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Locked out at Duke rate public hearing I am puzzled and perplexed by what happened at the public hearing on Duke Energy’s rate hike request before the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission on Sept. 27. The meeting took place at the Buncombe County Courthouse, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Beforehand, activists were outside on the plaza, peacefully demonstrating with signs and speakers. A little before 7 p.m., a stream of people entered the hearing room, and the meeting began. It was a good turnout, but the room was not full.

There was plenty of extra seating.

Several hours later, well into the hearing, one of the people testifying stated that the outside doors had been locked at 7 p.m., and people showing up later were not allowed to enter. That was news to us.

When the hearing ended at 10:45 p.m., after more than 40 speakers had finished testifying (all speaking against the 16 percent rate hike), another person and myself asked the police why people were not allowed in after 7. They said the meeting room was full; the fire marshal’s limit was 180. This was puzzling, as I doubted 180 were in the room. There was still plenty of seating, and I have been to a hearing in that courtroom before where every seat was taken and people were standing, lined up along the walls and crowded in the back.

So I asked a Public Utilities staffer if there was such a fire marshal limit, why not hold the public hearing in a larger

venue? The reason given was that the courthouse was where they could have adequate security.

Then I spoke with City Council member Julie Mayfield, who stated that she was locked out and was escorted in only after she texted Jason Walls of Duke Energy, who was in the hearing, and asked to be let in.

I left the building puzzled. In all the public meetings I have attended, I have never been turned away for coming in late, and in the instances where the room was full, people were at least allowed into the building or into a room with a video feed. So the question: Who ordered the police to keep people out after the meeting started? Why was the public kept out of a public meeting?

Follow-up led to the conclusion that it was the Buncombe County sheriff who made the decision to close the building to latecomers. Was this directive legal, keeping the public out of a public meeting at a county building? From now on, let’s be vigilant. Let’s make sure our public officials keep public meetings open to the public.

— Carol Stangler

Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office last week for a response to the letter, but Sheriff Van Duncan did not reply by press time. Also, Xpress’ news department was still awaiting information from the Sheriff’s Office about how it handled public access to the meeting.

See the Sept. 28 online post “WNC Residents Rail Against Duke Rate Hike” (avl.mx/45t).

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Stop threats against local sustainability school

Separate cyclists and pedestrians on greenways

Offer input on Community Bill of Rights

Unfortunately, the horror has begun again. The vegans have raised their battle flags against Wild Abundance, Asheville’s local permaculture, natural-building and primitive-skills school. The abusive nightmare that we survived last fall with our newborn has returned with even more “fire and fury” [See “Let Live Coalition Vs. Wild Abundance: Vegan Activists Rally Against a Local Permaculture School,” Xpress online post, Nov. 23, 2016].

While on vacation on Oct. 11, we answered the phone to an aggressive middle-aged voice, “Hello you f***ing beast. You need your throat slit, don’t you, you and all your hippie friends.” That was followed by several calls of people asking if they could hire us for assassination attempts. In case you are wondering, Wild Abundance doesn’t have a relationship to Dick Cheney, Blackwater or any other privatized mercenary armies.

I am not going to list here all the profane, offensive and hateful name-calling that we experience through email and phone calls daily. Most of it is simply immature and annoying. Although it is scary when we answer phone calls in the middle of the night and hear nothing but creepy breathing noises. And it is disturbing and heartbreaking when people wish we get cancer or harmful diseases upon our 1-year-old. This must stop. Really. Please.

Food ethics is extremely complicated.

There are so many choices and many unintended consequences of living on an overpopulated planet full of destructive industrial food practices. I am not interested in debating all the complexities of food ethics here. We believe people are going to eat meat, and it can be a sacred process. Omnivores deserve to have the opportunity to learn empowering DIY skills and experience a prayerful ritual context of how to take animal (and plant) life.

Just like last year, the class will go on.

We will not succumb to bullying.

If you are a responsible, mature vegan, please consider focusing your energy toward obvious targets like factory farms and try calming down your more aggressive friends who might be harassing and threatening us.

If you are a local foodie, farmer, homesteader, or caring and proud citizen of WNC, please consider showing your support for Wild Abundance. We will be hosting a positive, empathic and educational counterprotest at the Vance Monument on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m., in response to a series of public demonstrations against us.

— Frank Salzano

Wild Abundance

Cyclists and people unhappy with them have written to the press recently.

Their presence on the roads and hiking trails, along with motorists and hikers, has been discussed. I hate to pile further on them, having much enjoyed cycling myself in the past, but I must add a concern about greenways.

In part because October is the month designated for Audiology Awareness, I write on behalf of the many people who love to walk and are pleased to see greenways developing, but who fear they won’t be able to use those wonderful places.

That’s because pedestrians so often get lumped together with cyclists for such healthy alternatives to roadways.

They need to be clearly separated. If not, pedestrians with hearing that is not acute become accidents waiting to happen. And, thanks to noise on the battlefield and even in the everyday environment, the numbers of people, both young and old, with hearing loss in our community is increasing.

If you can’t hear the sound of someone approaching behind you on a bicycle, and maybe can’t even hear them shout out or hear the bell the more conscientious of them may be using, you can’t step aside to make way for them.

People with hearing loss often don’t fill their side of the bargain by using assistive technology. Yet that technology, which isn’t perfect, improves all the time. Hearing aids and cochlear implants make a big difference in relationships and general functioning.

On Saturday, Oct. 21, at 10:15 a.m., at the meeting of the Asheville Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America at CarePartners, Tracie Rice, audiologist at Western Carolina University, will talk about new developments in hearing aid technology. She will also be offering tips about communication when one partner has a hearing loss, and telling us something about her roles in the clinic and department at WCU. But no current technology removes the risk in putting pedestrians with hearing loss and cyclists on the same path. So, please, planners of greenways, take that into account. Don’t make what is pleasurable and healthy a cause of possibly severe problems. Neither cyclists nor pedestrians want to experience avoidable collisions.

— Ann Karson

Candler Editor’s note: Karson is chairperson of the Asheville Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America. She can be reached at 828-665-8699 or akarson57@ gmail.com.

Who decides: people or corporations?

When it comes to protecting our land, air and water, the people of Asheville need a law that guarantees our rights.

Members of Community Roots (www. cmroots.com), with legal help, have drafted an ordinance, and your comments are sought. Please attend one of these public comment sessions [all in Asheville]: • Monday, Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m., Kenilworth Center, 4 Chiles Ave. • Friday, Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m., Jubilee!

Community (enter at 101 Patton Ave.).

• Wednesday, Nov. 8, 6-8 p.m., Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center Community Room, 133 Livingston St. — Cathy Holt Asheville

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How can Asheville prepare for nuclear war?

I agree with John Penley’s letter, “Asheville Should be Prepared for War,” in the Oct. 4 edition [Xpress]. We are in a very dangerous situation vis-a-vis North Korea (and possibly Iran), and Trump seems to want to make it even more so.

The question that arises for me is: How could we, as a local community “prepare for war”? What actions can city government take that would serve to protect the citizens? The U.S and North Korea are saber rattling with nuclear weapons.

A nuclear war is virtually impossible to imagine, as the consequences would be so devastating, possibly leading to the end of human civilization.

In the ‘50s and early ‘60s, during the height of the nuclear arms race, some people built fallout shelters in their backyards, and some buildings in virtually every city had the yellow and black radiation symbol that indicated that it had a shelter in the basement. As a child in elementary school, I participated in “duck and cover” drills (like hiding under my desk would protect me from a nuclear blast!).

Perhaps this is a conversation our city should have, as the unthinkable may actually occur. Just as we should start conversing about the possibility of many climate refugees moving to the mountains, just as we talk about our resilience to mitigate climate change locally, perhaps we should include nuclear war in the mix. Noam Chomsky has stated that climate change and nuclear war are the two existential threats to human civilization that we must face and address. Are we up to the challenge?

— Anne Craig

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ROAD WARRIORS

BY DAN HESSE

Traffic-study triggers

dhesse@mountainx.com In 1985, Doc Brown famously told Marty McFly: “Where we are going we don’t need roads.” Well, that proclamation about the state of infrastructure in a hypothetical 2015 turned out to be as fictitious as the Back to the Future character who voiced it.

Roads are still very much with us and, to hear most Buncombe County residents tell it, we need more rather than fewer to manage the traffic generated by a growing population.

Census data for Buncombe County show the population grew by 17,736 people, or by 7 percent, from 2010 to 2016. Nearly all of those new residents moved here from elsewhere, bringing with them a full complement of housing, employment and shopping needs — and the vehicle traffic that comes with them.

As residents struggle with lengthening commutes and worry about the safety implications of increased traffic volumes on once-quiet side streets, figuring out where to turn for help can be time-consuming and frustrating. While the North Carolina Department of Transportation controls 70 percent of Buncombe County’s roads, six municipalities also play a role in solving the traffic puzzle.

BOTTLENECKING As new housing developments continue to proliferate throughout the county, increased traffic has some residents experiencing road rage and speaking out about infrastructure they see as overburdened. At Buncombe County Board of Adjustment meetings, for example, frustration about potential congestion often emerges when new projects come up for consideration.

Residents frequently pack the forums, begging for relief in the form of roadway improvements.

Several sizable apartment projects were among those approved this year by the Board of Adjustment, including complexes of 472 units on Long Shoals Road, 255 units off Brevard Road, 214 units off Charlotte Highway and 232 units in the Chunns Cove area. The public hearings for each of those projects featured residents asking for help managing the traffic impact of the new units.

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Asheville

A development must have the potential to create 100 trips in a peak hour between 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m.

Biltmore Forest

Biltmore Forest Board of Adjustment

Black Mountain

Depends on NCDOT to make the call

Montreat NCDOT

Weaverville Woodfin

(Did not respond) Automatic if a development is a subdivision with 300 or more single-family homes; 300-unit apartment complex; 350-room hotel; 55,000 square feet of retail space; 250,000-square-foot office building; or 400,000-square-foot industrial area.

Conducts Annual Street Assessment with air counter systems, but full traffic studies are only initiated if a development connects to an existing NCDOT road or is requested by Town Council Town staff or Woodfin Board of Adjustment. Additionally, citizens can lobby the Woodfin Board of Aldermen

STUDY SESSIONS: Buncombe County residents frequently cite increased traffic as a reason they oppose development and often ask for traffic studies to obtain data about the volume of traffic in a particular area. Above are the ways traffic studies are initiated.

Graphic by Scott Southwick But board members generally tell citizens the fix is out of their hands.

Roads that lie within Buncombe County’s borders but outside of its six municipalities — Asheville, Biltmore Forest, Black Mountain, Montreat, Weaverville and Woodfin — are the responsibility of NCDOT Division 13. The agency also takes care of roads in Burke, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford and Yancey counties.

To get a driveway permit, new development along county roadways must meet NCDOT criteria. Mark Gibbs, Division 13’s maintenance engineer, says his office monitors new construction. “When a commercial, residential or industrial development is proposed, the [NCDOT] evaluates the impact on traffic and the need for road improvements at the access point and requires improvements as appropriate,” he explains.

Development projects likely to generate more than 3,000 vehicle trips per day must also undergo a traffic study, Gibbs explains. According to the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ website, a traffic study involves collecting and analyzing data to address a transportation problem or potential problem.

Project sizes that automatically trigger an NCDOT-required traffic study include: a subdivision with 300 or more single-family homes; 300-unit apartment complex; 350-room hotel; 55,000 square feet of retail space; 250,000-square-foot office building; or 400,000-square-foot industrial area. Depending on the results of the studies, Gibbs says, the NCDOT might require traffic mitigation efforts, which can include “left and right turn lane requirements, signalization and other possible improvements for very large developments.”

“To call it a traffic problem is a stretch because that connotes movement. People spend more time sitting than moving. From everything we are hearing, the correction from the DOT is years out.”

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— Asheville resident Jonathan Guest, discussing Brevard Road at the Oct. 10 meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment

The NCDOT can’t require a traffic study on a road maintained by a municipality. The county’s six municipalities have varying standards for conducting a traffic study. (See sidebar, “Traffic-study triggers”) After simmering discontent with traffic congestion in South Asheville reached the boiling point last year in the face of a proposed 272-unit apartment complex at Sweeten Creek and Mills Gap roads, community members asked the NCDOT to expedite plans for widening Sweeten Creek. Residents hoped to ease the gridlock they now experience during peak morning and afternoon travel times before the new complex generates even more traffic. But the answer was no.

“Projects such as Sweeten Creek Road are prioritized and funded as required by state law. This is a datadriven approach based upon factors such as safety, congestion, benefit, cost, etc., while allowing for local input,” says Ricky Tipton, Division 13’s construction engineer. “Since we use a data-driven approach to prioritize projects, we cannot just change the schedule.”

The NCDOT’s approach doesn’t make predictions about where traffic issues are likely to develop, Tipton explains. “This approach is geared more toward solving current deficiencies than trying to predict where problems may arise in the future,” he says. “Given our predicted needs, it is not likely that we will be able to invest in transportation based solely on predicted growth unless there is an existing deficiency.”

A CALMING EFFECT Frustrated commuters fed up with congestion often search for alternate routes to hasten the drive. But shortcuts aimed at shaving time off a commute can increase traffic volume and speeding on residential side streets that were never designed for heavy use.

Often people living on such once-placid roads request traffic-calming measures.

The effectiveness of those measures varies, and the results can cause consternation. “I recently had a speed bump installed in our neighborhood. ... It was left unpainted with no warning signs for two weeks. Many people’s cars suffered minor damage. I contacted [the county and city], but never got through to anyone about it,” says

“Nothing is being solved, and we are putting the cart before the horse. I’m going to have a heck of a time getting out of my neighborhood because there is no light.”

— Asheville resident David Seligman concerning Long Shoals Road at the Sept. 13 meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment

Traffic calming Asheville

Speed bumps

Biltmore Forest

Speed bumps • Crosswalks

Black Mountain

Enforcing speed limits • Increased signage

Montreat

(Did not respond)

NCDOT

Speed bumps (may be installed on dead-end roads provided 70 percent of homeowners sign off on the traffic calming)

Weaverville

Speed bumps • Increased signage • Flashing warning signs On-street parking • Enforcing speed limits

Woodfin

Does not offer traffic calming

CALMING THE STORM: Traffic calming is implemented in different ways depending on the municipality administering it. Meanwhile, Woodfin opts for more law enforcement rather than traffic-calming measures. Graphic by Scott Southwick

“I’m a mother of four boys, and the thought of them turning left out of our subdivision is a terrifying thought.”

— Fairview resident Ann-Patton Hornthal discussing traffic on Charlotte Highway at the Sept. 13 meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment Woodfin resident Joseph Crowe. He’s also skeptical of some of the town’s other efforts, noting, “There are plenty of signs saying ‘Drive slow, children at play’ but no one thinks twice about them.”

Jason Young, administrator for the town of Woodfin, says traffic calming is an evolving process. “The town has, in the past, pursued avenues for traffic calming by installing signs and enforcing speed limits on public roads. And by encouraging, where appropriate, onstreet parking as a cost-effective means of traffic calming. Recently, the town has adopted flashing warning signs at certain specific spots and has initiated a pilot project with speed bumps,” he says, adding that the town plans to study the effectiveness of the newer initiatives.

Meantime, Biltmore Forest Town Manager Jonathan Kanipe says he considers speed bumps installed on three roads a success. A crosswalk on Stuyvesant Road near the Biltmore

Forest Country Club has also proven effective at reducing speeds. “This crosswalk slows traffic considerably and allows safe passage of pedestrians, golf carts and others who are using this section of the road.”

However, not everyone sees installing traffic-calming measures as a best practice. Weaverville Public Works Director Tony Laughter says he believes the measures create unintended consequences. “Several locations nationwide have discovered these calming options briefly slow not only traffic but consume [emergency] responders’ precious seconds in a life-and-death emergency. I do not speak for the area emergency personnel. After being asked to consider the cost and installation of such devices, I did my own research and reached my own conclusion,” he explains.

And, Laughter says, many calming measures seem to encourage short-dis-

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“It desperately needs a traffic light. People regularly risk their lives to turn left into traffic, and at peak commute times there can be a 15-minute wait to turn. We have seen numerous accidents using this road to commute to work.”

Speeding enforcement

— Asheville resident Stacey MacDonagh who reached out to Xpress concerning the intersection of Pearson Bridge Road and Riverside Drive. tance bursts of speed. “I have personally witnessed a drag-race-type acceleration between the calming devices to make up the time lost going over the obstacle — many times exceeding the speed they would have normally traveled in the absence of such device.” (See sidebar “Traffic calming” for more information on traffic-calming measures from the NCDOT and the county’s six municipalities)

determine the prevailing vehicle speeds and a crash study,” Gibbs says.

While Buncombe County is not responsible for road construction and maintenance, the Sheriff’s Department does spend some time enforcing speed limits. “The Sheriff’s Office typically conducts speeding campaigns as part of our Community Oriented Problem Solving (COPS) teams, particularly if the community which the team is assigned has listed speeding as an issue,” says Natalie Bailey, spokesperson for the department. However, questions about how citizens can request such speeding enforcement campaigns went unanswered. The Sheriff’s Department also partners with the Asheville Police Department on the DWI Task Force.

The N.C. Highway Patrol rolls out numerous safety campaigns throughout the year, with speeding a component of all of them. “Speeding is among the many violations we focus on to reduce collisions, as excessive speed is the leading cause of traffic fatalities statewide,” says Sgt. Michael Baker, spokesperson for the N.C. Highway Patrol. Beyond statewide campaigns, he says, local leadership may choose to emphasize specific priorities such as speed enforcement.

Baker adds that if you live or drive in an area that could benefit from

SLOW YOUR ROLL Where congestion isn’t an issue, speeding often is. Many county residents see their roads menaced by tardy commuters angling to make up for lost minutes. Signs urging drivers to “Slow down, Asheville” and “Drive like your kids play here” testify to the need for speed and the difficulties facing those who hope to control it.

All speed limits in Buncombe County are set by the NCDOT. Gibbs explains that the statutory speed limit for rural areas is 55 mph, while the limit in incorporated municipalities is 35 mph. “Nonstatutory speed limits are determined by traffic engineering studies, which include a field review of the development and characteristics of the road, a traffic count to verify the amount of traffic traveling on the road, a speed study to

Asheville

Traffic Safety Unit (General monitoring • Targets areas based on complaints)

Biltmore Forest

Daily monitoring • Officers are “highly visible” Speed awareness trailer

Black Mountain

Daily monitoring

Buncombe County Montreat

Speeding campaigns • Partners with APD on DWI Task Force Daily monitoring • Decoy police vehicle Speed measuring sign

NC Highway Patrol

Speeding campaigns

Weaverville

Daily monitoring

Woodfin

(Did not respond)

PUMP THE BRAKES: Xpress reached out to the NCDOT and Buncombe County’s six municipalities to gather information about speeding enforcement, traffic calming and traffic studies. Above are the ways law enforcement agencies monitor speeding across the county. Graphic by Scott Southwick speed enforcement, you can contact the N.C. Highway Patrol to request such an effort. (See sidebar “Speeding enforcement” for more on enforcement and awareness campaigns) MEAN STREETS Gwen Wisler, Asheville’s vice mayor, is an appointed member of the board of the French Broad River Metropolitan

BUNCOMBE COUNTY ROADS BY THE NUMBERS Asheville

Biltmore Forest

Black Mountain

Montreat

NCDOT

Weaverville

Woodfin

Miles of Road

405

22

43.5

Info not provided

1,247

19.1

37

Road/Sidewalk budget

$6,700,000

$276,000

$293,000

Info not provided

$7,700,000*

$400,000

$425,000

Dollar per mile average

$16,543

$12,545

$6,735

n/a

$6,174

$20,942

$11,486

Xpress reached out to the NCDOT and Buncombe County’s six municipalities to find out how many miles of road fall under each jurisdiction and how much money goes toward maintenance and construction projects. *Amount for Buncombe County maintenance in fiscal year 2017

TRAFFIC SAFETY BY THE NUMBERS Asheville

Biltmore Forest

Black Mountain

Montreat

NCDOT

Weaverville

Woodfin

Citations issued

2,198

15

1,031

Info not provided

10,047

57

Info not provided

Warnings issued

330

Info not provided

Info not provided

459 traffic stops*

2,663

257

Info not provided

Collisions

8,291

31

272

16

3,216

237

Info not provided

Xpress reached out the the N.C. Highway Patrol and Buncombe County’s six municipalities to gather data on the number of collisions, tickets issued and warnings given.

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Planning Organization, which helps coordinate transportation planning among local and state government and federal agencies. According to its website, the FBRMPO includes representatives from Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania counties, as well as a number of municipalities in those counties. The board also serves as a forum for public input.

Wisler notes that elected officials are aware of public concerns over traffic hot spots. “Working on the MPO, you start to get familiar with how the NCDOT works. Thinking about traffic, understanding a little more about how they go about prioritizing projects,” she says. “I don’t know that they are proactive, in the sense that they are trying to predict where development is going to be in the future and therefore build out infrastructure. I think they kind of wait until the development is there, and then the neighborhoods think it’s too late.”

However, she urges those advocating for traffic mitigation efforts to fight on. “Don’t give up on the NCDOT. They are getting better and better at listening. ... Do they always do something about it? Not necessarily. But what I would encourage the readers to do is weigh in,” she advises. “Go to these public meetings. They do listen and they are required to listen.” X

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SACRED MOUND, COMMON GROUND Cherokee conference celebrates power of place inhabited as early as 8000 B.C. The town was razed by the Rutherford expedition in 1776 and fell completely out of Cherokee hands by 1820. For decades, farmers grew corn over the ancient village.

