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letters Common courtesy in a modern age I own a cell phone, as do most of the readers of this publication. It is a modern convenience that I cannot imagine my life without. I also work in the service industry, waiting tables. In the 10 years I have been doing so I have witnessed the increase of cellphone use destroy the common courtesies of customer/server interactions. I am, on a daily basis, “put on hold” by customers (i.e., having a hand or finger held up in my face when I approach a table). Greetings are treated as interruptions and are often met with irritation. I have more than once taken the order of a customer who is texting simultaneously and who makes no eye contact with me at any point during our interaction. It is my job to be nice to people and to give prompt and friendly service. It is what people base their tips on and tips are how I pay my rent. I have chosen this vocation as a profession and I am, overall, profoundly grateful for the life it has provided me. I am a people-person who genuinely enjoys meeting and socializing through my job. It is increasingly difficult for me to give good service when the customers don’t put down their phones, look me in the eye and tell me what they would like to order. It is a simple interaction, one that doesn’t have to take a lot of time, but one that involves participation from both ends. The customer-service structure prevents me
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from calling people out on their behavior without risking my job. It is partly due to this “customer is always right” structure that I feel the need to write this letter. I write it for all service-industry employees on which this economy thrives: bank tellers, parking-deck employees, baristas, hotel clerks, convenience and grocery store clerks and so many other customer-service employees who make their living serving people. I feel we must also be aware that we in the service industry are also customers in different situations and must try to remember the same courtesies when we are on the other side of the coin. In this highly technological age, we need to unplug ourselves for long enough to be present with those around us. — Selene Klaas Asheville
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What are Republicans afraid of? Voters Bicyclists have to share the road too! If the fairness of the election process is doubtful, can a place be called a democracy? If the majority uses its power to take away the voting rights of the minority, can a place be called a democracy? If those in power manipulate the voting process to reduce their opponents’ voter turnout, can a place be called a democracy? We’re living through a period of Republican tyranny — sad, ironic tyranny. Republicans have used their majority to pass legislation that would shorten the time for voting, require voter ID, eliminate straight-ticket voting and same-day registration and forbid counties from voter registration programs. If these were to become law, the result would be lower voter turnout because of disenfranchisement and complication of the process. Who would be most affected? Senior citizens, the disabled, women (especially the newly married or divorced) and minorities. All these are Democratic constituencies. North Carolina’s rise in voter turnout over the last decade would be reversed — something Republicans desperately need if they are to hold power. Ironically, Republicans claim [that they] want a return to the Founding Fathers, but our Founding Fathers saw fairness as the core idea in the new democracy. They began with a spiritual concept: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. The doctrine of fairness appears all through our founding documents. Fairness is basic to America. What the Republicans are doing in Raleigh is not just unfair. It’s shabby, Third World, petty, sordid, tawdry, demeaning, last-class. It belongs to the Ralph Reed “win by any means” school of subterfuge. It’s not worthy of people who claim to hold Christian values, like Philippians 2:3. It’s certainly not American. So what are Republicans afraid of anyway? Oh my, could it be the voters? — Lee Ballard Mars Hill
I am thrilled to see the growth of alternative transportation being fostered by our vibrant, local culture that is throwing itself into biking, busing, carpooling, etc. I’m also aghast at the dangerous conditions it has created. The unintended sideeffect of increasing pedestrian and cycling [traffic] on our streets is that many people join the cause, unaware of how to truly share multi-use roads and throughways. This creates serious safety risks to everyone. Just this week I witnessed several bikers riding at night with no lights and, equally as bad, no helmets. I’ve also seen cyclists wobble and weave in and out of traffic, which creates an unpredictable pattern of motion that will lead to an accident. As a regular cyclist, I know we can’t control everything, but there is a lot we can do to minimize risk to others and to ourselves. I’m scared of the seeming lack of awareness I’ve witnessed and want to make a public appeal: If you ride a bike, get trained and ride safe. To get started, check out the Asheville Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force for tips and resources at avl.mx/3k or join up with groups like Asheville on Bikes to meet responsible, creative people who are happy to make a new friend and share tips on fun, safe riding in the city. — Amy Sawyer Asheville
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On June 14, Mayor Terry Bellamy officially proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month in Asheville. The month was already half over when the proclamation was made; authors Mel White and Wayne Besen had already inveighed against that ravening wolf at our door, Exodus International, with its “Reality of Grace” conference targeting the LGBT community. Local activists Mary Counce and Angel Chandler had already been arrested and released for decrying a proposed amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage. Had the mayor not acted when she did, the great freight train of history would have passed her by. But what’s important — historic, even — is that the mayor did act, albeit belatedly. To be sure, she didn’t offer Besen and White the key to the city or post bail for Chandler and Counce. As I write, there are a number of LGBT events the mayor could still attend but
presumably won’t: the Cantaria concert, Blue Ridge Pride’s games in Carrier Park and the launch of the Campaign for Southern Equality. As the mayor made histrionically clear back in February, she does not wholeheartedly support LGBT rights; history will recall that she cast the lone vote opposing the city’s full-equality resolution. Enacted Feb. 22 — the same day state Sen. Jim Forrester filed the aforementioned constitutional amendment — this historic resolution added an LGBT nondiscrimination clause to the city’s employment policy, publicly endorsed same-sex marriage and paved the way for an anti-bullying ordinance and a domestic-partner registry for same-sex couples. In her tearful display, the mayor bewailed that if the resolution passed, she might be accused of bullying for biblically condemning marriage equality. In her private capacity, of course, the mayor has a First Amendment right to say whatever she wants, however effusively. As a public servant, though, she’s obligated to serve the public. As she so eloquently put it last February, the
Kampala isn’t Asheville; it’s alarmist, perhaps even “a lie from the pit of hell,” to intimate that such violence could happen here. Certainly it’s mere coincidence that the mayor’s colorful expression belongs to both her own lexicon and that of American religious extremists operating in Africa. If she believes that LGBT people should be treated as secondclass citizens, she’s entitled to her opinion. But without facts to back it up, her contention won’t pass constitutional muster and, on that basis, must not be allowed to become public policy. If the city of Asheville is to stand by its fullequality resolution, it should send that message to Raleigh. Forrester’s amendment does not meet the acid test on which the republic was founded; indeed, it reeks of the worst excesses of oppressive government. In issuing the LGBT History Month proclamation, Mayor Bellamy has taken a brave step — and, in many quarters, not a popular one — to stand on the side of what’s constitutionally right, even if it conflicts with her personal convictions.
If Bellamy believes LGBT people should be treated as second-class citizens, she’s entitled to her opinion. But without facts to back it up, it won’t pass constitutional muster. notion that she doesn’t represent the entirety of Asheville’s population is “a lie from the pit of hell.” Scarcely a month earlier, that same slogan appeared on placards in the streets of Kampala, describing the “homosexual agenda.” American evangelicals, acting as a front for American industrialists, have been working in Uganda for many years and are the driving force behind that nation’s proposed “kill the gays” bill. Like Mayor Bellamy, these redoubtable crusaders doubtless revere their First Amendment right to bully the LGBT community. But their actions led to the death, by bludgeoning, of gay-rights activist David Kato Kisule just a few weeks before Asheville’s historic vote.
LGBT history is as old as history itself: Hammurabi, Sappho and Heliogabalus are all stars in our firmament. Much of that history is marred by ignorance, intolerance and violence, but it’s also inspiring and offers hope: a testament to the triumph of the human will. The LGBT History Month proclamation calls upon the citizens of Asheville “to reflect upon LGBT history and celebrate a culture where all citizens are respected.” Perhaps Mayor Bellamy has done just that. X Asheville resident James Dye is a local historian and contributor to Lambda Legal’s Impact magazine.
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New rules triggered by the “Great Wall of Reynolds” aim to improve the safety and appearance of large retaining walls. The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted the rules at their June 21 meeting. The changes had been in the works since last winter, when the commissioners instructed county staff to draft regulations prohibiting structures such as the 88-foot-high retaining wall along Highway 74 in Reynolds, which board Chair David Gantt has repeatedly called “a monstrosity.” The giant wall is part of the Berrington Village apartment complex being developed by the Greensboro-based Carroll Investment Properties. On Jan. 4, the county issued a stop-work order for the affected portions of the project, citing visible cracks in the retaining wall. At the time, Engineering Inspections Coordinator Matt
Never again: Concerns about the massive 88-foot-high retaining wall along Highway 74 in Reynolds spurred commissioners to pass an ordinance to improve the safety and appearance of any large new retaining walls in Buncombe County. photo by Jonathan Welch
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Stone said an in-depth analysis was needed to determine whether the wall was safe. Nearly six months later, that stop-work order remains in place, and the developer continues to discuss the problems and possible corrective measures with its engineers; it’s unclear when the analysis will be completed, Planning Director Jon Creighton reported. Meanwhile, he assured the commissioners that the new rules will prevent more such walls from being built in the future. Terraces at least 10 feet deep will now be required for all walls higher than 20 feet, unless the wall system is a structural support for a connected building, or soil-nailing techniques are used. Another terrace is required for every additional 15 feet of wall height. The terraces, said Creighton, will allow for proper maintenance of the structures, while accommodating new landscaping requirements. But they’ll also “use up a lot of land,” he continued. “The purpose there was to make the developer stop and think, ‘Is there another way I can do this, rather than build a very large wall?’” In most cases, trees will now have to be planted in the foreground and bushes along the terraces. The ordinance also mandates stricter engineering oversight for walls more than 10 feet tall. For those over 40 feet, owners will now be required to provide a survey showing the locations of permanent markers on the site that will help inspectors detect any movement or undulations. After Creighton’s presentation, Gantt praised
the measures, saying he believes Buncombe County is the first in Western North Carolina to adopt a comprehensive retaining-wall policy. “Buncombe County is blazing a new trail,” he proclaimed, adding, “I think we all know this [wall] was wrong.”
Budget nailed After several weeks of debate, the commissioners unanimously approved a $303 million budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The plan calls for a 1.7 percent increase in general-fund spending, due mostly to rising human-service and health-insurance costs, plus the planned opening of two new intermediate schools. But it dodges any tax increases, instead relying on a mix of spending cuts and a $7.63 million infusion from reserve funds — about $270,000 less than had originally been proposed, County Manager Wanda Greene explained. She credited “the great work of county department heads” in further shaving expenditures that they’d already trimmed by $7.9 million, compared with the current year — primarily by eliminating 93 staff positions. Only five of those employees will be left without jobs, said Greene. Some will now work for private contractors taking over jobs the county once did; others chose early retirement. Before voting for the budget, Commissioner Holly Jones implored Greene to make sure that Western North Carolina Community Health Services, which will now handle the county’s pre-
natal care, provides regular benchmark updates as required. She asked for the same level of scrutiny for the Land-of-Sky Regional Council and a private provider, McDonald Transit Associates, when they take over the county’s Mountain Mobility service later this year. “These are really important services for our citizens,” noted Jones. Greene assured her that the county would provide plenty of oversight, saying, “We absolutely feel passionate about that. … We watch those things on a monthly basis.” The commissioners also applauded the budget’s $48.8 million allocation for the Buncombe County Schools — a 5.6 percent increase over this year’s amount. “I think that says that we get up every day thinking about our citizens’ education,” Commissioner Carol Peterson declared. “They’ve laid education out in a lot of places, and we didn’t do that,” added Gantt. “I’m proud, and I’m real impressed with the community’s understanding that education is a core service.”
Other business On other fronts, the commissioners: • Unanimously approved an interlocal agreement with the city of Asheville, paving the way for a new 0.4-mile stretch of sidewalk near Emma Elementary School. Construction of the sidewalk, which will flank North Louisiana Avenue from Emma Road to Mosswood Road, will be funded by $240,000 in federal funds secured by the city; the county will be responsible for maintenance. • Instructed County Attorney Michael Frue to research whether the commissioners can legally condemn a building on the contaminated CTS property that neighboring residents say has fallen into severe disrepair. During the public-comment period, a group of residents who are working with the Environmental Protection Agency to get the site cleaned up asked the county to condemn the building; the commissioners seemed open to the idea and promised to take prompt action if it proves feasible. • Instructed Greene to make a forthcoming report by the state auditor on the county’s funding of public-access station URTV available to the public as soon as possible. During public comment, former URTV producers charged that the county was illegally withholding state funds; in response, Greene reported, “We’ve been told by the state auditor that we don’t owe URTV any more money.” • Unanimously approved a change in the way their compensation is configured. Their biweekly travel stipends ($320) and technology allowances ($25) will now be combined with their salaries (currently $26,019 for the board chair, $21,762 for the vice chair and $17,505 for the other commissioners). Beginning July 1, the chair will get $34,989, the vice chair $30,732 and the other commissioners $26,475. In addition to the travel stipend, however, they can now be reimbursed for official travel at 51 cents a mile, as county employees are. Tucked into the budget ordinance, these changes weren’t publicly discussed during the meeting. X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.
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really have the financial means to stay longer than I have to,” the mass-communication major explains. Dombroski’s financial situation shifted dramatically after her father changed careers — from chemical engineer to massage therapist, which paid less. When Megan started college, she realized money would be a bigger factor than she’d originally planned. “When I graduated high school and he was working as a massage therapist and my mom was working in retail and as a preschool teacher, I was still not really aware of how little money they were making. I still had that mindset that my dad would take care of me, along with a financial-aid package,” she reveals. But Dombroski got a reality check when the stock market crashed in 2008: Her father had invested most of her college money in the stock market and lost a good bit of it. After her first semester, Dombroski left school. But her determination to make it back to UNCA never wavered. “I went home and took a semester off and worked retail for a long time. Sometimes I’d work lots of hours … 40 hours a week, some-
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Sometimes, taking summer classes is less about getting the hours than about really getting the material. “There is no time for bull: We’re together every day for a couple hours, and wonderful discussions have ensued in all of my summer classes that just simply aren’t present in the fall and spring classes,” says Justine Travis. Certain kinds of courses, says Travis, really thrive on the intensive summer schedule. McClellan, who taught math at UNCA before becoming assistant provost, agrees. “Teaching math in the summer ... was good for the short term,” she explains. “We met every day — it’s funny, especially with math, how something so clear in class has become fuzzy when you sit down to face the problems yourself. But in the summer, that’s the only thing you’re really focusing on, compared to juggling 16 or 18 credit hours.” McClellan took a summer class herself when she was a UNCA student. “That sum-
mer, I couldn’t find a job, and my mom said: ‘I don’t think you should sit around the house all summer. Why don’t you go to summer school?’ I took chemistry and I actually really enjoyed it, because that was all I was doing.” Travis finds that kind of strong focus on one or two subjects particularly helpful with text-heavy courses such as humanities. “My single favorite class at UNCA, that kept my faith in the school’s staffing choices, was my humanities 324 class with professor Teddy Uldricks last summer,” she reveals. “It was the best class ever, hands down.”
A temporary trend? Will the school’s summer credit-hour enrollment continue to grow? “We just don’t know; it depends,” says McClellan. “I consider summer school to be a service to the students — it’s an option for them.” For her part, Dombroski believes summer enrollment will stay strong as long as it serves students’ needs. “If it can help you graduate, if it can help you get that degree faster, and if you can actually focus on your reading instead of juggling it with 16 or 18 other hours, I think it’s a good deal. The big issue is that people are looking to get out of college and see what they need to do next.” The 21-year-old hopes to graduate next spring, but then comes the next challenge: finding a job. “I think the fear of being in the real world is very real,” she reports. “I keep hearing these terrible things about our degrees being the new high-school diploma, [even though] we put in four years, sometimes more, and lots of money. We don’t want to hear that we won’t have a job, or that we just have to go to graduate school. We’re tired: We’ve been in school since we were 4 or 5 years old.” X UNCA senior Caitlyn Byrd is new media editor of The Blue Banner, the campus paper.
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The U.S. has the world’s largest prison population; in North Carolina alone, according to the state Department of Correction, about 26,000 released prisoners return home each year — some of them to Asheville. All too often, they wind up back in prison again: Between 2004 and 2007, North Carolina’s recidivism rate was 41 percent. But even ex-convicts genuinely intent on starting over face an uphill battle. Concern about this situation prompted a June 20 “Re-entry Roundtable” at the Asheville Culture Center on Short Coxe Avenue. Area residents joined representatives of nonprofits and local government to consider better ways to reintegrate newly released prisoners into the community. Green Opportunities staffer Stephen Smith told the group that various obstacles make it hard for ex-cons to obtain such basics as stable housing and employment — key factors in keeping an ex-convict from returning to prison. “Employers stigmatize someone having a felony or even a misdemeanor,” said Smith. “Sometimes, the information [the person leaving prison] receives is outdated: An organization they’re told to contact doesn’t even exist. If there’s not a collaboration here, it’s not going to be effective, because we don’t know all the barriers they’re facing. They don’t know where to turn.” Buncombe County, several attendees noted, has unusually good resources for ex-convicts, but often, the very people they’re intended to help don’t know how to access them. Part of the intent of the roundtable was to bring together people from multiple agencies, so they can better coordinate their efforts. In some cases, encouraging former prisoners to start their own business can be a way to break down the employment barrier, added Smith. Shanda Jackson, who served five years in prison beginning at age 18, did just that. “I
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Options: At a June 20 re-entry roundtable, Stephen Smith of Asheville GO talks about the challenge of re-integrating ex-offenders successfully into the community. photo by Jonathan Welch
found out no one was going to hire me, so I decided I was going to do my own thing, because I’m well capable of that,” she revealed. Prison “won’t stop you from owning your own business: The resources were there.” It didn’t seem to matter to potential employers that she’d turned her life around, becoming a model prisoner while gaining job skills and education, said Jackson. “That’s not noted anywhere. The stigma was there, no matter what I did after,” she recalled, adding, “Who will see those skills? They didn’t.”
Then and now Olufemi Lewis, who’s also worked with Asheville GO, never went to prison. But she said some misdemeanors dating back to her late teens and early 20s were enough to keep potential employers from hiring her, even after she’d earned a nursing degree at A-B Tech. “They wouldn’t hire me because of something that happened seven or eight years ago,” Lewis recalled. “I only had misdemeanors, and I was still being judged. I can’t imagine how frustrating that would be for someone with a felony. Green Opportunities didn’t see it like that: They saw the skills I had and how I could give back to the community.” A lot of employers, though, aren’t aware of the incentives the state offers to hire people leaving prison, noted Wendi Bowen of the Employment Security Commission. These include tax breaks and liability insurance. “We try to reach out to employers, inform them about what’s there,” she explained. “The stigma is the biggest thing we deal with; they
think if you have a criminal record that you must be dishonest, that you must be a thief. They think you’re a danger to their other employees, whatever the type of crime. Some of it is that insurance won’t cover a former offender working for a company.” But in fact, it’s easier to end up in the prison system than many people believe, said Sylvia Farrington, who helps coordinate the JobLink program at A-B Tech. “Post 9/11, many people aren’t dropping out of school — they’re being put out of school,” she pointed out. “You pull a false alarm, you get a felony for it. These are the types of steps that are being taken. Once you’re out of school, it’s a lot easier to get into prison. It’s not just a matter of you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t just drop out of school.” JobLink, she reported, provides a list of local employers willing to hire ex-felons. Ex-offenders’ ability to find jobs is an essential part of the overall business picture, said James Lee, who works in the city of Asheville’s Office of Economic Development. “It’s an important piece: We’re creating a larger business space.” Deborah Johnson of RHA Health Services, an ex-offender who now works with inmates at the Buncombe County Jail, said she sees the problem from both sides. Summing up the problem, Johnson noted: “People see when you re-offend, but they see very little of when you do right. We have to let people know, ‘Hey, I made a mistake, I was wrong — but this is what I’m doing now, and it’s different.’” X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.
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Spiritex goes green(er) announcement by the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County. Specializing in precision-machining and fabricated parts, the Candler-based Advanced Manufacturing Solutions Inc. is investing $1.1 million in its Rutherford Road facility and bringing 36 new jobs to the area over the next three years. Up to 10 of those new jobs are slated to start this summer. Founded almost a year ago by Robby and Carolyn Johannessen, the manufacturer serves a diverse client base, including mass transit, defense, consumer packaging, aerospace, health care and the USPS. The firm currently employs 11. “We appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit of the Johannessens,” said David Gantt, chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. “Companies like Advanced Manufacturing Solutions embody the confidence and momentum that will continue to lead our county and our economy toward better days.” X Christopher George can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 140, or at cgeorge@mountainx.com.
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spun on a mountain bike, and aluminum siding and shelving all once destined for the trash bin. The cart was built by Alex Kramer, owner of Full Circle Design-Build in Green Mountain. Sanders says that the Spiritex cart was the logical step in expanding the company’s brand in Asheville without incurring the expense of opening another shop. “The city of Asheville has a great permitting program where they have multiple spots around the city. They license you a permit spot for the entire year,” reports Sanders. The company operates a store at 14 Haywood St. as well as a sister store, the M.I.A. Gallery, at 61 1/2 N. Lexington Ave. Spiritex sells a variety of T-shirts at the cart, from more offbeat prints like one of inventor Nikola Tesla with the question, “What would Tesla do?” to tourist-friendly options like one with a picture of the city’s skyline with the phrase “Kiss my Asheville.” Sanders says the cart will be out every weekend as well as every Monday, and on select days throughout the summer.
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info Last year, North Carolina State University, with help from a USDA grant, launched the Mountain Organic Research and Extension Unit in Waynesville to provide a university-led, research-andextension program that supports organic farmers in WNC. (265 Test Farm Road in Waynesville). For a virtual visit to MORE, go to ncorganic.org. Or call Emily Bernstein at 684-3562.
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Organic hotline: The Mountain Organic Research and Extension Unit helps farmers and home growers create a healthier farm and garden, says Project Coordinator Emily Bernstein. photo courtesy of vicky heatherly
want food that hasn’t been sprayed with harmful chemicals. For the growers, it’s about the soil and having a healthier farm: They want to keep farming. For MORE, it’s about improving the sustainability of farming. How many certified-organic farmers are there in Western North Carolina? The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project has a roster of 639 farms in Western North Carolina, of which 4 percent are certified and 27 percent list themselves as organic but not certified. The certification process is lengthy. We have 3.5 acres of land in Haywood County where we will conduct our research, but the land has to go through a three-year transition period before we can receive our certification. We’ll be transitioning the land by what we do and what we don’t do. Of course, we won’t use synthetics or pesticides, but then there’s what we will do. We grow cover crops, build up pollination habitats, have a crop rotation schedule and so forth. There’s a lot of documentation that goes along with the certification, not to mention the application and inspection fees. So some farmers practice organic methods without doing the certification. This works well because of community-supported agriculture and tailgate markets. If a consumer is purchasing food in a supermarket, they want the certified organic label, but if they’re buying it from their neighbor in the form of a CSA or local tailgate, they don’t need the label quite so much. So being certified-organic isn’t always necessary.
How do you determine what to focus on in your research? I spent the last year listening to the farmers to see what they need. The most interesting thing to me was their desire for a more holistic research: They want us to mimic a farm environment and not just tell them what to do for a particular problem, but discern what’s causing it. This is a little more difficult to do at a research station, because to study the disease and different approaches to it, we might actually introduce a disease, or we might keep an area very weedy to build up disease or pest pressure. So we can’t always do exactly what the grower is doing, and we’re not following the same crop rotation. But their point is a good one: Learning how to not introduce the problem to the farm is the best solution. What are you working on now? The surveys showed an interest in disease management first, then fertilization, and finally pests, insects and weeds. Currently we’re doing a weed-management study and looking at hybrid heirloom tomatoes. For the organic grower, a more disease-resistant crop and [an] understanding [of] fertilization is important. If you’re using synthetics, you know exactly how much nitrogen you’re putting on your crops. If you’re using manure, that’s harder to measure. X Cinthia Milner gardens in Leicester.
Calendar for June 29 - July 7, 2011 (pd.) KENNY’S PERENNIALS • Beautiful, homegrown, affordable plants. Over 60 varieties. $2.50 each. Visit me at the North Asheville Tailgate Market on Saturdays, 8am-noon and the Greenlife Tailgate Market on Sundays, 10am-3pm. Details: Facebook page Kenny’s Perennials. 828-280-9479. kenjack@charter.net N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Info: 6652492 or www.ncarboretum.org. • FR (7/1) - 25th anniversary event will feature geocaching, garden crafts for kids and a 5K. See website for times and a full schedule. Organic Certification • TH (6/30), 6-8pm - An organic certification workshop will be held at A-B Tech’s Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler. $10. Info: http://tinyurl.com/5vdnadv. Regional Tailgate Markets For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: 236-1282 or www.buyappalachian.org. • • WEDNESDAYS, 8-11am - Stecoah Tailgate Market, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville. —- 2-6pm Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 2-6pm - Montford Farmers Market, Asheville Chamber of Commerce parking lot. —- 2-6:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —- 2:30-6:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, behind the yellow community center on Weaverville Highway. • THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance of Mission Hospital’s Heart Center on the Memorial Campus. —- 3-6pm - Flat Rock
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Forest service warns about marijuana cultivation by Susan Andrew Most visitors to our national forests probably worry about things like getting lost or perhaps having a close encounter with a snake or bear, but a May 26 news release from the National Forests of North Carolina calls attention to another potential hazard: “While only a fraction of the National Forest System lands are affected by illegal marijuana cultivation, the Forest Service believes that the safety risks are real, and visitors and employees should be informed about them,” the release states. It goes on to list some clues that might help innocent hikers spot a growing site: • Odor: On a hot day, marijuana smells like a skunk. • Hoses or drip lines located in unusual or unexpected places. • A well-used trail where there shouldn’t be one. • People standing along roads without vehicles present, or in areas where loitering appears unusual. • Camps containing cooking and sleeping areas with food, fertilizer, weapons, garbage, etc. • Small propane bottles (used to avoid the detection of wood smoke). • Individuals armed with rifles out of hunting season. The release also emphasizes the damage marijuana cultivation can inflict on native forest
ecosystems, citing the “impact on supplies of public drinking water for hundreds of miles.” But when queried about the evidence of those impacts compared with, say, the timber program, with its well-documented impacts due to road building, stream crossings and habitat alteration, agency officials drew back from that charge. “Generally, the damage to the ecosystem would be through local impacts to soil and water,” says botanist Gary Kauffman. “And depending on the seed mix, growers could be introducing pathogens and invasive plant species into an area where they wouldn’t normally be.” But when it comes to long-term ecological impacts, there’s really no comparison. “Building a road,” notes Kauffman, involves “much more soil disturbance, whereas the soil disturbance is much more localized for an individual pot patch. For the most part, they’re fairly small.” Kauffman cites a couple of instances where water from a local stream had been diverted to a marijuana-planting area. “The first [botanical] survey I did, during my first week on the job, I found a marijuana patch,” he recalls. Since then, however, “I’ve only seen remnant sites — locations where they’ve already pulled out, leaving the pots and [irrigation] pipes and other debris.” If there’s been an obvious change in the hydrology, reclamation of such sites would involve measures to restore the soil and water, Kauffman explains.
ecocalendar Calendar for June 29 - July 7, 2011 Asheville Green Drinks A networking party that is part of the self-organizing global grassroots movement to connect communities with environmental ideas, media and action. Meets to discuss pressing green issues. Info: www.ashevillegreendrinks.com. • WEDNESDAYS - Socializing begins at 5:30pm, followed by a presentation at 6pm. Held at Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave., in downtown Asheville. ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W., in Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org. • Through (6/30) - Seeking green homes for the Green Home Tour in August. Land-of-Sky Regional Council Info: 251-6622 or www.landofsky.org. • Through MO (8/1) - The Land-of-Sky Regional Council is currently seeking nominations for the 34th annual Friends of the River awards, which “recognize individuals, private organizations, civic groups or public agencies that have made a significant contribution toward the restoration and enhancement of the French Broad River and its tributaries as a recreational, economic or cultural resource.”
