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lost in transmission Local-led, volunteer-run radio station WPVM, 103.7 FM, has changed ownership from the Mountain Area Information Network to a new group, Friends of WPVM. But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. Xpress explores the station’s troubled history and how it’s charting a new course.

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Newcomers fail to respect WNC natives A recent diatribe ad nauseum in these pages concerning the superiority of the people who select Western North Carolina as their new or second home was one of the most prejudiced and hurtful commentaries that I have ever read [“Anywhere But Asheville,” Oct. 14, Xpress].

How unfortunate it is that most newcomers here can neither appreciate nor respect the lifestyle and ethics of the people native to the area. Inferring horrible things about locals, the writer’s derogatory comments are not only insulting and untrue, but are demonstrative of the arrogance and ignorance of many who move here to force us to accept their idea of how best to live.

And how did those high taxes, high crime, low morals and unsustainable union demands work out for you from Chicago, Jersey and Detroit?

How dare the writer belittle those who preceded his presence here!

Indeed, why do you “progressives” come here? Is it to stomp on what we have, how we live and who we are by taking advantage of our inherent humility and reluctance to get involved? You have used and abused us.

How sad and hypocritical that the writer and his ilk are only able to embrace individuality — er — diversity when it agrees with them. Prejudging us, you assume to know what is best for us and indeed the world: “Change” for any selfish reason as long as it involves control of others (at others’ expense, of course).

This attitude and political grandiosity are direct affronts to the high standards of WNC natives who characteristically exhibit respect for others, a hard work ethic, high morals, strength, a sense of humor, care for the land, independence and a refusal to give up the freedoms and values that built America.

Why do you think our ancestors settled here in the first place? It was for the beauty of the land, the fresh air, clean water and isolation from criticism by pompous asses. But most of all for the loathing of government control.

Let us alone.

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Regulate — don’t ban — short-term rentals As a seasonal visitor to Asheville, I have followed with interest and shock as I read about the changes in the rules of short-term rentals. For eight years, I have rented a cottage in Montford for a two-month period during the summer, so I don’t fall into the one-month minimum rental question. ….

For some, these short-term rentals kept the owners financially alive — plus they all loved doing it. ...

These were alternatives to staying at a hotel, and with hotel prices being pretty high in Asheville, they were even more attractive ... Or maybe only the rich get to afford that special care when they stay at high-end hotel? Isn’t that really what is going on here?

Every week, I read the Mountain Xpress, and when I read about the new rental rules, my first suspicion was, “Who wrote these rules — the local hotels and those being built?” …

It’s the hotel owners and builders and developers who are beginning to control this city. …

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The excuse given was that these new rules would help solve the low vacancy rate of rentals in the city, while helping to lower rental prices. No, they won’t — but they will raise the hotel room rates. …

Anyone who thinks that restricting the tiny number of homeowner shortterm rentals out there — that are all very small in size —will raise the vacancy rate of long-term rentals is either bought off, stupid or just deluded. …

You want to help people? Allow them a couple of short-term rentals on their property, even if it’s a separate building, limiting the number just to keep the density down. Lower the minimum [square footage] to maybe 1,800 square feet … Allow people to rent out their place and go on vacation for a week or two, but have some limits. Limit the number of people allowed per rental so you don’t get too many who come to just party for a week, sharing a small rental, also limiting the number of cars per rental.

These are just some of the rules that can be established to manage this situation, but blanket make it illegal? … Compromise, not blatantly make it illegal. …

Asheville, I am greatly disappointed that you would allow this to happen.

— Steve Morrell Bradenton, Fla. editor’s note: A longer version of this letter appears online at mountainx.com.

Wildlife education program links animals, students I realize it may be too late to make the Animal issue of the Mountain Xpress, however, I believe we may be a unique wildlife organization that is serving Western North Carolina schools.

Mountain Wildlife Days is a two-day event held each July at the Sapphire Valley Resort,

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located three miles east of Cashiers. This past year was our 12th year that attracted over 625 children and adults from throughout the area and featured some of the top wildlife presenters in the Southeast. You can check out our website at www.mountainwildlifedays.com For the past three years, during MWD, we raised and dedicated funds to take our wildlife education programs to schools and other organizations in WNC, including Asheville, Waynesville, Hendersonville, Brevard, Cashiers, Rosman, Highlands, Sylva and Cullowhee. We have provided approximately 12-14 programs (each year for the past three years) that have touched over 5,000 students and adults.

The key involves “wildlife experts,” and in most cases highlighting live animals [as] a part of each presentation.

Our funds are limited; however, we are a positive voice for wildlife in Western North Carolina and are very pleased with the past success of Mountain Wildlife Outreach as well as Mountain Wildlife Days. …

— John Edwards Director of Mountain Wildlife Days Coordinator of Mountain Wildlife Outreach Cashiers

Oktoberfest fizzled this year What were the organizers of Oktoberfest thinking (they weren’t)?

Oktoberfest was the last great festival that many locals attended. My wife and I have been attending since the many (and best) years on Wall Street. This is our last one!

I am attaching a picture for you.

The glass on the left is the size of beer cups we originally got at the Oktoberfest for $25. The middle glass (6 ounces) is what we received last year. The cup to the right is the

4-ounce “stein” we received this year for $40!

The beer lines were very long, so if you wanted to drink beer throughout the day, you had to get a beer and get back in line right then — saw everybody doing this.

Next was the entertainment, or lack of. Where were our Vermont Boys we had for years and years?

The crowd loved them, and I heard many, many people talk about the differences and not in a good way.

These folks couldn’t even fake a German accent or play the traditionals we love!

Well, city of Asheville, you did it again — you took away the last downtown festival that was worth attending, and I’m sure many others feel the same way. Lesson to be learned: Sometimes it’s better to leave well enough, alone. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it — money is the root of all evil!

— Jeff and Anna Coffey Sherrills Ford editor’s note: Meghan Rogers, executive director of the Asheville Downtown Association, offered this response: “First of all, I thank the letter writers for their comments. We do take feedback into serious consideration when planning future

events. The size of a beverage sample is dictated by the state of North Carolina. To be in compliance with this regulation, we needed to decrease the size of our sampling mug. I agree that this caused longer lines, and we are looking at ways to address this.

The Stratton Mountain Boys from Vermont were not able to include Asheville Oktoberfest in their travel schedule this year. Lagerhosen is a local band comprised of talented, hardworking musicians who perform in many other groups and bands as well.

One point of clarity, the Asheville Downtown Association produces Oktoberfest, not the city of Asheville.

Again, thanks for your feedback.

I’ll be sure to share it with our team.”

Thanks, Subway, for antibioticsfree chicken On Oct. 20, Subway announced a commitment to serve, by the end of 2016, chicken raised without antibiotics, and to do the same for turkey two to three years after that, followed by beef and pork.

c art o o n b Y b r e n t b r o Wn The “eat fresh” brand just took a big step toward protecting our lifesaving antibiotics. The more that antibiotics are overused — the drugs are routinely given to livestock and poultry at many large industrial farms, whether or not animals are sick — the more opportunities for bacteria to develop resistance.

Since April, a broad array of public interest groups has called on Subway to make this type of commitment. More important to Subway, I imagine, is that thousands of Subway customers weighed in, too.

Subway’s announcement came just two days before our group and others were set to deliver more than 270,000 signatures to headquarters.

Instead, we’re happy to say “thank you” to Subway. With more restaurants than any other chain in the U.S., Subway’s commitment is a positive step in stopping the overuse of antibiotics.

— Dan DeRosa, North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Raleigh

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NCDOT TO HOLD A CORRIDOR PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED INTERSTATE 26 (I-26) CONNECTOR PROJECT IN ASHEVILLE, BUNCOMBE COUNTY TIP Project No. I-2513 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a corridor public hearing on Monday, November 16, beginning with an open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m., followed by a formal presentation at 7 p.m. at the Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom, 31 Woodfin Street in Asheville.

The I-26 Connector Project is approximately a 7-mile, interstate freeway project that is being proposed to connect I-26 in southwest Asheville to U.S. 19/23/70 in northwest Asheville. NCDOT proposes to upgrade and widen I-240 from I-40 to Patton Avenue, and then proceed northward from Patton Avenue on new location across the French Broad River and connect to U.S. 19/23/70 just south of Exit 25 (Riverside Drive – Broadway – UNC-Asheville).

Upon completion, this project will be part of the I-26 interstate that extends from Charleston, South Carolina, to Kingsport, Tennessee. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed project was signed October 13, 2015.

The proposed I-26 Connector in Asheville includes three sections: • Section C: Includes improvements to the I-26/I-240 interchange with I-40 and the Brevard Road (N.C. 191) and Smokey Park Highway interchanges.

• Section A: Includes upgrading existing I-240 from the I-26/I-240 interchange with I-40 to the I-240 interchange with Patton Avenue, west of the French Broad River. This includes upgrades to the Brevard Road, Amboy Road (S.R. 3556), Haywood Road (S.R. 3548/U.S. 19/23 Business) and Patton Avenue (U.S. 19-23) interchanges.

• Section B: Includes construction of the interstate on new location from the Patton Avenue interchange north across the French Broad River, tying into U.S. 19-23-70 south of Broadway (S.R. 1781).

The formal presentation will include an explanation of the location and design of each proposed corridor alternative, the state-federal funding relationship, right of way and relocation requirements, and procedures that will be part of the project.

Interested individuals may attend this hearing any time during the above hours. NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments. Written comments can be submitted at the meeting or later by December 16. The presentation and comments received will be recorded and included in the alternative selection process.

Maps displaying the proposed corridors and a copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) are available for public review at the following locations: • City of Asheville Transportation, 70 Court Plaza—Mezzanine Level, Asheville, North Carolina, 28802 • NCDOT Division 13 Office, 55 Orange Street, Asheville.

• The maps are also available online at http://www.ncdot.org/projects/I26Connector and http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/ • Document (DEIS) only at: o State Library of North Carolina, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh. o Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood Street, Asheville. o West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road, Asheville. o Buncombe County Law Library, 60 Court Plaza, Asheville.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, also has the DEIS document available on their website which can be accessed at http://www.saw.usace.army.mil/Wetlands/Notices/Current_notices.html. Contained within this website is a local public notice drafted by the Corps announcing the release of this document as well as the description of the ongoing process in choosing the LEDPA (Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative) for the subject project.

For additional information, contact Drew Joyner at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, 27699-1598, by email at djoyner@ncdot.gov, by phone at (919) 707-6077, or by fax at (919) 212-5785.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this hearing.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Joyner as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the hearing by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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Our survival’s at stake bY richarD Fireman Here are the facts: We need to keep a lot of our remaining fossil fuels in the ground — perhaps as much as 80 percent — in order to prevent the worst of global warming, and we should be alarmed that no one is speaking this truth when we’re discussing energy policy in Western North Carolina.

In the past few weeks alone, extreme weather events have caused devastating California wildfires, 19 deaths in South Carolina, five in North Carolina, 20 on the French Riviera and 186 in Guatemala. The recent flooding in the Carolinas was the sixth U.S. flood event since 2010 with 1-in1,000 odds.

Meanwhile, this year is on track to be the warmest on record. If we continue burning fossil fuels, even with the modest reductions proposed by the United Nations Bonn climate negotiations, global average temperatures will be more than 6 degrees warmer by century’s end, and these kinds of catastrophic events will become much more common.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, projections show, summers in Asheville will see average high temperatures of 93 degrees instead of the current 83 degrees.

And thanks to a 3- to 6-foot sea level rise, your favorite South Carolina or North Carolina beach won’t even exist. If you’re not alarmed, you should be.

The good news is that we can still change course and possibly avoid the worst. The first and easiest strategy is to completely decarbonize electricity generation. With a combination of conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric storage and demand-side management, we can transition 100 percent of our electricity economy by 2050, and we can easily meet an intermediate goal of 50 percent by 2030. Other nations are currently achieving these targets, and some U.S. cities are well on their way to meeting them as well.

But we can’t achieve these goals without Duke Energy’s cooperation,

richarD Fireman and this is where truth telling — using language in a way that says what it means — becomes crucial. For starters, let’s consider the words “bridge,” “modern,” “clean” and “cheap.”

‘BRIDGE’ Duke says natural gas is a bridge fuel. A bridge takes you from one place to another. Duke’s destination, however, is the same old big, centralized power station economy. We need to arrive at some new and different place: a sustainable, job-creating, technologically sophisticated energy economy.

Duke is investing $2 billion in a natural gas pipeline into North Carolina, just purchased Piedmont Natural Gas for $4.9 billion and is replacing coal plants, including its Asheville facility, with natural gas. These plants have a life expectancy of 30-40 years, so in fact, these aren’t bridges but commitments to more global warming. ‘moDERn’ Duke Energy has called its new plan the “Western Carolinas Modernization Project.” The gas boilers will be new and, in that sense only, modern. Real modern technologies are solar, wind, energy efficiency, electric storage and demand-side management systems.

‘clEan anD chEap’ The utility claims that natural gas is cleaner and cheaper than coal, but these are more half-truths. Yes, burning natural gas produces less carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and soot pollution than coal and doesn’t create dangerous coal ash residue. Extracting natural gas, however, can poison the water and air of communities at extraction sites, along pipeline routes and near pumping substations. And in the first 20 years, the most critical time period, methane gas leakage from those sites can actually be worse for global warming than burning coal. Furthermore, while the price of natural gas is currently very low, price instability and volatility will put all of Duke’s customers at risk of rising fuel prices in the not-too-distant future.

We stand at a fork in the road. Which will turn out to be “the road not taken” — the one leading to climate instability or to a hopeful future?

Now is the time for truth telling — by Duke Energy, by our elected officials, by concerned citizens. Duke recently announced that it’s delaying submitting its modernization plan to the N.C. Utilities Commission because of the more than 9,000 public comments it’s received. The utility is willing to reconsider the “configuration” of the natural gas boilers. This is good news, and the public response by elected officials and environmental advocates has raised the possibility of real, constructive dialogue with Duke.

A truly modern plan for WNC will have science-based goals. To do our part in keeping 80 percent of fossil fuels in the ground, we’ll need to be burning no more than 50 percent for electricity by 2030, and none by 2050.

The city of Asheville already has a good start on achieving these goals.

Mayor Terry Bellamy signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in 2007, and Asheville is ahead of schedule in meeting the target of shrinking the city’s carbon footprint by 80 percent by 2050.

But Duke’s proposed 650-megawatt gas boiler configuration is inconsistent with those goals, and since the city gets all of its electricity from Duke, the proposal places Asheville in a bind.

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The size of these boilers must be reduced, and Duke should use those cost savings to invest in renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, demand-side management and electric storage NOW. This version of modernization will meet the 50 percent reduction target by 2030 while guaranteeing price stability for decades. It will also attract truly technologically sophisticated and entrepreneurial companies to the area. Together we will build and support a sustainable green economy and full employment.

Duke Energy has a great opportunity to use WNC as a model for how the rest of North Carolina can begin to transition more quickly from coal and natural gas. The process for developing offshore wind generation in North Carolina has begun, so the science-based targets are more realistically within reach.

Truth telling is risky business.

The science tells us that if we don’t quickly change our energy infrastructure, it’s very likely that our children will inherit a dangerously warm world. In the context of science, “very likely” means a 95 percent or greater risk. No sane person would put his son or daughter, mother or father, or any other loved one in a car or on a plane, boat or train if the chance of their arriving safely were only 5 percent.

It’s time for some very serious truth telling by Duke Energy, our public officials and citizenry.

Facing the truth is our only realistic chance to create a collective future that is life-enhancing rather than one that threatens our health, safety and even survival.

Retired physician Richard Fireman is a founding member of The Alliance for Energy Democracy.

Contact him at firepeople@main.nc.us.

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Lost in transmission Amid heated controversy, WPVM charts new course

By VIRGInIa DaffRon vdaffron@mountainx.com Light fills the airy rooms in WPVM’s new headquarters on the top floor of the Self-Help Building in downtown Asheville. Vintage radio sets and old rattan decorate the lobby; a bright shag rug adds a touch of whimsy to the broadcast studio while helping eliminate echoes.

But for davyne dial, the most beautiful part of the new space is the bundles of multicolored wires snaking from the old-school soundboard into a computer tower. From there, the signal travels to a server and then to a transmitter on the building’s roof.

“At the old station [in the Vanderbilt Apartments on Haywood Street], we had a 10-year accumulation of tangled wires and dust,” Dial, the station’s board president, recalls.

“We got everything separated and tagged at the intake and outtake of a component. Now if a wire comes loose, we can look at the code on it and know exactly where it goes back in.”

Volunteer show host paul rollins shares Dial’s satisfaction, noting, “Even though it was a massive undertaking, it was all done right, so we can track mistakes and upgrades.”

Timeline by AlAne mAson, info compiled by VirginiA dAffron

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But WPVM’s recent housecleaning went much deeper than clearing away dust and sorting out electrical connections. Disillusioned volunteers, allegations of wrongdoing and a decade of frustrated hopes litter the wake of the station’s new course. a hIstoRy of DIffIcultIEs WPVM was born in 2003 after the Mountain Area Information Network, a local nonprofit, secured a low-power license to broadcast at 103.5 FM from the Federal Communications Commission.

From the beginning, however, the station was beset by conflict.

Run by volunteers under the direction of MAIN founder and Executive Director wally bowen, the station endured a series of clashes involving volunteers, Bowen and MAIN’s board of directors. In 2009, after years of dissension, the board dismissed a number of volunteers; many others chose to leave.

Another issue was the station’s extremely weak signal, due to problems related to the location and elevation of the Busbee Mountain antenna, former WPVM Manager jason holland recalls. And MAIN, which provided almost all the financial support, was having serious money troubles. In early summer 2012, the station went off the air, though it continued streaming programming online.

In February 2013, WPVM received a license to broadcast at 100 watts on a different frequency: 103.7 FM. That June, programming returned to the airwaves via a transmitter on the SelfHelp Building. a woRsEnInG pIctuRE Nonetheless, past debts and disagreements continued to haunt both MAIN and WPVM. A longtime progressive political activist and dedicated champion of independent media, Bowen spearheaded the push to secure the station’s license. But his management style alienated many volunteers. In a March 4, 2009, commentary in Mountain Xpress, Bowen wrote, “Since August, I have been called ‘dictator,’ ‘tyrant,’ ‘Big Brother,’ ‘keeper of the Gulag’ and ‘enemy of free speech.’”

And by 2013, MAIN was facing a severe financial crisis, says patryk battle, an organic food activist who was then the nonprofit’s board president. Bowen had taken out a loan with PNC Bank using WPVM’s equipment as collateral, but that merely bought the station some time. Eventually, says Battle, creditors and grant funders lost confidence in Bowen’s leadership and demanded his resignation as a condition for continuing to support the organization.

Bowen, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, stepped down on July 1, 2013. mark west, a professor of mass communication at UNC Asheville, was named interim executive director. john blackwell, who served on MAIN’s radio committee, says that after

Bowen’s departure, the board asked WPVM to develop a plan for becoming financially independent. This was difficult, he says, because the station had never generated a significant portion of its support through fundraising or underwriting.

When no workable plan emerged, MAIN’s board decided to find a new owner for WPVM. “We wanted an entity which could successfully operate the radio station while MAIN focused on our core competency: providing high-speed broadband services,” West explains.

Blackwell, who’d worked with Dial and her husband, Dr. herbert johnson, at the now-defunct public access television station URTV, invited them to MAIN’s membership meeting in the summer of 2014 — an invitation he says he now regrets.

In tRansItIon As MAIN’s board considered alternatives for WPVM’s future, Battle says he worked to preserve the station as a public resource. “I wanted WPVM to promote really good public discourse, with conservative voices as well as progressives,” he explains.

To that end, Battle negotiated a lowinterest bridge loan from his employer, Living Web Farms, to MAIN. Once again, however, this only delayed what a majority of MAIN’s board felt was inevitable: transferring the station’s license to some other entity. Dial and Johnson were eager to create that entity and were willing to contribute significant financial resources. In the late

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WPVM receives new license to broadcast at 103.7 FM.

Dial and Johnson begin negotiations to take over the station’s license.

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WPVM goes off air; streams programming online.

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summer of 2014, they began negotiating in earnest with the board.

“I wanted WPVM to promote really good public discourse, with conservative voices as well as progressives” - Patryk Battle

There were many challenges. The station’s equipment had to be cataloged, its financial situation clarified and the extensive FCC application process navigated. Anticipating “some resistance to transferring the license,” says Dial, “everything had to be done in as pristine a way as possible. And that is what we have tried to do.”

In order to qualify under FCC rules, however, Dial and Johnson needed to establish a nonprofit community organization with engaged volunteers. Accordingly, they began setting up the Friends of WPVM. Battle, who also hosted a show on the station, says he was one of the first volunteers to join the group, along with justin harrison, a 20-something radio newcomer. christopher lawing, who’d previously hosted a show on Asheville FM, says he was surprised when, after Dial invited him to visit WPVM that September, Dial, Johnson and Harrison asked him to join the fledgling nonprofit’s board.

A week later, jacquelyn hammond was also invited to join the board. Hammond, who manages the Goddess Underground event space on Broadway, says

Davyne Dial

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Former MAIN Board President

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she’d never even considered hosting a radio show before meeting Dial and Johnson socially but thought it would be a fun way “to highlight other women entrepreneurs.”

On Oct. 2, 2014, Friends of WPVM Inc. filed bylaws and articles of incorporation with the state. Under the heading “initial directors,” the bylaws named Harrison as president, Dial as vice president, Johnson as treasurer, Hammond as secretary and Lawing as member at large.

Those five plus show host carol anders were listed as initial members of the corporation, with full voting rights, including “authority … to confirm, modify or reverse amendments to these bylaws by the board of directors, and … to fill any vacancies on the board.” Battle says that due to his leadership role with MAIN, he opted not to be included

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without a board vote or discussion with volunteers. Hammond, Lawing and Battle say policy changes were frequently dictated by Dial and Johnson, rather than a board vote.

At a membership meeting in early December, Lawing says he discovered an iPhone on a small tripod, tucked behind a computer monitor and wondered why it was there. At a subsequent board meeting, Dial accused Lawing of drinking alcohol during his radio show, saying she’d seen it on a live-stream video feed to her home. Lawing says he was drinking iced tea and that the label was clearly visible in the video.

