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Duke Energy should favor renewable energy Duke Energy plans to build two new power plants running on fracked natural gas. Although this is touted as being better than their current coal-fired plant, it’s important to note these facts: a) This is planned in a region with large excess capacity held both by Duke Energy and neighboring electricity suppliers. b) There are growing financial risks of relying on natural gas, including extreme price volatility and uncertain supply. c) Methane leakage makes natural gas-fired electricity even worse than coal for the climate crisis. Methane is 86 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. d) Equally grave is the devastation fracking brings to the air and water in the areas where it is done.

According to NC WARN, Duke Energy plans to build up to 10,928 megawatts of natural gas generation over the next 15 years in the Carolinas alone — a massive expansion which is not necessary.

As shown in Duke’s recent filing with North Carolina regulators, only 4 percent of total generation in the Carolinas would come from renewables in 2030. Duke and the Koch brothers this year persuaded the N.C. legislature to repeal the solar tax credits that had given solar energy such a boost in our state previously.

Instead, we need Duke’s support for more renewables, and they could start by emulating Florida’s example: installing a solar power station that only uses natural gas as a backup.

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Two or three months ago, I asked Xpress to look into what was happening at MAIN. I am grateful to see [the] Nov. 4 item about WPVM–FM [“Lost in Transmission: Amid Heated Controversy, WPVM Charts New Course”].

I have been a longtime subscriber to MAIN/indylink.org, and when I needed to contact tech help or reception, I became concerned about the lack of personnel or funding.

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It seems to me that the radio station, WPVM-FM, has become a distraction and a drain on the original purpose of MAIN. Certainly, founder Wally Bowen’s illness has contributed to this group’s drift from its original purpose.

I can’t really offer any solution, as I am on the outside of this business. I can only hope that those who are leading MAIN today remember the purpose it was founded for.

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Yes, we are transplants from a small mountain town [near] the Adirondack Park in upstate New York. We believe the people of Western North Carolina are the most friendly, open, giving people in the United States!

Everyone has a smile, greeting or a helping hand. No one purports to know everything; people here certainly have opinions and share them openly, particularly about football :) It seems a consuming passion, which we love.

It occurs to me that people who generalize about others and other regions of our country are slightly guilty of ignorance and a form of bigotry, which, of course, is not something that Western North Carolinians would accept or embrace.

There are certain rules when moving into a new region of the country: Don’t instill your values or judgments upon others — there is a rich and wonderful history here. Learn about it, celebrate it; if you can’t embrace it, keep quiet, and don’t try and change it!

I’ve learned in my six-plus years in Western North Carolina that there are at least six definitions to the term, “Bless your heart.” To the author of recent piece that offered a negative review of WNC residents, let me say, “Bless you!”

All my WNC friends know which definition of “bless you” I mean. :) — David Heim Fletcher

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Ban the cruel horse-carriage industry A deeply biased article about the horse-carriage industry appeared in a recent issue of Mountain Xpress [“Yay or Neigh: Carriage Tours Draw Fans, Protest,” Oct. 28]. You could easily tell the author’s personal opinion was very pro-horse-carriage. Not only was this article inaccurate, it was not good journalism. A good article provides balanced opinions, whereas this article dwelled excessively on the opinions stated by the carriage owners and the author herself. It only very briefly mentioned the activists’ opinions in opposition to the carriages.

I will not deny that these carriage horses in Asheville are taken better care of than those in other major cities; however, other activists and I are opposed to the horse-carriage industry for the following reasons: The horses live a “nose to tailpipe” life; they are constantly inhaling exhaust from the vehicles they are tailing. Exhaust inhalation can cause serious, sometimes fatal, lung issues.

Horses are also subjected to excessively hot or cold temperatures. It is legal for the horses to be out even when the heat index is below 25 or above 90 degrees. Their exhaustion is even worse when they are forced to pull thousands of pounds behind them.

Finally, and probably the most important reason, is the extreme danger to people and horses. With the combination of an unwieldy vehicle and a timid animal pulling it, it is only a matter of time before a major accident occurs. In 2013, 30 such accidents have occurred in New York City alone. These accidents have killed horses and seriously injured people. The carriages in Asheville have not yet caused an accident, but it is only a matter of time before the inevitable occurs.

After learning about the dangers and cruelty involved in the horse-carriage industry, many cities have chosen to ban it altogether, including Key West, Fla., Palm Beach, Fla., Panama City Beach, Fla., Treasure Island, Fla., Las Vegas, Reno, Nev., Santa Fe, N.M., and Camden, N.J. Asheville is an influential and progressive city, so why can’t it be the next one to ban this cruel and dangerous practice?

If this industry disturbs you, please help by refusing to support the horsecarriage industry and instead choose from the many other unique methods to tour Asheville. You can also help by

contacting our City Council and asking them to ban this practice.

— Jeremy Sagaribay Eighth-grader Asheville editor’s note: See “Article Failed to Report Carriage-horse Dangers” in this issue for Xpress writer Virginia Daffron’s response to the points raised in this letter.

Article failed to report carriage-horse dangers I was interviewed for Ms. [Virginia] Daffron’s article on the horse carriage in downtown Asheville [“Yay or Neigh: Carriage tours draw fans, protest,” Oct. 28, Xpress], and it was apparent even in the interview that she was extremely biased and has ties to the horsecarriage industry.

Asheville Voice for Animals is composed of a large number of citizens who are concerned for the welfare of any animal being exploited for entertainment. If you want to present responsible journalism, I would suggest you publish an article highlighting absolute facts about the dangers of carriages on city streets for both animals and humans.

The article places focus on the fact that the horses reside on a 30-acre pasture in Weaverville, but if they remained on that farm, we would not have an issue at all. Hours on city pavement lead to debilitating leg problems, and the exhaust fumes can cause respiratory illness.

Another common argument is that the industry helps pay for the horses’ living expenses. As someone with many animal companions of my own, I am offended by the attitude that animals must “earn their keep.” This is an agreement the animals cannot give consent to and I consider a form of slavery. The city needs to ban this practice before more carriages are added and the streets resemble the carriage cluster in cities like Savannah and Charleston.

— Sarah Windle Veterinary assistant Asheville Voice for Animals Clyde editor’s note: Mountain Xpress reporter Virginia Daffron responds: “I appreciate our letter writers’ feedback.

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to the horse-carriage industry and that I am biased in favor of that industry.

Regarding ties to the horse-carriage industry, I have none. Although I owned and rode horses as a child, I haven’t been in close contact with them for many years.

I did meet Asheville Horse & Carriage Tours owner Catherine Hunter on one occasion several years ago. I visited her barn for two hours and observed her horse-training methodology. I decided I didn’t have time then to take riding lessons, and I had no further contact with Hunter until contacting her for this article.

The only animal in my life is my 11-year-old Great Pyrenees, whom I adopted from the high-kill Madison County Animal Shelter 10 years ago.

Regarding the letter writers’ complaints that my article was biased, I sought out and quoted three animal activists opposed to the carriage-horse industry. I also obtained comment from the agency charged with ensuring animal welfare in the city of Asheville, the licensing agency responsible for overseeing carriage operators’ compliance with applicable regulations and the Asheville Police Department. My investigation revealed no validated complaints or violations associated with the one carriage horse now operating in Asheville.

The scope of this article did not include the carriage-horse industry outside of Asheville.”

Go meat-free for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a time for family gatherings, remembrance of those who that have gone before us and a general celebration of gratitude and love.

Ironically, millions of animals are slaughtered for this celebration of love and peace!

In the true spirit of the holidays, make this season meat-free and cruelty-free.

Sure, tofu turkey and all the other meatfree equivalents may be a stretch for some, but isn’t that what it means to be human — to continually move and stretch beyond the norm? The human species is continually surpassing itself in accomplishments, athletic achievements and technological advancements, so what is a diet change?

A simple change of heart and mind for the holidays can go a long way. The animal kingdom will be grateful for your kindness!

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Whose power?

bY avram FrieDman By proposing to replace its Lake Julian coal plant with new natural gas/fracking-fired units, Duke Energy is moving in an anachronistic direction that inhibits the transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy needed to address rising energy costs and climate change.

Massive investment in energy efficiency is a much more economical way to meet demand than building, operating and continually fueling a new power plant of any kind. No one knowledgeable in the field of commercial energy production could dispute this. The cheapest kilowatt is the one that isn’t needed due to efficiency improvements by users.

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only about 3 cents per kilowatt-hour; generating the same amount of electricity from sources such as fossil fuels can cost two to three times as much.

Given the negative economic, health and environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels or using the nuclear fuel/fission/waste cycle to generate electricity, it would be logical for public policy to require maximum efficiency and minimum production capacity. But because North Carolina’s antiquated public utility system is a regulated monopoly, the reverse incentive applies.

Currently, state law guarantees Duke Energy a 10.2 percent rate of return on infrastructure capital expenditures, on self-financed projects. If the company spends $1 billion to build a new power plant, the law requires that rates be adjusted to produce a $102 million profit. Get it?

This is a no-risk “investment” with a huge return for Duke Energy shareholders, at the expense of the ratepayers — you and me — who’ll foot the bill for the construction and the legally required profit, even if this isn’t the best or most economical way to meet energy demand.

At one point in our history, this kind of regulated monopolistic arrangement may have helped guarantee the economic health and stability of a new and growing energy industry that promised to provide reliable electricity to light homes and run factories. In that era, the promise of reliable electric power overshadowed any health or environmental concerns, which weren’t as fully understood as they are today.

The priority, then, was to incentivize growth in the energy industry to modernize North Carolina.

But while providing all North Carolinians with electricity is still essential today, circumstances have changed substantially. Our awareness of the health and environmental impacts of conventional electrical energy production has increased dramatically, and meanwhile, we’re in the midst of a quickly evolving energy efficiency revolution. Our current utility system’s highly centralized, rapid-growth model no longer meets the criteria for sensible public energy policy: This outmoded system has become counterproductive.

In 2011, 2013 and 2015, state legislators in both houses sponsored a bill titled “Efficient and Affordable Energy Rates.” Support is growing: 15 state lawmakers are sponsoring the 2015 versions, House Bill 377 and Senate Bill 483, which call for steeply incentivizing private investment in energy efficiency to reduce statewide energy consumption and production. The proposed rate structure would substantially lower monthly energy bills for those who invest in efficiency, aided by low-interest loans from a dedicated Energy Efficiency Bank. Similar measures have been successfully implemented in at least seven other states and several nations, cutting consumption while fostering the growth of new industries and creating thousands of jobs. In North America, this has been done in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Vermont, Iowa, Washington state and the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

As you might expect, however, Duke Energy has sought to protect its sweet deal as a regulated monopoly, brushing aside the two bills as unworkable in North Carolina. The real bread and butter for their shareholders lies in the guaranteed profit realized by building more power plants and infrastructure while nurturing a steady growth in energy consumption.

But continuing this business model conflicts with the public interest.

What would most benefit residents and ratepayers is implementing programs that reduce consumption and eliminate the need to build more centralized power plants.

If we want to reverse Duke’s plans, citizens must rise up and demand a basic change in our state’s public energy policy. It will be necessary to adopt the type of measures introduced in the Efficient and Affordable Energy Rates bill. If you really want to stop this power plant construction, tell your state legislators, the governor and the state Utilities Commission to push for its passage.

Avram Friedman is executive director of The Canary Coalition, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Sylva.

The past is present

bY setH mccormicK In a recent interview in Mountain Xpress (“Man With a Plan,” Oct. 21), Todd Okolichany, Asheville’s new planning director, was asked about his views on developing the city-owned lot across from the Basilica of St. Lawrence. His response demonstrates a clear lack of vision.

Okolichany speaks about parks and sidewalks becoming an “extension of our private spaces” and advocates “uses that recognize and support that function, like sidewalk dining.” In blurring the distinction between public and private space, he makes the annexation of the former to the latter seem acceptable, even inevitable.

He also talks about the need for development to “respect” historical architecture, as if architectural landmarks were an obstacle to development rather than an asset.

This ignores the vital role played by architecture all around the globe in identifying and defining cities in the digital age.

Alongside great people (which Asheville has in abundance), great architecture is the single most important social, cultural and economic asset a city can possess. A city that allows development to encroach upon and obscure its architectural landmarks is a city that, to the visiting tourist or “lifestyle investor,” has no visible past — and its tourism and hospitality industries have no future. What will prospective visitors see first when they search the Internet for information about Asheville? A downtown skyline swarming with cranes and clogged with bland, corporate, high-rise condominiums and hotels? Or, alongside images of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the historic Biltmore Estate,

photos of a unique architectural treasure framed by the view from an adjacent park, just as Biltmore’s grandeur is enhanced by its surrounding gardens?

In an age when tourism and investment dollars are directly linked to the results of an image search on Google, it’s not enough for a city to possess great architecture: It must also possess great views of its architectural landmarks. If there’s no space for a photographer to set up her tripod in order to capture that iconic image of the full height and breadth of the Basilica of St. Lawrence, it will disappear from public view, and Asheville will simply be one more 21st-century city without a past, a city whose shiny new amenities — restaurants, hotels, breweries, museums — will seem like castles built on air. Without a secure foundation, those castles will crumble, and so will the livelihoods staked upon them.

The foundation of a city is its community of residents. There can be no hospitality for guests without a community to host them. But a community’s foundation is its history. And when it’s rendered invisible, the soul of the community dies, to be replaced by a mass of isolated individuals and their short-term interests.

Life and work become zero-sum games in which common goals are sacrificed to private ambitions.

It wasn’t the zero-sum games of city politics and city planning that brought the Spanish-born Rafael Guastavino to Western North Carolina in the 1890s or that led him to retire here. As an architect, it’s unlikely that he would have elected to settle in a place whose city planning showed no regard for architecture. And if Guastavino hadn’t chosen to remain here, he would never have partnered with fellow architect Richard Sharp Smith to design and build the basilica.

Why is the Basilica of St. Lawrence a landmark? It is said to contain the largest freestanding elliptical dome in North America, spanned by a vaulting system of Guastavino’s own invention.

The patented “Tile Arch System,” a uniquely lightweight, stable and self-supporting structure composed entirely of interlocking terra-cotta tiles and mortar, required no centering (wooden bracing) during its construction. It was not only beautiful: It was efficient and economical. This accounts for its extraordinary influence and popularity throughout the United States. Prior to Guastavino’s invention, this country had boasted few public structures with arched vaulting, a construction technique more commonly associated with Gothic cathedrals and

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the great architectural monuments of the ancient Roman world. Today, Guastavino vaulting is featured in some of the most famous examples of beauxarts architecture in the U.S., from the Boston Public Library to New York City’s Grand Central Terminal and Carnegie Hall.

Of still greater significance, from our present standpoint, is the symbolism of Guastavino’s achievement. Guastavino tile belongs not only to the history of architecture but equally to the history of craft. It represents the fusion of traditional handiwork with modern industrial technology and mass production techniques. Its “invention” was actually the rediscovery of an ancient Mediterranean construction technique originally developed by craftspeople, not architects.

This technique was already thousands of years old by Guastavino’s time, but it had fallen into oblivion, because it was associated with the dwellings and folkways of ordinary people rather than the palaces of the elite. Guastavino himself was more construction manager than architect, more entrepreneur than engineer. For a city in the heart of Western North Carolina, a region whose economic development has depended on both the construction industry and the rich traditions of Appalachian arts and crafts, there could be no more fitting monument than the basilica, with its seamless integration of art and industry, innovation and tradition.

If Guastavino is nonetheless remembered as an architect, it’s because he was something akin to the Frank Gehry of his age, a visionary who fused vernacular and traditional forms with cutting-edge technology. The Basilica of St. Lawrence was his Guggenheim Bilbao, bringing landmark architecture to a geographically isolated city whose very survival depended on tourism. His construction techniques are still studied today at places like MIT, where professor (and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner) John Ochsendorf has created a website (architecture.mit.edu/class/ guastavino/about.html) devoted to Guastavino’s work.

Who will be Asheville’s Guastavino of the 21st century? Perhaps, in a city whose architectural jewels are set off to advantage by the natural splendor of their surroundings, there will be many Guastavinos, each inspired to contribute to its continuing cultural and economic development.

Or perhaps there will be none.

Seth McCormick is an associate professor of art history at Western Carolina University.

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Asheville through the eyes of Thomas Wolfe

LOOK HOMEWARD, ASHEVILLE! Asheville's current boom in tourism and development mirrors the state of the city during Thomas Wolfe's life in several respects. The author, who wrote extensively about the changes he saw around him, may offer clues as to how the city can address current concerns and questions facing its residents.

Left photo by MAx Hunt. Right photo courtesy of North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC.

bY max Hunt mhunt@mountainx.com “Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: Subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

These words open the 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, the first published work by acclaimed native son Thomas Wolfe.

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The complex, frenetic author grew up in a time of rapidly changing social and economic realities that, in many ways, mirrored today’s Asheville: a real estate boom and a flourishing tourist trade that brought a steady stream of newbies to these mountains.

And Wolfe’s ambivalence about those trends produced thinly disguised and not always flattering portrayals of the city and its residents in such novels as Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and You Can’t Go Home Again.

Asheville and environs have seen con-

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siderable change in the 77 years since Wolfe’s death, yet many of the aspects he wrote (and sometimes fumed) about seem uncannily familiar. And as current residents ponder the challenges the city faces today, a look at several of the celebrated author’s key themes might prove instructive.

altereD past recognition “Asheville in 1900 was an expanding modern city, the third-largest in

the state,” notes tom muir, historic site manager at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. With thriving industrial and tourism sectors, what Wolfe said was formerly a “crossroads village” was now drawing a quarter-million visitors annually.

Before that, says longtime Asheville resident bill branyon, who’s explored Wolfe’s perspectives on the city in his own writing, “It was just this sleepy little town, like Andy and Mayberry.”

Between 1900 and 1920, though, Asheville’s population exploded, surg-

ing from less than 15,000 to more than 28,000. Wolfe wrote extensively about the transformation from the provincial backwater of his early childhood to a city “splendidly equipped to meet the demands of the great and steadily growing crowd of tourists.”

This “mountain metropolis,” he noted, included “eight hotels of the highest quality” and “over 250 private hotels, boardinghouses and sanitariums, all catering to the needs of those who come on missions of business, pleasure or health.”

As he was leaving Asheville in 1920 to seek his fortune up north, the young author marveled at the “mixed and varied” crowd he observed on the train platform, with a “strong coloring of worldly smartness, the element of fashionable sophistication that one sometimes finds in a place where a native and alien population have come together.”

By the time he returned in 1925, however, “A wave of ruinous and destructive energy had welled up in them,” Wolfe wrote in You Can’t Go Home Again. “They had squandered fabulous sums in meaningless streets and bridges ... flung away the earnings of a lifetime and mortgaged those of a generation to come.” The city of his birth, with its “quiet streets and the old houses ... obscured below the leafy spread of trees” had been altered “past recognition, scarred with hard patches of bright concrete and raw dumps of new construction. It looked like a battlefield, cratered and shell torn with savage explosions of brick and concrete all over town.”

Muir confirms that view. “More than 65 buildings were erected in downtown Asheville during the 1920s,” he notes, and civic leaders were predicting continued dramatic population growth. In anticipation, Asheville issued bonds to fund infrastructure improvements: When the stock market crashed in 1929, Asheville had the highest per capita debt in the country.

That fact haunted the city for the next 50 years, as it painstakingly labored to repay those loans.

Today, Asheville is once again experiencing a real estate boom.

At least six hotels are being built or under development, and massive public works projects, such as revitalizing the River Arts District, are proceeding apace.

Meanwhile, with scores of transplants seeking to relocate to Asheville, the vacancy rate for apartments in the city stands at a minuscule 0.9 percent, census data show. And this year’s City Council race featured lively debates

BOY MEETS WORLD: Thomas Wolfe spent his childhood in Asheville during a time of rapid growth and transition. The sleepy "crossroads village" of his youth soon gave way to a bustling regional center and tourist destination by the time he returned to the city in the late 1920s. Photo courtesy of Thomas Wolfe Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville about affordable housing, new development and short-term rentals.

“When I wrote articles about Asheville’s growth in the 1990s, things were being built almost as fast,” says Branyon. But that marked a drastic change from his arrival here a decade earlier, when “downtown’s main businesses were the adult bookstore and the [porn movie theater].”

And while the local author sees many positives in the city’s rejuvenation, he believes the strain of rapid growth is beginning to show. “Being out near Biltmore Park on I-26 at rush hour is just bonkers. You just see it like a shock wave: You feel it, the development imprisoning us.”

The current debate over what proponents have dubbed “St. Lawrence Green,” says Branyon, reminds him of this description by Wolfe: “The fairest places in town were mutilated at a cost of millions of dollars.” Both situations, notes Branyon, reflect opposing ideologies endorsed by city decision-makers.

In Wolfe’s day, proponents of a progressive New South agenda duked it out with the Vanderbilt Agrarians, a group of intellectuals who opposed industrialization and Northern influence. “These agrarians wanted Wolfe to become one of them,” and when he declined, “They started criticizing his writing, and Wolfe got pissed at them. They became sort of enemies,” notes Branyon.

In a letter to the critic Van Wyck Brooks, Wolfe called the

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DRAWING fROM LIfE: Much of Wolfe’s literary work was drawn from his personal experiences growing up in Asheville in the early 20th century. The author wrote extensively of the effects of alcohol on his father’s health and the relationship between his parents. Photo courtesy of Thomas Wolfe Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville.

agrarians “lily-handed intellectuals” interested in restoring “an aristocratic South.”

Branyon says he’s experienced similar tension with former friends over the question of Asheville’s growth and what to do about it. “Slow growth can be attained, but in my opinion, we want more of I-26 faster, and every roadway to be a four-lane,” he says.

“What Asheville’s suffering from is what the whole earth is suffering from: development. That’s what [Council member Cecil] Bothwell’s trying to define it as: progressives in the ‘club of growth’ and others who think it needs to be slowed.”

Despite those challenges, though, Branyon still feels Asheville is “the best place in the world to live right now: The natural topography protects itself to an extent.”

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about the city’s future. “This has been going on forever,” says Branyon. “You can’t comb Godzilla’s hair, and growth in Asheville is Godzilla.”

riDing tHe rails Perhaps the biggest single factor in Asheville’s transformation from sleepy town to burgeoning economic hub was the arrival of the railroad.

Of Time and the River opens with travelers and residents gathered to await the “first interest in the lives of all Americans … the coming of the train.”

Railroad aficionado ray rapp, who teaches political science at Mars Hill University, says trains were “the way in and out of Asheville, bringing the world to the city.” Beginning in the 1880s, they carried mail, industrial materials and passengers (including the Vanderbilt and Pack families) to and from the mountains.

