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Transportation can help affordable housing efforts Having served six years on Asheville’s City Council and two years on the Housing and Community Development Committee, my conclusion is that the principal way local government can help with affordable housing involves transportation.

Efforts to build affordable housing in the city immediately run into the realities of the real estate market.

After World War II, as our industries reverted from military manufacture to autos, and incomes were rising, those who could afford to fled the city.

Due to racial disparities in income, this became known as “white flight.”

Cities became darker and poorer and ran down until they were as vacant as Asheville in the 1970s, with boardedup storefronts and tumbleweeds in the streets. Around the turn of the century, the wealthy rediscovered cities: Living downtown was convenient and suddenly classy. The biddingup of downtown began. Affordable housing was pushed to the margins.

Meanwhile, the cost of commuting, which was negligible when gas cost 17 cents a gallon, rose to as much as 25 percent of median income.

There are two ways I see that local government can effectively address affordability. The first is to drop parking-space requirements for city apartment developments. Parking requirements cost developers plenty, and many renters would be happy to pay less for a place without a space.

The second is to develop countywide transit, with park-and-ride lots on major corridors and with late-night collector routes for foodservice employees who work past midnight. This would make transportation more affordable, which translates into making housing at the city margins even more affordable, and it would relieve parking pressure downtown.

We can no more suppress the downtown boom than another generation could have stanched migration to the suburbs. Let’s adopt policies that can actually work.

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transmission line from the Lake Julian power plant to a substation in Campobello, S.C. Route 17B, one of several routes being studied for the transmission line, shows a 150-foot right of way next to the creek at the end of our yard .

The transmission towers will be 140 feet tall. Trees and shrubs taller than 12 feet in the right of way will be cut and sprayed with defoliant chemicals. Some consequences of building 17B are: • Home values will decrease.

Think about seeing 140-foot towers with a 150-foot right of way out your back door? An eyesore — equally unattractive to a potential buyer. As soon as one of these lower-value properties sells, it becomes a market com-

parable for the sales of all future subdivision properties.

• This is to be a 230-[kilovolt] transmission line. High-voltage lines emit electromagnetic waves. EMF exposure may be a health risk to humans, small children and wildlife in the vicinity of the line. We wouldn’t let our grandchildren near the back of our yard for fear of damaging exposure to their little bodies.

• Herbicides should never be sprayed near a water source (like our creek) where rain runoff from the watershed area can seep into our creek and groundwater. Our springfed creek runs year-round, carrying its contents downstream, good and bad. In some areas along 17B, Duke Energy will use aerial spraying along the 150-foot right of way to defoliate plant life. Aerial spraying is subject to herbicide drift, a risk to both plant life and wildlife habitat.

• If the 17B right of way borders the creek on our back property line as it appears to do so on Duke Energy’s 17B route, then many trees and shrubs along the creek bank will be removed.

These trees and shrubs, besides being needed to control soil erosion, will severely damage the wildlife habitat that supports nesting songbirds, herons, hunting hawks, small mammals, fish, frogs, turtles and crawfish. It would be a disaster to lose this habitat.

Wouldn’t the I-26 route with its existing right of way be a better route?

Couldn’t the transmission line along this route be buried? Has a definitive cost/benefit study ever been performed? Does the Foothills Project have to destroy our priceless pristine mountain view in the process?

— Barry Miller Arden

Doubts grow about City Council candidates I’m having growing doubts about [City Council candidates Lindsey] Simerly and [Keith] Young. Simerly gave an inspiring affordable housing speech in Xpress a while back, but she was appointed by the same incumbents who have been fiddling while Rome gentrifies, so she can’t be different enough from them to reverse the crisis or she could never have won an appointment. Also, Simerly has too much environmental baggage to make the environmental sacrifices necessary to make Asheville affordable, as she opposed homebuilders in 2007 and loggers earlier, both required for affordable housing.

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Dee Williams and others are similarly tainted by incumbent board appointments or endorsements; [Grant] Millin opposed walkable housing in the BB&T building, and Young spent too much of his [“The Jeff Messer Show”] interview talking about football, which is troubling in a city that spends far too much on stadiums.

So of the candidates I tentatively mentioned last spring, only LaVonda Payne seems to lack the kind of baggage that can stand up to further scrutiny.

On the bright side, I did notice in Xpress that Young and Grady both seemed to acknowledge that Asheville’s affordable housing crisis is a total supply problem caused by the Unified Development Ordinance, as Simerly has in the past but has failed to do recently.

— Alan Ditmore Leicester

Corporate interests reached into public pool time Thanks to the Moral Monday Movement, I’ve learned about the collusion between our government and their addiction problem — corporate money. The American Legislative Exchange Council is the source of corporate money behind the tendency to privatize without public knowledge at public expense.

On the local level, privatization happens with pressure from the American City County Exchange. Recently I’ve learned that our five county pools have been privatized. The pools closed earlier this year, Aug. 7, in order to have private parties. (Was it Tim Moffitt who took control of the Parks and Recreation Department away from the county?) …

ALEC’s influence on state legislatures is the origin of the mandatory sentencing laws, whereby the prison systems have been largely privatized. ... The anti-public-education laws are ALEC laws.

Privatization of everything owned by the public — the VA, the post office, Social Security, is a conversation that must be explored and debated. This trend is furthering a transfer of wealth from us, the 99 percent, to the 1 percent ALEC-member companies that have, because of money in politics, have way too much sway in our government.

This is not capitalism — this is pay-to-play economics. What can we do? Avoid ALEC member companies. Google it! Watch “The United States of ALEC” on YouTube.

I’m driving an electric Nissan Leaf after reading the October 2014 article about the Koch Brothers in Rolling Stone — and I love not buying gas!

Here’s the exciting news. Since Trayvon Martin was killed, I believe it’s 106 major U.S. corporations [that] have left ALEC! People have great power for change.

More than any other single source, the Koch brothers’ money has contaminated our state legislature. Their funding of ALEC’s “model legislation” has become law in many states. Many of these laws have been deemed unconstitutional, but since the legislature has changed funding of our judiciary elections (and our appellate judiciary elections), I believe some of our judges are starting to go to the dark side.

These things do affect us. Duke Power’s coal ash, fracking, our kids’ education, the millions behind bars, control of our water, all connected. Taking money away from our public schools is resegregating our society. That is not making a better world for our kids.

And I lost a week of swimming with my kid. What are they going to

c a rt o o n b Y b r e n t b r o W n charge us for the pool pass next year since now this is all about a private corporation making money?

— R. James Harris Asheville

Re:Create coalition supports balanced copyright reform Thanks to the Internet, there are more artists creating more work than ever. That is why lawmakers in Washington have rightly been focused on the issue of copyright modernization.

I’m a member of the Harry Potter Alliance, an organization that uses popular stories like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games to talk about realworld social injustice and inspire fans to take real-world action. We’ve sent cargo planes full of medical supplies to Haiti, donated over 200,000 books to communities in need and worked with Warner Bros. to make all Harry Potter-brand chocolates fair-trade certified. We’ve been able to do all this because the U.S. Copyright Office and fair-use laws have made it possible for fans to be creative and innovative.

Members of Congress, including our state’s own congressional delegation, are currently considering proposals to modernize the Copyright Office. As an organization that reimagines popular media as tools for social change, the future of our nation’s copyright laws and the modernization of the Copyright Office matter to us. That’s why we’ve started building a community of artists and fans at fanworksarefairuse. org and why we are members of Re:Create.

Re:Create is a new coalition of creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and consumers that supports balanced copyright reform and safeguarding freedom of expression.

We recently sent a letter that urges Congress to work on long-term fixes to the Copyright Office to help it better achieve its mission, rather than making it an independent office as some have proposed.

We urge the members of the North Carolina congressional delegation to support the future of creativity, innovation and the economic benefits of the digital economy by making longterm fixes to the Copyright Office that will best support the public’s needs.

— Katie Lawrence Asheville

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BREAKING BARRIERS: Managed care organization Smoky Mountain LME/MCO and several regional healthcare providers are working to bring an integrated care model to WNC, beginning with a comprehensive care center at 356 Biltmore Avenue. Photo courtesy of Smoky Mountain LME/CMO.

By mAx hUnt mhunt@mountainx.com Unless you’ve just emerged from the wilderness after several decades, chances are you’ve heard some of the roiling discussions going on across the country concerning the current state of the health care system. Whether it’s presidential candidates working on a policy speech or an individual making home budgeting decisions, implementing a comprehensive health care reform plan continues to be a hot topic.

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But while politicians and medical officials across the nation argue the effectiveness of measures like the Affordable Care Act and how to make health care more accessible for the average citizen, some health care providers in Western North Carolina are pursuing the innovative strategy of integrated care in the hope that improving communication among providers and streamlining the availability and type of care patients receive will make accessing and providing care easier and more effective both locally and statewide in the near future.

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While several aspects of the overall vision remain in the planning stages— and many challenges lie ahead— a new brick-and-mortar facility in Asheville is already offering several services to the public, with expectations to be fully operational by next March, and the groundwork for improved interaction between health care providers is in the works. many services, one patient The World Health Organization defines integrated care as “the orga-

nization and management of health services so that people get the care they need, when they need it, in ways that are user-friendly, achieve the desired results and provide value for money.”

The value and effectiveness of an integrated care model has been explored and expounded upon by many esteemed organizations within the health care universe, including the Mayo Clinic, the American Medical Association, the international consulting firm McKinsey & Co., the Substance

Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Stanford University, National Committee for Quality Assurance and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Xpress explored the various facets of integrated care (“The value of patient-centered care,” Jan. 28) earlier this year in its multi-issue Wellness package, in which several local health care and homeopathic providers offered their takes (“Wellness survey participants share their views,” Jan. 28) on what integrated care means and the benefits of approaching patient treatment (“Local practitioners explore medicine’s new frontier,” Jan. 28) from a comprehensive, mind-and-body outlook.

“The idea behind it is to provide the best access to care for individuals in the western part of the state,” says peter rives, director of integrated care for Smoky Mountain LME/MCO, a publicly managed care organization that oversees Medicaid, state and local funding and assists in health planning for individuals

neW soLUtions: Hired on by Smoky Mountain to oversee the implementation of integrated care into the region, Director Peter Rives says that the new model will “break down the silos that exist within health care.” Photo courtesy of Smoky Mountain LME/MCO.

with mental health, substance use or intellectual and developmental disability health needs. But while Smoky Mountain’s organizational focus may be on mental and behavioral health, the integrated care model would incorporate physical health care providers into the mix, offering comprehensive care options to patients.

“For the individuals that are walking in to these providers, what you get is no wrong door,” says Rives of the long-term value of an integrated care system. “No matter where you show up or what it is that’s affecting you today.”

Rives was hired by Smoky Mountain in June to head the development of the integrated care model and apply it to the existing network of care providers and systems, which spans 23 WNC counties. He says that Smoky Mountain, which partners with health care providers around the area such as RHA Health Services, Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry and Mission Health, is the perfect organization to launch such an overarching reform.

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“There’s been a push nationally and internationally to break down the silos that exist within health care and really address the needs of a whole person,” says Rives. “The individuals who access care within Smoky’s provider network for their mental health needs don’t leave their bodies, aches and pains behind at the door.”

Improving the width and depth of response to a patient’s health issues increases the quality of treatment, says craig martin, Smoky Mountain LME/MCO’s chief medical officer, who notes that people with chronic mental illness die more than a decade sooner on average than the average North Carolinian. “The reasons for that often times are preventable, and we could help people address them early on, rather than waiting until the end,” he notes.

With this in mind, Smoky Mountain began reforming its care provider network earlier this summer. Plans are in the works to improve communication between health care providers, agencies, patients and their families through a streamlined system of shared records.

“The bottom line is really trying to provide the best quality care we can to the folks we’re serving and doing whatever we can to be integrating and communicating with primary care [providers],” says sandy feutz, who works as the vice president of operations for RHA Health Services, one of Smoky Mountain’s partners on the project.

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n eWs the challenge of the mountains With that in mind, the question now becomes how Smoky Mountain and its partner agencies will implement such a model in a way that best serves WNC. “There are models from multiple areas of the country that have a strong evidence base which shows you can save money and prevent chronic conditions from getting worse — and actually reverse course — using some of these integrated care approaches,” Rives says.

“Our challenge is to find the right approaches for the unique area that is Western North Carolina.”

One major aspect of this approach is encouraging providers from across mental and physical health specialties to work in tandem and, ideally, under the same roof, to provide care options for a common patient.

Smoky Mountain has already made strides in accomplishing this initiative: earlier this month, it assisted in placing a licensed psychiatrist with the Mountain Area Health Education Center and is involved in MAHEC’s Project 1300, which aims to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits by linking up “high-risk” patients suffering from mental illness or substance abuse with primary health care services around the region. The LME/MCO has also established telepsychiatry programs in primary care facilities in Watauga and Avery counties.

However, Rives admits that implementing a complete comprehensive care system requires a fair amount of funding and logistical support to be successful. For those providers not yet ready or able to integrate other forms of care into their practice, Rives says a similar strategy called “coordinated care,” which consists of increasing communication across the traditional divisions of health care, can be effective. shelly foreman, senior director of public affairs for Smoky Mountain, likens this system to the training a doctor receives in medical school, where the student receives basic instruction in a host of different disciplines, with the idea of caring for the whole person rather than a specific area of expertise.

“I think it’s very rewarding to professionals to be able to call on other resources that you feel like you might need and to support what you’re trying to accomplish,” she says. “It makes sense intuitively —

we know there is a mind-body connection and that those two things cannot be separated — [and] our system is really trying to work toward that common-sense intuition.”

Integrated care can also provide doctors and primary care providers with a greater pool of knowledge and feedback when making diagnoses, freeing up time and resources for them and reducing costs. “They don’t have to say ’I’m sorry, I don’t treat that, you’re going to have to go somewhere else or call some other number.’” Rives adds. “They can now say, ’I’ve got a colleague right down the hall, let me go grab her and she can talk to you about that.’

That’s the power of integrated care.” a model for success One concrete accomplishment toward the goal of meshing the various offshoots of the health care system is happening at 356 Biltmore Ave., across the street from Mission Hospital. Renovations to the property are underway with the hopes of opening the first fully operational facility-based comprehensive care center in the region by early spring 2016, which will provide an array of physical and mental health resources all in one location.

This includes outpatient care provided by RHA and MAHEC (currently operational); an on-site pharmacy operated by ABCCM scheduled to open by Sept. 1; a 24/7 crisis center and detox facility; a peer-respite program where patients can consult with others in recovery; an urgent care-type office for those needing immediate care; and family and mental health resources provided by the Western North Carolina chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which currently operates out of the building at 356 Biltmore.

In addition to the wide array of services available at the comprehensive care center at 356 Biltmore, the facility will serve those who are underinsured or have no insurance coverage. “Our goals are really about giving a higher quality of care for crisis services, because people who are going to the emergency department aren’t going to get the end goal that’s desired by showing up there,” says Feutz. “Even the medical screenings we’ll do [at 356 Biltmore] are more than a lot of folks who we serve have had in a very long time.”

She adds that having a variety of mental and physical health professionals present and able to collaborate in one location provides

the potential to uncover previously undiagnosed conditions in patients.

Foreman says that the facility at 356 Biltmore will provide a “great example” of other projects the care provider is initiating across the region. “There’s not anything quite like this currently in the region,” she says. “What we’re really finding is there’s not anything like it in the state. We may be doing something that’s pretty innovative [nationwide].” doctors without borders While the 356 Biltmore crisis center will be the most visible aspect of the integrated care project, Smoky Mountain and its partner organizations would like to expand this model across the entire region into a comprehensive care network.

To understand how a network like this might work, Foreman says the staff is studying some of the existing partner organizations such as RHA and MAHEC, which envelop a variety of health services across the region. Feutz says that RHA’s approach begins with reaching out to care providers to offer training and feedback on how each professional in the organization’s umbrella can effectively communicate and receive support from other organizations within the network.

“Oftentimes, that reaching out might simply be a letter that says, ’This person that you serve is also receiving services from us, this our plan, this is how you can reach us, this is your contact person,’ that sort of thing,” says Feutz. “We like to get that conversation started.”

While Smoky Mountain is working on developing an electronic network that will provide a central hub of this data, Martin indicates that variances in the types of records and databases different care providers use for filing present challenges to a streamlined, one-stop information shop. Much of the currently available information comes after a patient has already received services, he says. “We want to try to get things more into the real time.”

Rives reports that there are designs for a statewide health information data exchange as well, but that such a system is more “aspirational” than operational at the current time. “That is a critical component to the future success of this sort of initiative,” he notes, and until that system is up and running, “we in this region have to be really creative [about] how we fund it, how we exchange information.”

barriers inherent in the system While optimism over the 356 Biltmore facility and the new initiatives being launched in the coming year runs high, Foreman is quick to acknowledge that barriers to this model are still very real. She says that many of these challenges can be alleviated by educational outreach to patients and their families.

“We want to give consumers and family members information on how they can better understand the relationship between physical and behavioral health and developmental disability issues,” she says, “even things they need to know to ask their provider so they can become more engaged in knowledge of their own health care and the relationship between mind and body.”

Rives says that biggest challenge for Smoky Mountain and health care providers moving forward is that the state health care system remains “bifurcated.” All the Medicaid physical health services are authorized and billed through one route, while behavioral and intellectual or developmental disability services go through another, he explains. Rives adds that while expanding Medicaid coverage is the easiest way to solve this problem, the state legislature has not gone in that direction.

Many communities do offer free health services at clinics across the state, but how long these clinics remain in operation is often anyone’s guess, according to Feutz. “It’s kind of everchanging. Practices are open for a while and then they’re not, just like any other,” she notes. Feutz notes that part of RHA’s mission in this regard is “staying up-to-date with what the resources are.”

And while the state does have funding in place for indigent populations in need of health care, Foreman says that funding is “a very small resource.” However, she sees the idea of integrated care as posing benefits to the taxpayer as well as the patient. “These things mean cost efficiencies, because the better health people enjoy, the less crisis they have to go through, the more they stay healthier and the more cost-effective the whole system becomes. As a public manager of care, those resources and cost efficiencies can be turned into greater services, more services and more funds for services for people in the community.”

continue to refine and tweak their vision of an integrated care system as the January launch date for 356 Biltmore approaches.

Discussions with community members and care providers will continue in earnest as officials attempt to bring this project to fruition, says Foreman. “It’s important to ask ’Why is this important?’” To that end, she says bringing in experienced professionals such as Rives to oversee the project helps to keep the issues at hand in focus.

And integrated care goes a long way toward dispelling traditional stigmas around mental health and substance abuse issues, he notes. “It can be very refreshing to have other options to access those types of services in a medical setting or in a less stigmatized

setting” than one would find in a small community where everyone knows each other.

In essence, Rives says it boils down to the old adage of “working smarter and not harder.”

“By coordinating care, you’re making sure that everybody’s on the same page and everybody has the information they need to provide the best quality care, based on models that we know work and yield good outcomes.”

The task at hand, says Foreman, is figuring out “how can we promote it? How can we support it? How can we build partnerships and support training efforts for our provider network that give them those tools, skills, and contacts needed to do the job more effectively?” X

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Co-published by Carolina Public Press and Mountain Xpress

WHo oWns Wnc’s WaTeR? Diving into the murky future of Western North Carolina’s water systems

WATER ISSUES: Asheville Meter Services worker Tyler White installs a new 1.5-inch meter service on Sweeten Creek Road in Asheville last Wednesday. The future management of the Asheville water system is currently in the hands of the N.C. Court of Appeals. The system consists of approximately 1,674 miles of water lines. Photo by Mike Belleme/ Carolina Public Press

Editor’s note: This story is co-published by Carolina Public Press and Mountain Xpress.

Some Western North Carolina community water systems are so old that the water in your glass may have traveled there through wooden pipes buried a century or more ago.

Is this just a folk tale?

Hendersonville Water and Sewer Utilities Director lee smith hasn’t seen a wooden section in his 10+plus years of service — but he won’t rule it out.

“It is possible. Our earliest pipes date back to the 1880s,” Smith said of the second-largest water system in North Carolina’s 18 westernmost counties.

What isn’t a folk tale is that it’s no simple — or inexpensive — task to keep the 580-mile water system serving roughly 62,000 people afloat, Smith said.

As is the case in many government-owned water systems,

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Hendersonville water consumers pay service charges that offset a significant portion of the utility’s expenses.

For the 2015-16 fiscal year, the city anticipated that water-and-sewer services expenditures would reach $24.7 million. Of that, $1.9 million was dedicated to water maintenance and construction.

“We have to prioritize,” Smith said.

“We have a pretty significant inventory of pipeline that needs to be replaced.

But we’re no different than any other system our age.”

Indeed, they aren’t alone. Figuring out ways to preserve, repair and enhance decades-old — or even century-old — water systems provides a flood of challenges for cities, towns and communities across North Carolina’s mountains.

And, experts say, ownership structures of those water systems may influence infrastructure upgrades, service quality and the ultimate price water users – that’s you, the people with glasses of water in your hands – pay.

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who owns your water now — or in the future?

