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news 10 asheville’s primary Progressives ascendant, turnout a record low 13 domestic bliss? Partner benefits rising on local political agenda

15 buncombe commissioners Residents demand action, water service for CTS-contaminated areas

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letters Citizens from around the world — and in Asheville —will demonstrate for 350 ppm

How I learned to respect Robin Cape and why you should write her name on your ballot

This December, the United Nations will hold a climate-change conference in Copenhagen, as they do annually. However, this year the stakes are at an unprecedented high. James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, recently released a study showing that the highest concentration of CO2 the Earth’s atmosphere can maintain is 350 parts per million, above which irreversible damage will occur: permafrost melting and releasing gases, ice caps melting, sea levels rising.

Currently, we are at 387 ppm. Now is the time to act, when we still have a chance to lower our emissions, change our lifestyles and unite globally to preserve our planet and life as we know it, for ourselves and our progeny.

On Oct. 24, United Nations Day, 1,600 [public] actions in 130 countries will take place to show our elected officials, each other and ourselves that we want 350 ppm included in an international treaty; we want our leaders to act; and we are willing to do our part. One action will take place in downtown Asheville in front of City Hall from 2-4 p.m. A picture will be taken at 3:50 and combined with others from around the world to show our support for a fair, ambitious and binding climate action.

— Elisha Scales Asheville

When Council member Robin Cape was elected four years ago, I was upset. I couldn’t understand how Asheville could elect someone with her radical ideas about energy, the environment and a paternalistic model of government. ...

With that span of time now passed, I have changed and I could indeed vote for Robin Cape. But that is because Robin Cape has changed too. Coming from a background of progressive political activism, Cape has transformed into a seasoned, open-minded local legislator who well understands the mechanics of public advocacy, reasoned deliberation and the limitations of government action.

However, anyone wishing to cast a vote for Robin Cape must write her name on the ballot in November (just as they did in Woodfin in 2003, when Cape broke a 25-year precedent and won a seat on the water board as a write-in candidate with an impressive 34-percent voter turnout when she ran on the issue of protecting their precious watershed from logging).

State law allows for last-minute write-in candidates in a nonpartisan race.

Not so in the case of other local elections.

Other elections are partisan and, as such, a write-in candidate must qualify by filing a “declaration of intent” with the Board of Elections 90

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days prior to the general election, otherwise a write-in vote for that candidate is discarded as a non-vote. So, even though state statute says “each official ballot shall contain ... a means by which the voter may cast write‑in votes (N.C.G.S. 163‑165.5),” if a write-in candidate decides to participate after the 90-day cutoff for qualifying, no votes for that candidate will be counted. This appears to conflict with the spirit of the law.

Asheville’s elections are nonpartisan; thanks to the Let Asheville Vote referendum that decided the question by the consent of a majority of citizens rather than by a majority vote of a biased seven-member City Council.

Ironically, Robin Cape originally opposed the Let Asheville Vote referendum. But she understands now the importance of protecting voters’ rights and the right of citizens of any affiliation to run for public office.

I, too, have changed my mind from four years ago and will be writing the name “Robin Cape” on my ballot in 2009. May she win yet another write-in campaign.

— Tim Peck Asheville

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Robin changed her mind, but she’s got my vote Earlier this summer, Robin Cape faced what appeared to be an “either-or” situation: Either mount a City Council re-election campaign, or step aside to focus on the concurrent crises of her father’s death and her divorce. As a mother, she chose to focus on protecting her children during that difficult time. Thankfully, she and the children emerged not only stronger, but more quickly than Robin had anticipated.

Although she had missed the primary registration process, she still had a burning desire to continue working for a better Asheville, as a Council member. She decided to embark on the arduous process of campaigning as a “write-in” candidate for City Council.

Running as a write-in candidate is a lot harder than running in the primary and general election because the election laws of North Carolina do not make write-in an easy-access route to elected office, although one would think the write-in route would be a fundamental component of the democratic electoral process.

I have worked with Robin for years and have found her to be anything but wishy-washy. I have found her: • To be a good listener with a profound respect for the political beliefs of others, • To be willing to ask herself and other elected officials the tough questions about Asheville’s future and how as an elected leader she can contribute to the betterment of our community, and to not accept vague and ambiguous answers, • To not be afraid of creative abrasion (strong differences of opinion) and to let the best

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Thanks again to Grant Millin! It is way past time for this “silent majority” to speak out, stand up for our rights and demand that, at the very least, existing laws be strictly enforced.

— Karen Hansen Hot Springs

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For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons idea win — remembering always what Aldus Huxley said: “It should not be a question of who is right, but what is right,” • To exhibit strength of character consistent with what Norman Vincent Peal said: “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to stay there,” • To display that unique trait of leadership that Arthur Miller observed to be the ability “to find the magnetic core that will draw together a fragmented public,” • To have earned influence through performance. Influence is earned when people buy into your character, competence and consistency, and • To see public life/service as an elected official as worthy and ennobling.

She is just the kind of elected leader that I would want to have as a critical player in charting the course for the future of my community.

— Mack B. Pearsall Asheville

Drive-by noise pollution is driving me crazy I live in east Asheville, in Haw Creek. Before moving into a house on a busy street in east Asheville, I lived on a mountain in Candler. I had to move for financial reasons. The bass used to be my favorite instrument. I even thought about taking lessons once. Now I deplore the bass. Why? Because some people in my neighborhood drive by every night with the bass turned up so loudly you can feel it in your house.

What can be done? What is the noise ordinance? I suppose I should be looking this up, but enforcing any ordinance would be logistically difficult unless a police officer was parked off to the side of the street and followed the perpetrator.

I don’t want to move. What the hell is wrong with these people? I am at my wit’s end.

— Celeste Heery Asheville

Thank you, Grant Millin. Motorcycle noise needs to be curbed I would like to express my sincere gratitude for Grant Millin’s commentary, “The Motorcycle Community Needs a Tune-up” [Sept. 30]. I picked up the Mountain Xpress on Wednesday and, after reading the article, decided I needed to speak out in support of Mr. Millin. I had been putting it off, but today is Saturday and although it is a gorgeous fall day and I would love to be outside, I am instead in the basement at the keyboard of my computer because there is just too much noise outside.

You see, I live in what used to be the very quiet and peaceful Spring Creek community in Madison County. Unfortunately, over the past several years, our road has become a favorite route for motorcycles, most of which are so noisy you can hear them from several miles away and for several miles after they have passed. I just counted over 30 in the last halfhour alone! I don’t mind the extra traffic and understand the desire to get out and enjoy the curves of the highway and the beauty of the mountains on a motorcycle, but to disturb the peace of entire communities for one’s personal pleasure is just plain inconsiderate and rude. I know I am not alone in my opinion, and if you can’t relate, just try having a quiet picnic on the parkway today!

Regarding the “safety” argument: I have had several friends who have been either seriously injured, killed or crippled on a motorcycle.

None of these folks had quiet bikes and, in the most serious events, there wasn’t even another vehicle involved. Whether a motorcycle is noisy or quiet, it is very dangerous to ride. A noisy bike won’t save you from gravel, ice, wet pavement or your own poor judgment. If you get on a motorcycle, you risk your life, period.

That is fine, embrace it. Just don’t expect that your choice to risk your life gives you some “right” to ruin the peace and quiet for everybody else.

I am writing this letter to address what I see as a growing concern in Asheville. While I am an animal lover, there are some places that dogs simply should not be, in my opinion.

Restaurants are my concern. I have numerous times encountered dogs tied up outside local restaurants in all sorts of weather. I have seen them tied up in rain, cold, 90-degree heat, and often with no water and no food. The poor pooches were obviously miserable. I have also seen wandering dogs attack a dog tied up outside a restaurant, and the poor thing couldn’t get away.

The other thing I have most often encountered is a dog (or dogs) wandering around a patio dining area. I have seen them defecate next to diners, urinate and bark incessantly.

I’ve even seen one dog jump up on a table at a local eatery outside, on Merrimon Avenue, and literally snatch someone’s burger right off their plate when the person went inside for a minute.

Please, responsible dog owners. Keep your dog at home if you go out to eat or, at the very least, make sure it is safe and behaving well.

— W.A. Owlen Asheville

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The Basilica Centennial and Rafael Guastavino William E. Wescott Architect Rafael Guastavino lived for 66 fruitful years and, while he’s not exactly a household name (public relations and “branding” were not his strong suit), he should be counted among the most prolific and inspired people of the past two centuries. He didn’t live long enough to celebrate his own centennial, but his mortal remains remain in the crypt in the Mary Chapel of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence, the now100-year-old National Historic Landmark in Asheville.

Guastavino ventured to the New World from Barcelona, Spain, in 1881, taking full advantage of this Promised Land and giving back to it some 1,000 beautiful, classic and unique public buildings that continue his legacy. On the island of Manhattan alone, he was involved in 300 epic structures, applying his trademark decorative-tile system and letting other lead architects take all the credit for monumental structures like

Guastavino ... should be counted among the most prolific and inspired people of the past two centuries.

Grant’s Tomb, Grand Central Terminal and the Ellis Island Registry Room.

During the past decade, Guastavino’s fame has mushroomed, especially in greater New York, Spain and North Carolina.

Director Pam Myers, Curator Frank Thomson and a blue-ribbon committee of our own Asheville Art Museum assembled an excellent exhibit, Rafael Guastavino: Barcelona to Black Mountain, in the summer of 2002, which gave a visibility boost to Guastavino’s work.

Guastavino’s 1905 Basilica of Saint Lawrence collaboration with British architect Richard Sharp Smith stands as a singular sign of the melding of these two men’s creative genius, though both were also involved with the 1895 Biltmore mansion.

1905 Asheville was, of course, a very different place socially, economically, religiously, racially and culturally. One third of the permanent residents of Asheville were black. The Buncombe Turnpike had been in existence for 55 years. The railroad had served the region for only 25 years. The trolley system was excellent, second only to

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Building a landmark: This photo, taken circa 1909, shows the Basilica of Saint Lawrence as it neared completion. courtesy william E. wescott

the one in Richmond, Va. The Basilica would not have become a reality without major interest and action by the world-famous James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. Gibbons was the second U.S. Cardinal in history and a good friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. (When Gibbons was appointed Vicar of the entire state of North Carolina in 1868, there were fewer than 700 Catholics in the state.)

Other key hierarchy that did the “heavy lifting” to bring the church to fruition were Benedictine Abbot Leo Haid of Belmont Abbey and Fathers Peter and Patrick Marion.

This masonry liturgical gem was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1978. It is presently a prime candidate for the National Park Service’s grant program, “Save America’s Treasures.” (On a related note, Guastavino’s lovely 1,000acre Black Mountain estate was placed on the National Register on July 13, 1989.)

As the docents at the Basilica tours quickly inform you, the central figure on the main façade facing south to Haywood Street and Downtown Asheville is Saint

Lawrence, holding in his left hand a palm frond and in his right a gridiron, the instrument of his torture and death in A.D. 258.

Once inside this historic edifice, you are at once lifted by an example of Guastavino’s “cohesive construction” magic — the largest freestanding, elliptical terracotta dome, spanning 82 feet by 58 feet.

Asheville is blessed with more than a dozen examples of outstanding liturgical historic architecture, and the upcoming celebration of the Basilica’s Centennial causes us to give thanks to the Divine Architect for these gifts. Amen.

The Centennial celebration will conclude with an 11 a.m. mass at the Basilica conducted by the Diocese of Charlotte on Saturday, Oct. 17, followed by a reception at the Haywood Park Hotel. X William Flynn Wescott, P.E., Active Historic Preservation Consultant and Past President of the Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County.

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news Progressives ascendent in Asheville primaries

Bothwell, Smith, Manheimer and Bellamy lead; Miller leaves race to care for wife Brian Postelle and David Forbes On Oct. 6, Asheville voters, or at least some of them, narrowed the field of candidates to six council and two mayoral hopefuls that will advance to the general election on Nov. 3. Vote-count leaders Cecil Bothwell, Gordon Smith and Esther Manheimer quickly called the primary results a victory for newcomers over incumbents. Three days later, the field shrunk even more: Kelly Miller, who finished fourth, announced he was bowing out of the race in order to care for his wife, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

A total of 7,113 voters (around 10 percent of the city’s population) cast ballots in the primary. According to the Buncombe County Board of Elections, that’s the lowest primary turnout since the city switched to nonpartisan elections in 1994. And when all was said and done, Bothwell, Smith and Manheimer had each rounded up more votes than incumbents Miller and Carl Mumpower. Newcomer J. Neal Jackson garnered the last spot on the November ballot.

In the mayoral race, current Mayor Terry Bellamy won easily, pulling in 5,150 votes. She will run against Robert W. Edwards, who got 1,157 votes in the primary.

For Bothwell, who pulled in the most votes with 3,718, and Smith, who earned 3,573, the night marked the success of their communitybased campaigns. Both candidates announced their candidacy early and got campaigns on the ground in time to build strong community support.

Bothwell, who gathered with supporters at the Early Girl restaurant on Wall Street, took an early lead in the vote count and maintained it through the end of the night. “This really establishes what grassroots politics is all about,” Bothwell said. “We had the largest organization, and it worked.”

Smith attributed his strong showing to his campaign’s organization and strategy. “This was very targeted. We have a strong in-the-field organization,” Smith said from his primary party at the Westville Pub on Haywood Road. “It was a relentless effort that allowed us to do the things we have.”

With her election party behind her, Manheimer sat in The Usual Suspects on Merrimon Avenue with supporters, including former Council member Bryan Freeborn and current Council member Brownie Newman, and said she was glad to see the primary results.

But she already had her sights on the upcoming month of campaigning for the general election.

“We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us,” she said, adding that she understood a big piece of that work is to get more voters engaged.

“It’s our job to reach people to get them to the polls by any means necessary,” she said.

Miller, who mingled with family and friends in the Capitol Center downtown, called the voter turnout “disappointing.”

“It’s surprising, with as much effort as we put into getting out the vote,” he said. Miller said he was nevertheless not distressed by his fourth-place showing, noting that he remained optimistic. “I’m satisfied with making the cut.”

But on Friday, Miller would announce his withdrawal from the race at a press conference on the steps of Asheville City Hall, explain-

Primary shuffle: City Council candidate Cecil Bothwell (top photo) chats with supporters on the evening he led the primary vote count. Two days later, Council member and candidate Kelly Miller (bottom photo) withdrew from the race to care for his wife Kate, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

Top photo by Jason Sandford; bottom photo by jon elliston

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ing that his wife Kate had been diagnosed with cancer in June and had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments. “The most important place for me is not on the campaign trail. It is by my wife’s side,” Miller told a gathering of reporters, campaign organizers and Chamber of Commerce colleagues. Miller said he would not endorse any other candidate, but called for more voters to participate in the process during the general election.

In an e-mail sent on the day after the primary, Mumpower said the primary results were defined by the low voter turnout. “The election was realistically decided by the 90 percent who stayed home,” he wrote.

The two-term Council member, who has been a go-to option for Asheville conservatives, landed in fifth place, but nonetheless says he plans to continue spending no money and making limited outreach to voters.

And while progressives cheered the outcome of the primary, seventh-place conservative Ryan Croft had another take. “I am ... horrified that the most radical candidates received the highest voter turnout. We are in real trouble,” he wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

As candidates charted their rankings and thanked their supporters on election night, current Council member Robin Cape held forth at the Wedge Brewery in the River Arts District along with a crowd of her supporters, touting her write-in campaign. She said she shares the message of sustainability that she believes launched Smith and Bothwell into the top two slots.

“Gordon and Cecil are running on my same platform, but I have the experience,” Cape said.

Cape, who announced her candidacy after the filing deadline expired, does not appear on either ballot, and there was no place to write her in as a choice in the primary. But her supporters will have that option in the general election.

That means, says Cape’s campaign manager Ellen Pfirrmann, that the campaign will have to educate voters about how to successfully execute a write-in.

With Miller pulling out, Cape’s bid keeps it a six-person race.

What remains to be seen is how the write-in option will affect the totals. A look back at past Council races in Asheville indicates that the top three vote-getters in a primary usually win Council seats in the general election. But Cape’s campaign could rearrange the results by pulling votes from other candidates, and there is no telling yet how Miller’s withdrawal could potentially affect the vote count.

Then there is the issue of voter turnout. Local primary elections in years without presidential races have notoriously low turnouts, but voters tend to come out in larger numbers for the general election.

To help drive up those numbers, Asheville City Council in September approved four new early voting locations, which will open on Oct. 24: the North Asheville Library, the South Buncombe library, the West Asheville Library and the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department on Gashes Creek Road.

Early voting at the Buncombe Board of Elections will take place beginning on Oct. 15. X Brian Postelle can be reached at bpostelle@moutnainx.com; David Forbes can be reached at dforbes@mountainx.com.

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Terry Bellamy 5,150 votes

Cecil Bothwell 3,718 votes

Gordon Smith 3,573 votes

Esther Manheimer 3,275 votes

Robert Edwards 1,157 votes

Kelley Miller* 2,479 votes Note: Miller has withdrawn from the race.

Carl Mumpower 2,330 votes

J. Neal Jackson 1,270 votes

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Partner benefits rising on local political agenda Brian Postelle During campaign season, people like to say there’s a lot riding on an election.

Whatever cause supporters can peg to the rise of candidates becomes the biggest thing happening. And the current Asheville City Council race is no exception. But there’s one issue in this campaign season that seems to be rising from candidates and Council rather than from activists.

In a pre-primary Xpress poll of Council candidates (three of whom currently sit on Council) an overwhelming majority said they would support domestic-partnership benefits for Asheville City employees. (Council member Kelly Miller has since announced he was leaving the race.) For gay and lesbian couples working for the city (in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage), that could mean the same healthcare coverage and other benefits granted to married couples.

For current Council member Brownie Newman, who won’t come up for reelection until 2011, the polling results are encouraging. Incumbents Robin Cape and Kelly Miller are both on the record for supporting the move, so he sees the issue as one vote from getting some serious traction. “It’s my sense that we probably don’t have a Council that would approve a policy right now,” Newman told Xpress. “But from my standpoint, if we had four votes to do it, I would be supportive of trying to get it done.”

The results of the October 6 primary saw the top four vote-getters in support of the move, and that’s not to mention write-in candidate Robin Cape.

“We all know that Asheville is a gayfriendly city, and our city government ought to reflect our commitment to honoring the civil rights of all our citizens,” wrote candidate Gordon Smith on Scrutiny Hooligans in July, shortly after the filing period had closed for Council elections. “To deny these benefits is to relegate gay and lesbian couples to second-class status.”

It quickly became apparent that Smith was not alone. Candidate Cecil Bothwell told Xpress that the issue is about the separation of church and state, “because the choice to marry is ultimately a religious choice.” In our candidate poll, Council member Miller said the issue is crucial to remain competitive with other communities to attract and keep good city employees.

But for Newman’s dream scene to take place, the right people have to land on Council. Two candidates and Mayor Terry Bellamy have seats in contention in this election, and Miller’s recent withdrawal from the race ensures a new Council member in his seat. Bellamy, whose reelection is likely, did

not commit to a position. Even with Miller’s replacement inevitable and the possibility of Cape being unseated, there is a good chance they will be replaced by people sympathetic with the cause of domestic partnerships, based on the primary results.

That leaves incumbent Council member and fifth-place primary finisher Carl Mumpower, who has not only said he won’t support domestic partner benefits, but addresses the equality question in his own particular way by wondering if married spouses should even be eligible for employer-based benefits. His line: The city simply can’t afford it. If Mumpower loses his seat to one of the top three primary winners, Newman would likely have the four votes he is looking for.

Mumpower’s fiscal objection, however, is not a hard argument to make. Last fiscal year, Asheville had to close a $5 million budget gap in part by cutting back merit-pay increases for employees.

No staff report has been conducted on the economic impact of giving city employees domestic-partnership benefits. The city would also not say how many of its 1,092 full-time employees are currently legally married. Consequently, it is hard to figure the real cost to the city budget, especially since domestic-partnership benefits typically apply not only to same-sex couples, but also to unmarried straight couples.

But the availability of that information may soon change, as city staff plans to examine all benefits extended to city employees in preparation for a presentation to City Council in the next few months. Newman told Xpress that he may take that opportunity to broach the topic, especially if the votes are there.

The only evidence of a conversation at the local-government level is from a March 2007 discussion to explore domestic-partnership benefits for workers in the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. But a 3-2 vote by the MSD personnel committee killed further exploration. Newman was one of the two who voted unsuccessfully to keep the issue on the table.

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Despite the city’s reputation as a gay- and lesbian-friendly town, you can bet that the fiscal argument won’t be the only one made against domestic partnerships in Asheville.

“I’m sure there’s going to be strong opposition to it,” says John Fritchie, a gay activist and director of resource for MANNA FoodBank. “There’s a really strong conservative population here that is also part of our great diversity.”

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nance that guaranteed that sexual orientation wouldn’t play a role in the hiring of city employees. The crowd that filled Thomas Wolfe Auditorium for the public hearing comprised not only gay activists and supporters but also many opponents, including quite a few religious leaders and their followers who wore white shirts, accoutrement that was said to represent morality. The measure passed 4-3, but the language remained vague, not specifically addressing sexual orientation. Rather, it made a person’s ability to do a job the only factor to be considered in the hiring process.

“I know there’s a lot of support out there,” says Monroe Gilmore, coordinator for the WNC Citizens For an End to Institutional Bigotry. “But people are waiting for it to percolate up in Council.”

Others note that maybe gays and lesbians in Asheville just aren’t dissatisfied enough to make waves.

“I think there’s a level of complacency in Asheville,” says Porscha Yount, art director for the magazine Stereotypd. “I think we live in a bubble here. Then you step out of the city and you are reminded that you’re not really safe anywhere.”

And she says that lumping Asheville’s gay population together on any issue is rarely a good bet.

“I don’t know if it’s at the forefront of issues in Asheville. I think even the gays and lesbians in Asheville are a little harder to peg down on that,” she says. “Most of the people I know are not even pro gay marriage because the institution of marriage is flawed. I think it goes the same way with domestic-partner benefits. That’s the hard part of finding a grassroots gay movement in Asheville.”

Pulling together some political unity and clout is one of the reasons behind the recent Blue Ridge Pride festival.

“What we don’t have is any sense of unity to move on things that we do believe in,” says organizer Amy Huntsman. “Whether that be something that’s before City Council or something that is bigger and statewide.

We don’t have one organization to harness that energy. It’s hard to say that Asheville can be at the forefront until we have something that’s going to bring those people together.”

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The result of that non-organization was evident, she says, from the low turnout at the anti-Proposition 8 rally last year in downtown Asheville. “I don’t know whether people don’t really want to stir the pot here in Asheville or whether people here are really content,” Huntsman says.

It’s not that activism on this front is nonexistent. Some are changing the way marriage and equality are looked at, one ceremony at a time.

“We started talking to City Council about this six or seven years ago,” says Rev. Joe Hoffman. “But they never brought it up or never thought it was the right time.”

Hoffman, who presides over the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Asheville, performs both gay and straight wedding ceremonies, but stopped signing wedding licenses a year and a half ago to protest the lack of marriage rights for samesex couples.

“I will perform the wedding ceremony, but I will not sign that piece of paper that makes it legal,” he says. “It makes me act as an agent of the state, and it makes me participatory in what I believe to be a discriminatory process.”

Same-sex marriage and domestic-partnership benefits are two different ways of addressing inequity issues, but he says he would like to see the city proceed.

“I think there would be a huge amount of support from my congregation for either one,” he says.

Others agree, saying that fiscal, ideological or logistical issues are trumped by the question of equality.

“These are totally involved members of our community, so to deny their families this kind of medical benefits is a form of discrimination, and if it persists, it is a form of bigotry,” Gilmore says. “Because you are blocking off a class of people based on your opinion about them and disregarding a sense of fairness and equality.”

“We’re certainly not trend setting here. The city of Atlanta approved domestic partnerships years ago,” agrees Fritchie. “Asheville is such a diverse and welcoming community, I don’t see it as contrary to the general mood of the city.” X Brian Postelle can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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David Forbes It wasn’t on the agenda, but the issue of contamination from the former CTS of Asheville factory came roaring back at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ Oct. 6 meeting. County residents who live near the Mills Gap Road site implored commissioners to extend municipal water lines to protect people in the area from potentially contaminated well water, and blasted the response of state and federal agencies to the problem.

Area residents assert that the contamination is spreading and that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (which oversees above-ground cleanup efforts) and the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources (which deals with belowground contamination) have been dragging their feet and trying to cover up the extent of the pollution.

Groundwater contamination from trichloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen, has been an issue for years, with some wells and streams near the site testing far above the safe limits for TCE exposure. Although a 2001 EPA report identified the site as an “imminent hazard” in danger of spreading, cleanup efforts have been limited to extracting some of the toxic vapors. Much to the frustration of residents and activists, no attempt has been made to dig up potentially contaminated soil or find and remove the source of the toxins.

In 2007, the county paid for municipal water lines to be run to the Oaks subdivision. In August, tests on a well on Chapel Hill Church Road came back with results of 850 parts per billion of TCE — 168 times the 5 ppb that the EPA has set as the maximum allowed for drinking water. Municipal water was immediately extended to that residence, but residents are calling on the county to extend city water lines to the entire area.

“I believe that it is vital that all the residents of the Chapel Hill Church Road area receive city water as soon as possible before other wells test above the allowed limit for TCE,” Patricia Penner said. “I have a 5-year-old son and I’m concerned for his health and safety.”

She also asserted that the county needs to take steps to quickly solve the problem itself.

“We the people of Buncombe, including yourselves, need to make a stand. Have CTS come back, tear up this eyesore of a plant, dig up the ground, take away any waste there.

Let’s not count on anyone from Raleigh or Atlanta to do this. Let’s take care of ourselves and our own. I don’t want to hear about my friends and family getting sick while this toxic waste spreads.”

Aaron Penland harshly criticized the EPA and DENR’s response.

“Why wasn’t the property between the Oaks subdivision and CTS tested? Right now it seems like they’re spending more time and money trying to disprove the fact that CTS is the contaminant source,” Penland said, before calling on the county to take a more active role. “Ask for the transparency that the [EPA] inspector general said we would get.

There is no trust; there is no faith; there is no transparency. This continues to spread.”

Commissioner Holly Jones said she sympathized with the residents’ anger.

“There is no trust; there is no faith; there is no transparency. This continues to spread.”

— Mills Gap Road area resident Aaron Penland on CTS contamination

“I would feel like all of you if I lived where you did,” Jones said. “You come to every meeting, and I think we’re open. If you tell us where we’ve been negligent and haven’t gone forward, I want to make it right. We have to look at all the data about the Chapel Hill Church Road situation. You’re frustrated; we’re frustrated as can be.”

Chair David Gantt noted that state and federal laws constrain the county’s power to intervene, but that he would try to arrange a meeting between the residents, county staff and the county attorney.

“We’ve done some things. Why don’t we have some county employees meet with you, then come back and talk about what we can and can’t do?” Gantt suggested. “There’s a lot of can’t-dos here. That’s how the jurisdiction is set up. We do have a framework we have to work under.”

County Attorney Michael Frue said that the county’s policy on extending water lines requires there to be a “qualified or bona fide public health threat” as identified by an agency such as the EPA, DENR or the county health department.

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Insufficient office space for court offices has been a long-standing problem as Buncombe tries to fit the increasing demands of the justice system into the aging courthouse. The county is seeking relief by purchasing a 50,000-foot office building at 300 College St. The building, just across the street from the courthouse, now contains a Carolina First bank, a Jersey Mike’s sandwich shop and Oppenheimer & Co., a stock brokerage.

The county already owns the land the building sits on and, according to County Manager Wanda Greene, plans to keep the current tenants. By putting some of its offices in the building, the county won’t have to lease as much space elsewhere. The building will cost $9.5 million to purchase — money the county will borrow — but Greene noted that with reduced rental expenditures and the revenue from current tenants, the county would make more than enough to pay the debt.

The commissioners approved the purchase 4-0 (Commissioner Bill Stanley was absent for medical reasons).

Most of the board’s votes at the meeting were also geared to land and buildings, including four that set public hearings for its November meetings.

The board voted 4-0 to hold a public hearing on Nov. 17 for bringing back zoning.

In March, the N.C. Court of Appeals struck down the county’s 2007 zoning ordinance, ruling that the public had insufficient notice before the measure was approved. In recent months the county Planning Board, along with the Limestone and Beaverdam community councils, has been reviewing zoning maps with an eye toward eliminating potential legal challenges.

On Nov. 3 the county will hold a public hearing to review its flood ordinances, as well as one on helping Health Adventure build a health and science learning facility on Broadway Street in Asheville. Through the Buncombe County Industrial Facilities Pollution Control Financing Authority, the county may issue up to $21 million in bonds to the Health Adventure to cover the costs of the center’s construction. The county will have no liability on the bonds.

If all that wasn’t enough to take into account, the commissioners also voted 4-0 to consider taking on a package of bonds at the Nov. 3 meeting, relating to purchase of the Carolina First building and constructing two middle schools. X David Forbes can be reached at dforbes@ mountainx.com or at 251-1333, ext. 137

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With trees down and gate gone, Lexington Avenue courtyard opens up A plan to convert a former Lexington Avenue clothing shop into a café caught some people’s attention last week when the property’s landlord had two 30-year-old trees cut down to open up an adjacent courtyard.

The courtyard may be best known as a shady hideaway that once served as the entrance to the popular Vincent’s Ear coffee house and live music space. With its big iron gate and tall trees, it also served as a little park along one of Asheville’s most indelible city streets.

On Oct. 8, two trees were cut down, the gate was dismantled and two local businessmen explained why. Anoop Krishnan, the owner of Mela, said he plans to put a café into the space next door to his Indian restaurant. The space, formerly occupied by a locally owned clothing store, will be remodeled into a café with outdoor seating, Krishnan says.

Asheville city building codes require the courtyard area next to the storefront to be lowered several inches to comply with federal handicapped access regulations, according to Krishnan. That meant taking out the trees and their roots, which have entangled underground utility lines and pose a hazard, he said.

“We don’t have a choice” about taking the trees out, Krishnan said, noting that his plan is to “re-slope and replant” trees and plants in the courtyard. The tree removal also exposed an old, nearly faded Coca-Cola advertisement painted on the brick exterior of an adjacent building. That advertisement will be restored to look as it once did, Krishnan said.

Property owner John Lantzius, who visited the site after the trees had been removed, said he cherishes the trees, which he planted some three decades ago. But he said the time had come for them to come down.

Café on the courtyard: The owner of Mela restaurant plans to open a café in a former dress shop on Lexington Avenue that sits next to a a well-known courtyard, part of which will have to be reworked to meet federal handicap-access rules. photo by Jason Sandford

“It looked a little shabby, actually,” Lantzius said. “We’re making it more open and an improved space for people to use. It’s much more open and light.”

Lantzius said he was surprised at some of the negative comments from passersby who watched a chain saw-wielding crewman chop down the 40-foot tall trees, adding: “But I also appreciate that people care that much about Asheville.”

Kitty Love, a tattoo artist at the Liquid Dragon tattoo shop located at the back of the courtyard, said she was sad to see the trees go.

“I don’t love it, but I’m not going to slit my wrists over it,” Love said. “I just think it would be a shame to see all the shade go away. This courtyard has a lot of charm.

I think it creates a really nice atmosphere when you come to our business.”

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Urban news: Construction crews are still working on the demolition phase of the new Urban Outfitters planned for downtown Asheville. The retailer plans to be open for this year’s holiday shopping season.

Construction on Urban Outfitters store moves ahead Construction on the new Urban Outfitters store in downtown Asheville is moving ahead on schedule, with the retailer planning on being open for the holiday shopping season.

“The building permit is in place. They’re starting to chip away at the facade, and they’re on a very strict timeline,” says Kristie Quinn. A partner in Boone Associates, an Asheville-based realestate and development company, Quinn is a local spokeswoman for the project.

Store officials announced in July that they’d struck a deal to open a store in the former CVS drugstore building at the corner of Haywood and College streets. The two-story, 8,000-square-foot store will feature a central staircase, large windows and merchandise tailored to the Asheville market, store officials told the Asheville Downtown Commission this past summer.

Quinn says construction is still in the demolition phase. The plan is to remove the stucco covering the building’s original brick, she says.

“Typically, Urban Outfitters likes to clear everything out and have a shell,” she says. “They’ll add some lights and wiring” and a few other touches, Quinn says, but “they like to keep it real simple.”

photo by Jason Sandford

During construction, the sidewalk in front of the store will remain closed, Quinn says. One or two lanes of traffic on College Street will also be closed at points during construction.

Quinn says Urban Outfitters has also decided not to ask for a variance from the city for the sign it plans to paint on the back of the building. The store brought a proposal before the commission, got feedback, and decided to go with a design that complies with all city ordinances, Quinn says.

“They call it a whitewash effect, where you can see that the sign looks extremely weathered, where you can see writing used to be there. It will imply that it’s been there a really long time,” Quinn says.

Urban Outfitters sells everything from men’s and women’s clothing to accessories, novelties, books and rugs. Urban Outfitters is a publicly traded company that also owns the Anthropologie and Free People clothing stores, and Terrain, which sells home-and-garden products. Urban Outfitters specializes in the adaptive rehabilitation of older buildings for its stores. It’s headquartered in restored buildings in an old U.S. Navy yard in Philadelphia.

— Jason Sandford

Empty no more? After laying vacant for over a decade, the former Dinner for the Earth site at the beginning of Broadway Street has a new owner. photo by Jonathan welch

A new project on Broadway Over the past two years, the corridor along Asheville’s Broadway Street has developed dramatically, with old buildings taking on new uses or meeting the wrecking ball. The Pioneer building, containing apartments and the relocated Dripolator coffee house, opened recently. Nearby, Greenlife Grocery bustles. Farther down the road, the Health Adventure is planning an ambitious health and science learning facility that might be backed by county loans.

Yet amidst all this growth, the buildings at 160-164 and 170 Broadway, just north of the I-240 underpass have remained vacant for over a decade,

ever since the Dinner for the Earth closed and reopened as Earthfare in the Westgate Shopping Center.

That may change. The lots were recently sold for $2.4 million to the Whiteside Fund, a partnership of real-estate developers. Earlier this year, the fund purchased the former Old Europe coffee location at the corner of Broadway and Walnut streets in downtown.

At press time, representatives of the Whiteside Fund had not returned calls for comment.

— David Forbes

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Video captures spirit of Asheville

election09 Campaign Calendar Wednesday, Oct. 14: Get There Asheville presents a post-primary transportation debate for Asheville City Council and mayoral candidates, 7 p.m. at the Asheville Design Center, 8 College St. The public is invited to submit questions at www.getthereasheville.com.

Thursday, Oct. 15: Early voting begins for all Buncombe municipal elections at the Buncombe Board of Elections, 189 College St. Thursday, Oct. 15: The West Asheville Business Association hosts a meet-and-greet with Asheville City Council candidates with a moderated Q&A session. 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Community Meeting room of the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road.

Wednesday, Oct. 21: Mountain Xpress publishes its general election voter guide for Asheville City Council and mayoral elections.

Thursday, Oct. 22: The Council for Independent Business Owners hosts a forum for Asheville City Council and mayoral candidates, noon at Magnolia’s,

26 Walnut St. Saturday, Oct. 24: Early voting for Buncombe County municipal elections begins at four remote locations: North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Avenue; South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road; Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Dept., 70 Gashes Creek Road; West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road.

Friday, Oct. 30: Get There Asheville early voting event. Meet at 5 p.m. at Pritchard Park to walk, bike or bus to the polls. Meet-up follows at Asheville Pizza and Brewing, 77 Coxe Ave. Saturday, Oct. 31: Last day of early voting for Buncombe general election.

Tuesday, Nov. 3: General election for all Buncombe municipal elections.

Please send all campaign-related event information for races within Buncombe County to bpostelle@mountainx. com or call 251-1333, ext. 153.

— Brian Postelle

Katie Brugger and Arthur Hancock set out to capture Asheville on video, and a funny thing happened along the way.

The couple created the DVD The Spirit of Asheville, which they filmed over the course of a year. And they fell in love — with Asheville.

“We’re planning on moving there in December,” Hancock says.

That will be a big move for Brugger and Hancock, who have been living in Highlands for 20 years. For the last 12, the couple has been producing nature videos. They own the independent video production company Time Capsule Video, and they’ve produced everything from a North Carolina mountain DVD series to a weekly magazine-format cable television show about Highlands called Heart of High Country.

Nearly two years ago, Brugger and Hancock were talking to the manager of the gift shop at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. The shop had been playing their nature videos on a big plasma television in the shop, and the manager mentioned that visitors were often asking to buy a DVD about Asheville, but there wasn’t one for sale. The idea for the video was born on the spot, Brugger says.

The couple set out to create what Hancock says would have been a typical “commercial video” with standard shots and a soundtrack. But the more Brugger and Hancock got to know Asheville, the more they decided to try something different.

“We decided the soundtrack for the DVD would just be people talking about what they like about Asheville,” Hancock says.

After shooting hours upon hours of architectural features, people on the street and events like the weekly drum circle, the two edited the footage down to a 73-minute video that they believe captures the essence of the eclectic city.

“We just love people so much, and we think everybody has a story,” Hancock says. “When we’re on a project like this, if it works for us, we include it and it’s hard to cut it off.”

Brugger says she and Hancock are pas-

Getting in the spirit: Highlands filmmakers Katie Brugger and Arthur Hancock fell in love with Asheville during the making of The Spirit of Asheville and plan to move the city in the next few months.

sionate about art and philosophy, which she says comes through in the video.

“Everybody is beautiful and everything is beautiful,” Brugger says, encapsulating their approach. And in terms of finding the spirit of the city, both Brugger and Hancock say it’s epitomized in the Fridaynight drum circles held in Pritchard Park.

“There’s an aura of acceptance and openmindedness that’s so missing” in other places, Hancock says. Brugger quickly adds, “That’s what I love about Asheville — it’s challenging, it’s exciting.”

Go to www.spiritofasheville to watch a clip from the movie, which is on sale at Amazon.com for $19.95 and available at several area stores, including Malaprop’s bookstore, The Compleat Naturalist in Biltmore Village and the chamber’s visitor center.

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by Margaret Williams The book cover got my attention when 3,000 Miles in the Great Smokies landed in my in-box: a black-and-white photo in which author and Weaverville native William Hart leans against the Siler Bald trail sign. It’s a scene from 1967, not long after the then-young man set out to explore the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a kind of lifelong project — backpacking, fishing, hiking, studying its history and biodiversity, and just plain roaming as much of it as he could, off-trail and on. The photo provides a moment in time — before hiking had the popularity it has today (and definitely before outdoor gear benefited from the light materials now used, says Hart, when I called him for a chat).

I wanted to know the story behind that picture.

“I never thought I’d travel the world, but I set out to have an intimate knowledge of this area,” says Hart, giving a broad answer. His first recollections of the park are hikes with his father and the memory of looking at the trail sign for Mount Le Conte, he continues. Hart thought the famed peak sounded mysterious, and he determined to go there when he got older. That same curiosity led him to places like Siler Bald.

road, he pondered their origins, but along the way, he also started to create his own story. He says of even the shortest venture into the park, “Every trip has a history.”

Hart, whose first job out of college was as a high-school history teacher, kept meticulous, handwritten records of each Smokies trip, even before he thought of writing a book. Then, on his 25th wedding anniversary, his wife had those notes typed up.

“That got me started on the book,” says Hart, who says he was inspired by writers Harvey Broome (Out Under the Sky of the Great Smokies, published posthumously in 1975 by Broome’s widow) and Paul Fink (Backpacking Was the Only Way, 1975), as well as explorer/activists like the “dean of American campers,” Horace Kephart, who helped create the park. These men, Hart says, offered not trail guides but something else: personal accounts of the lands they roamed. And there’s been precious little of those kinds of musings in the last 40 years, he adds.