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Surreptitious green: The National Forests of North Carolina recently sought to highlight the cultivation of marijuana on the public forests here, and suggests what unwitting visitors should do if they encounter a growing area. photo courtesy of the National Forests of North Carolina
Last year, the agency found a large marijuana-growing site in the Pisgah National Forest near Hot Springs, confiscating more than 30,000 plants, Public Affairs Officer Stevin Westcott reports. But such sites are rare, he says, though there has been “an expansion of this element” in the eastern U.S. And while marijuana cultivation might have some small consequences, “Folks here are not really aware of any long-term ecological effects,” Westcott confirms. “Southern forests are very resilient.” In fact, he notes, “The effects of the camping are probably more severe than the actual growing.” In one case, some growers camped in a remote area “for about four months, poaching wildlife and diverting water out of the stream; their fires got out of hand and started a wildfire, which is how they were discovered. “The reason the news release was issued,” he continues, “is that we’re trying to alert folks to the safety issue. It is something people need to be aware of” — not in heavily used places like Bent Creek, but more in outlying areas. The key issue, says Westcott, is the possibility that the growers may be armed — and they may view discovery as a threat. “We want people to be safe and to be aware of their surroundings,” he emphasizes. “Some folks question whether pot growers would harm anyone,” adds Westcott. “It’s
important for people to understand that ... it’s not necessarily a local person; increasingly, there’s been an organized element, and some of those people are armed.” X Send your environmental news to Susan Andrew, 251-1333, ext. 153, or sandrew@mountainx.com.
conflict When growers collide Most folks don’t give it much thought, but it’s no accident that the Forest Service is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (as opposed to Interior, where the National Park Service resides). Although visitors to our national forests tend to focus on recreational opportunities, the agency’s mission includes growing timber as well as hiking, camping, fishing and ecological restoration. And when valuable timber exists in ecologically sensitive or treasured recreational areas, this multiple-use agenda can lead to conflict (see “As the Globe Turns,” July 6, 2010 Xpress).
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Zoom and zip by Gabriel Walden Dunsmith The combination of a comedy-tour-onwheels and an exhilarating joyride over the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains is surely an eclectic medley. Yet LaZoom and Navitat, both local businesses, mix together well. “We believe in strengthening the fabric of our community,” says Jim Lauzon, coowner of LaZoom. He points out that Navitat shares similar visions of providing fun activities for both locals and tourists. LaZoom offers a few twists to sharing Asheville’s rich history: Guides in elaborate costumes point out landmarks as the bus rolls through downtown and north to Montford, the town’s oldest planned neighborhood. The City Tour, its most popular, sees the bus venture throughout the area, covering tales of Asheville’s trolley system and the demise of Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of famed 20th century author F. Scott Fitzgerald. LaZoom encourages its customers to grab a local brew before hopping on their brightly colored wagon of fun. The Haunted Tour unearths eerie secrets about the city as it travels around the streets at night (these tours start at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and depart from the Thirsty Monk). On the Haunted Tour, a camera is a necessity — the caravan guarantees you’ll see a ghost. The Art Tour occurs on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and offer a bit more culture and a little less hysterics. The bus spends time in the River Arts District as well as downtown and in West Asheville, inviting musical acts to join them on the bus. This tour provides an opportunity for people to buy local art. Heading over to Navitat (in nearby Barnardsville), you can shoot between branches at speeds of 35 miles per hour. The longest line is 1,100 feet, and as you fly through the sky you’re not only in the trees but above them. At some points you are more than 200 feet in the air, rocketing over valleys and hearing the wind in your ears. It’s a breathtaking way to experience the mountains. There is more than just soaring and landing on platforms, however: You hike, walk across sky bridges and rappel through the air. It is truly a cocktail of outdoor experiences. Adventures go on whether the sun is shining or the clouds are pouring. On clear days you can see all the way to the Blue Ridge Parkway. X Gabe Dunsmith lives in Asheville.
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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 June 29 - July 7, 2011 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
and culinary arts are open to children ages 8 to 18. Adults may take workshops in humanities, languages, music, practical skills and other subjects. The Visiting Artist Summer Series will feature three-day workshops on photography, drama and art. Info: www.abtech.edu.
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Sylva After Dark Art, music, refreshments and more in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-1577 or www.downtownsylva.org. • FR (7/1), 5-9pm - Sylva After Dark Evening Stroll will feature Annie’s Naturally Bakery, Heinzelmannchen Brewery and more local businesses.
Events at A-B Tech • JUNE through AUGUST - A series of classes and summer camps for children, teens and adults will be offered through Destination Exploration, including a visiting artist series. Camps in art, computers, drama
First Friday • 1st FRIDAYS - Historic Downtown Hendersonville will host First Fridays, featuring in-store events and specials. Held throughout downtown Hendersonville. Info: www. downtownhendersonville.org.
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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.
Social & SharedInterest Groups Artistic Asheville Singles Group • WEEKLY - Meeting locations vary. For single people under 25. For info join Facebook group. Buncombe Young Democrats Monthly Meeting • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Have an interest in politics? Are you a supporter of President Obama? Interested in meeting new people or community service? Come out to the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave., for one of our monthly meetings. Info: www. buncombedems.com Canary Coalition This broad-based regional grassroots clean-air advocacy movement involves all elements of the community in effecting legislative and regulatory action on the state and federal level, and is organizing large events to mobilize and display public support for clean air. Info: 6313447 or www.canarycoalition. org. • TH (6/30), 6:30-8:30pm - Annual meeting will be held at the Community Services Building, 538 Scotts Creek Road, Sylva. Events at Wall Street Coffee House • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Game night will be held at 62 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. All are welcome to enjoy old-fashioned fun. New games are played each week. Info: http://on.fb. me/e4GpE8. Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com. • SA (7/2), noon - Linux users group for those interested in open source software. First Friday Meetup • 1st FRIDAYS, 7-9:30pm - First Friday is a monthly gathering for individuals who are passionate about ending extreme poverty and injustice around the world. Topics vary monthly and feature keynote speakers, movies, discussions and Q & A sessions. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: www.first-generation.org. Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of
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needlework. The chapter is also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome. Info: 654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org. • TH (7/7), 9:30am-noon - Monthly meeting will feature holiday ornaments. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe. Open House • FR (7/1), 5-10pm - Open house at Revive, a mid-century modern antique store. Held at 178A Westwood Place. Info: www.reviveasheville.com. WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • FR (7/1) through SU (7/3), 8am-5pm - The Mountaineer Antique Auto Club will present a car show and flea market at the WNC Agricultural Center. Info: www.MountaineerAntiqueAuto Club.com. • WE (7/6) - Auto cross racing.
Seniors & Retirees 60+ Exercise Smarter (pd.) Learn better ways to exercise. Make every movement lighter, freer, easier. Personal attention, two instructors. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12:00pm. $25 or 10 for $215. 117 Furman. 225-3786. FormFitnessFunction.com Fun Bunch for Singles • This social club for 50+ singles in the WNC area meets six to seven times each month for activities like dining out, day trips, movies and more. $15 per month. Info: www.meetup. com/FunBunch4Singles, Fun4Singles@aol.com or 699-8180. Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org. • WE (6/29), 7am-1pm - A trip for seniors to the Pisgah Fish Hatchery. Meet at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $7/$6 members.
Animals Asheville Humane Society Located at 14 Forever Friend Lane (I-26 to Brevard Road exit). View photos of animals currently available for adoption online. Foster homes needed. Info: 761-2001 or www.ashevillehumane.org.
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wed Senior citizens are invited to visit the Pisgah Fish Hatchery on Wednesday, June 29. Meet at 7 a.m. at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $7/$6 members. Info: 456-2030.
Bring the kids to Family Night at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384, on Thursday,
thur June 30 at 7 p.m. Natural sounds and “native dances” will be highlighted. Free, but registration is required. Info: 298-5330.
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Enjoy all new material from The Asheville Shakesperience, Montford Park Players’ resident repertory company, beginning Friday, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater, 100 Gay St., in Asheville. Production continues through Sunday, July 3. Info: 254-5146 or montfordparkplayers.org.
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Check out classic cars and find flea market treasures at the Mountaineer Antique Auto Club’s classic car show and flea market on Saturday, July 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Held at WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher. Show begins on Friday, July 1 and runs through Sunday, July 3. Info: MountaineerAntiqueAutoClub.com.
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The Blue Ridge Artists and Crafters Association invites the public to celebrate Independence Day early at the Freedom Festival Arts and Crafts Show, an indoor event featuring more than 50 local crafters. Held at the Haywood County Fairgrounds, 758 Crabtree Road in Waynesville, on Sunday, July 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Festival begins on Saturday, July 2. Info: bracaorg.com. A number of local governments, communities and organizations will celebrate Independence
mon Day with a bang, hosting fireworks displays, parades and more on Monday, July 4. Check
out the "Festivals and Gatherings" section of the Community Calendar for times, locations and details.
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Asheville Hoops and the Asheville Downtown Association present Hoop Jam in the Park, a weekly gathering of "entertainment, exercise and instruction" at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville, on Tuesday, July 5 at 5:30 p.m. Instruction provided by Melanie MacNeil, music by George Pond. Info: on.fb.me/lYUqGg.
• Adoption fees will be waved through June 30. Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to provide affordable spay/neuter services to communities in/around Henderson County. Info: 693-5172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org. • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm - Purchase spay/ neuter vouchers at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). $25. Marshall Fire Department Rodeo • SU (7/3) & MO (7/4), 8pm - The annual Marshall Fire Department Rodeo will be held at the Madison County Fair Grounds, 258 Carolina Lane, Marshall. $10/$5 kids. Info: 649-2660. Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation The Foundation’s mission is to save healthy, adoptable animals in the Haywood County Animal Control facility. Located at 1659 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www.sargeandfriends.org or 246-9050. • SATURDAYS, 10am3pm - Adoption Days at
256B Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville. Interested in volunteering or donating to the shelter? Call: 246-9050. WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • TH (6/30) through SU (7/2) Dixieland Miniature Horse Show.
tration: 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: info@arts2people.org or www.ashevillearc.com.
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A-B Tech’s Center for Business & Technology Incubation To register for seminars: 2541921, ext. 5857 or http://abtech. edu/ce/registration/default.asp. • Through FR (7/15) Applications will be accepted for a two-day summer camp for rising sixth to eighth-grade students interested in business ownership. Camp will be held July 18 and 19 at the Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler. 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 regis-
Free Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. To register: classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com. • MONDAYS, 12:15pm - Mac OSX Basics. • TUESDAYS, 12:15pm iPhoto Basics. • WEDNESDAYS, 12:15pm - iPad Basics. • THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 12:15pm - Advanced/paid classes (see website for schedule). • SATURDAYS, 12:15pm - Protecting Your PC. • SUNDAYS, 12:15pm GarageBand.
Volunteering American Cancer Society Relay for Life Helping make cancer research possible. Info: www.relayforlife. org. • Seeking participants, volunteers and survivors to participate in upcoming events, to be held in Fletcher on July 15. Register: www.relayforlife.org/your_area. 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 is currently seeking adult mentors for bi-monthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost. Volunteers also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school programs. Council on Aging Outreach effort at area senior housing locations. Any senior citizen and/or caregiver may visit COA workers at two locations for assistance with information and services. Info: www.coabc.
org, volunteer@coabc.org or 277-8288. • Through SU (7/31) - Volunteers needed to deliver fans for the “Heat Relief Program” and/or perform lawn care and minor home repairs for aging adults. 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: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org. • Through TH (6/30) - Hands On! seeks youth volunteers, rising 5th graders and above, for the “Playologists” program. Helpmate Provides services to victims of domestic violence and their families in Buncombe County. Info: 254-2968. • Seeking volunteers to help with hotline advocacy (bilinguals needed), reception assistance, childcare, building/grounds work and fundraising. People of color encouraged to volunteer. Training required. Info: 254-2968, ext. 12 or cprice@ helpmateonline.org. Wild South Dedicated to stewarding our national forests, protecting wildlife, preserving cultural heritage sites and inspiring and empowering communities to enjoy, protect and restore the outdoors. Info: www.wildsouth. org or general@wildsouth.org. • Through FR (7/29) - Wild South is currently seeking volunteers for Bele Chere. Must be 21 or older.
Outdoors Beautiful Lake James Marina • Boat Slips • Cabin Rentals (pd.) Annual Boat Slips available, covered and uncovered. • House boat slips • Camper spot • Nightly Cabin rentals. Call us for your next Staycation! • (828) 584-0666. mountainharbourmarina.com Get Racing! (pd.) Reach 5k to Marathon goals. Training runs with completely personalized schedule and follow up. Weaver Park. • Two Groups: Sundays, 8:30am or 9:30am. • $60 for 6 weeks. (828) 225-3786. FormFitnessFunction.com Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Free and open to the public. • FR (7/1), 10am - 2.5-mile moderate hike will depart from Black Balsam Parking Area, one mile south of Graveyard Fields, MP 420. Bring sunscreen, hiking shoes and be prepared to cross streams. Info: 298-5330. Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Highway 276 N.
Programs are free, but registration is required. Info: 877-4423 or www.ncwildlife.org. • FR (7/1), 9am-3pm - Fly fishing introduction for women will cover equipment, knots, casting techniques and more. Open to ages 12 and up. Free. RV Camping Club • Small RV Camping club is seeking additional members to camp one weekend per month, March through November. Info: 369-6669 or lilnau@aol.com.
Sports Groups & Activities Transform Your Form (pd.) Run with a lightness and ease you’ve never known! Alexander Technique will give you wings on your feet! Tuesdays, 6:30pm. $100 for 6 sessions. 117 Furman. 2253786. FormFitnessFunction. com ChiRunning and ChiWalking Training Group • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm - Join ChiLiving team members at Carrier Park for an hour-long training session with a certified ChiRunning and ChiWalking instructor. This is a free opportunity to learn how to run and walk injury free and more efficiently. Info: 252-9828, Facebook.com/ChiRunning or nicole@chiliving.com. Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • MONDAYS, 10:30-11:30am & FRIDAYS, 10-11am - Low impact aerobics class. $6. Registration not required. • MONDAYS, 5:30-7pm - “Flow and Let Go” yoga class. $10. Registration not required. Jus’ Running Weekly coach-led runs. Meet at 523 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: www. jusrunning.com. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Five-mile group run, 10-11 minutes per mile. •TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Run from the store to the UNCA track for a maggot track workout. There will also be a post-workout get together at a local restaurant. •WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Eight-mile group run. •THURSDAYS, 6pm - Onehour run from the Rice Pinnacle parking lot at Bent Creek. Easy, moderate and fast levels. Kickball • Through FR (7/15) - Registration will be open for adult league kickball at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Circle, Asheville. $25.
Info: jay.nelson@buncombecounty.org or 250-4269. Pickleball • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Pickleball is like playing ping pong on a tennis court. Groups meet weekly at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville. For all ages/levels. $1 per session. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov.
Kids Celebrate America - Girl Scout Style • TU (7/5) through TH (7/7), 68:30pm - All girls entering 2nd5th grades are invited to partici-
pate in the Celebrate America Twilight Camp, featuring three evenings of fun and patriotic activities. Non-Scouts welcome. Held at the Girl Scout Program Center, 64 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville. Info: 252-4442. Cradle of Forestry Events Experience the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachians at the birthplace of scientific forestry. Located on Route 276 in Pisgah National Forest. Info: 877-3130 or www. cradleofforestry.org. • THURSDAYS, 10:30am-noon - This nature series for children ages 4-7 blends investigation and creativity. Each week a different forest-related theme is
explored to engage children in the natural world. Held rain or shine. Reservations requested. $4/$2.50 adults. Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Road in Hendersonville. There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered. Info: 891-6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm.org. • TH (7/7), 10:30am - “Grand and Me: A Hands-on History Tour with Animal Feeding” for kids and their parents or grandparents. Family Night on the Blue Ridge Parkway • TH (6/30), 7pm - Family Night on the Blue Ridge
Parkway will feature natural sounds and native dances. Held at the Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384, Asheville. Free, but registration required. Info: 298-5330.
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: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org. • WE (7/6), 10:30am-noon “Wiggle with the Worms” minicamp for rising 2-6th graders. $15/$5 members. Youth Open Mic Night
• 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Children and teens are invited to perform music, recite poetry or present other arts at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Get creative and come show off your talent. Info: http://on.fb.me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@ gmail.com.
Spirituality Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation “TM” (pd.) Inner peace, stress relief, mind-body health. TM allows you to effortlessly transcend the active mind to experience
your innermost Self – awakening your awareness to its full, unbounded potential. Clinically proven to reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD, and improve brain function. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: Meditation and brain research • How meditation techniques differ • What is enlightenment? (828) 254-4350. www. MeditationAsheville.org Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment. Guided meditations follow the Insight/Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation
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cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind. Our “sangha” (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited. • By donation. • Tuesdays, 7pm-8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks. • The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 8084444. • www.ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. Avalon Grove (pd.) Services to honor the ancient Celtic Christian holidays. Intuitive Spiritual Counseling to see your path more clearly. Workshops, artwork and books about Faeries. Call (828) 6452674 or visit avalongrove.com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Great for couples! Group uses model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book “Non-violent Communication, A Language of Life. Free. Info: 299-0538 or www.ashevilleccc. com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:15—Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners. Looking to deepen your Meditation Practice? (pd.) One hour silent meditation, followed by spiritual songs, then distribution of food offering. Instruction provided. All Free, all welcome. Near Fairview, call for directions Carla 828 299 3246, Jana 828 329 9022. www. shivabalamahayogi.com Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. (pd.) MONDAYS, 7-8pm - Meditation class with lesson and discussion of contemporary Zen living. Held at the Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road (off Merrimon Avenue). Donations encouraged. 26 Weeks - $156. Contact at (828)258-3241 or healing @billwalz.com. Open Heart Meditation (pd.) Learn easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart. • Free. 7pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 645-5950 or 296-0017. http:// www.heartsanctuary.org Biltmore Baptist Church
• SU (7/3), 9 & 11am - Worship service with guest speaker Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North will be held at Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road, Arden. Info: www.biltmorebaptist.org Daoist Meditation • TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm & SUNDAYS, 9-10:30am - Four Winds Daoist Center in Whittier will offer meditation followed by discussion. Info and directions: 788-6730 or fourwindsdaoism@yahoo.com. Integral Vision • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meditation, reading and discussion of Ken Wilber’s Principles of Evolutionary Culture. Held at Network Family Chiropractic, 218 E. Chestnut St. Info: fred.miercort@gmail. com. Kundalini Tantra • MONDAYS, 7-8:45pm - The principles and practice of Kundalini Tantra with Madhyanandi. Info and directions: madhyanandi@gmail. com. Meditate with an Indian Master • TH (7/7) & FR (7/8), 7pm - Programs include one-hour silent meditation, Indian spiritual songs and an opportunity to meet with Sri Swamiji. Shivabalayogi teaches meditation as a gift without obligation. Held Thursday at Dhyan Mandir Fairview, 70 Cedar Mountain Road, and Friday at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St., Asheville. Free. Info: 3299022, 299-3246 or www. shivabalamahayogi.com. Meditation in the Park from The People’s Ashram • SUNDAYS, 8-10am - Bring a mat or zabuton and stay for 20 minutes or two hours. Held at French Broad River Park, 508 Riverview Drive. Info: madhyanandi@gmail.com. Pendulum Practicum for Energywork • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10-11:30am - Practical class on how to use a pendulum as a guide/consultant to energy work with people, places and things. Held at 4 Eagle St., Asheville. Donations accepted. Info: 776-3786. Power of Soul • WEDNESDAYS - Learn and practice self healing through the teachings of Dr. Zhi Gang Sha, given by one of his qualified teachers. Held in West Asheville. Love offering. Info and directions: 258-9584. Presence of Heart • TH (7/7), 7-9pm - Join Jeannie Zandi and friends for an evening of exploration into living from the field of presence and love. Held at the Swannanoa Valley Friends Meetinghouse, 137 Center Ave., in Black Mountain. Info: www.jeanniezandi.com or 279-0598.
Shetaut Neter • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Learn about Shetaut Neter, an ancient philosophy and mythic spiritual culture that gave rise to ancient Egyptian civilization. Meetings feature lectures on the impact of African spirituality on the four major religions of the world, as well as the universal teachings of Shetaut Neter to promote peace and prosperity. Held at A Far Away Place, 11 Wall St. Directions: 279-8562. Transmission Meditation • SUNDAYS, 5:45-7pm - A “World Service” will be held at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St., Asheville. Free. Info: www. transmissionmeditation.org, pcope@yancey.main.nc.us or 675-8750. Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart. Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www. unitync.net. • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6pm - “Truth on Tap, a pub chat on matters spiritual and otherwise,” will be held at Thirsty Monk South, 1836 Hendersonville Road, Gerber Village. Unity Church of Asheville Unity of Asheville explores the “deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures, combined with an upbeat contemporary music program, to create a joyous and sincere worship service.” Located at 130 Shelburne Road, West Asheville. Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com. • SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual celebration service —- 12:151:30pm - “A Course in Miracles,” with Rev. Gene Conner. Visualization Meditations • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - A guided meditation will be held in Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave., Asheville. Bring a cushion and water. Free. Info: reflectionpond. com/visual-journeys.
Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings 310 ART Gallery Located at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., #310, in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 776-2716 or www.310art. com. • FR (7/1) through WE (8/31) - Encaustic paintings by seven artists. •SA (7/9), 4:30-6:30pm Opening reception. American Folk Art and Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery. Info: 281-2134 or www.amerifolk.com.
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• Through WE (7/20) - Green Fields of Summer will be on display at the Oui-Oui Gallery. Art at Eclipse Salon Located at 16 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 285-0019. • Through MO (8/15) Treasures Old and New, works by Elizabeth Henderson. Atelier 24 Lexington: A Gallery of Local Art Located at 24 Lexington Ave., Asheville. Info: www.atelier24lexington.com. • Through TH (6/30) - A Retrospective of Faces, featuring Joyce Thornburg. Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Summer hours: Mon., Wed. - Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 768-0246 or www.bellavistaart.com. • Through TH (6/30) - Small Still Lifes in soft pastel will feature works by Nicora Gangi, Nancy Varipapa and Monika Steiner. Caldwell Arts Council Located at 601 College Ave., Lenoir. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 9am5pm and Sat. by appointment. Info: 754-2486 or www. caldwellarts.com. • FR (7/1) through FR (9/30) - Works by Betsy Coogler will be on display at the Caldwell Memorial Hospital Art-in-Healing Gallery, 321 Mulberry St. SW, Lenoir. Castell Photography A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off Eagle Street in downtown Asheville. Info: 255-1188 or www.castellphotography.com. • FR (7/1) through FR (9/2) - Uncharted Territory, featuring the work of Julie Sims. •FR (7/1), 5-8pm - Opening reception. Clingman Cafe Located at 242 Clingman Ave., in the River Arts District. • Through TH (6/30) - Works by Janine Wiltshire, Laura Loercher and Leslie Dickerson will be sold to benefit LEAF. Courtyard Gallery An eclectic art and performance space located at 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District. Info: 273-3332 or www.ashevillecourtyard.com. • Through SA (7/30) - Paintings by Jarrett Leone. “Leone’s work is intended to convey a sense of inspiration, movement, transformation and pure creative energy.” Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 253-7651 or www.grovewood.com. • Through WE (11/11) - 4th Annual Sculpture for the Garden exhibit, featuring contemporary sculptures by nationally-recognized artists.
Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts Located at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee. Info: 497-3945. • Through TH (6/30) - The annual Faculty and Staff Show. • TH (7/7) through TU (8/9) - Recent work by ceramicist and glass artist Julie Fawn Boisseau. • TH (7/7), 4:30-6:30pm - Opening reception. Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located at 67 Dora’s Trail, Penland. Gallery hours: Tues.Sat., 10am–5pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.penland. org or 765-2359. • Through SU (7/10) - Letter Forms: Functional and Nonfunctional Typography. Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 6695107 or www.sevensistersgallery.com. • Through SU (8/14) Watercolors by local artist Sara LeVan. Studio Chavarria Located at 84 W. Walnut St., Unit A, in downtown Asheville. Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am8pm and Sat., 10am-7pm. Info: Info: 236-9191. • Through TH (6/30) - Recent paintings by Weaverville artist Neil Carroll.