Meanwhile, station volunteers were upset to learn that they and their radio show guests were being monitored by the iPhone. According

as an initial member, to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. sEcREt VIDEos During those first months, the new nonprofit was busy filing paperwork with the FCC, negotiating with MAIN and lining up show hosts. But as fall moved into winter, station volunteers began to suspect that some board members — namely, Dial and Johnson — were more equal than others. When Hammond and Dial met with a graphic designer to discuss a new station logo, Hammond says Dial told her, “I’m paying for this, so I get to decide.” Others, including Blackwell, were upset when they saw that new marketing materials had changed the station’s tag line from “The Progressive Voice of the Mountains” to “Voices of Asheville”

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EARLY MARCH 2015

MAY 8, 2015

JUNE 26, 2015

Video surveillance discovered at WPVM studios.

Harrison resigns as Friends of WPVM board president.

FCC authorizes license transfer to FoWPVM.

FCC finalizes license transfer from MAIN to FoWPVM.

2015 OCT. 2, 2014

Friends of WPVM files articles of incorporation.

EARLY JAN. 2015

Dial and Johnson confronted about surveillance during membership meeting.

APRIL 1, 2015

Directors meet at Wimer’s office; all but two walk out. Dial and Johnson elect two new directors.

MAY 8, 2015

Lawing and Hammond file police complaint against Dial, alleging wiretapping.

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neWs to the minutes of a mid-December committee meeting, volunteers voted to remove the camera, though affidavits later filed by Lawing and Hammond indicate that the monitoring continued at least until Dec. 31. At an early January meeting attended by volunteers and members of the public, tempers ran high as Dial and Johnson were confronted about the surveillance, Hammond and others say.

In emails and Facebook posts, Dial and Johnson said they wanted to know how the station was being used throughout the day, were concerned about the security of the equipment and suspected that alcohol was being consumed on the premises.

bank account.” Thus, she maintains, Wimer lacked the authority to run meetings, interpret the organization’s bylaws or weigh in on the composition of its board.

In addition, Hammond and Lawing argue that since the April 1 meeting never actually came to order, no official decisions could be made, and that Miall and McCredie, lacking previous involvement with the station, didn’t meet the criteria for board membership stated in the bylaws.

Wimer, however, says Hammond and Lawing were part of a “cabal whose motivation was to be so disruptive that the transfer of the license would be jeopardized.”

Battle, says Wimer, also “tried to form an alliance to stop the sale” of the station’s equipment.

Asked to respond to Wimer’s assertion, Hammond said, “If I were part of a cabal, the cabal was working to save the station from imploding.”

And Lawing said, “Far from being disruptive, my efforts have been to hold Dial and Johnson accountable for their questionable management decisions, often taken without consulting the board.”

a RancoRous mEEtInG Even as the debate raged, however, the board was expanded. Battle was unanimously elected on Dec. 17 and Anders on Jan. 21, 2015, meeting minutes show.

But in early March, Harrison resigned as president. In an email announcing his decision, he wrote, “It was my only intention to be a part of a radio station where anyone who put time into a show was given adequate and sincere consideration when voicing any concern, no matter how offensive it may be to those in leadership roles.”

In a March 19 email to Dial, Johnson, Hammond, Harrison and Anders, Asheville attorney mike wimer, acting as counsel to the Friends of WPVM, advised, “With Justin’s resignation, you are down to four board members, which means you need the affirmative vote of three board members to fill any vacant board position, including the president’s spot.” The email wasn’t addressed to either Battle or Lawing, even though they’d been attending board meetings and voting as board members up till then, meeting minutes show.

The board of directors normally met at the station, but on April 1, the group convened at Wimer’s

Haywood Road office. A video recording shows that Dial tried to call the meeting to order with Johnson, Hammond, Lawing, Anders and Wimer present. Battle arrived shortly afterward, and Johnson tried unsuccessfully to prevent him from entering the room. A dispute immediately arose over the attempt by Wimer (who was not a board member) to direct the meeting. After about 10 minutes of heated discussion, Hammond, Lawing, Battle and Anders left.

According to the minutes, Dial and Johnson then voted to add john miall and roger mccredie to the board.

Miall, a conservative City Council candidate this year, failed to make it past the Oct. 6 primary. McCredie, a reporter for The Tribune Papers, is a former executive director of the Southern Legal Resource Center, which consults on cases defending “America’s most persecuted minority: Confederate Southern Americans,” according to its website.

But Wimer’s email had said three votes were needed to fill vacancies.

Asked about the discrepancy, he said the situation was “very fluid” and that his legal analysis showed that only Dial, Johnson and Hammond held valid board memberships on April 1.

Thus, two board members constituted a quorum.

The bylaws, however, state, “The board of directors of the corporation

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powER couplE: Davyne Dial and Herbert Johnson, married since 2008, share an interest in independent media. Johnson, a vintage radio enthusiast, has provided financial support for WPVM since the fall of 2014. Photo

by Virginia Daffron.

shall consist of a minimum of five and a maximum of seven directors.”

Wimer says Battle was ineligible because of his role with MAIN, and the original incorporation documents didn’t list Lawing as a director. The paperwork appointing Anders was incomplete, says Wimer, adding that during the April 1 meeting, she resigned, saying she couldn’t participate in a body characterized by dissension and distrust.

Anders was reluctant to comment on what happened at the meeting.

But Lawing and Hammond contend that Wimer was merely acting as Dial’s personal attorney. “The board never voted to appoint Mike Wimer as legal counsel to the organization,” notes Hammond. “Justin Harrison, as president, never co-signed a check to pay Wimer through the WPVM

In thE DaRk? On May 8, 2015, the FCC authorized the license transfer; it was finalized on June 26. Wimer and others say that Bowen, MAIN’s founder, lodged an objection with the FCC, but it’s not included in the agency’s online public file.

Bowen, though, says, “When I stepped down as [executive director], I knew that selling the radio station was a real possibility. That’s why I repeatedly requested first right of refusal if they did decide to sell.

“In addition, I purchased the station’s new transmitter with my own funds in 2013 ($2,676) when MAIN didn’t have the funds. I made it clear to the board that I needed to be reimbursed, but I didn’t press the issue. I figured my owning the transmitter would prevent the station being sold on the sly. That’s why I was stunned to learn last April that a sale was not only pending but had been underway since January.

“If I was in the dark, I wasn’t alone. Apparently, the community of MAIN supporters, and the community as a whole, were unaware that the station was being sold. … I did not write a letter to the FCC. I did, however, email both the MAIN

board and Friends of WPVM to put them on notice that I own the transmitter, but I never got a reply.”

“apparently, the community of MaIN supporters, and the community as a whole, were unaware that the station was being sold”

license, all they had to do was step up to the table and hire their own legal team.”

In a May 29 comment on the Buncombe Politics Facebook group, which she moderates, Dial responded to questions about the license transfer and board reshuffling as follows: “The truth is we have spent $35,000 on legal fees to make sure every step in the process was done legally as required by the FCC. Spurious & libelous statements will be handled in due time in court.”

- Wally BoWeN

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Dial says that she and her husband, fearing that the license might be surrendered due to the station’s ongoing troubles, “decided to do everything in our power to see that didn’t happen.” She continues: “My husband was willing to finance it [the transfer] because he has a commitment to independent radio.

He is our benefactor. Without him, this station would not be on the air today. … If other people wanted the

On May 8, the same day the license transfer was approved, Lawing, Hammond and three radio show guests filed a complaint with the Asheville Police Department alleging that the secret video recording constituted wiretapping. Affidavits by Lawing and Hammond asserted that Dial and Johnson had collected audio and video recordings without their knowledge or consent during December 2014.

The city obtained a search warrant for Dial’s email address, which

Lawing and Hammond say received notifications of new recording activity from Dial’s in-station iPhone when an app called Presence detected motion.

On June 11, attorney sean devereux filed a motion to quash the search warrant, to prevent review of Dial’s email account. On June 22, the city responded by filing a motion to strike or dismiss Dial’s motion; the city ultimately prevailed.

The investigation was later closed.

City Attorney robin currin declined to comment on the case, and sarah gross, the city’s records facilitator, said the file is protected from release by state law.

Wimer says the wiretapping complaint “was brought by people who had a vendetta against Davyne Dial.

It was completely without merit.”

Video recording in a public place is legal in North Carolina, he says, and volunteer workers “don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace.”

Asked whether audio recording is legal under those circumstances, Wimer said, “I don’t know.” Asked whether radio show guests had a reasonable expectation of privacy in

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the station, Wimer again said he didn’t know. no stRanGER to contRoVERsy The brouhaha over the license transfer wasn’t the first in which Dial’s name had figured prominently. In April 2009, URTV members removed her from the station’s board of directors on a 33-12 vote whose legality she disputes. Dial subsequently took her case to City Manager gary jackson and also sued the city seeking financial records; Wimer served as her attorney.

In 2013, Dial ran afoul of the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County while serving on its board. With the approval of at least two fellow board members, Dial began live-streaming video of Buncombe County Board of Education meetings in conjunction with the league’s Observer Corps initiative. While filming, she sometimes cheered for statements made by then-school board member lisa

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Several former WPVM members interviewed for this article expressed concern that their statements to Mountain Xpress might result in legal action against them.

“Knowing Dial’s litigious nature,” said Lawing, “I am worried that my comments may result in a lawsuit.”

And in response to an initial interview request, Hammond wrote, “If I start talking about the station will I be ensured that the board president [Dial] won’t sue me?” To substantiate her concern, Hammond provided an email from Dial titled “Jackie I’m hearing [expletive] through the grapevine.” Talking about a dispute over the administration of WPVM’s Facebook page, Dial wrote, “If that

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Battle and others involved with WPVM during this turbulent period have since moved on to other projects.

But some have continued working with the station.

Anders, who hosts the weekly “Asheville ’N the Arts” program, says “There was a lot of controversy” during the transition period. “While I was sympathetic to all sides, I was just hoping that we would preserve what we set out to do, which was to provide an outlet for the voices of Asheville.”

At this point, she continues, “I feel we are on a good path, and I think we have a bright, sustainable future. Kudos to the current leadership: I’m glad they had the resources and energy to make it happen.

There are always going to be issues and challenges.” on a mIssIon “The advantage of having a local-led, volunteer-run radio station with low overhead costs is that you can go into subjects that mainstream media cannot afford to take on,” says Dial. “That’s one of our main goals: to present voices that are unheard elsewhere.”

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Busker abby roach, aka The Spoon Lady, hosts two weekly shows and also spontaneously pulls in buskers off the street. “The buskers really like being on live. … I think it’s just going to grow and grow,” says Roach, who believes her broadcasts

are the only ones of their kind in the U.S. “We want to be the true voice of what’s happening in the community,” says Dial. “We’ve had about six months of developing show hosts, and we are in the market for more of those folks who really reflect the richness of this community.”

Hosts also get a chance to learn technical skills, notes Dial: “A commercial radio station has a producer, a host and talent. A lot of times here, one person is doing it all at the same time.”

Ironically, WPVM’s new facility is next door to MAIN. When the station received word on July 31 that its Haywood Street lease wouldn’t be renewed, Dial explains, West, who’s now MAIN’s board secretary, said, “You should really consider taking that space next to us, because we are trying to sublease it. It’s got all the wiring you need, plus your signal will be much closer to where it’s going.”

That signal carries an average of 3 miles from Wall Street, though the granite of Beaucatcher Mountain limits its range to the east. “But if you go west,” notes Dial, “we have a strong signal all the way out to Canton, and to the north we have a signal up to Weaverville.” Dial plans to continue recruiting show hosts representing a range of perspectives, and program underwriters who want independent media to flourish.

Some passionate former volunteers, though, no longer feel welcome at the station. “When I look at the four years I put into trying to ensure that WPVM remained a resource for the progressive community of Western North Carolina and look at the results,” Battle says with a sigh, “it’s a pretty tragic outcome.”

Lawing, meanwhile, says, “I still believe the just resolution of this situation would be to re-establish the duly appointed board of directors, who should have an opportunity to vote on appointments and decisions made since April 1.”

Wimer, however, sees things differently. “You [Mountain Xpress] have to decide what’s newsworthy,” he says. “It seems to me that the intracompany politics with regard to boards and members is a sideshow, but you may decide that it’s the most important thing in the reporting of it.

We think the most important thing is that the station has survived, and survived despite some incredible financial difficulties and in spite of some pretty intensive efforts by people both inside and outside of WPVM to kill it.” X

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Torchbearers

Center for Diversity Education honors ASCORE’s legacy

and professional development for teachers,” says Miles.

In 2003, having grown in size and scope, the organization moved to its current home on the UNCA campus, and last year, it officially became part of the university.

Over the years, notes Miles, the center has increasingly collaborated with other organizations and institutions, working with UNCA staff, faculty and students to forge connections between the classroom and community needs. “We recently completed a new exhibit on health care equity in Buncombe County,” she reports. “The research was based on the work of local health care educator sharon west and enlarged upon by students in UNCA’s health and wellness department.”

Reviewed by community health care workers, the student-generated text is now on display at Mission Hospital; a student, says Miles, is developing an online version that will be available as a “professional development resource for community members, health and wellness majors, Mission employees and local medical practices.” a hIGh school REVolutIon

lIVInG lEGacy: Surviving members of ASCORE, a student-led group that fought for equality during the 1960s in Asheville, will be honored during a special reception on Nov. 5, part of UNC Asheville’s Center for Diversity Education’s 20th anniversary celebration.

Photo by Emmanuel Figaro Education.

In 1960, a group of student activists at Asheville’s all-black StephensLee High School courageously challenged the racial status quo, bringing the civil rights movement closer to home. Through public demonstrations, boycotts and engagements with city officials, the members of the Asheville Student Committee on Racial Equality helped break down Jim Crow-era barriers.

For the past two decades, the Center for Diversity Education at UNC Asheville has carried on that legacy, striving to strengthen diversity education in the city’s public schools through exhibits, presentations and partnering with other local organizations to boost awareness of issues involving social and economic equity.

To mark its 20th anniversary, the center is hosting Building on a

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Legacy, a two-day celebration on the UNCA campus. It will kick off on Thursday, Nov. 5, with a reception for the surviving ASCORE members, a talk by james ferguson (the student group’s founding chair) and a lecture by Harvard University professor henry louis gates jr. During the reception, a PowerPoint presentation will be shown that features ASCORE members’ high school photos along with images of the places they desegregated. The free event is open to the public.

A sold-out noon luncheon the next day will shift the focus to current community members who are working in that same spirit to address today’s challenges. Five people will receive the inaugural 2042 ASCORE Leadership Awards; 2042 is the year when white Americans are projected to become a minority population.

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“The name of the event indicates the continuum of time that exists from one generation to the next,” says longtime Executive Director deborah miles.

“The folks who are doing the work for equity and inclusion today build on the work of ASCORE. These awardees are following in those footsteps, and others are coming up right now to build on their work. We hope this award gives them a lift and encouragement to continue this work, and a lift to the community as they serve as role models for the next generation.” moDEst Roots The Center for Diversity Education began in 1995 at the Asheville Jewish Community Center. “At first, the focus was on K-12 education, with exhibits, classroom presentations

Miles’ work is part of a legacy of student activism in Asheville stretching back to ASCORE’s groundbreaking campaign, she points out.

“These were some pretty remarkable high school students who saw what was happening in Greensboro in 1960 and knew that the same issues existed here.” A young, engaged group, she continues, was able to harness the ideals of the national civil rights movement to effect change in their own community.

“For instance, if a black student at Stephens-Lee needed a book for a research project, the librarian at the ‘colored library’ would send a note to Pack, and in four to five days the book would appear at the Eagle Street branch — which was often too late for the research paper,” Miles explains. “viola jones spells was one of the students who met with tony lord to negotiate the complete opening of Pack Memorial Library to all the citizens of Asheville.”

And rather than viewing their efforts as isolated incidents, she says, ASCORE members carried that spirit into their adult lives, becoming “deeply engaged citizens” and inspiring later generations.

“That best practice is proven over and over again in research,” notes

Miles. “The more early engagement young people have, the more likely it is that it becomes a lifelong habit in their professional and community aspirations.”

For the past five years, the Center for Diversity Education and several partner organizations have organized the Me2We Social Justice Conference on the UNCA campus.

“The program has gone on long enough that the adults sit back and watch as the youth lead the sessions and develop a community ready to address today’s equity issues, from health care to high school tracking with standard, honors and AP classes,” she reports. tomoRRow’s lEaDERs The 2042 Awards recognize community members who embody ideals gleaned from interviews with former ASCORE members — things like peer-to-peer mentoring, adult mentoring, creativity and a lifelong mission to learn — and who are working toward the goals of equality and community development today.

The five award winners are: philip cooper, lucia daugherty, dulce milian rosas porras, samantha singer and yetta williams.

Cooper, a recent A-B Tech graduate who’s mentored students in the Minority Student Leadership Academy, is a certified peer support specialist at Next Step Recovery and a recovery coach for Biltmore Transitional Housing.

Daugherty, co-founder of the Pisgah View Community Peace Garden, has worked extensively as a tutor for the “I Have A Dream” Foundation and is executive director of the Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Council.

Rosas Porras is a community organizer for Nuestro Centro and coordinates the group’s Raices program, all while working toward earning her GED diploma and pursuing higher education.

Singer, who helped create Hyannis House at UNCA, works with members of the LGBT community who’ve been sexually assaulted. And Williams, who’s taught at Hall Fletcher Elementary for 10 years, is an active participant with Building Bridges of Asheville and a 2015 Beattie Foundation award recipient.

Receiving the 2042 Award, says Williams, has left her feeling “overwhelmed and frightened. I am so incredibly honored, and I know many people helped to get me here.”

Both in the classroom and in her personal life, she notes, her work revolves around the idea of equity. In the classroom, this takes the form of regular parent information sessions and ensuring that students have access to the tutoring and support systems they need to succeed. Williams says she regularly partners with local colleges and organizations to “help pique student interest in life beyond elementary school” through field trips and other educational experiences.

“I work for an incredible school and with the most energetic, thoughtful staff, PTO and racial equity team that any school in the district could offer, and I am so very thankful for that.”

To Williams, the center’s work in carrying on ASCORE’s legacy is a sign that “people in this community have heard and are listening and are ready to keep moving forward. This award means that someone is taking notice of the great things local leaders are doing to create a more peaceful, equitable world for us all to live in.” She also credits the elders in the Building Bridges program, who’ve supported her and “all of the teachers that are working hard for the students on a daily basis.” tEamwoRk More than ever, says Miles, the Center for Diversity Education is working to strengthen its ties to community groups such as the city of Asheville’s Youth Leadership Academy, UNCA’s AVID program, Mentoring and Nurturing Our Students, the YMCA, the JCC and Everybody’s Environment.

The center’s work, she explains, “is to build relationships across different formats. The issues that were in our community in 1995 are still there, and more has been added with the growth of immigrant communities, 9/11, reassessment of gender norms, globalization and more.”

And while the 20th-anniversary celebration is a time to reflect on what the organization has accomplished up till now, Miles says center members are already looking to the future.

“In 2042, our nation demographically will be a majority minority nation,” she points out, adding, “We need folks who demonstrate democratic pluralism.” X

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‘thE VEGan stuDIEs pRoJEct’: Author and Western Carolina University professor Laura Wright will present her book, The Vegan Studies Project, Friday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe. According to the Malaprop’s review, Wright’s controversial book “criticizes the boundaries created by the labels of ‘vegetarian’ and ‘vegan’ and calls for a revision of the discourse surrounding how and what we eat.” Wright will be joined by Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat. (p. 23)

Held in the auxiliary gym. Held at Erwin High School, 60 Lees Creek Road hEnDERsonVIllE swInG BanD 912-484-5245, toadhall171@msn.com • SA (11/7), 3pm - Ticket sales support the Hendersonville Civitan Club. $10. Held at Hendersonville High School, 1 Bearcat Blvd., Hendersonville puppEtRy BEnEfIt foR pRoGREssIVE EDucatIon 654-1780, buncombe.k12.nc.us/ Domain/3344 • FR (11/6), 7pm - Proceeds from this puppet show by internationally known puppeteer Hobey Ford benefit The Progressive Education Program of Buncombe County Schools. $10/$8 advance/$5 children.

Held at TC Roberson High School, 250 Overlook Road RockEt Run 5k & comEt Dash rocketrun.net/comet.htm • SA (11/7), 9am - Proceeds from this 5K run and 1/2 mile kids fun run benefit Vance Elementary.

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Contact for guidelines. unca cEntER foR DIVERsIty EDucatIon awaRDs lunchEon diversityed.org • FR (11/6), 11:45am - Tickets to this luncheon benefit the UNCA Center for Diversity Education. $50. Held at Morris Hellenic Cultural Center, 227 Cumberland Ave

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VEtERan’s Day BEnEfIt concERt 259-5326, app.moonclerk.com/ pay/3ne0wvsazh9 • WE (11/11), 7pm - Tickets to this Whitewater Bluegrass Company concert benefit ABCCM’s programs for homeless veterans. $20/$15 advance.

Held at Asheville Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road

BuSINeSS & tecHNoloGy a-B tEch small BusInEss cEntER 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/4), 10am - “Public Contracting for Craft Businesses,” seminar.

• WE (11/4), 5:30pm - “SCORE: Social Media for Business,” seminar. Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Rd. • TU (11/10), 2-4pm - “Online Surveys that Work to Grow Your Business,” seminar.

• WE (11/11), 3pm - “Using WordPress to Blog for Your Business,” seminar.

• TH (11/12), 10am - “Starting a Better Business,” seminar.

Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. ElIaDa homE 2 Compton Drive, 645-7190 • TH (11/5), 3-5pm - Eliada Home job fair. Free.

claSSeS, MeetINGS & eVeNtS aBout thE tRanscEnDEntal mEDItatIon tEchnIQuE: fREE IntRoDuctoRy lEctuRE (pd.) The most effortless meditation technique is also the most effective. Learn how TM is different from other practices (including common “mantra” methods). An evidence-based technique for going beyond the active mind to access deep inner reserves of energy, creativity and bliss — dissolving stress, awakening your highest self.

The only meditation recommended for hypertension by the American Heart Association.

NIH-sponsored research shows decreased anxiety, improved brain functioning, heightened well-being. Reduces insomnia, ADHD, PTSD. Personalized training, certified instructors, free follow-up classes. Thursday, 6:307:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org fERal fIRE DRum cIRclE (pd.) First Saturday of Each Month, 6:00pm - 8:00pm. RSVP REQUIRED. $10 Contribution.

Joyful noisemaking to empower you to connect to your own primal voice and wisdom. A night of inward journey and primal expression. At Tiggs Pond Retreat Center Zirconia, NC. Details at www.TinaFireWolf. com. Tina@TinaFireWolf.com.

828-329-9589. ashEVIllE natIonal oRGanIzatIon foR womEn ashevillenow@live.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 2:30pm Monthly meeting. Free. Held at

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YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ashEVIllE oBJEctIVIsts ashevilleobjectivists.wordpress. com, avlobj@att.net • TU (11/10), 6pm - General meeting. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. ashEVIllE taRot cIRclE meetup.com/ Asheville-Tarot-Circle • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon-2pm - Discussion group on the tarot. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road ashEVIllE womEn In Black main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square.

