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This year, Xpress invited some of our merriest little pals, the Cashew Carolers, to usher us through the 2010 Holiday Guides: pointing out delectable recipes from local restaurants and cafés; charming and cheerful holiday artwork; gift ideas (what to find and where to find it); tips for your holiday parties; photo galleries; charity profiles and so much more Cover design by Natalie Boney

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letters A clarification from Shakespeare Conductive Fibers On Oct. 27, Mountain Xpress published [a letter] from a group of students from Buncombe County Early College entitled “The Rivers Need Our Help.” Shakespeare Conductive Fibers (SCF) was identified as a potential source of toxins discharged to the river that resulted in a 2009 fish kill in Hominy Creek. We support the students’ intentions of protecting our rivers. However, it is important that the facts are correctly stated and the record set straight.

First, SCF does not discharge to Hominy Creek, but to the municipal sewerage district in strict accordance with the Sewer Use Ordinance.

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correction As part of last week’s cover story, we published a Thanksgiving story from Sean McDonald, listing him as a member of the Moog Foundation. After four years of service to the foundation, McDonald stepped down from the board in late October this year. We apologize for the error.

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I also intend to reach out to these students from Buncombe County Early College to offer them a better understanding of our business and the efforts we take to protect the environment.

— Brian Hill, Vice President and General Manager Shakespeare Conductive Fibers Enka

To live green, don’t eat meat; the planet will thank you In response to the Living Green feature [“Nov. 17, Xpress”], it’s important to point out its glaring omission regarding one of the most effective and easily doable steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint and protect the planet: changing our diet.

Research conducted by University of Chicago scientists showed that eating a plant-based diet is healthier for the planet than an animal-based diet, and the food that people eat is just as important as what kind of cars they drive. After a United Nations study concluded that livestock production is one of the major causes of global warming, land degradation, and air and water pollution, the

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For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons organization warned that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change.

World Bank environmental advisors concluded that the environmental impact of raising animals for food accounts for at least half of all humancaused greenhouse gases. Stanford biochemist Patrick Brown argues compellingly that animal farming is an ecological disaster and that the only real solution to the problem of climate change is to end this grossly unsustainable practice.

We can all agree that — generally speaking — consuming local products as often as possible is an important way to reduce our carbon footprint.

However, this does not apply to animal products.

To answer those who argue that eating local animal products is an equally effective alternative to following a plant-based diet, Carnegie Mellon researchers found that eating a plant-based diet, even one day per week, drastically eliminates more greenhouse gases than eating an all-local diet.

Consuming animals is nothing more than a habit. It’s one that we can and should break — that is, if we really do care about the planet and its ability to sustain future generations. — Leslie Armstrong Asheville

“Man-made� global warming is a man-made myth Your latest issue [“Living Green,� Nov. 17 Xpress) makes it abundantly clear that you guys are way behind the info-curve regarding the issue of ManMade Global Warming (MMGW). Your [feature] story, “Living Green,� while written within the general context of legitimate and noble environmental goals and practices, continually upholds the abject fiction that human activity — primarily the burning of fossil fuels for energy — is causing the Earth’s atmosphere to warm. The Earth hasn’t even been warming — actually cooling — since 1998.

MMGW has been definitively shown to be a scientific fraud. The “science� upon which it was based, having been both fraudulent and purchased by the interests that would make trillions from the resulting “carbon taxes,� has been exposed as ridiculously flawed with intent.

Has your editorial staff never heard of the “Climategate� scandal from one year ago in which the fraud was resoundingly exposed? Evidently not, because when you publish a feature story that affirms the fraudulent concept of MMGW over and over again, I have to conclude that your editorial staff is composed of people who have a very small universe of info-sources — or have become “true believers� in the MMGW mythology to the extent that no objective information gets through the filters.

One’s “carbon footprint� is an NLP brainwashing term that has been exposed as more Orwellian terminology by the control structure that is imposing its agenda upon us all. — Michael Ivey Asheville Green Scene reporter Susan Andrew responds: The international scientific community is in broad agreement. An increasing body of evidence provides a collective picture of a warming climate; human activities are altering Earth’s atmosphere. Readers may consult the Union of Concerned Scientists website on global warming at www.ucsusa.org.

Bring back the automatic doors at Pack Library The recent renovation of Pack Memorial Library makes access to the library more difficult for many of its patrons. Before the renovation, the right-hand doors at the library’s Haywood Street entrance worked automatically. Now all the doors work manually.

While entering the library recently, I was asked by a woman in a wheelchair to hold the doors open for her so she could get in. A mother pushing her baby in a stroller needed my assistance to get out.

Mountain Xpress: you rock.

I hope you get told this from time to time and not just complaints about what you’re doing wrong. Thanks for letting people post free ads in your classifieds and for all that you do to stimulate the local economy and keep community alive (such as the “Best of WNC� and “Living Green� issues). Thanks for your progressive take on local news and your coverage of the arts.

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Hand-me-down memories Holidays invite us all to join the parade

by Jerry Sternberg As I begin my ninth decade of living in Asheville and reflect upon holiday memories from my youth, I find an interesting dichotomy.

Here are a couple of examples.

I’ve written about attending the city schools in the 1930s and ’40s and my discomfort at times with having to endure daily Christian prayers and Bible readings as one of very few Jewish students.

I was, however, very much taken with all the Christmas music, decorations and pageantry, which was, by design, highly seductive.

I even briefly sang in a caroling choir: Yet another musical career dashed for lack of talent, as I was soon relegated to my previously demonstrated virtuosity in playing the triangle.

Surprisingly, however, I was allowed a small part in the annual Christmas play. The most coveted role, of course, was that of Santa Claus — ironically, a part always played by another skinny Jewish kid. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that his dad owned a big department store in town and lent the store’s Santa suit

that band would have made the brass buttons pop off the chest of John Philip Sousa himself.

The spectacle was mesmerizing, and as the chills ran up our spines, many of us would fall right in behind them, proudly marching in step till the end of the parade as if, for those brief moments, we were truly one.

AND THEN THE MUSIC STOPPED. As we watched the band members pack up their instruments, it never occurred to us (and possibly not even to them) that perhaps there was something wrong with the fact that we were now going over to the counter at Woolworth’s for a soda where they could not be served, or that if we went to a movie at the Plaza Theater, we could enter by the front door but their only access was through the back. They had to climb up to the balcony, and if they took the bus home, they’d have to sit in the back.

There seemed to be no concern that these young people not only wore hand-me-down clothes but went to a hand-me-down school, because they weren’t allowed to attend the magnificent Lee Edwards High.

After all, why did the black kids need an

they kept us safe.

They have kept the music playing and would want us to join them so that when they return, they’ll come back to a better community.

I wonder if it would be possible for all of us to consciously listen to the lofty words of those holiday songs and, reaching out to some total stranger or family, make a special sacrifice, offering help to those who are in such dire need in these terrible economic times?

There are plenty of groups that can point the way, such as the Eblen Foundation, YMCA, YWCA, United Way and Salvation Army, as well as religious organizations.

Perhaps these unselfish acts would help us all to keep the music playing a little longer, and we could all march along a little farther together.

Happy holidays... X Asheville native Jerry Sternberg is a longtime observer of the local scene. He can be reached at gospeljerry@aol.com.

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No one seemed to notice that these extremely talented black musicians were wearing hand-me-down uniforms from the white schools or that some boasted only a uniform hat. to the school for the play.

My fondest and most exciting memories were of the annual Christmas parade that started around the courthouse and went across the square, down Patton Avenue, up Haywood Street and ended at the Civic Center.

The parade was the biggest city event of the year. Schools, factories and offices closed early so that everyone could attend. During the 1940s, it provided a particularly welcome break from the grim daily war news and the difficult lives that many people led, maintaining the homefront while their loved ones fought overseas.

Every passing float and marching band elicited cheers from the enormous crowd, and the clowns triggered gales of laughter in children of all ages.

But the most exhilarating moment was when you heard the magic beat of the award-winning, mighty Stephens-Lee Band. The crowd noise exploded, and no one seemed to notice that these extremely talented black musicians were wearing hand-me-down uniforms from the white schools, or that some boasted only a uniform hat. Marching in rhythmic precision with those beautiful, high-stepping majorettes,

education when most would be hired only for menial jobs, and few had any hope of making it to the front office?

Just as adversity motivated these young folks to become the top band in the state, however, their remarkably caring teachers, recognizing both the deprivation of the situation and the students’ considerable potential, motivated them to defy the odds by achieving outstanding careers.

Many went on to become leaders in their field, and many more have assumed prominent roles in our own community.

Somehow, all this seems to parallel our present life, amid difficult economic conditions and an unbelievable politically and racially charged atmosphere.

We all seem to enjoy the beauty of the pageantry and the joy of the holiday music and, for a brief period, we seem to be marching along together, people of good will of all races, creeds and colors.

AND THEN THE MUSIC STOPS. I think about our many young servicemen and -women who have bonded together across all social and economic lines to provide a cohesive force. Through their many brave sacrifices,

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by David Forbes On a warm autumn day in the Burton Street neighborhood, the recreation center is bustling.

It’s a far cry from just a few years back, when members of the historically African-American West Asheville community were fighting off drug dealers and the center, once the pride of the neighborhood, had fallen into disrepair.

Up on the roof, workers are making further renovations. But observing them from a public garden across the street, DeWayne Barton has mixed feelings. “It’s good to see this getting done,” he concedes. “But I’m also sad that none of our young men with those skills are the ones fixing the roof. When there’s five unemployed guys sitting on a bench seeing work done in their community, it’s disheartening.”

The Asheville native co-founded Asheville Green Opportunities, which prepares at-risk youth for well-paying green jobs. And on this day, he and other Burton Street residents have gathered here to discuss the changes they’ve witnessed and what they think still needs to be done.

In recent years, the neighborhood’s economic fortunes have improved and crime has declined, thanks in part to ongoing federal “Weed and Seed” grants. But Burton Street residents have also waged another battle that’s left many feeling threatened. Initially, some proposals for the planned Interstate 26 connector called for demolishing up to 37 homes in the area. But after substantial public outcry, all of the alter-

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natives were retooled to reduce the number of houses they would take. Still, even the lowestimpact option would demolish several homes and leave other residents facing a retaining wall.

Currently, the entire I-26 project is in limbo, with a final decision unlikely anytime soon.

And while more than one Burton Street resident believes the interchange is needed, they aren’t happy about the impact on the community.

“I think we’ve seen the process with the highway system kind of stagnate,” says resident Jeff Frug. “When it comes to the neighborhood, though, I think it’s anything but. There’ s a lot of people pulling together, cleaning up vacant lots, putting down mulch. The neighborhood’s coming together to make sure we have more staying power than a highway.”

Growing pains

Barton, too, sees promising signs of growth — “There are new people moving in, new houses being built” — but even these developments pose challenges.

“As a community association, we haven’t really figured out an organized way to reach out to these new people and bring them in,” he adds. “A lot of people from outside want to help out — UNCA, Warren Wilson [College] — and the city’s finally paying attention to this area.”

Teresa Bowler, however, emphasizes that what the residents see as the city’s tendency to neglect the area is changing “slowly — very, very slowly,” with periodic backward steps.

“There’ s a lot of people pulling together. ... The neighborhood’s coming together to make sure we have more staying power than a highway.”

— Burton Street resident Jeff Frug

This year, for example, the community center’s operating hours were cut, yet another casualty of the city’s budget deficit. As a result, residents say, it feels difficult to use the facility.

For his part, Barton believes what’s needed is mostly “better communication. Sometimes, like on Saturdays, I see the center open but no one in there. It’s going to take more planning and participation.”

Long-range plans

In addition to the efforts of Asheville GO, a new group, My Brother’s Keeper, is working to help young men returning from prison transition back into the community.

“There are young men in Burton Street who were incarcerated, and I know a lot of people have lost faith in them, because they helped destroy the community,” says new resident Stephen Smith, who works with My Brother’s Keeper. “But if they get back, start mentoring, start working here in the community, we can reintegrate them, turn their energies around, and they can become a voice warning against things that shouldn’t be done.”

Barton, meanwhile, maintains that, in many cases, even people trying to turn their lives around through Asheville GO or a similar organization face disproportionately harsh sentences that he says often undermine attempts at rehabilitation.

Despite these challenges, however, neighborhood residents are pressing ahead. In partnership with the Asheville Design Center, they crafted the Burton Street Community Plan,

which outlines a variety of steps aimed at continuing the area’s revitalization. Released earlier this year, it calls for such measures as ensuring the community center’s long-term health, creating a community newsletter, communicating with absentee landlords, adding more sidewalks and parking lots, better lighting and mass transit, and completing the incipient Smith Mill Creek Greenway.

“This community’s very affluent — not in its money but in its potential,” says Smith. “But when I go down to the gas station, for example, that money’s not staying in this community. It goes out, but it’s not recycled back.”

The city has staff dedicated to coordinating the Weed and Seed funds, and Public Information Officer Dawa Hitch says they “are knowledgeable of and support” the Burton Street Plan.

Moving forward, she adds, the city remains open to partnerships and will try to assist the community as it begins to prioritize the stated goals.

Barton believes a better organized, more powerful community association would help ensure that some of the city contracts for work in the area go to locals.

“There’s still a lot of uncertainty, and we can’t take our eyes off what we want to see,” he notes.

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But not without controversy. The changes include a bevy of design guidelines restricting building height, and width and requiring upperstory setbacks, in an effort to preserve downtown’s current aesthetic.

To balance the stricter design guidelines, the rules also raise the threshold for direct Council approval of downtown projects from 100,000 square feet to 175,000 square feet. Both the consultants who drafted the master plan and the residents who served on the various committees that helped refine it intended this two-pronged approach to provide clear standards while ensuring approval for any project that satisfied them, replacing a Council-review process that some have seen as too arbitrary, unpredictable and political.

But the threshold change, in particular, drew the ire of neighborhood advocates such as the grass-roots group People Advocating Real Conservancy, which had urged residents to oppose it. Empowering appointed committees rather than elected officials to approve all but the biggest downtown projects, the group argued, would be undemocratic and would give developers too much power. By the time Council members took their seats that evening, some said they’d received more than 150 e-mails opposing the new threshold rules.

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But Rasmussen, who served on the Urban Design and Development Action Committee that helped craft the plan, said it doesn’t do enough to protect views or historic structures, though he did praise the way it helps preserve “the pedestrian experience.”

Downtown resident Rylan Hanson was also skeptical. “We don’t need a situation where citizen input and the Council’s vote is reduced,” she maintained. “Developers can’t be relied upon to have the same interests at heart as longtime residents do. … We have to be careful we don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg to make sure we make developers happy in the short term.”

Fellow downtown resident Susan Griffin, however, said the changes were long overdue. “The key word here is growth: These are all scenarios for how we grow the city,” she observed. “We looked at how it was growing four, five years ago, and that wasn’t working for many people. This is a reasonable way to look at future growth. The city will change; everything changes. This does it in a reasonable, organized way.”

Joe Minicozzi, executive director of the Asheville Downtown Association, said his group also backed the new rules. “We’ve tried to create a better process for everyone — a more predictable, more transparent process — for developers and citizens to know what’s going on,” Minicozzi asserted. “Let’s get [the rules] in place and see how it works.”

Numbers game

Vice Mayor Brownie Newman, a longtime proponent of the master plan, said the revisions are needed “because we want to see more changes in our downtown; we don’t want it sprawling out and up our mountainsides. But we want that development to look great. We want to build something future generations will be proud of.”

Newman also said: “Big buildings in downtown have always been controversial, including the building we’re sitting in right now. When this building was proposed, it was very controversial; when the Jackson Building was proposed, it was controversial. Now those buildings are wellliked.”

Opponents, however, found an advocate in Council member Cecil Bothwell, who supported the design guidelines but repeatedly attempted to amend the threshold change.

“I have not yet heard an explanation that makes sense to me about why the 175,000 figure was picked,” he said. “In the city of Durham, the city has to approve all projects over 10,000 square feet; this seems fairly arbitrary to me.” Bothwell informally floated the idea of a 125,000 square foot threshold for Asheville, with larger projects allowed without a Council vote if they supported other city goals such as affordable housing or sustainable design.

“I got a letter from former Mayor Leni Sitnick noting that the 100,000 limit was extremely high in the first place, and she has regretted that she wasn’t able to keep it lower,” he noted.

City staff and developers, said Bothwell, tend to get too wrapped up in trying to make a proposed project work, and Council needs to serve as a balance. “We’re the voice of the people,” he declared.

“We’re how people get a voice in shaping their community.”

Bothwell’s first amendment, which called for keeping the threshold at 100,000, failed as Newman (who’d made the motion to approve the higher figure) declined to accept Bothwell’s proposal.

Council member Gordon Smith, who’d earlier called the consensus achieved by the Master Plan Committee “miraculous,” broached a compromise, suggesting that the threshold be raised to 137,500 square feet. Bothwell then proposed a second amendment endorsing that figure, but only he and Smith supported it.

The problem, said Newman, is that the design rules won’t work without the higher threshold. “If we just put these strict guidelines in place without that change, we’ll just get more sprawl as people build outside the city.”

Bothwell’s third amendment, which would have applied the same threshold rules throughout downtown and in peripheral areas, found support from Smith and Council member Jan Davis but still failed to gain the requisite four votes.

Council member Esther Manheimer said the whole idea of the master plan was to get input from everyone to “reflect what our community wants in a set of rules, so we don’t have to make this decision each and every time. If you look at this plan, we’re basically telling you how high your building can be and what it has to look like, down to some pretty minute details.”

Mayor Terry Bellamy, meanwhile, pointed out that City Council has dealt with these issues many times. A lot of the current proposal’s critics, she asserted, were “misinformed” and didn’t understand that the rules would apply only to downtown. Even under the current guidelines, the mayor noted, “We can’t say, ‘Oh, your building’s ugly — you can’t build it in downtown.’”

Unbecoming conduct

In other business, Council members: • heard a quarterly financial report indicating that, although sales-tax revenues were higher than expected, income from fees and investments was lower, due to the sluggish economy; • unanimously approved an ethics code with revised guidelines for censuring Council members for unbecoming conduct. The code also requires Council members to attend classes on state and local ethics rules. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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372 Depot brings new blood to River District by Christopher George From the outside, it’s not obvious what’s so special about 372 Depot, a new mixed-use development in Asheville’s River Arts District. Sited on a former brownfield, the unassuming 9,000-square-foot brick structure seems like just another new building with street-level retail space and apartments above. In fact this innovative project represents a number of significant firsts for Asheville.

Years in the making, 372 Depot cost about $8.5 million to build, including roughly $1.3 million in federal housing assistance and loans from the city’s Housing Trust Fund. The nonprofit developer, Mountain Housing Opportunities, says the completed Glen Rock Depot project should boost the area’s total tax base by $15 million within the next five years.

Building community

With 9,000 square feet of commercial space and three levels of workforce housing, the new building represents phase two of Glen Rock Depot, an ambitious constructionand-renovation project involving three adjacent structures on Depot Street.

Phase one — renovating the 6,400-square-foot former Corner Market — was completed in 2007 and now houses the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas.

Phase three calls for renovating the historic Glen Rock Hotel to create commercial and office space.

The 60 apartments at 372 Depot were all leased within about two months to tenants selected from some 400 applicants. The one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments (700-, 1,013- and 1,213-squarefeet, respectively) were

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awarded based on annual household income. The cap for a family of three is $29,940; for a single person, it’s $23,280.

Rents (also based on income level) range from $350 to $750 per month. The units are expected to be fully occupied in time for the Dec. 2 grand opening (see box).

Glen Rock’s tenants are a varied group. “A lot of our residents work at Mission [Hospital]; they are artists who are just walking to work down the street; they work in restaurants around town,” Susanne Hackett of Pollinate Consulting reports. “There are a number of young families in here, and a number of people are retired.”

Sean Bickford wanted to live in the River District, but what ultimately sold him on 372 Depot was the large amount of shared indoor and outdoor space. “You can tell already that just the layout of the building works as far as getting people together,” he notes. Bickford and his 3-year-old son recently moved from a north Asheville rental house into one of the twobedroom units.

The building’s several thousand square feet of communal space includes a large courtyard, three levels of porches and common rooms, and a big kitchen, Community Investments Manager Cindy Weeks points out proudly. Such extensive amenities, she adds, are “really unheard of in an apartment building.”

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At 372 Depot, rooftop solar panels are expected to produce about 2,400 gallons of hot water per day.

Solar powered: Each unit in 372 has a rooftop solar panel, helping to provide electricity and heat — part of the building’s LEED features.

Green innovation

Creature comforts aside, 372 Depot is also in line to become one of the city’s first mixeduse buildings to be certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a international green building certification system.

Although MHO is aiming for basic LEED certification, “We think we’re going to get quite a bit higher than that,” Weeks reveals.

Environmentally friendly features include a

cistern that will catch rainwater for the property’s landscaping, water-permeable parking areas and courtyard, a highly reflective roof to reduce cooling costs, and a stormwaterdetention facility to prevent runoff into the adjacent Town Branch. In addition, the nonprofit recycled 85 percent of all construction waste.

But perhaps the most striking environmental feature is 372 Depot’s solar hot-water system. Each apartment has its own 4-by-10-

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foot solar panel on the roof. Together, they’re expected to produce about 2,400 gallons of hot water per day, reducing electricity used to heat water by 80 to 90 percent and meeting total demand on all but the coldest and rainiest days.

How? The sun’s energy heats a fluid similar to antifreeze that’s run through a series of tubes within the panel. The fluid is piped down to boilers, where its energy is transferred to the water. The cooled fluid then flows back up to the roof for reheating. The system is also expected to reduce carbondioxide emissions by 29 tons per year — the equivalent of planting 8,500 trees or taking 13 cars off the road, notes Weeks.

Even more remarkably, MHO was able to create the $270,000 system — the largest of its kind serving a multifamily development in North Carolina — at absolutely no up-front cost. In a complex financial deal, the nonprofit leased the system from a subsidiary of FLS Energy, an Asheville-based solar company.

In return for installing and maintaining the system, the subsidiary will receive substantial state and federal tax credits. Both FLS and the system’s other investors will also be able to claim money for the energy 372 Depot doesn’t use through a power-purchase agree-

ment with Duke Power. That arrangement will help Duke satisfy a state mandate that utilities derive a set percentage of their total energy output from renewable sources. In addition, MHO will pay about $17 per unit per month for the solar-thermal energy.

Meanwhile, two businesses are set to open at 372 Depot this month. The Magnetic Field, a combination café/lounge/performance space featuring a 64-seat theater, is expected to open its doors by Dec. 1. West One Salon, moving from its current downtown location, hopes to follow suit later in December. An additional 4,500 square feet of commercial space is still available. X Freelance writer Christopher George lives in Spartanburg, S.C.

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Thanksgiving week brought joy, pain to WNC residents The tough economy and higher fuel costs didn’t keep travelers from taking to the skies or the highway this Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest travel time of the year.

In “More Travelers Hitting the Roads in North Carolina,” BlueRidgeNow reported that more than 1.1 million Tar Heel motorists drove more than 50 miles from home, up 11 percent from last year, according to estimates from AAA Carolinas. And despite a statewide shift from flying to driving, the Asheville Regional Airport bucked the trend, with 4,157 pre-booked flights between Nov. 24 and Nov. 28, compared with 2,914 for that time period last year.

“This increase really does mimic the increases we’ve been experiencing for the past year,” explained Tina Kinsey, the airport’s marketing and public relations director. “With the addition of several nonstop flights, we’ve been experiencing record growth in 2010.”

The article also revealed that drivers who filled their tanks locally paid more for gas than anyone else in the state. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Asheville was $2.85, up 22 cents from Thanksgiving 2009, according to AAA Carolinas.

Sadly, however, not everyone in Western North Carolina could afford to travel — or have much of a holiday celebration at all, for that matter.

In “Going Hungry: Many in Region, Particularly Children, Are Doing Without for Thanksgiving,” the Smoky Mountain News reported that North Carolina ranks second in the number of children and adults who are “foodinsecure.”

“These are children who literally do not know where their next meal will come from,” explained Lynn Harvey, child nutrition director for the state Department of Public Instruction.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, some 17.5 million Americans are struggling to put food on the table, the article reported. That means a lot of children are depend-

Haves and have-nots: On a recent Sunday morning, patrons lined up for brunch at Tupelo Honey Café in downtown Asheville (above), while across the street in Pritchard Park the needy lined up for free food provided by a group of local churches.

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ing on outside assistance — often in the form of free or reduced-price public-school lunches — to stave off hunger.

To be eligible for the National School Lunch Program, a family’s income must be no more than 130 percent of the federal poverty level, the article notes. For a family of four, that’s $28,665 this year.

In Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, more than half of public-school students qualify.

Honoring the fallen

In another sobering story, more than 100 family members, friends and members of the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle group turned out at the Asheville Airport to honor the flag-draped

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casket of Army Pfc. Christian “Kade” Michael Warriner, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported last week in “Fallen Soldier’s Body Arrives in Asheville.” The Mills River resident was one of five soldiers killed Nov. 14 when their unit came under fire in Kunar Province in Afghanistan.

Warriner joined the Army in July 2009.

In a separate post, the newspaper also noted that 14 Western North Carolina residents have been killed in the line of duty since 2001, when the war in Afghanistan began.

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by Susan Andrew The Tanzanians were fishing with dynamite.

It worked, but the long-term results — depletion of fish stocks, destruction of the living coral reef — led the government to ban the practice. The fishermen persisted, ignoring the law, the government pamphlets and advice from Western ecologists. Yet when local religious leaders ruled that exploding ecosystems violates the Quran’s injunction against wasting God’s creation, dynamiting was finished.

Spirituality of whatever sort can motivate true believers to embrace sustainability, says Mallory McDuff, an environmental studies professor at Warren Wilson College. Her new book, Natural Saints: How People of Faith are Working to Save God’s Earth, profiles environmentally committed congregations nationwide.

The book collects the stories and strategies of contemporary church leaders and parishioners working to define a new, spiritually oriented environmental movement. A focus on God’s earth, says McDuff, is creating more relevant and powerful ministries offering “lessons for a new world where congregations model the

principles and practices of sustainable communities.”

During her research, McDuff traveled the country, her two young daughters in tow; a number of those profiled hail from Western North Carolina.

Jill Rios worships at La Capilla de Santa Maria in Hendersonville, where her husband, the Rev. Austin Rios, leads an Episcopal parish serving Latino immigrants. Under Jill’s leadership, the church is preparing to weatherize the sanctuary to make it more energy-efficient.

They’re also establishing a garden that will support a free farmers market for parishioners while providing ingredients for a planned pizza business. The parishioners will bake the pies in a cob oven they’ve built.

The former director of North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light, a Raleigh-based environmental group that works with faith groups across the state, Jill teamed up with a local collaborative to weatherize 300 low-income homes.

She’s now organizing Climate Justice Tours that explore the life cycle of coal while highlighting some local best and worst energy practices. The tour includes stops at the Progress Energy plant

“If I can find these saints in my small circles, these natural saints are among us all.”

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God is green: Mallory McDuff’s new book, Natural Saints: How People of Faith are Working to Save God’s Earth, documents how congregations are integrating the environment into their traditional ministries, such as feeding the hungry and promoting justice, creating more relevant churches in the process.

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in Skyland and at Kanuga Conferences, which boasts one of the largest solar arrays in the Southeast.

“This area is rich in examples of people integrating the natural world into their religious ministries,” McDuff notes. At Jubilee!

Community church in Asheville, staffer Vicki Garlock is greening the children’s curriculum on the theme of caring for creation. Garlock aims to make her nature-based Christian curriculum available to other churches too. “We can foster that innate connection of children to nature,” she explains, “which is one way you find your

spiritual path.”

Will Harlan, the editor of Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine, is a Buddhist who lives off the grid with his wife and son on a farm near Barnardsville. Harlan’s spirituality, says McDuff, infuses his avocation as an elite ultramarathoner: Last year, he completed his second 72-mile run in the Smokies. The first (in 2003) was designed to raise awareness of air pollution in the mountains; the second spotlighted mountaintop-removal mining.

The Rev. Brian Cole of The Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village wrote the afterword

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to McDuff’s book. The church’s progressive congregation is pushing its leaders to think green when it comes to upgrading their historic structures.

Basic Christian tenets such as loving one’s neighbor as oneself, says McDuff, also call believers to care for creation. “This region is rich for religious environmentalism, given the wealth of spiritual connections to a strong sense of place,” she asserts. “Our collective acts can generate a momentum that transcends the actions of individuals or inaction of legislative bodies.”

Last summer, notes McDuff, “People of faith watched the Senate’s inability to tackle the real problem of climate change, the lack of progress at the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the failure of the Gulf Coast oil spill to spark a national demand for alternative energy sources. Given that the United States imports 68 percent of its oil, couldn’t this disas-

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Global warming, she maintains, “has created common ground for Jews, Evangelicals, Muslims, Lutherans, Baptists and Roman Catholics. Our diverse religious traditions provide the structure of intentional community, a shared moral imperative, forgiveness and redemption and, most important, hope in things not seen.”

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by Danny Bernstein Blackbeard, Daniel Boone, Wilma Dykeman, even George Washington. Each of these famous names, all of which appear in William Auman’s new book, Pioneer Paddling Colonial Carolina, has a Tar Heel connection.

Auman grew up in Benson, N.C., south of Raleigh and moved to Asheville in 1986 to become a public defender after finishing law school. Now a criminal lawyer, he’s handled 53 murder cases while still finding time to teach political science at UNCA. His goal is “to make sure that justice is served.”

The author has also been involved in appellate cases that entail a lot of research and writing. “I love to write, and I love to paddle,” Auman reports. His twin interests have merged in this, his first paddling book.

Pioneer Paddling focuses on family outings all over North Carolina, starting with Ocracoke on the coast. The pirate Blackbeard, beheaded by the British Royal Navy in 1718, frequented the area. Auman then tells the reader where and how you can paddle to Teach’s Hole, where Blackbeard fell. That story ought to whet most children’s appetites for paddling.

The book grew out of a paddling database Auman created in the early 1980s. Canoeing and camping with his wife, Liz, and later their two children, Auman began recording details such as where they’d put in and taken out, plus any historical information he’d picked up,

The three-mile-long Wolf Creek Lake is a paddler’s dream, with many tranquil spots to beach a boat. each time they came back from a trip.

Paddling was a family activity. At first, all four of them could fit in one canoe. When the kids grew bigger, Auman’s daughter would go in his canoe and his wife would take their son in hers. Today, they collectively own eight boats.

“When I moved to Western North Carolina, I got bitten by the white-water bug, though I am not into extreme paddling,” Auman explains. Accordingly, the family bought a home on the French Broad in Madison County: “I can fish from my deck,” he boasts. For a while, they rented out the house; among the more unusual renters were Native American actors appearing in The Last of the Mohicans, which was filmed in the area in the early 1990s.