More Art Exhibits & Openings Appalachian Pastel Society Info: www.appalachian-pastelsociety.org. • Through TU (8/2) - Studio B Custom Framing and Fine Art will host a member exhibit for the Appalachian Pastel Society. Held at 171 Weaverville Highway, Asheville. Art at Adorn Salon and Boutique • Through SU (7/31) - A photography show featuring the work of Mark Block will be on display at 58 College St., Asheville. Info: 225-8828. Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu. • Through FR (8/12) Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef will feature “crochet models of healthy coral and coral stressed by environmental threats.” Held at UNCA’s Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 1181 Broyles Road, Hendersonville. Info: www.craftcreativitydesign. org or 890-2050. 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: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org. • Through SU (9/25) - Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA. • Through SU (7/10) - An Inside View will examine “the notion of interior environments as depicted by a number of artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.” Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. • Through SU (7/31) - Works in Pastel, by Lorraine Plexico. Black Mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St., in Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm (closed Sat. during winter months). Info: 669-0930 or www.BlackMountainArts.org. • Through FR (7/29) Figurative works in 2D and 3D by Warren Wilson College art professors Bette Bates and Karen Roberson Powell. •FR (7/8), 6-8pm - Opening reception. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway, and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs. Info: 3508484, bmcmac@bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege. org. • Through SA (9/17) - The Accident of Choice, featuring the work of Jack Tworkov, painting instructor at Black Mountain College in 1952. Castell Photography A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off Eagle Street in downtown Asheville. Info: 255-1188 or www.castellphotography.com. • Through SU (7/31) - Double Vision, photography by Annie Hogan. Cradle of Forestry Events Experience the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachians at the birthplace of scientific forestry. Located on Route 276 in Pisgah National Forest. Info: 877-3130 or www. cradleofforestry.org. • FR (7/1) through MO (8/1) - En plein air paintings of Pisgah National Forest and the Cradle of Forestry made by members of area art leagues and their students will be on display. Events at First Baptist Church Located at 5 Oak St. (corner of Charlotte Street and I-240) in downtown Asheville. Info: www. fbca.net or 252-4781. • FR (7/1) through SU (7/31) - “Come experience the awe of creation” through the art of
Carol Bomer, Jeff Pittman, Cheyenne Trunnell and Colleen Webster. Grateful Steps Publishing house located at 159 S. Lexington Ave. Info: www. gratefulsteps.com or 277-0998. • Through TH (6/30) - Reunion: And the Two Shall Become One, featuring the work of Randy Siegel. Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 253-7651 or www.grovewood.com. • Through TH (12/1) - Outdoor sculpture invitational featuring contemporary sculptures by nationally-recognized artists. Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 452-0593 or www.haywoodarts.org. • Through SA (7/30) - The World Around Us, featuring international artists living and working in Haywood and Buncombe counties. •FR (7/1), 6-9pm - Opening reception. N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org. • Through TU (9/6) - Botanical Chords, photographs by Terry Ashley and The Fine Art of Wood: An International Invitational Exhibition of Woodturning, featuring works by more than 40 artists from around the world, will be on display at the Baker Exhibit Center. Odyssey Gallery Exhibits work by Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts instructors and residents. Located at 238 Clingman Ave., in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com. • Through FR (8/5), Opinionated Clay, featuring 12 Odyssey ceramics instructors. Public Art Display • Through SA (10/22) Bearfootin’, “a public art display featuring outdoor fiberglass bear sculptures decorated in different themes,” will be on display on the sidewalks of Main Street in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 233-3216. Push Skate Shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave., between Stella Blue and the Kress Building. Info: 225-5509 or www.pushtoyproject.com. • Through SU (7/10) - Neon Heathens, featuring works by Andy Herod, Jesse Reno, Michael C. Hsiung and more.
Selected Paintings by Cate Johnson • Through SU (7/31) Paintings by Cate Johnson will be on display at Pisgah Brewing Company, 150 Eastside Drive in Black Mountain. “The artist has cultivated a painterly mosaic style which gives each piece expressive movement and depth.” Info: art@pisgahbrewing.com. SemiPublic Gallery This space for contemporary art is open by appointment only. Located at 305 Hillside St., Asheville. Info: 215-8171 or SemiPublic305@gmail.com. • Through SA (8/6) - The Sum of 45: Sculpture, paintings and drawings by Donna Price on her 45th birthday. The Altamont Located at 18 Church St., downtown Asheville. Info: 2707747 or www.thealtamont.com. • Through WE (8/3) - The Ethereal Body, featuring the work of Shu Wu-Lin. Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org. • Through TH (6/30) Transylvania County: From the Past to the Present, a gallery exhibit celebrating the 150th anniversary of Transylvania County. Featuring photographs, paintings, clay, fiber and more. • Through FR (7/1), - Summer Arts Showcase featuring artwork by members of the Transylvania Art Guild. Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 859-2828 or www.upstairsartspace.org. • Through SA (7/23) - Flood and the Pump: Galleries with Attitude, featuring 35 artists from The Flood and Pump galleries.
Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events The Painting Experience (pd.) Experience the power of process painting as described in the groundbreaking book Life, Paint & Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression. August 12-14. Asheville. (888) 639-8569. www.processarts.com 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. • TH (6/30), 5-8pm - “Social Media for Artists,” with Sarah Benoit. Asheville Art Museum
freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most flagrant cases of underpaid labor ever — far worse than what you’ve had to endure in your storied career. I suggest you keep Aldrin’s story in mind during the next six months as you meditate steadily on the future of your relationship with making money. Hopefully it will help keep you in an amused and spacious and philosophical frame of mind — which is the best possible attitude to have as you scheme and dream about your financial master plan for the years ahead.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) After meditating on your astrological omens for the rest of 2011, I’ve picked out the guiding words that best suit your needs. They’re from mythologist Joseph Campbell: “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” Now here’s a corollary from Spanish poet Antonio Machado: “Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, nothing more; there is no road — you make the road by walking. Turning to look behind, you see the path you will never travel again.”
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a charismatic activist whose writing and speeches had a big impact on leftist politics in the first half of the 20th century. Unlike some of her fellow travelers, she wasn’t a dour, dogmatic proselytizer. She championed a kind of liberation that celebrated beauty and joy. “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution,” she is alleged to have told a sourpuss colleague. As you contemplate the radical transformations you might like to cultivate in your own sphere during the coming months, Gemini, I suggest you adopt a similar attitude. Make sure your uprisings include pleasurable, even humorous elements. Have some fun with your metamorphoses.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) A while back I asked my readers to propose a new name for your astrological sign. “Cancer” has a bit of a negative connotation, after all. Many people suggested “Dolphin” as a replacement, which I like. But the two ideas that most captivated my imagination were “Gateway” and “Fount.” I probably won’t be able to convince the astrological community to permanently adopt either of these uplifting designations, but I encourage you to try out them out to see how they feel. This is a good time to experiment: For the next 12 months, you will have substantial potential to embody the highest meanings of both “Gateway” and “Fount.”
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The year’s half over, Leo. Let’s talk about what you want to make happen in the next six months.
My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that it’ll be an excellent time to formulate a longterm master plan and outline in detail what you will need to carry it out. For inspiration, read this pep talk from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “An extremely effective and grounded magical practice is to identify your big dreams, the missions you really need to accomplish in this lifetime. The test of a big dream comes from asking yourself, ‘Will I remember this well on my death bed?’ If you have a big dream, you will probably find that to accomplish it will require a minimum of two hours of devoted activity per day.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “The passion to explore is at the heart of being human,” said Carl Sagan. “This impulse — to go, to see, to know — has found expression in every culture.” But Steven Dutch, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, disagrees. He says there’ve been lots of societies that have had little interest in exploration. Africans never discovered Madagascar or the Cape Verde archipelago, for example. Few Asian cultures probed far and wide. During a thousand years of history, ancient Romans ignored Russia, Scandinavia, and the Baltic, and made only minimal forays to India and China. Where do you personally fit on the scale of the human exploratory urge, Virgo? Regardless of what you’ve done in the past, I bet you’ll be on the move in the coming months. Your hunger for novelty and unfamiliarity should be waxing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the coming months, it’s likely you will experience more action than usual — some of it quite expansive — in your astrological eighth house. Traditional astrologers call this the sphere of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but I refer to it as the realm of deep connection, altered states of awareness, and lyrical interludes that educate and enrich your emotional intelligence. Are you ready to have your habit mind rewired, your certainties reworked, and your pleasures reconfigured?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I hope that in the first half of 2011 you have been doing some devoted work on tidying up the messy old karma that had been interfering with the free flow of grace into your intimate relationships. If there’s still work to be done on that noble task, throw yourself into it now. The renaissance of togetherness is due to begin soon and last for
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many months. You don’t want any lingering ignorance, self-deceit, or lack of compassion to gum it up.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In 1498, Leonardo da Vinci completed one of his masterworks, the mural known as “The Last Supper.” Nineteen years later, the paint had begun to flake off, and by 1556 Leonardo’s biographer considered the whole thing to be “ruined.” Over the centuries, further deterioration occurred, even as many experts tried to restore and repair it. The most recent reclamation project, finished in 1999, lasted more than two decades. I hope that in the coming months, Sagittarius, you will show a similar dedication to the high art of regeneration. Please work long and hard on bringing vitality back into what has fallen into decay or stagnancy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In a horoscope last year, I asked you Capricorns whether you ever obsessed on your longing to such a degree that you missed opportunities to actually satisfy your longing. In response, a reader named John G. sent me the following corrective message: “We Capricorns comprehend the futility of too much longing. We understand it can be a phantasm that gets in the way of real accomplishment. It’s like a telephone that keeps ringing somewhere but can’t be found. We don’t waste energy on dreamy feelings that may or may not be satisfied, since that energy is so much better funneled into mastering the details that will bring us useful rewards.” I’m here to tell you, Capricorn, that the coming months will be an excellent time to make use of the Capricornian capacities John G. describes.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you,” sang Bob Marley. “You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” How are you doing on that score, Aquarius? Have you been discerning in picking out allies whose value to you is so high that you’re willing to deal with their moments of unconsciousness? Have you created a family and community that bless you far more than they drain you? The next ten months will be an excellent time to concentrate on refining this part of your life.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Any minute now, you might start learning at a faster rate than you have since 2000. Any day now, you will be less bored than you have been since 2006, and any week now you will be expressing more spontaneity than you have since early 2010. Any month now, Pisces, you will find yourself able to access more of your visionary intelligence than you have since maybe 2007. What does it all mean? You may not feel an amazing, spectacular, extraordinary degree of personal unity tomorrow, but you will soon begin building toward that happy state. By December I bet you’ll be enjoying an unprecedented amount of it.
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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: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org. • TH (6/30), 6-8pm - Summer Skies raffle and party to benefit the museum’s educational programming. Free admission with raffle ticket. Cradle of Forestry Events Experience the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachians at the birthplace of scientific forestry. Located on Route 276 in Pisgah National Forest. Info: 877-3130 or www. cradleofforestry.org. • FR (7/1), 9am-1pm - Plein air artists will accept students middle school age and older. Limited spaces available. Supplies provided. Registration required. F/32 Photography Group • WE (7/6), 7-9pm - The F/32 Photography Group will meet at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Visitors, from beginners to professionals, are welcome to attend. Arrive at 6:30pm for a brief social. Info: www.f32nc.com. Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http:// tinyurl.com/6j3nxw9. • TH (7/7), 7-9pm - A class on edible forest gardens will be held at Pearson Garden, 408 Pearson Drive. N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org. • FR (7/1), SA (7/2) & SU (7/3), 10am-3pm - The Carolina Mountain Woodturners will host demonstrations to illustrate the basics of woodturning, as part of The Fine Art of Wood exhibit. Chapter members will have work for sale and will be available to answer questions. Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Classes are held at the studio, 999 W. Old Route 70, Black Mountain. Info: svfal.info@ gmail.com or www.svfal.org. • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon & 1-3pm - Art with Lorelle Bacon. All levels welcome. $15/class. Registration required.
Art/Craft Fairs 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: 227-3591 or www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu. • SA (7/2) through SU (7/3), 10am-5pm - Summertime Art and Crafts Show will be held in the Ramsey Center arena. $3. Free parking. Info: www.mountainartisans.net or 524-3405. Arts and Culture Week • Through FR (7/1) - Brevard and Transylvania County art and culture week will feature a gallery walk, street dances, music jams and a July 4th celebration. Info: www.artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787. Freedom Festival Arts & Crafts Show • SA (7/2) & SU (7/3), 9am5pm - BRACA, a local nonprofit crafters group, presents the Freedom Festival Arts & Crafts Show, an indoor event featuring more than 50 crafters. Held at 758 Crabtree Road in Waynesville. Free. Info and directions: www.bracaorg.com. Summer Jewelry Market • SATURDAYS, 9am-4pm Local jewelers will offer unique, hand-made creations. Located at the corner of Church Street and Third Avenue in downtown Hendersonville.
Spoken & Written Word Slam Camp! (pd.) With Griffin Payne, Poetry Slam Asheville; Amber Sherer, winner, 2007 Asheville Wordslam; Simon Wolf, LEAF Youth Poetry Slammaster. • 10:30am-2:30pm, June 25-July 1 (High School) • July 25-July 29 (Middle School). Magnetic Field Performance Space. • Registration/information: (828) 215-9002 or www.true-ink. com Stories for Performance (pd.) Two-week writing, acting, and storytelling camp for 3rd-5th graders at Anam Cara Collective, 203 Haywood Road. 9am-1pm, July 11-15, 18-22. Facilitated by writers Adam Wright and Simon Wolf. Registration/info: 828-2159002. www.true-ink.com Attention WNC Mystery Writers • TH (6/30), 6-8pm - The WNC Mysterians Critique Group meets at Books-a-Million, in the lounge area, Tunnel Road. For serious mystery/suspense/ thriller writers. Currently seeking new members. Info: 712-5570 or www.wncmysterians.org. Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000. • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6pm - Programs for aspiring and published writers of all genres. 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 EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 2504758) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • TU (7/5), 6-8pm - Knit-NChain for all skill levels. SS —- 7pm - Book club: The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. WV —- 7pm - Shakespeare discussion group. BM —- 7pm - Book club: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. EC • WE (7/6), 7pm - Swannanoa Library Knitters. SW —- 3pm - Book Club: The Women by T.C. Boyle. • TH (7/7), 6:30pm - Book club: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. EA Events at Battery Park Book Exchange Located at 1 Battle Square. Info: 252-0020. • TH (7/7), 7pm - Book Discussion X will read The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier. Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is located at 3 E. Jackson St., in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com. • 1st SATURDAYS, 7pm - The Liar’s Bench: Storytellng, poetry and music. Open Mic Night at The Pulp • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest will host a monthly open mic at The Pulp, located beneath The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville. $10 includes club membership. Info: http://pulpasheville.com. Poetry Hickory • 2nd TUESDAYS, 5pm - Poetry Hickory will follow Writers’ Night Out. Held at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse, 29 2nd St. NW, Hickory. Info: asowens1@yahoo.com. Poetry Slam Asheville • SU (7/3), 7:30-10:30pm - Poetry Slam Asheville celebrates freedom of speech with an Independence Slam at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St., in downtown Asheville. Champion slammer wins a $50 cash prize. $5/performers and volunteers free. Info: www. poetryslamasheville.com. Providence House • TUESDAYS, 6pm - Book Club: The Year of the Flood
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by Margaret Atwood. Held at Providence House, 1215 Oakland St., Hendersonville. Info: 697-2878. Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch Award-winning storytellers present stories for all ages at Reuter Terrace in downtown Asheville’s Pack Square Park. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Info: www. main.nc.us/asc/ or www.packsquarepark.org. • SA (7/2), 10:30-11:30am - Doug Elliott. Transylvania Writers Alliance • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - Transylvania Writers Alliance will meet at BrevardDavidson River Presbyterian Church, 300 E. Main St. Park in rear. Info: wd2999@yahoo. com. Writers Workshop Potluck • 4th FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at 387 Beaucatcher Road. Info: writersw@gmail.com.
Festivals & Gatherings Appalachian Summer Festival A month-long celebration of the arts featuring a variety of performances by internationally acclaimed artists. For a complete schedule of events and ticket prices: 262-4046 or www.appsummer.org. • FR (7/1) through SA (7/30) - The 27th season of An Appalachian Summer Festival will feature music, dance, theater, visual art and film. Named one of the “Top 20 Events in the Southeast,” this year’s festival will include appearances by Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen, K. D. Lang, Dierks Bently and more. Black Mountain Fireworks • MO (7/4), 7pm - A July 4 celebration will feature dance, food and fireworks throughout downtown. Free. Info: 419-9300. Bravard July 4th Celebration • MO (7/4), 9am-5pm - July 4th celebration will include classic cars, arts and crafts, a bike parade for kids and more. Held throughout downtown Brevard. Info: www.brevardnc.org or 884-3278. Cashiers Mountain Music Festival • SA (7/2) & SU (7/3) - The Cashiers Mountain Music Festival will feature Doc Watson, Dehlia Low, Balsam Range and more. See website for complete schedule. Held at the Cashiers Village Commons. $30/$25 in advance. Info: www.cashiersnorthcarolina.com. Events in Cherokee Info: 438-1601 or www.cherokee-nc.com. • MO (7/4), 6-10pm - Enjoy a moonlit run through downtown Cherokee at the Moonlight Race 5K. This event will coincide
with the Tribe’s Independence Day celebration and fireworks show. Race begins at the Tribal Fairgrounds. Proceeds benefit Cherokee Runners’ Summer Running Camp and the Cherokee Special Olympics. Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Info: 626-3438. • MO (7/4), 1pm - Parade, chicken dinner, cloggers, swimming and fireworks. Fireworks Hike • MO (7/4), 6:30pm - A fireworks hike, sponsored by Swannanoa Valley Museum, will depart from Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State St., Black Mountain. Bring dinner, water and a folding chair. Reservations required. $25/$15 members. Info: 669-9566. Freedom Festival • SU (7/3), 6-9:45pm Biltmore Baptist Church invites the community to a Freedom Festival featuring food vendors, inflatables and fun for all ages. The event will conclude with a professional fireworks display at 9:15pm. Free. Hendersonville Parade • MO (7/4), 11am - An Independence Day parade will be held on Main Street, Hendersonville. Info: 692-4179. Hoop Jam in the Park • TUESDAYS, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Asheville Hoops partners with the Asheville Downtown Association for entertainment, exercise and instruction at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. Instruction provided by Melanie MacNeil; music by George Pond. Free. Info: http:// on.fb.me/lYUqGg. Lake Julian Park • MO (7/4) - Fireworks begin at dusk. Held at Lake Julian Park, Overlook Road Extension, Arden. Park at Estes Elementary School, 275 OverLook Road. Info: david.blynt@buncombecounty.org or 684-0376. Montreat Parade • MO (7/4), 10:30am - The town of Montreat will host a July 4 parade throug downtown. Free. Info: 669-8002. Red, White and Bluegrass Festival • TH (6/30) through MO (7/4) - The Red, White and Bluegrass Festival will be held at Catawba Meadows Park in Morganton, featuring more than 40 acts, including Ricky Skaggs. $20 per day/$45 entire event. Info: www.redwhiteandbluegrassfestival.com. Rotary Club of Brevard The club welcomes new members and guests. Info: 883-4888 or www.brevardrotary.org. • MO (7/4), 8am - The Rotary of Brevard presents the annual July 4 Firecracker 5K and 10K. $30 for 10K, $25 for 5K. Preregistration encouraged. Held
at 299 S. Broad St. Info: www. BrevardRotary.org. Transylvania Heritage Museum Located at 189 W. Main St., Brevard. Hours: Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Donation. Info: 884-2347 or www.transylvaniaheritage.org. • MO (7/4), 10am-5pm - Old Time Fair will feature food, games and more.
Music An Appalachian Evening At the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. Performances include music and a “traditional Appalachian” dinner. $15/$5 students. Info: www.stecoahvalleycenter.com. • SA (7/2), 5 & 6:15pm - The Steel Wheels. Black Mountain Rec. & Parks Events Info: 669-2052 or www.bmrecreation.com. • TH (6/30), 7-9pm - “Park Rhythms” will feature Motownblue. Free. Held at Lake Tomahawk Park, 401 S. Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. Blue Ridge Orchestra Info: 683-4425 or www.blueridgeorchestra.org. • MO (7/4), 7:30pm - Classical concert by the Blue Ridge Orchestra, followed by fireworks. Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain. $15/$5 students. Brevard Music Center • SU (7/3), 2pm - Pendergast Family Patriot Pops concert will be held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard. $25-$15. Info: www. brevardmusic.org or 883-8344. Chubb Rock • SU (7/3), 9pm - New Yorkbased rapper Chubb Rock will preform live at the Haywood Lounge, 590 Haywood Road in West Asheville. The performance will also be filmed for a reality television series. Info and tickets: 232-4938. Concerts on the Creek Held in the pavilion at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva from 7:30-9:30pm. Sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Free. Info: (800) 962-1911 or www.mountainlovers.com. • FR (7/1) - The Elderly Brothers. Cradle of Forestry Events Experience the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachians at the birthplace of scientific forestry. Located on Route 276 in Pisgah National Forest. Info: 877-3130 or www. cradleofforestry.org. • SU (7/3), 4-5:45pm - Laura Boosinger will share music from the Southern Appalachians as part of Transylvania County’s Sesquicentennial Celebration. The concert will be held beneath
a covered outdoor amphitheatre. Picnics, chairs and blankets are welcome. In case of inclement weather, performance will be moved indoors. Homegrown in the Park • THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Enjoy local singer/songwriters at this weekly performance held at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. Free. Info: http://bit. ly/l9vfgz. Music on Main Street Live music and dancing at the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Bring a chair. No pets or alcoholic beverages allowed. Free. Info: 693-9708, 1-800-8284244 or www.historichendersonville.org • FR (7/1), 7-9pm - Sound Investment. • SU (7/3), 7:30-10pm - Concert by Tom Brown, followed by fireworks. Music on the Rock Concert Series Presented by Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Highway in Flat Rock. The concerts will span Broadway, country, bluegrass, pop and rock favorites. $20. Tickets and info: 693-0731, (866) 732-8008 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org. • Through TU (7/5) - “The Music of Motown.” Performances held Sun.-Tues. Open Mic Night • FRIDAYS, 8:30-11pm - Adults of all ages and performers of all genres are invited to play music, recite poetry or present other arts at this weekly open mic. Held at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: http:// on.fb.me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@gmail.com. Park Rhythms Concert Series Black Mountain Recreation and Parks presents this free series at Lake Tomahawk Park in Black Mountain. Food is available on site. Bring chair/blanket. Show will move into the Lakeview Center in the event of inclement weather. Info: 669-2052. • TH (7/7), 7-9pm - The Honeycutters. Pickin’ on the Porch of the Old Kentucky Home • FR (7/1), noon-2pm - This family-friendly musical event is hosted by the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site in downtown Asheville. The featured guest will be the Belfast Boys. Info: www.wolfememorial.com. Shindig on the Green A celebration of traditional and old-time string bands, bluegrass, ballad singers, big circle mountain dancers and cloggers. Held at Pack Square Park on the Bascom Lamar Lunsford stage in downtown Asheville. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free. Info: 258-6101 ext. 345 or www. folkheritage.org.
• SA (7/2), 7pm - A variety of musicians and dancers will perform. Songcatchers Music Series Performances are held at the Cradle of Forestry, Hwy. 276 in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard. $6 adults/$3 ages 415. Info: 877-3130. • SU (7/3), 6pm - Laura Boosinger. St. Matthias Musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 252-0643. • SU (7/3), 3pm - Chamber orchestra concert featuring David Foster (organ) and Stephen Klein (harpsichord). Free-will offering. Summer Music in Flat Rock Series Presented by the Flat Rock Merchants Association. The outdoor series takes place on Little Rainbow Row’s back deck. This is a casual, family-oriented, bring-your-ownlawn-chair event. Free. Info: 697-7719 or www.flatrockonline.com. • SA (7/2), 6-8pm - The Honeycutters. Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival Tuesday concerts at Warren Wilson College’s Kittredge Theatre (771-3050) and Sunday concerts at the Waynesville Performing Arts Center (452-0593). $20. Info: www.warren-wilson. edu/~chamber. • SUNDAYS through (7/17) - Five concerts will feature world-class musicians performing a variety of chamber music. Performers include The Enso String Quartet and The Jasper String Quartet. Check website for a complete schedule of events. Info: www.swannanoachambermusic.com. The Grascals • SU (7/3), 6:30pm - The Grascals will perform bluegrass at Catawba Meadows Park, 701 Sanford Drive. $20-$65. Info: 433-7469. WCU Musical Events Unless otherwise noted, performances are held at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Tickets and info: 227-2479 or http://fapac. wcu.edu. • TH (7/7), 7:30pm - The Mountain Collegium Music Workshop will perform medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary works in the recital hall of the Coulter Building.