So Hart recorded personal reflections, observations and campfire talks with all manner of folk, from inexperienced campers who confused their water bottle with a kerosene container to a former chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. Hart also kept up with sightings of such rare crea-

“Endless ranges of blue mountains spread into the distance, creating the perception that the Smokies were boundless.”

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After graduating from college and marrying Alice, a local girl, Hart backpacked regularly with friends and family in the park. He also picked out old trails on the maps and set out to retrace them, thus covering far more than the park’s marked and maintained, 800 miles of trails. Hart says in his book, “I have never been lost during my off-trail outings, [but] I have been bewildered on more than one occasion.”

He also did a little trout fishing in the backcountry, met lots of interesting folks on the trails and encountered more than a few wild creatures along the way, from bears to bees. As he explored, Hart pieced together an anecdotal history too — of the Cherokee, early settlers, lumbermen, oldtime moonshiners and the like. Every time he stumbled upon an old fence, the remains of a stone chimney or an overgrown logging

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tures as Jordan’s salamander, found only in the park.

“What began as a mere curiosity evolved into a desire to visit all parts of the [park] to become thoroughly familiar with the facets of these majestic mountains,” he writes.

Hart says he didn’t want to create a trail guide, and that’s the other aspect of 3,000 Miles that caught my attention. I had recently delved into the writings of naturalist John Muir, who in 1867 hiked through Western North Carolina on a thousand-mile walk to the gulf (and wrote a book by that name). Here, in Hart’s book, was a work that at times seemed to echo Muir’s sense of wonder as he walked these mountains: “Endless ranges of blue mountains spread into the distance, creating the perception that the Smokies were boundless,” he writes of a boyhood walk to Pin

Beyond the trail guides: “Every trip has a story,” says Buncombe native William Hart, pictured on the cover of his book about exploring the Smokies. photo courtesy History Press

Oak Gap. And on a 1971 visit to Mount Le Conte, the fog lifted “and we witnessed the gradual and magical unveiling of the western mountains. The rain-washed skies became crystal clear and peaks were outlined starkly against the golden backdrop of the setting sun.”

And there’s one more aspect to Hart’s book that intrigued me: Though he opens with recollections of boyhood treks, he finishes with his grandson Will’s first park outing. “With our children, over the years, one of the ways we could have a dialogue with them was to go hiking or take a camping trip,” Hart explains. He wants to pass on his love of the Smokies to the next generation too. “I was hoping [with this book] to leave a record of my experiences that would fill in some gaps for people interested in the area.

But only time will tell if I’ve passed on the joy the Smokies gives me.” X You can meet Hart on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the City Lights Bookstore in Sylva at 7 p.m., or on Friday, Sept. 23, at Mountain Lore Books & More in Hendersonville.

Send your outdoors news to mvwilliams@ mountainx.com or call 251-1333, ext. 152.

outdoorscalendar Calendar for October 14 - 22, 2009 Black & Blue Classic Two trail races at the private community of Southcliff in Fairview. The Black course is 6.5 miles long, while the Blue course measures 2.6 miles. $30 Black/$25 Blue. A post-race party catered by Urban Burrito will follow. Info: www.gloryhoundevents.com or greg@gloryhoundevents.com. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17) - The Black Race begins at 10am and the Blue Race begins at 10:05am. The first 150 registrants will receive a shirt.

Blue Ridge Bicycle Club Encourages safe and responsible recreational bicycling in the WNC area. To find out more about the club and its ongoing advocacy efforts, or to see a complete club calendar, visit www.blueridgebicycleclub.org. â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS - Fletcher Blue Sky Road Ride.

Departs promptly at 9:15am. Route and meeting place vary. No one will be left behind. Call or e-mail for details or if weather is questionable: 696-0877 or JohnL9@MorrisBB.net. â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAYS - Gary Arthur Ledges Park Road Ride. Departs in the a.m. from Ledges Park, located 6.5 miles off UNCA exit on I-26. Ride north along the French Broad River to Marshall for coffee, then return via Ivy Hill. Email for departure time: jbyrdlaw@charter.net. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS - Folk Art Center Road Ride. Departs in the p.m. from the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is a show-n-go ride, meaning there may not be a ride leader. Call or email for departure time: 713-8504 or billcrownover@ bellsouth.net.

Blue Ridge Parkway Hikes Led by Blue Ridge Parkway rangers. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/16), 10am - A moderate, 2-mile hike on a section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Meet at the Mills River Valley Overlook, milepost 404.5. Bring water, wear good walking shoes, and be prepared for changeable weather. Info: 298-5330, ext. 304 or 350-3822, ext. 209.

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Pigeon Valley Bassmasters All interested anglers in the community in WNC, Upstate S.C., East Tennessee and NE Georgia are invited to attend and share fishing ideas. Invitational tournaments are held throughout the area. Info: 8842846 or middlefork2846@gmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘ 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - Meeting at the Canton Library.

Swannanoa Valley Museum Located at 223 W. State St., Black Mountain. Info: 669-9566 or www.swannanoavalleymuseum.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17) - Hole in Rock Ridge hike. Meet in Black Mountain and caravan to the site. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (10/21) - Day Camp for Grown-Ups: Cataloochee Ranch and Valley. Meet in Black Mountain and caravan to Cataloochee.

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by Cinthia Milner

I’m feeling a little panicked. It’s the end of the garden season at Xpress, and I have so much I want to share in so few words, from seed-gathering to garden clean-up.

First, fall is here, and that means trees, shrubs, wildflowers and such have all fruited and set seed. And that means we can go for a scavenger hunt. How often do you get outside and observe the activity of nature at such a small scale? Now’s the time to start honing your observation skills as gardeners.

So grab sandwich baggies and examine the plants in your own backyard. If you must go beyond your own yard and into your neighbor’s — and sometimes I must — do it at night with a small flashlight, just in case. Better yet, just ask your neighbors, and promise to share the seeds you gather.

Your task is to collect any seeds that capture your fancy. Look at your beech tree, for

Days are getting shorter, night temperatures are getting cooler and plants are starting to think dormancy. example. Is that a bud or a seed? (Hint, the buds will be at the terminal ends of the stem, the seeds will be below that.) Don’t be shy.

Gardening is about experimenting, so be brave and take some risks. If you see a plant you love, collect the seeds and then check reference books or Internet sources on how to store it over winter. If you can’t find the information you need, comment online and I’ll try to help.

Some seeds require very specific treatment, like hanging out in your refrigerator for three months in a bag of peat moss.

Some are not as picky, and all you’ll do is put them in your freezer for the winter.

Come spring, you’ll be ready to plant. Final note: Avoid taking seeds from cultivars or hybrids, as they don’t always come back true to type. That is, the new plant won’t look like the parent plant. Those plants require cuttings and other methods. But hey, your seed experiment doesn’t have to be a total success; gardening is trial and error.

Give yourself permission to experiment and fail. So go collect seeds, my favorite fall activity.

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Gather ye seeds: Identify, gather, separate and store properly; come spring, you’ll get to plant seeds from your own garden. photo by Marvin Bagwell

Next, let’s talk garden clean-up. Fall tasks are crucial to the health of your garden.

First, get rid of all unhealthy plants. You don’t want those pathogens in the garden next year, so burn them or put them in the trash — not the compost pile, which would then be contaminated. Weed, cut back, and rake up mulch around sensitive plants. And after our first heavy frost, when herbaceous plants have died back, top-dress the garden with a layer of compost or mulch — or both.

It’s also about time to rake leaves, by the way, and that’s quite useful: Organic matter like leaves will help protect plants in winter, and in spring when temperatures rise, those leaves will start breaking down, adding health to your soil.

What about sowing fall veggies?

Unfortunately, mid-October is already past the time for seeds to germinate outdoors in Western North Carolina, and it’s a little late for most transplants. Days are getting shorter, night temperatures are getting cooler and plants are starting to think dormancy. And we’re right on the verge of the first fall frost date, Oct.15 (give or take a few days). If you wanted Brussels sprouts in December, you should have planted them in mid-summer so they’d keep producing way past frost.

Fall spinach needed to go in the ground in early August. So plan ahead for next year — unless you have a greenhouse or cold frame. (See Jeff Ashton’s “The Dirt: Salad Days,” Oct. 1, 2008, Xpress.)

Next question: Is it time to order plants for next year? Take your time this winter to peruse your gardening catalogues and dream. Order seeds and plants in February — January, if you’re afraid they’ll be out of stock.

Finally winter gardening: Some plants prefer winter, and bloom nicely in January — winter jasmine with its lovely yellow flowers and witch hazel with those brilliant sulfur colored blooms. The smaller blooms of the Lenten rose survive snow piling up on them. When planning your garden, don’t forget the winter season. Dogwood trees, with their gnarly, arching limbs, have a great architecture, adding visual effects in winter.

Acer griseum has amazing cinnamon-colored, exfoliating bark that’s gorgeous against the snow. Astillibe blooms are worth leaving in the winter garden, where they’ll dry in place. Don’t cut back them back; instead, let them stand out against the backdrop of winter. Evergreens give us the green we long to see, and the best winter gardening activities are providing for wildlife. Holly berries feed the birds, trees and shrubs provide shelter against the cold and predators.

Consider all this as you plant; it’s a fourseason garden. So while The Dirt may be packing away the garden tools, your garden keeps going.

For garden news through late fall and winter, visit www.mountainx.com/garden. X Cinthia Milner lives in Leicester.

gardeningcalendar Calendar for October 14 - 22, 2009 Garden Composters • Rain Barrels (pd.) Asheville GreenWorks (Quality Forward), Asheville’s Keep America Beautiful, sells Garden Composters and Rain Barrels in the Green Goods Shop at 357 Depot Street. • 2 kinds of composters: an 11 cubic foot square stacked model for $85 and a 7 cubic foot tumbler that makes compost faster and looks cool for $175. • Rain Barrels are 65 gallons, are easy to install, and cost $135. • All are made of 100% recycled plastic. • All sales benefit plantings in Asheville and Buncombe County. For more information, call 254-1776 or stop on by 357 Depot Street or visit: www.ashevillegreenworks.org Asheville Mushroom Club Learn about all aspects of mushrooms (collecting, identifying, growing or cooking). Info: 298-9988 or www.ashevillemushroomclub.com.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Monthly meeting at the WNC Nature Center. Membership is $18/year, and includes informative meetings and scheduled forays.

Botanical Gardens at Asheville This 10-acre nonprofit nature preserve at 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. (next to UNCA) is dedicated to preserving and displaying the native flora of N.C. Info & event registration: 252-5190 or www. ashevillebotanicalgardens.org.

• SUNDAYS (10/18, 10/25 & 11/1), 9am-Noon - “Analyzing Your Mountain Homesite,” a nine-hour seminar led by Glenn Palmer for first-time homeowners and builders. $10 donation requested. Reservations and course preparation required. Info: 252-5190.

Events at The Bullington Center This nonprofit horticultural learning center is in Hendersonville.

Info: 698-6104 or www.bullingtoncenter.org.

• WE (10/14), 3:30-5pm - “Growing Orchids,” a discussion about caring for orchids with Cynthia Giloolly. $15.

• WE (10/21), 3-4:30pm - “Interpreting Soils,” a program to help home gardeners demystify the topic of soils, with Ron Gehl. $12.

N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($6/vehicle).

No parking fees on Tuesdays. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org.

• SA (10/17), 1-5pm & SU (10/18), Noon-4pm - The National Chrysanthemum Society’s annual show will be hosted by the local chapter. Exhibitors from all over the country will be on hand.

Learn how to grow, display and show quality chrysanthemums.

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.

• TUESDAYS - 3:30-6:30pm - Open April-Oct.: West Asheville Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of Grace Baptist Church, 718 Haywood Rd. Info: 281-9099.

WEDNESDAYS - 7:30-11:30am - Asheville City Market South at Biltmore Park Town Square. Info: 348-0340; 4:30-6:30pm - Open June-Sept.: Tryon Tailgate Market, across the railroad tracks from the Tryon Theatre. Info: 894-8823; 1-4pm - Open June-Oct.: Valle Crucis Farmers Market behind the Mast General store. Info: 963-6511; 3-6pm - Victory Tailgate Market, 1329 Tunnel Rd., E. Asheville, past the Blue Ridge Parkway entrance. Info: 775-5593; 2:30-6:30pm - Open April-Oct.: Weaverville Tailgate Market at Lake Louise. Info: 450-0708; 2:30-5:30pm - Open May-Oct.: Spruce Pine Farmers Tailgate Market on Pollyanna’s Porch, next to Wildflowers, on Upper Street in downtown Spruce Pine. Info: 467-2171; 2-6:30pm - Open April-Dec.: Wednesday Afternoon Downtown Tailgate Market next to the French Broad Food Co-op in downtown Asheville. Info: 683-1607.

• WEDNESDAYS - 9am-Noon & FRIDAYS - 2-6pm - Open May-Oct.: Burke County Farmers Market. Info: 439-4460. • WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS - 8am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market at the HART Theater and Shelton House parking lot on Pigeon St. Info: 627-3469; 8amNoon - Open May-Oct.: Waynesville Tailgate Market. Info: 6486323; 8am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Watauga County Farmers Market on Hwy. 105 Ext. in Boone. Info: 355-4918; WE, 1-6pm & SA, 7am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Cashiers Tailgate Market.

Info: 230-4785.

• THURSDAYS - 3-6pm - Open May-Nov.: Flat Rock Tailgate Market. Info: 698-8775.

• FRIDAYS - 10am-2pm - Open June-Nov.: Cherokee Farmers Tailgate Market on Acquoni Road. in downtown Cherokee.

Info: 554-6931; 4:30-6:30pm - Open July-Oct.: Saluda Tailgate Market in the city parking lot on the west end of town. Info: 749-9365.

• SATURDAYS - 8am-Noon - Open June-Sept.: Andrews Farmers Market at First Street in Andrews. Info: 321-2006; 8am-1pm - Open April through Dec.: Asheville City Market in the Public Works parking lot on S. Charlotte St. Info: 348-0340; 8am-Noon - Open April-Dec.: North Asheville Tailgate Market on the campus of UNCA. Info: 683-1607; 7am-Noon - Open April-Nov.: Henderson County Tailgate Market at 100 N. King St. (between First and Second Avenues). Info: 693-7265; 10am2pm - Open April-Oct.: Cedar Valley Farmers Market in downtown Murphy. Info: 361-7505; 8-11:30am - Open April-Nov.: Polk Tailgate Market in front of the Polk County Courthouse.

Info: 894-2281; 8am-Noon - Open June-Oct.: Franklin Tailgate Market in Macon County at West Palmer St. Info: 349-2046; 8am-Noon - Open April-early fall: Lenoir Bluegrass Farmers Market at the Hog Waller stage. Info: 292-4664; 8am-2pm - Open year-round: French Broad Food Co-op Arts & Farm Market at 90 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville. Art demos and live music. Info: 236-9367; 9am-Noon - Rutherfordton Farmers Market on Main St. in downtown Rutherfordton; 8amNoon - Open May-Oct.: Mountain Valley Farmers Market on the downtown square in Hayesville. Info: 389-3022; 8:30am1pm - Open May-Oct.: Graham County Farmers Market in the United Community Bank parking lot in Robbinsville. Info: 479-8788; 8am-Noon - Bakersville Farmers Market in the Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot in Bakersville; 8:30am-12:30pm - Open April-Oct.: Yancey County Farmers Market on S. Main St. at Hwy 19E. Info: 682-0601; 9am-1pm - Open April-Nov.: Madison County Farmers & Artisans Market in the parking lot near Pittman Cafeteria up Dormitory Dr. at Mars Hill College. Info: 680-9890; 9am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Black Mountain Tailgate Market on 1st Street behind the First Baptist Church. Info: 582-5039; 9am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Jackson County Farmers Market on Railroad Ave. at Bridge Park. Info: 507-1146; 9am-Noon - Open May-Sept.: Riceville Community Tailgate Market in the parking lot of the Riceville Community Center. Info: 298-6549; 10am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Big Ivy Market on the grounds of the Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville. Info: 626-2624; 8am-Noon - Open June-Sept.: Swain County Tailgate Market in downtown Bryson City. Info: 488-3848.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Open May-Oct.: Greenlife Tailgate Market at 70 Merrimon Ave. Info: 254-5440; Noon-4pm - Open April-Nov.: The Marshall Farmers Market, cross the river at the courthouse on Main St. in Marshall. Seeking vendors. Info: 3480239; 9am-5pm - Open June-Oct.: Topton Farmers Market at the crossroads in Topton. Info: 321-9030.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8am-Noon - Open June-Sept.: Canton Tailgate Market at the town hall in the municipal parking lot on Park St. Info: 235-2760.

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 7am-Noon - Open May-Oct.: Rutherford County Farmers Market on Fairgrounds Road, off Business 74 Hwy. Info: 287-6080.

• TUESDAYS, Noon-5pm & SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Open May-Oct.: Morganton Farmers Market behind Geppetto’s Pizza on Beach St. in Morganton. Info: 438-5252.

• TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-2pm - Hendersonville Curb Market at Church St., directly across from the old courthouse. Info: 692-8012 or curbmarket@bellsouth.com; 7am-1pm - Open April-Dec.: Transylvania County Tailgate Market in the parking lot behind South Broad Park, next to the library in Brevard. Info: 884-9483.

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Community Events & Workshops • Social & Shared-Interest Groups • Government & Politics • Seniors & Retirees • Animals • Technology • Business & Careers • Volunteering • Health Programs & Support Groups Calendar C a t e g o r i e s : Helplines • Sports Groups & Activities • Kids • Spirituality • Arts • Spoken & Written Word • Food • Festivals & Gatherings • Music • Theater • Comedy • Film • Dance • Auditions & Call to Artists Calendar for October 14 - 22, 2009 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

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

Community Events & Workshops Aromatherapy Workshop (pd.) Oct 24th and 25th “Aromatherapy and Essential Oils in Practice” Join aromatherapy consultant and retired neuroscien-

tist, Joie Power, Ph.D., for an in-depth seminar that combines scientific data, practical clinical techniques and a holistic approach that honors body, mind and spirit. 828-835-2231. www. aromatherapy-school.com 2nd Annual CANstruction Awards Ceremony • SA (10/17), 2-3pm - Awards ceremony at the Forum in Pack Place.

Celebrate the amazing student-created structures of canned food. Following the ceremony, the structures will be deCANstructed and donated to MANNA Food Bank. Info: www.canstruction.org or forum@yafasheville.org.

Asheville ABC Series “Assembling Ideas, Building our Futures, Connecting Communities.” Info: www. ashevilleabc.com.

• FR (10/16), 6-8pm “Government Transparency, Cop Watch & Independent

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Community Gathering to Prevent Sexual Violence • TH (10/15), 5:15-6:15pm - Registration and dinner — - 6:15-8:45pm - Our VOICE will hold a forum to address sexual violence prevention at MAHEC. The program will feature keynote speaker Tony Porter; small-group discussions; and door prizes. Free for community members. Info: 257-4475 or www.mahec.net Events at the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Located at 204 Kanuga Road. Info: 692-1413 or chamber@hendersoncountychamber.org.

• TH (10/15), Noon-6pm The Healthy Lifestyles Expo and the Chamber Business Showcase will be held at the Blue Ridge Community College Technology Education & Development Center.

Life o’ Mike A health-care advocacy and education group. Info: http://lifeomikie.org, lifeomike@gmail.com or 243-6712.

• TH (10/15) - Story Circle meeting. These small-group circles offer participants the chance to tell their own stories of encounters with the U.S. health-care system. Donations welcome.

Reservations suggested.

Mountain Santas This Buncombe County government employees program is designed to provide Christmas gift assistance for needy children in Buncombe County ages birth through 12 years. Info: 775-1079 or 775-2672.

• Through FR (10/16), 17pm - Taking applications Mon.-Fri. for assistance from parents/guardians in the lobby of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, 202 Haywood St., Asheville.

N.C. Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing Located at 12 Barbetta Dr., just past Biltmore Square Mall. Info: 665-8733 or judith.pittillo@ncmail.net.

• WE (10/21), Noon-1pm - “Advocacy Boot Camp: What you need to know to get what you need as a person with hearing loss.”

RSVP by Oct. 14.

Parade of Homes Presented by the Asheville Home Builders Association.

This is an annual showcase of new construction homes and complete renovations in the Asheville area. Get your magazine Sept. 21 at the Asheville Chamber or at the AHBA Office. Info: 299-7001.

• SA & SU (10/17 & 18), 1-5pm - Parade of Homes.

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

• FR (10/16), 11:25am Humanities Lectures: “Islam in the Modern World,” with Dr. Rodger Payne in Lipinsky Auditorium and “Women and Inequality: A Global Perspective,” with Grace Campbell in the Humanities Lecture Hall —11:30am - Fabulous Fridays Lecture: “Giving Well: Information and Inspiration,” with Sheryl Aikman in the Reuter Center.

• SA (10/17), 8:30am2:30pm - UNCA Admissions Open House in Highsmith University Union. Free. Info: 251-6481.

• MO (10/19), 11:25am Humanities Lectures: “Art of the Classical World,” with Dr. John McClain in the Humanities Lecture Hall and “European Renaissance: Humanism and Art,” with Dr. Michael Gillum in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Public Safety Course Sponsored by The Haywood Community College Natural Resources Management Department and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Classes will be held at Haywood Community College in the 300 Building, Rm. 309 & 310. Free. Info: 627-4560 or jcarver@haywood.edu.

• MO (10/19) through WE (10/21), 6-9:30pm - Hunter Safety Course.

Attendance is required for three consecutive evenings.

Registration required.

Salvation Army Info: 253-4723.

• MO (10/19) through FR (10/23), 9am-3pm Applications for assistance will be offered for Angle Tree Gifts for children, Holiday Food Boxes and Gifts from the Toy Shop

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wed Muslim, Jewish and Christian women from Jerusalem who have lived the realities of the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict will share their stories and visions for the future Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village. The women will also give a talk earlier in the day at 11:25 a.m. at UNCA’ Humanities Lecture Hall. Info: 686-1380 or www.partnersforpeace.org.

thur A community gathering to prevent sexual violence will be held Thursday, Oct. 15, from 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. at MAHEC, featuring an address by keynote speaker Tony Porter, small-group discussions and door prizes. Registration and dinner begins at 5:15 p.m. Info: 257-4475 or www.mahec.net.

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Get your ghoul on at the opening reception for The Arts of Darkness Friday, Oct. 16, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Push Skate Shop, 25 Patton Ave., Asheville. The ghastly group show features the terrifying talents of local artists. Info: 225-5509.

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FamilyFest Asheville, a gathering featuring family-oriented information and services, numerous activities, a pumpkin patch and more, will be held at Carrier Park Saturday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Family fun will continue on Sunday, Oct. 18, from 1 to 6 p.m. Info: 489-2961.

sun HardLox, Asheville’s Jewish food and heritage festival, hits downtown once again Sunday, Oct. 18,

from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy knishes, matzo-ball soup and corned-beef sandwiches. Have your name written in Hebrew and dance to klezmer music. Festivities will be held outside of the Grove Arcade.

Info: www.hardlox.com.

mon Have a book idea? D. Patrick Miller, a veteran of independent, mainstream and e-book publishing, will

be evaluating one-minute book pitches and answering questions about the publishing industry Monday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., Asheville. Info: 254-6734.

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Join quilter Betty Kiser, who will talk about borders and quilting designs using the Drunkard’s Path pattern, at the Asheville Quilt Guild meeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Info: www.ashevillequiltguild.org.

at the Salvation Army Community Center, 750 Haywood Rd. Please call for an appointment.

Silent Walk & Candlelight Vigil Commemorating National Domestic Violence Awareness Month • TH (10/22), 5pm - The silent walk to honor victims of domestic violence will begin and end at Pritchard Park. A community potluck and candlelight vigil will follow at the YWCA of Asheville. Bring a dish to share. Info: 254-2968, ext.

12 or cprice@helpmateonline.org.

Talks & Presentations at WCU These public lectures, readings and events at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee are free unless otherwise noted. Info: 2272303.

• WE (10/21), 11:45am - Luncheon Series: Gathering and reception followed by a buffet lunch —- 12:15pm - “The Honors Path: Developing Intellectual Talent for U.S. Success in a Flat World,” led by Brian

Railsback, Dean of the Honors College. $10.50.

Three Women - Three Faiths - One Shared Vision • WE (10/14), 11:25am - Muslim, Jewish and Christian women from Jerusalem who have lived the realities of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict will share their stories and visions for the future. Held at the Humanities Lecture Hall on the UNCA College campus —- 6:30-8pm “Jerusalem Women Speak,” will be held at the Cathedral of All Souls, Biltmore Village. Info: 686-1380 or www.partnersforpeace.org.

Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall • TH (10/15) through MO (10/19) - Vietnam veterans and those who lost a loved one can remember fallen heroes at the traveling Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall, which will be on display at Monteith Park in Dillsboro. The wall is a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Info: (800) 962-1911.

WNC Agricultural Center

Hosts agricultural events, horse shows and farmrelated competitions.

Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd. in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

• TH (10/22) through SU (10/25), 8am-5pm - Fall Harvest Days and Antique Engine & Tractor Show, featuring antique tractor pulls and swap meets, demonstration and more.

WNC Nonprofit Pathways Info: www.nonprofitpathways.org.

• MO (10/26), 10amNoon or 12:30-2:30pm - Foundation Fair. Curious about foundations, and want to learn more?

Nonprofit board and staff members are welcome to attend. Free. Register by Oct. 20.

Social & SharedInterest Groups American Advertising Federation Asheville Info: 258-0316, programs@aafasheville.org or www.aafasheville.org.

• MO (10/19), 11:30am - Networking and registration —- Noon - “The Power of New Media & Social Networking,” an educational luncheon seminar that will explore the world of new media and online marketing.

At Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave. $20 members/$30.

Ardent Toastmasters Club Afraid to speak in public?

Want to practice your speaking skills in a fun and supportive environment?

Meets at Zona Lofts, 162 Coxe Ave., in downtown Asheville. Info: 225-8680 or www.toastmasters.org/ websiteApps/.

• Alternate THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - Meeting.

Arise & Shine Toastmasters Ready to overcome your fear of public speaking and to enhance your communication and leadership skills? This group provides a friendly environment in which to do so. Guests have no obligation to join.

Info: 776-5076.

• THURSDAYS, 7:30am Meets at UNCA’s Highsmith Student Union.

Asheville Civitan Club Come hear community leaders present programs.

Meetings are held at Trinity Episcopal Church, corner of Church St. and Aston St. Open to the public.

RSVP for lunch: $10. Info: 348-4222 or www.ashevillecivitan.org.

• TUESDAYS, 1pm Weekly topical speakers of community interest.

Upcoming political forum for voters.

Asheville Homeless Network Meetings take place at Firestorm Cafe & Books in downtown Asheville. Info: 552-0505.

• THURSDAYS, 2pm - All homeless people and interested citizens are welcome.

Asheville Lesbian Brunch Club Info: www.meetup.com/ Asheville-Lesbian-BrunchClub or Asheville-LesbianBrunch-Club-list@meetup. com.

• SUNDAYS - Be a part of creating positive community every Sunday.

Asheville Newcomers Club Newer residents and retirees make new friends while learning about all the opportunities Asheville offers. Info: avlnewcomers@aol.com or 274-6662.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 9:30am - Meeting with speakers from local organizations.

Asheville Stamp Club Stamp collecting for all ages. Info: 692-7640, 6273039, 274-3804.

• 3rd SUNDAYS, 2pm - Meeting in the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Center, 1617 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville.

Blue Ridge Toastmasters Club Meets once a week to enhance speaking skills both formal and impromptu.

Part of an international proven program that takes you through the steps with fun along the way. Network with interesting people of all ages and professions.

Info: www.blueridgetm.org or 505-1375.

• MONDAYS, 12:201:30pm - Meeting.

Canasta Canasta anyone? Come join a friendly group of men and women who love to play for the fun of it. Info: 665-2810 or 251-0520.

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS, Noon-3pm - Canasta.

Events in Cherokee Info: 438-1601 or www. cherokee-nc.com.

• FR (10/16) through SU (10/18) - Big Rigs Package: An antique truck show at the Oconaluftee Indian Village and Museum of the Cherokee Indian. $31.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 2558115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

• TH (10/22), 7pm “Social Networkers Unite,” a comical and interactive presentation supporting the novel Saffire_21 by Alexandra Lander.

French Broad Mensa Western North Carolina’s chapter of American Mensa, a nonprofit organization. Info: 253-8781 or wstanko@charter.net.

• SA (10/17), 1:30pm - Mensa, the high IQ society, is offering the Mensa Qualification Test. French Broad Mensa will host the local test in the community room of the North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. $40. Call or e-mail for reservations.

Friends of Asheville Transit Club Discuss transit-related issues over pints of beer.

Info: 279-8349.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - The club meets on the lower level of The Thirsty Monk, 92 Patton Ave. in Asheville. Find the group by looking for the toy buses and maps on the table.

Koinonia Monday Night Potlucks • MONDAYS - Potluck.

The gathering invites people of all walks of life to share their ideas and wisdom with those that are interested in fostering an evolved local and global community. Change begins within us. Info: 333-2000.

Scrabble Club Come play America’s favorite word game SCRABBLE. Info: 252-8154.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville. We have all the gear; just bring your vocabulary. No dues the first six months.

TEDxAVL 2010 Organizational Meetings • 1st & 3rd MONDAYS, 6-8pm - Organizers meet twice a month to find speakers, performers and product demos for a conference packed with ideas. At Locomotivity, 224 Broadway near the 240 W exit. Info: 231-7205.

The New Friends Meetup Interested in meeting new people for friendship,

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The 2009 Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Contest Call to artists – young and old!

Get out those art supplies and submit your holiday-themed artwork to the Xpress by Friday, Nov. 20 If you do, you could win the opportunity to…

• Have your art appear in color inside one of our December holiday guides, which will publish on Dec. 2, Dec. 9 and Dec. 16!

• Have your art displayed at Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s studio in downtown Asheville (20 Commerce St.) from Friday, Dec. 18, through Sunday, Dec. 20!

There will be a free, open-to-the-public reception for Xpress’ holiday art show Friday, Dec. 11, from 6 to 7 p.m. with treats and entertainment. Stick around after the reception for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s opening night of Poetry in Motion: A Light in the Attic and More starting at 7:30 p.m. This seasonal production for all ages will celebrate the poetry of Shel Silverstein, and will also be performed Saturday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 20, at 3 p.m. For Poetry in Motion ticket info, visit www.acdt.org.

To enter the Xpress Holiday Art Contest, here’s what you do: Create holiday-inspired art within a squarish space (9.5” H x 10.25” W) and keep the colors bright!

The following mediums will work best in print: watercolor, acrylic, crayons, colored pencils or pastels (no graphite pencil, please). Entries must be received at the Xpress no later than Friday, Nov. 20. All artwork must have a completed registration form affixed to the back. Don’t forget to include a SASE if you’d like your artwork returned!

Send or hand deliver artwork to: Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Contest, 2 Wall St., Asheville, N.C. 28801

Registration Form Name ___________________________________________ Address __________________________________________ Phone ___________________________________________ Are you 18 or older? ____ If under 18, what’s your age? _____ Parent or guardian’s name_____________________________ 2008 artwork by: Alyssa Wadham

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fun, romance, activities, and learning new things?

Info: www.meetup.com/ Asheville-New-FriendsMeetup.

• WEEKLY - Meets at a bar/restaurant.

Welcome Club of HC • 3rd TUESDAYS, 10am1pm - Social group to welcome new people to the community. Meet friends in general meetings and activity groups. Some groups: Coffee and Conversation, book clubs, bridge and card games, day trips, Tea Society and luncheons.

Info: 697-5911.

Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-20.

Each week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators. Straight allies (ages 14-20) are also welcome.

Info: www.youthoutright. org.

• FRIDAYS, 6:30-9pm - Meets at the Jefferson House, adjacent to the Unitarian Universalist Church (corner of Edwin and Charlotte Streets) at 21 Edwin Pl.

Government & Politics Buncombe County Public Meetings Info: 250-4105 or kathy. hughes@buncombecounty.org.

• 1st & 3rd TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meets in Rm. 204 of the Buncombe County Courthouse.

City of Asheville Public Meetings Info: www.ashevillenc.gov.

• 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - The Sustainable

Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment meets in room 109A in the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. Info: 271-6141.

Free Hugs for Health Care Reform • FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Join local Obama supporters and give free hugs for health care reform. Pick up signs at Mountain Java in north Asheville at 5pm.

Get There Asheville A local multimodal transportation advocacy group.

Info: www.getthereasheville.com.

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• WE (10/14), 7-9pm - Candidate Forum at the Asheville Design Center, 8 College St. All mayoral and City Council candidates participating in the general election have been invited to participate in this sitdown forum devoted to multimodal transportation issues. Submit questions for the candidates on Get There’s Web site.

Health Care Reform Letter Writing Party • SU (10/18), 4-5pm - Make your voice heard in support of comprehensive health care reform. Join in the party at Westminster

Presbyterian Church, 15 Overbrook Pl., to write letters to members of Congress. Sponsored by Land of the Sky UCC. Meet-and-Greet With Robin Cape • TH (10/22), 5:30-7pm Meet-and-greet with Robin Cape for Asheville City Council at the Dripolator, 190 Broadway. Coffee, beer and wine. Info: 3980209.

WNC for Change Health Care Campaign Office • MONDAYS through SATURDAYS, 2-8pm - Visit the campaign office inside Mountain Java coffeeshop

in north Asheville. Learn how you can fight for health care reform.

Seniors & Retirees Henderson County Senior Softball League The league is always looking for new players, age 50 and older. Weather permitting, they play year-round.

Info: 698-3448 or www.

LJRsoftball.com.

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS Morning games at Jackson Park in Hendersonville.

Lakeview Senior Center 401 S. Laurel Circle, Black Mountain. Info: 669-8610.

• FR (10/16), 12:453:30pm - Van Clan to the WNC Nature Center. Tour the property and see the animals. Wear sturdy walking shoes. $9.

• FRIDAYS (through 10/16) - Ageless Yoga, a six-week class designed for seniors. $10 per class. Info: www. bmrecreation.com.

• MO (10/19), 10amNoon - A Flu Shot Clinic will be held. $25/Free with Medicare, Medicaid and other forms of insurance.

• TU (10/20), 10am - Take a moderate 1.2 mile hike along the Spring Creek nature trail in Hot Springs. $3. Bring a lunch.

• TH (10/22), Noon - Van Clan to the J.H. Hillcrest Apple Orchard. Enjoy a hay ride, storytelling, apple picking and more. $11.

• THURSDAYS (10/22 through 11/19), 11amNoon - Fall Prevention Classes will be held to keep you safely on your feet. Free.

Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recathletics@townofwaynesville. org.

• TU (10/20), 8am-4pm - Senior trip to Penland School of Crafts. Enjoy a tour of the gallery and of the buildings on campus.

Lunch at TJ’s in Spruce Pine. Bring rain gear and wear walking shoes. $20 members/$25 nonmembers.

ing the welfare of dogs living outdoors on chains and in pens in Asheville and Buncombe County. Info: www.chainfreeasheville.org or 450-7736.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-3pm - Come help a chained dog experience freedom.

No experience necessary. Meets 4 times a month within Asheville or Buncombe County to build a fence for a chained dog.

Rabies Clinic • SA (10/17), 8am-Noon - The Band Boosters for the Erwin High School Warrior Pride Marching Band will host a rabies clinic in the student parking lot at Erwin High School, 175 Bingham Rd. The shots are $7.

Skyhoundz Hyperflite Disc Local Championship • SA (10/17), 1pm - Registration will begin.

Open to the first 20 dogs.

Awards will be given to the top three dogs. At the Black Mountain Recreation Park.

Free. Info: 669-8610.

Transylvania Animal Alliance Group For information about T.A.A.G., or donations of time or resources, 9663166, taagwags@citcom. net, www.taagwags.org or www.taag.petfinder.com.

• SATURDAYS, 11am4pm - Adoption Days at PETsMART on Airport Road in Arden. View adoptable animals on the Web site.

Technology Basic Computer Classes Opportunity House in Hendersonville offers basic computer classes including: Basic Skills I, Basic Skills II, Basic Skills III, Internet I, Internet II and E-Mail. Courses in MS Word and MS Excel can be scheduled with enough interest. $30 members/$40 nonmembers. To register: 692-0575.

• MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9:30-11am or 11:30am1pm - Classes.

Animals

Business & Careers

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 458-7778 or www.bwar. org.

• SA (10/17), Noon-4pm - Pet Adoption Day at Bone-A-Fide Bakery & Pet Boutique, 118 Cherry St., Black Mountain. Info: 6690706.

ChainFree Asheville A nonprofit, all-volunteer effort dedicated to improv-

A-B Tech Classes Registration & info: www. abtech.edu/ce.

• MO (10/19) & WE (10/21), 5:30-8:30pm - A free class on maximizing interview skills will be held in Pines 212, Asheville campus. Learn how to curb nervousness and instill confidence during job interviews. Register: 254-1921, ext. 333 or 334.

101. All classes are free and open to the public.

Registration is required.

Info: mwilliams@handmadeinamerica.org or 252-0121.

• MO (10/19), 6:30pm - Wholesale Shows. The wholesale market is changing, learn to use free, Internet-based tools to grow a wholesale base.

NAACP The NAACP works to insure the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of minority groups and citizens. Info: 281-3066.

• MO (10/19), 11am1pm - The NAACP Credit Awareness Project, in partnership with OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling, will offer free credit reports at the NAACP Empowerment Resource Center, 91 Patton Ave. in downtown Asheville. Info: www.ontrackwnc.org, 2555166 or (800) 737-5485.

OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling Formerly Consumer Credit Counseling Service of WNC. OnTrack offers services to improve personal finances. Unless otherwise noted, all classes are free and held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Ste. 222. Info: 255-5166 or www.ontrackwnc.org.

• TU (10/20), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money.”

Learn how to set goals, track expenses, develop a budget and more. Free.

Public Relations Association of WNC Info: www.prawnc.org.

• TH (10/22), 6-8pm - The annual Best of the Mountains award ceremony will be held at The Farm (www.thefarmpartybarn. com). Recognizes excellence in WNC public relations and marketing communications. $35. RSVP by Oct. 15.

SBA Workshop • TU (10/20), 1011:30am - “Business Planning & Entrepreneurial Development Resources.”

Discover the basic components of a business plan as well as the many SBA online and in-person counseling and training resources available. At A-B Tech Asheville Mall office, room 101. To register: www.abtech.edu/sbc. Info: 225-1844.

225-8820, info@ashevillage.org or www.ashevillage.org.

• MONDAYS through SATURDAYS, 9am-5pm Volunteer days and potluck lunch. Volunteers needed in: gardening, permaculture, stonework, carpentry, marketing, administration, fundraising and business development.

Asheville City Schools Foundation Seeking Academic Coaches (tutors/mentors) to support students by assisting them with a variety of tasks that support educational success. One hr/wk min., for

one school year, in your choice of school or after school program. Training provided. Info: 350-6135, terri.wells@asheville.k12. nc.us or www.acsf.org.

• MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8:30am-5pm - Academic coaching in the schools or at after-school programs, once a week.

Bountiful Cities Project A nonprofit that creates, manages and, in some cases, owns community gardens on Asheville’s urban land. Info: 257-4000 or info@bountifulcitiesproject.org.

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A-B Tech Small Business Events Info & registration: 2541921, ext. 5857 or www. abtech.edu/ce/registration/ default.asp.

