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p. 10 Votin’ time Eight candidates. Three seats. A host of complicated issues and challenges. Who will earn the responsibility to make difficult decisions for our town? Xpress has a comprehensive voter guide for Asheville residents trying to make sense of a crowded race. Get out there and vote.

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news 22 Green Scene: Superneighbor Former CTS site owner appeals condemnation

42 wellness: the quality of mercy Marion woman gives kidney to save mother-in-law’s life

food 46 our life in cake Confection builds community, one lady at a time

arts&entertainment 54 pride minus prejudice

Asheville’s Blue Ridge Pride Festival returns for a third year

56 ready for their closeup

Asheville’s first QFest shines spotlight on the LGBTQ community

58 “A certain methodic sensibility”

Fleet Foxes returns to Asheville in support of Helplessness Blues

After 30 years in dentistry, Dana Hunter decided it was time to make a change. Being locals, Dana and her husband are excited to bring this new concept to their hometown.

Oil &Vinegar’s“culinary gift shop”concept brings together a wide range of international food and cooking products in alluring, Mediterranean-style surroundings. Their mission is to be the consumers’ first choice when looking for a unique and tasteful gift for any occasion.

One will find an assortment of a distinct Mediterranean flair with the focal point of the store being the “amphora wall,” where an international selection of over 30 oils and vinegars are dramatically suspended in glass containers on a backlit wall. Customers select a bottle or bring in a previously purchased Oil & Vinegar bottle for a refill, and our staff dispenses the selection on-tap.

To accent our gourmet tastes, a fine selection of ceramic table wares, kitchen and other culinary accessories fill the shelves. We pride ourselves in offering the best local specialties from Italy, Spain, Greece, France, South Africa, Australia and other international origins.

At Oil & Vinegar, they like to refer to their customers as “Guests.” Their #1 priority is to engage Guests in three key aspects: experience, service and adventure. Guests may sample products at their leisure and receive advice on product use and recipe ideas from a friendly and knowledgeable staff. All purchases may be gift-wrapped on the spot in an attractive way. The shop’s design, atmosphere and sampling options turn shopping into an adventurous experience.

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60 Wolfroy comes to town Bonnie “Prince” Billy rolls into Marshall

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letters Sen. Forrester: Black Mountain needs a new slogan too It’s been almost 30 years since I was moved to write another letter to a paper, but the urge to respond to the recent comments by Sen. Jim Forrester was just too much to resist.

I think we have been given a beautiful opportunity here to practice compassion for those less fortunate. One thing I’ve learned about human nature so far is that there will always be haters and usually it’s not you they hate, but themselves.

Many people have suffered traumas in their upbringing that continue to manifest throughout their lives and [they] frequently target those around them. Just remember: When someone lashes out at you, it’s not really about you at all.

It’s just their own demons surfacing.

I do have one issue with the title “Cesspool of Sin,” however — it is just so awesome. I mean seriously, a marketing firm couldn’t have come up with something that great. Out here in Black Mountain we’re just the “Rocking Chair on the Front Porch of Western North Carolina.”

I invite Mr. Forrester to visit our little town to dig into the dark underbelly of sin and see if he can come up with a new slogan for us. Keep up the good work, Asheville. Where can I buy a T-shirt?

— Alan Healy Black Mountain

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What shall we do without us?

A few weeks ago I broke my knee. It was a big dramatic affair with a 911 call, firefighters and an ambulance ride. I rode in the ambulance to Mission ER, with an emergency medical-services worker taking my blood pressure, covering me with a blanket, talking to me reassuringly, and yet with the seriousness of someone doing an important job. I could not help but feel so moved that there was a team of people whose job it was to be on call to help someone when they needed it — in this case the someone was me.

I appreciated that EMS worker in the ambulance so much — someone who decided to make a career out of helping other people. I became furious about the tenor of the public conversation about budgets and public services. How dare politicians utter a word that suggests that this EMS worker’s service, the labor of anyone working for the public good, was not valuable?

On our way into the emergency room, the EMS team peeked around the corner to make sure that the last person they had dropped off, less than an hour ago, was getting treatment. They got me situated and left to wait for their next call. I felt profoundly grateful for their care, and for what they represented: people prioritizing taking care of each other.

I will stand (for now on crutches) for no more small-hearted talk about cutting human ser-

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vices, for no more disparaging language about people who’ve taken on the work of caring, helping, teaching, for no more draconian moves to slash funding for services and programs that are about all of our well-being.

We are valuable and we are worth it.

Regardless of age, income, documentation, gender expression or physical or mental ability. We all get to decide together that we will prioritize each other.

— Jonathan Dudley Asheville

Real progressives do!

You hear much about “Asheville, the bastion of the progressive,” as in “making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, i.e., a progressive community. “Making,” “employing” and “advocating” are all about action taken to achieve progress.

The question then is, “where’s all this “action?” Few even voted in the last election, leaving us with a historic reactionary, backward shift in state politics.

The next question is, “why do real progressive candidates for City Council like Chris Pelly and Lael Gray have to work so hard to attract broad-based, feet-on-the-ground, check-writing support? These true progressives have been working, continuously, in the trenches of social progress for decades. Chris Pelly has a long list of organized neighborhoods, sidewalks, parks and successful social campaigns on his résumé.

What’s on yours, Asheville Progressive Person?

For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons Real progressives do! Please get involved, support progressive City Council candidates, stand against development-first darlings like Jan Davis and, of course, vote early in the both the primary and general elections. Oh, and you really must stand up for the one-fourth of 1 cent sales-tax referendum to keep our local educational treasure A-B Tech educating our citizens for the essential work ahead.

— Bruce Kennedy Asheville

Jan, Jan he’s our man Allow me to add my endorsement and wholehearted support to re-elect Jan Davis to Asheville City Council. His deep roots in the community and his four decades of civic and governmental service uniquely equip him to be the ideal member of Council.

During his two terms, he has demonstrated his leadership skills in facilitating, uniting and collaborating with all stakeholders in the community. Asheville’s future will be greatly enhanced with his historical perspective and realistic vision for the future.

Let’s express our thanks to him for his unselfish and tireless efforts by voting for him and urging friends and neighbors to do likewise.

We need his services on City Council now more than ever.

— Dorland Winkler Asheville

Vote for Chris Pelly An experienced neighborhood advocate like Chris on City Council can ensure that our neighborhoods needs and concerns are heard!

When residents and homeowners have to react to each issue in their neighborhood inappropriate development, wrong residual zoning, digital billboards, stalled developments with issues of storm runoffs, no sidewalks, etc. — we expect that our elected officials in City Council will listen to all sides of an issue, then make a

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vote for the greater good of the community. The right vote for our community has not happened in the case of an inappropriate development in Kenilworth.

Recently, city staff proposed a zoning change from institutional back to residential that would have saved Kenilworth from that development.

Chris Pelly visited the Kenilworth site along with members of the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods. On this visit, they saw how the large development, planned on a steep slope, did not fit into the scale of the neighborhood.

The new development’s hundreds of extra car trips on steep roads with blind curves would be dangerous for residents as well.

Why didn’t City Council rezone the site as city staff, residents of Kenilworth, CAN and Chris Pelly had requested? Because several Council members, who had voted unanimously against the original project, as it did not meet four of the seven UDO’s standards, decided that the rights of one person, the developer, superseded the rights and safety of hundreds of our neighbors. Chris Pelly would have voted in City Council for that rezoning!

Neighborhoods can trust that, in Chris, we have a candidate who is pro smart growth for the city and is aware that each neighborhood’s concerns need to be weighed seriously. Pelly will vote for what is right for our community!

— Valerie Hoh Asheville

A valid driver’s license should be required to buy alcohol In North Carolina, individuals with revoked or suspended driver’s licenses can buy alcohol just like anyone else. This needs to stop.

Please contact your state legislators and ask them to change the law so only individuals who are over 21 and have a valid driver’s license can buy alcohol.

— Paul King Asheville

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The Gospel According to Jerry Beware eminent domain

by Jerry Sternberg If you own a home, farm or business, you could suffer huge losses when Jesse James and his Eminent Domain Gang ride onto your spread — unless you know what to do.

I speak from experience here, having recently concluded a run-in with the Metropolitan Sewerage District. I’m not a lawyer, but here’s my take on how these things work.

In layman’s terms, eminent domain gives the government and public utilities the right to take part or all of your property if it’s deemed to be in the public interest. This absolutely necessary law allows essential infrastructure such as power lines, railroads, sewer lines, etc. to be built without prohibitive obstruction by property holders.

The abiding, underlying principle is that if one of these entities takes your property, you’re entitled to fair and reasonable compensation for your loss, spreading the financial cost and pain over all those who will benefit from the resulting facility or service.

The typical series of events begins when you receive a letter from the utility or government agency notifying you that they intend to take all or part of your property as a “right of way” in connection with some public project.

From this moment until the matter is settled, you are usually prohibited from making any improvements to your property. Suppose you’d been planning to build a garage in the area where the city intended to build a water line: If you proceeded with construction after receiving the notice, you could be forced to tear down the garage.

Here’s how the James Gang works: First they send in Frank James, the engineer, who’s their straight shooter. He draws the cheapest, most efficient lines across your property — with no concern for the devastating effect it will have on present or future use or the cost to the property owner. He leaves that to the other members of the gang to sort out.

Next comes Billy the Kid, the appraiser, who’s hired to shoot as low as possible in order to kneecap the property owner. He must go around the neighborhood of the “taking” (the property the engineer says he needs for the project) seeking similar properties in order to compare valuations. Using a series of mystical computations, he determines the fair value of the property owner’s loss.

Then in rides Jesse James, the right-of-way negotiator. Of course, he’s not really Jesse James, but the only difference is that Jesse had a gun. This silver-tongued salesman type

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This silver-tongued salesman type explains that your land has been condemned under eminent domain but that he has a big, fat check to compensate you for your loss. explains that your land has been condemned under eminent domain but that he has a big, fat check to compensate you for your loss, in an amount an appraiser determined to be the fair value — as spelled out in a 20-page document you probably can’t understand.

If you sign on the dotted line, you can get the check almost immediately. (If you attempt to negotiate, he can usually increase the original offer by 10 percent, just to make you feel you’ve gained something.)

If you refuse to sign, you’ll receive notice that they’ve taken the property anyway, and your money is in the courthouse when you want to pick it up. Now your only options are to accept the money or sue them.

It should be noted that these entities avoid taking rights of way from one another, since they all maintain a posse of legal hired guns.

And if you choose not to file an appeal, you’ve allowed the appraiser to be judge, jury and executioner.

Remember when silver-tongued Jesse told you “We’re just going to take this little sliver of land, which won’t affect your property use”? You might discover later that the right of way blocked the only access to the property or made it useless for building purposes, costing you thousands of dollars.

I’m an experienced real estate investor, and over the years I’ve contested at least six right-of-way cases that began with totally unrealistic offers. I chose to handle them “pro se” (i.e., myself), even though I had no legal background. Every judge I went before told me I had a fool for a client, yet in every case, this fool won settlements or judgments equal to my original demand.

Most recently, MSD needed access to the main sewer line and chose to go right through a space a business partner and I had planned to build on. We proposed two other options for crossing our property, offering to donate them for free, but the engineer had drawn his straight bead, and he wasn’t backing down.

They subsequently made us a ridiculously low offer based on the work of their own Billy the Kid, who appraised our property at one-sixth of the value he’d set for an almost identical property a half-mile away.

Just before going to jury, we received a

settlement of five times the original offer.

Unfortunately, this was a case I couldn’t handle myself, and the legal fees amounted to 20 percent of the final settlement. I imagine MSD’s legal fees were equivalent.

I’ve always been outraged by eminent domain’s “fair value” charade, but I wouldn’t have thought that the citizen-owned, generally well-run MSD would use low appraisals to take advantage of local property owners.

It’s my understanding that only 8 percent of recent cases were contested: This suggests that many of the remaining 92 percent of property owners were victimized by unfair, low-ball appraisals.

I urge the MSD board to investigate the agency’s egregious and fraudulent practices concerning their eminent-domain privilege.

But in the meantime, if the James Gang moves to take your property, buy an hour of a good right-of-way attorney’s time to consider your case.

The attorney might be willing to take it on a contingency basis, meaning they would share in any additional settlement. But you can’t lose, as the agency can’t take back money they’ve already paid you. X

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In their own words Housing. Jobs. Poverty.

Development. Budgets.

Neighborhoods. Taxes.

Fights with Raleigh. The accountability of those charged with enforcing and interpreting the law.

These are some of the issues in this year’s Asheville City Council race. Eight candidates are vying for three seats, each proposing their own solutions and offering different takes on the challenges facing Asheville.

And with incumbents Brownie Newman and Bill Russell bowing out, the next Council is sure to include some new faces.

Early voting in the Council primary began Sept. 22 and continues through Saturday, Oct. 8. On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Ashevilleans will cast their final primary votes, helping determine which six candidates will advance to the Nov. 8 general election.

To help voters decide who they want representing them on City Council, Xpress queried all eight candidates about their positions on key issues; here’s what they had to say. In addition, we invite you to check mountainx.com/ election for candidate interviews and other campaignrelated information.

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Name: Mark Cates Occupation: Aerospace engineer/smallbusiness consultant/entrepreneur Party affiliation, if any: Republican Political experience: Class president, Landon Junior High School, class of ’84.

Endorsements: Thomas Smith, president, WNC Cornhole Players Association How much money have you raised for your campaign? Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Why just top three? Every donation is equally important. My campaign’s entire financial information is public and available at the N.C. Board of Elections website.

What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

I’ve put my detailed ideas on the chopping block of public opinion. My campaign is centered upon ideas. I’ve authored the only plan that protects, preserves and promotes Asheville’s culture and local independent businesses with the vision of making our city into the center of global environmentalism.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? After reading my economic vision last week, only one candidate reached out to me in a genuine way to express his support for my ideas while expressing his regret that I was excluded from a recent candidate forum simply because of my party affiliation. I respect his integrity.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

The solution is twofold: 1) putting the more than 17,000 unemployed in our area into quality jobs and 2) steering earmarked or allocated affordable-housing dollars toward placing people into existing homes. This will decrease the need for new home construction — thereby curbing emissions — and slow urban sprawl.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

I support the vote by Council members Jan Davis, Brownie Newman, Bill Russell, Gordon Smith and Mayor Bellamy in support of the Linamar deal, but any future use of this mechanism should be in support of environmental and conservationist organizations.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master

Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

According to City Manager Gary Jackson, the combined cost of all our master plans is nearly $200 million. Therefore, any support for changes from any master plan should only be approved when the plan can be paid for. City Council is ultimately accountable for all implementations of each master plan.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

Our water should be controlled locally, period. We have some of the nation’s purest water, but our historically poor relationship with Raleigh has culminated in a failing infrastructure. As an Asheville Republican, I am uniquely qualified to create a bridge to Raleigh to resolve issues like this permanently.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

There’s no question: Our failing water infrastructure puts our future generations at risk. Developmental problems from unclean water, or students being prohibited from drinking water at school, is an embarrassment for Asheville. My economic vision for Asheville includes a funding mechanism for infrastructure projects.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

I agree with FDR, who said: “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” So let’s get people back to work. Hunger is tied to one’s ability to pay for food.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

There is nothing wrong with periodic review of all city services. In fact, it is the hallmark of many cities. But overall, the APD does a strong job of keeping us safe, as evidenced by our lower crime index compared to neighboring Greenville and Charlotte.

SAUL CHASE Name: Saul Chase Occupation: Retired teacher; SAT testpreparation coach Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Boone Town Council, 1985-89, 1991-95; president pro tempore, 1993-95.

Endorsements: Mayor Loretta Clawson of Boone, N.C. How much money have you raised for your campaign? $8,135 Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

I have contributed $7,000. Ray Mishler, my aunt from New York City, contributed $250.

Mark Frankel, a friend from Madison, Wis., contributed $125.

What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

My eight years of experience on the Boone Town Council. I fostered initiatives that increased sidewalk construction, helped develop the Boone Greenway and improved Boone’s water system, including implementation of impact fees that apply only to new customers, generating millions of dollars for capital projects without raising monthly water rates.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? I will not vote for other candidates. I look forward to the opportunity to work with any of the candidates and Mayor Bellamy, Ms. Manheimer, Mr. Smith and Mr. Bothwell to help make our great city of Asheville an even better place to live.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

The city’s Housing Trust Fund should offer strong financial incentives to purchasers of derelict houses, with the agreement that the structures and yards are brought up to city standards. The refurbished homes would be rented to low-income tenants, with limits on the rent that can be charged.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

Generally, I don’t. Local governments frequently get burned in these deals. The Linamar incentive funds would have been better spent if they had instead been used to pay local companies employing local people to install sidewalks and repair roads in Asheville.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

I support raising the threshold, but committee members must be carefully selected. I’ll look to appoint neighborhood leaders who’ll protect the integrity of Asheville’s residential areas and other nominees with technical expertise in planning, design or engineering.

I will not support nominees who have strong ties to development interests.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

Let’s hope that such a blatantly outrageous and unjustifiable seizure of Asheville’s property never happens. If it does, the city should fight hard at the state and federal level to get our water system back.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

Fix our deteriorating streets. Seek $750,000 annually from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority to support the Asheville Civic Center, freeing up the approximately $750,000 Asheville taxpayers pay annually for its operations and upkeep.

Then use this money every year to hire local contractors to make badly needed street repairs.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

A stronger A-B Tech will offer local young people the job training they need to pull themselves out of poverty. I support the quarter-percent sales tax for expansion of A-B Tech facilities. If elected, I’ll be an advocate for a harmonious working relationship between A-B Tech and city government.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

Spending Asheville’s tax dollars should always be done with great care. For that reason, the job performance of city employees should be evaluated regularly to ensure they are working diligently, safely and efficiently.

Evaluations should identify areas where an employee’s job performance is exemplary and where it can be improved.

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LAEL GRAY JAN DAVIS Name: Lael Gray Occupation: Program development/marketing director, Asheville JCC Party affiliation, if any: Unaffiliated

Name: Jan Davis Occupation: Owner, Jan Davis Tire Store Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: Incumbent Asheville City Council, two terms Endorsements: Council member Esther Manheimer, Vice Mayor Brownie Newman How much money have you raised for your campaign? $2,225 Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Albert Sneed - $300 Mike Burke - $250 Brian May - $250 What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

Experience: two terms Asheville City Council, former vice mayor, spearheaded refurbishment of Asheville Civic Center by developing partnerships to host the Southern Conference basketball tournament. I was instrumental in formation of the Asheville Area Riverfront Redevelopment Commission and the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission; both are great economic-development tools.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? Marc Hunt, who I have had the opportunity to know as a friend and have worked with on greenway initiatives. It is too early in the campaign to have decided on another candidate.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

I serve on Council’s Housing and Community Development Committee, where much of Council’s affordable-housing initiatives happen. Housing Trust Fund, CDBG funding allocation, UDO amendendments and Riverfront Redevelopment Commission are tools to create more affordable housing. A partnership to create a mixed-use, mixed-income development on the riverfront is a goal.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

Yes.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

I voted in support of raising the thresholds but have concerns about the outcome and added to the amendment that it be reviewed after one year.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

Political experience: Activist, community organizer; board member: Building Bridges of Asheville, Smart Start of Buncombe County, Congregation Beth Israel (past); Evergreen Charter School Development Committee, Montford Neighborhood Association I-26 Task Force.

Endorsements: Sierra Club, PARC, Cecil Bothwell, Esther Manheimer, Ken Brame, Michael Carter, Robert Deutsch, Alan Escovitz, Katherine Fisher, Angie FlynnMcIver, Rebecca Gholson, Ben Gillum, Heather Goldstein, Althea Gonzalez, Tyrone Greenlee, Valerie Hoh, Janet Hurley, Leah Karpen, Judy Mattox, Deborah Miles, David Patterson, Heather Rayburn, David Roat, Yetta Williams, John Wood How much money have you raised for your campaign?

Strongly opposed. Since dissolution of the Water Agreement, Council spent $52 million for refurbishment of the system. I am proud of our stewardship and angry our delegation would consider such unique treatment. I know of no other city treated in this manner.

$8,000

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

Ken Brame - $500

More sidewalks, greenways and street repairs are needed. Council initiated an aggressive CIP budget last year; however, it is not adequate. Education and community consensus toward a referendum is a worthwhile goal.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

I am a supporter of MANNA, MHO, ABCCM and Eblen, nonprofits that do great work.

Council supports them and other initiatives through HCD allocations. AshevilleBuncombe Food Security is another opportunity recently forwarded by Councilman Smith that needs consideration.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

Controversies happen in the course of government; we have reacted with expedience and accuracy. Lessons are learned and applied. Council’s options in a council/manager form of government dictate we work through our manager to provide services the community requires.

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Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Melody and Leon Kramer - $1,000 Drs. Meryl and Jonas Goldstein - $900 What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

I have spent my life advocating for environmental protection, improved race relations, access to quality education and equal rights for all. I will bring my experience in business, education and nonprofit management, community activism, consensus-building, and creative problem solving to Asheville City Council.

Who else are you voting for and why?

I am not yet ready to make any endorsements. But I will say that I plan to vote for the other two candidates who most support the issues that are important to me: environment, equality and education.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

I will support well-planned, neighborhoodsensitive, affordable housing. And I want to continue the Asheville-Buncombe Homeless Initiative to provide long-term housing solutions for homeless people. I also will vote for clear and well-enforced rules for real estate development to facilitate more affordable housing.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

I will look at each incentive package indi-

vidually to ensure that we are getting the most for our money. I also want to be sure that we provide supports for local businesses and work to attract companies that will be vested partners in our community’s vision for a sustainable future.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

The DMP is an important step in identifying the specific goals and wishes of our community around downtown development. My concern is that these goals must be very clearly outlined in any ordinance that removes Council’s review from the process in order to ensure that we get the right outcome.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

I am frustrated by the many ways that the state continues to thwart Asheville’s ability to move forward and become a model for progress. The water issue is no exception. I am concerned that this represents another attempt to cripple Asheville’s right to govern ourselves and fund our own interests.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

We need to expand our transportation system beyond the automobile, both within the city and to provide connectivity to surrounding areas. Funding transit is going to take a shifting of priorities that will start with educating voters and policymakers about how alternative transportation infrastructure creates wealth.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

We need better transit. We need more affordable housing. We need to provide better access to education. We need jobs that provide higher wages. And to get there, our city needs to be allowed to keep more of the tax revenue that we generate.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

I think that we have a good city manager in Gary Jackson, and I would consider plans for additional oversight from Council in support of his efforts. Additionally, the APD must maintain the highest level of integrity and transparency to ensure cooperation and establish trust in our community.

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MARC HUNT TIM PECK Name: Marc Hunt Occupation: Land conservation program officer, Open Space Institute Party affiliation, if any: Democrat Political experience: None.

Endorsements: Gordon Smith, Brownie Newman, Cecil Bothwell, Esther Manheimer, Sierra Club, PARC How much money have you raised for your campaign? $20,711 total to date.

Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

George Potts - $4,000 Mack Pearsall - $1,000 Edward Okrasinski - $1,000 What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

My experience in finance, my leadership experience in small business and in the community, and my positive record of working closely with City Council staff as chairman of the Asheville Greenway Commission. Firm in my principles, I have a strong track record of getting things done collaboratively.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? I will reserve my privacy on this question. I do not plan to endorse any other candidates nor join any specific “slate” of candidates in this election.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

I will advocate for full funding of the affordable housing trust fund with at least $600,000 per year. I will look for opportunities to expand development incentives to provide affordable units. I will ensure that we have the strongest possible partnerships with HUD, Asheville Housing Authority and other key allies.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

I do not favor tax incentives but would selectively accommodate an occasional incentivized project if, upon solid analysis, it is a wise and low-risk taxpayer investment. My preference is to build our community character so that we can influence great enterprises to choose here, grow here and provide great jobs.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master Plan, such as raising the threshold

for direct Council review of proposed developments?

Yes. We’ve achieved a key step forward to assure a desirable development pattern with limits on building height and other uses.

Council must be diligent in smart and balanced appointments to the Planning and Zoning Commission to assure proper oversight, and Council can improve the UDO over time as well.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

The financial investment Asheville taxpayers have made in the system over decades must be protected. As the economic and cultural center of WNC, the future integrity of our city government is crucial to the county and the region. I am committed to developing better trust and dialogue with our legislators.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

To support livability and economic development, infrastructure investment is just as important as funding of operations. We must support the aging water system, streets and buildings. We must improve the River District and bicycle, pedestrian, park and transit facilities. Cost-efficient funding strategies like bond financing will help leverage taxpayer investment.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

I will avidly pursue economic development that creates new and better-paying jobs. I will strongly promote improved public education, affordable-housing initiatives, livingwage policy, the Homeless Initiative, food security, strong neighborhoods and transportation choices that, together, reinforce family stability and opportunity.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

Yes. Integrity and honesty is crucial, and Council must assure that through rigorous oversight of the city manager who, in turn, holds staff accountable. I am committed to a government that our citizens can trust. I am accustomed to setting high expectations for integrity and holding subordinates accountable.

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Name: Tim Peck Occupation: Warehouse order picker, Arvato Digital Services Party affiliation, if any: Unaffiliated Political experience: None yet.

Endorsements: How much money have you raised for your campaign?

Undisclosed.

Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

I have filed as a candidate who will not spend over $1,000, and I am neither compelled nor inclined to disclose my campaign finances.

What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

I understand the proper role of government.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? I will vote for Saul Chase and Jan Davis.

They are the least progressive candidates.

Bill Russell would have had my vote had he not dropped out.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

Zoning, overregulation, excessive taxation and ideological public policy create conditions that result in housing that is unaffordable to poor people. I will always vote against measures that cause housing to become unaffordable.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

I oppose corporate welfare, no matter the illusory and ephemeral benefit, and will not be a vote in favor of it. It is not the government’s proper role to pick winners and losers in the economy.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master

Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

I do not support the Downtown Master Plan in any of its forms. I oppose the use of force to implement central planning schemes that violate individual rights.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

Water-service delivery to consumers should be performed in the most cost-effective manner possible, and I support conducting a study to make that determination. If city government is more efficient, so be it.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

Asheville requires more parking to accommodate private automobiles. However, I will not vote to expend taxpayer funds for this purpose. I advocate removing government from the parking business.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

Government interference in the economy creates poverty. My votes on Council will always reflect a preference for the separation of economy and state.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

Government’s only proper role is the protection of individual rights. That includes police, fire, courts and military. Locally, government has too many improper activities that complicate our ability to apply scrutiny to priorities.

I advocate a public/private form of government to outsource city services for greater efficiency and lower cost.

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CHRIS PELLY Name: Chris Pelly Occupation: Real estate broker, Keller Williams Professionals Party affiliation: Lifelong Democrat Political experience: 12 years as president of Haw Creek Community Association; former president, Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods; candidate for Asheville City Council in 2003 and 2005.

Endorsements: Former Mayor Leni Sitnick, Councilman Cecil Bothwell, Sierra Club and PARC How much money have you raised for your campaign?

To date about $11,000.

Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Laura and Charlie Thomas - $2,000 Bob and Martha Pierce - $1,000 Four others - $500 each What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

A record of accomplishment addressing a range of growth and development issues, including: Haw Creek Park, Masters Park, Haw Creek Historic Trail, sidewalks on Tunnel Road and the Staples campaign to demand compliance with the sign ordinance.

I am a pragmatic progressive who gets things done.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? Undetermined.

What specific steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

I support consideration of a pilot voucher system to allow residents of public housing to choose other housing options. I support City Council providing incentives to increase affordable-housing options, particularly along transit corridors. I support a home energy-efficiency program for middle-income homeowners.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g., the recent Linamar deal)?

No. It is an inherently unfair system which penalizes existing local businesses and rewards vulture capitalism. Thermo Fisher of Weaverville [is] adding 110 jobs paying ... about the same rate Linamar will offer. They did not demand any “incentives.” It’s better to use our limited resources to support A-B Tech.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master

Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

I support much of the DMP. ... I have a concern about passing off to an unelected body, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the right to approve buildings up to 175,000 square feet. I hope to be proven wrong but believe this decision will come back to haunt City Council.

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

Asheville’s water system is owned by its citizens. While recognizing state legislation could seek to usurp the city of Asheville and seize this irreplaceable asset, I will work creatively and tirelessly to prevent any such action.

TJ THOMASSON Name: TJ Thomasson Party affiliation, if any: None

for jobs, but I don’t agree with giving up too much. I think the Linamar deal should have been cut by one year, especially during this economic period.

Political experience: Volunteered in the successful campaigns of Patsy Keever, Susan Fisher, Barack Obama. Also volunteered for Hillary Clinton and the current campaign of Cecil Bothwell.

Do you support the changes implemented by the Downtown Master Plan, such as raising the threshold for direct Council review of proposed developments?

Endorsements: Michael Harney (aka “The Rubberman”), Michael Sheldon, Robert Gaston, Tim Geib, Chris Aupperle, Karen Into, Bill Bryant, Dewey Smith, Naomi Spitzer, Phil Burton and Michael McMurtrey

I do not agree with giving the Planning and Zoning Commission more power when they have ignored the concerns of the community in recent developments that have been approved. We elect a Council to govern development, and that shouldn’t be [outsourced] to a committee.

Occupation: Assistant innkeeper

How much money have you raised for your campaign? $878.70 Who are your top three donors, and how much has each contributed?

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

Malcolm Parada - $500

Residents want sidewalks, and I aim to deliver. As I did in east Asheville, I will leverage participation with the NCDOT to address sidewalk needs on state-maintained roads.

For city roads, I will [work] to give voters the chance to support a specific, detailed bond referendum targeting resident-identified sidewalk needs.

What most distinguishes you from your opponents?

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

With so many poverty issues interrelated, food security is a fundamental need. City Council can help via support for churches and other front-line nonprofit service providers. This might mean making available unused office or warehouse space, publicity services through the Neighborhood Coordinator position, or directing staff or other resources.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

The APD can enhance the safety of vulnerable communities by appointing a liaison officer: someone safe to call. Ongoing education of APD officers on cultural issues such as hate crimes should [emphasize] care and caution ... in [how] we speak about each other: Hateful language can lead to hateful actions.

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Bill Bryant - $100 Richard Koeneman - $100

As an openly gay male, I am the only open LGBT candidate in the field. I support sustainable, smart development that respects the environment and the community’s opinions instead of just big developers pushing projects through. We need a safe and healthy Asheville with more sidewalks and bike lanes.

What other two Council candidates will you vote for? Why? Lael Gray and Marc Hunt. I trust Lael and Marc when it comes to LGBT issues and the environment. They have been outspoken in both respects. Marc donated so that my LGBT running group, Asheville Front Runners, could have a table at the Blue Ridge Pride festival.