Theater Carl Sandburg Home Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is located three
miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 25 on Little River Road. Info: 693-4178 or www.nps. gov/carl. • WEDNESDAYS through FRIDAYS until (8/5), 10:1410:45am - Rootabaga Stories presents The World of Carl Sandburg. Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 693-0731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org. • WE (6/29) through SU (7/24) - Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie. See website for show times. • Through SU (7/10) - Red, White and Tuna will be performed on Wed, Fri and Sat. Tuna Does Vegas will be performed on Thurs and Sun. See website for times. Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.-Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain. Donations accepted. Info: 2545146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org. • FR (7/1) through SU (7/3), 7:30pm - The Asheville Shakesperience. The resident repertory company with perform all new material, including scenes and sonnets. Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre Performances are held at Mars Hill College’s Owen Theatre. Tickets: 689-1239. Info: 6891384 or www.sartplays.org. • TH (6/30) through SU (7/3), 7:30-9pm - SART presents some of the best of musical theatre and opera, featuring Katherine Sandoval Taylor, Peter Tamm and Liz Aiello. $10-$15. • TH (7/7) through SU (7/10), 7:30pm - Nocturne, “a widelyacclaimed, poignant, two-character drama” by local playwright C. Robert Jones. $18/$25. 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. • TH (7/7) through SA (7/16), 7:30pm - Fix, an evening of dark plays by three local playwrights. Tryon Little Theater Performances are held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Info: 8592466, tryonlittletheater@gmail. com or www.tltinfo.org. • TH (7/7) through SU (7/10) - The Tryon Little Theatre presents Pippin, featuring actors ages 13-21. $20/$10. Info: Info: 859-2466 www.tltinfo.org.
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• TUESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Comic Disorder Theatre will present a class on improvisational comedy at Wall Street Cafe, 62 Wall St. Info and registration: www.ComicDisorder. org. Disclaimer Stand-up Lounge • WEDNESDAYS, 9-11:30pm - A weekly comedy open mic held at Athena’s, 14 College St., in downtown Asheville. Free. Info: http://on.fb.me/mgWdtL.
Film Common Light Meetingplace • FR (7/1), 7:30pm - Bringing Down a Dictator, inspired by the writings of non-violence scholar Gene Sharp, will be screened. Held at Common Light Meetinghouse, 137 Center Ave., Black Mountain. Info: jahan222@bellsouth.net or 298-9509.
Dance A Dancer’s Basic Skill (pd.) Access your body, your fellow dancers, your audience. Perform with ease. “The hallmarks of the Alexander Technique are creativity, spontaneity and adaptability to change.” 828-225-3786. FormFitnessFunction.com Anemone Dance Theater and Legacy Butoh (pd.) Premiere Yugen - an evening of butoh dance on June 23-25 and June 30 -July 2 at NC Stage Company, 7pm. Tickets: www.ncstage.org / www.anemonedance.org 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 Studio Zahiya (pd.) • Tuesday: 9-10am: Hip Hop Fitness • 6-7pm: Beginner Bellydance • 8:109:10pm: Intermediate/Advanced Bellydance • Thursday: 910am: All Levels Bellydance • 6-7pm: Bollywood and Bhangra • 8:10-9:10pm: Hip Hop. • Drop-in anytime. $12/class. • Info: (828) 242-7595 or www. lisazahiya.com Carolina Shag Dance • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-11pm A weekly dance will be held with a live DJ at Shifter’s (formerly Bosco’s), 2310 Hendersonville Road in Arden. $5. •SUNDAYS, 4-5pm - Weekly dance workshop and lessons. Free. Hendersonville Ballroom Dance Club Meets in the ballroom of the Elks Lodge, 546 N. Justice St., Hendersonville. Yearly membership is $10. Couples and
newsoftheweird Latest religious messages • Unclear on the Concept: India’s Ganges River has become famously polluted, in part by reverent Hindu pilgrims who toss clothing, statues and the cremated ashes of loved ones into it in hope of prosperous lives and holy afterlives. Lacking access to the Ganges, Hindu immigrants in New York City have turned to Jamaica Bay as a standin. The formerly quiet waters adjacent to JFK International Airport now ebb and flow with similar offerings that ultimately litter the bay’s shoreline, a federal recreation area. Hindu community leaders in New York constantly urge greater environmental sensitivity, with only mixed success. • From time to time, clever rabbis suggest ways to bypass ancient Talmudic laws restricting Jews’ behavior on the Sabbath (a day of rest). In April, Rabbi Dror Fixler, an electro-optics expert from Israel’s BarIlan University, said he could foresee a day when even driving a car might be permitted on the Sabbath. The driver would wear an encephalography helmet that could catch brain signals and transmit them to a car’s operating and steering system, removing the need for “action” on the driver’s part.
The continuing crisis • Cyberpetting: Tokyo’s Kajimoto Laboratory has created a tongue-kissing machine to enable lovers to suck face over the Internet, according to a May CNN report. At separate locations, the pair place special straws in their mouths and mimic a deep kiss, which is recorded and transmitted to each other’s straws. Researcher Nobuhiro Takahashi sees profit in “celebrity” tongue-kissing applications, but said more work is needed to establish individual taste, breathing and tongue moistness. (Another team of Japanese researchers, using a harness-type device, reported making similar advances in Internet “hugging,” with sensors that mimic lovers’ heartbeats
and even their spine’s “tingling” and stomach’s “butterflies.”) • Tacky: The Columbus, Ohio, school board accepted Principal Kimberly Jones’ resignation in May following revelations by The Columbus Dispatch that, despite earning $90,000 a year, she swore on federal forms that she made just $25,000 — so her two children would qualify for reduced-price school lunches.
Fine points of the law In a pretrial motion in a Chicago court case in May, the defense lawyer for Exotic Motors Inc., which is being sued over car repairs, complained about plaintiffs’ lawyers’ unusual decision to permit a female paralegal, described as a “large-breasted woman,” to sit at their courtroom table. Her “sole purpose” at the table, lamented defense lawyer Thomas Gooch, was “to draw the attention of the jury,” presumably in favor of the plaintiffs. Gooch later told the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin that he was concerned only with her “qualifications” to sit at the table.
Questionable judgments • The recent Memorial Day weekend was a time of reflection for the residents of New York’s Shelter Island, who were honoring a soldier from the neighborhood who’d recently been killed in Afghanistan. The local American Legion placed new, heavy-duty American flags on telephone poles along the parade route, only afterward learning that Long Island Power Authority, which owns the poles, is required by state law to charge
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an unwaivable rental fee. • Principal Terry Eisenbarth apologized to parents and children at Washington Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in May and promised to stop his ritual “whammies,” in which he summons kids on their birthdays to his office, sings “Happy Birthday” to them, and ceremonially spanks the child’s backside with a cushioned hockey stick (with the number of whacks equaling the child’s age).
Creme de la weird In May, Virginia Beach, Va., police arrested restaurateur Henry Fitzsimmons, 54, on charges of abduction and sexual assault. Five women said he beat them harshly as punishment for violating the terms of the “scholarship” he supposedly offered them as a devotee of the Spencer Plan of orderly discipline, in which contracting parties agree to adhere to certain mutually acceptable rules or face spanking. Fitzsimmons acknowledged his fascination with the plan but denied the assaults, saying he’d fired one of the women and the other four were helping her retaliate.
Least-competent gun handling (1) Former Camden, N.J., police Sgt. Jeffrey Frett pleaded guilty in May in a scheme to qualify for early retirement by arranging to be shot in the leg (which would be attributed to random street violence). The plan deteriorated, police said, when Frett’s wife, the designated shooter, missed his leg, merely ripping a hole in his uniform pants. (2) Ryan Martin, 29, and Erica Clayburn, 20, were charged with reckless endangerment in Derry Township, Pa., in April after Martin was shot in the jaw. The couple were playing a game resembling Marco Polo with a loaded handgun, with an eyes-closed Clayburn firing when Martin shouted “Gun!” (Martin was supposed to duck out of the way before Clayburn pulled the trigger.)
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singles of all ages are welcome. Info: 692-8281. • FR (7/1), 7:30-10pm - Independence Day dance. $6/$5 members. International Folk Dancing • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Circle and line dances from around the world will be hosted at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. No partner needed. Free. Info: 645-1543. Salsa Night • WEDNESDAYS, 8:30pm-midnight - Salsa night at Creatures Cafe, 81 Patton Ave. Ages 18 and up. Free. Info: 254-3636. Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 694-1406 or 681-1731. • SA (7/2), 6pm - “Red, White and Blue Dance” will be held at the Whitmire Activity Building, 301 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Info: 696-9198.
Auditions & Call to Artists Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St. (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 693-8504 or www.acofhc.org. • Through TU (8/9) Submissions for Bring Us Your Best, a juried and judged art exhibition, are currently being accepted. Area artists are invited to submit original works of art in any medium through August 9. $25/$15 for subsequent entries. Cash prizes will be awarded to three featured artists. Info: http://thelaurelofasheville.com. Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. • TU (6/28) & WE (6/29), 68pm - Auditions for Guys and Dolls will be held in the main lobby. Bloomin’ Orchard Festival • Through SA (8/20) - Bloomin’ Orchard Festival will accept arts vendors through August 20. Festival to be held on August 27 in Conover, NC. Info: www. sipesorchardhome.org or 256-5056. Christian Poets Guild • Through (6/30) - The Christian Poets Guild will accept poems of 21 lines or fewer through June 30. Info: www. freecontest.com. HATCH Asheville A mentoring festival for the creative industries featuring worldrenowned artists. There will be panels, workshops, keynote speakers, exhibits, film screenings, performances, receptions, networking parties and more. Info: www.hatchasheville.org.
• Through MO (8/1) - Submit a 20 minute film about what drives your passion. Films accepted through August 1. To submit: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/3986.
Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.-Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain. Donations accepted. Info: 2545146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org. • Through MO (7/4) - The Montford Park Players is seeking directors for Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol through July 4.
TEDxKatuah • Through TH (6/30) TEDxKatuah seeks scientists, educators, artists and storytellers to present on November 5 at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, 1 PARI Drive, Rosman. Submissions will be accepted through June 30. Info: www. tedxkatuah.com.
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how we came together 1,000 peace cranes for Judith Hallock [Editor’s note: This week, we debut a semi-regular feature on people coming together and doing nice things for each other. If you’ve got something you think fits, let us know at ae@mountainx.com. If you’ve got another idea for a title, we’d love to hear it.] Local activist Judith Hallock has worked her whole life for peace. Among her many initiatives, she helped found a free healthcare clinic in Sylva. Hallock was recently diagnosed with grade four brainstem glioma, an inoperable form of cancer. To honor his mother and her life’s work, local business owner Ty Hallock asked the community to join together and fold 1,000 paper cranes. His idea was inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki, who survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima in 1945 and folded cranes with the wish for world peace. Judith told this story to Ty when he was a child. Sasaki reached her goal with the help of her friends — and so did Judith. Over the course of two recent local events, at least 1,120 paper cranes were folded by the hands of local friends, family, peace activists and others. Judith is in awe of the support from the community: “It makes me feel like the work of peace is still going on
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in the community. This part of my life is going to be enfolded in peace, prayers and cranes for world peace,” she says. Hallock’s husband, David, describes this project as a representation of how Judith lives her life. Folding paper cranes is “a tremendous way to transform people’s energy into something tangible that she could connect with,” David says. The folding events, which took place on June 8 and June 12, were more like parties than solemn affairs, according to organizer Jennifer Saylor. “It was a color-
ful, beautiful event to see, with many hands of all ages and sizes, from child hands to the hands of elders, working quietly together to honor someone with our work,” says Saylor. Although the goal of 1,000 cranes has been reached, the public is still encouraged to get involved. Paper cranes of all sizes and colors can be mailed to 58 1/2 N. Lexington Ave. in Asheville. The effort is going strong at the “Fold a Thousand Paper Cranes for Judith Hallock” Facebook page.
Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.
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• Through MO (8/8) - The Transylvania Community Arts Council will accept two pieces of artwork per applicant for “Keep it Local WNC” through August 8. Info: tcarts@comporium.net.
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CALENDAR FOR JUNE 29 - JULY 7, 2011 Farm 2 Face 2 Face • FR (7/1), 6-10pm - Join filmmaker/director Kathrine Brooks (Real World, Osbournes) at The Madison County Arts Council, 90 S. Main St., in Marshall, as she discusses her current documentary project, Face 2 Face. The event will also feature a “vegan feast” made with food from local farmers. All DVD proceeds benefit The Trevor Project. $15 suggested donation. Info: trterrell@gmail.com, www.face2facemovie.com or http://on.fb.me/kVUywj. Firecracker 5K • MO (7/4), 8am - 18th annual Firecracker 5K to benefit The Kiwanis Club of North Buncombe. Held at RBC Centura Bank, 81 Weaver Blvd, Weaverville. $20/$25 after June 20. Info: www.northbuncombekiwanis. org. Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located at 67 Dora’s Trail, Penland. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am–5pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.penland.org or 765-2359.
• TH (7/7), 8pm - An auction of student and instructor work will be held at the Northlight Building to benefit Penland’s scholarship programs. Free. Wine Tasting for MS • TH (7/7), 7-8:30pm - The MS Community of WNC invites the public to a wine tasting at The Wine Studio of Asheville, 169 Charlotte St., featuring 5 wines and light hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds benefit the National MS Society. Info: http://on.fb.me/kKhUMC.
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edgymama Trying to find a less-toxic sunscreen Once again I’m at the beach with my kids and extended family, typing the names of all our sunscreens into Environmental Working Group’s Sunscreen Guide. I neglected to take my own advice from last summer and bought a bunch of bottles, tubes and sticks of protective lotions, potions and gels — without checking the ingredients (see “Grandma was right — Bonnets and Shirts are the Best Sun Protection,” June 23, 2010 Xpress). And most of the sunscreens in my 2011 beach bag still contain oxybenzone. This chemical is highly absorbable through the skin and has been linked to developmental and reproductive toxicity, allergies, immune system problems and endocrine disruption. The Centers for Disease Control says oxybenzone resides in the bodies of 97 percent of Americans. Alright then. Why are oxybenzone and other toxic chemicals allowed in the stuff that we slather on our bodies and those of our children in an attempt to prevent skin cancer? Well, in 1978, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would start evaluating and regulating sunscreens. But there’s been no follow-through. The most recent version of the agency’s proposed rules came out in 2007,
but those regulations have not been finalized, though some of them are due to go into effect next year. In the meantime, sunscreen makers are not required to test their sunscreens to make sure they even work as claimed. Nor are the ingredients regulated. According to EWG, six out of 10 high-SPF American sunscreens don’t even offer enough UVA protection to be sold in Europe. So caveat emptor, y’all. My kids and I spend lots of time outside, especially in the summer. I’ve had malignant melanoma, which has been directly linked to UVA exposure. So what to do? Clearly, I can’t wait another 33 years for the FDA to take action (or not). I’ve tossed out the potentially “bad” sunscreens, and I’ve ordered a bunch of the potentially “better” sunscreens, most of which contain minerals such as titanium, zinc oxide and avobenzone. These minerals offer protection against UVA and UVB radiation, but are not as likely to penetrate the skin and soak into your bloodstream. Many of the less toxic sunscreens are produced in Europe and Australia, where standards are stricter, thus these “better” sunscreens can be difficult to find around here. The Internet and two-day delivery are your friends.
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Beware: Mineral sunscreens may also contain oxybenzone or other potentially toxic nanoparticles. Read the ingredient list on each individual bottle or check the EWG website for their top-rated sunscreens at ewg.org (it’s the highfructose corn syrup story all over again). EWG re-evaluates sunscreens on a yearly basis, so the 2011 list is up-to-the-minute accurate. Just like my grandma, EWG recommends wearing hats and T-shirts when you can’t avoid sun exposure (and making your kids do so as well). Like mad dogs and Englishmen, we all should strive to stay out of the midday sun. Of course, some sun exposure is good and healthy because it’s difficult to get enough vitamin D otherwise (this vitamin is vitally important to overall health and even prevents certain cancers — and a huge number of Americans are low on vitamin D. Thus, the safest way to balance sun exposure may be to spend only short amounts of time out
in it, and cover up or seek shade if you need to be outside for long periods of time (or if, like us, you and your kids love spending as much time as possible playing in the sea). I’m pretty sure none of us could possibly have a vitamin D deficiency at the moment, but future skin cancer is more of a dicey proposition. So don’t avoid sunscreen but use the mineral-based ones and reapply well and often. At the moment, I’m sporting a band of red skin just below my belly button where I clearly missed swiping today. And my daughter has the classic white hand print on her left thigh where she slapped on sunscreen without spreading it around in her hurry to get to the beach. Oh well. We’ll just keep doing the best we can to balance fun in the sun with reasonable protection. X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.
parentingcalendar Calendar for June 29 - July 7, 2011 Creative Summer Programs for Young Writers (pd.) Experiential, active, multi-media and fun! • Elementary through high school. Downtown Asheville and River Arts District. Call True Ink: (828) 215-9002 or visit www.true-ink.com Whodunnit? A Mystery Writing Camp... (pd.) ...for young sleuths, rising 4th through rising 6th grade, at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Site, downtown Asheville. • Write a mystery and solve a mystery all in one week! With guest visit from mystery writer Mark deCastrique. • July 11-15, 9am-2:30pm. $165. (828) 215-9002 for more information. Register www.true-ink. com Mothers of Preschoolers • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 9:30-11:30am - MOPS is for all mothers of children from infancy through kindergarten. Meetings are held at the Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road in Arden. Info: 687-1111, mopsofbbc@ yahoo.com or mopsofbbc.com. Parenting Classes at Pardee Hospital
All classes are held in the orientation classroom of Pardee Hospital, 800 N. Justice St., in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required. Info: (866)-790-WELL. • TH (7/7), 10am - “Mom2Mom: A Social Network for Nursing Mothers,” with Joyce Maybin in the Pardee Hendersonville Family Health Center Medical Office Building, 709 North Justice St. Babies and children welcome. • TH (7/7), 6:30-9pm - Part one of a childbirth class will be offered for expectant parents. The program covers the labor and delivery process, relaxation, breathing patterns, birth options, positioning and comfort measures. A tour of the Pardee Women and Children’s Center is included. •TH (7/14), 6:30-9pm - Part two.
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There aren’t enough doctors, pharmacists and other clinicians to meet the needs of our region’s residents, particularly the poor, elderly and developmentally disabled, Dr. Ronald Paulus told attendees of the annual meeting of The Arc of Buncombe County on June 20. “There simply aren’t enough highly skilled medical professionals, particularly in the rural communities in our Western North Carolina region,” Paulus said. The local chapter of a national nonprofit that helps individuals and families dealing with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, The Arc of Buncombe invited Paulus, president and CEO of Mission Health System, to be the annual meeting’s keynote speaker. He provided Arc board members and other attendees with an overview of the challenges facing health-care facilities and practitioners in the area. The first physician to hold the top executive position at Mission, Paulus noted that while North Carolina has more physicians per resident than the national average, WNC has less, and it’s a challenge to get doctors and other medical professionals to the region’s rural areas and even to the Asheville metropolitan area. Where doctors train after medical school largely determines where they stay to practice medicine, Paulus explained. He touted Mission Health’s partnership with the Mountain Area Health Education Center, a local training facility that provides residency training for medical and dental school graduates, as well as continuing education for established health-care workers. In an agreement with MAHEC, Mission hires any of its primary-care residents who commit to staying in WNC. Another challenge is financial, said Paulus: Medical professionals can make more money in bigger cities and metropolitan centers. “If we moved our hospital system to ... Greenville [S.C.], Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, this health system would generate an extra $100 million per year in profit,” said Paulus. That’s money that could be reinvested in the community or could provide lower premiums for businesses, he argued. “We get paid … less for doing the exact same thing here in WNC that those other folks do in those other parts of the state.” Another challenge? Unhealthy lifestyles also plague WNC residents, according to Paulus. “As a physician, I know that the decisions we all make, each of us, when we’re at the grocery store, or at a restaurant, or when we’re at home relaxing — that also has a very significant impact on our health,” he offered. Poor diets lacking in fruits and vegetables, as well as a lack of exercise, contribute to WNC’s poor rating on overall health.
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Calling all doctors: WNC faces a shortage of physicians, pharmacists and other medical professionals, Mission Health System CEO Ron Paulus told attendees of The Arc of Buncombe County’s annual meeting on June 20. photo by Derek Sanders
Looking more broadly, Paulus mentioned that the U.S. compares poorly with other nations in “lost life expectancy,” a figure that tracks the number of years lost due to a person’s premature death. Depending on their age at death, American men lose between nine and 51 potential years of life compared with their counterparts in other wealthy nations, Paulus said. American women, meanwhile, lose between 10 and 38 years. He also addressed health-care costs, particularly spending on Medicare, a program that has “significantly improved the care for older Americans, but [which has] come with a massive — some would argue unsustainable — cost,” Paulus said. He also acknowledged the work that The Arc of Buncombe does, saying that he was excited about a $10,000 grant from the Mission Healthcare Foundation that will help set up a new health-and-wellness project. Aimed at helping adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities maintain healthy lifestyles, the project dovetails into existing community programs and is designed to help the staff of those programs assist their clients. To be administered by The Arc, such pro-
grams are effective at increasing levels of physical activity, as well as improving the nutritional habits and oral health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to studies at the University of Kansas and the University of Montana. Good oral health has been shown to correlate with good cardiac health, and it’s thought that many of the causes of heart disease begin with bacteria that form in the mouth, Paulus added. Paulus emphasized that that unhealthy lifestyle choices are a large part of why the region’s overall health ranks low and why programs such as those offered by The Arc are needed. He said, “This isn’t about doctors and hospitals. This is about each of us as individuals, and how we talk with our own families.” X Send your health-and-wellness news to mxhealth@ mountainx.com or news@mountainx.com, or call News Editor Margaret Williams at 251-1333, ext. 152. Christopher George can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 140, or at cgeorge@mountainx.com.
roundup Deal with Mission not so solid “The chairman of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners said Wednesday the board will rescind a requirement that commissioners must approve a proposed joint venture between Pardee and Mission hospitals now that Pardee has hired a CEO and entered into a managerial agreement with UNC Health Care.” — [BlueRidgeNow.com]
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N.C. bill would repeal existing state air quality standards “Existing N.C. air quality standards would be eliminated under provisions of a bill moving through the N.C. General Assembly. Environmentalists argue that the bill would eliminate provisions of health-based air quality standards in place for the past two decades, while businesses say it would reduce unneeded duplication of state and federal rules.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Chinese medicine offers new Parkinson’s treatments “Early this year, 115 people with Parkinson’s were given a combination of traditional Chinese medical herbs, including gou teng, or a placebo for 13 weeks. At the end of the study, volunteers who had taken the herbs slept better and had more fluent speech than those taking the placebo.” — [NewScientist]
Pardee Hospital names new CEO, announces UNC Health Care affiliation “After an extensive search of 150 applicants for a new chief executive officer, Pardee Hospital’s Board of Directors announced today they have selected James (Jay) Kirby II for the position of President and CEO. Pardee anticipates that he could be available to begin his new position as soon as August 1 or before.” — [Pardee Blog]
Asheville experts offer five healthier food substitutions
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“From the scrumptious sugar in those decadent cookies to the incomparable comfort of mac and cheese, there are some palate pleasers that just can’t be replaced. But as local experts point out, a few simple switcheroos can make this summer’s meals a little healthier without giving up favorite food. Consider these substitutes to make your family favorites a little healthier.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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“Some retired Asheville city employees are upset about rising healthcare premiums. An anonymous retired worker sent a letter to the mayor and council complaining about a 322 percent increase in their healthcare insurance rate. The writer says city retirees are being targeted to pay for a new wellness clinic and other new healthcare expenses like Domestic Partner Benefits.” — [WLOS]
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“Gaston County lost one of its only two rheumatologists last month, a development that left patients scrambling for new specialists and in the dark about why their doctor is no longer seeing patients.” — [Gaston Gazette]
Commentary: Take precautions for H1N1, but no need for panic “There is some good news. For one, winter is wrapping up in the Southern Hemisphere and the expected massive outbreak never developed. South America’s declining infection rate is viewed as an indicator of what we can expect in the U.S. this flu season. And two, most people who contract H1N1 recover without intensive treatment. H1N1 has not proven to be any more lethal than our typical winter influenzas which claim the lives of about 36,000 Americans annually, most often the elderly.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]
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Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • TH (7/7), 10:30-11:30am - A registered nurse will provide instruction on the correct technique for breast self-exams using silicone models. Park Ridge Hospital Park Ridge Hospital is located in Fletcher and hosts a number of free events, including cholesterol screenings, vision screenings, PSA screenings, bone density checks for women, lectures, numerous support groups and a Kid Power program. Info: 687-3947 or www.parkridgehospital.org. • TH (6/30), noon-12:30pm - “Intro to Creation Health Class.” Free. Info: 687-5290. Planning Meeting for Health Fair Expo • Through SU (7/31) - Holistic health professionals are needed to assist a family of community caregivers who organize services for those battling cancer, their families and the community. Info: www.threebaskets.org. Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/first aid for infants, children and adults; babysitter training; pet first aid; bloodborne pathogens; swimming and water safety; and lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road. To register call 258-3888, ext. 221. Info: www.redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below. Appointment and ID required. • Through TH (6/30) - “Spring to the Skies.” Stop by your local Red Cross donation center, 100 Edgewood Road, off Merrimon Avenue, to donate blood or platelets. Two presenting donors will be selected at random to receive a pair of round-trip tickets. • TH (6/30), 2-6:30pm - Blood drive. North Point Baptist Church, 119 Monticello Road, Weaverville. Info: 6582226. • 1st TUESDAYS, 12:30-1pm - The Red Cross initiative to train five million people in CPR in 2011 will be held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville. Info: 693-5605. Step Aerobics Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Enhance cardio, strength and flexibility at this step aerobics, weights and stretch class. Meets at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville. Open to all levels. Free. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov.
Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or
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wellnesscontinued otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www.adultchildren. org. • FRIDAYS, 7pm - “Inner Child” meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Info: 989-8075. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075. • MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., Asheville. 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: 800-286-1326 or www.wnc-alanon.org. • WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - Women’s Al-Anon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave., at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome. Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective • The Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective is a group of inclusive, non-judgmental people with diverse perspectives on mental health, who respect self determination, personal choice and confidentiality. Info and directions: radmadasheville@theicarusproject.net or 575-3195. Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. • SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., in Asheville. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666. GriefShare GriefShare features nationally recognized experts in grief-and-recovery support and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road in Asheville. Info: 253-7301 or michael.lee@calvaryasheville.com. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - GriefShare group meeting. Man to Man/Prostate Cancer Support • 1st TUESDAYS, 7pm - Man to Man, a prostate-cancer support group for men and caregivers, meets at American Cancer Society, 120 Executive Park in Asheville. Info: 254-6931. MemoryCaregivers Network Support for caregivers of loved ones who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s. Info: 645-9189 or 230-4143. • 1st TUESDAYS, 1:00-3pm - Meeting at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road in Fletcher. MS Community Awareness Lunch • THURSDAYS, noon-3pm - Join this “inspirational and positive” community of individuals and families affected by multiple sclerosis for lunch at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road in Asheville. This group empowers with opportunities and resources to enhance quality of life while strengthening relationships. Info: mscommunitywnc@gmail.com.
NAMI Family-to-Family Class • TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - This 12-week class for families and caregivers of individuals with a severe mental illness will be held at Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road in Asheville. The course covers major mental illnesses and self-care. Registration required. Info: 299-9596 or rohaus@charter.net. Overcomers Recovery Support Group for Ladies • TUESDAYS, 7pm - This 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: 575-2003. Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless otherwise noted. • THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group at the Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 329-1637. • THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899. • SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks and Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave., off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 6690986. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 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: 280-2213. S-Anon • WENESDAYS, 1pm - S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. Meetings held weekly in the WNC area. Call confidential voicemail or email for information: 258-5117 or wncsanon@gmail.com.
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Ready for a smoke-andfire-filled Fourth? There’s nothing quite like revving up the grill for what feels like the semi-official start of the high-summer season. There’s something primal and utterly satisfying about cooking over open flame. Food cooked outdoors, however, does not need to be limited to burgers and dogs. Stumped about how to make a gourmet meal on the grill? We talked to three local open-air cooking fanatics about their tips for this big barbecue season. Read on.
Where there’s smoke ... Mark Rosenstein is the founder of The Market Place restaurant in downtown Asheville and a major proponent of cooking with fire — he’s even built a stone wood-fired oven in his backyard. Rosenstein will lead a cooking series, “Fire and Ice,” on Sunday, July 17. Students will learn about wood grilling, how to make woodoven pizzettas and “how to drink beer with two hands.” For more information about this and other classes, visit thefrenchbroad.com. Rosenstein shares some tips: Timing your fire is always important. People either start too early or too late. The smaller the item that you’re cooking, generally the faster the fire. If you’re doing something like shrimp, you should build a faster, smaller fire. But if you’re doing
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Don’t have a grill? The Bywater (pictured) does. Located at 796 Riverside Drive, the riverfront bar will be open on the Fourth, with live music, a pillowfighting championship and a few grills on which you can toss your burgers (or seitan). Photo by Jonathan Welch
A clean, well-oiled grill is the best tool. Make sure you clean your grill after every use. That’s very simple. something like a leg of lamb or a whole chicken, you want a fire that’s had the chance to burn up and settle down and have some gray ash on the coals. Use a natural hardwood charcoal. Or, you can even chop wood up from your wood pile. A clean, well-oiled grill is the best tool. Make sure you clean your grill after every use. That’s very simple. If you have a gas-fired grill, you can take soaked wood chips (like hickory or cherry) and put them directly over the heating element for wood-smoke flavor. While you’re grilling, learn how to drink your beer with both hands. It’s a skill that must be acquired. It forces you to focus on your beer-drinking.
You can grill everything! For greens, I take the stems off, toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper and put them right on the grill. You can also take zucchini and cut it lengthwise into strips and toss them in your favorite salad dressing (not blue cheese, of course). Marinate and let that drain, then grill it at a lower heat. If you’re using charcoal or wood, wrap your potatoes or your beets in foil with a little butter or olive oil and bury them in the coals. Turn them every once in a while. Rosenstein has an idea for the perfect Fourth of July centerpiece for carnivores. Read on for a basic recipe.
RECIPES Leg-o-lamb “It’s a little messy, but it’s the most fantastic lamb I’ve ever had,” says Rosenstein. “You start out with a leg of lamb — bone in or bone out. Get gobs of rosemary — three or four dozen long sprigs. Wrap the lamb in rosemary, then tie that all together with butcher’s twine. Roast it for 35-40 minutes in a 425 degree oven. You want to leave it totally rare, just enough to infuse the lamb with that rosemary. Let it cool until you can handle it. Remove the twine and rosemary. Put on a pair of gloves, then pull the muscles apart, remove the silver-skin; season and grill to your desired temperature.” Serve it with a big, juicy red, says Rosenstein — a syrah or Barolo, for example.
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Chimichurri marinade Jason Sellers advises the home cook not to think too much about this marinade. As long as the flavors are balanced, there’s no need to get out the measuring cups, he says. Don’t add too much oil, keeping the chimi rather dry. This reduces grill flare-ups, which often impart strange and undesirable flavors to your food.
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Puree all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Add oil little by little until mixture is fully incorporated and smooth. Toss your veggies or proteins with your chimichurri in a large bowl and let marinate until ready to throw on the grill.
Squash on the side: Looking for a perfect side? Baby squash (like these pictured at the Montford tailgate market) are great grilled. Just slice lengthwise and toss with your favorite oil-based dressing or chimichurri marinade (recipe at right). Photo by Mackensy Lunsford
Jason Sellers, a vegan chef, is opening his new restaurant, Plant, later this summer. What does a vegan cook have to do with a grill? Everything, says Sellers. Smoke imparts a certain amount of umami to vegetables and vegetarian proteins, he says. “Many people don’t think about it this way,” he says, “but grill is as much a flavor as a technique.”
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Sellers has some great grill tips, whether you’re cooking an entirely meat-free menu or struggling to come up with something to feed the vegetarian in-laws: Vegetarian kebabs make perfect sides for vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. For a meat-free main dish, add a protein like seitan that’s been marinated in chimichurri (see recipe in sidebar). Substitute cremini mushrooms for the seitan if you’d like. Try threading some lightly parboiled fingerling potatoes on the skewer, along with small tomatoes, local patty-pan squash — whatever suits you. Just remember: marinate, marinate, marinate. Think outside the cap: Grilling portabellos is a common trick. However, says Sellers, we are fortunate enough to live in an area where people are growing all sorts of mushrooms in all sorts of sizes. Grilling, says Sellers, brings out a unique flavor in mushroom caps that’s not too strong. Watch the fat! Too much oil can drip into the flame, and burning oil is not the taste that you want on your vegetables. Don’t worry, says Sellers. Grilled vegetables are a no-brainer. Anyone who eschews meat will be thankful that you thought of them at all.
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Grilled goodness: Grilled corn can be eaten right on the cob or sliced off and tossed with chopped veggies and cilantro-cumin vinaigrette (recipe below).
Cooking something that you want to keep juicy on an open grill doesn’t always work to your benefit, says Meherwan Irani, the owner and executive chef of Chai Pani. “You lose so many of the juices back into the grill,” he says. “So what I’ve got at home is a piece of sheet metal that’s well-seasoned, or you can find a flat piece of cast iron that you can put on your grill. Heat it up and put your burgers on that. The juices that come out of the burgers initially are reincorporated back into the burger as it cooks. A lot of kitchen stores are now selling square pieces of cast iron to put on grills for you to cook your burgers on.” Chai Pani makes a grilled lime corn that’s a big hit on the kids’ menu, but just as popular with adults. It’s a perfect Fourth of July treat. Here’s how to do it at home: Soak husk-on corn in water then grill it for 30-35 minutes. Turn the corn occasionally. When done, peel back the husk and rub corn with a little oil or butter, salt and pepper and smoked paprika or chili powder and a squeeze of lime. Or, dip a lime wedge in the salt, pepper and paprika and rub the corn with that. Enjoy it on the cob, or cut the kernels off and make a salad with diced cucumbers, red onion, cilantro, diced tomato and crumbled tortilla chips. Dress it with Chai Pani’s signature cumin-lime dressing.
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2 cloves garlic, 1/4 cup rice vinegar, 1/4 lime juice, 1 1/2 cup light olive oil , 3/4 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp fresh ground pepper, 1/4 cup of finely chopped red onion or shallot, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, 1 1/2 tsp of ground cumin
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The building that housed the recently closed Tingles Cafe at 27 Broadway St. is undergoing a facelift, and a new restaurant will be opening in its place. Zoe Rose, slated to open this week, will feature a fast, affordable and accessible menu for lunch, dinner and brunch, says owner Derrick Todd. A recent transplant from New Orleans, Todd brings 30 years of restaurant-industry experience and has hired chef Lauren Beall, a Johnson and Wales graduate, to execute the menu, still very much a work in progress. The two were deep in menu development when Xpress visited on June 20 — just two weeks before the planned opening. “I don’t want to be a meat-and-three,” Todd says. “I don’t want to be a steakhouse. I don’t want to say I’m farm-to-table, but I don’t want to say I’m not. Because if I can, I will.” Though Todd is a bit cryptic about his concept at the moment, he is clear about his intentions to keep prices reasonable. “Price points dictate what you can and can’t do,” he says. “It will be good, honest food — and a great value for the dollar. I would definitely not classify it as upscale, but I would definitely call it high-quality. Without a doubt, we are going to bring some serious integrity to it, if I’m going to have anything to do with it.” Todd has painted the interior walls of the Broadway building in rich colors, added a counterheight wall that provides some separation between the dining room and the bar area, and added intimate lighting above the bar. He also plans to install booths, bringing a comfortable feeling to what was
once a large, high-ceilinged room. “I expect people to want to eat at the bar as much as they would eat at a table,” he says. “I want a Cheers feeling going on in here.” Todd adds that he doesn’t intend to cater to the tourist industry, and expects to feed the locals on a regular basis, which is why he wants to keep prices low. “I don’t care about the bush,” he says. “I care about what’s in my hand.” Jack and Lesley Groetsch, the former owners of Tingles Cafe, are no longer involved with the restaurant. They remain involved in Sazerac, which is located directly next door. The two businesses share a walk-in cooler.
Look here! Table serves more than fried chicken on Sundays Last week, we mentioned that downtown Asheville’s Table recently introduced fried-chicken dinners with all of the fixings for $20 a head as a Sunday evening special. We were told that the wording was a little, well ... unclear ... and some people got the impression that Table only serves chicken on Sundays. We’d like to offer some clarification. Table still features their everchanging market-driven menu of seasonal modern-American selections on Sundays (and each day except Tuesdays). Table co-chef and owner Jacob Sessoms and his crew debuted the dinners this Sunday. Sessoms says the new menu supplement has been a hit with diners. One enthusiastic diner, he says, said his dinner was “awesome and a crazy lot of food.” For more information, visit tableasheville.com or call 254-8980.
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Pink tacos? Marni Graves, pictured with her daughter, Ivy Fritsch, will sell Indian fry-bread tacos out of her truck, the Roadrunner. Her “pink tacos” were created as a fundraiser for a local nonprofit that supports women who have, or are recovering from, cancer.
Pho future? As we reported last week, the building that houses the Downtown Market at 45 S. French Broad Ave. was in foreclosure. The main tenants may get a reprieve, as their owners have made statements that the bank will be working with them to keep the leases going. The consignment businesses will have to vacate by July 13. Amazing Savings has indicated it will stay. But what will happen to Hi-Fi Coffee Bar and Pho Fusion, Asheville’s first all-Vietnamese restaurant? Xpress spoke with Tru Phan, the chef at Pho Fusion, to find out what was in store for his venture. The restaurant has been invited to stay, along with Amazing Savings and Hi-Fi, but Phan is not sure how successful the business will be when perched on the perimeter of a mostly vacant, cavernous space. “I have to wait to hear from the bank what the options are,” says Phan. If the rents are reasonable, he says, Pho Fusion will remain open where it is. If the price is too high, Pho Fusion may move elsewhere. No matter what, says Phan, he does not intend to close the restaurant for good. Tru Phan will be looking at downtown property this week in order to carefully weigh his options. “Will a Vietnamese restaurant survive in down-
town Asheville,” Phan asked Xpress? This reporter ventured that it was likely. Phan reports that he is actively seeking a new investor for his venture. His former business partner recently left the restaurant entirely in Phan’s hands.
Pink tacos and fry bread A new food truck joins the growing fleet next month: The Roadrunner, also known as Ashevile’s Pink Taco Truck. Marni Graves, a local architect — whose credits include the former Rocket Club and some pro bono work for the North Carolina Organic Bread Flour Project — is at the helm. Graves grew up in Arizona, where Native American reservations abound. She also lived in Mexico for a spell. Those regions have influenced her style of cuisine, which she describes as Southwestern with a Native American twist. Her Navajo-style tacos feature Indian fry bread shaped into big-as-your-head edible bowls that she fills with adobo chicken, green-chili pork, barbecued beef or vegetarian fillings. She’ll also turn out roasted-poblano queso and handmade tamales. Graves will also serve breakfast tacos and the dessert tacos, aka the “pink taco,” which some have speculated is suggestive. Not so, says Graves. A two-time breast cancer survivor, Graves will donate part of the sales of each pink taco to Beauty Through Cancer, an Asheville-based nonprofit that offers support to female cancer patients and survivors with an emphasis on helping women maintain a positive self-image and confidence. “I’m trying to raise awareness and help women in the community as well,” she says. Graves and her truck will be up and running this week. Follow @PinkTacoTruck on Twitter for updates on her progress, or visit the Pink Taco Truck Facebook page. X Send your food news and story ideas to food@ mountainx.com.
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Look around: It’s easy to see that WNC’s harvest season is picking up serious steam. Our tailgate markets are overflowing with fruits, veggies and herbs. Restaurants are featuring local ingredients, from beets to squash, on their menus. Grocery store shelves are dotted with more local-product signs every day. But what’s not so easy to see is just what it takes to get that produce to the markets, chefs and produce managers — and ultimately to you. Two local filmmakers and four area farmers hope to change that. Beginning in July, John and Cinnamon Kennedy — founders of the Black Mountainbased Purple States who have worked with major media outlets from the New York Times to CNN.com — will provide camera equipment and guidance to WNC farmers to film the height of their growing season. The end result will be The Farmers’ Film, a production of Purple States and the Organic Growers School. “One of our great joys is facilitating ‘selffilming’ projects; the material is always fascinating,” says Cinnamon. She imagines that what we see as we watch area farmers try to stay small and authentic, pay their bills and interact with our local economy will be outside of the scope of what most of us know. The potential for a broader perspective excites Jennifer Perkins of Looking Glass Creamery, one of the farmers who’s signed on to farm and film from July through November. Jennifer and her husband, Andy, began creating small batch, handmade goat’s and cow’s milk cheeses in 2009 and have already garnered national acclaim by kitchenware retailer Williams-Sonoma. Perkins acknowledges the road to success has quite a few bumps. “Being one of the profiled farms will give us an opportunity to bring the viewer into our
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Don’t spill the milk: Andy Perkins and William Goldberg of Looking Glass Creamery pour farm-fresh milk from nearby dairies into the vat pasteurizer. Once gently heated and then cooled to cheesemaking temperature, the transformation process begins. Photo courtesy of Looking Glass Creamery
daily operations and see the hard work, difficulties, and hurdles we face on a daily basis.” Perkins also notes that filming the creamery’s operation will provide a broader look at what it takes for small dairy farmers and processors to survive. That’s because Looking Glass Creamery isn’t your typical farm. They’re even smaller than most in WNC, with just two milking goats, and that means they’ve got to get more milk from other dairies. “We want to film the small dairy farmers we buy milk from and show the milking process to show the difficulties they face and why they do what they do,” says Perkins. Joining the Perkins’ for the filming process will be Meghan Cole of Harvest Table Farms in Old Fort; a California farmer who recently relocated to the area, she will film her first year farming here. Susan and Nick Nichols of Highlander Farm in Fairview and Jeanette Wilson and her family from Hominy Valley Farms-Land and Cattle in Candler will also get involved. “These four represent farmers ... starting their career to those thinking about retire-
ment,” says Cinnamon, who adds that they’re all allies in the trenches of our area’s local food scene. The film is currently in the preproduction phase, and the Kennedys are in talks with television and film production companies. “Just our few months of working with these amazing farmers has completely revolutionized the way John and I shop for food, think about food and eat,” Cinnamon says, noting they hope the film will do the same for viewers. They plan to make the stories into 10 segments for a late-summer broadcast through the fall. To find out more details of the film project, as well as how you can volunteer and be a part, visit farmersfilm.com. To learn more about the participating farms, visit ashevillecheese.com, foothillsfamilyfarms. org, highlanderfarm.net, and hominyvalleyfarms. com. Find Organic Growers School online at organicgrowersschool.com. Additional supporters of the project include Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP), Slow Food Asheville, Highland Brewing Company and the Black Mountain Ale House. X
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Be on the lookout for beans, which begin arriving in July, as well as tomatoes. While tomatoes become abundant later in the month, lucky shoppers who get to market early in the next couple of weeks may be able to snag some from farmers with early crops and those growing in a greenhouse. As the season heats up, also expect more special events at tailgates — from cooking demonstrations to dance performances. The third season of Kids Corner Market at Asheville City Market is going strong. The station is set up with free kids’ activities every Saturday during the summer from 9 a.m. until noon. To find a schedule of events and the locations and schedules of farmers markets throughout the region, visit asapconnections.org.
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The Farmers’ Film fundraising events: Thursday, June 30, 5-7 p.m., at Highland Brewing Company’s tasting room (highlandbrewing.com) Thursday, July 7, 6-8 p.m., at Black Mountain Ale House (669-9090) Both events offer the opportunity to see the movie trailer, meet the film’s farmers, enter to win door prizes and enjoy farm-fresh local food.
Farm to School Cooking Conference Tuesday, July 19, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Wilma M. Sherrill Center on the Campus of UNCA The conference is open to community cooks, chefs and teachers who want to participate in ASAP’s Growing Minds Farm to School Cooking Program. In dynamic workshop sessions, they’ll gain the information needed to bring successful cooking classes to students. Cost is $15 and includes a light local-foods breakfast and lunch. Preference is given to those in Buncombe and Jackson counties. For more information and to register, visit growingminds.org.
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ALL H S R A M ALLI BY This year, the Fourth of July falls on a Monday, which means there’s a whole long weekend leading up to it. More days to practice your sparkler dance, select your red, white and blue outfit and perfect your grilling technique. Once you’ve reached your personal peak of patriotic perfection, you’ll need someplace to strut your stuff — or at least gather with friends and family for a picnic and fireworks viewing. Xpress has already done the legwork, rounding up the area’s festivals, parades, concerts, cookouts, antiques fairs, car shows, 5K races, hikes, street dances and fireworks displays. All you’ve got to do is pick one (or several) and have at it.
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1-3 LY U J , NDAY U FRIDAY - S Hendersonville’s Music on Main Street series starts on Friday, July 1 at the Visitors Information Center, 201 South Main St. Fourpiece band Sound Investment launches the July Fourth weekend with ‘60s and ‘70s classics. 7-9 p.m., free. historichendersonville.org. Can’t get enough old cars? The Mountaineer Antique Auto Club Car Show & Flea Market takes place at Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher, Friday-Sunday, July 1-3. mountaineerantiqueautoclub.com.
Shindig on the Green starts up again (for its 45th season) on Saturday, July 2. This is the second year that the festival (held Saturdays through Sept. 3, 7-10 p.m.) is back at Pack Square Park’s Roger McGuire Green on the Bascom Lamar Lunsford stage. folkheritage.org/shindigonthegreen.htm. Cashiers Mountain Music Festival has only been up and running for two years, but it’s already drawing class acts like The Steep Canyon Rangers and Earl Scruggs. This year, the festival runs Saturday, July 2 and Sunday, July 3. Balsam Range headlines on Saturday; Doc Watson (accompanied by David Holt) closes the festival on Sunday — followed by a fireworks display at dark. cashiersnorthcarolina.com/cmmf. What’s more Independence Dayappropriate than a patriotic pops concert? The Brevard Music Center has just that on Sunday, July 3. It’s the Pendergast Family Patriot Pops with the Transylvania Symphonic Band and joined by Brevard Community Band. WhittingtonPfohl Auditorium, 2 p.m. $15-$35. brevardmusic.org. Downtown Asheville’s Ingles Fourth of July Celebration kicks off at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 3. Due to new safety regulation in downtown Asheville, the free event has been moved to Memorial Stadium. Bands, family activities (face painting, inflatable rides) and food vendors are on the roster. The festivities culminate with a fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. ashevillenc.gov. The Songcatchers Music Series begins its season with old-time musician Laura Boosinger. Sunday, July 3, 6 p.m. at the Cradle of Forestry. $6 adults/$3 youth. cradleofforestry. org. Music on Main Street returns on Sunday, July 3 with a special Fireworks Celebration Concert from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Visitors Information Center (201 South Main St., Hendersonville). Admission is free, bring a lawn chair. One-man-band Tom Brown — a professional entertainer since the ‘50s — performs oldies hits like “Crazy,� “Duke of Earl,� “Loco-Motion� and more. historichendersonville.org.
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Run for a good cause: The 18th annual Firecracker 5K, held in downtown Weaverville, benefits the Kiwanis Club of North Buncombe’s scholarship program for North Buncombe students planning to attend college or technical school. The race begins at RBC Centura Bank on Weaverville Boulevard at 8 a.m. Entry fee is $25, online registration available up to 48 hours prior to the race, or in person on race day. northbuncombekiwanis.org.
The Big Ivy Community Center holds a celebration beginning at noon. There’s a parade, concessions, clogging and music and swimming in the pool. The evening ends with fireworks. bigivy.org.
The Brevard Rotary Club hosts a 5K/10K Firecracker Run (the 16th annual), both of which wind through downtown Brevard. Check-in starts at 6:30 a.m. on race day; start time is 8 a.m. at 299 S. Broad St. next to the public library. Pre-register at brevardrotary.org/july-4th-firecracker-run. html. $30 for the 5K, $35 for the 10K, $20 (either race) for seniors and students under age 18.
Fireworks Highlands: View fireworks at 9:15 p.m. at Highlands Civic Center. highlandschamber.org. Hendersonville: According to its website, “Through the generous financial donations of sponsors Pepsi and Morris Broadband, Henderson County will launch an Independence Day fireworks display at sundown on Sunday, July 3.” A new downtown Hendersonville launch site replaces the July Fourth celebration held in Jackson Park. hendersoncountync.org
The annual Independence Day hike leaves from the parking lot of Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State St. at 6:30 p.m. Bring dinner, water, warm clothing and a folding chair (which will be transported for you). The hike takes 45 minutes on moderate-easy terrain to reach the peak of Sunset Mountain, where hikers can dine and watch the Black Mountain fireworks display. $15 members/$25 nonmembers. Register at 669-9566 or info@ swannanoavalleymuseum.org.
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Festivities An Old Time Fair takes place on the grounds of the Transylvania Heritage Museum, 189 W. Main St., Brevard. According to the event website there will be “hot dogs, watermelon and homemade ice cream, games for kids and kids at heart and a seat in the shade of the old chestnut tree. For a little extra fun, try your hand at writing with a quill pen in the 1861 School Room!” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Suggested donation is $5 adults/$3 children. transylvaniaheritage.org. The town of Franklin hosts a Fourth of July Parade in its historic downtown, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Later, there’s a “Fireworks & Funday” event at the Macon County Veterans Memorial Recreational Park at 3 p.m. franklin-chamber.com.
A special concert, featuring the Blue Ridge Orchestra (with Music Director Dr. Milton Crotts and mezzo-soprano Amanda Gardner-Porter) takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the White Horse Black Mountain. Musical selections include the “1812 Overture,” the finale from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, excerpts from Porgy and Bess, The Music Man and Oklahoma!. $15 adults/$5 students/$25 for front row table seating. blueridgeorchestra.org.
Montreat holds a parade, free to the public, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The town of Black Mountain follows suit with a street dance, food and family fun, beginning at 5 p.m. blackmountain.org/calendar.php. Even though Hendersonville is nonstop action leading up to the big day (an antique car show July 1-3, The Tuna Saga ongoing at Flat Rock Playhouse, art events and the Music on Main Street concert series), there’s still the downtown parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. historichendersonville.org. Waynesville’s Stars and Stripes Celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. along Main Street with music, sidewalk sales and entertainment.
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Brevard goes all out for Independence Day. The Transylvania Community Arts Council hosts its 39th annual Fine Arts and Craft Showcase; there’s a Classic Automobile Show featuring vintage vehicles from the 1920s through the 1970s. Music at the Courthouse Gazebo, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., includes Lynn Goldsmith & The Jeter Mountain Band, Stepchild and Moon Shine Babies. brevardnc.org/july-4th-celebration. Orchard at Alta Pass on the Blue Ridge Parkway invites the public to a covered dish picnic. Admission is a dish to share or $10, the Orchard provides barbecue, water, iced tea and paper goods. Bring lawn chairs and stay for live music. 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. altapassorchard.com/calendar. htm
Black Mountain: A fireworks display starts after dark. blackmountain.org/calendar.php. Lake Julian: The annual fireworks display at Lake Julian Park is back. “Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join the fun,” says a press release. “The fireworks display is one of the largest in the area and this year’s show promises to be the best yet. Fireworks start after dark but come early and enjoy your Buncombe County Park.” buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/Parks/Facilities/ Parks/LakeJulian.aspx. Brevard: Fireworks begin around 9:30 p.m. brevardnc.org/ july-4th-celebration. Cherokee: The Fourth of July Fireworks display at the Acquoni Expo Center in Cherokee is an annual event (you might want to head to Cherokee a day of two early for the Cherokee Art Market, July 1-3). Fireworks begin at dark. cherokee-nc.com.