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“The railroad promoted the region to tourists and land speculators, using the title of Christian Reid’s 1875 novel The Land of the Sky,” notes Rapp. And by the early 20th century, that massive influx of visitors had jump-started a booming hotel and lodging industry that included the Grove Park Inn as well as Wolfe’s mother’s boardinghouse (now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial). Religious conference centers sprang up along the rail lines; even today, places like Ridgecrest, Montreat and Lake Junaluska attract thousands of visitors annually.

But the environmental impact was devastating. “Once the timber barons arrived and had a mainline railroad for shipment, the hillsides were denuded by lumbermen who descended on the mountains like locusts,” notes Rapp. The widespread deforestation is considered partly responsible for the disastrous 1916 flood, which destroyed much lowlying property along the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and cost the city millions.

Several of Wolfe’s novels feature scenes aboard passenger trains carrying men of the world on their speculative missions. “I think immediately of billy edd wheeler’s song, ‘Coming of the Roads,’” notes Rapp. Like those highways, he says, “The railroad brought modernity to the mountains, with all of its attractions, distractions and detractions.”

Tracks still bisect many of the region’s valleys like spokes, and the occasional freight train can be seen chugging east over the Swannanoa Gap or south from Tennessee through Madison County.

But the railroad’s golden age in Asheville is long gone: Passenger service ended in 1975, and the old roundhouse, once a central transfer station for locomotives, was demolished last year.

Freight rail hasn’t fared much better, says Rapp. In the 1980s and ’90s, “The decline in coal shipments, combined with the loss of major industrial shippers such as DuPont, American Enka, General Electric and numerous furniture and textile plants” led Norfolk Southern to cut services to the region. Freight traffic, he reports, is down from 22 trains a day to three.

“Today, the railroad has been replaced by interstate highways, the Internet, television, trucks, personal autos and airplanes,” muses Rapp. And despite repeated efforts to restore passenger service, he says that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. “Amtrak reported it needs to see a passenger volume of 240,000 per year,” he notes, and two recent Wake Forest University studies project just 72,000 riders per year.

HanD in HanD Amid decades’ worth of change, however, one local commodity has remained fairly constant: alcohol.

In Wolfe’s day, says Lex 18 owner georgia malki, “One of the easiest businesses to set up was no different than what you see here today: a bar.

They were all over the place.”

Workers, she explains, “received their day’s earnings on the spot.

Naturally, prior to going home, it was traditional for many of these men to stop off in a saloon.” Lex 18 occupies the very space that housed john o’donnell’s Eureka Saloon back then; the family still owns the building.

Then as now, continues Malki, who’s researched local history extensively in connection with her business, bars served as social centers where people could escape the drudgery of home life and the demands of family. “This is not a town with big boulevards and tons of people-

watching space,” she points out. “It’s really inside the saloons and bars where the socializing happens.”

Alcohol looms large in Wolfe’s autobiographical novels, too. “Wolfe’s father was a raging alcoholic,” says Malki, adding that the family dynamics surrounding his addiction were typical of the period.

The author recounts an argument in Look Homeward, Angel between his mother and the fictionalized character tim o’doyle, based off of O’Donnell, in which the former threatens to have the saloonkeeper “put [...] in the penitentiary” if they served Wolfe’s father any alcohol.

Malki says that the property owners of Lex 18, descendants of O’Donnell, have confirmed the tale is accurate. “[Julia Wolfe] went to 14 establishments that she knew W.O. Wolfe frequented. That’s just for one guy!” Nor, Malki adds, would it be the last time Julia would go to such lengths to discourage the elder Wolfe’s drinking.

By 1907, the temperance movement, led by local women and religious leaders, had managed to get alcohol banned in the city. “They rallied politicians, businesses and

ministers of every faith to push this elaborate campaign for prohibition,” says Malki. “We’re talking about speeches, marches — the whole town was galvanized.”

A year later North Carolina followed suit, and in 1920, the 18th Amendment took effect, outlawing booze nationwide. But rather than discouraging people from drinking, Prohibition made the alcohol business much more lucrative. “If anything, there were probably more speakeasies and outlets for drinking once the 1907 ban had passed,” Malki reports.

It’s impossible to quantify the number of bars operating in Asheville during Prohibition, but Malki says contemporary evidence shows that owners were making a hefty profit. “We see $220 days in the books of O’Donnell, when his expenses don’t amount to more than $5-$10.”

Today, “Beer City USA” is home to some 16 breweries, with others on the way and many more in the surrounding area. There are also several distilleries and wineries, and countless bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.

Last year, visitors to Asheville spent an estimated $449 million on food and

beverages, according to an economic impact report commissioned by the Tourism Development Authority; that figure will most likely rise with the opening of New Belgium Brewing Co.’s East Coast facility next year and the possible addition of Deschutes Brewery.

Besides being relatively easy to start and operate, says Malki, alcohol-related businesses are vital to a tourism-based economy. “Anytime you offer nightlife, a reason for people to be on the streets after dark, you create foot traffic. And when you create foot traffic, you create a real estate interest in developing housing there,” she notes. “A bar is a visual, visceral entertainment opportunity: You get to consume a drug, listen to music.

It’s a vital part of town.”

But many of the same issues that led to Prohibition a century ago lurk in the blurry shadows of the city’s current bar scene. “Asheville is like any other town: It’s always had prostitution,” says Malki.

“The boardinghouse that Wolfe’s mother ran was for the most part a boardinghouse, but women of questionable reputation would utilize it.”

And these days, she continues, “There’s literally a rotation of six to 10 hookers out on South French Broad

Avenue. Whenever you have that combination of publicly sold alcohol and thriving business and nightlife, you have prostitution.”

And while Malki freely admits to benefiting from Asheville’s thriving bar scene, marketing the city as a destination for drinking, she maintains, means “we’re also clearly saying, without actually saying it, that you’ll find other drugs and prostitution available. No matter what, the two go hand in hand.”

In this sense, the Wolfe family’s struggles with an alcoholic father can serve as a cautionary tale. “Wolfe had a pretty tragic childhood, witnessing his father’s radical mood swings. Back in 1907, they thought getting rid of alcohol would fix the problem,” says Malki.

“Well, the problem wasn’t alcohol: The problem was the systemic disease of alcoholism.

“And as more bars continue to come to Asheville,” she adds, “I think we need to be very attentive and look at this holistically — at the cultural, musical and social opportunities — and balance that with us, as community members, being very sensitive to ensuring no one’s harmed.” X

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Dollar for Dollar How dueling PACs targeted City Council election

primary. As the general election ballot took shape, both of these environmentally focused PACs planted a veritable forest of yard signs (colored green but nonrecyclable) promoting their preferred names.

And while individual candidates have a very public face, it’s often hard to tell who’s actually behind PAC activity. One way to get a handle on this is to follow the money. But in this case, most of the financial information became available only after the election.

WHo’s beHinD tHe curtain?

MULTI-PRONGED ACTION: Cecil Bothwell worked through Citizens for St Lawrence Green, his own candidate committee and PARC PAC to make the city property on Haywood Street an issue for city voters. Photo by Virginia Daffron No heads literally rolled in this year’s Asheville City Council election, but the results certainly turned heads.

Turnout (12,113) was down 3.5 percent from 2013, but campaign spending amounted to over $12 per ballot cast (depending on how you count it). The outcome was unpredictable, with the candidates fighting to the end for every vote. And while the contenders spent well over $100,000 all told, a notable chunk of the money came from two state-registered, progressive political action committees.

State-level PACs don’t typically get heavily involved in campaigning for municipal candidates. But, as in so many things, Asheville broke the mold.

Despite being much maligned for their role in saturating politics with money, these fundraising entities also have a long history of bringing about change and

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pushing for causes that many Americans strongly support.

Much of the most controversial PAC activity has been at the national level, especially with the rise of so-called super PACs in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling. In this year’s municipal election, however, Asheville has gotten an up-close-and-personal look at what happens when two heavy-hitting, state-level PACs face off in the political boxing ring.

PARC PAC (People Advocating Real Change) endorsed brian haynes, Keith young and rich lee; well before the October primary, the group began publishing, mailing and handing out materials in support of those candidates.

Meanwhile, the political committee of the local Sierra Club chapter (under the auspices of the NC Sierra Club PAC) originally came out for Vice Mayor marc hunt and julie mayfield, adding lindsey simerly to the list after the

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PARC PAC grew out of People Advocating Real Conservancy (later changed to “Change”), an environmentally oriented nonprofit founded in 2003.

PARC and its PAC have previously come out against proposed hotels and an attached parking deck in downtown Asheville. The PAC was initially registered federally, because it was producing signs supporting barack obama’s 2008 campaign. The group later also registered at the state level so it could support local candidates for state office.

A group of local activists, says cecil bothwell, a founder of both groups and treasurer of the political action committee, make the decisions for PARC PAC. “We have a kind of a flexible board.

There are six to sometimes as many as 10 people, it’s not really formal, who get together and who are the principal people who contribute, though we take donations from anybody. A number of people have been active over the years.”

PARC’s involvement in this election, says Bothwell, who also serves on the Asheville City Council, was focused on one main goal. “I have tried, like hell, to get the council to pay attention to the people in the city on [the St. Lawrence Green] matter. None of my fellow council members are willing to do a poll, to hold forums. We do that for a lot of issues ... but for some reason, Council is absolutely convinced to sell the property.” So last May, Bothwell, charlie thomas and Citizens for St. Lawrence Green, a separate, unregistered group that Bothwell says was Thomas’ brainchild, decided to push for a park across from the Basilica of St. Lawrence. “The goal was to make it an issue,” Bothwell explains. Together, they succeeded in making the fight over a tiny patch of property a wedge issue in the City Council race. “What we really hoped was that all the candidates might support the idea,” Bothwell reveals.

“And it’s not so much the idea that it be a park as that we listen to the people.”

Two contributors are listed on PARC PAC’s 2015 pre-election report, filed Oct. 20. Bothwell lent the organization $4,300

and Thomas donated $3,500. The two also appear as contributors in PARC PACs first year filings along with eight other individuals.

In August 2012, PARC conducted a poll concerning three proposed outcomes for the parcel: a hotel, a park or purchase by the Diocese of Charlotte.

Then, in September of this year, Bothwell’s own candidate committee conducted a similar poll, asking likely Asheville voters to choose between the city’s keeping the property and selling it. The results showed 86 percent support for keeping it. Some critics, notes Bothwell, have “denigrated [the September survey] as being a push poll,” but he disputes that. “I didn’t say one was evil and one was good: I said these three want to sell the property, and these three want to preserve the property. Do you want to sell it or do you want to preserve it? I don’t see that as being a push poll.”

The NC Sierra Club PAC has been around for at least 26 years, focusing mostly on state-level candidates and issues. Meanwhile, Ken brame chairs the Wenoca chapter’s more recently formed seven-member Political Committee, a sort of local action division of the state-registered PAC. Like PARC PAC, the WENOCA committee has, through the NC Sierra Club PAC, endorsed and supported environmentally motivated candidates from president on down. In the recent City Council election, he explains, the committee made its endorsements “based on questionnaires sent to all 15 candidates in August.”

Officially, funds raised by the local group go into the Raleigh-based PAC’s war chest. The state-level Sierra Club’s political committee then approves reallocating the money for use in local races. But “Unofficially,” says PAC Treasurer john shaw, those approvals are “sort of based on their raising money. I can tell you that the people in Buncombe County are really good at raising money.”

Brame, meanwhile, has said the local group spent the most money it ever had on a City Council election because people it had identified as good environmentalists were “being attacked” over their positions concerning the viability of the St. Lawrence Green and “accused of not being good environmentalists.”

WHo’s on First?

These two PACs’ involvement in local elections is nothing new: What’s

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different is the amount of money spent on such a small-scale contest.

NC Sierra Club PAC spent at least $5224.01 (plus another $400 or more that’s not required to be reported) on the Asheville election, and PARC PAC spent at least $6,929.42.

Yet both the sources of that money and what it was used for remained hidden from the public view.

The procedures for PAC filing seem to have engendered some confusion among the Buncombe County Board of Elections, the State Board of Elections and both PACs’ treasurers.

The state board received the Sierra Club PAC’s pre-primary report Oct. 2, but it wasn’t posted on either agency’s website until after the Nov. 3 election.

When no reports were posted online after the primary, Xpress queried the state board, which said Buncombe County should have them. The county board, however, said that PARC PAC, at least, hadn’t filed anything.

Contacted a week before Election Day, however, the treasurers of both PACS said they’d filed the required reports.

And in a Nov. 3 email, sheryll harris, a compliance specialist at the state board, wrote: “The Buncombe BOE should have the filings for both PACs.

aallen@mountainx.com in even-numbered years and bianually in odd-numbered years.

When a state-registered PAC tries to influence a municipal election, however, those reports must be filed on the same schedule followed by the candidates themselves. According to N.C. GS 163-278.40J, the Asheville election cycle is a “type 3 - nonpartisan with primary” requiring reports before both the primary and the general election; this year, those deadlines were Sept.

28 and Oct. 26 for activity periods ending Sept. 21 and Oct. 19, respectively.

“Expenditures to influence the Asheville City Council election should be reported to Buncombe County,” says Harris, with informational copies to the State Board of Elections.

Instead, however, Shaw filed the Sierra Club PAC’s full pre-primary and pre-election reports with the state board and summaries with the Buncombe County board. “It was my understanding,” he explains, “that they would then distribute that information to the Buncombe County board.” The confusion, says Shaw, was because they’re a state-registered PAC that, this year, was participating in local elections in both Buncombe and Wake counties.

Bothwell, meanwhile, says he filed only a pre-election report for PARC PAC, because the group’s financial activity didn’t start till after the preprimary reporting period. PARC PAC did send out at least one batch of mailings before the primary, but it’s possible that no money was actually spent before the pre-election reporting period the began on Sept. 22. In the week before the primary, Bothwell explains, “We were scrambling to get the mailers printed and out. It was after the September [filing] cutoff, I’m sure. We weren’t going to send mailers, then we decided well, we’d better.”

The PAC’s report, which covers activity beginning Sept. 1, does show an in-kind contribution of yard signs

by Thomas on Sept. 21, with a listed value of $170 — the only mention made of such signs. All other listed expenditures are for printing and postage.

Asked if that dollar figure was accurate, Thomas replied, “I think you’re right: There would be more for the signs.” Bothwell says more signs were purchased after the Oct. 19 deadline, and they’ll be included in the end-of-year filing.

Earlier this year, PARC PAC was fined $250 for missing a January

At this time I do not believe it was the intention of either PAC not to file the required reports.” paperwork problems Political action committees have broad powers in terms of endorsement and outreach, but there are some legal restraints on their activities. State PAC treasurers, for example, must file paperwork indicating where their money comes from and how it’s spent. Typically, this means filing quarterly reports

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filing deadline. In May, before paying the fine, Bothwell donated $150 to PARC PAC. “Going back to 2013 endorsements PARC PAC made for the City Council election,” he notes, “I filed with the State Board of Elections, and there was never any question from them about that. ... I know that when I finally straightened things out with the state this year, Sheryll Harris said they wanted the filings done with Buncombe County instead of with the state board, and they forwarded my filings to the county.”

The Sierra Club PAC, meanwhile, has had its own problems with paperwork. In 2000, the organization was audited for discrepancies in its reporting and for providing insufficient information. And in 2011, a $150 penalty for missing a filing date wound up being waived.

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THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: NC Sierra Club and PARC PAC fund raising and spending between July 1 and October 19. Table designed by Norn Cutson. boards of elections, the state agency receives and reviews those reports, but it doesn’t immediately investigate potential irregularities unless it receives a complaint or an irregularity is eventually uncovered by an auditor. Thus, making those filings available in a timely manner is just about the only way voters can gain access to information that could influence their choices on Election Day.

Apparently, however, the state and county boards have sorted out the confusion, and all the PAC filings are now available, along with other reports and amendments, on the Buncombe County Board of Elections website. But since even the pertinent government agencies seem to have trouble sorting out the complex rules, who can say what further public scrutiny of local PAC activity might reveal? X

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CaLeNDar GuIDeLINes In order to qualify for a free listing, an event must benefit or be sponsored by a nonprofit or noncommercial community group. In the spirit of Xpress’ commitment to support the work of grassroots community organizations, we will also list events our staff consider to be of value or interest to the public, including local theater performances and art exhibits even if hosted by a forprofit group or business.

All events must cost no more than $40 to attend in order to qualify for free listings, with the one exception of events that benefit nonprofits. Commercial endeavors and promotional events do not qualify for free listings.

Free listings will be edited by Xpress staff to conform to our style guidelines and length. Free listings appear in the publication covering the date range in which the event occurs.

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ANIMALS The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46)

BENEfITS Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46) 2098 OLYMPICS: EARTHLINGS VS. ALIENS 633-1773, anamcaratheatre. org/event-items/2098-olympicsearthlings-vs-aliens • SA (11/21), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this silent auction, costume party, dance party, and performance benefit anam cara theatre. $20. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOLARSHIP BENEfIT AUCTION arthurmorganschool.org • FR (11/20), 6pm - Tickets to this reception and auction with artwork and performances benefit the arthur morgan scholarship Fund. $25. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville

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JOY TO THE WORLD: The annual Asheville Holiday Parade will be making its way through downtown on Saturday, Nov. 21, beginning at 11 a.m. This year’s parade theme is “Joy to the World,” and it features nearly 100 entries, including marching bands, dance and cheer squads, nonprofits and businesses. Performance stops are at the corner of Biltmore and Patton Avenues as well as near Pritchard Park. Photo courtesy of Joshua Cole (p. 21).

CHRISTMAS CRAfT fAIR 254-5836, tmarysasheville.org • SA (11/21), 10am-5pm - Proceeds from this Christmas craft fair with artists from throughout WNC benefit local nonprofits serving women and children. Free to attend. Held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. 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 KIDS4PEACE fUNDRAISER billyjonas.com • SU (11/22), 7pm - Proceeds from this fundraiser reception and cd release with the Billy Jonas Band benefit Kids4peace. $36. Held at Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. MAKING MUSIC MAKING A DIffERENCE creationcarealliance.org • FR (11/20), 7pm - Proceeds from this Warren Wilson College

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Bluegrass Band concert benefit the creation care alliance of Wnc. Free to attend. Held at First Christian Church of Black Mountain, 21 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT mydaddytaughtmethat.org • TH (11/19), 9:30pm - Tickets to the “My Daddy Taught Me That: An Original Documentary” screening benefit my Daddy taught me that nonprofit. $10.

Held at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave.

benefit aurora studio & gallery. $10/$7 advance. Held at Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern, 185 Clingman Ave. YOGA BENEfIT fOR STEADfAST HOUSE 215-5020, nourishinglife.com • TU (11/24), 11am - Proceeds from this Dao Flow Yoga class benefit the Thanksgiving Dinner for abccm’s steadfast House. $25. Held at Nourishing Life Center of Health, 207 Weaverville Highway

PAN HARMONIA 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • MO (11/23), 7pm - Proceeds from this “GeneratioNext!” piano concert featuring the music of Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin benefit the academy for the arts scholarship Fund. $10-20.

Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

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

TRIBUTE TO SYD BARRETT BENEfIT 335-1038, aurorastudio-gallery.com • FR (11/20), 8pm - Tickets to this Syd Barrett tribute show

WNC NATURAL HEALTH & WELLNESS meetup.com/ WNC-Natural-Health-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm Networking event for natural

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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. 46) ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIqUE: fREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) The most effortless meditation technique is also the most effective. Learn how TM is different from other practices (including common “mantra” methods). An evidence-based technique for going beyond the active mind to access deep inner reserves of energy, creativity and bliss — dissolving stress, awakening your highest self.

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

NIH-sponsored research shows decreased anxiety, improved

brain functioning, heightened well-being. Reduces insomnia, ADHD, PTSD. Personalized training, certified instructors, free follow-up classes. Thursday, 6:307:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or TM.org or meditationasheville.org EMPYREAN ARTS GROUP fITNESS CLASSES (pd.) Mondays 11:45am: Pole 2&3; 6:45pm: Intro to Pole; 8:00pm: Pole Dance. Tuesdays 5:30pm: Beginning Trapeze & Lyra; 8:15pm: Contortion.

Wednesdays 6:00pm: Hoop Dancing; 7:15pm: Pole 1&2. Thursdays 5:15pm: Beginning Aerial Fabrics (aka Silks). Fridays 6:00pm: Intro to Pole; 7:15pm: Pole 1. Saturdays 11:00am: Youth Circus ages 6-12.

For more information or to sign up go to EmpyreanArts.org or email us at info@empyreanarts.org. 32 Banks Avenue, Studio 108 • South Slope District of Downtown Asheville.

EVERYTHING YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT DOG WASTE (pd.) Seminar to educate how lingering dog waste affects us, our pets, and the environment.

FREE Event! Complimentary food & giveaways. Limited seating. Tue., Dec. 1st, 2015, 7pm-8pm. Town & Country Square, Suite “K”, 175 Weaverville Hwy., Asheville, NC 28804. Organizer: Stephanie Chow, 828-668-2055, petpooskidoo@gmail.com. More details at www.petpooskiddoo.com.

THIS SUNDAY • BLOW YOUR OWN GLASS ORNAMENT (pd.) November 22, 11am-5pm at Chaotic Joy Glassworks, during our Open Studio. Buy one of ours or blow your own!

Glassblowing demonstrations and sale, including seconds.

Call for details: 828-545-9186.

View our latest wares: www. chaoticjoyglassworks.com ASHEVILLE TIMEBANK 348-0674, ashevilletimebank.org • TUESDAYS, 4-6pm Orientation session. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (11/21), noon-5pm “International Game Day,” play games from around the world. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • MO (11/23), 2pm - Goodwill job readiness workshop.

Registration required: 2989023, ext. 1160. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (11/24), 2pm - Goodwill job readiness workshop.

Registration required: 2989023, ext. 1160. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler 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 JUST PEACE fOR ISRAEL/ PALESTINE mepeacewnc.com • SA (11/21), 3-5pm “Remembering Tony Bing,” memorial. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave OLD BUNCOMBE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 128 Bingham Road Suite 950, 253-1894 • SA (11/21), 9:30am-3:30pm - Book sale and silent auction.

Free to attend.

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

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

• FR (11/20), noon “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar.

• MO (11/23), noon “Emotions & Spending,” seminar.

• TU (11/24), 5:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar.

REYNOLDS/fAIRVIEW SCRABBLE CRIBBAGE CLUB • WEDNESDAYS - 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 SILENT CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL facebook.com/ events/1515180642130657 • FR (11/20), 6pm - Memorial for Uhon Trumanna Johnson, Alexandra King and Tatianna Diz. Free. Held at the Craven Street Bridge.

THE CENTER fOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation.

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• SA (11/21), 11am-4pm Volunteers stand in solidarity of local businesses followed by a processional march around downtown. Registration requested. Free. Held at Asheville Music Hall, 31 Patton Ave. WNC PHYSICIANS fOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 633-0892, wncpsr.org, info@ wncpsr.org • FR (11/20), noon - Monthly meeting held in private home.

