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OUR 21ST YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 22 NO. 16 NOVEMBER 11-17, 2015

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What could compare to The Paris of the South?

This letter’s purpose is ostensibly to praise Milton Ready’s Oct. 14 opinion piece, “Anywhere But Asheville,” but bear with me. At age 70, I ramble some.

I loved Professor Ready’s witty, astute put-downs of Asheville’s detractors. Yet I confess my bias: 1973 saw UNCA , in a fit of despair, give me a diploma summa cum laude. I thus hold a soft spot in my heart — and head — for professor Ready’s former workplace. He’s wise to select Mars Hill, site of a … college … for retirement, where he may dwell serenely among academic inferiors, I suppose; “anywhere but Asheville.”

Oh, yes, I remind myself, the Poopooers of The Paris of the South — well! The nerve of some folks!

Notre Dame? St. Lawerence’s. The Louvre? Pack Place! Montmartre and the Left Bank? The French Broad River between Amboy Road and the Smoky Park bridges! The Palace of Versailles? The Cecils’ cozy chateau!

Rude waiters in Le Place Pigalle?

I’ll put those holders of master’s degrees in Asheville who snarl, “I’ll be your server” against those Froggie

tyros anytime! ... The City of Lights wants to take on The Land of the Sky? Sacre bleu! Hey, suck it up, Gay Paree!

Even us rural heteros know you’re losers here!

P.S. At least we’ve progressed a little from H.L. Mencken’s descriptions of the 1920s South as “The Sahara of the Bozart” (spoonerism: “Beaux Arts.”)

— Tom Graham “Elderly hick” Spindale

Include more WNC residents in energy plans Last week the trickster was at work.

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While I believe that Duke Energy can scale down the size of the gas plants even more substantially, I am grateful for their commitment to working with the wider community in WNC.

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Duke’s press release states: “The revamped project will require significantly more participation in energy efficiency, demand-side management, renewable energy and developing technologies from the company, communities and customers in the region (italics mine).

Duke Energy has already committed to working in partnership with the city of Asheville to reduce its carbon footprint as outlined in a report from the city’s Sustainability Office titled Community Clean Energy Policy Framework, which was adopted by City Council recently.

I hope that the city and Duke Energy will open this process up to a larger WNC stakeholders process.

There are many people and organizations that have expertise to work collaboratively with Duke Energy staff to achieve shared goals that are science-based, i.e. making the region’s electric energy sector 100 percent fossil-fuel-free by 2050, with an intermediate goal of 50 percent reduction of fossil fuels by 2030.

By working toward and achieving these goals, we can make natural gas truly a ”bridge" fuel, while

direct access to all the services nurse practitioners are educated and certified to provide. I encourage you to ask your legislators to support legislation to modernizing the Nurse Practice Act and improve access to health care for all North Carolinians.

If you are seeking excellent patientcentered health care, please consider scheduling your next appointment with a nurse practitioner. We would be happy to partner with you.

— Ann M. McDonald Family Nurse Practitioner Assistant Professor, Family Nurse Practitioner Program Western Carolina University Cullowhee

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In celebration of National Nurse Practitioner Week, Nov. 8-14, I would like to share who nurse practitioners are and what we do.

Nurse practitioners are licensed, expert clinicians with advanced education and extensive clinical preparation. We can diagnose, order diagnostic

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tests, prescribe medications, and manage acute and chronic illnesses. We work in primary-care clinics, specialty clinics, long-term care facilities and hospitals.

As nurses, we approach our care from a holistic perspective and work as partners with our clients to help them to make educated health care decisions and healthy lifestyle choices.

The Institute of Medicine recommends that nurses work to the full extent of their education and training. A recent study out of Duke University suggests that removing unnecessary physician oversight of advanced-practice nurses could potentially save the state well over $4 billion. Removing practice barriers will also help to alleviate the state’s projected provider shortage.

Sadly, the current N.C. Nurse Practice Act contains outdated regulations that prevent patients from having full and

This year, cochlear implants are being done in Asheville for the first time!

Those of us who wear hearing aids know that they are not like glasses and need supplementing with other devices to do a good job.

For those with severe hearing loss, hearing aids don’t even come close, even when supplemented. So it is important to see whether a different approach to hearing might be possible and effective.

More and more people among us are wearing cochlear implants. These have not been around very long, but they can be very effective, and it is easier to qualify than it used to be. Since implantation is surgery, it is seen by insurance as a medical procedure, and Medicare covers [it]. The surgery isn’t major, but any surgery has some risk, so the qualifying procedure is careful. Yet some of us with hearing aids envy the outcome when we encounter people wearing cochlear implants who express great satisfaction with them.

No, they aren’t perfect either, and yes, supplemental devices are still needed in some situations. But they do bypass those pesky hairs in the cochlea whose deficiencies, especially with age, are often the underlying cause of hearing loss. You have to get used to a new way of hearing, but when you do, the result can be life transforming.

The Asheville chapter, also new this year, of the Hearing Loss Association of America, is meeting most months on the third Saturday at 10.30 a.m. in CarePartners’ Seymour Auditorium, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. At the next meeting, on Saturday, Nov. 21, cochlear implants will be the topic,

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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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and Beth Fountain, Au.D., engagement manager for Cochlear Americas, will talk about current requirements for this procedure as well as other implants.

This is not only important for those who might wear them, but — especially since otherwise deaf infants are being implanted so that many more children are growing up in the hearing world wearing cochlear implants — it is important for the rest of us to learn enough about them to appreciate their experience and be able to relate to them more fully.

All are welcome. There is free parking. And this time we are asking those who attend to please bring a small seasonal snack to share at our “snack-luck.” We are not meeting in December, so at our November meeting we hope to be a little festive at refreshment time!

Please contact me for more information at akarson57@gmail.com or at 665-8699.

— Ann Karson President, HLAA-Asheville Candler

Volunteers needed at AHOPE day center My name is Josiah Johnston. I am an applied anthropologist, writer, teacher and father. At the request of

c art o o n b Y b r e n t b r o w n the director of AHOPE day center in Asheville, I am conducting a participatory action research project to evaluate the services offered at AHOPE as they are perceived by the homeless clients who use them.

The research is seeking ways to improve those services, spread information about them more effectively and ultimately allow the suggestions of the indigent clients to be heard and acted on in a systematic way.

This research process will involve document analysis, interviews, surveys and network analysis, followed by data analysis and the production of results.

Then the co-implementation of suggestions with clients and AHOPE staff will take place.

The last part, involving projects such as painting walls and fixing broken furniture, presents an opportunity for members of the wider Asheville community to become involved in serving those in need. In the spirit of community involvement at all levels which underlines participatory action research, I am putting out the call for volunteers to help with some of these tasks.

Anyone interested can contact me at josiahramsay@gmail.com.

— Josiah Johnston Mills River

Rethink the Krispy Kreme hospital’s name As a high school student and a youth staff member of Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!), I find it discouraging to see that a hospital is going to take the name of an unhealthy food company.

We shouldn’t have to live in a society where companies that contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle are advertised and promoted in places of health.

Recently, UNC has made the decision to name its new children’s hospital “Krispy Kreme Challenge Children’s Specialty Clinic.” As a center that promotes health and well-being among children, having an unhealthy food company’s name on the clinic is ironic and goes against its goal of health. Young children take cues from their surroundings, and if they see a clinic with this name, they may think that doughnuts are healthy.

In a state where childhood obesity rates are over 15 percent, we should not encourage an increase by naming a hospital after an unhealthy food. This is a very generous donation, and I am in no way saying that the hospital should not accept the money; however, the UNC hospital system would serve the community better with a name that

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does not have to do with an unhealthy lifestyle.

Changing the name to reflect the group that raised the funds would allow the UNC hospital system to remain a high-quality health system.

While it is a generous donation to the UNC hospital, it would be better to reflect the group making the donation rather than the method of fundraising.

The Park Scholars should be rewarded for their efforts through the naming of the hospital.

If you agree, I encourage you to sign this petition (https://www. change.org/p/urge-unc-not-to-putkrispy-kreme-name-on-kids-healthcare-facility) and write to the head of development, Leslie Nelson, at leslie_nelson@med.unc.edu — Carmen Procida Asheville

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aDVENTUREs iN paRENTiNG adoption (international, domestic and foster care) are there to answer questions and provide information. Meanwhile, youths and families can offer a personal perspective. And as families circulate, they can also talk to adoption attorneys, post-adoption support folks and more.

As a mom, I now know firsthand that adoption is amazing, overwhelming — and definitely possible. I invite anyone who’s even remotely interested to drop in, whether you’re in a same-sex or opposite-sex marriage; have no kids or

several; are single, young or old; or are just plain curious. It’s free and fun!

For those who are just starting out, my advice is to forget what you know from Disney: Make your own happy endings — and don’t worry if they don’t look like what you saw in the movies growing up.

In the meantime, do drop by the Adoption Options Expo to explore and learn without any pressure.

There are lots of ways to build your family! X

adoption options eXpo eRiCa JouRDan, center, with her husband and sons. Contributed photo

bY erica JourDan “I think adoption is amazing — and I have 11 years’ experience with it.

Thanks to adoption, I have a home that I otherwise wouldn’t have, and an awesome mom, dad and brother.”

— Julian, age 11 Adoption starts with wanting to parent. And the ever-changing, perplexing and intriguing world of parenting is quite an adventure, no matter how you go about it!

Now, some folks are able to (and want to) birth their own children.

But for others, whether intentionally or due to life circumstances, the decision becomes whether to parent others’ children.

Some choose to adopt a baby; some prefer an older youth or teen. Many others choose to explore foster parenting. There are also paths within those paths. All this can be horribly confusing, but it doesn’t have to be.

When my husband and I first talked about marriage, we also discussed parenting, as many couples do. We both knew we wanted to be parents, but interestingly (and fortunately), we both preferred adoption if at all possible and felt we’d explore birthing our own children only as a last resort. How backward, you might be thinking —

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but then neither of us has ever been very traditional.

Many years later, we’re the honored parents of three amazing children, all adopted — one privately, one through foster care and one via an attorney.

And parenting? As predicted, it’s been a roller coaster! But it’s truly been worth every exhilarating, sleepdeprived, loving and sometimes anxiety-filled minute. And it’s also created a new career path for me as an adoption consultant.

When I started out as a “to-be” parent, I would have given so much to have someone untangle the overwhelming array of information that’s out there for me. In the midst of the adoption process, I dreamed of having someone who could help me clearly see the next steps and keep me from feeling discouraged. And as things progressed, I needed someone knowledgeable but neutral, who could help me make hard choices.

Three children and a decade of social service work later, I launched Adoption Options Consulting LLC to help others who, like me when I got started, don’t know where to begin, what questions to ask, how to decide or even whether adoption is the right choice for them.

From there, the Adoption Options Expo was born (see box).

The expo helps families explore the world of adoption with no pressure and no cost. Professionals from all aspects of

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November is Adoption Month, and this year’s Adoption Options Expo happens Saturday, Nov. 14, from 1-4 p.m. at Ira B. Jones Elementary (544 Kimberly Ave. in North Asheville). Admission is free, and representatives from both public and private agencies will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about the many faces of adoption. It’s also a chance to meet families and youths who can offer a firsthand perspective.

For more information, call 407-0409 or email info@adoptopt.com.

The inside story do you think people should adopt?

“I think that people should adopt if they really, really want to be with kids. If they do, then adoption is a good thing, because the kids will get a family, and if the birth parents can’t take care of their kid, they’ll know he’s OK.” — adopted child, age 7 what led you to adopt?

“It’s not the children’s fault what situation they were born into. We felt we had a chance to change their lives by being adoptive parents.”

— adoptive parents of four children should people adopt babies or teens?

“Babies are good, because they’re more gullible. Older kids know what happened, and they might not like you as much, but you don’t have to be up all night with them screaming. Also, it’s easier to understand them and to talk with them.

— adopted child, age 11 what do you want in a family?

“I want a family that will love me, care for me and treat me with respect.”

— 14-year-old awaiting an adoptive family was parenting what you expected?

“I always imagined I’d have blond-haired, blue-eyed, freckle-faced girls who looked just like me when I was in my 20s and 30s. God has a great sense of humor … or someone does. At 50 years old and never having parented before, I was interviewing a 12-year-old African-American youth for a story who said, ‘I just want someone to love me, that’s all.’ We became a family through adoption two years later.”

— adoptive mom of a teenager

The Gospel According to Jerry

bY JerrY sternberg Most of Asheville’s so-called nightclubs operated during the war years, serving both the locals and the many servicemen and servicewomen stationed in the area. Many people met their spouses there and returned to live here later. Some clubs lasted into the ’70s, however.

They ranged from honky-tonks to fine-dining establishments. All of them served beer and wine and allowed brown-bagging: In the early years, that meant bringing a bottle that was either illegally obtained or purchased in another state; the advent of our state-run ABC stores made booze legal in cities where this had been approved by voters.

Of course, if you didn’t have a bottle and weren’t suspected of being law enforcement, you could usually get a drink mixed from an under-thecounter or secret-closet stash.

Most had jukeboxes, and some had surprisingly good bands. It was big band music in the early days but later morphed into ’50s, ’60s and ’70s tunes, and you could dance the night away on the dimly lit, smoky dance floor.

Liquor by the bottle, though, was not only inconvenient and classless, it was a serious contributor to drunkenness, because you could pour own medicine and the saloonkeeper couldn’t cut you off.

It was also much cheaper than buying liquor by the drink, eliminating the economic deterrent. It wasn’t unusual to see a patron pour the last of his bottle into a cup, stir in a little ice and mixer, stagger to the car and hope to be lucky enough to avoid self-destruction or manslaughter.

I have a friend who told me he left one of the clubs one night and woke up the next morning, pretty hung over, to a ringing telephone. The club owner was calling to ask if he’d

JerrY sternberg like to get back the fender he’d peeled off as he left the parking lot, which he didn’t even remember.

But the best thing about most of these clubs was their food, probably subsidized by the under-thecounter liquor sales and occasional other nefarious activities, such as backroom gambling.

They all had real steak-and-potato menus, with an excellent seafood selection including our local mountain trout. The menus didn’t drip with flowery, elitist, snooty, highbrow descriptions — no entrees came drizzled with lizard blood and covered with boeuf “reduction,” which we called “gravy.”

The salad was made with homegrown tomatoes and lettuce that came in a ball. No one knew about arugula and field greens, which taste like leaves off the trees and weeds out of the garden. If it wasn’t iceberg, they probably fed it to the horses.

The very popular Patio Restaurant on Swannanoa River Road had great prime rib and nightly specials, brown-bagging and liquor by the wink. It was a real jivvy joint, and the owner, Margret Fortune, was a very special hostess.

The Chez Paul was on Merrimon Avenue just north of Ingles. Despite the French name, though, the only French food you could get there was

french fries. But they had a great menu and a delightful atmosphere.

My most memorable experience in this very tasteful and fashionable place was the night I was having dinner with some people and my good friend Blanton Wright, a gentle giant of Tunnel Road fame, walked over to the table. He was carrying on his shoulder this big, cross-eyed, down-for-the-count sack of protoplasm who was the brother of one of Asheville’s most famous restaurateurs. Despite this massive burden, Blanton stopped and visited at my table and two or three others before taking his friend home.

And on Sunday nights, when the restaurant was closed, the owner ran a pretty lively poker game in the back office.

I humbly admit that even as a teenager, I was not above taking a chance on the turn of a card. I don’t remember how they even came to let me play, as I couldn’t have been more than 16 or 17, but I seemed to hold my own, as most of the other players were drinking heavily. In those days, you got your driver’s license at 15 years old, and if you had access to a car, you had more mobility than today’s teenagers.

One night I had to leave the game early, as I had a curfew for getting the car back home. As I went down Merrimon Avenue, I saw a bunch of cop cars heading in the other direction. The next morning I read in the paper that the game had been raided and the city prosecutor, who was a regular, got busted, creating a great scandal.

I narrowly averted a death sentence that time, because my daddy would have killed me. When it came to gambling, however, my luck at not getting caught was sometimes better than my luck with the cards. X

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WNC charged up about electric vehicles

a cleaner, Greener city: As part of the region’s participation in the national Clean Cities initiative, charging stations can be found at the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and other spots around town. File photo by Carrie Eidson

bY haYleY benton hbenton@mountainx.com At some point, you’ve probably heard the joke, “It’s 2015: Where’s my flying car?”

Don’t expect to be cruising the troposphere, “Jetsons” style, any time soon, but transportation technology is gradually moving closer to what science fiction predicted long ago — and Asheville is part of that futuristic wave.

Imagine that a slightly older version of you has just flown into

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Asheville on vacation, and you’re looking to rent a car. Your fully electric vehicle is wirelessly charging in its parking space, and after a 15-mile drive, you plug your rental into the hotel’s parking deck, enjoying an evening of downtown sightseeing on foot while your vehicle charges overnight.

The next morning, you check out and begin your fully electric, self-guided tour of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Don’t worry about running out of juice, either: You’ll have plenty of opportunities to charge up between here and Virginia. In the near future, the Land of Sky Clean Vehicles

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Coalition “hopes to create an EV charging corridor all along the Blue Ridge Parkway, from the Smokies to Shenandoah,” coordinator bill eaker reports.

With the help of BrightField Transportation Solutions, a small, local company, Asheville could soon add electric vehicle tourism to its bulleted list of reasons to visit.

“We’ve still got a ways to go,” Eaker concedes, but in the meantime, chargers have already arrived at another major area attraction.

For the last four years, Land of Sky, the East Tennessee Clean Fuels

Coalition and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been chasing grants to establish charging stations at the two most popular access points to the Smokies, “one on the Gatlinburg side and one on the Cherokee, N.C., side,” he says.

At each site, the coalition has just installed a new DC fast charger, donated by Nissan, that can deliver up to an 80 percent charge in about 30 minutes. “We had a big ribboncutting event about a month ago,”

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news Eaker explains. “They were the first national park in the country to put in one of these fast chargers.”

Meanwhile, there are also about 90 Level 2 chargers, which take 4-5 hours to replenish an empty battery, in Western North Carolina. And in the last six months, four other 30-minute chargers have been installed across the region: one in Waynesville, one at A-B Tech and two in downtown Asheville, at the parking garage under the Aloft Hotel and the Public Works Building on Charlotte Street.

The city, says Sustainability Analyst Kerby smithson, offers time-based charging at those two sites so folks don’t simply park their vehicle there all day while others wait.

And at the Charlotte Street station, notes Eaker, “You’ll see a solar canopy above the chargers. That’s a BrightField Transportation project: The solar canopy is part of what they do. They generate solar power, put it into the grid and then pull it off the grid to charge these vehicles. They like to say you’re driving on sunshine.”

Filling in the gaps “It’s a new technology, and the time has come,” declares Kent barnes, who founded EV North Carolina. Working in their Waynesville garage, Barnes and his son, david, convert gas-powered cars to electric.

“Electric was here before gasoline, but back then, gasoline was 10 cents a gallon — and you could start [a gas-engine] easier, without having to crank it,” says Barnes. “Then World War I comes, and the Allies had gasoline as their fuel source. And that’s how decisions get made. So for 100 years, we’ve built a support mechanism for petroleum, yet everything in your house is electric.”

Fast forward about 75 years, and the Land of Sky Regional Council was looking for ways to address air quality issues in the Smokies. “We ended up establishing a regional clean air campaign to educate the public and decision-makers, like local politicians, on all of these air quality issues and possible solutions,” Eaker reports.

At first, the campaign focused on “education and outreach activities, like clean air car fairs, where we put

low-emissions and fuel-efficient vehicles on display for the public to see.”

Because they don’t burn fuel, electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions.

Depending on how the electricity they run on is produced, they still contribute to global warming, but typically less so than conventional vehicles.

In 2004, however, the head of the state energy office contacted Land of Sky about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program, which encourages cities, states and regions to get involved in the country’s shift from dependence on oil.

“They realized that, to really get these fuels and vehicles deployed and in use all over the country, they were going to need a lot of help,” Eaker explains. “So they began designating different areas of the country as Clean Cities coalitions.”

Land of Sky got interested, and in 2012, after eight years of buildup, a five-county WNC area became the nation’s 85th “clean city.” Since then, the program has just kept on growing.

“We’ve got a pretty good network around the region, but we still want to put in more,” says Eaker. “We’re currently identifying the gaps.”

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high-speed vehicles arrive “About five years ago, we heard that the high-speed electric cars were going to be rolled out very soon,” Eaker recalls. “We had lowspeed electric vehicles that could drive around town, but these new high-speed cars could go on the interstate. We realized we needed to start educating the public and working on putting in public-access charging stations, so people would be more comfortable buying one of these vehicles.

“People need more charging options than just at home,” he continues. “There’s what’s called ‘range anxiety’ if they think they’re going to run out of power. To overcome that, we added these charging stations where they could plug in and get an extra charge. We formed a committee and pulled in all the stakeholders, public and private, and did workshops to educate ourselves.

“Five years ago, we didn’t have any public access charging in the region,” Eaker explains. But then

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Clean VehiCles Coalition: Five counties across Western North Carolina, a nationally designated “Clean City,” have seen nearly 100 charging stations pop up in the last five years. the Clean Vehicles Coalition got in touch with Eaton Corp. in Arden, which manufactures electric vehicle chargers. “They were making medium and fast chargers, and we asked, ‘Where would be a good place to put in the first two chargers in our region?’”

They settled on a site along Interstate 26 in Biltmore Park Town Square. That was in 2010 — and five years later, we’re already up to nearly 100 charging stations.

price Fluctuations With that rapidly expanding network in place, these vehicles’ popularity has increased steadily.

Barnes, however, says his conversion business “is slowly disappearing” because EVs are becoming more affordable.

As the first wave of leased Nissan Leafs has become available for

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purchase, notes Barnes, “College kids are grabbing them up. The hottest item right now is a used Nissan Leaf. … A couple of years ago, a new electric car would cost $30,000, but now [a previously leased one] is down in the $10,000 range.”

For the latest generation vehicles, though, “The price is up right now because of the battery.”

Older electrics used batteries that were “very inefficient,” he explains. If that technology were still in use, says Barnes, increased demand would have driven down the price of new ones. The newer versions, however, are using more advanced lithium batteries that deliver greater range. But those batteries cost more to produce, and together with other improvements, this has kept these vehicles’ price about the same.

The law of supply and demand still applies, though, so as more and more folks become interested in electric vehicles, “That’s when the prices are going to change,” he predicts. And when

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Tesla Motors’ massive Gigafactory reaches full capacity a few years from now, the price of batteries is expected to drop substantially.

Meanwhile, sticker price alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

“It’s not only the cost of the gasoline, it’s the amount of emissions that are being put into the atmosphere — and electric is far more efficient,” continues Barnes. “Our problem is there are too many big companies that don’t want electric: the oil industry, auto parts companies and car dealers. All of them make money on tuneups and repairs.

But there’s hardly any maintenance for an electric car. Dealers depend on bringing your car back for repairs all the time; with electric, you don’t really do that. They don’t have all the moving parts. An internal combustion engine has cylinders and valves and pistons and oil; there’s plenty of things that can go wrong.”

At this point, though, notes Barnes, electric vehicles still suffer from the discrepancy between how people think about their cars and how they actually use them. “People say, ‘Oh, I can’t drive it to Florida.’

But most people drive less than 30 miles every day.”

And for those who are reluctant to give up their gas-powered vehicle for a car with an 80-mile range, Eaker suggests starting out with a hybrid, “where you plug in electric and drive the rest on gas. You stop at wherever they’ve got a DC charger” to save on gas, but you don’t need to worry about keeping a charge. “There’s no range on the vehicles that still use gasoline” — provided, of course, you don’t run out of gas.

