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More beds needed for State Veterans Homes Over the last two months, I have either written different letters or contacted reporters at the Asheville Citizen Times, The Fayetteville Observer, The Charlotte Observer, WLOS and even the governor of North Carolina. My goal has been to let the public know that the State Veterans Homes are full, with long waiting lists for elderly veterans.

None of the media published the letters or did stories on this, and the governor’s office referred my letter to their Veterans Affairs department, which never followed up. I have long held the opinion that corporate media is happy to report on veterans parades and other patriotic public events, but when it comes to actually reporting on something like the fact that the four veterans nursing homes run by the state have only 449 beds available for the whole state, and they are all full with very long waiting lists, they just do not care. Supporting the troops is not very important to them, and, in reality, it is not something they want to actually do.

I know the status of the Black Mountain state veterans nursing home because we are on its waiting list for my dad. They only have 100 beds, and we have been on their list for a long time, and honestly have no idea when he may get

admitted. My dad is a Korean War Marine vet who is 86, has dementia and has a service-connected disability. He is qualified for the State Veterans Nursing Home, and no North Carolina veteran’s family should have to wait for years to get their loved ones into these nursing homes. It is my hope that, unlike the corporate media, Mountain Xpress will publish my plea for help and in doing so motivate those here in Western North Carolina who really do support the troops to call the governor’s office and contact state and local politicians and ask them to expand the four state veterans nursing homes so all qualified North Carolina veteran heroes can get equal access to them.

My family is not the only family in our area going through this waiting period. We were told, around two months ago, that we were number 20 on the waiting list for admission to the Black Mountain veterans nursing home, and I am not sure how many families are after us. One thing I am sure of is that no one puts their loved one on a nursinghome list unless they are really in need of help, and my heart goes out to all the other veterans’ families who are waiting like we are.

— John Penley Asheville Editor’s note: Penley reports that on Aug. 15, he heard back from the governor’s office, which said it had forwarded his info to the N.C.

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Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. As of last week, he had yet to hear from that department.

Help protect the planet with a vegan diet Thanks to Richard Fireman for creating dialogue regarding climate change in his letter “City Council Needs Missionary Zeal” in the Sept. 19 issue of Mountain Xpress.

I would add we all need missionary zeal around protecting our planet, and Ashevilleans are, for the most part, conscientious and want to do the right thing.

So, what is the single most important thing each of us can do? The answer is written about eloquently in a recent article [avl.mx/5c7]: “‘A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,’ said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research.

‘It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,’ he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.”

I think Asheville could lead the way by posting colorful educational signs throughout the city listing ways for each of us to protect the planet, with eliminating meat and dairy at the top of the list. Perhaps we would be one of the first cities to think outside the box and do something like this. It would cost very little, yet the cost of not educating the public is devastating.

— Miriam Hard Asheville

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A lesson about voting In fall 2016, I traveled to Asheville from South Carolina to encourage residents of Western North Carolina to register to vote by supplying nonpartisan voter registration forms. To my dismay, many of Asheville’s downtown retail employees, mostly young people in their 20s, often responded to our message with disdain, telling us, “I am above politics.”

If I met each of them again as we approach the midterm elections, I would respond to the same comment saying: “Look at the results we got partly because you failed to make your voice heard in 2016. Use this November’s election as an opportunity to exercise your voting rights to help make changes in the House of Representatives, the institution most able to counter the negative effects of the immoral, incompetent and possibly criminal administration that currently holds the White House. ” Although I would recommend your voting for Democrats, I’d be just as happy if you would register to vote and exercise this basic constitutional privilege.

— Nikki Grumbine

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BY BEN BROWN Local folks with an entrepreneurial bent can take a step next week toward small-business ownership — and, in the process, expand the range of housing options in our region.

Visiting faculty from the nonprofit Incremental Development Alliance (www.incrementaldevelopment.org) will lead an all-day workshop to introduce attendees to strategies for planning, designing, financing and managing neighborhood-scale rentals. The event happens Thursday, Oct. 11, at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville, sponsored by the city of Asheville, along with area companies and individuals.

Here’s why I think this opportunity is worth considering — and supporting — even if you’ve never looked in the mirror and seen a future real estate developer: There’s no question that there’s an increasingly troublesome gap between the costs of housing and the abilities of many to pay. It’s a national crisis. Most places that attract people and jobs are at or near the point where median household incomes aren’t likely to qualify for mortgages for medianpriced homes. It’s pretty much the same with rentals.

Asheville’s affordability gap is probably bigger than average. With so many people moving here, housing demand is strong and growing.

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BEN BROWN or bike to accomplish daily tasks and also enjoy the fun of living in Asheville.

Such places offer high location efficiency, an attribute the city recognizes as a crucial component of affordability. The City Council just approved incentives to developers who build housing in closein areas (See “Asheville City Council Expands Affordable Housing Incentives” in the Sept. 19 Xpress). The trouble is, incentives to rebalance the housing market toward affordability aren’t nearly as large or as effective as those that evolved to create the problem.

Up until the last half of the 20th century, neighborhood ecosystems were more diverse. Small-scale rentals, from duplexes to two- and three-story apartment buildings to cottage courts, were sprinkled among single-family homes.

And because walking was the way most folks got around, there was good reason for businesses, schools and other conveniences to be nearby. What wasn’t close could be reached by transit.

A booming post-World War II economy provided new choices for where to live, where to work and how to get around. So we spread out across the landscape. And whole systems of how to pay on credit, how we taxed ourselves and allocated tax money, and how we regulated land use and transportation shifted to prioritize and, in many cases, incentivize single-family homeownership. Choices for renters migrated to two ends of the spectrum — high-rise units in city centers and garden apartments in the suburbs. The middle option

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of close-in, neighborhood-scale apartments — especially new versions of the old models — went missing.

These days, there’s a booming economy, but primarily for those in the top income brackets. Wages have stagnated for many middle-class workers as costs of living, including the costs of housing, have risen.

What’s the fix?

Well, one way is to somehow re-engineer a shift back into an industrial age economy with decent jobs with great benefits for lots of people. Or, how about yanking back the tax deductions that especially benefit buyers of expensive homes and slashing government spending on highways that make the ’burbs seem economically feasible, then reinvesting the savings in transit and catch-up support for workers’ housing?

Don’t hold your breath, right?

What we can do immediately, though, is to nudge the system into rebalance. Fortunately, with so many empty nesters looking for low-maintenance housing alternatives, and so many young people saddled with college loan debt, the obsession with single-family homeownership distant from jobs, shopping and entertainment is diminishing. Enough people are willing to trade square footage with mortgages for low-hassle, smaller spaces for rent

—- provided what they get in return is access to all the advantages of walkable, in-town living. Understanding how to address that demand and shape that nudge is what the upcoming Incremental Development Alliance workshop is all about.

You can check out the daylong program and register to attend here: avl. mx/prtx. The fee is $219 (with lunch provided), and some scholarships are available. And we’re still soliciting sponsors to expand opportunities to participate for candidates who otherwise might not be able to attend.

Of course, this one approach isn’t the silver-bullet solution for Asheville’s affordability woes. But it’s an incremental move in the right direction.

And it’s a means of addressing the problem in ways that count to many of us. It rewards local entrepreneurs and the workers they employ, perhaps in neighborhoods where they live and work. And it revives a model for housing diversity worth copying in the right locations throughout the region. X Ben Brown, a partner in the consulting firm of PlaceMakers, LLC (www. placemakers.com), is a volunteer on the Asheville host committee for the Incremental Development Alliance.

Reach him at benbrown828@gmail.com.

GONE MISSING: This Asheville duplex is an example of an older model of “missing middle” rentals, an alternative that bridges the gap between single-family homes and apartment buildings. These were — and are — appropriate in existing neighborhoods with mostly single-family homes, offers essayist Ben Brown. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville

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Duke smart meter rollout sparks health concerns for some customers

BY DAVID FLOYD dfloyd@mountainx.com Years ago, when Michael Brasunas got his first cell phone, he remembers feeling an almost “itchy headache” sensation in his ear canal when he held the device against his head.

Brasunas says he has long felt physical symptoms associated with exposure to radio frequencies such as those released by cell phones and Wi-Fi. “I would always get these strange sensations in my head and ear,” he says.

Brasunas and his family don’t have Wi-Fi in their home. Instead, their internet connection comes through wired Ethernet, and they keep their cell phones on airplane mode — or turned off — as much as possible. He and his wife, Nadine, only allow their kids to use the family’s landline phone.

“We keep a very clean, radiation-free house,” Michael Brasunas says.

The only device they couldn’t control was their electric meter. Brasunas says the meter emitted an unnerving amount of RF radiation, which he tested using a piece of equipment called an “electrosmog detector.”

Brasunas called Duke to see if they could have the meter removed.

Instead, Brasunas says a Duke representative offered to put him on the opt-out list for a new kind of meter the company would be releasing in the near future — a smart meter, which uses RF communications to provide Duke with more granular information about customers’ energy use.

“We didn’t want the current meter,” Brasunas says. “And they were offering an opt-out for a future meter.”

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: New smart meters being installed in Western North Carolina provide real-time updates on energy consumption to customers and utility provider Duke Energy Progress. Some local residents, however, worry that the energy these meters put out could have an impact on health. Photo courtesy of Duke Energy

OPTING OUT Beginning Oct. 1, Duke Energy Carolinas customers can opt out of smart meter installation by calling customer service at 1-800-777-9898.

Without a notarized statement from a physician licensed by the North Carolina Medical Board, customers who opt out will be charged a onetime $150 set-up fee and a monthly charge of $11.75. Duke Energy Progress customers who would like to be bypassed during the installation process can call 1-800-554-3297.

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After two years of phone calls with various representatives from Duke Energy, Brasunas felt like his attempts to resolve the situation were going nowhere. So he decided to replace the meter on his house with an analog meter he found online that wouldn’t release RF energy.

Hoping they would be able to make a legal argument that they were acting in self-defense, Brasunas and three families in his neighborhood unplugged their Duke Energy meters, documenting the date and time of the disconnection and taking photos of the devices.

They also photographed the new meters and documented the date and time of their installation “so that there would be no questions about us possibly trying to steal electricity,” Brasunas says.

They didn’t expect a strong reaction from Duke.

“We thought, ‘Well, there’s four houses, so they won’t do anything crazy,’” he says. “And we were wrong. They came in full force.”

On June 28, officers with the Asheville Police Department escorted line workers from Duke Energy to the neighborhood as they cut electricity to the houses belonging to Brasunas and his

neighbors. The families spent the next month without power.

Duke Energy has now installed smart meters for a significant number of customers in North Carolina, but the rollout has experienced some pushback from consumers like Brasunas with concerns about the impact of RF emissions on the human body.

STEADY PROGRESS To respond to people who wanted to opt out of smart meter installation, Duke Energy Carolinas submitted a proposed fee scale in July 2016 to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, the body that regulates utility rates for the whole state. The proposal stated that Duke would charge an initial setup fee of $150 and monthly fees of $11.75 for customers to receive a smart meter with its communications equipment turned off.

The commission approved the fees, but with a major change: Duke would have to waive the opt-out fee for any customers who submitted a doctor’s note certifying that RF emissions impact their health.

It would be “inappropriate,” the commission wrote in its June 22 decision, for the utility provider to charge customers who need to avoid exposure to RF emissions a fee to protect their health.

Meghan Musgrave Miles, a spokesperson for Duke Energy, says smart meters help customers save energy and money by providing them with access to regular information about their energy use. This helps users reduce energy consumption and avoid expensive bills. “Current metering technology only provides usage information when the bill is delivered,” Miles says.

The information provided by the new meters also allows Duke to more efficiently manage its energy output.

As of September, Duke Energy Carolinas has installed more than 1.7 million smart meters in North Carolina.

About 6,700 North Carolina customers in the company’s service area have requested information about the smart meter opt-out program — less than half a percent of users with new meters.

The opt-out program officially started on Oct. 1.

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doesn’t currently have an opt-out program but has received about 1,300 requests from customers for information about how they can decline to have a smart meter installed. Instead of opting out, Progress customers can be put on a temporary bypass list.

As of September, Duke Energy Progress has installed more than 135,000 smart meters in North Carolina. Miles says Progress plans on sending the utilities commission a proposal similar to that of Duke Energy Carolinas in the near future.

STRADDLING THE LINE RF energy, the type emitted by the communications equipment in smart meters, can have a biological impact on humans, according to the Federal Communications Commission. “It has been known for many years that exposure to very high levels of RF radiation can be harmful due to the ability of RF energy to heat biological tissue rapidly,” the agency writes on its website.

The emphasis, however, is on the words “very high.” The FCC’s website cites research that “environmental levels of RF energy routinely encoun-

tered by the general public are typically far below levels necessary to produce significant heating and increased body temperature.”

Miles says the RF emissions from Duke’s smart meters are “significantly lower” than the limits set by the FCC. On average, she says, the radios in the smart meters transmit at 0.08 percent of the FCC’s wattage limit.

“Both the FCC and the World Health Organization have stated that the small amount of RF emitted by smart meters poses no threat to human health,” Miles said by email. (Her response also appears verbatim on the company’s website.) “Consumer safety is one of Duke Energy’s top priorities, and we continuously work to ensure the safety and reliability of the products and services we offer.”

The utilities commission, however, believes that Duke Energy Carolina’s decision to roll out the meters was made in an “uncertain regulatory environment.” The FCC, not the N.C. Utilities Commission, is the regulatory body in charge of addressing the health impacts of RF emissions, the commission said. The FCC’s exposure guidelines, the commission wrote, were last updated in 1996, and the

organization has had an open docket on the question of biological impacts from exposure to RF energy at frequencies between 300 Hz to 100 GHz since 2013. Duke Energy Carolina’s smart meters, the commission wrote, operate in that range, at 900 MHz. The utilities commission received about 130 statements from customers leading up to its ruling. More than half, the commission said in its report, claimed that smart meters give off RF radiation “that is dangerous to human health and harmful to plants and animals.”

“I think the commission took about as good as a position as it could,” says Jack Floyd with North Carolina Public Staff, an agency that works with the utilities commission on behalf of consumers. In the absence of more valid data from a federal or medical authority, Floyd says, Public Staff didn’t take a position on the validity of these concerns.

“I believe that [commissioners] recognize that there’s a lot of material out there on both sides that asserts that this is a valid issue and that there’s also information that the level of the expo-

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The commission’s ruling only applies to Duke Energy Carolinas, but employees with Public Staff anticipate

OTHER CONCERNS RF emissions aren’t the only concern that customers brought to the utilities commission during its deliberation about Duke Energy Carolina’s opt-out program. Several customers claimed that their electric bills increased after receiving a smart meter. Others expressed the belief that smart meters would have a much shorter useful life than analog meters.

About a third of the 130 customers who submitted comments during the approval process pointed to concerns about privacy. “Some stated that, in their opinions, the meters constitute a form of trespass or surveillance that requires informed consent,” the commission wrote in its report.

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Duke Energy Progress will submit a virtually identical proposal in the near future.

Mary Ann Tierney, the founder of SafeTech Kids NC, says that hundreds of local people are affected by RF emissions — too many for the local doctors who treat these issues.

She estimates that at least seven area doctors have written notes for patients, but adds that the physicians she’s worked with don’t want to talk to the media.

“They don’t want to be involved with this on a public level,” Tierney says. “They don’t have time.”

Although the commission’s ruling is a victory for people who say RF emissions are harmful to their health, some commenters dispute a requirement that notes from doctors must be notarized. Dr. Sonia Rapaport, the director of Chapel Hill-based Haven Medical, submitted a comment to the commission criticizing this decision.

“As I do not have a notary in my practice (nor do most physicians),” Rapaport wrote, “this additional requirement adds a significant burden to patients seeking this exemption and is a significant obstacle, both financial and logistical, to their safety.”

FULL FORCE Facing the prospect of adapting to a life without electricity, Brasunas and five of his neighbors documented their interactions with police and Duke Energy employees on camera.

“They’re cutting off our power because we don’t want smart meters,” Rene Catano, one of the residents whose power was cut, can be heard saying in a video posted on YouTube.

She appears to be speaking to two Duke Energy employees that are looking up at the power lines near her house. “We pay our bills on time. We don’t want our children exposed to radiation, and we ourselves are protecting and defending our own health.”

Christina Hallingse, a spokesperson for the Asheville Police Department, says it’s not unusual for a utility company to request that officers standby while employees perform a “lawful action” that could be met with resistance.

“Our responsibilities in any such matter is to merely act to preserve the peace, and to take action to prevent any sort of violent or criminal behavior by any of the involved parties,” she says.

The officers on scene did not file an incident report, “which indicates that no police action was needed beyond our presence there,” Hallingse says.

Referencing state law, Miles says that anyone other than a Duke Energy meter technician who attempts to tamper with a meter may be charged with a misdemeanor and fined. It’s also a violation of the company’s service regulations and is grounds for the company to discontinue service.

“These customers created an unsafe situation by installing meters that were not tested nor authorized by Duke Energy. When meter tampering occurs, we are obligated to take immediate action,” Miles says, citing a utilities commission rule.

Adapting to life without electricity was a little bumpy for the four families. The group purchased generators, everybody took cold showers, and laundry started piling up. “We definitely had food go rotten,” Brasunas says.

The families were kept afloat in part by donations submitted via a GoFundMe page Brasunas set up shortly after their power was turned off. As of Sept. 28, the page had accumulated $1,616, a bit more than half of the goal.

In July, the group received a call from a representative from Duke Energy, which got the ball rolling for the families to have their power turned back on. Duke, Brasunas says, agreed to install a “time-of-use” meter, which he says does not transmit data

wirelessly and must be read manually each month.

Brasunas acknowledges that there are people who are skeptical of claims that RF emissions have a detrimental effect on the human body, but he believes there’s enough evidence to support his position.

“I’m not the kind of person that says to anybody, ‘You’re wrong, and you just don’t know,’” Brasunas says. “I just encourage people to do their own research and get educated.” X

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ROOMS TO GROW Even as the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority reported record numbers for visitation, spending and lodging throughout the region at its Sept. 19 annual meeting, the group’s message for the future was clear: full speed ahead. BCTDA representatives shared ambitious marketing plans, both currently underway and in development, to keep visitors flowing in and occupancy rates high.

Stephanie Pace Brown, president and CEO of Explore Asheville (the BCTDA-funded convention and visitors bureau), outlined the situation to over 200 local hoteliers, business owners and community figures at the Grove Park Inn’s Seely Pavilion.

Roughly 1,600 new hotel rooms have opened in Buncombe County since late 2015 — an increase of approximately 15 percent over that period — with 1,900 more still in the construction pipeline. Airbnb bookings, an estimated 75 percent of the short-term rental market, have more than tripled since the 2015-16 fiscal year to reach nearly 500,000 nights annually.

Despite this considerable increase in capacity, hotel occupancy rates have remained steady over the past few years at roughly 72 percent.

“Since the start of this construction cycle, we’ve been able to fully absorb a pretty enormous supply,” Brown said.

“We just need to do that over again in the next three or four years.”

Wong Ashburn spoke about the growth of Asheville’s beer scene.

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PACE OF GROWTH: Stephanie Pace Brown, president and CEO of Explore Asheville (the BCTDA-funded convention and visitors bureau), discusses the state of tourism in the region. Photo by Jason Tarr, courtesy of Explore Asheville

MAKING THE SALE Key to achieving that goal, according to Explore Asheville Vice President of Sales Diana Pierce, is year-round promotion of the area as a tourist and convention destination. “We need to be present in the market at all times,” she explained.

Pierce pointed to sports as a way to shore up business during “softer” times of the year. Last year’s success with high-profile competitions such as the Fed Cup women’s tennis tournament and Haute Route cycling race, she said, has led the BCTDA to budget more dollars for connecting with sporting event organizers.

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region on the global map. To target Chinese visitors specifically, the BCTDA hosted 16 international travel buyers in Asheville last December for a “familiarization trip” titled “Southern Pearls.”

Marla Tambellini, vice president of marketing and deputy director of Explore Asheville, said the group had achieved a record paid media reach in the last year, with approximately 706 million impressions in total. National cable advertising alone, she estimated, had reached 31 percent of all U.S. adults ages 35-64 last spring.

New media outlets had provided value as well, Tambellini noted. Explore Asheville was one of the first destination campaigns to use the wake screen of the Kindle Fire tablet to show video ads, generating over 1 million views last June. And a partnership with social media influencer and “digital magician” Zach King generated approximately 5.6 million Explore Asheville video views on Instagram and YouTube.

“It was a way for us to reach families,” Tambellini said of the King collaboration. “There’s a lot of young adults who follow him and children who follow him. … He was stopped on the streets while he was filming here.”

GEOGRAPHIC SHIFT But it was another video collaboration that took top billing at the meeting:

Asheville by Design, a half-hour special on the region produced for the National Geographic Channel. Andrew Nelson, director of editorial projects for National Geographic Traveler magazine, spoke to attendees about the synergy between Explore Asheville and his media outlet.

The magazine, Nelson explained, caters to groups such as urban explorers, “mature sophisticates,” outdoor adventurists and culture seekers. “This is really your audience too, and perhaps that’s the reason we get along so well,” he said.

In his keynote address, Nelson shared three driving principles behind the special that he believes should apply to all tourism promotion. To “know the dream” of visitors, he said, is to develop messages with deep appeal. For Asheville, that dream consists of authenticity, interaction and transformative experiences, Nelson explained.

“I think Asheville is lucky; you guys have so much here that’s so rich and meaningful and unique,” Nelson said.

“You are not Modesto, California.”

Nelson’s remaining two principles, “the power of narrative” and “your people tell the story,” were on full display in the Asheville by Design preview screened at the meeting. The program featured chef John Fleer of Rhubarb talking about the inspiration he finds in the region’s local agriculture, while Highland Brewing President Leah

While the BCTDA touts the economic benefits of tourism, claiming that one in seven Buncombe County jobs are supported by visitor spending, others are less sanguine about its impacts. A recent presentation to Asheville City Council by city Chief Financial Officer Barbara Whitehorn, for example, noted that visitors create significantly more demand on fire, police and street services than expected for cities of Asheville’s size.

Xpress asked Brown after the meeting how her organization was working to mitigate these negative effects of tourism. She said that Explore Asheville was partnering with city officials to investigate infrastructure needs that could be considered “placemaking projects” rather than simple construction or operational expenses.

