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p. 36 Banishing blank walls A new crop of artists has emerged — or landed — in Asheville over the past decade. And after the artists came dozens of murals, inside cafes and restaurants, on practically every type of outdoor surface. What’s the story behind our city’s murals? We illuminate some of them ... with more to come next week.

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letters Racism runs deep in the human psyche I commend Felicia Dickson on her thoughtful, well-chosen words about one of the violent actions in our community [“Just Say No,” Feb. 15 Xpress]. Her first illustration and her experience/confession were very good.

Some weeks ago, a letter in the Asheville Citizen-Times argued that opposition to President Obama should not be construed as racism. Is this innocence abroad or self-delusion?

Racism runs deep in the human psyche; he or she who claims to be immune is kidding him- or herself. The undercurrents in the political discourse are rampant. True, there may be legitimate arguments against the president’s regime, but such statements as the “food stamp president” are a mere part of the malodor coming from the partisan wrangle.

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Green downtown Asheville It has come to my attention that the McKibben Group is interested in purchasing several cityowned pieces of property around the Basilica of St. Lawrence in order to construct a high-rise hotel.

The church itself has offered to purchase the property in order to avoid this construction, which is preferable to the alternative, but perhaps is not the best use of the space. The best

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Green spaces in urban areas have numerous positive impacts not only on the environment, but also on the residents and visitors. A green space planted with native trees, shrubs and plants will contribute to the health of our beautiful city. Green spaces reduce heat build-up from the paved surfaces. In a study published by the University of Washington, tests in a mall parking lot in Huntsville, Ala., showed a 31-degree difference between shaded and unshaded areas.

They also reduce nitrate-leaching from the soil into the water supply and reduce surfacewater runoff, keeping phosphorus and other pollutants out of our waterways. Greenways remove smoke, dust and other pollutants from the air. One tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, equaling 11,000 miles of car emissions.

These are just a few of the environmental impacts an urban green space would have on the city of Asheville. Studies have also documented the impacts of urban green spaces on the health of the residents as well. A study published by the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research found the greater amounts of green space within one kilometer — or 0.6 miles — of people’s homes was related to small reductions in the risks of health problems like heart disease, diabetes, chronic neck and back

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Let those who want convenience pay for it In response to the article suggesting forcing everyone in the county to pay for garbage pickup, I want to speak out [“Retreat and Advance,�

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By Caitlin Byrd No funeral bells rang out during a Feb. 13 forum on the future of the Asheville water system hosted by the local League of Women Voters. But a hand-bell choir practicing in an adjacent room at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church lent the event a solemn tone, underscoring the concerns voiced by many residents.

More than 200 people attended the forum, held in preparation for a Feb. 23 appearance by the state Legislature’s Metropolitan Sewerage/Water System Committee.

Established last year, the study committee (which is chaired by Rep. Tim Moffitt of Buncombe County) will hold an all-day public hearing at the WNC Agricultural Center (see sidebar, “Hear Me Talkin’ to You”). At that meeting, the public will be able to offer comments to committee members, forum moderator Nelda Holder emphasized.

The committee is charged with making a recommendation to the General Assembly concerning who should control Asheville’s water system.

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Wait your turn: A line forms for the question-and-answer portion of the water forum. loud & clear: Mayor Terry Bellamy says decisions about the water system should be made locally, not by the state.

Photos by Caitlin Byrd 23rd,” Holder explained. Nonetheless, both opinions and fears were abundant at the forum.

Hard FEElingS Co-sponsored by Mountain Xpress and The Urban News, the event kicked off with five-minute presentations by each of five panelists: Rep. Chuck McGrady, former Buncombe County Commissioner Gene Rainey, Asheville Vice Mayor esther Manheimer, Metropolitan Sewerage District board Chair steve Aceto and environmental consultant Ted volskay.

McGrady, a study committee member, is a former Henderson County commissioner. “There

are very hard feelings between Henderson County and the city of Asheville, and no great desire to be a part of a system,” he said. McGrady also served on the now-defunct Regional Water Authority board.

Rainey, however, said he hoped Henderson County could “forgive Asheville its sins” and become part of a new regional water authority. Calling water “liquid gold,” Rainey said it offers both Asheville and Western North Carolina opportunities for economic growth.

“I would hope decisions made by a regional authority would be made on business calculations, not on political concerns,” he continued, adding, “We cannot expect the federal government or state government to solve our problems. We must solve them ourselves, and I think we can.”

During the question-and-answer period, Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy drew applause when she said, “We need to make sure this is a local issue and that local people address this issue, not the state.”

“For the record,” she added to further cheers and applause, “I’m in support of the city of Asheville keeping its water system.”

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FEarS OF PrivatizatiOn Several residents voiced concerns about privatizing the water system. Local activist Barry summers asked if this was being considered.

“Under the current bonds that are outstanding, it would not be legal, in my opinion, for us to privatize the water system,” McGrady answered.

But that didn’t satisfy Summers, who pressed McGrady for specifics about how the committee defines privatization. With a sigh, McGrady responded, “There has been no discussion of anything related to privatization of any sort, other than in response to questions that we have received from the public.”

Moffitt was unable to attend the forum, but he addressed the privatization rumors in a public statement that Holder read aloud. “As a lifelong resident of this area and city taxpayer, I would never agree to privatize this public asset,” Moffitt wrote. “Consequently, I do not object to and will pursue the creation of legislation ensuring it will remain in public control in perpetuity, thus ending any concern regarding that unfounded accusation.”

The study committee, McGrady explained, is considering three outcomes: letting the city of Asheville continue to manage the water system, creating an independent regional water authority, or merging the water system with MSD to form a regional authority. “I can assure everyone here that I have had no conversations with any of my colleagues about privatization,” he repeated.

WHO’S rEPrESEnting aSHEvillE? Kenilworth resident valerie Hoh wanted to know why Moffitt is the only local representative on the study committee. The five-member committee includes four Republicans — William Brawley (Mecklenburg County), Tom Murry (Wake County), plus Moffitt and McGrady — and Democrat William Brisson (Bladen and Cumberland counties).

McGrady said he thought these representatives were appointed because their districts include large, integrated water-and-sewer systems.

McGrady added that he’d asked to serve on the committee because he wanted Henderson County to have a voice.

That prompted another woman to ask if it was too late for Moffitt to appoint Reps. Patsy Keever and susan Fisher, to give Asheville more of a voice on the committee. The audience applauded, but McGrady said this was unlikely.

Although the forum ran past the scheduled two hours, few people left early. The last speaker, state Sen. Martin Nesbitt of Buncombe County, said, “We have to be careful with how we play with our

HEar ME talKin’ tO yOU On Thursday, Feb. 23, the study committee considering the future of Asheville’s water system will hold an all-day public hearing in the Virginia C. Boone Mountain Heritage Building at the WNC Agricultural Center near the airport.

This is your chance to tell these state legislators who you think should manage the water system and how you feel about regional water and sewer issues in general.

Speakers must sign up in advance and will be limited to three minutes each. The committee recommends arriving 30 minutes early if you wish to speak.

SCHEdUlE 8:30 to 9 a.m - sign-up 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. elected officials speak 10 a.m. to noon - city of Asheville residents speak Noon to 1 p.m. break 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Buncombe County residents 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Henderson County residents 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. business community For more information, call the committee clerk, Lisa Kennedy, at 919-715-3017. — C.B. neighbors.” The longtime Democratic lawmaker joked that he never thought he’d agree with conservative former Asheville City Council member Carl Mumpower, who wrote in a recent op-ed piece in the Citizen-Times that the state committee’s saying it was going to study the issue first was like thieves casing a bank before they rob it.

Manheimer, meanwhile, urged residents to remain vigilant. “You need to have an opinion, and then you need to make that opinion known,” she said. “The worst thing that could happen with this is that we say we didn’t participate in the decision-making process.” X Caitlin Byrd can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 140, or cbyrd@mountainx.com.

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By david FOrBES After months of wrangling, false starts, temporary arrangements and failed compromises, Asheville City Council took a decisive step Feb. 14 concerning Occupy Asheville’s downtown encampment.

Council members have repeatedly grappled with this and related issues since last October; as Occupy campers across the country were being evicted in recent months, Occupy Asheville hunkered down while City Council deliberated, eventually becoming one of the last public camps still standing. But on Valentine’s Day, the long affair ended when Council voted to evict the protesters at noon on Feb. 17.

At Council’s last regular session, on Jan. 24, they considered two contradictory plans.

One proposed a permitting process for protest camps; the other would have banned the Occupy Asheville encampment outright. Both fell one vote shy of approval. Instead, Council opted for a compromise: approving a resolution opposing corporate personhood, hoping that, in return, the camp would voluntarily disband.

But Occupy Asheville couldn’t reach consensus on the deal. On Jan. 31, the coordinating council — a decision-making body with representatives from various protest groups — sent the city a letter asserting the right to camp on public property. The group followed up with a Feb. 7 list of more concrete demands,

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People power: Supporters of the Move to Amend effort to end corporate personhood watch as Council considers a resolution to endorse their efforts. It passed unanimously. Photo by Max Cooper

including: adopting the corporate personhood resolution, moving the city’s money to local banks, creating a “safe haven” for the homeless, and mandating a citywide living wage.

COrPOratiOnS vS. PEOPlE On Feb. 14, Council members unanimously approved a resolution calling for an end to corporate personhood, a step requested by the group Move to Amend and supported by Occupy Asheville and the Asheville Grown Business Alliance.

During public comment, Anne Craig of Move to Amend presented a petition urging Council to take this step, saying, “We want to move to amend the Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”

“Scores of cities have signed on to this,” he added. “We won’t be unique in that way, but we will be another voice in the chorus.”

Rod Hudgins, president of the Council of Independent Business Owners, said he wasn’t there to oppose or support the resolution but to note corporations’ “positive impact on

“tHE City’S WOrKEd WitH HUndrEdS OF OrganizatiOnS. WE’vE gOt a MOdEl FOr tHiS: diSCOvEr it.”

COUnCil MEMBEr gOrdOn SMitH tO OCCUPy aSHEvillE the community.” Corporations, he said, “have put $350 million into the community [since October 2010], a fact we find impressive.”

Occupy Asheville member victor Ochoa said: “We’re not anti corporations — we’re anti manipulative corporations. You have companies like Wal-Mart, where the CEO makes over $9,000 an hour and the workers’ pay is continually being cut.”

Before the vote, Smith noted, “As elected officials, it’s our job to protect electoral integrity and make sure your vote counts. I’m proud to say that here in Asheville we retained early voting. Currently there’s a move to amend the U.S. Constitution in response to the Citizens United ruling.

Council then unanimously approved the resolution, to scattered applause and cheers.

CaMPErS EviCtEd But the good will proved short-lived as Council turned to more controversial measures.

One would incorporate Occupy Asheville’s campsite into Pack Square Park while designating both the campsite and the area in front of the Vance Monument “public forums” where people could protest 24/7 but not camp.

The other called for banning camping, with a few exemptions, on all city property.

The ordinance, noted City Attorney Bob Oast, uses the same definition of camping as the National Park Service did in the 1984 case Clark v. Community for Creative Nonviolence, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the agency’s right to prevent protesters from camping in a symbolic tent city they’d erected.

Vice Mayor esther Manheimer made the motions for both ordinances with little comment. But she’d previously urged her colleagues to evict the camp and move on to other issues.

Occupy Asheville spokesperson Naomi Archer disagreed, however, saying the camp falls under protesters’ “natural right to exercise free speech, freedom of assembly and the right to address the government for a redress of grievances.

“There’s something wrong in our communities, and we all know it,” she asserted.

“Without the Occupy movement, we wouldn’t be having all these conversations. Most of you here were elected on a progressive platform.

I’m pretty sure, irrespective of the challenges we’ve had in our occupation, they will be disappointed if you vote to remove us now.”

John spitzberg, president of the local chapter of Veterans For Peace, took a different tack.

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By dispersing the camp, he argued, Council was contradicting its own affordable-housing goals.

“How can you make this decision to criminalize, again, the homeless by saying, in effect, ‘You’re on your own, buddy?’” queried Spitzberg, who’s also treasurer of the Asheville Homeless Network. “Give us a safe haven, where people can be safe. They’re not getting this protection from private agencies.”

Bob sanal, meanwhile, saw Council’s decision in more extreme terms. “The flag of the United States should no longer be sitting behind you,” he declared. “Instead, what should be sitting behind you is the flag of the new world order and a one-world government, which will be taking over. There will be microchips and bar codes for all, and you’ll have no choice about receiving that microchip.”

If Council approved the ordinances, Sanal continued, he would no longer consider himself an American.

George Ingle, however, said it was time for the camp to go.

“I’m sick and tired of it; I’m not for these people here: I’ve been an occupier of Asheville for 83 years,” he told Council. “It’s time we moved these people out. I’m tired of these people coming in from New York, Oakland and telling this city what to do. What if I came in and said, ‘Find me a condo somewhere’ — of course, free of charge?”

Ochoa, meanwhile, pointed out that evicting the protesters would not address the larger problem of homelessness. “After the occupation, they’re looking at spending time in jail,” he said. “I don’t think it’s right someone should end up behind bars for being homeless.”

In the end, the ordinance expanding the borders of the park and creating public forum zones was approved 6-1, with Smith opposed.

The ordinance banning camping passed 5-2, with Council member Cecil Bothwell joining Smith in opposition.

Before the vote, Smith said he didn’t fault anyone for their position, given the difficulty of the issue.

“I’m not going to be supporting this; I’ve still got a lot of uncertainty over whether this is speech,” he noted. “I know this is messy; I know that we’ve reduced chronic homelessness in this city by 75 percent.”

But Smith also expressed some frustration with the Occupiers.

“As far as working with Occupy Asheville, I want you to know that the city’s worked with hundreds of organizations. We’ve got a model for this: Discover it,” he urged. “We work with people who address deep-seated problems in

our community. The way we do that is that they create a viable model, they build public support across the political spectrum and then they move it forward with that support, rather than just coming from point A to point B without crossing the space in between.”

lEgiSlatUrE all WEt Council members were united, however, on the need to retain control of the city’s water system. A study committee made up of state legislators is considering giving the system to either an independent authority or the Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Since bowing out of its water agreement with Buncombe County in 2005, noted Manheimer, the city has taken on debt to significantly improve the system. Water revenues, she added, are used only for system maintenance, expansion and infrastructure.

“We have professional management: It’s well-run, it’s nationally recognized, we’ve consistently maintained and grown the water system, we’re in excellent financial condition and we’ve made consistent investment,” she continued.

Asheville, said Manheimer, faces challenges because city taxpayers must “shoulder the burden of a much higher daytime population.”

The state’s study committee will hold an allday hearing on the matter Thursday, Feb. 23, at the WNC Agricultural Center, beginning at 9 a.m.

Council member Chris Pelly said he plans to propose an independent public hearing on the matter at an upcoming Council meeting, sharply criticizing the Legislature’s decision to hold only one hearing in Asheville — and in a place far removed from the city center. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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A red-tailed hawk circles high above Asheville City Hall, basking in the rising sun. Still in the shadow of the mountain, the Occupy Asheville encampment is stirring. Some campers peer out from their tents. Others are already sorting their belongings, preparing for the noon departure deadline.

Asheville native John Penley, a longtime New York City resident who helped establish the original Zuccotti Park occupation there, has moved back to his hometown. He feels it’s important to be on hand for the camp’s last day.

“We’ve been able to bring the issue of making homelessness illegal with this encampment,” Penley explains. “Every encampment I’ve been to has a different vibe ... a different focus. I guess it depends on the city they’re in.”

Then, remembering the very different Asheville he grew up in, Penley says: “I was captain of the football team the year they integrated Asheville High. My father was the principal of the black high school on South French Broad Avenue [now Asheville Middle School], and I was one of the few white kids who had black friends then.”

Just then, Mayor Terry Bellamy pulls up to City Hall in her Lincoln.

“See what I mean?” asks Penley. “Totally different. Wow.” He tries to talk with the mayor, but she rushes off.

Soon after, police Sgt. Jonathan Brown comes over to say good morning and ask if people are getting ready.

“You didn’t bring us doughnuts?” jokes Penley.

“No, we eat bagels now — no doughnuts in uniform,” Brown retorts.

Just then, another police sergeant walks by carrying a big box of Krispy Kremes, evoking hoots of laughter...

— Bill Rhodes

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The narrow swath of ground is bare; most of the campers have pulled up their tents. Protesters move about picking up trash, bamboo poles, signs. A few campers declare their intent to face arrest, and about 50 Occupy Asheville members have gathered in support.

The writing was on the wall for the site — one of the last public Occupy encampments in the country — when, on Feb. 14, City Council voted 5-2 to ban camping on city property as of noon on Feb. 17.

But the deadline comes and goes as a lone police officer chats with the demonstrators. Eventually he leaves, and most of the protesters march to the Vance Monument and back, saying they’ll return when the 10 p.m. park curfew kicks in.

Around 1 p.m., Penley moves his tent from the campsite to a spot in front of City Hall. Police Sgt. Don Eberhardt asks Penley to move it to one side so it won’t block foot traffic, and after some negotiation, Penley complies...

— David Forbes

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last flags: On Friday, Feb. 17, Occupy Asheville campers cleaned up their site before the city evicted them. Photo by Max Cooper

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The hours go by and the sun goes down. Matthew danovitch joins Penley in another tent, and yet another occupies the former campsite. By 10 p.m., around 30 protesters have gathered, chalking slogans such as “Occupy the Future” on the brick.

About 20 minutes later, six APD officers arrive and ask the campers to move; they refuse.

The exchange is mostly cordial. About 20 people, some with pink duct tape over their mouths, make a circle nearby, humming “Om.” The police presence grows to 30 officers; they arrest Danovitch, Penley and Perry Graham, who owned the tent Danovitch was in and declined to move it. All three are charged with violating the city’s new ordinance.

The protesters shout “Shame!” Some compare the police to Nazis; others say they’re “just humans trying to survive.”

Police remove the tents and depart; a scattering of protesters remain.

— David Forbes

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calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists calEndaR FoR FEbRuaRy 22 - maRch 1, 2012 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

Day-by-day calendar is online Want to find out everything that’s happening today — or tomorrow, or any day of the week? Go to www.mountainx. com/events.

Weekday Abbreviations: SU = Sunday, MO = Monday, TU = Tuesday, WE = Wednesday, TH = Thursday, FR = Friday, SA = Saturday

Animals Asheville Aussie Club • MONTHLY - This social club meets regularly to connect Australian Shepherd lovers.

Call or email for activities and monthly meeting times: (704) 806-7300 or kspotential@ aol.com. brother Wolf Animal Rescue

A no-kill organization. Info: www.bwar.org or 505-3440.

• Brother Wolf Animal Rescue will offer free spay and neuter services to pit bulls and their mixed-breed counterparts as part of a grant from the Animal Farm Foundation. Program will end after 50 vouchers are distributed. Bring dogs to 31 Glendale Ave. for a voucher.

Info: 808-9435.

• DAILY, 8am-8pm - Pet Adoption Day at the rescue center, 31 Glendale Ave. Open from 8am-6pm on Sundays.

Clicker training for Parrots • SA (2/25), 10am-noon - Learn how to develop a good relationship with your parrot, build trust and improve communication using positive reinforcement concepts. Hosted by Phoenix Landing at 434 Cedar Hill Road, Alexander. Free. Info: www.phoenixlanding.org.

Housetraining 101 • SA (2/25), 10am - Learn the dos and don’ts of teaching dogs

Calendar deadlines:

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(7 days PRIoR to PublIcatIon) Can’t find your group’s listing?

Due to the abundance of great things to do in our area, we only have the space in print to focus on timely events. Our print calendar now covers an eight-day range. For a complete directory of all Community Calendar groups and upcoming events, please visit www.mountainx.com/events..

Calendar information In order to qualify for a free listing, an event must cost no more than $40 to attend and be sponsored by and/or benefit a nonprofit.

If an event benefits a business, it’s a paid listing.

If you wish to submit an event for Clubland (our free live music listings), please e-mail clubland@mountainx.com.

Free Listings To submit a free listing: * Online submission form (best): http://www.mountainx.com/ events/submission * E-mail (second best): calendar@mountainx.com * Fax (next best): (828) 251-1311, Attn: Free Calendar * Mail: Free Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), second floor, downtown Asheville.

Please limit your submission to 40 words or less.

Questions? Call (828) 251-1333, ext. 365.

Paid Listings Paid listings lead the calendar sections in which they are placed, and are marked (pd.).

To submit a paid listing, send it to our Classified Department by any of the following methods. Be sure to include your phone number, for billing purposes. * E-mail: marketplace@mountainx.com. * Fax: (828) 251-1311, Attn: Commercial Calendar * Mail: Commercial Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Classified Dept., Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), Ste. 214, downtown Asheville.

Questions? Call our Classified Department at (828) 251-1333, ext. 335.

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Topics include housetraining schedules, management options (including crate training), troubleshooting and proper accident clean-up. Hosted by Patton Avenue Pet Company, 1388 Patton Ave. Humans only. Info: www.pattonavenuepet.com.

Pet biggest Loser Contest • Through SU (5/20) - All Pets Animal Hospital and Rehabilitation Center will hold a Pet Biggest Loser Contest to promote a healthy lifestyle in pets. Info: 645-5252.

Rusty’s Legacy • SATURDAYS, 10am-3pm - Rusty’s Legacy animal rescue will host pet adoptions at the Black Mountain Tractor Supply Company, 125 Old Highway 70.

Info: rustyslegacync@aol.com or http://avl.mx/9p.

Spay/neuter Vouchers • SA (2/25), 10am-2pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at Tractor Supply Company, 115 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

WOOf: i Can’t Stop barking • SA (2/25), 11am - Learn why dogs may bark excessively, how to assess what is motivating the vocalization and what training techniques will work best at this free info session.

Humans only. Hosted by Patton Avenue Pet Company, 1388 Patton Ave. Info: www.pattonavenuepet.com.

Art American folk Art and framing Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.amerifolk.com or 281-2134.

• Through WE (2/29) - The annual Miniatures Show will feature paintings under 8”x10” and pottery under six inches tall.

• Through WE (3/7) - Lost Winter, works by self-taught artists from the Southeast. bluewood Photography • FR (2/24), 5-7pm - An anniversary open house will be held at Bluewood Photography, 36 W. Jordan St., Brevard. Info: www.bluewoodphotography. com or 883-4142.

Appalachian State University 423 West King St., Boone. Info: www.tcva.org or 262-3017.

• Through SA (3/31) - Senegal: A Window into Francophone West Africa will be on display in

the east wing of the community gallery.

• Through SA (6/2) - Robert Goodnough: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond will be on display in the east wing of the main gallery.

• Through SA (3/24) - Padre e Figlio: Father and Son Works by Mario Prisco and Richard Prisco will be on display in the Mayer Gallery.—- The Department of Art Biennial Exhibition will be on display in Gallery A. —- The Artine and Teddy Artinian selfportrait collection will be on display in Gallery B. • Through SA (6/2) - Works by the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition winners will be on display in the Turchin Center for the Arts.

Art at mars Hill College Info: www.mhc.edu.

• Through FR (3/9) - Viaticus, works by Kenn Kotara, will be on display in the Weizenblatt Gallery.

Art at UnCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu.

• Through TU (2/28) - Caprice, mixed media pieces by Vasily Polevoy, will be on display in the Blowers Gallery.

• Through FR (2/24) - An alumni art exhibit will be on display in UNCA’s Highsmith University Union Gallery. Info: 251-6991.

Art events at UnCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• Through WE (2/29) Ceramics by Alice Ballard and Roger Dalrymple will be on display in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Art events at WCU Held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs.

10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (3/30) - Ron Laboray (painting and drawing).

Arts Council of Henderson County • Through FR (3/2) - The Art of Our Children: Elementary Student Exhibition will be on display at First Citizens Bank Main Street Gallery, 539 North Main St., Hendersonville. Info: acofhc@bellsouth.net.

Asheville Art museum

Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm.

Info: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

• Through SU (2/26) - Winning selections from the WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards, a juried competition for students grades 7-12, will be displayed in this group exhibition.

• Through SU (3/4) - Homage2 will pay tribute to Josef Albers.

Asheville Community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: www.ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• Through SA (3/31) - Rhythm and Movement: Paintings by Mary Charles Griffin will be on display in the lobby.

Asheville gallery of Art 16 College St. Hours: Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: www. ashevillegallery-of-art.com or 251-5796.

• Through WE (2/29) - Love of Art, works by Frances Greenberg, Elinor Bowman and Lee Entrekin. bella Vista Art gallery 14 Lodge St. Winter hours: Mon., Wed. and Fri., 10am4pm. Sat. 11am-5pm. Info: www.bellavistaart.com or 768-0246.

• Through SA (3/31) - With and Without Copper, works by Stephen White, Sally Jacobs and Nancy Varipapa. black mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain. Info: 669-0930 or www.blackmountainarts.org.

• Through WE (2/29) Paintings by Robert Tynes and ceramics by Megan Wolfe. bookWorks 428 1/2 Haywood Road. Info: www.ashevillebookworks.com or 255-8444.

• Through WE (2/29) - Time Travelers: Historical Bindings.