Technological advancements, though, promise to significantly alter the equation, both in the near term and further down the road.

Within a year or two, says Eaker, “More all-electric vehicles will be coming out. The Leaf’s going to go from 80 to a 150-160-mile range.

If you take a big trip, you’re [still] going to be stopping a lot more along the way — your five-hour trip may take you eight hours — but at a lot of these places, you can get some food, use the wifi, do some work. Or, if you’re rich, you can just buy a Tesla now, and you won’t have to worry about it,” he jokes, noting the high-end vehicles’ 250mile range.

Advancements in wireless charging promise to take electric vehicles to a whole other level, making it possible to park and charge without waiting in line for a charger. And eventually, mentions Eaker, we could see an electrified highway system.

“They put chargers in the roadway in certain areas, and when you’re driving down the road … your battery will be recharged,” he explains.

Implementing this would be expensive, however, so don’t expect it any time soon.

Still, Eaker calls wireless charging the wave of the future. “There’s probably dozens of these companies worldwide, and they’re all in a race to develop the best system and get it out there.”

here to stay In one form or another, he continues, “Electric drive transportation is here to stay and will become

much more commonplace five, 10, 15 years into the future.”

Modern electrics, notes Eaker, “first came out in the ’90s but never really caught on and were squashed — literally. They crushed all the cars, and the whole thing just kind of went away. But now it’s come back” — with more rev in its engine.

“Who Killed the Electric Car,” a 2006 documentary, traces the rise and fall of General Motors’ prototype electric vehicles, which were virtually pried from the hands of consumers who loved them and hastily reduced to scrap metal.

Now, however, federal standards continue to raise the bar on fuel efficiency. “In 2020, new vehicles have to get like 55 miles per gallon,” Eaker points out. “The only way we’re going to achieve that is with electric-drive assist or all electric power.”

Most car manufacturers, he notes, now have at least one electric or hybrid model. ”Everybody’s going to be including electric drive: Even if they’re still using gas, you’ll have an electric motor.”

Several companies, including Toyota and Hyundai, are also now

manufacturing hydrogen-powered cars, sparking debate about these competing technologies. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but at this point, battery-powered electrics appear to have an edge, since they can be charged at home and there’s more infrastructure in place.

Barnes, for one, is betting on electrics. “Everyone’s rejoicing because gas prices are down. But when businesses go out of business, what do they do? They have a sale. The signs are all over for the industry coming to an end,“ he maintains.

Volvo, notes Barnes, recently announced a major commitment to electric vehicles. “Things are happening, and Tesla has got the industry on edge, making big, sweeping changes to the whole thing.

“It’s a big difference: It’s amazing,” he continues. “Once you do it, you don’t ever want to go back. You can actually hear the gravel crunch under your wheels: There’s no engine noise. It’s gone!

It’s not there!” X

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by Virginia Daffron

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pOWER sHiFT Asheville, Duke Energy find common ground on Clean Energy Framework

Limiting the focus to city operations, though, could take Asheville only so far down the road to clean energy. Carbon emissions from city government operations account for less than 2 percent of the community’s total emissions, notes amber weaver, Asheville’s director of sustainability. And since Duke Energy holds a monopoly on providing electric power to the region, any large-scale energy planning requires collaboration and cooperation with the mega-corporation, Marcus points out.

“Some people,” she notes, “balk at the idea that we should have a role in determining the source of our power.” But that attitude doesn’t faze Marcus, who’s also the director of sustainability for UNC Asheville.

“Environmental issues affect us all, and we have to step up to say, ‘I choose to be a part of this conversation, whether or not I’m invited to be,’” she maintains.

a collaBorative Model

tRansFoRmeR: Sonia Marcus introduces UNC Asheville students to a solar array on campus. Photo by John Fletcher, UNCA photographer.

Duke Energy’s recent announcement that it’s pulling the plug on a planned 45-mile, high-voltage transmission line between upstate South Carolina and Asheville has dominated local energy headlines, and rightly so.

But even as the utility scrambled behind closed doors to rework its controversial proposal for modernizing Western North Carolina’s power

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generation system, Asheville City Council quietly approved another energy policy milestone.

The Community Clean Energy Policy Framework adopted by Council Oct. 27 is a blueprint for implementing the city’s 2013 pledge to transition to a clean energy economy, says sonia marcus, who chairs the city’s Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment.

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a decade oF sustainaBility eFForts Asheville’s formal commitment to clean energy began in 2005 with a commitment to meeting or beating the greenhouse gas reduction target spelled out in the Kyoto Protocol. Since then, initiatives such as adding hybrid vehicles to the city’s bus fleet, installing LED streetlights and the “blue bin” recycling program have all helped promote sustainability.

In August 2014, Marcus’ committee invited representatives of various interests to serve on an energy task force. These meetings, says Weaver, were a key part of the two-year planning effort that produced the clean energy framework.

A diverse group including residents and city staff, elected officials and business owners, gathered to brainstorm a laundry list of possible actions. Duke Energy’s jason walls, district manager for WNC, was an active participant, says Marcus. gwen wisler, City Council’s liaison to the advisory committee, agrees. “I was pleased with Duke’s engagement in this effort,” she notes. “On some issues, we still need further dialogue;

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with regard to this process, their participation has been great.”

Walls, meanwhile, says: “For me, the process was about listening to our community through the work of the task force. It was a long process and an exercise in which we all learned from one another.”

Task force members, says Marcus, were asked “What should be part of this plan?” They produced a lengthy list of ideas, which ranged from retrofitting mobile homes for greater energy efficiency to lobbying the state Legislature to eliminate a ban on commercial-scale wind power generation in this part of the state.

From those ideas, a more manageable list of high-priority actions spanning the next 12-18 months emerged.

practical strategies Some of those actions aim to encourage wider awareness and use of existing programs. For example, the city’s development services office will train staff to steer customers applying for building permits toward current Duke Energy programs.

Leveraging those programs, notes Marcus, is “a no-brainer,” because it requires no additional funding, staff or lead time.

Meanwhile, Asheville’s sustainability office will create a green business recognition program in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and Duke Energy, and will oversee the Better Buildings Challenge, a U.S. Department of Energy program, to help building owners and businesses reduce energy usage. The sustainability office will also help develop a plan for creating automated, centralized control of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting and other systems in city facilities.

And as Asheville continues developing “innovation districts” (which include downtown, the River Arts District, the South Slope Extension area and, in the near future, North Charlotte Street), city agencies will create development incentives, including grants, for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in those areas.

The city will also pursue opportunities to site renewable energy facilities on city-owned property.

Blurring the Boundaries The clean energy framework, Weaver explains, provides nearterm guidance for the city while laying the foundation for developing

longer-term energy policy as Asheville begins work on the successor to its 2025 Plan. “The sustainability office works from the city’s sustainability management plan adopted in 2009; as the city continues incorporating [sustainability] into the fold, we’ll see topics such as climate adaptation and energy in the city’s comprehensive planning process.”

During that process, says Wisler, “We’re going to pull together various plans that already exist and see if we have any holes.”

But implementing the specifics, notes Marcus, will require cooperation with outside partners.

“Like a lot of the issues we talk about in city government, whether it’s affordable housing or transportation or economic development,” the boundaries between what the city can directly control and the roles of other entities are “not strict,” she points out. The increased focus on energy policy reflects “part of a whole web, part of an ecology of social change that’s evolving.”

More work to do Even as the local community reacts to Duke Energy’s announcement, energy policy activists caution against celebrating too soon.

“We’re glad to see that Duke Energy is responding to the concerns of people in WNC by abandoning the transmission lines, paring down the scale of this oversized project and delaying the build of a portion of the natural gas plant to give time for clean energy solutions to get in place,” says Kelly martin of the Sierra Club’s NC Beyond Coal campaign. She calls Asheville’s clean energy framework “a great place for these solutions to take shape.”

Newly elected City Council member julie mayfield thinks the framework was a key factor in Duke Energy’s decision. Mayfield, who is co-director of the environmental nonprofit MountainTrue, called on Duke to work with citizen groups, nonprofits and the city to reduce demand and develop more of the region’s power from renewable sources.

Longtime energy activist ned ryan doyle echoes Martin and Mayfield’s hope that Duke’s pivot toward natural gas represents an intermediate step in a transition to clean power. “Natural gas is a bridge fuel,” notes Doyle.

“At the stack, it creates cleaner emissions than coal, but its net effect is arguably worse than coal’s when you take into consideration fracking’s impact on groundwater and air quality,” he explains.

And though Duke’s revised modernization plan might seem unrelated to Asheville’s clean energy framework, continues Doyle, the city’s plan “could have a bigger impact than people imagine” by providing an initial model for collaborative planning processes.

Duke Energy representative Walls seems to be on board with that, saying the framework represents the beginning of “substantive conversations with the city and other stakeholders about ways to increase renewable energy, energy efficiency and evolving technologies here locally.”

Walls also acknowledges that the utility’s mission must include demand reduction alongside finding new ways to generate power. “The city’s policy framework,” he says, “provides a starting point, the start of a road map, to form some innovative and creative ways to reduce our community’s energy needs.”

exciting tiMes For her part, Marcus understands that her passion for energy policy doesn’t generally make for the best cocktail party conversations. “I know that a lot of people think it’s a big snore. Little things in this area, like the pay-as-you-throw initiative, sometimes get tons of attention, while huge things like the clean energy framework happen and no one’s even paying attention,” she notes, adding with a rueful laugh, “That’s the nature of policy work.”

Still, Marcus urges people to consider the drama inherent in these recent energy policy developments.

“There’s this amazing, grand story that’s playing out in front of our eyes with regard to energy. The energy infrastructure decisions made in the next 12 months will affect our community for 100 years to come. What other program or policy can we say that about? This is going to dramatically impact us and neighboring states, so it’s pretty important stuff.” X

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by Hayley Benton

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ELECTION RESULTS

meet the NeW CouNCil Asheville elects Young, Haynes, Mayfield to city office

At an election night party at The Millroom, Hunt took the stage and admitted that the results were “an unexpected result for many of us” — conceding defeat. “I’m going to stay committed in any way I can to the city of Asheville,” he said. “We share an ultimate goal and I’m not going to let go of that. Let’s move forward together.”

Mayfield, also at The Millroom that evening, mentioned that she was disappointed she wouldn’t have the opportunity to serve with Hunt.

Mayor esther manheimer commented on the loss as well. “I’m somewhat surprised, but, you know, they were all good candidates,” she said. “When you’ve got a voter turnout of 14,000, a bunch of your friends can sway the outcome. I’ll miss Marc dearly, but I know he will continue to be involved in the community. So, that’s good for Asheville.”

The three new council members will be sworn in at City Council’s Dec. 1 meeting.

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Keith young (right) with campaign manager David Roat (left). Young came out on top on election night, despite spending less than any other candidate. Photos

by Able Allen

Echoing national trends of a volatile and often fickle electorate, the 2015 Asheville City Council election was a nail-biter until the very end. Ultimately, after months of postcards, yard signs and get-out-the-vote efforts, Keith young, brian haynes and julie mayfield came out on top when the polls closed Nov. 3.

Even the normal methods of foretelling the outcome took a backseat to unpredictability. In small municipal elections, it’s usually a good bet that primary winners will claim victory in November as well — but not this year.

The primary election in early October narrowed the pool of candidates from 15 to six. Those results earned Mayfield the No. 1 spot by a large margin, with Haynes and

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incumbent Vice Mayor marc hunt coming in second and third.

However, by the time the votes were counted in the general election — after a night featuring early returns moving rapidly up and down the board — only Haynes kept his original placing. rich lee, who held the No. 6 place in the primary, flip-flopped twice from fifth to fourth in the general. Hunt quickly dropped from third, then fourth, to fifth.

Young, who came in fourth in the primary, passed Mayfield after more than half the precincts had reported back. Candidate lindsey simerly came in sixth, down from her No. 5 ranking in the primary.

The big shock to many was that Vice Mayor Hunt was denied another term.

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Young, a deputy clerk of the Buncombe County Superior Court, was no stranger to the ballot in 2015, having run unsuccessfully for the Board of Commissioners in both 2012 and 2014.

Coming from a politically conscious family active in the Democratic Party, Young, who is from Asheville, told Xpress earlier this year that his interest in local government was sparked at an early age.

“I remember sitting around with party officials — we always talked politics in our household,” he explained.

“It’s always been an interest of mine, being able to see how things change in society due to politics.”

Interestingly, over the course of his campaign, Young raised and spent the least amount of money — $9,681 — yet pulled into the top slot in the general.

“The real story is the Keith Young story,” Democratic political insider jake Quinn told Xpress on election night. “How did his campaign manager, David Roat, pull off such a brilliant win? They ran under the radar for months with an intelligent campaign that cost nothing.”

Young was endorsed by current council member Cecil Bothwell, the Friends of St. Lawrence Green, People Advocating for Real Change and Carmen-Ramos Kennedy, the president of the local NAACP chapter.

Young has been a business owner, worked in media and advertising and

worked for Disney out of college — but he says politics is one thing he’ll never get bored with.

“It’s in me,” he says. “It’s in me to want to help folks. … I know where real change comes from.

Real change comes from activism.

Real change comes from people going to the polls and voting. Real change comes from people being interested in their community.

Real change comes from politicians understanding the constituents that they serve — and serving them in a way that will create growth for everyone. I know you can’t be all things for all people, but we can sure as hell try.”

Brian haynes A born-and-raised Ashevillean, former record store owner, brother of musician Warren Haynes and a Habitat for Humanity employee, Haynes ran a campaign focused on all things local and, in doing so, garnered support from a long list of locally owned businesses.

At an October candidate forum, Haynes asked the audience, “How can we preserve the very things that made us unique and brought the [transplants and tourists] here to begin with? We, as a city, need to step away from our current path of hyperdevelopment and return to the original model that served us so well.”

Promising to advocate for the people of Asheville and be “a good listener,” Haynes said he hopes to work on hot-button issues like affordable housing, the living wage and investing in the citizens of Asheville — rather than the visitors.

“We’ve still got huge infrastructure problems that aren’t being addressed,” he told Xpress earlier this year. “I just feel like we maybe need to slow the growth and take care of the problems that exist,” while still preserving “Asheville’s unique charm. It’s a unique city.

If we bring in too many hotels and too many corporate chain stores, I think we could easily lose our charm and become just like any other city.”

At The Grey Eagle on election night, celebrating with fellow candidate Young, Haynes said that “as soon as the precincts closed, I felt good — not necessarily about how I would finish, but that I have run a good campaign.”

Explaining the reason for his candidacy, Haynes said, “My family is my motivation for [running

for City Council]. I just want to see Asheville move in the right direction for [my children’s and grandchildren’s] futures.”

Julie MayField

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Mayfield, co-director of MountainTrue, has worn many different hats in and out of the community. She’s an attorney, an environmental advocate and a graduate of Leadership Asheville. She chairs the city’s Transit Committee and is a member of both the city’s Multimodal Transportation Commission and the Western North Carolina Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

“I am a problem solver and a leader,” she wrote on her campaign website.

“My job for the last 20 years has been to work in the place of uncertainty and conflicting views and to find ways to move forward. … My career has given me the depth and breadth of experience to make progress on the challenges Asheville faces — how we grow, how we invest scarce dollars, how we

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take care of people and the environment and how we work together cooperatively and constructively.”

Demonstrating her problem-solving skills at the Asheville Downtown Association forum in October, Mayfield suggested that Asheville think outside of the box and look toward indirect solutions for issues that it can’t take on with direct action.

In line with her environmental background, some of her goals for Asheville include: shutting down coalburning power plants; adding more bus, pedestrian and biking infrastructure; and balancing Asheville’s growth with preservation of the people, culture and environment to “ensure everyone — young and old, rich and poor, black and white — shares in Asheville’s success.”

Mayfield once noted that a “hallmark of her career” has been building partnerships across the aisle to get things done. “We have to have people who can work all sides of an issue and maintain and build those relationships to take us forward.”

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animals The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30)

Benefits Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) 5K Dog tag Dash runsignup.com/Race/NC/ Asheville/5KDogTagDash • SA (11/14), 8am -Proceeds from this road race benefit aBccM’s services for homeless veterans. $30. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Dr. an eVening with elVis eblencharities.org • FR (11/13), 6-10pm - Tickets to this Elvis impersonator concert and dinner benefit eblen charities. $35 concert & dinner/$25 concert only.

Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Dr. asheVille FaeRie aRts FestiVal bioflyer.wordpress.com/bioflyer/ asheville-faerie-arts-festival • SA (11/14), 2-6pm & 7-11pm -

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FaeRie aRts FestiVal: The third annual Faerie Arts Festival and benefit for Eblen Charities returns on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 2-6 and 7-11 p.m. The daytime segment of the event is family-friendly with costumes, magic, music, stilt walkers, life-size sculptures, face painting and inflatables. The evening segment is for adults and features a body art fashion show, music, food and drinks sponsored by Wicked Weed Brewing. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for kids younger than 15. (p. 24)

Proceeds from this fairy themed event featuring daytime artists, storytelling, costumes, magic show and nighttime adult costume show and music benefit eblen charities. $15/5 children. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ChRistmas CRaFt BazaaR 645-6721, weavervilleumc.org • FR (11/13), noon-6pm - Proceeds from this 22nd annual craft bazaar benefit weaverville united Methodist Mission Ministries.

Free to attend. Held at Weaverville United Methodist Church, 85 N. Main St., Weaverville • SA (11/14), 8am-4pm - Proceeds from this 22nd annual craft bazaar benefit weaverville united Methodist Mission Ministries.

Free to attend. Held at Weaverville United Methodist Church, 85 N. Main St., Weaverville 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

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Full CiRCle thanKsliVing Vegan BaKe sale facebook.com/ events/1021811267863704 • WE (11/18), 6-9pm - Proceeds from this vegan bake sale benefit Full circle Farm sanctuary. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville gReenwoRKs 3RD annual Root Ball ashevillegreenworks.org/ 3rd-annual-root-ball.html • TH (11/12), 6-9pm - Tickets to this silent auction, drink reception, dinner and keynote address benefit asheville greenworks.$55/$50 GreenWorks members. Held at Morris Hellenic Cultural Center, 227 Cumberland Ave holiDay aRts anD CRaFts FaiR 298-2787, artspacecharter.org • SU (11/15), 10am-3pm - Proceeds from this fair benefit artspace charter school. Free to attend.

Held at ArtSpace Charter School, 2030 U.S. 70, Swannanoa KaRaoKe FoR a Cause bit.ly/axidkaraoke • SA (11/14), 7-10pm - Proceeds from this karaoke talent

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competition benefit autism speaks. $5/$10 per team. Held at Scandals Nightclub, 11 Grove St. PanCaKe BReaKFast BeneFit smhogpancakebreakfast2015. eventbrite.com • SA (11/14), 7:30-10am - Tickets to this pancake breakfast benefit the children of Buncombe county smoky Mountain toy run. $7. Held at Fatz Cafe, 5 Spartan Ave. the Vanishing wheelChaiR 645-2941, vanishingwheelchair.org • SA (11/14), 6:30pm - Proceeds from this magic show support inclusive activities for children with disabilities. $10/$5 children. Held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. tRans stuDent union BeneFit 255-8115 • SU (11/15), 8pm - Proceeds from this music event benefit the unca trans support group. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road tRyon Fine aRts CenteR 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • SU (11/15), 3-5pm - Proceeds from this silent auction, tea tasting and

reception benefit the tryon Fine arts center. $25.

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 wilD FoR liFe BeneFit ConCeRt wildforlife.org • MO (11/16), 5-8pm - Proceeds from this concert with The Pretty Little Goat Band and The Hog Town Squealers benefit wild for life. Free to attend. Held at Oskar Blues Brewery, 342 Mountain Industrial Dr., Brevard

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 (11/11), 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. • MO (11/16), 9am - “SCORE: How to Start a Business,” seminar.

• TU (11/17), 10am - “How Entrepreneurs can Utilize Library Resources for Business Plan Development,” seminar. ameRiCan aDVeRtising FeDeRation asheVille 658-0281, aafasheville.org • TU (11/17), 11:30am-1pm - “Every Jingle is a Love Song: How Successful Musical Campaigns Work,” presentation. $22/$18 members. Held at the Holiday Inn Suites, 42 Tunnel Road, Asheville. g&w inVestment CluB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am General meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden wnC natuRal health &

wellness meetup.com/ WNC-Natural-Health-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm Networking event for natural health & wellness practitioners. Free to attend. Held at Western North Carolina School of Massage, 131 McDowell St. Suite 302

classes, meetinGs & events Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) 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, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut.

828-254-4350 or TM.org or Meditationasheville.org asheVille timeBanK 348-0674, ashevilletimebank.org • TUESDAYS, 4-6pm - Orientation session. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road asheVille/BunComBe housing summit kmorrow@ashevillenc.gov • MO (11/16), 2-5pm “Challenges & Opportunities in Affordable Housing Development,” summit sponsored by the Asheville City Council. Reservations required.

Free to attend. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. BunComBe County FRienDs oF ag BReaKFast 250-4794, dixon@buncombecounty.org • TU (11/17), 7am - “Avian Influenza Implications for Poultry Growers of all Sizes,” presentation and complimentary breakfast.

Registration required. Free. Held

at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road Community RaCe Relations DeBate wilmadykemanlegacy.org • FR (11/13), 5:30pm “RESOLVED: Asheville has disenfranchised its African-American population,” debate between Dr. Dwight Mullen, Dr. Darin Waters, Dr. Carl Mumpower and Dr. Wendell Runion. Free. Held at Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St. ethiCal humanist soCiety oF asheVille 687-7759, aeu.org • SU (11/15), 2-3:30pm - “Good Without God - Humanism in Western North Carolina,” presentation. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road FiRestoRm CaFe anD BooKs 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 Firestorm Cafe & Books • SA (11/14), 10-11:30am - “Raise Up for 15,” discussion for a $15 minimum food service wage. Free to attend. iKenoBo iKeBana soCiety 696-4103, blueridgeikebana.com • TH (11/19), 10am - “Free Style Holiday Arrangements Using Seasonal Material,” presentation and general meeting. Free Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville ontRaCK wnC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

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

Keep it. Improve it.” Workshop.

• TH (11/12), 5:30pm “Understanding Reverse Mortgages,” seminar.

• MO (11/16) - Registration deadline for 5 week “Mother/Daughter Money Buddies Education Series.” Series runs MONDAYS (11/16) through (12/14), 5:30pm.

• TH (11/19), 5:30pm - “Take Control of Holiday Spending,” workshop.

Pisgah astRonomiCal ReseaRCh institute 1 PARI Dr., Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (11/13), 7pm - “T-Rex and the Doomsday Impact,” presentation and observation session. $20/$15 seniors & military/free 10 and under.

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• WE (11/11), 6pm - Panel Discussion: “My Culture, Not Your Mascot,” part of Native American History Month. Free. Held in the Highsmith Union.

• SA (11/14) - Open house for prospective students. Registration & info: admissions.unca.edu. Free.

PuBliC eVents at wCu 227-7397, wcu.edu • MO (11/9) and WE (11/11), 5:30pm, 6pm, & 6:30pm Haunted walking tour of WCU. Registration required. $5. Meets at the Mountain Heritage Center.

• SA (11/14), 8:15am-5pm - Open house event for prospective students. Free. Meets at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center.