• WE (10/14), 10am-Noon - Business Plan Basics, a free seminar held at the College’s Asheville Mall site. Students will learn about the purposes of a business plan and the questions each section of the plan should answer.

• TH (10/29), 9am-2:30pm - The 4th annual Export Expo will be held in the second floor conference room at the Haynes Conference Center, Enka site. Experts will share their knowledge on the global marketplace, understanding international commercial terms and more. $35.

Info: www.abtech.edu/sbc or ext. 852. Register by Oct. 21.

Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Located at 36 Montford Ave. Info: 258-6101 or www.ashevillechamber.org.

• WE (10/14), 8:309:30am - Member orientation in the boardroom.

• TH (10/22) - Business hot tips training sessions: “Meet the Media.” During this panel discussion with local TV, magazine and newspaper media you can learn how best to get your news noticed and featured. $20. Info: chensley@ashevillechamber.org.

Asheville SCORE Counselors to Small Business If your business could use some help, SCORE is the place to start. Free and confidential. To make an appointment: 271-4786.

Our offices are located in the Federal Building, 151 Patton Ave., Rm. 259.

Veterans may attend any SCORE seminar at no charge. Info: www.ashevillescore.org.

• WE (10/14), 6-9pm “Basic Internet Marketing.”

This seminar is designed to give you the information you need to build a superior Web site. At the Small Business Center, Rm. 2046, on the A-B Tech Enka Campus. $30 at the door. To register: 274-1142.

Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce • TH (10/22), 5-7pm - Business After Hours: Social and networking event with First Citizens Bank. Info: 669-2300 or bmchamber@juno.com.

Events at HandMade in America Located at 125 S. Lexington Ave., Suite

• earthfriendly biologic general dentistry • mercury free ceramic + composite restorations • fluoride + latex free • adults, children + special needs patients welcome 728 Fifth Avenue West Hendersonville, NC 28739 828-693-8416 www.matthewyoungdds.net www.iaomt.org

Volunteering Ashevillage Institute (AVI) Nonprofit eco-urban education center and living laboratory for sustainable solutions. Info or to RSVP:

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• WEDNESDAYS, 38:30pm - Community Garden Workdays.

Volunteers appreciated at Pearson Drive garden located in the Montford neighborhood. Info: 2738151 or 257-4000 and leave a message.

Catholic Social Services n Volunteers are needed throughout the week. Info: 255-0146.

• WEDNESDAYS, 1-4pm - Direct Assistance Day. Help sort clothing, shelve food, pack bags of food and more. Call for details.

Eliada’s “Castle in the Corn” Maze • Through SA (10/31) Volunteer for Eliada Homes for Children’s “Castle in the Corn” Maze, which will be open Fridays through Sundays. Volunteers get two free admission passes and a snack. Info: 2545356, ext. 113 or www. castleinthecorn.com/volunteer.

Graffiti Removal Action Teams Join Asheville GreenWorks in combating graffiti vandalism in our community.

Removing quickly and keeping covered is the best way to reduce graffiti. Info: 254-1776.

• THURSDAYS - Graffiti removal.

Hands On AshevilleBuncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome to

volunteer on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the Web site to sign up for a project.

• SA (10/17), 9am-Noon - Help sort and pack food at MANNA Food Bank to be given to agencies serving hungry people in 17 WNC counties.

• TH (10/22), 5:307:30pm - Cook and serve a meal for 15-25 women and children who are part of New Choices, an empowerment program for displaced homemakers in need of counseling and assistance —- 6-8pm - Help MANNA prepare “Packs for Kids,” backpack-sized parcels of food that will be distributed to students from lowincome families.

• THURSDAYS (10/22 & 29), 4-6pm - Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fairtrade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries.

Men and Women Wanted Big Brothers Big Sisters is holding a back-to-school volunteer recruitment drive.

Mentors share outings twice a month with youth from single-parent homes.

Volunteers also needed to mentor during the 2009-10 school year. Info: 2531470 or www.bbbswnc. org.

• TH (10/22), Noon - Information Session for interested volunteers will be held at the United Way Building, S. French Broad Ave., Rm. 213.

The Lord’s Acre A Faith Garden Project organized and sponsored by local churches and volunteers who have come together to help provide food for families in need.

Located in Fairview. Info: www.thelordsacre.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm & SATURDAYS, 8-11am Volunteers are needed.

WNC AIDS Project Info: www.wncap.org or 252-7489. n Donations will be accepted for the Candelabra Ball fundraising auction. Jewelry, collectables, art, local services, antiques and more are needed. Info: Kenneth. d.wilson@att.net or pamsiekman@earthlink.net.

Health Programs & Support Groups Help For Overshoppers • Overspenders • This Monday (pd.) Stop the pain of Overshopping and Overspending. • Dig deeper into yourself and not your wallet. Discover what you are really shopping for. • Learn effective tools to interrupt the urges and stop behaviors. • Mindfully

move through this Holiday season. • Wake up January 1st knowing your habits are changing!

Individual or group format offered. • Free orientation Monday, October 19, 7pm.

• To pre-register: Call 2312107 or email: empowering.solutions@yahoo.com Morning Exercise Line Dance Classes (pd.) 9am-10am, Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting September 15 and 17.

Information: (828) 2748320. • Call or drop in for great fun and fitness!

Asheville Ballroom & Dance Centre.

Shoji Spa Discounts and Events (pd.) • Locals Discount: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. • SPArty: Wednesday evenings, 6-8 p.m. Drinks, food and music, free. 828-2990999. www.shojiretreats.com This is New And Different! (pd.) Find out what’s baffling the medical community. Discover why researchers are attempting to explain these healings.... and how your too, can master this extraordinary work! • Information/registration: (828) 298-4685 or www.TheReconnection. com A-B Tech Classes Registration & info: www. abtech.edu/ce.

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• TH (10/15), 6-9pm - “Demystifying Herbal Medicine.” This presentation sheds light on some of the most substantiated herbal claims and some of the most popular herbal headlines in the media. $35.

• FR (10/16), 9:30am1:30pm - “Medicinal Herbs: Folklore, Science, and the Herbalist.”

Evidence that herbs work comes from both traditional experience and scientific understanding. $35.

• TH (10/22), 6-9pm - “Healing from the Kitchen Cupboard.”Find out how to use basic kitchen pantry staples to care for you and your family. Experience making herbal remedies. $35.

Adult Children of Alcoholics • 1st, 3rd & 5th MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Open 12-step meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Rear entrance, first room on the left. Info: 2986600 or maybloomer@ yahoo.com.

Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOAs continue “survival” behaviors they had as children, which no longer serve them as adults.

Come learn how to grow in recovery and become the person you are meant to be through this 12-step fellowship. Info: 545-9648.

• FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville.

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: 800-2861326 or www.wnc-alanon. org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:151:15pm - Step study: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting for parents of children with addictions: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Info: 2426197.

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of Al-Anon is a gay-friendly support group for families and friends of alcoholics, and holds their weekly candlelight meeting at All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 670-6277 (until 9pm).

• FRIDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Discussion meeting:

First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• FRIDAYS, 6:30pm - Discussion meeting for couples only: All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 676-0485.

• SATURDAYS, 10am - Al-Anon North: Meeting at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • SATURDAYS, 10am - Saturday Serenity at St Mary’s Episcopal Church on the corner of Charlotte and Macon. Beginners welcome.

• SATURDAYS, Noon - Weaverville discussion meeting at First Baptist Church on N. Main St., next to the library. Enter via side glass doors.

• SUNDAYS, 5-6pm - Discussion meeting: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road. Info: 281-1566.

• MONDAYS, 12-1pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• TUESDAYS, 7pm Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Art of Intimacy Practice Group Learn life-changing communication and relationship skills, drawing from the work of Brad Blanton (Radical Honesty), Marshal Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication), Susan Campbell (Getting Real), John Bradshaw (Homecoming) and others.

By donation. Info: 2545613 or www.centerforsacredsexuality.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meeting.

Beauty Through Cancer Provides programs and services for breast cancer patients and survivors in the WNC area. Located at 131 McDowell St., Suite 202, Asheville. Info: 2528558 or info@beautythroughcancer.org.

• 1st & 3rd MONDAYS, 5pm - Support group.

Women at any stage of reconstruction from breast cancer are invited to attend.

CarePartners Hospice Bereavement Offers one-on-one grief counseling, support groups, grief education classes, a monthly grief support newsletter and semi-annual memorial services (available to anyone who is suffering a loss through death). Located at

68 Sweeten Creek Road., Asheville. Call 251-0126 to set up an initial visit with a counselor.

• WEDNESDAYS (monthly) - Suicide Loss Group meets.

• TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS - Good Grief Support Groups meet.

• WEDNESDAYS - ChildLoss Support Groups meet.

• MONDAYS & TUESDAYS - Grief Education Classes.

DivorceCare • WEDNESDAYS, 6:157:30pm - DivorceCare, a video seminar and support group featuring nationally recognized experts on divorce and recovery topics, including “Facing my Anger,” “Facing my Loneliness” and “Forgiveness.” Childcare provided. Info: 254-4688 or www.mountcarmelonline.org.

Dual Recovery Group Group meets at the Black Mountain Presbyterian Church House, 117 Montreat Road. For individuals who have a chemical dependency, emotional, and/or psychiatric illness and need support. A 12step based program. Info: 357-8403.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8pm - Group meets.

Eating Disorders Individuals are welcome to come to one or all of the support group meetings.

Info: 337-4685 or www. thecenternc.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 78pm - Support group for adults at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Free.

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

Free, but registration and appointments required unless otherwise noted. To register or for info: www. pardeehospital.org or 6924600.

• FR (10/16), 1-2:30pm - “How to create your personal health record,” with Jean Sitton, RN. • TU (10/20), 12:30-2pm - “Coping With Common Allergies,” a discussion with Christopher Copenhaver, M.D. • WE (10/21), 10am-1pm - Diabetes Awareness Day: Blood sugar, pressure and foot health screenings will be offered. Plus, professionals will be available to answer questions.

Registration not required.

Food Addicts Anonymous

A fellowship of men and women who are willing to recover from the disease of food addiction. Sharing experiences and hope with others allows participants to recover from the disease one day at a time. All are welcome. Info: 242-3717.

• MONDAYS, Noon1pm & FRIDAYS, 7-8pm - Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

Health Events at Earth Fare South Located at 1856 Hendersonville Rd. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: 210-0100.

• TH (10/15), 6:30pm - Book signing and lecture

by Floyd Chilton, Ph.D., author of The Gene Smart Diet. Registration suggested.

• WE (10/21), 6:30pm - “Healing Relationships,” learn this unique brainbased therapy as applied to relationships. Registration required.

• TH (10/22), 6:30pm - “The Hormone Connection,” with Dr. Parker. Learn about the common connections between PMS, enlarged prostate and heart problems.

Health Events at UNCA • FR (10/16), 2pm Medicare information session in the Reuter Center.

Free. Info: 251-6140.

Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East, Hendersonville.

Info: 693-5605. : Blood Drive dates and locations are listed below. Appointment and ID required.

• TH (10/15), 10am2:30pm - Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute, 1455 Gilliam Road. Info: 685-8886.

• MO (10/19), 10am2:30pm - American Red Cross Hendersonville, 203 2nd Ave. Info: 693-5605.

K.A.R.E. Support Groups Kid’s Advocacy Resource Effort offers several ongoing support groups. Info: 456-8995.

• WEDNESDAYS, 5:307:30pm - Single Parents Support Group. Dinner and childcare provided. At First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. Call ext. 201 for more info.

Living Healthy with Diabetes/Sugar â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS (through 11/10), 9:30am-1pm - Take charge and enjoy a better quality of life with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diabetes SelfManagement.â&#x20AC;? This free and interactive workshop can help you choose foods for health, increase your fitness and more.

Registration: 251-7438 or rebecca@landofsky.org.

MemoryCaregivers Network Support for caregivers of loved ones who suffer from dementia and Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Meetings are held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Rd., Arden. â&#x20AC;˘ 3rd TUESDAYS, 12:301:30pm - Meeting. Come early for a meet-andgreet that starts at noon.

Refreshments provided.

Moms Supporting Moms â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, Noon or 6:30pm - Peer support for moms struggling with depression and/or anxiety during pregnancy or postpartum. Connect with other mothers and community resources. Meets at the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center.

Info: 213-8241. Directions: 213-8246.

NAMI Western Carolina National Alliance on Mental Illness offers support, education and advocacy for families and persons with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or an anxiety disorder. Meets at Mountainhouse, 225 E. Chestnut St. across from Fuddruckers. Free. Info: 687-6901 or www.namiwnc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ 3rd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Group meets.

Narcotics Anonymous A fellowship of recovering addicts that can help those afflicted get clean and stay clean through a 12step program. The group focuses on recovering from the disease of addiction rather than any particular drug. For WNC NA meeting schedules and info: www. wncana.org. Helpline: (866) 925-2148. â&#x20AC;˘ DAILY - Please call for location details.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group A Christian-based 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems.

Meetings are held at 32 Rosscraggon Road. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@ sos.spc-asheville.org. â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - Meeting.

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 noted. â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS, Noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Rd. (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 2981899. â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks & Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery mtg. Info: 669-0986. â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Meth. Church, 2567 Asheville Hwy. (Hwy. 25).

Open mtg. Info: 1-800580-4761. â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS, 5:15pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Beginners mtg. Info: 277-8185. â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Open mtg. Info: 2778185. â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 10:30amNoon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari.

Open BBSS mtg. Info: 280-2213.

Park Ridge Hospital Park Ridge Hospital is located in Fletcher and hosts a number of free events, including cholesterol screenings, vision screenings, PSA screenings, bone density checks for women, lectures, numerous support groups and a Kid Power program.

Info: 687-3947 or www. parkridgehospital.org. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (10/14), 10am - Mommy & Me Support Group at the Lelia Patterson Center in Fletcher. Info: 253-2804. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/15), 3pm - Henderson County Stroke/Aphasia Support Group. Meet at Park Ridge Home Health, 895 Howard Gap Road in Fletcher.

Caregivers, family, and friends are encouraged to participate. Info: 687-5261. â&#x20AC;˘ TU (10/20), 5:307:30pm - Caregiver Support Group. Meet in the Duke Room at Park Ridge Hospital. Carol McLimans, a caregiver specialist with Land-of-Sky Regional Council will present

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Communicating Effectively in Challenging Situations.â&#x20AC;?

Info: 682-2459.

S-Anon For those affected by someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual behavior. Info: 545-4287 or 606-6803. â&#x20AC;˘ WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

S-Anon Meetings S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics. We share our experience, strength and hope to help solve our common problems. Meetings held weekly in Asheville, Fletcher and Waynesville.

Call confidential voice mail for information: 258-5117. â&#x20AC;˘ WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

Sex Addicts Anonymous A fellowship of men and women recovering from addictive sexual behavior (physical and/or emotional). Meetings are held in downtown Asheville. Info: 800-477-8191 (live person Mon.-Fri. 11am-7pm) or 348-0284 to leave a local message for a return call. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 7pm Meeting.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous SLAA is a 12-step fellowship of men and women who have a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction. Meetings are held in downtown Asheville. Open to all sexual orientations.

Info: AshevilleSLAA@ gmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAYS, 10am - First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Sexaholics Anonymous SA is a 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior. Call confidential voice mail 681-9250 or e-mail saasheville@gmail. com. Info: www.orgsites. com/nc/saasheville/. â&#x20AC;˘ DAILY - Asheville meetings.

Stroke Support Group â&#x20AC;˘ 1st & 3rd MONDAYS, Noon - A relaxed meeting for stroke survivors and their caregivers in the Care Partners auditorium at 68 Sweeten Creek Road. A free lunch is provided in the cafeteria. Info: 274-2400.

Support Groups Sessions are led by Charlene Galvin, a board certified Chaplain. Love offering. Info: 329-3187 or chargalvin@hotmail.com.

â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS, 1011:30am - Living with Life Limiting Illness â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- 1:303pm - Caregivers Support Group.

WNC Brain Tumor Support Adult support group for newly diagnosed brain tumor patients, brain tumor survivors, their families and caregivers. Info: 691-2559 or www.wncbraintumor. org. â&#x20AC;˘ 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Group meets at the West Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 690 Haywood Rd.

Helplines For Xpressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; list of helplines, visit www. mountainx.com/events/ category/helplines.

Sports Groups & Activities Diamond Brand Running Groups (pd.) Every Wednesday at 6 pm. Choose from a beginner group which runs 3 - 4 miles or intermediate group which runs 6 - 7 miles. The Oct. 7th and 14th runs will be at Fletcher Park, meet by the park shelter. Runs on the 21st and 28th are on the Mountains to Sea to trail.

Meet by the trail entrance at the intersection of 74.

For more info contact Sarah at smerrell@diamondbrand.com.

Fall Diva Night at Diamond Brand (pd.) Thurs, Oct. 15th, 7 pm to 9 pm. Benefiting Casting for Recovery. Giveaways, refreshments, massages, wine, raffles and a fashion show. For more information, contact Sarah at smerrell@diamondbrand.com.

Winter Birding in WNC by Simon Thompson (pd.) Wednesday, Oct. 21st at 7pm at Diamond Brand in Arden. Learn what to expect in the autumn fields, forests and backyards, and even what to feed birds. For more info, contact Gary at geblen@ diamondbrand.com.

Asheville Masters Swimming Competitive, fitness and triathlon swimmers welcome.

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Disc Golf Check the kiosk at Richmond Hill Park for events and nearby tournaments. Info: 680-9626 or www.wncdiscgolf.com.

• SUNDAYS, 4pm Doubles at Waynesville Rec Park.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm Doubles at Black Mountain Park.

• TUESDAYS, 5:30pm - Doubles at Richmond Hill Park.

Pickleball It’s like playing ping pong on a tennis court. For all ages. $1 per session.

Paddles and balls are provided. Info: 350-2058.

• MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Meets at Stephens-Lee Rec Center, 30 George Washington Carver St. (take S. Charlotte to Max St.).

Sports at UNCA Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. Info: 251-6459.

• FR (10/16), 4pm - UNCA Women’s Soccer vs.

Charleston Southern at Greenwood Field. Free.

• SU (10/18), 2pm UNCA Women’s Soccer vs. Coastal Carolina at Greenwood Field.

• TU (10/20), 7pm UNCA Volleyball vs. East Tennessee State at the Justice Center. $5.

Waynesville Recreation Center Located at 550 Vance St. in Waynesville. Info: 456-2030 or recyouth@ townofwaynesville.org.

• Through TU (12/1) - The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer swim lesson courses for all ages in both Oct. and Nov.: “Moms and Tots,” “Jellyfish,” “Dolphin” and “Shark.” Call or e-mail recaquatics@ townofwaynesville.org to register.

Kids Kid’s Halloween Program at Diamond Brand, (pd.) Saturday, Oct. 31st at 11 am at Diamond Brand Outdoors in Arden.

Gary Eblen will tell spooky stories and kids can make their own Trick or Treat bag. We’ll have treats for the kids and the best costume wins a $100 gift card. For more info, contact Gary at geblen@ diamondbrand.com.

At The Health Adventure

Free first Wed. of every month from 3-5pm. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm & Sun., 1-5pm. $8.50 adults/$7.50 students & seniors/$6 kids 2-11.

Program info or to RSVP: 254-6373, ext. 324. Info: www.thehealthadventure. org.

• Through SU (1/3) Explore the good, the bad and the ugly at Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body. Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty and stinky gunk at this educational exhibition.

Autistic Socialization Program for Youth For children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the Waynesville Recreation Center. $6 members/$10 nonmembers. Info: 4562030 or recyouth@ townofwaynesville.org.

• FR (10/16), 5-7pm - Networking program. The first hour will focus on a broad category, such as arts/crafts. The second hour will be swim time.

Parents, guardians or representatives must be present.

Celebration Singers of Asheville Community children’s chorus for ages 7-14. For audition/performance info: 230-5778 or www.singasheville.org.

• THURSDAYS, 6:307:45pm - Children’s chorus rehearsal at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St., downtown Asheville.

Earth Scouts for Kids Earth Scouts is an environmental education group that is fun and empowering. Kids ages 4 and up learn plant identification, medicine making and earth skills.

• THURSDAYS, 6-7pm - Meets at One World Healing Arts Institute, 2 Sulphur Springs Road, Asheville. Parents welcome. $10.

Events at Asheville Dance Revolution Located at 63 Brook St. Events are sponsored by the Cultural Development Group. Info: www.onthefloorstudio.net/dance/ashevilledance revolution.htm.

• 3rd SATURDAYS, 6:3010pm - Parents night out.

There will be games, dancing, contests and fun for youngsters 18 and under.

Plus, a DJ will spin ageappropriate music. $7 per child/$10 for two children.

Info: 277-6777.

FamilyFest Asheville

• SA (10/17), 10am-6pm & SU (10/18), 1-6pm - FamilyFest Asheville will be held at Carrier Park. Family-oriented information, services and products. Plus, numerous activities, including an Elmo meet-n-greet, megainflatable, pumpkin patch and more. Info: 489-2961.

Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

• TU (10/20), 10am - The School Show Series presents War of the Worlds, a fictional account of a Martian invasion in London. Recommended for grades 6-12.

Waynesville Recreation Center Located at 550 Vance St. in Waynesville. Info: 456-2030 or recyouth@ townofwaynesville.org.

• TH (10/15), 4-7pm - “Kick, Pass and Punt,” a contest for boys and girls in 3rd-5th grade. Winners will receive tickets to the Pisgah/Tuscola football game, where additional prizes will be awarded at half-time. Free. Call to register.

Spirituality 20th Of Each Month • Heal Yourself And Mother Earth (pd.) Participate in worldwide long-distance group EssenceWork TM sessions. • Registration deadline: 15th of each month. • Private sessions, please call Lania Desmond: (828) 236-1230 or www. soulpoint.com/essencework.html Art of Dowsing (pd.) The ancient art of finding water with acclaimed dowser Marty Cain (www.martycain. com). Gerton Community Center. Sat., Oct. 24, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM. $45 Hands-on. Bring lunch.

Contact Kathleen Miritello k_miritello@bellsouth.net

by Oct. 16.

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. (828)258-3229.

Faerie Pathway Readings (pd.) Guidance from faeries, guardian angels, and spirit guides to help you rediscover the magic in your life. Faerie workshops also available. (828) 645-

2674. www.davidswing. com This is New And Different! (pd.) Find out what’s baffling the medical community. Discover why researchers are attempting to explain these healings.... and how your too, can master this extraordinary work! • Information/registration: (828) 298-4685 or www.TheReconnection. com Tuesday Afternoons • Study • Meditation • Great Tree Zen Temple (pd.) Study: 3:30pm • Meditation: 5:30pm. 679 Lower Flat Creek Road, Alexander. Love offering.

More information: 6452085 or www.greattreetemple.org A Mountain Mindfulness Sangha Part of the World Community of Mindful Living, inspired by the teachings of THICH NHAT HANH, the group practices mindfulness as the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment.

Practicing with a “sangha” (a community) can bring both joy and support. All are invited. Info & directions: mountainmindfulness@gmail.com, 6847359 or 299-9382.

• TH (10/15) - Sitting and walking meditation, followed by sharing by sangha members.

• SU (10/18), 5:30-7pm - Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma talks: DVD showing of “The Four Kinds of Nutriments and Three Doors of Liberation,” at Anattasati Magga sangha house, 12 Von Ruck Court.

• TH (10/22) - “Five Mindfulness Trainings,” a group discussion.

An Evening With Spirit All are welcome to communion with Spirit and channel messages. Held at the White Horse in Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. No latecomers. Love offering. Info: 713-2439.

• SUNDAYS, 6-9pm Evening events will be lead

by Theo Salvucci.

An Evening With Spirit • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - All are welcome to a communion with Spirit and channeled messages, held at the White Horse in Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. No latecomers. Love offering. Info: 713-2439.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation Transcend the busy, active mind—effortlessly—for peace, bliss and full awakening of creative intelligence. The most effective,

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extensively researched meditation. Revitalizes mind/body, relieves worry and anxiety, improves brain functioning. Free Introduction. Info: 2544350 or www.meditationasheville.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:15pm - At the Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut.

Asheville Chaos Magick Clique A discussion group focusing on chaos magick and related themes. Info: ashevillechaosmagickclique@ gmail.com or 777-9368.

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Meeting. Call for location.

Asheville Satsang With Gangaji Info: 216-7051 or nckristinenelson@yahoo.com.

• SUNDAYS, 7pm Discover true fulfillment.

Silent sitting and video satsang with Western spiritual teacher Gangaji. New location at Servanthood House, 156 East Chestnut St., near Greenlife.

Awakening Practices Study the works of Eckhart Tolle and put words into action through meditation and discussion. Info: Trey@QueDox.com.

• 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets at the Enka-Candler Library meeting room.

Buddhist Meditation and Discussion Meets in the space above the French Broad Food Co-op. Suggested donation: $8. Oct./Nov. series: Wisdom, the Great Teacher, a six-week series on shaping our future. Info: 779-5502 or www.meditation-in-northcarolina.org.

• WE (10/14), 7:15pm - “The Inner Workings of Karma.”

• WE (10/21), 7:15pm - “How to Be Lucky.”

Celebrate Recovery Christ-centered, biblically based recovery ministry.

Weekly fellowship and support meetings deal with real-life issues, including divorce, co-dependency, anger, control, chemical dependency, sexual addictions, hurtful relationships, eating disorders, depression, and other addictive, compulsive or dysfunctional behaviors. Info: 687-1111.

• THURSDAYS, 6pm10pm - Evenings at Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road, Arden.

Cloud Cottage Sangha This branch of the World Community of Mindful Living meets at 219 Old Toll Circle in Black Mountain, to practice

seated meditation and mindfulness training. All events by donation. Info: 669-0920, cloudcottage@ bellsouth.net or www. cloudcottage.net.

• 3rd SUNDAYS, 8am Japanese-style Zen service followed by informal tea.

Compassionate Communication Practice Group Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. Group uses a model developed

by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. Free.

Info: 252-0538 or www. ashevilleccc.com.

• 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 5-6:15pm - Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Ethical Society of Asheville A humanistic, religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society.

Meetings are held at the Botanical Garden’s Visitors Center, 151 W. T. Weaver Blvd. All are welcome. Info: 687-7759 or www.aeu.org.

• SU (10/18), 2-3:30pm - “Housing for the Homeless” will be presented by Fran Harvey, Executive Director of Homeward Bound, and Amy Sawyer, Homeless Initiative Coordinator for Asheville. Followed by a discussion period and informal conversation.

Hare Krsna Sunday Feast Meets above the French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. Info: www. highthinkingsimpleliving.org or 586-3919.

• Select SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - An evening of bhajans, class on the Bhagavad-Gita and a vegetarian feast.

Everyone welcome. Refer to the website or call for dates.

Journey Expansion Team (JET) • THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - An inspiration of James Ray featured on Oprah/The Secret. Join a group of like-minded people who want to share with others The Law Of Vibration and other Universal Laws.

Meetings held in Fletcher/ Asheville. Info: 329-7145 or kimberlycroteau@yahoo. com.

Land of the Sky United Church of Christ

Located at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 15 Overbrook Place, in East Asheville.

• WEDNESDAYS (through 10/21), 5:30pm - Weekly book circle. The group is currently reading A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer.

• SUNDAYS, 5-6pm - Women-led, justicefocused, family-friendly, and open to all. Worship with Land of the Sky UCC. An unconditional church.

Mindfulness Meditation Class 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.

• SA (10/24), 7-9:30pm - Autumn evening satsang.

Friends Meeting House.

Explore issues of personal, psychological and spiritual concerns in an evening of deepening meditation, question and answer. Bring your questions. Donation.

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

Modern-Day Meditation Class For Young Adults • TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Class. For ages 18-35. Safe space to let down walls, release pent up emotion, get in touch with a truer part of yourself. Free. Info: 301-7892.

Mother Grove Events Info: 230-5069, info@ mothergroveavl.org or mothergroveavl.org.

• SA (10/17), 7pm - Descent on Inanna Labyrinth ritual at French Broad River Park. Free and open to the respectful public.

• SU (10/18), 7pm - Byron Ballard and Jill Yarnall of Mother Grove will lead an exploration on this spiritual pathway to the Ancestors, ones that have made the transition. Love offering.

Presented by Mother Grove and the Jubilee Community at Jubilee on Wall St. Mountain Zen Practice Center Ending suffering through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness. Located at 156 E. Chestnut St. Info: 253-4621 or www.mountainzen.org. Orientation required for newcomers.

• TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Meditation and discussion.

Mystic Gatherings Share in the community of those who are governed both by logic and observing signs around them: gut, spirit, intuition or whatever That is. Bring your stories and experiences.

Gatherings are dynamic and diverse and range from topics such as changes in our society to defining moments in life and much more. Info: 206-2009.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Meeting.

Psychic Development Class • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Develop your intuition in a stress-free environment. Everyone will have an opportunity to read and to be read. Love donation accepted. Info: 255-8304.

Sh’ma Messianic Ministries Messianic studies, Hebrew classes and Davidic dance.

Studies for Jews and gentiles. Hebraic roots with biblical and basic Hebrew language. Free. Visit the Web site for updates. Info: www.shmaministries. com, 367-0775 or rabbi@ shmaministries.com.

• FRIDAYS - Meets in the evenings.

Sojourner Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) A congregation in formation. The goal is provide a caring, non-threatening environment for the exploration of Christian spirituality. Info: www. sojournerchurch.org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30am - Worship —- 10:30am - Fellowship. Lower floor of Morningside Baptist Church, 14 Mineral Springs Road, Asheville.

Transmission Meditation Group Join in this group meditation for your own personal spiritual growth, as well as the healing and transformation of the planet. Info: 318-8547.

• TUESDAYS, 6:30pm Meditation for personal and spiritual growth.

Unity Cafe Looking for a change from the usual Sunday service?

Spiritual conversation and sharing, music, meditation, coffee and pastry. Info: 645-0514 or 676-6070.

• 1st, 3rd & 5th SUNDAYS, 10am-Noon - Greenlife Grocery Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave. Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart. Contemporary music

by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) You say you not only want to be loved, but that you also want to love? Then learn the fantasies and symbols and beliefs that hold people’s lives together. Be interested in feeling the crushing weight and deep comfort of their web of memories. Every now and then, dive in and swim along in their stream of consciousness. And yes, be willing to accompany them when they’re writhing in their personal hells as well as when they’re exploring the suburbs of paradise. All these tasks will be exceptionally worthy of your time in the coming weeks, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Right now you’re like a sulking cherry tree that hasn’t bloomed for years but then inexplicably erupts with pink flowers in midautumn. You’re like a child prodigy who lost her mojo for a while and then suddenly recovers it when her old mentor comes back into her life after a long absence. You’re like a dormant volcano that without any warning spurts out a round of seemingly prophetic smoke signals on the eve of a great victory for the whole world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

“Dear Rob: Thanks for being a continued source of careful thinking! With the help of you and the rather ruthless teachers who are my friends and loved ones, I’m learning the lessons that are most important for me to learn — like how rigorous I have to be in figuring out my intentions, how impeccable I have to be with formulating my desires, and how precise I have to be in expressing myself.

Sometimes I wish I could just go back to being an aimless street punk in Berkeley. But in the end I prefer this tough path I’ve chosen. Hard-Working Gemini.” Dear Hard-Working: This is an excellent phase in the Gemini life cycle to concentrate on what you named: rigorously figuring out your intentions, impeccably formulating your desires, and expressing yourself precisely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

The British playwright Colley Cibber, who was born 55 years after Shakespeare died, thought that the Bard’s historical drama Richard III needed improvement. He made extensive revisions, transposing scenes and inserting new material. For 150 years, Cibber’s version was widely performed, effectively replacing Shakespeare’s rendition. I suggest you borrow Cibber’s strategy for your own in the coming weeks. Take something you like and personalize it; make it into your own. Be sure to acknowledge the original, of course.

But have fun blending your influence with the prototype as you create a useful and amusing hybrid.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

The corny but sometimes useful adages of

folk wisdom are still being created afresh in the 21st century. Their breeding ground is no longer the tavern or marketplace, as in centuries past, but rather the Internet. I’ve plucked one of these funky gems out of the ethers for you to contemplate: “Noah’s Ark was built by amateurs, while the Titanic was built by professionals.” How exactly does this apply to you? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase when a good imagination will count for more than strict logic; when innocent enthusiasm will take you further than know-it-all expertise; and when all the work you do should have a playful spirit fueled by a beginner’s mind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

To extract enough gold to make a wedding ring, a mining company must process a ton of ore. In a similar way, many writers generate a swamp of unusable sentences on their way to distilling the precise message they really want to deliver. Please keep these examples in mind as you evaluate your own recent progress, Virgo. It may seem like you’re moving at a crawl and producing little of worth. But according to my analysis of the omens, you’re on your way to producing the equivalent of a gold ring.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Were you ever a tiger in one of your past lives? If so, this would be an excellent time to tap into that power. If you have never lived the life of a tiger, would you be willing to imagine that you did? During the coming week’s challenges, you will really benefit from being able to call on the specific kind of intelligence a tiger possesses, as well as its speed, perceptivity, sense of smell, charisma, and beauty. Your homework is to spend ten minutes envisioning yourself inhabiting the body of a tiger.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Your circumstances aren’t as dire as you feared, Scorpio. The freaky monster in the closet is bored with spooking you and will soon be departing the premises. Meanwhile, one of your other tormentors is about to experience some personal sadness that will soften his or her heart toward you. There’s more: The paralysis that has been infecting your funny bone will miraculously cure itself, and the scheduled revelation of the rest of your dirty secrets will be summarily canceled. I hope you’re not feeling so sorry for yourself that you fail to notice this sudden turn in your luck. It may take an act of will for you to wake up to the new dispensations that are available.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance,” said playwright Francoise Sagan.

Keep that in mind during the coming week, Sagittarius. Whether or not you actually play or listen to jazz, do whatever’s necessary to

cultivate intensified feelings of nonchalance.

It’s extremely urgent for you to be blithe and casual. You desperately need to practice nonattachment as you develop your ability to not care so much about things you can’t control.

You’ve got to be ferociously disciplined as you transcend the worries and irritations that won’t really matter much in the big scheme of things.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

“There are two rules for ultimate success in life,” wrote L. M. Boyd. “First, never tell everything you know.” While that may be the conventional wisdom about how to build up one’s personal power, I prefer to live by a different principle. Personally, I find that as I divulge everything I know, I keep knowing more and more that wasn’t available to me before. The act of sharing connects me to fresh sources. Open-hearted communication doesn’t weaken me, but just the reverse: It feeds my vitality. This is the approach I recommend to you in the coming days, Capricorn. Do indeed tell everything you know.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik named two characters from literature that well-educated people tend to identify with.

“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch,” he said, while “women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think that they are disinherited monarchs.”

That’s a funny thought in light of your current omens, Aquarius, which suggest that you’re a reasonable creature who clearly sees how much you’re like a disinherited monarch. The omens go on to say that there’s a good chance you will have excellent intuition about what to do in order to at least partially restore yourself to power.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“Dear Rob: Help! I have a sinking feeling that the man I love and want to be with for the rest of my life is almost but not quite courageous enough to be truly and deeply intimate with me. What should I do? -Downcast Piscean.”

Dear Downcast: Ask yourself if there’s anything you can change about yourself that will help him feel braver. For instance, is there any way, however small, in which you’re manipulative, untrustworthy, dishonest, or unkind?

If so, fixing that in yourself could allow your lover to feel a lot closer. By the way, it’s an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for all Pisceans to alter their inner states in order to alter the world around them.

Compose a prayer in which you ask God or Goddess for something you’re not “supposed” to. FreeWillAstrology.com. © Copyright 2009 Rob Brezsny

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Fanning Bridge Rd. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www.unitync.net.

• WE (10/14), 7pm “Quantum Touch Healing,” with Rev. Pam Hurst.

Learn to hold a high energy vibration to heal yourself or to send to another. Love offering.

• SU (10/18), 12:45pm - “Unity’s Friendship Potluck,” following the 11am Celebration Service.

Please bring a dish to share.

• WE (10/21), 7pm “Awakening Heaven: Seven Sacred Lights of Aramaic Yeshua,” with Dale Allen Hoffman. $25 suggested love offering. Info: www. daleallenhoffman.com.

Unity Church of Asheville Looking for something different? 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. Come join us this Sunday and try it for yourself. Located at 130 Shelburne Rd., W. Asheville. Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville. com.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual Celebration Service.

Womyn in Ceremony Join the group for connection, sharing, support, healing and empowerment. Meets 12 miles NW of Asheville. Info: www.

RitesofPassageCouncil. com or Theresa@ RitesofPassageCouncil. com.

• SUNDAYS, 4-6pm (through 12/27) Gathering on various Sundays.

Workshops With John Lockley

• FR (10/16), 7pm - Lockley, an African sangoma of the Xhosa tradition, will share wisdom and teachings, song and rhythms, in an introduction to Xhosa ceremony. Held at the Woodfin Community Center. $10.

•SA (10/17), 9am-5pm - Ubuntu workshop at the Kenilworth Presbyterian Fellowship Hall. Info: www. african-shaman.com, lockleyworkshop@charter.net or 242-2314.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings 16 Patton Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 1-6pm (open on Sun. MayOct. only). Info: 236-2889 or www.16patton.com.

• SA (10/10) through SA (11/14) - Here and Now, a plein air landscape exhibit

by John Mac Kah. American Folk Art & Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary selftaught artists and regional pottery. Info: 281-2134 or www.amerifolk.com.

• Through FR (10/23) - Glimpses Through the Prism, work by Alabama self-taught painter Lucy Hunnicutt.

Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted.

• Through TU (10/20) - Perpetua Perplexita, oil painting by Peggy Rivers will be on display in the S. Tucker Cook Gallery.

• WE (10/14) through SA (11/14) - Human Rites - the body and blood, contemporary Cherokee baskets by Luzene Hill will

be on display in Highsmith University Union Gallery.

• Through FR (10/30) - Gathering Places, Cherokee Basket Weaving and the Environment will be on display in Blowers Gallery.

Art League of Henderson County The ALHC meets and shows exhibits at the Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Hwy. (25N) in downtown Hendersonville.

Info: 692-0575 or www. artleague.net.

• FR (10/9) through TH (11/5) - An exhibit of works by Chloe Boehm and Bettye Paden will be on display in the the Grace Etheredge Room.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 1-4pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville. Info: 693-8504 or www.acofhc. org.

• Through FR (10/16) Open Studio Tour & Artists Show. Preview the work of Henderson County artists who will be participating in the 2009 Open Studio Tour.

Asheville Area Arts Council The Asheville Area Arts Council (AAAC) is at 11 Biltmore Ave. Info: 2580710 or www.ashevillearts. com.

• Through SU (11/1) - New work by Jeremy Graves, Grant Penny, Sharon Trammel and Vadim Bora.

Asheville Gallery of Art A co-op gallery representing 28 regional artists located at 16 College St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am5:30pm and Sun.: 1-4pm.

Info: 251-5796 or www. ashevillegallery-of-art.com.

• Through SA (10/31) - The Colors of Country, a collection of oil paintings

by Judy Rentner.

Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village, next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Open daily. Info: 768-0246 or www.bellavistaart.com.

• Through SA (10/31) - New artist Patsy Gilbert and feature wall artist Nathaniel Galka.

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

• Through SU (11/1) - New Works: Murals, a solo exhibition by Robert Crystal. In addition to the large murals, Crystal’s handmade, functional and decorative pottery will also be on display.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm.

Info: 452-0593 or www. haywoodarts.org.

• WE (10/21) through SA (11/14) - Natural Perspectives, a photography exhibition by Vietnam Veteran George Schober.