T.J. Holland, cultural resources officer for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians — the descendants of those who survived the government’s purge — noted that during his boyhood, the cornfield atop Kituwah was merely a place people drove by. He was with other Cherokee children one day when a woman pointed to the waving tassels and said, “Kids, this is your place — you remember that this is yours.”

In 1996, the ECBI purchased the land back. Immediately, the

CONTINUES ON PAGE 12 DEEP ROOTS: Onita Bush, an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal elder, speaks at the eighth annual Rooted in the Mountains conference at Western Carolina University in September. Photo courtesy of WCU In a field on the outskirts of Cherokee stands a nondescript mound about 6 feet high, covered in grass and flanked by woods and mountains. Though it appears to be little more than a rise in the land, it is a sacred site for the native people of the Carolina mountains: Kituwah, the Cherokee “mother town” and the epicenter of that tribe’s cosmology.

Here, several dozen people — locals and academics, scientists and students, native and non-native — gathered in late September for Rooted in the Mountains: Valuing our Common Ground, an annual conference where traditional knowledge and Western environmentalism meet.

“This is the heart of the Cherokee world,” Tom Belt, a citizen of Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation and a Cherokee language instructor at Western Carolina University, told the assembled crowd. “All of our stories began here, where we began as people.”

Over two days, Rooted in the Mountains posited that place plays a key role in spiritual, ecological

and physical well-being. Places are not just empty landscapes; they hold people, stories and vibrant ecosystems and give rise to cultural traditions. Honoring places, then, connects individuals with the life around them. It allows them to find their roots.

During lectures at WCU as part of the conference, the Cherokee concept of “duyuk’ dv’ I” took center stage. It means, literally, “the right way,” and encourages putting oneself on the path toward wholeness.

Participants examined traditional health practices, cultural revitalization and the role of Western institutions in both hindering and aiding native nations.

The symposium, now in its eighth year, was born out of conversations between people of differing Appalachian traditions.

“My mother and my brother were mountain people,” says conference organizer Lisa Lefler, founder of the Center for Native Health, a nonprofit based in Dillsboro. “They loved the mountains; the mountains allowed them to survive through

their childhood into adulthood. My mother used to talk with Tom Belt … for hours about the mountains.”

After her mother died, Lefler knew that conversations with the Cherokee could not end. “We wanted to continue,” she says.

HOLDING SACRED SPACE “Place is integral to humankind,” said Belt as he stood before Kituwah.

“Just as we revere the beginning of life, so also we revere this place.”

Belt grew up in an Oklahoma community that frequently made mention of an ancestral homeland in Southern Appalachia, though few had returned since the forced removal of the Cherokee in 1838.

Once, when a teacher asked where he was from, young Belt replied, “North Carolina.” Elders venerated Kituwah, but back in North Carolina, the mound had been all but forgotten.

Kituwah, which means “the dirt belonging to the Creator,” served for centuries as the central village of the Cherokee and may have been

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“This is the largest archaeological complex in Western North Carolina,” said Brett Riggs, head archaeologist on the project and Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at WCU. The council house once stood 60 feet in diameter and served as the central location for Cherokee ritual. In its hearth burned the “eternal flame” given to the Cherokee by their creator. When Riggs’ team found evidence of charcoal in the mound, many tribal members intuited that the flame, though buried, had never altogether died.

The story of Kituwah is the story of a nation much restored by rediscovering its sacred ground. “We are of this place,” said Holland, “and we are still in it.”

FIRE OF THE PAST: A recent conference on the intersection of native and Western knowledge featured a trip to Kituwah, outside Cherokee, site of an ancient mound, where a Cherokee council house once stood that held the tribe’s “eternal flame” in its hearth.

Photo by Gabriel Dunsmith REBIRTH OF TRADITION At WCU, Belt opened the conference with a Cherokee prayer, welcoming museum curators, Cherokee veterans, federal epidemiologists, local nurses and tribal elders alike into the space. Native ceremony and Western science — often regarded as diametrically opposed — complemented one another at the symposium, as several speakers incorporated both disciplines. WCU seemed a fitting locale, as the campus was once the site of Two Sparrows Town, a Cherokee village, and thus the university could be seen as the newest iteration in a long lineage of educational institutions, according to Riggs.

Keynote speaker Joe Gone, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and a member of Montana’s Gros Ventre nation, argued that traditional knowledge plays a key role in mental health on his home reservation. As with many native groups, the Gros Ventre suffer high rates of alcohol and drug abuse, he said, but those who recover often assert, “Our culture is our treatment.” Tapping into old ceremonies, Gone found, allowed tribal members to take control of their own lives amid their hardships.

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UNEARTHING THE FUTURE: Archaeologist and WCU professor Brett Riggs talks about excavations at the Kituwah Mound, a site designated as sacred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Photo by Gabriel Dunsmith Kevin Jackson, a member of the ECBI, augmented Gone’s thesis with personal experience. He said he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder upon returning from military service in 2006 and soon turned to drinking. Jackson was raised alienated from his ancestors’ traditions, but it was only when he committed to “tohi” — the Cherokee concept of health — that he was able to rebuild his life. True medicine, he asserted, was not the pills that the Department of Veterans Affairs gave him, but a reaffirmed belonging in his wider Cherokee family. Today, two of his children are in a Cherokee language immersion school and tapping back into their heritage. “I’m living proof that this works,” Jackson said.

Far from rejecting Western tradition, Rooted in the Mountains offered ways in which native and non-native practices can integrate and nourish one another. Symma Finn, a medical anthropologist with the National Institutes of Health, noted that traditional knowledge is

just as scientific as academic study: Both are based in observation and evidence but simply stem from different viewpoints. While Onita Bush, a Cherokee elder, shared her firsthand knowledge of plant lore and herbalism, Gwyneira Isaac with the Smithsonian Institution claimed that museums can play a vital role for indigenous nations by carefully tending to collections of sacred objects that have long been stowed away and out of sight.

As much as it was an ideological crossroads, Rooted in the Mountains also spurred personal discovery: finding one’s own path, regardless of upbringing, and tending deeply to heritage and place.

With intention and care, traditions at the verge of collapse can come back to life.

“According to traditional views, in order to heal, you have to go home again,” says Lefler, the conference founder. “You have to go to the place that makes you whole.” X

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When a longtime member of Nazareth First Missionary Baptist Church gets together with the congregation’s longserving pastor to discuss the institution’s 150th anniversary this year, the conversation takes a distinctly nostalgic tone.

In Asheville’s historically AfricanAmerican East End neighborhood during the 1950s, “You knew everyone who belonged to Nazareth, you knew everyone who belonged to Mount Zion,” recalls the Rev. Dr. Charles R. Mosley Sr. “They were the two dominant congregations.” On Sunday mornings, he says, the whole community took to the streets, walking to the different houses of worship.

But in the wake of urban renewal in the 1960s and the more recent threat of gentrification, he continues, “I don’t know of any congregants in the neighborhood now.”

Mosley, who moved to Asheville during middle school and graduated from

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Stephens-Lee High School, has led the church for 43 years. “I had no idea I would be here this long,” he says.

These days, Nazareth Baptist’s 50 or 60 remaining members drive from other communities around Asheville to attend services and activities. The imposing brick structure topped with a tall copper-clad steeple still resounds with traditional hymns every Sunday morning, but an aging membership and an influx of new residents to the neighborhood point to an uncertain future.

On Friday, Oct. 20, the church will celebrate its 150th anniversary with a banquet that’s already sold out. The keynote address will be delivered by Asheville native James Ferguson, a notable civil rights attorney who now lives in Charlotte. On Sunday, Nov. 12, the church will welcome the public to morning and afternoon services to mark the milestone.

LEGACY OF SLAVERY “It started with Miss Mary Patton, who was a white lady,” explains church member Pat Griffin. “It was she and her father that took an interest in the black community. He was ... Captain Tom Patton.”

Mary Patton’s Sunday School, Griffin says, began in 1862 with classes in the Pattons’ home in the Beaverdam community. After the end of the Civil War in 1865, the classes moved downtown to the First Baptist Church.

However, by 1867, continues Griffin, “The whites wanted the blacks to have their own church.” Thomas Patton donated land on what was then called “Chinquapin Ridge” to the AfricanAmerican members of First Baptist.

The site lay just uphill from an area where people enslaved by the Patton family had lived for years.

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AMAZING GRACE: The Rev. Charles R. Mosley Sr., who attended middle school in Asheville and graduated from Stephens-Lee High School, has led Nazareth First Missionary Baptist Church for the past 43 years. Photo courtesy of Mosley According to an Oct. 1, 1967, article in the Asheville Citizen-Times, congregants of the new church soon began working to construct a log building on the site. “But their first place of worship was an arbor made of brush cut from trees needed in the log structure,” the article states. A church bell hung in a tree. The Rev. Caleb Johnson was the first minister.

“Rev. Otis E. Dunn, the one that I succeeded, had the longest tenure, which was 26 years,” says Mosley.

The current church building is only the latest to occupy the site; previous buildings fell victim to fire.

“The church prior to this building, it was just beautiful,” Mosley recalls.

BEFORE THE FALL In his youth, Mosley says, “The church was the center of the black community. Practically everybody that lived in the neighborhood, you chase their history, and it will go back to Nazareth or Mount Zion [Missionary Baptist Church] or St. James [AME Church].” People sorted themselves by class, he recalls: “The professional blacks, they mostly attended Hopkins Chapel AME

Zion Church and Berry Temple [United Methodist Church]. The working class, they went to Mount Zion and Nazareth.”

In the East End, as in other AfricanAmerican neighborhoods, churches stood alongside family homes. “They would meet each other on the street, walking, from one church to the other,” Mosley remembers.

After graduating from high school in 1957, Mosley left Asheville to continue his education at Shaw University in Raleigh. He returned in 1975 to find the African-American community devastated by urban renewal. “It disintegrated, it just scattered the neighborhoods,” Mosley says of the government’s actions.

“They were in the process of tearing down Stephens-Lee when I got home,” he remembers. “I got one of the bricks.”

Many former residents of the East End moved to Shiloh, Arden and West Asheville, Mosley says. “It was black removal, that’s exactly what it was.”

“The black community didn’t know what was happening. It was like we were sleeping, and all of a sudden you woke up and everything was different,” Griffin remembers. “The

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HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION: An earlier building of the Nazareth First Missionary Baptist Church sat atop what was then known as Chinquapin Hill. Today, the slopes below the church’s site are covered in vegetation. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville close community that was in those locations, it wasn’t there anymore.”

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RESILIENCE Despite the trauma and disruption of urban renewal, under Mosley’s leadership, Nazareth continued to thrive. In addition to the church’s strong membership base, Mosley says, “We used to have organizations, and that helped to keep the church knitted. The Progressive Club and the Vineyard Workers were the two major clubs in the church who raised money, who had programs, special projects, and who gave sacrificially.”

In recent years, however, “The church has stood, but many of our people have died or changed locations,” says Mosley. “You don’t have the neighborhood cohesiveness that the older congregation had. Houses change almost weekly or daily.”

Griffin concurs, “Those of us who are there now are driving from different parts of Asheville.”

Nazareth also is dealing with changing cultural expectations and competition from newer churches. While he views himself as a staunch traditionalist, “There are other groups with a different approach to praise and worship who are drawing our young people,” Mosley says.

“See, young people, they go to churches where you can hardly identify it as a church,” Mosley explains.

“It’s more like they’re clubbing. But they call it worship. And that’s what attracts them.”

Still, dedicated members like Griffin help to keep church life vibrant. In addition to Sunday services, Nazareth members engage through weekly Bible study classes, choir, Women’s Day and Men’s Day events, a hospitality ministry, a senior care program and ad hoc

committees like the group coordinating the church’s anniversary events.

The church’s youth department is working to bring more young people into the fold. That initiative gives Mosley hope, “because reaching young people is where the history will expand and explode and have merit in years to come,” he says.

When asked what he most would like people to know about Nazareth, Mosley says, “We are open to the entire community.” X

Celebrating a milestone WHAT 1867 – 2017: Celebrating 150 years of God’s faithfulness Church anniversary worship services WHEN Sunday, Nov. 12 10:45 a.m. the Rev. L.C. Ray, pastor, accompanied by choir and congregation of WNC Baptist Fellowship Church, Asheville 4 p.m. the Rev. Antonio Logan, pastor, accompanied by choir and congregation of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Hickory WHERE Nazareth First Missionary Baptist Church 146 Pine St. Asheville

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Primary election signifies shifting tides in Asheville The Oct. 10 primary election in Asheville saw voters tossing out an incumbent and favoring political newcomers, as a relatively high number of residents took to the polls to express their desire for change.

The election set the stage for showdowns in the Nov. 7 general election for Asheville City Council and mayor. For mayor, incumbent Esther Manheimer and Martin Ramsey will face off in November.

Manheimer pulled a decisive 77.05 percent of the vote while Ramsey nabbed 15.6 percent. Jonathan Wainscott, in his second bid for city office, fell short of the mark with 4.82 percent of the votes for mayor, and Jonathan Austin Glover, who dropped out of the race last month, still claimed 2.52 percent.

From a primary field of 12, the six candidates for City Council who will continue on to compete for three seats in the general election are: • Vijay Kapoor, with 17.64 percent of the vote • Sheneika Smith, 12.84 percent • Gwen Wisler (incumbent), 11.31 percent • Dee Williams, 10.67 percent • Rich Lee, 9.96 percent • Kim Roney, 9.93 percent Incumbent Cecil Bothwell did not make the cut, coming in with 9.6 percent of the vote, 106 votes behind sixth-place finisher Roney. Bothwell has served two terms on Council, beginning in 2009. Rounding out the field of candidates who did not advance beyond the primary for City Council were Jeremy Goldstein, Adrian Vassallo, Pratik Bhakta, Andrew Fletcher and Jan (Howard) Kubiniec.

Voter turnout for the election climbed higher than the most recent municipal primaries, at 16.52 percent, or 11,497, of registered voters casting a ballot. In the 2015 municipal primary, 12.82 percent (8,602) of registered Asheville voters showed up for the qualifying election. In 2013, only 8.98 percent of voters (6,079) turned up at the polls for the primary.

Candidates from minority populations had good showings in the election, with three of four candidates collecting enough votes to move on to the general election. Smith and Williams, who are African-American, both advanced.

Kapoor, one of the two candidates

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO: Esther Manheimer, left, and Martin Ramsey will go head-to-head for the mayor’s seat in the Nov. 7 Asheville general election.

Photos courtesy of the candidates of South Asian descent, received far and above the most votes for City Council, while Bhakta came in 10th in the Council race and will not continue. In addition, Glover, an AfricanAmerican candidate for mayor, pulled out of the race in September but still received 278 votes, trailing Wainscott by 253 votes.

Newcomers to Asheville elections also fared fairly well in the Oct. 10 primary. Three of the six top votegetters for City Council had not previously run for the city’s top positions: Kapoor, Roney and Smith. Lee ran for Council in 2015, Williams has run several times unsuccessfully for Council, and Wisler was elected to Council in 2013 and chosen as vice mayor in 2015.

In the mayoral race, Manheimer has served as mayor since 2013, before which she was a City Council member; Ramsey ran for mayor in 2013 but only

pulled in 887 votes in the primary and did not appear on the ballot for the general election — compared to the 1,719 votes he garnered in this year’s primary.

In this primary election, raking in campaign funds did not necessarily translate to success at the polls. Goldstein reported in early September that his campaign had raised $33,353, far outpacing the nearest competitor, Kapoor, who had raised $24,002 by that point.

Yet on Election Day, Goldstein drew only 2,380 votes to Kapoor’s 5,637. The third-highest fundraiser, Vassallo, garnered $22,156 in campaign contributions a month out from the election, but came in ninth in the vote tally.

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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: The six candidates who received the most votes in the Oct. 10 primary will compete for three seats on Asheville City Council on Nov. 7. Top row, from left, Vijay Kapoor, Sheneika Smith and Gwen Wisler. Bottom row, from left, Dee Williams, Rich Lee and Kim Roney. Photos courtesy of the candidates

Female inmate population marches toward tipping point As the Buncombe County Detention Facility nears critical mass, county commissioners could be forced to make a decision on expansion sooner rather than later.

“Here’s the kicker … if you decide today, it’s still 24 to 36 months out before you have something operational,” Sheriff Van Duncan told commissioners during a presentation on Oct. 10. The county might be able to leverage federal dollars to help offset construction of a new campus or expansion of the existing facility.

The BCDF, located in downtown Asheville, has 604 beds, with capacity for 508 males and 96 females. Operating the facility takes 172 staff members whose salaries total $12.1 million and necessitates a $3.6 million operating budget.

While the BCDF has 604 beds, Duncan noted that in the past officials have received permission for “doublebunking,” a move that allows the facility to exceed its normal limits, but immediately noted it’s “not a good thing.”

So who’s filling up the jail? Sixty-six percent of inmates (355) are awaiting county trial, 19 percent (99) are being

held for federal authorities, 8 percent are carrying out local sentences (44), 3 percent (17) are state prisoners and 4 percent are labeled as “other,” according to data from the first six months of this year provided by the county.

Duncan noted the reason the BCDF is attractive for housing federal inmates is because it meets federal criteria and has is near the federal courthouse in downtown Asheville. At any given time, there are 90 to 100 such inmates at the jail, and the federal government pays $100 per

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Meantime, female capacity at the BCDF is marching toward a tipping point. It already experienced peak population a few times last year, which resulted in authorities having to transfer some prisoners to other facilities. That comes at a cost of as much as $65 per prisoner, per day, according to county staff.

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becoming more frequent. “What we expect is that coming toward November 2020, we will be doing [female prisoner transfers] more frequently. After 2020 it will be standard practice,” said Lee Crayton, a county management analyst, noting the conservative projection shows the problem landing in June of last year.

While not as urgent a problem, the BCDF’s male population is also trending toward running out of room. A conservative model shows bed-space peaking becoming an issue in 2024, and the moderate forecast predicts 2026.

To alleviate the pressure, county staff says the facility needs a variety of diversion programs coupled with some form of expansion. Another option would be to make transporting those peak prisoners the standard operating procedure. “I don’t know how realistic that is. Female space across the state is at a premium,” noted Duncan.

Some immediate relief can come via pretrial diversions in an attempt to expedite the local pretrial population, the largest lump sum of daily inmates.

That means moving people toward mental health and substance abuse programs and tapping into technology to catalyze the pretrial process, among other alternatives.

Currently, two expansion options are on the table. One possibility is to build a separate female jail somewhere in the county, which would then turn the BCDF into a dedicated male facility. The second path forward would be expanding the BCDF, a move county staff says would cost more in finances and time.

The separate female facility being proposed would be modular construction, allowing it to grow as necessary, according to Planning Director Jon Creighton.

Initially, it would have 190 beds, with an estimated price tag of $20 million over 20 years. Annually, between debt service, salaries and other costs, it would set the county back about $5.3 million, according to county estimates.

County staff noted that a dedicated female jail would also free up beds in the BCDF for more federal inmates to the tune of about double the current occupancy, which would produce an estimated net increase of as much as $3.8 million, for a potential total of $7.6 million in federal paybacks. Duncan said contract renegotiations are on the horizon, and he’s hopeful that will bring in a bigger payout, potentially $130 per day, per inmate. He also added that the feds have told him they have an “immediate need” for at least 50 more inmates per day at the BCDF. “It’s hard to evaluate which scenario is the best course and to what extent we can forecast how much impact diversion will have,” said Commission Chair Brownie Newman.

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by Max Hunt | mhunt@mountainx.com ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL SCHEDULES PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR OCT. 24 Asheville City Council plans to hold four public hearings at its meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24, beginning at 5 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall.

The council agenda includes a public hearing to consider conditional zoning at 95 Roberts St. for the renovation of an existing building into a mixed-use facility. In addition, council will consider an amendment to Article VIII of Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances that would adopt the River Arts District form-based code in the greater RAD area.

Council will also consider an ordinance to amend Article XI of Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances, which would remove the River Parking Reduction area in its entirety, as well as an amendment to Article VIII of Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances pertaining to lot size and density for citywide residential zoning districts.

More info: 828-259-5601 or avl.mx/3xb LOCAL GROUPS HOST CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUMS Candidates for Asheville City Council will appear Oct. 23, from 6-8:30 p.m., in a Q&A hosted by the Buncombe County Young Democrats and Asheville Sustainable Restaurant Workforce at Habitat Tavern and Commons, 174 Broadway.

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Tranzmission, Blue Ridge Pride Center, Western North Carolina AIDS Project and the Campaign for Southern Equality are teaming up to hold a candidate forum on “LGBTQ Legal and Lived Equality” on Oct. 25, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. More info: avl.mx/47e TWO RABIES CASES CONFIRMED IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY

Officials with the Buncombe County Health and Human Services Department are urging caution after confirming two separate rabies cases. On Oct. 8, officials announced a raccoon captured at Beaver Lake in North Asheville tested positive for rabies. A second rabies case involving a fox was confirmed on Oct. 11 in the Aldon Drive area of Swannanoa.

Health officials advise residents to ensure pets are up to date on their rabies vaccination and to seek medical help immediately if they were exposed to either rabid animal or the bitten pet. If you believe your pet has come into contact with a rabid animal, contact the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office at 828-2506670 or the Asheville Police Department at 828-252-1110.

More info: avl.mx/47f ASHEVILLE CHAMBER CALLS FOR WOMANUP AWARD NOMINATIONS The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce

Commissioner Ellen Frost added, “We can keep building or we can look at what other places have done. If we don’t change patterns, we are going to be building again in the future.”