BIG IVy communIty cEntER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - Community club meeting.

Free.

BuIlDInG BRIDGEs buildingbridges-ashevillenc.org • THURSDAYS through (11/5), 7-9pm - Seminar series on the dynamics of racism.

Registration required. $35.

Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Road BuncomBE county puBlIc lIBRaRIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• MO (11/9), 2pm - Goodwill job readiness workshop.

Registration required: 2989023, ext. 1160. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (11/10), 2-3:30pm - Job coaching class with Goodwill.

Registration required: 2506482. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville lauREl chaptER of thE EmBRoIDERERs’ GuIlD of amERIca 686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (11/5), 10am - General meeting and presentation on finishing techniques for holiday ornaments. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe ontRack wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

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• TH (11/5), noon “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” seminar.

• WE (11/11), 5:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” seminar.

• TH (11/12), 5:30pm “Understanding Reverse Mortgages,” seminar. pIsGah lEGal sERVIcEs 62 Charlotte St., 855-733-3711 • SA (11/7), 10am-4pm - Kickoff events for open enrollment of the NC Health Insurance Marketplace. Held in locations across WNC. For locations & schedule: pisgahlegal.org/nov7th-open-enrollment-kick-offevent. Free to attend. puBlIc EVEnts at unca unca.edu • WE (11/11), 6pm - Panel Discussion: “My Culture, Not Your Mascot,” part of Native American History Month. Free.

Held in the Highsmith Union.

REynolDs/faIRVIEw scRaBBlE cRIBBaGE cluB • WEDNESDAYS, 12:304:30pm - Scrabble and cribbage club. Free to attend. Held at Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse, 381 Old Charlotte Highway, Fairview

daNce Rococo BallRoom (pd.) Offering social and competitive dance instruction to couples and individuals of all levels in Ballroom, Latin and Swing. Schedule a $25 sample lesson TODAY by calling 828.575.0905 or visiting www.rococoballroom.com stuDIo zahIya, Downtown DancE classEs (pd.) Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt Hip Hop Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5:30pm Stretch Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 8pm Hip Hop Choreo 2 •Wednesday 5pm Bhangra Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Contemporary • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 5pm Teens Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595

THIS SATURDAY • cloGGInG tEam auDItIons (pd.) November 7, 2015, 1pm-3pm at Idea Factory, Inc, 3726 Sweeten Creek Road, Arden, NC 28704. All ages: 5 through Senior Citizens welcome. Idea Factory Inc. Dance Studio is forming a brand new Competitive Clogging Team, “The Mountain Strikers”. Come prepared to learn a short routine, and to present a solo in any clogging style to your own choice of music. Under the direction of Ms. AnnMarie Knight, this newly formed team will perform both traditional and contemporary clogging routines at community events, competitions and Idea Factory’s annual recital. Please see our website, ideafactoryinc. org for Miss Knight’s biography and details about her clogging life. • For information: (828) 277-4010 or ideafactoryinc.org ashEVIllE aERIal aRts 301-5615, info@ashevilleaerialarts.com • TH (11/5) through SU (11/8) - City of Color, aerial arts performance. Thu. - Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 2:30pm $10-$22. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. BEBE thEatRE 20 Commerce St., 254-2621 • TU (11/10) & TU (11/17), 8pm - Asheville Butoh hosts rare butoh videos from Nicole LeGette’s private collection.

Admission by donation.

Joyful noIsE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave, Weaverville • MONDAYS, 6:45-7:30pm Beginner clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10.

• MONDAYS, 7:30-8:15pm - Intermediate/Advanced clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10. southERn lIGhts sQuaRE anD RounD DancE cluB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (11/7), 6pm - “Salute to Veterans,” square and round dancing. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

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facebook.com/sustainavlwnc • SA (11/7), 12:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Rd.

anna@votevanduyn.com • MO (11/9), 6-8pm - State Senator Terry Van Duyn hosts a community education forum.

Free. Held at Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St.

wIlma DykEman Book cluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (11/12), 5:30pm Excerpts from Dykeman’s The French Broad and discussion, “Every Home Its Own Community,” led by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Free. Held at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 Norh Market St. wnc sIERRa cluB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (11/4), 7pm - “Climate Change on Food Production,” panel discussion with Dr. Laura Lengnick. Free to attend.

Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

farM & GardeN ashEVIllE GaRDEn cluB 550-3459 • WE (11/4), 9:30am “Conservation and Civic Achievement, Clean Local Environment,” presentation by Asheville Greenworks. Free to attend. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road puBlIc EVEnts at unca unca.edu • TH (11/12), 5pm - 2-part seed saving workshop. Second part on TH (11/19), 5pm.

Registration required: sec@ unca.edu. Free. Held at the Highsmith Student Union. toE canE BEEkEEpERs assocIatIon facebook.com/toecane • MO (11/9), 6-9pm Presentation by beekeeping author Ross Conrad. Free. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville

GoVerNMeNt & PolItIcS ashEVIllE cIty schools founDatIon 350-6135 • FR (11/6), 11am - Legislative update with North Carolina Senator Terry Van Duyn.

Free. Held at Hall of Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Road, 350-6400

kIdS BuncomBE county puBlIc lIBRaRIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (11/6), 3:30pm - Young Novel Readers Club: Cinder

by Marissa Meyer. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville DIana woRtham thEatRE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • TH (11/12) & FR (11/13), 10am & noon - The Lightning Thief, Theatreworks USA. $7.50. flEtchER lIBRaRy 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free.

Joyful noIsE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org • MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm Capriccio String Orchestra for intermediate players. $10. Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road • MONDAYS, 6:15-6:45pm “Movement and Dance,” class for 5 and 6 year olds. $10. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave, Weaverville malapRop’s BookstoRE anD cafE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/4), 11am - “Pout Pout Fish Party with Mr. Fish,” celebrating Deborah Diesen’s book The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish.

• SA (11/7), 11am - Lucy Rozier presents her book Jackrabbit McCabe & the Electric Telegraph.

• TH (11/12), 7pm - Jodi Lynn Anderson presents My Diary From the Edge of the World. spEllBounD chIlDREn’s Bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am Storytime for ages 3-7. Free

to attend.

• TH (11/12), 11am - Denton the Dragon Puppet Story Time. Free to attend.

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Whitewater Bluegrass Company performs to support local veterans in need

Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section BIG IVy communIty cEntER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • SATURDAYS (11/7) through (11/21), 10am-2pm -“ Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot.”

Cost per shot. thE wIlDERnEss socIEty wilderness.org • SA (11/7), 6-9pm - Celebration of the “Dirty Dozen Wilderness Hike Challenge.” Reservations required: https://goo.gl/z6Lwz2.

Free to attend. Held at The Millroom, 66 Ashland Ave.

PareNtING caRolIna Day school 1345 Hendersonville Road, 2740757, alawing@carolinaday.org • TH (11/5), 6:30pm - Upper school open house. Free to attend.

• TU (11/10), 6:30pm “Leadership & Dyslexia,” community forum by Key Learning Center featuring Tommy Spaulding. Free. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive

PuBlIc lectureS fIREstoRm cafE anD Books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • TH (11/5), 7pm - “Discussion on Human Possibilities.” Free to attend.

• SA (11/7), 5pm- “Until We Find Them,” presentation on human trafficking in Mexico. Free to attend.

• WE (11/11), 5pm - “How to Change Everything,” panel discussion on climate change and economic crisis. Free to attend. puBlIc lEctuREs at asu appstate.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/11), 7pm - “At the Junction of Words and Pictures:The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies,” presentation by illustrator Beth Hetland. Held in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall.

pIck mE up: From top to bottom, bassist “Uncle” Ted White, mandolinist David Pendley, guitarist Bill Byerly, Grammy-nominated banjo player Steve Sutton and Danielle Bishop comprise Whitewater Bluegrass Company — the group that was selected to perform ABCCM’s veterans benefit concert “because they are a well-established local band with a heart for our veterans,” according to event organizer Cheryl Wilson. Photo by Garret Woodward

what: A benefit concert hosted

by Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry where: Asheville Event Centre when: Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. why: Performance group Whitewater Bluegrass Company is known for providing a lively roots backdrop at local weddings, family occasions, hotel and resort gatherings and other regional events. On Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, the quintet will take the stage in support of local veterans who are homeless or at risk for becoming homeless.

“The concert benefits all of the programs of Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry for our veterans,” says cheryl wilson, ABCCM volunteer and special events director. Those include the Veterans’ Restoration Quarters for men and the Steadfast House for women and children — both of which provide residents with housing, food, case management, education and connection to mental and physical health providers — plus the Veteran Services of the Carolinas, which spans 26 counties and aims to foster homelessmountainx.com

ness prevention and rapid rehousing for veteran families.

“In 2014, ABCCM helped with training and placed 223 homeless veterans into the workforce,” Wilson says, noting a high retention rate among those employees. “This event will continue restoring the lives of our veterans who are homeless.”

The musicians have “captivated audiences throughout the Southeast for more than 30 years with their blend of bluegrass music, country ballads, mountain swing and down-home humor,” according to the event release. “With Whitewater, mountain culture is a celebration of music, song and dance.”

Between the band’s two 45-minute sets, ABCCM representatives will talk about the beneficiary and its veteran-specific services.

“The Whitewater Bluegrass Company is proud to be a part of this event to support our veterans,” says bill byerly, the band’s guitarist and vocalist of 30 years. “We hope for a packed house that night.”

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Restorative Yoga and Hot Stones with Kim Drye

Saturday 11/7: Working with Tarot Spreads, a class with Kevin Wheeler $40 4-6pm

Sunday 11/8:

Tarot Reader:

Martin Snider 12-6pm

Book of Shadows Workshop with Brooke Buchanan $20 2-6pm

Tuesday 11/10: Authentic Goddess Workshops

Sunday, Nov 15 6-8pm $25

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• TH (11/5), noon - Panel Discussion: “Forced Sterilization on People with Disabilities and other Marginalized Identities.”

Held in Zageir Hall, room 227.

• TH (11/5), 7pm - “Genealogy, Genetics and African-American History,” lecture by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr..

Held in Kimmel Arena.

• TH (11/5), 11:30am-1pm - “ISIS: Terror in the Name of Religion,” presentation. Held in Karpen Hall, room 139.

• TH (11/5), 11:50am - Lunch and Learn: “Early Native American History in WNC,” presentation

by Dr. Ellen Pearson. Held in the Intercultural Center.

• TU (11/10), 4:30pm - STEM Lecture: “The US Health Care System—The Only Developed Country Where Maternal Deaths Are On The Rise,” presentation by Daniel Frayne and Black Fagan. Held in the Reuter Center.

• WE (11/11), 7:30pm - “Stone Age Crete: New Evidence of Paleolithic Hunters and Gatherers,” lecture by Brevard College professor Robert Bauslaugh. Held in Ramsey Library.

SPIrItualIty ashEVIllE InsIGht mEDItatIon (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays.

7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com 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. communIty hu sonG (pd.) In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Singing HU can lift you into a higher state of consciousness, so that you can discover, in your own way, who you are and why you’re here. • Date: Sunday, November 8, 2015, 11am11:30am, fellowship follows.

Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-2546775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org

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cRystal VIsIons Books anD EVEnt cEntER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts. Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden.

828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com JoIn lakE loGan thIs thanksGIVInG! (pd.) Thursday, November 26 with seatings from 11am to 1:30pm. Reservations required, to reserve or for more information, call 828-646-0095 or lakelogan.org lookInG foR GEnuInE spIRItual GuIDancE anD hElp? (pd.) We are in a beautiful area about 10 minutes from downtown Asheville, very close to Warren Wilson College. www. truththomas.org 828-299-4359 opEn hEaRt mEDItatIon (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you.

Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org sEREnIty InsIGht mEDItatIon (pd.) A Burmese monk leads authentic Buddhist insight meditation, grounded in 40 years of practice. Beginners and advanced practitioners welcome. • Sundays, 10am11:30am; • Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm-7pm. (828) 298-4700. wncmeditation.com shamBhala mEDItatIon cEntER (pd.) Meditation and community on Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30 PM and Sundays 10-12 noon. By donation. Asheville.

Shambhala.org, 828-200-1520.

60 N Merrimon #113, Asheville, NC 28804 GRacE luthERan chuRch 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • 2nd MONDAYS through (11/9), 9:30am - Biblical Book Study: Grace: More than We Deserve, Greater then We Imagine by Max Lucado.

Registration required. $8 book fee.

• MONDAYS through (11/23), 1pm - Biblical Book Study: 66 Love Letters by Larry Crab.

Registration required. $15 book fee.

pRama yoGa anD mEDItatIon 712-9326 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - All levels yoga and meditation class. Proceeds benefit the Women’s Welfare and Development Foundation.

Registration required. $5. Held at Asheville Therapeutic Yoga, 29 Ravenscroft saI maa EnlIGhtEnED lIVInG GRoup 279-7042, facebook.com/ groups/1385824208412583 • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm Meditation, energy blessing, group discussion and reading. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Therapeutic Yoga, 29 Ravenscroft tEnDInG thE spIRIt 367-6360, Kairoswest742@ gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS through (12/29), 6:30pm - Spirituality discussion group open to all faiths and practices. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road thE GathERInG chuRch 552-3224, gatherasheville.org • SUNDAYS through (11/8), 5pm - Vision meeting for a new church in West Asheville. Dinner Provided. Free. Held at Rainbow Community School, 60 State St. uR lIGht cEntER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • FR (11/6) through SU (11/8) “A Gathering of Joy,” weekend workshop sessions with Jonna Rae Bartges, Mary Nadler and Lisa Rankin. Contact for full schedule. $15 per session.

SPokeN & WrItteN Word BluE RIDGE Books 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

• SA (11/7), 3pm - Tracy Crowe presents her book On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story. Free to attend.

BuncomBE county puBlIc lIBRaRIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/4), 3pm - Weaverville Afternoon Book Club: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • FR (11/6), 4pm - Black Mountain Barbara Kingsolver Book Club: The Bean Trees.

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Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • FR (11/6), 10:30am-4pm - “Frugal Friday 25 Cent Book Sale,” all books in hallway are 25 cents. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (11/7), 10am-3pm - “Halfpriced Used Book Sale.” Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • SU (11/8), noon - Diane Chamberlain discusses her novel Pretending to Dance. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TU (11/10), 1pm - Leicester Book Club: A Land More Kind Than Home

by Wiley Cash. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TU (11/10), 7pm - Ken Abbott present his book Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (11/12),6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: English Creek by Ivan Doig.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa cIty lIGhts BookstoRE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com

• FR (11/6), 6:30pm - Kathryn Byer & Thomas Rain Crowe present Carolina Writers at Home. Free to attend. flEtchER lIBRaRy 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 6871218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm Writers’ Guild. Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club. Free. lItERaRy EVEnts at unca unca.edu • TH (11/12), noon - Brown Bag Author Talk: Oguz Erdur discusses his book Love in Stone: Seduction of the Orphan Past. Free. Held in Ramsey Library. malapRop’s BookstoRE anD cafE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (11/5), 7pm - Ellen Hopkins presents her book Traffick.

• FR (11/6), 7pm - Laura Wright discusses her book Vegan Studies Project.

• SA (11/7), 7pm - Diane Chamberlain prsents her novel Pretending to Dance.

• SU (11/8), 3pm - James Tate Hill

presents his novel Academy Gothic.

• MO (11/9), 7pm - Mark de Castrique presents Specter of Justice.

• TU (11/10), 7pm - Robert J. Norrell presents Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation.

• WE (11/11), 7pm - The Literary Season with the ASO: Galileo’s Daughter discussion. montE VIsta hotEl 308 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-8870 • TH (11/12), 7pm - Jerald Pope reads from his novel Fetch.

Free to attend. sol BaR nEw mountaIn 38 N French Broad Ave, 785-1701 • SU (11/8), 6pm - Maurice Legendre presents his book, I Choose; A Life I Love Living. Event includes workshops, dancing, and presentation. Free to attend.

Program Discount rates for students * Call for class time and rate: 828712-1288.

VoluNteerING Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p.24) BIG BRothERs BIG sIstERs of wnc 253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (11/5), noon - Volunteer infor-

mation session. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave. lItERacy councIl of BuncomBE county 254-3442, volunteers@litcouncil.com • WE (11/4), 9-10:30am & TH (11/5), 5:30-7pm - Volunteer orientation

SPortS kaRakIDo maRtIal aRts (pd.) Cultivate Power & Grace: Back to School Special Classes: Youth, Adult & “Women Only” * Parents ask about our After School

for adult tutoring in reading, writing and English as a second language.

Register for location: volunteers@ litcouncil.com.

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by Abigail Griffin agriffin@mountainx.com aNIMalS chaRlIE’s anGEls anImal REscuE 885-DOGS, wncanimalrescue.org • SA (11/7), 10am-noon - Animal adoption event. Free to attend.

Held at BMW of Asheville, 649 Airport Road, Fletcher • SA (11/7), 11am-2pm - Animal adoption event. Free to attend.

Held at Petco, 118 Highlands Square Drive, Hendersonville

BeNefItS foRum on VEtERan homElEssnEss 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • TH (11/12), 5:30pm - Tickets to this dinner and community forum with speaker Jas Boothe of

Final Salute benefit homeward bound of Wnc. $25. Held at Celine and Company, 49 Broadway shuck! oystER Roast BEnEfIt 772-5339, artsforlifenc.org • TH (11/5), 6pm - Proceeds from this suction, live music, and food event benefit arts for life. $25.

Held at Brian Boggs Chairmakers, 239 Amboy Road taIls at twIlIGht BEnEfIt 761-2001, ashevillehumane.org • SA (11/7), 6-9pm - Proceeds from this gala reception and auction benefit the asheville humane society. $75/$125 VIP. Held at the Morris Hellenic Cultural Center, 227 Cumberland Ave. hEaRt of hoRsE sEnsE heartofhorsesense.org

• MO (11/9), 6-8pm - Proceeds from this silent auction and screening of documentary film Riding My Way Back benefit heart of horse sense. $10-$30.

Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road

eco ashEVIllE BIonEERs confEREncE asheville.lr.edu/AVLBioneers Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave • WE (11/11), 5:30pm - “Food, Race, and Justice,” presentation

by Malik Yakini. Sponsored by MountainTrue. Free to attend.

• FR (11/6), 5:30-10pm “Spirituality and Healing,” presentation by Sister Simone

Graduate Certificate Program in Gerontology Offered at UNC Asheville

The Interdisciplinary Gerontology Program at UNC Charlotte will start a new Graduate Certificate in Gerontology at UNC Asheville beginning in FALL 2016

Join us to learn about the program curriculum, online delivery, faculty, community partners, and application procedures. The Gerontology Graduate Certificate requires 15 semester credit hours of graduate course work related to aging and older adults.

It is designed to provide graduate education to:

a) Professionals interested in working with older adults and seeking training in aging and aging research b) Students preparing for careers in the social sciences and health and human service disciplines c) Adults interested in the study of aging across the life course For more information, visit the program website at www.gerontology.uncc.edu, call 828-251-6099, or email swithrow@unca.edu.

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Campbell. Free to attend. hEnDERsonVIllE GREEn DRInks 692-0385 ext. 1004, facebook. com/hvlgreendrinks • TH (11/12), 6-8pm - Josh Kelley speaks about public land management. Sponsored by MountainTrue. Free to attend.

Held at Taproom at Monte’s, 2024 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville mountaIntRuE 258-8737, wnca.org • 2nd SATURDAYS, 9am-1pm - Urban Forest Workdays: Richmond Hill Park invasive plant removal work days.

Sponsored by MountainTrue.

Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Drive

food thE loRD’s acRE thelordsacre.org • THURSDAYS, 11:30am - The Fairview Welcome Table provides a community lunch. Free.

Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway.

74, Fairview

outdoorS fRIEnDs of thE smokIEs 452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org • TU (11/10) - 4-mile round trip moderate hike on the Chimney Tops Trail. Register for details. $35/$10 members. n.c. aRBoREtum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • SA (11/7), 8am-6pm Geocaching Day. Self-guided geocaching and guided tours at 10am & 2pm. $12 per vehicle.

This week the Community Calendar is highlighting events that are sponsored or held by nonprofits that are participating in the Give!Local campaign. The campaign is raising money for 30 worthy local nonprofits that make a big difference where we live. These events are wonderful examples of some of the great work that these nonprofits do within our communities!

thE southERn appalachIan

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consERVancy appalachian.org • TH (11/5), 10am - Moderate 3.5 mile hike and lunch along the Master Park Trail with Brother Wolf adoption center dogs. Registration required: haley@appalachian.org. Free.

VoluNteerING

ashEVIllE musIc school 126 College St., 252-6244, ashevillemusicschool.com • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (11/5) until (11/14), 8pm - Harvey Diamond Jazz Series. $10.

PuBlIc lectureS homEwaRD BounD of wnc 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population.

Registration required. Free to attend.

SuPPort GrouPS ouR VoIcE 44 Merrimon Ave. Suite 1, 28801, 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence.

art ouR VoIcE hEaRt woRks suRVIVoRs aRt show 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • TH (11/12), 5:30pm - Art work and performance by those who have been affected by sexual violence.

Free to attend. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St. thE cEntER foR cRaft, cREatIVIty & DEsIGn 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • WE (11/4), 3-5pm - “WNC Arts Advocacy Roundtable and Reception.” Registration required.

Free.

thE maGnEtIc thEatRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/5) until (11/22) Washington Place. Thu. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $23/$18 advance.

GallerIeS n.c. aRBoREtum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • Through SA (1/3) - Finefeathered Friends and Flowers, oil paintings by Mary Webster. $12 per vehicle.

• Through SA (1/3) - The Robot Zoo, exhibit featuring giant-size robots and interactive displays to teach biomechanics of animals. $12 per vehicle. thE cEntER foR cRaft, cREatIVIty & DEsIGn 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture, ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate.

• TH (11/5) through SA (11/28) - Emblematic, embroidery installation by Nava Lubelski.

WellNeSS

Freedom behind bars Local practitioners bring wellness to Buncombe’s prison population

bY Kate lunDquist kvlundo@gmail.com

A fluorescent-lit, cinder block room may not be the ideal space for yoga, meditation or dog training, but for Buncombe County’s prison population, it’s often the only place for a dose of freedom and a little peace and quiet.

“We believe providing opportunities that produce positive behavior both inside and out is a step in the right direction,” says val lamberti, volunteer program services coordinator at the Buncombe County Detention Center. “If done right, these programs can provide inmates the resources to truly heal old wounds. It teaches them how worthy a peaceful state of mind can feel and, in turn, inspires them to lead better lives [and] become productive contributors to our society.”

