

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Smokey’s After Dark ODDITORIUM Prince, Common Visions, Kreamy 'Lectric Santa & more (punk), 9pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (folk), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm

LEX 18 HotPoint Duo (gypsy jazz, swing), 7:30pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Old Crow Medicine Show w/ Langhorne Slim (newgrass), 7:30pm

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm

WESTVILLE PUB Trivia night, 8pm WILD WING CAFE Team trivia, 8:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Carolina Blue & The Dixie Darling Cloggers (bluegrass), 6pm

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Makia Groove, 7pm BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia night, 7pm CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga, 7pm CORK & KEG Honkytonk jam w/ Tom Pittman & friends, 6:30pm

SCULLY'S Open mic night w/ Jeff Anders, 9pm THE SOCIAL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm TIMO'S HOUSE 90s Recall w/ Franco (90s dance, hip-hop, pop), 10pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm WESTVILLE PUB Blues jam, 10pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions --- Open mic, 6:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Trivia, 8:30pm

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ The Hendo Hounddogs (blues, jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm BEN'S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

AUG Bailiff 13 WED 10 PM

FREE 21+

AUG Ike Stubblefield, Jeff Sipe & 14 Mike Seal w/ Preston Cate Trio THU

10 PM $8/$10 21+

AUG Savi Fernandez Band 15 10 PM $8/$10 21+ FRI AUG Asheville’s Biggest 16 SAT Hip Hop Showcase

10 PM $7 21+

AUG Ultrafaux & Whipstitch Sallies 19 TUES 8PM $2 All Ages AUG

19 TUE

Tuesday Night Funk Jam 11PM FREE 21+

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GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm Hovey Kat (jazz, blues) :: In the Lounge, 7pm

DOUBLE CROWN Punk 'n' roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm

GOOD STUFF Celtic Night, 7pm

LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:30pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN On the Patio w/ Scott Sharpe & Jon Corbin (jazz, blues), 6pm

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

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Bluegrass session, 7:30pm

55 COLLEGE STREET-DOWNSTAIRS

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Billy Owens, 7pm

CROW & QUILL Poetry Cabaret II w/ poets, music & burlesque, 8pm

IRON HORSE STATION Open mic w/ Mark Shane, 6pm

31 PATTON AVENUE-UPSTAIRS

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Tuesday w/ Pauly Juhl & Oso, 8:30pm

one stop

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

18 Broadway, Downtown • 253-2155

one stop

TIMO'S HOUSE Service Industry Night w/ Nex Millen (dance party), 9pm

Open 7 Days A Week • Asheville’s Oldest Bar

AMH

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Ultrafaux & Whipstitch Sallies (gypsy jazz, Americana), 8pm Tuesday night techno, 10pm

one stop

THE SOCIAL Hartford bluegrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8pm

ODDITORIUM Comedy open mic w/ Tom Peters, 9pm

AMH

THE PHOENIX Jeff Sipe & friends (jam-fusion), 8pm

Tropical Tuesday!

Karaoke Thirsty Thursday Karaoke

MARKET PLACE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

AMH

THE MOTHLIGHT Nice Bison w/ Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (art-rock, jazz, exotica), 9:30pm

Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Saturdays

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm NEW MOUNTAIN Myq Kaplan w/ Zach Sherwin, Minori Hinds, Kelly Rowe & Tom Peters (comedy), 8pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL | FREE SHOW | 9PM

SUPPLY DRIVE FOR BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE (PLEASE BRING PURINA CAT/DOG FOOD, BLANKETS, TOYS, CARRIERS, LITTER!)

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FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Todd Hoke (folk, blues), 6pm

ODDITORIUM Doomster, Wyla, Hot Hands & Room Full of Strangers (punk, rock), 9pm

GOOD STUFF Ben Wilson (Americana), 6pm

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5pm–12am

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Wed BEN HOVEY AND KAT WILLIAMS IN THE LOUNGE $10 • 7 PM 8/13 ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC ON THE PATIO HOSTED BY TAYLOR MARTIN AND AMANDA PLATT FREE • 7 PM

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DIRECTOR: Woody Allen PLAYERS: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Eileen Atkins, Simon McBurney, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater, Jacki Weaver ROMANTIC COMEDY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A stage magician sets out to debunk a young woman he’s certain is a phony spiritualist and finds more than he imagined.

THE LOWDOWN: A sparkling champagne cocktail of a romantic comedy only Woody Allen could make. It may be lightweight — though perhaps not entirely — but it’s a little slice of cinema heaven.