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YOUTH OUTRIGHT 772-1912, youthoutright.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am - Middle school discussion group. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

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 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5:30pm Stretch Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 8pm Hip Hop Choreo 2 •Wednesday 5pm Bhangra Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Contemporary • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45am POUND Wkt • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5.

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Raven & Crone Wednesday 11/18: Jesse Gillespie presents,

“Working with the Dead:

An Introduction to Necromancy.” $15 5-7pm

Thursday 11/19: Circle Round: Time after Time Reincarnation workshop by donation! 7-9pm Saturday 11/21: Meditation 101. by donation! 3-4:30pm Sunday 11/22: Community Dialogue on Abuse and Rape Culture with Byron Ballard.

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Billy Jonas Band’s benefit concert for Kids4Peace

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VOCAL INSPIRATION: Although previous creative pursuits were also sacred activities for local musician Billy Jonas, his band’s latest Jewish-inspired album called for a different creative process, involving ample time to verify Hebrew pronunciations and liturgical interpretations with far-flung religious experts. “Also, the nature of the songs helped me discover a raw, primal depth in my voice,” Jonas says, additionally noting “a slightly operatic baritone who’d been hidden in me somewhere.” Photo courtesy of the band what: Billy Jonas Band’s release party for new album habayta where: Altamont Theatre when: Sunday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. why: “After two decades of performing, writing and recording secular music with spiritual content, I’m proud to be celebrating the release of my first Jewish-focused CD,” says frontman billy jonas, introducing his band’s new album habayta (homeward) – New Jewish Songs of Joy and Spirit. “I love facilitating ritual and providing a sonic foundation for soul spelunking.”

The self-described whimsical repercussionist says this new direction and his quartet’s continued pursuit of family-friendly folk performances “all seem to be part of a whole.” In fact, he credits his bandmates juan holladay, sherman hoover and ashley jo farmer — as well as musimountainx.com

cal collaborators river guerguerian, chris rosser, seth Kellam and sarah Kim wilde — with bringing the compositions to life on the new recording.

The Billy Jonas Band will again call upon these local colleagues as guest performers at the album’s release show, which includes food by Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Avenue M, Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack and Universal Joint in the ticket price. Proceeds from the evening support national nonprofit Kids4Peace, which runs a local chapter in Hendersonville.

Last summer, Jonas worked as a music leader for the organization, which holds interfaith peace camps for youths in addition to other programming to foster dialogue and community regardless of background.

“I firmly believe in interfaith and intercultural initiatives like Kids4Peace

as the key to moving toward peaceful coexistence in the Middle East,” he says, reflecting on his inspirational time aside the kids.

“I now understand that peace in the Middle East will not be the absence of conflict, but the successful management of it,” he explains.

“Humans are complex — conflict is inevitable! I believe solutions begin with empathic listening and respectful acknowledgement, regardless of differences of opinion or historical narrative. This, along with having fun, is exactly what Kids4Peace pursues with teens.”

Visit billyjonas.com for more information on the artists or altamonttheatre.com for details on the release show. At $36 per person, tickets include food. X

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piece with Chicago butoh artist Nicole LeGette and Asheville Butoh artists. Admission by donation.

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

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.

by Abigail Griffin

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.

$10. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road

• FR (11/20), 6-9pm - Robert Beatty signs his book Seraphina and the Black Cloak. Free to attend.

ASHEVILLE HISTORY CENTER

ASHEVILLE MASONIC TEMPLE 80 Broadway, 252-3924 • FR (11/20), 7pm - Asheville Performing Arts Academy presents Jungle Book, Kids! and Into The Woods, Jr! $7-$10.

• SA (11/21), 8:30pm - Asheville Performing Arts Academy presents Jungle Book, Kids! and Into The Woods, Jr! $7-$10.

253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org.

• SA (11/21), 10:30am - “Crafty Historian: Hooray for Christmas,” make a Christmas decoration and present! Designed for over age 6. Reservations required.

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS BILTMORE PARK Biltmore Park Town Square 33 Town Square Blvd #100, 687-0681

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/18), 3:30pm - “Makers and Shakers: Heartbeat Drumming with Sonia Brooks.” Grades K-5.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (11/20), 3:30pm - Weaverville Teen Awesome Group. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • SA (11/21), 1-2pm - Kickoff event for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

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SOUTHERN LIGHTS SqUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (11/21), 6pm - “Harvest Ball,” square and round dancing. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville SWING ASHEVILLE swingasheville.com • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Beginner & intermediate swing dance lessons. 8:30-11pm - Open dance. Live music regularly. $7/$5 members.

Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St.

ECO Some events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46) GREEN GRANNIES avl.mx/0gm • SA (11/21), 4pm - Sing-a-long for the climate.

Information: singfortheclimate.com Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. RIVERLINK 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • TH (11/19), 11:45am - Riverfront bus tour.

Reservations required. $25.

fARM & GARDEN The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46)

fESTIVALS ASHEVILLE HOLIDAY PARADE 251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • SA (11/21), 11am-4pm - Free. Held in Downtown Asheville.

WINTER WONDERLAND L IGHTING CELEBRATION 252-7799, grovearcade.com • FR (11/20), 5-8pm - Lighting of the holiday decorations with the Asheville Symphony Chorus, children’s activities, and refreshments.

Free to attend. Held at Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave.

fOOD & BEER The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46)

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City Lights Bookstore

Lake James State Park

ASTRO-COUNSELING

3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • SA (11/21), 11am - Anna Browning reads her book Tanner Turbeyfill and the Moon Rocks.

Free to attend.

6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• SU (11/22), 1pm - “Searching for Sparrows,” ranger led hike with birdwatching. Free.

• SU (11/22), 11am - “Autumn Hike to the Lake,” ranger led hike. Free.

• MO (11/23), 10am - “Canoe Excursion,” ranger led. Registration required. Free.

YMCA of WNC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SA (11/21), 8:45am - 3.8 mile easy to moderate hike at Linville Falls. Free/Optional $5 carpool. Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.

(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.

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

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

• SA (11/21), 3-5pm - Robert Beatty signs his book Serafina and the Black Cloak. Free to attend.

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.

• TU (11/24), 6-8pm - SciGirls wildlife inventory program for girls ages 9-14. $10.

Smith-McDowell House Museum 283 Victoria Rd., 253-9231, wnchistory.org • SA (11/21), 10:30am - “Crafty Historian: Hooray for Christmas!” Workshop to for kids over age 6 to make Christmas decorations. Registration required. $10.

Spellbound Children’s Bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • FR (11/20), 6pm - Teen Book Club: Rook by Sharon Cameron. Free to attend.

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

Outdoors

Parenting Franklin School of Innovation • TH (11/19), 5:30pm - Fall Campus Tour and Information Session. Free to attend.

Public Lectures Public Lectures at ASU appstate.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• 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 Mars Hill mhu.edu • WE (11/18), 7:30pm - “Ain’t Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around,” musical storytelling history of the civil rights movement by Charlie King. Free. Held at Broyhill Chapel.

Public Lectures at UNCA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

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

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

Held in the Sherrill Center.

• TH (11/19), 8pm - Workshop and lecture by Patty Stonefish of Arming Sisters, focused on raising awareness of violence against Native women. Held in the Highsmith Union.

Big Ivy Community Center 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 6263438 • SATURDAYS through (11/21), 10am-2pm -“ Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot.” Cost per shot.

Hot Springs Mountain Club facebook.com/Hot-Springs-MountainClub-115499335187364 • SU (11/22), 1pm - 3.5 mile strenuous hike on the Bluff Mountain Loop Trail. Call for directions: 656-8208. Free.

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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

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CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts. Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828-687-1193.

For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com JOIN LAKE LOGAN THIS THANKSGIVING! (pd.) Thursday, November 26 with seatings from 11am to 1:30pm. Reservations required, to reserve or for more information, call 828-646-0095 or lakelogan.org OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you.

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

Shambhala.org, 828-200-1520. 60 N Merrimon #113, Asheville, NC 28804 Grace Lutheran Church 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 6934890, gracelutherannc.com • 4th MONDAYS through (11/23), 9:30am - Biblical Book Study: Grace: More than We Deserve, Greater then We Imagine by Max Lucado. $8 book fee. Registration required.

• 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.

Nourish & Flourish 347 Depot St., 255-2770, nourishflourishnow.com • TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Kirtan with Sangita Devi. $10-$15.

Prama Yoga and Meditation 712-9326 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - All levels yoga and meditation class. Proceeds benefit the Women’s Welfare and Development Foundation. Registration required. $5.

Held at Asheville Therapeutic Yoga, 29 Ravenscroft Sai Maa Enlightened Living Group 279-7042, facebook.com/ groups/1385824208412583 • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Meditation, energy blessing, group discussion and reading. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Therapeutic Yoga, 29 Ravenscroft Tending the Spirit 367-6360, Kairoswest742@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS through (12/29), 6:30pm - Spirituality discussion group open to all faiths and practices. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road The Center for Spiritual Emergence 7 Beaverdam Road • FR (11/20), 7pm - Stephan Martin discusses his book Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe. $5.

UR Light Center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 6696845, urlight.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm - Mind Body Spirit Day. $12.

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 locals. $15.

Asheville Storytelling Circle 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle.org • SU (11/22), 3pm - “Tellabration! A Worldwide Storytelling Event,” featuring regional storytellers. $10. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Blue Ridge Books 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

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

• SA (11/21), 6:30pm - Jimmy Guignard presents his book, Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone. Free to attend.

• SA (11/21), 3pm - George Singleton’s presents his collection of stories, Calloustown. Free to attend.

Firestorm Cafe and Books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • Third WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - ReVisioning History Book Group. Free to attend.

• 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Other Worlds Are Possible Book Group. Free to attend.

• Last THURSDAYS, 7pm - Liberty Book Club. Free to attend.

Literary Events at UNCA unca.edu • FR (11/20), 4pm - “The Space Between the Stories,” storytelling by UNCA Alumnus Michael Armstrong. Free to attend. Held at Ramsey Library.

Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• 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.

• SU (11/22), 3pm - “Bookseller Picks for the Holidays,” panel discussion.

• MO (11/23), 7pm - Byron Ballard presents her book, Asfidity and Mad-Stones: A Further Ramble Through Hillfolks’ Hoodoo.

Sports KARAKIDO MARTIAL ARTS (pd.) Cultivate Power & Grace: Back to School Special Classes: Youth, Adult & “Women Only” * Parents ask about our After School Program Discount rates for students * Call for class time and rate: 828-712-1288.

Volunteering The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46) Asheville Holiday Parade 251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • SA (11/21) - Volunteers needed for the parade. Registration required: https:// goo.gl/qW1eqL 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. Homeward Bound of WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Nonprofits impact us

Compiled by N.C. Center for Nonprofits www.ncnonprofits.org Nonprofits are essential for North Carolina’s quality of life and they need our help. help

• They deliver needed services – food banks feed the hungry, hospices care for the dying.

• They educate the public on vital issues – such as, on the dangers of smoking, how to stop child abuse.

• They find solutions – cleaning up polluted streams, providing day care for working families.

• They nurture our culture – providing music, theatre, arts and ways to learn about our history.

• They engage people in the community – such as volunteering with Habitat, serving on boards.

• They provide a voice for the voiceless – speaking out for children or seniors with disabilities.

• They help improve government policies – researching and advocating ways to improve education.

Nonprofits provide 400,000 jobs – 1 out of every 10 jobs in our state.

• Nonprofits provide 10 percent of all jobs – about the same number of jobs as the retail trade industry and manufacturing in NC. • Nonprofit employees are highly-educated and committed to their organizations’ missions.

They are private entrepreneurs working in the public interest to solve tough problems.

Nonprofits put $38 billion directly into North Carolina’s economy each year.

• The nonprofit sector pays more than $15 billion in wages annually to North Carolinians.

Though nonprofit organizations are tax-exempt, nonprofit employees pay taxes – state income taxes, local and state sales taxes and property taxes. They add to the economy by buying houses, cars, food, computers, clothes, home products and other consumer items.

• This economic impact has more than doubled in a decade.

Nonprofits’ $38 billion annual impact on the state’s economy compares to $19 billion just 10 years earlier. The nonprofit sector’s economic footprint has grown 10 percent per year in that time.

North Carolinians give more than the national average, but less than people in some Southern states.

• North Carolina taxpayers who itemize deductions give an average of 2.5 percent of their income. This is more than the 2.1 percent national average, but less than those in South Carolina (2.6 percent).

• North Carolina households that itemize deductions give an average of $1,283 – above the national average of $1,204.

• About 26 percent of North Carolina adults volunteer in the community – below the national average of 27 percent.

Nonprofits are struggling to respond to skyrocketing needs, but with much less funding.

• 78 percent of NC nonprofits saw more demand for their services in 2014, but only 40 percent were able to meet the demands.

Economic stress, population growth, and social problems increase the demands on nonprofits.

Record numbers of people across the state are seeking help at food banks, crisis assistance centers, homeless shelters and consumer credit counseling services.

• At the same time, nonprofits struggle to raise funds.

Charitable giving and government contracts are both down.

• Consider giving more this year to two to three nonprofits working on problems of concern to you – some to direct services and some to address the root causes of the problems.

• 84 percent of people prefer to receive a gift that benefits someone else instead of a traditional present, according to a Harris Interactive study.

Consider making donations in the names of friends and family.

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CARING for Children wants to bring hope home for the holidays by insuring that 150 kids in foster care and 10 underprivileged families have a real Christmas! We’re asking folks from our community to step up and volunteer to be a Secret Santa to a child.

1. Sign up by emailing HolidayProject@Caring4Children.org 2. We’ll send you a child’s wish list 3. Go shopping and bring your gifts to CARING for Children by 12/18/15

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Asheville Rhythm promotes wellness through rhythm and bridges musical traditions through innovative collaborations.

Under the direction of River Guerguerian, we share the transformative power of rhythm with local organizations such as Odyssey Community School, Eliada Home, LEAF Community Arts, and Four Seasons Compassion For Life.

AshevilleRhythm.org Click on Events tab to see what’s happening!

Offerings for Newborn through adult, include Kindermusik, Movement and Dance, Clogging, Capriccio String Orchestra, Appalachian music, chamber music, string ensemble, violin, viola, cello, fiddle, guitar, banjo, flute, dobro, mandolin, pedal steel, piano, percussion, voice and more.

Our mission is to provide quality arts experiences that inspire creativity, cultivate connections to regional cultural heritage, and enrich the lives of all members of the community.

Sound Immersions: November 29 & December 27 Frame Drum Retreat: December 4-6 Asheville Percussion Festival: June 13 – 19, 2016 Weekly Drumming Classes Every Thursday

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Helping our Neighbors in Need Homeless Ministry

Crisis Ministry

(4 locations) Providing counseling, food, clothing, furniture and household items and financial assistance for rent/mortgage, utilities, heat.

Two transitional housing facilities:

Veterans’ Restoration Quarters

Offers 246 beds for men with 160 designated for transitional housing; 36 beds for emergency overnight shelter; and 50 single permanent supportive housing units for veterans.

Jail Ministry

Steadfast House

Operating a comprehensive program in the local jail including visitation, education, library services, and coordination of religious activities.

Our women and children’s facility called Steadfast House provides up to 43 transitional housing beds for 27 single women, up to 7 moms with children, including 10 beds for veterans, plus 2 beds for emergency shelter.

Medical Ministry

A partnership between Mission Hospital and ABCCM provides essential primary care services for the uninsured. We have a dental clinic that provides extractions.

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WHAT’S OUR STORY? Who are we? Hello! We’re the International Storytelling Center (ISC), the world’s foremost leaders in the modern storytelling revival. We’re headquartered in Historic Jonesborough, Tennessee.

How long have we been doing this? We started the annual National Storytelling Festival in 1973 with an audience of 60. From those humble beginnings, we sparked a global movement and helped professionalize the storytelling industry. Today the Festival is considered the largest and most prestigious storytelling event in the world. Our work has been featured by national outlets such as the New York Times, People magazine, Reader’s Digest, PBS, NPR and Sirius XM Radio.

What else do we do? ISC was established as an educational and cultural institution dedicated to building a better world through the power of storytelling. We annually host more than 26,000 visitors and produce over 300 hours of live storytelling concerts, including our acclaimed Storytelling Live! series that runs throughout the year. We also work with schools, organizations and underserved youth and communities. We work to inspire and empower people to capture and tell their stories to produce positive change in their lives and in the world.

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We develop storytelling collaborations in peace-building while promoting cross-cultural understanding by partnering with world-class organizations like Google, the Smithsonian Institution, NASA, the White House, the United Nations, and the Library of Congress to further our mission.

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giVe!LOcaL eVenTs caLendar 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 11/18 through 11/24.

by Abigail Griffin agriffin@mountainx.com

ANIMALS

display benefit N.C. Arboretum programs, exhibits, and facilities year-round. $18/$16 children.

ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ashevillehumane.org • SA (11/21), noon-4pm - “Hiking Hounds,” volunteers take shelter dogs on hikes. Registration required: ahshikinghounds@outlook.com. Free to attend.

CHARLIE’S ANGELS ANIMAL RESCUE 885-DOGS, wncanimalrescue.org • SA (11/21), noon-4pm - Animal adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Ace Hardware Mills River, 3340 Boylston Highway, Mills River

fRIENDS Of WNC NATURE CENTER wildwnc.org • SA (11/21), 1:45pm - “Wild Walk,” guided behind the scenes tour of the Nature Center. $30/$15 children. Held at WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road

BENEfITS GLOWGA YOGA fOR HELIOS WARRIORS 299-7003, helioswarriors.org • FR (11/20), 6:30-8pm - Proceeds from this glowlight Bikram yoga class benefit Helios Warriors, Inc. $10.

Held at Hot Yoga Asheville, 802 Fairview Road

HANDMADE HOLIDAYS MARKET artsforlifenc.org/handmadeholidays • SU (11/22), noon-5pm - Proceeds from this holiday market with a dozen local vendors benefit Arts For Life pediatric art & music lessons at Mission Children’s Hospital. Held at New Mountain, 38 N French Broad Ave.

N.C. ARBORETUM WINTER LIGHTS 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncwinterlights.com • SU (11/20) - SA (1/2), 6-10pm - Proceeds from this walking tour of the holiday animated light

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS CARE PARTNERS fOUNDATION carepartnersfoundation.org • FR (11/20), 6pm - “Light up a Life Celebration,” features the lighting of a “Tree of Life”. Held in Biltmore Park Town Square, 1 Town Square Blvd.

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.

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givelocalguide.org Thank you to all the Give!Local donors! The 60-day campaign is into its third week! The campaign provides a fun, fast and easy way to give online from $10 to $1,000’s.

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!

This weekend, Friday-Sunday, Nov. 20-22 is a Big Give Weekend! If you donate during a Big Give Event, there are wonderful prizes from local businesses available to thank some lucky donors for their generosity. Want to donate? Visit givelocalguide.org The Give!Local nonprofits stay busy throughout the year providing needed services to our community. The Community Calendar is happy to highlight events that are sponsored or held by these nonprofits throughout the Give!Local campaign.

workshop for those interested in farming. $55. Held at the AB Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler

fOOD & DRINK 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

VOLUNTEERING

144 Coxe Ave. CREATION CARE ALLIANCE Of WNC creationcarealliance.org • WE (11/18), 10-11:30am - Brunch and “Care of Creation” class for those who work with youth groups.

Sponsored by MountainTrue. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road • WE (11/18), 7-9pm - “NC WARN’s Climate Roadshow,” presentation by NC WARN to explain their Emergency Climate Response Campaign.

Sponsored by MountainTrue. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

fARM & GARDEN

vors of sexual violence.

ART THE CENTER fOR CRAfT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • FR (11/20), 5:30pm - “Beacon Blankets: Portrait of a Swannanoa Textile Mill,” presentation, reception and live music by Robert (Bert) Brown. Free to attend.

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CARE PARTNERS fOUNDATION carepartnersfoundation.org • FR (11/27) through TH (12/24) - Volunteers needed for gift wrap station at Asheville Outlets. Registration required.

ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (11/18), 5:30pm - The Magical World of Moss Gardening presentation by Annie Martin. Sponsored by MountainTrue. Free to attend. Held at Twin Leaf Brewery,

• Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survi-

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.

HEART Of HORSE SENSE heartofhorsesense.org • SU (11/22), 1pm - Volunteer orientation session.

Registration required.

HOMEWARD BOUND WNC homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required.

ART GALLERIES 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. $12 per vehicle.

• Through SA (1/3) - The Robot Zoo, exhibit featuring

N.C. ARBORETUM ncarboretum.org • Through SA (1/2) - Hundreds of volunteers needed for the Winter Lights exhibit FR (11/20) through SA (1/2) from 5:30-10pm nightly. Register online: ncwinterlights.org

giant-size robots and interactive displays to teach biomechanics of animals. $12 per vehicle.

THE CENTER fOR CRAfT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (11/28) - Emblematic, embroidery instal-

SUPPORT GROUPS

lation by Nava Lubelski. Artist talk: Nov. 18, 5:30pm.

Free to attend.

ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL organicgrowersschool.org • SA (11/21), 10am - “Farm Dreams,” entry level

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OUR VOICE 44 Merrimon Ave. Suite 1, 28801, 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org

• Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture, ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate. Free to attend.

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WELLNESS

Microbes to the rescue By lisa sarasohn lisa@loveyourbelly.com

When you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, just who will you be feeding?

In addition to invited guests, you’re hosting trillions of bacteria in your gut. The beneficial ones promote digestion, make nutrients, secrete enzymes, produce hormones, eliminate infections and help stabilize your mood and behavior. These microbes rely on you for sustenance.

Your health suffers when these beneficial bacteria go hungry and become scarce. Why? A decline in the population of beneficial bacteria allows pathological microbes to take hold.

According to gastroenterologist David May, naturopath Rebecca Word and herbalist Lindsay Wilson, research has linked disturbance in the gut microbiota to a variety of disorders. Such conditions include obesity, autism, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune diseases, allergies and metabolic syndrome — a collection of risk factors, including insulin resistance, that increase the likelihood of coronary artery disease, stroke and diabetes.

The roster of bacteria in your gut — which kinds are present in what proportions — depends not only on what you eat but also on which drugs you’ve taken.

KEEP YOUR GUT HEALTHY: Herbalist Lindsay Wilson suggests a variety of foods and herbs that promote gut health. Photo courtesy of Luisa Porter, Catfish Alley Magazine

Celebrity microbes Gut microbiota are in the spotlight these days, in part because of the bacterium named Clostridium difficile (“C. diff” for short). According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released earlier this year, C. diff is a health care-associated infection “estimated to cause almost half a million infections in the United States in 2011, and 29,000 people died within 30 days of the initial diagnosis.” Those who take antibiotics, especially older adults, are most at risk: In more than 80 percent of the fatal cases, the patients were 65 years old or older.

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May, a physician at Asheville Gastroenterology Associates, explains: “When the microbiota are disrupted with antibiotics such as clindamycin, penicillin and cephalosporin, then C. diff can take over and cause illness.”