Commissioners did not take any action on the issue. But, as Duncan noted, time is an issue, because after commissioners formally adopt a solution, it will still be two to three years before a new facility is ready for intake.

is calling for nominations for the 2017 WomanUP Awards in the following categories: Woman Nonprofit Leader of the Year Award; Woman Executive of the Year Award; and Women Entrepreneurs, Best in Business Award.

Nominations are due by Friday, Oct. 20, and will be presented at the 2017 WomanUP Celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Crowne Plaza Resort Expo Center.

More info & nomination submission: avl.mx/47g ASHEVILLE GAINS 3-YEAR CONTRACT FOR HAUTE ROUTE CYCLING EVENT The city of Asheville has landed a three-year contract to host the Haute Route international cycling event from May 18-20. The competition is expected to bring over 300 of America’s and Europe’s top cyclists to the city and an estimated $1 million in economic impact.

The contract is a result of a collaborative effort by the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission and Explore Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau. The event will be the first Haute Route held on the East Coast of the U.S. The Haute Route consists of timed segments, with participants navigating nearly 100 miles each day. The exact route of the event will be announced in early 2018.

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In the long run, it looks to be an issue that will continue to compound. County staff estimates that even with building a separate female facility and having all 604 BCDF beds dedicated for men, conservative forecasting suggests there will be another space shortage by 2026.

The moderate model predicts a problem by 2029.

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‘Human Fly’ In the mid-1920s a man by the name of Harry Gardiner made several visits to Asheville with one goal in mind: to scale its downtown buildings without rope or safety net. The Jackson Building, the Flatiron Building and the former Battery Park Hotel (present-day Battery Park Senior Apartments) were among the structures he conquered.

In a May 28, 1918, interview with Robert Welles Ritchie of New York City’s The Evening World Daily Magazine, Gardiner said he did not initially set out to be a stuntman, but rather a surgeon.

While studying at Columbia University, however, he had a change of heart. “I’d have been a common, ordinary bone sawyer now if it were not for the fact that I had an itch to make a name for myself,” he told Ritchie.

In 1894, this itch led him to perform in hot air balloon ascensions and parachute drops. Within a few years, the New York City skyline inspired his next venture. “I came out of an old hotel that used to face Madison Square and took a look at the Flatiron Building,” Gardiner explained to Ritchie in the 1918 interview.

“A new idea struck me. Why not climb up the front of the building?”

Gardiner would perform his feat across the country. He became known as the “Human Fly.” In a Feb. 6, 1925, interview with The Orlando Sentinel, the daredevil claimed the nickname was given to him by President Grover Cleveland.

On April 2, 1925, The Asheville Citizen announced Gardiner’s plans to scale the

Daredevil Harry Gardiner scales Asheville’s tallest buildings

Jackson Building. The climb was part of a fundraiser for the American Legion. Pack Square was roped off. The newspaper went on to report: “None of the windows of the building open sufficiently to permit [Gardiner’s] ingress once the ground floor is left so when he starts up Friday night he must continue to the roof. Saturday afternoon he will start at the top and climb down.”

The following year, Gardiner returned to Asheville to scale the recently built Flatiron Building, as well as the Battery Park Hotel. On May 14, 1926, The Asheville Citizen reported on the large crowd that assembled outside the Flatiron Building to watch the “Human Fly” climb its facade.

According to the paper, many in attendance deemed him a fool, flirting with death. The unnamed reporter, however, disagreed, noting that “If all of that crowd that witnessed his agile feet could spend five minutes in his presence they would understand. The ‘human fly’ comes as near to being a superman as any living American.”

The reporter went on to write: “Now the man who made that climb is almost 57 years old. He doesn’t look a day over thirty. Every bit of his being radiates the vivacity and strength of youth, and every thing about him catches the infection of his sprightliness. At 57 most men are about ready to be shelved. Aches and pains, rhumatic tremors and shaky limbs bedevil them. Yet Harry Gardiner climbed the Flatiron building successfully last night at that age, and on Saturday after-

noon at 4:30 o’clock will climb the corner of the Battery Park hotel blind-folded.”

The following day, The Asheville Citizen reported that Gardiner’s fingers were insured for $50,000. In the article, the daredevil explained the importance of his appendages: “‘Don’t get the notion,’ [Gardiner] says, ‘when I start that perilous climb [up the Battery Park Hotel] this afternoon, in what will be one of the hardest feats of my long career of 30 years, that anything is going to be left to chance. I made certain before I ever climbed a building that my fingers were absolutely perfect, and would respond to my mind in every detail.

My first concern years ago was to master those fingers — to make them powerful, but above all to make them vassals of my mind and will. That accomplished, it remained only for me to learn to conquer the peculiarities of particular buildings.’”

The article went on to predict that later that afternoon, at 4:30 p.m., as Gardiner began his ascent up the hotel, he would be “the calmest, the coolest, the best composed man present.” For readers skeptical of the claim, the paper insisted: “Harry Gardiner, with his $50,000 hands, does not regard his task as a hazard. He doesn’t regard it as a monstrous undertaking conceived by some mad man.

With him it is a cold blooded, shrewdly studied, well calculated business.”

Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

NEW HEIGHTS: In 1925 and 1926, Harry Gardiner came to Asheville and succeeded in climbing three of the city’s tallest buildings.

Photos courtesy of North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville; graphic embellishment by Scott Southwick

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ANIMALS WNC NATURE CENTER 75 Gashes Creek Road, 828-2985600, wildwnc.org • SA (10/21), 10am-5pm "HowlOWeen," family-friendly, costumed friendly festival with arts, crafts, games, face painting, hay maze and animal encounters. Admission fees apply.

BENEFITS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FUNDRAISER AT VIRGOLA, BILTMORE STATION (PD.) • Enjoy a glass of wine and small bite plate and help support Habitat for Humanity. Donating 10% of all sales October 24th, 4-close.

ASHEVILLE SUN SOO TAE KWON DO 1009 Patton Ave., 828-505-4309, martialartsasheville.com/ • SA (10/21), 6-9pm - Proceeds from this all ages, costumed sock hop and silent auction benefit Arms Around ASD. $10/$25 per family.

BEARFOOTIN’ PUBLIC ART WALK downtownhendersonville.org/ bearfootin-public-art-walk-2015/ • SA (10/21), 5pm - Proceeds from the Bearfootin' Art Auction, auction for sculptured bears, benefit local nonprofit organizations. Registration for bidders begins at 3pm. Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Historic Courthouse, 1 Historic Courthouse Square # 4 Hendersonville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (10/24), 7pm - Donations at this one-man performance portrayal of Mark Twain by Dr. Marvin Cole benefit the Friends of East Asheville Library. Free to attend. Held at Beverly Hills Baptist Church, 777 Tunnel Road CARRIER PARK 220 Amboy Road, 828-251-4024 • SA (10/21), 8am - Proceeds from the "Eagle Run 5K," run for ADHD awareness benefit SOAR's Scholarship Fund. $30.

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ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, smcdonald@eliada.org • Through TU (10/31) - 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 GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828-298-6195, groceumc.org • Through TU (10/31) - Proceeds from this pumpkin patch pumpkin sale benefit Groce United Methodist Church outreach.

Prices vary.

HOMEPLACE BEER CO. 6 South Main St. Area C, Burnsville • TH (10/19), 6-8pm - Proceeds from the Mayland Black Jar Honey Contest benefit the Toe Cane Beekeepers Association.

Free to attend/$10 to taste.

MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com, info@madisoncountyarts.com • SU (10/22), 2:30-5:30pm Proceeds from The Soiree at Kalamazoo, featuring dinner and live music by Ashley Heath and Whitewater Bluegrass Company benefit the Madison County Arts Council. $30. Held outdoors at the corner of Little Pine Road and Lower Paw Paw, Marshall PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 150 East Side Drive, Black Mountain, 828-669-0190, pisgahbrewing.com/ • WE (10/25) through SU (10/29), 6:30-9pm - A portion of proceeds from ticket sales to this haunted trail for all ages (particularly ages 3-12) benefit local schools. Information and tickets: hauntedtrailwnc.com. $11/$9 advance.

PUMPKIN PATCH BENEFIT 828-885-7286, facebook.com/ pumpkinpatchrevenge • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS through (10/28), 7-9pm Proceeds from this lighted pumpkin patch event with spooky trails, decorative pumpkin displays, ghost stories, games, music and food benefit

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ANNUAL SOIREE AT KALAMAZOO: Hurricane Nate was just wild enough for the annual Soiree at Kalamazoo to be rescheduled for Sunday, Oct. 22, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The $35 outdoor fundraising event for the Franklin Project and The Madison County Arts Council includes a warm fall meal, 96-year-old Lib Roberts’ famous banana pudding and live music by the Whitewater Bluegrass Company. The event started 13 years ago as a local garden party in support of the arts council and has grown into an experience that draws in a crowd from all of Western North Carolina and beyond (some who come just for the banana pudding). The event takes place on Little Pine Road at the site of the old Kalamazoo Presbyterian Church and School. For tickets and information, call 828-649-1301 or visit madisoncountyarts.com Silvermont Park. $5. Held at Silvermont Park, East Main St., Brevard

tellers, singers, jugglers and magicians benefit The Vanishing Wheelchair. $10/$5 children.

SANCTUARY IN THE PINES Highland Lake Cove, 215 Rhett Drive, Flat Rock • TH (10/26), 10:30am-noon Proceeds from "Love, Peace & CommUNITY: Staying Connected to Universal Joy in Troubled Times," Nia workshop with international Nia trainer and teacher Winalee ZeebHello benefit the Backpack Program for Kids in Henderson County. Information: 828-697-7449 or liabarth59@ gmail.com. $20.

VETERANS RESTORATION QUARTERS

TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES MONTREAT 303 Lookout Road, Montreat, 828-669-1406, tenthousandvillages/montreat • SU (10/22), 1-5pm - A portion of proceeds from sales benefit Black Mountain Counseling Center. Free to attend.

THE VANISHING WHEELCHAIR 175 Weaverville Road, Suite L., 828-645-2941, VanishingWheelchair.org • SA (10/21), 3pm - Proceeds from "Magic, Mirth & Meaning," family-friendly, hour-long production that features story

1329 Tunnel Road, 828-259-5333 • SA (10/21), 10am-2pm Proceeds from the Mountain Classic Car Show with silent auction, food vendors and live music benefit ABCCM's services for veterans. Free to attend/$25 for car entry.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (10/18), 6-9pm - "SCORE: All You Need to Know about Website Development," seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (10/19), 5:30-8:30pm "How to Start a Nonprofit," seminar. Free.

• SA (10/21), 9am-noon "SCORE: How to Lead Marketing and Sales Conversations," seminar. Registration required. Free.

ASHEVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 828-258-6114, ashevillechamber.org • TH (10/19), 11:30am-1:30pm - Asheville Metro Economy Outlook featuring keynote speaker Ted Abernathy.

Registration required. $40. Held at Celine and Company, 49 Broadway FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION jim@extraordinarycopywriter.com • 4th TUESDAYS, 11:30am1pm - Educational monthly meeting to bring local business leaders to present and discuss topics relevant and helpful to businesses today. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden FLOOD GALLERY 2160 Highway 70, Swannanoa, 828-254-2166, floodgallery.org • THURSDAYS, 11am-5pm - "Jelly at the Flood," free coworking and collaborative space event hosted by Ty Hallock. Free.

G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am General meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden HATCHWORKS 45 S. French Broad • WE (10/18), noon-1pm - "Rapid Prototyping," workshop. Free.

• WE (10/25), 6-7:30pm - Hatch Asheville "Pitch Party" open-mic night for entrepreneurs. Free.

WARREN WILSON COLLEGE 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa, 828-206-8877 • WE (10/18), 9:30-11:30am & 12:30-2:30pm - Foundation fair featuring networking opportunity for nonprofits to meet and talk with community foundation representatives. Hosted by the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers. Free. Held in the Gladfelter Student Center.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS CLASSES AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Tarot and Flower Essences for Self Care: Sunday, October 24.

5:30-8:30pm. $25-40. • Foraging

and Cooking with Wild Food: Wednesday October 25. 6:30-9pm. $25. Registration/ information: www. forvillagers.com COME QUAVER PUMPKIN AT VINTAGE KAVA (PD.) Saturday, October 21st from 1-3pmLive Music: Featuring Aaron PriceTickets ($18) include: free large Kava or Kratom tea, one pumpkin, one candle, photo shoot, coupon, and carving tools. Purchase at 203 Haywood Road, Asheville.

COOKING CLASSES WITH OFRI (PD.) 6-9pm at Mountain Kitchen: • Saturday, October 21: The Fisherman's stew: New England chowder and Cioppino • Saturday, November 11: Thanksgiving with a Twist • November 18: Veggie love. Information/ Registration: (917) 566-5238 or www. ofrishomecooking. com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) BEGINNING AERIAL ARTS weekly on Sundays 2:15pm, Mondays 6:30pm, Tuesdays 11:00am, and Wednesdays 11:00am. POLE DANCE weekly on Mondays 7:45pm.

POLE SPINS & COMBOS weekly on Sundays 5:45pm.

FLEXIBILITYCONTORTION weekly on Tuesdays 8:00pm, Thursdays 1:00pm, and Saturdays 2:30pm.

BREAK DANCE weekly on Fridays 6:00pm.

FLOOR THEORY DANCE weekly on Wednesdays 8:00pm.

For details & sign up go to empyreanarts. org or call/text us at 828.782.3321.

HOMES AND BREW INFORMATIONAL EVENT (PD.) Engage with Real Estate/Mortgage Experts regarding the Asheville market.

Twin Leaf Brewery Thursday, Oct 19th,

6pm. Free beer.

Limited spots. Text HOMEBEER to 555888 dave@investecrealty. com ILLUMINATE: THE PSYCHIC & HEALING ARTS EXPO (PD.) OCT. 28-29, 10AM-6PM both days, Entry $9.00 per day, Over 35 Readers and Healers/ All sessions $20. Free workshops/ raffle. Books, crystals, Jewelry, Healing tools and more! Blue Ridge Community College Conference Hall, 180 W Campus Dr., Flat Rock, NC 28731 Complete schedule of events: www. theIlluminateExpo. com or call Julie King @ 831-601-9005.

Co-sponsored by Crystal Visions Books/ Natural Awakenings/ Upstate.

ties like gardening, food preservation, cooking, herbalism, and more. 278 Haywood Road. www. forvillagers.com AARP 828-380-6242, rchaplin@aarp.org • TU (10/24), 11:30am - HomeFit workshop for home accessibility issues. Registration: 877-926-8300. Free.

Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. ASHEVILLE ASPERGER'S ADULTS AND TEENS UNITED meetup.com/ aspergersadultsunited/, wncaspergersunited@ gmail.com • 3rd SATURDAYS, 4-7:30pm - Gaming group and potluck.

Free/Bring a dish and

THE GATHERING OF THE FORCES OF LIGHT (PD.) UFO sightings worldwide; crop circles; emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher and Masters of Wisdom; rising voices calling for justice and freedom; growing environmental movement. Are these extraordinary events related? • Free talk and video presentation. Saturday, October 21, 2pm.

Friends Meeting. 227 Edgewood Rd 28804 (off Merrimon Ave).

Information: 828-3980609.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AT PURPLE CRAYON (PD.) • Knitting Basics: 10/29 and 11/5, 6:008:00pm. • Introduction to Painting in Pastel: 11/10, 6:30-8:30pm, and 11/11-12, 9:00am1:00pm • Mini-Gourd Ornament Painting: 12/2, 10:00am12:00pm. More info at www.purplecrayonavl. com/workshops VILLAGERS... (PD.) ...is an Urban Homestead Supply store offering quality tools, supplies and classes to support healthy lifestyle activi-

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Kevin Peer’s National Geographic films WHAT: A screening of three documentary short films to benefit the Community Housing Coalition of Madison County WHEN: Friday, Oct. 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Belk Auditorium at Mars Hill University, 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill WHY: In 2016, filmmaker Kevin Peer let a few of his Marshall neighbors know he was available to screen his documentaries for a fundraiser in case a local nonprofit needed support. At that juncture, he’d already heard about the good work of the Community Housing Coalition of Madison County and was thrilled when the group contacted him in late summer about collaborating.

“Their mission is to facilitate home repair, rehabilitation and the creation of new affordable housing in Madison County,” Peer says. “I really appreciate how CHC combines compassion and good intent with intelligent and effective and down-to-earth approaches. This allows them to fulfill their mission in ways that not only get good stuff done but that also honor the pride and sense of community that the county is so well-known for.”

On Friday, Oct. 27, at 6:30 p.m. at Mars Hill University’s Belk Auditorium, Peer will screen 1988’s Way of the Wodaabe (27 minutes), about the last true cattle nomads of Africa and their travel to the remote site of their traditional rainy-season celebrations after a severe drought; 1986’s Masterpieces in Chalk (17 minutes), a profile of renowned street painter Kurt Wenner and his sidewalk art in Italy and Switzerland; and 1985’s The Pigeon Game (14 minutes), which looks at the pigeon wars of Brooklyn and the men who command the birds from their rooftops.

The three short documentaries are his personal favorites among the numerous films he made for National Geographic and ones that, in his words, “celebrate culture and art and passion in ways that are visually rich and fun.”

Peer hopes attendees emerge from the event “feeling very entertained and at least a little better about humankind’s capacity for beauty and wisdom and ingenuity.” In between each film, he will field questions and “inevitably tell stories of the adventures and humorous misadventures involved in making each movie.”

The screening takes place from 6:309:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, at Mars 22

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CAMERAMAN: Kevin Peer films Tuareg drummers in the Sahara Desert of Niger, Africa. The Marshall-based filmmaker will screen and discuss his three personal favorite documentaries that were made for National Geographic at a benefit for the Community Housing Coalition of Madison County on Oct. 27. Photo by Leslie Clark Hill University’s Belk Auditorium. $12 advance ($10 in person), $15 at the door. $7 for students and children under 12 years old. chcmadisoncountync.org X

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games to share. Held at The Autism Society, 306 Summit St. ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY 133 Church St., ashevilletoollibrary.org • SA (10/21), 11am-3pm Tool and knife sharpening event. Free.

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (10/19), 1pm - "Fight Back Against Fraud," fraud prevention event with the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department and AARP. Free.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (10/24), 1pm - "Fight Back Against Fraud," fraud prevention event with the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department and AARP. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Sit-n-Stitch," informal, selfguided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (10/24), 6-8pm- Knitting night for children and adults of all experience levels. Free.

Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • WE (10/25), 11:30am12:30pm - Spanish conversation group for Spanish speakers. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115 • WEDENESDAYS (10/18) & (10/25), 7-9pm - "After Capitalism, What's Next?" A Progressive Utilization Theory discussion series to explore the theory and practice of PROUT. Free to attend.

HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828-242-8998, hvrpsports. com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

by Abigail Griffin

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering general meeting. Free.

MCDOWELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 828-652-3858, mcdowellco.historicalsociety@ gmail.com • MO (10/23) through FR (10/27) - Proceeds from these historical ghost walks in McDowell County with local historians and paranormal investigators benefit the McDowell County Historical Society. Registration for location: 828-527-9098. Thursday, Oct. 26 event includes a paranormal investigation. $15 walk/$25 walk and investigation.

PEOPLES PARK ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ peoplesparkAVL/ • TUESDAYS, 9am - "Keep Asheville in Stitches," gathering of people who crochet, cross-stitch, knit and otherwise puncture the status quo.

Free. Held at 68 Haywood Outdoor Space, 68 Haywood St. PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (10/19) through SA (10/21) - African Americans in WNC and South Appalachia Conference. Information: awnc.unca.edu.

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN susangrable2@gmail.com • TU (10/24), 11:30am - "AARP Issues," presentation by Rebecca Chaplin.

Registration required: SusanGrabel2@gmail.com.

Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject. yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6pm Tranzmission Prison Project.

Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY wncpsr.org • 3rd FRIDAYS, noon-2pm - Monthly meeting. BYO lunch. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE DO YOU WANT TO DANCE? (PD.) Ballroom, Country and Social Dance Instructions, Dance Workshops and Social Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-3330715, naturalrichard@mac. com • www.DanceForLife. net EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted

by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/ community transformation.

• Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue.

• Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee.

Information: ashevillemovementcollective. org LEARN THE COUNTRY TWO STEP (PD.) Saturday, October 21, 1-3pm, Cathedral of All Souls, Biltmore Village. 2 hour Workshop with Richard and Sue Cicchetti. Information: 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac.com, $20 door, $15 Early Bird by October 19, register at www.DanceForLife.net STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 12pm Barre Wkt 4pm 5pm Bellydance Drills 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Contemporary 8pm Sassy Jazz Series • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-Beats Wkt 4pm Kids Creative Movement 5pm Modern Movement 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Advanced Bellydance • Wednesday 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bhangra Series 7pm Bollywood 8pm Ballet Series • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 4pm Kids Hip Hop 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm Bellydance Drills 7pm Vixen 8pm West Coast Swing Series • Friday 9am Hip Hop Wkt Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt • $14 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $8. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595 SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • TH (10/19), 1-2pm Contemporary line dancing class. $5.

• TH (10/26), 1-2pm Contemporary line dancing class. $5.

Information: singfortheclimate.com Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (10/21), 6pm "Pumpkin Patch" themed dance. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm. Free.

Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue. org • WE (10/25), 6pm MountainTrue Annual Gathering. Registration requested. $30/Free for members. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St.