ReynolDs/FaiRView sCRaBBle CRiBBage CluB • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm Scrabble and cribbage club. Free to attend. Held at Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse, 381 Old Charlotte Highway, Fairview showing uP FoR RaCial JustiCe showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, noon-2pm - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road wnC4PeaCe wnc4peace.com • TU (11/17), 6pm - General meeting. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

dance BELLY DANCE • Clogging Classes (pd.) Now at Idea Factory Inc. Dance Studio, 3726 Sweeten Creek Road, in addition to our ongoing classes for ages 2 & up. Class schedule, registration/ information: www.ideafactoryinc.org 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

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A feel-good fashion show for cancer survivors

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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 BeBe theatRe 20 Commerce St., 254-2621 • TU (11/17), 8pm - Asheville Butoh hosts rare butoh videos from Nicole LeGette’s private collection.

Admission by donation.

Diana woRtham theatRe 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • WE (11/18), 10am - MOMIX presents Botanica. $9.50.

moDel Citizens: “I was able to hang out with our models and talk with them before the show as we got ready,” says fundraiser organizer Sara Laws, pictured during a mini-makeover courtesy of Belk. “It was really fun to see everyone get pampered.” Photo by Jen Lepkowski what: The Hope Chest for Women’s third annual Here’s Hope Luncheon and Fashion Show fundraiser where: Asheville Event Center when: Saturday, Nov. 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. why: Walking for exercise does wonders for the body, but for some Ashevilleans, an upcoming stroll on the catwalk may offer even more for the soul. The Here’s Hope Luncheon and Fashion Show, according to The Hope Chest for Women executive director sara laws, is “about giving confidence to female cancer survivors all in different stages of survivorship. We pamper our models and give them a chance to celebrate their beauty regardless of where they are in their cancer treatment.”

Participants work with a group of professionals to prepare for the big show. Belk, for example, sponsors each with wardrobe and makeup needs, including a clothing representative who helps each model find a style to match her personality. Model coordinators, makeup artists and hairstylists round out the ladies’ teams.

Also contributing to the event are a host of local businesses that have donated raffle and auction items,

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including a custom-made sofa, a luxury men’s watch, art pieces and plenty of gift certificates. Wild Wing Café is even offering one winner wings for a year.

Event admission includes a lunch prepared by chef lisa ronan of Ingles’ The Chef’s Kitchen. “Her focus for our luncheon is local and healthy, cancerfighting foods that are seasonally grown in our community,” Laws says of the buffet-style meal. Plus, a local trio led by jazz vocalist harry schulz will set the mood during the afternoon affair.

Proceeds from the midday fundraiser benefit The Hope Chest’s Western North Carolina patient assistance program, which provided support to about 2,000 women with breast or gynecological cancer in 2014. During that time, the fund provided 138 women with assistance paying medical bills, fulfilled some 478 other medical and nonmedical monetary requests (medication, nutritional supplements, food, utilities, housing, transportation, etc.), presented cancer prevention education to about 1,500 people, and offered hundreds of referrals to other cancer-related support organizations nationwide.

Visit hopechestforwomen.org for more information or to purchase tickets.

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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.

eco Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) asheVille gReenwoRKs 254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • SA (11/14), 10am-2pm - “Hard to Recycle,” collection event. Free.

Held at 2310 Hendersonville Road, Arden City oF henDeRsonVille cityofhendersonville.org • FR (11/13), 4-5pm - Unveiling Ceremony for the winning entry of our Recycling Works Art Contest.

Free. Held at the Courthouse on Main Street, Downtown Hendersonville.

PuBliC leCtuRes at unCa unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (11/17), 7pm - “Bats of North Carolina,” Audubon Society talk.

Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

RiVeRlinK 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • FR (11/13), 3pm - Fall Salon Series: Barbara Duncan Ph.D. speaks about the Cherokees’ relationship to rivers. Registration required. Free. wilma DyKeman BooK CluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (11/12), 5:30pm - Excerpts from Dykeman’s The French Broad

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and discussion, “Every Home Its Own Community,” led by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Free.

farm & Garden liVing weB FaRms 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 5051660, livingwebfarms.org • SA (11/14), 1:30pm - “Managing the Hoophouse for Year-Round Production,” class about four-season vegetable production. $15.

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.

festivals DaViDson’s FoRt histoRiC PaRK Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 6684831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (11/14) & SU (11/15), 10am5pm - Revolutionary War Days, colonial living demonstrations, militia units and children’s games. $5/ free under 13.

food & Beer Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) CalDwell Community College 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • TH (11/19), 6pm - Culinary arts program public dinner featuring British Isles cuisine. Reservations required: 726-2407. $21. leiCesteR Community CenteR 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm - Manna FoodBank distribution, including local produce. Free. st. Pauls uniteD methoDist ChuRCh 223 Hillside St., 252-6512, stpaulsumcasheville.org • SA (11/14), 8am-1pm - Pancake breakfast and bake sale. $5.

Government & Politics BunComBe County RePuBliCan men’s CluB 712-1711, gakeller@gakeller.com

• 2nd SATURDAYS, 7:30am Discussion group meeting with optional breakfast. Free to attend.

Held at Corner Stone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road City oF asheVille 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • MO (11/16), 4pm - Public hearing on I-26 Connector. NCDOT representatives available to answer questions and receive comments until 6:30pm. The formal public hearing begins at 7pm. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. DemoCRatiC women oF henDeRson County 692-6424, myhcdp.com • TU (11/10), 6pm - General meeting with Gayle L. Kemp, J. D., as guest speaker. Free to attend. Held at Three Chopt Sandwich Shoppe, 103 3rd Ave. E, Hendersonville

Kids asheVille Community theatRe 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAY through SUNDAY, (11/13) until (11/15) - Youth production class presents Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest. Fri.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $5.

BunComBe County PuBliC liBRaRies buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (11/13), 4pm - Teen cosplay group. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • MO (11/16), 10:30am “Asheville’s Autumn Players Do Preschool Story Time!” Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (11/17), 10:30am - “Toddler Demolition Day!” Construction stories and tower building.

Registration required. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (11/18), 3:30pm - “Makers and Shakers: Heartbeat Drumming with Sonia Brooks.” Grades K-5.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. City lights BooKstoRe 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • SA (11/14), 11am - Lucy Margaret Rozier presents Jackrabbit McCabe & the Electric Telegraph.

Free to attend.

Diana woRtham theatRe 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • TH (11/12) & FR (11/13), 10am

ca rtoon bY g.p. ogD e n & noon - The Lightning Thief, Theatreworks USA. $7.50.

FletCheR liBRaRy 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 6871218, library.hendersoncountync. org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. malaPRoP’s BooKstoRe anD CaFe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (11/12), 7pm - Jodi Lynn Anderson presents My Diary From the Edge of the World.

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • TH (11/19), 10am-2pm - “What is a Planet,” homeschool day.

Registration required. $20. sPellBounD ChilDRen’s BooKshoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • TH (11/12), 11am - Denton the Dragon Puppet Story Time. Free to attend.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

outdoors Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) Big iVy Community CenteR 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • SATURDAYS through (11/21), 10am-2pm -“ Thanksgiving Turkey

Shoot.” Cost per shot. laKe James state PaRK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (11/13), 10am - Ranger led hike focusing on tree identification and changing leaf color. Free.

• SA (11/14), 1:45pm - “Loons of Lake James Boat Tour,” ranger led boat tour discussing loons.

Registration required. Free.

• SU (11/15), 1:45pm - “Fall Foliage Boat Tour.” Registration required.

Free.

ParentinG aDoPtion oPtions eXPo 407-0409, adoptopt.com/events. html, info@adoptopt.com • SA (11/14), 1-4pm - Drop-in event to learn about public and private adoptions, fostering children and connect with community resources.

Free to attend. Held at Ira B. Jones Elementary, 544 Kimberly Ave. FRanKlin sChool oF innoVation • TH (11/19), 5:30pm - Fall Campus Tour and Information Session. Free to attend.

PuBlic lectures FiRestoRm CaFe anD BooKs 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (11/11), 5pm - “How to Change Everything,” panel discus-

sion on climate change and economic crisis. Free to attend.

JuBilee Community ChuRCh 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • FR (11/13), 7pm- “An Evening Talk with Sobonfu Somé.” $10-$20. maD BatteR FooD & Film 617 W Main St., Sylva, 586-3555, madbatterfoodandfilm.com • WE (11/11), 6pm - “Love for Pets: Biophilia or Cultural Transmission?”

Presentation by Hal Herzog. 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. Free.

Held in the Turchin Center Lecture Hall.

• TH (11/19), 7pm - TCVA 140: The Creative Incubator. Ten featured speakers speak for 140 seconds each. Reception at 6:30pm. Free.

Held in the Turchin Center.

PuBliC leCtuRes at unCa unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

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

• TU (11/17), 6pm - “Rock Your Mocs: Indigenous Regalia and Representation,” lecture by Trey Adcock. Free. Held in the

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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

locals. $15.

PuBliC leCtuRes at waRRen wilson

inneR PResenCe CoaChing institute (pd.) Are you an experienced meditator and have an interest in Eastern enlightenment traditions and deep personal growth work? Explore the upcoming 9-month Inner Presence Coaching training program. Start a new career deeply contributing to others! 828-252-0538 or www.innerpresencecoaching.com

asheVille wRiteRs in the sChools & Community 280-8121, ashevillewritersintheschools.org, meggen@ ashevillewritersintheschools.org • SU (11/15), 1-3pm - “West End Write In,” family-friendly creative writing event. Free to attend Held at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road

800-934-3536, warren-wilson.edu • SA (11/14), 4pm - Presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo as the 2015 Harwood-Cole Memorial Lecturer. Free. Held in Canon Lounge.

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

BlaCK mountain CenteR FoR the aRts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (11/13), noon - David Madden presents his book The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Bring a lunch. Free.

Highsmith Union.

• TH (11/19), noon - Brown Bag Research Lunch: Presentation on research regarding how experiential food education impacts consumption behaviors. Free.

Held in Ramsey Library.

• TH (11/19), 7pm - “Firestone: Boundaries of the Soul: Kabbalah and Depth Psychology,” presentation by Rabbi Tirzah. Free. Held in the Sherrill Center.

• TH (11/19), 8pm - Workshop and lecture by Patty Stonefish of Arming Sisters, a non-profit focusing on raising awareness of violence against Native women. Free.

Held in the Highsmith Union.

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.

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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 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 • MONDAYS through (11/23), 1pm - Biblical Book Study: 66 Love Letters by Larry Crab. Registration required. $15 book fee.

JuBilee Community ChuRCh 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TH (11/19), 7-9pm - Asheville Interfaith Conversations: “Perspectives on Poverty,” panel discussion. Free.

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 uRBan DhaRma 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • SA (11/14), 2pm - Fall Food Drive: Gurupuja Ganacakra Feast-Offering. Ritual feast provided. Canned/dry food donations accepted for MANNA FoodBank.

Free to attend.

sPoKen & Written Word 35Below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (11/19), 7:30pm - Listen to This Storytelling Series: “Dining With the Enemy,” stories and original songs from

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asheVille stoRytelling CiRCle 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets at Asheville Terrace, 200 Tunnel Road. Free.

BlaCK mountain College museum & aRts CenteR 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • SA (11/14), 8pm - “MadHat’s Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes,” poetry reading. $8/$5 members BunComBe County PuBliC liBRaRies buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (11/12), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • SA (11/14), 3pm - West Asheville Book Club: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (11/17), 7pm - Black Mountain Library Mystery Book Club: Haven by Kay Hooper. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (11/17), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: The Gathering by Anne Enright. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (11/19), 2:30pm - Skyland/South Buncombe Book Club: Canada by Richard Ford. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road City lights BooKstoRe 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (11/13), 6:30pm - Mark de Castrique presents his novel A Specter of Justice. Free to attend.

• TH (11/19), 10:30am - Coffee with the Poet Series: Holly Dunlap presents her book, Feet to Water.

Free to attend.

FiRestoRm CaFe anD BooKs 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • SA (11/14), 5pm - Sparrow Rose Jones presents her collection of essays The ABCs of Autism. Free to attend.

• Third WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - ReVisioning History Book Group. Free to attend.

FletCheR liBRaRy 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers’ Guild. Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club. Free. gReen siDe uP FounDation greensideup.foundation • SU (11/15), 4-6pm - Speaker Series: “Courage Overcomes Cancer,” stories from Hematology & Ontology Unit Supervisor at Mission Children’s Hospital.

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authors Wayne Caldwell, Mary Ann Claud, and Jeremy B. Jones. 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 Special Collections.

The Give!Local nonprofits stay busy throughout the year providing needed services to our community. Here’s what they are up to for the week of 11/11 through 11/19.

malaPRoP’s BooKstoRe anD CaFe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/11), 7pm - The Literary Season with the ASO: Galileo’s Daughter discussion.

• FR (11/13), 7pm - “Take Back the Narrative,” creative narratives written by survivors of sexual assault. Collaboration with Our Voice & UNCA Women, Gender & Sexuality studies program.

• SA (11/14), 7pm - David Gilbert presents his book, The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace.

• SU (11/15), 3pm - Writers at Home Reading Series: Work from UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review.

• SU (11/15), 5pm - Jamie Mason presents his book Monday’s Lie. • MO (11/16), 7pm - Presentations from the Perry Correctional Facility’s Writers Block Project anthology Didn’t See it Coming.

• TU (11/17), 7pm - Charlie Lovett presents his book The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge.

• WE (11/18), 7pm - George Singleton presents his short fiction collection In Calloustown.

• TH (11/19), 7pm - J. Scott Brownlee presents his poetry collection Requiem for Used Ignition. 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. syneRgy stoRy slam avl.mx/0gd • WE (11/11), 7:30pm - Storytelling open-mic night on the theme “Protest!”. Ten minutes or less. Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road ymi CultuRal CenteR 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • FR (11/13), 6:30pm - “The Art of Resilience,” DeWayne Barton’s art opening, poetry presentation and reading from his book Return to Burton Street. Free.

volunteerinG Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30)

by Abigail Griffin agriffin@mountainx.com animals asheVille humane soCiety 14 Forever Friend Lane, 761-2001, ashevillehumane.org • SA (11/14), 11:30am-1pm - Volunteer orientation & tour. Ages 10 and up.

Registration required: volunteer@ashevillehumane.org ChaRlie’s angels animal ResCue 885-DOGS, wncanimalrescue.org • SA (11/14), 11am-2pm - Animal adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Patton Avenue Pet Company, 109 Patton Ave.

Benefits leaF masQueRaDe Ball 68-MUSIC, theleaf.org/masqueradeball/ • SA (11/14), 7pm - Tickets to this formal masquerade ball with buffet dinner, performances, and music benefit LEAF Schools & Streets. $100. Held at Zealandia Castle, 1 Vance Gap Road montFoRD PaRK PlayeRs masQueRaDe Ball 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.com • SA (11/14), 7-10pm - Tickets to this costume gala and live music event benefit the Montford Park Players Theater Company. $45/$100 VIP. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway

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asheVille gReen DRinKs ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (11/18), 5:30pm - The Magical World of Moss Gardening presentation by Annie Martin. Free to attend Held at Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. CReation CaRe allianCe oF wnC creationcarealliance.org • WE (11/18), 7-9pm - “NC WARN’s Climate Roadshow,” presentation by NC WARN to explain their Emergency Climate Response Campaign. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. henDeRsonVille gReen DRinKs 692-0385 ext. 1004, facebook.com/hvlgreendrinks • TH (11/12), 6-8pm - Josh Kelly speaks about public land management. 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. Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Dr.

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classes, meetinGs & events mountain BizwoRKs 253-2834, mountainbizworks.org • TH (11/19), 6-9pm - 25th Anniversary Celebration. Free to attend. Held at Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave.

Big BRotheRs Big sisteRs oF wnC 253-1470, bbbswnc.org • WE (11/18), noon - Volunteer information session. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave.

Free to attend.

• FR (11/13), 5:30-10pm - “Climate Change,” presentation by Tom Hayden.

Free to attend.

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.

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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 southeRn aPPalaChian highlanDs ConseRVanCy 253-0095, appalachian.org • SA (11/14), 9am - Strenuous guided hike to Little Sandy Mush Bald followed by storytelling at Addison Farms Vineyard.

Registration required: haley@appalachian.

The 60-day Give!Local campaign is off to a strong start after its first week, with donations beginning to roll in! The campaign provides a fun, fast and easy way to give online from $10 to $1,000s. Donors can give to as many of the 30 participating nonprofits as they like and pay with one easy credit card transaction. Plus, there are incentives to encourage donations from new givers, people who don’t get tax breaks, and a whole new generation of givers — children!

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volunteerinG helios waRRioRs, inC. 299-0776, helioswarriors.org, helioswarriorswnc@gmail.com • FR (11/13) - Volunteers needed. Contact for more information. homewaRD BounD oF wnC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population.

Registration required. Free to attend.

252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • TH (11/12), 5:30pm - Art work and perfor-

mance by those who have been affected by sexual violence. Free to attend. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St.

music asheVille musiC sChool loFt 126 College St., 252-6244, ashevillemusicschool.com • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until

(11/14), 8pm - Harvey Diamond Jazz Series. $10.

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Free.

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.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - For survivors of sexual violence, ages 18+.

Registration required.

art n.C. aRBoRetum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • Through SA (1/3) - The Robot Zoo, exhibit featuring giant-size robots and interactive displays to teach biomechanics of animals. $12 per vehicle.

the magnetiC theatRe 375 Depot St., 279-4155, themagnetictheatre.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/22) - Washington Place. Thu. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $23/$18 advance.

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the CenteR FoR CRaFt, CReatiVity & Design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (11/28) - Emblematic, embroi-

dery installation by Nava Lubelski. Artist talk: Nov. 18, 5:30pm. Free to attend.

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Community grief ritual connects participants to beauty by way of tears

bY JorDan FoltZ jfoltz@mountainx.com “When you have a culture that doesn’t grieve, then you have a culture that doesn’t love and appreciate beauty, because the two go hand in hand,” says laeo mcdermott, a local home-funeral organizer and advocate who participated in a 2013 grief ritual led by West African healer sobonfu somé. “To really praise life, you have to really grieve it.”

Somé is back this fall, leading a community grief ritual SaturdaySunday, Nov. 14-15, in Arden, as well as an evening talk about grief at Jubilee! on Friday, Nov. 13. The weekend events are sponsored by local nonprofit School of Integrated Living.

“If you were going to put an acupuncture needle on America, I think you’d hit the grief point,” says McDermott. “We’re really strong on war and domination. Really good at consumption [and] innovation. But we’re not good at grieving.”

While dealing with grief from losses in family and partnership in his 20s, he spent six years on antidepressants. McDermott recalls the experience as a general disconnection from any emotion at all, which prevented him from connecting with his grief.

“When I came off [the antidepressants], it was pretty clear that what I needed to do was to cry,” he says. Although McDermott began to explore holistic healing experiences with men’s groups and plant medicine, it wasn’t until he took a full two days in 2013 to grieve that he felt he had “flushed” out all the pain that was weighing down his life. Only then, he says, did he feel fully empowered to move forward.

But what does a “grief ritual” entail? At the core: crying. A lot.

More specifically, two straight days of crying, lamenting, grieving and sitting with others who are going through a similar experience. McDermott describes the ritual as its own living, breathing, sustainable organism that has a pulse, circulation and consciousness.

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gooD gRieF: Burkinabe healer and author Sobonfu Somé returns to Asheville November 13-15 for an evening talk and traditional Dagara grief ritual. Photo courtesy of Sobonfu Somé

Bundle up “You make a bundle out of sticks, leaves, rocks and other objects that you can source from nature,” says McDermott, explaining how to prepare for the ritual. “And in making this bundle, you are getting clear with yourself and with whatever other powers you are working with [about what you are] saying goodbye to.”

When it comes time for the ritual, McDermott continues, there are three altars — two on opposite sides of the room and one at the very front. The front altar is where participants place their bundles and go to grieve; the side altars are for processing, before and after, he explains.

“When you are ready to grieve, you just approach the front altar, fall down on a pillow and start crying,” he says.

“The structure is for someone to then come and put their hand on your back. ... Behind them are Somé and the drummers, and finally behind them, the singers.”

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When participants are ready to step away from the grieving altar, they circulate back to the periphery, joining in the singing, says McDermott. From there, the grieving circulate back into the support role for those who’ve moved to the front altar. Often, that empathetic connection pulls participants back into their own grief, and over the course of the weekend, many such cycles follow.

Committing to the grief ritual takes courage, and many participants do not complete the whole ceremony, says McDermott. The thought of sobbing in a roomful of strangers sounds awkward, uncomfortable, even scary, he notes. And while they’re out of the ordinary and even intimidating to many Americans, grieving rituals and bereavement ceremonies are integral to a host of cultures around the world.

what’s Mine is yours For Somé, born and raised in the Sud-Ouest province of Burkina Faso in West Africa and a member of the

Dagara tribe, the grief ritual is a safeguard against the accumulation of trauma — both individually and collectively. The Dagara see the individual as inextricably linked to the collective and vice versa; so if the individual isn’t well, then the community certainly has no hope of thriving either.

In a 2013 interview with Xpress, Somé explained that when grief is suppressed, it eventually makes itself known in other forms, such as paranoia, anger, depression or abuse.

What’s more, it can lead to serious illness. When one dies with unexpressed grief, future generations can inherit the unprocessed “ancestral grief debt,” which they will carry in the same way, either facing and processing it or passing it down.

“Those kinds of grief are called ‘old grief,’” said Somé. “We also call it ‘ancestral grief.’ … If a family has endured a lot of losses and has never dealt with it, they may end up with somebody in the family being mentally ill without knowing why they are

Restorative Yoga and Hot Stones mentally ill. But it can be related to those stories and those losses that the family never dealt with.”

But isn’t Asheville the “Happiest City on the East Coast”? Surely we aren’t drowning in sorrow here?

Such glittery top 10s aside, Somé emphasized that all people harbor grief — yes, even in Asheville — be it from childhood, personal loss or collective ancestral experiences of war, slavery, environmental degradation, exploitation — and the list goes on.

Somé explained that in American culture, we’ve snuffed out any discourse for grieving. But putting our grief out of sight has certainly not put it out of mind. Instead, Somé noted, such a cultural slight actually exacerbates our individual and collective traumas, creating immeasurable consequences to public health and social vitality.

A 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited 11.1 percent of Americans 18 and older reporting antidepressant use between the years 2005 and 2008. That was up from 2.4 percent between 1988 and 1994.

A 2011 article published by the National Institute of Mental Health cited depression as the leading cause of medical disability in the U.S. and Canada. The year before, NIMH estimated, antidepressants were the second-most commonly prescribed medications in the United States (cholesterol-regulating drugs were No. 1).

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“In our region, as in much of the world, folks are living with both the ancestral and modern-time manifestations of displacement, colonialism, racism and ecological devastation,” says nikkanne feinberg, director of SOIL, adding that there is a strong local interest in grief work, evidenced in an attendance of over 100 people at the 2013 ritual.

“As Sobonfu says, there is no such thing as personal grief. All grief is collective, as any individual’s unexpressed grief affects their choices in life and has a ripple effect throughout the community,” she says.

If grief and praise are the crests and troughs of cultural expression, then what happens when that which we hold most beautiful is marred but not reciprocally grieved? Does it lose whatever dynamism made it great in the first place? Will the crests and

troughs flatline? No praise, no grief, just, “Meh”?

“We have every reason to be sad, to be in deep sorrow,” says Kristin wilson, domestic violence investigator for Buncombe County Department of Social Services and participant in the 2013 grief ritual.

“There is so much suffering that happens, and if we refuse to connect to it and don’t allow the healing and honoring of it, then we’re all going to get sick, and we’re seeing that happening. The rates are growing exponentially. With cancer. With mental illness ... wars and fighting.”

Wilson sees grieving at the crux of reclaiming a sustainable culture and honest human experience. “The human race. That’s what’s at stake,” she says.