Katie hicks, the assistant director of Clean Water for North Carolina, a nonprofit water advocacy organization with an office in Asheville, is at least one person who pays close attention to who owns and operates drinking water systems in the mountains.

“We are water rich in Western North Carolina, but there will be many more users in the future, so it’s important to think about who has the right to use the region’s water,” Hicks said. “Some models of ownership and management of water are more transparent and more responsive to the needs of residents.”

She cautioned that more industry and development in the region will add stress on the water supply, and that climate uncertainty — such as drought — can also make the rights to water and decisions about how it’s allocated a slippery topic.

Right now, roughly 2.3 million North Carolinians rely on private wells. But the majority of the state’s residents tap into a public water system.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a “public” water system provides service to 15 or more households or 25 or more individuals, regardless of who owns and operates the system.

Homeowner groups, municipalities, counties or private utility companies, to name a few, may own these water systems and are, therefore, charged with making sure supplies are safe and consistent.

Yet, exactly who will manage the challenge of delivering this water isn’t certain. Across the nation, investor-owned utilities are playing a larger role in managing large public systems. While that’s yet to take hold in North Carolina, the future of who owns and operates public drinking water systems in the mountains is murky.

A 2013 North Carolina General Assembly law transferred the Asheville-owned water system — the largest system in WNC — to a new regional water and sewer authority.

The city successfully challenged the law in 2014, however, the state has appealed. i. faison hicks, a special deputy attorney general arguing for the state, said during court arguments in June that since the water system and the city itself are charted by the state, the water system doesn’t belong just to Asheville and its citizens.

“Municipal public water systems belong to the state,” he said.

If the state’s appeal is successful, Asheville Mayor esther manheimer told Carolina Public Press the new law will have sweeping consequences for cities and towns across North Carolina.

“I think there’s a concern that, if the state prevails, it means that cities don’t own their proprietary assets,” she said. That, she said, would impact the financing of projects and municipal decisions about upgrading aging systems.

While the impact of the court’s ruling could be most acute in Asheville, it may also challenge the status quo of water system ownership across the state.

Among those North Carolinians who tap into community water systems, 87 percent currently get water from a government-owned community water system. But systems with large debt or facing costly repairs may have incentive to privatize,

merge with other utilities or transfer ownership to other public operators.

The Polk County Board of Commissioners is facing such issues, and is currently considering the long-term transfer the control of its water system to a district in South Carolina in exchange for improvements and maintenance.

Opponents of the plan have said that leaders are rushing to give away one of Polk’s most precious resources. However, a majority of county commission members have said the water system’s expenses are disproportionately large relative to the number of customers it serves, and they are continuing efforts to negotiate a management contract.

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a distress to the system, or saving a system in distress?

Could other communities follow suit?

According to the Public Water Supply Section of the N.C. Division of Water Resources, 289 community water systems are active in the 18 westernmost

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counties of the state. A community water system is one that provides service to residents year-round and can be operated by local governments or can be privately owned.

Among the 451,000 residents who depend on community water systems in WNC, 87 percent receive their tap water from governmentowned utilities.

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But in rural and suburban areas, small water systems serving fewer than 500 customers are common, and many are already operated by private companies. While most water systems operated by private companies are small, among the total number of community water systems in WNC, more than 80 percent are operated by private owners.

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tom roberts, president and chief operating officer of Aqua North Carolina, a subsidiary of Aqua America, predicts that ownership of larger municipal water systems by investorowned utilities will be more likely in the future. Aqua America is a publicly traded water and wastewater utility with operations in eight states.

“I think the water industry continues to change nationally and within the state,” Roberts said. “At some point, they [government-owned utilities] are going to have to look at alternatives.”

Statewide, Aqua North Carolina operates 750 water systems in primarily small rural and suburban areas in the Piedmont and farther east. In all, the company serves 77,000 connections, or roughly 250,000 North Carolina residents. In WNC, the company operates 14 community water systems, serving less than 1 percent of all water users.

According to Hicks, as development in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s moved beyond city and town limits and the reach of municipal water systems, communities began to rely on wells for water. Some of those systems across the region have been purchased by investor-owned utilities, such as Aqua North Carolina, and another major corporate player, Utilities Inc. Utilities Inc. owns water systems in 15 states. In WNC, it operates Carolina Water Services Inc. and other subsidiaries, which own 24 community systems that serve more than 22,500 customers — or 5 percent of all community water users in the 18 westernmost counties.

And while Hicks and Roberts agree that aging water systems will be an incentive for municipalities to privatize, Hicks is uneasy about the trend.

“Government officials have a level of accountability to voters, which gives them an incentive to provide reasonable service and be transparent,” Hicks said. “The U.S. has a long

history of public entities like local government doing a really good job providing water.”

While both corporate- and government-owned systems are subject to the same environmental regulations, their rates set differently. Investorowned utility rates are regulated by the N.C. Utilities Commission.

Government-owned utility rates are set by the utility’s governing body.

For example, the Hendersonville utility’s rates are set by the five-member City Council.

On average, according to Hick’s organization, Clean Water for North Carolina, investor-owned utilities charge higher rates, which may place a greater burden on lower income households. The organization is also concerned that those utilities’ customers have a limited ability to hold private companies accountable for service and quality issues. What’s more, it worries that the state’s regulatory body lacks the necessary resources to oversee such a large number of systems and has allowed rates to rise without adequate justification.

Roberts, with Aqua North Carolina, disagreed.

“I would argue that the public has a larger opportunity to hold companies like mine accountable,” he said. “When it comes to ratemaking, decision-makers [elected officials] can change rates pretty much as they see fit. At the end of the day, [elected officials responsible for rate-change approval] don’t have a set of rules that they have to follow. We work hard to keep our rates reasonable, but we also understand we have to invest in our systems to reflect the level of service our customers expect in our systems.”

Aqua North Carolina’s strategy of expansion often involves working with a developer at the ground level

or buying existing privately owned water systems; it seldom contracts to build new systems. Roberts said that investor-owned utilities are often the only option for systems in distress.

“We bring an alternative to the table for systems that may [face] a big investment necessary to meet regulatory compliance or they want take their asset and sell it to a private utility and take those funds and go do something that is more important to them,” he said.

Aqua North Carolina may have a small footprint in WNC, but he said that it could grow. Among the advantages of a corporate-owned utility, he said, is the capacity to spread risk over a large, statewide customer base and access financing that may be unavailable to public entities.

While the privatization of large municipal water utilities has yet to take hold in North Carolina, Roberts said the tide may shift as public operators struggle to keep up with an aging infrastructure with limited resources.

But the city of Hendersonville is well positioned to manage and improve its system into the future, according to its Water and Sewer Utilities director.

“We really feel that it’s in our customers’ best interest to be the ones that lead this utility into the future. Our customers have more input [into] the way that things are now,” Smith said. “We would certainly like to see it [remain] the way it is. As Asheville has learned, that’s not always our choice.” X

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community calendar Classes, Meetings & Events ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE

HELPING THE HOMELESS: The Walk of Awareness offers a two-hour guided tour through Downtown Asheville following a route that is frequented by the homeless. The event will benefit the Downtown Welcome Table and the Haywood Street Respite, organizations that provide community meals and safe places for the homeless in Asheville.

According to the organizers, the event “seeks to widen our exposure, aims to lift our eyes, plans to make visible the Invisible Box sisters and brothers in poverty traverse every day.” (p. 18)

Benefits Breakfast Boogie Benefit 785-2747, safeinharmonia.org • WE (9/2), 7-9am - Tickets to this early morning dance party event go to benefit Safe in Harmonia. $15.

Held at Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. Building Bridges Mud Run buildingbridgesmudrun.com • SA (8/29), 10am Proceeds from this family mud run and obstacle course benefit the Canton Lions Club and Lions Club International. $45. Held at Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Golf of Awareness Benefit • FR (8/28), 11am Proceeds from this golfing

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event and lunch benefit the Downtown Welcome Table and Haywood Street Respite. $75/$275 team.

Gran Fondo Bike Race 452-0720, gfncs.com • SU (8/30), 8am Sponsorships and tickets to this Gran Fondo National Championship bike race and ride benefit the Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. $75-$120.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. Walk of Awareness Benefit 575-2477, haywoodstreet. org/2015/07/walkofawareness • SA (8/29), 9am - Tickets to this guided tour that follows a route frequented by the homeless through Downtown Asheville benefit the Downtown Welcome Table and Haywood Street Respite. $25/$15

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youth/$8 optional lunch.

Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St.

Business & Technology A-B Tech Small Business Center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (8/27), 6pm “Increasing Cash Flow in Your Business,” seminar.

• TU (9/1), 10am “Logistics for Small Business Owners,” seminar.

• WE (9/2), 10am - “Public Contracting for Craft Businesses,” seminar.

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Level I: 4:-5:15 & Level II: 5:30-6:45. $225. Register before 8/31 for $180 ashevillefrenchschool.com LINDA PANNULLO MOSAICS AND WORKSHOPS (pd.) • The Big Concrete Leaf workshop with Linda Pannullo, Sunday, September 20. • Create a Pebble Mosaic Mandala with Deb Aldo, September 26-27. • Mosaic Mirror Class for Beginners with Linda Pannullo, October 10-11. • Layered Glass Mosaic workshop with Yulia Hanansen, November 7-8. Information/ Registration: Call (828) 3376749 or http://www.lindapannullomosaics. com/ ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL’S 2ND ANNUAL HARVEST CONFERENCE (pd.) SA 9/12 at AB Tech Asheville. 25+ classes on fall & winter growing, preservation, fermentation, home-

steading & self reliance. $50. Organicgrowersschool.org Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (8/26), 4pm - Annual meeting. Free.

Asheville Submarine Veterans ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road Asheville TimeBank 348-0674, ashevilletimebank.org • FR (8/28), 6pm - General meeting, potluck, and orientation. Free to attend. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. City of Hendersonville cityofhendersonville.org • TH (8/27), 5:30pm Question and answer forum regarding the Oklawaha Greenway extension project. Free. Held at Hendersonville City Operations Building, 305 Williams St., Hendersonville Community Foundation of Henderson County 697-6224, cfhcforever.org • WE (8/26), noon “Philanthropy Making Us Stronger Together,” annual luncheon. $35/Patron tickets also available. Held at Kenmure Country Club, 100 Clubhouse Drive, Flat Rock Eliada Home 2 Compton Drive, 645-7190 • FR (8/28), 11am-4pm Graduate school fair and breakout seminars for human services professionals. Free. Held in the PARC building.

Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America 686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (9/3), 9:30am - Swedish stitches. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe Next Step Recovery 104 Roberts Lake Circle, Apt. 107, Arden, 350-9960, nextsteprecovery.com • FR (8/28), 1-4pm - Drop-in open house at men’s recovery center. Free.

North Carolina Peace Action 505-9425, ncpeaceaction.org • Through SU (8/30) - The Spirit of Hiroshima 1945, exhibit commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima. Free.

Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. OnTrack WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (8/26), noon - “Raising a Money Smart Child,” seminar.

• WE (8/26), 5:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.”

Seminar.

• SA (8/29), 9am - “Manage Your Money,” workshop series on budgeting and tracking spending.

• MO (8/31), 5:30pm - “How to Buy a Car,” seminar.

Youth OUTright 772-1912, youthoutright.org • SU (8/30), 4pm Regular meeting and back to school celebration. Free.

Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

Dance Asheville Movement Collective ashevillemovementcollective.org • FRIDAYS, 7:30pm - Noninstructional, free-form dances within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Ballet Studio, 4 Weaverville Road, Woodfin • SUNDAYS, 9am & 11amNon-instructional, free-form dance within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway

Eco Asheville Green Drinks ashevillegreendrinks.com Free to attend.

• WE (8/26), 6pm - “US Drone Warfare Program,” presentation. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway WNC Sierra Club 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (9/2), 7pm - “French Broad River Odyssey,” presentation. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist

Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

farm & garden living Web farms 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 505-1660, livingwebfarms.org • SA (8/29), 1:30-7pm - Grazier’s Intensive I: Preparing to Overwinter Livestock. $15. men’s garden club of asheville 683-1673, mensgardenclubofasheville. org • TU (9/1), noon - Monthly meeting with presentation “Do You Know Your Invasive Plants?” Optional lunch $11, requires RSVP. Free to attend. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

food & beer henderson countY cooperative extension office 100 Jackson Park Road, Hendersonville, 697-4891, henderson.ces.ncsu.edu • TH (8/27), 2 & 6pm Workshop on canning tomatoes. $15. living Web farms 891-4497, livingwebfarms. org Hendersonville Community Co-op • TH (9/3), 12:30pm - Fall vegetable recipe roulette workshop. $10. Held at 715 S. Grove St., Hendersonville

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828-258-0211. creativepeacemakers.com, girl scouts 989-7850, girlscoutsp2p.org, mindy.smith09@gmail.com • SA (8/29), 10am-1pm Recruitment event featuring scouting activities for kids, hot dog lunch, and volunteering information for parents. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Service Center, 31 College Place Building C spellbound children’s bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am Storytime for ages 3-7.

Free to attend.

• SU (8/30), 4pm - First in Series Book Club (grades 4-6): Discussing The Spiderwick Chronicles #1, Field Guide. Free to attend.

outdoors blue ridge parkWaY hikes 298-5330, nps.gov • FR (8/28), 10am - “Water for the Win,” moderate to strenuous 2.8 mile hike from Glassmine Falls to the Big Butt Trail. Free. Meets at MP 361.2. blue ridge parkWaY ranger programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (8/29), 7pm “Magnificent Voyagers,” presentation about swans, geese and ducks. Held at Julian Price Campground

Ampitheater, MP 296.

• SA (8/29), 7pm - “Coyotes in our Midst,” presentation about coyotes. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316.

• SA (8/29), 7pm - “The Civil War in the Mountains,” presentation by civil war historian. Held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 340.

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251-8289, wenoca.org • SA (8/29), 10am - Easy 4 mile hike along the Warren Wilson River Trail. Free.

Location given upon registration.

Ymca of Wnc 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SU (8/30), 9:30am Tubing trip down the French Broad River. $20/$15 children under 12.

Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

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public lectures buncombe countY public libraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (8/27), 6pm - Missing History at Pack Library: “The Family Store,” panel discussion on the history of Jewish businesses in Asheville. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. public lectures at unca unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (9/1), 7:30pm World Affairs Council: “Reconnecting with Cuba.” $10/free for WAC members and UNCA students. Held in the Reuter Center.

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seniors aarp smart driver classes 253-4863, aarpdriversafety.org • SA (8/29), 9am Driving refresher class. $20. Registration required: 505-8381. Held at Hunter Volvo, 252 Patton Ave.

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Open Hearts Art Center’s talent show supports the nonprofit’s creative programming what: Open Hearts Art Center art exhibit and talent show where: Asheville Community Theatre when: Saturday, Sept. 5 (art exhibit noon-2 p.m., talent show 2:30-4 p.m.) why: Open Hearts Art Center, a day habilitation program that nurtures the artistic aptitudes of disabled adults — or “differently abled adults,” as founder and director of arts and events Debbie Harris prefers to call members — is shining a spotlight on these burgeoning creatives with an annual art exhibit and talent show fundraiser.

“When we secured Asheville Community Theatre [as a venue], it was perfect, because there’s also a big gallery in the front of the theater. It’s a place where we can exhibit everyone’s talents,” Harris says, noting that the visual arts of some 50 individuals will adorn the lobby before the live action begins. Open Hearts regularly helps its members sell their creations throughout the community, and these pieces will be up for sale.

Meanwhile, those who are brave enough to take the stage have planned an afternoon of dancing, singing, poetry readings and other entertainment.

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operations are funded by Medicaid, proceeds from the talent show will support Open Heart’s Boundless Art Project. Under this program, members use a donated 15-passenger van to travel to their own art demonstrations and performances around town, craft lessons in the River Arts District and other networking activities like blueberry picking and mixers with members of similar organizations. Funds will cover vehicle maintenance, insurance, permitting, the program coordinator’s payments and eventually, a smaller second vehicle for mini-excursions.

For several years now, the event’s fundraising aspirations have snowballed, according to Harris, but “this year’s talent show is really more about the artists — just showing off their talents.” She expects ticket sales to cover the cost of the venue, while additional donations toward the Boundless Art Project will be accepted on-site. “We’re also going to have a raffle and a bake sale,” she says.

Visit openheartsartcenter.org for more information and tickets, which cost $10 per person. Tickets can also be purchased at the ACT box office on the day of show. X

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asheville insight meditation (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation.

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1st & 3rd Mondays.

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serenitY insight meditation (pd.) A Burmese monk leads authentic Buddhist insight meditation, grounded in 40 years of practice. Beginners and advanced practitioners welcome.

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

asheville center for transcendental meditation 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - “An Introduction to the Transcendental Meditation Technique.”

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better living center 606-6834 • THURSDAYS through (9/24), 6:30pm Creationist health seminar. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester st. Joan of arc catholic church 768 Asbury Road, Candler, 670-0051 • FR (8/28), 6-10pm - “End of Summer Festival/Fiesta,” with food, music and kids activities. $5 per family. the WaY of love communitY group thepowerofpassionatepresence. com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Modern mind meditation class. Free. Held at Angle Cottage, 50 Woodlawn Ave. tibetan buddhist practice group 512-289-248

• MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, noon Lunchtime meditation practice. Free. Held at KTC Asheville, 2 Wall St. Suite 112 unitY of the blue ridge 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River, 8918700 • MO (8/31), 6-9pm “The Advanced Course for Souls Living on the Earth Plane”, presentation. $25. ur light center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 6696845, urlight.org • FR (8/28), 7-9pm - Full moon drum circle. Bring chair and instruments. $10.

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• WE (8/26), 7pm - I Am Enough Salon: Ongoing discussion of Brene Brown’s I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t).

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messages in code

Dreams deliver clues to better health group. As the group worked through such a dream with me, the dream became a life-changing event.”

By LisA sArAsohn lisa@loveyourbelly.com Computer scientists might compare dreaming to a machine dumping data as it clears space in the hard drive’s memory. Neuroscientists might consider dreams as changes in brain activity: neurons firing, neurotransmitters circulating.

Two Asheville dream-study guides go beyond bytes and biochemicals, delving into dreams as messages linking the unconscious with the conscious.

When tayria ward speaks of dreams, it’s as if she’s describing an inviting home with spacious rooms, secret closets and hidden passageways ready to explore. If a frightening event occurs or a troubling image appears, it’s a timely, helpful message, she says.

“The dream is always on your side,” says Ward.

With a doctorate in depth psychology, she draws on the work of pioneering psychologist Carl Jung.

Dreams, says Ward, are “the language of the unconscious trying to get through to our rational mind.”

As robert gongloff speaks of the dream world, glints of mischief alight in his eyes. “When we go into the dream state,” he says, “we are not bound by limitations of space, time, prejudice or fear.”

In his workshops, Gongloff provides participants with a detailed map of the dreamscape, enabling them to tour the territory and its landmark patterns.

Recently president and currently board chair of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, he considers dreams to be a kind of superreality. Applying Jung’s metaphor, Gongloff likens waking consciousness to the tip of an iceberg visible above water and the subconscious to the massive volume of ice below. The collective unconscious, like the water encompassing the ice, surrounds us, says Gongloff.

In dreams, “the knowledge of the subconscious and the collective unconscious is available to us.

Dreams attempt to reveal these real-

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openinG the Door to DreAmLAnD: The world of dreams may seem shaded in secrets; Asheville therapist Tayria Ward helps bring their messages to light. Photo

by Lisa Sarasohn ities to our consciousness,” he says.

Ward says, “Dreams always tell us what we don’t know about ourselves and what we need to know now.”

Their messages, she explains, pertain to the well-being of body and mind, soul and spirit.

Through dream study, she says, “some people have experienced enormous psychological healings. An issue like lingering resentment toward someone can be laid to rest because you’ve dreamed about it and then you’ve worked with the dream. The potency of how it’s hurt or haunted you is resolved when your conscious mind gets the message.”

Gongloff considers a group of five to seven people ideal for dream study, which, he emphasizes, is not psychotherapy or a substitute for it.

In such groups, participants begin by describing their dreams.

Fellow participants then pose questions, but they don’t interpret the dreamer’s experience.

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“The phrase I like to use is ‘In my version of the dream ...’ If you’re telling me your dream right now, at this moment I’m having my own dream,” says Gongloff. “I’m hearing what you’re saying, but I’m having my own version of it. My car looks different from your car, the animals I’m seeing are different from yours, and the colors are different. I have my own perception based on my emotions, my history. So I can only say what my version of the dream is, what it means to me.”

Participants in Ward’s weekly groups consider at least two dreams during each two-hour session. “I encourage people to work with their dreams on their own,” she says. “But in a group, people help the dreamer by asking questions, making observations.

Hosting the dream in a safe space and bringing all these different minds to the dream bring its message alive.”

She describes her own experience: “I’ve had dreams that I just had no clue about until I brought them to my dream

Dreams deliver their messages through character, action, story, sound, color, image and wordplay, says Ward.

“Dreams are great punsters.”