When pressed, Auman admits that his favorite place to paddle is Wolf Creek Lake in Jackson County’s Little Canada section. “It’s off the beaten track,” the author notes. There are four artificial lakes along the course of the Tuckasegee River, each impoundment offering a unique paddling experience. The three-mile-long Wolf Creek

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Pioneer Paddling Colonial Carolina, published by Dog Ear Publishing ($12.95), is available in Asheville at Malaprop’s and Accent on Books and at Penland and Sons Department Store in Marshall. It is also available online at pioneerpaddles.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million.

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Lake is a paddler’s dream, with many tranquil spots to beach a boat.

It offers great cool-water swimming in summer and quiet fall vistas when the cars are bumper-to-bumper on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Auman describes the historic French Broad as a river “where the mythical world of the mountains still comes alive.” He lists all the good places to put in, depending on how far you want to paddle.

White-water thrill seekers are pointed toward Nantahala Outdoor Center, a training ground for Olympic paddlers.

The book includes Auman’s list of sources, photos of his paddling family, and a chapter on taking your children canoeing.

“I hope that readers will come away with an appreciation of what is left of our Colonial wilderness that can be explored in a canoe,” he concludes, adding, “I also hope they have lots of fun with their kids.”

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Asheville Track Club The club provides information, education, training, social and sporting events for runners and walkers of any age.

Please see the group Web site for weekly events and news. Info: www.ashevilletrackclub.org or 253-8781.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30am - Trail run for all paces. Meet at the NC Arboretum, Greenhouse Parking Area. Info: 648-9336.

Blue Ridge Bicycle Club For more information on the club, or to view a current and comprehensive club calendar: www.blueridgebicycleclub. org.

• WEEKLY - Leads road rides ranging from novice to advanced skill levels. Rides usually have a designated Ride Leader and participants will not be left behind.

Buncombe County Walking Club • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 8:15am - Meet at the Sports Park in Candler. Gather at the picnic shelter. The purpose of the club is not to compete, but to build fitness and form friendships. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@ buncombecounty.org.

Carolina Mountain Club CMC fosters the enjoyment of the mountains of WNC and adjoining regions and encourages the conservation of our natural resources, through an extensive schedule of hikes and a program of trail building and maintenance. $20 per year, family memberships $30 per year. Newcomers must call the leader before the hike. Info: www.carolinamtnclub. org.

• WE (12/1), 8:30am - Jones Gap Trail: Pinnacle. Info: (864)-921-6469 or jbsbestfan@hotmail.com —- 10am - Mt. Mitchell Road (Rt 128) to Balsam Gap. Info: 2990298 or barthb@bellsouth.net.

• SU (12/5), 8am - Jones Gap Trail & Coldspring Loop.

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holidays WELCOME TO LILVILLE WITH THE CASHEW CAROLERS! This year, Xpress invited some of our nuttiest, merriest little pals, the Cashew Carolers, to usher us through the 2010 Holiday Guides. Bobbie Moogie, Zebbie Vance (and his constant companion, Teddy Pisgah), F. Scotty, Georgie Vanderbilt and Zelda Fitz are here to guide us through the Guides, pointing out delectable recipes from local restaurants and cafés; charming and cheerful holiday artwork from local kids, young and old; gift ideas (what to find and where to find it); tips for your (hopefully many and bountiful) holiday parties; holiday photo galleries; charity profiles; and so much more. F Scotty has asked that we end this introduction so readers can move on to the matter at hand. But first, Zelda insists, the Cashews have, of course, a carol (sung to the tune of “My Favorite Things”):

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Buying locally and smiling and sneezing Gifts for the nerdy and help for the needy

Holiday Guide

Geek love: Gifts for nerds of every ilk

by Alli Marshall Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to know what to get for that special someone with particular likes. But before you pony up for yet another Amazon gift card or Dog Treat of the Month Club membership (yes, it exists), weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rounded up a bunch of locally made and/or sourced gifts geared toward discriminating tastes.

The bookworm

Booksellers from Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bookstore/CafĂŠ and Spellbound Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bookstore suggest some of their favorite locally written titles from 2010. (Check out WNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many locally owned bookstores for other literary ideas.) â&#x20AC;˘ For readers ages 6-9, try Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci written by Asheville resident Joseph Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agnese and illustrated by John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bio of an influential mathematician who discovered a pattern in natural things like pine cones, flower petals and seashell spirals.) â&#x20AC;˘ Creative is a Verb: If Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Alive, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Creative

by Patti Digh is a colorful, inspirational workbook for firing up the inner muse. Also inspirational: Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical SelfAcceptance by N.C. author Rosie Molinary offers a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of ideas, exercises and techniques for empowering women â&#x20AC;&#x153;to regain a healthy self-image.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;˘ For something that says North Carolina through and through, pick up a copy of Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France by Daniel Pierce. The author â&#x20AC;&#x153;offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;a ballad novel.â&#x20AC;? The premise, according to Publisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weekly is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;in 1935, the case of an Appalachian schoolteacher arrested for murdering her father becomes a national news story, seized on by the press for its sensationalism and the opportunity to mock the rural inhabitants involved.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘Â Burning Bright by Ron Rash follows on the heels of his highly successful novel Serena. But this book is different â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a collection of short stories set from the Depression era to modern times.

The tree hugger

â&#x20AC;˘Â Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway, by WNC-based author/journalist Randy Johnson, was revised and updated for 2010 (also the 75th anniversary of the Parkway). Learn more about the book ($9.95) at blueridgeparkwaystore.com.

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â&#x20AC;˘Â Kayakers at Liquid Logic Kayaks in Flat Rock have created a rescue throw-rope for kayakers that can be quickly reloaded for a second throw â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a life-saving device for any boater. Read about the 75-foot Speedloader Throwbag at shanesliquidlogic.blogspot.com. â&#x20AC;˘Â WNC publishing company Brushy Mountain puts out yoga videos and river guidebooks, including the indispensable (according to our sources) North Carolina Rivers and Creeks by Leland Davis. The book is described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;A full color guide to 101 Whitewater runs and playspots in Western North Carolina and the surrounding area.â&#x20AC;? ($29.95) brushymountainpublishing.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Though world peace might still be a tall order, a cleaner environment is possible with a specialedition N.C. GreenPower Holiday Gift Card.

Says the company, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your recipient will receive a special announcement informing them of your Renewable Energy or Carbon Offset purchase and the environmental benefits that your gift has provided them.â&#x20AC;? (Minimum $24.) ncgreenpower. org.

Get cozy in DoubleNest hammock â&#x20AC;&#x201D; according to local manufacturer/seller Eagles Nest Outfitters, it â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes you want to snuggle. ...The DoubleNest seats more than one person comfortably and is essential for family adventures.â&#x20AC;? And it packs to the size of a grapefruit. eaglesnestoutfittersinc. com.

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â&#x20AC;˘Â For your favorite outdoors enthusiast/daredevil, how about a trip to Navitat Canopy Adventures? Located in Barnardsville, the facility offers 10 zip lines, two rappelling experiences, two suspended sky bridges and three short hikes.

A three-and-a-half hour tour covers more than a mile of suspended cable. ($85 adults/$75 youth.) navitat.com.

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â&#x20AC;˘ A class at The Drygoods Shop. From book binding to card-making, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to be learned at this recently opened West Asheville crafting spot. thedrygoodsshop.com

The techy

â&#x20AC;˘Â Carry all of your gadgets in style. Highland Leather ($79 at highlandleather.com) makes a handsome â&#x20AC;&#x153;UniBagâ&#x20AC;? that could be carried by a man or a woman and can fit an iPad or PDA. Local maker Asheville Purse Creations designs the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marin,â&#x20AC;? a lightweight leather shoulder bag promised to â&#x20AC;&#x153;work great as a case for those little mini laptops and netbooksâ&#x20AC;? ($40/$50 at ashevillepursecreations.com). â&#x20AC;˘Â On the heels of Moogfest, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to own something Moog-made? The company promises its gear to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;superior quality, accessible user interface, outstanding design, incredible sound, lasts a lifetime, is an inspiration to the creative processâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and its manufactured in Asheville. Customize your own Earthware Theremin with a DIY kit ($359); rock out with Moogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most portable synthesizer, the Slim Phatty ($849); or treat a Moog user to an accessory (a Voyager dust cover runs $49). moogmusic.com. â&#x20AC;˘Â Mountain Area Information Network, or M@ IN, is a local cooperative internet service provider and web host. Give your tech geek a locally hosted website through M@IN for $75 a year.

Info at main.nc.us/webhosting.

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A few ideas from AshevilleEtsy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a group of local designers who sell their wares on crafter site Etsy.com. Search etsy.com/people/AshevilleEtsy to discover must-have gifts, or check out our finds: Handmade pencil pouch (pictured, $9) by M. Ranae Designs. Vinatge-y fabric, plenty of panache, seconds as a clutch.

Beam Weekly Planner ($26) by Rockpile Bindery. A hand-bound, handstitched calendar book covered in colorful fabric.

Just this fall, locally-based publisher Lark Books released Craft-In: 12 Project Booklets for Your Own Crafty Gatherings. This box-set of booklets is the perfect gift (or 12 gifts, if you want to split them up). Each booklet (edited and designed by local artists Kathleen McCafferty and Suzie Millions, respectively) has its own project theme, from retro paper dolls to crocheted cacti.

Mercury by Hope Larson (who recently moved to L.A. but is an Asheville native and wrote the book in WNC), for tweens, interweaves two coming-of-age stories and is set in Nova Scotia. (Also, this year’s installment in the Scott Pilgrim saga, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, was penned by Larson’s husband Bryan Lee O’Malley.)

A flea market, specialty booths, crafter stalls, homemade foods and vintage clothing can be found at the Downtown Market. The One Bazaar Holiday festival adds extra incentive to browse, Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 18 (Find a schedule of musical accompaniment at downtownmarketasheville. com). Offerings include: Bottlecap earrings (top) by Bella Boutique (also at etsy.com/people/bellabijou1).

A six-pack of red and green floating soy star candles (below) by Me Candles (also at etsy.com/shop/meCandles).

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thenewblack Asheville Grown Business Alliance spreads the local love It’s been one year since the Asheville Grown Business Alliance launched its Love Asheville campaign. Now the hand-cranked posters and T-shirts are ubiquitous reminders of how our community helps create and keep its character: Independent businesses.

“The purpose of the posters and shirts is to create a moving message to customers that shows that we are Asheville grown and more than our individual businesses,” writes Franzi Charen of the AGBA (Charen also owns the very Hip Replacements on Lexington Avenue, with her partner Kip Veno). “Together we are what makes Asheville unique and we we wouldn’t be able to do it alone, not without the support of the people who shop, eat and value our services.”

The association’s latest campaign, “Local is the new black,” kicked off on Black Friday, but the buy-local season extends through the holidays. Business owners, employees and fans are encouraged to wear their “Buy Local”

shirts each Saturday in December.

“Shopping downtown and local can provide an amazing alternative to the mall madness — or coming downtown can be a comforting refuge after you’ve hit the early bird sales — to enjoy a snack, find something unique and experience our wonderful community,” writes Rebecca Hecht of Adorn Salon, another prime mover in the AGBA. And don’t forget that original Buy Local event: The Big Crafty. The bastion of the local handmade movement happens on Sunday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. at Pack Place. Bring the shopping lists.

Businesses wanting to purchase Tshirts wholesale (with the business logo on the back) can contact David Waller of On A Roll Printing at onarollorders@bellsouth.net or 2811274. Independent, locally owned businesses needing a poster can get them at Graphics Four, 9 Broadway St., downtown Asheville, 252-2252.

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

• FR (12/3), 4-7pm & SA (12/4), 10am-2pm - The UNCA Art Department’s annual Holiday Ceramic and Art Sale will be held at the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall. Info: 251-6559.

Arts & Crafts Holiday Market at Beech Glen • SA (12/4), 10am-3pm - Fourth annual Arts & Crafts Holiday Market at Beech Glen Community Center in Mars Hill. Thirty-plus juried local artists and crafters working in fiber, paper, oils, watercolors, jewelry and woodworking.

Pine-needle basket-making demo. Lunch available. Info: 779-1218.

Enka High’s Annual Craft Fair • SA (12/11), 9am-3pm - Twenty-third annual craft fair at Enka High’s Cafeteria. More than 50 crafters will sell a wide variety of high quality crafts. Pancakes for breakfast; hotdogs for lunch. Info: 670-5000, ext. 155.

Loaves & Fishes Alternative Gift Market • SU (12/5), 12:15-2pm - Make a difference this holiday season by purchasing gifts that assist local and international nonprofits. The market will be held in the Gardner Fellowship Hall, 40 Church St., Asheville. For a list of agencies: www.fpcasheville.org. Orders placed after the market accepted until Dec. 19. Info: 253-1431.

Rugby Craft Fair • SA (12/4), 9am-3pm - Art and handmade crafts by over 100 crafters will be on display at Rugby Middle School, 3345 Haywood Road. Info: 891-6566.

Studio Sale • SATURDAYS (12/4 & 12/11), 10am-7pm - Locally-made art including pottery, sculpture, clothing and jewelry by Mimi Strang, Simone Wilson, Karen Newgard, Elizabeth Hake and Jude Stuecker will be for sale at 15A Domino Lane, in West Asheville. www.pleasanthughstudio.com.

The Big Crafty • SU (12/5), Noon-6pm - Hosted by the Asheville Art Museum in Pack Place. This juried independent craft fair features more than 100 artists and crafters working in a range of media. Plus, music by DJ Whitney Shroyer. Info: www.ashevilleart.org or www.thebigcrafty.com.

WNC Glass Crafters Info: 697-2078.

• FR (12/3), 10am-6pm & SA (12/4), 10am-4:30pm - Glass Crafters Christmas Sale. Hand-crafted sun catchers and other glass works. At Mountain High Enterprises at the intersection of S. Rugby and Rt. 64.

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The presence of presents Sponsor a child at Eliada Homes

wishlist Donations needed: To donate, visit eliada.org or call 254-5356.

Dear Santa: An excerpt of a sample wish list from Eliada Homes’ sponsor-a-child program.

by Jaye Bartell Presents give presence. A small wooden horse with a felt saddle, a hand-drawn picture of a grinning snowman or the perhaps more-exciting PlayStation communicate something far beyond the immediate thrill of a new gadget: You are not alone.

For children at Eliada Homes — a 107-yearold child/family services organization providing residential care for abused, neglected and severely at-risk children and adolescents — communicating presence is of paramount importance.

“Each year, one of our big challenges is to find sponsors for all the students in our care,” Carolyn Ashworth, Eliada’s Communications Director, told Xpress. “For children living in residential care, the holidays can be difficult. Many of them don’t have a traditional family structure and will spend their holidays with us. So, for that reason, it’s really important for students to feel that there are people in the community thinking about them during this time.”

Eliada offers donors the opportunity to sponsor a child (most of whom are between the ages of 12-15, but with some younger and older, up to age 18) through the “wish list” program.

“We make it really easy to sponsor a child,” Ashworth said. “Most people like to shop for the kids directly. We provide wish lists with information like the child’s favorite color, clothing sizes, general interests and their top needs and wants. The sponsors take those lists, shop and bring the gifts at a reserved time.”

Sponsors are asked to not spend more than $150 per child, “to ensure that gifts are equitable amongst the children.” Recipients in the wish-list program include children in Eliada’s residential, foster care, day-treatment and childdevelopment programs.

The sponsor-a-child program offers a variety of less direct approaches as well. For businesses (or individuals) that want to offer sponsorship,

but can’t shop for the kids, Elida accepts cash donations, which they will use to fulfill wishes/ wish lists.

This year, Eliada is expanding the scope of the program, Ashworth said, to items that children may not expressly want, but use every day.

“We are also asking people to consider sponsoring a cottage. Instead of providing for an individual child, we ask people to consider purchasing things that the children use throughout the year that might get worn down. Things like linens and board games.”

Resources that Eliada children often need that you may not have thought of? “We always have a need for luggage,” Ashworth said. “That’s a big need, especially in the foster-care population.

“We have a pretty extensive list for any business that wanted to do a gift drive to help sponsor a cottage,” Ashworth said. (See sidebar for the full list.)

Literal presence is another need this year.

“Each year, we ask people in the community to come help us decorate the campus,” she said.

“We haven’t yet identified a group that really wants to do that this year. It’s mostly outdoor decorations, things like hanging lights. Eliada is a 200-acre campus; if you’ve hung lights at your home, you know it’s a lot. It’s a big job.

“We really want the kids’ holidays to be full,” Ashworth said. “We have many different programs. If there is someone out there in the community who wants to do something that we didn’t mention — we’re pretty open to any kind of ideas that folks have that may be unique and different, that we haven’t thought of before.”

Twin sheets and pillowcases Towels and washcloths Stainless steel pots and pans Art supplies Teen-appropriate books Teen-appropriate DVDs Activity books (Sudoku, crosswords, etc.)

Exercise DVDs Duffel bags and luggage School supplies Art supplies (brushes, pastels, markers, paper, glue, stamps, fabric, etc.)

Play dough Baby dolls (Caucasian, AfricanAmerican and Hispanic) Push-pull toys Board games Puzzles Finger paint Sand and water toys Area rugs Throw pillows (with removable covers)

For more information about contributing to Eliada Homes — including the “Cards for Kids” project and other year-round opportunities — visit eliada.org, or call 254-5356. X Jaye Bartell can be reached at jbartell@mountainx. com.

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want to help?

ABCCM Steadfast House for Women and Children • Through (12/24), 9am-6pm - ABCCM Women & Children’s Shelter asks the community to sponsor a child in need. To sponsor a child, ABCCM will offer the name, age 0-18, size and interests/ideas for gifts. New gifts only. Drop off items at 20 Annandale St. Info: 37-3437 or brittany.williams@abccm.org.

ArtSpace Holiday Wish List • Through MO (12/13) - Donations will be accepted for ArtSpace Charter School’s “wish list” program. Needs range from providing a winter coat to purchasing shoes, school supplies and warm clothing. Meal donations are also accepted to supplement families over the holiday break. Drop off items at 2030 US Hwy. 70 in Swannanoa. Info: stephanie.wallace@ artspacecharter.org or 298-2787.

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Seeks Volunteers • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5-8pm - Head to Habitat and get a workout while volunteering in the Home Store warehouse. Info: volunteer@ashevillehabitat.org or call 210-9377.

• Through FR (12/31) - Give the Gift of Home: Make a donation to Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity in the name of a loved one. Provide the recipient’s name and address and they will receive a card about the donation made in their name. Located at 30 Meadow Road. Info: 210-9361 Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., room 213, in the United Way building. The organization matches children from single-parent homes with adult mentors. Info: www.bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• The Mentors and Matches after-school program, which requires an one-hour per-week time commitment, seeks volunteers to work with elementary students ages 6-14. Activities include helping with homework, playing educational games, making art and more. Info: www. bbbswnc.org.

• WE (12/1) through MO (12/20) - Donations are needed for the youth ages 6-17 who live in a single-parent home. Items accepted: toys, books and clothing. New items only. Info: 2531470 or jamyed@bbbswnc.org.

• WE (12/8), Noon - Information session for adults interested in going on outings twice a month. with youth from single-parent homes.

Activities are free or low-cost and include playing sports or visiting local attractions.

Volunteers are also needed to mentor for one hour a week in school and after-school programs.

Christmas Goody Bags • Through MO (12/20) - Help make the season brighter for residents of the Housing Authority of Asheville. Donations are needed to compile gift bags stuffed with apples, oranges, candy canes, assorted holiday treats, 2011 calendars and other festive items. Drop off items at 165 S. French Broad Ave. Info: 239-3510 or sbowers@haca.org.

Community Action Opportunities • We (12/1) through MO (12/20) - The Community Action Opportunities’ Head Start program is requests donations for children of low income families. Items needed: food boxes, toys for children ages 3-5, clothing, coats, underwear, gloves and hats. New donations only. Drop off items at 25 Gaston St. Info: 252-2495 or leslie.hennessee@tcqr.org.

Friends2Ferals • DAILY - Cat-loving volunteers are needed to help homeless cats.

Duties include trapping, transporting to and from the Humane Alliance, post-surgery care, fostering kittens and fundraising. Info: 505-6737 or www.friends2ferals.org. or ahubbard@ashevillehabitat.org.

Hands On Asheville-Buncombe 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.

• FR (12/3), 11am-12:30pm - Cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters & Inn. Both men and women are encouraged to participate in this project.

• SA (12/4), 9am-Noon - 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 —- 10:30am-Noon - Kids Care: A gift-wrapping/craft event for children ages 4-6. All gifts will be delivered to seniors and home-bound individuals served by Meals on Wheels.

• TH (12/9), 5-7pm - Meals for Hope. 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.

Meals On Wheels Meals On Wheels delivers meals to more than 500 homebound elderly people each weekday through the help of a network of more than 300 volunteers. Info: 253-5286.

• Through MO (12/6) - Collecting wrapped shoe boxes for the “Santa For Seniors” project at the MOW office, 146 Victoria Road, Asheville.

Santa For Seniors collects gift-filled shoeboxes to distribute to Buncombe County’s homebound elderly during the holidays.

• Meals On Wheels of Asheville/Buncombe County is seeking individuals interested in volunteering as substitute drivers to deliver meals to the homebound elderly. Free gas cards are provided.

MotherLove Giving Tree • Through WE (12/15) - The Giving Tree, made of stars bearing wishes from a local teen mother for her children, will be on display in the lobby of the YWCA, 185, S. French Broad Ave. Pick out a star and make a wish come true. Info: 254-7206, ext. 116 or www.ywcaofasheville.org.

Operation Toasty Toes Chapter 7 Makes yarn comfort items that are sent to troops deployed overseas.

Info: 696-9777 or www.operationtoastytoes.org.

• 1st & 3rd MONDAYS, 10am - Volunteers are needed to knit and crochet gifts for soldiers serving overseas. Meet at 105 Campbell Drive, Flat Rock.

Warm Winter Wishes • WE (12/1) through WE (12/8) - Donations for Glen Arden Elementary School’s “wish list” program will be accepted. All gifts will be distributed

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ART BY FLORI PATE (ABOVE) / MADELINE NEWMAN-LOMBARDO (BELOW)

to area children before the holidays. Full outfits and toys are especially needed. New items only. Drop off items at 50 Pinehurst Circle. Info: 654-1800 or charlotte.hipps@bcsemail. org.

WNC AIDS Project Info: www.wncap.org or 252-7489.

• Through MO (12/20) - The “Christmas for Families Living with HIV/AIDS” project seeks donations of gift cards from retail outlets, toy stores and book stores. Gift cards can be dropped off at 44 Fairview Road. Info: 252-7489, ext. 310 or gwhite@ wncap.org.

Women at Risk Gift Giving Program • Through MO (12/13) - Sponsor a child by purchasing gifts from the child’s “wish list.” All donations will be given to area families. Shoppers are asked to spend $25-$50 per child. New items only. Drop off donations at 218 Patton Ave. Sponsored

by Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice/Women at Risk.

Info: 252-2485 or brenda@wccj.org.

MORE Volunteering EVENTS ONLINE

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ART BY CLAIRE BURNET (ABOVE) / EDWARD MOREADITH (BELOW)

ART BY RYLEE SOMERVILL (ABOVE) / SHELBY LOLLIS (BELOW)

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Creamy, puffy Yule for you Serving an effortlessly cool retro spread

Creme de la creme: Cream puffs are very much like a less-snooty éclair. Old Europe turns out these fluffy, buttery, chocolate-mint cream puffs for the holidays.

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We here at Xpress know that entertaining for the holidays is rarely easy.

Most of you have barely had time to trash your slowly rotting Halloween Jack-O-Lantern. If you’re hosting a gathering this holiday season, it’s possible that you’re trying to figure out how to work some kick-butt canapés out of a pile of leftover turkey-of-a-certain-age.

Cranberry-sauce aspic, anyone? No? Right. Just as we suspected. When it comes to feeding the masses, it’s important to ensure that the offerings are edible and show no signs of being leftover from the previous holiday. One of the best ways to put together a quick tray of fresh party favors is to go the kitsch route.

What’s kitschy food? Think Vienna sausages and fondue. It’s the cutesy, practical side of practiced cool. It’s turning retro items into an ironically awesome spread. It’s the food version of fedoras and White Russians.

Case in point: Have you noticed that sliders are in fashion again? The littlebitty burgers that originated at White Castle are popping up on restaurant menus everywhere. All the comfortably upscale joints are doing ‘em, man.

They’re served bastardized with crab cakes slathered in aioli or pulled pork in a nod to the continuing popularity of all

things Southern.

We say forget the fancy. We have a Krystal right here on Biltmore Avenue. Get yourself a few sacks of teeny tiny burgers — just $2.75 for four! — and put those suckers on a nice silver tray. Don’t forget the toothpicks! You can serve them with shots of PBR. If you want to bring things up a notch or ten in the sophistication department, however, check out the new Old Europe on Biltmore Avenue. Melinda Vetro turns out diminuitive, deliciously rich, savory biscuit-like pastries called pogaca, which she sells for $3.50 a dozen.

Sliced in half and served with ham and mustard, you’ve got tiny, fancy ham biscuits. Garnish with cornichons (a snooty French way of saying tiny, face-suckingly tart pickles), and you’ve got yourself some finger food that refuses to take itself too seriously. But in a casually cool way.

See side bar for other pogaca ideas.

Vetro also put together a chocolate-mint cream puff recipe just for Xpress, which can be found on the next page. The cream puff is a rather retro adaptation of its more sophisticated cousin, the éclair. We prefer the cream puff for its comparative ease of preparation and refusal to put on airs at a dinner party. No time for baking? Vetro will provide these tiny desserts around the holidays, which can be ordered by calling 255-5999. Visit oldeuropepastries.com for more information.

Xpress also offers the following helpful tip: Be sure to balance your sweets with savory items. An all-cream puff spread is sure to cause momentary jubilation, but will only end in sugar crashes, crankiness and rampant naps.

Happy entertaining! X Mackensy Lunsford can be reached at food@mountainx.com

suggestion Pogaca can be sliced in half like a biscuit and served with all manner of fillings. The simpler the better, but go as crazy as you’d like. Here are some ideas.

recipe Chocolate Mint Cream Puffs

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Ingredients:

6 tablespoons (3 ounces) unsalted butter 3/4 cup water 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 4 eggs Combine water, butter and sugar in a pot and melt together over medium heat. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Turn down heat, add flour and cook together until mix pulls away from sides of pot.

Let cool for a few minutes. Add salt, followed by the eggs a little at a time, until well incorporated.

Form balls on paper-covered sheet pan. Bake in oven at 325 degrees for approximately 45 minutes.

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Fold whipped cream into cold custard mix and flavor to taste with mint. Fill cooled cream puffs.

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Tom Sawyer’s Christmas Tree Farm and Elf Village (pd.) See, hear, smell and touch Christmas at Tom Sawyer’s Christmas Tree Farm and Elf Village Holiday Fest in Glenville, NC near Cashiers. Take Farm Wagon Tours of Trees on weekends. Choose and Cut Your Perfect Tree Any Day! Visit Elves in the Elf Village!

Create Holiday Art in the Craft Room. Mail Your Wish List at Santa’s Post Office. Hear Holiday Tales in the Storytelling Cabin.

Navigate Clever Tom’s Christmas Tree Maze and Visit the Clauses in their Elf House. Shop the Big Red Barn for decor and gift items and Santa’s Secret Shop for kid-affordable family gifts. Call 828-743-5456 / 800-662-7008 or go to www.freshtreez.com 10th annual Festival of Lights • FR (12/3) through SU (12/19), 6-9pm - 10th annual Festival of Lights. Partial proceeds will benefit Buncombe County Special Olympics. $5 car/$15 van/ $25 bus.

Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Festival A two-day event of performance, workshops, vending and networking for performers and the public. Tickets & info: www.blastoffburlesque.com.

• SA (12/4) through SU (12/5) - Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Festival. Headliners Armitage Shanks, Madame Onca of the Mezmer Society, Blast-Off Burlesque and Gypsy-jazz funk-punk band Sirius. B. Appalachian and Holiday Music • SA (12/4), 1pm - Little Windows’ members Mark Weems and Julee Glaub Weems will host an Appalachian roots and Christmas music workshop at the Church of the Holy Spirit, 433 Bone Camp Road, Marshall. $25.

Info: 689-2517 or www.holyspiritwnc.org.

•SU (12/5), 10:30am - Live holiday music will be performed at the morning service —- 2pm - A Christmas Concert featuring live tunes by Little Windows will be held at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Brass Town Ringers • SA (12/4), 4-5pm - A Bell Choir Christmas Music Concert, which will include percussion instruments. At First Christian Church, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler. Info: 665-9499.

Chanukah Live 2010 • WE (12/1), 5:30-7:30pm - Mayor Bellamy will light the Menorah at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Asheville. Enjoy a gourmet Kosher buffet, open wine bar, walk-in Dreidel House, latkes, donuts, bounce houses, boutiques, dancing, singing, a Chanukah choir, crafts and more. $5/person or $18/family. Info: www.

ChabadAsheville.com.

Chanukah Party • TH (12/2) - Fun for the whole family with live Chanukah music, klezmer music, candle lighting, children’s activities and a latke contest with plenty of food for everyone! At Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave., Asheville.

Chimney Rock State Park Open daily, weather permitting. For additional info, including admission rates: www.chimneyrockpark.com.

• SATURDAYS (12/4 & 11), 11am-2pm - Santa on the Chimney.

USA Today named Chimney Rock one of the top 10 places to catch up with Santa. Come and see why.

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Christmas Parade in Downtown Sylva • SA (12/4), Noon-3pm - “The Wonder of Christmas Morning” parade will be held in downtown Sylva. There will be music, pictures with Santa, family-friendly fun and much more. $15 for a picture with Santa. Info: 5861577 or info@downtownsylva.org.

Circle of Lights Festival • SA (12/4), 5-7pm - Black Mountain Recreation and Parks will host the 26th annual festival at Lake Tomahawk. Live music, 350 luminaries encircling the lake, hay rides, Santa, gifts for the kids, healthy snacks, hot cocoa and more. Free. Info: 669-8610. n For community members looking for a way to honor a loved one, luminary bags can be purchased for $2 at the Lakeview Senior Center before Dec. 2.

Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Rd. in Hendersonville. There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered.

Info: 891-6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm.org.

• SA (12/4), 11am-4pm - “Christmas at the Farm.”

Enjoy wagon rides, children’s crafts, live Christmas music, refreshments and more. New this year is the recently renovated one-room school. $5 adults/$3 children/Free for preschoolers.