State law, Brown explained, prevents the BCTDA from spending its income — primarily derived from room taxes paid in Buncombe County lodgings — on uses unrelated to tourism development. “We think we can make connections to help get work done that the city needs to do and also enhance the visitor experience,” she said.

The only state lawmaker in attendance at the meeting, Rep. Brian Turner (D-Buncombe), said that a number of previous bills to amend the BCTDA’s authority had been denied hearings because they violated the guidelines of a General Assembly subcommittee. When asked how those guidelines could be changed, he responded that Democrats would have to return to the majority in the legislature.

Turner did not confirm whether he’d vote for a bill allowing the BCTDA to spend more on local infrastructure. “I’d have to take a look at it,” he said. “I’d want to talk to the TDA and see what the impact would be.”

Meanwhile, BCTDA chair and Beaufort House Inn co-owner Jim Muth suggested that criticism of the authority was overstated. “I don’t think the opinion is broadbased,” he said. “I think it’s very prevalent on Facebook and in some Facebook groups.” X

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by Virginia Daffron | vdaffron@mountainx.com WHAT’S NEWS • Local startup Candle launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring its smartphone-charger-cum-mindfulnessenabler to market.

According to a press release, Candle “draws on Asheville’s history of craft and design” and promotes an “innovative approach to digital health.” The product is the brainchild of three Asheville-area entrepreneurs who are receiving mentoring through Venture Asheville Elevate.

• Mountain BizWorks announced it has added three members to its staff: Yaselin Gonzalez, small business lender; Kareen Boncales, learning services specialist; and Austin Tiller, lending services specialist.

• C eltic Sea Salt was certified as a womanowned business by the nonprofit NWBOC, which provides national certification for women- and veteranowned companies.

• Kevin Blocker joined Weichert Real Estate Affiliates’ Asheville office as a broker. Courtney Parris joined the franchise’s Hendersonville office as an agent.

• Soft Surroundings will host a grand opening at the retail chain’s new location at 10 Brook St. in Biltmore Village on Friday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. The first 100 guests will receive a gift bag.

HAAKON INDUSTRIES TO LOCATE IN ENKA British Columbiabased Haakon Industries announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in Enka. According to a press release, the facility will “create up to 160 new jobs in its first five years of operations,” with positions in assembly and production, machining

HIGH TOUCH: The Candle smartphone charger includes a glowing light that its Asheville-based creators say helps encourage users to disconnect from technology. Photo courtesy of Candle and engineering, management and administration.

The company builds air handling units for large institutional facilities including hospitals, pharmaceutical laboratories, clean rooms, microchip manufacturers, universities and data centers.

Haakon plans to break ground in 2019 in the 350acre Enka Commerce Park, the former home of American Enka. The company also will hold a job fair and begin hiring for positions in the Asheville area in 2019.

ELEVATE APPLICATION PERIOD CLOSES OCT. 17 The Venture Asheville Elevate program provides startup entrepreneurs with free mentoring services to strengthen and support high-growth ventures in the Asheville area.

Applications for the next year-long session of the program are open through Wednesday, Oct. 17.

To qualify, ventures must meet the following criteria: • Have a scalable business model.

• At least one full-time founder involved in the business.

• Live or work in Asheville or Buncombe County.

• Product is already launched and in market (whether or not it is earning revenue).

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MONTREAT COLLEGE TO HOST CYBERSECURITY CONFERENCE NOV. 2 For the fourth year, Montreat College will present its RETR3AT Cybersecurity Conference.

Held Friday, Nov. 2, RETR3AT aims to raise awareness about cybersecurity and also challenge attendees to consider the ethical issues associated with protecting an organization’s information.

“Cybersecurity and cyberwarfare are becoming the most critical national defense and economic crises of our time,” said Montreat College President Paul Maurer in a press release.

“Montreat College seeks to play a formative role in shaping the nation’s approach to educating the cybersecurity leaders of the future by anchoring it, for the first time, in a character- and ethicsbased curriculum.”

This year’s RETR3AT keynote speaker is Strategic Link Partners co-founder Joan Myers.

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Council targets Tunnel Road for pilot corridor study Anticipating big changes to come in East Asheville, City Council unanimously OK’d a two-year corridor study of Tunnel Road at its regular meeting on Sept. 25. As explained by Vaidila Satvika, a city urban planner, the study will help lay the groundwork for Asheville’s transformation into a more transit-supportive city.

Satvika said the study would center around streets and their usage but also pull back to examine adjacent properties and affected neighborhoods within one or two miles.

Those areas include the Innsbruck and Asheville malls, designated as urban and town centers, respectively, under the Living Asheville Comprehensive Plan. Denser development in similar centers throughout Asheville is expected to increase the appeal of bus transportation, thus reducing car traffic in the city.

Deliverables for the study, Satvika said, would include a public-supported vision for the corridor, a real estate and demographic analysis, zoning and urban design considerations, transportation analysis and implementation plans. He added that a request for proposals from outside professionals to conduct the study would be issued as soon as possible.

The effort was sparked by the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, of which Asheville is a dues-paying member. Last fall, the MPO offered the city $157,500 (to be matched with $25,593 in local funds) for a corridor study of its choosing, with the goal of reducing automobile congestion and creating “an alternative to the auto-oriented cycle.”

LOVE OF TUNNEL: City Council prioritized Tunnel Road in East Asheville over Patton Avenue in West Asheville for a corridor study largely funded by the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization. Screen capture from the city of Asheville

Mayor Esther Manheimer shared the MPO’s hope that close examination of the busy thoroughfare will pay off in more manageable traffic conditions. “East Asheville is anxious for us to take a good look at Tunnel,” she said. “There are some great opportunities there to do something now so that it’s redeveloped in a way that’s a little more urban and walkable.”

In selecting Tunnel Road, Council effectively deprioritized Patton Avenue, which city staff had identified as the other option for the pilot study. Buncombe County, which also received funding from the MPO, had previously selected Hendersonville Road for its own corridor study.

Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler said she wished Council had resources to study all of its corridors but that Tunnel’s rapid pace of development made it the top choice. “There’s just so much that looks like it’s going to happen very soon that we did not want to miss a chance to have a look at it before things change and we wouldn’t have a chance to go back and fix it,” she explained.

Manheimer added that alreadyplanned rezoning changes on Patton would provide a different approach to encouraging more urban development. “I just don’t want to feel like we’re losing Patton altogether, and I think with that rezoning effort, we won’t be,” she said.

After Satvika’s presentation, two commenters asked Council to consider options for improving safety along major corridors during power outages, as recently took place due to the remnants of Hurricane Florence.

“It really was dicey out there, driving down Hendersonville Road without traffic lights,” one said. He suggested that the city explore backing up the lights through solar power or other means to avoid dangerous situations.

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Sheriff, Soil & Water candidates voice opinions at forum No matter one’s political affiliation, it is difficult to deny that recent politicking at the national level has departed from traditional norms. Based on the Sept. 26 League of Women Voters of AshevilleBuncombe County candidate forum at the West Asheville Library, local races are sharing in that unconventionality as well.

Libertarian candidate for Buncombe County sheriff Tracey DeBruhl arrived with a number of campaign signs bear-

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ing the message “Paid For By Christ” and shared his experience “on both sides of the fence” in jail after a recent arrest in Madison County on stalking charges he said were related to a custody battle. Meanwhile, unaffiliated Soil & Water Conservation district supervisor candidate Alan Ditmore said the district was “doing everything wrong” and called for contraception funding as the only viable path to environmental protection.

The forum pitted DeBruhl against only Democratic candidate Quentin Miller, as Republican Shad Higgins did not attend the forum. Ditmore faced incumbent Democrat William Hamilton and challenger Democrat Aaron Sarver, with incumbent Elise Israel and challenger Karina Lizotte, both unaffiliated, absent from the event.

With her Republican challenger Kris Lindstam not in attendance, seven-term Rep. Susan Fisher (D-Buncombe) was

permitted to give only a two-minute statement. Buncombe County District 1 Commissioner Al Whitesides, a Democrat, is running unopposed and likewise delivered only a short introduction. Pat Bryant, the unaffiliated three-term incumbent school board member for the Erwin district, also faces no challenger but was not present.

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When asked to describe the duties of his desired role, Ditmore noted its oversight of cost-share programs to control erosion on farmland and install cattle fencing around creeks. As a former beef cattle farmer for 10 years, he deadpanned, “I know what they do in creeks too.”

But Ditmore’s shirt spelled out his primary reason for seeking the job, handwritten in large capital letters: “Only birth control can save the world.” The conservation district’s current programs, he argued, don’t consider externalities such as the pollution caused by the production of cattle fencing. In contrast, he said, the environmental benefits of contraception programs are “orders of magnitude” beyond the costs of production and management.

Hamilton, the only incumbent supervisor at the forum, spoke of the conservation district’s origins in the Dust Bowl era and the importance of building relationships with farmers. He said the main responsibilities of its supervisors are guiding county staff in fund priorities and coordinating with other area officials

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in “a miniature form of democracy” to request federal money.

Sarver pointed to the board’s environmental education and farmland preservation programs as key to its mission.

He said he was inspired to run after his friends Kevin Toomey and Christina Carter, the operators of Ten Mile Farm in Old Fort, lost their original land in Candler due to development.

The biggest disagreement among the candidates arose on the topic of conservation easements, legal constructs that compensate landowners for giving up development rights. Hamilton said such easements strike a desirable balance between “the great American concept of private land” and the public benefits of avoiding development, such as supporting wildlife habitat and clean water.

Ditmore, however, contended that preserving land in Buncombe County would exacerbate the area’s current lack of affordable housing and force people working in Asheville to make longer, more carbon-intensive trips by car.

“Conservation easements are definitely raising rents, causing a housing crisis, causing homelessness, causing long commutes [and] destroying the environment through those long commutes,” he said.

Sarver struck a balance between the two positions. He agreed with Ditmore that the Asheville area needs denser development, particularly along transit corridors. But quality-of-life concerns, Sarver added, demand some land conservation so development doesn’t “go out to the shadow of Mt. Pisgah.”

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Asked about the most important issue facing the sheriff’s department, DeBruhl named accountability. He alleged that outgoing Sheriff Van Duncan had tampered with court cases and claimed that the department had mishandled evidence. In contrast to that alleged corruption, DeBruhl said, “What you see is what you get from me.”

Miller spoke to a much-needed change in mindset among law enforcement, proposing a focus on relationship building and community policing. “Recent events here in Asheville have shown that we can do body cameras, we can do a change of policies, and we’re still in the same place that we started,” he said.

Applying that community orientation to the area’s ongoing opioid crisis, Miller said, the problem should be treated primarily as a health issue rather than a law enforcement concern. “We’re not going to be able to arrest our way out of this,” he explained. Instead, he called for more training to help officers become more “sensitive” to the underlying causes.

DeBruhl, by contrast, took a considerably harder line. He recounted leading a needle cleanup effort with Asheville Fire Department personnel and Boy Scouts — and then asking the Sheriff’s Department to dust and swab the needles for evidence. The department is currently discarding the needles, the candidate believes, but he would direct his officers to identify users based on this analysis.

“We’re going to find out where this trash is coming from, and we’re going to track you down,” DeBruhl said. “Step one: psychological warfare.”

Multiple questions from the audience — which included several members listening to simultaneous Spanish interpretation of the forum — asked how the candidates would handle interac-

tions with the Latino community and with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Miller reiterated his commitment to refuse signing a 287(g) agreement with ICE, the legal framework that allows local officers to enforce federal immigration statutes.

Voicing his disagreement with ICE tactics, DeBruhl said the agency does have legitimate aims, such as reducing drug and human trafficking. “I would actually prefer to turn around and be the sheriff that approaches ICE and shows them how we can work for the greater good together,” he explained.

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N EWS around” in his campaign for re-election to his county commission seat. His statement emphasized Buncombe’s strong fiscal position, despite the alleged embezzlement by former highlevel county officials, and promised to not raise taxes.

After complimenting her District 114 constituents — including the majority of Asheville, Woodfin and part of Swannanoa — as “the best third” of the county, Fisher touted her long experience in the state legislature. She also obliquely criticized the General Assembly’s current domination

by Republicans.

“I have to say that the last eight years has been very difficult, I think, in terms of being able to get any kind of collaborating to happen,” Fisher said. “What I’m looking forward to is balance in the legislature, and I think that we are on our way toward that.”

The biggest message for both candidates was the importance of voting itself. “In the times we’re living in now, please vote,” said Whitesides, and Fisher concurred. “Do not sit this election out,” she said. “We must all show up to vote this election.”

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COME AND BUILD IT On Saturday, Oct. 6, volunteers will transform an empty site at Black Mountain Primary School into a kid-designed, stateof-the-art playground. The day will begin with a kickoff ceremony at 8:30 a.m. at 301 E. State St. in Black Mountain. Event organizers anticipate cutting the ribbon on the new play space around 2:30 p.m.

The YMCA of Western North Carolina, which operates an after-school program at Black Mountain Primary, received a KaBOOM! grant to transform the space. In August, local kids came together to design their dream playground. The finished product, which is based on their concepts, will serve more than 1,800 kids in Black Mountain.

Foresters Financial and the nonprofit KaBOOM! have built 150 play spaces across 86 cities in 31 states and provinces throughout North America. The Black Mountain project will be the 151st build by the partnership. For more information and to register to volunteer on the build day or on the two prep days, Thursday, Oct. 4, and Friday, Oct. 5, see avl.mx/5c5.

ORGS CALL FOR DOGWOOD HEALTH BOARD TO INCLUDE WOMEN, NONWHITES In an open letter dated Sept. 25, Carmen RamosKennedy, president of the Asheville Buncombe County NAACP, along with nine other local organizations, called for Dogwood Health Trust to create a board of directors that “authentically embodies WNC.” The letter posits that the board’s evolving composition currently includes 22 percent female members, compared to the prospective nonprofit’s service area’s population, which is over 50 percent women. “While Buncombe County has a 10 percent nonwhite population, none of the named

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RAISING THEM RIGHT: Over three days, Thursday, Oct. 4-Saturday, Oct. 6, local volunteers will build a new playground at Black Mountain Primary School. Supported by Foresters Financial and KaBOOM!, the new play space will reflect local children’s design ideas. Photo courtesy of the YMCA of Western North Carolina Buncombe County Trustees are nonwhite,” the letter argues, and it also calls for representation in the eastern and western portions of the 18-county region to be served by the trust.

The Dogwood Health Trust would come into existence to receive the proceeds of the sale of nonprofit Mission Health to for-profit Healthcare Corporation of America if that transaction is approved by government regulators and is completed by the two parties. According to the trust’s website (avl.mx/5c6), the new foundation would serve the “sole purpose of dramatically improving the health and well-being of all people and communities across Western North Carolina.”

“It takes many perspectives to find the solutions to imbedded societal challenges,” the letter states.

“While many may see points of division in the region, we believe that DHT has a unique opportunity to transcend separations of geography, population density, race, ethnicity and gender.

As one of the largest percapita foundations in the

country, DHT can set the stage for truly transformative work by creating a diverse board that brings together — and shares decision-making power among — representation from all of the voices of our region.”

Janice Brumit, chair of the trust, shared a statement by email in response to the letter and Xpress’ request for comment on it: “We share the insights and ideals in Ms. RamosKennedy’s thoughtful letter. We have invited Ms. Ramos-Kennedy to meet and are very much looking forward to that meeting to share our approach and have a deeper discussion on this important topic. Most of all, Dogwood Health Trust looks forward to working with the outstanding organizations that serve our community so well. We are excited about what we can all do together.”

In addition to RamosKennedy’s organization, other signatories include the American Association of University WomenAsheville Branch, ACLU Western North Carolina Chapter, Asheville Buncombe Institute of

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In a press release, Wilson writes, ”We will provide participating businesses with voter registration forms, voter guides and other materials, which they will in turn provide to their staff. Vote AVL will be responsible for collecting completed voter registration [forms] from their business and ensure they will be delivered to the Board of Elections before the Oct. 12 [registration] deadline.”

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‘In a blaze of glory’ Flames finish off the original Battery Park Hotel

OUT WITH THE OLD: In 1923, demolition crews began tearing down the original Battery Park Hotel. Later that year, flames consumed part of the structure’s remaining wings. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Room Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville In last week’s Asheville Archives, we looked at the community’s 1922 reaction to E.W. Grove’s plans to demolish the original Battery Park Hotel, along with the hill it stood atop. This week’s article picks up where we left off. The year is 1923, and residents are preparing for the historic site’s impending destruction as it enters its final nine months of operation.

On Jan. 21, 1923, resident Hubert Holloway offered a detailed account of the hostelry’s former guests and history in The Sunday Citizen. Holloway noted that when Col. Frank Coxe opened the original Battery Park on July 12, 1886, it quickly became “a haven of rest” for many notable public figures, including presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley. Another prominent guest, George Washington Vanderbilt, “stood on the veranda of the Battery Park Hotel and gazed across the valleys to Pisgah and in his heart was born the desire to own and beautify a vast part of this region,” Holloway declared.

By summer, the newspaper notified readers that some of Battery Park’s furniture and kitchen equipment were available for sale. Soon thereafter, on Aug. 26, a full page advertisement featured a rendering of the new Battery Park Hotel and its surrounding property. The 200-room hostelry, scheduled to open in the fall of 1924, would feature a spacious lounge, a large dining room and a rooftop garden.

On Sept. 6, with less than two weeks to go before the original Battery Park officially closed, Holloway returned to the paper with a follow-up article, stating: “Progress and sentiment does not go hand in hand, railroads must cross treasured spots, streets must pass through private lawns, treasured buildings must fall to give way to more modern structures; but all Asheville will regret to see the Battery Park Hotel razed.”

Demolition began shortly after the hotel’s Sept. 15 closure. By November, a fire consumed some of the remaining structure.

According to the Nov. 18 edition of The Sunday Citizen, an exposed wire in an elevator shaft created the flames that destroyed an estimated $30,000 in materials.

The paper went on to note that hundreds of people gathered atop neighboring rooftops “to catch a glimpse of the burning structure.” Initial curiosity and awe turned into trepidation and panic, as “showers of sparks started several small roof blazes on Asheland Avenue.” The damage, however, was minor; flames were swiftly extinguished.

In the same day’s publication, a separate account framed the inferno as a heroic and fitting end for the historic hotel.

The article asserted that there was “a haughty majesty of defiance in the ancient structure as it clasped to its bosom the red tongued and amber hued flames that were

to be its saviour from the hands of the prosaic wrecking crews.”

The unnamed writer later observed that the structure’s surviving chimneys appeared to “look down on man” the following day “with a cynical, sardonic smile.”

The article concluded with a fictional monologue attributed to the ruins of the hotel. It read: “For 30 years, and more you have been predicting I would meet my end in this manner. For more than a score of years you have boasted to our companion that flames would envelop me, but that was not my desire, I had no wish to go until my usefulness was at an end and now that I have run my race, I am satisfied.

You tried to destroy me, but I wanted to meet my end, in my own way, to go out as I had lived, in a blaze of glory.”

The new Battery Park Hotel opened on Sept. 18, 1924. At its opening, Grove spoke, declaring the property evidence of his “ever increasing faith in the growth and future of Asheville.”

The hotel continued hosting guests until October 1972. It now operates as the Battery Park Senior Apartments.

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CATCH THE WAVE CELEBRATION woodfingreenwayandblueway.org • WE (10/3), 5-7:30pm - Proceeds at the outdoor “Catch the Wave Celebration,” event to learn more about the Woodfin Wave, Greenway and Blueway project with a raffle, refreshments, information and presentations benefit the Woodfin Greenway and Blueway project.

Register online. $10. Held at Woodfin River Park, 1630 Riverside Drive ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, info@eliada.org

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• Through SU (10/28) - Proceeds from this annual corn maze event with activities for kids and hay rides benefit Eliada. See website for full schedule and prices: EliadaCornMaze. com. Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF SWANNANOA SwannanoaFANS.org • SA (10/6), 8am-1pm Proceeds from vendor fees at the Swannano Friends and Neighbor's Yard Sale benefit Swannanoa FANs. Call 828-581-9707 to reserve a space. Free to attend.

Held at Ingles Markets Inc., 2299 US Highway 70 Swannanoa GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828298-6195, groceumc.org • Through WE (10/31) - Proceeds from sales of pumpkins at this pumpkin patch benefit Groce United Methodist Church. Mon.-Sat.: 10am7pm. Sun.: 12:30-7pm.

Free to attend.

• SA (10/6), 7am-3:30pm - Proceeds from this rummage sale benefit MoMma Bear. Free to attend.

JDRF ASHEVILLE ONE WALK walk.jdrf.org • SA (10/6), 10am Proceeds from the 2018 JDRF Asheville One Walk support awareness for Type 1 Diabetes in the Asheville community.

Check in at 9am. Held at McCormick Field, 30 Buchanan Place NEW LOCAL HERO YARN LAUNCH facebook.com/ purlsyarnemporium • TH (10/4), 6:30-8:30pm - New Local Hero Launch: Community Stories with community activist Andrea Clarke. Proceeds from sales of yarn benefit United Community Development. Free.

Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30

George Washington Carver Ave. OUT OF DARKNESS COMMUNITY WALK bit.ly/2xTQHZq • SU (10/7), 2pm Proceeds from the Out of the Darkness community walk to fight suicide benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Admission by donation. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road THE FREE CLINICS thefreeclinics.org • SU (10/7), 1-4pm Proceeds from the Jim's Party Splash: Take the Plunge event with live music, food and beverage trucks, kids activities and dunking events benefit The Free Clinics. $25/$5 children/$50 family. Held at Kanuga Main Campus, 130 Kanuga Chapel Drive, Hendersonville YANCEY COUNTY DREAM HOME TOUR mayland.edu/foundation • FR (10/5), 10am-4pm - Proceeds from the Yancey County Dream Home Tour benefit the MCC Foundation and student scholarships.

Tickets available online. $25.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (10/3), 6-9pm - "Basic Internet Marketing," seminar.

Registration required.

Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • SA (10/6), 9am-noon - "Writing a Better Website for Your Business," seminar.

Registration required.

Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler

HEROES AMONG US: Purl’s Yarn Emporium launches its newest “Local Hero” yarn on Thursday, Oct. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Stephens Lee Rec Center. The locally sourced, milled and dyed yarn celebrates individuals who serve the local community through their commitment to justice, equality and creativity. The latest honored hero is Andrea Clarke of United Community Development, who will give a presentation on Asheville’s history of building, tearing down and rebuilding its black neighborhoods. Purl’s owners, Elizabeth and Rick Schell, and dyer Noma Mpofu will also speak about the creation of the new yarn, 25 percent of sales from which will benefit United Community Development and its efforts to rehab homes. Free to attend. For more information, visit purlsyarn.com.