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. Info: www.craftscreativitydesign.org or 890-2050.

• Through SA (6/30) - Torqued and Twisted, works by nine furniture makers and sculptors. folk Art Center Located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Info: 2987928 or www.craftguild.org.

• Through TU (4/17) - Cherly Hevrdeys (glass) and Martine House (fiber).

• Through SU (5/13) - The American Association of Wood Turners Invitational Exhibition will feature 25 artists from around the world. from Vt to nC • Through TH (3/1) - An exhibition of mixed-media work by Burlington, Vt.’s “Seeko the Kid” will be on display at Asheville Art Supply, 344 Depot St. Info: http://seeko.tumblr.com. grovewood gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road. Info: www.grovewood. com or 253-7651.

• Through SA (3/31) - Tradition Meets Innovation: Objects and Accents of the Arts and Crafts Home.

Haen gallery Located at 52 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Hours: Mon., Wed. and-Fri., 10am-

6pm. Tues. and Sat., 11am6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.thehaengallery.com or 254-8577.

• Through WE (2/29) - Wintertide 2012, a rotating group show. monte Vista Hotel • Through TU (3/20) - Works

by Cleaster Cotton (multimedia and textile design) will be on display at the Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain. Info: www.themontevistahotel.net or 669-8870. nuestras Voces, nuestras Historias • TH (3/1) through SA (3/31) - Nuestras Voces, Nuestras Historias / Our Voices, Our Stories, works documenting immigrants in WNC, will be on display in UNCA’s Highsmith Union Gallery. Info: cesap.unca. edu/calendar.

• TH (3/1), 7-9pm - Opening reception.

Pat Passlof Retrospective • Through FR (5/25) - A retrospective of the late Pat Passlof’s work will be on display in WCU’s Fine Art Museum, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee, and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, 56 Broadway St. Info: ddrury@ wcu.edu or 227-2553.

Push Skate Shop & gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave., between Stella Blue and the Kress Building. Info: www.pushtoyproject.com or 225-5509.

• Through TU (2/28) - Time Drug, works inspired by the poetry of Oliver Kelly. the Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St., River Arts District.

Info: www.ashevillearts.com.

• Through SA (2/25) Twenties: Decade in Polaroid, photographs by Erin Fussell. three Perspectives on nature • TH (3/1) through SA (3/31) - Desert Moon Studios and Gallery, 372 Depot St., Suite 44, celebrates the Spring Equinox with its latest exhibit, Three Perspectives on Nature, featuring photographs by Cleaster Cotton, Laurie McCarriar and David Simchock. Info: www. desertmoondesigns-studios. com, 575-2227 or desertmoondesigns@gmail.com. transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am-4:30pm. Info: www. artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787.

• Through FR (2/24) - Five Elements, works by Southern artists.

• TH (3/1) through WE (3/28) - Outdoor Photography Exhibit. transylvania Heritage museum Located at 189 W. Main St., Brevard. Hours: Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Donation. Info: www.transylvaniaheritage.org or 884-2347.

• Through SA (3/31) - From Tallow Candles to Dynamos.

Upstairs Artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Wed.-Sat., 11am-4pm. Info: www.upstairsartspace.org or 859-2828.

• Through SA (3/10) - Fine Art Ramblers.

You Can Have it All — A group of One • Through FR (3/9) - A new exhibition of works by Kenn Kotara, including canvas, Mylar, suspended screen sculpture and ceramics, will be on display at Mars Hill College’s Weizenblatt

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Gallery. Info: www.kotarastudio. com or www.mhc.edu/art/weizenblatt-gallery.

Auditions & Call to Artists Appalachian trail Hall of fame • Through WE (2/29) Nominations for the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame will be accepted through Feb. 29. Info: http://avl.mx/8m.

April fool’s festival • Through TH (3/15) Registration for Tryon’s April Fool’s Festival outhouse race will be accepted through March 15. Info: artzycarson@gmail. com or 859-8316.

Asheville Community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: www.ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• WE (2/22), 6-8pm - Auditions for To Kill a Mockingbird.

Auditions at n.C. Stage • FR (2/24), noon-3pm - N.C. Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane, seeks African American women, 25-40, for the role of Elizabeth in Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room. Rehearsals begin April 16 and performances run May 9 through June 10. Info: heather@ncstage.org, 2390263 or http://tiny.cc/66bo6. bele Chere Call to Artists www.belecherefestival.org.

• Through FR (2/24) - Bele Chere will accept applications from entertainers through Feb. 24. Info: www.belecherefestival. org.

• Through WE (2/29) - Bele Chere will accept applications for its official artwork through Feb. 29. Info: www.belecherefestival.org.

• Through FR (3/9) - Bele Chere will accept applications from arts and crafts vendors through March 9. Info: www. belecherefestival.org. brevard fine Arts and Crafts Showcase • Through FR (5/25) - Applications for Brevard’s 40th annual fine arts and crafts showcase will be accepted through May 25. Info: tcarts@ comporium.net or 884-2787. buncombe environmental Leadership Award • Through TH (3/1) Applications for the Buncombe Environmental Leadership Award (BELA) will be accepted through March 1. Info: gillian. phillips@buncombecounty.org or 250-4852. flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock. Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville.

Info: www.flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• Professional musicians are sought for Flat Rock Playhouse’s musical productions and the “Music on the Rock” series. Mail audio or

video samples, with resume, to P.O. Box 310, Flat Rock, 28731.

No emails or phone calls.

Outdoor Photography • Through MO (2/27) - TC Arts Council will accept submissions for its outdoor photography exhibit through Feb. 27. Info: tcarts@comporium.net or 884-2787.

Pastel exhibition • Through SA (3/24) - The Pastel Society of N.C. will accept submissions for its On Common Ground: From the Mountains to the Sea statewide pastel exhibition through March 24. Info: www.pastelsocietyofnc.com.

Saluda Arts festival • Through TH (3/15) - The Saluda Business Association will accept applications for the Saluda Arts Festival through March 15. Info: sswelsh@tds. net or 749-3900.

Second Stage of Life Comedy • Professional, amateur and aspiring comics over 40 are sought to establish the Second Stage of Life comedy troupe.

Info: debidrecksler@gmail.com. taste of Asheville • Through TH (4/5) - A Taste of Asheville will accept applications from local restaurants through April 5. Info: kperez@ashevillenc.gov or 259-5800. the Language of textiles and fiber Art • Through SA (3/3) - Desert Moon Studios and Design will accept applications from fiber artists for its April exhibit, The Cutting Edge: The Language of Textiles and Fiber Art, through March 3. Works must be no more than two years old. Info: www.desertmoondesigns-studios.com/thecuttingedge. the magnetic field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: www.themagneticfield.com or 257-4003.

• Through WE (3/14) - The Magnetic Theatre will accept one-act play submissions for Brief Encounters: New Magnetic Voices 2012 through March 14. All scripts should be original, unproduced and 5-20 minutes in length. truly Live theater • Through WE (2/22) - Truly Live Theater uses audience feedback and improvisation to create full length “dramedies.”

Currently seeking experienced actors to form a troupe. Send resumes and inquiries to madhyanandi@gmail.com.

Web Series • Santa Lorena Productions seeks actors to perform in its web series Tomorrow Waits For No One. One-year commitment required. Info: talent@santalorena.com.

WnC theatre League Unified Auditions • FR (2/24) & SA (2/25) - A-B Tech and The Montford Park Players will host the WNC Theatre League Unified Auditions to develop a database of local actors. Call for times. $30. Info and registration: www. unifiedauditions.org

Beer beer master tournament • Through TH (5/24), 6:30pm - The Asheville Beer Master tournament will feature beer trivia at a variety of locations.

Must be 21 or older. Brewers and owners of beer outlets are not eligible. Info: http://avl.mx/94 or avlbeermasters@gmail.com.

Business & Technology Apps for business • FR (2/24), 11:30am - Jose Ibarra presents this hands-on, interactive discussion about where mobile applications are headed and how they’re useful in business. Bring a tablet or smartphone. Registration required; bring your own lunch.

Info and RSVP: www.ashevillechamber.org or 258-6114.

Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists at 39 D S. Market St., downtown Asheville.

Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Info and registration: www.arts2people.org or info@arts2people.org.

• The Arts2People Artist Resource Center seeks instructors with business management skills. Classes are geared towards creative professionals.

Info: www.ashevillearc.com. business of farming Conference • SA (2/25), 8:30am-5pm - Warren Wilson College hosts this opportunity for local farmers, agriculture professionals and business and marketing specialists to attend learning sessions and meet with restaurants and wholesale buyers. $30/$50 for two. Info: www. asapconnections.org/conference.html or 236-1282. free tax Assistance • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS through (3/17), 10am-4pm - Free tax assistance will be offered at Pack Library, 67 Haywood St. Info: 628-3662.

• TUESDAYS, 9am-4pm - Tax assistance will be offered at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Info: 2504750.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-4pm - Tax assistance will be offered at Weaverville Public Library, 41 Main St. Info: 250-6482.

• TUESDAYS, 10am-4pm - Tax assistance will be offered at Black Mountain Library, 105 N. Dougherty St. Info: 250-4756.

Ontrack financial education and Counseling 50 South French Broad Ave. Info: www.ontrackwnc.org.

• TU (2/28), 5:30-7pm - “A Budget Is a Gal’s Best Friend,” a financial class for women.

• TH (2/23), noon-1pm - “Got Credit? Get it, keep it, improve it,” a financial program for women.

• MONDAYS through (4/2) - “Ending Over-Spending,” an eight-week series, will reinforce healthy relationships with money. Presented on various Mondays during Feb., March and April.

• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS through (2/22), 5:30-8:30pm - A four-part class on homebuyer education will be held at Wind Ridge Apartments, 100 Wind Ridge St. Presented by OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling. $35.

• THURSDAYS through (2/23), 5:30-8pm - A three-part series on money management and financial independence.

Classes, Meetings, Events & Lectures Aerial basics Class (pd.) Every Sunday 4-5pm & Monday 6-7pm, Sign up or contact us at www.aerialspace.org or 828.333.4664 .Registration required. This class is perfect if you are curious, new to aerial arts, or if you are looking to fine tune the basic skills and proficiency you already have. This class involves work with mixed apparatuses: static trapeze, silks, sling, and lyra.

You will leave this class with a solid foundation of basic aerial skills, a list of basic and beginning level aerial tricks, as well as increased strength, flexibility, and grace.

Asheville newcomers Club (pd.) A great opportunity for women new to the area to make lasting friends, explore the surroundings and enrich their lives.

Contact us! ashevillenewcomersclub.com or l 828.654.7414.

Life guarding Class at the YW (pd.) Become a American Red Cross certified Lifeguard!

Several classes available at the YWCA, 185 S. French Broad Ave. Next class starts Wednesday, February 29th. Just need CPR? CPR-PR available Saturday, March 24th. Call 254-7206 x 110 or email tonna. davis@ywcaofasheville.org for more information. mac basics Classes at Charlotte Street Computers (pd.) Mac Basics Computer Classes are being held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street. Class time is 12:15 - 12:45pm.

Mondays - Mac OS X, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month - iPhoto, 2nd Tuesday

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- iWork Essentials, 4th Tuesday - iMovie Basics, 5th Tuesday - Garageband, Wednesdays - iPad Basics. Registration is just $9.99 at classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com.

Open Stitch groups at Purl’s Yarn emporium (pd.) On Wall Street downtown: Wednesdays, 10am-12pm; Thursdays, 6-8pm. Bring a knit or crochet project or find something new to cast on. (828) 253-2750. www.purlsyarnemporium.com Your business on a mac Seminar at Charlotte Street Computers (pd.) Learn how easy it is to introduce a Mac into your business, as well as a few surprising ways that a Mac can help increase your productivity. Saturday, March 3rd from 2-4pm. Register online at: charlottestreetcomputers. com/seminars Acrylic Painting Class • WEDNESDAYS through (4/25), 10am-noon - Acrylic painting classes will be offered by the Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. $30 per session includes supplies (except brushes). Registration required. Info: harvesth@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2051.

ACt vs SAt Comparison test • SATURDAYS, 9am & SUNDAYS, 1pm - Asheville students are invited to take an “ACT vs SAT Comparison Test” to determine which represents their best match. Held at Chyten Educational Services, 1550 Hendersonville Road, Suite 104, Asheville. Free. Info and reservations: www.chyten-asheville. com or 505-2495.

African American genealogy Program • SA (2/25), 1-3pm - A seminar on African American genealogy will be held at 128 Bingham Road, Suite 950. Info: info@ obcgs.com or 253-1834.

Asheville bridge Room • DAILY - The Asheville Bridge Room offers games for beginners and advanced players at River Ridge Market Place, 800 Fairview Road, Suite C-1. Info: 299-0887.

Asheville Chamber music Series Pre-Concert Lecture • TH (3/1), 4:15pm - The Asheville Chamber Music series pre-concert lecture will discuss pieces by Haydn, Beethoven and Shostakovich at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: unca.edu/ ncccr or 251-6140.

Asian-American Social • WEEKLY - These regular meetings allow American-born Asians to share experiences with those of similar backgrounds, learn more about Asian culture and meet new people. Must be 21. Foreign-

born Asians welcome. Info and location: sueannaj@gmail.com. black History expo • SA (2/25), 2-4pm - The Black History Expo will feature poetry, dance and history at StephensLee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. Free. Info: lmcdowell@ashevillenc.gov or 350-2058. blackbeard Lecture • MO (2/27), 7:30pm - A lecture on the English pirate commonly known as Blackbeard will be presented by Elliot Engel in Caldwell Community College’s J.E. Broyhill Civic Center. $12/$5 students. Info: www. broyhillcenter.com or 726-2407. building bridges • MONDAYS through (3/19), 7-9pm - “Building Bridges: Going Beyond Racism through Understanding and Respect” will be presented at 121 Hendersonville Road. Info and registration: www.buildingbridges-asheville.org or 777-4585.

Cary bayer • WE (2/22), 7:30pm - Life coach Cary Bayer will discuss how to “open your heart and save our planet” at Town and Mountain Training Center, 261 Asheland Ave. $30/$25 in advance. Info: aileamana@ charter.net or 777-0369.

Chorus Rehearsals • TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Land of the Sky Chorus will hold rehearsals at Francis Asbury UMC, 725 Asbury Road, Candler. New singers and guests welcome. Info: www. ashevillebarbershop.com or (866) 290-7269.

CLOSeR • TUESDAYS, 7pm - CLOSER, Community Liaison Organization for Support, Education and Reform, will host a meeting for LGBT members of the community at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. Info: avlcloser@ gmail.com.

Comedy Workshop • WEDNESDAYS through (2/29), 3pm - A comedy workshop, focused on writing, construction, theory and history, will be held at Grateful Steps, 159 S. Lexington Ave. $5 includes coffee and snacks. Info: www. gratefulsteps.com.

Cyber Security • WE (2/22), 10am - “Cyber Security,” a lecture by the World Affairs Council of WNC, will be held in BRCC’s Cortland Conference Room. $8/students and members free. Info: http://bit.ly/wlwVOp. — 3pm - An additional program will be held in Brevard College’s dining room.

Decolonize Your mind • TH (2/23), 7pm - Naomi Archer will lead a workshop on indigenous solidarity and the roots of indigenous culture in the Cannon Lounge of Warren

Wilson College’s Gladfelter Building. Info: www.katuahearthfirst.org. energy geopolitics • TU (2/28), 7:30pm - “Energy Geopolitics” will be presented by Grant Gosch, general manager of First Light Solar Energy, in UNCA’s Reuter Center as part of the Great Decisions lecture series. $8/members and students free. Info: http://bit. ly/wlwVOp. • WE (2/29), 10am - An additional program will be held at BRCC’s Cortland Conference Room. —- 3pm - A final program will be held in Brevard College’s dining room. foster Parenting Class • MO (2/27), 6-8pm - An orientation meeting for MAPP-GPS Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting, a program about the needs of foster children, will be held at 200 College St. Info: familiesforkids@buncombecounty.org or 258-0031. improv Comedy Class • SUNDAYS through (3/11), noon-3pm - Upright Citizens Brigade alumna will teach longform improv comedy at Anam Cara Theatre Company, 203 Haywood Road. Classes culminate with a performance on March 12. Drop-ins welcome. $10 per class in advance/$12 drop-ins. Info: www.anamcaratheatre.com.

Lake Craig flood management meeting • TH (3/1), 4-7pm - A public meeting to discuss Lake Craig Flood Management’s Azalea Road Project will be held at UNCA’s Engagement Site, Suite 116, Grove Arcade. Info: www. ashevillenc.gov/progress.

Laughing Place forest faerie Crafting Circle • TUESDAYS, 1-4pm - This free crafting circle is held weekly rain or shine. Bring your own crafting supplies and projects, extra materials for swap and skills and interests to share. Held in Fairview. Info and location: 707-0154 or http://avl.mx/8b.

Laurel Chapter of the embroiderers’ guild of America Info: www.egacarolinas.org or 654-9788.

• TH (3/1), 9:30am-noon - The meeting will feature an “Egg O’ Flower Challenge.” mixtape Swap • 4th SATURDAYS, noon - A mixtape swap and monthly meeting will be hosted by Asheville Free Media at DeSoto Lounge, 504 Haywood Road.

Bring a CD to share and take one home. Info: www.ashevillefm.org.

Public Lectures & events at UnCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (2/23), 12:20pm - “What’s Art Got to Do With It? A Discussion about Art and Activism” will be presented in

Karpen Hall. Info: 251-6590. — - 12:30pm - “Feeding the Beast: How Your Organization Can Avoid Getting Bitten, or Even Eaten, in a Social Media Storm,” will be presented in Ramsey Library. Info: 251-6645.

• FR (2/24), 11:30am - The Autumn Players will hold an open house in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: unca.edu/ncccr or 251-6140.

• FR (2/24), 11:25am - “Nationalism and Religion: Modernity and the Ottoman Empire,” with Rodger Payne, chair and associate professor of religious studies, will be presented in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Info: humanities.unca.edu.

—- 11:25am - “Sexuality and Identity: Contemporary Discourses,” with Lorena Russell, chair and associate professor of literature, will be presented in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: 251-6808.

• MO (2/27), 11:25am “Heroic and Archaic Greece,” with Sophie Mills, professor of classics, will be presented in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

Info: humanities.unca.edu. —11:25am - “Medieval India,” with Keya Maitra, associate professor of philosophy, will be presented in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Info: 251-6808.

• TU (2/28), noon - Bill Sabo, professor of political science, will discuss the 2012 election in UNCA’s Sherrill Center. $10 includes lunch. Info: 251-6512.

• TH (3/1), 4:15pm - STEM lecture will discuss advances in science, technology, engineering and math in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: 251-6140.

Retro Happy Hour • THURSDAYS, 5:30-8:30pm - A retro happy hour invites young professionals to network and socialize while wearing retro clothes (optional) at The Market Place, 20 Wall St. Free. Info: lushlifemgmt@gmail.com or 515-1081.

SiStA group • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm & FRIDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm SISTA, an educational program to help women avoid unhealthy relationships and STDs, will meet Thursdays at Pisgah View Apartments, 1 Granada St., and Fridays at the Reid Center, 133 Livingston St. Free, but registration requested. Info: otimmons@wncap.org or 252-7489.

Stecoah Valley Center Located at 121 Schoolhouse Road., Robbinsville. Info: 479-3364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• SA (2/25), 10am-3pm - A class on wet wool felting will teach participants to make a scarf. $30.

• MO (2/27), 10am-noon - A class on needle felting will teach participants how to make a broach. $25.

• TH (3/1), 10am-3pm - A class on pansy wall hangings will be offered to those with beginning quilting and sewing experience. $30. the fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St. Info: www.fineartsleague.org or 252-5050.

• MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Open drawing class with live models. $7/$5 students.

Veterans for Peace Info: vfpchapter099wnc. blogspot.com.

• TH (3/1), 6:30pm - Veterans for Peace will meet at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. Voices of Hope Panel Discussion • TU (2/28), 2-3:30pm - “Voices of Hope: A Conversation About Eating Disorders” panel discussion will answer questions about anorexia and bulimia as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Held at A-B Tech’s Simpson Lecture Room.

Info: thecenternc@gmail.com or 337-4685.

WnC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

• FR (2/24) & SA (2/25) - A monster truck show will be held in McGough Arena.

Youth OUtright • TU (2/28), 5:30-7:30pm - Youth OUTright will host “You Have a Million Reasons to Be Here,” an anti-bullying program to celebrate the organization’s work with LGBT youth, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 1 Thomas Wolfe Plaza. Free.

Info and registration: info@ youthoutright.org.

Dance beginner Swing Dancing Lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person.

• No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville.

Details: www.SwingAsheville. com bharatanatyam Classes • Adult • Children (pd.) Bharatanatyam is the sacred classical dance form of India. Adult and

children’s classes now forming.

Traditional Kalakshetra Style. • DakshinaNatya Classical Arts.

Riverview Station. • Call Tess: (828) 301-0331. Learn more: www.riverviewstation.com bhangra/Hip-Hop Aerobic Classes • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30pm - Learn the lively Indian dance Bhangra, mixed with a little hip-hop, at this weekly series. Beginners and dropins welcome. Held at Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain. $10.

Info: www.holisticwithhumor. com/dance.

Dance Classes • WEEKLY - Dancing Feete and Ballroom Dance Center, 2682B Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, hosts intermediate waltz and foxtrot classes, along with salsa and East Coast swing for beginners. Info, days and times: 674-5253 or dancingfeete@ bellsouth.net. intro bhangra/Hip-Hop Workshop • SU (2/26), 1-2:30pm - Learn the lively Indian dance Bhangra, as seen in Slumdog Millionaire — mixed with a little hip-hop

— at this intro workshop.

Beginners welcome. Held at Anytime Fitness, 805 Patton Ave. Info: www.holisticwithhumor.com/dance.

Rennie Harris Puremovement • TH (2/23) & FR (2/24), 8pm - World-renowned hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement will perform at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. Info: 2574530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

West African Dance • TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - This high-energy dance includes live drumming. Held at the new Terpsicorps studio, 339 Lyman St. All levels welcome. $12/$10 students. Info: ashevilledrumdance@gmail.com.

West African Drum Class • TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Instruction with Adama Dembele from the Ivory Coast.

All levels welcome. $15. Held at Terpsicorps’ new studio, 339 Lyman St. Info: www.terpsicorps.org.

Eco future of Asheville’s Water System • WE (2/22), 5:30-7:30pm - A discussion about the future of Asheville’s water system will be held as part of Asheville Green Drinks at Posana, 1 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.ashevillegreendrinks.com.

RiverLink events Info: www.riverlink.org or 2528474.

• WE (2/22), 5-8pm - A WaterRICH workshop will focus on site planning at RiverLink, 170 Lyman St. Sustainable management of Public Lands • MO (2/27), 3pm - The Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute will host speakers on the topic of sustainable management of public lands as part of its ongoing Green Mondays series.

Held at the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. Info: www.blueridgesustainability.org.

Water Quality Course • WEDNESDAYS through (3/14), 6-9pm - The Henderson

County Cooperative Extension and ECO will host a seven-week course on water quality at the Cooperative Extension Office in Jackson Park, 801 Glover St. Hendersonville. $30. Info and registration: 697-4891.

Festivals Soumu • SA (2/25), 6-10pm - Soumu, a celebration of dance, drumming and music, will feature a West African dinner. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St. $15/$10 under 12. Info: www. ymicc.org or 252-4614. totally ‘80s Ski Weekend • FR (2/24) & SA (2/25) - The Town of Beech Mountain’s Totally ‘80s Retro Weekend encourages the public to wear leg warmers, neon snow pants and big hair at Beech Mountain Resort, 1007 Beech Mountain Parkway. Lodging and ski packages available. Free to attend.

Info: www.beechmtn.com.

Food Asheville Small Plate Crawl

• Through TH (2/23) - The public is invited to sample dozens of local restaurants, who will offer $3-$8 plates during select hours. Participants will then have the opportunity to vote for “Crawl Bests.” See website for participating restaurants and times: www.ashevillesmallplatecrawl.com.

Chocolate meditation • WE (2/29), 7pm - A chocolate meditation class will discuss “the food of love” at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Donations accepted. Info: www.unitync.net or 684-3798. food Storage basics • TUESDAYS & THRUSDAYS - Learn how to safely package foods for the future, what types of foods will store long-term, what packaging options are available and the dos and don’ts of mylars and oxygen absorbers. All classes require registration. $25. Info and registration: www.maiasgarden.net. indoor Winter market • WEDNESDAYS through (4/25), 2-6pm - An indoor winter tailgate market will be held at

Biltmore Park Town Square, 2 Town Square Blvd., Suite 170.

Info: www.asapconnections.org or 236-1282. taqueria Con Cuida Opening Party • TU (2/28), 7pm - Taqueria Con Cuida will host a soft opening, featuring free LatinAmerican food and live local music, at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. Info: www. taqueriaconquida.com. trout on tuesdays • TUESDAYS through (2/28) Tupelo Honey Cafe South, 1829 Hendersonville Road, will feature trout specials sourced from Sunburst Trout Farms as part of “Trout on Tuesdays.” Net proceeds benefit the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.

Info: http://fromhere.org.