Wilson explains that she has no choice but to suppress her grief every day in her workplace. Constantly dealing with violence and abuse, she takes on a monumental amount of collective trauma every day, just by proxy. “And I have complete meltdowns,” she says, describing situations where she has broken into tears in the office.

“But when it happens, I’m told: ‘Oh my God, this has to happen behind closed doors.’” And so it does, Wilson admits. She adds that sometimes she just has to just go on a drive during her lunch break and let it all out.

So what’s to be gained by participating in a grief ritual? “If you really grieve, you have to be prepared for your life to change completely,” McDermott says. “It’s like an initiation — and that’s scary. In our culture that doesn’t always fly. ... You might come to some conclusions that make you do things differently. So there’s risk there, and I think culturally, it’s the most important thing we are doing.” X

More info Sobonfu Somé will be offering an evening talk at Jubilee!, 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 13. The suggested donation is $10-$20, but all are welcome.

The grief ritual will take place 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, and 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 15, in Arden. Registration: http://avl.mx/1z2 For more information about Somé, her work and her books, go to www.sobonfu.com.

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8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SA (11/14), 12:30pm - “All Levels Balancing Workshop.” $20.

• SA (11/14), 3pm - “One Breath at a Time: Navigating Loss During the Holidays,” yoga & meditation workshop. $20.

• SU (11/15), 12:30pm - “Yoga and The Neuroscience of Happiness: Compassion and Action,” workshop. $20.

• SU (11/15), 4:30pm - “An Evening of Self Care,” workshop. $20.

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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 Asheville, 373 Biltmore Ave. • TH (11/12), 2-4pm - “Hope Through the Holidays,” bereavement support workshop. Free. Held at Four Seasons Flat Rock, 571 S. Allen Road, Flat Rock

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215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. asPeRgeR’s aDults uniteD facebook.com/WncAspergersAdultsUnited • 2nd SATURDAYS, 2-4pm - Occasionally meets additional Saturdays. Contact for details. Held at Hyphen, 81 Patton Ave. asPeRgeR’s teens uniteD facebook.com/groups/ • For teens (13-19) and their parents.

Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details.

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CoDePenDents anonymous 398-8937 • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS,

11am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

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Green scene

NC reaChes solar eNergy milestoNe

Tax credit expiration could undermine success, proponents say

bY clarke morrison clarkemorrison1@gmail.com

North Carolina reached a milestone this year as a national and regional leader in solar energy, but the expiration of a key state tax credit threatens to undermine that success.

Solar power installations in the state surpassed a combined 1 gigawatt in capacity for the first time recently, according to a clean energy census by the NC Sustainable Energy Association, putting North Carolina behind only California, Arizona and New Jersey.

According to the census, the Tar Heel solar industry created 4,307 jobs and generated more than $1.6 billion in revenue, with some 450 clean energy firms reporting solarrelated activity in the state.

“It’s a great milestone,” says dave hollister, co-founder of Sundance Power Systems in Weaverville.

“Solar has been a great boon to the state of North Carolina. It has seen rapid growth. We’ve built a very substantial industry in the state; we’ve created thousands of jobs.” robin aldina, manager of energy research for the Sustainable Energy Association, attributes the state’s success in part to government policies promoting the use of solar.

Since 1998, a 35 percent tax credit has made solar installations more affordable, while the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, enacted in 2007, has required utilities to get a specified portion of the power they sell to customers from renewable sources.

But that tax credit is slated to expire at the end of this year.

Legislation to extend it was introduced in the N.C. General Assembly, but the measure failed.

Letting the credit to expire was a mistake, says avram friedman, executive director of The Canary Coalition, a Sylva-based environmental group.

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taX credit sunset: With state solar tax credits set to expire, local installers have been busy, including Chad Colwell of Sundance Power Systems, shown installing a solar array on Mangum Pottery’s historic building in downtown Weaverville.

Experts offer their thoughts, including top inset, Robin Aldina (photo courtesy of Sustainable Energy Association) and bottom inset, Dave Hollister. Colwell and Hollister’s photos courtesy of Sundance Power Systems “It is going to hurt the solar industry that’s budding in North Carolina right now,” he says. “It’s just a backwards move to take incentives away to install solar energy right now, with the climate crisis that we’re dealing with and with Duke Energy talking about building expensive new power plants. It’s bad for electrical consumers, it’s bad for the environment and it’s just backwards. Countries around the world, and many states, are going in the other direction. It makes no sense not to try to promote that industry in this state.”

Friedman says the equipment to produce solar energy is getting less

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expensive year by year. Allowing the tax credit to expire in another five or 10 years would have made more sense, he maintains, because by then the industry probably won’t need the subsidies.

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The tax incentive, continues Friedman, “was really helping to level the playing field, because the petroleum industry, the fossil fuel industry, the nuclear industry — they’re all getting heavily subsidized by tax breaks and low

fees on exploration on federal lands.

By allowing this to expire, it’s just really putting solar at a very strong economic disadvantage.”

The tax credits and other measures to promote the use of renewable energy sources, says Aldina, have been the targets of a “misinformation campaign” by conservative groups like the John Locke Foundation, the Civitas Institute and Americans for Prosperity, which emphasize the fact that the credits cost taxpayers millions. joseph Kyzer, communications director of Americans for Prosperity, issued a statement thanking lawmakers for declining to extend the tax credit, which he says has “siphoned more than $220 million from state coffers since 2010.” State legislators, says Kyzer, should be commended for putting “the interests of hardworking families and businesses over state-sanctioned handouts for the renewable energy industry.”

North Carolina, he maintains, “needs lawmakers who stand strong against powerful energy lobbies for a fair and level private-sector playing field. Our state needs trusted leaders who return power to the people and unburden the public from government control. … If reducing the tax burden of one industry creates jobs, then it will work for all industries. The time of state government picking winners and losers is coming to a close.”

Between 2007 and 2013, nearly $2.7 billion was invested in clean energy development in North Carolina, according to a report by the research firm RTI International.

State government supported those efforts to the tune of about $135 million. “Clean energy projects were nearly 20 times as large as the state incentives for them,” the report concluded.

Hollister says the push to end the tax credits was an ideological assault funded by groups affiliated with the Koch brothers and other wealthy conservative interests. “It was not financial,” he asserts. “This

is pretty much a libertarian, far-rightleaning ideology.”

In fact, continues Hollister, the tax credit has increased the amount of money flowing into state government coffers. “It’s actually been a net positive gain over the past several years to the state of North Carolina because of the increased tax revenue and increased property values.”

Aldina, however, is less pessimistic about the impact of losing the tax credit.

“I don’t think it’s going to put too much of a damper on solar energy in North Carolina,” he predicts. “I think most companies have seen this coming, and they’ve adjusted their business models to make it work without the tax credit.” In fact, he continues, “There could be some benefits to the tax credit going away: It could simply financing options.”

The solar energy industry, he maintains, has done well in spite of a limited amount of market competitiveness and will continue to prosper.

“We’re still in a state with a regulated monopoly: electricity provider Duke Energy,” Aldina points out. “So there’s only a very limited amount of the market that solar can access to right now.

Given that they only have a limited free market, they’ve done really well to get a whole gigawatt of energy installed.

I think the future of solar in North Carolina looks bright. We’ve had several very good years here, and I think we’ll continue to see growth in the industry.”

other sustainaBility Measures also challenged There was also a move in the General Assembly this year to freeze the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard at its current level of 6 percent, but that effort failed. Under the law, utilities will have to generate 12.5 percent of their power from renewable sources by the year 2021.

“Maintaining that, so companies can still participate in the market, is going to be important going forward,” says Aldina.

In a measure of how much the industry has grown over the past two decades, Hollister says he and his wife installed the first net metering solar power system in the state on their Madison County home in 1995.

“Net metering is the process by which a house can interconnect with solar to the utility grid, and it essentially allows that solar array to use the grid as temporary storage when it’s producing in excess of consumption,” he explains.

“That’s been one of the key elements in the expansion of solar. Until that point, most of the systems were battery-based,

off-grid systems. The adoption of net metering in North Carolina was the first step in expanding solar resources in our state.”

Hollister, however, believes the tax credit’s expiration will hurt an industry that’s brought a lot of jobs to the state.

“It’s definitely going to have an impact,” he says. “Most of this comes down to return on investment. Small businesses tend to be more focused on short-term returns, so it’s going to have some negative impact on those businesses. Larger businesses have more of a long-term outlook. What this changes is the speed at which you get a direct return on your investment, not whether it’s a bad investment.”

Hollister believes demand for solar installations will remain strong on residential properties, because they increase a home’s property value and saleability.

“The numbers still work fairly well from a residential standpoint,” he reports, adding, “People are doing systems on their homes because they believe it’s the right thing to do. Most people want expansion of solar.”

are allowed to sell electricity directly to customers.

The law, notes Friedman, “would allow solar contractors to install rooftop solar panels on your house with no upfront costs to you and essentially sell the energy from those panels to you at cheaper cost than you’re paying now for Duke Energy’s power.

“When you’re using solar energy there’s no fuel involved,” he explains.

“So you’re not burning anything, you’re not polluting the air, you’re not using fresh water supplies. You’re becoming energy-independent if you have a rooftop solar energy system on your home.” allison eckley of the Sustainable Energy Association also says she’s confident the industry will survive the loss of the tax credit.

“This policy shift is not the first time our clean energy economy has faced challenges,” she points out. “However, we know this is a resilient industry.

North Carolina clean energy firms have overcome multiple policy threats in an uncertain business climate to achieve tremendous growth in jobs and revenues since 2008.” X

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And though installing a solar system typically costs several thousand dollars, says Hollister, the cost has dropped by more than half since the tax credit was enacted.

“The renewable energy future is the most inexpensive future we have in producing energy,” he maintains.

“Fossil fuel energy, including natural gas, is the expensive future for the state of North Carolina. Everybody sees the writing on the wall, whereas 20 years ago people did not see this. Back then we had a saying: ‘How do you make a small fortune in solar? Start with a big one.’ It’s been an incredible journey.”

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food

Easy as piE

Local experts share ideas for perfect crusts and creative fillings

loVe in a CRust: Pictured is Barbara Swell’s candy-roaster pumpkin pie, left, and Annie Erbsen’s apple-cranberry pie with gluten-free crust, right. “Pie-making is an art,” says Erbsen. “It is done with love, and most people who eat a fresh pie can feel that love.” Photo by Leslie Boyd

bY leslie boYD leslie.boyd@gmail.com Few foods are more closely associated with comfort than pie, and no holiday is more closely associated with pie than Thanksgiving.

In fact, pie is such a comfort food that laurie lamb, owner of Madison Pot Pie in Marshall, says she sells pies to chemotherapy patients who tell her pie is the one thing they can still eat and enjoy.

“When everything else tastes horrible, it seems they can still enjoy pie,” she says.

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Described by Wikipedia as “a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients,” a pie can be a full meal or a sweet treat.

“My favorite game to play is, what can go into a pie?” says Lamb, whose 8-year-old son once persuaded her to put pizza ingredients between two crusts.

Pies are mentioned in Greek literature as far back as 5,000 years ago, and most cultures have their own interpretations — samosas in India, for example, and empanadas in Latin America.

“All these cultures have their own versions, and for most people, that pie

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means home,” said annie erbsen, a pie aficionado whose mother, barbara swell, is the author of The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy (Native Ground Books and Music, $5.95). The two women teach classes and hold workshops on pie-making. And, in 2003, they created the annual Asheville Retro Pie Contest, a homemade pie competition, which Erbsen says is so popular it has inspired spinoff events all over the country.

Historically, pies have been popular because they are portable, with the crust acting as a container for the rest of the meal. In Cornwall, England, miners used to carry Cornish pasties that

had savory filling in one end and sweet in the other.

In more recent history, pies became a test of homemaking ability, says Swell. Women were tasked with making the perfect flaky, golden crust, and many cooks became intimidated by the challenge.

Most crusts aren’t terribly difficult, although quality can be affected by many things, including room temperature.

The most difficult crust she has made, Erbsen says, is her own gluten-free crust.

“I developed a severe gluten intolerance, and I just didn’t want to give up pie,” she says. “But I’m a scientist, so I knew I could solve this.”

She read and researched the problem and experimented until she came up with a delicate, flaky crust that most people don’t know is gluten-free until she tells them. Her recipe includes precise percentages of superfine white rice flour, millet flour, tapioca starch, dry powdered milk, potato starch, xanthum gum and other ingredients. Its assembly, she says, requires a gentle touch and very meticulous measurements.

The most important thing to remember when making any pastry crust is that it should be handled as little as possible. The tiny beads of shortening (vegetable shortening, butter or lard — cooks usually swear by their favorite of the three or a combination) are what make the crust flaky, so the shortening needs to start out — and stay — cold.

Pastry isn’t the only possibility for a crust, Lamb says. She uses cornbread for her chili pot pie and mashed potatoes for shepherd’s and pot roast pies.

Once the crust is made, the filling it is up to the taste of the baker.

Lamb loves to use leftovers — meat, gravy and vegetables — for her pies. A pot roast, for example.

“You just shred the meat and thicken the gravy, add some vegetables, and you have a pie filling,” she says.

Her chicken pot pie begins with a béchamel, or white sauce (butter, flour and milk, cream or half and half

BarB’s BUtter crUst

by Barbara Swell Makes two crusts.

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon fine salt Pinch of baking powder 1 cup (2 sticks) cold, unsalted butter ½ cup ice water 2 teaspoon lemon juice

liFe oF Pie: Annie Erbsen, pictured, and her mother, Barbara Swell, teach pie-making classes and host the annual Asheville Retro Pie Contest. Photo by Leslie Boyd

and a touch of nutmeg) and is then built with chicken and vegetables.

“The most important thing, I think, is to use fresh ingredients,” Erbsen says. “Pie-making is an art; it is done with love, and most people who eat a fresh pie can feel that love.”

Lamb started making her pies for convenience. As a single mother, she had little time to cook fresh foods during the week, so she started making and freezing pot pies on the weekend. The business began a couple of years later, as people began asking to buy her pies for their own freezers.

“I think pies are fun,” she says. “I spend about 80 percent of my time thinking about them. They make people happy.”

Erbsen believes the love of pie runs deep in people.

“It fills a longing for home — or for what you wish home had been,” she says.

For information on pie classes or on Barbara Swell’s book, visit www. nativeground.com or email info@ nativeground.com.

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Mix the dry ingredients. Cut butter into half-inch cubes and divide into two piles. Put one pile into the freezer. Cut the remaining half into the flour with a pastry cutter or the tips of your fingers, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs (for tenderness).

Now fetch the rest of the butter from the freezer, and mix it into the flour until it’s the size of small peas (for flakiness). Be sure to work fast! You want your fat to stay cold. Now for the tricky part — add the lemon juice into

the water and sprinkle onto the flour, a tablespoon at a time, tossing the mixture with a fork. You want your dough to stick together when squeezed, but it will be a bit dry. Too much water makes a tough crust. Too little and your dough won’t hold together.

Divide into two balls, flattening a bit.

Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes, or — even better — overnight. Don’t skip this step!

When you’re ready to roll, put the dough onto a barely floured board and let it sit out about 15 minutes until it’s workable but cold.

Roll it out as thin as you can from the inside out, giving the dough a quarter turn with each couple of rolls. You want it to be 1½ inch bigger than the top of your pie pan all the way around. When you place your pie crust in the pan, be sure not to stretch it to fit. The dough “remembers” its original shape and will shrink itself back down when baked.

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by Laurie Lamb of Madison Pot Pies Filling 1½ pounds ground pork 1½ pounds ground beef 1 cup chopped green onions, tops and bottoms 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon ground red pepper 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

crust 2 cups self-rising flour 1/3 cup shortening 1 egg, beaten 3/4 cup milk Combine ground beef, pork, onions and seasonings in a large

Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat, stirring often until the meat loses its red color. Sift the flour over the meat mixture, stirring often, until well-combined with meat. Remove from heat and place mixture in a large colander to drain off excess grease.

Sift flour and cut shortening into flour. Add beaten egg and milk. Form dough into a ball. Roll out dough onto a floured surface and cut dough into 5-inch circles.

Place a heaping tablespoon of filling into one side of each pastry round, fold pastry in half and crimp the sides to seal.

The meat pies can be fried or baked, and they freeze beautifully for baking later.

Note: This recipe is adapted from the cookbook Cane River Cuisine: Louisiana’s Finest Recipes. We use our own signature crust, which is a butter crust.

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by Gina Smith

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Cultural arts Miso, an ancient Japanese fermented food, is alive and thriving in Western North Carolina The drive out to the American Miso Co. on a clear autumn day is stunningly beautiful — and a bit of an adventure. It seems straightforward enough heading east out of Asheville on I-40, but once you leave behind the interstate near Marion, getting to the manufacturing facility in Rutherford County is a matter of snaking along for a solid hour on mountain roads flanked by forests and cow pastures peppered with the occasional house or church.

And once you arrive, there is a surprise: It’s tiny. Nestled among trees and fields, it seems unlikely that the unobtrusive set of small warehouses could comprise the largest organic, non-GMO miso manufacturer in the world.

what it is But what does that even mean?

Miso, a fermented paste made from soybeans or other legumes or grains mixed with sea salt, has been a staple of Japanese cuisine for many centuries. Its rich umami flavor is the fundamental building block of numerous dishes essential to Japanese culture, from soups to pickles to desserts.

Yet, in spite of its illustrious history as a traditional handcrafted culinary necessity in Japan, the average American consumer likely has no idea what miso tastes like, or even what it is. And although restaurants around the world use the the American Miso Co.’s Miso Master products — including local eateries such as Gan Shan Station, Chestnut and Doc Chey’s Noodle House — miso isn’t exactly hanging out with sriracha and turmeric on the lists of hot food trends.

But sales have been growing steadily at the American Miso Co., and an expansion of its manufacturing

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make organic miso, but it’s only a small part [of their operations].”

Every step of the miso-making process at the Rutherford County plant is done by hand in the traditional Japanese way. The company buys organic brown rice from Arkansas, mills it to remove the husk (husks are donated to an equine nonprofit organization for the horses to eat), then steams it, cools it to a very specific temperature and inoculates it with spores of the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, or koji.

The koji-infused rice is the catalyst that allows the soybeans or other legumes to ferment into miso. It creates its own heat as it matures and must be kept at just the right temperature for 48 hours — not too hot, not too cold — before it is mixed with the other components. When it is ready, the rice has transformed into a crumbly, white substance that smells and tastes earthy and alive, somewhat like a very fresh mushroom.

From there, members of the company’s 10-person production crew mix the koji by hand with sun-dried sea salt and organic soybeans, barley or chickpeas, depending on the type of miso being made.

the waiting gaMe

masteR CRaFtsman: Joe Kato, the American Miso Co.’s miso master, keeps careful tabs on the product at the American Miso Co. He sometimes visits the facility in the middle of the night to check temperatures and monitor the fermentation process.

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operation is planned for “sooner rather than later,” says national sales director leila bakkum, who works from the West Asheville office of the American Miso Co.’s distribution and sales arm, Great Eastern Sun Trading Co. “Here we have this product that’s been around for centuries, and now we’re starting to recognize it as a new type of flavor profile,” says Bakkum, adding that miso is also known for its health benefits (it’s a living probiotic and contains a plant isoflavone reported to be a cancer preventative). Miso Master misos, she says, are sold in 90 percent of all the natural-foods stores in the U.S. and all Whole Foods stores.

the process “Even in Japan, there aren’t that many companies of this size making

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organic miso,” says joe Kato, the company’s vice president and current miso master. A native of Tokyo and founder of landmark Lexington Avenue Japanese restaurant Heiwa Shokudo, Kato has worked with miso off and on since shortly after owner barry evans opened the company in 1989 with john belleme (father of Asheville entrepreneur justin belleme).

John Belleme, the company’s first miso master, did a seven-month miso-making apprenticeship in the late 1970s at the Onozaki Miso Co. in Japan’s rural Tochigi Prefecture.

Kato also later received his training from the Onozaki family.

“Most organic miso makers in Japan are mom-and-pop shops, so very small companies,” explains Kato. “Commercial miso companies [in Japan] with big machinery do

The next step is where patience comes into play. The paste is transferred to wooden barrels, loosely covered with cloth to keep out dust, weighted down with river rocks then left alone to age.

The mellow, lighter-colored misos are aged a short time in a temperature-controlled room — anywhere from 15 days to one month. The darker, richer traditional misos are loaded into enormous 4-ton, custom-made barrels of cypress, redwood or fir, which are lined up like an army of stoic giants in a warehouse that’s purposely not temperature-controlled.

And this is where one discovers the design behind situating the world’s largest organic miso manufacturer in the tucked-away mountains of Rutherford County. “This is a good location for the process because of the seasons,” says Bakkus.

The climate in Rutherford County, apparently, is almost identical to the climate in the part of Japan where the traditional aged misos are crafted. And over the course of two years of slow fermentation in a facility exposed to fluctuating outside temperatures, the climate strongly

Like Yancey, Faulkner says she hopes to continue developing products that incorporate miso, specifically the locally made Miso Master varieties. “I would love to do a lot more with miso,” she says.

Until recently, she says, she was like many people in Asheville: She didn’t even know the quiet little company was there. X

Miso-Maple syrUp From the American Miso Co. Makes about 1 cup 4 tablespoons mellow white miso 2/3 cup maple syrup

seCRet ingReDient: Miso’s umami flavor lends itself to all types of dishes. Clockwise from top: miso-tahini salad dressing, dairy-free pesto and Thai peanut sauce made with Miso Master miso. Photo by Cindy Kunst affects the quality and flavor of the miso.

“It’s way, way labor-intensive. We don’t cut any corners. It’s a dying art. Even in Japan, not that many take the care we take. … Joe actually comes in sometimes in the middle of the night to test the temperature [of the koji] and taste it to make sure everything is on track,” says Bakkus.

And that kind of dedication is hard to find. Kato, who used to work in the music industry in Tokyo, is growing restless with his quiet life making miso in Appalachia. He says he would love to find an apprentice to learn the craft so he can eventually retire and spend more time in Asheville and traveling with his girlfriend, mayumi nishimura, the macrobiotic cookbook author who was Madonna’s personal chef for more than seven years.

“But it takes a very special, unique person to commit to this,” says Bakkus. Until that person materializes, Kato will keep making the miso.

a Matter oF taste Although in Western culture miso is most often found in Asian and macrobiotic cuisine, it is beginning to find its way into other areas. Locally, Smiling Hara tempeh recently released its inaugural

miso-flavored offering, Sweet Miso Ginger Soy Tempeh Strips, which are seasoned with Miso Master’s Mellow White Miso.

“Not only does [the miso] add umami to the flavor profile in the miso-ginger marinade, but it adds all kinds of nutritional benefits as well. Tempeh and miso are a perfect match,” says Smiling Hara owner sarah yancey. The company, Yancey continues, is also developing a marinade using Miso Master Miso Tamari, a rich, thick soy saucelike byproduct of the miso-making process.

A savory tempeh dish with miso obviously make sense, but even purveyors of some of Asheville’s sweeter food products are getting in on the action. The Hop has featured miso among its ice cream flavors, and Vortex Doughnuts recently experimented with Miso Master as well.

Vortex pastry chef sara faulkner says the shop has done a miso-ginger capuccino for its coffee menu, as well as a red-miso sugar doughnut and a doughnut with a white miso and matcha-tea glaze. “We like to be experimental with our flavors,” says Faulkner, adding that the miso provided an interesting facet to both the coffee and the doughnuts. “You would taste the sugar first, then the umami would come in and extend the sugar flavor. It was a really cool combination.”

Whisk together both ingredients and serve.

