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p. 10 Inside ham radio In an age of global communication, pervasive cell coverage and hundred-million-member social networks, what’s the attraction of basic, point-to-point radio communication? Who are these people who call each other not by name but by arcane strings of characters? What exactly are they doing? And why?

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I have loved Bele Chere for years but my enjoyment has increasingly been destroyed by the overwhelming presence of the street preachers throughout the festival. In one circuit of the festival I passed four separate groups loudly proclaiming their religious beliefs with the use of microphones.

Bele Chere organizers have been quoted as saying they can do nothing about this because the law grants these people the right to free speech. What about the rights of the street entertainers who are forbidden to perform during Bele Chere without a permit? They are removed without hesitation.

When the street preachers stand above the crowd on boxes, use microphones, sometimes sing — how is this not a performance? Even though city noise ordinances are lifted for the duration of the festival, according to the festival policy, “Amplification is allowed by performer permit only.” (See the full policy at avl.mx/iv.) What is the legal justification for applying this rule to everyone except the street preachers?

There is also a statement in the festival policies giving organizers the right to remove anyone if they “deem the content of your performance to be in any way offensive to any of our festival-goers.”

The reaction on the street shows that the message booming through Bele Chere, much of which insists that most of us will burn in hell, is offensive to many people. But it seems that the people saying these inflammatory things are exempt not only from the rules for street performers, but also from the regulations relating to offensive content.

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Bele Chere provides space for any religious or political group to have a booth where people can express their beliefs. Why is one group allowed to break all the rules and, by so doing, create a dominating and, to many, offensive, atmosphere throughout the festival?

— Terry Wyszynski Asheville

there are loving Ways to preach As I listened and watched the group from a baptist church in Knoxville shout (actually scream) their incendiary message of sin, hellfire and damnation at Bele Chere Friday night, I could not help but appreciate the different approach of the group from Texas with Revive Asheville who visited our city last April. The latter group made numerous advance trips here to build relationships and to learn what they could do to help the people of Asheville.

In April they came for a week (no one-night stands for them) and during that week they served 6,400 meals not only to their invited guests but to all, including the homeless, who were hungry.

They had numerous work projects such as the makeover of nine houses and landscape, maintenance and cleanup jobs. And when they went out to evangelize, they went out in twos (as in Mark, chapter 6) and spoke quietly with people and only with those who accepted their invitation to hear of the joy of having Jesus Christ in your life .

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Street preacher tipS from coven oldenwilde Street preachers have been invading Bele Chere like poison ivy in a park. This year, they spread their amplified hate beyond Vance Monument and took over Pritchard Park. Just around the corner by the Battery Park Stage, however, we wicked witches of Coven Oldenwilde — whom many might assume to be a natural target for puritanical ranters — actually welcomed thousands of festivalgoers at our nonprofit wristband booth unmolested.

Here's how, based on our two decades of experience, [we prevent] the disruption of our annual public Samhain ritual by brigades of anger-addicted Bible thumpers bused in from out of town. The preachers' sole weapon is sound — a loud megaphone drone of accusatory spew that intentionally ruins the spirit of the festival. Their tactic only works in a relative sonic vacuum, easily neutralized if the local sound-scape is filled with amplified live or recorded music, as by a stage or concerted drumming, such as a drum circle.

Asheville can't afford to lose the valuable publicity boost the Southeast's largest street festival gives it each year. Here are two suggestions for keeping future Bele Cheres from being expensively buzzkilled by evangelical agitators.

One: Asheville's drum-circle regulars could organize and raise funds from affected merchants to pay a rotating crew of skilled drummers to keep a danceable beat going at Vance Monument and Pritchard Park throughout the festival.

Two: Pre-recorded music (preferably by local bands and DJs) could be played continuously there, amplified loud enough to defeat megaphones but not interfere with the live bands nearby.

— Steve Rasmussen Coven Oldenwilde Asheville

new Belgium — a wolf in green clothing It hasn’t taken New Belgium long to show its true colors as a predatory corporation. With disgust, I’ve seen RiverLink and New Belgium conspire to foist New Belgium beer, exclusively, on the attendees of the RiverMUSIC, series. This may be the only public event in Asheville history monopolized by one beer. Not even Budweiser does that. And they could have.

For years, our local breweries have played nicely together at events like Downtown After 5, offering a representative selection of fabulous local craft beers.

RiverLink, on the other hand, has been bought and co-opted by New Belgium, whose promotional bankroll dwarfs that of local breweries.

What an ungrateful slap in the face to the local breweries that have helped RiverLink raise funds over the years!

So, I will be boycotting River Music and New Belgium until they allow the other local breweries to participate in the event as sponsors.

So much for New Belgium respecting our existing culture. It is a wolf “green clothing.”

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riverlink executive director karen cragnolin responds So much of where someone stands depends on where they sit. Over the decades, we’ve worked with just about every brewery in the area; for the past five years, we’ve received the proceeds from local brewers’ Winter Warmer benefit, using them to help build a greenway at the former Health Adventure site.

You can’t have beer without clean water, and the fact that brewing beer is now an economic focus here is a dream come true for RiverLink, proof positive that our real economic future depends on protecting our natural resources.

The Asheville Brewers Alliance has welcomed the new breweries with open arms. The newcomers are sharing their volume discounts and collaborating with our hometown brewers on special craft beers. I think they feel there’s synergy in it.

As for RiverMUSIC, we approached New Belgium with an untested idea, and they (along with our other sponsors, volunteers and generous musicians) helped transform this property into a new community space. The “green” the letter writer mentions must be the greening of the area.

We’re hosting five free concerts to bring new people to the river so they, along with our usual supporters, can discover the magic of the French Broad. While there they can visit the five new restaurants, numerous artists’ studios and other attractions the River District is becoming so famous for.

New Belgium could have gone anywhere in our region, with far less capital outlay and effort.

They’re also reclaiming an entire subwatershed through stream restoration and creative stormwater retention, and making multimodal transportation to and from the site. In addition, this employee-owned company offers high wages and real benefits. I’m thrilled to have them as our new neighbor on the river, and I’m over-the-moon excited for our region.

— Karen Cragnolin RiverLink

legislators should understand the ecology/economy connection The N.C. General Assembly's recent actions show that our legislators do not understand the value of a healthy natural environment.

It seems lawmakers have bought into the myth that environmental protection somehow weakens the economy. This is untrue.

Legislators should understand that ecology and economy are very similar.

Think of the environment as an investment portfolio. A good portfolio is diversified, so that even if one or two assets fail, the portfolio will remain healthy and sustainable.

Additionally, while an investor might spend or reinvest any profits, he/she would certainly avoid spending the principal, or else risk a downward spiral of shrinking capital and diminishing returns.

Similarly, a healthy environment is one with high biodiversity. This “diversification” helps all of nature's “clients” — from salamanders to people — and pays dividends in the form of a high quality of life for humans and wildlife. To harm the environment is to sell off our natural capital, reducing our future return on this precious investment and losing the ecosystem services that it currently provides for free.

Why should we slash the environmental safeguards that have always enriched North Carolina and its citizens? Why should we endanger the billions of dollars that our natural environment attracts each year?

I urge our legislators to please wake up to the value of our natural heritage and to act responsibly to protect it.

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yoUr Cellphone Can’t do this haM radio in the digital age story and photos

by Max Cooper On a stifling late-June day, a tangle of wires snakes through the open door of the Buncombe County Firefighters’ Training Center. Outside, the sun beats down and the roar of big generators fills the air; indoors, the atmosphere is even thicker, dense with a jarring concoction of radio static, Morse code and urgent voices.

“CQ Field Day, CQ Field Day, this is Whiskey Four Mike Oscar Echo,” Randy Harris says into a microphone, hunched over a folding plastic table. Consisting of just a transceiver and an open laptop, this makeshift radio station is one of many lining the room's perimeter. Cables reach to each one from the generators outside.

Sporting a bright yellow American Radio Relay League cap, Harris (call sign: KI4VLW) and about a dozen other local ham-radio enthusiasts have gathered for Field Day, an annual exercise that helps operators prepare for emergencies. The league, a national advocacy group, organizes the event.

“Band's dead,” says Harris, shaking his head; outside, other hams string wires from the trees.

The idea is to transmit from bare-bones facilities using emergency power. Running on generators or batteries, all the “rigs” (ham-speak for radios) transmit through simple, homemade wire antennas.

Each station operates on a different band (a specific segment of the electromagnetic spectrum allocated to amateur radio by international treaty), and the operators are hard at work.

Competing against stations around the globe, they have 24 hours to log as many contacts as they can.

At first glance, the whole endeavor seems anachronistic. In an age of global communication, pervasive cell coverage and hundredmillion-member social networks, what’s the attraction of basic, point-to-point radio communication? Who are these people who call each other not by name but by arcane strings of characters? What exactly are they doing?

And why?

a dying art?

Formally known as the Amateur Radio Service, ham radio is at least 100 years old. By definition, hams are amateurs, barred from accepting payment for their services under federal law. “Ham” was originally a derogatory term applied to the tinkerers and experimenters who pioneered the hobby, but today’s operators carry the moniker proudly, knowing their skill set is anything but amateur.

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To obtain the call sign needed to transmit legally, an amateur radio operator must be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission after passing a rigorous exam covering electronic theory, radio-wave propagation and the pertinent federal regulations. Other countries have similar requirements.

This rite of passage forges a global community that’s simultaneously exclusive and welcoming. Though universally geeky and proud of their hobby, hams are rarely arrogant or socially awkward: Connecting with other people is, after all, the hobby's basic purpose.

In Asheville, hams congregate at monthly meetings of the Western Carolina Amateur Radio Society, a Relay League affiliate. Meetings are informal, with lots of inside jokes and doughnuts; the conversation is flush with techcentered camaraderie and generous use of the NATO alphabet (which assigns a name to each letter to help avoid confusion).

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Even off the air, hams employ their own colorful patois. Every male ham is an “old man,” every female a “young lady”; every conversation is a “QSO,” and everyone operates from a messy place called “the shack” (typically a spare bedroom or garage workshop in the ham's house — except it’s not a “house,” it’s a “QTH”).

Adapted from commercial and military radio jargon, this special language further tightens the already-close-knit community. But hams also work hard to avoid alienating newcomers.

Attend an event for more than 10 minutes and you'll be enthusiastically encouraged to get on the air (one member even lent me a radio so I could listen in while researching this story).

Accompanying this sincere welcoming attitude, though, is the sense that relying on the hobby's primary demographic — older men with disposable income — just isn’t sustainable, particularly in the shadow of Facebook, smartphones and what old-timers see as young folks’

addiction to easy, frivolous communication.

Some members even see themselves as the last practitioners of a dying art.

alive and well That fear may be unfounded: Today's ubiquitous tech appears to be re-energizing the long-standing hobby. Pioneering operators have merged radio (an analog medium) with digital communication, and the Internet gives beginners a broad base of support.

“Amateur radio is very much alive and well,” says Bill Morine (N2COP), North Carolina section manager for the Relay League. “An awful lot of young people are coming out and seeing the merger of technologies between computers and wireless applications.”

Nationwide, there are 700,000 licensed hams — an all-time high, he reports. The licensing process is easy, Morine maintains, and ham radio’s staid image is no longer accurate.

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“These older gentlemen who are doing traditional Morse code or voice applications [are] continuing to do so,” he explains, adding, “We're also seeing a lot of young people who are coming in and doing a lot of digital applications.”

That latter comment hints at ham radio’s changing face.

elegant or obsolete?

Carl smith (N4AA) represents the old guard.

Licensed in 1954 at age 14, the Air Force veteran and retired electronics salesman has logged more than 70,000 radio contacts, many from his home in Leicester. In ham circles, he's a big deal: For the past 15 years, he’s published The DX Magazine, a bimonthly journal for serious hams with longrange ambitions.

“DX” is ham-speak for “long-distance communication,” and for Smith and his readers, “chasing DX” is the culmination of the radio art, requiring Zen-like patience, finely honed skill and luck. These hams go to expensive,

sometimes dangerous lengths to reach faraway stations. Whereas some might be content to contact a neighboring state, a serious DX-er aims for places as remote as Peter I Island off the coast of Antarctica. Obsessive operators even embark on “DX-peditions,” transmitting from exotic destinations in hopes of reaching new locations.

The Relay League lists 341 such geographic entities; Smith has worked all of them, and this year, he was inducted into CQ magazine’s DX Hall of Fame — one of only 60 such inductees since 1967.

What was it like to log No. 341?

“The number of people trying to make contacts was horrendous: huge, huge pileups,” remembers Smith. “That was something, trying to get through that mess to get in the log.” Like fishermen crowding into a favored spot, operators worldwide jockey for position when a rare DX station goes on-air.

To break through, Smith uses Morse code, the binary language of dits and dahs pioneered by telegraph operators more than a century ago.

Radio operators simply toggle a transmitter's carrier signal off and on, creating a “continuous wave” (“CW” in ham parlance). Occupying a very narrow bandwidth, it’s the perfect tool for punching through static and interference.

Once synonymous with amateur radio, CW now appears austere and elegant to some, tedious and obsolete to others. Basic code proficiency was a licensing requirement until 2007, but thanks to changing international treaties and new technology, the requirement was dropped.

Smith wasn’t pleased, believing the change has cost his hobby some of its cachet.

“To work CW you've got to use a little effort," he explains, fearing ham radio will now descend to the level of the voice-only citizens band, an unlicensed, no-holds-barred radio realm. “The code was that extra step that set you apart."

Harris, meanwhile, works DX without a bit of code. "I don't know if I would have got my license if I'd still had [to learn] the code,” he reveals. “I've lost part of my hearing, and I don't think I could have picked it up.”

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In the five years he’s been licensed, Harris has amassed an impressive number of contacts using “phone,” the ham term for voice transmission. “I'm a phone type of guy,” he says.

“If I want to talk to somebody, I want to talk to them."

a higher Calling For some operators, service is ham radio's primary purpose, and dropping the code requirement has unquestionably attracted many younger licensees. Eighteen-year-old virginia Todd (KK4BRE), for example, got involved due to radio’s community-service opportunities and usefulness in emergencies.

“We volunteer a lot,” she says. “We did the bike race for Meals on Wheels and the Shut-In Trail Ridge Run.” Paul Tilley (KK4BRD) says ham radio is just another communications tool he uses as a SKYWARN spotter. In foul weather, Tilley takes to the road in a truck equipped with a rooftop weather station, using his radio to report conditions to the National Weather Service. In remote

areas lacking cell coverage, Tilley's radio has enabled him to give people in the storm’s path time to prepare.

“There are storms that make it past the mountains that don't appear on the radar at all,” Tilley explains. He's had some close calls, including a lightning strike that destroyed his radio, but he stresses that he's not a storm chaser. “Storm chasing in the mountains is extremely dangerous: You can't see the weather coming.”

Even the most obsessed hams make time for community-service work. When Smith isn’t chasing DX, he heads the Buncombe County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, whose roughly 25 volunteers assist emergencyresponse agencies when normal communications fail. Because radio requires no infrastructure, it's often vital in large-scale emergencies.

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Watching Smith work CW is a jaw-dropping experience, and he quickly draws a crowd. Even while talking to those around him, he transmits so fast that the individual dits and dahs are barely discernible. Outside, other hams set up antennas in preparation for an all-nighter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my favorite day of the year,â&#x20AC;? says Tonya Campbell (WB0VDK) in between transmissions.

And as night falls, Marc Huennekens (KG4OPM) sets up a station in a tent in the bed of his truck. Using an old, tube-driven radio, he plans to log as many contacts as he can before falling asleep.

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After 24 grueling hours, the club has logged nearly 1,000 contacts. Smith alone worked 300 stations, transmitting all night and into the next morning. The allure of ham radio, he explains, is equal parts technical endeavor, community service and fellowship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through ham radio,â&#x20AC;? notes Smith, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can go anywhere in the world and know somebody and have a friend. I daresay your cellphone can't do that.â&#x20AC;? X To learn more about ham radio, visit wcars.org or arrl.org.

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by david forbes Downtown Asheville was a profoundly different place back in 1987, when the Asheville Downtown Association was launched. Many of today's landmark buildings were shuttered or hidden behind aluminum façades, and there was very little nightlife. Asheville's now thriving culinary, artistic and cultural scenes were in their infancy.

“When they started the ADA, it was because they believed things could happen,” current President Adrian vassallo explains. “There were a lot of people putting a lot of time into downtown. Ninety-nine percent of our activity has been volunteer-fueled.”

The ADA will mark its 25th anniversary with an Aug. 11 gala in the U.S. Cellular Center ballroom, where the winners of this year’s “Downtown Heroes” awards will be announced.

“We've gone 25 years, and we're still a vibrant, independent, member-supported organization that brings so many different views together,” he says. “We've got an anomaly here: We're not New York City or Chicago, but we've got such a vibrant, walkable downtown that you can live, work and play in.”

From the beginning, the group has taken a two-pronged approach: holding events such as Downtown After 5 and Oktoberfest to bring folks downtown but also helping research and coordinate efforts to improve the district.

“A lot of people were scared to come out,” remembers longtime volunteer (and former

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downtown support team: Many volunteers over many years have helped revive downtown Asheville; this 1996 team (Sara Holshouse, Sharon Trammel, Marell Richardson, Terry Clevenger, Rick Ramsey, Mark Crain and Garry Moffitt) worked late 1990s Moonlight Over Downtown. events chair) Rick Ramsey. We used to have the events in a lot of different locations just to get people more familiar with downtown.”

Even the roofs of parking garages were pressed into service, to give attendees a bird’s-eye view of the city center.

“I remember calling every friend I had: my parents, my grandparents. We wanted people there,” he recalls with a chuckle.

The organization also researches issues ranging from food trucks to handicapped parking to walkability and helps other groups forge solutions.

“We don't always come out on one side or the other, but we do facilitate discussion,” Vassallo explains. “Asheville's got this creative culture: We've always attracted people with great ideas.”

The ADA’s strong tradition of volunteerism and civic involvement has enabled it to tackle considerable challenges, notes Ramsey.

“I've been on various committees [volunteering with other groups], but I've never felt the way I do about ADA,” he says. “We came as a team; everyone got involved. We saw that we were making a difference.”

Nonetheless, many of the challenges the ADA faced at its inception, such as cleanliness and safety, remain, Ramsey says.

Vassallo, meanwhile, says, “We still struggle with having businesses stay open past 6 p.m.,” and many parts of downtown have yet to be fully revitalized. “There were boardedup storefronts and places you wouldn't walk around in downtown; those still exist today,” he notes, adding that city government needs to expand its definition of downtown’s boundaries to include places like South Lexington Avenue and the Coxe Avenue/South French Broad area.

But Vassallo also points to such projects as the Lexington Avenue Brewery and French Broad Chocolates expansions as evidence that the next generation of risk-takers is willing to invest in “what downtown could be.”

“We're still looking for the next great idea,” he says. “We're not done with downtown yet: We've got so much canvas left to fill.” X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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Although Council member Jan davis questioned the action, gordon smith called it a “goodfaith” effort that “means going to the voters and asking 'what do you want?' [and] going to other municipalities and asking 'do you want this?' and presenting the facts to the entities involved." — David Forbes

Merging the Asheville water system and the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County could cost up to $1.74 million in information-technology expenses, according to a “due-diligence” document posted July 31 in a comment on the Mountain Xpress website (see "City Will Go Forward With Referendum on Water System Transfer").

moffitt: city council’s proposed referendum “serves no purpose”

But the $1.74 million figure is somewhat misleading.

Buncombe County Rep. tim moffitt, who chaired the state legislative study commission that recommended merging the Asheville water system with MSD, says, "City Council has made [its] viewpoint public knowledge, [and so have] the citizens of Asheville ... in a very clear way," Moffitt says.

"They want to retain control of the region's water source and also want to repeal the Sullivan Acts," he continues, adding, "But the referendum itself just allows the city of Asheville to use taxpayer money in a political way to take issue with this entire matter. It serves no purpose."

The "IT Due Diligence" study gave an estimated range of $435,000 to $1,735,000 for consolidating city and MSD technologies — such as computers, billing systems and software. During the past session of the North Carolina General Assembly, a legislative study committee recommended the merger; both MSD and the city have started discussing and researching the implications.

"This [document] is preliminary information," says tom hartye, MSD's general manager. It was prepared for a consolidation-impact study approved at the agency’s July 18 board meeting, he explains (see the July 19 online Xpress article "MSD Awards Contract to Study Impact of Potential Merger with Asheville Water System" at http://avl.mx/iy). The full study will research overall merger costs. (For more information, see "Reluctant Partners," Aug. 1 Xpress.)

The IT budget for a merger, adds Hartye, could be "easily offset by the costs the water department is paying right now." The water department budgets $550,000 for technology expenses annually, which is paid to the city of Asheville, he says.

Up to this point, MSD has not projected a rate increase or decrease based on merging the two systems.

The study's complete figures for such items as equipment repair and replacement will “probably … be the biggest driver of what the rates are going to be," says Hartye.

— Nelda Holder

Council will determine whether to place the referendum on the November ballot.

high water: The Asheville water system pumps water to a variety of locations in Buncombe and Henderson counties, including this spot on the Blue Ridge Parkway, high above the system’s main reservoir. A state legislative committee has recommended merging the system with the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. Photo by Bill Rhodes

asheville city council calls for a non-binding referendum on Water-system merger At a July 31 worksession, Asheville City Council directed staff to craft a November referendum asking voters to weigh in on the possible transfer of the Asheville water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District. The city is also commu-

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nicating with MSD, studying the financial impacts of a merger and trying to arrange a meeting with local legislators.

Vice Mayor esther manheimer said, "This is an excellent opportunity for us to accurately gauge the sentiment of the citizenry of Asheville."

State law allows a city to submit the question of the "sale, lease or discontinuance" of a water system to its voters. On Tuesday, Aug. 14,

Moffitt mentioned the various concerns he heard at a Feb. 21 public hearing at the WNC Agricultural Center. At that event, in a segment set aside for city residents, about 85 percent of those who spoke wanted Asheville to keep the water system, he estimates. A referendum will only be more of the same, he says.

"I think [it] will only confirm what we already know. To me, I don't' think it's a wise use of tax dollars to arrive at a conclusion that's already been well-stated by their elected representatives on City Council," Moffitt says.

Meanwhile, the state legislature recently passed a bill allowing MSD to operate a water system and setting terms for the makeup of the merged board. Though Council asked Gov. Bev Perdue to veto it, she declined to either veto or sign the bill, setting the stage for it to become law. — Caitlin Byrd

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Animal Compassion Network • Animal Compassion Network seeks volunteers to care for cats, coordinate foster homes and help with the pet food assistance program. Info: www.animalcompassionnetwork.org or 274-3647.

Bird Watching Tour • THURSDAYS, 8am - A bird watching tour, presented by the Henderson County Bird Club, meets at Highland Lake Inn, 86 Lily Pad Lane, Flat Rock. $25/$15 Inn guests. Info and registration: 693-6812.

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• TU (8/14), 7pm - "Creatures of the Night" will explore nocturnal animals including bats, owls, moths, coyotes and raccoons. The evening includes a guided nature walk. Ages 5 and up. Held at Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St. Free ticket required. Info and ticket: 250-648.

Dog Adoptions • SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm - Transylvania Animal Alliance Group (T.A.A.G.) will host dog adoptions at PetSmart, 3 McKenna Road, Arden.

Info: www.facebook.com/ TAAGwags or 388-2532.

Dog Daze • FR (8/10), 5-10pm Downtown Marshall will host Dog Daze, featuring carriage rides, face painting, photo booths for dog and owner portraits and a parade at

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6:30pm. Performances by The Skylanders and The Screaming J’s. Info: director@downtownmarshallnc.com or 649-3444.

Sharks of Summer • Through MO (9/3) - Sharks of Summer, an exhibit of live sharks, cages, games and shark-related activities, will be held at the Team ECCO Center for Ocean Awareness, 511 Main St., Hendersonville. $3 aquarium admission fee includes entrance to the exhibit. Info: www.teamecco. org or 692-8386.

Where the Wild Things Are • FR (8/10), 7:30pm - "Where the Wild Things Are," a program on snakes, spiders and bears, will be held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 340 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free. Info: 765-6082.

messy meets clean: The Odd Couple pairs a fastidious man with his slob of a friend for a performance at Asheville Community Theatre. Get ready to laugh at opening night on Friday, Aug. 10.

Art 310 ART Gallery Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., #310. Fri.-Sun., 9:30am3:30pm or by appointment.

Info: www.310art.com or 776-2716.

• Through FR (8/31), Thinking Big, an exhibition of large paintings.

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• Through WE (8/15) - Allure: The Secret Life of Flowers, an exhibition of new work printed on metal by Julie McMillan of Silver Birch Studio Photography. Hosted by West One Salon, 372 Depot St. A portion of sales benefits The Hope Chest for Women. Info: www.silverbirchstudio.com or www.westonesalon.com.

American Folk Art and Framing

Oui-Oui Gallery is located at 64 Biltmore Ave. Mon. - Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm.

Info: www.amerifolk.com or 281-2134.

• Through MO (8/27) Kentucky, works by Minnie Adkins, Jim Gary Phillips and Bruce New. • Through TH (8/9) - In the Garden of Eden, paintings by self-taught Southern artists.