With that in mind, last month, Lamberti, Detention Division Commander capt. scott allen and local wellness practitioners launched a pilot yoga program for women, with plans to expand to include one for men as well.

“What we are looking at is recidivism,” says Allen, showing Xpress an empty housing unit and a small recreation room at the center.

The spaces are similar to those used for inmates on other floors.

The white, windowless recreation room and small bedrooms are all some people will see for the next four years, he explains.

“We cannot say for a fact that the overall behavior of the women has been altered,” Lamberti says. “We can say that we have noticed a dramatic decrease in the level of violence amongst the inmates who are participating in the yoga program. Within

that group, we have also seen a level of bonding and camaraderie that we feel is unique to the setting of the yoga room.

The women are developing a sense of trust within themselves, which is affecting the ways in which they interact with each other. The women are very present and comment on the positive impact yoga has on their daily lives while being incarcerated.”

At the end of the yoga program, inmates receive a book to help them continue their studies and a completion certificate from Asheville Yoga Center. For some of the women, it’s the only certificate they have ever received, even since childhood, says Allen.

Recent research shows that yoga improves mood and decreases anxiety. And given that people in neighborhoods with high incarceration rates have elevated levels of depression and anxiety (as reported in the American Journal of Public Health in 2015), inmates in Buncombe County’s jails and prisons may need the practice of yoga even more than Asheville locals who attend classes in beautiful studios. paige gilchrist and julia brenn arrive weekly to teach yoga and breathing exercises to the women at the center. “We’ve been able to create an incredible sense of community among the women participating in this pilot program,” Gilchrist says. “Most had never done any yoga before, but they have been so open and receptive to what we’ve offered that they have almost been on a fast track — embracing not only the physical practice but the parts of yoga that extend into areas such as focus, concentration, self-awareness, compassion and a deep sense of connection to themselves and others.”

Gilchrist also teaches men at Craggy Correctional Center. “For me it is one of the most meaningful and fulfilling things I do all week,” she says. The men incarcerated at Craggy “are certainly among the most grateful students, and they are very open and willing to expand.

And they are curious, superrespectful and kind. We focus on a lot of relaxation.

They tell me yoga is one of the only times it is quiet.”

Her students commonly ask, “Why do you ‘Om’? Why ‘namaste?’” she

QuIEt tImE: Paige Gilchrist and Julia Brenn teach yoga to female inmates at the Buncombe County Detention Center. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County Detention Center says. Such questions get “at the heart of what yoga really is, down to the heart of what we are doing and how it is accessible and useful.”

With similar goals, YMCA yoga instructor connie rose and AYC

yoga instructor sierra hollister started Light a Path, a local nonprofit that connects volunteers with wellness programs for youth-at-risk and incarcerated residents. Both women volunteer at the Swannanoa

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Wel l n ess Correctional Facility and feel their work there is some of the most important they have done as yoga instructors. “There is a lot of humor in the classes, and in a place like prison, where it is hard to laugh, it’s important not to take yourself too seriously,” Rose says. “Yoga can lighten the mood. The rest of their life is so regulated, they don’t have choices about what to eat or see.

They have an hour for asana or to lie there with a blanket, and it is freedom.”

“The women are so receptive,” says Hollister of the class she teaches at the facility. “It seems that for some of these women, this might be some of the first times that they have practiced any kind of deeper self-care. You can literally see them soak up the ways in which they can learn how to care for themselves, from learning yoga postures that address the various discomforts and conditions they might be dealing with physically to learning pranayamas [breathing techniques] that help alleviate stress and tension. They are eager to learn.”

Yoga is not the only way Asheville locals work to create wellness in prisons. randal pride has been guiding men in meditation techniques since 2008 at Craggy Correctional Center. “I enjoy doing it,” he says. “Sometimes when you sit down, your mind is so busy, and you think there is no point to staying here. The idea is to not judge whether it is good or bad, but to just sit through it, and then afterwards feel the difference in body and mind. I keep coming back to that with these guys.”

Pride says that when he first started teaching at Craggy, “Initially there was a ‘What’s this?’ feeling from the staff. Over the years, though, they’ve become friendly and accepting of the Buddhist meditation and class. Perhaps seeing the inmates sitting perfectly still in an upright meditation posture for a half-hour facing a white wall ... has had an effect on the guards. ... There’s an understanding that ‘Hey, they take this meditation stuff seriously.’” jenny white, owner of DogEd, offers another way to help inmates find solace and peace of mind. With her help, inmates at Swannanoa Prison and men at Craggy Correctional Facility train dogs for basic obedience skills to help make the animals more adoptable. The men in her classes “feel like they are giving back

to the community,” says White.

“Some of these guys are in there for a very long time, and it gives them that connection that they are giving back. Not only are they changing the dog’s life, but they are also changing the lives of those who adopt the dogs,” she says.

“It is pretty amazing to see the videos of the guys every week,” she continues. “You would not think of these people as prisoners. They are doing bodywork and baby-talking [the dogs] and being concerned because there is a bump on a dog’s leg. They have told me they have never felt this type of love before.”

The dogs’ love and requirement for care provide a therapeutic setting for the men and women serving time in prison. “It gives the inmates another way of interacting with each other because they need to work as a team to take care of dogs.”

White has also started Pups on Parole, in which volunteers take the dogs beyond the prison walls to meet potential new dog owners and spread the word about the program at such locations as the Aloft Hotel in downtown Asheville.

Hollister sums up what all of these healing modalities for incarcerated residents aim to do: “We want our inmates to be healed. We want the incarcerated to have the chance to heal, to be healthier in all ways — body, mind and spirit.

I would like to believe that we want this healing for the sake of healing, but for those that doubt, I would say we also want this healing to take place so we are able to receive healthier individuals back into our communities when they are released from prison.” X

more inFo The Buncombe County Detention Center is looking for programs that provide skills and tools to assist in building a positive, productive life, including anger management, adult education, literacy, reading, basic skill building and resume writing. If you are interested, contact Val Lamberti at val. lamberti@buncombecounty. org or 250-4585 lightapath.org dog-ed.net

Wellness cal e nD ar

by Abigail Griffin

WellNeSS Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p.24) “mastER youR EmotIons” class sERIEs (pd.) TUE (11/10) 7 PM-9 PM. Experience freedom from overwhelm and anxiety. Feel happy, calm and relaxed. $15/class. Nourishing Life Center, 207 Weaverville Rd., 28804 (770) 654-0115 smaRtER not haRDER: aDVancED pIlatEs woRk on mat & REfoRmER (pd.) $35 11/14, 1-2:30 pm Details at AshevilleHappyBody.com 277-5741 Happy Body South Asheville ashEVIllE communIty yoGa cEntER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • TH (11/5), 6-7:30pm - “Awakening Shakti: Explore our inherent power and purpose through yoga and the Goddess,” workshop series. Thursdays (11/5) through (12/3). $40.

• FR (11/6), 2-4pm - “Integrating the Shadow – Yoga for Dark Times,” 3-week yoga series. FRIDAYS (11/6) through (11/20). $30.   • SA (11/7), 12:30pm - “A Restorative Workshop: A Two Hour Vacation,” workshop. $20.

• TH (11/12), 2-4pm - “Hope Through the Holidays,” bereavement support workshop. Free.

GRacE luthERan chuRch 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • TU (11/10), 3:30pm - “Hope for the Holidays,” holiday bereavement support. Registration requested. Free. lakEVIEw communIty cEntER 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black

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• TU (11/10) & WE (11/11), 11am4:30pm - Appointments & info:

1-800-REDCROSS. Held at UNCA. • WE (11/11), 10am-3pm - Appointments & info:

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BuncomBE county puBlIc lIBRaRIEs buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/4), 11:30am - “Laughter Yoga” for adults. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TH (11/5), 2:30pm - “Introduction to Integrative Health and Proactive Wellness,” lecture by Dr. Allan Redash.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road caREpaRtnERs hEalth sERVIcEs 68 Sweeten Creek Road, 443-1051 Care Partners Health Services • WE (11/4) - Registration deadline for Nov. 8 workshop, “Hearing Loss: It’s a Family Affair.” Free. famIly fun Day 659-9622, ymcawnc.org/centers/ corpening • SA (11/7), 10am-1pm - Event features all age health assessments, healthy snacks, inflatables, face painting and balloon artists. Free. Held at Marion Medical Plaza, 2293 Sugar Hill Road, Marion fouR sEasons compassIon foR lIfE 233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • WE (11/11), 2-4pm - “Hope Through the Holidays,” bereavement support workshop. Free. Held at Four Seasons Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. fouR sEasons compassIon foR lIfE 571 S. Allen Road, Flat Rock, 692-6178, fourseasonscfl.org

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Greenway in the sky Despite obstacles, Beaucatcher project moves forward Trouble at the Sky Club

By virginia daffron vdaffron@mountainx.com For nearly 100 years, the dream of a high-elevation park offering panoramic views over downtown has entranced yet eluded Asheville visionaries. The city’s first master plan, created by John Nolen and adopted in 1925, shows “Mountainside Park” stretching across the eastern slope of Beaucatcher Mountain in an unbroken swath from Asheville High School to the Grove Park Inn. More recently, the dream has assumed the form of a greenway, anchored at its northern end by a small park at Helen’s Bridge and on its southern terminus by a larger park on the city-owned White Fawn Reservoir site above McCormick Field. In 2007, the city acquired much of the land that will become the greenway through a joint funding effort with Buncombe County, the state and The Trust for Public Land, according to Parks & Recreation Director Roderick Simmons.

To secure that $2 million in funding, says Simmons, the city committed to building a greenway and park. Designers at the Raleigh-based Stewart engineering firm, he reports, have almost completed drawings for the greenway, which will include both on- and off-road segments. The construction package could go out for bid before the end of the year.

In the best-case scenario, Simmons says, construction could begin next spring.

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Beaucatcher Greenway: The route map shows anchor park locations. Map provided by the Asheville Parks & Recreation Department.

On Oct. 28, the Tourism Product Development Fund — which awards a portion of hotel room tax proceeds to local projects with the potential to boost tourism — approved $1.7 million for the Beaucatcher and French Broad River greenways. Added to existing and planned Asheville

greenways, the funded projects will complete an 11-mile network.

With a new funding source and a nearly completed set of construction drawings, the dream of an Asheville skyline park seems closer than ever to becoming a reality.

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Or is it? Some property owners along the proposed route say the city is misinterpreting the ownership of a key connecting road — and that other stretches pose significant safety and accessibility concerns.

A so-called “pocket park” at the greenway’s northern end will feature Helen’s Bridge, an arched stone bridge built in 1909 as the entrance to the Zealandia estate. Designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith (the supervising architect for Biltmore House, who designed many other local structures, including the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village), Zealandia is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From Helen’s Bridge, the proposed greenway route follows a steep and sharply curving stretch of College and Beaumont streets, using a mix of sidewalks and a shared roadway that Stewart engineering planners call a “sharrow” — “pavement markings that alert drivers that cyclists will likely be present on the road,” the project website explains.

From Beaumont, the route turns left into what condominium owners at the former Sky Club say is a private driveway. It certainly looks like one today, with a motorized gate that opens only with a key code and several signs declaring the area private property.

Restaurateurs Gus and Emma Adler bought the 1890s mansion in 1935. In its heyday, the Sky Club hosted the cast and crews of many movies filmed in Asheville, counting among its famous guests Grace Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, Fess Parker and Louis Jordan. After Emma Adler sold the building in 1975, it was converted into five condominium units.

“None of us are against greenways,” notes Nancy Brown, president of The Sky Club Condominium Association.

“We are opposed to the city trying to take our private driveway for a greenway.” If the driveway is a public road, she asks, “Why did the city allow us to install a gate across it?”

Meanwhile, Sue and Nick Peterson own a neighboring property that also uses the Sky Club driveway for access.

Sue says the city’s preferred design option, shown in public meetings in

MOUNTA IN XPR ESS PR ESE NTS February and July, includes a sidewalk built on her property alongside the Sky Club driveway. “The design will require removing over 100 trees and building a massive retaining wall on my property,” she explains.

The Petersons’ attorney, al sneed of The Van Winkle Law Firm, says litigation is likely if the city persists in its determination to use the driveway as part of the greenway. “That could take a couple of years,” he observes.

Simmons, however, doesn’t seem concerned. “The residents may see it as an issue, and they are free to challenge it, but we are not holding anything up, because we see it as a public street,” he says.

Condo owner geoff Kemmish raises another concern: The proposed route between Helen’s Bridge and the logging road is characterized by blind curves, road crossings and steep grades. The route, he believes, “is not a greenway, it’s a sidewalk.

And it’s a scary sidewalk.”

was deeply committed to creating a city park on the site. Before his death from a brain tumor in January 2014, Jones and his wife, suzy, donated $25,000 to Asheville GreenWorks to help fund planning for the park.

“Stephen believed you shouldn’t have to own a house on Town Mountain or a condo on Beaucatcher Mountain to enjoy mountaintop views and the serenity of the forest within the city of Asheville,” recalls bob roepnack, Jones’ friend and fellow GreenWorks board member.

Earlier this year, the city signed a memorandum of understanding authorizing the nonprofit to create a master plan for the property. Once Equinox Environmental, a local consulting firm, completes the master plan and a cost estimate, Asheville GreenWorks will begin fundraising to make the plans a reality, says Roepnack.

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a VIEw to thE futuRE oVERlook paRk Things are calmer at the southern end of the greenway route, where 7 acres of city-owned property await transformation. Once part of the city’s water distribution system, the former White Fawn Reservoir was decommissioned in the 1950s and later used as a dumping ground for construction debris. Now home to two signal towers, the site could provide views in nearly every direction.

Asheville GreenWorks, a local nonprofit focused on community improvements, has long been involved with the White Fawn property. The late stephen jones, who served on the organization’s board of directors,

So how soon can city residents and visitors expect to see a completed park and greenway on Beaucatcher Mountain? The project has been under discussion for more than a decade, and prior news reports show that project deadlines have consistently underestimated the amount of time needed to clear the various financial, logistical and legal hurdles.

When it is finished, though, it will be the first Asheville greenway built without Department of Transportation or federal funds, notes Simmons. And whenever that may happen, he continues, Asheville’s signature skyline park will undoubtedly be “a real gem.” X

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food

Any way you slice it Asheville pizza makers dish about what goes into a great pie

amERIcan pIE: From left to right, Andrew Favilla, Malik Moore and Eddie Liotta show off some of the giant pies that are the specialty at Favilla’s New York Pizza in West Asheville. Photo by Liisa Andreassen

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LiisaS66@gmail.com People are passionate about their pizza. In fact, it can be downright polarizing.

What’s that you say? You prefer thin crust over Chicago-style?

This relationship will never work.

Seriously, most of us have heard more than one heated discussion on the topic. So, what do some of our local pizza makers have to say about what makes for a great pie?

It’s no secret that New Yorkers love their pizza, and I must admit, I’m a bit biased in this category too. A Brooklyn native, a good portion of my formative years was spent at the corner pizzeria indulging in that classic New York-style thin crust variety. And yes, folding the slice is part of the deal. No knives and forks, please. andrew favilla, owner of Favilla’s New York Pizza, does it right. That’s likely why he received the People’s Choice award during the Pizza

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Pandemonium competition at Highland Brewing Co. last spring.

So, what’s the key to great New York pizza, I asked him. “Well, it starts with a New Yorker,” he laughs.

Favilla grew up working at his uncle’s pizza place in Bushwick, Brooklyn. When he was just 16, he opened his own place. He’s been perfecting the art ever since. Today, he and his wife, jeanette, can be found cooking, talking with customers and, yes … eating pizza.

Everything is made from scratch, and Favilla says you’ve got to have

pride and be consistent. And when you’re making a couple hundred pizzas per day, that’s no small feat. On any given day, this local pizza joint plows through about three to five batches of dough (there are 40-50 dough balls per batch.) Mama mia!

Del Vecchios on Merrimon Avenue, owned by New Yorker rob clark, also offers hand-tossed, New York-style pizza. But Clark doesn’t play favorites — he also sells deepdish, Chicago-style pie. However, the New York-style, he says, is by far the most popular.

“A large percentage of the population seems to relate to it,” he says.

“Everyone knows what it is.”

But what about the question of the water? Is it possible to make great New York-style pizza without using the coveted New York City water?

“I think the water thing is overrated,” Clark says. “Sure. A slice of pizza may taste better in New York, but, hey, it’s because you’re in New York. A great slice of pizza probably has more to do with the overall experience.”

Favilla says that while New York water is pretty good, he loves North Carolina water too.

“I’ve had no problems with the water around here,” he says. “Now, Florida, well, that’s a different story.”

Favilla and Clark agree that, hands down, what you need for that great slice is simple, quality ingredients and a time-tested dough recipe.

“And no shortcuts,” Clark says.

“The dough should be allowed to proof for at least 24 hours, and the cooking temperature should not be higher than 500. Patience and a deliberate approach get lost in this volume-based industry.” kIckIn’ It olD school Frank’s Roman Pizza has stood the test of time. With nearly 40 years under its belt, it’s lived to see many ups and downs. And barry gardner, owner of the Tunnel Road store, has been there for a good portion of that time. Gardner says the shop’s

founder, Brooklyn native frank palmeri, really brought New York-style pizza to Asheville when he opened Frank’s back in 1977.

Gardner started working there as a driver in 1987, did just about every job imaginable and then bought it in 2001, when Palmeri retired.

One thing that sets Frank’s apart from many other pizza shops that have popped up in the area is its consistent involvement with the youth community. For example, on Saturdays, kids are invited to make their own pizza — a 12-inch with up to three toppings — for $10.

“They make it, we bake it,” Gardner quips. “Our repeat business is great.”

Frank’s also boasts a game room, jukebox and a display of customers’ napkin drawings that have been collected over the years.

“Sometimes, we’ll have a parent come in with their kid and say, ‘Hey, I drew that 20 years ago,’” he says.

“That’s what we’re about — combining nostalgia with great pizza.

It’s almost become a cultural thing — our guests are 2 to 92, and we take pride in the fact that we’re the oldest in town. We’re kind of like the godfather, and everyone deserves a slice of our pie.” takIn’ It to thE stREEts Tin Can Pizzeria sells its pizza from a converted 1976 Chevy step van that makes its rounds to popular brew stops like Highland Brewing Co. and the Wedge. Owners cory and michelle cannon say the margherita — a classic combination of tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and basil — is their most popular pizza. They change their menu on a weekly basis, but this one is always available.

Like the others, they agree that quality ingredients and a hot oven are key, but they say the effort and love that a person invests in making the pizza is the most important factor.

“The perfect slice of pizza is crispy and has the perfect amount of char but is not burned,” Cory says. “Melted cheese that is moltenhot and fresh ingredients that complement one another are another must-have.”

And Michelle likes to experiment with unique recipes that incorporate flavors not normally associated with pizza. For example, the Pumpkin Pie, a fall specialty, combines pumpkin

cream, mozzarella, Parmesan, spinach, pecans and thyme. outsIDE thE Box brendan reusing, chef at All Souls Pizza, changes his specials every few weeks depending on what produce and other items are available. Those specials are typically the top sellers. One recent special featured lamb sausage, fermented pepper marinara, oregano, garlic and cave-aged Asiago.

All Souls also offers a gluten-free pizza with a nontraditional crust made from corn that is sourced regionally and ground by Reusing’s partner, david bauer, at Farm and Sparrow Bakery. It is then cooked with salt, water and a touch of buttermilk, spread on a plate, cooled, par-baked and then baked to order with toppings.

“It’s difficult to pinpoint that one thing that makes great pizza, but for sure, natural starter, flour, knowledge, the ability to adjust and the care used during every step of the process are surefire ingredients,” he says. X

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A rash of reported alcohol violations by local bars, breweries and festivals since last spring has shined a spotlight on this area’s two primary alcohol agencies: Alcohol Law Enforcement and the Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control board, one of four such entities in Buncombe County. With all the rumors and hearsay swimming around the stories of the Oskar Blues Burning Can festival bust, or even the Altamont Brewing Co. citations, it’s hard to tell where

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the facts end and the rumors begin.

Here’s a closer look at those agencies and their respective roles. mEEt thE alE Funded by the Department of Public Safety, the ALE recently became a branch of the State Bureau of Investigation. Authorized by state statute 18B-500, the agency is charged with inspecting any business with an alcohol or lottery sales permit. In the Asheville office, seven field agents

cover 16 WNC counties, overseeing more than 1,500 gas stations, bars, convenience stores, music venues, restaurants, strip clubs, head shops and fraternal organizations.

“There’s been a media blitz the last several months, and everybody keeps talking about an ‘ALE crackdown,’ and there’s been no crackdown,” says stacy cox, special agent in charge. With so many permittees and so few agents, she says, the agency is stretched pretty thin. Another rumor said the ALE

had hired seven new officers: In fact, only two have been hired, to replace a retiree and a transfer. “We’re just doing business as we always have,” notes Cox. “We’ve stayed fairly constant with the amount of violation reports we send in.”

So far this year, she continues, the ALE has seen just 10 underage sale violations; the 10-month average is 15. On-premise employee drug abuse charges are also down, with just five so far (the average is 8-10), and the 10 citations for onthe-job alcohol consumption are average for this point in the year.

Cox ascribes the hype surrounding the recent busts to the fact that they took place at such high-profile events.

Illegal drug use, she notes, may also be a factor, since her agency enforces drug laws as well. “Wherever there’s alcohol, there’s drugs: 98 percent of the drug cases we work originate from an alcohol outlet.” mEEt thE aBc commIssIon The Raleigh-based ABC Commission has somewhat different priorities: overseeing the purchase, distribution and sales of spirituous liquor in North Carolina.

The agency interprets state alcohol law, issues and revokes permits, and sells to and regulates the regional ABC boards.

Those interpretations have created a set of rules that are distinct from the state’s alcohol laws. Law violations lead to charges; rule violations lead to fines and possible permit suspensions or revocations.

For example, the statewide ban on happy hour specials is a rule; the ban on sales to people under age 21 is a law.

Asheville’s ABC board is one of more than 160 authorized by state statute 18B-501. Besides buying and selling liquor within their jurisdiction, each board is also charged with educating the public about alcohol safety and enforcing state alcohol laws and ABC Commission rules.

“The state will pass a law, then everybody [at the ABC Commission] will sit down and say, ‘OK, we need to write the rules for the intent of the legislative standards,’” says mark combs, general manager of the Asheville’s board. Both the commission and the regional boards, he explains, are wholly funded by alcohol sales. “Your tax dollars are not at work here: We

make money, and every bit of it goes to Buncombe County. They own us; they’re our stockholders.”