It’s that time of year when we get our annual Woody Allen film, which means it’s also that time when a certain batch of critics crop up to complain about it.

I suspect they look forward to this annual event just as much as those of us who actually like Allen’s films do, if only for the chance to lodge the same complaints they did last year. (One wonders if they realize that their yearly kvetch-fest is just as much — or more — the “same old thing” as anything Allen has offered.)

Leaving the naysayers to their own peculiar amusement, let’s look at Allen’s latest, Magic in the Moonlight, which is as delightful a confection as one could hope for.

It is also a film that has increasingly grown on me since I saw it on Saturday morning. I have gone beyond liking it to liking it an awful lot — and I suspect I’m

EMMA STONE and COLIN FIRTH in Woody Allen’s delightful new film, Magic in the Moonlight, one of the year’s must-sees.

on my way to loving it. There really is some kind of magic here.

Allen has turned his attention here to a subject he’s visited before — magicians. We saw flashes of this in Stardust Memories (1980), and Allen himself played a stage magician in the massively underrated Scoop (2005). Here, he’s focused his attention on a 1920s illusionist Wei Ling Soo, who is in reality Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth spoofing his own trademark stuffy Brit) in Chinese makeup. Ill-tempered and very full of himself, Stanley detests spiritualists — in part, one suspects, because he’s jealous of being incapable of believing that there’s more to the world than meets the eye. As a result, it’s easy for his friend (and fellow magician) Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney) to convince him to go to the Côte d’Azur to unmask a spiritualist named Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), whose presumed fakery has completely defeated Howard’s efforts to debunk her skills. Sophie — and her ambitious mother (Marcia Gay Harden) — have completely convinced wealthy Grace Catledge (Jacki Weaver) of her authenticity, while Sophie’s other

charms have snared Grace’s vapid son, Brice (Hamish Linklater).

The problem from Stanley’s point of view is that Sophie throws him off from the very onset by knowing things about him she couldn’t possibly know. It’s not even very hard for her to penetrate his guise as Stanley Tapplinger and peg him as Wei Ling Soo. But even with this, and even with his — and Howard’s — complete inability to find the fraud in her seances, Stanley remains resolute in his belief that she has to be a fraud and that people who believe in things like spiritualism and religion are merely deluded boobs. Of course, what he hasn’t factored in is the appeal of Sophie herself — or the possibility that he might experience some magic himself, though not necessarily of the kind Sophie purports — and indeed seems — to have.

Saying more about the plot would spoil some of the initial fun and possibly some of the film’s charm.

Of course, it’s not just stage magic that is familiar territory for Allen here. The whole question of whether or not there is anything beyond this world shows up time and again in Allen’s work — and often gets a

more sympathetic take than might be expected from an avowed nonbeliever like Allen. There are, for example, clearly spirits in A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982) and fantastic occurrences in films like The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Alice (1990), Shadows and Fog (1991) and Scoop are taken at face value.

This, however, may be his most personal exploration of the idea (though he’d probably deny it). It is certainly his most fully developed take on the subject. Beyond this, we have Allen’s fascination with the past — not to mention a glorious array of 1920s jazz and dance band music on the soundtrack.

There are also some intriguing departures — or previously untapped influences — here. Large chunks of the film have overtones of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion — notably the Henry Higgins-Eliza Doolittle relationship of Stanley and Sophie, something made more apparent with the presence of Eileen Atkins as Stanley’s aunt taking on the character of Higgins’ mother (some of her complaints about Stanley’s behavior are almost identical to Mrs. Higgins’ about her son). I wouldn’t take this too far, but it’s there — just as there is a good bit of Tennessee Williams’ Blanche DuBois in Cate Blanchett’s character in last year’s Blue Jasmine.

In both cases, it’s an influence with a distinctly Allenesque tone.

In the end, though, Magic in the Moonlight is a gloriously giddy romantic comedy made for adults.

It’s a perfectly created confection that’s buoyed by the chemistry between Colin Firth and Emma Stone — with pleasing toppings from a fine supporting cast. And it is perhaps the most gorgeously photographed film of the year (the fourth Allen film shot by Darius Khondji).

I’ll add that it’s also the best thing in theaters right now — and if you listen to the grumbling of the usual suspects, it’s your loss. Rated PG-13 for a brief suggestive comment and smoking throughout.

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

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SPECIAL EFFECTS DISASTER FLAPDOODLE RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A rash of tornadoes and a team of storm chasers converge on a small town. Havoc and devastation follow.

THE LOWDOWN: Almost amazing in its ineptitude and wheezy plotting, Into the Storm offers lots of CGI destruction, five cents’ worth of dialogue and a lot of dullness between the devastation.