Viticulture Conference • WE (2/22), 8:30am-4:30pm - A viticulture conference will feature lectures on cold-hardy grapes, marketing for wineries and cover crops for vineyards.

Held at Warren Wilson College; register for location. $40 in advance. Info: www.jeweloftheblueridge.com.

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Wine Studio of Asheville 169 Charlotte St. Info: www. winestudioasheville.com or 255-5955.

• TH (3/1), 7pm - Wine 101. $10. Registration requested.

Government & Politics north buncombe Republicans • TU (2/28), 7pm - All Republicans, or anyone interested in registering as such, are welcome to attend this precinct meeting at the Weaverville Fire Department, 3 Monticello Road.

Info: 645-8004.

Gardening Leicester garden Club • SA (2/25), 1pm - A free lecture will focus on managing garden pests. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road.

Info: LGCmember@yahoo.com or 683-7159. master gardener Association Plant Sale • Through FR (3/23) - Order forms for the Master Gardener Association plant sale will be accepted through March 23. Forms available at 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 118. Info: 456-3575.

Kids Aerial Kids Class (pd.) All ages and levels. Every Sunday 3-4pm, Tuesday 5-6pm and Thursday 5-6pm. Sign up or contact us at www.aerialspace.org or 828.333.4664.

Registration required. Using low hanging static trapeze, aerial sling, aerial fabric, and lyra this class is a fun aerial playground.

All classes are taught over safety mats with hands on spotting by experienced aerial instructors.

Our emphasis on safety and proper technique allows students to have loads of fun while learning body awareness and building self confidence. biltmore Square mall • Putt Local! (pd.) Come check out Sweet Tee mini Golf in Biltmore Square Mall. Our last day in the mall is February 29th. • Free Putt Bowling with any round.

828.333.1152. www.

SweetTeeMiniGolf.com Swim Lessons at the YW (pd.) Learn skills for water fun, fitness and safety! Swim lessons in the YWCA’s solarheated pool, 185 S. French Broad Ave. Red Cross certified instructors. Affordable rates.

More info: 254-7206 or www. ywcaofasheville.org.

Art and Poetry Contest for Kids • Through FR (3/9) - RiverLink will accept submissions for the Voices of the River Art and Poetry Contest from children in

grades pre-K through 12 until March 9. Info: www.riverlink. org or 252-8474.

Asheville Youth ensemble • Young musicians are invited to perform with the Asheville Youth Ensemble. Strings, flute, recorder, percussion and piano players welcome. Beginning music reading skills required.

Info: ashevilleyouthensemble@ gmail.com or 299-4856.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: www.handsonwnc.org or 697-8333.

• WE (2/22), 11am - Book ‘n’ Craft.

• TH (2/23), 2-4pm - Bubble activities.

• WE (2/29), 10:30am - Crazy Chemistry will focus on volcanoes. Registration requested.

Kid’s Club at the YmCA • SATURDAYS, 2:30pm - Kid’s Club is an opportunity for children to learn, play and make new friends. Open to ages 7-15. Held at 30 Woodfin St. Info: www.ymcawnc.org/centers/asheville.

Learn about Coyotes • SA (2/25), 9-11am - A program about coyotes will include story time, crafts and other hands-on activities.

Open to ages 4-7. Hosted by the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, 1401 Fish Hatchery Road. Info: www.ncwildlife.org or 877-4423. middle School Confidence Series • THURSDAYS (3/1) through (4/5), 5:30-7pm - The Girls Scouts Peaks to Piedmont chapter invites 6th and 7th grade girls to learn how to handle cliques, peer pressure, jealousy and complicated friendships. Held at 64 W.T. Weaver Blvd. $15. Info and registration: ashevilleintern@girlscoutsp2p. org or 252-4442. mother goose Story time • MONDAYS & SATURDAYS, 10:30-11am - Sweet Tee Mini Golf will host Mother Goose Story Time at the Biltmore Square Mall, 800 Brevard Road.

1 1/2 years and under; siblings welcome. Info: 333-1152 or www.sweetteeminigolf.com.

Pisgah Astronomical Research institute (PARi) Info: 966-4097 or www.pari. edu.

• TU (2/28), 6-8pm - Girls ages 9-14 are invited to learn about electrical circuits as part of the SciGirls program. Held at the Transylvania County Extension Center, 98 East Morgan St., Brevard. $10.

Wee naturalists • TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS through (2/29), 9:30am - The N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, will host

activities for children ages 2-5, including nature walks, garden exploration, stories, crafts and visits from classroom animals.

Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

Wee trade Children’s Consignment Sale • TH (2/23) through SA (2/25) - Wee Trade children’s consignment sale will be held in WNC Agricultural Center’s event center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

Outdoors beautiful Lake James marina • boat Slips Available (pd.) Beat the Summer rush and reserve a covered, uncovered or houseboat slip. Great location at Canal Bridge. Security, gas sales, marine store and customer lounge. Call (828) 584-0666.

JCC Hiker’s Club • MONDAYS - The Jewish Community Center hosts a hiker’s club on various trails in the Asheville area. Info, location and time: mattyssej@yahoo. com or 707-1851.

Lake James State Park N.C. Highway 126. Info: 5847728.

• SA (2/25), 10am - A two-mile hike along Paddy’s Creek Trail will depart from the Paddy’s Creek area.

• SU (2/26), 10am - An easy, one-mile bird watching hike will depart from the Paddy’s Creek Area parking lot.

Parenting birth Dancing Retreat and Series (pd.) Dancing for all phases of birth journey. Retreat at Yellow Sun Farm 3/10/12 8:30am6pm, $125 includes food, registration by 3/3/12. Also, 8-week series begins 3/22/12, $96. Contact yellowsunfarm@ hotmail.com or 828-664-9564. ever had a mini golf Course in your backyard? (pd.) Now you can! Rent us for your next event or party. You provide food and drinks, we’ll do the rest! 828.333.1152. www.SweetTeeMiniGolf.com breastfeeding Class • TH (3/1), 4-5pm - A class on breastfeeding will be offered at Hands On!, 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info and registration: www.handsonwnc.org or 697-8333. events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville.

Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• TH (2/23), 6:30-8pm - Infant care class.

• TH (3/1), 6:30-9pm - A twosession class on childbirth will be offered to expectant parents. first grade Readiness • TH (3/1), 7:30pm - How do you know your child is ready for first grade? Learn about the physical, intellectual and social indicators that signal the transition from kindergarten to grade school with Waldorf teacher Anna Rainville. Held at Azalea Mountain School, 587 Haywood Road. Info: 575-2557 or azaleamountain.com. new baby Asheville • FRIDAYS, 10am-1pm - Get support, meet other moms, share your story, ask questions and connect with community at this free weekly meeting. Info and directions: Lisahicks1018@gmail.com.

Skills for Parents of ADHD Children • WE (2/22), 7pm - A lecture on coaching skills for parents of ADHD children will be held at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734.

Waldorf Singing games • SA (2/25), 10:30am - Azalea Mountain School, 587 Haywood Road, will host an afternoon of singing games, dance and play for the entire family, featuring a potluck lunch at 11:30am. A workshop for adults, “Learning through Movement and the Arts,” will follow at 12:45pm.

Childcare available for $5 donation. Info: 575-2557 or www. azaleamountain.org.

Performance & Film Song O’ Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801.(Enter Fellowship Halllower level). Guests welcome.

Contact: www.songosky.org Toll Free # 1-866-824-9547.

AC Reynolds High Concert • TH (2/23), 7:30pm - The AC Reynolds High School symphonic winds concert will be held at 1 Rocket Drive. Info: 298-2500.

Asheville Community theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: www.ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS through SU (3/11) - Chicago.

March 1 performance to benefit Eblen Charities.

Atlanta guitar trio • FR (2/24), 7pm - Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road, will host a concert of classical guitar music, featuring selections from Spain and Russia, along with compositions by Vivaldi. Info: stevec@ groceumc.org. black mountain Center for the Arts

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Old City Hall, 225 West State St., Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm; Thurs. 11am-3pm.

Info: www.BlackMountainArts. org or 669-0930.

• SA (2/25), 7:30pm - Music and craft show with Red June.

Crafts by the band will include rings made from guitar strings and lapidary jewelry. $10. blue Ridge Orchestra Info: www.blueridgeorchestra. org or 650-0948.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Open rehearsals for the Blue Ridge Orchestra will be held most Wednesdays in the Manheimer Room of UNCA’s Reuter Center. Free. Call for confirmation. bolokada Conde • WE (2/22), 7:30pm - West African drummer Bolokada Conde will perform at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. A beginner’s lesson will precede the performance at 6 p.m. $10/$5 for those enrolled in classes. Info and reservations: 768-2826.

Classic World Cinema foreign film Series Presented by Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District in Asheville. Info: www.ashevillecourtyard.com or 273-3332.

• FR (2/24), 8pm - Claire’s Knee (1970 France) by Eric Rhomer. Presented by Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District. Info: Cranky Hanke’s reviews under “Special Showings,” www.ashevillecourtyard.com or 273-3332.

Community Concert • FR (2/24), 7pm - The Land of the Sky Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Dave Wilken, will perform at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road.

Refreshments will be available immediately following. Info: www.landoftheskybands.org.

Don’t Cry for me, margaret mitchell • FRIDAY through SUNDAY until (2/26) - Don’t Cry For Me, Margaret Mitchell will be performed by Foothills Performing Arts in Caldwell Community College’s performing arts theater, 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson. $10/$8 seniors/$6 students. Info: www.fpatheatre. org or 726-2318. film Screening: Killing Us Softly 4 • MO (2/27), 7pm - T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating will host a screening of Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Held in UNCA’s Highsmith Student Union, Room 224. For UNCA students only.

Info: www.thecenternc.org. frank Sinatra tribute • TH (2/23) through SA (2/25) - The Music on the Rock series

will present a Frank Sinatra tribute show at Flat Rock Playhouse’s downtown theater, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. $24. Info: www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

Hooterville Hoedown’s big Show • TH (2/23), 7pm - Tom Brown will perform country, rock and classic hits at Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, as part of the Hooterville Hoedown Big Show. $4. $8 for BBQ dinner at 6 p.m.

Info: hootervillehoedown@ gmail.com.

Jamie Laval • TH (2/23) & FR (2/24), 7:30pm - Jamie Laval (Celtic violin) will perform at TC Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. $15/$8 children.

Info: www.jamielaval.com or 884-2787.

Joyful noise Community Center Info: www.joyfulnoisecenter.org or 649-2828.

• MONDAYS, 6-7pm - The public is invited to bring instruments to an Appalachian jam session, featuring bluegrass and country music. Held at First Presbyterian Church, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville. $10. nC Stage Company Info: www.ncstage.org or 239-0263.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (3/18) - Love Child.

Peace through education • TH (2/23), 7pm - Peace Through Education will be screened at the Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $10.

Info: www.peacethrougheducationfilm.com.

Slice of Life Comedy • MO (2/27), 8:30pm - Standup comedy and booked open mic. Free snacks, drink specials and a raffle for charity will be provided for $5. Professional video taping available for performers. Held at Pulp, below the Orange Peel, 103 Hilliard Ave. Info and booking: sliceoflifecomedy@gmail.com.

St. matthias musical Performances Located at 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 2850033.

• SU (2/26), 3pm - The Reuter Center Singers, a 50-person community chorus, will perform works by Ellington, Ray, Dett and Scott Joplin in honor of Black History Month. temple Veil • WE (2/22), 6:30pm - Temple Veil (acoustic, singer-songwriter) will perform at New Life Community Church, 1417 Riverside Drive. Free. Info: www.templeveil.com. the Hooping Life • TH (2/23), 9:30pm - The Hooping Life will be screened at Asheville Pizza and Brewing

Company, 675 Merrimon Ave. $10. www.ashevillehoops.com. the Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. www.thehopicecreamcafe.com or 254-2224.

• TU (2/28), 6:30-7:30pm - Forty Fingers and a Missing Tooth will perform circus juggling. the Vagina monologues • FR (2/24) & SA (2/25), 7pm; SU (2/26), 2pm - The Vagina Monologues will be performed

by Warren Wilson College students in the university’s Bryson Gym. Production to benefit Our Voice, Helpmate, the RISE Project and ABCCM’s Steadfast House. $15 suggested donation. Info: rise@warren-wilson. edu or 771-3798.

Seniors events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville.

Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• TU (2/28), 1-3pm - Health insurance guidance for retirees. fitness Class for Seniors • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS through (3/23), 11am-noon - Fitness classes for seniors will focus on swimming, cardio and weight training.

Held at Waynesville Parks and Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Free with membership or admission. Info: 456-2030.

Spirituality Asheville Center for transcendental meditation (“tm”) (pd.) Discover why TM is the world’s most effective and scientifically validated meditation technique. Clinically proven to boost brain function and reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. Allows you to effortlessly transcend the busy, agitated mind to experience inner peace and unbounded awareness. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: How meditation techniques differ • Meditation and brain research • What is enlightenment? (828) 254-4350. www.

MeditationAsheville.org Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. bharatanatyam Classes

(pd.) Bharatanatyam is the sacred classical dance form of India. Adult and children’s classes now forming.

Traditional Kalakshetra Style. • DakshinaNatya Classical Arts.

Riverview Station. • Call Tess: (828) 301-0331. Learn more: www.riverviewstation.com mindfulness meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence.

With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz.com.

Mondays, 7-8pm – Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon).

Donation.

Ananda marga Yoga • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Ananda Marga Yoga hosts weekly meditation, chanting and philosophy sessions at 22 Ravenscroft Drive. Free. Info: 989-6227. bible Study at the Cove • TUESDAYS, 9:45am & 6:30pm - A free women’s Bible study will be hosted by The Cove at The Billy Graham Training Center, 1 Porters Cove Road. An optional lunch is available at the morning class. All are welcome. Info and registration: www.thecove.org or (800) 950-2092.

Chant for the Planet • 4th SUNDAYS, 1-4pm - Soka Gakkai International invites the public to “chant for the planet” as part of this large and diverse Buddhist organization. Held at French Broad Coop, 90 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info: www.sgi-usa. org.

Dharma Class • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Dharma class with Venerable Pannavati Bhikkuni. All are welcome; by donation. Held at 60 Caledonia Road #B (the carriage house behind the Kenilworth Inn Apartments). Info: 505-2856. earth Sabbath • MO (2/27), 7pm - Earth Sabbath, a celebration of the “mystery and meaning of the universe,” will be held at St. Mary’s Church, 337 Charlotte St. Info: info@ncipl.org. first Congregational Church in Hendersonville Fifth Ave. West at White Pine St., Hendersonville. Info: 692-8630 or www.fcchendersonville.org.

• SU (3/4), 9:15am - John Snodgrass will discuss the “family tree of the chosen people” as part of the Adult Forum series.

Holistic Healing • WE (2/22), 7-9pm - “Holistic Healing, Breakthrough and Shamanism,” with Tom Wright, author and Science of Mind practitioner, will be held at West Asheville Public Library,

942 Haywood Road. Info: 633-0462.

Kashmir Shaivism • THURSDAYS, 7pm - Explore the nondual philosophy and practice of tantric Kashmir Shaivism with Madhyanandi.

Donations only. Info and directions: madhyanandi@gmail. com. nonduality Circle • 4th TUESDAYS, 7pm - Are you tired of seeking? Together, we can look into why we suffer and transcend it. Info and location: moemunee@hotmail.com. nurse Christian fellowship • 1st THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Nurse Christian Fellowship provides a local, regional, national and international network to bring the message of Jesus Christ and a Christian worldview to nursing education and practice. Info: rchovey@ sos.spc-asheville.org.

Pray the Vespers • SUNDAYS, 7pm - The Asheville Orthodox Mission invites the public to pray the Vespers of the Ancient Orthodox Christian Church at 619 Haywood Road. Info: http://avl. mx/9s.

SeniorSalt impact • TH (3/1), 3pm - This program is designed to encourage senior adult believers to reach their friends and family for Jesus Christ. The event features an inspirational concert, staff-led discussion and a buffet-style meal. Held at the Billy Graham Training Center, 1 Porter’s Cove Road. $29. Info: www. thecove.org.

Spiritual Law of Consciousness • SU (2/26), 11am-12:30pm - A workshop on the law of spiritual growth will be offered at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road. “Interact with others to see how to make this law work in your life!”

Info: www.eckankar-nc.org or 254-6775.

Unity Center events Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: www.unitync.net or 684-3798.

• WE (2/22), 7pm - “What is Lent?” lecture. Donations accepted.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30 & 11am - Sunday celebration service.

Child care available. —- 11am - Y.E.S. Youth Expressing Spirituality.

Unity Church of Asheville Located at 130 Shelburne Road.

Info: www.unityofasheville.com or 252-5010.

• TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - A Search For God A.R.E. Study Group.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual celebration service. —- 12:302pm - A Course in Miracles study group.

Spoken & Written Word battery Park Writing group (pd.) Thursdays, 6:30 p.m.

Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar. This group meets to write together and then share in a supportive atmosphere. Free! Contact Lisa at 691-5472 or tokyotaos@live. com for more info. blue Ridge books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000.

• SA (2/25), 2pm - Judith Toy will read from her new book Murder as a Call to Love. buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • FR (2/24), 4-5:30pm - Teen Awesome Group will create a movie trailer for The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. WV • MO (2/27), 6:30pm - How to Write a Winning Memoir.

Free. BM City Lights bookstore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Info: more@citylightsnc. com or 586-9499.

• FR (2/24), 7pm - C.B. Cole will read from her novel Winter.

• MO (2/27), 7pm - Dawn Gilchrist-Young will discuss her short story The Tender Branch.

Kamishibai Storytelling • TU (2/28), 10am Kamishibai, the art of Japanese storytelling, will be presented at the Folk Art Center, MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Hosted by the Ikenobo Ikebana Society. Free. Info: lsglickman@ gmail.com. malaprop’s bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St. Info: www. malaprops.com or 254-6734.

• TH (2/23), 7pm - Sara Benincasa will read from her memoir Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom.

• FR (2/24), 4:30-6pm - A gathering for small business owners and those considering ownership. —- 7pm - Lisa Alther will read from Kinflicks and other books.

• SA (2/25), 7pm - Christopher Arbor will read from his new collection of short stories Static to Signal. Tim Plaehn will also read from his new play West Asheville.

• SU (2/26), 3pm - Karen Kemper and Linda McNamara will read from If You Have to Wear an Ugly Dress, Learn

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you, once-exciting music and books and art works that no longer mean what they once did. Don’t stop there. Pinpoint the people who have let you down, the places that lower your vitality, and the activities that have become boring or artificial. Finally, Aries, figure out the traditions that no longer move you, the behavior patterns that no longer serve you, and the compulsive thoughts that have a freaky life of their own. Got all that? Dump at least some of them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) If you’re a woman, you could go to the perfume section of the department store and buy fragrances that would cause you to smell like Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Eva Longoria, or Paris Hilton. If you’re a man, an hour from now you could be beaming an aroma that makes you resemble a celebrity like Antonio Banderas, Usher, David Beckham, or Keith Urban. You could even mix and match, wearing the Eva Longoria scent on your manly body or Usher on your female form. But I don’t recommend that you do any of the above. More than ever before you need to be yourself, your whole self, and nothing but yourself. Trying to act like or be like anyone else should be a taboo of the first degree.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “I try to take one day at a time,” says Ashleigh Brilliant, “but sometimes several days attack me all at once.” I think you may soon be able to say words to that effect, Gemini — and that’s a good thing. Life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. Events will flow faster and your awareness will be extra intense.

As a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months. Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? Or would four be enough for you?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) When actor Ashton Kutcher is working on the set of his TV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen.

Seven 60-inch TVs are available for his viewing pleasure. As you embark on your journey to the

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far side of reality, Cancerian, it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort.

But what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. Be sure you’re well-stocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat.

Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Photos of mentors? Magic objects?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Veterans of war who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins.

The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity.

For H2O to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. I see a timely lesson in this for you, Virgo. If you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life’s rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you.

That’s why I suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don’t just tolerate the messiness. Learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are neither in a red-alert situation nor are you headed for one. A pink alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there’s no danger or emergency in the works. Shouting and bolting and leaping won’t be necessary. Rather, you may simply be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances.

Unscripted plot twists could prompt you to take actions you haven’t rehearsed. It actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective Shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Dear Rob: For months I’ve had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake. Here’s the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, I finally asked myself, what’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: ‘It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.’ - Scorpio

Devotee.” Dear Devotee: You have provided all your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) For million of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur, and feathers. In recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string, and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. Eightytwo percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematical. Thomas Edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter he was homeschooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished. Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education.

As for Einstein, he told his biographer, “my parents were worried because I started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.” What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. Speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Nigeria has abundant deposits of petroleum.

Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day.

Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. Now let me ask you, Aquarius: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? Are you being properly compensated for your natural riches?

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Gawker.com notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself — a lot.

Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth re-telling.)

In the coming week, Pisces, pease please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch — and have maximum fun doing it.

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to Accessorize, a book about autoimmune disease. natasha trethewey • TH (2/23), 7pm - Poet Natasha Trethewey will read from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Native Guard in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: 251-6808.

Sports Adult Kickball League • Through MO (3/12) - Registration for Buncombe County Parks, Greenways and Recreation’s adult kickball league will run through March 12. $30. Info: jay.nelson@buncombecounty.org or 250-4269. fitness Program • TUESDAYS, 5:15pm - WNC Fit Club will offer free workout sessions at the National Guard Armory, 100 Minute Man Drive.

Info: www.xfit.org or 506-4726. n.C. flag football Union Registration • Through SU (3/18) - The new North Carolina Flag Football Union (NCFFU) is currently accepting team and free agent registrations for its inaugural statewide kickoff. Info and registration: www.ncffu.org. north Asheville Little League • SA (2/25), 9am-2pm Registration for co-ed baseball and tee-ball, along with girls’ softball, will be held at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Road (behind the Post Office on Merrimon Ave.). $60/$55 city residents. Info: www.northashevillelittleleague. com.

Swannanoa babe Ruth baseball and Softball • SATURDAYS through (2/25), 9:30am-2pm - Sign-ups for Swannanoa Babe Ruth baseball and softball will be held at Burger King, 2333 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa. $45/$40 siblings. Info: loubelle32@yahoo.com.

Zumba Class • THURSDAYS, 6:10-7pm - Zumba classes will be offered by the Asheville Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte St. Advance registration suggested. $10. Info: Rochelle@jcc-asheville.org or 253-0701.

ZumbaPump • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - This weekly class consists of 30 minutes of cardio dance followed by 30 minutes of toning with light weights.

Bring your own mat. Held at 1070 Tunnel Road, Suite 30. $6. Info: lesliearcpt@gmail. com.

Volunteering Animal Compassion network 803 Fairview St. Info: www. animalcompassionnetwork.org or 274-DOGS.

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• Volunteers are needed for the Dine to be Kind event, along with general duties, such as dog walking, transportation, videography and marketing.

• SA (2/25), 11am-1pm - Volunteers are sought to help reorganize the pet food storage area. —- 1-3pm - High school students are sought to repackage pet food donations at MANNA FoodBank, 627 Swannanoa River Road.

Asheville City Schools foundation • Volunteers are sought for Asheville City Schools Foundation’s reading and math programs. Prior teaching or tutoring experience preferred.

Info: www.acsf.org or 3506135.

Asheville free media • Asheville Free Media seeks volunteers for its local internet radio station. Be a DJ, plan events and be part of the community. Info: www.ashevillefm. org. big brothers big Sisters of WnC Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Room 213, in the United Way building. The organization matches children from singleparent homes with adult mentors. Info: www.bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks adult mentors for bi-monthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost. Volunteers are also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school programs.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks people to mentor one hour a week in schools and after-school sites. Information session on Feb. 23 at noon at the United Way building, 50 S. French Broad Avenue, Room 213.

Cell Phone Donation • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8am-5pm - RiverLink will accept unwanted cell phones at its offices, 170 Lyman St. Info: www.riverlink.org or 252-8474.

Center for new beginnings • The Center for New Beginnings seeks volunteers for community awareness and services for crime victims and survivors of traffic fatalities, suicides and other death-related incidents. Info: contact@centerfornb.org or 989-9306.

Children first/CiS Children First/CIS is a nonprofit advocating for children living in vulnerable conditions. Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072.

• Through TU (5/1), 2:305:30pm - Volunteers are needed at least one hour per week, Mon.-Thurs., to help K-5th graders with homework and activities. Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072.

Council on Aging • Volunteers are needed to drive seniors to doctor appointments

as part of the Call A Ride program. Volunteers use their own vehicles and mileage reimbursement is available. Info: www. coabc.org or 277-8288. exhange Student Hosts • Families are sought to host international exchange students.

Must pass a background check and provide room and board.

Info: www.ayusa.org or 2988873. fabric needed for Donated Quilts • St. Mark’s Lutheran Church seeks large pieces of fabric (82” x 64”) to make quilts for charity.

Drop off at 10 N. Liberty St. Info: 263-0043. foster Parenting Classes • TUESDAYS through (3/13), 6-9pm - A 10-week class for potential foster parents will meet the training requirements for becoming a foster parent. Free.