THEATER AT UNCA 828-251-6610, drama.unca. edu • FR (10/20), 11am - Ruth Barnes solo performance of, Here, There and Everywhere, with talk back. Free. Held in the Sherrill Center dance studio, room 351, 1 University Heights

ECO ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm Informal networking focused on the science of sustainability. Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 828-254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • FR (10/20), 5:30pm Science Pub: "Saving the American Chestnut," reception and science lecture with Dr. Jared Westbrook.

Free. Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE 1 Page Ave., #101 • TU (10/24), 5:30-7:30pm General meeting to discuss planning a Living Building Challenge demonstration project for the Asheville region. Free to attend.

CONSERVING CAROLINA carolinamountain.org • WE (10/18), 6:30-8pm Lady Slipper Speaker Series: “The World of Monarch Butterflies," presentation

by Joyce Pearsall. Held in McLarty-Goodson Hall, Room 125, at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard GREEN GRANNIES avl.mx/0gm • 3rd SATURDAYS, 4pm Sing-a-long for the climate.

RIVERLINK 828-252-8474, riverlink.org • WE (10/25), 1-3pm Volunteer to remove invasive plants from Azalea park.

Held at John B. Lewis Soccer Complex, 439 Azalea Rd E, Asheville

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FARM & GARDEN BUNCOMBE COUNTY EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS 828-255-5522, buncombemastergardener. org, BuncombeMasterGardeners@ gmail.com • TH (10/19), 11:30am-1pm Gardening in the Mountains: "Putting Your Garden to Bed: Fall Garden Chores," workshop. Free. Held at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Station, 74 Research Drive Mills River • WE (10/25), 8am-4:30pm - Western North Carolina Gardening Symposium, event with presentations, vendors, and door prizes. $50. Held at The DoubleTree Hotel, 115 Hendersonville Road CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE cityofhendersonville.org • THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS until (11/4) Seasonal mulch giveaway.

Thurs. & Fri.: 3:30-7pm. Sat.: 8am-noon. Free. Held at the old Waste Water Treatment Plant, 80 Balfour Road, Hendersonville HAIKU BAMBOO NURSERY/FARM 20 Tuttle Road, Hendersonville • 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 1:303pm - "Bamboo Walking Tours," through bamboo forest to learn about bamboo plants. Registration: 6853053. $25/$23 seniors/$15 ages 13-18/Free under 13.

POLK COUNTY FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE BREAKFAST polkcountyfarms.org • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8am - Monthly breakfast with

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STORE-WIDE HALLOWEEN SALE! Up to 75% Off Oct. 27th - Oct. 30th

26 Glendale Ave 828.505.1108 Mon-Sat 10a - 7p Sun 10a - 5p facebook.com/TheRegenerationStation

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presentations regarding agriculture.

Admission by donation. Held at 4-H Center, Locust St., Columbus

FOOD & BEER ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS 828-254-1776, ashevillegreenworks. org • FR (10/20), 9am4pm - Regional Food Waste Summit, event to initiate crosssector conversations and spark collaboration and learn more about what the food waste systems are in our area, with a goal of establishing a collaborative network to address food waste recovery issues. Registration required: ashevillegreenworks.networkforgood.com.

Free. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa ASHEVILLE VEGAN SOCIETY meetup.com/ The-Asheville-VeganSociety/ • 1st TUESDAYS & Third SATURDAYS, 10am - Social meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable. com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Community lunch.

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Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old U.S. Highway 74, Fairview FOOD NOT BOMBS HENDERSONVILLE foodnotbombshendersonville@gmail. com • SUNDAYS, 4pm - Community meal.

Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., Rosdon Mall, 318 N Main St., #5, Hendersonville

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828254-6734, malaprops. com • WE (10/18), 6pm - Jamie Dement presents her book, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm. Free to attend.

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • MO (10/23), 6-8:30pm - Common Table: "Asheville City Council Candidate Forum," community discussion about issues affecting Asheville's working class citizens. Sponsored by the Buncombe County Young Democrats and Asheville Sustainable Restaurant Workforce. Free to attend.

CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (10/24), 5pm Asheville City Council public hearing. Free.

Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

FESTIVALS

THE VANISHING WHEELCHAIR: Celebrate National Magic Week and Disability Employment Awareness Month with The Vanishing Wheelchair’s production of “Magic, Mirth and Meaning,” a family-friendly, hourlong production that features storytellers, singers, jugglers and magicians. The show, which features performers with disabilities, benefits The Vanishing Wheelchair’s work to teach skills in performing, painting, photography, music, crafts, writing and woodworking to the disabled. Advance reservations to the Saturday, Oct. 21, 3 p.m., donation-based show, which takes place at The Vanishing Wheelchair Little Theatre, are strongly recommended. For more information or reservations, visit vanishingwheelchair.org or call 828-645-2941. Photo of T.J. Shimeld courtesy of The Vanishing Wheelchair (p. 20)

Become a Teacher.

UNC Asheville has a teacher licensure program for professionals who already have a bachelor’s degree.

Accepting applications through November 1, 2017 for Spring 2018.

Learn more at education.unca.edu

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BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828626-3438 • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/21) through (10/28), 7pm - "Peek-A-Boo Path," haunted trail for all ages. Free.

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out groups and time to share. Free. Held at Kenilworth Center, 123 Chiles Ave.

TREE OF LIFE CEREMONY 828-649-2705, hotspringshealth-nc. org/ • TH (10/19), 6pm - Tree of Life Ceremony to honor loved ones with a candle on a handcrafted tree. Hosted by the Madison Home Care & Hospice. Free. Held at A-B Tech Madison Site, 4646 US 25-70 Marshall

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table meal.

Free.

APPLE HARVEST FESTIVAL haywoodapplefest. com • SA (10/21), 10am5pm - Outdoor festival celebrating apples, with vendors, live music and a

juried arts and crafts show. Free to attend.

Held at 9 S. Main St., Waynesville

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HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (10/19), 4-5:30pm - General meeting and presentation regarding immigration and DACA. Free. Held at Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce, 204 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville 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

PUBLIC EVENTS AT A-B TECH 828-398-7900, abtech. edu • TH (10/19), 12:303:30pm - NC Public Transportation strategic plan community workshop. Free. Held in the Conference Center, Room B, at AB Tech, 340 Victoria Road

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (10/18), 4pm "Makers and Shakers: Sticks and Stones Revisited," craft activities for ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (10/21), 2-4pm "Star Wars Reads Day," with trivia, activities and books. For kids of all ages. Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages.

Free. Held at Enka-

Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • MO (10/23), 4-5pm - Lego club for ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TUESDAYS, 11am Family story time. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm - Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (10/24), 4-5:30pm - Kids read with Olivia the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-250-6482. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WEDNESDAYS, 11am - Mother Goose story time. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • THURSDAYS, 11am - Toddler story time. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (10/26), 4pm "After School Board Games," for ages 7 and up. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa

• TH (10/26), 4pm Kids learn how to help scientists by doing bird identification in their neighborhoods. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • SATURDAYS 10:30am & 11:30am - Weekly drop-in Spanish classes for kids. Class for 3-5 year olds at 10:30am.

Class for 6-10 year olds at 11:30am. $10.

A portion of proceeds benefit the Buncombe Partnership for Children.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 828697-8333, handsonwnc.org • Through FR (10/20), 10am-4pm - "Masters of Disguise," halloween mask making.

Admission fees apply.

• WE (10/18), 4-5pm - “Mad Scientists on

Wheels,” activities for kids. Registration required: 828-8901850. Free. Held at Mills River Library, 124 Town Center Drive Suite 1, Mills River • MO (10/23), 3:304:30pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” science activities for kids. Registration required: 828-6871218. Free. Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher • TU (10/24) through FR (10/27), 10am-4pm - "Dios de los muertos – Day of the Dead," craft activities for children. Admission fees apply.

• WE (10/25), 4-5pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” activities for kids. Registration required: 828-6974725. Free. Held at Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville • TH (10/26), 11am - "Buggy Hands," activities about germs for kids. Admission fees apply.

her children's book, Tanner Turbeyfill and the Moon Rocks. Free to attend.

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MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828254-6734, malaprops. com • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend.

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1401 Fish Hatchery 828-877-4423 • MO (10/23), 1-3pm "Eco Explorers: Raising Trout," workshop for ages eight to thirteen.

Registration required.

Free.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828-708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • Through SU (11/5), 5pm - Open registration for Spellbound NaNoWriMo. For 6-12 grade writers. Free to attend.

• SA (10/21), 11amnoon - Ruth Spiro pres-

ents her Baby Loves Science children's books. Free to attend.

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MADSTONE CAFE & CATCHING LIGHT BOOKS 732 Centennial Drive, Suite 5, Cullowhee • TU (10/24), 12:30pm - Anna Browning reads

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PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY 321-271-4593, psabc. org • SA (10/21), 2pm "Cabins in the Forest," presentation by architect Robert Griffin regarding historic cabins. Free. Held at Carolina Day School, 1345 Hendersonville Road

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SAT. 10/21: DOORS-8PM, "Photo Safari," rangerRegistration: chopple@ SHOW-9PM led photo walk.

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866-881-3721, youthoutright.org PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION • 3rd SATURDAYS, 1401 Fish Hatchery 11am - Middle school Road, Pisgah Forest, discussion group.

828-877-4423 Free. Held at First • FR (10/20), 10amCongregational UCC of 3pm - "Casting for Asheville, 20 Oak St. Beginners: Level I," fly-fishing workshop for ages 12 and up.

PUBLIC LECTURES Registration required.

Free.

OLLI AT UNCA • SA (10/21), 9am-noon 828-251-6140, - "Advanced Fly Tying: olliasheville.com Dry Flies," workshop • WE (10/18), 4:30for ages 12 and up.

6pm - "Computer Registration required.

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PEOPLES PARK ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ peoplesparkAVL/ • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - "Science in the Park" lectures and discussions regarding popular science, environmental and natural phenomena.. Free. Held at 68 Haywood Outdoor Space, 68 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, noon "Asheville Past in the Park," lectures and discussions regarding local history. Free. Held at 68 Haywood Outdoor Space, 68 Haywood St. PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • WE (10/18), 7-8:30pm - Lecture by author and activist Vandana Shiva, a leader of the anti-GMO movement.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests.

Activities include hiking, golf, book clubs, diningout, special events, and more. Visit ashevillenewfriends. org ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS ashevillenewfriends.org • TU (10/24), 9:3011:30am - Three-mile walk at Lake Eden.

Carpool from Folk Art Center. Free. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 2 Doctors Park, Suite E • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30.

Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • TUESDAYS, 2-3pm - "Senior Beat," drumming, dance fitness class. For standing or seated participants. $3.

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION® TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) Deep within everyone is a wellspring of peace, energy and happiness.

With proper instruction anyone can effortlessly transcend the busy or agitated mind and directly experience that rejuvenating inner source. Learn how TM® is different from mindfulness, watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. NIHsponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being.

Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828254-4350. TM.org or MeditationAsheville. org ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation.

Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started.

1st & 3rd Mondays.

7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www. ashevillemeditation. com.

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

FAMILY MEDITATION (PD.) Children and adult(s) practice mindfulness meditation, discuss principles, and engage in fun games. The 3rd Saturday monthly.

10:30am – 11:30.

Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Asheville, 828-8084444, ashevillemeditation.com.

OPEN HEART MEDITATION (PD.) Now at 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 212.

Tuesdays 7-8pm.

Experience the stillness and beauty of connecting to your heart and the Divine within you.

Suggested $5 donation.

OpenHeart Meditation. com BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (10/26), 6pm "Ancestor Reverence & Ritual: A Celebration of Diversity," lecture by author Daniel Floor.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828258-0211 • 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - "Dances of Universal Peace," spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement.

No experience necessary. Admission by donation.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 828692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • FR (10/20), 7pm “How We Lost Our Wisdom: Recovering the Christian Contemplative Path and Reclaiming Jesus as Wisdom Teacher,” lecture by Rev. Matthew Wright. $25.

• SA (10/21), 10am - “The Gospels of Thomas and Mary: Restoring Wisdom Texts and Teaching,” lec-

ture by Rev. Matthew Wright. $25.

• SA (10/21), 1pm - “Christianity in a Second Axial Age: Teilhard de Chardin and Raimon Panikkar as Prophets of an Evolving Path,” lecture by Rev. Matthew Wright. $25.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • THURSDAYS (10/19) through (11/2), 10-11:30am - "Hymns Ancient and Modern," class. Free.

• Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free.

GREAT TREE ZEN TEMPLE 679 Lower Flat Creek Alexander NC, 828645-2085, greattreetemple.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Women’s zen practice circle with meditation, discussion, study, creative expression and building community. Admission by donation.

JUBILEE! COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St. • SA (10/21), 10amnoon - "Baha'i Bicentennial Commemoration of the Births of the Two Founders: The Bab and Baha'u'llah," Baha'i of Asheville and Buncombe County, brunch and presentation by local artists with music, storytelling and short plays.

Registration requested: bit.ly/2i4xNeh. Free.

ST. EUGENE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 72 Culver St., 828-2545193 • TH (10/19), 7-8:30pm - “Supporting the Last Christians in the Holy Land," presentation by human rights activist Kathy Bergen. Free.

STEPHEN'S LEE COMMUNITY CENTER 30 George Washington Carver Ave. • SU (10/22), 2-6pm - "Baha'i Bicentennial

Commemoration of the Births of the Two Founders: The Bab and Baha'u'llah," Baha'i of Asheville and Buncombe County host a "Unity World Cafe," dinner and workshop for adults and children.

Registration requested: bit.ly/2i4xNeh. Free.

UNITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River, 828-891-8700 • SA (10/21), 3-5pm - "The Power and Practice of Intuition," workshop with Charley Castex. Registration: charleycastex.com or 828-251-5043. $25.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (10/26), 7:30pm - "Listen to This" storytelling series hosted

by Tom Chalmers and featuring stories and original songs from locals. $15.

ALTAMONT THEATRE 18 Church St., 828-2748070 • SU (10/22), 7:30pm - Poetry Cabaret Collective, spokenword poetry with live music, comedy, burlesque, boylesque and magic. $10/$7 advance.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • FR (10/20), 10am5pm & SA (10/21), 10am-4pm - Friends of Pack Library annual antique and collectibles, coffee table and half price book sale.

Free to attend. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MO (10/23), 7pm - Let's Talk About It Mystery Book Club: Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky. Free. Held at Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain • TU (10/24), 6:30pm - Ghostly Tales & Local History:

"Hunting Biltmore & WNC Ghosts," with supernatural events historian, Tadd McDivitt. For ages 9 and up. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TU (10/24), 7pm Friends of the Fairview Library meeting.

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (10/26), 6pm - Swannanoa book club. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 828-296-7230 • WE (10/25), 6-7:30pm - "The Death of Benjamin Gant," discussion led by Terry Roberts regarding Thomas Wolfe's, Look Homeward, Angel.

Free.

FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Queer Women's Book Club.

Free to attend.

LANIER LIBRARY 72 Chestnut St., Tryon, 828-859-9535 • SA (10/21), 10am Lanier Library Mystery Festival: Presentation by author David Housewright. Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828254-6734, malaprops. com • MO (10/23), 6pm - Alexandra Duncan presents her young adult book, Blight, with authors S. Jae Jones and Jessica Khoury.

Free to attend.

• TU (10/24), 6pm - Azra and Seren Bertrand present their book, Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life.

Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190

• THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-329-4190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 30 Meadow Road THE TRYON BOTTLE 10 N Trade St, Tryon • SA (10/21), 3pm Renee Kumor presents her book, Deadly Politics. Free to attend.

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and information session for male mentors ages 25-45 for weekly mentoring opportunities to model authenticity, accountability and foster emotional intelligence and leadership for adolescent boys. Registration required. Free.

LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 31 College Pl., Suite B-221

SOCCER REFEREE TRAINING (PD.) Referees needed throughout Western NC. Minimum age 14. More information: Ed Guzowski at guzowski@charter. net • Register here, complete the online training: Go to website: http://ussfnc. arbitersports.com/ front/102762/Site

• TU (10/24), 4pm & FR (10/27), noon Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with K-12 students who are reading, writing or spelling below grade level. Free.

• TH (10/19), 5:30pm & TH (10/26) 9am Information session

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ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, smcdonald@eliada.org • Through TU (10/31) - Volunteers, 18 and older, needed for the corn maze. Volunteers receive two free tickets to the corn maze.

Registration: 828-2545356, x320 or jkallas@ eliada.org. Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive

per week with adults

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 828258-1695, homewardboundwnc. org • THURSDAYS, 11am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help.

Registration required: tours@homewardboundwnc.org. Free.

9pm - Volunteer for this haunted trail for

JOURNEYMEN ASHEVILLE 828-230-7353, JourneymenAsheville. org, JourneymenAsheville@ gmail.com • FR (10/20), 3pm Volunteer enrollment

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who want to improve reading, writing, spelling and English language skills. Free.

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 150 East Side Drive, Black Mountain, 828669-0190, pisgahbrewing.com/ • WE (10/25) through SU (10/29), 6:30-

all ages (particularly ages 3-12) that benefits local schools.

Information: hauntedtrailwnc.com.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT 828-252-7489, wncap. org • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 10amdeliver food boxes to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Registration: 828252-7489 ext.315 or wncapvolunteer@ wncap.org.

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COMBATING CYBERBULLYING Buncombe County schools teach strategies, to raise awareness

BY KARI BARROWS karibarrows94@gmail.com Max Weissman, an adolescent counselor in Asheville, says cyberbullying is an issue that comes up all too often — by parents, educators and victims themselves — though often not directly.

“Hardly anyone has come to me for therapy for bullying, though I’d say half the people I work with have been bullied, and that’s a topic we talk about,” he says.

Weissman has had his own private practice, ​​​ Counseling WNC, for two years, but he’s been counseling and working with adolescents in and out of the school system for the past 15. Summarizing bullying as “using power to get your way to accomplish something,” he notes that with the rise of technology and cyberbullying, “the nature of the bullying is generally the same. It just has a different format.” Cyberbullying can include any type of intimidation with electronics or internet use, from texting to posting on social media.

According to research done by the Cyberbullying Research Center, the percentage of middle and high school students who say they have experienced cyberbullying nearly doubled (18 percent to 34 percent) from 2007 to 2016. But a 2016 study from WalletHub that analyzed national trends indicated that North Carolina was one of the states that ranked lowest in the percentage of high school students bullied on school property as well as online.

Laura Meadows, assistant professor in the mass communication department at UNC Asheville, says one cause of the rise in cyberbullying could be the allure of anonymity in some online forums. “When you offer anonymity online, you are begging people to drop their inhibitions and say anything that comes to mind.”

Meadows incorporates social media into all of the classes she currently teaches as a way to help students broadcast their content to a larger audience. She says that although she hasn’t had to deal with any problems from her college students, she does see the dangerous potential in some

GET UP AND DANCE: Asheville City Schools Human Resources Director Mark Dickerson, aka “Dr. DJ Mark,” dances with students during this year’s anti-bullying rally. Photo courtesy of Asheville City Schools forms of social media, especially anonymous ones and those with a younger user base.

“Psychologically, if we’re anonymous, we have less inhibitions, we are more likely to say the first thing that we think about,” Meadows says. “We don’t think about whoever we’re talking to as being another human person.”

Weissman works with the younger users Meadows refers to. He counsels adolescents and young adults from ages 12 to 22 — an age group he describes as “magical,” “powerful” and “beautiful” because it’s a time filled with lots of change. Weissman says many of his clients are just starting to craft their identities, and with that independence comes a natural lack of communication, especially when it comes to problems like cyberbullying.

“Adolescence is all about pulling away from your parents,” he says. “Part of the teenager, the child, even the 11or 12-year-old doesn’t want to tell their parents because they want to be grown

up, they want to handle this all by themselves.” But Weissman says he encourages his clients to seek out help whenever they feel the need, understanding it’s not a sign of weakness or immaturity.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS TAKE PREVENTIVE MEASURES October is National Bullying Prevention Month, a nationwide campaign founded in 2006 by the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights, which established the National Bullying Prevention Center, a training center for families of children with disabilities. Since its inception, many schools nationwide have held special programs and rallies during October to raise bullying awareness and teach students the dangers of bullying in all its forms. Asheville City Schools put on an anti-bullying rally for kindergarten through fifth-grade students and families earlier this month.

The Buncombe County school system has also started incorporating more awareness about cyberbullying into its curriculum for the whole school year, not just October. This year, A.C. Reynolds Middle School established a program called Second Step in its curriculum schoolwide. Second Step centers on social-emotional learning, which teaches students social and personal skills, empathy, anger management and problem-solving. “The selling point for me was the empathy-building because that’s where we address bullying — having people understand what it’s like to be in someone else’s shoes,” says Reynolds Middle School counselor Alison Rhodes.

An integral part of Second Step is making sure there is a calm spot in each classroom, a place that gives students space to rejuvenate. Rhodes says such factors help create students’ well-being: “Student research has shown us that students with strong social skills are

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better able to avoid substance abuse, bullying and violence, all of which are prevalent challenges.”

David Thompson, director of student services for Buncombe County Schools, says social-emotional learning is a strategy used to combat and understand some behaviors caused by a student’s personal background. “Some of the behaviors that we see in schools are the reactions to bullying and other reactions to being called a name or the reactions to those kind of things that result in kind of disruptive behavior and often patterns that have been established over time based on adverse childhood experiences,” he says.

Second Step is one of many specialized curricula that Buncombe County Schools are implementing under the Compassionate Schools initiative, a model that focuses on key principles such as training and supporting all staff regarding trauma and learning, identifying vulnerable students, and determining outcomes and strategies. “Compassionate Schools is really using trauma-informed care, recognizing the impact of trauma and chronic stress,” Thompson explains. “It doesn’t have to be what we typically think of trauma.