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PLAYERS: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress

No matter how dumb you think this bloated Weather Channel special being passed off as a movie is, I assure you it’s even dumber than that. It is also incredibly forgetable.

Indeed, I feel a certain urgency in writing this before it completely vanishes from my mind. (Not that this eventuality will be a bad thing.)

I suppose I could blame part of my reaction on the fact that I saw Into the Storm immediately after a press screening of Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight, but the truth is Into the Storm is perfectly capable of being lousy all by itself. It needs no better film to make it look bad.

Into the Storm has been categorized as immoral in feeding off real disasters and real tragedies for entertainment purposes — something that could be said about too many movies to count — and villified as “disaster porn.” “Disaster corn” would be nearer the mark. The idea that this thing is sufficiently conscious to actually have an idea or an agenda is laughable. But then, so is the movie.

Everything about Into the Storm — with the exception of some of the CGI devastation — is stupefying in its incompetence. The “story” is supposedly presented in a kind of found-footage documentary fashion — except when it isn’t, meaning that the film just bounces back and forth between its faux-reality hooey and being a regular old narrative movie.

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mentary that will serve as a monument to those of the low-rent cast and the nameless (and largely CGI) extras who didn’t make it to the end of the movie. That there is no monument to viewers who sat through the whole thing is one of life’s great injustices.

The story — if it can be called that — seems to have taken its chief inspiration from the Spielberg War of the Worlds (2005).

Like Mr. Spielberg’s take on an alien invasion, the bulk of Into the Storm suggests that all this death (mostly implied to keep things PG-13) and destruction is really at the service of healing a fractured family. Here it’s a widowed father (Richard Armitage) and his sons, Donnie (Max Deacon) and Trey (Nathan Kress). Moreover, it will bring Donnie and the girl of his dreams, Kaitlyn (Alycia Debnam Carey), together. (Of course in reality, three weeks later Kaitlyn would come to her senses and realize that this was all a mere rippling of the loins over a shared traumatic experience, and that Donnie is just this dorky kid who’s been mooning — and goodness knows what else — over her yearbook photo.)

The rest of the story — which will eventually dovetail with the familial drama — focuses on the business of a hardcore, self-centered storm chaser (Matt Walsh) and his hapless crew. Like everyone else in the film, these aren’t so much characters as types.

In addition, we’re given comedy relief (which isn’t nearly as funny as the unintended laughs) involving a pair of barely sentient rednecks named Reevis (Jon Reep) and Donk (Kyle Davis), who spend all their time making videos of themselves performing sub-Jackass daredeviltry in hopes of YouTube stardom.

Of course, all this hoo-ha is merely there to provide an excuse for the orgy of apparently climate-change-spawned (never so named) meteorological mayhem. This all works on the premise that if one tornado is exciting, four or five tornadoes (including what can only be called a firenado that looks positively Old Testament) are thrilling — and that one superhumongous tornado is absolutely heart-stopping. (That I found it more mind-numbing is perhaps a personal thing.) It all depends on your fondness for — or toler-

ance of — endless CGI simulations of destruction. I guess it’s OK on that score, though a lot of it looks cartoonish to me, and it all goes on too long. That none of the characters are worth caring about makes it all seem like a pointless exercise in state-of-the-art effects work. Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense destruction and peril, and language including some sexual references.

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles H DIRECTOR: Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans) PLAYERS: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Johnny Knoxville, Alan Ritchson ACTION RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Four mutated turtles and a plucky journalist try to stop an evil scientist and an even eviler samurai.

THE LOWDOWN: Bargainbasement Michael Bay pastiche and a lot of sound and fury make for a noisy, not very fun action flick.

For the sake of full disclosure, I am of the age where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a huge part of my childhood. I owned the action figures, watched the TV show, played the video games and owned the VHS of the movie (and even the corny concert video, too).

I have a distinct memory of making my family wait in line outside the Beaucatcher to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991). I was waist-deep in turtles, but that was a long, long time ago. What’s left of my nostalgia has long run dry, and the idea that a Ninja Turtles reboot — complete with Michael Bay producing it and giant, musclebound turtle-men now with nostrils and lips (sensual, sensual lips) — could somehow offend my delicate sensibilities or ruin my childhood is simply not a possibility.