What specfic steps will you take to address Asheville’s lack of affordable housing?

We must require new housing developments to include at least 25 percent ... low/affordable units, especially when we are giving out incentives. In addition, we need to apply for more grants like a recent one that has been applied for to totally redevelop Lee Walker Heights.

Do you favor the use of tax exemptions and incentives to promote job growth (e.g. the recent Linamar deal)?

I favor the use of some tax exemptions/incentives that are needed to win the bidding war

What’s your position on proposed legislation in Raleigh to study the possible seizure of Asheville’s water system?

I support an open approach, with open dialogue with the leaders in Raleigh. We must make it clear that we won’t stand by and allow their power grab — perhaps reminding the GOP leadership of their party’s platform of smaller government. Local government knows what is best.

Does Asheville require more infrastructure? If so, what are your priorities and how do you propose to fund them?

We need more and better-maintained sidewalks along with additional bike lanes. If we are to have a healthy city, these allow our citizens to walk/bike to where they need to go. I support a public/private partnership to get area businesses helping to raise funds to build more sidewalks/bike lanes.

A recent study named the Asheville metro area the seventh worst in the nation in terms of food hardship.

How do you propose to tackle poverty in the city of Asheville?

I support the Asheville Food Policy Council that has been formed to address this issue.

The city must work to support our local organizations providing food to those who need it.

We need to lift up these organizations by providing a hotline for people in need to call.

In light of the controversies surrounding the APD and the Human Resources Department, do you believe city government operations require closer scrutiny? If so, what steps do you favor?

Yes, we need to have transparent city government operations, so that the citizens will trust that their money is not being wasted and that they will be protected, and criminals will be where they belong — in jail.

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New Belgium has its eye on Asheville For weeks, rumors have swirled around town that the Colorado-based New Belgium Brewing is considering opening a brewery in Asheville — and that Asheville and Buncombe County officials might offer the company an economic-incentive package.

At a Sept. 22 Council of Independent Business Owners forum, Council member Jan Davis revealed that the city had been in communication with the craft brewer and that economic incentives for the company are a possibility, though he didn’t favor making such a deal.

“We have an opportunity with the New Belgium brewery,” said Davis. “We’re going to have to make a decision on that, whether to help the brewery with incentives or encourage them to be here because of the quality of life.”

In dual Sept. 13 meetings, Council and the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners went into closed sessions to discuss unspecified economic-development incentive deals. New Belgium may have been the company discussed, several sources told Xpress.

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auto-parts manufacturer Linamar earlier this year.

Thanks to that deal, he asserted, related manufacturing companies are now looking at Asheville.

“I’d love to have New Belgium here,” said Davis. “It’s going to create good jobs. I’m not really in favor of incentivizing that — I think that’s an issue. They’re a well-off company: Nobody incentivized [Highland Brewing co-founder] Oscar Wong or anyone like that.” — David Forbes

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After nearly three years on the air, she’s now working full time for Reynolds Village, a mixed-use development in Woodfin, where she’s been doing part-time marketing work since 2007. Groetsch says the company made her “an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

“The opportunity to work at a single job, with benefits, was too good to pass by,” she explains.

“I’m trying not to work 80 hours a week anymore.”

In addition to spending countless hours on the radio show, until recently Groetsch co-owned and co-managed a pair of downtown businesses — Tingles Cafe and Sazerac (Tingles closed earlier this year; her husband, Jack, remains at Sazerac).

And she’s also busy raising two young children.

“There are things I want to do with my life, and radio is one of them. But it’s not going to drain the life out of every other endeavor I have,” she says.

In an email announcement, Brian Hall, Clear Channel Director of News/Talk Programming, wrote: “Lesley has been a very valuable asset to us and to the growth of local progressive talk here in Asheville. We have taken 880 to new heights with Lesley and Blake [Butler] becoming fixtures in our progressive community and she will be greatly missed.”

Clear Channel plans to name a new co-host of Local Edge Radio soon. — Jake Frankel

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CTS site owner appeals condemnation

by Susan Andrew “Would you like a bottle of water?” asks Larry Rice as we complete a brief tour of his family’s property off Mills Gap Road in south Asheville.

Rice’s parents bought the property adjacent to the CTS of Asheville plant in the mid-’70s, and for years, the family got its water from a natural spring on their property. The little wetland is still there, but it’s now surrounded by a 6-foot chainlink fence; signs warn people not to drink or have any contact with the water.

Over the years, neighbors have complained of many serious health problems, including rare tumors, immune disorders, persistent fainting spells and birth defects.

A group of neighbors says it has assembled evidence of chemical dumping at CTS that allegedly continued for years; Rice says he now drinks only bottled water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of listing the former CTS property as a Superfund site.

A large sign displaying the Superfund logo was recently erected in front of the shuttered factory, but the official listing has been delayed while the EPA analyzes the public comments it must consider first.

Ranking the property among the nation’s most contaminated sites could facilitate the cleanup neighbors have been seeking for decades, though it’s no guarantee of prompt or comprehensive action.

In June, Buncombe County launched condemnation proceedings against the derelict building as a first step toward demolishing it. But the current property owner has appealed the condemnation proceedings. At a Sept. 19 hearing, Mills Gap Road Associates said it wants to investigate the cost of stabilizing the building by “boarding up doors and windows, if doing so would prevent condemnation.” According to county inspections staff, however, the structure is too far gone to be stabilized.

Neighbors anxious for a remedy support demolition, but continued legal skirmishing between CTS and the Asheville-based Mills Gap Road Associates has further complicated the picture.

In July 2010, CTS sued Mills Gap Road Associates, saying the business wasn’t doing its share in covering the assessment and remediation costs, as spelled out in a 2004 EPA “administrative order on consent.” When the property changed hands in 1987, however, CTS had warranted that it was in compliance with all environmental laws and regulations. That claim has

since been rejected by public agencies as well as area residents investigating the source of contamination found in soils, surface and ground water downhill from the site.

Meanwhile, as the building has fallen into disrepair, vandals have gained entry, stealing copper pipes and leaving telltale graffiti (see Feb. 23 Xpress blog post “Seeking Relief: CTS Neighbors File Lawsuit”). And in late August, CTS sent Mills Gap Road Associates a letter demanding that the property owner immediately pay off an outstanding promissory note related to the property. Citing the condemnation proceedings, the letter asserts that Mills Gap Road Associates has defaulted on an agreement to keep the premises in good repair.

In yet another wrinkle, the county has said it intends to place a lien on the property to recover the cost of demolishing the building.

Officials from the EPA’s Superfund program, including Branch Chief Don Rigger, were in Asheville Sept. 15 to host a “public availability session” — even as EPA contractors collect the latest round of samples from contaminated wells and springs in the area.

For their part, the beleaguered neighbors would be glad to see the derelict building gone, says resident Tate MacQueen.

“However, if the shell of the building goes and the contamination underneath is not addressed, then it’s just an exercise in beautification by concealing the wound.

There is the potential for a whitewash here,” he maintains, “and that’s the last thing we can afford. This should be a case study for EPA Region 4, for how to turn a wrong into a right.”

Residents have repeatedly accused the very federal and state agencies that are supposed to protect human health and the environment of covering up their mishandling of the CTS case. At a public meeting last fall, Rigger apologized to residents for his agency’s mistakes, acknowledging errors in detecting the problem and delays in acting on it once it was discovered.

“It’s one thing to acknowledge your mistakes,” says MacQueen. “It’s another thing for them — the people who made these decisions — to show that they actually learn from their mistakes. That’s what we’re looking for.” X Send your local environmental news and tips to sandrew@mountainx.com, or call 251-1333, ext. 153.

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Don’t drink the water: Larry Rice stands at the fence the state erected around the spring that once provided his family’s drinking water. The CTS plant, immediately uphill, is the suspected source of contamination by hazardous chemicals, including TCE, that were released into the environment there. Photos by Susan Andrew

Witness to the prosecution?: Officials from EPA’s Superfund Branch in Atlanta stand at the gate of the former CTS plant on Mills Gap Road earlier this month. They were in town to host a quarterly “public availability session,” as a new round of water samples was collected in Mills Gap area wells and streams.

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Community Events & Workshops Community Mediation Training at The Mediation Center (pd.) Hands-on practice mediating a variety of conflicts October 5th- 7th $300/person, includes lunch

(scholarships available) Registration contact Allison: allisonc@mediatebuncombe. org / 251-6089 Information: www.mediatebuncombe. org/trainings

Free DIY Bike Flat Patching (pd.) Wed-Sat, 10am5:30pm. Bike Works Total Bike Repair Center, 866 Haywood Rd. West Asheville, 505-8661.

Free Beginner Massage Class • A beginner massage class will be offered monthly. Free.

Info, location and dates: www.vitalitymassage.net or 645-5228.

Lectures at WCU • TH (9/29), 5pm - “The Chicago Fire of 1871: The Economics of a Polycentric Disaster Relief Effort” will be presented by Emily Skarbek, assistant professor of economics at San Jose State University. Held at Western Carolina University’s Forsyth

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• FR (9/30), 2pm - “The Economics of Criminal Governance and Prison Gangs” will be presented by David Skarbek, Searle visiting assistant professor in the department of political science at Duke University. Held in the Forsyth Building. Info: smiller@wcu.edu.

Literary Events at UNCA Events are free unless noted.

Tickets & info: 232-5000.

• TU (10/4), 12:30-1:30pm - “Working with Students in Radio Astronomy at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute” will be presented by physics professors Charles Bennett and Brian Dennison. Held in the Ramsey Library. Info: 251-6645.

Multi-Modal Transportation Public Meeting • TH (9/29), 4-7pm - An open-house public meeting will be held at the Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity’s conference room to discuss the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay River Arts District Transportation Project.

Consultants and city staff will present project alternatives and gather feedback from the community. Info: spankiewicz@landdesign.com.

Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/28), 7pm - Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro, will discuss her life in Cuba and her decision to move to the U.S. as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: www.msp. unca.edu.

• FR (9/30), 11:25am - “The Second Scientific Revolution and the New Imperialism,” presented by Rodger Payne, associate professor of religious studies, in UNCA’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Info: www.humanities.unca.edu or 251-6808. —- 11:25am - “Women and Inequality,” presented by Sarah Judson, associate professor of history, in UNCA’s Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: www. humanities.unca.edu or 2516808. —- 11:30am - “Fab Friday: What Makes Images Powerful,” presented by Alan Hantz, chair and professor

of mass communication, will examine why images become iconic. Lunch available in the Reuter Cafe; brown bags welcome. Held at UNCA’s Reuter Center.

Info: www,unca.edu/ncccr or 251-6140.

• MO (10/3), 11:25am - “Buddhism and Jainism,” presented by Katherine Zubko, assistant professor of religious studies. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: www.humanities.unca.edu 251-6808. —- 11:25am “Best-Selling Authors, CrossDressing Warriors and other Uppity Women of the Middle Ages,” presented by Cynthia Ho, professor of literature.

Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Info: www.humanities.unca. edu 251-6808.

• TU (10/4), 7:30pm “Brazil’s New Power in the Americas and the World,” presented by Ernesto Araujo, Minister-Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy. Held in UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: www.unca.edu or 251-6600.

Ten Thousand Villages Annual Oriental Rug Event • Through SA (10/1), 11am-7pm - Ten Thousand Villages will host its annual Oriental Rug Event, featuring hand-knotted rugs made in Pakistan by fairly paid adults, at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity, 2425 Hendersonville Road in Arden. Info: www. tenthousandvillages.com.

Warren Wilson Lecture Series • WE (10/5), 7pm - David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, will discuss sustainable agriculture. Held at Warren Wilson College, building to be determined. Info: http://avl. mx/5d or 298-3325.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Gal Pals Of Asheville (pd.) Come join Asheville’s Most Fabulous group: Lesbian Social Group for Women, ages 35-55. • Group attendance requirement; All members are active. • For more info: groups.yahoo.com/group/ GalPalsofAsheville Asheville Toastmasters • THURSDAYS, 6:157:30pm - If you’ve been

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Liven up science at Crazy Chemistry, a program for children, on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at

wed 10:30 a.m. Held at Hands On! 318 North Main St. in Hendersonville. Info: handsonwnc.org.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will present “Team of Rivals: Leadership

thur Lessons from Abraham Lincoln” on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Porter Center of Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive. Info: brevard.edu.

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Learn about native plants in the woods and backyard at Woodland Wonders, a presentation

by Barry Glick, on Friday, Sept. 30 from 7-8:30pm. Held at Old Rock School, 402 Main St. E., Valdese. Info: sunfarm.com.

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See a tractor pull and take a wagon ride at Farm City Day in Jackson Park, Barnard Road in Hendersonville, on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: historichendersonville.org.

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Enjoy an afternoon of yoga in the serenity of the mountains as Lighten Up Yoga hosts a moderate hike followed by instruction at the peak of Hemphill Bald on Cataloochee Ranch.

Held on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 11 a.m. Registration required by Sept. 30. RSVP and directions: rich@appalachian.org or 253-0095.

Join local author Patti Digh for a discussion of Claude M. Steele’s Whistling Vivaldi:

mon How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. Hosted by Malaprop’s Bookstore, 55 Haywood St. in downtown Asheville. Info: malaprops.com.

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Learn how Brazil overcame crippling inflation and a failing currency to become one of the world’s fastest growing economies as Ernesto Araujo, Minister-Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy, presents “Brazil’s New Power in the Americas and the World” at UNCA’s Reuter Center on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Info: unca.edu or 251-6600.

thinking about improving your communication skills, Asheville Toastmasters is for you. Newcomers welcome; no pressure to speak. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd.

Info: capollak@hotmail.com.

Buncombe Young Democrats Monthly Meeting • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Have an interest in politics? Interested in meeting new people or community service? Come to the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave., for one of our monthly meetings. Info: www.buncombedems.com CLOSER Looking for gay folks in your age group? CLOSER is Asheville’s oldest LGBT social club serving all boomers and seniors, providing entertainment, education and fellowship.

• TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets in the library of All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. Coupon Class • TU (10/4), 7-8pm - A coupon-cutting class will be held at the Old Armory Recreation Center, 44 Boundary St., Waynesville. $10. Info: nicole2k@aol.com or 456-9207.

Courthouse Tours

• WEDNESDAYS through (10/6), 2pm - Historic courthouse tours will depart from 200 North Grove St., Hendersonville. Free. Info: 694-5003.

Events at A-B Tech • TH (9/29), 5-8pm - An open house for residents to learn more about programs offered at A-B Tech will be held in the Coman Student Center, 340 Victoria Road.

Info: 254-1921.

Henderson County Heritage Museum Located in the Historic Courthouse in Hendersonville at 1 Historic Courthouse Square on Main Street. Info: 694-1619 or www.hendersoncountymuseum.org.

• SA (10/1) through FR (12/30) - An exhibit of Civil War artifacts will feature military weaponry and uniforms.

Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of needlework. The chapter is also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome. Info: 654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org.

• TH (10/6), 9:30am-noon The meeting will feature a felt applique and sewing pocket.

N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays.

Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through MO (1/2), 10am4pm - Sustainable Shelter will feature scale models and interactive computer games to investigate how humans can green their homes. $3/$2 students.

The Huckleberry Grand ReOpening • FR (9/30), 3pm - A grand re-opening of The Huckleberry cafe will be presented by the Montreat Conference Center and Montreat College. Held at Montreat Conference Center, Moore Center, 401 Assembly Drive. Info: www.montreat. org.

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

• Through SA (10/1) Austrailian Cattle Dog Club show.

• FR (9/30) through SU (10/2) - Asheville Quilt Guild show.

WNC Fiber Folk Group • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - The WNC Fiber Folk Group will meet at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee.

Info: ddrury@wcu.edu or 227-2553.

Government & Politics Community Conversations: Today’s Nuclear Establishment • 1st SUNDAYS, 7-9pm - “Community Conversations: Historical and Political Economic Origins of Today’s Nuclear Establishment” will be held at Marshall Arts, 7609 Highway 25/70 in Marshall. Info: www.marshallcommunityarts.com.

Seniors & Retirees 60+ Exercise Smarter (pd.) Learn better ways to exercise. Make every movement lighter, freer, easier.

getaway A Little Church and Great Big Elk What: The Little Cataloochee Church is just a tiny white cabin with a steeple, but it’s been worth a visit since 1889.

The Friends of the Smokies will offer a moderately difficult, 6.5-mile hike to the church, and if the weather is good and time allows, hikers can watch an elk herd travel through the Cataloochee Valley. No need to drive out there all alone: A group will depart from Asheville in the morning. Be sure to pack food, water and hiking clothes, as the trip will take all day.

When: Tuesday, Oct. 4.

Where: The guided tour will depart from Interstate 40, exit 24, at 9 a.m. Exact location will be specified upon registration.

Cost: $25 donation includes membership to Friends of the Smokies.

Registration: Space is limited. For more information, e-mail grtsmoky@ bellsouth.net or call 452-0720.

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Personal attention, small, focused class. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12:00pm. $15 or 10 for $130. 117 Furman. 2253786. FormFitnessFunction. com

Active Aging Week • Through SA (10/1) - Active Aging Week will feature classes and demonstrations on keeping a healthy body and active mind. Held throughout Hendersonville.

Info, times and locations: 251-7438.

Bird Watching Trip for Seniors • TH (10/6), 8am-2pm - A bird watching trip for

seniors will depart from the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Bring a lunch and a camera. $7/$5 members. Trip is limited to 15 people; registration recommended. Info: recprograms@townofwaynesville. org or 456-2030.

Animals Blessing of the Animals • SU (10/2), 5pm - A blessing of the animals will be held as part of the Cross and Wired Contemporary Service at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 10 N. Liberty St.

Info: www.stmarkslutheran. net or 253-0043.

Blessing of the Animals • TU (10/4), 6-7:30pm - A blessing of the animals will be offered at Best Friends Pet Cemetery, 1498 Sand Hill Road, Candler. Bring pets in carriers or on leashes.

Animal non-profits will be in attendance. Snacks provided.

Info: www.bestfriendspetcemetery.com.

Blessing of the Animals • WE (10/5), 6-7pm - A Blessing of the Animals will be offered to “well-behaved humans and their animal companions.” Donations

encouraged. Held at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

Info: www.unitync.net or 684-3798.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: www.bwar.org or 808-9435.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Bring home your new furry best friend and meet dozens of cats and kittens looking for new homes at this weekly cat adoption event. Held at PetSmart, 150 Bleachery Blvd. in Asheville.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Fundraiser BWAR is a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless dogs

and cats find permanent homes. Info: www.bwar.org or 458-7778.

• WE (9/28), 6-8pm - Meet adorable single pets at a pet speed dating event, featuring adoptable kittens, puppies and parrots. Admission includes hors d’oeuvres and beer or wine. Held at Hannah Flanagan’s Pub,, 27 Biltmore Ave. $25 for two/$15.

• SU (10/2), 11am-6pm - Swim With Your Dog Day will feature an agility course, photographer, food and off-leash swimming. Limited tickets available. $10 benefits Brother Wolf. Held at Lake

Eden, 377 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain.

Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to provide affordable spay/ neuter services to communities in/around Henderson County. Info: www.communitypartnershipforpets.org or 693-5172.

• 4th SATURDAYS, 10am2pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at Tractor Supply Company, 115 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

• 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. in Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance).

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

• TH (10/6) through SA (10/8) - A national walking horse show will be held in the McGough Arena.

Business Corporate Wellness Programs (pd.) Affordable. Uniquely designed to employee needs. Increase productivity and worker satisfaction.

Reduce time away from work and insurance costs.

Pilates, Human Ergonomics, Running and Walking programs. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists at 39 D S. Market St., downtown Asheville. Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Info and registration: www.arts2people.org or info@arts2people.org.

• The Arts2People Artist Resource Center seeks instructors with business management skills. Classes are geared towards creative professionals. Info: info@ arts2people.org or www. ashevillearc.com.

Writing an Effective Business Plan • SA (10/1), 9am-1pm - “Writing an Effective Business Plan” will be offered at the Small Business Center on the A-B Tech Enka Campus, intersection of 19/23 and Sand Hill Road. $30. Info: 687-0154.

Technoloy Free Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. To register: classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com.

• MONDAYS, 12:15pm Mac OSX Basics.

• TUESDAYS, 12:15pm iPhoto Basics.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:15pm - iPad Basics.

• THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 12:15pm - Advanced/paid classes (see website for schedule).

Volunteering Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC

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Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Room 213, in the United Way building.

The organization matches children from single-parent homes with adult mentors.

Info: www.bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters is currently seeking adult mentors for bi-monthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost. Volunteers are also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school programs. Information sessions: Oct. 13 and Oct. 25 at noon.

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

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

• Through TH (11/3), 2:305:30pm - Volunteers needed at least one hour per week, Mondays through Thursdays, to help K-5th graders with homework and activities.

Info: VolunteerC@childrenfirstbc.org or 768-2072.

Literacy Council of Buncombe County Located at 31 College Place, Building B, Suite 221. Info: 254-3442, ext. 205.

• Through TH (10/20) - 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 Wed. Oct. 19 and Thurs. Oct. 20th. Advance preparation required. Info: literacytutors@litcouncil.com.

March of Dimes The mission of March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

• Through FR (9/30) - Volunteers needed for the Signature Chefs Gala and Auction. Bi-monthly meetings and online discussions will be held to coordinate planning. Info and meeting dates: Trey@QueDox.com or 670-8283.

Our VOICE Training • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS (through 10/20), 5:308:30pm - Join Our VOICE, Buncombe County’s sexual

violence crisis and prevention center, to help break down myths, challenge harmful attitudes, advocate for healthy relationships and consent, and prevent sexual violence. We work in schools, faith communities, events, businesses and more. 24 hours of training required; sessions held twice weekly. Info and registration: www.ourvoicenc.org.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Highway 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required.

Info: 877-4423 or www. ncwildlife.org.

• Through WE (11/30) - Volunteers are needed to answer phones, help with the gift shop and answer visitor questions.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: www. artsofbrevard.org or 8842787.

• Through SA (12/31) - Volunteers needed for the “Take Art to Heart” program to share works of art with elementary school students.

Info: tcarts@comporium.net.

Gardening Broad River Botanicals (pd.) SALE Perennials & Herbs Wholesale prices on the entire inventory!

Saturday, Oct. 1 10 am - 4 pm Clearance plants starting at $1.00 (828) 664-9902 2805 Hwy 9 Black Mountain.

(828) 664-9902 HOME ORCHARDS SEMINAR (pd.) Saturday, Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. Create an edible yard!

In this free seminar, Andrew Goodheart Brown will discuss choosing your trees, siting your fruit for disease resistance and increased yield, and recommended planting methods ~ all with a permaculture twist.

Reems Creek Nursery & Landscaping, 70 Monticello Road, Weaverville, NC, www. reemscreek.com. Free, but please pre-register at 828645-3937.

Mulch Giveaway • Through SA (10/22) - Free mulch will be available to Hendersonville residents.

Held at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 139 Balfour Road, Hendersonville. Call for times. Info: 697-3084.

Plant Propagation Workshop • SA (10/1), 10am-4pm - Native plant expert Barry Glick will lead a class on plant propagation. Held at NC Cooperative Extension, 130

Ammons Drive, Morganton.

Bring scissors and pruning shears. Registration required.

Info: 439-4460.

Regional Tailgate Markets For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: 236-1282 or www.buyappalachian.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8-11am - Stecoah Tailgate Market, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville. —- 8am-noon - Transylvania Tailgate Market, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets in downtown Brevard.

—- 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 26pm - Montford Farmers Market, Asheville Chamber of Commerce parking lot.

—- 2-6:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —- 2:30-6:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, behind the yellow community center on Weaverville Highway.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance of Mission Hospital’s Heart Center on the Memorial Campus. —- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, in the parking area behind Cherry Cottage and next to Hubba Hubba Smoke House along Little Rainbow Row. • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm Riceville Tailgate Market, Groce United Methodist Church’s parking lot, at the corner of Beverly Road and Tunnel Road.

• SATURDAYS, 8am-noon - Transylvania Tailgate Market, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets in downtown Brevard. —9am-noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the old Barnardsville fire station, across from the post office on Highway 197. —- 9am-noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road.

—- 8am-noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, at UNCA (take W.T. Weaver Boulvard and follow signs).

—- 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte Street. —- 9am-1pm Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, at the corner of Highway 213 and Park Street.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-3pm - Greenlife Sunday Market, at the Greenlife Grocery parking lot. —- noon-4pm - Marshall Farmers Market, on the island in downtown Marshall.

• TUESDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate Market, 718 Haywood Road, in the parking area between Grace Baptist Church and Sun Trust Bank.

Woodland Wonders • FR (9/30), 7pm-8:30pm - Woodland Wonders, presented by Barry Glick, will examine native plants in the woods and backyard. Held at Old Rock School, 402 Main St. E., Valdese. Info: www. sunfarm.com/index.phtml.

Eco N.C. Arboretum Events

The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays.

Located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through MO (1/2) - The Home Green Home exhibit will feature animal shelters, insect hives and nests.

RiverLink Events RiverLink, WNC’s organization working to improve life along the French Broad, sponsors a variety of river-

friendly events. Info: www. riverlink.org or 252-8474.

• WE (9/28), 5:30pm - A workshop on storm water calculation will assist homeowners in determining runoff volume. Bring a site analysis, scaled plat or aerial imagery and a calculator. Held at 170 Lyman St.

Sierra Club Meeting • WE (10/5), 7pm - A meeting of the Sierra Club will feature a discussion on sustainable transportation. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church at the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Streets.

Info: www.wenoca.org.

Outdoors Quality Training Program (pd.) Completely personalized small group training.

Weekly run. Individual goal setting. Beginners to Advanced. Weaver Park.

Two Groups: Sundays, 8:30am or 9:30am. $65 for 6 weeks. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Free and open to the public.

• FR (9/30), 10am - A moderate to strenuous 2.5-mile round trip hike to the summit of Sam Knob. Enjoy views of early fall color from a “bald”

mountain top. The hike will depart from the end of Forest Service Road 816, about one mile south of Graveyard Fields, MP 420. Bring water, wear good hiking shoes and be prepared for inclement weather. Info: 298-5330.

Lake James State Park N.C. Highway 126. Info: 584-7728.

• WE (9/28), 10am - An easy two-mile nature hike will depart from the Paddy’s Creek Area office.

• TH (9/29), 5pm - A canoe excursion will depart from Paddy’s Creek Area office.

Canoes, paddles and life

jackets provided. Registration required: 584-7728.

• FR (9/30), 10am - An exploration of aquatic life in Paddy’s Creek for children.

Meet at the Paddy’s Creek Bridge trailhead. Bring a change of clothes. —- 7pm - A night of stargazing will meet at the Catawba River Area. Telescopes and binoculars provided. Folding chairs recommended. Registration: 584-7728.

Overmountain Victory Trail • TH (9/29), 3pm - A dedication ceremony will recognize a new segment of The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. Held

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Appalachian splendor: Autumn in the Southern Appalachians group photography exhibit will be on display at the Pack Place gallery in downtown Asheville from Oct. 3 to Oct. 24. An opening reception will be held on Oct. 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. cnpa-asheville.org. Above photo by Steven McBride. at Hefner Gap Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway MP 326. Info: 765-1228.

Sports Groups & Activities APA Pool League – Beginners Wanted (pd.) Sign up to play on a local amateur pool team.

8-ball & 9-ball teams forming now. Have fun. Meet People.

Play Pool. 828-329-8197. www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play Transform Your Form (pd.) Run with a lightness and ease you’ve never known! Alexander Technique will turn your arms into wings! Thursdays, 6:30pm. $100 for 6 sessions.

Ongoing. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Home School Physical Education • THURSDAYS, 1-2:30pm - A physical education class for home-schooled children will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $3.

Info: 456-2030.

Jus’ Running Weekly coach-led runs.

Meet at 523 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: www.jusrunning.com.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Fivemile group run, 10-11 minutes per mile.

•TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Run from the store to the UNCA track for a maggot track workout. There will also be a post-workout get together at a local restaurant.

•WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Eight-mile group run.

•THURSDAYS, 6pm - Onehour run from the Rice Pinnacle parking lot at Bent Creek. Easy, moderate and fast levels.

Lap Pool • WE (9/28), 5:30am - The lap pool will re-open at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. Water park will re-open at 11am.

Info: recdirector@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030.

Pickleball • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Pickleball is like playing ping pong on a tennis court.

Groups meet weekly at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St. in Asheville. For all ages/levels. $1 per session. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ ashevillenc.gov.

Roller Derby Info Meeting • WE (9/28), 7pm - A roller derby informational meeting for women ages 18 and over will be held at Smoky Mountain Sk8way, 19025 Great Smoky Mountain Expressway, Waynesville.

Info: www.smokymountainsk8way.com.

Step Aerobics Class

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Enhance cardio, strength and flexibility at this step aerobics, weights and stretch class. Meets at StephensLee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St. in Asheville.

Open to all levels. Free. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ ashevillenc.gov.

Yoga on the Mountain Hike • SU (10/2), 11am - A moderate hike will feature yoga instruction from Lighten Up Yoga at the peak of the mountain. $10/Free for Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy members. Held at Hemphill Bald on Cataloochee Ranch.

Directions available with registration, required by Sept.

30. Info: rich@appalachian. org or 253-0095.

Youth Basketball Class • TUESDAYS through (10/25) , 6-7:45pm - A basketball class for children ages 4-8 will be offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center, 550 Vance St. $25.

Info: recathletics@townofwaynesville.org or 456-2030.

Kids Free DIY Bike Tire Repair for Kids (pd.) Learn to patch bike tubes and fix flats! Saturdays 1-2pm. Class held at Bike Works, Total Bike Repair Center, 866 Haywood Rd. Reserve space: 505-8661

Free ‘ACT vs SAT Comparison Test’ • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS through (2/19) - Asheville students are invited to take Chyten’s ‘ACT vs SAT Comparison Test’ to determine which represents their best match. The test is offered on Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 1pm. Info and reservations: 505-2495 or www.chyten-asheville. com.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm.

Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org.

• WE (9/28), 10:30am Crazy chemistry.

• FR (9/30), 10:30am - Tania Battista of the YouTheatre program at Flat Rock Playhouse will perform.

Free with admission.

• TU (10/4) - The grand opening of Who Grows Your Food? will be hosted by the Hendersonville Community Co-op and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Special events held throughout the day.

• WE (10/5), 3:30-5pm - A Wiggle with the Worms class will be offered to children ages eight and older.

Advanced registration recommended. $15/$10 members.

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• TH (10/6) - Mad Hatter Day will encourage children to wear their craziest hat.

Free with admission. Held throughout the day.

Homegrown FAM: Family Art at the Market • SATURDAYS (10/1) through (10/29), 10am-noon - “Homegrown FAM: Family Art at the Market” will offer a free art series for children.

