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PAGE 8 MAN OF MYSTERY With Asheville City Council scheduled to announce its finalists for a permanent city manager this week, Xpress reflects on the mixed legacy of longserving former City Manager Gary Jackson.

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Brown will help middleand lower-class families Like more than 50 others, I was refused entry to the town hall meeting of Rep. Patrick McHenry [10th Congressional District] on Wednesday, Aug. 1, due to the deliberately poor planning of McHenry’s team. This letter is directed for him as well as my fellow District 10 residents.

By way of background, I have a child in elementary school who wants to be a dentist. Her education will cost well over $100,000, and the cost of establishing a practice often surpasses $250,000.

Tuition rates never stop rising, and they’re outpacing inflation. That burden is too large for her to take on by herself or for us to fund.

We would like to save for her, but GOP budgets force us to take a hard look at our future. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which McHenry supported, will force Social Security to significantly reduce benefits, by more than 20 percent, in 2034 with cuts to Medicare required even sooner. The proposed House GOP 2019 budget shortens that timeline for cuts. Accordingly, we can’t count on Social Security and Medicare, the systems we’re paying into right now, to pay out for us. This forces us to choose between saving for our own retirement and saving for our child’s education.

We need a twofold approach to this disaster. [McHenry’s] opponent, David Wilson Brown, has committed to work-

ing for debt-free college education.

Brown also committed to keeping Social Security and Medicare intact. Each of Brown’s proposals will put middle- and lower-class families in significantly better positions than they are now. Will you, my current representative, commit to doing the same? If not, I hope that others in my situation will reach the same conclusion I have, which is that we must show up at the polls on Nov. 6 to vote for David Wilson Brown.

Disappointed in Buncombe County,

― Rebecca Crandall

Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted Rep. McHenry’s Washington office about the letter writer’s complaint about his recent town hall meeting at the Riceville Community Center, and we received the following response from his spokesman, Jeff Butler: “Since he was first elected, Congressman McHenry has committed to holding annual town hall meetings for each county in his district, and after holding six this year, he’s now hosted over 100 town hall meetings during his tenure.

The congressman and his staff make every effort to hold these town hall meetings at times and locations that are convenient for his constituents to attend. At the specific town hall meeting the writer references, Congressman McHenry took questions for nearly two and a half hours.

While some attendees were initially not allowed in due to the building being at its capacity under the fire code, all those who remained in line were ultimately able to enter and participate.”

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An inconsiderate protest My girlfriend and I were enjoying some time together at a nice restaurant in Biltmore Village when we (and everyone else) heard yelling in another room. I assumed it was someone making a toast who had had a little too much wine, but it turned out to be animal rights protesters. I became incredulous and frankly pissed amid repeated shouts of “Animals are not food!” It was obnoxious and inconsiderate.

I’ve lived here a long time and I have opinions, too, but I don’t go beating people over the head with them. It just seems there’s a better, more respectful way to get one’s thoughts across than harassing patrons when they’re trying to enjoy a rare night out. It’s quite possible some of them weren’t even eating meat! But do they really think the old guy over there with the trout’s gonna go, “Hey — wait a minute, they’re right — what am I doing?!?”

What if I went to a theater when these people were there and kept yelling, “Actors make too much money” over and over during the movie? Do we now need security guards at fine dining establishments? I swear to God, the left wing is getting just as intolerant as the right these days.

By the way, the paella was great.

— Chris Carter

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Airport parking is highway robbery I agree with Jim Meiring’s comments on airport signage [“Thumbs-down on Airport Parking Signage,” July 18, Xpress]. We paid $220 for 10 days of parking because the long-term lot was full. When we complained to the person taking (robbing us) of our money, he said there were large signs saying to use the covered parking, and he also was condescending about it.

It’s bad enough that traveling by air is not so much fun anymore, but to add insult to injury, parking is highway robbery. When is the long-term lot ever open anyway? The last three times (since the garage was built), it’s never available. We are flying out of Asheville in December and won’t park there. We will stay overnight in a hotel where we can leave our car for free and get a restful good night’s sleep out of it.

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Editor’s note: Xpress contacted the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority with a summary of the letter writer’s points and received the following response from Tina Kinsey, director of marketing, public relations and air service development: “AVL is the second-fastest growing airport in the country. We have been responding to this growth in many ways, including constructing the new five-story parking garage. We understand that passengers may prefer one parking option over another; however, it is impossible to guarantee availability. It is true that the Long-term Lot has been full many times this summer, and passengers must choose another option (Shortterm or Garage). We post pricing for all parking areas at the gated entrances, and we include an alert on our website that the Long-term Lot can fill quickly. Coming soon is an automated car-counting system that will communicate in real time the available spaces in each of our parking lots and garage.

We will also continue to promote courteous, helpful service. We thank our community for flying local and for their patience as we continue to respond to unprecedented growth.”

Kinsey also notes that more info on airport parking can be found at avl.mx/588.

A reminder of immigrant children’s plight Cathy Holt speaks my mind in her excellent letter regarding the appalling policy of forced separation of immigrant children from family [“Melt the ICE!” Aug. 8, Xpress].

Thank you for not letting us forget this ongoing and horrific violation of these most vulnerable persons detained in for-profit concentration camps. So glad to learn of the “Grannies Respond” movement.

— Clare Hanrahan

Asheville

CORRECTION In the 8/8 article “Nothing but renewable,” Ken Brame should have been reported as saying the city of Asheville had already made a number of energy conservation efforts. Brame also clarifies that the Sierra Club of Western North Carolina supports Asheville’s electric bus purchase but hopes the city includes all energy in its 100 percent renewable goal. X

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Former City Manager Gary Jackson leaves mixed legacy

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com The landscaping in front of the brick ranch house in East Asheville is impeccably maintained. Not a blade of grass creeps over the edge of the lawn onto the double-wide driveway, the bushes betray no twig out of place, and a strategically placed cluster of day lilies provides a subtle orange pop against the healthy backdrop of green.

The owner of this home, former Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson, projected his own fastidious image during his nearly 13 years as city government’s top employee: a smiling, clean-cut professional with well-fitting suits and a trademark gray chevron mustache. When he announced his retirement on Feb. 13, he received a standing ovation from City Council, and Mayor Esther Manheimer praised the “grace and integrity” of his service.

But on this day, no one responds to a knock on the ranch’s front door — and Jackson, who’d planned to leave his job at the end of the year, was unanimously fired by Council on March 20. In a press release titled “Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson Leaves Position,” Council wrote, “We believe that making this change now is in the city and his best interests.”

While the release provided no further details about the rationale behind Jackson’s dismissal, the move was thought to result from community anger over his handling of a police beating scandal. On Feb. 28, the Asheville Citizen-Times released a video showing former Asheville Police Department officer Chris Hickman, who is white, beating black Asheville resident Johnnie Jermaine Rush during a stop for alleged jaywalking.

The incident took place in August of last year, but both Council members and Jackson himself have said they weren’t aware of the beating until the video leak.

The city is now seeking Jackson’s permanent successor. According to the published timeline, finalists are supposed to be selected the “week of Aug. 20,” with interviews to follow early next month and the successful candidate to be announced Thursday, Sept. 20.

The new hire would then take over from interim City Manager Cathy Ball sometime in October or November.

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TIGHT-LIPPED SERVICE: Former Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson announced his retirement to a standing ovation from City Council before being unanimously fired by the same body; he did not respond to requests to speak about his tenure. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville tably color the tenure of the next person to hold the post. And as Asheville gears up to begin a new chapter in its administration, what lessons, if any, can we learn from his time as city manager?

INTO THE FRAY About a year before he first arrived in Asheville, Jackson had found himself at the center of a different controversy. In August 2004, he resigned from his previous job as city manager of Fort Worth, Texas, in the wake of public criticism about trash collection services and a lukewarm job review by elected officials.

At the time, the Plainview Daily Herald reported that some city leaders “perceived a lack of leadership, vision and trust” in Jackson’s performance.

According to contemporary accounts from the Citizen-Times, the Asheville City Council members who hired Jackson in 2005 were aware of those issues but didn’t consider them a dealbreaker. “We understood the circumstances, and we’re very comfortable with that,” then-Mayor Charles Worley said as he announced Council’s unani-

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mous decision to tap Jackson for the city’s top administrative job.

The details of Council’s deliberations concerning Jackson, however, are unclear. Although the closed sessions in which his hiring was discussed took place over 13 years ago and also involved several other candidates, city staff denied multiple requests for minutes of those meetings, citing privacy requirements. State law prohibits the sharing of most personnel records, but it makes an exception when the information is “essential to maintaining public confidence in the administration of city services.” On that basis, the city did release information about the Hickman-Rush incident.

Repeated emails to Worley and former Council members Terry Bellamy (who also served as mayor from 2005 through 2013) and Brownie Newman (who’s now chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners) received no response, and former Council member Holly Jones declined to comment.

Carl Mumpower, who was vice mayor at the time of Jackson’s hiring and currently chairs the Buncombe County Republican Party, remembers

that the decision did not come easily.

“I believe a majority of the Council’s members were seeking a manager who reflected their political persuasion and that they could manipulate to their special interests,” he says. “I did not see that as a healthy filter for hiring a city manager.”

Although Mumpower acknowledges that his more progressive colleagues’ enthusiasm for hiring Jackson “raised red flags,” he ultimately joined them in unanimously voting to confirm the new hire. “I found him to be accessible, professional, rational and helpful,” notes Mumpower, adding that he believed Jackson largely understood the importance of objective and independent city management.

But Jan Davis, a former Council member and vice mayor, says Mumpower’s memory of the process “sounds much more hostile than it really was.” Instead, Davis explains, Council was seeking a candidate with the big-city experience needed to handle Asheville’s burgeoning development and the savvy to navigate the complex legal issues surrounding the city’s water system.

“Gary was overwhelmingly the choice,” Davis says. “We liked Gary’s history with where he had come from and the huge issues that we had on the table. Development had really started flourishing at that time, and we were trying to do some innovative things, more urban-type development with less sprawl.”

DOWN TO BUSINESS The runner-up in that personnel search, Jeff Richardson, served as Jackson’s deputy city manager from 2005-13. Now working as the county executive for Albemarle County in Virginia, Richardson says he learned a great deal from the way his boss tackled Asheville’s unique challenges.

Jackson, he maintains, “understood the dynamic stress that goes with highgrowth communities who are also trying to protect high quality of life, and he navigated that quite well. The community demands an unbelievable amount from the staff and the city, and that starts at the city manager.”

Drawing on his experience in Fort Worth and other cities, Richardson recalls, Jackson could quickly generate creative options for Asheville to consider. One approach taken directly

from Texas was a “one-stop shop” redesign of the city’s permitting process, which brought many different functions under a single roof to better serve developers and commercial property owners. Jackson also emphasized continual improvement in performance metrics such as permit volume and turnaround time for applications.

Davis agrees with this assessment, citing Jackson’s innovative approach to funding water system improvements and other necessary maintenance in the face of a hostile state legislature and a nationwide economic meltdown.

“Things were against us: The ability to annex went away, and the economy started failing throughout the country,” notes Davis. “He was able to lead us well through that. That’s one of his greatest legacies.”

Some of those issues, of course, are still very much present, and the next city manager will undoubtedly confront them as well.

Richardson, meanwhile, says he was also inspired by Jackson’s unconventional use of staff to gain broader perspectives on the city’s problems.

One longtime emergency dispatcher, for example, found herself tapped by Jackson to handle administration and

staff logistics in the high-stress City Manager’s Office.

Employees’ professional growth, notes Richardson, “doesn’t just occur going up and down the hierarchy; growth sometimes can occur by moving into areas that you’ve not been allowed to work in before.” Jackson, he points out, “was trying to build what I would call the organization’s ability to move horizontally.”

A GOOD WORD? In contrast with these accolades, however, praise from city officials and staff who worked with Jackson more recently has proved to be considerably harder to come by. In a representative response to Xpress’ many interview requests, former Council member Gordon Smith, who served alongside Jackson from 2009-17, said, “I think I’ll let others do the talking on this.”

Ball, who’s worked in city government since 1997 and was one of Jackson’s assistant city managers at the time of his firing, emailed through her assistant that she would “respectfully decline” to be interviewed. Jackson’s other assistant manager, Jade Dundas

— who was demoted to capital projects director in the wake of the Rush beating scandal — said police Chief Tammy Hooper had told him about the incident days after it occurred, but that he didn’t share the information with his superior.

In a June 15 email to Xpress, Dundas said, “Information related to Mr. Jackson’s employment and accomplishments with the city would be best represented by City Council, as they were responsible for evaluating his performance and effectiveness.”

Interim Assistant City Manager Scott Burnette, whom Jackson had promoted to fire chief in 2009, also referred questions to Council members, as did Chief Financial Officer Barbara Whitehorn, who’d prepared the city’s budgets for Jackson’s approval since 2013.

When contacted for an interview, however, Council member Julie Mayfield wrote: “I really can’t see any upside to any of us talking about Gary at this point, so I’m going to decline.

Sorry.” Members Keith Young and Brian Haynes did not respond to multiple requests for comment. (Xpress did not reach out to Vijay Kapoor or Sheneika Smith due to their limited time serving with Jackson.)

Current Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler, who was first elected to City Council in 2013, was more willing to express her thoughts on Jackson’s approach to his role. “I think he brought a professionalism and consistency across departments. I think that was a big cultural addition that he added to the organization,” she said. She also touted Asheville’s upgrade to a AAA bond rating and voter approval of a $74 million bond issue in 2016, both of which occurred during Jackson’s tenure.

In response to questions from Xpress, Mayor Manheimer offered a statement with similar themes. “In the over eight years I worked with Gary Jackson (as a Council member and mayor), I learned a lot about the management and the running of a city. Gary carefully balanced the ebb and flow of a changing City Council (every two years) while maintaining the strong fiscal health of the city and a commitment to continuing to improve core city services.

“The job of a city manager is challenging, to say the least,” Manheimer continued. “It’s both political and technical, yet you’ve got to stay out of the

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NEWS politics, and Gary did that well: He focused on the technical. Any potential city manager for the city of Asheville knows that she or he has big shoes to fill, but she or he will also inherit a house well-kept.”

And he’s stirring his eggs: ‘Yeah, you could take it that way.’” The Aloft project, Minicozzi maintains, “could’ve been so much better, but I wasn’t allowed to be in those meetings with the city.”

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That praise, however, doesn’t seem to mesh with Council’s unanimous decision to fire Jackson in March.

Neither Manheimer nor Wisler offered comment on the specific rationale behind that move, but former Council member Cecil Bothwell, who served from 2009-17, says three of his former colleagues confirmed to him that they’d fired the city manager over the Hickman-Rush incident. Although he chooses not to name those current Council members, Bothwell says he strongly disagrees with the decision of the body as a whole.

“Jackson’s firing was a real slap in the face, and while Council members I’ve questioned flatly deny it, I think he was an easy target because he’d already announced his pending retirement,” Bothwell points out. “Council felt a need to mollify constituents upset about the police beating of an innocent black jaywalker: Jackson was their sacrificial lamb.”

Bothwell also says he spoke with Jackson over breakfast several weeks after his firing. At that time, Jackson reasserted that he hadn’t known about the beating until the video was leaked. “I believe him,” says Bothwell. “There’s no need for him to know, as long as it was all being handled correctly.”

Because Chief Hooper reported to Dundas, not Jackson, under the city’s management structure at the time, Bothwell maintains that Jackson should bear no responsibility for the incident. He also praises Hooper for following procedures and properly investigating Hickman’s actions instead of rashly firing the officer.

“The cop did something wrong, and then the chief did something right, and Gary got blamed for not telling the Council?” says Bothwell. “The only reason Council cares is because it became a hot political issue, not that it was handled wrong.”

Xpress was unable to ask Jackson for a response to those allegations — or, for that matter, to speak with him at all about his time in Asheville. Under the terms of his employment contract, the city is still paying Jackson’s salary; those payments, which will continue through September, will total nearly $98,000. Nonetheless, city communications specialist Polly McDaniel declined to provide his current contact information. Calls to the phone number on file for Jackson went directly to a full voice mailbox.

A letter left wedged in the screen door at Jackson’s home on Aug. 1 also received no response. “We wanted to give you the chance to speak on your own behalf about your time as city manager, to explain your approach and discuss your dismissal earlier this year,” it read, adding, “The only one who’s missing from the story is you.”

That may be debatable, given the reluctance of so many current and former city officials to discuss either Jackson’s firing or his legacy. And although there’s been no hint of corruption in city government during this period, transparency in city operations seems all the more critical in light of the corruption scandal that’s currently playing out in connection with former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene and others.

Corruption aside, we do know that Hickman, who resigned in January, was arrested in March on a state felony charge of assault by strangulation, plus misdemeanor counts of assault and communicating threats. Those charges are still pending, with a plea hearing set for Oct. 1. And on Aug. 3, the city reached a $650,000 settlement with Rush. Meanwhile, Jackson’s house is for sale, and it’s unclear what his future plans might be.

Thus, it appears that any final assessment of this chapter in Asheville’s recent history and what it means for the future will have to wait.

In the meantime, we’re left with an ambiguous amalgam of praise, criticism and silence that may serve as both an inspiration and a caution to whoever ends up becoming the next city manager. X

PLAYING POLITICS During less stressful times, however, Mumpower says he observed a different dynamic between Jackson and his supervisors on Council. “Some of his decisions seemed politically motivated, and I had the sense that he 10

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ZERO REASONS WHY: Asheville City Council did not provide a specific rationale for firing former City Manager Gary Jackson, saying only that the decision was “in the city and his best interests,” but many tie the move to Jackson’s handling of a police beating scandal. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville was sometimes successfully manipulated by certain Council and staff members,” Mumpower explains. And though he declines to mention names, Mumpower cites parking and transit as major areas where Jackson yielded to pressure.

Instead of maintaining former City Manager Jim Westbrook’s system of using parking fees to fund and expand downtown parking capacity, Mumpower argues, Jackson allowed Council to funnel those dollars into “pretentious and unaffordable” approaches to transit.

That change, he maintains, resulted in significant challenges for both parking and the bus system.

“Any responsible city manager would have recognized and identified the disastrous consequence of robbing the parking fund to pursue unsustainable transit initiatives in a city of our size, demographics and topography,” asserts Mumpower. “I’m confident Mr. Jackson understood this lack of realism, but he deferred effective managerial control of these functions to Council personalities with less talent and managerial savvy.”

Bothwell disagrees with that assessment. Jackson, he says, “knew that Council set policy, and he then followed through as best he could to make that policy happen.” Fulfilling the city’s commitment to improving transit, counters Bothwell, required Jackson to move money from the parking fund.

“It was the majority on Council, and [Mumpower] wasn’t part of it. He was never a happy camper.”

On the other hand, urban designer Joe Minicozzi of Asheville’s Urban3 consulting firm believes that Jackson was the one doing the manipulating. By

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allowing Council members to take the lead on special interest projects they lacked the capacity to handle, he claims, Jackson could then offer assistance that left those members indebted to him concerning future decisions.

“What qualifies Julie Mayfield to be handling I-26? What qualifies Gordon Smith to be solving affordable housing, which cities 20 times our size can’t seem to solve?” asks Minicozzi. Jackson, he posits, “gives them a little bit of rope, and they go out and they fail. Then he swoops in and writes a good press release or covers up for them, and by then, they’re wrapped around his pinkie.”

Bothwell, however, doesn’t buy that characterization of Jackson’s behavior.

Under his administration, says Bothwell, “I guess there were press releases about things that occurred, and I suppose they would’ve been about things that were perceived as successful, but I don’t see how he was getting [Council members] to eat out of his hand.”

Minicozzi also alleges that Jackson directly threatened his career. The reason, says Minicozzi, was his advocacy for Maxwell Street resident Reid Thompson in a long-running battle over tractor-trailer traffic serving Greenlife Grocery. And while working for Public Interest Projects on the private/public collaboration that led to the Aloft hotel and city parking garage on Biltmore Avenue, says Minicozzi, he met Jackson for breakfast at the Early Girl Eatery.

“Gary said to me, ‘When are you going to realize that your behavior is going to affect your career in this town?’”