He continues: “The incidence of C. diff infection has doubled in recent years. Although the infection can be community-acquired, it’s a major problem in hospitals and nursing homes.

About 10 percent of us are carriers for C. diff, and as many as 50 percent of patients in nursing homes may be carriers. Then, when there’s some type of insult, or an antibiotic eliminates beneficial bacteria, C. diff is there to take over. That’s when you get into trouble.”

What’s more, C. diff persists in the form of spores resistant to typical environmental cleaning methods. “C. diff can live for months on surfaces such as beds, toilets, medical equipment,” May explains. “It’s called difficile for a reason.”

Symptoms of C. diff infection include diarrhea, abdominal pain and dehydration. “If it gets severe enough,” says

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May, “the colon gets so distended and inflamed that it’s no longer functional, and you need surgery. It can be a very serious illness; it can be fatal.”

Standard treatment for the infection includes antibiotics that specifically target C. diff, such as flagyl and vancomycin. Such treatment, says May, is 80 percent effective.

But if infection recurs or persists, May considers an alternative. “If we’ve had someone who’s had two severe bouts or three mild to moderate bouts,” he says, “then we start thinking about fecal augmentation.”

Beyond the ’ick’ factor Fecal augmentation, also called fecal microbial transplantation, introduces bacteria from the gut of a healthy donor into a patient’s intestine. Transplanted from the donor’s stool sample, the beneficial bacteria help rebuild the patient’s gut microbiota and restore the patient’s ability to eliminate the C. diff infection.

Give thanks for beneficial gut bacteria and feed them well AGA physicians perform one or two such procedures a month as part of a sedated colonoscopy. “We’ve been doing fecal augmentation for about five years at our office,” says May, “but recently changed over to Mission Hospital after a protocol was developed there using OpenBiome for a stool source.” (OpenBiome is a nonprofit stool bank that provides thoroughly screened samples at a relatively affordable cost.)

Fecal augmentation is about 90 percent effective in eliminating C. diff overgrowth, says May. “We tell a patient we’re transplanting bacteria to repopulate the normal flora in your gut. The ‘ick’ factor doesn’t play a big role. When people come to us to consider fecal augmentation, they’re really at their wits’ end with this illness. They’re relieved to have a therapy that works so well. Most people have been sick for nine months, and they often get relief in three to four days. It’s one of the most satisfying things we do.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classifies fecal augmentation as an “investigational drug,” which allows physicians to use it only for C. diff and only after antibiotic treatment has failed.

The FDA does permit physicians to apply the procedure to other disorders in the context of clinical trials.

Research supported by The Fecal Transplant Foundation, for example, studies fecal transplantation in relation to conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease and autoimmune disorders.

Care and feeding of friendly bacteria Gut microbiota play a prime role in eliminating C. diff overgrowth.

Apparently, the gut microbiota also contribute to reducing — even better, avoiding — a long list of other miseries.

But how do we keep our gut microbiota healthy? “Only take antibiotics when you need to,” says May. “Antibiotics are only effective against bacterial, not viral, infections. The most important thing is

to take antibiotics only when they’re clearly indicated.”

Steering clear of proton pump inhibitors — medicines meant to reduce the production of stomach acid — is important as well, says naturopath Rebecca Word of Blue Ridge Naturopathic Medicine. Like antibiotics, she explains, “they decrease biodiversity in the gut.”

She cautions against artificial sweeteners as well, saying such products wage “chemical warfare on your gut flora.”

Keeping beneficial gut bacteria healthy requires both shielding them from destruction and continually replenishing their supply.

Herbalist Lindsay Wilson, who presented a “Restoring Digestive Health” workshop at the recent Organic Growers School’s Harvest Conference, recommends eating fermented foods. Her “all-star ferments,” common to traditional cuisines in cultures around the world, include yogurt, kefir, pickled vegetables, kombucha, sourdough, beet kvass and sauerkraut.

Although making pickled vegetables in your kitchen might at first seem foreign, says Wilson, “once you are in the rhythm of ferments, it takes no time at all.” She adds that, while probiotic supplements can support your gut microbiota, fermented foods give you an advantage: “Probiotic pills may have 50 million to 10 billion beneficial bacteria; one ounce of sauerkraut can provide as many as 10 trillion beneficial bacteria.

“We have different microbial cultures in our gut, based on what we’re eating,” Wilson continues. “Our gut is a garden.” To cultivate it, feed the friendly bacteria and help them proliferate, she says. Wilson suggests eating dandelion greens, radicchio, endive, onions, leeks, garlic, jicama, asparagus and chicory root.

She also recommends consuming gelatin-rich bone broths, high-fiber vegetables and soaked or sprouted nuts, grains, seeds and legumes.

tHanK gooDness Your gut health depends on what you eat and how you eat. “The nervous system is the first determinant of good digestion,” says Word. She advocates a relaxed, unhurried setting for meals.

“Eating is so much more than what we put in our mouths.

Turning off the television, chewing

thoroughly, taking time to really taste our food, sharing meals, enjoying the time with friends and family — these are the foundation for nourishing our bodies and our lives.”

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ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SU (11/22), 12:30pm - “Love the Life you Live,” women’s intention setting yoga workshop. $20.

by Abigail Griffin • SU (11/22), 4pm - “Mindfulness & Yoga for Recovery,” workshop. $20.

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• WE (11/18), 11:30am-4pm - Info & Appointments: 345-1780 ext. 3311.

Held at Aeroflow Healthcare, 3165 Sweeten Creek Road • FR (11/20), 10:30am4pm - Appointments & info: 1-800-REDCROSS. Held at Black Mountain Fire Department, 106 Montreat Road, Black Mountain • FR (11/20), 1:30-6pm - Appointments & info: 1-800-REDCROSS. Held at Carson Chapel Baptist Church, 504 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN Of ALCOHOLICS & DYSfUNCTIONAL fAMILIES adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

AL-ANON/ ALATEEN fAMILY GROUPS 800-286-1326, wnc-alanon.org • A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. For full listings,

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org ASHEVILLE WOMEN fOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks.

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BRAINSTORMER’S COLLECTIVE 254-0507, puffer61@gmail.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - For brain injury survivors and supporters. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 213-2508 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - For breast cancer survivors, husbands, children and friends. Held at SECU Cancer Center, 21 Hospital Drive CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 398-8937

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Tales from the Trail

Local AT thru-hiker publishes reflective novel

UP ON A RIDGE: After a little more than a year of work, 2014 Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Gary Sizer, seen here writing on his tablet, published his humorous reflection of his six months spent in the wild. Cover illustration and photo by Mark Calcagni

bY HaYleY benton hbenton@mountainx.com Standing on top of Mount Katahdin, — with more than 2,000 miles of trail behind him, dirt caked into his hiking boots and matted into his hair, his frame much thinner than it was six months ago — Appalachian Trail thru-hiker gary sizer already knew his journey wasn’t yet over.

In January, just a few months off the trail and back in his home of Asheville, Xpress sat down with Sizer in advance of an AT cover story. “I really feel like anything from this point on that I decide to do, I can do,” he said. “I now

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have an example I can look back on and say, ‘Goddamn, you can really do some amazing things, can’t you?’”

By then, he had already begun work on his next venture: a book about his experiences on the trail. And, as he stated earlier this year, he’s not a quitter — the trail proved that to him. Anything he decides to do, he can do.

A little more than a year after his return from Maine — which, by no coincidence, is also when he began work on his book — Where’s the Next Shelter? rolled hot off the press, and went on saleNov. 8.

Passionate about both the outdoors and writing, Sizer says the book was always part of the deal when planning for the trail. And to generate interest, he even set up a blog of the same name

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pre-hike, updating it frequently from atop mountain ridges, beside campfires and, of course, from the occasional Wi-Fiequipped hotel room.

Hearing news of his completed book, Xpress reached back out to Sizer to chat about Where’s the Next Shelter?

Xpress: tell me a little about your book. sizer: I’ve wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail for as long as I’ve known it existed. A few years ago, I began taking the dream seriously and turned it into a plan. Last spring I quit my job and hit the trail. Where’s the Next Shelter? is the book I wrote to capture and share the amazing things that happened out there.

what’s your favorite part (without giving anything away)?

The characters. There were new and interesting people every day. For example, one of my best friends on the trail was a cartoonist from Israel. So many things about our ecosystem and culture were new and surprising to him, and it was fun to experience the freshness of things vicariously through him. My other hiking companion was a young lady right out of college who had never backpacked for more than three days. Spending time with them in beautiful places and ridiculous situations was the best, so I tried my hardest to put the reader right there with us. There were a few crackpots too, but everyone was unforgettable.

what was the most challenging part of the writing process? did you ever find yourself stuck when writing about a certain time, place or event?

Leaving things out. If I were to describe every breathtaking view with the detail it deserved, or tell each person’s story to the fullest, it would be a five-volume set of 1,000-page epics.

All of those places and people were special to me, but this isn’t a list or a guidebook: It’s a story. what differentiates Where’s the next shelter? from other appalachian trail reflection pieces? i’m at the bookstore, and i’m trying to decide between Wtns and a Walk in the Woods — why should i pick yours? sell me on it.

Because you’ve already read that other one! But seriously, A Walk In The Woods is a terrific book about a couple of old guys attempting the AT as a way to reflect back on their lives. Where’s the Next Shelter? is about a tight group of young men and women that forms on the trail and uses the experience to look forward. It’s funny, surprising, sad in some parts and hopefully inspirational. Woven throughout are

detailed descriptions of trail life, not just the sweeping panoramas, but also the little things that no planning guide ever tells you. you’ve hiked a 2,000-mile uphill trail and you’ve written a 334-page book. which was harder, and why?

Each of those things was challenging for different reasons. The hike was definitely more demanding physically, but both tasks required levels of focus and drive I never knew I had.

I began writing almost immediately after finishing the hike. I spent months hiking around Asheville, carrying writing materials and my tent into the woods. I have been reliving the trail throughout the process, and now that both are complete, I can say they both felt like work in a way — incredibly difficult, immensely rewarding work. I’m already chomping at the bit for the next one!

copies yet, so getting them (and me!) into stores around town is next on the list. I’ve been making the rounds at REI locations in the Southeast, and I’ll be at all of the big AT events next spring: the Kickoff, Trail Days and a few others. And I’m a regular at The Moth, a story slam hosted every month in West Asheville [at The Mothlight].

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where can we find Where’s the next shelter? will it be available locally, and will you be doing any book signings or special events/promotions for your book?

It’s on Amazon in paperback and Kindle now. The book was released so recently that I don’t even have my

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Thanksgiving crowd-pleasers When it comes to Thanksgiving, local chefs find comfort in tradition

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Chefs tend to be pretty busy during the holiday season, but we managed to find a few who were willing to talk about some of their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. mary tantillo of Black Mountain’s Dolci di Maria Italian Desserts, duane fernandes of Isa’s Bistro, vicki schomer and neeraj Kebede of Addissae Ethiopian restaurant, chris sharpe of vegan meal delivery service Eden-Out Meals and scott ostrander of the Red Stag Grill at the Bohemian Hotel all offered ideas for Thanksgiving dishes that are a little out of the ordinary, but still steeped in tradition. They also told Xpress what they think makes for a great Thanksgiving meal.

GLOBAL TABLE: Addissae owners Neeraj Kebede and Vicki Schomer make sure their annual Thanksgiving Day meal mixes American custom with international flavors.

“We combine an American turkey with all the fixings with Ethiopian food,” says Schomer. “It’s quite the spread, and a real celebration and thankfulness for our diversity.”

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etHnic spin on a soutHern classic vicki schomer and neeraj Kebede, owners of Addissae, an Ethiopian restaurant, enjoy a dish called gomen, also known as Ethiopian collard greens.

Gomen From Addissae A staple of the Ethiopian cuisine, our collards are made from local greens and made fresh every day. A wonderful ethnic twist on an American favorite.

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“It graces our table each year,” Shomer says. “Certainly collard greens are popular in the South, and these have a little twist. And, they’re healthy too.” what makes for a great thankgiving meal?

“Each year, our Thanksgiving table is a gathering of dear friends,” says Schomer.

“We combine a traditional turkey with all the fixings with Ethiopian food. It’s quite the spread, and a real celebration and thankfulness for our diversity.”

8 quarts chopped collards 4 cups white onion 1¾ cups blended olive and canola oil 1/2 cup minced garlic 3 tablespoons minced ginger 1/4 teaspoon coriander 1-2 green chilis, seeded and quartered Salt to taste

Sweat onion without any oil or anything; stir constantly. When the onion’s moisture has dried off, add oil. Sautée until onions are slightly browned. Add collards. After five minutes, add garlic and ginger. Cook all until the water is gone. Add salt to taste. Add coriander and chili quarters at the end.

WitHout tHe meat chris sharpe is head chef at Eden-Out Meals, an Asheville-based vegan prepared-meals delivery service that is also mostly gluten-free. He will be making a stuffed pumpkin this year. He says this recipe is not only delicious, but festive too.

“It’s very appealing to a crowd and can fulfill the function of a turkey without being an actual turkey or seitan, and it’s 100 percent plant-based and glutenfree,” he says. what makes for a great thanksgiving meal?

“I appreciate holidays whose primary intention is to bring communities and families together,” says Sharpe.

“This is the truly special thing about Thanksgiving. Communal meals allow us to look past our differences. A great Thanksgiving offers a break from our hardships, our remorse, and allows us to appreciate the world around us and the work we have done to get to this point. From this perspective good company is the centerpiece of a good meal.”

Thanksgiving pakora-stuffed pumpkin From Chris Sharpe of Eden-Out Meals This is a kind of East-meets-West fusion.

Pakora is an Indian fried food, typically made out of chickpea flour. In this particular dish, I added some cornmeal/corn flour, in order to add a cornbread flair.

Serves four to six.

for the pakoras: Vegetables and fruits: 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 cup chestnuts (or other kind of nut) 1/4 cup sweet corn 3 ribs celery, diced 1 red pepper, diced 1 carrot, diced 1 onion, finely diced 1 leek, diced A few cloves of garlic, minced Herbs: A few sprigs of sage A few sprigs of thyme A sprig of rosemary Touch of parsley Touch of sea salt Touch of black pepper Flours, spices and seeds: 2 cups chickpea flour 1/4 cup corn flour 1/4 cup cornmeal 2 tablespoons ground chia seeds Sauté all of the vegetables and fruits in olive oil for several minutes. After a few minutes, sauté the herbs with the vegetables then add to a mixing bowl. Add the spices, the flours and the chia seeds to

the mixture. Add enough water or stock to form a thick liquid batter starting with a 1/2 cup and increasing until desired thickness, like a runny paste.

Heat up some high-heat oil in a large pan. Use enough oil to fill a small pot deep enough to fry the pakoras. Test the oil to see if it is hot enough by dropping a piece of batter in — if bubbles form, it’s ready.

Drop spoonfuls of batter into the oil and fry until the pakoras change from yellow to golden and, finally, to a darker golden color.

Pull them out with a slotted spoon and let the oil drip back into the pot for a few seconds. Once they have drained sufficiently, put them into a colander lined with a paper towel to dry for a day, just like you would dry bread for stuffing.

sometHing From mom mary tantillo, owner of Dolci di Maria, a gluten- and dairy-free bakery, says that no Thanksgiving would be complete without her mother’s stuffed mushrooms.

“I’ve had to substitute gluten-free bread crumbs to fit my family’s dietary needs, which is an easy replacement,” she says.

“This recipe was passed down to me verbally, actually by practice, so the measurements are not exact.”

It’s the kind of recipe that is pretty forgiving, says Tantillo, so experiment and make it your own. what makes a great thanksgiving meal?

“Thanksgiving is all about traditions,” says Tantillo. “It’s the launch of the holiday season, and I think it’s important to make it a special day. I find comfort in re-creating some of my family favorites that I grew up with.”

Stuffed mushrooms From Mary Tantillo of Dolci di Maria Italian-style dried bread crumbs (I make my own out of gluten-free bread — see recipe below) Grated pecorino Romano cheese (the imported variety is made from sheep’s milk, so it’s free of cow dairy) 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian flat-leaf parsley leaves Salt and freshly ground black pepper Extra-virgin olive oil Two containers of large white mushrooms, stems removed Clean and dry the mushrooms and remove the stems. Finely chop the stems and put them in a bowl large enough to hold the entire mixture. Add the breadcrumbs, Romano cheese, chopped garlic and parsley to the bowl and combine. Season with salt and fresh ground pepper to taste. Lightly coat a baking sheet with olive oil. Stuff each mushroom cap with the breadcrumb mixture. (It’s

9th Annual Plantsgiving

for the pumpkin: 1 large pumpkin (use a really nice heirloom pumpkin for taste as well as appearance) 1 stick vegan margarine, melted Several cups vegetable broth Cut a circle out of the top of the pumpkin and scoop the insides out, reserving the top. Add the melted vegan margarine and just enough stock to moisten the dried pakoras. Put the pakoras into the pumpkin and put the top back onto the pumpkin.

Bake the pumpkin in a dish at 350 degrees until the outside skin begins to caramelize.

It is then ready to serve.

OK if it heaps up a little; it will reduce during baking.) Drizzle olive oil over the center of each cap. Bake at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. Serve.

Homemade gluten-free breadcrumbs: (I use my week-old Dolci di Maria sandwich bread plus the heels of glutenfree bread I have saved in the freezer to make breadcrumbs.)

Old bread Salt Italian seasoning blend; or dried oregano, parsley, and garlic powder, to taste Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a food processor, pulse the bread until coarse crumbs form. Add seasonings and salt and continue to pulse until crumbs are the desired size. Line a baking pan with foil. Place the crumbs on top of the sheet and toast in oven for about 10 minutes. Stir the crumbs and bake an additional 5 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator or freezer.

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tHe DaY aFter scott ostrander, executive chef of the Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel, says he really enjoys the day after Thanksgiving. He likes this recipe because there are always tons of leftovers, and everyone gets tired of reheating them over and over.

“I have used this as a lunch special on Black Friday and also at home for a latenight snack on Thanksgiving night,” he says. what makes a great thanksgiving meal?

“For me, the best part of Thanksgiving is getting together with family and friends who you may not see often for a great meal (and some football on TV).

If someone else is cooking, it’s even better!”

After-Thanksgiving turkey pot pie From Scott Ostrander of the Red Stag Grille

Serves eight Sweet-potato biscuit crust: 1/2 cup cold butter, cut in cubes 1/2 cup shortening 4 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes 1 ½ cups buttermilk, more or less as needed Combine the dry ingredients with the butter in a food processor. Pulse on and off until the butter pieces are no larger than a small pea. Transfer to a mixing bowl and work the shortening in by hand until fully incorporated. Add the sweet potato and mix until combined. Add one cup of buttermilk and mix together to form a biscuit dough; use more buttermilk if needed (it will depend on the moisture content of your sweet potatoes). Transfer to a floured work surface and roll out to 3/4-inch thickness. Cut

into 2-inch rounds using a ring cutter or clean, empty soup can. Reserve the biscuit dough.

Filling: 3 pounds cooked turkey, white and dark meat 4 cups turkey gravy 2 cups cooked, diced carrots 1 cup cooked peas 1 cup cooked green beans 1 cup diced, sautéed onions Heat the gravy. If your gravy is exceptionally thick, thin it a little with water or chicken stock. Mix the turkey and vegetables together in a large casserole dish. Pour in the hot gravy and mix well.

Top the mixture with the reserved biscuit dough, making sure it is completely covered. Brush the biscuits with buttermilk or melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-35 minutes, until the biscuits are golden brown and the gravy begins to bubble up the sides. Let stand for 5-10 minutes before serving.

sometHing DiFFerent duane fernandes, executive chef, Isa’s Bistro, has come up with a different way to devour those juicy turkey legs – pulled turkey leg bread pudding.

“It’s fairly easy to make and definitely a crowd-pleaser,” he says. “It’s also somewhat different so it’s a good conversation starter.” what makes a great thanksgiving meal?

“In my family, a few of us will typically help in some form or fashion with the cooking,” Fernades says. “Even if something doesn’t come out perfect, it’s the fact that we are all together cooking, eating, drinking and having fun. When you put all those elements together, this is what really sets the Thanksgiving meal apart from others and makes it so great.

This tradition and the expected flavors are all too comforting.”

Savory pulled turkey leg bread pudding From Duane Fernades of Isa’s Bistro

Yields 10 servings 1/2 stick of butter 1 tablespoon chopped garlic 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons chopped thyme 2 tablespoons chopped sage 2 cups grated Parmesan cheese 1 pound of white bread, cut into cubes and dried overnight 1/2 pound cooked turkey leg, pulled and shredded 6 whole eggs 4 cups whole milk 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon ground black pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Over medium heat, lightly sauté the garlic, onion and celery with the butter for about one minute. Combine your sautéed vegetables with the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Add the bread pudding mixture to a casserole dish that has been lightly coated with cooking spray or coated with butter. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes or until the bread pudding has cooked together. If you prefer a crispy top to the bread pudding, simply remove the foil before the last 5 minutes of your cooking time.

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chesTnuTs paul dillman of Qualla Boundary makes traditional Cherokee chestnut bread. But he says he’s never tasted an American chestnut.

I met Dillman at jay huskey’s Cherokee Food Booth at the annual Cherokee Indian Fair, where he was preparing Indian dinners: green beans, fried cabbage, fried potatoes, fatback and grease, fried pork chops and the customer’s choice of bean bread or chestnut bread. Dillman’s mother, sue owle, ran Boundary Tree restaurant in Cherokee from 1967-1977, and growing up he learned Cherokee cooking from the older Indian women who worked there.

Chestnut bread is a variation of bean bread, a traditional staple food among the Cherokee. It’s prepared much the same way, just substituting chestnuts for pinto beans.

Dillman calls the bread a “grease delivery system.” He prefers it with butter, but “around here,” he says, “bacon grease is king.”

To make the bread, Dillman boils chestnuts, which are usually stored frozen to prevent weevils, then caramelizes them and mixes them with stoneground cornmeal and a little baking soda (traditionally wood ashes) and flour to form a a paste. He wraps the paste in cornhusks and seals them, then boils them for an hour. He then unwraps the husks and cuts the bread into slices, slathering each with fatback grease and sometimes sautéing some of the grease off to give the bread a little crispiness before sending it on its way.

The American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) that formerly served as the base for this dish were largely wiped out by the chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica, a pathogenic fungus brought to this country by imported Asian chestnuts in the late 19th century. The chestnut had been a prized lumber wood and was once a major part of the Appalachian forest canopy, but by 1940, the blight left the species on the brink of extinction.