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Shindig on the Green kicks off another season of toe-tapping wholesomeness by Hal Millard “Shindig.” It’s a fun, if peculiar word, whose etymology, even after a couple of hundred years, remains suspect and mired in speculation. It’s most likely of Scottish origin, the experts say, an alteration of “shindy” or shinty,” a hockey-like game once played by the Scots. Over time, the word has alternately come to be defined as an altercation, brawl or fracas (which would certainly jibe with its hockey-game origins), as well as a raucous and rowdy party, especially one with dancing. While etymologists may debate the word’s derivation, “shindig” has a very clear meaning in Asheville. Quite simply, it means it’s time to strap on an instrument, or your clogging shoes and finery, and head downtown for one of the city’s most popular and enduring events — Shindig on the Green. A summer staple since 1967, Shindig runs eight summer-Saturday evenings. It’s aimed not only at entertaining the masses, but also celebrating Southern Appalachian culture, music and dance, featuring professional and novice entertainers. A program of the Folk Heritage Committee, Shindig will kick off its season on Saturday, July 2 at Pack Square Park. As always, the event is free. While words and their meanings may evolve, Shindig has remained virtually unchanged for 43 years, says 84-year-old emcee and dance-caller Glenn Bannerman. Bannerman’s family of cloggers are regulars at the event each summer. The Stoney Creek Boys, as always, will serve as the house band, while mountain musicians and dancers can sign up before the event to show their stuff on the new Bascom Lamar Lunsford stage (but expect to see impromptu jam sessions all over the park). The organic nature of the event is unique, but that’s only part of what makes Shindig special, says Bannerman, who has been with the event since its inception. “It’s a preservation of mountain culture,” he says. “It’s a place where folks can continue to share that mountain culture. But it’s also a place where young people can get hooked on bluegrass and mountain music. It’s a good, safe place for them to perform and have an appreciative audience. It’s a safe haven for anybody to come.” Brooke Buckner, a Shindig performer and the director of the event, says she has been coming to Shindig since the mid 1970s. “My childhood family outings were church, mamaw’s, church, hiking off the Blue Ridge Parkway, church, Shindig on the Green, and then more church,” she says. “Shindig is homemade. Shindig is authentic. Shindig is free, and Shindig really is, simply put, ‘wholesome fun.’ This tone resonates throughout every aspect of our program.” The event is also incredibly welcoming. While Shindig often showcases some of the region’s finer musicians, anyone with a hankering to play — regardless of talent level — is invited to come jam or even sign up to
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Shindig on the Green
what:
45th season of the traditional mountain music festival
where:
Pack Square Park on Roger McGuire Green
when:
Saturday, July 2. (Also Saturday, July 9, 16 and 23, August 13, 20 and 27, and Sept. 3) 7 p.m. Free. More info at folkheritage.org.
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Hot steppin’: Get scootin’ on Saturday nights with Shindig. Photo by jerry nelson
entertain as part of the mainstage show. Peripheral players that no one has heard of — such as The Cockman Family — have wowed audiences and become renowned regulars up on the main stage. The Cockman Family literally grew up at Shindig entertaining and moving audiences with its brand of Gospel Bluegrass, says Bannerman. Buckner, in particular, recalls an Ohio teen who desperately wanted to play but who showed up a little too late to sign up for the stage show. “So here’s this 16-year-old who had only been playing for two years but he was so excited about our music and this chance to get on stage, so I just went with it,” Buckner recalls. “He came back, I told him to get his banjo out and let’s hear what he could do. I listened for about 15 seconds and said, ‘OK we’ll put you on for one number.’” “He was ecstatic,” Buckner says. “His family couldn’t believe it. Any one that enthusiastic and brave enough to play solo in front of 4,000 people has my vote. The emcee announced his name and where he was from, and he played the banjo with all his might and the crowd loved him! My hope is that the performers, the pickers, the folks who come to listen feel a sense of home, of belonging, of ownership to this amazingly unique musical tradition that we are blessed with.” X Freelance writer and former Xpress reporter Hal Millard can be reached at hlmillard@gmail.com.
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Roots and wings
Kellin Watson releases her new album, Halo of Blue
True blue: Local singer/songwriter Kellin Watson says that her new album, Halo of Blue, taps into her Appalachian roots more than ever. But don’t expect banjos and breakdowns from this pop-savvy musician. Photo by Jana Busbin
by Alli Marshall Early on Halo of Blue, the new album by local singer/songwriter Kellin Watson, a duo of songs — “Swagger” and “Control” — makes short work of showcasing Watson’s own swagger and control. At turns funky and bluesy, syncopated and lithe, neither track is what you’d expect from a relative of bluegrass legend Doc Watson. But Watson can connect the dots between ‘70s-inspired organ hits of her record and the acoustic twang of her genesis. “Even though it’s kind of got this soul thing going on, I feel like I tapped more into my Appalachian roots more than ever with this record,” she says. The album’s title track, with its sweeping waltz and pedal steel, proves her point, as does the gospel-tinged “Angels Keep Watching Over Me.” Watson says that Appalachia is most evident in the song writing approach. “Ever since I was a kid, the culture and the music was so in my face,” says Watson, who grew up in Western N.C. “I tried to go in the opposite direction and be like, ‘I’m not going to
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acknowledge any of that.’” But as she matured as an artist she realized that not only was the Appalachian sound important, it already had influenced her. From then on, it was a dance of “trying to find all those aspects of the music that had moved so many people and moved me, subconsciously. I was trying to make my way back to those roots with this record.”
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Kellin Watson
what:
Album release party for Halo of Blue
where:
Pisgah Brewing Company
when:
Saturday, July 2 (doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m., $10 advance/$12 day of show. pisgahbrewing.com)
Though Watson acknowledges that roots are a musician’s “foundation and help keep you grounded,” she’s more than her roots. As the album notes from her 2003 debut, Paper Bird said, “Kellin Watson isn’t just a girl with a guitar.” She’s a woman with an impeccable sense of phrasing and rhythm, and a dusky voice that glides through octaves with acrobatic ease. Watson really hit her stride on 2007’s No Static, turning out dance-pop tracks like “Chains of Love” that paired piquant delivery with intelligent writing. Halo builds from that laudable platform. The new record also builds on Watson’s semi-recent turn toward collaborations, pulling in guest artists like Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers, King Johnson) and Sarah and Christian Dugas (The Duhks). There’s a story there: Watson was a longtime fan of the Wood Brothers (a duo with Oliver’s brother Chris Wood of Medeski Martin and Wood). In “a weird twilight zone thing,” her parents (both musicians; father Fox Watson has toured with Bruce Cockburn and Jerry Jeff Walker) met Oliver at a Zach Brown show that they’d been invited to by the Dugases immediately after album producer Michael Bellar had approached Oliver about playing on Watson’s record. As for New York-based Bellar, who frequents Asheville with his alt-jazz group The As-Is Ensemble, he’s a Hickory, N.C., native and a North Carolina School of the Arts alum. “We know all of the same people, but we didn’t know each other,” says Watson. She opened a show in Charlotte for singer/songwriter Amos Lee; Bellar was playing keys for Lee and he introduced himself to Watson. The two played some shows together, including a Bele Chere appearance in 2010 — that performance was in support of a pre-Halo EP. Not all of Watson’s collaborations relate to her albums. Recently, she attended Bonnaroo to sing with Aaron “Woody” Wood. The timing was tricky: The festival came just a few weeks before Watson’s own CD release show. “My
instinct was, ‘There’s no way I can leave for a weekend,’” she says. “But somehow it’s been working out.” For the first part of her musical career, Watson says she put all of her energy into her own work because she was unsure of what it took to make it in the industry. “But it got kind of boring, and you can only do so much when you’re an independent artist,” she says. “It’s really up to fate.” In the past three years she’s taken on more side projects. Recent Asheville transplant Ben Lovett has called on her to do vocals for commercial work and “whatever approaches me lately, I’ve been game for anything.” When Watson and Bellar teamed up, they recorded Halo over a year and a half. They started with five tracks at Signature Sounds in Connecticut (Chris Smither and Patty Larkin have recorded there) and then, when those went well, recorded seven more tracks at a studio in New Jersey frequented by Richie Havens and Dayna Kutz. Two tracks (“Sittin’ on Top of the World” and “Rise”) plus overdubs, were done at Echo Mountain. The album was mixed and mastered by Gene Paul, son of guitar pioneer Les Paul, who’s worked with the likes of Roberta Flack and Marvin Gaye. “When you record in a bunch of places you can lose a vibe,” says Watson. “We kept it consistent.” The album took so long partly because recording is expensive. Music is “not the most profitable career, as we all know, and I was still paying off my last album,” says Watson. She received some support through a Kickstarter campaign. Finally, the album can meet its audience. Local group The Business will serve as Watson’s backing band, at her at Pisgah Brewing CD release party, and Chicago-by-way-of-WNC singer/songwriter Zach Blew returns to lend vocals. There will be other surprise performers (plan to arrive early) as well as Fourth of July-appropriate charities: Letter writing to U.S. troops and instrument collections for soldiers overseas as well as injured soldiers at home. X
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The first thing you should know about Ringo Deathstarr? They are f---ing loud. “I honestly can’t tell how loud we are,” founder and frontman Elliott Frazier says, laughing. “They’re always telling me to turn down the guitar, so I guess that’s pretty loud.” As they should be. Twenty years after shoegaze’s heyday, the Texas trio have stolen the noisy, noisy reigns from late ‘80s/early ‘90s UK pop bands like My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain. Now they’re leading the charge in a new wave of shoegaze revivalists. Walls of warbly, shimmering noise? Check. Effects-pedal boards as big as their amps? Check. Dreamy girl/guy vocal harmonies buried beneath waves of fuzzed-out distortion and guitar feedback? Looks like you’ve been reading their mail. But unlike revivalist peers like Brooklyn’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who lean toward the softer side of shoegaze, Ringo Deathstarr cuts its pop with a sharp, metal edge. Just take its critically acclaimed debut LP, 2010’s Colour Trip. An intoxicating blend of catchy, lo-fi rock and pure aural assault, Frazier and Co. come off as one part
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Ringo Deathstarr, with Wages, Glass Arcana, and Wyla
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The Emerald Lounge, 112 N. Lexington Ave.
when:
Wednesday, July 6 (9 p.m., $8. emeraldlounge.com) Watch for Xpress writer Joseph Chapman’s video with local shoegaze band Wyla.
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songwriters, one part noise sculpture artists. Sure, it’s giddily, often thunderously chaotic. But man, what a gorgeously controlled chaos it is. “When people hear the term noise, they only think of that [he mimics the sound of drone-y static], those kind of sounds,” says Frazier, who started the band in 2005. “But you can make noise out of so many different instruments and samples. We’re just trying to find new ways to use noise.” For years, the term “shoegaze” was a muchmaligned one by both musicians and rock critics. (The name itself sprung from a snarky description of the way early shoegaze bands stared down at their feet, i.e., pedal boards, during live shows.) But for the new crop of shoegaze bands, it’s a term — and an influence — they openly embrace. “It was kind of the thing that tied all the music I liked together,” Frazier says about hearing My Bloody Valentine for the first time. “That’s why I started this band, to sound like that. Just to do it for fun. The only other way to satisfy my needs would be to see My Bloody Valentine everyday of my life, which obviously wasn’t going to happen.” Of course, the members of Ringo Deathstarr don’t embrace everything about their idols. “We don’t just stand around on stage,” Frazier says, laughing. “And we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We like to have a good time and
party.” Not surprisingly, Asheville has got its own local shoegaze scene brewing. For years there have been bands around town dipping into the sound, and recently it’s really started to ferment. Take the new “Straight Gaze” show (Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m.) on Asheville FM, which plays “music for people who wear big striped shirts.” Then there’s Asheville Shoegaze, the Facebook page created a few months back by local promoter Ashe Ruppe. He started it to help band together a local shoegaze scene, as well as bring in out-oftown noise-gazers like Ringo Deathstarr. “I think the scene is slowly growing,” says Ruppe, whose band, Glass Arcana, will be opening the Ringo Deathstarr show alongside local shoegazers Wages and Wyla. “I love the fact that there are so many things starting to happen in Asheville around this type of music. This is a great art city, and it needs a more diverse music scene. That is most certainly happening as we speak.” Ruppe says his main focus is to make Asheville a “destination for this type of music.” Which might not be as crazy as it sounds. We’ve already got “Beer City USA” under our belt. So why not Shoegaze City? Bring on the noise. X Miles Britton is an Asheville-based freelance writer.
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Growing up in Columbia, S.C., Caughman’s parents weaned the budding beer crafter on everything from the Allman Brothers and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to The Beatles and Black Sabbath. In high school, he had to sneak away to piano lessons after football practice “for fear of being bullied by a choice few.� He bought his first guitar at age 20. For years afterward he nerded out on jazz and played in a slew of bands of all musical genres — though today he admits he’s lucky to squeeze in just a few minutes of jam time. So it’s no surprise that when he opened his brewery in 2005, he quickly melded his passion for live music with his love for great beer. Last fall he even built a big, new outdoor stage, which has or will host such big-name acts as Steel Pulse, Galactic, and Dark Star Orchestra. Yep, leave it to Caughman to make summer taste as good as it sounds.
Hey Jason Caughman, what’s your spin? Listening to now: Right now!? Just hit Bobby Brown on Pandora. Now Dynasty radio. Gotta have the funk for a work day. Wait, pretty much the funk, any time! Most recent album/song bought: The most recent was De-Loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta. Wow! Great cloudy day, commute music. On in the car nonstop for the last week. And I bought the first side of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John recently. Classic. First album ever bought: The first I personally bought
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was Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. But the first I’ve always believed to be my first were Christmas ‘84 stocking stuffers. Van Halen 1984 and Prince Purple Rain. Pretty adult lyrics for an 8-year-old. Still have the Purple Rain tape. Most recent concert attended: Phish in Atlanta. First concert ever attended: The first concert I remember was Willie Nelson at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, S.C., in 1981. I attended a Beach Boys show as a toddler in Charlotte. Then it was ‘80s pop and Hair Band Mania until the ‘90s. MĂśtley CrĂźe, Guns N’ Roses, Cinderella, etc. I was all over it. Seventh grade: black MĂśtley CrĂźe shirt (Kickstart My Heart), spike mullet, airbrushed jean jacket, braces and heavy-metal magazines!
Favorite local/regional act: Asheville Horns. Funkin’ it up. Space Capone if regional includes Nashville ... Can’t forget about Elder John Hayes at 100.7 WRES. Shout out! That’s where it’s at! 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday. If I’m listening to radio ... this is the station 9 out of 10. Magic. Favorite band/artist of all time: Almost impossible. That changes a lot. I probably have a top five (or six). Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, Phish, Paul McCartney, Steel Pulse. For varied reasons, from live performance to studio work to sheer influence. Guilty pleasures: Anything from the skating-rink era and disco. Supertramp/Alan Parsons/ Wings-type ‘70s rock, my kind of classic country (‘75-‘90), 2Pac, Blind Melon, Teddy Pendergrass. I love ‘80s music. So what? I’m never really guilty about music. Just not too much acoustic.
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Yugen: An evening of Butoh dance When Sara Baird, artistic director of Anemone Dance Theater (recently relocated from New York City to Asheville) teamed up with Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of local company Legacy Butoh, the result was Yugen. Butoh originated in Japan after WWII and “uses the body brazenly to attain personal, social or political transformations.” Yugen includes performers John Crutchfield, Jenni Cockrell and Julia Taylor with musicians Chandra Shukla, Elisa Faires and Kimathi Moore. Thursday-Saturday, June 30-July 2 at NC Stage. 7 p.m. pre-show on Stage Lane, curtain at 7:30 p.m. $15. ashevillebutoh.com.
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Held in Blue Spiral 1’s lower level, group show Storyline opens on Thursday, June 30 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. It’s a collection of “Narrative and contemporary paintings and drawings on paper which often feature elements of text,” and showcases six regional artists: Phil Blank (who has illustrated the cover of Xpress), Taiyo la Paix, Kreh Mellick, Roger Palmer, Gabriel Shaffer and Jessica C. White. The exhibit remains on display through Friday, Sept. 30. bluespiral1.com.
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Zansa “Zansa” is a street word from the Ivory Coast meaning “a blend” and newly formed Asheville-based electric West African ensemble Zansa (featuring members of Afromotive) is just that. The group mixes modern and traditional styles, African and American sounds, folk and Afropop, rock and reggae. Adama Dembele, a 33rd-generation djembe player from the Ivory Coast leads the group. Zansa performs at Hole n’ da Wall (44 S. Market St., Asheville) on Wednesday, June 29, 9:30 p.m. Donations accepted. facebook. com/zansamusic.
Belfast Boys The summer-long Pickin’ on the Porch series at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial is already underway. (Through October, musical acts perform on the porch of the Old Kentucky Home, the boarding house where native author Thomas Wolfe spent much of his boyhood.) On Friday, July 1, Irish music duo The Belfast Boys (percussionist/bodhran player Alyn Mearns and mandolist/singer/poet Adrian Rice, both originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland) play selections inspired by the likes of Planxty and the Chieftains. Noon-2 p.m., free. wolfememorial.com.
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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., June 29 5 Walnut Wine Bar
Open mic, 9pm
Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
High Gravity Jazz Trio (jazz, soul) Open mic
Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Handlebar
J. J. Grey & Mofro (blues, rock) w/ Taylor Moore Band Haywood Lounge
Black Mountain Ale House
Open mic, 8-11pm
David Earl & friends (Americana)
Heather Masterton & the Swing Station Band, 8pm
Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar
Clingman Cafe
Orange Peel
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
Craggie Brewing Company
Pack’s Tavern
TallGary’s Cantina
Creatures Cafe
Pisgah Brewing Company
The Get Down
Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Purple Onion Cafe
The Magnetic Field
Emerald Lounge
Red Room
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Firestorm Cafe and Books
Vanuatu Kava Bar
French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Hole-N-Da-Wall
ADD/C, Zippers to Nowhere, Street Eaters (garage, punk) & Common Visions
Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)
The John Barry Conception (indie, folk, experimental)
Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm
Max Melner Orchestra
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Gene Peyroux & His Team of Highly Trained Professionals (rock, funk, soul)
Westville Pub
Live bluegrass
Dave Desmelik Trio (Americana)
Good Stuff
Kon Tiki (reggae), 5-7pm
Jus One More
Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic, rock)
Open mic, 6-9pm
Chris Wilhelm (folk, rock)
Vincenzo’s Bistro
Wedge Brewing Co.
Old-time jam, 6pm
Last Band Standing: Road to Bele Chere ‘11
Nitrograss (bluegrass) w/ Nate Spencer Trio
The Honeycutters (Americana, blues, country)
Open mic
Zansa (afropop, afrobeat)
Angelo Santa Maria (folk, acoustic)
“Hip-hop for peace & Christ”
DJ Capital
Open mic
Olive or Twist
BoBo Gallery
Open mic/jam, 7pm
Good Stuff
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
John Wilkes Booth & the Black Tooth (folk, rock) w/ The Big Hungry and Luke Puke
Open mic, 7-10pm
French Broad Chocolate Lounge
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Ellen Trnka (singer/songwriter)
Open mic w/ Brian Keith
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Bluegrass jam, 7pm
Peace Jones (funk, jazz, rock)
Blue Note Grille
PULP
Creatures Cafe
Athena’s Club
Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk, roots)
The Firecracker Jazz Band, 7pm
Deep Chatham EP release party
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe
Olive or Twist
Craggie Brewing Company
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm
Alien Music Club (jazz jam)
Common Foundation (ska)
Anthony Brown
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm
Barley’s Taproom
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
BoBo Gallery
Benavides Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm
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Blue Note Grille
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Horizons at Grove Park Inn
The Ragged Orchids (alternative, Americana, folk) Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto Red Step Artworks
Open mic
Scandals Nightclub
Local DJ Exposure feat: Lonewolf & G Crystal Shifter’s
Open jam
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro
Aaron LaFalce (piano) Westville Pub
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Jeff Santiago Y Los Gatos Negros
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Jeff Santiago (acoustic, indie, rock) w/ Los Gatos Negros
Athena’s Club
Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Barley’s Taproom
The Chickasaw Mudd Puppies (roots) Black Mountain Ale House
Caribbean Cowboys (classic rock, tropical) Blue Note Grille
Taylor Moore (singer/songwriter) Clingman Cafe
Stephen Shealy (Americana, singer/songwriter) Craggie Brewing Company
Bearded Folk (one-man band) w/ Sarah McCoy (folk) Creatures Cafe
Holland’s Grille
Twisted Trail (country, rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub
Jackomo (“Cajun dance party�) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Back stage: Kovacs & the Polar Bear (indie, rock, folk) w/ Madeline & Madre Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Savannah Shoulders (alternative, rock) Olive or Twist
Live jazz or swing One Stop Bar
Ben Hall (country/western guitar) Pack’s Tavern
Bringing Balance
Athena’s Club
Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Black Mountain Ale House
Kyle Frazier, 3-5pm Hackbirds, 8pm-midnight Blue Note Grille Clingman Cafe
Marshall Ballew (folk, rock, blues) Craggie Brewing Company
James Stinnett (Americana), 6-8pm Serious Clark (folk rock, fusion), 8-10pm Bellydance party w/ Lisa Zahiya (live music, open dancing) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
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Fred’s Speakeasy
Emerald Lounge
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
Josh Blake’s Hometown Party
Mac Comer (funky folk)
Firestorm Cafe and Books
Root Bar No. 1
Jim Seem & Melissa Hyman (acoustic, R&B)
The Kelly Jo Connect (pop, rock, soul)
Fred’s Speakeasy
The Chop House
Fred’s Speakeasy South
Thirsty Monk South
Live jazz, 6-10pm
Dubstruck
DJ Dizzy dance party
French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (alt-country, blues, rock) Garage at Biltmore
Kri w/ Zenssie, PoiZen, ARune & Psykoanarchy Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Hannah Flanagan’s
Ivan the Terribles (rock, experimental) Highland Brewing Company
Gene Peyroux & His Team of Highly Trained Professionals (rock, funk, soul) Vanuatu Kava Bar
The Suess Effect
Fred’s Speakeasy South
DJ Dizzy dance party
Woody Pines (blues, ragtime, roots)
French Broad Chocolate Lounge
Alex Krug (Americana, roots) Garage at Biltmore
As Sick As Us (metal) w/ Labyrinthe & Dreaming in Color Good Stuff
Vincenzo’s Bistro
Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm
White Horse
Malcolm Holcombe (Americana, folk) Wild Wing Cafe
Liam McKay (singer/songwriter) Grove Park Inn Great Hall
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SUNDAY - JULY 3
Sierra Nevada Pint Night & Homebrew Kits Giveaway!
Pack’s Patio BEST seat in town to watch the FIREWORKS!!! Micah Hanks
Scott Raines & JeffAnders [acoustic / rock / jam]
[acoustic / jam]
Hannah Flanagan’s
Julia Ann Trio
Highland Brewing Company
Country Fried Fridays w/ Sunny Ledfurd
Bayou Diesel (cajun, zydeco)
Sat., July 2
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm
Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Filets & Ribeyes Wild Caught Salmon • Shrimp & Crab Au Gratin Great Burgers Creative Hot Sandwiches Lunch Specials Everyday from $6.99
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French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam) Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)
DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK
Dobra Tea Room
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Dance party w/ DJ D-Day
SUNDAY BRUNCH 11AM - 2PM
Ten Toe Turbo
Laura Michaels
Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Fine Food • Over 30 Brews on Tap Large Comfy Outdoor Patio Sports Room • 110� Projector Live Music... No Cover • Event Space
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DJ Moto
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All American Hot Dog Menu! FRI. Ju Ly 1
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Aaron Price 1pm | Piano
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Jake Hollifield Piano | 9pm
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Dave Turner 9pm
Open 7 Days... 11am - Late FREE Parking weekdays after 5pm & all weekend (behind us on Marjorie St.)
20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 • PacksTavern.com Off Biltmore Ave. in the new Pack Square Park.
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Hotel Indigo
Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist�), 7-10pm
Now Open at Noon Fri, Sat & Sun
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Peggy & the Swing Daddies (Western jazz, Texas swing) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Back stage: Col. Bruce Hampton (jam, jazz, Southern rock) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Heritage Band (pop, reggae, funk, soul) w/ Kinjah Olive or Twist
The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm Pack’s Tavern
DJ Moto
Pisgah Brewing Company
Kellin Watson (folk rock, pop, soul) CD release
3pm-2am everyday pinball, foosball, ping-pong & a kickass jukebox kitchen open until late
Purple Onion Cafe
Blue Line Highway (acoustic, jam, rock) Red Room
Scratch-Tastical Saturdays w/ live DJ
504 Haywood Rd. West Asheville • 828-255-1109 “It’s bigger than it looks!â€?
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
The Rose Familiar (rock) Root Bar No. 1
Mountain Feist (bluegrass) The Chop House
Live jazz, 6-10pm
The Get Down
Ryan Sheffield welcome home show w/ Matt Evans, The Credentials & Krucial Fiction The Magnetic Field
Reasonably Priced Babies (comedy) The Recovery Room
Live music
FRIDAY 7/1
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CAJUN DANCE PARTY BAND FEAT. AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARD TOM PITTMAN
SATURDAY 7/2
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SUNDAY 7/3
RED, WHITE & BLUEGRASS
Red June (roots) w/ Mike Compton & Joe Newberry Wild Wing Cafe
Wrong Way (Sublime tribute)
Sun., July 3 Jack Wolf & friends (“smooth jazz�), 7-9pm Barley’s Taproom Emerald Lounge
PACO SHIPP, TAYLOR MARTIN, AARON BURDETT & LAURA MICHAELS
Fred’s Speakeasy
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with DJ Brett Rock
SATURDAY 7/9
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Deli Hours: Wed-Sat 11am-5pm Club & Deli Hours: Wed-Sun 10pm-2am
Sunshine Anderson with Mr. Cheeks Lion Cub (indie, rock)
Haywood Lounge
Chubb Rock (hip-hop) Hotel Indigo
Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist�), 7-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub
Sons of Ralph (bluegrass)
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Luella’s Bar-B-Que
Jon Corbin (of Firecracker Jazz Band), 1-3pm Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
John Emil (slide guitar)
590 Haywood Rd. West Asheville, NC • 828.232.4938
Pack’s Tavern
Micah Hanks (bluegrass, rock)
GRANDMA PRESENTS CO-HEADLINERS...