Minicozzi recalls. “I just looked at him and I said, ‘Are you threatening me?’

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PLANTING TIME: Ecosia.org’s U.S. representative, Jacey Bingler, center, recently visited the company’s tree planting initiative in Indonesia. Bingler selected Asheville as her business base in the United States in part because the city’s culture aligns with the online search engine’s corporate commitment to environmental stewardship.

Photo by Julian Karl ONLINE SEARCH FIRM COMES TO ASHEVILLE Ecosia.org, a search engine that uses all of its profits to plant trees, has selected Asheville as the home base for its United States representative. Jacey Bingler recently relocated to Asheville from Berlin, where the company is headquartered, to serve as the search provider’s country manager for the U.S. According to Bingler, the company has financed the planting of nearly 35 million trees in “biodiversity hotspots worldwide.”

“We chose Asheville for its focus on sustainability, the proximity to some of the most beautiful and important forests in the country and the community’s love for outdoor activities,” Bingler says. Plus, the city’s growing status as a center of the emerging climate industry fit with Ecosia.org’s corporate culture and commitments. “Despite the fact that it’s not a very large city, there’s more going on in terms of social business, community engagement, outdoor activities, meetups and local brands and organizations supporting

environmental or social causes than I have experienced in bigger cities in the U.S.,” she says.

Ecosia.org became Germany’s first B-corp in 2014, and the company is legally bound to use its profits to restore the planet. “This is not reversible and means that our founder and CEO will never be able to take profits out of the company for anything else other than environmental restoration,” Bingler says. “From a business perspective, this is probably a bad idea; from an environmental point of view, this makes absolute sense for us.”

WNC BUSINESS HAPPENINGS • Skyterra Wellness, a small health retreat in Lake Toxaway, announced that it was voted Best Health & Wellness Resort in the country by readers at the USA TODAY 10Best website. The 20 nominees for Best Health & Wellness Resort were selected by a small panel of travel and wellness experts.

• Shelley’s Jewelry, which has operated on Hendersonville’s

Main Street since 1973, announced that the family-owned business will close, though Stan Shelley says he and his wife will continue to run Shelley and Son Books at 429 N. Main St., which does the majority of its business online.

• Morgan’s Comics, located at 600 Haywood Road in West Asheville, is the first womanowned comic book store in Western North Carolina, according to proprietor Morgan Albritton.

Albritton took over the business on July 12, and she plans to host a grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 8, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

• Jenna Stoll, Joshua Gonyeau, Matthew Neuenschwander, Meagan Witzleben and Vanda Dy have joined EXIT Realty Vistas.

• Asheville’s Aeroflow Healthcare acquired Med-Caire Inc.’s CPAP resupply program, which provides durable medical equipment throughout Connecticut.

Aeroflow Healthcare also distributes CPAP supplies in North and South Carolina.

• Park Ridge Health announced that its parent company, Adventist Health System, will change its name to AdventHealth. The name of Park Ridge Health will become AdventHealth Hendersonville on Jan. 2.

• Deborah Robertson, Asheville’s handmade bespoke shoemaker, won Honorable Mention at Footwear Symposium 2018 in Savannah, Ga. The gathering included shoemakers and boot makers from all over the U.S., as well as shoemakers from Australia and Ecuador. X

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Embattled county, city officials struggle to talk business Brownie Newman expected his first months leading Buncombe County government to include plenty of action on greenways and renewable energy.

But the universe — not to mention federal investigators — had other plans.

Since the launch of an investigation into alleged misuse of taxpayer funds a year ago, Newman said, “We have all learned in intricate detail, from the federal indictments, the alleged methods that [former County Manager Wanda Greene] used to appropriate taxpayer dollars for personal benefit.

And now three other former senior county staff have been indicted as well, along with a private contractor, all under very serious charges.”

Addressing a full house at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s 13th annual Elected Officials Reception on Aug. 16, Newman, who chairs the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, and other local politicians acknowledged that the pace of recent events has often pushed other issues to the side.

Asked what business-related concerns he’s addressed since taking his seat on Asheville City Council — which has been dealing with a scandal of its own following the February leak of police video that showed a white former Asheville police officer beating a black city resident — Vijay Kapoor said, “I have not had a conversation once in the eight months I’ve been on Council on business issues, and that’s a problem.”

‘NOT ON OUR RADAR’ “Honestly, my view right now is, there’s a lot of issues we’ve not been focused on,” Kapoor said of the city’s elected leadership. “Things like crime, things like roads, jobs, that because of other things we’ve been dealing with, they’re just not on our radar right now.

“I sort of feel that Council over the last couple of months has had their agenda driven by external events,” he said.

Kapoor identified the proposed sale of the nonprofit Mission Health to for-profit HCA Healthcare, increasing rates of violent crime, the city’s River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project and the need for coordination between city and county development standards as critical issues that Council needs to make time to address.

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demanded the Council’s attention, “there are core services that we provide that we need to be paying attention to, and if we don’t do that, we’re falling down on the job,” he said.

Gwen Wisler stuck to themes of unity and collaboration among all members of the community, including the public and private sectors and local, state and federal government. “Now is not the time for a circular firing squad. Now is a time to pull together,” she said.

Wisler, a member of Asheville’s City Council and its vice mayor, acknowledged the leadership vacuum at the top of both city and county governments.

Buncombe County’s most recent county manager, Mandy Stone, resigned after a year in the position and shortly before she became one of the subjects of the latest federal indictment, while Gary Jackson, the city’s former manager (see “Man of Mystery,” page 8), was fired in March in the wake of the police beating scandal.

“It’s embarrassing to all of us, even though I wasn’t around,” said Commissioner Al Whitesides, who was appointed to a two-year term in 2016 after Newman assumed the chair, leaving his District 1 spot vacant.

Whitesides is unopposed in his 2018 bid for re-election. “But once you sit in the seat, you get the good and the bad.”

Both Newman and Whitesides expressed regret for the impact of the embezzlement and kickback allegations on county staff morale. “I hear [employees] saying they don’t even wear their name badge outside the building where they work, because they don’t want people to know that they work for the county,” Whitesides said.

Commissioners “take responsibility for what’s happened,” Newman said. “We are also very focused on doing everything in our power to recoup taxpayer dollars that have been misappropriated. … We expect Buncombe County taxpayers to be made fully whole.”

At the same time, Newman continued, the county is working to deliver core services and leadership on key issues, including greenways, transportation, renewable energy, addressing the opioid abuse crisis, affordable housing and support for local small businesses.

Though he says the federal investigation and indictments have been “a distraction,” Whitesides pointed to the county’s positive financial condition, noting that it closed the 2018 fiscal year on June 30 with a strong fund balance and has maintained its AAA bond rating with both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.

Good things can come from bad situations, Whitesides continued. To deal with the crisis, commissioners have had to work closely with one another.

“Parties don’t come into play,” he said.

Still, Whitesides doubts the county has seen the last of the uncomfortable revelations. “I was hoping it would be over by now, but now that they’re digging, this will be around for a while, I’m afraid,” he said.

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‘ASHEVILLE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS’

Newman acknowledged the county corruption scandal’s corrosive effect on public confidence: “As a person who has spent the past 15 years involved in Buncombe government in our community, I hate the damage that we know that this is doing to people’s trust in Buncombe government.”

Eleventh District U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican, was on hand for the reception but had little to say to the group as a whole. Asked by the chamber’s Corey Atkins to address the gathering, Meadows said, “Good evening. I love the chamber. Asheville is open for business. God bless you.”

NOSTRA CULPA: Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair Brownie Newman accepted responsibility on behalf of the board for the actions of former county employees who are now the subject of multiple federal indictments for misuse of taxpayer funds. Photo by Virginia Daffron

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Meadows did spend over an hour rubbing elbows with attendees and responded to an invitation to tour Asheville’s rooftop bars, offered by tour operator Kaye Bentley, saying, “I will. As long as I don’t have a chilling effect on your business, I’ll be glad to,” an apparent reference to Meadows’ unpopularity with local Democrats.

His focus, Meadows said, is on “trying to make sure there’s no federal barriers so that [local business owners] can make a profit.” Asked whether tariffs are among the federal barriers he’s trying to remove, Meadows said, “We’re working with the president on that.

I’m not a big tariff fan, as you know. I think that this is a very short-term pain for something that will ultimately have long-term gain.”

The tariffs with the biggest potential to hurt local businesses, Meadows said, are those on aluminum and steel (see “Call of duties,” Aug. 15, Xpress).

He predicted the tariff issue will be resolved in the next 90-120 days.

According to recent local polling undertaken for his 2018 campaign, local constituents aren’t terribly concerned about the region’s economy, said Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson.

What seems to be on the minds of those on both sides of the political spectrum, McGrady said, is immigration. In the business context, some worry that too much immigration threatens jobs for those already living and working here, while farmers have a “different perspective,” he said.

Each growing season, North Carolina is home to an estimated 80,000 migrant farmworkers to address a severe and growing shortage of domestic workers willing to work in the fields, although that number could be much higher. (see “Field medicine,” July 11, Xpress).

McGrady concluded, “We’re playing with fire when we get into the tariff issues out there. Can I affect that?

Not really.”

In addition to those mentioned above, other elected officials in attendance included Sen. Terry Van Duyn, D-Buncombe; Rep. John Ager, D-Buncombe; Rep. Brian Turner, D-Buncombe; Rep. Mike Clampitt, R-Haywood, Jackson, Swain; Rep. Josh Dobson, R-Avery, McDowell, Mitchell; Julie Mayfield, Asheville City Council; Andrew Nagle, Weaverville Town Council; Mayor Zeb Smathers of Canton; and Mayor Jerry VeHaun of Woodfin.

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Homestay short-term renters push for looser kitchen definition At the end of the Aug. 13 Planning & Economic Development Committee meeting, Council member and committee Chair Julie Mayfield offered some culinary advice to an angry crowd of roughly 80 people who had gathered in the U.S. Cellular Center banquet hall. “Honey works better than vinegar,” she remarked. “You can yell at us all day long if you want to; I’m going to suggest it’s not a particularly effective method of advocacy.”

The meeting’s attendees, the majority of whom seemed to be engaged in operating a homestay in the city, had been venting their frustration over the city’s definition of a kitchen, which many said had created unnecessary barriers to the use of their properties. Under a January amendment to city zoning regulations, any room or suite containing a kitchen may not be used as a guest room; this change was meant to keep such spaces in the city’s long-term housing supply.

According to the current definition, any area “used or designed to be used for the preparation or cooking of food” and containing “a sink less than 18 inches in depth with a waste line drain 1½ inches or greater in diameter” is classified as a kitchen. But homestay operators said the rule was unrealistic and had caused conflict with city staff over enforcement, prompting the committee to ask staff for a review of the ordinance in July.

“I think that the city is in over its head,” said resident Brandee Boggs. “I appreciate [Principal Planner] Shannon Tuch and [Code Enforcement Officer] Shannon Morgan and y’all’s time and energy you’ve put toward this; I think I can speak for all of us that we’ve lost faith in the city government around this issue,” she continued to applause from

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KITCHEN QUANDARY: Asheville City Council’s Planning & Economic Development Committee, consisting of Vijay Kapoor, left, Julie Mayfield, center, and Gwen Wisler, hear public comment about the city’s homestay ordinance. Photo by Daniel Walton the audience, which Mayfield quickly raised a hand to quiet.

Other regulatory aspects also came under fire. Resident Tamera Trexler cited city language that prevented her, as an Airbnb co-host, from leaving the property “on vacation, visiting friends or family, traveling out of town for business or personal reasons, etc.” whenever the homestay was rented. “You have put me on house arrest!” she read from a prepared statement.

“There is nothing that says you can’t go on vacation,” Mayfield said, in apparent contradiction of the zoning standard.

“Shannon Morgan stood in my kitchen and told me that,” one audience member interjected from the crowd.

In response to an Xpress request for clarification, Development Services Director Ben Woody confirmed that the ordinance does require the long-term resident’s overnight presence during homestay activities. “However, the ordinance does not restrict the resident from conducting daily business,” Woody added.

“The resident can travel overnight but must suspend homestay operations when he or she is not present overnight.”

Although the committee cut off public comment before all those in line had a chance to speak, citing the need for Council member Vijay Kapoor to catch a flight, it did recommend that staff throw out the kitchen sink from the current definition. Joined by Council member Gwen Wisler, Kapoor and Mayfield moved to adopt staff’s “maximum flexibility” definition for kitchen, which reads as follows: “Kitchen means an area within a structure that is used or designed to be used for the preparation or cooking of food and that contains cooking appliances including, but not limited to: ovens, convection ovens, stoves, stove tops, built-in grills or similar appliances.”

However, the committee also directed staff to move forward with tightening a number of other standards, including those for the permitted uses of bedrooms, prohibition of homestays in accessory dwelling units and consequences for zoning violations. Staff estimated that the changes will next come up for consideration at the Planning & Zoning Commission meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 3.

— Daniel Walton X

County terminates Wiseman contracts, preps for additional civil lawsuit Buncombe County terminated over half a million dollars’ worth of contracts held by two companies associated with Joseph Wiseman Jr., the engineer the county says is implicated in an alleged kickback scheme involving three for-

mer county officials (see “Feds: 3 former Buncombe officials got kickbacks,” Aug. 15, Xpress).

The Board of Commissioners halted all contracts for companies that are or have been affiliated with Wiseman

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N EWS Consulting, which purchase orders show held $554,189 worth of contracts with the county, and CDM Smith, which held a new $20,000 contract that had not been invoiced.

Before calling a halt to payments, the county had paid $156,795 to Environmental Infrastructure on current contracts, leaving an outstanding balance of $398,969.

The county has also frozen payment on an $8,000 expenditure for a permit to allow Environmental Infrastructure Consulting to operate the Buncombe County Transfer Station. “We’re going to stop it and transfer that to another engineering firm,” said interim County Manager George Wood.

In response to a question by Commissioner Ellen Frost, Wood said there hasn’t been an issue with the quality of the services provided by the companies affiliated with Wiseman, but he couldn’t say whether the companies’ prices were inflated.

Commissioners also ended negotiations with CDM Smith on a contract associated with the county’s solid waste operations. About a month before the kickback allegations against former county employees Jon Creighton, Wanda Greene and Mandy Stone became public, the county had recommended that commissioners select CDM Smith.

Since the firm originally designed the landfill, Wood said, county staff selected it for the operations contract based on its knowledge of the facility.

“At that time, of course, we didn’t know anything about Mr. Wiseman or these allegations that have come out in the most recent indictment,” Wood said. In light of the Aug. 14 vote, the county will turn to the next qualified firm.

The board also announced it will file a civil lawsuit against Greene, Stone, Creighton, Wiseman and companies affiliated with Wiseman.

AUDIT HICCUPS Also on Aug. 14, the county’s Audit Committee met. Buncombe County’s external auditor, the firm CliftonLarsonAllen, outlined how the schedule of this year’s external audit could change if the county undertakes a forensic audit as suggested

by Commissioner Jasmine BeachFerrara. In a statement released on Aug. 8, she suggested that the county conduct a forensic investigation into the county’s financial practices, internal controls and organizational culture.

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audit was complete, especially if the audit were performed by another firm.

A forensic audit, representatives from CLA said, could produce additional financial data that the firm would need to evaluate as part of its audit.

As the county sorts through the new federal allegations, the possibility of additional indictments remains. Auditors said new developments could delay completion of the county’s audit. Wood said the county is considering requesting an extension of the audit submission deadline from North Carolina’s Local Government Commission. Members of the Audit Committee agreed the county should explore amending the county’s contract with CLA to expand the scope of the audit.

The external auditors also asked members of the committee who, considering the extent of staff turnover in county government in recent months, would sign the audit’s representation letter, which certifies the accuracy of the financial statements. It is typically signed by the county manager and the chief financial officer. The auditors also expressed concern about how turnover in the finance department could affect the county’s ability to get everything done on time.

While the Finance Department has lost two staffers — one accountant and former county Finance Director Tim Flora, who announced his resignation in late May — interim Finance Director Eric Hardy said, it has gained a financial analyst.

“The department is not decimated,” Hardy said, but it is covering a lot of ground. Hardy said the department is still dealing with the implementation and maintenance of new human resources and accounting software and a large volume of public records requests, which Hardy said monopolize staff time.

HELP WANTED Having narrowed a field of 24 applicants to six, the county will interview candidates for the open finance director position on Thursday, Aug. 23, and Friday, Aug. 24. Hardy, Wood and Commissioners Al Whitesides, Joe Belcher and Beach-Ferrara selected the finalists.

Having conducted similar interviews for nonprofits and in the banking world, Whitesides said this is one of the strongest applicant pools he’s seen.

“When you look at the problems we’re having, that was a concern I had: Would we get competent people to apply?”

Whitesides said. “Yeah, we have.”

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by News staff | news@mountainx.com GO SEEKS APPRENTICES FOR YOUTHBUILD PROGRAM Green Opportunities is recruiting 16- to 24-year-old Buncombe County residents for its YouthBuild training program, a tuition-free pre-apprenticeship program designed for outof-school youths. GO’s next YouthBuild training cycle will begin on Monday, Sept. 10.

YouthBuild is a recognized pre-apprenticeship program that helps at-risk youths complete high school or state equivalency degree programs, earn industryrecognized certifications for in-demand occupations, and undergo training to build housing for low-income or homeless individuals and families in their communities.

Participants who complete the program will graduate with CPR and first aid certification, OSHA 10 certification and a nationally recognized HBI pre-apprenticeship certification in carpentry. Students also receive personalized support services from a GO case manager, as well as assistance finding and securing employment. Additionally, they are eligible to receive a small stipend to help them meet their financial needs while participating in the program.

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Parents and guardians of student athletes should bring their student’s school’s physical form to the physical. Students 18 and older must present a valid photo ID. Students under 18 must be accompanied by an adult with a valid photo ID. Insurance will not be accepted for this special offer.

BUNCOMBE SEEKS INPUT ON NEW COUNTY MANAGER SELECTION The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and interim County Manager George Wood announced open community sessions on the skills, personality traits and other characteristics a new county manager should possess.

On Thursday, Aug. 23, at 6 p.m., District 2 Commissioners Mike Fryar and Ellen Frost will meet with residents at Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S. Main St., Weaverville.

On Monday, Aug. 27, at 6 p.m., Commission Chair Brownie Newman and District 1 Commissioners Jasmine Beach-Ferrara

and Al Whitesides will meet with residents at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave., Asheville.

On Thursday, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m., District 3 Commissioners Joe Belcher and Robert Pressley will meet with residents at Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville.

In addition to the community input sessions, Buncombe County is also asking for input online at buncombecounty.org/ letstalk through Thursday, Aug. 30.

ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL TO MEET AUG. 28 A number of public hearings (complete list at avl.mx/584) appear on the agenda for the next meeting of Asheville City Council, scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 5 p.m. in council chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 70 Court Plaza.

Prior to the meeting, the full agenda will be available online at avl.mx/3xb.

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Wide load Kress creates consternation, 1926-27

FIVE AND DIME: The Kress 5-10-25 Cent Store opened its new Asheville location on June 24, 1927. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville A 1926 debate over traffic jams nearly caused a roadblock in the construction of the Kress building at 19 Patton Ave. According to the Sept. 29 issue of The Asheville Citizen, the Kress organization had plans to raze the former Bon Marché building, which occupied the site, in order to erect “one of the finest, if not the finest, building in their chain of stores.”

A major obstacle, however, presented itself in the form of cramped thoroughfares.

That day’s paper continued: “Lexington avenue between College street and Patton avenue is rather narrow, and it has been suggested that the city build an underpass at this point running under Patton avenue.

If the city should decide, however, to condemn some of the old Bon Marche building so as to widen Lexington that might not leave room enough for the spacious store the Kress establishment contemplates building.”

That October a heated debate broke out between The Citizens Committee (a group of downtown business owners) who favored wider roads and Mayor John H. Cathey who opposed the notion. The Oct. 13, paper claimed “blows were almost struck” during

the meeting. The mayor — described as “belligerent and sometimes incoherent,” throughout the session — took umbrage when one opposing member accused him of being “bull-headed.”