In his chestnut bread, Dillman uses Chinese chestnuts (Castanea mollissima), which he says are larger than the American variety. He tries to get wild-picked rather than

A traditional food source of the Cherokee, the American chestnut is struggling to make a comeback in WNC

OLD (AND NEW) CHESTNUTS: At Long Branch Environmental Center, Paul Gallimore, right, is fighting to bring back the American chestnut with his grove of hundreds of backcrossed blight-resistant hybrids. Pictured, left, are Chinese chestnuts, which Paul Dillman of Qualla Boundary uses in his chestnut bread. Photos by Carla Seidl farmed nuts, both for taste to be able to save and reuse the flavorful water from boiling the chestnuts without worrying about, as he puts it, “bug spray.”

Dillman may never have tasted an American chestnut, but C. dentata does still exist in these parts, in the form of stump sprouts that sometimes grow up to 30 feet tall. paul gallimore, founder and director of the Long Branch Environmental Education Center in Leicester, explains that these American chestnuts can even make seed, but ultimately almost all of the trees perish due to the blight.

Gallimore has been involved in fighting for American chestnut restoration for over 35 years. At Long Branch, he keeps a nursery of backcrossed chestnuts, which are genetically 75 percent Chinese and 25 percent American.

On a recent visit, we walk around examining the dropped spiny and extremely sharp burs beneath the trees, in search of any chestnuts that have not already been discovered by squirrels, raccoons, opossums, skunks and the like. “Small mammals are happy to beat us to the chestnuts every year,” he says, “so we have to be after them early and often.”

I prick myself just gently picking one of the burs off the ground. Gallimore is quick to point to the ingenuity of Mother Nature in protecting its seed.

Imagine walking around barefoot on that, he says. Or putting your lips and tongue on it to try to get the chestnuts out.

We finally find a chestnut and Gallimore takes out his pocketknife to scrape away the inner skin before letting me taste the nut. Starchy and sweet, it tastes more like a carrot than a walnut.

“People are often surprised at how sweet the nut is,” Gallimore says. “To me, that flavor, you could put ’em in with anything.” He says he’s run chestnuts through the coffee grinder to mix with stir-frys and soups, but his favorite way to eat them is raw.

Arriving in this area in a school bus in the early 1970s, drawn to the abundance of green they saw on the map, Paul and his wife, pat gallimore, started out with 150 acres in Leicester and now protect over 1,400 acres as ecological sanctuary and wildlife preserve.

After starting Long Branch Environmental Education Center in 1974, their first project was an edible food forest, including apples,

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plums, peaches, pears, cherries, nectarines and hardy almonds. As the Gallimores found out about chestnuts, they brought them in as well.

Filling the gap left by the American chestnuts, acorns of oak trees replaced chestnuts as a food source for animals who once relied on chestnuts. Now, sudden oak death, as well as human pollution, is threatening our oak trees, says Gallimore. And if we lose our oaks, there is nothing else in the wings to replace that food source. So, he says, “It’s do-ordie time.”

Long Branch is home to hundreds of chestnut trees, and Gallimore encourages folks to come take some of the young backcrossed hybrids — for a donation — to plant on their own property. He also wants to get more of the hybrids to state and national forests to encourage crosspollination between the backcrossed and 100 percent American varieties.

Visitors are welcomed at Long Branch, but Gallimore appreciates a call or email first. For details, visit longbrancheec.org.

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by Kat McReynolds | kmcreynolds@mountainx.com $20,000 grant to All Hands Volunteers to support their rebuilding efforts.”

In the two years since its inception, the foundation has offered $1.2 million in grants to “funky, fun and innovative organizations” across the country, according to Leavitt. “Much of our efforts include working to get kids outside and active, promoting music, arts and culture, increasing recycling through our Crush it Crusade program, helping communities rebuild after floods and more,” she adds.

The nonprofit organization has also been active locally, holding a summer camp for kids at its Hendersonville ranch and bike course, where more than 20 bright-eyed participants got a tires-to-the-track lesson in mountain biking from a professional. Music and craft workshops were also offered.

This week, CAN’d Aid is partnering with members of Steep Canyon Rangers to offer a youth bluegrass clinic and instrument-raiser on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The foundation will donate 20 new acoustic guitars to enhance Artspace Charter School’s art curriculum.

The Big Money Chili-onaire is 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at Oskar Blues Brewery, 342 Mountain Industrial Drive, Brevard. All-you-can-eat tickets cost $15 per person and are available at avl.mx/202. Competitors’ registration is free. Visit candaid.giv.sh for more information on the CAN’d Aid Foundation.

can Do: Oskar Blues Brewery’s CAN’d Aid Foundation has offered $1.2 million in grants to quirky organizations since its inception two years ago. The underlying mission is to promote towns, active lifestyles, arts and the environment. Image courtesy of CAN’d Aid Foundation.

Oskar Blues Big Money Chili-onaire cook-off At Oskar Blues Brewery, giving back — or “do-goodery,” as the company calls it — involves lots and lots of chili. At least it will during the inaugural Big Money Chili-onaire cook-off. The event is a fundraiser for the brewery’s CAN’d Aid Foundation, which is “all about diggin’ in and makin’ a difference where we can,” says its program director, sarah leavitt.

“We’ve received quite a few entries that are suggesting their chili will be made with beer as a key ingredient,” Leavitt says, noting that

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the most successful chef of the day will be named during a crowning ceremony and will receive Oskar Blues swag and endless bragging rights. “Every attendee will receive a voting ballot, so this will be a king crowned by the people, for the people,” she says.

Festivities will also include a silent auction, games, cold Oskar Blues brews and live music throughout the night, according to Leavitt, who explains that funds raised will help with flood relief in South Carolina.

“On the day following the chili cookoff, a group of Oskar Blues Brewery staff and CAN’d Aid supporters are loading up a bus and heading to the hardest-hit areas of South Carolina for a weekend of mucking and gutting damaged houses,” she says. “This is in addition to canning more than 3,800 cases of water for flood victims and a

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asHeville miDDle scHool’s FiFtH annual maDe-FromscratcH pie FunDraiser For three days each November, Asheville Middle School students cut, peel, slice, roast, roll, mix and bake their way through about 70 made-fromscratch apple and pumpkin pies. The desserts are made from donated ingredients and sold for a $15 donation to support FEAST’s in-school programming, which promotes lifelong healthy eating choices by offering kids handson cooking and gardening lessons.

Pies can be picked up between noon and 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, in room A115 at Asheville Middle School, 197 S. French Broad Ave. Visit avl.mx/201 for more information or to complete an order form.

metroWines Hosts tHe Women oF Hi-Wire breWing “If you’ve ever wondered how Hi-Wire’s vintage circus theme comes

to life, come by and meet the women behind the story,” invites a newsletter from beer and wine shop MetroWines. The upcoming event is part of resident beer specialist anita riley’s Drink Like a Girl series, which periodically examines females’ various roles in the local beer industry. Illustrator charlotte oden and Hi-Wire marketing director abby dickinson will join Riley in discussing Hi-Wires’s branding over free samples.

The Hi-Wire tasting and talk is 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at MetroWines, 169 Charlotte St. Visit metrowinesasheville.com for more information.

HempeH maKes its Debut “After months of perfecting recipes, identifying local ingredients to utilize, tweaking labels and packaging and performing market research, Hempeh is finally here,” reads a newsletter from Smiling Hara Tempeh. The company’s hempfortified, soy-free peanut tempeh is now available at select health food stores, including Whole Foods and the French Broad Food Co-op.

The latter is offering Hempeh at a price of two packages for $8 until Wednesday, Dec. 2.

Visit smilingharatempeh.com for more information including a full list of retailers.

lex 18’s olD & neW time Dinner experience “Cozy, warm and charming, this pre-Thanksgiving dinner show blends old and new cuisine, [live] music and stories, celebrating Appalachia’s region and history,” reads a release from Lex 18 about its upcoming Old & New Time Dinner.

The candlelit evening begins with a moonshine flight cocktail reception before the locally sourced, fourcourse meal, including clam and corn chowder; pickled shrimp with peppers, onions and herbs; rack of elk with sour cherry demiglace, polenta cake and kalettes; and layered red velvet cake and cheesecake.

Vegetarian options are available.

The Old & New Time Dinner will have seatings at 5:45 and 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, at Lex 18, 18 N. Lexington Ave. Tickets, available at avl.mx/1zz, are $75 per person before tax and gratuity. X

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BreWing BeyOnd gimmicKs “The Aborigines have that,” he continues. “They feel like when they are hunting, they’re connected to everybody who has hunted before them. So it’s a form of immortality, where they are connected to this loop of constancy while they’re doing it. ... I like that idea with brewing too. I respect the brewers from 1840 who were making IPA and pale ale and porters to ship to India. I like getting in their head and trying to think about that. I think bringing that back to this modern age is way more interesting and creative.”

Zebulon Artisan Ales looks to the past, present and future for innovation The owner of the latest brewery to open amid Western North Carolina’s recent brewery surge literally wrote the book on beer.

Well, he wrote a book on beer anyway.

With the launch of Zebulon Artisan Ales in Weaverville, mike Karnowski, author of Homebrew: Beyond the Basics, former Green Man brewer

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BELIEf IN THE BREW: “I’m not worried,” says Mike Karnowski as he prepares to open Zebulon Artisan Ales. “I feel like as long as I’m true to the history of brewing, and being creative without being gimmicky, then it’s got to work.” Photo by Jesse Farthing. Inset photo of Karnowski with his first homebrew courtesy of the brewer.

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and longtime homebrewer, is excited to show the world what he’s learned during his decades of beer-making.

Zebulon Brewing doesn’t join the Vance Monument as a memorial to Zebulon Vance, North Carolina’s Civil War-era governor, Karnowski is quick to point out.

“I went through 10 different names that I wanted,” he says. “Everything is taken.”

Driving home one evening he saw the sign for the Zebulon Vance birthplace and decided to reclaim the name.

“It’s a cool word,” he says. “It was inspired by seeing his name, but it was not inspired by him whatsoever.”

Zebulon will be a small-batch operation where Karnowski will bottle-condition a variety of beers to sell from the brewery and distribute to the area.

There will be a small tasting room where patrons can sample 2-ounce cups of whatever is currently for sale, but there won’t be a bar where one can sit down and have a pint.

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He says all of the beers will probably contain Brettanomyces — a funky yeast that can lead to unpredictable fermentations. He also has plans for several other things that “really aren’t being done,” including traveling around North Carolina to gather wild yeasts, allowing spontaneous fermentations and bringing back historical brews from hundreds of years past.

a HistorY oF beer “I’m looking forward and seeing the future of beer and the creativity,” he says. “It just seems to be getting more and more gimmicky and just chasing trends. I think turning your back and going backwards is another way of being creative and different, but also grounded more in real beer. When I’m brewing, I like to get in the mindset reproducing what these guys were doing 150 years ago — connecting with my old brewers.

Karnowski’s journey into beer began in 1986 as a young man in the Army. He was stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and often travelled to Pike’s Place Market in Seattle to walk around and take in the sights.

“They had one of the first homebrew shops right there,” he recalls.

“We went in and thought, ‘Let’s make some beer!’”

He says his first run turned out surprisingly decent.

Eventually, he and his wife, gabe, opened a homebrew shop in New Orleans and ran it for 13 years, during which time he had access to all kinds of yeasts, malts and hops — and he experimented with them all.

Karnowski estimates he brewed over 1,000 beers during that time.

“Imagine being a cook, and you’ve never tried any of the spices or herbs in your cabinet before,” he says. “You either have to follow somebody else’s recipe … or you have to put in the time and use each spice, one at a time, and get to know that spice.

Then, in your head you can start combining them — without actually doing it, you can visualize in your head what you want.”

That’s the artistry to brewing, he says — the ability to visualize a finished beer, exactly as you want it, and break it down to just the ingredients.

“Any artist — a painter, a sculptor — they don’t just start whittling away randomly at a big block of stone,” he adds. “They remove what’s not

Leave the pie baking to us with our delicious scratch-made needed to get to what’s in there.

That’s kind of what good brewers are like too. They know what they want and they know how to go about getting it.”

moving on After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Karnowskis decided to close up the homebrew shop and move on from a city they’d started to grow weary of.

“We were 40 years old at that point,” Karnowski recalls. “New Orleans is great when you’re 21, but once you hit 40 … what are you getting out of it?”

They eventually settled on Asheville, where Karnowski landed a job as a brewer with Green Man. While there, he started Asheville’s first sour-beer program. He brewed in small batches using a single barrel from a rum distillery he had worked at in New Orleans that he had brought to Asheville in the back of his pickup truck. That one barrel eventually grew to three barrels and morphed from there into a successful sour program.

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Karnowski ultimately yearned for more freedom to experiment on a larger level than his homebrewing and small batches at Green Man could allow, and he began seriously considering his own brewery.

“He’d been talking about it for probably 20 years,” Gabe says. “We’ve been together a long time. … I was supporting him completely.”

Karnowski plans to have a few beers ready for sale by the end of the year but stresses that there’s no launch date set in stone yet.

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looKing aHeaD So what if it all fails? What if Karnowski is wrong, and the market isn’t there for what he plans to do?

To answer that question, he paraphrases science fiction writer J.G. Ballard’s 1981 essay, “Things I Wish I’d Known at 18.”

“They say that life is short,” Karnowski says. “But, the truth is, life is long. You’ve got plenty of time to f**k s**t up and recover. Don’t be afraid to take risks — because you can do that and fail, and it’s not a deal killer.” X

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North Carolina Writers’ Network celebrates 30th anniversary at fall conference in Asheville “We’re open to writers who are interested in leading a workshop getting in touch with us and sending a workshop proposal,” says Southern.

“We want to invite and engage writers who may be new to the network, but we also like to invite back old friends and teachers who are popular and we know will do a good job.”

The workshop roster includes five sessions held over Saturday and Sunday, with topics ranging from prose poetry and perfect first paragraphs to online tools and how to submit a manuscript. Each hourand-a-half session is meant to be accessible to newer writers. For those with more experience and a desire to delve deeper, Saturday also includes master classes in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.

(Those pre-registration-required workshops were full at press time.)

Asheville-based author and educator christine hale leads the “Using the Imagination in Memoir” class.

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LITERARY TOOLS: “I think it’s more friendly … than a lot of conferences,” says N.C. Writers’ Network Executive Director Ed Southern. “The purpose of our fall conference is to help writers produce those good manuscripts and get them into the hands of the right publisher or the right agent.” Pictured, the network’s 2013 Fall Conference in Wilmington. Photo by David Leone

bY alli marsHall amarshall@mountainx.com “Welcome to the Writingest State” is the greeting on the home page for the North Carolina Writers’ Network, a 1,400-member organization. Formed in 1985, it’s now one of the largest writers’ institutions in the country. And while the designation of “the writingest state” isn’t about to replace “First in Flight” on North Carolina license plates (it was actually a declaration made by Statesville-born author doris betts), it offers some explanation of both the success of the network and its biannual conference.

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“We try to honor the local literary community of whatever locale we happen to be in that year,” says Executive Director ed southern, who’s helmed both the network and its conferences since 2008. While the one-day spring event offers tools, discussion and insight into craft and marketing, the three-day fall conference is the network’s main event. While the gathering rotates locations throughout the state, this year it returns to Asheville, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Asheville-Biltmore Friday to Sunday, Nov. 20-22.

learning From locals Although some states might be hard-pressed to fill a writers’ con-

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ference with local literary experts, Southern has the opposite problem.

“Usually we have more writers that we’d like to involve than we do workshop slots on the schedule and rooms in the hotel,” he says. “Inevitably, there are at least a few writers who we’d love the invite but we simply can’t.” This year’s faculty, selected in part through recommendations by the network’s board members, includes YA author megan shepherd, middle grade author robert beatty and laura hopegill, the director of Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative writing program, among other locals.

“My thinking on that has evolved quite a bit, first from creating my own memoir,” says Hale. A fiction writer, her own foray into nonfiction came as a surprise. Her book A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations touches on tattoos she and her adult children got as a linking ritual, memories of her childhood growing up in Appalachia, plus ruminations on a series of Buddhist retreats. It will be published in the spring.

Hale has been teaching the class “Remembering, Misremembering, Disremembering” as part of the Great Smokies Writing Program. It delves into the question of how to approach memoir writing when the memory is so fallible. “A lot of people who haven’t written before want to write a memoir because they have a story to tell,” says Hale. “Some of them become very frightened that they won’t remember it ‘right.’” But there is no exactitude about experience, she says. It depends on who you are now, who you were then and how you interpret it.

A Warren Wilson MFA alumna, Hale is also an instructor at Antioch University Los Angeles’ low-

residency MFA program. “What I’d like to impart to people in the master class is, wherever you are in the process of writing a memoir, the fallibility of memory is your friend,” she says. “You’ve got to recognize that and turn it to literary advantage and personal advantage in terms of exploring the self.”

And, at a Sunday breakfast panel discussion, those interested in publication can hear from stephen Kirk, an editor at John F. Blair, Publisher in WinstonSalem; betsy teter, founder and executive director of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, S.C., and literary agents neeti madan (of New York-based Sterling Lord Literistic) and gary heidt (of Washington, D.C.based Signature Literary Agency).

For a new writer or a first-time conference attendee, the wealth of information can sometimes be overwhelming, but Hale offers a perspective on making sense of that treasure trove of resources. “If we go with an open heart and mind, we get what we need,” she says. “Trust that to put yourself in the company of other writers, you’ll hear something that you need to hear.” X

sometHing For everYone Beyond the fine-tuned work of a master class, the conference runs the gamut of industry tips, networking opportunities and writerly fun.

The schedule includes a keynote address by renowned author lee smith, open-mic readings, and — in celebration of the network’s 30th anniversary — a performance by local poet and musician Keith flynn and his band, The Holy Men. Flynn is the creator and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review and led the poetry-meets-rock band The Crystal Zoo in the 1980s and ’90s.

“I think it’s more friendly — or even egalitarian — than a lot of conferences,” says Southern. “We strive to be, and I think we are, more welcoming to new and novice writers.” There are other differences, too — many similar conventions focus on opportunities for writers to pitch their work to literary agents, editors and publishers. Workshops and networking are the focal point of the N.C. Writers’ Network conference, though a manuscript mart and critique service are available.

“The manuscript mart is a great opportunity to get real-life advice from a publishing professional,” says Southern. To participate, interested writers send in 20 pages of a project in advance of the conference. At the event, they sit down one on one for 30 minutes with a professional editor or agent and discuss what works, what doesn’t and what can make the manuscript more publishable.

“Even in this day and age when we hear all the dire warning about the decline of the publishing industry, we’re lucky to have hundreds if not thousands of good presses of all sizes and all niches who are looking for good manuscripts to publish each and every day,” says Southern.

“The purpose of our fall conference is to help writers produce those good manuscripts and get them into the hands of the right publisher or the right agent.”

SCHeDULe fRIDAY, NOV. 20 MEMORY LANE: “What I’d like to impart to people in the master class is, wherever you are in the process of writing a memoir, the fallibility of memory is your friend,” says local author and workshop instructor Christine Hale. Photo by Taylor Johnson Write on So why attend a writers’ conference in the first place? “Conferences are great because they’re accessible to more people in terms of time and money,” says Hale. She was recently part of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival and attended Writers in Paradise in St. Petersburg, Fla., when she lived in that state. “They’re a great place to make connections, to meet other writers. Everybody needs writing friends to read your work in progress.”

Making inroads with senior writers or publishers can be helpful, Hale points out, but “it’s almost like a business conference. You try to pick up two or three things that you can carry away with you.”

In the case of the Asheville event, it’s also an opportunity to hear from important regional authors whose body of work — still unfolding — is adding to Betts’ definition of The Writingest State. lee smith, who delivers the keynote address Friday, has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and Mercer University’s Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature (of which she was the first recipient). Kathryn stripling byer, featured at the Saturday luncheon, served as North Carolina’s fifth poet laureate.

• Registration and book sales, 3-10 p.m.

• Exhibitor tables open, 5-9 p.m.

• Opening reception, 7-8 p.m.

• Keynote address by Lee Smith, 8-9 p.m.

• Reception and book signing, 9-10 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOV. 21 • Registration table opens, 7:30 a.m.

• Book sales and exhibitor tables open, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

• All Stories Connect Panel Discussion: “Mountains Moving” with Debora Kinsland foerst, Dee James and Brent Martin, 8-9 a.m.

• Workshop Session I, 9-10:30 a.m.

“Believe It or Not! Fact or Fiction?” with Lee Smith “Web Tools for Writers” with Charles fiore and Nicki Leone “The Prose Poem” with Nickole Brown • Workshop Session II, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

“Creative Nonfiction: Exploring Possibilities, Generating New Work” with Catherine Reid “Writing Young Adult Fiction” with Megan Shepherd “The Art of Editing Poetry” with Keith flynn • Luncheon featuring Kathryn Stripling Byer, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

• Network town hall meeting, 1:45-2:15 p.m.

• Workshop Session III, 2:30-4 p.m.

“Narrative Medicine: Stories in Clinical Care” with Laura Hope-Gill “Jump-Starting the Gentle Reader: That Perfect First Paragraph” (fiction) with Wayne Caldwell “Writers and the Law” with Heather Newton • Faculty readings, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

• Network banquet featuring Keith flynn & The Holy Men, 7-8:30 p.m.

• Open mic readings, 9-10 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 22 • Registration table open, 7:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

• Book sales and exhibitor tables open, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Brilliant at Breakfast Panel Discussion:

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WRITE THIS WAY: Lee Smith, whose most recent novel, Guests on Earth, was set in Asheville, gives the keynote address at this year’s N.C. Writers’ Network Fall Conference. Photo by Diana Matthews Photography “Agents and Editors” with Gary Heidt, Stephen Kirk, Neeti Madan and Betsy Teter, 8-9 a.m.

• Workshop Session IV, 9-10:30 a.m.

“Writing Description that Means Something” (fiction) with John Lane “Personal Poetry Dives into Archetype” with Katherine Soniat “Memoir Plus: Doing More With Memoir” with Jeremy B. Jones “Writing Middle Grade Fiction” with Robert Beatty “Ready to Submit?” with Joy Neaves • Workshop Session V, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

“Getting Out of Your Own (and Your Character’s) Way: Guided Fiction Writing” with Pamela Duncan “Guiding Others through Places You Love” with Danny Bernstein “To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme, That is the Question” with Laurence Avery “Mystery 101” with Vicki Lane “Shelf Reliance: Building Productive Partnerships with Independent Booksellers” with Amy Cherrix • Closing conversation and raffle, 12:30-1 p.m.

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hOmeBOys Holy Ghost Tent Revival embraces life in Asheville

UNDER COVER: Holy Ghost Tent Revival paused backstage at The Mothlight on July 11 before performing Beck’s Midnite Vultures album. The band revived the show Nov. 9 at Brooklyn Bowl. “The trick is to choose something that will sell well, but something that won’t be next to impossible to pull off,” says Matt Martin, center. Photo by Evoke Emotion Photography For close to a decade, Asheville audiences have welcomed Holy Ghost Tent Revival with open arms, regardless of the band’s ZIP code.