Held at the Jackson County Farmers Market, Bridge Park in Sylva. Info: ddrury@wcu. edu or 227-2553.

N.C. Arboretum Events for Kids Info: www.ncarboretum.org or 665-2492.

• Through FR (9/30) - Take a Child Outside Week will encourage children to connect with the outdoors.

Youth Open Mic Night • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Children and teens are invited to perform music, recite poetry or present other arts at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. Get creative and come show off your talent. Info: http://on.fb.me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@ gmail.com.

Spirituality A Barbara Marciniak Channeling Event October 14,15 (Friday-Saturday) (pd.) Barbara channels the Pleiadians who share their perspectives about our

changing world. Bring your questions! • Lecture/channeling Friday, 7pm-10:30pm: $35. • Workshop/channeling: Saturday, 10am-6pm: $90. Cash or money order only. • Ramada River Ridge Hotel, 800 Fairview Road, Asheville. Reservations/information: (828) 298-6300 or ashevilleclass@yahoo.com Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) (pd.) Discover why TM is the world’s most effective and scientifically validated meditation technique.

Clinically proven to boost brain function and reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. Allows you to effortlessly transcend the busy, agitated mind to experience inner peace and unbounded awareness. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: How meditation techniques differ • Meditation and brain research • What is enlightenment? (828) 254-4350. www.MeditationAsheville. org 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, 7pm8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks.

• The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 808-4444. • www. ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Great for couples!

Group uses model developed

by Marshall Rosenberg in his book “Non-violent Communication, A Language of Life.” Free. Info: 299-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:006:15—Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners.

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 or www.billwalz.com.

• MONDAYS, 7-8pm Meditation class with lesson and discussion of contemporary Zen living. Held at the Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road (off Merrimon Avenue).

Donations encouraged.

Open Heart Meditation (pd.) Learn easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart.

• Free. 7pm, Tuesdays. 6455950 or 296-0017. http:// www.heartsanctuary.org Poetic Shrines: a writing and craft workshop (pd.) Honor your spirit and life (or someone dear) through poetry and an artful matchbox shrine. • Saturday, October 1, 10:am-2:30pm, Asheville Friends Meeting House. $70, includes materials. More information: (828) 215-9002, register www. true-ink.com Advanced Meditation Session • 1st SUNDAYS, 6:30pm - Advanced-to-intermediate meditators, or individuals who can sit quietly and pleasantly for an hour, are invited to meditate at the Asheville School of Massage and Yoga, 77 Walnut St. Info: 423-6636.

Awakening Practices Group

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) I’ve got a challenging assignment for you. In accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to cultivate a special kind of receptivity -- a rigorously innocent openness to experience that will allow you to be penetrated by life’s beauty with sublime intensity. To understand the exact nature of this receptivity, study Abraham Maslow’s definition of real listening: to listen “without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Government officials in Southern Sudan are proposing to build cities in fantastic shapes. They say that the regional capital of Juba would be recreated to resemble a rhinoceros, as seen from the air. The town of Yambio is destined to look like a pineapple and the city of Wau will be a giraffe. I’m confused by all this, since I know that most of the people in South Sudan live on less than a dollar a day. Is that really how they want their country’s wealth spent? Please consider the possibility, Taurus, that there are also some misplaced priorities in your own sphere right now.

Hopefully they’re nothing on the scale of what’s happening in South Sudan, but still: Allocate your resources with high discernment, please.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You have cosmic clearance to fall deeply, madly, and frequently in love, Gemini. In fact, it’s OK with the gods of fate and the angels of karma if you swell up with a flood of infatuation and longing big enough to engorge an entire city block.

The only stipulation those gods and angels insist on is that you do not make any rash decisions or huge life changes while in the throes of this stupendous vortex. Don’t quit your job, for instance, or sell all your belongings, or dump your temporarily out-of-favor friends and loved ones. For the foreseeable future, simply enjoy being enthralled by the lush sexy glory of the liquid blue fire.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Among the surprises spilled by WikiLeaks some months back was the revelation that U.S. diplomats think Canadians feel “condemned to always

homework At least 30 percent of everything you and I know is more than half-wrong.

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play ‘Robin’ to the U.S. ‘Batman.’” If that’s true, it shouldn’t be. While Canada may not be able to rival the war-mongering, plutocrat-coddling, environment-despoiling talents of my home country America, it is a more reliable source of reason, compassion, and civility. Are you suffering from a similar disjunction, Cancerian? Do you imagine yourself “Robin” in relationship to some overweening “Batman”? This would be an excellent time to free yourself of that dynamic.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Enigmatology” is an infrequently-used word that means the study of puzzles and how to solve them. I’m invoking it now to highlight the fact that you need to call on some unusual and idiosyncratic and possibly even farfetched resources as you intensify your efforts to solve the puzzles that are spread out before you. The help you’ve called on in the past just won’t be enough for this new round of gamesmanship. The theories and beliefs and strategies that have brought you this far can’t take you to the next stage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) This would not be a good time for you to read the book called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Self-Esteem. In fact, it will never be the right time to read it. While it’s true that at this juncture in your life story you can make exceptional progress in boosting your confidence and feeling positive about yourself, you’re not an idiot and you don’t need idiot-level assistance. If there was a book called The Impish Guide to Accessing and Expressing Your Idiosyncratic Genius, I’d definitely recommend it. Likewise a book titled The Wild-Eyed Guide to Activating Your Half-Dormant Potential or The Brilliant Life-Lover’s Guide to Becoming a Brilliant Life-Lover.

vortex grenade at anyone. He could damage your own interests more than those of your adversaries.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s high time for you to receive a flood of presents, compliments, rewards, and blessings. You got a problem with that? I hope not.

I hope you are at peace with the fact that you deserve more than your usual share of recognition, appreciation, flirtations, and shortcuts.

Please, Sagittarius? Please don’t let your chronic struggles or your cynical views of the state of the world blind you to the sudden, massive influx of luck. Pretty please open your tough heart and skeptical mind to the bounty that the universe is aching to send your way.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I like how astrologer Hunter Reynolds encapsulates the Capricornian imperative. If you “can manage your ego’s erratic moods and uneven motivations well enough to offer a service with consistent quality,” he says, “the world confers social recognition and its accompanying material advantages on you.” The members of other signs may appear warmer and fuzzier than you, but only because you express your care for people through a “strictness of focus,” “disciplined work,” and by being a “dependable helpmate.”

This describes you at your best, of course; it’s not easy to meet such high standards. But here’s the good news: The omens suggest you now have an excellent opportunity to function at your very best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“When I was born,” said comedian Gracie Allen, “I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.” I suspect you will soon be experiencing a metaphorical rebirth that has some of the power of the event she was referring to. And so I won’t be shocked if you find it challenging to formulate an articulate response, at least in the short term.

In fact, it may take you a while to even register, let alone express, the full impact of the upgrade you will be blessed with.

“Not being omniscient is a really big drag for me,” says poet Charles Harper Webb. I sympathize with him. My life would be so much easier and my power would be so much more graceful if only I knew everything there is to know.

That’s why I’m going to be a little jealous of you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You may not be supremely authoritative about every single subject, but you will have access to far more intuitive wisdom than usual, and you’ll be making extra good use of the analytical understandings you have. Bonus: You will also be absorbing new lessons at an elevated rate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“During a game of Apocalypse against the Witchhunters,” reports Andrew_88 in an online forum, “I authorized my Chaos Lord to throw his vortex grenade at the oncoming Cannoness and her bodyguard. Safe to say he fluffed it and the vortex grenade scattered back on top of him.

Then he proceeded to take out my allies, the Havocs, Land Raider, and Baneblade, before disappearing, having done no damage to my opponent.” I suggest you regard this as a helpful lesson to guide your own actions in the coming days, Scorpio. Do not, under any circumstances, unleash your Chaos Lord or let him throw his

John Tyler was President of the United States from 1841 to 1845. Believe it or not, two of his grandsons are still alive today. They’re Lyon Gardiner Tyler and Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born late in the life of their father, who was born late in John Tyler’s life. I invite you to find some equally amazing connection you have to the past, Pisces.

How is your destiny linked to the long ago and faraway? I suspect you might find that distant history will be more vital and important than usual in the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

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Yoga of Awakening • MONDAYS, 7-9pm Awaken to profound peace.

Practice technologies to free the body and mind of stress and tension. Begin your adventure of awakening. Fees by donation; no one will be turned away.

Info and directions: www. thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@gmail.com.

Young Adult Friends Worship Group • SATURDAYS, 4-6:30pm - This small Quaker group for young adults meets upstairs at Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road.

Singing and silence will be followed by a potluck. For Quakers, quasi-Quakers and anyone who is interested.

Info: biercewilson@gmail. com.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings

If they only had a park: The public is invited to “Autumn at Oz” at the now-defunct Land of Oz theme park on Beech Mountain, a couple of hours north of Asheville. Former employees of that park will bring the Wizard of Oz characters to life Oct.1-2. autumnatoz.com.

• 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Awakening Practices Group will meet at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St. Info: Trey@ QueDox.com.

Chabad House Jewish Asheville and WNC Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life, located at 660 Merrimon Ave. Info: 505-0746 or www.chabadasheville.org.

• Through FR (9/30) - Rosh Hashanah services will feature Hebrew prayers, songs and spiritual events. See website for times.

Energy Health Workshops • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Learn to work with your guardian angels and spirit guides to transmute energetic blockages, trapped emotions, psychic traumas and past life issues. Classes held in Weaverville. Donation requested. Info and directions: 337-1852.

I Ching Support and Study Group • THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - “I Ching Support and Study Group,” a study of Taoism and I Ching practice. The organizer is a freelance writer

with a teaching/counseling background and many years of study/practice of Taoism and the I Ching. Will meet at an area cafe, to be determined. Info: patrickgfrank@ gmail.com.

Infinite Way • THURSDAYS, 2-3:15pm - Tape study group, based on the mysticism of Joel Goldsmith, will be held at the United Research Light Center, 2190 NC Highway 9, Black Mountain. Info: 669-6845.

Light Haven • SUNDAY, (10/2), 1:305:30pm - A class on ancient wisdom traditions and the hermetic arts will be held at Light Haven. Info and location: www.lighthaven.org or 863-2918.

Meditation and Satsang with Madhyanandi • MONDAYS through THURSDAYS, 6am-9pm Meditate and practice with an awakened yogini. Sessions available by appointment. All fees by donation; no one will be turned away. Info: www. thepeoplesashram.org or madhyanandi@gmail.com.

Mountain Zen Practice Center

• TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Explore the “how” of moment by moment peace, joy and freedom through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness. Meditation and group discussion. Info and location: www.mountainzen. org or 450-3621.

Peace and Wellness Seminar • SA (10/1), 5-6:30pm - In honor of Worldwide Holistic Day, author and teacher Chariss K Walker will present a peace and wellness seminar for body, mind and soul.

Program will feature self-help techniques to balance and maintain personal energy.

Held in the West Asheville Library Community Room, 942 Haywood Road. Info: info@chariss.com.

Pendulum Practicum for Energywork • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10-11:30am - Practical class on how to use a pendulum as a guide/consultant to energy work with people, places and things. Held at 4 Eagle St., Asheville.

Donations accepted. Info: 776-3786.

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• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Empower your life through the alchemy of forgiveness.

Heal the faulty thoughts and emotions locked in the unconscious that sabotage your health, abundance and happiness. Info and directions: 545-8173.

Spirit and Money Presentation • WE (10/5), 7:30pm - Cary Bayer, life coach and author, will present “Spirit and Money: Prospering by Doing What You Love.” Held at Town and Mountain Training Center, 261 Asheland Ave. $25/$20 in advance (available at Malaprops). Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734.

Swannanoa Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • THURSDAYS, 7-8am - Cloud Cottage will present mindfulness-based meditation at Swannanoa Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 500 Montreat Road. Bring a cushion. Donations encouraged. Info: cloudcottage@ bellsouth.net or 669-0920.

United Research Light Center A nonprofit center “dedicated to prayer for personal and planetary transformation.”

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Located at 2190 NC Highway 9 South in Black Mountain.

Info: 669-6845 or www. urlight.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 1-2:15pm - “Gentle Yoga,” with Karen Barnes —- 2:30-3:30pm - “World Peace Prayer.”

• SUNDAYS, 3-4pm “World Peace Prayer.”

• TUESDAYS, 10:30-noon - Level one QiGong.

Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart.

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 8918700 or www.unitync.net.

• WE (9/28), 7pm “Mellowing Your Drama,” with Rev. Chad O’Shea.

Donations accepted.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 6pm - “Truth on Tap, a pub chat on matters spiritual and otherwise,” will be held at Mezzaluna, 226 North Main Street in Hendersonville.

Unity Church of Asheville Unity of Asheville explores the “deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures, combined with an upbeat contemporary

music program, to create a joyous and sincere worship service.” Located at 130 Shelburne Road, West Asheville. Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 11am Spiritual celebration service —- 12:15-1:30pm - A Course in Miracles, with Rev. Gene Conner.

Windhorse Zen Community Meditation, retreats, Dharma talks, private instruction, residential training. All welcome; newcomers call ahead for orientation. Located at 580 Panther Branch Road, near Weaverville. Info: 645-8001 or www.windhorsezen.org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30am - Meditation, chanting and Dharma talk, followed by a vegetarian potluck lunch.

Worship Service: “Are you looking for a sign from God?” • SU (10/2), 11am-noon - “There are many different ways a sign from God may come: through books, through people, through dreams. Because God is speaking at all times through the Holy Spirit. And It’s speaking with the divine voice of love.” Held at Eckankar Center of Asheville,

16 Patton Located at 16 Patton, Asheville. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Info: 236-2889 or www.16patton.com.

• Through SU (10/2) - The Beautification will feature paintings by Denise StewartSanabria focusing on the “artificial beautification of foods.”

American Folk Art and Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery.

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

• Through WE (10/12) Come Fall will be on display in the Oui-Oui Gallery • TH (10/6) through TH (10/27) - Experience, paintings by Michael Banks.

• FR (10/7), 5-8pm - An opening reception will be held in conjunction with Artwalk Friday.

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

• Through WE (10/5) - Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef will feature “crochet models of healthy coral and coral stressed by environmental threats.”

Held at UNCA’s Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 1181 Broyles Road, Hendersonville. Info: www. craftcreativitydesign.org or 890-2050.

Asheville Art Museum

Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 35pm. Info: www.ashevilleart. org or 253-3227.

• Through SU (11/6) - Color Study will be on display at the Appleby Foundation Gallery.

• SA (10/1) through SU (3/4) - Homage2 will pay tribute to Josef Albers.

• SU (10/2), 2-4pm Opening reception.

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - Free admission.

Atelier 24 Lexington: A Gallery of Local Art Located at 24 Lexington Ave., Asheville. Info: www. theateliergalleries.com.

• Through FR (9/30) Workshopauchery, works by Martin A.B. Guenette.

• SA (10/1) through MO (10/31) - Seeing Reality, drawings by William Asman T.Y. • SA (10/8), 6-8pm Opening reception.

Autumn in the Southern Appalachians • MO (10/3) through MO (10/24) - Autumn in the Southern Appalachians, a jurried exhibit of Carolina nature photographers, will be held at Pack Place Gallery, 2 South Pack Square. Info: http://www.cnpa-asheville. org.

Back To School • Through FR (10/28) - Back To School, a “wildly varied” exhibit of work by artists from the Marshall High Studios featuring a variety of media and approaches. Held at the Arts Center, 90 South Main St. in Marshall. Info: www.madisoncountyarts. com Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Summer hours: Mon., Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 768-0246 or www.bellavistaart.com.

• Through FR (9/30) - The works of Nancy Varipapa, Julie Wiggins and Eleanor Miller.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Mon.-Wed. and Fri., noon-5pm; Thurs. 11am3pm. Info: 669-0930 or www.BlackMountainArts.org.

• Through FR (10/7) - Twigs and Burls, featuring paintings and drawings by Steve Miller.

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MONTFORD TAILGATE MARKET Wednesdays • 2 - 6 p.m.

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appointment. Info: 754-2486 or www.caldwellarts.com.

• Through FR (9/30) - Works by Betsy Coogler will be on display at the Caldwell Memorial Hospital Art-in-Healing Gallery, 321 Mulberry St. SW, Lenoir.

Castell Photography A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off Eagle Street in downtown Asheville. Info: 255-1188 or www.castellphotography. com.

• Through FR (9/30) - Observatory, works by Lauren Semivan.

• Through FR (9/30) Curiosities, photography by Gary Geboy.

Courtyard Gallery An eclectic art and performance space located at 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District.

Info: 273-3332 or www. ashevillecourtyard.com.

• Through SA (12/31) - Anything Goes - Everything Shows, the 5th annual mail art show. All entries received through the postal system will be exhibited. Participants were encouraged to explore themes, sizes, shapes and media of any kind.

Elemental Embrace • Through FR (9/30), 10am5pm - Elemental Embrace, an exhibition of encaustic (hot wax) painting and prints

by Desiree DeMars and sculpture by Kat McIver. Held at the Front Gallery at Pack Place, 2 South Pack Square.

Info: www.packplace.org.

Exploring Patterns • Through SA (10/1) Exploring Patters, featuring

sculpture, watercolor and more from “an eclectic mix” of 13 emergent and established artists. Held at Coop Gallery, 25 Carolina Lane in downtown Asheville. Info: www.coopasheville.com.

Flood Gallery Events Located in the Phil Mechanic building at 109 Roberts St. in Asheville’s River Arts District.

Info: 254-2166 or www. floodgallery.org.

• SA (10/1) through SA (10/29) - Porge Buck: A Retrospective.

SA (10/1), 7-10pm Opening reception.

Haen Gallery Located at 52 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm, Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., noon5pm. Info: 254-8577 or www.thehaengallery.com.

• Through MO (10/31) - Lynn Boggess: New Work 2011.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of arts-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts. org.

• Through SA (10/15) - Works by the Southern Appalachian Photographers Guild.

Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts Located at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee. Info: 497-3945.

• Through FR (9/30) - Recent work by ceramic

sculpture artist Jenny Mastin.

Odyssey Gallery Exhibits work by Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts instructors and residents.

Located at 238 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: www.odysseyceramicarts.com • Through FR (10/14) - Joyful Expressions will feature the work of student assistants.

Oil Paintings by Jon Houglum • Through FR (10/28) - Oil paintings by Franklin native Jon Houglum will be on display in the Hamilton Gallery of Nelson Bell Library, on the campus of Montreat College.

Info: www.montreat.edu.

Pump Gallery Located at the Phil Mechanic Studios Building in the River Arts District, 109 Roberts St. Info: www.philmechanicstudios.com.

• SA (10/1) through SA (10/29) - Birds, Beasts and Bodybones, works by Lisa Walraven, Cynthia Potter and Carlos Steward.

• SA (10/1), 7-10pm Opening reception.

Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm and Sun., noon-5pm.

Info: www.sevensistersgallery.com or 669-5107.

• Through SU (11/6) - Works by Jennie Francis (pastel).

The Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St., River Arts District. Info: www.ashevillearts.com.

• Through FR (9/30) - Living on the Edge, a multimedia event utilizing photography, video, drawings and paintings by James Daniel and Chloe Kemp “to bring awareness and assistance to those struggling in these turbulent times.”

Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St., Tryon.

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am4pm and by appointment.

Info: www.upstairsartspace. org or 859-2828.

• Through SA (10/1) Curvature and Color, works

by Kenn Kotara (abstract art) and Dale McEntire (landscape painter).

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm and Thurs. 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www.fineartmuseum.wcu. edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (9/30) - The gods of the machine : John Lytle Wilson. “John uses animal and robot imagery as stand-ins for traditional human subjects, allowing him to explore issues like consciousness, free will and mortality.”

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at Ananda Hair Studio The salon, located at 22 Broadway St., hosts rotating art exhibits. Info: 232-1017.

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• Through FR (9/30) - Recent work by abstract painter Neil Carroll.

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

• Through WE (9/28) - Art of the Book: Process, Product and Community at Asheville BookWorks will feature BookWorks instructors and students. Works will be displayed at the Malcolm E. Blowers Gallery in the Ramsey Library Friday through Saturday, 8am-6pm.

• WE (9/28), 5-7pm Closing reception.

• Through WE (10/5) - A Rapid Progression, featuring sculpture by Gene Felice, will be on display in the Highsmith Union Gallery.

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

• Through SA (10/1) - Works by Dan Pruitt will be on display in the Lobby Gallery.

Craft Campus at UNCA Located at 1 University Heights, Asheville. Info: www.unca.edu/craftcampus or 250-2392.

• Through FR (1/27) Common Threads will feature four fiber artists.

• WE (10/5), 5-7pm - Opening reception and gallery talk.

Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 6971870.

• Through WE (11/30) Pieces of the Sky, featuring paintings by Ray Cooper.

George Terry • SA (10/1) through WE (11/30) - Works by George Terry will be on display at DeSoto Lounge, 504 Haywood Road. Info: www. brotherwayword.deviantart. com.

• TH (10/6), 7pm - Opening reception.

Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 2537651 or www.grovewood. com.

• Through TH (12/1) - Outdoor sculpture invitational featuring contemporary sculptures by nationally-recognized artists.

Invitational Art Exhibition • Through TU (10/25) - The Invitational Art Exhibition will be on display in UNCA’s S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. Info: www.art.unca.edu.

Paint and Chocolate • Through SA (10/15) Paint and Chocolate, works

by Genie Maples, will be on display at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 South Lexington Ave. • TH (9/29), 7-9pm - Artist talk.

Pink Dog Creative A multi-use arts space located at 342 Depot St. Info: info@pinkdog-creative.com • Through FR (9/30) Laurel Tewes will paint an eight-foot mural throughout the month. The public is welcome to see the progress.

Public Art Display

• Through SA (10/22) - Bearfootin’, “a public art display featuring outdoor fiberglass bear sculptures decorated in different themes,” will be on display on the sidewalks of Main Street in Hendersonville. Info: 233-3216.

TC Arts Invitational Show • Through FR (10/14) - The TC Arts Invitational Show will be on display at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard.

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm and Thurs. 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: www.fineartmuseum.wcu. edu or 227-3591.

• Through FR (10/28) Understory: An Exhibition of Work by Alice Sebrell.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Painting with Pastels Workshop • SA (10/1), 2-5pm - A workshop on painting with pastels will be held at Nature’s Home Preserve, 399 Koi Mountain Lane, Tuckasegee. $36. Info: http:// avl.mx/57

Art/Craft Fairs Art on Main • SA (10/1) & SU (10/2), 10am-5pm - The Art on Main festival will feature Larry Brown, Caroline Kwas, Rachel Wilder and other artists. Held on Main Street in

Hendersonville. Info: www. acofhc.org or 693-8504.

Summer Jewelry Market • SA (10/1), 9am-4pm - Local jewelers will offer unique, hand-made creations. Located at the corner of Church Street and Third Avenue in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6980715.

Spoken & Written Word Attention WNC Mystery Writers • TH (9/29), 6pm - The WNC Mysterians Critique Group will beet at Barnes & Noble, Tunnel Road. For serious mystery/suspense/thriller writers. Visitors, editors and publishers welcome. Info: www.wncmysterians.org or 712-5570.

Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000.

• TH (9/29), 6-8pm Readings and artistic presentations from winners of the Silver Arts divisions of the Senior Games.

• MONDAYS, 10:30am - Book Babies. Story time for children ages 3 and younger.

• 1st THURSDAYS through (5/3), 7-9pm - The Haywood County Arts Council and the Music and Poetry Lover’s Network present an open mic night. 15 minutes per performer. Free.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked

by the following location abbreviations: n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • TH (9/29), 6:30pm - The Autumn Players present Mystery and Mischief. SW

• TU (10/4), 6-8pm - KnitN-Chain. SS —- 7pm - Book club: Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert. WV —7pm - Book club: Room by Emma Donaghue. EC • WE (10/5), 3pm - Book club: Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert. WV —5pm - Library knitters. SW • TH (10/6), 2-4pm Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places invites female writers to read their work. SS Events at Accent on Books The bookstore is located at 854 Merrimon Ave. Events are free and open to the public. Info: www.accentonbooks.com or 252-6255.

• FR (9/30), 6pm - Lee Pantas will read from his book Ultimate Guide to Asheville and the Western North Carolina Mountains.

Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is located at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 5869499 or more@citylightsnc. com.

• WE (9/28), 1pm - Janisse Ray will read from her book Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River.

Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting

authors for talks and book signings. Info: www.malaprops.com or 254-6734.

• TH (9/29), 7pm - Carolyn Sakowski will read from her new guidebook Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads. —- 7pm Richard Louv will read from his new book The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder.

• FR (9/30), 7pm - Hank Wesselman will read from his new book The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman.

• SA (10/1), 7pm - Arvis Boughman will read from his

The

WNC Nature Center presents the

35th Annual Fall Family Festival

Sponsored by the Friends of the WNC Nature Center

Saturday, October 1, 2011 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

75 Gashes Creek Rd. Asheville

Tel: 298-5600 www.wncnaturecenter.com

Fun for the Entire Family!

Admission Adults $8.00 Asheville City Residents $6.00 (must show I.D.)

Children 3-15 $4.00 Friends of the Nature Center Members FREE

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Activities for the Kids Scavenger Hunt Face Painting Special Raffle Become a Wild Parent Join our Food Chain

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Animal Programs & Encounters Craft Demonstrations Free Pumpkin Painting Pee Wee Mine Entertainment Food

Thanks to our 2011 Hey Day Sponsors:

Dr. Steven L. Cahan Diane Bauknight State Farm Agent Party Boulevard Blue Ridge Pharmacy Douglas Sherry of Preferred Properties

The WNC Nature Center is owned and operated by the City of Asheville

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• SA (10/1), 8am-3pm - The Montessori Cooperative School will hold a festival, featuring live music and food, on the grounds at Unity Church, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

Info: www.MontessoriCooperative-School.com or 891-6335.

Music in the Mountains Folk Music Festival • SA (10/1), 5:30-9:30pm - Old-time and bluegrass music, ballad singing, storytelling and dancing. Food and refreshments available. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 S. Main St. $14/$12 students and seniors. Info: www. toeriverarts.org or 682-7215.

Oktoberfest • FR (9/30), SA (10/1), 9am-8pm & SU (10/2), 18pm - Old Fort’s Oktoberfest will feature food, crafts and entertainment. Held at the Gateway Mountain Museum, Water St., Old Fort. Info: www.oldfortchamber.com/ oktoberfest.

Operation Toasty Toes Chapter 7 Makes yarn comfort items that are sent to troops deployed overseas. Info: Info@OperationToastyToes. org or www.operationtoastytoes.org.

• SA (10/1), 10am-4pm - Operation Toasty Toes will be on display at Farm City Day. Held in Jackson Park, Barnard Ave., Hendersonville.

Fun for the FAM: Family Art at the Market will run from 10 a.m. to noon each Saturday in October at Sylva’s Bridge Park.

227-2553.

new book Chicora and the Little People: The Legend of the Indian Corn.

• SU (10/2), 3pm - Poetrio will feature Debra Kaufman, Jennifer Pournelle and Larry Thacker.

• MO (10/3), 7pm - Patti Digh will discuss Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele.

• TU (10/4), 7pm - Banned books event.

• WE (10/5), 7pm - Jay Jacoby will discuss The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

• TH (10/6), 7pm - Josh Ritter will read from his new book Bright’s Passage.

Events at Montford Books & More The bookstore at 31 Montford Ave. hosts author readings and writing groups.

Info: 285-8805.

• FR (9/30), 6-8pm - An a opening and reception for local artist Dean McCurry’s new show, Evolution.

Fountainhead Bookstore

Located at 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 6971870.

• FR (9/30), 1pm - Carolyn Sakowski will discuss her new edition of Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads.

Open Mic Night at The Pulp • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest host a monthly open mic at The Pulp, located beneath The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville. $10 includes club membership. Info: http:// pulpasheville.com.

Team of Rivals: Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln • TH (9/29), 6:30-8pm Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will present “Team of Rivals: Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln,” the Transylvania County Library Foundation’s 2011 JR McDowell Lecture, in the Porter Center at Brevard College. $10/$35 includes post-event wine and cheese

reception with Goodwin. Info: www.transylvaniacounty.org.

The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District.

Info: www.themagneticfield. com or 257-4003.

• 1st and 3rd MONDAYS, 7:30-10pm - The Synergy Story Slam is an opportunity to share stories, laugh, learn and to build a stronger community. Registration begins at 7pm.

Transylvania Writers Alliance • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - Transylvania Writers Alliance will meet at BrevardDavidson River Presbyterian Church, 300 E. Main St. Park in rear. Info: wd2999@ yahoo.com.

Writers Workshop Potluck • 4th FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at 387 Beaucatcher Road.

Info: writersw@gmail.com.

Festivals & Gatherings Autumn at Oz

• SA (10/1) & SU (10/2), 10am-2pm - Autumn at Oz will tour the old Land of Oz theme park and feature original theme park actors. Held at Beech Mountain, Beech Mountain Parkway. See website for full directions. $20/$16.50 in advance. Info: www.autumnatoz.com or 468-5506.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival • SA (10/1), 10am-4pm The Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” festival will feature music from Sam Adams Family, All Strung Out, Bailey Mountain Cloggers and others. Held at Mars Hill College, 100 Athletic St. Info: www.mhc. edu.

Blue Ridge Pride • SA (10/1), noon-6pm - Blue Ridge Pride will feature educational workshops, vendors and music by Stephanie’s id. Held in Pack Square Park. Info: www. blueridgepride.com.

Fall Festival

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• SA (10/1), 3-8pm & SU (10/2), 1-6pm - A fall festival will feature games, inflatables and food. Adult dinner and silent auction on Sunday.

Held at Immaculata Catholic School, 711 N. Buncombe St., Hendersonville. Info: 693-3277.

Farm City Day • SA (10/1), 10am-4pm - Farm City Day will feature music, clogging, wagon rides and tractor pulls. Held in Jackson Park, Barnard Road, Hendersonville. Info: www. historichendersonville.org or 697-4884.

Folk School Fall Festival • SA (10/1), 10am-5pm The Folk School Fall Festival will celebrate Appalachian heritage with crafts, demonstrations, music and dance.

Held at John C. Campbell Folk School, 1 Folk School Road, Brasstown. $5/$3 kids. Info: www.folkschool. org.

Forest Festival Day • SA (10/1), 9am-5pm - Forest Festival Day will

feature “hands-on heritage” including archery, log rolls, pulpwood toss, pole climb and an axe throw. Held at The Cradle of Forestry, US Highway 276, Pisgah Forest. $6/$3 under 15. Info: www. cradleofforestry.org or 8773130.