Editor’s note: This sauce has a sort of sweet-salty-umami thing going on — think salted caramel. The American Miso Co. recommends it as a syrup for pancakes or waffles or as a topping for yogurt or goat cheese. It also makes a good topping for ice cream.

M i s o - ta h i n i dressing From the American Miso Co. Yields 1/2-3/4 cup 1 tablespoon red miso 2-4 tablespoons tahini 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 tablespoons water 1 teaspoon scallions, minced Combine miso with tahini and mix until smooth. Add lemon juice and water, mixing again until smooth. Add scallion and serve.

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aCross state liNes Asheville breweries expand into new markets Oskar Blues beers will soon be available in 46 states, the recently brewery announced Oct. 23. And while homegrown Asheville breweries haven’t quite reached that point, several are taking important steps toward eventual national distribution.

south For the winter Since opening in 1997, Green Man Brewery has grown organically, becoming one of Asheville’s most respected beer-makers. It was also among the earliest to distribute outside North Carolina, moving into Tennessee markets in 2012 and South Carolina late in 2013. High demand for Green Man products has driven growth in these areas, but the brewery is also seeing more thirsty customers in Asheville and environs.

The current 18,000-square-foot expansion, slated to be operational early next year, is essential for a planned entry into the burgeoning Florida craft beer scene, say operations manager jon spath and public relations director elise carlson.

With a state-of-the-art bottling line and keg wash/fill from worldrenowned German manufacturer KHS, a Kaspar Schultz brewhouse, additional fermentation space and an expansive floor plan to expedite packaging and shipping, Green Man’s new facility opens the door to broader distribution in the future.

Meanwhile, says Spath, the brewery has worked hard to maintain quality and consistency even as it extends its reach. The flagship brands will be the most readily available out of state, with seasonal and specialty brews entering those markets as production allows. And when it comes to choosing distributors in new markets, Carlson’s explanation reflects the ethos of Asheville’s craft beer industry: “We go where the love is!”

howdy, neighBor! Hi-Wire Brewing co-owners adam charnack and chris frosaker spent the last two weeks of October in

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gReen light FoR gRowth: Green Man Brewery’s 18,000-square-foot expansion project is key to the company’s planned entry into Florida’s budding craft beer scene, say operations managers Jon Spath, left, and public relations director Elise Carlson, right. Photo by Thom O’Hearn South Carolina and Tennessee attending events to commemorate the brewery’s debut in those markets.

Charnack says the neighboring states were chosen for their communities’ familiarity with and appreciation of Asheville culture. To reward that loyalty, Hi-Wire will do its best to make its whole portfolio available throughout its distribution footprint, augmenting the flagship and seasonal offerings with a limited number of small-batch, specialty releases in bottle shops.

“We make approachable and balanced beer that’s meant to be enjoyed in everyday situations out with friends,

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so it’s logical for us that we would be in grocery stores where people can grab a six-pack and go,” says Charnack.

Hi-Wire struggled to meet the instate demand from its original Hilliard Street location, so the July move to the new 27,000-square-foot Big Top production facility in Biltmore Village was essential for expanding distribution. In addition, notes Frosaker, he and Charnack “were excited to be able to hire a bunch more people and bring them into the Hi-Wire family.”

For a 2-year-old brewery, adds Charnack, “This was a huge expansion. Now we want to focus on the two

states that we just expanded into and give them the time and focus they require. We expanded quickly with breadth, and now we want to go into those markets with more depth.”

welcoMe to atlanta Approaching its third anniversary in December, Wicked Weed Brewing has already generated national brand awareness. “Being able to medal at all four major competitions has put us on the map in the craft beer world,” says co-owner ryan

guthy, who’s also the head of sales.

Accordingly, he continues, Atlanta was a natural choice for Wicked Weed’s first out-of-state market.

The decision was guided by population density, craft beer consumption and reports from brewpub staff concerning patrons’ hometowns.

For starters, Wicked Weed beers will be available at 50 outlets in the greater Atlanta area, with a focus on bottle shops such as Ale Yeah! and Hop City as well as craft beer bars.

Initial offerings will include the company’s flagship IPAs, with at least one seasonal brew in each shipment.

Concerned about quality assurance, Wicked Weed conducted a lengthy search for distributors capable of meeting stringent handling requirements that aren’t typically offered to breweries, including cold storage. “We still wanted the beer to be on our terms, and we played some hardball with those guys down there and ended up getting what we wanted,” brand manager erin jones explains.

Although the company is already looking into other markets, Guthy says the focus is on steady, sustainable growth. North Carolina will continue to be Wicked Weed’s top distribution priority, with further expansion into other parts of the state continuing alongside development in Georgia. And enhancing Asheville’s reputation, he notes, is still foremost among the brewery’s goals. “We love Asheville, we support Asheville, and we want the best-quality product coming from here.”

to cleveland and Beyond All three local breweries, though, hope to eventually attain the reach that Highland Brewing Co. has achieved since its launch in 1994 as

Asheville’s first craft brewery. Back then, says President leah wong ashburn, founder oscar wong used to drive around town urging folks to try his brews out of the back seat of his car. These days, Highland’s presence spans nine states, from Florida up to the Mason-Dixon Line and west almost to the Mississippi River.

Ashburn cites the brewery’s 2006 move to a 180,000-square-foot facility — only slightly more than half of which is currently being used — as a tipping point that set the stage for wider distribution.

And though Ashburn says she and her colleagues never imagined themselves managing a vehicle fleet, maintenance costs and other responsibilities persuaded them to invest in their own trucks. Distribution manager matt mccommish, whom she calls “the truck jockey,” schedules deliveries for the roughly 45 distributors and ensures that production is keeping up with current and future demand.

When choosing a distribution partner, Highland staff members talk to the business’s ownership, management and sales force; they also visit the market’s grocery stores, hang out in local bars and chat with retailers, whom Ashburn says are excellent sources of information.

North Carolina and Tennessee remain Highland’s most lucrative states, but the company has seen significant growth in outlying markets. Highland plans to expand its reach into Cleveland, Ohio, next year and is considering a couple of other new markets.

“Our brand is so relevant in the Southern Appalachians, so places that are in the Southern Appalachians or connected to the region either geographically or visitation-wise are places that we will always look at,” she explains. X

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by Kat McReynolds | kmcreynolds@mountainx.com scrutiny, particularly on homebrew nights (the first Thursday of each month), when potluck-style sampling is highly encouraged.

In addition to the store’s free events (beer tastings 5-7 p.m. Fridays and wine tastings 3-6 p.m. Saturdays), Buerckholtz hosts general brewing classes. As a brew-on-premise facility, he’s able to offer students hands-on brewing experiences for a $25 fee, and that includes two sessions — the initial brew day held on the back deck and a bottling class about two weeks later. Participants take home at least a six-pack.

The next brewing course begins on Sunday, Nov. 22, and covers the process of making an imperial stout, which Buerckholtz calls “a highgravity, big, rich beer that’s perfect for winter.”

Buerckholtz’ free all-grain brewing workshop is at Hops & Vines, 797 Haywood Road, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6-7 p.m. Visit hopsandvines.net for details.

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BehinD the BuBBles: In addition to his general brewing classes, Hops & Vines owner Alex Buerckholtz now hosts free workshops on specific aspects of brewing such as yeasts and hops. The detail-oriented curriculum is presented informally, with lots of interactivity along the way. Plus, “we usually have free beer samples on the topic that we’re talking about,” he says. Photo by Kat McReynolds

Hops & Vines offers free workshops Since day one, homebrewing shop Hops & Vines has offered free tastings and classes. Several months ago, however, owner alex buerckholtz and his staff decided to offer the DIY beer community more in-depth learning opportunities on specific homebrewing topics.

These roughly monthly workshops, which are free and open to the public, have previously explored concepts like the effects and varieties of yeast and experimenting with hops types and timing. Next up is a course on making the switch from extracts to all-grain brewing.

“In the last 10 years, homebrewing has come a really long way, and more people actually know the

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basic process of just extract brewing,” Buerckholtz says. “So in this workshop that’s coming up, we’re going to focus on moving from beginning brewing — which is brewing with extracts — to steeping a small bag of grains to help with flavor, to actually using full grains.

“Getting all your fermentables from grain,” he explains, “requires more equipment and a little more background knowledge.”

Buerckholtz describes these workshops as very laid-back with plenty of question-and-answer opportunities for the dozen or so pupils who attend each session. Where the Internet offers a superfluity of often conflicting opinions on brewing best practices, the West Asheville shop owner’s guidance is “coming from somebody who has been brewing for 15 years.”

Plus, participants are welcome to bring their liquid triumphs and failures back into the shop for further

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For the sixth year, Trout Lily Deli & Market’s will host its Bluegrass Oyster Fest at the shop. Patrons can feast on the many culinary options — steamed fresh oysters from Cape Fear Seafood, Trout Lily deli meat and veggie dishes, and samples from several new market vendors, to name a few — as the Berry Pickers provide a live soundtrack for the affair. Local beer and Urban Orchard cider will also be available.

The Bluegrass Oyster Fest is at Trout Lily, 1297 Charlotte Highway, Fairview, on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2-5 p.m. Oyster plates are $5 each. Visit troutlilymarket. com for details.

ultiMate ice creaM’s BeneFit For youth outright For the duration of November, a portion of proceeds from the sale of Ultimate Ice Cream’s YO’s Flaming Hearts — a spicy cinnamon ice cream with Red Hots folded in — will benefit Youth Outright. The local nonprofit provides support to LGBTQ youths in 18 Western North Carolina counties. “We recognize that it can be an incredibly hard path to find the courage to be one’s true self, especially as a young person,” says shop manager jaime walker.

“Ultimate Ice Cream values the good work that Youth Outright does in our

community and the gifts that the YO youth bring in the powerful, simple act of being themselves.”

Ultimate Ice Cream has locations at 195 Charlotte St. and 1070 Tunnel Road. Hours are 12:30-10 p.m. daily.

For more information, visit ultimateicecreamasheville.com.

living weB FarMs’ donation-Based workshops Living Web Farms is “where hands-on learning comes to life with organic and sustainable food production for gardeners and farmers,” according to the nonprofit organization’s website. To that end, the farm hosts a constant stream of workshops, which are also available online in video format after the lessons unfold. Upcoming sessions include patryk battle’s “Managing the Hoophouse for Year-Round Production,” with information on varieties, planting schedules, soil management and other best practices, plus meredith leigh’s “DIY Spice Blends and Rubs,” which covers both common blends and more adventurous additions to the pantry.

Battle’s hoophouse course ($15 suggested donation) is at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, on Saturday, Nov. 14, 1:30-7 p.m.

Leigh’s spice lesson ($10 suggested donation) is at the French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave., on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 6:30-8 p.m. For more information or to register for either workshop, visit livingwebfarms.org.

edison craFt ales + kitchen’s new BelgiuM Beer Brunch Edison Craft Ales + Kitchen, a bar and eatery at The Omni Grove Park Inn, is midway through its monthly beer brunch series, which features local breweries’ products within several rotating dishes. Next up, New Belgium’s brews find their way onto executive chef jake schmidt’s menu, which includes items like Scotch duck eggs with Fat Tire cheddar fondue, a crispy New Belgium Trippel pork belly Benedict with spent-grain toast, malted barley griddle cakes and more.

The a la carte beer brunch is noon3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at Edison, 290 Macon Ave. Visit avl.mx/prrr for more information. X

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“There’s political power in racial identity. That’s one of the reasons we have racial assumptions about music,” says author, musician and historian david gilbert. “duke ellington and james brown [took] black rhythm all the way to the bank and all the way to the White House, when they were invited.”

But, he continues, “the idea that black people and white people have distinct music and culture has its roots in racist thinking.”

It’s a concept he delves into in The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace. Gilbert holds a book launch and discussion at Malaprop’s Saturday, Nov. 14.

Currently a visiting professor of history at Mars Hill University (as well as a member of local bands Skunk Ruckus and Plankeye Peggy), Gilbert began work on The Product of Our Souls as a

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shaReD insPiRation: “As a white kid growing up playing guitar, I was as influenced by the music of Jimi Hendrix as Jimmy Page,” says author and musician David Gilbert. “I don’t think you can separate interesting cultural forms and innovation, which everybody can do. Everybody should have access to the music of Duke Ellington and the dance of Josephine Baker.” Author photo courtesy of the University of North Carolina Press doctoral candidate. “In my first graduate jazz seminar, I heard a recording of james reese europe,” he says.

It predated the 1920s advent of race records — a marketing push based on the concept that black artists sold to black audiences — and, Gilbert says, it didn’t sound like what we associate as the music of African-Americans, especially after jazz. “It didn’t swing.

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It’s groovy but it’s strict … more like a marching band,” he says. “It had a violin, a clarinet, banjos and mandolins.” Europe’s collective was an eclectic dance band.

Gilbert continues, “This is what got my wheels spinning. This was the sound of black modernity at the turn of the 20th century, yet it evokes very few of the musical characteristics that

almost everybody would associate with black sound after 1920.”

What began, more than a decade ago, as a biography of Europe, expanded into a broader project.

It’s the story of “a community of musicians working in New York before Harlem. They are living in the Tenderloin [district] and the Marshall Hotel,” Gilbert says. The

book’s tenets are simple enough on the surface, but the narrative quickly turns to complicated topics beyond a history of prejudice in the U.S. “It’s mired in commercial imperatives and people wanting to be professionals,” the author says.

Gilbert uses the word “marketplace” in the book’s subtitle and discusses in detail how racist stereotypes were bucked by artistic means, such as minstrelsy. “Blacksin-blackface became stars in vaudeville and musical theater,” Gilbert says. “They knew it was a ruse — they used the stereotypes and the platform that stages provided to comment on, joke about and undermine minstrel conventions.

And as they did so, black entertainers challenged white supremacy and American social norms, demonstrating that they were capable of satire and creativity.”

He adds that, as American culture circulated nationally and New York City became an epicenter of theater and music, “AfricanAmericans didn’t just make interventions into it and twist it in their own way.” Blacks played unparalleled roles in developing performance styles with national impact.

“Tin Pan Alley was not Tin Pan Alley as a national song publishing industry until African-Americans

brought ragtime to it,” Gilbert says.

“Broadway Avenue was a street among many in Manhattan that had some theaters on it.” But it didn’t become Broadway until AfricanAmericans brought their work to the stage.

Gilbert focused on the turn of last century because he’s interested in the cultural story of racial identity in music. Why do listeners, even in 2015, identify some sounds — R&B, soul and hip-hop, for example — as black and others — say, classical or dream-pop — as white? “In America, there’s nothing exclusive,” he says of cultural heritage. There are artists challenging those ingrained ideas. valerie june, whom Gilbert interviewed for Xpress in 2014, expressed her love of country and folk music despite being labeled a soul artist due to the color of her skin. The Carolina Chocolate Drops brought black string band traditions to, if not the masses, at least a much wider audience than had previously encountered those songs. And rhiannon giddens, a founding member of that group, has pushed the envelope even further by performing and recording Gaelic mouth music.

But, as Gilbert would have us consider, why shouldn’t she? Even

if music evolved from a particular group or region, it’s always been commutable. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow knew of what he spoke when he called it the universal language of mankind.

“I love that there are examples of people not only transcending but calling attention to the legacies of racism,” says Gilbert. He hopes that The Product of Our Souls will lead to conversations about assumptions in popular culture. And he wants to set the record straight, too, as far as the role of African-Americans not just as entertainers but as savvy entrepreneurs in an emerging commercial market. According to the author, “It’s an old story and it needs to be retold.” X

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The Swannanoa-based writer was inspired to tell the tale of “an old man taking his dog out to play one last time” after the passing of his own four-legged friend, Rusty.

Pope will present Fetch at the Monte Vista Hotel in Black Mountain Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. More info at harebrandideas.com

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DJ Rekha spins bhangra, hip-hop and leads master class at UNCA

sPin DoCtoR: DJ Rekha was the first to present M.I.A. and Panjabi MC to U.S. audiences and thinks Jaz Dhami may be the next breakthrough South Asian UK artist. “He’s putting out these singles, and each one sounds different than the other, so he’s really demonstrating his abilities,” she says. Photo by Nisha Sondhe

The word discover “sounds very Christopher Columbus,” says Rekha Malhotra, aka dj rekha. The Londonborn, New York-based producer, curator and educator prefers the term “presented” in regard to her introduction of m.i.a. and panjabi mc to U.S. audiences, part of her nearly 20-year career mixing American hip-hop with bhangra, the folk music of the Punjab region of India.

Rekha makes her Western North Carolina debut with a performance Thursday, Nov. 12, in UNC Asheville’s Justice Gym — complete with a dance instructor to demonstrate some moves

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— and a master class Friday at Lipinsky Auditorium. She credits her success in coming across the aforementioned superstars-in-waiting by being a curious DJ, finding artists who move her and then figuring out ways to bring them to the U.S. market.

Rekha says she was probably one of the first people stateside to hear the music of British-Sri Lankan artist Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A. Asked to curate a day at Central Park SummerStage in 2005, Rekha pitched M.I.A. to the event’s bookers, who weren’t well-versed in the singer’s work. By the performance date — one of

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M.I.A.’s first major U.S. shows — she’d become close to a household name.

“I got lucky there,” Rekha says. She had a similar experience a few years earlier with British bhangra artist Rajinder Singh Rai, aka Panjabi MC, hearing his music before he achieved mainstream success. Rekha tracked him down, praised his music and invited him to New York, providing him with a platform to gain a significant American audience.

Though she claims no direct involvement in getting jay-Z to rap on a 2003 remix of Panjabi MC’s 1998 hit “Mundian To Bach Ke (Beware of the Boys),” Rekha

doesn’t dismiss the possibility of indirect influence. In addition to helping put Panjabi MC’s music into the world at shows, her monthly Basement Bhangra dance party used to be held a block away from the influential hip-hop radio station Hot 97.

But as for being complimented by Jay-Z’s texting buddy barack obama, Rekha can explain that one. She’s known Kalpesh Modi, aka actor Kal penn, for many years. In 2010, when he was the associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, he suggested getting Rekha involved in the upcoming Asian Pacific Islander reception. The next thing she knew,

she was DJing at the nation’s most famous abode, a gig that, despite the surroundings, wasn’t much different from her usual sets. “I mean, I was drinking scotch and playing bhangra — there were no restrictions,” Rekha says. “You have to get vetted in the first place and work some logistics with gear and equipment, but they didn’t really give me any directives.”

When the time came for President Obama to deliver a brief address, he thanked Rekha for “spinning a little East Room bhangra for everybody, mixing a hip-hop beat with the sounds of her heritage, making a uniquely American sound that may not have been heard in the White House before.” She was one of a select few attendees invited to meet the president privately and have a picture taken with him, all of which Rekha feels fortunate to have experienced.

Coming off recent talks about her craft at the University of Texas, Harvard University and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Rekha’s intellectual curiosity has her constantly reading and staying informed. Lately she’s turned her research to collaborations, exploring the need for them in a world of Eastern and Western music. Key to that concept is discovering how communities create natural connections instead of forced ones motivated by shallow interests. The latter, Rekha says, often leads to terrible crossover results.

For the UNCA master class, which is free and open to the public, Rekha is leaning toward what she calls “kind of an artist background” and delving into DJing and the art’s history, tailoring the content to the attendees. “I’m going to have to sort of gauge what the students already know,” she says. “I’ll do a little bit of context on hip-hop and then I’ll go into more specifics about South Asian music and explore different genres, play some examples and then have a little open Q&A.” X

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From Bat Cave to the Big apple Comedian Joe Zimmerman returns to Asheville Comedian and one-time Ashevillean joe Zimmerman has been building an impressive resume over the last two years.

The sharp-witted, New York-based comic has appeared on “Conan,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and season 8 of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” and he recorded a Comedy Central halfhour special in 2014. Zimmerman released his debut solo album, Smiling at Wolves, that same year.

It reached No. 2 on the iTunes comedy charts.

Not bad for a guy who started his comedy career living in his friend’s garage in Hendersonville.

Zimmerman was 27 at that time, and he was just starting out on the road as a stand-up comedian. “The only key I had was a garage door opener,” says Zimmerman of his humble Western North Carolina beginnings. “It’s hard to be that optimistic about your future when you’re

Real Funny: Of his move from WNC to New York City, comedian Joe Zimmerman says, “Recently, it’s inspired me to try more honest subjects and be even more myself onstage — as opposed to a silly version of myself.”

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living in a garage in Hendersonville, but I also had some great times there.”

The comedian says he especially liked seeing the HendersonvilleBat Cave exit option on the highway. “It always made me feel like I was a poor man’s Batman,” he says. “Going out into the world and using my powers to do good, and then returning, in secret, to my hidden lair.” His current tour brings him back to Asheville, where he’ll perfom at The Southern Saturday, Nov. 14.

Zimmerman didn’t mention whether he feels more like the real Batman now that he lives in New York City, but he is doing pretty well for himself. He was recently counted among the “Top 10 Comics from the South” by Paste, records a popular science podcast called “Universe City” and is working on a book of short fiction.

So it’s true that he has come a long way from his garage-inhabiting days, but Zimmerman still remembers his time in Asheville fondly, and even considers it a great place for a stand-up comic to start. “The crowds [in Asheville] felt a lot more artsy and creative, and you could be more experimental and take more risks,” he says. “Moving to New York, and maybe the Northeast in general, audiences have less patience, so you have to tighten everything up. But tightening everything isn’t necessarily always the funniest choice, nor is keeping everything loose, so it’s nice to know both worlds.”

The move to New York initially inspired Zimmerman to work harder and make his jokes shorter, because it’s a tougher city to secure stage time. “More recently, it’s inspired me to try more honest subjects and be even more myself onstage,” he says, “as opposed to a silly version of myself.”

Zimmerman is likely referring, in part, to “Deeperness,” a monthly show he hosts in Brooklyn. There, comics get together to talk about philosophical issues. Asheville audiences can anticipate some more of those deep(ish) topics to come up during his show at The Southern, but Zimmerman cautions against expecting anything too academic. “I like to talk about those topics — the universe, relationships, childhood, money, life and death,” he says. “But it’s all through the lens of someone

who is very lighthearted and silly.

It’s not like I’m a philosopher so much as a silly person who likes to think about outer space and watched ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ on Netflix.”

The performer also gleans a lot of his inspiration from self-help books.

“I just read one called Happiness, which was written by a monk, so I have some stuff on happiness and our constant and relentless pursuit of it,” he says.

On the fence about the upcoming local show? Zimmerman offered this: “Every now and then, you’ll run across a person who says, ‘I don’t like comedy,’ and it makes me wonder if they’re talking about all comedy. My theory is that people who say this saw one or two comedians they didn’t enjoy and then just decided they didn’t like comedy as a whole.” But that, he says, would be like going to a heavy metal concert and a rap battle and saying, ‘I don’t like music.’