For instance: “A man was considering developing a relationship with a certain woman. For practical reasons, it was unlikely he’d ever be able to be with her. One night, he dreamed that they went into a pipe store together; he looked over all the different pipes.

“Later, as we talked about it [in session], he used the term ‘pipe dream.’ The dream seemed to say what ultimately became clear to him — that the idea of being with this woman was a pipe dream.”

Dreams can also point to physical healing. “We dream about our physical body, our physical condition, as part of the dream,” says Gongloff. “Look at the condition of the buildings that you’re in, in your dream. Their condition might reflect what’s going on in your physical body.”

“Any ailment can easily show up in dreams,” says Ward, citing the case of a man who dreamed that something was wrong with the leg of a piano. Upon hearing the dream, his study guide suggested it might indicate that something was amiss with his spinal column. During a subsequent spinal exam, the man learned he needed immediate medical treatment.

“Dreams are always giving us images and symbols for what’s going on in the body,” Ward says, “although they’re not necessarily literal. Say you dream you have cancer. It’s good to check that out with a physical exam. But don’t be frightened. Often the dream’s speaking at a symbolic level. Maybe some attitude is cancerous for you. It’s best to investigate dreams at all the different levels.”

Gongloff notes that dreams deal with the most important issues we are facing or denying — or are shielded from — in our waking lives.

Although dreams do not always

provide answers, he says, they often indicate the next questions to ask.

“It’s the questions that drive us,” he says. “It’s the questions that keep the adventure going.”

Rather than parsing dream images as symbols, Gongloff focuses on action and character, identifying the dream’s structure, its theme. “Avoid using words from the dream itself as you retell it,” he advises.

Accordingly, a dream in which a bear walks into my campsite and, still in my sleeping bag, I try to run away becomes: an intruder arrives and, fearing for my life, I have a hard time escaping.

“If you look at dreams from the standpoint of their themes,” says Gongloff, “you can ask, ‘Where in my waking life is this theme presenting?’”

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They recognize the human capacity for entering the multidimensional consciousness that unites the two — as realized through modalities ranging from ancient shamanic practice to contemporary transpersonal psychology.

In individual and group sessions, Gongloff and Ward encourage clients and students to honor the messages that their nighttime dreams convey by taking relevant, vitalizing action in the light of day. If Ward dreams during the night that she’s performing a ritual by a tree, for example, she performs some kind of ritual by a tree during waking hours the next day.

“I believe in dreams the way aboriginals speak of dreams,” says Ward, who has studied with shamans from several continents. “Our dreaming psyche takes part in the collective field of consciousness. It’s always active. When we’re awake, we’re less aware of it. But dreaming is taking place at all times.”

Realistically, are dreams portals to “the collective field of consciousness?”

Scientists, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, August Kekulé and Frederick Banting, received the guidance they needed to make their breakthrough discoveries in physics, chemistry and medicine through those very portals.

Still, perhaps they’re only the product of brain activity — neurons firing and neurotransmitters circulating.

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New chicken registration mandate isn’t going over easy

rUFFLeD FeAthers: Some local chicken keepers aren’t happy about a new requirement calling for all birds to be registered with the state agriculture department, regardless of the size of the flock.

By Josh o’conner Send your sustainability news to green@mountainx.com Owners of backyard chickens have had their feathers ruffled by a new state mandate.

A recent requirement from the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will require all chicken keepers to register with the state, regardless of the size of their flock. The requirement is being met with accusations of “fowl play” from some chickeners who say the registry is part of a larger effort to subvert agricultural autonomy and prop up a regulatory system that favors Big Ag. In July, gov. pat mccrory greenlighted recommendations from state veterinarian dr. doug meckes to implement statewide emergency measures to prevent and control the spread of avian influenza. The virus causes catastrophic illness and death within affected poultry, overcoming the birds within hours or days. An outbreak of bird flu swept through 21 states earlier this year, resulting in the loss of around 50 million birds, and is considered to be the worst animal virus outbreak in U.S. history.

Though there are no known cases of human infection from bird flu, the virus does stand to have a devastating effect on North Carolina. The state’s poultry industry includes some 4,200 poultry farms and an additional 4,000 backyard chicken flocks, spawns approximately 100,000 jobs and has a collective economic impact of close to $18 billion. Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project also reports that 41 percent of cash agricultural purchases in the region in

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Though no new outbreaks of the virus have been reported since midJune, the NCDA&CS notes that the state, which is positioned along the migratory path for birds that will soon be returning South for the winter, is under imminent threat of an outbreak.

Meckes’ measures to prevent that outbreak include banning organized gatherings of avian species, such as agriculture shows and fairs, outbreak management plans for commercial facilities housing more than 200 poultry, and requiring every owner of poultry to register with NCDA&CS — even backyard chicken keepers with one or two birds.

“The requirement for poultry owners to register their flocks is so that the N.C. Department of Agriculture can communicate with both large and small poultry owners,” says Ethan Henderson, a cooperative extension agent specializing in livestock. “This will enable NCDA to contact poultry owners to keep them informed about how to prevent infection in their flocks and to keep owners updated as the fall migration season approaches.”

While there is no fee to register birds under the mandate, that hasn’t kept the new requirement from upsetting several bird keepers.

As word of the registration mandate spread, a popular Facebook Group, Asheville City Chickens, closed off its group to the public and began restricting new memberships.

While some members acknowledged that registration would aid in responding to an outbreak, several of the group’s members posted concerns over government overreach that they say would ultimately wipe out small-scale chicken keeping in the state.

Another recently formed Facebook group, NO to NC Chicken Registration, has become home to a sort of poultry registration resistance, proclaiming in its group description, “Who controls the food supply, controls the people.”

Speculation over a hidden rationale behind the issuance runs rampant throughout the group’s discussion thread. Theories include the registration serving as permission for further inspection of registered farms; a desire by the state to lend further support to corporate agriculture by identifying and eliminating small chicken flocks; and the potential issuance of penalties resulting from non-compliance with the mandates

of the memorandum. Others raised concerns that the vague language of the mandate, which grants the governor the authority to develop and implement “any and all emergency measures and procedures that are necessary to prevent and control this disease,” could lead to further restrictions or the extermination of healthy birds.

David Williams, an attorney volunteering with the No to NC Chicken Registration group, has also questioned the legality of the registration mandate, citing the rulemaking process outlined in the N.C. General Statute, and criticized the lack of transparency and public notice in its introduction.

Meckes responded to public concern in late July with a letter titled “Why should I register my flock?”

In the letter, Meckes asserts that flock data will be kept confidential and calls for voluntary compliance, explaining that the purpose of the rule is to allow for two-way communication between birdkeepers and the government. At this time, there have been no discussions of penalties for noncompliance. In a June interview with North Carolina Public Radio, Meckes confirmed that the state would euthanize birds that were found to be infected.

It’s important to note that not everyone is upset about the regulations. Transylvania County homesteader jess woodall, who is preparing to start her own backyard flock with her husband, was more tempered in her reaction to the registry. “We’re not looking to get many chickens, just enough to supply eggs for ourselves,” Woodall says. “If they required us to register, I wouldn’t let that stop us from getting chickens. If it’s truly about protection, I can see why they would want to implement those requirements.”

Local business owners, including Cande Honeycutt-Killian of Owl Meadow Farm also spoke out in support of the mandate. “It is the government’s responsibility to have a plan of action when a threat of this magnitude presents itself,” Honeycutt-Killian says. “I have found our work with the [agriculture] department has been an asset and has provided a wealth of information.”

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A lingering law requires Asheville’s bars to function as private clubs

By JonAthAn Ammons jonathanammons@gmail.com It’s the same old drill at every bar in Asheville that doesn’t serve food.

Stop at the door to show proof of age and then either fumble through your wallet to find your membership card or fill out a form and pay a fee. Why? Because in North Carolina, you’re not walking into a bar; it’s a private club.

“North Carolina doesn’t allow bars,” says the Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control board’s general manager, mark combs. “If you go to Pennsylvania, you can go to a bar.

They have some chips or peanuts maybe, but it is just a bar. In North Carolina, though, you have to have a percentage of food and alcohol.”

Under state law, public establishments such as restaurants can serve liquor by the drink only if their food sales exceed 30 percent of total receipts, a figure that the ABC meticulously audits. (Hotels may serve if there is a restaurant nearby and lodging receipts are greater than those of alcohol.) If those standards are not met, or if a venue does not serve food at all, then the business is required to be a members-only club, with patrons paying club dues and having to carry their membership cards with them when visiting. Breweries that operate tasting rooms are allowed to do so without serving food under the ABC’s on-premises malt beverage permit. stacy cox, chief special agent in charge of N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement’s Western Division, says that at this time, “there are 246 active mixed beverage permits in Buncombe County. An additional 19 are now in temporary status, she adds, meaning those businesses have been granted 90-day permits pending background and premises checks by an ABC investigator.

Some local bar owners are baffled by the law. “It’s not that I have any issue obeying the rule, I just don’t understand why it’s there” says celeste adams of Burger Bar, a beer and shot joint that has been around for nearly 70 years. “It happens every single time someone walks in the

the Letter oF the LAW: “North Carolina doesn’t allow bars,” says the Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control board’s general manager, Mark Combs, pictured far right. Under state law, businesses can only serve liquor by the drink if they also serve a certain amount of food or function as private clubs. Pictured with Combs, from left, are Asheville ABC operations manager Jason Thacker, board chairman Bill Lack and warehouse manager Donnie Talford.

door. ‘Do you have a membership?’

‘Would you like to buy a membership?’

Or ‘do you have your membership card?’ And then people don’t have their

membership cards on them, and they have to fill out the whole form again and pay for a new card. Or they have 35 different memberships in their wallet,

their wallet is huge and they don’t want to carry it. I just don’t necessarily know what the point is anymore.” cate and chad battles, owners of The Bywater, say the law is also a hardship on business owners. Although The Bywater operates as a lifetime membership club, Cate Battles says they currently have more than 20,000 membership applications on file, all of which must be directly accessible for ABC review any time the bar is open. Battles enters all the applicants into a computer spreadsheet, which staff members can access on iPads and iPods behind the bar and at the door.

The bar is also required to make all of its old and current sign-in books available to the ABC at all times, which creates a significant storage dilemma. “We ran out of room at our tiny bar,” says Battles, who adds that she and her husband have had to resort to storing old membership materials at their home.

North Carolina law defines a a private club as “an establishment that is organized and operated solely for a social, recreational, patriotic or fraternal purpose and that is not open to the general public, but is open only to the members of the organization and their bona fide guests.”

“They only allow private clubs or restaurants because bars are just meant to drink,” says al bottego, the Asheville ABC board’s chief of law enforcement. “It is their only purpose. The No. 1 problem statewide

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is overconsumption, and it’s always been the big fear, and it’s why the bar thing has never been allowed.

Private clubs are the only version you would have of a bar, that’s as close as you’ll get. As far as having a neighborhood bar where people just come in for a drink, it wont happen. Because, again, think of today’s culture: You leave work, you come down to the bar and put down a couple or three mixed drinks before you go home. It creates the environment for DWIs.” “I think it’s ridiculous.” says Ken Klehm, who founded several of Asheville’s first craft cocktail establishments and is regarded by many as one of the fathers of the city’s cocktail scene. “Why can’t they just be a bar? I mean, it costs us more money making thousands of cards every year. It discourages business, costs us business. I can’t say that it helped us in any way.”

Klehm once owned and operated the Rocket Club, a concert hall in West Asheville where the restaurant WALK sits now. At the time, the law mandated a three-day waiting period before new members

could enter the club. On concert nights, Klehm had to turn away ticket holders who weren’t already members — costing him business and return traffic. That law has since been changed to allow for same-day entrance, but not before the Rocket Club closed.

But that legal makeover leaves club owners and patrons asking, if anyone can get a membership and enter the club that same day, is the law actually fulfilling its intended purpose? Is it actually preventing anyone from drinking and driving? Is it regulating the amount of people just stopping in for a drink?

Or is it just an ineffective hassle for these businesses?

“The revision in rules in my opinion is a direct response to the change in times and commission being progressive to the need for change,” says Bottego, “The change in membership time [in my opinion] allows the new member to take advantage of the social setting sooner, but again the structure for [a] private club is much more than just a place to drink.” X

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Festival season comes to a head

more Bees, pLeAse: This year’s Organicfest theme — “Bee Organic” — pays tribute to the most famous group of pollinators, and much of the day’s programming, including a Pollinator Parade, will honor the important work of these buzzing helpers.

Photo courtesy of Organicfest organicfest More than just a descriptor for pricey food, the term “organic” encapsulates an entire sustainable lifestyle for many. That’s one point organizers hope to drive home among attendees of Asheville’s 14th annual Organicfest.

“Our goal is to create an organic city,” says debi athos, co-founder and director of the free downtown event, which showcases more than 100 vendors of eco-friendly products and services in addition to handmade arts and crafts..

This year’s theme — Bee Organic — highlights the life-sustaining work of pollinators. Accordingly, Bee City USA, Holy Bee Press, Bee the Change and Wild Mountain Bees have been invited to “help share the importance of organics in relation to supporting the pollinators,” Athos says. Organizers have also planned an earthloom tapestry creation and Pollinator Parade — dress as your favorite good bug! — that begins at 1 p.m.

“Organic farmers are not having the challenges that chemical-

based farming and agriculture are with honeybees, so we want to share that information as well as inspire the community on how we can create a bee-friendly environment,” Athos says. “Without the honeybees, we won’t be celebrating organics.”

For entertainment, the festival features the homegrown live tunes of local artists Chris Rosser, Sheri Lynn, Greenway and more. Organizers will also raffle off donated gift certificates and goody baskets throughout the evening, culminating with a final prize drawing at 5:30 p.m., proceeds from which benefit Bee City USA. Athos says the volunteers powering Organicfest Inc. — the nonprofit managing the festival — are working on professionalizing and expanding their impact this year, “so watch out for new and exciting events, starting in the beginning of 2016.”

Organicfest 2015 is at Pack Square Park on Sunday, Aug. 30, from 10 a.m. To 6 p.m.

Visit organicfest.org for more information.

Gilmer annually. This year’s entertainment lineup features Kinobe and JaJa, Zansa, Kari Sickenberger, Vince Jr. Band and other local music acts. Gilmer has also organized for several food trucks, including The Gypsy Queen Cuisine and El Torito, to keep attendees’ energy levels up as they enjoy the overnight event’s bounce house, hayrides, trampolines, silent auction and yard games. Twin Leaf Brewery and New Belgium Brewing Co. will provide beer, while Josh Spurling of Table Wine pours wines. Proceeds from the fundraiser benefit medical nonprofit Shoulder to Shoulder and the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s rural and global health programs.

Visit musicfest2015.eventbrite.com for more information or tickets, which start at $25 per person.

ciderfest nc With higher-than-beer alcohol by volume, mini-hard cider pours add up rather quickly — a particularly relevant sentiment for tasters at CiderFest NC 2015, which features more than 20 cider makers and two local mead makers (Bee & Bramble and Fox Hill Meadery) for the first time ever. The festival also boasts food pairings, local arts and crafts, a green-living-themed interactive children’s area, a home cider making booth and multiple unplugged performances by buskers positioned sporadically among exhibitors.

CiderFest NC is at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road, on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 1-5 p.m. Tickets for the expected sell-out event are on sale now at ciderfestnc.com. X

baconfest In a town that’s obsessed with artisan foods, bacon is a staple ingredient.

The third annual BaconFest Asheville gives roughly two dozen local eateries the chance to show off their best porkpacked creations, from savory to sweet and everything in between. Samples are piled high at the event, which calls on attendees to vote for top dishes in several categories. The family-friendly gathering also includes live music

by Bayou Diesel, a photo booth and bounce house.

Like any good host, Highland Brewing Co. is whipping up specialty beverages for guests. Twists on the brewery’s staple beers include Gaelic Ale with brown sugar and black pepper, Oatmeal Porter with cayenne pepper and Black Mocha Stout with maple.

Baconfest Asheville is at Highland Brewing Co.’s outdoor meadow, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1-4 p.m. Visit baconfestasheville.com for information and tickets, which cost $15 per person. A portion of the festival’s proceeds benefits Blue Ridge Food Ventures. musicfest The house party that keeps on growing, MusicFest annually draws music lovers with a social conscience to the residence of local doctor Benjamin

asHeVILLe WINe aND FOOD F e s t I Va L’ s W I N e W I N N e r s During the Asheville Wine & Food Festival’s Grand Tasting event, held Saturday, Aug. 22, at the U.S. Cellular Center, presiding judges the French Broad Vignerons officially announced this year’s most exemplary wine submissions. In the commercial category, a double gold medal — the highest award given — went to St. Paul Mountain Vineyards of Hendersonville for its Viognier (2013) and Vidal Blanc (2014); Burntshirt Vineyards of Hendersonville for its Burntshirt Vineyards estate white, Vidal Blanc (2013); Raffaldini Vineyards & Winery of Ronda, for its vermentino superiore, Vermentino (2014); Watauga Lake Winery of Butler, Tenn., for its Fox Hollow — 50 percent Chancellor, 50 percent Steuben (2014); and Parker-Binns Vineyard of Mill Spring for its rosé, Merlot (2014).

All gold and silver medal winners in the competition received the French Broad Vignerons Best of the Appalachians designation.

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by Thom O’Hearn | Send your beer news to avlbeerscout@gmail.com or @thomohearn on Twitter.

Catawba doubles down on food pairings Whether it’s fine dining, chocolate pairings, barbecue or curry, Catawba’s new initiatives aim to show beer’s versatility with food

editor’s note: This week’s column marks Thom O’Hearn’s final contribution as the Xpress Beer Scout correspondent. However, Thom’s departure from beer coverage is just a change of beats. This story serves as a segue to his continued work with Xpress covering Asheville’s food scene.

When diners first arrived at Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview for Catawba Brewing Co.’s inaugural Asheville Beer Week farm dinner in 2014, people gathered in the milk shed by the creek. There was a choice of two beers and a round of appetizers. After mixing, mingling and enjoying live bluegrass music, everyone was invited on a farm tour, beer in hand. Eventually, guests arrived at the table for a whole-hog dinner catered by chef steven goff.

The dinner lasted more than two hours. Each course was paired with beer, and many dishes incorporated beer or beer ingredients as well. And it wasn’t just simple beer braises.

There were vegetables fermented in spent brewing grains served with beet crème fraîche.

“I’ve been to a lot of Outstanding in the Field dinners. … The idea we had for that first Asheville Beer Week farm dinner [in 2014] was to put our spin on that — to take the idea of a beer dinner further,” says Catawba Brewing Co.’s Asheville operations manager shelton steele.

“Even that first year, it was very successful. We sold out, and [a lot of people] wanted to do it again.”

So Catawba brought it back for Asheville Beer Week in 2015.

This time, the chef was Rhubarb’s john fleer.

“It was phenomenal,” says Steele. And the connections at this dinner went even deeper.

Catawba creative director/event coordinator mary mayo’s sister is anne grier, co-owner of Gaining Ground Farm, one of the farms that supplies Fleer with produce.

“It’s such an Asheville thing,” says Mayo.

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providing affordable options

moVe oVer, Wine: Events like From Barrel to Brewhouse with chef William Dissen of The Market Place highlight how complex beers pair with sophisticated food.

considering fine dining In addition to the HNG dinners, Catawba partnered with FIG for Asheville Beer Week dinners in 2014 and 2015. “At the time [in 2014], most beer dinners were at more public places or places known for beer,” says Catawba co-owner billy pyatt.

“FIG, on the other hand, is very intimate and very wine-focused.

“The dinner brought in a lot of people off their list — people that didn’t think of themselves as beer fans. But it worked. People would visit our taproom in the weeks after the event saying they wanted to try more of our beers, and we had people come back to our dinner [at FIG] in 2015.”

Mayo says both the HNG and FIG events launched Catawba into pairing beer with higher-end food. “We saw the potential in creating a culinary experience, but we were all thinking, ‘Why limit this to Beer Week?’”

So, starting this summer, Catawba is making the effort to host finemountainx.com

dining and beer events year-round.

On Aug. 19, the brewery hosted From Barrels to Brewhouse with william dissen of The Market Place. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, it will head back out to HNG for a harvest dinner with Fleer and the Rhubarb team (tickets are available on eventbrite.com).

And the first week of December, Catawba will host a holiday dinner at its Banks Avenue location with Fleer’s team and the French Broad Chocolate Lounge.

Tickets for these events aren’t cheap — generally $75 and up — but proceeds benefit nonprofit partners.

“We rotate by dinner, but we choose causes important to us and often ones with some connection to the event,” says Mayo. “We’ve partnered with ASAP [Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project], SAHC [Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy], food banks, the ADA [Asheville Downtown Association] and both the Asheville and Blue Ridge Humane Societies so far.”

While the entire Catawba team enjoys those ambitious events, Mayo says she doesn’t want Catawba to be pigeonholed as a place with just expensive offerings.

“We want to share the experience with as many people as possible.”

To that end, Catawba has also planned a variety of food-focused events at its Banks Avenue location that are easier on the wallet.