Hey Day Family Fall Festival • SA (10/1), 10am-4pm - The Hey Day festival will feature activities for kids, a scavenger hunt, free pumpkin painting and food. Held at 75 Gashes Creek Road. $8/$6 Asheville city residents/$4 children.

Lake Norman Folk Art Festival • SA (10/1), 11am-4pm - The Lake Norman Folk Art Festival will feature more 30 folk art vendors, live bluegrass, children’s activities and demonstrations. Food available for purchase. Free admission and parking. Held at 4689 Giles Ave., Sherrills Ford. Info: www.hickorymuseumofart.org.

Montessori Masquerade Faire

Music A Chance to Try The Folk Harp • Free! (pd.) Sunday, October 9, 9:30-10:30am. Folk Harp sounds beautiful from the first string-pluck. Try several kinds of harps, it’s a magical feeling. Just show up!!! • Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 28704, near the Asheville Airport. • Signs will direct you on campus. • Directions: www.southeasternharps.com A Free Folk Harp Trade Show (pd.) October 8-9. Not concert harps; these are smaller, more affordable, and the hot thing in beautiful instruments.

See, hear, play lap harps to full-size celtic harps of all designs; kits, CDs and sheet music. • Free: Saturday, 10:30am-6:30pm, Sunday, 10:30am-4pm. • Lutheridge Retreat Center, 2511 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 28704, near the Asheville Airport. Signs will direct you on campus. • Directions at www.southeasternharps. com An Unusual Harps Concert (pd.) Saturday, October 8.

See a Celtic harp star play-

ing pop, an historic Italian triple-strung harp played by a Kennedy Center soloist, a gothic harp, and a lever harp playing classical. • These are all different and stunningly beautiful instruments which will transport you to new worlds. • Tickets $20 at the door. • Seventh Day Adventist Church of Asheville, 35 Airport Road.

October 8, 7:45pm. www. southeasternharps.com Song O’ Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801.(Enter Fellowship Hall-lower level). Guests welcome. Contact: www. songosky.org Toll Free # 1866-824-9547.

A Surrealistic Celebration • SA (10/1), 4:20pm Telepathic Productions presents Vertigo Jazz Project, Discordian Society, Sonmi Suite, The Native Sway and others. All night dance party and camping. $25. Info and directions: telepathicproductions.org.

Asheville Baroque Ensemble • FR (9/30), 7pm - The Asheville Baroque Ensemble will perform with Blake Hobby (harpsichord) and Charles McKnight (recorder) in UNCA’s Karpen Hall. Free.

Info: www.music.unca.edu or 251-6423.

Confederate Railroad • FR (9/30), 7-11pm - Confederate Railroad will perform in the Burnsville Town Center. Info: www. confederaterailroad.net.

Crystal Music CoOp • 1st SUNDAYS, 2-3:30pm - The Crystal Music CoOp offers workshops, jam space, drum circles and vocal toning to Asheville musicians and music-lovers by donation. Held at 41 Carolina Lane. Info: 6672967.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: www. flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• SU (9/25) through TU (10/4), 8pm - The British Invasion: The Beatles, The Stones, The Who and Many More will be performed on the second stage. $22.

Four-Hand Oktoberfest • SA (10/1), 7pm - Daniel Weiser will perform works for four-hand and duo piano with Kimberly Cann. Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $15.

Info: www.whitehorseblackmountain.com.

Concert of Harps!

October 8 ~ 7:45

Seventh Day Adventist Church, 35 Airport Road $20 pay at the door southeasternharps.com

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• SU (10/2), 4pm - Daniel Weiser will perform works for four-hand and duo piano.

Held at the Altamont Theater, 18 Church St. $20. Info: www.thealtamont.com.

Free Voice Lessons • TUESDAYS (through 10/11), 7:30-9pm - The Land of the Sky Chorus will offer free voice lessons for males 16 years and older. Held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Place. Info and registration: AshevilleBarbershop.com or (866) 290-7269.

Honky Tiki Tonk • SU (10/2), noon - Honky Tiki Tonk will feature Ronnie Hymes and Carolina Freight, Southbound Turnaround and DJ Dog. Held at Lake Lure Tiki Bar, 3147 Memorial Highway.

Info: 625-4121.

Hot Rize • SU (10/2), 2:30 & 7:30pm - Hot Rize, featuring Tim O’Brian, Pete Wernick, Nick Forster and Brian Sutton, will perform at the Arts Center, 90 South Main St., Marshall.

Info: www.madisoncountyarts.com or 649-1301.

Music at UNCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets and info: 232-5000.

• TH (10/6), 7:30pm - A contemporary music concert will feature student performers. $5/students free. Info: www.music.unca.edu or 251-6423.

Open Mic Night • FRIDAYS, 8:30-11pm - Adults of all ages and performers of all genres are invited to play music, recite poetry or present other arts at this weekly open mic. Held at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. Info: http://on.fb. me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@gmail.com.

Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery 4 Eagle St. Info: info@ skinnybeatsdrums.com or 768-2826.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SUNDAYS, 2-3pm - Billy Zanski will teach beginning African drumming. Drums provided or bring your own.

St. Matthias Musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 285-0033.

• SU (10/2), 3pm - A concert of pieces for string quartet will include works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.

Donations encouraged.

Summer Music in Flat Rock Series Presented by the Flat Rock Merchants Association. The outdoor series takes place on Little Rainbow Row’s back deck. This is a casual, family-oriented, bring-yourown-lawn-chair event. Free.

Info: 697-7719 or www. flatrockonline.com.

• SA (10/1), 5-7pm - The final concert of the 2011 series will feature Eliza Lynn (folk, country blues).

The Altamont Located at 18 Church St., downtown Asheville. Info: 270-7747 or www.thealtamont.com.

• SA (10/1), 8pm - The Black Lillies.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted.

Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224.

• TH (9/29), 6:30-7:30pm - The Big Hungry.

UNCA Chamber Singers • SU (10/2), 4pm - The UNCA Chamber Singers will perform in the Highsmith University Union. $5/students free. Info: www.music.unca. edu or 251-6423.

Theater This Monday • Creativity Workshop at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (pd.) For actors and nonactors, improvisational theater games and exercises to explore your creative potential. Instructor Marty Rader, formerly of NC School of the Arts. Asheville Community Theatre’s 35below (35 E Walnut Street). 254-2939, ext 21. stellaadler-asheville. com Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: www.ashevilletheatre.org or 254-1320.

• Through SU (10/9) - Guys and Dolls will be performed Fridays through Sundays.

See website for times.

Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (9/29) until (10/8) 7:30pm - Shotgun will be performed by Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective at the BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. $15. Reservations recommended: differentstrokesavl@gmail.com or 490-1405.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: www. flatrockplayhouse.org or 693-0731.

• WE (10/5) through SU (10/30) - Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story will be performed Wednesdays through Sundays. See website for times. $40.

Pinocchio • SA (10/1) & SU (10/2), 2pm - The Asheville Puppetry Alliance will perform Pinocchio at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $7. Info: www.ashevillepuppetry.org.

The Autumn Players: Mystery and Mischief • TH (9/29), 6:30-7:45pm Join the Asheville Community Theatre’s Autumn Players for a presentation of A Scandal in Bohemia, a Sherlock Holmes mystery and Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry. Sponsored by Friends of the Swannanoa Library.

Free. Info:www.ashevilletheatre.org.

The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St. in the River Arts District.

Info: www.themagneticfield. com or 257-4003.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (10/8), 7:30pm - Shangri-La, by Lucia Del Vecchio, “a hilarious and moving look at the lives of senior citizens living in a retirement trailer park in Florida.”

• 1st FRIDAYS, 10pm “Magnetic Midnight.” Show up with an original script, skit, song, routine or performance piece (five minutes or less in length), act in or direct a piece by someone else or sit back and watch the “magical, mysterious monthly show” unfold.

Theater at WCU Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. Tickets and info: 227-2479 or http://fapac. wcu.edu.

• WE (10/5) through SA (10/8) - I Hate Hamlet. See website for times. $15/$10 faculty, seniors and students/$7 in advance.

Tryon Little Theater Performances are held at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Info: 859-2466, tryonlittletheater@gmail.com or www. tltinfo.org.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (9/25) - Clue The Musical.

Comedy Comedy Open Mic • SATURDAYS, 8:30-11pm - A comedy open mic will be held at Wall Street Coffee House and Emporium, 62 Wall St., Asheville. Info:

www.wallstreetcoffeehouse. webs.com WCU Comedy • TH (9/29), 7:30pm - The Second City, improvisational sketch comedy, will be held in the Bardo Arts Center.

Film Classic World Cinema Foreign Film Series Presented by Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts St., Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District in Asheville. Info: Cranky Hanke’s Reviews under “Special Showings,” www.ashevillecourtyard.com or 273-3332.

• FR (9/30), 8pm L’Avventura (1960 Italy | France) by Michelangelo Antonioni.

FAM Films Series • TH (9/29), 5:15pm - Un Chien Andalou, a short silent film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí (1929), will be screened in Western Carolina University’s Bardo Arts Center, Room 130. Info: www.fineartmusuem.wcu. edu or 227-2553.

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then • WE (10/5), 7pm - The Asheville Art Museum presents a screening of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, a film by Brent Green. A six-piece band will provide musical accompaniment.

Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $12/$10 members. Info: nsokolove@ ashevilleart.org or 253-3227.

Dance Alexander Technique for Dancers (pd.) Perform with ease.

Recover from injury. Extend your career. “The hallmarks of the Alexander Technique are creativity, spontaneity and adaptability to change.” (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com 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 Birth Dancing (pd.) Learn the ancient technique of dancing for pregnancy, labor and recovery.

Empower yourself to a gentler, quicker birth. Thursdays 6-7pm, Coop Movement & Learning Center, call Michelle 664-9564 http://yellowsunfarm.blogspot.com/p/birthdancing.html

Capoeira Angola (pd.) An Afro-Brazilian cultural art, combines dance, music, and martial arts.

• Adult and kids classes offered, see website for schedule. Beginners welcome Mondays, Saturdays.

• Location: 257 Short Coxe. http://www.capoeiraasheville.org/ Studio Zahiya (pd.) Monday, 6-7 Yoga • 7:30-9 Bellydance • Tuesday 9-10am Hip Hop Workout • Groove Dance • 6-7pm Beginner Bellydance, • 7-8pm Intermediate Bellydance • Wednesday 6-7 Pilates, • 7:30-9 Bellydance, • Thursday 9-10am Bellydance, • 67pm Bollywood, • 8-9pm Hip Hop, • Friday 10-11am Bhangra Workout. • $12 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www. studiozahiya.com Hendersonville Ballroom Dance Club Meets in the ballroom of the Elks Lodge, 546 N. Justice St., Hendersonville. $6/5 members. Couples and singles of all ages are welcome.

Info: 692-8281.

• FRIDAYS, 6:30-10pm Lesson followed by ballroom dance.

Jazzy Showgirl Dance Series • TUESDAYS through (10/11), 7:30-8:30pm - This five-week dance series will teach the basics of jazzy showgirl and burlesque, including how to strut, shimmy and chair dance.

Participants will also learn a full routine and have a chance to perform it. Held at Cheshire Fitness Club, 25 Jane Jacobs Road in Black Mountain. $13 per session/$60 for entire series.

Info and registration: www. holisticwithhumor.com/dancing.

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 696-9198.

• SA (10/1), 7pm - A “Fall Colors Dance” will be held at the Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Advanced dance starts at 6pm.

Auditions & Call to Artists Asheville Holiday Parade • Through MO (10/3) Applications for the Asheville Holiday Parade will be accepted through Oct. 3.

Info: www.ashevilledowntown.org or 628-2403.

City of 1000 Easels • Through FR (10/7) - Submissions for City of

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Eco Arts Awards • WE (11/30) - The Eco Arts Awards will accept songs, short films, photography, poetry, fine and functional art on the theme of ecology through Nov. 30. $30/$25 before Sept. 30. Info: www. ecoartsawards.com.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of arts-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts. org.

• Through SA (11/5) Applications for the annual Small Works Show will be accepted through Nov. 5.

See website for application.

NCCALL Inc. A WNC nonprofit dedicated to helping persons living with autism. Info: www.nccall.org.

• Through MO (10/31) - Submissions will be accepted for NCCALL’s annual online exhibit through Oct. 31. Artists must be on the Autism spectrum and reside in N.C. Info: www. nccall.org.

Regional Artist Project Grant An annual grant program that provides financial support to developing arts professionals by funding a project pivotal to the advancement of their careers as artists.

• FR (9/30), 5pm - The Regional Artist Project Grant will accept applications through Sept. 30. Info: www. ncarts.org.

Scarecrow Festival & Craft Show A Buncombe County Parks & Recreation Family Fun Festival at Lake Julian Park.

Free. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org.

• Through SA (10/1), 9am - Scarecrows of all kinds will be accepted through Oct. 1. Winners in the individual and family categories can win cash prizes. Info: grace. young@buncombecounty. org.

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The medical establishment generally regards afterbirth as biohazardous waste, but New York City placenta chef Jennifer Mayer says the nutrient-laden meat can alleviate postpartum depression and boost breastmilk production (among other so-far-unverified benefits). According to an August New York magazine story, Mayer typically sets up in clients’ own kitchens. Her method: Drain blood, blot dry, cook for a half-hour (leaving something resembling brisket), chop into slivers, dehydrate overnight, then grind it in a blender and pour the powder into several dozen (one-a-day) capsules.

Can’t possibly be true • The Learning Channel’s Toddlers & Tiaras series has pushed critics’ buttons by supporting the competitive world of child beauty pageants, but a recent episode provoked unusually rabid complaints. According to a September New York Post report, Lindsay Jackson had costumed her 4-year-old daughter as an anatomically correct (chest and backside) Dolly Parton. The Post described Maddy as “embarrassed” when another 4year-old pointed at her chest and asked, “What is that?” (Ultimately, the judges chose Maddy for “sweetest face.”)

• Things You Didn’t Think Existed: In July, Guinness World Records certified 21-year-old Justin Werner of Topeka, Kan., as possessing the world’s longest tonsils (2.1 inches and 1.9 inches, respectively).

• Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Rob Dickerson finally received his Purple Heart this summer, four years after being seriously wounded in a rocket attack in Iraq and two years after beginning a paperwork battle with the Army to “prove” his injury. The Army recently apologized and sent him the award, but it arrived c.o.d.; Dickerson said he can’t cash a subsequent $21 reimbursement check, which was erroneously made out to “Roy Dirksen.”

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Inexplicable Hoping to attract more fans, Madrid’s Getafe soccer club commissioned a porn movie (complete with zombies) this summer.

Even more bizarrely, the movie was tied to a campaign soliciting sperm-bank donations.

“We have to move a mass of fans to seed the world with Getafe supporters,” producer Angel Torres explained. A promo for the film follows a Getafe fan, armed with a copy for his viewing pleasure, disappearing into a clinic’s private cubicle to make his donation.

Unclear on the concept • “Do You See the Blimp Who Robbed You?”: In August, 400-pound Eric Kenley, 48, won a new trial for his two New York City robbery convictions after appeals court judges realized he was much fatter than the other men in his police lineup. Police had attempted to compensate by using largerthan-average men and presenting them all seated, to minimize the weight difference.

• To discourage child trafficking, the government of Quebec, Canada, requires strict proof of a live birth, certified by a doctor or licensed midwife. But the waiting list for hiring them is long, and Heather Mattingsly went with an unlicensed midwife, whose word the directeur de l’etat civil declined to accept. Four months later, the agency ordered Mattingsly to submit to a vaginal examination. After media pressure convinced the agency that such an exam was useless, it finally agreed last month, Montreal’s The Gazette reported, to grant a birth certificate

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if Mattingsly submitted a doctor-certified copy of her pre-birth ultrasound.

• You’re Doing It Wrong: Jason Dean, 24, was arrested in Ringgold, Ga., in August and charged with false imprisonment after waiting in a Taco Bell parking lot, approaching an 18-year-old woman and handcuffed himself to her. When her screams brought help, Dean explained that he’d been trying to get her to go out with him for several months, but she’d refused.

Least-competent criminals No Respect: (1) The man who approached tellers at the Eastern Bank in South Boston Aug. 25 fled empty-handed after one refused his order for “all your money” (saying she was “closed”) and another scolded him for cutting into the front of the line and for not removing his hoodie. (2) A 7-Eleven clerk in Rancho Penasquitos, Calif., ignored a man dressed as Gumby who tried to rob the store Sept. 5. The clerk told “Gumby” not to waste his time, and the man finally fled. The clerk didn’t bother to report the “robbery,” which his boss discovered while reviewing surveillance video.

Update Richard Kreimer (whose prior appearances in News of the Weird achieved “classic” status earlier this year) is back, apparently still defiantly malodorous. He recently filed four lawsuits against NJ Transit, saying he’s been illegally prevented from boarding trains just because he’s homeless. (NJ Transit says his behavior and lack of hygiene irritate passengers.) A former Kreimer lawyer told Newark’s Star-Ledger in August that Kreimer waits for people to offend him so he can sue. Kreimer, who tape-records all his conversations, said the lawsuits will continue, though he looks forward to one day closing “my law practice.”

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What: The Big Event: A fundraiser for Odyssey Community School Where: The tennis courts of the Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. in Asheville When: Sunday, Oct. 2. 5K race registration starts at 7:30 a.m. Vendor market runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chili contest starts at noon. Info at odysseycommunity.org Why: A big bowl of a chili and a 5K race might sound like a painful combination, but when the Odyssey Community School throws a party everyone picks up their spoon. The school is hosting The Big Event, a day of crafts, food and plenty of fun. There will be 40 vendors including Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Shooting Star Jewelry and Asheville Face and Body Painting, along with mini-golf, live music and, of course, the popular chili contest. Only nine competitors can vie for the title (and the prizes), so sign up for the contest by Sept. 27 or show up at fundraiser to meet the winners.

The Odyssey Community School has welcomed children from preschool through grade 12 since 2007. With its small class sizes and wide array of programs, the school aims to provide an innovative, supportive learning environment. The school has quickly become a pillar in the educational community and parent Erika Eill is looking forward to furthering this connection. “We have people from outside Odyssey running in our 5K, selling their arts and crafts as part of the market and performing their talents,” Eill says. “Odyssey is a special place and sharing that with our very special city is exciting.”

Whether you decide to go the healthy route and race to the finish line, or chow down on some delicious food, The Big Event has something for everyone. So pick up a putter or paint your face like a lion — all to benefit the little school that could.

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All Souls Counseling Center Located at 35 Arlington St., Asheville.

Info: 259-6933.

• TH (10/6), 5:30-9pm - Dinner, drinks and “pop-psychotrivia” will benefit All Souls Counseling Center and its mental health services for the uninsured. Held at The Pavilion at the Crest Center, 22 Celebration Place. $75. Info: www.allsoulscounseling. com.

Asheville Humane Society Located at 14 Forever Friend Lane (I-26 to Brevard Road exit). View photos of animals currently available for adoption online. Foster homes needed. Info: www.ashevillehumane. org or 761-2001.

• TH (9/29), 5-8pm - Bark-n-Art Night will feature local artwork to benefit the Asheville Humane Society.

Held at The Courtyard Marriott Asheville and SpringHill Suites, 1 and 2 Buckstone Place. Info: 253-4666.

Bard-a-thon • FR (9/30) through SU (10/2) Friends and family can sponsor community members as they participate in a marathon Shakespeare reading.

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Twelve plays will be read in two days. Readers can win prizes from local businesses. Proceeds benefit North Carolina Stage Company. $12 registration includes T-shirt. Held at 15 Stage Lane, Asheville. Info: www. ncstage.org.

Beauty Through Cancer • SA (10/1), 4-8pm - Fifty cents from each “pink beer” or plate of food will be donated to Beauty Through Cancer. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway. Info: www.beautythroughcancer.org Beef and Ale Benefit • MO (10/3), 6:30pm - A “Beef and Ale Benefit” will support REACH of Haywood, a domestic violence intervention agency. Held at Bourbon Barrel Beef and Ale, 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville. $50.

Info: 456-7898.

Billy McLaughlin • SA (10/1), 8pm - Billy McLaughlin will perform at the Unitarian Church, 1 Edwin Place, to benefit the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. $35.

Info: www.billymclaughlin.com.

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• MO (10/3) through SU (10/9) Habitat for Humanity of Henderson County presents its Design Show House, featuring homes decorated with merchandise from Habitat’s re-stores. Sales to benefit Habitat’s building projects. $10. Info, times and directions: 696-9524.

Highway to Well Bike Run and Pig Pickin’ • SA (10/1), 10:45am-3pm - The annual Bike Run and Pig Pickin’ , featuring cloggers and The Lost Gospels, will benefit Three Streams Family Health, a non profit that offers services to the uninsured. Held at Three Streams Family Health, 1710 Old Haywood Road. $10 per bike/$8 for food/$4 under 12. Info: www. threestreamshealth.org or 285-9725.

Loretta Lynn Tribute • SA (10/1), 8-11pm - A Loretta Lynn tribute will feature Nikki Talley and The Honky Tonk Band, Leigh Glass and The Hazzards, The Gin Fits and more to benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. $10/$8 in advance. Info: www.thegreyeagle. com.

Mills River Presbyterian Church

Located at 10 Presbyterian Church Road in Mills River. Info: 891-7101.

• Through MO (10/31) - Mills River Presbyterian Church will collect gently-used men’s, women’s and children’s sweaters and sweatshirts to benefit Interfaith Assistance Ministry.

The Big Event Fundraiser • SU (10/2), 9am-3pm - The Big Event Fundraiser will feature a 5K, a local food and craft market and a chili cook-off to benefit The Odyssey Community School. Held at 90 Zillicoa St. Info: 772-1228.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted. Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224.

• TU (10/4), 5-8pm - An art opening to benefit Open Hearts Art Center.

Fifty percent of sales will be donated.

Touring Joara 2011 • SA (10/1), 9am-4:30pm - Touring Joara 2011 will feature a classic car cruise to benefit the Exploring Joara Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to the archeological study of Native American and Spanish settle-

ments established in the Catawba and Yadkin River Valleys between 1450 and 1700. Tour departs from Marion and ends at Catawba Meadows Park, Morganton. $75 per car. Info, location and registration: scottmci@directus.net.

Whine and Dine • TU (10/4), 6:30-9pm - “Whine and Dine” will feature a five-course vegetarian meal with wine pairings to benefit Animal Compassion Network. Held at The Hilton Asheville, 43 Town Square Blvd. $70. Info: www.animalcompassionnetwork.org.

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I explained that buying a cell phone doesn’t mean you can just start making calls, or sending texts, which seems to be how kids communicate these days. I explained to her that you have to buy a phone plan from one of the soul-sucking telephone companies that will charge you hundreds of dollars a year for the privilege — and typically you have to commit to a two-year contract.

She didn’t really understand how this all works (welcome to the club). I sent her to the AT&T and Verizon websites so she could research how much it would cost her to add a phone to one of her parents’ monthly plans.

Negotiating said websites took much more time than it should have. Finally, she figured out that half of her monthly allowance would end up going to basic cell phone use — and that’s if she doesn’t go over her allotted minutes of talk time (and it seems her Dad’s plan offers the better deal).

But I really wonder why a 13-year-old needs a cell phone. Her argument is that the majority of her friends have them. My response? “So what?

Why do they need them?” She argued: “What if you’re late picking me up and need to let me know?” Weak, I said. Mostly because there’s usually an adult nearby whose cell phone number I have in those situations. Plus I’m rarely late.

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Here are her pros of getting her own cell phone: • Can call people and text.

• It’ll be cool.

• Phone is free!! (She figured that out from her research).

• Can get help with homework by calling people to ask questions.

• Can keep in touch with friends I don’t see much.

• Not be the last one to get a cell.

Her cons: • The monthly plan costs money.

• Do I really need it? I can use home phone and parents’ cells.

• The radiation (this is another of her mom’s concerns).

• May be a distraction.

• Distraction could affect grades.

I read through this while she re-read it over my shoulder. Then she said, “The cons seem stronger than the pros. Now I think I should wait to get a cell phone.”

I agreed with her. And I realized that she’d just talked herself out of it — without whining or getting upset. My little girl isn’t really a little girl anymore. She might actually be in the process of becoming a thoughtful, rationale, fairly responsible teenager. Holy heck. X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.

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by Carly Hart “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.� — The Merchant of Venice Plenty of people would be happy to give their mother-in-law a piece of their mind, but how many would be willing to donate a portion of their own body?

Marianne Seaman Johnson, a 40-something Marion resident, says she never knew why her father called her “Mercy,� but it certainly seems fitting now. Her diabetic mother-in-law, 58-year-old Julia Godwin, had kidneys that were functioning at only 10 percent. Since May of last year, she’d been enduring painful, fourhour-long dialysis sessions three times a week.

Godwin had been on a transplant waiting list for about a year and a half, but qualifying for a kidney can take years, and eventually, dialysis would no longer have worked. Meanwhile, none of the six family and friends tested proved to be a donor match. Some family members

Since May of last year, Julia Godwin had been enduring painful, fourhour-long dialysis sessions three times a week.

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were automatically disqualified due to medical problems.

So in January, after conducting some Internet research, Johnson took the plunge, sending 15 vials of blood to Duke University Medical Center in Durham to be tested. Four of the six parameters tested matched — enough to qualify her as a donor. “It’s the right thing to do, and I love her,� says Johnson. “I don’t want anything bad to happen to her, so if I’m the only one who can fix this, I’m going to. It’s not going to harm me.�

Be my Valentine Johnson, who’s been Godwin’s daughter-inlaw for six years, sees the situation as a gift that benefits the whole family. “People have said, ‘Wow, you’re brave,’ but I don’t think of it that way ... because I’m scared,� she confessed with a nervous laugh the night before the surgery. “Mostly, people are saying that’s a really nice gift to give, and everybody

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Photo courtesy of Julia Godwin is telling Julia what a good daughter-in-law she has. A lot of people have said if it were them, they wouldn’t do it, and I was surprised.�

Johnson’s three kids, all in their 20s, gave her their approval, saying, “That’s cool,� and “That’s sweet, Mom.�

The next step was a battery of counseling and medical tests. Johnson had to talk to a clinical psychologist, a medical psychologist, a social worker and a donor advocate. “Part of my counseling process included the fact that this might not work, and that Julia might have complications or, remotely, even death,� Johnson recalls. “I just felt confident about my decision and had faith that it would work, so I didn’t let that information deter me.�

She also had to have an EKG, an ultrasound, a mammogram, a TB test, a chest X-ray and an MRI. Johnson viewed it all as a free physical, since Julia’s insurance would pay for the tests and the surgery; happily, she got a clean bill of health.

The best part, says Johnson, was that she didn’t tell anyone in the family she was doing all of this. “It was Valentine’s Day, and both my motherand father-in-law were in the car when I called them and told them to put me on speakerphone, because I had something I wanted to talk to them about. I made this long-drawn-out story about it. I said: ‘You know that little card you gave me with that number on it? Well, I sent my blood in.’ I just kept talking and talking, and my father-in-law finally jumped in and asked, ‘Are you telling us you’re a match?’ I said, ‘Yep.’

They were just so shocked, just tickled. They started crying.� “I’m so grateful to her,� says Godwin. “She’s given me back my life. The Lord brought her into this family for a reason.�

The real deal Doctors decided the left kidney would be the best fit. They told Johnson the four-hour surgery would entail three or four small puncture wounds and one 4-inch incision on her belly.

They also said her body would function properly with one kidney and that it would grow larger, but she wouldn’t notice any changes.

Johnson was told to expect two days in the hospital and six weeks out of work. After removing her kidney, it would be transferred to Godwin’s medical team in the next operating room.

The surgery took place Aug. 29 at Duke University Medical Center. Both women are doing well now, and Godwin is thankful to be done with dialysis. Johnson, who went in with a clean bill of health, had some complications during surgery resulting in an unexpected weeklong hospital stay.

And when Johnson was approached for this story concerning her generous donation, the unassuming Stein Mart assistant manager replied, “A story about what?� “I made some deals with my husband,� she jokes. “Like he’s not allowed to win any arguments with me for the rest of his life. And he’s not allowed to leave me, either.� X Freelance writer Carly Hart lives in Asheville.

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wellnesscalendar Health Programs Are You Using External Solutions to Feel Better and it’s not working? (pd.) We live in a culture that promotes using food, alcohol/ other drugs, busy-busy, overthinking, perfectionism, overspending/shopping and technology to feel better, be smarter, be more attractive. Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a structured program that addresses the Root Cause of the drive to go to excess and mood disturbances. Overeating sugary, fatty foods, overuse/misuse of alcohol/other drugs, out of control debt, shopping or video games, depression, anxiety are all clues of a Brain State Out of Balance. It’s not you! It’s your Wiring! Self-judgment only fuels the drive to want to find relief. You’re human! However, what you may be using to feel pleasure, numb out, and/or comfort and soothe yourself may be part of the misery! • EBT is for people who are tired of trying to force themselves to change and want to live a life of health, freedom and sustainable true, grounded joy. Participants learn specific mindfulness skills to create self compassion. Over time the drive to go to excess naturally fades. • Attend a Free overview: Monday morning, October 10: 10-11:30am or Wednesday evening, October 12, 6:30-8pm to learn How the EBT program works and benefits for you. Call Denise Kelley, MA, LPC at 231-2107 or email: empowering.solutions@yahoo.com.

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Park Ridge Health (pd.) Free Health Screenings with the Park Ridge Health WOW Van: Free Cholesterol Screenings Lipid and glucose profiles by finger stick, along with blood pressure and body mass index screening. For best results, fast overnight. Saturday, October 1, UNCA Center for Creative Retirement 8:30 – 11 a.m., Reuter Center, UNCA, Asheville Tuesday, October 4, Macon Bank 8:30 – 11 a.m., 1617 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville Wednesday, October 5, Cummings Cove Community 8– 11 a.m., 20 Cummings Cove Parkway, Hendersonville $10 PSA Screening No appointment required. PSA blood test for men 50 years of age or older; age 40 if father or brother had prostate cancer.

Wednesday, September 28 (1 – 4 p.m.) CVS 1604 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville Free Body Composition Analysis and Blood Pressure Blood pressure, body fat and hydration percentages, body mass index, height and weight for overall body composition. Sunday, October 2, Fletcher Community Park 12:30 – 3:30 p.m., Howard Gap Rd., Fletcher Free Bone Density for Men and Women Bone density screening for osteoporosis. Please wear shoes and socks that are easy to slip off. Wednesday, September 28 (1 – 4 p.m.) CVS 1604 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville Wellness Classes and Events Families Eating Smarter and Moving More Series: “Moving More Watching Less” Tuesday, October 4, 5:45 - 6:45 pm - Free In the Duke Room at Park Ridge Health. Bring the whole family for dinner and enjoy learning simple solutions to eating smart and moving more together. The class is free, but you may enjoy a delicious, healthy dinner for just $5 per person.