• TH (8/9) through TU (9/4) - Linger Awhile, paintings by self-taught Southern artists.

AnTHM Gallery Located in the Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain. Tues.-Sun., 11am9pm Info: www.anthmgallery. com.

• Through SU (8/26) - Arte de Cuba!, an exhibition of rare Cuban art, will be on display in conjunction with a monthlong

celebration of Cuban music, food and drink.

• SA (8/11), 5:30-7:30pm - A Cuban-themed storytelling session.

• SU (8/12), 11am-1pm Cuban Sunday brunch with live piano music.

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

• Through FR (10/26) - Lia Cook: Bridge 11 will be on display at UNCA's Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 1181 Broyles Road, Hendersonville.

• FR (8/10) through MO (9/17) - Invisible Ink: Works on Paper by Gabriel Shaffer will be on display in Highsmith University Union Gallery.

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• FR (8/10) through FR (9/28) - Horizons: Past and Present, photography by Jon Michael Riley, will be on display in Ramsey Library.

Art Events at WCU Held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs., 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (9/7) - Drawing on the New Deal, works by draftsman John Helike.

ArtEtude 89 Patton Ave. Sun., noon-5; Mon.-Thurs., 10am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 10am-7pm. Info: www.artetudegallery.com or 252-1466.

• 2nd SUNDAYS, 2pm "Sunday Afternoon with the Artist" will be presented by August's featured artist, Robert Asman.

Asheville Area Arts Council: The Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St. Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm. Info: www.ashevillearts. com.

• Through TH (8/30) - If I'm Good In Bed, paintings by Anna Jensen.

• FR (8/10), 6-9pm Reception.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm.

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

• Through SU (11/25) - High, Low and In Between. Artist Mel Chin extracted images from 25 volumes of Funk and Wagnall’s 1953 encyclopedia and edited them as collages freed of their historical context.

On display in the museum's East Wing, main level.

• Through SU (9/30) - Fiore/ Drawing, a survey of drawings

by Joseph A. Fiore dating from the early '50s at Black Mountain College through his late years in New York and Maine.

• FR (8/10), noon - Lunchtime Art Break: The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell’s Graphic Works, a tour led by Curator Cole Hendrix designed to engage guests in dialogue with artists, educators, docents and staff. Free with membership or museum admission.

Austin Shears • Through WE (10/17) Geometric drawings by Austin Shears will be hosted by Who Knows Art at the Hilton

Asheville Biltmore Park, 43 Town Square Blvd. Info: 2315355.

Bearfootin' • Through SA (10/20) Bearfootin', a public art exhibit featuring decorated fiberglass bear sculptures, will be on display throughout Main Street in Hendersonville. Info: 233-3216.

Biblical Art • WEEKDAYS - Religious art

by Costanza Knight will be on display at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 5th Avenue W. and White Pine Drive, Hendersonville.

Hours: Mon., noon-3pm; Tues.-Fri., 9am-3pm. Info: www.fcchendersonville.org or 692-8630.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Old City Hall, 225 West State St., Black Mountain. Mon.Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 11am-3pm. Info: www.BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930.

• Through FR (8/31) - f/32 Photography group show.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College. Gallery hours: Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www. blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484.

• Through SA (9/8) - Bridging: A Retrospective From Two to Three Dimensions, works by David Weinrib.

BookWorks 428 1/2 Haywood Road.

Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri., 1-5pm; Sat., 1-4pm. Info: www.ashevillebookworks.com or 255-8444.

• Through FR (8/31) - The Miniature Book Society will present a traveling exhibit featuring the winners of the society's annual competition.

Miniature pop-up books will also be on display.

BRAG on Avery • Trough TH (9/27) - The Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild will host an exhibition of the art of Avery County, featuring more than 25 local artists, at Canon Memorial Hospital's Dickson Gallery, 434 Hospital Drive, Linville. Info: www.bragwnc. com.

Bring Us Your Best • WE (8/15) through SA (9/1) - Bring Us Your Best, presented by the Arts Council of Henderson County, will be on display at BRCC's Technology Education and Development Center. Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat., 1-3pm. Info: www. acofhc.org or 693-8504.

FR (8/10), 5-7pm - Awards ceremony.

Worth the climb: Hike to the top of Mount Cammerer with the Friends of the Smokies on Thursday, Aug. 9. This strenuous trip features some of the region’s most beautiful panoramic views, so tie on your hiking shoes for a day of outdoor adventure.

Castell Photography 2C Wilson Alley. Wed.-Fri., noon-6pm; Sat., noon-7pm, or by appointment. Info: www. castellphotography.com or 255-1188.

• Through SA (8/6) - SHIFT, works by Fred Cray, Sharon Haper, Anne Arden McDonald and Lisa M. Robinson.

Crimson Laurel Gallery 23 Crimson Laurel Way, Bakersville. April-Dec.: Tues.Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun. & Mon., noon-5pm. Info: 688-3599

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• Through FR (8/31) Serendipity, featuring 14 wood-fired sculptural ceramic artists from five countries.

Events at Folk Art Center MP 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Open daily from 9am-6pm. Info: www.craftguild.org or 298-7928.

• Through TU (9/11) - Works

by John Gunther (fiber) and Christine Kosiba (clay).

Flood Gallery The Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St. Tues.-Sat., 10am-4pm. Info: www.floodgallery.org or 254-2166.

• Through TU (8/28) - Screenprints on wood panel and paper by Andrew Blanchard.

Haen Gallery 52 Biltmore Ave. Mon., Wed. and Fri., 10am-6pm. Tues. and Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.thehaengallery.com or 254-8577.

• Through FR (8/31) Summer Samplings, works

by Lynn Boggess, Byron Gin, Larry Gray and others.

Handmade Adornment Body and Home • FR (8/10) through FR (8/31) - 15 local artists will display handmade objects for a celebration of flowers and gardens at Handmade Adornment Body and Home, 14 S. Main St., Marshall. Wed.-Sat., 10am4pm. Info: http://avl.mx/aw.

• FR (8/10), 6-9pm - Opening reception.

Hollingsworth Gallery Located at 147 E. Main St., Brevard. Mon.-Sat., 9am6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 884-4974.

• Through FR (8/31) - Our Journey, works by Danie Riding Janov and Mary Alice Braukman.

Images of Historic Canton • Through FR (8/31) - More than 40 historic black and white photographs of Canton, including early images of the Champion paper mill, landmark buildings, sports teams and more, will be on display at the Canton Branch Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. Info: 648-2924.

• TH (8/9), 5:30-6:30pm - A reception will include a presentation by the exhibition's coordinator, Michael Beadle.

Local Sculpture Showcase • DAILY - A showcase of local sculptors, including Scott Freeland, Peter Dallos, Martin Webster, Ralph Berger, Dan Howachyn, Brett Salter and others will be on display indefinitely at the Monte Vista Hotel, 308 W. State St., Black Mountain. Free to view. Info: www.themontevistahotel.net or 669-8870.

N.C. Arboretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily.

Programs are free with $8 parking fee. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through SU (9/23) - Dusty Roads, photographs of classic and junkyard vehicles.

Pump Gallery 109 Roberts St. Tues.-Sat., 10am-4pm. Info: www.philmechanicstudios.com.

• Through TU (8/28) - Outside Today, works by Julie Porterfield.

Push Skate Shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. Gallery hours: Mon.-Thurs., 11am-6pm; Fri. & Sat., 11am7pm; Sun., noon-6pm. Info: www.pushtoyproject.com or 225-5509.

• Through TU (8/21) Americarcana, new works by Tom Pazderka.

RAD Second Saturdays • SA (8/11), 10am-6pm Asheville River Arts District's Second Saturdays will feature artist demonstrations, classes, open studios and more. Free.

Info and map: www.riverartsdistrict.com.

Raku Demonstrations • SA (8/11), 11am-2pm Judi Harwood will demonstrate Raku pottery behind The Village Potters, 191 Lyman St., #180. Free. Info: www.thevillagepotters.com or 648-0770.

Sculpture for the Garden

• Through MO (12/31) Sculpture for the Garden, a national outdoor sculpture invitational, will be on display at Grovewood Gallery, 111 Grovewood Road. Info: www. grovewood.com.

Seven Sisters Gallery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain. Summer hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www. sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107.

• Through SU (8/12) - Kate Thayer (pastels).

Skyuka Fine Art 133 N. Trade St., in Tryon.

Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and by appointment. Info: skyukafineart.com or 817-3783.

• SA (8/11) through SA (9/15) - For the Love of Tryon.

• SA (8/11), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League • Through SU (8/26) - The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League will present its annual members exhibit at Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain.

Thurs.-Sun., 11am-6pm. Info: www.svfalarts.org or susansinyaiart@charter.net.

The Bender Gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10:30am-5pm; Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www. thebendergallery.com or 5058341.

• Through FR (8/31) Divergent Visions: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of American Studio Glass.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am-4:30pm. Info: www. artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787.

• Through FR (8/31) - The Wild World of Animals, artwork about animals.

Tryon Gallery Trot • SA (8/11), 5-8pm - The Tryon Gallery Trot will feature live music, art and extended business hours. Free. Info: www.downtowntryon.org.

Tryon Painters and Sculptors Membership Show • SA (8/11) through MO (9/10) - The Tryon Painters and Sculptors Membership Show will be held at 26 Maple St., Tryon. Hours: Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: www.tryonpaintersandsculptors.com.

Upstairs Artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: www. upstairsartspace.org or 8592828.

• Through SA (8/25) Revolver, works by Daniel Nevins, Dustin Farnsworth and Daniel Marinelli, and Marked Up, works by Nava Lubelski.

WCU's Mountain Heritage Center • Through FR (8/17) Collecting for the Community, an exhibit of Mountain Heritage Center's artifacts and donations, will be on display in WCU's Mountain Heritage Center. Gallery hours: Mon.Fri., 8am-5pm; Thurs., 8am7pm. Free. Info: www.wcu. edu/2389.asp.

• Through FR (9/14) Stitches in Time: Historic Quilts of WNC.

Art/Craft Fairs 2nd Saturday Shakedown • SA (8/11), 2-8pm - Anam Cara and Hip Thrift, 203 Haywood Road, will host an afternoon of art, craft, vintage clothing, music, hula-hooping, face-painting and more.

Featuring an art opening for Lynette Elaine McDonough.

Free. Info: www.anamcaracollective.com.

Paris of the South Flea Market • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 8am-3pm - Paris of the South flea market features antiques, local food and music at 175 Clingman Ave. Free to attend.

Info: www.parisofthesouth.net.

Auditions & Call to Artists Anything Goes, Everything Shows • Through SU (9/1) - Artists of all levels are invited to submit non-returnable artwork to the Anything Goes, Everything Shows exhibit through Sept. 1.

Info: www.ashevillecourtyard. com or purplecoca@aol.com.

Appalachian Trail Video Contest • Through SU (9/2) - The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will accept submissions for its "Why Do You Love the Appalachian Trail?" video contest through Sept. 2. Info: www.facebook.com/ATHike.

Arts Council of Henderson County Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org.

• Through TH (8/16) Submissions for grassroots arts programs sub-grants will be accepted through August 16.

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

• TU (8/14), 6-9pm Auditions for Naughty but Nice. Prepare one uptempo and one ballad. One song must be by Coward or Porter.

Asheville Living Treasures • Through WE (8/15) Asheville Living Treasures will accept nominations of persons age 70 and older with a history of service to the community through August 15. Info:

www.ashevillelivingtreasures. com or ashevillelivingtreasures@gmail.com.

Asheville Symphony Chorus • TH (8/9) - Auditions for the Asheville Symphony Chorus' 2012-2013 season will be held at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 10 N. Liberty St. Info and scheduling: mlancastercond@gmail.com.

Biltmore Lake Art and Craft Festival • Through SA (9/1) - The Biltmore Lake Art and Craft Festival will accept applications from artists through Sept. 1.

Info: www.biltmorelakeartandcraftfestival.com.

Eco Arts Award • Through WE (8/15) - Eco Arts Awards will accept submissions for its songwriting, art, literature, video, photography and repurposed-material competitions through Aug 15.

Info: www.ecoartsawards. com.

Hendersonville Public Art • Through FR (8/17) - The Arts Council of Henderson County and the City of Hendersonville Main Street Advisory Committee will accept applications from artists interested in creating public art through Aug 17. Info: lholloway@cityofhendersonville.org or acofhc@bellsouth.net.

consciousparty Bring Haiti's heat closer to home

What: Hotter Than Haiti 10K, to benefit Consider Haiti.

Where: Asheville Outdoor Center, 521 Amboy Road.

When: Saturday, Aug. 11, 8 a.m. $25. Info: hotterthanhaiti10k.com Why: Imagine a country where 80 percent of the population lives in abject poverty. According to local nonprofit Consider Haiti, formerly known as Mission Manna, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. Many of its citizens spend their days struggling to find water, food and medical care. This small Caribbean country may seem far away, but Consider Haiti is determined to bring Asheville and Haiti closer together.

Consider Haiti is hosting a 10K race to raise money for its nutrition and medical programs. Teams of volunteers offer weeklong health clinics to Haitian children, distribute goats and rabbits as long-term sources of food and provide water filters to every child enrolled in its Community Health Agent Program.

You don't have to go to Haiti to help. The Hotter Than Haiti 10K will feature an early-morning run along the French Broad Greenway and Hominy Creek. There will be food and music after the race at the Asheville Outdoor Center, making it an easy way to support the organization while having a good time.

If poverty in Haiti seems like too big of a big problem to tackle, do your part one mile at a time with a morning of exercise, music and fun. Photo by Laura Baskervill

Business & Technology AAAC Artist's Curriculum Instructors • The Asheville Area Arts Council seeks instructors for its Artist's Curriculum program to provide business management training for creative professionals. Topics can include financial management, software, business planning, graphic production, marketing, etc. Interested instructors are invited to apply: kitty@ashevillearts.com ABWA Meeting • TH (8/9), 5:30-7:30pm - The American Business Women's Association will host a dinner meeting at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive. $20. Info and registration: ww.abwaskyhychapter@ gmail.com.

Mountain BizWorks Workshops 153 S. Lexington Ave. Info: 253-2834 or www.mountainbizworks.org.

• MONDAYS, noon & WEDNESDAYS, 4:30pm - An informational meeting about Mountain BizWorks' programs will help businesses make the first step toward accessing the organization's services. Free.

Info and registration: victor@ mountainbizworks.org or 253-2834.

• WE (8/8), 9am-noon Foundations Business Planning

fun fundraisers

benefitscalendar CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 8 - 16, 2012 American Bull Riding Tour • FR (8/10) & SA (8/11), 7pm - The American Bull Riding Tour and Barrel Bash will benefit Blue Ridge Cowboy Church . Held at the WNC Agricultural Center's McGough Arena, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. $12/$7 under 15/ under 5 free. Info: www.brcowboychurch.org.

Asheville Affiliates Summer Social • TH (8/16), 5:30-7:30pm - The Asheville Affiliates will host a summer social to benefit the WNC Alliance . The evening will feature light appetizers and live entertainment at The Market Place, 20 Wall St. Retro attire encouraged. $10.

Info: www.affiliatesofasheville.com.

Asheville Pizza Showdown • SU (8/12), 4-10pm - The Asheville Pizza Showdown, a benefit for MANNA FoodBank , will feature more than 10 local pizzerias and celebrity judges. Held at The Garage at Biltmore, 101 Fairview Road. All-you-can-eat pizza and beer samples. $30. Info: www.mannafoodbank.org.

Benefit Show • SA (8/11), 8pm-3am - A dance party, drag show and drum circle, to benefit local cancer patient Charlie Mahan's efforts to support his son Scottie , will be held at Club Hairspray, 38 N. French Broad Ave. $10. Info: www.clubhairspray.com.

Golf Tournament • SU (8/12), 12:30pm - A golf tournament, to support Democratic candidates and their efforts to help working families , will be held at High Vista Country Club, 88 Country Club Drive, Mills River. $50. Lunch provided. 2pm tee time.

Info and registration: Mark277@aol.com or 215-8883.

Hawgs for Hunger Poker Run • SA (8/11), 10am-4pm - The Hawgs for Hunger Poker Run will be held at Hunter Automotive, 2520 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, to benefit Project WE CARE and more. $20. Info: www.projectwecarehenderson.com.

Porsche Show • SA (8/11), 11am-2pm - A Porsche show, to benefit Sarge's Animal Rescue Foundation , will feature more than 70 Porsches. Held at The Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa, 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville. Free to attend; donations encouraged. Info: www.sargeandfriends.org.

SART performance of Sylvia • WE (8/8), 7:30pm - Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre will present an opening night performance of Sylvia , to benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue , at 44 College Street, Mars Hill. $25/$22 seniors/$18 students. Info: www.sartplays.org or 242-2848.

Tools for Schools Drive • WE (8/8) - The Tools for Schools Drive encourages the public to donate school supplies, including pencils, glue sticks, safety scissors, book bags and more, at Ingles, 1141 Tunnel Road, during store hours, to benefit local school children . Info: www.eblencharities.org.

Tribute to Doc Watson • SU (8/12), 3pm - A Tribute to Doc Watson, to benefit Shindig on the Green , will feature Southern Appalachian Mountains musician and storyteller David Holt. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. $20. Info: www. dwtheatre.com or 257-4530.

Winesday: ArtSpace Charter School • WEDNESDAYS through (8/29), 5-8pm - A wine tasting, to benefit ArtSpace Charter School , will be held at The Wine Studio of Asheville, 169 Charlotte St. $5. Info: www.winestudioasheville. com.

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Course. Turn your business idea into a business plan while learning about the businessplanning process. This eightweek session meets every Wednesday. Sliding scale. Info and registration: 253-2834 or victor@mountainbizworks.org.

• MO (8/13), 6-9pm Foundations Business Planning Course. Learn the business-planning process while building your business skills. This eight-week session meets every Monday. Sliding scale. Info and registration: 253-2834 or victor@mountainbizworks.org.

OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling Unless otherwise noted, all classes are free and held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Suite 222. Info: www.ontrackwnc. org or 255-5166.

• THURSDAYS through (8/23), 5:30-8pm - "Manage Your Money," basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies and tracking spending.

• TH (8/9), 5:30-7pm - "Debt Relief 101" will be held at Pisgah Legal Services, 62 Charlotte St. • TH (8/9), 5:30-7pm "A Budget Is a Gal's Best Friend," a financial education class for women. Info: www. ontrackwnc.org.

• FR (8/10), 11am-1pm - The NAACP Credit Awareness Project will provide free credit reports on a first-come, firstserve basis. Held at 91 Patton Ave. • SA (8/11), 9am-3pm - A homebuyer education class, hosted by OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling, will be held at 50 S. French Broad Ave. $35. Info: www. ontrackwnc.org.

Classes, Meetings & Events Mac Basics Classes at Charlotte Street Computers (pd.) Mac Basics Computer Classes are being held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte Street. Class time is 12:15 - 12:45pm.

Mondays - Mac OS X, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month - iPhoto, 2nd Tuesday - Safari & Mail, 4th Tuesday - iMovie Basics, 5th Tuesday - Alternate between Garageband and iWork Essentials, Wednesdays - iPad Basics. Registration is just $9.99 at classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com.

Open Stitch Groups at Purl's Yarn Emporium (pd.) On Wall Street downtown: Wednesdays, 10am12pm; Thursdays, 6-8pm.

Bring a knit or crochet project or find something new to cast

on. (828) 253-2750. www. purlsyarnemporium.com West Africa’s premiere djembefola, Bolokada Conde (pd.) Friday Aug. 10th, 8pm at Jubilee, 46 Wall St West Africa’s premiere djembefola, Bolokada Conde performs with Asheville’s drum and dance troupe Belle Afrique and Skinny Beats Drum Crew. call 828768-2826, adv tix $20, day of show $25 Asheville Moms for Marijuana SA (8/11), 11am - Moms for Marijuana will hold its first meetup at the Greenlife Grocery snack area. The group’s primary concerns are increasing awareness, education and discussion around the world and welcomes anyone concerned about the effect of cannabis prohibition on future generations. Info: gypsylefey@gmail.com.

Chair-Caning Workshop • SA (8/11), 10am-1pm - A chair-caning workshop, presented by David Ammons, will be held at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, 52 N. Market St. Bring a chair to cane. $30/demonstration free. Registration suggested.

Info: christian.edwards@ ncdcr.gov or 253-8304.

Cherokee Bonfire • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS - A Cherokee bonfire invites the public to hear traditional stories and roast marshmallows, beginning at dusk. Held at Oconaluftee Islands Park, Highway 441, Cherokee. Free.

Info: www.visitcherokeenc. com or (800) 438-1601.

Downtown Heroes • SA (8/11), 6-10pm Downtown Heroes, a celebration of "the people who make downtown Asheville what it is today," will be held at the Banquet Hall of the U.S. Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. The gala includes hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine. $25.

Info: www.ashevilledowntown. org.

Henderson County Heritage Museum Located in the Historic Courthouse on Main St., Hendersonville. Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm; Sun., 1-5pm. Free unless otherwise noted. Info: www.hendersoncountymuseum.org or 694-1619.

• Through SU (12/30) - An exhibit of Civil War weaponry and uniforms. Free admission.

Hilt School Info Meeting • TH (8/9), 6-8pm - The Hilt School, a new private alternative high school, will host an informal meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Free. Info: www.thehiltschool.com.

Land Of Sky Toastmasters

• TUESDAYS, 7am - The Land Of Sky Toastmasters aims to "help people with their speaking and presentation skills."

Meets at the Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd. $10. Info: www.landofskytoastmasters. org.

Lifetree Cafe • TUESDAYS, 7pm - "Lifetree Cafe is a place where people gather for conversation about life and faith in a casual setting." Groups discuss a different topic every week.

All are welcome. Hosted at Rejavanation Cafe, 901 Smoky Park Highway. Info: www. lifetreecafe.com.

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Located at 1 PARI Drive, Rosman. Info: 862-5554 or www.pari.edu.

• FR (8/10), 7pm - A presentation on the Earth's crust will focus on the evolution of the continental crust through the study of mountain chains and mature crust. $20/$15 seniors and military/$10 children under 14. Registration required.

• SA (8/11), 1pm - PARI and the Star Trek Club Alaric of Asheville will present an afternoon of activities focused on the planet Mars. $30.

Registration required.

Sex and Power: Explore Your Shades of Grey • WE (8/8), 7pm - "Discover the erotic possibilities of the darker shades of sex, including playing with power dynamics and taboos." A free introduction to the three-part series will be held at VaVaVooom,

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57 Broadway St. Info: http:// avl.mx/in.

Tapestry: All Women, Many Threads, One Story • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Tapestry is a monthly event for women of all ages to come together to be refreshed, meet new friends and be encouraged. Hosted by Creature's Cafe, 81 Patton Ave. Info: www.creaturescafe.com.

Volkswagen Show • SA (8/11), 10am-6pm - A Volkswagen show will feature cash prizes and best-of-show awards. Held at the Acquoni Expo Center, 1501 Acquoni Road, Cherokee. $10 registration/$5 admission. Info: www. visitcherokeenc.com.

WNC Knitters and Crocheters • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - The Fletcher Branch of the WNC Knitters and Crocheters for Others makes handmade items to be donated to local charities. Held at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Free. Info: 654-9788.

WNC Wheels Car Club Show • SA (8/11), 11am-3pm - The WNC Wheels Car Club show will be held at Apple Country Small Engines, 2560 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville.

Rain date Aug. 12. $5 to register. Info: www.wncwheels. com or 702-2740.

Comedy Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic • WEDNESDAYS, 9:30pm Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge comedy open mic will be held

rev your engine: The local chapter of the Porsche Club of America will show off more than 70 Porsches to benefit Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation. Check out these legendary cars at the Waynesville Inn Golf Resort and Spa on Saturday, Aug. 11.

at Athena's, 14 College St. Sign-up begins at 9pm. Free.

Info: www.DisclaimerComedy. com.

Laugh Your Asheville Off • TU (8/14) through SA (8/18) - A five-day comedy festival will feature Jim Gaffigan, Ryan Singer, Matt Fulchiron, Tom Simmons and others. Prices and locations vary. Info: www. laughyourashevilleoff.com.

Ray Price • FR (8/10), 8:15pm Disclaimer Underground Comedy presents Ray Price at Elaine's Piano Bar at the Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. Free. Info: www.

DisclaimerComedy.com.

Dance Beginner Swing Dancing Lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary.

Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.

SwingAsheville.com

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

Traditional Kalakshetra Style. • DakshinaNatya Classical Arts.

Riverview Station. • Call Tess: (828) 301-0331. Learn more: www.riverviewstation.com Studio Zahiya (pd.) Drop in Classes: Monday 7:30-9pm Bellydance • Tues. 9-10am Hip Hop Workout, 5:15-5:45pm Intro to Bellydance $7 • Wed. 6-7pm Fusion Bellydance, 7:30-9 Bellydance 2. • Thurs.

9-10am Bellydance Workout, 6-7pm Bollywood, 7-8pm Bellydance Lab, 8-9pm Hip Hop 2 • Friday 10-11am Bhangra Workout. • $12 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Ave. www.studiozahiya.com Old Farmer's Ball • THURSDAYS, 8pm - The Old Farmer's Ball is held weekly at Warren Wilson College's Bryson Gym. Beginner's lesson starts at 7:30pm.