Regional ABC boards are required to spend at least 7 percent of revenues on enforcement. Smaller communities simply hire police officers to conduct alcohol permit checks.

But Asheville’s board has established its own enforcement branch, consisting of Chief al bottego and two officers, to help clarify the interpretation and enforcement of a very lengthy book of laws within the city limits. unDER contRol North Carolina is one of 17 “control states.” Alcohol “needs to be regulated because it’s a controlled substance: It kills more people than bullets,” Bottego says flatly. “The benefits of the program are that the $253 million gets returned to the general fund to help make us stronger, faster, smarter. If we deregulate it, we have anarchy.”

In July 2014, mixed beverage sales in Asheville totaled about $700,000.

This year, they were over $934,000.

“No business grows at that rate!” says Bottego. “That credit goes to the permittees and their ability to run good businesses. We are a byproduct of their success.”

Those consumers aren’t swilling rotgut, either: North Carolina ranks third in the nation in alcohol sales revenues but 48th in per capita consumption. Which, notes Combs, suggests that North Carolinians care more about the quality of their booze than about how much they consume — a statistic he’d like to maintain.

“We’re very much about being good businesspeople, but we’re also very much about knowing that we sell something that’s really, seriously bad for you,” he emphasizes. “My sister died at 43 from alcohol, and I know that no family gets away without being touched by this stuff. We know we can’t make it illegal: We’ve tried that. It’s part of the fabric of the human social system. Since it was invented, it’s been a part of us, so let’s manage it!”

That management, though, often gets tripped up by the laws themselves. North Carolina’s alcohol law book is thicker than the Bible, with a smaller font. “By the time anyone gets real good at it, it’s time to retire!” jokes Cox. And like Bottego and Combs, she says North Carolina’s

laws are clunky and outdated.

“Everything was put in place for a reason, and they will go through and repeal things over time, but there are some things that could use some updating.” As a result, adds Cox, “We have to use a lot of discretion in our enforcement.

Sometimes there are laws that may not make sense. Does that mean we won’t enforce them? No, but what it typically means is that we’ll talk to somebody, work with them and counsel them through it.”

But updating those laws, notes Bottego, isn’t easy. “When you talk about the laws and the progression of the system, I agree: Things need to be changed. The problem we have is that we talk about the fact that they need to be updated and the legislators have to do it, but we miss those 99 steps in the middle.

It’s a long, painful process that involves 100 counties and God only knows how many municipalities.

There are so many players in the game, and so many moving parts.

The way the system is designed right now, it’s very difficult for it to change: It just gets tripped up somewhere along the way.” X

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by Kat McReynolds | kmcreynolds@mountainx.com Also new this year is the entertainment programming. “Instead of having one band at a central stage, we’re going to have buskers throughout the event to give it a whole different festival feel,” Zinn says. Acoustic performers include Straight Six, Shifty Drifters featuring Abby the Spoon Lady, Celestially Rooted, The John Hardy Party and Lycaonfire Flow Arts.

For kiddies, the festival offers an interactive station with mini-handson projects based on sustainable-living themes, and all ages are welcome to browse the work of local artists and crafters.

CiderFest is at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 1-5 p.m. Information and tickets ($30 per adult and $15 per child or designated driver) are available at ciderfestnc.com.

a noBlE cRaft: There’s a significant disparity between craft cider and the brands that line grocers’ shelves, says CiderFest organizer Nina Zinn. “One of the differences is a lot of the craft cider makers are paying attention to using pure ingredients and not diluting the cider or adding artificial sweeteners.” Photo of Noble Cider’s blueberry-infused cider by Kat McReynolds

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“We came up with [CiderFest] as our annual fundraiser,” says nina Zinn, development and outreach coordinator for the WNC Green Building Council, adding that the festival aims to honor Appalachian traditions of strong community and local food sources. Although compatible with the council’s commitment to sustainability, the celebration of hard cider “was designed to reach outside of WNC Green Builders’ typical user base,” she says.

Mirroring the cider industry’s steep growth curve, the local festival has expanded dramatically over a short time. This third iteration, according to lead organizer Zinn, is poised to generate nearly double the attendance figures of the inaugural year, which saw about 425 patrons sampling the products of five cider makers.

For 2015, Zinn says, “We will have 15 hard cider makers, and

they typically have two to four varieties.” Companies from North Carolina and neighboring states comprise the majority of those pouring for the day, but representatives from California, Michigan, Ohio and Vermont will also serve beverages.

Also participating but falling slightly outside the traditional cider category are Bee & Bramble meadery, apple wine maker Burntshirt Vineyards and apple beer brewer Windy Ridge Farms.

Between samplings, attendees will have several food vendors to choose from, including cheese and bread from the WNC Cheese Trail, multiple food trucks and other small snacks.

Those who want to learn more about what’s in their cup can gather for a presentation — Drink Up Thy Zyder: a Brief History and the Vast Gamut of Cider — at Black Mountain Ciderworks’ booth at 2:30 p.m. Plus, Asheville Brewers Supply is sponsoring a new home cider-making booth where DIY types can mingle, peruse cider-making kits and attend educational presentations, including a home-brewing demonstration and talk at 3:30 p.m.

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ashlEy EnGlIsh’s homE DaIRy woRkshop Butter, yogurt, mozzarella — oh my!

Candler-based homesteading guru (and frequent author on the subject) ashley english is holding a class at Villagers to enlighten others on her dairy-making ways. “From equipment and ingredients (including a look at pasteurization and homogenization) to hygiene and technique, we’ll examine the ins and outs of what it takes to create delicious homemade dairy goods,” reads Villagers’ event description. “Students will receive hands-on instruction and literature for making butter, yogurt and mozzarella cheese.”

Samples are included.

English’s workshop is on Sunday, Nov. 8, 5-7 p.m., at Villagers, 278 Haywood Road. Information and tickets ($25) are available at forvillagers.com. thE hop wEst’s fIfth BIRthDay The Hop West turns about as old as the artisan ice cream shop’s most loyal customers on Thursday, Nov. 5, and this five-year birthday party includes free ice cream for the whole town.

“As a way to say thank you for the support and love you have given and shown over these years, we will be giving away free kiddie scoops to anyone and everyone,” reads the company’s Facebook event page.

Birthday celebrations are at The Hop West, 721 Haywood Road, on Thursday, Nov. 5. For more information, visit http://avl.mx/1y8.

sEason’s at hIGhlanD lakE’s nEw chEf Season’s at Highland Lake and Highland Lake Inn & Resort have announced the arrival of new executive chef steve boeger. Inspired by the food of his German immigrant parents, Boeger began his professional culinary career at The American Bistro and Bakery in Asheville before making his way through several kitchens in Philadelphia and boomeranging back to Western North Carolina to accept a position at The Venue. “He now joins the Season’s at Highland Lake family and is thrilled to work with local farmers who share his same philosophies,” reads a release from the company. “He supports the garden-to-plate movement and is happy to have access to the restaurant’s on-site organic garden.”

Visit avl.mx/1yd to learn more about the chef. Season’s at Highland Lake is at 86 Lily Pad Lane in Flat Rock. X

Food writer Jonathan Ammons lets us in on his favorite dish du jour. half bowls of soup at heiwa shokudo: The restaurant has always offered them, but now they’re on the menu: half bowls of Heiwa’s awesome noodle soups! All prepared with a dashistyle stock, the menu includes choices like Geisha (broccoli, carrots, mushroom and bean sprouts), and Medicine Man (corn, crab, shiitake and wakame). At about $10 for a half bowl and a sushi roll, it’s a great, affordable way to build a meal.

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Thanksgiving is a time for counting blessings and feasting with loved ones. But with extended family gathering and dining expectations running high, the holiday is also ripe for kitchen catastrophes, recipes gone horribly wrong and other less-thancelebratory food-centered situations. Xpress urges you to tell us about your travails! Our Nov. 25 issue will feature Thanksgiving dinner horror stories from members of our local community.

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hi-Wire hosTs sTouT bouT Stouts from 15 different breweries go head-to-head in a blind tasting It’s hard to find a weekend in Asheville that doesn’t include some sort of beer-related event. From bottle releases to full-blown beer festivals, our Beer City’s numerous brewers make sure there’s always something happening.

But, despite being in business for more than two years and recently opening a second, much larger facility near Biltmore Village, Hi-Wire Brewing Co. has remained largely quiet on the festival front.

That is, until Saturday, Nov. 7, when Hi-Wire kicks off Stout Bout — a celebration and release party for the Pulcinella Russian Imperial Stout, an annual November brew aged in oak barrels.

“It’s a pretty simple recipe,” says head brewer luke holgate. “We really want the oak to come through, but not dominate, so we typically do a 50-50 blend of stainless and oak [barrel aging] in the final product. We’ve got 25 barrels that have been on oak since December of last year and another 25 that have been in stainless for a couple of weeks now. That’ll be the finished product.”

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BEER BattlE: Hi-Wire’s Pulcinella Russian Imperial Stout is ready to take on 15 opponents in the brewery’s Stout Bout. Photo by Jesse Farthing “Whatever we don’t use this year we’ll throw on oak for next year,” he adds.

“We’re stoked about it. It ages really well — I cracked a bottle of last year’s about a month ago, and it’s still delicious.”

Stout Bout will bring together 15 stouts from 15 breweries, as well as some small-batch varieties that Hi-Wire has brewed for attendees to taste during the event.

What breweries are participating?

Well, that’s a secret — and it’s also where the name Stout Bout comes into play. The first two hours of the event will be a blind tasting, where brewery logos and branding will not be displayed.

“We’re not releasing the brewery list until halfway through the event so people can’t guess which beers are with which brewery,” says abby dickinson, director of marketing and public relations for Hi-Wire.

However, that doesn’t mean attendees will be stuck trying beers they’re sure they won’t like.

“Nobody is going to get to taste all 15 beers,” says Dickinson. “Well, maybe they will — but they probably shouldn’t.

They’ll be designated as a smoked stout or a cherry stout [and other varieties],

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so if someone really doesn’t like smoked stouts, they don’t have to try it.”

Stout Bout is $5 for a commemorative glass and admission, and tasting tokens are $2 each. Hi-Wire is also running a coat drive alongside the event, and those who bring a coat to donate will get in free.

“But it’s outdoors in November,” you cry. “I’ll be cold!” Don’t fret. With a fire permit in place, Hi-Wire plans to have several large fire barrels posted around the grounds for attendees to warm their frozen fingers.

“The big beers will warm you up too,” Dickinson jokes.

Stout Bout runs 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Hi-Wire’s Big Top, 2A Huntsman Place. catawBa BREwInG GRows up By the end of this year, Catawba Brewing Co. will have shipped over 7,000 gallons of beer from its Morganton facility — a 10-barrel brew house.

The company has been running on a 24-hour brewing schedule to keep up with demand and keep its beer on store shelves.

“We’ve certainly missed opportunities in our currently served markets, and we have had no ability to add

new markets and territories,” says owner billy pyatt.

It’s time for this little brewery to grow up if it wants to keep up.

Catawba is spending over $1 million on equipment — including a Sprinkman 30-barrel brewhouse and 120-barrel fermenters — and other upgrades to triple the Morganton facility’s capacity by the end of fall.

On top of that, Catawba is implementing “big-brewery style” qualityassurance and quality-control equipment, personnel and processes to “ensure our beers continue to be on-point and have the best shelf lives possible,” says Pyatt in an email.

“All this investment will allow us to better serve our current distribution partners and to look at new ones,” Pyatt says. colD mountaIn RElEasE paRty Get your stocking caps ready — Highland’s Cold Mountain Winter Ale storms back to Asheville with a special release party on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the brand-new event center in the brewery.

A limited amount of packaged Cold Mountain will be available for purchase beginning at 4 p.m. Customers are limited to buying one liter bottle, one 12-pack and two 22-ounce bottles at the release. Prices are $15 per liter, $21 per 12-pack and $7 per 22-ounce bottle, or the whole lot will be available for $50.

The release party will feature live music from Corbitt Clampit Experience, CHALWA and Empire Strike Brass beginning at 4:45 p.m., and food trucks will be on hand to feed the hungry masses waiting in line to purchase their bottles.

The Cold Mountain extravaganza will continue through Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14, with more bands, more food and more brews — ending with a three-course Cold Mountain Brunch noon-2 p.m. Sunday Nov. 15. X

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GroWinG Pains bY alli marshall amarshall@mountainx.com Take the typical litany of teen problems — boys, weird cousins, celebrity crushes. Then add issues like adoption, a family land dispute and a parent with a chronic illness, and you see what protagonist Molly Arnette is up against in Pretending to Dance, the new novel by diane chamberlain. The Raleigh-based author will read at Malaprop’s Saturday, Nov. 7, and at the Swannanoa Library Sunday, Nov. 8.

The book takes place in two time frames: present-day San Diego, where Molly (at 38) and her husband are considering an open adoption, and Swannanoa in 1990, where Molly (at 14) lives on 100 acres with her extended family. In the North

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When considering a location for a novel, “I think, ‘Where is it that I want to know more about?’” Chamberlain says. She was intrigued by Asheville but needed a country setting where important parts of the plot could play out. Chamberlain’s friend, local artist barbara fisher, suggested Black Mountain or Swannanoa. The latter, Chamberlain points out, “is fun to say.”

In researching Swannanoa, the author used real estate websites advertising properties similar to Morrison Ridge, the Arnette family’s land. But when it came to details to round out 14-year-old Molly’s world, Chamberlain turned to Facebook. “I have almost 19,000 followers, so when I have a question, I go to them. ... They helped me figure out, in 1990, what kind of things Molly would be interested in [and] what she would be saving her money for,” she says. “They really get into the spirit of things and help me with research.”

Other aspects of the book draw from Chamberlain’s own experiences. On Oct. 6, the novel’s release date, the author published a blog about her older sister, Joann, who lives with multiple sclerosis and inspired the character of Graham. “It felt good to be able to tell her story,” says Chamberlain. “I wanted to shine a light on it, but I didn’t want it to be depressing — that was a challenge.” In fact, the novel’s wheelchair-bound patriarch is warm and humorous, and, because Chamberlain chose to write about his plight through the eyes of a sheltered young girl, the disease is presented as less of a hardship, more of a daily norm.

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Diane Chamberlain sets her new novel in Swannanoa

GRoup actIVIty: Author Diane Chamberlain often communicates with — and even asks advice of — her Facebook followers. “Writing is so isolating,” she says. “I love having that contact with other human beings.” Author photo by John Pagliuca relationships recur throughout Chamberlain’s work. “I tend to write heavy — I can’t write funny to save my life,” she says. Actually, while the people in Pretending to Dance must deal with challenges, the novel is also heartfelt, fast-paced and often fun.

“I do want my characters to triumph, but they need to struggle first,” says Chamberlain. “I want the end of the book to be uplifting.”

It’s an apt sentiment as the author’s own career is a triumph following a struggle. She says it’s taken her a very long time to build the kind of readership she would have liked early on. “If I didn’t like writing, I don’t think I would have stuck with it,” she says.

But Chamberlain’s relationship to her craft goes much deeper than fan appreciation (of which there’s a great deal, these days). An avid outliner, she says that she carefully plots the details of each novel at the beginning but, “as soon as the characters are in place, I throw the outline away.” It’s the characters who run away with the story,

making it their own, Chamberlain says. “You know when you dream, and you have no control over the dream? To me, [writing] is tapping into that part of our brains.”

She adds, “That’s when the real creative part is happening.” X

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soul surViVors Rude Boys Headline WRES-FM’s inaugural Autumnfest It was one of those breaks that bands dream of. One fateful night in 1987, the Rude Boys were performing at the Reason Why club in their hometown of Cleveland. What set that performance apart from any other was that fact that award-winning R&B and soul singer gerald levert was in the audience. “I called him up to sing with us,” says Rude Boys’ lead vocalist joe little iii, aka

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Joey Beanz. “After the show, he said, ‘Meet me tomorrow, I want to hear more.’ The rest is history.”

For the Rude Boys, who are headlining the inaugural Autumnfest Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, that chance meeting with Levert led to an introduction and, later, a signing with Atlantic Records in 1988. Their 1990 debut album, Rude Awakening, went on to be a gold record with two No. 1 singles on the Billboard R&B charts.

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Face,” won the 1991 Billboard Music Award for R&B single of the year. “All my life I’d wanted to win a big award,” says Little, a performer since childhood. “And my dream came true.”

Following that big success, in 1992 “My Kinda Girl,” a single off the Rude Boys’ second album, Rude House, was remixed by hiphop DJ Clark Kent. The remix featured a then-unknown rapper.

“We were the first national act that Jay-Z performed with,” says Little.

The megastar-in-the-making also shared the stage with the Rude Boys that same year at an underground New York hip-hop club.

The rise of hip-hop acts like Jay-Z led to shifts in popular music, which, according to Little, meant “mainstream radio stopped playing R&B and threw it over to adult contemporary radio.” Faced with this change in climate, the Rude Boys disbanded.

Little stayed in the music business and built a dynamic solo career. “I got into writing and producing, and I found my niche,” he says. “I’ve worked with a lot of who’s who in the music industry.” That list includes Aretha Franklin, Men at Large, Wyclef Jean, Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson, the O’Jays and many more. With Levert, Little co-wrote two songs on the Temptations’ Grammy Award-winning 2000 album, Ear-Resistible.

Levert passed away in 2006, inspiring the Rude Boys to reunite in order to pay tribute to his legacy.

Since then, the band has continued to be embraced by fans of R&B, soul and urban-contemporary music. Now based out of Atlanta, Kenny myles and gee labeaud

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tunE up: The Rude Boys will be playing new songs as well as old favorites at Autumnfest. “It is going to be an explosive show with great singing,” says vocalist Joe Little. “We’re known for putting on great shows. The crowd will be entertained, believe me.” Photo courtesy of the band

have replaced founding members larry marcus, melvin sephus and edward lee banks. A new album, Rude 20/20, is coming out soon. The Rude Boys will be playing new songs as well as old favorites at Autumnfest. “It is going to be an explosive show with great singing,” Little says. “We’re known for putting on great shows. The crowd will be entertained, believe me.”

Autumnfest is a fundraiser for radio station WRES 100.7 FM, whose tagline is “The Urban Sounds of Asheville.” As station director john hayes explains, “WRES was created so that we could empower people of low wealth with information that is necessary to build wealth.” In addition to educational programming, the station primarily

plays R&B and soul music. Fans of the station will hear many of their favorite songs at the Nov. 7 concert — the lineup includes We Are One Tribute X-Perience Band (featuring the music of Frankie Beverly), Romonta & Friends with The Sounds of Motown, Ghetto Cowboy and local favorites Lyric and Westsound. The emcee will be Atlanta-based comedian T-Ray Saunders, who has appeared on “Comic View” and “Late Night Laugh Off.” “Autumnfest is for everybody who listens to WRES,” says Hayes.

“This will be a night for you to come out to enjoy great music and each other.” X

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In thE mIx: The cast of Attic Salt Theatre Company’s production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which opens Friday, Nov. 6, at 35below. Playwright Christopher Durang has called his Tony-winning comedy “Chekhov put through a blender.” Photo courtesy of Attic Salt

Director jeff catanese agrees that there’s plenty of truth to the notion that “great artists steal.” He also believes that borrowing from others’ visions is a double-edged sword, one in which the borrower may think something is a good idea at the time, only to find that it doesn’t particularly serve the play or one’s own production. To combat that issue, the artistic director of Asheville’s Attic Salt Theatre Company has developed a system that so far has proved successful.

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“As soon as I am slated to direct a show, I call for a moratorium on all contact I have with any given play, other than the script itself,” he says.

“No filmed versions, no YouTube clips — if it’s not in the script, it’s someone else’s idea of what was.”

This approach takes shape in a production of Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which opens Friday, Nov. 6, at 35below.

Catanese and Attic Salt executive director marci bernstein are longtime fans of Durang’s work. In 2012,

when they heard the playwright had a new comedy and that it was garnering the best reviews of his career, they knew they had to pounce. “Then it won the Tony for best play, among a heap of other awards, and the rights were unavailable for a while,” Catanese says. “As soon as they were released, we grabbed them. We’re happy that we can bring Asheville its first look at this wonderful show.”

The plot of Vanya and Sonia centers on Vanya (adam arthur), his adopted sister Sonia (jane hallstrom) and their quiet existence in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up. That tranquility is compromised when their sister Masha (christy montesdeoca), a past-her-prime movie star, pays them a visit with her much younger boyfriend, Spike (henry williamson).

Rivalries are sparked, regrets are voiced — and all of it may or may not have been predicted by their clairvoyant cleaning woman, Cassandra (amanda hunt).

If the titular characters’ names sound familiar — with the exception of Spike, that is — they should.

The siblings’ parents worked in

academia and christened them in honor of characters from Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Vanya and Sonia, there spelled Sonya), The Three Sisters and The Seagull (both of which include Mashas). Other nods by Durang to the Russian master include a cherry orchard that’s mentioned but never seen, and while Catanese is mum on whether or not a literal “Chekhov’s gun” makes an appearance, figurative ones are present throughout the material.

“The script is definitely tight, so Chekhov’s ideas about nothing present in the play being unnecessary to the final product are certainly at the fore,” he says. “In fact, part of the joy of the show is seeing allusions mentioned in the first act come to a crazy fruition later.”

Durang has called the play “Chekhov put through a blender” and noted that a deep familiarity with the writer’s work isn’t necessary to enjoy Vanya and Sonia. Catanese, who has read or seen most of Chekov’s major plays and guides a cast that’s well-educated in theater history, is in accord with that assessment. He suggests a basic understanding of Chekhov’s themes

and style as far as catching some inside jokes, but insists that it’s not required.

“There’s something in this play for everyone,” Catanese says. “Durang’s sense of humor — particularly his irreverence and out-and-out wackiness — has been a draw for decades, to which his great success can attest. This play shows a certain maturing in his writing.

I would say a mellowing, except that the script still goes over the top in its hilarity. His characters are more relatable, the script more linear and the situation more relevant than anything he did with his earlier works.”

Catanese says he and Bernstein initially had issues as to how they were going to cast for the ages of the characters but wound up selecting what they’re confident are the best actors for the roles. “Each one brings such a strong voice to their character. Durang already creates such unique personalities, but each of our actors brings them to life in such a way I couldn’t even imagine upon first reading the script,” he says.

Finding the right venue to perform Vanya and Sonia, however, was a far easier decision. Catanese views Attic Salt as a DIY, bare-bones company, a

description that dates back to its 1998 inception in New York and has held true in the four years since it relocated to Asheville. The intimacy of 35below’s small black-box theater space matches that style and, Catanese says, affords attendees an opportunity to delve deeper into the characters.