No commitment required. Info and location: familiesforkids@ buncombecounty.org or 2505868. french broad Paddle trail • FR (2/24), 10am-3pm - Volunteers are needed to build campsites along the French Broad River. Held on private land. Info and location: nick@ wnca.org.

Hands On Asheville-buncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• TH (2/23), 6-8pm - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank.

• TH (2/23), 4-6pm; TU (2/28), 4-6pm - Fair-Trade Stock-Up: Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

• SU (2/26), 2-3pm - Knitn-Give encourages knitters of all skill levels to make hats for the Buncombe County Dept. of Health’s Community Health Program and Homeward Bound of Asheville.

• MO (2/27), 4-6pm - Help tidy and organize the play rooms of the family visitation program.

Helios Warriors • Helios Warriors, a holistic therapy program for veterans, seeks volunteer licensed/insured practitioners for a minimum of three hours per month.

Volunteer administrative support also needed. Tues., Thurs., Fri. or Sun. Info: www.helioswarriors.org or 299-0776. name that Creek • Ideas sought for the “Name That Creek” project, sponsored

by RiverLink. Info: volunteer@ riverlink.org. new Opportunities thrift Store

• The Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway in Hendersonville, seeks donations for the New Opportunities Thrift Store. Volunteers also needed during store hours. Info: 692-0575.

Partners Unlimited • Partners Unlimited, a program for at-risk youth ages 10-18, seeks volunteers for its fundraising and program committees.

Info: partnersunlimited@juno. com or 281-2800.

Read Across America • Through WE (2/29), 8am - Read Across America seeks adults to read Dr. Seuss books in first grade classrooms daily through the end of the month.

Books provided. Info: 231-0852.

Road to Recovery • The American Cancer Society seeks drivers to transport cancer patients as part of its Road to Recovery program. Volunteers must be available weekdays and willing to use their own vehicle.

Info: 254-6931.

Southern Appalachian Repertory theatre • Ushers, marketing and fundraising volunteers are sought by the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre. Info: sartplays@aol.com or 633-1049. the nature Conservancy • MO (2/27), 10am-4pm - Work and Learn Party: Orienteering. Volunteers are sought to remove invasive species from the Bat Cave Preserve.

A local expert will then teach basic orienteering skills. Info and registration: mtns_volunteers@ tnc.org or 350-1431 ext. 105.

Upcycling bin • Hip Thrift, 201 Haywood Road, will collect and distribute clothing as part of its upcycling program. Donations of old, stained or torn items will be turned into something new by local crafters. Clothes can be donated or picked up Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: info@hipthrift. org or 423-0853.

Young Parents Demonstration Project • Through MO (4/30) - The Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry seeks volunteers to provide emotional support and guidance to young parents moving out of poverty. Info: 398-6995 or www.abccm.org/ministries/ circles.

YWCA Stand Against Racism • Through FR (4/20) Volunteers are sought for YWCA Stand Against Racism through April 20. Info: www.ywcastand. org.

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newsoftheweird The way the world works • Melissa Torres was a passenger in an April 2011 auto accident in Texas City, Texas. Police reported all five people involved “uninjured,” and indeed, Torres was released from the Mainland Medical Center emergency room after a routine evaluation (for which she was billed $4,850). Hospital records continued to show that balance for months afterward. In December, however, after learning that Torres had settled an insurance claim against the driver for $30,000, the hospital quickly “updated” her balance to $20,211 and filed a claim against the settlement.

• Hospitals must provide emergency care to anyone who needs it, regardless of their legal status or ability to pay. But various state laws prohibit releasing patients who have no safe place to go. A January New York Times report noted that New York City hospitals currently house about 300 such patients; many have been there for five years, and one is now in his 13th year. (Some states’ laws are even worded to permit “pop drops” (adult children needing a break who leave “ailing” parents at a hospital).

• A November Comtel airlines charter flight from India to Birmingham, England, stopped in Vienna to refuel, but Comtel’s account was overdrawn, and the airport demanded the equivalent of about $31,000 in refueling and takeoff charges. After a six-hour standoff, many of the 180 passengers were let off the plane, one by one, to visit an ATM, and eventually a settlement was reached.

The force is not with you • In November, Rickie La Touche, 30, was convicted in England’s Preston Crown Court of killing his wife in a rage over her having allegedly destroyed the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker memorabilia he’d collected since childhood. And in January, a judge in Portland, Ore., ordered a 45-day jail sentence, plus mental evaluation, for David Canterbury, 33, after he attacked Toys R Us customers with a lightsaber in each hand. And in February in Brooklyn, N.Y., Flynn Michael expanded his search for his stolen $400

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Names in the news • Recent Newsmakers: In an alcohol-related Christmas Eve auto accident in Buffalo, N.Y., Richard Booze Jr. was charged, and the injured victims included Chad Beers. In Burnett County, Wis., in October, Scott Martini, 51, was arrested for suspicion of DUI, which would be his fourth offense.

In Madison, Wis., in January, police filed weapon and drug charges against a 30-year-old man who’d legally changed his name to Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop. And in November, 27-yearold Wanker Rene was charged with vandalizing a Rhode Island state troopers’ barracks.

• In 2011, for the first time in 10 years, Jose wasn’t the most popular baby name in Texas (it was Jacob).

Meanwhile, among the babies born in Houston last year were boys with the first names Aa’den, Z’yun, Goodness, Godswill, Clever, Handsome, Sir Genius and Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Press reported in December. Girls’ names included Gorgeousg’zaiya, A’Miracle, Dae’Gorgeous and Praisegod. The newspaper had previously combed the register of Harris County convicts and found Willie Nelson de Ochoa, Shi’tia Alford, Petrono Tum Pu, Charmin Crew and Anal Exceus.

People different from us • Bill Robinson, 66, of Decatur, Ga., was arrested on a misdemeanor firearm charge in December for gathering holiday mistletoe in the “best way” he knew — shooting it out of a tree with a 12-gauge shotgun. The fact that the tree was in the parking lot of the suburban North DeKalb Mall (filled

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with holiday shoppers) apparently completely escaped his attention. “Well,” said Robinson to WGCL-TV, “about the time I did it, I got to thinking about it. ... I guess I assumed that everybody knew what I was doing.”

Least-competent criminals • Not Ready for Prime Time: In December, Mostafa Hendi was charged with attempted robbery of the We Buy Gold store in Hendersonville, N.C. But as Hendi reached for the money, clerk Derek Mothershead punched him in the face, momentarily knocking him out. Holding Hendi down with one hand, Mothershead called 911 with the other, and as they waited for police, Mothershead handed Hendi cleanser and paper towels, ordering him to clean his blood off the floor.

• Needed to Think It Through Better: Car salesman Frank Ready was showing his inventory to Pedro Prieto and Yordan Llauger at his lot in Austin, Texas, in December, and they’d settled on a Nissan Maxima for around $9,000.

“They asked if I took Visa,” Ready told KVUETV. “I said, ‘Yeah.’” The next day, Prieto and Llauger returned with 90 $100 Visa gift cards.

Ready called the police, who later found at least 28 counterfeit credit cards on the pair, charging them and a third person with fraud and identity theft.

Recurring themes Almost No longer Weird: (1) Fifteen firefighters on three crews (estimated cost: about $1,400 per hour) were dispatched to Norwich market in Norwich, England, in January to rescue a gull entangled in tree branches and, according to the animal-rescue society, “in distress.” (2) Women in Dado village on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao went “on strike” last year to persuade the men to stop their endless land disputes. (“If you do bad things,” a September Agence France-Presse dispatch quoted one woman, “you will be cut off here,” motioning below her waist.) The sex strike apparently worked.

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Hope after Loss Individual Counseling Individual bereavement counseling is available for adults, teens and children at no cost. Please call 828-692-6178 to schedule an appointment with one of our bereavement counselors.

Grief Education and Support Groups We currently offer free Grief 101 classes and Grief Support Groups in Henderson, Buncombe, and Macon counties at the following locations: Greatrex Place 571 South Allen Road Flat Rock, NC 28731

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Canned corn, green beans and big jars of pickles are stacked to the ceiling at MANNA FoodBank’s distribution center on Swannanoa River Road, yet even this well-stocked warehouse isn’t enough to feed the hungry in Western North Carolina.

And despite recent signs that the economy is improving, local food demand hasn’t slowed.

“We’re not seeing a diminished need at all,” notes Communications and Marketing Coordinator Joshua Stack. “Our agencies are reporting they consistently need more food, and we’re struggling to get them enough.”

One in six WNC residents access emergency food assistance each year through MANNA FoodBank’s providers, according to “Hunger in America 2010,” a study by Feeding America.

The nonprofit is the nation’s largest hungerrelief organization.

“Our primary objective,” says Stack, “is the large-scale acquisition and distribution of food for our 230 partner agencies. Last year, we distributed about 9.7 million pounds of food across 16 counties.” Dedicated volunteers help MANNA keep up (see sidebar, “A Happy Experience”).

To many people, he observes, the extent of domestic hunger is “shocking, because we’re a nation of excess. The American dream is to get as many yachts as you can.”

Yet in 2010, 14.5 percent of households nationwide were “food insecure,” the Feeding America study found. That means they had limited or uncertain access to nutritionally adequate, safe food at some point during the year.

At 15.7 percent, North Carolina was one of only nine states exhibiting significantly higher rates of food insecurity than the country as a whole.

children at risk UNCA economics professor Leah Greden Mathews, who teaches an “Economics of Food” class, blames the state’s unemployment rate.

“North Carolina has one of the persistently highest unemployment rates in the country,” she notes. “In Western North Carolina, we also have historically had relatively higher housing costs [compared] to the rest of the state.

Especially as people are losing jobs, or not getting enough hours, they may not be able to make ends meet. If they have to pay a higher portion of their income for rent, that means less is available for food.”

Thus, underemployed people may still need food assistance, Mathews points out. According to the Feeding America study, 36 percent of the nation’s food-insecure households included at least one employed adult.

a happy experience Two days a week, Black Mountain native Todd Byrns, above, volunteers at MANNA FoodBank, answering phones and doing light clerical work. Initially, he spent four months in the warehouse sorting food. Byrns also produces video for the nonprofit, documenting such projects as the Blue Jean Ball and Empty Bowls fundraising events.

Mountain Xpress: how did you come to start volunteering?

Todd Byrns: I just had the time, and I wanted to do something in the community to help. I really didn’t know where to start; Hands On Asheville was the easiest resource I could find.

One of the events I went to was at MANNA, and I just thought, “I can relate to that.” Feeding people was a big draw to me.

What do you do for a living?

I do video production stuff, commercials and Web content. I worked in the cell-phone business all my life, 24 years; we split ways in 2009. I have a house in Wilmington, but all my family is up here. Having a little kid, it made sense to come back. So I came back and started to do video full time. It’s not super busy all the time, so I had time to give, and that’s how all this stuff came about.

What’s the most rewarding part of volunteering with Manna FoodBank?

One was putting together the backpacks for kids. That was very impactful. I’m a single dad; it was this time last year, so it was a lot of winter days that kids were missing school.

One of the ladies said, “What do they do when they don’t go to school and don’t get any of this food?”

What have you noticed working in the office as opposed to the warehouse?

Particularly around the holidays, I couldn’t believe the amount of phone calls I got from people that wanted to come and volunteer, how many people just walk in here bringing food, how many people just walk in here bringing money. do you ever have frustrating days?

No, they’re all good. I’m a volunteer; I come to help any way I can. That makes it kind of a happy experience: You leave and go, “Hey, whatever I did, they felt like I helped.”

Photo and text by Megan Dombroski

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(828) 250-9077 • RelaxRejuvenate.com “Maybe they had a full-time job but employers cut their hours from 40 a week to 10, because they’re not as busy,” she explains.

“Maybe their wages stayed the same, but ... their overall income has dropped.”

Children also suffer the consequences. In 2009, 33,000 children accessed emergency food assistance in Western North Carolina alone, Feeding America reports. And chronic hunger, says Mathews, “can impair brain development. If you think about the longterm trajectory of our economic potential and what it takes to actually have a vibrant economy, we need to have educated folks.

They have to be nutritionally prepared to actually become educated. I’ve personally had situations where if I’m hungry, I can’t concentrate, so I’m not going to be learning as well. In the long run, that has pretty significant impacts.”

The MANNA Packs Program, notes Stack, sends at-risk children home with 5-pound bags of food on Fridays to ensure they’ll have something to eat over the weekend. School breakfast and lunch programs also help keep kids from going hungry.

But pride, notes Mathews, can deter people from accessing food assistance. “For a lot of folks, especially if you’ve been a middleincome household and you’ve always been self-sufficient, it’s a big deal to admit to yourself that you need that kind of help.” X Megan Dombroski is a senior journalism student at UNCA.

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Wellness Acceptance & boundaries: the Keys to Loving Someone Difficult (pd.) Do you care deeply for someone who is hard to love? Call M. Wheeler, Counselor, 90- minute session for $50. 828-215-6653.

Admissions Open House! Daoist traditions College of Chinese medicine (pd.) Saturday, February 25. 4pm-6pm, 382 Montford Avenue, 28801 • Free to the public. RSVP: (828) 2253993 or admissions@daoisttraditions.edu For details visit www.daoisttraditions.edu Are You trying to force Yourself to Change? (pd.) Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a structured program that addresses the Emotional Root Cause of using Food, Alcohol/Drugs, Overspending, Overworking to feel pleasure, numb out, and/or comfort and soothe ourselves.

• Create a healthy lifestyle that promotes self compassion, brain health and grounded joy. Call 231-2107 or empowering.solutions@yahoo.com or visit website: www.ebt.org be good to Yourself (pd.) $40 One Hour Integrative Therapeutic Massage with Aromatherapy in beautiful River Arts studio. • Vanessa Dagavarian. LMBT#11415. • Call today: (646) 541-3802.

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Crystal energy Healing (pd.) To restore balance and bring relaxing peacefulness, generating heightened awareness, personal development, transformation and a deep sense of well-being. Kim Hageman, DD, DMP, CLT. By appointment: (828) 2752755. www.acrystalsanctuary.com the ReAL Center (pd.) Offers life-changing skills including Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Radical Honesty, and Somatic Awareness. Learn to stay centered in any situation, be flexible without being submissive, and more. $120/8-session class in Asheville with Steve Torma, 828-254-5613. http://www.theREALcenter.org A Conversation About eating Disorders • TU (2/28), 2pm - T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating will host “Voices of Hope,” a panel discussion about eating disorders designed to answer questions and promote conversation, at A-B Tech’s Simpson Lecture Room 115.

Info: thecenternc@gmail.com or www.thecenternc.org.

Disordered eating Presentation and Dinner • TH (3/1), 5:30-8pm - “Everybody Knows Somebody: What to do When ‘Coping in My Own Way’ Includes Disordered Eating,” a dinner and presentation, will be held as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Free, but registration required. Info: www.mahec. net/calendar. events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• WE (2/22), 1:30-2:30pm - “Shoulder Issues from a Physician’s Perspective.”

• MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9:30am; WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 3pm - Flu vaccine. $22. Registration not required.

• WE (2/22), 8-10am; SA (2/25), 9-11am - Cholesterol screening. Fasting required. $20.

• TH (3/1), 10:30am - A class on breast self-examination will use silicone models. free Health Consultations

• TUESDAYS, 1-6pm - The Faith Community Nurse will be at SOS Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite C-1, to discuss health concerns, assist with resources, provide free blood pressure screenings, pray with the public or “just spend time together.” Coffee and refreshments provided. Info: 768-0199. gentle Yoga for All • TU (2/28), 7-9pm - “Gentle Yoga for All” will be offered at Jubilee! Church, 46 Wall St. $10. Info: 252-5335.

How to Stay Young • WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - “How to Stay Young: the first 100 years” is held weekly at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Free. Info: www.fairviewchiropracticcenter.com.

Living Healthy with a Chronic Condition • FRIDAYS, 1pm - Take charge of your health with this six-week workshop for people with chronic health conditions and their caregivers. Held at Edneyville Community Center, 15 Ida Rogers Road. $30 for entire series; scholarships available. Space is limited; registration required. Info and RSVP: 251-7438. national Crime Victim Rights Week Planning • TH (2/23), 6pm - The Center for New Beginnings will plan for National Crime Victim Rights Week with a committee meeting at 34 Wall St. Info: www.centerfornb.org.

Power Yoga • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6am; SUNDAYS, 10am - Power Yoga will focus on breathing, balance, inversions and relaxation at Happy Body, 1378 Hendersonville Road. $10 with card/$12 drop-ins. Info: www.ashevillehappybody.com or 277-5741.

Qigong • THURSDAYS, 1:45-3pm - Level one Qigong class will meet at the Lakeview Clubhouse, 401 S. Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. $10. Info: 669-8610. tennis elbow Lecture • TH (2/23), 5:15-5:45pm - A lecture on self-treatments for tennis elbow will be held at Fairview Chiropractic, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Free. Info and registration: 628-7800. the Red Cross 100 Edgewood Road. Info: www.redcrosswnc.org or 2583888. Appointment and ID required for blood drives.

• WE (2/22), 1:30-6pm - Blood drive: A-B Tech Community College’s Enka campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler.

• FR (2/24), 10am-2:30pm - Blood drive: 30 Town Square Blvd., Suite 300. Info: 225-3014. —- noon4:30pm - Blood drive: Owen Middle School, 730 Old US 70, Swannanoa. Info: 686-7739.

• SA (2/25), 8:30am-1pm - Blood drive: Woodland Hills Baptist Church, 50 Woodland Hills Road. Info: 658-2554.

• SU (2/26), 3-7:30pm - Blood drive: Indian Cultural Association of WNC, 435 Smoky Park Highway. Info: 242-3910.

• WE (2/29), 8am-5pm - The Battle of the Badges campaign will ask blood donors to vote for their favorite first responder agency. Held at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Info: 258-3888.

• Through WE (2/29) - Donate blood for a chance to win a $50 gift card. Held at Red Cross Headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road: Monday, 12:30-5:30pm; Tuesday and Thursday, 2-7pm; Wednesday, 7:30am-12:30pm. Info and appointments: 1-800-RED-CROSS; walk ins welcome.

Yoga for Women • TUESDAYS, noon - This all-ages yoga class for women focuses on hormonal balancing and transitions, as well as the reproductive arc. Classes held at the Asheville Yoga Center’s Donation Studio, 239 S. Liberty St. Info: www. youryoga.com or rachael@nourishinglife.com.

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7. We work with local and regional gluten free support groups and host our own Gluten Free Fair in Asheville annually. This year it’s on Saturday, March 24th from 10 am - 2 pm at the Renaissance Hotel.

8. Ingles contributes millions of pounds of food to Manna Food Bank that uses it to supply 231 partner agencies like food banks and pantries in 16 Western North Carolina counties.

9. Ingles contributes millions of dollars to the Tools for Schools program helping public, private and home school association the areas where we have stores provide supplies and equipment to schools.

10. Ingles has a long standing relationship with Eblen Charities and works with them on numerous projects to help those in need in Western NC. 11. Ingles purchases MILLIONS of tons of local produce annually from Henderson county apples to Swannanoa organic sweet potatoes, cabbage from Boone and tomatoes from East Tennessee and more.

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wellnesscontinued ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www.adultchildren.org.

• FRIDAYS, 7pm - “Inner Child” study group, Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: 989-8075.

• SATURDAYS, 9:45am - “There is a Solution,” Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 749-9537.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution,” The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St. Open big book study. Info: 9898075.

• SUNDAYS, 2pm - “Inner Child” study group, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton. Info: 648-2924.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 474-5120.

Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area.

Info: www.wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326.

• WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - Al-Anon meeting for women, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am - “Daytime Serenity,” Pardee Education Center at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. —- 7pm - Al-Anon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road.

Newcomers welcome. —- 8pm - “Listen and Learn,” St. John’s Episcopal Church, 339 S. Main St., Marion.

• THURSDAYS, 6pm - Al-Anon meeting for women, New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3020 Sweeten Creek Road.

Newcomers welcome.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - “Parents of Children with Alcoholism,” West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

—- 7pm - Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway at North Highland Lake Road, Flat Rock. —- 8pm Fletcher United Methodist Church, 50 Library St., Fletcher.

• FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 5:30pm - “Family Matters,” First United Church, 66 Harrison Ave., Franklin. —- 8pm - “Lambda,” Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. • SATURDAYS, 10am - “One Day at a Time,” First Baptist Church, Buncombe and 5th Avenues, Hendersonville.

—- 10am - “Grace Fireside,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 10am - “Saturday Serenity,” St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte Street at Macon Avenue. —noon - “Courage to Change,” Bess Sprinkle Memorial Library, Weaverville.

• MONDAYS, noon - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 6pm - “Attitude of Gratitude,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 7pm - First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. A beginner’s meeting will proceed general meeting from 6:156:45pm on the 1st Mondays of the month. —- 7:30pm - First United Methodist Church, Jackson and Church Streets, Sylva.

—- 8pm - “Discovery,” Ledger Baptist Church, U.S. 226 near Bakersville. —- 8pm - Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway at North Highland Lake Road.

• TUESDAYS, 4pm - Grace Church, 242 Highway 107 N., Cashiers. —- 5:30pm - “Steps to Recovery,” Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road. —- 7pm - “One Day at a Time,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. —8pm - Transylvania men’s meeting, Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 E. Main St. Autism Parent Support group • 4th THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Meet parents of children with autism, share your experiences and learn from others. RSVP by 3rd Thursday to ensure childcare. Held at St. Gerard House, 718 Oakland St., Hendersonville. Info: www.stgerardhouse.com.

Co-Dependents Anonymous

A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - CODA meeting at First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 367-0157.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666.

Connections group • Learn to strengthen relationships, improve self-awareness and build internal resilience during this 12-week course led by professional counselors. Based on the work of Brene Brown.

Times to be determined. $40. Info: manifestcounseling.com or 258-5204.

Debters and Underearners Anonymous • MONDAYS, 7pm - The local chapter of Debtors Anonymous, a 12-step program, meets at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Underearners Anonymous meets at 8pm. Info: www.debtorsanonymous. org, underearnersanonymous.org or 704-299-8909. eating Disorder Support group • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Meetings focus on positive peer support, coping skills and recovery tools. Led by licensed professionals. Free. Info: www.thecenternc.org or 337-4685. events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www. pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-1:30pm & 5:30-7pm - Vet Center Out Station, a support group for veterans. Registration required before attending first meeting. Info: 271-2711.

• WE (2/22), 3:30-5pm - Celiac support group.

• TH (2/23), 5:30-7:30pm - Breast Friends Forever breast cancer support group meets at the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Center. Registration requested. Info: 698-7334.

• TU (2/28), 3-4:30pm - A caregiver support group will meet at Pardee Pavillion Adult Day Health, 114 College Drive, Flat Rock. Info: 697-7070. food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: 989-3227. grief Support groups • CarePartners’ bereavement support services are available to anyone who has suffered a loss through death. Weekly grief support groups, a relaxation group, a Grief Choir, Yoga for Grievers and one-onone counseling available. Donations accepted. Info: kcaldwell@carepartners.org or 251-0126. marshall Alcoholics Anonymous meeting • FRIDAYS, 8pm - AA meeting at Marshall Presbyterian Church, 165 South Main St. Info: soletpj@gmail.com. nAmi Connection Support groups • WEEKLY - The National Alliance on Mental Illness Connection Groups support recovery for people living with mental illness. Meetings are held 1st Saturdays at 10am, 2nd and 4th Mondays at 11am and 3rd Tuesdays at 6pm. All groups meet at 356 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.namiwnc.org.

Overcomers Recovery Support group A Christian-based, 12-step recovery program.

Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos.spcasheville.org or 575-2003.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - A support group for men and women.

Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who are recovering from compulsive overeating. A 12-step program.

• THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group, Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 3291637.

• THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: 277-1975.

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: 424 W. State St., Black Mountain. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 669-0986.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: 800-580-4761.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: 626-2572.

Sexaholics Anonymous • DAILY - A 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior. Daily Asheville meetings. Call confidential voicemail 237-1332 or e-mail saasheville@gmail. com. Info: www.orgsites.com/nc/saasheville.

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fun fundraisers

What: The Art Affair, to benefit OpenDoors.

Where: The Venue, 21 N. Market St., Asheville.

When: Saturday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. $75/$35 students. Info: opendoorsasheville.org Why: When Jasmine was a junior in high school, she made a life-changing mistake. She was sick of the girls from a rival neighborhood tormenting and threatening her and it was time to stand up for herself. Jasmine (last name withheld) didn’t talk to her teachers or tell a counselor. Instead she brought a knife to school.

Asheville High School didn’t take this lightly; Jasmine was expelled.

Then something remarkable happened. Her mother contacted OpenDoors, a program that provides educational opportunities to students with learning disabilities and behavioral problems. OpenDoors found a way to keep Jasmine in school. In fact, she went on to get her GED from A-B Tech and graduated a full semester early.

“Jasmine is incredible,” OpenDoors executive director and co-founder Jennifer Ramming told Xpress. “She owns her mistakes and moves forward. Some kids might blame others, hide or make the same mistake twice, but not Jasmine.”