JIMBO MATHUS (Founded The Squirrel Nut Zippers)
w/ THE TRI-STATE COALITION
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White Horse
The Consultants of Swing (jazz, swing)
FRIDAY 7/8
CHUBB ROCK
Deja Fuze (fusion, progressive, rock)
TUESDAY 7/5
SINGER SONGWRITER IN THE ROUND 7-9PM FEAT:
Hip Hop Artist
Westville Pub
5 Walnut Wine Bar
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Sunday, July 3 at 9 pm
Marc Keller
DEXTER ROMWEBER DUO (Former Flat Duo Jets Frontman) w/ PINCHE GRINGO (The One Man Band)
@ THE GREY EAGLE FRIDAY, JULY 8TH All Ages $10 Adv. $12 Day of Show / Tickets Available @ thegreyeagle.com, Orbit DVD & Harvest Records 185 Clingman Ave, Ashevile, NC 828-232-5800
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The Bywater
“Miriam Allen’s Garden Party Music,� 5-8pm The Recovery Room
Live DJ
Village Wayside Bar and Grille
The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo) Vincenzo’s Bistro
Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Wild Wing Cafe
Party on the patio
Mon., July 4 5 Walnut Wine Bar
No Jacket Required (covers), 8-10pm Altamont Brewing Company
Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon Emerald Lounge
Snake Oil Medicine Show (bluegrass, zydeco) Hole-N-Da-Wall
Cipher circle, 10pm
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
clubdirectory 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 All Stars Sports Bar & Grill 684-5116 Altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Athena’s Club 252-2456 Avenue M 350-8181 Barley’s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 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 The Bywater 232-6967 Clingman Cafe 253-2177 Club Hairspray 258-2027 The Chop House 253-1852 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Creature’s Cafe 254-3636 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 Dirty South Lounge 251-1777
The Dripolator 398-0209 Dobra Tea Room 575-2424 Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy 281-0920 Fred’s Speakeasy South 684-2646 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The 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 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Haywood Lounge 232-4938 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370
clubland@mountainx.com
Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 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 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Northside Bar and Grill 254-2349 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 One Stop Bar 236-2424 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179
Front stage: Mariachi band
Corbin & Bones (jazz, swing), 8-10pm
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Altamont Brewing Company
Pack’s Tavern
Blue Note Grille
The Bywater
Creatures Cafe
Lotion (“aggressive lounge”) Lee Griffin
Pillowfighting championship feat: Taylor Martin & friends w/ The Robert Greer Country Review Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro
Marc Keller
Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm Eric Congdon (singer-songwriter) Singer/songwriter showcase Fred’s Speakeasy
Four Fingers (hardcore, punk) w/ ER Airplane Garage at Biltmore
Phat Tuesdays
Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Rankin Vault 254-4993 The Recovery Room 684-1213 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Smokey’s After Dark 253-2155 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 TallGary’s Cantina 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 The Village Wayside 277-4121 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066
7/8 THU
THE clEvErlys
7/14 Fri
7/15 SaT
7/16
8:30PM
THE Gourds
w/ PaTrick swEany • 9PM
nova EcHo
w/ uH HuH baby yEaH • 9PM Jorma kaukonen | iris dement devil Makes 3 | Meat Puppets | Jolie Holland
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Justin Brophy & friends (rockabilly) The Bywater
Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm The Get Down
Soft Opening (stoner rock, psychedelic) w/ Bambara
Handlebar
Marc Keller
Tue., July 5
Iron Horse Station
5 Walnut Wine Bar
JiMbo MaTHus
w/ dExTEr roMwEbEr duo & PincHE GrinGo • 9PM
Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)
White Horse
Open mic w/ Jesse James, 7-10pm
Fri
& TroPical oozE w/ QuiET HoovEs • 8:30PM
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm
7/7
r. sTEviE MoorE
Singer/songwriter in the round feat: Paco Shipp, Taylor Martin, Aaron Burdett & Laura Michaels
Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm
Blue Ridge Orchestra
more info at www.velosportsracing.com/ wordpress/ringoffire
THU
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Open mic
Westville Pub
JuLy 6th • 6pm
Carrier park • amboy rd. asheviLLe
Open fOr Lunch M-f 11:30aM
M-f 11:30am - 10pm Open fOr Dinner On Sat &Music Sun: nights 5pm - 10pm
DJ Eclipse
Vincenzo’s Bistro Westville Pub
Blues jam
White Horse
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Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:30pm
Wed., July 6
2
5 Walnut Wine Bar
monday
Athena’s Club
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe
Benavides Trio (flamenco guitar), 8-10pm Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm
WED. 6/29
instrumental rock/jazz
FREE SHOW! $1 off All Vodkas
Open mic, 9pm
SAT. 7/2
• All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast All Day! • $1 Off Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas
OPEN MIC IS BACK! Sign up at 7pm
(Hosted by Amanda Platt of The Honeycutters)
Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Appetizers $4 Margaritas
Craggie Brewing Company
THUR. 6/30
$3.50 Gin & Tonics • Bring A Team progressive electric fusion myspace.com/dejafuse $5 Robo Shots
TUES. 7/5
Blue Note Grille
TRIVIA NIGHT 9 pm • Prizes DEJA FUSE
SUN. 7/3
Open mic, 8-11pm
Real New Orleans Po Boys $1 off all Whiskey
HYDRAPHONIC
FRI. 7/1
Black Mountain Ale House
THE MAX MELNER ORCHESTRA
MON. 7/4
TUESDAY OPEN BLUES JAM Shrimp ‘n Grits • $1 off Rum Drinks
777 HAYWOOD ROAD • 225-WPUB (9782)
www.westvillepub.com
Possum jam
Creatures Cafe
Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Tuesday - Saturday 5pm-Late Night Late Night Full Menu Served as Late as 1:30am Huge Outdoor Patio
Tuesdays Local Draft Night
$3.25 pints, $10 pitchers on *local beers (excluding High Gravity)
Wednesdays Hospitality Night
Music & EvEnts
thursday, June 30th, 8PM - Free
dave desMelik trio saturday, July 2nd - 8PM - $10/$12
kellin watson Cd release Party Friday, July 8th - 7PM - $20/$25
dark star orChestra
$2 domestic beer bottles $1 off Champagne Glasses, $5 off Bottles $3 well drinks • $2.50 Specialty Draft Pint
Thursdays Martini Night
½ price Martinis from house martini list
Saturdays Cocktail & Bourbon Night $2 off House Cocktails $4 Bourbon Highballs (all bourbon)
saturday, July 9th - 7PM - $15
touBaB krewe
viP PaCkages availaBle!
•••Now opeN••• Pisgah Brewing art gallery Selected Works by Cate Johnson Mon - wed 4pm - 9pm | thurs - sat 2pm - 12am | sun 2pm - 9pm
advanced tickets Can Be Purchased @ Pisgahbrewing.com
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Emerald Lounge
Ringo Deathstarr (indie, rock, shoegaze) French Broad Chocolate Lounge
One Leg Up (jazz, swing) Good Stuff
Open mic
Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Haywood Lounge
Open mic
Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm
Nightly Drink Specials
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Old-time jam, 6pm
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Jus One More / The Pocket / Red Room
wednesday Beacon Pub / Buffalo Wild Wings / Fred’s Speakeasy / The Hangar / Midway Tavern / O’Malleys on Main
thursday Cancun Mexican Grill / Club Hairspray / Harrah’s Cherokee Fairview Tavern
friday Fat Cat’s Billards / Mack Kell’s Midway Tavern / Shifter’s / Shovelhead Saloon / Tallgary’s Cantina
saturday
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
The Hangar / Holland’s Grille Jus One More / Midway Tavern / Rendezvous / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still
Live bluegrass
Back stage: Guzzlemug (experimental, psychedelic) w/ Albert Adams (rock, dance) Front stage: Shane Perlowin Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Thomas Wynn & the Believers Olive or Twist
The Firecracker Jazz Band, 7pm Poppies Market & Café
August Black (acoustic, folk rock)
Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar
sunday Cancun Mexican Grill / Fred’s Speakeasy South / The Hangar The Get Down / Shifter’s
Open mic w/ Brian Keith
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
Open mic, 7-10pm
TallGary’s Cantina
Open mic/jam, 7pm The Get Down
Kromosom w/ Megahurtz Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
DJ N-Famous
Vanuatu Kava Bar
Open mic
Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Handlebar
Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’ Roses tribute) Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub
Bluegrass jam, 7pm
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Vincenzo’s Bistro
Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)
Back stage: John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light (indie, rock) w/ E-S Guthrie
Westville Pub
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Thu., July 7
Olive or Twist
Barley’s Taproom
Orange Peel
Blue Note Grille
Pack’s Tavern
Craggie Brewing Company
Pisgah Brewing Company
Creatures Cafe
Purple Onion Cafe
Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Red Room
Emerald Lounge
Red Step Artworks
French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Root Bar No. 1
Good Stuff
Shifter’s
Max Melner Orchestra
Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Gary Segal (singer-songwriter) Open mic, 6-9pm
“Hip-hop for peace & Christ”
Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam Tyler Herring (Americana, folk, roots)
791 Merrimon Avenue (828) 350-8181 www.avenuemavl.com
tuesday
Jus One More
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Sunday Brunch 11:30 - 3pm
karaoke
Gene Peyroux & His Team of Highly Trained Professionals (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern
R. Stevie Moore (rock, pop, indie) w/ Tropical Ooze & Quiet Hooves Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Efren
Heather Masterton & the Swing Station Band, 8pm Framing Hanley (rock) w/ 3 Pill Morning Rick Huckaby
Mia Borders (funk, soul)
Angela Easterling (Americana, folk) & The Beguilers Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto Open mic
Kevin Scanlon (acoustic, folk) Open jam
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro
Aaron LaFalce (piano)
Westville Pub
Mummy & the Cameraman (indie, folk)
Fri., July 8 Athena’s Club
Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am
Psychedelic Furs (rock, post-punk) Pack’s Tavern
Marc Keller Duo
Pisgah Brewing Company
Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead tribute) Red Room
Dance party w/ DJ D-Day
Blue Note Grille
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
Steven Whiteside (singer/songwriter)
Jesse & Steve (alternative Americana)
Broadway’s
Root Bar No. 1
Drunken Prayer (Americana) w/ The Unholy Trio (Chris Geer, David Wayne Gay & Lance Wille) Craggie Brewing Company
Gleason’s Drift (“Appalachian hillbilly rock ‘n’ roll”) The Bywater
Dark Eyes (gypsy jazz)
Jason Daniello & Jeff Santiago (Americana), 7pm
The Chop House
Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Live jazz, 6-10pm
WestSound (dance, R&B) Vanuatu Kava Bar
DJ Dizzy dance party
Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam)
French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Vincenzo’s Bistro
Fred’s Speakeasy South
Every Mother’s Dream (folk, rock)
French Broad Chocolate Lounge
Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)
Electronic Voice Phenomena (ambient, electronic, jazz)
White Horse
Good Stuff
Jamie Paul (“soulful originals”)
Sat., July 9
Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern
Athena’s Club
Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition (“Mississippi music”) w/ Dexter Romweber Duo & Pinche Gringo Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Highland Brewing Company
Galen Kipar Project (Americana, folk rock) Holland’s Grille
Free Flight (rock)
Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm
Swayback Sisters (Americana, folk)
Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am
Good Stuff
Kathy Kelley
Grove Park Inn Great Hall
Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Hannah Flanagan’s
Zansa
Highland Brewing Company
Uncle Hamish & the Hooligans (Celtic) Horizons at Grove Park Inn
Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Hotel Indigo
Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub
Johnson’s Crossroad (acoustic, Americana, country) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Back stage: Sunshine & the Bad Things w/ Dead Man’s Revival Co. & Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie, powerpop)
Jack’s Mannequin (rock, alternative) w/ Steel Train, Lady Danville & River James Pack’s Tavern
WestSound (dance, R&B)
Red Room
We Three w/ Russ Wilson
Scratch-Tastical Saturdays w/ live DJ
Craggie Brewing Company
Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill
Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz) The Chop House
Live jazz, 6-10pm
The Get Down
Humilitate (hardcore) w/ Autarch
Firecracker Jazz Band (dixieland)
The Recovery Room
Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)
Fred’s Speakeasy South
Vincenzo’s Bistro
French Broad Brewery Tasting Room
Westville Pub
French Broad Chocolate Lounge
White Horse
Asheville Jazz Allstars Olive or Twist
Live jazz or swing Orange Peel
Brushfire Stankgrass (acoustic, bluegrass) Jazzville Band (jazz, swing) Garage at Biltmore
Kilowatts w/ Futexture, Perileyes & Iboga
7.#´S 0REMIERE !DULT ,OUNGE 3PORTS 2OOM
Toubab Krewe (afro-pop, jam, world)
Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
jWbb]Whoi$Yec
Pisgah Brewing Company
Blue Note Grille
DJ Dizzy dance party
4 College street • 828.232.0809
Orange Peel
Jack Of The Wood Pub
Back stage: Galen Kipar Project (Americana, folk rock)
NOw OPEN Tuesday - sunday aT 11am
The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm
Ethos (reggae)
Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar
TrIvIa TOurNaMENT
Top Shelf vodka $5
Olive or Twist
Poppies Market & Café
A night w/ Liz Nance & friends
OPEN MIC 7 pm
$3 Highlands J>KH:7OI
Lazybirds (blues, country, jazz)
Second Breakfast
Creatures Cafe
After Dark
Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill
Black Mountain Ale House
Joshua Lee (folk, country, metal), 6-8pm Liam McKay (indie, folk), 8-10pm
M;:D;I:7OI
Smokey’s
Live music
Marc Keller
Lazybirds (blues, country, jazz) Andrew Magill & famous friends
imagine... over 40 gorgeous & tantalizing girls... up close & personal Ladies & Couples Welcome Sports Lounge feat. UFC on big screen Now featuring area’s only “Spinning Pole” Great Drink Specials Every Night see for yourself at
TheTreasureClub.com 520 Swannanoa River Rd, Asheville, NC 28805 • Mon - Sat 5pm - 2am • (828) 298-1400
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theaterlistings Friday, JULY 1 - Thursday, JULY 7
Due to possible last-minute scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.
Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281) n
Please call the info line for updated showtimes. Hobo with a Shotgun (NR) 10:00 Rio (PG) 1:00, 4:00 Water for Elephants (PG-13) 7:00
Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) n
Babar and the Adventures of Babou (G) 11:00 (Sat-Sun) Bridesmaids (R) 7:10, 9:55 Cars 2 3D (G) 11:05, 1:40, 3:50, 4:15, 6:45, 8:50, 9:15 Cars 2 2D (G) 12:10, 12:55, 2:50, 5:25, 6:25, 8:00 Kung Fu Panda 2D (PG) 12:45, 2:55, 5:00 Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:15, 4:35, 5:55, 6:50, 8:20 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D (PG-13) (Starts Wed. June 29) 11:50, 1:15, 3:25, 4:50, 7:00, 8:25,10:35 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2D (PG-13) (Starts Wed. June 29) 11:00, 12:30, 2:35, 4:05, 6:10, 7:40, 9:45, 11:10 p.m. (Wed-Sun)
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These times are good ONLY for 6/29-6/30 See online listings for updated version Bad Teacher (R) 11:25, 1:45, 4:00, 7:30, 9:45 Bridesmaids (R) 12:05, 3:25. 7:45, 10:35 (Sofa Cinema) Cars 2 (G) 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2D (G) 12:10, 2:25, 4:55, 7:55, 10:15 Green Lantern 3D (PG-13) 11:40, 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Green Lantern 2D (PG-13) 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 The Hangover Part II (R) 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:50, 10:30 (Sofa Cinema) L’amour Fou (NR) 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 11:50, 2:05, 4:15, 7:40, 10:25 Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG)
11:35, 2:20, 4:50, 8:00, 10:15 Super 8 (PG-13) 11:20, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D (PG-13) 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2D (PG-13) 11:30, 3:10, 6:30, 10:00 X-Men: First Class (PG-13) 11:45, 3:00, 7:25, 10:25 (Sofa Cinema)
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Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 The Tree of Life (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:50
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Larry Crowne (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)
Bad Teacher (R) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 Green Lantern 3D (PG-13) 12:50, 7:30 Green Lantern 2D (PG-13) 4:30, 10:05 Larry Crowne (PG-13) 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Monte Carlo (PG) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D (PG-13) 4:00, 10:00 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2D (PG-13) 1:00, 7:00 Super 8 (PG-13) 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 X-Men: First Class (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10
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pickoftheweek The Tree of Life JJJJ Director: Terrence Malick Players: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler
Deep-dish Drama à la Malick Rated PG-13
The Story: Sprawling drama that runs the gamut from creation to a look at a single family. The Lowdown: A fascinating film that works part of the time, doesn’t work part of the time, and is at least interesting all of the time. Beware of a non-traditional narrative structure, a deliberate pace and no payoff in the traditional sense. Is it profound or pretentious? Is it art or twaddle? Is it one of the cinematic events of the year or a pompous bore? The answer to all that is really “yes.” Which is to say that Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is profound, pretentuous, art, twaddle, a cinematic event and a pompous bore all packed into 138overlong minutes. And, in its own way, it’s a must-see. Even the things that are “wrong” with it are worth seeing. I hate the term “selfindulgent,” simply because I think all art is self-indulgent to one degree or another, but it seems inescapable here. And yet, the fact that The Tree of Life is self-indulgent is essential to its very being, so I’m not really using the term pejoratively. There is no point in trying to synopsize the film. It has a kind of narrative, but it’s the narrative of memory — and probably imperfect memory at that. The film has the idea of taking the viewer — not always in an orderly fashion — from the moment of the creation of the universe to a point of observing a Texas family (mostly at some point in the mid-1950s) that feels a lot like the filmmaker’s own memories of childhood, then all the way through what can be called, I suppose, The Meaning of it All, and then back into the infinity of the void. That’s a heady concept. When it works, it works brilliantly. When it doesn’t work, it fails quite spectacularly. The trick is that I strongly suspect what works and what fails will differ from viewer to viewer. And there will be viewers who will quite simply hate The Tree of Life altogether. This has already happened at one theater in Connecticut at least. Patrons were so outraged by the film that the theater managers and staff found themselves on the receiving end of abusive complaints from angry customers. That not only seems excessive to me, it suggests something more than disatisfaction over a “bad” movie. It suggests that something
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Sean Penn seeking the meaning of it all in Terrence Malick’s brilliant, absurd, enthralling, wrong-headed and polarizing The Tree of Life. about the film — not boredom or incoherence — deeply disturbed these patrons in ways they may not themselves be clear on. I freely admit that many things in the film simply don’t work for me. The whole creation of the universe business doesn’t really come together as either breathtaking wonderment or dramatic event. It feels like an unwieldy combination of the “Star Ride” from Kubrick’s 2001 (1968) — minus the LSD-chrome — and the devolvement of Eddie Jessup to the moment of creation in Ken Russell’s Altered States (1980) played backwards at slow speed. And it’s nowhere near as effective as either. The muchremarked-upon footage of dinosaurs didn’t do anything for me either, looking for all the world like something I might bump into on the Discovery Channel. Yet I don’t decry the inclusion of these things — partly because they’re essential to the continuum of Malick’s vision, and partly because I think Malick is entitled to his vision. The film — for me — is on much firmer footing with its depiction of life in the 1950s. Is this because I can recall the time? Maybe. And I’ll certainly note that most of it feels authentic on a broad scale in ways that have nothing to do with specifics of Malick’s own memories. My own memories have nothing to do with siblings, a strict father or religion. Yet it felt right and — I think this is important — it never felt like a purely nostalgic wallow. Incomprehensible and unpleasant things happen — sometimes only as background or touches, sometimes as part of the story (such as the drowning scene brilliantly set to the opening of the Mahler First Symphony). This isn’t one of those “remember how great it was
to grow up when” emails that seem to breed like rabbits. This is aware that childhood is not all safe, lazy summer days. I could — if I had the room — go on about the film’s river and water imagery, the use of Smetana’s “The Moldau” on the soundtrack, the narrative experiments, the faux-Fellini moments etc., but the truth is that the only way you are ever going to get the feel of The Tree of Life is to see it for yourself. You may love it, you may hate it, but I doubt you will be indifferent to it. Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Fine Arts Theatre
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Director: Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) Players: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Phyllis Smith Raunchy-ish Comedy Rated R
The Story: A golddigging and very uncommitted teacher tries to raise the money for a breast job in order to snare rich fellow teacher. The Lowdown: Predictable and more mildly naughty than truly outrageous. Folks who giggle over swear words will get the most out of it. There are certainly worse movies than Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher. For that matter. Kasdan has made worse movies. That is, alas, a hell of a long way from calling it good. Bad Teacher joins the depressingly long list of movies that
startingwednesday TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Well, here it is — Michael Bay’s apparently eagerly awaited Transformers: Dark of the Moon. There is no clue just who is eagerly awaiting this, but we are assured they are there. Bay promises us that it — all 157 minutes of it — will be better than the previous entry, but since there are Uwe Boll movies that are better than the last one, this isn’t much of a promise. It’s also supposed to be “darker” and won’t involve Megan Fox or “the jivebots.” Whether or not there will be robot’s testicles this round is as yet unknown. There are no reviews of even marginal note as yet. (PG-13)
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So Tom Hanks not only stars in this, but he directed it — and co-wrote it with his pal Nia Vardalos. Whether any of this is good news remains to be seen. What we do know is that it’s the tale of a middle-aged man who loses his job and decides to go back to college, where he falls for a burnt-out teacher (Julia Roberts). No reviews as yet — or at least none to speak of — but it should perhaps be noted that Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer are also in the cast. (PG-13)
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This has no relation whatever to the 1930 Ernst Lubitsch classic of the same name. No, what we have here is a teen rom-com sort of thing about three young women — Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester — on holiday in Paris, who find their lives changed when Gomez is mistaken for a British jet-setter heiress (also played by Gomez), which somehow gets the trio whisked off to Monte Carlo. Romance (PG-style) and adventure ensue, or so we are promised. (PG) are simply hard to get worked up about one way or the other. That deadly phrase, “I didn’t mind sitting through it,” is mostly what comes to mind. For a movie that wants to be outrageous, that wouldn’t seem to be the desired response. And considering I heard little laughter and saw zero outraged walkouts at the show I attended, I have a feeling my ennui may not be isolated. What we have here is a weak-tea attempt at shock. Oh, the film pushes all the right buttons to earn its R rating — and probably enough more to justify the inevitable “unrated edition” on DVD — but so what? Does Bad Teacher up the ante in any meaningful — or even meaningless — way? No. Compared to transgressive movies like Super and Hobo with a Shotgun, this is kindergarten stuff. There isn’t a single moment in it where you’re apt to think, “Oh, they won’t dare to go there,” because you know full well they aren’t going to. That’s the worst of it — it’s so terribly predictable. The story concerns lazy, drunken, stoned, foul-mouthed Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz), who is only teaching — if that it can be called — until she can marry her filthy-rich boyfriend. Since the plot requires it, he dumps her on the last day of school, so she finds herself forced to go back for another year of nonteaching teaching while she tries to find the next sucker. The next potential victim seems to her to be the apparently perpetual substitute teacher Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), who, it turns out, is filthy rich. That he’s also terminally vapid seems to escape her notice. It does not escape the attention of good-natured-
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Director: Ken Russell Players: Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley, Antonia Ellis
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Director: Christophe Gans Players: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Alice Krige Horror Rated R Having seen Christophe Gans’ Silent Hill (2006) a few more times since its release, I’m no longer much bothered by its somewhat clunky opening (though it still is clunky), but I still dislike its pointless final scene intensely. That said, I definitely believe this is one of the best horror films of the 21st century — certainly, it’s one of the creepiest. It also proves that — despite most evidence to the contrary — that it is indeed possible to make a good film out of a video game. More, it makes it clear that you can make a film out of a video game that requires no familiarity with the game. The premise of the film — a little girl is mysteriously connected and drawn to a supposedly deserted town where a coal fire has been burning beneath the surface for 30 years — is strong, but the execution of the horrors hidden in that town (or, more to the point, the alternate reality of that town) are among the most effective imaginable. The explanation of it all — or parts of it — are pretty obvious, but the things we see are nothing short of nightmarish. It’s a nightmare with the advantage of a sense of solidity, since the film eschews CGI work whenever possible, using it only as a last resort, or in intelligent conjunction with more traditional effects work. If you’ve never seen this modern gem of horror, you should. If you have, you should give it another look. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Silent Hill Thursday, June 30, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.