Madison County Arts Council Exhibits Located at 90 S. Main St. in Marshall. Info: 6491301.

• FR (10/9) through SA (10/31) - Seeing Through the Eye of a Hummingbird, an exhibit of nature photography by Connie Toops will be on display in Mezzanine Gallery.

Montreat College’s Hamilton Gallery

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Located on the mezzanine level of L. Nelson Bell Library on the campus of Montreat College. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9am-4pm. Info: 669-8012 ext. 3641.

• Through SA (10/31) - A solo exhibition by Jim Southerland will be on display.

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

Located at 236 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat., 10am-6pm & Sun., Noon6pm. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com.

• Through SA (10/31) - Figuratively Speaking, a group exhibition featuring the works of Anna Koloseike, Kat McIver, Fran Welch, Joanna Fireman, Adele Macy, Blue Fire MacMahon and Susan Musialowski.

Push Skate Shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. between Stella Blue and the Kress Building. Info: 2255509 or www.pushtoyproject.com.

• FR (10/16) through TU (11/3) - The Arts of Darkness, a ghastly group show featuring the terrifying talents of local Asheville artists.

• FR (10/16), 7-10pm - Opening reception for The Arts of Darkness.

Silver Fox Gallery Located at 508 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 6980601 or www.silverfoxonline.com.

• FR (10/2) through SA (10/31) - Fused with Fire, an exhibition of paintings

by Sue Fazio, will be on display.

The Bender Gallery Located at 57 Haywood St., Asheville. Hours: Mon.Thurs., 10am-5pm; Fri. &

Sat., 10am-7pm; and Sun., Noon-5pm. Info: www. thebendergallery.com or 225-6625.

• Through SA (10/31) Glass sculptures by Toland Sand.

Toe River Arts Council The TRAC Center Gallery is at 269 Oak Ave. in Spruce Pine. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm. The Burnsville TRAC Gallery is at 102 W. Main St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Spruce Pine info: 765-0520. Burnsville info: 682-7215. General info: www.toeriverarts.org.

• SA (10/3) through SA (11/7) - Fall Celebration of the Arts, a juried competition/invitational exhibit, will be on display at the TRAC Center.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 South Caldwell St. in Brevard.

Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4 pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.

• MO (10/5) through FR (11/6) - Behind the Lens, an exhibition featuring Brevard area photographers Tom Nebbia, Sean Parrish and John Allen.

Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St. in Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 859-2828 or www.upstairsartspace.org.

• Through SA (10/24) - New Perspectives: Artists of Abstract Alliance and Child: Being and Remembering, two group exhibitions, will be on display.

Visual Art at ASU Exhibits take place at Appalachian State University’s Catherine J. Smith Gallery in Farthing Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Info: 2627338.

• Through MO (11/16) Extra Medium, an exhibit by Daniel Eatock.

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Sat., 1-4pm. Suggested donation: $5 family/$3 person. Info: 227-2553 or www.fineartmuseum. wcu.edu.

• Through SA (12/5) - Worldviews, selections from the permanent collection and new acquisitions featuring works by regional, national and international artists.

• TH (10/22) through SA (11/7) - School of Art & Design - Bachelor of Fine Arts Student Portfolio Exhibition.

• TH (10/22), 4-6pm - Reception for Bachelor of Fine Arts Student Portfolio Exhibition.

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

• TU (10/6) through SA (11/14) - Architectural Dynamics, abstract paintings by local artist Joyce Cole will be on display.

Art at the N.C. Arboretum Works by members of the Asheville Quilt Guild and regional artists are on display daily in The Visitor Education Center. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org.

• Through SU (11/1) - H. Douglas Pratt and John C. Sill’s BIRDS: The Science of Illustration. The exhibit celebrates the art and science of birds.

Art in the Airport Gallery Located on the pre-security side of the Asheville Regional Airport terminal.

Open to the public during the airport’s hours of operation. Info: art@flyavl. com or www.flyavl.com.

• Through TU (10/27) - More than 30 original pieces of artwork by nine local artists will be on display.

Blue Ridge Community College Info: www.blueridge.edu.

• FR (10/9) through MO (11/9) - First Annual Art Faculty Exhibit at the Blue Ridge Conference Hall in the Technology Education and Development Center.

Info: 694-1688.

Carolina Nature Photographers Association Info: www.cnpa-asheville. org.

• Through SU (11/15) Celebrating Nature Through Photography, images from the N.C. Arboretum and WNC will be on display at the N.C. Arboretum.

• Through MO (11/2) - The fifth annual juried Southern Appalachian Flora, Fauna and Landscape group exhibit will be on display at the Pack Place gallery, 2 S. Pack Square, Asheville.

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road. in Hendersonville. Info: 8902050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org.

• Through FR (12/11) Different Tempers: Jewelry & Blacksmithing, an exhibit featuring the works of 14 nationally known metalsmiths.

Center for Diversity Education The Center is on the UNCA campus, at 222 Zageir Hall.

Info: 232-5024 or www. diversityed.org.

• Through FR (10/30) - Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation, a national traveling exhibit will be on display at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. First Congregational Church Located at 20 Oak St. in downtown Asheville. “An open and affirming congregation.” Info: 252-8729 or www.uccasheville.org.

• Through TU (10/27) - Images of The Divine Feminine, an exhibition by Gaetana Friedman.

Grand Bohemian Gallery Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Info: www.bohemianhotelasheville.com or 505-2949.

• SA (10/17), Noon-3pm & 5-8pm & SU (10/18), Noon-3pm - Emily Hall’s EminTaos line of natureinfluenced jewelry.

Smith-McDowell House Museum Period rooms grace this antebellum house on the campus of A-B Tech Community College. Open 10am-4pm Wed.-Sat. and Noon-4pm Sun. Info: 2539231.

• Through SU (10/18) - “Wasp Waists & Huge Hoops,” an exhibit on Victorian fashion will be on display. $7/$6 students/$3 children.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events

Attention Artists and Photographers! (pd.) Need your work Captured, Reproduced, or Printed? Digital Resolutions Group specializes in highquality large format digital photography, outstanding fine art reproduction and printing. (828) 670-5257 or visit www.ashevilledigital.com Odyssey Center For Ceramic Arts: Weekend Demonstration (pd.) “Bisque Molds; A Beginning” with Matt Kelleher/Shoko Teruyama, October 24/25, 10am4pm, $40. Enrollment limited, Register now. • Registration: (828) 2850210. • Information: www. highwaterclays.com Antique Quilt Show and Tea • SA (10/17), 9am-3pm - View quilts dating from the early 1800s-1950s from around the country.

Plus, music, desserts, and quilts and other handcrafted items for sale. At the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville. $5/$1.50 kids 12 and under. All proceeds will benefit the Memory Maker Quilt Group ministry. Info: 697-0853.

Asheville NC Homecrafts • FRIDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Sit and Knit. Free sit and knit at the Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave., Suite 134. Info: 350-7556 or ashevillehomecrafts@aol.com.

Asheville Quilt Guild Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. New members are welcome. Info: www. ashevillequiltguild.org.

• TU (10/20), 7pm - Meeting at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Betty Kiser will show quilts from her latest book, The Path Over and Around, and talk about borders and quilting designs using the Drunkard’s Path.

Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Classes are held at the studio, 999 W. Old Rt. 70, Black Mountain. Info: svfal. info@gmail.com or www. svfal.org.

• THURSDAYS, Noon-3pm - Experimental Art Group.

Experimental learning and sharing water-media techniques and collage. $20 for four sessions or $6/session.

• FRIDAYS, 10am-1pm - Open studio for figure drawing. Small fee for model.

• MONDAYS, Noon-3pm - Open studio for portrait painting. Small fee for model.

• TUESDAYS (through 11/24) - Art with Lorelle Bacon. Adults 1-3pm and youth 3:30-5pm. All levels welcome. $15/class.

Registration required.

Art/Craft Fairs Asheville Art in the Park A local arts market held at Pack Square Park, 1 W. Pack Sq. in downtown Asheville. There will be exhibitions in woodworking, metalsmithing, pottery, fabric art and more.

Partial proceeds from the market benefit local nonprofits. Info: www.

AshevilleArtinthePark.com.

• SA (10/17), 10am-4pm - Art in the Park.

Asheville People’s Market Held June through October in the parking lot across from Rosetta’s Kitchen at 93 N. Lexington Ave. Info: rosettastarshine@gmail. com.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-4pm - Search for art, crafts and homemade items made by Asheville artists at this fleamarket style market.

Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands Potters, blacksmiths, furniture makers, weavers, carvers, woodturners, glassblowers, jewelers, basket makers and more set up shop at the Asheville Civic Center, 87 Haywood St. Plus, live mountain music, craft demos, children’s activities and educational displays. $7/ Free for children under 12.

Info: 298-7928 or www. craftguild.org.

• TH (10/15) through SA (10/17), 10am-6pm & SU (10/18), 10am-5pm - 62nd Annual Fall Craft Fair.

Greenlife Grocery Arts Market Located at 70 Merrimon Ave. Info: 254-5440.

• SATURDAYS, 11am-6pm - Browse the wares of local and regional artists on the grass at Greenlife Grocery.

Spoken & Written Word Asheville Storytelling Circle A nonprofit dedicated to excellence in the oral tradition that affirms various cultures through storytelling, and nourishes the development of emerging and established artists.

Guests and new members always welcome. Info: 274-1123 or 658-4151.

• 3rd MONDAYS, 7pm - Tellers and listeners are invited to come to Asheville Terrace Lobby, 200 Tunnel Road.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBRVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 2506486) n WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 250-4750) • Through FR (10/30) - Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation will be on display. PM. • TH (10/15), 2:30pm Book Club: Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout. SS —7pm - “The Truth About Bird Feeding,” with Chris Jacquette. SW —- 7:30pm - Book Club: Sarah’s Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay. FV. • SU (10/18), 2pm “Local Organic Farming,” a panel discussion with local farmers. FV. • TU (10/20), 2pm - Book Club: Evensong by Gail Godwin —- 7pm - “Raising Urban Chicken: A Step-byStep Guide to Your Own Nest Fresh Eggs,” with Cathy Williams. WA —7pm - Book Club: Fresh Disaster by Stuart Woods.

BM. • WE (10/21), 5pm - Library Knitters meet.

SW —- 3-5pm - Library Knitters meet. SS. • TH (10/22), 6pm “Colored Confederates,” a presentation about African Americans in the Confederate army during the Civil War, with Earl Ijames. PM. Crystal Visions Bookstore Located at 5426 Asheville Hwy., Hendersonville. Info: 687-1193.

• TH (10/22), 7pm - A free presentation on “Exploring the New Frequencies of Healing.”

Events at Accent on Books The bookstore is located at 854 Merrimon Ave. Events are free and open to the public. Info: 252-6255 or www.accentonbooks.com.

• SA (10/17), 11am - Tea party to celebrate the new Winnie-the-Pooh book.

Suitable for children of all ages. Bring your bear and wear your white gloves.

Events at City Lights

City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com.

• FR (10/16), 7pm Poetry reading with Cathy Smith Bowers, author of The Candle I Hold Up to See You. • SA (10/17), 7pm Reading by Bill Hart Jr., the author of 3000 Miles in the Smokies.

• TU (10/20), 7pm - Libby Kephart Hargrave (Horace Kephart’s great-granddaughter) will read from Kephart’s lost novel Smoky Mountain Magic.

Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: 254-6734 or www.malaprops.com.

• WE (10/14), 7pm Teachers and educators of all stripes are welcome to meet and discuss lesson plans, classroom activities, and ideas for stress relief.

• TH (10/15), 5:30pm Women on Words, a poetry workshop for women —- 7pm - UNCA Spanish professor Alice Weldon will present her translation of Gloria Lise’s novel Departing at Dawn.

• FR (10/16), 7pm - Jill McCorkle will discuss her new book of short stories, Going Away Shoes.

• SA (10/17), Noon - Artist Within, a book signing and discussion with author Whitney Ferre —- 2pm - “Fantastic Plastic Crafts Demo,” with Robin and David Edgar —- 4pm - Relix: The Grateful Dead Experience, a book signing with Toni Brown and Ed Munson —- 7pm - CitizenTimes journalist Dale Neal will read from his novel Cow Across America.

• SU (10/18), 3pm Writers at Home: Members of Laura Hope-Gill’s Great Smokies poetry class will share their work.

• MO (10/19), 7pm “Publishing Workshop & Presentation,” with Patrick Miller, the author of The Way of Forgiveness and Understanding a Course in Miracles.

• TU (10/20), 7pm Author and acclaimed visual artist Clarissa Sligh will present her book Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male.

• WE (10/21), 7pm Literary Trivia Night.

• TH (10/22), 7pm - David Magee will read from and sign copies of his book The Education of Mr. Mayfield:

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Events at Montreat College Events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

• SA (10/17), 7pm - Dr. Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, will present a lecture titled “Faith and the Founding of America,” in Anderson Auditorium. A book signing with Dr. William R. Forstchen will follow the lecture. $10/$5 students.

Events at Thomas Wolfe Memorial Located at 52 N. Market St. Info: www.wolfememorial. com or 253-8304.

• FR (10/16), Noon-1pm - Poetry and Picking on the Front Porch with local poet Laura Hope Gill. Bring a chair, pack and lunch and join in the fun. Free.

For Accomplished Asheville Writers Seeking other serious writers for critique group.

Mostly fiction and nonfiction. Info: 658-8217.

• Alternate THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Group meets.

Haywood County Public Library System The main branch is located at 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. The county system includes branches

in Canton, Maggie Valley, Fines Creek and Cruso.

Info: 452-5169 or www. haywoodlibrary.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - Ready 4 Learning. A story time designed for 4 and 5 year olds with a focus on kindergarten readiness.

This story time runs Sept.May. • WEDNESDAYS, 11am - Family story time for children of all ages. We will read books, sing songs, learn finger plays and more.

• THURSDAYS, 11am - Movers & Shakers. This story time for active 2-3 year olds incorporates dance, physical activity, songs and age-appropriate books.

• TUESDAYS, 11am - Family story time at the Fines Creek Branch Library.

We will read books, tell stories, learn songs and finger plays, and do a simple craft. Info: 627-0146.

• TUESDAYS, 11:15am - Family story time for children of all ages at the Canton Branch Library.

We will read books, listen to songs, and learn finger plays. Info: 648-2924.

Henderson County Public Library System

Unless otherwise stated, all events take place in Kaplan Auditorium of the main branch library, located at 301 N. Washington St. in Hendersonville. The county system includes branches in Edneyville, Etowah, Fletcher and Green River.

Info: 697-4725 or www. henderson.lib.nc.us.

• TU (10/20), 4pm - “Let’s Talk About It” Book Club: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.

Osondu Booksellers All events are held at Osondu, 184 North Main St., Waynesville, unless otherwise noted. Info: 4568062 or www.osondubooksellers.com.

• SU (10/19) - The Nonfiction Book Club will discuss Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

WNC Publishing Expo • SA (10/17), 1:305:30pm - Grateful Steps Publishing, an independent publishing house in Asheville, presents the first WNC Publishing Expo at Jubilee, 46 Wall St. Meet authors and publishers while learning about the region’s publishing industry. Free. Info: 277-0998 or laurahopegill@aol.com.

Food Events at Earth Fare South Located at 1856 Hendersonville Rd. Info: 210-0100.

• MO (10/19) - “Eat Well, Live Well: Whole-Foods Cooking Class” featuring soups, stews and chili recipes with Wendy Tran.

Registration required. First class is free.

Events at Westgate Earth Fare Located at 66 Westgate Pkwy.

• TH (10/15), 6:30pm - Canning class, learn how to make apple butter. $20 materials included. Held in the Community Room.

Registration required.

Feria del Mole 2009 • SA (10/17), 7-10am Taste the traditional, homecooked Mexican “moles” and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva.

Great food and great dancing with DJ Baxter. $5.

Madison County Arts Council Events MCAC is located at 90 S. Main St. in Marshall. Info: 649-1301 or www.madisoncountyarts.com.

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The syrup will be slow cooked over a fire. Bring a picnic and musical instruments. RSVP: 380-0756.

Festivals & Gatherings Fall Festival • SA (10/17), 3-7pm - Festival at New Beginnings World Outreach Center, 1 Summit Circle, Hendersonville. Activities, games, prizes, music and drama for all ages. Evening BBQ and concert on the lawn. $8 adults/$5 ages 6 to 12/Free under 6. Tickets & info: www.newbeginningsofhendersonville.org.

Fall! By the Tracks • SA (10/17), 10am-4pm - The 17th annual Fall! By the Tracks festival, featuring craft demonstrations, food, music and more, will be held at The Old Depot on Sutton Ave. in Black Mountain. Info: 69-6583 or www.olddepot.org.

HardLox: Asheville’s Jewish Food & Heritage Festival • SU (10/18), 11am-4pm - Enjoy traditional Jewish foods, like knishes, matzo ball soup and a corned beef sandwich. Learn about Jewish heritage, have your name written in Hebrew, and dance to klezmer music. Outside of the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. Info: www.hardlox.com.

Tryon Arts & Crafts Fall Festival • SA (10/17), 10am-5pm & SU (10/18), 10am-4pm - Shop for handcrafted arts and crafts from juried artisans. Plus, food, live entertainment and crafts for the kids. Held rain or shine at 373 Harmon Field Road in Tryon. Free. Info: www. tryonartsandcrafts.org.

Music African Drumming With Billy Zanski at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St., downtown Asheville.

Drums provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $10 per class.

Drop-ins welcome. Info: 768-2826.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginners.

• SUNDAYS, 1-2pm Intermediates —- 2-3pm - Beginners.

Biltmore Park An outdoor concert series held at Biltmore Park Town Square, in the amphitheater. Free. Info: www. biltmorepark.com.

• SA (10/17), 7-9pm - The Caribbean Cowboys, a Jimmy Buffett cover band, will perform.

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Musical Events Located at 225 West State St. in Black Mountain.

Info: 669-0930 or www.

BlackMountainArts.org.

• SA (10/17), 7:30pm - Benefit concert with Clearwater Collection (contemporary/retro Americana). Min. donation $10. All proceeds will go to the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

Blue Ridge Orchestra Info: 683-4425 or www. blueridgeorchestra.org.

• FR (10/16), 8-10pm 10th season opening concert, featuring Debussy’s “Nocturnes,” Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dance no. 8,” Mozart’s Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” $15/$10 students. Tickets: 2574530 or www.dwtheatre. com.

Concert at the Colonial Theater in Canton • SA (10/17), 7pm - WNC singer-songwriter Lorraine Conard in concert, followed by reception and CD release for Conard’s new album, Riding on Your Wings. Free, but donations will be accepted to support the Haywood County Arts Council. Info: www.

LorraineConard.com.

Country, Bluegrass and More • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 7pm-until - At the Woodfin Community Center. Alcohol and smoke-free, familyfriendly. Free admission.

Snack bar available. Bands welcome. Info: 505-4786.

Events at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville Located at 204 6th Ave, in Hendersonville. Info: 693-4275.

• SU (10/18), 4pm - “4 Hands and Maybe More,” a piano and organ concert featuring musicians Lynn Kitts, Judy Meinzer and Michael S. Brannon, will be performed. Free.

FENCE Events The Foothills Equestrian Nature Center is located in Tryon. Free. Info: 859-9021 or www.fence.org.

• SU (10/18), 4pm - FENCE Family Concert: Organist and pianist Brennan Szafron will perform. Free.

Haywood Community Band Info: 452-7530 or www. haywoodcommunityband. org.

• SU (10/18), 6:30pm Free concert at the pavilion next to the Maggie Valley Town Hall. The concert’s theme will be “Music From Broadway, Film, and TV,” featuring music from Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls and more.

Haywood Community Chorus Membership is open to all interested singers; no auditions are required.

Sponsored in part by The Junaluskans and the Haywood County Arts Council. Info: 452-4075 or 456-1020.

• MONDAYS, 7pm Rehearsal at First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville.

Madison County Arts Council Events MCAC is located at 90 S. Main St. in Marshall. Info: 649-1301 or www.madisoncountyarts.com.

• FR (10/16), 7-10pm & SA (10/17), 10am-4pm - The Bobby Hicks Fiddle Workshop Series: Bobby Hicks with special guest Buddy Spicher.

• SA (10/17), 8pm Swing concert featuring live music by Acoustic Swing, Buddy Spicher and Bobby Hicks. $15.

Music at Mars Hill College Info: 689-1239 or www. mhc.edu.

• TH (10/15), 7:30pm - The Wind Symphony will perform in Moore Auditorium.

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

• FR (10/16), 3pm - Symphony Talk: “Pärt, Bach, Ravel and Mendelssohn,” with conductor Daniel Meyer in the Reuter Center. Free. Info: 251-6140.

• SU (10/18), 4pm - The UNCA Wind Ensemble will perform a concert. $5. Info: 251-6432.

• TU (10/20), 7pm - The UNCA Faculty Concert, featuring Charles McKnight on recorder and Blake Hobby on harpsichord, will be performed in Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. Free.

Info: 251-6432.

Theater A-B Tech Drama Club The club sponsors and produces a variety of productions, performances, workshops and lectures.

Reservations & info: 254-1921, ext. 890 or pcarver@abtech.edu.

• THURSDAYS (10/22) through SATURDAYS (10/31) - Skeered??, an evening of ghosts stories and hauntings with an Appalachian twist, will be performed at the Carriage House Theatre. All performances begin at 7:30pm, with a 2:30pm matinee only on Halloween. $3 A-B Tech students & staff/$5 area students/$10.

Corpus Theatre Collective The company’s mission is to present challenging new theatre and authentic interpretations of existing plays.

• THURSDAYS (10/15) through SATURDAYS (10/24), 7:30pm - 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane will be performed at the BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. There will be a matinee performance at 2pm on Sun., Oct. 18. $10 students/$15. Not recommended for children.

Events at 35below This black box theater is located underneath Asheville Community Theatre at 35 Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or www. ashevilletheatre.org.

• THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (through 10/24), 7:30pm - I Am My Own Wife, the story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who survived both the Nazi and East German Communist regimes.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 6930731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

• Through SU (10/18) - Marty’s El Paso, a show celebrating country music’s most prolific icons. $34.

• WE (10/21) through SU (11/1) - The Woman in Black will be performed.

Showings begin at 8:15pm Wed.-Sat., with 2:15pm matinees Thur.-Sun. $30, with discounts available.

NC Stage Company Performances are at 33 Haywood St. (entrance on Walnut St., across from Zambra’s, in downtown Asheville). Info: 239-0263 or www.ncstage.org.

• WEDNESDAYS (10/21) through SUNDAYS (11/8) - The Beauty Queen of Leenane will be performed.

Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm with Sun. matinees at 2pm.

Opening night is “pay what you can night,” $6 min. donation.

Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre

For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

• TU & WE (10/20 & 21), 8-10pm - L.A. Theatre Works in War of the Worlds and The Lost World, a double bill of chills, thrills and great literature. Two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure. $35.

Theater at Blue Ridge Community College Performances are held in Patton Auditorium at BRCC, Flat Rock. Tickets & info: 694-1849 or jennifers@ blueridge.edu.

• SA (10/17) - Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre presents Peace, Love & Apples: Getting to the Core of Blue Ridge Community College’s Beginnings, a fictional play about the college’s humble beginnings. Dinner will begin at 6:30pm. $40. Info: 6941710 or www.blueridge. edu/40th.php.

Film Classic Movie Screening • SU (10/18), 8pm - See a classic movie in the gardens of the Black Mountain Inn and enjoy roasted marshmallows. Free. Info: 243-4085.

Social Justice Film Night at Unitarian Universalist Located at the corner of Charlotte St. and Edwin Pl. Free, but donations accepted. Discussion follows screenings. Call for childcare. Info: 299-1242 or www.uuasheville.org.

• FR (10/16), 7pm - The Greening of Southie, a film about the Green Revolution being incorporated into commercial and residential buildings in South Boston and across the nation, will be screened.

Dance Asheville Ballroom & Dance Centre • Learn to Dance! (pd.) Groups and Privates available. For more information call (828) 274-8320. www.ashevilleballroom.com Argentine Tango Dancers of all levels welcome. Info: www.tangoasheville.com.

• SATURDAYS, 7:30-10pm - Filo Milongas at 1155 Tunnel Rd. $5.

• SUNDAYS (except 1st), 7-10pm - Practica at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.

Classes at Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre

Classes are by donation and on a drop-in basis.

Classes are held at the New Studio of Dance, 20 Commerce St. in downtown Asheville. Info: www. acdt.org or 254-2621.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Adult Modern.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Adult Ballet.

Dance Events at ASU Performances take place at Appalachian State University’s Farthing Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Ticket prices increase at the door on show nights. Info: (800) 841-ARTS(2787) or www. pas.appstate.edu.

• TH (10/22), 8pm - The Martha Graham Dance Company will perform. $20 adults/$18 seniors/$10 students.

Donation Classes at Asheville Dance Revolution Sponsored by The Cultural Development Group. At 63 Brook St. Info: 277-6777 or ashevilledancerevolution@gmail.com.

• TUESDAYS, 8-9:15pm - Beginning/Intermediate Adult Jazz.

• FRIDAYS, 4-5pm - Boys Dance Combo Class. This is for boys interested in dance. The class touches on all styles of dance for the male dancer —- 67:30pm - African dance with Sarah Yancey featuring live drumming. Open to all. $14.

English Country Dance Series Dance to live music with a live caller. This style of dance may be seen in movie adaptations of Jane Austen novels. $6. Info: 230-8449.

• 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 3-5:30pm - Dance at the Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. Wear comfortable clothes.

Morris Dancing Learn English traditional Morris dances and become a member of one of three local teams as a dancer or musician. Music instruction provided to experienced musicians. Free. Info: 994-2094 or www.ashevillemorris.us.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm Women’s Garland practice held at Reid Center for Creative Art. Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Square dancing is friendship set to music.

Info: 625-9969 or 6984530.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Class in Western-style square dancing at the

Stoney Mountain Activity Center in Hendersonville.

• SA (10/17) - “State Fair” dance. 4pm - Round dance classes —- 6pm - Advanced tips —- 7pm - Early rounds —- 7:30pm - Squares and rounds.

Handicrafts, baked goods and garden items will be judged. At the Whitmire Activity Center, Hendersonville.

• SU (10/18), 2-4pm - “All Hot Hash” dance at Hillandale Elementary School, 900 W. Blue Ridge Road, E. Flat Rock. Caller: Stan Russell.

Studio Zahiya Classes Classes are held at Studio Zahiya, 41 Carolina Lane. $12 drop-in. $40 for four classes, with other discounts available. Info: 242-7595 or LisaZahiya@ gmail.com.

• THURSDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Beginner belly dance for youth ages 12-16 —- 6:30-7:30pm - Bhangra! East Indian high-energy dance.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner belly dance —- 7:10-8:10pm - Drills and skills.

Swing Asheville Info: www.swingasheville.com, 301-7629 or dance@swingasheville. com.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner swing dance lessons in the Lindy Hop style. $10 per person per week for four weeks. No partner necessary. Let your inner dancer out. At Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St. in downtown Asheville.

Auditions & Call to Artists Annual Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Contest Have your holiday-themed artwork appear in color inside one of Xpress’ holiday guides (Dec. 2, 9 & 16) and/or be on display at Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s downtown studio in Dec. Info: mdalton@mountainx.com.

• Through FR (11/20) - Create holiday-inspired art within a squarish space (9.5” H x 10/25” W) and keep the colors bright.

Include name, address, phone, age (if under 18) and parent or guardian’s name (if applicable) with submission. Send or hand deliver art to: 2 Wall St., Asheville, N.C., 28801.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 1-4pm. Located

at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville. Info: 693-8504 or www.acofhc. org.

• FR (10/16), 1-5pm, SA (10/17), 1-4pm & MO (10/19), 1-5pm - Artists and crafters interested in participating in the Holiday Artist Market must submit an application, $15 fee and a sample of their work to the council during these hours. Info: acofhc@bellsouth.net.

Asheville Area Arts Council The Asheville Area Arts Council (AAAC) is at 11 Biltmore Ave. Info: 2580710 or www.ashevillearts. com.

• Through FR (10/23) - Deadline for 2010 gallery applications. Selections for exhibits are recommended by the AAAC’s Gallery Committee and approved by its Board of Directors.

All artists must be at least 18 years old and residents of WNC. Application available online.

Call for Artists for Holiday Market • The third annual Arts and Crafts Holiday Market at Beech Glen Community Center will be held Nov. 7.

Seeking local artists and crafters who would like to participate. Info: 689-5117 or 689-2112.

Call to Artists, Crafters and Makers for The Big Crafty Holiday Event • Through TH (10/22) Application deadline for The Big Crafty on Dec. 6. The holiday event will be held at Pack Place. Sponsored by the Asheville Art Museum.

Apply now at www.thebigcrafty.com.

HOPE • Through FR (10/30) - Call to all artists: Create art from recycled or reused materials on the theme “Hope that we can unite Asheville to comprehensively address homelessness.” Info: AshevilleUnited@gmail. com or 255-5164.

Pumpkin Decorating Contest • Through SA (10/24) - Seeking creative, family-friendly pumpkins.

Pumpkins that are carved will not be accepted.

All pumpkins will be on display at Fatz Cafe on Smokey Park Hwy. through Halloween night. Info: 6659950.

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• The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals operates an assistance-dog program under a $500,000 grant and not only provides the trained dog but also yearly “refresher” sessions to keep the dog sharp. However, client Patricia Frieze told SF Weekly in September that the organization had asked her whether it could do the refresher course this year by telephone instead of a home visit by a trainer.

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Surviving rainy days with the kids Enough already with the ark jokes — yes, we’ve had a helluva lot of rain this fall, and while it’s pulled Western North Carolina out of a five-plus year drought, it’s also caused some problems, including drowned crops, floods, wet basements and hyper kids.

I don’t want to diminish the losses to area apple growers or damage caused to homes and businesses by flooding. But I do need some help working the sillies out of my kids, who’ve been cooped up, both at home and school, for way too many stormy hours.

Yes, there are screens — TV, computer and handheld video.

Yes, there are books and board games and art supplies. All of the above can keep my two entertained for hours. However, we have screen time rules (an hour per day), and the other activities are fairly sedentary.

Kids need exercise to burn off that excess energy. If only I could siphon off some of it, bottle it, and drink a bit every afternoon around four o’clock. Because, of course, the time that I’m at my low point each day seems to be the hour my kids hit warp drive. My kids sleep better, eat better and most importantly, act better, if they get a daily dose of exercise.

I have yet to resort to my friend Matt’s high-energy indoor soc-

cer games for his four kids — not much floor space in my house and too many breakables. But I have discovered some ways for my two to burn it off during bad weather.

• Dance party. Turn up the music and rock. Luckily, my kids now like some of “my” music (U2, REM, Avett Brothers), so I no longer have to listen to “kid-friendly” musak. If your kids are still there, I recommend Asheville-residents Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and Billy Jonas for dance party sounds. Encourage kids to do hiphop moves — surefire energy burners. Work it out, babies!

• Play with the dog. Tug of war, puppy wrassling, chase and ball play can wear out both kids and our Dorkie poo mutt. The challenge is to keep kids from throwing a tennis ball higher than knee level inside (good luck with that). Downside: the kids get bored before the Biscuit does, often necessitating parent-puppy playtime.

• Monster. Wrestling matches on our queen-sized bed involving lots of growls, grunts, and boy noises. Daddy, boy and dog love this game. Downsides: Mama’s too old and tired for wrassling, and the girl’s getting too eye-rollingly mature. Plus, boys (and by boys I’m including one adult here) have broken a lamp, a glass photo frame and turned over several bedside glasses of water — all in the past month of rains.

• Hide and seek. A great game for kids once they’re 4 or 5years-old and older. I learned the hard way not to teach hide and seek to a three-year-old when my girl hid inside a rack of clothes at a department store. About one minute into my “I’ve lost my kid” panic, I heard a muffled giggle at knee level.

• Plays. Let kids write, practice and perform their own plays.

This can keep a gaggle of elementary-school-aged kids occupied for a long time. Downsides include Mama spending lots of time helping with costumes and set designs. Also, set design always seems to require rearrangement of most of the furniture in the house.

• Cooking and cleaning. Our boy doesn’t mind vacuuming if he can listen to loud music at the same time and use the vacuum hose attachment as a pretend light saber. I wonder if a cleanish floor is worth his resultant hearing loss. Yes, I think it is. Lots of kids also like to help cook, but mine aren’t quite to the level of cleaning the kitchen after there’s been a batter explosion. From an energy burn standpoint, make something that needs to be kneaded. Playing with dough is fun.

So, that’s my current repertoire. Got other ideas for rainy day house arrest? I’d love to hear them. X

Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www.edgymama.com.

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Keene, LPC, 828-318-3991, tracy@KeeneCounseling.com • 13 1/2 Eagle Street, Suite P, Asheville, 28801. www.KeeneCounseling.com Odyssey Center For Ceramic Arts: 6 Week Kid’s Classes • Birthday Parties (pd.) Classes begin October 20, Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays, 4-6pm, ages 6-12. Enrollment limited. • Parties: 1:30-3:30pm, Saturdays, Sundays.

• Registration: (828) 285-0210. • Information: www.highwaterclays.com La Leche League Meetings • 3rd MONDAYS, 7pm - Monday Evenings: Meeting at Awakening Heart, Merrimon Ave. Pregnant moms, babies and toddlers welcome. Info: 713-3707 or 254-5591.

Parents Night Out at the YMCA of WNC Take a night off and let your kids have fun at the YMCA. Activities for ages 2-12 include swimming, arts and crafts, an inflatable obstacle course, snacks and movies. Register at least 24 hours in advance. Fridays: $12/$24 nonmembers. Saturdays: $15/$30 nonmembers. Info: www.ymcawnc.org or 210-YMCA. • 1st SATURDAYS, 6-10pm & 3rd FRIDAYS, 6:30-9:30pm - Parents Night Out. Surviving the Teenage Years • MO (10/19), 5:30pm - Resource Fair —- 6:30pm - Program featuring renowned speaker and author Susie Vanderlip and her Legacy of Hope. For

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Toddler Fun A free group that provides an opportunity for parents to have some structured fun with their toddlers including 45 minutes of songs, stories, finger-plays, parachute play and more. To register: 213-8098 or shantisunshine@gmail. com.

• TUESDAYS, 9:30am-10:15am - Toddler Fun. At the Reuter YMCA in the Mission Hospitals Room. Call 213-8098 to register.

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More than 10 bands are showing up for this go-round, performing at venues like Guadalupe CafĂŠ and Big Rickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and the only admission is the donation of items for the local Community Table. Proceeds from T-shirts also go to organizations that support local vets.

The upcoming incarnation, to be held Oct. 16 and 17, pairs the Benefits Calendar for October 14 - 22, 2009 A Roarinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mystery â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17) - Dinner, cocktails and mystery theater will be a part of this fundraiser for The Health Adventure at On Broadway in downtown Asheville. Actors from Nightshade Mystery Theatre will perform. Tickets & info: 254-6373, ext. 307.

Arts For Life A nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives and healthcare experiences of children and adolescents battling cancer and other serious illnesses. Info: www.aflnc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (10/22), 4-8pm & FR & SA (10/24), 10am-6pm - First annual Arts and Crafts Market at 30 Cedarcliff Road in Biltmore Forest to raise funds for Arts For Life. Pottery, textiles, jewelry and many other art-and-craft items.

Asheville Catholic Rummage Sale â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 7am-1pm - 100+ family sale. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothes, toys, household items, books, DVDs, sporting goods, toys, furniture, appliances and more. At ACS School Gym, 12 Culvern St., off Beaverdam, behind Merrimon Ave. Ingles. All proceeds support Asheville Catholic School. Cash only. Info: 252-7896.

Barnardsville Fire Department Fundraiser â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 5-8pm - Enjoy gospel music and familyfriendly fun at the fire department on Dillingham Road.

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Benefit Concert & Supper â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/16) - Benefit for a child, Olivia Landreth, who has undergone many medical procedures, and whose family now needs financial assistance. 5:30pm - Supper â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- 7pm - The Simple Faith Quartet & The Moss Family will sing, followed by a raffle. At Leicester Elementary Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auditorium. Info: 683-6474.

Benefit for Grace Lutheran Church â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 7-11:30am - The preschool yard sale will feature furniture, clothing, toys, crafts, books, DVDs, jewelry, sports equipment, antiques and more. Plus, baked goods. Proceeds benefit the preschool program. Located at 1245 6th Ave. W. Hendersonville. n Donations will be accepted on Oct. 15 & 16, from 8:30-11am.

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local event with a national one. The day before, on Oct. 15, the Vietnam Moving Memorial Wall â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an extension of the memorial in Washington D.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will arrive in Sylva, escorted by an estimated 3,000 bikers.

And this time, the Play4Peace folks are are also encouraging vets to participate in a collection of interviews at First Baptist Church on Main Street in Sylva. The project comes with the participation of Western Carolina University cinematography and history professors, and will be used to produce a documentary on the experiences of veterans living in the Southern Appalachians and Western North Carolina. Veterans interested in participating can make appointments to be interviewed by visiting Play4Peace.com or calling (704) 6404495.

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Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 458-7778 or www.bwar.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SA & SU (10/17 & 18), 9am-3pm - Flea Market. A fundraising yard sale to benefit homeless animals in need will be held at 31 Glendale Ave. All proceeds will go to BWAR. Dark Wood Hollow Haunted Trail â&#x20AC;˘ FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/16 through 10/31), darkMidnight - The trail is located at I-26, exit 5 Campobello, 875 Christopher Road. $10 admission. Proceeds will go to benefit the operations fund of the American Red Cross, Polk County. Info: 289-4191 or 894-2700.

Enka/Candler Fire Dept. Auxiliary Bazaar â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 10am-8pm & SU (10/18), 12:30-6pm - Fundraising bazaar at the Biltmore Square Mall.

Something for everyone, from activities for the kids to a raffle of donated arts and crafts. Free admission.

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Inflatables, balloon animals, Bubbles the Clown, raffle tickets and more. Info: 645-4375.

Fundraiser for Isaac Dickson Elementary â&#x20AC;˘ WE (10/21), 6-7:30pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Setting Your Kids Up for Success with Feng Shui,â&#x20AC;? a fundraising seminar for parents. All proceeds will go to Isaac Dickson. Leslie Grotenhuis from Asheville Feng Shui will offer down-toearth solutions for creating a supportive environment for kids. $20. Info: Leslie@Ashevillefengshui.com.

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Info: www.LightShare.net. â&#x20AC;˘ 3rd MONDAYS, 4-8pm - Beef Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, located at 2625 Hendersonville Road in Arden, will donate a portion of their revenue to LightShare. Enjoy a night out while supporting programs that provide food, clothing and more to the under served.

MANNA Food Bank MANNA helps alleviate hunger in WNC by processing donated food for distribution throughout WNC. Located at 627 Swannanoa River Road. Info: 299-3663 or mannafoodbank.org. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (10/16), 11am & 2pm - The 8th annual Empty Bowls Lunch will be held at the DoubleTree Biltmore Hotel, 115 Hendersonville Road. Lunch will be served and guests can pick a hand-crafted bowl to keep. Plus, live

music by the DeCapo Trio. $20 minimum donation. Info: www.emptybowls.net.

Soco Fat Motorcycle Ride â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 10am - Registration for the 2nd annual Fall Colors ride begins. Ride leaves at 11am from Lake Junaluska. $25 includes lunch, a T-shirt and door prize.

Proceeds benefit the 30th Judicial District Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of agencies serving victims of domestic violence. Info: www.30thalliance.org.