Photo of Clarke, right, by Elizabeth Schell (p. 20) ASHEVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 828-258-6114, ashevillechamber.org • WE (10/3), - 19th annual Asheville Metro Economy Outlook with keynote address by economist, Dr. Michael L. Walden. $45/$40 members.

Registration required. Held at The Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St. DEFCON 828 GROUP meetup.com/ DEFCON-828/ • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security profession-

als, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828357-9009, floodgallery.org • THURSDAYS, 11am-5pm - "Jelly at the Flood," coworking event to meet up with like-minded people to exchange help, ideas and advice. Free to attend.

LAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 828-251-6622, landofsky.org

• FR (10/5), 9:30am2:30pm - 9th Annual Fraud and Exploitation Summit, workshop. Registration required: 828-251-7430.

Held at Land-Of-Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 WNC LINUX USER GROUP wnclug.blogspot.com, wnclug@main.nc.us • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS ACT AND SAT ONE-ONONE TUTORING (PD.) Learn strategies to increase your test scores. Friendly, 8+ year ACT/SAT tutor, moved from successful Ohio practice. • References available. Email Kathleen at kcalby@sbcglobal.net CLASSES AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar: Wednesday, October 10. 6:30-8:30pm. $15. • Making the Sacred

Hand Drum: Sunday, October 14. 5:30-8:30pm. $100. Registration/information: www.forvillagers.com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Weekly drop in classes: Contemporary Pole Flow on Mondays 7:30pm. Intro to Pole on Tuesdays 7:15pm and Thursdays 8pm. Sultry Pole on Wednesdays 7:30pm. Handstands on Tuesdays 6pm and Thursdays 6:30pm. Aerial Yoga on Wednesdays 8pm and Fridays 12pm.

EMPYREANARTS.ORG 828.782.3321.

RETIREMENT PLANNING WORKSHOP (PD.) Western Carolina University at Biltmore Park. • Three night class October 17, 22, and 24. Cost: $79/person or couple. Call 828-227-7397

or Register Online pdp.wcu.edu

women new to Asheville.

Free to attend.

AMERICAN LEGION POST NC 77 216 4th Ave. W, Hendersonville • 2nd THURSDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Chapter 314, general meeting. Free.

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 828-779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Beginners lessons available. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm Monthly peace vigil. Free.

Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

ASHEVILLE NEWCOMERS CLUB ashevillenewcomersclub. com • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am - Monthly meeting for

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • MO (10/8), 7pm Community meeting with an independent agent available to answer Medicare questions. Free.

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 828-296-7230 • TU (10/9), 4-7pm - 40th anniversary drop-in open house reception. Free.

LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 828-686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (10/4), 10am Monthly meeting with instructions on how to create a no-sew needle book.

Registration at 9:30am.

Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.

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CONSCIOUS PARTY HUMANE HOSPITALITY: Asheville Humane Society’s 15th annual Taste of Compassion Auction & Gala takes place Saturday, Oct. 13, 6-9 p.m. at the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Conference Center. The organization’s largest fundraising event of the year unites animal lovers for an evening of local food from the likes of Plant, The Admiral and Avenue M, with beverages

by Oskar Blues Brewery and Milk & Honey Organic Cafe. There will also be silent and live auctions, as well as dancing to the musical selections of DJ P-LO, who fuses trumpet, piano and vocals for a distinct brand of entertainment. Tickets are $75, and all proceeds benefit local animals in need. For more information, visit ashevillehumane.org. Photo courtesy of Asheville Humane Society

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50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WEDNESDAYS (10/3) until (10/17), 5:30-8pm - "Money Management and Credit," class series.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (10/4), noon-1pm "Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TH (10/4), 5:30-7pm - "What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Credit," workshop.

Registration required.

Free.

• MO (10/8), 5:30-7pm "Savings & Goal Setting," workshop. Registration required. Free.

• TU (10/9), noon1pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free.

• TU (10/9), 5:30-7pm "Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TH (10/11), 5:30-7pm "Emotions & Spending," workshop. Registration required. Free.

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PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, bardoartscenter.edu • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table, club meeting. Social meeting at 6:30pm. Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva VFW POST 9157 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain • WE (9/5), 7pm & 9pm Poker night. Free.

FESTIVALS ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • SA (10/6), 1-6pm - Proceeds from this Oktoberfest event that includes 2oz samples, stein tasting glass, entertainment and activities benefit the Asheville Downtown Association. $45/$5 designated driver and children. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. FARM CITY DAY

828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • FR (10/5), 10am-4pm Community event offering credit reports and FICO scores. Free. Held at First Bank, 2 Market Street, Brevard

828-697-4884 • SA (10/6), 9am-4pm - Farm focused festival with live music, petting zoo, antique and modern tractors and craft demonstrations. Free to attend.

Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville

PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA

MINSTREL OF APPALACHIA FESTIVAL

unca.edu • TH (10/4), 10am-1pm - “NextFest,” event showcasing careers, service opportunities and graduate schools. Open to area students, alumni and community members. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive

mhu.edu • SA (10/6), 10am-5pm - Festival celebrating regional music and dance traditions with performances, open jams, workshops, a ballad swap and a community dance.

Free to attend. Held at Mars Hill University, 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill

WNC AGRICULTURAL CENTER 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, 828-687-1414, mountainfair.org • FR (10/5), noon-7pm & SA (10/6), 10am-4pm - All Scales Model Railroad Train Show. $6/Free for kids under 12.

WNC GARLICFEST wncgarlicfest.com • SA (10/6), noon-6pm Garlic focused festival with workshops, tastings and vendors. Free to attend.

Held at Sow True Seed, 243 Haywood St.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB facebook.com/BRRWC • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Gondolier Restaurant, 1360 Tunnel Road.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS 951 Old Fairview Road, 828-274-4482 • 2nd MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Progressive Democrats of Buncombe, monthly meeting. Free.

CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. • TU (10/9), 5pm Asheville City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza DEMOCRATIC WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY buncombedemwomen@ gmail.com

• SA (10/6), 9am-noon Proceeds from the DWBC Gala Breakfast with live music, live painting, silent auction and keynote speaker, Anita Earls, benefit the Democratic Women of Buncombe County. Pre-registration required: buncombedemwomen@gmail.com. $40. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. GNZ RESOURCE CENTER 198 Coffee Lane, Fletcher • SU (10/7), noon - "Get Out the Vote - Fletcher" event to meet the democratic candidates for State Senate District 48 and Congressional District 11.

Free to attend.

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • SA (10/6), 8:30-midnight - Networking event with democratic Young Organizers from across WNC. $10 under 35/$20 over 35.

HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway Hendersonville, 828-6926424, myhcdp.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10.

INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm -General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 828-258-8223, abc.nc.lwvnet.org • TH (10/11), 7-8:30pm Senator Terry Van Duyn and County GOP Chair discuss the proposed constitutional amendments.

Free. Held in Courtroom 1A, Buncombe County

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Judicial Complex, 181 College St. PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF HENDERSONVILLE pwhendo.org • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips are provided. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville

KIDS APPALACHIAN ART FARM 22 Morris St., Sylva, appalchianartfarm.org • SATURDAYS, 10:30-noon - Youth art class. $10.

APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM 650 Maple St, Hendersonville, AVMRC.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia. Free.

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave., 828-253-3227 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am12:30pm - Homeschool

by Abigail Griffin

program for grades 1-4.

Registration required: 253-3227 ext. 124. $4 per student.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (10/9), 10:30am - "Kidding Around Yoga," class for ages 3-6.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (10/9), 4pm "Creepy, Crawly, Critters," herpetology presentation

by SoulFauna. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • WE (10/10), 4pm - "Introduction to Ornithology," presentation and activities with the NC Arboretum. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync. org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story

Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com

Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • MO (10/8), 9-11am "Nature Nuts: Bats," class for ages four to seven.

Registration required. Free.

• MO (10/8), 1-3pm - "Eco Explorers: Hellbenders," class for ages eight to 13.

Registration required. Free.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark.com ASHEVILLE FARMSTEAD SCHOOL 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler, 828-771-6047, ashevillefarmstead.org/ • SA (10/6), 10am-noon - Family Discovery Day event with forest tours, crafts and activities. Free.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov

• FR (10/5), 10am - Hike of the Week: Easy, 1.5 mile, ranger-led hike to the Frying Pan Fire Tower.

Free. Meet at MP 409.6, Blue Ridge Parkway BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 828-295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • TH (10/4), 1-4pm - "BARKway on the Parkway," activities for owners and their dogs.

Free. Held at Julian Price Picnic Ground, MP 297 Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock • SA (10/6), 9am - Ranger guided walk around Bass Lake. Free. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294, Blue Ridge Parkway BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (10/9), 7pm - Gary Sizer presents his book, Where’s the Next Shelter?

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/Parks/ • TUESDAYS through (10/30), 5:30-7pm - Lawn games including badminton, ladder ball, corn hole and bocce ball. Free. Held

at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Circle HOLMES EDUCATIONAL STATE FOREST 1299 Crab Creek Road, Hendersonville, 828-692-0100 • SA (10/6), 10am-noon - Ranger-led fall tree identification hike. Registration required: 828-692-0100.

Free.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • TU (10/9) & WE (10/10), 6-9pm - Hunter education course open to all ages.

Registration required.

Free.

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/NewMeeting-information.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm General meeting and presentations. Free to attend.

Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest THE CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 828-8773130 • SA (10/6), 8am-6pm Forest Festival Day, familyfriendly event celebrating forest heritage. Featuring traditional craftsmen, exhibitors, forestry students, and entertainers.

Admission fees apply.

PARENTING SWANNANOA VALLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain, 828-669-8571, swanmont.org • TUESDAYS until (10/16), 6pm - Parenting classes with Black Mountain Counseling Center.

Registration required: 828.669.8571. Free.

PUBLIC LECTURES ASHEVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 828-258-6114, ashevillechamber.org • WE (10/3), - 19th annual Asheville Metro Economy Outlook with keynote address by economist, Dr. Michael L. Walden. $45/$40 members. Held at The Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (10/5), 1-2pm Presentation by the Ghost Hunters of Asheville about the spooky history of Asheville. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St.

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PISGAH LEGAL ANNUAL POVERTY FORUM pisgahlegal.org • TH (9/28), 7pm Proceeds from this reception and keynote speech “Making Ends Meet: Women and Poverty in WNC,” by Kathryn Edin, Princeton sociologist and author, benefit Pisgah Legal Services. Cocktail reception at 5:30pm.

Keynote presentation at 7pm. $15 forum/$50 reception & forum.

Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. WNC SIERRA CLUB 828-683-2176, wenoca.org • TH (10/4), 7-9pm "Cultural & Human History of the Pisgah & Nantahala Forests," presentation by author Marci Spencer.

Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

SENIORS

Weekly on Thursdays at 7pm & Sundayat 10am. ashevillemeditation. cominfo@ashevillemeditation.com.

ECK LIGHT AND SOUND SERVICE (PD.) Is the Sacred Secret of Truth Close at Hand?

Explore your own direct connection with the Divine within this service, an engaging blend of insightful stories, uplifting creative arts, and contemplative exercises.

Experience the Light and Sound of God and the sacred sound of HU, which can open your heart to divine love, healing, and inner guidance. Fellowship follows. Sponsored by ECKANKAR. • Date: Sunday, October 7, 2018, 11am, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (“Cork and Craft” building, lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org

ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and to explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural, and outdoor activities. Visit ashevillenewfriends.org

LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. ashevillemeditation.com, info@ashevillemeditation. com.

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 2 Doctors Park, Suite E, 828-253-2900 • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required. $30.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 828-253-2325, cslasheville.org • 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm - "Dreaming a New Dream," meditation to explore peace and compassion. Free.

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

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

CREATION CARE ALLIANCE OF WNC creationcarealliance.org • TH (10/4), 6pm Creation Care gathering. Free. Held at Black Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain • SU (10/7), 1-6:30pm "Mission: Earth 2018," event for middle and high school youth groups to focus on food, ecology, justice and faith. Registration: billbaym@gmail.com. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center.

Group Meditation:

GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828298-6195, groceumc.org • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - A Course in Miracles, study group.

SPIRITUALITY

Information: 828-7125472. Free.

TAIZE 828-254-5193 • 1st FRIDAYS, 7-8pm - Taize, interfaith meditative candlelight prayer meetup with song, silence and scripture. Free. Held at St. Eugene's Catholic Church, 72 Culver St. THE CENTER FOR ART AND SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, 828-2580211 • TUESDAYS 7-8:30pm - Mountain Mindfulness Sangha. Admission by donation.

URBAN DHARMA 828-225-6422, udharmanc.com/ • THURSDAYS, 7:309pm - Open Sangha night. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 77 Walnut St.

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

VOLUNTEERING TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) Dedicate two hours a week to working with an immigrant who wants to learn English or with a native English-speaking adult who wants to learn to read. Sign up for volunteer orientation on 10/9 (9:00 am), 10/11 (5:30 pm), by emailing volunteers@litcouncil. com.

READ 2 SUCCEED ASHEVILLE r2sasheville.org • Through WE (10/10) - Sign up to train to be a reading buddy with Read To Succeed on TU (10/10). Contact for guidelines: 828-7472277.

STITCHES OF LOVE 828-575-9195 • 2nd MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Volunteer to stitch or crochet handmade articles for local charities. All skill levels welcome. Held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road For more volunteering opportunities contact mountainx.com/ volunteering

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SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL Women donors fund community-wide violence prevention initiative

THINKING BIG: Representatives of four local advocacy organizations, from left, Geoff Sidoli of Mountain Child Advocacy Center, Julia Horrocks of Pisgah Legal Services, April Burgess-Johnson of Helpmate and Angélica Wind of Our VOICE, are leading a collaborative effort that aims to prevent domestic violence, sexual abuse and child maltreatment through a broad community approach. A $450,000 grant from the Women for Women Giving Circle of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina is funding the initiative. Photo courtesy of Helpmate

BY LESLIE BOYD leslie.boyd@gmail.com When a woman is battered by a partner, it’s usually not an isolated incident. In fact, say advocates, she likely was mistreated as a child, and her abuser is often either a witness to or a survivor of violence.

“Violence doesn’t happen in a silo, so we shouldn’t treat its vari-

ous manifestations as though they did,” says Angélica Wind, executive director of Our VOICE, a Buncombe County advocacy agency for people who have experienced sexual violence. “You can fund silos, or you can fund a coordinated effort.”

Our VOICE, Helpmate, Pisgah Legal Services and the Mountain Child Advocacy Center are jointly the recipients of this year’s Power of the Purse Grant from Women for Women. The grant, $450,000 to be

distributed over three years, will allow the agencies to work with the community to find ways to address and prevent domestic violence, sexual violence and child maltreatment.

The grant, advocates say, provides critical resources to support the agencies in treating violence as a public health issue, much the way tobacco use and driving while

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drunk have been. The funders and the partner agencies believe public education on the causes and results of these types of violence likely will increase awareness and eventually decrease the incidence of violence in our community.

NEW APPROACH

Funding across cooperating agencies is an emerging trend in grantmaking, says Tricia Wilson of Women for Women, a fund created and managed by women through the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

“People come individually with individual projects, but good things come from collaboration,” Wilson says. “Research from the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] shows a need for violence to be addressed across the spectrum like this.”

Buncombe County has begun to see the effects of a coordinated effort to address these three types of violence following a county-led initiative to combine services from several agencies at the Family Justice Center. The FJC allows people to obtain services at one central location at 35 Woodfin St. rather than having to schedule appointments all over town.

Before the FJC opened in August 2016, “People had to tell their stories again and again, which just re-traumatizes them,” says April Burgess-Johnson, executive director of Helpmate. “They had to go to several different agencies, and a lot of women who are experiencing domestic violence don’t have cars. It was a lot of effort.”

IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL The plan for the grant-funded programming has been in development for three years, says Julia Horrocks, an attorney with Pisgah Legal Services, and, she adds, there is no quick fix.

“You have to change social norms,” she says. “Mothers Against Drunk Driving did it; it was done with tobacco. It takes a lot of effort. That’s why we’re addressing it on a community level. We’re not going to solve this in three years, but we can set up the structure that will.”

Helpmate, Our VOICE and the Mountain Child Advocacy Center will each receive $33,000 to underwrite prevention educators in each of the three years of the grant, which accounts for $297,000, or 66 percent, of the funding. Helpmate and Our

MAN WITH A PLAN: Graham Hackett, prevention educator for Our VOICE, chairs the first meeting of the Violence Prevention Task Force in August. About 30 people from a dozen agencies attended the meeting. Photo by Leslie Boyd VOICE will each receive an additional $45,000 over the three years to facilitate intake services at the FJC. And Pisgah Legal Services will draw $15,000 in each of the three years for public policy advocacy related to achieving the plan’s goals. The remaining $18,000 will fund partnerships with other community-based organizations.

The group’s report, Buncombe County Pathway to Prevention, details the scope of the problem and lays out a long-term plan aimed at “preventing perpetration of domestic violence, sexual assault and child maltreatment.”

The statistics the report cites are grim: In Buncombe County alone, one case of child maltreatment is reported every two hours, two people are raped every day and 50 survivors of domestic violence reach out to Helpmate each week.

WORTH A POUND OF CURE To explain the complex way violence and abuse are perpetuated in the community, the report examines a profile of John, a hypothetical perpetrator of sexual assault and domestic violence based on real-life examples from Buncombe County, along with key experiences in John’s life that predisposed him to violence.

The report then poses alternative scenarios that might have led him down a different path.

John was born to a teenage mother who left him in the care of an aunt. When John was 8, a neighbor molested him. In one scenario, John’s aunt and uncle rarely talk about emotions, and he is encouraged to “be a man” and be tough.

He doesn’t tell his family about what happened because he believes showing emotions would be a sign of weakness.

In the other scenario, John’s aunt talks to him about ways to regulate his emotions — breathing slowly, expressing what he feels — and he knows he can talk to her about it.

She gets him the help he needs.

On the baseball field, John’s coach admonishes him, “Don’t throw like a girl,” and tells him to stop “acting like a little bitch” when he cries after losing an important game. He swears he won’t allow anyone to accuse him of being weak again.

In the alternate scenario, the coach helps John deal with losses on the baseball field.

In college, John and other athletes on the baseball team attend a party and offer drinks to a girl who’s already visibly intoxicated. Things get out of hand; the girl later sees a video and files charges, but the

athletes are let off with two hours of community service.

In the report’s parallel universe, John’s college requires all students to complete a service learning requirement. He takes part in a group that provides health education to other students. At the party, John intervenes to make sure the girl gets home safely with a friend and advocates for new sexual harassment policies for the team.

At several points in his childhood and adolescence, John’s experiences reinforced stereotypes that excuse aggressive behavior with phrases such as “boys will be boys.”

As an athlete, he was able to get away with behaviors for which others face consequences.

In the alternate scenario, different responses and character traits were valued, supported and reinforced.

“This is why we need to reach people where they live, learn, work, play and worship,” Wind says.

“We need to teach young people to resolve conflicts, to respect consent, how to develop and maintain healthy relationships.”

EARLY INTERVENTION According to the plan, it’s also important to intervene early when risk factors are present, including: • Low educational achievement; • Lack of nonviolent problemsolving skills; • Victims of or witnessed violence; • Psychological issues; • Low income; • Poor parent-child relationships; • Live in neighborhoods with violence, drugs and/or gangs; • Experience sexism or racism.

Those who experience these circumstances are more likely to commit violence, the plan posits, because violence tends to be normalized under these conditions.

But there are protective factors, such as teaching nonviolent skills at the appropriate age, strong family connections, coordination among agencies that deal with families and other community supports and laws that promote the well-being of children and families.

POWER OF THE PLAN The plan detailed in “Pathways to Prevention” uses a model developed by the CDC. Beginning with individuals and expanding outward to encompass service providers,

the broader community, coalitions, networks, organizational practices, policies and laws, the plan seeks to take a comprehensive approach to the problem.

Burgess-Johnson explains that prevention education, the activity that accounts for two-thirds of the funding, will teach “boundary setting, healthy relationship formation and nonviolent conflict resolution.

We intend to work with schools, employers, faith groups and other key community influencers to help share information about these important skills.” Plan partners also will work with local and state policymakers to promote accountability for abusive behavior, she adds.

The grant partners have formed a task force to implement the plan.

At its first meeting in August, more than 30 people from a dozen agencies met to form committees and discuss how to implement the plan.

Graham Hackett, prevention educator for Our VOICE, chairs the task force. “I sincerely believe we have the tools we need to end these types of violence in Buncombe County,” Hackett said as he opened the meeting. “We’re looking at this plan as something people can buy into and find a way to contribute.”

Pathway to Prevention notes some of the limitations of the plan.

Designed with frequent cycles of assessment and review, the plan’s methodology allows significant opportunities for receiving input and refining activities, which the task force believes will take longer but strengthen the end result.

An increase in awareness and visibility of violence will likely trigger “an initial increase in reports of violence that typically happen behind closed doors,” the plan notes. Also, some causes of violence, such as poverty, racism and gentrification, the plan concedes, “are beyond the scope of any one plan, even a large cross-sector initiative like this.”

The plan won’t be complete when the three years of funding runs out, Wind says, but it will be in place and working toward the goal. “This isn’t a one-time thing,” Wind says.

“This is setting up a permanent system that will help prevent these kinds of violence.”

For more information on the process and how you can help, or to obtain a copy of the report, contact Hackett at graham@ourvoicenc.org. X MOUNTAINX.COM

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lengthy process over the alternative.

When he worked on plan revisions for the Uwharrie National Forest in North Carolina’s Piedmont region, the public didn’t offer much feedback. That made it “easier to get things done, but that doesn’t mean it’s right,” he says.

dwalton@mountainx.com The tan- and green-uniformed members of the U.S. Forest Service looked somewhat out of place at their own Asheville headquarters on the morning of Aug. 17. A festival had sprung up right outside the building on the north edge of Montford, with over 100 children and their parents on hand to celebrate the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests (and eat free ice cream from The Hop).