There are different types of comedy, says Zimmerman. He’s probably even joking when he adds, “If you like the Spin Doctors or Hootie & the Blowfish, you’ll love me.” X

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Montford Park Players’ Masquerade Ball

The Honeycutters Earlier this year, The Honeycutters were called upon to represent “the music of the South and the artists who make it,” by the Southern Songs and Stories documentary team. But it’s the country band’s own footage that will debut this week in the form of a music video for “Jukebox” off Me Oh My. Directed by Ty Gilpin of the Organic Records label, the video will be screened before The Honeycutters’ live set, during which the band hopes to try out some new tunes. “We’re not doing any crazy departure from the our sound on previous records,” frontwoman Amanda Platt says of the unreleased material. “But we’re a little older and a little wiser, and I think that’s going to come across in the songs.” Brian McGee opens the show at The Grey Eagle Saturday, Nov. 14, at 9 p.m. $15/$20. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Sandlin Gaither

As the Montford Park Players prepare to wrap up their 42nd season of free Shakespeare productions, the theatrical group has much to look forward to, with stage upgrades, improved seating (including handicap-accessible seats) and a new welcome center planned for 2016. One fundraiser fueling those developments is the Players’ third annual Masquerade Ball — a Venetianinspired evening with costumes encouraged. Fritz Beer and the Crooked Beat will play dance hits from the ’60s to the present while attendees browse high-end silent auction items from local donors. Hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine are included with each ticket, and keepsake masks will be on sale for anyone wanting to spruce up his or her ensemble. Arrive at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, for an early peek at auction items, or stroll into the Masonic Temple at 7 p.m., for the event’s official kickoff. $45. montfordparkplayers. org. Photo courtesy of organizers

Slow Magic Recently released album How to Run Away sees Slow Magic bending and warping electronic expressions.

The band abruptly alters volumes to underline the power of omission and presents an array of manufactured and earthly sound samples that beckon for deeper immersion into each nearly instrumental track. The anonymous DJ propelling this DIY project is best known by the wolf mask he wears during performances.

An online bio describes this hiddenin-the-spotlight approach: “Crowds found a masked man in their midst, bathed in fantastic light, with electronic triggers and a drum. … Slow Magic is music by your imaginary friend.” With live drums at the ready, the lone wolf takes the stage at The Orange Peel Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 9 p.m. Giraffage and Daktyl also perform. $15/$17. theorangepeel.net. Photo courtesy of the artist 52

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The Stone Foxes “If I knew your story, I wouldn’t have to be here climbing the walls,” San Franciscobased rockers The Stone Foxes sing on “Eye for Love,” the lead track from this year’s release, Twelve Spells. The haunted, bluesy, garagey tracks seamlessly blend psychedelia with grit, which explains why the band was selected to open for The Black Keys. Their heavy, perfectly grungy cover of Slim Harpo’s “I’m a King Bee” warrants comparisons to that blues-rock duo, too, but — lest the blues parallels go too far, The Stone Foxes also tear through original song “I Killed Robert Johnson” (actually more tribute than denunciation of the infamous musician) on their 2010 sophomore album. The band performs at Asheville Music Hall Saturday, Nov. 14, at 9 p.m. Guthrie Brown & The Family Tree open. $7 advance/$10 at the door. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo by Joe D. Barham mountainx.com

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com - Artist Business Brainstorm Session: “Successful Business Tips for the Creative Entrepreneur,” with Kathleen Lewis. Registration required.

Free.

about random topics presented by the host. $12.

asheVille aRt museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TH (11/19), 6pm - Lecture with artist William Wegman about his exhibit Cubism and Other-isms. $8/$7 students & seniors.

asheVille aRea Piano FoRum 669-3878, ashevillepiano.org • SA (11/14), 9:30am “Creating the Illusion of Orchestral Color in the Debussy Preludes,” illustrated lecture by Professor Douglas Weeks. Free. Held at Piano Emporium, 828 Hendersonville Road

asheVille FiguRe DRawing netwoRK facebook.com/ AVLFigureDrawing • 1st, 3rd, & 4th TUESDAYS, 6-9pm - Figure drawing with live model. $10. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road 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 saRah sunshine PotteRy 118 Beech St., Black Mountain, 333-1884 • SA (11/14) & SU (11/15), 9am-5pm - Fall pottery show.

art/craft fairs

474 galleRy Fall eXhiBition: There are still a few days left to catch the fall artist exhibition that features over 20 local artists at 474 Gallery in West Asheville.

“I want to tell a story about the visual artists who live and work in Asheville. These are the artists I have come to know as innovators, charging ahead with their own unique visions. These are the people that have supported and challenged the art scene in Asheville, N.C., as I know it,” says curator Dustin Spagnola on the 474 Gallery press release. The show has two closing receptions, Saturday and Sunday, Nov.14 and 15 from 1-4 p.m. both days. (p. 55) art Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local calendar highlights section (p. 30) maKe youR own uKRainian egg oRnament (pd.) Pysanky ornament workshops in the River Arts District or your location.

Visit ashevillestudioa.com or call/text (828)423-6459 / email andreakulish@gmail. com for dates, to sign up + more details.

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siP anD DooDle (pd.) “everyone leaves with a painting” Sip your favorite drink and have fun painting.

Ask about - Private Parties (Birthday, Anniversary, etc.) $25.00 with this AD. (828) 712-1288 aPPalaChian Pastel soCiety appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (11/14), 10am - noon General meeting and demonstration. Free. Held at Grace

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Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River aRt at unCa art.unca.edu • MO (11/16), 12:30pm - Lecture by visiting glassmaker Hayden Wilson. Free.

Free. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall. asheVille aRea aRts CounCil 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (11/17), 10am-noon

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asheVille PaRKs & ReC holiDay CRaFt BazaaR 253-3714, kkennedy@ashevillenc.gov • SA (11/14), 10am-4pm Bazaar with arts & crafts vendors, demonstrations, raffles and food. Free to attend.

Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive tC RoBeRson holiDay maRKet robersonptso.wordpress.com • SA (11/14), 9am-3pm Market with nearly 100 vendors, door prizes, concessions and raffle. Free to attend. Held at TC Roberson High School, 250 Overlook Road

comedy 35Below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (11/18), 7:30pm - “Olde Virden’s Super Happy Trivia Challenge,” panel show featuring local actors and personalities answer questions

music

asheVille musiC sChool PeRFoRmanCe loFt 126 College St., 252-6244 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (11/14), 8pm - Harvey Diamond Jazz Series. $10.

BiltmoRe uniteD methoDist ChuRCh 376 Hendersonville Road, 274-2379, biltmoreumc.org • SU (11/15), 3pm - UNCA OLLI Community Chorus “Tin Pan Alley” concert. Free.

FiRestoRm CaFe anD BooKs 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • SA (11/14), 8pm - Autumn Burnett and the Great Swamps, folk. Free to attend. gRaCe lutheRan ChuRCh 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SU (11/15), 6pm - Requiem for the Living performed

by Grace Lutheran Choir and First United Methodist Church Choir. Free. maDison County aRts CenteR 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 6491301, madisoncountyarts.com • SA (11/14), 7:30pm - Bobby Hick & Mark Kuykendall, bluegrass cd release performance. $15. musiC at maRs hill 866-642-4968, mhc.edu • MO (11/16), 7pm - Wind Symphony performance.

Free. Held in Spainhour Hall.

• TU (11/17), 7:30pm Chamber Ensemble concert.

Free. Held in Broyhill Chapel. musiC at unCa 251-6432, unca.edu • TH (11/12), 7pm - DJ Rekha, bollywood and bhangra. $6. Held in the Justice Center.

• SU (11/15), 7:30pm - UNC

Asheville Symphony Concert.

Free. Held in Lipinsky Hall. musiC at wCu 227-2479, wcu.edu • WE (11/11), 7:30pm - WCU’s percussion studio presents percussion, chamber and ensemble music. Free. Held in the Coulter Building.

Pan haRmonia 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • FR (11/13), 7:30pm American Mosaic 3. $20/$15 advance. Held at St. James Episcopal Church, 424 W State St., Black Mountain • SU (11/15), 3pm - American Mosaic 3. $20/$15 advance.

Held at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville, 40 Church St. st. matthias ChuRCh 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com • SU (11/15), 3pm - Michael Stevens, jazz piano. Admission by donation. tRyon Fine aRts CenteR 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 8598322, tryonarts.org • SA (11/14), 8pm - Sonny Knight and the Lakers, soul. $35.

theater attiC salt theatRe ComPany 505-2926 • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS 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. DiFFeRent stRoKes PeRFoRming aRts ColleCtiVe 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAY 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 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/15), 8pm - 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

SUNDAYS 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 until (11/22) - Washington Place. Thur. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $23/$18 advance. theater at marS hill 689-1239, mhu.edu • TH (11/12) through SU (11/15) - Eurydice.

Thur. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $10/Free for students. Held in Moore Auditorium. theater at uNCa 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • TH (11/19) through SA (11/21), 7:30pm - Wiley and the Hairy Man, UNCA student theater. $12/$10 faculty & students/$7 children. Held in the Carol Belk Theatre. theater at WCu 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • TH (11/12), 7:30pm - Mercy Killers. oneman play about health care in America. $10/Free for students.

Held in the Bardo Center.

G a l l e ry Dir ec tory 474 Gallery Studio 474 Haywood Road, Suite 2, facebook. com/474gallerystudio • Through SU (11/15) - Fall group show featuring Asheville artists. Closing reception: Nov. 14 & 15, 1-4pm. art at uNCa art.unca.edu • Through TU (11/17) - Looking at Appalachia, photography exhibition. Held in the Cooke Gallery.

• 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.

• MO (11/2) through SA (12/12) - Quantum Confusions, life-sized charcoal drawings by Denise Stewart-Sanabria. art at WCu 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted.

• 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 • Through SA (1/9) - Akira Satake hosts the Ceramic Invitational. Opening reception: Nov. 13, 5-8pm.

• 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.

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.

N.C. arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • Through (1/3) - Fine-feathered Friends and Flowers, oil paintings by Mary Webster. 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. revolve 122 Riverside Drive • Through SU (11/22) - Here to There, exhibition of small works and performance by graduate students at WCU. SaloN iNtuitioN 157 Lexington Ave., 505-7788, salon-intuition.com • Through TH (12/31) - Ladies, paintings by Keith Kimmel.

SeveN SiSterS Gallery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (1/31) - Nature paintings by Rachel Clegg. the CeNter for Craft, Creativity & deSiGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (11/28) - Emblematic, embroidery installation by Nava Lubelski.

• Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture, ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate. 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 Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees • Through MO (11/30) - BEER! art inspired by the beer culture of Asheville.

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cluBland 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 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 And The Kids w/ Erica Russo & Youth Eternal (indie), 9:30pm the national Get Down Family Jam (funk, soul, blues), 8pm the phoenix Jazz night, 8pm the southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiger Mountain Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm

FatheR oF inVention: Don Preston is considered one of electronic music’s mad geniuses, earning praise from Frank Zappa for his pioneering explorations of music and technology. Preston has played with the likes of The Mothers of Invention and Robbie Krieger and contributed to the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now. The 83 year-old visionary and his band Akashic Ensemble stop by The Mothlight on Saturday, Nov 14 beginning at 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, novemBer 11 185 king street Barrett Smith (Americana, folk-rock, singersongwriter), 8pm 5 walnut wine Bar Wine tasting w/ Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Flamenco), 8pm asheville Music hall

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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Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm

Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

Battery park Book exchange Dramatic Readings w/ Randi Janelle (open mic), 6pm

lazy diaMond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 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, old-time, folk), 6pm tressa’s downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

thursday, novemBer 12

Ben’s tune-up Honky-tonk Wednesdays, 3pm

lex 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrel house, stride piano), 7pm

Black Mountain ale house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

loBster trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Open mic, 7pm

Mountain MoJo coFFeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

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

native kitchen & social puB Ryan Furstenberg, 6:30pm

altaMont theatre Patchy Sanders w/ Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (folk, orchestra), 8pm

noBle kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

Barley’s taprooM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

Ben’s tune-up Shake it Like A Caveman (funk, Appalachian, blues), 7pm

FunkatoriuM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stuFF Karaoke!, 7pm grey eagle Music hall & tavern Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats w/ Caroline Rose (folk, rock, indie), 9pm grind caFe Trivia night, 7pm highland Brewing coMpany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm iron horse station Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm

odditoriuM Synergy story slam (open mic, storytelling), 7pm

5 walnut wine Bar Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 8pm

Black Mountain ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

oFF the wagon Piano show, 9pm

Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Ben Phan (indie, folk, acoustic), 7pm

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

Blue ridge taprooM Beyond Chicken (Americana), 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

one stop deli & Bar Lip sync karaoke, 10pm

Jack oF the wood puB Old-time session, 5pm

orange peel GTA w/ Rich The Kid & Sweater Beats (alt-rock,

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185 king street Lukas Papenfusscline (folk, Americana), 8pm

one world Brewing Stevie Lee Combs (Americana, folk, blues), 8pm

cluB eleven on grove Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Swing lessons & dance w/ Michael Gamble & the Rhythm Serenaders (swing), 7:30pm creekside taphouse Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm crow & Quill Carolina Catskins w/ Dixieland Squirrel

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 Primate Fiasco (Dixieland funk), 11pm one world Brewing Letters to Abigail (Americana), 8pm orange peel Galactic w/ Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (jazz, R&B, jam), 9pm pack’s tavern Lenny Pettinelli (jazz, rock, funk), 9pm pisgah Brewing coMpany Bluegrass benefit for Nepal, 8pm purple onion caFe Cabo Verde (Latin, Afro-Cuban, funk), 7:30pm renaissance asheville Carver & Carmody (country), 6:30pm rooM ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

8:30 PM – THE MOBROS AND THE PATRICK DODD BAND

THU 11/19 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ KRISTIN ANDREASSEN FRI 11/20 7:00 PM – ARTISTRY OF THE GUITAR W/ KEN BONFIELD & STEVE DAVISON

ZYDECO/CAJUN DANCE PARTY

SAT 11/21 9:00 PM – THE BILL FRISELL TRIO WED 11/25 8:00 PM – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE FROM WVL RADIO SAT 11/28 8:30 PM – AN EVENING W/ THE KRUGER BROTHERS SUN 11/29 6:30 PM – AN EVENING W/ THE KRUGER BROTHERS THU 12/3 8:30 PM – CLAIRE LYNCH BAND Every Tuesday

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

11/15

CHRIS KNIGHT

8PM DooRS

11/17 DRIFTWOOD

THE BLUE RIBBoN HEALERS

THE BLUEGRASS BALL

11/18 TRAVELIN’Featuring MCCOURYS DREW EMMITT & ANDY THORN

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(OF LEFTOVER SALMON)

The Grey Eagle Comedy Series Presents:

WINSTEAD 11/19 LIZZ (Co-CREAToR oF THE DAILY SHoW)

The MAD CAP COLLECTIVE Presents:

7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

HONEYCUTTERS 11/14 THE W/ BRIAN MCGEE

W/

9:00 PM – MO’ MOJO

root Bar no. 1 Dennis Carbone (folk, rock), 7pm

11/20 SYD BARRETT A BENEFIT FOR AURORA STUDIO & GALLERY A TRIBUTE TO

HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL

ALANNA ROYALE 11/21 + MATT HAECK w/

11/22 (Beth from

Emily Kinney

THE WALKING DEAD) w/ Jacob Jeffries + Adam Tressler

scandals nightcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sly grog lounge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm sol Bar new Mountain Songwriter Thursdays w/ Caine McDonald, 8pm

WAXMUSEUM 11/13 DAVID W/ ANTHONY D’AMATO

8PM DooRS

9:00 PM – JEANNE JOLLY CD RELEASE CONCERT WED 11/18 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ JAY BROWN (LOUNGE)

8PM DooRS

7:00 PM – NEMES BAND

7PM DooRS

wxyz lounge at aloFt hotel

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

11/12 W/FUZZ

7PM DooRS

white horse Black Mountain Movies that matter: Overfed & Undernourished, 7:30pm

AND THE DRAGONFLIES

8PM DooRS

oFF the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

twisted laurel Karaoke, 8pm

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

7PM DooRS

odditoriuM Black Hole Kids w/ Mormon Informant (punk), 9pm

tressa’s downtown Jazz and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS

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o.henry’s/the underground Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

trailhead restaurant and Bar Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

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Market place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

town puMp Riverbend Reunion (Southern rock, Americana), 9pm

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

4pm-2am • Fri.-Sun. 2pm-2am

7PM DooRS

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

tiMo’s house Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm

WED 11/11 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/ HEY MONEA W/ BRAD RAY 8:30 PM – AN EVENING W/

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lex 18 Phil Alley (jazz guitar), 7pm

tiger Mountain Crushed Out (rock ’n’ roll, country, protopunk), 9pm

COMING SOON

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Jack oF the wood puB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

the phoenix The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock w/ cello), 8pm

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isis restaurant and Music hall Millie Palmer & The Dragonflies (jazz, Americana, pop), 7pm An evening w/ Matuto (Brazilian, blues, bluegrass), 8:30pm

the national DJ Lezlie Snipes (trap, Euro), 10pm

SUN

highland Brewing coMpany Cold Mountain release party w/ Corbitt Clampit Experience, Chalwa & Empire Strikes Brass, 4:45pm

the Mothlight John Paul White w/ The Secret Sisters (folk, country), 9:30pm

TUE

grey eagle Music hall & tavern Fuzz w/ Walter & The Tills (garagepunk), 9pm

tallgary’s at Four college Electric blues open mic w/ Gentle Jones, 7pm

WED

good stuFF Chris Titchner (acoustic, rock, singersongwriter), 7:30pm

12am

THU

French Broad Brewery Small Town Gossip (pop, folk), 6pm

Full Bar

FRI

elaine’s dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

spring creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm

5pm–12am

SAT

douBle crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

southern appalachian Brewery Ellen Trnka (blues, jazz), 7pm

Tues-Sun

Sun

Skinners (ragtime, folk), 9pm

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Cold Mountain Release Party

Pam Jones (jazz, R&B), 7:30pm

featuring music by

Empire Strikes Brass, Chalwa, and Corbitt Clampit Experience @ 4:45

friday, novemBer 13

Fri • November 13

185 king street Empire Strikes Brass (brass, funk), 9pm

Cold Mountain Extravaganza featuring music by Doc Aquatic and

5 walnut wine Bar Hazy Ray (funk, rock), 9pm

Alarm Clock Conspiracy @ 5:45

Sat • November 14

Cold Mountain Extravaganza featuring music by Sirius B and Letters to Abigail

@ 5:45

Sun • November 15 Cold Mountain Brunch check website for details

native kitchen & social puB Warren Wilson College music ensembles, 7:30pm

asheville Music school perForMance loFt Harvey Diamond Jazz Series w/ Zack Page, Sonny Thornton & Sharon LaMotte, 8pm

new Mountain theater/aMphitheater An evening w/ Warren Millers (film screening), 5pm

Black Bear coFFee co.

Jeff Michels & Jim Robinson w/ Lucas Dauphinais (Americana, folk), 7pm Black Mountain ale house Hustle Souls Duo (soul, alt-country), 7:30pm Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Acoustic Swing, 7pm Boiler rooM REBIRTH 26 w/ DJ Iffy, J-Hecht & Luis Armando (electronic, dance), 10pm

JACK OF THE

WOOD PUB

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FRI 11.13

w/ JAKOBS FERRY

(APPALACHIAN BLUEGRASS)

9 p.m. $5

SUN OCCASIONAL CAUCASIANS 11.15 NOVEMBER SUNDAY RESIDENCY

grey eagle Music hall & tavern David Wax Museum w/ Anthony D’Amato (folk, Mexo-Americana), 9pm

9 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

highland Brewing coMpany Cold Mountain Extravaganza w/ Alarm Clock Conspiracy & Doc Aquatic (rock, pop), 5:45pm

NEW BELGIUM NIGHTS & CONCERTS SERIES W/ SPECIAL GUESTS

iron horse station Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

SEGALMAN SAT STEVENMEMBERS OF ASHEVILLE BANDS 11.14 (FEATURING EMPIRE STRIKES BRASS, THE HERMIT KINGS AND HANK WEST & THE SMOKIN HOTS)

isis restaurant and Music hall Nemes Band (folk, rock, Americana), 7pm Jeanne Jolly CD release (folk, singer-songwriter), 9pm

(HAPPENING AGAIN WEDNESDAY NOV 25!)

8 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

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

Jack oF the wood puB Stolen Rhodes w/ Jakobs Ferry (rock ’n’ roll, bluegrass), 9pm JerusaleM garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

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one world Brewing Dirty Badgers (blues), 9:30pm

pisgah Brewing coMpany Will Kimbrough (singer-songwriter), 9pm

9 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

MON MILLERANDTHEOTHER SINNERS 11.16 (GOSPEL BLUES AND SOUL)

one stop deli & Bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Soul Mechanic (funk, soul), 10pm

crow & Quill Daydream Creatures w/ Dust & Ashes (rockabilly, folk), 9pm

good stuFF Rad Lou (experimental, punk, rock), 8pm

(MEMPHIS BIG BEAT SOUTHERN ROCKABILLY)

oFF the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

pack’s tavern DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm

French Broad Brewery Pretty Little Goat Stringband (old-time, folk), 6pm

9 p.m. $5

odditoriuM Begat The Nephilim w/ My Missing Half, Gnarl Scar, The Art of War & Covenator (metal), 9pm

cork & keg Well Worn Soles (country, folk), 7:30pm

elaine’s dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

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

o.henry’s/the underground Down.Lo, 10pm Drag Show, 12:30am

orange peel Nappy Roots (Southern hip-hop, country rap), 9pm

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

(AMERICAN ROCK N ROLL)

noBle kava Mystic Ferryman (electro-coustic, ambient, improv), 8:30pm

classic wineseller James Hammel (pop, jazz), 7pm

crowne plaza resort An evening of Elvis, 8pm

STOLEN RHODES

loBster trap Hot Point Trio (Gypsy-jazz), 6:30pm

altaMont theatre Reasonably Priced Babies (improv comedy), 9pm

Ben’s tune-up Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

lex 18 Alex Taub & Pamela Jones (jazz standards), 8:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9:45pm

Market place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

Back yard Bar Karaoke, 9pm

Tue • November 17

lazy diaMond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

altaMont Brewing coMpany Roots & Dore w/ The Dubber (blues, soul), 9pm

athena’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

Reggae Sunday featuring Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt @ 1:00

k lounge DJ CVtheProducer (old-school hip-hop), 10pm

root Bar no. 1 The Egg Eaters (punk, new wave), 7pm scandals nightcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scully’s DJ, 10pm sly grog lounge Comedy open mic w/ Danielle Richardson, 8pm sol Bar new Mountain Sol Vibes w/ DJ Bowie, 10pm southern appalachian Brewery Jonny Monster Band (blues), 8pm spring creek tavern Chris Wilhelm & Tyler Dewey, 8:30pm tallgary’s at Four college Old School (classic rock), 9:30pm the adMiral Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the dugout Tony and Company, 9pm the Mothlight Motel Radio w/ Hearts Gone South & Zach Bryson (country, honky-tonk), 9pm the national DJ Phantom Pantone (Euro, house), 10pm the social Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm tiger Mountain

5:45pm

tiMo’s house Quanstar (hip-hop), 9pm

iron horse station Mark Shane (R&B), 7pm

town puMp Wink Keziah (honky-tonk), 9pm

Jack oF the wood puB Bull Moose Party (bluegrass, partygrass, country), 9pm

twisted laurel Live DJ, 11pm wild wing caFe Vintage (rock, classic rock covers), 7pm wild wing caFe south A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

JerusaleM garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lazy diaMond Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

zaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

loBster trap Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm

altaMont theatre Tribute to Waylon Jennings w/ Raising Caine & Woody Wood, 8pm asheville Music hall The Stone Foxes w/ Guthrie Brown & The Family Tree (rock, blues), 10pm asheville Music school perForMance loFt Harvey Diamond Jazz Series Finale w/ Krista Tortora, 8pm athena’s cluB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm Ben’s tune-up Gypsy Guitars, 2pm Dust and Ashes (Americana, stomp), 5pm Jonny Monster Band (blues, rock), 7pm Black Bear coFFee co.