Special Olympics Buncombe County Bowling Tournament â&#x20AC;˘ SA (10/17), 11am-2pm & 6-9pm - Semi-Annual Spare Me Bowling Tournament and silent auction at AMF Star Lanes. 11am game time for families; 6pm time for adults only. $20 per person entry fee. Benefits the athletes of Special Olympics Buncombe County. Info: 250-6702. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tits and Tatsâ&#x20AC;? Breast Cancer Research Fundraiser â&#x20AC;˘ SU (10/18), 10am-10pm - A 12-hour pink ribbon tattoo marathon will be the centerpiece of Freaks-n-Geeks Tattoo Sideshowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breast cancer research fundraiser in Oct. Clients may choose pink ribbon designs for $35.

All proceeds will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Info: 254-4429.

Transylvania County Library Located at 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard. Info: 884-3151. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (10/18) - Book Sale. Nearly 20,000 used books will be available, ranging from best sellers to biographies to childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books. Thurs. and Fri. all books will be sold at half price. On Sat., all books for $4/box.

Used Cell Phone Drive â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (10/31) - Collection boxes at the Lakeview Senior Center, Carver Community Center, Black Mountain Town Hall and the Chamber of Commerce. Through Cellular Recycler, used cell phones will be recycled and 90% of what each phone is worth will go to Lakeview Senior Center programs. Info: 669-8610.

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Drawing the line on greenhouse gases: The global-local 350 movement UNC-Asheville senior Ellie Johnston wonders what her world will be like in the year 2050. That’s the target date currently bandied about by world leaders for halving greenhouse-gas emissions. By that time, most of those world leaders will be, well, dead and gone. Johnston, on the other hand, will be a spry 63, she calculates. “Hopefully, I’ll be alive and well, but these [emission targets] are about future generations — my adulthood and the children who come after me,” she says.

With that in mind, Johnston has joined a worldwide movement urging those leaders — Americans included — to aim for a far more ambitious, much quicker reduction in emissions. Lead by 350.org, the movement aims to reduce carbon-dioxide levels to 350 parts per million. That’s the level that “scientists are telling us is safe for humans and other life on the planet,” says Johnston.

Citing some of the latest data, she argues that we need to target that figure now if we’re to prevent drastic species loss, wide-scale melting of the polar ice caps and a dramatic sea-level rise that floods lowland cities and countries.

Johnston has been picked by SustainUS.org to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, this December as part of a global youth delegation charged with bringing the issue to the attention of the world leaders as they negotiate a climate-change treaty. And, joined by Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy and local climate-simulation expert Drew Jones, she will also be speaking at a Saturday, Oct. 24, event in Asheville, sponsored by the Western North Carolina Alliance. The gathering will be one of almost 2,000 demonstrations being held in 145 countries for the International Day of Climate Action.

She met with Xpress to discuss the event, which will be held from 2-4 p.m., and the 350 target. Fellow event organizers Tracy Kunkler and Jim Barton joined in the conversation.

“Throughout most of human history, CO2 levels have been at about 275 ppm,” says Kunkler, representing the Alliance. But those levels started a meteoric rise with the advent of industrialization in the 19th century and, more recently, the doubling of human population in the last 50 years to almost 7 billion, she explains.

About the time Barton was born in the 1950s, CO2 levels were at 308 ppm. Now we’re pushing 390 and seeing some alarming signs of climate change, such as faster-than-expected ice melts at the poles, says Barton, founder of the Smith Mill Permaculture School in West Asheville.

Johnston likens the movement’s urgent message to “telling someone who has untreated high blood pressure, ‘You’re not dead

Visual aids: Local 350.org folks plan to stage a human design like this one to urge world leaders to aim for the ambitious limit of 350 parts per million greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. photo courtesy 350.org

yet, but if you don’t do something, you will be.’”

“We’re at the point now where we must take action or have runaway climate change,” says Kunkler.

Are changes at the individual level — opting to bicycle to work, switching to energy-saving light bulbs and the like — enough to slow climate change?

Probably not, say all three. “We have to have consider changes at the policy level,” says Kunkler.

“At every level,” Johnston interjects. “From the grassroots, individual level to North Carolina energy-efficiency legislation to [related bills] in the U.S. Congress to the Copenhagen negotiations, all of those things have to happen,” she insists.

The climate-change issue was made more real for Johnston during two fairly recent trips: On a school-break hike in the Pacific Northwest, she recalls approaching an area marked on a current map as having a huge glacier, “but we came over the peak, and there was nothing but a small ice field. [That] was all that was left.” She found a similar situation in a Peruvian valley dubbed by natives “the blanket of the lion,” except that the blanket — a glacier — had receded, leaving the rocky “lion” exposed.

Kunkler acknowledges the high level of youth involvement in both the local event and the worldwide efforts urging 350 as our target and not the higher numbers accepted as little as two years ago. She tells Johnston, “You recognize this problem as your future, [but] many people think we still have 10 or 20 years left to address it — even those informed about climate-change. There’s a kind of fog.”

The time for changing our path is right now, Kunkler urges.

Johnston agrees, noting that state, federal and international policy makers are all currently debating bills and treaties that address various elements of climate change. Asheville’s Oct. 24 event will be focusing on the 350 target and sending a message: At 3:50 p.m., in front of City Hall on the new Roger McGuire Green, participants will arrange themselves as the number 350, take a picture from above and add it to a “gigantic, global, visual petition” to those leaders, she explains.

Barton adds another perspective, mentioning that he was in the sixth grade when the first Earth Day was held and a grown man when NASA scientist Jim Hansen warned of climate change in 1988. He thought then and he’s convinced now, “Climate change is real, and we should do something.”

For more information, visit asheville350.org X Send your environmental news to mvwilliams@mountainx.com or call 251-1333, ext. 152.

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• TUESDAYS (through 11/24), Noon - Lunchtime Litter Walks. Meet at Pritchard Park. We’ll choose a new route each time to pick up litter for a one-hour period. Supplies are provided. Call or e-mail volunteers@ashevillegreenworks.org.

ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. West, Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org.

• SU (10/18), 12:30pm - Eco-tour: A two-hour canoe paddle on the Henderson County section of the French Broad River. Equipment provided. Open to participants who are able to help carry a canoe.

Contact ECO to register.

Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society Events Open to birders of all experience levels. Info: 254-7618, eljeep129@charter.net or http://main. nc.us/emas/.

• TU (10/20), 7pm - Two volunteers with Appalachian Bear Rescue will describe what bears are doing and eating month by month through the year. The meeting will be held in room 206 of the Reuter Center, UNCA. Mountain Green Series Offered by Warren Wilson College’s Environmental Leadership Center, the series consists of guest speakers and a walking tour. Programs will be held in Canon Lounge, Gladfelter. RSVP: 771-3781. Free.

Info: www.mountaingreenwnc.org.

• FR (10/16), 1-2:45pm - The Green Walkabout introduces participants to the best practices for building green. To RSVP: scross@warren-wilson. edu —- 3-5pm - Joe Minicozzi will present “Case Studies in Sustainability,” derived from his work with the Asheville Design Center.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Hwy. 276 N. Programs are free,

but registration is required. Info: 877-4423 or www. ncwildlife.org.

• SA (10/17), 9-11am - Eco Explorers: “Tracking.”

Explore the exciting world of animal tracking. For ages 8-13 —- 1-3pm - Nature Nuts presents “Wood Ducks.” Learn about the wood duck’s remarkable comeback and find out what is still being done to ensure their future populations. For ages 4-7. Free.

Registration required.

• TU (10/20) through TH (10/22), 6-9:30pm Hunter Safety Education Course. This course covers hunter responsibility, wildlife conservation and management, firearms, wildlife identification, survival and more.

RiverLink Events RiverLink, WNC’s organization working to improve life along the French Broad, sponsors a variety of river-friendly events. Info: 252-8474 or www. riverlink.org.

• 3rd THURSDAYS (Sept.-Dec.), Noon-2pm - Bus Tours. See and hear about plans for the river’s future, learn local history and visit neighborhoods.

Meet in front of Asheville City Hall. $15 for nonmembers. BYO lunch. Reservations are required.

Wild Birds Unlimited Events Located at 1997 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

Info: 687-9433 or www.asheville.wbu.com.

• FR (10/16), 10:30am - “Our Familiar Birds of WNC,” at Infinity Investment in Arden. Info: DFrizsell@nextfinancial.com.

• SA (10/17), 8am-Noon - Beaver Lake Work Day. Info: oedsche@mindspring.com or www.main. nc.us/emas —- 8am - Birdwalk at The Orchard, Altapass, Mitchell County, milepost 328. Info: CrabillV@aol.com —- 9am - Transylvania County Bird Club’s fall birdwalk. Info: mbarg@citcom.net.

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Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project this fall hosted its first-ever Local Food Institute, designed to familiarize local-food-market developers from Tennessee to Toledo with ways to energize their economies.

For three days, participants tromped around downtown Asheville, eating lunch in the Isaac Dickson cafeteria, touring Greenlife Grocery and confabbing with the tourism officials whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve crafted the Foodtopian Society initiative, helping to thrust edible experiences to the top of many

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According to Hossfeld, pervasive poverty in southeastern North Carolina has kept local food from finding a foothold: “People here are just concerned about eating, so they’re not concerned about where it comes from,” she says. Still, she’s working with colleagues to support limitedresource farmers by driving up demand for their products. That’s no easy task in a region where the big money’s spent by visiting tourists who come to the coast craving fried shrimp, not freshly picked peanuts.

While nobody involved in the Institute disputed Hossfeld’s description of the challenges she’d faced while trying to stimulate a vibrant local-food scene, her difficulties provoked an onslaught of suggestions from fellow enrollees at the opening night dinner. Was she working with local schools? Had she consulted local chefs? Did her organization have an informative Web site?

(Yes, yes and yes.)

“I’m overwhelmed,” Hossfeld sighed over a hearty group breakfast at Early Girl Eatery the following morning. “I’ll just have to listen.”

There was certainly no shortage of conversations on which to listen in. The institute’s nearly two-dozen participants spent much of their limited free time swapping philosophies and floating theories that reflected their home soil as surely as the tomatoes that grew in it this summer.

Noah Ranells, for example, was a stickler for accountability. Agricultural coordinator for the largely urban Orange County, N.C., Ranells believes restaurants should be forced to reveal what percentage of food on their menu is derived from local sources.

“That’s one of the things I’m interested in pushing,” Ranells said, visibly disappointed that Early Girl’s owner Julie Stehling — whose localfood credentials are considered impeccable by serious Asheville eaters — couldn’t immediately calculate a local-to-imported ratio.

“What’s the percentage?” he continued. “I’m way beyond finding the phrase ‘we use local whenever possible’ acceptable.”

ASAP hasn’t ever endorsed such a hard-

line strategy, as its executive director, Charlie Jackson, explained. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Asheville model of local-food culture is fairly inclusive, attributing the very best intentions to its adherents.

“These restaurants need the full spectrum of fruits and vegetables, and they need them yearround,” Jackson said after considering Ranells’ suggestion. “We start with people where they are.”

Ranells shook his head, still affable but apparently not persuaded.

“The fear I have is folks who don’t have integrity,” he emphasized. “I’m just looking for a threshold.”

“But it’s different for every place!” protested Emily Jackson, director of ASAP’s farm-to-school program.

“We want to make it as open as we possibly can,” Charlie Jackson added. “We want to make it as easy as we possibly can.”

Making local food easy for restaurateurs, eaters, farmers, grocers, school systems and city leaders was at the very heart of the Institute’s programming, which officially kicked off with a short lecture by Charlie Jackson.

“One thing is to learn what we did, but I really want you to learn why we did it,” Jackson told the enrollees. “It is a mountain solution. Parts of it are going to be very applicable, but you don’t just take something you’ve seen somewhere else and plop it into your community. We want you to be thinking about what you want to do when you get home.”

After returning from Asheville, Hossfeld’s team decided to vigorously pursue a branding project they’d previously explored.

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THE GREEN SAGE: Downtown Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resident green-leaning cafĂŠ has introduced a food-delivery system as environmentally sound as its recycling practices: The Green Sage is now using a bicycle to deliver food orders around downtown on weekdays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to be ecologically friendly,â&#x20AC;? explains owner Al Kirshner. While the restaurant prefers for its customers to place their orders at least one day in advance, Kirshner says day-of orders can sometimes be accommodated. To learn more, call 252-4450.

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by Rebecca Sulock There are a few key points you learn at URTV 101, the free weekly orientation to Asheville’s public-access station.

No. 1: URTV is not paid for with taxpayer money.

No. 2: The channel is set up as a First Amendment-flexing, free-speech forum.

No. 3: There’s only one thing you won’t see on the channel: Commercials.

No. 4: It’s open to everyone.

“Every type of person you can imagine in Asheville is at URTV,” says Fyffe Aschenbrenner, a URTV member. “It seems to me that URTV really represents the community — it’s not just a place for people to play around and be freaky. There’s plenty of religious shows, every kind of music is represented, talking heads with their speaking engagements, everything.”

To elaborate on the first point: Charter Cable subscribers pay the majority of URTV’s budget ($246,000 last year; the rest comes from membership and course fees, grants and other services the station offers, such as transferring VHS tapes to DVDs).

Although the cable-subscriber funds are administered by the city of Asheville and Buncombe County, the notion that people’s taxes go to support the station is a misconception.

As far as No. 2 goes, programs can be about pretty much anything, so long as they’re not commercial (shows can’t be used to promote businesses, for example), don’t violate any laws, and abide by URTV’s fairly flexible standards of acceptability. URTV is on Charter channel 20, or view it as a live webcast at urtv.org.

Another key point: If you use URTV’s equipment, you’ve got to put programming on the channel. That is, if you learn how to shoot video on URTV cameras, you’ve got to run something on URTV at least one time. After that, the copyright for the program is yours.

And a broad mix of programs it is, with such titles as Be Healed in Jesus Name, Veterans Voices, The Mad Monk of Montford, Plants and Their Friends, Art Seen Asheville and Citizens Speak. The producers of individual shows often end up working together, sharing tips and helping each other out.

“Literally every day, our media center brings together people across lines of politics, class and life experience,” says Program Director Curt Arledge. “I don’t know of any other place in this area where Republicans, Greens and Anarchists share ideas and work together with civility.”

URTV by the numbers $75: Cost of annual local membership at the media center $50: Cost of certification courses in using field gear, video editing and studio production $0: Cost of renting equipment/facility, once certified 24: Hours per day URTV is on the air 0: Number of commercials on URTV 3: Years URTV has been in operation >1,000: Hours of use for URTV’s main studio in 2009 $144,577: The market value of the above figure $0: Amount of taxpayer money URTV receives 1-10 p.m.: Operating hours TuesdaySaturday (1-8 p.m. on Saturday) 6 p.m.:Time of weekly free walk-in orientation on Wednesdays For more information, visit www.urtv. org.

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Your TV: Learn how to use a camera and edit footage, then air your program (on practically any topic) on public access station URTV. TOP photo by jonathan welch, BOTTOM PHOTO COURTESY URTV

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Two years ago, Bruce Kennedy had no experience in what he calls “commercial storytelling” — that is, using the equipment and technology to create video.

“Within short order, and at very low cost, I was on the air with my first documentary, The Why? of Tai Chi, and a semi-regular satire show, Our Human Race,” Kennedy says in an e-mail.

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“The professional level of training I received from the URTV staff produced this miraculous and sudden transformation.”

URTV offers two studios, an editing room and a host of high-tech cameras and mics that members can take into the field once they’ve been certified.

“They’ve got some wonderful equipment. You can do anything with that stuff,” says Rob Speer, host of Blues and News, a popular program that

mixes blues guitar and underground-news footage.

It costs $75 to become a URTV member. After that, you pay a similar fee for classes, and can learn everything from producing a live program in massive, three-camera Studio A, to editing software such as iMovie and the Final Cut suites.

Some critics say URTV isn’t necessary because of the advent of YouTube and Twitter, Webbased platforms that enable people to connect and share information, says Jonathon Czarny, the station’s manager “Those services only work for people who have their own equipment and already know how to use it,” he says. “URTV provides facilities, equipment, training and a group of people who exchange ideas, energy and expertise to help one another improve their skills and shows.”

What to watch

“The people who use this facility and the programming are as diverse as Asheville itself,” says producer Chris Wingate.

Wingate is a testament to that. With URTV equipment, he has documented political events,

helped small family co-op farmers make a training video for their equipment, produced a series on health-care reform, filmed reggae star Michael Franti reading his children’s books at the Lake Eden Arts Festival and is working on a series of training videos for whitewater-rafting guides.

“If you’ve only seen a few programs, you might think that all URTV programming is silly Wayne’s World stuff or really conservative. But we’ve really got a little bit of everything. That’s one of the coolest aspects of URTV, that anyone willing to spend the time and effort can have a voice.”

Success stories include Global Report TV (formerly the print-based Asheville Global Report).

Three years ago, the paper’s staff started producing their blend of under-reported news as a video program. Not long after, Free Speech TV picked up the program to show via the Dish satellite network.

“The Global Report is forever indebted to URTV,” says host Eamon Martin. “It has supplied our organization with top-notch resources, trained several of our volunteers and provided our news program with a launch pad to be broadcast.”

At URTV, you can make shows weekly or whenever inspiration hits you. You can produce a live studio show or tape shows out in the community.

“It’s amateur media, and unlike commercial media, it is 100 percent real and local,” says program director Arledge.

And local amateur media often looks a lot more, well, amateur than the slick stuff on other channels. But it serves a very different purpose, its users say.

“URTV is important because it offers citizens a way to utilize a particular medium that, up until the advent of public-access TV, was largely controlled by privately owned corporate interests,” says producer and videographer David Connor Jones.

Jones, too, has produced some disparate programs: His first series, Ashe-vegas Music Television, featured local bands playing live at local venues.

He also helped with the initial production of the Global Report, and now works on a weekly documentary program. “The station is a vital extension of the First Amendment in an age of mass media,” he says.

“How people choose to use that liberty varies considerably. Some folks may use it to do a talk show about UFOs. Some may showcase local bands, or actors engaged in a play, or a stand-up comedy routine. Someone might use it to showcase his daughter’s dance recital. Others might discuss political matters.”

URTV’s staffers say that if you’ve got an idea, come on down to the studios, at 31 College Place in Asheville.

“People might not know how easy it is to get involved,” Czarny says. “Simply put, any resident of WNC can use URTV’s resources to make their own TV show. You make it, we air it.” X For more information, including program schedules and membership and training opportunities, visit www.urtv.org or call 255-8848.

Rebecca Sulock can be reached at rsulock@ mountainx.com.

What’s on URTV?

A look at some program highlights

Ready for your closeup: At URTV, budding producers can make shows weekly, or whenever the inspiration strikes. photo by jonathan welch

by Curt Arledge • Jonathan’s Journey Category: Inspiration. Regular time slot: Weekly, Sundays at 5 p.m.

Jonathan’s Journey is a true “reality show,” chronicling the day-to-day travels, interactions and opinions of local producer Jonathan Selby. Though Christian in orientation, Jonathan’s Journey draws on Selby’s rich cultural background – including experiences in the Hippie movement, corporate America, human-service work, and a period as an Amish schoolteacher – to highlight the variety of opinions and worldviews of the people he meets in Buncombe County and WNC. • Hotel Propaganda Category: Arts & Culture. Regular time slot: Standalone programming, check schedule at urtv.org.

This year, after three years and 83 episodes, the long-running weekly underground-music show Mount Dungeon came to an end. Out of the ashes comes a brandnew local-music showcase produced by a veritable supergroup of prolific URTV producers, including former Dungeon host Matt Howard, Johnny Lemuria (of URTV late-night show The Pleasure Saucer), Larry Grillo and Michael Folliett (The Wallpaper Project), Nick Iway and Marcia Grillo (both of various standalone projects). With one episode completed and more on the way, keep an eye out for Hotel Propaganda.

• The Global Report Category: First Amendment. Regular time slot: Weekly, Mondays at 6:30 p.m.

The Global Report covers news that is

underreported by mainstream media, exposing abuse of power and advocating for social change. Since 2006, URTV has supplied the studio and volunteer training for TGR, which is now broadcast nationally on Dish Network via Free Speech TV. This locally produced show (formerly called the Asheville Global Report) can easily be seen several times a week in tens of millions of homes across the country, alongside programs such as Democracy Now. • News & Blues Category: Community Issues. Regular time slot: Weekly, Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m.

Hailing from Binghamton, N.Y., where he produced a popular local public-access TV show, Rob Speer now brings News & Blues to an audience in Buncombe County.

Beginning each show by picking some blues on his vintage Fender Telecaster, Speer then challenges accepted beliefs with passionate commentary on subjects such as the hidden truths of 9/11, the fraud of the Fed and chemtrails in the sky.

Speer embraces the “conspiratorial” and lets the viewer be the judge.

• Spirit of Civitan Category: Community Issues. Regular time slot: Stand alone programming, check schedule at urtv.org.

Many local organizations take advantage of URTV’s training, equipment and channel space to increase their visibility and community outreach. Spirit of Civitan showcases notable moments from the club’s meetings, including guest speakers on the I-26 Connector and from the WNC

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Film Commission, local public officials like Mayor Terry Bellamy and Police Chief Bill Hogan, and annual Good Citizenship Awards for local students.

• Nick Zorro Iway Presents Category: Multiple. Regular time slot: Standalone programming, check schedule at urtv.org.

Like many other talented URTV producers, Nick Iway is a frequent contributor of eclectic standalone programming (not a weekly or biweekly series). Past projects include Unrelenting Entertainment, a blend of music videos, short films, investigative reporting and comedy; Building Ideal Relationships, a panel discussion with local couples; and Asheville 48 Hour Film Project Wrap-up, a live show featuring short films and interviews with local participants of that competition. Programs to look for include WNC Hope House, about a safe house for local victims of the child-sex trade; Christian-music program Lakehouse Music Studio; and a pilot for a soap opera.

• URTV Studio Certification Live Category: Multiple. Regular Time Slot: Final Thursday of the month, 8:30 p.m.

Every month, URTV offers certification courses for its field gear, editing and studio. The final session of URTV’s Studio Certification course puts the students live on URTV for a 30-minute program of their own creation. Some students work the control-room video switcher, some man the studio cameras and others appear in front of the camera on live television.

Going live makes sure that new producers are comfortable with the studio and have one completed show under their belts.

Once certified, producers are eligible to reserve studio time for live or taped programs as often as availability permits – for free.

• The Ellen B Show Category: Arts & Culture. Regular time

slot: Mondays, 8 p.m.

Since 2007, Ellen Braverman has been a consistent weekly contributor to URTV’s programming lineup. On her weekly halfhour variety/talk show, Braverman interviews guests on a wide range of topics, including politics, culture, health, the environment, life & death, belief systems, acupuncture, belly dancing, golf and dreams.

The conversation is fun and engaging, and even serious subjects are addressed with the characteristic humor and warmth of Ellen B. • Art Seen Asheville Category: Arts & Culture. Regular time slot: Standalone programming, check schedule at urtv.org.

A longtime staple of URTV’s Arts & Culture programming, Art Seen Asheville shines a light on the world of Asheville’s creative community. Producer Ursula Gullow (a regular contributor to Xpress) visits visual artists, writers and performers in their places of work to discuss topics such as creative blocks, dealing with galleries, rejection letters and installing an art show. Gullow draws on her own artistic instincts to create a well-paced program that is visually stimulating, educational and promotes passionate advocacy of the local artistic community.

• A Closer Look Category: Community Issues. Regular time slot: Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

A Closer Look host Keynon Lake examines the area’s best programs for underprivileged youth. Past programs have highlighted foster parenting, summer camps, high-school drop-out prevention, the Asheville City Schools Foundation and URTV’s own Summer Youth Video Camp. X Curt Arledge is program director at URTV.

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A Mountain Homecoming is the name of the Asheville Symphony’s Saturday, Oct. 17, concert. The description reads, “We continue to present music of exotic regions.” Featured composers include Estonian-born Arvo Part, the Germans Felix Mendelssohn and Johann Sebastian Bach and French Impressionist composer Joseph-Maurice Ravel.

Is it a bit of a contradiction to feature such far-flung orchestral works at a homecoming show? Perhaps not: The featured soloist, Munich, Germany-based violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, is actually an Asheville native.

“I’m looking forward to it. It’s always nice to come home, but it’s especially nice when I get the chance to perform here since I know so many people in the community,” BendixBalgley tells Xpress. The soloist and chamber musician (meaning he usually performs with

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a small group rather than a vast orchestra) is a Thibaud competition medalist, winner of a Hochschule Concerto Competition, a member of the Weinberger Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland since 2007 and concertmaster of the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra in Dresden, Germany last year. But — perhaps surprisingly — Bendix-Balgley has never soloed with the Asheville Symphony.

The young performer will remedy that situation with two impressive (and very different) pieces: Bach’s “Concerto No. 2 in E Major” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”

According to Bendix-Balgley, Bach is “one of the masters you always go back to. I always discover new things in the music.”

The violin concerto which Bendix-Balgley will perform was written in the 18th century, which means the well-loved piece has had ample time to gain popularity among classical music listeners. “Everyone’s put their stamp on it,” Bendix-Balgley says of the time-tested opus. “I have to decide what direction I need to take it and what I want to bring out in the piece.”

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The violinist has another passion: Modern compositions. In fact, his Web site lists him as both a composer in his own right and “an enthusiastic promoter of new music.”

“With a modern piece of music, it’s a little more wide open, because it has not been played so much,” he explains. “But that can be a challenge because it’s difficult to understand.” So listeners needn’t feel dense in the face of new music: “Even a musician like myself doesn’t get it right away.”

Though Bendix-Balgley is up to the task of programming a modern creation, he understands that many audiences are “more interested in going to hear what they’re familiar with.” Bach’s concerto fits that bill. BendixBalgley describes its first and third movements as “joyful; almost danceable.”

Born in Asheville, Bendix-Balgley first picked up a violin at age 4. He says that by age 7 or 8 he knew he wanted to be a career musician, and when his family moved to California a couple years later, he continued his music studies at The Crowden School in Berkeley. A Wells Scholarship from Indiana University allowed him to study abroad for a year, and he found a good fit in a postgrad program in Munich under the tutelage of Professor Ana Chumachenco. Though Bendix-Balgley admits that aspiring to be a soloist and chamber musician is more difficult than seeking a career as a symphony member (“As a soloist, you’re living from concert to concert”), it’s apparent that the young musician relishes the jet-set life.

Those Gypsy inclinations might help to explain Bendix-Balgley’s passion for his second Asheville Symphony number: The

complicated and fiery “Tzigane.” It’s “one of the great virtuoso show-off pieces,” he says of the composition, which is Ravel’s interpretation of Gypsy music.

“It utilizes the complete range of technical difficulties you can find on a violin,” Bendix-Balgley continues. “It’s about 10 minutes long and the first three or four minutes is a huge solo cadenza. The violin starts alone and plays a huge fantasy rhapsody before the orchestra comes in. I’m really looking forward to it, because I’ve played it a lot in recitals with piano but this is the first time I’ve ever played the orchestral version.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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by Dane Smith “We’re kind of like the hardcore band for not hardcore people,” says Just Die! guitarist and de facto front man Matt Evans.

But don’t be fooled. Evans is referring more to the band’s onstage demeanor and wideranging fan base than their music. Just Die!’s frantic percussion, screeching riffs, growling screams and catalog of tracks clocking in at less than a minute certainly fit the hardcore label.

And the band (featuring Steve Shell on vox, Dave Reinhardt on drums and Josh McDowell on bass) has had no trouble assimilating itself into the tight-knit and often unseen Asheville punk scene, performing with nearly every local punk band and forming close ties with the city’s venues and artists.

They’re just in it to have fun, though. “We’re like the high-fiving, good times, keeping-asmile-on-our-face guys as we play music,” Evans explains, “and I think we’ve started to

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The shows, he says, are frequented by the young and old, including some types you wouldn’t necessarily expect to be listening to hardcore. “We have friends and friends of friends who come out who are teachers and professionals. There are people who don’t have money, people who do have money, people who like this kind of music and that kind of music.”

In the early days, it was the band’s unofficial policy to accept any show they were offered, which led to some strange bedfellows, but also exposed them to fans who would have otherwise never sought out a Just Die! record. “We would play any show that would ask us,” says Evans. “We just attacked them all, even if they were super, super strange bands.”

It’s been an effective strategy, earning the band a devoted local following that just voted it Best Punk Band in the 2009 Mountain Xpress readers poll. And the shows are growing too.

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You’ll know it’s a Just Die! song because it’s spastic: The new record’s got something for everyone, says front man Matt Evans. photo by brian dubin

Their latest excursion, a two-week stint up the Northeast coast that included shows in Boston, New York City and D.C., drew consistent and surprisingly large crowds, especially at a sweaty basement show in New Brunswick, N.J. which Evans recalls drew “80 or 90 kids” with particular enthusiasm.

Still, he is humbled by the band’s recent inclusion in the Best of WNC poll.

“We all voted for Nasty Ponies,” Evans admits. “I looked at the little form and it wasn’t like a multiple choice thing, so it wasn’t set in stone who the candidates were. There are so many good bands in town,” he adds with a mixture of pride and surprise. “I don’t know who voted for us, but I thank them.”

Many of those votes undoubtedly came from Asheville’s burgeoning punk scene, a relatively invisible community to outsiders, but one that has been thriving for years in the open, anything-goes environment the city has long cultivated.

While Asheville might be known more for bluegrass and jam bands, there is an equally prominent alternative scene that includes a wide range of less commercial elements ranging from experimental noise bands to punk and hardcore. And although it may at first be surprising, when Evans offers his take on the scene, it makes perfect sense.

“Asheville is the melting pot of North Carolina,” he begins. “There are a lot of ideas in Asheville that aren’t traditional in North Carolina. It’s very liberal. There’s a lot of open mindedness. There’s a really big gay and lesbian community, which is great.

And there are a lot of ideals here that I

think reflect what punk rock would initially be about.”

It’s easy to overlook. And Evans acknowledges that the punk scene has made an effort, conscious or otherwise, to keep a low profile.

“There are so many good shows that happen that no one knows about,” he says. “It seems to be a tight community. I don’t know if they’re trying to keep it local, or keep it small. I don’t even know if that’s intentional or not. But there are a few bands from the punk scene here that have toured across the country and I think that has established Asheville. But if you’re an outsider, or even an insider, I don’t think you’d have any idea.”

Now, with the release of their latest effort, the aptly titled 7” Garages and Basements, Just Die! is poised to be the next ambassador of the Asheville punk scene. And again, Evans points out that the album has a little something for everyone.

“It’s a good flavor for anyone who likes music and likes to have a good time,” he says.

“We’ve always had a tendency to write 30-second songs, and this has some 30-second songs on it, but it also has some pretty epic parts.

“There’s even a song on it that has piano, which is interesting for us. But you’ll definitely know it’s a Just Die! song because it’s so spastic. You’re not going to have that hook, because everything in the song is going to be the hook.

It’s just chaotic, energetic good times.” X Dane Smith can be reached at rocknrolldane@ gmail.com.

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A good-natured bird

The Southern Highland Craft Guild’s biannual fair returns to roost this weekend

by Harriette Grissom For Phillip Brown, an old-time carver, and Judi Harwood, an innovative maker of clay drums, the Southern Highland Craft Guild’s biannual fair is as much a meeting place as a marketplace.

“It’s one of my favorite things to do,” Brown says. “I’ll run into old friends and craftsmen I haven’t seen in years.”

Brown, Harwood and her business partner Melanie Robertson are among 200 mountain makers scrambling to put the finishing touches on pottery, woven goods, quilts, furniture, carvings, corn shuck dolls, handmade instruments, needlework, glass, jewelry and much more for the 62nd installment of the Craft Fair at the Asheville Civic Center, Oct. 15 through 18.

Brown, who has participated in the fair since 1992, carves birds so filled with life you half expect them to fly away or take a peck at your hand.

“Come on down — the chips are flying,” says Brown from his Swannanoa studio, which he jokingly calls “the birdhouse.” The outside of the twostory studio is lined with stacks of silvery-grey driftwood that he’s collected from area lakes to create environments for his birds.

His wife, Andrea Gay, a potter, is busy glazing and firing on the first floor of the studio, while Brown carves upstairs in a woody nest filled with shavings.

Visitors to Brown’s booth will see as many as a hundred of his painted basswood birds — chickadees, Carolina wrens, cardinals, owls, hummingbirds, bluebirds, jays, woodpeckers and other species native to the region that he’s observed and gotten to know. They seem to breathe.

“I particularly like chickadees,” he offers. “The chickadee is a good-natured little bird. It lets you come right up to it when it’s at the feeder.”

Brown learned to carve from Edsel Martin when he was a teenager, and over the years he’s figured out how to capture the spirit as well as the detail of each species. His painting technique makes the birds look soft and fragile.

You can almost feel their fine bones pushing out against their feathers. He’s carved other things besides birds, but he always comes back to birds. “I guess you’d have to call me a bird-man,” he says.

Smaller birds take two or three hours to carve, and larger ones demand as

who:

62nd annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

what:

Asheville Civic Center

when:

Oct. 15 to 18 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Adults, $7, children under 12 are free. www. craftguild.org or 298-7928).

(top) Phillip Brown carves birds so filled with life you half expect them to fly away or take a peck at your hand. (above) Judi Harwood’s pottery versions of African wooden djembes have a bright, clear sound that rings somewhere between metal and wood.

much as two or three days. He alternates between carving big birds and small birds to save wear and tear on his hands — especially when he’s in overdrive getting ready for the craft fair.

Meanwhile, down in Arden, Judi Harwood and Melanie Robertson are literally up to their elbows in clay getting ready, gathering goat skins and gobletshaped pottery bases to demonstrate the steps of drum-making at their educational booth. Harwood got the idea for making pottery drums from her son Jonathan, a drummer who has become the “technical advisor” for Earth 2 Art Studio’s innovative venture.

These pottery versions of African wooden djembes have a bright, clear sound that rings somewhere between metal and wood. Harwood and Robertson carefully round the edges of each pottery base to protect both the goat-skin drumhead and the drummer’s fingers. The drums, which come in different sizes and glazes, can be tuned.

“A lot of people who buy them just set them on a table, but they’re designed to be played. Each drum has its own sound,” Harwood explains. Some of the drums are decorated with horses — a totem that appears frequently in Harwood’s work. A self-taught potter, she joined the Guild in 2004.

Like many mountain craftspeople, Harwood and Brown are also musicians.

Harwood writes songs and Brown picks guitar. In fact, music may be the magic ingredient in mountain crafts, and the fair will feature plenty of it. Fairgoers can tap their feet to old time bluegrass from the Guildenaires, rock out to kazoos and the acophonium with Hot Duck Soup, or mellow with Firefly’s mother-daughter harmonies.

Fiber artist Susan Sorrell, blacksmith Alwin Wagener, spinners and dyers Dede Styles and Cassie Dickson, cornshuck doll-maker Anne Freels and calligrapher Michael Hughey will also be demonstrating their skills at the fair.

I (perhaps naively) ask Brown, who was featured in Tim Barnwell’s Hands in Harmony, a photographic essay on Appalachian musicians and craftsmen, if he’s ever won any prizes for his work.

He shakes his head modestly: “You know, to win prizes you have enter the contests, and I don’t go for that so much. When somebody buys a bird, and they look tickled to death to have it — that’s all the prize I need. That’s what it’s all about.” X

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by Whitney Shroyer

Potter: Caroline Cercone

The art of the haggle, or don’t dicker and tell

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“I say, ‘How much you want for that?’ (I go into a store). Man says ‘three dollars.’ ‘All right,” I say, ‘will you take four?’” – Bob Dylan, “Po’ Boy” When the junk is on the table and the deal is about to go down, there’s an endgame before the money changes hands — the subtle and delicate dance known as The Haggle. It doesn’t work in the modern world of thrift stores, those armies of salvation and Will-marts that slowly are turning the junker world into a slower and stinkier version of strip-mall America — their prices are fixed at corporate levels and forget about getting them to come off ‘em.

Out in the junker wilds, the haggle is still danced with various degrees of skill and precision. But like most any folk tradition you can name, I sometimes get the feeling that the art of the haggle is becoming a thing of the past.

Good old-fashioned horse-trading has rules, and it’s a two-way street.

In my mode as a junk dealer, I hate the haggle. I prefer to figure what I think is the lowest, fairest price I can stick on something, and then stick it on there, not the lowest I can take plus 20 percent wiggle room. So if I’m on the goods illustration by NATHanael Roney

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side of the transaction, the haggle is a hassle.

What customers need to remember is that it takes two to haggle, and that while the customer gets to lead, the seller gets to decide how far you get. Start with too outrageous a step and your partner will leave you stranded on the floor. If I’ve got $20 on something, don’t start out with an offer of $4. This happened to me at my recent yard sale and I wanted to kick the guy off my porch. Starting at anything below 50 percent of asking price is insulting.

Also, don’t bother trying to talk someone down on a 50-cent item. I know this is a game of nickels and dimes, but if you’re really wondering whether or not it’s worth 50 cents, you don’t need it.

However, in my mode as a buyer, I love to haggle — but I try to be a good partner. What you have to remember is that the seller is another human being who needs to be treated with respect, not a piece of meat to be bullied and mocked. “Can you believe he sold me THIS for THAT?!?” is nothing any dealer wants to hear and it’s likely to leave lasting scars.

Next time someone wants to haggle, that dealer will be reluctant. If you get over on a dealer, don’t dicker and tell.

A friend of mine (we’ll call him Ed) told me a hilarious haggle story about a trip to Smiley’s.

As Ed was walking into the flea market, he saw a guy starting to unload boxes of 45s out of his car. Being even more of a 45 fiend than myself, Ed walked over to the records and started looking at them before they were even out of the

trunk.

The guy said to Ed, “I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse, buddy. You can take all of those 45s — there’s over 600 there — for $150 dollars! It’s a great deal! You can’t say no!”

“OK, let me take a look and see if I can do that or not,” Ed replied. He started to look in the box, flipping through to see if it was worth it to him or not. This was not an unrealistic price for a guy like Ed to pay for such a big bunch of records, if they were the right records.

A few records into the box, Ed could tell they were ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll records, and started to get happy.

“OK, man, you drive a hard bargain,” says the dealer. “I’ll sell you all those records for $100! You can’t say no!”

Ed said, “OK, hang on a minute, just let me see if it’s worth it or not...” and tried to resume digging through the 45s.

“OK, you really are a tough customer,” the guy said, still not letting Ed look at the merch.

I tell you what...”

Eventually the records were 40 bucks, and Ed hadn’t had to haggle at all. The guy had done all of the bargaining for him. Ed told me later that the records were good enough that if the guy had just waited until he’d looked through them, he’d probably have spent the $150.

So to heck what I said about a two-way street. You don’t haggle with the other guy — ultimately, you haggle yourself. X

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The glamorous Pearl Pistol (a former Rebelle) brings her Revolvers down from Chi-town for a one-night-only stand at The Rocket Club. Featuring burlesque dancers, jokesters and jesters, along with musical entertainment from David Earl & The Plowshares with some all-star guests, including Josh Blake of GFE. 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15. $8. www.pearlpistol. com.

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Longtime host of NPR’s Grateful Dead Hour, guitarist/singer-songwriter David Gans trucks through Asheville on Thursday, Oct. 15. He’ll play at Mo Daddy’s with a host of good buds/great musicians: Bobby Miller from the Virginia Dare Devils, Billy Cardine from The Biscuit Burners, Jay Sanders from Donna the Buffalo. Expect surprises. 9 p.m. $7. www.dgans.com.

Science-fiction double feature

Just in time for spooky Halloween season, L.A. Theatre Works brings to life two masterpieces of science fiction and supernatural adventure: H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Expect a riveting recreation of that infamous space invasion and a harrowing expedition through the remote South American jungle. Shows at 8 p.m. with 7 p.m. pre-show discussion. Tuesday, Oct. 20 and Wednesday, Oct. 21. $35 adults, $33 seniors, $30 students. www.dwtheatre.org.