Some are larger, family-friendly and à la carte. Others are intimate, set pairings costing $20 or less: • After hosting a summer series with chef elliott moss and Buxton Hall Barbecue, on Aug. 13 Catawba hosted chef philip bollhoefer of the Grove Park Inn for a barbecue featuring all-local ingredients. “The summer barbecues were all à la carte and very family-friendly,” says Mayo. Going forward, Catawba will have a additional catered meals with rotating chefs in the same format. Dates aren’t firm yet, but Mayo says there will definitely be one around Thanksgiving and one around Christmas — and Bollhoefer will be back in January.

• The first Tuesday of every month, Catawba hosts tastings with the French Broad Chocolate Lounge. For $17, guests get to sample a variety of beers paired expertly with chocolates. “The event is supposed to be an hour, but I don’t think we’ve done one yet where it doesn’t last two,” says Mayo. “It starts with the guided tasting, but it doesn’t take long for everyone to start sharing. … By the end, everybody knows each others’ names.”

• The second Tuesday of every month, Catawba hosts Blue Dream Curry House. At these events, Blue Dream works with Catawba to pair three beers with three curries that diners can enjoy as a set menu for $20.30 X

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RHYme and Reason N.C.-based Cypher Univercity movement grows in Asheville

universal language

By ALLi mArshALL amarshall@mountainx.com “We get born in the Cyph every minute that we breathe it / Cypher with my shadow and my heartbeat, believe it,” writes Boone-based rapper chris shreve, aka C. Shreve the Professor, of hip-hop collective Free the Optimus. A cipher, by conventional definition, is a code. In the Urban Dictionary sense, a cypher is a cycle — in freestyling, one rapper follows the next without breaking the circle. And on North Carolina college campuses, it’s come to mean not just a freestyle-in-the-round, but coming together in a spirit of creative expression and mutual respect.

Cypher Univercity (the “c” in univercity represents the urban roots of hip-hop) was started in 2010 at N.C. State University in Raleigh by MC mike l!ve. The rapper, who now lives in Asheville, assembled his friends in the school’s Free Expression Tunnel to take photos for his album, God Cypher Divine.

He was captured on video that night saying that the gathering might turn into a regular weekly engagement — and that’s just what happened.

The five-year anniversary of the movement will be celebrated —

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in Raleigh. And while Shreve, who was there, says it felt awkward to rap to the camera, that video has since been seen around the world.

Hip-hop artists such as Asheville’s hunter bennett, as well as tuscon and jrusalam who will perform at the Orange Peel show, can be spotted on the film.

Lesson LeArneD: College students “are the youngest versions of grown adults,” says Cypher Univercity founder Mike L!ve. “ Photo by Christopher Deverell along with the release of FTOLive, a new album from Shreve’s group and the first with L!ve as a core member — at The Orange Peel on Saturday, Aug. 29. school’s in Over a half-decade, Cypher Univercity spread to campuses in Greenville, Greensboro and Boone.

A weekly cypher is currently held in Pritchard Park, but L!ve hopes it will move to UNC Asheville’s campus at the start of the fall semester.

College students “are the youngest versions of grown adults,” says L!ve.

“These kids are into art, they’re into expressing themselves. These are experiences they’ll remember for their rest of their lives.”

For that reason, L!ve and the other MCs involved with the movement have crafted their cypher not as a spotlight-grabbing, ego-boosting contest, as some mainstream cyphers suggest. Instead, L!ve cites

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the late religious leader Clarence 13X — a contemporary and onetime student of Malcolm X — who founded the youth movement The Five Percenters.

While that group’s purpose is a topic of some disagreement, Clarence 13X did share teachings with his followers through sessions he called Ciphers.

The lessons of Cypher Univercity begin with its rules: 1. Respect (the craft, yourself, your fellow humans).

2. Project (speak up, put the word out).

3. Keep the peace.

4. F**k the camera.

5. Be original.

While No. 4 seems the most irreverent, it’s about how “rap and hip-hop, in their core forms, are very spontaneous and organic,” says Shreve. “It doesn’t mean the camera isn’t allowed, but you don’t need to be focused on that. It doesn’t need to be a music video.”

But it can be. Rising North Carolina rapper rapsody shot the video for her single, “Drama,” at the cypher

Despite that kind of exposure, L!ve wants the Cypher Univercity events to be free of ego. Instead of high-profile rappers and videographers, “a lot of times it’ll start a cappella,” he says. “No beats. We’ll just go around in a circle.” For those who need a rhythm, the group will add accompaniment by beatboxing.

“While you’re doing it, life is happening all around. It gets interwoven into that moment,” L!ve continues.

A passer-by might “kick something on the guitar and we’ll rhyme over it.

Nine times out of 10, that person also sings, and next thing you know, we have a singing guitar-player as part of the hip-hop cypher.”

That sense of openness and acceptance relates to rule No. 1, which deals with how cypher participants treat each other and how they act as a community to maintain a spirit of peacefulness. And while Shreve points out that some rappers have brought heavy, politically charged and angry material to the table, the attitude among artists remains respectful. “This is lyrical, not physical,” according to the rules.

That’s why the Aug. 29 event at The Orange Peel is also billed as a stand against racism. The Cypher Univercity organizers see their movement as one that can positively impact race relations.

“The whole movement is rooted in a foundation of respect,” says L!ve.

“It’s a universal language.” The N.C. State cypher attracts people of all ethnicities and backgrounds, he says, so “tell me why, in five years, there hasn’t been one outbreak of a fight?” rap against racism The openness of the movement not only allows for interaction among groups, but for new rappers to hone their craft alongside seasoned artists. “We’re gonna show ’em how it’s done,” L!ve says in a Double A Productions video promoting the Orange Peel show. “We the leading revolutionaries are going to

rAp pArty: Members of the Asheville Cypher Univercity, including Mike L!ve and Chris Shreve, center, gather at Pritchard Park. Photo by Tim Robison lead by example for the future.” But it’s not just rhetoric for the benefit of YouTube viewers — the cyphers create a platform for people of all walks of life to hear and be heard.

“Racial conflicts are really complex and express themselves in a lot of different ways,” says laura jeffords, executive director of The Mediation Center. “When people have this venue for communicating ‘What is my story, how did I come to think this and how did I reach these conclusions about what I want and what I think is important?’ that gives people a place to tell their story. [It also gives] other people a place to witness that story without necessarily responding to it in the moment. There’s a lot of room for understanding and finding common ground in that and for recognizing that person’s humanity.”

She adds, “Sometimes with art, because it can be a more complex and nuanced way of communicating, it can be a really neat way for people to hear about other people’s experiences.” Jeffords points to initiatives like the YWCA-led Stand Against Racism as powerful opportunities for people to address topics of race relations and perceptions through community, group and individual activities. Such outlets, she says, are more important now than ever. masterclass “Part of what’s so important about mediation is self-determination,” Jeffords says. “People can and

should and need to express themselves in the way that works for them. ... We encourage people to tell their story in a way that’s meaningful to them. When people hear those stories, that’s where they find common ground.”

Such opportunities might become more available. The Cypher Univercity movement is growing (the Ashevillebased cypher celebrates its first anniversary this month), as is attention on the North Carolina hip-hop scene.

FTO recently received the Carolina Music Award for best hip-hop group in the Carolinas. “We are thrilled to have

had our hard work recognized,” Shreve says, but he’s also aware that with attention comes competition, shifting values, commercialization and other potentially ugly side effects. Still, he says, “if you get a higher platform, more people can hear your passionate message.”

The forthcoming FTOLive album ties in many of the Cypher Univercity ideas. The name, says Shreve, both highlights L!ve the MC and celebrates the group’s live show. “It was a cool way to look at beats, for me,” he says. “This time, I wasn’t listening for me. I was like, ‘I can hear L!ve destroy this!’”

The variety of MCs on the album means there’s a beat and style for every musical taste, and the guest list includes local favorites such as colston, Bennett and chachillie.

A video for the song “1234,” set to be released close to the Orange Peel show, plays off the four pillars of hip-hop (the DJ, the MC, breakdancing and graffiti). The scene is a classroom setting. Shreve’s day job is as a teacher at Appalachian State (hence his stage name, “the Professor”), so there’s an inside joke, but the rapper master-class theme is a big nod to the Cypher Univercity movement.

If the stage (and the street and the college campus) could be his classroom via hip-hop, “I’d like it be that I taught my class to 50,000 people each summer, and they all got it,” says Shreve. X

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cRaFT as a VeRB Three artists work in real time during CCCD’s Back to the Drawing Board “How is showing craft different from showing art?” asks marilyn Zapf, the assistant director of The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.

“What does craft demand of the gallery space?” The organization’s Back to the Drawing Board series was developed to explore these questions and to investigate how the craft object can move beyond a static wall display. “Craft has recently been redefined as a verb, rather than a noun, an action as opposed to an object on a pedestal,” says Zapf.

what Back to the Drawing Board where Center for Craft, Creativity and Design craftcreativitydesign.org when Friday, Aug. 28, 6-9 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

The events on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29, will be the last in the current four-part series. The “takeover,” as it’s called, includes a trio of artists who will each explore new approaches to traditional craft forms during the Friday evening segment and daylong segment on Saturday. “The short time-period is intended to evoke the idea of a sketch,” says Zapf. “When you are sketching or prototyping, you are freer to explore new ideas and make mistakes.”

Beginning with the concept of human impact on the environment, Penland-based glassblower jennifer

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bueno will be working on the piece, “Material Iterations.” She’ll create two works on-site that reference the same NASA imagery as her displayed wall pieces, “Air Pollution Over China” and “Algae Bloom in Lake Erie.” Says Bueno, “I’m not just re-creating a picture, I’m re-creating an event.”

For the new iterations, Bueno plans to use alternate materials such as plastic, plant material, projected light and synthetic stuffing. She sees the relationship between her two sets of work as a divergence of process. “The originals’ materials are less fluid,” says Bueno. “Once you make a piece of glass and it goes through the process of cooling down, its form is pretty much set. I’ll be using materials that can be reshaped after the fact, and I expect I will be reworking as I go along.”

In addition to creating doppelganger artworks, Bueno will also have a doppelganger artist working alongside her. Actually, a few artists are scheduled for shifts throughout the event. “They are all creative people in their 40s, with children, like me,” says Bueno. “The idea is to have a double for everything so the process is exponential.”

Meanwhile, Chicago artist aram han has planned the participatory installation, “Immigrant Citizenship Takeover.” Using the 100-question test for U.S. immigration as both her imagery and content, Han will stitch the test’s questions and answers. She’ll also have a citizenship study station and another spot where viewers can to learn to sew. But the resulting sewn objects aren’t the primary goal — instead, Han believes that the conversations about the nationalization process are the most important result. “Being a craftsperson in today’s society is a political decision,” she says. “We live in a society where things are manufactured and too easily made by other people. So by engaging in craft, we are protesting.”

There’s a threefold concept behind Han’s decision to sew. She uses the craft to address the act of learning just as the children

b R O A D wAY b l O C k PA RT Y Newly named the Broadway Arts District, the downtown Asheville block from Mellow Mushroom to the Masonic Temple will host a block party and arts celebration on Saturday, Aug. 29.

All-ages events take place from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Media Arts Project host Doubletake: A look back at [Re]Happening 2015, with installations, video screenings and artist discussions. (Check out the augmented piano harp set up for public participation in the covered garage across the street.) The Center for Craft Creativity and Design’s artist takeover event, Back to the Drawing Board, is part of the offerings, as is the 2015 Summer DanceFest, held on the second floor of CCCD. That production features modern and contemporary dance performances hosted by Lindsey Kelley Dance.

Satellite Gallery will hold an artist discussion by Hannah Dansie and collaborators from her current exhibition, The Fishwife: An Exploration in to Folklore, Myth & Legend. Meanwhile, Window (Re/production | Re/presentation) features a temporary public outdoor mural by Rubén Ortiz-Torres on the facade of the Masonic Temple. Visitors can also tour the WCQS radio station and leave behind recorded statements about their experience of art.

The live party soundtrack is courtesy of Gypsy-jazz swing-band HotPoint Trio and musical acts, while Counter Culture Coffee brews beverages and the Root Down and Farm to Fender food trucks, stationed in the Masonic Temple lot, feed hungry revelers.

Info at craftcreativitydesign.org/blockparty — S.G.

Art At the speeD oF LiFe: Jennifer Bueno stands beside her creation “Air Pollution Over China,” which references NASA satellite imagery. It incorporates hot-sculpted glass, watercolor, wood and copper wire. Photo by Steve Mann of Colonial America used sewing to learn the alphabet. She also sees the creation process as a demonstration of value similar to how wealthy adolescent girls would use their sewing projects to display their worth to potential suitors.

Han’s third conceptual reference point relates to current manufacturing practices. “Sewing is not just about performing craft. It is more specific in talking about the practices of immigrant labor,” she says.

“Laborers in the garment industry — the majority being immigrants — do this type of work every day. However, we pay such little attention to them, their stories and their labor.”

The final takeover artist is cheyenne rudolph, a potter and performance artist from Gainesville, Fla. She’ll present “Domesterventions: Inventions for Domestic Interventions,” in which she’ll demonstrate the use of fantastical handcrafted products.

“The objects and my persona are designed for extreme hospitality,” says Rudolph. “They are aesthetically inviting and familiar, like caricatures of themselves. However, the

functions are absurdly designed and become sexually suggestive when in use.” Her inventions include the “Frisky Whisk,” the “Center-Peas with Personal Peaters” and the “Lemon-Aider.”

Humor is a way for Rudolph to challenge assumptions about women’s identity and behavior.

She’s both an object maker and a performer, but she says that there is a relationship between the two.

“It is liberating to make work in this way, knowing that the objects I make do not have to carry all the content,” says Rudolph. “I can use other materials and skills to frame and support the work.”

These participatory and process-based works act as engagement tools, bringing creativity out of the studio and into the spotlight.

“Even though many of the takeovers are done by artists working in traditional craft media, such as glass, fiber and ceramics, the activities and performances will certainly push the boundaries of what is or is not considered craft.” says Zapf. X

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Rollin’ on the river Zuzu Welsh launches blues festival in Swannanoa When Asheville guitarist/singer Zuzu welsh looks around, he sees an uncertain future for many local music festivals. LAAFF and Goombay are back in 2015, but Moogfest is heading to Durham, All Go West was postponed this year and Bele Chere ended its 3 1/2-decade run in 2013.

In an effort to help support and raise awareness for the professional scene of which he’s an active member, Welsh has organized the inaugural Valley Music & Cook House Blues Festival on Saturday, Aug. 29. Impressed with the music events put on by debra Zandstra-

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baker and marty baker since buying the former Beer City Tavern in late 2014, Welsh was drawn to the Swannanoa venue’s central location between Asheville and Black Mountain. The outdoor stage sealed the deal — there’s a flat, grassy area on the banks of the Swannanoa River, picnic tables, a large fire pit nearby and room for more than 200 people with blankets and lawn chairs.

Though Welsh has successfully pulled off benefit concerts for MANNA FoodBank and Homeward Bound, where all-star local talent covered the music of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, those events involved performers donating their time and efforts. In planning his first festival, Welsh counted on the additional costs of advertising and band compensation, but has been surprised at the difficulty to stir up interest in regional

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BLUe note: Up-and-comers The Lowdown, a power-pop band formed at the Rock Academy, joins the lineup of the inaugural Valley Music & Cook House Blues Festival. The event takes place on the banks of the Swanannoa River and spotlights local talent. Photo by Mark Jones and All Star Creative Media

music, which he deems equally worthy of aid.

“People will jump in with both feet to help the homeless [and] hungry, help animals and any number of other great causes — it’s one of the things I love about this community. But it seems harder to get people involved when it’s an event that’s just to showcase some good bands and earn them a few bucks,” Welsh says. “I guess you could say this is a benefit for local music.”

While not all of the acts on the bill are traditional blues groups, Welsh primarily selected artists who adhere to that style. He has some sort of connection to each, even if just a tenuous one. miranda clark (“A wonderful voice,” Welsh says) opens the show at 2 p.m. and will be followed by fellow local artists the lowdown (“A young, energetic, up-and-coming group”), hurricane bob (“A good draw at this venue all the time”) and the maestro’s own Zuzu Welsh Band. Of the festival’s penultimate act, andrew scotchie and the river rats — whose annual Barnaroo Music & Arts Festival is simpatico with his mission — Welsh says, “Their music is powerful. [Scotchie] pours his soul into his music and I love that. So having them involved with their tremendous local visibility is just awesome.”

Upstate South Carolina band Stolen Hearts, featuring pam taylor and robert johnson jr. (no relation to the blues legend, though Welsh says the name recognition doesn’t hurt) have the night’s last slot. They’ll be followed

by a grand finale jam of a blues standard — likely “Sweet Home Chicago” or “Before You Accuse Me” — in which all of the performers are set to play together. “The stage is 40 feet wide, so there’s plenty of room for guitar slingers to step up and show off a bit,” Welsh says.

The Valley Music & Cook House will sell beer and wine starting at noon while Avery’s Hot Dogs offers its namesake food along with burgers, barbecue and vegan options.

And in keeping with Welsh’s commitment to local nonprofits, several charitable groups will have informational booths set up and proceeds from posters signed by the performers are earmarked for the WNC Advocacy League. X

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Bohemian fashion show transforms Masonic Temple

FreeForm FAshion: A look from the Catching Dreams runway show. Casey Puhr models hair by Amy Day Dougherty of Nebula Beauty Lab, makeup by Joanna Ferree of Powder Me Pretty, clothing from Elise Olson of On The Inside, Erin Hoffman of Airweaver Apparel and Danielle Miller of Royal Peasantry and jewelry by Amber Hatchett Designs. Photo by Elizabeth Hasenmyer of Almond Leaf Studios “Free-spirited, wild nonconformists [are who] you see in Asheville,” says sustainable jewelry designer amber hatchett. It’s a lifestyle that both influences her work and inspired a bohemian-styled fashion. That event — Catching Dreams — takes over downtown Asheville’s historic Masonic Temple on Saturday, Aug. 29.

This fashion show will be one of the largest productions held at the temple since it began hosting special events. The Hatchett Creative Group — Hatchett and her mother, darlene hatchett, a salvage artist — hopes to bring awareness to the temple’s new role as an events venue. The building, which dates to 1913, will use profits from such happenings to continue its restoration projects.

The Hatchetts reached out to local clothing and jewelry designers

and asked them to create a bohemian fashion line — think earthtoned, flowing and detailed — of four-to-six looks. One or two of each designer’s creations will be paired up with the work of local jewelry artists and companies, including Amber Hatchett Designs, tracey mcbride, amy day dougherty of Nebula Beauty Lab, patti byrd of Feather’Root Artistry, caroline yarborough of Caro Designs, megan megan escalante of The East Western, Elementality and Flora Asheville.

Clothing designers include sarah lambert of Uber Kio, elise olson of On the Inside, erin hoffman of Airweaver Apparel, rachel weisberg of RW by Rachel Weisberg, Royal Peasantry, rebecca freeman of House of Fabric, Kati foster of

what Catching Dreams Bohemian Fashion Show where The Masonic Temple 80 Broadway

KatDog Couture, charles josef, and r. brooke priddy of Ship to Shore, who will showcase the final look. “We really want to involve as much of the community as possible,” says Amber.

Artist robin plemmons will be the emcee for the fashion show, held in the temple’s theater. That room features century-old tapestries and backdrops, along with the contemporary addition of dream catchers, tree branches and large crystals in various shades of white provided by local gallery Enter the Earth. Balcony seating, floor seating and customized tepees and tents (seating groups of 3-4) add to the ambiance.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a marketplace including boho-styled hair braiding, henna tattoos and nail art. Vendors plan to sell items such as animal skulls, accessories, home décor, art and more, and runway designs will be available for purchase. Catching Dreams not only showcases local fashion but intends to bring awareness to the Montford Park Players — who use the Masonic Temple’s theater during their winter season. The local theater company will receive 10 percent of all beer and wine sales from the fashion event. X

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THRiLL Read

YA novelist Alan Gratz combines intrigue, suspense and folklore

As he explains the genesis of his latest novel, Code of Honor, Burnsville-based novelist alan gratz — who will mark the book’s release with an appearance at Malaprop’s on Saturday, Aug. 29 — says that Scholastic Press originally approached him about writing this YA thriller along the lines of the television series “Homeland.” Gratz jumped at the chance, he says, but he wanted to come at the plot from a new angle.

“I have been trying hard to get my main characters to be as diverse as possible,” the writer says. “So right from the start the idea was, ‘What if the kid was Persian-American, meaning Iranian?’”

Gratz began reading up on experiences of Middle Easterners in the U.S. “The key with these books is to do enough research to make it real and right, but not to make it a textbook,” he says. Several of Gratz’s what YA Thriller Hour with Alan Gratz and Megan Miranda where Malaprop’s, malaprops.com when Saturday, Aug. 29 7 p.m. Free.

books (including Samurai Shortstop and Prisoner B-3087) deal with historical subjects. “My No. 1 goal when writing for kids is to entertain,” Gratz says. “But most of my books have, you could say, educational content. There are things to learn.”