$6/$5members/$1 Warren Wilson students. Info: www. oldfarmersball.com.

Shindig on the Green • SATURDAYS through (9/1), 7-10pm - This celebration of traditional string bands, bluegrass music and big circle mountain dancers is held most Saturdays at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free.

Info: www.folkheritage.org or 258-6101, ext.345.

Street Dance • MONDAYS through (8/13), 7-9pm - Street Dances, featuring caller Walt Puckett, music

by QuarterHouse and dance

by Forever Young Cloggers, will be held at the Henderson County Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville Free. Info: www.historichendersonville. org or 693-9708.

Tango Dance • WEDNESDAYS, 8-11pm Catwalk Milonga will be held at Homewood Event and Conference Center, 19 Zilicoa St., with host and DJ Lisa Jacobs. $7. BYOB. Info: www. catwalktango.com.

Tangogypsies Tuesdays • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Tangogypsies Tuesdays will be held at 11 Grove St. Fundamentals class from 7-8:30pm; practice and dancing from 8:30-10:30pm.

Drop-ins welcome; no partner required. $7 class/$10 class and practice; $5 after 8:30pm.

First class free through Aug. 28. Info: www.tangogypsies. com.

Eco Asheville Green Drinks • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Green Drinks encourages those interested in preserving the environment to meet at Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave. Free. Info: www.ashevillegreendrinks.com.

Clean Energy Workshop • FR (8/10), 6:30pm Western North Carolina Alliance and Transition Asheville will host a workshop on practical energy alternatives at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Presented by Erika Schneider of Sundance Power Systems.

Free. Info: 545-9114.

Franklin Green Drinks • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Franklin Green Drinks invites those interested in preserving the environment to meet at The Rathskeller, 58 Stewart St., Franklin. Info: joy@wnca.org.

Green Building Open House Tour • SA (8/11), 11am-2pm - The WNC Green Building Council invites the public to tour two green-built homes and the Laughing Waters community building at Hickory Nut Forest.

Located in Gerton. Free. Info and directions: www.wncgbc. org.

Native Tree Presentation • TU (8/14), 7pm - A presentation on native trees will be presented by Tim Spira, author of Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont. Held at Weaverville

Town Hall, 30 South Main St. Free. Info: www.weavervillenc. org or 645-7116.

Renewable Energy Supply Chains • TU (8/14), 9:30am-3:30pm - A workshop on product development and innovation in renewable energy supply chains will be hosted by AdvantageWest in WCU's Center for Rapid Product Realization, 90 West University Way, Cullowhee. Free; lunch included. Registration required.

Info: http://tinyurl.com/cvufsxt or 687-7234.

www.ashevilleart.org or 2533227.

• SA (8/11) & SU (8/12), 2pm - Trouble the Water, a documentary which focuses on a couple who survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, will be screened at the Asheville Art Museum. Free with membership or admission. Info: http://avl.mx/it.

Chariots of Fire • TH (8/16), 4pm - Chariots of Fire will be screened at Cashiers Library, 249 Frank Allen Road. Free. Info: 7430215.

Festivals

Food & Beer

Joyful Noise Jubilee • FR (8/10), 5:30-7:30pm Joyful Noise Jubilee, presented

by Joyful Noise Community Music and Arts Center, will feature music, dance, a cake walk, instrument petting zoo and bounce house.

Held at First Presbyterian Church, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville. Free. Info: www.

JoyfulNoiseCenter.org.

RiverFest / Anything That Floats Parade • SA (8/11), 1-7pm RiverFest will host the "Anything that Floats Parade," where watercraft of all kinds race down the French Broad River. Parade departs from Hominy Creek Park, 194 Hominy Creek Road. RiverFest, featuring music by Nikki Talley and Mountain Feist, food, beer, crafts and activities for kids, will be held at French Broad River Park, 508 Riverview Drive. Info: www.riverlink.org or 252-8474.

Sourwood Festival • SA (8/11), 9am-8pm & SU (8/12), 9am-5pm - The Sourwood Festival will feature 200 arts and crafts vendors, music and dancing throughout downtown Black Mountain.

A Sourwood Idol Contest will be held next to the train depot at 7pm on Friday. Free. Info: www.sourwoodfestival.com.

Buncombe Friends of Agriculture Breakfast • TU (8//14), 7-8am - The Buncombe Friends of Agriculture Breakfast will include a home-cooked breakfast featuring local foods from Corner Kitchen's Joe Scully and a chance to participate in interviews for the Slow Food Appalachian Storybank Project. Held in the WNC Agriculture Center's Virginia Boone Building, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. Free.

Info: maria.wise@buncombecounty.org or 250-4794.

Tea Tasting • SA (8/11), noon-1pm Nourish and Flourish, 347 Depot St., Suite 201, hosts a tea tasting of its "awardwinning" Rishi teas. Sampling will include a broad variety, from Japanese Sencha to our Masala Chai, and information about tea cultivation and flavoring techniques. Free. Info: www.nourishflourishnow.com or 255-2770.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. Programs are free and located at 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. www. thehopicecreamcafe.com or 254-2224.

• WE (8/15) - Free kiddie cones will be offered during business hours to celebrate Ashley and Greg Garrison's fourth year as owners of The Hop.

Film NEW Youth Professional Theatre and Film Program at NYS3 (pd.) Film, Television, Commercial, Voiceover and Theatre. Interviews Aug 12-18.

Program begins Aug19. To schedule an interview/ more information www.NYS3.com info@nys3.com (917)7102805.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Programs are free with admission unless otherwise noted. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Info:

Gardening Asheville Garden Club • WE (8/8), 10am - A meeting of the Asheville Garden Club will focus on bees and their importance in gardens and landscapes. Held at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. Info: 258-0922.

Eco-Friendly Gardening • WE (8/15), 10am Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Buncombe County will present a program on eco-friendly gardening at

94 Coxe Ave. Free. Info and registration: 255-5522.

Full Spectrum Farms Garden Harvesting • TUESDAYS, 2pm - Full Spectrum Farms invites the public to help pick its garden, beginning at 2pm. The garden is located at 3101 Old Cullowhee Road, Cullowhee and benefits adults with autism and their families. Free. Info: 293-2521 or 586-5700.

Gardening in the Mountains • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Gardening in the Mountains lectures will be offered at the Buncombe County Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. Free. Info: 255-5522.

Growing Vegetables Year Round • FR (8/10), 2pm - John Murphy, director of the Bullington Center, will present a program on growing vegetables year round at Henderson County Library, 301 N. Washington St. Free.

Info: 697-4725.

Homegrown Tomato Contest • SA (8/11), 2-5pm - The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project invites home gardeners to bring two tomatoes to The Market Place, 20 Wall St. for a tomato contest. The general public is invited to enjoy tomato hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. $10 per contestant/$20 general public. Info and tickets: contact@marketplace-restaurant. com or 252-4162.

Mountain Gardens Volunteers • THURSDAYS, 10am5pm - Mountain Gardens, 546 Shuford Creek Road, Burnsville, hosts volunteers to help "dress and keep" its paradise garden. "Spend time with us in the garden and leave with a box of useful plants."

Info: www.mountaingardensherbs.com.

N.C. Arboretum Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. 9am-5pm daily.

Programs are free with $8 parking fee. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through MO (9/3) - Wicked Plants: The Exhibit will "expose plants associated with a myriad of negative health effects."

Plant Clinic • SA (8/11), 11am-2pm Extension master gardener volunteers will hold a plant clinic at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. The clinic is designed to help gardeners identify problems and pests.

Bring samples for evaluation. Compost demonstrations will also be offered at Jesse Israel's Garden Center, adjacent to the Farmers Market.

Info: www.buncombe.ces. ncsu.edu or 255-5522.

Regional Tailgate Markets

Markets are listed by day, time and name of market, followed by address. Three dashes indicate the next listing. For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.

Info: www.buyappalachian.org or 236-1282.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8am-noon Waynesville Tailgate Market, 171 Legion Drive. --- 8amnoon - Haywood Historic Farmer's Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 2-6pm Asheville City Market South, Town Square Blvd., Biltmore Park. --- 2:30-6:30pm Weaverville Tailgate Market, 60 Lakeshore Drive. --- 2-5pm - Spruce Pine Farmers Market, 297 Oak Ave. --2-6pm - Montford Farmers Market, 36 Montford Ave. --2-6pm - French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. --2-6pm - Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville.

• THURSDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - Oakley Farmers Market, 607 Fairview Road. --- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, 2724 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. --- 3rd THURSDAYS, 2-6pm - Greenlife Tailgate Market, 70 Merrimon Ave. • FRIDAYS, 2-6pm Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. --- 3-6pm - East Asheville Tailgate Market, 945 Tunnel Road.

--- 4-7pm - Leicester Tailgate Market, 338 Leicester Highway.

• SATURDAYS, 7am-noon Henderson County Tailgate Market, 100 N. King St., Hendersonville.--- 8am-noon Waynesville Tailgate Market, 171 Legion Drive. --- 8amnoon - Haywood Historic Farmer's Market, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. --- 8am-noon - Mills River Farmers Market, 5046 Boylston Highway.

--- 8am-noon - Bakersville Farmers Market, Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot, opposite the U.S. Post Office. --- 8am-1pm Asheville City Market, 161 South Charlotte St. --- 8am12:30pm - Transylvania Tailgate Market, behind Comporium on the corner of Johnson and Jordan streets, Brevard. --- 8am-noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, UNCA commuter lot C. --8:30am-12:30pm - Yancey County Farmers Market, S. Main Street at US 19E, Burnsville. --- 9am-noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market, 1679 Barnardsville Highway, Barnardsville. --- 9am-noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road.

--- 9am-1pm - Madison County Farmers and Artisans

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Market, Highway 213 at Park Street, Mars Hill. --- 9am-2pm - Leicester Tailgate Market, 338 Leicester Highway. --10am-2pm - Murphy Farmers Market, downtown Murphy.

Info: 837-3400.

• SUNDAYS, noon-4pm Marshall's "Sundays on the Island," Blanahasset Island.

• TUESDAYS, 3-6pm Historic Marion Tailgate Market, West Henderson Street at Logan Street, Marion.

--- 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate Market, 718 Haywood Road.

Government & Politics Kids Voting Buncombe County Volunteers • Kids Voting Buncombe County seeks volunteers to assist young voters on Election Day, Nov. 6. Training provided.

Info: http://kidsvotingbc.org or 775-5673.

Republican Women's Club • TH (8/9), 11:30am - The Buncombe County Republican Women will host a business meeting and presentation on how to write letters to the editor at Cornerstone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road. Menu prices vary. Men and women welcome. Info: 277-7074.

Kids Children’s Earth School (pd.) Based on the Waldorf Paradigm and Nature Exploration Enrolling for the Kindergarten and First Grade 2012-2013 • Visit the place where children laugh and Blue Jay’s sing! Fully licensed and accredited private school.

Holistic approaches invoking all the child’s senses and fostering wonder. • Curriculum: Mathematics, Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Form Drawing, Painting, Beeswax Modeling, Music, Handwork, Games, Nature Exploration, Drama and Recitation. • Susanne Brunton holds a M.S. in Waldorf Education.

She is regarded as a highly talented and creative educator, who has taught in numerous Waldorf Schools over the last fifteen years. cstaft@ gmail.com 828.252.1924 Facebook page: “Children’s Earth School” www.childrenseartschoolcom NEW Youth Professional Theatre and Film Program at NYS3 (pd.) Film, Television, Commercial, Voiceover and Theatre. Interviews Aug 12-18.

Program begins Aug19. To schedule an interview/ more information www.NYS3.com info@nys3.com (917)7102805 BRP Family Night

• TH (8/9), 7-8:30pm - A presentation on hummingbirds will feature an opportunity for families to make a feeder for their backyard. Held at the Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Bring a small, clean soda bottle. Free. Registration required. Info: 298-5330.

Hands On! This children's museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm. Programs require $5 admission fee/free for members, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.handsonwnc.org or 697-8333.

• WE (8/8), 10:30am12:30pm - A nano science camp, for ages 7-12, will feature DNA necklaces, "mysterious gels" and gummy worms. $15/$9 members. Registration suggested.

• TH (8/9), 10:30am12:30pm - Ages 8-12 are invited to make paper airplanes at "Let’s Go Fly!" $15/$9 members.

• FR (8/10), 10:30am12:30pm - Under the Rainbow Camp for ages 3-6. Children will learn about the colors of the rainbow through stories, music and dramatic play. $15/$9 members. Registration suggested.

• TU (8/14), 10:30am12:30pm - A candy-making camp for children ages 8 and older. $15/$9 members.

Registration suggested.

• WE (8/15), 2-4pm - Wacky Wednesday Fun, for all ages, will feature "noodle mania."

• TH (8/16), 10:30am12:30pm - Bubble-mania will focus on learning and playing with bubbles. Ages 6-10. $15/$7 members. Registration suggested.

Sandburg Summer Stage Performances • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (8/18), 10:15-10:45am - The Carl Sandburg Home and The Vagabond School of Drama will perform selections from Carl Sandburg's works live onstage. Wed. & Fri.: Mr. Sandburg's Lincoln; Thurs. & Sat.: Rootabaga!. Held in the Carl Sandburg Home amphitheater, three miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 25 on Little River Road. Info: 6934178 or www.nps.gov/carl.

Spellbound Children's Bookshop 21 Battery Park Ave. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com or 232-2228.

• SATURDAYS through (8/25), 10:30-11am - The Moozic Lady will present a Tap-n-Shake music program for preschoolers. Registration required.

Young Naturalist Garden

• The Friends of the WNC Nature Center presents its new Young Naturalist Garden, featuring fort-building materials, nature art tables, a window flower box and a puppet theater. Located in the WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road. Regular admission prices apply. Info: www. wildwnc.org.

Music Song O' Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at Covenant Community UMC 11 Rocket Dr. Asheville, NC 28803.

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

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College. Gallery hours: Tues. & Wed., noon-4pm; Thurs.-Sat., 11am-5pm. Info: bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www. blackmountaincollege.org or 350-8484.

• WE (8/15), 7:30pm - A Night of Cage will feature percussionists Jason DeCristofaro, Laura Franklin and Matthew Richmond performing Cage's Third Construction. Shane Perlowin will play an original classical guitar composition dedicated to Cage. $10/$5 members and students.

Brevard Brewing Company Open Mic • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm Brevard Brewing Company will host an open mic at 63 East Main St., Brevard. Free. Info: www.brevard-brewing.com.

Concert in the Park • SA (8/11), 6:30-8pm Concert in the Park will feature Caribbean Cowboys (tropical, rock) in Fletcher Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road.

Free. Info: www.fletcherparks. org.

Drums on the Water • SATURDAYS, 7-9pm Drums on the Water, a weekly lakeside drum circle, will be held at Highland Lake Cove Retreat, 215 Rhett Drive, Flat Rock. Free. Info: www.highlandlakecove.com.

Far Away Places • SA (8/11), 1:30pm - Far Away Places (ambient, jazz, funk) will perform original songs, from hypnotic to high speed, at the ARTery, 346 Depot St. Free. Info: farawayplaces11@gmail.com.

Grind Cafe 136 West Union St., Morganton. Info: www. facebook.com/grindcafe or 430-4343.

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• SA (8/11), 7:30pm - Nora Jane Struthers (Americana). $20.

Margarita Shevchenko • FR (8/10), 7:30pm - A Young Artist Concert, featuring award-winning Russian pianist Margarita Shevchenko, will be presented by the Haywood County Arts Council at its Performing Arts Center, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. $20/ limited free student tickets available. Info: www.haywoodarts.org or 452-0593.

Music on Main • FR (8/10), 7-9pm - The Flying Saucers (oldies, rockabilly) will perform as part of the Music on Main Street series.

Held at the Henderson County Visitors Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: www.historichendersonville. org or 693-9708.

Music on the Mountain • SU (8/12), 3:30pm - Music on the Mountain will feature Balsam Range (bluegrass) and The Harris Brothers (bluegrass) at Chimney Rock State Park. $25/$22 in advance.

Discounts for youth ages 6-15. Ticket includes all-day admission to park. Info: www. chimneyrockpark.com.

Open Mic • TUESDAYS, 7-10pm - An open mic, hosted by Noah Stockdale, will be held weekly at Tod's Tasties, 102 Montford Ave. Info: www.todstasties. com or npstockd@unca.edu.

Pan Harmonia Concerts held at the Altamont Theater, 18 Church St. Info: www.pan-harmonia.org or www.myaltamont.com.

• SU (8/12), 5pm - "A Brass Menagerie" with the Appalachian Brass Quintet. $15/$12 in advance.

Pickin' in Lake Lure • SATURDAYS, 6:30-9pm Pickin' in Lake Lure invites the public to bring guitars, fiddles, bass, bagpipes and other instruments for an informal jam session. Held beside the smokehouse across from the Lake Lure beach. Free. Info: www.pickin-in-lakelure.com.

Summer Tracks in Tryon A concert series held at the Rogers Park amphitheater on W. Howard Street. Food and drinks available. Free admission, but donations at the gate are encouraged. Info: (800) 440-7848, 894-2324 or www. firstpeaknc.com.

• FR (8/10), 7-10pm - Sol Driven Train (jam, roots, Americana).

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. Programs are free and located at 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. www.

thehopicecreamcafe.com or 254-2224.

• TU (8/14), 6:30-7:30pm Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (kid hip hop).

VFW Country Night • SATURDAYS, 9pm - VFW Post 891, 626 New Leicester Highway, will host a night of country and rock music, featuring the 100 Proof Band. $7/$5 members. Info: 2544277.

Outdoors Lake James Boat Slips (pd.) Covered and uncovered.

Starting at $1600/year. 828 584-0666. www.mountainharbourmarina.com BRP Hike of the Week • FR (8/10), 10am - An easyto-moderate 1.5-mile hike on the Craggy Gardens Trail will depart from the Craggy Garden Picnic Area Parking Lot, MP 367.6 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Bring water, sunscreen and a container for picking blueberries. Free. Info: 298-5330.

BRP Program: O Christmas Tree • SA (8/11), 7:30pm - "O Christmas Tree" will focus on the trees of WNC. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free.

Info: 765-6082.

Events at REI Located at 31 Schenck Parkway. Info: 687-0918 or www.rei.com/asheville.

• WE (8/8), 7pm - A bike maintenance class will teach participants how to lube a chain, fix a flat and make minor adjustments. No need to bring bikes. Free, but registration is required.

• TU (8/14), 7-8:30pm - A class on mountain biking basics will focus on gear, safety and suggestions for purchasing a new bike or modifying an existing one.

Free. Registration required.

• WE (8/15), 7pm - A presentation on preventing boating and climbing shoulder injuries will be led by Dr. Keith Silcox of Active Care Chiropractic and Exercise Rehab. Free.

Registration required.

Flat Top Manor Tours • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS, 9am, 10am, 11am, 2pm & 3pm - Tours of Flat Top Manor, the former home of Moses and Bertha Cone, will be led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers. Departs from Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, MP 294 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free. Registration required: 295-3782.

Friends of the Smokies Hike • TH (8/9), 8:30am - A strenuous 11.4-mile hike to the top of Mt. Cammerer will depart

from Asheville and Waynesville locations. Bring food, water and appropriate hiking gear for an all-day excursion. $35/$10 members. Info, registration and location: ollyd@friendsofthesmokies.org or 452-0720.

Guided Tour of Chestnut Orchard • WEDNESDAYS, 11am Guided tours of the Chestnut Orchard. $15 includes lunch.

119 Ranch Drive, Maggie Valley. Reservations required: 926-1401.

Storytelling Hike • SA (8/11), 5pm - Van Burnette, Wendell Begley and Bill Alexander will tell stories on the top of Sunset Mountain.

Departs from Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State St. Bring dinner, drinks (no alcohol), a folding chair, flash light and warm clothes. Hosted by the Swannanoa Valley Museum. $45/$30 members.

Info and registration: info@ swannanoavalleymuseum.org or 669-9566.

Parenting Green Parents Club • FRIDAYS, 9am - This group of eco-minded parents meets at Biltmore Coffee Traders, 518 Hendersonville Road, for hands on workshops, including planting kids' gardens, growing sprouts, making green cleaners and more. Children welcome. Info: 712-8439 or http://avl.mx/em.

Parents' Night Out • FR (8/10) & SA (8/11), 6-9pm - West Asheville Vineyard will offer free child care for preschoolers (Friday) and elementary students (Saturday). Info and registration: westashevillevineyard.org or 251-1944.

Wee Trade Children's Consignment • SA (8/11), 9am-6pm & SU (8/12), noon-6pm - The Wee Trade children's consignment sale will feature clothes, books, toys, furniture and more. She Trade, featuring women's shoes, jewelry and accessories, will be held in conjunction with the sale. Held at WNC Agricultural Center's Davis Event Center, 1301 Fanning Bride Road, Fletcher.

Info: www.wee-trade.net.

Public Lectures Friend or Foe? • SA (8/11), 7:30pm - "Friend or Foe? We think of many creatures in the natural world as bad, scary and out to get us. But are they?" Held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 340 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free.

Info: 765-6082.

Getting Out of the Moonshine Business

• FR (8/10), 7:30pm "Getting Out of the Moonshine Business" will be presented at Linville Falls Campground, MP 316 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free. Info: 765-6082.

Spirituality Asheville Compassionate Communication Center (pd.) Free practice group.

Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication).

2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:006:15pm, 252-0538. www. ashevilleccc.com Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment.

Guided meditations follow the Insight/Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation 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, 10am11:30am: 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.

Indian Classical Dance (pd.) Is both prayer and an invocation of the highest divinity. Learn the dance the Natya Shastra called "the highest form of yoga," Bharatanatyam.

Call Tess: 301-0331.

Mindfulness Meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241. www. billwalz.com. Mondays, 7-8pm – Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation.

A Course in Miracles • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Join "a loving group of people" to study A Course in Miracles at Groce United Methodist Church, 954

Tunnel Road. Open to all. Info: 712-5472.

Awakening Practice Group • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Awakening Practices Group, an "Eckhart Tolle group with an emphasis on putting Tolle's words and pointers into action through meditation and discussion," will meet at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St. By donation. Info: Trey@ QueDox.com or 670-8283.

Centering Prayer • WEDNESDAYS, 9:30am Centering Prayer, a method of contemplative prayer or Christian meditation, is offered at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St., Room 4. Welcome table at 11:30am; worship at 12:30pm. Free to attend. Info: www. haywoodstreet.org or cszarke@yahoo.com.

Community HU Song • SU (8/12), 11-11:30am - "In our fast-paced world, are you looking to expand your awareness, experience life’s blessings or bring peace and calm?

Chanting this once-secret name for God, HU, has helped people throughout time find inner peace and divine love."

Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Road.

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

Damanhur • WE (8/15), 7-9pm Members of the Italian community of Damanhur will lead a presentation at Earthaven Ecovillage, 5 Consensus Circle, Black Mountain. $10.

Info: www.earthriverproductions.com.

Dowsing Training and Practice • MONDAYS, 9am-12:30pm Dowsing training and practice will focus on tapping into the superconscious universal mind through pendulums and L Rods. $40. Info and location: UltimateEnergyHealing@ gmail.com.

First Congregational Church in Hendersonville Fifth Avenue West at White Pine Street, Hendersonville.

Programs by donation, unless otherwise noted. Info: 6928630 or www.fcchendersonville.org.

• SU (8/12), 9:15am - Adult forum: Progressive Theodicy with Rev. Larry Anderson and Dr. Jill Bierwirth.

Grassroots Gathering • 2nd SUNDAYS, 5pm - All of Grassroots Church will meet for Christ-centered worship, challenging Gospel truth and communion at Edelweiss Event Space, 697D Haywood Road. Info: lance@grassrootschurch.cc or 414-8193.

Home Life, Spiritual Life • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Learn how to transform relationships with family, friends and co-

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can't possibly be true • In 2011, sheriff's deputies, the FBI, state officials and a media crew alerted by the sheriff raided the Liberty County, Texas, home of Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton, acting on a tip that "25 to 30" children's bodies were buried on the property. No evidence was found, and in a June 2012 defamation lawsuit, Bankson and Charlton claim the sheriff organized the raid knowing full well that the tipster was a self-described "prophet" who’d said her information came from "Jesus and the angels."

The sheriff maintains he did everything "by the book," noting that a judge had signed the search warrant.

• In July, the online magazine Salon profiled Virtuous Pedophiles, founded by two men who say they can keep their sexual fascination with children under control. Said one (who claims "advanced degrees from prestigious universities"), "We do not choose to be attracted to children, [but] we can resist the temptation to abuse children sexually." "Many" group mem-

bers, he added, "present no danger to children whatsoever." The group's co-founder lamented, "Almost any group in the world can hold a convention, look out on a sea of faces and say, 'These are people like me,'" but because pedophiles are treated with such scorn, “We can't."

democracy follies • In July, North Carolina state Rep. Becky Carney, an environmental activist, inadvertently cast the deciding vote to allow natural-gas fracking. After Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the bill, the House needed exactly 72 votes for an override. Carney's tireless lobbying of colleagues appeared to have left the effort one vote short, but when it came time to vote, Carney was heard on her microphone saying "Oh my gosh: I pushed green!" accidentally becoming the 72nd vote.