This party had a purpose, explained I Heart Pisgah organizer Will Harlan from a stage in the parking lot. Sometime early next year, Forest Service staff are expected to release a complete draft of the new Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests Plan. The final plan, slated for approval in late 2019, will guide the management of 1.1 million acres in Western North Carolina for many years to come.

“The youth need to have a voice in this plan,” Harlan said. “Because this plan will last for decades, and they’re going to be the ones inheriting the decisions that are made next fall.”

Many attendees held colorful signs with slogans declaring their allegiance to strong forest protections.

Particularly popular were images and lines from The Lorax, Dr. Seuss’ environmentalist children’s classic.

Slogans such as “We speak for the trees” and “Trees are what everyone needs” urged the Forest Service to make conservation a top priority.

“What are the most important values that this forest has? Often, I find that children can articulate those values better than we can,” said Harlan. “While they may not be able to recite the exact number of acreage that’s in old growth, they know that big trees matter.”

But the kids represent just one of the many voices debating how best to manage the national forests.

Since early 2014, the Forest Service has conducted over 40 input events throughout the region, received nearly 15,000 public comments and organized a Stakeholders Forum of close to 30 members that meets regularly.

While this long-running process has made considerable progress toward consensus on a vision for the forest, sticking points still remain.

Conservationists continue to disagree

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with some hunting advocates and logging industry groups about protected area designations and the extent of active land management.

ROOTED IN COMMUNITY For Michelle Aldridge, planning and National Environmental Policy Act officer with the Forest Service, the past several years have been an experiment with an “unprecedented degree of public involvement.” The Nantahala and Pisgah plan is one of the first to be revised under new federal regulations, introduced in 2012, that emphasize community engagement.

In the current draft plan, Aldridge says, public involvement is considered alongside water, air and soil as a valuable natural resource for the Forest Service to manage. Locals who frequently visit far-flung areas of forest, for example, might share information about the species that live there and help officials determine if the agency’s forestry practices are achieving the desired goals.

The draft also considers the public’s potential engagement with the forest once the initial planning is complete.

Aldridge points to a system of “tiered objectives” for main Forest Service goals

such as invasive plant management. The lowest levels are realistic for the agency working by itself, while higher tiers project the impact staff could have by working with community partners.

“Tier 1, based on the last 10 years of activity and what we expect our budget capacity to be into the future, is that we would control or eradicate nonnative invasive plant species on 750-1,500 acres, then inventory approximately 1,000-2,000 acres for additional species,” Aldridge explains. “Tier 2 would double the amount of acres where we’re doing that control or eradication, and we would inventory twice as much. We’d be managing along the boundary of the forest, working with adjacent private landowners or communities.”

Writing a plan with this public context in mind has taken the Forest Service longer than initially expected. The draft, initially due out in spring, will not be released until early 2019. “Every page of the plan has the fingerprints of public involvement on it, and to do that right, you have to take time,” says Aldridge.

She also cites the need for extensive analysis to determine the impacts of different scenarios on wildlife and natural resources as a cause of delay.

Gary Kauffman, a Forest Service botanist and plant ecologist, favors a

Kauffman is quick to identify the main reason behind the protracted planning. “Probably the most contentious stuff is those areas that some people want to cut and other people don’t,” he says. “It’s the same thing that has happened probably everywhere: Some people want to preserve as wilderness, whereas others might want to do some other things.”

I Heart Pisgah’s Harlan argues that the issue shouldn’t be contentious at all. Of the nearly 15,000 public comments on the plan to date, he notes, 98 percent support stronger and furtherreaching protections for the forest.

“That’s a pretty clear, overwhelming public mandate saying ‘We want protected areas,’” he says.

Although the average annual forest harvest in the Nantahala and Pisgah forests combined is currently 650 acres — less than a tenth of a percent of the total area — Harlan says the latest preliminary plan proposes an increase in permits to 4,000 acres annually, with some forestry advocates calling for a yearly harvest of as much as 12,000 acres. He also notes that the Appalachian Trail corridor and other major scenic trails don’t have permanent protection from logging.

“The tourism economy is the economic engine of the mountains and is the future of Southern Appalachia,” Harlan says. “We’re going to see the most economic and ecological impact by protecting those views, not cutting them down.”

The Forest Service itself, Harlan asserts, has largely allied with timber interests and hunting groups in resisting expanded protected-area designations. “They see it as limiting the tools in their toolbox,” he says. “They want to maximize the amount of flexibility in this plan so they can manage the forest however they want, whenever they want, wherever they want.”

Patty Matteson, public affairs specialist for the Forest Service, emphasizes that the agency’s approach to timber management centers on

Rhododendron & Azalea improving forest health and preserving ecosystem services such as water quality. She also points out that the plan itself cannot establish new protected areas; instead, North Carolina-based staff would make recommendations at the federal level, which would in turn need to be approved by Congress.

Conservation groups, Harlan clarifies, aren’t totally opposed to logging.

They approve of selected timber harvests for purposes such as restoring degraded areas. But with over 125,000 acres of old-growth forest not currently protected, he says, cautious management is key.

LOGGERHEADS The objections of some groups to protected areas, however, have been categorical. Jim Gray, who represents the Ruffed Grouse Society on the Stakeholders Forum, says he’s resisting new designations on behalf of multiple county governments, none of which are themselves included on the forum.

Of the 19 North Carolina counties with land in the Pisgah or Nantahala forests, Gray says, at least 12 have passed resolutions opposing addition-

al protections, including Henderson, McDowell, Transylvania and Yancey.

“They felt like [these designations] completely took away the option for active management and impacted their economies,” he explains.

Gray is also skeptical of widespread protections based on his experience as a hunter. The popular “Disney image” of abundant wildlife under a closed canopy of big trees, he says, doesn’t square with the ecological reality that different species fill different niches.

“There’s no food in a closed-canopy forest. When you open it up, you get the growth of shrubs and grasses when the sun reaches the forest floor, which supports deer and a lot of other animals,” Gray says. “I’m in these mountains a lot during grouse season and rarely do I see a deer — and anymore, rarely do I see a grouse.”

Other groups draw a softer line against expanded protections but agree that more active management generally supports a wider diversity of forest uses.

Chris Coxen, a district biologist with the National Wild Turkey Federation, says both game animals and species

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UPHILL CLIMB: Outdoor recreation enthusiasts, such as this mountain biker on the Staire Creek trail, generally seek additional protections for the national forests. Photo courtesy of I Heart Pisgah that attract sightseers benefit from a mix of habitats.

“Old-growth forest is certainly beautiful and worth protecting, but not all wildlife species live in old-growth forest,” Coxen points out. “Even mature forest species use young forest habitats. It’s sort of the buffet, because it grows a lot of bugs and other things that critters eat.”

Lang Hornthal, executive director of local forestry group Root Cause, encourages people to take a longerterm view of forest management. While it’s easy to generalize that the industry is destructive, he says, forest products often require less energy to produce than metal or plastic equivalents and are crucial to North Carolina’s economic health.

“If you just stand beside and look at a tree and a chainsaw’s going through it, without knowing why it’s being cut and what it’s going to be used for, then I think it’s really hard to understand the importance the forest product industry plays in our state,” Hornthal says.

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are less important than the robust conversation that’s taken place over the past several years of planning.

They hope that the passions raised during the process can be leveraged into ongoing advocacy for the forest at the federal level.

“I think that if we channel our energy for all the things we care about and how that forest plan could represent all of those things, collectively that’s a really powerful message,” Coxen explains. “If we’re divided on how the forest should be managed, it’s a lot harder to channel that energy.”

The conversation will continue after the Forest Service releases its final draft plan in early 2019. Aldridge notes that the draft will contain multiple alternatives for protected area recommendations, as well as environmental impact considerations for each option.

Once those documents are made available, public comment will reopen for an additional 90 days.

“There’s just some anxiety because folks haven’t had an opportunity to see how we’re responding to public comment,” Aldridge says. “I believe that all of the multiple uses of the forest can be met on over 1 million acres and that we can do that in a way that meets everybody’s interests.” X

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BY JENNIFER JENKINS jennjenk1@gmail.com Though “edible perennials” may at first glance seem like a strange juxtaposition of gardening terms, growing them makes a great deal of sense for the home gardener in Western North Carolina. An edible perennial is any vegetable, fruit, berry, nut or fungi that produces year after year without replanting — if you’ve eaten asparagus, blueberries, hazelnuts or mushrooms, you’ve eaten perennials.

Joe Hollis of Mountain Gardens in Burnsville promotes the cultivation of edible perennials to foster food system resilience, support soil and water restoration and increase biodiversity.

“There are more than 20,000 species of edible plants known in the world today, but fewer than 20 species currently provide 90 percent of our food,” he says. He points to ramps and Chinese mountain yams (also known as air potato vine) as wild edible species of perennials that are common throughout Western North Carolina. And bamboo shoots, rhubarb, asparagus and artichokes are domesticated plants that are easily cultivated in the area.

Edible Perennials, the Plants For A Future organization’s reference book for edible plant enthusiasts, notes that perennials require less labor than annuals: Yearly sowing is unnecessary, and regular watering is not normally needed because maximum growth occurs in the spring when soil moisture is often high. Yields will be increased if the plants are pruned, fertilized and weeded, but these measures aren’t essential, and only a compost mulch

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food during the “hungry gap” months of March, April and May, when annuals are barely showing their heads above the soil.

And some choice perennials include soft fruits or salad leaves, which are expensive to buy and keep poorly in the fridge.

But most importantly, he notes, these enduring plants can help protect our environment because they have the potential for carbon sequestration. “Like all plants, perennials pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and convert it to plant material and/or soil organic matter with the help of micro-organisms,” he explains. “The difference is that [with perennials] the carbon is kept in the soil, whereas with annuals, carbon eventually returns to the atmosphere during harvest and tilling.”

Asheville-based Shades of Green Permaculture designs and installs lowmaintenance, edible landscapes for residential, institutional and commercial spaces such as schools, medical facilities and even breweries. Founder and design director Brandy Hall says the company’s goal is to help people “transition from

standard chemical-driven monocrops to a more diverse, resilient landscape.”

She encourages clients wishing to reconnect with their food system to engage with their landscape by “observing their site and nestling human activity into the natural pattern language of each place.” As an example of how this can work, Hall describes a recently installed permaculture landscape at Monday Night Brewery in Atlanta. “The idea behind the Monday Night Brewery was to do an organic urban orchard with species that fruit during the cooler months from which they can harvest the ambient yeast on the fruit through louvered vents and make site-specific sour beers,” Hall explains.

Shades of Green also added some herbs, such as rosemary, mint and pineapple sage, but other nonedible elements were planted in order to increase the overall effectiveness of the landscape. “The majority of the understory is actually a mix of native wildflowers and grasses to support the bees needed to pollinate the fruit and also help repair the soil of this postindustrial site,” she says.

Those looking to add edible perennials to their landscape should consider planting this fall, says botanist, herbalist and forager Abby Artemisia of The Wander School in Burnsville. “Spring is busy enough with soil preparation; in our region, now is the perfect time to get those perennials in the ground,” she says. “During the fall, the ground still retains some warmth, so it’s actually a better time than early spring when the ground is still cold. They’ll put on root growth and establish themselves quickly, so they’re ready to grow in leaps and bounds come spring.” X

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BY HANNAH SENTENAC hannah.sentenac@gmail.com Taco Tuesdays are great, but who wouldn’t want tacos on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays — or any other day that ends in “y”?

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plant-based, veggie-strong choices featuring unique combinations and exotic ingredients.

At Tacos and Taps, a North Asheville drive-through taqueria from the owners of Asheville Brewing Co., the most popular vegan option is the Diablo Verde. It starts with No Evil Foods plant-based protein cooked with chilis, spices and fresh lime juice, then simmered in ABC’s Rocket Girl Lager. It’s finished off with pickled vegetables, roasted red pepper Baja sauce and fresh cilantro. “As a carnivore myself and being somewhat new to the vegan food

game, I asked for tons of help and suggestions from vegan coworkers and friends of mine,” says executive chef Nick Izzo of the creation process. “Hours upon hours of research went into our vegan recipes.”

The spot’s other non-meat taco options include one with grilled plantain, black beans, pico de gallo and chipotle salsa on a corn tortilla, and one with Smiling Hara tempeh tossed in barbecue sauce with pineapple pico de gallo, jicama and fresh cilantro on a flour tortilla.

“Hundreds of tacos and burritos tested and tasted led us to our cur-

rent vegan selection, which, we are happy to boast, is one of the largest of any taco shop in town,” says Izzo.

Plenty of other Asheville restaurants are getting creative with meatless tacos, too. Known for healthy and largely organic eats, Green Sage Cafe’s three locations — soon to be four, once a planned Merrimon Avenue space is up and running — have three varieties of vegan tacos. The lineup includes the Avo No Pescado taco with chickpea Smiling Hara Hempeh, cabbage, jalapeño tartar sauce, cilantro and tomato avocado salsa; the Seoul Tako taco with chickpea hempeh, spicy mayonnaise, kimchi, scallions, sesame seeds, cucumbers, bean sprouts and spicy Korean sauce; and the hempe bánh mì taco with chickpea hempe, pickled vegetables and peppers, spicy mayonnaise, mint and cucumbers.

At TacoBilly in West Asheville, the Support Group taco offers a singular mix of cumin, sweet potatoes, pecan and black bean hummus, roasted pepitas, avocado, spinach and coconut crema, all served on a plantain tortilla. And at Mamacita’s Taco Temple on Charlotte Street, plantbased eaters can opt for the avocado taco with sweet potato, baby kale, black beans and pistachio crema.

Polanco, downtown’s artisanal Mexican eatery, offers an entire menu of vegan options, from appetizers to soups and salads to entrées, including six tacos featuring combinations such as poblano peppers with garlic, vegan cream and corn;

fried cauliflower with pico de gallo and chipotle aioli; and No Evil Foods “chicken” with a 32-ingredient, house-made mole sauce.

Grey Eagle Taqueria, the dining destination inside the River Arts District’s popular music venue, also features a cauliflower taco — this one includes roasted cauliflower mixed with avocado, purple cabbage and mojo de ajo. Among its four meat-free taco options, it does one with house-made lentil chorizo sausage and another with Smiling Hara tempeh and mojo de ajo.

So why are so many restaurants suddenly opting into vegan tacos?

Robert Tipsword of Zia Taqueria — which offers a vegan night every Tuesday with an extensive plantbased menu — says the eatery expanded its options so everyone would feel welcome.

Zia stands out in Asheville for its use of nopales, or prickly pear cactus, as the key ingredient in a taco that Tipsword says has become the restaurant’s most popular vegan dish. It features tempura-fried or grilled nopales topped with mixed greens, roasted corn, pickled onions, avocado, vegan queso fresco and a creamy, sweet chipotle sauce, all served on a flour tortilla.

“Personally, prickly pear cactus is something I love to eat for its unique flavor and health benefits,” says Tipsword. “I have eaten it so

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Zia also offers a portobello vegan taco with black bean purée, marinated and grilled portobello mushrooms, avocado, cilantro and cashew crema, as well as the newly introduced adobo jackfruit taco with red Hatch chiles and other spices topped with purple cabbage, cashew crema and fresh pineapple on a corn or flour tortilla.

Coming up with the recipes was a collaborative effort, Tipsword says.

“We have many vegans within our own organization, and we collabo-

rate together,” he explains. “We also have friends on the West Coast and talk with them about what they are doing and seeing. Lastly, our regular customers have been amazing with their feedback in helping us obtain our goals.”

White Duck Taco Shop gives vegan eaters a bit of latitude. At its three Asheville locations, seared jerk jackfruit can be subbed out in almost any taco, meaning that six or seven options on the regular menu can be easily veganized. The world’s largest tree fruit, jackfruit has become an increasingly popular meat substitute thanks to its texture, which is similar to pulled pork.

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“We decided, due to overwhelming requests from our vegan customer base, to add a good quality vegan item that could be interchangeable with some of our current tacos, so those who choose the vegan diet could enjoy our delicious selections without having to special order a taco,” says co-owner Laura Reuss. The jerk chicken taco, for example, can become the jerk jackfruit taco, complete with seared jerk jackfruit with jerk sauce and jerk slaw.

“All of our tacos are combinations of fresh ethnic flavors from around the world,” she adds. “We like to include a cold salad-type of topping with a delicious sauce, and then we sear the jackfruit on the grill to be able to deepen the flavor into the vegan protein.”

Although this list is vast, it’s by no means exhaustive — most of Asheville’s taco shops and Mexicaninspired eateries now offer plantbased options. “Asheville has such a tremendous vegan culture,” Izzo observes. “Being able to use local products from companies like No Evil Foods and Smiling Hara Tempeh helps us add to that eclectic following. We wanted to show people that it was easy, fun and, above all, really tasty to do vegan food fast.” X

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Amazing Pizza Co. goes inside Amazing Pizza Co. had a dilemma: Despite the success it had with its wood-fired pizza food trucks, the city of Hendersonville said it couldn’t park a shipping container beside its brand-new restaurant space. APC had intended the container to serve as the kitchen for its new brick-andmortar location, having already outfitted it with a new custom-built, wood-fired oven.

So APC moved the container inside the old tire store on Seventh Avenue and opened as a restaurant in late August. The location’s 60-seat dining room now gives diners an indoor option for the business’s hand-crafted pizzas, which are built on top of dough made from a 300-year-old recipe and baked in a locally fabricated oven that heats up to 1,000 degrees.

The new restaurant has a drivethrough window and an indoor children’s play area. Construction on its bar should be completed in mid-October, owner Darren Stephens says.

Everything about APC’s new space is unique, he adds. “I don’t know of another place with a wood-fired oven in a shipping container in an old tire shop,” he says.

Amazing Pizza Co. is at 706 Seventh Ave. E., Hendersonville. Hours are 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Learn more about it at avl.mx/5ba.

WNC GARLIC FEST Sow True Seed brings back the WNC Garlic Fest for its fifth year on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the company’s new digs on Haywood Street. The free, family-friendly festival features more than 30 local vendors offering samples of everything from garlic ice cream to garlic tea and kombucha.

New this year, the Organic Growers School will host a beer tent serving garlic beer brewed by Fonta Flora Brewery, and Slow Food Asheville will operate a family fun area with a bounce house, face painting, games, music and food trucks. Wrist bands for entry to the family area will cost

OUTSIDE IN: In planning its new brick-and-mortar restaurant in Hendersonville, Amazing Pizza Co. originally intended to have the kitchen located in a converted shipping container next door to the building. When the city put a stop to those plans, the owners simply moved the container inside the building. The restaurant opened in late August.

Photo courtesy of Amazing Pizza Co. $10, with proceeds supporting Slow Food Asheville and the WNC Garlic Fest. As in years past, the festival will include free 45-minute workshops on garlic growing, fermentation and cooking. Sow True Seed will have several certified seed garlic varieties for sale before and on the day of the event.

WNC Garlic Fest is noon-6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 6, Sow True Seed, 243 Haywood St. Admission is free. For details, visit wncgarlicfest.com.

ASHEVILLE FOOD TRUCK & CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Food Truck Festivals of America presents its second Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6, at Asheville Outlets. The family-friendly event features 25 food trucks from all over North Carolina, as well as craft

beers and ales, plus music, lawn games and a local arts market. Active/retired military and first responders (police, fire and EMTs) are admitted free. VIP tickets include early access with no lines, free dessert, $1 off beers and unlimited free bottled water.

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Empire Distributors will present four wines for consideration.

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A group of charitable cyclists passing through Asheville on Monday, Oct. 8, will have a good meal to look forward to. Kevin Westmoreland and Joe Scully of Chestnut restaurant will prepare plates of lasagna for some two dozen Pedal for Alzheimers riders raising money for Alzheimer’s

research. Their trip from Knoxville, Tenn., to Daytona Beach, Fla., entails 1,098 miles — one mile for each victory won by the late Tennessee Vols women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, who died of Alzheimer’s in 2016. Alzheimer’s has affected Westmoreland’s family, and he and Scully both love cycling, so their being involved in this dinner “seemed like a no-brainer,” Westmoreland says. The riders will chow down at Chestnut after the longest and most grueling leg of their trip. “It’s essential for the riders to have a really delicious meal every night,” event director Sara Mitchell says. “Lasagna at Chestnut will be a huge morale booster. This is a dinner that everyone is really excited about.”

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HIGHLANDS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL Some tickets are still available for events at the Highlands Food and Wine Festival, happening ThursdaySunday, Nov. 8-11. The Grand Tasting, Main Event and Gospel Brunch events are sold out, but the

festival has created a Facebook page — Highlands Food & Wine Ticket Exchange 2018 — to buy, sell and trade tickets for sold-out and other events. Tickets are still available for the Truckin’ food truck extravaganza, scheduled for noon-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9; A Generous Pour concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10; and the Sip & Shop wine strolls on and around Main Street 11 a.m.-4 p.m. FridaySaturday, Nov. 9-10. Additionally, a handful of Highlands restaurants have teamed up with winemakers to put on dinners around town. All festival events are for those 21 or older, so a valid ID is required. The nonprofit festival, held to promote Highlands, plans to recycle and compost its waste (last year it diverted 3,085 pounds of material from the local landfill, it reports). The concert, featuring Langhorne Slim and The Lost at Last Band, will benefit the Highlands Food Pantry.

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From Munich to Mills River As the first hints of fall arrive in the mountains, local Oktoberfest celebrations are primed to welcome the season with traditional beers, Bavarian foods and rousing German music.

The two major Asheville-area events — Asheville Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 6, at Pack Square Park, and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Oktoberfest one week later in Mills River — have their own approaches and styles. Neither, however, will be carbon copies of the famous, original Munich Oktoberfest, now in its 185th year and underway through Oct. 7.

According to the Associated Press, some six million merry-makers are expected to attend.

Oktoberfest has a long history, dating to the 1810 wedding of Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese and the couple’s celebration. It returned in 1811 and has continued most years since then, though there have been interruptions due to cholera outbreaks and World War I. The festival then made its way to the United States and has sprouted in many communities. The largest is in Cincinnati, the official website for which reports a draw of just over half-a-million revelers.

Dieter Kuhn, former owner of the old Heinzelmännchen Brewery in Sylva, who now makes beer at the Whiteside Brewing Co. in Cashiers, remembers the Oktoberfest celebrations of his youth in Germany’s Black Forest.

“In Southern Germany, it’s more of a harvest celebration,” Kuhn says. “I remember that everybody in the town got together and went to a tent for beer and food over a couple of days.

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There was even a parade with the town fire department band.”