Things escalated when another unidentified member in the group insisted that Cathey shut up. According to the paper, the mayor demanded the individual show himself. “If he is a man, he will stand up,” the mayor is reported to have stated. No one stood. When the mayor offered to adjourn the meeting in order to “step down to the street and settle this matter,” all parties remained seated.

Despite ongoing petitions and debate, the former Bon Marché property was razed in November. As its roof and walls came down in preparation for the new Kress building, The Asheville Citizen reminisced on the many former businesses and activities that previously occupied the site. According to the paper’s Nov. 14 publication, the location was once used for growing Irish potatoes “at the rate of 1,100 bushels an acre.” The Chedester Store would eventually build on the site, followed by the Grand Central Hotel, then the Berkley Hotel, before Bon

Marché renovated the building in 1911 (see, “Asheville Archives: The many locations of Bon Marché, 1889-1890,” July 3, Xpress).

By mid-November demolition was nearly complete. Petitions, however, still circulated, both on the streets and in print. An ad placed by The Citizens Committee in the Nov. 21 edition of The Sunday Citizen poked holes in the mayor’s claim that widening Lexington Avenue between College Street and Patton Avenue would cost half a million dollars. The committee noted that recent work to widen four other blocks on Lexington Avenue cost the city a mere $35,000.

Of course, not everyone supported the commission’s efforts. In that same day’s paper, The Sunday Citizen wrote: “The city is familiar with the frenzied furore raised because of the construction of an edifice which will not permit the widening of Lexington, between Patton and College. Perhaps it’s time to deal with the kind of pile that is going up and why it’s being reared.

If Kress representatives, officials of the Patton Avenue Corp. and others familiar with the plans of the nickel-dime gatherers are to be believed, a vacant eyesore, a civic liability, a business barnacle exercising a depressing effect on Asheville people and constituting a doleful spectacle for visitors, is now being superseded by a granite, steel and terra cotta commercial palace, humming with activity, a community asset, a symbol of trade indicative of prosperity, impressive alike to natives and tourists as a concrete example of a great corporation’s faith in Asheville as an all-year mercantile center.”

By January 1927, the committee’s petition to widen Lexington Avenue was formally rejected by the city. That March, the cornerstone of the Kress building was laid. By April, extra crews were brought in to complete the job, with masonry work being carried out around the clock.

On June 24, Kress 5-10-25 Cent Store officially opened its new downtown Asheville location. The following day’s paper reported that thousands had celebrated its grand opening, including the city’s recently elected mayor, Gallatin Roberts, who congratulated “the Kress management on the completion of one of the finest stores in its chain of 183.”

Kress would close its downtown operation on May 2, 1974.

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costumed "Hawaiian Cowgirl Dance," with a live DJ and refreshments benefit Aura Home for Women Vets. $10. Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St. ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, smcdonald@eliada. org • TH (8/23), 6:309pm - Proceeds from this ticketed dinner with Lagunitas benefit Eliada. Tickets required. $100. Held at Corner Kitchen, 3 Boston Way • SU (8/26), 6:30-9pm - Proceeds from this ticketed dinner with Highland Brewing benefit Eliada.

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (8/22), 11:30am-1:30pm - "What the New Tax Law Means for Small Business," seminar. Registration required: conta. cc/2LTexdO. Free.

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Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS DR. SAMUEL RAMSEY: WHAT’S KILLING THE BEES (PD.) Come hear Dr. Ramsey on Saturday September 1st at the Mountain Horticultural Crop and Research Center, 155 Research Drive, Mills River NC 28759.

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EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Intro to Pole Fitness on Sundays 2:15pm, Tuesdays 7:00pm, Saturdays 12:00pm.

Intro to Pole Dance on Mondays 7:15pm.

Intro to Spinning Pole on Thursdays 8:00pm. Floor Theory Dance on Sundays 3:30pm. Aerial Yoga on Fridays 12:00pm $15 for the first class.

EMPYREANARTS.ORG - 828.782.3321 FARM BEGINNINGS® FARMER TRAINING (PD.) Applications open for Organic Growers School’s Farm Beginnings, a yearlong farmer training course teaching practical business skills to start sustainable farms. Course open to aspiring and beginning farmers. www.organicgrowersschool.org FILM SCREENING: THE SEEKERS OF TRUTH (PD.) The Gurdjieff Foundation of WNC will screen "The Seekers of Truth: George Ivanovich

Gurdjieff," by the Institut G.I. Gurdjieff (Paris) - Opportunity for exchange afterward - Tuesday, August 28, 6:30 PM. Free admission; reservations requested (limited seating). Contact info@ gurdjieffasheville.org or (828) 239-9440.

Further details at gurdjieffasheville.org.

VILLAGERS... (PD.) ...is an Urban Homestead Supply store offering quality tools, supplies and classes to support healthy lifestyle activities like gardening, food preservation, cooking, herbalism, and more. 278 Haywood Road. www.forvillagers.com ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • TU (8/28), 5:30pm - City Speaker Series: "Building Our City: Housing as Infrastructure," presentation by Michelle Mapp. Registration required. Free. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St.

ASHEVILLE GREEN OPPORTUNITIES 828-398-4158, greenopportunities.org • WE (8/29), 1-2pm - Job training program information session with Green Opportunity's staff for fall 2018 training programs. Registration: 828-398-4158 x116 or SAndrew@ greenopportunities. org. Free. Held at Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-6263438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - Community center board meeting. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/ library • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Sit-n-Stitch," informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE 828-273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail. com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road OLD BUNCOMBE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 128 Bingham Road, Suite 950, 828-2531894, obcgs.com • SA (8/25), 2-3pm "Who Are All These Cousins," presentation

by Dr. Paul Sisco and monthly meeting of the Old Buncombe County Genealogy Society. Free.

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TH (8/23), noon-1:30pm "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it.

Improve it." Seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (8/30), noon1:30pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (8/30), 5:306:30pm - "Going to College Without Going Broke," seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject.yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the U.S. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable. com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Community lunch.

Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop

• 4th SATURDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Asheville Vegan Runners, open group meeting. Free to attend.

FOOD NOT BOMBS HENDERSONVILLE foodnotbombshendersonville@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 4pm - Community meal.

Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St. Hendersonville

FESTIVALS ORGANICFEST organicfest.org • SU (8/26), 10am6pm - Outdoor family-friendly festival celebrating everything organic. Includes live music, arts, crafts and food vendors. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. VENTURE LOCAL FAIR venturelocalfair.com • 4th SATURDAYS, noon-7pm - Outdoor festival featuring makers, artists, collectors, musicians, chefs, entertainers and inventors. Free to attend.

Held at 68 Haywood

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ROAD WARRIORS: Asheville Ride for Kids celebrates 25 years of raising money for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation on Saturday, Aug. 25. Riders — many of whom have been collecting funds before the event — are welcome to bring any make or model of street-legal motorcycle and make a donation to the foundation. Registration runs 9-10:30 a.m. at Cane Creek Middle School in Fletcher, and kickstands go up at 11 a.m.

The ride ends at Oskar Blue Brewery in Brevard. Nonriders are also invited to view the vehicles, enjoy food and entertainment, and cheer on the day’s stars — local children who are fighting brain tumors. For more information, visit curethekids.org. Photo courtesy of Asheville Ride for Kids

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BUNCOMBE COUNTY buncombecounty.org/ letstalk • TH (8/23), 6pm - Public input session with District 2 Commissioners Mike Fryar and Ellen Frost, regarding the search for the next Buncombe County Manager. Free. Held at Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S. Main Street, Weaverville • MO (8/27), 6pm Public input session with Commission Chair Brownie Newman and District 1 Commissioners Jasmine BeachFerrara and Al Whitesides, regarding the search for next Buncombe County Manager. Free. Held at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. • MO (8/27), 6pm - Public input session with District 3 Commissioners Joe Belcher and Robert Pressley, regarding the search for the next Buncombe County Manager.

Free. Held at Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center, A-B Tech Main Campus,16 Fernihurst Drive COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, INC. 828-277-8288, coabc.org

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• TU (8/28), 5:307:30pm - "Learn Where Candidates Stand on Topics Impacting Older Adults in Buncombe County," legislative meet and greet with candidates for Buncombe County commissioner, sheriff, county clerk and district attorney, North Carolina house and senate and US house of representatives. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road DEMOCRAT GATHERING 200 Murdock Ave. • SA (8/25), 6-8:30pm - Democrats in the downtown cluster (precincts 1.2, 2.1, 8.2, 10.1 and 11.1) gather for dinner and socializing and to plan for the November election. Information: 4pressons@gmail.com.

Free. Held at Weaver Park, 200 Murdock Ave. HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • FU (8/26), 2-4pm - Launch meeting for the new year of League events with apple pie, ice cream and rock painting.

Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S Charleston Lane, Hendersonville STEPHENS LEE RECREATION CENTER 30 George Washington Carver Ave.

• SA (8/25) Buncombe County Women’s Commission agenda Assembly.

Free.

TEACHER TOWN HALL • FR (8/24), 5-5:30pm - Press conference for educators to share concerns with elected officials through Red4EdNC’s “Declaration in Defense of Public School Children.”

Educators are encouraged to wear red.

Free. Held at the Buncombe County courthouse lawn, 60 Court Plaza

KIDS ASHEVILLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION avltennis.com/ • Through SA (9/15) - Open registration for beginner plus and intermediate tennis clinics for ages five to 17 from SU (9/9) to SU (9/30) at Aston Park Tennis Center.

Registration required: avltennis.com. $30$40.

ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS ashevilleyouthchoirs. org • TH (8/23) & TH (8/30), 4-6pm - Open audition for students in grade K-12.

See website for full guidelines. Held at Academy for the Arts, 5 Oak Street

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • SA (8/24), 4pm - Read with J.R. the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-250-4758. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm - Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-2504720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CHILDREN FIRST/ COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS 37 Brickyard Road • FR (8/24), 5-7pm - Event for students from Estes Elementary School, Emma Elementary School, Johnston Elementary School, Claxton Elementary School and Eblen Intermediate to receive a backpack full of school supplies.

Free.

FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • SA (8/25), 3pm Discussion on creative writing and illustration with Eisner Awardwinning graphic novelist Hope Larson, Constance Lombardo

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and Geneva B. Sponsored by the Buncombe Partnership for Children. Free.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • Through FR (8/24), 9am-noon - "A Week in the Creek," activities for children aged 6-10. Registration required. Free.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404-foot waterfall.

Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark. com AARP 828-380-6242, rchaplin@aarp.org • WE (8/22), 10:30am - Coffee and Conversation Series: Discussion about hiking. Free. Held at Ferguson Family YMCA, 31 Westridge Market Place, Candler BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (8/24), 10am - "The Old French Broad," easy, onemile, ranger-led hike by the French Broad River. Free. Held at MP 393.6, Blue Ridge Parkway BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/ Parks/ • SA (8/25), 10am Guided, group hike at Wolf Branch Trail.

Registration required: buncomberecreation. org. Free.

CONSERVING CAROLINA carolinamountain.org • SU (8/26), 10amnoon - Outdoor yoga series. Registration: olivia@conservingcarolina.org or 828-6975777. $25/$60 series.

Held at Conserving Carolina, 847 Case St., Hendersonville

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About Fostering and Adoption in Appalachia with authors Deborah Gold and Wendy Welch.

Free to attend.

PUBLIC LECTURES BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • WE (8/29), 6-7pm - "Exploring the Southern Appalachian Grassy Balds," lecture

by Amy Duernberger.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. GLENVILLE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Highway 107, Glenville • SA (8/25), 10am4pm - "Raggedy Ann and Andy," historical memorabilia and presentation. Free.

LEADERSHIP ASHEVILLE SUMMER BREAKFAST SERIES 828-255-7100, leadershipasheville. org • WE (8/22), 8am "Racial Equity: How do we embrace it?," presentation and breakfast. $20. Held at Crowne Plaza Expo Center, 1 Resort Drive PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU bardoartscenter.edu • TH (8/30), 6pm "Music & Food, the Double Essence of Appalachia," lecture with Susi Gott Seguret. Free. Held at The Ramsey Center in Renfro Library, 100 Athletic St,, Mars Hill THE JOSEPH INITIATIVE josephcommunitycenter.org • TH (8/23), 5-7:30pm - The Joseph Initiative hosts “How to Have Difficult Conversations,” lecture by Dr. Dwight Mullen. Registration: 828- 691-5603 or josephcommunitycenter.org. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave.

SPIRITUALITY PARENTING MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (8/29), 6pm - An Evening

ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Stellar

Counseling Services.

Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation.

60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala. org CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828258-0211 • 4th FRIDAYS, 10amnoon - Contemplative Companions, meditation. Free.

• Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation.

Admission by donation.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need.

Free.

GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828298-6195, groceumc.org • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - A Course in Miracles, study group.

Information: 828-7125472. Free.

OM SANCTUARY 87 Richmond Hill Drive, 828-252-7313 • FR (8/24), 7-9pm - Presentation by Phakyab Rinpoche teachings on the theory and practice of Buddhist meditation focusing on the nine stages that lead to the perfection of meditative concentration. $25.

PACK SQUARE PARK 121 College St. • SA (8/25), 6-8pm "Praise in the Park, Christian worship event with music.

Free.

SPORTS ASHEVILLE WOMEN’S RUGBY ashevillewomensrugby.com, ashevillewomensrugby@gmail.com • Through SA (11/10) - Open registration for the fall season. No experience necessary to participate. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/ Parks/ • Through TU (9/4) - Open registration for fall adult kickball leagues. Registration: Kickball.buncomberecreation.org. $25$35.

VOLUNTEERING LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION (PD.) Tue. (9/4) 5:30pm & Thur. (9/6) 9:00am Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling, and English language skills. Free. www.litcouncil.com LAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 828-251-6622, landofsky.org • TH (8/30), FR (8/31), TH (9/6) & FR (9/7) - Four-day volunteer training for the Stanford University’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. Registration required: 828-2517438 or stephanie@ landofsky.org. Free.

Held at Land-Of-Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 READ 2 SUCCEED ASHEVILLE r2sasheville.org • Through TU (9/18) Sign up to train to be a reading coach with Read To Succeed on TU (9/18). Contact for guidelines: 828-7472277.

• Through WE (10/10) - Sign up to train to be a reading buddy with Read To Succeed on TU (10/10).

Contact for guidelines: 828-747-2277.

ASHEVILLE WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S act.alz.org/asheville • SA (9/15) Volunteers needed for the annual Asheville Walk to End Alzheimer’s. mgoode@alz.org or 828-398-5780.

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“I have been fighting a battle with prostate cancer for the past 12 years,” notes Williams.

Many famous men have struggled with prostate cancer, including Nelson Mandela, Bob Dole and Colin Powell; Sidney Poitier, Dennis Hopper and Robert DeNiro; Langston Hughes, Frank Zappa, Harry Belafonte and Johnny Ramone; Ken Griffey Sr. “Many men have the disease and never know it,” says Dr. H. Brooks Hooper of Asheville Urological Associates. Yet

according to the American Cancer Society, it affects about 1 in 9 American men, disproportionately targeting African-Americans and those over 65.

Still, this particular cancer can sneak up on a man, because it’s slow-growing and is often detected only in its later stages, Hooper explains.

And once it’s diagnosed, living with the disease can be challenging. “It gets old after a while, and I can get really down,” says Williams. “My wife reminds me to find something good in every day and make the most of every day.”

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The couple have been involved with the local ZERO Prostate Cancer Run/ Walk since the event’s inception in 2016.

ZERO, the End of Prostate Cancer, is a national nonprofit based in Alexandria, Va., that teams up with local partners to stage such events and support research and educational efforts.

Williams, says race organizer Katie Kestner, has consistently been this area’s top fundraiser.

“I don’t deserve any credit for it,” counters Williams. “We have very supportive family and friends. We offer the opportunity to help, and they provide the funds for this important cause.”

ENHANCING AWARENESS To date, the run/walk has raised $100,000 for research, free testing and family education.

“We get into communities to educate them about talking with doctors and getting PSA levels checked if you have the need,” says Kestner. Prostate specific antigen is a protein in the blood that, in some cases, can indicate the need for further testing or monitoring. “The funds go to research and advocacy, and some of the money goes to our ZERO360 program for prostate cancer patients who need help paying bills.”

Although Williams’ father had prostate cancer, it was quickly cured and never came back. His genetics, however, put Williams at risk, and despite trying numerous treatments, his own cancer seems particularly virulent.

“I had my prostate removed surgically in 2006, and my PSA started to rise in 2009,” Williams reveals. “After radiation therapy in 2010, it went into remission for 18 months, but then the PSAs started going up again. I had a combination of hormonal therapy and radiation in 2013, then about four more years of hormonal therapy.” Soon he’ll travel to California to take part in a clinical study.

“From a genetic standpoint, some men carried a mutation that predisposed them to prostate cancer, but back when life expectancy was 50, men died of other things,” Hooper points out.

“Now that we live longer, we see that predisposition manifest.” Transgender women who were born with male physiology can also contract prostate cancer, though this is more common among those who started hormone therapy after age 50.

Treatment has improved dramatically through the years. Most prostate cancers are detected before the disease has spread to other areas of the body; 98 percent of those men are alive 10 years later. In cases where the disease has spread, however, the five-year survival rate drops to just 30 percent.

“When I got my diagnosis I was 44, and most men don’t get tested until age 50,” Williams explains. “If it wasn’t for my wife’s insistence on a checkup, I never would have known.”

DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND RECOVERY The disease, says Hooper, presents differently from man to man. Symptoms may include trouble with urination, ejaculation, or erection, as well as pain in the lower back, hips or thighs. Some men show no symptoms at all, and factors such as obesity and lack of exercise can increase the chance of dying from prostate cancer.

But these days, many men survive and even thrive after treatment, he notes. Although it’s the secondmost common cause of cancer death among men, behind only lung cancer, more than 2.9 million American men diagnosed with prostate cancer are alive today.

“In a lot of cases, having it doesn’t mean dying from it,” stresses Hooper.

“Sometimes there’s no reason to treat a patient. A lot of guys don’t need treatment, and the treatment can hurt, not help. Even screenings are controversial in some circles, unless a man’s in a high-risk category.”

Researchers are still trying to figure out why the disease disproportionately affects African-American men, who are both more likely to develop it and to be diagnosed with an aggressive form.

To that end, a new $26.5 million study called RESPOND aims to enroll 10,000 African-American men who have prostate cancer. Officially titled Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers and Social Stress, the study will investigate environmental and genetic factors.

“There’s no single treatment that’s right for all men,” says Hooper. “The preferred therapy is based on patient specifics. For men who have organconfined cancer, and particularly for younger men, surgery is considered a first-line therapy. Side effects must be considered, along with the meaningful quantity and quality of life.”

Immunotherapy, he continues, “is used for men who have prostate cancer that’s moved beyond to bones or soft tissues. It can help men live longer, as it uses native antibody generating capacity to generate antibodies specifically targeted to take a body’s T-cells and direct them against those cancer cells.”

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Williams and his wife have been supporting the fight against cancer for years.

They’ve occasionally given lessons in nutrition and meal preparation to cancer survivors and their families at Wind River, a wellness retreat center southeast of Asheville that’s owned and operated by their friends Shannon Carney and David Pschirer. The facility offers free retreats to Carolina residents diagnosed with any type of cancer. The emphasis is on having fun in nature, living in the moment and learning healthy habits, such as maintaining a diverse, colorful diet (often referred to as “eating a rainbow plate”).

“My wife helped Shannon as she healed from breast cancer, and we all were friends before I even got my diagnosis,” Williams explains.

Carney and Pschirer established the retreat center after she recovered, and the friends all celebrated her healing journey. But the Williamses had no idea they’d soon be dealing with cancer much more intimately after John’s diagnosis.

“We all help each other,” notes Williams. “My wife has been there for me every step of the way. She makes sure that I eat a healthy diet and exercise, and she takes care of me when I need it.” They’ve also traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for research on curing prostate cancer and improving treatment options.