All that said, the movie’s still garbage, in large part because of Bay’s involvement, and not because of nostrils (though they are a part of a larger issue with the movie, but more on that later). With this movie, director Jonathan Liebesman — who’s already got a history of making junk like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) — has shot up the ranks of Hollywood’s biggest hacks. This is really a Bay film. It walks and talks like a Bay film, from the color pallette to the aggressive, almost obscene camera movement, not to mention the jokey dialogue, the abrasive action scenes that go on far too long and even the trademark sweeping shot of a sunset. From the product placement to the fart jokes, the only thing keeping this from not being a wholly Michael Bay film is a running time that actually feels reasonable and not totally soul crushing.

These are only some of the problems. Going beyond, Liebesman has no idea what the movie should be.

On one hand, it’s a loving homage, full of hokey in-jokes. Other times, it’s almost ashamed of what it is — a movie about, well, teenage mutant ninja turtles — and constantly wants to remind the audience that it’s better than it’s silly premise. Liebesman expects you to have both a working knowledge of the Ninja Turtles as a pop culture entity while trying to set up all this nonsense in the most laborious way possible. It takes 20 minutes for our four titular heroes to actually be revealed, but why?

We know what’s going on; it’s in the damn title.

To top all of this off, the movie’s crammed with needless CGI that’s visually overwhelming. While giving these characters nostrils, for instance, isn’t a big deal, it is a symptom of busying up the character design to the point that it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s happening on screen. It’s symptomatic of Bay’s whole hyperactualized “more is more” mindset. Not only is the CGI cartoony and distracting (say what you will about guys in rubber suits in the original 1990 film, but at least they existed), but the characters themselves are covered in tons of accessories and baubles. They’re a complicated eyesore, which just so happens to describe the movie itself. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence.

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

The Hundred-Foot Journey HHHH DIRECTOR: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) PLAYERS: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon, Amit Shah, Farzana Dua Elahe CULTURE CLASH ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAMA RATED PG THE STORY: When an Indian family opens a restaurant across the street from a classy French restaurant in a small town in France, trouble — and romance — follows.

THE LOWDOWN: A luminous Helen Mirren leads a first-rate cast in this familiar but thoroughly charming and appealing culture-clash, foodcentered romantic comedy.

Lasse Hallström’s The HundredFoot Journey looks great, is filled with pleasant characters, showcases some terrific-looking food and offers a nice — if hardly original — little message. It is, in fact, almost everything you probably expect.

And it does what you expect with great skill and élan. That is both its brilliance and its curse. It’s the comfort food of the art house — making it seem a little common for the art crowd and a little too high-toned for the rest of the world.

The truth is it should play pretty well in either realm, and from local reports, it seems to have done pretty well. (On a per-theater basis, it outdid Into the Storm, which is comforting in its own way.) I guessed it was going over pretty well in Asheville when there were 50 or 60 people at the 11:10 a.m. show at The Carolina on Friday.

The film may be lacking in massive critical respect, but audiences seem to like it. The combination of Helen Mirren, food and the gentle whimsy of Lasse Hallström in something like his Chocolat (2001) mode is pretty potent. With a surprisingly light screenplay by Steven Knight (of Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises fame), based on an apparently popular novel (the poster claims it’s “beloved”) by Richard C. Morais, it hits all the right notes without seeming alto-

STARTING WEDNESDAY gether too precious. (Perhaps this is because Knight finds something of the Chiwetel Ejiofor-Audrey Tautou romance from Dirty Pretty Things in the young couple here.) It tells the story of the Kadam family, who have fled their native India after their restaurant was burned down during an incomprehensible political protest and the mother killed. After spending a year in England (where the vegetables have no soul), the family heads for France, wandering around the countryside while Papa (Om Puri) looks for the perfect place for a new restaurant.

The location is virtually chosen for him when their van breaks down just outside a picture postcard village. Better still, there’s an empty restaurant for sale — one that just happens to be right across the street from snobbish Madame Mallory’s upscale classic French restaurant.

It is not difficult to guess where this is headed, or even how it will ultimately work out. Much less easy to predict — except maybe for the final outcome — is the path of the film’s young romantic leads, Hassan (Manish Dayal) and Madame Mallory’s sous-chef Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon). Hassan — who has a natural genius for cooking — wants to go beyond his native Indian cuisine and become a chef at Madame Mallory’s restaurant, complicating their relationship by also making them rival chefs.

This isn’t any kind of a great movie, but it’s a film of easy charm and unforced natural elegance. Both are easily achieved with Helen Mirren as the star and Lasse Hallström directing. Mirren is particularly good here — occasionally looking for all the world like she did 40 years ago. But there are other factors. The screenplay — apart from a detour that feels like an unnecessary sop to the convention of the penultimate gloomy reel in all romantic comedies — is solid. Plus, it affords the level of conflict and the sense of something truly at stake that was completely missing from the inexplicably popular foodthemed film from earlier this summer, Chef. And the performances of the rest of the cast could scarcely be better, especially those of Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon. A gentle, genial, pleasing time at the movies. Rated PG for thematic elements, some violence, language and brief sensuality.