Kuhn says it’s difficult for American Oktoberfests to copy the German celebrations. “I’ve been to several in the United States, but I haven’t been to one that’s like the Oktoberfest I remember in Germany from when I grew up.”

An Oktoberfest includes food, beer and music at many American celebrations, as well as the Chicken Dance, which Kuhn says is authentic to Germany.

Though he hasn’t participated in the Asheville Oktoberfest, during his Heinzelmännchen days he produced his own Oktoberfest and will continue that tradition at Whiteside during the first week of October with his own beers, food from the brewery’s restaurant and music.

Meghan Rogers, executive director of the Asheville Downtown Association, estimates that the Asheville Oktoberfest will draw about 2,000 people. She says it’s one of the organization’s biggest fundraising events, along with the Downtown After 5 street concerts.

Now in its 10th year, the event’s format has changed little over the past decade.

The $45 festival admission includes beer in 2-ounce pours. More than two dozen breweries are taking part, and cider, wine and non-alcoholic drinks will also be available. Most of the breweries are local and will bring between two and four beers to the event.

The Oktoberfest no longer includes a parade and ceremonial tapping of a first keg. Beyond the beer, there’s music by Asheville’s Mountain Top Polka Band and such activities as a costume contest, the Samuel Adams stein hoist, a pretzel toss and a ping pong tournament.

“We’ve tried a lot of different things, but it comes down to this being an Oktoberfest,” Rogers says. “People really do want to hear Oktoberfest music.”

Among the food vendors is the Haus Heidelberg restaurant from Hendersonville. Owner Helge Gresser, who came to the United States in 1994 to open the business, says he will bring sausages and schnitzels.

Gresser hails from Aachen, Germany, near Cologne, and says that while he never attended the Munich Oktoberfest, he doesn’t believe much of

the celebration’s tradition has translated to the U.S. For one thing, he notes that in Germany, Oktoberfest is highly localized.

“It was a new thing for me over here that everybody goes crazy for Oktoberfest,” Gresser says. “I think there is very little authenticity left [in the American events]. Even in the German Oktoberfest, there is little authenticity. It started as a wedding celebration, and now it’s a tourist spot. It’s everybody in a tent with a lot of beer and pretzels and sausages. It’s really not what it was.”

Gresser adds that the month of October brings a big boost for the restaurant, but he is “always too busy” to take part in Oktoberfest parties.

At Sierra Nevada, the Oktoberfest celebration is now in its fourth year, says Lee-Ann Loser, events team manager at the Mills River brewery.

The celebration takes place at the Six Row Field festival site.

“We pride ourselves on being a really authentic Oktoberfest,” she says. The $30 tickets include a German meal prepared by the Sierra Nevada taproom kitchen, a commemorative beer stein, one drink or pretzel ticket, entertainment and activities, as well as passage from Asheville or Hendersonville aboard a shuttle. Additional beer tickets can also be purchased.

The event will feature Sierra Nevada’s own Oktoberfest beer, which is a collaboration between the brewery and Germany’s Weihenstephaner brewery. Also served will be Sierra’s Pale Ale, German IPA, Hazy Little Thing IPA, Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale, FOAM Pilsner, Kellerweis and a surprise beer to be revealed at the event.

Providing the music are No BS Brass, Sirius.B and Lagerhosen.

Activities include glass-blowing demonstrations and hammerschlagen, a hammering competition.

Loser expects the event to pull a crowd of about 2,700, and is looking to grow the brewery’s Oktoberfest for next year.

Asheville Oktoberfest is 1-6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 6, at Pack Square Park.

For details, visit ashevilledowntown. org. Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest is 5-10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Six Row Field in Mills River. For details, visit sierranevada.com/oktoberfestnc. X

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MUSIC FROM ALPHA TO DELTA Free Planet Radio releases ‘Stillness’ with a local concert

BY BILL KOPP bill@musoscribe.com For 17 years, instrumental trio Free Planet Radio has been making its compelling brand of world music, suffusing jazz and pop forms with elements drawn from musical traditions around the globe. On its latest album, Stillness, the Asheville-based group takes a slightly different approach, crafting a collection of contemplative, near-ambient compositions. Free Planet Radio celebrates the release with a Saturday, Oct. 6, concert at Isis Music Hall, showcasing new works and playing favorites from the group’s catalog.

Percussionist River Guerguerian explains the new album’s stylistic departure from Free Planet Radio’s customary beatcentric style. “When we play live, our concerts can get a bit ‘notey,’” he says with a chuckle. “We play a lot of notes. But we have a really meditative side to our playing, too.”

Placid, soothing works have always been part — but just a part – of Free Planet Radio’s live repertoire. Bassist Eliot Wadopian says that “people would often tells us, ‘Man, those were so wonderful. We would love to hear more of that.’”

Guerguerian, Wadopian and string player Chris Rosser were intrigued by the idea. “We talked about it for years. We finally hunkered down for two weeks last solstice time and put it together,” Guerguerian says. The process was more free-form than a typical Free Planet Radio recording session. “We came up with [musical] sketches; they weren’t as throughcomposed as our other pieces,” he says.

The secret to a successful collection of ambient music is to make it compelling. Guerguerian and his band mates sought to avoid what he calls a “kind of fluffy, New Age stereotype.” He says the way to do that is to remove ego from the process. “This isn’t music that says, ‘Check this out; look at this cool thing that I could write.’ It’s really about trying to create a beautiful,

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INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION: On Stillness, the fourth and latest album from Free Planet Radio, the world music trio sets aside its rhythmic explorations in favor of music designed to have healing, regenerative properties. The group celebrates the record release at Isis Music Hall on Oct. 6. Photo by Jesse Kitt

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lush pad that’s organic and fluid and a little improvisational.”

Guerguerian continues, “You don’t want to take people out of the zone. You want to provide a lush container that people can melt into.”

The last thing he and his bandmates want is for Stillness to lead listeners to think, “Oh, what’s that?”

or “That sounds cool.” Because, he explains, “Ego will pop them out of it and put them into their mental-judgment state.”

The idea behind Stillness is to help guide the listener into what Guerguerian describes as “the fine line between alpha and delta brainwave states. The music could be

relaxing, but it’s also regenerative.”

He explains that research by neuroscientist Daniel Levitin has shown that humans can’t actually multitask. “If you’re doing five things at the same time, your brain is really just switching between all five things. And those switches can get burned out.”

Guerguerian adds, “So staring out the window for 20 minutes can be the most rejuvenating thing you do, because in doing that, you’re letting all your synapses line up, and you’re creating these threads between all your neurons.” Stillness is intended as a complementary soundtrack to such regenerative endeavors.

“We didn’t want to get big, fancy grooves going this time,” says Wadopian. “With everything as busy and exciting as it is in this day and age, we thought a little calmness might be appropriate. Stillness is specifically designed for that.”

The album also presented an opportunity to make use of new instrumentation. “River wanted to use these fabulous handpans that draw individual listeners really deeply into the music,” Wadopian says.

Guerguerian describes the tuned percussion instrument: “It’s a big metal thing — sort of like a steel drum — and you play it with your fingers,” he says. “It has a weird, ethereal sound; it kind of sounds like a synthesizer.”

That balance between soothing and energetic, acoustic and electric, will characterize the Stillness album premiere show. With a hearty laugh, Wadopian poses a not-at-all rhetorical question: “How do you do a CD release for a meditation record in a nightclub?”

Guerguerian provides an answer: “We’ll play four of the Stillness songs, a few classic things, and then we’ll play material that we’ve been working on for our next future record. It’s our jazziest one ever. Asheville is great because it’s an eclectic crowd. And we have eclectic music.” X

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WHAT Free Planet Radio’s album release show for Stillness WHERE Isis Music Hall 743 Haywood Road isisasheville.com WHEN Saturday, Oct. 6, 8:30 p.m. $15

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TRUE TALES: Durham-based author Tracy Deonn Walker, left, will join Asheville writer Amy Reed, right, Jaye Robin Brown and Alexandra Duncan at Malaprop’s for the launch of the YA anthology Our Stories, Our Voices. What started as a collection of essays addressing the 2016 presidential election grew to encompass many issues facing young women in the U.S. Photos courtesy of the authors It was nearly two years ago that local author Amy Reed started trading ideas with her agent about how to respond to the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Both wanted to take action and encourage others to do the same, and they soon fixed on the idea of assembling an anthology of writing by YA authors for YA readers.

“We felt like we needed to hurry,” Reed says of the project’s early days.

She got an immediate response from the authors she approached to contribute. “Everybody had a really clear idea of what they wanted to write.” The she and her agent quickly put together a proposal that led to a book deal.

But as Reed and her co-authors began work on what was to become Our Stories, Our Voices — an anthology of essays that Reed will launch at Malaprop’s on Saturday, Oct. 6 — they realized that the collection needed to be about more than just the election. “It had to speak to experiences that would be much broader than that,” Reed says.

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through the full traditional editorial process: drafting, editing and redrafting to produce essays that fully address what it means to be a woman growing up in the U.S., and in particular, growing up with all the forms of oppression that young women continue to face.

Reed, whose 2017 book The Nowhere Girls deals with the effects of rape culture on the lives of young women, chose to address her own experience with the gray areas of consent and her struggle to see herself among the women she championed and celebrated as a feminist. “I wrote about stuff that I had never been so explicit about before, and so it was really scary, and really vulnerable,” Reed says. “But I knew, ultimately, that it was important because I knew other people would read it and feel validated for their own experience.”

Indeed, much of the work in Our Stories, Our Voices involves naming and making plain the challenges young women face.

Local author Jaye Robin Brown, who will be at the Malaprop’s event, speaks to the difficulty of squaring her feminin-

ity with the liberation and expectations of coming out. Asheville’s Alexandra Duncan relates her own experience of gaslighting to how the culture at large continually gaslights women’s experiences of the world. And each of the other essays names a facet of the sexism, racism and other marginalizations young women encounter. The collection is at once straightforward and communal.

“I hope people read our stories and they feel that they’re part of a larger community,” Reed says. She sought to accomplosh that goal within the essay collection by inviting submissions from new writers who might offer different points of view. One of those authors, Tracy Deonn Walker, will also be at the Malaprop’s event.

In her essay, Walker explores how growing up in the Triangle area of North Carolina meant that she had to walk a tightrope: At school and among her white friends, she says, “I had to be a certain type of Tracy, a certain type of black person. ... And when I would go home and be with my family, or go to

church, I would realize that what I was bringing into those spaces” — including, for example, a love of the music of Nirvana — “I realized I was getting alienated and pressured and silenced in those spaces, too. There were things that I loved that I couldn’t talk about.”

Still, Walker’s essay details how she found groups of friends and places where she could explore her true interests. More importantly, she explains how, in college, she spoke out about her experience through a performance piece that dramatized — through the metaphor of a slave auction — the ordeals she faced as a teen. Despite her misgivings, her audience responded with love, admiration and acceptance.

Contributing to Our Stories, Our Voices has had a similar result: On the strength of Walker’s essay, Reed’s editor expressed interest should Walker ever turn to fiction.

Walker drew on this encouragement to write what she calls “the book of my heart,” an urban fantasy trilogy titled Descendants, which blends Arthurian legend with what Walker dubs “Southern black girl magic.”

The protagonist of the series is dealing with the death of her mother; Walker says she used her own grief

from losing her mother in her 20s in order to write it. The first two books in the series are set to be published in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

“I think there is something about being brave enough to stand up and share,” Walker continues. “In a way, Our Stories, Our Voices and Amy have helped me feel brave enough to write this novel — and once again, art is helping me transform pain into something empowering.” X

WHAT The launch of Our Stories, Our Voices featuring Amy Reed, Alexandra Duncan, Jaye Robin Brown, Amber Smith and Tracy Deonn Walker WHERE Malaprop’s 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Saturday, Oct. 6, 6 p.m.

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CAPTAIN OF HER OWN DESTINY In the song “Notifications,” West Asheville-based musician Eleanor Underhill sings over plucked banjo, “I’ve got a new distraction, it’s giving me satisfaction. I’m getting used to this ticker-tape charade.” Underhill says she got the idea for the song when she was at the gym and noticed cable news chyrons flashing on a television screen. She felt overwhelmed by the stream of headlines.

“Thinking there’s so much going on, and it’s hard to know how to react or what to do,” she says. “You feel … separated from it, but it’s in your face all the time.”

Music fans who feel similarly inundated might identify with the existential struggle depicted on Underhill’s debut solo album, aptly titled Navigate the Madness.

Accompanied by many of the musicians who contributed to the record, she’ll play an album release show at Ambrose West on Saturday, Oct. 6.

Underhill has spent the past 10 years singing and playing banjo with Underhill Rose. She and bandmate Molly Rose have established themselves in the roots music scene, releasing four albums and performing around the U.S. and in Europe. That nomadic existence left Underhill feeling unsettled, so turning inward, she produced an album from her living room. “I went into it trying to suspend any expectations of pleasing others,” she says.

“I knew that would censor things and limit me, and that’s exactly what I didn’t need. I needed to fully indulge my creative instincts.”

Mission accomplished. Underhill plays a number of instruments, including trombone and piano, and

PASSION PROJECT: “I don’t just love bluegrass music,” says singer-songwriter Eleanor Underhill, long associated with Americana act Underhill Rose. “I like some EDM, I like some pop. … I wanted to figure out how to marry that together and make something that’s authentically me.” The result is her solo debut, Navigate the Madness. Photo by Cass Herrington the addition of electronic sounds speaks to a chaotic, modern-day struggle. Plus, the album calls upon multiple genres — folk, blues, jazz and psychedelic.

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some pop. … I wanted to figure out how to marry that together and make something that’s authentically me, as well as an authentic experience for the listener.”

Underhill also incorporated quirky homemade recordings: On one, her father, Roy Underhill (of the PBS show, “The Woodwright’s Shop”), plays the accordion; on another, her mother, Jane Underhill, practices operatic exercises.

She even gives a subtle nod to rapper Dr. Dre, hammering on piano keys on the track “Into the Unknown.”

But beyond sonic experimentation, Navigate the Madness — as its name suggests — seeks to process some of the most disturbing of the current socio-political themes. On “Captured in Arms,” Underhill sings, “Bigotry is trying to fly, but I say let live and let racism die. … Please don’t kill my friends anymore.” The song is a reflec-

Eleanor Underhill launches a solo album tion on hatred, drawn in part from the resurgence of white nationalism.

“You start to get normalized to this shit,” Underhill says. “OK, so now there are white supremacists again? When did that happen?” This year in particular, she says, it seems the unthinkable has become reality. Part of the idea behind the solo album was to speak to listeners who wished to connect on a deeper level.

Underhill’s own past is rooted in history as much as modernity. She grew up in Virginia, where both of her parents worked at Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstructed 18thcentury town that serves as a living history museum and a tourist attraction. “My dad worked in the lumberyard, and my mom was a balladeer in the tavern, so she would go around, table to table, singing old English ballads,” Underhill says.

That family lineage of art and craft is apparent throughout Navigate the Madness, and the song “Hard to Find” encapsulates Underhill’s lived juxtaposition of past and present. The track’s opening lyrics, “A white dress, red wine.

I don’t mind a little stain,” came to Underhill as she was imbibing with a friend at 5 Walnut. But then the song moves on to much weightier subject matter: “In the shadow of the greatest generation the country knew … it’s hard to find someone who knows their rights anymore.

Hard to find a good song on the radio. It’s hard to find regard for death or war.”

“I’ve got 99 problems,” she seems to be telling listeners, “And a stain is the least of them.” X

WHAT Eleanor Underhill & Friends’ album release party for Navigate the Madness WHERE Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road ambrosewest.com WHEN Saturday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m. $7 advance/ $10 day of show/$15 VIP

THEATER REVIEW

by Arnold Wengrow | a.wengrow@yahoo.com

‘Special Needs’ at The Magnetic Theatre

INVISIBLE FRIENDS: The play Special Needs traces the journey of Pierce (played by Cory Silver, center, with Hunter Gall, left, and Christian Prins Coen) from victim to vanquisher as he discovers how our stories shape us. Playwright Madelyn Sergel paints a poignant, often funny portrait of a dysfunctional family learning to function. Photo by Katie Jones Talk about a frazzled morning for mom: Son, 14, is lost in a video game.

Daughter, 16, can’t find her library books. Dad, 40-ish, can’t find his keys — again. He’s shouting at son to pay attention — ­again.

And in the middle of the kitchen, two Special Ops soldiers in camouflage pants and black tops are locked in combat.

That’s the eye-catching introduction to the Goldman household in Madelyn Sergel’s Special Needs, receiving its North Carolina premiere at The Magnetic Theatre through Sunday, Oct. 7.

Everyone talking and moving at full tilt may be the playwright’s (and the director, Katie Jones’) shrewd way of giving us the same sensory overload that’s whirling inside the head of Pierce, the son.

Played by Cory Silver, Pierce is on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum. He’s also a math genius. He immediately grasps the solution to a geometry problem without knowing how he got there. But he tunes out the needs, nuances and even the presence of others.

And those two warriors, one female and one male? They are the playwright’s other shrewd way of getting us into Pierce’s head, and also mom’s, dad’s and sis’s.

Christian Prins Coen, in the role of Alpha, is an action hero come to life from

Pierce’s video game. Julia Cunningham, as Omega, is an earth goddess dispensing wisdom with consoling mugs of tea.

Alpha instructs Pierce in warrior ways. His model is Judah Maccabee, since Pierce is proud of being Jewish.

Alpha and Omega voice the words this chaotic but loving family thinks but can’t say. Coen and Cunningham have the intense focus of good fighters, and good actors, as they weave balletically among the family.

Pierce has invented Alpha to be his protector because he’s being bullied by a middle-school oaf he nicknames Behemoth, after the Bible monster.

Shea Bruer gives Behemoth gangly menace and unnerving deadness behind the eyes. We see that Pierce has special gifts as well as needs. He can weave mythical and verbal structures along with mathematical ones.

Special Needs traces Pierce’s journey from victim to vanquisher as he discovers how our stories shape us. Silver skillfully modulates little eye blinks and temper flares to suggest Pierce’s autism, while letting his intelligence and good heart shine through. It is a thoroughly winning performance.

Sergel paints a poignant, often funny portrait of a dysfunctional family learning to function. We may wonder how the Goldmans have survived 14 years without better coping skills or an autism

support network — could mom and dad really have allowed Behemoth to torment Pierce since first grade? — but Sergel based Pierce on her own son, so the feelings, if not the details, ring true.

Director Jones gives Victoria Lamberth as mom, Jason Phillips as dad, Hunter Gall as sis, Kay WiseDenty as mom’s best friend, and Trissa King as the comic-but-sympathetic geometry teacher their own moments.

If she lets the situation comedy overshadow the play’s larger reach, she choreographs its many characters and scenes smoothly. Sound designer Mary Zogzas perfectly captures the play’s moods with a subtle score. X

WHAT Special Needs

by Madelyn Sergel WHERE The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St. themagnetictheatre.org WHEN Through Sunday, Oct. 7 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sundays at 3 p.m.

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Bascom Lamar Lunsford Festival

Kuzu While on a long solo tour of the U.S. in 2017, Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis collaborated, in separate instances, with both Asheville-based guitarist Tashi Dorji and Windy City drummer Tyler Damon. By that point, Dorji and Damon had already established themselves as a formidable guitar-percussion duo and, pleased with their separate work with Rempis, agreed to bring the so-called “stalwart of the Chicago improvised music scene” aboard for a new endeavor called Kuzu. The group’s debut record Hiljaisuus (Finnish for “silence”) was released in mid-September and on Thursday, Oct. 4, the musicians will kick off a two-week tour with a 9 p.m. show at The Mothlight. $8 advance/$10 day of show. Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Lamont and guitarist-composer Kevin Hufnagel play opening solo sets. themothlight.com. Photo by Julia Dratel

A year after cracking the half-century mark, the Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival returns to Mars Hill University for its 51st iteration on Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., on the campus’ Upper Quad. Western North Carolina’s second-oldest folk music festival honors the namesake gentleman who documented the songs and dances of the Appalachian Mountains. Among the 16 performers or groups on the schedule at press time — more are being added — are the Buckner Family, Lillian Chase, Roger Howell, Joe Penland and the Old Time Ramblers. New to the 2018 festival is a community dance beginning at 5:30 p.m., featuring square, circle and line dances called by Phil Jamison and music by Rhiannon and the Relics. The Cole Mountain Cloggers and the university’s own Bailey Mountain Cloggers will demonstrate dances and calls collected

by Lunsford. Free. lunsfordfestival. com. Photo of Lillian Chase courtesy of the Ramsey Center

Jimmy Landry’s Birthday Bash

Asheville Circus Asheville Circus describes itself as a “recently formed electric Americana band with big plans,” and its first multiday concert event reflects those ambitions. Dubbed “3 Ring Shenanigans,” the group’s trio of consecutive evenings at Ambrose West seeks to be “an accessible celebration of Asheville’s art and music scene” by featuring sideshow performers, local artists and two sets by the host band nightly. Each date also carries a different costume theme, with clowns and jugglers on Monday, Oct. 8; animals and acrobats on Tuesday, Oct. 9; and freak show performers and illusionists on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Ticket options include $10 for one night, $25 for all three events and a $60, three-night package for two that comes with Asheville Circus merchandise. Each night starts at 8 p.m. ambrosewest.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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This past March marked a decade since Black Mountain singer-songwriter Jimmy Landry was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and given six months to live. Once September rolled around that year, and he was still above ground, with his birthday right around the corner, he took a renewed interest in celebrating the day he entered the world and has organized a musical event with talented friends every year since.

The latest festive gathering takes place Saturday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m., at White Horse Black Mountain. Joining Landry for the occasion is Malcolm Holcombe (a friend with whom he’s celebrated the Fourth of July for the past 15 years), and Woody Wood (with whom Landry connected at The Grey Eagle when it was still in Black Mountain). $12 advance/$15 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain.com.

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EDUCATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT: Theatreworks USA brings its We the People program to Diana Wortham Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 11, and Friday, Oct. 12, as part of the venue’s Matinee Series for Students and Families. The musical revue offers entertaining spins on American civics lessons through a variety of kid-friendly styles, including rock, hip-hop and R&B. Attendees will learn about “the three branches of government, the First Amendment, presidential elections, democracy, the judicial process and more.” Performances take place at 10 a.m. and noon each day. Tickets are $10 for individuals or $9 each for groups of 11 people or more. For more information, visit dwtheatre.com. Photo by Joan Marcus (p. 50)

ART 3RD ANNUAL MONTFORD ARTWALK (PD.) Stroll Historic Montford and meet a wide variety of resident artists. Open studios on Saturday, 10/13 from 11-5 pm.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (10/10), 6-7:30pm - "Paint Fall Leaves in Watercolor," class.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road CREATIVE ARTS IN ACTION • SA (10/6), 5-10pm - Reiki share and potluck at 5pm.