Prepared by our own PRH chef, including the nutrition facts and recipe for meals that are easy to prepare and enjoyed by the whole family! Free Support Groups Breast Cancer Survivors and Friends/ “I Can Cope” Cancer Support Group Monday, October 3 (5:30 p.m.) Park Ridge Health Breast Center 50 Hospital Dr., Ste. 4B, Hendersonville Offered by the Park Ridge Breast Health Center and the American Cancer Society. Join other breast cancer survivors, friends and those at high risk for breast cancer seeking support and information. Please bring a favorite dish to share for a potluck dinner. For information, please contact Deborah Gentry, at 828.650.2790. MemoryCare Support Groups Park Ridge Group Tuesday, October 4 (10-11:30 a.m.) Fletcher Adventist Church, Main Level Conference room 1141 Howard Gap Rd., Fletcher Calvary Group Tuesday, October 4 (1-3 p.m.) Calvary Episcopal Church, Hendersonville Rd (across from Fletcher Ingles), meet in library. All MemoryCare groups are free and open to anyone caring for a person with memory loss. For further info contact Mary Donnelly, 828.230.4143 or network@memory-

care.org. Free Community Events Planning For Pregnancy Thursday, September 29 (6 p.m.) Hilton Hotel at Biltmore Park 43 Town Square Blvd., Asheville Jennifer Blattner, M.D. and Justin Towle, M.D. with Park Ridge OB/GYN –– will be speaking on how to plan for your pregnancy – whether it’s your first or your fourth. For more information, or to register, please call 855.PRH.LIFE (774.5433). Open House at Universal Health Care of Fletcher Thursday, October 6, 4 – 6 p.m. • The public is invited to join us for an Open House to tour the Universal Health Care facility and meet the care providers of Park Ridge Health and Universal Health Care. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Albert Ford of Park Ridge Geriatrics and Community Health is the new Medical Director for Universal Health Care. Park Ridge will provide geriatric medical physicians, psychiatrist, podiatrists, wound care and many other services offered by the new Community Health program. Universal Health Care is a skilled nursing facility offering both short and long term rehabilitation, located at 86 Old Airport Rd. in Fletcher.

Please RSVP by calling 855-PRH-LIFE. The REAL Center (pd.) Offers life-changing skills including Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Radical Honesty, and Somatic Awareness. Learn to stay centered in any situation, be flexible without being submissive, and more. $120/8-session class in Asheville with Steve Torma, 828-254-5613. http:// www.theREALcenter.org Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• MO (10/3), 10am-noon - A workshop on makeup and hair accessories for female cancer patients.

• MONDAYS through (11/28), 6-8:30pm - A 12-week class for caregivers and family members of those with mental illness. Info: 1-888-955-NAMI. • TU (10/4), 2-3:30pm - A free, three-minute hereditary emphysema test and Q&A session.

• TH (10/6), 8am-6pm & FR (10/7), 8am-4pm - Flue vaccine. $25.

Integrative Health Care • WE (10/5), 6-7:30pm - Mind, Body, Spirit Connection: Integrative Health Care will be presented at the Owen Heart Center Theater, Mission Hospital Heart Tower Building, 509 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: www.missionhospitals.org/whole.

Non-surgical Info Session • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon & 1st THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - Non-surgical info session will be held at Mission Weight Management Center, 2 Medical Park Drive, Suite 102 in Asheville. Info: www.missionmd.org/weightmanagement or 213-4100.

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression • TH (10/6), 5:30-6:15pm - A Q&A session about nonsurgical spinal decompression. Free, but $25 donation for Food for Fairview suggested. Held at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. Info: 628-7800.

Pink Yoga • THURSDAYS through (10/27), 8:30am - Free “pink yoga” will be offered for breast cancer survivors at Happy Body, 1378 Hendersonville Road. Info: www.ashevillehappybody. com or 277-5741.

Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/first aid for infants, children and adults; babysitter training; pet first aid; bloodborne pathogens; swimming and water safety; and lifeguarding.

All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road. To register call 258-3888, ext. 221. Info: www. redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below.

Appointment and ID required.

• WE (10/5), 7:30am-12:30pm & TH (10/6), 2-7pm - Beauty Through Cancer blood drive will be held at 100 Edgewood Road. Info: 258-3888.

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Weight Management Surgical Info Session • 1st & 3rd TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm & 4th FRIDAYS, 1-2pm - Weight management surgical info session will take place at Mission Weight Management Center, 2 Medical Park Drive, Suite 102. Info: www.missionmd.org/weightmanagement or 213-4100.

Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www.adultchildren.org.

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

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: 474-5120.

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

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

• FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 8pm - “Lambda,” Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. • SATURDAYS, 10am - “Grace Fireside,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 10am - “Saturday Serenity,” St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte Street at Macon Avenue. —- noon - “Courage to Change,” Bess Sprinkle Memorial Library, Weaverville.

• SUNDAYS, 5pm - Al-Anon and Alateen, West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

• MONDAYS, noon - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 6pm - “Attitude of Gratitude,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 7pm - Meeting at First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain.

• TUESDAYS, 9:45am - “Serenity Through Courage and Wisdom,” St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 109 Crescent Hill, Arden. —- 5:30pm - “Steps to Recovery,” Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road. —- 7pm - “One Day at a Time,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: 7792317 or 299-1666.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous will meet at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Info: 989-3227.

GriefShare GriefShare features nationally recognized experts in griefand-recovery support and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road, Asheville. Info: 253-7301 or michael. lee@calvaryasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - GriefShare group meeting.

Magnetic Minds • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm-9pm - A meeting of Magnetic Minds, the local chapter of DBSA, (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance), provides support, information and advocacy for those with mood disorders. Friends and family welcome. Held at 1314F Patton Ave. Info: 318-9179.

Man to Man/Prostate Cancer Support • 1st TUESDAYS, 7pm - Man to Man, a prostate cancer support group for men and caregivers, meets at American

Cancer Society, 120 Executive Park in Asheville. Info: 2546931.

MemoryCaregivers Network Support for caregivers of loved ones who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s. Info: 645-9189 or 230-4143.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 1-3pm - Meeting at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road in Fletcher.

Mission Weight Management Surgical Support Group • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm & 4th FRIDAYS, 10-11:30am - Weight Management Surgical Support Group will meet at Mission Weight Management Center, 2 Medical Park Drive, Suite 102, Asheville. Info: www.missionmd. org/weightmanagement or 828-213-4100. @calsubhead:MS Community Awareness Lunch • THURSDAYS, noon-3pm - Join this “inspirational and positive” community of individuals and families affected by multiple sclerosis for lunch at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road, Asheville. This group “empowers with opportunities and resources to enhance quality of life while strengthening relationships.” Info: mscommunitywnc@ gmail.com.

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.

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• MONDAYS, 6pm - A support group for men will meet.

Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless otherwise noted.

• THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group at the Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 329-1637.

• THURSDAYS, noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899.

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks and Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 669-0986.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828.

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

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Info: 280-2213.

S-Anon • WENESDAYS - S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. Meetings held weekly in the WNC area. Call confidential voicemail or email for information: 258-5117 or wncsanon@gmail.com.

SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Do you want to stop living out a destructive pattern of sex and love addiction over which you are personally powerless? This 12-step-based recovery program meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www.slaafws. org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

The Compassionate Friends • 1st MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - The local chapter of an international support group for parents grieving the loss of a child will meet at Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road. Info: 693-4061

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• 1 Corporate Dietitian • 4 Licensed springs (water comes up from the ground naturally) within 30 miles of Asheville where we source our Laura Lynn spring water • 62 the number of stores Ingles has in NC (203 in 6 states total) • 225 the number of dairy farms within 125 miles of Asheville that supply us with milk • 270 the number of employees at our MILKCO plant in West Asheville • 1,000 the number of employees at our Corporate HQ & Warehouse in Black Mountain • 20,000 the number of total full and part-time employees of Ingles Markets • 1,022,000 the number of pounds of donations to Manna Food Bank last year • 1,050,000 the number of gallons of dairy milk bottled at our MILKCO plant in West Asheville weekly • 1,440,000- the number of pounds of local NC apples Ingles has bought so far this year • 10 MILLION - the number of pounds of local produce Ingles buys annually.

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Every town has a cake lady, says Jodi Rhoden. “These are the women who bake the cakes for their community’s special occasions: weddings, birthdays, church barbecues and even funerals,” she writes in her new book Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition. “And — as you’ll discover when you try the recipes in this book — cake ladies are special.”

Rhoden, owner of Short Street Cakes in Asheville and author of the lauded blog, “My Life in Cake,” is herself a cake lady. In the summer of 2010, she hit the highway in pursuit of other Southern women of her ilk. The result is a vibrant, full-color catalog, published by Lark Crafts, full of stories, recipes and best of all, tales.

All of the cake ladies came into Rhoden’s life through a particular sweet serendipity. In her own backyard, she met a Mexican-born Asheville woman who bakes pastel de tres leches, a confection popular in her native Hidalgo. In New Orleans, she visited two former teachers remaking their careers as bakers while the Big Easy slowly remade itself as a city. And in the picturesque landscape of Jackson County, she found a Cherokee woman while lost on her way to find the others.

The encounters were all fortuitous, but none more so than the meeting a Cherokee woman living on the Qualla Boundary in Western North Carolina. Rhoden ended up there after taking a wrong turn on the way to, well, Louisiana.

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The cake lady: At left, Jodi Rhoden in her West Asheville cake shop, Short Street Cakes. Cupcake Fairies: Above, Michele Burton Oatis and her sister, Melissa Woods, in front of the house in New Orleans that will become their bakery. Photographs courtesy of Lark Crafts, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Rhoden had taken an unfamiliar route to circumvent her hometown of Atlanta (afraid that the draw of a cozy bed in a familiar place could delay her quest). “I got completely lost just an hour outside of Asheville — and I’ve lived here for 10 years,” she says with a laugh. “Once I realized where I was — and I’d never been to Cherokee before — I thought, ‘I’m going to find a cake lady here.’” Her very first stop was the Soco diner, a tiny meat-and-three joint famous for its fry-bread and — wouldn’t you know it — cakes.

“I walked in and there were these cakes spread out on the counter,” says Rhoden.

“I went up to the lady behind the counter and said, ‘You’re the cake lady, aren’t you?’” The woman, Matilda Reed, replied in the affirmative. “I was supposed to talk to you today,” Rhoden said, as if it were fated.

As with many of the women she interviewed, Rhoden would learn as much about their home lives as their recipes, as the two are frequently interwoven. The Cherokee sisters, for example, lived without electricity until adulthood. “So they grew up learning how to bake on wood fire from their grandmother. I was so moved by it,” Rhoden says.

Reed recalled a recipe for strawberry shortcake her mother had taught her, and recounted it in the Cherokee language. Two of Reed’s grandchildren go to a school on the tribal grounds where classes are conducted solely in the native tongue.

“She’s relearning Cherokee from her grandchildren,” says Rhoden. That, in turn, is helping Reed reconnect with her own roots. “It makes me remember some of

the words mom said to me in Cherokee,” says Reed in the pages of Cake Ladies. The Cherokee words for common cake ingredients are included next to her shortcake recipe.

Preserving history All the women she interviewed for the book gave much more than recipes, says Rhoden. “I was just amazed by how much I learned from them, all about life beyond cake.” Cake, she points out, is often used to mark important moments in time. We slice them, hand in hand, after wedding the love of our life; we use them to celebrate a cherished one’s birthday; we console ourselves with them at wakes — and the recipes often serve to keep a family tradition alive. “So much about this book, and about cake in general, is about how people love their families,” Rhoden says. “The stories have to be part of those recipes, and that’s what’s so cool about preserving those traditions — you’re preserving the stories that go along with them as well.”

Preservation of history through culinary tradition is also a common theme throughout the book, which profiles women from a range of cultures. And some of the history that food often evokes can actually be tough to swallow, says the author. “It’s necessary when you talk about Southern food to acknowledge racism, acknowledge slavery, the African food traditions,” Rhoden says. “Creole is a perfect example — African, French, Native American — if that’s not a purely American foodway, food tradition, I don’t know what is.”

One of the most uplifting stories in the book focuses on another pair of sisters, Michele Burton Oatis and Melissa Woods, also known as The Cupcake Fairies, both former New Orleans teachers whose careers dissolved in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

“We lost everything,” Oatis tells Rhoden.

“God, everything. Everything we worked hard for and invested in was just thrown out on the street or waiting for us to open the door and throw it out. After you’ve been through that kind of trauma, there’s nothing but your family.”

Oatis and Woods, however, are resilient women. They began to rebuild their lives by baking cupcakes to raise money for their nonprofit, VideoVoices, an organization dedicated to helping New Orleans community members document the recovery experience.

Soon, people were placing orders for cupcakes, and the media was taking notice of the story.

The Cupcake Fairies recently bought a house in the Gentilly neighborhood of the city, an area badly damaged by the hurricane, now only sparsely populated. There, they are building a new bakery.

“Their story was moving to me,” says Rhoden. “They had lost their homes in Katrina.

[I loved] the symbolism of them coming back to New Orleans, opening a bakery because they had lost their jobs as teachers and trying to make it work. When I was with them in their kitchen, we were crying the whole time.

I was grateful to be able to tell their story.”

The story follows an unexpected narrative that runs through the book: baking as an

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“I think there are some things that feminism has done to sort of throw the baby out with the bathwater, and not value a few things that women do and women love that are part of their lives,” she says.

Being empowered has nothing to do with the actual process of cooking and baking, she says, but it has everything to do with making sure those acts uplift, even if just from the “redemptive power of creating something with your own hands.”

“A lot of the women in this book have created a livelihood around cakes, doing what they know they’re good at,” says Rhoden. “I guess the biggest piece for me is the empowerment piece — seeing that these women, and women in general, are strong and smart and capable and powerful. And this is just one of the ways that a lot of these women have chosen to lift themselves and their families and their communities up. It’s really important to me to tell that story.”

Cake Ladies publishes Wednesday, Oct. 4, and will be available locally at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café (55 Haywood St., downtown) and at Short Street Cakes (225 Haywood Road, West Asheville).

On Sunday, Oct. 16, Rhoden will host a book-release party and signing at Forsythia Hall at 28 Forsythe St., just north of downtown Asheville. $5 at the door enters you in a raffle to win prizes. For more information, visit facebook.com/cakeladiesbyjodirhoden. X

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Third time’s a charm: Early next month, Jesse Roque and her husband, Edson, open their third restaurant, Never Blue on Broadway, at 27 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville. Photo by Jonathan Welch

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Poutine and pulled-pork Culinary couple behind Never Blue brings their comfortable tapas style to Asheville Early next month, Jesse Roque and her husband, Edson, will open their third restaurant, Never Blue on Broadway, at 27 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville. The first of their burgeoning restaurant empire is the original Never Blue in Hendersonville, which will remain open as Never Blue on Main. The other, Blue Gypsy Watering Hole, is now open in downtown Saluda.

Never Blue on Broadway is taking over the apparently hard-luck venue that’s seen two other restaurants in almost as many months. The couple has already added some of their own signature style, brightening up the dining area with low-hanging pewter chandeliers and lining the walls with deepred carpeting to dampen the echo that comes from a cavernous area with too many hard surfaces. With the shiny, corrugated metal panels and purple paint they’ve added, the atmosphere has a bit more of a relaxed and comfortable vibe. Locals familiar with the building may be surprised by the transformation when the restaurant opens early next month.

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Roque is simultaneously bubbly and tough. She graduated from Johnson & Wales University in Charleston, S.C. and hails from south Florida. She shares kitchen duties with her Mexican-born husband. The influences of the culinary couple yield a style best described as “tapas with a Southern and Mexican flair,” says Roque. “We end up calling it Low-Mex,” says Roque, a description intended to evoke her low-country style and her husband’s roots. Think ceviche or Cuban-style chicken tacos sharing the menu with tasso ham-enriched shrimp and grits.

“I have to call it tapas to help people understand what it is, but it’s my ‘eat a little bit of everything,’” she says. Never Blue, says Roque, will offer affordable but good food that doesn’t take itself too seriously. “We were also thinking about trying to do some fun things like lobster corn dogs,” she says.

“When I started out in Hendersonville, I had all of these avant garde ideas and things on the menu,” says Roque. “I was using every molecule of talent I had to create these very unusual, unique but very delicious and comforting dishes.” Though people were receptive, she says, some questioned her use of ingredients like za’atar spice or her penchant for making things like peppercorn-and-honey ice cream. Here in Asheville, we’re certainly no strangers to funky ice cream flavors, gleefully lapping up Ultimate Ice Cream’s goat cheese-fig, for example.

“It’s just a different clientele and age demographic,” she says. “I’d say that 80 percent of the people who live in Hendersonville are retired — and a lot of them, with the stock market and the economy [souring], find themselves on a fixed income. They want comfortable, affordable food.”

Here in Asheville, we want that too of course. But, as Roque says, there’s a certain — not insignificant — contingent of diners that like to be daring.

“People will experiment with food here, and go for the thing that sounds strangest on the menu, just to say that they’ve eaten it or know what it is.”

Comfort food, Roque says, comes naturally to her, especially after forming most of her own food traditions and style in the South. “Here in Asheville, I get to have that same Southern quality, but I get to do it a little more avant garde.”

One example of the type of global comfort food that Roque plans to bring to our little city? Asheville, get your hearts (and defibrillators) ready for poutine, a Canadian diner staple that consists of french fries and cheese curd topped with gravy. Roque will fry her potatoes in duck fat, top them with mozzarella cheese curds and finish them with a smoked tomato and pulled duck cream sauce — the king of stoner food, basically.

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Never Blue on Broadway will also offer some of the same drink and food specials as Never Blue in Hendersonville — Tuesdays will feature $5 rumrunners and $2 tacos, for example, and $3 nachos on Wednesdays with $5 margaritas.

Never Blue on Broadway will be open Wednesday through Saturday, from 11:30 a.m until 9 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., with a limited menu and brunch offering. That’s just a start, says Roque. They will play hours a bit by ear, depending on what customers are looking for. “We’ll stay open as long as there’s people in there,” she says. For more information, visit theneverblue. com.

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Thomas Wolfe spent much of his childhood living in his mother’s ramshackle boardinghouse among transient visitors and small-town eccentrics. Many of those who filtered in and out of Wolfe’s life during the period inspired characters in his novel Look Homeward, Angel.

On Saturday, Oct. 1, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial hosts the semiannual fundraising event, “Dinner at the Old Kentucky Home.” The event is intended to recall the nostalgic experience of dining at a turn-of-the-20th century boarding house such as the one that belonged to Julia, Wolfe’s mother, says Chris Morton, operations manager of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.

The Renaissance Hotel across the street from the house will provide the meal, which echoes the fare once served in the boarding house.

The menu, served family-style, includes Southern comfort-food dishes like roast beef with gravy or roasted chicken, served with green beans, mashed potatoes, corn bread and biscuits.

Guests will eat in the dining room of the historic Old Kentucky Home, entertained by period music played on a 1905 Hobart Cable piano (the same one that Wolfe’s sister Mabel played for the entertainment of her mother’s boarders in the early 1900s) and Memorial staff will play food servers for the evening. Following the meal, guests move out onto the front porch of the boarding house for coffee, tea and apple cobbler.

Dinner at the Old Kentucky Home helps support the ongoing programming and preservation of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. In addition to the dinner, guests will get a sneak peek of the opening of the new temporary exhibit on Julia Wolfe.

The event is limited to 22 people at each of the two seatings, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Cost is $80 per person. All percent of the proceeds go to support the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. Reservations are required, and may be placed by calling 253-8304 or via email at chris.morton@ncdcr.gov.

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Hilton, a lab/golden retriever mix, was found abandoned with best friend Heidi, a 15-pound beagle mix. Both Hilton and Heidi were adopted together and live the life of luxury together in Biltmore Park, according to Animal Compassion Network events coordinator Kelly Stoner. Photo courtesy of ASN

Wine and dine for dogs On Tuesday, Oct. 4, Roux at the Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park hosts the second annual “Whine and Dine” Dinner Gala to benefit the Animal Compassion Network’s Foster/Adoption programs on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:30 until 9 p.m.

The event includes a welcome reception and a five-course, all-vegetarian dinner by Roux executive chef Randy Dunn. Wine pairings from Maisons Marques & Domaines, donated by Mutual Distributing, will be included in the price — as will the special appearance from Hilton (pictured), the hotel’s rescued golden retriever and lab mix “spokesdog,” whom they adopted from Animal Compassion Network.

Tickets are $70 per person, $130 per couple and must be purchased in advance at Pet Harmony, located at 803 Fairview St. or online at animalcompassionnetwork.org. The Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park is located at Biltmore Park Town Square.

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The time to plant — and, of course, enjoy — is here!

by Maggie Cramer If garlic has a cult following, WNC has its fair share of steadfast devotees. Not only do we eat it, but area farmers and home gardeners grow it. Lots of it.

“We plant 300 pounds of seed a year,” says Anne Grier of Gaining Ground Farm, an Appalachian Grown Certified (TM) 75-acre operation run by Anne and her husband, Aaron, in Leicester. That sounds like a lot until she shares the end product: around 1,500 pounds, which they sell at area farmers markets and through their CSA program.

Some also gets saved for seed the next year.

That’s why we’re talking about the allium now. October is the time to plant seed garlic, which local seed company Sow True Seed sells to droves of home growers and farmers. “Garlic is like basil 20 years ago. All of a sudden, everyone is growing it!” says Carol Koury, Sow True Seed’s owner. “We have hundreds of pounds of hardneck, softneck and elephant garlic varieties available for fall every year, and we always sell out.”

At Gaining Ground, a cover crop was planted mid-summer and has been breaking down ever since, enriching the soil. Because garlic likes soil with plenty of organic matter (that’s also slightly acidic and well-cultivated), Anne and Aaron are adding composted manure. The planting will begin in a couple of weeks.

“It’ll take about three of us and one day to break up all of the bulbs into individual cloves,” Anne says of the process. “Then, it’ll take about a day to plant it all.” The couple recruits friends as well as interns for the big project.

They do get a little break after planting.

Garlic starts sprouting in late December and growing in late February. But, there is still much to be done. “It’s in the ground for a

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Making the bed: Anne Grier harvests sweet potatoes at Gaining Ground Farm in Leicester in mid-September. The cover crop does its job preparing the soil where garlic will be planted come October. really long time, so you have to stay on top of the weeding,” notes Anne.

“Garlic should be kept weed-free,” echoes Peter Waskiewicz, co-founder, seed director and resident garlic expert at Sow True Seed.

His advice for home growers: “Mulch garlic with straw or leaves to conserve water, protect young bulbs through winter and deter weeds.” He adds, “Shoots will push through the mulch in the spring. In summer, pull mulch away from the bulbs, as garlic needs to receive ample amounts of water through spring and summer.”

The rules are the same for both hardneck and softneck, the two types offered by Sow True and grown at Gaining Ground. What’s the difference?

According to Waskiewicz, softneck garlic is the most common. Almost all supermarket garlic is softneck, he explains, because it’s easier to grow and harvest mechanically and it keeps longer than hardneck. Next time you’re at the grocery, identify it by its white papery skin and abundance of cloves. Look for signs to find the hardneck type at area farmers markets, and also look for garlic braids. The Griers grow softneck specifically for that reason. They expect to bring the hanging braids to market beginning mid-

October and have them through the holiday tailgates.

Most people prefer the taste (and ease of use) of hardneck, Waskiewicz says. Knowing that, the Griers grow mostly this type. In the spring, hardneck shoots up a stem, or edible scape, which coils and grows a number of bulbils (small bulbs). So, if you bought scapes from a farmer at market earlier this year, know they’ll have hardneck garlic for you now. The type can also be identified by its large cloves.

If you’re growing hardneck at home, Waskiewicz advises clipping the stem off early in the spring. “If the scape and bulbils are left in place, the plant will use energy to grow them that could be better used to grow the bulb.”

But, that’s looking ahead. Delectable scapes and green garlic (immature garlic that doesn’t require peeling and is less strong than its fully grown counterpart) won’t show up at area tailgates until mid- to late-May. Now’s the time to enjoy last year’s crop and get planting.

Selecting seed “There’s nothing more disappointing than having to turn away an excited new garlic

recipe Recipe/info gathered by Carol Koury at this year’s annual Seed Saver’s Exchange. Joel Girardin, garlic grower and expert, shared this method with everyone there:

Making garlic powder An easy and more dependable way to store your garlic is in the form of garlic powder. After letting the freshly harvested garlic dry for a few weeks, peel the cloves and roast the garlic for a half hour in a 350 degree oven and after cooling, place in a kitchen blender or food processor, and then dehydrate the paste in the oven or dehydrator. OR, dehydrate the peeled cloves and blend them once dried. Place the garlic powder in a good glass jar and store with your other spices. grower because we’re sold out,” says Sow True’s Koury. That’s why they recommend home gardeners and farmers pre-order garlic, even as early as a spring seed order. If you didn’t pre-order this year, don’t worry. As of late September, they still had three varieties available: organic California Early, German White and Elephant. They expect to sell out of those by mid-October.

Some farmers also offer seed garlic.

Brookshire Garlic Farm in Boone offers Certified Organic seed; they currently only have Elephant in stock. Find them online at getgarlic.com, or call 268-1756. And, you can always head to a tailgate market and pick up some to eat and plant!

How much do you need? On average, one pound of seed garlic will plant 20 to 25 row feet of garlic when planted with six inches between cloves, Waskiewicz says. Each pound of hardneck seed garlic will yield 35 to 50 cloves, or approximately four to seven pounds. Each pound of softneck will yield 50 to 70 garlic cloves, or approximately 6 to 10 pounds.

Learn more about Sow True’s offerings online at sowtrueseed.com. Find Gaining Ground at the Montford Farmers Market (Wednesdays) and the North Asheville Tailgate Market (Saturdays) through the end of the market season. In addition to garlic this fall, they plan to offer lettuce, carrots, beets, arugula, turnips, radishes, winter squash, sweet potatoes and more. The farm also offers grass-fed beef, eggs and flowers.

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PrideminusPrEJUDiCE Asheville’s Blue Ridge Pride festival returns for a third year

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Pride in Asheville — we’re not talking your run-of-the-mill civic pride (which is great too), but LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning), Pride — has evolved over the years. There were colorful parades, performers in Pritchard Park, countless parties and after-parties.

Last year’s gathering on Lexington Avenue was a well-attended and celebratory affair with nationally touring performer Mia Borders headlining. The festival has also taken place under the auspices of different organizers and names. N.C. Pride (the state-level organization) held its annual gathering in Asheville in ‘91 and ‘98. More recently, the event was called Asheville Pride Festival. This year makes the third that it’s been launched by Blue Ridge Pride, a volunteer-based organization.

It seems that the current iteration is the charm. “We’re one of the few Prides that has no protesters,” says Ashley Arrington, festival co-chair and community outreach coordinator. The festival takes place this Saturday in Pack Square Park, a new home for the daylong festival. While it shares many similar themes with its national counterparts (educational booths, performances and a supportive atmosphere for members of the LGBTQ community and their straight friends), there are also many differences between the local Pride festival and its national equivalents.

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First, “There are not a lot of national acts,” says Arrington. “We don’t want to put the same people from every Pride on stage. We want to do something different that embraces our culture here.” This year’s strictly local lineup includes indie-pop band stephaniesid, kid-hop artist Agent 23 Skidoo, vocalist Kat Williams, gay men’s choral ensemble Cantaria, all-women act The Idgies and female impersonators from Natalie Small Productions.

That some of the performers are not LGBTQ-identified doesn’t bother Arrington.

“We’ve never had that as a requirement,” she says. “We want to put people on stage who represent the LGBTQ community, but what’s really neat about Asheville, that we don’t necessarily get in other communities,

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is the allied community and the support we get.” And that goes beyond musicians — Arrington says that Blue Ridge Pride has “a large number of straight volunteers.”

One of the organizers from Atlanta Pride, says Arrington, claimed in a conference that “everyone in Asheville’s gay.” Arrington says it can seem that way because the town is accepting of a variety lifestyles, and fostering that attitude is sort of the point of Pride anyway. That, and celebrating the LGBTQ community. The mission statement of NC Pride includes promoting “unity and visibility among lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgendered people,” promoting “a positive image through programs and public activities that foster an awareness of our past struggles” and encouraging recognition as

“an important and talented sector of our diverse state.”

Blue Ridge Pride adds another mission: creating a community center. “That’s how we came about three years ago,” says Arrington. “We wanted to facilitate that process.” The community center was in the works before but never reached fruition.

Blue Ridge Pride hopes to spearhead that resource in collaboration with other local LGBTQ groups.

To get that going, Blue Ridge Pride came up with the Your Equality Speaks Asheville campaign, a tourism map for LGBTQ visitors who want to find businesses (venues, restaurants, hotels) where they won’t feel shunned. Map memberships run $25; the completed product will be unveiled at the festival. Funds from the project jump-started the community center’s financing. It’s been slow-but-steady, planning-wise, but “in the last year we’ve see that steam pick up a little bit,” says Arrington.

Right now, the topic at hand is the festival. And there’s more to Blue Ridge Pride than just the festivities in Pack Square Park from noon to 6 p.m. Actually, there are so many peripheral activities that the festival ends two hours earlier than it has in past years so that attendees and volunteers can get to the parties. (See the sidebar for more on after-parties.) X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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bookends Pride pre& after-parties Hairspray (38 N. French Broad Ave.) Pre-party on Friday, Sept. 30 with a drag king and queen show. A portion of the proceeds go to Blue Ridge Pride.

Grove House (11 Grove St.) Last Comic Standing finalist Michelle Balan performs, followed by singer CeCe Peniston. Saturday, Oct. 1, 8 p.m., $25 advance/$30 doors. 80-percent of ticket sales benefits Blue Ridge Pride.

O. Henry’s (237 Haywood St.) DJ iGuy spins and Natalie Productions entertainers Natalie Smalls, Cierra Nichole and Tyra Couture perform. Saturday, Oct. 1, 8 p.m., $5. 100-percent of cover charge benefits Blue Ridge Pride.

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READYFORTHEIRCLOSEUP Asheville’s first QFest shines a spotlight on the LGBTQ community

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According to Robert Gaston, a filmmaker and the organizer of Asheville’s first-ever LGBTQ film festival, QFest, there are certain programming rules for the opening feature.

“You never open with a documentary, or a lesbian feature, or a foreign-language film,” says Gaston. These are not written-in-stone statutes, and Gaston (with partner Michael Sheldon) quickly broke one by opening with lesbian musical comedy Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together.

“Jamie and Jessie is filmed Chicago, but the energy of the movie and the locations it uses — this is an Asheville film,” says local actor Sheldon (who most recently starred in N.C. Stage’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch). It’s sweet and a little edgy. It has heart. And song and dance.