Jasmine is just one of the 43 local students who have expanded their educational opportunities through OpenDoors. The program focuses on students who are in danger of incarceration, dropping out of school, perpetrating violence, or other destructive behaviors. OpenDoors also uncovers students’ hidden talents. “We have discovered artists, chess savants and math wizards in the midst of our most underserved students,” says Ramming. “They are diamonds in the rough.”

The Art Affair has been one of OpenDoors’ major fundraisers for the past three years. More than 50 artists will donate one-of-a-kind pieces. Andrew Brunk, formerly of Christie’s in New York City, will host the live auction. The organization is completely volunteer-run, so all of the proceeds will help at-risk young people in the Asheville area. Everyone can help contribute to success stories like Jasmine’s — and take home some great art at the same time.

Photo: Katherine Brooks Photography

benefitscalendar calEndaR FoR FEbRuaRy 22 - maRch 1, 2012 Arts for Life night • TU (2/28), 6:30pm - Join Wine and Design Asheville, 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 208, to “paint for a good cause.” A local artist will provide step-by-step instructions on creating that night’s featured painting. Paintbrushes and corkscrew provided. Bring your own drinks. A portion of the proceeds benefit Arts for Life, a nonprofit that teaches art to children facing serious illness or disabilities. $35. Info: www.paintpartiesstudios. com/asheville. balsam Range • SA (2/25), 7pm - Balsam Range and The Troubadours will perform at J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, 1913 Hickory Blvd S.E., Lenoir, to benefit the Veterans Transitional Advocacy Board of Caldwell County. $15/$12 in advance. Info: www.broyhillcenter.com. bob moog foundation • The Bob Moog Foundation will host an online fundraiser to raise funds for its educational program, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, at http://avl.mx/9v.

Class for a Cause • Through WE (2/29) - Happy Body Pilates, Yoga and Bodywork Studio, 1378 Hendersonville Road, Suite E2, will donate 20 percent of proceeds from pilates, mat and yoga classes to the Women At Risk program during the month of February. Info: 2775741 or www.wccj.org/womenatrisk.html.

Deadline film Screening • WE (2/22), 6pm - The premiere of Deadline will be screened at the Regal Biltmore Grande, 292 Thetford St. Tickets from $17. Hosted by the Asheville CitizenTimes to benefit the YWCA of Asheville.

Info: www.deadlineashevillepremiere.eventbrite.com.

Dine to be Kind • TU (2/28) - “Dine to be Kind,” a benefit for Animal Compassion Network’s spay and neuter programs, will be held at participating restaurants. Info and locations: www.animalcompassionnetwork.org.

Dress for Success • TH (3/1) through SU (3/4) - Dress for Success, a program which provides lowincome women with business attire, will accept donations of gently-used suits, pants,

shirts, skirts and shoes. Clothes will be accepted at 800 Fairview Road #D2. Info: 298-6635. empty bowls • FR (2/24), 6pm - Empty Bowls, hosted

by ArtSpace Charter School, 2030 U.S. 70 Highway, Swannanoa, will benefit MANNA FoodBank. Tickets include dinner and a handmade bowl. $15/$10 students. Info: 298-2787.

Helpmate • SU (2/26), 7pm - The Cafe String Quartet (chamber jazz) and others will perform to benefit Helpmate. Held at Jubilee!

Community, 46 Wall St. Info: www.echocooperative.org or 545-8865.

Java for Justice • WE (2/22) - Local restaurants, including City Bakery, Mosaic Cafe and West End Bakery, will donate a portion of their profits to Pisgah Legal Services. Info: www.pisgahlegal.org or 253-0406.

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• FR (2/24), 6pm - Owen-Palooza, a benefit for the Charles D. Owen High School band program, will feature music by Sons of Ralph, Lake Effekt, The Travers Brothers

Band, The OHS Jazz Band and the improv comedy troupe Reasonably Priced Babies.

Held at the Owen High School auditorium, 99 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain. $10/$5 students. Info: jbhall555@gmail.com.

Pancake breakfast • SA (2/25), 8-10pm - A pancake breakfast will be held at FATZ, 5 Spartan Ave., to benefit ABCCM Hominy Valley Crisis Ministry. $7. Info: www.abccm.org.

Stars Shine ReD • SA (2/25), 8pm - Stars Shine RED, a showcase of local and regional drag queens and kings, will be held at Scandals, 11 Grove St., to benefit the WNC AIDS Project. $10/$7 Scandals members. Info: wncapvolunteer@wncap.org or 252-7489.

West African Cultural night • SA (2/25), 6-10pm - The YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St., will host an evening of West African dancing, singing, food and music, with wine and beer from Pisgah and Wedge brewing companies. Entertainment will include West African drumming and dance demonstrations, a performance by Belle Afrique and music by Zansa. $15/$10 children under 13. Admission includes din-

ner and two drink tickets. Proceeds benefit Adama Dembele’s efforts to gain U.S. citizenship. Info: www.ymicc.org.

Wine Kegger • WE (2/29), 4-10pm - A wine kegger, hosted by Sante Wine Bar and Tap Room, 1 Page Ave., will benefit Girls on the Run. $10. Info: info@santewinebar.com or 2548188.

Winesdays • WEDNESDAYS, 5-8pm - Winesdays wine tastings will benefit a different organization each week at the Wine Studio of Asheville, 169 Charlotte St. $5. Info: www.winestudioasheville.com or 255-5955.

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By MaCKEnSy lUnSFOrd It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes truffles so sought after. No description does them justice. They have a deliciously pungent and musky flavor, but beyond that, truffles are mysterious. In nature, their spores are sown by way of the digestive process of animals that eat fungus. And often, the delicacy (which grows underground) has been ferreted out of the earth by a trufflehunting dog or pig and delivered by mouth to its master. Dogs are preferred hunters because pigs, especially sows, have a tendency to eat the truffles — they contain compounds similar to sex pheromones present in boar saliva.

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Part of what elevates a truffle to such prized status is its ephemeral nature; the sensual, musky essence of a truffle fades quickly. When a prime truffle is on the table, people dig deep — especially for a good cause. In 2007, Bloomberg reports that a Macao billionaire paid the highest price on record for truffles at a charitable auction, about $330,000 for slightly less than three-pounds worth.

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Fungus among us: Chef Adam Hayes of the Red Stag Grill shaves fresh truffles over risotto. totally tuber: Raleigh chef Ashley Christensen will take some time out of her busy schedule to host and cook at the National Truffle Fest. Photos courtesy of the Frankie Lemmon Foundation

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Photo: Truffles, the fungal variety, are the center of attention at The Grand Bohemian and other restaurants around Asheville this weekend. Photo by Susi Gott Seguret

A treAsure trove of truffles Given the large amount of truffles at the Grand Bohemian this weekend, Adam Hayes, the executive chef of the Red Stag Grill, probably wants you to know that the current market value is much less exorbitant (although not quite cheap).

From Thursday, Feb. 23 through Saturday, Feb. 25, the Grand Bohemian will host the National Truffle Fest, a benefit for the Frankie Lemmon Foundation, a group dedicated to the education and well-being of very young children with disabilities.

The festival will celebrate the entire journey of the truffle from the ground to the plate, with renowned chefs including Ashley Christensen of Poole’s in Raleigh, growers, traders, educators and gourmands, all celebrating food, fine wine, craft cocktails and the science and economics behind the fungus (see p. 30 for details on the who’s who).

Enticing such an impressive array of talent is easy when you’ve got a substantial amount of truffles in all of their freshest, most potent glory, and a good cause to serve. “We get a tremendous amount of truffles in here,” Hayes says with the air of a child on Christmas morning. “You’re not going to go anywhere else and see this many truffles that I’m aware of in this restaurant com-

munity.” And how many truffles are coming to Asheville, exactly? “Security is high — I’ll put it to you that way,” he laughs.

Being A Bon vivAnt For the festival, Black Perigord and Bianchetti varieties will be imported for the event from Italy and France, regions with a storied history of cultivation. Oregon black and white truffles will also make an appearance, as will truffles cultivated in WNC and Tennessee, areas increasingly respected as sources for quality truffles. This upswing in regional cultivation has, in part, led to the festival’s expanded focus on the science, growing and marketing of truffles. Experts will host seminars and presentations designed for current and prospective truffle growers.

“This year, we have really focused on bringing in very professional talent in the truffle industry,” says Lenora Evans, executive director of the Frankie Lemmon Foundation. Emanuele Musini, the chief executive of P.A.Q. Gubbio, an import company, will talk about the business side of truffles. “His experience and expertise is internationally recognized,” says Evans. Joining Musini is his protégée, Ian Purkayastha, a whizkid who began trading truffles at age 16. Two years later, he had become a veritable tycoon; Forbes Magazine calls him the “Prince of Truffles.”

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At his current ripe age of 19, he is called upon by top chefs that include Thomas Keller and JeanGeorges Vongerichten.

“The way I look at this event, if you’re interested in anything that has to do with gourmet food, being a bon vivant, as they say, there is absolutely nothing that is not appealing about this weekend,” says Evans. “It is amazing.”

WHiSKEy, riSOttO and WinE (OH My) When the seminars are over, there’s plenty of dining — and drinking — to be done. There’s a whiskey cocktail demonstration and tasting led

by New York City cocktail guru Karin Stanley (who will also team up with chef Hayes for a truffle-and-libation filled brunch), a truffle-risotto event and truffle-and-wine pairing seminars.

Various truffle-centric dinners will take place throughout Asheville on the evening of Friday, Feb. 24, with area restaurants pairing multicourse truffle-centric meals with wines from various national wineries (see pg. 29). The Red Stag will host B Cellars, an award-winning Napa Valley, Calif., winery. If last year is any indication, chef Hayes will pull out all the stops.

“Last year, the first course of our wine-maker dinner was called ‘Truffle Explosion,’” he says.

“That was a 1-ounce piece of truffle that was slightly baked with port and cognac and butter.

We put it on top of some creamy risotto. That’s how we do it. When you’re doing a four- or fivecourse truffle dinner, you’ve got to get creative, and I figure, why not punch you in the nose with truffles right off the gate, just let it linger with you

talEnt SHOW The National Truffle Fest draws an incredible pool of talented regional chefs and other truffle experts: Shannon M. Berch is a research scientist, has co-authored six published works and serves as an adjunct professor with the University of British Columbia and with Royal Roads University. She is a consultant specializing in quality assurance of truffle-inoculated seedlings. She is also a founding member of the Truffle Association of British Columbia. tyler Brown of the Capitol Grille in Nashville was named one of the “Four New Chefs to Watch” by Esquire Magazine in 2011. Also in attendance will be Vivian Howard (Chef & the Farmer, Kinston, N.C.).

Host chef ashley Christensen is the chef/owner of Poole’s Downtown Diner in Raleigh, recently featured in a vibrant Bon Appetit profile. Ashley has been a guest chef at The James Beard house, Taste of the South, and was most recently featured on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America. john Fleer, formerly of the award-winning Blackberry Farm, is the executive chef of Canyon Kitchen in Sapphire, N.C., where his work earned him a nomination for the James Beard Award.

Matt Kelly has been a chef at Triangle-area restaurants such as Four Square, The Fearrington House, Fins and, most recently, Vin Rouge in Durham, which he co-owns. tom Michaels received his master’s degree from the University of Nevada researching mushrooms. At Oregon State University, his Ph.D. dissertation was on the cultivation of Perigord truffles, and having successfully inoculated the first truffle tree in America, he pioneered techniques that laid the groundwork for growing them beyond Europe. He produces truffles for leading chefs such as Daniel Boulud and David Chang.

Emanuele Musini is the chief executive of P.A.Q. Gubbio, a leading import company for truffles. ian Purkayastha, the director of sales of P.A.Q. in New York, travels to Italy between the winter and summer truffle-selling seasons to meet truffle hunters, acquaint himself with P.A.Q.’s packaged goods manufacturing facility and study Italian at the University of Perugia.

Karin Stanley co-owns Dutch Kills [named one of the top 50 bars in the U.S. by Food & Wine Magazine] in Long Island, N.Y., and is a renowned bartender. jim trappe has authored or co-authored more than 450 scientific papers, three books, and with his students and colleagues has described and named a new order of truffles, two new families, 40 new genera and 140 new species. tandy Wilson owns the City House in Nashville, and is a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Cynthia Wong is the pastry chef of Empire State South in Atlanta. She writes for Atlanta’s Creative Loafing and served as an assistant food stylist for Turner Broadcasting’s Dinner and a Movie.

the rest of the night. I’ll do something similar this year,” he says, a little swagger in his voice.

a grand gala The weekend’s festivities culminate with the Chef’s Gala, featuring live music and an opulent spread of truffled dishes made by both the guest chefs and the Red Stag weaving through several rooms in the Grand Bohemian’s ballroom and dining area. It is, to use a well-worn cliché, a true feast of the senses.

But Evans is quick to point out that, with all of the rich, sumptuous foods and wines about, it’s important to remember that the event is not all about hedonism (although it may feel that way at times).

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break and we have to be there 24/7,” she says.

“Events like this are what keep us able to do that work. It’s so humbling and encouraging the way that people support these events. This kind of support goes long beyond an opulent dinner in a beautiful restaurant. It changes families forever, and that’s what we’re about.”

To learn more about the Frankie Lemmon Foundation, visit frankielemmonschool.org. To buy tickets to the National Truffle Fest, visit the Grand Bohemian Hotel lobby (the hotel is located at 11 Boston Way in Biltmore Village: bohemianhotelasheville.com) or to purchase online (and see the full list of events and a la carte options) visit frankielemmonschool. org/events/national-truffle-fest. X Send your food news and tips to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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The vanuatu Kava Bar has moved to a new location at 15 Eagle St. and now offers an affordable lunch. The alcohol-free bar serves kava, a rootbased drink that’s said to offer relaxation without disturbing mental clarity.

The venue also offers smoothies, various teas and other beverages.

Owner Andrew Procyk recently brought a new chef on board, he says. “We recently hired Max Melner, who worked at the Westville Pub for years, made quite a tasty shrimp and grits and plays at their jam,” says Procyk. “We are confident he can take our foodstuffs to the next level, as well as play an amazing show now and then.” The kava bar now offers a full lunch menu from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on weekdays with a number of vegetarian items.

Lunch offerings include a seitan gyro or tempeh Reuben for $6.50, a variety of “soysages” for $3.50 and two shrimp kebabs for $5. There’s also a $1 menu that includes a Nutella and marshmallow Fluff sandwich.

A limited food menu will also be available for the remainder of the bar’s business hours. Procyk reports that the kava bar will begin serving a “Melanesian-style” brunch on Sundays beginning in March.

The kava bar is open from 11 a.m. until 1 a.m. daily, except for Monday when the bar closes at midnight. For more information, visit vanuatukavabar.com.

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dine to Be Kind On Tuesday, Feb. 28, your choice of dining venue can help save the lives of area dogs and cats. Many Ashevillearea restaurants have chosen to participate in the Animal Compassion Network’s ninth annual dine to Be Kind benefit. Portions of the proceeds those restaurants generate during breakfast, lunch and dinner will benefit the ACN’s efforts to help low-income pet owners afford to have their pets spayed and neutered. And don’t forget: take-out orders help, too.

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Founded in 1997, Animal Compassion Network is WNC’s largest nonprofit animal welfare organization. The organization’s mission is to end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals and find them lifelong, stable and loving homes. The Dine to Be Kind benefit is an effort to curb pet overpopulation.

Restaurant owners interested in participating in the Dine to Be Kind event may call Ann McMartin at 674-9722. For more information, visit animalcompassionnetwork.org.

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Culinary alchemy: Mixing up magic at elBulli. Photo still from El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Food on view at the Fine arts theatre In celebration of Curaté tapas bar’s first anniversary (has it been that long already?) the restaurant will host a showing of the movie El Bulli: Cooking in Progress at the Fine Arts Theatre on Monday, March 5. A question-andanswer period with Curaté’s Katie Button and Felix Meana will follow the movie presentation. Button is fresh from Denmark, where she interned under chef René Redzepi at Copenhagen’s Noma.

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress documents one year in the life of chef Ferran Adrià, the mastermind behind the progressive cuisine of the now-shuttered elBulli in Spain. Both Button and Meana, recent newlyweds, worked at elBulli. Button’s tenure there has gotten much attention, notably in Lisa Abend’s book, The Sorcerer’s Apprentices.

Button, a former doctoral candidate in the field of neuroscience, decided to drop the lab coat for the chef variety at a young age, working with chefs Johnnie Iuzzini, José Andrés and Michael Voltaggio in her mid-20s. While working for Andrés, Button met Meana, the respected chef’s consultant and also the chef de rang of elBulli. Felix introduced Button to Spain and the kitchen of elBulli, where Button found herself in a laboratory of a different sort in Adrià’s temple to molecular gastronomy.

The trailer for the elBulli movie looks intriguing, especially for anyone who finds Adrià’s style — a mix of culinary artistry, innovative technique and chemistry — fascinating. In one scene, Adrià explains to his rapt disciples gathered before him in the kitchen what a service period at elBulli is like.

“After four hours, when you’re almost at the end of the menu, the more the bewilderment, the better,” he says, flashing a slightly impish smile. Button also makes an appearance in the movie.

The evening at the Fine Arts Theatre will include an elBulli-inspired snack, served in brown bags during the movie.

Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and children. Purchase them at the Fine Arts Theatre box office, located at 36 Biltmore Ave. Also on Cúrate’s agenda is “An Adventure in Cooking: The New Nordic Table,” a culinary showcase of skills that Button picked up at Noma this winter, hosted at Warren Wilson College. Button, with Gunnar Karl Gislason, the executive chef and co-owner of the restaurant Dill in Reykjavik, will host a Nordic-themed dinner.

The event will be held on Saturday, March 24, with a foraging session beginning at 3 p.m. and a tour of the Warren Wilson College campus at 4:30 p.m.

Appetizers and dinner immediately follow at 6 p.m.

Tickets are available through Cúrate’s website: curatetapasbar.com.

For more information about the film, visit elbullimovie.com.

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by Anne Fitten Glenn & JAke FrAnkel The massive 35,000-square-foot building adjacent to the lexington Avenue brewery in downtown Asheville is getting a major overhaul, with a new taproom, restaurant, beerproduction facility, condos and stores likely to open by the end of the year, reports LAB co-owner Mike Healy.

The 4,000-square-foot tasting room and restaurant will have a communal vibe, with Healy planning to build long cherry-topped, Oktoberfest-style tables that groups of patrons can share. It will have a separate entrance, but a kindred feel to that of its larger neighbor, with a similar awning and semioutdoor area, he says. The idea for the food is to have a small menu of quick and tasty items that go well with beer, he adds.

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The third â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just Brew Itâ&#x20AC;? Homebrew Festival will be returning to wedge brewing (the locale of the first fest) on Saturday, May 26, the first weekend of Asheville Beer Week. The first 50 home brewers to get in touch with Mark Hebbard at markhebbard@justeconomicswnc.org get a spot at the festival and a chance to have a beer brewed by a

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BaniSHing BlanK WallS a MUral tEllS a StOry, BUt WHat iS tHE MUral’S StOry?

By KylE SHErard & raCHaEl inCH PHOtOS By yEagEr St. jOHn Murals may be the quintessence of public art work, a realm that includes much more than publicly funded community projects. Public art, let’s say, is art in public, which, for our purposes, includes formal murals as much as stencils. It’s free to see, financially, and in terms of accessibility.

A new crop of artists has emerged — or landed — in Asheville over the past decade. And with the artists came dozens of murals, inside cafes and restaurants, on practically every type of outdoor surface.

The works’ content varies as much as their locations throughout town. Some document Asheville’s history with images of trolleys and street scenes, while murals like the Lexington Avenue Gateway capture the spirit of the town. Others visually describe buildings or their inhabitants; one painting shows a harsh political debate at a stoplight.

In this two-part series, we’ll look at some of these works, the artists and the people who commissioned the paintings. In part one, we’ll formally introduce a few murals in our city.

Who did them? When? Where are they? In part two, we’ll talk public art with its producers and owners of businesses that proffer their space for public art.

Most of the featured works were produced in the past four years; others have been up since the early 2000s.

The artists and the entities commissioning these works don’t seem to be slowing down. Ian Wilkinson, the current program director for the Asheville Mural Project, told Xpress “I thought 2011 was a good year for murals, until 2012 started.”

From Chicken Alley to Eagle Street, downtown Asheville boasts murals at many turns. below photo by Max Cooper

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with red, white and blue atomic structures, orbs and oceanic microorganisms that hover over a celestial background.

“I have a vendetta against blank, beige walls,” says David McConville, talking about the mural that covers his Haywood Road residence. Entitled Street Science, the mural fills the facade and five panels on the side of the building. McConville is the co-founder of The Elumenati, an engineering and design firm that creates audio and video environments, such as planetarium-type domes, projection equipment and other presentation tools. If that sounds dry, you’ve never been in an Elumenati dome.

Four more paintings line the remaining wall space, conveniently segmented for equally sized “canvases.” Microbe-like spheres bulge over clouds with rips and alien protrusions.

The cosmic cloud momentarily picks back up in another panel, only this time it’s several shades of red instead of blue and white. And a tattooed figure holds out a magnifying glass to show a cityscape below.

David and Nicole McConville commissioned the work to decrease the city’s square footage of blank walls — a personal quest. Local artists Lisa Nance, Ted Harper, Al Blisterfist, Andrew Fansler and “Roadkill” were selected to paint the mural. With the help of the nonprofit Arts2People, which paid for the paint, and the still-new Asheville Mural Project, then directed by artist Rachel Fields, the mural went up in less than four weeks during the summer of 2006. Contributors to the mural were paid by way of a fundraiser at Phil Mechanic Studios.

Included in the wall’s montage is Buckminster Fuller. The eccentric architect/ engineer stares down from above the front door. He’s 32 in this image, the age of Fuller’s “cosmic download,” as McConville calls it.

Thus a cosmic cloud twists out of his slightly ajar skull. This thought bubble gone awry wraps around the building toward an astronaut and two single-engine planes. It’s filled

The mural quotes graffiti styles, and is done almost entirely with spray paint. When asked about his stance on Asheville’s overall graffiti scene, McConville says, “That’s a bit like talking about Bob Ross and John Cage in the same sentence.” Graffiti is often used as a method of social critique. It’s also anonymous (or under an alias) and unencumbered by the spatial and organizational trappings of galleries and museums. Considering the mural’s character — and outdoor surface — graffiti made a fitting style for presenting such raw and highly interpretable material.

McConville gave the participating artists complete liberty with their parts. The only requirement: They had to read an informational packet first. It had notes and readings on everything from geometry and the Golden Ratio to cellular structures and chaos theory.

Viewers are not required to plumb these concepts prior to viewing Street Science, but it wouldn’t hurt. — K.S. Street Science can be seen at 414 Haywood Road in West Asheville.

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The building at 66 Broadway Ave., currently home to the beer store Bruisin’ Ales, hosts one of the older murals in Asheville. Against a verdant mountainscape, a figure offers a large bouquet to passersby (the wall tops off at the figure’s neck, so the head is not shown). In this prominent position, the mural serves as a gate to Asheville’s downtown. The previous tenants of the building, owners of Mud Hunters Pottery Gallery, commissioned the piece in 2004.

Murals can help distinguish a building in its environment while integrating it into its socio-geographic surroundings at the same time. This is the case with dozens of murals and paintings around Asheville, including one covering MMS, a mailing and printing company in the River Arts District. Co-owner and general manager Cindy Conner commissioned this piece to help combat graffiti, and to add to the artistic backdrop created by other buildings in the River Arts District.

“The idea of the piece was that is should be a greeting to that entrance to downtown, but not a portrait, thus no head,” said the mural’s painter, Sally Bryenton. “The focus was on the gift, the flowers.” — R.I.

Conner approached Ian Wilkinson, program director for the Asheville Mural Project, shortly after she’d seen his work at Cotton Mill Studios (also in the River District). She chose from several designs Wilkinson drafted for the short wall in front of her Roberts Street office. With the help of AMP muralists Kurt Thaesler and Harper Leich, the mural went up over the course of several weekends.

Wilkinson combined images of white mail envelopes, the French Broad River and the late-afternoon downtown skyline, set in front of a mountainous backdrop. The envelopes float in and out of the water, occasionally bobbing, while others fall under rapids on either side.

MMS has taken the imagery and applied it elsewhere, turning the mural into part of its brand. Sections are used on letterheads and packaging, and the piece of Asheville skyline has been painted over the cab of their delivery truck. It joins the ranks of several mobile artworks, including the Roots and Mountain Foods Product delivery truck, Wedge’s “movie screen” and the Gypsy Queen Cuisine food truck. — K.S. MMS is located at 88 Roberts St., adjacent to Phil Mechanic Studios. Keep an eye out for their delivery truck.

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The vinyl seating, hanging records and oldies pouring from the speakers inside Burgermeister’s create a picturesque diner scene. On any given night, you’d half expect to see the Fonz saunter in and kick a jukebox.

What better to decorate the building than a similarly retro mural?

This West Asheville gem was put up in 2005 by painter Joshua Vaughan. At the time he was an employee, which made the artist-selection process simple when owners Chantal Saunders and Tom Gaddy decided to commission a mural. Saunders said the choice was easy: “The restaurant had a vintage feel, so why not a mural that did, too.” One post-installation problem has arisen since 2005. A small shrub that Asheville Greenworks planted a few years ago has grown up into a tree, right in the middle of the tableau.