Now that the six-piece rock group has made the Buncombe County seat its base of operations, its members are embracing the special responsibility of delivering for their neighbors out in the crowd.

“Whenever you play a hometown show, the pressure is always on to make the next one the biggest, the best,” says guitarist and singer matt martin. “How do you make it different and fresh? At the end of the day, though, you can’t beat yourself up too much — just get the posters up, get the word out on the street and on the radio, hit your mark and bring the heat to the stage.”

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HGTR returns to The Grey Eagle Saturday, Nov. 21, the third show at the venue since the musicians’ relocation a little over a year ago. In that time, the band also produced a full-album cover of Beck’s Midnite Vultures at The Mothlight in July and opened for The Suffers at Downtown After 5 in September. Without band manager jason mencer and backup singer dulci ellenberger, both longtime Asheville residents, those shows likely wouldn’t happen. Along with the cumulative power of positive experiences in town, Mencer and Ellenberger incited a snowball effect that gradually pulled HGTR (including stephen murray, Kevin williams, hank widmer, charlie humphrey and ross montsinger) to them.

Martin is currently the only member of the band not living in Asheville, but estimates that he comes into town “about 18 times a month” from his home in Abingdon, Va. Prior to moving there, he spent the better part of a decade in Greensboro. He and Murray were prominent players in Greensboro College’s theater department and crossed paths with music majors Widmer and Montsinger on a near-daily basis in the Odell Building, where both programs are housed. Other than fond memories and good friends left behind, however, Martin doesn’t miss much about The Gate City, especially not on a professional level.

“Asheville has a community of music lovers and venues that simply doesn’t exist in Greensboro. There’s one sizable room — The Blind Tiger — and you’ll be lucky to have 500 people in there one night of the year,” Martin say of his former home. “Asheville has so many more options for nightlife, not to mention scenery that keeps the heart and mind inspired.”

Additional benefits of living close to one another include more streamlined pickups and drop-offs to and from tours, easier practice logistics and the opportunity for side gigs throughout the week. Of the band’s most exciting collaborations, Martin identifies Ellenberger’s new project, big sound harbor. (As the backing band, HGTR members are “the big sound — or the harbor, depending on how you look at it,” Martin says.) The inverted configuration makes its official debut at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall Friday, Dec. 4.

Along with fellow singer alyse baca, Ellenberger was also involved in performing Midnite Vultures. The project was undertaken in part to draw in members of the Asheville community who weren’t yet aware of HGTR’s hometown status, but shared a fondness for Beck. Preparing for the show posed numerous challenges, such as the album’s plentiful electronic aspects.

Along with the fresh musical skills acquired in the hours of hard practice, the fun of incorporating wild costumes, elaborate stage decorations and ripped-from-YouTube choreography added energy to the band’s already vibrant live shows.

“You learn so much when you completely absorb a project like doing an album top to bottom,” Martin says.

“The experience embeds itself in you. Knowing what makes an album work or not work is something you

SYD BaRReTT SHINeS ON aT a U R O R a B e N e f I T In March 1968, Pink Floyd frontman syd barrett parted ways with the band and was briefly hospitalized amid speculation of schizophrenia brought on in part by his use of psychedelic drugs.

With the help of David Gilmour, who took his place in the group, Barrett recorded two solo albums in 1970 and briefly played with the band Stars in 1972. With the exception of a serendipitous appearance at Abbey Road Studios in 1975, when Pink Floyd was finalizing its Barrett ode, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” he withdrew from the music world and spent his remaining days in his native Cambridge, England. There, he painted large abstract canvases until his death in 2006.

The influential artist is the focus of a tribute show at The Grey Eagle. The event aims to help raise funds and awareness for Asheville’s Aurora Studio & Gallery, which gives people with mental health, addiction and homelessness issues an outlet for their creativity. Performing Barrett’s songs is The Mad Cap Collective, featuring members of Asheville groups Alarm Clock Conspiracy, Wham Bam Bowie Band, Pawtooth, Sunshine & the Bad Things, The Dirty Badgers, Velvet Truckstop, CarolinaBound and others.

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can take into the studio when you’re making your own record.”

On that note, HGTR is currently paring down just over 20 songs for its follow-up to 2014’s Right State of Mind. The tracks “have this minor-key, soulful, sort of bothered aspect to them,” Martin says. “We’re trying to tap in to the consciousness of what it seems a lot of people are feeling. We’re trying to toe the line between political and accessible. [It’s] still a continuation of what we were doing on Right State of Mind. We took the lessons we learned from that process — namely, how to establish and maintain a groove — and applied them to how we currently write music.” X

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might look on paper, Oslance and Parish aren’t pretentious musical snobs. “We both play with a lot of different musicians in Asheville,” says Parish. “We play with people making roots, jazz and world music. So we’re really involved in the [local music] community.”

Ahleuchatistas performs a freeadmission album release show at The Mothlight Friday, Nov. 20.

Parish goes on to note that the inspiration for Ahleuchatistas,

when the band formed in 2002, was “progressive and punk rock. A freefor-all, designed to be as creative as we wish.” He adds that the musicians were surprised at the reaction to their sometimes amelodic approach. “I really didn’t know that people would be as interested as they were,” he says.

That interest — locally and well beyond Western North Carolina — has only increased over the years. The soon-to-be-released Arrebato is the group’s eighth fulllength album. (Fans of previous Ahleuchatistas recordings include avant-garde legend John Zorn.)

“Some of the music on Arrebato was composed and modified on our last trip to Spain,” says Oslance.

“The song ‘Rincon Pio Sound’ was composed in the car on the way to a show. We learned it at sound check and performed it that night.” Oslance adds that the track expresses the anticipation and joy the duo felt as they approached a gig that would include many friends in the audience.

Ahleuchatistas’ music has the feel of improvisation, though their pieces are tightly constructed and never meandering or jammy. That feeling of a bridge between form and improv is intentional, says Parish. “All of the tunes are composed, but there’s freedom to interpret [them] differently each time.”

Because they create ambitious instrumental music, Ahleuchatistas’ relationship between guitar and drums is different than in a more standard format, wherein bass and drums serve as rhythm section.

“We figured out how to capture a full sound before Ahleuchatistas became a duo,” says Oslance. He and Parish had already begun an improvisation-based duo as a side project. When the group’s original bassist left the lineup, the

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THEY REIGN IN SPAIN: The instrumental math-rock of Ahleuchatistas’ Arrebato, the band’s eighth album, honors the music collectives that guitarist Shane Parish, left, and drummer Ryan Oslance encountered while touring the Iberian Penninsula.

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remaining members folded that improv sensibility into their music and continued as a two-piece.

Some of those improvisations made it onto the first Ahleuchatistas duo record, 2011’s Location Location.

Oslance describes some of the elements that go into Ahleuchatistas’ music: “droning bass frequencies, looping and me filling in the low end on drums.” He says that a goal of the music is “keeping the energy high.”

Parish believes the duo format allows “more rhythmic freedom.

When things are a little more open, you can really communicate a lot.”

He suggests that the music can be more “fluid and direct” with two people, when the musicians aren’t necessarily “locked into a particular groove — groove can sometimes box you in rhythmically.”

The musicians in Ahleuchatistas communicate without the use of words, but are their songs about anything? “Yes,” Parish says.

“Sometimes a song title will communicate that. It’s often more of a feeling. ‘Shelter in Place’ refers to the general order that was given to the people of Boston during the time of the Marathon bombers. That was a foreboding, spooky thing to tell an entire massive city.”

The song aims to convey that sense of disquiet and danger.

The music on Arrebato also pays wordless tribute to the DIY groups with which Ahleuchatistas formed bonds while in Spain, Parish says.

Those groups share a “collectivist, community mindset and a sort of radical ethic to create culture.”

But, he cautions, “it can be somewhat disingenuous to give most of our songs a specific meaning.” X

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Everything is a work in progress The Dave Rawlings Machine hitches new songs to folk traditions “We’ve only made one video … we’re not really video people,” says singer-songwriter dave rawlings.

But the one he made, with longtime partner and collaborator gillian welch, is the just-released visual companion to “The Weekend,” the lead song from from the new Dave Rawlings Machine album, Nashville Obsolete. The tour for that album brings Rawlings, Welch and their band to The Orange Peel Tuesday, Nov. 24.

“I hit the weekend end, just like a freight. I got there early, I couldn’t wait,” Rawlings sings on the video while he and Welch load the ’65 Chevy Impala they first toured in.

Then they drive from Nashville to the California coast. Dressed in his-and-hers Nudie suits, they visit small-town street corners, diners, empty stretches of highway and finally at the beach. They play the ambling, dusky song on their guitars at every stop. The road trip is real — every mile and a mechanical pit stop — as videographer reid long can attest.

“We’ve done that drive enough that all that matters is if we break our record, which is 26 hours and 30 minutes, or something,” Rawlings says. The idea for the video came from the musician’s theory that if you left Nashville just before rush hour on Friday and drove straight though, you could make it to the California coast in time for sunset on Saturday. “Then you could get back in your car and drive back to Nashville in time for work on Monday,” says Rawlings. “It would be the funniest weekend.”

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Rawlings is no stranger to the road.

He spoke to Xpress while traveling from Billings, Mont., to St. Paul, Minn.

(13 hours, 850-plus miles), with Welch.

The two met in their 20s at the Berklee College of Music. For years they were billed as Gillian Welch, with her voice at the forefront of the shared project.

It wasn’t until 2009 that they released A Friend of a Friend under The Dave Rawlings Machine moniker.

Even now, Rawlings says, it’s not always clear, in the songwriting process, which band a song is for. “With this project, once we had decided that I was going to try to sing a few, then we set out in earnest to try to write some others, and take some other songs that were in progress and fashion them so that they would suit me a little more,” he says. “It can happen that we would get somewhere in the middle of the song with Gill singing it, and I’ll say, ‘It sounds great with you singing it. Let’s not worry about it for this record.’”

Everything is a work in progress, he adds.

That mutability not only speaks to Rawlings’ and Welch’s working relationship, but to the folk tradition they’re part of. The duo were featured in the concert film Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis, which edited together live performances, interviews, backstage jams and practice sessions from the t bone burnett-produced concert inspired by the titular movie.

The chemistry and instant community of the film’s performers is palpable, and Rawlings and Welch’s onstage collaborations with willie watson and The Punch Brothers are standouts.

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TEAMWORK: “To us, a song is a song,” says Dave Rawlings of his work with longtime partner Gillian Welch. “Gillian and I, as performers, have different strengths, and we try to tailor the songs a little bit. Let’s make it a little more rambunctious, in my case, so I have more to dig into. We’d arrange them differently if Gillian sang them.”

Photo by Henry Diltz (guitar and vocals), jordan tice (mandolin), brittany haas (fiddle) and paul Kowert (bass) — Rawlings blends contemporary Americana sounds with references to the folk songbook. The poignant “Pilgrim (You Can’t Go Home)” name-checks Louis Armstrong’s “The St. James Infirmary.” That locale “has a certain weight. It’s a powerful phrase, even if you’re not familiar with the original song,” Rawlings says.

The title track pulls in the Grateful Dead line, “Goin’ down the road, feelin’ bad,” putting a wistful spin on the lyric. “Because we’re musicians and writers who’ve been very interested in the folk music of America and the shared language that all these songs have, all those songs are together in a big room in our minds,” Rawlings says.

“Sometimes we connect something we’re working on to something older because of our love for that language.”

He adds, “I don’t mind making a quick reference to Woody Guthrie or The Grateful Dead or whatever. I like making those connections.” In a twist on that theme, Welch added a line to the gospel chestnut “I’ll Fly Away” for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, and now that contribution is, if under the

radar, part of the historical record of that song.

But Rawlings’ and Welch’s shared career is not going unrecognized.

The pair recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at the Americana Music Association’s honors show. “To be included in the group of people they give that award to was amazing,” says Rawlings. At the same time, “It felt premature to us. We both feel like we want to do a lot more writing.” X

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It’s a Wonderful Life — Live from WVL Radio Instead of upcycling textiles or other materials, local actor and producer Willie Repoley of the Immediate Theatre Project has reinvented It’s a Wonderful Life as a theatrical experience with a twist. Set at the studios of fictional WVL Radio in 1945, the work follows “a ragtag group of station employees” as they face a crisis. With a storm raging outside, they soldier through a live interpretation of the classic screenplay for their listeners. (Hint: It’s a play about people performing a play on air.) At best, the characters can reap redemption like that which George Bailey (the original protagonist) enjoys once a guardian angel points out his life’s significance. Adding to the production’s oldtime radio feel are the cast’s live sound effects, created using materials like coconuts and sand, egg beaters and a mixing bowl, and cranking gears, metal poles and splashing water. Isis Restaurant & Music Hall hosts the annual performance, including music by local artist Nathan Shirley, Wednesday, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m. $15/$20. isisasheville.com.

Photo courtesy of the Immediate Theatre Project

The third of Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s seven Masterworks concerts for the 2015-16 season spotlights Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” — “an orchestral suite that explores the cosmos and the astrology of our own solar system,” according to a release from ASO. This production requires a massive group of 83 orchestra members and 73 women’s chorus members “to reflect Holst’s fascination with the scope of our solar system.” Also on the evening’s program is Joseph Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante, Op. 84, which calls for solos by some of the group’s principal musicians, including Jason Posnock on violin, Alicia Chapman on oboe, Franklin Keel on cello and Michael Burns on bassoon. Led by ASO music director and conductor Daniel Meyer, the show takes place at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. $22-$62 adults (student/youth discounts available). ashevillesymphony.org.

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William Wegman Photographer William Wegman is easily identified by his muses — his own Weimaraners, who pose in costume or with objects. Wegman’s first famous K-9 model, Man Ray, was named Man of the Year by Village Voice in 1982, proving that pet photography could be elevated to high art. The artist’s work — much of it focused around Man Ray’s successor Fay Ray and her offspring — also includes film, video and a series of children’s books. The exhibit William Wegman: Cubism and Other-isms, is on display at the Asheville Art Museum through Sunday, Jan. 24. Wegman gives a lecture on his work and career at Diana Wortham Theatre Thursday, Nov. 19, 6-7:30 p.m. Free with museum membership or admission ($8 general/$7 seniors and students). Reservations required, call 253-3227. ashevilleart.org. Pictured,“Constructivism,” 2014, pigment print, 40 x 50 inches. Edition 1/4

by Wegman, courtesy of the artist and Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York.

J. Scott Brownlee Requiem for Used Ignition Cap is a literary tour of J. Scott Brownlee’s rural home of Llano, Texas — with extended stops in the less glamorous parts of town. Years of residency have equipped the poet with an added ability to glimpse the plight of unexpected subjects (dead animals, for example) while also underlining the town’s everyday norms.

One poem in the collection scrutinizes modern hunting, as Brownlee adopts the perspective of a dead buck: “Am I the wine and bread for them — these suburban hunters? … Glassy-eyed and useless, I’ll return finally as absurd centerpiece nailed between my brothers. These men full of whiskey and bad sense used a beam to freeze and defeat me.” Brownlee releases his collection — the second work from spiritually engaged local publisher Orison Books — with a free reading at Malaprop’s Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. malaprops.com. Cover image courtesy of Orison Books mountainx.com

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com Music at UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • FR (11/20), 1:15pm - Chamber Music Chat: Kate Steinbeck and Fred Lemmons discuss the “Trouble with Trebles.” Free. Held at the OLLI center.   • FR (11/20), 3pm - Symphony Talk: Asheville Symphony Orchestra Director Daniel Meyer and Chip Kaufmann discuss the upcoming symphony program. Free. Held at the Reuter Center.

• SU (11/22), 3pm - UNCA Student Ensemble “Gala Holiday Concert.” Free. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Music at WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • SU (11/22), 3pm - David Holt, traditional music and storytelling. Rhiannon Siddons, Balsam Range, Josh GoForth and The Branchettes. $35 and up. Held at the Bardo Center.

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‘WILEY AND THE HAIRY MAN’: The UNC Asheville drama department senior students are presenting uniquely upcycled performances of the family-friendly play Wiley and the Hairy Man on Thursday-Saturday Nov. 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. at the UNCA Belk Theater. “There were more than 1,800 plastic bags donated to us and made into plarn, or plastic bag yarn. There were hundreds of plastic bottles, cans, cardboard boxes, Styrofoam sheets and inserts, and electronics donated to our performance,” said Melissa Benson, the production’s stage manager. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for students. Photo courtesy of the UNCA communication and marketing department (p. 70) Art The events in this section are listed in the Give!Local Calendar Highlights Section (p. 46) 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.

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 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 Benchspace Gallery & Workshop 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • FR (11/20), 5:30-7:30pm - “Beacon Blankets: Portrait of a Swannanoa Textile Mill,” an evening of film, music, and stories about the Beacon Manufacturing Company. Free.

Black Mountain Iron Works 203 Padgettown Road, Black Mountain, 669-1001, blackmountainiron.com • SA (11/21), 11am-5pm - Open studio day in conjunction withShepardson Studios. Free to attend.

Grovewood Gallery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (11/20) & FR (11/27), 11am-4pm - Karen Kennedy demonstrates needle felting. Free to attend.

Holiday Gift & YART Sale 693-8504, acofhc@bellsouth.net • SA (11/21), 9am-3pm - The Arts Council of Henderson County hosts a combination art and art supply sale and yard sale. Free to attend. Held at First

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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. Cathedral of All Souls

Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville

personalities answer questions about random topics presented by the host. $12.

Art/Craft Fairs Art at UNCA art.unca.edu • FR (11/20), 4-7pm & SA (11/21), 10am-2pm - UNCA Students Annual Holiday Art Sale. Held in the Cooke Gallery.

• SA (11/21), 10am-2pm - UNCA Students Annual Holiday Art Sale. Held in the Cooke Gallery.

Marshall Handmade Market marshallhandmade.com • SA (11/21), 10am-5pm - Arts & crafts market with over 50 artists. Free to attend. Held at Marshall High Studios, 115 Blanahassett Island, Marshall Sugar Hollow Artisans Holiday Market • SA (11/21), 10am-5pm - Arts & Crafts Fair with over a dozen artisans. Free to attend. Held at High Meadow Events Center, 200 Sugar Hollow Road, Fairview

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

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• SU (11/22), 3pm - Barbara Bates Smith performs selections from Guests on Earth, Fair and Tender Ladies

Voorhees Family Art Show & Sale 698-8775, voorheesfamilyart.com • SA (11/21), 10am -5pm & SU (11/22), noon-5pm Annual art show & sale. Free to attend. Held in a private home at 89 Woodward Avenue.

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Music BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA • HOLIDAY FANTASIES • WITH THE REUTER CENTER SINGERS (pd.) • Saturday, December 5, 2015, 3pm; Ferguson Auditorium, AB-Tech • Sunday, December 6, 2015, 3pm; Folk Art Center, BRP. • General Admission: $15; Friends of BRO: $10; Students: $5. Tickets available online and (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville. • Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org Asheville Symphony Orchestra 254-7046, ashevillesymphony.org • TH (11/19), 10am - Asheville Symphony Guild hosts astronomer Bernard Arghiere for discussion. Free. Held at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 10 North Liberty St. • SA (11/21), 8pm - Masterworks Series: The Planets, orchestral suite by Gustav Holst. $22 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (11/20), 7:30pm - Acoustic Corner instructors concert. $15.

Cathey’s Creek Community Center Island Ford Road, Brevard • SA (11/21), 7pm - Carolina Blue, bluegrass. $5/$3 under age 12.

Music at Mars Hill 866-642-4968, mhc.edu • TH (11/19), 7:30pm - Fall Voice Recital. Free. Held in Broyhill Chapel.

• MO (11/23), 7:30pm - Percussion Ensemble Concert.

Free. Held in Moore Auditorium.

accompanied by musician Jeff Sebens. Free to attend.

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. Immediate Theatre Project 239-0263 ext. 140, new.immediatetheatre.org • WE (11/25), 8pm - Live From WVL Radio: It’s A Wonderful Life. $20/$15 advance. Held at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/22) Washington Place. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $23/$18 advance.

Theater at UNCA 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • TH (11/19) through SU (11/22) - Wiley and the Hairy Man, UNCA student theater. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $12/$10 faculty & students/$7 children. Held in the Carol Belk Theatre.

Theater at WCU 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • WE (11/18) through SU (11/22) - WCU’s School of Stage and Screen present Blithe Spirit. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $16/$11 seniors/$10 students.

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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.

sol art by Gus Cutty.

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.

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ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (1/9) - Akira Satake hosts the Ceramic Invitational.

• Through SA (1/9) - To the Harbormaster, paintings by Amanda Seckington.

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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.

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ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through (12/16) - New Orleans....

Honoring her resilience, her heart, photography by Maureen Scott. Held in Ramsey Library.

ASHEVILLE MUSEUM 35 Wall St., 785-5722 • FR (11/20) until SA (4/30) - The Interbeing Project, photography by Bonnie Cooper.

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GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through TH (12/31) - Vessels of Merriment, exhibition of handcrafted drinking vessels by 25 artists.

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

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PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through MO (11/30) - Satanic Panic, aero-

REVOLVE 122 Riverside Drive • Through SU (11/22) - Here to There, exhibition of small works and performance by graduate students at WCU.

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, • 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.

TRYON fINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • FR (10/16) through SA (11/28) - Sculpture 2015, exhibit featuring local and southern artists.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT 252-7489, wncap.org • Through TU (12/1) - Displaying the NAMES PROJECT AIDS Memorial Quilt. Opening ceremony and panel discussion: Nov. 23, 6pm. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

CLUBLAND 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, altrock), 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm 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 Billy Litz (Americana, soul), 9pm 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 ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Jay Brown (folk, country, blues), 7pm The Patrick Dodd Band & The MoBros (Southern rock, blues), 8:30pm

DIGG fROM DENVER: Don’t be fooled by the Wild West get-up: the Denver-based musicians in Digg bring “a unique and progressive fusion of rock, blues, funk and jazz, blending styles to create a diverse yet cohesive sound,” according to a passage from the band’s bio. The high-energy funk group will pop into One Stop Deli & Bar in downtown Asheville for a show on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 10 p.m. Upstairs at Asheville Music Hall, the beat goes on with funk-rock-soulsters The Fritz and Goldie & The Screamers.

JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

LEx 18 Shelia Gordon (Bonnie Raitt tribute), 5:45pm

LAzY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm MOUNTAIN MOJO COffEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

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.