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smartbets Kaffeeklatsch and book-signing for Kibou

Have you seen the blue Volkswagen Bug with brightly colored flames around town?

Author Ellie Waters drives it in memory of her son, who died of cancer nine years ago.

She’s written a joyous tribute to Travis, his spirit of optimism and his art, in Kibou: The Travis Waters Story of Hope. An uplifting local narrative that’s a must-read for anyone touched by serious illness. She’ll be at Malaprop’s on Saturday, Oct. 24. 1 p.m. www.kibou-art.com.

Women’s songwriters showcase

Six of the Southeast’s fabulous and talented songstresses come together at BoBo Gallery in this showcase dubbed For The Birds.

Nikki Talley headlines, joined by cellist and singer/songwriter Melissa Hyman (who organized the event), banjo player and former Barrel House Mama Eleanor Underhill, Memphis-based Kim Richardson and tourmate Ashley McBryde and Raleigh’s Arielle Bryant. The capper? Brazilian Bossa Nova band Momo follows the gals at 11 p.m. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20. $5. www.bobogallery.com.

Blue Ridge Orchestra

The orchestra opens its 10th season with Pictures at an Exhibition, featuring some of classical music’s most-beloved pieces: Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dance No. 8” and two of Debussy’s “Nocturnes.” The group is made up of amateur, semi-professional and professional musicians who volunteer, in an effort to make orchestral music more affordable and accessible. 8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 16. Diana Wortham Theatre. $15 adults, $10 students and groups of five or more, free for children under 5. www.dwtheatre.org or www.blueridgeorchestra.org.

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by Pierce Edens and The Dirty Work Pierce Edens and The Dirty Workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new album, Long Days Above Ground, mixes influences of rock, blues, rockabilly, country, honkytonk and bluegrass. Edensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; powerful voice is often compared to Tom Waits; that gravely, sandpaper-inthe-throat style is unique to Edensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sound. Backed by a spectacular band, his down home, workingmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyrics (paired with that unmistakable voice) hit their stride. Though the disc is a studio album, it has all the raucous joy of a live festival recording. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghost on the Radioâ&#x20AC;? is the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most emotional track. On â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Shiny Shoes,â&#x20AC;? which begins a capella, Edensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice sounds like a tuba: even more so when the actual tuba comes in. The album is brought home with the last track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soberinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Up,â&#x20AC;? which is reminiscent of a drunken sing-along with plenty of Saturday night hooting and hollering. At 12 tracks, the album keeps the listener on his toes throughout. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gabe Chess Blood in Black and White

by Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossroad â&#x20AC;&#x153;He smells like nightmares and ripple,â&#x20AC;? sings Paul Johnson on the track â&#x20AC;&#x153;To the Bitter End,â&#x20AC;? his voice all bass and gravel. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roughhewn lyric style has a way of conveying a story that suits the narrative songs of Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossroad.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telling that, earlier this year, the band added singer/songwriter Moses Atwood on Dobro: Atwood is a weaver of tales himself. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossroad is Americana with more than a passing nod to bluegrass (a departure from Atwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoegaze-y indie-folk), but this band is not nearly as concerned with genre as it is with musicianship. Besides carefully crafted lyrics, Blood in Black and White also offers up supple picking (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bail Money,â&#x20AC;? with some lightning fast banjo), charmingly/ach-

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ingly sweet waltzes (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tiredâ&#x20AC;?) and a tear-jerker or two. Where Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossroad is at its best is on a slowed down number like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Done Timeâ&#x20AC;? where Keith Minguezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mandolin weeps, a lonesome harmonica trills and easy harmonies lend depth to Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already rich vocals. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alli Marshall Onlooker by Dave Desmelik Americana singer/songwriter Dave Desmelik plays nearly all the instruments on his new album, Onlooker, with a little help from a few others who complement him nicely.

Desmelik, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nicest guy, has a fittingly-sweet style. His acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and piano all sound as if the musician is in the room with the listener. Lead track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Good For You,â&#x20AC;? highlights Desmelikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm voice: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a one-man Avett Brothers tune, minus the harmonies. The next track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Says?â&#x20AC;? is a departure from form but also one of the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highlights. It reveals a serious, frustrated voice drawing a line in the sand. A haunting banjo part furthers that sentiment. Desmelik is much recognized on the Americana circuit (surprisingly, most often in Europe!) and Onlooker, his sixth independent album, could continue that success. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gabe Chess When I Find Time by Sons of Ralph Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite bluegrass band (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not just saying that; year after year this group is been nominated tops in that category in Xpressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; annual Best of WNC readersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; poll) is back with a 12-track studio album, made at Hi Five Recording. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sentimental tug to the collection, starting with the album cover (a sepia-tone photo of patriarch Ralph Lewis as a scowling youngster) to the almost talkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blues of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mississippi Railâ&#x20AC;? on which the elder Lewis sings. Guitarist (and son) Marty Lewis provides most of the lead vocals and song writing. Interesting: The title track offers up a beachy theme in keeping with pop-country artist Kenny Chenseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn as the new Jimmy Buffet. The rest of the album is vintage Sons of Ralph from the sweepingly lovely instrumental â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cold Mountain Waltzâ&#x20AC;? to the driving country rock of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therapy Groups.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alli Marshall

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Open mic

Handlebar

Griffin House (rock, country)

BoBo Gallery

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

GadjoDisko (world, crunk)

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Boiler Room

DJ dance party feat: Soul Ja, Byrd & L.T.P. Broadway’s

‘80s Night, 10pm Cancun Mexican Grill

Open mic Curras Dom

Eleanor Underhill (singer/songwriter) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Reggae Resurrection Firestorm Cafe and Books

The Assassinators (punk band from Denmark) Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter) Garage at Biltmore

Open mic

The Mantras (rock, psychedelic) w/ The Werks

Beacon Pub

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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“Drinkin w/ Lincoln” Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Vincenzo’s Bistro

Curras Dom

Marc Keller (variety)

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Waynesville Water’n Hole

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Bluegrass jam night (band 8-10pm, open jam 10pm)

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Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

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Emerald Lounge

White Horse

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‘80s & ‘70s dance night w/ DJ Clay Watson

Red Stag Grill

Thu., October 15

Bobby Sullivan (blues, rock, standards)

Club 828

Rocket Club

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“Super dance party” feat: Adam Strange & Crick Nice DJ

Back Room

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The Wandas (indie, rock) Five Fifty Three

Steve Wolrab & guests (jazz, guitar) Frankie Bones

Scandals Nightclub

Amanda & Pete “Honeycutters Duo” (blues, Americana)

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Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Stockade Brew House

Makia Groove (funk, reggae)

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After Elvis

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Chris Smither with

Eric Brace & Peter Cooper 8:30pm

Boiler Room

Hump day dance party w/ The Free Flow Band

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Frankie Bones

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David Gans & Friends Grateful Dead Collaborator

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Chaser’s Nitelife

Root Bar No. 1

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band

Centralia Massacre (folk, roots)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Club 828

Satchel’s Martini Bar

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

“BONOBO” DJ set feat: Mingle & Paper Tiger — Orange Peel after party

DK and the Aristakatz (jazz, pop)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Club Hairspray

Live piano music

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Freaky Friday w/ Brandi & Shorty

Infusions Lounge

Curras Dom

Live music

Greg Olson & Richard Graham (world, folk)

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Decades Restaurant & Bar

Bluegrass Jam, 9:30pm

Dancing w/ Darin Kohler & the Asheville Katz

Lobster Trap

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Hank Bones

Pot Luck - BBQ

Open Mic Night

MOndayS!

Chris Smither (blues, folk) w/ Eric Brace & Peter Cooper

with Slam Poetry

Mela

Belly dancing Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

David Gans & friends (Grateful Dead singer/ songwriter, instrumentalist) Never Blue

Singer/songwriter showcase New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

DJ dance party Pisgah Brewing Company

Jeff Coffin Mu’tet (progressive, jazz, experimental) Purple Onion Cafe

Dana & Susan Robinson Razcal’s

Mark Keller (singer/songwriter) Red Stag Grill

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing) Rocket Club

Pearl Pistol and her Revolvers (burlesque) w/ David Earl & The Plowshares (rock, folk) Root Bar No. 1

Music w/ Dawn Humphrey Scandals Nightclub

DJ Dathan Brannon Soul Infusion Tea House and Bistro

Singer-songwriter showcase Steak & Wine

Live piano music

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Stockade Brew House

The Big Ivy Project (bluegrass, folk) Town Pump

Screen Door Porch (Americana) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends (soul, blues) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron Laflace (acoustic guitar, singer/songwriter) Watershed

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Salsa & Mambo Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 10:30pm Emerald Lounge

Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Pierce Edens (folk, rock) Garage at Biltmore

Hot Politics w/ FunkShua (jam, fusion) & Cornflower

Back Room

William F. Gibbs (indie, others) Beacon Pub

Pop Ferguson (blues) Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm BoBo Gallery

Earthtone (indie, progressive, rock) Boiler Room

Another Day Falls & Hollowpoint (rock)

Pete McWhirther (country, rock) & friends The Wine Cellar at the Saluda Inn

Tom Aldridge & Frank Beeson (folk, blues) Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music w/ singer-songwriters Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Free Flow Band (soul, funk) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano) Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Live music w/ Marijo White Horse

Laura Blackley w/ The Swayback Sisters, Nikki Talley & Lyndsay Wojcik (singer/songwriters)

Back Room

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Chris Cates & the Master Plan (classic rock, soul)

Benji Hughes (rock ballads) w/ The Houston Brothers

Beacon Pub

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Highland Brewing Company

Big Daddy Love (Americana, folk) Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center

Holland’s Grille

“Me & The Boys” feat: Angela Heatherly (vocals), Terry Wetton (vocals, guitar, keyboards) & Cas Haskell (bass)

Woody Wood (Southern rock)

BoBo Gallery

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Secret B-Sides and Co. (soul, R&B)

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Boiler Room

Sanctum Sully (bluegrass), 4-8pm

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues), 7:30-10:30pm

Lie w/ As Sick As Us, Eastern Sky, Kings Of Prussia & A Hero a Fake (heavy metal)

Iron Horse Station

Chaser’s Nitelife

Infusions Lounge

Jesse & Isobel (Americana)

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Club 828

My Three Kilts (Irish pub songs) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lobster Trap

Live music by local artists Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Catfish Hodge (blues) New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

The NEC (rock, psychedelic) w/ Ventricles

Orange Peel

Fri., October 16

Switzerland Cafe

Sat., October 17

Westville Pub

Thursday night bluegrass jam

Special live show TBA

The Work

O’Malley’s On Main

Zuma Coffee

Stella Blue

Gottrocks

Scott Kirby & Dave Edminsten (beach-folk, singer/songwriters) Fifty Year Flood (roots, folk-rock)

Steak & Wine

Five Pound Fire (folk, rock) Sones de Mexico Ensemble (folk, instrumental), 11am Bassnectar (hip-hop) w/ Heavyweight Dub Champion Picnics

Ten Cent Poetry (acoustic folk) Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Razcal’s

West Sound (R&B) Red Room at Temptations

DJ Dday Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rocket Club

American Aquarium w/ Machiavellians & My Golden Mask

KRAAK & SMAAK (funk, electro) w/ Fort Knox Five (electronic) Curras Dom

Mark Guest & friends (jazz-guitar ensemble) Decades Restaurant & Bar

42nd Street Jazz Band Dock’s Restaurant

Buck Naked (rock ‘n’ roll) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Dr. Sketchy’s “Anti Art School,” 7-10pm “DiscFunkTional dance” w/ DJ Drees & Queen April Emerald Lounge

Big Blue feat: Big Daddy of Acoustic Syndicate Firestorm Cafe and Books

Ten Cent Poetry & Chelsea Lynn Labate (folk) French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Johnson’s Crossroad (“bent acoustic country”) Garage at Biltmore

Muse (comedy, fashion, music & more) Agobi Project, 12:30am Gottrocks

Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band (blues, acoustic) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

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Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 251-5505 The Back Room (OSO) 697-6828 Barley’s Tap Room (SH) 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 The Blackbird 669-5556 Blue Mountain Pizza (OSO) 658-8777 Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center 693-0087 BoBo Gallery (OSO) 254-3426 Broadway’s (SA) 285-0400 Cancun Mexican Grill 505-3951 Chaser’s (SA) 684-3780 Club 828 252-2001 Club Hairspray (SA) 258-2027 College St. Pub (SA) 232-0809 Courtyard Gallery 273-3332 Curras Dom 253-2111 Decades Restaurant & Bar 254-0555 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530

Dock’s Restaurant 883-4447 The Dripolator 398-0209 Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar 252-2711 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge (OSO) 232- 4372 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe (OSO) 255-8115 Five Fifty Three 631-3810 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy (SA) 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 The Garage 505-2663 Gottrocks 235-5519 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern (OSO) 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn 252-2711 Guadalupe Cafe 586-9877

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The Handlebar (864)233-6173 The Hangar (SA) 684-1213 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hookah Bar 252-1522 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 Magnolia’s Raw Bar (ISS) 251-5211 Mela 225-8880 Mike’s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill (SH) 258-1550 New French Bar Courtyard Cafe 225-6445 Never Blue 693-4646 O’Malley’s On Main 246--0898 The Orange Peel (OSO) 225-5851

Picnics 258-2858 Panther’s Paw 696-0810 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Razcal’s 277-7117 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rocket Club 505-2494 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Ruby’s BBQ Shack (ISS) 299-3511 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Shovelhead Saloon (SA) 669-9541 Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (OSO) 586-1717 Steak & Wine / Satchel’s Martini Bar 505-3362 Stella Blue 236-2424 The Still 683-5913 Stockade Brew House 645-1300

Straightaway Cafe (OSO) 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 The Red Room at Temptations (SA) 252-0775 Temptations Martini Bar (SA) 252-0775 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump (SA) 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues (SA) 254-7072 Vaso de Vino Wine Bar & Market 687-3838 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 The Watershed 669-0777 Waynesville Water’n Hole 456-4750 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Westville Pub (OSO) 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe (SA) 253-3066 Xcapades 258-9652

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OSO: outdoor/patio smoking only • SH: smoking hours, call clubs for specfics • ISS: indoor smoking section • SA: smoking allowed Handlebar

Scandals Nightclub

Chris Duarte Group (blues, rock)

Dance party w/ DJ Stratos & drag show

Havana Restaurant

Steak & Wine

The Two Guitars of Yasmin & Lou, 10am12:30pm Bob Zullo (guitar), 630-10:30pm

Ahora Si (salsa, jazz, tropical)

Live piano music

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Stockade Brew House

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Open mic

Irish session, 5pm Tom Waits time, late

Infusions Lounge

Straightaway Café

Lobster Trap

Live music

Dave Foraker (Americana, blues)

Chris Rhodes

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Switzerland Cafe

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Stillhouse Hollow (Americana, old-time)

Laura Blackley (blues ballads, rock)

Jerusalem Garden

Temptations Martini Bar

Belly dancing w/ live music

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues), 7:30-10:30pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Corduroy Road (bluegrass, rock)

Live music w/ singer-songwriters

O’Malley’s On Main

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chris Williams from Empty Slate

The Funky Four Corners feat: Joshua Singleton (funk, rock)

Orange Peel

Local Showcase feat: Tony Wain and the Payne (country, crunk) w/ If You Wannas & Ventricles

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Blues competition w/ Southern Fried Blues Society Orange Peel

Queensrÿche (pop, metal) w/ Lita Ford Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

James Stinnett (country, rock)

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Town Pump

Belly dance showcase w/ live bands

Purple Onion Cafe

Amissville (acoustic, folk)

Pickin’ at the Pump, open acoustic jam

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk)

Westville Pub

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rocket Club

Or, the Whale & Fox Teeth w/ Caleb Caudle and the Bayonets Root Bar No. 1

be Reid (original member of the Blue Raggs) w/ The Spike Drivers Satchel’s Martini Bar

Fire & Desire (pop, contemporary)

733 Haywood Rd. • West Asheville (on the corner of Brevard & Haywood Rd.)

828-505-2129

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Elizabeth & the Catapult (alternative, folk, rock) w/ Christina Courtin The Hookah Bar

Red Stag Grill

Live Music Weekends

Rocket Club

Live music w/ Tom Coppola (early) & Marc Keller (late)

DJ Spy-V

College and NFL Package

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard

Picnics

Red Room at Temptations

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Woody Wood & Hollywood Red (rock)

Johnny Blackwell (variety, covers)

Sun., October 18

Wedge Brewing Co.

Barley’s Taproom

Like Mind Trio (jazz)

Mon., October 19

BoBo Gallery

BoBo Gallery

David Wax Museum (Americana, folk) w/ Richard Lloyd and the Sufimonkeys

Parallax (indie, funk) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance

James McMurtry (rock)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (guitar), 630-10:30pm

Vollie & the Leadfoot Vipers (swing)

Hangar

Open mic night w/ Aaron LaFalce

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Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Songwriting competition w/ Jenny Juice Orange Peel

Blues Traveler w/ Junco Partner Razcal’s

NFL Ticket

Guadalupe Cafe

D Mack Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bikini contest October 17!

Ian Moore’s Mountain Music Miscellany Iron Horse Station

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Steve Whiteside Barley’s Taproom

Sherrie Lynne and Mountain Friends (bluegrass) Beacon Pub

Open mic Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Buddy David Band For the Birds (female vocalist showcase) w/ MOMO Eleven on Grove

Irish session, 6:30pm Open mike w/ Parker Brooks, 8:30pm Wild Wing Cafe

Bluegrass & clogging

Geoff Weeks

Open mic

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Beacon Pub

Acoustic JAMbalaya w/ Clem Watkins

“Drinkin w/ Lincoln”

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Tomato Tuesday comedy open mic

Open mic

O’Malley’s On Main

BoBo Gallery

Caleb Burress & Justin Powell

Spider w/ Magdyn Osh (folk, rock, indie)

Orange Peel

Boiler Room

Stryper (rock, metal) w/ Flight Patterns & Manic Drive

Vortex Cabaret (variety) Broadway’s

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

‘80s Night, 10pm

Rock records w/ Matt

Cancun Mexican Grill

Razcal’s

Open mic

Jazz night w/ Mike Mancuso & friends

Curras Dom

Temptations Martini Bar

Eleanor Underhill (singer/songwriter)

Open mic w/ Pierce Edens

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Swing & Tango lessons and dance w/ Swingaholics

The Hookah Bar

Selector Cleofus Williams & friends

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Mon. - Sat. 6 pm - 2 am • Sun. Noon - 2 am

Emerald Lounge

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Eleven on Grove

252-2456 • 14 College St. • Asheville, NC

Ashevegas All-Stars presents Tuesday Night Funk Jam

Chuck Lichtenberger presents “An Evening of Jazz” with special guests

Zydeco dance & lessons

Feed and Seed

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Reggae Resurrection

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MONDAY Mack Kell’s • Razcals Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues TUESDAY Decades Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) Headlights • Mike’s Side Pocket W EDNESDAY Beacon Pub • Fred’s Speakeasy The Hangar • Temptations Martini Bar O’Malleys on Main • Infusions Holland’s Grille T H URSDAY Chasers • Club Hairspray Razcals • Shovelhead Saloon Cancun Mexican Grill FRIDAY Infusions • Mack Kell’s • Shovelhead Saloon • Stockade Brew House SATURDAY Club Hairspray • Holland’s Grille Infusions • Shovelhead Saloon The Still SUNDAY College St. Pub Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) The Hangar • Mack Kell’s Wing Cafe • Cancun Mexican Grill Firestorm Cafe and Books

Celtic & eclectic jam Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter) Garage at Biltmore

Mixed Bag Open Jam hosted by Michael Tao Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Angi West (classical, folk, vocal) w/ Joti Marra, Sarahbrown, Ryan Cox & Topher Stephens

ThursDay, ocTober 22 Free!

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White Horse

Back Room

Lobster Trap

Back Room

Blues Jam w/ Mars Fariss

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Wed., October 21

Open mic w/ Yorky

BoBo Gallery

Free Pool on Wednesdays

Westville Pub

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Tue., October 20

$1 Beers Everyday

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Asheville Jazz Orchestra (swing, jazz)

Open mic w/ Scott Stewart 7:30pm Apres OM, 11pm

DJ’s Thurs. - Sun.

Live music w/ Robert Greer

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Westville Pub

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Watershed

Open mic

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Rocket Club

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Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Griffin House (rock, country) w/ Thad Cockrell

The Oxymorons (improv comedy)

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Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm Handlebar

Dickey betts & Great Southerm (Southern rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Old Time Jam, 6pm Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Open jam, 8-10pm Live music w/ Screaming Jays Orange Peel

Lamb Of God (heavy metal) w/ GWAR & Job For A Cowboy Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler Razcal’s

Bluegrass jam night (band 8-10pm, open jam 10pm)

Live music Jack Of The Wood Pub

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Red Stag Grill

Bluegrass Jam, 9:30pm

Eleven on Grove

Bobby Sullivan (blues, rock, standards) Rocket Club

“Super dance party” feat: Adam Strange & Crick Nice DJ Scandals Nightclub

Latin dance Steak & Wine

Live piano music Stella Blue

The Sex Slaves (rock) Stockade Brew House

Open mic The Hookah Bar

Open Mic w/ Sven Hooson Town Pump

Open Mic w/ David Bryan Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Hump day dance party w/ The Free Flow Band Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller (variety) Waynesville Water’n Hole

Funk jam featuring local artists Wedge Brewing Co.

Kontici (exotic lounge) Westville Pub

Jammin’ w/ Funky Max

Hank Bones

Salsa & Mambo Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 10:30pm

Mela

Emerald Lounge

Lobster Trap

Belly dancing

SCI FI w/ Basshound

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Fred’s Speakeasy

3 Foot Swagger

Now You See Them (indie)

Never Blue

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Singer/songwriter showcase

Lyndsay Wojcik (folk, soul)

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Garage at Biltmore

Dance music w/ Cliff, Zanti & Kipper Orange Peel

Gottrocks

Pisgah Brewing Company

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Purple Onion Cafe

Mercy Creek (folk, roots) Razcal’s

Mark Keller (singer/songwriter) Red Stag Grill

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing) Scandals Nightclub

DJ Kri (Touch Samadhi) Soul Infusion Tea House and Bistro

Singer-songwriter showcase Steak & Wine

Thu., October 22

Live piano music

Club 828

The Big Ivy Project (bluegrass, folk)

Live music w/ DJ Drea Back Room

The Corduroy Road (Americana, folk, rock) Beacon Pub

Live music Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, country) BoBo Gallery

Mirrors (garage, rock) w/ Puddin’Tang Boiler Room

Chaos in Gotham & Left Outlet (punk-rock)

Stockade Brew House Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends (soul, blues) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron Laflace (acoustic guitar, singer/songwriter) Westville Pub

Chris O’Neil Band (country, blues) White Horse

Trampled By Turtles (bluegrass, folk, rock) Zuma Coffee

Thursday night bluegrass jam

Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk w/ Brock Butler

Handlebar

Mystic Vibrations & Jule Mango (roots, reegae) Highland Brewing Company

Habibigy (blues, soul), 4-8pm Holland’s Grille

Free Flight (Southern rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Infusions Lounge

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues), 7:30-10:30pm Iron Horse Station

Twilite Broadcasters (vintage Southern harmony) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lobster Trap

Live music by local artists Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Motorskills CD release party O’Malley’s On Main

Smokin’ Section (blues, Southern rock) Orange Peel

Curras Dom

Back Room

Purple Onion Cafe

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Pond Water Experiment (funk, jam)

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Barley’s Taproom

Razcal’s

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Mercy Creek (folk, roots)

West Sound (R&B)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Red Room at Temptations

Emerald Lounge

Acoustic Swing

DJ Dday

Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Red Stag Grill

Steve Wolrab & guests (jazz, guitar)

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

BoBo Gallery

Rocket Club

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

DJ Dathan & DJ Daniel’s release party (house music)

Nevada (indie, rock) w/ Groove Collector & Ezette

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Boiler Room

Satchel’s Martini Bar

Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk) Garage at Biltmore

The Armory w/ The Third Age & The Foolish (rock)

Steak & Wine

Groove Collector (rock, indie, blues)

Broadway’s

Frankie Bones

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Jill Andrews (of the everybodyfields) w/ Michael Ford Jr. & The Apache Relay Grove Park Inn Great Hall

DK and the Aristakatz (jazz, pop) Live piano music

Rich Lather and the Little Shavers w/ The Rubber Cushions

Stella Blue

Chaser’s Nitelife

Straightaway Café

DJ Diva & The Lee Whitaker Band

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Club Hairspray

Handlebar

Curras Dom

Igor & Red Elvises (Siberian surf rock)

Greg Olson & Richard Graham (world, folk)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Decades Restaurant & Bar

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Dancing w/ Darin Kohler & the Asheville Katz

Infusions Lounge

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Freaky Friday w/ Brandi & Shorty

Just Minutes from Asheville

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (dance band), 7-11pm

Afromotive (reggae, Afrobeat, funk) & Grupo Fantasma

Five Fifty Three

12 Cavalier Lane Swannanoa

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Fri., October 23

Simplified (rock, acoustic)

828-686-3175

Erin McKeown (indie, pop) & Jill Sobule (singer/ songwriter)

Open mic w/ Jarrett Leone

Courtyard Gallery

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The Leigh Glass Band (blues, Americana, rock) & The Spares

Soulfly w/ Prong, Cattle Decapitation & Mutiny Within County Farm (bluegrass)

Your Pet’s Preferred Vacation Destination

Enemy Lovers (rock, indie) Kevin Scanlon (acoustic, folk) The Wine Cellar at the Saluda Inn

Garry Segal & Frank Beeson (Americana, blues) Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music w/ singer-songwriters Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

“Chick Singer Showcase” hosted by Peggy Ratusz

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Director: Yôjirô Takita Players: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoku Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: A former cellist ends up taking a job for an outfit that prepares the dead for cremation.

The Lowdown: Pleasurable, perceptive drama with an unusual, thought-provoking premise that’s used to explore some universal themes.

It’s usually a wise precaution to be a little skeptical of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winners. The choices often seem to fall into one of two categories: movies that play on the voters’ sense of cultural inferiority, or sentimental crowd-pleasers that have been legitimized by simply not being in English.

Yôjirô Takita’s Departures, which captured last year’s Foreign Language Oscar, is perhaps a little bit of both, but that doesn’t keep it from being a worthy movie. Oscar-worthy? Perhaps not. Regardless, it is an engaging little drama of some depth.

Departures tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist of no great renown, who finds himself without a job when the small orchestra that employs him is suddenly dissolved by the owner after an apparently typical concert where the musicians outnumber the audience. Unsure of his future—and not that certain of his actual talent—Daigo opts to sell his cello and return with his wife, Mika (Ryoko Hirosue), to his hometown in northern Japan where his late mother left him a house.

In need of a job after arriving there, he sees an ad in the paper for a business specializing in “departures,” which he imagines has something to do with a travel agency. Actually, “departures” is a misprint that should have read “departed”—it turns out, the job involves preparing the dead for cremation. It’s neither a desirable job, nor is it generally considered respectable, but it pays well, and in any case, the boss (Tsutomu Yamazaki) won’t take no for an answer, foisting an advance on Daigo to ensure his return the next day. Daigo keeps the nature of his work from Mika, but of course this can’t last, and her reaction to learning that her husband works as an “encoffining master” forms a good bit of the story’s drama. However, that’s not really the crux of Departures.

Departures is a good deal more complex than

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Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki in Yôjirô Takita’s Oscar-winning film Depatures. it might at first seem. There’s much going on beneath the surface here—from the way we approach death to the way we approach what life throws at us. It could be said to be a film in which death is used to teach the characters about life, and that would be a fair assessment, but it’s one that would give a false impression of the film. This is essentially a character piece with a clever blend of comedy and drama (with the line between the two often indistinct). The performances have much to do with why the film works. It’s as much a movie as it is a film—if you understand the distinction.

The characters tend to more or less do what we expect, and the story follows a far-from-unpredictable arc. The last scenes could be described as manipulative and soapy. Maybe they are, but it’s because Departures remembers to be an effective entertainment at all times that you really ought to give this Japanese import a chance. Rated PG-13 for thematic material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Opens Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14.

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Director: Peter Billingsley Players: Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Malin Akerman Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13

The Story: A group of couples head off for a vacation in a tropical paradise only to be bamboozled into couples counseling.

The Lowdown: An uninspiring romcom centered around more of the same from Vince Vaughn that’s short on insight and overlong.

Oh, the things we’ll do for friendship. Once upon a time, Jon Favreau wrote a couple of nice, intelligent, if unspectacular, little comedies—Swingers (1996) and Made (2001)—that starred himself and his buddy Vince Vaughn.

Now many years, a bit of stardom and higher pay grades later, we have Vaughn starring, writing—along with Favreau—and producing Couples Retreat, one of the most laborious, ill-advised excuses for a romantic comedy to come around in some time.

Any of the past wit found in those aforementioned comedies is a rarity in Couples Retreat. Instead, we get a compendium of comedy’s lowest common denominators.

Adorable precocious child? Check. Lame bathroom humor? In spades. Awkward sex jokes and homosexual panic? You’ve come to the right place. And to top it all off, since this is a movie about troubled couples, we get lots and lots of uncomfortable, grating spousal arguing. And all of this in a movie that’s at least 20 minutes too long.

The setup is simple. A group of couples not looking for any type of self-improvement head off to a tropical resort that specializes in relationship therapy, as they attempt to save their friends’ (Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell) failing marriage. But they all soon find continues on page 65

9 (PG-13) 4:35, 9:40 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Couples Retreat (PG-13) 1:20, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 Fame (PG) 1:45, 7:10 The Final Destination (R) 1:45 (no 1:45 show Sat-Sun), 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 The Informant! (R) 1:45 (no 1:45 show Fri, Sat, Tue, Thu), 4:30, 7:15 (no 7:15 show Fri, Sat, Tue Thu), 9:55 My Sweet $5.00 Ticket (NR) 1:45, 7:15 (Fri, Sat, Tue, Thu only) The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (PG) 1:00, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Spookley: The Square Pumpkin (G) Sat-Sun only 1:00 The Stepfather (PG-13) 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Whip It (PG-13) 1:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 n Carolina Asheville

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(500) Days of Summer (PG-13) 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 10:00, 12:15 Bright Star (PG) 12:20, 3:45, 7:10, 9:40 (Sofa Cinema showing) Capitalism: A Love Story (R) 12:30, 3:25, 7:05, 9:50 (Sofa Cinema showing) Couples Retreat (PG-13) 12:05, 3:15, 7:10, 9:50, 12:20 Departures (PG-13) 11:50, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55, 12:25 (Sofa Cinema showing) The Informant! (R) 12:40. 3:20, 7:25, 10:15 Inglourious Basterds (R) 3:35, 10:10 The Invention of Lying (PG-13) 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Law Abiding Citizen (R) 11:55, 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55, 12:30 The September Issue (PG-13) 12:45, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10, 12:15 (Sofa Cinema showing)

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Couples Retreat (PG-13) 11:10 (Fri-Sun), 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Law Abiding Citizen (R) 11:05 (Fri-Sun), 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Love Happens (PG-13) 11:00 (Fri-Sun), 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 Where the Wild Things Are (PG) 11:20 (Fri-Sun), 1:55, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 Zombieland (R) 11:15 (Fri-Sun), 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 9:50 n Co-ed Cinema

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Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234) I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (R) 1:30, 4:00, 7:30, 10:00 Inglourious Basterds (R) 1:15, 4:30, 8:00 The Invention of Lying (PG-13) 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Julie and Julia (PG-13) 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Law Abiding Citizen (R) 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Surrogates (PG-13) 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00 Zombieland (R) 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:50, 9:55

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler Comedy/Romance A young man falls in love with a woman who doesn’t share his romantic worldview, but she can’t help but be drawn to him.

A breath of spring—even in the late summer—(500) Days of Summer is a clever, funny and very perceptive comedy/romance that’s a must-see. Rated PG-13

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Is it propaganda? Sure. All activist documentaries are.

But it’s entertaining, thought-provoking, conversation-starting propaganda. That’s the difference. Rated R

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs JJJ

(Voices) Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T Animated A failure by a quack inventor leads to a machine that causes food to rain from the sky, which is all well and good until the machine starts to malfunction.

Disaster strikes and things begin to get out of hand.

A generally odd family film that’s more bizarre— namely in its quirky sense of humor—than good.

Rated PG

Couples Retreat JJ

Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Malin Akerman Romantic Comedy A group of couples head off for a vacation in a tropical paradise only to be bamboozled into couples counseling.

An uninspiring romcom centered around more of the same from Vince Vaughn that’s short on insight and overlong. Rated PG-13

Departures JJJJJ

Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoku Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki Drama A former cellist ends up taking a job for an outfit that prepares the dead for cremation.

Pleasurable, perceptive drama with an unusual, thought-provoking premise that’s used to explore some universal themes. Rated PG-13

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A few bright moments and a director with a nice touch when handling musical numbers can’t overcome an undeveloped story with bland characters. Rated PG

The Informant!

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Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Tom Papa, Tony Hale Fact-Based Comedy/Drama Fact-based story of Mark Whitacre, who turned FBI informant on the company he worked for.

A funny (in a very dry sense), bitter and very unusual movie about a delusional man whose specialty is duplicity. Rated R

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Inglourious Basterds JJJJJ

Brad Pitt, M lanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Br hl Postmodern Alternative-Reality Revisionist War Movie World War II action with sardonic humor and a fantasy twist about efforts to blow up a cinema filled with Nazis.

Quentin Tarantino’s new film is brilliant and unabashedly (and genuinely) quirky—a truly personal work in a sea of largely impersonal movies. Rated R

The Invention of Lying JJJJJ

Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Rob Lowe, Fionnula Flanagan, Tina Fey Philosophical Comedy In a world where no one can lie, one man discovers he has this ability—altering both his life and the lives of everyone else.

What could have been a fairly standard high-concept comedy is transformed into something much more intriguing because of the philosophical questions it raises. Rated PG-13

Lorna’s Silence JJJJ

Arta Dobroshi, J r mie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj Crime/Drama An Albanian immigrant becomes involved in a plot to obtain money that involves citizenship papers, convenient marriages and possibly murder.

A deep-dish drama about human nature that works as a kind of crime thriller—one that’s held together by the performance of Albanian actress Arta Dobroshi.

Rated R

Love Happens JJJ

Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen Romantic Drama A self-help guru falls into a relationship with a florist while still dealing with the baggage of his wife’s sudden death three years earlier.

A slickly-made adult romance marred by gooey sentimentality and an inability to find the right pitch.

Rated PG-13

My One and Only JJJJ

Ren e Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Kevin Bacon, Mark Rendall, David Koechner, Chris Noth Comedy/Drama/Semi-Biopic A divorcée—and her two sons—goes on a journey to find a new husband to support her.

An utterly charming, often very funny little movie that re-establishes Renée Zellweger as an actress of note. Rated PG-13

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(Voices) Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau Animated Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi After humankind has been exterminated, a group of artifically created beings must bring life back to the world.

A marvel of animation and atmosphere tied to a dull story, limp characterizations and a monotonous approach. Rated PG-13

The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry J

Gavin MacLeod, Jansen Panettiere, Robert Guillaume, Frankie Ryan Manriquez, Allen Isaacson Christian Drama An aging widower takes a group of young boys under his wing to teach them about the Bible.

Heavy-handed Bible-thumping mixed with amateur-

ish filmmaking make for a movie that will test your credulity and your endurance. Rated PG

The September Issue#3 1/2 JJJJ

Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Andr Leon Talley, Mario Testino, Sienna Miller Documentary A look inside the world of Anna Wintour and Vogue magazine as she masterminds their allimportant title issue.

A nicely made documentary that suffers from an impenetrable central character, but scores points with its portrait of that character’s creative visionary associate. Rated PG-13

Surrogates JJJ

Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell Sci-Fi/Mystery In a futuristic world where people live vicariously through robotic counterparts, murders begin to take place, and it’s up to a hard-nosed detective to solve the case.

A cobbled-together mix of sci-fi’s greatest hits wrapped inside a murder mystery that never quite adds up, creating one mediocre film. Rated PG-13

Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3-D Double Feature JJJJ

(Voices) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney Animated Adventure A group of anthropomorphic toys—who come to life when no one is looking—go on various adventures.

The same sweet, solid family entertainment that you remember, now polished with some not-so-exciting 3D work and packaged as a double feature. Rated G

Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself JJJ

Taraji P. Henson, Tyler Perry, Adam Rodriguez, Mary J. Blige, Hope Olaide Wilson, Marvin Winans Musical/Drama A selfish woman learns the meaning of love when she inherits her sister’s children.

It starts well, but quickly devolves into the usual clunky mishmash of Tyler Perry clichés—with a few notable scenes that stand out from the rest of the movie. Rated PG-13

Whip It JJJJ

Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Alia Shawkat, Daniel Stern, Kristin Wiig, Drew Barrymore Female-Empowerment Comedy/Drama A teenage girl finds herself when she lies about her age and joins a roller-derby team.

Thoroughly predictable and completely successful at doing what you want such a movie to do—but with good performances and without insulting your intelligence. Rated PG-13

Zombieland JJJJ

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray Nerd-Empowerment Zombie Comedy After a zombie plague, a group of mismatched survivors make their way through what remains of the world in search of a safe place.

A pretty funny zombie comedy that gets points for reveling in its gruesomeness, decent characterizations and clever touches along the way. Rated R

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LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

OK, so the trailer for Law Abiding Citizen looks agreeably preposterous, with übersecret-service agent Gerard Butler revenging himself on the judicial system that failed him from inside prison. And the prospect of Butler playing cat and mouse with Jamie Foxx is not without its appeal. Director F. Gary Gray did a credible enough job on the remake of The Italian Job, but let’s not forget that he also made A Man Apart (2003) and Be Cool (2005). Now, if we throw in the fact that the film hasn’t been screened for critics, where does that get us? Like the man said, “You pays your money and you takes your chances.” (R)

SERAPHINE

This French biopic from Martin Provost stars Yolande Moreau as Séraphine de Senlis, a housekeeper whose genius as an artist was discovered by art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) — the man who bought the first Picasso paintings and discovered the work of Henri Rousseau — while Séraphine was working for him as a maid. The film hits town with a very impressive 91 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and looks like a good bet. (NR) Early review samples: • “Séraphine arrives from France as the year’s most honored film, winner of seven Césars from the French Academy, including best film and best actress. The actress is Yolande Moreau, who combines, as some people do, a plain face with moments of beauty.” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) • “Its energies are devoted, for the most part, not to dissecting childhood traumas or recirculating stale cultural gossip, but rather to examining the alchemy by which perception is transformed into vision.”

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In theory, the movie is then supposed to be some informative tract for successful marriages, but the ideas are all too pat and riddled with useless metaphors to be practical. The movie strains and stretches just to get itself into a position where everything will turn out OK within the film’s running time. There’s nary a surprise to be found, adding up to some lazy, uninspired filmmaking.

On top of the movie’s slew of pointless scenes and hokey gags is Vince Vaughn parading around the worst aspects of his on-screen persona, while this is the worst role Bateman has had since Teen Wolf Too (1987). Really, there’s little here to recommend besides a handful of clever lines that I’ve honestly forgotten due to how incredibly pointless the rest of the movie is. Rated PG-13 on appeal for sexual

WHO WILL WEAR THE PURPLE WIG? THE STEPFATHER

Oh, goodie, another 1980s R-rated horror picture gets the PG-13 treatment — the better to play to the teenage crowd. The original was one of those late ‘80s films that tended to paint a subversive picture of the Reagan-years fantasy of an idealized family life with a stepfather who is completely unhinged on the topic of anything but the “perfect” family. The remake mines the same basic ground with a fairly low-wattage cast — Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard — and the director of the 2008 rehash of Prom Night, Nelson McCormick, at the helm. Prospects are not exactly enticing. It’s even been kept away from the horror fan sites for review. (PG-13)

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Here’s the most anticipated — and most dreaded in some quarters — film of the week, Spike Jonez’ adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. Admirers of the book are skeptical to say the least. Early word started out strong, but has started to dwindle.