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Director: John Lasseter (Cars) & Brad Lewis Players: (voices) Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard Animated Adventure Rated G
The Plot: Mater the tow truck gets entangled in web of espionage, while race car Lightning McQueen attempts to best his rival in a high-stakes race. The Lowdown: Did you read the sentence before this? Easily the dumbest, noisiest Pixar film to date. I’ve never been much of a fan of Pixar. Besides 2009’s Up — an honestly great movie and the one time the studio’s lived up to its reputation — I’ve found their output to be either perfectly harmless (the Toy Story franchise) or simply overrated (The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007)). But regardless of this, I’ve come to appreciate their attempts, at least, at making films more substantial than your usual kiddie fare — something truly for the entire family — even if I often find them falling a bit short of their lofty goals. While they don’t always hit their target, Pixar generally aims high. Which is almost certainly why I found the knuckledragging on display in their latest release, Cars 2, so maddening. Here, we have what’s easily the studio’s nadir: a noisy, simplistic movie. Far from a typical Pixar film, Cars 2 is closer in spirit to the sound and fury of a Michael Bay flick, trading plot and characterization for frantic action and earsplitting explosions. But in comparison to the actual humor the movie carts out — a tiring cavalcade of lazy cultural and ethnic stereotypes — the action scenes are the high points. The majority of the comedy is at the service of Larry the Cable Guy, who returns
specialscreenings Antonio Gaudi JJJJ
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) Players: Documentary Rated NR Hiroshi Teshigahara’s documentary Antonio Gaudi (1985) on Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi isn’t your typical documentary. But that’s OK, because if there’s anything Gaudi wasn’t it was your typical architect. Gaudi (1852-1926) created architecture that managed to combine something of art nouveau with natural shapes and forms to create buildings that are still quite unlike anything else. The buildings shown — all of which are in Barcelona — are magnificently otherworldly. They’re architectural landscapes of the mind — the unique mind of Gaudi. They’re beautiful, fanciful and sometimes a little terrifying. But what they don’t really do is lend themselves to description — and that’s the approach the film takes. It simply presents the buildings to us without discussion or pontification. It is, I think, the best possible way. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Antonio Gaudi at 8 p.m. Friday, July 1, at Phil Mechanic Studios, (109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com
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Director: Roger Corman Players: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Leo Gordon Drama Rated NR The Intruder (1962) is one of the more unusual films ever made by Roger Corman. It’s also an aberration in that it’s said to be one of the only Corman movies that ever lost money. (A man who never takes his eye off the bottom line, Corman has subsequently noted that it finally made a profit — on DVD. So it didn’t lose money, but it took 40-odd years to be able to make that claim.) The film treads a very thin line between exploitation and social relevance, with the latter squeaking past in the end. It’s an early Civil Rights drama that stars William Shatner (yes, William Shatner) in a surprisingly strong performance as a glib-tongued outsider who comes into a small southern town that’s on the very eve of integration to sow the seeds of racism — even if it means pitting whites against whites in the bargain. It must have been a truly shocking work in 1962, because it remains pretty powerful today — not in the least because of the way it handles the usual notion of the agitators from “up North” coming down South and causing unrest among the black populace. Here we find a film that presents a town coping with integration — albeit not happily — only to be driven into a frenzy by an outsider with the opposite agenda. Definitely worth a look. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Intruder at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 3, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. to voice Tow Mater the tow truck, whom the film is largely built around. Mater plays the ultimate Ugly American, as the plot sends him and Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) abroad to Japan, Italy and England. We get a heaping of Cable Guy-styled culture clash, mining cheap laughs out of general willful ignorance and buffoonery, while he traipses around the globe, never shutting up for two seconds, never listening or learning, and stumbling his way through the dull comic set pieces the film creates. It’s a kind of obvious humor that feels like it was ripped off from beer commercials. Mater quickly finds himself accidentally involved in a web of espionage when a couple of British secret agents (voiced by Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer) mistake him for a spy, and Mater — through sheer obliviousness — wanders blindly through a host of deadly situations. It’s basically the goofy Bill Murray vehicle The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), except Mr. Cable Guy is no Murray. Ultimately, what we have here is a mainstream, kiddie version of stuff like Larry’s
Delta Farce (2007), but toned down for children, which — in theory — is a tad bit better. At least its cultural ignorance is less blatant and offensive. Of course, the counter-argument will be that this movie is perfectly fine for kids, because it’s teaching them to be themselves. Let’s ignore the fact that “perfectly fine for kids” should be viewed as a back-handed compliment, and that Pixar earned their reputation by making films that are perfectly fine for pretty much every demographic. Instead, let’s take a look at that message of “being yourself” as Cars 2 presents it: Being a dumb, loud, blatantly ignorant oaf is the cat’s pajamas as long as that’s just who you are. Don’t bother trying to better yourself, learn or listen. Just be yourself. It’s this kind of stuff that puts Cars 2 on the brink of being insultingly bad, and doesn’t even have the entertainment value to make it in the least worthwhile. Rated G. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande
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Kitchen & Bath ACCESSIBUILT RESIDENTIAL REMODELING Custom bath and shower/tub conversion for safety and accessibility. • 20 years experience. • insured. Reliable. • Free inspection/estimate. • Authorized Best Bath® dealer.(828) 283-2675. accessibuilt@bellsouth.net
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CALL TWO GIRLS CLEANING TODAY! $75 FLAT RATE OFFICE CLEANING. HENDERSON COUNTY & SURROUNDING AREAS Current openings on Friday evening, Sat & Sun. Your business is important to us! Call anytime: Two Girls Cleaning. 828-699-4409
General Services CARE GIVER NEEDED Caregiver/NA Buncombe County. Caring for the elderly. Applicant needs CPR/First Aid and Drug free. 828-215-7639 or send resume to juliap.care4u@gmail
Handy Man APPLIANCE ZEN • The best choice for appliance repair in Asheville. With over 12 years in appliance repair. The choice is easy. Locally owned. Fast. Friendly. Honest. • All brands washers, dryers, refrigerator, dishwasher, and small appliances. • Licensed. Insured. Bonded. • Sabastian, 828-505-7670. www.appliancezen.com HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services. 31 years professional business practices. Trustworthy, quality results, reliability. $2 million liability insurance. References available. Free estimates. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.
Services
Education/ Tutoring HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Graduate in just 4 weeks!! FREE Brochure. Call now. 1-800-532-6546 Ext. 97 http://www.continentalacade my.com (AAN CAN) IN HOME TUTORING Let me help your child succeed! • Reading • Math • Writing • Test Preparation, etc. 30 year classroom teacher. Masters’ degree. Love to teach! Asheville /Fairview /Hendersonville area. 404-895-0330 padean8@gmail.com
Computer CHRISTOPHER’S COMPUTERS • Computer Slow? Call Christopher’s Computers at 828-670-9800 and let us help you with PC and Macintosh issues: networking, virus/malware removal, tutoring, upgrades, custom-built new computers, etc. ChristophersComputers.com
TIRED OF PUTTING OFF THOSE MUCH NEEDED COMPUTER REPAIRS? Slow computer got you down? Computer Keys is your answer. Services include: Virus Removal, Tune-ups, Hardware/Software/Network installation/secure/repair. Special monthly packages. (828)585-9214 or email travis@mycomputerkeys.co m for your free estimate. www.mycomputerkeys.com
Commercial Property
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CROWN JEWEL OF ASHEVILLE Victorian Era Building in prime location. Restored commercial space in high density walking traffic. First level completely restored. Floor to ceiling display windows, exposed brick. Great for retail or many other uses. Also available: 2nd floor shell with great potential for up to 3 condos; office, residential or both. Also includes the rights to create a roof top terrace. First Floor and Basement $1,395.000 or 2nd Floor $439,000. Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com
ARTISTIC WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER • Serge, 828-777-6171. $195.
Organizational LITTLE CONCIERGE, LLC I provide reliable customized assistance, including • Pet Sitting • Errands • Correspondence • and more! • Licensed and dependable. (828) 551-3620.
Home A&B CONSTRUCTION is a leader in quality, craftsmanship and dependability for a wide range of building services here in Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina. We specialize in cost-sensitive, client oriented, residential and commercial renovation/remodeling, new construction, and repair services. Please call 828-258-2000 or visit our website at www.a-b-construction.com
Caregivers COMPANION • CAREGIVER • LIVE-IN Alzheimer’s experienced. • CarePartners Hospice recommended. • Nonsmoker, with cat, seeks live-in position. • References. • Arnold, (828) 273-2922.
Commercial Listings
Businesses For Sale $50,000 • RETAIL STORE Purchase beautiful store selling Beads, Stones, Fossils and Jewelry near Asheville. Yields +/-$25,000 annually. Asset Marketing. (828) 253-5771. AssetMarketing.us/ businesses/NewAge FOR SALE • TOWN PUMP TAVERN • BLACK MOUNTAIN Business, Goodwill and Inventory: $78K. Building (with purchase of Business) $300K. Contact Julie Smith, Broker juliepmdavis@aol.com
COMMERCIAL RETAIL/RESTAURANT DOWNTOWN CONDO High walking traffic, great display windows, hardwood floors. Two level condo w/potential to be two separate units. Commercial grade hood system in place. $535,000. The Real Estate Center. 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL Historic three bedroom updated home that has office space with residential living quarters. Refinished hardwood floors. Walking distance to all the downtown amenities. $365,000. The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663 www.recenter.com RIVER ARTS DISTRICT • LEASE TO OWN Street level commercial/retail space. Buyer will be able to lock in the list price and receive 20% credit for all rent paid. List price starting at $335,000 at $1795/month. Call The Real Estate Center: 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com WALNUT STREET/DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE • Office suite with 1,081 sq. ft. Modern interior in a historic building. G/M Property Group. 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com WEST ASHEVILLE • HAYWOOD ROAD Multi-use commercial property, currently income producing property as a Hostel, $399,000. Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663. www.recenter.com
Commercial/ Business Rentals 1-2 ROOM OFFICE • 1796 Hendersonville Rd. Utilities and janitorial included. $295-$695/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1-4 ROOM OFFICE • 70 Woodfin. 2nd month rent free. Utilities included. $160$480/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com
AVAILABLE LARGE OFFICE SPACE In Victorian-style wellness center. Prime location, downtown/North Asheville. Upstairs room with ornamental fireplace and large windows. 225 sqft. Other practitioners in the building include chiropractors, homeopath, naturopath, massage therapists, and psychologists. Rent $450/month plus utilities. • • Or Share space, part-time, 2-3 days/week for just $225/month. • Please call (828) 251-0815 or email: healyourspine@aol.com BUSINESS SPACE FOR RENT 866 Haywood Road. Approx. 900 sqft. On-site parking w/store front. Available immediately. $850/month. 828-231-2577. luyoung1952@yahoo.com WORKSPACE FOR ARTISTS/CRAFTERS IN SALUDA, NC. Reasonable rates, creative atmoshpere. Available now. Call (828) 749-9718 for more information.
Rentals
Apartments For Rent 1 BEDROOM/1 BATHROOM, Hendersonville, 2010 Laurel Park, $505, Off-Street Parking, Coin-Op Laundry. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon. Summer Special! All utilities included. $650/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE • 912 Hillcrest. Garage, deck. $615/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA OAKLEY • 2 Oakview. D/W, W/D hookups. $625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA SOUTH • 30 Allen. A/C, patio, storage. $665/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA SOUTH • Hardwood floors, carpet. Carport. No utilities, no pets. $725/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty. 2BR, 2BA SOUTH • 100 Beale. Central A/C, deck. $695/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA WEST • 257 Sandhill Rd. Central A/C, deck. $775/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA ARDEN • 5 Mountain. Porch, fireplace. $815/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com
BLACK MOUNTAIN • Large chalet-style house on private road. 3BR, 2BA. Hardwood floors, decks, new HVAC system, storage, 2 living areas. Big yard. 3br, 2ba. No smoking. $950/month. 828-298-3933. CASUAL ELEGANCE IN MONTFORD • Spacious 1BR with formal living and dining rooms. Private porch, hardwood floors, good closet space. Walk to down, bike to UNCA, be close to the best of urban Asheville in Victorian Montford. $685/month includes water and laundry facilities. Security deposit, credit check and references, year’s lease required. 1 Cat ok w/fee. Sorry, No dogs. Graham Investments: 253-6800. CHARMING SUNNY SMALL 1BR • Between downtown & UNCA- close walk to town and Greenlife. Hardwood floors, gas heat, A/C unit. Lots of off-street parking. $595/month includes hot and cold water. Security deposit, year’s lease, credit check and references req. 1 cat ok w/fee. No large dogs. For appt: Graham Investments 253-6800. HOUSE AND APARTMENTS FOR RENT • Weaverville. 12BR. Beautiful mountain views, lawns. Safe neighborhood. Heat, water, trash pickup included. Priced: $400, $500, $800/month. Deposit required. 828-258-2222 ask for rental dept. WALK TO MISSION HOSPITAL • Upper level Kenilworth apt. Very nice and spacious. 2BR, 1BA with dressing area. Large closets. Nice living room with small room for storage. Kitchen is located off a large room which is used for dining and opens to the back deck. A deck off the living room. Off street parking. W/D, trash pick-up, heat and water furnished. $875/month + $875/security and one year lease. Pet negotiable. Tom, 828-230-7296. WEST ASHEVILLE • Unfurnished 1 bedroom apartment. Water, garbage included. $579/month. On bus line, swimming pool onsite. Call 828-252-9882. WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.
Mobile Homes For Rent 1BR, 1BA EAST • Ideal for 1 or budget-minded people. In quiet managed park. A/C, water furnished. References, application and deposit required. $350/month. 828-779-2736. 2BR, 1BA • Quiet location, 5 minutes to Patton Ave. Includes water. Security deposit required. $450/month. Call David, 828-777-0385.
jobs WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 2BA. W/D connections. Close to downtwon. Quiet park. $595/month. 828-252-4334.
Condos/ Townhomes For Rent A BIG THANX! “Thanx Xpress! The recent rental ad attracted a steady stream of quality applicants, thanks to your quality publication.” Mark K. • You too can find quality renters by placing an affordable ad in the pages of Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace: 251-1333. DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE! 2BR, 2BA top floor unit on Southwest corner w/ hardwood floors, granite countertops, parking and onsite fitness center! Lease/purchase available. $1450/month includes water. Call The Real Estate Center: 828-255-4663. EAST CONDO 2BR 1BA. HW/Carpet; W/D, A/C-gas furnace. $800/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty. WEST ASHEVILLE CANTERBURY HEIGHTS • 46 Beri Dr. Updated 2BR 1.5BA. Split level condo, 918 sqft. Fully applianced upgraded kitchen with W/D. Pool, fitness room. $725/month. Security Dep. Application Fee. Available 6/15/11. Mike 919-624-1513.
Homes For Rent 2BR, 1BA WEST • 22 Wilburn. A/C, basement. $895/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 4BR, 3BA CENTRAL • 15 Buchanan. Central A/C, hardwood floors. $1,385/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com BEAUTIFUL SMALL FARM • BARNARDSVILLE 3BR, 2BA newly remodeled brick cottage. Large barn with lights, water, pasture, dressage sized riding ring. Miles of National Forest trails. Chicken house, garden spot, basketball court. Peaceful, private. $1700/month. Deposit, lease, references. (828) 255-8466.
COMING IN JUNEBILTMORE FOREST • Tasteful, refined Ranch. 3 or 4 BR/3BA with hardwood floors and lots of cedar closets. A/C, quiet private front porch, garage, Fireplace and much more. $1400/month. Includes water and all yard maintenance. Just move in and enjoy. Credit report, references, year’s lease, security deposit required. Pet considered with fee. For appt: 253-6800, Graham Investments. DREAMER’S RETREAT 3BR, 2BA cedar in private cove. Offers vaulted greatroom, front and back porches, sunroom, office with kitchenettes, and claw foot tub big enough for 2. $1150/month. Available August 1. References • Deposit • Credit checks. (828) 712-4448. RESORT LIVING AT LAKE LURE 2800 sq.ft. stream, waterfall. 3BR/3BA, W/D, recent updates, deck, walk to lake, some resort amenities. No pets, no smoking. $950/month. $950/deposit + $200. Credit check, references. 828-697-8166. eagleborne@morrisbb.net NEW LOG HOME • North 3BR/2.5BA in woods. Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors with wraparound porch. Hispeed Internet availble.Appliances included. 25 min. to Asheville. $985/month with deposit. 828-649-1170 RESORT LIVING AT LAKE LURE 2800 sq.ft. stream, waterfall. 3BR/3BA, W/D, recent updates, deck, walk to lake, some resort amenities. No pets, no smoking. $950/month. $950/deposit + $200. Credit check, references. 828-697-8166. eagleborne@morrisbb.net
SWANNANOA • Near Warren Wilson. 3BR, 1BA. Large covered porch, great views, all appliances, utilities included. $1,200/month. 828-337-0873.
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Employment
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JANE FALTER Jane is a Certified Resume’ Writer and career coach. Jane also offers small business coaching and suppor ts professionals during a midlife career change. For more information and a FREE 30 minute consultation, please go to www.JaneFalter.com for more information
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FIELD DATA COLLECTOR Mueller Services is a leading provider of nationwide insurance services. We’re recruiting for PT &FT; $1012/hour; opportunities in Buncombe County for a field representative to collect data on personal & commercial properties. Reps drive to properties, measure & record visual observations, then perform data entry & upload photos onto their home computer which is transmitted back to Mueller via our website. Requirements: A PC with a high-speed internet connection, computer literacy, a digital camera, a reliable vehicle, a cell phone, a working printer, clean driving record & selfmotivation. No experience is necessary since we offer paid training.Please visit the careers section of our website at www.mueller-inc.com to apply online for immediate consideration. HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES “Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used. The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.” Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. • Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds. Call 251-1333. LAKE HOUSE ACADEMY • Hiring for the following position: PT Kitchen Assistant. Please email resumes to careers@lakehouseacademy. com, subject line “Kitchen Assistant”. MANUFACTURING JOBS First and second shift. Call (704) 604-2587, between 12pm-5pm. PAID IN ADVANCE • Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home! Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN)
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Salon/ Spa MANICURIST/PEDICURIST Organic, North Asheville Salon looking for a Mani/Pedicurist who is ready to build their business. You’ll enjoy a serene and cooperative environment at The Water Lily Wellness Salon, inquire at 7 Beaverdam Road or call 505-3288, ask for Alissa.
Sales/ Marketing ALL FUN GIFTS • We are looking for a full time inside sales employee to join our team. Candidate will be responsible for generating sales revenue by analyzing and researching database for sales leads, following up on catalogue requests, and win-back sales on old accounts. The candidate will also be responsible for processing and following up on new accounts (including both internet and new sales orders). We prefer candidates with computer skills. Candidate must be verbally fluent, self motivated, positive, focused, reliable, and detail oriented. Previous sales experience also a requirement. Benefits include competitive pay, comfortable atmosphere w/casual dress, holiday and vacation pay, health insurance, and great office hours. Salary $10.00 per hour plus commission. Interested parties please fax or email resume and cover letter, Attn: Jacqui fax# 828-236-2658 or email: Jacqui@allfungifts.com
ADVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $11 per hour guaranteed plus a weekly bonus program. We are seeking individuals for full and part time in our local Asheville sales office. • Benefit package • Weekly paycheck • Students welcome. Our employees earn $500-$650 per week with bonuses. No experience necessary, we will train the right people. Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required. Call today for a personal interview. 828-236-2530. CLIENT SERVICES MANAGER POSITION EventPro Strategies is seeking a Sales/Client Services Manager. Please Submit resumes to: mgomez @eventprostrategies.com www.eventprostrategies.com
Restaurant/ Food APOLLO FLAME • WAITSTAFF Full-time. • Fast, friendly atmosphere. • Apply in person between 2pm-4pm, 485 Hendersonville Road. 274-3582. CooperRiis a Non-Profit Therapeutic Healing Community has need of an Assistant Sous Chef in our Asheville location. Candidates must have: Knowledge of vegetarian/whole foods cuisine Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Strong restaurant background and culinary skills. Ability to work a flexible schedule and fill in for Sous Chef as needed. Forward cover letter and resume to: HR@cooperriis.org. No phone calls or in-person visits.
Drivers/Delivery PART TIME ROUTE DELIVERY SALES PERSON NEEDED: TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS ONLY Part Time Route Delivery PositionTuesdays and Thursdays 8-5 FirmMust be able to lift 60+ pounds repetitivelyMust have Excellent Customer Service SkillsClean Driving recordReferences, drug testing mandatoryHard working, Reliable, Honest, Responsible Individuals Only Need Apply
Medical/ Health Care DENTAL CLINICAL/LAB ASSISTANT Asheville Dental office seeking experienced dental assistant. Email resume to info@zoedental.com or fax to 828-274-4331. info@zoedental.com
Human Services
CLINICIAN • OFFENDER SERVICES PROGRAM Is recruiting for a licensed or license eligible Clinician to provide group and individual treatment to sex offenders and domestic violence abusers within the Sexual Abuse Intervention Program and the Domestic Violence Abuser Program. Experience is preferred. • A broad range of mental health and substance abuse issues are addressed in this integrated treatment program. Please send application and resume w/cover letter addressing how your experience prepares you for this position to Diane Paige, Offender Services Coordinator at diane.paige @meridianbhs.org. • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org
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Professional/ Management EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Parttime. Western North Carolina AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Clinician Offender Services Program Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Experience is preferred. Please contact Diane Paige, diane.paige @meridianbhs.org Haywood County: Certified Medical Assistant Administrative and patient care support duties in an outpatient, psychiatric recovery center. Primary responsibility for Patient Assistance Program. Must be a graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program and CMA certification with AAMA or AMT required. Must have two years of related experience required, preferably in an outpatient medical office setting. Must also have excellent customer service skills and be a team player. Please contact Kyler Robbins, kyler.robbins @meridianbhs.org Jackson County: Clinician/Lead Recovery Educator Recovery Education Center: Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Julie Durham-Defee, julie.durham-defee @meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: JJTC Team/Intensive In-Home Team Member Position open for Licensed Clinician/Provisionally Licensed Clinician, or QMHP. Will function as third member of 3 person team providing JJTC services to Cherokee/Clay Counties. Please contact Vicki Sturtevant, vicki.sturtevant @meridianbhs.org Transylvania County: Case Manager Recovery Education Center: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience. For more information, please contact Caroline Carter, caroline.carter @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org
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
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 email Rachel at rachel.wingo @thementornetwork.com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.
Historical Association. • Application Deadline: July 11, 2011. Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) seeks a self-directed, organized professional for a part-time Executive Director (ED). • The ED will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating fundraising for WNCHA and overseeing the day to day operation of the Smith-McDowell House Museum. • If interested please respond with a current resume and a cover letter indicating why you believe this is the right job for you, based on your experience, interest, and
FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • Seeks a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist for our adult and child population. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the right credentialed, energetic team member. Please email resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com. INTENSIVE IN-HOME TEAM LEADER Barium Springs Home for Children has an opening for an Intensive InHome Team Leader in Franklin, NC. • To perform duties associated with admission and retention of new and existing consumers to Intensive In-Home Program. • Provide clinical expertise and oversight for the Intensive In-Home Team. Minimum of Master’s Degree and 1 year experience in a human service field and N.C. licensure or provisional licensure in one of the following disciplines: LPC, LCSW, LMFT. A minimum of 1 year post degree experience working with same or similar client population required. Send resume to: Becky Totherow, BSHC, P. O. Box 1, Barium Springs, NC 28010 • Fax: (704) 832-2258. • Email: hrd@bariumsprings.org • E.O.E.
SUPERVISORY STAFF Families Together Inc. is now hiring supervisory staff. Qualified candidates must be a Qualified Professional and have a supervisory experience in the mental health field. Families Together provides a positive, supportive team atmosphere, with benefits and team culture. www.familiestogether.net
qualifications to: (mail) Smith McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road, Asheville, NC 28801 Attn: Personnel Committee or (email) wnchahistory@gmail.com • EOE.
Teaching/ Education PHYSICAL EDUCATION INSTRUCTOR Hanger Hall School, a private all girls school, is seeking a PE
THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • Is seeking the following for Adult service lines: Certified Peer Support Specialist, LCSW, LCAS/CCS or CSAC, QDDP and an RN/QMHP. Also seeking a Child QMHP to serve as a Program Director for Day Treatment Services. Please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com.
Instructor to teach 6th-8th graders for the 2011-2012 school year. PE classes are held four days a week from 8:30am-3:00pm. Health and dental benefit package available. Please send a resume and cover letter to employment @hangerhall.org
THE MEDIATION CENTER • Is seeking a Project Coordinator for Changing Together, a community-wide collaborative working together to promote gang prevention, intervention and suppression in Buncombe County. The mission of the Mediation Center is to create opportunity from conflict. Please see job description and application instructions at www.mediatebuncombe.org/ about/jobs.
PRESCHOOL LEAD TEACHER • A small preschool on an organic farm in Mills River. Must be experienced and comfortable with child-lead development working in outdoor learning. Hours 9am-1pm. Contact: naturallygrownpreschool @gmail.com
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MATH TEACHER • The Day Treatment program at Eliada Homes is seeking a qualified Math Teacher. Individuals must be flexible and creative, as it is necessary to differentiate lessons for different learning styles, individual needs, and class dynamics. Major responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Create a classroom environment that meets the academic and treatment needs of students and ensure that assistants are effective with instructional delivery. • The teacher will maintain an organized, structured classroom that allows for active student engagement and sets clear and consistent guidelines and expectations. • The teacher evaluates academic and behavioral progress of all students, which includes keeping attendance, preparing progress and grade reports, communicating with case managers, completing incident reports, participating in clinical meetings, completing Student Education Plans and providing feedback in regards to goals and objectives. Qualifications: Must have a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university. • Must also possess appropriate, current valid teaching certification as specified by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (or be able to obtain said licensure). • Math teacher must be math certified, or have the ability to become certified in math. Prefer a minimum of two years teaching experience or direct residential experience with the target population. • All qualified and interested candidates please apply online at www.eliada.org/employment or e-mail resume to Sheri Peck at speck@eliada.org.
Jobs Wanted GRAPHIC / WEB DESIGNER MOVING TO ASHEVILLE Experienced designer seeking to join creative team or small business! Portfolio and resume at: www.behance.net/ edmangoodrich or email me: edmangoodrich@gmail.com
Employment Services UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service. Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1-800-720-0576.
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011 Liberty Corner Enterprises Inc., managing agent for WNC Housing, will close their housing waiting list for new applicants. Currently over 100 people are waiting for affordable housing and we have a total of 68 units potentially for rent, therefore the waiting time is excessive. 147 Coxe Avenue, Asheville NC 28801, Liberty Corner Enterprises
Classes & Workshops GLASSBLOWING WITH METHANE IN BEAUTIFUL JACKSON COUNTY Three classes to choose from with various times and dates. First class begins June 25. Details and registration: www.wcu.edu/2874.asp MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 COMPUTER TRAINING Need to be more efficient at work? Need a competitive edge? Just want to learn more? Task Mania is proud to offer Microsoft computer training. Visit www.taskmania.biz for more information about schedules and registration.
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