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 ONE WORLD BREWING Ben Phan (indie, folk, acoustic), 8pm

ORANGE PEEL Slow Magic & Giraffage w/ Daktyl (electronic, pop), 9pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Campfire Reverends (blues, Americana), 6pm

TIMO’S HOUSE “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm

ROOM Ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9pm

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

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 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

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

THE MOTHLIGHT Band of songwriters w/ Millie Palmer, Hannah Kaminer & Brian Claflin, 8pm

185 KING STREET Jamison Adams Project (singer-songwriter, folk, rock), 8pm

THE NATIONAL Get Down Family Jam (funk, soul, blues), 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 8pm

THE PHOENIx Jazz night, 8pm

ALTAMONT THEATRE A Jew & A Black Guy (comedy), 9pm

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

BARLEY’S TAPROOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE Chris Rhodes (jazz, blues, R&B), 6:30pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm

ROOM Ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM Beyond Chicken (Americana), 8pm

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Dennis Carbone (folk, rock), 7pm

CLASSIC WINESELLER ’Round the fire w/ Chris Minick, Greg Kidd & Lee Kram (rock, blues, reggae), 7pm

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Sean Bendula (singer-songwriter), 7pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 7:30pm One Leg Up (swing), 7:30pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm CROW & qUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime, jazz), 9pm DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Open mic night w/ Arjay Sutton & Melissa Blazen, 7pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Big Block Dodge (funk, jazz), 7pm SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6pm

ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

TALLGARY’S AT fOUR COLLEGE Open mic w/ Datrian Johnson, 7pm

fOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Devyl Nellys (funk, groove, jam), 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30pm

fRENCH BROAD BREWERY Dave Dribbon (acoustic), 6pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Lizz Winstead (comedy, satire), 8pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Community night w/ Asheville Humane Society, 4pm

THE NATIONAL Live DJ (dance, hip-hop), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm TOWN PUMP Bull Moose Party (bluegrass), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Kristin Andreassen & Rayna Gellert (old-time, indie, folk), 7pm

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAzz AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

LAzY DIAMOND Naked Gods w/ The Blots & Drag Sounds (rock ’n’ roll, jangle, prog), 8pm

TWISTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8pm

LEx 18 Alex Taub (jazz standards), 6:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am ODDITORIUM Air Roar w/ Sentiments & Fashion Bath (rock), 9pm Off THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Lord Nelson (rural rock), 10pm

WxYz LOUNGE AT ALOfT HOTEL CaroMia (singer-songwriter, blues, soul), 7:30pm

fRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 185 KING STREET Jon Stickley & Travis Book (bluegrass, acoustic), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Digs (funk, jazz), 9pm ALTAMONT THEATRE An evening w/ Noah Larssen & Friends (singersongwriter, rock), 8pm ATHENA’S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm BEN’S TUNE-UP The Holland Bros. (folk, country, blues), 6pm Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 8pm

ONE WORLD BREWING Mother Mcree’s String Band, 8pm

BLACK BEAR COffEE CO. Onj. w/ Solaire and Bear (alternative, noise rock, punk), 7pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Shotgun Gypsies (Americana), 6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Blue Ribbon Healers (swanky-tonk), 7:30pm

PACK’S TAVERN Jeff Anders & Justin Burrell (acoustic rock), 9pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Ends (rock), 8pm

BOILER ROOM Deep Down Low w/ DJ Deven Balsam (dubstep, trap, electronic), 10pm

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CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Darren Nicholson Band (country, bluegrass, Americana), 9pm

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CROW & qUILL House Hoppers (swing, jazz), 9pm

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Hackensaw Boys (old-time, Americana), 9pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz), 7pm SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Carver & Carmody (Americana, country), 7:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Goldie and the Screamers (soul), 8pm

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TALLGARY’S AT fOUR COLLEGE Sol Rhythm (Latin, dance party), 9:30pm

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN A tribute to Syd Barrett w/ The Mad Cap Collective, 8pm

Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Murmuration (rock, funk, psychedelic), 7pm IRON HORSE STATION The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock w/ cello), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Ken Bonfield & Steve Davison (folk, instrumental), 7pm Mo’ Mojo (zydeco, Cajun, world), 9pm JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Woody Pines (“viper-rag”, country, blues), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm K LOUNGE DJ CVtheProducer (old-school hip-hop), 10pm

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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 O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Bodi.Posi, 10pm Drag Show, 12:30am ODDITORIUM Summer Wars w/ The Shameful Nameless (rock), 9pm Off THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm

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 NATIONAL Omnitet (funk), 8pm Phantom Pantone (Euro, trap), 11pm THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm TOWN PUMP King Coda, 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Karaoke & Dance Party Benefit for CIMA, 8pm 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

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 185 KING STREET Dangerous Gentlemens (roots, rock, R&B), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The All Arounders (blues), 6pm 3 Cool Cats (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm ALTAMONT THEATRE Jessica Lea Mayfield (alt-country, folk, rock), 8pm

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

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Fritz (funk, rock), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Oskar Blues Big Money Chili-onaire (chili cookoff, benefit), 5pm Roots & Dore (blues, soul), 6pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm The Holland Bros. (folk, country, blues), 7pm

PACK’S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm

ATHENA’S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

BLACK BEAR COffEE CO. Clint Roberts w/ Nate Robinson (folk, singersongwriter, blues), 7pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Matt Walsh (blues, rock), 9pm

PACK’S TAVERN The Daniel Martin Band (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Get Right Band w/ Supatight (jam, indie), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm

PURPLE ONION CAfE Citizen Mojo (blues, funk, rock ’n’ roll), 8pm

JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm Occasional Caucasians (rockabilly, big beat), 9pm

BOILER ROOM Lifecurse w/ #3 Quarters Dead, Destroy the Façade & Artificial Oceans (metal), 9pm BYWATER Steelin’ Time (jazz, blues), 9pm

ROOM Ix Open dance night, 9pm

CLASSIC WINESELLER Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor covers), 7pm

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Bull Moose Party (bluegrass, old-time), 7pm

CORK & KEG Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones (old-time), 8:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Fustics w/ Jangling Sparrows (rock, folk), 10pm fRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Fat Catz (progressive, rock), 6pm GOOD STUff Vince Junior (soul, blues), 8pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Holy Ghost Tent Revival w/ Alanna Royale & Matt Haeck (rock ’n’ roll, soul, ragtime), 9pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sidecar Honey (indie, Americana, rock), 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL The Bill Frisell Trio (rock, country, jazz), 9pm JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Astral Plainsmen w/ The Maggie Valley Band & Cyndi Lou and The Want To (honky-tonk, dance), 7pm

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Hunnilicious (Americana, country, singer-songwriter), 7:30pm

LOBSTER TRAP Hunnilicious (Americana, country, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

Off THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Laura Blackley Trio (folk, country), 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Shane’s Gang (R&B), 8:30pm

ORANGE PEEL Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts w/ The Icarus Line & Jeff Santiago and Los Gatos (rock ’n’ roll), 8pm

TALLGARY’S AT fOUR COLLEGE A Social Function (rock, country), 9:30pm THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

THE MOTHLIGHT ANTiSEEN w/ Pleasures of the Ultraviolent & Horseflesh (cowpunk, hardcore), 9:30pm THE NATIONAL DJ Jamaica Tuff (world, dance), 11pm

TALLGARY’S AT fOUR COLLEGE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino (top 40), 10pm

THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR The Moon & You (roots), 8pm

LAzY DIAMOND Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Malcolm Holcombe (folk, Americana), 8pm

MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/AMPHITHEATER Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute, jam), 9pm NOBLE CIDER Alex Traub Trio (jazz), 6:30pm O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Altear, 10pm ODDITORIUM Akris w/ Kortiba, The Boo Jays & Death Card (metal, punk), 9pm Off THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Digg (blues, rock, funk), 9pm ORANGE PEEL Shakey Graves w/ Wild Child [SOLD OUT], 9pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Jamison Adams Project (singer-songwriter), 6pm

WILD WING CAfE Karaoke, 8pm WxYz LOUNGE AT ALOfT HOTEL Secret B-Sides (modern soul, groove), 8pm zAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Like Minded Trio (groove, jazz), 7pm ALTAMONT THEATRE Billy Jonas CD release (funk, folk), 8pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm CORK & KEG Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones (fiddle, songwriting workshop), 1pm DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Emily Kinney w/ Jacob Jeffries & Adam Tressler (singer-songwriter), 8pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sundays w/ Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt, 12pm

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

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Help a Girl Out: Fundraiser for Ellen Trnka w/ Carver & Carmody, Todd Hoke, Letters to Abigail, Carolina Bound, Peggy Ratusz, Howie Johnson and Craig Woody, Carrie Morrison, Gary Segal & Two Dollar Pistol, 4pm

THE DUGOUT Karaoke, 8pm

TWISTED LAUREL Live DJ, 11pm

LOBSTER TRAP Gypsy Guitars (Gypsy-jazz), 6:30pm

LEx 18 The Thomas Wolfe Scandal & Mystery Immersive Dinner (ticketed event), 6pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

LEx 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 6:30pm Michael Anderson (honky-tonk piano), 9:45pm

LAzY DIAMOND Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm

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THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm THE SOUTHERN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm TIMO’S HOUSE Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm TOWN PUMP Redleg Husky (Appalachian), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Sam Gleaves & Saro Lynch-Thomason (singersongwriter), 7pm WEDGE BREWING CO. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazzswing), 6pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Tribute to Gram Parsons & Gene Clark (folk, rock, country), 7:30pm WICKED WEED Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

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CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Open mic night, 5pm COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Trivia, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke, 10pm GOOD STUff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm

JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm The Lost Fiddle String Band (bluegrass, oldtime), 9pm 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

OLIVE OR TWIST 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm ONE WORLD BREWING Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm SOVEREIGN REMEDIES Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm THE MOTHLIGHT George Terry & The Zealots w/ Andrew Scotchie (indie), 9pm

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THE VALLEY MUSIC & COOKHOUSE Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

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TOWN PUMP Evan Baker & Emma Lee Nelson (folk, Americana), 9pm

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THE JOINT NExT DOOR Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

BACK YARD BAR Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm

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ORANGE PEEL An evening w/ Dave Rawlings Machine (bluegrass, Americana, country), 8pm

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ONE WORLD BREWING Alex Ball (old-time fiddle), 8pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Movie night, 7pm

ALTAMONT THEATRE Appetites: An evening of sexy storytelling, 8pm

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MARKET PLACE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

Off THE WAGON Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

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LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm

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LEx 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads & standards), 7pm

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LAzY DIAMOND Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

THE NATIONAL Open mic w/ Shane Livingston, 8pm

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THE NATIONAL Ben Colvin Trio (jazz), 8pm DJ Antonion (future R&B, neo soul), 11pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAzz AND BLUES Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm URBAN ORCHARD Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm WILD WING CAfE SOUTH Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine Tasting w/ Dave Desmelik (acoustic), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm 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 CROW & qUILL Piano karaoke, 9pm DOUBLE CROWN Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm fOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Bobby Miller w/ special guest (folk), 9pm fUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

IRON HORSE STATION Open mic, 6pm

GOOD STUff Karaoke!, 7pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm

GRIND CAfE Trivia night, 7pm

JACK Of THE WOOD PUB Singer-songwriters in the round w/ Stephen

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

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HHHHH = pick of the week

Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery and Brian d’Arcy James in Tom McCarthy’s spotlight, which just may be the best film of the year.

Spotlight HHHHH dIREcToR: tom mcCarthy (Win Win) pLAyERS: mark ruffalo, michael Keaton, rachel mcadams, liev schreiber, John slattery, brian d’arcy James, stanley tucci, billy Crudup fAcT-bASEd dRAmA rated r THE SToRy:the boston Globe opts to investigate the possibility of the Catholic Church covering up for — even enabling — known pedophile priests.

THE LowdowN: simply an amazing film that works as history, as justification for the value of real journalism and as a still relevant cautionary tale on the perils of willful ignorance.

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What really makes it work is that it never forgets to be compelling entertainment.

As of this writing Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight — which recounts the story of the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” news team uncovering the pedophilia scandal in the Boston diocese of the Catholic Church — is considered to be the front-runner for this year’s Best Picture Oscar. For that matter, most of its cast is being talked about in similar terms, though in the Supporting Actor/ Supporting Actress categories, since the film has no central star and is undeniably an ensemble piece. While it’s early days in the Oscar race and much

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could still happen, Spotlight might just pull it off. I’d actually — at least right now — be good with that. Oscar could certainly do worse, and has proven so time and again. This truly is a very fine film. It works from start to finish without a wrong step.

Spotlight is the fifth film that McCarthy, who has yet to make a bad film (and, yes, I did see his muchmaligned, barely-released The Cobbler from last year), has made. This, however, is the first of his movies I can honestly say I loved. He and his co-writer, Josh Singer, have taken potentially exploitative material and treated it in such a way that it manages to outrage without exploiting. They also crafted a screenplay that is never preachy and never lectures. It makes no concessions to obvious comedy relief, yet never feels heavy-handed or glum, because the characters are appealing and human.

(There is not an ounce of artifice or glamorization in the entire two hours.)

It tends to state rather than shout, and when it does shout — mostly courtesy of reporter Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) and “not a people person” lawyer Mitchel Garabedian (Stanley Tucci) — it earns the right to do so.

Best of all, it never forgets to be compelling entertainment, which is all the more remarkable with a story where we know — at least in broad strokes — the outcome. In its quiet way, Spotlight is something of a masterpiece.

The key to why the film works lies in the details. The Spotlight team aren’t so much crusading journalists as they are people doing their jobs as investigative reporters. In this instance, the story isn’t even one they at first relish.

It’s foisted on them by new managing editor Marty Baron (a quietly authoritative Liev Schreiber) — who is not only a Boston outsider, but a Jew, who is unfamiliar with the tight-knit Catholic-centric nature of the city and not much impressed by or worried about it. But as is pointed out early on, he can always move on (he has before), while the Spotlight team and publisher Ben Bradlee, Jr. (John Slattery) are tied to Boston and the Globe.

THE ATE R L ISTINGS Friday, november 20 Thursday, november 24 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

asheville Pizza & brewing Co. (254-1281) pixels (pG-13) 1:00, 4:00 TRAINwREck (R) 7:00, 10:00

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemas (274-9500) TImES NoT AvAILAbLE AT pRESSTImE. THE 33 (pG-13) bRIdGE of SpIES (pG-13) THE HuNGER GAmES: mockINGjAy -- pART 2 (pG-13) LovE THE coopERS (pG-13) THE mARTIAN 2d (pG-13) my ALL AmERIcAN (pG) THE NIGHT bEfoRE (R) THE pEANuTS movIE (G) Room (R) SEcRET IN THEIR EyES (pG-13) SpEcTRE (pG-13) SpoTLIGHT (R) SuffRAGETTE (pG-13)

Co-ed Cinema brevard (883-2200) THE HuNGER GAmES: mockINGjAy -- pART 2 (pG-13) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30

ePiC oF hendersonville (693-1146) Fine arTs TheaTre (232-1536) HEART of A doG (NR) 4:20, late show Fri-sat 9:40 SpoTLIGHT (pG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, late show Fri-sat 9:40 SuffRAGETTE (pG-13) 1:20, 7:20

FlaTroCk Cinema (697-2463) bRIdGE of SpIES (pG-13) 3:30, 7:00 (Closed mon. no shows sun.)

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A story that takes on the Catholic Church and the powerful Cardinal Law (Len Carious) — no matter how carefully it’s couched in distancing terms — is dynamite, and Spotlight head Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) knows it. Plus, he and his staff — Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — are all lapsed or nonpracticing Catholics.

It’s never specifically stated, but it’s clear that tackling not just the question of pedophile priests, but the very institution that helps to enable them (the bigger issue that destroys the assumption of “a few bad apples”) threatens their own faith, however shaky it already may be. But it’s a reasonable topic to investigate and the more they uncover, the more they are themselves drawn into it and shocked by what they find. This is also what makes the film compelling for the viewer.

There are so many carefully integrated details that it’s impossible — and probably inadvisable — to catalog them here. None of them feel false or manufactured. Some of them — like the paper’s own culpability in ignoring earlier evidence — are major, but not blown up. Others — a retired priest (Richard O’Rourke) with a chilling rationalization as to why there was nothing wrong in his having molested children — are so startling that comment is unnecessary and impossible. (If you’ve ever had a conversation with an admitted pedophile, you’ll know the story is all too believable.) This is powerful material that is made more so by the film’s refusal to sensationalize or even editorialize it — all the while never mincing words or glossing anything over. This is also one of the best and most profoundly compelling films of the year. Rated R for some language including sexual references.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@ mountainx.com

Love the Coopers S Director: Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) Players: Diane Keaton, John

Goodman, Ed Helms, Alan Arkin, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Jake Lacy, Marisa Tomei, Anthony Mackie, June Squibb YULETIDE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY HOOEY Rated PG-13 The Story: A bunch of poorly-defined — but dysfunctional — characters grit their teeth to get through Christmas dinner.

The Lowdown: On the short list for most annoying, predictable and mirthless Christmas movie ever made.

Love the Coopers? No, I most certainly do not. For that matter, what kind of movie instructs you to love its characters like that? My guess is either a very stupid one or a very desperate one. In this case, I’m inclined to suspect it’s both. This movie marks the return to directing of Jessie Nelson, who last directed a movie in 2001 — the almost equally sappy I Am Sam. With any luck, it’ll be another 14 years before she descends upon multiplexes again.

In all fairness, Nelson did not write this curdled glop. No, that accolade goes to Steven Rogers, who had only been in hiding since 2007’s P.S. I Love You. After this, I’d suggest a witless protection program. If I have not made it clear, I disliked Love the Coopers intensely. We’re talking upper-tier Ten-Worst-of-the-Year dislike here.

Ten years ago I gave a positive — if not over-the-moon — review to The Family Stone, another Christmas offering with a name cast also headed by Diane Keaton. It was a pleasant little movie with similar intentions. But, let me tell you, it was the Citizen Kane of dysfunctional family Christmas movies by comparison. Love the Coopers is the sort of movie that might make you want to reassess Christmas with the Kranks (2004) and Deck the Halls (2006) ... No, that goes too far, but you get the idea. This is the cinematic equivalent of being deluged with fruitcake batter while an Osmond Family Christmas record plays on an endless loop.

It is a thankless task to try to outline the plot of Love the Coopers — not in the least because there’s so damn much of it — but none of it matters except to put all these “lovable” and “kooky” bozos under one roof for Christmas dinner. Mostly, these various plots are designed to convey how everybody got so messed up — and everyone means not only the Coopers and their various relatives, but just about everyone else in the world of the movie. For instance, Amanda Seyfried’s character is only involved because Alan Arkin — he’s

somebody’s grandfather — has been seeing her daily at the diner where she works. This is about to come to an end because she’s miserable (even suicidal) and has decided to start over again in the locale of Hot Coffee, Miss., (probably proving that the writer has seen The Boys in the Band or read the play). Through a series of contrivances, she ends up going to the family dinner. It’s that sort of thing. Similarly the cop (Anthony Mackie), who arrests Marisa Tomei (supposedly Keaton’s only-slightly younger sister) for shoplifting and apparently drives her all over Pittsburgh in search of the police station, turns out to be a bitter, closeted gay, and ... never mind. At least the cop doesn’t go to dinner.

There’s also trouble between Keaton and John Goodman — and a positively brain-dead sub-plot involving Olivia Wilde as the secular humanist, liberal daughter who takes up with right-wing Christian soldier Jake Lacy so she has a date for dinner. (And, yes, they fall in love. I give this relationship three weeks, tops.) There’s more — including June Squibb as dotty “Aunt Fishy” — but you aren’t likely to care much.

However, the zither that cooks the goose — or turkey, as the case may be — is that the whole damn story is told by the family dog (given voice by Steve Martin). This is one remarkable beast, since he can recount events at which he was clearly not present — not that this incredible ability keeps him from doing “cute” doggie things like wolfing down an untended pot of mashed potatoes. Yes, it’s fully as dumb as it sounds. Maybe dumber.

If there is anything worthwhile in this outburst of tinsel-covered seasonal effluvia, it has to be the clips from City Lights (1931) and Born Yesterday (1950) that it unwisely includes. Why make your bad movie look even worse by reminding the viewer of better things to watch? I’m not four-square against Christmas movies — though I question the need for them before Thanksgiving. I own Holiday Inn (1942), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), A Christmas Carol (1951), About a Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003) and several others. I am, however, dead-set against this cup of Christmas dreariness. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, language and some sexuality.

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

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Director: Angelo Pizzo Players: Finn Wittrock, Aaron Eckhart, Sarah Bolger, Robin Tunney FACT-BASED UPLIFTING SPORTS DRAMA Rated PG The Story: The true-life story of a perpetual underdog with aspirations of playing college football who ends up facing an even bigger challenge.

The Lowdown: A paint-by-numbers inspirational sports flick that does exactly what you expect it to — with that being its biggest problem.

I’ve been spending the week catching up on awards screeners for my inevitable best-of-the-year list and was struck and even a little ashamed (at first at least) by how much I liked Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. I mention being a little embarrassed because the film itself shouldn’t be as good as it is. It is yet another coming-of-age teen story, with the extra tangent of cancer playing a major role in the plot.

The film, as a whole, is everything you expect it to be, every bit the tearjerker these types of films are supposed to be, except it all works. It’s a transparent formula that, surprisingly, is amazingly effective because of a taut script, stylish, inventive direction, thoughtful acting and lots of Brian Eno on the soundtrack.

This, of course, is not a review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. It’s a review of Angelo Pizzo’s My All American, but I do have a point. Both films’ stories offer run-of-the-mill stories, yet but only My All American overcomes its plot with sheer verve.

It’s a testament to the role of talent, which is where Pizzo’s film falls short. My All American is the story of one-time University of Texas football player Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock, Unbroken), deemed too small to make it in football, who — with grit and determination — manages to become a star. But there’s something too big even for him — cancer. Seeing as how Pizzo is also the man who wrote Hoosiers (1986) and Rudy (1993), and seeing as how

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SCReeN SCeNe • The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s Benchspace Gallery & Workshop presents Beacon Blankets: Portrait of a Swannanoa Textile Mill Friday, Nov. 20, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The evening focuses on the rise and fall of the Beacon Manufacturing Co. and includes mill-inspired music by robert “bert” brown, clips from filmmaker rebecca williams’ ongoing documentary project Blanket Town: The Rise and Fall of an American Mill Town and a panel discussion with former Beacon Blanket mill employees, led by Appalachian historian david whisnant. The event is free and open to the public. avl.mx/1zw

DANCE WITH THE PAST: The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center screens rare footage of dancer Katherine Litz from Black Mountain College. Photo

by Hazel Larsen Archer • Asheville director ben carland’s feature film Shadows on the Wall is available to rent or purchase on iTunes and Amazon.com, where it is free to stream for Amazon Prime members. The film was shot in Hendersonville and follows three college students as they create a device capable of reaching beyond the boundaries of the known universe.

• The Pack Library Anime Club screens The Girl Who Leaped Through Time Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. The event is free and intended for adults and teens ages 13 and older. Popcorn and drinks will be provided. avl.mx/ff • The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents an evening of short films Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. The works include rare footage of dancer Katherine litz from Black Mountain College (1951) and students in the Design Workshop at the Institute of Design in Chicago (1944). Tickets are $5 for BMCM+AC members/$8 nonmembers. avl.mx/1zx

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• Registration is open for several Asheville School of Film classes.