Drum circle and camp fire at 7:30pm. Register for location: 413-668-8641 pt hjames719@aol.com Free/ Bring lawn chair and food to share for potluck.

FIREFLY CRAFT GALLERY 2689 D Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 828-231-0764 • SA (10/6), noon-4pm Artist demonstration in celebration of American Craft Week. Free to attend.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (10/5) & SA (10/6), 11am-4pm - Fall themed needle felting demonstration with Karen Kennedy.

Free to attend.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • FR (10/5), 6-9pm - Art After Dark event with artist demonstrations. Free.

• SA (10/6), 1-4pm Demonstration of weaving fabric strips to make tiles to be used in the con-

struction of a floor-cloth rug by Sheree Sorrells.

Free.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART IN THE PARK ashevilleartinthepark.com/ • SA (10/6), 10am-5pm Outdoor, handcrafted art market featuring glass, ceramics, wood, jewelry and metal. Free to attend.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS downtownashevilleartdistrict.org.

• 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville. Free to attend.

Held at Downtown Asheville, Biltmore Ave/ College St.

MOONLIT ART MARKET burialbeer.com • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 8-11pm - Art and craft fair.

Free to attend. Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. OOOH LA LA HOLIDAY MARKET • SA (10/6), 10am-4pm Outdoor art market with live music. Free to attend.

Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. WESTSIDE ARTIST CO-OP 726 Haywood Road • SA (10/6), 10am-6pm - Second birthday party and open house with live music, art demonstrations and activities. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com

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A& E CA LEN DA R • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • MO (10/8) & TU (10/9) 6-9pm - Open auditions for Snowbound. Contact for full guidelines.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines.

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

PAN HARMONIA 828-254-7123, panharmonia.org • Through TH (11/15) Submissions accepted for the Pan Harmonia 2018 Music and Poetry Fusion Competition for NC women writers. Full guidelines online.

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Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac.com • www.DanceForLife.net ASHEVILLE MONDAY NIGHT DANCE 828-712-0115, oldfarmersball.com • MONDAYS, 7:3010:30pm - Community contra dance. $7. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road MARS HILL UNIVERSITY 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill, 828-689-1571 • SA (10/6), 5:30-7:30pm - Community dance with mountain music by Rhiannon & the Relics (squares, circles, and lines).

Free.

SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (10/6), 6pm "Football Fantasy Dance," themed dance. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm.

Donated school supplies

for those in need accepted. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

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

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/class.

(828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., dwt.com • SA (10/6), 8pm - Ranky Tanky, concert. $20 and up.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • TH (10/4) through SU (10/7) - "Boogie," disco music concert. Thurs: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm.

Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $30 and up.

MUSIC AT UNCA 828-251-6432, unca.edu • TH (10/4) & FR (10/5) - Residency workshops, classes and performances with musicians Sara Caswell and Michael W Davis. Information: music. unca.edu. Held at UNCA, 1 University Heights MUSIC AT WCU 828-227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (10/4), 7pm - WCU Traditional Music Series: Concert featuring traditional musicians Jake Blount and Tatiana Hargreaves.

Free. Held at H.F. Robinson Administration Building, Cullowhee PAN HARMONIA 828-254-7123, panharmonia.org • SU (10/7), 3-4:30pm - "The Splendors of Versailles: Flute Revolution," flute viola da gamba and harpsichord concert featuring works by Couperin, Dornel, Quentin and Telemann. Free.

Held at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road ST. MATTHIAS CHURCH 1 Dundee St., 828-285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com/ • SU (10/7), 3pm Chamber music concert featuring works for string trio by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Kodaly and Dohnanyi. Free.

WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE womansong.org • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (10/6), 9am-3pm - Used book sale. Free to attend. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (10/9), 1pm Leicester Book Club: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan. Free.

Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • WE (10/10), 3pm History Book Club: The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • SA (10/6), 1pm - Dr. Mary Harrell presents her book, The Mythmaker.

Free to attend.

• First SUNDAYS, 5pm Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

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• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild.

Free.

HOMEWORD homewordavl.org • SU (10/7), 7-9pm Poetry readings with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Dana Levin, Bryan Head and Cecelia Tucker.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Books & News, 67 N. Lexington Ave. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (10/3), 6pm Abigail DeWitt presents her book, News of Our Loved Ones. Free to attend.

• TH (10/4), 6pm Kathryn Schwille presents her book, What Luck this Life. Free to attend.

• FR (10/5), 6pm - Dr. Bud Harris presents his book, An Open Letter to the Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: Do We Have the Courage to Face Our Failures and Prove We Value Our Children? Free.

• SA (10/6), 6pm - Amy Reed, Amber Smith, Jaye Robin Brown, Alexa Duncan and Tracy Walker read from Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America. Free to attend.

• SU (10/7), 3pm Poetrio: Poetry readings

by Marilyn Annucci, Shelby Stephenson and Mark Cox. Free to attend.

• MO (10/8), 6pm - Kate Moore presents her book, The Radium Girls, in conversation with local author Denise Kiernan.

Free to attend.

• MO (10/8), 7pm Mystery Book Club: House of Spies: A Novel

by Daniel Silva. Free to attend.

• TU (10/9), noon Discussion Bound Book Club: I Remember Better When I Paint: Art and Alzheimer's: Opening Doors, Making Connections by Berna G. Huebner. Free to attend.

• TU (10/9), 6pm - Connie Tuttle presents her book,

A Gracious Heresy: The Queer Calling of an Unlikely Prophet. Free to attend.

• WE (10/10), 6pm - Erin Gibson presents her book, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death. Free to attend.

• TH (10/11), 6pm - Signe Pike presents their book, The Lost Queen. Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190 • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU bardoartscenter.edu • TH (10/4), 5pm Littleton : A Life in Glass, lecture and book signing with Joan Falconer Byrd. Free. Held in Room 223. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive SPELLBOUND CHILDREN’S BOOKSTORE 828-575-2266, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • TH (10/4), 5-6pm Action Book Club for adults, teens and kids and an acitivty to make easy no-sew toys for dogs and cats for the Asheville Humane Society. See website for booklist. Free to attend. Held at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe, 640 Merrimon Ave. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • TH (10/11), noon Crafts & Conversation Series: "The Art of Storytelling," with Dottie Jean Kirk. Free.

THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/5) until (10/28) - Avenue Q. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. Additional performances TH (10/18)

& TH (10/25), 7:30pm. $15-$26.

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., dwt.com • TH (10/11) & FR (10/12), 10am & noon - Matinee Series for Students & Families: Theatreworks USA presents, We the People. $10.

DIFFERENT STROKES PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIVE 828-275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (10/4) until (10/20) - Twelve Angry Jurors. Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm. $21/$18 advance. Held at Asheville High Arts Theater, 419 McDowell St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/13) - The Glass Menagerie.

Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20-$52.

HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/7) Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $12-$22.

LOVING FOOD RESOURCES 828-255-9282, admin@lovingfood.org • TH (10/4), 7pm Proceeds from this staged reading of 37 Scars, followed by a reception and discussion with playwright James Graves benefit Loving Food Resources.

Admission by donation. Held at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., themagnetictheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/7) Special Needs. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $18.

GALLERY DIRECTORY 22 LONDON 22 London Road • Through SU (10/28) - Say It Loud, exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull.

• TH (10/11) through WE (10/31) - The Way I See It, exhibition of contemporary art by Nan Davis. Reception: Thursday, Oct. 11, 5:307:30pm.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (10/4) through WE (10/24) Bowls, Bowls, Bowls, exhibition of handmade bowls by five regional artists. Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 5-8pm.

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE 4021 Haywood Road, Mills River • Through TH (11/1) - Exhibition of the photographic work of Robin Anderson.

THE VILLAGE POTTERS 191 Lyman St., #180, 828-253-2424, thevillagepotters.com • Through WE (11/25) - The Horse: Passion and Fire, exhibition of work by painter Jenny Buckner and ceramic artist Judi Harwood.

ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (11/2) - Exhibition of art by Randy Shull. Reception: Wednesday, Oct. 3. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, wcu.edu • Through FR (5/3) - Defining America, group exhibition. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive • Through WE (11/7) - The Way We Worked, Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit. Held at Mountain Heritage Center, Cullowhee ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive Fletcher • Through MO (12/31) - Roots, exhibition featuring seven multidiscipline artists.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through WE (10/31) - Textures . . . Colors, exhibition of the paintings of Kate Thayer. Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 5-8pm.

FRAGILE FILM: Cameras: Interpreters of Reality, a solo exhibition of glass cameras by Joshua Hershman, opens Friday, Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. at Bender Gallery. The mixed-media artist created the pieces by making a mold from antique or broken cameras, thereby destroying the original camera in the process. The cameras are then cast in glass using the lost wax method.

Hershman was born without peripheral vision or depth perception, and though his sight has since been corrected, he mimics the irregularities he experienced within his work. The exhibition runs through Nov. 30. For more information, visit bendergallery.com. Photo of Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, 2018 courtesy of Bender Gallery on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College, exhibition.

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BENDER GALLERY 29 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through SA (10/20) - Linear Angularity, exhibition of glass art

by Toland Sand.

• FR (10/5) through FR (10/26) Cameras: Interpreters of Reality, exhibition of kiln cast glass cameras by Joshua Hershman.

Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 5pm.

38 Biltmore Ave., 828-251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through FR (11/9) - Folk + Figure, exhibition of paint, print, sculpture and ceramic works

by Ke Francis, Bethanne Hill, Matt Jones, Charles Keiger, Noah Saterstrom and Deborah Rogers.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (10/5) - Lux and Lumen, exhibition of photography by Lynette Miller.

37 Paynes Way, Suite 9 • TH (10/4) through TH (11/1) - Haus of Blues, exhibition of paintings by Mark Bettis and Jacqui Fehl. Reception: Thursday, Oct. 4, 5:30-8pm.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (1/31) - Between Form + Content: Perspectives

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DOUBLETREE BY HILTONASHEVILLE-BILTMORE 115 Hendersonville Road, 828-274-1800 • Through MO (12/31) Exhibition of paintings by Valentino Bustos.

GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com/ • Through SU (10/7) - Animalia Chordata, exhibition featuring works by Mitch Kolbe, John Mac Kah, Evan Kafka and Mohamed Sabaawi.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (10/28) - Animal Attraction, group exhibition.

HAEN GALLERY ASHEVILLE 52 Biltmore Ave., 828-254-8577, thehaengallery.com • Through MO (10/15) - Patina of Energy, exhibition of paintings by Valerio D'Ospina.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • FR (10/5) through SA (10/27) - ARTQUEST, exhibition of artworks from the upcoming tour of 12 Haywood County artist studios. Information: ArtQuestHaywood.com. Held at

Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N Main St., Waynesville MONTREAT COLLEGE 310 Gaither Circle Montreat, 828-669-8012, montreat.edu • Through FR (9/16) Southerland Art: Seeing Things Backward Since 1978, exhibition of art by Professor Jim Southerland.

PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (10/7) Machinations, oil on wood paintings by Juan Benavides.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • FR (10/5) through FR (11/2) - Exhibition of paintings, photographs and ephemera by Eerie Von. Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 7-10pm.

THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 828254-6345, ashevilleschool.org

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (11/3) Exhibition of paintings, woodworks and drawings of Paul and Kim Fuelling. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave., TraceyMorganGallery.com • Through SA (11/3) - The Lost State of Frankland, exhibition of photography by Mike Smith.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL tcarts@comporium.net • Through FR (10/19) Seeking Home, exhibition of works by artists Bianca Mitchell, Stephen P. Jackson, Costanza Knight and Fred McMullen. Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through WE (10/24) Transcendence, Southern Highland Craft Guild exhibition.

WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through WE (10/31) Exhibition of paintings by Joy and Stephen St. Claire.

Reception: Friday, Oct. 5, 5-7pm.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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COMING SOON WED 10/3 7:00PM–A DIFFERENT THREAD 8:30PM–AVL PRODUCERS SUMMIT W/ LIVING LIGHT

THU 10/4 7:00PM–THE “BE YOU” TOUR WITH SARA CLANTON & HEATHER MAE 8:30PM–KASSA OVERALL TRIO AND YOUNG BULL

FRI 10/5

7:00PM– SAM BAKER

9:00PM–A FORREST DOUGLAS PROMOTION

SAT 10/6 7:00PM–DEAN OWENS WITH WILD PONIES 8:30PM– FREE PLANET RADIO

SUN 10/7 5:30PM–FRANK AND ALLIE’S HONEYMOON SHOW 7:00PM–JESSE BARRY SINGS CAROLE KING’S TAPESTRY

MON 10/8

6-10PM–ASHEVILLE BASS HANG

TUE 10/9

7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ THOMAS CASSELL BAND

WED 10/10 7:00PM– SARAH MCQUAID

THU 10/11

7:30PM–THE REEL SISTERS- MUSIC OF THE ISLES 8:30PM–RACHEL PRICE AND LANCE & LEA

FRI 10/12 7:00PM–LOGAN MARIE EP RELEASE SHOW

SAT 10/13 7:00PM–SOUTH FOR THE WINTER AND THE TRAVELING ONES 8:30PM–THE BELLE HOLLOWS AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY

SUN 10/14 5:30PM–THE REEL SISTERSAN EVENING OF SONG AND AIRS

7:30PM– SLAID CLEAVES

TUE 10/16

THIS CALLS FOR A TOAST: Musicians Darren Deicide and Ethel Lynn Oxide (together known as The Wedding Funeral) are on tour in support of their debut full-length album, You Have Been Cordially Disinvited. Oxide’s choral training brings a folky contrast to the eerie, almost Medieval sound created by the incorporation of musical saws and the three-string diddley bow. The finale show of that run of dates is on Halloween in — where else — Salem, Mass., but first the gothic blues outfit plays Fleetwood’s on Monday, Oct. 8, at 9 p.m. Local bluegrass singer-songwriter Jessie Smith opens. Free. fleetwoodsonhaywood.com Photo by Raul Garcia

7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ DARREN NICHOLSON BAND

WED 10/17 7:00PM–CARLY TAICH (ASHEVILLE) W/ MY ONE AND ONLY (NASHVILLE DUO) 8:30PM–RACHEL BAIMAN AND ALEXA ROSE

THU 10/18 7:00PM–KIPYN MARTIN AND KIRSTEN MAXWELL 8:30PM–TOWNE AND ZOE CHILD

FRI 10/19

7:00PM–KARYN OLIVER AND CAROLANN SOLEBELLO 9:00PM–RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET

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

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

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 185 KING STREET Doug Deming & the Jewel Tones, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted

by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

AMBROSE WEST Ryan Montbleau Solo w/ Ben Phan, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, klezmer music), 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays w/ Vaden & The Do-Rights & DJ, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 5:30PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Spoken Word Open Mic, 8:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 A Different Thread, 7:00PM AVL Producers Summit w/ Living Light, 8:30PM

NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Mic Night w/ Caleb Beissert (sign up at 7:30PM), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Jaeb, Shutterings & Anywhere From Here (Emo), 9:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition 2018, 5:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING August West (folk, blues, gospel, soul), 9:00AM ORANGE PEEL Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls w/ Bad Cop/Bad Cop & Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, 7:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Chris Jamison, 7:00PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Lucky James (blues, Americana), 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE All's Fair and FUNNY in love & War (comedy), 8:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Shinyribs w/ Arkansauce, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Low Keys, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Eric Lindell, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: Patrick Lopez, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Dirty Dead, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Manic Focus w/ Esseks, 9:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 9:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM The Mighty Pines, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Jump, Little Children w/ Michael Flynn, 8:00PM

BYWATER Open Mic w/ John Duncan, 7:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Hope Griffin Duo, 8:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Ben Phan, 8:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Nick Gonnering, 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Throwback Thursday w/ Molly Parti, 8:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Queer Comedy Party feat. Rachel Eppstein, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic (6pm sign-up), 6:30PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Billy Litz (Americana, Soul), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Derek Lyons (funk, folk), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Floating Action, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Patrick Dodd Trio, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Be You: Sarah Clanton & Heather Mae, 7:00PM Kassa Overall Trio & Young Bull, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Honky-Tonk Show w/ Jessie & The Jinx, Vaden Landers & The Do Rights, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM Local 604 Bottle Shop Vinyl Night, 8:00PM OWL BAKERY Thursday Night Jazz, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: Drag Circus, 9:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Mia Rose Lynne, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Greensky Bluegrass, 6:00PM Freeway Revival, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Vaden Landers, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Chalwa (acoustic reggae), 9:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Trivia Night, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Scatterlings, 6:00PM Roots of a Rebellion w/ Little Stranger, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Kuzu w/ Bruce Lamont & Kevin Hufnagel, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Pistol Hill, 9:00PM Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Anya Hinkle Americana Evenings Residency, 7:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Michah Gardener, 9:00PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MALL Spotlight Social w/ DJ Molly Parti, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Synthesis: Pathway, Ponder, Murkury, Opulence & Affinity (music, art, performances), 8:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL DJ Zues, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Grass to Mouth, 7:00PM CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, bossa nova, 30s pop), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Vendetta Creme (classic cabaret), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Grass to Mouth (folk, jam), 10:00PM FRACTALS Open Mic, 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM David Gans & Spiro Nicolopoulos & Friends, 8:30PM GINGER'S REVENGE Robin Lewis, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Beau & Luci, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Sam Baker, 7:00PM Forrest Douglas Showcase (R&B, hiphop), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Gold Rose, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM Zach Pugh (comedy), 8:00PM

185 KING STREET Matt Mayes & John Meyer, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Hot 'n' Nasty Night w/ DJ Hissy Cruise (rock & soul), 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, funk), 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Gypsy Jazz Trio of Asheville, 6:30PM

AMBROSE WEST Worthwhile Sounds Presents: Lera Lynn w/ Reuben Bidez, 8:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Acoustic Music & Open Mic, 8:00PM

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Open daily from 4p – 12a

WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER:

CHRIS 7:00PM JAMISON – 10:00PM

THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER:

NICK GONNERING 7:00PM – 10:00PM

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER:

TEMPEST 7:00PM – 10:00PM

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER:

FREE FLOW BAND 7:00PM – 10:00PM

MONDAY 8 OCTOBER:

LAURA THURSTON 7:00PM – 10:00PM

309 COLLEGE STREET | DOWNTOWN

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ODDITORIUM Gaping Maw Freakshow Dark Carnival, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Funkelstiltskin, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Doctor Ocular (jamtronica, acid jazz, synth-pop), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Rumours (Fleetwood Mac tribute), 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ Dayo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Tempest, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 2nd Annual Marcus King Band Family Reunion (Night One), 4:30PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Stevie Tombstone (country blues), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Melvin Seals & Jerry Garcia Band, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Andrew Thelston Band, 8:00PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night H AV E FO WE O O N O U R T BA L L 15 SCREENS!