• Coming soon to American democracy? In a live TV debate in July, Mohammed Shawabka of the Jordanian Parliament became enraged when his opponent, Mansour Seif-Eddine Murad, called him an Israeli secret agent. After removing a shoe and hurling it at Murad (who ducked), Shawabka pulled a silver pistol from his waistband and waved it around; no shots were fired.

• Mainstreaming: In May, after a video surfaced of Jane Svoboda, 52, addressing the Lincoln (Neb.) City Council with nonsense comments about Whitney Houston, Hillary Clinton and "corpses found without clothes,” her brother called for sympathy, saying she’s been diagnosed as schizophrenic and resides in an assisted-living community. Nonetheless, as the Lincoln Journal Star pointed out, Ms. Svoboda remains a registered lobbyist at the state capitol.

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Held at Montford Books and More, 31 Montford Ave. Course includes guided meditation, talk and discussion. $8/$5 students and seniors.

Info: meditationinasheville@ gmail.com, 668-2241 or www.meditationinasheville.org.

Introduction to Open Heart Meditation • WE (8/8), 6pm - "Learn simple ways to enjoy this practice and your direct connection to Source" during this four-part series. Held at 5 Covington St. $25. Info: dianastone@ bellsouth.net.

Light Center 2190 N.C. Highway 9 S., Black Mountain. Info: www. urlight.org or 669-6845.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2:303:30pm - Prayer for United States and world conditions.

• DAILY, 10am-5pm - Light room, trails and labyrinth open daily. Free.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - "Celebration of Light" features music, singing, meditations and speakers. By donation. Info: 253-2556.

• THURSDAYS, 2-3:30pm Infinite Way tape study group.

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• 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am Crystal bowl meditation. $10 suggested donation.

• 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 1-2:45pm - "Toning For Peace." By donation.

• SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - Prayer for world peace. Free.

Meditation and Bhajans • SUNDAYS, 5pm - One hour silent meditation, followed by spiritual songs, bhajans, distributing fruit prasad and meditation instructions, will be held at Dhyan Mandir near Fairview. All are welcome.

Free. Info and directions: 2993246, 329-9022 or www. shivabalamahayogi.com.

Morning Sitting Meditation • THURSDAYS, 7am - A mostly silent, simply guided meditation based in the yogic tradition. All meditators are welcome, whatever style of silent meditation preferred.

Hosted by One Center Yoga, 120 Coxe Ave., Suite 3A. By donation. Info: www.onecenteryoga.com.

Sacred Embodiment Center Located at 41 Carolina Lane in Asheville. www.thesacredembodimentcenter.com or 216-2983.

• SUNDAYS, 6-8pm Asheville Intenders Circle will be preceded by a potluck.

"We support each other in manifesting the highest good together and invite you to join us."

Spiritual Channeling • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, noon-8pm - "Channeling your

spiritual guidance about your soul's purpose, the blockages and the energetic barriers to your progress and calls to action." $25 for 15-minute session. Info: 337-1852.

Sunday Chanting • SUNDAYS, 4pm - All are invited to chant at the Peace Chamber, 302 Old Fellowship Road, Swannanoa. $10 suggested donation. Info: (386) 847-6171 or catysevents@ gmail.com.

Ultimate Energy Healing • SA (8/11), 2-5pm - "Learn how to use a pendulum to identify and clear trapped emotions, psychic traumas, negative imprints and other non-beneficial energies in your own energy fields." Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Free. Info: www.UltimateEnergyHealing. com.

Ultimate Energy Healing • MONDAYS, 1pm - Learn and practice Ultimate Energy Healing for people, pets and places. Technique combines nine healing modalities into one. $40. Info and directions: UltimateEnergyHealing@ gmail.com.

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

Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar. This group meets to write together and then share in a supportive atmosphere. Free! Contact Lisa at 691-5472 or tokyotaos@ live.com for more info.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Old City Hall, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. Mon.-Wed. and Fri., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 11am-3pm. Info: www.

BlackMountainArts.org or 669-0930.

• FR (8/10), noon-1pm - The Lunchtime Literary and Music Series will feature Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz piano) and Tina Barr (poetry). Free; donations accepted.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 2504758) n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 2506480)

n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • WE (8/8) & TH (8/9), 10:30am - "Dream Up a Costume" in advance of the Secret Agent 23 Skidoo show.

All ages. BM • TH (8/9), 1pm - Book club: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks. FV • FR (8/10), 4-5:30pm Teens will produce a movie trailer for the book The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. WV • TU (8/14), 1pm - Book club: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. LE --- 7pm - Actress-playwright RoseLynn Katz will perform her original one-woman show about writer, poet and critic Dorothy Parker. Free. EC • WE (8/15), 10am - Secret Agent 23 Skidoo concert. All ages. BM • TH (8/16), 7pm - Ron Rash will present his books, including Serena, The Cove, Saints at the River and The World Made Straight. Free. LE • TH (8/16), 2:30pm - Book club: Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron. SS City Lights Bookstore Located at 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. citylightsnc.com or 586-9499.

• FR (8/10), 6:30pm - Holistic healer Andrea Ford will "discuss the wisdom of the Enneagram."

Discussion Bound Book Club • TU (7/10), 3-5pm "Discussion Bound" book club: The Photograph by Penelope Lively. Hosted by the Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square. Programs are free with admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Info: www.ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. fountainheadbookstore.com or 697-1870.

• SA (8/11), 1pm - Mark De Castrique will present his novel The 13th Target.

Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St. Info: www. malaprops.com or 254-6734.

Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• TH (8/9), 7pm - Anna North will present her book America Pacifica and Eric Sasson will present his book Margins of Tolerance.

• FR (8/10), 7pm - H. Byron Ballard, ritualist and teacher for Mother Grove Goddess Temple, will present her book Staubs and

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• SA (8/11), 7pm - Lama Tsultrim Khandro will discuss her three-year retreat under the guidance of the Karma Kaygu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

• TU (8/14), 7pm - Kath Bartlett will speak about treating chronic pain with acupuncture.

• TH (8/16), 7pm - Stitchn-Bitch.

New Book Club at Canton Library • TH (8/16), 3:30-4:30pm - Attend the first meeting of this new book club at Canton Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave., and meet other new members, discuss objectives, pick the first selection and enjoy refreshments. Info: 648-2924.

Rose Senehi • SA (8/9), 2pm - Rose Senehi will read from her book Render Unto the Valley at Etowah Library, 101 Brickyard Road. Free. Info: 891-6577.

Tales and Ales • FR (8/10), 8pm - Tales and Ales, a storytelling open mic, will be held at Anam Cara Collective, 203 Haywood Road. Free. Beer and wine available for suggested donation. Info: http://avl.mx/is.

The Genesis of a Novel • TH (8/9), 6pm - Local author Wayne Caldwell will present a program about the genesis of his novel Cataloochee at the Haywood Country Public Library, 678 South Haywood St., Waynesville. Free. Info: http:// avl.mx/io.

"Writing From The Heart" Class • SA (8/11), 10am-3pm "Selecting and Directing Your Writings" writing workshop will be offered as part of the "Writing From The Heart" series, presented by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia. Held at 29 Regal Ave., Sylva. $35. Info: www.spiritofappalachia.org or 631-4587.

Sports Cheshire Racquet Club We're Open! (pd.) Come Play Tennis!

Clay Courts - 6 Outdoor and Indoor Clinics with Pro Wayne Forester Tuesdays/Thursdays 6:30PM and Saturdays 11AM. Members and Non-Menbers Welcome! All Levels and Ages.

195 Dogwood Lane off Hwy 9 South. 828-669-6657 tennis@villageofcheshire.com Aqua Zumba Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - An aqua Zumba class will be held at Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Regular admission/free for members. Info:

recprograms@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030.

Asheville Hoops • TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Asheville Hoops encourages beginners and experienced hula hoopers to meet at Pritchard Park for informal hooping. Free. Info: www. ashevillehoops.com.

ATC Summer Games • TU (8/14), 5-9pm - The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Appalachian Trail with a summer games competition at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway.

Participants will compete for outdoor gear prizes by with activities like a water balloon toss, watermelon seed spitting contest and a cupcake walk.

Free. Info: www.appalachiantrail.org.

Trail Run 15K • SA (8/11), 9am - Daniel Boone 15K Trail Run Scramble will take place at Camp Daniel Boone, 3647 Little East Fork Road, Canton. Sponsored by Jus' Running. Registration begins at 7:30am. $30. Info: bb.lawrence@scouting.org.

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

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS, until (8/26) - The Odd Couple, "the ultimate buddy comedy of all time," will be performed Fri. & Sat., 7:30pm. Sun., 2:30pm. $22/$19 seniors and students; $12 children.

Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage: Highway 225, Flat Rock. Downtown location: 125 South Main St., Hendersonville.

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

• Tshrough TH (8/9), 8pm "Homeward Bound: The Songs of Simon and Garfunkel" will be performed at the downtown location. $24.

• WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/19) - Guys and Dolls, the story of Nathan Detroit's floating crap game, his fiance and a "Salvation Army-style band determined to clean out and clean up the evildoers of Time Square."

Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Wed., Thurs., Sat. and Sun., 2pm. Performed on the Mainstage. $40; discounts for seniors, students and groups.

• MO (8/13) & TU (8/14), 8pm - Simple Joys: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz will be performed on the Mainstage by the Flat Rock Playhouse's apprentices. $20/$10 students and children.

• TH (8/16) through SU (9/9) - The Marvelous Wonderettes, "a charming love letter to classic songs and travels back to the days of bobby sox, bubble gum and Bobby Darin," will be performed at the downtown location. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Thurs, Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $35/discounts for seniors, AAA members, students and groups. Rush tickets available during the first week of performance.

Hendersonville Little Theatre Located at the Barn on State Street between Kanuga and Willow Roads in Hendersonville. Info: 692-1082 or www.hendersonvillelittletheatre.org.

• Through SU (8/12) - Two one-act comedies by Anton Chekhov, The Boor and The Marriage Proposal, will be performed on various days and times. See website for full schedule. $20.

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: 254-5146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/18), 7:30pm - The Merry Wives of Windsor, the story of Falstaff’s attempts to woo three different women at once, will feature some of Asheville's "most fantastic freaks" including acrobats, clowns and stilt-walkers.

Parkway Playhouse 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville. Info: www. parkwayplayhouse.com or 682-4285.

• Through SA (8/11), 7:30pm - Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be performed most Thurs.-Sat., with Sat. and Sun. performances during opening weekend.

Prices vary.

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre Performances are held at Mars Hill College's Owen Theatre.

Info: www.sartplays.org or 689-1239.

• TH (8/9) through SU (8/19) - Sylvia, the "hilarious Broadway hit about a couple and their dog." Dates and times vary. $25/$22 seniors/$18 students.

Volunteering Asheville Area Arts Council: The Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St. Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm. Info: www.ashevillearts. com.

• Through TU (8/21) - AAAC seeks volunteers for the Tangerine Ball on Sept. 15.

Volunteers are also needed for the pre-Tangerine Ball fashion show on Aug 23. Info: info@ ashevillearts.com.

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

• TU (8/14), 6:30pm Volunteer orientation.

Buncombe County Jail • Volunteers are sought for a variety of programs with inmates from Buncombe County Jail. Must be 21 years or older. Info: 989-9459.

Council on Aging • Volunteers are needed to drive seniors to doctor appointments as part of the Call-A-Ride program.

Volunteers use their own vehicles; mileage reimbursement is available. Info: www. coabc.org or 277-8288.

Goombay Festival • Through WE (8/1) Goombay Festival will accept volunteers for its Aug. 24-26 festival through Aug. 10. Info: www.goombayavl.com or (925) 207-3405.

Habitat for Humanity • Habitat for Humanity seeks volunteers for its Home Repair program. Use existing skills or gain new ones while helping low-income homeowners make improvements to their homes. No experience or longterm commitment necessary.

Info: 210-9383.

Hands On Asheville-Buncombe Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision.

Info: www.handsonasheville. org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• SA (8/11), 10am-noon Teacher's Pet: Volunteers will create supplemental educational materials to help elementary students improve reading skills. Make flashcards, games and more. Instruction and materials provided.

• SA (8/11), 10am-1pm Fair-Trade Stock-Up: Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

• MO (8/13), 5:30-7pm Volunteers are needed to create book packages for people recently placed in new housing by Homeward Bound of Asheville.

• WE (8/15), 6-8pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for hospice patients at CarePartners' John Keever Solace Center. Supplies provided.

Literacy Council of Buncombe County

Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: 254-3442, ext. 205.

• Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a second language. No prior tutoring experience required. Tutors will receive 15 hours of training as well as ongoing support from certified professionals.

Orientation will be held Sept.

5 and 6. Info: literacytutors@ litcouncil.com.

MotherLove Mentor • The YWCA MotherLove program seeks volunteers to provide support and encouragement to teen mothers. A commitment of eight hours per is month required. Info: 254-7206.

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

Info: 692-0575.

Partners Unlimited • Partners Unlimited, a program for at-risk youth ages 10-18, seeks volunteer tutors and website assistance. Info: partnersunlimited@juno.com or 281-2800.

Project Linus • Project Linus, a volunteer group which provides handmade blankets to children in crisis, seeks new members.

Info: 645-8800.

RiverLink Events Info: www.riverlink.org or 252-8474.

• WE (8/8), 10am & 5pm Volunteer information sessions will be held at the RiverLink office, 170 Lyman St. Info: volunteer@riverlink.org or 252-8474.

The Rathbun Center • The Rathbun Center, a nonprofit corporation which provides free lodging for patients or their caregivers staying in Asheville for medical treatment, needs volunteers to support and register guests.

Info: www.rathbuncenter.org or 251-0595.

Youth for Understanding USA • Through FR (8/31) - Youth for Understanding USA seeks host families for its exchange programs through Aug. 31.

Info: www.yfuusa.org.

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Briefs

An Unrepentant Lackey of the Crumbling Regime

Despite inability to see, hear, move, speak, Billy Graham miraculously drops phrase ‘Eat More Chikin’ in press release regarding Chick-filA’s anti-gay-marriage stance Elder Graham becomes incredibly lucid, verbose in press releases when son Franklin Graham upset about national issues

Local call center Sitel no longer allowing employees to leave bathrooms at heart of dispute until dangerous union activity safely wiped out Overworked cold-case detectives praying widely reviled local GOP operative Michael Muller doesn’t get murdered anytime soon ‘Far too many suspects with motives’

Local singer-songwriter credits family, community for unrealized dreams, continued reliance on day-job Following protests of Navy’s plan to deafen whales, mediator orders Navy to instead only partially blind whales The Asheville Disclaimer is parody/satire.

Contact tomscheve@gmail.com Twitter: @AvlDisclaimer Michele Scheve, Tom Scheve.

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Announcements Classes, Programs & Demonstrations

• An experimental workshop on traditional art will be held from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Friday at the Hendersonville Library. The experimental workshop will take the form of a traditional workshop on experimental art.

• Jackson County Visual Arts Association will host an opening reception for its new art exhibit, “And Some Do Not,” a companion piece to “Some Like It Hot: A Summer Show” at Gallery 1.

• Author Marshall Frank will be at the Sylva Library for a talk based on his experiences as a police officer and detective in Miami-Dade County, Florida that are revealed in his book, They All Got Away (For a Price).

• The Gibson Brothers, a traditional bluegrass band, will be performing Friday in Franklin.

The Gibson Sisters, a traditional pair of sisters, will be dining in a nearby cafe, but not so nearby that they’ll hear their brothers’ performance, but nearby enough that their brothers will hear their conversation.

• The annual Friends of the Library Book Sale is scheduled for Wed., 9 a.m., at Pack Library and the monthly Haters of the Library Book Theft will also take place at that time.

Outdoors

• Join rangers at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center for Family Night Tracking. This week, we’ll be tracking the Carmichael family, who is traveling down the Blue Ridge Parkway without a care in the world.

• Join Parkway rangers this Friday morning at Beaverdam Gap Overlook for a three-mile, moderately steep hike

along a trail so well hidden that many rangers do not even know it exists, including these rangers so if you know where it is don’t be afraid to say something or they’ll be looking all day long while assuring everyone it’s surely just past the next patch of poison ivy.

• Hay Day will be held Thurs. at Mountain Research Station. BYOH. • WNC Hiking Group makes regular hiking clubs look like lost mall walkers. We’re not like other hiking clubs, with their meandering and their creaky knees and their group-wide complaining and zero tolerance for Alpha-hikers who need to lead not only the hike, but the discussion, the recording of minutes at group meetings, and snack selection for each member of the group according to their body type.

Health

• Prenatal Hot Yoga + Zumba class, followed by relaxing prenatal rock-wall cool-down climb + birthing-partner parkour. Monday morning, Mission Hospital emergency room.

• Family caregiver education program, Tuesdays at MAHEC. This week’s lesson is “Don’t let siblings trick you into being your parents’ caregiver: A primer in preemptive cross-country moves.”

• Breast feeding. Free to public. BYO bib. No to-go cups!

• Yoga for seniors. Ease yourself down, exhale/complain, inhale, wake up, rise to feet with instructor’s assistance, annnnnnd ONE! • Core and More, Tuesdays in Woodfin YMCA. In addition to the core, we will be working on those soft, floppy appendages attached to your pathetic core.

Mountain Xpress staff prepares for rival launch of Asheville Scene by joining Asheville Scene

Asheville, MondAy — Mountain Xpress employees are making last-ditch efforts to secure a future for themselves by reaching out to colleagues in the media through back-channel contacts, hoping to guarantee safe transit from their besieged indie offices on Wall Street in downtown Asheville to the safe confines of the Asheville Citizen-Times offices before the official launch of their bitter rivals’ new weekly editorial surface-to-surface missile, Asheville Scene.

As a long-simmering media skirmish boils over into a war for readership, editors and managers from publications all over town have reportedly been snatched in the dead of night and whisked away into the darkness by Asheville Citizen-Times operatives, never to be seen in abject poverty again.

Mountain Xpress “My loyalty will always refugee/publisher remain with Xpress,” said Jeff Fobes, above, longtime Xpress employee waits at a border crossing. and distribution manager Jeff Tallman, “but I can’t help noticing — if you do happen to talk to anyone at Asheville Scene — a few distribution points around town where Scene could beef up its presence. Honestly, I just want to distribute newspapers, any newspapers.”

Other Xpress staffers were more resolute in their loyalty.

“I’m proud of our coverage of local politics,” said Xpress staff reporter Jake Frankel. “Of course, any coverage of local politics is good.

Is Asheville Scene going to cover — oh, it’s unclear, I see. Are they reviewing hiking trails or anything like that? Because that’s important too, if you’re already putting in a good word for me that is.”

Mountain Xpress received some mixed news recently when it was announced that Xpress reporter Caitlin Byrd and photographer Max Cooper had won national awards for their work at Xpress, thus qualifying them to interview for positions at Asheville Scene.

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After a consultant discovered a $3 million shortfall, the Western Highlands Network must undergo close state oversight aimed at getting the agency back on track. And if the managedcare organization doesn't strictly adhere to the recommendations in the state’s Aug. 1 correction plan, it could face severe consequences. The board has already fired CEO Arthur Carder Jr. "The last resort would be for the state to take over their operation and either merge them into another MCO or find another provider to manage that," Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Julie Henry explained in a July 31 phone interview.

Western Highlands provides mental-health, substance-abuse and developmental-disability services to residents of Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania and Yancey counties. But on Jan. 3, the agency changed the way it operates, becoming just the second managed-care organization in North Carolina. Under the General Assembly’s 2011 statewide Medicaid expansion, all local management entities must make the switch by next January.

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in the red: Former Western Highlands Network CEO Arthur Candar Jr. explains how the organization ended up $3 million in the hole. At the end of the July 27 meeting, the board voted to fire him. Photo by Caitlin Byrd

After passing out four spreadsheets, Chief Financial Officer sharon lentz said she hadn’t spotted the loss until the first week of June. At that point, she recalled, "I said, 'Whoa, we're in trouble.'"

But Lentz didn’t tell the board, and most members said they’d learned about the budget troubles via a July 18 article in The News & Observer of Raleigh. A frustrated-sounding Mandy stone, Buncombe County’s assistant county manager and director of social services, demanded clarification.

"I sent you an email about this on May 30, and you said, 'We're fine,'" she told Lentz, adding, "I sit in Finance Committee [meetings] every month, and I didn't hear 'Whoa.' I went back and read all the Finance minutes and didn't see anything."

As the meeting progressed, however, Carder said he’d also known that something was wrong. But before the board went into closed session, firing Carder and naming Charles schoenheit as interim CEO, state Medicaid Director Michael Watson weighed in.

"I tend to see this, really, as an issue of management, accountability and — maybe even more important — just having the right information to carry out the role that you've assumed," he said. Going forward, Watson told the board, "What you're going to get from us is a lot of attention" — specifically, a detailed plan for putting things right.

close scrutiny Issued Aug. 1, the state’s 10-page plan of correction says the organization must reach certain benchmarks and follow strict guidelines.

Western Highlands, for example, will have to hire a consultant other than Mercer (a contractor the state sent in to assess the situation), meet weekly with state staffers, , and, beginning in September, submit weekly managementteam minutes to the state Division of Medical Assistance.

All this came as no surprise to Schoenheit, however. In a later interview, he said, "Going forward, the plan, in simple terms, is to respond

“the last resort Would be for the state to take over their operation and either merge them into another mco or find another provider to manage that.”

Julie henry, n.c. department of health and human services

to the request for corrective action," he said, adding that the board had already held preliminary discussions concerning what must be done to continue providing services and stop operating in the red.

Most of the state’s recommendations come from Mercer’s July 23 report. Piedmont Behavioral Health, says Henry, experienced similar problems when it first became an MCO. For Western Highlands, she added, "It's just that the time frame is compressed, and there's more scrutiny now."

Watson, however, assured the board that the state isn’t looking to interfere with Western Highlands’ mission. “We're not talking about having to slash services," he said. "What you're talking about is having to manage toward where you ought to be."

And steve Owen, chief business operations officer for the state’s Division of Medical Assistance, added, "I think you can turn this thing around."

looking ahead The board, Schoenheit explained later, will do its best to follow the state’s guidelines. "One of my goals is to develop better collaboration between staff and the board; expect the board to be a bit more involved than in the past.That's what I want, and that's what they want until we can sort of get this under control and go back to more normal operating procedures," he said.

In the meantime, Schoenheit said he wanted to reassure clients, stressing that while a $3 million deficit is not ideal, it represents only about 5 percent of the organization's budget.

And the state, noted Henry, hopes Western Highlands can serve as a lesson. "We hope this will help the other MCOs learn from this experience. Hopefully,” she said, the state won’t “find ourselves in this situation with the [other] MCOs coming online. This is not a death knell for Western Highlands: We really do think that with some guidance and making some of these adjustments, they can get back on track." X

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Nutrition Forward (pd.) The art of feeding your life. Health, energy, and peace through natural, joyful eating. S. Buchanan, RD, Certified Diabetes Educator 828230-9865 www.nutritionforward.com South Eastern Transgender Health Summit (pd.) August 24-25 with free pre-conference film festival August 23. Summit will offer sessions for healthcare providers, community members, human resource leaders. Must pre-register. www.mahec.net/SETHS2012 Adult Dental Clinic • FR (8/10) & SA (8/11), 7am - A dental clinic for adults will be held in A-B Tech's main campus gym. Free. Info: www.ncmomasheville.org or 255-3066.

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• WEDNESDAYS through (10/24), 4-5pm & 7:30pm-8:30pm - Arthritis Foundation Tai Chi will feature structured, slow practice geared towards beginners. Held at First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Those without arthritis are welcome to attend. $12/$10 church members and Mission Hospital employees and volunteers. Scholarships available. Info: www.wnctaichiarthritis.com or 253-8649.

Asheville Community Yoga Center Located at 8 Brookdale Road. Info: ashevillecommunityyoga.com.

• SUNDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm & THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - "We Are All Beginners," a class for practitioners of all levels, will be led by rising teachers who have completed five months of training. Free (no donation required).

Asheville Integral • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Asheville Integral will focus on the works of Ken Wilber and Integral Philosophy. Held at Network Chiropractic, 218 E. Chestnut St. Free. Info: 505-2826.

Eating for Your Immune System • WE (8/15), 7pm - Discover 10 foods to boost your immunity along with simple cooking tips during this seminar at the Center for Holistic Medicine, 779 Haywood Road. $5-10 suggested donation benefits FEAST, which encourages children to eat well through free cooking classes.

Info: www.centerholistic.com.

Embodied Practice: Authentic Movement • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - An "authentic movement group" to "liberate old patterns of mind and body, deepen self-awareness and build relationships." No dance experience necessary.

Held at Women's Wellness Center, 24 Arlington St. $15. Info: www.janellerailey.com or janellerailey@gmail.com.

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

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

• MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:30-9:30am; WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 2-3pm; SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Blood pressure screening. No appointment required.

• THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Pardee yoga, focusing on stretching, holding postures and meditation. $8. Registration not required.

• MONDAYS, 10:30-11:30am & FRIDAYS, 10-11am - Strength training and low-impact aerobics. $6. Registration not required.

• MONDAYS, 5:30-7pm & FRIDAYS, 5:45-7pm - Dynamic advanced yoga. $10. Registration not required.

• SATURDAYS, 8:30-9:30am - Gentle beginner yoga. $8. Registration not required.