It could be long-term exposure to chronic stress that happened within our childhoods. Our students are still within the age group ... with those adverse experiences that impact the way the brain functions and learns and responds to it.”

WHAT HAPPENS TO A CYBERBULLY? Although schools are taking more preventive measures and spreading awareness, cyberbullying still happens both in and out of the classroom.

Melissa Lackey, school resource officer for Asheville Middle School, says each school has its own policy on cyberbullying and that the administration takes each case very seriously. Anyone can report a bullying incident anonymously or talk to her and any other authority figure at school, adding that each case is considered on its own merits. “We want to do everything we can to protect the kids,” she says. “Mediation and education are first. I don’t want to take a kid in and say, ‘I’m going to charge you with harassment because you did this.’ They need to understand what they did.”

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Under state law, schools in North Carolina can now only charge students with harassment in cases involving cyberbullying since the state Supreme Court struck down the law that banned cyberbullying in 2016. The law had been in place since 2009 but was found to restrict free speech when the case North Carolina v. Robert Bishop went before the state Supreme Court.

Lackey says she would like to see laws established that create a safer space for students. “I wish our laws could catch up with all of this new technology,” she says. “On a personal level, I wish they would catch up to everything that’s going on and prevent some of these app makers from making things that endanger children.”

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Thompson says parents should engage their children in conversations about cyberbullying, especially since kids can be reluctant to bring up the conversation themselves. “I encourage parents to monitor their kids’ online activity,” he says. “They really need to be aware of what their kids are using and what they’re say-

ing and what’s being said to them. ... There’s nothing that’s going to replace that parental contact directly with the student about what’s going on, what’s happening on social media and creating that conversation with your children to keep them safe.”

Meadows points out that social media and other online forums can have positive as well as negative consequences. “I think social media is a tool like anything else,” she says. “The ramifications of social media are completely dependent on how you use it. I think the danger for high school students or even middle school students — because it seems like they’re getting social media accounts really early — is that a lot of what we put online doesn’t go away, so you can be held to whatever opinion you had as an eighth-grader.”

Weissman also uses a tool metaphor when describing social media’s pros and cons. “Things like these are tools,” he notes. “A hammer could be destructive.

You can break car windows and smash windows and destroy lots of things. But a hammer could totally build a building and make shelter for a million people.

It’s just a tool, and it’s really about the user behind the tool.” X

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BY DANIEL WALTON danielwwalton@live.com From afar, the statue of Frederick Law Olmsted that commands the center of the North Carolina Arboretum’s formal gardens seems the embodiment of strength. The 8-foot-tall bronze by sculptor Zenos Frudakis shows the father of American landscape architecture as broad-shouldered and magnificently bearded. But a closer look betrays a weakness — his eyes are squinting, straining hard to see the landscape his mind imagines.

An explanation for Olmsted’s vision problems can be found just down the path from his statue. As described by “Wicked Plants: The Exhibit,” the master of plant placement was nearly blinded as a young man by poison sumac and suffered optical issues throughout the rest of his life. His story is just one tale of botanical woe among the many on display in the exhibit, which returns to the arboretum’s Baker Exhibit Center through Jan. 7.

Originally debuted by the arboretum in 2012, “Wicked Plants” brings to life the New York Times best-selling book, Wicked Plants:The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart, published in 2009. Her compendium of fiendish flora is reimagined in the exhibit as a foreboding Victorian manor filled with interactive elements to teach visitors of all ages about the most dangerous members of the vegetable kingdom.

“Botanical gardens and museums all have poisonous plants in their col-

BEAUTIFUL DANGER: The “Wicked Plants” exhibit at the North Carolina Arboretum brings to life the book of the same name, depicting plants that can kill, maim, poison and otherwise inflict botanical woe. Photo courtesy of the N.C. Arboretum lections, but they’ve always been sort of nervous about them,” says Stewart.

“They never really wanted to talk about them before, but this exhibit gives them the permission to run with it. They can have a dead body in the room and have that be fun.”

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INTERACTING WITH THE ICKY Stewart isn’t exaggerating: The exhibit’s “potions laboratory” features a mannequin of a gray-haired woman named Bella, slumped lifeless over a table in her dressing gown. Guests are

tasked with scouring the laboratory for clues to determine how plants played a role in Bella’s death. The experience of peeking in a fireplace and opening drawers to puzzle out a solution feels more like an escape room than a typical museum display, which Stewart says is particularly appealing to younger visitors.

“In most museums, even science museums, a lot of exhibits feel like ‘look at the thing in the box,’” Stewart says. “Kids love uncovering a mystery, and the spookier and creepier it is, the more attractive it is.”

Other parts of the exhibit continue the hands-on approach, from a showcase of psychoactive plants with a perspective-altering funhouse mirror to a dining room tableau that challenges guests to match the common foods on the table with their potential toxic effects. The manor’s bathroom even hosts a smell station with botanically derived scents of wet dog and rotting meat.

The more traditional text displays in “Wicked Plants” still aim to engage audiences through stories rather than simple description. “As a writer, I know that if I just list a bunch of facts, everyone’s going to go to sleep,” says Stewart. “But if I tell the crazy story about how Abraham Lincoln’s mother died from drinking the milk of a cow that ate white snakeroot, people will remember that and go tell other people.”

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WICKEDLY MYSTERIOUS: Visitors peruse the interactive “Wicked Plants” exhibit at the North Carolina Arboretum, which takes a Victorian theme to teach about botanical wonders. Photo courtesy of the N.C. Arboretum keting and public relations manager, explains that creating the exhibit was something of a leap of faith. “This was right during the recession, and our budget got cut because we’re a state organization,” says Smith. “We had to rely on our nonprofit side, the North Carolina Arboretum Society, to fund the initial $250,000 investment.”

That bold decision proved to be a success. “Wicked Plants” filled a gap in midsize traveling exhibits for science museums, particularly as school groups sought experiences that tied science with literature and history to address Common Core curriculum standards. Since launching the exhibit, the arboretum has rented “Wicked Plants” to other institutions across the country, from the Springs Preserve Museum in Las Vegas to the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.

Wherever it goes, the display comes with a bit of Asheville spirit. Many of the clever details throughout the exhibit, such as the labels on the medicine bottles and books that fill the house’s shelves, were produced by area craftspeople. “One of the missions of the arboretum is economic development, and we focused on locally sourced artists and manufacturers, because we were in that economic downturn,” Smith says. “Wicked Plants” is also designed so that its walls double as packing crates for its contents — the entire exhibit fits into a single tractortrailer, reducing the carbon footprint of rentals.

FACING THE FEARSOME Although the exhibit itself doesn’t contain any live specimens, visitors can see some of the mentioned species throughout the arboretum grounds during the run of “Wicked Plants.”

The poisonous vine Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jessamine), carnivorous Dionaea sp. and Sarracenia sp.

(Venus flytraps and pitcher plants) and beautiful but toxic Digitalis pupurea (foxglove) will all be on display. Many species that grow wild in the region, such as Toxicodendron sp. and Urtica sp. (stinging nettles), also earn the “wicked” designation.

Stewart hopes that people leave their encounter with “Wicked Plants” with a healthier respect for the potency of the natural world.

“People forget that plants have to defend themselves, just like animals do,” she says. “But because they can’t run away, all they can do is inflict pain and suffering on things that want to eat them — it’s a miracle that we can eat any plants at all.” X

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YEAST TAMERS

Local brewers explore the potential of brettanomyces

BY DANIEL WALTON

Hi-Wire’s Batinski uses a house strain that originated over a decade ago with John Parks, now with Zillicoa Brewing. “Essentially, I just keep it in a room-temperature solution, and every other time I brew, I top it back up with wort,” Batinski explains.

Other brewers, including Karnowski, take a more regimented approach in a drive for greater control over the process. “I purchase small quantities of our brett strains and build them up into a gallon starter,” he says. “After a few months, I dump it and start from scratch in order to keep the ratio of the bretts in our blend consistent.” Companies such as White Labs and Oregon-based Wyeast Laboratories maintain pure brett cultures for brewers to use whenever they need a fresh start.

danielwwalton@live.com Peter Batinski emerges from the depths of Hi-Wire Brewing’s South Slope taproom wearing thick black rubber boots and goggles that hold back a shock of brown hair from his forehead. Vapor rises from one of the silver cauldrons in the back, and the brewer sporadically checks over his shoulder to ensure the pot’s contents stay contained. The vibe here comes across as a bit mad scientist, and perhaps it should — Batinski is experimenting on a wild creature.

The beast in question is a yeast: brettanomyces, commonly abbreviated to “brett” by the brewing community.

Traditionally regarded as a wild contaminant of beer crafted with domesticated saccharomyces yeast, brett has begun to attract Asheville-area brewers looking to spice up their offerings with unique flavors. “For me, it’s a new adventure,” says Batinski. “I’ve been brewing for over a decade, but this side of it is a whole new world.”

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FUNKY FERMENTATION The key to brett’s appeal, explains Burial Beer Co. lab director Rachel Simpson, is its ability to alter previously inaccessible parts of a beverage.

“Brett can ferment complex sugars that saccharomyces just can’t, and thus keeps chewing through sugars in the bottle to create an ever-evolving product,” Simpson says. Because brett breaks down the sugars left over from domesticated yeast over time, the same beer can have a completely different profile after a few months compared to its taste when first drawn out of the barrel.

Brett is also invaluable when brewing sour beer styles such as lambics and Flanders red ales. The yeast isn’t directly responsible for those beers’ tang; that’s the job of lactic acid bacteria such as lactobacillus. Instead, brett smooths out the flavors left behind by enthusiastic bacterial activity. “Many of the compounds made by lactic acid bacteria are undesirable to most people, but brett can metabolize them easily into various other things,” says Simpson. “If you get a perfect marriage of the right strains, the results can be magical.”

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chemicals it can produce, not all of which are quite as magical as desired.

Brewers prize the spicy and fruity flavor compounds they can coax out of brett, such as tropical ethyl caparoate and applelike ethyl hexanoate.

But the yeast’s historic reputation as a problem comes from its phenols, which are often described with terms like medicinal, barnyard or even sweaty horse blanket. Another brett product, isovaleric acid, is responsible for the funky aroma of Swiss cheese — and foot odor.

NO STRAIN, NO GAIN The first step to reining in brett’s flavors is taking it in from the wild.

Brettanomyces is actually a genus

of yeast, comprising at least four species, and different varieties contribute to brewing in vastly different ways. Determining an appropriate strain can be the work of many years, as it was for Zebulon Artisan Ales owner and brewer Mike Karnowski.

“I’ve been using brett as part of a mixed culture since the early ’90s, but the real focus started a year or two before I opened Zebulon,” says Karnowski. “Finding my favorite brett strains to use at the brewery meant trying almost every strain commercially available — I had dozens of these experiments going.”

Once a brewery arrives at a successful strain, it can maintain the yeast in much the same way as a sourdough starter for bread.

Even consistent strains of brett hold surprises once brewing gets underway. As Wicked Weed cofounder and head blender Walt Dickinson describes the challenge, “Saccharomyces is like a Labrador retriever: It’s lovable, it’s friendly, and everyone knows what it’s going to do. Brett is like a gray wolf: It looks like a dog, but it’s more unpredictable — it demands a little more respect,” he says.

Brett’s behavior can change depending on when producers add the yeast during brewing. During primary fermentation from wort into beer, for example, brett often has more room to express itself with spice and funk than it would during secondary fermentation in barrels. Temperature also plays a key role, with warmer conditions (around 75-85 degrees Fahrenheit) making the yeast more assertive.

Despite these quirks, Asheville’s brewers are excited to discover what new horizons of flavor brett might open up. “We haven’t figured brett out in the same way that we have other types of yeast,” says Batinski. “It was once regarded as off-flavored — something you didn’t want in your beer — but taste buds have changed. There’s still a lot of experimentation to really hone it in and get what we want out of it.” X

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GROWING TOGETHER: Asheville Councilman Gordon Smith, pictured in the orchard at the Montford Recreation Complex, sees many opportunities for the city to partner with local individuals and organizations to grow food on public land. “It is my belief that the city staff ought to be establishing and growing these partnerships,” says Smith. Photo by Cindy Kunst When Asheville City Council approved the Food Action Plan in 2013, it was a comprehensive list of goals to tackle the growing epidemic of food insecurity in a city that had just trademarked the term “Foodtopia.” Studies by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show North Carolina as the eighth-most food-insecure state in the union, and in Asheville, a city known for its culinary scene, one in five residents go without enough to eat, 35 percent of whom are children, according to the Food Action & Research Center.

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has really just not stepped up to the plate yet.”

The original plan laid out modifications to Asheville’s urban design overlay to enable easier food access through more flexible zoning that would enable homeowners to raise chickens and gardeners to sell vegetables from their own roadside produce stands. It also helped establish the Asheville City Market downtown on Saturdays and ease the permitting process for tailgate markets throughout the county.

But progress has been slow and incremental at best, and hunger is never a patient beast. So efforts have been underway for nearly a year to redraft the plan to give it more traction. At press time, the new draft was slated to be proposed to the Planning and Zoning Commission on Oct. 17, on track for final

approval by City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 24.

“We haven’t done half of what the initial plan set out to do,” says Smith. “And as far as this next iteration goes, there are some more specific areas that we can address immediately, and then there are some areas that will require us to actively forge new partnerships with community groups, with Buncombe County government and with other regional entities, and that is something that we haven’t seen happen yet.”

In addition to increasing access to food, Smith adds, one of the main goals of the Food Action Plan has been to make sure that everyone in the city encounters food all around them on a daily basis. “So when kids are on their way to a bus stop, they are seeing serviceberries and other edibles. So that when people are just mov-

ing through their daily lives, they can see this food growing in all corners of the city. That is a fundamental cultural shift that is available to us and that we have not taken advantage of,” he says.

In an effort to make the plan both more impactful and more feasible, the city contracted the ABFPC and its director, Kiera Bulan, to work with Amber Weaver, the director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, in doing the research and rewriting. Through surveying the communities most affected, consulting with city, county and state staff and the general council of the ABFPC, and studying food policy programs around the country, they developed seven focus areas: food access and distribution; food production and processing; community food education; resource stewardship; state food policy and legislation; emergency preparedness; and city initiatives.

“The goal was to make the plan more actionable, more detailed,” says Bulan. “And we really tried to create something that we can use to hold ourselves and the city more accountable through developing evaluation protocols, benchmarks and more of an implementation plan so that we can attach budget items to it and continue to move forward over time.”

The close collaboration between city staff and the council was helpful in identifying and addressing some of the hurdles that impeded the achievement of many of the plan’s goals over the past four years. Through focus groups with city staff from key departments that would be implementing many facets of the plan, such as Parks and Recreation, Waste Management and Communications, it was possible to craft a concrete strategy rather than a wish list. “It was just another level of vetting,” says Bulan. “The staff is responsible for carrying out tasks and responsibilities that have been adopted by the city, so we want them to be aware and on board with what is being proposed.”

Communication barriers had created slow movement in the past. On May 18, 2015, Joey Robison, then-communication specialist, explained to the ABFPC general council why one of the key goals of the plan — to use public land as a space for growing food — had not been accomplished. “We have to maintain our land in the most costeffective way, and that is to mow it,” she said. “If a person comes in that wants to farm it, but then leaves, it just costs the city more money.”

When pressed with that question now, Smith has a different response.

“There is enormous possibility to partner with any number of groups and to move money around within these budgets,” he says. “That’s one of the

questions we haven’t seen answered yet: Whose responsibility will it be to take the initiative on these broader partnerships?

It is my belief that the city staff ought to be establishing and growing those partnerships with GreenWorks and the Fruit & Nut Club and Bountiful Cities to be able to establish food access across the city. There are so many food partnerships that we have yet to see, and it will be important that the city organization takes the lead on establishing and growing those.”

But that may prove to be easier said than done. As Bulan points out, resources are limited when it comes to bringing the plan to fruition. “A number of cities and food policy councils have whole departments dedicated to the type of work that Amber and I are attempting to pull off in slivers of full-time work,” she says, noting that in addition to addressing food policy concerns, Weaver’s job encompasses numerous other areas, including climate change, green building, energy conservation and recycling. X

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Owner and chef Ricardo Carrasco coasts in for work at Polanco on his longboard. The Mexican restaurant opened in September in the North Market Street building that was home to Vincenzo’s for nearly 25 years until it closed in 2015.

Carrasco’s mode of transportation is emblematic of how he operates his business — the chef likes to keep active and stay busy.

Only a month into his new venture, Carrasco says the menu, as well as the restaurant’s evening events, continue to expand. Recent additions include Taco Tuesday lunch and dinner specials; a Thursday night chef’s table tasting upstairs (with an additional open mic downstairs every other Thursday); a Friday night salsa dance class; a Saturday night dance party; and a Sunday buffet. “I like to have fun,” Carrasco says, “But the food is the primary character of the restaurant.”

Born and raised in Tampico, Mexico, Carrasco earned a law degree from Universidad Regionmontana, before discovering his true passion for cooking. Rather than put his law degree to use, Carrasco sought an apprenticeship with friend and chef Antonio Wong-Berez before attending culinary school. Since that time, he has continued to seek new knowledge through less traditional means.

A three-week stint on a shrimping boat, for example, was how Carrasco learned the art of ceviche.

Polanco’s menu, Carrasco notes, changes daily with prices ranging from $9 to $35. Staples include ceviche tostada — halibut, shrimp and scallops marinated with lime, cilantro, onions, tomato, pineapples, mango, serrano peppers and topped with chipotle aioli; tacos; empanadas; fajitas; mole; flan with cajeta; and Mexican cheesecake. The restaurant has a full bar.

Raised a vegetarian, Carrasco has made sure that Polanco can accommodate — both through its menu options and design — those with dietary restrictions. “The kitchen is split,” he says. “We’ve got vegan and vegetarian [prep and cooking stations], so nothing is cross-contaminated. I cater exactly to your needs.”

Inside his office in the downstairs portion of Polanco, Carrasco continues discussing the restaurant’s future. His longboard stands near his desk. Complacency, the chef says, is “the worst thing that can happen to a restaurant.” Whether it’s the menu, the aesthetic or an evening’s event, Carrasco says Polanco will continue to evolve. But at the end of the day, he notes, it is the food that matters most. No matter the night, Carrasco says, “If I’ve got the doors to my place open, I got the door to my kitchen open [as well].”

Polanco is at 10 N. Market St. Hours are 11 a.m.-11 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sunday. For details, visit polancorestaurant.com.

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WHITE LABS KITCHEN & TAP The production facility at White Labs Asheville has been providing yeast and testing services to local brewers for a few months. But this week the public will finally have a chance to sample the company’s brews and food when White Labs Kitchen & Tap opens on Thursday, Oct. 19. The taproom features wine, cocktails and 28 rotating taps offering White Labs Brewing and guest beers. The beer-infused food menu, designed by Sonoma, Calif., chef Sean Paxton and executed by sous chef Evan Timmons, includes woodfired pizzas made with White Labs yeast, as well as housefermented sauces, fresh salads and desserts.

White Labs Kitchen & Tap is at 172 S. Charlotte St. Hours are 11:30 a.m.9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For details, visit whitelabskitchentap.com.

CHOCOLATE & CLIMATE Chocolate is the theme of this month’s Movie Night at The Collider presented by Oskar Blues.

Specifically, the event will ask participants to consider a life without the tasty treat. “Chocolate is grown around the world in regions

French Broad Chocolates will lead a discussion on the natural environment needed for chocolate to be produced. French Broad Chocolates will provide samples of single-origin chocolates, Oskar Blues will provide beer, and The Collider will serve popcorn.

Chocolate & Climate Movie Night at The Collider runs 6:30-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401. Suggested donations are $10 per person or $20 per family.

Space is limited; seating is firstcome, first-served. For details, visit avl.mx/46w.

FORAGING AND COOKING WILD FOOD WITH ABBY ARTEMISIA

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: Polanco opened in mid-September. Chef and owner Ricardo Carrasco, a native of Tampico, Mexico, says he wants to bring his interpretation of Mexican culture and cuisine to Asheville. Photo by Thomas Calder being impacted by climate change,” says Megan Robinson, executive director at The Collider, a nonprofit innovation center focused on climate change solutions. “Depending on geography, chocolate growers are facing increased temperatures

and extreme weather, including droughts and prolonged rainfall, all of which limit land usability and impact the viability of chocolate growing.” The evening will include a preview of selected clips from the documentary Setting the Bar: A

Craft Chocolate Origin Story, which follows chocolate-makers — including French Broad Chocolates coowner Dan Rattigan — as they seek rare cacao in the Peruvian Amazon.

Additionally, climate scientist Scott Stevens and representatives from

Wild salad, pesto and fritters are among the dishes attendees will learn to make at Foraging and Cooking Wild Food with Abby Artemisia on Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Artemisia will lead the group on a neighborhood walk to identify wild foods and will present an assortment of greens that grow in the region. Guests will get to sample each of the dishes made during the session and will leave with recipes.

Foraging and Cooking Wild Food with Abby Artemisia runs 6:30-9 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Villagers, 278 Haywood Road. Tickets are $25. For details, visit avl.mx/46x. X

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by Tony Kiss | avlbeerguy@gmail.com

French Broad River Brewery looks to the future New ownership implements rebranding, plans for increased production and distribution

CHANGES ON TAP: A change of ownership at French Broad River Brewery brings some updates to one of Asheville’s oldest brewing operations, including a new logo, expanded production and broader distribution. Pictured is head brewer Aaron Wilson. Photo by Cindy Kunst Though it’s one of Asheville’s oldest breweries, a lot is new at French Broad River Brewery.