Williams says he and his wife are looking forward to the fellowship and support they find each year at the ZERO fundraiser. In addition to the 5K run/ walk, the event includes a 1-mile walk and a Kids’ Superhero Dash for Dad. Sponsors include Asheville Hematology & Oncology, Asheville Urological

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Men facing surgery or radiation therapy often fear the impact on their sex life. Erectile dysfunction is a common side effect, but medications can usually address it unless there are other preexisting issues. And while men typically no longer ejaculate after surgery, orgasms can remain deep, exciting and intense.

“No man will have ejaculate post-procedure, but none of it interferes with orgasmic function,” says Hooper.

Urinary problems and fatigue frequently occur after surgery, but they’re often temporary. Both surgery and radiation therapy carry a heightened risk of infertility, however, and those considering such treatments are encouraged to bank sperm in advance.

“We won’t be able to have children,” says Williams. “We had a very narrow window of opportunity there, as we’d been married only two years when we discovered the prostate cancer.”

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THE HIGH COST OF HEALING Despite the high spirits and improved treatment options, however, cancer diagnosis and treatment can be financially devastating.

Williams has good insurance, but he maxes out his deductible annually and has to make those copays. Still, he considers himself lucky to be able to keep both his full-time job and his health insurance.

Others, notes Hooper, are less fortunate. “I have several patients with limited or no insurance, and now we’re trying to find places to get them funding to get them the treatments they need,” he reports.

“It makes no sense that, in this country, working people lack access to health care. Independent of race and genetic factors, men of lower socio-economic means are more likely to die of diseases that are curable. It’s completely unfair.”

Kestner, whose grandfather had prostate cancer, says she cares deeply about bringing people together.

She estimates that 94 cents of every dollar raised at the ZERO event will go to support lifesaving programs.

Racers can participate individually or in teams. Current teams include the Saluda Sundogs, the Asheville Abbvie Advocates, the Screaming Eagles and the WNC Prostate Support Group; new teams are also welcome.

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SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT: Several of the waterways in MountainTrue’s State of the French Broad River Watershed 2018 report, including the French Broad River’s Middle Fork and Cataloochee Creek, received perfect grades. Photo courtesy of Zen Tubing

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com Western North Carolina may be blessed with elevation and the shade of widespread forests, but the dog days of summer still drive residents and tourists alike into the cooling embrace of water. As these seekers of heat relief prepare to slip into the region’s rivers and streams, however, one question weighs on their minds above all others, according to French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson: Is it clean?

On May 25, Carson and his colleagues at local conservation nonprofit MountainTrue released a report that addresses the cleanliness query for 62 area waterways. State of the French Broad River Watershed 2018 (avl. mx/57d) summarizes a bevy of data from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, the Black Mountain-based Environmental Quality Institute and MountainTrue’s own monitoring to help people easily understand just how clean — or not — these waterways really are.

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“Before, a lot of this data was just kind of buried in spreadsheets and wonky reports that the general public is not going to read very easily,” Carson says. “Nobody has ever combined all of that data to try and get as complete of a picture as we can about the state of the river.”

OVER THE MAP That state, the report says, varies widely between different parts of the watershed. Waterways such as the Middle Fork of the French Broad River, Cathy’s Creek and Cataloochee Creek, which are largely fed by water from protected public lands, received A and B scores, indicating low pollution levels and healthy aquatic life. Those receiving C and D scores, indicating greater concern about pollution and wildlife, get runoff from areas with more intensive agriculture and development.

The report’s macrolevel findings didn’t surprise Carson, but he says that its results on the relative impact of different activities on water cleanliness were unexpected. “The streams that

were more heavily agricultural were dirtier than we thought they would be, and the streams that were more heavily urban were a little cleaner than I thought they would be,” he explains.

While the dirtiest streams — including Turkey Creek, Newfound Creek and Fines Creek — generally lacked a single major polluter to which problems could be attributed, Carson explains that many smaller issues can chip away at water quality. “We’ve paddled several of them, and there’s indicators of a lot of streambank erosion, of cows getting into the creek and runoff from areas where livestock go to the restroom,” he says.

Carson has a more specific interpretation for the poor quality of Boylston Creek. He notes that the DEQ moved in 2008 to classify the waterway as a trout stream, which would’ve established a 25-foot buffer requirement for property along the water’s edge. Following sustained pushback from local landowners, however, the General Assembly passed a law in 2011 that specifically prevented the enhanced protection from being put in place.

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SLIPPERY NUMBERS? Although all of the waterways in the report are scored on the same zero-to-100 scale, the data behind that simple metric required considerable finessing. EQI’s ratings for chemicals and stream invertebrate presence, for example, were translated from verbal descriptions such as “excellent” and “below average” into numerical ratings. Years of E. coli information from MountainTrue’s Swim Guide were turned into a single number representing the percentage of times a waterway passed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s benchmark for safe swimming.

These different numbers were then weighted equally and combined to come up with a single holistic measurement for waterway cleanliness.

“You’re comparing different types of data and trying to average them into one score — it was taking apples and oranges and making apples and apples,” Carson says. “I thought I’d sort of bang it out in an afternoon, and it took several months.”

Landon Davidson, regional supervisor for the DEQ’s Asheville Regional Office, says this approach helps citizens without a water quality background relate to complex data. “For its intended purpose, the report makes a very good effort of providing distilled information of [Division of Water Resources] data to the public for consideration,” he says. “In turn, this approach could foster interest and raise awareness of water quality issues, ultimately engaging locals to become involved in watershed protection activities.”

But Jen Ditzler, an environmental engineer with global consulting firm Arcadis and co-owner of Ashevillebased Zen Tubing, questions whether the report accurately represents conditions on the water. She points out that MountainTrue depends on contributions from citizens concerned

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G REEN S CEN E about water quality, a potential conflict of interest that could bias its data interpretation. “If the French Broad River is ever stated to be ‘clean,’ then MountainTrue could potentially lose out on donations and funding,” she explains.

“When you come up with your own method for looking at data, it can be skewed one way or the other depending on how you ‘feel’ about the data,” Ditzler continues. “The report would be easier to take seriously if ‘real’ data, i.e., actual numbers that were produced by an accredited laboratory, were used, versus someone’s guess as to what ‘excellent,’ ”good’ or ‘poor’ mean with the random information that is available.“ Carson responds that the report’s methodology is available on the MountainTrue website. Additionally, he notes that the organization didn’t originally post its raw data because its goal was specifically to simplify very complicated information; the spreadsheet on which the report is based is now available online (avl.mx/57h).

“I would like nothing better than for the French Broad to be clean and for the many nonprofits and government entities charged with protecting it to

ROCK ON: Many species of wildlife have returned to the French Broad River watershed or increased in number as water quality has improved. Photo courtesy of Blue Heron Whitewater not be needed,” Carson says. “We work hard hoping for that but also feel it is our responsibility to inform the public when the river isn’t as clean as we like, as well as promoting its use for recreation.”

BETTER THAN BEFORE Ditzler emphasizes that she doesn’t believe area waterways to be in pris-

tine shape, nor does she think efforts to improve their quality are in vain.

“We just wish that the river would be celebrated more for how far it has come from the 1970s, when my husband paddled the river with his father,” she says.

“There seem to be two types of people: the ones that will not step foot into the French Broad River (or any other body of water) because they have ‘heard’ something bad about it and the ones that can be educated about the river (and other bodies of water),” Ditzler adds.

Sandy Melton, co-owner of Blue Heron Whitewater in Marshall, agrees that the region’s water has gotten significantly better since she started working as a raft guide in the early 1980s. “Section 9 [of the French Broad, the whitewater stretch in Madison County] was pretty bad,” she recalls.

“There were foam piles a foot high in the pool below Frank Bell’s Rapid of unidentified origin or content.”

Now, notes Ditzler, endangered mussels are returning to the French Broad after years of absence, and species such as river otters, bald eagles and ospreys are regularly spotted along the banks of waterways throughout the region. And the human animal is returning to enjoy the water in ever-greater numbers.

“In the last 35 years, as water quality improved, the experience for paddlers improved,” says Melton. “Good stewardship is good for our community — and good for business!” X

TAKE CARE A waterway’s health depends on the actions of all who live, work and play in its watershed. Even small steps by individuals, when taken together, can help ensure that the region’s own French Broad River watershed stays clean for humans and wildlife alike.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, for example, advises property owners to keep an adequate buffer or natural vegetation along the banks of any streams.

“Resist the urge to ‘clean’ the stream by removing native vegetation as streams are healthy when they are shaded and streambanks are stable with vegetation,” says Landon Davidson, regional supervisor for the department’s Asheville Regional Office.

Max Rose, owner of Asheville-based Four Seasons Plumbing, encourages all residents to be careful when disposing of liquids. “A common misconception is that storm drains are part of the sewer system, when in fact they’re not,” he explains. “That means the motor oil you pour into the drain or the excess fertilizer from your yard will end up in the waterways, harming wildlife and lowering everyone’s drinking water quality.”

Rose also calls for more mindful use of cleaning products in the home. “While toilets and sinks lead to the sewer system, which is treated, using nontoxic products can be beneficial if the water escapes through a leak or break along the way to the sewage treatment center or if your house uses a private septic system,” he says. “Lemon juice, baking soda and vinegar make great alternatives.” X

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BY SARAH MARSHALL MARCUS sarahmarcus108@gmail.com “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson Bob Gale, ecologist and public lands director at MountainTrue, an environmental and conservation nonprofit in Asheville, recalls encountering this quote as a botany student in the 1970s. While its poetic symbolism stands, its relevance wanes when applied to the problem of non-native invasive plants, many of which continue to be introduced into new areas of Western North Carolina by gardeners and landscapers.

This was evident to Gale with the recent discovery in Watauga County of giant hogweed, an exotic invader whose sap can cause thirddegree burns and even blindness.

Although the find is unfortunate, Gale sees it as an opportunity to raise awareness of the deleterious effects of non-native plants on our fragile Appalachian ecosystems.

Unlike other imported species that do not proliferate problematically, Gale explains, the “non-native invasive plant” title is reserved for only a few offenders. Introduced from other continents, NNIPs have potential to negatively impact ecosystems by competing with native species.

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owners associations, customers often seek to avoid them.

“We do still have a big demand for bamboo, though,” she says, explaining that some customers request the fastgrowing plant to add privacy or shade to their yards. “A lot of customers don’t realize how invasive it is.” BB Barns chooses not to sell bamboo for this reason.

Some invasive plants are available at the shop, along with advice on controlling them, says Mace. “We do sell English ivy, but we sell it as an annual in pots. We really encourage people to leave it in pots,” she says.

An estimated $34.7 billion dollars is spent each year managing the nation’s non-native invasive plants, according to the N.C. Invasive Plant Council’s website. Harder to calculate are the costs to our ecosystem. Non-native invasives destroy biodiversity in our delicate Appalachian ecosystems, altering food sources for wildlife.

Wildlife forced to eat non-native foliage can suffer long-term effects, including disruption of a species’ gene pool. Gale cites a study on cardinals that consumed the red berries of the invasive bush honeysuckle. The berries replaced the birds’ natural food source, causing redder-than-normal plumage for males. Females, who instinctively choose the brightest males as mates, mistook the artificially red coloring as a sign of health, mating with genetically unfit males and producing compromised offspring.

Recently, community members teamed up with MountainTrue to clear NNIPs from Hummingbird Park in Montford and Richmond Hill Park in West Asheville. Gale notes that once the problem plants were removed, many native species returned.

Optimistic that other communities can also be returned to ecological balance, Gale emphasizes the need for action: “[There are] ripples in every direction right now. We need a tidal wave.”

For planting guides and other details, visit the N.C. Invasive Plant Council at nc-ipc.weebly.com. To get involved with MountainTrue’s environmental conservation efforts, visit MountainTrue.org. X

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RISKY BUSINESS Substance abuse is a complex problem for Asheville’s restaurant industry

BY JONATHAN AMMONS jonathanammons@gmail.com The analogy of the pirate ship is all too common when talking about the restaurant industry. Just in interviews for this article, four of the sources we spoke with used it as a reference. For instance, it’s often mentioned in terms of the hiring practices: Anyone who is able-bodied, available and willing to do the work can typically get a job.

But there’s a tendency to avoid the elephant in the room that also relates to the notion of a band of pirates — substance abuse, a practice that’s all too common and has traditionally been ignored within the industry at large. Restaurant workers, both front-of-house and back, have a reputation for not only working hard, but living hard and playing even harder. And it’s a facet of the job that may not be about to change anytime soon.

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“In the restaurant industry, you work late into the night, so the only place that you have to go afterward is a bar,” says Alicia Nichols, who works as a server at one local restaurant and as a cook at another. She’s been managing, serving and cooking at restaurants — mostly in Asheville — since she entered the workforce.

Her first job was at age 13, when she worked as a dishwasher, server and prep cook at an Elk’s lodge in Arizona where her father was employed as a cook.

“They had trouble keeping employees who could work and not get wasted,” she explains. “So they put in the 13-year-old girl who couldn’t drink, and so every weekend I would serve fried fish and steak to old people till 2 in the morning.

So I was exposed to it and was drinking at an early age because it was available.”

A 2015 study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found the service industry to have the highest rates of both drug and alcohol consumption of any industry in the U.S. And it could be that the grueling schedule many workers must follow contributes to those numbers.

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GLASS HALF EMPTY: Mental health data show that the service industry has some of the highest rates of drug and alcohol consumption of any industry in the U.S. Asheville servers and bartenders say the late hours and the stressful, physically exhausting nature of the work can contribute to drinking and drug problems for many local service workers. Illustration by Brent Brown hour shifts on the line at another — she scarcely had time to sit down for an interview for this story. So for dedicated workhorses like her, that drink with co-workers after a shift is often the best part of the day — and the only part that resembles a social life.

“It’s just such a physical job,” says Erin Ervin, who helped open Cúrate before taking over the catering program at Corner Kitchen. “You’re standing on hard surfaces in hunched-over positions for so long; you work so hard and when you get off work, there aren’t too many healthy options for you to do, but you have all this pent-up energy, so you go out and you drink. And you drink until you pass out because your body hurts.”

“Everyone in the service industry doesn’t use, but in my own personal experience, more used than didn’t,” says Bobby Messer, an industry veteran who spent eight years working as a bartender to pay his way through college and graduate school. He’s now a counselor at New Way Counseling and Wellness, where much of his work focuses on substance abuse. “It was always some form of substance, wheth-

er that substance was alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine or heroin,” he recalls of his time in the industry.

“I think that alcohol is the number one problem for sure, and cocaine is a huge one. It’s even more common than heroin, because people can come to work when they’re high,” notes Nichols. “I had one of my employees die of a heroin overdose right before her shift — heroin is actually a big thing in Asheville. I’ve had friends spend weeks in rehab just from struggling and relapsing. I’ve also watched multiple coworkers go to rehab for alcohol in the past three years.”

Even celebrated cocktail pioneer Jeffrey Morgenthaler of Clyde Common in Portland, Ore., has been calling the industry out for its laissez-faire attitude toward substance abuse. The first thing that has to happen to change attitudes, he said during a recent interview for the Dirty Spoon Radio Hour, is to recognize that substance abuse is a problem.

“When somebody dies in an avoidable way, we can’t just stick our heads in the sand and say, ‘That’s just the way it is.’

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acknowledge that you have a problem?

But nobody will even mention the fact that this is a problem or that this is going on,” he said. “It’s not fair to talk about somebody after they die — this has always been a problem in the restaurant industry, so what are you going to do? It’s all these bullshit excuses.”

JUMPING SHIP Messer says that, having worked both as a bartender and a substance abuse counselor, his best suggestion for someone experiencing substance abuse issues is to get off that pirate ship — find another job. “If you weren’t able to make the conscious choice to not do blow or not have that drink tonight, it’s not going to magically come to you,” he says. “Not every restaurant is eaten up with coke; you don’t have to be around that crowd.”

“Some people can have a drink, but I can’t,” says Ervin, who recently quit drinking and left the service industry, falling back on her studies in architecture to jump fields. Giving up alcohol was hard for her, but it could have been harder. “I don’t feel like I could have done that being in a kitchen,” she says.

“I had to get out of that lifestyle, in a way. I love the culinary world, too — I want to be involved. But I can’t work on a line or run a catering company anymore. A lot of people feel stuck because they feel like this is all they’ve ever done, and there aren’t a lot of other options around here. It’s frustrating to see the problem and not know how to fix it.”

Nichols is also eyeing an exit. “It’s one of my biggest motivations to get out of the industry. I don’t want to live the rest of my life like this, in that environment,” she says. “I love food, and I love cooking and feeding people — it’s one of my favorite things in the world. But not in this way.” She is currently studying environmental science, hoping to work toward a masters degree and get out of the restaurant game.

As for fixing the industry itself overall, that’s a trickier proposition, says Messer. “When you talk about industry reform and say, ‘Well, what could you guys do?’ you really put [restaurant owners] on thin ice,” he explains. “If you’ve got good servers, good cooks, and maybe they have a coke problem, but they show up on time and work hard, you don’t want to shoot that in the foot.”

If owners do attempt to crack down on drug use and set the bar higher for staff, their initial turnover rate would be astronomical, he adds. “You work for yourself in a restaurant,” he says.

“They pay you $2.13 an hour to show

up and push their food. You don’t work for that place; you work for those tables.

The management of every restaurant knows that they don’t have a crew of loyal employees, but a crew of mercenaries.

“They’re going to do what they want, and when you tell them, ‘You can’t do that here,’ they’re going to go somewhere else.

Servers jump ship like nobody’s business.

So the employee pool is conducive to substance use and abuse. We shouldn’t expect a greater impact until more of these societal problems are addressed.”

Charlotte Stack, operations director for Chai Pani Restaurant Group, which includes Chai Pani, Buxton Hall Barbecue, Spicewalla spice company and MG Road Bar & Lounge in Asheville as well as restaurants in the Atlanta area, acknowledges that the company has seen staff members leave, go through rehab, then return to work. The business, she says, is making an effort to respond to these challenges proactively. “We generally have an empathetic approach and not a one-strike-you’re-out kind of deal,” she says. “We want to be understanding of people’s issues and acknowledge that it is a disease.”

The restaurant group is shopping for health care plans that include mental health coverage, but until one is imple-

mented, it has a dedicated emergency fund that managers can access for employees on a case-by-case basis. The fund, Stack says, has been used to pay for therapy sessions and rehab programs for staff. “I think we are pretty lucky in terms of our employment pool,” she says.

“Obviously, we have some employees who struggle, but we also have a group of employees who are in recovery and really support each other.”

Stack adds that having a communitybased resource for local hospitality workers would be helpful. She points to The Giving Kitchen, an Atlanta nonprofit that provides financial support and other assistance to restaurant workers in need.

“They have been a huge resource for us in Atlanta,” she says. “If somebody’s bike gets stolen, they will buy them a new bike so they have transportation to work, or they’ll help pay for therapy or help people into rehab. So that’s our big dream — to bring something like that to Asheville.”

For now, it could be up to industry leaders to help shift the culture. “Maybe we can’t make it go away entirely, but we can at least shave the sharp edges off of it,” suggests Morgenthaler. “I don’t hire people that I suspect have drug problems.

I don’t encourage that behavior, and I try to lead by example.” X

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT ASAP fosters a new health care paradigm with its inaugural Healthy Eating in Practice Conference Western North Carolina farms and locally grown food are probably the first things that spring to mind for most folks when they see the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s familiar green logo. But since it emerged in 2000 to aid the area’s then-declining agricultural sector, the nonprofit has also invested itself in working to shift mindsets to embrace healthy eating.

For nearly a decade through its Growing Minds program, ASAP has approached this goal through local schools and preschools, providing learning opportunities and resources for educators and school nutritionists, and working with dietetic interns at area colleges and universities. This month, the organization gives those efforts a giant push forward with the rollout of the Healthy Eating in Practice Conference.

Scheduled to take place SundayWednesday, Aug. 26-29, at the Omni Grove Park Inn, the ambitious new event is aimed at spreading the gospel of good food and lifestyle-focused medicine to the nation’s health care professionals, policymakers and educators. Three full days of workshops and hands-on activities will provide about a year’s worth of continuing medical education credits for physicians, dietitians, nutritionists and other health care practitioners.