The landscape may look familiar to those wellversed in slightly secret overlooks of town. It’s a view from Spivey Mountain, looking toward the southeast. Everything from the mountain ridges down to the lights sprinkled across the valley are correctly located and proportioned. To top it all off, and add that retro feel, Vaughan painted a couple sitting in the back of the sweet yellow El Camino. — K.S. Burgermeister’s is located at 697 Haywood Road in West Asheville. The mural is located on the outside back of the restaurant.

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PinK dOg CrEativE (rivEr artS diStriCt) The River Arts District generally has an industrial vibe. That’s until you round the corner of Depot Street. Home to The Junction restaurant and bar, the Asheville Area Arts Council and Asheville Arts Supply, two galleries and 16 artist studios, Pink Dog Creative is anything but bleak and steely. Having so many creative minds under one roof helps, and so does the building’s electric pink façade.

Owners Randy Shull and Hedy Fisher said they “wanted an exceptional façade that would bring attention not only to the building, but to a new part of the River Arts District.” Shull painted the building, looking at the front as a “140-foot painting,” Fischer said. But he doesn’t think of the work strictly as a mural — Shull thinks of himself as a “colorist.” Wherever there is color, there is intention, he says.

The large and slightly ferocious Dog, from which the studio derives its name, was a former graffiti stencil. When Shull began painting the building, many passers-by were concerned that the Dog wouldn’t remain. Shull decided to adapt the stencil, blowing it up and painting it a bright, flamingo pink. The painting “lends a sense of vibrancy to the area and the building itself says that art happens here,” say the two collaborators. — R.I. Pink Dog Creative is located at 348 Depot St.

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But he has to do something, in the not-too-distant future. His time in Asheville, in the United States, is coming to a close unless he’s able to convert his conditional green card into a permanent one.

To help him afford an immigration attorney, his Asheville friends are throwing him a “soumu,” which is a West African word for a celebration of dancing, singing, food and music. West African food such as soupe kandia and chicken and vegetable mafé will be accompanied by wines and beer from Pisgah and Wedge brewing companies.

Zansa, an Ivorian Afropop band in which Dembele drums, will provide entertainment, as will Belle Afrique, an Asheville-based West African drum and dance ensemble.

Dembele, a 33rd generation player of the djembe (a cone-shaped drum common at the Friday night drum circles in Asheville’s Pritchard Park), has performed with internationally recognized acts such as Angelique Kidjo and Salif Keita. A native of a town just outside Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s capital, and a resident of Asheville for the past five years, he has been teaching drumming workshops in town and across the country and performing with local bands, including Afromotive and Toubab Krewe.

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Home is here: Percussionist Adama Dembele has lent his talent to many Asheville bands. He hopes to stay in the community. Photo by Cameron Yeager seeking political asylum, an avenue that may or may not work for Dembele. Ivory Coast has been a dangerous place for a decade now. Once a prosperous place that drew immigrants from all over West Africa, it has seen civil war since 2002. In November 2010 incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo refused to step down after losing the election to Alassane Ouattara, the opposition leader. The ensuing crisis caused more than 3,000 deaths in Abidjan before Gbagbo was pushed from power with the help of French and United Nations helicopter airstrikes.

Ouattara is now president, but the effects of the strife continue. The World Bank estimated that more than 4 million young men are unemployed in a nation of about 21 million people.

“It was not a safe place to stay,” Dembele said in a soft voice during a recent interview. His family tells him things have calmed down. “But you still never know,” he said.

He’d planned to leave Ivory Coast ever since he was a child, he said. He thought he’d go to Europe, and as an adult, he toured there as a drummer.

Then several years ago, he visited his brother in New York and a cousin in Arizona. He decided he wanted to live in the States, even though he didn’t speak any English. He moved in with his brother.

He visited Asheville in 2006, at the invitation of members of the Asheville-based band Toubab Krewe who had met him years ago when they traveled to Abidjan to study music at Djembeso Drum and Dance Ensemble, the music school Dembele started in his family’s home outside of the capital.

“He’s a great teacher,” said Drew Heller, the Toubab Krewe guitarist who studied at the school in 2001 and 2002. “I still call Adama sometimes and play something over the phone and ask him what am I missing here, what am I doing wrong, how can I make this better. He has a great ear.”

“But he’s also an enthusiastic artistic collaborator,” Heller said. “He has true friends and true family in Asheville now. Like millions of Americans, he has reasons of the heart to be here and to stay here. It’s family.”

“He’s really great with young people, kind of a Pied Piper,” said Tamiko Ambrose Murray, community relations coordinator for LEAF in Schools & Streets, an outreach program of the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain.

“He’s just very warm and genuine, and kids have a way of recognizing that,” Murray said.

“Because he’s so passionate and he takes it so seriously, it’s contagious. To have him crouch down next to a child and encourage him and [tell him] whatever music he creates is good and valuable — he meets them at their level.”

“It was such good news for all of us that he wanted to check out Asheville and that he fell in love with it,” Heller said.

“When I come to Asheville, I feel like I’m home,” Dembele said. “I’ve got a lot of good friends here. It’s like a family place for me. Good vibe, good connection, good spirit. My life here is very fine.” X Paul Clark can be reached at paulgclark@charter.net.

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Kelley, who relocated to Asheville from New York City, teaches modern dance at Asheville Ballet, and teaches classes for all ages at Asheville Performing Arts Academy. Upin, who lives in New York, will be traveling south to perform in this year’s North Carolina Dance Festival. The longtime friends will team up in Asheville to present their first self-produced, evening-length concert, The Ratio of Mindsey and Kelpin at the BeBe Theatre.

For Kelley and Upin, the challenges and joys of friendship have been a source of ongoing creative inspiration. “Ratio is a reflection of our friendship, and a reflection of our lives,” says Kelley. “We’re both very silly ladies, so there are definitely comical moments as well as somber moments in the show.” Ratio will be performed in Chicago’s Links Hall for a three-night run before being staged in Asheville.

Ratio begins with a duet inspired by the prologue to Romeo and Juliet, which will be read aloud as Kelley and Upin take the stage. The following piece, choreographed and performed by Upin, is “totally an ode to The Supremes,” reports Kelley.

“She has the beehive, the glitzy dress and it’s very random and extremely musical.” Upin’s ode, titled Semi Glizt, is described in a press release as “a hilarious take on The Supremes ‘60s-style structure layered atop a modern day Beyoncé-esque flavor.”

From there, the mood changes quite dramatically. Bathed in Perception — Impact, a solo performed in this year’s Asheville Fringe Festival (which earned “Most Inspirational Piece,” as voted by other Fringe participants), explores the process of growing old. To create Impact, Kelley collaborated with her older brother, JD, who wrote the musical score and shot a film that will be projected behind

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very silly ladies: Mindy Upin, left, and Lindsey Kelley offer a reflection of their friendship through dance — with scenes ranging from the comical to the somber.

Kelley as she dances. Impact is about Kelley’s grandmothers, who are both widows — one suffers from dementia, and the other yearns for her husband. “It’s a pretty serious piece,” says Kelley.

“My work is generally inspired by the people around me, and by my environment.”

Ratios takes another surprising turn with swot. mug up. get up. bone, a piece initially choreographed for Asheville Ballet. Re-imagined for Ratio, “swot is strictly about the movement,” says Kelley.

That movement is called release technique, which Kelley describes as “moving from my bones.” swot will be paired with a piece of electronic music by the local band Graviton Project. swot feeds into a piece called Boma, a term that Kelley got from Urban Dictionary, that means “being in your own little world,” says Kelley.

Boma, an aggressive and animalistic piece, is deliberately paired beside swot, and the two pieces explore the differences between professional dance in Asheville versus New York City. “When I created swot I had nobody breathing down my neck, no choreographers, no critics, and I was able to create a piece that felt really good in my body,” says Kelley. Boma “is about dance in New York, and how it’s like live or die,” says Kelley. This idea is pushed to the surface when Upin joins Kelley in a mock chorus line, where the pressure for perfection and timing is at its greatest.

The final piece in the show, A Tribute and Reflection on the Relationship, is the piece that started it all. Tribute was choreographed in New York City a month before Kelley relocated to Asheville, and after receiving an invitation to present a piece in

Food for Thought, a concert presented by Danspace Project and staged at Saint Mark’s Church in Manhattan. “We got into the studio and created a true timeline of our friendship,” says Kelley. “As personal as it might seem, it isn’t. Collaboration was so natural for us.”

“Ratio is going to be a dance performance like no other,” Kelley says. She smiles, slams her fist on the table and declares, “We’re dancing machines and we’re here to show our stuff — here to show our stuff!” As for Kelley’s future as a choreographer in Asheville: “This,” she says, “is only the beginning.” X Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt can be reached at asezakblatt@ gmail.com.

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island time: Malaysian-born Brushfire artist Zee Avi infuses her songs with ukulele notes and tropical rhythms, but also pop-savvy melodies and quirky lyrics.

By alli MarSHall According to Malaysian-born, New Yorkbased singer-songwriter Zee Avi, the ukulele is the new electric guitar. “The ukulele is becoming my main instrument,” she says. Partly because the diminutive stringed instrument is so portable, partly because it’s the perfect proportion for the diminutive musician, and partly because, in recent years, the ukulele has risen above its hokey Tiny Tim status and has been embraced by artists like Eddie Vedder, Jason Mraz, Amos Lee and Jack Johnson.

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number of occasions, a standout in her flowing caftans and floral sarongs, adding her own vocal and ukulele touches to Johnson’s hits like “Breakdown.”

“Some songs are fitted for the ukulele and some songs are fitted for the guitar. I think it’s equal amounts of both the guitar and the ukulele that I write my songs on,” Avi tells Xpress.

She says that she finds there’s more versatility with the guitar, but “If I’m hanging out with my ukulele and a melody comes to mind, that one is meant for the ukulele.”

Her new album, Ghostbird (out since last August) is deceptively simple. It starts with a strummed ukulele, a kick drum and her voice.

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between notes both low and high, with just a hint of wistfulness. And though there is more, much more, to Ghostbird, just this would be enough. Eleven beachy, airy tracks infused with Avi’s Southeast Asia home and enough negative ions (those are the good ones) to give any listener a heady, happy buzz.

Not that Avi’s songs are all happy. Much of the world came to know her through “Bitter Heart,” the Feist-esque single from Avi’s 2009 self-titled debut. On Ghostbird’s jazzy-just-short-of-scatting track “Madness,” she warns, “The best knowledge comes with a price, a price that you have to pay for twice.”

If there’s not a thematic thread to this album, it doesn’t feel disparate. Even risks like the distorted harp parts on the slightly psychedelic “Bag of Gold” and the layered, echoey a capella beginning to “Concrete Wall” is anchored by Ghostbird’s sure-footedness. That confidence and sense of purpose is derived from Avi’s infallible voice.

As for songwriting impetus, that comes from travel. Avi says that she can’t be in one place for too long without getting antsy and she counts herself lucky to have found a career that allows her to keep moving. But, she says, she has to “practice a sort of mental strength to soak everything in” when she’s on the road.

Ghostbird was written in Florida — Avi went there to visit a friend last January and wound up staying for three months. “There was an infinite amount of inspiration from everywhere,” she says. That, and the tropical climate reminded her of home.

“As a writer, you’re affected by your surroundings no matter what you do,” she says. “It’s not like I want it to have this vibe or that vibe, it just sort of writes itself that way.”

Of Ghostbird, she says that each song differs from the next. Indeed, they vary from the quixotically philosophical to the playful. “It’s a variety of different moods that I wrote in my different moods,” says Avi. “I’m excited to see where my growth process will go and how my songs will sound melodically and lyrically for the third album.”

She’s already covered new ground on Ghostbird, singing “Siboh Kitak Nangis” (“Don’t You Cry”) in her native SarawakMalay language. “I think in English, I always have, but I find a certain relaxed feeling when I sing in my own language,” Avi says. “Some words can not be translated, so it’s about the delivery of emotion of a word that can’t be translated to English.

People register it anyway.” She says that she listens to a lot of French-language music, and Afrobeat because, even if she can’t understand the lyrics, “I feel it.”

It seems that’s how audiences feel about Avi’s music, too. “Ghostbird has taken a life of its own,” she says. “It’s nice to know this batch of stories is relatable.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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jaCK OF tHE WOOd’S aMPEd-UP MUSiC SCHEdUlE While, as the saying goes, nothing is certain but death and taxes, there are some constants in this crazy world. Such as that Jack of the Wood (being based on Ireland’s wood-and-peat-smoke pubs) will serve a Guinness and host a weekly Irish session. But even Jack of the Wood is not immune to change. The local bar — long favorited by dudes in flannel downing pints in time to roots and Americana-oriented bands — is changing up its concert calendar.

First, there are more shows. Monday shows (following popular weekly trivia game Quizzo), Tuesday shows and both early and late shows on Fridays and Saturdays. And then there are the unexpected acts. Indie-experimental trio Alligator Indian joins the Friday, Feb. 24 lineup, there’s a screening of the Jay Reatard documentary Better Than Something on Tuesday, Feb. 28 and, recently, DJ Quinto spun records during an “Advanced Soul Night.”

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Richard McSherry, in charge of booking music for Jack of the Wood in downtown Asheville and Jack of Hearts in Weaverville, says he’s really excited about Cedric Burnside (blues) and Reverend Deadeye (garage gospel).

“We’re bringing in bigger acts and two or three bands on the weekends,” he tells Xpress. “We’ve got such a great staff that we’re able to pull it off.” The early Friday and Saturday night shows are free, by the way.

But the changes don’t mean that Jack of the Wood is turning its back on roots music. “We’re keeping our core of Celtic and bluegrass,” says McSherry. “We’re trying to step it up and bring the best.”

And, while the calendar may include some wild cards (like a DJ late-night following Quizzo or a singer-songwriter showcase), McSherry says the emphasis remains on live music both for Jack of the Wood and Jack of Hearts. — A.M

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Carolina Lane’s Coop Gallery is on a streak of high-volume and high-caliber exhibitions.

Villains vs. Heroines features the artwork of 14 painters, illustrators and photographers, as well as a sculpture and one video installation by Jason Scott Furr. For this one, owners Chad and Jeanie Adair painted the main gallery’s walls completely black. As for the names and titles, they used small blasts of black and white from spray-paint cans.

Curated by artists Katie Johnson and Kyle Sherard (contributing arts writer for Xpress), this handsome show incorporates work by more than 20 Asheville artists of varying media offering interpretations on the title theme. From sculpture, photography, prints, paintings, drawings and assemblage, the exhibit represents an array of aesthetic perspectives and manages to stay cohesive without appearing overdone.

Open Hearts Arts Center offers art training to adults with emotional and intellectual disabilities, and is the only program in Asheville that does so — employing professional artists as teachers and mentors. This month, Satellite Gallery hosts the sixth annual exhibit of paintings and drawings by students of Open Hearts Art Center.

The villains include a combat tank, gangly beasts and Vincent Luca’s series of suspiciously evil shadow paintings that stretch across the floors and up the walls. Our heroines and heroes ride motorcycles, and defeat evil with stunning looks.

But Dean Karr’s photograph of a caped and masked kid flipping you the bird from atop a busted-up and one-wheeled motorcycle pack is the attitude of a true superhero.

Villains vs. Heroines is up through March 5 at Coop Gallery, 25 Carolina Lane. coopasheville. com — by Kyle Sherard

Valeria Watson-Doost’s sculptural deluge of glitter, garbage and ephemera greets the viewer at the entrance to the gallery. An evocative photograph by Jason Scott Furr captures an open-ended moment between a man and a child through the window of a moving vehicle. A painting by Mark Schieferstein places the viewer in voyeuristic gaze of a seemingly private act involving a gas mask. Swallow and Spit is a witty sculpture by Sarah Ray that links a Twinkie and a banana pound cake, and is even punchier when considering the mixture of bodily fluids that was used to make the glaze on the cake.

On view at FLOOD Gallery in The Phil Mechanic Building through Feb. 27. floodgallery.org. — by Ursula Gullow

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Imaginative, playful and uninhibited, the work on display conveys an enthusiastic voice that is catching. Among the visual delights: a grandiose purple chocolate factory surrounded by an emerald forest, a portrait of Lady Di, the grid-print curtains hanging in the gallery’s front window, and a painting of a Pegasus. With almost 60 exuberant paintings and drawings on display, this exhibit is hard not to love.

Work of heArt is up at Satellite Gallery, 55 Broadway St., through March 3. 505-2225 or openheartsartcenter.org — by Ursula Gullow

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Dispatches From My Bedroom tells, in unflinching detail, the story of her struggle with anxiety disorder and debilitating agoraphobia. And while Benincasa — a former Warren Wilson College student and now a comedian and writer — doesn’t exactly make mental illness seem glamorous, she does manage to find the humor even in the darkest moments. Search “What is a Panic Attack?” on YouTube for a taste of Benincasa’s particular brand of sassy, snarky, smart wit. She reads at Malaprop’s on Thursday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com. Photo

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rennie Harris Puremovement drunken Prayer “If I lived in Brazil, would you come visit me?” asks Morgan Christopher Geer of Drunken Prayer on “Brazil,” the opening track from his new album, Into the Missionfield. First this bit of news: You don’t have to. While Geer has been based in Oregon in recent years, with the release of Missionfield he’s officially back in Asheville. Also good news: Missionfield rocks with a gritty conviction matched by crisp production and interesting arrangements. Here, Geer’s previous lo-fi folk-noir is traded in for the growl of electric guitars and the smack of a drum kit.

Drunken Prayer holds a CD-release party at the LAB on Saturday, Feb. 25. The Treatment and DJ Lorruh also perform.

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The last time Philadelphia-based hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement was in Asheville was 2005. Seven years is a long wait for the return of virtuosic urban dance. But the company makes its way back to the Diana Wortham Theatre for a two-night run, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 23 and 24. This year marks the 20th anniversary for the troupe which The Village Voice describes as “Hip-hop dance to a higher power, in both the mathematical and the metaphysical senses.” 8 p.m. nightly. $40, $35 for students, $12 for children. dwtheatre.com. Photo by Brian Mengini

ghost Wolves “We are a blues/rock explosion in the vein of The Cramps, The White Stripes, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, etc.,” writes Austin, Texas, band The Ghost Wolves.

Even more compelling, the guitar/drum duo (Carley and Jonny Wolf) take their name from their 125-pound arctic wolf-hybrid named Winter, who runs their merch table.

They play Jack of the Wood on Friday, Feb. 24 with local bands Alligator Indian, The Krektones and ER Airplane. 8 p.m. doors, $5. jackofthewood.com

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where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina CLUbLAnD RULeS •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 Dane Smith 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.

Wed., February 22 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Cailen Campbell (violin), 8-10pm ARCADE

Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 8:30pm

Orange Peel

Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead tribute)

Black Mountain Ale House

Open mic w/ Dave Bryan, 8pm

Root Bar No. 1

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues)

Creatures Cafe

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Dirty South Lounge

Straightaway Cafe

Emerald Lounge

TallGary’s Cantina

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Emerald Lounge

Fred’s Speakeasy

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Fred’s Speakeasy

Todd Hoke (singer-songwriter), 6pm Coping Stone (world, roots)

Wax in the Back, 9pm

Dark Star after party w/ Phuncle Sam Karaoke, 10pm

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Brian Turner (classical piano)

Free Lunch w/ When Particles Collide, ER Airplane & Replicants

Harrah’s Cherokee

Live comedy, 8:30pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

Old-time jam, 6pm Lobster Trap

Athena’s Club

Olive or Twist

Cadillac Rex (vinatage rock) One Stop Deli & Bar

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Back stage: Kevn Kinney & the Golden Palominos (Southern rock) w/ Will McCranie

Creatures Cafe

Lobster Trap

Dirty South Lounge

Olive or Twist

One Stop Deli & Bar

Singer-songwriter showcase, 9pm Dirty Bingo, 9pm

Sweet Knievel (rock, jam), 10pm Asheville’s Got Talent, 8pm

Rotation

Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Thu., February 23

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Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic) Pisgah Brewing Company

Tim Marsh Collective, 8pm

Get Down

Wolves & Jackals w/ Shadow of the Destroyer & Paralyzer

Purple Onion Cafe

Good Stuff

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Chuck Brodsky (singer-songwriter)

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul)

ARCADE

Ryan Montbleau Band (Americana, jam)

Crazy ‘80s Masquerade Ball feat: DJ Free Flow & DJ Queen April, 10pm

Harrah’s Cherokee

Karaoke w/ Chris Monteith

Spurs

Barley’s Taproom

Hoopers Creek Cafe

Open mic & bluegrass jam w/ Sherry Lynn

TallGary’s Cantina

Black Mountain Ale House

Jack of Hearts Pub

The Bywater

The Space Heaters (jazz), 8-10pm Trivia, 9pm Alien Music Club (jazz jam) David Earl (Americana), 7pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

DJ Marley Carroll, 9pm

Scandals Nightclub

Dance night Asheville Music Showcase, 8pm

Friday, Feb. 24 Music & EvEnts

Pat Bergeson

thur, February 23

with guest annie sellick $10 | 8pm

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Greg Brown

Fri, February 24

DOOr 8 pM/shOW 9 pM - $7

the Werks

thur, March 1

DOOr 7 pM/shOW 8 pM - $12/$15

Michael burks

TUES. - FRI. 4PM • SAT. - SUN. 11AM

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Yonder Mountain String Band (bluegrass) w/ The Infamous Stringdusters Pack’s Tavern

Garage at Biltmore

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An evening w/ Ralph Roddenbery Band (Americana, folk) Orange Peel

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

White Horse

Wild Wing Cafe

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Heather Masterton Quartet (swing)

Matt Walsh (blues, rockabilly)

Jubal’s Kin, 7:30pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Floppy Thursdays w/ Molly (eclectic music series), 8pm

Craggie Brewing Company

Westville Pub

Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Blind Pilot (indie folk) w/ Cotton Jones

Peggy’s All Girl Singer Showcase Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Get Down

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

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Bluegrass jam, 6pm

Open mic, 7-9pm

Open mic

Salsa night (lessons, followed by dance)

Old-time jam, 7pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Burgerworx

Laura Thurston (folk, Americana, bluegrass)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Karaoke, 10pm Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

The Heavy Pets, 9pm

Barley’s Taproom

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Friday, march 2

California Guitar Trio $15/$18 | 8pm

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Original music series hOsted by mike hOlstein & Justin Watt 18 church street | asheville, nc

828-348-5327 www.thealtamont.com

Moses Atwood & friends, 8:30pm

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz’s Invitational Blues Jam Vincenzo’s Bistro

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter) Westville Pub

Chris O’Neill & friends (Americana, blues) White Horse

Bill Phillips w/ Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 7:30pm Wild Wing Cafe

Acoustic music w/ Sloantones

Timbre (singer-songwriter, harp) w/ Revolution Radio & Aaron Buchanan

Altamont Brewing Company

Mardi Gras party w/ Bayou Diesel (cajun, zydeco), 9:30pm ARCADE

Downstairs: “No Cover, No Shame” dance party w/ Abu Dissaray, 9pm Upstairs: DJ Capital, 9pm Same as It Ever Was (Talking Heads tribute) Athena’s Club

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Orange Peel

Need the Money

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Chloe Davidson (jazz, swing)

Black Mountain Ale House

Dave Desmelik (Americana), 7:30pm Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

The Werks, 9pm

Spicy Moustache & the Flavor Saviors (funk, soul, rock)

Root Bar No. 1

Get Down

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

Good Stuff

Scandals Nightclub

Greg Terkelsen (rock) Bill Gerhardt Trio (jazz), 7-9:30pm

Skunk Ruckus (“hillbilly stomp”), 6pm

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Darrell Scott (singer-songwriter) w/ Peyton Tochterman

Southern Appalachian Brewery

The Wildwood Flyers (folk, bluegrass), 8pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Spurs

The Business (Motown, classic soul), 8pm

Crocodile Smile, 9:30pm TallGary’s Cantina

Kayla & Twisted Trail, 7pm DJ Shane, 11pm

Cadillac Rex

The Altamont Theater

Pat Bergeson (jazz, blues, rock) w/ Annie Sellick, 8pm

Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (alt-country, Americana)

The Bywater

Iron Horse Station

Tennessee Hollow (rock, country, blues), 9pm

Twilight Broadcasters (old-time)

Acoustic Swing

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Jack of Hearts Pub

Club Metropolis

Cindercat w/ Duende Mountain Duo (electronic, dance)

The Accidentally Irish Lads (Celtic rock)

Jubal’s Kin (“cosmic Americana”) w/ Brandon Rickman (bluegrass, country), 7pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Honeybee Democracy (folk), 7pm

The Ghost Wolves (rock, blues) w/ The Krektones, Alligator Indian & ER Airplane, 8pm

Creatures Cafe

Jus One More

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Craggie Brewing Company

Embers of Brave

Mountain Feist (bluegrass), 9:30pm

Friday Night Live w/ Disclaimer Comedy (standup) & Dueling Pianos (rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long) Emerald Lounge