The rest of Asheville QFest’s film selections are no less surprising. Or refreshing. Or challenging. There’s Gun Hill Road, which Gaston

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ABBA songs. Wish Me Away is a documentary about the coming-out story of country singer Chely Wright. “It really speaks to gay pride,” says Gaston. Comedy eCupid is about a man whose job is going nowhere and his relationship is stale, so he downloads a relationship app, which takes over his entire life. (Bonus:

The film has Morgan Fairchild as a prophetic waitress.) Festival-closer, German film Romeos, is the story about a young female-tomale transsexual who becomes attracted to a flirty, attractive gay man.

QFest already takes place in Philadelphia, and a similar festival is in the works for London. Sheldon says that most major cities have their own LGBTQ film event, and there’s been talk for years of bringing one to Asheville. But lining up the inaugural film fest was a special challenge for the organizers.

“One of things that’s most exciting about bringing this to Asheville is that the audience is not typical America,” says Gaston.

Sheldon adds, “I don’t think it’s even typical LGBT America.”

“We wanted to make it about what’s new and fresh, and tailor it to Asheville,” says Gaston. The organizers screened hundreds of films, and also took the suggestions of Philadelphia QFest’s artistic director Ray

Murray. “We want to have something for everyone,� says Gaston. “We want films that will appeal to all audiences, while still celebrating the key demographic.�

This year’s festival includes eight firsttime directors, “And they’re different stories from what gay films have been in the past,� says Sheldon. “It’s a new generation coming up.� Some of those stories really push social boundaries — Gun Hill Road, which focuses on a Latino family, is one example. Another is Circumstance, about two women in Tehran whose lifelong friendship has become romantic.

When one woman’s brother turns toward Islamic fundamentalism, the relationship is threatened. And then there’s This Is What Love In Action Looks Like, a documentary about what happens when a 16-year-old blogs that he doesn’t want to be sent to a Christian program geared toward turning gay teens straight, and a group of teens come to his rescue.

And there’s this: “You hear it’s an LGBTQ festival, but the ‘B’ always seems to get left out,� says Sheldon. (The B is for bisexual.) “3 is a very bi-positive movie.� The German comedy, by the director of Run Lola Run, tells of married couple Hanna and Simon who both begin an affair (unbeknownst to each other) with Adam. “Beyond the bisexual aspect of it, it makes us question our intimate relationships and boundaries,� says Gaston. “It examines these people in a beautiful way.�

Beyond the films, there are also afterparties each night (see schedule) and a panel discussion scheduled for Sunday.

A number of the filmmakers and actors will be visiting Asheville for both QFest and Blue Ridge Pride. That — LGBTQoriented visitors — is a trend that both Sheldon and Gaston hope that QFest will increase. “It’s big fun, it’s a celebration,� says Sheldon. “We hope to make this even more of a destination for the LGBTQ traveler.� X Alli Marshall can be reached amarshall@mountainx.com.

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Fleet but not fleeting: Singer/songwriter Robin Pecknold says of writing the band’s second album, “a lot of metal gamesmanship goes on that wasn’t there the first time and won’t be there the third time.” Now-completed sophomore effort Helplessness Blues proves Fleet Foxes has staying power. Photo by Sean Pecknold

by Alli Marshall “My brother where do you intend to go tonight?

I heard that you missed your connecting flight, to the Blue Ridge Mountains, over near Tennessee.”

So begins the song “Blue Ridge Mountains” from Fleet Foxes’ 2008 self-titled debut. The song is set close to Asheville, and while singer/songwriter/ Fleet Foxes-frontman Robin Pecknold doesn’t like to discuss the lyrics too much (“It’s kind of stupid to deconstruct it”), he says it was written for his brother after their grandfather had died. And, “being from Seattle that is, in the song, a place removed. That’s where he’s trying to get but he doesn’t.”

Pecknold and Fleet Foxes have barely touched down in Asheville, either. The band last passed through town in 2008, opening for indie-rockers Blitzen Trapper at the Grey Eagle. That was in March. Fleet Foxes’ self-titled album dropped in early June and by the end of the month it had hit No. 1 on the CMJ radio chart. The days of opening small listening venues were quickly behind the Seattle-based quintet (now sextet). This week they return to Asheville to headline the Thomas Wolfe

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Auditorium.

“That was literally our first tour we’d ever done,” Pecknold tells Xpress. “We were really pumped because we were fans of [Blitzen Trapper’s], but for our first tour to be two months was insane.”

Touring these days, says Pecknold, is “about as different as it can get.” The band members determine how long they want to stay on the road.

They have a bus and a crew and “we’re playing these places where we have more of a stage element.” Also, it’s easier for Pecknold, a vegan, to find decent meals since higher-level clubs provide catering. (Nonetheless, speaking with the voice of experience, Pecknold says, “I’d rather be in a good mood than vegan, sometimes.”)

Fleet Foxes have also moved beyond their debut album, releasing sophomore effort Helplessness Blues this past May. The new album is still rich in Fleet Foxes’ trademark harmonies, complexly layered instrumentation and Phil Ek production, but there are departures: Gone are the Baroque-flavored romps through primal forests. Instead there are hints of psychedelia and tinges of darkness — “pretty much a folk album,” says Pecknold.

info who:

Fleet Foxes (Van Dyke Parks opens)

where:

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

when:

Tuesday, Oct. 4 (8 p.m., $45.65. fleetfoxes.com) “There are a lot of different elements to the music.

Stuff like The Zombies, stuff that has a certain methodic sensibility that recalls different counterpoint writing.”

The songwriter’s struggles with Helplessness have been well documented — initial songs were abandoned at a financial loss to the band and Pecknold told Pitchfork in a 2009 interview that “The last year has been a really trying creative process where I’ve not been knowing what to write or how to write.”

These days, with the album safely delivered to largely positive reviews, Pecknold is almost sanguine. He says that in writing a second album, with the added pressure of the “sophomore curse” looming, “a lot of metal gamesmanship goes on that wasn’t there the first time and won’t be there the third time.”

He continues, “From a songwriting perspective I wanted to hit these different marks and I was always second-guessing and doubting different stuff. But I don’t really feel like that now.”

Ironically, the band’s popularity and busy schedule means Pecknold has little time to spend writing — now that he’s on amicable terms with the craft again — “but when I do, I feel positive about it,” he says. “I don’t have the same set of neuroses about it that I did when I was writing those albums a year or a couple years ago.”

And there’s this: “Records are just the evidence of whatever state of mind you were in musically and creatively and personally at the time you were making it, by extension of the choices you made or the sounds you got,” says Pecknold. “It’s all reflective of that certain period, for better or worse.”

On the other hand, Pecknold does entertain the idea of getting away from his current process of sending a song “through the whole machine of arranging and recording.” He says, “I think it would be really fun to write way more free-form stuff. Where there’s a set of marks you have to hit in a song, but everything else can be decided on a whim.”

In an interview with The A.V. Club, Pecknold mentioned that “In addition to being great musicians, everyone in the band can write really good songs,” and suggested that future Fleet Foxes albums might see multiple writers. Currently, the band is sticking to its known catalog on stage.

Even covers (while touring with Joanna Newsom, Pecknold dueted with the songstress on a rendition of Kid Rock’s “Picture”) are relegated to sound checks. Barring “some totally incredible, unexpected version” of a cover, Pecknold says Fleet Foxes want to play their own songs — and those from Helplessness have been evolving with the band’s tour.

“Musically they’ve all taken on a new life live,

which is really cool and feels really fresh,” says Pecknold. The band is a no longer as concerned with replicating the album note-for-note, he says.

Instead, “we’re doing things in there that flesh them out. Not changing them drastically, but there’s room in there for embellishment.” And his songwriting this time around — judicious themes of getting older and one’s place in life — allows for ongoing intellectual exploration. “Some [songs], as far as topics go, are pretty broad and some of those things in those songs remain questions for me,” says the singer. “It’s interesting to sing them every night and still be in a similar state of mind as when they were written.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

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Wolfroy comes TO TOWN Bonnie “Prince” Billy brings “a mash-up of

wild animal and royalty”

to Marshall

by Jaye Bartell “Go folks! Go forth! Go folks! Trust your brain! Trust your body!”

Perhaps the myths that cast Bonnie “Prince” Billy (stage name of Kentucky-born musician Will Oldham) as a misanthrope who spurns human interaction, especially media interviews, can be put to rest. A sagacious quality colors Oldham’s recent work, a brightness that remains earthbound, prizing flesh over philosophy. Take the hopeful single “Quail and Dumplings,” from the Oct. 4 full-length Wolfroy Goes to Town: “Quail and dumplings, now to the end / God and her minions, as our bosom friends / got empty tummies, but it won’t always be / one day it’s gonna be quail and dumplings for we.” In his conversation with Xpress, Oldham’s tone was just as generous. Recurrent themes centered on collaboration, community, presence and family — and how playing music can invite others into an otherwise solitary life.

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on Wolfroy Goes to Town:

“It is a name I’d come up with a number of years ago. It’s a mash-up of the wild animal and royalty. I didn’t really use [the name]. A friend of mine, Lori Damiano — I saw a show of hers once and there was a painting called “Wolfroy Goes to Town.” She’s one of my very favorite artists, and I loved the painting as well. I bought the painting and it’s in my house. I look at it every day. At one point, maybe a year and a half ago, I was beginning to write songs and looking at [the painting]. It’s been an inspiration. She’s an inspiration to me.”

On company (and cash): “The two things that keep me going are the collaborations and the paychecks. The reason that some of us — myself definitely included, and I think that for many of the musicians and visual artists that I have an affinity for — do what we do is because we want to communicate, and that’s how we can communicate. Our workplaces are pretty solitary. So, our social interaction is collaboration — rather than just accepting the solitary life. It is not a solitary life. And, it can be, for the soldier and the civilian, not a solitary life, but a shared experience.”

On perverse hungers: “For the past 10 years, the idea of doing the regional tours is to not have where we are be a negligent or coincidental factor in what the tour experience is, but to have it be as active a part of where we’re going to be as possible. You can’t eliminate the anonymity of the audience, but you can chip away at it. But, as perverse as my musical hungers or appetites have always been, they’ll probably only get more perverse. It’s not anonymous insofar as there’s a warmth to help understand where music has value for more than one person, where a song has value for more than one person.

I don’t care if it’s more than 10,000 people, but it has to be more than me, or more than five of us.”

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On characters: “I’m reading a book now called The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis. It’s about a young woman, a chess genius. I’m finding that the perspective that I’m getting from her, and the compassion that I’m feeling for her, the equilibrium she’s giving me now is invaluable.”

On clues: “The most important thing about press and publicity for a new record is to let people know that it exists, and to give one or two clues that are trying to push people’s buttons if the buttons are there to be pushed. If there’s anything intriguing about the record, hopefully that intrigue is related to a greater experience that will be had upon listening to the record. But there are no words or descriptions that I feel could pull somebody into a record that would then be expanded upon.

People’s feelings about music and the music that moves us is so crazily different from person to person. Even sonic qualities or something you think would be objective. A great guitar player does not mean the same thing to everybody.”

On the science of hearing: “I hope to live a long enough life to where there is a greater examination of the ear and the brain and how that relates to musical taste. Could it be cool if someone could recommend music to you based on anatomical profiles and chemical profiles of how you were made up? That could be great. Someone would say ‘You would like this record,’ and you’re just like, ‘Oh my God, thank you.’”

On waking up in Asheville: “I’m looking forward to it. The work of Bascom Lamar Lunsford has meant something to me, and most of that work was done in neighboring Mars Hill. I think we’ll stay in Asheville, too, to cool our heels. We might even drive there from Knoxville the night before. It’s a rare treat to spend two nights in a row in the same bed when you’re on tour. And Asheville is a nice place to wake up.”

Jaye Bartell can be reached at jbartell@mountainx.com

Come dine in the magical setting of

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Reservations: 828-743-7967 or Kristen @lonesomevalley.com

with Chef John Fleer

Open for Dinner Thursday through Saturday Now through October 23rd in Cashiers, NC

www.lonesomevalley.com

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Phil Cheney

Porge Buck

Patterns

by Ursula Gullow Imagine navigating Dragon Con via the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, or joining Dr. Who on a trip to Burning Man. Such is the work of Phil Cheney, whose paintings are bright, adventurous, comical and 100 percent original. It is art that doesn’t take itself too seriously, which is one of the reasons it’s so likable. Cheney is a performance painter for local band Snake Oil Medicine Show, and many of the paintings on display were made in collaboration with other artists. In spite of the light-hearted themes, there’s a lot of sophistication regarding color and composition. Cheney is a master at psychedelic stylizations, reminiscent of ‘60s artist Peter Max. Show hangs until Oct. 23 at Ananda Hair Salon, 22 Broadway St. anandahair.com.

by Kyle Sherard Porge Buck is a longtime resident of the River Arts District, so it is suitable for the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in the Phil Mechanic Building to host a retrospective exhibition of her work. The Asheville artist and former resident of Washington, D.C., has been an active printmaker since moving to the area in the ‘70s. Between owning her own printing press and operating one of RAD’s first group studio spaces with her husband, Lewis (in the space currently occupied by Riverlink), Buck melds the lines separating art from life. The exhibition will feature intaglios, aquatints and more recent mezzotint prints spanning almost 60 years of printmaking. Buck maintains that printmaking is not a career, but her skills, which local artist and arts writer Connie Bostic calls “impeccably brilliant,” have been carefully cultivated and perfected after a lifetime’s work. Porge Buck: A Retrospective opens at Flood, 109 Roberts St. on Oct. 1, 7-10 p.m. philmechanicstudios.com

by Ursula Gullow Patterns is a broad theme for the broad range of art now on display at COOP studio, gallery and performance space in downtown Asheville. There are the geometric patterns drawn in ink by Molly Rose Freeman (whose work is pictured above), and more organic ones painted onto busted skateboards by high-school artist Coleman Dove. Another teen, Alice Byrd, has prepared some poignant collaged texts that are quite punk rock in their sentiment. Other notable work includes monochromatic watercolors by Emily Roberts, tattoo art stylings by Wade Elder, gestural pieces

by Constance Humphries and a giant Saltine cracker by Michael Ohgren. The “marginalized artist” distinction goes to Erin Fussell, a photographer, whose tender photos of low-income housing are relegated to a storage-closet door in the corner of the upstairs gallery. Patterns closes this weekend, Oct. 1. Coop is at 25 Carolina Lane. coopasheville.com

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Black Mountain Invasion

by Kyle Sherard A medley of art, dance, music and color theory stemming from the philosophical endeavors of ‘50s-era Black Mountain College is coming to Asheville. The first week of October will host multiple exhibitions, public performances and installations, and a three-day conference hosted and organized by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and UNC-Asheville. John Cage: A Circle of Influences will open Friday, Sept. 30, at the BMCM + AC. Curator Alice Sebrell has selected and assembled several of Cage’s paintings, drawings and musical scores with photographs and videos of the former BMC instructor at work. The show accompanies a topical exhibition at UNCA’s Highsmith Gallery and the Re-Viewing Black Mountain College 3 conference, which focuses on Cage’s role in the school and in modern composing.

On Saturday, Oct. 1, the Asheville Art Museum will open Homage2, an examination of Josef Albers’ impact on modern and contemporary color theory and practice. Homage2, though technically unaffiliated with BMCM + AC, will feature works by Albers’ colleague, Jack Tworkov as well as contemporary works by artists such as Donald Sultan and Sally Gall. Keep an eye out on Thursday, Oct. 6, for a video projection by Mark Koven, and a very public high-noon circus on the following Friday afternoon. ashevilleart.org and blackmountaincollege.org.

Photo: “John Cage in his studio,” 1977, by Rhoda Nathans, courtesy John Cage Trust.

Gene Felice

by Ursula Gullow Perhaps you’ve heard of rapid prototype technology — when objects are made in a machine programmed by a computer, rapidly. Interested in the “mutations” that can occur as the html code transfers from computer to machine, Gene Felice exhibits a sequence of misaligned and successful forms produced via rapid prototype technology. Sound too high-techy? Felice finishes off his forms with more low-grade materials — painting on surfaces using an airbrush, or gluing elements together. The end results appear organic in spite of their mechanized synthesis. Always adventurerous with interdisciplinary approaches to art-making, Felice also brings in a sculpture that, when pedaled, powers a microphone and amplifier located on either end of the gallery. While there are many concepts behind the work, ultimately it’s all just pretty cool to look at and interact with. A Rapid Progression hangs until Oct. 4 at the Highsmith Union Gallery at UNCA. 251-6991.

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by becky upham

The Suspect: Mates of State This California husband/ wife, organ/drums duo just released Mountaintops in early September. Pitchfork calls the album’s first single, “Palomino,” “celestial pop with a chorus as big as the sky,” and praises the band’s songwriting and seamless harmonizing. can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Monday, October 3 at 9.p.m. riyd: Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura. you Should Go if: You and your partner celebrate more than 10 different “anniversaries”; you’ve been making a concerted effort to cut down on the number of “!” you write in your texts; the comments you leave on your boyfriend’s Facebook page have friends pleading with you to “get an inbox”; Your dream job: a Build-a-Bear “Pawesome” Sales Associate.

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This young rapper tracked down Kanye West at a Detroit radio station to perform freestyle. Two years later, West signed him to his label G.O.O.D. music. After the release of a couple of mixtapes, his first studio album dropped earlier this summer, and features guest appearances by West, Lupe Fiasco and Wiz Khalifa. can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Sunday Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. riyd: Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco. you Should Go if: You chose your bank solely on the basis of lollipop selection; you’ve been covering your gigantic cell phone and car insurance bills by secretly selling everything in your parents’ basement on eBay; you can’t bring yourself to sit through even one inning of a game but you own 23 baseball jerseys; your dream job … exotic dancer talent scout.

The descriptions of fan qualities and quirks are intended to be a playful take on what’s unique about all of us.

The world would be a better place if everyone went out to see more live music.

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Not only is bluegrass band Hot Rize a star-studded super group (original members are mandolin player Tim O’Brien and Pete Wernick on banjo; bassist Nick Forster joined three months in and WNC guitarist Bryan Sutton was added in 2002), the band has been playing for more than 30 years. They’re calling the current lineup with Sutton “21st Century Hot Rize” and playing gigs in concert halls, theaters and festivals (include Bonnaroo 2010 on that list). Hot Rize performs two shows at the Madison County Arts Center on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. $25. madisoncountyarts.com .Photo by Nathan Rist

2011 OFFICIAL GUIDE Publishing October 26th This year, Xpress is proud to partner with AC Entertainment, the festival hosts and organizers.

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Green carpet Gala for Planned Parenthood Rack up some serious good karma at the Green Carpet Gala. The evening of earth-friendly art and fashion is righteous enough — an art sale, raffle, silent auction and live auction all showcase local artwork made around a “Green Carpet Gala” theme. That the proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood makes this event downright saintly. Plus, there’s a fashion show with apparel by Vintage Moon proprietress Gigi Fasano (8:30 p.m.), food from Caroline Allured Catering and music by Gypsy-jazz outfit One Leg Up. Held at Pink Dog Creative on Friday, Sept. 30, 6:30-10 p.m. $25 advance or $30 at the door. plannedparenthood.org

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Zach deputy It’s one thing to be a one-man band, but self-described “island-infused, drum ‘n’ bass, gospel-ninja-soul” performer Zach Deputy is (and we paraphrase) a one-man dance party. Thanks to singer/songwriter savvy, live-looping prowess and an infectious grin, Deputy is a rhythmic whirlwind of feel-good sounds and reggae-tinged grooves. His just-released album, Another Day, is “best described as soulful rhythm and blues, with flavors of Al Green, Taj Mahal and Stevie Wonder,” according to press. Deputy takes the stage at Emerald Lounge on Saturday, Oct. 1. 10 p.m., $10 advance or $12 day or show. emeraldlounge.com

Telic Local metal band Telic describes its sound as creative, moving, epic, listenable and bursting with power. The group has been getting comfy on The Orange Peel stage (for their own This Path is Overgrown CD release party and as support for All That Remains and Nonpoint), but this time around, Telic wants to keep things personal. They promise they’ll bring “the same style and energy to a smaller stage.” That all happens on Friday, Sept. 30. 9 p.m. when Telic performs with SkinKage, Dixie Death Wish and Shake Azalia at One Stop Deli. $5. ashevillemusichall.com

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clubland

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where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina Clubland rules

pinball, foosball, ping-pong & a kickass jukebox kitchen open until late 504 Haywood Rd. West Asheville • 828-255-1109 “It’s bigger than it looks!”

•To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed.

•To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue.

•Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Dane Smith at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland.

•Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed.

•The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues.

•Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

Wed., September 28 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Farshid Etniko (Latin), 8-10pm Athena’s Club

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

wed

9/28 thu

Lobster Trap

Open mic

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

Blue Note Grille

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Open mic, 9pm

Jack 9 (Americana)

Barley’s Taproom

BoBo Gallery

Olive or Twist

Alien Music Club (jazz jam)

Two People Playing Music (rock, pop, post-jazz)

Cadillac Rex (surf, rockabilly), 8pm

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

One Stop Deli & Bar

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk, roots)

Creatures Cafe

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Humpday dance party w/ Freepeoples Frequency (electronic, psychedelic) & guests

Boiler Room

Dirty South Lounge

Orange Peel

DJ Chalice Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

They Might Be Giants (pop, rock) w/ Jonathan Coulton

Open mic, 6-9pm

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Pisgah Brewing Company

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Stereofidelics (indie, rock)

Streetlights (jazz)

TallGary’s Cantina

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Open mic/jam, 7pm

Scythian (roots, rock)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Blues

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Local DJ Exposure Night (electronic, dance) Craggie Brewing Company

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Gnomebirds feat: DJ Coleslaw, Chach, Copper Kid, Deva & more Firestorm Cafe and Books

Megan Jean & the KFB (gypsy, circus, Americana)

Haywood Lounge

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Open mic

Westville Pub

Max Melner Orchestra

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Hole-N-Da-Wall

Zansa (afrobeat)

Wild Wing Cafe

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

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Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Charlie Wooton’s ZydeFunk West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Wyndy Trail Travelers w/ Papa String Band Orange Peel

Zumba night Pisgah Brewing Company

The Broadcast (funk, rock, soul) w/ Big Something Purple Onion Cafe

Jenna Lindbo (Americana, folk) Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ Steele Red Step Artworks

Open mic

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8 PM

9/30

Back stage: Kink Ador w/ Dogtale

Olive or Twist

Creatures Cafe

Chadwick Stokes (rock) w/ The White Buffalo

eMMit neRSHi Band

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

CHadwiCk StokeS

Throwback Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Jay Clifford w/ The Mobros

SCytHian

Haywood Lounge Jack of the Wood Pub

Open mic

w/ folk SoUl Revival 9 PM

10/1

Peggy’s All Girl Singer Showcase

Thu., September 29

Handlebar

9/29 w/ tHe wHite BUffalo 8:30 PM FRI

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

w/ dOg tale

Thursday, Sept 29th Thirstdays

f r i . S e p T. 3 0 rOry Kelly’s triple threat

Friday, Sept 30th

w/ ZOmbie Queen

SKA WITH HORNS • 6-8PM

SaT. o c T. 1 saint sOlitude

Common Foundation

Saturday, Oct. 1st Pink Brew Release Party with The Blood Gypsy’s

GYPSY MUSIC • 6-8PM Part of proceeds go to Beauty through Cancer no cover charge (4-8pm) music on new outdoor stage - weather permitting

cd release shOw w/ neapOlitan children

Mariachi MondayS Live Mariachi Band $2 Tacos & Mexican Beer Specials O n t h e f r O n t s ta g e SundayS TueSdayS

Aaron Price 1pm | Piano

Jake Hollifield Piano | 9pm

Open mic w/ Greg Speas, 7-10pm

Disclaimer comedy (standup), 8:15-9:15pm Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9:30pm-1am

Caravan of Thieves (gypsy, swing)

Root Bar No. 1

Eleven on Grove

Spaceheaters feat: Leo Johnson

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Violin River (Grateful Dead covers, rock)

Lobster Trap

Dub Cartel w/ DJ Chalice

Alarm Clock Conspiracy w/ Nikki Talley & Sunshine and the Bad Things

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Olive or Twist

Peggy Ratusz & friends

John Andrew Green (singer/songwriter)

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm

Vincenzo’s Bistro

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

One Stop Deli & Bar

Marc Keller

Lyndsay Wojcik (folk, roots, soul)

Westville Pub

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Pilgrim (folk, singer/songwriter)

Alex Krug (Americana, folk)

White Horse

Garage at Biltmore

Doug & Telisha Williams (Americana) Wild Wing Cafe

DJ Icey w/ DJ Acolyte, In Plain Sight & Sub Genre

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Good Stuff

TallGary’s Cantina

Emerald Lounge

Asheville music showcase

Orange Peel

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

ARCADE

No Cover, No Shame dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm

Explosions in the Sky (post rock, instrumental) w/ Wye Oak Pack’s Tavern

Micah Hanks Duo (newgrass, jam) Red Room

Chris Wilhelm (folk, rock)

Fri., September 30

Telic w/ Skinkage, Dixie Death Wish & Shake Azalia

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea

Emmit-Nershi Band (progressive bluegrass) w/ Folk Soul Revival

Root Bar No. 1

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Scandals Nightclub

The Luxury Spirit (indie, rock)

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Handlebar

Acoustic Swing

Straightaway Cafe

Craig Sorrells Project

Pilgrim (folk, indie)

Boiler Room

Highland Brewing Company

Break-Necka w/ Gnomebirds (hip-hop)

TallGary’s Cantina

Common Foundation (reggae, ska)

Chatterbox

Craggie Brewing Company

Hole-N-Da-Wall

The Market Place

American Gonzos (rock, funk), 8pm

Live funk, soul and R&B, 10pm

Live music

Creatures Cafe

Jack of Hearts Pub

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Dave Moran w/ 7th Vessel

Dead River Drifters (bluegrass)

48 Madison (rock, blues)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Jack of the Wood Pub

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Athena’s Club

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AmericAn GonzoS (8-10pm)

Downstairs: Ruby Mayfield & friends (rock) Upstairs: Asheville LGBT Film Festival after party, 10pm

Olive or Twist

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Jarvis Jenkins Band (psychedelic, rock)

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam)

Orange Peel

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Pack’s Tavern

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

(Rock Funk)

– Saturday, october 1 –

White Horse

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Barbara Lamb & Julia Weatherford (fiddle, cello, experimental)

(Rock, Punk, Noise)

Wild Wing Cafe

Country Fried Fridays w/ Dirt Drifters

Sat., October 1 Altamont Brewing Company

The Black Lillies (Americana) ARCADE

Bear Exploder dance party w/ DJ Kipper Schauer, 9pm Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Traditional & Contemporary Bluegrass, Newgrass, Foot Stompin’ Good Time

Bullseye BluegRass BanD

Right on Target Harmony and Mandolin Driven Too!

Friday, October 7th Peggy Ratusz & Duane simPson Acoustic Jazz & Blues Duo

Saturday, October 8th CaRy fRiDley & Down south tRio

RED HOT FIDDLE SOLOS AND MANDOLIN RUNS!