“We just started looking around and thinking, ‘What other people do we need to help us with this, and who are the other stakeholders whose jobs it would be to

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The roster of more than 60 presenters includes a number of nationally known authors and educators such as Edwin McDonald of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, Doctor Yum Project founder Nimali Fernando and Kelly Brownell of the Duke University World Food Policy Center. Several local medical and nutrition professionals will participate as well, including ASAP board of directors member Brian Asbill — a cardiologist who helped inspire the event with his observation that 80 percent of his clients are suffering from illnesses caused by suboptimal diets.

The event also supplies Asheville flavor with the inclusion of hands-on cooking classes by local chef superstars such as John Fleer, Mark Rosenstein and Meherwan Irani and field trips to places

like the West Asheville Tailgate Market, Warren Wilson College and Patchwork Urban Farms. Allowing people to have positive personal experiences with healthy food is the goal of these offerings, says Jackson. “We’ve found in our work that really getting to people on a more personal level translates to the professional level,” she says. “That’s why we wanted our conference to be very experiential.”

ASAP is well-known for hosting agriculture-focused events like its annual Farm Tour, CSA Fair and Business of Farming Conference, but planning this venture took staff into complex new territory. In developing the event, Jackson attended Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives, an annual conference in Napa Valley, Calif., hosted by the Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health.

She also collaborated with MAHEC to create class offerings that qualify for CME units — a process she says was quite a learning experience. “We’ve made it so our speakers are bringing information that meets those CME requirements. It has to be robust, not just touchy-feely.”

Getting the word out about the conference to medical professionals nationwide was also challenging, so ASAP relied on its event partners, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Duke World Food Policy Center as well as longtime supporter the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina for help.

“ASAP is just this little nonprofit in Asheville,” Jackson explains. “We knew nobody would pay attention if we reached out to them, so we really leaned heavily on our partners to help us with outreach.”

So far, says Jackson, registration has been strong, with attendees signed up from all over the U.S. Now her hope is that more people will begin to see where ASAP is coming from — and where it’s going — with its focus on educating nutrition and medical professionals.

“Our work with registered dietitians and dietetic interns over the years, that has just been tremendous,” she says. “Those people graduate and they take jobs in WIC or hospitals or school systems, so they’re out there really being ambassadors for local, healthy food. And we’re hoping these health care people are just another piece of that puzzle.”

ASAP’s Healthy Eating in Practice Conference happens SundayWednesday, Aug. 26-29, at the Omni Grove Park Inn. For more information, visit healthyeatinginpractice.org. X

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by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

The Hop Ice Cream Café turns 40 The Hop Ice Cream Café will be serving free kiddie scoops of ice cream all day on Tuesday, Aug. 28.

But don’t let the word “kiddie” fool you. These freebies are available to all customers as part of the café’s 40-year anniversary. Along with complimentary treats, the celebration will also feature a free live performance by Sirius.B, the absurdist gypsy-folk-funk-punk band.

The daylong bash is a continuation of the café’s free weekly familyfriendly entertainment series, which owners Greg and Ashley Garrison launched shortly after they bought the shop in 2008. At that time, the business had recently moved from its original location at 505 Merrimon Ave. (present-day YoLo Asheville) to its current space in the Merrimon Square shopping plaza. The new store more than doubled the shop’s previous total square footage.

The added space allowed the Garrisons to host events, and from musicians to puppeteers, the weekly entertainment offerings gradually expanded in attendance, talent (including a 2010 performance

by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo) and meaning. “I remember having cellist Franklin Keel perform early on, and this one young kid saw him playing and just stopped and stared for like five minutes,” Greg says.

“That was a special moment. And it was something we wanted to create more of.”

Along with the in-house performances, the Garrisons have also focused on giving back to the community. Greg estimates that in the last 10 years, the couple have raised over $100,000 for local nonprofits and initiatives. “It’s contagious,” he says. “That feeling of knowing what you’re doing is benefiting somebody who really needs it — it’s a driving force behind a lot of what we do.”

The 40-year celebration is also a chance for the Garrisons to show their gratitude to the community.

“It’s just a way to say thank you,” says Greg. “Thank you not just to the families that are visiting, but to all the folks over the last 40 years that have been supporting this business. And all of the relationships and wonderful moments that have come as a result of us

at Cucina 24 on Wednesday, Aug. 29.

Four courses, including dessert, will be paired with four Tuscan red wines from Badia a Coltibuono: Cetamura 2016, R. Stucchi 2015, Classico Resrva 2015 and Sangioveto 2011. The evening will also include a presentation and discussion by Emmanuella Stucchi, owner of Badia a Coltibuono.

Tuscan Wine Dinner starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, at Cucina 24, 24 Wall St. Tickets are $85 including tax and gratuity. For tickets, call 828-254-6170.

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HOP RIGHT IN: Owners Ashley and Greg Garrison purchased The Hop Ice Cream Café in 2008. The couple had previously worked at the shop while in college at UNC Asheville. On Aug. 28, The Hop celebrates 40 years in business. Photo courtesy of the Garrisons purchasing an ice cream business in Asheville.”

The Hop Ice Cream Café’s 40th anniversary celebration runs 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 640 Merrimon Ave. Sirius.B will perform 6-8 p.m. For more information, visit avl.mx/57w.

BACONFEST ASHEVILLE RETURNS On Saturday, Aug. 25, BaconFest Asheville returns for its sixth year at Highland Brewing Co. FarmBurger, AUX Bar, Polanco Contemporary Mexican Cuisine and North Star Bakehouse are just a few of the participating restaurants for the rain-orshine event. The Chop Shop Butchery is the festival’s official bacon provider. Free shuttle service from the River Ridge Marketplace shopping center is available for general admission ticket holders. Along with bacon, the festival will also feature live music, beer and kids’ activities.

BaconFest Asheville runs 1-4 p.m. (with early access at noon for VIP ticket holders) Saturday, Aug. 25, at Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. Tickets range from $25-$50.

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FARM TO FORK DINING ON TOWN SQUARE The third annual Farm to Fork Dining on Town Square in Burnsville will begin with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails at the Nu Wray Inn. The event then moves to Main Street with dinner and live music by the 42nd Street Jazz Band. TRACTOR Food and Farms, a nonprofit food hub that works with over 50 small family farms in Burnsville, will team up with Taylor Montgomery, executive chef at Mountain Air Country Club, to prepare the dinner.

In a press release, Michael Graf, operating manager for TRACTOR, notes, “The dinner helps us in our mission to support local farmers but also allows us to show the community the impressive quality and variety of local offerings.”

Farm to Fork Dining on Town Square begins at 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at the Nu Wray Inn, 102 Town Square, Burnsville.

Tickets are $125. All proceeds benefit TRACTOR. For tickets, visit avl.mx/57v or call 828-536-0126.

Asheville will host its third annual Vegan Awareness Week beginning Monday, Aug. 27. The week will feature evening talks, film screenings and games at various locations, including The BLOCK Off Biltmore, Plant restaurant and Firestorm Books & Coffee, culminating with Asheville VegFest: A Celebration of Food and Drink, on Sunday, Sept. 2, at Pack Square Park. Brew Dawgz, Gypsy Queen Cuisine, King of Pops, The Hop, MacDaddy’s Lemonade, I Really Mean It, Revolution Gelato, Sunshine Sammies, Viet Gril and Zia Taqueria are among participating vendors for the festival. The gathering will also feature live music, craft booths and kids activities.

Vegan Awareness Week runs Monday-Sunday, Aug. 22-Sept. 2.

Asheville VegFest runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 2, at Pack Square Park, 80 Court Plaza. For more information, including a list of events, visit avl.mx/57u. X

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CAROLINA BEER GUY

FOOD

by Tony Kiss | avlbeerguy@gmail.com

Keg party 101

Local breweries and beer stores offer economical beverage solutions for large gatherings

What beer drinker doesn’t enjoy a keg party? The sight of a half-barrel cylinder or several smaller one-sixth barrel kegs — known as “torpedoes” — pouring cold, creamy draft brew makes a statement at joyous occasions like wedding parties or get-togethers to watch a big game.

Fun as they may be for the guests, a keg party is a pricey undertaking for the host. It requires an investment of time and the muscle to lug the heavy kegs into place at the celebration. Also the beer must constantly be kept cold, either on ice or in keg refrigerators, and specialized dispensing equipment is necessary.

But even with the effort required, keg events remain popular, especially in warm-weather months and through the holiday season.

THE KEG HUB Asheville’s Weinhaus beer and wine store has been in the keg business for many years, says owner Hunt Mallett.

He keeps filled kegs on hand in a cooler and can easily order local craft brands through area distributors. He also has the needed hand pumps to pour the suds.

The Weinhaus has been open for 42 years, but Mallett identifies 2003-04 as the time when kegs really took off, thanks in large part to the beginning of dramatic growth in Asheville’s craft brewing scene.

“Beer has been coming on like gangbusters,” he says. “We’ve seen a shift toward the microbrews, especially the local beers. We do a lot of wedding

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UNDERGROUND COOL: Weinhaus owner Hunt Mallett keeps a stock of 20-30 kegs of beer in the store’s basement refrigerator. He sells a keg roughly every other day. Photo

by Edwin Arnaudin business, which also helps in [keg sales].

Of course, [sales] go up in the summer.”

Mallett sells a keg of beer about every other day at the Weinhaus, where customers can choose from the store’s stock of 20-30 kegs. “We’ll always have a Highland Gaelic [Ale on hand], and we’ll generally have Yuengling or Pabst Blue Ribbon,” Mallett says. “If we have to order it, we can usually get it in a couple of days.”

The one-sixth barrel (5.2 gallon) kegs, which are the most popular with Weinhaus customers, sell for $80-$95 and equate to 55 12-ounce pours. Half-barrel (15.5 gallon) vessels run $185-$195 and contain the equivalent of 165 12-ounce pours. Refundable keg deposits are usually an additional $30-$50.

Mallett says that for parties with 20 or more guests, kegs can make economic sense. “The real disadvantage comes if your friends are not drinking like they used to and you end with a bunch of beer left over,” he says. If a big surplus is a concern, Mallett advises customers to order a

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one-sixth barrel keg and have canned or bottled beer to supplement if additional beverages are needed.

Because party pumps introduce oxygen into the keg, beer will quickly begin to deteriorate, and that spoilage is hastened as the brew warms up. Mallett suggests putting a bag of ice over the top of the keg to keep it cold. Any leftover beer will last about two days, he says, as long as it’s kept cold before off flavors develop.

DIRECT FROM THE SOURCE Some breweries, such as Highland Brewing Co., do not sell kegs directly to the public, while others do a steady business peddling their products through those means.

“We sell kegs to people almost daily, probably eight to 10 times a week,” says Asheville Brewing Co. President Mike Rangel. About half his keg business comes from Perfect Day IPA, which is very popular for wedding celebrations.

For football tailgating, the onesixth barrel kegs are most popular.

Asheville Brewing also offers 5-gallon, one-way plastic kegs, which are not returned and are recyclable. “We sells extra kegs [for the] Super Bowl and during Christmas and Thanksgiving [seasons]. It’s a good little industry,” Rangel says. “We also sell them for Christmas parties or anniversaries or any kind of get-together.”

Asheville Brewing will sell kegs of any of its regularly produced brews, such as Shiva IPA, but smaller-batch brews are generally not available for keg sale. The brewery asks for a 48-hour notice to have the keg ready for pickup.

Prices vary by beer, but a half-barrel of Fire Escape Pale Ale is $155, and Perfect Day IPA is $170. The keg deposit is $50, and pumps are available to purchase and keep for $15. Using the one-way keg is $20 plus the beer, but no deposit is required.

Asheville’s Hillman Beer has been selling kegs to the public for a few months. “We might sell a few kegs a week,” says co-owner Brad Hillman.

He offers only the one-sixth barrel kegs, and they cost $70-$100, depending on the beer, the availability of which changes regularly.

“It’s a week-by-week basis,” Hillman says. “Usually we have four to eight options out of the 18 beers we have on tap.” His top seller is the hazy New England IPA. Catawba Brewing Co. has always offered kegged beers to customers and rings up a couple of sales per week, says brewery co-owner Billy Pyatt.

The brewery’s higher-volume brews, such as White Zombie White Ale and Hopness Monster IPA, are most likely to be available for keg sales, while smaller-batch beers depend on supplies. Most of Catawaba’s keg sales are in spring and summer.

Pricing likewise depends on the beers. A half-barrel of Farmer Ted’s Cream Ale is $165, and a one-sixth barrel is $80. Meanwhile, the popular seasonal offering, Peanut Butter Jelly Time American Brown Ale, is $185 for a half-barrel and $90 for the one-sixth barrel. Catawba sells kegs at its Morganton, Charlotte and two Asheville taprooms, as well as at Palmetto Brewing Co. in Charleston, S.C., which is owned by Catawba. X

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THE FAMILY WAY

The East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival celebrates a neighborhood

BY AMI WORTHEN amiworthen@gmail.com The East End neighborhood holds some of Asheville’s most significant history. Located on the hillside directly east of downtown, it offers beautiful views and rich cultural roots. A new festival, happening Friday-Sunday, Aug. 24-26, in the area’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park, offers a space to celebrate these roots while nourishing connections among current neighbors.

The event boasts the theme “A Family Affair.” East End/Valley Street Neighborhood Association President Reneé White says the 2018 heritage festival “is going to bring the old residents back, and the new ones will get to meet them. It’s going to be one big happy community fair.”

Over the course of the weekend, attendees will hear music by

ALL THAT JAZZ: Saxophonist Stanley Baird, pictured, got his start teaching in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, before returning to his native North Carolina to serve as a band instructor in the public school system for 35 years. His eponymous group is one of a number of jazz-influenced acts to headline the East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival.

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Saturday morning, led by the Carver High School Band, will feature the Zohar Israel stilt walkers, drummers and dancers.

Of particular interest will be the East End/Valley Street section of the festival. Many former residents are bring-

ing their families from near and far to attend what is being called a neighborhood reunion. “We’re gonna have big poster boards for every street in this neighborhood, and if your family lived on that street previously or now, you’ll sign the poster board for that street,” says White. In addition, there will be a chance to share memories of or future ideas for East End. “That area is going to be dedicated to residents old and new,” White points out.

Some of the first non-native residents of what is now the East End/Valley Street neighborhood — Asheville’s oldest African-American neighborhood — were people enslaved by James Patton, who used their labor to run his Eagle Street Hotel and other enterprises. After emancipation, Patton’s son, Thomas W. Patton, gave land to AfricanAmerican churches. In 1876, black community leader Isaac Dickson purchased adjacent land from Thomas Patton to form a neighborhood for freed people called Dicksontown.

Dickson also helped found the Young Men’s Cultural Institute (now the YMI Cultural Center), which was an anchor of the East End business district on Market and Eagle streets.

In the years that ensued, the East End/Valley Street neighborhood developed into a vibrant hub of African-American community care, culture and commerce.

This supportive web was ripped apart during the period of urban renewal, which affected East End and other black neighborhoods during the 1960s and early ’70s. During this process, hundreds of houses and businesses were destroyed.

Valley Street (a portion of which still exists), one of East End’s main arteries, was expanded into a thoroughfare for North Asheville residents heading south. It was renamed Charlotte Street after one of Thomas Patton’s daughters.

This destruction was devastating to those who were impacted, scattering neighbors and fragmenting community.

Despite these losses, White has an optimistic outlook about her neighborhood. A lifelong resident of East End, she is dedicated to being a positive influence on its future. “The neighborhood has changed through gentrification, it’s become very

diversified,” she says. “I think it’s important to move on because you can’t get stuck with what happened in the past. You have to move forward and make things better.”

The heritage festival has been created to do just that, providing opportunities for people to “uplift their spirits, have some fun, dance, eat and just enjoy each other,” White says.

One reason White is confident the Heritage Festival will please is that Connie Jefferson is on the organizing team. Jefferson worked for the YMI Cultural Center 1992-2011 and was one of the event coordinators for the Goombay Festival. “She is right on it,” says White. “She knows what people like, and she knows how to put a festival together.”

A number of community partners are pitching in to help make the event a success. The Orange Peel is contributing its street team as well as tables, chairs and tents. LEAF is bringing its stage and Easel Rider van. Herman Besbleve Bright of the Just Folks Organization is coordinating Sunday’s gospel music and worship. White says these partnerships are important because a “collaborative, community effort [will] build bridges.”

Noting that neighbors do not often have a reason to gather en masse, White says, “We need the bonding. We need the connection.

I want our neighbors to communicate, to be there for each other and have a bond where everybody is watching out for each other.”

She adds, “I think that all neighborhoods should come together and do things. It makes a better Asheville.” X

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SOUTHERN NOIR Not long ago, David Joy was sitting with a 78-year-old man in Jackson County talking about the future.

Not the distant future, either. They were talking about the change happening in Jackson County, the place the man was born and where Joy has lived half his life. That change, so profound as to spark a conversation between an older man and one half his age, is a thread that runs throughout Joy’s latest book, The Line That Held Us, one he may well address when he appears at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café on Tuesday, Aug. 28.

“It’s one of the things in the background of all my novels — a kind of erasure of culture,” Joy says from his farmhouse in Sylva. “Within a generation, that culture will be completely gone” — a point he and the older man agreed upon.

“We’re losing our mountains to unrestricted land development, tourism and gentrification.”

Development provides jobs, though — jobs that Jackson County needs. It provides construction work for people like the fictional character Darl Moody, a block layer whose deer poaching in The Line That Held Us turns tragic. It employs people like Calvin Hooper, Moody’s best friend, who tries to get him out of trouble. But development also robs, as it does Dwayne Brewer, a violent, verse-spouting native in the novel who is robbed of the mountain culture that birthed him, prior to being robbed again by the tragedy that Moody accidentally inflicts.

The Line That Held Us is a dark story about family, destruction and what you’d do to hold on to those you love, as told by the people with the most to lose from Jackson County’s rapidly chang-

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tobacco and cotton. His father’s family is still in Paw Creek, which they settled in the late 1700s (his mother’s family is from Wilkesboro, in the northern foothills of North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains). Joy moved to Jackson County about 18 years ago, staying on after college at Western Carolina University, making friends with the working people who populate his newly released novel.

“I naturally gravitated to those people because I identified with them,” he says, speaking in a soft Piedmont drawl akin to the one the characters in his book might use. “I don’t keep a lot of friends, but those that I do keep are very much the characters I write about.” They all share an attachment to the land.

“Place and people here are inseparable,” he says. “I don’t think you can have one without the other.”

Joy has liked writing “pretty much my whole life,” he says. “I grew up in the oral storytelling tradition, sur-

rounded by storytellers. I tried to write stories when I was 5 or 6. By the time I got to college, I’d written 1,000 pages and wrote the same in college. None of it was any good.

About six years after college, I was still writing. And eventually, there came a time where I said maybe I was able to do something on a page that a lot of people couldn’t.”

He adds, “For me, it was just persistence. I was a slow study. And just stubborn.”

Jackson County didn’t inspire his latest novel, but it’s the setting of all his fiction (Joy also wrote The Weight of This World and Where All Light Tends to Go, an Edgar finalist for Best First Novel). Jackson is “the place I know,” he says. He’s lived the blue-collar life that its residents — and his characters — do.

He’s laid block (poorly, he says), worked chain saws, rousted livestock and chased chickens.

Because all of Joy’s stories are set close to home, “when a story arises, I know very specifically where [the characters] are, sometimes down to the tree,” he says. “When I imagine a story, I can’t imagine seeing it anywhere else.”

But he’s not liking everything he’s seeing in Jackson County, and that’s evident in the disdain the characters in The Line That Held Us have for second-home owners who build milliondollar houses on land that relatives once held dear. That sort of buy-it-up tourism displaces people who discover they can no longer afford to live in a county whose rising land values entice them to sell the family farm.

“It’s not like you can pick up and move down the road,” Joy says, reflecting the concerns of the people he writes about. “What you’re left with is a loss of heritage and a loss of culture.” X

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DRESSED FOR SUCCESS

The annual MSTMT fashion show empowers young women of color middle schools and recently partnered with the Erwin school district to provide the same programming.