Fifth Element Massage and Fitness 211 Merrimon Ave., Suite 201. Info: www.fifthelementmassageandfitness.com or 702-6631.

• FRIDAYS, 10-11:30am - Yoga for lymphatic flow. $12.

• FRIDAYS, noon-1pm - "Kripalu Yoga for Every Body." $8.

Free Health Consultations • TUESDAYS, 1-6pm - The Faith Community Nurse will be at SOS Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1, to discuss health concerns, assist with resources, provide free blood pressure screenings, pray with the public or "just spend time together." Coffee and refreshments provided. Info: 768-0199.

Functional Foods for Better Health • WEDNESDAYS through (8/22), 6pm - Learn about a variety of foods touted for health promoting or disease preventing properties. Held at the Haynes Building, Room 128, on A-B Tech's Enka campus. $30. Info and registration: http:// avl.mx/im.

Happy Body Yoga Studio 1378 Hendersonville Road. Info: www.ashevillehappybody.com or 277-5741.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8:30am & FRIDAYS, 7:30pm Orbit class, "Pilates on Wheels." $23.

• TUESDAYS, 6:30pm; FRIDAYS, 8:30am; SATURDAYS, 8am - Flow yoga. "Infuse the body and mind with flexibility and stability." $12.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Jumpboard Reformer Class. "A reformer class utilizing the jumpboard for added cardio benefits." $23.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Core Barre, a challenging ballet barre class combined with Pilates. $12.

Healing from the Hive • TH (8/9), 6pm - "Beehive products like honey, propolis, royal jelly and bee pollen are valuable medicines." Learn how they can be used for family care and first aid during this course at A-B Tech's Enka Campus, Haynes Building, Room 127. $10. Info and registration: www. healinghiveaugust-eorg.eventbrite.com.

Healthy Heart Health Education • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11am - The Asheville Compounding Pharmacy, 760 Merrimon Ave., offers free Healthy Heart Health Education classes monthly. Info: 255-8757.

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• TH (8/9), 5:15-6pm - A demonstration of High Intensity Laser Therapy will be held at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Free.

Info and registration: 628-7800.

Living Healthy with a Chronic Condition • THURSDAYS through (8/23), 2pm - Learn self-management skills to live a healthy life during this six-week workshop for those with chronic health conditions and their caregivers.

Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. $30 suggested donation. Registration required: 251-7438.

Medicare Choices Made Easy • WE (8/8), 6:30-8:30pm - The Council on Aging of Buncombe County presents "Medicare Choices Made Easy" at South Buncombe/ Skyland Library, 260 Overlook Road. Free. Info and registration: 277-8288.

• TH (8/9), 4-6pm - An additional program will be held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St. Free. Info and registration: 2778288.

Meditation • SA (8/11), 8:30-9:30am - "Body Awareness and Movement," a meditation class, will be offered at Our Family Doctor, 43 Oakland Road.

Free. Info: www.ourfamilydoctorasheville.com.

Nutrition for Female Athletes • TH (8/16), 5:15-6pm - Nutritional strategies for female athletes will be presented at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Free, but registration is required. Info: 628-7800.

The Red Cross 100 Edgewood Road. Info: www.redcrosswnc. org or 258-3888. Appointment and ID required for blood drives.

• WE (8/8), 12:30-5pm - Heather Reid Memorial Blood Drive: Chili's, 420 Airport Road, Arden.

Info: 684-5067. --- 2:30-7pm - Blood drive: Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road, Candler. Info: 667-4541.

• TH (8/9), 11am-4:30pm - Heather Reid Memorial Blood Drive: Chili's, 253 Tunnel Road.

Info: 252-4999.

• FR (8/10), 10am-2:30pm - Blood drive: Lowe's, 24 North Ridge Commons Parkway, Weaverville. Info: 782-9020.

• SA (8/11), 10am-2:30pm - Blood drive: Lowe's, 89 South Tunnel Road. Info: 299-3788.

• MO (8/13), 7:30am-noon - Blood drive: Nypro, 100 Vista Boulevard, Arden. Info: 684-3141.

--- 2-6:30pm - Blood drive: Salvation Army, 750 Haywood Road. Info: 683-1666.

• TU (8/14), 10am-2:30pm - Blood drive: Buncombe County Training and Development Building, 199 College St. Info: 258-3888.

• TH (8/16), 2:30-7pm - Blood drive: Arden Seventh Day Adventist Church, 35 Airport Road, Arden. Info: 684-4525.

Yoga to Enhance Creativity • FRIDAYS, 11am - This all-levels yoga course is designed to ease sore backs, shoulders and wrists while increasing practitioners' creativity.

Held at Nourish and Flourish, 347 Depot St. $7 River Arts District employees and artists/$10 general public.

Support Groups Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: www.wncalanon.org or 800-286-1326.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am - "Daytime Serenity," Pardee Education Center at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. --- 7pm - Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. --- 8pm - "Listen and Learn," St. John's Episcopal Church, 339 S. Main St., Marion.

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

• FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - "Keeping the Focus," First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Entrance near Charlotte Street. --- 5:30pm - "Family Matters," First United Church, 66 Harrison Ave., Franklin.

--- 8pm - "Lambda" open/LGBT meeting.

Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. Info: 6706277.

• MONDAYS, noon - "Keeping the Focus," First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Entrance near Charlotte Street. --- 6pm - "Attitude of Gratitude," Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. --- 7pm - First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. A beginner's meeting will proceed general meeting from 6:15-6:45pm on the 1st Monday of the month. --- 7:30pm - First United Methodist Church, Jackson and Church Streets, Sylva. --- 8pm - "Discovery," Ledger Baptist Church, U.S. 226 near Bakersville.

--- 8pm - Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, 1790 Greenville Highway at North Highland Lake Road.

Brainstormers • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Join this survivor-led support group for brain injury/con-

wellnesscontinued cussion sufferers and their allies. Meetings consist of sharing, listening and reflection. Held at Trinity UM Church, 587 Haywood Road. Info: 254-0507 or puffer61@gmail.com.

Chronic Pain Support Group • SUNDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Open to those with chronic pain, friends and family. Held at Unity Church of Asheville, 130 Shelburne Road. Donations accepted. Info: (770) 846-0651.

Dual Recovery Group • 2nd FRIDAYS, 6pm - Dual Recovery Group for individuals who have a chemical dependency, psychiatric illness and/ or emotional illness. Black Mountain Library, 105 Doughtry St. Info: ameniis84@charter.net or 357-8147.

Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

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

• MONDAYS, 2-3pm - "It Works," a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction.

Registration not required. Info: 489-7259.

Fertility Support Meeting • 2nd MONDAYS, 6:30pm - "Circle of Hope," a support group for women and men who have been trying to conceive for a year or more, meets at Spa Materna, 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 204. Info: lovelightchild@yahoo.com.

GRASP: Asheville Autism Support Group • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - "Join other adult Aspies at GRASP, Global and Regional Aspergers Syndrome Partnership." Held at Firestorm Café & Books, 48 Commerce St. Must 18 years or older and on the autism spectrum. Free. Info: www.GRASP.org.

Hearing Loss Association • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1pm - Information and support for those with hearing loss, their families and friends. Meetings held at Transylvania Regional Hospital, 260 Hospital Drive, Brevard. Info: www.nchearingloss.org/brevard.htm.

Hope After Loss Hope After Loss offers grief education, support groups and individual counseling to those experiencing bereavement in Buncombe, Henderson and Macon counties. Call for info, dates and locations. Info: 692-6178.

• TH (8/9), 5:30-7pm - Grief 101, a class on the basics of the grieving process, will be offered at Four Seasons Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. Free, but registration is required.

• SU (8/12), 3-5pm - Survivors of Suicide (SOS) will meet at Greatrex Place, 571 South Allen Road, Flat Rock.

It Works • MONDAYS, 2-3pm & 7-8pm; WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - It Works, a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction, meets in Hendersonville. Info and directions: 489-7259.

Marshall Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting • FRIDAYS, 7pm - AA meeting at Marshall Presbyterian Church, 165 South Main St. Info: www.ashevilleaa.org.

MS Caregiver • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - CarePartners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Multiple Sclerosis caregivers only (no spouses). Info: 684-2453.

NAMI Support Groups The National Alliance on Mental Illness supports recovery for people living with mental illness and their families. All groups meet at 356 Biltmore Ave., #207/315. Free. Info: www.namiwnc.org or 505-7353.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 10am & 3rd TUESDAYS, 6pm CONNECTION support group for those with a diagnosis and family/caregiver support group. Meetings held separately.

• 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 11am - CONNECTION support group for those with a diagnosis.

Oncology Community Support Group • 2nd FRIDAYS, 11:30am - Open to all cancer patients, survivors and families. "A time of caring and sharing with people who understand and have been there." Snacks provided; bring bag lunch if necessary. Held at Park Ridge Hospital's Burchard/OB Confrence Room, 100 Hospital Drive, Hendersonville. Free. Info: http://avl.mx/bf.

Overcomers Classes • TUESDAYS - An Overcomers support group, for those dealing with addiction and other life-controlling problems, will meet in Mars Hill. Call for location and time: 689-9316.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group A Christian-based, 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with lifecontrolling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos.spc-asheville.org or 768-0199.

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

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

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

Post-Polio Support Group • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - Land of the Sky Post-Polio Resource and Support Group. CarePartners' Seymour Auditorium, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Info: www.carepartners.org/ppsgroup.

Recovery from Food Addiction • MONDAYS, noon - Weekly support groups are held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. Info: scmunchkin59@yahoo.com.

S-Anon • S-Anon, a 12-step program for those struggling with the sexual behavior of a family member or friend. Three meetings are held each week. Info: www.ncsanon.org or 258-5117 (confidential).

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

SMART Recovery • THURSDAYS, 6pm - This peer support group is dedicated to helping individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior (drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, etc.).

Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. Info: www.smartrecovery.org.

WNC Brain Tumor Support • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - WNC Brain Tumor Support meets at MAHEC, 121 Hendersonville Road. Aug. 16 meeting will feature Dr. Janette Larson of Mission Neurology Associates. Info: www.wncbraintumor.org or 691-2559.

Women of Courage Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - A 12-step recovery fellowship for women who want to stop living out a pattern of addictive sexual behavior and romantic obsessions. Meets at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Enter at front door of the annex. Info: www.slaafws.org or womenofcourageslaa@yahoo.com.

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In the aug. 1 Xpress, we asked area chefs adam Bannasch, reza setayesh and Brian canipelli to describe their ideal — and thankfully hypothetical — last meals. In part two of the last supper, a three-part series, we proposed the same sobering concept to cúrate’s katie Button and damien cavicchi from the Biltmore estate. for Button and cavicchi, a treasured meal is inextricable from place — even if that place no longer exists, as in Button’s case.

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katIe Button laments that she WIll never eat at the noW-closed elBullI.

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Katie Button, chef and part-owner of Cúrate tapas bar, laments that she’s never had the chance to dine at elBulli — a restaurant in which she staged — and never will, now that it’s closed. here is her last meal, which she sent in an email to Xpress.

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I slaved away in the kitchen, described dishes to the guests in the dining room, trying to contain my own awe, amazement and drooling over the incredible creations. I occasionally had the opportunity to nibble or sample one small portion of a dish ... but I never [had] (and never will have) the opportunity to dine and experience elBulli ... a restaurant that holds such an important role in my life and my formation as a chef. then I thought, well that one is just too obvious. What about the great meals that I remember from my childhood? like making zucchini bread with my grandmother using all the surplus zucchini that we picked together from

her garden ... or the fact that, as a little girl, my favorite day of the year was thanksgiving (for obvious reasons, being a young foodie). or [that], being a southern girl born in conway, s.c., [I] crave, at all hours of the day, really, really good pulled-pork barbecue with tangy mustard sauce and boiled peanuts and fresh peaches — the kind that you can only get from a tiny stand on a dirt road near the peach orchards in south carolina — where the juice from the peaches drips all the way down your arm to your elbows and you are leaning forward like a girl with an ice cream cone trying to keep it from getting all over your clothes. and, while all of those amazing food moments in my life would be equally worthy as a selection for my last supper, the problem with those options is that I can still make all of those happen — I could do it next weekend if I really wanted to!

But what I can’t do and will never be able to do, is understand and participate as a guest in the elBulli experience. I call it an experience because it is definitely not just the dazzling food. It starts with getting dressed in whatever makes you feel comfortable (at elBulli you were accepted in jeans and a t-shirt or ball gowns), followed by the long winding road in a taxi cab from roses to cala montjoi. on one side of the road is a sheer cliff, with the waves below.

It is truly spectacular and very much taken for granted by those that drive it everyday to and from work. I imagine you can really soak in the beauty if you are on the way to a magical dinner. upon arrival, you are warmly greeted by the servers and maître d’ and escorted to the terrace overlooking the cove of cala montjoi. on the terrace, you enjoy a welcoming cocktail and amazing snacks while soaking in the sun, and then you are moved inside to the dining room, where the amazement and wonder continues, course after course. the whole experience includes the drive to the restaurant, the ambiance, the impeccable service that is always attentive and helpful but never stuffy or uptight. elBulli’s true triumph was how they were able to make every guest feel at home in their dining room. even though you might be oceans and miles away from your actual home, at elBulli you are home. for my last supper, I’d like to hand-select my menu of what in my mind would be the “best of elBulli.” that is very individual of course, but it is, after all, my last supper. and the only person that I would like to share my last supper with would be my husband, my best friend, the love of my life and the best complement to a career as a chef that I could ever have: felix meana. cocktaIl gin fizz frozen/caliente (mix of textures and temperatures of gin fizz.) snacks aceitunas verdes esfericas (the elBulli olives.)

Pescadito Frito (a twist on fried small fish, this uses rice paper and a dried powder made by dehydrated cod.)

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Pan de queso (this is a frozen inflated air puff of parmesan cheese meant to mimic cheese bread.) aire de zanahoria con concentrado de mandarina (carrot air with mandarin concentrate — this was featured in the new york Times.)

Momia de salmonete a la guindilla (the name translates to “mummy of little red mullet.” It’s the bones of tiny red mullet fish fried crispy wrapped in cotton candy.)

Carbonara (one long “noodle” that had all the flavors of carbonara.)

gnocchis de polenta con cafe (polenta gnocchi with coffee and egg yolk; these were spherical “gnocchis.”) guisantes verdad o falso (two types of peas that look identical served next to each other with the name “peas true or false.”) gambas en differentes cocciones (prawns cooked in different ways: head of the prawn served fried and edible, soup of the essence of the head and the body on the grill.)

espardenyes mentaiko ruibarbo (espardenyes are a sea creature. the translation is “sea cucumber,” but they aren’t the same thing as the typical sea cucumber that you think of or see when you google it. It has an amazing tasty, delicious flavor. here it is served with mentaiko and rhubarb.)

Tuetano de caviar con crema de coliflor (Bone marrow topped with caviar and cauliflower cream.)

Mollejas de conejo con fisalis y aire de regaliz (rabbit sweetbreads with cape gooseberry and licorice air.) avant postre astanque (this means “pond” — it was a thin layer of ice in a bowl, topped with demerara sugar and green tea powder.)

Petalo caramelizado de manzana con flor de apio (apple chip with celery flower.)

la tierra (different textures of the earth dessert.)

fresh snacks Corte de parmesano (like a parmesan ice cream sandwich from outer space with freeze-dried parmesan cream inside.)

Muelle de caramelo (a caramel spring — like a slinky out of candy — with salt and olive oil.)

Bonbon de aceite de calabaza (pumpkin-seed oil bonbon encapsulated in a thin sugar shell.)

air baguette de jamon (crispy hollow bite size “baguette” topped with a thin slice of joselito jamon iberico.)

Caviar sferico de melon (melon caviar.)

Photo courtesy of the Biltmore estate

navajas con dashi (razor clams served in the shell. one is a true razor clam and one is fake, made of dashi and served with seaweed.)

Melocoton liquido (essence of ruby peach served in a spoon, with a frozen liquid peach liquor bonbon.)

Tempura de flor de hinojo (fennel flower in tempura.)

damIen cavIcchI lIkes the food of neW orleans. “they seek pleasure at every meal,” he says.

risotto de pinones (young pine nut risotto.)

Chicharrones de pollo (Boneless fried crispy chicken feet.)

Merengue profiteroles de remolacha y yogur (meringue profiteroles of beet and yogurt.)

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If I’m going to go out, I’m going to go out with an epic meal,” says damien cavicchi, the executive chef of the Biltmore estate.

butter. that good, new orleans french bread that you can’t get anywhere else and just drag it through the butter. and no dessert.

Course 1: kumamoto oysters, raw, ice cold, with tabasco sauce and saltine crackers. that is a complete sensation like no other. Just the texture, the taste — it’s a purely unique experience that you can’t get anywhere else. an oyster is an entity unto itself. It’s perfection that you can just eat. there’s nothing else out there that I can think of that you just eat like god made it. you can eat vegetables like that. But I don’t want to eat vegetables ... [except] for tomatoes.

What’s the most nostalgically pleasing thing on this menu? It’s gotta be the gumbo and the po’ boy. growing up in new orleans, we were around that a lot. It reminds me of the good times and being a kid. those flavors. the smell. I remember going to restaurants [in] some commercial, ugly metal building with seven parking spots ... it would have folding metal chairs and cheap tables with newspaper and counter service. down there, it’s not a big deal if you can cook well if you’re a native of new orleans; it’s the expectation. they seek pleasure at every meal — it’s not just eating to get full. that always stuck out to me. I have goose bumps thinking about when you bite into that hot oyster that’s been fried, duke’s mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce and hot sauce. my grandmother made seafood gumbo as well — I remember sitting around her table learning how to peel crabs and how to slurp spaghetti properly — that’s the warm fuzzy stuff for me.

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Course 2: torchon of foie gras.

Trufitas (a play on “truffle,” these look like chocolate truffles — a thin chocolate shell covered in cocoa powder but inside they are liquid black truffle essence.)

Course 4: the perfect fried chicken made by someone’s grandmother in mississippi.

ambar (elderflower liquid sphere inside a honey gelatin shell.)

marshmallow (a mint marshmallow dusted in cocoa powder, but the texture is the most amazing marshmallow texture you have ever put in your mouth.)

Caja de chocolate (last but not least, the chocolate box, filled with different types of chocolates.)

Course 3: sliced tomatoes with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil. Just like that, on a plate.

Course 5: I would have a cup of — no wait, I’m going to die — a bowl of crab gumbo, blue crab, from new orleans. and not from the freaking french Quarter, where it’s all trendy and fake.

I want it from some gas station that’s got a deli in it with somebody’s uncle who knows how to make really good gumbo, who’s been making it for generations. he’s also going to make me an oyster po’ boy. then I’ll have a side of that french bread with some room temperature

Where would you eat it? at the family dinner table with my wife and kids, wherever that might be.

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Tin Can Pizzeria owner Kim Dryden stands in the middle of a pizza oven on wheels. With a careful flick of the wrist, the food truck’s signature dough becomes a sphere, getting wider with each turn. Next, a drizzle of olive oil coats the pie and orange cherry tomatoes, grilled corn and fresh mozzarella cover the dough. The pizza is ready for the oven as Dryden’s partner, owner Caroline Whatley, twirls her own pie before talking to Xpress.

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Your pizza takes like it’s wood fired, but it’s propane. What’s your secret? Our secret is the dough; a really, really wet dough that has really nice hole structure. That’s key. And having an oven that we can turn up pretty hot. So we bake our pizza as hot as the oven will go, which is 650 degrees Fahrenheit. Most wood-burning ovens are operating at around 800 degrees. So we’re actually significantly below that. But because we make our dough really thin and we bake [it] straight on the brick, as opposed to on a pan, it allows it to kind of come off tasting and looking like wood-fired pizza.

Tin Can has some pretty creative toppings. Tell us about a couple. Sure! We change our menu every week, so I can tell you about this week’s pizzas. It has olive oil, fresh mozzarella, grilled corn, cherry tomatoes and an avocado pesto. And then we have one with grilled crook neck squash, a toasted walnut pesto and fresh thyme on it, plus Asiago. So it’s part of the fun for us to be able to have a really small menu, but that we can change it.

Where do you get your ingredients, other than the dough? Well, because we started in April before a lot of local was available, we were getting it through Mountain Foods. And we do still get a good amount of produce from them. But now we have several friends that are farmers and we go to the farmers market. So we’re getting about half of our produce from local farmers markets and friends that grow and then still some at Mountain Foods. do you cook differently in a food truck than you would in a kitchen? It feels very different, and I like it a lot more. I like the kitchen on the food truck way better than the kitchen at my house.

For some reason it feels like a business setting. It’s easier for me to delve into it. It’s a little bit easier to make a mess and clean it up.

Even though the only thing we’re doing on the truck is pizza, I feel more efficient in this kitchen than I do in my house.

What do you enjoy most about making pizza? There’s two parts.

My favorite part is stretching the dough and then I really love

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watching a finished pizza go out the door, going to someone. I never tire of that visual, like, the finished product when it comes out as it should, going to the customer.

What do you do when you’re not making pizza? I spend a fair amount of time working on my house, being in the yard. Kim’s really good about forcing us to find time to play. I’m not very good at that; she’s much better about that. And spending a lot of time eating other people’s food. I also do massage and Kim does woodworking and pottery.

If you were a food superhero, what would your superpower be?

Caroline: Our superpower would be doing prep in our sleep.

Kim: It would be getting all the little thyme leaves off of the stems.

That’s my least favorite.

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new café brings a taste of biltmore estate to downtown asheville On Aug. 1, the Biltmore Coffee Co. opened at 1 N. Pack Square, on the ground floor of the I.M. Pei-designed building that houses Biltmore’s corporate offices and Merrill Lynch.

“What makes us unique is everyone here worked at the Biltmore Estate,” says Clorietha Fenton, the café’s general manager. “We brought our quality and our standards and our hospitality to downtown Asheville.”

The shop features sleek, comfortable seating and broad windows that offer generous views of Pack Square. Fenton hopes the café can be a place for “working people to have a nice, upscale coffee shop to enjoy themselves and have a meeting space.”

For lunch, Biltmore Coffee Co. offers a variety of chef-made items, including the steak and blue cheese salad, creamy lobster and bacon dip and a sandwich labeled “The BOSS,” with sliced beef tenderloin, brie, roasted onions, tomatoes, arugula and red pepper horseradish aioli on grilled focaccia bread.

Baked goods made in-house tempt customers as they place their orders.

For those who want to avoid the lure of pastries (or simply want to order in advance), Biltmore Coffee Co. accepts orders online at biltmorecoffeeco.com; the site is compatible with most smart phones.

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Many Asheville restaurants are ratcheting up their cocktail menus. It may seem natural that restaurants such as Table, the Magnetic Field and the Junction — venues that focus on seasonal, eclectic fare — would have mad scientists behind the bar house-carbonating cocktails and making fancy cordials and bitters. Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian restaurant on Merrimon is now getting into the modern mixology game as well;.

Fenton said she was pleased with the turnout at the opening, although the breakfast crowd was a bit sparse. She says that the café is on its way to achieving her goal: Having “everyone leave and say, ‘Oh my god, I want to go there again tomorrow.’”

Noah Hermanson, Vinnie’s new mixologist, is taking the menu to new heights without going too far into left field. Hermanson is toying with four new housemade sodas, including an in-house tonic and a cola that goes into a classic Cuba Libre. A Bee’s Knees combines gin or vodka with honey-lemon soda (which would make a fine summer virgin drink on its own). But the scene-stealer is the Dark and Stormy, a concoction of Cruzan Black Strap rum (which screams molasses) lime and a spicy housemade ginger beer.

Biltmore Coffee Co. is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, visit biltmorecoffeeco.com or call 225-6222. — Megan Dombroski

Vinnie’s neighborhood Italian is located at 641 Merrimon Ave. For more information, visit vinniesitalian.com. — Mackensy Lunsford

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Not a fan of tomatoes? Then you’ll want to turn the page, as this article is, unabashedly, one giant love letter to the summer staple.

“Local tomatoes are the quintessential ingredient to the summer season,” says William Dissen, executive chef and owner of the Market Place.

“They’re bright, juicy, sweet and help make any dish more exciting.”

Dissen has teamed up with ASAP to throw a party complete with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a homegrown tomato contest this month, when ‘maters get the spotlight in ASAP’s Get Local campaign.

“This ingredient is my favorite to celebrate with Get Local because it’s an ingredient that everyone can relate to,” he says “At some point in your life, you can remember that first time you sank your teeth into a fresh, ripe heirloom tomato and it set you free.”

Phillip Gibson sure can remember. “My grandfather had roughly 3 acres right in downtown Louisville,” he says. “He had the best tomatoes.

They were just incredible!”

That experience growing up, coupled with a realization that tomatoes are a constant in his family’s diet — from marinara sauce to salsa — led Gibson to start his own home garden in Candler.

“I’m taking some risks in my subdivision where there are typical manicured lots,” he says. “I’m really stretching the concept of what our neighborhood should be.” On a little less than 1 acre, he’s got 500 square feet of veggies from broccoli to squash planted. And, of course, tomatoes.

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eating with the eyes: Chef William Dissen offers heirloom tomato salad on the menu at the Market Place and during the celebration on Aug. 11. at market: Dissen sources local tomatoes from Appalachian Grown-certified farms at area farmers markets. “We frequent the markets and buy from whoever has the freshest available that day,” he says. Photos courtesy of ASAP

Tomato time: Mason jars full of Phillip Gibson’s cherry tomatoes.