Flat Rock Tailgate Christmas Market

• SA (12/4), 2-5pm - The market will be held in the area behind Hand in Hand Gallery along Little Rainbow Row in downtown Flat Rock. Hand-spun wool scarves, jams and jellies, Christmas trees, wreaths, cypress garlands and much more. Info: 697-7719.

Gingerbread Cookie Display in Hendersonville • FR (12/3) & SA (12/4) - The fourth annual Gingerbread Cookie Contest & Display will be held at Narnia Studios on Main St. Categories include: traditional, unusual, teamwork and a special category for bakers ages 13 and under. Info: 697-6393.

Hendersonville Christmas Parade • SA (12/4), 11am - A traditional hometown Christmas parade that will travel along Main Street, from Five Points to Caswell Street, in downtown Hendersonville. This year’s parade theme: “Celebrating Christmas Now and Then.” Info: 692-4179.

Holiday Craft Fair • SATURDAYS (through 12/18), Noon-7pm - Holiday craft fair at the West Village Market & Deli on Haywood Road in West Asheville. Arts and crafts, beer and wine tastings, food samples, music and more. Info: 7071859.

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festivegatherings 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.

• TH (12/2), Noon - The Musicke Antiqua Early Music Consort will perform holiday music.

Holiday Events at the Grove Arcade Info: www.grovearcade.com.

• Through SU (1/2) - Entries from the annual National Gingerbread House Competition will be on display.

• FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 2-6pm & SUNDAYS, 2-5pm - Holiday piano tunes will be performed.

• SATURDAYS (through 12/18) - Visit with Santa and his elf (photographer Zaire Kacz).

• SA (12/4), 11am-5pm - Holiday festivities featuring live choral music from by Beverly Hills Baptist Church singers, a short dance performance by Ballet Conservatory of Asheville and by Tango Asheville, juggling and tricks with Forty Fingers and a Missing Tooth and much more.

Holiday Lights & Winter Wonderland •FR (12/3), 5-9pm - New attractions will be on display throughout downtown Franklin, and bluegrass music will be performed by the Rye Hollar Boys. Info: www.renewingfranklin.org.

Lighting of the Green at A-B Tech • SA (12/4) through WE (12/22), 6-9pm - Historic homes on A-B Tech’s Asheville campus, 340 Victoria Road, will be decorated with conventional lighting as well as energyefficient lighting. All are welcome to drive through. Info: http://abtech.edu.

Maccabi Academy Holiday Book Fair & More Info: 254-5660 or www.maccabiacademy.org.

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• Through WE (12/1), Noon - “What Chanukah Means to Me” essay and poster contest. Prizes will be awarded.

Posters may not exceed 11” x 17” and essays must be between 250-500 words. Entries may be dropped off at Barnes & Noble in Biltmore Park or at Maccabi Academy.

• Through SU (12/5) - Holiday book fair at Barnes & Noble, 33 Town Square Blvd., Biltmore Park. Present a Maccabi voucher (see Maccabi website) at checkout, and a portion of the proceeds will go to help stock the Eleanore and Lowell Fisher Community Children’s Library at the school. Info: www.maccabiacademy.org.

• Through WE (12/1), Noon - Great Dreidel Derby. Design, create and decorate your own driedel. Only guidelines are it must have the four Hebrew letters and must be able to spin. Entries may be dropped off at Barnes & Noble in Biltmore Park or Maccabi Academy.

• SU (12/5), 2pm - Story time and crafts hour. Listen to a variety of classic and new holiday stories, sing traditional Chanukah songs, and work on crafts projects. Choral performance by Maccabi Academy students.

Madison County Christmas Pageant • FR (12/3) & SA (12/4), 6:30pm - The pageant will be held on the Madison County Courthouse lawn in downtown Marshall where the streets will be “transformed into Bethlehem through costumed townspeople, song and narration.”

Mountain BizWorks’ Holiday Bazaar • FR (12/3), 4-8pm - Buy local and support small businesses in WNC by shopping at Mountain BizWorks’ Holiday Bazaar and Open House. Art, crafts and a diverse array of vendors will be on display work under one roof.

Plus, live music by Los Diferente, door prizes, free food and more. Held at 153 S. Lexington Ave. Info: www. mountainbizworks.org.

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

• SU (12/5), 4pm - Holiday music will be performed by the Studio 18 Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble. $5.

• MO (12/6), 7pm - The Reuter Center Singers will perform a holiday concert at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Free.

Olde Fashioned Hendersonville Christmas • FR (12/3), 5-9pm - Bring the whole family to downtown Hendersonville and experience the atmosphere of an old-fashioned Christmas, with shopkeepers dressed in Victorian costume, open houses and more.

Festivities focus on the theme: “It’s a Wonderful Life in Hendersonville.” Info: 693-970 or www.downtownhendersonville.org.

One Bazaar Holiday Music Festival Held at the Downtown Market, 45 S French Broad Ave. A holiday special featuring art, music, dining and shopping.

Info: www.downtownmarketasheville.com.

• FR (12/3), 5-5:45pm - Live music by Taylor Martin Band —- 6-6:45pm - Soulful harmonies by Uncle Mountain.

•SA (12/4), 5-5:45pm - Delta blues by Joshua Singleton —- 6-6:45pm - American tunes by Leigh Glass.

Operation Toasty Toes Chapter 7

Makes yarn comfort items that are sent to troops deployed overseas. Info: 696-9777 or www.operationtoastytoes.org.

• Through MO (1/3) - View the second annual Christmas Tree dedicated to our armed forces, featuring silver stars with photos of service members who have received packages of yarn comfort items. On display in the rear lobby of the Hendersonville Public Library.

Riceville Holiday Market • SA (12/11), 10am-4pm - Fourth annual Riceville Holiday Market in the Community Center at the Riceville Fire Dept. at 2251 Riceville Road. Free cider and door prizes every half-an-hour. Also collecting for local charities. Info: 298-7661.

Smith-McDowell House Museum Period rooms grace this antebellum house on the campus of A-B Tech Community College, 283 Victoria Rd., Asheville. Info: 253-9231 or education@wnchistory.org.

• TUESDAYS (12/7 through 12/14), 6-8pm - The museum and the Fernihurst mansion will be open to the public. Free tours, light refreshments and entertainment.

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calendar

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calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists Calendar for December 1 - 9, 2010 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

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

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

Community Events & Workshops A Message of Hope With Author Alice McCall (pd.) Free Talk: Saturday, December 4, 1:30pm, Crystal Visions, 5426 Asheville Highway • Learn how serious health issues, like cancer,

can be healed naturally. (828) 692-5423. www.healingpath. info Wreath Decoration Workshop (pd.) Saturday, December 4 at 10 a.m. Decorate a Frasier fir wreath with festive natural material, including making a fabulous bow, and wiring greenery, berries, and pinecones. Cheri Hoefelmeyer, artist and former Greens Market vendor, will lead this hands-on workshop. Make it and take it! $24.99 + tax for materials. Fee includes wreath, bow, and embellishments. Call 828-645-3937 to pre-register/pre-pay as space is limited. Reems Creek Nursery, 70 Monticello Road, Weaverville, NC. www.reemscreek.com BEAR Closet II • 1st WEDNESDAYS, Noon6pm & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 9am-Noon - The Closet provides families with baby/ children’s clothing and diapers

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

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and has baby equipment on loan. Volunteers available to assist with accessing additional community services. At Abernethy United Methodist Church, 1418 Patton Ave. Info: 254-2612.

Pearl Harbor Commemorative Ceremony • TU (12/7), 11am - There will be a patriotic program featuring a reading by the winner of the Pearl Harbor Day essay contest. Held at the Historic Courthouse on Main St., in downtown Hendersonville.

Info: 697-9026.

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

• FR (12/3), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures: “Existentialism,” with Dr. Duane Davis at Lipinsky Auditorium and “Global Challenges and Future Prospects,” with Dr. Noah Allen at the Humanities Lecture Hall.

• MO (12/6), 11:25am - Humanities Lecture: “Where have we been? Where are we? Where are we going?

The Ebb and Flow of Empires,” with Ann Dunn at Lipinsky Auditorium.

World Affairs Council Programs Info: www.main.nc.us/wac.

• TU (12/7), 7:30-9pm - Mr. Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now and former Haaretz Daily reporter will discuss IsraeliPalestinian peace possibilities focusing on Israeli attitudes.

Held in the Manheimer Room at UNCA’s Reuter Center. $8 nonmembers.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Holiday Mix and Mingle • All Ages (21+) • Tuesday • December 14! (pd.) Single and looking for something fun? Try AVL Speed Dating! Next event starts at 6:30pm. • Location: Travinia (Biltmore Park Town Square) • To make a reservation or for more info, call (828) 242-2555 or see AVLSpeedDating.com Arise & Shine Toastmasters Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a

department or business, lead, delegate and motivate. Info: 776-5076.

• THURSDAYS, 7:30-8:30am - Meeting at the University Highsmith building at UNCA. Artistic Asheville Singles Group • WEEKLY - Meeting locations vary. For single people under 35. Info: coolspiritualartistic@gmail.com.

Financial Therapy Groups • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - Try out new ways of living and of being, supported by others with similar circumstances, for the collective wisdom of the group to enlighten all, while lightening the burden of each. $8. Info: www.financialtherapygroups.com.

Land of Sky Toastmasters Your success in business is based on how effective you are. Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate and motivate. $10/ month. Info: www.landofskytoastmasters.org.

• TUESDAYS, 7am - Meeting at the South Asheville Reuter YMCA. Scrabble Club Come play America’s favorite word game SCRABBLE. Info: 252-8154 or www.ashevillescrabble.com.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville. Also meets at Barnes & Noble on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. We have all the gear; just bring your vocabulary. No dues the first six months.

Transition Asheville Aims to bring the community together, develop practical solutions and improve the quality of life for everyone in light of peak oil, climate change and the ensuing economic tensions. Info: (423) 737-5162 or 296-0064.

• TU (12/7), 7pm - Food panel and discussion at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Less than five percent of the food consumed in WNC comes from local sources. Become informed. Info: 989-9030 or livingvision@yahoo.com.

• SA (12/11), 10am-1pm - Follow-up open space for

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weeklypicks Events are FREE unless otherwise noted. are welcome to attend the WNC Sierra Club’s Christmas Party on Wednesday, Dec. 1, wed All at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, on Charlotte St. and Edwin Place in Asheville. Festivities include a potluck dinner (bring a dish to share), a community book exchange, a nature photography showcase, an awards presentation and a coal-ash ponds update. Info: 6832176 or nc.sierraclub.org/wenoca.

The One World Holiday Gift Market, featuring crafts by local artists, fair trade Cambodian silk

thur scarves, Peruvian leather, hand-woven sweaters from Ecuador and much more, will be held on Thursday, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Friday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Highsmith Student Center, 159 Alumni Hall, on the UNCA college campus. All proceeds benefit the UNCA Women's Soccer Team and support a family. Info: www.unca.edu.

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An opening reception for the 2010 Mountain Xpress Art Contest will be held on Friday, Dec. 3, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Grove Arcade, One Page Ave, Suite 143. There will be holiday treats, live music and a glass blowing demonstration. Info: 251-1333, ext. 114.

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The Historic Johnson Farm in Hendersonville presents "Christmas at the Farm" on Saturday, Dec. 4, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy wagon rides, children's crafts, live holiday music, refreshments and more. $5 adults/$3 children/free for preschoolers. Located at 3346 Haywood Road. Info: 891-6585 or historicjohnsonfarm.org.

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The Big Crafty, a juried independent craft fair featuring more than 100 artists and crafters working in a range of media, will be held on Sunday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Art Museum in Pack Place. Plus, music by DJ Whitney Shroyer. Info: ashevilleart.org or thebigcrafty.com.

At the YWCA Wellness Open House, held on Monday, Dec. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., local health

mon practitioners offer free chair massages and an array of health screenings. The YW is located at 185 S. French Broad Ave. Info: ywcaofasheville.org.

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On Tuesday, Dec. 7, Malaprop’s Bookstore will offer a “Book Recommendations for Kids” presentation starting at 7 p.m. Find a book that will inspire a child to read. Info: 254-6734 or malaprops.com.

brainstorming and action planning at the same location.

Veterans for Peace The public is invited to the regular business meeting of the WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099. Info: 2581800 or vfpchapter099wnc. blogspot.com.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Meeting at the Phil Mechanic Studios building, mezzanine level, 109 Roberts St., Asheville.

WNC Parrothead Club • THURSDAYS (12/9 & 23), 7pm - Jimmy Buffett fan club meets at the Holiday Inn in West Asheville. Fans of music, bigger fans of giving back to WNC. Join us for charitable opportunities, fun and tunes from the Caribbean Cowboys Band. Free. Info: www.wncphc.com.

Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-23. Each week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators. Straight allies 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 LibertyOnTheRocks.org A national nonpartisan social group connecting liberty advocates.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - The Liberty on the Rocks social meets at El Chapala Restaurant off of Merrimon Ave. Info: infinitybbc@gmail. com.

Seniors & Retirees Fitness at North Asheville Community Center An exercise group welcomes new participants interested in fun exercise. Come get healthy, and it’s free, too! No discrimination against younger participants.

• MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9-9:45am - Exercise.

Walk Wise, Drive Smart Aimed at senior citizens, but open to everyone. Walks are canceled in the event of bad weather. Info: 551-6415 or www.walk-wise.org.

• TH (12/2) - Urban walk in Hendersonville.

Animals Animal Compassion Network WNC’s largest nonprofit, safe-for-life animal welfare organization. Find a new pet at ACN’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony, 803 Fairview St., Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm.

Info: 274-DOGS or www.animalcompassionnetwork.org. n Seeking additional foster families for homeless cats and dogs.

• SA (12/4), 11am-3pm - A holiday pet adoption fair will be held at Prestige Subaru, 585 Tunnel Road.

Asheville Humane Society Located at 14 Forever Friend Lane (I-26 to Brevard Road Exit). View photos of animals currently available for adoption

online. Foster homes needed.

Info: 761-2001 or www.ashevillehumane.org.

• SA (12/4), 1-4pm - Paws & Claus: Pet Photos with Santa.

A photo will be e-mailed in two business days. Donations accepted. Complimentary refreshments will be served.

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

• 1st & 4th SATURDAYS, Noon-3pm - Purchase your spay/neuter vouchers at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). $20 cats/$30 dogs.

Henderson County Animal Services Located at 828 Stoney Mountain Road in Hendersonville. Info: 6974723.

• FR (12/3), 1-4pm & SA (12/4), 10am-2pm - Santa Paws. Bring your pet and have their picture taken with

Santa. $15 for a CD of five professional images.

Transylvania Animal Alliance Group For information about T.A.A.G., or donations of time or resources, 966-3166, taagwags@citcom.net, www. taagwags.org or www.taag. petfinder.com.

• SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm Adoption Days at PETsMART on Airport Road in Arden.

View adoptable animals on the website or at www.facebook.com/TAAGwags.

Business Ready To Sell Or Buy A Restaurant In WNC? (pd.) We work exclusively with the food and beverage industry. • Contact National Restaurant Properties in Asheville: (828) 225-4801. jeffnra@bellsouth.net • www. restaurantstore.com American Business Women’s Association ABWA brings together businesswomen of diverse occupations to raise funds for local scholarships and enhance the professional and personal lives of its members. Info: www.abwaskyhy.com.

• WE (12/1), 5:30-7:30pm - Holiday meeting and tour of the gingerbread houses at the Grove Park Inn in the Blue Ridge Dining Room. RSVP: 777-2229.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 5:307:45pm - Meeting at the Flat Rock Grille, 1302 Hendersonville Road.

Networking begins at 5:30pm and the meeting/dinner begins at 6pm. $5, plus personal menu choice. RSVP: 6819688.

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.

• SA (12/4), 10-11am - HomeBase Orientation Class: A structured program providing financial counseling andrental education.

• MONDAYS (12/6 through 12/20), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money.” The basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies, and tracking spending. Free.

• TU (12/7), 5:30-7pm - “Don’t Shop Until You Drop.” Learn ways to enrich the holidays, make lasting memories, enjoy family fun, create meaningful traditions, and celebrate the spirit of the

season without ruining your finances. Free.

• TH (12/9), 5:30-7:30pm Debt Relief 101: Credit, Debts and Rights. Held at Pisgah Legal Offices, 62 Charlotte St.

Technology DisAbility Partners Located at 108 New Leicester Hwy., Asheville. Info: 2981977, www.westernalliance. org or www.disabilitypartners. org.

• MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 8:30am-5pm - Give your computer a second life by donating it to Western Alliance to benefit people with disabilities. Donations are tax deductible.

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

• MONDAYS, 12:15-12:45pm - Mac OSX. • TUESDAYS, 12:1512:45pm - iPhoto class.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:1512:45pm - iTunes.

• THURSDAYS, 12:1512:45pm - iMovie.

Macintosh Asheville Computer Society • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - MACS user group meets.

Visitors welcome. Info: 6650638 or http://web.me.com/ macsnc. Check website for bad weather cancellation.

Health Programs A Message of Hope With Author Alice McCall (pd.) Free Talk: Saturday, December 4, 1:30pm, Crystal Visions, 5426 Asheville Highway • Learn how serious health issues, like cancer, can be healed naturally. (828) 692-5423. www.healingpath. info Lift Your Mood! • Women’s Circle (pd.) Begins December 6 with Marsha Rand at Maitri Center for Women. Based on a mind, body, spirit approach, this program explores the role of nutrition, exercise, attitude, beliefs, social support, mindfulness to reduce stress. Create your individualized approach to help move through the “dark night of the soul”, lift mild to moderate depression, decrease anxiety.Meets each Monday for 12 weeks from 7-8pm.

Required pre-registration ends December 2. Fee of $240.

Flexible payments available.

Acupuncture provided by Living Points Community Acupuncture Clinic available for additional fee. Call Marsha for details: 772-5315. www.

MaitriCenterforWomen.org

Women Recovering From Alcohol And Drug Addiction (pd.) Move beyond Shame to develop a secure relationship with self. Compassionfocused therapy. Also offering help for your spouse, partner and other loved ones.

Individual therapy. Ongoing groups. Reasonable fees.

Some insurances accepted.

Call 231-2107 or email empowering.solutions@ yahoo.com ADD/ADHD and Meditation: Introduction Scientific findings from medical journals on the applications of the Transcendental Meditation technique for treatment of ADHD and other learning disorders.

Discussion, video and Q&A. Free. Info: www.adhd-tm.org.

• WEEKLY - Meets at the Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Info: 254-4350.

Art of Intimacy Learn life-changing communication and relationship skills, drawing from the work of Marshal Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication), Brad Blanton (Radical Honesty), Susan Campbell (Getting Real), John Bradshaw (Homecoming) and others. $60/4-session class.

Info: 254-5613 or www. theREALcenter.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meeting.

C.L.O.S.E.R.R. Community Liaison Organization for Support, Education, Reform and Referral. The group offers support, networking, education, entertainment and fellowship for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Straight and their Allies.

• TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets in the social room at All Souls Episcopal in Asheville.

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 692-4600.

• TH (12/2), 3-4:30pm “Balance and Fall Prevention,” with Chloe Roderick, a Pardee licensed physical therapist.

•FR (12/3), 8:30am-1pm - American Red Cross Blood Drive. Call to make an appointment.

• MO (12/6), 10am-Noon - “Look Good, Feel Better.”

Open to female cancer patients to help overcome the appearance-related side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Free cosmetics —- 12:30-4:30pm AARP Safe Driving Class. $14 nonmembers/$12 members.

• TU (12/7), 8:30am Henderson County Mayor’s Advocacy Council for People With Disabilities welcomes new members who are willing to attend monthly meetings —- 12:30-1:30pm American Red Cross presents “CPR Made Simple.” Register: 693-5605 —- 6:30-7:30pm - Centering Menopause Group, by Dr. Kelly Wolfe, a clinical sexologist with Mountain Sexology. Held at Pardee Center for Women’s Health, 512 Sixth Ave. W., in Hendersonville. Register: 1(866)-790-WELL. • TH (12/9), 3-4:40pm - Jason Morgan, a physical therapist, will discuss the causes of shoulder pain

and the range of treatments available.

Free Blood Pressure Clinic • TUESDAYS, 1-6pm - The Faith Community Nurse at SOS Anglican Mission will offer free blood pressure checks at 370 N. Louisiana Ave, Suite C1. Info: rchovey@sos.spc-asheville.org.

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.

• WE (12/1), 12:30-9pm Mud Creek Baptist Church, 403 Rutledge Road. Info: 692-1262.

• FR (12/3), 8:30am-1pm - Pardee Health Educational Center, 1800 4 Seasons Boulevard. Info: 679-4164.

• TH (12/9), 10am-3pm - City of Hendersonville Water & Sewer, 305 Williams St. Info: 697-3073, Macrobiotic Healing Lecture • WE (12/1), 7:30pm - Lino Stanchich, L.M.B.T. and senior macrobiotic educator, will present “Secrets of Living a Well Balanced Life,” about the practical and proven methods to do daily to improve one’s health.

Sponsored by the Asheville Macrobiotic Alliance. At Lighten Up Yoga, 60 Biltmore Ave. $10 at the door. Info: 299-8657.

Park Ridge Hospital Park Ridge Hospital is located in Fletcher and hosts a num-

ber 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: 6873947 or www.parkridgehospital.org.

• TH (12/9), 1pm - Jeremy Pettit, P.A.-C, Park Ridge Wellness director, will offer a free presentation on the importance of Vitamin D to overall health, and will offer options for improving your Vitamin D intake. At Park Ridge Health Duke Room.

Polk County Chapter of the American Red Cross Located at 231 Ward St. Info: 894-2700 or www.redcrosswnc.org.

• MO (12/6) - Infant Child CPR. This course covers infant (newborn-1 year old) and child (between ages 1-12) rescue techniques in choking, rescue breathing and CPR. $40.

• WE (12/8) - Adult CPR. This course covers rescue techniques in choking, rescue breathing and CPR for adult victims. $35.

Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/First Aid for infants, children, and adults; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid; Bloodborne Pathogens; Swimming & Water Safety; and Lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Rd. To register, call 258-3888, ext. 221.

Info: www.redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below.

Appointment and ID required.

• TH (12/2), 11am-3:30pm Chili’s Grill & Bar, 253 Tunnel Road. Info: 252-4999 —-

1:30-4pm - Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, 117 Montreat Road. Info: 6692725 —- 7:30am-4pm - Charles George VA Medical Hospital, 1100 Tunnel Road.

Info: 298-7911, ext. 4248.

• MO (12/6), 1:30-6pm - Kmart, 1830 Hendersonville Road. Info: 274-3411.

• TH (12/9), 2-6pm - Francis Asbury United Methodist Church, 725 Asbury Road, Candler. Info: 667-3950.

YWCA Wellness Open House • MO (12/6), 4-7pm - Local health practitioners will be present. Free chair massages, health screenings, giveaways and more. Also, the YW will waive the joining fee for anyone who signs up for Club W: The YWCA Health & Fitness, at 185 S. French Broad Ave. Info: www.ywcaofasheville. org.

Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes.Info:http://adultchildren.org.

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

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville.

Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

• MONDAYS, 7pm “Generations” meets at First Congregational United Church Of Christ,

20 Oak St. at College, Asheville.Info:474-5120.

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

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Newcomers meeting 7:30pm, Discussion meeting 8-9pm: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Enter through parking lot door. Info: 225-0515.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - AlAnon in West Asheville: Meeting at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Rd., across from Ingles. Newcomers meeting at 7:30pm. Info: 258-4799.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting for parents of children with addictions: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Info: 242-6197.

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of AlAnon 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: 6868131.

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

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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, 7pm - Black Mountain Al-Anon: Meeting at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 201 Blue Ridge Road (corner of Blue Ridge Road and Hwy. 9). Info: 669-0274.

• MONDAYS, 12-1pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 6868131.

• TUESDAYS, 5:30pm - 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Study at Kennilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road.

• TUESDAYS, 7pm Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Bipolar and Depression Support Group • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Magnetic Minds meets at 314-F Patton Ave., in the Parkwood Business Park.

Peer support, empowerment, recovery and advocacy. Info: 318-9179.

Cancer Support Group for Caregivers • MONDAYS, 11am-Noon - Meetings at Jubilee, 46 Wall St., Asheville. Emotional support for family members of people experiencing cancer.

Facilitated by Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Love offering.

Info: 299-0394.

Cancer Support Group for Women • MONDAYS, 1:30-3pm - Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church. Emotional support for women experiencing cancer. Facilitated by licensed clinical social worker.

Info: 299-0394.

Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• MONDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm Meetings at First Presbyterian Church annex building, 40 Church St., Asheville.

Eating Disorders Individuals are welcome to come to one or all of the support group. Info: 337-4685 or www.thecenternc.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at

T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Focus is on positive peer support, coping skills and recovery tools. Led by licensed professionals. Free.

Journaling Group • THURSDAYS - Want to better know yourself? The single most essential instrument for nurturing your spirit is a personal journal. Sharing a journal with others can help clarify your thoughts, your emotions, and your reactions to certain people or situations.

Info: 989-9811.

MemoryCaregivers Network Support for caregivers of loved ones who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Info: 645-9189 or 771-2219.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 12:30-2pm - Meeting at Fletcher Calvary Episcopal Church.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 12:302pm - Meeting at New Hope Presbyterian Church.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety disorders.

Free connection recovery support groups. Info: 505-7353.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 10am Group meets at 356 Biltmore Ave., Suite 400.

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

Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@ sos.spc-asheville.org or 575-2003.

• MONDAYS, 6:30PM - A support group for men will meet.

Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless noted.

• THURSDAYS, Noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Rd. (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899.

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am Black Mountain: Carver Parks & Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery mtg. Info: 686-8131.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Meth. Church, 2567 Asheville Hwy. (Hwy. 25).

Open mtg. Info: 1-800-5804761.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Open mtg. Info: 277-8185.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-Noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Open BBSS mtg. Info: 280-2213.

S-Anon For those affected by someone else’s sexual behavior.

Info: 545-4287 or 606-6803.

• WEEKLY - Three meetings are available per week.

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/.

• DAILY - Asheville meetings.

Womenheart of Asheville • WEDNESDAYS (alternating), 10am-Noon or 6-8pm - This support group for women with heart disease meets at Parkway Behavioral Health, 31 College Place. Info: Rickitannen@gmail.com or 505-2534.

Sports Groups & Activities Filipino Martial Arts Kuntao: Traditional emptyhand system of self defense.

Kali: Filipino method of stick-and-knife combat. First two lessons are free. Info: 777-8225 or http://kuntao. webs.com.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7pm - Classes at Asheville Culture Project, 257 Short Coxe Ave.

Kids At The Health Adventure Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm & 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.

• THURSDAYS, 10:3011:30am - Preschool Play Date. Interactive fun just for preschoolers led by museum facilitators. Free with admission.

• SATURDAYS, Noon-2pm Experiment with science during Super Science Saturdays.

Featuring hands-on activities led by museum facilitators, the programs are fun for all ages. Free with admission.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 4-5pm - Origami Folding Frenzy.

From simple designs to

complex creations, join us to learn about the Japanese art of paper-folding. Included with museum admission.

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

• SA (12/4), 10am Gingerbread Party. Children are invited to come make crafts, play games and listen to stories about gingerbread.

Free.

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

• THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:45pm - New singers are invited to join the chorus. Rehearsals at First Congregational Church, downtown Asheville.

Chimney Rock State Park Open daily, weather permitting. For additional info, including admission rates: www.chimneyrockpark.com.

• WE (12/8), 10am-1:30pm Winter Homeschool Program. $12 students/$11.50 parents.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Fri., 10am-5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 6978333 or www.handsonwnc. org.

• FR (12/3), 10:30am “Music and Movement,” with Jenny Arch. Free for members —- 3:30-5pm - Make a cornhusk doll and learn all about Christmas crafts of the past.

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

• TU (12/7), 10am - Wee Naturalists: “Go Nuts for Squirrels.” Nature-based activities for ages 2-5. $6.

Super Saturday • SATURDAYS - Classes in the arts, sciences, foreign languages and more at UNCA. For students grades 3-8.

New classes for parents in basketry and gentle yoga.

Registration and information: 251-6558 or cesap.unca.edu/ super-saturday-program.

Spirituality Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment.

Guided meditations follow the Insight/Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind.

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added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited. • By donation. • Tuesdays, 7pm8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks.

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

Chanukah Live 2010 • WE (12/1), 5:30-7:30pm - Mayor Bellamy will light the Menorah at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Asheville.

Enjoy a gourmet Kosher buffet, open wine bar, walk-in Dreidel House, latkes, donuts, bounce houses, boutiques, dancing, singing, a Chanukah choir, crafts and more. $5/person or $18/family. Info: www.ChabadAsheville.com.

Empowered Woman Workshop (pd.) Sunday, December 5th, Denna Shelton presents The Empowered Woman Workshop, 2-5 pm. Create new tools for your spiritual tool belt using color, movement, positive affirmation and other methods. You will allow your higher self to soar! $45.00. Beautifully illustrated handout provided.

Light refreshment provided.

See samples of her inspiring videos at Twentygems. com. Pre-register by Dec. 3, please! Gathering Place in the Dogwoods, 828-208-3169.

New Year’s Eve with Richard Shulman (pd.) Friday, December 31st Richard Shulman hosts a catered New Year’s Eve meditational gathering you won’t want to miss! A combination of transcendent experience and celestial sounds, Richard Shulman’s music creates a resonance field to connect with the Higher Self. Expect an evening of musical beauty and an opportunity to create abundance in the new year!

Dinner at 7 pm Program starts at 8:30 until midnight.

Tickets are $40. each or $70. per couple. Space is limited, call today to register before the December 15th deadline!

Gathering Place in the Dogwoods. 828-2083169.

First Shabbat of the Month at The Chabad House Jewish Asheville and WNC Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life, located at

660 Merrimon Ave. Info: 505-0746 or www.chabadasheville.org.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 9:30am1:15pm - First Shabbat of the Month at The Chabad House.

Services, English-Hebrew prayers, sermons and stories, and timeless melodies.

Educational and fun children’s program from 11am-noon.

Followed by a Kiddush luncheon. All are welcome.

Membership and affiliation not required.

A Course in Miracles • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - A truly loving group of people studying A Course in Miracles meets at Groce United Methodist Church on Tunnel Road. The group is open to all. Info: 712-5472.

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, 684-7359 or 299-9382.

• THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Sitting and walking meditation, followed by sharing by sangha members.

An Evening With Spirit • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - You are invited to an evening with Spirit. Theo Salvucci channels messages from the angelic realm at The White Horse, 105c Montreat Road, Black Mountain. Donations only.