Meetings always entail a meal (as some students face the challenge of adequate access to healthy food) and might include a speaker, a discussion of what’s going on at home, progress in school and sometimes “the difficult conversations” about disciplinary problems, Lake says. But there are plenty of opportunities for fun, too: Monthly outings can take the group on a hike at nearby DuPont State Recreational Forest — Lake likes to introduce the girls to sites in their own backyard that tourists pay to visit — or to the urban setting of Atlanta, among other destinations.

This year’s college trip will give students an opportunity to check out Clemson University, Georgia Tech, the University of South Carolina and other institutions. “They have to

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STYLE AND SUBSTANCE: The annual fashion show raises funds that support programming for the 112 teens and preteens currently enrolled in My Sistah Taught Me That. “Modeling promotes self-esteem,” says organization founder Leslie Council Lake, pictured at right, in hat.

“You’ve gotta walk with your shoulders back and head held high.” Photos courtesy of Lake “We do everything — we literally do life together,” says Leslie Council Lake, founder of My Sistah Taught Me That.

The local developmental and mentoring program works to empower black and brown girls ages 11-19. From creating a safe space to talk about any issues the girls face to esteem building and future planning, MSTMT aims to impact all areas of the journey from childhood to adulthood. Twice-weekly meetings include counseling, social work, lessons on hygiene and setting goals.

“One thing I’m really dedicated to, for our youth, is exposure: getting off this mountain, sometimes, and seeing other people who look like them in positions of leadership,” Lake says. “We’re so used to being the only one — the only one in the classroom, the only one in the

boardroom — that we forget that there are other people who look like us who are also successful.” By exposing the girls in MSTMT to women in leadership roles, Lake explains, they can have someone to look up to.

Another confidence builder is MSTMT’s annual fashion show, which also serves as time for budding models to shine on the runway while also raising funds for the program. The 2018 MSTMT Fashion Show will take place at Celine and Company on Sunday, Aug. 26.

“Modeling promotes self-esteem,” says Lake. “You’ve gotta walk with your shoulders back and head held high.” Girls in the program who don’t wish to model can work as a hostess or greeter at the event, or sell merchan-

dise for MSTMT, developing financial and people skills.

Now in its third year, the fashion show didn’t break even on its first go but attracted about 250 viewers and raised around $2,000 after expenses last year. Along with showcasing fashions from Nest Boutique and She Gets Dressed, the event also hosts vendors selling jewelry, offering community services and more.

That money generated from the fashion show funds programming for the 112 teens and preteens currently enrolled. “They all get served in different ways,” Lake explains. For those who, due to involvement with sports and other extracurricular activities, can’t make the after-school meetings, MSTMT goes into Asheville high and

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“They have to have the grades, write an essay and do research on at least one of the colleges.”

Recently, students from MSTMT and its affiliate program, My Daddy Taught Me That, attended Kids Across America, a summer camp in Branson, Mo. “It was a culture shock for most of our kids,” says Lake. A number of the group members had never traveled that far, “and they had never seen that many kids of color in one place.”

She adds, “They get tucked into their housing communities. It’s one way in, one way out, and the only time they leave is when they’re getting on a bus to go to school. … There’s more to the world than just Asheville.”

MSTMT launched two years ago.

MDTMT, which was established in 2010 by Keynon Lake (who is now Leslie’s husband). Keynon had been approached a number of times about doing a girls program, and Leslie was already involved with similar work.

It made sense to partner under the MDTMT umbrella.

So why are the program names slightly different? MDTMT works with young men who often grow up without a father figure in the house and, simi-

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larly, MSTMT “is specifically for young girls growing up in single-parent homes without a father,” Leslie explains.

But the girls do have that femalefigure to look up to and learn from.

“Mom’s working really, really hard, and we’re not trying to replace her,” Leslie says. She calls her own community-minded, hardworking mother “superdedicated and phenomenal” but remembers as a girl, “I was always longing for a sibling — someone I could spend time with and talk to.”

The mentors of MSTMT aim to be just that: a positive presence, a sympathetic ear and a role model. X

WHAT 2018 MSTMT Fashion Show WHERE Celine and Company 49 Broadway WHEN Sunday, Aug. 26, 3 p.m. $12 avl.mx/57g

by Alli Marshall

amarshall@mountainx.com

GOING TO THE WALL

Local muralists paint the cancer center parking deck

FEEL BETTER: “Studies show that blood flow increased 10 percent [due] to the ‘joy response’ part of the brain when participants viewed beautiful art,” says Marika Loveless, the executive director of the Mission Cancer Program. A group of local muralists — including Jen Toledo and Ian Wilkinson, pictured in front of a mural Wilkinson painted at the cancer center last year — will paint the center’s parking deck over two weekends in August. Photo by Cindy Kunst A colorful painting, viewed from a parking space, might seem like small comfort when measured against the daunting prospect of radiation and other cancer therapies. But it’s not without quantifiable healing merits: “Imaginative murals offer a comforting distraction from stressful cancer center visits and treatment,” says Marika Loveless, the executive director of the Mission Cancer Program. “Studies show that blood flow increased 10 percent [due] to the ‘joy response’ part of the brain when participants viewed beautiful art — just like when you look at a loved one.”

Local painter Ian Wilkinson didn’t necessarily know that statistic when he set out to get the go-ahead from the hospital and gather a team to create a mural in the cancer center’s parking deck. “We want it to be beautiful and uplifting and make people smile,” he says. “If we can get one person to crack a smile on their way into treatment, then we’ve done our job.”

Wilkinson and other muralists will transform the parking deck over two weekends this month. “Doctors, patients and members of the public are invited to participate in a collaborative mural wall”

on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, according to a press release.

The project came about because Wilkinson won a bid last year to paint a mural inside the cancer center, as part of a makeover of a green space. But the parking area, from which patients enter, “is dismal,” Wilkinson points out. “I told the director of oncology, ‘We could paint this whole thing.’” And after some discussion and planning, Wilkinson — who is the director of the Asheville Mural Project and known for such public art as “Day Dreamer” on the Aloft Hotel and the chessboard on the I-240 underpass (where Broadway becomes Merrimon Avenue), among dozens of others — secured permission to adorn 20,000 square feet of wall space.

The project happened to fit with another public art initiative that Wilkinson is part of: Burners and BBQ. That effort, which took place annually 2014-17, produced collaborative street art in the River Arts District. “I wanted the muralists [in Asheville] to see how connected ... and much camaraderie was involved the graffiti community,” Wilkinson says. “The muralists here were just lone-wolfing it.” After establishing trust with the graffiti artists, he

was able to bring mural painters into Burners and BBQ in its third year.

This year, Burners and BBQ is on hiatus, so Wilkinson has invited those muralists and other local artists to take part in the cancer center parking deck project. At press time, 19 painters had signed on, including Jen Toledo, Gus Cutty, Dustin Spagnola, Kathryn Crawford, Maxx Hawthornfeist, Ian Brownlee, Peter Parpan and Nathanael Roney.

“What I do most of the year is oil painting and pen-and-ink drawing,” says Toledo, who came on board to facilitate the project when Wilkinson realized he needed assistance. “The mural thing, they included me in that, and I was really grateful because it opened a door to that world. I realized I really enjoy working outside and working collaboratively with other artists.”

Teams of muralists will implement a design concept that Wilkinson describes as “stuff that is hopeful, stuff from the natural world, colorful pattern work.” Nothing harsh, stressful or objectionable.

“The mural will help transform the garage into a welcoming and friendly

environment,” Loveless says of the idea. “It can help bring a happy association with the cancer center and bring a smile to [patients’] faces. It also can give an optimistic and healing backdrop.”

But this really is a case of teamwork making the dream work. “We’re trying to get people to collaborate and work together so this piece can be one big piece that makes sense rather than 20 different little murals,” Toledo explains. The group-effort approach has received positive response: “I think this is a welcome thing for most people, to have company while you’re working and to share ideas.”

Loveless adds, “My hope is that the Asheville community and Mission Hospital will experience a sense of teamwork as we join together to create this wonderful mural for our cancer survivors.”

Though the hospital has contributed funds to the effort, Wilkinson wants the project to be a gift. The artists are volunteering their time, and a GoFundMe campaign, aiming to raise $7,700 for supplies, was launched. Learn more and contribute at avl.mx/55y. X

WHAT Mural project WHERE First floor of the parking deck at Mission Cancer Center 21 Hospital Drive WHEN Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

828-575-9622 356 new leicester hwy asheville, nc 28806

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by Edwin Arnaudin | Send your arts news to ae@mountainx.com

Hex Fest Carly Joy Miller and Gabriel Houck Awarded annually, the Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction seek to honor the best booklength manuscripts in spiritual writing. The winner in each genre receives a $1,500 cash prize, publication and a standard royalties contract from Asheville-based Orison Books.

On Thursday, Aug. 23, the 2017 winners in the two categories visit Malaprop’s to read from their acclaimed works. Carly Joy Miller’s poems in Ceremonial are described by the publishing company as “psalms of petition and praise from the raw material of life,” while the stories in fiction honoree Gabriel Houck’s collection You or a Loved One focus on “the hidden worlds of working-class people and their families.” The event begins at at 6 p.m. Free to attend. malaprops.com. Photo courtesy of Orison Books

The bimonthly Hex dance parties at The Mothlight, which raise funds for local nonprofits, have become so popular that they’ve inspired a two-day gathering. For the appropriately titled Hex Fest, Fleetwood’s serves as the host on Friday, Aug. 24, 2 p.m.-midnight, for workshops including herbalism and political organizing, an open house with Hex leaders, salsa lessons and a Latin Night dance party. On Saturday, Aug. 25, noon-2 a.m., The Mothlight will be home to a pop-up marketplace and workshops on tarot and legal support. The capstone dance party that night costs $5 and features a performance by local rapper A Mac and DJ sets by Durham-based Gemynii and Asheville’s own DJ Lil Meow Meow and DJ Malinalli. All other events are free to attend. Proceeds go toward WNC Sanctuary, which provides information, resources and transportation for undocumented community members. facebook.com/HexAVL. Photo of Gemynii by Brain Visions

Joe Louis Walker The son of blues-loving Southerners, San Francisco native Joe Louis Walker started playing guitar as a child. By the age of 16, he was the house guitarist at The Matrix, where he opened for or sat in with the likes of Lightnin’ Hopkins, Thelonious Monk and Jimi Hendrix as they toured through the Bay Area. In tandem with his skills on guitar, Walker has established himself as a respected singer-songwriter with an instantly recognizable voice who continues to explore the genre’s possibilities.

Lately, he’s shown an interest in acoustic blues and, in January, recorded the album Journeys to the Heart of the Blues with pianist Bruce Katz and harmonica player Giles Robson. Walker brings his decades of experience to The Grey Eagle for an 8 p.m. show Friday, Aug. 24. $18 advance/$20 day of show. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Marilyn Stringer

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Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals Just over two years have passed since Asheville’s Noah Proudfoot released his debut full-length album, Sing Sweet World. In the interim, he’s toured and played festivals backed by a full band known as The Botanicals. According to Proudfoot, they’ve been “learning new songs and putting a fresh coat of paint on older ones,” and are ready to release their first recorded material. Produced by Peter Brownlee (Midnight Snack), the five-song EP Travel Light combines blues guitar, steel pan drums and an active rhythm section while “exploring themes of adventure, simple joys and beauty amidst brokenness.” The band plays a CD release show on Friday, Aug. 24, at Asheville Music Hall. The night begins at 9 with opening sets from a pair of fellow local acts: indie-pop/ soul band Hustle Souls and neo-soul rockers Sister Ivy. $10. ashevillemusichall.com.

Photo courtesy of the band

THEATER REVIEW

by Patricia Furnish | drpatriqua@yahoo.com

‘JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH’

BY MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS Imagination is central to the story in this delightful adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book, James and the Giant Peach. The play, under the direction of Art Moore and staged

by Montford Park Players, runs through Saturday, Sept. 1.

The play opens with James’ parents (played by Stephanie Nusbaum and Sean Lowman) running away from a rhinoceros. We see only a little bit of the animal’s head, but we hear its fearsome roar. The rest is left to our imaginations. As the parents dash, screaming, around the stage, the rhino finally chases them down, and this is how they meet an oddly humorous demise.

This story contains a mixture of darkness and outrageous antics, a balance effectively maintained throughout the performance.

Now an orphan, sweet-natured James (Mika Rhianna Parks) must live with his Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge (Allison Stinson and Grethe Thilly). They treat him cruelly and give him hard work to do, like chopping wood and cleaning floors.

One day, James encounters a stranger who offers him a bag of magic crocodile tongues. James accidentally drops the tongues on the ground at the base of an old peach tree. A calamity, it seems, but instead, an enormous peach begins to grow. When James discovers a tunnel in the tree, he crawls in and finds himself in the peach’s pit, along with a quarrelsome group of bugs. The grasshopper, centipede, earthworm, spider, ladybug and silkworm become his companions as they embark upon a journey.

The introduction of the insect companions stands out as the highlight of the play. The audience gasped with delight as each character displayed its quirky costume. Glow Worm (Dalton Allen) shined with the help of little green lights attached to light and dark brown fabric. Earthworm (Laura Farmer) steals the show. Earthworm’s defining character trait, pessimism, balanced the upbeat, can-do spirit of the rest of the group. This peach contains a wealth of talent, including Old Green Grasshopper (Jefferson Haynes), who

FRUITFUL ADVENTURE: Mika Rhianna Parks stars as James in the family-friendly production James and the Giant Peach. Photo courtesy of Montford Park Players plays mandolin to accompany the silly songs of Centipede (Jordan Wright).

For this staging, Moore made set design choices within the constraints of the physical theater space. The cast of characters who accompany James on his ultimate journey over the ocean are, many times, confined to a small space when not on the main stage and are not always easy to see. The top tier of the stage creates the impression that we are watching the group travel high above the ocean in a giant peach. The outdoor setting, complete with a night sky full of twinkling stars that surrounds the characters, remains one of the signature strengths of the amphitheater.

A child’s fantasy world can be frightening. Dahl’s book conveys menace, along with whimsy and fun. We hope these characters, who have embarked upon a dangerous voyage, will receive a warm

welcome in their new country. Adults and children will find themselves reading the play on many levels. It reminds us that sometimes we need both escape and escapism. X

WHAT James and the Giant Peach

by Montford Park Players WHERE Hazel Robinson Amphitheater 92 Gay St. montfordparkplayers.org WHEN Through Saturday, Sept. 1. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

Free to attend, donations accepted.

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A & E CALENDAR • TU (8/28), 5-7pm "Better Photography for Your Small Business," presentation by Phillip Turner.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N Main St., Waynesville

ART ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu. edu • SA (8/25), 7:30pm Mark Mothersbaugh, member of the band DEVO, interviewed on stage by Professor Jon Jicha. $15. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive

HENDERSON COUNTY LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-697-4725, henderson.lib.nc.us • WE (8/22), 2pm "Poemscapes," presentation by photographer Ruthie Rosauer and poet and cellist Carol Pearce Bjorlie. Free.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • MO (8/27), 5-6pm Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville ASHEVILLE CHAPTER OF IKEBANA INTERNATIONAL ikebanaasheville.org • TU (8/28), 10am Proceeds from this ikebana demonstration, luncheon and auction benefit the Asheville Chapter of Ikebana International. $55. Held at The Country Club of Asheville, 170 Windsor Road BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (8/25), 10-11:30am - "The Art of Origami," activities. Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org

CELEBRATION SINGERS OF ASHEVILLE 828-230-5778, singasheville.org • TH (8/23), & TH (8/30), 5:30-6:30pm - Open auditions. See website for full guidelines: SingAsheville.org. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through FR (9/7) Applications accepted for upcoming monthly shows in the gallery.

Contact for full guidelines.

• Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council.

Contact for full guidelines.

ROOTS + WINGS CREATIVE CAMPUS 573 Fairview Road, rootsandwingsarts.com • TU (8/28), 6:308:30pm - Workshop to learn reverse die techniques. Registration: squ.re/2nRIIHX. $10$25.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS SHOW & TELL SUMMER POP UP SHOP (PD.) 8/16-26, 11am9pm @BHRAMARI BREWING CO. Shop local/indie craft, design, and vintage. showandtellpopupshop.com • 101 S. Lexington Ave. 28801.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-8842787, tcarts.org

THE NOVELETTE-IST: Siblings Susan and Corey McNabb grew up in Asheville, then moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a model and commercial actor and he was in art departments for a number of films, television shows and commercials. Back in Western North Carolina, the two have collaborated on the novelette The Vampire of Waller County, written by Susan under her pen name Suki McMinn with cover art by Corey. The two will greet visitors and sign the book at a launch event on Saturday, Aug. 25, noon-2 p.m. at the Corey C. McNabb Fine Art Gallery and Studio in the River Arts District. Free to attend. For more information, visit mcnabbfineart.com. Photo courtesy of Susan McNabb (p. 43) • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Brevard 4th Friday

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS

gallery walk with open galleries, art stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments.

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard

THE FAIRVIEW AREA ART LEAGUE (PD.) Is now accepting applications for the first annual "FAAL for Art" show on September 15 from 10am-

Transformational Massage Therapy through Frank Solomon Connelly, LMBT#10886 For $60 I provide, at your home, a strictly therapeutic, 1.5-2 hour massage that helps relieve psychological, as well as physiological, stress and tension. This allows deep peace and well-being to emerge.

(828) 707-2983

• Creator_of_Joy@hotmail.com

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3 pm at the Fairview Community center, 1357 Charlotte Hwy, Fairview, NC 28730. • The show is a juried art show with inside and outside booths available. Non-refundable 10x10 booth fees are $40 for art league members or $50 for non members.

• Art league membership is $25/year. Visit our facebook page to download the application • Send application and 3 images of your work or email questions: FAArtLeague@gmail. com

Project Grant with

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SU (8/26) AAAC Member Market, call for artists. Contact for full guidelines.

• Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist

55 E. Jordan St.,

the N.C. Arts Council.

Contact for full guidelines.

ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS ashevilleyouthchoirs.org • TH (8/23) & TH (8/30), 4-6pm - Open audition for students in grade K-12. See website for full guidelines. Held at Academy for the Arts, 5 Oak Street BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE Brevard, 828-884-2587, TheBrevardLittleTheatre. org • SA (8/25), 2-4pm & SU (8/26), 7-9pm - Open auditions for Deathtrap.

Contact for full guidelines.

OUR VOICE HEART WORKS SURVIVORS ART SHOW 828-252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Through WE (10/31) - Submissions accepted for the 17th annual Survivors' Art Show.

Information: arts@ ourvoicenc.org.

DANCE BEGINS AUGUST 15 • WEDNESDAYS 7-8 PM (PD.) 6-week Dance Class presented by Dance For Life at Asheville Event & Dance Center.

Learn the romantic Nightclub-Two. No partner needed. $75 for 6 weeks, $15 drop-in single session.

828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac.com • DanceForLife.net EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted

by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee.

Information: ashevillemovementcollective.org

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (8/30), 6pm Michael Jefry Stevens & Friends, jazz concert.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. CONCERTS ON THE CREEK mountainlovers.com • FR (8/24), 7-9pm - Outdoor concert featuring Geoff McBride, pop/R&B/soul. Free.

Held at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-649-1301, madisoncountyarts. com, info@ madisoncountyarts.com • SU (8/26), 4pm - The Kruger Brothers in concert. $25/$20 advance.

Held at Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center, 271 Laurel Valley Road, Mars Hill SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 828258-610-1345, folkheritage.org • SATURDAYS, 7pm - Outdoor old-timey and folk music jam sessions and concert.

Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. SLY GROG LOUNGE 271 Haywood St., 828-552-3155, slygrog.wordpress.com/ • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Open-mic for storytellers, poets, musicians and all kinds of perfor-

mance artists. Sign ups at 6:30pm. Free to attend.

TOP OF THE GRADE CONCERTS saluda.com • FR (8/24), 7-9pm - O’Neal Township, outdoor concert. Free. Held at McCreery Park, Smith Dr., Saluda

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • TH (8/30), 6:30pm "Frankenstein: Myth and Meme," presentation by Bernard Welt. Free to attend.