TUESDAY 10/4

SINGER SONGWRITER IN THE ROUND 7-9PM FEAT:

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FRIDAY 10/7

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Old School Country Blues

Mon., October 3

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Root Bar No. 1

Cara Mia Tiller (singer/songwriter), 8-10pm

Kristen Cothron & the Darkside w/ Jack 9 (pop, jazz)

Altamont Brewing Company

Scandals Nightclub

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Blue Ridge Pride w/ CeCe Penistion & Michele Balan

Contra dance, 8pm

Shovelhead Saloon

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Gary Cody w/ Desperado

Handlebar

Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Lotion (“aggressive lounge�)

Orange Peel

Leopard Island w/ E.R. Airplane & Two Planes (rock, punk, noise), 8pm

Live music Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Mates of State (indie, pop) w/ Other Lives & Yawn

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Peggy & the Swing Daddies (jazz, Western swing)

Red Room

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Zach Deputy (funk, reggae)

Marc Keller

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Vincenzo’s Bistro

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

Marc Keller

Westville Pub

Open mic

Dog Tale (folk, rock)

Wild Wing Cafe

White Horse

Karaoke

Daniel Weiser & Philip Liston-Kraft (“4-hand piano�)

Tue., October 4

Wild Wing Cafe

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Shoegaze music fest Good Stuff

Jon Zachary Loretta Lynn tribute feat: Nikki Talley, Holiday Childress, The Critters & more Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Underhill Rose (country, folk, soul), 8-11pm Highland Brewing Company

Pink Brew release party w/ The Blood Gypsies Hole-N-Da-Wall

Bullseye Bluegrass Band Jack of the Wood Pub

Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen (bluegrass) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Saint Solitude CD release show (indie pop, rock) w/ Neapolitan Children Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Shake It Like a Caveman (garage, one-manband) w/ Pleasure Chest, Krekel One Man Band & Paige Turner Burlesque Review

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Acoustic on the Patio

The Recovery Room

Jack of Hearts Pub

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Wild Wing Cafe

Craggie Brewing Company

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist�), 7-10pm

SATURDAY 10/8

Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Hotel Indigo

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DJ Spy-V

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Live music

Top 40 DJ night

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Red Room

The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo)

Bathetic Records presents: Cave (kraut rock) w/ Lantern & Nest Egg

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

SATURDAY 10/1

Pies in Disguise 2nd anniversary party w/ Wooden Toothe

Village Wayside Bar and Grille

Live neo soul and R&B, 10:30pm

Garage at Biltmore

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Live DJ

The Market Place

Brian Turner (jazz)

Saturday, October 1st

Aaron LaFalce Band (acoustic, jam)

The Recovery Room

Hole-N-Da-Wall

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

GYPSY SWINGIN’ SERENADIN’ FIREBREATHIN’ CIRCUS FREAKS

Bruce Cockburn

Miriam & the Passionistas (Latin, folk), 5-8pm

Jarvis Jenkins Band (psychedelic, rock)

Letters to Abigail (Americana, country)

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TallGary’s Cantina

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One Stop Deli & Bar

Letters to Abigail (Americana, country) w/ Marc Higgins

Blactronica (funk, jazz, electronic)

Dan RiveR DRifteRs

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

The Stereofidelics (alternative, rock)

BoBo Gallery

Friday, September 30th

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm

Southern Appalachian Brewery

Open mic

Westville Pub

DJ Dizzy ‘90s Throwback Night

Corbin & Bones (jazz, swing), 8-10pm

Sun., October 2

Altamont Brewing Company

5 Walnut Wine Bar

BoBo Gallery

Jerome Widenhouse & His Roaring Lions (jazz), 7-9pm ARCADE

Hallelujah Hullabaloo w/ DJs Jamie Hepler, Whitney Shroyer & friends

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm Big Tree (indie, rock, pop) Creatures Cafe

Singer/songwriter showcase Eleven on Grove

Blackberry Bushes Stringband (Americana)

Swing lessons, 6:30 & 7:30pm Tango lessons, 7pm Dance w/ live band, 8:30pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Feed and Seed

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon Bob Zullo (jazz, pop), 6:30-10:30pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 3 & 5pm

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Handlebar

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm

Open mic w/ Ami Worthen

Hole-N-Da-Wall

One Stop Deli & Bar

Comedy night

Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers

Jack of the Wood Pub

Orange Peel

Big Sean (hip-hop) w/ CyHi Da Prynce & Shawn Chrystopher Scandals Nightclub

Singer/songwriter in the round feat: Natalie York, Liam McKay, Joshua Singleton & Linda Go Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

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The Dripolator 398-0209 Dobra Tea Room 575-2424 Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy 281-0920 Fred’s Speakeasy South 684-2646 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get Down 505-8388 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Haywood Lounge 232-4938 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Zealots (indie, rock) Northside Bar and Grill

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The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 The Magnetic Field 257-4003 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Northside Bar and Grill 254-2349 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 One Stop Bar Deli & Bar 236-2424 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Poppie’s Market and Cafe 885-5494 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993

Karaoke

Wed., October 5

The Bywater

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Al Coffee McDaniel (blues, soul), 8-11pm

Fleet Foxes (indie, folk, rock) w/ Van Dyke Parks

One Stop Deli & Bar

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Olive or Twist

Funk jam Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm Red Room

Aaron LaFalce (acoustic, rock), 6:30pm TallGary’s Cantina

The Recovery Room 684-1213 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Smokey’s After Dark 253-2155 Southern Appalacian Brewery 684-1235 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 TallGary’s Cantina 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack 575-2260 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 The Village Wayside 277-4121 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

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Blues jam White Horse

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

Farshid Etniko (Latin), 8-10pm Athena’s Club

Disclaimer Standup Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

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Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am One Leg Up (jazz, swing)

Jack of the Wood Pub

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Boiler Room

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Flo Factory (local hip-hop showcase)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

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Open mic

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Hole-N-Da-Wall

Antique Firearms (indie rock) CD release show

Zansa (afrobeat)

Olive or Twist

Mountain Feist (bluegrass)

West Coast swing dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm

Olive or Twist

One Stop Deli & Bar

Cadillac Rex (surf, rockabilly), 8pm

An evening w/ Asheville Horns

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Pisgah Brewing Company

DJ Goldenboy w/ d-Queue & Trebled Mind (electronic) TallGary’s Cantina

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Max Melner Orchestra Wild Wing Cafe

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

Wednesday

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Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ Steele

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight Salsa dance w/ Waldo Solano & Jaque, 11pm French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Pierce Edens (country, folk rock, roots) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Alex Krug (Americana, folk) Good Stuff

Steve Gilbert Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase Thirsty Monk South

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, country, jazz, soul) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends

Open mic, 6-9pm

Westville Pub

Creatures Cafe

Dark Eyes (gypsy swing)

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve

White Horse

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Blind Lemon Phillips Band (R&B)

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Wild Wing Cafe

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Eleven on Grove

Open mic

Marc Keller

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Disclaimer comedy (standup), 8:15-9:15pm Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9:30pm-1am

Roedelius (electronic, experimental) w/ Xambuca

Craggie Brewing Company

Tyler Ramsey (folk, rock)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Red Step Artworks

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

TELICw/DixieDeathwish, Skinkage&ShakeAzalea 10pm$5 30

Danny Barnes & Larry Keel (roots)

Thu., October 6

Hope Griffin (folk)

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Back stage: Pawtooth w/ Lowry & The Glorious Veins

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

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Haywood Lounge

Fri., October 7 ARCADE

No Cover, No Shame dance party w/ DJs Marley Carroll & Par David, 9pm Athena’s Club

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm Highland Brewing Company

David Zoll Trio Hole-N-Da-Wall

Live funk, soul and R&B, 10pm Jack of Hearts Pub

Peggy Ratusz & Duane Simpson (jazz, blues) Jack of the Wood Pub

Bayou Diesel (cajun, zydeco) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

John Wesley Satterfield & His Damn Fine Band (soul), 9pm Robert Greer, Barret Smith, Mike Ashworth & Kevin Sluder (outlaw country), 10pm Olive or Twist

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Elephant Revival (indie, folk, acoustic) w/ Buncombe Turnpike

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

The Blind Boys of Alabama (Gospel) w/ Jim Lauderdale Pack’s Tavern

Craggie Brewing Company

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Steven Poteat (rock)

Bearded Folk & friends (folk), 6-8pm

Pisgah Brewing Company

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

The Duhks w/ Dehlia Low, 7:30pm Late night w/ Space Capone (funk, rock)

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Orange Peel

Rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long, 9pm-1am

Red Room

Late Folk (acoustic, indie)

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Root Bar No. 1

Project Anomaly (rock, blues, psychedelic) TallGary’s Cantina

WestSound (dance, R&B) The Market Place

Live music Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Carolina Rex (blues, rock) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Matt Getman (jazz) Good Stuff

Hope Griffin Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Richard Buckner (singer/songwriter) w/ Angela Faye Martin Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 8-11pm

Back stage: The Cheeksters (pop, rock, soul) w/ The Roaring Lions Francine Reed, Ike Subblefield & Yonrico Scott (funk, jazz, soul) Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar

Fifth House (rock, funk, soul) w/ Greenhouse Lounge Orange Peel

Local metal showcase w/ Burnstitch, As Sick As Us & May Lay Pack’s Tavern

Nitrograss (progressive bluegrass) Red Room

DJ Spy-V Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack

Live acoustic music, 8-10pm

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam)

Harrah’s Cherokee

Celtic Thunder

Social Finger (rock)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Highland Brewing Company

TallGary’s Cantina

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

Now You See Them (folk, indie, pop)

Rafe Hollister

Hole-N-Da-Wall

The Market Place

White Horse

Top 40 DJ night

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Bobby & Blue Ridge Tradition w/ Nial Toner (bluegrass)

Hotel Indigo

The Recovery Room

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Vincenzo’s Bistro

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Abduction JJ

Director: John Singleton (Four Brothers) Players: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello Teen Action

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The Story: A hunky teen finds out he’s the son of two CIA agents, and must escape some evil secret agents out to kill him and his would-be girlfriend.

The Lowdown: A showcase for the supposed talents of Taylor Lautner that’s too dumb and bloodless for any action fan and too violent for his fanbase.

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Ayrton Senna in Asif Kapadia’s striking and moving documentary Senna. flaunt his badass side, as he pummels the bad guys and woos his teenage classmate Karen (Lily Collins, Priest). In both cases, the film’s sole raison d’être seems to be proving to the world just how manly Lautner is. I’ll give Lautner — and the film — credit for only giving him two scenes where the plot forces him to take his shirt off. (With a title like Abduction, I was worried about getting 90 minutes of our star doing crunches.) The rest of the film, however, lacks this same tact.

Instead of positioning Lautner as an adult action star, the film is instead aimed squarely at pandering to his teenage fanbase, meaning Abduction skirts the line between a hardedged beat-‘em-up and a doe-eyed romance.

People die left and right, characters get shot, but there’s nary a drop of blood. Meanwhile, the romance is laughably awkward, seeming like it was lifted from the dog-eared notebook of a teenage girl who dots her i’s with hearts.

The end result is a film that feels like a bargain-basement mix of a less-artful Hanna (2011) and a less-cosmopolitan Bourne film.

Even this might’ve worked as goofy entertainment if it weren’t for Lautner, who lacks any kind of leading-man qualities. He oozes dopiness to the point that it almost seems like someone bored a hole in him to let it run out, and he has the onscreen charisma of a lawn chair. Singleton seems to know this, propping him up with vets like Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina, but this only emphasizes just how far out of his element Lautner is. He should be gracing the cover of romance novels, not starring in action flicks. Unless you’re

a fan of Lautner, Abduction should be passed over for any of the better action movies out right now. Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, brief language, some sexual content and teen partying. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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With John Singleton’s Abduction, we get one of those movies that attempts to transition a ‘tween sensation — in this case, Twilight series star Taylor Lautner — into the world of grown-up movies. These movies are often useful in separating the wheat from the chaff of Hollywood talent. We’ve already seen, for instance, Lautner’s Twilight co-conspirator and fellow Tiger Beat centerfold Robert Pattinson stumble both critically and commercially in more serious-minded grown-up fare like Remember Me (2010) and Water for Elephants (2011). In terms of helping Lautner’s credibility, Abduction doesn’t help.

Here, Lautner is going for full-on action star, rather than the brooding dramatics that Pattinson has favored in his post-Twilight career. I appreciate that Lautner — or his career-advising braintrust — is playing to his strengths. Unfortunately, Abduction is on the same level as Lautner’s talent: A big, steaming pile of musclebound dumb. Lautner plays Nathan, a hunky-yet-socially awkward teen who — after stumbling onto a missing-kids website — begins to think his parents (Maria Bello and Jason Isaacs) might not be his birth parents. He turns out to be right, of course, since his real parents were not only CIA agents, but CIA agents with enemies who soon want Nathan dead. So Nate must go on the lam, hiding out from nefarious Serbians and duplicitous government agents.

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50/50 (R) 12:00, 2:20, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 Abduction (PG-13) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 (Sofa Cinema) Contagion (PG-13) 12:40, 3:35, 7:20, 9:45 (Sofa Cinema) Dolphin Tale 3D (PG) 11:55, 5:00, 10:15 Dolphin Tale 2D (PG) 2:25, 7:35 Dream House (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Drive (R) 12:00, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 The Help (PG-13) 12:15, 3:20, 7:05, 10:05 Killer Elite (R) 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 The Lion King 3D (G) 2:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 The Lion King 2D (G) 12:30 Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 12:15, 4:30, 7:45 (Sofa Cinema) Moneyball (PG-13) 12:35, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Point Blank (R) 2:20, 9:50 (Sofa Cinema) Sarah’s Key (PG-13) 12:25, 3:30, 7:55, 10:10 (Sofa Cinema) Senna (PG-13) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 10:00 What’s Your Number? (R) 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 n

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Director: Charles Martin Smith (Trick or Treat) Players: Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehldorff, Morgan Freeman

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Rated PG

The Story: Uplifting fact-based story of a dolphin who loses her tail.

The Lowdown: Appallingly manipulative, but reasonably effective feel-good story of the family-friendly kind, and raised a notch by Morgan Freeman’s presence in the second half.

Dolphin Tale sounds like something that should be served with drawn butter and a parsley sprig. Instead, it’s an uplifting family movie about a dolphin named Winter, who loses her tail in a crab trap. So why not call it Winter’s Tale? Beats me. (Remember what kind of trap so you can answer the trivia quiz

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qfestarrives The Asheville Qfest has arrived — or at least it will on Thursday, Sept. 29, with the opening night feature Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts.

What is Qfest? Well, it’s Asheville’s first LGBTQ film festival — and it’s not afraid of frightening the horses.

Artistic Director Robert Gaston (who made the estimable locally produced Flight of the Cardinal) already tried to frighten me by hooking me up with five of the titles — including the opening night film — that are being screened between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2. He didn’t frighten me, but he did impress me.

Here’s a brief look-in at the five films I’ve seen.

Since it’s up first, let’s consider Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together. This is a romantic musical comedy about two roommates, Jamie (Jacqui Johnson) and Jessie (Jessica London-Shields), who are also best friends. Jamie is about to take off for New York and a shot at a Broadway career, but doesn’t realize that Jessie is what you call headover-heels in love with her. The story runs along a fairly familiar path, but is kept afloat by clever dialogue and the performances of its stars.

Actually, all the performers in the film are good, which is something of a rarity in festival entries. And then there are the musical numbers.

I’m not going to make a case that the songs are destined to become standards, but they’re catchy and entertaining. The bigger numbers are used sparingly, but they serve to advance or enhance the story, and are surprisingly well accomplished.

The entire film has a lively, fresh feeling that makes it a very appealing work.

The next of the films to play that I’ve seen is Over the Edge, which screens at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30. This is a quirky little British movie by a fellow named Webster Forrest, and I have to say it’s done in a style — or maybe a lack of one — that didn’t appeal to me. The camera work is nearly all hand-held and often relies too much on long takes — not to mention a seemingly pointless tendency to switch to black and white. That said, I did like the oddness of the set-up involving a man (Danny Bedford) who thinks he might be a serial killer known as the Camden Monster — the existence of a dead guy in his bed might suggest this. He’s also embarking on a

Maximillian Befort and Rick Okon in Sabine Bernardi’s Romeos, the closing night film of Qfest. possible new relationship with another young man (Sean Hart), who proves to be amazingly adaptable. Beyond that, I’ll leave the film to its own absurdist devices. The two young men are appealing performers.

The showiest of the films is Tom Tykwer’s German film 3. It’s also the most accomplished in terms of filmmaking. After the solid, but unremarkable The International (2009), it’s nice to see Tykwer getting back to something a little more daring. This story of a 40-something couple, Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), who both fall in love with the same man, Adam (Devid Striesow), is definitely different. It’s a very funny, very sensitive and very political film done with remarkable assurance and style. The only drawback to it is that it requires the viewer to accept the somewhat improbable coincidence of Hanna and Simon both meeting and falling for Adam independently. But if you can get past that, this is well worth seeing. It may not be quite as wild as Tykwer’s Perfume, but at least he doesn’t relegate the gay sex aspect to the background here. It screens at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1.

The documentary Wish Me Away is an extremely intimate and moving portrait of Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. The film manages to be at once heartbreaking and inspiring — and it really doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of Wright or country music in general. I know that’s often said about documentaries, and it’s often not quite true, but here I think it is. My only qualm about the film lies in its 120-minute running time, which is probably a bit more than it needed to make its point. It screens at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1.

The closing night film Romeos is also the last film I saw — and it took me completely by surprise. This German film — written and directed by Sabine Bernardi — stars Rick Okon as Lukas, a young transsexual transitioning from female to male, who becomes romantically involved with a notorious heartbreaker, Fabio (Maximillian Befort), who doesn’t know that his new almost-boyfriend is a transsexual. It’s not an easy deception to keep up either, because Lukas still has breasts. The film lacks the flash and polish of 3, but darned if I don’t think I actually like it better. It has such an appealing warmth and good-heartedness that I found it absolutely irresistible. The film shows at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2. Don’t miss it. — Ken Hanke

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in the ads before the movie.) Reviewing this was supposed to even the score for making Justin Souther review Soul Surfer. Problem is Dolphin Tale isn’t that bad. I’m not saying it’s good, and I’m for sure never going to see it again, but I didn’t actually mind sitting through it once. I can easily imagine that families with young children will have a better time with it — and unlike many family films (The Smurfs, for instance), I don’t fear this will burn holes in viewers’ brains.

Now — having gotten the niceness out of the way — I will also note that Dolphin Tale is a good 30 minutes longer than it needs to be.

It takes over an hour to get to the part of the story with Dr. Cameron McCarthy (Morgan Freeman) and the prosthetic tail — by which time Morgan Freeman has never been so welcome. The rest of the cast isn’t bad. There’s nothing wrong with Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, or the kids Nathan Gamble and Cozi Zuehlsdorff.

There’s also nothing very compelling about them — at least in this movie. Freeman, on the other hand, brings a charisma and star-quality boost to the proceedings that were notably lacking in the first hour.

The film has several instances of pointless padding — like a tedious and unfunny bit involving a radio-controlled toy helicopter — that exist for no reason other than to find something for the film’s wholly arbitrary 3D to do. There are a few other 3D fripperies — a rather obvious one involving design plans for the prosthetic tail — none of which actually add anything to the film. If ever a film didn’t cry out for 3D, Dolphin Tale is that film.

Otherwise, the movie manages to hit every mildly comedic and heartstring-tugging bit in the boy-and-his-animal movie playbook. We have the withdrawn lad — upset over his father’s desertion and his cousin’s (Austin Stowell, TV’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager) stint in the army (followed by a bit about the bitter, damaged veteran who avoids his family) — who gets a new interest in life through the dolphin. We have the about-to-go-broke marine animal hospital that’s threatened with being bought out by a presumably evil land developer. We get a bonus older wise man in Kris Kristofferson (not that Morgan Freeman ever needed any help in the wisdom department).

We get how the disabled dolphin becomes an inspiration for disabled people everywhere. There’s even a comic relief pelican tossed in for good measure. A quirky pelican is worth a lot of laughs, I guess.

Some of this is at least fact-based, but it’s all been obviously Hollywooded up. But the fact is that it mostly works — while it’s onscreen — even if you know you’re being shamelessly manipulated the whole time. Whether it will stick with you is another matter altogether, as will the question of whether or not you’ll slightly resent having been effectively played by such obvious means. Personally, little is sticking with me apart from Freeman’s handling of dialogue that he makes sound cleverer than it is. But I’m less resentful than I am amused by how effective even the most obvious of cliches can be.

But that’s how they became cliches in the first place. Rated PG for some mild thematic elements. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

Killer Elite JJJJ

Director: Gary McKendry Players: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Clive Owen’s Dreadful Mustache, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Yvonne Strahovski Action Thriller Rated R

The Story: In order to save his mentor’s life, an ex-secret service operative has to undertake “one last job” for a vengeful sheikh.

The Lowdown: Enjoyable — if not very distinguished — action thriller that gets the good out of its name cast without actually taxing their abilities.

If we are to believe that what ended up on the screen in Killer Elite bears more than a passing nod to the “shocking true story” on which it’s supposedly based, then real-life must be an awful lot like a combination of action-movie cliches and an Edgar Wallace novel. Having encountered nothing remotely like either in my personal experience,

I’m inclined to think the assertion is merely a lot of hooey. That doesn’t mean that Killer Elite is without entertainment value. In fact, I had a perfectly fine time watching the movie and the antics of its three stars — and that’s even allowing for that ghastly outcropping of hair on Clive Owen’s upper lip. (Someone break it to Mr. Owen that he’s not Clark Gable or William Powell or Errol Flynn — or even Freddy Mercury.)

What we have here is an amusing collection of various genre tropes that have been dealt out in an appealing — if utterly preposterous — manner. Jason Statham is Danny Bryce, a retired special agent (retired because of one of those traumatic epiphanic moments, much like Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles), who gets pulled in for “one last job.” Well, don’t they always? Danny has to mete out justice on the three ex-Special Air Service men responsible for the deaths of the sons of some sheikh or other (it hardly matters) — and make the deaths look like unrelated accidents and provide filmed or taped confessions — in order to save the life of his mentor, Hunter (Robert De Niro, who manages to sit out the middle of the movie). Deserting girlfriend Anne (Yvonne Strahovkski) — who exists only as a bargaining chip late in the game, of course — he sets out to do in the three men.

Neither he, nor anyone else, has reckoned on the existence of Spike (Owen) — an embittered, one-eyed SAS veteran who now works for the super-secret organization known as the “Feather Men.” Well, they would be known as the “Feather Men,” except — in the nature of super-secret organizations — nobody’s ever heard of them. They appear to be a bunch of upper-class politicos (as opposed to working class Spike, since people named Spike don’t tend to be upper class) who meet in a paneled room around a table and worry over affairs of state and keeping unfortunate events (like illegal wars) out of the public eye. (I’d have been happier if they wore hoods and had code names, but you can’t have everything.) Well, Spike detects the scent of rodentia after the first death and sets out to thwart Danny. You can fill in the blanks yourself — and very likely already have.

The fact is that Killer Elite is largely a fun — if brutal — action thriller that benefits from its cast. It’s not up there with any of the stars’ best work, but neither is it embarrassing — and in De Niro’s case, that’s saying a good bit these days. The film’s biggest problem is that first-time director Gary McKendry actually seems to think he’s making more than a slightly smarter-than-average action thriller — and he’s not. Oh, it’s streets ahead of the usual Luc Besson-produced rubbish that keeps getting made, but it’s nowhere near the deep-dish drama he thinks it is. Taken for the lightweight entertainment it is, though, it’s enjoyable enough. Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality/nudity. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

Moneyball JJJJ

Director: Bennett Miller (Capote) Players: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt Sports Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: An underdog tale of a Major League Baseball team trying to subvert the system through statistics, and the repercussions of their attempt.

The Lowdown: An interesting idea for a biopic by way of character study, although never as engaging or dramatically alive as it should be.

I’m not sure who Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is made for. I’m not sure if the people behind Moneyball even know who it’s made for. In theory, it should at least appeal to someone like me. I’m a fan of baseball. I know who Billy Beane is, and I know the players depicted onscreen. I understand the use of the advanced statistics in quantifying the abilities of players. And while these are relevant to the film’s underdog story, Moneyball isn’t really the uplifting sports film it has been marketed as. The film’s conflicted nature doesn’t end there, either. It’s part buddy comedy, part family drama and part character study. The end result is a baseball-obsessed film that’s rarely focused on what happens on the field.

Moneyball is based on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book of the same name, which profiles the Oakland Athletics’ General Manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt, at his most tanned and Californian). Both the book and film are all about Beane’s attempts at subverting traditional baseball scouting through the use of more esoteric and nerdy advanced statistics — exploiting what others have undervalued or mismanaged — as a means of keeping his financially destitute ball club competitive against teams with much, much bigger payrolls. The concept of a movie about statistics lacks some excitement, so the film ratchets up the outsider nature of what Beane and his dorky right-hand man Peter Brand (a likable Jonah Hill) are up to. It’s the same sort of behind-the-scenes insight co-writer Aaron Sorkin brought to The Social Network (2010), but here it feels lighter and lacks the same bite.

A lot of the film deals with the ridiculous nature of the “Moneyball” approach to baseball, a sport stubbornly steeped in tradition and extremely resistant to change. But since advanced statistical theory as applied to talent scouting isn’t much to drive a plot, the bulk of the film’s story comes from various subplots.

A good bit of the film centers on the relationship between Billy and Pete, but the emotional center is clearly staged around Billy’s relationship to his daughter, Casey (Kerris Dorsey).

Measured against the rest of the film, however, these family-drama segments feel sappy. Like Miller’s much-lauded Capote (2005), there’s a detachment — or a lack of emotional engagement — in the film that makes it difficult to really feel for Billy and his plight. Or maybe I just can’t muster much concern for a guy who

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startingfriday 50/50

Director Jonathan Levine is no stranger to movies, but this is the first time he’s had a mainstream release. (In fact, this is his first film to play Asheville.) 50/50 stars Joseph GordonLevitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston — the cast probably has bearing on why this romantic drama tragi-comedy is going wide. GordonLevitt plays a young man diagnosed with cancer, who is given a 50/50 chance at survival.

Seth Rogen plays his best friend. Anna Kendrick is his therapist/counselor. Bryce Dallas Howard is his girlfriend. And Anjelica Huston is his mother. According to the almost-solidly positive early word, it manages to navigate potentially gooey territory quite nicely. (R) Early review samples: • “But the movie belongs to Gordon-Levitt and Anna Kendrick as his painfully green therapist. Gordon-Levitt still shows traces of the sitcom juvenile he was — now wasting away in front of us, his wide mouth grimly set.” (David Edelstein, New York Magazine) • “Even hardened cynics will embrace the cliche — yep, you will laugh, you will cry. When doctors discover a malignant tumour in his back, Adam gets his survival odds and the movie gets its title. The rest spins his potentially terminal cancer into a buoyant romcom, an unlikely partnership that, dancing adroitly between the drama and the laughs, works remarkably well.” (Rick Groen, Globe and Mail)

COURAGEOUS

It’s the latest faith-based drama from Alex Kendrick and the Sherwood Baptist Church (Fireproof). This time it centers on law-enforcement officers, who, it seems, are facing the challenges of fatherhood. It all seems to hinge on a tragedy — of unnamed nature in the press notes — that raises the question, “Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God ... and to their children?” (PG-13)

DREAM HOUSE

Is it a horror movie? Or is it creepy mystery and suspense? How much of director Jim Sheridan’s original vision survives, since it’s said that Universal took the film away from him? How lacking in interest can a Jim Sheridan picture starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts be? Why does one of its posters look like a gag out of Garden State? It all hinges on Craig, Weisz and their two children moving into what seems to be the dream house of the title, but it turns out that a grisly murder was committed there — and the murderer may still be alive. Not screened for critics. (PG-13)

SENNA

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?

Here we have another attempt at making Anna Faris the star her talent keeps suggesting she should be. And, on the plus side, it does co-star Chris Evans. The plot, however, is hardly inspiring. Uninspiring to the degree that all Fox could come up with is: “Anna Faris is Ally Darling, who after reading a magazine article that leads her to believe she’s going to be forever alone, begins a wild search for the best ‘ex’ of her life.” Not screened for critcs, but five “people” who have never before felt the need to post a review on the IMBb were seemingly inspired to join just to tell us how great it was at the “special screening” they went to.

Beware. (R)

worries about losing his job, yet can pay $250 grand out-of-pocket — as he does in one scene — to help get a player for the A’s.

Anyone looking for a traditional baseball picture will likely be disappointed, since we rarely see the team on the field. The one time we do — in Moneyball’s only bout of rote uplift — it feels forced, out of place and inconsequential. But this is the closest we get to dramatic tension, something the rest of the film sorely misses. Since we can’t care about Billy, and nothing really happens in the film, the entire picture feels paper thin. Yet the overall film still seems overstuffed and aimless thanks to its numerous plotlines. Moneyball is well-made and often entertaining, but it’s nothing more than that. Rated PG-13 for some strong language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

Senna

JJJJ

Director: Asif Kapadia (Far North) Players: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Vivianne Senna Docu-biography

Rated PG-13

The Story: A documentary about Brazilian race driver Ayrton Senna.

The Lowdown: Amazing assembly of film footage from Senna’s career — along with home movies and videos — painting a biographical picture of the driver and his races.

Whatever else can be said about the highlyrated (91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) documentary Senna, it’s impossible not to be impressed by how director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey have managed to craft a biographical film completely out of archive footage and home movies and videos. Without recourse to interviews or a narrator telling us what we’re seeing, they have crafted a coherent story about Brazilian Formula One racecar driver Ayrton Senna. That the film veers sharply toward hagiography doesn’t in the least detract from the impressiveness of that accomplishment. Nor will I deny that the film carries an emotional resonance not generally associated with this type of film.

I do not, however, entirely buy into the “You don’t have to be into Formula One racing to love this movie” arguments. I think it’s quite possible to like it or admire it without that, but that it won’t mean more to racing fans and Senna’s admirers is an idea that reeks of fauxingenuousness. I knew enough about racing to recognize some names from an earlier era — Fangio, Sterling Moss, Jackie Stewart. I also went in aware of the skill this kind of driving requires, as well as something of the backroom politics of it all. But I do not follow racing, and had, in fact, only dimly heard of Senna prior to this movie. And while I liked Senna, I’m not about to plunge into studying up on the sport.

It helped the filmmakers no end that the Senna story comes completely with a builtin and well-documented rivalry with French driver Alain Prost. In fact, the increasing rivalry between them resulted in a pair of races where the two drivers collided. The film makes much of the growing acrimony between the Senna and Prost, but is a little light — perhaps because of the narrator-free approach — in making their early friendship and ultimate fondness for each other quite as clear.

What the film can’t quite do is make Senna into a fully formed character. We learn about his privileged background, his obsession with driving, his strong belief in God, his stubbornness, his fondness for fishing, his charitable work for impoverished Brazilian children etc.

But do we ever get beyond the public Senna?

Not really. There’s a sense of something buried deeply behind those intense eyes, but the film never gets to what that might be. Perhaps it’s not possible to get there. Maybe no one ever did. Or maybe what we’re allowed to see is all there was. And, yes, it’s quite possible that this enigmatic aspect of Senna makes him just that much more intriguing to a lot of people.

Even with that reservation, I have to say that Senna is compelling viewing. It’s not easy to edit existing footage into a narrative and have it touch the viewer. I can’t say I wept unashamedly on numerous occasions — as quite a few people who saw the film have claimed to have done — but I was certainly moved by Senna’s story of triumph and tragedy. Rated PG-13 for some strong language and disturbing images. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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specialscreenings L’Avventura JJJJ

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Players: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar Drama Rated NR When this ran in 2007, I wrote: “The four-star rating I’ve afforded Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960) is born of a desire to approach the film as objectively as possible. Objectively, this is an important film — maybe even close to a great film. The rich, detailed, deep-focus blackand-white images that make up the film are so striking that they alone make the movie worth the price of a ticket. I understand, too, the fuss that greeted this movie in 1960. The film’s daring choice to present a mystery that has no solution — the disappearance of a socially prominent young woman (Lea Massari) going through a bout of cosmic malaise on a deserted island during a posh boating trip — was just arty enough to capture the imagination. ... However, from a completely subjective point of view, the movie — like most Antonioni — never engaged my emotions and frequently bored me. Still, I can’t deny the quality of the film, and I’d never suggest it shouldn’t be seen.” For the full review go to: http://www.mountainx.com/movies/review/lavventura reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present L’Avventura at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The Hunchback of Notre Dame JJJ

Director: Jean Delannoy Players: Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny, Robert Hirsch Historical Drama Rated NR I hated the 1957 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I saw it as a child, but I was open to giving it another chance as an adult. While I don’t hate it any longer, I sure as hell don’t like it.

Its major claim to fame seems to be that it preserves the ending of Victor Hugo’s novel. Well, so did the “Classics Illustrated” comic book version and I can’t imagine anyone making a case for it.

The problem is that this version may record the letter of the book, but the results are a huge “So what?” when stacked up against the ending of the 1939 William Dieterle version, which is the Hunchback to beat if you’re in the market for such a thing. And to date, nobody has — certainly this flat-footed version doesn’t. Even without going point-by-point against the Dieterle film, there’s not much here. It has the typical overlit feel of its era, giving it an almost complete lack of atmosphere. It hits all the key plot points and scenes, but it’s never more than modestly efficient about them in a kind of take-it-or-leave-it manner — rather like the director was going down a checklist.

The performances don’t help. Anthony Quinn’s Quasimodo looks less like the character than he looks like a comedy-skit parody of him, and the interpretation isn’t that much better. Perhaps he’s supposed to be a method-actor hunchback, but whatever he is, he never engaged my sympathy very much. The film’s not so much dreadful as it’s merely perfunctory. It feels like nobody involved cared very much. Hunchback completists will find it of at least passing interest, but with the Dieterle film out there, I’m hard-pressed to understand bothering with this one — except as a curio. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show part one of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Director: Terry Gilliam Players: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin Satirical Sci-Fi Fantasy Rated R There never was a film like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) and there may well never be another like it.