Coincidentally, shortly after he started work, Gratz heard from a Persian-American teen named Nick Toosi, who said he identified with a character from Gratz’s 2010 novel, The Brooklyn Nine. Toosi wrote that as a Persian-American, he faced similar challenges to that character, a Jewish boy who encounters prejudice in 1920s-era New York.

Gratz seized the chance to interview Toosi, and their exchanges helped the writer define Code of Honor’s

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Brother tALk: Alan Gratz’s new novel, Code of Honor, inspired in part by the TV series “Homeland,” centers on a Persian-American teen whose brother is a suspected terrorist. Photo courtesy of the author main character, Kamran Smith.

Still, Gratz wanted to take the crosscultural theme further. “I didn’t want it to be that they were American kids who had been homogenized,” he says.

The intrigue of Code of Honor includes Kamran’s brother, a suspected terrorist, communicating by means of a code drawn from stories he and Kamran told each other as boys. These stories feature Western icons like Darth Vader, but also the hero Rostam and other figures from Persian mythology.

As a result, Code of Honor is about more than a teen’s struggle to be seen as American post-9/11. A reader also comes away with a deeper understanding of the ways diverse cultures prize virtues like honor and loyalty.

Code of Honor is Gratz’s second release this summer. June saw the launch of The Dragon Lantern, the next book in his steampunk League of Seven series.

The League books borrow from folklore as well. Set in an alternateuniverse North America, they draw many details from Native American

legends and myths. Gratz adopted other sources as well. “I was able to pull in worldwide mythology by saying there had been other leagues in other parts of the world in other eras,” he says.

While the legends Gratz assembles give these books historical depth (and provide some educational content on world folklore), the books were still written to entertain. The League of Seven, the first book in the series, won the 2015 SIBA Young Adult Book Award, and Gratz has been particularly gratified by readers’ responses.

“This was the first time I really built my own world,” he says. “This one I wrote for [the kid in] me, and it’s really gratifying to find that there are other kids out there who would have been my best friend in school — because we would have loved the same stuff.” X

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Three Days of Light Gathering

Nikki Talley Nikki Talley and her husband and bandmate Jason Sharp are technically Asheville-based, although the musicians spend most of their time on the road.

After months of trekking cross-country to showcase the soulful compositions from their latest album, Out from the Harbor, the two have completed the town-by-town return trip. “It’s funny, even after all the traveling we do, I still get a lump in my throat and a song in my heart when I see our Blue Ridge Mountains,” Talley says. “We truly live in a beautiful part of the world.”

Talley’s homecoming show will call upon the talents of bassist Bryan White and percussionist Bill Berg for a full band sound. The Grey Eagle hosts the celebration on Saturday, Aug. 29, (Sharp’s birthday, so “there might be cake”) at 9 p.m. $7/$10. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

Perpetual Groove

We should have known it all along, considering the band’s name. After a roughly two-year hiatus, Perpetual Groove is back. Earlier this year, the quartet’s two homecoming shows in Athens, Ga., sold out within minutes, and to satiate fans, the band has scheduled back-to-back shows in every single city on its remaining 2015 tour — except Asheville.

Perhaps that means the rock musicians’ largely improvisational performance will be delivered with twice as much oomph. But either way, showgoers can expect lively and masterful instrumentation that’s only intensified by the imaginative stage sets and blazing spectacles dreamed up by PGroove’s longtime lighting designer Jason Huffer. The Mantras open the show at Pisgah Brewing Co.’s outdoor stage on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. $22.50/$25 before fees. pisgahbrewing.com. Photo by Lance Bryant

The annual Three Days of Light Gathering — now in its fourth year — takes much of what’s great about summer festivals (camping, music, arts and craft vendors, and nature) and enhances all of that with an element of spirituality and learning.

Meditation spaces, sacred sanctuaries and workshops on topics like “Appalachian Ethno-Botany,” “Exploring Tantric Sexual Energy” and “Intro to Chi-Gong” are all part of the three-day weekend. Keynote speakers include author Tony Burroughs; alchemist, mythologist and astrologist Laura Eisenhower; the Rev. Dr. Saralise Azrael, the founder of Legion of Light Global Ministries; and Emergence Earth founder Scott Bayden Love. The festival is held at Camp Grier in Old Fort, from Friday, Aug. 28, to Sunday, Aug. 30. Various lodging options are available. Tickets include all workshops and events and are $222 at the gate. Kids younger than 14 get in for free. 3dlgathering.com. Photo by Black Creek Photography

Free Planet Radio and The Opal String Quartet Local trio Free Planet Radio has been bending and honing its brand of world jazz for over a decade now, with renowned percussionist River Guerguerian, two-time Grammywinner Eliot Wadopian and multi-instrumentalist Chris Rosser comprising the minisupergroup. With Ginger Kowal and Mariya Potapova on violins, Kara Poorbaugh on viola and Franklin Keel on cello, The Opal String Quartet has been popularizing its own chamber music from Asheville for nearly as long. Together, the two groups honor countless cultures through lively, beautifully layered and inventive original pieces. Their collaborative album, Global Symphony Project — recorded after receipt of a 2014 grant from the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program — will be released during a performance at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Friday, Aug. 28, at 8:30 p.m. $12/$15. isisasheville.com. Photo by Jesse Kitt mountainx.com

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com • Through MO (8/31) - Open call auditions.

Contact for location and guidelines. Free to attend.

Free to attend. Art Demo starts at noon; Music starts at 4:30pm.

celebration singers of asheville 230-5778, singasheville.org • TH (8/27), 5pm - Open auditions for grades 2 through high school. Contact for guidelines.

Free to attend. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

Americana. Held at Green Room Cafe &

grand bohemian gallerY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • Through MO (8/31) - Entries accepted for the annual signature holiday ornament. Contact for guidelines. Free.

old-time music and dance. Free. Held at Pack

historic biltmore village 398-6062 ext. 1220, historicbiltmorevillage.com • Through TU (9/15) - Submissions will be accepted for cover art for the Biltmore Village brochure. Contact for guidelines. Free. the Writers’ Workshop 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through SU (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest.

Contact for guidelines. $25.

• SA (8/29) - Music by Lake & Moore, Coffeehouse, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville shindig on the green 258-6101 x345, folkheritage.org • SATURDAYS until (9/5), 7pm - Traditional Square Park, 121 College St. song o’skY chorus • TU (9/1), 6:45pm - Open house rehearsal and meet and greet. Free. Held at Reed Memorial Baptist Church, 756 Fairview Road

theater 35beloW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FR (8/28) & SA (8/29), 2:30pm - Readers Theatre: The Browning Version and Goodbye,

music

Howard. $6. asheville communitY theatre

concert in the GArDen: On Saturday, Aug. 29, the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden is hosting an evening of world and sacred music with Aditi Sethi, Jay Brown, Kiah Abendroth and River Guerguerian. A brief tour of the community garden will begin at 6 p.m. with music following at 6:30 p.m. The community garden is sponsored by the Black Mountain Recreation and Parks and produces more than 12,000 pounds of produce annually. Proceeds from the concert go to support the garden.

Photo of River Guerguerian by Jesse Kitt (p. 40)

local artists. Auction at 4pm. Free to attend. Held at Highland Lake Inn & Resort, 86 Lily Pad Lane, Flat Rock

art introduction to oil painting Workshop: the landscape (pd.) August 29-September 19, Saturdays, 10:30am12:30pm. All supplies included! Submit the landscape you want to paint. Thorough instruction and discussion of materials, mediums, techniques and best studio practices. Wine and Design Asheville, 640 Merrimon Ave: (828) 255-2442. www.wineanddesign.com/asheville

transYlvania communitY arts council tcarts@comporium.net • 4th FRIDAYS until (11/27), 5-8pm - Gallery Walk.

Held in downtown Brevard. Free to attend.

broadWaY block partY 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/blockparty • SA (8/29), 10am-7pm - Art exhibitions, installations, live music, performances, hands-on activities and food trucks in businesses along Broadway.

Contact for full schedule. Free to attend. Held at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 67 Broadway

anYthing fiber sale nicethreadsgallery.com/afs.html • SA (8/29), 10am-2pm - Fiber and fabric sale. Free to attend. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

cloud cottage 219 Old Toll Circle, Black Mountain, 669-6000, cloudcottage.org • MONDAYS and THURSDAYS through (8/31), 1-4pm - Open studio intensive with puppet maker Judith Toy. Admission by donation.

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village sQuare art & craft shoW 787-2021, uptowngalleryoffranklin.com • SA (8/29) & SU (8/30), 10am-5pm - Macon County Art Association’s show featuring regional artists and live music. Free to attend. Held at Kelsey Hutchinson Park in Highlands, Pine St., Highlands

auditions & call to artists

the namaste center 561-386-5963, thenamastecenter.com, namastemessages@gmail.com • SA (8/29), 1-6pm - Art show and auction featuring

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carolina concert choir 607-351-2585, carolinaconcertchoir.org, ldoebler@ithaca.edu

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5PM • FREE • RIVERMUSIC • FRIDAY september 11 (pd.) RiverLink’s RiverMusic series continues at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District. • September 11 features three outstanding female artists: Headliner Nora Jane Struthers and her band, the Party Line. Opening the concert, Megan Jean and the KFB (exotic avant-folk-punk duo) and Sweet Leda, a rockin’ soul band. www.riverlink.org

35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org

african drum lessons at skinnY beats drum shop (pd.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. No experience necessary. Drums provided. $12/class. (828) 7682826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com

Crimes of the Heart. $15-$40. Wed. - Sat.: 8pm.

concert in the garden 669-2052 • SA (8/29), 6:30pm - An evening of world and sacred music benefitting the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden. Garden Tour at 6pm. $20/$10 children. Held at Dr. John Wilson Community Garden, 99 White Pine Drive, Black Mountain madison countY arts council 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com, info@madisoncountyarts.com • SU (8/3), 4-6pm - Summer series at Ebbs: The Kruger Brothers, classical/folk. $35/$30 advance. Held at Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center, 271 Laurel Valley Road, Mars Hill music at unca 251-6432, unca.edu • WE (8/26), 7pm - Blue Ridge Orchestra open rehearsal. Free. Held in the Reuter Center. north main music & art demonstration 692-6335

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/30) - Not Now, Darling. $22/$19 seniors & students/$15 under 17. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. flat rock plaYhouse doWntoWn 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/6) Thu., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. hendersonville little theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 6921082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (9/5) - The Crucible. $20/$15 students/$10 children.

Thu. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. montford park plaYers 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/29), 7:30pm - Richard III. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. the magnetic theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (9/12), 7:30pm - The Jacob Higginbotham Show, oneman lyric-drama. $21/$18 advance. theater at unca 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • SU (8/30), 2:30pm - Readers Theatre: The Browning Version and Goodbye Howard. $6.

Held at the Reuter Center.

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Weekend of Puja and Mantra with Bill Barry 9/25-28 mountain heritage center Located in Hunter Library on the campus of

5 Walnut Wine bar 5 Walnut St., 253-2593 • Through MO (8/31) - The Night’s Thoughts Considered, paintings

by Suzanne Saunders and Terri Owen. american folk art and framing 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (8/26) - Natural Affinity, paintings by Ellen Langford and pottery

by Shawn Ireland. art at unca art.unca.edu • Through TH (9/17) - Unfathomable, silverpoint and mixed media by Carol Prusa.

Held in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. arts council of henderson countY 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through FR (8/28) - Bring Us Your Best, all-media juried exhibit. Held in the TEDC building at Blue Ridge Community College. asheville area arts council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (9/5) - Contemporary Muralism in Context: Street Art, Public Art, and Graffiti.

• Through (9/19) - Adieu original paintings on wood by Heather Shirin. asheville art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (1/24) - Cubism and Otherisms, the work of William Wegman. asheville gallerY of art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • Through MO (8/31) - Watercolor paintings by Elinor Bowman.

• TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Renewal: Meditations on Nature, watercolor and ink paintings by Sandra Brugh Moore.

Opening reception: Sept. 4, 5-8pm. asheville loft 52 Broadway St., 782-8833, theashevilleloft.com • Through MO (9/7) - To The Harbormaster, paintings by Amanda Seckington. black mountain center for the arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 6690930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (9/4) - Works by glass artist John Almaguer. burnsville trac gallerY 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, 682-7215, toeriverarts.org/facilities/burnsville-gallery • Through SA (9/26) - Local authors’ books are showcased. mcdoWell arts council association 50 S. Main St., Marion, 652-8610, mcdowellarts.net • Through MO (8/31) - Blue Ridge Series, paintings by Kasey Moran.

WCU, 227-7129, mhc.wcu.edu • Through (12/11) - Exhibit: The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918. odYsseY cooperative art gallerY 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Ceramic art of Barbara Quartrone and Dyann Myers.

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Attend any or all of the events. (see website for details) Fri Evening: Lakshmi Puja Ceremony Sat: Personal Protection Mantras and Krishna’s Last Teachings Sun: Opening the Heart with Yoga and Shri Krishna (with Cat Matlock) Sun: Deities Within: Advanced Teaching on Bhakti and Mantra Yoga

West Asheville Yoga.com•Mantra Vijaya.com 602 Haywood Rd. Asheville, 28806•828.350.1167

573 Fairview Road, rootsandwingsarts.com • Through FR (8/28) - exCHANGE, works by

students in Arts For Life and Roots + Wings programs.

spruce pine trac gallerY 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine, 765-0520, toeriverarts.org/facilities/spruce-pine-gallery • Through SA (9/19) - Wax, featuring work of nine artists who include wax in their creative process.

sWannanoa valleY fine arts league svfalarts.org • Through TU (9/8) - Annual member’s juried art exhibition. Held at Red House Studios

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• Through MO (8/31) - The Renaissance of the Family Farm, works by the Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild.

the french broad artists saharfakhoury@yahoo.com • TU (9/1) through WE (9/30) - Autumn plein air landscape paintings group show. Held at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. trYon fine arts center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • FR (8/28) through SA (10/10) - Historic fur-

niture and wood carvings from the Tryon Toy Makers.

upstairs artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (9/11) - Soul to Sole, gospel portraits by Steve Mann.

• Through FR (9/11) - Endless Night, photography by Rimas Zailskas.

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clubland pULp Pleasure Pages (erotic open mic), 8pm reJAVAnAtion cAFe Open mic night, 6pm room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm scULLy’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm sLy GroG LoUnGe Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm soL BAr neW moUntAin World Wednesdays, 8pm soUthern AppALAchiAn BreWery Vinyl Night with DJ Robin Tolleson, 6pm tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Open mic & jam, 7pm the Joint next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm the phoenix Jazz night, 8pm the sociAL Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm the soUthern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiGer moUntAin PUJOL (Southern rock, Gothic), 9pm Timo’s House Spectrum AVL w/ rotating DJs, 9pm

is this LoVe: Vibes at the Orange Peel are about to get irie when The Wailers come to town. Minus the late Bob Marley, of course, the reggae band will grace Asheville’s downtown concert venue and bring with them a night of island breezes. Get ready to stir it up on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 9 p.m. Photo by Beverly Shaw WednesdaY, august 26 185 kinG street Movie night, 7pm 5 WALnUt Wine BAr Wine tasting w/ Stingray J. Caplan (Spanish guitar), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Flamenco), 10pm AsheViLLe mUsic hALL Dirtwire w/ David Satori (global electroacoustic), 9pm

To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801.

Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. this is a firm deadline.

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Ben’s tUne-Up Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Play To Win Game Night, 7:30pm BLUe moUntAin pizzA & BreW pUB Open Mic, 7pm Dirty soUth LoUnGe Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm DoUBLe croWn Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm FoGGy moUntAin BreWpUB John & Zack from Midnight Snack (Americana), 9pm FUnkAtoriUm John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm GooD stUFF Karaoke!, 7pm GrinD cAFe Trivia night, 7pm hiGhLAnD BreWinG compAny Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL An evening w/ Me & Molly (country, singer-songwriter, folk), 7pm

toWn pUmp Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm trAiLheAD restAUrAnt AnD BAr Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 6pm

Lex 18 Thomas Wolfe mystery dinner theater, 6:45pm Patrick Lopez (modern, Latin jazz), 7pm

tressA’s DoWntoWn JAzz AnD BLUes Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

LoBster trAp Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

White horse BLAck moUntAin Wednesday Waltz, 7pm

moUntAin moJo coFFeehoUse Open mic, 6:30pm

WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 7pm

nAtiVe kitchen & sociAL pUB Ryan Furstenberg (Americana, indie, rock), 6:30pm noBLe kAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm o.henry’s/the UnDerGroUnD “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm oDDitoriUm Atlantic Thrills w/ Moist Boy, Putsch & Arch Rivals (punk, rock), 9pm oFF the WAGon Piano show, 9pm oLiVe or tWist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stop DeLi & BAr Lip sync karaoke, 10pm one WorLD BreWinG Stevie Lee Combs (Americana, folk, blues), 8pm

thursdaY, august 27 185 kinG street Mickelson & Coyle (singer-songwriter, folk rock), 8pm 5 WALnUt Wine BAr Pleasure Chest (blues, rock ’n’ roll, soul), 8pm BArLey’s tAproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm BLUe moUntAin pizzA & BreW pUB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm BoGArt’s restAUrAnt & tAVern Eddie Rose & Highway Forty (bluegrass), 6:30pm ByWAter Frances Bloom Band (Americana), 5pm

JAck oF the WooD pUB Old-time session, 5pm Hearts Gone South (honky-tonk, country), 9pm

pisGAh BreWinG compAny Matt Reynolds (singer-songwriter, outlaw country), 6pm

cLUB eLeVen on GroVe Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm

LAzy DiAmonD Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

poUr tAproom Karaoke, 8pm

creeksiDe tAphoUse Station Underground (reggae), 8pm

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croW & QUiLL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 9pm

sprinG creek tAVern Open Mic, 6pm

DoUBLe croWn 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Gentle Jones Band (classic rock mix), 7pm

one WorLD BreWinG Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 8pm orAnGe peeL Big Smo w/ Haden Carpenter (country rap), 9pm

tWisteD LAUreL Karaoke, 8pm White horse BLAck moUntAin Rick Estrin & the Nightcats (West Coast jump blues), 7:30pm WiLD WinG cAFe Throwin’ Down Thursday w/ DJ Ramin, 5pm WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Tall Paul (pop, rock, Americana), 6pm Live DJ, 9pm Wxyz LoUnGe At ALoFt hoteL Jeff Thompson (soul, Americana, folk), 7:30pm

fridaY, august 28 185 kinG street Stolen Hearts w/ Pam Taylor & Robert Johnson Jr. (dirty Southern soul), 8pm 5 WALnUt Wine BAr GrassHoppa (reggae), 9pm ALtAmont theAtre The Key of Q (experimental), 9pm

oskAr BLUes BreWery Carver & Carmody (Americana), 6pm

AthenA’s cLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

pAck’s tAVern Lenny Petenelli (high energy piano), 9pm

Ben’s tUne-Up Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

pisGAh BreWinG compAny Blue Eyed Bettys (folk, bluegrass), 8pm

BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Ginny McAfee (country, folk), 8pm

pUrpLe onion cAFe Nikki Talley (Americana, folk), 7:30pm renAissAnce AsheViLLe hoteL Dave Legadi (jazz), 6:30pm room ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm scAnDALs niGhtcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sLy GroG LoUnGe Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm

BLUe moUntAin pizzA & BreW pUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm ByWAter Red Honey (surf-rock, honky-tonk), 8pm cLAssic WineseLLer Sheila Gordon (blues, pop, rock), 7pm cLUB eLeVen on GroVe Postal Express Street Riders Dance Party (hiphop, soul, funk), 9pm

MAGENTA SUNSHINE FRI 8/28

6:00 PM – CONCERT ON THE LAWN 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ BLUE EYED BETTYS 8:30 PM – FREE

PLANET RADIO &

THE OPAL STRING QUARTET CD RELEASE SAT 8/29 9:00 PM –TODD NANCE (DRUMMER OF WIDESPREAD PANIC) & FRIENDS

WED 9/2 5-7:00 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS 7:00 PM – MUSIC ON THE PATIO W/

FLAWLESS AND RAW THU 9/3

7:00 PM – MUSIC ON THE PATIO W/ WASTE MANAGEMENT 7:00 PM – LES AMIS FT. MEMBERS OF TOUBAB KREWE AND ZANSA 8:30 PM – DANGERMUFFIN & FT. BROCK BUTLER OF PERPETUAL GROOVE

WEATHER AND WAVES FRI 9/4

9:00 PM – THREE FOR ALL PARTY W/

A SOCIAL FUNCTION, FEEL MORE EAST & MAGENTA SUNSHINE WED 9/9 5-7:00 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ THE BUMPER JACKSONS Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

croW & QUiLL Dust & Ashes (queer folk), 9pm

soL BAr neW moUntAin Songwriter Thursdays w/ Caine McDonald, 8pm

DoUBLe croWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

soUthern AppALAchiAn BreWery Dave Dribbon (Americana, folk), 7pm

eLAine’s DUeLinG piAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

8/27 Presents: DAN ST. GERMAIN An Evening with MAE + 8/28 DELLA JON STICKLEY TRIO NIKKI TALLEY BIRTHDAY 8/29 BASH SOUTHERN CULTURE 9/3 ON THE SKIDS 9/4 LUKE COMBS An evening with BURRITO 9/5 THE BROTHERS