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

Let’s Be Cops For reasons that are anybody’s guess, this R-rated buddy action comedy starring Damon Wayans, Jr. and Jake Johnson has been afforded a Wednesday opening. It hasn’t been screened for critics, which is no surprise, but Fox assures us, “It’s the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they’re not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted ‘heroes’ get tangled in a real-life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.” Sounds like they merely repeated the pitch that sold the studio on making this. (R)

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Magic in the Moonlight See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

The Expendables 3 Yet another in the series of movies with no-longer-young or no-longerbankable action stars — Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, Dolph Lundgren, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes — a couple of borderline cases — Jason Statham, Jet Li — and some mostly unknown younger folks for the heavy-lifting.

(Bruce Willis is conspicuously absent for wanting too much money.) What’s it about? Who cares? Much more bothersome for fans of this stuff is that wimpy PG-13 rating. (PG-13)

The Giver Based on a best-selling children’s novel from 1993, this is sci-fi about the utopian society people think they’re living in really being a dystopian society — as the young hero (Brendon Thwaites, Oculus) learns in his conversations with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who knows and keeps the secrets of the past. Here’s the thing. The cast isn’t bad (Meryl Streep is also onboard), if we overlook Taylor Swift. Plus, director Philip Noyce has some pretty strong credits (let’s not think about Salt). So why has this not been shown to critics? (PG-13)

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I Walked with a Zombie/Zombies on Broadway HHHH

Director: Jacques Tourneur / Gordon Douglas Players: Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison / Bela Lugosi, Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Anne Jeffreys HORROR / HORROR COMEDY Rated NR Here’s a double dose of zombies in a pairing that would likely horrify the makers of I Walked with a Zombie (1943), which is arguably the greatest — and most poetic — zombie movie of all time. Not to take anything away from that film, but, like it or not, Zombies on Broadway (1945) is a wayward — very wayward — sequel, using the same setting, the same Calypso singer (Sir Lancelot) and the same zombie (Darby Jones). Of course, it adds RKO’s unaskedfor answer to Abbott and Costello (Brown and Carney), Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist and, for good measure, a troublesome capuchin monkey. Whether you consider those last two a bad thing is up to you, but they have little in common with the tone of original.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen I Walked with a Zombie and Zombies on Broadway Thursday, Aug. 14, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Community Screenings ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SA (8/16) & SU (8/17), 2pm - Episodes nine and 10 of Ken Burns' Jazz series. Admission fees apply.

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• WE (8/13), 3pm - Singing in the Rain.

• TH (8/21), 6pm - Film historian Chip Kaufmann hosts a screening of four short silent movie comedies.

• WE (8/20), 3pm - Meet Me In St. Louis.

The Red Balloon HHHH Director: Albert Lamorisse Players: Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov, Paul Perley FANTASY Rated NR I confess that the charms of The Red Balloon (1956) wore rather thin for me a very long time ago (and the idea that this 34-minute film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay has always struck me as ridiculous), but this (mostly) gentle fantasy about a little boy (Pascal Lamorisse, the director’s son) who is befriended by a balloon is a great favorite with many people. If you’ve never seen it, you should at least once.

Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Red Balloon Friday, Aug. 15, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com.

Four Men and a Prayer HHHH Director: John Ford Players: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith, William Henry, Alan Hale, Berton Churchill MYSTERY ROMANCE Rated NR A minor — and rarely revived — John Ford film, Four Men and a Prayer (1938) is little more than a studio assignment picture, but it’s interesting to see just how personal Ford makes aspects of it. He brings terrific artistry and craftsmanship to what is really a fairly silly globe-trotting romantic mystery that functions mostly as a Loretta Young vehicle and showcase for new Fox star Richard Greene. It’s certainly no classic, but it’s great fun — and a nice example of Ford’s professionalism. Think of it as a kind of vacation before Ford got down to Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln and Drums Along the Mohawk the following year.