It remains both the most ambitious and the most completely successful of Gilliam’s baroque cinema of the absurd. (I’d argue that 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus comes close, though.) It was, of course, one of the great cause célèbre works of its time, owing to Universal’s insistence on recutting it — a lot — and weighing it down with a happy ending. Thanks to restored releases, we haven’t dealt with that version of Brazil for some time. Even in its bastardized form, however, it was impossible to lose the enormity of Gilliam’s “retro-futuristic” vision of Great Britain as a police-state nightmare of bureaucratic ineptitude replete with a love of red tape, paperwork and complications. It’s 1984 filtered through Gilliam’s Rube Goldberg, junk-shop vision of the world. It’s a hard film to describe, though it’s not one I’ve ever found hard to follow — as many seem to. Maybe it’s the fact that I came to it from a background of 1960s-‘70s British scattershot satire, and was ready to go with the flow. I think that’s the key to “getting it” — just go with it. The story itself isn’t hard to follow, although the observations, satire, sense of humor and fantasies may be another matter. Thematically, it’s simply a primal scream against conformity in its various guises — presented in such a way that it seems improbable it will ever date. Dense, complex, nightmarish, thought-provoking and ultimately shattering, it’s one of the great “modern” films. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen Brazil at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville, and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Hanke is the artistic director of the A.F.S.

The Night Strangler JJJJJ

Director: Dan Curtis Players: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jo Ann Pflug, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton, John Carradine, Al Lewis Horror Rated NR Since John Llewelyn Moxey’s The Night Stalker (1972) turned out to be the biggest hit the “ABC Movie of the Week” series ever had, it was inevitable that a sequel, The Night Strangler (1973), would follow (as would a TV series). Not so inevitable was that it would be as good as (and somewhat more elaborate than) the first movie. With an eye toward a foreign theatrical release, producer and director Dan Curtis made a 90-minute big-screen version to go along with the 74-minute TV version. It’s this longer version that we have today. (I’m not sure what the differences are, but I suspect the TV version is a bit less obvious about the lesbian angle with Nina Wayne and Virginia Peters.) Of course, Darren McGavin is back as Carl Kolchak — the old-style reporter hero with a penchant for running afoul of the supernatural — and so is Simon Oakland as his much put-upon editor. The pair have somehow ended up in Seattle this round — working for a paper run by a crusty John Carradine. The adversary this time is a very old killer (he goes back to the Civil War) who pops up every 21 years to get the ingredients (including, alas, human blood) for the elixir vitae that keeps him young and strong. The delight of the film lies in the playing of the leads — and the inspired casting of guest stars like Carradine, Wally Cox, Al Lewis, and the Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton. The film also makes nice use of the Seattle underground ruins — though I suspect it enlarges upon them and makes them much more impressive than they are in reality. Fast-paced, sometimes eerie and a lot of fun. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Night Strangler on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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nowplaying Abduction JJ

Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello Teen Action A hunky teen finds out he’s the son of two CIA agents, and must escape some evil secret agents out to kill him and his would-be girlfriend. A showcase for the supposed talents of Taylor Lautner that’s too dumb and bloodless for any action fan and too violent for his fanbase.

Rated PG-13

Contagion JJJJ

Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle, Elliott Gould Disaster Thriller A new and seemingly unstoppable airborne virus goes global and threatens to wipe out a large portion of the world. Exciting, engrossing thriller with a solid all-star cast and taut direction. It’s not particularly deep, but it works in its own matter-of-fact approach. Rated PG-13

Dolphin Tale JJJ

Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Kris Kristofferson, Cozi Zuehldorff, Morgan Freeman Feel-Good Fact-Based Family Drama Uplifting fact-based story of a dolphin who loses her tail. Appallingly manipulative, but reasonably effective feel-good story of the family-friendly kind, and raised a notch by Morgan Freeman’s presence in the second half. Rated PG

Drive JJJJJ

Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman Existential Action A stuntman who moonlights as a criminal wheelman gets involved in a heist—which ultimately goes wrong—in order to keep his neighbor and her son safe. An endlessly stylish action flick that’s more arthouse fare than Hollywood entertainment, yet remains an infinitely fascinating—and singular—piece of filmmaking. Rated R

The Guard JJJJJ

Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan Dark Comedy Thriller An unorthodox Irish police sergeant with elastic ethics finds himself partnered with the straightest FBI agent imaginable to solve a drug-smuggling case. Irreverent, vulgar, darkly funny comedy with thrill sequences that sets itself up as standard movie fare—only to deliver something refreshingly deeper. A must-see. Rated R

The Help JJJJ

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek Drama A young college graduate writes a book—with the help of the black maids—that exposes the hypocrisy and racism in 1963 Jackson, Miss.

Solidly entertaining crowd-pleaser with terrific performances overcoming an overstuffed narrative and a too-careful approach to the subject matter.

Rated PG-13

I Don’t Know How She Does It J

Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn Rom-Com A career woman juggles the perils of work and her hectic home life. Unfunny, unromantic, cliched, tiresome and generally not good. Rated PG-13

Killer Elite JJJJ

Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Clive Owen’s Dreadful Mustache, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Yvonne Strahovski Action Thriller In order to save his mentor’s life, an ex-secret service operative has to undertake “one last job� for a vengeful sheikh. Enjoyable—if not very distinguished—action thriller that gets the good out of its name cast without actually taxing their abilities. Rated R

Midnight in Paris JJJJJ

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Corey Stoll, Alison Pill, Kurt Fuller, Michael Sheen Romantic Comedy Fantasy A young Hollywood writer with a nostalgia for the 1920s Paris art scene finds himself introduced to his heroes at midnight in an obscure part of town.

Whimsical, magical, delightful and about as perfect as it’s possible for a movie to be. A major must-see. Rated PG-13

Moneyball JJJJ

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt Sports Drama An underdog tale of a Major League Baseball team trying to subvert the system through statistics, and the repercussions of their attempt. An interesting idea for a biopic by way of character study, although never as engaging or dramatically alive as it should be. Rated PG-13

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Point Blank JJJJJ

Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, GÊrard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot Action Thriller When his pregnant wife is kidnapped, a man has no choice but to follow the instructions of mobsters. Breathlessly—but elegantly—paced thriller of a kind we don’t see very often. A witty, intelligent film with real characters, style and magnificently staged action. Rated R

Sarah’s Key JJJJJ

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Kristin Scott Thomas, MÊlusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, FrÊdÊric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy Drama An American journalist in Paris working on a story about WWII France uncovers things about the past involving her husband’s family. A definite film to see—a richly powerful work with an interesting structure and excellent performanmces—but also a film with a subplot that detracts from the real drama. Rated PG-13

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Senna JJJJ

Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Vivianne Senna Docu-biography A documentary about Brazilian race driver Ayrton Senna. Amazing assembly of film footage from Senna’s career—along with home movies and videos—painting a biographical picture of the driver and his races. Rated PG-13

Seven Days in Utopia J

Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Melissa Leo Christian Sports A hot-headed golfer has a blow-up during a tournament and ends up in the tiny Texas town of Utopia, where an old cowboy holds the secret to becoming a better golfer. Cheesy filmmaking, heavy-handed preachiness and flagrant consumerism make for one hairy film. Rated G

Straw Dogs JJ

James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgürd, James Woods, Dominic Purcell Revenge Drama A young couple return to the wife’s Southern home town and run afoul of the tight-knit, yahoo locals, leading to violence. A pointless dumbing down of the original movie, which transplants to the present as a witless revenge melodrama. Rated R

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• Eat lower on the food chain. Use meat substitutes whenever possible. Seitan, soy products, meatytasting mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, black beans or chickpeas, nuts, and seeds are some ingredients that can help provide the taste, feel, and nutritional content of meats in your cooking.

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• Use less water.You can repurpose water in many ways, e.g. when rinsing messy bowls and pans, watering plants — even collecting it to flush the toilet!

• Check out the great recipes and other kitchen practices profiled in the book by Kate Heyhoe: Cooking Green: Reducing your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen, the New Green Basics Way.

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2BR COTTAGE IN CENTRAL ASHEVILLE Sweet, Funky, 1920’s cottage in Central Asheville. 2BR/1BA. Dog friendly large yard. Nice cul-de-sac neighborhood.

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WEST ASHEVILLE NEWLY RENOVATED HOME Completely renovated 3BR, 2BA West Asheville bungalow with bonus room.

Huge master bedroom with walk in closet and access to back deck. New roof, kitchen appliances, cabinets, granite counters, and ultra efficient hybrid gas/electric heat pump. $259,000. Additional lot for $299,000. The Real Estate Center (828) 255-4663 www.recenter.com

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Land For Sale $136,900 • GREAT PRICE • OAKLEY COMMUNITY Asheville. 3BR, 1BA, knotty pine paneling, quarter acre.

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Heating & Cooling MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING Oil and Gas Furnaces • Heat Pumps and AC • Sales • Service • Installation. • Visa • MC • Discover. Call (828) 658-9145.

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Local references and insured. Anthony Preston: (828) 367-1418.

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Learn to patch bike tubes and fix flats! Saturdays 12pm. Class held at Bike Works, Total Bike Repair Center, 866 Haywood Rd. Reserve space: 505-8661

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Commercial Listings

Commercial Property COMMERCIAL BUILDING FOR SALE Over $600,000 Price Reduction Owners ready to sell. Downtown Asheville. 1st level restored w/ floor to ceiling display windows, hardwoods, sprinklers and exposed brick. 2nd level shell w/ potential for 3 condos, office or residential. $1,175,000.

The Real Estate Center (828) 255-4663 www.recenter.com DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL CONDO Commercial grade hood in place ready for restaurant. Heated/cooled, sprinkled, display windows, and hardwoods. Completely restored with 2 levels that could be subdivided. $499,000 The Real Estate Center (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL CONDO In historic Castanea building w/potential for live/work or office/studio. Heated and cooled with hardwoods. $240,000. The Real Estate Center. (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com

FOR SALE MULTIFAMILY HENDERSONVILLE, ASHEVILLE, BLACK MOUNTAIN 60 Adams Hill - $175,000.

Highpoint Apartments in Hendersonville - $595,000.

840 Tunnel Road - 525,000.

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OFFICE SUITES Downtown Asheville. 1-5 office suites from 490 sq. ft. to 3,200 sq. ft. Modern finishes, elevator, central air. Affordable, full service rates. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

Commercial/ Business Rentals $300 AND UP/OFFICES AND SUITES AVAILABLE Utilities/Parking/ Cleaninig included Lots of options!

200 Swannanoa River Road Drop Ins welcome Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm 828-348-2424 or office@trilliumproperties.net

PROFESSIONAL/MEDICAL OFFICE SPACE Rent by the room or entire 1200 sqft suite. Rooms start at $400.

Amazing location/new building close to I-240 exit 8. Call/email for more pics or questions. (828) 275-2248. drbarthodgins@gmail.com SPACE FOR RENT • Near Sam’s Club (off Patton Ave.) in busy shopping center. 1,150 sq.ft. Suitable for office or retail. Call 828-231-6689.

Rentals

Apartments For Rent 1 GREAT APARTMENT • BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated bath, kitchen, 1BR, sunroom, dining room.

• High ceilings. • Balcony! • Abundance of natural light. • Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $600/month includes heat, water, Wifi. • Smoke free. 280-5449.

1 GREAT COUNTRY APARTMENT Leicester area.

Quiet 1BR on organic farm.

WD. • No pets/smoking. $530/month includes utilities. Call 279-7007.

1BR APT • In West Asheville. Water, garbage included. Swimming pool on site. On bus line. $569/month month.

Call 828-252-9882.

2BR NORTH HENDERSONVILLE • SOUTH FLETCHER • Free water, laundry, extra storage, backyard with fence, $550/month.

(828) 236-9772.

2BR, 1.5BA WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included. On bus line. Swimming pool onsite. $725.00 a month. Call 828-252-9882.

3 GREAT DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS Live, work and play downtown! • 2 Studios: $595/month each.

• 1 bedroom: $695. No pets please. Call (828) 254-2229.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • SPECIAL • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area.

Only $545/month. No pets.

828-252-4334.

CHARMING EFFICIENCY BASEMENT UNIT · Between downtown & UNCA- close walk to town and Greenlife.

Gas heat. Lots of off-street parking. $495.00/month includes hot and cold water.

Security deposit, year’s lease, credit check and references req. 1 cat or 1 small dog ok w/fee.

For appt: Graham Investments 253-6800.

DUPLEX • 3BR, 2BA apartment, 1300 ft, 1st floor, no stairs, beautiful, modern 5 year old unit, park like setting. Maple Springs Villas, near Haw Creek. Sorry, no dogs. $900/month.

828-299 7502.

QUIET NORTH ASHEVILLE RESIDENTIAL AREA Recently redecorated, fully furnished 1BR, 1BA, laundry room, living/dining. • 18’x20’ deck included with BBQ available. • Perfect for traveling executive, senior citizen, single working person or professional. • Shortterm leasing available.

• No pets or smoking.

For more details, call (828) 258-2934.

WEST • 2BR, 1BA. Oil heat, carport; no pets. $750/month. 828-253-0758.

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Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 1BR WEST ASHEVILLE $595/MONTH Large new 1BR/1BA condo at Canterbury Heights-dishwasher, AC W/D hookups, microwave, just painted. Spotless! $595/ month. 1 month security.

Call (828)337-7999 3BR, 2BA • SUNNY END-UNIT 1430 sqft condo w/1 car garage. Beautiful Eastwood Village. Granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, garden tub. $1100/month. Available November 1. Call (828) 545-7445.

A BIG THANX! “Thanx Xpress! The recent rental ad attracted a steady stream of quality applicants, thanks to your quality publication.”

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AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1 • MARS HILL Walk to college.

2BR, 2BA, living, kitchen w/open floor plan. Front porch. Electric heat/AC. • WD. $800/month.

References. Deposit.

• No pets. (828) 689-2625.

SENIOR COMMUNITY • ARDENWOODS TOWNHOUSE 3BR, 2BA. 55+ Gated Community. Secluded Avery’s Creek location on Route 191. Small pets considered. Garage, screened porch. $1,000 plus HOA fees. 847-323-4501. www.240rmw.blogspot.com

Homes For Rent 2BR/1BA MONTFORD CARRIAGE HOUSE Cozy 2Ba/1Ba, 2 levels, quiet alleyway in historic district.

Wood floors, many wood windows, deck & patio, mature trees, basement storage, W/D, water/sewer, wireless internet incl. $1200/mo. Michael@ mcdonougharchitect.com

SOUTHERN BRANCHES, INC.

jobs 3BR, 2.5BA • 2-car garage, 1,800 sq.ft. heated space.

Fireplace w/gas logs. 0.4 acre fenced lot. Well landscaped front yard. 2.8 miles from Patton Ave. Quiet neighborhood, no pets and no smokers. Available immediately, $950/month + security. 828-231-6689.

NORTH ASHEVILLE 3BR, 2.5BA Single Family House located within shopping, playground and entertainment.

Small fenced yard. Call 704-929-8650 for details. postlets.com/rtpb/6121108

ARDEN • ASHLEY WOODS South Asheville. 3BR, 2.5BA Ranch; 2 car garage; central air and gas heat; 1/2 acre; fenced rear yard w/2 patios; formal living/dining rooms; large eat-in kitchen/ greatroom w/fireplace; laundry room: $1,950/month.

Call Steve: (828) 333-2550 or carolinahomes88@gmail.com

BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

BEARWALLOW MOUNTAIN • Between Edneyville, Fletcher and Gerton 15 Min. to Hendersonville 35 Min to Asheville Rustic 2BR, 2BA. Woodstove, spring water, electric heat Quiet, nonsmoking environment $575/month. 615.491.2495.

BEAUTIFUL HOUSE AND GARDEN On Hamburg Mountain, overlooking Weaverville. 2BR, 1.5BA, 2 porches, large fireplace. $800/month. Includes heating and water.

Call 258-2222.

MARSHALL • 2BR, 1BA. Quiet with views. 85 Ramsey Rd. off Rector Corner Rd. Walk to town. References, deposit and proof of income required. $400/month.

904-826-4340.

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Short-Term Rentals 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental. Newly renovated, complete with everything including cable and internet. Weaverville area. • No pets please.

(828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com 2BR/1BA MONTFORD CARRIAGE HOUSE Fully furnished on 2 floors, quiet alleyway in historic district.

Wood floors, many wood windows, deck & patio, mature trees, basement storage, equipped kitchen, linens, W/D, utilities, CATV, wireless internet incl. $1900/mo. Michael@ mcdonougharchitect.com

PRIVATE HOME FOR SHORT TERM RENTAL Fully furnished home, 15 minutes to Asheville, Weaverville, on wooded, private lot available for short term rental, 1-6 months, cable, internet, utilities included. tkdawsey@bellsouth.net $1400. 828-230-6652.

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(AAN CAN) KENILWORTH 1 room in very nice home. Convenient to AB Tech, hospitals. $400/month includes all utilities, internet, TV. Call 291-3533.

Employment

General ADVANCE CONCERT TICKET SALES • $11 per hour guaranteed plus a weekly bonus program. We are seeking individuals for full and part time in our local Asheville sales office. • Benefit package • Weekly paycheck • Students welcome. Our employees earn $500-$650 per week with bonuses. No experience necessary, we will train the right people. Enthusiasm and a clear speaking voice are required. Call today for a personal interview.

828-236-2530.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 50 yr old Distribution Company looking for online trainers. Flexible hours, work from home. www.2dreambigger.com hatchellburt@aol.com

Biltmore Farms Hotels is looking for candidates in the following areas:

Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park Breakfast Cook, Front Desk Associate, Restaurant Server

Doubletree by Hilton Asheville Biltmore Housekeeping Manager

Sleep Inn Biltmore Front Desk Associate

• Boulder Walls • Specialty Stone Work • Finish Grading •Native Plants For pictures of our work, please visit

www.southernbranches.com • 828-777-1967

Please apply in person at the applicable location, mail resume to PO Box 5355 Asheville, NC 28813 or send resume to hrjobs@biltmorefarms.com Biltmore Farms Hotels offers to all employees: • Competitive Wages • Opportunity for Career Advancement • Great Working Atmosphere

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HOUSEKEEPERS P/T. Year-round consistent employment, Asheville.

Experience, professional, reliable and responsible.

Full-time for upscale B&B. Must be flexible and able to work weekends. References and background check required. Call 828-254-3878 for interview. Black Walnut Bed And Breakfast Inn. WAREHOUSE WORKER Full-time for Natural Products distributor. • Competitive wages, great environment. Must be intelligent, hard working and self-motivated. • Email resume to barry@ goldenneedleonline.com WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS Is hiring for temporary, part time Maintenance Assistant, 20 hours per week. This position is responsible to conduct routine and emergent maintenance in our 5 group homes and 3 administrative offices.

Qualified applicant must possess and High School Diploma, as well as a current Driver’s License and a good driving record. Experience in facility maintenance is preferred. Applications accepted on Wednesdays, from 1:00pm until 4:00pm.

For additional information visit our website www.wncgrouphomes.org WNC Group Homes is a Drug Free Workplace.

Skilled Labor/ Trades START TODAY! Machine Operators • Packaging • Assembly 12 hour shifts: 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am. • Must be able to pass a strict criminal background screen.

• 145-4 Garrison Branch Road, Weaverville, NC. Call for an appointment: (828) 658-9248. Integrated Staffing Solutions.

Administrative/ Office ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Position for AmeriCorps program through Children First/CIS. 30 hours/week. Database management required.

Email resume to: tammyc@childrenfirstbc.org • For a full job description go to childrenfirstbc.org PART TIME DONOR RELATIONS ASSISTANT • Pisgah Legal Services Pisgah Legal Services, a communitybased non-profit law firm providing free civil legal assistant to low-income people in W.N.C., seeks a part-time employee to assist fundraising with data management, gift acknowledgement, clerical support and donor relations.

Requirements: experience w/ Raisers Edge software, high level of organization; data entry accuracy; phone manners and customer service skills; use of merge features and Excel manipulation. Salary: Depending on experience; excellent benefits.

EOE: racial minorities, women, elderly, disabled encouraged to apply. Visit www.pisgahlegal.org for complete job description.

Send resume and cover letter describing relevant experience

by Sept. 30, 2011 to: employment@pisgahlegal.org

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Mountain Area Child and Family Center. • This newly

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• Weekend shifts available, all areas.

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RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE BILTMORE Is now hiring! Come be a part of our fantastic team. • Servers, Bartenders, Server Assistants and Food Runners • Line Cooks • Prep Cook • Dishwashers/Stewards. We are looking for passionate, motivated, detail oriented people that excel at what they do. We prefer one year of fine dining or equivalent experience. We are also looking for a Sales Manager with private event coordination experience.

We offer: • Competitive Pay • Career Advancement Opportunity • Great Working Environment • Complimentary Shift Meal • Excellent Training. Apply in person at out temporary office, 30 Hendersonville Rd., Suite 9 (2nd floor above Rezaz Restaurant) between the hours of 1PM and 4:30PM. We look forward to meeting you!! Ruth’s Chris Steak House Biltmore 828.398.6199.

Medical/ Health Care ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER West Asheville dental practice needs friendly professional who must cheerfully manage many administrative details despite frequent interruptions.

20-28 hours/week.

Administrative experience and computer skills required.

Call (828) 712-8290.

CNA POSITIONS Flexible schedules available to caring, dependable individuals who enjoy assisting seniors in their homes. Home Instead Senior Care.homeinstead.com/159 CNA’S & HT’S POSITIONS Seeking caring and responsible CNA’s and HT’s to Care for elderly in their homes. Call Care 4 U. 828.215.7639

Energetic and optimistic people wanted. smaddox@goburco.com

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EXPERIENCED DENTAL FINANCIAL COORDINATOR • That’s energetic and able to multitask. MUST have Dentrix experience and knowledge of filing insurance. greatestdental@gmail.com

MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST • Sisters of Mercy Urgent Care seeks qualified Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT) or MT for PRN position. Provides physicians with accurate diagnostic results to treat patients. Must use good customer service skills.

Patient contact necessary.

Requires 2 year MLT degree or 4 year MT degree. One year of laboratory work experience preferred. If you are interested in this position, please apply online at urgentcares.org/careers.

PART TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT NEEDED • Must have recent experience and be x-ray certified. Team players welcome! Fax resume to 828-277-6820 or email kdjackson2@att.net

Human Services

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Haywood County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Position available within a community-based, multidisciplinary team supporting people in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse.

Psychiatric experience preferred but not required.

Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell@ meridianbhs.org Peer Support Specialist Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Part time position open for a Peer Support Specialist to work in our recovery-oriented programs for individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health challenges. • Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for an individual to transform personal lived experience into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others. Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process and be willing to participate in an extensive training program prior to employment. For further information, please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell@ meridianbhs.org Clinician Recovery Education Center Position available for a mental health/substance abuse clinician to work in an innovative recovery-oriented program in Haywood County.

Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible.

Please contact Katie Goetz, katie.goetz@meridianbhs.org Continued on next column

Cherokee County: JJTC Team Seeking Licensed/Provisionally Licensed Therapist in Cherokee County for an exciting opportunity to serve predominately court referred youth and their families through Intensive In-Home and Basic Benefit Therapy.

For more information contact Vicki Sturtevant, vicki.sturtevant@meridianbhs.org Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Must have a Master’s degree and be licenseeligible. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): Position available within a community-based, multidisciplinary team supporting people in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse.

Psychiatric experience preferred but not required.

Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Qualla Boundary: JJTC Team Seeking Licensed/Provisionally Licensed Therapist on Qualla Boundary for an exciting opportunity to serve predominately Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian court referred youth and their families through Intensive InHome and Basic Benefit Therapy. For more information, contact Lesa Childers, lesa.childers@meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources@ familiestogether.net

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • Seeks a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist for our adult and child population.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the right credentialed, energetic team member. Please email resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE, has opportunities for Qualified Mental Health Professionals to join our team. Qualified candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in a social services field and a minimum of 1 year experience with adults or children with mental illness.

FPS offers a competitive and comprehensive benefit package. To join our team, please send your resume to jdomansky@fpscorp.com

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF NC HENDERSONVILLE REGION • Has an immediate opening for a Clinical Director.

Candidate must be fully licensed in NC or fully licensed eligible in NC. Position is responsible for clinical staff management, and program management for the region in addition to managing all clinical aspects of the region. Qualified candidates should submit resumes to jdomansky@fpscorp.com HELPMATE • Seeks a part-time Bilingual Counselor to provide counseling and support to Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence.

Must be licensed or licensed-eligible. Mail resumes and cover by October 15 to Human Resources, P.O. Box 2263, Asheville, NC 28802.

No calls.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 696-2667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel.wingo@ thementornetwork.com • Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

MAKE A DIFFERNECE IN THE LIVES OF LOCAL YOUTH • If you are experienced in working with youth, particularly the mental health population, Eliada Homes could be a great fit!

We are a local non-profit seeking PRN staff. We have availability mostly on second and third shift, and there is potential to move into a full-time benefited position.

Must have high school diploma/GED and some experience working with youth or special needs population. Must be able to pass drug and criminal check. Please apply at eliada.org/employment.

RAY OF LIGHT HOMES • Looking for kind, reliable, experienced staff to assist young woman with Developmental Disabilities with habilitation and personal care needs in her home and community. Must be able to lift up to 85lbs.

Mon 7:30am-11am, Wed 1pm-9pm, Thurs 7:30am11am, Sun 9am-9pm.

Possibility of overnight stays in the staff’s home (Must be wheelchair accessible) Contact Ray of Light Homes @281-9998 or email rachel@rayoflightllc.com RESCARE HOMECARE ResCare HomeCare is currently seeking Community Specialists, Case Managers and Licensed Clinicians in the Asheville and Marion offices. Please email inquiries/resumes to jlatner@rescare.com.

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • Is seeking an LCSW for adult service lines.

Pleases send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS Is hiring for Direct Care Positions. Full Time on 2nd and 3rd shift, and Part Time. Job duties include providing planned instruction to group home residents to maximize independent living skills, and behavioral health. Eligible applicants must have High School Diploma and 2 years related experience, or college degree, and possess a current Driver’s License.

Apply in person at 28 Pisgah View Ave, Asheville or for additional information visit our website www.wncgrouphomes.org WNC Group Homes is a Drug Free Workplace.

YOUTH OUTRIGHT SEEKS VOLUNTEER FACILITATORS AND DRIVERS FOR LGBTQ YOUTH Youth OUTright (a support group for LGBTQ youth) seeks volunteer facilitators and drivers for Sunday afternoon meetings. Contact: jobsearch@youthoutright.org.

Teaching/ Education

ALUMNI RELATIONS AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR • FT. • Establish and conduct the overall planning and management of the College’s alumni program including relationship management, alumni events and programs, and donor giving. Assists with strategic planning and implementation of effective fundraising and donor development activities and serves as the Foundation’s marketing and communications liaison to the College. • Continued on next column

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 1. Bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism, business/marketing, or related field. 2. Three to five years’ experience in fund development or Alumni Relations 3. Strong information technology skills with MS Office suite and database management 4.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills – ability to communicate with different constituencies both internal and external to the College 5. Demonstrated experience with online interactive software and social media networking 6.

Experience in web content management and newsletter development 7. Ability to work effectively as a team member with the Foundation staff as well as ability to work independently to accomplish goals. • PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: Preferred Requirements 1.

Extensive knowledge of WNC and of various constituency cohorts which make up the region served by the College 2. Strong organizational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks and adhere to and meet deadlines 3. Understanding of the community college mission and its practices essential to a successful delivery of education 4.

Ability to establish working relationships and interact effectively with a wide range of people 5. Experience with Donor2 software. • REVIEW DATE: 10/7/11. SALARY RANGE: $38,000-$42,000.

Visit https://abtcc.peopleadmin.com/ postings/564 for complete details and application instruction.

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES • FT. The Associate Vice President of Instructional Services is responsible for leadership and coordination of the instructional support at each college location, is responsible for ensuring growth of online learning, faculty development for fulltime and part-time faculty, and making sure that all instructional programs and disciplines have measurable learning outcomes. • MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 1. A Master’s degree from accredited college or university. 2. Five years management experience in progressively responsible positions, demonstrating leadership in curriculum and instruction, program development and evaluation, strategic planning and managing staff and faculty in an academic unit. 3.

Experience in budget and goal setting process. 4. A minimum of 3 years teaching experience at the post secondary level. 5.

Experience working in a higher education leadership role. • PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS: 1.

Doctorate in higher education administration. • REVIEW DATE: 10/3/11. • SALARY RANGE: $80,000$95,000. Please go to https://abtcc.peopleadmin.com for detailed job description and application process.

Jobs Wanted EXPERIENCED ADMINISTRATIVE/RECEPTI ONIST Mature, responsible lady seeking part-time position, flexible skills. Many years experience. I can offer a variety of benefits to a good employer. Please call 253-0560.

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Spiritual MASTER INTUITIVE PSYCHIC Nina Anin. Private readings. Call 253-7472. asknina@excite.com

A LOST OR FOUND PET? Free service. If you have lost or found a pet in WNC, post your listing here: www.lostpetswnc.org

Gracie is a three-year-old Lhasa Apso/Terrier mix.

Gracie has the most precious face you will see and she is full of energy. She LOVES people and loves watching the world. There is nothing in the world she enjoys more than long walks. She needs an active family that enjoys the world as much as she does. Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to shop for all your pet supplies.

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away. Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS • Free or low cost spay/neuter information and vouchers. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month 12-3PM at Blue Ridge Mall, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). • 4th Saturday of each month 10AM - 2PM at Tractor Supply, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

828-693-5172.

Pets for Adoption

BoBo is a four-year-old very loving young chap.

He is inquisitive and affectionate. He has been with his sister, Bella, since birth and would love to stay with her if he is able. This beautiful cat will make a great addition to any home.

Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to shop for all your pet supplies.

Autos 1985 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER HJ75 - DIESEL, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE A super rare, right-hand drive, diesel truck in good condition. 6 cylinder 2H engine with 5 speed manual transmission.

Lots of extras. Email me for more pictures/information.

Come check it out! gduvall111@gmail.com 404-519-2987 2008 KIA SPECTRA 5 57,000 miles, 100,000 mile warranty in effect. Excellent condition. $9850. 215-9726.

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FOR SALE • 2 COOPER TIRES TRENDSETTER SE 205/70R15 In excellent condition with approximately 10,000 good miles left. Tires were on my Century Buick. $50 Total. In Weaverville.

Please email me at d7marga@yahoo.com and I will call you to set a time for you to see. Thanks for your interest.

Recreational Vehicles 1981 VW WESTFALIA Has starting problems that I’m told are easily fixed. Has rebuilt engine, new clutch and transmission, new ignition and near new tires.

All camping equipment works, pop-up top in good condition. Aswan brown.

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828-216-7004. $3000.

Automotive Services WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

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