There’s new ownership — Sarah and Paul Casey have taken over from Andy Dahm — plus a fresh logo and new beers that are joining such core brands as Gateway Kolsch and Wee Heavy-er Scotch Style Ale. The brewery’s name was also tweaked to restore the word “river,” which was originally part of the title, and there are plans to increase distribution across North Carolina.

What has stayed the same is the brewery’s staff and location, which continue to operate just outside Biltmore Village.

And it’s still contract-brewing for the Thirsty Monk pub and brewing company, which had originally announced plans to buy French Broad from Dahm, though the deal never went through.

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Casey worked in a corporate setting for 22 years, then left that world behind in 2015, took some time off to spend with his family and started looking for his next adventure.

“I wanted to own my own business and be in charge of decision-making,” Casey says. “I started looking around for a business to acquire, and I came across French Broad. I wasn’t that familiar with the beer scene in Asheville, but I started coming up and looking at the brewery and was incredibly impressed with everything about Asheville.”

While Casey does not have a brewing background — “I’m a bit of a novice to all of this,” he says — he is bringing business expertise to French Broad. “I was attracted to the strong brand recognition,” he says. “And I felt like there was more to the story that we could tell.

That’s what I’ve been focusing on —

what could the future hold for the brewery and the beers?”

French Broad was part of the first wave of craft brewing in Asheville, dating to 2001, when founding brewer Jonas Rembert left Green Man Brewery, then housed at Jack of the Wood pub, to start his own company. Dahm was part of French Broad since the start and had remained at the brewery, though Rembert eventually left French Broad and Asheville, and was succeeded by other brewers.

Dahm put the brewery up for sale, and in 2016 Thirsty Monk owner Barry Bialik announced he was purchasing French Broad and its brands. He quickly moved to begin brewing some of the Thirsty Monk beers at French Broad. Additional plans included turning the now-closed Thirsty Monk pub in Woodfin into a French Broad tasting room.

The deal, however, never closed.

“There are no hard feelings — it just didn’t work out,” Bialik says. “It’s good that someone is reviving the brand. We have an arrangement to do a batch [of beer] a week there. We’re close with them, but business-wise, it just wasn’t coming together. The numbers didn’t work for us.”

Bialik says he now plans to use the former Woodfin Monk’s kitchen to test recipes for the Monk pubs downtown and at Biltmore Park, as well as use the space to wash beer kegs.

Meanwhile, Casey is working to refresh French Broad, which had not made many changes to its beer lineup since its early days. “We had a fourpronged approach when we took over,” he says. “The first thing was to make as much beer as we could make. We had demand in Asheville markets and the surrounding Western North Carolina counties, and we needed to go and meet that demand.”

Casey also wanted to “give the brewery a little bit of a face-lift” and says landscaping has made it “a little bit more inviting.” He will also relaunch the brand with new packaging design and wants to greatly increase distribution across North Carolina. French Broad is now sold around Western North Carolina and the Triangle and Piedmont areas, plus “small places in Tennessee and South Carolina,” according to Casey. By his count, the brewery produces fewer than 5,000 barrels annually.

“At the end of the day, if you’re making good, quality beer and you have a good story to tell, there is a place for you on the shelf,” Casey says, noting that French Broad is adding brandnew brews to its repertoire. Over the summer, the brewery made a summer pale ale using a recipe from the company’s past and a citrus kolsch for its relaunch. “I’m open to new recipes and new beers,” he says.

French Broad’s recent developments follow the tradition of Asheville’s other older legacy breweries, including Highland Brewing Co. and Asheville Brewing Co., which have worked to add new products to their lines. “[Innovation] has been big for us,” says Asheville Brewing President Mike Rangel, adding that the company is now doing a new smaller-batch beer on a near-weekly basis.

“A lot of it is recognizing the trend that what beer drinkers want the most is new beer,” he says. “Craft beer drinkers want to experiment. It keeps us sharp, and we learn things about making our Shiva IPA or Ninja Porter better. Our brewers are constantly challenging themselves with new styles.” X

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Kickoff Party

CHANGE OF PLACE North Carolina Dance Festival returns to Asheville

Sunday, Oct. 29 at

the Orange Peel

6-9 p.m.

Free and open to the public

FLAG WAVING: Alexandra Joye Warren’s dance “For Love of Country” meditates on the intersection of modern-day politics and race. “I started on this piece in November during the election when no one was listening to one another,” says Warren. “I want the piece to give way to more inquiry. I want the audience to be more understanding as opposed to steadfast.” Photo by Luguzy Atkins

BY LAUREN STEPP lstepp98@gmail.com It’s been 10 years since the North Carolina Dance Festival took center stage at the Diana Wortham Theatre, but the initiative goes back much further. “It started 27 years ago as a way to connect dance communities across North Carolina,” says co-director Anne Morris. “Our founder, Jan Van Dyke, wanted artists to show their work at various venues without having to leave the state.”

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Theatre for performances on Friday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 21.

Though only a few hours’ drive from Western North Carolina, Greensboro — where NCDF is headquartered — can feel like another world when it comes to performance. “Dancers grow accustomed to audiences and artists; they become siloed,” says Morris.

The late Van Dyke wanted to fix that. In 1991, she introduced the festival as a traveling, statewide showcase of high-caliber choreography. Each season, two to three cities are selected to host concerts over the course of a weekend. Besides the BeBe Theatre, this year’s venues include the Van Dyke Performance Space and the Greensboro Project Space Gallery, both in Greensboro, and The Rickhouse in Durham.

All venues are community centers rather than college concert halls or auditoriums. That distinction is important, notes Morris. Though festival organizers want to continue nurturing relationships with local universities, they realize that not all art can be relegated to conventional spaces.

“In the beginning, most dance activity happened on campuses,” says Morris. “Now, so much happens beyond the university setting.”

FINDING SPACE Winston-Salem’s Chris Yon understands that firsthand. His NCDF production — formerly called “HOW TO PUNCH, KICK, STAB, KILL” and recently renamed “Rendezvous” — is designed to work in traditional and

nontraditional spaces. When performed in the Greensboro Project Space on Thursday, Nov. 9, for instance, Yon anticipates that the show will occupy not one, but two different areas.

“We want to take the audience on a promenade, starting on the street and then moving inside,” he says.

Even then, the interior is more like a ballroom than theater. “The setup is advantageous for us because the audience can get closer. Our subtle movements suddenly become more legible.”

The same holds true for the small BeBe Theatre.

“We’re more contained in Asheville, of course. But getting to perform the same work in several different spaces is an incredible way of keeping things fresh,” says Yon. Accommodating both traditional and nontraditional venues does pose a logistical challenge for organizers.

Each year, adjudicators select choreographers following a call for submissions. Unlike other festivals, NCDF has never limited itself to themes — organizers have screened applicants based on quality. But now, they must consider space accommodations.

“Do we select strong choreography first and the venue second? Or a venue and then the choreography that fits the space? We’re still trying to figure that out,” admits Morris.

Fortunately, Yon’s piece is flexible.

What began as a dubious homage to Merce Cunningham’s “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run” has since evolved into a duet between him and his partner, Taryn Griggs. “‘HOW TO PUNCH, KICK, STAB, KILL’ was a defense mechanism to the agitation and anxiety we have felt since last November,” Yon says, referring to the presidential election. But putting together an “angsty solo” felt counterproductive, so he and Griggs turned to the cosmos.

“We were inspired by ‘space rendezvous’ which, according to Wikipedia, is ‘an orbital maneuver during which two spacecraft, one of which is often a space station, arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance,’” says Yon. “For us, this was an apt metaphor for the dance we are making: two bodies making a very circuitous, careful approach toward each other.”

DEFYING BOUNDARIES Alexandra Joye Warren’s piece, “For Love of Country,” is more down to earth. Designed for a traditional venue, the choreography dissects healing, patriotism and reconciliation

through the lens of America’s current political climate.

“My work has to do with things I’m trying to understand,” says Warren.

“I like to flip things around, look at them from a different perspective and ask questions rather than put forth hard statements.”

Questions concerning race (Can people of color still love their country?

Should they remain patriotic? How will the current administration affect their sense of place?) underpin the piece, making it not unlike other works presented by Warren’s Greensboro-based dance company, JOYEMOVEMENT. Last year, the troupe put on a racially charged solo, “Fit the Description,” at the 26th annual NCDF. Described as a “love letter to all who have been accused of being a suspect because of the color of their skin,” the dance included a pre-recorded narrative told

by Warren’s husband, Hashim.“It’s a personal story about his experiences with the police over the past 20 years,” the choreographer says.

The 15-minute performance is part of an evening-length piece that debuted at the Greensboro Fringe Festival in January.

“It’s a tight edit, but it really takes on a life of its own,” notes Warren.

Morris adds, “It’s powerful and honest. It brings up important questions that Americans of all cultural backgrounds are struggling with.”

Though this will be Warren’s third year with NCDF — she performed in Amy Love Beasley’s piece “This Place is the Place” in 2014 — this year is Warren’s first season touring. “We know all the camps described in the news — poor communities, people of color, left and right. People have all these different ways of categorizing themselves,” she says. “Well, we want to peel back that layer. We want to look at what people are actually feeling and experiencing, not the assumptions that are being made.” X

WHO North Carolina Dance Festival danceproject.org WHERE The BeBe Theatre 20 Commerce St. WHEN Friday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 21, at 2 and 8 p.m. $18 general/$15 students & seniors

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by Alli Marshall

amarshall@mountainx.com

THE FINE PRINT Blue Spiral 1 launches its printmaking invitational and an updated image

HAIR APPARENT: “You might think you’ve seen [printmaking] before, but this is showing it in a different light,” says Blue Spiral 1 director Michael Manes. The gallery’s Ink + Imagery invitational includes boundary-pushing work in the print genre such as Knoxville, Tenn.-based artist Althea Murphy-Price’s piece “More Please,” a lithograph with screen printed collage and flocking. Photo courtesy of Blue Spiral 1 There’s something immutable about Blue Spiral 1, the Biltmore Avenue art gallery opened by John Cram in 1990. With three floors and 15,000 square feet of exhibition space, the gallery is a kind of unofficial flagship to Asheville’s downtown art district. But, says Michael Manes, who accepted the role of gallery director in May, Blue Spiral 1 is undergoing a bit of an image overhaul.

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and the gallery itself, is contemporary,” says Manes. “When you walk into the gallery, it’s timeless. … We’re continuing to do more contemporary work and introduce newer artists in the gallery.” That introduction, he says, is something Blue Spiral 1 wants its artists to be proud of. The image of most businesses — such as logo and press materials — is updated every few years. Blue Spiral 1 hasn’t reconfigured its public persona in its 27-year tenure — until now.

Don’t expect, say, day-glo painted walls or the likes of Kazuo Shiraga creating sculpture by crawling through a pile of mud. The change will be more subtle but can be witnessed at Blue Spiral 1’s Ink + Imagery print invitational, opening Thursday, Oct. 26.

The show, “a survey of Southern artists who use varying methods of printmaking on paper, fabric, glass and ceramics,” according to the gallery’s website, includes work by Jamaal Barber, Mary Claire Becker, Laurie Corral, Nicole Dikon, April Flanders, Clay Harmon, Elysia Mann, Kristen Martincic, Adrienne Miller, Althea Murphy-Price, Eric Pardue, Hannah Skoonberg, Art Werger, Jessica White and Hayden Wilson.

There are familiar formats such as linoleum block prints and silk screens, but also laser-cut plexiglass, shadow boxes, colored etchings, weavings and photogravure, among other mediums. “We’re selecting the artists based on the diversity we’re looking for,” says Manes. “It’s an exciting time: We can show off the best of the best.”

He continues, “You might think you’ve seen [printmaking] before, but this is showing it in a different light.”

The featured artists are a mix of established creatives and newer makers — a switch from Blue Spiral 1’s previous initiative of introducing upand-coming artists only in its annual January exhibition. The mix of new-to-the-gallery artists with those from Blue Spiral 1’s stable gives the newcomers a built-in audience, says Manes, “and also gives our artists an opportunity to … bring in a different demographic to their clientele.”

In June, Blue Spiral 1 collaborated with the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design on Forging Futures, an exhibition of 24 studio craft artists. Ten percent of sales — more than $10,000 — from that show were donated to the CCCD, and works by participating artists were placed in major collections. Pieces by George Peterson, Tom Shields and Hoss Haley will be shown at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama, and Dustin Farnsworth was selected to be featured at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. Both Blue Spiral 1 and the CCCD had record attendance for opening, says Manes, and he hopes to embark on future collaborations with that organization. The gallery also just closed Faces of Black Mountain College (1933-1957), an exhibit of

portraits by painter and former Ashevillean Noah Saterstrom, presented in conjunction with the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s ReVIEWING 9 conference.

The gallery’s own programming, too, has been bringing in larger audiences. Artist talks and demonstrations necessitated the purchase of additional chairs. For popular panel discussions, Blue Spiral 1 sometimes coordinates with the Fine Arts Theatre next door for use of a screening room.

“This year, to date, has been one of the best years we’ve had,” says Manes. “We’re in a good trajectory, so we’re going to use this growth.”

A revamped website is in the works, as are podcasts and an artist studio visit video series, all aimed at “bringing the gallery outside of the walls,” Manes says. Also, of the sixperson staff, three are new. The team includes assistant director Candace Reilly, consultant and media specialist Evan Lewis, consultant and database specialist Joy Moser, preparator and shipping coordinator Jon Sours and marketing and communications coordinator Ali Whitman.

Adding to that fresh energy is a robust intern program, drawing from UNC Asheville, Warren Wilson College and Western Carolina University. Those students, along with learning all aspects of gallery management (from sales and maintenance to making 3-D models of the exhibition space to be used in planning future shows), have the opportunity to curate a show of their own, culling artists from Blue Spiral 1’s stable and outside sources from the region.

But even as ideas and approaches change, one thing remains the same: “We are extremely fortunate to have the space we have,” Manes says. “I want to use our space to its full capacity, having interesting shows, shows within shows … and have artists really want to be here at the gallery.” X

WHO Ink + Imagery: Print Invitational WHERE Blue Spiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave. bluespiral1.com WHEN Opening reception Thursday, Oct. 26, 5-8 p.m.

On view through Friday, Dec. 22

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by Bill Kopp

bill@musoscribe.com

KEEPING HIS COOL Though he’s known primarily for his 1979 hit single “Cruel to Be Kind,” singer-songwriter Nick Lowe is a revered figure in rock and pop music. A key figure in the British punk and new wave scenes of the late 1970s and early ’80s, Lowe has since turned his own music in a more low-key direction. But, for his current tour, he’s teaming up with inimitable American instrumental rock icons Los Straitjackets, performing Lowe’s songs old and new in high-energy style. The group plays The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Oct. 21.

Lowe released his first solo album, Jesus of Cool, in 1978 (in deference to delicate American sensibilities, his U.S. label retitled the LP Pure Pop for Now People). Nashville-based Los Straitjackets debuted with the 1995 record The Utterly Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sound of Los Straitjackets. Though their music was somewhat dissimilar, both acts have long shared an irreverent and warmly humorous approach.

But their paths didn’t cross until they shared a North Carolina stage in 2012. “We’re both on Yep Roc [Records],” notes Los Straitjackets guitarist and co-founder Eddie Angel. The Hillsborough-based independent label celebrated its 15th anniversary with a three-day music festival. “We backed Nick for a few songs,” Angel says, “and everybody thought it was a good idea.” Los Straitjackets would go on to support Lowe on three Christmas-themed tours.

Earlier this year, Lowe and Los Straitjackets performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. “That was the first time we did a show [together] that didn’t have any kind of Christmas theme,” Angel says.

“This is the first tour that’s just his regular catalog.”

Los Straitjackets’ latest album is a collection of instrumental readings of Lowe songs, What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets. The title is a nod to another Lowe classic, one that brought its songwriter a fortune when Curtis Stigers covered it on the soundtrack of the 1992 film The Bodyguard. But, while Lowe is noted for his lyrics, Los Straitjackets’ tribute to him focuses instead on the strength of his melodies.

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Nick Lowe teams up with Los Straitjackets for a tour with an Asheville date

PURE POP FOR LOWE PEOPLE: Mexican wrestling mask-clad foursome Los Straitjackets apply muscular instrumental power to backing singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, far right, during his Quality Rock & Roll Revue. Photo courtesy of Yep Roc Records On the new record, the band recasts Lowe classics in different styles: “Lately I’ve Just Let Things Slide” becomes a surf rocker, and the uptempo “Cruel to Be Kind” becomes a ballad. While founding member Danny “Daddy-O Grande” Amis no longer tours with the band (after successfully battling cancer, the guitarist moved to Mexico City), he remains a formidable presence on Los Straitjackets’ albums. “Danny turned a Nick Lowe song into something that sounded like The Shadows,” Angel says. “I think Nick got a big kick out of that.”

Not even counting his records with the bands Kippington Lodge and Brinsley Schwarz (not to mention his short-lived supergroups Rockpile and Little Village), Lowe has released 14 studio albums. For What’s So Funny, the members of Los Straitjackets picked some hits and some deep-cut personal favorites.

“We had to have some of his real chestnuts, but we didn’t want to overload it like that,” Angel says. So, they picked some lesser-known tunes alongside covers of “Rollers Show”

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and “Heart of the City.” “We wanted to make sure that we covered his whole career,” Angel says.

Los Straitjackets have a well-earned reputation for reinventing the works of others; their reading of the Celine Dion Titanic hit “My Heart Will Go On” is just one of many inspired examples. “But we don’t have any problem writing originals,” Angel notes; his band has released 20 albums to date.

For this tour, Los Straitjackets revert to playing Lowe’s songs the way they were originally recorded.

And the band is happy to bend its style in the direction of another artist when doing so makes musical sense.

“It’s a real kick for us to work with people we’re big fans of,” Angel says.

Playing with Lowe affords the band opportunities it wouldn’t otherwise experience. “For instance, our drummer [Chris Sprague] is a really good harmony and background singer,” Angel points out. “But you would never know that from our shows.”

After the tour with Lowe — a dozen dates in the Eastern half of the U.S. — the instrumental band will head

back into the studio with Danny Amis.

“We think it’s time for a new album of originals,” Angel says, “a return-tothe-roots kind of an album where it’s just two guitars, bass, and drums: A real rock ’n’ roll record.”

But, for now, Los Straitjackets are enjoying their time on the road with the Jesus of Cool. “He’s such a pro,” Angel says. “You learn a lot just by being around Nick. Here’s a guy who’s been able to have a career spanning more than four decades, and he’s probably better now than he’s ever been.” X

WHO Nick Lowe’s Quality Rock & Roll Revue featuring Los Straitjackets WHERE The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Saturday, Oct. 21, 8 p.m. $20-30

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by Jeff Messer | upstge@yahoo.com

Kickoff Party

‘Zombie Prom’ at HART

Sunday, Oct. 29 at

the

Orange Peel

6-9 p.m.

Free and open to the public THE MOSTER MASH: Un-dead Jonny, played by Maximilian Koger, just wants to go to the high school dance in HART Theatre’s Zombie Prom. Photo courtesy of HART If you love teenage romance twisted up with old-school sci-fi and an ever-present do-wop musical score, Zombie Prom, the latest production of Haywood Arts Regional Theatre, will be right up your dark alley. The show runs through Sunday, Oct. 29. HART will also host an actual Zombie Prom on Saturday, Oct. 28, as a fundraiser.

But back to the play. Director Mark Jones, musical director Sarah Fowler and choreographer Jessica Garland have poured their talents into an energetic evening of family-friendly, Halloween-themed entertainment.

The story is simple enough: Young Toffee (sung with bubbly vitality by Clara Ray Burris) is in love with rebellious Jonny — who dropped the “h” from his name on purpose to prove his bad-boy nature.

When Toffee’s family disapproves and forces her to dump Jonny, the Enrico Fermi High bad boy drives headlong into a nuclear power plant.

Jonny dies a horrible, irradiated death and is buried at sea with nuclear waste.

But Toffee’s mourning brings him back — as a zombie — just in time for prom.

Maximilian Koger plays Jonny with a delightfully goofy smile and an angelic singing voice. The undead rebel is a controversial figure within the school.

Half the students welcome him back, while others reject his walking-dead presence in their halls.

Principal Delilah Strict (an always-intop-form Karen Covington) is the overbearing administrator who lives up to her name, imposing firm rules and regulations, while reigning over the students with an iron fist. She threatens to cancel all activities within the school if Toffee allows Jonny to roam the halls in pursuit of true love. Poor Jonny only wants to be with Toffee and to finish high school.

Intrepid tabloid reporter Eddie Flagrante gets wind of the scandalous zombie who plagues the school and dashes off to become a champion for undead rights. Dominic Michael Aquilino lights up the stage as the flamboyant Flagrante. There is also a history with Flagrante and Strict, who once had a tumultuous romance. They harbor deep feelings and at least one major secret between them. Aquilino and Covington deliver a show-stopping song and tango number that is filled with a

dizzying array of double entendres and dance moves. This five minutes alone is worth the price of admission.

The show is clever and filled with jokes that will delight adults and children alike. It can easily be summed up with Toffee’s declaration to Jonny that her parents didn’t care for him that much when he was alive and will probably not like him now that he’s dead.

With decaying tongue placed firmly in rotting cheek, the play delights from first notes to final bows. X

WHAT Zombie Prom

Happy Hour: All day every day. $1.50 oysters (chef’s choice)

WHERE HART Theatre 250 Pigeon St. Waynesville harttheatre.org

HOLIDAY PARTIES • SPECIAL EVENTS

WHEN Through Sunday, Oct. 29, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. $10-20

Biltmore Station/2 Hendersonville Rd just steps from Biltmore Village 828-222-6555 • virgolausa.com

MONDAYS: ½ Price Select Bottles FRI & SAT NIGHTS: Live Music

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

ALA.NI Like her former classmate Amy Winehouse, London-born, Paris-based singer ALA.NI makes fresh music that knowingly nods to a bygone age.