The Asheville Film Society will screen Four Men and a Prayer Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Flesh and Fantasy HHHH Director: Julien Duvivier Players: Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dame May Whitty, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Cummings, Betty Field FANTASY DRAMA Rated NR Though shorn of what preview audiences said was its best sequence (Universal clumsily expanded it to a separate feature called Destiny), Julien Duvivier’s Flesh and Fantasy (1943) — a follow-up to his 1942 portmanteau film, Tales of Manhattan — still has much to recommend it. The fact that this was made at Universal means this is neither as elaborate or star-studded as Fox’s Tales of Manhattan, but since Flesh and Fantasy has fantastic elements, it was probably a better fit for Universal. The segments are uneven — the curse of the portmanteau format — but each of the three has merit, and the central one with Edward G. Robinson is a standout.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Flesh and Fantasy Sunday, Aug. 17, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Fargo HHHHS Director: Joel and Ethan Coen Players: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kirstin Rudrüd, Harve Presnell NEO-NOIR BLACK COMEDY THRILLER Rated R This is one of those few Coen Brothers films that I just don’t quite get the fuss over. I have no problem with the pitch-black comedy, and I don’t especially mind the film’s downright cruelty. But the lack of even one character — other than Frances McDormand’s Marge (who doesn’t enter the film until about the 30-minute mark) — to give a damn about leaves me (at least) with a film that I don’t give a damn about. Everybody in the movie is both unpleasant and remarkably stupid. I would never say it’s bad, and I’d certainly never try to dissuade anyone from loving it, but I can’t claim to be an admirer.

Wedge Brewery will show Fargo on Sat., Aug. 16. Films start 15 minutes after sundown. They are shown outside. Pack a folding chair or a blanket. El Kimchi has Mexican/Korean street food for purchase.

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NC DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES The Cooperative Grading Service is recruiting seasonal apple graders (Laborers and General Utility workers) in Henderson County. Position will be temporary, full time during harvest season (August – October). Laborer-education and/or experience in manual work that is directly related, normal color vision, basic math and computer skills with a hourly rate of $9.36. General Utility WorkerEducation and/or experience in the performance of a variety of manual tasks, normal color vision, basic math and computer skills with a hourly rate of $9.61. Training provided, mileage paid. A PD-107 (NC State application) is required. EOE. For more information call (828) 253-1691, Ext. 31.

NYPRO ASHEVILLE IS HIRING! Nypro Healthcare is a Jabil Company and the leading global provider of precision plastics injection molding, design and engineering services. Nypro delivers the innovation, expertise and peace of mind that helps our customers build products that sustain or improve people's lives. Nypro Asheville is seeking professional and entry level positions.

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ADMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE HUMAN RESOURCES AND OFFICE ASSISTANT JOB OPENING Four Circles Recovery Center, a wilderness substance abuse recovery program for young adults, is seeking a Human Resources

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Open until filled. EOE & DFWP. AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Staff Psychiatrist Meridian Behavioral Health Services is a nonprofit provider of community mental health services serving nine counties in Western North Carolina. We have an opening for a Psychiatrist providing outpatient care for adults. Our primary office locations are in Waynesville, Sylva, Franklin and Brevard.

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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. Mecklenburg County Recovery Hub Director This position is ideally suited for an extroverted, enthusiastic,

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of Study), and 4. Has been employed in any capacity in the past One part-time Employment Peer Mentor (EPM) will be working in and west of Jackson and Macon counties, the other part-time EPM will be working in and east of Haywood County. As a EPM you will be assisting adults with mental health (MH) and/or substance use (SA) issues, for whom employment has not been achieved and/or has been interrupted or intermittent. The Supported Employment program is a person-centered, individualized, evidence-based service that provides assistance with choosing, acquiring, and maintaining competitive paid employment in the community. For more information contact Reid Smithdeal, reid.smithdeal@meridianbhs.org For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

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SEEKING A LICENSED AFL PROVIDER For a 16 y/o male client. Must be able to pass agency requirements: High School Diploma or GED with test scores, valid - DL, auto registration, and auto insurance, background check, CPR/FA training (provided), ability to physically assist individual, and home inspections. If interested please contact Megan Halperin at 828-692-9600. Also looking for staff to provide services to persons(s) with Intellectual and/ or Developmental Disabilities.

Weekends are a MUST. Training, supervision, and benefits available. Evidence of high school graduation is required. Find application at www.turningpointDIRECT CARE WORKER servicesinc.com; specify HenderDirect care worker to shadow sonville as the location. individual with special needs while volunteering in the com- SEEKING SUBSTANCE ABUSE munity. Call (828) 272-9759 or COUNSELOR Established Counjhall81088@msn.com Family- seling Center seeking licensed Tree Alternative Family Ser- therapist looking to establish private practice. Must have CSAC or vices.