Info: 713-2439.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation/ Free Introductory Lectures Your brain needs this: Scientists know TM creates brainwave coherence. Only an orderly brain can support higher consciousness. TM is easy to learn—enjoyable to practice. Dissolves deeprooted stress, reduces anxiety and depression. Verified by 600 scientific studies.

Info: 254-4350 or www.

MeditationAsheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 2pm - Meeting at Maharishi Enlightenment Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Learn how to directly access the field of infinite creativity, intelligence and bliss within you, revitalizing mind and body and creating peace in collective consciousness.

Topics: Meditation and brain research; How meditation techniques compare; Meditation for social change; “What science says” and What is “transcending”? Free.

Please RSVP.

Asheville Fortune Teller’s Guild • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Meeting.

The guild encourages honesty and responsibility as well as maintaining a high standard for readings. Tarot readers, astrologers, palmists and any other non-mediums or non-psychics are welcome.

Location info: 777-9368.

Asheville Jewish Meditation and Chanting Circle • Alternate SUNDAYS, 1:15-3:15pm - Following the Awakened Heart Project’s (www.awakenedheartproject. org) approach to Jewish meditation, learn to cultivate an awareness of the Divine Presence. Gather at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave., Asheville.

Asheville Meditation Center Classes are held at the Greenlife Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: 5052300 or www.meditateasheville.org.

• MONDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Meditation for Inner Peace class. Donations accepted.

Avatar Meher Baba “I have come not to teach but to awaken.” Info: 274-0307 or 274-7154.

• SUNDAYS, 4pm - Meetings occur most Sundays in Asheville. Share Meher Baba’s inspiring message of divine love and unity in the midst of diversity. Call for locations.

Baha’i Faith Everyone is welcome. Join us in our celebration of diversity: “The earth is one country and mankind its citizens,” Baha’u’llah. The Baha’i Center is located at 5 Ravenscroft Drive, Asheville. Info: 2511051 or www.wncbahai.org.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Sunday Devotional.

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.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Community gathering for seated and walking meditation, sutra study and discussion.

• THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Wild Mind, a creative writing and art workshop. Bring a journal. $25 suggested donation.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - ElevenEleven-Eleven, a step study group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Mindfully Trim, free spiritual weight-loss support group.

Community Worship Service With Fellowship Meal

• SUNDAYS, 2-4pm - Join SOS Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Asheville, for a worship service, followed by an Agape Fellowship meal.

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.

Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St., Asheville. Info: www.ctacenter.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - “Sound Immersion,” with River Guerguerian and John Vorus.

Info: www.ShareTheDrum. com. $15.

Edgar Cayce Study Group • TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Meet at West Asheville Unity Church, 130 Shelburne Road.

Info: 298-8494 or jasonference@bellsouth.net.

Great Tree Zen Temple Daily, weekly and monthly retreats and zazen practice and study. Info: www.greattreetemple.org or 645-2085.

• WE (12/1) through (12/8) - Rohatsu (Buddha’s Enlightenment) Sesshin.

• Year-round schedule, weekly study and meditation.

Insight Meditation Group • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - People of all experience levels are welcome to join this drop-in meditation group.

Meditation instructions will be given to those who are new to the practice. $5. Info: http://bit.ly/9XujJ6.

Land of the Sky United Church of Christ Located at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 15 Overbrook Place, in East Asheville.

• TH (12/2), 5:30-7pm - “Unplug the Christmas machine.” Part of Advent Conspiracy Series: Taking Back the Season. Land of the Sky UCC hosts a series for all wanting to spend less, give more, and rekindle joy this Christmas.

• WE (12/8), 5:30-7pm - “The Story of Stuff.” Part of Advent Conspiracy Series: Taking Back the Season. Land of the Sky United Church of Christ hosts a series for all wanting to spend less, give more, and rekindle joy this Christmas.

Meditation Group • SUNDAYS, 8-9pm - Meditation followed by tea ceremony. By donation.

“Yoga without meditation is like driving a car with no steering wheel.” Deepen your asana practice by cultivating mindfulness through meditation. Donations optional. Info: info@yogasouth-asheville. com.

Mindfulness Meditation Class Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 2583241 or www.billwalz.com.

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

Mindfulness Skills • 1st TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - The group’s monthly meeting will be held at Saluda Counseling Services, 31 Pearson Falls Road. Free.

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

• SUNDAYS, 10am - Drum Circle —- 10:30am - Weekly devotional service at the Temple. A simple service to ground and center you for the week. Spend some quiet time with the Goddess, with song, readings, meditation and prayer. At 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 2.

• MONDAYS - Book discussion group, facilitated by Antiga, on the book The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lemer. Info: 285-9927.

Psychic Development Class • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Learn to use your intuition to help yourself and others. Explore remote viewing, channeling, mediumship, telepathy, precognition and healing in a relaxed and fun-filled atmosphere. All are welcome. Love donations accepted. Info: 828-255-8304 or ecastro1@charter.net.

Reiki Tummo Healing Clinic • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS - Heart-centered Reiki Tummo healing sessions offered by donation. Contact 776-6200 or eschmelt@charter.net to make appointment and indicate preference of 9:45, 10:30 or 11:15am slot. Info: www.wncheart.com/healingclinic.html.

Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Meditation Group Receive initiation into Sri Swamiji’s one-hour meditation technique. One-hour of silent meditation followed by

Bhajans (devotional singing).

Fairview location directions: 299-3246. Info: www.shivabalamahayogi.com.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm “Silent Meditation.” Free.

St. Germain Aquarian Consciousness Fellowship Sacred spaceusing the St. Germain Violet Flameto support ascension clearingis created with live high-frequency intuitive piano music from classical composers and includesthe Atomic Accelerator Chair and Water into Golden Elixir ceremonies.

Info: 658-3362.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6:309:30pm - Meditation and potluck in the Weaverville area.

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Located at 10 N. Liberty St., Asheville. Info: 273-5420 or http://stmarkslutheran.net/thisMonth.pdf.

• SUNDAYS, 5pm Crosswired “come as you are” service in the Fellowship Hall. Infant care and church school for youngsters is offered during the service.

The Essence of Tantra • MO (12/6), 7-9pm - A free introductory presentation covering the “history and types of tantra, tantric breathing practices, tantric meditations, bio-energy techniques and a Q&A session. Held at the Sacred Embodiment Center, 31 Carolina Lane. Bring a pillow. Info: 254-6620.

The Flame Within • SUNDAYS, 6:30pm - A “ministry to the metal underground” meets at St. Paul’s Church, 32 Roscraggen, Arden. Enjoy music, worship and teachings. All who come in good will are welcome.

Look for “Flame Within Ministry” on Facebook for details.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville Located at the corner of Charlotte St. & Edwin Pl. Info: 254-6001 or www.uuasheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:15am & 11:15am - Services.

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

Spiritual conversation and sharing, music, meditation, coffee and pastry. Info: 6450514, 676-6070 or unitycafe. org.

• 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 Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River.

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes it would be dangerous to get in touch with extraterrestrial creatures. “If aliens visit us,” he says, “the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” Those who’ve studied the teeming evidence for UFOs would say that Hawking’s warning is too late. Some mysterious non-human intelligence has been here for a long time, and the fact that we are still around proves they’re no Spanish conquistadors. Aside from that, though, let’s marvel at the stupidity of Hawking’s lame advice. As any mildly wise person knows, exploring the unknown is not only an aid to our mental and spiritual health — it’s a prerequisite. That’ll be especially true for you Aries in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

“At times, although one is perfectly in the right, one’s legs tremble,” wrote philosopher V.V. Rozanov. “At other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one’s soul.”

That may have been the case for you last month, Taurus, but these days it’s the exact reverse. If your knees are wobbly, you’re off-center, missing the mark, or far from the heart of the matter.

If, on the other, birds are singing in your soul, it’s because you’re united with the beautiful truth. There are a couple of caveats, though: The beautiful truth won’t be simple and bright; it’ll be dense, convoluted, and kaleidoscopic. And the birds’ songs will sound more like a philharmonic orchestra pounding out Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony than a single flute playing a quaint folk song.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Are there any actors who have impersonated as many different types of characters as Gemini chameleon Johnny Depp? From rogue agent to chocolatier, from psychotic barber to astronaut, he is a model of inconsistency — a master of not imitating himself. (To glimpse 24 of his various personas, go here: http://bit.ly/GeminiActor.)

According to my reading of the omens, you now have a poetic license to follow his lead. There have been few times in the last two years when you’ve had this much freedom and permission to be so multiple, mercurial, and mutant.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

A tattoo now adorns the neck of pop star Rihanna. It says “rebelle fleur,” which is a French phrase meaning “rebel flower.” The grammar police protested her new body art. They wished she would have rendered it correctly — as “fleur rebelle” — since in French, adjectives are supposed to follow, not precede, the nouns they refer to. But I’m guessing Rihanna knew that.

In reversing the order, she was double-asserting her right to commit breezy acts of insurrection.

Let’s make “rebelle fleur” your keynote in the coming days, Cancerian. Break taboos, buck tradition, and overthrow conventional wisdom

— always with blithe grace and jaunty charm.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Research by German psychologists suggests that positive superstitions may be helpful. Reporting in the journal Psychological Science, they discovered that people who think they are in possession of good luck charms outperform people who don’t. “Superstition-induced confidence” seems to act in ways akin to how placebos work to heal sick people: It can provide a mysterious boost. (More here: tinyurl.com/LuckCharm.)

Just for the fun of it, Leo — and in accordance with the astrological omens — put this finding to the test. Get yourself a magical object that stimulates your power to achieve success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Psychologist Carl Jung said that we are all connected to each other via the collective unconscious. Your psyche and my psyche have taproots that sink deep into the memories and capacities of the entire human race. According to my reading of the omens, your taproots are now functioning more vigorously than they have in a long time. You’re in more intimate contact than usual with the primal pool of possibilities. And what good is that, you may ask? Well, it means you have the power to draw on mojo that transcends your personal abilities. Could you make use of some liquid lightning, ambrosial dreams, or healing balm from the beginning of time?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

If you want to get a gallon of milk directly from the source, you have to squeeze a cow’s udder over 300 times. I recommend you use that as a metaphor for your task in the days to come. It’s going to take a lot of squirts or tugs or tweaks to get the totality of what you want. Be patient and precise as you fill your cup little by little. There’s no way you can hurry the process by skipping some steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,” says the Bible. That doesn’t mean what most people think it does. The word translated as “meek” is the Greek word praus, which in ancient times didn’t mean “weak-willed, passive, mild.” Rather, it referred to great power that was under rigorous control. For example, soldiers’ warhorses were considered praus. They heeded the commands of their riders, but were fierce warriors that fought with tireless fervor. In this spirit, Scorpio, I’m predicting you’re about to get very “meek”: offering your tremendous force of will and intelligence in disciplined service to a noble cause. (Thanks to Merlin Hawk for the info I used in this ‘scope.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a book called Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. I’d love it if in the next few weeks you would think a lot about how you are on your way to becoming what you were born to be. Current astrological omens suggest you will have special

insight into that theme. For inspiration, you might want to borrow some of Nietzsche’s chapter titles, including the following: “Why I Am So Wise,” “Why I Am So Clever,” and “Why I Am a Destiny.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

During some of her concerts, Capricorn singer Hayley Williams (lead vocalist of Paramore) has worn a tank top that bears the phrase “Brand New Eyes.” I encourage you to consider making that your own guiding principle for a while. By pointedly declaring your intention to view the world with refreshed vision, you will be able to tune in to sights that have been invisible to you.

You will discover secrets hidden in plain view and maybe even carve out a window where before there had been a thick, blank wall.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Much of my recent book, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, is rated PG. Some is R. But there’s one story that’s X. Not in the same way that porn is. While it’s uninhibited in its rendering of ecstatic eroticism, it’s a feminist meditation on spiritual intimacy, not a heap of vulgar stereotypes. Still, when the book came out, I couldn’t bear the thought of sending copies to certain relatives of mine who are a bit prudish. So I came to an honorable compromise: Using a razor blade, I sliced out the nine pages in question and gave my loved ones the mostly-intact remainder. May I suggest you consider a comparable editing of your efforts, Aquarius? Your main object right now is to win friends and influence people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

In the waters off the southwest coast of Africa, the small fish known as the bearded goby has always been preyed upon by jellyfish — until recently. Now this formerly mild-mannered species, whose diet used to consist of phytoplankton, has overthrown the ancient status quo: It is feasting on the jellyfish that once feasted on it. Scientists aren’t sure why. I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your life, Pisces. How it will play out exactly, I’m not sure.

Maybe you’ll gain an advantage over someone or something that has always had an advantage over you. Maybe you will become the topdog in a place where you’ve been the underdog.

Or maybe you’ll begin drawing energy from a source that has in the past sucked your energy.

homework What if you didn’t feel compelled to have an opinion about every hot-button issue? Try living opinion-free for a week. Report results by going to Freewillastrology.com and clicking “Email Rob.” © Copyright 2010 Rob Brezsny

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

• WE (12/8), 7pm - Deeksha /Oneness Blessing is “a gift of divine grace to reconnect or deepen our connection with the divine within.”

Windhorse Zen Community Meditation, Dharma talks, private instruction available Tuesday and Thursday evenings, residential training.

Teachers: Lawson Sachter and Sunya Kjolhede. Main center: 580 Panther Branch, Alexander. City center: 12 Von Ruck Court. Call for orientation. Info: 645-8001 or www. windhorsezen.org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30-11am - Meditation, chanting and a Dharma talk.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Meditation and chanting.

• FRIDAYS, 5:30-7:15pm Meditation and chanting at the City Center.

Gardening Pearson Community Garden Workdays • WEDNESDAYS, 3-9pm Gather in the Pearson Garden at the end of Pearson Drive in Montford with folks and grow some food. A potluck and produce to take home often follow the work.

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 2-6:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —- 3-6pm - Victory Tailgate Market, in the parking lot adjacent to ABCCM Veterans Restoration Quarters on Tunnel Road, Asheville —- 2:30-6:30pm Weaverville Tailgate Market, on the hill overlooking Lake Louise —- 3-7pm - Market on South Main, in the parking lot between Good Stuff and the Marshall Presbyterian Church —- 2-5:30pm - Spruce Pine Farmers Market, on Pollyanna’s Porch on Upper Street.

• WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market, located in Waynesville at the HART Theater and Shelton House parking lot on Pigeon Street —- 8am-Noon - Waynesville Tailgate Market, at the American Legion, just off S. Main Street —- WE, noon-5pm & SA, 8am-1pm - Cashiers Tailgate Market,

in the parking lot of Cashiers Community Center.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance to the Mission Hospital Heart Center on Memorial Campus —- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, located in the parking area behind the Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock —- 4-6:30pm - Tryon Tailgate Market, on Trade Street —- 4:30-7pm - Black Mountain Farmers Market, corner of S. Ridgeway and Sutton in Black Mountain.

• FRIDAYS, 4-6:30pm - Saluda Tailgate Market, Westend city municipal parking.

• SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. —- 9am-Noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the old Barnardsville fire station on Hwy. 197 —- 9am-Noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road —- 8am-Noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, on the campus of UNCA, commuter lot #C —- 9am-Noon - Riceville Tailgate Market, adjacent to the parking area of the Riceville Community Center —- 7am-Noon - Henderson County Tailgate Market, 100 N. King St., Hendersonville —- 9am-Noon - Mills River Farm Market, directly off of NC 280 in the Mills River Commons Shopping Center —- 9am-Noon - Jackson County Farmers Market, in the municipal parking lot next to Bridge Park —- 9am-1pm - Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, across from the football fields on the Mars Hill College campus —- 8am-Noon - Bakersville Farmers Market, in the Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot —- 8-11:30am - Columbus Tailgate Market, Courthouse Street in front of the Polk County Courthouse —8:30am-12:30pm - Yancey County Farmers Market, Highway 19E at S. Main Street, Burnsville.

• SUNDAYS, 9am-2pm - Greenlife Sunday Market, 70 Merrimon Ave., Asheville —- Noon-4pm - Sundays on the Island, cross the river at the Courthouse on Main St. in downtown Marshall and turn right onto the island.

• MONDAYS, 3-6pm Hendersonville Community Co-op Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the Hendersonville Community Co-op.

• TUESDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate

Market, 718 Haywood Road —- 5-7pm - Green Creek Tailgate Market, on Rte. 9 in Green Creek, Columbus.

• TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-2pm Hendersonville County Curb Market, on Church Street, directly across from the old courthouse in Hendersonville —- TU, 3-6pm & TH & SA, 8am-1pm - Transylvania Tailgate Market, in the parking lot behind the corner of Jordan and Johnson Streets.

• TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 7am-Noon - Canton Tailgate Market, in the muncipal parking lot on Park Street.

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

• Through SA (1/8) Paintings and drawings by select staff and students of The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas and Reflections, a solo exhibition by Lori Gene, will be on display.

• SA (12/4), 6-8pm - An opening reception for an exhibition featuring the work of nine members of the The Western North Carolina Plein Air Painters (WNCPAP) will be held.

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

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

• Through TU (12/7) Spencer Herr Continued in the Oui-Oui Gallery.

• Through SU (12/26) - Painter Cheri Bracket in Full Circle.

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

• WE (12/1) through FR (12/17) - Transformation through Displacement, oil paintings, mixed-media and drawing by UNCA senior Emily O’Brien, will be on display at Blowers Gallery, Ramsey Library.

• FR (12/3) through TH (12/16) - Figurative Reflections, an exhibition wood-fired ceramic pots by UNCA student Katie Scully, will be on display in the Highsmith University Union Gallery.

Art League of Henderson County The ALHC meets and shows exhibits at the Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville

Hwy. (25N) in downtown Hendersonville. For viewing hours: 692-0575. Info: 6987868 or www.artleague.net.

• Through FR (1/7) - 2010 All Member Art Show at the Opportunity House.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 14pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville.

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

• FR (12/3) through FR (12/24) - Through A Lens: Carolina Images, an exhibition of photography, will be presented at First Citizens Bank, 539 North Main St., Hendersonville.

• FR (12/3), 5:30-8pm - Public reception and awards presentation for Through a Lens at First Citizens Bank.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• FR (10/15) through SU (3/13) - The Director’s Cut: 1995-2010.

• Through SU (12/5) - Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits in the Appleby Foundation Gallery.

• Through SU (12/5) - Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest.

Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village, next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Open Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm, and Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: 7680246 or www.bellavistaart. com.

• WE (12/1) through FR (12/31) - Feature wall artist Skip Rohde, Etchings & Dry Points of Asheville Area. New paintings: August Hoerr.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway, and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs.

Info: 350-8484, bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege.org.

• Through SA (2/5) Paintings by Don Alter and W.P. “Pete” Jennerjahn.

Blue Spiral 1 The gallery at 38 Biltmore Ave. is open Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Info: 251-0202 or www.bluespiral1.com.

• Through FR (12/31) - Milestones: Blue Ridge Parkway, an exhibition by 20 regional artists; “animal imagery earthenware” by Ron Meyers; and figurative

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ceramic sculpture by Donna Polseno.

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

• FR (12/3), 5-8pm - An opening reception for Salon 2010, a group show featuring “the finest photo-based artwork from all of our 2010 artists.”

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 (12/3) - Out of the Board Room & Into the Studio, an exhibition honoring the work of retiring Executive Director Dian Magie.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org.

• Through SA (12/4) - In the Shadow of the Volcanoes: Contemporary Art from the Mountains of Central Mexico.

• Through SA (12/4) Evidence of Things Unseen, contemporary paintings by Martha Neaves in Catwalk Community Gallery. f/32 Photography Group Info: www.f32nc.com.

• Through SA (12/4) - Pack Place will be showing new works by the f/32 Photography Group. A collection of fine art photography

by WNC photographers. Info: www.packplace.org.

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

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

• SA (12/4) through SA (1/8) - The Birds On Acid, work by Aaron Sizemore.

• SA (12/4), 7-10pm - Opening reception for The Birds on Acid.

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

Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm.

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

• Through FR (12/31) - It’s a Small, Small Work 2010, featuring artwork 12” or smaller by more than 100 artists from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in N.C. Miya Gallery

Located at 20 N. Main St., Weaverville. Info: 658-9655 or www.miyagallery.com.

• Through FR (12/31) - Art

by Simone Wilson will be on display.

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

• MO (11/29) through FR (12/17) - The December Student Show will be on display.

• MO (12/6), 4-7pm - Works from the December Student Show will be for sale.

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

Located at 236 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com.

• Through TU (12/7) - Dearly Departed, featuring the work of Beth Bond, Patty Bilbro and Alex Irvine.

Pack Place Gallery Located at 2 S. Pack Place Square. Info: 257-4500 or www.packplace.org.

• Through TH (12/2) - The WNC AIDS Project will be displaying 15 handmade panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Pack Place in commemoration of World AIDS Day, which is on Dec. 1 each year.

Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., Noon-5pm. Info: 669-5107 or www.sevensistersgallery.com.

• Through MO (3/28) - Earth and Water, oil paintings by Martha Kelley.

Toe River Arts Council The TRAC Center Gallery is at 269 Oak Ave. in Spruce Pine.

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm. 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.

• Through MO (1/3) Artistree in the Home - Winter Show in Burnsville. More than 50 WNC regional artists are showcased in a contemporary living room interior featuring handmade wood furnishings, iron wrought lamps, candlesticks, clay and glass sculptures, textile pillows, paintings and more.

• FR (12/3), 5-8pm - Tour participants will have a chance to meet with local artists at the Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, where an exhibition of work by all tour participants will be on display through Jan. 3.

• FR (12/3), Noon-4pm & SA & SU (12/4 & 5), 10am-5pm

- Toe River Studio Tour, a free self-guided tour of more than 100 studios and galleries in Burnsville, Spruce Pine, Bakersville and Little Switzerland.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.

• Through FR (12/17) Santa’s Palette Holiday Show.

Vadim Bora Gallery At 30 1/2 Battery Park Ave. Info: 254-7959 or www.vadimborastudio.com.

• FR (11/19) through FR (12/17) - Selected works

by Mountain Sculptors. This annual exhibition features 16 professional sculptors in the WNC region.

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: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs. 10am7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: 227-3591 or www.fineartmuseum.wcu. edu.

• Through FR (12/17) - Worldviews: A Year of the Collections. Highlighting selections from the permanent collection and new acquisitions to include recent gifts by regional, national and international artists.

• Through FR (12/17) - Reclaiming Cultural Ownership: Challenging Indian Stereotypes, an installation of photographs and commercial merchandise focusing on “unlearning” stereotypes and fostering Native pride by noted Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian artist Shan Goshorn.

• MO (11/29) through FR (12/3) - Oh Sweet Pestilence, featuring ceramics, drawing, painting and printmaking by WCU students.

• Through FR (12/17) Seeing Rural Appalachia, an exhibition of photographs by Mike Smith.

• Through FR (12/3) - School of Art & Design BFA Student Portfolio. A capstone exhibit featuring a variety of work by senior BFA students in the School of Art & Design.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at PULP Located underneath the Orange Peel at 101 Biltmore Ave., Asheville. Info: www. pulpasheville.com.

• TH (12/9) through MO (1/31) - Paintings by Asheville artist Brian Haynes.

• TH (12/9), 5-7pm - Artist reception for Brian Haynes.

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 MO (2/28) - Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations, an exhibition on display in the Baker Center.

Art at West Asheville Library • WE (12/1) through MO (1/31) - A multimedia exhibition by local artist Mimi Harvey will be on display at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. Info: 2504750.

Clingman Cafe Located at 242 Clingman Ave. in the River Arts District.

• FR (12/3) through FR (12/31) - Peace + Joy + Love = Art. The show will feature the work of local artists Dawn Dalto, Les Powell, Heather Tinnaro and Melissa Weiss.

• FR (12/3), 5-7pm Reception for Peace + Joy + Love = Art. Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Show • Through SU (12/19) - The Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Show, an exhibition featuring holiday-inspired art made by Xpress readers, will be on display.

•FR (12/3), 6-7pm - An opening reception for the Mountain Xpress Holiday Art Show will be held at the Grove Arcade, Suite 143, located at One Page Ave., in downtown Asheville. There will be snacks, live music and a glass-blowing demonstration.

Info: www.mountainx.com.

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

• FR (12/3), 7-10pm - Opening reception for Birdsong.

• FR (12/3) through MO (1/31) - Birdsong, new drawings, paintings and installation

by David Hale.

Vance Village • TH (12/2), 5:30-7pm - Art show opening at Vance Elementary featuring artwork by the students, including clay people, animals and vehicles, plus posters, clay tiles and more.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Looking For Something Unique To Do This Weekend? (pd.) Saturday, December 4, 10am-5pm. Come and visit with Art and Colleen as they share their magical metalsmithed jewelry creations with us. These designs will

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What: A Playback Theatre production and benefit for The Center for Diversity Education Where: Held on the UNCA campus, 1 University Heights, at the Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall.

When: Sunday, Dec. 5, 3 p.m. (All donations benefit the Center for Diversity Education’s mission and the UNCA Student Intern for Safe Schools for All. Info: diversityed.org or globalplayback.org/asheville-playback.htm) Why: At Playback Theatre’s upcoming performance titled The Gift of Giving, personal stories shared by audience members will be transformed into short, dramatic skits. Using improvisational theatre as a platform for community dialogue, the local performance troupe strives to “address social concerns while reminding the audience of their common humanity.”

All proceeds from The Gift of Giving will support the Center for Diversity Education’s mission to integrate “diversity and tolerance in the K-12 classroom,” as stated on the center’s website.

Stick around for hot cider and cookies, which will be served in the lobby of the Intercultural Center following the production.

benefitscalendar Calendar for December 1 - 9, 2010 Asheville Middle School PTO Fundraising Bazaar • SA (12/4), 8am-1pm - All proceeds from the bazaar will go to the 8th graders of Asheville Middle School who are planning a trip to Outer Banks. The bazaar will feature baked goods, a craft sale and a rummage sale. Info: 2june1990@ charter.net or 230-0596. n Parent volunteers collect community donations at the AMS gym before and after school through Dec. 3 Asheville’s Make-A-Wish Benefit Concert • TH (12/2), 6:30pm - Nashville country-music star Matt Stillwell headlines with The Sharkadelics, Contagious, Rock Academy, Ironside, Avyntra, Crocodile Smile and DJ Moto.

All proceeds benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of WNC. Held at The Orange Peel, 110 Biltmore Ave. $10. Info: www.

NCwishes.org.

Benefit Concert for David Bryan • SU (12/5), 1-8pm - At The Town Pump Tavern in Black Mountain. Performers include Taylor Martin, WSNB Paco Shipp, Parker Brooks, Dan Johnston, The Swills and many more. Plus, food and raffles. $5, plus canned good to be donated to Welcome Table of Black Mountain. Info: myspace. com/townpumptavernllc.

Blue Ridge Humane Society A nonprofit organization working to improve the lives of animals in Henderson County through adoption, collaboration and community outreach. Info: www.blueridgehumane.org or 685-7107.

• TH (12/2), 11am - “Be an Angel,” the annual holiday fashion show and luncheon, will be held at The Club, Champion Hills. Fashion models will be accompanied by dogs available for adoption. Tickets are $60 with $40 tax deductible. Info: 692-2639.

Center for Diversity Education The Center is on the UNCA campus in Highsmith Student Union. Info: jshuster@unca.edu or www.diversityed.org.

• SU (12/5), 3pm - The Gift of Giving, a Playback Theatre production and benefit for The Center for Diversity Education, will be performed. A reception will follow.

Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St., Asheville. Info: www.ctacenter.org.

• SU (12/5), 4:30-7pm - Nia Jam. Live music will be performed by Wild Bodema. Light nibbles will be served. Plus, crafts and a raffle. $10/$5 for students All proceeds go to benefit Odyssey School, Women at Risk and Celebrating Carlos Rosa.

Dinner With Dickens • SA (12/4), 6:30pm - Asheville Court No. 1, Order of the Amaranth fundraising event at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway, Asheville. Dinner and readings from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by members of the Montford Park Players. A benefit for the Diabetes Research Foundation and the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford.$25. Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/DinnerwithDickens or at the Temple. Info: 252-3924.

Door Decorating Contest on Biltmore Avenue • Through MO (12/20) - Judge the decorated doors of local businesses on Biltmore Avenue. The doors may be judged by patrons visiting the establishments and donations will be accepted in designatedpaint cans, with all proceeds benefitting Mission Children’s Hospital. Info: 254-2668.

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: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts.org.

• SA (12/11), 6:30pm - “Season’s Greetings,” the final party in the 2010 FUNd Party Series, at a home in Waynesville.

Hors d’oeuvres, dinner, wine and music. RSVP by Dec. 1.

Keowee Chamber Music Info: www.keoweechambermusic.org or 254-7123.

• SU (12/5), 4pm - Messiah, featuring the Christmas portion of Handel’s oratorio, will be performed as a benefit concert for Room at the Inn, a homeless women’s shelter, and Keowee Chamber Music. Held at First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St., downtown Asheville. $25 suggested donation.

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.

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• TH (12/9), 5pm - A food drive for MANNA, featuring live music, pizza and locally-crafted brew, will be held at Craggie Brewing Company, 197 Hilliard Ave.Admission is either $5 or 5 cans of nonperishable food. Info: craggiebrewingco.com.

One World Holiday Gift Market • TH (12/2), 10am-7pm & FR (12/3), 9am-Noon - Fairtrade products and crafts by local artists will be featured at the market. Held at the Highsmith Student Center, 159 Alumni Hall, on the UNCA college campus. There will be Cambodian silk scarves, Peruvian leather, hand-woven sweaters from Ecuador and much more. All proceeds benefit the UNCA Women’s Soccer Team and support a family. Info: www. unca.edu.

Shawls for Sharing/Pashmina Party • FR (12/3), 6:30pm - Traditions Acupuncture Foundation, a nonprofit which raises funds to provide alternative health care for the medically under served, will be hosting a pashminasshawl sale and fundraiser. Try on different shawls at the Pashmina Party and learn more about the foundation. Held at the Chinese Acupuncture Clinic, 369 Montford Ave. Info: www.traditionsacupuncturefoundation.org or 231-6222.

The Art of Hope • SU (12/5), 4:30-6:30pm - The local nonprofit Sole Hope’s will display and sell photographs from a recent trip to Zambia.

Held at The Wine Studio of Asheville, 169 Charlotte St. Proceeds benefit orphans of Zambia. Info: www.solehope. com.

Voices for Economic Justice Presents The Full Plates Project • TH (12/2), 5-9pm - The event will be held at the Flood Gallery in the River Arts District and will include an art exhibition and performance by Voices members, live music and a silent art auction, the proceeds of which will benefit Just Economics.

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Looking for a gentle way to detox over the holidays? We will have mini ionic foot bath sessions, available, starting at $15. Also, Michael from Bob’s Collective will give chair-making demonstrations with original pieces for sale.