With warm vocals that remain sweetly smooth in the upper registers and pair nicely with stripped-down guitar (which she also occasionally plays), she writes original songs in the style of standards sung by her great-uncle Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson — the Grenadaborn, British cabaret star who was the basis for jazz artist Jack Ross on Downton Abbey.

After singing backup for Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli and Blur, ALA.NI booked time in Damon Albarn’s London studio to record part of her debut solo album, You & I. She’s currently opening for eclectic blues/soul singer Son Little, whose tour stops at The Mothlight for a Thursday, Oct. 26, show at 9 p.m. $13 advance/$15 day of show. themothlight.com. Photo

by LANDRY

Against Me! Since 1997, the one constant in punk band Against Me! has been Laura Jane Grace. The frontwoman’s life over that span of years, however, has been anything but static. In 2012, she transitioned from male to female at the age of 31, a change that naturally affected her music. A work-in-progress at the time of Grace’s transition, 2014’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues helped her process the struggles she was then facing, and was followed in 2016 by Shapeshift With Me, the rare album about relationships from a trans perspective. A year and a half after Grace burned her birth certificate onstage at Durham’s Motorco Music Hall to protest HB2, Against Me! returns to North Carolina for a show at The Orange Peel on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. Bleached and The Dirty Nil open. $20 advance/$23 day of show. theorangepeel.net. Photo by Casey Curry

Mark Twain

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands After a successful July weekend event to celebrate its 70th year, the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands returns for its fall edition. Along with a range of traditional and contemporary craft booths, the three-day showcase features demonstrations

by Brandy Clements (chair caning), Ronnie McMahan (woodcarving), Valerie Berlage (painted wood and construction), Cassie Dickson (flax-to-linen processing) and Connie Brown (quilting and sewing). The fair also includes Appalachian music from such local acts as Cary Fridley & Haywood County Ramblers, Smoky Mountain Rhythm and Buncombe Turnpike. It all takes place at the U.S. Cellular Center on Friday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $8 general admission/$12 weekend pass/free for children younger than 12. uscellularcenterasheville.com. Photo of Clements from Silver River Center for Chair Caning courtesy of the Southern Highland Craft Guild

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With Hal Holbrook’s September announcement that he has retired from his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! after a 63-year run, the door is open for Marvin Cole to earn the title of the Huckleberry Finn author’s premier depicter.

The Candler native has been performing as Twain for more than 30 years and says the main purpose of the act “is to satirize human cruelty to other humans in the hope of realizing the need to respect all people.

A second purpose is to bring the physical, mental and healing benefits of humor to audiences. On the side we can throw in a glimpse of history, poking fun at pretensions and [exposing] sham.” The Friends of the East Asheville Library present a one-hour performance

by Cole in the Fellowship Hall of Beverly Hills Baptist Church on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. Free. bhbc.org. Photo of Twain by A.F. Bradley, via Wikimedia Commons

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by Abigail Griffin

LATIN JAZZ AT DIANA WORTHAM: Ten-time Grammy Award-winning musician Eddie Palmieri and his band are lighting up the Diana Wortham Theatre stage with swinging Latin jazz on Friday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award winner, Palmieri is known worldwide for melding complex jazz harmonies with the beats of his Puerto Rican heritage and other Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean musical styles. For tickets to the $40 show or for more information, visit dwtheatre.com. Photo of Palmieri courtesy of Diana Wortham Theatre (p. 50) ART ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FRIDAYS (9/22) through (12/15), 1-4pm - "Pottery for Veterans," class for veterans living in Buncombe County. Registration required: ashevillearts.com. Free.

Held at Odyssey Clayworks, 236 Clingman Ave. ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • WE (10/18), 4-6pm - Meet the four selected artists for the Lexington Avenue Art Project who will be displaying their final submissions for public review.

Free to attend. Held at Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB), 39 N. Lexington Ave. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • TH (10/19), 6pm - Stephanie Peterson Jones presents her book, Drawing for Joy: 15 Minute Daily Meditations. Free to attend.

MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • TH (10/19), 5-8pm - Grand opening event with gallery artists.

Free to attend.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org, info@craftcreativitydesign.org

• SA (10/21), 2-5pm - "Craft City Food & Art Tour," guided walking tour of local craft food and drink. $75.

THE COMMUNITY TABLE 23 Central St. Sylva, 828-5866782 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 4:30pm - Free community arts and crafts session sponsored by the Appalachian Art Farm. Free.

VICTORIA PINNEY STUDIO & GALLERY 191 Lyman St., Studio 101 • WE (10/25), 5-7pm - Grand opening celebration with live music and reception. Free to attend.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART HOP facebook.com/ artgallerytrailwnc1 /?fref=ts, artgallerytrailwnc1@gmail.com • 3rd FRIDAYS, 4-7pm - Selfguided tours of 13 fine arts and crafts galleries in Historic Hendersonville and Flat Rock.

Free to attend. Held at Art Gallery Trail WNC, S Main St, Hendersonville ART IN THE PARK ashevilleartinthepark.com/ • SA (10/21), 10am-5pm Asheville Art in the Park, open-air artist and craft market. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

BRAHMARI BREWING CO. 101 S Lexington Ave. • WE (10/18) through SU (10/22) - Fall Fiesta, pop-up shop featuring over 70 art and craft vendors.

Wed.: 6-9pm. Thurs.-Sun.: 11am7pm. $5 entry benefits Hurricane relief efforts.

MAGGIE VALLEY FESTIVAL GROUNDS 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley, 828-734-6750, plottfest.org/ • SA (10/21) & SU (10/22), 9am4pm- Maggie Valley Fall Arts & Crafts Show featuring seasonal items, yard art, paintings, photography, pottery, wooden bowls, furniture, jewelry, handmade furniture, goat milk soaps and food vendors. Free to attend.

THE CRAFT FAIR OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS southernhighlandguild.org • FR (10/20) & SA (10/21), 10am6pm & SU (10/22), 10am-5pm - Craft fair featuring vendors with contemporary to traditional works of clay, wood, metal, glass, fiber, natural materials, paper, leather, mixed media and jewelry. $8.

Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. THE HUB OF FAIRVIEW 1185 Charlotte Highway, Suite G, Fairview • SU (10/22), 1-5pm - Fairview Area Art League, outdoor art show featuring painting, pottery, sculpture, fiber arts, jewelry and stained glass. Free to attend.

TRADE & LORE COFFEE HOUSE 37 Wall St., 828-424-7291, tradeandlore.com/

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• TH (10/26) through SU (11/5), 8am-7pm - Day of the Dead Pop Up Shop. Featuring over 40 art and craft vendors. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS GRACE CENTER 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River • Through WE (10/18) Submissions accepted for the Grace Center 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Information: youjudgeit.org/ gracejuriedshow. $10 per work sample.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome.

Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 828-254-7046, ashevillesymphony.org • SA (10/21), 8pm - "Masterworks 2: Journeys," program featuring works by Beethoven, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov. Featuring master table player Sandeep Das. $24 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (10/24), 2pm - Michael Jefry Stevens & Friends, jazz concert.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (10/20), 8pm - "Eddie at 80," Eddie Palmieri in concert, jazz/ Afro-Caribbean. $40/$35 student/$20 children.

HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway.

Hendersonville, 828-692-6424, myhcdp.com • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - "Strings and Things," folk pop music jam. Free.

HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 828-697-5884, hendersonvillesymphony.org • SA (10/21), 7:30pm - Orchestra concert featuring flutist Marianne Gedigian playing works by Torke, Mozart, Chaminade and Copland. $40/$20 for adults under 40/$10 students. Held in the Concert Hall. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock JACKSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-507-9820, info@jacksoncountyarts.org • TH (10/26), 6pm - Junior Appalachian Musicians and Darren Nicholson, of Balsam Range Band, concert. Free. Held at Jackson

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County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva MUSIC AT MARS HILL 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill, mhu.edu • MO (10/23), 7:30pm - "The Traveling Spirit," voice recital with Dr. Jennifer Pedersen, soprano.

Free. Held in Broyhill Chapel.

MUSIC AT UNCA 828-251-6432, unca.edu • TH (10/19), noon-1pm - Live at Lunch Concert: Contemporary Guitar Ensemble and the Booker T and the MGs Ensemble. Free.

Held at the Highsmith Union Grotto, 1 University Heights • TH (10/19), 7pm - Poetry openmic followed by a folk music/newgrass concert with Some Folks and Mama Danger. Free. Held in the Greenhouse. at Ramsey Library, 1 University Heights, • FR (10/20), 12:45-1:45pm -Master class and clinic with the Huntertones. Free. Held at Lipinsky Hall, 018, 300 Library Lane, • TU (10/24), 7pm - "The Guitar’s Role in the Classical/Jazz Hybrid of Third Stream Music," lecture by Andy Jurik. Free. Held at Lipinsky Hall, 018, 300 Library Lane, • WE (10/25), 2-3:15pm - Master class and clinic with jazz saxophonist Tim Green. Free. Held at Lipinsky Hall, 018, 300 Library Lane, • TH (10/26), noon-1pm - Live at Lunch Concert: Cannonball Adderley Ensemble and the X-tet.

Free. Held at Lipinsky Hall, 018, 300 Library Lane MUSIC AT WCU 828-227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • SA (10/21), 9am-5pm Tournament of Champions, high school band competition. $15.

Held in E.J. Whitmire Stadium • TH (10/26), 8pm - Brett Young and Carly Pearce, homecoming concert. $15/$10 students. Held at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER 38 N. French Broad, 828-7851701, newmountainavl.com • WE (10/18), 6-7:30pm "Community Concert for Kindness," live music by The Change, all-female funk band.

Hosted by Hanger Hall School for Girls. Free to attend.

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 828-884-5137, tchistoricalsociety.com, tchsociety@yahoo.com • SA (10/21), 5:30pm - "Down By the Barn: Stories & Music," event with storyteller and musician Gary Greene. Bring a chair or blanket.

Free. Held at the Allison-Deaver Barn, 2753 Asheville Highway, Pisgah Forest TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-8598322, tryonarts.org • TH (10/26), 7pm - The Riedys, outdoor concert. Admission by donation.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/6) until (10/22) - St. Nicholas, one-man comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (10/20) until (10/22) - Disney's, High School Musical Jr., presented by the youth production class.

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

BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 828-884-2587, TheBrevardLittleTheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/29) - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18/$12 student/$6 children.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/21) - Little Shop of Horrors. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat., & Sun.: 2pm. $15$50.

NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828-239-0263 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/25) until (11/19) Rapture, Blister, Burn, comedy.

Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $16-$34.

NORTH CAROLINA DANCE FESTIVAL ASHEVILLE ncdfasheville.bpt.me • FR (10/20), 8pm & SA (10/21), 2pm & 8pm - Dance works and performances by Chris Yon solo for Taryn Griggs, Alexandra Warrens JOYEMOVEMENT Dance Company, Natalie Marrone, Matt Pardos and Megan Payne. $21.50/$18 students. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. ODDITORIUM 1045 Haywood Road, 828-5759299 • SU (10/22), 9pm - "American Horror Strip Show," performance

by The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue. $10.

THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 828254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (10/19) until (10/21) - Birds of Paradise, presented by the Asheville School Dramatic Society.

Thurs. & Fri.: 7:15pm. Sat.: 2pm.

Free.

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 828-279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (10/12) until (10/28), 7:30pm - Masters Series: The Zoo Story and Krapp’s Last Tape. $16/$12 previews.

TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Road, Suite B, 828505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com • Through SA (10/21), 8pm Hedwig and The Angry Inch, rock musical presented by The Synthesis Experiment. $20/$15 under 30.

GALLERY DIRECTORY ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 310 ART 191 Lyman St., #310, 828-776-2716, 310art.com • Through SU (12/31) Storytelling: Thought to Image, group exhibition.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through TU (10/24) - Wood, exhibition of wood works of 11 artists.

ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (10/27) - Exhibition of works

by Kehren Barbour and Leslie Rowland.

Reception: Wednesday, Oct. 27, 6-8pm. Held at Mars Hill University, Weizenblatt Gallery, 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill • Through FR (12/15) - Minstrel of Appalachia: The Life and Legacy of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, exhibition. Held at the Ramsey Center for Regional Studies ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through TH (11/30) - Illustrated Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, exhibition.

Held at Ramsey Library, 1 University Heights ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • Through FR (1/26) WCU Collects: Recent Acquisitions, exhibition.

Held at the Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (10/20) We are American Craft Week!, juried exhibition.

Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-2515796, ashevillegallery-of-art. com • Through TU (10/31) Grounded: Landscapes Real and Imagined,

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GALLERY GRAND OPENING: Abstract painter Victoria Pinney moved from Chicago to Asheville nine years ago and found her place in the emerging River Arts District — first in the Wedge building, then Cotton Mill Studios and now in Riverview Station. Pinney is celebrating her new studio with a grand opening reception, which includes live music and food, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 5-7 p.m. In addition to Pinney’s work, the studio also houses portraiture and landscapes by Constance Vlahoulis and furniture from Old Mountain Road. Photo courtesy of Victory Pinney Studio & Gallery exhibition featuring the work of Cathyann Burgess.

BLUE SPIRAL 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 828251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through FR (10/20) - Outside Inspiration, exhibition of fine art and craft by six artists.

CAROLINA MOUNTAIN SALES 10 Brook St., Suite #235 • TH (10/19) through TH (11/30) - Exhibition of art by Andreina Bates.

Reception: Thursday, Oct. 19, 4-6pm.

FLOW GALLERY 14 South Main St., Marshall, avl.mx/aw • Through TU (10/31) - Rock, Paper, Scissors: Playful Patterns, exhibition of the cooperative’s artists.

GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through TU (10/31) - Exhibition of the artwork of Joe Meigs and Tim Lewis.

JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 828-586-2016, fontanalib.org/sylva/ • Through TU (10/31) - Exhibition of the paintings of Jan Boyer.

JUBILEE! COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St. • Through SU (10/29) - Remembering Heart and Earth, exhibition of nature-based paintings

by Deb Criss.

MAHEC 121 Hendersonville Road, 828-257-4400 • Through TU (10/31) - Resiliance, city wide art-exhibition in conjunction with the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Southeastern Summit. See website for locations: sys.mahec. net/ce/aces2017.aspx.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 828285-9700,

facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • SU (10/1) through TU (10/31) - Exhibition featuring the the ceramic art of Reiko Miyagi, Tara Underwood, and Kate Gardner and other gallery members.

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville, 828-7652359, penland.org • Through SU (11/19) - Conversation | What Remains, exhibition of textile and painting artworks by Rachel Meginnes.

PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (11/5) The Heart of Everything That Is: Homage to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, exhibtion of works by Connie Bostic.

PUBLIC EVENTS AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu

• Through SU (1/14) - Legacy Endures, exhibition featuring new members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through SU (12/3) - Refocused: Recycled Skateboards Reimagined, new works

by Chad Cardoza and Toybox Monster.

TRACKSIDE STUDIOS 375 Depot St., 828-5456235 • Through TU (10/31) Moody Skies, exhibition of paintings by Virginia Pendergrass.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (10/20) - As the Crow Flies,

invitational art exhibition featuring works by Christine Kosiba and friends.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through TU (10/31) - Encore: The Black & White Show, group exhibition. Closing Night reception 7-9pm.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through SA (11/25) - Regional sculpture exhibit and sale.

UNC ASHEVILLE OWEN HALL 1 University Heights • Through FR (10/20) - Intersectionality, exhibition of ceramics and photographs on fabric

by Nick Boismenu and Lyn Govette.

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MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm Open Mic Night • 9pm WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm

10/18: TRIVIA 7-9PM

THURSDAYS The Clydes • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

10/19: $1 OFF POURS 10/22: YOGA + CIDER 12:30PM COMING SOON: 11/3: RESONANT ROGUES 8-10PM

FRI CHUCK JOHNSON CHARLYHORSE 10/20 9AND PM / $5 VADEN “PAPA VAY” SAT LANDERS 10/21 YODELIN’ COUNTRY BLUESMAN

9 PM / $5

WESTERN SWING TUE W/ TEXAS T & 10/24 THE TUMBLEWEEDS 7 PM / NO COVER

FRI HALLOWEEN 10/27 WARM-UP PARTY! ROYAL HOUNDS W/ MUDDY RUCKUS 8PM / $7

IRISH SUNDAYS Irish Food and Drink Specials Traditional Irish Music Session • 3-9pm OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON CRAFT BEER, SPIRITS & QUALITY PUB FARE SINCE 1997

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

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LESS IS MORE: Sometimes the most awe-inspiring music is made of simple parts — hushed, subtle vocals; the sweep of the bow across taut strings; the plaintive plunk of piano keys. That’s all it takes for New York indie-pop duo Gracie & Rachel to evoke a surreal soundscape that at once lifts the listener high about the ground while simultaneously drilling down to the fragile core of the human experience. Immerse yourself in the simple beauty of Gracie & Rachel when they whisk into Asheville for a 8 p.m. show on Friday, Oct. 20. Photo via event promoters WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 7:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Karaoke, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Kon Tiki w/ Hank Bones & Ling Ling, 7:30PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Fall Fiesta Pop Up Shop Preview, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Double Trouble Karaoke w/ Dee and Quinn, All day CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll, dance), 7:30PM CREPE BOURREE Gypsy Duets, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Sparrow's Balkan Band (klezmer, Eastern European folk), 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach, 7:00PM The Claire Lynch Band, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Open Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night w/ DJ Mexicano Isaac, 7:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Community Concert for Kindness w/ The Change, 6:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert (sign up @ 7:30 p.m.), 8:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Vaden Landers & The Do Rights, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Austin Lucas w/ Ryan Singer, 7:00PM Paperhause w/ Konvoi (rock), 9:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Emily Saliers, 8:00PM

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

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 5:30PM Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Billy Litz (multi-instrumentalist), 9:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Circus No. 9 (early show), 6:00PM POUR TAPROOM Music Bingo!, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION RnB Wednesday Jam Night w/ Ryan RnB Barber & friends, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Indivisible Asheville (beer & politics), 5:30PM Peggy Ratusz's Female Artist Spotlight Night w/ Heather Taylor, Lillie Kolman, Aileen Pearlman, 7:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Beats 'n' Rhymes w/ Nex Millen, 8:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Art Trio (jazz), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Spalding McIntosh (acoustic), 7:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH J Luke (acoustic), 6:30PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 185 KING STREET Studio 185 Blues Jam, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Rotating jazz bands, 9:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Grateful Asheville Music Experience (Grateful Dead tribute), 8:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Sheer Mag w/ TBA & Kreamy 'Lectric Santa, 9:30PM

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

THE ODDITORIUM The Crooner & The Clown (comedy, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Fall Fiesta Pop Up Shop, 6:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Burger Bar Boogaloo!, All day BYWATER Well Lit Strangers, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ Matt Sperling, 8:00PM CONUNDRUM SPEAKEASY & INTRIQUE LOUNGE Gypsy Guitar Duo (jazz), 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

LAKE EDEN 45th annual LEAF Festival, All day LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM MAGGIE B'S WINE AND SPECIALTY STORE Live Music Thursday Nights, 6:00PM NOBLE KAVA Vinyl Night, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Top-Surgery Punk Benefit for Grier Low (punk, benefit), 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Ian Harrod, 7:00PM

UNC ASHEVILLE RAMSEY LIBRARY Music & poetry open mic w/ Some Folks & Mama Danger (sign-up @ 6:30 p.m.), 7:00PM

THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Live Band Karaoke & Open Jam w/ Old School, 9:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ unplugged w/ Sarah Tucker, 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings, 9:00PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM

185 KING STREET Garrett Owen, 8:00PM

BURGER BAR Burger Bar Bike Night, All day

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Tennis Trio (folk, soul), 9:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ DJ Capt EZ, 9:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Stepp Mill Gang, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll (roots, blues), 7:30PM

10/27 ZOOGMA

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Hot Bachata Nights (salsa dancing), 9:30PM

BARTACO BILTMORE DJ Phantom Pantone, 5:30PM

CORK & KEG Jason DeCristofaro Trio (jazz, vintage swing), 8:30PM

BEBE THEATRE NC Dance Festival in Asheville, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Tom Waits for No Man (Tom Waits covers), 9:00PM

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Fall Fiesta Pop Up Shop, 6:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Eddie Palmieri: Eddie at 80, 8:00PM

w/ Aligning Minds

& Battery Powered Hooker Boots

10/28 Porch 40

w/ Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats

11/3 Marley Carroll w/ Ian Ewing

11/10 PLOYD

+ Organik

11/18 Laura Reed

+ Natural Born Leaders

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Acoustic Muffin Duo (folk, jam, rock), 9:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN AURA NOIR w/ Mutilation Rites, Shadow Of The Destroyer & Black Mountain Hunger, 8:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Whethan w/ Bearson & Opia, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Spoiler Alert!, 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Steady Flow, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Roots & friends open jam (blues, rock, roots), 6:30PM

POLANCO RESTAURANT Open Mic & Improv w/ Organic Monk, 9:00PM

OPEN MIC NIGHT EVERY MONDAY 7PM

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185 CLINGMAN AVE • ASHEVILLE

10/18 EMILY SALIERS

(OF THE INDIGO GIRLS)