The most refreshing prospect of the film is Jonez’ decision to rely on costumes, animatronics and basic filmmaking techniques instead of CGI effects work. That may also be a drawback, since the trailer sometimes looks fascinating, but at other points looks a little too much like an episode of The Banana Splits with guys in sweaty fur suits. The fact that Warner Bros. is antsy that it might be too intense for kids, however, is intriguing at the very least. (PG) Early review samples: • “Wild Things becomes more than just a visual feast; it’s a blissful evocation of imagining as a process of spiritual maturation.” (Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine) • “It works like a dream. Instead of being bombarded by computer illusions, we’re allowed to suspend our disbelief, to bring our own imaginations into play. For all the artfulness, the feel of the film is roughhewn, almost primitive. It’s a fabulous tree house of a movie.” (John Leonard, New York Magazine)

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The Story: An aging widower takes a group of young boys under his wing to teach them about the Bible.

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Director: Peter Greenaway Players: Richard Bohringer, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciar n Hinds Pitch-Black Comedy Rated NC-17 Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was the art film of 1990, which is to say that if you saw only one art film that year, this was probably the one you saw. It was—and still is—a film destined to be endlessly discussed and interpreted.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, part of a series of Classic Cinema From Around the World, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332.

The Lowdown: Heavy-handed Biblethumping mixed with amateurish filmmaking make for a movie that will test your credulity and your endurance.

The reason I’m giving The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry a half-star rating is not because of its heavy-handed Christian message. Sure, the movie is about as subtle as being buried beneath an avalanche of Bibles, but this isn’t why the movie is bad. It’s the amateurish acting, the flat direction and the floundering lack of drama that makes this movie—and not its message—awful. Any topic would falter under this much slathered-on mediocrity.

The film is written by the Christiano brothers, Dave and Rich, who’ve carved out a niche for themselves making well-intentioned, quaint and dramatically inert Christian films, where the end message is that you’d better get right with the Lord or else. And that’s fine, but in this case, it isn’t a premise that needs to be stretched to feature length. The film’s whole purpose is to bring the masses closer to Jesus, but the movie is made and marketed in such a way that it’ll only be preached to the converted.

The movie takes place in a whitewashed version of 1970, which the filmmakers seem to have confused with the ‘50s. There are soda fountains and an abundance of pomade. The movie follows Dustin (Jansen Panettiere), a preteen dealing with a bully (Taylor Boggan) and trying to figure out how to put the PGrated moves on his current crush (Bailey Garno). Not a whole lot happens with either

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Players: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau Romantic Spy Yarn Rated NR Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) is the filmmaker’s last work in full The 39 Steps (1935) mode.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show North

by Northwest at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. (From Asheville, take I-26 to U.S. 64 West, turn right at the third light onto Thompson Street. Follow to the Lake Point Landing entrance and park in the lot on the left.)

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of these things, except a whole lot of talking between Dustin and his two best buds (Frankie Ryan Manriquez and Allen Isaacson).

In fact, most of the film is bogged down in conversational minutiae, from how to ask out girls to how much to leave for a tip. A lot of it feels like the ugly, incredibly dull lovechild of an episode of Seinfeld and Quentin Tarantino at his most pointlessly digressive. Maybe the worst of it is the feeling that the brothers Christiano think that what they’re writing is somehow clever. And it certainly doesn’t help that the film has all the style and production value of an instructional video.

Nevertheless, it’s not long until Dustin meets Jonathan Sperry (Gavin MacLeod, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Love Boat, and showing why he’s best known for those two shows), a bored, widowed senior citizen, who decides to take these young boys under his wing and teach them about Jesus. He does this through a mix of parables and scare tactics (leading to one scene set in a graveyard that’s both creepy and laughably ridiculous), and before you know it, Dustin’s getting everyone he knows to read their Bibles.

Ninety-six minutes of heavy-handed proselytizing—that’s pretty much the movie. And there’s probably a good level of sincerity in it all, too. But sincerity will only get you so far when the results are as yawn-inducing as this.

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Homes For Sale $110,000 • ATTENTION FIRST TIME BUYERS 2BR, 1BA, all new interior. Walk to UNCA. Quiet neighborhood. • Own for less than rent! 713-7606. $146,000 • FLETCHER • STAFFORD HILLS New, immaculate 3BR, 2.5BA, 1250 sqft townhome.

Hardwood floors, marble in bath, gas fireplace, 1 car garage. Patio. Convenient to Hendersonville, Asheville.

Lease/purchase option.

(864) 723-1049.

$159,900 • EAST • WARREN WILSON AREA Location, Price, Quality.

Secluded cottage 10 minutes from downtown.

Spacious 2BR, 1BA, wood/ceramic tile floors, new deck w/pergola, monitor heater w/Vermont castings woodstove, hiking trails nearby. MLS#445606.

(706) 319-4484.

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$169,000 • GROVE PARK This brick 2 bedroom features hardwood floors, recent interior paint, a natural gas furnace, mature landscaping, and a private backyard adjoining a small stream. Walk to downtown.

Call (828) 255-7530. appalachianrealty.com

$174,900 • WEST Updated, 2BR, 1BA with new hardwood floors, wood doors, French doors to deck and large backyard.

Remodeled, sunny kitchen, new bath, spacious master, garage. Heated downstairs room could be another bedroom. MLS#451025.

Call (828) 255-7530. appalachianrealty.com

$175,000 • DUPLEX • WEST ASHEVILLE Rare to find side-by-side! Charming 2BR, 1BA each, current tenant pays $750/month!

Qualifies for FHA financing (3.5% down) and 1st Time Buyer Tax Credit if owner occupied. Call Paula Leatherwood, Keller Williams Realty.

(828) 215-4625.

$200,000 • WEST ASHEVILLE BUNGALOW A classic bungalow, from the covered front porch to the back steps. 2 bedrooms, bonus room, fireplace, woodfloors, laundry in enclosed back porch, fenced backyard, carport.

Close to West Asheville amenities. Call (828) 255-7530. appalachianrealty.com

$205,000 • BUNGALOW • NORTH ASHEVILLE Cute and cozy 2BR, 1BA, quiet neighborhood, close to everything. 5 minutes to downtown, Greenlife. • Perfect for small family, couple, or potential rental income. Hardwood floors, many recent upgrades inside and out. Large screened backporch. Large private fenced backyard w/hot tub. Built-ins, AC/heat pump/oil, and more. • Photos: http://35salemavenueashevi llenc28804.blogspot.com/ • Call (828) 260-2257.

$375,000 • HAW CREEK 3BR, 2BA, 2021 sqft home.

Beautiful 1.45 acres within city limits, yet close to • Blue Ridge Parkway. Full basement, 2 car garage, newly refinished hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, woodstove and much more!

• By owner: (828) 2301704. lthompson128@ yahoo.com

$459,000 • CHESTNUT HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT This 1897 shingle house designed by Richard Sharp Smith is on a large lot with ample parking, detached garage, fresh paint, new roof, and original features intact. Residential/office zoning. MLS#449460. Call (828) 255-7530. appalachianrealty.com

$595,000 • TIMBER FRAMED STRAW BALE Natural Home and Cottage.

Property borders National Forest. Located between Brevard and Lake Toxaway.

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13.5 ACRE FARM • $469,000 4BR, 2BA log home with deck, pond, mountain views, garden, creek, outbuildings, fencing, and southern exposure.

Land is all usable. Owner is a licensed NC real estate broker. MLS#437500. Call (828) 255-7530. appalachianrealty.com

145 SOUTH WILLOW BROOK on 1.68 acres!

Immaculate, spacious, nearly new, approximately 2650 sqft Plus Big full expandable basement w/drive under garage! 3BR, 3BA plus extra room with bath upstairs, den, office, big open kitchen/dining/living area w/hardwood floors, master suite main level! Quiet living just 10 minutes to downtown! MLS#442912. $339,900. Call owner to see! (828) 777-4843. www.HomesByOwner.com /65986 1920s TUDOR HOME in Kenilworth neighborhood.

4BR, 1.5BA. $374,900. www.KenilworthNC.com/du ke 828-329-4863.

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH NEW HOUSE • 1450 sq.ft., 9 foot ceiling, big windows, nice lot. Two minutes to Exit 21, New Stock Road, Woodfin.

221 Old Home Road.

Hardwoods, fans, stainless appliances, porch, patio, sunny kitchen. Perfect for small family. Hurry, won’t last. $185,000.

828-299-7502.

A BETTER WAY TO SELL! America/Asheville’s #1 FSBO Website with MLS, deluxe Realtor.com for Maximum global exposure! Best listing value WNC, Low Flat Fee listing, Save THOU$AND$! www.RevolutionRealty.net (828) 350-1995. www.HomesByOwner.com /Asheville

ARDEN • 200 year old 2BR, 2BA nestled within a fenced half acre of gardens.

Features a deck, sunroom, garden terrace, basement, remodeled bath,wood stove, fireplace, hardwood floors. Come see it today!

Call Asheville Homeworks, 215-6007 or email Ashevillere@yahoo.com $135,000.

BENDING OVER BACKWARDS! For our clients! (828) 713-5337.

Search all MLS listings in 1 location: AshevilleHolisticRealty.com

COMPACT COTTAGE COMPANY • Small “green”-built buildings usable for an enormous variety of practical applications, such as: Sleep, Work, Mother-in-law storage, Poker, Karaoke, Be in the doghouse in. From $15K-30K. compactcottages.com, 828-254-5450.

COTTAGE • WEST ASHEVILLE Newly redone.

Sweet yard w/creek, stainless appliances, back and front deck. On desirable Dorchester. MLS#449447.

Call The Woolf Team of Keller Williams: (828) 2300940, 230-3518. pattycw@kw.com

FIND OUT WHY! Folks are calling City Real Estate for exploring the art or finding your home. Sales and Rentals handled professionally and efficiently. We help you find “Views From All Angles”.

(828) 210-2222.

AshevilleCityRealEstate.com GROVEMONT COTTAGE • MLS# 444668 Must see this cute 3BR 2BA with master suite. Priced to sell at $174,900. Please contact Jim Gallagher, 828-2303660 KENILWORTH “ECO-CHIC” With lots of upgrades, including prairie stove, bar, built-in breakfast nook and upgraded appliances.

Second floor meditation room suspended above living area create a masterful play of space and volume. Hardwoods, custom tile and cork flooring.

Spacious master bedroom with tons of light. Great outdoor space and landscaping. Quiet end of Kenilworth, yet close to everything. $399K. Call (828) 252-7787. Crest Realty.

PRICE REDUCED IN WEST ASHEVILLE The craftsman details in this new HBH home are meticulous and wonderful, from river stone fireplace to custom woodwork. The kitchen is chef’s dream (cherry and granite), complete w/craftsman era breakfast nook. Heaven is truly in details w/this one. Call (828) 252-7787. Crest Realty.

PRICE REDUCED! Now completed and absolutely gorgeous! The Madrona plan from Ross Chapin, full of the craftsman details award-winning Longview Builders, Inc. is known for.

Crisp highly appointed kitchen, bonus room in master (on main), reading nook, play loft, tall windows and lots of light. Tasteful touches throughout. HBH certified. Amazing house for the money in North Asheville. Call (828) 2527787. Crest Realty.

PRIVATE CONTEMPORARY • $394,642 3BR, 2.5BA, open floorplan, great light, hardwood and ceramic tile floors, deck off master, 2zoned heat, 0.8 acres w/private pond.

MLS#451208. The Real Estate Center, (828) 2554663. www.recenter.com REDUCED! Quiet and close to town! 3BR 2BA modular on 1.88 acres. Master suite with garden tub, large kitchen with island, walk-in closets, wood burning fireplace, back patio, storage shed. $144,900.

828-200-0675 (dial area code).

THE VILLAGES AT CREST MOUNTAIN Asheville’s Premier Sustainable Community! Top green builders, community gardens, orchards & vineyards, common houses, common solar, so much more. Starting in the low 200s. villagesatcrestmounain.com or 828.252.7787 / info@ villagesatcrestmountain.com for more info.

WALK TO DOWNTOWN • 1700 sq.ft., 4BR, 2.5BA, hardwood floors, new kitchen, deck, sun room, $199,000. Agents welcome.

828-582-7198.

WEST ASHEVILLE COTTAGE-BUNGALOW • 3BR, 2BA. Built 2008. All oak and tile floors. Granite kitchen. $235,000. 3161265. 5 minutes to town.

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WEST ASHEVILLE 2 Bedroom Condominium priced below market at $98,000. Attractive. Split level. Newer appliances included. Views. Pool. Ample Light. Heat Pump/AC. Canterbury Heights Complex. A Bargain! Call 253-9451.

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Brand new arts and crafts beauty!

Located in picturesque downtown Weaverville within walking distance to the quaint Main Street shops and Lake Louise! This brand new almost 2000sf home has rock accents and hardiplank exterior, three bedrooms, three full baths, hand hewn hardwood floors, upgrade carpet and tile, maple cabinets, granite bath counters, and a whirlpool tub in master bath. Upgrade appliances, fixtures and molding, three decks for nature lovers. This low maintenance, energy efficient home also features a large office/studio space/possible 4th bedroom. Beautifully landscaped, almost one half acre NATURE lot with adjacent stream and end of the road privacy.

33 Ballard Rd. Weaverville

A Fantastic Buy at just $269,900 - (828)768-3339

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Built to Last

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Condos For Sale $135,000 • CLINGMAN AVENUE Between Downtown and the River Arts District. New 1BR, 1BA urban condo. Parking, storage, private balcony.

The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com

TERRIFIC LOCATION DOWNTOWN • $225,000.

2BR. 2BA. Furnished, stainless steel appliances, W/D. Secure entrance/parking. Fitness center, rooftop garden. List price lower than purchase.

Brokers welcome. 251-5436400.

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DOWNTOWN KRESS BUILDING Custom Condo in the historic Kress Building.

2 PINs, adjoining spiral staircase. Original maple floors, private balconies, high ceilings. • $525,000, lease/purchase also available for $1800/month.

MLS#423787. The Real Estate Center, (828) 2554663. www.recenter.com

HISTORIC S&W CONDOS New condos in the heart of downtown in historic art deco building. 3rd and 4th floor units w/elevator access and city or mountain views. From $290,000. The Real Estate Center: (828) 255-4663, www.recenter.com • info@recenter.com

*Based on 100% financing, APR 4.229% on 5 year ARM. No prepayment penalty, no balloon payment, no PMI. Rates are subject to change at any time. Based on 80% 1st mortgage of $111,920 (principal + interest) and 20% 2nd mortgage of $27,980 (interest only) APR 4.125%. Both loans are variable rate, subject to change at 5 years. Select condos only. Does not include taxes and insurance.

Nitch Real Estate: (828) 654-9394 or bricktonvillage.com

Land For Sale 1.01 ACRE Unimproved vacant lot. 9381 Double Island Road, Green Mountain, Yancey County.

Call 1-888-285-0008, ext 2775. RE:275654.

4.3 ACRES BUNCOMBE COUNTY • Beautifully private. Build near creek or on mountaintop. Raw land has recent survey and septic permit. $57K. (828) 669-7483.

KENILWORTH • Fully furnished 762 sq.ft., 1BR, 1BA. Minutes from downtown Asheville.

Features: balconies, granite kitchen w/stainless appliances, wood floors, gas stone fireplace, resort pool and exercise facility.

Contact Asheville Homeworks @ 215-6007 or email Ashevillere@yahoo.com. $243,700.

46.73 +/- ACRES • LAND AUCTIONS Thursday, October 22, 6pm, Lenoir, NC. Caldwell County.

Residential, Development, Investment. Less than 3 miles to downtown. Offered Divided HBC. United Country: 1-800-711-9175 or (919) 545-0412. Rogers Auctioneers, Inc. Lic#5726.

10% Buyer’s Premium. View full details online!

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KENILWORTH LOT • Private 0.21 acres on peaceful, wooded street. Great potential for green home close to urban amenities. $79,000 (828)231-7419, LEXINGTON STATION Downtown condos, garage parking, wood floors, private balconies, stainless appliances, fitness center. • 3BR penthouse: $499,000.

• 2BR, 2BA: $289,900. • The Real Estate Center: (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com

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MONTFORD • .19 acre lot located on Westover Drive.

Private, wooded. Just outside of historic district.

Neighborhood has great mix of historic and modern homes. $75,000. Partial owner financing available.

828-337-0228.

Close to everything, yet secluded in the heart of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Cummings Cove Golf & Country Club is just 15 minutes south of Asheville Airport and 10 minutes from Hendersonville. Named “One of America’s 100 Best Master-Planned Communities” by Where to Retire magazine, the private gated community provides extensive amenities: award-winning 18 hole golf course, golf shop, stone and timber clubhouse with restaurant and lounge, social center and new sports complex with comprehensive fitness facilities, heated swimming pool, hot tub-spa and three tennis courts.

The par 71 golf course features 18 distinctly different holes playable for all skill levels with everything that makes golfing in the mountains special including elevated tees, tree-lined fairways, lakes, streams,

waterfalls and see-forever views. Private club atmosphere with full service restaurant and lounge are also available to visiting golfers, groups and tournaments.

At nearly 3,000 ft. elevation, the 650 acre property is high enough to enjoy extraordinary long-range mountain views but at a level where the climate is moderate. Spring and fall are long and colorful, winter is short and exhilarating, and summer brings pleasantly warm days and cool nights. The idyllic mountain setting also includes urban conveniences with underground utilities: city water, sewer system, natural gas, electric and cable TV with high speed internet access.

A diverse selection of homes, villas and cottages in several distinctive residential villages provide

a wide variety of lifestyle choices. At the pinnacle of Cummings Cove,“Mountain Top” is a new 275 acre village offering low maintenance half-acre to estate-size homesites with dramatic Blue Ridge Mountain views, priced from the $100’s. Preferred Builders provide a large selection of plans as well as completed homes on mountaintop sites or golf course and wooded settings. Home prices range from $300’s to over $1 million. New golf course villas surrounded by three fairways framed by mountain views are offered from the high $300’s.

At Cummings Cove, you can get away from it all without giving up anything.Visit www. cummingscove.com for video and photo tours or call Cummings Cove Realty, 828-891-5848 for more information.

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Heating & Cooling MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING INC • Service • Repairs • Replacements AC/Heat Pumps • Gas/Oil Furnaces • New Construction/Renovations • Indoor Air Quality Products.

(828) 658-9145.

9B?D=C7D 7L;DK; BE< JI • 1 & 2 BR Condominiums • Close to downtown • Nine foot ceilings • Energy Star and NC HealthyBuilt Home certified • Private Balconies

Own for only $650/month Includes Mortgage, Taxes & Association Fees

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Upholstery UPHOLSTERY AND RESTORATION Quality and friendly custom restoration services for all your upholstery needs. • Auto • Home. Free estimates.

(828) 776-8220.

Kitchen & Bath ELK MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATES We specialize in • re-fitting Bathrooms and Kitchens and finishing Basements • adding Garages, Porches and • Sunrooms. • Professional education and experience.

Call (828) 242-1950 or (for all our information): elkmountainassociates.com

Painting

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1 DAY ROOM TRANSFORMATION Custom painting, decorative finishes, wallpaper installation/removal. • 15 years experience. • Meticulous • Timely • Reasonable. Heather, (828) 215-4365. Custom Home Interior Accents.

HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services. 25 years professional experience, quality, reliability. References available. Free estimates.

Insured. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

1 MONTH FREE! (W/12 month lease). River Arts Studios starting at $180/month, includes utilities. Call 250-9700 or e-mail: rega@charterinternet.com

Cleaning HOUSEKEEPER/PERSONAL ASSISTANT has an opening to work for you. Call (828) 216-4592

General Services SANTA FE LOOK • PLASTERING • STUCCO Interior • Exterior • “Green” • Residential • Commercial • 30 years Asheville area.

Call Perry: (828) 301-2323 or 258-2443. • • See my work (click Products, Venetian Plaster Base): www.earthpaint.net THE-DO-IT-ALL-GUY • 20 years experience.

Impeccable references. Full house renovations to small jobs check list. Carpentry, electrical, painting, flooring.

David Hunt: 828-283-1700.

LARGE INVENTORY OF RENTALS WITH 1 YEAR LEASES

Great Rentals in West Asheville, North Asheville, Woodfin, Black Mountain & Hendersonville NO R TH MOBILES LIKE NEW T OW NH OUSE S Off Merrimon Ave.

1 BR/1 BA ............... $495 2BR/1 BA ................ $525 3BR/1BA ................. $625 Walking distance to town, incl. water

ACCEPTING SECTION 8 NOW! In quiet, very nice park.

3BR, 2BA. ............................ $6 2 5 / M O NTH 2BR, 2BA. .......................... $6 1 5 / M O NTH

BLACK MOUNTAIN 2 BR, 1BA apartment.

Heat pump with central air, washer/dryer connections.

Also includes water.

$625/MONTH

HENDERSONVILLE 1BR, 1BA apar ment with new berber carpet. Small deck with sliding glass door. Walking distance to Main Street. Includes water.

$4 2 5 / M O NTH

CALL AAA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC 828.252.4334 EMAIL: WNCRENTALS@YAHOO.COM

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Services

Computer COMPUTER SERVICE AT YOUR DOORSTEP We Come To You! • PC and Mac • Slow computer? We’ll speed it up. • Repairs • Upgrades • Networking • Tutoring. Senior Citizen/Nonprofit Discounts.

Call Christopher’s Computers, 828-670-9800.

Member Better Business Bureau of WNC. christopherscomputers.com

TSUNAMI POWER WASHING • Hot and cold power washing. Site clean up. Residential and Commercial. Call John, 828-242-5616.

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RELIABLE REPAIRS! Quality work! All types maintenance/repair, indoor/outdoor.

Excellent water leak detection/correction! 38 years experience!

Responsible! Honest!

Harmonious! References!

Call Brad, you’ll be Glad!

(828) 273-5271.

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Business Health Insurance is a valuable defense against costly medical expenses.

Looking for affordable Health Insurance? For a Free no obligation Quote visit www.NC-SmartInsurance.com or call Bruce at 828-775-2828.

Home ALCA REMODELING • Specializing in hardwood floors, bathrooms, kitchens, decks, trim, electrical, carpentry, pressure cleaning, general maintenance. References.

Alan, 828-656-8375.

DOWNTOWN Ground-floor retail w/courtyard on Lexington Avenue.

Approximately 2982 sqft, hardwood floors, newer building. $2000/month. The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com 18 ORANGE, DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE Across from Staples. 1,325 sqft, entire first floor, large kitchen/bath, $1,295/month, water and electric included. Available Oct. 1. By appointment: 828-273-3765.

200 SQ.FT. OFFICE SPACE • Available in a creative, fun and professional work space for freelancers and small business owners. $500/month with no long term commitment. Includes utilities, hi-speed wireless internet and parking. We are a 2 minute walk to Greenlife, a 5 minute walk to downtown, and steps to the new Dripolator. http://locomotivity.com.

828-414-3590.

ARTIST STUDIO SPACE Bright and cheerful. 200 plus sqft. Located off Merrimon Avenue. $275/month, includes utilities. Call Ray: (828) 254-3415.

Commercial Listings

Commercial Property COMMERCIAL FOR SALE • Downtown, old fashioned building w/character on busy 0.25 acre corner, $980,000.

• Downtown, brick building w/high ceilings, roll up doors, concrete floors, $330,000.

• Gateway to Broadway Corridor, 3 buidings, 2 lots, home to many new developments, $1,650,000.

• The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE: For sale. Renovated 1,227 sqft office building. $259,900. Call G/M Property Group, 828-2814024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

DOWNTOWN OFFICE • Corner private entry on Biltmore Ave. by BUS to 2nd floor with charming brick and old forest wood open design with kitchen & bath, parking, 17 ft. of closet office supply, signage. $1,500/month +.

828 230-0755

ATTRACTIVE, 2,000 SQ,FT. DOWNTOWN OFFICE • 55 Grove Street. Four offices, break room, large reception area. Below market at $11/ sq. ft. Ample parking nearby. Practical and beautiful. Call (828) 253-9451.

HISTORIC MILES BUILDING Downtown Asheville. High profile, 2-room office suite with high ceilings and hardwood floors. Great space. $600/month includes utilities. 828-242-5456.

LEXINGTON LOFTS Renovated restaurant and retail spaces between 1100-2000 sqft on Lexington and Rankin Avenues w/competitive lease rates; ready for upfit mid-2010. The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com NICE SUBURBAN OFFICES South of Airport, Hwy 280.

4,400 sqft. freestanding building. Possible office/live-in. Approximately $3,000/month.

HENDERSONVILLE ROAD Close to Asheville. Deluxe suite of offices, 160, 280 sqft. Ample parking. Cheap!

828-216-6066.

NORTH ASHEVILLE Basement level of the Sherwin Williams building, approximately 6500 sqft, $3000/month. The Real Estate Center, (828) 2554663. www.recenter.com RIVER DISTRICT 6,000 sqft shell - artists; flexible uses.

Owner will upfit for Class A office. Call G/M Property Group, 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

Rentals

Rooms For Rent

BE ON BUSY TUNNEL ROAD! Anchor space to starter space available from 300 sqft to 3500 sqft. Great for Medical, Office or Studio use. Contact (828) 2152865 for showings.

ARDEN • FULLY FURNISHED Near Airport, shopping, I-26. Beautiful, private setting. Organic peaceful house, gardens. • No smoking/substances. • Employed • Responsible.

No lease. $395/month.

687-2390.

DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE: For lease. Retail and office suites, 222 to 2,964 sqft.

Very prominent locations.

Call G/M Property Group, 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com

DOWNTOWN • SINGLE ROOM The Gray Rock Inn, 100 Biltmore Avenue, near French Broad Food Co-op. • Weekly rates, $105/week.

References, security deposit required. John: 230-4021.

Apartments For Rent 1BR, 1BA EAST • 7 Violet Hills. Hardwood floors, dishwasher. $515/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com $325/MONTH CANTON; $450/MONTH CANDLER Nice, renovated 1BR apartments; minutes from downtown Asheville. No smoking; no pets. Call (828) 337-5447. $695/MONTH • FALL SPECIAL East • 2BR, 2BA. Riverside setting. Beautiful views. Covered parking.

Deck. All appliances, including WD. Storage.

Large closets. Pet friendly.

776-4940.

1 FREE MONTH! (w/contract). Live, work and play downtown. • Studio: $545/month. • 1BR: $650/month. Call 2542029. APM. 1-2BR, 1-2BA HENDERSONVILLE • 407 Fourth Ave. W. Hardwood floors, fireplace. $425$625/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1-2BR, 1-2BA, ARDEN, Glen Beale, *2nd month free*, $575-$675/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com 1-2BR, 2BA, SOUTH Skyland Heights, $495$595/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly.

(828) 251-9966.

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18 ORANGE, DOWNTOWN LIVE/WORKSPACE 1-2BR, 1BA. 1,325 sq.ft.

Hardwoods, 2 fireplaces, high ceilings, large windows.Large kitchen/bath. $1,295/month, water and electric included. Available Oct. 1. By appointment: 828-273-3765.

1BR VICTORIANMONTFORD • Living room, sun room, hardwoods, gas heat. $625/month, year lease. Security deposit, credit check. Sorry, no dogs. For appointment call Elizabeth Graham, 828253-6800.

1BR, 1BA CENTRAL • 15 Grindstaff. Carpet/vinyl. $525/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA MONTFORD • 333 Cumberland Ave. Tile floors, high ceilings. $595$625/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

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1BR, 1BA NORTH • 12 Golf St. $665/month. Hardwood floors, gas heat.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA WEST • 92 Appalachian Way. $895/month. Harwood floors, W/D connections.

828-53-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 7 Banbury Cross. $525$695/month. Hardwood floors, high ceilings.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA, EAST, 7 LINDSEY, A/C, W/D hookups, $595/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com

1BR/1BA NORTH • 83 Edgemont, water included. $495/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA, EAST, 119 Liberty, a/c, w/d hookups, $625/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

1BR/1BA, EAST • 314 Fairview, porch, $575/month.

828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA, HENDERSONVILLE, 2010 LAUREL PARK, coin-op laundry, $675/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com

2-3BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 30 Clairmont. Close to shopping and dining. Water included. $635$655/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN • 138 Biltmore Ave. $915/month. A/C, cats okay.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA Main St. Weaverville. Spacious. A/C, W/D hookups. New paint. $595/month.

828-775-9434.

2BR, 1BA MONTFORD • 346 Montford Ave. $625$650/month. Hardwood floors, gas heat.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA, NORTH, 365 Weaverville, w/d hookups, $475-$595/month, 828-693-8069, www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA EAST • 2484 Riceville Rd. Open floor plan, porch. $615/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA NORTH • 65 Edgewood. Porch, wood floors. $735/month. 828253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA SWANNANOA • 746 Bee Tree Lake Rd. $675/month. W/D, dishwasher. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 198 Kimberly Ave. $850/month.

Patio, lawn. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR. 1.5BA HENDERSOVILLE • 912 Hillcrest. W/D connections, 2 car garage. $595/month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 304 Charlotte St. Carpet, car port. $650/month. 828253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR/1BA EAST • 1746 Tunnel, W/D hookups, A/C, $595/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 53 Maney Ave. $875/month.

Hardwood floors, fireplace.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR/1BA WEST • 257 Sandhill, A/C, W/D hookups. $715/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 68 N. French Broad Ave. Hardwood floors, A/C. $740/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR/2BA NORTH • 265 Charlotte, hardwood floors, coin-op laundry. $635$850/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR/2BA, ARDEN • 216 Weston, A/C, W/D hookups. $795/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 1BA NORTH • 22 Westall. Close to UNCA. Water included. $695/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA EAST • 126 Aurora Dr. Carpet, W/D hookups. $825/month. 828253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA, NORTH, 81 LAKESHORE, A/C, coin-op laundry, deck, $725/month, 828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com A HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS • GREAT PRICE! Live in a beautiful, green, conveniently located scenic resort-style community! • Fireplaces • Heated pool • Fitness Center and more. Call (828) 687-0638. kensingtonplaceapts.com ACTON WOODS APARTMENTS • Beautiful 2BR, 2BA, loft, $850/month. • 2BR, 2BA, $750. Include gas log fireplace, water, storage.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1 Very private 2BR apartment in Haw Creek near Tunnel Road. WD connections.

Convenient to mall, downtown and medical center. Private drive. Lease, security deposit, references required. Utilities separate.

• No pets please. $625/month. Call (828) 350-1400.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area.

Only $595/month.

828-252-4334.

BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated (new: bath, kitchen), 1BR, sunroom, dining room. 10’ ceilings, abundance of natural light.

Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $660/month includes heat, water. Smoke free.

280-5449.

CENTRAL • 1BR. Heat and water provided. $620/month. 828-2530758. Carver Realty.

CENTRAL • S. French Broad Ave. 1BR, 1BA, office. $615 per month.

828-350-9400.

EFFICIENCY APARTMENT • Available immediately. 289 E Chestnut ST. Ground floor units available, $450/month. No pets.

828-350-9400.

GET QUALITY RESULTS! I received calls from a lot of high quality renters, as opposed to other publications I’ve tried. I will continue to advertise with Mountain Xpress. Patricia H. You too, can find the ideal renter, just call us! (828) 251-1333. Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

GLEN BRIDGE APARTMENTS • 1BR, 1BA. $450/month. Includes water/garbage. Small complex in Arden. Move in special with one year lease. www.arcagencyasheville.co m. 828-350-9400.

HENDERSONVILLE • 1BR, 1BA. Walking distance to Main St. Includes water.

Only $425/month.

828-252-4334.

HENDERSONVILLE 1BR studio apartment. Walking distance to Main Street.

Includes water. Only $385/month. 828-252-4334 HISTORIC MONTFORD • Charming 2BR,1BA. Hardwood floors, gas heat, back deck and front balcony located in 1920’s brick quadraplex. Storage room for bicycles, kayaks, etc. in basement.

Washer/dryer. Off-street parking. Very quiet neighbors. Walk to downtown. Cats OK, no dogs. $700/month.

828-216-1331.

HISTORIC MONTFORD • Elegant, romantic apartment. Formal living room, dining room, 1 or 2 bedroom. Balcony, hardwoods, gas heat. Sorry, no dogs. 1 cat okay. $795/month.

828-253-6800.

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334.

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NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMESOff Merrimon.

Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334 NORTH CENTRAL ASHEVILLE • Off Broadway St., walking distance to downtown. Freshly painted 2BR, 1BA duplex with some hardwood floors and gas heat. $600 per month. No smoking. Property Management of Asheville, Inc. 828-253-2537 NORTH FOREST APARTMENTS 2BR, 2BA. Beautiful complex, built 2002. Safe and secure.

Close to I-26/UNCA, North Asheville. • $600/month.

778-6809. www.delkandson.com OFF CHARLOTTE ST • Clean, furnished, weekly apartments. Efficiency and rooms. Includes wireless, laundry, off-street parking.

Secure building. Walk to downtown and busline.

828-232-1042.

STUDIO/1BA NORTH • 82 Merrimon, hardwood floors, $575/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com STUDIO/1BA NORTH • Fall Special! 85 Merrimon, all utilities included. Furnished. $550/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Mobile Homes For Rent GAY FRIENDLY MOBILE1BR, bonus room, WD, DW. Private. 20 minutes West. Non-smoker. $500/month. Mike: 226-9998.

HAW CREEK Convenient location, good school district. 3BR, 2BA mobile home. Fenced. Nonsmoking.

• Some pets ok. $750/month, $750 deposit.

(828) 299-8623. str72@charter.net WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 2BA mobile home. In very nice park. Like new. In city and on bus line close to town. Only $615/month.

828-252-4334.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 3BR, 2.5BA • Very clean townhouse with patio, garage, fireplace, appliances, and w/d hookup. $900/month. Call Dale at 828-231-9409 or 828-890-3282.

BEVERLY TOWNHOUSE • Between downtown and Biltmore village. 2BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors, newly painted, modern lighting and updated kitchen with Corian countertops, washer/dryer. End unit with quiet green and gardening space. $118,000 (828) 545-3163.

MOUNTAIN TOP CONDO Beaucatcher Mountain.

Mountaintop pool, fireplace, new kitchen. Breathtaking mountain views. Just in time for leaf season. 14 ft gable ceiling. Washer/Dryer included. Closest Mountain to downtown. Flexible move in date. Looking for 1 year agreement. Pictures available on email or facebook. Dogs and cats considered after meeting your four footed friend. 2nd story. 1 month security and 1st month rent to move in.

Must See, This is a stylish place. Available for showings. $995/month. 828 505 0553 I will return messages If you need a furnished condo please call to discuss. Possibly an option.

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. • 1BR: $495/month. • 2BR, 1BA: $525/month. • 3BR, 1BA: $625/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334

DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDO • 2BR, 2BA. Two blocks from Pack Square, corner SW facing. 12’ ceiling. Eleven huge windows, exposed brick, oak floors, and gourmet kitchen. Indoor parking. $2,000/month furnished, $1800/month unfurnished.

Year lease. Bright Star Realty, 828-301-8033.

Adeed Dawisha 513 529 2332 dawisha@muohio.edu DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDOS Brand new loft in historic 52 Biltmore Avenue Building. 1BR, 1.5BA with 250 sqft 2nd floor mezzanine. Gourmet kitchen, oak floors, exposed brick, modular lighting, large windows, W/D, concrete, granite, stone, stainless upgrades. Indoor parking. Best Downtown location; walk to anything. $1,250/month. Year lease.

828-301-8033 or 954-6841300. Oxford Ventures FLETCHER • 2BR, 1.5BA townhouse available for immediate rental. Very nice unit with one car garage.

Duplex style living, very convenient to I-26 and south Asheville shopping/restaurants. One small pet considered. $800 per month. 828-350-9400.

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WINDSWEPT VIEWS • 2BR, 2BA. One lower unit for $750/month. www.arcagencyasheville.co m 828-350-9400.

Homes For Rent 1ST CALL US! 2, 3 and 4BR homes from $700-2500. • Pet friendly. • Huge selection! (828) 251-9966 Alpha-Real-Estate.com 2 GREAT HOMES! • Log Cabin: West Asheville, 2BR+loft, fenced yard, $900/month. • Horse Farm: North Buncombe, 3BR, 2BA home, 10+ acres, pasture, barn w/3 stalls, $1200/month. Call Paula Leatherwood, Foley Realty Inc. (828) 215-4625.

2BR, 1BA • CHUNNS COVE DUPLEX $750/month. Call (828) 253-0758.

Carver Realty 2BR, 1BA FLETCHER • 2 Pearson. Fireplace, A/C. $795/month.

828-253-1517, www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 69 Rice Branch. Fireplace, rear deck. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA OAKLEY • Garage apt. $750/month, water included. Large deck, beautiful views, large fenced backyard, oak floors, W/D hookups, new appliances. Great neighborhood. No pets.

828-274-7109.

2BR, 1BA WEST ASHEVILLE • 5 minutes to downtown. Security deposit required. $550/month.

David, 777-0385.

2BR, 2.5BA WEST • 445 Sand Hill. Fireplace, deck. $950/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA WEST • 40 Hudson. Gas logs, A/C. $895/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA WEST • 31 Ridgeway, Garage. W/D hookups. $795/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 1BA NORTH • 45 Maxwell. HVAC, A/C. $995/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 1BA WEST • 39 Ridgeway. Oak floors, garage. $895/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2.5BA SOUTH • 137 Weston Rd. $1,125/month.

Gas logs, A/C. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA NORTH ASHEVILLE • $1,175/month. Rustic 1936 Cape Cod. Walk to restaurants like Asheville Pizza on Merrimon. W/D hook-up, W/D rental available. Gas heat. ACwindow-units for bedrooms.

Small pet w/deposit.

Available 9/28. northashevillehouse@ gmail.com 3BR, 2BA SOUTH • 8 Gatehouse. Patio, gas logs,. $1195/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA • 1800sq.ft. on .5 acre. Walk to Reynolds HS. Garage, storage/workshop, fireplace. Consider small pets. No smoking. Available 10/10/09. $1325/month.

828-712-5559.

3BR/1BA NORTH • 31 Henrietta. Harwood floors, A/C. $795/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR/2BA EAST • 155 Onteora, near shopping. $895/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR/2BA NORTH • 16 Knoll Ridge. A/C, W/D hookups. $1060/month.

828-253-151. www.leslieandassoc.com 4BR, 2BA WEST • 10 Friendly Way. Gas logs, garage. $1195/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

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ALL AREAS - HOUSES FOR RENT. Browse thousands of rental listings with photos and maps. Advertise your rental home for free! Visit: www.RealRentals.com (AAN CAN) ARDEN, OAK FOREST • 3BR, 2BA with full basement/garage. Nice area. Reduced to $1100/month. $30 application fee.

828-350-9400. arcagencyasheville.com ARDEN • 3 homes available from $950/month. Great layouts. 828-350-9400. arcagencyasheville.com ASHEVILLE AREA RENTALS $550$1950/month. • 1-East. • 3-West. • 3-North. • 3South. • Century 21 Mountain Lifestyles: (828) 684-2640, ext 17. For more details: www.DebMarshall.com AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1 • UNCA 2BR, 1BA bungalow.

Living, dining, dishwasher, WD, hardwood floors, woodstove. Porch, carport, garden. No smoking/pets. $825/month. 1 year lease.