“I got my tomatoes from Red Wing Farm,” an Appalachian Grown certified farm in Swannanoa, he says. “I have seven different varieties — with a focus on ones to can, like Romas and Pearls — and 25 plants in total.” He’s pretty confident those plants are producing the best homegrown tomatoes, which is why he has already reserved his spot in the contest.

He shares all this not to intimidate other contestants — well maybe a little. But, he’s quick to point out that he’s new to gardening.

“Roughly a year ago, I started my planning and planting for the garden,” he says. He talked with local farmers, attended the Organic Growers School, and learned from websites, including the site of John Jeavons, author of the primer on Biointensive Mini-Farming. “His site helped me identify how many plants and what kind of space is needed for a family of four.”

Now, Gibson is already thinking of expanding his 500-square-foot growing space to around 2,000, and possibly offering a CSA or selling at local farmers markets.

How does your garden grow?

Whether your garden is where Gibson’s began or is headed, ASAP and the Market Place invite you to show off your tomatoes in their Homegrown Tomato Contest — held at the restaurant on Aug. 11, from 2 until 5 p.m. “We want to show reverence to the home gardener who toils in the soil before or after work just so they can taste the freshness of a homegrown tomato,” says Dissen. “We know there are special folks who are certainly growing tomatoes deserving of the crown of Best Homegrown Tomato!”

Contestants are invited to bring two of their very best tomatoes to be judged by a panel of local celebrities, including Leah McGrath of Ingles and a representative from local seed company Sow True Seed. Contestants can also bring a tomato gone slightly awry for judging in the all-

in-good-fun ugly tomato contest. Tomatoes will be judged in categories from color to appearance, with taste carrying the most weight.

Prizes include a $100 gift certificate to the Market Place, $25 in Market Bucks to Asheville City Market, a pass for ASAP’s Farm Tour in September and more. Sow True Seed will also be on hand to provide gardening tips and resources.

Heirloom Hors d’oeuvres The entry fee for contestants is $10, but everyone is invited to join in and celebrate Get Local tomato month. Tickets for the general public are $20. A portion of proceeds will benefit ASAP. What’s on the menu? Dissen plans to serve up tomato bruschetta with housemade ciabatta crostinis, local goat cheese tartlets with tomato jam and roasted red onion, gazpacho shooters with garden basil, and a tomato “eau de vie” cocktail.

He’s got lots more up his sleeve, but “you’ll have to make it out to support local, homegrown tomatoes to see!” Dissen is currently serving local tomatoes on his menu from farms like Gaining Ground Farm, Green Toe Ground Farm, Firefly Farm, Full Sun Farm and Ten Mile Farm.

A spot in the contest and/or tickets must be reserved/purchased in advance. Contact the Market Place at 252-4162 or contact@marketplace-restaurant.com.

The Market Place is located at 20 Wall St. in downtown Asheville; marketplace-restaurant.com. For Dissen’s tomato “eau de vie” cocktail recipe, visit ASAP’s community website FromHere.org. There, also find more details about Get Local. For farmers growing tomatoes and more restaurants serving them, browse ASAP’s Local Food Guide at appalachiangrown.org.

Maggie Cramer is ASAP’s communication manager; she can be reached at maggie@asapconnections. org or 236-1282, ext. 113.

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AhA MoMents Moog Music And shuffle MAgAzine teAM up for the first seAson of AhA AVl concerts

by Alli MArshAll One of the most legend-worthy local rock shows of the year belongs to Ahleuchatistas. It was a midweek performance. The beer was cold.

And free. And then, because the instrumental duo rocked so hard, a speaker caught on fire.

The show was the sixth installment of Moog Music Inc.'s AHA AVL series, a showcase of WNC-based bands that perform in Moog's Broadway Street building, in front of video cameras and an enthusiastic, invite-only crowd.

(Want to be on the list? Email aha.avl@moogmusic.com.)

Last fall, Moog Music debuted the performance space in its retail store. The inaugural AHA AVL band, playing in September, was electronic/hip-hop group Two Fresh (they returned in March for a short set before playing the Orange Peel). According to Moog Music's senior marketing and brand manager, Emmy Parker, the AHA in AHA AVL “is like, ‘Aha!’ What you say when you find something you've been looking for. So it stands for discovering Asheville.”

The musical discoveries have included, to date, Ben Lovett, Kovacs and the Polar Bear, RBTS WIN, The Critters, Naked Gods, Soft Opening, Alligator Indian, Sonmi and Doc Aquatic, all local acts (except for Naked Gods, from nearby Boone).

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“We were immediately excited,” says Shuffle's publisher and general manager, Brian Cullinan, who calls Moog “an iconic music brand and positive element in Asheville's music community.”

The first group of videos (Kovacs, RBTS WIN and the Critters) landed on the Shuffle website in February — according to the magazine's online and contributing editor, Bryan Reed, the RBTS WIN video has been a favorite with viewers and the footage from the Two Fresh March show is the

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photos courtesy of Moog Music most-viewed. “It definitely speaks well to their popularity and influence,” he says of the bands.

“We always see a little bit of a bump in traffic when we post the videos, and I know, anecdotally, that people look forward to them.”

Reed adds that Shuffle has been striving to do more with video content. “AHA AVL is one of the avenues we're working to accomplish that,” he says. (Another is Shuffle's quarterly "Take One" series, including Charlotte's Andy The Doorbum and the Charleston, S.C., band Company.) “I'd like to see our video site continue to grow,” says Reed.

“Having so many good bands to film helps a lot.”

When asked what his favorite video has been so far, Shuffle's music editor, Jordan Lawrence, says, “Gotta go with Naked Gods.

They played 'Shaq & Diane,' a ‘guitarmony’propelled highlight from their latest LP, and they used a Minimoog to add this weirdo synth flourish to the beginning. It sent the song spiraling in a twisted, psychedelic direction, which I was definitely into.” (Bands get to test-drive Moog equipment for their sets; Sonmi went to far as to compose a new song using the borrowed instruments.)

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AVL bands. Parker says that “the strongest voice in the selection process” was the magzine’s, though Moog Music's team also added a few of its own picks. (And, while the bands have been invite-only so far, Parker is interested in hearing from others who might like to perform.)

There's a good deal of crossover between who plays the Moog stage and who lands on Shuffle's pages. “Our first Ahleuchatistas write up was in our second issue, almost five years ago,” says Cullinan. “They played a Shuffle release party for us recently in Columbia and we're all big fans. Naked Gods played one of our first shows at The Milestone in Charlotte and recently penned a scene piece we did on Boone, so we go back a long way with them, as well.” Alligator Indian appeared in Shuffle's 2012 summer issue just after the duo's May AHA AVL set (disclosure: I wrote that story).

As far as the partnership goes, Cullinan says, “Anything that benefits a music scene in the Carolinas ultimately benefits Shuffle and our readers,” and Lawrence points out that “you can't go wrong associating yourself with the Moog brand.”

Lawrence also says that he's excited about the opportunity for the bands who take part: “It's like a double seal of approval from Shuffle and Moog.”

And, even with early start time (7 p.m. for most shows), Parker says they've been well-

attended, with only two pulling in audiences of fewer than 100. “The rowdiest turnout was definitely for the Critters,” she says. “The cameras were shaking the entire time because the crowd was jumping around so much.”

The current AHA AVL series runs through February 2013, with Razor and Blade and Curtains still on deck for late summer, and upcoming acts to be announced. Parker says that while no decisions have been made to change the local-only format, “Maybe we'll switch it up and bring bands from the eastern part of North Carolina to Asheville to play.

We're really lucky to live in the Carolinas where there is so much rich musical talent.”

Lawrence is on the same page: “At some point, I wouldn't be opposed to expanding the reach a little bit, maybe roping in Carolina bands that tour through Asheville frequently,” he says. And, he would like a heavier act like US Christmas take the stage because “it'd be really something to see them augment their heft with some Moog hardware.”

For now, Parker is focused on marketing efforts to highlight the AHA AVL bands. She says the series is “really a labor of love by Moog's marketing department. It's just about giving back to Asheville and putting our city on a bigger platform.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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arts X music

Banding together

By Jordan Lawrence

These days, Greenville, S.C.’s Modern Man works in the way of most traditionally formed bands. Different members bring parts to the table, which are then extrapolated to whatever ends feel best, with one man — in this case singer and founder David Allen Glenn — dominating the songwriting and production. The outfit has a distinct leader, but operates as a unit, forging a fierce and full sound dominated by beefy shoegaze guitars and vocals that echo with haunting reverb. Indeed, if you saw Modern Man today, you’d never suspect that the band started as a solitary self-recording project.

“For shows, I would record the rest of the band and run them through a tape machine or through the PA, and I would play and sing over the top of that. That was the live show,” Glenn said in February, explaining that when Modern Man started, a full band was the last thing on his mind. He’d spent seven years playing bass in the hardcore outfit The Last Van Zant, and the logistics of booking shows and balancing schedules had left him ready for some time to himself.

“After a while people started getting interested in performing if I was going to turn it into a band, and eventually I got a drummer,” he explained. “The current guitar player played bass, and after a while he moved to guitar. We got a bass player and then a new drummer. That’s kind of where we are today. It just kind of kept growing and growing until we were out playing shows every weekend.”

When Glenn picked up the phone for another chat in late July, he was preparing to head out for two entire weeks. For the second summer in a row, Modern Man is trekking across the eastern half of the country, and this time they’ll have new wares to sell. Copies of EYES NO, the band’s dark and delirious second LP — and its first to

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The albums are an appropriate trinket for the band to peddle on this outing. EYES NO is a testament to the unified band that they have become. It’s a new high in production technique for Glenn, richly layered and managing its heft with unexpected grace. The dense arrangements showcase the unified band Modern Man has grown into. The guitars build to tremendous catharses, but back

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off to allow bass and drums to fill in silence with ominous rhythm.

“I don’t know how that plays into the feeling the musician gets when they learn their own parts that they write,” Glenn says.

“EYES NO was more like that. I wrote a few songs, but the whole band basically contributed to the process. I think that everybody felt like they owned their parts. It felt more raw to us.”

The incredible size and palpable menace of EYES NO matches the newfound seriousness of Glenn’s lyrical concepts. The band’s debut

LP, Walk Away, dealt with the wreckage of his past relationships. EYES NO goes political, zeroing in on social issues such as corporate greed and monetary excess. But Glenn isn’t one to preach: His message is one of awareness, a reminder to question your leaders and to ascertain the truth behind an idea before you cling to it as an ideal. It’s a theme captured by the album's striking cover (at left).

“When I first saw the two images, I had to combine them together,” he says of the collage that overlays children at play on top of a line of marching soldiers; both parties kick their legs high into the air, mirroring each others’ movements. “I was going to blend them more, but they just worked in juxtaposition so well. The album’s called EYES NO, so I want you to believe in your eyes, and not what people tell you. It’s really a play on that phrase or group of words: ‘Do you want to be controlled like an army?’”

Glenn is keenly aware of similar shackles in the musical realm. Though his band has found a sound that suits them, he won’t commit to it. He’s been down that road before, and he knows where it can lead.

“We haven’t found our sound that we’ll stick with,” he says. “I don’t want to be pigeonholed into something when we’re writing music, and we write a song that we’re into. I’ve been in bands before where you do that, and we’ll be at practice and get done with a song and say, ‘That’s not really us.’

So we’ll scrap the whole song and not even think about it. I want to write a song and put it out.” X Jordan Lawrence is assistant editor at Charlotte-based Shuffle magazine and a contributing writer at The Independent.

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Five years ago, Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors released Rise Above, one of the most ambitious and outlandish pop albums of the last decade.

Playing Black Flag’s Damaged entirely from memory, the band refashions one of punk’s most influential LPs with looping avant-pop melodies that are fleshed out with razor-sharp harmonies and disarmingly delicate woodwinds. It’s exacting, irreverent and inherently confrontational.

In other words, it’s the antithesis of Swing Lo Magellan, Dirty Projectors’ subtle and sensational new LP. Steeped in conventional pop influences and personal songwriting, Magellan sees the Projectors coming full circle, playing foils to their former selves while maintaining their signature sonic hallmarks — cutting vocal harmony, daringly disjointed guitar lines. As a collection of catchy and emotionally rich pop songs, Magellan stands as one of the year’s best.

As a Dirty Projectors record, it’s a breathtaking change of pace, proof that accessibility suits them as well as (if not better than) eccentricity.

“How much did we burn out on complexity?” laughs singer and guitarist Dave Longstreth, taking time for a quick chat before a sound check on the band’s North American tour. He’s mocking a question — a recurring theme during the conversation — painting a query about the Projectors' retreat to simplicity as a pointed accusation. Nothing seems too sacred to him, and that includes the meticulously manicured pop he’s been honing for a decade.

“I don’t want to keep doing the same thing over and over again,” he continues. “I want to set up new challenges for myself as a writer and for us in the band as players. We could have done sort of a similar thing again, but it wouldn’t have been as exciting. It wouldn’t have felt risky or dangerous or difficult.”

At first blush, Magellan doesn't feel like a big risk. It pairs the catchiest elements from the Projectors' popular catalog with understated and efficient pop craftsmanship. It's like David

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cleaning up their act: Dirty Projectors is touring on the strength of their new album Magellan, a departure into pure pop. Photo by Shawn Brackbill

Byrne retooling Fleetwood Mac, producing radio-ready tunes delivered with an approachably oddball sense of rhythm and melody.

An assortment of drum beats and hand claps underpin “About to Die,” tumbling forth in syncopated triplets that add nervous intensity to the song's pitch-perfect chorus. It's a clever variation on a traditional sound, and like most of Magellan, it forgoes the sense of stylistic adventure that has thus far been the Projectors' calling card. These tunes are delivered with complex accoutrements, but at their core they are simple songs built on comfortable melodies. For most, such straightforward songwriting wouldn't be risky at all, but Longstreth has never been a straightforward musician.

“I sort of looked at what the band has done so much of, and a lot of it has to do with arrangement and ideas of texture and orchestration and stuff like that,” he explains. “Those are cool, but there’s another idea of a song that weirdly is almost beginning to seem old-fashioned or something like that — the song as music and lyrics. I kind of wanted to get back to that and write a bunch of stuff that you could just reduce that far, and it would still kind of translate.”

2009's Bitte Orca found Longstreth at his most focused, solidifying his varied artistic impulses into something more cohesive than anything the Projectors had created to date.

Magellan maintains that sense of purpose but

dials back the peripheral elements, placing the emphasis firmly on Longstreth and his songs.

The immaculate female harmonies and prickling guitars are still here, but their function is one of support. Longstreth's piercing vocal is the centerpiece, exposing him in a way no previous Dirty Projectors record has.

“I wasn’t self-conscious about it at the the time,” Longstreth says. “I was like, ‘I’m just going to write a shit load of songs and just record them, and I don’t know what the record is going to be. I don’t really care.’ Normally, I go through a lot of different steps, like kind of process steps, in arriving at a finished song or something. It’ll start out as a melody and some words, and it typically can change a lot.”

To this point, the Dirty Projectors have been pursuing what Longstreth calls a “musical conversation,” a collage of the myriad sounds and styles that catch his interest. With Magellan he did the opposite, fashioning his songs with only the parts he felt were absolutely necessary.

“For all these songs I just wanted it to be where you couldn’t take away any of these elements and still have the song,” he says. “They’re all at that point where they’re just about as sparse as they can be.” X Jordan Lawrence is assistant editor at Charlottebased Shuffle magazine and a contributing writer at The Independent.

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•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.

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Wed., August 8

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Old-time jam, 4pm

Barley's Taproom

Front stage: Allijah Motika, 6-9pm

Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm Black Mountain Ale House

Open mic w/ Dave Bryan, 8pm

Juan Benevidas Trio (Latin, flamenco guitar), 8-10pm ARCADE

One Stop Deli & Bar

The Great Deceivers (rock, indie), 7-9pm Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am

Vincenzo's Bistro

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Westville Pub

Get Down

Open mic, 9pm

Club Remix

Pisgah Brewing Company

Wild Wing Cafe

Shampoo Duo (Southern rock, blues), 6pm

Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

The Ghost Wolves (rock, blues, garage) w/ Ancient Whales, The Milk Stains & Doomster, 9pm

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Russ T. Nutz (country, honky-tonk), 7pm

Club Hairspray

Wicked Wednesdays (techno, drum 'n' bass), 10pm Club Xcapades

DJ Lil' Roo

Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

Hank West & the Smokin Hots (jazz), 9pm Southern Appalachian Brewery

The Summer Project (folk), 7pm

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety), 7:30pm Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

Paul Cataldo (Americana, roots), 6pm

Good Stuff

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

5 Walnut Wine Bar

The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm Altamont Brewing Company

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am

Straightaway Cafe

South Forty (rock, honky-tonk), 6pm

Mark Appleford EP release party (blues, folk, rock), 9pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

Get Down

TallGary's Cantina

ARCADE

Jack of the Wood Pub

Karaoke, 10pm

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Good Stuff

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The Higgins Townsend Band, 6pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm Lefty Williams (blues, roots), 7pm

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Valorie Miller (Americana, folk), 7-9pm

All-Star Female Singer Spotlight w/ The Revamps, 9pm

Craggie Brewing Company

Retro night ('70s, '80s & '90s), 10pm

Open mic

Jack of Hearts Pub

Arcade Idol, 10pm

Lobster Trap

Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Music trivia, 7pm Universal Boogie Tour feat: Bukue One, sympL, Coach K & Anonymous (hip-hop), 10pm

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

The Kickin' Grass Band (roots, Americana) w/ Becky Buller, 8:30pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Jack of the Wood Pub

Ready, Set, Draw (game night), 8pm Karaoke, 10pm The Lower Level

Soiree Fantastique (magic theater), 8pm The Magnetic Field

Barley's Taproom

Lobster Trap

Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm

Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm

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Sloantones (newgrass, roots), 8pm

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Sex, Lies & More Sex (drag performance), 12:30am

Magnetic Song Series feat: Chelsea LaBate, Taylor Martin, and Galen Kipar, 8pm

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Town Pump

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Stringed instrument jam, 7:30pm

No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm

Trivia, 9pm

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Karaoke, 10pm DJ Lil' Roo

Old-time jam, 7pm

Brews, Bluegrass & BBQ w/ Kendall Huntley, 5-8pm Bobby F'n White w/ The Theorized, Crocker & Buck Hunt (hip-hop), 10pm Orange Peel

Doug Stanhope (comedy) w/ Carlos Valencia & Junior Stopka, 9pm

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Great Deceivers 7-9pm Fri. August 10

David Rosenfield & Andrew Christopher 8-10pm Sat. August 11

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Midnite (reggae), 10pm Athena's Club

Dylan Sneed, 7:30pm

Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 6-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

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Humps & the Blackouts (Americana, outlaw country), 9:30pm

Coping Stone (world, Appalachian), 7:30pm Boiler Room

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Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm The Business (Motown, funk, soul), 9-midnight Highland Brewing Company

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Your World in Ruins (metal) w/ Clap for Alaska, Keeper of the Sea, Figurhead & Motives, 9pm

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Karaoke, 8pm

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The Onlies (folk, bluegrass, gospel), 4pm Boss Hog (progressive bluegrass, folk, country) w/ Grant Farm (roots, rock), 9pm

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CarolinaBound (country, folk), 7pm TallGary's Cantina

105.9 The Mountain Guitar Bar, 8pm The Bywater

Ladies open mic, 9pm The Corner

Country western night The Dugout

Rockstar Thursdays (karaoke), 9pm The Market Place

Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm Town Pump

Bryan Elijah Smith (acoustic, indie), 9pm Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Dance party w/ DJ Superman, 9pm Vincenzo's Bistro

The Croon and Cadence Duo feat: Ginny McAfee, 7:30pm Westville Pub

Otto Mobile (alt-country, blues), 9:30pm White Horse

City Boy (hip-hop), 8:30pm

Fri., August 10 Altamont Brewing Company

Dim Peepers (ragtime, jug band), 10pm ARCADE

Dance party w/ DJ Abu Dissaray, 9pm Asheville Music Hall

Drag show, midnight Club Xcapades

DJ Snoop

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

David Rosenfield & Andrew Christopher (folk), 7-9pm

Front stage: Eric Ciborski, 6-9pm East Coast Dirt (rock, funk, jam) w/ Makayan, 10pm

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Lobster Trap

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Riyen Roots (blues, roots) w/ Willy Thilly's Jamboree & Reflex Comedy, 8pm Emerald Lounge

DJ Meat, Don Magic & DJ Football ('80s & '90s hip-hop), 9pm French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Members of Dehlia Low (country, bluegrass), 6pm French Broad Chocolate Lounge

One Leg Up (jazz, swing), 8pm Get Down

Calico Moon (Americana, country), 7-9pm Monte Vista Hotel

Hope Griffin (folk, country), 6-9pm O.Henry's/TUG

DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm One Stop Deli & Bar

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

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WestSound (R&B, soul, dance), 9pm Pisgah Brewing Company

Chompin' at the Bit String Band (old-time), 9pm

Good Stuff

Root Bar No. 1

Mindy Smith (folk, country) w/ Angel Snow, 8pm

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Straightaway Cafe

Boiler Room

Rock Creek Experience w/ Caleb Bost, 6pm TallGary's Cantina

Chatterbox (rock), 9:30pm The Altamont Theater

Nikki Talley (Southern rock, country, blues), 8pm The Bywater

Jarvis Jenkins Band (Southern rock), 9pm

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Southern Appalachian Brewery

The Market Place Town Pump

Passerine (folk, Americana), 9pm Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Marcel Anton & the Healers (zydeco), 10pm

Lyric (soul, pop, funk) w/ Santos & Stereo Junk Music, 9pm Club Hairspray

Drag show, midnight Club Xcapades

DJ Snoop

Craggie Brewing Company

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am

Front stage: Shane Perlowin (guitar), 6-9pm Back stage: Sunshine & the Bad Things w/ Alarm Clock Conspiracy (psychedelic, rock) & Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, 9pm

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Lobster Trap

Letters to Abigail (country, Americana), 6pm

Trevor Rocks Jazz Trio, 7-9pm

TallGary's Cantina

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Monte Vista Hotel

Daniel Keller (jazz), 6-9pm

The Altamont Theater

Asheville Sax (jazz), 8pm Get Down

O.Henry's/TUG

Oleander Tea Company (rock, soul, pop), 8-10pm Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

Sons of Tonatiuh (metal) w/ Enoch & US Christmas Good Stuff

The Rose Familiar (rock), 8pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Seraphim Arkistra, 9pm

The Grandmothers of Invention (Frank Zappa songs), 9pm

Vincenzo's Bistro

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Steve Whiddon (piano covers), 5:30pm Westville Pub

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Harpeth Rising (Americana, folk), 8pm

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High Windy, 2-5pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Harrah's Cherokee

Kathy Griffin (comedy)

Highland Brewing Company

Bayou Diesel (Cajun, zydeco), 6pm Jack of Hearts Pub

David Earl Duo (folk, soul, rock), 9:30-11:30pm

Pierce Edens (alt-country, roots), 9pm

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"Bear Exploder" dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Asheville Music Hall

Gift of Gab (hip-hop) w/ Crazyhorse & Colston, 10pm

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something old, something new: Balsam Range mixes bluegrass, folk, gospel and jazz into what it calls “a new American acoustic music experience.” The band celebrates the release of its fourth effort, Papertown, with a performance at The Bywater on Saturday, Aug. 11.

Ten Cent Poetry (folk, pop), 5pm Bobby Miller & the Virginia Dare Devils (bluegrass) w/ Mountain Feist, 9pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

DJ Speed (top 40, house), 10pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Free Reggae Saturdays w/ DJ Kid, 5pm Orange Peel

Grind (Alice in Chains tribute), 9pm Pack's Tavern

DJ Moto, 9pm

Pisgah Brewing Company

Col. Bruce Hampton (jazz, blues, jam) w/ Pharaoh Gummit, 9pm Purple Onion Cafe

Chuck Beattie Band (blues), 8pm Root Bar No. 1

David Rosenfield (folk), 9:30pm Ruby's BBQ Shack

Matt Anderson (acoustic), 6-10pm Scandals Nightclub

Otto Mobile (urban country, rock), 8pm Straightaway Cafe

Swayback Sisters (Americana, country), 6pm Back Pages (classic rock), 9:30pm Casey Driessen (roots, folk) w/ Billy Cardine & The Asheville Analog Collective, 8pm The Bywater

Balsam Range (bluegrass, country, gospel) CD release party, 9pm The Corner

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TCB Band (rock), 9pm Town Pump

Big Break (reggae), 9pm Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chuck Lichtenberger Presents (jazz), 7:30pm Ruby Mayfield & Friends (blues, rock), 10pm Vincenzo's Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety), 7:30pm Westville Pub

Bob Willoughby (Americana, folk, jazz), 10pm

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Have Mile High Band (soft rock, country), 9pm

The Roaring Lions (hot jazz), 7-9pm Sunday Funday Potluck & Pickin', 6pm

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the corner 575-2449 craggie brewing company 254-0360 creature’s cafe 254-3636 adam dalton distillery 367-6401 dark city deli 257-5300 desoto lounge 986-4828 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty south lounge 251-1777 dobra tea room 575-2424 the dugout 692-9262 eleven on grove 505-1612 emerald lounge 232- 4372 firestorm cafe 255-8115 fred’s speakeasy 281-0920 french broad brewery tasting room 277-0222 french broad chocolate lounge 252-4181 the gateway club 456-6789 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

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Dr. Filth & Wayd Runk (DJs), 10pm Barley's Taproom

One Leg Up (jazz), 7:30pm Boiler Room

Dance party, 10pm Torch Songs & Tinseltown (drag performance), 12:30am Diana Wortham Theater

A Tribute to Doc Watson w/ David Holt (folk), 3pm Get Down

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the handlebar (864) 233-6173 harrah’s cherokee 497-7777 highland brewing company 299-3370 holland’s grille 298-8780 the hop 254-2224 the hop West 252-5155 iron horse station 622-0022 Jack of hearts pub 645-2700 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jus one more 253-8770 lexington avenue brewery 252-0212 the lobster trap 350-0505 the lower level 505-8333 luella’s bar-b-Que 505-RIBS mack kell’s pub & grill 253-8805 the magnetic field 257-4003 mike’s side pocket 281-3096 monte vista hotel 669-8870 one stop bar deli & bar 255-7777 o.henry’s/tug 254-1891 the orange peel 225-5851 pack’s tavern 225-6944 pisgah brewing co.