COREY C. MCNABB FINE ART GALLERY AND STUDIO 1 Roberts St., Suite 201 • SA (8/25), noon2pm - Susan McMinn presents her new book, The Vampire of Waller County.

FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop

• SA (8/25), 3pm Discussion on creative writing and illustration with Eisner Awardwinning graphic novelist Hope Larson, Constance Lombardo and Geneva B. Sponsored by the Buncombe Partnership for Children. Free.

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com

• LAST MONDAYS, 7:30pm - Spoken word open mic, hosted by David Joe Miller. Signups at 7pm. Free to attend.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (8/22), 6pm Debby Schriver presents

her book, Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom. Free to attend.

• TH (8/23), 6pm - Carly Joy Miller presents her poetry collection, Ceremonial and Gabriel Houck presents his book, In You or a Loved One: Stories. Free to attend.

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• SU (8/26), 3pm Michael Gerhardt presents his book, Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know. Free to attend.

• TU (8/28), 6pm - David Joy presents his book, The Line That Held Us. Free to attend.

BLUE RIDGE BOOKS blueridgebooksnc.com • TH (8/30), 6pm David Joy presents his book, The Line that Held Us. Free to attend. Held at Smoky Mountain Roasters, 444 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville TRYON ARTS & CRAFTS SCHOOL 828-859-8323, tryonartsandcrafts.org • Through MO (8/27) - Ghost story submissions accepted for The Apparationist contest.

See website for full guidelines. Held at Tryon Arts and Crafts School, 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon

GALLERY DIRECTORY

by Abigail Griffin WRITER IN YOU 828-776-8248 • MO (8/27), 10am2pm - Writers group.

Participants bring something they are reading, six copies of something they are writing and a packed lunch. Free. Held at First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St.

THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/2) The Groundling, romantic comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $26/$12 children.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE • TU (8/28), 5-7pm Annual meeting. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 828-884-2587, TheBrevardLittleTheatre. org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/26) Snoopy, musical. Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $22/$15 student/$10 children.

DIFFERENT STROKES PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIVE 828-275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAYS until (8/25), 7:30pm - Every Brilliant Thing, comedy. $21/$18 advance. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • FR (8/24) through SU (9/9) - Always a Bridesmaid, comedy.

Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. &

Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20-$52.

HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/26) - Pregnant Pause. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $16.

MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., themagnetictheatre.org • SA (8/25), 2pm Staged reading of Rain on Fire by Karen Saari. $5.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/1) - James and the Giant Peach. Free to attend.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

celebrating 25 Years!

ALLGOOD COFFEE 10 S Main St, Weaverville • Through WE (10/3) -Walking Through WNC 3.0: An Exhibit of Images

by Vagabond Photo Walks Group.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (8/22) - Sharing the Journey, group exhibition.

APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY appalachianpastelsociety. org • SA (8/25) through MO (10/1) - Appalachian Pastel Society 2018 juried member exhibition.

Reception: Saturday, Aug. 25, 1-2:30pm. Held at Grace Center, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (9/14) - MHU faculty biennial art exhibit. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through SU (9/30) Campus Creatives, exhibition of works in many media by UNC Asheville faculty and staff. Held at UNC Asheville - Ramsey Library, 1 University Heights • FR (8/24) through FR (10/5) - The Decisive Dream, exhibition of photographs by CubanAmerican artist Gory (Rogelio López Marín).

Reception: Friday, Aug. 24, 6-8pm. Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • Through FR (8/24) - Abstract Impulse, exhibition of paintings

by Mary Althea Parker.

Held at Western Carolina University, Fine Art Museum, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee • Through FR (9/14) Appalachia a Century Ago; Craft Through the Lens of William A. Barnhill, exhibition of photographs by William A. Barnhill. Held at Mountain Heritage Center, Cullowhee • Through FR (8/24) - Facing Culture, exhibition of masks and carvings by Joshua Adams.

Reception: Thursday, Aug. 23, 5-7pm. Held at Western Carolina University, Fine Art Museum, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-693-8504, acofhc.org • TH (8/30) through (9/14) - Bring Us Your Best, group art exhibition of 100 or more diverse art-

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ists. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-7pm. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (8/31) Best of 2018 by Roots + Wings Visual Arts Preschool, exhibition.

Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • FR (8/3) through WE (8/29) - Pioneer Women Painters of the River District, exhibition curated by Sara Ledonne.

Reception: Friday, Aug. 3, 5-8pm. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (10/26) - It’s Alive, book and printmaking exhibition showing artistic interpretations of Frankenstein.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through FR (8/31) - A Retrospective in Figurative, featuring the paintings of Cheri Brackett.

BENDER GALLERY 29 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through FR (8/31) - The Magic of Nature, The Maestro and Mary Van Cline Fundraiser for The Documenta Project, exhibitions.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (8/31) Vietnam: Some of Its People, exhibition of photography by Herb Way. DISTRICT WINE BAR 37 Paynes Way, Suite 9 • Through SU (9/30) - The Curved Line - A Celebration of Form, archival works on paper and canvas by the late Vadim Bora.

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • Through MO (9/3) Exhibition of prints by Porge Buck.

FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 828-298-7928, craftguild.org • Through (9/30) - Wabi Sabi, Embracing the Art of Imperfection, exhibition featuring 60 objects from Southern Highland Art Guild members.

GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through SA (9/8) Exhibition of the photos of Wanda Davis-Brown and the glass works of Judy McManus.

MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin • Through FR (8/31) Exhibition of works by Carol Conti.

MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • TH (8/30) through WE (10/31) - Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood, exhibition of works by Mariella Bison, David Ellsworth, Vicki Grant and Ron Isaacs. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-8pm.

• TH (8/30) through WE (10/31) - Exhibition of textile works by Samantha Bates. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-8pm.

PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (9/2) Inimitable Creation: Clay+Paper+Paint, exhibition of works by Holly de Saillan, Betsy Kendrick and Maria Andrade Troya.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (8/31) Foundeviation, graphics and ceramics exhibition featuring works by by Alex Irvine.

SPRUCE PINE TRAC GALLERY 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine, 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • SA (8/25) through (9/22) - Not to be Toyed With; Exploring the Art of the Doll, exhibition featuring approximately 100 works from regional artists.

Reception: Saturday, Sept. 1, 5-7pm.

THE BASCOM 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 828-526-4949, thebascom.org • Through SU (10/21) Homage, exhibition of ceramic work by Frank Vickery.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • Through SA (1/26) - In Times of Seismic Sorrows, exhibition of weavings, installations, sculpture and print by artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg. Reception: Friday, Aug. 24, 5-8pm.

THE COLORWHEEL GALLERY 175 King St., Brevard

• Through MO (9/17) - For the Love of Art, exhibition of the work of Sandi and Tom Anton.

Reception: Friday, Aug. 24, 5-8:30pm.

THE WEDGE AT FOUNDATION 5 Foundy St., 828-5052792, wedgebrewing.com/location-wedge-foundation/ • Through FR (8/31) Exhibition of paintings by Larry Turner.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, 828-682-7215, toeriverarts.org • Through (8/25) - Sphere of Influence: Glass Artists of Western North Carolina, group exhibition.

TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave., TraceyMorganGallery. com • Through SA (9/22) - Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning, exhibition of works from Dawn Roe. • Through SA (9/22) - Exhibition of photographs by Sharon Core.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through TH (8/30) Enchanted Forest, group exhibition.

UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (9/21) - Bronze Constructs, exhibition of work by Fred McMullen.

• Through FR (9/21) - HORSEscapes, exhibition of work by Monica Stevenson.

• Through FR (9/21) Spontaneous Intention, exhibition of work by Barbara Fisher, Kenn Kotara and Rand Kramer.

WINDOW GALLERY 54 Broadway, windowcontemporary.org • Through FR (10/26) - Re/production | Re/ presentation, exhibition of works by Aaron McIntosh.

WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828254-9234 • Through TH (8/30) - In Search of New Ways, exhibition of works by Justin Ramsey.

YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 828252-4614, ymicc.org • Through FR (8/31) Trigger Warning, 21-artist group exhibition on the issue of gun violence in the United States.

Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

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WHAT’S COOKING: Part celebration of musical prowess, part cook-off, the Hip-Hop Crockpot Summer Pressure Party ends the season in style. Hosted by Scott Damage, the event includes local and touring hip-hop and R&B acts such as Herb da Wizard, Profit Levi, Peter the Poet and others. DJ Prince Tryp, pictured, will be spinning tracks off of his mixtape GangGreen and providing party grooves, plus there will be raffle prizes and $100 for the best crockpot dish. Four hours of live music starts Friday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m. at The Sly Grog Lounge. $10. avl.mx/58f

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays, 9:00PM FLORA Listening Room Series w/ Alexa Rose & Dana Sipos, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: West End Trio (funk, swing, blues), 6:30PM Ashleigh Caudill, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Spoken Word Open Mic, 8:00PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (sign-ups at 7:30pm), 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Jon Charles Dwyer, Matthew Paul Butler & Bob Fleming (singerSongwriter), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Keegan Avery, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Grass to Mouth (trashgrass, newgrass), 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Bud Man & Groove Percussion, 4:00PM My Girl, My Whiskey & Me (progressive bluegrass), 5:00PM PULP Uncle Kurtis, 8:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ashley Heath, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wednesday Jam, 8:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS The Curls, WHRCKD, Treadles & Jupiter Styles (experimental pop), 10:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Turnup Truk (reggae), 9:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Crystalline w/ Alex Brown & Oariana, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jazz Open Mic hosted

by Jesse Junior, 7:00PM

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TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night THE SUNDAY SOCIAL LUB C IC ON THE P MUS ATIO @ 4:30PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Escape w/ Squad CTRL, 8:00PM

A Tribute to Robert Hunter THU w/ Bill & Stymie of Phuncle Sam 8/23

The Get Right Band

FRI

THU. 8/23 Jeff Anders & Steve Moseley (acoustic rock)

FRI. 8/24

8/24

DJ MoTo

SAT. 8/25 The Lowdown Band

(rock, pop & dance favorites)

ft. Opal Strings

[Rock/Funk/Classical]

DOORS: 7PM / SHOW: 8PM

FRI

8/24

(dance hits, pop)

[Grateful Dead Lyricist Tribute]

DOORS: 8PM / SHOW: 9PM

SAT

COURTYARD SERIES Juan Holladay Lo Wolf

8/25

DOORS: 5PM / SHOW: 5:30PM

SAT

Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts

8/25

w/ special guest

[Americana]

DOORS: 7PM / SHOW: 8PM

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 packStavern.com

TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night, 7:30PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Chris Titchner (singer-songwriter), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Rick Robertson Boys, 8:30PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS AIC Student Showcase (improv), 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Happy Hour w/ DJ Marley Carroll (R&B, soul, funk), 6:00PM

828-332-3090

AMBROSE WEST Tribute to Robert Hunter w/ Bill & Stymie of Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 8:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Queen Bee & the Honeylovers (jazz, swing, world), 6:30PM Jeff Black (folk), 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (jazz), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Vinyl Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM

312 HAYWOOD RD, WEST ASHEVILLE

www.ambrosewest.com

BYWATER Open Mic w/ John Duncan, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@ THE AC HOTEL Ben Phan (singersongwriter), 8:00PM CASCADE LOUNGE DJ Oso Rey Boogie Night & Mashups, 9:30PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Shiloh Hill, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Throwback Thursday w/ Molly Parti, 8:30PM

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FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Purple (soul, improv), 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Modern Strangers, 6:00PM

AUG. 22 - 28, 2018

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic (6pm sign-up), 6:30PM

Courtyard Open – Bring Food, Fam and Friends for early show & stay for evening!

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7:00PM

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DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Trivia Night, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: Drag Circus, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Dizgo, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kevin Fuller Duo (Americana, folk), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL The SteelDrivers w/ Kelsey Walden, 8:00PM

THU

PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jeff Anders & Steve Moseley (acoustic rock), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR MPH, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Marcel Anton Group, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Wayne Banks Trio, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Laura Thurston, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Open Grateful Dead Jam, 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Krekel & Whoa, 6:00PM Kool Keith w/ Natural born Leaders (hip-hop, soul, rock), 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Hex III Dance Party (benefit for JFAP: Justice for All Project), 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE BRRRZDAYZ w/ JJ Smash & Genetix, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Chris Jamison, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM

WEEKLY EVENTS

THIS WEEK AT AVL MUSIC HALL

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Anya Hinkle, 7:00PM

CORK & KEG Jesse Barry (soul, blues), 8:30PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Jordan Okrend, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Jason DeCristafaro Quartet (swing jazz), 9:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Virginia & The Slims, Rebecca & The Reckonings, 7:30PM

DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Circus Mutt (folk, jam), 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (R&B, soul), 9:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Steel Blossoms (country, folk), 6:00PM

AMBROSE WEST Courtyard Series w/ Juan Holladay, 5:30PM The Get Right Band w/ Opal Strings (funk, rock, classic), 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Eric Congdon Trio, 8:30PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Celebrity Blues Jam, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Noah Proudfoot & the Botanicals EP release w/ Hustle Souls & Sister Ivy, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Berlyn Trio, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Ashley Heath (blues, soul, songwriter), 6:30PM Caleb Caudle, 7:00PM Radney Foster, 9:00PM

BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Street Stompers, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Hot 'n' Nasty Night w/ DJs Jasper & Chrissy (rock & soul), 10:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Anthony Mossburg, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Dj Zeus, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Uchikomi, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Hoot & Holler, 7:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Thang (ft. members of The Snozzberries & more), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Gino Fanelli plays NOLA (early NewOrleans tunes), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST The Wobblers (roots, blues, soul), 9:00PM

THU

23

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KOOL KEITH

WED

KREKEL AND WHOA

23 OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Chalwa (reggae), 6:00PM

FREE PATIO SHOW, 6-8PM

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JOE LOUIS WALKER SAT MATTHEW 25 SWEET SUN

FREE PATIO SHOW, 5-7PM

ERIC CONGDON

WED THE DIRTY BADGERS,

FRI

24

26

OPEN MIC NIGHT

29 THU

30

LEFT LANE CRUISER

THU

30

W/ SAWZAW, VOLK

BROTHRS, THE MERCURY ARCS FREE PATIO SHOW, 5-7PM

SCATTERLINGS

GRAVITATION W/ SHADOW SHOW, GO JENNY GO

Asheville’s longest running live music venue • 185 Clingman Ave TICKETS AVAILABLE AT HARVEST RECORDS & THEGREYEAGLE.COM

ORANGE PEEL The SteelDrivers w/ Kelsey Walden, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Volk (gothic, western rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Chris Wilhelm & Friends, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Jam in the Trees (bluegrass, Americana festival), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Alex Williams, 8:00PM TurnUp Truk, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tim Kuykendall & Friends Birthday Fundraiser for Sweet Bear Rescue Farm, 8:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Chuck Lichtenberger, 9:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Hiphop Crockpot Summer Pressure Party, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM J Atkinson & The Righteous Wave, Rye & Hectorina (Rock), 9:00PM

STATIC AGE RECORDS Goop Bois Party w/ EME (electronic), 10:00PM

THIS WEEK AT THE ONE STOP:

DO CA$ NA H T

THU 8/23 Dizgo - [Jam] FRI 8/24 Thang! An Asheville Uberjam - [Funk/Jazz] SAT 8/25 The Cliftones - [Reggae]

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UPCOMING SHOWS - ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL:

NOAH PROUDFOOT AND THE BOTANICALS SATURDAY NIGHT JIVE SUMMER EP RELEASE w/ Hustle Souls + Sister Ivy DANCE SERIES w/ DJ AVX FRI 8/24 - S HOW : 9 pm (D OORS : 8 pm ) T ICKETS : $10.00

TUESDAY:

Turntable Tuesday - 10pm

SAT 8/25 - S HOW /D OORS : 10 pm $5 C A $ H S UGGESTED D ONATION

WEDNESDAY:

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY:

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Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia 6:30pm

F ree Dead F riday

9:30pm

5pm

SUNDAY: Bluegrass Brunch

ft. Bald Mountain Boys + Aaron “Woody” Wood and Friends - 10:30am-3pm

8/31 The Snozzberries Present: A Psychedelic Circus 9/1 Saturday Night Jive Summer Dance Series w/ Marley Carroll LYD Set 9/6 CBDB 9/7 Off With Your Radiohead Presents: Hail to the Thief 9/13 Exmag Live Band w/ Modern Measure TICKETS & FULL CALENDAR AVAILABLE AT ASHEVILLEMUSICHALL.COM

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7:00PM–HUSSY HICKS & ERIC ERDMAN FRI 8/17

SAT 8/18 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: TONY ELTORA TRIO 7:00PM–OLIVER CROW 7:00PM–HUSSY HICKSTHE & ERIC ERDMAN SAT& DISCO 8/18 9:00PM–MOTOWN DANCE PARTY WITH PAULA &THE PEGGY 7:00PM–OLIVER CROW SUN 8/19 9:00PM–MOTOWN & DISCO DANCE PARTY WITH PAULA & PEGGY 5:30PM–RUSS WILSON PRESENTS: SUN 8/19 CLOSEHARMONY TUE 8/21 5:30PM–RUSS WILSON PRESENTS:

CCLOSEHARMONY OBLUEGRASS M I N G S OW/OSTIG N & FRIENDS 7:30PM–TUESDAY WED 8/22 TUE 8/21

6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES:W/WEST TRIO 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS STIG END & FRIENDS

WED 8/22 7:00 PM 9:00PM–ASHLEIGH CAUDIL 8/23 6:30PM–ISIS THU LAWN SERIES: WEST END TRIO 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: 9:00PM–ASHLEIGH CAUDIL QUEEN BEE & THE8/23 HONEYLOVERS THU FRI LAWN 8/24 6:30PM–ISIS SERIES: QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: ASHLEY HEATH FRI 8/24 7:00PM–CALEB CAUDLE 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES:FOSTER ASHLEY HEATH 9:00PM–RADNEY SUN 8/26 7:00PM–CALEB CAUDLE SAT 8/25 FOSTER 6:30PM– ISIS9:00PM–RADNEY LAWN SERIES: &BLAKE, WOODS, ARMITAGE 5:30PM–BANJO NICKARU WESTERN SCOOCHES 7:30PM–VANCESUN GILBERT8/26 & JAMES MADDOCK TUE &8/28 5:30PM–BANJO NICKARU WESTERN SCOOCHES

7:30PM–VANCE GILBERTBLUEGRASS & JAMES MADDOCK 7:30PM–TUESDAY W/ THOMAS CASSELL BAND TUE 8/28 WED 8/29 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS W/ THOMAS CASSELL 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES:BAND WHISTLEPIG

WED 8/29 7:00PM–SINGER-SONGWRITERS: WYATT EASTERLING & ROD WHISTLEPIG ABERNATHY 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: THU 8/30 7:00PM–SINGER-SONGWRITERS: WYATT EASTERLING & RODUPLAND ABERNATHY 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: DRIVE THU 8/30 7:00PM–RAY T CHESNA 6:30PM–ISIS SERIES: UPLAND GUEST DRIVE 7:00PM–JACKLAWN VICTOR W/ SPECIAL 7:00PM– RAYROSE CHESNA 7:00PM–RAY TT.CHESNA ALEXA 9:00PM–JACK VICTOR W/ SPECIAL GUEST ALEXA ROSE 9:00 PM 7:00PM–JACK I S I S A FRI SVICTOR H E V8/31 IW/ L LSPECIAL E . C O MGUEST DINNERALEXA MENUROSE TIL 9:30PM 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: I SLATE I S ANIGHT SOKREND H EMENU V IEXPERIENCE L LTILE .12AM COM JORDAN TUES-SUN 5PM-until 7:00PM–ULTRAFAUX: DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM ORIGINAL JAZZ MANOUCHE LATE MENU TILRD 12AM 743NIGHT HAYWOOD