The Grey Eagle Comedy Series W/ JACK NELSON

W/ THE MULLIGAN BROTHERS

W/ THE KREKTONES

9/8 9/9

8PM 7PM DOORS DOORS

one stop DeLi & BAr Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm An evening w/ Mandara (rock), 10pm

tressA’s DoWntoWn JAzz AnD BLUes The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

7:00 PM – MUSIC ON THE PATIO W/

8PM DOORS

oLiVe or tWist Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm

trAiLheAD restAUrAnt AnD BAr Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

THU 8/27

8PM DOORS

oFF the WAGon Dueling pianos, 9pm

toWn pUmp Lilli Jean (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

8PM DOORS

oDDitoriUm Punx for Pits benefit (punk, metal), 9pm

Thu 9/10 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH ME AND MOLLY 8:30 PM Sam Lewis w/ Margo7:00 and PM – MUSIC ON THE PATIO W/ timo’s hoUse Tags Dance Party w/ DJthe FrancoPrice Nino, 10pm FLAWLESS AND RAW the VALLey mUsic & cookhoUse Karaoke, 9pm

7PM DOORS

o.henry’s/the UnDerGroUnD Game Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm

WED 8/26 5-7:00 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS

The Grey Eagle Taqueria FREE

Patio Series

6PM DOORS

neW moUntAin theAter/AmphitheAter Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band w/ Jonathan Scales (funk), 7pm

COMING SOON

LAURA BLACKLEY An Evening with JAZZ IS PHISH FEATURING MEMBERS

OF STRANGE DESIGN, SNARKY PUPPY, VICTOR WOOTEN BAND AND MORE

8PM DOORS

mArket pLAce Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

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

THU

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

the sociAL Jordan Okrend (pop, rock, soul), 6pm

FRI

Lex 18 Patrick Lopez (modern, Latin jazz), 7pm Michael Andersen (eloquent honky-tonk piano), 9pm

the phoenix Linda Mitchell (eclectic blues, jazz), 8pm

SAT

JAck oF the WooD pUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

the mothLiGht Single Lash w/ Future Museums, Ellipser & Kangarot (shoegaze, punk, rock), 9pm

THU

isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL On the patio: Laid Back Thursdays, 7pm

12am

FRI

Grey eAGLe mUsic hALL & tAVern Dan St. Germain w/ Jack Nelson (comedy), 8pm

Full Bar

SAT

French BroAD BreWery King Possum (roots, blues), 6pm

5pm–12am

THU

FoGGy moUntAin BreWpUB Stolen Hearts (folk), 9pm

Tues-Sun

WED

eLAine’s DUeLinG piAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

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8/27 thu single lash w/ future

museums, ellipser, kangarot

�country night

8/28 fri hearts gone south w/

buddy davis & the session players

#1 Pub Grub #2 Bar for Live Music

WED HEARTS GONE SOUTH TONK) / COUNTRY DANCE PARTY EVERY 8.26 & (HONKY WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN THE SUMMER! 9.2 9 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged) MATT PAESSLER (ACCOUSTIC FOLK MUSIC)

8/29 sat diarrhea planet

w/ the blots, electric phantom

FRI 8.28

EARLY AFTERNOON SET

2 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

STRUNG LIKE A HORSE (GYPSY PUNK GRASS BAND)

2 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

8/30 sun bulgogi w/ art contest, concord america

8/31 mon

SAT 8.29

free monday

multicult w/ cold solstice, lake lawn, mondays

9/1 mon zachary cale w/ pete nolan (magik markers), wes tirey, aswara

TUE 9.1 FRI 9.4

DON MERKLE AND THE BLACKSMITHS

(CELTIC FOLK ROCK & COUNTRY MOUNTAIN PARTY MUSIC)

W/ THE LAURA BLACKLEY BAND

8 p.m. $5

NIKKI TALLEY (FOLK AMERICANA SONGSTRESS) 5

dirty soul revival, andrew thelston

9/3

thu

christopher paul stelling

w/ hannah kaminer

soL BAr neW moUntAin Friday SOL Vibes w/ Disc-Oh! (dubstep, glitch), 10pm

French BroAD BreWery Stray Local (folk, blues), 6pm

soUthern AppALAchiAn BreWery Salsa Shark! (salsa, jazz), 8pm

GooD stUFF Lilli Jean (post-folk psychedelia), 9pm

sprinG creek tAVern Millie Palmer (Americana), 9pm

Grey eAGLe mUsic hALL & tAVern An evening w/ Della Mae & Jon Stickley Trio (folk, bluegrass, acoustic), 9pm

tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Jarvis Jenkins (Southern rock), 9:30pm

hiGhLAnD BreWinG compAny Geoff Achison & The Soul Diggers (Southern blues, roots), 7pm iron horse stAtion Andy Ferrell (Americana), 7pm isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL An evening w/ The Blue Eyed Bettys (folk, bluegrass), 7pm Free Planet Radio w/ The Opal String Quartet (world, jazz, experimental), 8:30pm

P.M. to 7 P.M. SEPTEMBER TUESDAY RESIDENCY W/THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE 9 P.M. FREE SHOW 5 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

JAck oF the WooD pUB Matt Paessler (acoustic, folk), 2pm Strung Like A Horse (Gypsy punk, folk), 9pm

RESONANT ROGUES (OLD FASHIONED RAG TIME

JerUsALem GArDen Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

GYPSY JAZZ BALKAN BLUES DANCE PARTY)

9 p.m. $5

OPEN AT NOON DAILY

9/2 wed the new schematics w/

FoGGy moUntAin BreWpUB Members from Zansa & Touebab Krew (African jam), 10pm

SATURDAY Parker & Smith (old-fashioned blues), 2-4pm SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3-9pm MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Scottie Parker (old-fashioned blues) 2-4pm, Bluegrass Jam 7pm FRIDAY The Low Counts (blues) w/ Todd Cecil & Back South A Dirty Dance Party

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

LAzy DiAmonD Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm Lex 18 Michael John Jazz (classic jazz), 4pm Michael Jefry Stevens (modern jazz), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (eloquent honky-tonk piano), 10pm LoBster trAp Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm mArket pLAce The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

Wed • August 26

nAtiVe kitchen & sociAL pUB Savannah Smith (folk, singer-songwriter), 7:30pm

5:30-7:30

neW moUntAin theAter/AmphitheAter The Time Machine w/ Ben Lovett (variety dance party), 9pm

Woody Wood

Fri • August 28

o.henry’s/the UnDerGroUnD Kings & Queens (drag dance party), 10pm

Geoff Achison & the Soul Diggers

oDDitoriUm Gnarwhal w/ Dead Mothers, Great Deceivers & special guest (punk), 9pm

7:00-9:00

Sat • August 29

Baconfest 12:00-4:00 check website for details / Tasting Room open 4-9pm

Sun • August 30 Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt Roots Reggae Trio

Tue • SeptemberB E1S T O F 6:00-8:00

HALL OF FAME WNC 2014

the sociAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiGer moUntAin Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm timo’s hoUse Dungeon 4 w/ Secret_nc, Crux & Collective One (dubstep, D&B), 10pm tWisteD LAUreL Live DJ, 11pm White horse BLAck moUntAin 1925 OKEH Recording Sessions celebration w/ David Holt & friends (mountain music, Americana), 7:30pm WiLD WinG cAFe Contagious (rock ’n’ roll), 6pm WiLD WinG cAFe soUth A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm Wxyz LoUnGe At ALoFt hoteL BiiG PoppA (DJ, electronic), 8pm zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

saturdaY, august 29 185 kinG street Rick Estrin and the Nightcats (west coast jump blues), 8pm

ALtAmont theAtre P.W. Gopal CD release show (singer-songwriter), 8pm

oskAr BLUes BreWery Tina and Her Pony (indie folk), 6pm pAck’s tAVern DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm pisGAh BreWinG compAny The Horse You Rode In On (funk fusion), 8pm riVerWAtch BAr & GriLL Chris Smith (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm

scULLy’s DJ, 10pm

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the phoenix The Zealots (Americana, indie-rock), 9pm

one stop DeLi & BAr Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Vibe Dance Party w/ DJs arun & red.tree, 10pm

scAnDALs niGhtcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

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the mothLiGht Hearts Gone South w/ Buddy Davis & The Session Players (country, honky-tonk), 9pm

5 WALnUt Wine BAr Renshaw Davies (new roots, Americana), 6pm Shake It Like A Caveman (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

root BAr no. 1 Hot Sauce Sandwich (funk rock), 9pm

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the miLLroom 828 Throwdown w/ Empire Strikes Brass & Push/Pull (funk, rock, electronic), 9pm

oLiVe or tWist WestSound (blues, Motown), 8pm

orAnGe peeL Earl Sweatshirt w/ NxWorries & Remy Banks (hip hop, horrorcore), 9pm

1:00-4:00

Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia

oFF the WAGon Dueling pianos, 9pm

the ADmirAL Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

AsheViLLe mUsic hALL LGBT Glow Party w/ DJ Stratos (dance), 10pm AthenA’s cLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Ben’s tUne-Up Gypsy Guitars, 2pm BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Todd Cecil & Back South (country blues), 9pm BLUe moUntAin pizzA & BreW pUB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm ByWAter Dirty Soul Revival (bluesy rock ’n’ roll), 8pm cLAssic WineseLLer Joe Cruz (Beatles & Elton John covers, piano), 7pm DoUBLe croWn Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm

eLAine’s DUeLinG piAno BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

scULLy’s DJ, 10pm

FoGGy moUntAin BreWpUB Jay Brown Trio (folk), 10pm

sLy GroG LoUnGe Shoeless Hooligan (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

French BroAD BreWery The Sean Keily Band, 6pm

soUthern AppALAchiAn BreWery Stepchild (blues, Americana), 8pm

GooD stUFF Mickelson & Coyle (singer-songwriter), 9pm

sprinG creek tAVern Resonant Rogues (Balkan, gypsy, old-time), 9pm

Grey eAGLe mUsic hALL & tAVern Nikki Talley w/ The Mulligan Brothers (folk, Americana, singer-songwriter), 9pm iron horse stAtion Luke Wood, 7pm isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL Todd Nance & friends (rock, jam), 9pm JAck oF the WooD pUB Don Merkle w/ The Laura Blackley Trio (Celtic folk rock, mountain party music), 8pm JerUsALem GArDen Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LAzy DiAmonD Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm Lex 18 Michael John Jazz (classic jazz), 4pm Kid Dutch Duo (vintage jazz, blues), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (eloquent honky-tonk piano), 10pm mArket pLAce DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm moJo kitchen & LoUnGe Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm neW moUntAin theAter/ AmphitheAter Midnight Snack (art rock), 8pm o.henry’s/the UnDerGroUnD Drag Show, 9pm Bizarro World (dance party), 10pm oDDitoriUm The Dirty Badgers w/ Lilli Jean & The Slams (blues, rock), 9pm oFF the WAGon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLiVe or tWist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm orAnGe peeL Cypher Univercity w/ Free The Optimus, Tusco, Jrsusalam & Pragmaddix (hip hop), 9pm

the mothLiGht Diarrhea Planet w/ The Blots & Electric Phantom (rock, punk, indie), 9:30pm the phoenix Carrie Morrison (Americana), 1pm The Cody Siniard Band (country, Americana), 9pm the sociAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm the strAnD @ 38 mAin Mandy Barnett (tribute to Patsy Cline at the Opry), 8pm the VALLey mUsic & cookhoUse The Valley Blues Fest w/ Miranda Clark & The Honey B’s, Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats, The Zuzu Welsh Band, The Lowdown & Stolen Hearts, 2pm timo’s hoUse Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino (top 40), 10pm toWn pUmp Hot Sauce Sandwich (psychedelic, funk, rock), 9pm tressA’s DoWntoWn JAzz AnD BLUes The King Zeros (blues), 7pm tWisteD LAUreL Live DJ, 11pm White horse BLAck moUntAin Yes the Raven (folk, indie), 8pm WiLD WinG cAFe Karaoke, 8pm WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Grand Theft Audio Acoustic (R&B, rock, country), 6pm Wxyz LoUnGe At ALoFt hoteL Secret B-Sides (modern soul, funk), 8pm zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sundaY, august 30

pAck’s tAVern Lyric (funk, rock, soul), 9pm

BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse

riVerWAtch BAr & GriLL Carver & Carmody (Americana, country), 7pm room ix Open dance night, 9pm root BAr no. 1 Poet Radio w/ Shit Karate (alt-rock), 9pm scAnDALs niGhtcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

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the ADmirAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

5 WALnUt Wine BAr

pUrpLe onion cAFe Citizen Mojo (blues, funk, rock, soul), 8pm

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tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Mojomatic (rock, blues), 9:30pm

oskAr BLUes BreWery Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (roots rock), 6pm

pisGAh BreWinG compAny Perpetual Groove w/ The Mantras (jam, rock), 7pm

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One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 7pm Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm BLUe moUntAin pizzA & BreW pUB Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7pm ByWAter

Up Jumped Three (West Coast jazz), 5pm DoUBLe croWn

Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm iron horse stAtion

Ashley Heath (R&B), 6pm isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm

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JAck oF the WooD pUB Irish session, 5pm LAzy DiAmonD

North Carolina’s First Cider Pub! Family Owned and Operated

Lex 18 Michael John Jazz (classic jazz), 7pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9pm

BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse

oDDitoriUm No Regrets Improv, 7pm Goldie & The Screamers (rock), 10pm

oLiVe or tWist DJ (oldies rock, swing), 8pm

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ByWAter Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm coUrtyArD GALLery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm croW & QUiLL Los Abrojitos (Argentine tango), 9pm

GooD stUFF

soUthern AppALAchiAn BreWery BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & special guests (blues), 5pm tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm Grey eAGLe mUsic hALL & tAVern Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm JAck oF the WooD pUB Quizzo, 7pm LAzy DiAmonD Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm LexinGton AVe BreWery (LAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm

the mothLiGht Bulgogi w/ Art Contest & Concord America (dance, punk, dreampop), 9pm

LoBster trAp

the omni GroVe pArk inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

o.henry’s/the UnDerGroUnD

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

the phoenix Bradford Carson (modern mountain music), 12pm

oLiVe or tWist

Try Our New Wo Pizza and G od-Fired rinders!

the sociAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

one WorLD BreWinG

the soUthern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm

TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

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

THU. 8/27

toWn pUmp Chris Jamison (Americana, singer-songwriter), 9pm

Lenny Pettinelli (jazz, rock, funk, folk)

WeDGe BreWinG co.

Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazzswing), 6pm White horse BLAck moUntAin MJS Electric Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm

FRI. 8/28 DJ MoTo

(pop, dance hits)

WickeD WeeD Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

SAT. 8/29 Lyric

WiLD WinG cAFe Bluegrass Afternoons, 3pm

(pop, funk, soul)

WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

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7:30pm

poUr tAproom Open mic, 8pm

sociAL LoUnGe & tApAs In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm

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Acoustic jam w/ Hunter, Charlie & Friends,

DoUBLe croWn

scAnDALs niGhtcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806

Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm

one stop DeLi & BAr Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 7pm

riVerWAtch BAr & GriLL Hunnilicious (country, folk, pop), 6pm

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oFF the WAGon Piano show, 9pm

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Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul),

Tiki Night w/ DJ or band (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm

LoBster trAp Hunnilicious (Americana, country, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

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Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm orAnGe peeL Summer movie series: Batman (Michael Keaton version), 8pm

oskAr BLUes BreWery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm sociAL LoUnGe & tApAs In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez

(acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm soVereiGn remeDies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the mothLiGht Multicult w/ Cold Solstice, Lake Lawn & Mondays (noise rock, post-punk), 9pm the omni GroVe pArk inn Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm the phoenix The Wilhelm Bros. (Americana), 8pm

the sociAL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm

JAck oF the WooD pUB Nikki Talley w/ The Rough and Tumble (folk, Americana), 5pm

the soUthern

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

Salsa Night, 9pm

Speakeasy Mondays w/ The Low-Down Sires & friends (hot jazz, swing), 9:30pm

the VALLey mUsic & cookhoUse

Lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (romantic jazz), 7pm

Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic),

LoBster trAp Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

tiGer moUntAin

mArket pLAce The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

8pm

Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm timo’s hoUse Movie night, 7pm UrBAn orchArD Old-time music, 7pm WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Monday Bike Nights, 6pm

tuesdaY, september 1

oDDitoriUm Led To the Grave, Ragana & Uninhabitable (metal), 9pm

tALLGAry’s At FoUr coLLeGe Jam night, 9pm

ByWAter Fire spinning night, 8:30pm cork & keG Old Time Jam, 5pm DoUBLe croWn DJ Brody Hunt (honky-tonk, Cajun, Western), 10pm GooD stUFF Old time-y night, 6:30pm iron horse stAtion Open mic, 6pm isis restAUrAnt AnD mUsic hALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm

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SOL BAR: YO MAMAʼS BIG FAT BOOTY BAND AFTERPARTY W/ SELECTOR AZ-IZ (ADRIAN ZELSKI OF DUBCONSCIOUS) FREE W/ YBFBB TICKET! 38 N FRENCH BROAD AVENUE ASHEVILLE, NC 28801

4pm-2am Mon-Fri | 12pm-2am Sat | 3pm-2am Sun Mon.-Thur.

4pm-2am • Fri.-Sun. 2pm-2am

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one WorLD BreWinG DJ Brandon Audette (ambient, ’70s & ’80s throwbacks), 8pm

AsheViLLe mUsic hALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

BUFFALo nickeL Trivia, 7pm

YO MAMA’S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND

one stop DeLi & BAr Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

poUr tAproom Frank Zappa night, 8pm

BLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Trivia, 7pm

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oFF the WAGon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

ALtAmont BreWinG compAny Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

Ben’s tUne-Up Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm

THU

the Joint next Door Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm the mothLiGht Zachary Cale w/ Pete Nolan, Wes Tirey & Aswara (neo-folk, rock), 9:30pm the sociAL Jason Whitaker (acoustic), 5pm tressA’s DoWntoWn JAzz AnD BLUes Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm UrBAn orchArD Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm WestViLLe pUB Blues jam, 10pm White horse BLAck moUntAin Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm WiLD WinG cAFe soUth Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm

Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

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CraNkY HaNke reVIeWs & LIstINGs

BY KEN HANKE & JUSTIN SOUTHER

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HHHHH = PICk Of The week

Kristen Wiig, Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård in Marielle Heller’s writing-directing debut the diary of a teenage girl, a sure-to-be controversial, brutally frank coming-ofage story about a 15-year-old girl and a 34-year-old man, who also happens to be her mother’s boyfriend.

Diary of a Teenage Girl HHHH

Director: Marielle Heller pLAyers: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig, Abby Wait, Miranda Bailey, Christopher Meloni DrAmA Rated R the story: A teenage girl in 1976 San Francisco becomes sexually — and romantically — involved with her mother’s 34-year-old boyfriend. the LoWDoWn: Boldly honest and frank coming-of-age film that is at once daring in its subject matter, yet very much part of its genre. Good, but not quite great, and definitely likely to offend some viewers.

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Actres s -turn e d- wr i te r - di r e c to r Marielle Heller has arrived on the scene with The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and, despite its almost universal praise from the critics, it’s the kind of movie that is going to polarize viewers. Some will be enraged by the content, dismiss the film as trash, suggest it will only appeal to perverts, and on and on. What’s the big deal? Well, it’s about a 15-year-old girl named Minnie (played by 22-year-old Brit TV actress Bel Powley) who becomes sexually involved with her mother Charlotte’s (Kristen Wiig) 34-year-old boyfriend Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård). To make matters more problematic, the film refuses to make Minnie a victim,

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and it remains steadfastly nonjudgmental. It is also brutally frank and probably a lot more honest than it is comfortable. Here’s the point — know this going in, or know it and don’t go in at all if it’s going to upset you. It’s also worth keeping in mind that the film was made by a woman and based on a quasiautobiographical novel by another woman, Phoebe Gloeckner.

The film is set in San Francisco in 1976, which makes the story very much of another place and time.

Life was very different then. Maybe it was more cynical. It was certainly a less guarded time — in part, I suspect, because mass communications hadn’t reached a saturation point.

The movie keeps this in mind and so should the viewer. I have my own set of issues with the film — not the least of which is finding it incredible that the soundtrack choices for a a movie taking place when I was 21 were mostly unknown to me. (I concede this may be an East Coast/ West Coast thing.) But my biggest issue comes from the nagging question I’m left with: Who is the audience for The Diary of a Teenage Girl? And I’m really not sure. While I admired the film on a number of levels, I was never deeply affected by it, and I’m fairly sure I’ll barely remember it a few months down the road.

When all is said and done, this is essentially a coming-of-age picture.

Granted, it’s an unusually raw one and not aimed at the PG-13 crowd.

It’s a movie that opens with our main character happily announcing, “I had sex today. Holy shit!” and it’s not long before we learn who it is she had sex with, so, no, it’s not your standard coming-of-age movie. But it ultimately serves the same basic function and — daring material and some artistic animations to one side — adheres to the basic template of the genre. That’s not so much a criticism as an observation, though I will note that other, less overtly edgy coming-of-age movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) worked better for me.