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by John and Helen of Big Bear Artisans. Register to win 40% your next planned event. Gathering Place in the Dogwoods, 828-208-3169.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway, and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs.

Info: 350-8484, bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege.org.

• TU (12/7), 12:30pm - Fred Horowitz, author of Josef Albers: To Open Eyes/The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, will give a presentation as part of the Meet the Maker series hosted by the UNCA Craft Studies program. At UNCA, Owen Hall 237. Free.

Craft Campus at UNCA Located at 1 University Heights, Asheville. Info: 2502392 or www.unca.edu/craftcampus.

• TU (12/7), 12:30pm - Meet the Maker: A conversation with Fred Horowitz, the author of Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. Held at Owen Hall, room 237. Free.

Mountain Made Located in the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville.

Features the works of regional artisans, writers and musicians. Info: 350-0307 or mtnmade807@aol.com.

• THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm & SUNDAYS, Noon-5pm - Glass blowing demonstrations.

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: 252-5050 or www.fineartsleague.org.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Open figure drawing sessions. Four 5-minute poses and four 20-minute poses. $5.

For the Art/Craft Fairs section of the Community Calendar, please see our holiday guide.

Spoken & Written Word Attention WNC Mystery Writers WNC Mysterians critique group. For serious mystery/ suspense/thriller writers. Info:

712-5570 or wncmysterians. org.

• TH (12/2), 6pm - Meet in the lounge area at Books-AMillion, 136 S. Tunnel Road Tunnel Road.

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

• TH (12/2), 7-9pm - Music and poetry night hosted

by Chris Minick. Arrive at 6:45pm to participate.

Book Group: Navigating The Space Between Brilliance & Madness • MONDAYS (11/22 through 12/13), 5-7pm - The Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective presents “Navigating The Space Between Brilliance & Madness,” a book group meeting series at Firestorm Cafe & Books. Info: ginajanwatson@gmail.com or 575-3195.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (12/1), 3pm - Book Club: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. WV —- 5-7pm Library Knitters meet. SW. • TH (12/2), 6:30pm - Book Club: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. EA. • SA (12/4), 11am - Holiday ornament-making party for kids of all ages. LE —10am-3pm - Book Sale: Fill a box for $5. WV. • TU (12/7), 7pm - Book Club: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. EC —7pm - Book Club: Discuss assorted short stories.

WV —- 6-8pm - Knit ‘N’ Chain: A casual knitting and needlework group for all skill levels. SS. • WE (12/8), 6:30pm Library Knitters meet. BM. • TH (12/9), 4-5pm - Winter Wonderland Family Fun. Stories, songs and activities or children ages 4-8 (but all are welcome). WV.

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.

• TH (12/2), 6pm - Gwen Suesse will discuss and sign copies of her book Womansong: Balance & Harmony in a Feminine Key. • SA (12/4) - “Take Your Child To A Bookstore Day.” There will be refreshments, giveaways and storytime at 11am.

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

• SA (12/4), 7pm - Gary Carden hosts the Liar’s Bench.

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 (12/1), 7pm - Book Club: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. Hosted by Jay Jacoby.

• Th (12/2), 7pm - Book launch for Stephanie Perkin, the author of Anna and the French Kiss. French pastries will be served.

• FR (12/3), 4:30pm - Freelance Friday: Discuss the importance of emergency funds and marketing with Joe D’Agnese and Denise Kiernan.

• SA (12/4), 11am - Carrie Wagner will give a book signing —- 2pm - Ken Harmon will sign copies of his book The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir —- 4pm - Dena Harris will sign copies of his book Who Moved My Mouse?: A Self-Help Book for Cats (Who Don’t Need Any Help).

• MO (12/6), 7pm - Bridging Differences Book Club: The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Pipher. Hosted by Patti Digh.

• TU (12/7), 7pm - Book Recommendations for Kids.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

• SA (12/4), 2pm - Spitfire Youth Open Mic. Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Contest • Through WE (1/5) Submissions for the annual contest will be accepted.

Subjects may include traditional categories such as reviews, travel articles, profiles or interviews, place/ history pieces or culture criticism. Mail submissions to: P.O. Box 21591, WinstonSalem, N.C. 27120. Info: www.ncwriters.org.

Writers’ Workshop Events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers.

Info: 254-8111 or www. twwoa.org.

• Through TH (12/30) - 22nd annual Memoirs Competition.

• SA (12/4), 10am-4pm “Elements of Fiction Writing,” with Gail McAbee and Cynthia Witherspoon.

to learn how to sing barbershop harmony. Please visit a rehearsal. Info: 1-866-8249547 or www.songosky.org.

• MONDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Reed Memorial Baptist Church on Fairview Road. (enter parking lot on Cedar St.). Guests welcome.

Music

Actor’s Movement Workshop (pd.) Stella Adler Studio of Acting is holding a Williamson Technique Based Movement Workshop for Actors. The workshop focuses on developing sensory connections that create experience that the body processes into behavior.

• No experience necessary. $25. Thursday, December 9, 8-10pm, Wedge/Terpsicorp Dance Studio. www.stellaadler-asheville.com Adult and Youth (15+) Core Technique Acting Programs (pd.) The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, WNC’s only professional acting studio and an extension of Stella Adler NYC, is now accepting interviews for its Spring Adult and Youth (15+) Core Technique Acting Programs. To schedule an interview call ACT (828) 254-1320. www.stellaadlerasheville.com Absolute Theatre Company Located in the Skyland Performing Arts Center, 358 N. Main St., Hendersonville.

Info: 693-0087 or www.absolutetheatre.org.

• Through SU (12/5) - Cinderella, the musical version by Rodgers and Hammerstein, will be performed. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm & Sun., 3:30pm. $20.

Asheville Arts Center The North campus is located at 308 Merrimon Ave. The South campus is located at 10 Miller Ave. Info: 253-4000 or www.ashevilleartscenter. com.

• TH (12/2) & FR (12/3), 7pm & SA (12/4), 3pm & 7pm - Into the Woods Jr. Asheville Community Theatre All performances are at 35 East Walnut St. Info & reservations: 254-1320 or www. ashevilletheatre.org.

• TH (12/2) through SU (12/12) - A Christmas Story will be performed. Thur. and Fri., 7:30pm and Sun., 2:30pm. $22 adults/$19 seniors and students/$12 children.

Asheville Playback Theatre An improvisational theatre experience building a community of neighbors and honoring personal stories. $10/$5 students (but no one turned away). Info: www. ashevilleplayback.org.

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

• TH (12/9), 6-8pm - Celtic Music Night.

Cantaria Cantaria is a community chorus for gay and gay-supportive men who enjoy singing a wide variety of choral literature for men’s voices.

Info: 254-9264 or www.cantariaasheville.org.

• SUNDAYS, 5-7pm Rehearsals.

Haywood Community Band Concerts are presented at the Maggie Valley Pavilion, adjacent to the Maggie ValleyTown Hall, and are free to attend. Bring a picnic dinner. Info: 452-5553 or 452-7530 or www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm Rehearsals at Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. All interested concert band musicians are welcome to attend.

Hendersonville Community Band Info: 696-2118 or www.hcbmusic.com.

• SU (12/5), 3pm - The Hendersonville Community Band will perform at Blue Ridge Community College Conference Center. $10/Free for students.

Land of the Sky Chorus For men age 12 and older.

Info: www.ashevillebarbershop.com or 768-9303.

• TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Open Rehearsals at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Pl. Music on the Rock Concert Series Presented by Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy. in Flat Rock. The concerts will span Broadway, country, bluegrass, pop and rock favorites. $20/concert.

Tickets & info: 693-0731, (866) 732-8008 or www. flatrockplayhouse.org.

• MO (12/6) through WE (12/8) - “A Sacred Celtic Christmas” will be performed.

Song O’ Sky Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) The chorus is always looking for women 18+ who want

Theater

• SU (12/5), 3pm - A performance celebrating “The Human Story” will be held at the UNCA Highsmith Alumni Hall.

Brevard Little Theatre Located in the American Legion Hall, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard. Info: www.brevardlittletheatre.com. Reservations: 884-2587.

• TH (12/2) through SU (12/5) - The Christmas Carol Rag, a musical featuring ragtime tunes, will be performed.

Events at 35below This black box theater is located underneath Asheville Community Theatre at 35 E. Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org.

• SU (12/5), 2:30pm - Play Reading for Pleasure: The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville.

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

• Through TH (12/23) - Live from WVL Radio Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life will be performed at the Historic Henderson County Courthouse. Proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County. $34. On Dec. 19, ticket sales will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County.

• WE (12/1) through TH (12/23) - A Christmas Carol, adapted by Christopher Schario and based on the story by Charles Dickens.

Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $40.

Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.Sun. at 7:30 p.m. at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain.

Donations accepted. Info: 254-5146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org.

• THURSDAYS (12/9) through SUNDAYS (12/19) - The 34th annual presentation of A Christmas Carol will be performed at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. Shows being at 7:30pm with matinees at 2:30pm on Saturday, Dec. 11 & 18 and on Sunday, Dec. 19. $12/$10 students and seniors/$6 children.

Thursday, Dec. 9 & 16 is “pay-what-we’re-worth night.”

Dance Learn Beyonce’s Single Ladies Dance! (pd.)Find your inner Beyonce learning her phenomenally fun, sexy, and athletic dance

in this 7 class series! Starts Dec. 6th at 6 PM at the French Broad Food Coop studio, 90 Biltmore Ave. Class time: 6-7 PM Class price: $5-$8 per class. Contact Kathleen at idodances@ gmail.com 7pm Wednesdays* • InterPlay Asheville (pd.) Play with us, and tap into body wisdom, with movement, reflection, voice, and 1 minute stories. It’s easy and Fun, plus, you can’t do it wrong! (Really!) $5-15. • At Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, 28804, near UNCA, across from Ivy Street. (* Except the first Wednesday.) www.interplayasheville.org Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre Performances are held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St., Asheville. Info & tickets: 254-2621.

• FR (12/3) & SA (12/4), 7:30pm - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, a contemporary dance and theatrical ballet based on the original story from 1816, will be performed. $25/$20 children, students and seniors.

Asheville International Folk Dancers • TUESDAYS, 7-9:30pm - At Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road, Asheville.

No partner, no cost. A variety of dances are performed from all over the world, but mainly line dances from Eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans.

Asheville International Folk Dancers • TUESDAYS, 7-9:30pm - Learn a variety of dances from all over the world, but

mainly line-dances from across Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Meet at the Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. No partner needed. Free. Info: 645-1543 or mmgoodman@frontier. com.

Asheville Movement Collective AMC hosts weekly dancewaves for personal and community transformation.

First wave is free. Info: www.

DanceAMC.org.

• FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Meet at the Terpsicorps Studio of Dance, above The Wedge in the River Arts District. $5.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30-10:30 am & 10:30am-12:30pm - Meet at Studio 11, 11 Richland St. in West Asheville. $5.

English Country Dance Dance to live music with a caller. This style of dance may be seen in movie adaptations of Jane Austen novels. $6/$5 for Old Farmers Ball members. Info: 230-8449.

• 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 3-5:30pm - Dance at the Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. Wear comfortable clothes and soft sole shoes.

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 694-1406 or 681-1731.

• SA (12/4), 7:30pm - The “Holiday Sweets Dance” will be held at the Whitmire Activity Building on Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. An advanced dance begins at 6pm. Early rounds being at 7pm.

Auditions & Call to Artists

of Camelot. Info: 658-9604 or RichHeartMusic@frontier. com.

Art Carving Festival Contest (pd.) Local artists of every background needed for area festival in 2011. Carved art installations will be displayed and juried during the event. • Prize money plus recognition in local art publications will be awarded to top 10 artists.

Most supplies provided. • For more information contact Jeannine at 926-2548.

A-B Tech Drama Club The club sponsors and produces a variety of productions, performances, workshops and lectures.

Reservations & info: 2541921 or pcarver@abtech.edu.

• MO (12/6) & WE (12/8), 5:30pm - Auditions for Peter Shaffer’s psychological thriller Equus at A-B Tech Asheville’s Carriage House Theatre. Roles for 14 women of all ages; no experience necessary.

Performance dates: March 31-April 9.

Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition • Through FR (12/17) - Deadline for submissions.

Cash prizes will be awarded and selected works will hang in exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone. To enter or for more info: www.appmtnphotocomp.org.

Call for Cast & Crew • Through TH (12/2) - Auditions will be held for “conscious-minded actors, directors, producers and support-team members” interested in participating in the healing musical A Dream

Call for Crafters • Through MO (12/6) - Entries due for Francine Delany New School for Children’s craft fair on Dec. 11, 10am-3pm. To obtain an entry application, e-mail elana@fdnsc.net.

Holiday Parade in Downtown Sylva • Through WE (12/1) - Applications for groups interested in participating in “The Wonder of Christmas Morning” parade will be accepted. The parade will be held on Dec. 4. Info: 5861577 or info@downtownsylva.org.

Montford Park Players Auditions Info: 254-5146, info@montfordparkplayers.org or www. montfordparkplayers.org.

• SA (12/4) & SU (12/5), 2:30-4:30pm - Auditions for The Real Inspector Hound,

by Tom Stoppard, and The Patient, by Agatha Christie, will be held at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 1 Jersey St.These one-act plays will be presented together, and the cast will perform in both productions (to be staged at the Masonic Temple Feb. 10-20).

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parenting from the edge by Anne Fitten Glenn

I don’t want to be Facebook “friends” with your kids Really. I don’t want to be Facebook “friends” with your kids. Or with anyone under the age of 21. Actually, make that 27. I prefer “friending” only adults with fully developed prefrontal lobes who understand satire and are able to write in complete sentences without resorting to LOL-speak. If you don’t know the meaning of that last word, I will be “friends” with you. But not with your kids.

For one, I don’t want to censor myself more than I already do. I’m already “friends” with my mom, which means I try to avoid dropping f-bombs and being otherwise “tacky.” But at least she’s had years to get used to my writing inappropriate things in public.

Just as I don’t want to read about how many virtual milk cows you’ve added to Farmville, I don’t want to read your kids’ status updates.

I just don’t. It makes me feel stalkerish and queasy. I hear more than enough silly preteen and teen banter driving carpool for my 12-year-old without reading it as I’m checking for silly adult banter on Facebook.

Plus, why are kids even on Facebook? The minimum age requirement is supposedly 13.

The official Facebook policy page says: “If

you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Facebook or provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.”

So why am I getting “friend” requests from your 11- and 12-year-old children? And even, once, a 9-year-old? Are y’all telling your kids it’s OK for them to lie about their age to create time-suck social media accounts? I remember lying about my age in order to buy beer, but it was not with parental approval (or knowledge). So maybe you don’t know that your kid’s on Facebook? Better check.

My 12-year-old does not have a Facebook page. I did check. Nor will she have one for a good long while. I don’t think my 9-year-old even knows what Facebook is, thank the goddesses. My oldest shows no interest in spending time online, except for playing games and tracking her fantasy baseball team. But if she was interested in having her own Facebook page, I’d say, “No fricking way.” When she’s older, I may allow her to dive into the quagmire of on-line social interaction, but it will

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be with supervision. And she must “friend” her parents and her grandparents (though my dad’s never gonna be a Facebooker, for which I’m thankful). This may rein in her potential for public inappropriateness — though I don’t suppose her mom’s been a particularly good role model in that area. And while I’ll continue to have to deal with her silly banter, I can try to avoid that of her friends (love that “Ignore” button).

On a more serious level, I don’t think she’s mature enough to navigate the “friend” minefield of Facebook. I know adults who’ve gotten their feelings hurt by being “un-friended” or not being invited to a certain event that’s being crowed about on FB. There are also the folks who use the social media outlet as a tool for hurting or bullying others. I need

more time to hammer safe online practices into my kids’ heads before I let them take on social media. Also, maybe it’s a brave new world, but I think using Facebook to announce your relationship status changes is a cultural regression. Plus it’s uncomfortable to get that random “so-and-so is single” or “so-and-so’s in a relationship and it’s complicated” message. Isn’t every relationship complicated?

What does that mean anyway?

Ultimately, I’ll stick with Facebook myself so I can, in the future, monitor my kids activities there. In the meantime, I’m not gonna “friend” your or anyone else’s kids. Sorry. X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.

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Parenting Classes at Pardee Hospital All classes are held at Pardee Hospital, in the orientation classroom, 800 N. Justice St. in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required. Info: (866)-790-WELL. • THURSDAYS (12/2 & 12/9), 1:30-3pm - A two-part childbirth and parenting class for expectant parents cover-

ing the labor and delivery process, relaxation, breathing patterns, birth options, positioning and comfort measures.

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Fresh Preserves by Tom Godleski music PerFormed by buncombe TurnPike blueGrass band Dec. 1 & 2 - 7:30 PM • Dec. 4 - 2:30 & 7:30 PM • Dec. 5 - 2:30 PM at the Owen Theatre on the campus of Mars Hill College Admission is $15 Adult Tickets & $10 Student Tickets

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The Usual Suspects gets a new name, South Asheville gets Indian food

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From the Usual to Avenue M

As some of you know, Kathy Taylor and Les Doss sold the beloved Usual Suspects to another couple earlier this year. Taylor and Doss passed on the popular Merrimon Avenue bar and eatery by choice. It was time to step out of the business, they said, to perhaps do a little traveling.

Of course, some in Asheville found the transaction disconcerting (some even acted as though an old friend had passed away). Xpress recently caught up with the new owners, Teri and Greg Siegal, to find out if any of this hand-wringing is necessary.

The Siegals are adamant on this point: No. “We

have no intention of changing the vibe,” says Teri.

“It’s a good vibe. That’s what we were attracted to with this space. It had that urban feel. We love what Les and Kathy did to the place. Why mess with a good thing?”

Teri does acknowledge that she and her husband want to “put their own stamp” on the restaurant.

To that end, they’ve re-covered all of the cushions and re-painted all of the booths and some of the walls. The lightly glittered gold-ish wall behind the bar is now partially covered with a large chalk board that clearly identifies the draught list and the bottled beers. Also, perhaps the biggest change of all, the Usual Suspects will soon be known as “Avenue M,” for the road on which it’s located.

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Not the usual: Teri and Greg Siegal bought the Usual Suspects bar and restaurant earlier this year. This month, the name will change to Avenue M. Greg explains the changes — or lack thereof — thusly: “We’re not really changing what they did; we’re adding a restaurant,” he says. “Their place was perceived as a bar, and that’s fine. We bought a bar in a great location with high visibility.

We’re expanding on their idea, not changing it.

Our emphasis is adding a restaurant.”

Well, what does that mean? Greg himself points out that the Usual already had a pub menu that was considered to be good for its genre.

“We haven’t taken that away, and we won’t,” he assures Xpress. “But we’re adding more conventional dinner items, vegetarian food, fresh fish ... things you’d expect to see and be able to get in a restaurant.”

“If there’s a message to the world that knows the Usual Suspects,” he adds, “it’s that it’s still here. Some paint colors have changed and the game room is gone.”

That’s right folks, the game room is gone. That marks a bit of an end of an era for those who used to crack out on Golden Tee and get tipsy into the

wee hours while embedding dart points into the paint (wasn’t me, I swear ...). The wall that used to separate the game area from the dining area has been outfitted with a large window, which opens up the space nicely. The restaurant now offers Wifi as well.

The idea is to create a lounge atmosphere “with more comfortable seating,” says Greg. He adds that few people were using the room for gaming, at any rate. As the Siegals put it, time and time again, they wouldn’t mess with a winning formula. “I didn’t just fall off of a produce truck,” says Greg.

Avenue M is open Monday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. The kitchen is open until “1:30-ish.” Soon, the restaurant will be open on Sundays for lunch and dinner. Trivia night has been added Tuesdays from 7:30 until 9:15 p.m.

Live music is coming soon, starting Dec. 4 with Carolina Rex. For more information about Avenue M visit avenuemavl.com or call 350-8181.

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Wednesday Welcome Table

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - The Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. in Asheville, welcomes all persons to come, eat and enjoy fellowship. All meals are made from scratch, healthy and free. Info: 3374944.

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The co-owner of Sunny Point Café, April Moon, has somehow managed to pen two cookbooks in her spare time — time that we’re frankly amazed she has. The author of The Flying Biscuit Cookbook just released her second cookbook, Breakfast and Beyond: Comfort Food From Dawn to Dark. The new book offers recipes from Sunny Point that are “geared towards simplicity of execution and a maximum of flavor.”

The book is available at Sunny Point Café and Malaprop’s Bookstore in downtown Asheville.

Moon will host a book signing event at Sunny Point on Saturday, Dec. 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.

Cookies and warm cider will be provided.

Sunny Point Café is located at 626 Haywood Road in West Asheville. For more information, call 252-0055. X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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Is Asheville turning into a new Indian food hotspot? Well, not exactly, but we are expanding on that front. We’ve got India Garden, Chai Pani, Mela and now, Cinnamon Kitchen. The new Indian eatery, which opened in Gerber Village in South Asheville on Halloween, is owned by the same group that owns India Garden.

Xpress recently visited for lunch, finding the place to be about one-quarter full. Though the service was initially attentive, it became quite difficult to flag someone down once the food arrived. The salad that accompanied both meals at the table arrived sans dressing, and stayed that way until we were able to request some — near the end of the meal.

The food at Cinnamon, though, is a great lunch value, given that most of the dishes are under $10. Many of the platters are served with pakoras, rice, salad and roti, making for decent leftovers, especially for someone who tends to eat light at lunch. There’s plenty to choose from — seafood, tandoori dishes, biryani with both vegetarian and vegan options. The wine list displays vegan-friendly wine selections as well.

Save for a rather forgettable bland chutney that tasted, according to my dining partner, a bit like Smuckers, everything we sampled was flavorful and fresh. The chicken bhuna was deeply flavored, though my dining partner said he wished for a bit more heat. The very rich sabji korma, a vegetarian dish of mixed vegetables in a cashew cream sauce, was about as hearty a meat-

less meal as they come. The roti served with both meals was buttery and flaky, the pakoras were good and the salad composed of actual spring mix and not a pallid afterthought.

The verdict? South Asheville definitely needs more ethnic food — and Americanized Mexican and sushi’s been done to death. Cinnamon Kitchen provides solid, serviceable Indian food and fills a niche in its neighborhood.

Cinnamon Kitchen is located at 1838 Hendersonville Road in Gerber Village. For more information, visit ckcuisine.com or call 575-2100.

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Beer-lovers gatherings, Christmas Jam white ale benefits Habitat and miscellaneous seasonal releases Talking beer

On the first and third Mondays of each month, the Thirsty Monk downtown now offers an informal gathering called “Beer Society.” The society gives beer lovers a chance to get together and talk brews. They’ll also participate in tastings, occasionally open a rare bottle (or three) or host a guest speaker. According to Monk Pub general manager Caroline Forsman, the goal is part education, part fun.

The next Beer Society gathering takes place on Monday, Dec. 6. Each evening focuses on a particular topic, often decided beforehand by the group. The Dec. 6 topic is “I’m Big in Japan,” and covers Sake and the Japanese craft beer movement, focusing on Kiuchi Brewery. The downtown Monk Pub is located at 92 Patton Ave. For more information, visit monkpub. com.

Women talking beer

December 8th, 6 Course Beer Tasting Dinner $40 featuring Highland Brewing Co., Everette Farms, and LIVE Music by the Honeycutters

An even newer beer-lovers group, Asheville Beer City Divas, is Asheville’s first all-female organization devoted to everything craft beer.

The goal of the group is to create a fun and relaxing atmosphere, and to learn more about craft beer and the beer industry. The first ABCD evening out will be Wednesday Dec. 8, starting at 5:30 p.m. at Barley’s Taproom. That night, the ABCDs will try a variety of seasonal brews (see a few examples below). To RSVP or for more information, e-mail avlbeerdivas@gmail.com.

Barley’s is located at 42 Biltmore Ave. For more information, visit barleystaproom.com.

I recently attended (and spoke at) the inaugural Beer Bloggers Conference in Boulder, Co., and the panel on Women and Craft Beer was rather controversial. It seems that these girls’ night out groups dedicated to craft beer are springing up around the country, but some folks are taking exception to the female-centric focus.

I’m not sure if it’s any different from my allwomen’s book club or Stitch n’ Bitch, but Xpress is interested in what y’all think. The ABCD group promises to include the hairier gender in some of their future events. Let us know what you think at mountainx.com.

Rejoice, o fans of great music and great beer

Asheville Brewing Company has rolled out their 2010 Christmas Jam White Ale. The beer was brewed and sold for the first time last year. All proceeds from its 2009 sales — almost $10,000 — went to Habitat for Humanity to build homes for area residents in need. This year’s proceeds will benefit the same.

Asheville native Warren Haynes, renowned guitarist and singer for Gov’t Mule and the founder of Asheville’s annual Christmas Jam

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Holiday beer concoction: The hot local brew drink of the moment seems to be mixing Highland Brewing’s Cold Mountain and their Oatmeal Porter to create an Oatmeal Cookie.

Try it. It’s delicious.

Photo by Anne Fitten Glenn

concert, was excited to partner with ABC to brew the ale again this year, according to Mike Rangel, ABC’s president and co-owner.

Though the Christmas Jam itself is already sold out, you can buy the beer around Asheville — on draft at area restaurants and in 22-ounce bottles at local retailers. Otherwise, you can mail-order the brew from Asheville beer retailer Bruisin’ Ales at bruisinales.com.

Seasonal holiday beers

In addition to Highland’s Cold Mountain Winter Ale (on tap and in bottles all over WNC right now) and the aforementioned Christmas Jam Beer, a slew of holiday seasonal beers are being released and sold around WNC. Wedge Brewing Company will soon release its Raspberry Imperial Stout at the brewery. Craggie Brewing recently released their Dubbelcious, a Belgian-style double ale, at their brewery and on tap around town.

Now, it’s time for the French Broad Brewery to re-release its Wee Heavy-est Belgian Style Scotch Ale for the third consecutive year on tap and in bottles. It’s a concentrated brew of the Wee Heavy-er, fermented with a special Belgian ale yeast.

Olde Hickory Brewery in Hickory, N.C., has

released their Christmas Ale, spiced with orange zest, cinnamon, ginger and local honey. Find it on tap and in bottles around town.

Mother Earth Brewing out of Kinston, N.C., has released a lovely bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout, called Silent Night. I previewed this beer last summer, and it’s smooth, robust and delicious. It will be for sale at area retailers in the fancy 750-milliliter corked bottle. Also worth trying is Sweetwater Brewing’s annual Festive Ale, a strong, malty ale with a touch of cinnamon. Bottles of this Atlanta brewery’s beer are on sale all over WNC. I recently found a 2007 bottle of Festive Ale in my basement. Sadly, it had been stored on its side (a no-no for beer), and had partially leaked out of the cork and wax coverings. Not sure whether or not I should try what remains.

Bruisin’ Ales will hold a free Christmas beer tasting sampler on Thursday, Dec. 2, including Bell’s Christmas Ale, Great Divide Hibernation, Delirium Noel (2010), and Gouden Carolus (2008).

Happy holiday beer drinking! X Send your brews news to Anne Fitten Glenn at brewgasmavl@gmail.com.

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arts&entertainment Restart for SART?

The staging of Fresh Preserves may signal an upswing for the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre

by Steven Samuels Something unusual is happening at The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre in Mars Hill. The first weekend in December, SART will present the world premiere of Fresh Preserves. Written by Tom Godleski, with original music performed by Buncombe Turnpike, it is a story about life in our part of the world.

The staging of Fresh Preserves will be but one in a series of important fundraisers for SART. And it will finally allow the company to produce the winner of last year’s new play contest.

To understand what’s going on here, you’ll need to know a little more about SART, which isn’t like most summer theatres — or many resident-professional theatres in the United States for that matter. SART distinguished itself from the first, in 1975, by opening with a new, commissioned play: Ark of Safety. That was a curious title, given that, generally speaking, leading with a world premiere is anything but safe.

New play production has always been a risky business, and may well be under more pressure today than ever before in our nation’s theatrical history. (For a fuller explanation, see the recently published Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, by Todd London and Ben Pesner, the result of a ten-year study by the Theatre Development Fund.) But, in addition to standard summer stock fare — revivals of established plays and musicals — a dedication to new plays remains the signature element of SART’s repertoire to such an extent that it has produced an astonishing 56 world premieres across its 36 seasons. Unfortunately, the last few years of hard economic times have placed SART,

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World premiere of Fresh Preserves, written by Tom Godleski, with music by Buncombe Turnpike

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Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill

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Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, Dec. 1, 2, and 4 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 5 at 2:30 p.m. $15 adults, $10 students. SARTplays.org or 689-1384.

Heritage Plays, rooted in Western North Carolina, several of which Gregg has written in collaboration with author and journalist Perry Deane Young. A successful tour of Heritage Plays in the fall of 2008 encouraged Gregg to plan the next tour and to commission another new play for the series — a work about North Carolina’s Civil War governor, Zebulon Vance, to be written by Asheville’s David Hopes.

Reinventing, reinvesting

Stringed success: Gearing up for the world premiere of Fresh Preserves, a play based on the clever and entertaining album by Tom Godleski, with music from popular bluegrass band Buncombe Turnpike. like so many nonprofit arts institutions, in a precarious position. New plays may prove to be the key to SART’s reinvention.

A devastating shortfall

The company began as an outgrowth of the Mars Hill College theatre program, and for a quarter century that seemed an ideal setup. The college provided a facility — Owen Theatre, a pleasant- and functional-enough structure as summer theatres go — as well as staff (primarily faculty and students in addition to outside professionals), and handled everything from bookkeeping to housing and, crucially, fundraising. There were, of course, bad years economically, which the college gladly saw SART through. But that was a trap, too. Sources that might have funded Mars Hill College and supported SART were only able to issue grants to the college when it and the theatre were, technically, one. Not until SART established itself as an independent, tax-exempt entity in 2003 could the theatre dip into the same supportive wells. To this day, the college provides SART with three salaried employees, the theatre, housing, utilities and housekeeping.

This arrangement was the brainchild of William Gregg, since 2001 the company’s second artistic director.

A fast-talking, hard-driven native of the region and the product of a blue collar background, Gregg attended Mars Hill College in the early 1970s, where he was inspired and encouraged to pursue a life in the theatre by professors who became his colleagues during SART’s first season, when Gregg served as stage manager. In the typically varied theatrical career that followed, Gregg returned to SART numerous times, as actor, company

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manager and director, between stints in New York and significant roles at such distinguished companies as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Theatre Virginia in Richmond and the New American Theatre in Rockford, Ill. Gregg has a long history of developing and directing new plays. Although he inherited a deficit upon assuming the leadership of SART, when it had an annual budget of roughly $200,000, he has helped grow the company to a $300,000 operation, which as recently as 2007 ran in the black, with 50 percent of its expenses covered by box office revenue.