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by Rob Brezny

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) When we’re launching any big project, our minds hide from us the full truth about how hard it will be. If we knew beforehand all of the tests we’d eventually face, we might never attempt it. Economist Albert O. Hirschman called this the principle of the “hiding hand.” It frees us to dive innocently into challenging work that will probably take longer than we thought and compel us to access new resources and creativity. To be clear: What’s hidden from us are not only the obstacles but also the unexpected assistance we will get along the way.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) Researchers in Peru have recently tracked down many previously unknown varieties of wild cacao plants. What that means is that there are exotic kinds of chocolate that you and I have never dreamed of, and they will be commercially available within a few years. As delicious as your Chocolove XOXOX Extra Strong Dark candy bar may taste to you now, you will eventually journey further into a new frontier of ecstatic delectability. I propose that we use this theme as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you right now. It’s time for you to make good things even better — to take fun diversions and transform them into experiences that engender transcendent bliss. Turn “yes” into “YESSSS!!!!”

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) At your next meal, imagine that the food you’re eating is filled with special nutrients that enhance your courage. During the meal after that, fantasize that you are ingesting ingredients that will boost your perceptiveness. The next time you snack, visualize your food as being infused with elements that will augment the amount of trust you have in yourself. Then you’ll be ready to carry out your assignment for the coming weeks: Use your imagination to pump up your courage and perceptiveness as you carry out smart adventures that you haven’t trusted yourself enough to try before now.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) The leaves and berries of the deadly nightshade plant are highly poisonous.

If ingested, they cause delirium and death. On the other hand, a drug obtained from the same plant is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. It’s helpful in treating many illnesses, from gastrointestinal and heart problems to Parkinson’s. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your life, Gemini?

An influence that can be either sickening or healing, depending on various factors? I suspect that now is one of those times when you should be very focused on ensuring that the healing effect predominates.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) A New York doctor offers a service he calls Pokertox. Jack Berdy injects Botox into poker players’ faces so as to make their expressions hard to read. With their facial muscles paralyzed, they’re in no danger of betraying subtle emotional signals that might help their opponents guess their strategy. I understand that there might sometimes be value in adopting a poker face when you’re trying to win at poker or other games.

But for the foreseeable future, Cancerian, I recommend the opposite approach. You’re most likely to be successful if you reveal everything you’re feeling. Let your face and eyes be as eloquent as they can.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) The Swedish word smultronställe literally means “wild strawberry patch.”

Metaphorically, it refers to a special place that feels like your private sanctuary. It may be hard to find or unappreciated by others, but for you it’s a place that inspires you to deeply relax. Perhaps you had a life-changing epiphany there; in any case, when you’re in this refuge, you get a taste of what it’s like to feel at home in the world. Do you have a smultronställe, Virgo?

If not, it’s time to find one. If you already do, spend extra time there in the coming week.

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LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, the bells are about to ring for you.

The festive lights will flash. The celebratory anthems will throb. It’s like you’re going to win a fortune on a TV quiz show; like you will get an A+ on your final exam; like you’ll be picked as homecoming king or queen. But it’s possible I’m a bit off in my projections, and your success will be subtler than I anticipate. Maybe, in fact, you are about to accomplish the Healing of the Year, or discover the Secret of the Decade, or enjoy the Most Meaningful Orgasm of the Century.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) A teenage Pakistani boy decided he wanted to help his country’s government clean up the local Internet. Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah gathered a list of over 780,000 porn sites and sent it to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Big job!

Hard work! I would love to see you summon similar levels of passion and diligence as you work on behalf of your favorite cause, Scorpio. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to get very excited about the changes you’d like to help create in the world.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) Working as a journalist for the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Simon Eroro wanted to interview a group of indigenous rebels in a remote jungle. He decided he was willing to do whatever was necessary to get the big scoop.

After making a difficult journey through rough terrain to reach them, he was told he would be given the information that he sought on one condition: that he be circumcised with bamboo sticks as part of a cleansing ritual. Eroro agreed to the procedure, got the story, and ultimately won a prize for his report. I don’t recommend that you go quite that far in pursuit of your current goal, Sagittarius. On the other hand, it might be wise for you to consider making a sacrifice.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Kintsukuroi is a Japanese word that literally means “golden repair.” It refers to the practice of fixing cracked pottery with lacquer that’s blended with actual gold or silver. Metaphorically, it suggests that something may become more beautiful and valuable after being broken. The wounds and the healing of the wounds are integral parts of the story, not shameful distortions to be disguised or hidden. Does any of that resonate with you about your current experience, Capricorn? I’m guessing it does. Let’s call this the kintsukuroi phase of your cycle.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) Near the end of his career, the painter Henri Matisse created a paper-cut composition he called “Le Bateau” (“The Boat”). It’s an abstract piece that doesn’t depict a literal boat, so perhaps New Yor’s Museum of Modern Art should be forgiven for mistakenly hanging it upside down back in 1961, upon first acquiring the piece. Fortunately, after a month and a half, a knowledgeable person noticed, and the error was corrected. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable phenomenon going on with you right now, Aquarius? Is it possible that a part of your life got inverted or transposed? If so, will you be sharp enough to spot the goof and brave enough to fix it? I hope you won’t allow this situation to persist.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice,” said British author G.K. Chesterton, “and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” I’m going to endorse that approach for you, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, I don’t think anyone can possibly give you accurate counsel in the coming weeks. Your circumstances are too unique and your dilemmas too idiosyncratic for even the experts to understand, let alone the folks who care for you and think they own a piece of you. I do suspect that it might be useful for you to hear what everyone has to say about your situation, though. Seeing their mistaken or uninformed perspectives should help you get clarity about what’s right.