10/19 THE PLAGUE OF MAN PRESENTS: AURA NOIR

w/ Mutilation Rites, Shadow of the Destroyer, Black Mountain Hunger

10/20 THE DISTRICTS 10/21 NICK LOWE’S QUALITY ROCK & ROLL REVUE FEATURING LOS STRAITJACKETS 10/22 GRAILS ALTERNATE ROUTES 10/24 THE + NICK FRADIANI KEN BLOCK & DREW COPELAND 10/25 (OF SISTER HAZEL) w/ Sun Seeker

w/ Jason Loewenstein Solo Electric (of Sebadoh)

An Evening With

THIS WEEK AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

11/24 In Plain Sight 12/1 EXMAG

w/ RBTS win

Historic Live Music Venue Located At

WED TUE

PURPLE ONION CAFE Eric Congdon & Billy Cardine, 7:30PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Country for a Cause Dance (Puerto Rico benefit), 8:30PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Ryan Hutchens (folk, bluegrass), 6:00PM

POUR TAPROOM Tunes at the Taps w/ Quetzal Jordan Duo, 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Rick Smith & the Common Fates, 9:00PM

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Vinyl Night, 6:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia Night, 7:00PM Another Country (bluegrass), 10:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Johnsmith, 7:00PM Matt Townsend & the Wild Lights w/ Livingdog, 8:30PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Flow Jam w/ 12 Olympians, 8:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Mister Inferno Pageant, 9:00PM College Night: Halloween Costume Party, 10:00PM

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THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (Theme: "Creepy”), 7:30PM

SALVAGE STATION Greensky Bluegrass w/ Fruition, 5:00PM

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DOUBLE CROWN Rock & Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER Classic World Cinema, 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB The Snozzberries (funk, fusion), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Kites (indie rock), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Dark Arts Release Party, 5:00PM GOOD STUFF Anne E. DeChant (singersongwriter), 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Districts w/ Sun Seeker, 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Jordan Esker & the 100% (indie, folk, rock), 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Belle Hollows, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Chuck Johnson & Charlyhorse (Southern rock, country), 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Friday w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:30PM Dread Ahead (reggae, jam), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING The Jamison Adams Project (jam rock), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL An evening w/ Hiss Golden Messenger, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ Moto (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Kate Schetter Trio, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Unite! Open Mic Night w/ Roberto Hess, 7:30PM Ton Of Hay (Grateful Dead tribute), 10:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Mike Barnes & Friends, 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM

JARGON The Brian Felix Trio, 10:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT San Fermin w/ Gracie & Rachel, 9:00PM

LAZOOM BUS TOURS Sufi Brothers (honky-tonk 'n' roll), 5:30PM

THE SUMMIT AT NEW MOUNTAIN AVL SOL Vibes, 9:00PM

LAKE EDEN 45th annual LEAF Festival, All day

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, 10:00AM

LAZY DIAMOND Rotating rpm rock 'n' soul DJ, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon, 6:30PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Carolina Cud Chewers (stringband), 7:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN The Stray Mutt, 6:30PM NANTAHALA BREWING COMPANY Happy Abandon, 11:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Kalya Scintilla w/ Eveo-Lution, Whitebear, Hyberbolic Headspace & Mycorr, 9:00PM NOBLE KAVA Zapato, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Pleasures of the UltraViolent w/ Drunk In A Dumpster, No Anger Control, City Mouse & The Dimarcos (punk), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Acoustic Tunes by the River, 4:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE House All Dam Night w/ UME (relief benefit), 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Sinners & Saints w/ Amigo, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Duane Simpson & Pam Jones (live music), 7:00PM Jim Arrendell & The Cheap Suits (soul, dance, funk), 10:00PM VIRGOLA Adi The Monk (jazz, blues), 6:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Bhakti Shakti, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Rigged (rock), 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ electric w/ DJ Abu Disarray, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 185 KING STREET Unpaid Bill & the Bad Czechs, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & friends (Americana, soul), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Daddy Rabbit, 9:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE An evening w/ Somewhat Petty (Tom Petty tribute), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Hard Rocket with Grace Williamson, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Spafford (electro funk), 8:30PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Fall Fiesta Pop Up Shop, 6:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Riyen Roots (blues, roots), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison (Americana, alt-country), 7:00PM BURGER BAR AshevilleFM DJ Night, All day CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ Arrabal, 9:00PM CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya (two steps, waltzes), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Burger Kings (rock 'n' roll), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter, 50s/60s R&B + RnR w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Station Underground (reggae), 10:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Seth Glier, 7:00PM Wham Bam Bowie Band (David Bowie tribute), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Vaden "Papa Vay" Landers (old-time, country, blues), 9:00PM JARGON The Bill Bares Trio, 10:30PM LAZOOM BUS TOURS The Lefties (rock 'n' roll), 5:30PM LAKE EDEN 45th annual LEAF Festival, All day LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Tap Takeover w/ Boojum Brewing Company, 5:00PM NOBLE KAVA Echora, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Death Crown w/ Epoch of Unlight (metal), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Saturday Night Fever, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Vibe Street w/ Robbie Dude (night one), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Sly 6 Funk Collective (funk), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Against Me! w/ Bleached & The Dirty Nil, 8:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Honey Magpie (indie folk), 6:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN The Groove Shakers (rock 'n' roll, bluegrass), 9:30PM

GOOD STUFF Damon Sumner & Nathan Owens (comedy), 7:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Joseph Hasty & Centerpiece, 8:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Nick Lowe’s Quality Rock & Roll Revue w/ Los Straitjackets, 8:00PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Saturday Improv w/ Now Are the Foxes & the No-See-Ums, 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils (bluegrass, Americana), 7:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Phuncle Sam, 6:00PM Chamomile & Whiskey (bluegrass, Celtic music), 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga for Sanctuary Rescue Home, 10:00AM Freeway Revival & Further To Fly, 7:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Kingdom w/ Viktor Grimm (drag king showcase), 11:00PM

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CLU B LA N D THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE 2umbao Salsa Lesson, 9:30PM Latin Rhythms & Saturday Salsa Dance w/ DJ Malinalli (Puerto Rico benefit), 10:30PM

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic Night (music, poetry, comedy), 5:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Mild High Club w/ Anemone & Andy Loeb's Space Heater, 9:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Grails w/ Jason Loewenstein, 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, 10:00AM Asheville Symphony: Tchaikovsky's 5th, 8:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Saturday Night Dance Off w/ Fame Douglas, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP The Big Dawg Slingshots (jazz, ragtime, Western swing), 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Josh Singleton & Patrick Dodd (blues), 7:30PM Ruby Mayfield & The Friendship Train (live music, dance), 10:00PM VIRGOLA Jason Hazinski (jazz, blues), 6:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ live w/ The Lefties, 8:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers (folk, blues), 7:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Poetry Cabaret, 7:30PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues w/ Patrick Dodd, Ashley Heath & Joshua Singleton, 3:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Spafford (electro funk), 8:00PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Fall Fiesta Pop Up Shop, 6:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Sunday Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Push Presents: Skate Cinema, All day DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz Sunday Brunch, 11:00AM

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS A Taste of Soul Brunch, 12:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Joe Jencks, 5:30PM An evening w/ Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Celtic Jam Session, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ live jazz, 10:00AM LAKE EDEN 45th annual LEAF Festival, All day LAZY DIAMOND Pabst Sabbath w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Gypsy Jazz Brunch w/ Leo Johnson, 1:00PM ODDITORIUM Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch, 10:30AM Vibe Street w/ Robbie Dude (night two), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Theory Of A Deadman w/ Ayron Jones, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Unplugged Sunday Afternoon Tunes w/ A Social Function, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers Jam, 6:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Miss INFERNO Pageant (drag queen showcase), 9:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 7:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Hallelujah Hilliary's Comedy Revival, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT An evening w/ Deloused (Mars Volta tribute), 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, 10:00AM The Marshall Tucker Band w/ The Scooter Brown Band, 7:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE John of Noah & the Animals (world music), 8:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Amat Records Presents AMIT, 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Daydream Creatures w/ The Hot Knives, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Reed Turchi, 9:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Service Industry Night, 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN David LaMotte Guatemala Event, 7:30PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 185 KING STREET Open mic night, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Jazz Club (R&B, jazz, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Lenore with Eclectic Owls, 8:00PM BURGER BAR Booze Bap, All day DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Bingo Wingo Thingo, 6:00PM Cole Jeffrey & Kristen Taylor, 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Open Mic Night, 7:00PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Asheville City Council Candidate Forum, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Game Night, 4:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Trivia Night, 7:00PM Open mic, 9:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & friends, 6:30PM MG ROAD The Living Room (live music), 8:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky Tonk Karaoke, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL LEAF presents: Fantastic Voyage w/ David LaMotte, LEAF International Guatemala, New Orleans & Ivory Coast (cultural arts showcase), 11:00AM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Ghost Pipe Trio, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Nathan Kalish, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Old Time Music Open Jam, 6:30PM

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BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, FRANCIS X. FRIEL & JUSTIN SOUTHER

HHHHH = H PICK OF THE WEEK H

65,000 individual oil paintings were completed and animated to create this biographical homage to Vincent van Gogh

Loving Vincent HHHH DIRECTOR: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman PLAYERS: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan ANIMATED BIOPICC RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A young man tries to deliver a letter from the late Vincent van Gogh and uncovers mysterious circumstances surrounding his alleged suicide in the process.

THE LOWDOWN: A remarkable and utterly unique approach to van Gogh and his art that fully immerses the audience and does its subject justice in a way that few films have.

The very fact that a film like Loving Vincent exists is a noteworthy achievement in and of itself. Composed entirely of oil paintings in the style of van Gogh stitched together to animate its story, the international co-production took 125 artists seven years to complete —

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and that’s on top of the fact that a live-action film was shot first for reference material. What’s perhaps more impressive is that the film transcends its gimmick to tell a compelling story that would be worth watching even if its remarkable visual accomplishments didn’t justify its existence on their own (which they absolutely do).

On the basis of the title, one could be excused for expecting a piece of melodramatic hero worship along the lines of Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic Lust for Life — but co-writers-directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman take an altogether different approach.

There are no overblown scenes of Kirk Douglas amputating his ear or penning an anguished suicide note to be found in Loving Vincent. Instead, the narrative takes the form of something like a detective story, with an investigation of the Dutch artist’s final days sparked by an undelivered letter to his brother Theo.

The title itself is taken from van Gogh’s signature on that letter, and the

film follows the efforts of a shiftless young man named Armand (Douglas Booth) to deliver it at the behest of his father, Arles postmaster Joseph Roulin (Chris O’Dowd). Both men were painted by van Gogh, as were many of the people Armand encounters during his quest to find an appropriate recipient for the correspondence once he discovers that Theo died shortly after Vincent.

Structurally, the narrative boils down to interviews with the characters that populated the artist’s final days in the northern French village of Auvers.

Everything comes together a bit like Citizen Kane meets the rotoscoped stylization of Waking Life, and its use of the investigatory conceit serves a very interesting purpose. Namely, Loving Vincent espouses a theory developed by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith with their 2011 book “Van Gogh: The Life,” in which they posit that the artist was a victim of manslaughter or murder rather than suicide. The film declines to make any definitive statement on the veracity of this postulation, but it’s an intriguing theory with some distinctly believable evidentiary support. That suicide note in Lust for Life? Never happened.

Loving Vincent is an artistic accomplishment of unquestionable aesthetic merit. Fans of van Gogh will be blown away by the technical virtuosity and almost absurd logistical coordination that went into this production — and it is absolutely, unequivocally gorgeous to look at. While the script is occasionally prone to slavish idolatry, the film’s unique visual approach to its subject marks it as a singularly distinctive screen dramatization of van Gogh’s tragically short life. It’s certainly not a perfect film by any stretch, but it is first and foremost a labor of love. And as far as passion projects go, Kobiela and Welchman have created something so genuine, so sincere, that it’s hard to imagine van Gogh being anything other than pleased. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, some violence, sexual material and smoking. Opens Friday at Fine Arts Theatre.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

M A X R AT I N G Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print.

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

HHHS HH THE FOREIGNER HHH LUCKY HHHH HAPPY DEATH DAY MARSHALL

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN HHS LOVING VINCENT (PICK OF THE WEEK) HHHH

Lucky HHHH DIRECTOR: John Carroll Lynch PLAYERS: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Beth Grant, James Darren, Hugo Armstrong, Barry Shabaka Henley, Yvonne Huff, Bertila Damas, Ana Mercedes, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: An aging man with a life of simple routine contemplates his mortality.

THE LOWDOWN: A beautifully understated film that provides a fitting coda to the long life and illustrious career of the late Harry Dean Stanton.

With the death of Harry Dean Stanton in September, the American cinema lost one of its finest character actors, so it’s only fitting that he got what could conceivably be the best send-off any actor has ever received from a final role. Directing his first feature, fellow character actor John Carroll Lynch has created a moving meditation on mortality and meaning, an elegiac slice of life rendered all the more poignant by its

star’s demise. Lucky is a powerful work that finds beauty in tragedy on a particularly human scale, and it gives Stanton one last chance to shine — something that should have happened more often.

The term “character actor” is particularly significant to what Lynch is up to here because he’s populated his cast entirely with performers to which that designation could be applied.

More importantly, he’s granted them each ample screen time and roles that give them something to work with.

Recognizable faces, including Ed Begley Jr., Ron Livingston, Tom Skerritt and Beth Grant, all get a chance to take the foreground for once, and David Lynch steals every scene he’s in as a bar regular with a missing tortoise (don’t call it a turtle). Screenwriters Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja crafted their script with Stanton in mind, and the film plays like a tribute not only to its star but to every talented thespian who has ever been relegated to background parts.

There’s not much story to speak of, as the narrative effectively centers on its eponymous protagonist’s impending mortality. Stanton’s Lucky, a chainsmoking World War II veteran with a curmudgeonly disposition and no patience for bullshit, is confronted with

a relatively straightforward existential dilemma: While he’s in improbably good health, he knows his days are numbered.

With an atheistic philosophy and no close relationships, he’s stuck searching for meaning as the clock winds down. As dramatic stakes go, it’s far from blockbuster material, but Stanton’s masterfully understated performance creates a sense of weight and significance that is impossible to avoid.

John Carroll Lynch’s directorial prowess is surprisingly strong, though his influences are occasionally too overt.

His sweeping desert panoramas bear the unmistakable fingerprints of John Ford, and the strains of “Red River Valley” played by Stanton on the harmonica dispel any potential ambiguity.

The story is decidedly in the vein of the Italian neorealists, to the extent that Stanton recites the dictionary definition of realism not once, but twice. But if Lynch, Sparks and Sumonja are stealing, at least they’re lifting from the best — and always in service to the world and characters they’ve created.

Still, at the end of the day, this film will be remembered as the epitaph of an actor whose career spanned six decades, who was always a welcome appearance on screen, and who, by all accounts,

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It’s impossible to watch Lucky, with its pervasive themes of mortality and loss, without thinking about the loss of Stanton himself. It’s borderline criminal that his last star turn was in 1984’s Paris, Texas — but at least he left us with

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FILM BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (10/18), 3-6pm Horror Classic Film Series: It Came from Outer Space. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (10/19), 6-8pm Classic Movies at the Leicester Library: The Body Snatchers. Free.

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something wonderful on his way out. It’s a shame they don’t make ’em like Harry Dean anymore, but we’re lucky they still make films like Lucky. Not Rated. Now Playing at Grail Moviehouse.

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• FR (10/20), 8-10pm Classic World Cinema: Day for Night, film screening. Free.

MECHANICAL EYE MICROCINEMA mechanicaleyecinema.org • SA (10/21), 3:30-5pm - "Home Movie Day," international celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. Bring home movies to share or just come watch. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

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Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

Sequel to last year’s surprise hit, this is the tenth film featuring writer/director/actor Tyler Perry’s Madea character. According to the studio: “Madea, Bam and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must literally run for their lives when monsters, goblins and the bogeyman are unleashed..” No early reviews.(PG-13)

Geostorm

Disaster thriller directed by Dean Devlin, starring Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris and Andy Garcia. According to the studio: “After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong—the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything...and everyone along with it.” No early reviews.(PG-13)

Loving Vincent

See Scott Douglas’ review

Only the Brave

Biographical drama directed by Joseph Kosinski, starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Taylor Kitsch and Jennifer Connelly. According to the studio: “Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, one heroic unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation.” Early reviews are positive.(PG-13)

The Snowman

Suspense thriller directed by Thomas Alfredson, starring Michael Fassbinder, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer and J.K. Simmons. According to the studio: “When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit (Ferguson), the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.” Early reviews are negative.(R) 60

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PLEASURE READING: Rosamond Purcell’s photo of a termite-eaten book with an added fish skeleton is one of many images that reflect her fascination with the natural world. The Gallery at Flat Rock presents a screening of An Art That Nature Makes, a documentary about Purcell, on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 at Flat Rock Cinema. Photo by Purcell • On Wednesday, Oct. 18, tickets go on sale for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that will take place on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 10 p.m. at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave. The event includes a live shadowcast by the local troupe Unexpected Pleasures. Tickets are $6 and available exclusively at the box office. $5 prop bags will be sold at the event. Attendees are asked not to bring rice, hot dogs, toast, confetti or shaving cream. ashevillebrewing.com • Selections in the North Asheville Library’s Horror Classics Film Series include It Came from Outer Space (Wednesday, Oct. 18), Creature from the Black Lagoon (Friday, Oct. 20) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Monday, Oct. 23). All films screen at 3 p.m. Free. 1030 Merrimon Ave. avl.mx/251 • On Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., hosts a screening of Wasted!: The Story of Food Waste. Directed by Anna Chai and Nari Kye, the 2017 documentary features interviews with chefs Anthony Bourdain, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura and Danny Bowien about how they make the most of every scrap. After the film, there will be a panel discussion with Flori Pate, founder/director of Asheville food rescue nonprofit Food Connection; chef Katie Button of Curate and Nightbell; Danny Keaton of local waste reduction service Danny’s Dumpster; and a representative from the city of Asheville.

Tickets are $20 and available online or

at the Grail box office. All proceeds from ticket sales benefit Food Connection. grailmoviehouse.com • The Gallery at Flat Rock presents a screening of An Art That Nature Makes on Sunday, Oct. 22, and Monday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. at Flat Rock Cinema, 2700-D Greenville Highway, Flat Rock.

Molly Burnstein’s 2015 documentary profiles Boston-based photographer Rosamond Purcell and her fascination with the natural world. On Oct. 23, Western Carolina University professor James Costa will reflect on the impact of Purcell’s work in the scientific community in a post-film discussion at the gallery next door, which will also feature Purcell’s photographs. Tickets are $10 and available at the gallery. flatrockcinema.com • The next selection in The Collider’s monthly climate and environmental film series is Setting the Bar: A Craft Chocolate Origin Story on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. The documentary follows a group of craft chocolate makers as they visit the Peruvian jungle to strengthen direct relationships with farmer communities and find new kinds of cacao to bring to market. Sample single-origin chocolates while representatives of French Broad Chocolates and climate scientist Scott Stevens discuss the natural environment in which the treats are produced. Beer from series co-sponsor Oskar Blues Brewery and popcorn will be provided.

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Following the director’s historic Academy Award win for Wings in 1927, Beggars of Life was another chance for Wellman to display his technical prowess, and while a hastily amended musical number featuring Beery singing was added to capitalize on the advent of sound synchronization, only the silent version is known to still exist. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Beggars of Life on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Day for Night HHHHH DIRECTOR: François Truffaut PLAYERS: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, François Truffaut COMEDY/ DRAMA Rated PG-13 In Brief: François Truffaut’s Day for Night (1973) is not only a great movie about movies, but it’s fascinating as an example of how international cinema truly is. By this I mean that while we think of foreign film as a separate world, Day for Night is clearly the kind of movie that could only have been made during that era from about 1965 through 1975, and is very much a part of the explosion of art-house fare as mainstream film that existed during that time. Truffaut reveals just enough without revealing too much, and he does so with a purpose — that purpose being to make you marvel all the more at the true magic of how all this can ever result in a coherent, let alone great film. And yet it does. That’s the beauty of Day for Night, and the secret of its own potent magic. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on July 15, 2009. Classic World Cinema

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DIRECTOR: Fritz Lang PLAYERS: Lil Dagover, Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Janssen, Rudolf Klein-Rogge HORROR Rated NR The Asheville Film Society keeps rolling out historic horror hits this week with a slight change of pace: Fritz Lang’s exceptional silent fantasy/horror hybrid, Destiny (1921). Lang’s breakout picture is also one of his most underrated, despite being massively influential — it’s the movie that prompted Luis Buñuel to pick up a camera, its impact on Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is beyond question, and countless films would borrow its narrative conceit over the next century. The story follows a young woman whose husband’s soul is claimed by Death personified, but she’s not willing to let it go without a fight. Death, tired of his daily grind (the original title translates to “The Weary Death”) offers her an appropriately Sisyphean bargain — if she can change the outcome of any of three stories similar to her own, she can have her lover back. This goes about as well as you’d expect, but Lang’s aesthetic innovations and effects work mark Destiny as a highpoint in the director’s early oeuvre and would go on to help to define the style of the German Expressionist cinema.

It’s not just an historically important film, it’s also a haunting work of visual poetry. The Asheville Film Society will screen Destiny on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am my own muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”

Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Happiness comes from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sigmund Freud was a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the twentieth century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture.

When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn.

She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home and in the groove.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon & Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement.

When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your self-transformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you.

Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next twelve months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969, two earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested in diving down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict your ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it.

Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success — not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people — you’ll be required to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that? I think you can.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth — but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions?

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