Joshua Carpenter (rock) w/ Le Weekend & The Fling

Yonder Mountain String Band (bluegrass) w/ The Infamous Stringdusters Pisgah Brewing Company

Garage at Biltmore

Highland Brewing Company

DJ, 10pm-2am

One Stop Deli & Bar

Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm

Harrah’s Cherokee

Asheville Music Hall

Live music, 8pm

Fuego Friday Latin Night, 10pm

Fred’s Speakeasy

Ogre Throne

Fri., February 24

Olive or Twist

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays) Westville Pub

Back stage: The Anatomy of Frank (rock, pop) w/ Polar Eye, Wilhelm McKay & Wyla Front stage: Meredith Watson Lobster Trap

Will Newman & friends (jazz), 7pm Al “Coffee” McDaniel (blues, soul), 10pm

Leo Johnson & the Space Heaters (jazz)

Trivia night

White Horse

Jonathan Edwards, 8pm Wild Wing Cafe

Greg Burroughs Band (country)

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Thursday, Feb. 23rd

MAX MELNER ORCHESTRA

Pint & Game Night

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CHRIS O’NEILL & FRIENDS

Friday, Feb. 24th

Americana & Blues • $3.50 Vodka Drinks

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PIERCE EDENS & THE DIRTY WORK (ROCK / AMERICANA)

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SaT., February 25 ARCADE

WiLLi WeDnesDay

Downstairs: “Bear Exploder” dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Upstairs: DJ Capital, 9pm

$2.50 Pints, $4.00 Seasonals

Athena’s Club

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Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Staff talent night

– Feb 24 – 7-9pm The honeybee Democracy

Boiler Room

Subversion w/ Burning Onward, Forgive Me for Yesterday, Anmesis & The Saga of Charon (metal) Club Metropolis

Cadillitic Circus w/ DJ Zerbatec

– Feb 25 – 6-8pm Lions oF Zion

Craggie Brewing Company

Lionz of Zion (rock, funk), 6pm Creatures Cafe

(Groove/Rock)

Rupert Wates w/ Mark Kroos

Wed

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WNCAP Benefit feat: DJ Acolyte, 10pm Emerald Lounge

Knives & Daggers (shoegaze) w/ Modern Man & Cement Stars

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Get Down

The Pilgrim w/ Slow Bull, Humungus & The Asound Good Stuff

Sarah Tucker (singer-songwriter, folk)

WED

2/22

w/ Cotton Jones 8:30Pm

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2/23

ryan montBleau Band 8:30Pm

FRI

darrell sCott

2/24

w/ Peyton tochterman 9Pm

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WNC’s only Country Night Club SpurS

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w/ Boys in the Well 8Pm

Peter mulvey w/ Jenna lindbo 8Pm

holy ghost tent revival 9Pm river Whyless Cd release

w/ Kovacs & Polar Bear & little tybee 9Pm

aPaChe relay & moon taxi 9Pm anais mitChell w/

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Harrah’s Cherokee

Emporium, 6pm Sara Evans, 7:30pm DJ Moto, 11pm

Highland Brewing Company

Custard Pie (Led Zeppelin covers) Iron Horse Station

Dana & Sue Robinson (bluegrass, folk) Jack of Hearts Pub

Jon Stickley Trio (bluegrass), 9pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Sirius.B (absurdist, gypsy), 9pm Jus One More

Karaoke

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Drunken Prayer (Americana) CD release show w/ The Treatment & DJ Lorruh Front stage: Shane Perlowin Lobster Trap

Live jazz trio

Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band One Stop Deli & Bar

Inner Space Massive feat: Panther God, Marley Carroll, Arctic Fox & more Orange Peel

Bonobo (DJ set) w/ Paper Tiger Pack’s Tavern

Atomic Sauce (blues, dance, rock) Purple Onion Cafe

The Bad Popes

Root Bar No. 1

Wilhelm McKay (folk, indie, roots) Scandals Nightclub

WNCAP Benefit feat: DJ Acolyte, 10pm Southern Appalachian Brewery

Miguel y Antonio (acoustic), 8pm Spurs

Whistling Dixie (country), 9:30pm Straightaway Cafe

Sherry Lynn & Mountain Friends TallGary’s Cantina

Back Pages

The Altamont Theater

Greg Brown (comedy), 8:30pm The Bywater

Devils Like Me, 9pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Barbie Angel & Wilhelm McKay (poetry), 8pm Carolina Rex (blues, funk), 10pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

clubdirectory 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 the altamont theatre 575-2400 arCadE 258-1400 asheville Civic Center & thomas Wolfe auditorium 259-5544 asheville Music Hall 255-7777 athena’s Club 252-2456 avery Creek Pizza & ribs 687-2400 Barley’s tap room 255-0504 Black Mountain ale House 669-9090 Blend Hookah lounge 505-0067 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Blue note grille 697-6828 Boiler room 505-1612 BoBo gallery 254-3426 Broadway’s 285-0400 Burgerworx 253-2333 the Bywater 232-6967 Club Hairspray 258-2027 the Chop House 253-1852 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360

Creature’s Cafe 254-3636 desoto lounge 986-4828 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty South lounge 251-1777 dobra tea room 575-2424 Eleven on grove 505-1612 Emerald lounge 232- 4372 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Fred’s Speakeasy 281-0920 French Broad Brewery tasting room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate lounge 252-4181 the garage 505-2663 get down 505-8388 good Stuff 649-9711 grey Eagle Music Hall & tavern 232-5800 grove House Eleven on grove 505-1612 the grove Park inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ great Hall) 252-2711 the Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777

Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s grille 298-8780 the Hop 254-2224 the Hop West 252-5155 iron Horse Station 622-0022 jack of Hearts Pub 645-2700 jack of the Wood 252-5445 jus One More 253-8770 lexington avenue Brewery 252-0212 the lobster trap 350-0505 luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & grill 253-8805 the Magnetic Field 257-4003 Mike’s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-daddy’s Bar & grill 258-1550 One Stop Bar deli & Bar 255-7777 the Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179

rankin vault 254-4993 red Stag grill at the grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 rendezvous 926-0201 root Bar no.

299-7597 Scandals nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Smokey’s after dark 253-2155 Southern appalacian Brewery 684-1235 Spurs 575-2258 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 tallgary’s Cantina 232-0809 rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack 575-2260 thirsty Monk South 505-4564 tolliver’s Crossing irish Pub 505-2129 tressa’s downtown jazz & Blues 254-7072 vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

Westville Pub

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Wild Wing Cafe

Lobster Trap

Jack of Hearts Pub

Sun., February 26

One Stop Deli & Bar

Aaron Price, Laura Michaels & Eric Sommer (singer-songwriters), 6:30pm

Orange Peel

Zee Avi (Malaysian singer-songwriter) w/ Shane Conerty, 9pm

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Bluegrass jam, 8pm

Scandals Nightclub

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Now You See Them (folk pop) Crocodile Smile (rock), 10pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Jerome Widenhouse & His Roaring Lions (jazz), 7-9pm ARCADE

Hallelujah Hullabaloo w/ DJs Jamie Hepler, Whitney Shroyer & friends Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues) Dirty South Lounge

The Short Bus (film & DJ), 9pm Eleven on Grove

Annual Oscar Gay-La-La-Party, 8pm Get Down

Karaoke

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Pert Near Sandstone (indie, old-time, bluegrass) w/ Boys in the Well Hotel Indigo

Ben Hovey (trumpet/keys, soulful acid jazz), 7-10pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Brunch w/ Chuck Beattie (blues) Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 4-9pm Reverend Deadeye (blues, gospel, garage) w/ Molly Gene, 9pm

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano)

Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7pm Bluegrass Brunch & open jam w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am Badfish (Sublime tribute) w/ Lionz of Zion Psychobilly Sock Hop Sundays

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Karaoke, 10pm

Karaoke, 8pm The Altamont Theater

Sunday jazz, noon

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano covers) White Horse

Drum circle, 2pm

Mon., February 27 CaroMia Tiller (singer-songwriter), 8-10pm Dirty South Lounge

Tears in My Beers (DJ set), 9pm

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Jack of the Wood Pub

Westville Pub

Miriam & the Passionistas (world, folk),

pinball, foosball, ping-pong & a kickass jukebox kitchen open until late

Contra dance, 8pm

Dance party, 10pm Oscar Gay La La & Benfit for Miss WNC EOY, 12:30am

5 Walnut Wine Bar

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Wild Wing Cafe

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The John Henry’s (jazz, swing), 8-10pm Altamont Brewing Company

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

Black Mountain Ale House

Trivia night, 7pm

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, country) Eleven on Grove

Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm Dance w/ Blue Heaven, 8:30pm Firestorm Cafe and Books

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Country Gold w/ Micheal “Lucky” Luchtan (golden-era country), 9am

Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm

Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

Dirty South Lounge

Garage at Biltmore

Phat Tuesdays

Music trivia, 8pm Funk jam, 10pm

Wild Wing Cafe

Fred’s Speakeasy

Get Down

Orange Peel

Wed., February 29

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Catheter w/ Laughing Dogs & Spew

One Stop Deli & Bar

Good Stuff

Flogging Molly (rock, Celtic, punk) w/ Black Joe Lewis & The Devil Makes Three

Heavenly Spirits Wine Bar

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm

Leland Sundries, 6pm Monet Davis & Timothy Wilkinson (piano), 6-8pm

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge TallGary’s Cantina

Hotel Indigo

“Garyoke”

Jack of the Wood Pub

Original music series, 8pm

Ben Hovey (trumpet/keys, soulful acid jazz), 7-10pm

The Altamont Theater

Jay Reatard documentary screening feat: The Report Cards, The Hooten Hallers & Viva Le Vox, 8pm

The Bywater

Jus One More

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Westville Pub

Karaoke

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime) Lobster Trap

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm Steve Whiddon (piano covers) Blues jam, 10pm White Horse

Video trivia, 8pm

Ben Hovey (trumpet/keys, soulful acid jazz), 8pm ARCADE

Karaoke, 10pm Athena’s Club

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm Barley’s Taproom

Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 8:30pm Black Mountain Ale House

Sierra on Stage (songwriting competition), 7pm Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic

Creatures Cafe

Salsa night (lessons, followed by dance)

Wax in the Back, 9pm Karaoke, 10pm

Mark Guest (jazz)

Peter Mulvey (singer-songwriter, Americana, jazz) w/ Jenna Lindbo Handlebar

The Lemonheads (punk, pop, rock) Harrah’s Cherokee

Live comedy, 8:30pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk) Olive or Twist

Cadillac Rex (vinatage rock) Straightaway Cafe

Coping Stone (world, roots) TallGary’s Cantina

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Hard Bop Explosion Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Westville Pub

Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm Wild Wing Cafe

Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Old-time jam, 6pm

Thu., March 1

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

ARCADE

Front stage: Carey Murdock Lobster Trap

Trivia, 9pm Barley’s Taproom

Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Black Mountain Ale House

Leann Grimes (Shane Conerty of Now You See Them), 6pm Craggie Brewing Company

Floppy Thursdays w/ Molly (eclectic music series), 8pm Creatures Cafe

Singer-songwriter showcase, 9pm Dirty South Lounge

Dirty Bingo, 9pm

Fred’s Speakeasy

Asheville’s Got Talent, 8pm Get Down

Candy Hearts w/ Shell Shag, Old Flings & Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa Good Stuff

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Holy Ghost Tent Revival (folk, roots, Americana), 9pm Hoopers Creek Cafe

Open mic & bluegrass jam w/ Sherry Lynn Jack of Hearts Pub

Old-time jam, 7pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 6pm Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Olive or Twist

Heather Masterton Quartet (swing) One Stop Deli & Bar

The Shane Pruitt Band (rock, blues, jam) Orange Peel

Lotus (electronic, jam) w/ The Malah, 9pm Pisgah Brewing Company

Michael Burks, 8pm

Purple Onion Cafe

Wanda Lu & Marshall Ballew Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

DJ Marley Carroll, 9pm Spurs

Dance night TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville Music Showcase, 8pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz’s Invitational Blues Jam Vincenzo’s Bistro

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter) Westville Pub

Beta Maxx (blues), 9:30pm Wild Wing Cafe

Acoustic music w/ Sloantones

Fri., March 2 ARCADE

Downstairs: “No Cover, No Shame” dance party w/ Abu Dissaray, 9pm Upstairs: DJ Capital, 9pm Athena’s Club

DJ, 10pm-2am

Black Mountain Ale House

Wilhelm McKay (rock, folk), 8pm

Craggie Brewing Company

South French Broads (rock, post-punk), 7pm Shorty Can’t Eat Books (garage, pop), 9pm Creatures Cafe

Sarah and the Secrets w/ Flesh and Stones

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Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Friday Night Live w/ Disclaimer Comedy (standup) & Dueling Pianos (rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long) Firestorm Cafe and Books

Pholksinger Josh (alt-country, folk), 7:30pm

Straightaway Cafe

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

The Altamont Theater

Harrah’s Cherokee

Swayback Sisters (Americana, folk, country) California Guitar Trio, 8pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Apache Relay (indie, roots) w/ Moon Taxi, 9pm Diana Ross

Iron Horse Station

Fuego Friday Latin Night, 10pm

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Westville Pub

Get Down

White Horse

Jus One More

Rodney Dillard & the Dillard Band (country)

Karaoke

SaT., March 3

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Fred’s Speakeasy

Jason Moore (jazz)

Unitard w/ The New Euphemisms, BOB Band & Bill Maltba Good Stuff

Eileen Rupert art opening, 7pm Butter Holler (old-time), 8pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

River Whyless (indie folk) CD release w/ Kovacs and the Polar Bear & Little Tybee, 9pm

Trivia night

ARCADE

Downstairs: “Bear Exploder” dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Upstairs: DJ Capital, 9pm Asheville Music Hall

Twilight Broadcasters (old-time)

Stephaniesid (rock, pop, jazz) w/ The Old Ceremony & The Royal Tinfoil

Jack of Hearts Pub

Athena’s Club

Jack of the Wood Pub

Black Mountain Ale House

Iron Horse Station

Now You See Them (indie folk, pop), 9pm Whiskey of the Damned (Celtic rock), 9:30pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: The Critters (garage, pop, psychedelic) w/ Albert Adams & Free Lunch Olive or Twist

Live music, 8pm

One Stop Deli & Bar

Free Dead Fridays feat: members of Phuncle Sam, 5-8pm Sunshine & the Bad Things (rock) w/ Alarm Clock Conspiracy, 10pm

DJ, 10pm-2am

Johnson’s Crossroad (Appalachian soul), 9pm Craggie Brewing Company

Gavin Conner & Ryan Cox (folk, indie), 6pm The River Rats (garage rock), 8pm Creatures Cafe

Matt Chancy w/ Rather to be Chosen Emerald Lounge

Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam Fred’s Speakeasy

Karaoke, 10pm

Pisgah Brewing Company

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Root Bar No. 1

Garage at Biltmore

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

Get Down

Red Honey, 9pm

Peace Jones (fusion, Southern rock) Bill Gerhardt Trio (jazz), 7-9:30pm Scandals Nightclub

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Shane Perlowin (jazz)

Zenergy (rock, psychedelic, fusion)

Mac Comer (funk, rock) Jack of the Wood Pub

Delta Moon, 9:30pm

Back stage: Old North State (bluegrass, folk) w/ Boys in the Well, Chris Rod & Dirty Sally Lobster Trap

Live jazz trio

Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band Orange Peel

Crunksters Ball w/ GalaxC Girl, Dub Brothaz, Quetzatl, Gravitation Project & more (electronic, multimedia), 9pm Purple Onion Cafe

Darlyne Cain

Scandals Nightclub

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

Straightaway Cafe

Jenne Sluder (folk, acoustic) The Altamont Theater

The Black Lillies (Americana), 8pm The Bywater

J.T. Nero & Allison Russell (roots, Americana) w/ Luther Wright and the Wrongs Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Nightcrawlers (blues, rock)

Hillside Bombers w/ Pedals on Our Pirate Ships, Naked Gods & The Wild

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Good Stuff

Westville Pub

Peace Jones (rock, jazz, funk), 10pm

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 10pm

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pickoftheweek Bullhead

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Director: Michael r. roskaM Players: Matthias schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne DanDoy, BarBara sarafian, tiBo vanDenBorre Crime drama

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The Story: Complex tale of revenge and redemption framed around a family’s involvement with Belgian mobsters.

The Lowdown: Powerfully compelling drama — built around an equally powerful lead performance — that more than justifies its Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination.

All too often I see the films nominated for — and sometimes winning — the Best Foreign Language Oscar, only to find myself wondering why. (I’ve given up trying to understand why everyone thought 2006’s The Lives of Others was an “eternity of suspense.”

I thought it was good, but nothing special.)

When I was told I was going to watch a Belgian movie about the Belgian cattle-hormone mafia (who knew?), I found myself groaning in disbelief — and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if you are, too. But hold up a moment, because that’s only sort of what this truly exceptional, dark and disturbing film is about. Mostly, that angle carries the plot and very little more. Yes, it qualifies as a crime drama — and it can be a pretty brutal one — but there’s a great deal more going on here than you usually find in films with that label. It has something of the same existential dread seen in last year’s Drive — in fact, it occasionally reminded me of that film — but I also found Bullhead to be a film of much greater emotional resonance. I suspect I know why, but I’ll leave that alone for now.

Bullhead comes as the first feature film for writer-director Michael R. Roskam, and it’s considerably more than just an assured debut work. It’s the work of a man with a distinctive and unusual style, as evidenced from the very start in subtle ways — such as moving

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18 Years of Independent news, arts & events for wnC Matthias Schoenaerts gives a fearless and powerful performance in first-time writer-director’s Michael R. Roskam’s Oscar-nominated Bullhead. shots that appear to be subjective, but turn out not to be. This becomes more apparent as the film progresses, and the shots slowly become more and more stylized. It’s as if the further we’re drawn into the story, the more the camera — and the viewer — become participants rather than observers. Thanks to this technique, the final moments in the film are shattering in an almost hallucinatory fashion.

Roskam is helped to no end by his star, Matthias Schoenaerts, as the ill-fated Jacky Vanmarsenille. If you’ve read anything at all about the film, you know that Schoenaerts put on 60 pounds of muscle in preparation for the role. Yes, that’s impressive, but it’s the kind of thing that feels like a stunt. His performance, however, is no stunt at all.

Schoenaerts seems to completely embody every aspect of his childhood-damaged, steroid-enhanced, plainly addled character. He achieves a level of heartbreaking tragedy, but without begging for our sympathy, or ever losing sight of the fact that Jacky is potentially a very dangerous, very frightening man.

As noted, the plot is at least partly driven

by Jacky and his family getting in too deep with the murderous hormone mafia, but the greater significance of this lies in the fact that it reacquaints him with Diederik Maes (Jeroen Perceval), a former childhood friend — a friend inextricably tied to the childhood

event that taints every aspect of Jacky’s life.

I will not detail the event — that should be discovered in the course of the film — but it’s one where Diederik might have helped Jacky and didn’t for a variety of reasons.

In this regard, it also colors Diederik’s life — especially, since the gay Diederik implicitly cared even more deeply for his friend than it appeared on the surface — and fuels his own need for a redemption that is probably impossible and for an admission that can never be made.

One of the remarkable things about Bullhead is how extremely interconnected nearly all the events and the characters are. This, I believe, is what — along with the slowly developed tragic backstory — makes the film so astonishingly powerful in terms of its emotional impact. By this point, you’re probably wondering why I don’t give the film I’ve so praised the full five-star rating. Maybe one day I will, but there’s a semi-essential tangent about a stolen car that eats up too much of the film for more than its relatively simple purpose. It doesn’t really harm the film, but it pulls us away from an otherwise powerful story. I’d still put Bullhead down as a mustsee, though I suspect it will be too brutal for some. Rated R for some strong violence, language and sexual content. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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GhoSt riDer: SPirit of venGeance JJJJ

Director: nevelDine/taylor (Crank) Players: nicolas cage, ciarán hinDs, violante PlaciDo, iDris elBa, Johnny WhitWorth, Fergus riorDan, christoPher lamBert horror action

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The Story: Johnny Blaze — aka Ghost Rider — gets on his flaming motorcycle to save the Son of Satan from being used by his evil dad to become a kind of demigod demon.

The Lowdown: Willfully absurd and deliberately trashy — and with Nicolas Cage in full overacting mode — it works OK as crass pop fun, as long as you take it on those terms.

Yeah, it’s kinda dumb, totally screwy and in as dubious taste as a PG-13 rating will allow. What did you expect Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance to be? As I pointed out when the first movie came out, this is about a guy who turns into a flaming skeleton and rides around dispensing justice on a demonic motorcycle. Knowing that, why in the name of Roger Corman would you expect anything but pulpy nonsense? This is a movie with Ciarán Hinds as the devil, Idris Elba as a hard-drinking holy man, Christopher Lambert as a heavily tattooed monk, and with a skull-faced hero who pees fire. That the hero is played by Nicolas Cage at his Cagey-ist and was directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (or Neveldine/Taylor as they sign themselves) should tell the rest of the story. It was exactly what I expected it to be, and I was fine with that.

Of course, it’s managed to piss off the comic book contingent by not being faithful to the comic book (I couldn’t say) and the more “serious-minded” critics who take obvious and deliberate trash a little too seriously. I don’t really care. I had a good time with its nonsense — especially when Cage sometimes edged toward his The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans level of nutso. Neveldine/Taylor — whose speciality is over-the-top bad-taste trash like the Crank movies — are a little restrained by both the PG-13 rating and ambitions that exceed their budget, but they bring as much cheeky cleverness as they can to the party. I will say, however, that their eye for 3D composition appears to be less artful than that displayed by Patrick Lussier in Cage’s Drive Angry from last year. (In other words, if you see this, see it in 2D.) The film’s story is admirably simple and straightforward. The devil — or Roarke, if you will — made a deal a few years back to save Nadya (Violante Placido, The American) if she’d play Rosemary for him and produce a son. Said son, Danny (Fergus Riordan), is now approaching that awkward age when old Scratch can make use of his unholy issue. Some monks are trying to protect the kid till that time is past. But this doesn’t go so well, so Nadya goes on the run with Danny — and with villains in Roarke’s employ in pursuit, of course. Heading up the campaign to save the Son O’ Satan is Moreau (Idris Elba), a dipsomaniacal monk who enlists

specialscreening Peace throuGh eDucation: StealinG the liGht JJJJ local

Director: aimie Burns Players: mohammaD Khan Kharoti, yama Kharoti, homa Kharoti, steve Boyer, BoB mcsWeeny Documentary rateD nr Asheville filmmaker Aimie Burns of Rock Creek Productions tells the story of Dr. Mohammad Khan Kharoti’s Green Village Schools program in her documentary Peace Through Education: Stealing the Light — which is being presented for one show only at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Fine Arts Theatre. The film is a solid, straightforward documentary that blends interviews with archival footage and still photographs, charting the growth of the Portland-based doctor’s school for the children of Afghanistan in his native village of Shin Kalay. (At one point, the school was providing lessons to over 1,200 students a day.) It’s also a film about the people who helped him and his family make the school a reality. This is not, however, entirely a success story, as the school was attacked by gunmen in 2008. Those gunmen took everything of value and then bulldozed the school. Even so, the film goes on to record Dr. Kharoti’s ongoing efforts to rebuild what once was. Here’s a chance to see a worthy film on a worthy subject, and to help support a local filmmaker. reviewed by Ken Hanke Peace Through Education: Stealing the Light screens at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Fine Arts Theatre. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the theater’s box office.

the aid of our hero, who — for purposes of personal isolation and well-known low filmproduction costs — is hiding out in Eastern Europe. Of course, he doesn’t want to play Ghost Rider for this or any other purpose, but he does because Moreau promises to remove his curse afterwards. (And, well, frankly, there’d be no movie otherwise.)

Naturally, the safe haven turns out not to be such a swell idea in terms of safety — one look at Christopher Lambert’s Methodius tells you that — and much mayhem ensues. A lot of this mayhem is courtesy of Satan’s minion Ray Carrigan (Johnny Whitworth (TV’s CSI: Miami), who the Prince of Darkness has brought back to life while making him look like Edgar Winter in the bargain (deals with the Devil always have a catch). In addition to being reanimated, Carrigan has been given the “touch of decay,” which makes for a nifty, though illogically applied, effect. (If he causes anything to decompose by touching it — except for a famous snack food — why doesn’t the steering wheel of his vehicle crumble to dust?) This all ends up in a ruined amphitheater where it looks like they’re going to stage the last number of Jesus Christ Superstar. (A production number at this point would have been pretty cool, come to think of it).

Is it any good? Well, not in any truly meaningful sense, I don’t suppose it is. The bigger question with junk like this is whether it’s entertaining, knows what it is and isn’t bloated out of all reason. (Yes, I am thinking of you, Michael Bay). In that regard, I’d say it succeeds admirably — assuming you’re in the market for this brand of claptrap. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images, and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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Pina

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Director: Wim WenDers Players: Pina Bausch, regina aDvento, malou airauDo, ruth amarante Performance Documentary

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The Story: Documentary in which the works of German choreographer Pina Bausch are committed to film.

The Lowdown: An altogether engaging — sometimes breathtaking — look at one of the major figures of modern dance. A rare look at one artist by another that should be seen.