Then ticket sales began to fall; anticipated and approved grants, including funds from the North Carolina Arts Council, got cut; and four years’ worth of new play support from the National Endowment for the Arts ended. At the close of its 35th season, SART found itself facing a devastating $100,000 shortfall. Despite an emergency fundraising campaign that raised much of that sum ($25,000 in loans), the just-completed season hasn’t exactly improved the situation. Hopes that a remounting of the previous year’s biggest breadwinner, The Foreigner, would aid the bottom line, proved unfounded. A Little Night Music beat its ticket-sales goal and, due to good reviews and excellent word of mouth, Tuesdays with Morrie sold out its second week.

But SART’s first attempt at Shakespeare, As You Like It, was not a success, and with the closest approach to a new play last summer — the third production of Tradin’ Paint, set in the world of NASCAR — “we missed our market,” as Gregg puts it.

“People in this region will come to see these plays,” Gregg says, referring to the well-attended premieres of

“We have to reinvest and reinvent ourselves based on these plays,” Gregg says.

He also knows that SART must do a better job of attracting Asheville residents. Though Mars Hill is only 16 miles away, “We seem to be remote to your downtown Asheville denizen.” So Gregg is thinking hard about bringing some of SART’s original works into Asheville proper. He may yet begin with Fresh Preserves.

Winner of SART’s 28th annual playwrights’ conference, now called ScriptFest, Fresh Preserves would have been mounted last season if not for the budget problems that forced the delay of the most recent ScriptFest from October 2009 to January 2010. Though more than 200 scripts are typically submitted to ScriptFest annually, financial concerns demanded a revision of the exhaustive review process this year: only the first 100 scripts postmarked by the Sept.

30 deadline would be considered. And this year’s ScriptFest has been postponed until January 21-23, 2011, which is actually better news than it might have been.

“If we don’t raise money, we’ll have to alter how we produce in the future,” Gregg states bluntly. Will ScriptFest have to go?

Not this year. Will SART have to produce fewer plays or give fewer performances?

Will the nature of the plays programmed need to change or the company’s mission be revised? Gregg can’t say, but these are among the questions SART must answer shortly in order to preserve itself.

But the mounting of Fresh Preserves is encouraging, as have been the funds raised since last summer and the introduction of seven new board members, about whom Gregg is most enthused.

SART may yet have to make significant changes, but its focus remains intact. Gregg, at least, is fiercely determined and, quite possibly, unstoppable. X Steven Samuels is the artistic director of the soon-to-open Magnetic Field theatre in the River Arts district.

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Sausage lovers, angry mice and a shriveled-face princess ACDT presents a different sort of Nutcracker

by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt Sugar Plum Fairies are ousted. In their place?

Giant cats, a sausage-worshipping King, a princess with a shriveled face and a Mouse King with a thirst for vengeance. That’s all in Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s upcoming performance, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

This season, Susan and Giles Collard, artistic director and co-director of the company, respectively, have surprises in store for their annual winter concert at Diana Wortham Theater. In keeping with the company’s out-ofthe-box style, ACDT decided to focus on E.T.A Hoffmann’s original manuscript, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King — which is drastically different from the holiday story that’s typically staged.

Written in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars, Hoffmann’s 1816 book tells an epic and surprisingly twisted story involving a clock maker, a dark curse, a ferocious battle between a rat and toy-solider army and a journey across a lake of syrup, to a sugar-coated world rich with wonder and imagination.

The story begins in a familiar setting — on Christmas Eve in a big house, where Marie and her brother Fritz, their family and guests mingle beside a decorated tree — but quickly travels to strange and extraordinary realms. After receiving a gift from her godfather, a clock and toy maker named Drosselmeyer, young Marie’s reality is completely changed. That night she wakes to the sound of scratching. The enormous Mouse King looms in the shadows. That’s when the wooden Nutcracker comes to life and a midnight battle ensues.

What comes next is “the story-within-the story: the fairy tale,” says Susan.

“In the morning, Drosselmeyer tells [the children that the Nutcracker came] from the Land of the Hard Nut. ... That’s what it’s called in the book,” Giles says with a grin. “In this storywithin-the-story, there is a King and a Queen, and the King’s passion is, actually, sausage, and his wife is the best sausage-maker in the realm. [The Queen] is preparing sausage for the

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Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

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Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square

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Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4 (7:30 p.m. $25/$20 students and seniors. Info: acdt.org or 257-4530)

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A midnight battle: ACDT dancers prepare for an unconventional staging of The Nutcracker.

From left to right, Sharon Cooper, Amy Borskey and Lola York. photo by jonathan welch

King’s sausage festival when the Mother Mouse approaches her and begs, ‘Please can I have just a little?’

“The Queen gives her a piece and suddenly all these mice children jump out (from under Mother Mouse’s skirt) and make off with all the sausage ... The King has a fit and asks his clock maker, whose name is also Drosselmeyer, to create a trap for the mice.”

In an act of rage, the Mouse King places a curse on the King and Queen’s first-born child.

“Naturally, they hire these huge cats to patrol and guard the crib while their child sleeps,” says Giles. “The costumes are outrageous; the cats are so much larger than the crib.”

Despite their efforts, there is no stopping the curse from taking hold, and one morning the King discovers that his daughter’s face is “all shriveled up like a little nut,” Giles says. “She grows to be the most beautiful shriveled-face princess that there ever was,” says dancer Lola York, who will be playing the part of the Mouse King.

The Nutcracker toy, it turns out, is actually a young man who breaks this curse and sets the princess free from the spell. The young savior, however, is transformed into a hideous Nutcracker when the curse backfires. It is now up to the courageous young Marie to break the spell.

The most compelling aspect of ACDT’s vision is their devotion to telling all of Hoffmann’s original story. “The Russians took that [original] story and simplified it to the point where there was no story-line at all,” says Susan. “Scenes were cut out over 120 years to fit the modern world.”

But the edits were made for a reason.

Hoffmann’s tale weaves and winds its way through an array of scenes and settings; from a German household preparing for Christmas to the world of the Hard Nut, and into a fantasy land of candy and toys. Telling the original story makes for a particularly complicated production to choreograph and stage, a challenge which ACDT and its cast of 80 dancers is taking on.

In preparation for the show, the BeBe Theatre (aka ACDT headquarters) is filled with props, costumes and hand-painted backdrops. “It’s a difficult project because we’re choreographing the story-within-the-story — The Hard Nut — which we have isolated from the rest of the ballet,” says Susan. “The lights are different, the music is different, so it’s clear to the audience that we’ve traveled to another world. It’s a challenge, but it’s exciting.”

In keeping with this out-of-the-ordinary interpretation, ACDT pairs classical ballet, jazz, modern, tap and hip-hop dance with contemporary music and wildly colorful costumes. The music is “funky, fun and bizarre,” says Giles, describing a mix that ranges from EasternEuropean folk music, French instrumental, jazz, ambient soundscapes coupled with selections of Tchaikovsky’s original composition for the ballet. “The costumes echo the musical choices as well,” says York, “they’re edgy and contemporary.”

Adventurous audiences should expect to see a colorful and creative interpretation of this classic winter tale. X Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt can asezakblatt@mountainx.com.

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Kissing and telling

Stephanie Perkins writes YA fiction with a French twist

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For most people, a year in Paris — art, wine, romance — sounds like a dream. For Anna Oliphant, it’s a nightmare. Because Anna (the heroine of debut novel Anna and the French Kiss by local author Stephanie Perkins) is being forced by her image-obsessed, nouveau-riche dad to spend her senior year abroad at the prestigious School of America in Paris. Even though that means missing her best friend, prom, a job at the movie theater and Toph — the boy who just might like her back.

That’s right, Anna is about boys. And (in case the title doesn’t give it away) kissing. But it’s also about friendship and becoming one’s self, and the simultaneous terror and thrill of adventure. Anna is a young adult book — but, full of poignant moments, raw emotion, clever characters and engaging plot, it’s a far cry from the Sweet Valley High books of the past YA generation. “I was afraid it would be the hot pink cover with a curlicue Eiffel Tower and a lipstick kiss,” Perkins says of the book’s visage. (It’s not.)

Perkins knows books. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a book seller and a librarian. Both professions helped with researching Anna, which Perkins set in Paris despite having only visited the city briefly as a preteen. The story came to her in a dream — “I saw a beautiful boy sitting on the steps of the Pantheon and looking across the plaza at him, I knew in that moment I was in love with him.” The dream boy came to life in Anna as the charming Étienne St. Clair. Love interest in place, Perkins filled in the details of Paris’ streetlife, architecture and culture.

“I picked a big enough place where I had books, music and films where I could experience it elsewhere. I tried to be as thorough as I could. I was pulling from children’s picture books, cook books, history and fiction,” she says. “Just about anything can be accomplished with really good research.” But, where movies, travel books and Google Earth could flesh out the setting, tapping into the angst and drama of

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Bonjour: Author Stephanie Perkins makes her debut.

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teen life was pure memory.

“I met my husband when I was a teenager, so that’s one of the reasons I believe true love is possible as a teenager,” says Perkins. “I remember all of those feelings I had when I met him and how strong they were.” She telegraphs that adrenaline and woozy uncertainty into Anna, in passages like, “I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing. ... I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent.” And, “One of his legs rests against mine. Despite the two layers of pants between us, I feel naked and vulnerable.”

“I think that’s the most fun thing about writing young adult,” says Perkins. “It’s there in the name: Adult. But because they’re young, it’s a lot of firsts and the firsts are always exciting.”

For Anna, it’s the first taste of a panini, first time spending a holiday away from her family, first time getting drunk.

In some ways, the characters in Anna are the good-influence friends any parent would wish for their teens. Multi-lingual, college-bound and responsible. But Anna also touches on some mature themes: Bad relationships, sex and drinking.

“Young adult has changed so much in the last few years,” says Perkins. “The biggest difference between young adult and adult literature is

simply that the protagonist is a teenager.” That means a book’s squeaky cleanness or edginess is up to the author.

“For me, what I have portrayed was like me and my friends,” says Perkins. “Some people will take offense and some will be fine with it.

But it is a little nerve wracking writing for teenagers because for some readers, this will be the first time they’ll be exposed to some things.”

Ultimately, “I just wrote the book that I would want to read.” As such, adult fans of romantic fiction are likely to enjoy Anna’s adventures (kissing and otherwise), too.

Plus, the story isn’t over with the last page of the book. Two more titles — Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After are forthcoming. For the latter, Perkins recently spent a month in France for what she calls “location scouting.”

“It’s such a rich, diverse and cool city that I wanted to make sure I had new stuff in the [new] book. Jarrod and I would be walking around and I’d gasp,” she says of wandering Paris with her husband. “He’d look and me and go, ‘Oh, you’re going to have someone make out there, aren’t you?’” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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The Misfits original lineup began playing together in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, and they were one of the first bands in the horror-punk genre.

Now, 30 years and a dozen or so lineup changes later, they still havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost their focus. As frontman Jerry Only says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We plan to continue as always to eclipse the past, block the sun and drag humanity by the throat into a world of darkness â&#x20AC;ŚWhere we are king.â&#x20AC;?

Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Wednesday, Dec. 1.

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Black Mountain College exhibit is an opportunity to learn from the legends

by Ursula Gullow Black Mountain College opened in 1933 and closed in 1957. Do the math, and that would put the youngest students of BMC somewhere around 70 years of age. “We have 255 names and addresses of alumni in our database,“ says BMCM+AC programs director Alice Sebrell.

“Unfortunately, many of them are reaching the age of declining health. News of deceased alumni arrives more and more frequently.”

For this reason, BMCM+AC has begun a series of Living Legacy exhibitions. Last summer, the sculptures and photographs of Kenneth Snelson were exhibited. In February, North Carolina artist Irwin Kremen’s work will be on display, and Pat Passelhof — an artist who studied closely with Willem de Kooning — will be exhibited in 2012. “That’s the point of the Living Legacy Series — to organize shows of those who are still living and working at a high level while they can be around to enjoy it,“ says Sebrell.

Through February 2011, BMCM+AC exhibits the paintings of Donald Alter and W.P.

Living Legacies: Above, W.P. “Pete” Jennerjahn’s “Contrary Shadows,” 1952, oil on paper, Yvette Torres Fine Art in Rockland, Maine. Below, Donald Alter’s “Transformation,” 1949, casein on paper, Black Mountain College + Arts Center Collection.

“Pete” Jennerjahn. Considering that both artists are in their 80s and have been creating art throughout their lives, the small exhibit (around 15 paintings each) is a slim representation of their oeuvres. Nevertheless, it is a significant presentation of each artist’s creative progression.

A series of paintings produced by Jennerjahn while he was still at Black Mountain College in the late 40s and 50s, present overlapping shapes and shifting colors rendered thickly

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in oils. These graphic paintings become even more interesting when one considers the era in which they were produced.

“What was in effect in the U.S. at the time was that you were realistic about color,” Jennerjahn, 86, told Xpress. “It was during the Depression days, and people we looked up to were doing murals in post offices and we were urged to do work murals. Colors did not have independence or a value other than their literalness.”

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Two Painters: Donald Alter and W.P. “Pete” Jennerjahn, part of the “Living Legacy” series

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Through Feb. 5 Jennerjahn says he enrolled in BMC because he had heard about Josef Alber’s revolutionary approach to color theory. “[He taught us] that if you wanted a whole other feeling to arise from what you were working on, you could feel free to abandon the old rules.”

Albers’s teachings continue to influence Jennerjahn. “I’m always challenging myself,” he says. “I’ll put a color down and think about which color I don’t want to see next to that color. I work with those colors to figure out how to make it all work together. More or less I am still struggling to keep from falling into the same combinations of things.”

Donald Alter was only 17 at the time he entered Black Mountain College in 1948. “This was a geographical location where all these artists could converge,” Alter says. “It became a community where any talent could shine and emerge. Nobody would ever think that Rauschenburg would be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.”

Today Alters, who is 80, lives in New York’s Hudson River Valley, and his paintings of the last decade reflect the lush landscape and urbanization of that region. “Transformation,” a small piece he made at Black Mountain College in 1949, demonstrates Alter’s playful use of shape, color and vigorous line. It is not unlike “Hudson Valley Weave,” a painting Alter produced in 2008. When viewed side by side, the paintings and prints at BMCM+AC demonstrate Alter’s ability to evolve his aesthetic without compromising his original creative voice.

So what do Alter and Jennerjahn think of the new generation of artists who have emerged since the BMC days? “They are much freer than when I was going through art studies back in the ‘40s,” says Jennerjahn. “But there are still a number of them caught up in the old attitudes in relation to color so they’re not making full use to what the medium has to offer them.”

Says Alter, “This is a lesson I try to impart to young people: They stand in awe of Black Mountain as this great place where all of these great artists lived. But I keep telling these people that there’s great talent all over, and you can’t recognize it until you let it develop and emerge.”

Visit artseenasheville.blogspot.com to read full transcripts of interviews with Alter and Jennerjahn. X

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smartbets SHEET ROCK: The Poster Art of Subject Matter Studio

Drew Findley is the artist behind Subject Matter Studio, and therefore a whole lot of the most eye-catching, locally made rock posters. (He’s also the Production Manager at Xpress.) Gene Ween, Brett Dennen, Kings of Leon, The Avett Brothers and Ray LaMontagne have all been immortalized in Findley’s art. See the collection of over 20 posters in the exhibit Sheet Rock at Desoto Lounge.

Opening Thursday, Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m.

Music by DJ Wayd Runk.

Aaron Sizemore at Flood

Of his exhibit, The Birds on Acid, artist Aaron Sizemore writes, “The idea for the show originally stemmed from Alfred Hitchcock’s blackand-white thriller The Birds. Tranquility turned into chaos and the true nature of birds (their majestic nature, fidelity, their ability to be ruthless cannibals) are just some of the ideas explored for this show.” Opening reception at Flood Gallery on Saturday, Dec. 4, 7-10 p.m. On exhibit through Jan. 8. floodgallery.org.

Masters of Vaudeville

“Armitage Shanks travels the world sharing his incredible voice and rouge-ish stage presence,” says press for the ringmaster/international Impressario/Neo-Vaudeville Revival forefather. Shanks joins the Mezmer Society’s Madame Onca, Atlanta’s Blast-Off Burlesque and local gypsy/funk/punk fusion band Sirius.B for the Masters of Vaudeville at Scandals, Saturday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. After-party at 10:30 p.m. in the Boiler Room. thegrovehouse.com/scandals.

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smartbets Decline of Western North Carolina

Where the term “intimate gathering” tends to mean a few close friends or a quiet, seated show, Decline Nite might be the former, but definitely not the latter. Billed as “A rare intimate gathering of Western North Carolina’s indie rock, punk and fringe rock pioneers,” the Saturday, Dec. 4 show features local rockers Bob Rest (and his band We Have a Meth Lab) along with A Bigger Hammer, Electrolux and Jeff Kannon. At The Get Down. $5. getdownasheville.com.

Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road

According to its Facebook page, South Carolina-based Turku plays “300 year-old rock ‘n’ roll from the seat of civilization — high energy village music from the western half of the Silk Road: Persia, Kurdistan, Caucasus, Anatolia & the Balkans.” Joined by dancer Ashley Bennett, Turku performs at White Horse Black Mountain, Saturday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m. $8. whitehorseblackmountain.com.

Foul Mouth Jerk album release and video premiere

Local hip-hop artist Foul Mouth Jerk manages to reunite New Jersey underground hip-hop group The Artifacts, roast the excesses of rap culture and toast Asheville in his new video, “Back Up On the Scene.”

(There’s also an especially lithe shout out to Kid ‘n Play.) The song is just one from Jerk’s new album, Oldest Trick In the Book.

His album release tour brings him to the Emerald Lounge (with StereoGram, TopR and The Ville Boys) on Friday, Dec. 3, 9 p.m. emeraldlounge.com.

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Marc Keller (singer-songwriter)

Boscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Zone

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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The Legendary Itals (reggae) Fairview Tavern

Open mic Flat Rock Grille

Jamison Adams (classical guitar), 6-9pm Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Juan Holladay (soul, funk) Good Stuff

Open mic Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Old-time jam, 6pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Woody Wood (soul, pop) Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

Soul & jazz jam Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On Main

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Heather Masterton Trio (swing, jazz) Orange Peel

Misfits (punk) w/ Juicehead Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hits & Shitsâ&#x20AC;? w/ Jamie Hepler Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Open mic w/ Brian Keith

Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Free Flow Band (soul, funk)

Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (â&#x20AC;&#x153;extreme Americanaâ&#x20AC;?)

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Open mic w/ Caleb Biessert Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Delta Spirit (rock, indie) w/ Darker My Love & The Fling

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; w/ Max & Miles

Handlebar

Thu., December 2

Rehab (hip-hop, rock) w/ Sunny Ledfurd

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

Havana Restaurant

DJ night

Salsa dance, 7pm

Blue Note Grille

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Certified Organic (jazz trio)

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Boiler Room

South French Broads (rock) w/ Solito

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Open mic & jam Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Back stage: Fan-Tan (indie, rock) w/ Wages & Pilgrim

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Lobster Trap

Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar

Hank Bones (â&#x20AC;&#x153;man of 1,000 songsâ&#x20AC;?)

Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub

Emerald Lounge

Mela

Bluegrass jam

Dead Nite w/ Phuncle Sam

Belly dancing

Open mic

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Town Pump

Flat Rock Grille

Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

Blue Note Grille

Hollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille

Open mic

Shane Perlowin (classical guitar), 6-9pm

The Herman Clan (bluegrass, Americana)

Handlebar

The Get Down

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Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bob, Studz & Unitard

Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

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Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Delta Spirit

w/ Darker My Love & The Fling 8pm

5th Annual End-of-Year Reggae Party!!

Chalwa â&#x20AC;˘ Dub Cartel DJ Chalice 9pm Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken 8pm Christabel and the Jons & Woody Pines â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Holiday Show! 8:30pm

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w/ Great Liars & Lamb Handler 9pm

Junior Sisk & Ramblerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice w/ John Stickley Band

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Olive or Twist

Blue Note Grille

Swing dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band

Leigh Glass Band (blues, rock) Boiler Room

Orange Peel

Burnstitch (metal) w/ A Light Divided, Lydia Can’t Breathe & Twist of Fate

Make a Wish benefit w/ Matt Stillwell (country), The Rock Academy, Kids, Avyntra, Contagious, Sharkadelics, Ironside & more Pack’s Tavern

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter)

Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Purple Onion Cafe

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Fayssoux & Co.

Eleven on Grove

Red Stag Grill

Electronic dance w/ local producers/DJs, 10pm

Billy Sheeran (piano)

Emerald Lounge

Steve Whiddon the pianoman

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Root Bar No. 1

Bloodroot Orkaestarr (gypsy folk)

Joe Carlson (singer-songwriter)

Flat Rock Grille

Scandals Nightclub

Local DJ Exposure Night feat: Josh Naster, DJ Krumbz & D Raf The Enemy Lovers (rock, indie)

Garage at Biltmore

Temptations Red Room

Electro-lush w/ Mark Davis & Krik Nice, 10pm The Get Down

“Hustlaz & Pornstarz” feat: Total Recall, the Dub Brothaz, DJ Addict, Disc-Oh!, Crunky Brewster vs. Brad Bitt & more

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Gene Peyroux & the Snow Monkeys CD release party (Americana, blues, funk)

Peggy Ratusz’ Invitational Blues Jam

5th Annual End of the Year Reggae Party

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Westville Pub

Jay Brown (country, blues) White Horse

Fundraiser for Heart of the Healer & the filmmakers of “13 Indigenous Grandmothers”

Fri., December 3 Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 8-10pm —- DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing

WestSound (R&B, dance) Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Open mic

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Pack’s Tavern

Good Stuff

Watershed

The Discordian Society w/ Actual Proof (funk, jazz, fusion)

Mountain Rock Girl Pageant

Black Skies (metal) w/ U.S. Christmas, Ritual, Shadow of the Destroyer & Blowtorch Circumcision

Aaron LaFalce (piano)

Mellow Mushroom

Orange Peel

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Owen Tharp (jazz)

Paul Cataldo (singer-songwriter)

Native Sway (psychedelic, world) w/ Sci Fi

Live jazz w/ Steve Sarant & Johnny Ferrara, 6-9pm

Stella Blue

Lobster Trap Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Foul Mouth Jerk CD release show

Back stage: Bret Mosley (roots) Spaceheaters (“hot club jazz”)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Live music Root Bar No. 1

Scott Tyler & guests Stella Blue

Stella Blue 13 year anniversary & Christmas party Straightaway Cafe

Sherri Lynn & Mountain Friends

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

TallGary’s

Handlebar

Temptations Red Room

Delbert McClinton (blues, country, rock) w/ Rev. Billy C. Wirtz Highland Brewing Company

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (jazz, fusion) Holland’s Grille

Free Flight (rock)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Iron Horse Station

Nate McCoy (acoustic, country, rock) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Brian McGee Band (alt-country, rock)

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Edge Band (rock) D-Day dance party The Get Down

The Howlies (garage, rock) w/ Cobra Horse The Warehouse Live

Live music Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine (ambient, folk, jam) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano) White Horse

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Asheville Jazz Orchestra

Sat., December 4

Masters of Vaudeville w/ Armitage Shanks, Madame Onca & Blast-Off Burlesque

Athena’s Club

Straightaway Cafe

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 810pm —- DJ, 10pm-2am

Tim Marsh

Avenue M

Triple Threat (rock)

Carolina Rex (classic rock) Blue Note Grille

Matt Ranck (roots, rock) w/ Bob Hinch Boiler Room

Restaurant • Bar • Patio Sports Room • Events Space …overlooking Pack Square Park

Vaudeville afterparty w/ Sirius.B (gypsy folk) Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Greg Olson (folk)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Emerald Lounge

NFL TICKET & COLLEGE GAMEDAY 110” HD Projector Screen & 8 HD Big Screen TV’s Chips & Salsa Bar

The Melanaster Band (indie, pop, experimental) Fairview Tavern

Live music

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Spitfire youth open mic (18 & under), 3pm Flat Rock Grille

Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 6-9pm French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Matt Getman (jazz, pop, soul) Garage at Biltmore

Killowatts feat: Futexture, Liam Collins & Sacred Blast Good Stuff

Pierce Edens (folk, rock, roots)

LIVE MUSIC No Cover!

Thurs. 12/2 Fri. 12/3

Ginny McAfee

Sat. 12/4

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm Handlebar

Greenville record fair Horizons at Grove Park Inn

[solo / acoustic]

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

WestSound

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

[dance - n - funk - n - roll]

Justin Burle (live DJ) '80s / '90s Night

Hotel Indigo

Iron Horse Station

Dana & Susan Robinson (bluegrass, folk) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Jo Henley Band (roots, rock, bluegrass) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Cusses (“weirdo rock”) w/ the Take & Big City Bangers Lobster Trap

The Asheville Jazz All Stars Midway Tavern

Live music

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Jenny Juice’s Brown Bag Songwriting Competition Finals Olive or Twist

42nd Street Jazz Band Orange Peel

Open 7 Days (11am - ‘til)

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Scandals Nightclub

Cold War Kids (indie, rock, pop, folk) w/ the Cave Singers Pack’s Tavern

‘80s/’90s night w/ live DJ Purple Onion Cafe

Overmountain Men (bluegrass, roots, Americana) Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Root Bar No. 1

Bob Burnette (folk, singer-songwriter)

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TallGary’s

Temptations Red Room

Super duper dance party w/ live DJ The Get Down

Decline of WNC showcase

Emerald Lounge

Open mic

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Emerald Lounge

Gasoline Heart (Americana, pop)

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

The Luxury Spirit (indie, rock, alternative) w/ The Critters

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Fairview Tavern

Flat Rock Grille

Open mic

Shane Perlowin (classical guitar), 6-9pm

Flat Rock Grille

Good Stuff

Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Handlebar

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Get Down

Marc Keller

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Gene Peyroux & the Snow Monkeys (Americana, blues, funk) Westville Pub

Nikki Talley Band (rock, indie) White Horse

Benefit for Kayla Garrett feat: TURKU, Nomads of the Silk Road (“300-year-old rock & roll”)

Kuroski (punk) w/ Auchtarch, 7pm —Masters Bluegrass Jam, 9:30pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vocal Jazz Session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

Tue., December 7 Blue Note Grille

Damian LeMaster (jazz piano), 6:30pm Eleven on Grove

Jamison Adams (classical guitar), 6-9pm Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Paul Cataldo (folk, singer-songwriter) Garage at Biltmore

“Litz & Tazers” feat: Samples, GalaxC Girl, Brad Bitt, Aligning Minds & Funky Franklin Good Stuff

Open mic

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Derek Webb (rock) w/ Sandra McCracken Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

Sun., December 5

Beginner swing & tango lessons, 6-7pm —- Dance w/ live band or DJ, 8pm

Holland’s Grille

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Emerald Lounge

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Tuesday Night Funk Jam

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Craggie Brewing Company

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Open mic

Old-time jam, 6pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Shag dance & lessons

Hangover in the Hangar: “Bring your vinyl and we’ll spin it; Bring your own food and we’ll grill it,” 2-8pm Flat Rock Grille

Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 12pm Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Classical guitar duo, 10am-12:30pm —Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm Iron Horse Station

Open mic w/ Jesse James, 7-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Marc Keller (singer-songwriter)

Back stage: Do it to Julia (folk rock, indie) w/ Veelee & Icarus Himself —- Front stage: Woody Wood (soul, pop)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler

Irish session, 3pm

Mike’s Tavern

Heather Masterton Trio (swing, jazz) Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Open mic w/ Brian Keith

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano)

Dave Currier (pop/classic rock/R&B keyboardist)

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Lobster Trap

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Town Pump

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Leo Johnson (“hot club jazz”) Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Jon Corbin (of Firecracker Jazz Band), 12-2:30pm Orange Peel

Allstar Weekend (pop punk) w/ Stephen Jerzak, the Scene Aesthetic & Action Item Pisgah Brewing Company

Jimmy Herring Band (jazz, fusion, rock) Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party & drag show The Get Down

State Nature of Defect California Priest w/ Silo Town Pump

Benefit for David Bryan feat: Taylor Martin, Paco Shipp, Parker Brooks, Dan Johnston, WSNB, The Swills & more Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Mon., December 6

Kellin Watson (folk, soul, pop) O’Malley’s On Main

Open mic

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard The Get Down

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm Handlebar

Judy Collins (singer-songwriter) Havana Restaurant

Salsa dance, 7pm

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Granville Automatic (folk, acoustic) w/ Adam Taylor (poet) Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety) Mela

Belly dancing

Olive or Twist

Hotel Indigo

Jay Brown (country, blues)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Asheville Country Music Review

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Lobster Trap

Christabel & the Jons (country swing) w/ Woody Pines

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Singer-songwriter in the round feat: David Earl, Jenne Sluder, Kathy Kelly & Brian McGee

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Soul & jazz jam

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

Gene Peyroux & The Snow Monkeys (“extreme Americana”)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill Olive or Twist

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Eleven on Grove

Asheville EDM Summit feat: A/V Club & The Tech Tribe

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Vincenzo’s Bistro

Shag dance

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

‘80s night, 10pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Songwriter in the Round Series feat: Moses Atwood, Taylor Martin & Amanda Platt

Ruby Mayfield & M-Pride (soul, R&B)

Bosco’s Sports Zone Broadway’s

The Warehouse Live

Live music

Jazz jam

Bluegrass jam Open mic

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic w/ Caleb Biessert Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub

Swing dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band Orange Peel

Carolina Chocolate Drops (old-time) w/ the Low Anthem Pack’s Tavern

Neil Cribbs (acoustic, jam) Pisgah Brewing Company

The Shane Pruitt Band (roots, rock) Purple Onion Cafe

Kellin Watson (folk rock, pop, soul) Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano) Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Steve Whiddon the pianoman Scandals Nightclub

Jammin’ w/ Max & Miles

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Asheville EDM Summit feat: DJs Matthew Harper, Josh Naster, Xist & Axis Mundi

Blues night

Thu., December 9

Stella Blue

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Athena’s Club

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

DJ night

Westville Pub

Blue Note Grille

Blues jam

Jonathon Sexton (indie, pop, reggae)

White Horse

Boiler Room

Greg Cartwright spins soul

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm —- Open mic, 8:30pm

Asheville EDM Summit feat: Disc-Oh!, DRaf, Emory, Alyosuis & Order of Elim

Wed., December 8

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Athena’s Club

Craggie Brewing Company

Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic

Blue Note Grille

Open mic & jam

Benefit for MANNA Food Bank feat: Josh Stack & friends Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