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and distinctive identity foremost through the media via verbal, written and electronic communications. Please review the full job description including qualifications and responsibilities at: http:// www.acf.org/Workforus.php • Apply with a cover letter, resume, and portfolio samples to ruth@acf.org or mail your materials to The American Chestnut Foundation, 50 North Merrimon Ave., Suite 115, Asheville, NC 28804.

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) seeks to hire a full-time Development Coordinator to support the Vice President/Operations and the Development Director in various fundraising campaigns, board and administrative activities of the organization. Please review the full job description including qualifications and responsibilities at: http://www.acf.org/ Workforus.php. Apply with resume and cover letter to: Laura Schnitzlein, Director of Development, 50 North Merrimon Ave., Suite 115, Asheville NC 28804 or email: lauras@acf.org YWCA DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST The Development Specialist works to coordinate the planning and implementation of the overall annual fundraising plan, including all events, mailings, and other donor contacts required for sustainable resource development. The position is fulltime, year-round, benefits eligible and exempt. 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.

Minorities are encouraged to apply. Qualified candidates who are fluent in Spanish and English are strongly encouraged to apply. Bachelors degree or higher is required.

Knowledge of the Benevon model of fundraising a plus.

See our website at ywcaofasheville.org for the complete job description. Please do not call the YWCA to discuss this position. Application deadline: August 18, 2014 Send resume and cover letter to humanresources@ywcaofasheville.org.

TEACHING/ EDUCATION AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM ASSOCIATE- IN REAL LIFE Asheville City Schools Foundation seeks part-time Program Associate for In Real Life, after-school program at Asheville Middle School. Start September 10, 2014. Resume and cover letter angel@acsf. org by August 18.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE? Come join our team where you can have a positive, lasting impact on youth from across the country. Our programs are steadily growing and we continue to seek qualified applicants to join our programs. Experienced Spanish Teachers, teaching license required. Classroom, Special Education or therapeutic experience a strong plus, but not required. This position is an Hourly, Tutoring position.

Our beautiful 24-acre campus provides a safe setting for our students to transform their lives. Asheville Academy for Girls is a residential treatment center for girls ages 10-14 and Solstice East is a residential treatment center

for girls ages 14-18. Check out our websites for more information: http://www. ashevilleacademy.com and http://www.solsticeeast.com • Please send a resume and cover letter to the link above.

Asheville Academy for Girls and Solstice East are both Equal Opportunity Employers. No phone calls or walkins please.

PART TIME SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER Part Time Special Education TeacherFor grades 6-12. Licensed in NC in a core subject area Math, English, Science, or Social Studies. Contact Noah Kalos, 828-452-1300 and send resume to aspireapplicants@ yahoo.com TUTOR/THERAPIST Individual training for ASD son employing specific academic, behavioral goals. 20+ hours over 3+ days weekly. Competitive pay. Flexible hours between 9-6 in east Asheville home. wjoa.baltz@earthlink. net

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES $1,000 WEEKLY!! MAILING BROCHURES From Home.

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ARTS/MEDIA ARTIST'S MODEL NEEDED (FEMALE) Female artist's model needed for 60-120 minute sittings. Must be lean and fit and at least 5' 4". Pay scale varies with experience.

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36 Only non-U.S. M.L.B. team, on scoreboards 37 Oldest continuous democracy in Central America 40 Say further 43 Words from class clowns 47 Sisterly 50 Landscapist’s prop 51 Where to find money exchange shops 55 Before now 56 Pitchers?

57 Title for a French nobleman 59 “Kidnapped” monogram 60 Like the Oscars … or the answers to this puzzle’s seven italicized clues?

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