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ASHEVILLE PIzzA & BREwING CO. (254-1281) Magic Mike (R) 10:00 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 carolina cinemas (274-9500) America Ultra (R) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Best of Enemies (R) 11:25, 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:20, 10:30 The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R) 11:00, 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 The End of the Tour (R) 7:10, 9:45 The Gift (R) 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Hitman: Agent 47 (R) 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:40 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (PG) 12:00, 2:25, 4:45 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (PG-13) 11:15, 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation (PG-13) 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mr. Holmes (PG) 11:10, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 No Escape (R) 11:40, 2:30, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) 11:55, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25

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The film basically recounts — via Minnie’s cassette-tape diary — the period in her life when she started finding out who she was and lost at least some of her issues with herself.

That she mistakes what she has with Monroe for love — at least until she gets a look at his real self (or so she thinks) — is only part of the picture. Just as important is her discovering her artistic muse in the comics of Aline Kominsky — who later appears in animated form as a kind of imaginary friend and adviser.

There’s also coming to terms with her party-girl mother’s own issues.

The interesting — and maybe not entirely realistic — aspect of all this is that, like the film, Minnie is largely nonjudgmental about it all.

If not that, she’s at least remarkably understanding of the shortcomings of others.

I pull up short at calling Diary a must-see. I do admire its candor and honesty. I like the way the film manages to find humor in some pretty tricky places — like Minnie recording her brazenly sexual diary on a bus, oblivious to the shocked passengers. I also like the way her mother finds out the truth by listening to the cassette diary, and having Minnie walk in on her. (Who among us did not have a similar youthful experience, though maybe with less scandalous secrets?) And the complexity of her mother’s feelings — part horror at the idea of Minnie having an inappropriate lover, and part jealousy over it being her own boyfriend — is very fine. But something keeps me from quite warming to the film. You may feel differently. Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and drinking — all involving teens.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

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Leguizamo, Bill Pullman stoner Action comeDy Rated R the story: A perpetually stoned convenience store clerk with an inexplicably attractive girlfriend discovers that he is a highly trained but artificially amnesic CIA asset when the perpetually stoned kid from That ’70s Show tries to have him killed. the LoWDoWn: An insipid waste of time that seeks to serve as both action film and comedy, achieving neither.

American Ultra is a bad film. Full stop. However, it might work in a very specific socio-political reading; if one were to view this film as the wishfulfillment fantasy of an entitled yet disempowered youth who came of age in a post-9-11, Antonin-Scalia-thinkstorture-works context (like screenwriter Max Landis), then the premise of a stoned wastrel with a CIA-engendered superhuman ability to inflict great harm on others could conceivably carry narrative weight. However, if Jason Bourne met Tommy Chong in a dark alley, the resultant conflict would be at once more interesting and less jarring than the tonally dissonant mess that is American Ultra.

The film is not without its somewhat limited merits, but most of them are implied rather than fulfilled. Writing high does not equate to writing highconcept, and if the conflation of two disparate genres in the script for The Big Lebowski represents the metaphorical equivalent of a Ph.D. in stoner/ noir, then American Ultra is the GED of the nonexistent stoner/spy-thriller subgenre. The story is at least succinct, but it’s also far too predictable to maintain any genuine interest. The supporting cast is possibly the highlight of the film, with Walton Goggins, Topher Grace, and John Leguizamo doing the best they can with what the script gives them, but far too often the screen is given over to Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s laconic rambling.

Stewart and Eisenberg’s chemistry, or lack thereof, is indeed lamentable.

Give a hefty dose of lithium to two people who clearly like each other but are simultaneously convinced of their respective superiority, and you’ll arrive at something like the performances seen herein. This would be problematic enough if they were trying to carry a film more functionally intact, but while the story moves along at a fairly brisk pace and the structure is sound, abrupt leaps between action and comedy never allow the audience to become comfortable with either. That

HHHHH = max rating the action sequences are surprisingly graphic and the jokes surprisingly flaccid could possibly have been excused were the film not so self-satisfied. It’s as though the script targets a demographic that buys Mountain Dew and Funyuns at 3 a.m. but was written someone who has his assistant procure such things on his behalf. Director Nimah Nourizadeh (Project X) has certainly attempted to carve out a unique niche for himself, but his lack of competence is on full display and certainly not aided by Landis’ hastily slapped-together script. In a just world, Eisenberg’s stunt double and the CGI department would have received top billing.

Quietly but consistently insulting the audience it intends to fleece, American Ultra might well be the perfectly constructed film for stoned 17-year-old males in isolated rural environments. If your worldview stretches from the local 7-Eleven to the local Wal-Mart with nothing but a TV in between, this might be the film for you. But even if such is the case, you’re still likely to be disappointed. Rated R for violence, language, drug use and some sexual content.

Now playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Scott Douglas jsdouglas22@gmail.com

national television — and of historical significance as the birth of the political TV pundit.

Its historical significance to one side, how you respond to Best of Enemies — the documentary on the 1968 “debates” between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. — will depend on how you take to either of the two men. Having grown up seeing them (and in Buckley’s case, seeing parodies of him), I’m used to them, but someone who isn’t may well have a different response. They speak in a style of affected elegance that has long been out of fashion. As a Columbia University linguist puts it, “These days anybody who spoke like those two men — in public — would be seen to be heartless.” And Frank Rich of New York magazine notes, “In fact they’re supposed to be what America nationally despises. They’re intellectuals. They sound like elites, but people warmed to them.” But 50 years ago — when people weren’t automatically suspicious of anyone who didn’t sound like someone you could have a beer with — it wasn’t immediately off-putting.

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TAKE ONE: Students of the Asheville School of Film’s Youth Summer Filmmaking Experience work on their narrative short. From Oct. 7-Nov. 25, the School will offer Filmmaking 101 for adults interested in the moviemaking process. Photo by Bill Pivetta • Fresh off the success of its Youth Summer Filmmaking Experience program, the asheville school of film offers a filmmaking 101 course for adults interested in the moviemaking process.

According to the course description, the eight-week introduction “begins with the study of both the creative and technical principles of filmmaking.

Students will learn about visual storytelling concepts, script writing and storyboarding, casting actors, professional equipment, on-set protocols, directing, lighting, camera operation, shot composition and editing. Students then will create a group short film from conception to completion [and] finalize their project using a professional, nonlinear digital editing system.”

Classes run 6:30-9:30 p.m., each Wednesday from Oct. 7 to Nov. 25, plus two shooting days, the dates of which are yet to be determined. Tuition is $595 and includes all equipment and supplies. Students will receive a digital copy of the short film, which will also be screened at a local theater. avl.mx/1g1 • Beginning Friday, Feb. 12, the biltmore house will host Fashionable romance: Wedding Gowns in Film, a costume exhibition of wedding dresses and attire from 19 well-known movies.

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• Building on the momentum of his first two-day workshop since moving to Western North Carolina, award-winning documentarian Kevin peer is offering one-day experiential filmmaking workshops through the end of the year. “conceptualizing and planning your next production” takes place on Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at Marshall High Studios. The workshop guides prospective nonfiction filmmakers step-by-step through a clear, logicalyet-soul-honoring process. Participants move from assignment, idea and vision to a cogent and competent production plan, learning the techniques that Peer has used as the foundation for each of his cinematic endeavors.

Additional workshops on different topics will be offered in October, November and December. The cost is $175 for a single workshop, but students who sign up for multiple classes receive a discounted rate. avl.mx/1g2 • the black mountain college museum + arts center presents the premiere screening of DouBLetaKe on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 1 and 4 p.m.

The film is a video montage of experiences from April’s {Re}HAPPENING, the annual multidisciplinary experimental art event that “honors the dynamic artistic energy of Black Mountain College and pays tribute to the groundbreaking innovations of that community of artists.” Admission is free, and the 1 p.m. screening also includes an introduction by representatives from The Media Arts Project and BMCM+AC. blackmountaincollege.org Send your local film news to ae@ mountainx.com x mountainx.com

Today the landscape probably has no room for the supercilious, suave, sang-froid of Vidal, and possibly even less for the equally pompous, but more twitchy — with his reptilian tongueflicking and nervous pen-jabbing — and more volatile Buckley. Their sophisticated affectations have long been displaced by the raucous shouting of the more viewer-friendly “just folks” posturings of their TV pundit successors — successors they ironically made possible. In 1968, their series of “debates” during the Republican and Democratic conventions were a whole new kind of political theater.

Calling them debates is itself debatable, since these are really escalating cat fights by two larger-than-life selfcaricatures who loathed each other and detested each other’s vision of America.

The film is quick to point out that the whole idea was born of desperation at ABC. It’s probably hard to understand what an under-financed also-ran ABC was in 1968. The network was something of a joke and their status was precarious. While big guns CBS and NBC were planning complete and comprehensive coverage of the conventions (in color, no less), and that was something ABC couldn’t afford.

The solution was to show only the essentials of the conventions — and to offer something different by having Vidal and Buckley discuss them. The idea, or some variant of it, is standard now. It was revolutionary then, and it was not without its critics, who felt it detracted from the proceedings. The objections, of course, couldn’t stand up to the power of the ratings.

Looked at today, it’s easy to see the appeal of the battle of wits, but it’s also impossible not to notice how little of it actually relates to the convention. It’s all about the clash of two giant egos, both of which were capable of being extremely vicious.

There’s soon no doubt that Vidal — having already measured his opponent — was out for blood. But more, he was determined to cause Buckley to meltdown on national TV. His stated intention after the fact had been to expose Buckley publicly — to show the world Buckley the way Vidal saw him. It goes without saying that Vidal wanted to accomplish this without losing his own composure. Whether or not he did either of these things, what he clearly did not do was destroy or even negatively impact Buckley’s popularity.

Then again, Buckley did no damage to Vidal’s clout. If anything they both gained from the massive exposure.

The significance of Best of Enemies itself lies less in its undeniable enter-

tainment value — and the fact that it’s smart enough not to overstay its welcome — than how it captures that moment in time when the now ubiquitous TV news pundit came into being. That it has now been twisted almost entirely out of recognition doesn’t change that it started here — and it was, from the very onset, more about entertainment and personalities than news. Rated R for some sexual content/nudity and language.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@ mountainx.com

Hitman Agent 47

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Director: Aleksander Bach pLAyers: Rupert Friend, Hanna Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann Action thriLLer Rated R the story: The geneticallyengineered title character pursues a young woman in the hopes of getting to her missing father. the LoWDoWn: A witless mess that wastes a few good actors and provides a few unintended laughs, but hardly enough to make it worthwhile.

Aleksander Bach’s (presumably no relation to the late composer) Hitman: Agent 47 is one of those movies that is at its best when it’s at its worst. Almost completely worthless on any normal scale of values — you know, like marginal coherence — Hitman works pretty well as unintentional amusement whenever it goes completely insane.

Unfortunately, it’s mostly just inane, and that’s not much fun. Oh, it’s not the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

It may not even be the worst movie that came out this week. This does

not change the fact that I can’t imagine any good reason to see Hitman.

Now, I’ve never seen the 2007 Hitman — based on the same video game that I’ve never played — but I can assure you that seeing the earlier film is clearly not a requirement for seeing this. (Being easily amused is the major necessity.)

The plot could be inscribed on the head of a pin with room left over for “The Lord’s Prayer” and half-a-dozen angels dancing the “Charleston.” Following an explanatory introduction about these artificially created agents — part of a discontinued (aren’t they always?) program to create a gang of super agents, we find that the title character (played — if that is the word — by Rupert Friend) is out to get or maybe protect Katia van Dees (Hannah Ware), whose missing father (Ciarán Hinds) created the program. Why? Well, that’s barely explained and has become irrelevant by the end. That’s pretty much the plot, apart from complications, which include a duplicitous Zachary Quinto who becomes a kind of HugoWeaving-in-The-Matrix knock-off (he’s even named Smith), and one of those super powerful evil-genius types (Thomas Kretschmann) that we’ve had at least since Fritz Lang’s Spies in 1928.

Of course, plot isn’t the focus of a movie like this. It’s merely an excuse for action scenes. That might work — see The Raid (2012) — if the action scenes are clever or engaging or wellstaged. That’s not the case here. The action is rarely coherent and only scores points when it induces the viewer to burst out laughing — and these are too few, as already noted. There is one intentional (I think) laugh, but, in a film like this, we’re mostly looking for unintended mirth. While the action and the dodgy CGI sometimes delivers this, it’s often found in the film’s complete disregard for any kind of logic — and frequent spells of “What the hell?” contrivances.

Why, for example, is there a jet engine hanging in that building early on? At what point — and how — does that child’s asthma inhaler turn into a bomb? (I have four inhalers and none of them have ever done anything like that, which is probably a good thing.) And I’d swear that one character takes a bullet saving Katia, but seems to suffer no ill effects of any kind. For that matter, this business of the bar-code tattooed on the backs of these geneticallyengineered agents’ necks (“They’re giving you a bar-code and taking

away your name,” I guess) serves no discernible function. I like this sort of thing in a bad movie. And make no mistake, this is a bad movie, even if not the worst you’ve sat through. Rated R for sequences of strong violence, and some language.

Playing at Carmike 10, The Carolina, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

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Director: Ciarán Foy pLAyers: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloane, Lea Coco, Tate Ellington horror Rated R the story: Sequel to the 2012 film about an ancient demon turning susceptible children into mass murderers. the LoWDoWn: In most respects, it’s an improvement over its predecessor, but it’s still more of the same with better characters. Watchable, but hardly essential.

I’m going against the tide with Ciarán Foy’s Sinister 2 by saying that it’s an improvement over Scott Derrickson’s much praised (for a horror movie) Sinister (2012). This is not a recommendation exactly, because Sinister 2 still isn’t all that hot. It simply corrects some of the biggest problems with the first film — significant problems at that. The biggest plus this round is that the new film gives us characters worth caring about. The original not only failed on that count, but it gave us a spectacularly clueless “hero” (Ethan Hawke) who, among other things, insists on investigating strange noises and such without bothering to turn on the lights. It can be argued that the charmingly billed Ex-Deputy So & So (James Ransone) has the advantage of having been in the first film and knowing what the score is, but he’s clearly not someone who is defeated by the use of a light switch. The business of calling the demon Bughuul (Nicholas King) “Mr. Boogie” has also been dropped (though he still looks like

post-nosejob Michael Jackson) and Fred Dalton Thompson is nowhere to be seen. Plus factors all.

The problem remains that the whole concept is not only kind of... well, dumb, it’s remarkably limited.

What you’re stuck with is this ancient demon turning children into backyard filmmakers who make snuff movies about murdering the rest of their families. What exactly can you do with that other than repeat the process? The new film offers some answers, but they’re not necessarily good. The business of having the ghosts (or whatever they are) of the previous homicidal tykes force their prospective new mark, Dylan (Robert Daniel Sloan), to watch their directorial efforts isn’t bad, but you’re left with a series of little “creative deaths” movies, which is a lot like watching outtakes from a badly photographed Omen movie. And it doesn’t help that these mini-dramas are rife with cartoonish CGI. (Then again, if a leaping gator decapitating its victims or rats burrowing through people were realistic, it might be considered distasteful.)

I grant that the zombie-ish children are creepy, but a subplot involving sibling rivalry over who — Dylan or his bullying brother Zach (Dartanian Sloane) — should join their ranks adds little but running time. I suspect this is meant to make the film deeper than it is, since it ties into the abusive father (Lea Coco) trying to wrest custody of the kids from their mother, Courtney (Shannyn Sossamon, a long, long way from The Rules of Attraction). The problem is that it doesn’t deepen the film significantly.

The film, after all, is mostly about being creepy and some jump scares — and it’s pretty effective at both, but in no way special. Strangely, the kids’ films have been upgraded to 16mm — complete with a spring-wound Bolex that Bughuul thoughtfully provides for these bargain-basement DeMilles.

Why? I don’t know. It doesn’t change anything, though it makes it harder to believe these movies would be in focus. (It is never explained where Bughuul buys the film or has it processed.) The addition of creepy music via a wind-up gramophone, however, is a nice touch.

Really, the main thing Sinister 2 has going for it lies in the fact that Ex-Deputy So & So, Dylan and Courtney are likable, so it’s possible to build some reasonable suspense around their fates. Now, whether that and a few shudders and jump scares make a trip to the movie worthwhile

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probably depends on how starved for a new horror movie you are. I’m sticking with what I said about the first one, “Oh, go ahead and see it if you want to.” Further than that I won’t go.

Rated R for strong violence, bloody and disturbing images, and language.

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

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde HHHHH

Director: Rouben Mamoulian Players: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Edgar Norton HORROR Rated NR Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) is that rarest of things — a full-blown horror movie that also managed to get respect even when it was new.

Fredric March won an Oscar for best actor for his performance. Karl Struss was nominated for an Oscar for cinematography, as were Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein for writing. And it picked up a couple more awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1932. Of course, this has something to do with its literary origins, but it mostly has to do with Rouben Mamoulian, who — creatively speaking — was on fire from 1929 through 1933. This was and is one of the most strikingly creative films of its era. Mamoulian piles innovative approach on top of innovative approach with dizzying speed, to create a movie unlike any other. Strangely, for years this was — for all intents and purposes — a lost film. MGM bought the film and all the rights to it for their 1941 remake, and proceeded to suppress the original so it couldn’t be compared to theirs. When it finally became available in the 1960s, all that could be found was a 1938 re-issue print, which had lost about 20 minutes. The film’s unvarnished pre-code sexuality fell prey to the later censorship requirements and a general shortening. The upshot was a film that didn’t live up to its reputation. It was fascinating, but it felt insubstantial and erratically paced, which it, of course, was. When a complete print was found in the 1980s, it was a revelation. No movie ever so benefited from being slowed down. Suddenly, the creativity, the horror and, of course, the sexuality of Mamoulian’s vision came across with all its cinematic fireworks intact. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Thursday, Aug. 27 at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Director: Fred Zinnemann Players: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra DRAMA Rated NR I do not question the classic — even iconic — status of Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953). It’s a solidly made picture, and the image of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing in the surf is one of cinema’s most enduring (and most parodied). The performances are excellent across the board, and it’s certainly interesting to see Donna Reed as a “social club” hostess (read: hooker) with a heart of some metal other than gold. The story — dramas, romances and conflicts taking place at Pearl Harbor just before until just after Dec. 7, 1941 — is fairly compelling, too. But I freely admit it’s a film I’ve never warmed to very much. I think it just has a little too much trademark Fred Zinnemann “importance” to suit me. Still, yes, it’s a classic.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show From Here to Eternity Sunday, Aug. 30, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Director: Peter Bogdanovich Players: Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O’Neal, Jane Hitchcock, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens, John Ritter COMEDY Rated PG The idea behind Peter Bogdanovich’s Nickelodeon (1976) was clearly to make a comeback after the box office disaster of At Long Last Love (1975).

The idea was to re-team Ryan and Tatum O’Neal in a black-and-white period movie that would recapture the success of Paper Moon (1973), and while the studio was OK with the concept, they nixed the black and white. They also were fine with casting Burt Reynolds (who somehow escaped the blame for At Long Last Love), but not with Cybill Shepherd (who not only had At Long Last Love against her but Bogdanovich’s 1974 flop Daisy Miller). So Bogdanovich cast model Jane Hitchcock in the Shepherd role — and directed her so that she had all of Shepherd’s mannerisms from At Long Last Love. It didn’t matter, no one much wanted this slapstick romantic comedy — which was more What’s Up, Doc? (1972) than Paper Moon — about the early days of the movies. Maybe it was just a little too movie-savvy for audiences, or maybe it simply came down to Bogdanovich having become box-office poison. In any case, it was an unfortunate flop, and all the more unfortunate because it’s really a charming movie that brilliantly captures filmmaking from 1910 to the premiere of The Birth of the Nation (1915), and it remains one of the best movies ever made about movies. It’s ripe for rediscovery. The Asheville Film Society will screen Nickelodeon Tuesday, Sept.

1, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Director: Charles Crichton Players: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding COMEDY Rated NR Though not one of the best of the famous Ealing Comedies, The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) may just be the best loved of them all. It’s a sly yet largely understated (apart from a few exceptional slapstick sequences) caper comedy about a bank transfer agent (Alec Guinness) who hits upon the idea of stealing one of the gold bullion shipments he oversees and having the gold melted down and transformed into innocent looking Eiffel Tower souvenirs. The idea is the towers can be smuggled out of the country with real souvenir ones and go undetected. The problem comes when some are sold as souvenirs. It’s all fast and funny with a (literally) giddy standout sequence on the stairs of the real Eiffel Tower. Look quick early in the film to spot young Audrey Hepburn in a bit part. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Lavender Hill Mob Friday, Aug. 28 at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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SHORT-TERM RENTALS 15 MINuTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental in beautiful country setting. • Complete with everything including cable and internet. • $150/day (2-day minimum), $650/ week, $1500/month. Weaverville area. • No pets please. (828) 6589145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com BED AND BASS CABIN ON LARGEMOuTH BASS POND Suitable for two adults. $100 nightly or $600 per week. Campsite also available for $40/night.