THU. 10/4 Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic rock)

FRI. 10/5 DJ Dayo

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 10/6 Flashback

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog One-Year Anniversary Party, 6:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Vinylly Friday, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock & roll dance party), 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers, 5:00PM Andy Wood w/ Contagious Rocks & The Chris Cooper Project, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Spaceman Jones & The Motherships EP Release Show, 9:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jesse Junior & The Asheville Jazz Quartet (jazz jam & open mic), 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM The Marshall Tucker Band, 8:00PM

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Vines w/ Linda Wolf (sax jazz), 7:30PM The Shane Gang (blues, soul), 10:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Sezessionville Road, 9:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Abu Dissaray (dance party), 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Tracey Schmidt & Friends, 8:00PM Saturday, October 6 185 KING STREET Mia Rose Lynne, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Roots & Dore Band (blues, roots), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Eleanor Underhill CD Release Party, 8:00PM ARROW SOUND STUDIOS Charles Latham & The Borrowed Band w/ Hearts Gone South, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Hard Rocket w/ Los Gatos Negros, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL House Sessions w/ Aidan Rolfe & Ramin w/ Special Guest (DJ), 10:00PM ASHEVILLE OUTLETS 2nd Annual Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival at Asheville Outlets, 12:00PM BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Ben Phan (Americana), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Funk Fest, 6:30PM Benjo Saylor, 7:00PM BYWATER Moonlight Street Folk, 2:00PM Hundreds, Thousands, 9:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Special Afair, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The Maggie Valley Band, 7:00PM

TAKE IT OUTSIDE: Just in time for the crisp, fall air, Hazel Robinson Amphitheater hosts a concert — organized by Plugged-In Productions — on Friday, Oct. 12. Local soul outfit Goldie and the Screamers (pictured), shares a bill with improvisational alt-rock outfit, Pink Mercury. Donations from the show will support Montford Park Players. Attendees are invited to bring chairs and blankets for the 7 p.m. event. Free. montfordparkplayers.org. Photo courtesy of band

CROW & QUILL House Hoppers (hot swing jazz), 9:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Ranky Tanky, 8:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show, 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB, 11:30AM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth & Modular Tunes, 8:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Chris Jameson Trio (soul, jam), 10:00PM

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Leo Johnson's Gypsy Jazz Brunch, 1:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY MJ Lenderman (country), 6:00PM

MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Ryan Sinclair, 8:30PM

MARS HILL UNIVERSITY Bascom Lamar Lunsford 'Minstrel of Appalachia' Festival, 10:00AM Community Dance, 5:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Chuck Lichtenberger, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Dean Owens w/ Wild Ponies, 7:00PM Free Planet Radio, 8:30PM

CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Oktoberfest Kick-off w/ The Mountain Top Polka Band, 8:30PM

CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolette Set (country), 8:30PM

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

NOBLE KAVA Moongrass, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Tombstone Hwy, Thundering Herd, Bedowyn, Datura, 8 Vacant Graves (metal, rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Root Shock, 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Town Mountain w/ Lindsay Lou, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (classic rock), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Free Flow Band, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 2nd Annual Marcus King Band Family Reunion (Night Two), 12:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Citizen Mojo, 8:00PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 50 Year Flood (rock), 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Sherry Lynn, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lesson at 9PM), 9:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Iris DeMent w/ Ana Egge [SOLD OUT], 8:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Linda Mitchell (blues, Americana), 7:00PM TOWN PUMP The Karma Mechanics, 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Vines w/ Linda Wolf (sax jazz), 7:30PM Westsound (R&B, Motown), 10:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Tom Waits For No Man, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jimmy Landry, Malcolm Holcombe & Woody Wood, 8:00PM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Random Animals (soul, rock), 7:00PM AMBROSE WEST Maria Muldaur w/ Jane Kramer (folk, blues), 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibe Sundays w/ DJ Oso Rey (reggae), 3:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Embracer, Bloom, GhostDog, Anywhere From Here (indie, emo), 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch w/ Woody & Krekel & Bald Mountain Boys, 10:30AM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:30PM Cody Jinks, 7:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S The Wedding Funeral & Jessie Smith, 9:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Grateful Sunday, 5:00PM

ISIS RESTAURAUNT & MUSIC HALL Bass Hang, 6:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE 3rd Annual Mugs 4 Jugs Fundraiser & Festival, 1:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Burlesque Bubbles & Brunch Show w/ Queen April, 1:00PM Manifest Your month w/ DJ InfiniteC (spoken word & dance), 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky Tonk Karaoke, 9:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Open Mic, 6:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Jam, 6:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE King Khan & The Shrines w/ Gabriella Cohen, 9:00PM

PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes, 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Laura Thurston, 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP The Driftwood Gypsy, 9:00PM

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB, 12:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Mia Rose Lynne, 7:30PM

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OAKLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH The Splendors of Versailles (Baroque flute), 3:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic Night - It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Yam Fest w/ Corey the Gardener (comedy openmic), 9:00PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8

NOBLE KAVA Reggae Sundays, 4:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Open Mic hosted by Jon Edwards, 6:00PM

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THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson Trio (vintage jazz), 9:00PM

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DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM

BYWATER Baile w/ Shift Mojo, Konglo, & Scripta, 12:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 6:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old-Time Jam, 6:00PM

THE ASHEVILLE CLUB Blue Monday w/ Mr. Jimmy, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Tas Cru & His Band of Tortured Souls (blues, rock), 9:30PM

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ODDITORIUM Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Tom Peters, 9:00PM

CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, klezmer), 9:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Booty Tuesday w/ DJ Meow Meow (rap, trap, hip-hop), 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays w/ Brody Hunt & The Handfuls, 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Random Animals feat. members of Supatight & The Get Right Band (Soul, Funk, Blues), 8:30PM ORANGE PEEL Dirty Heads w/ Jukebox the Ghost & Just Loud, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing Asheville & Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Sparrow & Her Wingmen (lesson at 7 & 8PM), 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Great Lake Swimmers w/ Joshua Hyslop, 8:00PM

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THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Chvrches, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam, 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Brother Oliver, 9:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition 2018, 5:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Art Wavey & Shirley (Soul Fusion, Grease Rock), 9:00PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar Jimenez & Dance Instructor (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Reggueton, Rumba Samba), 9:00PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

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TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM

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NOBLE KAVA Open Mic Night w/ Caleb Beissert (sign up at 7:30PM), 8:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Murder by Death w/ Tim Barry, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Molly Burch w/ Olden Yolk, 9:30PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: Zaldivar Trio, 7:30PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST The Brook & The Bluff w/ Jordy Searcy, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ana Popovic, 7:30PM

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic (6pm sign-up), 6:30PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB The Wolf's Jaw (Americana, soul), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Mr. Jimmy, 6:00PM GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Matt Sellars, 6:00PM Front Country w/ Alonzo Wesley, 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Patrick Dodd Trio, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Music of The Isles: The Reel Sisters (Celtic duo), 7:30PM Rachel Price and Lance & Lea, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (rock 'n soul vinyl), 10:00PM

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OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Frazier Band, 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The Milk Carton Kids w/ Anthony da Costa, 8:00PM

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

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BYWATER Open Mic w/ John Duncan, 7:00PM

DISTRICT WINE BAR Throwback Thursday w/ Molly Parti, 8:30PM

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ONE WORLD BREWING Juan John (blues, rock, classical), 9:00PM

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 9:00PM

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LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM

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

CAPELLA ON 9@ THE AC HOTEL Caromia, 8:00PM

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana fusion), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Patrick Sweany (blues, rock), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chris Wilhelm & Friends, 8:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Steelin' Time, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Sparrow & Her Wingmen, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Drayton & the Dreamboats (dreamy vintage pop), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Simon George and Friends (jazz, funk), 10:00PM FRACTALS Fractals Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Rhyan Sinclair (country), 6:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Mark and Mary (jazz), 7:30PM HAZEL ROBINSON AMPHITHEATRE Goldie and the Screamers & Pink Mercury, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thunderstruck Release Party, 12:00PM

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Logan Marie EP Release Show, 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lenny Pettinelli jazz, pop, evergreens, 7:30PM Ruby Mayfield, 10:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Roots & Dore (blues), 9:00PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Bell Hop Bop Karaoke, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Hot 'n' Nasty Night w/ DJ Hissy Cruise (rock & soul), 10:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN AmiciMusic: The Next Generation, 7:30PM

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Gael García Bernal thinks outside the box in director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ surreal heist movie, Museo.

Museo (Museum) HHHHS DIRECTOR: Alonso Ruizpalacios PLAYERS: Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Alfredo Castro, Lisa Owen, Bernardo Velasco, Leticia Bredice HEIST DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: Two veterinary students pull off an impossible museum heist but find themselves unprepared for what comes next.

THE LOWDOWN: A remarkably stylish and visually inventive crime thriller that breaks new ground in an old genre.

I was completely unfamiliar with Mexican writer/director Alonso Ruizpalacios before screening his latest film, Museo. I’ll be tracking down the rest of his surprisingly limited catalog in short order, because what

he’s accomplished with his sophomore effort is nothing less than remarkable.

What appears, for all intents and purposes, to be a standard basedon-a-true-story heist flick becomes something much more personal and profound under Ruizpalacios’ ministrations, a moving glimpse into the perceived reality of a man struggling for meaning. I was prepared to enjoy Museo as the tense caper flick it appeared to be — and I most certainly did — but I was totally unprepared for the exceptionally stylish, almost Felliniesque magical realism that Ruizpalacios brings to bear on his subject.

At its core, this is a narrative recounting the unbelievably audacious Christmas 1985 robbery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, in which two hapless stoners somehow managed to walk

away with 140 priceless Mayan artifacts. But the story Ruizpalacios is really telling here is one about thwarted ambition, tortured familial relationships and a toxic friendship that could only lead to tragedy. Gael García Bernal stars as Juan, an underachieving veterinary student from a family of doctors who enlists weak-willed buddy Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris) in his misguided scheme when they both would have been better off sticking to their shared affection for Pink Floyd and Atari games. It could just as easily have played like a buddy comedy, but Ruizpalacios and co-screenwriter Manuel Alcalá take it somewhere much more interesting.

Yes, the heist scene itself is everything you’d hope, harkening back to quasi-nihilistic French noir of the 1950s like Jules Dassin’s Rififi and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob

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le flambeur, or to a lesser extent John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing if you’re looking for antecedents on this side of the pond. But that’s all out of the way less than an hour in, leaving Ruizpalacios free to delve deep into character development and experimental stylization. Juan’s inspiration for the theft seems to stem from half-remembered nationalistic sentiments voiced by his father on a family excursion to the Mayan exhibit, and the motive for the crime itself can be directly linked to dear old dad’s disappointment in his wastrel son.

But it’s the way that Ruizpalacios elucidates these psychological drives through purely cinematic means that makes Museo such a remarkable piece of filmmaking — all of those Carlos Castañeda references aren’t incidental, after all.

As Juan and Wilson ineptly try to fence their hot merchandise, their flimsy justifications of cultural repatriation and familial altruism fall apart, while the futility of their crime becomes increasingly evident. At the core of this caper is a sticky paradox — Juan is seeking to return his people’s cultural identity by stealing the very items that symbolize it, but how can you really steal something that’s already been stolen many times over? It’s a fascinating conundrum, especially in light of the very human impetus that Ruizpalacios and Alcalá attach to the act. Museo tackles challenging intellectual questions and

relatable human failings through a distinctly cinematic lens, and it’s that singularly visual approach that makes this a museum-worthy work of art. Not Rated.

Opens Friday at Fine Arts Theatre.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Blaze HHHH DIRECTOR: Ethan Hawke PLAYERS: Benjamin Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Linklater, James Ourso MUSICAL BIOPIC RATED R THE STORY: A biographical dramatization of the tragic life and untimely death of influential country singersongwriter Blaze Foley.

THE LOWDOWN: A touching and evocative portrait of a troubled genius dragged down by inner demons in a classic case of life imitating art.

Having never particularly cared for Ethan Hawke, it’s odd to find myself conceding that he’s had a pretty good year. He abandoned his usual sense of smug self-satisfaction to turn in a truly demented performance in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed a few months ago, and now in the director’s chair, he’s crafted one of the most tonally dialed-in music biopics in years with Blaze.

This lyrical examination of singersongwriter Blaze Foley’s hard-knock life and untimely death feels like a country song in all the right ways, evoking not only the laconic mood of its subject’s songs but also the tumult of his inner landscape. It’s a moving and heartfelt portrait that represents a distinct departure from Hawke’s middling earlier directorial efforts, and for that I am pleasantly — and thankfully — surprised.

Occasionally rambling and shambolic, Blaze nevertheless creates a genuine sense of character that is as undeniably impressive as it is affective. Musician Benjamin Dickey and Arrested Development alum Alia Shawkat star as Foley and his ex-

wife Sybil Rosen, and their performances are unexpectedly layered given the film’s atypical structural conceits. Hawke and the real Rosen — adapting from her memoir/biography of Foley — use two separate framing devices that complicate their through line somewhat unnecessarily, the first focusing on Foley’s last performance before being murdered by an acquaintance, the second depicting a radio interview with Foley’s friend Townes Van Zandt (Charlie Sexton).

The nonlinear narrative comes across as overkill and at times hurts the film’s pacing, but the gambit ultimately pays off by preserving an air of suspense around Foley’s death while allowing ample running time to address his rise from bucolic obscurity to near stardom and posthumous cult-icon status.

Rosen’s involvement may explain some of the depth developed in the central relationship, but it also leads to her character’s improbably saintly depiction at the expense of other figures, most notably the unflattering representation of Van Zandt. Still, it’s the solid performances from Dickey, Shawkat and Sexton that sell the occasionally clunky dialogue and stave off the possible obtrusiveness of cameos from Hawke’s celebrity buddies, such as Sam Rockwell, Richard Linklater and Kris Kristofferson. If nothing else, Hawke has established himself as a competent director of actors, despite his workmanlike stylization.

Although the majority of Foley’s recordings have only recently been made widely available, his reputation precedes him — a fact that Hawke alludes to with an opening quote about Blaze from none other than Willie Nelson. For fans of outlaw country, Blaze will provide a sufficiently compelling narrative about an underacknowledged figure and an engaging, if not particularly insightful, character study. Those completely unfamiliar with the world of Wille and Waylon et al. will still find plenty of emotional intrigue and texturally adept world building to hold their attention for the majority of the movie’s prodigious 127-minute running time. It’s a good film if not a fully great one, but its constituent elements are more than enough to warrant a recommendation.

And like its protagonist, Blaze is likely to linger with the audience long after the final credits roll. Rated R for language throughout, some sexual content and drug use.

Now Playing at Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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A Star is Born Musical remake of a remake starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. According to the studio: “The raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.” Early reviews positive. (R)

Museo TOP DOGS: Danny Robertshaw, left, and Ron Danta will be at the 2018 Tryon International Film Festival on Oct. 5 for the opening night gala screening of Life in the Doghouse. The documentary chronicles their Camden, S.C.-based canine rescue service. Photo courtesy of FilmRise • Now in its fourth year, the Tryon International Film Festival runs Friday, Oct. 5-Sunday, Oct. 7. Nearly 100 films will be projected on screens at the historic Tryon Theatre, Tryon Fine Arts Center, Upstairs Art Space, Carri Bass Studio, Holy Cross Church and Tryon Depot. Additional offerings include educational breakout sessions, cocktail parties and an opening night gala and screening of the canine rescue documentary Life in the Doghouse, whose human subjects Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta will be in attendance. Tickets range from a $10 screening of HBO’s The Tale on Saturday, Oct. 6, to a $100 VIP pass with access to all events and films. tryoninternationalfilmfestival.org • The town of Franklin hosts a screening of Hocus Pocus on Friday, Oct. 5, 7-10 p.m. at the Ruby Cinemas, 2097 Georgia Road. Attendees are asked to bring chairs or blankets. Free to attend. rubycinemas.com • The Silent Sunday film series returns to Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., on Oct. 7, at 7 p.m., with a program of comedy shorts. Selections include Buster Keaton in Hard Luck and Hal Roach’s female-led A Pair of Tights. Andrew J. Fletcher will provide live piano accompaniment, and film historian Frank Thompson will introduce each film and offer commentary. Tickets are $12 and available online and at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com

FILM BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (10/9), 6:30pm - Fall Film Series: The Mystery of the Wax Museum.

Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-697-4725 • WE (10/3), 2-4pm - Midweek Movie Matinee: Book Club, film screening. Free.

TRYON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL tryoninternationalfilmfestival.org

• Safelight, a Hendersonville-based nonprofit that offers services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse, hosts a screening of What Haunts Us on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Henderson County Library, 301 N. Washington St. Director Paige Goldberg Tolmach’s documentary chronicles the epidemic of suicides that occurred at her seemingly perfect high school and the investigation that uncovered surprising truths that helped her hometown heal. David Flowers, a sexual assault survivor and advocate for sexual assault awareness, will speak at the event. Free. safelightfamily.org • As the introductory part of its program “Rescue the Perishing: Using Narcan to Save Lives,” Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road, Candler, will screen the Oscarnominated short documentary Heroin(e) on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 6:30-8 p.m. The film is about one community’s response to the opioid crisis. As part of the evening, harm reductionist Aaron Kopic will explain how Narcan works. There will also be a limited supply of Narcan kits available.

Free to attend. hominybaptist.com • Twisted Laurel, 10-A S. Main St., Weaverville, hosts a screening of Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. A discussion will follow the film. Free to attend. twistedlaurel.com X

• FR (10/5) through SU (10/7) - Tryon International Film Festival. See website for full schedule and locations.

TWISTED LAUREL WEAVERVILLE 10 S. Main St., Weaverville, 828-6452700

• TH (10/11), 7pm - Documentary screening of the film FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point. Followed by a discussion with Ellen Kaczmarek and Marsha Fretwell, members of Physicians for a National Health Program. Sponsored by Healthcare for All WNC. Free to attend.

See Scott Douglas’ review.

Venom Comic book adaptation focusing on Spider-Man villain turned anti-hero Venom.

According to the studio: “One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom.” No early reviews. (PG-13)

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L’Avventura HHHH DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Antonioni PLAYERS: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar DRAMA Rated NR When this ran in 2007, I wrote: “The four-star rating I’ve afforded Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960) is born of a desire to approach the film as objectively as possible. Objectively, this is an important film — maybe even close to a great film. The rich, detailed, deep-focus black-and-white images that make up the film are so striking that they alone make the movie worth the price of a ticket. I understand, too, the fuss that greeted this movie in 1960. The film’s daring choice to present a mystery that has no solution — the disappearance of a socially prominent young woman (Lea Massari) going through a bout of cosmic malaise on a deserted island during a posh boating trip — was just arty enough to capture the imagination. … However, from a completely subjective point of view, the movie — like most of Antonioni’s — never engaged my emotions and frequently bored me. Still, I can’t deny the quality of the film, and I’d never suggest it shouldn’t be seen.” This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Sept. 12, 2007. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present L’Avventura on Friday, Oct. 5, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Electra is an action-packed story written by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. It features epic characters taking drastic action in response to extreme events. In contrast to that text is Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, which draws from the sensitive author’s experiences growing up, coming of age, and falling in love, all the while in quest for meaning and beauty. Author Virginia Woolfe compared the two works, writing, “In six pages of Proust we can find more complicated and varied emotions than in the whole of the Electra.” In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you specialize in the Proustian mode rather than the Sophoclean. Your feelings in the next five weeks could be as rich and interesting and educational as they have been in a long time. Honor them!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Researchers in Maryland have created a new building material with a strengthto-weight ratio that’s eight times better than steel.

It’s an effective insulator, and in some forms can be bent and folded. Best of all, it’s biodegradable and cost-effective. The stuff is called nanowood and is derived from lightweight, fast-growing trees like balsa. I propose that we make it your main metaphor for the foreseeable future. Why? Because I think you’re primed to locate or create your own version of a flexible, durable, robust building block.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The U.S. Secretary of Defense paid an official visit to Indonesia early this year.

The government arranged for him to observe soldiers as they demonstrated how tough and well-trained they were. Some of the troops shimmied through broken glass, demolished bricks with their heads, walked through fire and bit heads off snakes. I hope you won’t try stunts like that in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be a favorable time for you show off your skills and make strong impressions. You’ll be wise to impress important people with how creative and resourceful you are. But there’s no need to try too hard or resort to exaggeration.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): i confess that i have a fuzzy self-image. With odd regularity, i don’t seem to know exactly what or who i am. For example, i sometimes think i’m so nice and polite that i need to toughen up. But on other occasions i feel my views are so outrageous and controversial that i should tone myself down. Which is true? Often, i even neglect to capitalize the word “i.” You have probably experienced some of this fuzziness, my fellow Cancerian. But you’re now in a favorable phase to cultivate a more definitive self-image. Here’s a helpful tip: We Cancerians have a natural talent for inspiring people to love us. This ability will come in especially handy as we work on making an enduring upgrade from i to I. Our allies’ support and feedback will fuel our inner efforts to clarify our identity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I am a little afraid of love, it makes me rather stupid.” So said author Simone de Beauvoir in a letter she wrote to her lover, Nelson Algren. I’m happy to let you know, Leo, that during the next 12 months, love is likely to have the opposite effect on you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it will tend to make you smarter and more perceptive. To the degree that you expand your capacity for love, you will become more resilient and a better decision maker. As you get the chance to express love with utmost skill and artistry, you will awaken dormant potentials and boost your personal power.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your theme in the coming weeks is the art of attending to details. But wait! I said “the art.” That means attending to details with panache, not with overly meticulous fussing. For inspiration, meditate on St. Francis Xavier’s advice, “Be great in little things.” And let’s take his thought a step further with a quote from author Richard Shivers: “Be great in little things, and you will be given opportunity to do big things.” Novelist Tom Robbins provides us with one more nuance: “When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson offers this observation: “When you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock.

[But] the most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.” I think Tyson’s simple wisdom is exactly what you need to hear right now, Libra. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your ability to create your own fate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Japanese entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has created a business that offers crying therapy. His clients watch short videos specially formulated to make them weep. A professional helper is on hand to gently wipe their tears away and provide comforting words. “Tears have relaxing and healing effects,” says an Okinawan musician who works as one of the helpers. Hiroki Terai adds, “It has been said that one drop of tear has the effect of relieving stress for a week.” I wish there were a service like this near where you live, Scorpio. The next two weeks will be a perfect time to relieve pent-up worry and sadness and anxiety through cathartic rituals like crying. What other strategies might work for you?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fling out friendly feelers! Sling out interesting invitations! Figure out how to get noticed for all the right reasons! Make yourself so interesting that no one can resist your proposals! Use your spunky riddle-solving powers to help ease your tribe’s anxieties. Risk looking odd if that will make you smarter! Plunk yourself down in pivotal places where vitality is welling up! Send out telepathic beams that say, “I’m ready for sweet adventure. I’m ready for invigorating transformation!”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth,” writes poet Doeianne Laux. “I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working. Now I remember only the flavor.” I offer these thoughts, Capricorn, in the hope that they’ll help you avoid Laux’s mistake. I’m quite sure that crucial insights and revelations will be coming your way, and I want you to do whatever’s necessary to completely capture them so you can study and meditate on them at length.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a young man, Aquarian poet Louis Dudek struck up a correspondence with renowned poet Ezra Pound, who was 32 years older. Dudek “admired him immensely,” and “loved him for the joy and the luminosity” of his poetry, but also resented him “for being so magnificent.” With a mix of mischief and adulation, Dudek wrote a poem to his hero. It included these lines: “For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight. There was sun dazzle before you. But you talk as if you made light or discovered it.”

I hope his frisky tone might inspire you to try something similar with your own idols. It would be healthy to be more playful and lighthearted about anything or anyone you take too seriously or give enormous power to.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his book Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis writes, “Holy places are dark places.

It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.” In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I suggest you seek out dark holy places that evoke wonder and reverence, even awe. Hopefully, you will be inspired thereby to bring new beauty into your life. You’ll be purged of trivial concerns and become receptive to a fresh promise from your future life.

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1 Open, as an envelope 7 Big Ten school: Abbr.

11 Grp. co-founded by Helen Keller 15 Boaster’s retort to a boast 16 Singer Fitzgerald 17 Title that translates as “lord” 18 Work as a metropolitan health official?

21 Duncan of the Obama cabinet 22 “Go” signal, maybe 23 Junker 24 Home for a clown fish 26 Headwear for bank robbers 29 Works as a metropolitan census taker?

33 Grilled sushi offering 34 Starts 35 “Rock of Love” star Michaels 36 Rough spots for teens?

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38 Operator of weather.gov 39 It gets depressed on the road 40 Fellas 41 Jeté, e.g.

42 Beach toy 43 Key above “~” 44 Work as a metropolitan traffic engineer?

46 Not overly optimistic types 48 Works of Dalí, e.g.

49 Word before flush or pain 50 “Take me ___ am” 51 Reputation 55 Works as a metropolitan reclaimant?

59 Item with a bore and a bell 60 Cuckoo 61 Least likely to harm 62 Things get crazy when all of them are off 63 Lhasa ___ (dog) 64 Actress Milano of “Charmed

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1 Org. to take your beefs to?

2 1950’s “The Asphalt Jungle,” for one 3 Check out 4 Zeal 5 Taylor of fashion 6 Nala, but not Simba 7 Morning coffee, for many 8 Yellow belly?

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• The Asheville Area Arts Council’s Refinery Creative Space, 207 Coxe Ave., hosts opening receptions for two exhibitions. Reflections: Exploring Inspiration, in the Thom Robinson and Ray Griffin Exhibition Space, features artists from the N.C. Glass Center. Also opening is Community Cloth, curated by nonprofit art organization Local Cloth.