Ego Itself w/ Brother Oliver, Youth Eternal & Ego Carousel (dream pop, noise rock, folk), 7pm Black Mountain ale house Hustle Souls (soul, alt-country), 9pm Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm classic wineseller Peggy Ratouz & Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz, blues), 7pm cork & keg Vollie, Kari & the Western Wildcats (honkytonk, swing, dance), 8:30pm crow & Quill Ultrafaux (Gypsy-jazz), 9pm

the adMiral Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm the dugout Daddy Rabbit, 9pm the Mothlight Don Preston’s Akashic Ensemble w/ Plastic Crimewave Syndicate (synth, rock, experimental), 9:30pm

Madison county arts center Bobby Hicks & Mark Kuykendall w/ Asheville Bluegrass (bluegrass), 7:30pm

the national DJ Coco Gringo (hip hop), 10pm

Market place DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm new Mountain theater/aMphitheater Kayla Scintilla w/ Desert Dwellers, Captain EZ & Live Animals (world, fusion), 9pm o.henry’s/the underground Queer-eoke (karaoke), 10pm

the southern Joe Zimmerman (comedy), 8pm tiMo’s house Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino (top 40), 10pm town puMp Kwame Binea Shakedown (funk, rock), 9pm

odditoriuM Beitthemeans w/ Temptations Wings, Neverfall & Through the Fallen (Southern rock), 9pm

trailhead restaurant and Bar The Bluebirds (old-time, Americana, folk), 8pm

oFF the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

twisted laurel Live DJ, 11pm

olive or twist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

white horse Black Mountain Motown Revue, 6pm

one stop deli & Bar Morning Fatty (funk, rock, reggae), 10pm orange peel The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (bluegrass, folk, jam), 9pm pack’s tavern Lyric (funk, pop, soul), 9pm

wild wing caFe Karaoke, 8pm wxyz lounge at aloFt hotel Salsa Saturday w/ DJ Malinalli (salsa, DJ), 8pm zaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

pisgah Brewing coMpany Dark Water Rising (soul), 9pm purple onion caFe Gigi Dover & Big Love (Gypsy-jazz, Southern soul, world), 8pm rooM ix Open dance night, 9pm

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southern appalachian Brewery Stepchild (blues, Americana), 8pm

tallgary’s at Four college Mojomatic (rock, blues), 9:30pm

lex 18 HotPoint Trio (Gypsy, swing), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (honky-tonk piano), 9:45pm

5 walnut wine Bar The King Zeros (Delta blues), 6pm Shake It Like A Caveman (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

scully’s DJ, 10pm

spring creek tavern Blue Ribbon Healers (old-time, jazz, folk), 8:30pm

wxyz lounge at aloFt hotel Ben Hovey (souljazztronica), 8pm

saturday, novemBer 14

Spirituality

Alpha Xi Delta Karaoke For a Cause, 7pm DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm

sunday, novemBer 15 5 walnut wine Bar The Honey Chasers (Appalachian string jazz), 7pm

root Bar no. 1 Turchi (rock), 7pm

altaMont theatre Will Kimbrough w/ Pierce Edens (country, folk), 8pm

scandals nightcluB

Ben’s tune-up

Faith-based and spiritual groups receive a special discount in this issue.

douBle crown Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm elaine’s dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Every Thursday is Nonprofit Night

FirestorM Books & coFFee Autumn Burnett & the Great Swamps (folk, punk), 8pm

THU NOV 12TH

French Broad Brewery Todd Cecil & Backsouth (rock, Americana), 6pm good stuFF Johnny Caucasian & The Honkeys, 8pm grey eagle Music hall & tavern The Honeycutters w/ Brian McGee (Americana, alt-country, singer-songwriter), 8pm highland Brewing coMpany Cold Mountain Saturday w/ Letters To Abigail & Sirius.B (Americana, folk, punk),

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Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm

11/11 wed and the kids

w/ erica russo, youth eternal

11/12 thu john

paul white

w/ the secret sisters

11/13 fri honky tonk night!

motel radio

w/ hearts gone south, zach bryson

11/14 sat don

preston's akashic ensemble

w/ plastic crimewave syndicate

11/16 mon free monday!

wand

w/ bulgogi, sarah louise/thom ngyuen duo

,

11/17 tue ant

lrd

w/ lunar creature, lush agave

11/18 wed

band of songwriters w/ millie palmer,

hannah kaminer, brian clafin

11/19 thu the

moth:

true stories told live

11/20 fri free!

ahleuchatistas

(record release show!)

w/ commonvisions 11/21 sat antiseen

w/ pleasuresoftheultra violent,

horseflesh

Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm douBle crown Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm good stuFF Freestone August w/ Liam McKay (singer-songwriter), 5pm grey eagle Music hall & tavern Chris Knight w/ Austin Cunningham (folk rock, Americana), 8pm highland Brewing coMpany Daniel Shearin (singer-songwriter), 12pm iron horse station Mark Murray (R&B), 6pm isis restaurant and Music hall Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm Jack oF the wood puB Irish session, 5pm Occasional Caucasians (rockabilly, big beat), 9pm lazy diaMond Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm loBster trap Hot Club of Asheville (swing ’n’ grass), 6:30pm new Mountain theater/ aMphitheater Desert Dwellers w/ Kalya Scintilla (psychedelic, dub, electronic), 9pm odditoriuM Adult Poetry Slam, 7pm Humanmania (punk, metal), 9pm oFF the wagon Piano show, 9pm one stop deli & Bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am orange peel Laura Marling (folk, rock, singersongwriter), 8pm Xavier Rudd & The United Nation [CANCELLED], 9pm purple onion caFe Sweet Claudette (country, Motown), 7pm scandals nightcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm southern appalachian Brewery The Howie Johnson Trio (blues, rock), 5pm tallgary’s at Four college Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm the national Vinyl Night w/ Jade, 9pm the oMni grove park inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm the social Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm the southern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm tiMo’s house

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Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm town puMp Chris Jamison (singer-songwriter), 9pm

jam), 6pm sovereign reMedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm

wedge Brewing co.

Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm

the Mothlight WAND w/ Bulgogi & Sarah Louise/Thom Nguyen Duo (punk, rock), 9pm

white horse Black Mountain Jay Stollman and Debbie Davies (blues, rock), 7:30pm

the national Open mic w/ Shane Livingston, 7pm

wicked weed Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

monday, novemBer 16 185 king street Open mic night, 7pm 5 walnut wine Bar Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, 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 catawBa Brewing south slope Open mic night, 5pm

the oMni grove park inn Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

lazy diaMond Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

tiMo’s house Movie night, 7pm

lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads and standards), 7pm

urBan orchard Old-time music, 7pm white horse Black Mountain Lightbulb Jazz Orchestra, 7:30pm

tuesday, novemBer 17 5 walnut wine Bar The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm

asheville Music hall Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

douBle crown Country Karaoke, 10pm

Back yard Bar Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm

lazy diaMond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm lexington ave Brewery (laB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm loBster trap Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm o.henry’s/the underground Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm odditoriuM Cary Cooper w/ Andrew Delaney (singer-songwriter), 9pm olive or twist 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm one world Brewing Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm oskar Blues Brewery Mountain Music Mondays (open

isis restaurant and Music hall Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm

tiger Mountain Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

creekside taphouse Trivia, 7pm

Jack oF the wood puB Quizzo, 7pm Miller & The Other Sinners (gospel, blues, soul), 9pm

iron horse station Open mic, 6pm

Jack oF the wood puB New Belgium nights w/ Steven Segalman, Empire Strikes Brass, The Hermits Kings & Hank West and the Smokin’ Hots (rock, jazz), 8pm

courtyard gallery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

grey eagle Music hall & tavern Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm

grey eagle Music hall & tavern Driftwood w/ The Blue Ribbon Healers (Americana, folk, rock), 8pm

the valley Music & cookhouse Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

altaMont Brewing coMpany Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

good stuFF Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

good stuFF Old time-y night, 6:30pm

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 Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm BuFFalo nickel Trivia, 7pm catawBa Brewing south slope Reverend Finster (R.E.M. covers), 6pm cork & keg Old Time Jam, 5pm Gal Holiday & The Honky-tonk Review (New Orleans two-step), 7:30pm creekside taphouse Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm crow & Quill Herr Woland’s Blanket Castle Extravaganza (storytelling), 9pm douBle crown DJ Brody Hunt (honky-tonk, Cajun, Western), 10pm

loBster trap Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singersongwriter), 6:30pm Market place The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm new Mountain theater/ aMphitheater Tuesday Tease (“open mic” burlesque), 9pm odditoriuM Odd comedy night, 9pm oFF the wagon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm one stop deli & Bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm orange peel Gwar w/ Battlecross & Kings Of Prussia (metal), 7pm tallgary’s at Four college Jam night, 9pm the Joint next door Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm the Mothlight Ant’lrd w/ Lunar Creature & Lush Agave (psychedelic, electronic), 9:30pm the national Ben Colvin Trio (jazz), 7pm DJ Antonio (neo-soul, future R&B), 10pm tressa’s downtown Jazz and Blues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm urBan orchard Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm white horse Black Mountain Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm wild wing caFe south Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

Wednesday, novemBer

18 185 king street Movie night, 7pm 5 walnut wine Bar Dave Dribbon (Americana), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Flamenco), 8pm altaMont theatre Sean Rowe w/ Forlorn Strangers (folk, alt-rock), 8pm asheville Music hall Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm Battery park Book exchange Dramatic Readings w/ Randi Janelle (open mic), 6pm Ben’s tune-up Honky-tonk Wednesdays, 3pm Black Mountain ale house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Open mic, 7pm BuFFalo nickel Open mic w/ David Joe miller, 7pm douBle crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain BrewpuB Devyl Nellys (funk, groove, jam), 8pm FunkatoriuM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm grey eagle Music hall & tavern Travelin’ McCourys w/ Drew Emmitt & Andy Thorn (bluegrass, acoustic, jam), 9pm grind caFe Trivia night, 7pm highland Brewing coMpany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm iron horse station Ashley Heath (R&B), 6pm 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 Shelia Gordon (Bonnie Raitt tribute), 5:45pm loBster trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm Mountain MoJo coFFeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm new Mountain theater/aMphitheater

Tab Benoit (blues), 8pm noBle kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm odditoriuM Best Good Pals (rock), 9pm oFF the wagon Piano show, 9pm olive or twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stop deli & Bar Get down to get up benefit w/ IXNeE, ARune & Disc-oh! (electronic, DJ), 10pm orange peel Slow Magic & Giraffage w/ Daktyl (electronic, pop), 9pm pisgah Brewing coMpany Campfire Reverends (blues, Americana), 6pm rooM ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm sly grog lounge Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm sol Bar new Mountain World Wednesdays, 8pm tallgary’s at Four college Open mic & jam, 7pm the Joint next door Bluegrass jam, 8pm the Mothlight Band of songwriters w/ Millie Palmer, Hannah Kaminer & Brian Claflin, 8pm 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, old-time, folk), 6pm tressa’s downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm white horse Black Mountain Wednesday Night Waltz, 7pm

thursday, novemBer 19 185 king street Jamison Adams Project (singer-songwriter, folk, rock), 8pm 5 walnut wine Bar Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 8pm altaMont theatre A Jew & A Black Guy (comedy), 9pm Barley’s taprooM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm Black Mountain ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm Blue ridge taprooM Beyond Chicken (Americana), 8pm classic wineseller ’Round the fire w/ Chris Minick, Greg Kidd & Lee Kram (rock, blues, reggae), 7pm cluB eleven on grove Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Swing lessons & dance w/ One Leg Up (swing), 7:30pm creekside taphouse Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm crow & Quill Carolina Catskins (ragtime, jazz), 9pm

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douBle crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

elaine’s dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

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

French Broad Brewery Dave Dribbon (acoustic), 6pm

Pack’s Thanksgivin g Buffet l for rese

grey eagle Music hall & tavern Lizz Winstead (comedy, satire), 8pm

Cal

highland Brewing coMpany Community night w/ Asheville Humane Society, 4pm

rvation s and information!

THU. 11/12

Lenny Pettinelli

isis restaurant and Music hall An evening w/ Kristin Andreassen & Rayna Gellert (old-time, indie, folk), 7pm

(jazz, rock, funk, folk)

FRI. 11/13

DJ MoTo

Jack oF the wood puB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

(dance

hits, pop)

SAT. 11/14

lazy diaMond Naked Gods w/ The Blots & Drag Sounds (rock ’n’ roll, jangle, prog), 8pm

Lyric

(funk, pop, soul)

lex 18 Alex Taub (jazz standards), 6:30pm loBster trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm Market place

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Beats), 7pM o.henry’s/ the underground Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Lord Nelson (rural rock), 10pm

odditoriuM Air Roar w/ Sentiments & Fashion Bath (rock), 9pm

pack’s tavern Jeff Anders & Justin Burrell (acoustic rock), 9pm

oFF the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

pisgah Brewing coMpany The Ends (rock), 8pm

olive or twist Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm one stop deli & Bar

purple onion caFe Louise Mosrie (Southern folk, singer-songwriter), 7:30pm renaissance asheville

Chris Rhodes (jazz, blues, R&B), 6:30pm rooM ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

come), 8pm

Old time jam, 7:30pm

sol Bar new Mountain Open mic night w/ Arjay Sutton & Melissa Blazen, 7pm

creekside taphouse Darren Nicholson Band (country, bluegrass, Americana), 9pm

root Bar no. 1 Dennis Carbone (folk, rock), 7pm

southern appalachian Brewery Big Block Dodge (funk, jazz), 7pm

scandals nightcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

spring creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm

sly grog lounge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more wel-

elaine’s dueling piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

the Mothlight The Moth: True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30pm

French Broad Brewery The Blue Ribbon Healers (oldtime, swanky-tonk), 6pm

tiMo’s house Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm

good stuFF Worldline (rock), 8pm

11.12

11.13

twisted laurel Karaoke, 8pm wxyz lounge at aloFt hotel CaroMia (singer-songwriter, blues, soul), 7:30pm

W/ DJ BOWIE

friday, novemBer 20

KAYLA SCINTILLA

SATURDAY

(MERKABA & EVE OLUTION SET)

11.14

DESERT DWELLERS (UPTEMPO NIGHT)

DESERT DWELLERS, KAYLA SCINTILLA & EVE OLUTION

SUNDAY

11.15

(DOWNTEMPO/MIDTEMPO NIGHT)

WEDNESDAY

TAB BENOIT

11.18

W/ EDWARD DAVID ANDERSON + RED CLAY REVIVAL

11.20

W/ HUGLIFE

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

DUBCONSCIOUS

THU - 12.10 - DOPAPOD

W/ SPECIAL GUEST THE NTH POWER

SAT - 12.19 - VANESSA CARLTON THU - 12.31 - NEW YEARS EVE 2015-2016 THE MANTRAS W/ PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG FRI - 2.19 - TAUKING MCGEE OFFICIAL UMPHREY’S MCGEE AFTER PARTY

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k lounge DJ CVtheProducer (old-school hip-hop), 10pm

loBster trap Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm Market place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm new Mountain theater/ aMphitheater Minnesota w/ Huglife (EDM), 9pm noBle kava An evening w/ Steve Karla (Gypsy-jazz, jam), 8:30pm

Black Mountain ale house Blue Ribbon Healers (swankytonk), 7:30pm

o.henry’s/the underground Bodi.Posi, 10pm Drag Show, 12:30am

Blue Mountain pizza & Brew puB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

odditoriuM Summer Wars w/ The Shameful Nameless (rock), 9pm

Boiler rooM Deep Down Low w/ DJ Deven Balsam (dubstep, trap, electronic), 10pm

oFF the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

classic wineseller Bob Zullo (pop, jazz, soft rock), 7pm

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JerusaleM garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

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Onj. w/ Solaire and Bear (alternative, noise rock, punk), 7pm

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Jack oF the wood puB Woody Pines (“viper-rag”, country, blues), 9pm

lex 18 Alex Taub & Pamela Jones (jazz standards), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9:45pm

Ben’s tune-up The Holland Bros. (folk, country, blues), 6pm Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 8pm

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isis restaurant and Music hall Ken Bonfield & Steve Davison (folk, instrumental), 7pm Mo’ Mojo (zydeco, Cajun, world), 9pm

5 walnut wine Bar The Digs (funk, jazz), 9pm

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iron horse station The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock w/ cello), 7pm

lazy diaMond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

athena’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

JOHN SCOFIELD

grey eagle Music hall & tavern A tribute to Syd Barrett w/ The Mad Cap Collective, 8pm

185 king street Jon Stickley & Travis Book (bluegrass, acoustic), 8pm

altaMont theatre An evening w/ Noah Larssen & Friends (singer-songwriter, rock), 8pm

W/ FREE RADIO “GIVING THANKS”

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tressa’s downtown Jazz and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

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trailhead restaurant and Bar Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

DANIELLE HOWLE, MIRIAM ALLEN, VALORIE MILLER

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

tallgary’s at Four college Electric blues open mic w/ Gentle Jones, 7pm

town puMp Bull Moose Party (bluegrass), 9pm

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crow & Quill House Hoppers (swing, jazz), 9pm

one stop deli & Bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Free Dead Friday 200th show afterparty w/ I Am The Elephant & special guests

(Grateful Dead covers, jam), 9pm oskar Blues Brewery Roots & Dore (blues, soul), 6pm pack’s tavern DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm pisgah Brewing coMpany The Hackensaw Boys (oldtime, Americana), 9pm root Bar no. 1 Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz), 7pm scandals nightcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scully’s DJ, 10pm southern appalachian Brewery Goldie and the Screamers (soul), 8pm spring creek tavern Pierce Edens (rock ’n’ roll), 8:30pm tallgary’s at Four college Sol Rhythm (Latin, dance party), 9:30pm the adMiral Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the dugout Carolina Rex, 9pm the Mothlight Ahleuchatistas w/ Common Visions (math-rock, experimental, jazz), 9:30pm the social Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm tiger Mountain Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm town puMp King Coda, 9pm twisted laurel Live DJ, 11pm white horse Black Mountain Cabaret Jazz w/ Paula Hanke & Friends, 8pm wild wing caFe Two Dollar Pistol (Americana, rock), 7pm 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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Daniel Craig in Sam Mendes’ SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond movie —something of a return to the earlier Bond movies.

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DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes PLAYERS: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris SPY THRILLER Rated PG-13 THE STORY: James Bond is back and out to save the world and his position in it, while uncovering his own past.

THE LOWDOWN: Lighter than the recent Bond movies, this is either a return to form, a winking homage to the whole series, or a dumbing down of the angsty, introspective Bond of the Daniel Craig era. Choose up sides.

I’m not supposed to think much of SPECTRE (a friend of mine has dubbed it Sphinctre) — and I’m not about to make a case for it as a great movie — but the truth is I like it better than 2013’s Skyfall. And I like it better for the exact reasons I’m not supposed to — it’s goofier and doesn’t take itself so seriously. I might have guessed this when I read comments that it lacked characterization. It never occurred to me that James Bond movies were much about characterization — the possible exception being On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), which is still the gold standard for the series for me. No, they’re about style, swagger, shameless sex, cool gadgets, in-jokes

and beautifully realized, preposterous action scenes. This is where SPECTRE (which, by the way, is an acronym for Special Executive for CounterIntelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) scores in ways the gloomy introspection of Skyfall didn’t — for me. I told someone else who didn’t like SPECTRE — but who was still interested in my review because, he said, I am more insightful than he is — “I’m not sure insight has anything to do with liking or not liking a Bond movie.”

Thinking back on what I liked about Bond when I was a kid, I think it came down to the cars, the gadgets, the vague sci-fi nature and that attaché case of assorted spy doo-daddery.

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• FR (11/13), 4pm - Alien Invasion Movie Series: ET the Extra-Terrestrial. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Rd. • SA (11/14), 2pm- Cataloochee, documentary produced by the Haywood County Historical and Genealogical Society & WCU. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Rd., Candler • WE (11/18), 5pm - Anime Club Film Screening: The Girl Who Leaped Through Time. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FiRestoRm CaFe anD BooKs 610 Haywood Rd., 255-8115 • SU (11/15), 1pm - Resistencia: The Fight for the Aquan Valley, documentary.

Jewish Community CenteR 253-0701, jcc-asheville.org • TH (11/19), 7:30pm - Why the J?, produced by Marty Gillen in honor of the Asheville JCC’s 75th Anniversary. $10.

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(Whatever became of that case in the series? It seems to have vanished — just like the cheap knockoff I insisted on carrying around when I was 10.) The appeal of the scantily-clad women and the childishly provocative names like Pussy Galore came a little later, but I cannot recall ever wondering about what Bond was feeling — at least till the last scene in OHMSS. I like that SPECTRE brings some of this quality back. I’m even OK with its ridiculous Blofeld plot twist and the extended ending. The film manages what I didn’t think was possible by keeping something of the faux-serious tone of the last few of the series’ entries while bringing back some of the...well, dumb fun and cheerful amorality of the older movies.

I’m not saying SPECTRE can’t get too dumb for its own good. You have only to look at the silly ersatzMaurice Binder opening credits with their cheesy animation and octopus tentacles wrapping around girls’ bodies like a PG-13 version of a certain kind of Japanese erotica.

None of this is helped by that Sam Smith song that sounds like a couple of cats having a fit in a vat of ketchup. I’m also not claiming that the plot is anything special. In fact — and this is surely coincidental — it’s virtually the same as this year’s Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, but housed in a classier vehicle. Say what you will, but SPECTRE is one gorgeous-looking movie. Every scene oozes class and careful construction.

Hell, the scene where Craig’s Bond meets arch-villain Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) looks like something out of Citizen Kane. And the action scenes are superb — not just in size, but in how clearly, cleanly and coherently they’re executed.

Though it doesn’t stress it, the film does have something on its mind — an almost Luddite-like concern over the dehumanizing and dangerous effect of modern technology.

That’s an interesting stance for a series that was built on cutting-edge technology of 50-plus years ago, but it’s not, I think, unwarranted, and for more reasons than the threat of making Bond and the 00 program obsolete. There are other grace moments in the film — not the least of which is the subtext between Q (Ben Whishaw) and Bond — but basically, this is fun James Bond stuff. Enjoy it for what it is. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images, sensuality and language.

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Heart of a Dog HHHH

Director: Laurie Anderson plaYers: Laurie Anderson, Lolabelle philosophical DocumentarY Rated NR the storY: Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson examines her relationship with her pet rat terrier against the backdrop of death and post-9/11 paranoia. the lowDown: A beguiling little film that’s either brilliant or hogwash, but most likely lives somewhere in between.

Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson’s debut film, Heart of a Dog, defies any sort normal critical approach. Let me let you in on a secret — when we give a film a star rating, it’s more than a little arbitrary. In this case, it definitely is, and certainly isn’t any sort of concrete judgment of the film. It’s been about four days since I’ve seen the film and I’m still unable to say how I feel about it. While it’s called a documentary, Heart of a Dog definitely falls within the scope of Anderson’s spoken word work and will be most palatable to fans of Anderson. To me, with Anderson’s autobiographical tone and reliance on philosophy, the film is more in line with the literary idea of “autotheory,” which gets ascribed to writers like Maggie Nelson.

But the film, in any practical sense, is genreless. Nothing I’ve seen this year — or in many years, for that matter — approaches the viewing experience I had with Heart of a Dog. While much of the film seems like nonsense (maybe it isn’t, though — more on that later) or simply the gushing forth of an overactive mind, I can’t, in good conscience, dismiss Anderson’s film while every week I

HHHHH = max rating complain about the modern movie industry, with its never-ending reboots and sequels and superhero movies and more damned Star Wars, all made by a constant stream of male directors. Because, even with its issues, Heart of a Dog feels, unfortunately (oh, so unfortunately), like the rarest of things these days — an incredibly idiosyncratic (maybe to a fault), unabashedly personal and highminded movie made by a woman.

This doesn’t come around often.

It’s the type of film that should at least be viewed — whether it’s your bag or not — if you have a serious interest in modern cinema.