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COMMERCIAL/ BuSINESS RENTALS 2400 SQFT +/- • DOWNTOWN wAYNESVILLE, NC • Could be office/storage/workspace/ crafters. Charming decor would support craft-oriented use, distributor or low-traffic store.

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wASTE MANAGEMENT HIRING A SR. HEAVY DuTY DIESEL TRuCK MECHANIC Waste Management is looking for a Sr. Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Mechanic with welding and hydraulics experience. Includes a $1,500 sign-on bonus! If that interests you, please apply online at www.wm.com/careers (#15005785) or call 844.969.6754.

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2 BED/2 BATH CONDO fOR SALE: $114,900 1000+ sq ft, no steps, end unit, very bright. New floors, paint, heat pump. Updated kitchen & lighting. Screen porch.

Gas logs. Near Exit 44 Candler.

Scott Barfield Realty 828-4896760

the packaging department. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, work on your feet all day. Hours will normally be between 2-7pm, 4-5 days a week. Background check required. Pay will be determined based on applicant’s experience level. No phone calls please. Email resume to finance@anniesbread.com

EMPLOYMENT GENERAL GRAY LINE TROLLEY SEEKS DIESEL MECHANIC Opening for experienced diesel mechanic; minimum 5 years verifiable experience; certifications a plus; must have own tools; part-time, possible full-time. Jonathan@GrayLineAsheville.com; 828-251-8687; www.GrayLineAsheville.com SEEKING A REwARDING JOB? Mountain Xpress employment Classifieds are effective at pairing local employers with qualified candidates. Visit our desktop or mobile site at mountainx.com/ classifieds to browse additional online-only job listings OR post a personalized “Jobs Wanted” ad for extra exposure during your search. Check our jobs page often, and be the first to apply! mountainx.com/classifieds wANTED SENIOR GROuP fITNESS INSTRuCTOR Looking for certified instructor to teach strength class for active, healthy seniors. 1x/ week 11am - 12pm. $30-$35 based on experience.

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PACKAGING DEPARTMENT We are looking for a hard-working, energetic, dependable person for a part-time position with

BOOKKEEPER-HR/OffICE ADMINISTRATOR NEEDED Job responsibilities: (1) maintain and reconcile financial and accounting records, (2) process payroll, (3) file taxes, (4) manage personnel records and benefits programs, (5) maintain advertising-sales records, accounts, invoicing & collections, and (6) provide front office support. Qualified applicants must have an associate’s degree or higher in HR and/or accounting (or demonstrate equivalent business experience) and at least two years’ successful experience in an office environment in the relevant fields.

Must be mature, with extremely high ethics and good judgment, and able to communicate effectively with employees, supervisors, clients and the public. Must be computer-savvy, Macintosh preferred. Knowledge of MYOB accounting application and Excel are plusses. We are a small, community-minded, media outlet. If you want a meaningful job with a company that serves the community in a calm and respectful environment, send your resume and cover letter outlining your experience, your goals, and why you think you would fit in with Xpress.

Please respond by email to xpressjob@mountainx.com COMMuNICATIONS & INVOICING AT PRODuCE COMPANY Locally-owned produce company hiring full-time position at invoicing desk. Must be flexible, efficient, and effective in the fast-paced environment we call "the Hot Seat." Every Saturday required. 828-255-7630 info@ mountainfoodproducts.com GREEN OPPORTuNITIES SEEKING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/HR MANAGER GO is seeking an Administrative Assistant/HR Manager. See full job description to www.greenopportunities.org & send resume & CL to apply@greenopportunities.org.

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ACCOuNT REP NEEDED Mountain Xpress salespeople are unusual — and we need another one.

Are you super-gregarious, ambitious, self-organized, and deadline-driven? We're team-spirited, and we work hard for salaries rather than commissions. Coldcalling must thrill you. We want a great listener and someone who wants to build relationships. Additionally, we need someone who can effectively close deals, collect payments, perform extensive and detailed contract entry. We adhere to strict sales guidelines for our quality product. Some experience in outside print sales and/or marketing will be helpful, but not required. This is a full time, fully salaried, outside sales position. If you are a high energy, positive, cooperative person who wants a stable team environment with predictable income and meaningful work, please send a resume and cover letter about why you are a good fit for Mountain Xpress to:xpressjob@mountainx.com

weekdays between 2 and 4pm for an immediate interview located at 65 Longshoals Road. Some experience is ideal, but not required.

DRIVERS/ DELIVERY ANNIE’S BAKERY • ROUTE DRIVER We are looking for an experienced route driver for a Full-time position. 5 days/week including Saturday, approximately 40 hours, compensation commensurate with experience. Applicant should have experience with boxtrucks and customer relations.

Background check required. • No phone calls. Email resume to finance@anniesbrea d.com

MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE CERTIfIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT OR LPN NEEDED Family Practice has an immediate opening for a full-time Certified MA or LPN. Must be able to multi-task, have great customer service skills and be proficient with a computer. Minimum of 2yrs experience working in a medical office setting. E-mail your resume to info@ cannonfamilyhealth.com

HuMAN SERVICES RESTAuRANT/ fOOD 4X'S BEST Of wNC 2015 wINNER Mad Batter Food & Film located in beautiful downtown Sylva is hiring line cooks, servers & food truck operators. Call or come by between 2-4pm 617 W. Main Street 586.3555 madbatterfoodandfilm.com DISHwASHER/uTILITY POSITION Smoky Park Supper Club is now hiring for Dishwasher/Kitchen Utility help. AM & PM shifts available. Opportunity for training and advancement. Please apply in person M-F 10a-5p. 318 Riverside Drive TRAILHEAD RESTAuRANT IN BLACK MOuNTAIN HIRING fRONT & BACK Of HOuSE STAff Hiring Experienced Front & Back of House Staff. Host, Bar, & Waitstaff. Weekends a must. Back of house line cooks.

Cooking, cleaning, prep, and dish ; mike@thetrailheadrestaurantandbar.com 828-357-5656

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$750 BONuS! - f/T CHILD OuT PATIENT THERAPIST Seeking licensed or provisionally licensed clinician for Marion, NC office.

Must have experience with the child and adolescent mental health population. Selected candidate will receive a $750.00 sign-on BONUS after 90 days of employment. $750 BONuS! - IIHS TEAM LEADER Seeking licensed or provisionally licensed clinician. Must have one year of documented experience with the child mental health population. Selected candidate will receive a $750.00 sign-on BONUS after 90 days of employment. Visit www.caringalternative. com for other positions avaliable!

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Jackson County Psychiatric Nurse - Assertive Community Treatment Team – (ACTT) Seeking a psychiatric nurse with 2 years of psychiatric nursing experience to join our Jackson County Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina. Come experience the satisfaction of providing recovery-oriented services within the context of a strong wraparound model. If you are not familiar with ACTT, this position will provide you with an opportunity to experience a service that really works! Clinician - Assertive

Community Treatment Team – (ACTT) Seeking an energetic and passionate individual to join the Assertive Community Treatment Team in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina. Come experience the satisfaction of providing recovery-oriented services within the context of a strong team wraparound model. If you are not familiar with ACTT, this position will provide you with an opportunity to experience an enhanced service that really works! Must have a Master’s degree and be licensed/licenseeligible. Clinician – Offender Services Meridian is seeking a therapist to be a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team, providing assessment, individual and group therapy services to sex offenders and their non-offending partners within a structured Sexual Abuse Intervention Program (SAIP) and to domestic violence abusers and their families within a structured Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). Prior clinical experience working with sexual offenders and an understanding of the dynamics of sexual deviance strongly preferred as well as familiarity with relevant research literature, clinical assessments, procedures and methods, particularly those designed for sexual offenders. Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to establish rapport and maintain objectivity with a criminal or forensic population is a necessity. Masters Degree in a human services field and licensure as a Professional Counselor or Clinical Social Worker or Psychological Associate is required. At least one year of supervised clinical experience is required, preferably in a community mental health center setting.

Services provided in Haywood, Jackson, and Cherokee County.

Haywood County Clinician, Team Leader Assertive Community Treatment Team – (ACTT). We are seeking a passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to oversee our Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT). ACTT is an evidence-based, multi-disciplinary, community-based service which supports individuals with severe psychiatric disorders in remaining in the community and experiencing mental health recovery. We have a deep commitment to our ACTT services because, over the years, we have seen that is a service that truly makes a difference in the lives of the people that struggle the most with mental health challenges. Our ACTT staff have been known to describe the work as the “hardest job that you will ever love”. Come be part of our rural team and experience it for yourself! Master’s Degree in Human Services Required, One Year Experience with Adults with Mental Health, Substance Abuse or Development Disability Required. Macon County Clinician - Recovery Education Center (REC) Seeking passionate, valuesdriven and dynamic professional to join our Macon County Recovery Education Center. This program reflects a unique design which integrates

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educational, clinical and peer support components in a centerbased milieu. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services. A Master’s degree and license eligibility are also required. Transylvania County Clinicians & Team Leader – Child and Family Services Seeking licensed/ associate licensed therapist for an exciting opportunity to serve youth and their families through individual and group therapy, working primarily out of the local schools. Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Two years of related experience preferred, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. Agency-Wide: Employment Support Professional (ESP) Macon The ESP functions as part of a team that implements employment services based on the SE-IPS model. The team’s goal is to support individuals who have had challenges with obtaining and/or maintaining employment in the past and to obtain and maintain competitive employment moving forward. The ESP is responsible for engaging clients and establishing trusting, collaborative relationships that result in the creation of completion of individualized employment goals. The ESP will support the client through the whole employment process and provide a variety of services at each state to support the individual in achieving their employment goals. Peer Support Specialist Peers Assisting in Community Engagement (PACE) 2 Full-Time Positions: Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills.

Clinician – Peers Assisting in Community Engagement (PACE). Clinician will be providing ongoing therapy with individuals and clinical support to the peer support team. The position will involve travel and community-based work in multiple counties. A Master’s degree and license eligibility are required. PACE provides structured and scheduled activities for adults age 18 and older with a diagnosis of Mental Health and Substance Use disorders. • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org BEHAVIORAL TECHNICIANS SOuGHT HomeCare Management Corporation is recruiting paraprofessional Behavioral Technicians in the Asheville and Hendersonville areas to provide support and life skill building to individuals with Developmental Disabilities. Requires a H.S. Diploma

or GED; prior experience in a human services field is preferred.

Excellent training and supervision provided.

LIBERTY CORNER ENTERPRISES Are you looking for a job that will leave you feeling fulfilled? Do you want to work for a company that will value you and the unique strengths and talents you have to offer? If so, then Liberty Corner Enterprises wants to meet with you! We are actively recruiting individuals to work with adults who have developmental and intellectual differences. So, what does it take to be a member of our team? Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED, valid driver’s license, proof of vehicle insurance and a reliable vehicle. To apply visit www.libertycornerent. com and click on job opportunities, or visit our main office at 723 Fairview Road in Asheville.

We offer top notch benefits and competitive starting pay based on experience. Call 828-254-9917 for more information!

MEDIATOR/fACILITATOR • MEDIATION CENTER The Mediation Center has openings for a full-time Henderson County Mediator/Facilitator. For job descriptions and application instructions, please visit our website at www. mediatewnc.org NC 2-1-1 SEEKS REMOTE REfERRAL SPECIALIST PartTime community help line worker needed, evenings and weekends with some daytime and holiday hours. For complete job description and how to apply: www. unitedwayabc.org/employmentopportunities wE ARE HIRING! WNC Group Homes for Autistic Persons is recruiting Resident Teachers • Full-time 2nd and 3rd shift, as well as part-time mornings and weekends. WNC Group Homes provides residential services for individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities. Our employees are the best at what they do. WNC Group Homes offers 50 hours of classroom training as well as 5 days of training on shift. Come join our team! • Applications and additional information is available on our website, or complete application at our main office. WNC Group Homes 28 Pisgah View Ave Asheville, NC 828.274.7171.

Sign on bonus available! www. wncgrouphomes.org

PROfESSIONAL/ MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER NON-PROfIT Controller for regional environmental non-profit based in Boone, NC. Solid accounting skills and extensive experience required.

Must be proficient with QuickBooks, Excel, very detail-oriented and self-motivated. Non-profit experience preferred. Full-time with potential option of parttime. Send resume and cover letter to shay@appvoices.org.

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fReewIll AsTROlOgY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You like to run ahead of the pack. You prefer to show people the way, to set the pace. It's cleaner that way, right? There's less risk you will be caught up in the messy details of everyday compromise. But I suspect that the time is right for you to try an experiment: Temporarily ease yourself into the middle of the pack. Be willing to deal with the messy details of everyday compromise. Why? Because it will teach you lessons that will serve you well the next time you're showing the way and setting the pace.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you ready to revise your ideas about how love works? Would you consider reevaluating your relationship to romance, your approach to intimacy, and your understanding of sex? I hope you will not only be willing but also excited to do these things. Now is a favorable time to make changes that will energize your love life with a steady flow of magic for months to come. To get the party started, brainstorm about experiments you could try to invigorate the dynamics of togetherness. Make a list of your customary romantic strategies, and rebel against them all. Speak sexy truths that are both shocking and endearing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): *Querencia* is a Spanish word with many nuances. At its simplest, it refers to your favorite spot, a place where you long to be. But its meaning can go even deeper. *Querencia* may be a sanctuary where you feel safe and authentic, or a situation that enables you to draw on extra reserves of strength and courage.

It's a special kind of home: an empowering shelter that makes you feel that you belong in this world and love your life. Can you guess where I'm going with this message, Gemini? These days you need to be in your *querencia* even more than usual.

If you don't have one, or if you don't know where yours is, formulate a fierce intention to locate it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The art of effective communication consists of knowing both what to say and what not to say. It's not enough to simply find the words that accurately convey your meaning. You have to tailor your message to the quirks of your listeners. For example, let's say you want to articulate the process that led you to change your mind about an important issue.

You would use different language with a child, an authority figure, and a friend. Right? I think you are currently at the peak of your abilities to do this well, Cancerian. Take full advantage of your fluency. Create clear, vivid impressions that influence people to like you and help you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Arthur Conan Doyle first used the term "smoking gun" in a story he wrote over a century ago. It referred to a time the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes burst into a room to find a man holding a pistol that had just been fired, along with the fallen body of a man who had been shot. Since then, the meaning of "smoking gun" has expanded. Now it's any piece of evidence that serves as compelling proof of a certain hypothesis.

If you can't find the cookie you left in the kitchen, and your roommate walks by with cookie crumbs on his chin, it's the smoking gun that confirms he pilfered your treat. I believe this is an important theme for you right now. What question do you need answered? What theory would you like to have corroborated? The smoking gun will appear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At least for now, I suggest you suspend the quest for order and refinement and perfection. The wise course of action is to disengage from your fascination with control, and instead give yourself to the throbbing, erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. Why? If you do, you will be able to evolve faster than you thought possible.

Your strength will come from agile curiosity and an eagerness to experiment. Do you remember when you last explored the catalytic wonders of spontaneity and unpredictability? Do it again!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. The star that you will ultimately make a wish upon has not yet risen.

Your pet monsters seem to have forgotten for the moment that they are supposed to be your allies, not your nemeses. Smoke from the smoldering embers in your repressed memories is blending with the chill night fog in your dreams, making your life seem like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a taco. Just kidding about that last part.

I wanted to see if your sense of humor is intact, because if it is, you will respond resiliently to all the cosmic jokes in your upcoming tests.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, here's what God says to each of us: "Go the limits of your longing . . . Flare up like flame and make big shadows that I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final." Whether or not you're on speaking terms with the Creator, this is excellent advice. It's time to give everything you have and take everything you need. Hold nothing back and open yourself as wide and wild as you dare. Explore the feeling of having nothing to lose and expect the arrivals of useful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The sun and the expansive planet Jupiter are currently making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This does not necessarily mean that a boon to your career and ambition will fall into your lap, although such an event is more likely than usual. More importantly, this omen suggests that you will influence luck, fate, and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance your career and ambitions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): On Aug. 28, 1963, Capricorn hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. In that address, he imagined what it might look like if African Americans were free of the bigotry and oppression they had endured for centuries at the hands of white Americans. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I encourage you to articulate your own "I Have a Dream" vision sometime soon.

Picture in detail the successful stories you want to actualize in the future. Visualize the liberations you will achieve and the powers you will obtain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you have been patiently waiting for a propitious moment to buy a new yacht, pledge your undying love, or get a tattoo that depicts Buddha wrestling Satan, now is as close as you'll get to that propitious moment, at least for a while. Even if you have merely been considering the possibility of signing a year-long lease, asking a cute mischief-maker on a date, or posting an extra-edgy meme on Facebook or Twitter, the next three weeks would be prime time to strike. Diving into a deep, heart-crazed commitment is sometimes a jangly process for you Aquarians, but these days it might be almost smooth and synchronistic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ready for a ritual?

Get a piece of paper and a pen. Light a candle, take three deep breaths, and chant "YUMMMM" five times. Then spend ten minutes writing down the qualities you would like your perfect lover to possess. Identify both the traits that would make this person unique and the behavior he or she would display toward you. Got that? When you are finished, burn the list you made. Disavow everything you wrote. Pledge to live for at least seven months without harboring fixed beliefs about what your ideal partner should be like. Instead, make yourself extra receptive to the possibility that you will learn new truths about what you need. Why? I suspect that love has elaborate plans for you in the next two years. You will be better prepared to cooperate with them if you are initially free of strong agendas.

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GREEN OPPORTuNITIES SEEKING DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR GO is seeking a Development Director. Please see greenopportunities.org for a full job description and send resume and cover letter to apply@greenopportunities.org.

GREEN OPPORTuNITIES SEEKING fINANCE DIRECTOR GO is seeking a Finance Director.

See www.greenopportunities. org for a full job description and send a resume and cover letter to apply@greenopportunities.org.

GREEN OPPORTuNITIES SEEKING GRANT ADMINISTRATOR GO is seeking a Grant Administrator. See www.greenopportunities. org for a full job description and send a resume and cover letter to apply@greenopportunities.org.

GREEN OPPORTuNITIES SEEKING STuDENT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR GO is seeking a Student Development Director. See the full job listing at www.greenopportunities.org and send resume and cover letter to apply@greenopportunities.org.

PERSONAL INSuRANCE ACCOuNT MANAGER-BANKERS INSuRANCE We are looking for an experienced Personal Insurance AM to join our Asheville Team. Check out our company and learn more about the position at http://bankersinsurance.net/ employment-2/. EOE

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BuSINESS OPPORTuNITIES MAKE $1000 wEEKLY! Mailing brochures from home. Helping home workers since 2001.

Genuine opportunity. No experience required. Start immediately. www.theworkingcorner.com (AAN CAN) VIRTuAL CAREER PLACEMENT fOR THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE wORLD Cornerstone Business Solutions LLC is a trusted and legitimate Virtual Company that provides flexible work at home opportunities for the worlds largest corporations in Customer Service. cbsllc@vsmanager.com 1-844-4CBSLLC (422-7552) cbsllc. vsmanager.com

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AuDIO/VIDEO wEBMASTER/ DEVELOPER Mountain Xpress is seeking the right person to continue the evolution of our online presence. You must have: 1) Excellent web development skills (PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, RWD) with at least 2 years of professional experience; 2) Strong problem solving skills with the ability to work independently; 3) Ability to manage in-house and outsourced projects; 4) Willingness to be a team player; 5) Commitment to a locally focused, social-mediaengaged outlet. The ideal candidate will have WordPress development experience (templating, custom post types, taxonomies, widgets, hooks & actions), the ability to write custom database queries, as well as modify existing custom PHP applications. You will also need experience managing a LAMP infrastructure with highavailability principles. Salary based on experience and skill, with benefits package. Send cover letter (that demonstrates your passions, how those passions would fit with Mountain Xpress' mission and needs, and why you'd like to work with us) and resume to: webcoordinator@mountainx.com.

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER We are seeking a community-minded individual who wants to put his/ her skills to work creating compelling advertising for the area’s burgeoning eclectic mix of businesses, creating fliers and marketing materials, and by helping design the pages of Mountain Xpress <BR> The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, works well in a collaborative environment, is exceptionally organized and deadline-driven, and has excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure high quality output.<BR> You must have the proven ability to create original, effective advertising and marketing materials, and to assist in the layout of our weekly print publication and guides.<BR> Candidates must: • Be able to simultaneously handle multiple projects <BR> • Be proficient in Adobe CSC programs (inducing, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat) <BR> • Be able to prepress and troubleshoot a variety of file types and to work interdepartmentally to organize, schedule and maintain ad-production workflows. <BR> • Be fluent in the Mac OSX platform <BR> • Be able to interface with other departments in the company. <BR> • Have a minimum of 2-3 years graphic design experience <BR> Newspaper, web-ad design and management experience a plus.<BR> This is a parttime hourly position.<BR> Email cover letter explaining why you believe you are a good fit, your resume, and either a URL or PDF of your design portfolio to: design@mountainx.com <x-msg://218/design@mountainx.com> No applications or portfolios by mail, and no phone calls or walk-ins, please.

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