669-0190 pulp 225-5851 purple onion cafe 749-1179

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Lobster Trap

Leo Johnson (hot club jazz), 7-9pm Monte Vista Hotel

Steve Whiddon (singer-songwriter, piano), 11am-3pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Bluegrass Brunch & Open Jam w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am Southern Appalachian Brewery

Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 5pm

Feral Future w/ Crooked Bangs, Skat Attak & The Budget

Straightaway Cafe

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

The Altamont Theater

R&R Crossing, 6pm

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Appalachian Brass Quintet (classical), 5pm

Hotel Indigo

Hank West & the Smokin' Hots (jazz), 5pm

Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues, 1pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 5pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

The Bywater The Corner

Tea dance, 6pm Drag show, 9pm The Dugout

BBQ & Bluegrass w/ Appalachian Fire, 9pm Vincenzo's Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano covers), 5:30pm

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Wild Wing Cafe

Darren Kohler & friends, 4pm

Mon., August 13 5 Walnut Wine Bar

CaroMia Tiller (singer-songwriter), 8-10pm ARCADE

Movie Mondays (cult classics), 10pm Get Down

Sacred Love w/ Just Die!, Sunshine SS & Tape & Wire Good Stuff

Passerine (folk, Americana), 8pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance, 8pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Trivia night, 7:30pm Samuel James (roots) w/ Moses Atwood, 10pm Lobster Trap

Bobby Miller Bluegrass, 7-9pm The Bywater

Bluegrass jam, 8pm The Lower Level

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Monday Night Swing w/ Russ Wilson & His Nouveau-Passe Orchestra, 7pm

The Altamont Theater

Jack of Hearts Pub

Vanuatu Kava Bar

The Bywater

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

Comedy "win-a-paid-gig" open mic, 9pm Vincenzo's Bistro

The Corner

Ballroom dance lessons, 5-8pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety), 7:30pm Westville Pub

The Dugout

Open mic, 7pm

Trivia, 8pm

Wild Wing Cafe

The Lower Level

Karaoke, 10pm

Karaoke w/ Gary, 10pm

tue., August 14

Tolliver's Crossing Irish Pub

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Vincenzo's Bistro

Altamont Brewing Company

Westville Pub

Blues jam, 10pm

Leopard Island (rock, pop) w/ Grammer School & Dem Nugget Boys, 9pm

Asheville Music Hall

White Horse

Straightaway Cafe

Matt Dingledine (guitar), 8pm

Trivia, 8pm

The John Henry's (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm Funk jam, 11pm

Black Mountain Ale House

Trivia night, 7pm

Steve Whiddon (piano covers), 5:30pm

Irish sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm Wild Wing Cafe

Trivia, 8pm

Boca

Jason DeCristofaro & Jake Wolf, 6:30-8:30pm Club Hairspray

Wed., August 15 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Trivia night, 10pm

Juan Benevidas Trio (Latin, flamenco guitar), 8-10pm

Club Metropolis

Trivia night, 10pm

ARCADE

Eleven on Grove

Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm Dance w/ Big Nasty Jazz Band, 8:30pm

Arcade Idol, 10pm Athena's Club

Bluegrass jam, 7pm Old-time jam, 4pm

Front stage: Shane Perlowin (guitar), 6-9pm Back stage: Laugh Your Asheville Off showcase (comedy), 10:30pm Lobster Trap

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk), 7-9pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Music trivia, 7pm The Delta Saints (rock, blues) w/ Barefoot Summer, 10pm PULP

Coping Stone (world, Appalachian), 6pm TallGary's Cantina

Open mic/jam, 7pm The Bywater

Ready, Set, Draw (game night), 8pm The Corner

Karaoke, 10pm The Lower Level

Soiree Fantastique (magic theater), 8pm Town Pump

Stringed instrument jam, 7:30pm

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Barley's Taproom

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30pm

Open mic, 9pm

Black Mountain Ale House

Vincenzo's Bistro

Sierra on Stage (songwriting competition), 8pm

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety), 7:30pm

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Westville Pub

Open mic

Max Melner Orchestra (jazz, funk), 10pm

Handlebar

Club Hairspray

White Horse

Retro night ('70s, '80s & '90s), 10pm

Foxfire (Americana), 7pm

Club Remix

Wild Wing Cafe

Get Down

Thomas Johnson w/ The Kid Carsons Good Stuff

Old-time jam, 6pm Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm Hotel Indigo

Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Wicked Wednesdays (techno, drum 'n' bass), 10pm Club Xcapades

DJ Lil' Roo

Hillbilly Juke Joint Jamboree feat: Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company & Southbound Turnaround, 8pm

Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

The Hard Bop Explosion (funk, jazz), 9pm

Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

thu., August 16 5 Walnut Wine Bar

The Big Nasty (gypsy jazz), 8-10pm

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am

ARCADE

Emerald Lounge

Asheville Music Hall

Front stage: Andrew Fletcher (piano), 6-9pm

Knives & Daggers (indie rock, shoegaze) w/ Modern Man & The Verticolors, 9pm

Ott (electronic, psychedelic) w/ Aligning Minds & Push/Pull, 10pm

Lobster Trap

Get Down

Barley's Taproom

Karaoke, 10pm

Alien Music Club (jazz jam), 9pm

One Stop Deli & Bar

Good Stuff

Black Mountain Ale House

PULP

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Two for Tuesday feat: Bullfeather & David Rosenfield, 8pm Lifecurse (metal) w/ We Kill Kids, Too Big for Castles & Motives, 9pm TallGary's Cantina

Tuesday Night Techno, 9:30pm

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Silent movie night w/ accompaniment by Jake Hollifield (piano), 7pm The Lumineers (roots, Americana), 8pm Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Sloantones (newgrass, roots), 8pm Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Locomotive Pie (blues, folk, roots), 7-9pm Boiler Room

Talent Search w/ Celeste Starr, 10pm Club Hairspray

Karaoke, 10pm

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Lobster Trap

Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

One Stop Deli & Bar

Vincenzo's Bistro

Emerald Lounge

Pisgah Brewing Company

Westville Pub

Phuncle Sam (jam, rock, psychedelic), 9pm

Blue Wheel Drive (bluegrass), 9:30pm

Purple Onion Cafe

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DJ Lil' Roo

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am Flux Capacitor (rock, jam) w/ Jahman Brahman & The McLovins, 9pm French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Bearded Folk (roots, folk), 6pm Get Down

The Midnight Ghost Train (rock, blues), 10pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Eilen Jewell (rock, folk, country), 8:30pm Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm The B's (favorites by request), 8-11pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Old-time jam, 7pm

Jack of the Wood Pub

No Strings Attached (bluegrass), 7-9pm Bluegrass jam, 9pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Marcel Anton & the Healers (funk, Cajun, R&B), 9:30pm

Hank Bones ("man of 1,000 songs"), 7-9pm Brews, Bluegrass & BBQ w/ Kendall Huntley, 5-8pm

Calico Moon (Americana, country), 7:30pm Root Bar No. 1

The Killbillies (alt-bluegrass), 9:30pm South Side Station

Chomin' at the Bit String Band (old-time, bluegrass), 8pm Boiler Room

Rockstar Thursdays (karaoke), 9pm

Cameras Guns & Radios w/ Yoeshi Roberts & Razorbread (rock), 9pm

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Club Hairspray

Tim Alimena (roots), 9pm

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Dance party w/ DJ Abu Dissaray, 9pm

Black Mountain Ale House

Ben Hovey (downtempo, trumpet, piano, electronics), 7-10pm

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TallGary's Cantina

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The Croon and Cadence Duo feat: Ginny McAfee, 7:30pm

Karaoke, 8pm

The Corner

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Dance party w/ DJ D-Day, 9pm

Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 6-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

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Johnnie Blackwell & Six Toed Possum Babies, 9pm

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Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work (alt-country, roots) w/ Johnson's Crossroad, 9pm

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Leigh Glass & the Hazards (rock, blues), 6pm Good Stuff

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The Market Place

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, world, jazz), 7-10pm Town Pump

Lobster Trap

Sean Mason Jazz Trio, 7-9pm

The Nightcrawlers (blues, soul, rock), 10pm Vanuatu Kava Bar

George Terry, 9pm

Handlebar

White Horse

The Invisible III (experimental rock, electronic), 6pm

Steve Whiddon (piano covers), 5:30pm Westville Pub

Trivia night

O.Henry's/TUG

DJ Xel (top 40), 10pm One Stop Deli & Bar

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

Drive-By Truckers (Southern rock) w/ Glossary, 9pm Pack's Tavern

Nitrograss (newgrass, jam), 9pm

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Purple Onion Cafe

Overmountain Men (bluegrass, folk), 8pm

Athena's Club

The Space Heaters (jazz), 7-9pm

Free Reggae Saturdays w/ DJ Kid, 5pm Phuncle Sam (rock, jam), 10pm

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Jack of the Wood Pub

Lobster Trap

One Stop Deli & Bar

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Mountain Feist (progressive bluegrass), 9pm

Front stage: Meredith Watson, 6-9pm Back stage: Thunderdrums (electronic), 10pm

DJ Speed (top 40, house), 10pm

Drive-By Truckers (Southern rock) w/ Glossary, 9pm

"Bear Exploder" dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

O.Henry's/TUG

Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 7:30pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

Jeff Estes (folk, country, rock) w/ Skribe, 5pm Jimbo Mathus & the Tri State Coalition (blues, rock) w/ The Tillers, 8pm

Front stage: Jason Daniello, 6-9pm Back stage: Gutterhound (rock, metal) w/ Albatross Party & Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks, 10pm

Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vincenzo's Bistro

Highland Brewing Company

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Jonathan Fleig (singer-songwriter), 9pm

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm The Business (Motown, funk, soul), 9-midnight ZoSo (Led Zeppelin tribute), 9pm

David Earl & the Plowshares (roots, rock) w/ Uncle Lucius, 9pm

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Brent Boyd (folk, rock), 9:30pm

Mark Appleford (blues, folk, rock), 6-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Ruby's BBQ Shack

Black Mountain Ale House

Scandals Nightclub

Boiler Room

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

The Scenic Roots, 8pm

Epic SuperFail w/ Pawtooth & Overmind (metal, punk), 9pm Club Hairspray

Drag show, midnight Club Xcapades

DJ Snoop

Elaine's Dueling Piano Bar

Matt Anderson (acoustic), 6-10pm

Straightaway Cafe

Circus Mutt (rock, roots), 6pm TallGary's Cantina

Mojomatic (blues, rock), 9:30pm The Altamont Theater

Dueling Pianos (rock 'n' roll sing-a-long), 9pm-1am

Al Petteway & Amy White (Appalachian, Celtic, folk), 8pm

Emerald Lounge

The Corner

Rafe Hollister (Americana) w/ Josh Oliver & Count This Penny, 9pm

Dance Party w/ DJ Position

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

The Dugout

Andrew Duhan (blues, rock), 6pm

Hands Down (rock), 9pm

Root Bar No. 1

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Jenne Sluder (folk), 8pm

Town Pump

American Gonzos (rock), 9:30pm Scandals Nightclub

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whiskin (piano), 7pm

Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Custard Pie (Led Zeppelin tribute) w/ The Ends, 8:30pm

Straightaway Cafe

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Greg Terkelson, 6pm

TallGary's Cantina

Bluestopia Highway (blues, rock), 9:30pm The Altamont Theater

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 6-9pm Handlebar

A Tribute to Woodstock, 8pm

Zipp The Hippo (rock, jam), 9pm Tressa's Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chuck Lichtenberger Presents (jazz), 7:30pm Carolina Rex (blues, classic rock), 10pm Vincenzo's Bistro

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety), 7:30pm Westville Pub

Deja Fuze (progressive, fusion), 10pm

Ryan Singer (stand-up comedy) & more, 10:30pm

Highland Brewing Company

The Mug (blues), 6pm

White Horse

The Corner

Jack of Hearts Pub

The Dugout

Jack of the Wood Pub

White Horse Spirit Series ("Transformational Breath Work"), 2pm Bobby & Blue Ridge Tradition (bluegrass), 8pm

Dance Party w/ DJ Position

Sons of Ralph (bluegrass, country), 9pm

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pickoftheweek Take This WalTz

Director: Sarah Polley (AwAy from Her) PlayerS: Michelle WilliaMS, Seth rogen, luke kirby, Sarah SilverMan, Jennifer PoDeMSki raTeD r

The Story: A romantic attraction to another man destroys Margot’s marriage.

The Lowdown: Beautifully photographed, painfully real, cinematically ambitious, but perhaps a little wanting in sympathetic characters — and possibly a little too much of a hard R rating for some tastes.

Back in 2007, Sarah Polley struck it big with the critics in her directorial debut Away from Her. Now comes her second film, Take This Waltz, and she seems to have lost some of her sheen with a section of the critical populace. (I am suspicious that part of this may be due to certain people who just live to cry, “Sophomore slump.”) And there’s no denying that this is a more difficult film because it lacks a truly sympathetic character at its center. While Polley very carefully never judges any of her characters, neither does she go out of her way to make them especially likable. And in at least one respect — Canadian TV actor Luke Kirby — I think the casting may exacerbate this.

Something about him comes across as…well, smarmy, for want of a better word.

Plus, this film is stylistically quite different from its predecessor in that it’s showier, more adventurous. This will inevitably rile the minimalist crowd, who will see this as a step down from her first film. Since I’m not in that crowd, I’m more inclined to view this as the work of a filmmaker who has become sufficiently comfortable with the mechanics of storytelling that she feels confident enough to stretch her artistic muscles.

The story itself is straightforward and simple. Contentedly (as opposed to happily) married Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Kirby) while away from home. They’re imme-

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Luke Kirby and Michelle Williams in Sarah Polley's frequently powerful and always gorgeous-looking Take This Waltz. diately drawn to each other. They flirt and then have the bad luck to find out they live across the street from each other, which immediately puts a strain on Margot’s relationship with her husband Lou (Seth Rogen). Lou is much less of a romantic ideal (well, it’s Rogen) than Daniel — and it probably doesn’t help that he spends all his time working on his cookbook for seemingly endless ways to prepare chicken.

What follows is fairly predictable. The way it’s presented and the path it ultimately takes is not. Most of the scenes are carefully designed to lead to some later point that will give them a shattering emotional resonance. Everything — from the rather grotesque manner in which Margot and Lou try to playfully outdo each other in devising horrible death scenarios for each other, to Lou’s personal running gag of pouring cold water on Margot in the shower — will have its sad (or worse) counterpart.

It is a film of great sadness — and it’s the sadness of someone who one suspects has firsthand knowledge of bad decisions that can’t be fixed. The only part that feels a little false is what might be called the “Take This Waltz” sequence (it’s set to the Leonard Cohen song).

Here is the one instance where Polley’s more elaborate use of cinematic technique may get the better of her. The idea of presenting the trajectory of Margot’s relationship with Daniel in a long, circular take — cleverly broken up by passing a space of black — is certainly appealing conceptually, but, for me at least, it doesn’t quite work. The fact that it too quickly encompasses too much — especially with a couple of bits that come across as sleazy — is, I think, where it goes wrong. It definitely throws the ending off, but not so completely that the film

doesn’t recover. Yes, it’s an imperfect film — and one where the unflinching nudity and sex may bother some viewers — but it’s a worthwhile one that’s almost achingly haunting.

Rated R for language, some strong sexual content and graphic nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

Diary of a Wimpy kiD: Dog Days JJJ

Director: DaviD boWerS (DiAry of A wimpy KiD: roDricK rules) PlayerS: Zachary gorDon, Steve Zahn, robert caPron, Devon boStick, rachael harriS family ComeDy

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The Story: Our titular wimpy kid, Greg, tries to survive his summer vacation.

The Lowdown: Perfectly agreeable family entertainment that suffers from being the third film in a franchise, and a lot of been there, done that.

I was pleasantly surprised with the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), and found its sequel, Rodrick Rules (2011), harmless. Now, I feel more or less the same with the franchise’s latest installment, Dog Days. However, there comes a time when the luster starts to wear off. The first film was irreverent and sometimes strange, as we followed our hero — the self-centered Greg (Zachary Gordon, who’s now beginning to look a bit too old for this role) — as he learns to stop being an adolescent jerk. The second followed the same formula, but came off just a bit less

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odd. Now that we’ve come to part three, all of the original charms are mostly evacuated, but Greg’s still an obnoxious twit. (You can understand why this doesn’t quite stack up.)

This time around, Greg has to figure out a way to survive his summer vacation, which mostly involves him lying to his parents and friends so he can hang out at a country club with his schlubby best friend, Rowly (Robert Capron). Like the first two movies, this film moves in between comedic set pieces, centered around some slapstick and Greg screwing up somehow. Besides a painfully dumb bit involving a locker room full of hairy, naked adults, very little of the comedy falls into the gross-out category (making Dog Days good-natured in this sense). After all, there’s eventually a lesson to be learned from all this: don’t be a manipulative, self-centered jerk to everyone around you. Sure, that’s a perfectly reasonable way to live one’s life, but when your main character can’t seem to remember this after two movies, it’s hard to really give a damn, and the lesson hardly seems worthwhile a third time around.

Occasionally, however, the movie gets things right. Its view of family and friendship are surprisingly realistic, with the gist being that a family may not always get along, but they’re there when they need to be. Beyond that, there’s the inclusion of T. Rex’s “Celebrate Summer” on the soundtrack, but it also comes across as the last gasps of a director trying to put a personal stamp on work that’s terribly blasé. This might be Dog Days’ most unfortunate facet. Director David Bowers — who started off with Aardman, and made some good kid’s stuff like Astro Boy (2009) and Flushed Away (2006) — has little ability to spruce up the proceedings. Perhaps Bowers (who cut his teeth in animation) just isn’t made for the world of live action. There’s a superfluous feel to the entire film that nearly cripples its inherently well-meaning nature. While I can’t pan Dog Days as simple family entertainment, I certainly can’t recommend it either. Rated PG for some rude humor. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

My Man Godfrey JJJJJ

Director: GreGory La cava (Stage Door) PLayers: WiLLiam PoWeLL, caroLe LombarD, euGene PaLLette, aLice braDy, Jean Dixon, GaiL Patrick, mischa auer Screwball coMedy

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The Story: A dizzy socialite hires a homeless man for a butler — and proceeds to fall in love with him.

The Lowdown: Probably the best of all the so-called "screwball" comedies, with the most perfect cast imaginable — and an impeccable sophisticated glow. Life was almost certainly never like this, but the movies once were.

Legend has it that Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey (1936) — perhaps the most perfect of all screwball comedies — was made in an atmosphere more like a party than a movie

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So far, the limited reviews for this latest from David Frankel (they're banking you'll remember The Devil Wears Prada and forget both Marley & Me and The Big Year) are pretty glowing, but there are only a handful of them at this point. What we know for sure is that the film stars Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as an old married couple who go for a week of marriage therapy with a specialist in the field (Steve Carell). For whatever reason, this opens on Wednesday. (PG-13)

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Since Matt Damon said no to another Bourne picture — at least to one not directed by Paul Greengrass — series scribe Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) came up with a kind of expansion on the existing series involving a new main character (Jeremy Renner) whose situation has "been triggered by the events of the first three films" (or so the folks at Universal claim).

Some holdovers from the earlier films — Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Scott Glenn and David Strathairn — are onboard, along with newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton and Stacy Keach. No reviews are around yet. (PG-13)

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One of the least subtle directors in the world, Jay Roach, teams up with two generally unsubtle performers — Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis — for this political comedy about rival candidates in (of all places) North Carolina (which appears to have been played by Louisiana). The studio promises us a "mud-slinging, back-stabbing, home-wrecking comedy." The real question, since no one has reviewed the film yet, is whether this is political satire or a broad comedy that plays to the worst instincts of its stars. (R)

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shoot. We’re told that the cast and crew would spend most of the day drinking and playing around, only turning their attention to the task at hand as a last resort. That’s probably apocryphal — certainly, it’s exaggerated — but it does capture the feel of the film. (And there’s a good chance that at least Mischa Auer’s gorilla impression was improvised.) It’s as glistening as a silver lame evening gown and as effervescent as a glass of good champagne — and with a similar kick. You often hear about movies looking like the cast was having a good time — something that doesn’t necessarily translate into the audience having a good time. But here, it does both. The results have that little touch of magic where you feel like you’re a part of that good time, too. The film seems to invite you to the party, not just observe it, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Of course, when your cast includes Carole Lombard, William Powell, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon (no, not the psychic) and Auer, you’ve got a head start. At the same time, I can name you a lot of movies with casts that good that don’t get anywhere near this picture. From start (with one of the best and most memorable title sequences ever) to final fade-out, there’s not really a false move in the entire movie — something else that argues against the legend of how it was made. Executive producer Charles R. Rogers has much to answer for with his general handling of "New Universal" (this was his first film as the head of production

when Universal Pictures was taken over by the Standard Capital Corporation), but here he came up with a winner — if only by not interfering with producer-director Gregory La Cava.

As screwball comedies are concerned, My Man Godfrey is unusual in that it doesn’t just exist outside the Depression, but tackles the subject head-on. The usual screwball comedy tended to eschew any relationship with the real world, but this one grounds its highsociety fun in something at least related to reality. In fact, the film’s story exists because a society "scavenger hunt" (where all the money that’s left over goes to charity, except there’s never any money left over) descends on the city dump in search of a "forgotten man." The "forgotten man" in this case is Godfrey Parks (Powell), who is living there in a shack next to other similiarly domiciled members of the unemployed. Although offended by the whole idea of being "collected" — to the extent that he pushes snobby Cornelia Bullock (Gail Patrick) into a pile of ashes — Godfrey ends up volunteering his "forgotten man" status to help Cornelia’s ditzy sister, Irene (Lombard), beat her bitchy sibling. It’s not long before Irene has taken on Godfrey for her protégé and hired him as the family’s new butler.

What follows in the cordially demented household is sheer comedic bliss. Mrs. Bullock (Alice Brady) is both scatter-brained and something of a tippler. Not to be outdone, she has her own protégé, Carlo (Auer), a supposed

composer and definite leech. Mr. Bullock (the always wonderful Eugene Pallette) tries to ignore his family’s expensive eccentricities, while quietly battling to keep their oblivious heads above water. Cornelia and Irene we’ve already met, leaving only the delightfully acidtongued housekeeper and cook Molly (Jean Dixon). It’s all fresh and funny — and its glistening black and white images sparkle just as much as its players and script. Movies don’t get much better than this — and neither did the luminous Carole Lombard. She manages to be funny, strangely innocent and sexy all at the same time. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing Wed., Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

ToTal Recall JJJ

Director: Len Wiseman (Underworld: evolUtion) PLayers: coLin FarreLL, Kate BecKinsaLe, Jessica BieL, Bryan cranston, BoKeem WooDBine, BiLL nighy Sci-Fi acTion

RaTed PG-13

The Story: A worker in a futuristic society realizes that he isn’t who he thinks he is and finds himself embroiled in a war for the future of the Earth.

The Lowdown: Potentially intriguing premise that sinks in a morass of specious scripting and mind-numbingly interminable action scenes of no particular distinction.

Len Wiseman’s very busy, very noisy, very lens-flare-riddled remake of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall benefits from Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel, and...well, that’s about it. Of course, saying that Farrell is a better actor than Arnold Schwarzenegger is hardly high praise (Zeppo Marx was a better actor than Der Arnold). Kate Beckinsale isn’t up to the level of Sharon Stone, however, she has the distinct advantage of being the director’s wife. The film itself is at best perfunctory, at worst kind of stupid and, in either case, unnecessary. I’m not cheesed that Wiseman and company have defamed the original. It’s not like the 1990 film is all that hot, but it did have the courage of its splattery hard R-rated convictions. The PG-13 version has neither courage, nor convictions — just CGI and lens flare. Hell, it even has really obvious CGI lens flare (take that J.J. Abrams).

Point-by-point comparisons don’t help (due to my lack of reverence for the original). The problem with this Total Recall is that it’s just not all that interesting. Yes, the whole idea of finding out you’re not who think you are is interesting, but it’s so completely swamped by interminable action scenes that I found it hard to care.