The Enemy Lovers (indie, rock) Temptations Red Room

Electro-lush w/ Mark Davis & Krik Nice, 10pm Town Pump

Screen Door Porch (folk, blues, Americana) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz’ Invitational Blues Jam Vanuatu Kava Bar

Chris Wilhelm

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (piano) Watershed

Open mic

clubdirectory The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Athena’s Club 252-2456 Avenue M 350-8181 Barley’s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Blue Note Grille 697-6828 Boiler Room 505-1612 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Bosco’s Sports Zone 684-1024 Broadway’s 285-0400 Club Hairspray 258-2027 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 The Dripolator 398-0209 Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar 252-2711 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492

Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Flat Rock Grille 277-1212 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get Down 505-8388 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 The Hangar 684-1213 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770

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Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pineapple Jack’s 253-8860 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838

Scully’s 251-8880 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Stella Blue 236-2424 Stephanie’s Roadhouse Bistro 299-4127 The Still 683-5913 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 Tallgary’s 232-0809 Temptations Red Room 252-0775 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 The Warehouse Live 681-9696 The Watershed 669-0777 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

Westville Pub

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Holland’s Grille

Fri., December 10

Flat Rock Grille

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

The Blackberry Bushes (Americana)

Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 8-10pm —- DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing

Blue Note Grille

One Leg Up (acoustic swing) Boiler Room

26 Ways (funk, jazz) Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

“Zeitgeist Addendum” (film)

Live jazz w/ Steve Sarant & Johnny Ferrara, 6-9pm French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Jason Moore (jazz)

Garage at Biltmore

Katie Larue’s Holiday Jam

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Electronic dance w/ local producers/DJs, 10pm Emerald Lounge

Highland Brewing Company

Cropdusters (fusion, rock)

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Lobster Trap

“Hallraiser” fundraiser for local family battling cancer

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Belly dancing w/ live music

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Handlebar

FAIRVIEW TAVERN

Jerusalem Garden

Back stage: Jonathon Sexton (indie, pop, reggae) w/ Mother Explosives & Real Local SIngles

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

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Nikki Talley Band (rock, Americana)

Dave Turner (acoustic, rock) Campaign 1984 (rock) w/ Great Liars & Lamb Handler

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Jack Of The Wood Pub

Good Stuff

Eleven on Grove

Snake Oil Medicine Show (bluegrass, zydeco)

Gypsy (rock)

Subject Matter Studio Poster Show • Starting Dec. 2nd

Second annual Christmas Luau w/ Hank Bones & Kon Tiki (Christmas carols w/ Polynesian twist) James Richards (singer-songwriter) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Zoogma (jam, electronic)

O’Malley’s On Main

The Lamp Brothers (Caleb Burress & Chris Minick) Pack’s Tavern

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Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Mack Kell’s / Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

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NIKKI TALLEY BAND

Folk / Rock / Smokin’ Vocals

$5 Robo Shots

SUN. 12/5

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SAT. 12/4

Stella Blue

Straightaway Cafe

Sherri Lynn

TallGary’s

Jarvis Jenkins Band pre-jam party Temptations Red Room

D-Day dance party

The Warehouse Live

Live music

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Live music

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine (ambient, folk, jam)

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Live music

Enter the Earth 9th Annual X-Mas Party

THUR. 12/2

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Bobby Sullivan (piano) White Horse

WSNB (blues)

MON. 12/6

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Sat., December 11 Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (Americana, blues), 8-10pm —- DJ, 10pm-2am

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Live jazz w/ Dave Lagadi, 6-9pm French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Alex Krug (Americana)

Kevin Scanlon (acoustic, folk)

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Flat Rock Grille

Patrick Frank: Creativity & Social Justice (poetry, music, discussion)

Good Stuff

NIGHTLY DRINK SPECIALS

Cancun Mexican Grill / Chasers / Club Hairspray / Fairview Tavern / Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Kimball Collins with A/V Club, DJ Kri & the Tech Tribe

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thursday

The Hangar / Holland’s Grille Infusions / Jus One More / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still

Garage at Biltmore

Enjoy Our Awesome Smoking Deck (where you won’t miss a minute of the action)

Beacon Pub / Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill / The Hangar / Infusions / Midway Tavern / O’Malleys on Main Holland’s Grille /

saturday

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Live music

Over 30 Beautiful Entertainers & the Best Dance Prices in Town

wednesday

Emerald Lounge

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Fairview Tavern

Asheville’s premiere adult nightclub & sports lounge

Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) Jus One More / Mike’s Side Pocket / Rendezvous Tallgary’s / Temptations

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Matt Woods

The Nova Echo (electronic, rock, experimental) w/ Paper Tiger

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tuesday

Fairview Tavern / Fat Cat’s Billards Infusions / Mack Kell’s Midway Tavern / Shovelhead Saloon Stockade Brew House The 170 La Cantinetta

Blue Note Grille

Greg Olson (folk)

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Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice (bluegrass) w/ High Windy Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bosco’s Sports Zone / Cancun Mexican Grill / The Hangar / Mack Kell’s / Wild Wing Cafe / The Get Down Pack’s Tavern

‘80s/’90s night w/ live DJ Purple Onion Cafe

Shane Pruitt Band (blues, jam, jazz)

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm —- Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

Red Stag Grill

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Scandals Nightclub

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

DJ dance party & drag show

Hotel Indigo

Stella Blue

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

“X-Mas Jam by Day”

Iron Horse Station

TallGary’s

Jay Brown (one-man-band)

Count M’Butu & Rhythm Nomadic w/ Lyric

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Temptations Red Room

Rathkeltair (Celtic, rock)

Super duper dance party w/ live DJ

Jerusalem Garden

The Warehouse Live

Belly dancing w/ live music

Live music

Lobster Trap

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

The Trevor Trio (jazz)

Carolina Rex (rock, blues)

Midway Tavern

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Live music

Marc Keller

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Westville Pub

Cope (rock, jam)

Big Daddy Love (Americana)

Olive or Twist

White Horse

42nd Street Jazz Band

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Food drive feat: Richard Schulman (piano) & Camelot

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theaterlistings Friday, DECEMBER 3 - THURSDAY DECEMBER 9

Due to possible last-minute scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

movie reviews & listings by ken hanke

JJJJJ max rating

additional reviews by justin souther contact xpressmovies@aol.com

pickoftheweek JJJJJ

Director: Danny Boyle Players: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clémence Poésy, Treat Williams, Kate Burton Fact-Based Drama Rated R

The Story: A fact-based story about Aron Ralston, who chose to cut off his arm rather than die when he was trapped by a boulder in the walls of a narrow canyon.

The Lowdown: A harrowing, brutal, yet ultimately life-affirming film from Danny Boyle. It’s virtually a two-man show — director and star James Franco — and one of the movies of the year.

lookhere Don’t miss out on Cranky Hanke’s online-only weekly columns “Screening Room” and “Weekly Reeler,” plus extended reviews of special showings, the “Elitist Bastards Go to the Movies” podcast, as well as an archive of past Xpress movie reviews — all at mountainx. com/movies.

Unstoppable (PG-13) 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:20, 9:50 (Sofa Cinema)

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Easy A (PG-13) 1:10 (Fri-Sun), 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 (Fri-Sun) Inception (PG-13) 1:00 (Fri-Sun), 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 (Fri-Sun) Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG) 1:30 (Fri-Sun), 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 (Fri-Sun) The Town (R) 1:15 (Fri-Sun), 4:15, 7:30, 10:20 (Fri-Sun) You Again (PG) 1:20 (Fri-Sun), 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 (Fri-Sun)

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127 Hours

Awards season heats up as the first of Fox Searchlight’s two heavy contenders, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, hits town this week. (The second, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, opens on Dec. 22 locally.) The short take: Everything you’ve probably heard about the intensity of Boyle’s film is true, and the film is at least so near being as good as has been claimed that it makes little difference. If it seems at all ever so slightly disappointing, that’s probably because nothing Boyle could do at this point is going to quite live up to Slumdog Millionaire. In every sense, however, 127 Hours is masterful — even brilliant — filmmaking.

Boyle’s film is drawn from Aron Ralston’s book Between a Rock and a Hard Place, which recounts Ralston’s experience of getting his forearm trapped between a boulder and a canyon wall during a solo hiking trip he undertook without alerting anyone to where he was going. The end result, as most of us know, was that Ralston ultimately cut his own arm off rather than die in that crevice.

It is this story that Boyle and his co-writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) have turned into a film, and somewhat surprisingly — since we know where the story is

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James Franco gives a riveting — nearly solo — performance in Danny Boyle’s masterful 127 Hours. going — it makes for compelling and even suspenseful entertainment.

The film works on the assumption that we know what is going to take place during those titular hours and carefully sets up just how — and to some degree why — things go wrong the way they do. We see Aron (James Franco) get ready for his wilderness hike.

We see him in preparation for the trip. We see him just miss — and not take the time to really look for — his Swiss Army Knife.

We see him let his answering machine catch a phone call from his sister — and we see him ignore her request to call his mother and let her know where he’s going “because she worries, but you know that.” Through it all, Aron proceeds in his self-contained, self-absorbed manner — something that’s stressed on the drive to his starting point as he revels in his solitariness. All of this works as well as it does, in part, because we know where it’s going.

The same is true of his encounter with two girls (Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn) he meets on his hike. He spends a little time with them, shows them a hidden lake, makes very vague plans to meet up with them at a later party and then goes on his way. “I don’t think we figured into his day at all,” one of them remarks after he leaves. And, of course, they didn’t — no one did. But what Aron also hasn’t figured into his day is the accident that’s waiting just ahead of him.

Once the film reaches the accident with the boulder, it’s easy to assume that things are going to become both claustrophobic and limited — and it’s hard not to wonder if all the hyped action of the opening,

with its split-screen multiple images, was to make up for this. The truth is something very different, because if anything, the film becomes freer and more fluid once its hero finds himself trapped. After establishing the narrow (literally) world that he now inhabits and the limitations it imposes, Boyle enlivens the proceedings with memories — most of which reflect some aspect of realization that his current predicament is an unnecessary event stemming from Aron’s self-containment. As time passes, the memories alter into hallucinatory fantasies that occasionally feel a bit like something out of a David Lynch film — or at least they carry something that smacks of that Lynchian sense of genuine madness.

All of this, of course, is leading up to the film’s — the story’s — key sequence where Aron cuts off his arm with nothing but one of those dull, tiny blades on a cheap multipurpose tool. It’s harrowing. It’s gruesome. It’s intense. And I have no trouble at all believing that the stories of some viewers passing out while watching the scene are not just studio hype. What is surprising, if you really watch the scene, is how little is actually shown — despite a good deal of blood — and how much is conveyed through sound, suggestion and editing. Realizing this, however, does nothing to make the sequence any easier. I’ve watched it twice and it’s no easier to keep from looking away the second time. I don’t think it ever will be.

But the sequence itself isn’t the point of the film, which is, at bottom, a journey of

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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas (G) 12:5 Sat-Sun only Due Date (R) 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:20 Megamind 3D (PG) 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:40, 9:45 Megamind 2D (PG) 1:20, 3:55 The Next Three Days (PG-13) 12:50, 1:30, 3:35, 4:20, 6:20, 7:05, 9:05, 9:50 RED (PG-13) 6:15, 8:45 Tangled 3D (PG) 12:00 (Fri-Sun), 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:40, 5:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:30 Tangled 2D (PG) 1:40, 4:10, 6:35, 8:55 Unstoppable (PG-13) 12:20 (Fri-Sun), 1:05, 2:45, 3:25, 4:55, 5:45, 7:20, 8:10, 9:45 n Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 (274-9500)

127 Hours (R) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Burlesque (PG-13) 11:35, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 Conviction (R) 3:20, 7:05 Cool It (PG) 12:35, 2:50, 4:05, 7:05, 9:25 Due Date (R) 11:55, 2:05, 4:20, 8:05 (No 8:05 show Wed. Dec. 8), 10:15 (Sofa Cinema) Faster (R) 2:25, 7:40 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG-13) 11:30, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Inside Job (PG-13) 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Love and Other Drugs (R) 11:30, 2:00. 4:25, 7:35,10:05 Megamind 2D (PG) 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 (Sofa Cinema) Morning Glory (PG-13) 8:00, 10:20 The Next Three Days (PG-13) 12:25, 7:05 Tamara Drewe (R) 12:05, 4:55, 10:20 (Sofa Cinema) Tangled 3D (PG) 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30

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127 Hours (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:00 Fair Game (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30

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Morning Glory (PG-13) 1:00 (Sat-Sun), 4:00, 7:00 n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

Burlesque (PG-13) 12:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Faster (R) 12:50, 4:10, 7:50, 10:15 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG-13) 12:30, 1:00, 3:40, 4:30, 7:00, 8:00,10:10 Love and Other Drugs (R) 1:10, 3:50, 7:40, 9:50 Morning Glory (PG-13) 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 The Warrior’s Way (R) 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 9:55

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nowplaying 127 Hours JJJJJ

James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clémence Poésy, Treat Williams, Kate Burton Fact-Based Drama A fact-based story about Aron Ralston, who chose to cut off his arm rather than die when he was trapped by a boulder in the walls of a narrow canyon. A harrowing, brutal, yet ultimately life-affirming film from Danny Boyle. It’s virtually a two-man show—director and star James Franco—and one of the movies of the year. Rated R

Burlesque JJJ

Faster JJJ

Morning Glory JJJJ

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 JJJJJ

The Next Three Days JJJ

Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace Action An ex-con sets out for revenge against the people responsible for murdering his brother. A humorless take on exploitation revivalism (à la Tarantino or Rodriguez) that’s simply not fun—or consistently stylish—enough to work. Rated R

Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Giganet, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Peter Gallagher Velveeta-oozing Musical Girl from Iowa makes her way to the big city to seek fame and fortune in show business. Burlesque hasn’t a single original idea in its cheesy head, and manages to load on the clichés with a shovel. Somehow it just misses being so bad it’s good, and only attains the level of modestly awful. Rated PG-13

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy Horror/Fantasy With Dumbledore dead and Hogwarts no longer a haven, Harry Potter and his friends find themselves on the run from Lord Voldemort while preparing for the final confrontation with him. A darker, more horrific Harry Potter movie that may not work entirely on its own—but it is, after all, only part one of two. Still, the film continues and expands upon the creativity and quality of the series. Rated PG-13

Cool It JJJJ

Inside Job JJJJJ

Bjørn Lomborg Activist Documentary A documentary examining alternatives to the popularly held solutions to global warming. A worthy—though one-sided— voice in the global-warming debate. Your enjoyment of the film will depend on how much the topic interests you to begin with. Rated PG

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Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis Mismatched Buddy Comedy Two ill-paired men end up driving across the country together. A badly conceived comedy that tries to cash in on the talents of Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis without giving them anything to do. Rated R

Fair Game JJJJJ

Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard, Noah Emmerich, Michael Kelly, Bruce McGill Fact-Based Political Drama The story of Joseph Wilson, who blew the whistle on the Bush administration for ignoring evidence that Iraq had no nuclear weapons program—and the fallout that occurred when it was leaked that his wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent. An incendiary film about the duplicity of the Bush administration’s machinations to wage war on Iraq. It will undoubtedly polarize audiences. Rated PG-13

Matt Damon (narrator), William Ackman, David Alpert, Jonathan Alpert Documentary A documentary examining how the recession came to be through corrupt banking practices and the control of the government. An angry, dispiriting film about the state of the economy and the need for serious economic reform in this country—reform that goes beyond lip-service. You won’t have a good time, but this should be seen. Rated PG-13

Love and Other Drugs JJ

Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum Comedy With Romantic Appendage A young woman takes the seemingly impossible job of revitalizing a failing morning TV program. A solid comedy that’s seriously impeded by the apparent need to make it into a romantic comedy. It’s certainly watchable, and it’s three stars are fine, but it could have been great. Rated PG-13

Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Brian Dennehy, Liam Neeson Thriller A college instructor decides to break his wife out of jail. A fairly tedious crime movie that wastes an occasionally excellent performance by Russell Crowe.

Rated PG-13

RED JJJJ

Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman Action/Comedy Retired CIA agents band together when it turns out that they’ve been targeted for assassination by orders from on high. The plot is not much. The direction is adequate. But the seasoned cast of actors makes RED worth seeing, even if it can’t make it into the great action spoof it could have been. Rated PG-13

Tamara Drewe JJJJJ

Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, Tamsin Greig Comedy Tamara Drewe—and her sexy new look—returns to her hometown where she proceeds to wreak havoc on the locals. A funny, insightful, stylish and charming look at modern—often gentrified—life in rural England. A must-see picture. Rated R

Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht Soapy Romcom With Skin A shallow young man and a relationship-shy young woman find themselves in love despite their best efforts not to be.

Uneven, contrived and brimming over with its own importance, the supposedly satirical romantic comedy offered by Love and Other Drugs is mostly glossy soap. Rated R

(Voices) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Muprhy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey Animated Fairy Tale Animated variation on the “Rapunzel” fairy tale. A largely successful, charming, beautifully made animated film that is neither too smart for its own good, nor too gooey. Rated PG

Megamind JJJ

Unstoppable JJJ

(Voices) Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt Animated Superhero Spoof A super villain finds life without point or meaning when he vanquishes his nemesis. Professionally done all the way with strong voice casting, but lacking anything new or compelling. Rated PG

Tangled JJJJ

Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn Action A conductor and an engineer must stop a runaway train carrying toxic materials before it derails and causes untold death and destruction. Stuff blows up real cool, so at least it’s not boring—just pretty dumb. Rated PG-13

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self-discovery about the nature of isolation — whether deliberate or accidental. The film’s actual key scene occurs a few minutes later when Aron stumbles on some hikers.

Even at this point, he has to force himself to admit something he has spent his entire life avoiding. It is the most moving moment in the entire film — and the complete justification for everything that has come before. You must see this movie. This is filmmaking. Rated R for language and some disturbing violent content/bloody images. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Fine Arts Theatre.

Burlesque JJJ

Director: Steve Antin Players: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Giganet, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Peter Gallagher Velveeta-oozing Musical Rated PG-13

The Story: Girl from Iowa makes her way to the big city to seek fame and fortune in show business.

The Lowdown: Burlesque hasn’t a single original idea in its cheesy head, and manages to load on the clichés with a shovel. Somehow it just misses being so bad it’s good, and only attains the level of modestly awful.

Burlesque is one dumb movie — and that’s about the nicest way of describing this amazing collection of backstage musical clichés from the dimly recalled days of movie musical antiquity. How antique are we talking here? Well, the kind of thing would have been vieux jeux in 1930. The intervening 80 years haven’t brought the roses back to its cheeks.

Christina Aguilera plays Ali, who leaves her job at a rundown bar in Iowa — taking only what she is owed from the cash register (she’s resourceful, not dishonest) — and buys herself a one-way ticket to L.A. where she is sure her singing and dancing abilities will find a ready market. No sooner does Ali hit the big town than she enters what we call the “montage phase” of her career, meaning she suffers a lot of rejection in a minimum of screen time. Of course, this rejection finds

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support: Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush and Danny Huston. The director, Sngmoo Lee, has no previous credits and seems to have come out of nowhere. The story involves a warrior (Dong-gun Jang) who is hiding out in some Western burg (apparently in the 19th century) from pursuing ninjas, who are after him for refusing a job. The press notes promise, “an original, gorgeously realized journey into a mythical past, writer and director Sngmoo Lee seamlessly marries the cinematic traditions of East and West.” Well, it could happen. (R)

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her standing outside the Burlesque nightclub, which she mistakes for a strip club — earning the disdain of the guy collecting the cover charge, Alexis (Alan Cumming). Gingerly forking over the $20 cover, Ali enters just as the club’s owner, Tess (Cher), happens to launch into “Welcome to Burlesque.”

Transfixed by the glamour and glitz — even if it resembles nothing so much as an outtake from Rob Marshall’s Chicago (2002) — Ali decides she wants a job there and sets out to get one. To this end, she strikes up a friendship with hunky Kentucky-farm-boyturned-bartender Jack (improbably played by Cam Gigandet), which ultimately lands her a job waiting tables. Of course, this is but a steppingstone to stardom. When the current troublesome star of Burlesque, Nikki (Kristin Bell), is deemed too drunk to go on, Ali gets to wow ’em with her impressive voice. This is when Ali enters a second montage phase, meaning her soaring popularity is charted in a minimum of time. Alas, this merely gives the movie more time to disgorge the contents of its cornucopia of clichés. At one point — when it was early enough to seem practical to do so — I considered trying to keep a running total of the clichés. It wasn’t long before the enormity of the task proved too great for me in terms of sheer volume.

But back to the movie, Tess has one real friend, her gay sidekick Sean (Stanley Tucci), and a sleazy ex-husband, Vince (Peter Gallagher), who is also half-owner of the club. Vince wants to sell to greedy developer Marcus (Eric Dane, TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), who hovers about the club even more after he gets the hots for Ali. And wouldn’t you know it? Tess has a balloon payment she can’t meet coming due. Meanwhile, Ali and Jack are feeling more and more drawn to each other, even though he has a fiancée in New York.

Oh, yes, and that scheming, vengeful Nikki is scheming her vengeance. There’s more, but that’s enough for half-a-dozen bad country songs right there.

On the plus side, Cher and Stanley Tucci come through like the pros they are.

Otherwise, about all that can be said is that Burlesque certainly is energetic as it recycles things it appropriated from other movies like Chicago, Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Cabaret (1972) — improving on none of them. It often

looks like it has a closer kinship to Can’t Stop the Music (1980) with the Village People than anything else. The inclusion of a magnificently unfunny act with Alan Cumming actually looks like something out of The Human Centipede — and while magnificently unfunny, sums up my personal take on the whole neo-burlesque movement. I doubt that was the aim.

As for Christina Aguilera? Well, she can sing, though I’m not sure that was in dispute.

But can she act? She doesn’t exactly embarrass herself, but it’s not a performance that makes me excited by the prospect of her next acting endeavor. I merely don’t live in fear of it. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, including several suggestive dance routines, partial nudity, language and some thematic material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Director: Ondi Timoner (Dig!) Players: Bjørn Lomborg Activist Documentary

Rated PG

The Story: A documentary examining alternatives to the popularly held solutions to global warming.

The Lowdown: A worthy — though one-sided — voice in the global-warming debate. Your enjoyment of the film will depend on how much the topic interests you to begin with.

Ondi Timoner’s Cool It — based on the book by the same name, written by the documentary’s primary subject, Bjørn Lomborg — acts mostly as a refutation of Davis Guggenheim’s Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006). But don’t mistake Cool It as a right-wing screed. Cool It works more as another voice in the debate, never denying that climate change is happening — and is human-made. The film offers different solutions to the problem, while shying away from the sensationalism that often surrounds the topic.

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The film works as a platform for presenting Lomborg’s ideas on the subject, which mostly consist of taking a step back from the issue of global warming in order to prevent ourselves from getting caught up in a flurry of fear that the world is about to end. According to Lomborg, things aren’t as bad as they seem, but this doesn’t mean they couldn’t be better. His main points revolve around the idea that current policies are inefficient and overly expensive; money could be better spent researching alternative energy and educating developing countries. At the same time, he continually asserts that humanity is much more inventive and resistant than we’ve been giving ourselves credit for, and that any climate change means adaptation on our part.

It’s a stance that has caused Lomborg to attract criticism, with the Danish government even going so far as to accuse him of scientific dishonesty. The film doesn’t shy away from this, and instead paints Lomborg as a sort of good-natured scientific maverick. This works in the film’s favor, since the ideas being put forth — that maybe Thunderdome isn’t just a few years away — are a bit easier to deal with than a bunch of gloom and doom. At the same time, I had the feeling that we’re not getting the whole story. We meet one scientist — interviewed throughout the film — who seemingly can’t stand Lomborg’s ideas, but we’re never told why he finds them dangerous. Also, we meet a small sampling of scientists who appear to agree with Lomberg, but for someone who attracts so much controversy, again, we’re never really clued into the reasons why they agree.

Presented within the context of the film, Lomborg’s ideas seem logical and doable — if not occasionally a bit on the simplistic side.

However, there’s always a sneaking suspicion we’re not being told everything. This doesn’t make the film any less of an important piece in the global-warming debate. But it does keep the film from being definitive.

Rated PG for thematic elements. reviewed by Justin Souther Starts Friday at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14.

Faster JJJ

Director: George Tillman Jr. (Notorious) Players: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace Action

Rated R

The Story: An ex-con sets out for revenge against the people responsible for murdering his brother.

The Lowdown: A humorless take on exploitation revivalism (à la Tarantino or Rodriguez) that’s simply not fun — or consistently stylish — enough to work.

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exploitation homage. Its fast-paced opening is full of ’70s-inspired music, muscle cars and the assurance of ultraviolence. Unfortunately, there’s about an hour-and-a-half worth of running time to fill, and whatever vague hopes of an absurd, fun actioner are soon forgotten in an avalanche of self-seriousness.

While Faster clearly worships the films of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, it fails to be like a Tarantino or Rodriguez film. Those two inventive directors — who are the biggest influences on Faster — understand that violent overkill is at its best when reduced to the point of trashy fun. Faster is neither fun nor inventive — it barely even has a pulse.

What director Tillman Jr. has crafted is a straight-faced — and more male-centric — version of Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Dwayne Johnson (finally sans “The Rock” from his wrestling days) plays “Driver,” an unnamed ex-con who has just been released from prison. Driver is on the warpath for revenge against a gang of criminals who killed his brother (Matt Gerald, Avatar) and who also tried — much like what happened to Uma Thurman’s “The Bride” in Kill Bill — to put a bullet in his head.

Driver spends the bulk of the movie driving around in a muscle car and offing various baddies, while a depressingly drug-addicted cop called simply “Cop” (Billy Bob Thornton) and a paid killer referred to as “Killer” (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Going the Distance) are hot on his trail trying to stop him.

And yet Faster seems to fancy itself as something more than a shoot-‘em-up movie.

Many characters are treated more as archetypes — Driver, Cop, Killer — than actual characters. The film seems to want to serve as a meditation on the dangers and pitfalls of taking revenge, but doesn’t handle this as cleverly as it needs to. The whole no-name thing feels like a purposeless gimmick, while the film’s supposedly deeper implications have been tackled before in better films.

But beyond the hackneyed, photocopy feel of the movie, Faster’s biggest problem is that it’s simply no fun. The macho violence that Faster trades in gets dull after awhile without something inventive or amusing to cut it with. Much of it has to do with Tillman Jr.’s shortage of directorial panache (though he does give it a game try here and there). Still, it’s the entire attitude of the film that fails.

Johnson has shown a certain charisma and an ability to not take himself too seriously in the past (just look at him in Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2006)), but here he struts around with sphincter clenched and brow furrowed. Some are happy that Johnson has finally escaped the purgatory of cute Disney films he has been pumping out over the past few years, but when the end result is something this flat, I can’t say I know which is worse. Rated R for strong violence, some drug use and language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

specialscreening Eat Drink Man Woman JJJJJ

Director: Ang Lee Players: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Chien-Lien Wu, Yu-Wen Wang Romantic Comedy Rated NR It’s nice to see one of Ang Lee’s earlier films resurface now and then, and if his 1994 romantic comedy Eat Drink Man Woman doesn’t feel quite as fresh today as it did at the time, it’s still a charming little movie and very clearly an Ang Lee film. The film focuses on a master chef, Tao Chu (Sihung Lung), a man who feels himself at war with his three grown daughters — all of whom live at home, none of whom appreciate his cooking and none of whom he can communicate with. “I don’t understand any of them and I don’t want to,” he decides. And life is no sweeter outside the home — his skills don’t receive the acclaim they once did — but, as fate would have it, things are soon to change for all concerned.

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Love and Other Drugs JJ

Director: Edward Zwick (Defiance) Players: Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht Soapy Romcom With Skin Rated R

The Story: A shallow young man and a relationship-shy young woman find themselves in love despite their best efforts not to be.

The Lowdown: Uneven, contrived and brimming over with its own importance, the supposedly satirical romantic comedy offered by Love and Other Drugs is mostly glossy soap.

I tried to like Love and Other Drugs. Even with the mostly negative reviews from nearly every critic I take seriously, and even in full knowledge of the fact that director and cowriter Edward Zwick could probably go best two falls out of three with Paul Haggis in a phony profundity title match, I still tried to like the film. It wasn’t happening. Almost nothing about the film works and almost nothing about it is even close to what it’s purported to be.

Love and Other Drugs is not by any stretch of the imagination a scathing indictment of the drug industry. It’s not a very funny comedy of any kind. What is it? Well, mostly it’s a Lifetime Disease of the Week movie with nudity.

The biggest problem with the film is that it tries to be so many things that it ends up not being good at any of them. It starts off as the story of Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal), the oversexed underachiever son of an upscale family, who drifts into becoming a pharmaceutical rep because it pays well and requires comparatively little effort. However, this aspect of the story gets sidetracked when he “meets cute” with Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway) during his stint posing as an intern with Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria). Said event gains him a look at her breast in the examining room. She is forthrightly cheesed when she learns of the deception, so naturally he decides to pursue her and the two become sexually — not roman-

tically — involved.

On a shallow level, the relationship works fine. But naturally, the shallowness gives way to Jamie falling in love with Maggie, which is the one thing she can’t deal with. Maggie, you see, has Parkinson’s disease and has already been dumped by one guy who couldn’t handle the prospect of what this will ultimately mean.

Rather than go through that again, she keeps people at arm’s length — well, emotionally, at any rate. Of course, this being a movie, Jamie — and Maggie’s own feelings — will wear her down and a real relationship will follow. Also on the “of course” level, there will be all sorts of trouble to slog through before we get to the end of this thing. And yes, it’s going to include the complete “boy meets girl” movie structure right down to the penultimate gloomy reel.

Buried in all this is the story of Jamie’s success peddling Viagra, which, despite the studio’s early efforts to sell the movie as a Viagra comedy, doesn’t amount to all that much screen time. The potshots taken at the pharmaceutical industry are mostly lightweight jabs. The most salient comment on health care involves Maggie helping to ferry busloads of senior citizens across the border into Canada to get their prescriptions filled affordably — and even this is turned into romcom fodder before this movie gets done with it. All of it feels forced and phony. All in all, the movie is somewhat like a raunched-up version of Sweet November (either version, 1968 or 2001) with more skin. And it will probably appeal to people who liked Sweet November.

On the marginal plus side, Hathaway and Gyllenhaal make an agreeable screen team with or without their clothes on. They do not, however, make anything like an electrifying one. In fact, they’re rather like the film’s use of nudity, with its penchant for artfully posed legs to obscure the lower regions of the stars — which is to say decorously tepid. Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language and some drug material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Tangled JJJJ

Director: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard Players: (Voices) Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Muprhy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey Animated Fairy Tale Rated PG

The Story: Animated variation on the “Rapunzel” fairy tale.