“The audience sits with them and vice versa,” he says. “The emotional interplay between them makes every high higher and low lower. If the purpose of theater is to create a visceral experience for the audience, 35below enhances that possibility.” X

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The Milk Carton Kids are really just two Los Angeles-based singer-songwriters — joey ryan and Kenneth pattengale — who figured out that they sounded good playing together. But to the rest of the Americana world, the two are magic in a bottle, blending the fraught folk weariness and preternatural guitar picking of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with the fragile pop harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel while tempering that sound with youthful earnestness and Smothers Brothersstyle between-song repartee.

The duo, who perform at the Diana Wortham Theatre Monday, Nov. 9, began playing together under their shared moniker in 2011. Since then, Ryan and Pattengale have toured and recorded at a breathtaking pace to adoring critical acclaim, culminating in a Grammy nomination for their 2013 effort, The Ash & Clay, and a Duo/Group of the Year win at the Americana Music Association Awards in 2014.

What’s perhaps most interesting about The Milk Carton Kids’ music, though, lies beyond those surface-level impressions and goes deep into their enigmatic, often elliptical approach to songwriting.

Ryan and Pattengale’s sound seems to be derived from music of very particular times and places — preWorld War II rural South, 1960s Greenwich Village coffeehouses and the 1970s Laurel Canyon folk-rock scene. But their shifting and blending of those influences, along with persistent references to cities and regions all across the country, lends a kind of restless lack of place that seems to pervade their music, even as they are capable of tapping into the throbbing heartbeat of a particular time and place.

Ryan is quick to note his roots in LA, but also readily admits to that perspective in the duo’s songs. “I feel that both of us in our professional lives, and this is reflected in

the music, that neither of us have much of a sense of place,” he says. “Most of the time we’ve spent together over the last five years has been around this country and others. It’s like we’re making music that’s evocative of the entire nation more than a specific place.”

In part, that comes from writing songs that evoke specific places very explicitly. Take “Asheville Skies,” the opening track on the duo’s new record, Monterey. Ryan says the song was written on a day off in Asheville while on tour and that it captures a particular image. “I wanted to invoke a sight that you only see in the American South, a specific sort of fiery twilight sky that only exists in that one season and in [a place like] Asheville,” he says. “At that point, it also seemed to set the stage for the world of despair and feeling of ending that we wanted to get across in the song.”

Ryan refers to this kind of geographic placing as a “really effective literary shortcut,” something that also harkens back to the frequent invocation of locale in much of traditional folk music. “I think it actually serves to broaden the sense of place that the music is supposed to exist within,” he says. “Whether I’m reading something or listening to a song or just having a conversation, [I like] to have a sort of three-dimensional experience of what’s being said and where, so you know where you are.”

And although it might feel like this conversation suggests something akin to the windswept romance of Simon & Garfunkel’s “America,” Ryan says that oft-used comparison is something that he and Pattengale never saw coming and don’t particularly endorse. “I can hear it in the softness of our voices and the delicacy of the harmonies, and probably some of the vocabulary in the writing,” he says. “I don’t think anybody is wrong to say that, I just think it’s incomplete in a lot of ways. Kenneth’s guitar playing doesn’t really have anything to do with the Greenwich Village folk in the

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REfEREncE poInt: Despite a surface sonic connection to New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s, LA-based musicians Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, aka The Milk Carton Kids, are more influenced by Appalachian and jazz sounds than Lower West Side folk songs. Photo by Sara Kiesling early ’60s. His comes from Appalachian flatpicking and avant-garde conversational jazz improvisation more than anything else.” Django Reinhart, Willie Nelson and Duke Ellington are likely Pattengale’s biggest influences rather than New York City’s Lower West Side.

Still, Ryan understands how the connection could be made. He also notes the popularity of the Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis as sparking renewed interest in the sounds and styles associated with the Village. The Milk Carton Kids also participated in the concert film Another Day, Another Time that T Bone Burnett produced to celebrate that very same music.

There’s a touching moment in that documentary when Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford tears up while listening to Ryan and Pattengale harmonize.

“We realize that in a lot of the ways we sing, it’s not that far off from what

Simon & Garfunkel were doing. We just weren’t referencing it at all consciously [when we started],” Ryan says. “We only realized after the fact that it was going to be a touchstone for people.” X

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Jamie Laval After enrolling at the Victoria Conservatory of Music as a classical violin student, Jamie Laval’s career expanded to include work as a professional symphony musician, recording studio artist, improvising violinist and contra dance fiddler, according to his website bio.

Rather than continuing to diversify, the artist has since pared down his activities, focusing almost exclusively on Irish and Scottish folk music. He now employs ornate apparel, intermittent stories and masterfully executed compositions to invoke the Celtic tradition for international audiences, impressing notables like the Queen of England and Dave Matthews — who featured Laval on Some Devil — along the way. Next, the 2002 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion performs at Waynesville’s The Strand at 38 Main Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. $20 general/$12 students. 38Main. com. Photo courtesy of the artist

The Boys Next Door “Arnold has decided he’s going to move to Russia. Barry thinks he’s a golf pro. Norman can’t stop eating donuts, and Lucien is concerned that they don’t have any trees,” reads a release for The Boys Next Door — the final production during Different Strokes Performing Art Collective’s fifth season. It’s these four special-needs roommates who star in the work, which is written

by Tom Griffin, directed by Steph Hickling Beckman and presented as a series of vignettes. Together, the leading men tackle daily life, “where little things sometimes become momentous — and often very funny.”

The storyline, Beckman says, “highlights the beautiful humanity, humor and heartache of the cognitively impaired, while underlining that these men are not to be pitied but understood and respected.” Performances are Thursdays through Sundays, Nov. 5-21, at 7:30 p.m., at The BeBe Theatre. $15/$18 (or $12 online before Thursday, Nov. 12). Proceeds benefit Paws on ASD. differentstrokespac.org. Photo by Rodney Smith of Tempus Fugit Design 46

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John McCutcheon Folk musician John McCutcheon is a true multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle and jawharp, and he’s considered a master of the hammered dulcimer. All of those instruments no doubt came in handy in the recording of more than 30 albums, many on the Rounder label.

If McCutcheon’s name isn’t immediately familiar, his songs certainly are — “Christmas in the Trenches,” of example, is a warm and fuzzy retelling of a 1914 truce during World War 1. His latest release, Joe Hill’s Last Will, pays homage to a Swedish-American musician and labor organizer. McCutcheon played the role of Hill onstage in Si Kahn’s one-man play of the same name. He performs at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville Friday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. $20. avl. mx/1w2. Photo by Irene Young

Rosy Kirby and John Faulkner Working at a salvage company has a way of stimulating one’s aptitude for upcycling — at least it did for artist John Faulkner, who now repurposes several key inputs, including metal parts, while creating each of his home design pieces. In addition to adorning the many nooks of his customers’ dwellings, Faulkner’s work is visible at Chicago’s Millenium Park, where the “Cloud Gate” sculpture he helped to weld sits. Illustrator and printmaker Rosy Kirby reaches even further into her past for inspiration, depicting foliage, mountains and other blueberry farm-inspired scenes to capture the sentiments of her childhood. Youthful adventures and their accompanying emotional states are distilled on canvas in her latest collection. Both artists’ work will be on display at Woolworth Walk’s front gallery for the duration of November with a meet-and-greet reception Friday, Nov. 6, from 5-7 p.m. Free. woolworthwalk.com. Milkweed illustration by Kirby mountainx.com

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‘washInGton placE’: The world premiere of Washington Place imagines the stories of the women who lost their lives in the New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Written by local poet, actor and playwright David Brendan Hopes, the dramatic play brings both a serious side and moments of laughter to the Magnetic Theatre stage. The play will run Thursdays through Saturdays, Nov. 5-22 at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. (p.48) art Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p.24) aRt at asu 262-3017, tcva.org • FR (11/6), 6-10pm - Fall Exhibition Celebration with 6 gallery openings. Free. Held in the Turchin Center. ashEVIllE aREa aRts councIl 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (11/10), 10am - Artist Business Brainstorm: “Ask Me Anything,” Q&A sessions with Kitty Love. Registration required. Free. ashEVIllE nEwcomERs cluB ashevillenewcomersclub.com • TH (11/12), 10am-noon - Art fair. Free to attend.

Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place wEst ashEVIllE aRt walk facebook.com/ events/985926381470815 • SA (11/7), 11am-3:30pm - Self-guided tour showcasing local artists’ work along Haywood Road. Free park-

ing and information booth at Grace Baptist Church. Free to attend. Held at Grace Baptist Church, 718 Haywood Road

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art/craft faIrS flat Rock autumnfEst maRkEt facebook.com/ flatrockfarmersmarket, Flatrockfarmersmarket@ gmail.com • TH (11/5), 3-6pm - Flat Rock Farmer’s Market indoor craft fair and autumn produce. Free to attend.

Held at Highland Lake Inn & Resort, 86 Lily Pad Lane, Flat Rock GRacE luthERan chuRch 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SU (11/8), 9am-noon Annual Lutheran World Relief Fair Trade Gift Market. Free to attend. wnc pottERy fEstIVal 631-5100, wncpotteryfestival.com • SA (11/7), 10am-4pm - Festival featuring over 39 master potters from WNC. Free to attend. Held

ashEVIllE GallERy of aRt 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • MO (11/9), noon-5:30pm Entries accepted for gallery membership. Contact for guidelines. Free.

coMedy anam caRa thEatRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • SU (11/8), 7:30pm - I’m Proud of You Variety Show, vaudeville comedy. $12/$10 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B

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performed • Saturday, November 7, 7:30pm; • Sunday, November 8, 3pm, Rainbow Community School Auditorium, 58 State St., West Asheville. $15 General Admission; $10 Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 Students. • Tickets available online and (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville.

• Season Passes also available. • Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org Asheville Chamber Music Series 259-3626, ashevillechambermusic.org • FR (11/6), 8pm - Fauré Quartet presents works by Strauss, Fauré and Brahms. $38. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place Asheville Symphony Chorus shevillesymphonychorus.com • SA (11/7), 7:30pm “American Folk Songs: Sacred and Secular.” $22/$15 youth. Held at Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road, Arden Caldwell Community College 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • WE (11/4), 1pm - Faculty Concert: Robert Steadman.

Free. Held in the FPA Theatre.

• SA (11/7), 7:30pm Mandolin Orange, folk/ Americana. $21.50/$12 students and children.

Cathey’s Creek Community Center Island Ford Road, Brevard • SA (11/7), 7pm Appalachian Fire Bluegrass Band.. $5/$3 kids under 12.

Crest Mountain Pavilion 30 Ben Lippen School Road, 252-1277, crestmtn.com • TU (11/10), 7pm - FORTE: A Cabaret, musical theater. $25/$22 children/Free ages 5 and under.

Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (11/6), 8pm - Alison Brown Quartet. $32/$27 student/$20 children.

Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse 1 Edwin Place, uuasheville.org

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• SU (11/8), 7pm - Mike Agranoff, folk. $15/$10 student.

advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B

Music at ASU appstate.edu • SA (11/7), 7pm - Jason Isbell, southern rock. $30/$15 students & children. Held in the Schaefer Center.

Asheville Masonic Temple 80 Broadway, 252-3924 • FR (11/6) through SU (11/8), 7:30pm - Live theatrical performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tickets: rockyhorrorasheville.com $15-$30.

Music at UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • SU (11/8), 5pm - 7th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert with Pan Harmonia.

Free. Held at the Osher Learning Institute.

• SU (11/8), 3pm - UNC Asheville percussion ensembles concert. Free. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

• TH (11/12), 7pm - DJ Rekha, bollywood and bhangra. $6. Held in the Justice Center.

Music at WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (11/5), 7pm - Traditional music concert/jam series: Frogtown Four. Open jam at 8pm. Free. Held in the Robinson Building.

• TH (11/5), 7:30pm - Travis Bennett, horn recital. Free.

Held in the Coulter Recital Hall.

• TH (11/5), 7:30pm Mountain Faith Band, bluegrass/gospel. $5. Held at the Bardo Center.

PubSing 254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm Gospel jam and sing-along.

Optional snack time at 5:30pm. Free to attend. Held at French Broad Brewery, 101 Fairview Road Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 8598322, tryonarts.org • SU (11/8), 7pm - Ukulele master Kimo Hussey plays along with Zanuck Lindsey. $30.

UR Light Center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight. org • SU (11/8), 7pm - Jonn Serrie space music and laser show on the geodesic dome ceiling. $20.

Theater Anam Cara Theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (11/6) & SA (11/7), 8pm - Paradise Park Zoo. $18/$15

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Attic Salt Theatre Company 505-2926 • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/6) until (11/22) - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 2:30pm. $20. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • TH (11/5) through SA (11/7), 7:30pm - Front Porch Theatre presents Art. $15.

Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (11/5) until (11/21), 7:30pm - The Boys Next Door. $18. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAY through SUNDAYS until (11/15) Catfish Moon. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm. Thur., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $15-$40.

Hendersonville Little Theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater. org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (11/14) - The 39 Steps. Thur.-Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 2pm. $18/$15 ages 18-25/$10 under age 18.

The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/5) until (11/22) - Washington Place. Thur.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $23/$18 advance.

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G a l l e r y D IRECTOR Y 474 Gallery Studio 474 Haywood Road Suite 2, facebook. com/474gallerystudio • Through MO (11/30) - Fall group show featuring Asheville artists. Closing reception: Nov. 14 & 15, 1-4pm.

Art at UNCA art.unca.edu • Through WE (11/11) - Simultaneity: Shared Spaces, student works from Virginia Commonwealth University. Held in Owen Hall, 2nd floor gallery.

• Through FR (11/6) - From the Edge, collaborative exhibit of performance design pieces from UNCA Arts & Drama program, Bakhrushin Center State Theatre Museum, and Carnegie Mellon University. Held in the Ramsey Library Blowers Gallery.

• Through TU (11/17) - Looking at Appalachia, photography exhibition. Artist talk: Nov. 6, 5pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Opening reception: Nov. 6, 6pm. Held in the Cooke Gallery.

• TU (11/10) through (12/16) - New Orleans....Honoring her resilience, her heart, photography by Maureen Scott.

Held in Ramsey Library.

Art at Warren Wilson College warren-wilson.edu Exhibits are held in Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery, unless otherwise stated.

• Through SA (12/12) - Quantum Confusions, life-sized charcoal drawings

by Denise Stewart-Sanabria. Opening reception: Nov. 5, 5:30-7pm.

Art at WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/4) through TU (11/24) - It’s Teatime, interactive art exhibit by MFA candidate Leigh Ann Parrish. Public tea times: Nov. 17, 18 & 19.

Asheville Area Arts Council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FR (11/6) through SA (1/9) - Akira Satake hosts the Ceramic Invitational.

Opening reception: Nov. 13, 5-8pm.

• FR (11/6) through SA (1/9) - To the Harbormaster, paintings by Amanda Seckington.

Asheville Gallery of Art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through MO (11/30) - Small Works, exhibition of works with dimensions less than 12 by 12 inches.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 6690930, blackmountainarts.org • Through WE (11/25) - Appalachian Pastel Society Juried Show.

Courtyard Gallery In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St., 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com • Through MO (11/30) 6-9pm - Anything

Goes—Everything Shows, mail in art show.

Haen Gallery Asheville 52 Biltmore Ave., 254-8577, thehaengallery.com • Through MO (11/30) - New Work 2015, oil paintings by Lynn Boggess.

N.C. Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 6652492, ncarboretum.org • Through (1/3) - Fine-feathered Friends and Flowers, oil paintings by Mary Webster. Regular parking fees apply.

Odyssey Cooperative Art Gallery 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook. com/odysseycoopgallery • Through MO (11/30) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Libba Tracy and Reiko Miyagi.

Push Skate Shop & Gallery 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through MO (11/30) - Satanic Panic, aerosol art by Gus Cutty.

The Asheville School 360 Asheville School Road, 254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • Through Th (11/5) - Emergent Animals, paintings by Daniel McClendon.

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture, ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate.

• TH (11/5) through SA (11/28) Emblematic, embroidery installation by Nava Lubelski.

The Tryon Depot Room 22 Depot St., Tryon, 859-7001, tryondepotroom.com • Through WE (11/26) - Circus Art Exhibition, Costanza Knight paintings.

Transylvania Community Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (11/13) - Connestee Art League exhibition.

Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through SA (11/28) - Sculpture 2015, exhibit featuring local and southern artists.

ZaPow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through MO (11/30) - BEER! art inspired by the beer culture of Asheville.

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BeN’S tuNe-uP Honky-tonk Wednesdays, 3pm B.R. Lively (cowboy folk), 5pm Bryan Marshall & The Payday Knights (outlaw honky-tonk), 7pm

Barley’S taProoM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Shake it Like A Caveman (funk, Appalachian, blues), 7pm

Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Open mic, 7pm

Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm

douBle croWN Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

cluB eleVeN oN GroVe Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 7:30pm

fuNkatorIuM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

creekSIde taPHouSe Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

GrINd cafe Trivia night, 7pm HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

croW & quIll Carolina Catskins (rag-time, jazz), 9pm douBle croWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

IroN HorSe StatIoN Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall An evening w/ Flagship Romance (folk, Americana), 7pm The Sleepwalkers (indie, rock, dirty pop), 9pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm lazy dIaMoNd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm leX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (old-time, stride jazz piano), 7pm loBSter traP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm MouNtaIN MoJo coffeeHouSe Open mic, 6:30pm

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

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

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mIxED mEDIa: After eight years of concept brainstorming, Atlanta hip-hop artist Quanstar released “A Rapper’s Words,” a comic series told through rhythm, rhyme and illustration by Rafa Lee. Planning to release bi-annually, “each issue is a self-contained story, illustrated around the lyrics of some of Quanstar’s most socially provocative songs,” reads a description of the comic. The artist will be stopping in Asheville at Timo’s House downtown on Friday, Nov. 13 to perform and promote his new venture.

NoBle kaVa Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm oddItorIuM The Murderburgers w/ City Mouse & The Dimarcos (punk), 9pm off tHe WaGoN Piano show, 9pm olIVe or tWISt Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm oNe StoP delI & Bar Lip sync karaoke, 10pm oNe World BreWING The Moon & You (Americana, cello folk), 8pm PISGaH BreWING coMPaNy Tara Mills & Jimmy Stelling w/ Members of Hackensaw Boys (folk, Americana), 6pm rooM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

freNcH Broad BreWery Klarcnova (jazz), 6pm Good Stuff Pilot Rogue (indie, rock), 7:30pm Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN An evening w/ Dave Desmelik, Pierce Edens & Bow Thayer (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 8pm HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy Hippies vs. Hipsters costume party, 7pm

Sol Bar NeW MouNtaIN World Wednesdays, 8pm tallGary’S at four colleGe Open mic & jam, 7pm tHe JoINt NeXt door Bluegrass jam, 8pm tHe MotHlIGHt Lera Lynn w/ Dylan LeBlanc (Americana, indie, Western), 9:30pm tHe PHoeNIX Jazz night, 8pm tHe SoutHerN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tIGer MouNtaIN Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm tIMo’S HouSe “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm toWN PuMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9pm

Scully’S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

traIlHead reStauraNt aNd Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, oldtime, folk), 6pm

Sly GroG louNGe Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

treSSa’S doWNtoWN Jazz aNd BlueS Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

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elaINe’S duelING PIaNo Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall Zoe & Cloyd (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 7pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB Bluegrass jam, 7pm loBSter traP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm Market Place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm Moe’S orIGINal BBq WoodfIN The Caribbean Cowboys Band (country), 6:30pm NatIVe kItcHeN & SocIal PuB Brandon Ellison, Jon Edwards & Ryan Lynch (bluegrass jam), 7:30pm NeW MouNtaIN tHeater/ aMPHItHeater Brazilian Girls w/ The Hongs (electronica, experimental, pop), 9pm o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am odd’S cafe Edibles, Audibles & Applaudables w/ Brian Claflin (Americana), 7pm oddItorIuM Squidling Bros. Circus, 9pm

Wed • November 4

JACK

Woody Wood @ 5:30pm off tHe WaGoN Dueling pianos, 9pm olIVe or tWISt Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm oNe StoP delI & Bar Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm The Brummy Brothers (jamgrass), 10:30pm oNe World BreWING Sarah Tucker (singer-songwriter), 8pm oraNGe Peel Lettuce w/ Marvel Years (funk, jazz), 9pm oSkar BlueS BreWery Jeff Michels (singer-songwriter), 6pm Pack’S taVerN Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic folk), 9pm PurPle oNIoN cafe Dogwhistle, 7:30pm

aSHeVIlle MuSIc ScHool PerforMaNce loft Harvey Diamond Jazz Series w/ Bill Bares, 8pm atHeNa’S cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Back yard Bar Karaoke w/ Get Vocal Entertainment, 9pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm Black Bear coffee co.