If you shave Heart of a Dog down to its essence, the nuts-andbolts of the film is the very close, almost maternal, relationship between Anderson and her rat terrier Lolabelle. This is put into place from the beginning when Anderson, via animation, recounts a dream she had where Lolabelle was surgically placed into her womb and eventually birthed.

Anderson reminds me in a way of my grandmother, a woman who always claimed to know what her Pomeranian was thinking, though Anderson takes it much further, getting her dog music and painting lessons and imprinting deep philosophical thoughts onto her.

How serious Anderson is about all this is hard to tell, since there’s occasionally a sense of irony that comes through. Her tonguein-cheek tone in talking about Lolabelle’s Facebook profile — one that Anderson only found out about after the dog’s death — is one example of this. I mean, how seriously can we take Lolabelle having a meditation guru, really?

But sprinkled within all of this are ideas — lots of ideas, some that go seemingly nowhere, with thoughts on the post-9/11 surveillance state and references to Kierkergaard, Wittgenstein and heavy examination of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The film skips around from idea to idea, all narrated by Anderson and interspersed with various footage, cut and overlaid atop one another.

While there’s a scattershot sense to Anderson’s train of thought, and she doesn’t always bother tying up loose ends, the way she presents the material creates at least a sheen of coherency and fluid movement. I’ll have to see the film multiple times to figure out if I think Anderson’s really getting at

anything at all. Her film — after one viewing, at least — has a knack for leaving things open to interpretation. Anderson’s art — and this is definitely “art,” for better or worse — can be anything you want it to be, really. It can be the story of a woman and her dog, or even a painful, masked remembrance of her late husband Lou Reed. It can be pretentious nonsense or the most touching, profound film of the year. What’s special about Heart of a Dog is that there is so much room for interpretation, for discussion and thought, something that’s often in rare quantities these days. Not Rated.

Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre.

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suffragette HHH

Director: Sarah Gavron plaYers: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw FictionaliZeD historical Drama Rated PG-13 the storY: History and fiction collide in this story of the suffrage movement in early 20th century Britain. the lowDown: Well-intentioned and full of noble sentiments, but curiously inert as drama. It’s perhaps too concerned with being prestigious to work It is taking your life in your hands in some quarters to speak disparagingly of a movie like Suffragette. Here we have a topic of historical significance. It has been filmed with painstaking attention to detail. It has been carefully cast with high-class actors — even bringing in Meryl Streep for a two-minute cameo as the legendary face of the suffrage movement, Emmeline Pankhurst, to ensure its prestige-picture cred. The whole thing is so very serious that it never cracks a smile. And, just so

you can’t mistake its importance, the color has been all but leached from the film — call it Drabchrome.

What all these efforts result in is a well-intentioned, large, brown movie that’s inclined to be rather dull — an extremely conventional movie about very unconventional women.

Instead of an involving picture of the suffrage movement, it’s a classroom lecture centered on the travails of Carey Mulligan’s Maud Watts — a fictional character or, if you’re especially charitable, a composite. While the latter might undermine the film’s value as history, there’s no reason it should make for ineffectual drama.

If anything, the contrary should be true. But, for some reason, Maud’s story never feels like much more than a contrivance on which to hang the movie. She functions as the innocent whose previously apolitical life is changed when she sees the injustices inflicted on the suffragettes.

It’s not the most original idea, but it ought to have worked better than it does. Part of the problem is that it’s hard to believe that a woman with the Dickensian background she’s given — sexually abused wage-slave working in dangerous sweat-shop surroundings — would be in the least surprised by injustice. But the film insists she is, and Mulligan does her damndest to sell this transition: from apathy to timid interest, to accidental-and-unwilling voice of the movement, to outraged true-believer. Mulligan is a terrific actress, but this is beyond even her powers.

Once Maud is completely sold on the movement, Suffragette turns into a catalog of abuses and misfortunes that befall her, all handled like items being checked off a list. Of course, that’s probably how these things were mapped out, but no one seems to have realized that, before long, you might wish Thelma Ritter from All About Eve (1950) would show up to remark, “Everything but the bloodhounds snappin’ at her rear end.” That’s the inherent problem with composites. Their symbolic status tends to submerge their believability. Maud may never become an absurdity, but she’s heading up a movie where historical necessity finally intrudes, shoves her to the side and leaves her a spectator in her own movie. Without revealing too much, I’ll just say it’s not good drama, and, like most big moments in the film, it’s presented in the flattest manner possible.

I don’t mean to suggest that Suffragette is wholly without merit.

The scenes involving the emotion-

ally ambiguous Inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson) at least suggest a more interesting movie than what ultimately emerges. The best-served character in the film is easily Helena Bonham Carter’s pharmacist-revolutionary. She is, in fact, the best thing about the drama. The biggest miscalculation is the Meryl Streep cameo as Emmeline Pankhurst. She appears on a balcony like royalty addressing the peasants, makes a brief speech exhorting them to fight and is then whisked away to hide in safety, leaving her adherents to deal with the results. It isn’t quite history, but that’s less the problem than the — probably unintended — underlying message of the privileged class using the working class to do the dirty work. That’s not what Mrs. Pankhurst did, but, since the indignities she suffered are given over to Maud and the historical character has been reconfigured for what amounts to a celebrity guest appearance, that’s the sense we’re given. It ends up being a caricature about on par with Alec Guinness in drag as the balloonist-suffragette Lady Agatha d’Ascoyne in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

In the end, I think what really sinks the film (as the important statement it’s meant to be) is simply that it doesn’t work as agitprop.

I don’t really see much chance that anyone is apt to leave the theater outraged and of a mind to go firebomb a mailbox. That’s just as well in a practical and moral sense, but the deeper problem is that it doesn’t work you up at all — at least, it didn’t me. The mix of melodrama and the curiously dispassionate approach doesn’t amount to much. But it’s just possible that a lot of it comes down to the fact that votes for women simply isn’t a topic that’s in great debate in our world today, and the film leaves

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The 33 Described with, “Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Lopez, Rodrigo Santoro and Martin Sheen star in this ensemble drama detailing the daring real-life rescue of 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in the San Jose Mine for 69 days in 2010,” this fact-based drama arrives with less than encouraging early reviews (most of which are not in English and can’t be judged for nuance). However, it is already considered pretty much D.O.A., if only because it’s being dumped in between James Bond week and The Hunger Games. (pg-13)

Heart of a Dog See Justin Souther’s review in “Cranky Hanke”

Love the Coopers Christmas time is here by golly — or so CBS Films insists with this barely seasonal release that is crammed with name actors: Olivia Wilde, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Ed Helms, John Goodman, Alan Arkin. To make up for that embarrassment of riches, it was directed by Jessie Nelson, whose last directorial credit was 2001’s I Am Sam. It appears to be a comedy about a dysfunctional family at Christmas and looks pretty interchangeable with last 15 or 16 movies of this type. (pg-13)

My All American Angelo Pizzo, who wrote Hoosiers and Rudy all those years ago, is back with another fact-based uplifting sports movie. This time with a lowwattage cast and a small distributor.

It’s touted as “the true story of one of legendary UT Austin football Coach Darrell Royal’s (Aaron Eckhart) most beloved players, Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock).” (pg)

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little room to view it in allegorical terms of the modern questions of voter suppression. Instead, it stubbornly remains a history lesson — and history is messier and more complex than Suffragette’s tidiness allows. You may safely go to it for its noble intentions and undeniable production values — and that may satisfy you — but don’t expect fireworks. Rated PG-13 for some intense violence, thematic elements, brief strong language and partial nudity.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre.

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the gReat outDooRs: The Asheville Ski Club presents the adventure film Chasing Shadows at New Mountain Friday, Nov. 13. Pictured, a still from the film.

• White Horse Black Mountain’s “Movies that Matter” series continues Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m., with Overfed and Undernourished. Australian filmmaker troy jones’ documentary examines a global epidemic and modern lifestyles by way of 176-pound preteen liam gollé’s journey to regain his health from the inside out. The film is interspersed with interviews and advice from leading health and wellness experts from around the world and offers simple solutions to improve the quality of viewers’ diets, lifestyles and personal bonds. Tickets are $6 and available online and at the White Horse box office. avl.mx/1z4 • The Haywood County Arts Council and Western Carolina University are partnering to present .MOV: Experiments in Sensory Design. The screening takes place Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m., at The Strand boutique cinema in downtown Waynesville. A collaborative project between the School of Music and the School of Art and Design at WCU, .MOV features original, professionally produced student works, including animation, digital media music, video, motion graphics, information graphics and other mixedmedia experiments created in and outside of coursework.

A post-film Q&A will be led by project coordinator jon jicha, professor of art at the School of Art and Design, and mary anna lafratta, associate professor at the same institution. $3 for adults/$1 for

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• The West Asheville Library kicks off its new “After-school Alien Invasion Movie Series” Friday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m., with steven spielberg’s E.T. Free and open to the public. avl.mx/1z5 • The Asheville Ski Club presents a special screening of Chasing Shadows at New Mountain Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:15 p.m.

The 66th annual work from esteemed winter sports film group Warren Miller Entertainment follows the world’s biggest names in skiing and snowboarding as they pursue their outdoor passions. The film features jt holmes, seth wescott, caroline gleich, steven nyman, marcus caston, ingrid backstrom and more on the French Alps, Alaska’s Chugach, Utah’s Wasatch, the Chilean Andes and the Himalayas. $10. avl.mx/1z7 • The feature-length documentary Cataloochee will be screened at the EnkaCandler Library Saturday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m. The film tells the story of the Cataloochee Valley, the settlers who lived there for a century and the movement to form a national park that includes the valley. It was produced by the Haywood County Historical and Genealogical Society in cooperation with WCU under the direction of Katherine bartel. Free and open to the public. avl.mx/1z6 Send your local film news to ae@mountainx.com X

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Director: Steve Martino (Ice Age: Continental Drift) plaYers: (Voices) Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, Anastasia Bredikhina, Alexander Garfin animateD comeDY Rated NR the storY: Charlie Brown battles his inherently inept nature as he tries to catch the attention of a little redhaired girl. the lowDown: A totally harmless little family film that’s a bit too manic for its seemingly quaint nature.

All weekend, when I mentioned to people that I had to go see The Peanuts Movie, they’d tell me, in hushed tones, as to not be overheard, that they don’t really like Peanuts. When one friend told me this, I responded facetiously that they’re an American institution, to which he said, “That’s not enough to get me to like something.” I mention this not to brag somehow about the taste of the company I keep, but to instead note how

deeply ingrained this unconditional love of Charles Schulz’ creation is in our culture. I myself have no special connection to Peanuts besides finding it appropriately quaint and inoffensive and thinking the “Linus and Lucy” song is really catchy.

But that’s about it. I didn’t grow up on animated TV shows and as a kid only casually read the comic strips. There’s no grand nostalgia in my heart when I think about Charlie Brown and company. That being said, I can tell that there are things wrong with The Peanuts Movie, a somewhat modernized repackaging of Schulz’ comic strip.

The basic pieces of what an audience expects from Peanuts are all here — Charlie Brown and his constant, infinite failures, Lucy’s overbearing attitude, Snoopy doing Snoopy stuff. There’s a painstaking attention to this stuff. But reboots and re-imaginings tend to rely too heavily on in-references and The Peanuts Movie does this to the point that it feels like the greatest hits of Peanuts, something that gets tiresome by the time the final credits roll.

At the same time, the entire look of Schulz’ work has been modernized with computer animation. This is fine in theory, but the overall look and style of the animation is far from striking. There’s no real style to it. Not helping all this is the overall tone of the film. The plot is pretty bare-bones, with Charlie Brown fighting his inherent good nature and general ineptness while he tries to grab the attention of The Little Red Haired Girl. But the comedy itself relies far too much on slapstick. It’s a surprisingly manic film, one that never settles down.

While I can sit here and argue that this betrays some sacred spirit of Peanuts, the film — on its own — just isn’t good, being a bit too noisy to be entertaining. But, at the same time — and I hate myself for typing this — it isn’t very Peanuts, since the whole approach — the animation, the tone — betrays the inherent quaintness of Schulz’ creation.

Really, what it boils down to is that all the film has to set itself apart from every other animated film out there is the quiet nature of a time long passed — something the film only captures by missing it entirely.

Rated G Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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My Fellow Americans HHHS

director: Peter Segal (Anger Management) players: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Lauren Bacall political action comedy Rated PG-13 My Fellow Americans (1996) is a likable, if undistinguished, political action comedy — not a political satire. Though vaguely left-leaning, it is way too careful at being inoffensive to ever pass as satire. Certainly, it’s agreeable entertainment, especially in the teaming of Jack Lemmon and James Garner as a pair of ex-presidents (of the one-term variety) — one Republican (Lemmon), one Democrat (Garner) — who absolutely detest each other, but who are forced to band together when they become enmeshed in a plot to whitewash the current president

My Learned Friend HHHHS director: Will Hay, Basil Dearden Players: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray, Ernest Thesiger comedy Rated NR Many consider My Learned Friend (1943) to be British comedian (and astronomer and airplane pilot) Will Hay’s best film.

I’m not sure I can go that far. His obvious failing health (it was his last movie, though he lived for several more years) is a bit of downer, and the absence his earlier co-stars, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffat, hurts his his later films. But it is a terrific showcase for Hay as a barrister of very little competence and an abundance of dishonesty. The plot has to do with one of his

(Dan Aykroyd). The stakes are raised even higher when it turns out that their deaths are essential to carry out this scheme. It’s all handled in a workmanlike manner by director Peter Segal, who went on to helm three Adam Sandler movies. The film is probably of greater interest locally because of the use of area locations. We get the Black Mountain train station, downtown Marshall (and the Rock Cafe) and downtown Asheville (you can see the Miles Building, which houses the Xpress offices in a scene at a gay pride parade). Granted, Asheville and Marshall play towns in Virginia (and maybe Ohio), but locals will have no problem spotting them. The Hendersonville Film Society will show My Fellow Americans Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

less-grateful (and insane) clients (Mervyn Johns, best known as Bob Cratchit in Alastair Sim’s 1951 version of A Christmas Carol) plotting his revenge on all those responsible for his conviction. Naturally, Hay is on that list — as the final victim.

Claude Hulbert, as a fellow barrister who is possibly even less competent than our hero, makes a good co-star. The film is surprisingly close to black comedy on several occasions and takes a turn toward thrill comedy at the end in its justly famous climax on the face of Big Ben. There’s also a great bit for Ernest Thesiger (Dr. Pretorius from the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein) as an inmate at an asylum. The Asheville Film Society will screen My Learned Friend Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

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The 39 Steps HHHHH

director: Alfred Hitchcock Players: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Wylie Watson mystery suspense thriller Rated NR It’s the picture where Alfred Hitchcock introduced the concept of an innocent man on the run from both the police and the bad guys while trying to prove his innocence. It’s also the movie with the very first of Hitchcock’s ice-blonde leading ladies.

And The 39 Steps (1935) can still hold its own with the director’s later variations on these elements. In fact, The 39 Steps ranks up there with the greatest thrillers of all time. It was easily

The Last Circus HHHHH

director: Álex de la Iglesia (Witching and Bitching) Players: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé, Alejandro Tejerías surreal horror romance Rated R Calling this complex and disturbing work a horror film doesn’t do it justice — at the very least it’s art-house horror — but that’s as near as you’re likely to get to pinning it down. It is neither practical, nor particularly advisable, to try to offer a detailed plot synopsis of The Last Circus. It starts during the Spanish Civil War — in fact, like many Spanish films, the war and the Franco regime hangs over it heavily in both a literal and metaphorical manner. A circus troupe find themselves — well, once they dispense with the bearded lady—dragooned into fighting against Franco. This includes “happy” clown Andrés (Enrique Villen)

Hitchcock’s most accomplished film at the time — the movie where everything came together. There’s not a lazy composition, a wasted shot or an awkward cut in its entire 87-minute running time. The story is basic — Robert Donat trying to clear himself of a murder by exposing a network of spies — but the execution and the screenplay are anything but basic. The screenplay is one of the first to present the romantic leads in terms of screwball comedy, and the chemistry of stars Donat and Madeleine Carroll could scarcely be better. It’s fast, fun and thrilling both as a suspense yarn and as filmmaking. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The 39 Steps Friday, Nov. 13, 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

— who at the time of his conscription is in drag to boot. He wants to change clothes, but is told, “A clown with a machete?

You’ll scare the shit out of them.” That proves more or less true, and Andrés manages to slash his way through a whole regiment before being caught and imprisoned. This, however, is merely the overture, since the bulk of the film concerns his son, Javier (Carlos Areces), who years later becomes a “sad” clown in a rundown circus where he draws laughs by being brutalized by “happy” clown Sergio (Antonio de la Torre). Sergio also brutalizes his wife, the aerialist Natalia (Carolina Bang, whose name appears to actually be just that), with whom, of course, Javier falls in love. As a setup, it’s as old as the hills — or, at the least, as old as a Tod Browning picture — but, oh my, the blood-drenched lengths to which it goes are hard to overstate.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Last Circus Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke. mountainx.com

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LEAD STORY — Annals of Justice A 2015 decision of the Georgia Supreme Court has created a puzzle for drunk-driver enforcement.

In Georgia (and other states), blood alcohol tests are "voluntary" (to bypass the issue of whether drivers can be forced, or even pressured, to endure a test that ultimately helps to convict them), but the Georgia court has ruled, against custom, that a "consenting" driver might be "too" drunk to appreciate the consent — in which case, the test results would be inadmissible in court. Equally awkwardly, prosecutors would be forced to argue that the drunk driver — too drunk to handle a motor vehicle — was still sober enough to give knowledgeable consent. Atlanta's WSB-TV reported in October that judges statewide are grappling with the issue.

Updates • In October, the federal government finally unloaded the two New Hampshire properties it seized in 2007 from dentist Elaine Brown and her husband (after a ninemonth standoff following their vow to die rather than pay their back taxes to the IRS). Their 100-acre "compound" became a magnet at the time for an array of "sovereigns" and tax-resisters, who were rumored to have booby-trapped the property to ward off law enforcement — and the 2015 auction only partially guaranteed that the property was free of hidden explosives.

(News of the Weird's 2007 story included Dr. Brown as one of three U.S. dentists who, independent of each other, had become obsessed about federal taxes. The Browns are serving 30-year prison terms.)

• High school principal George Kenney believes he has a gift to aid students' concentration abilities — hypnotism — and practiced it extensively at North Port High in Sarasota, Florida, until 2011, when three of his students died in separate incidents (two by suicide).

While Kenney enjoys retirement in North Carolina, the Sarasota school board did not close the chapter until October 2015 when

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it granted $200,000 settlements to the families of the three students.

The lawsuits complained of Kenney's unlicensed "medical procedure," which altered the "underdeveloped" teenage brain — but Kenney had also pointed to improvements in studying by other students.

• White supremacist Craig Cobb has not given up. News of the Weird noted in 2013 that he was attempting to buy property in Leith, North Dakota (pop. 16), to turn the town into a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but there was local resistance — and Cobb was revealed by a TV program's DNA test to himself be 14 percent "sub-Saharan African." Cobb has not yet disproved the result, but has moved his target to (according to recent reports) either Red Cloud, Nebraska (pop. 978), or Antler, North Dakota (pop. 28) (which is seeking crowdsourced funding online to preventively buy the vacant property Cobb has his eyes on).

A News of the Weird Classic (March 2010) It's a simple recipe, said New York City A-list chef Daniel Angerer: a cheese derived from the breast milk of his wife, who (in March 2010) was nursing the couple's 3-monthold daughter. As a chef, he said, "you look out for something new and what you can do with it," and what Angerer could do is make about two quarts of "flavor(ful)" cheese out of two gallons of mother's milk. "(T)astes just like really sweet cow's milk."

He posted the recipe, "My Spouse's Mommy Milk Cheese," but reminded experimenters to "consider cheese aging time." X

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freeWill astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I demand unconditional love and complete freedom," wrote Slovenian poet Toma Šalamun. "That is why I am terrible."

In accordance with the astrological omens, I'm offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do that? I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had.

Moreover, you've been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you're barely taking advantage of them — apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here's what I think: As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won't provide you with their full value. If you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn't make it. In frustration, he turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies based on Burroughs' books was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It's a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Andy Warhol had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that's all he ever wore beneath his clothes. It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility, and expedite your growth. So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact. Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, take special notice of the jokes and humorous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest.

They will provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you consider breaking?

What inhibitions are dampening your well-being?

How might your conscience be overstepping its bounds and making you unnecessarily constrained?

Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For each of the last 33 years, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a "National Hero Dog." It's an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed from tradition.

Its "National Hero Dog" is a female cat named Tara.

Last May, she saved a four-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that had begun to attack him. I'm guessing you will soon have an experience akin to Tara's.

Maybe you'll make a gutsy move that earns you an unexpected honor. Maybe you'll carry out a dramatic act of compassion that's widely appreciated. Or maybe you'll go outside your comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to cartoon character Homer Simpson, "Trying is the first step towards failure." I don't agree with that comic advice. But I do think the following variant will be

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applicable to you in the coming weeks: "Trying too hard is the first step toward failure." So please don't try too hard, Libra! Over-exertion should be taboo. Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Elsie de Wolfe (1859-1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design.

She described herself as "a rebel in an ugly world."

Early in her career she vowed, "I'm going to make everything around me beautiful," and she often did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colors, and more inviting textures. I'd love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It's a good time to add extra charm, grace, and comfort to your environments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the age of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad's toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger. Instead he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events from childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to your own father -- even if it's filled with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially need the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. Write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don't have to give it to him.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Shizo Kanakuri was one of Japan's top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food, and the long journey he'd made to get there, Kanakuri passed out. He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over. Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he'd started. He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months. I think it's time to claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. Wouldn't you love to resolve a process that got interrupted?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In most sporting events, there's never any doubt about which competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one sport isn't like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished — not even the boxers themselves. I think you're in a metaphorically comparable situation.

You won't find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the "game" is complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don't slack off even a little. Keep giving your best until the very end.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One night as you lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying through the sunny summer sky. The balmy air will be sweet to breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but mostly you will glide effortlessly. The feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease. Anywhere you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots. Whether or not you remember this dream, the next day you will work some practical magic that begins to shrink or dissolve the problem.

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of the local schools. Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Two years of related experience preferred, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. clinician, Team leader – community support Team (csT) We are seeking a passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to oversee our Community Support Team (CST), serving Transylvania County.

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InTAKE cooRdInAToR The Intake Coordinator is responsible for the referral, intake and admissions of children and teens to Eliada Homes’ treatment programs, completing and obtaining initial authorization, and writing PCPs as needed. Qualified Professional status and experience in behavioral health services required. Bachelor’s degree in human services preferred. For more information or to apply, visit www. eliada.org/employment/current-openings.

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LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF GREENVILLE DOCKET NO.: 2015-DR-23-4024 Notice of Adoption Proceedings TO THE DEFENDANT: Carl Elmore Banks III, Birth Father and John Doe, Birth Father YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN THE FOLLOWING NOTICE: 1.

That an adoption proceeding was filed in the Family Court of Greenville County on September 16, 2015, and in this Complaint you are alleged to be the father of a Caucasian female child born in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina on January 7, 2005.

2. That the Plaintiffs in the above captioned Notice are not named for the purpose of confidentiality; however, the Court knows the true identity of the Plaintiffs and in responding to this notice, you are required to use the caption and the number 2015DR-23-4024. 3. That if Notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond is filed by you with the Court within thirty (30) days of the receipt of this Notice of Adoption Proceedings, you will be given an opportunity to appear and be heard on the merits of the adoption. To file notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond in this action, you must notify the above named Court at Greenville County Courthouse, Clerk

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