Deposit, references.

545-3459. joy.neaves@gmail.com BEACON VILLAGE • SWANNANOA 2-3BR, 1BA, hardwood floors, oil heat, WD connections. Fenced yard. • Pets considered. $795/month. Deposit.

References. 301-0131.

BEAUTIFUL LOG HOME Absolutely spectacular view! In mountains outside Asheville. 4BR, 3.5BA, 3,200 sqft. Stone fireplace, spa tubs, gourmet kitchen, cathedral ceilings, huge deck. Long term rent. (219) 548-8978. ashevilledreamcabin.com BILTMORE PARK. 4BR, 2.5 BA, 2,200 sqft, Rent for $2,100. 4BR, 3.5BA $2500.

Carver Realty, 828-253-0758.

BUNGALOW • SWANNANOA New construction near Warren Wilson. 2BR, 2.5BA, 1500 sqft. Energy Star certified.

Jacuzzi tub master.

Stainless appliances. WD. $1050/month, first, deposit.

6 or 12 month rental. No smoking. Dogs considered.

777-1967. • Video tour: www.southernbranches.c om/build/house.htm CANDLER • 3BR, 3BA. Private. $1,275. Call 828253-0758. Carver Realty

CHARMING ROYAL PINES BUNGALOW • 2BR, 2BA, 2LR, 1500sqft. New carpet/paint, skylights, fireplace, laundry, wooded/fenced double lot.

Great Arden location near shopping. $995/month.

Available now. No smoking.

Call (828) 676-0889.

OFF THE HOOK! We got a great response from our ad for our Rental house in the Mountain Xpress! The phone rang off the hook! Thanks, Ander, owner, Design Painting. Get your Apartment or House rented quickly and affordably. Call (828) 251-1333.

Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

PEARSON BRIDGE • 3BR, 2BA. $950/month. Call 828253-0758. Carver Realty RIVERFRONT MOUNTAIN CABIN • Enjoy this very private mountain oasis from the waterfront deck for only $900/month. 336-5049888. arthursorenleonard@gmail. com. www.rockyrivercabin.com

COZY HOME WITH BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN VIEWS • 2BR, 1.5BA. Front porch, metal roof, hardwood floors, fireplace, 2-car carport, W/D hookup, garden space. Bearwallow Mountain between Edneyville, Asheville, and Gerton. 15 minutes to Hendersonville. Nonsmoking environment. $645/month.

615-491-2495.

CUTE AND COMFY Walk to downtown or UNC-A. 1BR, 1BA cottage; open living room/kitchen area; fenced yard, WD connections. • Pets negotiable. Security deposit; $650/month. Call 10am-7pm: (828) 582-1001.

DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE • Renovated 2-story house.

2BR + office, 1.5BA, W/D, 2 porches and deck. Loads of character! $1200/month.

350-7603.

EAST • NEAR WARREN WILSON 2BR, 1BA. Secluded. 2 decks. Nice yard. 686-5634.

FLETCHER • STAFFORD HILLS New, immaculate 3BR, 2.5BA, 1250 sqft townhome. Hardwood floors, marble in bath, gas fireplace, 1 car garage.

Patio. Convenient to Hendersonville, Asheville. $900/month. • Pets considered. References.

Deposit. Lease/purchase option. (864) 723-1049.

HOUSES FOR RENT • Browse thousands of rental listings with photos and maps. Advertise your rental home for free. Visit http://www.RealRentals.co m. (AAN CAN) MALVERN HILLS • WEST 2BR, 1BA: 170 Arthur Road.

1000 sqft, hardwood floors, fireplace, WD connection, AC, basement, large attic.

Garage, big beautiful yard, great neighborhood! Pets considered. $800/month. 1 year lease. 252-3334.

MARS HILL • 3BR, 1BA. Wonderful views. Walk to Mars Hill campus. $850/month.

828-350-9400.

SOUTH OAK FORREST 4 BR, 2BA $1,500. Call Carver Realty 828-253-0758.

SOUTH, DEANWOOD 3BR, 2.5BA, $1,175/month. Call (828) 253-0758. Carver Realty SOUTH • Off Hendersonville Rd. 2BR, 1BA. $725/month.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

SWANNANOA • 3BR, 2BA. Cherry Blossom Cove, $850/month. Newer home.

Move in special: 2nd month free to qualified applicants with one year lease term. www.arcagencyasheville.co m 828-350-9400.

WEAVERVILLE/BARNARDS VILLE • Available immediately. 2BR with office. Views on 1 acre. No pets considered. $795/month. 828-3509400.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR/1BA. $925/month.

Cozy and bright. Central A/C, new appliances. W/D. Large private backyard.

Non-smoking. Pets considered. 185 Appalachian Way. appway185@yahoo.com WEST • 2BR, 1BA. $550/month. 828-2530758. Carver Realty.

WEST • 2BR, 1BA. Fenced lot. $750/month. 828-2530758. Carver Realty

Vacation Rentals A BEACH HOUSE At Folly.

The legendary dog-friendly Rosie’s Ocean View and Kudzu’s Cottage now booking now booking for oyster season! Call (828) 216-7908. www.kudzurose.com BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Roommates 20 Miles to Asheville Mature, semi-retired (female preferred) roommate wanted to share secluded mountain cabin.

Free room and board and food for someone who can spend time at cabin.

Smoking ok. (828) 6223360.

3rd Roommate for rural home. Views, W/D, internet, cable, shared kitchen, large furnished room,own bath.

Need: car, job, references. $550 includes utilities, $150 deposit. Mary 828450-3903, leave message.

Arden. Furnished room, beautiful/private setting.

Organic garden. Chemicalfree household. Seeking responsible, clean roommate(s). No pets. $395/month, utilities included. No lease. (828) 687-2390.

Arden Private home (lake/walking trails) 1BR/bath/W/D. No smoking inside/no pets/no drugs/no alcohol 400+utilities/cable tv call 828-651-8720 Barnardsville, $350 all inclusive, no smoking, 4wd needed, country setting, 30 mins from Asheville, Call Jeff (828) 231-0372 Black Mountain Houseshare in furnished 2BR, 1BA home, 1 mile to downtown. Kitchen, living, deck, AC, WD, cable. Clean, honest and responsible only. $350/month, deposit.

Jim: 423-4952.

East Asheville, available now, $350 plus 1/2 of electricity bill. 828-5820908 Tanya. Leave me a message.

Female Roommate W Asheville 2 BR 2 BA your 1/2 $500 + utilities. Fenced yard. No drugs or drama please. Kathy 828-7071017 Housemate for large country home 3 miles southeast of Asheville.

Large bedroom w/bathroom; cable, internet, washer/dryer, utilities included $400-450/month.

828-779-7958 Irwin Hills: Male seeking same to share 2BR, 2BA mobile home. $350/month includes utilities. Own transportation necessary.

Call 216-9257.

Roommate Looking to share my condo with a room-mate. rent $500. own bedroom & bath. jeffmende@yahoo.com Serene House Share Share peaceful, spacious home in Kenilworth, 5 mins. from town. Ideal for student or professional. Cozy bedroom, furnished. $400 + utils., plus wi-fi. 828-251-2118.

Share 4BR/2BA House Candler large yard, deck, hot tub, private setting, grill, w/d, $400 includes utilities no pets 828-670-6364.

jobs Share Fully Furnished Apartment in Swannanoa with friendly, easygoing roommate. Less than a mile from Warren Wilson College. $325. Please contact:aaronroyle@ gmail.com West Asheville Homeshare. $450/month; $450 deposit and share of utilities. Sorry, no pets. Call 727-564-2703 West Asheville Furnished room w/house privileges for responsible, nonsmoker(female preferred). No drugs. $100 weekly (utilities+cable incl) $100 deposit. Must love animals. Small animal ok.

Call between 12-6pm 225-1856 West Asheville Great location. $390, lots of storage, large basement, big yard, 1 1/2 bath, w/d, wireless, hardwood floors, call Ryan- 607-227-4436 World Traveler passing through Asheville needs bed 2 days. Likes to talk about cool things and places.

Jeremy Jerwine100@hotmail.com

HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES “Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used. The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.”

Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. • Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds. Call 251-1333.

HOUSEKEEPERS Year-round consistent employment, Asheville. Professional, reliable and responsible.

Full-time and part-time for upscale B&B. Must be flexible and able to work weekends. Background check required. Call 828254-3878 for interview.

Black Walnut Bed And Breakfast Inn.

Employment

General BOMBARDED WITH CALLS! “We’ve literally been bombarded with calls from the employment ads we’ve placed in Mountain Xpress. It’s allowed us to carefully screen our applicants to find just the right employees that help our business grow.” Shay Amber, Manager, Pristine Clean. • What more can we say? Mountain Xpress Classifieds get results! Call 251-1333 Get results and grow your business!

CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

PRODUCTION WORKERS NEEDED Recruiting “production workers” for first shift, four 10 hour days, Monday-Thursday. $9/hour. Training provided for those that qualify. • Call today: 654-0310. Apply online www.snelling.com/ asheville/application

Employment Opportunities • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com

Skilled Labor/ Trades AUTO GLASS AND RESIDENTIAL GLASS INSTALLER NEEDED • MinImum 5 yrs experience.

Must have valid NC drivers license and must provide own tools. Pay DOE. We offer health insurance, 401K, paid vacation and sick leave. Wholesale Glass and Mirror • 419 Haywood Rd, Asheville.

PRESS OPERATOR POSITION Open in Asheville at a progressive print and mail facility. Only highly motivated individuals who possess winning personalities with planning and problem solving skills need apply. Professional experience preferred; with excellent communication skills as well as the ability to handle multiple projects in a fast paced environment. Must be self motivated; and possess an understanding of pdf workflow and digital imaging technology. Full time position with health, PTO and paid holidays.

Email resume to workinthemountains@ gmail.com

Administrative/ Office PART TIME ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT • 12 hours per week. Responsible for screening, processing and maintaining applicant and personnel files. Track monthly time sheets, medical and vacation leave and coordinate employee benefits. 2 year degree and experience preferred. Must know Microsoft office and Internet applications. Fax resume and cover letter to 828-298-4870. No phone calls please. EOE.

Salon/ Spa A STYLIST For busy Organic salon, North Asheville. Clientele preferred, full-time, flexible hours, experienced, selfmotivated. thewaterlily@mac.com (828) 505-3288. The Water Lily Wellness Salon.

BOOTH RENTAL • Available for chic and friendly downtown Bumble and Bumble salon. Call 285-0019.

HAIR STYLIST Two stylists with clientele preferred.

Great location: Off Charlotte Street, Asheville. Plenty parking. Contact Fredia, 258-9558 or 776-4761.

Illusions Day Spa NAIL TECHNICIAN • Busy downtown salon expanding.

Experience preferred or double license. Will be offering organic services.

Please bring resume in person to: 82-B North Lexington Ave. No phone calls please.

Sales/ Marketing MAKE MONEY TALKING ON THE PHONE! Local company is hiring now! Call 398-0165 to schedule an interview. Equal Opportunity Employer.

SALES PROS • Time to get paid what you are worth AND have a life. Call 1-888700-4916.

Restaurant/ Food “150 CALLS! At some point, I was hoping they’d stop! The best vehicle for finding quality employees, and advertising your business.” Russell, The Skyclub. Your business can benefit with low cost, efficient advertising. Call 251-1333. Mountain Xpress Marketplace Classifieds.

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OPEN YOUR HEART… OPEN YOUR HOME North Carolina MENTOR was established in 1993 to provide community-based care for at-risk youth in the state.

Today, North Carolina MENTOR serves hundreds of at-risk youth in Western North Carolina.

APOLLO FLAME • WAITSTAFF Full-time needed. Fast, friendly atmosphere. Apply in

Services include: • Therapeutic foster care • Respite • Intake Assessments • Therapy • Other Services

NC Mentor is looking for foster parents in Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Transylvania, and Rutherford counties. Be a hero in your community and open your home to a child in need. We provide training, 24 hour support, and a generous stipend.

Please call Nicole at 828-696-2667 x 14

Asheville 828-253-8177

Together we can make a difference in our community

Hendersonville 828-696-2667

Medical/ Health Care

person between 2pm-4pm, 485 Hendersonville Road.

274-3582.

KITCHEN PREP STAFF • Edible Arrangements in West Asheville hiring food prep and design staff. call 252-1550 or email nc296@dofruit.com MOUNTAIN X JAMS! As a growing business that relies on the face put forward by our employees, Mountain Xpress Classifieds is where

LOOKING FOR PRIVATE DUTY CNAs with good work ethics and compassion to care for two elderly individuals (assistance with bathing, dressing, meal preparation, light house work, transportation as needed to doctor’s appt. or errands, and companion care). Must have CNA license, valid driver’s license and pass background check. $10/hour. Part-time and full-time available. day, night and weekends available. Send resumes to weelspac@gmail.com

COMMUNITY AGENCY • Is seeking School-Based therapist to provide therapy to children and adolescents in a school setting.

Experience working with children and families preferred. Must have an active NC License (LPC or LCSW) or be NC Board eligible to apply.

Compensation is on a fee for service basis. If interested, please email resume to thinshaw@umhs.net DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL For more information: (828) 2993636. Mountain Area Residential Facilities, Inc.

FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC., is now hiring licensed professionals for IIHS Clinical Leads in Buncombe, Henderson, Mitchell, Transylvania, and Yancey Counties. • Qualified candidates will include LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or Board Eligible Counselors. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture.

Candidates should email resumes to: humanresources@ familiestogether.net

OPTICIAN • OPTICAL TECH Experience a must! Fax resume: (828) 254-6758.

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COMMUNITY AGENCY • Is seeking master’s level clinicians to lead 3 person In-Home teams.

Provisionally licensed clinicians in NC or board eligible clinicians in NC may apply. If interested, please email thinshaw@umhs.net

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Now hiring for the following job opportunities : Human Resources Coordinator

Universal MH/DD/SAS is CARF Accredited Agency providing Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services in Western North Carolina

Part time. Experienced individual needed to coordinate hiring, orientation and benefits for non-profit agency. Requirements include: documented skills in organization, oral and written communication and Microsoft Office. Knowledge of employment laws including FMLA and COBRA coverage preferred.

Now Hiring: LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LPC’s, Board Eligible Counselors and Provisional LCSW’s

Part time. Candidate must be personable, self-directed, detailoriented and present self professionally. Requirements include: documented skills in organization, oral and written communication and Microsoft Office. A strong work ethic and high expectations of self are mandatory.

Executive Assistant

Kitchen Assistant

Also Hiring: Targeted Case Managers, and other Qualified Professionals For more information please visit us on the web at www.umhs.net and click on Employment Opportunities or call 828-225-4980

Full-time experienced kitchen assistant needed. Duties will include food prep, food portioning and clean up for all meals served as well as assisting the kitchen manager as needed. Interest in fresh local foods a plus. Pay based on experience, benefits and training provided. Must be available 7am-4:00pm.

Classroom Substitutes Needed Candidates should have experience working with children ages 0-5. Flexibility and dependability very important. A high school diploma or GED is required. Completion of Early Childhood Education Credential preferred. Must be available to work between the hours of 7:30am-5:30pm Monday–Friday.

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FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Now hiring for Mental Health Professionals in Brevard and Asheville offices. Positions available: Day Treatment, and Family Service Coordinator.

Please visit our website www.familiestogether.net and email resume to sstevenson@ familiestogether.net

FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC., Adult Services is now hiring for a Community Support Team Lead to serve Henderson and Transylvania Counties. Candidates will have a minimum of a Masters Degree in Human Services and one year experience working with the adult population. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture.

Candidates should email resumes to humanresources@ familiestogether.net

FAMILIES TOGETHER, INC., is now hiring licensed professionals for OPT in Buncombe, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties. Qualified candidates will include LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or Board Eligible Counselors. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture.

Candidates would be providing OPT within our JJTC program. JJTC is a specialized platform designed to meet the judicial, clinical and restorative needs of court involved youth, their families, and the communities in which they live. JJTC is unique in its clinical approach, structure and cross-agency collaboration. Candidates should email resumes to humanresources@ familiestogether.net

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF NC. Now hiring licensed therapists for their Rutherford office.

NC license and minimum one year child experience required. Health, dental and paid time off available.

Email resume to mswann@fpscorp.com.

NOW HIRING

Earn $65k, $50k, $40k GM, Co-Manager, Assistant Manager We currently have managers making this and need more for expansion.

One year salaried restaurant management experience required.

Fax resume to 336-431-0873

FOUR CIRCLES RECOVERY CENTER • A wilderness therapy facility working with young adults with substance abuse (ages 1828) is looking for a licensed therapist to work with clients and their families through the recovery process. Provides individual, group and family therapy, participates in treatment and after-care planning.

Requirements: MA or MS in counseling, psychology or social work. LCAS, LPC or LCSW required. Please email cover letter and resume to jobs@fourcirclesrecovery.co m, subject: “therapist.”

Haywood and Jackson County Psychiatrist Assertive Community Treatment Team Please contact Joe Ferrara, joe.ferrara@ meridianbhs.org Haywood County Therapist/Team Leader Child and Family Services: Master’s Degree and supervisory experience.

Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson@meridian bhs.org Jackson/Macon/Swain County Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Child and Family Services. Must have a Bachelors degree in a human services field and two years post-degree experience, or a Masters degree. Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson@meridian bhs.org Cherokee/Clay/Graham County Therapist/Team Leader: Child and Family Services. Masters degree and license eligible. Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson@meridian bhs.org Recovery Coordinator: Adult Recovery Education Center.

Masters or Doctoral Level Clinician. Must be licensed or license-eligible. Please contact Julie Durham-Defee at julie.durhamdefee@meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH • Has an immediate opening in our Asheville Office for a F/T Licensed Clinician experienced with MH/SA and SA group. LPC, LCSW, LCAS and other Licensed Clinicians should apply. Job requires some evening work. Experience with LME and M/caid consumers a plus. Excellent benefits and salary. Send resume to slayton@parkwaybh.com PART TIME QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL • Needed for CAP/MR/DD Agency.

Must have experience with DD population. Provide supervision in the Henderson/Buncombe County area. Fax Resume to QP Director, (910) 425-5178.

Professional/ Management A GROWING ASHEVILLE ART SUPPLY BUSINESS Is currently seeking someone to manage a wide range of office duties. Some responsibilities would include: management of accounts receivable and payable; creating, receiving and processing purchase orders as well as some accounting work which could include making journal entries, entering transactions, reconciling monthly bank statements and handling petty cash.

Other responsibilities would include editing product pricing and web photos, adding new products to the database, answering phone calls and running errands.

Must be self motivated, detail oriented and able to work at a fast pace.

Experience in office management or accounting would be a preferred.

Position starts at $10.00 an hour and will increase based on experience, performance and company growth. The position will start at 20 hours per week and may move toward a full time position over time.

Schedule can be set between 10:00pm – 6:00pm. Monday - Friday.

Email cover letter, resume and references to ashevillecompany@yahoo.c om – subject – office.

LIFESPAN • Has an immediate opening for a Program Director to coordinate, oversee and supervise activities and staff in our Waynesville Enrichment Program.

Bachelor’s degree in human services, special education, or related field with at least 5 years experience supervising and managing a program or department, in the field of developmental disabilities. Qualified Professional status required. Competitive compensation and benefits package. Please apply online at http://jobs.lifespanservices. org; send application by fax to the Executive Director, LifeSpan, 704-944-5102.

EOE WATER JUSTICE ORGANIZER Asheville or Durham office of progressive nonprofit Clean Water for NC. 20 to 30 hours/week community outreach, issue research, database and social media.

Spanish fluency preferred.

Prorated benefits. Email hope@cwfnc.org for full description.

Computer/ Technical LEAD WEB DEVELOPER For Asheville hi-tech startup.

Ruby on Rails or PHP MVC framework (Cake...), JavaScript framework (JQuery...), JSON, REST-ful interfaces, common API’s (Google Maps, Facebook...), GitHub, Scrum, test driven development, 5+ years experience, super professional. Send resume to AshevilleWebDeveloperJo b@gmail.com

MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB Seeking IT Technician: Experience with MS operating systems, TCPIP Networking, MS Office. PC hardware; software troubleshooting skills required. Degree or certifications plus. EEO & Drug Free Environment Send resume’ to hr@maggievalleyclub.com

SOY CANDLE BUSINESS • Free Website. Start your own business for less that $1 per day. Green Business! www.Soylicious.com/lauraly nharvey

Teaching/ Education

80’s Movie Night Hosted

by The Gate Student Ministries Center Saturday October 24th 7-9:30pm.

Join us as we flash back to the 80’s with a special showing of the classic The Neverending Story. Free popcorn. Drinks and snacks for sale. Open to Jr. High, High School & College-aged students. 3871B Sweeten Creek Rd. Arden, NC 28704.

Visit us online at myspace.com/thegatestude ntministries. Call 273-1731 for more info.

ANATOMY • PHYSIOLOGY • PATHOLOGY INSTRUCTOR Part-time position for a dynamic and talented teacher for our beautiful massage school.

Must be educated in the sciences. $30/hour of instruction. Email resume/references to audra@centerformassage.c om or mail to Center for Massage, 530 Upper Flat Creek Rd., Weaverville, NC 28787.

ONSITE SPANISH SPEAKING NANNY • To start, need three days a week for 12 hour days from 6:20 am to 7:30 pm. In January 2010 I need a fulltime live-in nanny. West Asheville home, with light housework duties. I have a bilingual 3 year old girl and 1 1/2 year old son. Must have good references and prefer Christian woman.

Please call 828-713-5295.

YMCA OF WESTERN NC • Afterschool Program Opportunities $7.25 $13/hour Please visit our web site for details: www.ymcawnc.org

Employment Services HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure.

Call now! 1-800-532-6546 Ext. 97 continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN) UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service. Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1-800-720-0576.

Business Opportunities BEST HOME-BASED BUSINESS EVER! It’s fun; it’s simple; it’s lucrative. To hear 3-minute message, call 1-866-257-3105, code 1.

BIZ OP • Want to purchase minerals and other oil/gas interest. Send details to: PO Box 13557, Denver, CO 80201

Announcements

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every week for $1200. No adult ads. Call Rick at 202-289-8484.

(AAN CAN) ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every week for $1200. No adult ads. Call Mountain Xpress Classifieds at (828) 251-1333. (AAN CAN) PREGNANT CONSIDERING ADOPTION? • Talk with caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers with families nationwide • Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 • Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions • 1-866-4136293. (AAN CAN)

Classes & Workshops HOLIDAY HARMONY LESSONS Song O’Sky Chorus presents Holiday Harmony: 4 personalized barbershop craft learning sessions. More details, call toll free 1-866-824-9547 or www.songosky.org LEARN VIETNAMESE/ASIAN COOKING • Tired of the same old food? Learn to prepare healthy and nutritious food. seasiancookingeasy.com

Holistics

Bodywork **ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE MASSAGE!** Perfect pressure! Caring, intuitive, professional therapist. Tranquil sanctuary just 3 blocks from Greenlife & downtown! Reasonable rates, Open Mon thru Sat., 9am to 7 p.m. by appt. only Brett Rodgers LMBT #7557. www.vitalitymassage.net (828) 255-4785.

#1 AFFORDABLE MASSAGE CENTER Best rates in town! $29/hour. Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point. Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology • Classes.

Call now for your appointment: • 10 Biltmore Plaza, 505-7088. Asheville. thecosmicgroove.com BEST MASSAGE IN ASHEVILLE Deep tissue, sports massage, Swedish, esalen. Available in/out. Jim Haggerty, LMBT# 7659. Call (828) 545-9700. www.jhmassage.com

HAND DELIVERING GOOD WORK TO HOMEBODIES & BUSYBODIES IN ASHEVILLE I utilize aspects of several modalities and approaches to better facilitate relaxation, moving through energetic blocks, releasing pain and healing.

Travis Jackson, LMBT #4393. 828-772-0719, eyes-of-the-worldmassage@hotmail.com MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic Massage.

Manual Lymph Drainage.

Lymphedema Treatment. $45/hour or sliding scale for financial hardship. 16+ years experience. 828-2994105. NC License #146. www.uhealth.net SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—- or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; experience the invigorating cold plunge; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists.

299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

STAY RELAXED. Massage therapy at your home/office.

1/2 or 1-hour appointments. Call Sarah Whiteside, LMBT#4741, (828) 279-1050. sarahsgolf@charter.net THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Patricia O’Sullivan LMT #7113. 828-275-5497.

Counseling Services COMPASSIONATE COUNSELING. Licensed, 25 years experience healing childhood issues, relational conflict, anxiety, depression, anger management, substance abuse. Medicaid, BC/BS. Affordable sliding fee. Guy Morganstein, LPC. 828-337-7549.

Spiritual

Natural Alternatives HOLISTIC IRIDOLOGY® Fascinating detailed Iris Analysis, Bio-Chemistry Analysis, Cardiovascular Screening, and Meridian Kinesiology for ‘Total Health Assessment’ with effective Natural and Holistic Therapies, BioDetoxification programs, Advanced Energy Healing.

Call Jane Smolnik, ND, Iridologist at (828) 777-JANE (5263) for appointment or visit UltimateHealing.com

Musicians’ Xchange

Musical Services AMR STUDIO Audio mastering, mixing and recording. • Musical, literary and instructional services. • Tunable performance room, on-site video available. Visa/MC. (828) 335-9316. amrmediastudio.com ASHEVILLE’S WHITEWATER RECORDING Full service studio services since 1987. • Mastering • Mixing and Recording. • CD/DVD duplication at the best prices. (828) 684-8284 whitewaterrecording.com PIANO-GUITAR-DRUMSBASS-MANDOLIN-BANJOSINGING Learn what you/your child wants to learn. Knowledgeable, flexible, enthusiastic instructor. 828-242-5032.

M-F 8am - 6pm • 8am - 4pm Sat

3 Full-time Barbers - Less Wait!

3473 Hendersonville Road • 684-7589 SERVICE BARBERING *with this ad - limited offer

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Equipment For Sale Beautiful carved wooden flute with gold designs, in the case. Excellent condition. $18. Crys/Dan 828-505-3368 or crystallineruby@yahoo.com.

See photohttp://asheville.craigslist.org /msg/1291159784.html Modified Jackson Flying V Guitar w/hardcase & practice amp. $300 call for details. 274-0800, James.

A SPIRITUAL MENTOR Nina Anin. Wherever you are, by phone: (828) 253-7472 or email: asknina@excite.com

$2 OFF FIRST CUT* Convenient • Affordable

SPECIALIZED SINGING LESSONS AND VOICE COACHING • In a real recording studio with separate vocal and control rooms. Offering audition, gig, showcase and tour prep. Learn endurance techniques and increase range. Gain studio experience and broaden vocal skills. All levels.

Experienced teacher. $35/hour. Terry (828) 6746417.

New Djembe Beautiful drum with carved rose/treble clef design on body. $275. Call Crys/Dan 828-505-3368. Great holiday gift! See http://asheville.craigslist.org /msg/1291154104.html for picture.

Used Pair of Bose 201 Speakers. Old, but still in great shape! One owner. $60 obo. Call 828-2165150

Musicians’ Bulletin Bass Player Available Many styles. References.

Blues, country, alt-country, bluegrass, Americana.

Plenty of basses and equipment. Gary Wiley 828246-8483

Transgengendered Blues Guitarist seeks to form band. www.myspace.com/gabriell ecrow (828) 505-1395

Pet Xchange

Lost Pets LEO, microchipped, friendly, tan male Siamese-mix cat, is missing from Riverside Cemetery/Montford area.

Blue eyes, black nose.

254-7458 sylvia.robin@gmail.com LOST CAT Beaucatcher Mountain/Kenilworth. Male orange tabby, purple collar with tag, has address and phone. Missing Tuesday, September 22. Please call 606-0499.

LOST YOUR PET? FOUND A PET? Call Asheville Humane Society, (828) 253-6807, to fill out a missing or found pet report. Visit 72 Lee’s Creek Road, Asheville. ashevillehumane.org

Found Pets BLACK AND TAN DOG Did you lose your family pet? I found a dog near the Weaverville Quarry. Call & describe to claim.

828-275-5079 Found Box Turtle I found a box turtle in the middle of the street, West Asheville.

551-358-8468.

Found Cat Gerber Village area, Hendersonville rd.

Black cat, fluffy black tail.

Male. He is very friendly but scared. 843-693-4423

Pets for Adoption

Drummer Auditions We are pipapelli, the only celtic bagpipe rocking blues band in the world! myspace.com/pipapelli Electronic Ear Infection I would like to collaborate with similarly afflicted musicians. Influences include: Skinny Puppy, Wumpscut, KMFDM, etc.

Email kevin@musemechanic.com Holding Auditions Award winning Contagious Blues Band auditioning lead vocalist, Hammond B3 players, rhythm or slide w/vocals www.myspace.com/contagi ousbluesband In search of Keyboardist Pink Floyd / blues / Wolfmother contact: 828400-8781 or iamexodusnow@yahoo.com

ADORABLE KITTENS • 7 male and 2 female orange tabby kittens 4-5 months old rescued and ready for adoption. Playful and affectionate.

Spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, treated for fleas/worms.

House trained. Adoption fee goes to Brother Wolf Cat Rescue Program to cover costs.

BEST CHILDREN’S DOG EVER Clifford the little black Sheltie dog needs a home.

His owners are moving.

Calm, loving, well-trained, good health. 215-7418

AMR

MEDIA SERVICES Audio and Video Recording of Musical, Instructional and Literary Sources Performance & Public Speaking Enhancement Tools

828-335-9316 • amrmediastudio.com • Visa/MC

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1997 Ford Mustang GT 4.6L V8 AT,Laser Red, Black Leather Interior, upgraded pkg, one owner, 70400 miles, $6800 OBO 828649-3408 1998 DODGE STRATUS Burgundy Stratus-in very good condition.3200.00 828-280-1387 Ask for Lynn 2001 VW Jetta TDI BioDiesel Green run on biodiesel for 4 years. 5 speed, 130,000 miles. $6,800 Call Sean 828 337 5819 2004 BMW X3 3.0 82K, fully loaded (premium package), highway miles, new tires, clean history, allwheel-drive, very sporty looks & drives great, $15,300 OBO (828) 7137144

Boxer/Pit Mix: Seeks kind, loving home due to owner’s schedule. Good natured, playful, well trained. All shots. Microchipped, neutered. Small adoption fee. No cats. Loves other dogs. 676-9991.

Clyde of Handsomeville Ready! Clyde was found on a 2 foot chain. 2 yo pit bull, free to great home. Must have fence. 450-7736 FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE! Cats, dogs, & other small animals available for adoption at Asheville Humane Society • 72 Lee’s Creek Road • Asheville, NC • (828) 253-6807 ashevillehumane.org

DOG GIRL AT LARGE Dog training and behavior modification. All positive reinforcement. Sitting services for all creatures.

Call Heather 404.788.2085 or doggrrly@yahoo.com GET LUCKY! Lucky is a Norwegian Elkhound who is searching for a loving home. He is 8 years old and left homeless since his owner died. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a nonprofit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. The adoption fee is $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

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HELP MAX FIND HIS FOREVER HOME Max is a Dachshund who would love to be your dog. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a nonprofit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. Adoption fee, $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

Pit Bull male named Jace he is black/white,sweet,housebroken,loves walks,high energy,needs loving owner only,I will take him to you 231-7072

Adopt a Friend • Save a Life

PUMBA Male/Neutered Domestic Shorthair/Mix 2 months I.D. #8197211 DUDLEY Male Spaniel/Mix 2 months I.D. #8515537 TUFFY Female/Spayed Domestic Shorthair/Mix 7 years 6 months I.D. #8476593

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TRIXIE is a Heeler mix puppy who is searching for her forever home. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue is a non-profit dog and cat rescue group that is dedicated to helping abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes.

The adoption fee is $125; all animals are spayed/neutered, up to date on shots and microchipped.

Visit www.bwar.org or call 458-7778.

LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE! End cruel and dangerous constant chaining of dogs in NC! Lobby your state reps to reintroduce legislation addressing dog chaining.

For information, contacts and downloads, visit www.crittersong.org

Vehicles For Sale

2005 Toyota Prius Black, tan leather. GPS. Front/side airbags, child safety lock, new tires, tinted windows, 70K. 85K mile bumper to bumper Toyota warranty.

Garaged, one owner. Best offer. 242-5456.

2008 Toyota RAV4 4WD 28K, V6, light green, condition as new, leather, multi-CD-MP3, roof rack, AC, cruise, hill descent control, $23,630.

828-645-7132. gr8blueheron@yahoo.com Fuel Door from black ‘94 Toyota Camry. In perfect used condition. All hinges/pieces intact. $30 828-545-7044 after 6pm

Autos

Trucks/Vans/SUVs

1979 Ford F-100 Pickup 300/6. 3 on the tree. New vinyl seat. Good work truck. $2,500 OBO. (828) 5053752. OK to leave a message.

Ford F-150 2007 12K miles, 2 wheel drive.

Excellent condition. $10,500. 273-9545.

1984 Toyota Camry - Body and interior in pretty good shape. Needs work. Good for some one who likes to work on cars. $600 obo.

Contact (828)280-5771 1991 Ford Crown Victoria: White four door, 5.0 engine, runs great, 93,000 miles.

Some body damage. $1000.

Call 216-9257.

Pet Services

1994 Subaru Loyale 4wd, 5spd, pwr,A/C, towbar. 204k but lots of work done.New tires, Al mag wheels, full size spare. $1800.natoalliance@yahoo. com or 545-0075 for info

ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 258-0942 or 215-7232.

1995 Toyota Corolla DX 106,500 mi., auto, a/c, cruise, srs, alarm, tint, power everything. Clean & very reliable. 30/40 mpg. $2,500. 828 680 9836

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2005 Toyota Prius Black, tan leather. GPS. Front/side airbags, child safety lock, new tires, tinted windows, 70K. 85K mile bumper to bumper Toyota warranty.

Garaged, one owner. $12,500. 242-5456.

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Honda Pilot EX-L, 2005 Excellent condition, fully loaded, silver. 61,400 miles. $14,500/obo (below KBB).

Contact: nbcamp@gmail.com (pics available) or 404.375.7222 - Nick.

Honda Pilot EX-L, 2005 Excellent condition, fully loaded, silver. 61,400 miles. $14,500/obo (below KBB).

Contact: nbcamp@gmail.com (pics available) or 404.375.7222 - Nick.

Automotive Services WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

Half price repair and service. ASE and factory certified. Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-275-6063 for appointment.

For Sale

Antiques & Collectibles 2 Antique Royal Typewriters circa 1930-40. one works great, other has broken catch. 828-5457044 after 6pm. $150obo

Appliances Refrigerator Amana all white, 22 cu ft, top mount.

Perfect. $300. Pick up on or after 10/3. 828-273-6764.

Furniture ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Solid wood, light golden oak. 2 shelves on top.

Spacious drawers on bottom w/doors. $150. • Sharp 27” color TV: $100.

Works great! Call (828) 232-5777.

MATTRESSES Pillow-top: queen $250, king $350 • Extra firm: queen $175, king $275 • Full: $150 • Twin: $99. New, in plastic.

828-277-2500.

Firewood Firewood Oak by the cord, truckload, or bundle for heating, camping, fireplace or wood stove call 828668-3158

Medical Supplies DELUXE MASSAGE TABLE Very high quality. Extra options. Like new. Paid over $700, asking $375. Call (828) 215-6744.

Computers

General Merchandise

Brand New Laptops/Desktops Bad credit, no credit - no problem. Small weekly payments. Order today and get free Nintendo Wii game system. Call now: 800-8405439. (AAN CAN)

Children’s Books fiction non-fiction series books hard & paper & bag cover dog books kid’s movies in DVD and VHS, 1 GameBoy Advanced SP new $30. Call 231-7072

Bicycles $425 WMS 15” Specialized new womens Myka sport mountain bike. Hard tail with lock out on front suspension.nickiepip@gmai l.com for more details. thanks!

Building Supplies STEEL BUILDING PACKAGES 18’x21’ Door and Anchor Bolt included.

Regularly $10,823 • Now $6,367. Plus Code Adjustment. Other Sizes available. Big and Small Erection available. Call (828) 398-0129. www.scggrp.com Source#18Z.

Tools & Machinery 2005 Bobcat T300 Track Skid Steer, 3 Attachments included, Price $4200, Need to sell fast, contact: b4n35g@gmail.com/980225-0482

Kenmore Deluxe sewing machine, still in box. Model #15218. Comes with all accessories. Asking $150.

251-2118.

Kyocera 130 watt panel with a junction box 56” x 25.7” x 1.4”26 lbs. Comes with 30 feet of cable and a SunSaver 10 (10 amp charge controller). $475.

Two Tires $25 for each, size is P195/70R14 and is Dunlop and the size is P185/70R14 and is Uniroyal. 828-280-3143

Wanted Rotary Composter Seventen cubic foot rotary composter, of the type that rests/revolves on rollers in base, in good condition.

Under $50 JerryIra@Charter.net Wanted Treeless Saddle please email me finestkindfarms@ hotmail.com

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Clothing

Motorcycles/ Scooters

VINTAGE In a big wicker trunk Shoes, boots, dresses, gloves, hats, lingerie, beaded, Go-Go, leather, denim and Victorian. $250 for all. Firm.

650-6404.

2008 Royal Enfield 500 Bullet Enfield Military. Metal Saddlebags, Electric Starter, Lots of Extras. Really Cool Looking Bike. $3800.00 570-490-6512

Women’s Leather Jacket $300 It’s a size 12 with lots of fringe and a snake inlay of Bird of Paradise across back and shoulders.

828-216-1722

Yard Sales 56 Murdock, Asheville 8:00AM Sat Oct 17 weather permitting. Gas heaters, leaf blower, furniture, nicknacks and much more. 828-2157306 Awesome Community Yard Sale! Oct. 17 & 18 only! W. AVL. - 75 Mitchell Ave. Furniture, clothes, dishes & more! 828-2798659

Biltmore Park Community Yard Sale Sat. 10/17, 8noon I-26 at Long Shoals (Exit #37) Look for balloons at participating homes! This one is huge!

Huge Benefit Yard Sale Saturday Oct.24,8am-3pm; TrinityUnited Methodist Church-back-parkinglot,587 Haywood Rd.WestAsheville; Turn onto Balm Grove Rd. between FamilyDollar and church.

Must see.

October 17th, 9a-12p.

Children & Home Apparel.

Behind A-B Tech Campus Childcare Building and Pines Building Parking Lot. SATURDAY • WEAVERVILLE October 24, 8am-5pm. 920 Barnardsville Hwy, #58. I26, exit 15, 3.2 miles, turn left, next driveway past the church. Go up long driveway. Directions: 6263016 THIS SATURDAY/SUNDAY “Flea” Market on Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18, 9am-3pm. • It’s a fundraising yard sale to benefit homeless animals in need! Come to 31 Glendale Avenue, off of Swannanoa River Road between Biltmore and Tunnel Roads, and you’ll find tons of items for sale for cheap prices! • All money raised benefits Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Call 458-7778 or visit www.bwar.org for more info.

Yard Sale Saturday October 24 9am-1pm. Furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, etc. 14 Pineview Rd. Asheville 28804. 337-4944 jgottenstrater@yahoo.com

Adult Services A MAN’S DESIRE • Call us for total relaxation!! • We can relax and de-stress you! • Monday-Saturday, 9am-9pm. • Incall/outcall.

(Lic#08-00020912). • Call (828) 989-7353.

A WOMAN’S TOUCH “We’re all about you!” Ask us about our “Autumn Special”. • Call 275-6291.

MEET SEXY SINGLES by phone instantly! Call (828) 239-0006. Use ad code 8282. 18+

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