Jameson Adams Project (jam, electric soul), 7pm Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Company News (alt-country, Americana), 7:30pm Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

reNaISSaNce aSHeVIlle TLQ+2 (rock, blues), 6:30pm

claSSIc WINeSeller Sheila Gordon (pop, jazz), 7pm

rooM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

cork & keG The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, Latin, 30s pop), 8:30pm

ScaNdalS NIGHtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm Sly GroG louNGe Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm Sol Bar NeW MouNtaIN Open mic night, 7pm SoutHerN aPPalacHIaN BreWery Nitrograss (bluegrass), 7pm SPrING creek taVerN Open Mic, 6pm tallGary’S at four colleGe Electric blues open mic w/ Gentle Jones, 7pm tHe MIllrooM Brews & Brains (trivia, benefit), 6:30pm tIMo’S HouSe Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm traIlHead reStauraNt aNd Bar Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm treSSa’S doWNtoWN Jazz aNd BlueS The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm tWISted laurel Karaoke, 8pm WHIte HorSe Black MouNtaIN Sheridan Hill (storytelling), 7:30pm WXyz louNGe at aloft Hotel Caitlin Krisko (singer-songwriter, soul), 7:30pm

frIday, NoVeMBer 6 185 kING Street Noche Latina, 7pm 5 WalNut WINe Bar The Patrick Lopez Experience (Latin jazz), 9pm altaMoNt BreWING coMPaNy Clyde’s on Fire w/ Nick Dittmeier and the Sawdusters & Chris Stalcup (Americana, country, bluegrass), 9pm altaMoNt tHeatre An evening w/ Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo (Gypsy jazz), 8pm aSHeVIlle MuSIc Hall WhiteWater Ramble does Pickin’ on Jerry (bluegrass, Jerry Garcia covers), 10pm

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Thu • November 5 Hippies vs Hipsters Costume Party

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Fri • November 6 David Zoll Trio @ 7pm

Sat • November 7

PUB

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FRI 11.6

THE HIGH DIVERS

(SOUTHERN ROCK’N TWANG)

w/ DALLAS BAKER AND FRIENDS (BLUEGRASS & ROOTS BAND) WITH CAITLIN HARNETT OPENING

8 p.m. $5

Rock Academy Quarterly Showcase @ 5pm

SAT 11.7

THE FLOORBOARDS

Sun • November 8

MON 11.9

HWY LIONS (ROCK N ROLL)

Reggae Sunday with Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt @ 1pm

Tue • November 10 Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

FRI 11.13

(APPALACHIAN ROOTS ROCK)

9 p.m. $5

w/ STARSTUFF

9 p.m.Free (Donations Encouraged)

STOLEN RHODES (AMERICAN ROCK N ROLL)

w/ JAKOBS FERRY

(APPALACHIAN BLUEGRASS) 9 p.m. $5

SAT BULL MOOSE PARTY 11.14 (BLUEGRASS, PARTYGRASS & COUNTRY)

douBle croWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

9 p.m. $5

OPEN AT NOON DAILY

SATURDAY Parker & Smith (old-fashioned blues), 2-4pm SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3-9pm MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Scottie Parker (old-fashioned blues) 2-4pm, Bluegrass Jam 7pm

elaINe’S duelING PIaNo Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm freNcH Broad BreWery CarolinaBound (country, folk), 6pm

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

Good Stuff Comedy night w/ Mag Jackson, 7pm Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN SeepeopleS w/ East Coast Dirt (rock), 9pm HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy David Zoll Trio (rock), 7pm

TAVERN

IroN HorSe StatIoN Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall An evening w/ GRACE (Belgian jazz), 7pm The New Mastersounds (funk, jazz fusion), 9pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB The High Divers w/ Dallas Baker and friends & Caitlin Harnett (Southern rock ’n’ twang, bluegrass, roots), 8pm JeruSaleM GardeN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm k louNGe DJ CVtheProducer (old-school hip-hop), 10pm lazy dIaMoNd Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm leX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens (modern jazz), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9:45pm loBSter traP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm luella’S Bar-B-que Riyen Roots (blues, soul), 8pm Market Place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm NatIVe kItcHeN & SocIal PuB One Leg Up (jazz trio), 7:30pm NeW MouNtaIN tHeater/ aMPHItHeater Sundy Best (country, folk, rock), 9pm

lera lynn ("true detective")

11/4 wed

w/ dylan leblanc

asheville fall fund drive 2015! sat

11/6 fri 11/7

3pm: a super special matinee show!

jeffrey lewis & los bolts

w/ mother explosives

9:30pm:

keep shelly in athens w/ different sleep

11/8 sun �deb au nare presents…

burlesque graduation

11/9 mon �free monday!

the volt per octaves w/ shop talk, blarg

11/10 tue 11/11 wed

yob

w/ black cobra, u.s. christmas

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w/ericarusso,youtheternal

11/12 thu

john paul white

w/ the secret sisters

11/13 fri honky tonk night!

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SAT. 11/7 The Tailgaters

(rock ‘n’ roll, bluegrass)

w/ hearts gone south, zach bryson 11/14 sat

don preston's akashic ensemble

w/ plastic crimewave syndicate

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NoBle cIder Nikki Talley & Jason Sharp (folk, Americana, singersongwriter), 6:30pm

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COMING SOON

THU 11/5 7:00 PM – ZOE & CLOYD – NATAIYA WEINSTEIN AND JOHN MILLER FRI 11/6 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ GRACE

Seasonal, craft-made hard cider on tap all year round, plus tasting-room delights from local farmers & artisans.

9:00 PM – THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS SAT 11/7 7:00 PM – CLASSICAL DINNER AND A CONCERT: AMICIMUSIC PRESENTS:“FOUR HAND FORAY”

9:00 PM – THE MARCUS KING BAND WED 11/11 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ HEY MONEA W/ BRAD RAY 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/

THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS

NoBle kaVa An evening w/ Earth Medicine (electro-coustic, ambient, improv), 8:30pm o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd Total Gold, 10pm Drag Show, 12:30am oddItorIuM Khmer w/ Uninhabitable, Spliff & Weak Wrists (punk), 9pm

WED 11/4 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

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off tHe WaGoN Dueling pianos, 9pm oNe StoP delI & Bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm oraNGe Peel Allen Stone w/ Bernhoft (R&B, soul), 8pm oSkar BlueS BreWery Pierce Edens (Americana), 6pm

210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806

(828)744-5151

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AND WISEWATER THU 11/12 7:00 PM – MILLIE PALMER

Pack’S taVerN DJ OCelate (dance hits, pop), 9pm ScaNdalS NIGHtcluB Zumba Fitness in Da Club w/ Be Bad Hip Hop, 7pm DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm Scully’S DJ, 10pm SoutHerN aPPalacHIaN BreWery Two Dollar Pistol (Americana, indie), 8pm

AND THE DRAGONFLIES

8:30 PM – MATUTO (BRAZILIAN BLUEGRASS) FRI 11/13

SPrING creek taVerN Letter To Abigail (folk), 8:30pm

7:00 PM – NEMES BAND

tallGary’S at four colleGe Apple Blue Horse Band (country), 9:30pm

9:00 PM – JEANNE JOLLY CD RELEASE CONCERT THU 11/19 AN EVENING W/ KRISTIN ANDREASSEN 7:00 PM – FRI 11/20

tHe adMIral Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm tHe MotHlIGHt AshevilleFM Fall Fund Drive 2015, 8pm

7:00 PM – ARTISTRY OF THE GUITAR W/

KEN BONFIELD & STEVE DAVISON 9:00 PM – MO’ MOJO—

tHe SocIal Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm

SAT 11/21 9:00 PM – THE BILL FRISELL TRIO

tIGer MouNtaIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm

Every Tuesday

toy Boat coMMuNIty art SPace Paradise Park Zoo (theatre), 7:30pm

ZYDECO/CAJUN DANCE PARTY 7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

traIlHead reStauraNt aNd Bar Ben Scales (covers, multigenre), 8pm tWISted laurel Live DJ, 11pm WHIte HorSe Black MouNtaIN White Horse 7th Anniversary w/ BJ Leiderman, Marcel Anton, David Troy Francis & more, 8pm

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WIld WING cafe SoutH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm WXyz louNGe at aloft Hotel Ben Hovey (souljazztronica), 8pm zaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

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freNcH Broad BreWery Dave Desmelik (Americana), 6pm Good Stuff Ben Phan (singer-songwriter), 8:30pm Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN Loudon Wainwright III (folk, rock, blues), 8pm HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy The Rock Academy Quarterly Showcase, 5pm

185 kING Street Mag Jackson’s LMAO Comedy Tour, 9pm

IroN HorSe StatIoN The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock w/ cello infusion), 7pm

5 WalNut WINe Bar Schatzi and the String Boffin (Americana, indie), 6pm Jeff Thompson’s Hot Threesome (jazz, rock), 9pm

ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall Amicimusic presents “Fourhand Foray” (classical), 7pm The Marcus King Band (rock, blues, jazz), 9pm

altaMoNt tHeatre An evening w/ Deep River (country), 8pm

Jack of tHe Wood PuB The Floorboards (Appalachian roots, rock), 9pm

aSHeVIlle MuSIc Hall Bosley w/ Black Masala (funk), 10pm aSHeVIlle MuSIc ScHool PerforMaNce loft Harvey Diamond Jazz Series w/ Harry Shultz, 8pm atHeNa’S cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Back yard Bar Chad K. “Redbone” Ray (country, blues), 9pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm Black Bear coffee co.

Brief Awakening w/ Liminal Space (folk rock, alternative), 7pm Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Jason Moore & Trust Trio (funk, jazz), 9pm Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Gene Holloway, 7pm claSSIc WINeSeller Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor covers), 7pm cork & keG Buddy Davis & the Session Players (honky-tonk, country), 8:30pm creekSIde taPHouSe Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 9pm croW & quIll Elisa Faires w/ Lush Agave, North Collins & Ork Hagur (ambient, experimental), 9pm douBle croWN Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm elaINe’S duelING PIaNo Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

JeruSaleM GardeN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lazy dIaMoNd Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm leX 18 Hot Point Trio (Gypsy, swing), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (honkytonk piano), 9:45pm loBSter traP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm Market Place DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm NeW MouNtaIN tHeater/aMPHItHeater WNCW “Local Color Live” w/ Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats, Raising Caine & Alex Krug (rock, blues, funk), 8pm Electrochemical w/ Lucidea & Mr. Clock (psychedelic, progtronica), 9pm NoBle kaVa The Kavalactones w/ Caleb Beissert & Max Melner (electro-coustic, improv), 8:30pm o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd Miss Gay Latina afterparty, 10pm oddItorIuM Walpyrgus (metal), 9pm off tHe WaGoN Dueling pianos, 9pm olIVe or tWISt 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm oNe StoP delI & Bar The Funky Knuckles w/ special guests (soul, jazz, funk), 9pm oSkar BlueS BreWery Vince Junior Band (gritty funk, soul), 6pm

Pack’S taVerN The Tailgaters (rock ’n’ roll, bluegrass), 9pm PISGaH BreWING coMPaNy Chalwa (rock, reggae), 8pm PurPle oNIoN cafe Aaron Burdett (singer-songwriter), 8pm rooM IX Open dance night, 9pm ScaNdalS NIGHtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm Scully’S DJ, 10pm Sol Bar NeW MouNtaIN Whiskey Shivers (bluegrass, country, folk), 8pm SoutHerN aPPalacHIaN BreWery Crossroads CD release (blues), 8pm SPrING creek taVerN Citizen Mojo (funk), 8:30pm tallGary’S at four colleGe Mile High Band (country), 9:30pm tHe adMIral Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm tHe duGout Mojomatic, 9pm tHe MIllrooM Dirty Dozen Wilderness Hike Challenge party w/ Tellico (Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time), 6pm tHe MotHlIGHt Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts w/ Mother Explosives (“anti-folk”), 3pm Keep Shelly In Athens w/ Different Sleep (chillwave, downtempo, dream pop), 9:30pm tHe SoutHerN Disclaimer Comedy w/ Mello Mike, Blaine Perry & Chaz Scovel (comedy), 8pm tHe StraNd @ 38 MaIN Jamie Laval (Celtic, fiddle), 7:30pm tIMo’S HouSe Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino (top 40), 10pm toy Boat coMMuNIty art SPace Paradise Park Zoo (theatre), 7:30pm traIlHead reStauraNt aNd Bar Kevin Lorenz (acoustic), 8pm tWISted laurel Live DJ, 11pm WHIte HorSe Black MouNtaIN The Belfast Boys (traditional Irish music), 8pm WIld WING cafe Karaoke, 8pm WXyz louNGe at aloft Hotel Siamese Jazz Club w/ CaroMia (soul, R&B, groove), 8pm zaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

SuNday, NoVeMBer 8 5 WalNut WINe Bar Ultrafaux (Gypsy-jazz), 7pm aSHeVIlle MuSIc Hall Asheville Battle of the Bands (multi-genre), 4pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Winter Sounds Jr. (indie, newwave, punk), 5pm Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm douBle croWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt (reggae), 12pm IroN HorSe StatIoN Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB Irish session, 5pm lazy dIaMoNd Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm leX 18 Michael John Jazz (classic jazz), 7pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9pm loBSter traP Hot Club of Asheville (swing ’n’ grass), 6:30pm oddItorIuM Lord Almighty (metal), 9pm off tHe WaGoN Piano show, 9pm oNe StoP delI & Bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Murph Fest w/ Phuncle Sam & special guests (benefit, jam, Grateful Dead covers), 4:30pm Slightly Stoopid afterparty w/ Treehouse! & Roots of a Rebellion (reggae), 11pm oraNGe Peel Slightly Stoopid w/ Stick Figure (psychedelic, rock, punk), 7:30pm ScaNdalS NIGHtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

tHe SocIal Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tHe SoutHerN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm tIMo’S HouSe Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm toy Boat coMMuNIty art SPace I’m Proud of You variety show (comedy, vaudeville), 7:30pm WedGe BreWING co.

Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm WIcked Weed Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

MoNday, NoVeMBer 9 185 kING Street Open mic night, 7pm 5 WalNut WINe Bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm altaMoNt BreWING coMPaNy Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Savannah Smith & Southern Soul (Americana, roots, rock ’n’ roll), 8pm ByWater Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm courtyard Gallery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm creekSIde taPHouSe Trivia, 7pm douBle croWN Country Karaoke, 10pm dreaM GuItarS Loren & Mark (acoustic, bluegrass, folk), 7pm Good Stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB Quizzo, 7pm Hwy Lions w/ Starstuff (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm lazy dIaMoNd Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

Sol Bar NeW MouNtaIN Shinobi Ninja w/ Matt Anderson, Bryan Colston & special guests (rock), 7pm

leXINGtoN aVe BreWery (laB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm

SoutHerN aPPalacHIaN BreWery Chris Titchner (folk, indie), 5pm

loBSter traP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm

tallGary’S at four colleGe Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm

tHe MotHlIGHt Burlesque graduation, 9pm

oddItorIuM Edhoculi (punk), 9pm

tHe oMNI GroVe Park INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

olIVe or tWISt 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm oNe World BreWING Beats & Brews w/ DJ

Whistleblower, 8pm

Tapestries Jewelry Incense

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oraNGe Peel The Milk Carton Kids w/ The Goodbye Girls (folk, Americana), 8pm oSkar BlueS BreWery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm SoVereIGN reMedIeS Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm tHe MotHlIGHt The Volt Per Octaves w/ Shop Talk & Blarg (Moog, electronica), 9pm

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tHe oMNI GroVe Park INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm tHe Valley MuSIc & cookHouSe Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm tIGer MouNtaIN Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm tIMo’S HouSe Movie night, 7pm

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urBaN orcHard Old-time music, 7pm

Drop-ins are always welcome and our next new six-week series will start November 4th.

WHIte HorSe Black MouNtaIN Kelley Hunt (blues, R&B), 7:30pm

853 Merrimon Ave. Asheville NC, 28801 Beginners 7:30-8 pm & Intermediate 8:30-9:30 pm $10/class or $40/6 wks.

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tueSday, NoVeMBer 10 5 WalNut WINe Bar The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm altaMoNt BreWING coMPaNy Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm aSHeVIlle MuSIc Hall Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm Back yard Bar Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm BeN’S tuNe-uP Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm Black Bear coffee co.

Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Trivia, 7pm Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm Buffalo NIckel Trivia, 7pm cork & keG Honky-tonk jamboree w/ Tom Pittman, 6:30pm creekSIde taPHouSe Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm

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A MUSICAL TRIBUTE DINNER SHOW TO BONNIE RAIT performed by Sheila Gordon November 18

Two Shows 5:45pm & 7:45pm Cocktail Reception and 4-Course Dinner

douBle croWN DJ Brody Hunt (honky-tonk, Cajun, Western), 10pm

Sheila Gordon is one of Asheville’s most appealing pop singers. We are asking our guests to wear formal apparel with an appropriate flamboyant blues or rock and roll flair.

The funkier the better.

Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN Cody Jinks w/ Joe Lasher Jr. (country), 8pm

Good Stuff Old time-y night, 6:30pm

$45

18 N. Lexington, Asheville

Tickets:

IroN HorSe StatIoN Open mic, 6pm

www.Lex18AVL.com

ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm lazy dIaMoNd Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm leX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (oldtime, stride jazz piano), 7pm loBSter traP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

November 2015

FRIDAY

11.6

SATURDAY

11.7

SUNDY BEST

ELECTROCHEMICAL W/ LUCIDA & MR. CLOCK

DESERT DWELLERS

WEDNESDAY

11.18 FRIDAY

11.20

SATURDAY

11.28

urBaN orcHard Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm WHIte HorSe Black MouNtaIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm WIld WING cafe SoutH Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

WED - 12.2 - JOHN SCOFIELD & JON CLEARY THU - 12.10 - DOPAPOD W/ SPECIAL GUEST THE NTH POWER SAT - 12.19 - VANESSA CARLTON THU - 12.31 - THE MANTRAS NYE BASH W/ PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG

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WedNeSday, NoVeMBer 11 185 kING Street Barrett Smith (Americana, folk-rock, singer-songwriter), 8pm

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Good Stuff Karaoke!, 7pm Grey eaGle MuSIc Hall & taVerN Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats w/ Caroline Rose (folk, rock, indie), 9pm

PISGaH BreWING coMPaNy

Experience Music AVL, 6pm rooM IX

Fuego: Latin night, 9pm Scully’S

Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm Sly GroG louNGe

Straight White Teeth (indie, pop), 8pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

IroN HorSe StatIoN Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm

MINNESOTA

Coming Up:

fuNkatorIuM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

GTA w/ Rich The Kid & Sweater Beats (alt-rock, indie), 9pm

oraNGe Peel Guster w/ From Bears (altrock), 8pm

treSSa’S doWNtoWN Jazz aNd BlueS Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm

W/ FREE RADIO “GIVING THANKS”

douBle croWN Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

oraNGe Peel

oNe World BreWING DJ Bantam, 8pm

TAB BENOIT

DUBCONSCIOUS

Blue MouNtaIN PIzza & BreW PuB Open mic, 7pm

Lip sync karaoke, 10pm

tallGary’S at four colleGe

tHe MotHlIGHt YOB w/ Black Cobra & US Christmas (doom metal, stoner rock), 9:30pm

W/ HUGLIFE

Black MouNtaIN ale HouSe Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

oNe StoP delI & Bar

HIGHlaNd BreWING coMPaNy Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30p

tHe JoINt NeXt door Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

WHISKEY SHIVERS

BeN’S tuNe-uP Honky-tonk Wednesdays, 3pm

Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

Sol Bar NeW MouNtaIN

tallGary’S at four colleGe Jam night, 9pm

W/ KALYA SCINTILLA

Battery Park Book eXcHaNGe Dramatic Readings w/ Randi Janelle (open mic), 6pm

olIVe or tWISt

GrINd cafe Trivia night, 7pm

oNe StoP delI & Bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

RED DIRT PROMOTIONS PRESENTS

11.14 & 11.15

11.17

off tHe WaGoN Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

W/ THE HONGS

SAT & SUN

SATURDAY

oddItorIuM Odd comedy night, 9pm Peace Arrow w/ Bois, Wizard Skin & Lush Agave (experimental), 11pm

BRAZILIAN GIRLS

THURSDAY

11.5

Market Place The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

5 WalNut WINe Bar Wine tasting w/ Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Flamenco), 8pm

ISIS reStauraNt aNd MuSIc Hall An evening w/ Hey Monea & Brad Ray (rock, pop), 7pm An evening w/ The Way Down Wanderers & Wisewater (alt-folk, Americana), 8:30pm Jack of tHe Wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm lazy dIaMoNd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm loBSter traP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm MouNtaIN MoJo coffeeHouSe Open mic, 6:30pm NoBle kaVa Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm o.HeNry’S/tHe uNderGrouNd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm oddItorIuM Synergy story slam (open mic, storytelling), 7pm off tHe WaGoN Piano show, 9pm

World Wednesdays, 8pm

Open mic & jam, 7pm

tHe JoINt NeXt door Bluegrass jam, 8pm tHe MotHlIGHt

And The Kids w/ Erica Russo & Youth Eternal (indie), 9:30pm tHe PHoeNIX

Jazz night, 8pm tHe SoutHerN

Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tIGer MouNtaIN

Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm tIMo’S HouSe

“Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm toWN PuMP

Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9pm traIlHead reStauraNt aNd Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, oldtime, folk), 6pm

treSSa’S doWNtoWN Jazz aNd BlueS

Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

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Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. (254-1281) MINIONS (PG) 1:00, 4:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- ROGUE NATION (PG-13) 7:00 TRAINWRECK (R) 10:00

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Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette in Catherine Hardwicke’s surprisingly terrific Miss You Already — a film that is at once funny and moving.

Miss You Already S DIRECTOR: Catherine Hardwicke PLAYERS: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Jacqueline Bisset, Tyson Ritter, Frances de la Tour DRAMA-COMEDY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Film about the friendship of two women from childhood to marriage and to one of them battling cancer.

THE LOWDOWN: Much more than a “disease of the week” movie, this is a sharply written, beautifully acted work that edges into the must-see realm.

Yes, Miss You Already is a cancer drama. Yes, it’s a “woman’s picture” — in more than the old meaning, since this was written by a woman, directed by a woman and focuses on the relationship of two women (none of which should be an issue). I’ll personally go a step further and note that the director

is Catherine Hardwicke, who has been coasting on the reputation of Thirteen for 12 years, while turning out a series of stinkers (no matter how much money Twilight made).

All this might suggest that you’re in for a Lifetime movie from a director of doubtful merit. Miss You Already is anything but, despite Hardwicke’s sometimes worrying tendencies with hand-held camera. No, this is a fine film. It’s sharp, funny, occasionally outrageous, brutally honest — and,

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BRIDGE OF SPIES (PG-13) 12:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 BURNT (R) 7:30, 9:55 CRIMSON PEAK (R) 11:50, 5:10, 10:30 GOOSEBUMPS 2D (PG) 11:20, 1:45, 4:35, 6:55, 9:25 THE MARTIAN 2D (PG-13) 12:25, 3:30, 7:25, 10:25 MISS YOU ALREADY (PG-13) 11:25, 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 OUR BRAND IS CRISIS (R) 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION 2D (R) 6:30, 8:35, 10:40 THE PEANUTS MOVIE (G) 11:10, 11:40, 12:15, 1:25, 2:05, 2:40, 3:55, 4:20, 4:55, 6:10, 8:25, 10:35 SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (R) 2:30, 7;45 SPECTRE (PG-13) 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:10, 2:55, 3:40, 5:20, 6:20, 7:20, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 SUFFRAGETTE (PG-13) 12:10, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 TRUTH (R) 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50

CO-ED CINEMA BREVARD (883-2200) SPECTRE (PG-13) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30

EPIC OF HENDERSONVILLE (693-1146) FINE ARTS THEATRE (232-1536) SUFFRAGETTE (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 TRUTH (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat 9:45

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BURNT (R) 4:00 (no 4:00 show Sun.), 7:00 (Closed Mon.)

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yeah, it’ll make you tear-up, maybe even cry.

The story charts the lifelong friendship of Jess (Drew Barrymore) and Milly (Toni Collette) — a relationship that started when the extrovert young Milly (Eleanor Stagg) took the considerably less flamboyant young Jess (Grace Schneider), newly arrived in England, under her wing. From that day forward, the two have shared everything — but with Milly always a little ahead of the game. They are a study in contrasts — a relationship grounded in how their differences complement each other. The story is told from Jess’ point of view — partly built on a framing story about Jess having a baby. It makes sense Jess would tell the story, and not just for practical reasons, but because it’s somewhere between hard and impossible to imagine Milly slowing down enough to do so. One might also question if she would have the introspection necessary for such an undertaking, too.