SAT 5PM-until 9/1 TUES-SUN 828-575-2737

7:00PM– NATHAN EVANS 743 HAYWOOD RDFOX

828-575-2737 8:30PM– AL PETTEWAY SUN 9/2

5:30PM– CARLO AONZO TRIO

TUE 9/4 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ GRASSFED

WED 9/5 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: TBD

6:30PM–GRACE PETTIS CD RELEASE WITH REBEKAH TODD & THE ODYSSEY

THU 9/6 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: TBD 7:00PM– CUDDLE IN THE COSMOS

ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM

TUES-SUN 5PM-until 743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737

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FEATURED BAND

C L UB L AN D THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE 3 Cool Cats Vintage Rock n' Roll Dance Party, 9:00PM

CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM

THE GREY EAGLE Joe Louis Walker, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Papa Vay & The Do Rights (country & swing), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Monolord (Swedish doom) w/ Navajo Witch & Ape Vermin, 9:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Asheville Jazz Quartet Open Mic hosted by Jesse Junior, 7:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Bryan Divisions Album Release (hip hop), 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Polly O'Keary & The Rhythm Method, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lenny Pettinelli (evergreens), 7:30PM Ryan Barber (r&b, soul, funk), 10:00PM

CORK & KEG Soul Blue, 8:30PM

DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show, 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Sons of Pitches (cowboy jazz), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Turchi (blues, roots rock), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Log Noggins, 8:30PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Saturday Improv, 9:00PM HARMON FIELD IN TRYON Harmon Field Music Festival, 12:00PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Abu Disarray, 8:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Blake, Woods, Armitage, 6:30PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Black Feathers, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Gruda Tree w/ Mamas Marmalade, 7:00PM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Zapato (jazz, funk), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Courtyard Series w/ Lo Wolf, 5:30PM Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts w/ Special Guest (Americana), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Swing Jam & Pat Kelleher Classic Irish Music, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Saturday Night Jive Dance Series w/ DJ AVX, 10:00PM BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Mojomatic, 6:30PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Special Affair, 9:00PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

THE RIGHT ADDRESS: Off-stage husband and wife, onstage collaborators Eryn Murman and Jason Hite took the name of their band, 5j Barrow, from their New York City street address. But the former Broadway performers recently embarked on a year-long tour of North America before relocating to Asheville. They’re finding a home here for their folk-rock sound and people-watching-inspired songs; their David Mayfield-produced EP The Journey, Vol. 2 was released in May. The band plays at One World Brewing West on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 8:30 p.m., by donation. oneworldbrewing.com

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB, 11:30AM

PACK'S TAVERN The Lowdown Band (rock, pop & dance favorites), 9:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE Matthew Sweet (alternative rock, power pop), 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Rhonda Weaver & the Soul Mates, 7:00PM

THE WINE & OYSTER Jason Whitaker (comfortable covers), 7:00PM Jesse Barry w/ Kelly Jones, 7:00PM

LUELLA'S BAR-BQUE BILTMORE PARK Leo Johnson's Gypsy Jazz Brunch, 1:00PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM NOBLE KAVA Shane Parish, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Folk Music Melee, 7:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Cliftones, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Trial by Fire (tribute to Journey), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY The Clydes (Americana), 6:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Jam in the Trees (bluegrass, Americana festival), 1:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Lazybirds, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Phuncle Sam, 6:00PM Sol Rythms, 10:00PM, SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Ellen Trnka, 3:00PM Fin Dog, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Mikrodot Album Release Party w/ Kirby Bright & more, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, 9:30PM

TIMO'S HOUSE DJ Deacon, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP The Ointment Appointment, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Ben Falcon Duo (evergreens, country), 7:30PM Ruby Mayfield & Sax Play (blues, soul, dance), 10:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY The Bluegrass State Invades The Blue Ridge w/ Fatbox & Sugadaisy, 1:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Circus Mutt (rock, bluegrass), 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Ian Ridenhour Band, 8:00PM

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MAX RATING Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print.

You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: ALPHA

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Documentarian Rachel Dretzin embraces “otherness” in Far From the Tree, his elaboration on Andrew Solomon’s award-winning book

Far From the Tree HHHHS DIRECTOR: Rachel Dretzin PLAYERS: Andrew Solomon, Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick, Jason Kingsley DOCUMENTARY RATED NR THE STORY: An exploration of parents with children who are vastly different from themselves.

THE LOWDOWN: An emotionally mature, complex and tender look at family.

If you’ve read enough of these film reviews, you’ve probably seen me kvetch about documentaries. It’s a style of filmmaking I rarely take to, one that, despite its dedication to showing real life, is too often antithetical to what I want out of film as a form. This doesn’t mean I despise

all documentaries, but rather that it’s rare that I’m actually drawn to one. However, every so often I’ll come across a documentary that surpasses the constrictions imposed by both its form and the often granular, obsessive nature of the genre to create something genuinely universal.

Rachel Dretzin’s Far From the Tree is exactly on of those films.

The film is “based” on Andrew Solomon’s award-winning book of the same name, but feels more like a elaboration of Solomon’s work. The idea behind Solomon’s book (as stated by Solomon himself, who often appears in the film) was to explore the ways in which families experience things like disability or otherness, while the movie is very much in the same vein.

The germ for the book, for instance,

grew from Solomon’s coming out to his homophobic mother and his struggles with wanting a “normal” life.

In the same way, the film explores “otherness” not as a fault, but more toward creating a means of understanding. Mostly, the movie explores raising children with disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism or dwarfism less as a constant stream of hardships (though there are aspects that are inherently difficult) and more as simply an aspect of life, one with the potential for love and living a truly full life, even with an extra amount of struggle and stress.

Far From the Tree doesn’t simply stop at this point however, getting into much more morally and emotionally complex areas. One family, for instance, is forced to reckon with

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their son being convicted of murder and being sentenced to life in prison, but still having love for him. The simplest thesis you can attach to the film is that parenting is a complex gamble. The reality of parenting might be different from the dream, but there is still love and a certain responsibility that’s inherent with child rearing. It’s a noble notion and one that Far From the Tree handles with tenderness and true emotion.

There’s genuine empathy and weight here within the filmmaking and the film’s subjects, making for an exploration of family that feels touching, honest and complex. Not rated. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

Alpha HHHS DIRECTOR: Albert Hughes PLAYERS: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Natassia Malthe FAMILY SURVIVAL ADVENTURE RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Somewhere in Europe, circa 18,000 B.C., a young huntergatherer must find his way home with

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the help of an unlikely friend — the first wolf to enter into a symbiotic relationship with humans.

THE LOWDOWN: This loosely structured story of the domestication of Canis lupus is a visually spectacular adventure tale that, while clearly geared toward younger audiences, will appeal to dog lovers of all ages.

When the Hughes brothers made a name for themselves 25 years ago with Menace II Society, they seemed to have abundant potential and a distinct path carved out for themselves, following up with less distinguished but thematically similar works like Dead Presidents and the offbeat documentary American Pimp. Then they started throwing hard curveballs, from massacring Alan Moore’s From Hell and putting Denzel Washington through his own box-office hell with the execrable Book of Eli. And yet, despite their tendency to defy easy categorization, when I saw the name “Albert Hughes” attached to Alpha — an Ice Age adventure epic about the domestication of dogs — I thought it must be referring to someone else.

It’s not.

I mention all of this because Alpha is defined by a level of aesthetic ambition that I would never have expected from Hughes, whose prior work has veered haphazardly from gritty social realism to hyperstylized action spectacle. Alpha is such a surprising film precisely because it’s so unabashedly picturesque, playing something like an IMAX nature

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documentary with the rudiments of a narrative tacked on to keep its target audience — presumably prepubescent boys — suitably engaged through its relatively brief running time. It may be somewhat light on plot and character development, but its sweeping starlight vistas and snowcapped panoramas lean so heavily into cinematographic grandiosity that you’ll hardly notice.

That scant narrative follows a group of neolithic hunters along a route laid out by their ancestors to sacred hunting grounds, where a carefully orchestrated ambush will allow them to kill enough buffalo to feed their tribe throughout the harsh winter. Among them is Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a neophyte whose father, Tau (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), the clan’s chieftain, may have taken him on his first hunt a little prematurely. When Keda is thrown over a cliff by a bison and left for dead, he makes an unlikely ally in the form of an injured wolf (Chuck, in a star-making screen debut), and the two must brave predatory megafauna and impossibly inclement weather to return to the boy’s village.

It’s the story of canine domestication as if told by Jack London by way of Planet Earth, and it works far better than that description might imply.

If Hughes seems an unlikely director to helm an anthropological adventure movie for kids, it doesn’t show in the results. Though I can’t speak with any authority to the historical accuracy of the hunting strategies or tool-making behaviors displayed here, and the linguistic proxy invented by writer Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt to represent what might have been spoken 20,000 years ago is utterly unverifiable, that was never really the point here anyway.

Hughes and cinematographer Martin Gschlacht have created a visually stunning crowd-pleaser, and while the script may be deficient when it comes to plot and plausibility, the film’s wolf-dog hybrid lead has the acting chops to carry the film and then some. In a summer overpopulated with superhero spectacles and quick-turn horror cheapies, Alpha is a welcome respite that stands out from the pack. Rated PG-13 for some intense peril. Now Playing at AMC River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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ANIMATED DURESS: Pictured is a still from Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope, a documentary about the science of adverse childhood experiences. Crossnore School & Children’s Home hosts a screening of the film on Aug. 28 at Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown. Photo courtesy of KPJR Films • The Musical Matinees weekly summer film series continues at the Columbus Public Library, 1289 W. Mills St., Columbus, on Friday, Aug. 24, at 1 p.m. with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Free. polklibrary.org • Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St., concludes its Phenomenal Friday Fantasy Films series on Aug. 24 at 3 p.m. with Dragonslayer. Complimentary popcorn and drinks will be provided.

Free. avl.mx/514 • Asheville School of Film will screen its latest batch of student films on Saturday, Aug. 25, 9:30-11 a.m., at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave. The program includes projects from all three Summer Teen Camps as well as the Spring Teen Film course, Intro to Filmmaking, Intermediate Film and more. The overall suggested rating is PG-13. Free to attend. ashevilleschooloffilm.com • On Saturday, Aug. 25, at 9 p.m., Bill Moore Park (formerly Fletcher Community Park), 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher, hosts a Family Outdoor Movie Night screening of The Lion King. The Fletcher Parks & Recreation concession stand will be open selling food and beverages. Attendees are encouraged

FILM ASHEVILLE CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS aiaasheville.org/ • TH (8/23), 7pm - If You Build It, documentary film screening. $10. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave.

ASHEVILLE FILM SCHOOL ashevilleschooloffilm.com • SA (8/25), 9:30am Screening of films made during the Asheville Film School spring teen film course, summer teen film camps, intro to film course, intermediate/ postproduction course, and alumni productions.

Free to attend. Held at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave.

to bring blankets and chairs. Free. fletchernc.org • The Asheville Vegan Society kicks off Vegan Awareness Week on Monday, Aug. 27, 6:30-8 p.m., with a screening of Vegan 2017 at Garlik Vegan, 3754 Brevard Road, Suite 108, Horse Shoe. The film is the third installment in a series of annual movies by the publication Plant Based News and documents the global journey of veganism throughout the titular year, spotlighting its triumphs and the challenges the movement has faced as it continues to grow. Complimentary pizzas, water and tea will be provided. The bar will be open for other drink purchases. Free to attend, but attendees are asked to reserve one of the 25 available seats online with a $5 refundable deposit. avl.mx/580 • Crossnore School & Children’s Home hosts a screening of Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 5-8 p.m. at Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. The onehour documentary explores the science of adverse childhood experiences. The film will be followed by a talk-back panel.

Complimentary refreshments will be served. Free, but please register online so organizers may adequately prepare. avl.mx/57z X

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (8/28), 6:30pm Greatest Show on Earth (1952), film screening with local film historian Chip Kaufmann. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester FILM SCREENINGS AT WCU bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • SU (8/26), 3pm - Sunday Cinema Series: Yerma,

film screening. $15. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • FR (8/24), 8pm - Classic World Cinema: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, film screening. Free.

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A-X-L Family sci-fi adventure from debut writer/director Oliver Daly. According to the studio: “A-X-L is a top-secret, robotic dog created by the military to help protect tomorrow’s soldiers. Code-named by the scientists who created him, A-X-L stands for Attack, Exploration, Logistics and embodies the most advanced next-generation artificial intelligence. After an experiment gone wrong, A-X-L is discovered hiding alone in the desert by a kindhearted outsider named Miles Hill (Alex Neustaedter), who finds a way to connect with him after activating his owner-pairing technology. Helping Miles gain the confidence he’s been lacking, A-X-L will go to any length to protect his new companion, including facing off against the scientists who created him, and who will do anything to get him back. Knowing what is at stake if A-X-L is captured, Miles teams up with a smart, resourceful ally named Sara Reyes (Becky G) to protect his new best friend.” No early reviews. (PG)

The Happytime Murders Adult puppet comedy directed by Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson. According to the studio: “No Sesame. All Street. The Happytime Murders is a filthy comedy set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives with a shared secret, one human (Melissa McCarthy) and one puppet, are forced to work together again to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.” No early reviews. (R)

McQueen Documentary profile of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen from director Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui. According to the studio: “A personal look at the extraordinary life, career and artistry of Alexander McQueen.

Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, McQueen is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary. ” Early reviews positive. (R)

DIRECTOR: Julian Schnabel PLAYERS: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Max von Sydow BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA Rated PG-13 Julian Schnabel’s third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2008), continues his apparent fixation with artists who died in their prime. His first films, Basquiat (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000), were about the graffiti artist-turned-neo-expressionist painter Jean Michel Basquiat (dead of a drug overdose at the age of 27) and Cuban poet and writer Reinaldo Arenas (suffering from AIDS, Arenas committed suicide at age 46). Here Schnabel, with the considerable help of screenwriter Ronald Harwood (Being Julia), has adapted the autobiographical work of Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby to film. And while Bauby might be the least important of Schnabel’s trio in terms of his own artistic accomplishment, there’s little question that the film is the most successful of Schnabel’s encounters with cinema to date. None of this is to indicate that Diving Bell is anything like a perfect film. It is, however, a frequently compelling and powerful work that finally becomes a testament to the indomitability of the human spirit — albeit blessedly not of the sweeping-crane-shot and swell-of-lachrymose-music variety. This excerpt was taken from a review

by Ken Hanke published on Jan. 23, 2008. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on Friday, Aug. 24, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

The King’s Speech HHHHH DIRECTOR: Tom Hooper PLAYERS: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi HISTORICAL DRAMA Rated R In Brief: An improbable subject becomes a magnificently enjoyable and moving film experience that needs to be seen in director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech (2010), the story of Britain’s King George VI and his attempts — with the help of an unorthodox therapist — to overcome his speech impediment to become the wartime voice of his people. The film is a beautiful mixture of fact, supposition, historical name-dropping, reverence and irreverence (in about equal measure), and probably a degree of outright fantasy. But what matters is that it works. The climactic speech — beautifully underscored with the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 — turns out to be a scene of intensely emotional drama, no matter how corny that may sound. As entertainment and as one of the warmest and most human films, this is the essential Christmas movie.

Movie-wise, you’re not going to get a better present this season. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Dec. 21, 2010. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The King’s Speech on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The two pieces of advice I have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak the following declaration aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong soft kisses and tender unruly kisses and secret truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.” If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious affectionate amazements and deep dark appreciation and brisk mirthful lessons and crazy sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think? Do these formulas work for you? Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy?

I hope so. You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As you map out your master plan for the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have been communing with my horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education — for free! Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1.

What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2. What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “All the world’s a stage,” wrote Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers.

Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others. Our personalities are facades that display a colorful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behavior as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.”

Invoking his view — and in accordance with current astrological omens — I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks. Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think you’ve done enough rehearsals. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism. What? You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In all the time we’ve worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business.

So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your Season of Completion. Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when the new cycle begins? Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you ready to mix more business with pleasure and more pleasure with business than you have ever mixed? I predict that in the coming weeks, your social opportunities will serve your professional ambitions and your professional ambitions will serve your social opportunities. You will have more than your usual amount of power to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections.

Here’s my advice: Be extra charming, but not grossly opportunistic. Sell yourself, but with grace and integrity, not with obsequiousness. Express yourself like a gorgeous force of nature, and encourage others to express themselves like gorgeous forces of nature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When I picture a perfect reader,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.” I suspect he was using the term “monster” with a roguish affection. I am certainly doing that as I direct these same words toward you, dear Sagittarian reader. Of course, I am always appreciative of your courage, curiosity, cunning, suppleness and adventurousness. But I’m especially excited about those qualities now, because the coming weeks will be a time when they will be both most necessary and most available to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You do not yet have access to maps of the places where you need to go next. That fact may tempt you to turn around and head back to familiar territory. But I hope you’ll press forward even without the maps. Out there in the frontier, adventures await you that will prepare you well for the rest of your long life. And being without maps, at least in the early going, may actually enhance your learning opportunities. Here’s another thing you should know: Your intuitive navigational sense will keep improving the farther you get from recognizable landmarks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Healing isn’t impossible.

You may not be stuck with your pain forever. The crookedness in your soul and the twist in your heart may not always define who you are. There may come a time when you’ll no longer be plagued by obsessive thoughts that keep returning you to the tormenting memories. But if you hope to find the kind of liberation I’m describing here, I advise you to start with these two guidelines: 1. The healing may not happen the way you think it should or imagine it will. 2. The best way to sprout the seeds that will ultimately bloom with the cures is to tell the complete truth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Nineteenth-century British painter J. M. W. Turner was one of the greats.

Renowned for his luminous landscapes, he specialized in depicting the power of nature and the atmospheric drama of light and color. Modern poet Mary Ruefle tells us that although he “painted his own sea monsters,” he engaged assistants “to do small animals.” She writes that “he could do a great sky, but not rabbits.”

I’m hoping that unlike Turner, you Piscean folks will go both ways in the coming weeks. Give as much of your creative potency and loving intelligence to the modest details as to the sweeping vistas.

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1 Big name in French perfumes 4 “Enough already!”

10 Wolf riders in “The Lord of the Rings” 14 Movie villain with a red eye 15 Shout from a crow’snest 16 Peel 17 Music-streaming giant 19 Work with a manuscript 20 Sport of horse racing, with “the” 21 Workout-obsessed sorts, colloquially 23 Given (to) 26 Egg-shaped 27 Your dream partner 29 Suddenly attack 31 What’s-___-name 32 Hard to please 34 Flows out 38 Fumble 39 Archaeologists’ workplace 42 Dog-___-dog 43 Willie who made “The Catch” in the 1954 World Series 45 Operating system whose logo features a penguin

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46 Surrounding glow 47 Prepare to pray 50 Poor, as reception 52 Garment with strings 54 Ostentatious 55 Unembellished facts 58 Part of a long line of Apples 61 “___ be fun!”

62 Close by 65 Interactive website feature 66 Renowned ancient orator 67 When said three times, good name for a crew fraternity?

68 Southend-on-Sea’s county 69 Mushrooms in miso soup 70 + and = share one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 Table evener 9 “Whew!”

10 Not requiring memorization, as a test 11 r’s, in geometry 12 Was deeply affected, maybe 13 Groups of reps 18 Hairdo that takes a long time to grow 22 Sch. where The Cavalier Daily appears 24 Burned, in a way 25 Classic soda brand 27 Gender-neutral pronoun 28 Queen on Olympus 29 What each shaded square in this puzzle represents 30 “___ Eyes” (1975 hit) 33 Look at wolfishly DOWN 35 Mole Note of indebtedness 36 Transportation system Locale of a 12/7/1941 that stops at SFO attack 37 Time at a hotel Madea’s portrayer in 40 Heinie a long-running film 52 Low choir 41 Product showcase series 44 Grammy-winning section Camera type, for short dubstep pioneer ___ tip (quick 53 Becomes tiresome 48 Prefix with compete acknowledgment) 54 Princess Fiona’s 49 Draw in Incense Water whirl 51 Baby bump? savior, in film

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55 Appurtenance for 60 Bok ___ a snowman 63 Source of inside 56 Hostile encounter info?

57 It comes in a shell 59 Feeling in the long 64 Cramped dwellings, for short run?

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