“Lighting 101 Weekend Workshop” will be held Saturday, Dec. 12, and Sunday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The hands-on workshop is focused on teaching students how to produce the appropriate mood and visual context for a story using appropriate lighting in film. Tuition includes the use of all necessary equipment and supplies.

“Intermediate Filmmaking 201Pre-production and Production” begins its eight-week course Wednesday, Dec. 16, and meets each Wednesday from 6:30-9:30 p.m. The course will expand upon the information and skills learned in the introductory “Filmmaking 101” course, focusing on story pitches, screenwriting, location scouting, actor casting, storyboard creation and shot lists. By the end of the course, students will have shot material for a short film that will be ready for post-production in the 2016 course, “Advanced Filmmaking 301.”

ASF is also offering a pair of three-day classes for youths during the winter school break. “Crew Positions and Careers” will be held Monday, Dec. 28, to Wednesday, Dec. 30, from 9 a.m. to noon daily, and will introduce students to the numerous careers related to the film industry. “Green Screen Fun(damentals)” will be held the same days, from 1-4 p.m. Students who register for both classes receive a tuition discount. avl.mx/1zy X

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My All American is every inch an uplifting sports movie, I don’t have to tell you where all of this is going.

As I’ve already mentioned, Pizzo’s pedigree and the type of movie he’s peddling don’t necessarily mean doom. With enough style, heart and intelligence, you could make a truly touching, truly meaningful uplifting sports movie. But this doesn’t happen. The direction is flat, the acting is so-so and the movie goes on and on and on, overstuffed with football footage. This is some tepid nonsense, which operates under the assumption that simply telling a sad story is enough to get an audience teary-eyed. And you know what? It’s not. The emotional response is never earned because nothing within the film exists to actually engage with the viewer. It’s a movie of the week, with basically the same budget, managing to fall into every hoary trap these sorts of based-on-a-true story, inspirational sports flicks thrive on.

And the lack of creativity, inspiration and thoughtfulness (and probably some Brian Eno, let’s be honest) never allows My All American to be any more of than a collection of worn-out conceits. That the film never, truly honestly tries to be more than this is its greatest failure and biggest disappointment. Rated PG for thematic elements, language and brief partial nudity.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINx.COM

room HHHS Director: Lenny Abrahamson (Frank) plaYers: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Tom McCamus, Sean Bridgers, William H. Macy Drama Rated R tHe storY: A woman held captive for seven years and her five-year-old son escape to the outside world and try to adapt. tHe loWDoWn: Highly-acclaimed — and admittedly unusual — tale

that doesn’t live up to its premise or its reception. Others will disagree with that assessment.

I am supposed to absolutely love Lenny Abrahamson’s Room — the high-concept art film of the year. I am supposed to be moved and ... well, shattered by the experience. I am also prepared for some hardcore vilification because I am not. Truthfully, the best I got out of it was intermittent admiration — which was also my response to Abrahamson’s last film, Frank (2014), though I liked it better. Room is not a film to “like” — though some seem to find it “heartwarming.” This is more in the realm of cinematic “nasty medicine that is good for you,” redeemed in part by one nicely sustained (if not wholly believable) suspense sequence in the middle of the film. Room isn’t a bad film, but neither do I believe it’s the deep-dish masterpiece it’s been painted as.

The story — adapted by Emma Donoghue from her novel — concerns a young woman named Joy Newsom (mostly called “Ma,” and played by Brie Larson), who was kidnapped at age 17 and imprisoned in the title room by a man she calls Old Nick (Sean Bridgers, Dark Places).

Two years into her ordeal, she bore her captor a son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who is celebrating his fifth birthday when the film opens.

Since the story (at least in the book) is entirely from Jack’s point of view, the background of it all is something we have to pick up along the way. In an effort — however misguided — to give the boy some sense of a normal life, she has convinced him that “Room” is all there is. To him, this cramped garden shed — configured with heat, a bathroom, a TV and a kind of kitchen — is the world. It’s all he knows and all she’s allowed him to know. But, now that he’s five, Ma decides he’s old enough to know the truth (something he is resistant to learning) and to help in securing their escape (something he is unprepared for). Both things are certainly understandable in a child of five.

That roughly forms the first half of the movie, leading us to the film’s most successfully sustained sequence (the escape), followed by the depiction of the attempts to adjust to the real world, which is the mostly the least successful aspect of the film.

None of this qualifies for spoilers, since all of this is clearly established in the trailers and the publicity for the film. Abrahamson and the author are more assured when the story is

confined to the confines of the room, though your involvement in it may depend on your tolerance for the high-pitched screaming of a fiveyear-old. I confess mine is limited, which is probably a character flaw on my part.

Once the film moves into the world beyond “Room,” it’s not only Jack who is at a loss of what to make of it all, so are the filmmakers. It starts off reasonably well, but quickly becomes unfocused. Characters appear and disappear. Why is Grandma’s (Joan Allen) second husband (Tom McCamus) the most human and functioning character in the movie?

Plot points are raised and quickly dropped — or possibly just forgotten about. Some of this — like the fate of Old Nick, and Joy’s father’s (William H. Macy) just vanishing over his inability to cope with the history of Jack’s conception and birth — may be excused as some kind of subtlety.

Where this subtlety was in Joy’s reaction to a TV interviewer and the haircut symbolism (you’ll know) is another matter. So much feels like it exists only to get to an ending that’s perhaps more simplistic (and dubious) than ambiguous.

Worst of all, the real-world aspect is curiously flat and lacking in style.

It mostly looks like a stale TV drama taking place on sets left over from a 1970s sitcom. It’s not bad exactly. It’s more just indifferent, which may be worse. But bear in mind, my reservations and tepid response to Room are very much in the minority. Rated R for Language.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas.

REVIEWED BY KEN HANKE KHANKE@ MOUNTAINx.COM PATRICIA RIGGEN’S

The 33 HHHS Director: Patricia Riggen (Under the Same Moon) plaYers: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, Gabriel Byrne, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips Fact-baseD Drama Rated PG-13 tHe storY: Film version of the real-life event of the Chilean miners trapped in a cave-in.

tHe loWDoWn: It’s well-made. It’s well-intentioned, well-acted — and inclined to be on the slow side. The film seems less the problem than the idea that the story could, and should, be dramatized.

Patricia Riggen’s The 33 is by no means a bad movie. It is, in fact, probably the best movie that could be made on the subject of the 33 miners trapped in that collapsed mine in Chile back in 2010. The problem is not the film but the material itself.

Even with a good deal of the action taking place outside of the mine, a lot of the movie is destined to be dark, claustrophobic and, frankly, slow-moving. After all, this is the story of men trapped in a mine for 69 days — and a story where you go in knowing the outcome. No matter how well-done, how inspirational or how much of it involves the aboveground drama, this is not inherently action-packed.

The 33 does an admirable job of sketching in the main characters before the collapse but has to simplify things in order to do so. This results in something that feels like a WWII movie taking place in a B-17. In other words, it reduces the characters to types who have one overriding trait or situation. We get the outsider (in this case a Bolivian); the old man slated to retire the following day; the guy with a baby about to be born; the nonbeliever and his Christian counterpart (this movie wants to be inspirational, so it’s easy to guess how this plays out); the philanderer with both a wife and a girlfriend still fighting over him; etc. I’m not saying that all this isn’t true — I really don’t know. But I am saying that it can’t escape that bomber-crew feeling in the way it’s handled. Could it have been handled better? I’m not altogether sure it could, which is to say we’re right back to the problem of the material.

The odd thing about all this is that The 33 is on much firmer footing above ground. There’s more room for nuance in the characters played

by Rodrigo Santoro and Gabriel Byrne than there is for any of the miners. That’s fine — and it certainly helps the film — but, in theory, this is the miners’ story. And yet, Santoro and Byrne carry the film more than anyone else, including star Antonio Banderas. Their scenes carry an emotional punch that just isn’t in the rest of the movie. Granted, some of the above ground characters are also on the sketched-in side. Let us

face it, Juliette Binoche’s (a replacement for Jennifer Lopez, no less) Maria — the Empanada Lady whose estranged brother is detoxing in the mine — is not going to be remembered as one of her great roles.

I realize I’m painting a fairly unflattering picture of the movie, and that’s really not my intention. I certainly didn’t dislike it (though I can’t imagine ever revisiting it), and I truly do think it’s a good movie trapped in an ill-advised undertaking. Technically, it’s even something of a marvel. For a film where a great deal of the story takes place in a dimly-lit mine, it’s actually pretty stunning to look at. It’s no mean feat to light a movie like that and not swamp the images in grainy murk, and that’s something that never happens here. The performances are good, even with the limitations of the material, and Messrs. Rodrigo and Byrne might even induce an uplifting tear or two from you. But, as a movie to get excited about?

No, that’s just not happening. Rated PG-13 for a disaster sequence and some language.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

REVIEWED BY KEN HANKE KHANKE@ MOUNTAINx.COM

fILM BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (11/19), 7pm - “An Evening of Short Films” related to the exhibition Convergence/Divergence: Exploring Black Mountain College and Chicago’s New Bauhaus/Institute of Design. $8/$5 members.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (11/18), 5pm - Anime Club Film Screening: The Girl Who Leaped Through Time. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. 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.

Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave.

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STARTING FRI D AY The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 Here it is — the final installment in the hugely popular series. See it or face being ostracized by all the cool kids. You are warned. (PG-13)

The Night Before More seasonal shenanigans — this time of the R-rated raunchy-com variety. (The rating promises “drug use and language throughout, some strong sexual content and graphic nudity.” So there.) It’s from Jonathan Levine, who gave us 50/50 and Warm Bodies. The studio tells us: “Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they’re entering adulthood, the tradition is coming to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracka Ball — the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.” Let us hope it’s better than that sounds. (R)

Room See review in “Cranky Hanke”

Secret in Their Eyes Normally, I’d look with immediate scorn at an English-language remake of a terrific Argentinian film that originally appeared a scant five years ago. And the PG-13 rating on a remake of an R-rated film is still troubling. But that cast — Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Alfred Molina — makes it more enticing than it might be, and maybe than it should be. The director, Billy Ray (Shattered Glass), isn’t exciting, but neither is he an immediate downside. (PG-13)

Spotlight See review in “Cranky Hanke”

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Desire HHHHS Director: Frank Borzage Players: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart, Alan Mowbray ROMANTIC COMEDY Rated NR Marlene Dietrich’s first film following the departure of her mentor, Josef von Sternberg, Desire (1936) is a stylish, glossy romantic comedy co-starring Gary Cooper. Dietrich — in a nonstop procession of those Travis Banton costumes — plays a member of a ring of jewel thieves who slips a string of stolen pearls in vacationing American Gary Cooper’s jacket pocket in order to get them through customs at the Spanish border. Complications — like Cooper changing jackets and Dietrich stealing his car to get his suitcase — follow, as does the inevitable romance. It’s all very high-class and polished — with Dietrich looking as stunning as ever in that special glow that’s in most Paramount pictures of the 1930s. (It’s also obvious that cinematographer Charles Lang is following the lighting designed for her by Sternberg.) The film was directed by Frank Borzage (7th Heaven) and produced (and partly directed) by Ernst Lubitsch (Design for Living) — and has more the feel of a Lubitsch movie than a Borzage one. Which isn’t a bad thing, especially with this type of material. As perfect a soufflé of a romantic comedy as you’re likely to find — and with two people who define star power. The Asheville Film Society will screen Desire Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

It’s a Wonderful Life HHHS Director: Frank Capra Players: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi FANTASY DRAMA Rated NR I first saw It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) when I was in the throes of Frank Capra idolatry — something born of being 18 and having read his autobiography — and I was primed to see it. I also don’t think I have ever been more disappointed by a movie in my life. Had Capra built it up too much in his book? Had I built it up too much in my mind? Were my tastes changing in spite of myself? Yes to all three, but there’s more to it than that — so much that there’s no way to fit it in here. It requires following the whole of Capra’s career and the creation of his persona by writer Robert Riskin (not involved on this movie). It hardly matters. It’s a Wonderful Life — mostly due to its holiday-season ubiquity on TV during its years as a public domain film that could be run for free — is now an unassailable classic, a Christmas staple and an institution. If you love it, that’s fine. It will always be a thudding disappoint to me — one with a whiff of the same insincerity I feel in songs about the virtues of having nothing that are invariably written and performed by millionaires — and that’s fine, too. The Hendersonville Film Society will show It’s a Wonderful Life Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Pan’s Labyrinth HHHHH Director: Guillermo del Toro Players: Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdu, Doug Jones FANTASY HORROR Rated R Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006) is one of the most remarkable films of the 21st century — something I was not prepared for when I first saw it. Even while recognizing del Toro’s talent in his previous films (sometimes more obvious than other times), there was little in his work to prepare me for this masterpiece. The closest was probably The Devil’s Backbone (2001) — an evocative ghost story that was finally too transparent to be wholly effective, but which bears a relationship with Pan in its evocation of the work of Luis Bunuel. Pan also evokes Bunuel — sometimes very directly, such as in the image of Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) with a straight razor in hand and a cigarette in his mouth, deliberately recalling Un Chien Andalou (1927) — but more gracefully, more organically. Plus, the anti-authoritarian surrealist satire of Bunuel is tempered here by a poetic mysticism that recalls Jean Cocteau. Many of the fantastic elements in the film are Cocteau-esque: doorways that can be created by drawing a chalk outline, books that write themselves, alternate worlds within worlds, etc. The Faun/Pan (Doug Jones) even speaks in much the same manner as the Beast (Jean Marais) in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (1946). Indeed, it’s hard to escape the sense that if Bunuel and Cocteau had ever collaborated on a film, the results might be very like this. It’s as much a humanist outcry as anything in Bunuel’s work and as magically mystical as anything in Cocteau’s work. This is not meant to suggest, by any means, that del Toro has merely copied these other filmmakers. On the contrary, his sense of invention is purely his own, his filmmaking style is personal, and the results are unique. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Pan’s Labyrinth Thursday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

The Bicycle Thieves HHHHS Director: Vittorio De Sica Players: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enza Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda DRAMA Rated NR It helps to understand the realities of life in post-War Italy to understand the birth of Italian Neo-Realism — something born as much from economic necessity as an artistic movement. Films like Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves (1948) were partly made simply because they were possible in a country where money was scarce and studios destroyed by the war. Still, it very much became its own artistic form in the way it completely broke with the tradition of studio films. Neo-Realist works are mostly made on location with rudimentary lighting and often (as in this case) with non-actors. The idea was to break with the artifice of the studio.

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JOBS oversee our Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT), which primarily serves Haywood County.

ACTT is an evidence-based, multidisciplinary, community-based service which supports individuals with severe psychiatric disorders in remaining in the community and experiencing mental health recovery. We have a deep commitment to our ACTT services because, over the years, we have seen that is a service that truly makes a difference in the lives of the people that struggle the most with mental health challenges. Our ACTT staff have been known to describe the work as the “hardest job that you will ever love”. Come be part of our rural team and experience if for yourself! Master’s Degree in Human Services required. Two years’ experience with adults with Mental Health, Substance Abuse or Development Disability required. Haywood county Driver/peer group co-Facilitator – SA-iOp Meridian Behavioral Health Services is seeking a Driver/Peer Group Co-Facilitator for a part-time position only. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. Driver is responsible for providing transportation in Meridian van for clients attending substance abuse group and returning them to their location after group ends at 8:00 p.m. This person must be in recovery him or herself and will also be co-facilitating the substance abuse groups. Must have a valid driver’s license with no restrictions and a good motor vehicle record with no major violations within the last five years (MVR record will be reviewed prior to an offer of employment).

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skills, have strong computer literacy skills and a minimum of two years supervisory experience. This position requires travel throughout all counties that Meridian serves. clinician – Recovery Education center (REc) Seeking passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to join our Jackson County Recovery Education Center (REC). This program reflects a unique design which integrates educational, clinical and peer support components in a centerbased milieu. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services. A Masters degree and license eligibility are also required. Haywood and Jackson counties clinician – Offender Services Meridian is seeking a therapist to be a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, providing assessment, individual and group therapy services to sex offenders and their non-offending partners within a structured Sexual Abuse Intervention Program (SAIP) and to domestic violence abusers and their families within a structured Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). Prior clinical experience working with sexual offenders and an understanding of the dynamics of sexual deviance strongly preferred as well as familiarity with relevant research literature, clinical assessments, procedures and methods, particularly those designed for sexual offenders. Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to establish rapport and maintain objectivity with a criminal or forensic population is a necessity. Masters Degree in a human services field and licensure as a Professional Counselor or Clinical Social Worker or Psychological Associate is required. At least one year of supervised clinical experience is required, preferably in a community mental health center setting.

Services provided in Haywood, Jackson, and Cherokee County. peer Support Specialist – Recovery Education center (REc) Meridian is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to work in our Recovery Education Centers in Haywood and/or Jackson County.

Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. Part time work may be available. Macon county clinician - Recovery Education center (REc) Seeking passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to join our Macon County Recovery Education Center. This program reflects a unique design which integrates educational, clinical and peer support components in a center-based milieu. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services. A Master’s degree and license eligibility are also required. Macon and Haywood counties Employment

Support professional (ESp) Supported Employment The ESP functions as part of a team that implements employment services based on the SE-IPS model. The team’s goal is to support individuals who have had challenges with obtaining and/or maintaining employment in the past and to obtain and maintain competitive employment moving forward. The ESP is responsible for engaging clients and establishing trusting, collaborative relationships that result in the creation of completion of individualized employment goals. The ESP will support the client through the whole employment process and provide a variety of services at each state to support the individual in achieving their employment goals. Transylvania county clinicians & Team Leader - child and Family Services Seeking licensed/associate licensed therapist for an exciting opportunity to serve youth and their families through individual and group therapy, working primarily out of the local schools. certified Medical Assistant (cMA) Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Two years of related experience preferred, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. 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. CST is a community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation service, which provides support through a team approach to adults. Licensed Professional or Associate level Licensed Professional required.

Substance Abuse credential preferred. At least one year of supervised, clinical experience is required. This is a new service for Transylvania County, requiring someone who can confidently manage a team of three and is comfortable working with the challenges of bringing up a new service. peer Support Specialist – community Support Team (cST) Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. We currently have a vacancy for a Peer Support Specialist on our Community Support Team (CST), serving Transylvania County. CST is a community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation service, which provides support through a team approach to adults. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills.

Qualified professional (Qp) – community Support Team (cST) We are seeking a passionate, values-driven and dynamic Qualified Substance Abuse or Mental Health Professional to join our Community Support Team (CST), serving Transylvania County. CST is a community-based mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation service, which provides support through a team approach to adults. Individual must meet state requirements to serve adults

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with either mental health or substance use challenges and be comfortable working as part of a small, three-person team. AgEncY-WiDE peer Support Specialist peers Assisting in community Engagement (pAcE) Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. clinician peers Assisting in community Engagement (pAcE) Clinician will be providing ongoing therapy with individuals and clinical support to the peer support team. The position will involve travel and communitybased work in multiple counties. A Master’s degree, license eligibility and experience are required.

PACE provides structured and scheduled activities for adults age 18 and older with a diagnosis of Mental Health and Substance Use disorders. This could be a parttime or full-time position. For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org cHiLD/ADOLEScEnT MEnTAL HEALTH pOSiTiOnS in TRAnSYLvAniA cOUnTY Jackson County Psychological Services (in partnership with Meridian Behavioral Health) Is expanding school-based mental health services to Transylvania County Schools. We are currently recruiting for immediate therapist positions to work with elementary, middle and high school age students struggling with functional mental health issues in the Transylvania County Schools. We are also recruiting a therapist and a QP for an Intensive In-Home team that will begin on January 1, 2016. This is a great opportunity for gaining clinical experience, supervision, training and helping to bring responsive, high-quality mental health services to the schools of Transylvania County.

Interested candidates please submit a resume and cover letter to telliot@jcpsmail.org DiREcT cARE STAFF nEEDED Turning Point Services, Inc. is currently accepting applications in Asheville/Brevard/Hendersonville for direct care staff providing home and community based services. All you need is a high school diploma. Visit our website at www.turningpointservicesinc. com for more details about our openings and to apply. Look for the Job Board under Career Opportunities.

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Bachelor’s degree in human services preferred. For more information or to apply, visit www.eliada. org/employment/current-openings.

MEDiATOR/FAciLiTATOR The Mediation Center is seeking a Mediator/Facilitator for the Buncombe County Office (PT). Please visit www.mediatewnc.org for more information.

MEnTOR STAFF WAnTED: Therapeutic support program for college-age students seeks experienced PRN and full-time direct care staff to support students in gaining independence. Weekday academic and weekend adventure/service shifts available. The ideal candidate will have: • Professional experience in direct care work in therapeutic environments, experiential education, life coaching, academic support • Excellent communication skills, creativity, and desire to work in and cultivate a tight-knit community Resumes and letters of interest: nzumwalt@foundationsasheville.com www.foundationsasheville.com PROGRAM ASSISTANT • PARTTiME Community Action Opportunities Asheville, NC Part-time Program Assistant – WAP. We are a high-performing non-profit Community Action Agency created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to end poverty. We are looking for a seasoned and skilled technical professional to fill the Program Assistant duties. This is a part-time non-benefited position working 20 hours per week.

The Program Assistant: Performs technical office administration and support for agency programs: • Conducts clerical, record-keeping and technical support for the Weatherization Assistance Program operations unit. • Supports general office and technical program activities and may include customer contact using tact and discretion while handling sensitive or confidential matters. • Reviews documents for accuracy and compliance with written standards and oral instructions. • Requires the ability to take initiative, exercise sound judgment, and tact and participate as a team member to complete tasks. • Works under the regular supervision of the Executive Assistant or Leadership Team supervisor. • Reviews hardcopy information and enters customer and ongoing technical

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fReeWILL aSTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary. com defines the English word "balter" as follows: "to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy." It's related to the Danish term baltre, which means "to romp, tumble, roll, cavort." I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks.

You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You've arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn't stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you'll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here's your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby's owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby's well-being. But I thought, "Shouldn't I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?" Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle "Think globally, act locally" in every way imaginable.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge $270-anhour for the kind of advice I'm about to offer, but I'm giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants.

Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it's unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory.

There's evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has "as much sex as possible" before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her "the world's most dominant athlete." As you approach your equivalent of the "big game," Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey's strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn't be broken in. They'd be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit.

Make yourself as comfortable as possible CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's how Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." The preface I'd write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That's because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you're alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies.

Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. 2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

AqUARIUS (Jan. 20-feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don't scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don't stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don't need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love.

Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

PISCES (feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms.

Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave.

Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: bit.ly/liberateslaves.

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45 Word seen twice on a U.S. map 46 Bun, e.g.

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25 “Take this” 27 Bit of sweat 28 Science or humanities, in college requirements 29 Merry adventure 32 Novelist Caleb 33 Place with homies 34 Spread on bread 36 Analogy phrase 37 “Shoo!”

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