There’s a certain trickiness to writing about the film’s overall story, especially in our spoiler-obsessed age. It is, however, fair to say that much of the film deals — in a very unsparing manner — with Milly’s battle with breast cancer. While it doesn’t shy away from the graphic nature of cancer and its treatment, Miss You Already — much like Milly — never loses a sense of humor, often blending humor with more serious matters. There’s a scene, for example, with Frances de la Tour as a wig-maker helping to fit Milly with a wig that manages to be funny and touching at the same time. Better still, it ends with Milly’s generally distracted actress mother, Miranda (Jacqueline Bisset), making the first of several moves that transform her daughter from a comic-relief character into something much more well-rounded.

Several things make Miss You Already more than just another cancer movie. You can start with the performances, which are across the board excellent. Barrymore and Collette are nigh on to perfect, but Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine are not far behind, even if their husband roles are much less defined. (One could say that’s only fair when you consider how shortchanged women often are in wife roles.) The film is smart enough, though, to realize that it really belongs to Collette’s outrageous, often wrong-headed Milly.

Milly is every inch the star turn and Collette embraces it to the fullest. But the film needs Barrymore for balance to help the viewer keep liking Collette when it isn’t always easy to do. This — and the fact that the film just accepts their relationship without trying to analyze it — is, I believe, its great strength. And the people making it are smart enough to know it.

That they have also outfitted the film with many fine scenes — including one surefire crowd-pleaser — truly makes Miss Your Already something special.

Rated PG-13 for thematic content, sexual material and some language.

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Burnt HHHH DIRECTOR: John Wells (August: Osage County) PLAYERS: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Omar Sy, Emma Thompson, Alicia Vikander, Matthew Rhys, Uma Thurman COMEDY-DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A top chef who threw it all away with bad behavior attempts a comeback.

THE LOWDOWN: Smart, funny, emotionally affecting — if maybe a little overstuffed — film anchored to interesting characters is much better than you’ve perhaps been led to believe.

Very worth your time.

Burnt has a high-toned cast, a firstrate screenwriter (discounting Seventh Son) and a competent — if not exciting — director, so how could it be as bad as you’ve probably heard? The answer is simple: It can’t and it isn’t.

In fact, I’d say it’s good, and sometimes very good. Based on what I’d heard, I kept waiting for it to...well, start sucking, but it just wouldn’t cooperate. So why has it been met with such scorn?

That I can’t tell you. Oh, it’s not the best movie you’ve ever seen, but it’s consistently entertaining, often clever, sometimes touching and every so often it has moments of surprising grace.

Frankly, as food-centric movies are concerned, I’d rank it near the head of the class. (I’d rather sit through this 10 times than watch last year’s Chef once.)

HHHHH = max rating That it has received a lower Rotten Tomatoes score than Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is further evidence of the central fallacy of reviewaggregation sites as meaningful.

Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a one-time world-class chef whose drinking and doping and impossibly arrogant and volatile behavior has turned him into a pariah. After disappearing (most seem to wishfully believe him dead), cleaning up his act and doing penance by (literally) shucking a million oysters in Louisiana, he takes off for London and a shot at not only regaining his status as a two-star Michelin chef, but to create a restaurant that earns him that coveted third star. Unsurprisingly, most of his old friends and associates are not happy to see him.

Equally unsurprising is the fact that his arrogance and bad temper are still very much in evidence. But Adam also has a certain charm and is somewhere in between a force of nature and a master manipulator. In fact, he manipulates his way into being given a restaurant by old friend Tony (Daniel Bruhl), convincing the man that Adam can help him win the respect of his dying father. (There’s actually more to this and it’s perhaps the most nuanced aspect of the film, but more of that later.) Tony’s agreement — or his family’s agreement — comes with an understandable catch: Adam has to submit to a blood test for drugs once a week. The fact that this test is administered by Tony’s shrink (Emma Thompson) may be one of the screenplay’s more convenient (and least believable) points, but it works well in context, and the chemistry between Cooper and Thompson smooths it over.

The biggest problem with the film may be that it simply contains too much material and too many characters. But this isn’t necessarily a bad problem to have. (Consider Chef where nothing ever seemed to be really at stake.) OK, the business with Adam owing money to some drug dealers isn’t really essential to the story, though it does give Alicia Vikander as Adam’s ex-girlfriend more justification for being in the film.

And his relationship with his star-chefin-training Helene (Sienna Miller) might have benefited from a little more development.

But other things truly serve to create an interesting character for Adam.

The business with a chef (Omar Sy) he once helped destroy is one such instance, revealing as it does that the easiest person on earth to manipulate is a manipulator. Similarly, what is little more than a cameo for Uma Thurman as the London Times food critic becomes something more just

by the revelation that, despite being a lesbian, she once slept with Adam (to her lasting regret). More and more, the sense is that there’s much here below the surface, which brings us to Adam’s relationship with Tony.

Without saying too much, I think it’s fair to say that this is one of the best — and truest — depictions of the hopeless love of a gay man (Tony) for a straight man I have ever seen. And what the film leaves unsaid speaks volumes on both sides, while leaving us with the sense that we’ll never know the whole story — and perhaps we shouldn’t.

Yes, the film’s trajectory is pretty clear from the onset — perhaps even more so if you’re familiar with Steven Knight’s other screenplays, which are nearly all about redemption (hell, his 2013 Jason Statham thriller — which he also directed — is even called Redemption). As in the past, however, it’s the path to and the price of redemption that makes them worthwhile. That’s true here, too.

Ignore the bad reviews. See this film.

Rated R for language throughout.

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

Our Brand Is Crisis HHH DIRECTOR: David Gordon Green (Joe) PLAYERS: Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd POLITICAL SATIRE RATED R THE STORY: A retired campaign strategist is brought in to revive the struggling campaign of a Bolivian presidential candidate — and to square off against an old rival.

THE LOWDOWN: An entertaining, solid film buoyed by good performances, but far too predictable, and it doesn’t have as much to say as it thinks it does.

Director David Gordon Green has had, let’s say, an interesting career path. He built a name for himself with quiet indie films like All the Real Girls (2003), drastically departed and cashed in with the stoner comedy Pineapple Express (2008) and stayed on that path only to end up with a couple of flops in Your Highness (2011) and The Sitter (2011). Since then, he’s been trying to regain his cache, working on smaller, more respectable — and little watched — projects. His latest, Our Brand is Crisis, is a venture into a more important, messagedriven type of filmmaking, one that wants to shed light on the superficiality of politicians and the modern democratic process.

This isn’t a strategy I necessarily disagree with, nor do I think it’s something that doesn’t need to be discussed — it just doesn’t quite coalesce within the confines of Green’s film. Something doesn’t quite connect for me and Green’s message.

I think it has to do with Brand simply never going far enough. It isn’t quite angry enough, jaded enough or cynical enough about the majorly fractured, damaged nature of political campaigns and politicians. Yes, I agree with the film’s sentiment, but it doesn’t get me riled up, doesn’t make me want to do anything — and I find it unlikely that it’d do much to get anyone else angry either. And truly, action is the point of a film like this; it helps shed light on a subject (even humorously) and then create awareness. Here, the general sense of the film is one of mediocrity.

Yes, it’s solidly entertaining and held my attention, but that’s all the film was able to accomplish. When your entire purpose is to wail and gnash, whimpering just isn’t enough.

Taking Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary of the same name, this version of Our Brand is Crisis loosely takes the events of that film — which followed American political advisers affecting a Bolivian presidential election — and creates a narrative for it.

Here, Sandra Bullock plays Jane, a former hotshot adviser who, after a lifetime of questionable decisions, booze and professional burnout, has removed herself to a log cabin to work on pottery. But she’s pulled back into the profession she swore off to help the crippled campaign of a Bolivian presidential candidate (Joaquim de Almeida, Fast Five) — not out of any sense of responsibility, but for one last chance at beating her archrival, Pat (Billy Bob Thornton as a James Carville proxy),

the campaign manager of the election’s front-runner.

The film revolves around this personal battle, illuminating the way in which elections, in many ways, are little more than games, less concerned with actual policy and tied instead to packaging a candidate as a product. Again, this is solidly watchable, the cast is good, the plot’s occasionally fun and clever, but as a whole, it just doesn’t have the weight or insight it needs. It’s full of good ideas, but they’re handled in a predictable fashion (it’s obvious from the onset who’s going to win and who’s going to have their awakening), one that’s also naive and unrealistic. The whole thing is just too flaccid to leave any real impression.

Rated R for language including some sexual references.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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The Peanuts Movie It’s the big budget computeranimated version of the small budget hand-drawn TV version of the Charles M. Schulz comic strip. Not wishing to tax anyone, it’s all about Charlie Brown trying to get a date with the Little Red-Haired Girl — with doses of Snoopy humor. (g)

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Spectre

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HHS Director: Christopher Landon plaYers: Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, David Koechner, Halston Sage, Cloris Leachman

The 24th James Bond movie has arrived — all 148 minutes of it.

This time it’s Bon vs. supervillain Christoph Waltz. You know the drill by now. You also know whether or not you’re going. And since this supposed to be the Next Big Thing, the assumption is that you are indeed going — or else face ostracization by all your friends. (pg-13)

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Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter and the reigning Empress of Oscar, Meryl Streep, in the service of an important historical subject. Whether or not the film lives up that importance remains to be seen. Early reviews, while leaning positive, are surprisingly mixed. (pg-13)

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thEy DID: Buncombe County sheriff’s deputies arrested protesters in 2012 as part of the WE DO campaign. Xpress file photo • Mechanical Eye Microcinema partners with Colorado-based nonprofit film company Process Reversal to present Frenkel Defects at Firestorm Books & Cafe Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 7-9 p.m.

According to Process Reversal’s press release, this third installment in the recurring traveling series “aims to explore what it means to work in — and exhibit on — photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically in this practice. Often, this involves getting their hands dirty at every stage of the process, from optical effects to photo-processing, editing and contact printing, optical sound recording and even the creation of the photosensitive emulsion itself. As a result (and as suggested by the series’ title), creative aberrations make their way into the standard photochemical process, giving birth to a new, textural aesthetic that plays out on the surface of the film strip.”

Curator Kevin rice will be in attendance to present these rare and diverse works from across the globe, all in their intended 16mm format. Admission is $5 or pay what you can. avl.mx/1y9

theater, both at regular evening show rates. avl.mx/1ya • The Campaign for Southern Equality has launched an Indigogo fundraising drive for a documentary short titled Love Won: The Fight for Marriage Across the South. The mission is to take roughly 85 hours of footage showing LGBT couples applying for and being denied marriage licenses from Poplarville, Miss., to Morristown, Tenn., to Wilson, and trim it down to a 30-minute film. These efforts were part of the WE DO campaign, which began in Asheville in 2011 under the leadership of CSE executive director rev. jasmine beach-ferrara and WE DO campaign manager lindsey simerly.

A $7,500 production goal has been set, and donor rewards include a digital download or DVD of the finished film, tickets to the Asheville premiere and a thank-you in the film’s credits. avl.mx/1yb

• The Weaverville Library holds a Foreign Film Night screening of the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. philippe falardeau’s film is about the bond • The Regal Biltmore Grande 15 hosts between the titular Algerian immigrant an advance screening of the forthcom- substitute teacher (mohamed fellag) ing documentary PlantPure Nation and his Montréal grade school students Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. nelson and the lessons they learn from one campbell’s film chronicles the efforts another about dealing with grief and of three advocates for plant-based nutri- loss. The event is free, complimentary tion as well as the director’s own grass- popcorn will be provided, and a short roots approach to instill such a diet in discussion led by local film aficionado his hometown of Mebane. Campbell will roy turnbaugh will follow. avl.mx/1yc be on hand to participate in a post-film Send your local film news to Q&A. Tickets are available online at the ae@mountainx.com X

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Zombie comeDY RATED R the storY: Three scouts and a stripper battle a zombie plague. the loWDoWn: Raunchy without being terribly funny (or daring) and gory without being horrific, there’s just not much here. Yeah, I’ve seen worse, but that could be said of many things without suggesting anyone else should.

It’s easy to imagine the various ways Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse might have been pitched — “It’s like Superbad, but with zombies,” “It’s like The Girl Next Door, but with zombies,” and so on. In truth, it’s like a lot of things ... but with zombies, which, in itself, makes it like a lot of things. It is aimed at people who think that zombies make everything better. And, if that’s not enough, we also get more than our fair share of dick-and-diarrhea jokes. In short, this is strictly for intellectuals — give or take. The movie marks the directorial debut of Christopher Landon, who was involved in writing three of the Paranormal Activity movies and the series’ offshoot, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014). The real shock here lies in realizing that the Paranormal Activity movies were actually written. While it’s tempting to say that this is exactly the film you’d expect from the scribe of those movies, that would be unfair, since it’s, at least, better than those.

Do not mistake this statement for a recommendation.

It would be fairly reasonable to say that the title is the movie. You have scouts versus zombies, and presumably that’s what anyone actually paying money to see this is hoping to see. In this regard, they will be getting what they bargained for. (What follows in this review may be considered to be in the realm of spoilers by some.) To judge by the response of the small — and obviously committed — audience who felt it worthwhile to turn out at The Carolina at 10 p.m. Thursday night, the film will have its adherents. Indeed, the scene where our teen scout hero (a moderately amusing Tye Sheridan) saves himself from falling out of a window by holding on to a zombie’s incredibly elastic willy provoked not only laughter, but applause. (I remind myself that the theater serves alcohol, but remain unconvinced that this is not destined to become an iconic moment in modern horror.)

There is a sort of a plot, but it hardly matters since its sole purpose is to pit our three scouts (Sheridan plus Logan Miller and Joey Morgan) — and a resourceful “cocktail waitress” (Sarah Dumont) from a “gentlemen’s club” called Lawrence of Alabia (yes, well ...) — against a town full of the noshing dead. (For those who worry about such things, these scouts are clearly some generic splinterscouting organization that may only consist of these three kids and one Dolly Parton-obsessed scoutmaster, played by the invariably annoying David Koechner.) Along the way, we’re treated to an array of zombies — including an almost lovably hokey hand-puppet zombie cat — and the usual sort of zombie mayhem.

The movie’s idea of a comedic wrinkle is to have zombified Cloris Leachman — minus her false teeth — try to nibble on Logan Miller’s bare backside. As a bonus, we also have Miller unable to resist groping a busty zombie policewoman. We also get a tacky rip-off of Re-Animator’s (1985) justly infamous cunnilingus scene. If none of that immediately appeals to you, take heart — the movie also includes life lessons on friendship for the easily influenced and the gullible young. The latter are theoretically too young to attend such movies, so the purpose of this family-movie staple is puzzling, to say the least.

It may seem that I have nothing good to say about Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, but that’s not entirely true. I will happily admit that it doesn’t lack for drive. Whatever else may be said of it, it keeps barreling ahead with a momentum that staves off actual boredom. That’s an accomplishment of some sort, though one that might be likened to a train without brakes careening down a mountain. It was almost exactly what I expected, and I didn’t mind sitting through it, and I never need to see it again. That its approximately two-day Halloween shelf-life will be over by the time you read this makes reviewing it something of a fool’s errand goes with the territory.

Rated R for zombie violence and gore, sexual material, graphic nudity and language throughout.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas.

REVIEwED By kEn hankE khankE@ mountaInx.com

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fIlM BuncomBE county puBlIc lIBRaRIEs buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (11/10), 7pm - Foreign Film Night: Monsier Lazar. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville cEntER foR aRt & spIRIt at st. GEoRGE 1 School Road, 258-0211 Center for Art & Spirit at St. George • SA (11/7), 7pm - Driving Miss Daisy. $10. fIlm at asu appstate.edu • FR (11/6), 2pm - Cartoon College, documentary about indie comics. Free. Held in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall. fIlm at unca 251-6585, unca.edu • MO (11/9), 6pm - Dakota-38, documentary.

Free. Held in the Highsmith Union. fIlm at wcu 227-2324 • WE (11/4), 6:30pm - Rising from Ashes, documentary. Proceeds benefit World Bicycle Relief. $5. Held at the Hinds University Center. mEchanIcal EyE mIcRocInEma mechanicaleyecinema.org • WE (11/4), 7pm - Process Reversal presents Frenkel Defects. $5. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

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Good Vibrations HHHHH

director: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn players: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Kerr Logan, Dylan Moran, Liam Cunningham fact-based drama comedy with music Rated NR Good Vibrations is one of those British productions that simply never got picked up for U.S. distribution, and that’s a shame, because this is a truly remarkable little film. Also, it’s remarkable in a few ways — one of which is unexpected. It tells the story of music-obsessed Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer, ’71), a Belfast boy who opens a record store (called Good Vibrations) at the height of The Troubles and goes on to be a quirky record producer and the driving force of the Belfast punk-rock scene — all for the love of music. Yes, you’re shaking your heads in wonder that there even was a Belfast punk-rock scene and possibly thinking, “I don’t like punk rock.” Well, there was one, and it really

doesn’t matter if you like punk rock or not (and you do get some Small Faces and Bowie, too), since the film is about more than that. Think of it as something similar in tone to 2014’s Pride — minus the gay angle and the coal miners and without the bigname cast. It has a similar vibe and structure — and, yes, that means it’s also a feel-good film with a wistful, sad side. Perhaps the most fascinating thing is that it affords a unique look at Northern Ireland as something more than just The Troubles. To help contextualize the film, film critic Gareth Higgins (who is from Belfast) will be on hand to introduce the film and talk about it afterwards. Not to be missed. The Asheville Film Society will screen good vibrations Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke with a special introduction and post-screening discussion

by Belfast native and film critic Gareth Higgins.

House of the Long Shadows HHHH

director: Pete Walker (House of Whipcord) players: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Carradine, Julie Peasgood, Sheila Keith horror mystery Rated PG The sixth and (to date) last film version of the George M. Cohan play of Earl Derr Biggers’ novel Seven Keys to Baldpate also marked the final film for Brit horror director Pete Walker. (There’s no big drama here, he just decided to get out of filmmaking.) House of the Long Shadows (1983) is a surprisingly faithful translation of the play to film, but with horror elements added. (Actually, of the five versions I’ve seen, it’s the only one — other than the 1929 early talkie — to fully duplicate the play’s trick ending.) It’s not a great film — the low budget shows in the uneven lighting — but it’s a fun rendering of the Old Dark House comedy-thriller. Plus, where else are you going to see Vincent Price (at his most deliciously hammy), Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine together in one movie? Better still, they’re all given something worthwhile to do. Yes, you also get Desi Arnaz Jr. as the hero (to the degree there is one), and while he’s actually a reasonably personable fellow, it’s more than a little hard to buy him as a novelist. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen house of the long shadows Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

Isn’t Life Wonderful HHHS

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director: D.W. Griffith players: Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Helen Lowell, Marcia Harris, Frank Puglia, Lupino Lane drama Rated NR Frequently cited as D.W. Griffith’s last masterpiece, Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924) does mark a break in his career, since it is his last independent film. But its status as a masterpiece strikes me as an overstatement of some note. It showcases nearly every one of Griffith’s weaknesses and very few of his strengths. The film is not out of step with the Griffith of this era. There is the marked tendency to tell the story — and how the viewer is supposed to feel about it — through seemingly endless inter-titles. (I suspect Isn’t Life Wonderful is unique in including an onscreen title of an excerpt from a review telling the viewer how swell a nameless critic from the New York Evening Post said it was.) The film constantly insists — via titles — on the truthfulness of its title, all the while depicting how lousy life in post-World War I Germany was. However, it is a brave work — foolishly so for a filmmaker in need of a hit to save his studio — in its subject matter. The problem is that there’s little of interest in the presentation. Griffith was a great innovator, but you’d never guess that from the bland direction in evidence here up until the final 30 minutes. The Hendersonville Film Society will show isn’t life wonderful Sunday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

The 400 Blows HHHHS

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director: François Truffaut players: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble drama Rated NR World Cinema is revisiting François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (1959), which struck a blow of its own as the first of the New Wave films — movies that came as a reaction to what was perceived as the stodginess of classical French filmmaking (and filmmaking around the world for that matter). It was a movement that would change film as we knew it, and it really started with this largely autobiographical coming-of-age story. The New Wave would make better movies — some by Truffaut — but perhaps none so warmly accessible as this one. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present the 400 blows Friday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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Support Services coordinator The responsibilities of this position include technical support for all support staff, conducting monthly on-site support/training with all support staff and quarterly support staff meetings. This individual will be directly responsible for supervising and assuring coverage in Jackson County and assist in orchestrating coverage for support staff agency wide when they use PTO or need emergency leave. Applicants must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, have strong computer literacy skills and a minimum of two years supervisory experience. This position requires travel throughout all counties that Meridian serves.

Haywood and Jackson counties clinician – offender Services Meridian is seeking a therapist to be a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, providing assessment, individual and group therapy services to sex offenders and their non-offending partners within a structured Sexual Abuse Intervention Program (SAIP) and to domestic violence abusers and their families within a structured Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). Prior clinical experience working with sexual offenders and an understanding of the dynamics of sexual deviance strongly preferred as well as familiarity with relevant research literature, clinical assessments, procedures and methods, particularly those designed for sexual offenders.

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FreeWill astroloGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I'm wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn't have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can't bring yourself to be a little less attractive — if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down — please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth.

Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve?

Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm.

Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. "They are dancing for joy," Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar.

Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "A very little key will open a very heavy door," wrote Charles Dickens in his short story "Hunted Down." Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you'll be alert when clues about the real key's location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you'll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex.

"Though a man loves a woman ever so much," reads a passage in chapter four, "he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking." Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up

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the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days.

Don't just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you're in bed doing the jizzleskazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks.

Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don't think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.

Can you guess why I'm bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It's one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I'm letting you know that you're due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you will choose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it's in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you?

Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended.

Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who.

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Peer Support Specialist – community Support team (cSt) Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others.

We currently have a vacancy for a Peer Support Specialist on our Community Support Team (CST), serving Transylvania County. CST is a community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation service, which provides support through a team approach to adults. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. qualified Professional (qP) – community Support team (cSt) We are seeking a passionate, values-driven and dynamic Qualified Substance Abuse or Mental Health Professional to join our Community Support Team (CST), serving Transylvania County. CST is a community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation service, which provides support through a team approach to adults. Individual must meet state requirements to serve adults with either mental health or substance use challenges and be comfortable working as part of a small, three-person team. aGeNcy-WIde Peer Support Specialist Peers assisting in community engagement (Pace) Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. clinician Peers assisting in community engagement (Pace) Clinician will be providing ongoing therapy with individuals and clinical support to the peer support team. The position will involve travel and community-based work in multiple counties. A Master’s degree, license eligibility and experience are required.

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