This exhibition combines craft with community service in an interactive display. Visitors are invited to learn about and contribute to the creation of scarves, gloves and hats to be donated to a local homeless shelter.

Friday, Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. An additional artist talk is scheduled for Reflections on the same day at 6:30 p.m. ashevillearts.com

American Craft Week is gearing up for its ninth annual celebration, held Friday, Oct. 5-Sunday, Oct. 14. During this nationally celebrated event, studios and galleries throughout the country open their doors to shine a spotlight on handmade craft in all its forms. North Carolina is one of the most active states, thanks, in large part, to the enthusiastic participation of art venues throughout Western North Carolina.

Throughout the mountain region, American Craft Week jump-starts a busy month of gallery visits from locals and tourists alike, along with special exhibits, demonstrations, showcases and workshops. Because this year’s American Craft Week coincides with the final month of Asheville’s Summer of Glass, participants can experience associated exhibitions alongside new exhibitions and special events, many of which are completely free.

Events take place in Asheville unless otherwise noted. Learn more at americancraftweek.com/wnc.

• Ceramic artist Robert Milnes explores abstraction, symbolism and cognition through functional objects and sculptural work. View Milnes’ work and register to win a piece of art at Arbitrary Forms Studio, 10-A Meadowview Road.

• Asheville Art in the Park is an outdoor art market, held at Pack Square Park, 80 Court Plaza, featuring handcrafted work from artists across a range of mediums. Saturdays, Oct. 6, 13 and 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ashevilleartinthepark.com

FORM AND FUNCTION: Demonstrations, festivals, musical accompaniment and tasty nibbles aside, Craft Week comes down to handmade work by skilled artists across the region. At his Arbitrary Forms Studio, Robert Milnes explores abstraction, symbolism and cognition in pieces such as this lidded container titled “We must pass over in silence.” Photo courtesy of Milnes

• Catch a demonstration on bookbinding and paper-marbling from artist Mary Carol Koester during Azalea Bindery’s open studio day on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 10 a.m.-

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COLLABORATION: At the Byers McCurry Studio, Holden McCurry and Ed Byers have been teaming up since 2003 to create ceramic and mixed media works — such as “3 Prayer Towers,” pictured here. Photo courtesy of Byers McCurry Studio 4 p.m. The studio is located at 1 Brookgreen Place. azaleabindery.com • Auburn University graduates Holden McCurry and Ed Byers have been teaming up to create ceramic and mixed-media works since 2003. At the Byers McCurry Studio & Gallery, 21 Woodbury Road, visitors can observe the duo’s collaborative process and visit the adjacent gallery to view completed works. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 9 and 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. byersmccurrystudio.com

• The show North Carolina and the Studio Glass Movement continues at N.C. Glass Center, 140 Roberts St. This exhibition features a historical look at the Studio Glass Movement, connecting its regional influences throughout WNC. It remains on view throughout October with studio hours Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.5 p.m. ncglasscenter.org • Artists demonstrate their chosen mediums at Yummy Mud Puddle

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American Craft Week Studios, 264 Clear View Lane, Burnsville. There, John D. Richards creates mixed-media sculpture and jewelry, while Claudia Dunaway showcases woodblock printing. Visit Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

• The Little Mountain Festival, now in its 43rd year, continues its tradition of community and craft on Saturday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the studios of Tyson Graham Pottery, 6148 Peniel Road, Tryon.

Graham holds a kiln opening at 11 a.m., followed by a pottery sale.

Other featured artists include luthier and WNCW “Celtic Winds” host Richard Beard, who will showcase a variety of his handmade stringed instruments. Saluda-based musician and painter Hannah Seng will offer prints and paintings for sale, and live music will be performed throughout the day. tysongrahampottery.com

GO BIG AND THROW BIG: Among other happenings, The Village Potters offers a Multi-Kiln Opening Extravaganza where visitors can “watch master potters throw big.” Photo courtesy of The Village Potters

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• The 12th Annual Spruce Pine Potters Market, 31 Cross St., Spruce Pine, is an invitational event showcasing the work of 30 prominent ceramic artists working in Yancey and Mitchell counties. A raffle to benefit the Fund for Mitchell County

ALL ARTS CONSIDERED: Mountain Made Gallery in the Grove Arcade hosts glass artists, quilters, authors and others during American Craft Week. Artwork by Alberta Blazina, photo courtesy of Mountain Made Gallery features work from participating artists Cristina Córdova, Terry Gess, Ron Slagle and Bandana Pottery (Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt). It takes place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. sprucepinepottersmarket.com • Firefly Craft Gallery, 2689-D Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, represents dozens of local artists creating folk, contemporary and fine craft. On Saturdays, Oct. 6 and Oct. 13, noon-4 p.m., the gallery hosts artist demonstrations of fiber art, stained glass, woodcarving and more. fireflycraftgallery.com • The Horse: Passion and Fire showcases equine-themed oil paintings by Jenny Buckner and horsehair raku and sculpture from Judi Harwood in The Village Potters, 191 Lyman St., No. 180. The gallery is open Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and the studio’s annual Multi-Kiln Opening Extravaganza invites visitors to “watch master potters throw big”

as they carve, shape and fire unique pieces on Saturday, Oct. 13, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. thevillagepotters.com • The Artists@Work Studio and Gallery, 51 W. Main St., Brevard, presents demonstrations by painter Cathryn Cooper and ceramist Lucy Clark WednesdaySaturday, Oct. 10-13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. lucyclarkpottery.com • Grovewood Gallery, 111 Grovewood Road, offers multiple events in conjunction with American Craft Week.

Animal Attraction displays animalthemed works by 14 artists. There will be demonstrations by metalsmith Audrey Laine Sawyer and needlefelting artist Karen Kennedy Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6; wetfelting artist Kendall White Friday, Oct. 12; and plein air painter Shawn Krueger Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12 and 13. Gallery hours are Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5:30

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• Wine Down the Week at Mica Gallery, 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, offers wine, small bites and fine craft from Toe River Valley artists. Friday, Oct. 12, 3-6 p.m. micagallerync.com

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• On view at The Gallery at Flat Rock, 2702-A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, is The Artful Table, displaying creative table-dressing ideas and decor from gallery artisans. Visit the show TuesdaySunday, Oct. 9-14. Gallery hours are Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. galleryflatrock.com

ON THE TABLE: The Gallery at Flat Rock will present The Artful Table, “with beautiful crafts from the gallery showcased on dining tables and side tables to give people ideas of how to display” the art, according to organizers. Pictured, artist Holland Van Gores works on ceramic offerings. Photo courtesy of The Gallery at Flat Rock • Mountain Made Gallery, 1 Page Ave., No. 123, showcases work by glass artists Jason Probstein, Terri Sigler, Sharon McCollum, Linda Bellino and Alberta Blazina.

Additionally, the gallery hosts quilter Julie Bagamary on Saturday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., and authors Ruthie Rosauer (These Trees) and William Stanish (The End of the Curse) on Saturday, Oct. 13, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Gallery hours are MondaysSaturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m, and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. mtnmade.com • The Folk Art Center, at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, presents daily art demonstrations from regional artisans. Featured exhibitions include Forging Ahead, opening Saturday, Oct. 6, with work by the North Carolina Artist Blacksmith Association. Also, Naturally Gifted continues to be on view through Tuesday, Nov. 6, with work from Karen Collis in cornshuckery, Laura Gaskin in embroidery, Margie and Lonnie Johnson in clay, and Bill and Tina Collison in wood. Open daily, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. southernhighlandguild.org

• Arrowhead Gallery and Studios, 78-C Catawba Ave., Old Fort, will host Celebrate McDowell County – 175 years, a show of work by McDowell County high school students, and, on Saturday, Oct. 13, artist Raquel Egosi will lead a oneday mixed-media workshop in the gallery’s large classroom. Gallery hours are Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sundays, 1-4 p.m. arrowheadart.org • Southern Highland Craft Guild’s Parkway Craft Center, at milepost 294 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, presents daily art demonstrations from regional artisans. The center is open each day, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. southernhighlandguild.org • Blowing Rock Museum of Art and History, 159 Chestnut St., Blowing Rock, hosts The Maker’s Table on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 6-7 p.m. There, artist Jeffrey Neil will lead the talks Shaker Oval Boxes – Form, Function and Fabrication, and Quilting with Wood. General admission is $5. blowingrockmuseum.org X CRAFT WEEK GUIDE

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FATHER OF STUDIO GLASS: Throughout the 1960s, Harvey Littleton encouraged glass artists to launch studio glass programs across the country. His vision helped lead to the Penland School of Crafts’ first glass studio in 1965. Photo by John Littleton, courtesy of Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum

BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Regional artist Alex Gabriel Bernstein remembers dinner parties at his childhood home in Spruce Pine.

Because his parents were glassblowers with ties to the Penland School of Crafts, guests usually consisted of fellow makers, gallery owners and collectors. On one occasion, Bernstein recalls, Dale Chihuly and Harvey Littleton were among those at the table.

Whether you’re an art connoisseur, neophyte or philistine, there’s a good chance the name Chihuly rings a bell.

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The name Littleton, however, might not be as familiar to those outside the art world. This gap in knowledge has a tinge of irony when you discover that Littleton (who taught Chihuly at the University of Wisconsin at Madison) is considered the “Father of Studio Glass.” He’s also one of the major reasons Western North Carolina continues to be held in high regard by those within the glass world.

“I think of it as a three-legged stool,” explains Bernstein, in discussing the region’s prestige and appeal to glassmakers: “There’s Harvey, Penland School and the natural beauty of the area.”

Candace Reilly, assistant director at Blue Spiral 1, puts it more bluntly.

“Without Harvey Littleton, we wouldn’t be on the map at all,” she says.

PAST AND PRESENT: Michael Manes, left, and Candace Reilly of Blue Spiral 1, note that the gallery’s latest exhibit, Glass Takeover, is both a nod to the medium’s history and an acknowledgment of the region’s current talent. The exhibit runs through Friday, Oct. 26. Photo by Thomas Calder Of course, Littleton’s impact stretches far beyond the mountains of WNC. In 1962, he and glass research scientist Dominick Labino led the country’s first two glassblowing workshops at The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio.

Prior to these courses, glasswork was considered an industrial practice, confined to factories.

“What Harvey did was democratize studio glass,” says Denise Drury Homewood, executive director of the Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum. “He was a huge proponent of sharing that knowledge.”

Throughout the 1960s, Littleton encouraged students to branch out and begin new programs as a way to further spread glasswork across the country.

“A lot of people very much doubted that it could be done, because it was such a contrast to what they were used to,” says Littleton’s biographer, Joan Falconer Byrd. “Harvey himself had to work very hard to publicize what he was doing, and he did a lot of traveling, but he was tireless.”

In 1965, Littleton’s former pupil Bill Boysen built the Penland School of Crafts’ first glass studio. By 1971, Penland students Mark Peiser, Fritz Dreisbach and William Bernstein formed the Glass Art Society. Today, the nonprofit is an international organization that seeks to encourage excellence, advance education and promote the appreciation and development of the glass arts.

Upon his retirement in 1977, Littleton left Wisconsin for Spruce Pine, where several of his colleagues and friends worked and taught. According to Littleton’s son, John, the area’s strong glass art community was a deciding factor in his father’s move. And with

Littleton’s arrival to the area, Spruce Pine’s reputation as a hub for glasswork continued to grow.

Artist Kate Vogel notes that even after Littleton’s death in 2013, the region’s tight-knit community continues to this day. “I definitely think that’s something that sets us apart” from other areas, she says. “We can call up dozens of artists on any subject, from equipment use … to information about certain galleries … and we always have affirmative support.”

Fellow maker and former Penland resident Dean Allison agrees. He has worked with and studied the glass medium throughout the country and across the world, including stints in Australia and England. “The unique thing about Western North Carolina is the community,” he says. “You have this sense of family and togetherness and people who are helping each other out. That’s not found everywhere.”

Part of the region’s bond, notes Michael Manes, gallery director at Blue Spiral 1, lies in the fact that many of the WNC glass artists are second- or third-generation makers. Within the downtown Asheville gallery’s current exhibit, Glass Takeover, three of the featured artists fall into this category: Alex Bernstein, John Littleton and Hayden Wilson. Such a lineage, says Manes, “speaks to the importance of teaching and the handing down of information” within the medium.

Along with their reverence for the past, the area’s glassmakers remain proactive and optimistic about the region’s future role within the larger glass world.

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The studio glass movement is also still quite young, points out Bernstein, who believes new techniques could be discovered. Meanwhile, current methods continue to fascinate those in the field. “Glass is kind of like magic,” Bernstein asserts, noting the wonder that accompanies the transformation of sand particles to works of art.

For Byrd, a similar energy and sense of awe existed in Littleton’s own personality and quest to bring glass to the masses. “He was absolutely passionate about what he did and he was a rebel.

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suppliers and galleries and museums and all that. And it has all happened, absolutely wonderfully.” X

LITTLETON’S LEGACY On Thursday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m.

Joan Falconer Byrd will discuss the life, work and influence of Harvey Littleton at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Arts Center, room 223. The event is part of the WCU Fine Art Museum’s exhibit, Glass Catalyst: Littleton’s Legacy in Contemporary Sculpture, which runs through Friday, Dec. 7. Find more information on both the talk and the exhibit at bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

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Asheville art insiders offer tours connecting crafters and art enthusiasts

BEHIND THE SCENES: Sherry Masters, center, leads a tour to Goldsplinter Woodworking Studio, where Christopher Perryman, right, discusses his projects, from commissioned work to wooden kitchenware. Photo by Jared Kay

BY ABLE ALLEN aallen@mountainx.com Sometimes it takes going away to discover what’s right in your backyard. At least that’s what Sherry Masters says she found when she went to her first big wholesale craft show in Philadelphia as a buyer for Grovewood Gallery in the early 1990s. She expected to have to

explain to everyone where her little town was, she says, but practically every artist she met told her, “I know someone in Asheville” or “I want to move to Asheville.”

That experience opened Masters’ eyes to the special nature of craft art in this region. Nowadays, she’s showing off the unique artists and the heritage of craft arts in the area on Art Connections’ curated craft tours. “People need to experi-

ence Western North Carolina if they have any interest in art and craft because there’s so much here,” Masters says.

And she’s not the only one in town who feels that way. Others are creating tour experiences based on the rich tradition of crafting in Asheville.

The Center for Craft has introduced the monthly Craft City Food and Art Tours with craft enthusiast Anna Helgeson and food writer Stu Helm.

And, through River Arts Districtbased Asheville Art Studio Tours, glass sculptor John Almaguer and his cohorts offer insider glimpses of maker spaces.

“Even though I feel like I was the first one to start doing this in Asheville,” says Masters, “it’s great that there are others; we’re all different.”

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American Craft Week The Food and Art Tours swoop around downtown Asheville on foot from gallery to restaurant to shop to bar, highlighting all things craft, which includes craft beer, farmto-table meals and the art found throughout the city. The only place participants see work in process is Lexington Glassworks, but while experiencing something in the making is one way to relate to craft, says Helgeson, “Perhaps what’s [less] thought of is how we’re surrounded by craft every day.”

The tour was designed by Helgeson and Helm while thinking about Asheville as “craft city” and how broadly that idea can be applied in an authentic way. They visit and talk about potters and fine-food makers; they drink local wine and eat local cheese. And, along the way, they incorporate “craft in surprising places,” such as the sidewalk bricks and railings found as they stroll.

Perhaps even more so than downtown, the RAD is dripping with art.

“I have to give a shout-out to Sherry Masters,” Almaguer says. Masters inspired him by bringing tours to his home studio. He thought to

himself, “What a cool job: You get to ... introduce people to artists.”

Since no one was doing that consistently for the RAD, where tourists struggle to keep their bearings, he saw a real need to be filled.

Almaguer trains his guides to intuit the needs of visitors when it comes to what kind of information they are looking for, be it historical or making connections on art topics. “Our heartbeat is to connect people with art and artists,” Almaguer says. “If we can connect people [to] an intimate, close-up encounter with art that is inspiring to them ... that’s a grand slam, in my book.”

Similarly, one of the goals of Art Connections is to be an accessible link between art lovers and collectors and the high-quality art studios in the region. The excursion is private and intimate in a way that more crowded day tours can’t be, Masters says.

She has built her tours on a foundation of longtime personal connections with local artists, a network that continues to grow. By partnering with a wide range of artists, Masters can offer a variety

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of experiences to those who take her tours. “Emerging artists can certainly talk about their education and why they do what they do,” she explains. “Artists who’ve been at it a really long time have more history to share, so that’s why curating the tours to what people want to know more about works.”

Beyond connecting buyers with sellers, the excursions are meant to teach. Masters says the elements of a good tour are activity in the studio, hearing the artist’s perspective on their craft and seeing work in different stages, along with the necessary equipment. “I’ve been doing a lot of glass tours this year,” she says, “and I’ve been learning a lot myself about the processes in glass. … It’s more than just the glory hole and the furnace that people think of when they think of hot glass. So, it’s been a real education.”

Authenticity in art is what Asheville’s craft tours seek to provide. That comes down to creativity with a commitment to process and materials, says Helgeson, “no matter what new name we come up with to call the city.”

She adds, “Brew City, Foodtopia — I think at the root of all of those things is really craft.” X

TAKE A TOUR • Art Connections offers custom tours by appointment and regular half-day art tours every other Monday, with the final one for the season on Oct. 15. arttoursasheville.com • Asheville Art Studio Tours offers two-hour walking tours every Saturday and by appointment. The group also leads custom walking and experience tours where visitors can try crafting themselves. ashevilleartstudiotours.com • Craft City Food and Art Tours are held every first Saturday of the month, April through December, 3-6 p.m., with some additional tours offered as demand warrants. craftcityavl.com

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Fall festival remains a constant for John C. Campbell Folk School

BY LAUREN STEPP lstepp98@gmail.com In the early days of the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Fall Festival, participants roasted a pig on an open spit. All day and all night, community members David Hyatt and David Gribble would brave the October chill to stoke the coals. Then come supper, mommas and daddies would corral their babies, and an entire town would break bread.

A homespun shindig dedicated to mountain culture, the Fall Festival returns to Brasstown Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7, with food, music, dance and more than 200 artists. Program director Keather Gougler says this will be the Folk School’s 44th year hosting the event, which has become a seasonal staple for locals and visitors alike.

“Our goal is to bring folks from near and far together for a fall celebration of our Southern Appalachian heritage,” says Gougler. “You’d be surprised by the number of out-ofstate license plates in our hayfield parking areas.”

But the Fall Festival has and always will be rooted in distinctively down-home sentiments. In the early 1970s, for instance, the entire festival was in the Open House, a one-room pavilion located next to campus vegetable gardens, and featured a small number of craftspeople showing and demonstrating their work. Those days, local entrepreneur Andy Ward netted enough cash as the only food

CENTER STAGE: In the mountains, no shindig is complete without Appalachian clogging. Fortunately, this year’s Fall Festival features two clogging groups: The Campbell Folk School Cloggers and The Kudzu Kickers. Photo courtesy of the John C. Campbell Folk School vendor that he and his wife used their profits to put money down on land. Then, in 1994, just days before the festival, a tornado tore through town, downing a couple hundred trees and the school sawmill.

“Without putting out a single cry to action, people came with Jeeps, mules, chainsaws and draft horses and helped clear the land,” says Gougler. That same year, pigs escaped from the petting zoo and

were running wild until another group of volunteers caught them.

Above all, the Fall Festival is about camaraderie, says Folk School Executive Director Jerry Jackson.

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“By connecting craftspeople with new audiences, we hope to deepen the understanding of the crafts and cultural heritage of our mountain region, thereby preserving these important traditions,” says Jackson.

This year, more than 200 local and regional artists will be selling products: “Pottery, felting, handspun fiber, quilting, wearables, rugs, plants, topiary, painting, collage, paper, prints, book arts, blacksmithing and sculpture,” Gougler lists, breathlessly.

The fair includes juried and nonjuried sections and demonstrations in forms such as woodcarving and spinning. Guests can also tour the Quilting Exhibit, a display with some 50 quilts made by Folk School instructors, and the Visual Arts Exhibit, which includes works by local painting, drawing, photography and mixed-media instructors on the main level of Davidson Hall.

And if there’s still time left over, guests can learn more about the school’s adult programs by touring the campus’ art studios.

Of course, the weekend will be anchored by continuous tunes — “We’ve always had music,” says Gougler — with old-time, bluegrass, folk and gospel from North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.

The entertainment will be spread across two on-site venues: the Festival Barn and Shady Grove stages. Good vibrations continue offstage as well, with The Jones Brothers in the Community Room of Keith House on Friday, Oct. 5, 7-8 p.m., and a Saturday night contra and square dance with caller Charlotte Crittenden and the band Reelplay, 8-11 p.m.

And then there’s the dancing.

Attendees get a kick out of traditional mountain dancing, with clogging from The Campbell Folk School Cloggers and The Kudzu Kickers,

and Morris dancing by the Brasstown Morris Dancers. Though most are acquainted with Appalachian clogging, a form stylized by the performer’s loose, bent knees, fewer are accustomed to Morris dancing. An English folk custom dating back to at least the mid-15th century, this form involves rhythmic stepping and props such as swords and sticks, and is set to fiddling. Both forms are well-liked by onlookers, though clogging might win in popularity.

Jackson expects this year’s shindig to be a success, attracting 15,000 guests and encouraging cultural preservation.

“Traditionally, our Fall Festival is a time for celebrating our Appalachian heritage with our vibrant community of locals, students, staff and visitors,” he says.

“It’s an opportunity for artists to share Appalachian craft traditions with people who come from all over the Southeast.”

It’s also an opportunity to feast on burgers, hot dogs, kettle corn, fried apple pies and baked treats.

There’s still barbecue, too, though these days, the Folk School dining hall staff forgoes an open spit. X

SATURDAY OCTOBER 6TH ∙ 2018 10 AM - 5 PM

RABUN CO. CIVIC CENTER CLAYTON GEORGIA

Straight from the pages of The Foxfire WHAT John C. Campbell Folk School Fall Festival WHERE John C. Campbell Folk School 1 Folk School Road Brasstown folkschool.org WHEN Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5 for adults/ $3 for children ages 12-17/ free for children younger than 12

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Magazine & The Foxfire Book series, heritage demonstrations, folk art and craft vendors, local food specialties, kid games, live music, and more in celebration of Southern Appalachian culture.

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