The Lowdown: A largely successful, charming, beautifully made animated film that is neither too smart for its own good, nor too gooey.

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High on the list of pleasant surprises is Tangled. Here we have a movie I was fully prepared to dislike — bad trailer, awful poster, even worse title — that turned out to be one of the better animated films of the year. And I say this as someone who is largely immune to the charms of big-eyed Disney-princess heroines, and also as someone who has burned out on Shrek snarkiness. Tangled looked to combine the worst of both worlds, but the reality is that Tangled is a mostly charming, often impressive-looking, generally entertaining story that keeps the snark to a minimum.

It even boasts one standout song — “Mother Knows Best” — and a few passable ones.

In case you don’t know, Tangled is a reworking of the story of Rapunzel and her famous hair. In this version, Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) is stolen from her royal parents as an infant by Mother Gothel (voiced by stage and TV actress Donna Murphy) and imprisoned in the well-known tower because of the healing power of her hair. Mother Gothel had been using the power of a unique flower to keep herself young, but the flower was discovered by the King’s servants and used up to save the life of the Queen during her pregnancy. Its powers have passed into Rapunzel’s hair — so long as it’s not cut.

Raising the child as her own, Mother Gothel keeps Rapunzel in complete ignorance of the world beyond her tower. But after 18 or so years, Rapunzel has become bored — and is especially curious about the lights in the sky that appear every year on her birthday. In reality, these are paper lanterns set aloft by her parents and the citizens of the kingdom in remembrance of the kidnapped princess’ birth, though Mother Gothel tries to palm them off as stars.

The situation changes when a bandit, Flynn Ryder (voiced by Zachary Levi, TV’s Chuck), who has stolen the princess’ crown from the palace, chances upon Rapunzel’s tower and opts to scale it for use as a hideout. After subduing him — more than once — with a castiron skillet and hiding the crown, Rapunzel strikes a bargain with Flynn. She’ll reveal where she has hidden the crown, if he’ll take her to see the lights in the sky. He grudgingly undertakes this outing and their adventures make up a large chunk of the film.

Most of this works reasonably well — if it occasionally has a been-there-done-that feel to it — and the animation is very good throughout. But what works best is the interplay between the two leads. Sad to say, but these

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filmsociety The Midnight Meat Train JJJJ

Director: Ryûhei Kitamura Players: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart Horror Rated R At long last, Ryûhei Kitamura’s The Midnight Meat Train (2008) makes it to Asheville. Apart from having what is perhaps the greatest title ever, it’s quite a treat to see that the film itself not only lives up to that title, but even lives up to the trailer’s claims that director Kitamura is “visionary.” (If only I had a nickel for every nonvisionary “visionary” — running from A to Zack Snyder.) This effective expansion of Clive Barker’s short story of the same name simply never got the break it deserved, thanks to inner-studio jackassery (see my take on the topic here: http://avl.mx/10). In some small way, this single showing is an attempt to make up for the casual dismissal of this extremely stylish and creepy film.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Midnight Meat Train Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville. Hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

What’s Up, Doc? JJJJJ

Director: Peter Bogdanovich Players: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy Screwball Comedy Rated G For the month of December — to keep things on the festive side — the Asheville Film Society has an all-comedy (well, one’s a comedy/mystery) lineup, starting with Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc? (1972) starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. A G-rated reimagining of the classic screwball comedy was about the last thing anyone expected from Bogdanovich. In fact, it was a pretty radical idea from every angle. Yet this free reinvention of Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938) in 1972 terms worked. It gave Bogdanovich one of his biggest hits, was nationally reissued in the mid-1970s and holds up today as one of Bogdanovich’s best films. Certainly, it’s his funniest — and, as a bonus, it contains a spot-on vicious caricature of über-mean-spirited critic John Simon (played by Kenneth Mars as “Hugh Simon”).

The Asheville Film Society will screen What’s Up, Doc? Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville. Hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Hanke is the artistic director of the Asheville Film Society.

For Cranky Hanke’s full reviews of these movies, visit www.mountainx.com/movies. animated characters are frankly more believable and charismatic than the human ones in this week’s official romantic comedy release, Love and Other Drugs. By the time the film gets to its central romantic set piece — the absolutely stunning lantern scene — it’s hard not to realize that you’re watching a solid film with flashes of true inspiration in it.

Don’t get me wrong, Tangled is not without its problems. While keeping the pop-culture wisecrackery to a minimum, it does occasionally — especially in the earlier scenes — veer into that realm. That’s perhaps inescapable, because there’s no denying that we live in a post-Shrek world — and more to the point, a post-Enchanted (2007) world. In fact, early on in its genesis, Tangled was going to be a sequel to Enchanted. Asking audiences to take a fairy tale straight is a hard sell. Tangled proves this — not in a good way — when Rapunzel has her cheerful cleaning song. It doesn’t work because it looks preposterous after “Happy

Working Song” spoofed the whole idea in Enchanted.

A few other points don’t work as well — or seem as original — as they ought to. The motley habitués of the Snuggly Duckling tavern feel like they were lifted from Robert De Niro’s pirate crew in Stardust (2007), for one example. Also, I can’t help it — even if it does turn out to be an alias — but the name Flynn Ryder sounds like it belongs on a porn star to me. But all this is fairly minor carping. I certainly came out of Tangled in a better frame of mind than I did Disney’s The Princess and the Frog last year at about this same time of year.

And when you realize that the immediate future of “family entertainment” means Yogi Bear, this looks even better. Rated PG for brief mild violence. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, The Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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BEARWALLOW MOUNTAIN â&#x20AC;˘ 15 minutes to Hendersonville 30 to Asheville Nineteen acres In same family since 1926.

Three homes .Compound/ Retreat. Porches â&#x20AC;˘ Views â&#x20AC;˘ Water. Will owner finance. $845,000. 615-491-2495.

BEAUTIFUL NEW CONSTRUCTION â&#x20AC;˘ 3BR/2BA, 1560 sq.ft. 24 Vista St. Garage, basement.

Hardwood, tile, carpet, stainless appliances, fans, on cul de sac, with several new houses. Reynolds schools.

Priced to sell at $207,000.

MLS listing, 3% to buyers agent. Vacant, show any time. Kathy and Tom Yurchenco 299-7502.

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BLACK MOUNTAIN â&#x20AC;˘ 3BR/2BA, 1400 sq ft, plus attic bonus room. New plumbing, wiring, HVAC, roofing, siding, windows, flooring, fixtures. Up to $40,000 of deferred financing available. Buyer must earn less than 80% of Buncombe County median income. This house can be yours with a $135,000 first loan. Call Coryn at Mountain Housing Opportunities 828 254-4030 x122. www.mtnhousing.org/service s/ownership/developments/2 12CentralAvenue.php

EAST â&#x20AC;˘ NEAR WARREN WILSON 2BR, 2.5BA, green 2009 EnergyStar. County taxes, city water/sewer. â&#x20AC;˘ Very warm, beautiful, and efficient custom home. â&#x20AC;˘ Price reduced for quick sale! â&#x20AC;˘ $175,000. â&#x20AC;˘ (828) 777-1967. Pics at southernbranches.com/tour INSTANT EQUITY ON A GREAT BEAVERDAM HOME! MLS#45600. $168,000. 3BR, 2BA home on .39 flat acres with a running creek in the back. All nice appliances included, updates throughout! Barbara Zlatkin, Buncombe Realty (828) 674-1949.

QUIET MOUNTAIN LIVING 1248 sq. ft. on 1.5 acres in Swannanoa, NC. Built in 2010, 3BR/2BA. Private road, beautiful views. $160,000.

Oak hardwood floors, pine trim, solid pine doors. Tiled bathrooms. Low-E windows, insulation surpasses NC code. Pictures at http://watchknobln.shutterfly. com/pictures/8. For more info, email or call clayheck@gmail.com, 828-215-3120

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Recently renovated. 3BR, 1BA, office, large loft. .3 acre lot. A home with real personality. Walk to Owen District Park, 1 mile to Warren Wilson College. $155,800. Owner, 828-337-0873 or 828-298-6634.

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Home Services

Heating & Cooling 10%-50% â&#x20AC;˘ SAVE ON HOME HEATING Experience immediate savings with home weatherization and insulation. â&#x20AC;˘ Energy rebate. â&#x20AC;˘ Free home inspection: (828) 283-2675.

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(828) 658-9145.

Painting ARTHURâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAINTING Christian Painter.

Indoor/outdoor, staining, reliable, honest, free estimates, minor repair, great prices. Comes with brushes and a great testimony.

(828)505-5668, artiart@live.com

Cleaning ON CALL CLEANING SERVICE SERVICES WE OFFER: • Residential Cleaning • Commercial Cleaning • Move In/Move out Cleaning • Deep Cleaning • Regular Cleaning. References Avaliables, Free Estimates.

828-778-5624, 828-633-1137, 828-7135624. davidrevis@gmail.com

General Services HOME WATER LEAKS A Problem? Excellent leak detection! Lasting correction!

Experience! References! Call 828-273-5271.

Handy Man HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services. 30 years professional experience. Quality, reliability. References available. Free estimates. $2 million liability insurance. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

RELIABLE REPAIRS! Quality work! All types maintenance/repair, indoor/outdoor. • Excellent water leak detection/correction! • Wind damaged shingle/roof repair!

38 years experience!

Responsible! Honest!

Harmonious! References! Call Brad, you’ll be Glad!

(828) 273-5271.

Services

Education/ Tutoring HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Graduate in just 4 weeks!!

FREE Brochure. Call now.

1-800-532-6546 Ext. 97 continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN)

Computer CHRISTOPHER’S COMPUTERS • Computer Slow? Call Christopher’s Computers at 828-670-9800 and let us help you with PC and Macintosh issues: networking, virus/malware removal, tutoring, upgrades, custom-built new computers, etc.

ChristophersComputers.com

Audio/Video

Phone:828-582-2406 Email:twinpathproductions@ gmail.com twinpathproductions.com

Commercial Listings

Commercial Property GREAT LOCATION. GREAT DEAL. Office space available for short term lease. $1000/month. 1900 sq. ft. former dental office in Biltmore Professional Court on Yorkshire St. Call Kathy @ 828-252-6541 Mon-Thur.

HENDERSONVILLE. Urban flex space on historic 7th Ave. Live, work. 9,000 sq. ft. for only $405,000. Bank owned. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024,

Commercial/ Business Rentals OFFICES FOR RENT IN BLACK MOUNTAIN Various sizes and prices from $200 to $275 a month, including utilities. Five offices total.

Shared waiting room. Call 828-271-4004

Rentals

Apartments For Rent 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly. (828) 251-9966.

Alpha-Real-Estate.com 1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon.

Fall Special! All utilities included. $500/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR / 2BR APTS - CLOSE TO TOWN 1BR/1BA and 2BR/1BA apartments available. 102 Furman Avenue. Carpet, central heat and air, laundry, pool. Call C&C Properties. 252-0004.

828-252-0004 1BR, 1BA EAST • 7 Violet Hills. Coin Op laundry, pets ok. $495/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 10 Lenox. Porch, hardwood floors. $570/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

TWIN PATH PRODUCTIONS: PROMOS, DOCS, EVENTS, ETC. Twin Path Productions provides high quality promotional videos, documentary films and event coverage. Lets talk about your next project.

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 83 Edgemont. Hardwood floors, A/C. $705/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA SOUTH • 30 Allen.

Patio, A/C, heatpump, $545/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2-3BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 30 Clairmont. A/C, great location. Coin-op laundry. $635-$675/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1-1.5BA SOUTH • 30 Dawnwood. Central heat and A/C, patio. $595$650/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN WEAVERVILLE • 105 S. Main St. W/D connections.

Excellent condition. $595/month. 828-775-9434.

2BR, 1BA EAST • 1746 Tunnel Rd. A/C, D/W. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 42 Gracelyn. Porch, heat included. $795/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 53 Maney. Bonus room, sunroom, garage. $875/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA EAST • 742 Bee Tree Lake. W/D, A/C. $675/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA NORTH • 265 Charlotte St. Hardwood floors, dishwasher. $860/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA NORTH • 27 Spooks Mill. Deck, mountain views. $975/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA SOUTH • 90 Beale St. Central heat/AC, dishwasher. $645/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA NORTH 20 Brookdale. A/C, W/D hookups. $595/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA ARDEN • 8202 Terra. A/C, walk-in closet. $795/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA NORTH • 81 Lakeshore. Patio, carpet. $695/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR/1BA NORTH Westall Apts. great location, W/D hookups. $725/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated bath, kitchen, 1BR, sunroom, dining room. 9’ ceilings. • Abundance of natural light. • Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $625/month includes heat, water, Wifi. • Smoke free. 280-5449.

BRIGHT - SUNNY SPACIOUS • 2BR/2BA: 1250+/- sq ft unit at Asheville Racquet Club. New Kitchen appliances and counters. • Large MBR with huge walk-in closet. • Great Room with fireplace. • Private deck and extra storage closet for sports equipment. • $950/month includes water and full Racquet Club Platinum membership. Year’s lease, credit check, security deposit required. Small, quiet pet considered with fee. For appt: Elizabeth Graham or Debra Plemmons at 253-6800.

CANDLER • Large 2BR, lots of closet space. Electric heat, water provided $550/month.

Call 828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

EAST ASHEVILLE Available immediately. 2BR, 1BA, off Tunnel Road. • Easy access to I-240. WD connection, central AC/heat. • No pets. $595/month, security deposit. Call (828) 423-4072.

MERRIMON AVENUE Available immediately. 1BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors, WD on site, central AC/heat, water included. • No pets. $525/month. Security deposit. Call (828) 423-4072.

SOUTH • Forestdale. 1BR, 1BA. D/W, storage. $590$625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com SPACE • MOUNTAIN BEAUTY • OUTDOOR GARDENS 1400 sqft, 1BR, 1BA plus 20x40 in-ground pool. 2 porches. $775/month includes DSL internet, satellite TV and utilities.

230-0037.

SPACIOUS APARTMENT, MIDTOWN ASHEVILLE Great location, hardwood floors. $975 per month includes utilities, washer/dryer . Call or email for appointment.

252-8718, jtferree@mac.com STUDIO, 1BA MONTFORD • 333 Cumberland. High ceilings, tile floors. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent 1BR, 1BA CONDO • CONVENIENT EASTWOOD VILLAGE Available now.

Sunny 800 sqft w/upgrades, $700/month. 1 year lease. • Pet friendly • No smokers.

Call (828) 545-7445.

2 DOWNTOWN LUXURY CONDOS • BEST LOCATION IN TOWN New Designer lofts in historic 52 Biltmore Avenue building. • Reduced!

• 2BR, 2BA: $1895/month. • 1BR, 1.5BA: $1295/month.

Gourmet kitchen, Wine Cooler, oak floors, exposed brick, fireplace, large windows, WD, Spa Tub and Walk-in shower, concrete, granite, stone, stainless upgrades. • Indoor parking.

Best Downtown location; walk to anything! • 1 year lease required.

(828) 301-8033 or (954) 684-1300. phillpen@aol.com

2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE • 805 Wilken. W/D hookups, garage. $595/month.

828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com

BEAUCATCHER MOUNTAIN • NEWLY RENOVATED 5 minutes to downtown Asheville. • Great views.

2BR, 2BA. • Huge balcony.

Fireplace. Pool. $900/month includes water. Must see!

(828) 279-4337 or (347) 524-8400.

2BR, 1BA OAKLEY • Private setting, great views. W/D, oil monitor, gas logs. $850/month. 1 year lease, references, deposit.

828-768-3419.

FALL IS HERE AND WINTER’S COMING! Enjoy the chilly season while curled up in front of your own Fireplace! Spacious 2BR/2BA at The Racquet Club offers best of everything.

Convenient location, full Racquet Club membership, private deck, sunny kitchen and breakfast room. Large MBR with walk-in closet.

New kitchen appliances and counters. $950/month.

Includes water. Lease, security dep, credit ck. req.

For appt: Elizabeth Graham: 253-6800.

TOWNHOME CONDO FOR RENT OR SALE 2BR, 1.5BA. 1,016 sq.ft. Condo in Cimarron (S. Asheville). F/P w/gas logs. Private deck. $850/month with security deposit and 1 year lease.

Water included. Sale for $155,000.

828-242-6761/ 828-242-6760.

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

2BR, 1BA BRICK HOME • 5 minutes to downtown Asheville. $550/month + security deposit. Call David, 828-0620.

2BR, 1BA EAST • 21 Springdale. Full basement, Central A/C. $875/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA WEST • 31 Ridgeway. Hardwood floors, central AC/Heat. $815/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA WEST • 37 Sandhill. Yard, basement. $925/month. $925/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2.5BA OAKLEY • 20 Lamar. Deck, fenced yard. $1,015/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 1BA RENOVATED FARMHOUSE • Only 20 minutes to Asheville/Barnardsville. On 4 acres with gorgeous trout stream. Great garden space available. Unfurnished $1095/month, furnished $1295/month. Available immediately. Call (828) 231-1692 Joan Naylor.

3BR, 2BA ARDEN • 29 Locole. Porch, garage. $1,275/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

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Ecological Site Planning & Landscape Design • Excavation & Roads •Water Harvesting/ Management • Stonework • Bridges & Gazebos • Water Features • Renewable Energy

BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net CENTRAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES AVAILABLE • Rentals • Rental Management • Sales • Listings. • The City Solution!

828.210.2222.

AshevilleCityRealEstate.com FAIRVIEW • GREAT COUNTRY HOME! Spacious living, 3BR, 2BA, great deck overlooking large backyard.

Huge detached double garage and fenced yard. Call (828) 215-2865 for showings.

SWANNANOA • 2BR, heat pump, near Warren Wilson College. $700/month. Call 828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

Vacation Rentals A BEACH HOUSE AT FOLLY 20 minutes from historic downtown Charleston, SC. • The legendary dog-friendly Rosie’s Ocean View and Kudzu’s Cottage, across the street from the beach!Visit www.kudzurose.com or call (404) 617-1146.

Roommates ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com.

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ROOMMATE NEEDED • Near UNCA. $350/month, utilities included. Male or female.

828-243-7348. lowtecjc@yahoo.com ROOMMATES.COM • Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of a mouse! Visit http://www.roommates.com.

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General $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN) CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.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.

Skilled Labor/ Trades

LEARN & WORK IN TANTRA Looking for sensual women to work in the field of Tantra—we’ll train. $50 an hour after training. tantranow@hotmail.com

ATTENTION The largest senior financial planning team in the Country is interviewing professional Salespeople for a recession proof career. • Training Provided • 4-6 Leads provided daily • Most competitive products in the industry • Monthly bonuses • Advanced commissions • First Year potential income $40-$60K! • To schedule an interview, call Kim: (828) 684-1477. Learn more at www.amerilife.com

PAID IN ADVANCE Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home!

Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN)

START TODAY! Machine Operators • Packaging • Forklift Operators • Assembly 12 hour shifts: 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am. • Must be able to pass a strict criminal background screen.

• Applications accepted Monday-Thursday, 9am2pm. • Must bring 2 forms of ID. • 145-4 Garrison Branch Road, Weaverville, NC. (828) 658-9248. Integrated Staffing Solutions.

Sales/ Marketing

COMMUNITY EVENTS SUPPORT INTERN Downtown agency in need of interns to assist in office administration, PR communications and event production. For details visit: www.sensiblecity.com IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR LICENSED P&C INSURANCE AGENT. Pisgah Forest office.

Full Time Position. Must have experience and possess a positive, motivated attitude.

Submit Resume to troyernc@gmail.com JOIN THE ECOMOM TEAM We are successful Moms who are choosing to work an eco-friendly marketing business from home. We are looking for associates in the WNC area.Visit www.southeastappalachiane coteam.com or call 828-246-3776.

Join Our Web Team!

Mountain Xpress is on a mission to empower our community using new media.

SOFTWARE SALES AND MARKETING Lead generation for a local medical software company. • Hourly rate plus commission for leads generated and another commission when those leads turn into sales.

Mostly phone sales with a little marketing. • Part-time, flexible hours. Stuart: (828) 301-6898.

Restaurant/ Food WAIT STAFF Great attitude necessary.

Please apply in person across from the Asheville Mall. China Palace

Hotel/ Hospitality FRONT DESK STAFF NEEDED AT DOWNTOWN INN Desk Clerks needed at Downtown Inn. Most be flexible for 1st and 2nd shift.

Apply at 120 Patton Ave. jolinerobinson@hotmail.com downtowninnandsuites.com

Medical/ Health Care PART-TIME OVERNIGHT STAFF NEEDED 2-part-time overnight staff are needed for women’s recovery home in Weaverville. Experience with Substance Abuse clients are a plus! Call (828) 350-9960.

(828) 350-9960 susan @nextsteprecovery.com www.nextstepforwomen.org

Human Services

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If so, we want to hear from you.

Skills needed: HTML, CSS, Javascript are needed, PHP and knowledge of Expression Engine would be a big bonus.

Our web team is growing. As part of this team, you will be a central player in creating new initiatives to serve the WNC community.You will be working to bring multimedia, social media and communication tools to not only Xpress journalists, but the community as a whole.

Send cover letter, resume, links to your work, references and any questions you may have to webmaster@mountainx.com

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BILINGUAL CANDIDATE Families Together Inc. now hiring for Bilingual Candidate to work in our Latino program. • Flexible schedule, team culture, professional development. • Must have a minimum of one year experience working with at risk youth in the mental health system. www.familiestogether.net ELDER DAY CLUB PROGRAM ASSISTANT • PT position working with seniors in Elder Day Club program at the Asheville Jewish Community Center. Full job description and application instructions at www.jcc-asheville.org, under JCC News.

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Jackson County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience. Please contact Kristy Whitaker, kristy.whitaker @meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Patty Bilitzke, patricia.bilitzke @meridianbhs.org Clinician Recovery Education Center: Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible.

Please contact Keith Christensen, keith.christensen @meridianbhs.org Case Manager (QMHP) Recovery Education Center: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness. Please contact Keith Christensen, keith.christensen @meridianbhs.org Transylvania County: Team Leader Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness.

Experience in Vocational Rehabilitation preferred. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Macon County: Case Manager (QMHP) Recovery Education Center: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness. Please contact Candace Rawlinson, candace.rawlinson @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources @familiestogether.net FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES - MAGNOLIA HOUSE FPS is accepting applications for Peer Support Specialists to work with adult consumers in Psychosocial Rehabilitation program.

Please email lmills@fpscorp.com

LICENSED THERAPIST • Experienced therapist needed for residential therapeutic boarding school for middle school age girls. • Applicants must be comfortable conducting individual, family and group therapy; communicating weekly progress to parents; and collaborating with a treatment team to form case conceptualization and treatment plans. • Licensed MA and Doctoral level therapists only. • Pay commensurate with education and experience. Full-time position with benefits.

Fax resume to 828-378-0140 or email to careers @lakehouseacademy.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF RUTHERFORD AND POLK COUNTIES Is seeking THERAPISTS and QMHP’s to provide mental health services to children, families and adults. Please email resume to mtambini@fpscorp.com

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HUMAN SERVICES INTERNS Attention all recent college graduates! Are you interested in pursuing a career in a unique program that offers an array of therapeutic modalities to help children succeed? If so, Eliada Homes’ RISE program could be a great fit for you! RISE stands for Resident Interns Seeking Excellence, and we are hiring for January 2011.

All majors considered!

Internship is a year-long commitment to working with our students, and in exchange we provide you with housing, utilities, and invaluable resources in our well-trained and experienced staff. Please visit www.eliada.org for more information and email eweaver@eliada.org with your resume or questions.

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12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Nicole at 828-696-2667 x13 or e-mail Nicole: nicole.toto Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor.

• Tuesday August 10, 6:30pm-7:30pm (light snack) 828-696-2667 x13, 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739 THE MEDIATION CENTER • Is hiring a full-time Client Services and Volunteer Coordinator for the Family Visitation Program. See www.mediatebuncombe.org/ openings for application instructions.

WNC GROUP HOMES • Provides residential services for people with Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

We are recruiting for 2 positions. • Full time awake 3rd shift at ICF-MR Group Home, 11pm-9am, 7 days on and 7 days off. • Full or part time position at DDA Group Home, includes 24 hour sleep over shift. Information about positions and application posted on-line at www.wncgrouphomes.org, or at 28 Pisgah View Ave Asheville NC, 28803.

828.274.8368. WNC Group Homes is proud to be a drug free workplace.

Professional/ Management

REGIONAL PLANNER OPENING AT REGIONAL COUNCIL • Responsible for supervised implementation of a western North Carolina Clean Energy Economy project. Advanced degree preferred in planning, public administration, management or equivalent degree/experience. Starting salary range $39-42k.

Application deadline 5:00 pm December 7, 2010. Job description at www.landofsky.org.

Completed application is required; form can be found on-line. E-mail application, resume and cover letter to info@landofsky.org. Land-ofSky Regional Council, Asheville, NC. EOE

CERTIFIED COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE APPRAISER NEEDED for established Asheville firm. Qualified applicant would be ambitious, an independent worker, team player, thorough, detail oriented, and have strong communication skills. Send resume to wncappraiser@gmail.com

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FINANCE MANAGER ResCare,Inc • Location: Asheville, NC • Asheville MH/DD provides quality support and services to seniors, adults, and children with developmental and other disabilities and people with mental illness. • Qualifications: BA/BS in accounting or a related discipline preferred. 3 to 5 years of related accounting/bookkeeping experience and 2 years of computer experience to include a working knowledge of Excel, Word, etc.

Experience in Oracle and ASO 400 preferred. • Responsibilities: This position performs general financial accounting analysis, documentation and financial reporting for assigned companies. Prepares financial statements and supplementary financial detail, analysis, and appropriate commentary.

Reconciles general ledger accounts and monthly bank statements; prepares/inputs adjusting journal entries.

Prepares budgets and monitors budget variance reports. Responsible for ensuring that all invoices, monthly billing and A/R close is completed by deadlines. • Interested applicants apply on line at www.rescare.com Click on “Careers” • Click External Applicant • Click Residential East - “North Carolina” • Click on Community AlternativesRaleigh (For Asheville position) • Apply Finance Manager to begin application process. • Annual Salary: $40,000.

MATH TEACHER Eliada Homes is seeking a teacher for our Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF). • Work with students ages 12-17, developing lessons that are in accordance with North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Must be flexible and creative: it is necessary to differentiate lessons for different learning styles, individual needs, and class dynamics. • Major responsibilities: The teacher will maintain an organized, structured classroom, evaluate academic and behavioral progress of all students, communicate with case managers, and complete Student Education Plans and providing feedback in regards to goals and objectives. • Qualifications: Must have a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university. Must also possess appropriate, current valid teaching certification as specified by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (or be able to obtain said licensure). Prefer math certified, or ability to become certified in math. • Prefer a minimum of two years teaching experience or direct residential experience with the target population.

Skills/Working Conditions: School is in session yearround. Position may experience verbal and/or physical aggression from the client population. • Must provide a copy of current, valid teaching certificate.

Email eweaver@eliada.org.

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Bodywork A HOLISTIC HEALING AND WELLNESS CENTER Therapeutic Massage, Ayurveda, and Energy Healing. $20 off first appointment! Lauren: Licensed Massage Therapist (#7219). Certified Holistic Educator, Healthy Lifestyle Coach. Downtown Asheville location. (828) 333-2717. No sensual/sexual inquiries.

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Natural Alternatives HEALING HANDS ENERGY WORK • Renew Energy • Open Chakras • Crystal Healing.

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Guy Morganstein, LPC • Couples Counseling • Adolescent & Families

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Musical Services 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 AUDIO ROBOT Competitive rates • 22’, 13’, and 10’ ceiling rooms • Seasoned engineer. • Avedis Preamps • Prism Converters (Abbey Road, Skywalker Ranch) • Telefunken and AEA microphones. • Also offering onsite recording.

(828) 515-0500. audiorobotrecording.com LAKEHOUSE MUSIC Asheville’s only non-profit Recording Studio. • Recording • Mixing • Mastering • Video Production • Management • Marketing • Rehearsal Space.

(828) 242-3573. pete@lakehousemusic.org

Equipment For Sale CALISTRO MUSIC WNC’s high-end Pro Audio consultation and sales. • Apogee • Adam • Chandler • Empirical Labs • API • Crane Song and many more!

(828) 515-0500.

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Pet Xchange

Lost Pets A LOST OR FOUND PET? Free service. If you have lost or found a pet in WNC, post your listing here: www.lostpetswnc.org

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

R.E.A.C.H. Your Regional Emergency Animal Care Hospital. Open MondayFriday, 5pm-8am and 24 hours on Weekends and Holidays. • 677 Brevard Road. (828) 665-4399. www.reachvet.com

Adult and Child Medicaid/Health Choice BC-BS • Sliding Scale

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WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

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2003 VOLKSWAGON BEETLE • New motor, automatic transmission.

Looks great, runs great. $6,500, obo. 828-230-2129.

Antiques & Collectibles

2006 HONDA CIVIC EX • 4door, 5-speed manual.

71,233 miles. Blue/silver custom color, grey cloth.

Everything power, sunroof, very clean, good tires.

Warranty. $8,900.

828-250-0373. www.greenvalleycars.com 2009 HONDA ELEMENT EXP • 4WD, 14,365 miles, automatic. Omni Blue Pearl, grey cloth interior, everything power, keyless entry. Very clean. Warranty. $16,500.

828-250-0373. www.greenvalleycars.com 2010 HONDA ACCORD EX-L • V-6, 2-door coupe. 17,163 miles. Automatic, white, beige leather, sunroof.

Loaded, everything power, very clean. Warranty. $18,500. 828-250-0373. www.greenvalleycars.com 2010 HONDA CIVIC LX-S • 113 miles. 4-door, automatic.

Tango Red Pearl, black cloth interior. Everything power, alloy wheels. Warranty. $14,500. 828-250-0373. www.greenvalleycars.com

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Amanda Bucci, LCSW • Child & Family Therapist • Play & Expressive Art Therapy

2010 TOYOTA CAMRY LE • 34,496 miles. 4 cyl, white, automatic 6-speed. Grey cloth interior. Everything power, alloy wheels, keyless entry, very clean. Warranty. $13,500. 828-250-0373. www.greenvalleycars.com

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Adult Services

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Bob Timberlake Painting: Mr. Zimmerman’s Corn. Make an offer. Call 257-2754.

A WOMAN’S TOUCH “We’re all about you!” Call 275-6291.

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(828) 335-1283.

Electronics COLOR TV • STEREO Cable ready 24 inch TV. Sony stereo with speakers, radio.

Both: $100. 253-4558.

Furniture

DREAMSEEKERS Destination for relaxation. Call for appointment: (828) 216-8900.

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