And the action scenes? Well, they’re fine in their standard CGI-effects way. They have little or no actual identity or personality, and could have been lifted from just about any sci-fi actioner of the past several years. (Since you could say the same about Wiseman’s Underworld movies — changing sci-fi actioner to horror actioner — it might be possible to make a case that this lack of personality is a wayward signature style, but that’s getting awfully existential about a movie that’s this dumb.)

The whole thing hinges on factory-worker schlub Douglas Quaid (Farrell) finding out he’s really the secret agent of his dreams (literally) — an agent for the corrupt government who has changed sides to work for the opposition.

What’s all this about? Well, the only habitable spaces on Earth are the British Isles and Australia (and, no, I don’t know why everybody except Kate Beckinsale — after she drops her pose as Quaid’s wife — speaks with an American accent). The ruling classes live in the British Isles, while the lower (virtually slave) classes live in an Australia straight out of Blade Runner. The two are connected by a kind of giant elevator that travels at a most unlikely speed straight through the Earth. (Yes, well...)

The ruling class — headed up by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) — are running out of space and plotting to wipe out the folks in Australia. (Who will do the labor afterward is not addressed.) The opposition — headed up by the shadowy (so shadowy he’s scarcely in the film) Matthias (Bill Nighy) — are out to stop him and overthtow the government. Insert lots of scenes of La Beckinsale trying to kill Farrell and that’s pretty much it.

The best I can say is that I didn’t actually mind sitting through it — and I got a few unintentional laughs out of it. Now that’s more than I can say for some movies, but it’s certainly no recommendation. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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ThRilleR RaTed nR In Brief: Even though it looks and moves every bit like a movie made in 1932, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse nevertheless carries a surprisingly modern feel. It’s simply one of the neatest movies ever made — overflowing with style and nifty camera tricks — and demonstrates why Lang was one of cinema’s greats.

The Asheville Film Society will screen The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Tuesday, Aug. 14 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.

TimeCRimes JJJJ sCi-Fi hORROR ThRilleR RaTed PG-13 In Brief: Like so many science fiction films revolving around the idea of time travel, Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes (2007) is a movie that’s more clever than genuinely good.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Timecrimes Thursday, Aug. 9 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.

The TuRin hORse JJ dRama RaTed nR In Brief: Another adult-sized dose of pretentious miserablism from Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. This one involves a horse, a couple of peasants, potatoes and the end of the world — all viewed in a detached manner and at a glacial pace. Some consider this profound. I am not among them.

Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Turin Horse at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10 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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HEART OF dOWNTOWN Flat iron building commercial space for lease, great for office or artist studio, $1500/ mo full service. The Real Estate Center, Scott Carter, 828-2554663 www.recenter.com

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RETAIL ANd RESTAURANT SPACE AVAILABLE 1,200sf to 2,400sf. Restaurants have Equipment in Place. Join CVS and Fred’s as tenants. 2111 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC. Call Today 404-358-2888.

WAYNESVILLE, NC • Ideal office/warehouse/workspace.

Decor would support craft-oriented use, distributor or lowtraffic store. 2,000 sq.ft. +/-.

Base cost $900/month + costs.

CHEAP. 828-216-6066.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental in beautiful country setting. • Complete with everything including cable and internet. • $130/day, $650/ week, $1500/month. Weaverville area. • No pets please.

(828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@ yahoo.com

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Openings Hank’s BBQ, 737 Haywood Road. 713-3885 Green Bamboo Cleaning Supplies, greenbamboocleaningsupplies.com.

828-414-8024 (pictured)

CABIN FULLY FURNISHEd Weaverville Reems Creek, 2BR, 2A + Office/3rd BR. 1600 SF, 165 acres, Views. 3-12 months Lease, Fully Furnished/ Equipped. Fireplace, Hot Tub, Large Deck. Private. www. wineberryhill.com Contact: Adam 828-279-3323. $1,800/ month.

MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT 2BR, 1BA EAST • Between Asheville and Black Mountain.

In quiet managed park. Central heat and A/C. W/D. References, application and deposit required. $400/month. 828779-2736.

Closings Greg & Andi's Curbside Coffee (coffee truck), 170 Charlotte St. (Closed pending permit renewal.)

Renovations Fatz Café (re-opening after renovations), 5 Spartan Ave. 665-9950

WEST ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 2BA Large Mobile. W/D connections. On bus line. Excellent condition. Quiet park. Accepting Section 8. Only $650/ month. 828-273-9545.

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SEEKING HOUSEMATE $700 includes all. 1000 sq ft home in N Asheville. 2BR/1BA. Must see to appreciate. Call/ text 230-6812.

Employment GENERAL AdVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $10.50 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.

CdL dRIVERS If you are a "people person" you could be a great tour guide! Training provided. Part-time with potential to full-time. info@ graylineasheville.com 828-2518687 www.graylineasheville. com MANUFACTURING SUPERVISOR Local Weaverville company seeking Day and Night shift supervisor. Candidate must have HS diploma or GED and good work references. Call (980) 295-9104 or (704) 604-2587, between 12pm-5pm.

SKILLEd LABOR/ TRAdES LANd SURVEY CREW PERSONNEL Accepting applications for all positions. Only experienced personnel wit good references need to apply. Work throughout Western NC with top pay. Send contact info with salary history and references to survad@ gmx.com.

AdMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE AdMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT ASHEVILLE/WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FT Proficient MS Office Supporting Owner. Analytical, energetic, meticulous, strong communications skills. Resume to: at goodjobsyes@gmail.com

SALES/ MARKETING AdVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $10.50 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

POSITIONS AVAILABLE • Licensed Substance Abuse Team Leader • Provisionally Licensed or Licensed SA Therapist ACTT RN • Janitor, Part-Time October Road is an integrated, mental health and substance abuse provider for the greater Asheville area. We are dedicated to the highest quality of client care and customer service and strive to be a reliable and effective community partner to all of our stakeholders. We follow evidenced based practices in all of our services and work diligently to recruit and retain the most dedicated and qualified staff to comprise our treatment teams. Our physician providers are well respected within their specialty fields and are known throughout the community. Our commitment to the community, clients and referral sources is unwavering.

info@octoberroadinc.com • www.octoberroadinc.com

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• 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.

INTERNET MARKETING FOR LOCAL FIRM Internet company needs an associate. Training and opportunity.

Salary commensurate. Work here and from home. FT email resume goodjobsyes@gmail. com goodjobsyes@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL SALES Fortune 200 company recruiting sales associates in this area. • $30-$50K possible first year.

• Renewals • Stock Bonuses • Training. For an interview, call (828) 670-6099 or e-mail resume: CandiceAdms@aol. com

MEdICAL/ HEALTH CARE NURSING SUPERVISOR • An LPN or RN Supervisor is needed to provide healthcare and leadership to our nursing department. Successful candidate will be a strong leader with excellent organizational and followup skills. • Required 1 year minimum in a supervisor capacity. Strong communication skills including computer usage essential as position as liaison for our residents, doctors, varying agencies, staff and management. Send resume or email to buncombecountynursing@gmail.com.

Excellent benefits and salary.

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT for The Council on Aging of Buncombe County, Inc. Job description and qualifications are available athttp://www. coabc.org/about-us/employment-opportunities.

Please submit a resume and cover letter no later than August 13, 2012. Emailed applications are preferred. No Phone Calls.

The Council is a non-profit serving older adults and their caregivers.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENdERSONVILLE provides Day Treatment Services within various Elementary and Middle schools in Henderson County.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the most dedicated and qualified staff for our teams. To join one of our Day Treatment teams, you must be credentialed as a QMHP with a Bachelor’s degree in a social service field and at least 2 years’ experience working with children and/or adolescents with a mental health diagnosis. If you share our dedication and passion for providing quality services for this population, please email us your resume at jdomansky@fpscorp.com. The selected candidate should be available to start mid-August in preparation for the new school year. It is a 10-month position coinciding with the Henderson County Public School calendar.

HUMAN SERVICES ASHEVILLE ACAdEMY FOR GIRLS • Is seeking a licensed masters level therapist. • Previous experience working with adolescent girls and their families is a must. • Experience providing service in a residential treatment setting is preferred. Principle duties will include: treatment planning and coordination; individual and group therapy; family support and education; and liaison work with referral sources. • AAG clinicians work some evenings as well as week-end shifts. Serving as an on-call clinician on evenings and weekends on a rotational basis is also a must. This is a 30+ hours/week or full-time position. For more detailed job description and/or to make application, please send a resume, brief letter of interest, and a copy of your current license to michelle@ashevilleacademy.com EOE CLIENT SERVICES COORdINATOR AT OUR VOICE The Client Services Coordinator provides support, advocacy, and referrals to those affected by sexual violence.

Full job description: www.ourvoicenc.org.

CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, SOCIAL WORK SUPERVISOR ANd CASE MANAGER Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Black Mountain has the following positions available: • Clinical Social Worker and Social Work Supervisor - LCSW credentials required.

• Case Manager - requires minimum of CSAC. Experience preferred. Positions will provide assessment, discharge planning, group therapy, and individual treatment for patients receiving in-patient psychiatric stabilization and/or detox services. The case management position specializes in housing coordination and collaboration with community providers. Please visit http:// www.osp.state.nc.us/jobs to apply.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENdERSONVILLE Family Preservation Services provides Day Treatment Services within various Elementary and Middle schools in Henderson County.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the most dedicated and qualified staff for our teams. To join one of our Day Treatment teams, you must be credentialed as a QMHP with a Bachelor’s degree in a social service field and at least 2 years’ experience working with children and/or adolescents with a mental health diagnosis. If you share our dedication and passion for providing quality services for this population, please email us your resume at jdomansky@fpscorp.com. The selected candidate should be available to start mid-August in preparation for the new school year. It is a 10-month position coinciding with the Henderson County Public School calendar.

HOMEWARd BOUNd: PATH PROGRAM TEAM LEAdER QMHP required.

Experience with supervision and the homeless population strongly preferred. Visit www. hbofa.org for full job description.

LICENSEd THERAPISTS NEEdEd IN HAYWOOd, JACKSON ANd MACON COUNTIES to provide outpatient services to children/adolescents with mental health diagnoses. Also need a PCIT trained therapist. Flexible schedule, excellent benefits.

Please email or fax resume to: telliot@jcpsmail.org or fax to 828-586-6601 www.jacksoncountyps.org

MAKE A dIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF LOCAL YOUTH • If you have experience working with youth, particularly with the mental health population, Eliada Homes could be a great fit for you! • We are a local non-profit organization seeking PRN staff. We have availability on first, second, and third shift, and there is potential to move into a fulltime benefited position. • Candidates must possess a high school diploma/GED and have some experience working with the population; must be able to pass a drug and criminal background check. Please send resumes to knobbe@eliada.org.

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 6:30pm7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided). • If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 696-2667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel. wingo@thementornetwork. com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor.

120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

OUR VOICE EXECUTIVE dIRECTOR Our VOICE, Buncombe County's Rape Crisis Center, is hiring an Executive Director. For description and to apply visit www.ourvoicenc. org.

QUALIFIEd PROFESSIONALS NEEdEd IN HAYWOOd, JACKSON ANd MACON COUNTIES to provide Day Treatment services to children/adolescents with mental health diagnoses.

Must have Bachelor's degree and at least 2 yrs post-degree experience with this population. May require more experience based on type of degree.

Excellent benefits.

Email resume to: telliot@jcpsmail. org or fax to 828-586-6601 www.jacksoncountyps.org SUPPORT ASSOCIATE dIRECT CARE STAFF • Do you want to make a difference in a person’s life? Consider working for The Arc of North Carolina, a statewide advocacy and service provider organization that has been promoting the rights and abilities of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) since 1953. The Arc of North Carolina seeks passionate, compassionate, hardworking individuals to support people of all ages with I/DD throughout Western North Carolina. Responsibilities may include: providing breaks for caregivers, assistance with personal care, teaching skills to increase independence, promoting inclusion in the community. Related experience in direct care or special education is preferred but not required. Creativity, progressive thinking, strong advocacy skills, and knowledge of community resources are highly desirable. Qualified applicants must be 18 or older, have a high school diploma or GED, current driver’s license, and

pass background checks. We are looking in particular for a person several late afternoons from 3pm -6 or 7pm, that know American Sign Language or has a willingness to learn.

Also, a person that is willing to work weekends. Applicants may: Contact Lorie Boehm at 828-254-4771. Apply in person at 22 Garfield St, Suite 120 Asheville, NC 28803. Or e-mail boehm@arcnc.org.

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • RN to serve on an ACT Team (start date 9/1); QMHP to serve children/adolescents and families on an Intensive In Home Team; Licensed or provisionally licensed therapist to work with children in our school-based program; Certified Peer Support Specialist to work in our PSR program.Please send resumes to csimpson@ fpscorp.com THE MEdIATION CENTER • Is seeking a Youth Mediation Coordinator for Buncombe County.

For application instructions and job description, please see www.mediatewnc.org/about/jobs WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS • How is it that a small non-profit can prosper in challenging economic times? WNC Group Homes provides quality residential services for teenagers and adults who have Autism and Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. We are currently recruiting for 2nd shift Resident Teacher positions.

WNC Group Homes’ success is possible because each team member knows every day matters, and works to make each resident’s life better. Visit our website for addition information and access to an application. www.wncgrouphomes. org WNC Group Homes 28 Pisgah View Ave Asheville NC 28803 828.274.7171

PROFESSIONAL/ MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE dIRECTOR • OUR VOICE Asheville. NonProfit serving victims of domestic violence. Full/time.

Job description and application on-line at www.ourvoicenc.org.

FINANCE dIRECTOR Community Action Opportunities, Asheville, NC. We are a high-performing, non-profit organization created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. We use our annual $12,000,000+ budget to run anti-poverty programs like Head Start and Life Works.

We are recruiting a seasoned and skilled professional to fill a full-time position as the Agency’s Finance Director.

The successful Candidate has the high-quality skills, training and experience necessary to: • Ensure compliant, accurate and best-practice administration and operation of all financial and Human Resource (HR) data systems, including but not limited to: accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, cash management, payroll, employee benefits, education and development, grants management, cost allocation, procurement and contracts. • Develop annual general operating budget formats and reports; work with identified agency team members to project and review budget revenues and

expenses; determine the reasonableness, allowability and allocability of all purchases.

• Administer the Agency’s accounting-payroll-HR database (Navigator by Serenic) and report-writer (Jet Reports) software. • Coordinate and ensure the timely execution of the Agency’s independent single audit. • Produce electronic and hardcopy records for all audits, reviews and monitoring visits. • Coordinate user needs and input to design and produce timely, user-friendly quality-control and monitoring reports. • Use teams to design, implement and ensure that internal control procedures are followed and satisfy industry and funding standards. • Prepare and submit the annual cost-allocation plan and negotiate the rate agreement. • Respectfully supervise content-expert professionals. • Collaborate on the Senior Management and Leadership Team to develop and implement agency policies, procedures and strategic plan activities. • Produce outcomes that are comprehensive, integrated and measurable. The Position Requires: • Comprehensive knowledge of the principles and practices of public fund accounting, costallocation, financial database programs, Microsoft Office Suite, payroll and HR policies and benefits administration.

• Comprehensive knowledge of grants management principles and practices described in the CFR, NCGS and the NC Administrative Codes. • A history of and demonstrated competence in: • evaluating, organizing and operating financial and HR management systems, o developing and implementing appropriate electronic and hardcopy management methods, procedures and data-capture instruments, • consistent accuracy and thoroughness, • analyzing systems, identifying problems and implementing best-practice solutions, o designing and producing accurate, analytical and informative financial statements, • using teams to communicate, evaluate, make decisions and improve work practice, o establishing and maintaining effective working relationships, and • learning, applying and teaching continuous process improvement practices and approaches. Minimum education and

experience requirements are: • Graduation from a regionally- or CHEA-accredited fouryear college or university with a Masters’ degree in Accounting, or a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Public Administration or a CPA. • Ten years in “paperless” finance operations in governmental, Community Action or other comparable grant-funded organizations in progressively advancing positions including five years as Finance Director, Finance Manager, Comptroller or other similar position. • Five years supervising finance professionals using teambased methods. • Alternative experience may include Audit Manager-level responsibilities conducting single or similar audits of grant-funded nonprofit organizations. Preferred experience • All of the, above plus fluency in Spanish. Must possess a valid North Carolina Driver License and pass a pre-employment drug screen and criminal and employment background investigation. Compensation: $75,000 to $93,000 (DOQ) and excellent benefits. This position is exempt under FLSA and ineligible for overtime pay. • Send resume, cover letter and three (3) professional work and two (2) personal character (no relatives) references with complete contact information to: Ms. Linda Gamble Human Resources Manager 25 Gaston Street, Asheville NC, 28801 (828) 252-2495 or Admin@communityactionopportunities.org Or (828) 2536319 (Fax) Open until filled.

Interviews begin in late August 2012 EOE & DFWP For information about our Mission and programs, visit: www.communityactionopportunities.org FINANCE MANAGER ASAP is hiring for a talented and committed nonprofit Finance Manager. For more information, visit our website www. asapconnections.org. Deadline 7/31/12

JOB FAIR at the DoubleTree Biltmore Hotel Aug 8th 9AM – 1PM & Aug 9th 1PM – 5PM (115 Hendersonville Road in the Biltmore Village area)

Why settle for a job…when you can have a CAREER with Biltmore Farms hotels?

Become a member of a dynamic and growing organization within the Hospitality Industry in Western North Carolina! Biltmore Farms hotels is looking for candidates in the following areas:

Front Desk • Porter • Housekeeping • Laundry Banquets • Host/Hostess • Night Audit • Front Office Manager • Housekeeping Supervisor Restaurant Supervisor Candidates must be able to work a flexible schedule including weekends and holidays. Biltmore Farms requires background checks and drug screenings. Guest service experience and hotel experience is a plus.

Quality Inn & Suites South • Doubletree Biltmore • Residence Inn Biltmore • Sleep Inn Biltmore • Asheville Hilton Biltmore Park

freewillastrology SAGITTARIUS

(NOV. 22-DEc. 21)

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) When Tchaikovsky wrote the musical score for his famous “1812 Overture,” it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field.

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. "One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset," he testified. He said it resembles a "spray of sparklers," as ten million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what's gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) At the heart of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. "I've learned that people will forget what you said," said Angelou, "people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you'd like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) The coming week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas?

Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to?

Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves?

I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) Here are my questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally,

Cancerian, I'm hoping you will elect to do what's a bit unsettling. But that doesn't necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you're not angling to please or impress me — or anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself — or don't do it.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) "And if nothing is repeated in the same way," says poet Antonio Porchia, "all things are last things."

That's a good principle to adapt for your own purposes, Virgo. A few weeks from now, I bet you'll be enmeshed in an orgy of novelty, creating yourself from scratch and exploring experiences you've never heard of before. But in the meantime, as you bring this cycle to a close, be equally inventive about how you finish things off. Don't imitate the approach you used in tying up loose ends in the past. Don't put stale, boring karma to rest in stale, boring ways. Nothing repeated! All things last things!

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) All of us feel bad sometimes — sad, discouraged, helpless, unloved, and all the rest. It's a natural part of being human. Here's the good news: I am not predicting you will go through a phase like that anytime soon. Here's the even better news: The coming week will be an excellent time to come up with effective strategies for what to do in the future when you go through a rough period.

For example, instead of wallowing in self-pity or berating yourself for your weakness, maybe you can resolve, next time, to amble aimlessly out in nature, dance to cathartic music for three hours, or go to the gym and smack around a punching bag.

ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) When a domesticated weasel captures some treasure or beats out a competitor for food, it performs a celebratory dance that's referred to as the "weasel war dance." During this triumphant display, it might hiss, arch its back, fluff out its tail, and hop around madly. I encourage you to come up with your own private version of this ritual, Scorpio.

It can be more dignified if you like: snapping your fingers, singing a magical phrase, or raising your arms in a V-for-victory gesture. Whatever you choose, do it after every accomplishment, no matter how small: buying groceries, arriving at an appointment on time, getting a good new idea, or any other success.

One out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling — that we have misread our soul's code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you're among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem — to leave the niche where you don't belong and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you've found your vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level.

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(DEc. 22-JAN. 19) You can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I'm getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13th-century Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what's now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don't believe they're literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) The Italian mattress company Sogniflex has created a bed with features designed to facilitate love-making. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extra-strong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it's time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what's beautiful about anyone you're attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) My $10-an-hour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: "Never try to be someone you're not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity." On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-a-minute wisdom is more complicated, subtle, and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling.

Here's a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you're not.

Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way — giving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimately return to the path you were born to tread.

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a-B Tech inSTRucToR MedicaL aSSiSTing Full Time. • SUMMARY: Provides classroom and online instruction in Medical Assisting curriculum. Performs as Practicum Coordinator for clinical agencies and student placement. • MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 1. Certified Medical Assistant CMA (AAMA) or Registered Medical Assistant RMA (AMT) PLUS 2. Associate Degree in Medical Assisting 3. Minimum of one year full-time work experience in the field. • PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: 1.

Bachelor’s degree in a related health or business field. 2.

Teaching experience in community college system 3.

Experience with distance learning 4. Experience working with software such as Moodle, Microsoft Word, Datatel, etc. • SALARY RANGE: $36,954 - $38,646. Please visit https://abtcc.peopleadmin. com/postings/search for more detail and application instructions.

a-B Tech inSTRucToR PhaRMacY • Adjunct 8-10 hrs/week. SUMMARY: Instruct Pharmacy Technology courses through online and face-toface methods. • MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 1. Twoyears full-time experience in pharmacy practice 2. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in related field. 3. Licensed by

NC Board of Pharmacy OR 4.

Certified as Pharmacy Technician and in good standing. • PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree from accredited school of pharmacy. • SALARY: $29.75/hour.

Please visit https://abtcc.peopleadmin.com/postings/1213 for more detail and application instructions. ceRTiFied MaTh TeacheR Stone Mountain School is seeking qualified candidates for the position of High School Math Teacher SMS is a year round boarding school for adolescent boys 11-17 who exhibit Learning Differences and Learning Disabilities, ranging from ADHD to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia. Average class size ratio is 1 to 5. Major holidays and trimester breaks are included in the schedule.

Qualified candidates should hold or be able to obtain state licensure in Mathematics. A background working with L.D. or Academic At-Risk students in educational setting is preferred. Candidates should have a solid professional ethos and be self-motivated. Must pass a background check and drug screen. Stone Mountain School is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please send resume to Billy Porter, Academic Director; bporter@ stonemountainschool.com or fax to 828-669-2521, Attn: Billy Porter eVeRgReen coMMuniTY chaRTeR SchooL • Is seeking instructors for the After School Program. Part-time positions include afternoon hours leading clubs, coaching sports, tutoring, and providing quality leadership for our students. Send letter of interest, resume, and application

to Adam.silverberg@evergreenccs.org. Applications can be downloaded fromwww.evergreenccs.org eXPeRienced K-1 TeacheR need FoR 1/2 daY BiLinguaL hoMeSchooL PRogRaM • Knowledge of outdoors and Spanish a plus.

Hours 9am-1pm. Contact: naturallygrownpreschool@ gmail.com MaSTeRS LeVeL SPeciaL educaToR • For a Specialized Girls Therapeutic Boarding School in Weaverville NC. Looking for a part-time and potentially full-time person. Experience with classroom instruction as well as IEP management• Targeting and assessing growth in areas of need. Individual needs to be flexible in scheduling and highly motivated. • Previous experience working with adolescent girls and their families is a plus. please send Resume and a letter of introduction to bryan@ashevilleacademy. com EOE

hard-working writer to coverr the local food scene. Our food writer will: Curate and write content for the weekly print edition, as well as for our website. Make connections, keep up with breaking food news and get the word out with alacrity. Be active on social media and be down with Twitter. Write the content for our twice-yearly food supplements. Enjoy the local food scene. • The position requires attendance at some afterhours events and functions. • We need someone who’s comfortable talking with both the celebrity chef and the hot-dog vendor. • The position offers a good deal of editorial freedom, so self-motivation and creativity are musts. • We offer competitive salary and benefits. Please send resume, cover letter, clips and three story ideas to foodie@mountainx.com. Those without writing samples will not be considered.

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BuSineSS oPPoRTuniTieS heLP WanTed • Make money mailing brochures from home. Free supplies.

Helping home-workers since 2001. Genuine opportunity.

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Food WRiTeR • Mountain Xpress is looking for a thoughtful, savvy and

WeB cooRdinaToR/WeBMaSTeR • Mountain Xpress is seeking the right person continue the evolution of our online presence. • You must have: 1) Excellent web skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, mySQL, Expression Engine, WordPress); 2) Ability to manage in-house and outsourced projects; 3) Willingness to be a team player; 4) Commitment to a locally focused, socialmedia-engaged media outlet.

• The ideal candidate will have experience developing custom, database-driven solutions, as well as modifying

existing software. • You will also need experience managing a LAMP web infrastructure with high-availability principles. • Salary based on experience and skill, with benefits package. Send cover letter (that demonstrates your passions, how those passions would fit with Mountain Xpress’ mission and needs, and why you'd like to work with us) and resume to: webcoordinator@mountainx.com.

No phone calls please.

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