Another barely-in-time-to-catch-it-beforethe-awards Oscar contender arrives in town this week with Wim Wenders’ Pina, which is up for Best Documentary. Whether it actually fits the frequently slippery definition of documentary is a question that’s been raised, but I’m not sure what else you’d call it. Still, its capturing of a number of dance creations by the late Pina Bausch — sometimes taking them off the stage and into other settings — is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you encounter the term “documentary.”

Whatever the case, this is a frequently remarkable, always interesting film with some of the best — and most unusual — use of 3D I’ve encountered.

Film fans who are not up on modern dance (and I’m in that group) may have some passing familiarity with Bausch, because part of her ballet Café Müller was used in Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her (2002). The ballet’s images of characters blindly walking through a setting in which chairs and tables were constantly rearranged perfectly fit the themes of Almodóvar’s film. Presented more fully here than in the earlier film, Café Müller is just one of the Bausch creations showcased in Pina.

The film we have isn’t the one Wenders had intended to make. His plans were originally for a film made with Bausch and not about her, but Bausch succumbed to cancer just before the film started shooting. Her death hangs over the mood of the film, specifically in the interview footage with her dancers and in Wenders’ decision to use the credit “A Film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders.” What hangs over the dance pieces themselves is not a sense of death, but one of life — even if the dance set to Louis Armstrong’s recording of “West End Blues,” which runs through the film like a motif, ultimately echoes the dance of death at the end of Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957).

It’s close to futile to try to describe dance.

It’s an area where words break down — as the film itself makes clear. (I kept flashing back on the line in Ken Russell’s Mahler where the composer says, “If I could tell you the answer in words, there’d be no need for me to compose music.”) What can at least somewhat be described are the unusual and often complex stagings — like the dirt-covered stage for her production of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in which the dancers themselves become covered in earth, suggesting the primitive nature of the work in an almost shocking way. (This is one of the works that Wenders wisely does not “open up” by taking it out of the stage setting.)

Also of note is the ballet Vollmond, in which an actual waterfall is created onstage. It is in the waterfall and pool that the dancers perform (no mean feat in itself), and the water becomes a part of the movement. These are not your usual dance works — though traditional ballet is satirized on occasion. I admit I responded best to dances that were performed to pieces of music I was familiar with — “West End Blues,” Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony — but the overall force of the film’s images and the intelligent and striking use of 3D carried the film for me. (I didn’t even mind having to be at the theater at 8:45 a.m. to screen it ... much.) Whether you’re into modern dance or not, this is well worth seeing. Rated PG-13 for sensuality, nudity and smoking. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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The Story: A family of tiny people — called Borrowers — are discovered by a young, ailing boy.

The Lowdown: Sweet-natured family fare from Studio Ghibli that lacks the impact of their previous films.

The Secret World of Arrietty, the latest from Studio Ghibli, is not the work of Hayao Miyazaki, though the acclaimed director had a hand in the film’s script. Directed by longtime Miyazaki collaborator Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the film contains much of the same heart and

startingfriday ACT OF VALOR

One of the ways you can tell that we’re still in the grim season is by the glut of movies coming our way without much — if any — early reviews. It’s true here with Act of Valor, and it’s true for everything else this week that isn’t an art title. Here’s what the studio says, “An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs in a film like no other in Hollywood’s history. A fictionalized account of real life Navy SEAL operations, Act of Valor features a gripping story that takes audiences on an adrenaline-fueled, edge-of-their-seat journey. When a mission to recover a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly results in the discovery of an imminent, terrifying global threat, an elite team of highly trained Navy SEALs must immediately embark on a heart-stopping secret operation, the outcome of which will determine the fate of us all.” Kinda wears you out just reading that, doesn’t it? (R)

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BULLHEAD

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

GONE

This is the first American film for Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia, and it’s evidently some kind of PG-13 thriller starring Amanda Seyfried as a girl who is convinced that her missing sister has been kidnapped by the same serial killer who abducted her two years earlier. (He must have failed to serial kill her). She becomes pistol-packing Seyfried and sets out to rescue her sibling. It looks on the bad side, and the studio hasn’t even sent out the shills to the IMDb to hype this one. (PG-13)

PINA

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

TYLER PERRY’S GOOD DEEDS

Tyler Perry learned long ago not to let critics see his movies before they open. It really doesn’t make any difference, since his fans will go (as long as he doesn’t get out of his comfort zone) and his detractors will just wait till the weekend to do their detracting, and to no real effect. This one has the box-office downside that Perry doesn’t drag himself up as Madea. The story is about wealthy Wesley Deeds (Perry), who learns what the “real world” is about when he takes an interest in a cleaning lady (Thandie Newton) in his office building — and all this despite the fact that he is married to Gabrielle Union. A dilemma undoubtedly follows. (PG-13)

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WANDERLUST

The real question — assuming anyone really cares — is whether or not Jennifer Aniston’s topless scene is in the final cut of Wanderlust. We know she shot the scene, but the latest word is that she recently demanded the scene be trimmed of her undraped bosom. The whole movie is yet another effort to rebrand Aniston as something other than her wholesome image. (Remember Horrible Bosses?) The plot involves her and husband Paul Rudd moving into some kind of hippie-like community (“populated by colorful characters,” Universal assures us) when things go bad for them in Manhattan. Culty director David Wain had a small hit in 2008 with Role Models, which was not unpleasant, so maybe this will surprise. (R)

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spirit as Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works. Arrietty is not actionpacked by any means, instead going for a more understated approach that may not be exciting, but makes for one of the classier family movies youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to find.

In many ways, the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restrained approach is both a boon and a drawback. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refreshing to see a film made primarily for children that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flush with talking CGI animals and poop jokes.

But at the same time, Arrietty is a movie where not a whole lot happens. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple plot comes across as a bit too simple, and the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s languid pacing and lack of any real driving force goes has a tendency to make Arrietty feel a bit drawn out.

The story â&#x20AC;&#x201D; based on Mary Nortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, The Borrowers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; involves a family of tiny people called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Borrowers,â&#x20AC;? who survive underneath houses by taking household objects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sugar cubes, tissue, and the like. The biggest rule that Borrowers must live by is to never be seen by humans, which is violated by the young Arrietty (voiced by TV actress Bridgit Mendler) on her first borrowing. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spotted by Shawn (voiced by TV actor David Henrie), a young boy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just recently moved into the same house.

Because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been spotted, Arrietty and her parents must decide if they want to abandon their home for good, since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told humans have tendency to cause trouble for Borrowers.

Despite Shawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best intentions in wanting to help Arrietty and her family, things soon begin to go awry for them. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help that another Borrower family who once lived in the same house has gone missing in the past. This specter of death â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or perhaps more accurately, finality â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hangs over the film, in both the simple, understated danger that lies ahead for the Borrowers, but in Shawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own mortality (and his awareness of it) in the form of a heart defect. Arrietty is shrewd in the way it handles the dangers of death, never being mawkish or overly dramatic, but never shying away from the topic.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no real antagonist other than the houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maid (voiced by Carol Burnett) who wishes to prove the existence of â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and to capture â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Borrowers, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more annoying than actually menacing, and this only takes up a brief bit of the movie. The ending is simple, and while not the happy ending one might expect it, is dead-on in its bittersweetness. But even at a slim 94 minutes, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a gnawing feeling that Arrietty could be shorn of some fat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something that keeps the film from being great, but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop it from being quite good. Rated G. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Fine Arts Theatre, Regal Biltmore Grande

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The Story: Two best friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and CIA agents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; find out theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dating the same woman, and decide to compete over her.

The Lowdown: Yet another flat, formulaic rom-com, injected with an overdose of machismo.

McGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s This Means War is the latest in the bizarre subgenre of the rom-com pseudo-spy thrillers. Think True Lies (1994) or that awful Ashton Kutcher/Katherine Heigl vehicle Killers (2010). In this case, we get two CIA agents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FDR Foster (Chris Pine) and Tuck (played by the obviously British Tom Hardy, leaving us to assume that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of some spy-exchange program) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who soon realize that they are dating the same woman, Lauren (Reese Witherspoon).

The majority of the film consists of FDR and Tuck using the full power of the CIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hidden cameras, wiretaps, spy planes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to vie for the affections of Lauren, all the while trying to keep their life-long friendship intact. There are a few problems with this set up, namely that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see why anyone would put so much energy into fighting over this woman.

Never, at any point, does she exhibit anything resembling a personality. (Although she does once refer to The Lady Vanishes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;second-tier Hitchcock,â&#x20AC;? which was the deal-breaker for me.) What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re left with to explain Laurenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appeal are some scripted-in, tacked-on affectations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she loves dogs, art and Montell Jordan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which only serve to make her seem like a boring, dime-a-dozen stereotype of the middleclass American blonde. None of this creates a character deserving of two CIA agentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time dedicated to winning her heart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and if you want to get into it, untold amounts of American tax dollars. Of course, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the argument that these beefy, perfectly coiffed guys are more interested in each other than some woman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly enough subtext (like the big â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love you, bro!â&#x20AC;? climax) to support this.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a subplot in place involving an evil Russian (Til Schweiger, New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve) out for revenge on our heroic spies, but this is really there to push the plot forward, make the whole spy angle work, and to let our boys indulge in a bit of action-star muscle flexing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all quite tiresome really, as This Means War comes across as the mid-life crisis of action films. It yearns so much to be hip and stylish, while having no clue how that translates in 2012. The resulting film is the cinematic equivalent of watching your dad riding around in a Camaro listening to The Beastie Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sabotage.â&#x20AC;? (That we get both muscle cars and numerous appearances of said song in the film only drives this point home). This is, after all, a film directed by a grown man who calls himself McG, who â&#x20AC;&#x201D; once upon a time 12 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was briefly a big deal for directing Sugar Ray videos. Times, it seems, have changed.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the type to look for some kind of silver-lining, Hardy proves that he has all the requirements to be a leading man. Hopefully this is the start of him outgrowing his usual supporting roles. Unfortunately, his talent is wasted in a movie with literally nothing else going for it. Rated R for some sexual content. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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3 OFFICES IN DOWNTOWN WEST ASHEVILLE 3 different spaces, all available March 1. $250-$350/month includes all utilities. Shared waiting area, conference room, bathrooms.

On-site copier for tenants.

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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR LEASE - 864 HAYWOOD RD. (W. ASHEVILLE) 1200 sq.ft. Health-care use compliant: PT, acupuncture, etc. Four private rooms, reception/waiting rooms plus office area. Handicap accessible. Off-street parking.

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Commercial Listings

Commercial Property OFFICE SUITES Downtown Asheville. 1-5 office suites from 490 sq. ft. to 3,200 sq. ft. Modern finishes, elevator, central air. Affordable, full service rates. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

Commercial/ Business Rentals 3 AFFORDABLE DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACES Available for rent immediately to area nonprofits. Total of 3 office suites, sized 121 sqft, 297 sqft and 242 sqft. Call 828.253.3227 or email packsquareoffice@gmail.com

Apartments For Rent 1920’s CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN AND UNCA • Hillside St. Spacious and light-filled. 1BR/1BA with hardwood floors, large windows, good closet space. $695/month includes heat, hot and cold water. Tenant pays for electricity. Laundry included. Plenty of off-street parking. Cats OK with fee, No dogs. For appt: 777-6304 Graham Investments.

1BR FURNISHED WITH MOUNTAIN VIEWS 1BR, 1BA immaculate furnished apt. with garage in Weaverville.

Mtn views, all utilities included. 6 month lease. $895/month. 828-775-3838.

1BR WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included.

On bus line, swimming pool onsite. $549/month.

Call 828-252-9882.

1BR, 1BA • Arden one mile from I-26 and Long Shoals Rd. 740 sq.ft. basement apartment with lots of daylight. Quiet, convenient and safe neighborhood. W/D hookups, Internet, Direct TV, water, electricity, and garbage pickup. Private entrance and yard with patio. Don’t miss this beauty as it won’t last long! Pets considered with deposit. $945/month.

273-5980.

ADJACENT TO UNCA • NORTH ASHEVILLE Fully furnished apartment, 2BR, 2BA, $950/month plus deposit. • Includes all utilities, AC, CCTV, Internet. Private parking. (828) 252-0035.

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BLACK MOUNTAIN • SPECIAL • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area. Only $550/month.

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CHARMING SUNNY SMALL 1BR · Between downtown and UNCA. Close walk to town and Greenlife. Hardwood floors, gas heat, A/C unit. Lots of offstreet parking. $595/month includes hot and cold water.

Security deposit, year’s lease, credit check and references req. 1 cat ok w/fee. No dogs.

For appt: Graham Investments 777-6304.

LIVE ON THE RIVER! • EAST 2BR, 2BA, all appliances, including WD. • Large closets, storage. Covered parking.

• Covered porch. Open deck.

Great views! • Quiet and convenient. • Pets considered. $725/month.

828-779-2736, 828-215-4596. .

NORTH ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 1BA. Upstairs/downstairs.

1 mile to downtown.

On busline. $595/month.

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NORTH ASHEVILLE • Townhome 2BR, 1BA. 1 mile to downtown. On busline. $495/month. 828-252-4334.

STUDIO • Hendersonville.

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WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $775/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Sorry, no pets. Call 253-0758.

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Central heat and A/C. W/D. References, application and deposit required. $550/month.

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2BR, 2BA CONDO • EASTWOOD VILLAGE CORNER UNIT With southern exposure and view! Stainless appliances, granite countertops, carpet/ceramic floors, high ceilings/crown molding.

Located in convenient, beautiful Eastwood Village, 10 minutes from downtown. $850/month includes washer/dryer. 828-545-7445.

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51 WEST CHAPEL ROAD • OAKLEY AREA 3BR, 2BA house convenient to South Asheville and Oakley.

Hardwood floors, large fenced backyard. Washer/Dryer included. Central A/C. Available March 1st • $1100/ month. (828) 279-7699. roryrealestate@gmail.com NORTH 2BR, 1BA • Gas heat. Hardwood floors.

Sorry, no pets. $775/month.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

SMALL ENERGY EFFICIENT COTTAGE • 1BR, 1BA. Hardwood and ceramic tile floors, screened porch, privacy fence. Good condition.

No Smoking. $675/month.

828-298-3933.

ARDEN/FLETCHER TOWNHOME 2BR, 2.5BA. $950/month and pet friendly.

No pet deposit. Hardwood floors and gas fireplace.

Call (828) 318-7592.

WEST 3BR, 2BA. Full basement. 1 car garage.

Sorry, no pets. $925/month.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

Homes For Rent

15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental. Newly renovated, complete with everything including cable and internet.

Weaverville area. • No pets please. (828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com

3BR, 2BA FLETCHER • Near I-26 and shopping.

Large fenced yard. $695/month + security deposit. 828-777-0385.

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General $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home!

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Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN) WORK FOR THE BEST! We’re a well-established, busy, local, earth-friendly, home cleaning company and seeking reliable, detailoriented employees with great energy, attitude and long-term commitment. • Part-time, flexible weekday hours. • Great pay; must have own transportation, mileage reimbursed. Vacation potential.

• Perfect for stay-at-home mom or students. For interview, call Denise or Shelly, 776-7399 or 215-8845.

Upstairs Downstairs, Inc.

LOCAL OUTDOOR COMPANY Local outdoor company is seeking qualified applicants for warehouse and office positions. Interested applicants may send resume and cover letter to applyoutdoors@gmail.com.

LOCAL WHOLESALE COMPANY is looking for full-time help in our shipping and receiving department. • Position is mainly pulling product from the warehouse, packing it and shipping it through FedEx to fulfill customer orders. • We use Fishbowl Warehouse Systems, and Quickbooks to keep track of inventory, experience with those programs is helpful but can be taught to the computer literate. I• nterested parties must be self motivated, focused, reliable and have a pleasant disposition. • Good attention to detail is an absolute must, as is the ability to keep up a fast pace. We offer competitive salary, health benefits, and paid time off days as well as friendly and comfortable work environment. No phone calls, please! Please email resume to jamesm@allfungifts.com or fax to 828-236-2658.

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jobs Professional/ Management COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING MANAGER FULL-TIME MANNA FOODBANK Excellent communication and people skills required. 3-5 years experience required Competitive pay/benefits More information at www.mannafoodbank.org.

Send resume with cover letter to J Clarkson 627 Swannanoa River Rd Asheville, NC 28805 Or e-mail to jclarkson@feedingamerica.org EOE Deadline February 29, 2012

Administrative/ Office DATABASE MANAGER AND EVENTS ASSISTANT • Eliada Homes is seeking one person for this dual role.

Responsibilities include working closely with fiscal to maintain the agency database, soliciting donations, event preparation and execution. • Individual absolutely must have 2-3 years of recent experience with Raiser’s Edge. Ideal candidate will be detail oriented, have excellent customer service skills and organizational skills. • Experience in Wordpress and social media preferred. All interested and qualified candidates, please go to www.eliada.org/employment to apply.

FOUNDATION ADMINISTRATOR Foundation Administrator: office administration, scholarship administration and support, and fund-raising support.

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Sales/ Marketing NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL Integritive, Inc., an interactive agency in WNC, is seeking a part-time New Business Development Professional. Ideal candidate is someone who lives the core values of integrity, craftsmanship, and professional/personal growth. Experience in information technology marketing a plus.

Compensation commensurate with experience and demonstrated ability to convert warm leads into clients. Send cover letter & resume to NBDresume@integritive.com, no phone calls please. www.integritive.com SALES PROFESSIONALS Start a career in Executive Recruiting. • Training provided. • Office setting.

• Commission driven.

Draw possible. • 3 openings.

Call today: (828) 277-6988. resumes@thurmondco.com

Hotel/ Hospitality CANOPY GUIDE AT NAVITAT CANOPY ADVENTURES Candidates must share philosophy of sustainable

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY • LIFE COACH Energetic Life Coach needed to co-facilitate Nurturing Parenting Program and to assist customers enrolled in Life Works Self Sufficiency Program to identify personal strengths, assets, goals and career interests. • Develop Action Plans in partnership with customer and community to remove obstacles to success.

Coordinate services through a network of community organizations that provide participants with the resources they need to solve the problems they face. Assist low-income families through a strengths-based approach to case management to become self-sufficient.

Requirements: • 4 year degree in Social Work or related field and at least 2 years of experience required.

• Demonstrated ability to provide case management which includes family assessment, intervention, planning, employment development and considerable public contact. • Demonstrated ability to work with community partners • Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations. • Keen understanding of the dynamics of poverty. • Strong oral and written communication skills. • Budget and paper management accuracy required. • Experience with reporting outcomes and ability to use data to inform practice.

• Must be a team-player and experienced with team-based case management. • Fluent in English and Spanish preferred.

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AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Haywood County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Position available within a community-based, multidisciplinary team supporting people in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse. Psychiatric experience preferred but not required. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell@meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have a Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Team Leader Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible.

Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Swain County: JJTC Team Seeking Licensed/ Provisionally Licensed Therapist in Swain County for an exciting opportunity to serve predominately court referred youth and their families through Intensive In-Home and Basic Benefit Therapy. For more information contact Aaron Plantenberg, aaron.plantenberg@ meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org CERTIFIED SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR To facilitate Saturday groups, 9am to 1pm. MUST have LCAS, CSAC or CCS. Call (828)253-7066 or send resume to: ashevilleinstitute@gmail.com

practices, excellence and safety. Must have positive attitude, strong work ethic, and good communication.

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BOOTH RENT AND HAIRSTYLIST WANTED • Bring your clients to Asheville’s #1 environmentally friendly and health conscious hair studio. Conveniently located 1 mile north of downtown on Merrimon Ave. Free parking, competitive booth rent and retail product commission. Healthy work environment. Contact amanda@wildflowerstudioash eville.com or 828-505-9490.

Human Services ARE YOU ABLE TO PROVIDE A LOVING FAMILY? CANC is looking for dynamic folks to support individuals as an AFL Provider in the Arden, Asheville and Swannanoa areas. To learn more about this rewarding opportunity, please call (828) 678-9116.

• Possess a valid NC driver’s license. • Able to pass drug and background checks. • North Carolina Family Development Credential preferred. • Certified to facilitate Nurturing Parenting Program preferred. Salary Range: $31,200.00 to $43,010.00 DOQ. • Send resume, cover letter and work references with complete contact information to: Ms. Linda Gamble Human Resources Manager 25 Gaston Street, Asheville NC, 28801 or Admin@ communityactionopportunities .org or (828) 253-6319. Open until filled. EOE & DFWP.

Exciting opportunity with Family Preservation Services of Rutherford County! Become a part of an established team. Seeking NC licensed or provisionally licensed therapists to work with children and their families in the school, home and community. Candidates must have a minimum of 1 year experience with children, school based experience a plus. FPS offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package. Resumes to klockridge@fpscorp.com.

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources@ familiestogether.net

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE, has opportunities for Qualified Mental Health Professionals to join our team. Qualified candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in a social services field and a minimum of 1 year experience with children with mental illness.

FPS offers a competitive and comprehensive benefit package. To join our team, please send your resume to jdomansky@fpscorp.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 696-2667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel.wingo@thementornetw ork.com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family.

• Free informational meeting.

NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH has a full time staff opening in both our Asheville and Hendersonville Offices Substance Abuse Services.

• Good candidates should have Substance Abuse individual and group (IOP) experience, be a Licensed Clinician, be familiar with IPRS/Medicaid paperwork, be available to work 2 nights per week and enjoy working in a team culture. • Parkway has excellent benefits, salary commensurate with experience and is a stable work environment. Interested Candidates should email their resumes to: slayton@parkwaybh.com

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS & ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS NEEDED TO PROVIDE INTENSIVE IN-HOME SERVICES TO CHILDREN IN JACKSON, MACON, & SWAIN COUNTIES IN WESTERN NC QP’s & AP’s for Child/Adolescent Mental Health needed for Jackson, Swain & Macon Counties to provide Intensive In-Home Services. Full-time positions with competitive salary and benefits. QP’s Must have either a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services and 2 yrs full time, post-bachelor’s experience with children/ adolescents with Mental health needs or 4 yrs postdegree experience if not a Human Service degree. AP’s must have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year experience with children/ adolescents with mental health needs. Please submit resume by emailing to telliot@jcpsmail.org or fax to: (828) 586-6601 www.jacksoncountyps.org SEEKING FAMILIES To open their home to care for adults/children with developmental disabilities, similar to Foster Care. Some requiring specialized care and some wheelchair accessible.

Must possess a high school diploma, current driver’s license and pass a background check. Previous experience helpful but not required. Training will be provided. Excellent salary.

Call 828 299-1720.

PART TIME WORDPRESS WEB DEVELOPER Part time web developer needed. Experience in WordPress, HTML5/CSS3, PHP and MySQL required.

Location independent.

Visit clicknathan.com/jobs for more information.

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • Is seeking the following for adult service lines: licensed or provisionally licensed therapist (LCSW, LPC, LMFT).

Please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com.

Arts/Media ARTIST - PAINTER WANTED Looking for artist experienced painting metal/wood objects.

Decorative finish work.

All art styles considered.

Contract/piece work to start.

Email photos of work.

Located Mars Hill near college. Contact: jobsatmimc@gmail.com.

Computer/ Technical CAD TECHNICIAN NEEDED Technical Drawing Technician needed for alternative fuel company in Arden, NC. 1099 Contract Worker. Experience a must, will be responsible for drawing 2D and 3D representations to be used at machine shops that use cnc machines. Must have your own computer and software, AutoCAD or SolidWorks. Will work with an R&D team to develop technical drawings, cost estimates and prototypes. Pay based on experience. Fast paced environment. Contact Lena at lenak@altecheco.com

Business Opportunities ASHEVILLE BUSINESS BROKERAGE - BUY NOW FOR ENDLESS BENEFITS! AWESOME DEALS! OWNER FINANCING! TRAINING! TAX INCENTIVES! SIMPLE DOCUMENTS/PROCESS/ CLOSING! Business Opportunities: www.ashevillebusinessbrokerage.com. Thinking of Selling? • Only 8% • Hard Work/Results. Brandy Illich, MBA. brandy@ ashevillebusinessbrokerage.com 828-964-6412.

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AWESOME MASSAGE CONTINUING EDUCATION! 10 different low cost classes including Ashiatsu barefoot massage! Brett Rodgers NCBTMB #451495-10 www.vitalitymassage.net (828) 645-5228 GENTLE FLOW AND YIN YOGA • Tues and Wed. nights 5:45-6:45. Donation Based.

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Legal Notices ASHEVILLE TRANSIT COMMISSION MEETINGS The Asheville Transit Commission has changed the time of its meetings. Asheville Transit Commission will meet the first Tuesday of every month, beginning on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. The meetings will be held at City Hall, First Floor Conference Room. If you have any questions, please contact Asheville Transit System at (828) 232-4531 or via e-mail at: iride@ashevillenc.gov

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SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—- or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists. 299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com STRESSED? TIRED? PAIN? Several massage modalities, Reiki, and acupuncture sessions for body, mind, spirit healing. Couple’s treatments available. Reiki trainings monthly. West Asheville Massage & Healing Arts, 828-423-3978, westashevillemassage.com TOP NOTCH PROFESSIONAL MASSAGE! Deep tissue specialist.

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